Kaze no Hikari
By Silverdust
Chap 2: Shenron
Shen walked quickly down the halls of the Ivy Wall Pokemon Academy. If she could just get to her dorm before Cheryl and the snob squad came…
"Hey look, its SHENRON!" came the familiar, mocking voice.
Shen stopped and counted to three, so she could resist punching the bitch's lights out. Come on she told herself, you shouldn't waste your anger on her, she's not worth it.
"Buzz off Cheryl," she muttered, continuing to walk. "I don't have the time."
"Ooooooooo," Cheryl taunted. "The school loser thinks she's better than me, why don't we settle this in a Pokemon battle? Oh, that's right, you don't have any Pokemon!"
This last statement was accompanied by Cheryl's high-pitched, mirthless laughter. That's it, thought Shen, she's going to get it. She felt the strange, dark power rise in her once again. She often felt it when she was angry or afraid. It spread through her body and collected at her clenched fists. Her eyes had turned a pure glowing silver, and her long black hair began to rise slightly.
Since she had her back turned, Cheryl didn't notice theses changes. She was much to wrapped up in her pleasure in Shen's pain. Shen started to bring up her fist and was about to blast Cheryl in the face with dark energy, when suddenly a picture of her mother's face, filled with sorrow, flashed into her mind. No she couldn't hurt Cheryl, even if she was a self-centered, obnoxious, ruthless-well you know. She sighed, and calmed down.
"Leave me alone, slut," she said, coldly, continuing to walk down the hall. "Your not worth my time."
Cheryl's laughter died down almost instantly. Obviously she had never been insulted to her face before. But she quickly recovered.
"At least," she yelled after Shen, in a mocking tone. "At least my parents love me!!!!!!!"
Shen broke into a run, tears brimming over her eyes, as Cheryl's cruel, taunting laughter echoed behind her, a sign that she would never be accepted, never be loved, by anyone, even her own parents . Never, just because she was what she was. Never.
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The night was darker than before. Black storm clouds covered the moon, a sign that there would be an upcoming storm. And without the moon, no light existed on the campus. Shen lay awake, still hearing the bullying of the day before. The only reason it hurt so much was because it was true, well most of it anyways.
Years before she was born, Team Rocket had unleashed a toxic chemical by accident into the water system of her mother's city. Officials quickly stopped it, but nothing could be done about the toxic already released. This toxic often caused strange mutations, or abilities, and her mother had drunken some, but it hadn't affected her. No one knew of it.
Her mother soon married her father. After a year or so she was born, and her father, who had been expecting and wanting a boy very badly, was crushed. Her mother, who was also expecting a boy, was still delighted to get a child even though it didn't quite fulfill her wishes. She named her daughter Shenron, which was a boy's name, but she didn't have time to think of a new girl name.
Shen had had a happy childhood. She was quite use to her father's disgust and distance from her, even though she was probably the most tomboyish girl in the whole city. But then it happened. One day in first grade, she had gotten in a fight with the school bully and had shot a beam of dark energy at his arm, burning it badly. She was kicked out of school in fear of her powers. Her mother, who had realized that she had caused her child's abnormality, committed suicide in sorrow and self pity. This was a big blow to both Shen and her father, for her father had loved his wife very much, and her mother had been the only person that actually loved and accepted Shen for who she was.
Her father instantly shipped her off to the Ivy Wall boarding school, wanting nothing more to do with his daughter. A few weeks later she received news that he had shot himself, and she was an orphan. The school allowed her to stay, out of pity or maybe fear.
She sighed and sat up. Why couldn't she have been normal? This really sucked dick, to not be accepted as a person. Not that she gave a damn about what that bitch Cheryl thought, it's just that she was the most popular girl in school and EVERYONE believed her. Stupid fucked up human nature.
The other thing that stung was the fact that she had no Pokemon, whatsoever. Most of the children here had arrived with at least one starting Pokemon. Her father, being the uncaring bastard that he was, hadn't even allowed her to socialize with the other children, much less go out into public. She wondered even now how he hadn't been charged of child abuse. She glanced out the window. It was pretty dark, dark enough to go out without anyone noticing…
She would get a pokemon. Tonight.
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"Damn!"
She rubbed her nose angrily. Walking into trees was no fun at all. Neither was hunting for pokemon at midnight, she chided herself. She started walking again, trying not to bang into anything. What kind of pokemon are you going to find in the middle of the night? Are you as nutty as a fruit bat or what? You'll just go in empty handed, and with a DT for stealing those pokeballs…
Shut up, she told herself. I'm not giving up on this. No, no, no! Wait, was that a sound?
She looked up at the tree. She could dimly make out a form, a Noctowl! Perfect for a first catch. She drew out a pokeball, and threw it with all her might and accuracy at the pokemon. "Gotcha!"
But instead of it sucking up the pokemon, she heard a loud cry and a thump. Then a scrambling and a light that shone in her face, blinding her. "What is going-Shenron? I should have known! Your in trouble young lady!"
Busted.
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"This is unacceptable!!!"
The Headmistress slammed her hand down on the desk. Shen glared back at her rebelliously. "Ivy Wall has a reputation as being one of the best academies in Kanto and we can't have one of our students out on campus after curfew running around and trying to steal pokemon!!!!!!"
"I wasn't trying to steal it!!!!!! I had no idea it wasn't wild!!!!!!"
"Whatever the case may be you did steal the pokeballs!!! Now what do you have to say about that?"
"I was desperate, lady c'mon and try to friggin understand!!!!!!"
"I will not be spoken to in that manner! Why were you desperate?"
"I'm bullied everyday for what I am and the fact that I have no pokemon! God, at least let me have some dignity by getting one!"
"You should have gotten one before you came."
"Listen, I was locked everyday in my bedroom only called down only to cook. Whadda ya' expect me to do! Throw pokeballs out the window and hope I get lucky?"
"Your past has nothing to do with this school. In dorm suspension for a week. Hopefully you will learn some respect and consideration."
"Hah, you haven't seen Cheryl you prejudice bitch."
"What?"
"Nothing."
As she walked to her dorm she wondered if the whole world just wanted her to go somewhere and die. It would make it a whole better place.
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SilverD: Yay, I got two good reviews. Thanks. I went a little overboard with the cussing, I know. But I'm having a really bad day today, and sometimes it leaks into my writing. I hope I don't make Shen sound like a Mary-Sue. Ja ne! Oh, and I might change the title. It was just one of those things where I'd thought I'd play around with a little Japanese. ^_^()