A/N: Sorry I didn't update sooner. Dunno what was up with my computer, but it didn't like me going to Go figure.


Shaun: Plain looking man, with a basic brown hair / eyes combo. He's average height, weight, and everything else (average). Doesn't really stand out, except for his nasty attitude. He's the underclassmen battle teacher, but he's not very good.


Chapter Thirty: Evasion, Fight, Erase.


Chris arched an eyebrow. "What's the machine for?"

Sanja shrugged. She'd volunteered herself to help him out until be became used to the academy. Supposedly, it was just an excuse to get out of class – but Chris honestly didn't buy that. But he was far too polite to actually find out. "I don't know. They just say to sit in that chair, and wait for about five minutes every month or so."

Chris rolled his eyes, and then looked at it closely. "Kani, ideas?"

She walked up closer to it, and sniffed at it delicately. (I don't… electrodes. They're built into the chair. Let me try something…) Her gem began to glow softly, as Chris waited.

A minute later, she shook her head. Chris could tell she was smiling. "What's so funny?"

(It does a check-up on someone. It's advanced technology, and they're using it to make sure that the psychics aren't coming down with something.)

Chris shrugged, and sat down into the chair. Sanja dug into her bag, and pulled out a book to read in the meantime.

"Stupid chair. This is going to be boring…"


After five minutes, Chris climbed out of the chair, and shrugged. "Well, that was stupid."

(Oh, crap. It does more than do a check-up. It also analyzes your abilities.) Kani sounded unnerved.

"Shit. Oh, fucking shit. I hope you-know-what isn't on their list of abilities."

"You-know-what? What are you talking about?"

(I don't think so. Anekiro talked to Rayquaza about that, he said that we're one of the last ones in Kanto. Hopefully, they don't bother to make you take off your gloves.)

"Me too."

(Heh. That'd be funny, the great, all-powerful Rayquaza being wrong.)

Anekiro gave Mathrara a death-glare. (Shut up.)

Sanja glared at Chris. "You know, it's annoying to hear you talking to her, and yet I can't hear a word of what she says. STOP BLOCKING ME!"

Chris looked at Kani, who gave a feline cough. "Don't look at me, she's the one doing it."

(She doesn't need to know.)

Chris sighed. "Sorry Sanja… but I don't control Kani. More like she controls me." He chuckled softly. "Anyway, where next?"

She shrugged. "Well… it's specialized classes now. I don't think you need telepathic or mind shielding techniques…."

Chris nodded, then grinned. "What about battle training? I could use something to do."

Sanja smirked malevolently. "Now that, I understand." She walked away, and Chris followed her.


"Psychic pokemon on a whole are not the power battlers of the world. Instead, you need to skillfully use their unique abilities to earn victory."

Chris smiled softly, seated in his school-like desk.The place reminded him of High School."Or you could do what Kani did to Crystal…"

"Chris W! Care to say that to everyone else?"

Chris looked down at Kani, his left eyebrow arched. She shook her head, and he shrugged. "Oh, nothing. Nothing you'd want to know about, oh great teach."

A few students smirked at each other. Chris smiled softly himself. The teacher here had tried to use him as an example of incompetence in battling, and Chris had… well… handed him his ass on a silver platter. Kani had taught his Kadabra several new reasons why teleport wasn't the ultimate defense.

Shaun (the teacher) said caustically "Really… perhaps the great wandering trainer would care to spill what he's been keeping quiet all this time? Perhaps why you wear those stupid gloves?"

That silenced the snickers of amusement. Chris's face went blank, then cold. "I have my reasons for keeping quiet, and Sabrina respected them enough not to tell you. Isn't that enough?" Actually, Chris now understood that Sabrina DIDN'T know what the tattoos meant. But Shaun didn't have to know that.

Luckily, she hadn't bothered to try to penetrate his mindwall. Otherwise, that wouldn't be the case. She might have been surprised the first time by his mindwall, but Chris knew that she could easily penetrate it if she truly tried. His powers were nothing compared to hers.

(Though how the hell you got to be a teacher with such a nasty attitude is beyond me.)

Shaun glared at Chris, but he shrugged. "That wasn't me. I don't have female overtones in my psychic voice. Couldn't you tell?"

He glared around at the class. Chris, taking the opportunity, shot Kani a look. She shook her head stubbornly. They'd talked about this before – she really didn't like him.


Sanja chuckled merrily at Shaun's reaction to Chris. She knew very well that it hadn't even been a human who'd done that, it probably was Chris's Kani insulting him again. She didn't like him, but that wasn't much of a surprise. Most the class didn't like Shaun. He wasn't a great teacher… and from what she'd seen when Chris battled him, he wasn't very good at reacting in the heat of battle. When Kani had kept up with his Kadabra's teleports (with some strange ability that looked like teleport), and started to bite it… he'd frozen, and they'd capitalized on their lack of reaction.

Chris on the other hand… Sanja smiled softly. He could probably teach the class with ease. They thought he was odd because he left his pokemon loose (he had a Dragonair in his room, and never worried about him), but he seemed to have a deep understanding about every pokemon he met.


Chris stretched, laying flat on his bed. There wasn't any decoration in the place (he'd never bothered, even though he'd been here for awhile), but he didn't really need it.

A soft knock came from his door, but it opened before Chris did anything. Sabrina walked in, her Alakazam behind her. "Are you willing to back up what you've said before?"

Chris shrugged. "Inquisitor?"

Sabrina nodded, and Chris sighed expressively. "Well, I'm holding to my word. But I can't willingly send them to their deaths."

Sabrina paused for a moment, then nodded. "I anticipated that. Just make sure that she doesn't threaten our school."

Chris gave her a grin. "Oh, you've got it. I'll piss her off enough, she's totally forget about terrorizing psychics."

Kani walked up to Chris, as did the rest of his pokemon. He gave Sabrina a grin. "Now where is she?"

"She's coming here from Lavender town. She's at the outskirts now."

Kani nodded, and her eyes flashed. (She'll leave us in peace.)

They disappeared. Sabrina rubbed her eyes, and walked away. She still didn't understand how that Espeon did that.


Chris re-appeared in the outskirts of the city. Kani sighed, and pointed her head towards the city. (I've got someone who's using several dark types. Could be someone who's fond of them, but more likely, they're hunting psychics.)

Chris nodded in understanding. Kani couldn't psychically SCAN for dark-types, but she still had a keen sense of smell, even in the city.

Chris paused for a moment. He'd never known that before… it must have been Kani again. He'd done similar several times, whenever he honestly shouldn't have known. But… he knew she'd given him the knowledge for a reason.

That was enough.


The inquisitor turned around, paranoid about psychics taking her off-guard. She had a psychic-disabler, but if it was removed from her person, it would be useless.

A Espeon raced towards her, as did a it's apparent trainer. Two other forms trailed him, but she couldn't make them out.

She stopped, and turned to him. They both skidded to a stop. She pulled out a small device from her pocket, and it lit up. It… said that it was a witch, as well as a psychic witch.

Strange, command said they'd wiped out all the witches, besides the bastard psychics. "Witch!"


Chris laughed softly. "What's your point? That I'm some evil thing that'll destroy you? Don't make me laugh, you're out to kill psychics who haven't harmed anyone."


She backed a step up. Witches were supposed to be DEAD… and radiate evil! All he seemed to be was a normal human… but either way, he was against god's will. She brought up her firearm, and aimed carefully.

She fired.


The bullet ricocheted against Kani's barrier. Chris sighed. "Yo! Mathrara! Even the field!"

Mathrara appeared next to her gun, and took it in his mouth. He disappeared for a moment, then reappeared next to Chris. The gun had disappeared, probably never to be seen again.

Chris scratched his neck. "Thanks, I owe you one."


A blur struck the inquisitor, and the two machines at her waist disappeared as well. She turned in fear, but the black blur had disappeared. She had caught another flash of color, but her eyes couldn't tell WHAT color it was.


(Heh. How about a kiss from a certain someone…)

(You won't finish that line, or I'll permanently remove your manhood.)


She nearly swore. What in the world? A psychic witch… who use a Vulpix… who had DARK attacks? Psychics shunned Darks!

And then that black blur…

She grabbed her pokeballs. A Tyranitar and Houndoom popped out of their balls.

"Kill!"


Chris stepped forward. He knew he was easily within striking distance. "That's enough!"


The two darklings exchanged looks. They'd NEVER faced a gifted one before. Actually, there were so few, practically no pokemon HAD faced a gifted one before.

And it went against their very nature to destroy one. Evil pokemon might not have a problem with it… even they could kill normal humans, but someone that the legendaries had marked – and if you killed one, you'd get death in return? It wasn't worth the price, usually.


Chris walked right up next to them. "Just… leave. Go home to your families. The church doesn't rule your destiny… they call you animals, nothing more. They even say you don't have minds."

The inquisitor, who had been shouting commands, finally was frustrated enough. She yelled "Return!"

Chris ran forward, but he didn't stop the return beams. Kani did that. She then proceeded to shatter the balls the inquisitor had used on them.

Kani walked slowly up to the dark types. "It's in your hands now. You know his potential, he can save the world with his power, once he becomes strong enough. Or destroy something… thought that prophesy is never clear on what. Your trainer's church states that every gifted one would destroy the world, given the mere chance. You know it is otherwise. Now, chose. Kill him, and you'll have to kill me, and the other two also. Or leave, and go back to your loved ones."

Again, the dark types exchanged looks. The Houndoom looked hesitant, but the Tyranitar finally nodded.

"I want… to return home…"

Kani nodded. "Use your faint attack. You can travel far through the void."

Both disappeared. Apparently, they were great friends.


"Was that wise? I mean, you know what will happen if they find us…"

The Tyranitar snorted. "We're battle-hardened, and my home's impassible for most humans. I was careless, that's why I got caught. They'll never find us."

"How the hell… did it seem like that kid understood us somehow?"

"I think so. I don't know how…"

"Was one of our kind defending him as well?"

"I couldn't tell. All I saw was a flash of black… probably. But I think that whoever it was, he or she was going for her… not protecting him."

"Strange…"


Chris sighed, leaning heavily on a nearby wall. Kani had collapsed when they'd left.

The people who'd overheard pointedly ignored them. They didn't want to get involved.

Chris said softly to the inquisitor (she'd collapsed in shock), "Just go. Haven't you people caused enough hell for all of us?"

Kani slowly got up, and her eyes glowed. The inquisitor stiffened, then flew away at high speed towards Lavender.

Chris said softly, as she disappeared "you modified her memory, didn't you?"

(Yes. You… no way in hell I'm letting the church know you exist.)

"And how did I understand what they were saying?"

(Uhm… that's my fault. I gave you pokemon language as well. Now you literally 'speak' pokemon as well. So the fact that it's a dark type doesn't matter, you can still understand it.)

"Right… well, at least telepathy has other uses."

Kani nodded. (And someone helped us out. Her tracking device and aura tracker were taken… but I don't know who.)

Anekiro added softly (a dark type…)