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Takes place right after the previous chapter, in which we chronicled the first morning back of our three sub-set heroes, being the cat(Helen), the sea lion(Chamomile), and the lover of H.Q. Rips(Josh)
This takes place at the same day the last two chapters took place, so the news of Marcy's transformation hasn't spread.
"Thanks again for the ride Miss Quinn." Josh said to Chamomile's mother, who had in the previous chapter convinced her new daughter that all that happened was a standard Pokemon evolution that was bound to eventually happen.
"Oh it's fine!" She responded. "When Cham was a young one, I used to scoot around your sister when she was about your age."
"Really?" Josh said, unsure of whether she made that up or she had at one point scooted around his big sister, who had moved away, due to the fact that she was 18 and ready to stick it out on her own.
"Yeah." Ms. Quinn said back. Chamomile let out a small, squeaky bark. "There something wrong honey?" Ms. Quinn asked her daughter.
"I'm just a little nervous..." Chamomile said back. "They'll probably make fun of me..."
There was a bit of a pause. Ms. Quinn had to think of something to say back to reassure her daughter, but had a hard time as Chamomile was so different from anything anyone there had probably seen, she'd expect some teasing at the very least. "If you're not worried about it" She said, "It won't worry you."
"Okay." Chamomile said. Josh questioned this obvious tautology to himself, but hey, whatever worked.
Josh put on his headphones, allowing the mother and daughter to chat. The trip would be short anyways.
"So how long will this take?" Chamomile asked. Her mother had plugged it into a navigation system.
"5 minutes." She replied.
"We live really close?" Chamomile asked.
"Guess so." Ms. Quinn replied. "Looks like the mall is nearby as well. 10 minutes the other way."
"Really?!" Chamomile said excitedly.
"Yup." Ms. Quinn replied. "You used to love riding the escalators."
Chamomile waved her tail a bit, before turning to Josh. He didn't notice at first, Chamomile then nudging him.
Josh took his headphones off. "Huh?" He said.
"Is the mall full of shops?" Chamomile asked.
"About three-quarters full." Josh said, putting the headphones back on.
This made Chamomile rather excited. "Could we go after school?" She asked her mother.
"Sure.' Her mother replied. "Maybe Helen and Josh could tag along?"
"That could be a good idea." Chamomile responded. They were just about to the school, but there was a bit of traffic. Josh, having felt they had stopped, offered an idea.
"You want me to push her the rest of the way?" Josh offered. "I know the sidewalks pretty well."
"Think that'll be quicker?" Ms. Quinn said.
"I don't know. Traffic speed tends to vary even with a constant amount of vehicles." Josh replied.
"Well then sure. Why not?" Ms. Quinn said.
Josh hopped out, grabbing his stuff from the trunk, along with the wheelchair. He set the wheelchair out a bit, noting its age. He directed Chamomile to scoot closer to the car door as he grabbed her stuff, then finally setting the stuff down to stick her in the wheelchair, rather a challenge to the scrawny person he was. 'Bye Ms. Quinn." He said calmly.
"Love you!" She said, to Chamomile.
"Love you too!" Chamomile yelled back.
The pair went off, seeing that Helen had just got there as well. Josh decided to wait for her to get out, so the trio can walk in together.
"You okay?" Chamomile asked Helen. "Transformation is a big shock to humans like you."
"Humans like me?" Helen asked, Josh explaining the situation to Helen. He thought he may had done it already, but just in case he did it again, explaining to her that Chamomile is a normal anthro Pokemon, however much of an oxymoron that is.
The trio began then, to go to school, wondering how the other students would feel.
About 5 minutes later...
"So where do we go again?" Chamomile asked.
"Here's homeroom." Josh said. "We're in the same classes anyways, I'll just show you around."
Chamomile wheeled into the classroom, seeing the early birds today, John, Becky, and Merlin. The teacher was also just getting her stuff out, as the homeroom bell wouldn't ring for about 5 minutes, giving everyone time to actually show up.
"So what's wrong with that guy?" Chamomile whispered to her group, referencing John. "You don't normally get to bring a Pokemon to class unless there's something wrong, right?"
"Normally. Yes." Helen said,whispering back. "But the 'pet', as you refer to her as, is like me, transformed. If anything it's the other way around."
"Hey." Merlin said. "That desperate to find chicks?"
"Nope." Chamomile said. "I wish though."
"Hey!" Josh said, a bit insulted.
"She only means well." Becky said.
Chamomile seemed surprised. "It can talk?"
"Yeah." Becky said back.
"Wow!" Chamomile said, wheeling over to the pair. Josh sat down, followed by Helen, using her cane to get to a chair, still in pain from transformation.
"Hear anything from Marcy?" John asked.
"Nothing new.' Josh said back. "Still sick."
"Hope she feels better soon, whoever she is." Chamomile said.
"So who's your friends?" Merlin said. "I wanna know."
"Actually..." Helen said. "It's me..."
"The cat's Helen." Josh said before Merlin could ask. "The Brionne's name is Chamomile, and she just moved here from Alola. Ms. Quinn adopted her."
"Quinn?" Merlin said. "Haven't heard that name in years."
After a bit of chatting, the rest of the class filed in, one by one. First to come in was Gabriela, followed almost immediately by Natasha.
"Hey!" Merlin said.
The two seemed to not notice, giggling about something.
Right after, the teacher came in, Ms. Alexander, who had only began teaching the latter half of the last year.
"Sorry I'm late." She said. "Had a meeting."
"Oh it's fine!" Merlin said. "It's just a few minutes. Only the early birds showed up so far."
Ms. Alexander breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good."
Helen waved.
"Oh right." Ms. Alexander. "We have a new student. Students, this is-"
John interrupted, noting that she was about to mix up the two new anthros "Sorry to interrupt." He said. "But the new student is the other one."
"Oh." The teacher said. said. "I don't like that you interrupted me like that, but I guess it's okay. You did help me not look bad."
John smiled.
"Yeah." Helen said. "I'm Helen, same as always."
"Okay." Ms. Alexander said. "Kids, this is Chamomile." She said, pointing to Chamomile instead of Helen. Chamomile waved.
"Hi." Natasha said. "You wanna sit with us? We'd like to get to know ya."
"Thanks!" Chamomile said. "I'd like to get to know some humans too!"
Eventually, the rest of the class came in, and each time someone came in, Ms. Alexander would introduce them. Most were confused, but over the course of the morning generally accepted it.
Later... (During lunch)
At lunchtime, the students began to go to lunch, some still simply faster than others. Chamomile had decided to sit with the girls, who had invited her to lunch.
"Hey!" Chamomile yelled, waving.
"Should you really have invited her?" An older girl, a senior, asked.
"It's fine." Natasha said. "We can always boot her tomorrow or later."
"She better be good." The senior said. "I can't get a reputation of recruiting some peppy nice gal."
"Yeah, but an Alolan?" Natasha responded. "She may not be good, but she's killer on the beach. Probably."
"Just because she's an Alolan Pokemon," The new freshman, part of a nerdish clique. "Doesn't mean she's from Alola."
"Oh shut it." The senior said. "Though thanks for the information."
"Well you look like the social leader, so excuse me to thank you." The freshman said. "I'm Devin."
"I'm Umbra." The senior said. "Quite honestly it was nice of you to back me up there."
Devin smiled.
Umbra looked at Natasha.
"Fine.' Natasha said. "Well she still ain't from here. And I doubt she's a cold-weather type of Pokemon."
Umbra accepted this point.
The group had at this point began to end the lunch-line, and went towards their respective tables.
"So welcome to your first, and possibly last day at the cool kids table." Umbra said.
"Well the girl cool kids table anyways." A junior commented.
"Wow." Chamomile said. "I was a bit of an outcast at my school."
"Well that's fine." A second senior said. "As my mom taught me, you only need a majority of high social standing people to carry the rest of the clique."
"So who are you guys, and what's that drink?" Chamomile asked.
A bit of murmuring went among the table.
"It's boneless water." Natasha said, giggling a bit. They had made custom bottles and put some sparkling water with lime, brown sugar, and a bit of rosemary in it.
"Boneless water..." Chamomile said. "I've heard of that somewhere..."
"Yeah it was a cool trend a few years ago." Umbra said. "Turns out it's pretty good, if you can get it. They discontinued it after 6 months. Lucky for us we got the recipe in an auction last year."
"Really!" Chamomile yelled.
"Though don't tell anyone." Umbra said. "Or you're out."
"That's fine!" Chamomile yelled, before calming down. "Could I try some?"
Umbra poured a little bit into a cup.
"Here you go." Umbra said. "Remember. Keep quiet."
"We get it from some Slavs." Natasha said quietly. "Turns out it's an import from a land kept secret."
"Slavs?" Chamomile asked, again at a whisper.
"You've said too much already." Umbra said.
"From a Slav land?" Chamomile said.
"West Slavic in particular." Umbra said. 'That's all you get to know."
"O-okay..." Chamomile said, taking a sip. She found it okay, but not amazing. "It's not as good as I remember..."
"Maybe your tastes have changed." Another sophomore said. "That's what happened to me for Cheri Berries."
"You know those are for medicinal purposes, right?" Umbra asked.
"Really?" The sophomore said. "Wow."
"They cure paralysis in Pokemon." Natasha said.
"Wow!" The sophomore said.
"Not the most useful berry where I was from." Chamomile said. "Those quarter-heal ones are good."
"Sitrus Berries?" Umbra asked.
"Yeah!" Chamomile yelled. "Those!"
"I hear they've cross-bred them to do that." A freshman said. "Previously they only healed 30."
Umbra shrugged. The freshman lot wasn't really that notably good, so they were going through what they had.
"You know something?" Natasha said.
"What now?" Umbra said, not trying to be mean.
"Marcy would have really liked to meet you." Natasha said. "She's still home sick."
"Is she okay?" Chamomile asked.
"We think anyways." Umbra said. "I'm gonna send her some boneless water this afternoon." She whispered that last part.
"Weren't you gonna keep that secret?" Chamomile whispered.
"Eh." Umbra said. "As long as we don't point out its Boneless Water, we'll be fine."
"That Josh kid would probably deliver it." The first sophomore said. "I've heard he's been delivering his homework."
Natasha nodded.
"Fine." Umbra whispered. "We hand some off to Josh, who takes it back."
"Do we leave a note?" The first sophomore asked.
"Sure Priscilla." Umbra said. "Gabriela, could you do it?"
Gabriela, the second sophomore, agreed to this.
"So that's the plan." Umbra said. "Gabriela sticks the Boneless Water with Josh, who takes it to Marcy. We pour it into some foam cups or something so they don't know. Deal?"
There was a general consensus, except Chamomile and the two newbie freshman.
"Well that's a deal then." Umbra said. "We're not sure if any of you are staying." She said to the trio that was unsure. "So you'll get your say then."
Chamomile was fine with this. At least she was in consideration.
"Though anthros are rare." The junior said. "Maybe we could keep her..."
"It also would make up for the lack of a second junior..." Gabriela said.
Chamomile smiled.
"Looks like she agrees." The Junior commented.
"Fine." Umbra said. "She seems peppy too. We could use that."
'But what about those swim jocks?" Natasha said.
"You mean the swim team?" Umbra said. "It's a team, not a clique. She can be in both."
"They'd let me in?" Chamomile said. "I have a bit of an unfair advantage."
"Yeah that too." Umbra said.
"And plus." The junior commented. "She's got her group as a secondary."
"First gym's today too." Natasha said. "Though to let you know, you'll probably be picked pretty low, and had it not been for us, probably last."
Chamomile nodded. "It was a bit worse when I was small and a Popplio."
"Did you grow or something evolving?" Gabriela asked.
"Yeah." Chamomile said. "I woke up and I grew like a foot! I'm normal human size now!"
"Nice to see you're entertained by that." Umbra said. "I guess I'll pick you fourth if I'm captain, even though that's a fallacy on my part."
"Really?" Chamomile said. "Who's the other three?"
"Alexa," Umbra said, in reference to the junior. "Natasha, and Gabriela."
"Wow!" Chamomile said. "Fourth in line!"
"Well the school's small." Umbra said. "Cliques aren't that big."
The junior, Halley, agreed.
"Also," Umbra said, "Gym's unisex a few times a year, normally the first and last sets of the semester."
Chamomile nodded and smiled, liking the idea of having new friends already.
"Well lunch will be over so-" Umbra said, bell ringing before she could finish her sentence.
"That's the bell." Halley said.
Umbra nodded, and got up. "Now let's go to gym."
A/N: Probably going to add a TF to the next chapter.