Well this is a Misty story (as you probably guessed fingers collar umm) Just to clear up a few things before you read on that i might have made a bit confusing. Misty is attending a pokemon Academy or College which allows the use of eight different pokemon which are to be the ONLY pokemon of the profficient trainers. Anyway, please read on and read and Review.

Disclaimer I do not own pokemon or any of its components...(why do these things always happen to me sobs)

My Life, Your Love,And The Academy

By Aerie Elf

Chapter 1: Prologue

Misty shouldered her shoulder bag and subconsciously fingered her belt to assure her that all of her pokeballs were clipped on. She went to the front desk of the gym and grabbed a pen and paper from the dust-covered desk. She scribbled down a note of apology to her sister, and another note she had meant for Ash. She finished the note for her sister and put it in an envelope, licked the seal and stuck it down. She re read the note she had written to mail to Ash.

"I haven't heard from you in so long, why should I write to you now, why haven't you written to me?" She mumbled under her voice. Oh well, it was all going to be behind her, as soon as she found that blasted pokemon of hers.

That's right, she had lost a pokemon, one that she had only newly gained, an Eevee. She had every intention of making it a vaporeon, but she had to tame it first; lately it had a mind of it's own and ran off on her a lot. She checked the front room where the sparkling fighting arena, or the pool, was lifeless for the first time since Misty's arrival and her taking over the gym. She blew the pool a kiss childishly, she was going to miss it, as much as she hated having to look at it and battle in it every day, she would miss it when she left though.

She ran up to her room and checked in cupboards and under the bed, but eevee had simply disappeared without a trace. Misty stamped her foot in frustration and raked her hands through her hair. This was a nightmare, she had to be at the newly built Pokemon College before sundown and she wasn't going to get there if eevee evaded her for too much longer.

Alright, this called for serous help

"Come on out everyone, and go look for eevee" She called as she ripped all of her pokeballs from their magnetised places on her belt and sent them flying into the air. She watched pridefully as out came the pokemon she would soon be able to use in public. Before her stood her pigeot, sandshrew, growlithe, raltz, dratini, caterpie, and her Pichu. She smiled at the lot of them, they were all so well behaved and so ready to be the group she used to get her diploma in pokemon training so that she could be…well anything. She would out rank most pokemon trainers and would be among a selective group of people who had the opportunity to become teachers or pokemon professors of a sort. She wanted to go adventuring again and see the world, but this time she would have a purpose; a goal.

"Go find eevee, he can't have gone too far" She doubted her last words, eevee had a taste for adventure, just like herself, which was why eevee was usually by her side everywhere she went.

Misty searched for eevee; while she did she noticed something she hadn't before, this was all just an escape, she didn't want to be a professor, she just wanted to escape the life of a gym leader, go on adventures again and find Ash. The last one was going to be the hardest and probably the least successful, but she so wanted it to happen, she just couldn't help but hope and pray that someday it did happen, and that one day they would be reunited again. Though maybe this time it would be in one another's arms, instead of just being plain annoying to each other.

The thought of Ash brought both a smile to her face, and a tear to her eyes, she missed him. Suddenly she felt a cold creeping up her arm; she freaked and shook herself to get the hideous creature off her. Misty spun around and caught caterpie as it came falling from the air in which she had sent it when she took it for spider or a bug. Misty laughed at herself and pet caterpie on the head. Yeah she had gotten over her fear of bugs, well at least this one she had. It reminded her of that caterpie Ash had, and well anything that reminded her of Ash she clung to for dear life; her memories of their time together was fading, she hated it, but they were fading as surely as the sun was going to rise tomorrow morning.

Caterpie had been trying to tell her something amidst her daydreaming, and Misty did everything she could to keep her from smacking herself in the head. She hated being ignored, but now she was ignoring her pokemon. Caterpie jumped off her arm and crawled quickly out the front door of the gym. Misty whistled for all of her pokemon to follow and caterpie waited while she got onto pigoet's back and pulled caterpie up onto her shoulder.

"Oh shit!" She swore to herself as she jumped off the birds back in mid air and landed crouched on the ground. She ran to the front door of the gym and hung up the sign "Temporarily Unavailable" and locked the door tight. She waved goodbye to the gym. She smiled as she took in the sight for the last time.

A large brick building with a red tiled roof from which the sun beamed and shone radiating warmth and life into the town. Big glass windows and doors shone brightly, always being with water pokemon made it easy to wash windows and other surfaces. Looking closely Misty could see the polished tiled floor of the gym, it shone just as much as the windows. She took one last look at the gym she had run for three years now, making her eighteen. She was the youngest gym leader yet, and she was going to be one of the first to give it up twice! She jumped onto pigeot's back and told caterpie to use string shot on the place it thought eevee was.

After flying a short distance caterpie let out a sticky string that reminded Misty somewhat of spider's web and it sent shivers down her spine. Without command pigeot swooped down and Misty almost didn't hold on tight enough. The bird was glad to be free though; it hadn't had a proper fly in a very long time. Misty felt the wind in her hair, sun on her face, and she was in heaven. Pigeot landed quite neatly and allowed Misty and Caterpie off.

Misty told caterpie to lead the way, but to hurry; they were running out of time. She whistled to eevee, but the pokemon didn't respond to that either. Caterpie scuttled off and Misty wondered how on earth caterpie knew this was where eevee would be. She couldn't help but begin thinking that perhaps she had let eevee become too adventurous, maybe so adventurous as to let the other pokemon out. Misty shook her head and chuckled. She followed caterpie intently and fingered the eight pokeballs at her side.

The Academy where she was going, also known as a college, had introduced new rules into the world of pokemon. Trainers that were qualified there were now allowed to have eight pokemon with them due to the large amount of pokemon out there and the variety of different types in pokemon. Misty was glad that they had allowed eight; she never would have been able to choose only six, eight was struggle enough. They allowed each trainer to chose eight pokemon, which they would become proficient in; the pokemon that would be their life partners.

Misty and caterpie came to a thick bush. Caterpie crawled on in; Misty pushed a few branches out of the way to see eevee there. He wasn't alone though; there was a female eevee there with him. Misty's heart sank to see what she was about to break up, but she had to do it; eevee had to go with her to the academy, and the other eevee probably had to return to it's owner, just like her and Ash. Ash had to return to his adventure, and she had to return to the gym.

Misty called eevee to her, and eevee came willingly. She told him it was time to say goodbye, and his expression dropped a little bit. But he smiled again after and went and said goodbye to the other eevee. He came back and tried to tell her something, she hadn't been with him for long enough to know that what he was trying to tell her was that this was not goodbye, this was just farewell for now; but in her heart she knew that was what it was saying. Misty smiled and a tear came to her eye.

Maybe goodbye isn't forever Ash…

Eevee jumped onto her shoulder and caterpie was returned to its' pokeball. Misty called to pigeot who came quickly at her call. She jumped onto it's back and it spread long feathered wings and powerfully forced them all up into the air and soared through the clouds. They were going to be at the Academy in no time.

OoO

Misty had arrived and was assigned a dorm room. Seeing as she had such experience with pokemon, being a Gym Leader and all, they let her have a single dorm on the sixth floor of the Academy. All together the Academy had around twenty stories above ground, and it was rumoured that they had ten underground. A lot of room was used for training halls and classes, but the rest were dorms or cafeterias.

Depending on your level of experience it depended on the state of your room and on which floor you were. Most of the levels from three to ten were for dorms. The others were all for either classes, training, or for the important behind-the-scenes people who ran this Academy. Misty got up the elevator and walked out into a rather well kept hall with artworks and well designed interior decoration. The dorm however, was another matter all together.

Misty got inside her dorm and saw that the two windows had not been opened in a long time, the balcony was dusty and wearing, the interior was going to need a makeover and a half, and she didn't have enough money to mention anything else at all. It was a good thing she was allowed out on Saturdays to shop or get provisions or whatever, otherwise she was going to have a hard time adjusting to this ridiculous living style.

A knock on the door brought Misty back to reality and she went to get it. She opened the door to find Gary standing there waiting for something.

"Can I help you?" Misty asked as sweetly as she could manage, she really wanted to finish with: no one can help you, but she bit her tongue and waited for his response.

"Oh no, I thought you were someone el-" He stood there gaping at her for a moment, then he regained his cool and put on an arrogant face "Well it's good to see you Misty, didn't know Gym Leaders came here when they got tired of being Gym Leaders" he said smiling with that cocky grin. Misty wanted to pummel him then and there, but she forced her arms to her sides.

"Well now you do, and this is my dorm, so if there is really nothing I can help you with I would appreciate it if you left me to gawking at the pathetic state it is in" She sighed in spite of herself, but Gary laugh genuinely at her.

"Who knew you had such wit, maybe you aren't as bad as you seem" Gary said smiling at her. It agitated her that she had let her guard down enough to let him say something like that. She went to say something smart to make sure he knew the score, but he interrupted her before she even figured out what it was she had wanted to say.

"Well that's how all these dorms start out, no matter who you are. But if you do them up good before the next inspection they might reimburse you. Well anyways, if you need any help with finding your way around campus and everything, just let me know" Gary said to her, he wasn't smiling or grinning, but he wasn't being genuine either.

"Wow Gary, who knew you could be so sweet" She said sarcastically.

"I'm not being sweet, I get paid to show you newbies around and help you out. Problem with it is, if I don't like you, I still have to help out" Gary had that cocky grin on his face again and Misty almost let off her fumes right there and then. But Gary had said his farewells and was out the door before she could say anything further.

Misty turned back to her dorm and frowned and sighed. She was going to need a hell of a lot of help with this one. She was going to need someone who was really good with repair work, someone like… Someone like Brock! Misty grabbed her mobile out of her back pocket and dialled Brock's mobile; surely he was there somewhere. The phone dialled for a while and Misty was beginning to think that Brock might not be there and that maybe he had gone out or something.

"Hello?" Said the deep rumble of a voice that assured Misty she was talking to Brock.

"Hey Brock, Mist here, I applied at that new academy like you said I should. It's all I had come to expect and more" She put on a cheerful voice. But Brock saw right through that one.

"What's really up Mist?" He said in a voice that told Misty that Brock was willing to help already.

"Well I was kinda hoping that if your not busy that perhaps maybe one Saturday I could come around and you and I could go furniture shopping, building and placing. And then do interior decorating for my dorm" She rushed ahead of herself and made it a lot harder for Brock to decipher. But as per usual, Brock was ahead of her and was getting prepared for her already.

"Well seeing as you are like my best friend in the world I'll make you some furniture free of charge, but later on you will pay me back for all of this, you know that right?" Brock said laughing on the other end. Misty laughed as well because she knew how not serious Brock was, and how not funny he was as well. Still Misty had plans for a way to pay him back though.

Misty let out her pokemon, well the smaller ones that could fit in the room with her. She asked them if they would help her to clean. Each one tore up a piece of cloth that had been used for curtains for the dorm. They swabbed in all the crevices and sweated out enough water together to fill up a well. Eevee and pichu were working together to reach higher up in the cupboards so that Misty had somewhere to put her clothes.

When they were all done Misty put away her clothes and grabbed her wallet and phone. She had to go grocery shopping so that she had some provisions of her own. Seeing as she had been offered a scholarship here she was given pokemon food and food for herself, but she wanted to buy some of the small luxuries for herself as well. Eevee was willing to come with her.

Misty called back the other pokemon, grabbed her keys, and walked out locking the door behind her. Eevee bounded along beside her as they got into the elevator and off at the lobby. Misty swiped her identification card to show she was leaving the Academy. On her way out in the corner of her eye she saw a dark silhouette that looked extremely familiar; Misty turned quickly to see who it was, but she turned around to find that there was no one there. She felt a little flustered; she was imagining things!

Shaking her head Misty and Eevee went out to the shops; Misty kept the memory of the silhouetted figure clear in her mind; no matter how much she tried to get rid of it, it refused to leave her.

Why do you haunt me so Ash…

Oooohh, who is this shady character? ahem (why do i ask myself these questions?) anyways. Hope you guys enjoyed it, review and tell me what you thought, i want to hear from you guys. Afterall i am writing for you, and i cant do that without knowing what you think. Well review, and keep reading ;-)