Chapter Twenty: The End...or is it?

The whole way to class, Reshiram and I don't say a word to each other. However, she seems pretty happy to at least not have me yelling at her, and honestly, if you want the truth, I feel the same, even though we're far from being completely on good terms. I guess it's a good idea to be decent to each other for the short time we have left, afterall.

My classes go by as normal, oddly with no incidents with anyone, which is a good thing. I didn't even earn any more detentions! Before I know it, I'm headed to my dorm room, seeing a blinking number one on the dorm's phone. I play it. Giratina is on the other end:

"Hey, Ray I'm just sending this message out to everyone I know - our meeting with Arceus is at 6pm. He'll be summoning us to his shrine when that time comes, so...be ready for a summon then. Also, I really would like you to call me. I would like to continue our morning's conversation before we go to the meeting. Thanks!"

I look at the time - 3:45. Knowing Arceus is prompt to summon us to his shrine as soon as he says he will, I decide to call her now.

The phone rings twice before Giratina picks up. "Well, that was fast!" she giggles.

"I kind of wanted to do it right away, since I also know Arceus is so prompt." I tell her.

"Anyway...so you were going to say something to me this morning - I'd like to know what it was." Giratina says.

She's making me tell her?! I really was hoping she'd just forget...

"Hello?" Giratina asks after a few minutes of silence.

"I...I'm here." I say barely managing to swallow my feelings enough to talk.

"Well, then tell me what it was you wanted to tell me back at breakfast." Giratina presses on.

For a good few minutes, I just stand there, holding the phone, looking at the carpet. I can't tell her. Not now... Not when we're going home so soon! It'll be pointless. All it'll do is cause heartbreak. I have to hold it in. If I don't, then we'll both just suffer more when it's time to go home. Afterall, there's no way that I can even visit her when become Pokemon again. The Reverse World is sealed off to everyone but her. And most of the rifts leading there are around Sinnoh anyway, far away from my shrine back in Hoenn. (A shrine I'm barely in anyway because I prefer to be in the ozone layer).

"I have to go." I quickly make up an excuse. "I'll talk to you after our meeting with Arceus. Goodbye!"

"Wait, Ray-!"

I hang up, letting out a sigh of releif. That was just way too close for comfort. Just as I'm walking to my closet to get a fresh set of clothes on for this meeting with Arceus, I hear the phone ring once more. It's not Giratina, as her room number isn't showing on the caller ID. Room 402 is showing instead. Who the heck could that be? I pick it up.

This had better not be Zygarde...or worse, Deoxys. I have no desire to speak to their rotten Poke butt...

"Ray, I was just calling because I owe an apology for this morning." Volcanion's voice sounds.

After all that...he has the nerve to call this phone?!
 "I was still mad at Mew, and still mad at you for all the drama you caused with Deoxys the other day." Volcanion continues. "But Reshiram let us all know the errors of our actions, and that you should get a second chance. We'll let you sit at our table, but only if Deoxys is absent. He refused to forgive you at all."

"Figures." I say. "And personally, I could care less if he forgives me or not. I've got nothing to say to that little twit. We can finish the rest of our argument in space. That's fine with me because I have a Mega Evolution and he doesn't, so he'll lose eventually."

"And I really don't care about what you two do as Pokemon, just don't go crashing onto my mountains!" Volcanion yells into the phone. Maybe he didn't mean to yell, but he's got an exceptionally loud voice.

"Fine fine - I'll try not to crash him there" I chuckle. "Anyway, thanks for the apology, and see you later."

I hang up the phone and look at the clock - 5:00. All of that conversation took an entire hour, and I've only got an hour to look Arceus-presentable. But in a sense, I feel it was worth it. At least I'm welcome back with the others again, and as I said to Volcanion, if Deoxys wants to continue to be a twit, we can finish our fight as Pokemon. Personally, I'm done with disagreements with other Legendaries. I just want to go back to my life as a Pokemon crash Deoxys somewhere random, and be done with everyone. At least for the rest of my time here, I can at least have some peace.

...Except for the Giratina problem...

~.~

An hour later, I'm dressed and freshened up. I'm hoping I am acceptable enough for Arceus not to complain, but I know he'll find something to complain about - he always does. Sighing, I await a summon, sitting on my bed. It doesn't take me long to get it.

Next thing I know, I am sitting in Arceus' shrine, surrounded by the other Legendaries. I never liked being here, as it reminds me more of a courtroom than a meeting area. Arceus is standing high above us, us all sitting in chairs in front of him, packed shoulder to shoulder, like a jury. On occasions, when there are incidents involving a specific pair of Legendaries, they stand on either side of the room, at either stand, the rest of us between them. Then it really is a courtroom. The only difference is that the only verdict that matter's is Arceus's.

I look around the crowded shrine. Everyone seems to be here Giratina (whose chair is thankfully far away from me, so I don't have to deal with her right now), Reshiram, Deoxys, Genesect, Volcanion, Mew... Every chair is filled.

With the exception of one: Hoopa.

"OR-DER!" Arceus announces, as if he were a judge.

Immediately any Legendary that was speaking closes their mouths and faces Arceus as if we they were a ton of soldiers who'd just been called by their commander.

"Thank you for a prompt order!" Arceus praises us (I'm surprised he did att all, honestly). "I'm going to begin roll call. Please say 'here' when I call your name and only when I call your name! Alright - first one, Articuno?"

"Here!"

"Azelf?"

"Here!"

"Cobalion?"

"Here!"

"Diancie?"

"Over here!"

"Deoxys?"

"Here..."

"Genesect? All of you - including Red Genesect!?"

"We're all here!"

"Giratina?"

"Here..."

"Groudon?"

"Here!"

"Ho-oh?"

"What's up?!"

"I told you to say here! Nothing else!" Arceus glares straight at Ho-oh.

"Oh - here...sorry..."

"Hoopa?"

No reply. Arceus looks up from his stand, looking at us - more so, glaring at us, as if we're why Hoopa isn't here.

"Hoopa?"

Kricketunes...

"Where is Hoopa?!" Arceus yells at us as if he's our responsibility. "I'm pretty sure I summoned everyone...so, WHERE IS HE?"

"He was here, but then he used one of his rings and left." Volcanion says.

"WHAT!?" Arceus booms so loud the shrine shakes. "I disabled everyone's powers - how did he leave!?"

"Beats me - I just..."

"SILENCE!" Arceus shouts right in Volcanion's face. Sure enough, Arceus gets silence.

Arceus glares at us as if we all purposely let Hoopa leave. From the look on his face, I know he's fixing to yell at us. I brace for it...

"THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!" Arceus screams so loud the shrine shakes once more.

And here we go again... Lecturing...

*~Three hours of Arceus yelling later...~*

"And since we learned NOTHING from being humans for the past month, I am extending the punishment! To two years! Maybe then we will have learned to behave and make sure that everyone comes to a meeting!"

"WHAT!?" I shout, unable to control my reaction. "TWO YEARS?!"

"You heard me, Rayquaza!" Arceus yells. "Two years! And in that two years, you will be doing more than just going to school. I am arranging for you to get jobs! And for you to drive! And live like true adult humans! Maybe then, I'll have everyone show up to meetings! You are dismissed! I will see you then!"

Two more years...of this!?

You've got to be kidding!

To be Continued...

How will the Legendaries fare having a taste of the real world outside of school? What sorts of drama will unfold? Will Ray and Giratina ever confess? Or will a new romance unfold? And what about Hoopa? Just what is going on?

Find out in the next book: The Poketech Academy: A Taste of the REAL Human World!

Thank you so much for reading this fic for as long as you have, despite it taking me a year to actually complete set one. I know, it probably wasn't the type of ending any reader was looking for, but I have a two main reasons for making a book two of this:

1: This fic is nearly a year old. My writing's changed a lot since then, I'm into different Legendaries, and overall, a lot of my original ideas for this have changed since I first drew this up. Making a series two, I feel, will start things off fresh. If I keep a frequent updating schedule (which I plan to do since school's out for now, as I've graduated high school and don't plan to begin college until spring) I should be able to give my readers a better expirience reading my fic, as right now, I feel alot of this is just a jumbled mess.

2: I need to think of more ideas for this series. Which may take a few weeks. While this is on hold, I am planning to make another Pokemon related fic. It may just be a short oneshot set, Poketech sidestories, or maybe even another big series, I'm not entirely sure. However, I do know that this fic will be about Volcanion and Magearna, as I'm very much into those two. That fic will be up most likley within in the week.

I thank everyone who took the time to read this - it's got over five thousand views and nearly 60 reveiws, which is the highest amount of reviews I've gotten on any story to date! I really hope that my readers of this will take a look at and reiew my future works.

-Icee The Hedgehog