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The dorming houses were exactly as expected, completely perfect. Of course, everything at the entire island was completely perfect. To be honest, Dawn found it to be more than just a little creepy, in all it's perfect perfection.

The end of the path was yet another round fountain, a perfect miniature version of the one that they'd passed before. There were only two new options of where to go now, one to the left and another to the right. A signpost gave directions at this crossroad too.

The paths were short this time. Both only about forty feet in length, the right pathway leading to the boys dormitories, and the left pathway leading to the girls dormitories. It was here that the group of Twinleaf Natives said their temporary good-byes.

"I'm glad that we're almost at our dorms. This stuff is too heavy. I packed too much." Kenny said, letting his two duffle bags rest of the ground. He reached up and rubbed his shoulders, which were being gripped tightly by his large, stuffed-to-the-brim backpack.

"Me too." Dawn nodded. She had more luggage than Kenny did. Her two duffle bags were larger, as was her backpack, which were all stuffed much more than Kenny's luggage was. Not to mention that she was also carrying her purse, which was yet another stuffed bag. And she was attempting to drag a pull-along suitcase with her, which was so stuffed she was wondering how the zipper was staying closed and the wheels were still working to support the weight.

"Meet back here at six to explore?" Kenny asked, looking from Leona, to Barry, his gaze finally coming to rest on Dawn.

"Six? No, I want to explore sooner than six! I'll be back here in an hour!"

"Six o'clock is in an hour and a half, Barry. You can wait an hour and a half." Leona said, waving as she turned and began to make her way towards the girls' dorms.

"Alright, fine! But if you're late by even one second, I'll fine you!"

"We'll be here!" Leona insisted as she paused for Dawn to catch up.

"No need to worry!" Dawn called, waving as she jogged to catch up with the girl that she'd been best friends with since she was in diapers.

The girls dormitories were two large, old fashioned gray brick buildings that looked like they could have been small castles, or mansions. They were mirror images of each other, with one minor difference. They both had large wooden signs above the front doors, both painted dark green, with clean white letters a great contrast with the dark green, but that was where the signs differed.

The building to the left's sign read Hoenn Hall, while the one to the right's sign read Johto Hall. A small stone wall stood by each each staircase, on the inner side of the two dormitories. They were covered in many plaques, and Dawn realized that they were plaques recognizing the significant sponsors for the building of the dormitories, and each dormitory was named after the region which it was sponsored by.

Dawn let her luggage drop to the ground for a moment, while she grabbed her manila welcoming package. Through hands that were purple from the circulation being cut off by holding her heavy luggage, Dawn managed to locate her letter, the one which told her where she would be living for the next ten months.

Leona was doing the same thing, as were several other girls in the large, red-stone floored area outside of the two dorm houses.

Dear Ms. D. Berlitz,

We welcome you to Illumina Academy, a high school for brilliant pupils, such as yourself. We are pleased that you have chosen to join our student body, and have high hopes for your future. If you have any complaints, please see to it that the faculty is notified, so that Illumina Academy is able to fix your problems. We are confident that you will enjoy your time with us, and we would like to thank you once again, for joining Illumina Academy.

Signed,

V. Majors

Headmistress

Attached to the letter with a small piece of some kind of clear sticky-tack or glue, was her dorm key. Her dorm house and room were listed below the letter's content.

Leona looked over Dawn's shoulder at the letter she held. "Talk about your generic cookie-cutter letter." Was the only comment that she made.

"Well, writing a personalized letter for every student is stupid. Why write something different when you can just use Insert Name Here?"

"I know, but it just makes me feel like a nameless face in a crowd when I get generic stuff like this letter. Like I'm nothing special."

"Oh, come on Lee, you're plenty special! Anyway, I'm in Hoenn Hall. What about you?"

"Johto Hall. Geez, they could have at least used a thesaurus and gotten better names. Hoenn Hall, Johto Hall. What do you wanna bet that the guys are in Kanto Hall and Sinnoh Hall?"

"Yeah, whatever happened to names like Johto House, Kanto Manor, and Sinnoh Dorm?"

"Lack of originality, has infected this place. And to think, it looks so perfect. I guess it's just another cookie-cutter farm."

"Lee... if this is a farm, then that make us the livestock..."

"Gaspeth!"

"What are you, a character from a Shakespearian play?"

"What light through yonder window breaks, it is the east, and Dawn, literally, is the sun."

"Well Lee-Romeo, I'm going to check out my room. While you use over-used, famous lines from Shakespeare's works to pick up guys, I'll be unpacking. My Poketech is telling me that we've wasted twenty minutes just standing here."

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

"Please tell me that you signed up for Drama class."

"Fair Maiden, but of course."

"Ok, you can drop the Shakespeare...uh..Medieval act now... seriously."

"And thus, I bid thee Adieu."

"Later Lee-Romeo."

Half of what she said was quoted from Romeo and Juliet, while the other stuff was just... medieval and Shakespearian words thrown together, but I think what she said were actual sentences... Dawn thought as she loaded herself up like a human pack mule and began to make her way to Hoenn Hall.


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