Pokemon Special High School Edition

"Hooray!", the class erupts into loud applauses and cheers right after the introduction from their new comrade. A transfer student at this time of the year is fairly unusual especially with the final examinations just around the corner. Surprised by such a positive reaction from her classmates, Lyra couldn't help but join in the enthusiasm of her classmates by waving back with a face brimming with happiness.

"Lyra had only just arrived in Japan a few days ago, so I would appreciate if you guys will show her the ropes and guide her along okay?" Some of the students let out exclamations of surprise due to the fact that Lyra's accent during her introduction showed no sign of being foreign. After a few minutes of constant cheering and whistling, the teacher finally steps in to tone down their celebration before assigning a window seat for Lyra. Once Lyra settles down comfortably at her seat, the teacher officially start the morning lessons. Throughout the next few periods of lesson, Lyra recieved many side glances from her fellow classmates to which she smiles back in response. Having gotten this much attention on the first day of school, Lyra could hardly contain her excitement as she finds herself unable to concentrate during class. The lessons are not too difficult to follow except due to her english upbringing in the states, Lyra could not understand some of the complicated words in the japanese language.

Resting her head on her palm, Lyra gazes out the window and across the landscape of the town. A gentle wind brushes across her face as Lyra slowly savour the moment of one of her life long dream; To attend a school in Japan in her hometown. "I wonder if Crystal is somewhere in this school too," her thoughts trail back to their unexpected meeting at her father's grave. The memory remains fresh in her head, the icy cold stares and rejection Crystal was giving her, thinking back it sends shivers down her spines. How could someone display such a spiteful expression to someone whom they've just met?

Time flies by quickly as Lyra gets lost in her train of thoughts till the loud monotonous bell signaling lunch break jolts her back to her senses. In a matter of seconds, the class erupts into an outburst of noises from the shifting of seats as students rush towards their new comrade with an endless amount of questions. Her classmates encircles her seat as they bombard her with all sorts of questions ranging from her favorite food to the lifestyle in the states.

"Hey guys! Cut it out!", a loud voice booms from a spot within the circle of student and shuts out the random chatter around it. Knowing the voice all to well, the rest of the students takes a step back as the girl squeezes herself into the inner circle.

"We are a little too excited, sorry about that! Hi there, I'm Sapphire!", Sapphire extends out her hand in which Lyra does the same. For the next few minutes, everyone takes turns to ask Lyra a question or two while Lyra takes the time to process it before answering them. Lyra is just about as enthusiastic as her fellow peers so it didn't take long for them to get along. Just then, from the corner of her eyes, Lyra notices a familiar figure down at the garden patch.

"Ah, isn't that...?", Lyra abruptly gets up from her seat which startles the rest a bit before Lyra excuses herself out of the classroom leaving the rest with confused looks on their faces. Just as Lyra is about to step out onto the corridor, she is confronted by a boy who seems to be calling out to her. Gold takes Lyra by her hand and looks on passionately into her hazel brown eyes, "Ah, a blooming flower amongst the field of weeds, you are like the shining beacon amidst the storm guiding me to your heart, its a pleasure to meet you, I'm Gold."

"I'm Lyra! Its nice to meet you Gold but lets chat later okay? I have gotta run!" With that, Lyra runs down the corridor leaving Gold hanging in the winds while the people around him engages in whispers about the scene that they have just witnessed.

"I see, so she's the hard to get type, I'm fired up!" Gold clenches his fist and makes a swift hundred and eighty degree turn right into the face of Crystal whom had just arrive at the scene as everyone else disperse along the corridor. Cold sweat begins forming on Gold's forehead as he begin formulating excuses to prevent his doomed fate.

"So what are you fired up for?" Crystal eyes Gold suspiciously as he lets out a sigh of relief which happens to be only momentary till Sapphire pops out of the classroom warning Gold to cut down on flirting with the new girl.

"Sapphire! Crystal, why are you clenching your fists?" Realizing Gold's predicament, Sapphire silently apologizes to Gold as she scram back into the classroom leaving Gold to his inevitable fate.

OOO

"What did you say?" Crystal stops abruptly in her tracks as a half beaten Gold describes to her the new transfer student in the Hoenn duos class. A familiar representation of that person starts to materialize in her head, one that is similar to the same person whom she met at the cemetery, the one person that she wished isn't here. Gold turns back and chances upon the look of terror; a look that he had never seen before. Just as Gold tries to approach her, Crystal grits her teeth while she tells Gold to go ahead without her and she takes off in the opposite direction down the corridor.

"Crystal?" Confused as he is, Gold could not help but think that something is wrong with Crystal yet at the same time she feels so distant from him.

It scares him.

OOO

"Maybe next time I should try a new type of fertilizer," Silver stares at the little sapling barely making it's way out of the brown soil in a tiny corner of the flower patch while remaining squatted down in front of it. Normally Silver does not visit the garden during lunch break but since Gold, and soon followed by Crystal, left to check out the commotion in class 1-D, Silver makes do with just himself and the hotdog in his hand while tending to the garden. It had been a few months since Silver stumbled upon this tiny garden at the corner of the school and ever since then he had been a frequent visitor to this garden. The school garderner even made him a duplicate key to the shed since Silver was doing such a great work at tending to the plants.

Just as Silver is about to take another chew out of the hotdog, the sound of the crisp grass giving way to footsteps make Silver tenses up as he slowly turns his head towards the approaching entity.

"Silver? You're Silver right?" Lyra steps closer with eyes gleaming with anticipation as she waits for Silver's reaction. Silver scans Lyra from head to toe as he tries to remember the connections he has with this girl who seemingly knows him. For now, Silver nods his head in response as Lyra heaves a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, I thought I've gotten the wrong person! Its me Lyra, remember a few days ago you helped me in town?" Lyra stares hard at Silver's face while he almost recalls the event of bumping into someone weird in town the other day.

"You're the sunflower girl," Lyra breaks out into a smile as she nods back in response to his answer. Lyra glances around the flower patch and then back to the spot at which Silver was squatting at.

"These flowers are beautiful. Did you help grow them?" Lyra squats down to examine the small sapling as Silver nods and squats down as well.

"Wow, do you think you can teach me a bit of being a botanist too?" Silver averts her gaze as Lyra looks at him with an earnest pair of eyes. After a bit of consideration and hesitation, Silver picks up a nearby shovel and hands it over to Lyra.

"It isn't easy," Silver says it in such a monotonous and serious voice that it made Lyra think twice before taking the shovel. With a nod of affirmation, Lyra grabs the shovel out of Silver's hand and puffs out her chest confidently, "Don't worry about me! I'm a fast learner! I'll be in your care then!" With a wide smile plastered onto her face, Lyra extends out her hand and firmly grasp onto Silver's hand much to his surprise though on the back of his mind he wants to question her reason for approaching him.

"You've got to be kidding me, why is she...?" Looking down from one of the windows in the main building, Crystal watches the couple down at the garden chatting happily though it just seems like a one-sided conversation on Lyra's front. She thought that girl will never appear in her life ever again yet now, they are studying under the same roof. At that very moment, a realization strikes her hard; her school life will never be the same anymore.

OOO

"Professor! This will definitely upset the higher ups if news of the new 'transfer' student reaches their ears!", the bespectacled assistant starts the day hollering at Oak who has his back facing her as though ignoring her on purpose.

"Professor Oak! She hasn't gone through a proper transfer and her family hasn't approve of this!", just as the endless rambling is about to commence, Oak faces his assistant with the sternest of his expressions which made her stop in an instance.

"We are an institute of education. We tap into the potential of aspiring young adults and prepare them for the working field. We do not deny any student the chance to learn," Oak takes the transfer document in his hand and carefully examine the particulars on it.

"But Professor...!", Oak interjects her complaints with a question before she could further stress her point.

"Do you believe in the red string of fate?" His assistant looks at Oak quizically as though he said something in a foreign tounge. Oak pulls out another document from the his drawer and lay the two side by side on his desk.

"This is as much as I can do for Lyra, Isabelle, the rest is up to them," Oak sighs as the assistant franctically tries to grasp the situation at hand.

To be continued!

Author's note: Just a short notice, I'll be going on hiatus for an undetermined amount of time so don't expect any updates from me soon but I'll like to take this opportunity to thank my readers especially those who stuck with me and my story for the past 4 months. Thank you, you guys are awesome and I had fun. Once again I stress, this story is not going to be cut off, I'm just going to be real busy with other things in real life. Yes I know, its a cliffhanger.

Breadstar: Hoenn,Sinnoh and Johto are all in the same grade while Kanto is on a grade higher with the exception of Blue being two grades higher.

5th Dimension: Someone or something must take the hatred, why hate a dead man?

Deltra: Okay, safe~

Hafidz: Patience is key.

Grey & DAW: Thank you! Its always nice to see new readers enjoying my story!