A/N — Hey guys! It's been a whole month :) Dang, that was felt like half the time LOL. It feels like I've posted recently, but... its been a MONTH! Guess author time is different, eh? Anyways, i'll cut to the chase to the review replies because all the notes is at the bottom & I want y'all to read the chapter already! YAY! This is the longest (9000 WORDS without the author notes) so yay again!
TO THE BEAUTIFUL REVIEWERS:
Shidake — You'll find out your answer in this story who he is, but you won't find out why Gold and Yellow were hiding until next chapter, just saying XP BUT LOL. Platinum is the best, huh? I don't why, but I find her loyal to people she likes.
TheGamingPyro — OMG LOL. I laughed so much on your review! Thanks for the compliment by the way XP But yeah, shippings should never be broken, especially if it's OTP's, LOL.
Trainer Azurite — His reaction with cake is how I imagine him, LOL.
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justsomerandompokemonguy — LOL, yeah I try my best, thank you :) Also, yes. Bugsy likes Soul because I wanted her to have admirer XD
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TheWishFish — Well, tbh a lot of people (who are rich) in japan (well in the animes/mangas) get assigned to a partner/fiancée at a early age. Mostly, it's at the age of 15/16, but you know, you can get them a partner, but marry them later.
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Chapter Ten — Believe In The Impossible
"Woah," was the first thing Black said when he saw everyone flailing everywhere. A boy with white hair (from his view) was arguing with a girl who had fangs, a blond hair shorty was eating cake while rolling his eyes, a black haired teen was sulking about his cake, the brunette next to him was calmly drinking his coffee, one of the maids slipped and was helped by a redhead, and on the other side of the room, a blue haired girl was pouring tea on someone's head with two witnesses near them.
"Wow! The whole crew is here!" Soul exclaimed, clasping her hands and smiling. But then she noticed something missing. "Oh wait... Yellow and Gold aren't here."
"Good," Crystal mumbled.
"Y'know, Crys, I've always wondered this and I tried to keep my mouth shut before you go off, but why do you hate him so much?" the brunette asked. From under the table, Gold was pressing his ear against the tablecloth to hear the answer better.
"Because he's the type I dislike," Crystal answered frankly. "He's so irresponsible and plays around with girls all the time, instead of doing what he should do: study! And I know you're going to say, 'it's high school, Crys! It's the time for romance! Don't you read shoujo mangas?' First, I don't. Second, even if it's okay for romance, that doesn't mean it's right to date one girl then dump her the next day after you get together. He's exactly like that, and that's why I dislike him!"
Under the table, Gold was upset, pouting a bit with Yellow patting his back for comfort.
"Wow... you're more harsher than I thought. Even more than that feraligatr!" Soul commented, still having a grudge against the blue Pokémon. She still haven't forgave him for what he did. All she wanted to do was give him some advice on how he could look cuter, but he denied it by eating her up.
"Feraligatr?!" Red shouted, standing up in excitement at the word of a Pokémon. "You mean the Pokémon?!"
"No," Soul lied, not wanting her social status to drop. "I'm talking about a brand name." With that reply, Red deflated immediately, sitting down again. Geez, I have to stop mentioning him, or the football players will spread the news, she thought, Silver and Gold popping up in her mind from the other times she mentioned it.
She sighed and turned around to ask her siblings what table they should sit at, only to see an upset Black. "... Is something wrong, Black?" Crystal asked, seeing the expression too.
"I thought you meant the Pokémon too..." he mumbled in reply. In his free time, Black would play the game all the time, to the point that he became the champion of one of the regions. He was also the reason why Crystal and Soul started to play Pokérune.
"Eh? You like Pokémon?" Red asked curiously, hearing the conversation.
"Yah!" Black shouted back, running over to their table to talk about it.
Soul sweatdropped at the sparkly-ness in their eyes. "Pokémon... is awesome, isn't it?"
"Well of course," Crystal mumbled.
"Hey." She froze when she heard a whisper. Her eyes trailed down to where she heard it. That was when she saw a hand pop out of the table.
"... I am not seeing this, I am not seeing this," Soul repeated over and over, not wanting to deal with whatever that was. "Black, we're going to get a table first. You... go ahead and hang out with Red-sempai."
"Okay bye sis!" Black said, waving bye to her. He turned back to Red, then started to continue their 'beautiful Pokémon' conversation.
Blue's POV
"Thanks for helping me, Silv," I said as I dust the invisible dust off my skirt.
"No problem Nee-san, but are you okay?" Silver asked me with worried eyes.
Geez he's so adorable like a small hairy puppy~! Why couldn't he be like this with Soul and not the tsundere baby bro he is?! Sigh. Oh well, it's his nature. But still, him and Soul should hook up. Even though she kind of put him in debt because of the car, I still think they should get married, or something like that. It's high school, so why not?
"Nee-san?" Silver's voice snapped me out my thoughts.
"Huh?" I said out loud. "What were we talking about again?"
"I just asked if you were okay," Silver replied.
"Oh me? I'm alright!" I assured. "Oops, I have a customer! Excuse me~!" And with that, I ran over to the redhead guy, leaving Silver.
"Hello~!" I greeted, holding a single menu in my hand. "To-go, or you're going to eat in here?"
I really needed to finish serving this guy, so I won't miss much of the Platinum vs. fiancé battle. Man, I totally didn't think that she had it in her, but she exceeded my expectations! For a rich, spoiled chick, she's still getting on my good side. I still haven't decided whether she should go with Diamond or Pearl yet, though. Diamond seems to have a thing for her, which I respect and ship very much. But Pearl seems like an interesting choice for some reason, not always giving her the 'heiress' treatment and all.
"Are you listening to me?!"
I snapped out of my thoughts again, only to see the redhead annoyed in front of me. "Um yeah?" I mumbled.
"Just hurry up and give me two chocolate cakes. I have to get going," he said in annoyed tone, twitching his eye. Geez, he reminds me of Green, but with a worst patience...
I fake a smile at grumpy pants #2 (Green being #1). "Okay, coming right up." I got behind the counter, and grabbed a cake out of glass case. Honestly I wanted to drop the cake and step on it then give it to him, but I promise the bakery owner that I would help out and work hard like Yellow.
I wrapped the cakes in the containers then shoved it on the counter. Tapping the cash register and scanning the tags on the cakes' plates, I said, "Four forty-eight." The redhead man just slid a five dollar bill on the counter without saying anything.
I tapped the cash register for the change, but it kept saying 'error'. Oops, I forgot that the owner said that the cash register is broken. Ugh. Now I have to do more math, and it's after school. There goes my break from learning.
"Hmm... five minus four and forty-eight cents..." I said out loud, looking in thought. A second later, I got the answer 'fifty-two cents'. I was about to open the cash register, so I could give him the change, but he interrupted me.
"You know what, I don't have time for your slow thinking. Keep the change," he said, snatching the box of cakes off the counter.
"This is why humans shouldn't rule the world," I heard him mutter as he walked out. Humans? Isn't he a human? Waaaaait! Could he be one of those crazy people who supports animals and think they should rule the world because they're stronger than humans (well, most of them)? Because I'm pretty sure that's he's human himself.
WAIT.
Another kind of species that's stronger than humans are Pokémon. But, Pokémon wasn't real.
Until last night.
OH MY ARCEUS, IS HE A POKEMON? I remembered that some Pokémon can transform, like ditto. Ah man, I love that Pokémon! I bet if it was real like my jigglypuff, then it would be the best partner ever! I mean, I can steal from anyone I want! So, if he is a ditto, then maybe I can catch him and make him show his true colors! Finally! Some fun can happen! Well, besides the ships.
Well, I'm probably jumping to conclusion, but who cares! It's not like I've got anything to lose.
"Silver," I called, cuffing my hands around my mouth.
The redhead immediately skidded over when I called his name. "Do you need something?" he asked.
I smiled sweetly at him. "I just want you to help me on something~!"
"Y'know Crys, you should be nicer to him," Soul suggested, playing with her straw in the water she ordered.
"Who's him?" Crystal asked. "There's literally a lot of people that are guys."
"Well, I'm not saying that you should be nice to all of them, but I think you should be nice to Gold. I mean, you're nice to everyone else in detention, so why not him? Well, everyone besides me, but still, you get the point. Plus, I'm your sister. We have the right to be mean to each other," she said.
"Look, I already said that I'm... not going to... err..." Crystal tried to find the right words, "... be the opposite of mean because I feel like if I be nice, he'll walk over me like the other girls. Have you seen him? He dumps a girl in a second!"
"Yeah, but it could be true love and stuff with you! You're pretty special," Soul persuaded.
"You sound like one of the shoujo mangas," Crystal commented. "By the way, stop reading them."
"Crryysss!" Soul whined, "Look! I'm just gonna say this because I feel bad for the guy. You should stop thinking he's that good for nothing dad."
Crystal flinched when she heard the name. Her eyes turned dead serious as she lowered them. "It's not because of that. Also, I told you not to mention him anymore. He left us just to go into beds with other girls. I don't need another reminder of that," she said.
Soul looked down, partially depressed. "I know. But I still think that you shouldn't reflect him onto others," she commented. "I'm only saying it because he didn't deserve it, and because no one should deny Blue's special shipping journal."
"Wait what?" Crystal inquired, the atmosphere changing immediately.
"Dude. I saw her have crazy eyes when she gave us our food," Soul said. "As a shoujo reader, I will agree on the romance, so I will also support the ship. Plus, if I go against it, then Blue would eliminate me."
"Wait you said all of that for that reason?" Crystal asked, understand half of what she said.
"Pretty much," Soul admitted. "But I wasn't kidding about the comparisons you were giving. That part is something I feel that you should change. And I'm only saying this because I'm your awesome sister and I care about you, of course."
"Why is Lance here? He's supposed to be captain of the hockey team, yet he eats small cakes?! What kind of man is he?" Gold complained, whispering.
"But you eat here all the time, and you're a football player..." Yellow mumbled, sweatdropping.
"Man I want him to hurry up and leave! Crys is here, and Sapph's feet are killing me," he said, squeezing his nose tightly together. "I'm surprised that you're not bothered by this, Yell."
"Sapphire's feet smell like nature," Yellow described, sniffing the air around her. "It's like I'm in the forest again~!"
Gold sweatdropped when he saw a sweet pink aura with hearts surround the happy blonde. He turned around, and decided to let her have her happy moment. Crawling towards the inside of the booth, he tugged on Green's pants. Immediately, Green kicked his face.
"OW!" he exclaimed loudly.
He opened the table cloth towards Green's side. "Dude, what was that for?!"
"Don't tug on me," Green said, sipping his coffee afterwards.
"I needed to ask you something!" Gold defended.
"What is it then?"
"Is there a spiky red haired guy in the store? He's like Silv but with his hair up," Gold described.
Green lifted his head then looked up and around. "No. Now don't touch me anymore, or I'll hurt you again," he warned.
"..." Yellow and Gold sweatdropped again.
Green/Green-sempai is so scary that I want to stay under the table cloth... Yellow and Gold thought.
But since they had no choice (and Gold really didn't want to smell Sapphire's feet for any longer), the two stumbled out of the table then stood up, surprising Ruby and Emerald, who were standing where they came out. Ruby raised an eyebrow and Emerald protected the cake with his sleeves.
"S-Sorry for scaring you," Yellow apologized.
"I am not saying sorry, Yell. They made Sapph kick the heck out of me," Gold said. Sapphire tilted her head, confused of what he meant.
"... Yellow-sempai?" Emerald said, raising an eyebrow. "Dude, you had long hair?! Are you a girl?"
"YES!" Everyone stopped their conversations and looked at Red awkwardly, wondering why he was standing up, yelling 'yes', and pumping his fist. When he realized that everyone was staring at him, he scratched his cheek, awkwardly. "Umm... I'm just happy that I wasn't the only clueless one about Yellow's gender, and all. Um... yeah, sorry for that..." He sat back down in his seat, and turned to Black.
"What was that about...?" Ruby questioned. "You can totally tell. She has a girl figure, duh."
"..." Emerald, Sapphire, Gold, and Yellow sweat dropped when he said that since it was pretty hard to see her figure since she always wear baggy clothes all the time. That, and Yellow was a 'late bloomer', as she stated when Gold asked her about it.
"Dude, I only knew because I met her without the hat," Sapphire stated. "But yeah, Rald and Red-sempai are probably the last ones."
"Technically, Emerald was last one," Red defended, making the blonde glare. "Uh anyways, Yellow, why were you under the table?"
Yellow stiffened up when he called her name. She didn't want to answer the question, but she didn't want to ignore him. "Umm... the truth is—"
"OH MY ARCEUS! Is that the legendary Pokémon, Reshiram's card?! No way! I thought you can get this only in America!" Gold shouted, grabbing Black's ultimate card. "It's also one of the rarest Pokémon in America!"
"Yeah!" Black yelled, nodding proudly.
"No way, dude!" Red said, turning to him. "I didn't see that one! Let me touch it, Gold!"
"Wait! I just held it for a second," Gold rejected.
In the moment of the three bonding, Yellow slipped out of the crowd, hoping to get away from Red's question. After she safely escaped to the kitchen, she sighed. Red had finally talked to her again, but she didn't get to make a conversation with him, and he talked about a topic that she didn't want to continue.
"WHY IS LIFE SO UNFAIR?!" she shouted in the kitchen, hoping to get it all out. That made me feel a little better, she thought. Afterwards, she sighed again and went back to the counter. When she came out, she saw a man soaked in tea with steam coming out of his head walk out of the café.
"Eh?"
"Yellow~! Guess what? Guess what?!" Blue repeated in her face, shoving a camera in it.
"What?" she asked, going along with it.
"I got HD pictures of Platinum dumping that bastard, and I even recorded it on my phone~!" Blue squealed in happiness. "Look! Look!" Yellow sweatdropped, taking the camera from the jumpy brunette's hands.
"Ooh. That looked like it stings," Diamond commented, watching him stomp out of the café angrily. After the guy ran out, Diamond and Platinum started to eat the stuff Darach ordered. Pearl would've ate some too, but he was filled up from the other dessert he ate.
"Hope it does," Pearl mumbled. He glanced at Platinum who was sitting down in her spot, peacefully eating her fiancé's uneaten cake. "I never thought you do that for commoners."
Platinum flinched, but continued to do what she was doing, trying to act casual. "Please, I only did it because he irritated me. He mistaken my violin as a fiddle," she said.
"Hmm..." Diamond stared at her for awhile while chomping on the fiancé's other cake.
"Is something wrong?" Platinum inquired. "You're staring at me with an odd look."
"Mm... never mind," he said. Diamond gave her a sweet smile, his cheeks and mouth covered with chocolate cake crumbs. "But thanks for sticking up for us!"
"Again, I only did it because he was insulting the Prodigy Program, which I am in," Platinum retorted.
"Uh huh, okay," Pearl said, skeptical. "Anyways, for getting rid of that guy, we'll perform our comedy act for you! We haven't practiced today yet, so it's a good chance!"
Platinum smiled, and crossed her legs, starting to get relaxed. "Perform a good show for me then."
Emerald's POV
I adjusted my headgear while the game was loading on the computer screen. Ugh, I hate this thing. Sure it masks my voice well and all, and technology is so great, but... IT'S SO FREAKEN HARD TO FIT IT WITH MY HAIR. So every time I play, I have to take a shower before, so my hair is down, but that makes it bad too because wet hair goes in my ears and drips everywhere... Man, I really want a blow dryer for Christmas now.
"Man, I really want a hair dryer for Christmas..." I muttered out loud.
[Hair dryer? Seriously dude?] At the sound of someone's voice, I jumped in my seat in surprise. Oh shoot. I forgot that I was online.
"None of your business, Awesome," I replied back calmly.
I heard a laugh coming from the aipom. [Hey, you said it first, I just repeated]
"Uh huh, okay," I replied, not caring. "Where are the others?"
We were in the lab where we usually hung out at. For some reason, there was a special promotion that'll give away a million coins if we gathered fourteen people here... This is suspicious, but you know, how harmful can a game get? You know, besides having viruses.
[The others— Ooh~! Capturer is about to get on. She just texted me]
"You know, I wonder why you and Capturer are so close. You guys know each other in real life?"
[Nope, Hacker] he said, shortening my name 'Hacker551'. [If we were, I would be dating her]
Ew, dating? I grimaced at the thought of it. EW I think I might puke because of this gushiness. Why are game players of an RPG game even freaken talking about romance? I already got enough of it when Ruby and Sapphire flirt in front of me. Now this? Why are people trying to make me spit out my insides?
"Okay dude, how do ya know Capturer's a girl? Maybe Capturer is a guy, and he's hiding his true gender because he doesn't want anyone to find out. Same with Sparkles. That dude is a guy, but he uses that stupid name to hide his gender. Well, he already revealed it to us, but still. People confuse his gender because of his profile, yet his name is girly," I reasoned.
[How do you know he's a guy? He could be lying, right?]
"That's because I know him in real life, duh," I admitted. It's not like it's gonna kill me to say that. Plus, I was the one who got Ruby to play, so it's okay. But the guy was pretty smart to throw people off with that name. Too bad he was stupid enough to tell others his true gender. I can't really tell if he's smart or not, to be honest.
[Dude, you know each other in real life?! I know Dark Hood, Aoi, and Healer in real life] Awesome informed. [It's cool to meet people, huh?]
I raised an eyebrow. What? He met with the others? "You met with the others?" I asked.
[More or less. Well, I can't really tell you much because of the 'stranger danger on online' thing, so sorry but that's all I can say]
"Hmm... well it doesn't matter to me because if I wanted to, I could always find you guys. I just chose not to because you guys are the dangerous ones," I said, trying to throw him off guard.
[I know what you're doing. You trying to throw me off guard, and it's not working] Ugh. This is one of the guys I can't stand. He knows too much and isn't afraid of most things. Plus, this idiot knows how to solve tricky puzzle junk while I can't. I bet this guy is in his thirties because there's no way that he's younger than me and smarter than me.
I groaned loudly. "Okay whatever, you found me out. Now let's go play a game!" I suggested.
[Dude, we can't play a game, remember? We hafta wait for the othe—] Awesome stopped talking when a siren was heard. I actually jumped in my seat, surprised of the loud siren. Yeah, I need to turn down the volume on this thing, it's annoying me.
The siren stopped and a word text popped up. {To the players that were invited to the lab, everyone is to report to the gym. Click here to go to the eighteenth gym} It read out loud in a monotone voice. Geez I hate it when it does that. It sounds creepy like that talking person on that phone who's supposed to assist you. But, to be honest, all voices on electronics are weird.
'Players that were invited to the lab'? Isn't everyone invited? I mean, there was a pidgey in front of the Pokémart squawking it out. You know, if anything happens like someone hacking into the system to steal all our money, then I'm going to kill someone cause I was planning to buy this awesome weapon and level up my abilities.
[Guess I'll meet you there, Hacker. Oh, and by the way, when you get the money, you should level up your grovyle] And that was his last words before he poof-ed out of the room.
"If I could do that, then I would've done it sooner," I muttered to myself. I've been gaining experience for the past week ever since my treecko evolved into groyvle, and I desperately wanted to evolve it. I mean, it could be so strong and cooler if it evolved. UGH. That idiot keeps reminded me about it.
I shook my head to clear my head. Forget this. I have to focus on the game. Everyone's already waiting for me. I clicked the button to proceed to the gym, and the lab scene switched to the loading screen. Another thing I hate about the school dorms: slow wifi. The loading screen will probably continue for several minutes.
Well, this is gonna take awhile.
I took of my headset since the thing was a bit stuffy. I should buy the new one when I get money next time.
"Tree! Tree!" I turned my recliner chair around, only to see Treecko standing in the doorway. It was cowering behind the door, using it to hide half of itself, not including the head.
"Do you need something?"
Blue's POV
"You know, I just love game night! What's better than us four sticking together and playing online together?" I announced.
All four of us; me, Silv, Gold, and Yellow were in Yellow's and Gold's living room on our laptops. It's like a slumber party, but with the geeky games, y'know? Well, technically it is, but without the pillow fights, girls only rule, and us being in pajamas.
It was eight o' clock, and we were waiting for the last player: Hacker551 to hurry up and come. Even Gold was faster, and he's relying on hotspot from my phone.
"Well, you guys haven't came over in awhile, so I guess it's fun," Gold shrugged, snacking on his chips. "But seriously. You guys were in the same room as me, and yet none of you guys told me that we were supposed to report to the gym!"
"The two thought that you would be able to find your way since that's what popped out on the screens when we logged in. Me on the other hand, was clicking the 'ok' button when you went to the restroom," Silver answered, earning an eye twitched from the raven haired boy.
"Dude, Hacker's on to me, and I feel like he's a threat," Gold admitted, changing the subject. "He gives me the chills."
"Really? You were just joking around with him earlier," Yellow said, raising an eyebrow.
"I know, that guy is easy to predict, but did you not just hear what he said to me?" Gold inquired, acting like the victim.
"Well, if he wants to attack with fire, we'll just attack back with our own fire. I know how to find someone," I said.
"Speaking as a person who you hacked the system to find, I agree with you," Yellow said. "But, there shouldn't be any 'fighting back with fire'. We shouldn't fight at all actually, it's just a game."
"Guess s—" Silver stopped talking when the groyvle we were waiting for popped up in the screen. I turned on the microphone back on so they can hear what I'm saying.
"Hey Hacker, took you long enough," I greeted. I typed a few keys, and the jigglypuff on the screen put it's hands on it's hips. Well, if it is hips, more like it's sides.
[It's okay, we still have a lot of time] Fire reassured. Oh... yeah, it's Red. I don't know why, but I'm pretty surprised it was him when Yellow told me about it. But then again, the two; online him and offline him were pretty similar, so I'm surprised why I didn't notice it earlier. Other than the fact that, 'The Red', the most popular kid in school (second to Green I think) is a Pokémon nerd.
{Welcome to the special event we had announced. Players: Hacker551, Quartz101, Healer, LeafGreen, Fire_Fighter, Pealord, BeautifulSparkles_114, Sapphoro911, Kotone24, Aoineko, DarkHood097_, Capturer01, Awesomenessofall_123, and Cakeisyummy234 is present at the moment. Once again, welcome to the special event} A voice started to come out of my laptop and the other three's, and the words it was saying appeared in the computer screen, above the game screen, so it wouldn't be in the way.
Special event? Is this system broken, or something? Lately, it's been jacked up, but now if it's malfunctioning, it better not had promised coins on the line. I'm dead serious.
{We invited all of you to collect coins, but it's for a price. We want the fourteen of you to do a job for the game. As you know, the other night, Pokémon had came out of the game. If you all are wondering why, it is because of a program we made. Those Pokémon are given to all of you because of the job we mentioned a second ago. We want you all to work together because you guys are the chosen ones}
Chosen one? Is this thing forreals?
{We will warn you all. At 2:00 pm, central time, many men in black will attack your school. Test the Pokémon out and try to eliminate them. That is the enemy team, and that team is sent to kill you all. More information will be reported to all of you tomorrow at 8:00 pm, central time, exactly. Please log in again tomorrow at that time. If you manage to get a few jobs done, then we will reward you with coins}
"Wait! Wait!" My heart skipped a beat when Gold freaken started yelling in the microphone. Man, I don't know what hurts; his voice shouting in my headphones from the screen, or his shouting in the room, considering that he's sitting ten feet away from me.
"That's a load of crap! You're literally implying that all of us go to the same school!" Gold shouted.
{We're not implying. We're saying it}
Dude, what in the Arceus name is this? This game is acting like they know us in real life, but I don't leave any tracking or contact information that'll lead them to me. I'm very cautious when it comes to that too.
[You don't know me in real life] Quartz argued calmly. [And if you do, then how do we trust you know]
{Whether you believe it, or not, but we're trying to help. You'll be thanking us at 8 tomorrow. For now, we wish you luck, and will hopefully gain your trust. Don't forget. We're trying to help, I hope you all understand. Also, for the first mission, we will give you something essential for battle. Here}
My laptop screen started to glow.
[Hit the deck!] Gold shouted, tossing his laptop onto the couch away from him. Silver did the same, while Yellow covered her head, ducking like an armadillo.
Dude, is this gonna blow up, or something? Just then, my question was answered.
Something round flew out of the screen. Quickly, I dodged it before it hit me in the face. I should've done what the others did because that thing almost hit my nose. I put my laptop down, and went to the spot where that thing went. When I found it and picked it up, I immediately recognized it.
It's a pokeball.
If I remembered correctly, in the game, the pokeball was something that traps the players. It can capture and contain Pokémon, and it's used for jail if someone gets in trouble by breaking the 'rules' in the game. It happened to me one time, but in effect, it just kicked me out of the game for 24 hours. Other players are allowed to see me too in the jail because I checked it out from Yellow's account.
Why were they giving us this though?
{That's something you all can use to contain the Pokémon with you. It fits in your pocket, actually. Now, that's all. Goodbye everyone. Also, good luck at your school festival tomorrow. I heard that Jewel Academy has the biggest festivals}
I felt my heart sunk. That's the name of our school. How does the game know?
{I will be cutting all power for a few minutes. Thank you for playing}
Before anyone could react, everything turned black. It wasn't the screen. The lights cut off, and everything was dark besides the light coming from our laptop. I guess since it wasn't apart of the house, it didn't cut me off. I was gonna speak up and ask something, but then my laptop started to blink like a siren.
Then, it shut off. And everything was pitch black.
The Next Day
Honestly, Yellow couldn't really understand what she was feeling. All of her emotions felt like they were mixed up because of what happened last night. One day, Pokémon came out of the screen; the other day, her favorite online game is telling her and thirteen other people that guys are going to come to their school festival just to kill them. The other thing she couldn't believe is that ALL of the players she hung out with goes to her school. Of course, even though she was very naïve and gullible, she wouldn't believe it; but Silver, her, Blue, Gold, and Red went to that school, so the game could be correct about that.
"Yellow!" The blonde stiffened up at the sound of her name. She turned around slowly, having a scared expression on her face.
"O-Oh, it's you, Blue," she said, turning the expression to a nervous smile.
"Are you okay, Yellow? You look like you saw a ghost," Blue commented. "Wait! You didn't see a gastly, or something, did you?"
Last night, Blue also confessed about the redhead who might have a Pokémon, and her goals about catching them. One thing that Yellow felt was off was the thing about Pokémon, and who had them though. Sure the fourteen had them (like the game said), but is it possible that other players could also own them too? She kept overthinking about what could happen.
"I'm okay, and no. I just feel on edge," Yellow replied.
"Don't be. Just remember what I said last night," Blue reminded. "We have to stick together."
Yellow nodded. "Yeah, thanks Blue."
"No prob—"
"Stop talking and get to work, Pesky Woman," Green interjected. He was in the same Charmander costume from yesterday, and he was holding metal trays that had a few milkshakes on it.
Blue let out a small giggle, then covered her mouth to stop. "You... are great... in... that outfit! I can really... feel the... flames from here!" Blue said in between her laughs. She tried to keep it under control, but she couldn't and she burst out into a loud laughter.
Green's eye twitched. "Just. Get. To. Work," he demanded before turning around and serving another table.
"You can really feel his glare pierce you soul," Yellow commented, sweatdropping. "Was his outfit really that funny?"
"It's the cutie charmander and grumpy Green combined! How can that not be funny?" Blue replied. She wiped a tear. "That was a good laugh! Okay, I'll talk to you later, Yells."
"Okay," Yellow said. She turned around to get orders from another table, but was stopped by Red. She jumped back, startled of his sudden appearance.
"Sorry! Did I scare you?" Red asked innocently, watching her reaction.
"U-Um... no! It was totally my fault," Yellow quickly replied. "Uh... so what's up...?" She tried to play it casually, hiding her blush. Her face felt like it was going to heat up.
"Oh I just came to get you because they want us in the kitchen," Red said, pointing at the back. "Something about Joey accidently eating food poison..."
"What?" Yellow shouted, widening her eyes. "Is the person okay?!"
"He's fine, he's fine," Red reassured. "He's just laying in the nurse office right now. But he can't cook the food, and all the others aren't really that skilled. I was going to ask Blue, but you seemed like a better cook."
"Umm... I guess," Yellow mumbled, shrugged. "Okay, let's go."
As she followed him to the back, she glanced at her watch then at the only window in the room. No sign of them yet. Four hours to go, she thought.
"Is something wrong?"
Yellow jumped at the sound of his voice. "U-Um! No, not at all," she lied, quite badly. "... I'm just wondering how much people are gonna be here."
"Oh that? Well it's still early in the morning, so not much people are here yet," Red said.
Yellow just nodded, agreeing. Maybe, this is good. I just could focus on festival stuff for now. It might not happen after all, and I should just clear my mind like Blue. She seems calm, she thought.
"Well, we should head to the kitchen quickly. I'm sure that Blue wants to quickly beat the other class, seeing her reaction from yesterday," she said, showing him a nervous smile. Even though everything was confusing her in the world, she still knew her feelings for Red and wasn't confused about it.
"Yeah," Red agreed. "Let's go then."
After everything that happened last night, Blue tried not to be bothered. I mean, it was the regular everyday thing that an RPG game that you play with your friends will happen to know where you are, who you are, and probably a lot of things about you even though you never put one shred of info in there; then they tell you that guys will come to your school festival and kill you. You know, it was a completely normal thing. No biggie, right?
Yeah, it did sound insane when she gave that speech to the other three in the room last night, but she tried her best to be calm and handle the situation. All they needed to do is stick together, and if some random assassin guy comes to their school, they'll never find them, and they'll get lost in the crowd. Thinking optimistically was the best thing for her, so she tried to keep it cool.
The only thing that fazed her were the identity of the other kids in the game and who are the traitors, if there are any. Well she knew that her allies were Silver, Gold, and Yellow, and most likely Red. The guy seemed pretty friendly, and Yellow likes him, so she could probably tell that he wasn't playing on being 'nice'.
Oh well. At least I know I can trust Leaf, she thought. If he wanted to do something, he would've done it sooner. And if he tried to double cross her in real life, she'll just go against him.
When Blue didn't have any tables to wait since the others were getting them, she grabbed her phone out of the pocket from her maid costume, and started to text Leaf. Last night the game didn't work again, so she couldn't go back in to talk to him. But on the bright side, texting still worked on there. Her fingers moved swiftly on the screen as she typed to him.
...
BING!
Green's phone vibrated in his pocket; which his costume surprisingly had. Shoving the metal tray on the customer's table, he walked away from the table to check the text message.
It said—
To: LeafGreen
From: Aoineko
Yo, Leaf! Last night was crazy, huh? well anyways, I'll cut 2 da chase. I believe that u r da smartest of da group, so I'm going 2 ask u a question since u apparently have the answers 2 everything. will something really happen today, or no?
P.S. I never knew that u went 2 my school (if the crazy game person was right). We should meet up 1 day X3
Green replied quickly, then shoved the phone in his pocket.
Even if he did hate the charamander suit that made him into a laughing stock, he would use the time to serve the customers he couldn't care less. The whole school festival will be graded based on how their performances, so since their teacher was at the back of the room watching, he couldn't afford to get a failing grade.
"Are you okay, Pearl? You look like you're going nuts," Diamond commented, eating a lollipop. "Actually, it looks like you haven't been sleeping again."
"Because Dia— no, Diamond. Last night was the one who's nuts! I mean, the freaken game even gave us a pokeball, and things are coming out of the screen! Think about it Diamond! If anything can come out of the screen, then things can get dangerous. Fire Pokémon can come out and blow fire everywhere, electric Pokémon can shock someone till they're dead, and ghost Pokémon... they just give me the creeps," Pearl said, covering his arms, getting the chills about thinking about it. "Pokémon might be cool and all, but they're definitely not for the real world."
"Yeah, I'm with you," Diamond agreed. "But we should just calm down and focus on the festival. If we weren't here, then who would sell all this candy?" He waved his hand around the booth. They were assigned to do booths, while the other upperclassmen set up activities in their classrooms. In their class, each group of student were doing different things. And Diamond and Pearl decided to do a candy booth.
"Wait, where's Missy?" Pearl asked, looking around and noticing that the blue haired girl wasn't around. "Don't tell me that she's slacking off!"
"Pearl, I thought you changed your point of view of her from yesterday," Diamond commented, frowning.
"Okay, I'll admit that she's pretty loyal and reliable. But I'm still not going to let her treat us 'commoners' like slaves just because she's a heiress of whatever," Pearl stated.
"Well, I guess that's just how her personality is. No need to sweat it! Even if we are in the sun," Diamond joked. "Anyways, I told Missy to go take a break because she wanted to go visit something."
"I wanna take a break too! Man, why do we have to do this last minute festival?" Pearl complained. "At least it's better than Roark-sensei's class."
"Yup," Diamond agreed.
"Excuse me. Can I please buy some candy?" The two stopped their conversation and turned to the front of the booth where the voice came from. A man dressed professionally in a black tuxedo stood there, sunglasses on his face and his hair was neatly down with gel.
"... Sure," Pearl said, surprised of his appearance. Behind him, Diamond was staring at him suspiciously, licking his lollipop.
After Pearl quickly got the candy out of the counter, he shoved it in a bag then handed it to him. The man just shoved a random amount of money in his hands before he could say the price, then left without saying anything else.
"Seriously, what was with that guy?" Pearl commented, turning around. Seeing the odd serious look on Diamond's face, he asked, "Are you okay, Dia?"
"Yeah, I'm fine... it's just that guy gives off a bad vibe," Diamond replied, looking deep into thought.
"Platinum, thanks for showing me around!" Candice chimed. Her and Platinum were walking in the school on the Second Years' floor since the First Years were still preparing for something. The hallways were surprisingly empty though, only a few people walking around.
"No problem. But I apologize for bringing you early. Not much people are arriving yet, so some of the booths are still getting ready," Platinum replied.
"It's fine! I just wanted to hang with you for awhile and catch a break. Collage is making me stressed out so much! You'll hate it. But then again, you should be used to stress, eh?" Candice joked.
"Yes," Platinum replied curtly.
Candice frowned, noticing something. "Is something wrong? You seem down."
"No, I'm just wondering how today will turn out," Platinum said. "I don't know if I should believe someone that's calling out to me."
"What are you talking about?" Candice inquired, scrunching her eyebrows together.
"It's just... I've been having these weird visions about grown-up versions of familiar people I know, and I'm just wondering why am I getting them. Future visions are impossible, and science can prove it, but I can't find an answer."
"Well first, that sounds cool. Second, why are you dissing it? Won't it be awesome if it came true? That would mean that you go against scientist's work."
Platinum shook her head. "Truthfully, if they came true, then I would burst into tears."
"AAAAHHHH!" the girl shrieked, clinging onto the boy next to her and holding his arm tightly. Tears came out of her eyes. "I don't want to do this anymoreeee!"
The boy with her patted her head, making her stop crying. "It's okay. Along as I'm here, it's going to be okay," he reassured manly.
"Honey..." she muttered, nodding and beaming at him. She grabbed his arm tighter, and continued to walk with him through the rest of the dark maze.
"Crys, I hate this," Soul declared. She was dressed up as some messed up fairy + random scary things with horrible fake make up and fake blood all over her face, and honestly, she was afraid to see herself in the mirror. That, and because of how it ruined her complexion.
"Watching people get lovey-dovey when I'm a lonely single witch is killing me!" she announced. Crystal and her were the one who previously scared the girl earlier, so they got a really good view of everything.
"You were telling me to get together with Gold yesterday though," Crystal retorted. She was dressed up as a normal witch, wearing a purple set of clothes and an ugly mask. Soul wished that she could get the chance to be a witch, but it was too late, and Silver forced her to pick the last minute costume.
"I know! But it's totally different when one of your ships becomes canon because you made them! Other people just make my life lonely," Soul stated.
"What are you talking about? What's a ship, and what's canon?" Crystal asked.
Soul sighed. "If you aren't a shipper, you wouldn't understand," she replied.
"Okay, you sound crazy," Crystal announced. "And I am not going to question it because you're driving me insane."
"I am perfectly sane," she retorted. She groaned, then sat on a stone stool that was part of decoration. "Man, when are we going to get a break? Why do so many people, mostly couples, come through this? Scary movies aren't even that fun!"
"Stop complaining."
Crystal and Soul stiffened up together when they heard a deep voice appear behind them. Whipping around, they saw that it was Silver covered in toilet paper as a mummy and Gold with a black hood and scythe, pretending to be the grim reaper.
The first reaction was, "I should've been the freaken mummy!" Soul shouted, pointing at Silver. "You don't even look that scary and ugly!"
"I don't know if I should take that as a compliment, or not," Silver said. He was supposed be scary and ugly because of their theme, but calling a person not ugly is a compliment.
"Hey Super Serious Gal and Mario!" Gold greeted, making Crystal twitch an eyebrow again. Turning to Crystal, he asked, "So Su— Crys, I was wondering if you want to look around the festival with me when we have our breaks. I wanted to take you out!"
"No wa—" Crystal stopped in her sentence when Soul elbowed her, who gave her a look 'remember-yesterday-so-be-nice'. After glaring at her, she turned to him, and decided to listen to Soul's advice. "I wasn't really planning on taking a break, and I don't know when I have a break." Just give him an excuse. That's nice, isn't it?
"Oh Silv's in charge of that, and he told me that our breaks are at the same time actually," Gold said. "It's at 1:45."
"1:45?" Soul and Crystal repeated at the same time.
That was fifteen minutes before two o' clock, which is the time that the game said. Soul and Crystal planned to stay together at that time, so they would watch each other's backs if that actually happened.
"Woah, they did that awesome twin thing where they say the same thing," Gold said to Silver, who rolled his eyes in return.
A light bulb appeared over Soul head as Crystal started to say that she decline the offer, "Sorry, but I planned to—" Soul elbowed her again, making the blue haired girl turn and glare. "What. Now?"
Soul yanked her shirt towards her, then put her mouth near Crystal's ears. "Look Crys. Don't you get it? This is it— it's the thing from last night. Black suit. Gold's wearing black. Don't you think that he's the killer? He has a reason to kill you for all the time you kicked him too! So, you should go along with it and accept it!" she whispered.
"That's even more ridiculous! Even if that was true, you're basically telling me to go and get killed!" she whisper-shouted back. Gold and Silver heard it, and looked at them oddly.
"No, you're getting the advantage! If you can surprise him and knock him out, then you win and we don't get killed!" she replied.
"Soul, you're being crazy," Crystal said.
"Please Crys. Trust me on this," Soul begged, giving her puppy eyes.
Crystal rolled her eyes, then sighed. "Fine," she said before turning to the guys, "I'll go with you!"
Gold grinned widely. "Great! Then it's a date! See you later," he said, leaving them before she could change her mind. Silver was about to leave with him, but Soul stopped him.
"Wait, Silver! When's my break?" she asked in a whiny voice.
"2:05," he answered, leaving the two afterwards.
"Okay, so my break is afterwards," Soul said. "I'll be counting on you." She gave Crystal a determined look.
"Just saying, I'm only doing this because he owes me a new phone."
Sapphire wasn't scared at all.
I mean, the girl was pretty strong and she could probably knock the guy out easily. And who would believe a game anyways? Hacking into school system and turning all the lights in the dorms last night were pretty harmless. Killing someone is kind of hard to do when you don't where that person is out of all of the school grounds. It was a different story, so she wasn't shocked it all. In fact, she was joyed. Sparkles, one of her favorite people in the world, might be a student in her school, if the game was right.
Pulling out her phone, she started to log in and text Sparkles. She was super bored because of the lame lovey-dovey obstacles in the classroom, and since her job is to take the couples in, she had to do the most work besides the people who explained what to do in the course.
"Hey!" She jumped at the sound of the sudden loud voice.
Looking up from her phone, she saw Ruby, who was wearing glasses and looking at her sternly. "What are you doing? You're supposed to deal with the customers, not play on your phone."
"Why do ya care?" She quirked an eyebrow.
"Actually I don't. But this is part of my grade, so try not to slack off," he replied. "Plus, Wallace is depending on us, so let's not let him down."
He turned to the customers in front of them, and gave them a nice fake smile. "Hello, welcome to the couples' challenge. If you win, you get a special memory gift at the end of the line! But first, you must complete the challenges that are ahead! Do you have the tickets?" he asked. Tickets were things that people purchased at the front gate for money if they want to participate in activities.
"Thank you," he said, taking their tickets. "Please go in." He nudged Sapphire, who glared in reply.
"What was that for?" she hissed.
Keeping the smile, he demanded, "Open the rope." Doing as command, she opened the red rope for the couple so they could step in and go, which they did.
As Ruby continued to deal with people, ocassionally he would mutter to Sapphire, saying that she should hurry up and do her job.
"Just wait!" she replied. "Let me just finish texting Sparkles!"
"Wait, what?" Ruby asked, turning to her when he heard the familiar name.
"And... send," Sapphire announced, closing her phone and putting it away. "There I'm done! Ya happ—"
BING!
She stopped talking when something in Ruby's pocket made a noise.
Three people bent down onto the floor in a dimmed room. Across them was a long, expensive wooden desk and a black recliner chair behind it. The person who sat in the recliner chair was faced the other way, looking at many screens, which showed all the rooms of the school.
"Sir, are you sure this plan will help gain the trust of the kids? What happens if one of the grunts accidently kills one of them?" one of the people on the floor asked.
"Do you doubt my plan?" the person in the recliner chair snapped.
"Of course not, Sir. I'm just worried about the possibilities," he replied.
"In that case, don't worry. Those kids are literally inhuman in many ways. There's no way they're going to get themselves killed. If they do, then they're just weak. Plus, as the game, I warned them. So at eight, they will began to trust me and believe that everything I say will be real," the man said. "Now, go get the grunts ready. You all are the commander on this mission."
"Yes sir!" the three shouted simultaneously.
A/N — Okay, let me just say, FINALLY! WOO HOO! I've been working on this chapter non-stop at last minute, and I had no idea how to end this! Without the long author notes, IT'S like 9000 (without the author notes)! YAY! I was worried that it might drag on longer than I thought TT^TT Well, it's okay being long I guess since I accidently updated a week too late :/ Sorry about that guys! It's been a fast month to be honest though. LOL. Well, I'm going to work on the next chapter because I'm on a roll :) Hopefully, it'll be faster, but to be honest, I really can't keep my promises because I'm REALLY unreliable XP Oh wells! At least I got this chapter out of the way! I've been dying to decide when I should write the beginning conflict XP
Also, about the conflict, I'm just gonna say this (even though I'm the author), but I kind of get if you're confused (if some of you are). But I think it'll clear up later when you see what's gonna happen, etc. If you have any questions, please ask! But seriously, I have a feeling that it was rushed :/ Well, at least the scene with Sapphire & Ruby. But finally, out of ten chapters, one pair FINALLY finds out.
BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL THE NICE REVIEWS, FOLLOWS, AND FAVORITES XD I LOVE YOU GUYS AS ALWAYS :)