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"Dawn, Misty, Leaf, May, and Aria Green, the dean would like to see you."
The five girls exchanged looks as they were just about to start their first Spy class of the day. They looked up at the speaker above them, and then back at each other, before standing up and making their way to the door.
"What, new kids already getting kicked out for being talentless?" Coulter smirked as Aria walked by, earning him a death glare.
"Eye sex." Dawn's voice came into her mind. She could almost see the smirk.
Aria blushed and glared at her bluenette sister, who smiled innocently in return. "I hate you, Pinky."
"Love you too, Mari!"
"Hey, March," Drew started as the short haired brunette passed his desk.
"It's MAY!" May growled, and turned to glare at the chartreuse haired boy. Instead, a rose was shoved in her face. "Uh…thanks…" she said as she gently took the flower and blushed.
"Don't get me wrong, this is for your Beautifly's battle yesterday. You, however, could use some work," Drew smirked, and flicked his hair.
May boiled with anger as she stomped away. "You have no idea how much I want to grab a pair of scissors and cut that pretty little fringe off his head!" she grumbled as the Maples exited the class.
As soon as they were out of hearing distance, Misty, Dawn, and Leaf burst out laughing.
"You guys suck!" Aria whined. "I'm not even gonna be able to glance at Coulter's face without thinking about that eye sex thing! And I still don't know what the hell it is!"
"Oh, so you want to look at Coulters face, do you?" Dawn smirked, before she burst into hysterics again.
Aria narrowed her eyes. "That's enough! I'm not here to get into a relationship anyway! We're here for a mission, and a serious one too! You and Misty seemed to already forget about how we're supposed to be on missions. We're not here to live a normal life. We are here for a job, and we should get it done like the professionals we are."
With that, the caramel haired girl turned on her heel and stalked off to Norman's office, leaving her stunned sisters behind.
"I guess she still hasn't forgotten." Dawn said, looking at her sister's retreating form sadly. "She's afraid."
….
Aria sighed and leaned against the door to the dean's office.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have blown up like that."
"It's all good, Mari, we probably took it too far, too," Misty said as her sisters rounded the corner. "So, can we forget all that girly making up crap and hug?"
Aria cracked a grin, and the five sisters moved into a group hug before they burst into a fit of giggles.
"Okay, let's get in before Norman get's mad," Leaf said and placed her hand on the door handle. She quickly opened the door, and the five of them filed into the office. Norman looked up from his desk and motioned for them to sit down, to which Aria and May quickly complied.
Together, they sat down on opposite sides of the couch, and then turned to place their feet in each other's laps, while Dawn rolled her eyes and took the armchair, Misty and Leaf sitting on each of the arms of the chair. Simultaneously, they all looked up at Norman, as if asking him to talk.
The man sighed. "I'm guessing that you girls already were planning on this, but you need to scout out the school, see if there are any places an infiltration could take place and we wouldn't know about it. So, you all need to split up and look all around the school, the yard, everywhere, to make sure that the students are safe. Got it? Now, I'm giving you the day off of school –feel free to go to the physical spy training if you really must. Solidad most likely wouldn't appreciate it if you missed– to check the premises. If you really have to, tell the students that you were suspended if asked persistently. Now, go."
The five sisters quickly exited the office, with their game faces on.
"Okay, so this school is pretty big, so we're all going to have to split up," Misty started.
Leaf nodded. "Good plan," She then proceeded to pull out the blueprints of the school from who knows where. "Let's see…Dawn, you can take the Contest Wing, inside and out. Mist, the Battle Wing, May can take the bottom half of the school building, and Ari will take the top half, including the roof –"
Aria visibly winced. "Could I…not take the high places?" She glanced down at her scarred hand, still not completely healed.
Leaf's eyes widened. "Right, of course! How about…Ari take the bottom half, and I'll take the top, while May checks out the Gardens and school grounds?"
Leaf scanned her four sisters, and they all nodded. "Agreed."
"When normal school starts, we should investigate the Spy School. How about that?" Misty added as an afterthought, to which the girls nodded at.
"Sounds good!"
May~
The red loving brunette gasped as soon as she entered the large gates guarding the school's gardens. She thought it was a little absurd to have a large golden gate with hedges around it at first, but as soon as she passed through them –wow.
The hedges and the gate enclosed the whole garden, with every single flower of every color decorating the hedges. In front of her were small bushes, with almost jewel-like flowers. The bushes had a small path in the middle where large hedges took place for –what May assumed– was a maze.
Boy, did she have her work cut out for her if she had to memorize this whole maze in just a couple hours.
She sighed, then slowly, she smiled and reached for her pokeballs. No one was up, other than the Spy School students, but they were all in class. With a grin, May threw all her pokeballs in the air, and released all her Pokémon for the time being.
They all looked at her, slightly confused.
"I'm scouting out the place for a bit, so I thought 'why not share this beautiful place with you guys?' what do you think?"
Beautifly was the first to act, and fluttered over to a beautiful cluster of flowers.
"Well, I'll take that as a 'sure!' Suicune, I want you to make sure that you aren't seen if people come here who aren't my sisters, you too, Blaziken and Charizard. All right, well I have to start working through this maze, so you know where to find me…kinda. Oh, and maybe you can find any possible ways enemies can infiltrate in, if you don't mind!"
And with that, May plunged into the hedges.
….
"You know, Suicune, I always thought that I'd be done in by some killer assassin guy, but I never thought it would be by some hedges," May rambled on as she rode on the back of the legendary Pokémon. He had found her not long ago, slightly worried about her bad sense of direction, so he decided to join her. Suicune paused once they came up to a crossroad. "Hm…let's try right?"
The Pokémon just shrugged and complied.
Not too soon after that, the two came to a dead end. "Daaammiiit," May whined as they turned around. "Well, I guess it's all for good. I'm going to have to memorize this whole thing anyway."
Suicune barked in agreement.
May and Suicune continued on like that for about an hour and a half more, before they finally came to the middle, where a beautiful sparkling small lake was. Bright green grass was surrounding it, as well as some trees, and a little to the left, there was a gazebo. Opposite to May and Suicune, there was the entrance to the rest of the maze.
With an annoyed huff, the two continued on through the maze.
….
May dropped to her knees in pure bliss. "THANK YOU!" she exclaimed while hugging Suicune's neck. "You have no idea how much I love you right now!"
Suicune barked, and blushed when May kissed him on the cheek. Her celebrating, however, was cut short. "Daammiiit! We need to go through again to make sure I do have it memorized!" With that, she jumped onto the Pokémon's back once again, and they went through the maze backwards. "I wonder how everyone else is doing…"
….
"May, it's getting close to school, students are starting to file in, and we're supposed to be 'suspended', so meet us at the big tree across from the Spy School entrance, kay?" Misty's voice came in through her mind, just as May and Suicune exited the maze.
"No prob," May replied and jumped off the legendary Pokémon. "I'll be there in a few, then I'll report."
"See you then."
"Okay guys, thanks for doing some work, and I hope you had some fun, too! Have a good rest," May said before returning all her Pokémon, and clipping them back onto her bracelet, before making her way to the entrance gate of the garden.
"How come you skipped Education?"
May jumped in the air, and snapped her head over to the voice in surprise. There stood none other than Drew Hayden. May let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. "Uh…I –uh…I mean…we got suspended…hahaha…"
If only she had Dawn's ability to lie flawlessly. Drew raised an eyebrow. "Suspended already? Wow, December, I didn't think you were that stupid of a person. So, how did you get suspended?"
The short haired Maple tensed. "Dawn! Help! Drew just found me, and asked why we're suspended!"
"Uh…tell him that we were caught fighting other students on our way back to our dorms last night!" was the bluenette's reply. God, May loved her sister so much.
"Well, August?"
May's eyebrow twitched. "One: it's May. M-A-Y. And two: we were caught in a fight with other students on our way back to our dorms last night…Anyway! I have to get back to my dorm now; we're under uh…what's the word? …Quarantine! Not supposed to be out and about, so…later!"
With that, May dashed away before the green haired boy could say anything else.
….
"'Bout time you got here, Blaze," Aria thought dully as the short haired brunette climbed up the tree she and her other sisters were perched in.
May sent the caramel haired girl a glare. "I'm so sorry that Drew was persistent and wouldn't let me go."
"Okay, now that Blaze is here, we can compare notes. Let's start with Dawn," Leaf said, cutting in so there wouldn't be an argument.
Dawn grinned. "Well, there wasn't actually that much in the Contest Wing, but I found out that there was a really well disguised trap door on side of the stage. I investigated, and I found out that there was a secret passage heading out past the gates of the school. It leads into the city of LaRousse. Okay, Mist?"
"The Battle Wing is completely safe," Misty confirmed with a nod, then turned her head to Leaf and Aria. "You two?"
The two exchanged glances. "Well, there wasn't much in the middle of the school. Just classrooms and stuff like that, but when I got to the basement…I didn't think that there'd be much, but I found out a small passage behind an old teacher's desk. I ventured in it a little, but I stopped when I heard voices. I have Lucario monitoring it right now. He'll tell me about it when he comes back."
May, Dawn, and Misty gulped, then looked over at the long haired brunette. "The roof wasn't that bad. It seems that the basement was the big deal, so I have Celebi over there too. If something's bad, she could just turn her and Lucario invisible or take them back in time," Leaf then looked over to May. "What about you?"
May sighed. "Well, there was a huge maze. Suicune and I managed to memorize it all, so that's not a problem. I had my other Pokémon look around, but there wasn't much. It's just a flowery garden filled with flowers, and a very long, confusing maze with a lake…in the…middle…Damn! I forgot to look inside the lake! I'll send...uh…dammit! I didn't bring a water Pokémon!"
"I'll send Mudkip!" Aria piped up. "He needs some experience, anyway!"
Leaf nodded. "Alright, Ari. Hurry up with that, and meet us back in the Spy School. We're going to look around, and make sure you're not seen. Got it?"
Aria just flashed a thumbs up before falling out of the tree.
"OW! DAMMIT!"
Dawn sweatdropped. "She's one of our best fighters?"
….
Aria bit her lip. "Are you sure, Mudkip?" The little Pokémon nodded, and Aria sighed. "Alright, I'm coming in. Just give me a second."
With that, she dropped her messenger bag on the ground, and took off her shoes, socks, sweater, ribbon, skirt (she's wearing shorts under), and shirt, where a sports bra took place. She dug around in her bag quickly, and brought out a small little tube like thing.
"Gotta love Rangers for giving us Aqua Lungs," she muttered before sticking the Aqua Lung in her mouth, and diving into the lake. The first thing she noticed was that the lake was colder than she expected.
Not soon after, Mudkip popped up into her vision, and motioned her over. Aria hurriedly followed, and noticed that the lake wasn't calm and still –like she had thought– but there was a slight current. Aria narrowed her eyes, and quickly followed the current.
There it was. A tunnel.
Mudkip and Aria exchanged glances, before they swam inside the tunnel.
It wasn't like any other tunnel. Aria expected it to be somewhat muddy, or something like that, but it wasn't. Jewels glittered all around. No rock was found in sight on the wall. It was just a tunnel made out of cluttered jewels, but when Aria swam up to get a closer look, she realized that they weren't just jewels, they were frozen solid.
She had to have her sisters see this. Aria closed her eyes, and concentrated for a moment, before snapping them open, one glowing orange, and the other just her plain green eye.
"Mudkip found this tunnel…I don't know where it leads to, but I'm betting that it's not going to be something good,"
Aria was on edge. She didn't quite know what was going to be at the end of this tunnel, and she definitely didn't know if it could be dangerous or not.
Then she felt it as she continued on through the tunnel. The water became colder. Almost freezing, but that wasn't what really set her off. She felt something. Something powerful. It was…almost like her first missions. The missions when they had to protect the legendaries –when they first met.
"Guys, what legendaries haven't we captured and protected?"
"Uhm…" Dawn's voice started. "Darkrai, Arceus (duh), and most of the Unova legendaries…I think that's about it…Why? What are you suspecting?"
Aria didn't answer, and continued on through the freezing water.
"Ari, get out of there! Your temperature is below getting low. You might die, you'll get really sick if you're lucky!" May's voice popped in, but once again, Aria ignored it.
"Mudkip, use Scald. Try to heat up the water a little, okay?"
The small Pokémon looked over, and quickly complied, only to have the heat quickly disappear and steam to cover their vision.
"Well, damn. That didn't work." Aria thought as she attempted to swat away the steam. "Just have to keep going then…"
Then she saw it. Above her, the jewels were starting to separate, showing frozen rock.
Despite her body slowly freezing, she willed herself to continue to swim. Oh, how much she wished that she had May's body temperature kinetic at this point.
Mudkip looked over at her slightly worried, but continued to push on as well.
Finally, there was an opening above her. She let herself sink down, before mustering up the most strength she could, and pushed up. It was even colder in the cave, but there was air. Aria managed to pull herself up onto the cave floor, before shivering.
There was a roar. A powerful one.
Aria's teeth started chattering, as she slowly turned her head towards the noise. It was most definitely a dragon Pokémon, but…it looked hurt. Burned, actually. There were scorch marks all over the cave, with very thin ice starting to form around it.
"Wh- which one are you? …Are you a legendary Pokémon?" She asked through telepathy, mainly because if she tried to talk, it would just be chattering gibberish. Her eyes narrowed. "No, never mind. That doesn't matter. You're hurt, aren't you? Why are you hurt? This cave…it's so secret, and no one who has sanity would venture this far…"
Aria forced her body to take a shaky step forward, causing the giant dragon Pokémon to take a wary step backwards, before growling viciously. Cautiously, she took another step forward, but the legendary didn't want that. Her eyes widened when an Ice Beam was shot towards her.
"Wait! I'm not here to hurt you! I'm going to protect you!"
It was too late. Aria was too cold to move, and she shut her eyes. The attack never came. She peeked her eye open, and she gasped.
Mudkip stood there on shaky legs. He had endured the attack for her, before collapsing on the ground in exhaustion. "Mudkip!" she screamed in her mind, before snapping her head up at the legendary Pokémon. "Do you see now that we're not here to hurt you? I'm not going to attack you," Aria moved to take her pokeball bracelet off, but her eyes widened when she realized that it wasn't there. She must have lost it in the lake.
Aria somehow grit her chattering teeth, and slowly walked forward, outstretching her shaky hand. The legendary Pokémon flinched when Aria's hand came in contact with it's cold, frozen head, but Aria sucked in a calm breath, and blew out slowly, calming it down.
"Wait…I recognize you. You're that Pokémon that was on the protect files. Uh…what was your name?" Her eyes widened in realization as the image of the Pokémon's file flashed in her head. "Kyurem! Newly discovered, and heavily targeted, but…what are you doing in Hoenn?"
The Pokémon couldn't even make a sound. A blast of fire was sent towards the two, only just skimming passed them. Aria snapped her head towards the direction where the fire came from, and gasped.
An angry team of assassin Rockets. Just what she needed when she had one fainted baby Pokémon, and a hurt legendary.
Agh. Sorry if it seems Aria-centric to you guys. I try not to :/
But at least it's long?
Review.
(Warning: the next chapter is quite Aria-centric too. I'm a failure T.T)