For now on I'm going to be doing this from the 3rd person perspective. Switching between POV's is annoying so I decided to tell it from our POV as we watch them. Let's get started shall we.
The new day had dawned it's way into the residence of which Hōzuki and Shadow lived. Ruz was nowhere to be found because he had moved in with Aine. Hōzuki's alarm had went off signaling to both him and Shadow that it was time to go back to school. On Sunday nothing eventful had happened so they went right back to laying down, playing games and what not. Upon waking up he had looked at the time seeing that if he wanted to make good time he needed to get moving quickly. He jumped out of bed and made his way into the shower. After showering he decided to make some coffee and breakfast.
Shadow then awoke to the loud noise of a ruckus that could be heard a mile away. Shadow had just encountered a good dream and was in no mood to be disturbed. He made his way down stairs only to smell a good breakfast being brewed up. He forgot why he was angry to begin with and instantly sat down and engaged Hōzuki in a conversation.
"How was the date for you, because from the look on your face when you got back it was a disappointment."
Hōzuki then replied with "It was a let down when you cancelled the raid to invite no, drag me on a date and disrespect Ruz making him leave and then come to now and ask me how it went. It was average."
"See that wasn't so bad now was it?"
"Shut up and eat will ya."
After finishing their breakfast they decided to make their way to school. Seeing as how it didn't start until 8:00 A.M. and they left at 6:00 A.M. they decided to walk and not fly there. A lot of stuff was happening on the streets and the town was just as noisy as ever in the morning just like it was in the afternoon and evening. They decided to stop by a local bakery to get something that could keep them awake during class. Hōzuki had gotten some bread because why not and Shadow had gotten himself a cupcake. When it comes to sweet tooth's no one can best Shadow.
They had arrived at school but no one was there. Of course it had to be at least an hour before the first student had showed up and less time for the first administrator to show. Hōzuki then got the brilliant idea of having a battle at the schools field. Shadow had reluctantly agreed seeing as he wasn't fully amped up for the day as Hōzuki was. When they arrived at the field shook hands and got on separate sides and prepared for battle. Hōzuki was the first to make a move using his Water Shuriken's, Shadow had countered with a Flamethrower creating a smoking haze of steam. It was a thick haze and nothing could be seen, but both sides had charged in Thunder Punch and Night Slash in hand and clashed in the middle clearing the haze.
"You're slipping brah" Hōzuki had said to Shadow. "Can't put out these flames" Shadow retorted back.
They then had a clash of strength to which Hōzuki had won throwing two Shuriken's at close range and kicking him across the field. He had no time to react as he was hit with a powerful headache, only to realize Hōzuki had used Extrasensory. He got up and charged up a Thunder Punch and dashed towards Hōzuki. Hōzuki charged up a Night Slash and charged right back at him. They clashed and exchanged blows several times before they were exhausted. They only had strength for one last attack. Hōzuki using his strongest one, Gunk Shot and Shadow Flamethrower. They dashed at each other heavily exhausted ready to faint from fatigue at anytime but held on to make this one attack connect. They met in the center Hōzuki extending his arm with the Gunk Shot in hand and Shadow with Flamethrower at distance. They created another haze only for those two to charge in and exchange blows once more with Thunder Punch and Water Shuriken. Both fainted due to fatigue on the field, little did they know the bell had just rung.
Shula and Lilya was making their way into the classroom. Though when they entered the classroom two figures that were always early are suddenly not there. "What do you think is holding them back" Shula had asked confounded.
"I bet they're at the field battling, come on let's go see" Lilya had said. The two had made their way to the school's battling field located outside. When they had arrived they saw a familiar black Greninja and a Orange Charizard passed out on the ground. One of whom had suffered from paralysis and the other from poison.
"We should get them to a nurse, come on help me move them" Shula said expressing concern for both of her friends.
After picking up the two pokemon they carried them to Nurse Liligant. "They'll be fine but, mind explaining to me what these two were doing to end up in such as condition" she asked inquisitively.
"They were battling at the schools field, seems they both used their most powerful moves to see who would win" Shula had answered.
"But like always it ends with a tie occurring" Lilya added. All the nurse did was nod before using Aromatherapy, clearing their poison and paralysis. "Do you four have a class together?"
"Why yes we do, think we can take them there. They'll miss testing if they stay here." The nurse then gave them a questionable look as if she had heard the worlds worse joke.
"As much as I would want them out of here so they can test no you can't. Whatever they did while battling caused their fatigue to shoot into the stars. They'll probably be unconscious until lunch time. I'll give them a excuse, but you two still need to get back to class for testing so hurry up and leave. You don't want to be late to class now do you?"
When they heard what the nurse said they thanked her before flying straight down the halls into the classroom. They made it in enough time to be seated in the classroom. The teacher a Porygon-Z had asked where the two missing students were. Shula had told the teacher and the class the entire story of why Hōzuki and Shadow were not present. The teacher then had a little breakdown (not angry just one of Porygon-Z's actual breakdown when in battle or fainting) before saying "It doesn't surprise me."
He then handed out the test and started the clock. Student's had no time to begin, the second they got it they started the test. This was the EOC. It determined if they had passed the eighth grade. Sure everyone's grades are good, but if their good enough there might be a zer0 percent chance you'll fail. Although, if you are doing poorly you have to pass. Essentially the pressure was at it's most critical peak here.
Back in the infirmary our two Pokémon had recovered from their injuries and are fully awake. "So, you two tried killing each other again" a mysterious voice asked.
"Who's there, show and identify yourself immediately" Hōzuki barked as he charged up a Night Slash.
"Ease up it's only me. Seems you recovered faster than your brother, I'm shocked. Rimshot."
"Alright, besides how have you guys been? We didn't see you throughout the entire date" Hōzuki had questioned concerned.
"We went on a date of our own ya know. We're Mythics, if anyone sees us it'll be a huge disaster. So we had to split and break off."
"That's alright, but what am I doing here?"
"You two collapsed because of fatigue during battle and your girlfriends had rushed you guys here. Plus you should get going to lunch it's about that time ya know."
"Crap you're right we got to go."
"Wait, Mewtwo had made this liquid using his knowledge and research lab at the Hall Of Origin" he said as he held up two syringes. "Pick your poison."
"The one on the right, wait wha-" he had no time as he was already injected with the needle inserting all of it's light cyan blue contents. "Wait, am I poisoned for real" Hōzuki had asked extremely concerned.
"No you're not" Marshmellow said as he injected Shadow with the dark scarlet contents. "It's a type of drug that might be beneficial. You'll need to learn how to master it, both of you. That way it won't activate on it's own. Instead you'll be saying when it activates and when it doesn't. Anyways I must go as you must as well" he said shadow blending.
"No wait I still have more questions" Hōzuki called out only to realize that he's far gone. Soon the nurse came in worried about what was happening to her patients and had already charged up an Energy Ball.
"Who's hurting you, where are they!"
"Nobody's hurting us, I was just talking to myself" he panicked trying to explain to the nurse.
"If that's the case maybe you should stay longer so I can get a full diagnostic on your brain to see what is going on in your mind. If you're talking to yourself, then your fatigue must have escalated to extremely high levels over the very few hours."
"No I'm fine honest, I'll just wake up shadow and take my leave. I think we have overstayed our welcome. Thank you for your hospitality" he said as he was waking up Shadow from the clinics bed. Afterwards they had thanked the nurse and made their way to the commons to acquaint with some friends, but of course they got their lunches from their lockers first.
When they walked into the cafeteria they had realized how quiet it was. Everyone was either entirely chatty or just trying to start some sort of fight in order to see who's the strongest. But the two strongest in the school are the one's who sat at the table with their friend. "Why's it so quiet. Did someone die while we were unconscious" Hōzuki had asked.
"Something died alright" Psych had responded back. "Everyone's spirits. Pokémon are only morbid like this when one thing occurs, testing. Not one person, but everyone here thinks that they had failed the test."
It was then that Shadow had came to his senses and almost yelled out what he was going to say, but was quick enough to make it quiet so not to disturb anyone here. "What test, the EOC. Did we seriously miss it. What a drag" he complained.
"We only have one EOC, and since we're doing good in all classes maintaining straight A's there should be no reason as to how we're going to fail this test" Hōzuki had told Shadow.
"You are right about that. Not only are you two the strongest, but the smartest out of the entire school. No one can rival you here, but each other. You two always either end with a tie or lose and make a huge comeback, be it battling or education wise" Psych had told them.
"I feel like I had accomplished it all. Where do I go from here" Shadow had asked contemplating his life choices.
"High School, College, International Battling after you pick your team, Marriage, Family, Retirement, Golden Years and Death" Hōzuki had said in response.
"Sounds about right" Psych said.
"Yea, it really does sound like me to be honest. I mean I am going to do that and you just summed up my entire life story so, yea."
"Arcues you are predictable. Hey, where's Flair?"
"He's still maintaining one of his businesses that he still owns a share of. He rarely comes to school but he gets teaching from many tutors at home. He might even come here for the graduation and just leave. I mean, he already is a candidate for a summa cume laude and he's only like what twelve?"
"Nine actually" Shadow deadpanned.
"Point is he's smarter than us and he can graduate college literally right now. But he needs to graduate High School before that happens so he's attending with us. If he didn't have to attend High School we wouldn't even see him again. That's my take on where he is, or what he is."
Meanwhile with the girls
"You can stop staring at them Shula they're fine. They look alright to me and they don't seem to be fainting or passing out and are in perfectly good health" Lilya said.
"I just want to make sure that they're in perfect condition. In any case I can watch over them."
"You two girls are hopeless. Mon's don't want you to check up on them, they want to check up on you. If you keep staring they'll just think that you're a major stalker and probably never talk to you. Ya see you need to lay it in easy bow chicka bow wowand pretend you don't care. If you ignore them they'll want you more. The strategy works all the time, trust me."
The two looked at each other before looking back to Aria with confuzzled looks on their faces wondering if she was serious about this advice. Suddenly Lilya had spoken saying "You might be the craziest and freakiest Pokémon I met in my life time and I like that about you but honey, sometimes we can't take your advice."
"I agree with the advice part but I've met crazier and freakier in my life. Like my brother Ignition, he is a insane scientist so dedicated to his research he rarely ever comes home. His girlfriend does checkup on me every now and then, so she makes up for him. Though he still checks up on me if I need anything and makes sure I'm doing alright."
"That's great to know, but introduce your boyfriend to Hōzuki to him. You know how your brother gets when he finds out you have a boyfriend tagging along" Aria had informed her.
"Oh my Arcues remember when we pranked him saying you had a boyfriend and he instantly wanted to murder him."
"Yeah, I mean he almost burnt down the entire house just trying to get a name. He's insane."
"He isn't insane, just extremely overprotective. I just wish he would calm down sometime." Right around then the school bell had rung signaling the end of lunch and the school day. (Weird schedule am I right) However two students must stay back to take the test and they had made their way to the testing area, but not before two familiar faces had showed up wishing them luck before catching the bus on the way back.
"Hey you guys doing fine, cause you sure are looking it" Lilya had said trying to use a witty sly comment but had failed in the end.
"Thanks for that but I'm going to go one ahead. See ya Lilya and Shula, again thanks for the compliment." Those were the last words she heard from Shadow before he had walked down the hallways eager to get away from the Togekiss at hand.
"Well, I would make a remark like Lilya here but, I just wish you the best of luck and hope you will do well in your endeavors. Though I shouldn't be saying that to you or Shadow because you guys make us look obsolete. I was nervous and I think that I had failed the test itself but, you'll do fine. I'll catch you tomorrow okay?"
"Yeah, I'll catch you tomorrow. See ya guys" he said as they had made their way to the bus.
When Hōzuki had entered the classroom he and Shadow were the only ones there in the class. Of course it's the EOC, end of the school day and everybody has left. The only one that hasn't was of course Mr. Mal, or as you all know him as Porygon-Z. He gave them the papers and started the test. It only took them twenty minutes max to finish the test. Mr. Mal still expected it and took their papers and sent them home. Shadow and Hōzuki decided to fly there seeing as they were late to get home and finish their afternoon routine.
On the way Hōzuki had realized what Marsmellow had said and screamed out "SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"
Somewhere Marshmellow was in the Shadows laughing as he had caught wind. "Moron" he said in between laughter's.
And it is like 3:35 A.M. goodnight/morning everybody!