A Hello12 Original Story

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Cassius a blue-haired rocker with a black leather jacket was singing on stage during a rock concert in Camphrier Town, where he was from. Sarah, JD, and Wind were watching a live stream of him performing at his most recent concert on Youtube as the three girls were sitting on steps of Team Froakie's cabin that January afternoon.

The three kids where wobbling their heads back and forth. "If you take her heart, you got a catch it in love battle." Cassius sang as Wind, JD, and Sarah sang along also mimicking the boy in the process as they were enamored with the singer.

"Cassis is so cool." JD idolized. "Did you know that he's also the storage program developer of the Kalos Region?" They asked their friends as they had first-hand knowledge of the smart singer.

"Of course, I did." Sarah bragged. "I know everything about him."

"Well, they do you know his blood type?" JD asked.

"B."

"Do you know what city he was born in?"

"Camphrier Town."

JD and their friend Sarah both glared at one another getting into a little mini fan off with each other. Both where huge fans of the scientist guitarist, who loved using his Pokemon to help his sound out.

"Cut it out you two." Wind said as a cut in between the two of them. Wind was a big fan too, but she didn't like conflict and preferred that everyone got along.

"Sorry about that." Sarah sweatdropped. "It's just that when it comes to my baes, I get a little feisty."

"Don't worry about it," JD responded. "Hey, I have an idea. Why don't we try and go to his concert?"

Wind and Sarah's eyes turned into stars. They really wanted to meet the young program developer. Sarah had been a fan of Cassius for about two years now. She was first given one of his CDs by her brother for her eighth birthday and she fell in love. She's been a fan since then and has never stopped being one even during his most controversial moments.

Wind on the other hand story was quite similar but different at the same time. She heard one of Cassius song playing on the radio when she was on a road trip with her parents. Wind was mostly a fan of his voice because it was so deep and soothing.

"That's a good idea," Sarah said. "We should try and go to the concert."

Unlike the other two, Wind was a little more cautious, especially since she loved following the rules. Wind had never broken a rule before and she didn't want to start now. "But are we even allowed to leave the campground?"

"I'll find that out." Sarah reached into her pocket and pulled out the camps rulebook. She skimmed through the rulebook as JD and Wind hovered over the black-haired girl to see what the rules say.

The young girl stopped skimming as she reached a page that talking about students leaving the campsite. "Students cannot leave the campsite whenever they want unless it is an emergency." She read.

The three of them felt down as they were disappointed to hear this news. "So that means…" Wind started. The three of them get up and begin crying. "We won't get to go and meet Cassius."

They sighed. They didn't let that stop them as they sat back down and continued watching the video of Cassius performing on stage.

The sun was shining above the Pokemon Village where the Pokemon Academy Honors Camp was taking place. Today was Saturday so that means that the students could have a day off from camp activities. Yanma, Chespin, and Hoppip where sitting in the laps of their trainers as they too were watching the video and enjoying it.

JD and Wind both turned their heads as they laughed. There was something they knew that they had a feeling that Sarah wouldn't know about Cassius'. So, they knew that they had to ask the girl about it. "Did you know that Cassius uses to collect gym badges?" She asked."

Sarah was stunned as she looked at the grass type Pokemon Chespin who was sitting on her lap and was surprised to see that his trainer was so enthusiastic about something, which was surprising. Meanwhile, Sarah had never heard of gym badges before and was curious as to what it was. "What are gym badges?"

"I knew she wouldn't know," JD said.

"Gym badges are items that can be collected after beating a gym leader at a gym. Each region except for Alola has eight strong trainers that specialize in a certain type, and they are known as gym leaders." Wind explained to the girl as she had no idea what gyms or the pokemon league were. "Win all eight gym badges and you can enter the Pokemon League competition."

Sarah's eyes become starry-eyed as she was amazed after hearing about how her idol was so talented. "That's so cool."

"Cassius is so amazing!" The young girl fell more and more in love with him as she kept on hearing about how talented he is. q all.

"Chespin! Chespin!"

The young girl gets up. She couldn't take it anymore as she was getting very impatient. She wanted to meet Cassius now. It was something was on her mind and something that she really wanted to do, but she couldn't since the campers couldn't leave camp. "I've had it, I want to go and meet Cassius and see him in concert."

"But we can't, because of the camp guidelines…" Wind reminded her which caused Sarah to sigh.

"I wish we could leave." She said with a sad tone of her voice.

During the afternoon as the sun was shining that January morning as the light blue skies was cleared with no clouds in sight. Joe and Logan were at the camper's battleground doing a little bit of training as Joe wanted to work on his Metagross' psychic powers. You see, Metagross was having a little bit of trouble controlling his psychic powers so he needed to do some more work on it.

"Meowth use Thunderbolt!" Logan ordered as his normal type Pokemon leaped into the air as Meowth's body becomes surrounded by electricity and shoots out a bolt of electricity that spirals towards Metagross.

Metagross prepared for battle by putting all four of its arms down on the ground. "Gross, gross." Metagross eyes turn blue as its whole body becomes surrounded by a light blue outline.

"That's the spirit Metagross, keep concentrating on your psychic abilities." Joe encouraged with his fist balled up. He was really into the spirit of hoping his partner's psychic abilities would get better.

Meowth's body becomes surrounded by a light blue outline and so does Logan which wasn't supposed to happen. "Meow, meow?" The normal type asked.

"What's the big idea?" Logan asked as he was started freaking out due to him being in the air as both Meowth and Logan started floating thanks to Metagross' psychic powers.

"Metagross, stop!" Joe freaked out.

"Meta, meta, meta, meta," Metagross explained as he couldn't control what he was doing. "Meta, meta, meta." Metagross not being able to control his body or psychic powers throws both Logan and Meowth onto the ground as the two of them were now in pain.

Logan and Meowth cry. "That hurt!"

"Meow, meow."

"Sorry about that Logan," Joe said as he walked up towards Logan and his normal type pokemon. Metagross followed behind Logan by floating in the air. Joe started sweatdropped.

The psychic type pokemon looked a tad bit sad that it did that his partner's teammate. "Gross, gross, meta, meta." The psychic type pokemon apologized.

"Don't worry about it." Logan gets up and so does Meowth. He closes in on Joe and whispers into his ear. "If you tell anyone that you saw me cry, I will end you." He warned, which shocked Joe and caused him to worry a little.

"I won't do it. I promise." Joe worried.

Logan backs away as Meowth jumps onto his right shoulder. "Now about Metagross psychic abilities, it seems the problem is that Metagross can't focus on one person and instead focuses on all of them."

"Meow, meow, meow."

"Wait…so what your trying to say is- "Joe started before getting interrupted.

"What I'm saying is that Metagross needs to learn how to focus on its able to use its psychic type abilities." Logan shrugged as he walked off.

"Thanks for everything Logan!" Joe waved goodbye.

"Whatever." He shrugged as Meowth continued to stay on his shoulder.

Joe sighed as he walked up towards Metagross. Now that he knew that the problem was a constitution, he felt like he had a better grasp on what to do. "Looks like we know what to work on, so let's keep doing that."

"Meta, meta!" Metagross was excited to be working on his psychic powers so more.

Eli was walking through the forest with her earbuds in her ears and listening to some RWBY. She wanted to get away from her teammates as they were starting to annoy her quite a lot. So, she decided to get some fresh air and go for a walk.

But as she was walking she saw that the dark type Pokemon Zoura was dancing on a rock nearby, minding its own business. Eli took her headphones out of her ear as she couldn't help but look at the dark type Pokemon dancing.

There was something about that Zoura that she couldn't stop staring at. She was standing right next to her Eevee who was walking alongside her.

"Zoura, Zoura, Zoura." The dark type Pokemon dance.

Eevee and Eli both continued to stare at Zoura. But Zoura quickly walked heard noises coming from the forest and Zoura quickly ran away.

"Damn, it got away." Eli snapped.

"Eevee, eevee."

Eli smiled as she found a pokemon that she really wanted to catch. "You know what Eevee, I think I want to catch that Zoura."

"Eevee, Eevee!"

As the day was passing by, the campers had gotten news to report to the cafeteria as Professor Ben had some special news to share to with the campus as his newly appointed assistant Mega was standing right next to him with her shiny Riolu right by her side.

Each of the campers was currently sitting with their respective team members as they were sitting alongside their partner pokemon, and the only pokemon they had currently. Everyone at the camp except for Ben was a new trainer, so that's why they only had one pokemon currently in their possession.

"I have big news today, campers!" The young Professor said with a smile on his face.

"Did you finally figure out a way to stop snoring so loud?" Tyler asked as he was sitting right next to his fairy type Pokemon Mawile.

Everyone at the camp laughed but Ben was not amused. "Say something like that again Tyler and you're on toilet duty for the whole week!"

Tyler shrugged his shoulders. "I've done worse." He responded.

"Mawile, ile." The steel shrugged her shoulders, as he wasn't really scared of Ben and his empty threats, that he loved giving out to the campers every day.

Professor Ben cleared his throat. "Now if you excuse me, I can finish what I was saying." He started. "Now, for today's camp activity, you guys along with your pokemon are going to be participating in a battle of the band's competition."

"WHAT?!" The campers all asked, as their pokemon mimicked them but instead of speaking in a human language they were speaking in their normal pokemon language.

Sarah's was excited. She loved singing and dancing so this was an opportunity that would allow her to shine. She balled up her fist and did a twirl to show off. "Guys, leave it all to me."

"Chespin, ches, ches," Chespin explained to the pokemon that Sarah was good at these sorts of things.

"But if we leave it all to you, then there's no chance we're going to win," Logan smirked as he folded up his arms, closed his eyes, turned his head to the side and shrugged in a sassy way.

"Meow, meow, meow." The normal type Pokemon replied as he mimicked his trainer's actions and vocal tone.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Whatever." She responded, not giving a care in the world about what he thought.

"Let me explain the rules. Each team, along with their pokemon. Must come up with a song performance that will blow us judges out of the water." He explained. "There will be three judges. Me, Megan and a special guest judge that will be on their way shortly." Ben continued to explain to the campers. "The winner will receive a special prize."

Thomas' eyes turned into hearts the moment he heard special prize. "We are winning this!" He shouted at his three other teammates.

"Druddigon, Druddigon." The dragon type pokemon shrugged nonchalantly.

"Who is the special guest?" Thomas asked as his Honedge was floating right next to him.

"I am." A man with a British accent said.

The British voice sounded extremely familiar to the young girl Sarah. "Could it be, him!?" She hopped as her eyes turned starry once again.

A gray cloud appeared out of nowhere making the area smoky, making some of the camper's cough which caused them to cover their mouth. Some rock music started to play, as three silhouettes could be seen in the smoke cloud. The smoke dissolves as a young man wearing a black leather jacket and a bluish green almost star-shaped mohawk appeared with his Noibat and Gourgeist.

Sarah, JD, Wind, and Logan were all surprised to see their favorite singer appear right in front of them. Sarah, JD and Wind eyes turned into hearts as they were starstruck. "It's Cassius!" They fawned over the young male singer.

Everyone looked at Logan surprised that he would be a fan of someone like Cassius. "Wait, you like Cassius?" Thomas asked as he was shocked.

"Yeah, I wouldn't figure you to be the type of someone like him," Zemrick said as he was holding onto his Solsis.

"Heck, I wouldn't have pegged you to be a fanboy at all." Eli laughed as she was holding her Eevee, Emerald, in her lap finding it to be hilarious.

Cassius does a spin along with his Noibat and Gourgeist as he reaches his hand out to command both Noibat and Gourgeist. "If you wanna be if you wanna be, if you wanna be, be, be." He sang as he was strumming along with his guitar.

Noibat's body turns blue as he swings around his trainer. "Noi, no, not." The pokemon sang as he was spinning around his trainer top and creating a gorgeous blue light. Noibat floats up as Gourgeist opens her mouth and releases a bunch of seeds that hit Noibat's attack and collide with it, creating a firework show that looked like rainbows.

Cassius, Noibat, and Gourgeist where all finished with their show as they stand close together with Cassius having his hands out. The campers all cheered except for Logan and Eli who could care less. Though, Logan did care he just didn't want to show it in front of everyone.

Cassius, Noibat and Gourgeist all ball down, happy for the applause they were giving. "Thank you so much, it means a lot." He all said in his British tone of voice. Some of the campers were still cheering finding the performance to be amazing.

Sarah was enamored by the purple dragon type. "I want a NOIBAT! It is just so adorable!" She squealed as she looked at the purple dragon type who was just flapping its tiny little wings while standing next to his trainer.

Cassius clears his throat as he strums on his guitar. "Do your best out there. You're going to be judged mostly on your teamwork skills with both your other campers and your pokemon."

Sarah's eyes turned to hearts as she looked at her teammates. She turned around and grabbed Joe by the shirt and started to shake him. "We have to win this so Cassius can see how great I am."

"Okay, okay, no need to shake me." Joe sweatdropped.

"The battle of the bands will be happening tonight, so have five straight hours to prepare for it," Ben explained.

"We have an arts and crafts center that you can use to get your outfits ready, and if you want to practice your singer and instrument playing skills the camps band rooms will be open for you all to practice," Megan explained to the campers. It felt a little odd for her to be an assistant for Ben, seeing as she was the exact same age as the rest of the campers.

"Riolu, Riolu, Riolu." Riolu did a little dance, wanting to show off its dancing skills in front of everyone.

The four teams all huddled up around one another, trying to speak to one another about what the plans where going to be for the practice of the upcoming battle of the bands. This would be the first camp competition being held in which the teams would have camp leaders, so the dynamics were sure to change between them.

"So, what's the game plan?" Eli asked as Eevee was sitting on her shoulder.

"Eevee, Eevee."

Babs laughed. "Since I'm the leader of this team, I have everything all planned out."

Eli rolled her eyes, and so did the rest of Babs team members.

"Why am I not surprised that she would say something like that?" Zemrick asked.

"Solsis, sol."

Chroma who was the team leader of Team Fennekin wasn't about to let Babs boss everyone around like that. "We don't have time for your bossiness." Chroma said as he was getting really annoyed by the spoiled rich girl.

Babs cleared her throat and pulled out her wallet. Usually, she would've gotten angry and told them off, but she had another plan up her sleeve that worked for a lot of people. "How about I give every single one of you 20 dollars."

"Money can't buy me," Eli said as she watched Babs pull out a twenty-dollar bill.

"Eevee, Eevee, Eevee." The normal type Pokemon was angry at Babs, for even suggesting something like that.

"Yeah, what kind of fools do you think we are?" Chroma asked.

"Ruff, ruff." The rock type pokemon barked at the girl. Chroma's Rockruff who went by the nickname Dusk was standing right by his trainer. Rockruff didn't agree with what Babs was suggesting either.

Meanwhile, Zemrick was considering the idea. "I mean, how much money are we talking?" He asked, but not before Eli, Eevee, Rockruff, and Chroma all glared at the boy and his Honedge with intense and utter rage.

Zemrick started sweating "I mean that's a terrible idea." He lied.

"Honedge, edge."

"What about if I throw in 3,000 dollars to each and everyone one of you," Babs said.

All sudden each of them changed their mind as Eli, Zemrick, and Chroma all hugged Babs. Hearing about that three thousand dollars really made them rethink everything they were saying. "Babs, you can do whatever you want," Eli said.

"Yeah, who cares about morals. This isn't PBS kids." Chroma said.

"Ruff, ruff."

"Eevee, Eevee."

"Honedge."

Babs smiled. "Like they say, money can bring happiness to everyone."

"Catty, catty." Delcatty shrugged.

Babs turns around and looks at her opponent Sarah as the rest of Babs team walks over towards Sarah team. "Break a leg." She said as her team walked off.

Sarah growled. "We have to beat that spoiled rich brat!" She shouted as she grabbed her teammates and their pokemon and dragged them.

Thomas was excited that they were going to be doing yet another activity that would allow for him to be the boss and in charge. He looked at his teammates at Druddigon stood right next to him, as he was holding his girlfriend's hand. "Listen up the team. If we're going to do this then

"We have to follow my order because I have a plan."

"What is your plan exactly?" Akale asked as he was standing next to his Lombre.

"Bre, be." Lombre laughed.

"That's for me to know and you to find out." Thomas laughed.

"You're so good with ideas," Tillith responded as she was amazed by her boyfriend.

"I know, that's why they call me a king."

Druddigon rolled his eyes. "Drudd, drudd."

"I don't really care much, so it's whatever with it." Wind said.

Riley, Tyler, Eden, and Issac along with their pokemon where all huddle up in a circle. So that way no one could hear them speak about their plans for the upcoming battle of the band competition. "We have to work together as a team so that is our plan," Eden said.

"Right." Issac, Tyler, and Riley all replied as they broke the circle and went their own merry way.

It was late at night which means that it was time for the Pokemon Academy Honors Camp Battle of the Bands. The competition was going to be held outside in front of a stage made from wood. The three judges where sitting on chairs in front of the stage ready for the performances to begin.

Standing on stage was Alexander Williams and his partner pokemon Mizu the Oshawott. He had light brown skin, jet black hair, and brown eyes. Alexander was currently in an internship working for Ben and Ben asked him to be the announcer for the battle of the band competition.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the Pokemon Academy Battle of the Bands," Alexander spoke into his microphone as Oshawott was jumping up and down. "I'm your host Alexander Williams and today, I am going to be your lovely announcer."

"The judges will be announcing this year's competition is, the talent and beautiful Megan."

Megan blushed as she was a little embarrassed. "Nice to be here."

"The owner of the camp Ben."

Ben waved.

"And finally, the talent, world famous, Pokemon Idol, Cassius!"

Cassius stood up and bowed. "I'm honored to be here. I look forward to seeing good performances."

"Now for the first performance, let me introduce you to Team Bunnelby."

The curtains open as the four boys from Team Bunnelby along with their pokemon where on the stage all dressed up and some of them where holding instruments. All the boys were wearing all black tuxedos along with their pokemon too. But before the boys and their pokemon could play a Zoura jumped onto the stage and started dancing.

"Zoura, Zoura, Zoura, Zoura, Zoura." The dancing dark type sang, which left everyone in the audience to be confused about what was going on.

"It appears that we have a dancing Zoura on the stage." Alexander narrated.

Zoura started laughing as it does a backflip and becomes surrounded by a purple light, as it begins morphing into a Charizard.

Eli who was backstage looked at the Zoura and was amazed by how it was dancing. "Wow, that Zoura looks awesome. I want to catch it!" The normally cool, calm and collective girl said as she was amazed by the dark type pokemon.

Charizard flies into the air, and since Zoura was a bit of a clown Charizard opens its mouth and releases a burst of flame that causes the stage to catch on fire. The campers who were backstage run away from the stage and watch as it was now on fire thanks to Zoura who was a bit of a clown and liked pulling pranks.

"He-he." Zoura who was morphed into Charizard laughed.

Eli not caring about the fire runs up to the Charizard who was just a Zoura forming an illusion as Zoura transforms backs into his original self.

The young girl smiled as she looked at Zoura and got down on her knees looking eye to eye at him. She couldn't quite figure it out, but she wanted to catch this dark type pokemon. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a Pokepuff that she backed and held it out for the dark type pokemon. "You're quite something, aren't you?"

Zoura blushed and looked away. "Zoura, zor."

"Here take this. I want to give it to you."

"Eevee, Eevee!" The normal type pokemon who was standing right by her side encouraged Zoura to give Eli a chance. Both Eli and Eevee remembered seeing Zoura earlier today, and she's been thinking about the dark type all day long.

Zoura swallowed his pride and at the Pokepuff, but Zoura bites Eli's hand and runs off into the forest.

Eevee looked at Eli wanting to see if she was alright. "Eevee, Eevee?" She asked as she looked at Eli.

"I'm fine," Eli replied as she petted her partner pokemon.

Meanwhile, as the fire was raging and getting bigger the campers where all getting worried about what would happen next as they watched the stage collapse from the fire that was currently getting intense.

Cassius knew what to do as he grabbed his Noibat's pokeball and tossed it into the air. "Noibat, use Gust to blow out this fire."

The dragon type Pokemon is released and starts flapping its wings and blowing out air which puts the fire out completely. "Noibat, Noibat." Noibat did its best as Sarah looked at Noibat with amazement, wanting to get her own Noibat.

"Good job Noibat," Cassius said as he petted the top of the Noibats head before returning it back into its pokeball. "I'm glad everyone is safe." He said.

With the fire put out the campers all cheered. But it looked like they weren't going to be able to finish off the battle of the band's competition that they hadn't started yet.

"But what about the battle of the bands?" Tyler asked.

"Don't worry about it," Ben replied. "All that matters are that all of you are safe."

Sarah walked up to her idol Cassius and she started shaking a tiny bit. She swallowed her spit as she got the courage to speak to her idol. She was wearing a long yellow dress, white gloves, a tiara and yellow heels. "Uh…Cassius…"

"Yeah?" As soon as the man with blue-haired turned around he saw the girls dress and was surprised by how beautiful the dress look. "Wait…that dress…."

He walked up to the ten-year-old girl and put his hands on her shoulders and smiled. "Did you make that dress yourself?"

"Yes, I did." She started. "I make a lot of own clothes, shoes, and accessories."

He smiled as he started to fangirl over the ten-year-old girl. "That is so amazing. Your dress is like fabulous."

She blushed. "Why thank you."

Cassius reached into his pocket and pulled out a card. "I want you to design some clothes for me sometime. I'll give you a call and let you know when though."

Her eyes turn into hearts as she was surprised to see her idol compliment her clothes. "Why thank you, sir. I would love to do that for you."

He smiled. "Great, because I have a show coming up soon, and I want you to design an outfit for me." He winked.

"I will. I'm going to work on some ideas and let you know."

"Do that. Call me anytime." He winked.

She bowed down to him. "Will do sir."

He smiled. "But I think that you should think about becoming a Pokemon Stylist." He suggested.

"A what?"

"A pokemon stylist. Pokemon stylist competes in competitions called Pokemon Collections in hopes of winning a Golden Pendant. Collect four golden pendants and you can enter the Fashion Week in Luminous City in hopes of becoming a Fashion Champion." He explained she was amazed by that.

"I'm actually a Fashion Champion myself." He revealed.

She smiled as she looked at Chespin. "That settles it! I want to become a Pokemon Fashion Champion just like Cassius is. That's my dream." She said.

"Chespin, ches."

Cassius smiled once again. "Well, good luck on your dream." He said. He checked his phone and realized that he had to go. "I had fun time everyone and I hope all of you reach your dreams. But it looks like I have to go, so for now, this is goodbye." Cassius throws a bomb to the ground which creates smoke that quickly dissolves and as soon as it disappears, he was gone. Which left everyone confused.

"That was…uh…confusing…" Ben said.

Sarah was a lot more confident as she looked at Chespin and smiled. "Looks like we have a goal ahead of us, Chespin." She smiled as he looked at her partner pokemon.

"Chespin, ches."

Sarah gets down on her knees and grabs Ben's hands. She starts crying a she really wanted to compete in the upcoming exhibition fashion show in Santalune City, that lets Pokemon Academy students get a taste of what a fashion show is like. But since there was a rule stating that campers couldn't leave the camp, she knew she had ask him. "Please, Ben! Can I please compete in the fashion show? Pretty please?" She begged why she put her lip out.

"Chespin, ches." The grass type followed in his trainers' footsteps.

Ben sighed. "Fine you guys can leave the camp, as long as you tell beforehand. Okay?"

She smiled and so did the rest of the campers as they all cheered. "Yes!" Everyone cheered.

Sarah began running. "I'm going to Santalune City to go compete in my very first fashion show." She explained to everyone as both her and Chespin begin running off.

Logan, JD, and Joe wanted to see her compete in the fashion too. But really, they just wanted to leave the camp and get away from here, so they followed her along with their pokemon.

"Wait for us!" JD said as they ran to go catch up to the girl.

Babs stomped her food, as she wanted to compete in the fashion show to. She turned around and looked at her team. "Where going too."

"Catty, Delcatty." The normal type pokemon said.

Babs grabs her teammates and drags them to on the path to Santalune City, as they try and protest. But she wasn't going to allow that as she wanted to try and beat the young girl at her own game.

Team Chespin: JD [Hoppip], Sarah [Chespin], Logan [Meowth] and Joe [Metagross]

Team Fennekin: Eli [Emerald/Eevee], Zemrick [Solsis], Chroma [Rockruff/Dusk] and Babs [Cherry/Delcatty]

Team Froakie: Thomas [Druddigon], Tillith [Fomantis], Akale [Lombre] and Wind [Yanma]

Team Bunnelby: Riley [Kavallerie/Honedge], Tyler [Mawile], Issac [Heracross] and Eden [Hunter/Froakie]

Other Members: Megan [Riolu], Alexander [Oshawott/Mizu]

Authors Note: That ends yet another chapter of Pokemon Academy: Preparations. Originally, I was going to have her become interested in the gym challenge, but I decided to change that because I wanted to do something different. Only the first three chapters of Pokemon Academy: Preparations are a part of Pokemon Academy.

Thanks again to everyone who reviewed the last chapter.

AZW330 – Thanks for submitting both, and yeah both were always going to be in the story.

Mara the Wolf – Thanks for letting me know the corrections about Eli. It helps. Yeah, that's what I was going for originally, but as a look at the OC sheet again, I realized I was straying too far from it. So, changed it. Also, I know what an everyone is lol. The story isn't really based on the anime, manga or games. It's kind of its own thing.

n00bsleyr – Thanks it was one of the few ideas I had about nerfing it.