THAT SYLVEON
I'm very happy that the majority of you guys enjoyed the last chapter. I mean, 30 reviews on the debut chapter? That is utterly insane! Thank you very much, everyone. From that, I know that myself, Luan and beta-reader Jirulius are going to have to pick it up to make chapters better, starting as of now.
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Sprinkling the final specks of cinnamon on a cake baked to near perfection was Cassidy, the 32 year old mother of two. She had initially borrowed the recipe from April, her mother-in-law, but later modified to match her taste buds. Now, all she needed were people to chow down on it. Julley was in the lounge, playing with Julius, but that was only two out of four others.
It was so hard to believe that this was now her. Cassidy was no longer the teenager that would look after her little brother, play games with her elder brother and enjoy helping her mother. The tables have turned; now it was her being helped by her eldest daughter.
Cassidy put her ear to the basement door. The sun was setting around seven o'clock, but Anais hadn't come out of there yet. Barry had followed her down there an hour ago, and neither was he seen from then on. She could make out rhythmic grunts, as well as some panting between breaths. Cassidy went to the first assumption that any mother would, concluding that her little girl was now a grown girl, and those feelings were going to become prominent around her age. She could empathize very well. Cassidy could recall the times she would get extremely hot around Julley, a little damp between the legs as well in some occasions as a teen. However... What was Barry doing down there then?! Nope. Unacceptable. If it was anything like the Christmas party seventeen years ago, Cassidy wouldn't want suspicious activity between two relatives.
She opened the basement door, and her heart rate quietened down from what she saw. Her daughter was shredding the punching bag installed by Brendan all those years ago with her most powerful attacks, while Barry amused himself by sitting on the vibrating washing machine. At least, she was glad that what she heard had bared no resemblance to the connotations that it also fabricated.
"Anais! Barry! Come upstairs to eat!" called Cassidy, soon shutting the door and tending back to her small snack.
Barry reluctantly hopped off the washing machine, and headed toward the stairs that led to the ground floor. But, he noticed that Anais showed no signs of letting up on the poor punching bag any time soon. "Hey Anais! What are you still doing? Let's go and get some food!"
Anais barely even turned around to give him an answer. "I'll probably come up later."
"Come on, Anais. I don't get this vendetta you have with Raidon, but you know that we can't eat without everyone there first." whined Barry, inducing Anais to moan and look at the Blaziken sternly.
"That's because you don't get it, that's why!" scolded the Sylveon. Barry shook his head and went upstairs, and out of the basement. Anais was able to continue her fierce training on her own. Each shot of energy went to taking a chunk out of her helpless victim. Each shot contributed to the raise of her battling level. Each shot upped the will the beat the stuffing out of that Luxray tomorrow.
After popping the sand bag with one more blast, Anais wiped the sweat from her brow and called it a day, walking upstairs and into the kitchen, where seemingly everyone was sat around the dining table enjoying their food. Julley looked over to her daughter, smiling as she came into view.
"There you are. Come take a seat and eat, Anais."
Hey, that rhymes!
"What rhymes, dad?" replied Anais. She could have sworn that she heard someone say something. Julley looked at her weirdly. Although, thinking over what he just said, that kind of did rhyme.
"Uh... What I just said, I guess."
Anais sat down next to Barry, who was wolfing down a loaf of cinnamon topped bread – His favourite. The only thing that could make the moment better would have to be a banana flavoured milkshake. But, sometimes, Barry thought as if he was the only Blaziken on this earth to enjoy milkshakes.
Cassidy took a look at her daughter who used her fangs to tear apart pieces of meat to chew down on. "Anais, you haven't talked to me since you came back from school. How was your day?"
Of course, Anais was a follower of 'Nidoran's Classified School Survival Guide' and followed the protocol of never telling your parents how school truly went for you, no matter what.
"It was fine. Battling sure was... interesting for sure." Cassidy sure was suspicious of the Sylveon's act. Call it a motherly instinct, but she could tell that Anais wasn't speaking of every detail.
"Really? What did you do?" asked Cassidy, watching her daughter very closely.
"Well, we did some random matchups between students. Both of us won our matches." Cassidy couldn't suspect anything out of the Sylveon, as she was too vague in her answers to be assuming anything as of now.
"That's neat for your first day in a while. Kinda reminds me of my friends when I was around your age. Hmm… That's got me wondering... We should have a little barbeque tomorrow, just to bring back memories and all." said Julley, putting a piece of bread in his mouth. A concurring grunt came from others around the table, especially Cassidy.
"Of course! That'll be great! In fact, I'll make a call to Jasmine right now in fact." Cassidy arose from the table, grabbing the cordless house phone to make a call. Anais grimaced as she saw her father take a look at her mother from behind. He got up from the table too, stretching his small limbs.
"What a great meal! Anais, can you take your brother upstairs to sleep when you're done?" Anais nodded, as Julley cleared up the table and left the room. She felt Barry's gaze fall upon her.
"Why didn't you tell them about Raidon?" Anais scowled, baring her top fangs toward the fire type.
"They don't need to know. In fact, neither do you." Barry shook his head at his cousin's antics. He huffed and took Julius into his own arms, heading upstairs to put him to sleep.
Anais placed a paw on her forehead, feeling a little bad for shouting at Barry like that. It was too early in the week to be getting this angry at those who haven't done anything wrong. If anything, he was just trying to help. Bah, there was no use complaining over it. She would rather spend her current time sleeping in preparation for tomorrow. Plus, she didn't want Barry stealing her bed before she could sleep there. There was no way in the Distortion world that Anais was going to sleep on that air mattress.
Waking up to a tiring Tuesday was the lithe and lissome Anais, lugging the covers off her toned arms and legs. She looked out of the window, finding the sun to only be inching its way above the buildings on the horizon.
Yawning, Anais hopped out of her bed and landed on something soft, that wasn't the floor. Actually, it was the air mattress that Barry was supposed to sleep on. Thanks to the laws of physics, Barry, who was once sleeping peacefully, was instantly launched in the air, slamming into the ceiling before landing with his back first on the floor around the mattress.
"AY CARAMBA! NO BUENO!" screamed Barry in a tongue foreign to her ears, gripping his elbow with agony.
"Oh! Sorry about that Barry! I forgot that you were sleeping on the floor." explained the Sylveon, albeit not without a smile.
"Oww... It's alright. Let's just get to school." Thankfully, the Blaziken was very understanding and forgiving. The instant he left the room, Anais burst into a fit of laughter, as she was completely aware of the fact that he was slumbering on the very bouncy mattress. Once again, Barry was a victim to her impeccable mastery in pranks.
She got a good look at herself in the mirror, looking up and down at her various features. She couldn't wait to roll up into school today. To be specific, she couldn't wait for her next gym lesson. The Sylveon had a very large bone to pick with Raidon, the Luxray who insulted her battling capabilities, whether inadvertent or not.
After brushing her teeth, Anais waited downstairs for Barry finish his breakfast. He must have been prepared to spend the night here, since he was wearing a brand new hoodie. It's either that, or his old one spontaneously changed colours without her noticing.
"Come on, Barry. The faster you eat, the earlier we can get to school." encouraged Anais, though for the completely wrong reasons. Barry was born with an incredible sense of observation and tact, so it was his duty to get the Sylveon to simmer down a little.
"The only reason why you want to get to school is to brawl with Raidon, isn't it? Why do you dislike him so much?" As per usual, Anais wasn't really in the mood to rationalize.
"Look Barry, as I said yesterday, you wouldn't get it. He insulted my battling prowess, thus I'm going to show him what's really up today." Barry facepalmed. Facetaloned? Facetaloned. Regardless, he was disappointed with his cousin's reasoning.
"Really? That's it? You don't need to go beating others up for it."
Anais scowled, flicking her ribbons off to one side. "This is exactly why I didn't want to tell you anything."
Barry decided a different approach, since there was no way winning an argument against Anais. "Okay Anais, I understand that, but at least just leave Raidon alone. He didn't mean what he said."
"Yes he did! Otherwise, he would've just kept his stupid yap shut!" shouted Anais. She knew that at this rate, her parents would be awoken out of their slumber, but she clearly didn't care.
"But why do you care so much? It's just battling?"
Anais slammed her paws on the table in rage. "You can say that as much as you like. You're a Bursyamo. Battling is imbued into your blood. People like me? We have to work hard to get where we are now. REAL hard. I don't know about you, but I just get a little offended when someone goes and insults all of the time and effort training just to show that even little defenceless Sylveons like me can hold their own on a mat. Does that answer your question?!"
Barry didn't say anything. He only clashed eyes with the flaring fairy type. He then lowered his head, digging back into his cereal.
"Don't beat him up too bad."
Anais got up from her chair, and exited the whole house altogether. Barry made a mental note to keep an eye on that girl.
Anais got to her registration classroom relatively early. Her friends, Bella and Lola were there already, talking quietly among themselves. Taking her usual seat between them, Anais joined into their conversation. Anything to lighten her up.
"What's going on Anais?" said Lola, making a quick scan of the room for any signs of a certain Blaziken. Fortunately for the Lopunny, he sat next to a very familiar Ninetales. Asserting her gaze back onto her friend, she attempted to make social progress. "Had any luck with Nester?"
Anais sighed. She wished that she did. The Ninetales' handsome looks were noticeable wherever he went. All she wanted was for the Fire type to notice her for once. Anais sadly shook her head as an answer.
"No. At least, not yet." Bella snickered a little bit, making Anais draw her attention to the Mightyena. "What's so funny? I don't see you with a boyfriend!"
"You don't have one either Anais. Although, I really think that you should try talking to him a little bit." Anais sighed and scratched her head. When it came to her predicaments of romance, she relied on advice from pretty much anywhere. She knew how to approach the Ninetales, she just couldn't find the courage to actually do it.
"And how do you suggest I do that? It's not like he'll just waltz up to me in some head-over-heels stupor and ask me out, will he?!" Bella smirked, knowing that the possibility still existed.
"Take it easy, girl. There's no enemies here, only targets." Bella put a paw in the direction of Nester, who was striking up a good, entertaining talk with Barry, of all people. If her cousin, who wasn't too different from her, was able to converse with the extremely hot Nester, surely she should stand a bigger chance to get even remotely close to him. "And as of now, he's your target."
The bell rang, telling them to get to their next lesson. Damn, she was getting in the groove for it too. Although, this meant that she had time to make a move in gym.
"So… What's your opinion on your cousin?"
Barry looked back at the Ninetales he was talking to on the way to his next lesson with his orbs of indigo. Nester had been his buddy for a long time. The two went back as far as Kindergarten. However, as Nester began to gain popularity due to his riches and good looks, the two kind of distanced away from each other, only finding time to talk to each other occasionally.
"What do you mean? Anais?" Nester rolled his eyes sarcastically, as if there was any other cousin of his that he was aware of. Well, to be fair, there was first cousin Cesca the Quilava (CHESS-KA) two years below them. Her name was short for Francesca, appropriate due her father's name.
"Of course I meant Anais."
"Right. Well she's a very nice person overall. She likes to crack jokes from time to time, and really likes going out shopping with her friends." Nester nodded his head, slicking back the gelled hair atop his absolutely fabulous skull.
"Thanks, dude. Just wanting to know." He put a digit on his tongue slyly, a bit of smoke arising from it in the process. 'Cause you know, he's a fire type.
"No problem… But why'd you want to know?" asked Barry, finally opening the doors to the gymnasium.
Nester laughed a bit, patting the innocent Blaziken on his surprisingly muscular back muscles. "Oh Barry. Naïve and obtuse Barry. You see, here's how the society of high school works: I'm hot, right?" Barry knew that Nester meant it in the platonic way, so he nodded. "Good. Now, if I think your cousin's hot too, it's only natural that we go out, you see?"
To the ears of Barry, that made little to no sense whatsoever. As long as it put a smile on the Ninetales' face, though, he nodded in concurrence.
The two sat down on a place on the bleachers. Nester seemed to be eyeing up a certain trio currently entering the gym. He tapped the Blaziken in his sides a couple times to get him to look. "See Barry? This is what I call, a 'Flock of Torchics.' Every single one of them are beautiful, but I think the Sylveon's got what I need." he purred, licking the back of his paw.
What you need is a restraining order.
Barry was getting a little nervous of this guy. It wasn't really his decision or not of whom Anais was to go out with. He could only hope that it wouldn't be Nester. Barry felt that his intentions weren't really in check.
Mrs. Easel came to the front as soon as everyone was sat down, a clipboard and pen in her claws. She cleared her throat before addressing the students.
"Settle down! This is quite important." Everyone in the hall became silent to the point that it was either the sound of a pin dropping or Mrs. Easel's voice that could be heard. "Good. Now, what I have here is a list of your current levels deduced on your performance yesterday. It contains what leveI I believe you're at. At the end of this term, I expect there to be some improvements."
Squealing came from the group of Anais, Lola and Bella. Anais expected her level to be astronomically high due to the fact that there was no doubt that she wiped the floor with Raidon yesterday. Lola was just hoping that it was above 10, since the way she lost was quite pathetic. Bella aspired to get somewhere in the high 40s, since unlike the majority of people in this class, she was actually good at battling.
"First, Raidon Atos!"
Anais' ears perked up for this one. A smile came onto her face as she realized that this upcoming information was going to be extremely paramount. The lower it was, the bigger the chance of her utterly creaming the Luxray after school hours. It'll be like Uncle Brendan's sandbag all over again.
"Level 59!"
And there goes her jaw, slamming straight to the ground. It was impossible that he was that strong, otherwise he wouldn't have just sponged her hit yesterday and flew off the mat like a balloon. Or maybe... Maybe he was telling the truth at the infirmary...
"Anais Breon-Solian! Level 51!"
51? 51!? That was only a measly increase of one whole level after her session of cruel, rigorous training. Something here had to be rigged.
"Barry Bursyamo! Level 77! Substantial progress, but not as strong as your pop... Yet." Barry smiled profusely like he had just won a prize. Meanwhile, Anais glared at the Blaziken with hatred. He had the highest level in the whole class and he never broke a sweat in any lesson! Don't even get Anais started on all of that epigenetic crap, either.
The rest of the levels were called out. Some getting what they wanted while others got results way off from their expectations. Unfortunately, Anais was a part of the latter group, who just couldn't find it in her to achieve a higher level. Ridden with jealousy, she slumped back on the benches to watch the others go and frolic about with their own custom battles for the rest of the lesson. Even Bella and Lola had left her. The Lopunny probably scampered off to go and try her hand with Barry. This would be a perfect opportunity to duel with Raidon, but what would be the point of it all? She heard the levels, and it just meant that nine times out of ten, the Luxray would floor her. At least, she could keep her dignity if Raidon didn-
"Hey Anais!" Damnit! That voice could only belong to one person. "Aren't we going to have that battle?"
Anais looked downwards from her extended level on the bleachers. Raidon stood there, bearing a friendly smile, despite the fact that he was challenged to a battle by the same person he was addressing.
"Battle? Oh... No, I-I can't." Raidon tilted his head to one side, frowning a little bit. He was raring to go all day.
"Why not?"
You fell down some stairs.
"I fell down some stairs." Raidon only continued to look dumbfounded. Anais would have to chastise her inner thought later. "My arm really hurts now, so I can't battle at all." Anais flushed, hoping that he would buy it. It was not very often that she would find herself feeling so unnaturally hot without a valid reason. She was lost in the stare of his stunning aqua irises as their contact between sight lasted for what Anais perceived as a whole year. However, the moment was ruined by realisation from the other party.
"Oh well. Maybe another time. I'll catch you later." Raidon left the scene, seeking challenge elsewhere. Anais felt a little shook at the fact that she got so hot under the... Bowtie so quickly, via someone not like Nester, but a nerd, like Raidon.
You'd be surprised what other qualities a 'nerd' can have.
If you were my conscience, you would agree with me! Raidon is not cool, nor is he attractive in any way. He just... Caught me off guard, that's it.
If he really caught you off guard, you'd be shocked, not blushing. Duh.
Get outta here! You don't know what you're talking about.
Just saying... Hater.
Anais was able to fight off her opposite judgement. Although, that didn't mean her judgement was the right one. Even if, who would you want to go out with? The nerdy, loser-like sorry excuse for a Luxray, or the handsome, cute, extraordinarily HAWT Ninetales, who was essentially every girl's dream in this school. No contest, really.
Arceus must have taken off his '#1 Prankster hat' in pity for her situation, because walking her way was the one and the only Ninetales that could sweep her off her paws. Anais felt her heart beat rate accelerate every step he would take. She could bet a million Pokedollars that she would have perspired at least two buckets worth of sweat by now.
Once he was stood in front of her, in his deep, gruff and sexy voice, he spoke the following: "Hey there." Anais was so close from fainting. This had to be a dream. There was no way that this was actually happening.
"D-Do y-y-you mean m-me?"
Good grief, girl. This guy's got you losing your cool worse than your father.
Nester slowly dipped his head, putting on the hottest smile known to Pokemon-kind. His teeth were whiter than the fur on Solgaleo. His fur beige like fresh hay. Most of all, his aura just made Anais want to melt.
"Yes. I mean you, Anais." Oh Arceus yes. His voice sent shivers all over her body, shaking her like a maraca. "I've seen you around, and damn, you are beautiful beyond belief."
No. This is too good to be true. You may as well wake her up from her dream now, Arceus, because she was done playing. Though, Arceus wasn't playing to begin with.
"R-Really? T-Thank you!" She was all over the place. Under the presence of Nester, she crumbled like the river banks being eroded by the strength of the channel.
"You know, how 'bout I take you out tomorrow, after school?"
"Yes! YES YES YES! A thousand times yes!" There was so much yes that the author didn't have the ability to write a description of the overwhelming yes's.
"Great. I'll catch you later, babe."
Just as smoothly as he came, Nester walked back to his place on the other side of the gymnasium. Anais couldn't be happier. Just wait until her friends hear about this. They'll cry with excitement. She could imagine the look on their faces right now. There would be no way that they would believe it when she tells them that she had just booked a date with the undisputedly hottest and most popular boy in the whole school – No, the entire region!
"Stop lying, girl."
That was the plethora of dubiety coming from the mouth of dear friend Bella. The two of them were eating their lunches, awaiting the arrival of Lola.
"I swear! It happened! He came over to me in gym class and asked me out for a date tomorrow!" Bella looked away from the Sylveon shamefully. The levels of mistrust were soaring through the sky.
The Mightyena couldn't believe her ears. For all of this time, she had considered the fairy type to be a very venerable Pokemon indeed, all until she took to lying straight to her face. However, the cynical dark type's once irrevocable opinions were then appropriated by the occupancy of Lola Punnichi, bustling in through the cafeteria doors like her tail was on fire. The maverick Mightyena modicum of belief was about to be invalid.
"Oh. My. Arceus. I cannot believe you Anais!" she squealed, waving her thin arms in the air with the influence that she did not care. "Is it true? Is it true that you are going out with Nester?"
'Going out' isn't really the set of words that she would use in this particular context. Although, they were literally going out tomorrow, so Anais nodded happily, making the Lopunny squeal even more.
Bella's mouth dropped. Her eyes widened. Her cup of Oran berry juice was unfortunately knocked over in the process.
"For real?" gasped Bella. Once again, Anais nodded with passionate confidence, urging Bella join in the squealing round with her best friend.
"Yeah! We're going out tomorrow, so I think that while I'm going shopping with my family after school to get some goods, I'll just take a 'peek' in Victreebell's secret." excitedly screamed the Sylveon, with Lola and Bella joining in the fray again. She couldn't wait to get home. This few days were going to be epic, inclusive of the barbeque later today and her date after tomorrow. Next thing you know, she'll be the first to see the 'Ghastly in the shed shell' movie premiere in a few days.
However, there was one gut feeling that she was unable to shake off in the midst of her zenith of elation. The sensation felt like something strong was missing. Yet… Anais didn't know what it was. Bah, it was probably the Beautiflys that raced around in her stomach in anticipation for tomorrow. Just thinking about Nester made her knees weak. She must have been in Arceus' good books today, because this was too good. Or at least, she thought.
Hey-Ho! Chapter 2 is done! For some reason, I felt compelled to write chapter '54' for some random reason :P Guess it's just a habit. Anyway, the hype was certainly real last chapter. I knew that I had to do something to get this chapter out early. Therefore, Luan and I formed an awesome alliance to alternate writing around the clock. We worked like a very nice cheese on toast sandwich. Now, here are some responses to your reviews. Dang, that's a lot of reviews too XD.
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OMNI: Yeah, but I assumed that a lot of people will expect it. However, if you've checked chapter 53 of 'That Glaceon' written by Jirulius, you'd find the continuation there. Hopefully, that'll satisfy you.
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