Pokemon is copyright of Game Freaks and Nintendo, all characters mentioned here are not used with their consent, hence a fanfic.

This story involves the use of Anthro-style Pokemons, or Morphs if you prefer, basically, they are Pokemon turned into humans as par se, they have the characteristics of a person but remain as Pokemons (I can't really find how to explain it). Needless to say, only Pokemons exist in this world, no humans whatsoever...

All characters I make during the process are partly my property, the Pokemon model isn't, but the Anhtros are... Or something like that... (shrugs)
Some more stuff to say before I get into the chapter. During this story I will introduce loads of characters, they all make some groups (in school life as par se). Though to introduce each group I will make use of spiffy written animations (I know, that sounds lame but heck...), they will be encased in (). (Just try to picture it as some movie that makes a spiffy intro for every character...)

Life as a Pokemon - Chapter 3 - Your Everyday School Community...

Lerus City was quiet as always in the night. The sun was already starting to peek above the mountain ranges of the City. All around the city countless numbers of citizens were about to wake up just to start another slow day of school. 5.59 AM; everything quiet and peaceful... 6.00 AM; sweet dreams end... Next second; a rough start and cursing the hard floor.

A young Arcanine going by the name of Ark had yet another rough start as he jumped out of bed and landed fiercely in the floor. He cursed under his own breath and turned off the alarm of his clock. He yawned and stretched for a moment before he entered the bathroom in his room and started taking a shower.

In the same building, two floors below, a Cyndaquil, Sophia was somewhat calmer in the mornings, she simply popped open her eyes and turned around in her bed to hit the snooze button, she turned around and drew the covers around her... A few seconds later it hit her, she sighed under the covers as she threw them away and got up as well, she walked a few steps away from her mattress and opened the window's curtains to let the little light come in, she winced at the light however. She was wearing a full, ankle-length nightgown, in a deep gray color. She as well entered the bathroom in her room.

Now a couple of blocks away, at Selkurm Street lived Cleo, a Ninetales. All of her nine tails were outside the covers of the bed and almost touching the floor. When the alarm shot off she yawned without even moving, then opened her eyes and turned it off. She threw the covers away and sat on the edge of her bed. She wasn't exactly the type to use nightgowns, mainly due to her nine tails, so instead she simply opted for a loose white top and a light blue short. She stretched a little and laid back on her bed before she finally got up and left her room for a moment, a few seconds later she returned and entered her bathroom.

Not far from there was Shakhray Street, where Jaren - a Jolteon - lived. His bed was a little... Wrecked to say the least, there were a couple of stitches in the covers, it's not exactly easy to control oneself while sleeping. When the alarm of his clock went off he simply raised his right paw and produced a small zap in his hand, which ended the alarm. He dropped his hand and then sat in his bed before he got up. He was simply wearing a sleeve-less shirt and a pair of pants, both in an orange color of sorts. They were a little ragged too, but he liked them like that (And there wasn't really much he could do). He got up and walked to his bathroom. He shuddered for a second there and entered. He hated water more than school...

Finally, but not least, a couple of blocks away, at Buriel Street lived a Suicune by the name of Siria. Though looking from the above you could only see a giant amount of purple hair (though very well taken care of), above the covers that's it. As the alarm went off she simply used one of her white strip-tails to turn it off as she turned around to look at the ceiling. She then got up but with the covers around her. She walked like that to the bathroom yawning.

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Just about 30 minutes later Ark had left his apartment, he went down two sets of stairs and waited in front of Sophia's apartment. Supporting himself on the handrail and looking away. After a couple of minutes he heard the lock of the door go off, he turned around and watched Sophia come out. She was wearing the same uniform that Cleo and Siria had yesterday. Ark also had the same of yesterday.

"Morning," Ark greeted with his right paw up. Sophia took a small skid/jump to her front and smiled at Ark.

"Hello" she said in a sing-song tone.

"Overly happy aren't we?" Ark asked as he started moving towards the stairs, Sophia tagged along to his side.

"Yeah, I'm always like this in the mornings. I don't really know why though..." She smiled sheepishly. Ark laughed a little.

They continued walking for a couple of minutes until they reached Thrain Street, where Ark and Cleo had their little 'incident' the previous day. Once they reached the corner Ark looked to his right and didn't saw Cleo. "I'm waiting for a friend here if you don't mind," Sophia shook her head at Ark's comment.

"Not at all," she said.

After a few minutes Ark spotted Cleo around the other corner, he waved at her. Cleo waved back and sprinted a little, "Morning," Ark said with a smile.

"Morning," replied back Cleo, just as she noticed Sophia, who smiled at her.

"Oh, Sophia, Cleo. Cleo, Sophia," Ark said moving his hand to each of them at the mention of their name. Cleo waved her right paw at Sophia, who did pretty much the same. They started walking again, during the rest of the trip Ark and Sophia told Cleo how they met each other, even though it was kind of simple. Other than that, simple talk.

They finally were down Mew Street, where the Leisram Institute was. Siria and Jaren were already there, talking just besides the main stairs, Sophia followed Ark and Cleo to them. After the presentations they went inside the building. They still had 20 minutes before homeroom started though.

They were simply walking down the aisle before a Pichu ran into Ark, "Hey, watch it!" said the Pichu a little displeased even though she was the one at fault. Like every other female of the school, she was wearing the same uniform, she was about the same height of Cleo. Her body was yellow with black stripes adorning it.

"But you ran into me..." said Ark. (Go into a full white background. The image of the Pichu moves to the middle of the screen with the letters "Dazzler" below her in a yellow black-stripped color. A Persian fades in out of nowhere to her right, supporting herself somewhat against the Pichu, her red gem in the forehead shone as she gave a mean, cold smile. A few claw slashes, just like a cat's appeared above her, the background was shredded to reveal the word "Rio" in the same color of her skin. A big flame exploded to the right of Rio as a Flareon appeared out of the flame. She was giving a gentle smile as her hair, long and loose in the back looked like it was burning, along as the top of her paws; the letters "Fleria" appeared to her side in a small gush of flame. To the left of the Pichu an Espeon appeared out of nowhere, she was simply crossing her hands and looking towards the left, her red gem also shone as her blue eyes twinkled in the light, her ears twitched for a second, "Silvia" appeared below her in a purple color. To her side a small drop of water fell, a Vaporeon suddenly stepped in, her two ears were to the back as well as the fin-thingy on her forehead, her long tail circled around to her front as "Mary" appeared in a bubbly look to her side.)

"You were supposed to move!" Dazzler shot back.

"You can't go around running expecting everyone to move," replied Ark in a calm tone.

"Just leave it like that, Dazzler," said Fleria to her side in a soft voice, placing her right paw on Dazzler's right shoulder. The Pichu simply huffed at them as Fleria sighed theatrically, Rio gave the 5 of them a smug look and moved forward, Fleria trailed and Silvia behind her.

"Sorry for that," said Mary in a calm tone as she rushed to her friends.

"Well that was... odd..." said Jaren.

"You said it," added Sophia from behind. They dismissed the situation and continued walking. The aisle ended in a triple fork, where one of the paths was where they had just come from, the skidded to halt before turning around as they watched a football fly through at high speed, on the other end a Machoke, with a "Nice catch," he grabbed the ball.

(With the image of the Machoke grabbing the ball turn the background into a whitish color with grayed out silhouettes of various Pokemons cheering in the background. Below the Machoke a football flew through in a straight line writing "Shawn" in orange letters. A blur of ice and another of fire appeared to his right, in the resulting nova from the collision a Hitmonchan appeared with a wink. A few punches animations smashed into the background as a few starts from the hits flew by revealing "Kim". To left of Shawn a few swipes appeared in multiple directions, a Hitmonlee then appeared with his right hand to his side and the left one behind his waist, with his right leg a step forward. A strong smash below him cracked the background revealing "Lee". Finally, the scene zoomed away and a large Makuhita fell punching the floor hard, this cracked part of the background to his right revealing "Rand", the whole background suddenly crashed.)

"Jocks are always weird in their own way..." said Siria looking at them as the rest nodded and hummed. They started moving to the opposite direction of the jocks.

"Say Sophia, who's your homeroom teacher?" asked Cleo, Sophia, who was a little past Cleo and to her right turned her head to see her.

"Ms. Kawitz."

"That's odd... I don't remember seeing you there yesterday..." started Cleo, she was about to continue when Sophia interrupted her.

"Oh, that's because I couldn't come yesterday, my flight here from Tolean got delayed the whole weekend, and I got here yesterday in the afternoon, I talked to the principal and he took care of the rest for me."

They had just reached the exit of the main building, the whole campus was comprised of 5 buildings, the one they had just come from, which had all the offices, lockers and whatnot. The other 4 buildings were focused on certain subjects, one of them had most of the homerooms for every class however. Between them was the area where everyone hung out between classes, past the eastern-most building was the gym, fields and all that.

"It's almost time..." said Ark as he looked at his watch, it read 7.29 AM, they had to be at homeroom by 7.35 AM. The first time Ms. Kawitz had given them hell already, a 2nd would be horrible... She was quite cheerful, unless you got on her wrong side...

They quickly went up to the 2nd floor. Each building, excluding the first one, had 4 floors. They walked through the aisle and turned around to get to their classroom. Everyone in the room was up and doing just about anything, some were making weird demonstrations of their abilities, others were simply talking, a few were sitting quietly. The five of the 'group' managed to get seats close to each other. Just as they sat down Ms. Kawitz, an Azumarill, entered the room. Her actual name was Nina Kawitz, but she preferred being called by her last name.

This time however she was now wearing a black long skirt (up to her ankles) and a pink sweater. She was swaying her tail happily. Most classrooms were the same; a nice couple of desks on the back, a blackboard and a podium in front of it. Teachers usually stood there, there was a desk to the side however. Ms. Kawitz simply stood behind the podium and made a polite "Ahem," into her right paw. The classroom quickly noticed her and went to sit in their own desks. Most already knew not to tamper with her unless they wanted to get hurt...

Classes went simply by. First it was homeroom. It was mainly an introduction to all that was going on, and could be used to go over notes or get in time with homework. Over all, it was a 'free' class of sorts, though you couldn't really do anything besides the last options, otherwise Ms. Kawitz would go on you...

Not everyone had the same schedule, while one could go next to Math, others would take Civics or History. Fortunately for Ark, Cleo, Jaren, Siria and Sophia they all had the same schedule. And Civics was next. The classroom was at the 3rd building, which was around 100 meters away from the Homeroom building. They had 10 minutes to get there anyway.

Once inside and a couple of minutes later, a female Dragonite, Tsuki Mariko entered the classroom, wearing a pair of grey pants, a white blouse and a gray jacket over it. She had an easy-going character, but she didn't let any wrong deeds go by past her. She was rather harsh in the disciplinary department, probably since she imparted Civics... The class was your average civics class, good deeds, evil wrong, blah blah blah... It also focuses on using one's abilities according to the situation. Say there's a fire and a water Pokemon is near by it would be common sense for him/her to help.. And all that.

The bell rang and everyone left, in the same building, but up at the 3rd floor was History. The teacher was a female Delcatty, Rose Katt. She wore a white tight skirt to her knees and a light-brown button-blouse. She had also brought in a blue-grayish coat, which was resting on the chair of her desk. One of the most charismatic teachers one could find, the type that can get you absorbed in whatever they were teaching you and you could remember it with easiness. She did had a very soft voice however which could easily sway anyone.

50 minutes later the bell struck again, and everyone hushed around the yards and buildings, the fliers could easily avoid this however. Math was next at the 2nd building though, the teacher resulted to be a Zangoose, Chris Fox, he wore a pair of brown jeans and a white button shirt. He didn't make the class boring at all, more like at a neutral level, he kind of took his job a little seriously however at some points, scolding students for even the simplest of reasons.

Next, Physics/Chemistry, which was back at the 3rd building, on the 2nd floor. The teacher was Athena Lain, a female Celebi, sporting a more radical outfit for a teacher; with a skirt that was as open as the uniform's but about 20 centimeters longer in blue color as well and a baggy-looking red blouse with a cleavage not overly exaggerated. She was good at what she taught, but often got carried away in her own anecdotes or simply getting distracted... Not that the students were bothered about it anyway. A lot of students liked her however, she was one of the sweetest/kindest teachers there was around here.

This was also the best place for your usual geeky group. It was just the 2nd day of classes, but they were already in group projects. Of course we could expect our main five to be together. The activity was to pretty much piece together what they had seen back in junior high. With a sharp "Alright!" coming from behind the group turned around to spot 4 Pokemons with an already finished project. (The scene starts folding in half after half leaving behind a gray background until it covers all the screen. A male Xatu walks quietly from the left of the screen until it's at the middle of the screen, where he looks at the front, with a blink the word "Izzy" appears above him. The scene whirls weirdly with a lot of wave effects before a male Meditite pops-up to the right of the Xatu, leaving a space in the middle, he tilts his head an inch to the side and "Henry" appears below him. A female Mew comes flying from afar, upon reaching the left of the Meditite she dives quickly before going up straight for a second in a series of twirls before she lands quietly with a coyly smile, "Malin" appears to her side. A Kadabra starts walking in from the side of the Mew, once he reaches the middle of the screen he looks to the front, "Jyou" appears in front of him for a second before suddenly everyone extends a paw/hand to the front making the whole background shatter.)

While Physical Education wasn't the most common subject one could see already in high school, this was an exception. Having an Entei as a teacher was a rather nice jump in the cooperation. His name was Gram Shuin, wearing a pair of red shorts with a black sports shirt. He had a very deep gruff voice which would pretty much make you see he wasn't the best teacher to stand up against. Either way, students could lose the average of 1020 minutes simply changing to their sports outfit. The class was imparted at the gym by the way, which was about a minute away walking at normal speed from the 3rd building.

Finally, the last class of the day was a 50 minute period with Tabitha Wilde, a somewhat renowned Roselia in the city of Lerus. She was quite versed in the language area; she had published a few books by the date already. With a rather peculiar way of teaching that was pretty much different for everyone, considering the styles of the other teachers, but what could they do? The natural colors of her body gave her a rather charming look, while her body was mainly a very light-green tone, her right hand was rose while the left one was blue. She wore a pair of gloves in the same color as well, accompanied by a deep green knee-length skirt and a black blouse.

School was finally over and chaos ensued as everyone rushed through the main building either to get to their lockers or simply to escape the pandemonium. All five stood near each other as they made their way out, they went down the front stairs. They were about to start walking away when someone pushed Cleo, who tripped and hit a Sneasel. (Full deep black background. 4 pink looking feathers moved across the scene, one at the top on the left side, and the other three in a straight line going down near the middle. A yellow object shone below the upper feather before the body of a female Sneasel appeared. She had two small sharp knife-like razors on the back of her arms; with a smile the name of "Ayla" appeared in front of her. A couple of stripes glow in the dark, a circle at the top does too and the silhouette of an Umbreon is drawn in the background, his eyes glow red for a second.. The whole body gets a brighter tone and the name "Darke" glows below him. A 2nd set of red eyes glow to the right of the Umbreon, a silhouette is drawn and part of it turns into a lighter gray shade. The body of a Mightyena appears, with long hair almost to his waist in black color. He gives a playful growl as "Roan" appears below him. Finally, a set of teeth close in, and open to reveal a Carvanha standing upright, next to Roan, the front of her body is a rough red and the back is all black. She gives a menacing look before a second set of teeth appear below her, opening up to reveal "Noa". Ayla then jumped in a twirl slashing the right arm upwards and then the left one diagonally to the bottom left while falling as the background crashed.)

"Sorry, someone pushed me from behind," Cleo apologized as Ayla returned a serious look. He huffed at Cleo before she moved away, with the other three trailing behind.

"What's her problem anyway?" asked Cleo to no one in particular with a displeased look.

"You never know with Dark Pokemon," Sophia shrugged. "Trust me, I've had enough experiences with them already."

"I need to go check some things..." said Siria as she bowed and waved goodbye with a coyly smile. She then left the group and headed towards Stale Street, which was north of the school.

"I gotta finish some remodeling of my apartment, so I guess I won't see you the rest of the day," said Jaren as he also waved goodbye and headed towards Shakhray Street.

"Well, I think I'm going home to do my homework; you coming Ark?" asked Sophia, considering they lived in the same building.

"Oh sorry, but I gotta check some things as well, I'm going back home later in the afternoon," Ark answered.

"Alright, see ya," Sophia nodded and left swaying her short tail happily.

"Guess I'm going back home, see you later," said Cleo with a smile as she walked away and rounded a corner. Ark started moving away but turned around and sprung towards where Cleo had gone through.

"Say Cleo..." said Ark as he rounded the corner but was cut abruptly by the scene, "Ark!" yelled Cleo in relief as she saw him past the 4 Dark Pokemon from earlier today.

Ark didn't knew what was going on, but seeing the Sneasel in a fighting stance with her two blades ready was more than enough to make his instincts kick on as he drew his head back a little and then he moved it back forward in a quick motion placing his right paw open by the side of his mouth as he breathed a small fireball of sorts, needless to say this was enough to scare Ayla the Sneasel. The other 3 gave him a harsh look but as they saw Ark growling they decided to retire.

"Cleo, are you alright?!" asked Ark frantically as he rushed to Cleo. She supported herself in the wall behind her with a hand over his chest as she breathed a little exalted.

"Y-yeah, I think so..." she started to compose herself.

"Talk about an unmotivated revenge... I think Sophia was right," said Ark. "Come on, I'll walk you home."

"Thanks," Cleo answered as they started walking away.

After at least 10 minutes they finally reached Selkurm Street. The street was composed of at least 4 different apartment buildings. They all pretty much looked the same from the outside, save for the adornments in the balconies and all that. Cleo led Ark to the building she lived at, once they got up to the 3rd floor Cleo stopped.

"This is where I live," she pointed to a door behind her. There were only 2 apartments per floor, the other one was at the other side, or in front of her if you like.

"Alright, I guess I'll go for now," said Ark as he made a small bow while backing away.

"Wait!" Cleo raised her voice. "You think... They followed us...?" she asked, she might be overreacting, but as Sophia said, 'You never know with Dark Pokemon,' Ark shook his head.

"Nope, couldn't see them at all," he answered, Cleo let out a sigh of relief. I wish I could be completely sure, but I was a little distracted...

"Alright, thanks for walking me home," Cleo started moving towards the door. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow, bye bye" she sing sang as she waved goodbye and entered her home.

Ark looked around nervously and left the building...

Anyway, I just pretty much wanted to introduce part of the cast that won't exactly be of main roles but with some interaction. As well as a small start into the actual storyline.

Just in case you want to know, the current date of the story is August 16.

Signed as usual,
Alan "Gray Fox" Quirino - grayfox2510 (at) Hormail (dot) com
Until next time!

Chapter 4: Dash of Flavor, Elemental Colors.
(Do not ask what the heck is up with that title...)