Chapter 2

As I slowly walked up the stairs many other people, rudely, ran right past me. When I finally reached the top of the stairs I saw a long hallway with several doors through out it. As I walked past the third door on the left I noticed it had my name on it. It read

"Shippo Brown

Scott Berkin

Ex"

Ex? Weird name, I thought as I slowly turned the handle on the shabby brown door. When I walked in I was in an average sized room. All that was in it were four queen size beds, and three night stands beside each bed. Also there were three sets of draws up against the far end of the room.

As I walked in I was greeted by the sound of chatting voices. Sure enough on the two beds closest to the far end of the room were two other kids, sitting cross-legged and seemed to be deep conversation. As the door opened they had turned to face me.

The boy on the farther end of the room spoke. "Well, you must be Berkin, Shippo Brown." He said jumping off the bed and sticking out his arm. I took his hand and shook it.

This boy that had greeted me was average height, no taller than me, about five seven. He had semi long pitch black hair that was hung down into his face, just brushing his eyes. The tip of his hair was crimson red, but it didn't seem dyed, it seemed natural. He wore a plain white tee shirt and wore a pair of ripped blue genes. His eyes were crystal blue and an odd aura about them.

The other stood up as well. He was one of the strangest people I had ever met. He wore a tight white tee shirt and wore a short pare of plaid pants held up by a pair of rainbow suspenders. He wore braces that seemed to shimmer as he smiled. He wore huge horn rimmed glasses that seemed much too large for his face.

"Hi I'm Ex." He said in an extremely nasally voice.

"Hey Ex. "I said as I shook his hand. "Ex, huh, so, is that your real name?" I asked

"Sure is!" He said proudly. "My parents wanted a really simple name, so Ex was it."

So, you don't have a last name?" I asked. This kid just kept getting weirder.

"Nope, well if I do my parents never told me it. I don't really care." He said with a laugh that turned into a snort.

"So..." I said trying to change the conversation. "What were you two talking about?"

"Heh, we were just talking about what Pokemon we both want to get." Shippo said with a grin. "I want magby, someday Magmortar will be mine."

"I want a Mime Jr." Ex said with a grin. "What are you hoping to get Scott?" he asked me.

Hm, I hadn't really thought about it. "I don't really know I told them."

"Really? The first thing I did when I got here was decide what pokemon I wanted." Shippo said shocked.

"Well," I began nervously. I honestly don't care for Pokemon training to much." I said nervously.

"Then why are you here?" Shippo asked, questioningly.

"Well the only real reason I'm here is because I need to graduate to become a cop, that's the only real, reason I showed up. There really is no pokemon I overly want." I said with a small shrug. "I don't really care."

"Whatever." Shippo said with a shrug. "Well I'm headed to bed." He said, as he walked to the light switch by the door, flipped it off and hopped over the other beds to get to his. He didn't even bother to undress; he just slipped under the covers.

'Night, Ex." I said as I too turned to my bed.

"Night." He said as he unstrapped his suspenders and slipped into his bed.

OK so I have a crazy room mate and a normal room mate, not bad, I thought as I fell into sleep.

I was awaked early the next morning by the sound of loud yells in the hall. I slowly opened my eyes to see ex already up and alert. Shippo however was stirring only slightly.

As I slowly rose I looked over to see Shippo also getting up as he rubbed his eyes. "UGH! He complained as stood up. "Why in the name of Arceus, what the heck! He yelled.

"Come on guys, we should get going." Ex said he tried to pull Shippo up. Shippo merely shoved him out of the way and got to his feet.

He groaned again and then stormed out of the room. Ex and I followed, but by the time we got out Shippo was already half way down the stairs. When we got to the living room we saw all of the other students already seated. Professor Xlander stood in the center of the room.

"Ah, Ex, Scott. Good morning." He said "Now that they are finally here I can begin." He said annoyed. "Well toady is the day that you will get your Pokemon."

Almost everyone in the room cheered, except for me. God, I thought, why does he drag this out?

"Well," he continued. "Now because of the fact that there are twelve hundred students in the school you can not get them all at once. We will be the third house at the school to receive Pokemon so in about an hour we will go down to the school lab and you will all get your Pokemon. For now I would simply like you all to stay put until it is time to go." As he finished he threw himself into one of the few open chairs and began to read a book he had brought with him.

"Wait a sec!" Shippo yelled standing up. If we have to wait an hour then why did you wake us up at…?" Shippo looked at his watch and his face seemed to drop.

"Please Shippo; tell me what time I got you up at." Xlander said mockingly.

"Noon." Shippo mumbled.

Xlander began instantly. "That's right, noon everyone besides yourself and Mr. Berkin were already up, your own room mate didn't even want to wake you. Now if you would just sit and wait for a moment, we will soon head down." Xlander said, as he settled back into his book.

Shippo also settled into his seat, and of course, in seconds he was asleep. However about forty five minutes later a voice sounded over the inter com, waking him up. "Would Primape house please report to the lab." It said.

'All right." Xlander said as he stood and pocketed his book. "Let's get going." He said as he trotted out of the room. All the students followed him with Shippo trailing behind at the very end until Ex dragged him up to the front of the line. They finally reached the lab about ten minutes later; the lab was located through a door located near the entrance to the cafeteria.

We entered inside a big room with high sealing and many shiny mechanical instruments. At the end of the room there was a large metal door. Then through the door came a young, thin, and extremely attractive woman wearing a white lab coat. "Hello, my name is Doctor Pine." She said in a sweet, high voice. "All right, first one up," She looked on a clip board. "Conor Abe." She said

A small sheepish boy walked forward and walked back through the door with her. A few minutes later he returned holding a Pokeball.

Three other students were then called in, and then my name was called. I followed her into the room and in front of me was a large machine with five holes.

"All right." Pine said as she pressed a button on the machine.

Up from the machine popped a pokeball from each hole. On each ball there was a picture of the Pokemon that in contained. On the first ball there was a picture of a Porygon. On the second, a Kecleon. The third, a Munchlax. On the fourth was a Larvitar. And on the final one there was a Bagon.

"All right," she said. "Please choose on to be your starter Pokemon. As a Doctor I would suggest Kecleon." She said motioning to the ball.

I thought about for a few seconds but to me the choice seemed simple. I reached towards the fifth ball, Bagon.

"Nice choice. Send it out just to be sure it's right." She said.

I held the ball in my hand and pointed it forwards. Out of the ball shot a blue light and out came Bagon.

"All right, now what would you like to name it?" She asked 'By the way, this Pokemon is a female."

"In that case, Slean." I said proudly as I called Slean back to her ball. I walked out of the room and was then led into the cafeteria by Xlander. When I got in the other four students were playing with their new Pokemon. All right, I thought, this is where the fun begins.