Author note

Hi, now it's time for chapter 3. I also want to present NathanDrake679 as my beta reader.

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Important to read: In this story, the fighting system would work differently from other stories. All persons in the story would have a power matching their type. Fire for a Flareon for an example. They would be able to train the power exactly like we train muscles and it will increase when they grow older.

Attacks would also work differently. A Pokemon can use specific attacks but they can also use their powers freely without any attacks. All Pokemon can learn to use others types of powers or other types of attacks but it's very hard for them to learn.

Chapter 3

Friend or Blackmailer?

In the early morning, Zane woke up from his clock. He yawned and stretched out his body a bit before making his way down to breakfast. As he did so, he ran into both Glory and Eriel.

"Awake?" Glory said, before she let out a huge yawned.

"Of course," Zane answered, giving her a smile.

"Stop being so lively this early in the morning," Eriel said tiredly, while hung with her head.

"We didn't decide to watch some crapy drama movie to 23:00 yesterday so we have a reason," Glory said, as they made their way to the dining hall for breakfast. Entering they saw that someone had already set the table so they just sat down and began eating. Zane prepared himself and a few sandwiches while Glory and Eriel preferred milk with cereal.

After a short breakfast, Zane began with his normal morning ritual. Getting dressed, brushing teeth, and stuffing his school bag full of things he needed. The morning flowed on until Zane reminded himself about an important thing.

He walked to the circle room and went over to Flaria's door, knocking on it. A few thuds were heard from the room and Flaria yelling: "Wait a minute,".

After an estimated thirty seconds, Flaria opened the door and greeted Zane with a smile.

"You want something?" she said, before backing away from the doorway so he could enter. He then entered Flaria's room taking it in. The room was the same size as the others and it had walls of bright-orange. On Zane's left side were some drawers. In the farthest right corner stood a bed with red-orange bed curtains hanging from the ceiling. Next to it, under the window was a table. She also had a desk with a mess of things spread out on it.

"Yea, yesterday you told Lavender that I know her history. I saw that it didn't go the right way and now I want to know what happened," Zane told her and walked over to her desk.

"Oh…yes, I shall, I promise I shall do it," she said and sat down on a chair.

"Then why not do it now?" Zane said, as he turned around from the desk to look her in the eyes.

"Why not do it now? Ummm... I shall...but this afternoon," she said and looked away from Zane's gaze.

"Don't escape from my questions," he said and crossed his arms.

"I promise I shall but in the afternoon, Now leave," Flaria answered, clearly annoyed by Zane's questions. Zane gave up and sighed before leaving Flaria's room. The door was slammed shut behind him.

How hard could it be to just spit out whatever is happening?

It could be hard, I mean you are basically a stranger to her.

A little annoyed by his failure, Zane took his bag and went to the outer hallway. He took a glance at his clock, discoving that it was 07:27.

I promised to be here wait at 7:30 so that the others so she could show me the way to the school.

After some minutes Glory, Lavender, and Eriel showed up. Both Eriel and Glory greeted him while Lavender ignored him. Everyone spent some minutes on finding and putting on their jackets. At 07:31 Glory was shutting the door before they began walking out in the cold autumn weather.

They started walking down the hill the mansion was built on while Glory began explaining how the school worked for Zane.

"Unlike other big cities like this, they decided to build one big school for everyone. Of course the city also quite small back in that days so now it's not just one building," Glory said as they walked past a bus station.

"Here is the bus if you ever feel that you are too lazy or late," Eriel said.

"Don't interrupt me Eriel,"Glory said and continued "It's three major buildings: one on the other side of the road for the younger students. Two on the side we would be on. On our side there is first year 14-16. That is where all of us goes minus Umbria. She goes in the other part on our side of the building. It's the one for students 17 and older."

"So on our side of the road, there is only two buildings and nothing more?" Zane asked while he tried to remember everything Glory said.

"There is also a lot of parks in the school region and we also have a sports field along with the sports hall behind the school building,"Glory said as they walked along a street to the more central parts of the city. The wooden cottages changed successively to apartment houses. After a 15 minutes long walk, they stood outside the school buildings.

A wide stone path led up to the school building. After a few meters it was divided into two paths. The first to the school building for the older students and the second to the building where Zane was about to go.

They walked up to the school. It was a four stories high with white, concrete walls and an innumerable amount of windows. Outside the entrance was crowded with students flooding into the doors.

This is confusing, hundreds of students and I don't even know where to go,Zane thought.

"Glory, do you know where to go," Zane said feeling a little dumb.

"Of course," she said and gripped his hand, before she began dragging him through the crowd of people. Luckily the inside of the school wasn't that crowded since the corridors were wide. When they reached the other side of the crowd both Lavender and Eriel were gone, heading to some of their friends. Inside the school, they stopped when they heard someone call out for them.

"Hey Glory, what's happening here?"

Glory turned around to see Flaria and Valerie, both with their jackets thrown over their shoulders.

"Aren't you a bit perky with the guys now?" Flaria continued on Valerie's first question.

"What do you mean? It's actually you who are the hottest girl in the school, if you ask anyone," Glory said still not understanding that she was holding Zane's hand in a tight grip while Zane tried to wriggle it away.

"I know and that's why I want to teach you how to get a fellow for yourself," Flaria said and smiled while Zane finally decided to tell Glory what she was doing.

"Glory, you are still holding Zane's hand," Valerie said before Zane could. Glory finally released him and backed away in astonishment. She began blushing, the red skin showing under her fur.

"Ehh… I'm sorry," she said and turned away to avoid Zane's gaze.

"Time to hurry up," Flaria said and walked away with Valerie, both soon arguing about why Flaria was the hottest girl and why Valerie wasn't.

That left Zane and Glory in an awkward moment until a mightyena saved them by greeting Glory.

"Hi, how has the summer been?" He kindly asked. The mightyena was clothed in black clothes with gray details. His fur was black, approximately the same shade to Zane's fur if you ignored the red parts. The fur on his stomach had a gray tone instead of the black. On top of his head, he had two black ears and his lower jaw was also light gray like his stomach.

"Good," Glory said, giving him a smile.

The mightyena turned his attention to Zane.

"You are new here, aren't you?" he asked to Zane.

"Yea, my name is Zane," Zane said and smiled.

"Well mine is Mitis," he said and they all began walking to a corridor with lockers. Glory and Mitis opened one each and began putting their bags and jackets in them.

"Our first lesson is with our class teacher," Glory said, before closing her locker.

"She is talking with us about everything that is necessary along the lines of school," Mitis said and began walking towards another corridor. Zane followed still holding his bag since he didn't know what he needed and where his locker was. After a couple of minutes, they entered a door. Zane entered and saw a class with 25 - 30 students. Everyone was chatting and talking since the teacher hadn't arrived yet. Zane looked around for a second and then he took an empty seat next to Mitis. They waited for the teacher and soon she appeared.

She was a Gothtielle with a strict and stubborn behavior. She was about 50 years old. She began with checking that everyone was there. After a few minutes of silence, she decided to speak.

"The most of you already know my name, but for everyone that have lost it after a summer, it's Gothiel. There are also two new students in this class," Gothiele said and looked out over the class. Immediately whisperings started about the new students.

Two? I thought I was the only one!Zane thought.

"Quiet," Their teacher said and began talking again.

"They are going to present themselves now," she said and nodded against Zane.

Zane rose from his chair. He felt sweat running down his back.

"My name is Zane and I'm from Kanto," he said a bit shaky on his voice.

The presentation was interrupted by knocking on the door. With a sigh of relief, Zane took the chance and sat down.

If it's something I hate it is speaking in front of people I don't know.

Gothiel opened the door and there stood the second new student. She was a ninetales. A ninetales but not just any ordinary ninetales, she was literally the definition of sexy. Her fur was yellow and she had light blue eyes with shades of yellow in them. Her body was well shaped and the tails followed behind her majestically. When she stood there in the door she had 100% attention on her, all over how perfect she was. Every one of the boys were already dreaming having her as girlfriend except Zane. The girls in the class instantly understood that being friends with her meant high status. When she was sure she had all attention, she spoke.

"Hi, my name is Nicole," she said with a wonderful voice and smiled.

"Take a seat and don't be late next time," Gothiel said sharply.

Everyone hoped that she should sit next to them. At her former school, she had also been popular and liked it. She knew how to use her body to attract and convince people. Just the crop top and the low neckline was well enough to completely manipulate most boys. If it was something she could do, it was speaking and manipulating.

Nicole knew how people saw her and down her way, to a seat, she occasionally let one of her tails stroke someone's arm or leg. She decided to sit down next to a urasing.

As soon as the whisperings about her died down, Gothiel handed out a bunch of paper to Nicole and Zane about lockers, rules, schedules and so on. Then she said, " Class dismissed,".

Everyone left the classroom in a hurry. Mitis began talking intensively about the new girl with Zane.

"Do you understand how lucky we are? The fanciest girl in our class! Before everyone talked about Flaria as the nicest girl but now we definitely have a new one on that place,"

"I know she is nice but I try to never judge people by their looks," Zane said.

"True but you can't deny that she isn't nice to look at," Mitis said as they walked to Zane's new locker.

"Uh...maybe," They stopped at Zane's locker and Zane put his thing in it. He thought: What is a good look compared to good behavior?

The next lesson proceeded without any special events for Zane more than a history essay about the Orange islands.

As the third lesson that day they had sports. Zane and Mitis proceeded to the sports hall where they changed to their sports clothes. After a few minutes the whole class was gathered in the huge sports hall. Most of the hall was a big open, flat space with various lines on the floor for different sports. At the end of the hall was a corridor away to rooms equipped for other sports.

From a door, a machoke entered the hall, happily whistling. As usual, he began with checking the attendance list.

"Everyone his here now I see," he said and did the last cross with his pencil on his list.

"My name is Mac for everyone new this year. Now to the sum up this year. We are going to focus more on your abilities this year. Some of you can create fire, other water, and you Zoroark over there can create illusions," he said and pointed at Zane.

"In earlier years you have trained to use them on simple levels, now shall we will begin with the harder things," Mac said and looked at the class. "You have learned many specific attacks like ember. Now we will also learn to use them more freely without instructions on how to exactly do the attack,"

"But how are we going to learn this on only one lesson each week, It's just two hours," a milotic from the class objected.

"True, we are going to have two lessons a week now. One for training real power and fighting against each other. One for training how to use your abilities more controlled and reading theoretical," Mac said and crossed his arms.

"In this lesson, we will begin with some simple wrestling. So hurry and put out the mats over there in squares," Mac said and pointed at a stack of mats. Everyone began working and soon all the wrestling arenas were built.

During that time Mac brought a tablet computer and connected it to a big screen. All the names in the class were shown on the screen.

"This machine will pair you two and two. When you are paired, take an empty mat and begin the wrestling," he said and pointed at the screen as it began to pair people up.

Mitis jerked Zane in the rib and said: "Who is going to be with that ninetales?"

"I think you want to be with her," Zane said, giggled at him only to get a second jerk.

"Look who really is paired up with her," Mitis said and looked back at the screen. Nicole's name was placed in the same row as Zane.

Zane shrugged while he thought: It seems like I'm the only boy in the class that doesn't want to like just because of her body. I mean her first impression on was that she likes to manipulate.

She already stood on a mat with a hand rested on her hips. When he approached her she smiled obviously trying to manipulate him like she so easy did with the others.

"Sorry but that won't work on me," Zane said when he stepped up on the mat.

"I saw that earlier," she said with a silk-soft voice, stroking a hand along her body.

"It seems like I'm the only one that does not want your body or your attention," Zane said and crossed his arms. Nicole huffed and stepped up on the mat.

"Let's wrestle," she said and they began to circulate around each other. Zane took advantage of his speed and moved around her. She did fast turn and they were facing each other again.

With a long step, she was suddenly in the reach of him as he tried to catch her by the shoulders. She jumped to the left and his right hand just caught air. The left hand missed her shoulder and bounced aginst her chest or to be more accurate her breast.

Zane immediately understood what he had done and took a frightened jump away from her while he looked around himself to see if someone saw. Luckily for him, everyone was up in their own wrestling so nobody noticed what Zane did.

He looked up to meet Nicole's gaze. What he expected was her to be angry or furious but she just smiled at him.

"Oh, you are a little bad boy now aren't you," Nicole said and giggled. This made Zane quite confused.

What is she planning to do with me now?

"Sorry but it was a mistake," Zane said and held up his hands in defense. Nicole jerked with her head and giggled.

"I was sure that you should fall for me sooner or later," Nicole said and did triumphant motion with her hand.

"It was a mistake," Zane said getting more and more annoyed by her.

"I know that, you don't seem like the person that harasses girls but do the others think that?" she said, as they began circling around each other again.

"Why are you doing this?" Zane asked straight out.

"What do you think Glory or Lavender would say if they got to know that you did this to me or even the principal. You could get secluded from the school," she said and did a fake sad smile.

"What would you win on destroying my life," Zane said on the edge to let the anger speak for him instead of the sense.

"Who would they believe, the little poor new Ninetales or you," she said still ignoring his questions.

"There is nothing poor about you,"

"Maybe, Maybe not but I can consider being quiet about this if you do some things for me," she said and tried to take a wrestling grip around him.

"Blackmailing you mean?" Zane said and thought: She seems to like this.

"We don't need to use that ugly word," she said and hushed him.

A loud whistling sound entered the hall.

"The lesson is ending in ten minutes, time to put the mats back in stacks," Mac said.

Everyone began working and after a few minutes, the hall was empty again. Zane and Mitis proceeded to the changing rooms and then to their next lesson.

When the lessonended they went to the big dining room. It was a big rectangular room with white walls. The tables stood in endless rows and at the far wall was a desk where everyone took food.

Zane noticed that the dining hall was secluded in two spaces. On big desk to the right with food on, another smaller to the left with soda, cakes, and other things.

"Why do they have that secluded space?" Zane asked his new friend.

"The one with food is free but if you want the cakes or soda you need to pay," Mitis said and walked over to the desk for food. They took food and looked for a table. Mitis selected a table were two people already sat. It was a druddigon and a larvitar. They were Mitis's old friends.

"Hey, bros good to see ya, after the summer," Mitis began and introduced them to Zane. They talked for a while until two familiar persons, Glory and Lavender entered the dining hall. Zane thought about the problem with Lavender and wondered how he should make her like him.

Maybe if I buy something for her, but if I do would she accept it if I gave it to her? Probably not.

He thought second before directing his attention to Mitis.

"Can you do me a favor?" Zane said and tried to be a bit slimy.

"Depends," he answered and looked questionly at Zane.

"I want you to deliver a thing to Lavender," Zane said.

"I know she is nice but she is a male hater so don't even try with her. If it wasn't for her, I would be jealous of you for living with six girls," Mitis said and put down his glass of milk.'

"Do you think anyone would be able to go near her?"

"Maybe Uran, the urasing in our class. He is quite hard-nosed but he is also a bully so be careful,"

"Sure," Zane said and went over to the cafeteria part. He bought a cake and went over to a big urasing that was picking some cakes for himself. Zane did a discreet cough and began talking.

"Excuse me but can you do me a favor?" Zane said as the urasing turned around to face Zane. Uran was a big muscular urasing with a threatful look. This appearance made Zane's face turn a degree paler.

It's lucky that my pelt is thickZane thought and gulped.

"What favor?" Uran said in a dark voice.

"Bring this to Lavender," Zane said, pointed at Lavender and held the cake in front of him.

"Ok, dude. I'll giving it to her and says it's from you but don't blame me when she is pissed off at you," Uran said and took the cake from him. Zane walked back to the table and watched as Uran delivered the cake to Lavender.

Next up on the schedule was some boring lessons that honestly isn't doing anything for this story so let's forget them.

The school day had come to an end and Zane stood next to his locker filling it with his bag and new books. He was thinking about Flaria and the picture of her bleeding. She had promised to tell him about that.

I'm wondering what happened? Did Lavender hurt Flaria or was it a mistake of some sort?

His thoughts were interrupted by someone tugging on his arm. Zane looked up to meet the gaze of a Nicole. She smiled at him and did a nod with her head as she said: "follow"

Zane put the bag on his back and followed her into an empty classroom. She leaned herself against a bench and looked at Zane.

"So what do you want me to do?" Zane said and crossed his arms after closing the door.

"It is this little essay about the orange archipelago," she said took a white piece of paper from her bag.

"You want me to do it for you," Zane said with a harsh voice.

"I'm not dumb. If I let you do that, you would probably find a way expose me. Instead you should write down facts about the Archipelago and give it to me so I can do the text," Nicole said

She is at least smart. If she had forced me to do the work for her, it would have been against the school rules. When I help her with facts, there isn't any way to bust her for breaking the school rules.

Why aren't you seeing the good side of it, to find fact and give to her is easy in comparison to writing a whole essay. Besides even if she wasn't involved, you would still be forced to collect information to your own essay.

Maybe it isn't that much work but still, I'm feeling vulnerable in this position. What happens if she takes this to another level makes me steal things or something.

Zane put the paper in his bag, before leaving the classroom with heavy steps. Glory had promised to meet him at the school entrance.

When he approached the entrance he saw that Glory was upset. She stood, leaning against the wall with her gaze nervously looking up and down the corridor. Zane approached her and noticed that none of the other girls were with her. She looked up at him and took a deep breath.

"Zane I need to talk to you about something," she said as they walked out of the school building and on the road to their home.

"First, where is are the rest of your sisters?" Zane said and looked around him an extra time.

"They went to the bus and well that is a part of the whole thing," Glory said and began breathing faster and faster without noticing it.

"And?" Zane said and wondered why she was so stressed.

"You remember the cake you gave her. I don't know if anyone told you but Uran is a bully that always wants to destroy the day for people. Before he gave it to Lavender, he spiced it with some chili before serving it to her. Of course, everyone knows that he did it but Lavender insists that it was you," Glory said in one breath.

"Glory calm down, breath slowly," he said and put a hand on her shoulder. Glory took three deep breaths before talking again. She began talking in a much-relaxed tone.

"I was literally holding down her on her chair so she couldn't go and beat you and now she's just ten times more pissed off at you than before," losing the relaxed tone at the end.

Why do all my attempts to be a good person fail? What shall I do now?

Go home and avoid her.

That is a secondary solution that won't work in the long run.

"No worry she won't hurt me," Zane said.

"That's the thing, I don't know if she is capable of doing that. I mean, she hurt Flaria by some way and won't tell me if it was by accident or on purpose. What happens if it was on purpose will she and she hurts you…" Glory said, being interrupted by Zane.

"You let your mind imagine things that won't occur. She would probably try to ignore me as before," Zane said even if a little tiny part of his mind still was a bit worried about what Lavender could do. They were now walking up the hill to the mansion.

"But…what shall we do?" Glory said worried about Zane.

"We shall go home and talk to Flaria so we can see what Lavender did and why," Zane said with a determination that surprised himself.

Zane and Glory stood now outside the mansion. Glory picked up her key and they walked in. After taking off jackets and bags they walked around in the house to find Flaria in her room.

"Flaria, can we have a talk," Glory said as they entered the room.

"Uh…yes o-of course," Flaria said.

Author note

Thank you for reading the chapter. Please leave a review and a like if you liked the story. If you got questions or something to say, send me a pm and I will answer as fast as possible. Otherwise, have a nice day and wait for the next chapter.

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