"Seki! Stop daydreaming and pay attention!"
The girl the teacher had yelled at jumped slightly and switches her gaze from the window to her teacher and grins guiltily.
Seki was an average 8th grade girl, with nothing special about her. She had shoulder-length black hair and bright inquisitive brown eyes. She always wore, around her neck, a silver necklace with a tiny pokéball charm on it. The day she say Pokémon, she had promised herself to always be a fan of it, and that was what the pokéball represented.
Seki answered slowly, as if it was hard to find the right words to answer with, she said, "I wasn't daydreaming, I was working on the problem you gave us."
Her teacher answered by saying, "Oh really? Then would you mind telling us the answer?"
"Umm... 700?"
Her teacher sighed in an exasperated way, "The answer is 77.9, not 700."
"Oh, my mistake."
The teacher walked back up to the blackboard and continued on with the lesson, " Well, now that Seki is finally paying attention, let's go on."
Seki's friend, Andy, leaned over and said, "Just another normal time with Miss Catherine, huh Seki?"
"Well, yea, it's almost lunch now, we can talk then."
Andy settled back into his seat and pretended to pay attention to the lesson, but he had started to make a paper airplane instead.
Andy was Seki's best friend since elementary school and a born troublemaker, but he was really good when he had to be. His hair was a dark brown and his eyes, which always had a twinkle in them, was a bit of a lighter brown. He wasn't much of a pokémon fan, but more of a Digimon fan, and he loves to annoy Seki by telling her that Digimon ruled.
He finished making the paper airplane by the time the bell for lunch rang, and launched it at Seki, managing to get her in the arm, and ran out before she could get him.
About 10 minutes later, Seki and Andy were sitting at one of the picnic tables that were set up outside for lunch.
"Were you daydreaming about Pokémon again Seki?" questioned Andy.
"Yea, I guess I was," was Seki's answer.
"How can you guess you were daydreaming about them?"
"Okay, I'm sure I was daydreaming about them."
"Staying after school again today?" He just changed the subject because the other one always ended in the same way, with Seki stating that Pokémon were her life, even though it was out for a few years.
"Yea, I just need to finish the scenery for the play, then I can go back to walking with you on the way home."
"That'll be great."
"Oh yea, what was the big idea of launching a paper airplane at me?"
"For my own amusement."
"Like always."
At that moment the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, so they threw away their lunch and went in for the last 2 classes of the day.
The school day had ended. Seki had been working on painting the scenery of a park for the last hour, along with some other people who were working on making scenery for the play. She stood up and checked her work, and being satisfied, she cleaned up her area and walked to the teacher, Ms. Hope, who was the director of the play.
"I'm done now Ms. Hope, so can I go home?" asked Seki.
Ms. Hope answered, "Sure Seki, you can leave early, and thanks for staying."
Seki headed towards the doorway of the auditorium in which all the work had been done, after saying bye to everyone.
On her way home, Seki happened to pass a dandelion gone to seed. It looked like a little puffball. She picked it and checked it over to see if any seeds were knocked off. The dandelion was perfect, with no damage. She grinned, remembering that these "puffballs" were supposed to make a wish come true, if you blew all the seeds off in one breath.
Deciding to test out that particular superstition, she closed her eyes and said out loud, "I wish pokémon were real." Then she took a deep breath, keeping her eyes closed, and blew on the dandelion as hard as she could. As soon as her breath ran out, she opened her eyes and glanced at the now- empty stem.
"It was worth a try," she said to seemingly no one. With that statement she tossed the stem down, and that turned out to be a mistake.
As soon as the stem hit the ground, an earthquake started, and the world changed rapidly, becoming the pokémon one Seki had always wanted, forests, cities, just like the show, with one twist. Seki had also included in some fantasy, like Elves, and magic.
When the shaking had stopped, Seki blinked at the sky, which was now slightly blocked by trees. Switching her gaze down to her surroundings, she gave a small gasp and glanced down at her clothing, expecting to see a black skirt and a white shirt, which was the school uniform, but that wasn't what she was wearing. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans, with a green T-shirt and a dark blue vest over it. She had, on her hands, the same green finger less gloves Ash wears, and on her belt were 6 pokéballs.
"Oh my God… am I dreaming again?" she pinched herself. "Ouch. Okay, I'm not dreaming, but where am I?" she looked around at her surroundings, wondering what had happened.
At that moment, a caterpie happened to find it amusing to climb onto her shoulder and nuzzle her. Seki jumped slightly as the caterpie touched her and quickly grabbed it. As soon as she realized it was a caterpie, she exclaimed, "A caterpie, awww, how cute!"
"Wait… if that caterpie I'm holding is real, and I'm not dreaming…then does that mean… my wish came true?" Seki started thinking out loud, "now how do I get home?!"
Now lost in the Pokémon world, she set the caterpie down and wandered off, hoping to find a way home.
The girl the teacher had yelled at jumped slightly and switches her gaze from the window to her teacher and grins guiltily.
Seki was an average 8th grade girl, with nothing special about her. She had shoulder-length black hair and bright inquisitive brown eyes. She always wore, around her neck, a silver necklace with a tiny pokéball charm on it. The day she say Pokémon, she had promised herself to always be a fan of it, and that was what the pokéball represented.
Seki answered slowly, as if it was hard to find the right words to answer with, she said, "I wasn't daydreaming, I was working on the problem you gave us."
Her teacher answered by saying, "Oh really? Then would you mind telling us the answer?"
"Umm... 700?"
Her teacher sighed in an exasperated way, "The answer is 77.9, not 700."
"Oh, my mistake."
The teacher walked back up to the blackboard and continued on with the lesson, " Well, now that Seki is finally paying attention, let's go on."
Seki's friend, Andy, leaned over and said, "Just another normal time with Miss Catherine, huh Seki?"
"Well, yea, it's almost lunch now, we can talk then."
Andy settled back into his seat and pretended to pay attention to the lesson, but he had started to make a paper airplane instead.
Andy was Seki's best friend since elementary school and a born troublemaker, but he was really good when he had to be. His hair was a dark brown and his eyes, which always had a twinkle in them, was a bit of a lighter brown. He wasn't much of a pokémon fan, but more of a Digimon fan, and he loves to annoy Seki by telling her that Digimon ruled.
He finished making the paper airplane by the time the bell for lunch rang, and launched it at Seki, managing to get her in the arm, and ran out before she could get him.
About 10 minutes later, Seki and Andy were sitting at one of the picnic tables that were set up outside for lunch.
"Were you daydreaming about Pokémon again Seki?" questioned Andy.
"Yea, I guess I was," was Seki's answer.
"How can you guess you were daydreaming about them?"
"Okay, I'm sure I was daydreaming about them."
"Staying after school again today?" He just changed the subject because the other one always ended in the same way, with Seki stating that Pokémon were her life, even though it was out for a few years.
"Yea, I just need to finish the scenery for the play, then I can go back to walking with you on the way home."
"That'll be great."
"Oh yea, what was the big idea of launching a paper airplane at me?"
"For my own amusement."
"Like always."
At that moment the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, so they threw away their lunch and went in for the last 2 classes of the day.
The school day had ended. Seki had been working on painting the scenery of a park for the last hour, along with some other people who were working on making scenery for the play. She stood up and checked her work, and being satisfied, she cleaned up her area and walked to the teacher, Ms. Hope, who was the director of the play.
"I'm done now Ms. Hope, so can I go home?" asked Seki.
Ms. Hope answered, "Sure Seki, you can leave early, and thanks for staying."
Seki headed towards the doorway of the auditorium in which all the work had been done, after saying bye to everyone.
On her way home, Seki happened to pass a dandelion gone to seed. It looked like a little puffball. She picked it and checked it over to see if any seeds were knocked off. The dandelion was perfect, with no damage. She grinned, remembering that these "puffballs" were supposed to make a wish come true, if you blew all the seeds off in one breath.
Deciding to test out that particular superstition, she closed her eyes and said out loud, "I wish pokémon were real." Then she took a deep breath, keeping her eyes closed, and blew on the dandelion as hard as she could. As soon as her breath ran out, she opened her eyes and glanced at the now- empty stem.
"It was worth a try," she said to seemingly no one. With that statement she tossed the stem down, and that turned out to be a mistake.
As soon as the stem hit the ground, an earthquake started, and the world changed rapidly, becoming the pokémon one Seki had always wanted, forests, cities, just like the show, with one twist. Seki had also included in some fantasy, like Elves, and magic.
When the shaking had stopped, Seki blinked at the sky, which was now slightly blocked by trees. Switching her gaze down to her surroundings, she gave a small gasp and glanced down at her clothing, expecting to see a black skirt and a white shirt, which was the school uniform, but that wasn't what she was wearing. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans, with a green T-shirt and a dark blue vest over it. She had, on her hands, the same green finger less gloves Ash wears, and on her belt were 6 pokéballs.
"Oh my God… am I dreaming again?" she pinched herself. "Ouch. Okay, I'm not dreaming, but where am I?" she looked around at her surroundings, wondering what had happened.
At that moment, a caterpie happened to find it amusing to climb onto her shoulder and nuzzle her. Seki jumped slightly as the caterpie touched her and quickly grabbed it. As soon as she realized it was a caterpie, she exclaimed, "A caterpie, awww, how cute!"
"Wait… if that caterpie I'm holding is real, and I'm not dreaming…then does that mean… my wish came true?" Seki started thinking out loud, "now how do I get home?!"
Now lost in the Pokémon world, she set the caterpie down and wandered off, hoping to find a way home.