A/N: This is one of the Secrets of the Densetsu, so that should lighten up the boring-ness. Form Lessons coming soon. Long chapter, a little swearing. I do not own Pokemon, Tajiri does.

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"…but she's just too happy, it's annoying!" A Rocket Peon said.

"Shut up." The Rocket members backed off, you didn't want to get Giovanni mad. "Don't be stupid. Who cares if she's as damn happy as the real Mew, it won't matter if she thinks she's doing the right thing and she thinks we're her "friends"." The other rocket members just nodded.

"Well…yeah, but…what about Infinity?" One nervously asked.

"Infinity? She's very passive. Passive enough to listen to anyone. She thinks she's a freak of nature, as long as she keeps that state of mind she'll stay passive and she'll stay under our control. She also doesn't know the power she possesses. We need to slowly teach her. If we teach her too many things at once, and if she ever does turn rebellious, she'll use her powers against us."

"And Kinesis?"

"The same. Remember that she has the DNA of all the psychic-type legendaries embedded in hers."

"Wait a minute," One of them realized something, "doesn't that mean…that the Pokemon DNA could just be ripped at any time from hers?"

"Of course." Giovanni replied. "That makes her all the more vulnerable in her human form."

"Why don't you just rip her DNA right now, keep the Pokemon, and throw her away?"

Giovanni leaned forward. "You're getting annoying."

They backed off. They didn't know, however, that there weren't just the Pokemon sides to her personality. Her original personality was there, too. That was the personality that kept her from escaping, from going crazy, from attacking everything she saw. That was the personality that kept her under their control. But it was like a time bomb. One mistake, and it blew up.

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Ryuu and X stood before J23 and looked at the double doors a moment before they went inside. It was a large room, now everyone was gathered, even Inu and Golem. The rocket people were already there, but this time, there were a full 10 instead of five. The young woman was there, too.

"Listen up. You all know that you're hybrids of legendaries, so you all have a large number of powers. However, Inu could do a hyper beam as easily as Eon could do leaf blade, which is why there are ten of us this time. Inu, Golem, you already know the drill so get started. Everyone else, listen to your Move Tutors and you'll be okay." She talks like we're in peril or something, Thought Ryuu.

The rocket members spread out, one per Irochigai. Ryuu didn't get the same guy this time.

"Here's how it goes," He said, "you'll start out medium, like surf. If that's too hard for you then you'll try easy ones, like dragon claw. But if that's too easy for you then we'll do the hard ones, like psychic. Show me a Dragonbreath."

Wow, that was sudden, Ryuu thought. The problem is, I don't know how to do one. "How?"

"Take a deep breath, and imagine constriction. Just feel it, and hold it in your mind. The key is to put it into your attack. Then breathe out, not forcefully, but make sure that the attack actually gets to your opponent."

Ryuu did what he was told. He made sure not to face the Rocket, and then took a deep breath. Constriction…not being able to do something. Being held back. The opposite of freedom, the opposite of flying…The opposite of flying. That thought helped Ryuu, because now that he had tried it he knew what it was like, and therefore what its opposite was like. He tried to put it all into his breath, all into his lungs.

"Dragonbreath!"

He breathed out. He actually did pretty well, it was a yellow-ish cloud with a few sparks here and there.

"Those sparks are what cause the paralysis," The young man said. "you actually seem pretty good. Not everyone gets those sparks on their first try. Now try a Twister."

For a few seconds, Ryuu wondered who else the 17-year-old taught. He soon snapped back to reality. "And I do this…how?" Ryuu made the same swirly, fast motions with his hands as his Flying Tutor.

"Do I need to explain everything?"

Ryuu nodded.

"You are really annoying. If you use your wings for this one, it'll make it easier, but it doesn't need much concentration anyway. A stupid Horsea can do this, for crying out loud. First, bring your wings back so they're almost touching, then try to create a giant gust of wind. However, when you do this attack, to prevent it from turning into a Gust give it some feeling. All dragon-type attacks need feeling, this one needs anger. Put anger into that swing when you bring your wings together."

Ryuu thought. He never experienced anger before…did he? Was frustration actually being angry at fate? He thought about it. Anger was when you wanted revenge. What would make him want revenge? Well, if one of his friends were taken away, he would want revenge. But didn't he only have one friend, X? Maybe Carlos, too. Perhaps he was thinking about how he would make more friends, or how Myodeku was so dumb and happy. She was always completely oblivious. But what if X was taken away? Carlos would be taken away, too, because he was X's flying partner, and that was it. What if Ryuu couldn't have fun with him anymore? No more pranks, or shared opinions…Ryuu's wings started to glow white. Yes, X was truly a friend. If he was taken away…

He wouldn't have any more friends. He would be completely lonely.

Probably forever.

"Twister!"

Ryuu swung his wings with a mighty force, willing wind to follow. The air raged into a small, swirling tornado, picking up debris. The tornado was only small enough to attack about one or two Pokemon, and so it didn't affect anyone else in the gym. It died out after about ten seconds. The Rocket grunted.

"Good. However, it could have lasted a little longer, I'm disappointed about that. What's your level?"

"My what?"

"Your level."

"My level?"

"Your level."

"My level?"

"You're stupid."

"What's a level?"

"You really ARE stupid." He shifted. "Your level is something that goes up with experience, which goes up when you defeat something or accomplish a great task. You can evolve once you reach a certain level, but in special cases you can evolve at will. However, once you evolve there's no going back. You all don't have to worry about that kind of stuff," He looked at all the Irochigai Densetsu, eventually getting back to Ryuu, "since you're all, you know, legendary Pokemon. Technically."

"Ohh…"

"A Pokemon could go their whole life without leveling up, you know. But that's extremely rare. Leveling up is pretty much part of the circle of life. The lower your level, the easier it is to level up. Since you're—" He paused, perhaps to rephrase something. "Since you're new, here, your level is probably around…" He shrugged to show he was guessing. "11, or something. I heard about that Teleport you pulled off, that might also allude to your level, since when Pokemon learn a new move it usually means they've gone up a level. Now, let's work on a Surf. This is much easier than Dragonbreath or Twister because it's not a dragon- or psychic-type move. As you know, those are hard. But water- and fire-type moves are usually easy. Come over here."

He started walking toward the pool. It was actually more like a fountain, but without the fountain part. Ryuu followed, and saw that Infinity was there, too. She put one finger just above the water, and moved it around. The water moved with it, like her finger was actually in the water. Then, she put her fingers in a sort of circular-looking thing, like she was trying to pull the water out, and when she moved her hand upward, and the water moved with it, like there was something in her hand that it wanted. Eventually, it became a ball of water. She played with it. She made it flat, put a hole through it, froze it, made shapes, and then eventually turned it to steam. She gathered a bunch of water, and turned it all to steam. She repeated this, and eventually it was raining in a small area above the pool.

"Rain Dance. She's good." Said Ryuu's partner, looking at Infinity, and then to her partner.

"Th-thanks…" She eventually whispered.

"Now, Ryuu, WE'RE here to test water control. You saw what she was doing, right? You're going to do something similar. Lugia lived in the seas, you know. Yeah, it actually had excellent water control, just like a Vaporeon. Now the trick here is to sort of bribe the water."

"Huh!" Ryuu was lost there.

"Well, again, these are feelings. Think of happy things, and put that energy into your hands, or claws, or whatever. Water is normally calm and bored. Fish normally keeps it company, but when it doesn't have them, water is sad. It senses this joyful energy, and is attracted to it. This is why it's much easier to control water that doesn't have fish in it."

"Umm, okay…" Ryuu just thought this whole thing was weird. Everything was weird. He kept wondering why he was here, who everyone was, and why they were so shady. Who really was Giovanni? Who did he have connections with? Did something happen before this? Why should they all listen to him? Well…what else was there? It's not like they really had a choice, all that's out there are strange people and strange Pokemon. Here, no one would be mean to you or anything. The most anyone would be was bitter. So he just gave up his trail of thought and walked up to the fountain-pool-thing. He looked at his claw, and then started gathering happy memories into his conscious. He tried to store it all into his palm. He stared into the water, into his reflection. He had never looked at it until now. It was strange, alien. Like he had never had it before, and then suddenly did. The reflection then started messing itself up. What was happening? Then, Ryuu heard a dripping and splashing noise. He looked over, the water was actually dropping out of the basin, attracted to his hand. Some of it was getting on the wood floor. That wouldn't be good, it would warp it like crazy. So he willed the water on the floor to come back up. It did, and so the floor-warping was avoided. He played with it. He made it into a ball like Infinity did, and sort of played water-basketball by dropping and picking up the water constantly while still keeping it in a ball. He made the water into a mini-hydro-typhoon, making the water swirl around and around in different ways. He made it separate into many little dots, then come back together. It was all really quite fun, but he wondered how Infinity had made it heat up and cool off.

"Say, Infinity?"

She looked up.

"How did you make it freeze and evaporate?"

Infinity blushed. She did this thing where she took one of her claws and opened it, and then with her other claw, traced invisible circles on its palm.

"I…uhh…err…umm…" She traced faster. "Well…ask your teacher, not me…I'm just…not…well, uhh…" She trailed off into nervous gibberish.

"Okay, then…" Ryuu glanced at the clock, there was about fifteen minutes left. Then lunch. Instead of asking his partner for the info, he just did something else. He knew it would be necessary to do surf. He outstretched his claws, so the fingers were far apart. He put them both out in front of him, like he expected fire to come out of them or something. Then, he positioned them to the left of the basin. He moved them to the right, making a wave as he did so. When he did it faster, the wave was bigger. Soon, he made a wave that was about half his size. That was the beginnings of a Surf attack. He kept trying, and soon he made a wave that was about his size. That was an okay Surf attack, probably not passable by their standards, but probably passable by normal Pokemon's standards. He looked at the clock again, now there was 10 more minutes. He continued practicing Surf until class was over. By then, it was passable by both standards. The "students" filed through the double-doors, heading to L39. Myodeku was happy and bubbly and bouncy as usual. Strangely, happy, giggling Myodeku was walking next to and talking with ultra-shy Infinity. He wondered how in the world that could happen, and then went over to X. Once again, he had gotten partnered up with Carlos. They both walked their separate ways, and then X ran over to Ryuu.

"Hey, Ryuu-Byuu-Wyuu-Kyuu…" He continued making up silly nicknames. "…-Nyuu-Zyuu! What is UP!"

Ryuu smiled. "Well, I learned water control and a couple dragon moves. What about you?"

"I made up this cool dance. Watch this!" He did a strange dance, but it entertained Ryuu nonetheless. "That, and some fire and flying moves. C'mon, let's eat lunch."