Pokemon Special High School Edition!
"Where am I?"
The boy tries to look around but he couldn't move his neck at all. His arms and legs felt numb and all he could feel was the cold rain falling onto his face. Lightning flashed across the sky but the boy couldn't hear the thunder that roared soon after, he could only lay still on the wet concrete, staring up into the pouring rain clouds.
"It hurts..."
Just then a familiar face comes into view; a little girl was crouching next to the boy and he could feel her presence. Despite all the rain fall, he could tell she was crying as the droplets of water falling off her cheeks were filled with warmth and sadness as it lands on the boy's face.
"Why are you crying…?"
The girl was crying and yelling at the boy, but no matter how hard he tried, the boy just couldn't catch what she was saying nor do anything at all.
"Could you please tell me why you are crying…?"
In a matter of seconds, bright rays of light shoot down from the heaven and consume everything around next minute, he was awake in his room once again. The sunlight coming from the partially opened window has wakened him up from his dreadful dream. Ruby forces himself out of the comfort of his bed and drags his body to prepare for school.
"I'm having that dream again, seriously, I really got to consider sleeping earlier next time."
Ruby washes up and starts changing into his school uniform in front of his large mirror. "This scar is really affecting my appearance, and it hurts when I think about it."
Ruby touches his scar and it still stings after he wakes up from that dream. He grab his white hat, tucks it on his head and leaves for school.
By the time, Ruby arrive in school, Sapphire was already impatiently waiting for him in their classroom.
"Ruby! You're ten minutes late! Be default, I win the "Come to school earlier" match!"
Sapphire laughs victoriously as Ruby just casually walks up to his seat next to Sapphire.
"Anyway, Ruby, are you free after school?"
"I suppose so, the drama club's got a break after that performance we had, what's up?"
"Great! The football club needs one more player for a mini tournament between the junior boys and girls since one of the boys dropped out, mind filling up for him?"
"I don't really want to, besides, I've got some handicrafts I got to complete." ,though it doesn't look like it, Ruby's pretty athletic even though his major forte is handicraft.
"Sissy...",Sapphire employs the same tactic to coax Ruby which often works than not and as usual Ruby's ego falls for it.
"Who are you calling a sissy? I'll make you eat your words with my fabulous playing style!"
Though they often disagree with each other, they are still as close as ever since their arguments never lasted long. Everything went by pretty quickly that day and soon, it's the end of school. As the teacher leaves the class, Sapphire was about to call out to Ruby who's busy dusting the board when he's suddenly called out of the classroom by Pearl. Ruby soon returns back to the classroom in a hurry and packs up his stuff.
"So Ruby, are you prepared for the tournament?"
"Ah…, about that Sapphire, I don't think I'll be able to make it for the tournament today, something cropped up in the drama club and I must see to it but I'll come and watch you guys later."
With that, Ruby dashes out of the classroom and disappears down the corridor leaving the dumbfounded Sapphire back in class. Sapphire runs out to the corridor and screams at the disappearing Ruby.
"RUBY YOU IDIOT!" ,pretty much any person without auditory deficiency in the school will be able to hear her loud scream echoing down the corridor. On the top floor, Ruby could clearly hear Sapphire's scream, but couldn't do anything about it since the matter he's attending to is more important.
"I guess I should treat her to sundaes later on to make up for it…", with that in mind, Ruby hurries to the drama club to attend to the urgent problem.
Meanwhile, Sapphire was already at the changing room with the rest of the female players, preparing to set foot on the playing field.
"That stupid Ruby, he can't even keep a promise properly, he hasn't changed a bit...", tightening the blue bandana on her head, Sapphire joins up with the rest of the team to begin the match.
Soon, it was time for the face off between the two football teams. The audience present consists of mostly students and a few teachers to supervise this kick off. It's kind of an annual event they do in Poke High, organizing mini tournaments for students to test their skills akin to the volleyball competition a while ago.
"Beep!"
The referee blows the whistle and the match commences. The crowd is breaming with anticipation throughout the match as each team tries their best with planned strategies to try and overcome their foes. Everyone on the field is giving their hundred percent concentrations on the match, except Sapphire who is playing as the defender for the girls' team. All that is on her mind is anger towards Ruby who didn't uphold his end of the promise and play in this match. She was really looking forward to play with Ruby in this match but now it's only her, she just couldn't give her hundred percent after losing a third of her motivation to play.
Meanwhile, in the temporary drama club, the drama club members have just finish fixing the costumes and props that got damaged in the rain yesterday. Apparently, someone have forgotten to close the windows yesterday after using the room and the costumes and props end up getting caught in the rain. Ruby and the girls finished remaking the props while the rest of the boys were airing out the costumes by the window.
"Oh right, the match... I guess I could pop by since I'm about done here."
Ruby notices the match taking place at the field and remembers Sapphire was playing in it. He decides to take a break and goes downstairs to cheer for Sapphire since it's the least he could do after ditching her this reaches the field promptly and squeezes himself within the crowd when he notices his seniors sitting in one of the benches.
"Red and Yellow! Hello."
Ruby goes to where Red and Yellow are to greet the two of them.
"Ah…Ruby was it? Did you come to see Sapphire?", Red pats an empty seat next to him, inviting Ruby to sit down with them.
"I did say I would come so here I am, on a side note, am I intruding on you both?"
"No, not really...", Yellow's words starts to trail off since only now did she realize they were alone together before Ruby joins them.
"Sapphire seems to be under performing today... Ruby, did anything happen to her?"
After hearing that, Ruby realizes it could be him ditching Sapphire that resulted in her below average performance today, she allowed players from the opponent team to have a shot at the goal several times, obviously not doing a proper job as the defender.
"I guess I better apologize properly after this…"
"Beep!" The referee blows his whistle, signaling the end of the match and the crowd cheered for both of the teams that have played well today. In the end, it was a close match but the male team manages to win with a lucky penalty shot.
"Sapphire…"
When the crowd finally left the field, both the teams remained to pick up balls around the field. Ruby bids Red and Yellow good bye before going down to where Sapphire was. Apparently, a few of the balls got kicked right out of the field and into nearby bushes so Sapphire was tasked to go pick those up.
"I really screwed up big time today, I'm so going to get a scolding from coach later, it's all that stupid Ruby's fault!"
"Hey Sapphire! Catch!" Sapphire turns back just in time and caught the flying ball Ruby threw at her.
"Wah! That's dangerous you idiot!", Sapphire dumps the balls back into the storage box as Ruby lands her a hand with it.
"Sorry about that and other things,are you still mad?"
Sapphire turns away from Ruby, continuing to pick up the balls even though her hands are pretty much full.
"So you are still mad."
"No I'm not! Leave me alone!"
Despite that, Ruby still goes around helping to pick up the remaining balls. The load proves to be too much as one of the balls slips out from Sapphire's hand and rolls onto the main street.
"Ah! Come back here you!" From the corner of the street, a mini van was speeding down the road, obviously above the speed limit on the road and heading straight for Sapphire who is trying to pick up the ball with her available hand. By the time Sapphire notices the van from the corner of her eyes, it was already too late.
"No...It can't be...!"
No matter how Sapphire struggles, her foot seems to be rooted to the road and her eyes fixated on the incoming van approaching fast. It was only a matter of seconds till the van reaches her; there wasn't any way out of this anymore. Loud honking and the roaring engine reverberates around Sapphire like as though time had slowed down for her, for her imminent death.
"Eh...?"
Sapphire suddenly finds herself tackled to the side of the road as Ruby takes her place on the road. Ruby lay collapsed on the road with the incoming van speeding towards him.
"No..! Its going to be like last time!"
"RUBY!"
A sense of deja vu overwhelms Ruby as Ruby stood at the centre of the road hearing Sapphire's cry of despair and the deafening noise of the roaring engine. The scar on his forehead starts to burn as distant memories bombarded his head; Pictures of a similiar incident surfaces in his head sending immense headaches to Ruby.
"Ah! It hurts!"
Ruby once again returns to that same dream he had for the past few weeks. This time, he was viewing it as a third person; as himself.
"Ah...Am I dead?"
Ruby sees the small boy re-enact the scene he just performed. He pushed the girl out of the road and ends up being knocked down by a car sending him flying backwards and hits the road hard on the head. The girl rushes to his side and started bawling as she sees the blood oozing out of his head. Despite the heavy rain, it looks like the rain passes right through Ruby as walks to their side. The boy had his eyes opened all these while but there's only emptiness in those pairs of eyes as they look like they've lost all the fighting spirit in them.
"This is..."
This time, Ruby could clearly hear what the girl has to say and it isn't pleasant to say the least. No matter how much she cries the boy didn't budge nor move; as though he was already dead.
"Ha... I guess I really deserved to die, how could I forget about this..."
With that, his dream world starts to crumble again and Ruby is once again brought back to reality as he awakens in a nostalgic environment. Ruby could smell the strong scent of anesthetics within the room covered in white except with vase filled with yellow flowers sitting on his bedside. Ruby notices Sapphire sleeping soundly by the side of his bed and could hear his parents outside with the doctor.
"I'm still alive...?", Ruby moves his arms and they definitely felt real enough. He then proceeds to take a swing on Sapphire's sleeping head with a chop awakens our sleeping princess who immediately tears up when she sees Ruby sitting up in his bed.
"Ruby! You're okay!" Sapphire starts looking around Ruby's head checking for signs of injury and was relieved when she couldn't find any.
"Thank god...! I was so worried...!", Sapphire went from tearing up to full blown crying while hugging Ruby.
"Ruby...! I'm so sorry!"
"Okay okay I get it, now would you mind getting off of me? Geeze you're still such a cry baby."
"But...!"
Ruby places his hand gently on Sapphire's head,caressing her chestnut colored hair.
"I'm back...Sapphire."
After a few more days in the hospital, Ruby got discharged safely with no major injuries or side effects. Ruby had also learned that he was able to escape death just because the driver swerved in time. With his newly reclaimed memories and a new motto in life, the dreams that Ruby used to have never came back.
I'll protect her no matter what
To be continued!
Author's note: The descendant of the forgotten promise is the forgotten memories! Cheers!