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Ash, May, Cyrus, and Anne walked through the halls of the pokemon academe. They saw Mistress Mary walking to the ceremony hall, so they went up to her. She looked at them and smiled. "So, you four are back," she said, "Did you have fun?"

They looked at her puzzled. She smiled again. "Did you beat Anita, May?" she asked.

"No," May said, "she beat herself." Mistress Mary looked at the rest of the group.

"Ash, what pokemon did you bring at the start of the school year?" Mistress Mary asked. Ash thought a minute.

"Pikachu, Tododile, Chikorita, Cynaquil, Beedrill, and Espeon. And what do you mean by 'the start of the school year?' It should still be the beginning of school!" he said.

"Time in the pokemon is a whole lot faster then where you were at." Mistress Mary said. She took 6 poke balls out of her pocket and tossed them to Ash. "And those are your pokemon."

She tossed them all their own pokemon and led them the rest of the way to the ceremony hall. All of the students had their stuff and was ready to leave. Mistress Mary looked around at all of the students.

When Ash. May, Cyrus, and Anne had sat down, Mistress Mary said, "Well, I hope you all had a very good school year and that the classes you took help you on raising and knowing the pokemon in this world. You will be loading the buses to the train station right now."

Everyone stood up and went out of the ceremony hall and out the front doors. They loaded onto the buses, then onto the train when at the station. Ash, May, Cyrus, and Anne got a compartment to themselves.

They sat talking until the train stopped at Saffron, when Anne and Cyrus had to say good-bye and get off. May and Ash sat in silence a few minutes after the train started running again.

They talked about their adventure until the train finally stopped at Pallet Town. May and Ash climbed off. Misty walked up with Brock and Mrs. Ketchum. "How was school?" Mrs. Ketchum asked.

"Why don't we tell you about all of the stuff that happened at school when we get back to the house?" Ash asked. They agreed and started to the car. Ash and May stayed a few steps behind the rest. "Why don't we leave out a few minor details of what happened?" he asked.

"Good idea," May agreed. They climbed into the car and went to Ash's house.

When they were all inside the house ten minutes later, they sat down to hear about what happened. "It was the Thursday after we got there. We were in the 15\16 room. Anne and Cyrus were playing checkers and Ash was watching the students go in and out of the room, and I was-" May said.

"You were standing next to me until you sat down on my lap," Ash said. Every one looked at him.

"What?" Mrs. Ketchum asked, "What did you say?"

"I said that May sat down on my lap," Ash said. Brock chuckled.

"Never heard of that before," he said, a hint of amusement in his voice.

"Now you did," Misty said. They all laughed. Ash and May continued telling them what happened, Mrs. Ketchum frowned when they told her about that trick Cyrus pulled on them. It was 11:00 p.m. by the time they finished telling about everything, leaving some things out.

"I've got to go," Misty said, "That sounded like a very exciting adventure you had."

"Me too," Brock said, "I agree with Misty on the story, too." They said good-bye and left. Ash, May, and Mrs. Ketchum stayed up past 12:00, until May had to go to her house for the rest of night.

Ash said good night and went up stairs to his bedroom, thoughts of the past few days (months in pokemon world time), until he fell asleep.