Cassandra lagged a bit behind her friends on the way to the locker room while she stared down at her Mew shaking her head slightly unable to believe how close of a call Alexandria had been through today. Unsure even why she had been over by the deep end when she clearly could not swim, or at least not too well, was behind the young girl while she made her way inside the changing rooms and set the soaked Mew down on the bench next to her locker and opened up her lock. "So what do you guys think we will do today in class, it's only the first day so how hard could it be right?" she asked curiously trying to change the thoughts the girls were all likely having to a more pleasant conversation.
Alexandria sitting on the bench still breathing in and out deeply with water rolling down her fur in a quite pathetic looking way when combined with her posture. Shyly staring down at her feet to avoid watching, or even, catching a glimpse of any of the girls changing and doing all she could to picture herself in a entirely different area like under a shady tree all alone with Storm and a cool breeze. Blinking her large eyes a bit in shock when she realized she was day-dreaming about a boy she silently cursed herself while wondering as to why she had been acting so strangely since she had been captured and turned into a pokemon. At least, she thought she was acting strangely, nobody else had appeared to say anything so maybe she was normal and she was simply over-reacting to the whole situation.
Her thoughts being interrupted rather rudely when Mist hopped up on the bench next to her and tapped her on the shoulder with a flipper causing her to startle her eyes open in alarm and then annoyance. "Hey!" she nearly screamed with a low hiss until she saw Mist nearly fall backwards with surprise causing her to shake her head slightly and focus on calming down a bit. "Sorry…" she said with a few tears forming in her eyes not really certain what had come over her or why she had been so irritable lately. Drooping her ear's down sadly while she studied the extremely confused look on the Maril while he tried to figure out whether she was playing with him, genuinely upset, or trying to lull him into a false sense of security.
The younger Charmander sitting on the bench across and nearly bursting out into laughter when she first saw Alexandria snap at Mist, not that he deserved anything less with all of his flirting. "Oh come on it's as clear as day she is not interested in you Mist, give it a rest already…" she commented snippily and nearly leapt out of her skin when he shot a water gun at the base of the bench, causing a bit of spray to hit her and sting a bit which defiantly did not improve her mood to say the least. "Just because you're hopeless when it comes to girls does not mean you need to take it out on me stupid!" she lashed back and sent a retaliatory real Ember at Mist when nipped him on the tail burning him a bit with an angry scowl.
Mist was about to shoot Flaire with another Water Gun when his trainer stepped in his way, all changed and with one hand on her hips shaking her head disapprovingly, causing him to stop dead in his tracks and simply stick his tongue out childishly at Flaire instead. "At least I'm not afraid of water! Besides, how do you know whether she likes me or not, I did save her life!" he boasted proudly until he noticed his words had only caused Alexandria to grow more saddened and instantly shut his mouth while glaring at Flaire fairly eager to settle this the next time their trainer's let them have a battle. He was going to make her so sorry she had ever butted her nose where it did not belong, and prove once and for all who was strongest.
Rachel simply sighed while she observed the tension between the two, and the saddened worn out look on the adorable little Mew while she waited patiently for her friends to finish changing. Slinging her bag over her shoulder and sweeping a few longer strands of hair out of her eyes and behind her ears she shrugged a bit in response to Cassandra, "Who knows, I've heard our teacher is a bit on the crazy side though…" she added with a light-hearted giggle as the others finished changing and scooped up their pokemon, all of them trying their best to avoid laughing at the teachers expense though finding it quite hard.
"Whatever, I'm just glad to still be here…" Cassandra added in quietly with a smile and softly rubbed her cheek against Alexandria while she hugged the little Mew lovingly in her arms. "Now come on, or else we are going to be late!" she giggled teasingly and ran over to the door, waiting for her friends to look at each other for a brief moment before grabbing their bags and following along. The six friends and their pokemon deciding to take a more scenic route across the campus to reach the stadium where the class for all first year students was supposed to be held and arrived ten minutes early.
Cassandra blinked in amazement at how many other first years were at the academy. She was beginning to feel a bit insignificant compared to all of the other students while she remained close by her friends; trying to pick out familiar faces in the crowd and not having much luck until she caught a hand waving to her and the others from a group of boys. "Hey look there's Nathan…" she said staring down at Alexandria with a smile, "I bet Storm is with him so how about we go and say good morning?" she asked curiously, smiling while she watched Alexandria perk her ears up with excitement and sit up in her arms while she began to look about the crowd for Storm. A bit concerned with how attached Alexandria seemed with Storm, she figured it was simply natural, and she figured it best not to interfere with pokemon romance at all.
Nathan breaking away from his friends and heading over to say hello to Cassandra with a Pidgy resting perched on his shoulder. Admiring her lovely rosary red summer dress, "Morning you two, have a good night?" he asked curiously more wondering if Storm had been on his best behavior during the visit. "I'd have thought you two would have beaten Storm and I here…" he asked with a smirk remember exactly how excited she had been yesterday about being a part of the academy. A feeling he had yet to have due to his irritatingly popular brother's fan club always pressuring him to become the next big super star.
Alexandria sitting excitedly in her trainer's arms staring up at the Pigdy with a faint red blush over her white cheeks. "Good morning Storm!" she greeted happily, purring with delight as he transformed back into his Mew form with a slightly disappointed expression on his face. "Aw how did you know it was me anyways babe?!" he asked teasingly leaping off Nathan's shoulder to tackle her in Cassandra's arms and smother her face in adoring kisses. The two trainers watching their pokemon first with raised eye brows, and then laughing in unison as they walked throughout the stadium keeping an eye on the large display clock resting above the massive double-sided scoreboard on the far wall.
Purring with delight while she lightly pushed at Storm with her paws, not hard enough to actually force him away but hard enough to make him think that she was, while their tails entwined lovingly. "How could I not recognize my own boyfriend? Honestly…!" she announced with a slightly hurt expression while laughing a bit in response to his kisses. Feeling a bit weird referring to him as her boyfriend not that she knew why, he defiantly made her feel quite cheerful whenever he was around, and he was extremely sweet and cute she kept thinking over and over again. Teasingly licking him back on the cheek, while nipping at an ear rather playfully and her cheeks burning with a deep red blush as one of his paw's brushed across her chest areas.
Several of males, and female, pokemon watching the two angrily and the males whispering quietly in their small group while laughing quietly every so often rather darkly. Clover, the Teddyursa, noticing the group of males who were gesturing up to Storm and Alexandria and made a slightly uneasy face before shaking her head before running off to see if she knew any of the other gathered pokemon. However, she paused a moment when she noticed of the older male from yesterday, and an Umbreon at his side, resting against the fall wall partially hidden in the shadow of the stadium entrance, watching all of the students curiously.
A young women making her way up to the temporary stage in the center of the stadium and tapped at the microphone a bit to clear the static and drawing the crowds attention to her as silence filled the stadium a moment before she began to speak. "Good morning everyone! And welcome to your first day of classes here at Songwood Pokemon Academy…" she greeted and paused slightly before continuing, "Songwood prides itself for producing some of the best pokemon trainers in the world and upon graduation all of you shall be awarded entrance into the Pokemon League Championship held at the end of each year…" she explained with another short pause to take in the expressions and attention of her audience.
"What is a pokemon trainer though? Why is it that some fail to ever earn their first badge and others are awarded the title of masters? The answer is our four core beliefs of Endurance, Versality, Strength, and of course Wisdom which we will strive to teach you all over the course of the next four years…" she added in with a smile observing the excited and eager faces of her students. Turning slightly to face the large score board behind her she watched as it flickered to life revealing a map of the campus with a clearly out-lined path and marker points set up at various locations all across the Songwood Campus.
"The first week of classes shall begin accordingly, and today you all shall run an obstacle course together with your Pokemon, you must reach all markers before the end of the day, and those who finish early will have the remainder of the day to themselves…" she said and magnifified the image on the score board with a hand-held device to display an image of the woodland areas located directly behind the grand stadium, a short walk from where everybody had gathered. A couple of the trainers looking down at their pokemon in anticipation and others with a grim expression figuring that this would be impossible to complete.
The coordinator waited a short moment for the students to come to term with the day's events before she tapped the microphone again and began to speak a second time. "Lastly, to ensure everything remains fair I ask that zero pokemon attacks be utilized, in order to complete the course you will need to work as a team with your partners is that understood…?" she asked with a commanding voice and smiled when the crowd nodded their heads with agreement in near unison from all of the students gathered. A few of the students, including Cassandra, rapidly beginning to question the choices of clothing they had worn today and a few of the boys even making rude comments about the teacher in silent for her unorthodox training styles.
"Then in that case, you are all free to begin… Remember you can take breaks as needed and resume where you left off but you are all expected to finish before sundown today… Those who do not will be assigned additional training after class for the remainder of the week…" the teacher finished and turned to step down from the temporary stage while many of the students began to pair off into groups with their friends to not make the day entirely miserable. The lone figure off by the entrance way simply shaking his head with a grin while he looked down at his Umbreon and turned to leave without anybody taking notice at all which was exactly what he had been hoping for in the first place this early in the morning.
Cassandra turned back to Nathan and smiled sweetly while rocking back on her heels a bit in the cutest way imaginable trying to get his attention. "Would you and Storm like to come with me and Alexandria today?" she offered while gesturing down to the two Mews playing in her arms, a bit more friendly then she cared for though nothing too bad so she paid it not mind. Smiling when Nathan nodded she looked down at her adorable little Mew, "Want to do the course with Storm and Nathan then Alexandria?" she offered already knowing the answer and grinned happily as her Mew rapidly nodded her head and kissed Storm on a cheek.
Alexandria purring with delight while she cuddled up against Storm, still blushing slightly from the earlier inappropriate touches though paying it little mind now. "Hear that sweetie?! We get to spend the whole day together!" she mewled happily and nuzzled her head under his holding one of his larger paws in her own as she looked down at their paws and his off-white grayed fur dreamily. "You betcha!" he said with a sly grin, returning her nuzzled by licking her ear softly, hoping that this would last forever. Drooping his ears down slightly when he began to wonder whether she actually did like him at all or whether it the Attract causing her to act this way towards him lately. She had not appeared too interested in him before yesterday at least, not that he had waited very long upon meeting the lovely Mew to snare her in his web of deceitful love.
Observing his saddened look, Alexandria lifted her large blue eyes to stare up at him, running a paw over the back of his paw faintly in small circles. "What's wrong… Did I say something…?" she asked unsurely and drooping her own ears down in response, realizing she knew next to nothing about what made Storm feel happy or sad. A factor which made her rather depressed since clearly they were a couple, and had been one for what appeared like quite some time based on what he had told her to fill in her memory gaps and by simply how he acted around her unconcerned by who was watching. She felt absolutely horrible knowing so little about him, and wishing she could remember how long they had been together beyond yesterday.
A soft warmth covering her body as she felt his paw caress down her back in an effort to cheer her up, "Of course not babe… It was nothing, so how about you show me that lovely smile of yours…" he mewled back and nuzzled her head softly with his own. Perking his ears up slightly when he saw he smile faintly, though he soon lowered them again sadly when he noticed the confusion on her expression, "You honestly cannot remember anything about us can you…?" he asked after a faint pause, swallowing in complete shame when she slowly shook her head and he noticed tears beginning to form in her eyes. His stomach wrenching when he realized he was the reason for her sadness and he felt disgusted with his actions towards her and some of the darker thought he had regarding taking advantage of her while she was dependant and confused.
Storm felt his primal animalistic male urges suggesting one thing, while his sense of morals suggested the complete opposite and leaving him torn between the two unable to decide. Instead, he simply cuddled and nuzzled the lovely creature next to him, remaining quiet and doing his best to cheer her up with his gentle strokes over her paws and back, twisting his tail adoringly around hers while he was lost in thoughts and moral dilemma. The two trainers making their way to the starting point of the obstacle course while they quietly talked to each other to not disturb their pokemon who clearly were enjoying each others company.