Chapter 3

I called out Slean onto one of the tables. Slean popped out of the ball and looked up at me. It was such a small thing. Then in came Shippo carrying a pokeball of his own.

When he saw me he ran to where I was sitting playing with Slean, I had picked her up and she was gently licking my nose. When I saw Shippo coming up I put Slean back onto the table. "Scott, look what I got!" He said excitedly as he called out his new Pokemon. Out of the ball came an orange, fluffy dog, a Growlithe.

"Hey, cool." I said patting the thing on the head.

"Thanks, I wanted a magby, but hey, a Growlithe still is a fire type." He said with a shrug. "I named him Fighto."

"Cool name." I said petting him again.

Shippo took a seat beside me and Fighto began playing with Slean. Slean jumped on Growlithe's back and began riding him around the room. However after a minute of that Slean hopped off of him and jumped onto the table. He sidled over to the edge and then leapt off. I turned from Shippo just in time to Slean jump. I leapt from my seat just in the piqué of time to catch her.

"Why'd you do that?" I scolded her harshly. I also called her back into her ball to prevent anymore mishaps. Shippo just started to laugh. "What do you think is so funny? Slean could have really hurt herself."

"No she couldn't have." He said, fighting the laughter. "Bagons have extremely hard heads; all they do at this point is jump off of things. All they want to do is fly."

"But Bagons can't fly, what was it thinking?" I asked confused.

"Not now but Bagons evolve into flying Salamences." He told me as he picked up and gave Fighto a pat on the head.

Shippo and I just sat in the room and waited until Ex finally showed up. He attempted to run towards us but tripped about half way there, falling flat on his face, to a roar of laughter from the rest of the room. He got up and laughed himself. "Ha, that was funny, huh guys?" He said as he finally reached us.

"So, uh, what'd you get Ex?" I asked trying to ignore the snickering of other people.

"Oh," he said disappointed "Just this." He said glumly throwing the ball to have a cute little squirtle pop out.

"Why are you disappointed?" Shippo asked as he gave the Squirtle a tickle below his chin.

"There wasn't a single psychic pokemon to choose from, this was the only thing that seemed remotely interesting." He called back the Squirtle and slumped into a seat. "How am I going to do my experiment now?" He said slumping.

"What experiment?" I asked.

"Oh I wanted to learn telekinesis and I thought a psychic Pokemon could teach me."

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK." Shippo said brushing Ex off.

We then basically sat in silence for another thirty forty minutes until the rest of the students and Pr. Xlander returned.

"All right." Xlander said, clapping his giant hands together. "Now that you all have your Pokemon we will now choose our house leader."

"House leader?" Shippo asked loudly. "How are we going to do that?"

"If you would let me finish," Xlander said annoyed. "We are going to have a tournament to decide the house leader. Now, to the gym!" He announced as he marched out of the room, followed, first, by only odd looks but eventually everyone began to follow.

So after following him for about a minute he led us through another large door nearby the cafeteria. Inside there was a large gym full of training equipment then a huge arena where people would have battles.

"Xlander stood in the middle of the arena and threw up his arms. "All right, you have all been randomly selected to battle one of your class mates. The last man standing will be the house champion and will be given a special prize." He finished with a big smile and stepped aside. He then pulled a large board from the corner of the room and put it at the edge of the arena. It had everyone's name on it and was set up like a tournament roster, and we were all paired up with an opponent.

As I looked at the board I saw that my opponent was a girl named Katrina Gold, and we were supposed to fight at the edge of the battling floor. Eventually all the pairs were aligned across from their opponents.

Across from me was an extremely pretty girl with raven black hair.

"All right, begin!" Pr. Xlander yelled. At that all across the room there were shots of blue light.

Across from me I was looking up at a giant Onix facing me down. I then looked down at my two foot tall Pokemon then back at the giant rock monster, just in time to see it throwing itself at Slean!

"Slean, to the left!" I demanded just in the niqu of time as Onix crashed right beside Bagon. That had given me and idea. "Bagon, quick, before it gets up get on its back!" I shouted as Onix struggled to get up.

Ony, quick get it." Katrina yelled as Onix slowly rose. "Get that little monster off of you!"

"Don't' worry." I mumbled. "Slean run up to its head!" I called and sure enough Bagon scurried to stand right on top of its head.

"Come on Ony, shake it off!" he commanded, getting upset.

Now, here was when my plan came into action. Then without warning, well to her at least, Slean leapt from Ony's head, down to the ground. "Now Slean, roll to the side!' I yelled, just as Onix barreled his head into the ground in an attempt to get Slean, it missed horribly. It smashed its head in the ground, and this time it didn't even stir.

Katrina growled and called her onix back, I had won. I also called back Slean; I wanted to let her rest. I looked to my left to see Fighto standing on top of a beaten Scyther. I also saw that ex had already won his match. Several minutes later all the matches were done and the second round began.

"Now that there are twenty five of you left, I will randomly select one of you to receive a bye to the next round. I choose, Scott." He finished.

Yes, I was safe, for now. Unfortunately at the end of the second round Shippo had been beaten by no one other than Ex, who was now trying to cheer him up.

"OK, thirteen of you left, the one to sit out now will be, Conner." He announced and Conner sat out this round.

I then found myself staring down Ex and his Squirtle. "GO!" Pr. Xlander yelled, and at that it began.

Ex's Squirtle, Bubs, rushed Slean at full speed on Ex's order. "Bubs, water bubble!" Ex commanded as Bubs skidded right past Slean as she hopped aside. Bubs shot out a rapid burst of bubbles that were headed towards Slean.

"Slean, um, pop them." I said very unsure, could I do that? Sure enough all Slean did was run right through the bubbles and smashed his head into Bubs'es chest, sending him sprawling across the floor. "Finish him Slean! I commanded. Like lightning Slean leapt on top of Bubs'es chest and began pounding his skull into him. Eventually though Bubs disappeared in a flash of more blue light. I had won again!

"OK, seven left, the next to sit out will be… Ken." He announced as a short red headed boy stepped out of the way.

I was now facing down a tall blond boy with spiked hair, his name was George. Out of George's pokeball came a small Combee. The match was called and Combee came rushing me, and it shot out dozens of tiny needles, poison sting. There was no way for Slean to dodge it; I would not let my pokemon get hurt to win a stupid contest. Eight before the attack hit I called Slean back into her ball, forfeiting the match.

Of course after that I didn't even bother watching the rest of the tournament; in the end however girl named Susan and her Machop became the champions.

'All right, now for your prize," he said excitedly pulling a pokeball out of his pocket and handed it to her. "This is and Eevee, your second Pokemon, enjoy." He said with a laugh. "All right back to the dorm." He said as he began walking out of the room.

But of course Shippo wouldn't go without a fight. "Hey wait a minute, that's no fair!" He yelled running up to Pr. X. "We all just got our first Pokemon; it's no fair to give someone a second one so soon?" He demanded of the professor.

"Xlander turned around, looking extremely annoyed. "OUT!" He bellowed at the top of his lungs. "To the headmaster's. Now!" He screamed pointing out the door. Shippo tried to speak but Pr. X would barely let him open his mouth. "Go, now!" He yelled again, and this time Shippo dashed out of the room