Danger Around Every Corner

It had been a full day since I lost to Shiva. Rikua had spent the time resting and I had no classes after so it was rather dull. Sitting on my bed as I kicked a ball between my feet. Supposedly they were unable to assign me a grade on my match so I had nothing to do today. Hearing a knock on my door I picked up the ball I had been playing with and went to the door. Rikua stirred from his sleep as he heard the door. Sliding off from the bed he followed me but stayed behind my right leg. Opening the door to find a letter on the floor with fancy handwriting on it. Bending down I looked over the letter it had no return addresses or a stamp. Someone must have dropped it off personally but why leave then? Flipping it over I opened it up to see a piece of paper. It read

Dear Flame

Your classes will be determined by one final test. Please meet me in the far right forest. This test will start at 3:00 sharp do not be late. You will face expulsion is you are.

Looking at the clock to see it read 2:30! Saying to Rikua "We better hurry or we won't make it there in time!" He nodded at me preparing to run but something stood in our way now. Only a second later I found out why he had stood still. "WHAM!" A foot met my face knocking me back.

I heard a voice after say "Too slow again Flame." It was Eurydike she always picked the worst time for everything.

Holding my right hand to my face while saying "Can we do this another time I have to go somewhere." But the instant I said that I knew I'd regret it.

She said excited "Well I'll be coming along then. I wanna see what's so important."

Sighing I stood up brushing off my clothes.

Then said "You can come along then just don't get in the way okay?" She nodded and we went off out of the school.

Eurydike asked complaining "Are we there yet?"

Saying back to her "For the..." I counted on my fingers how many times she had asked that within the last 10 minutes and it had been my sentence "Fifteenth time were not there yet." Rikua was walking by my side but he still seemed to be taking the loss against Shiva hard. He had done his best but it still hadn't been enough. Rikua pulled my pants leg and pointed forward. There stood a single person in the shade of a tree. She had a blue and black coat with the same colored pants. Along with long brown hair that stopped just above her eyes. As we stopped she approached. I asked "Are you the one who sent me that letter?"

She smiled as she said "Yes I am let the test commence!" Once she finished saying that a luxray jumped out from the tree she had been near by. But this one was not a normal one it had purple fur where it should have been black and gray where it should have been blue. It started right at me with it's blue eyes and I noticed the large X on it's chest. Then she said "Your friend can help too."

Eurydike scuffed as the person said that "My Katsu would easily be able to take that over grown cat down." She grabbed a pokeball off her belt and tossed it into the air. It opened letting out a red light a form came out from the light.

"Chika!" it said as the pokeball returned to Eurydike's hand. The chikorita hopped back and forth waiting for a command from its trainer.

Bending down to Rikua I asked him "You wanna do this battle and win?" He looked down to the ground while rubbing his arm with his paw. Putting my hand onto his shoulder I said "Just cause you lost the last battle doesn't mean you should stop battling all together." Rikua didn't seem to quite believe me but he seemed like he'd try anyway. Slowly he walked towards Katsu and stood by him waiting for me to give him a command. The Luxray paced in front of the two pokemon until the person snapped her fingers. A split second later it lunged at Katsu with a fire fang ready.

Shouting to Rikua "Use a quick attack on the luxray!" He launched off at the Luxray hitting it from the side stopping him before he reached the Chikorita. But the Luxray turned to Rikua and hit him with it's tail knocking him back. Such power and it didn't even use a move.

Eurydike said to Katsu "Hurry use Razor Leaf!" But before the Chikorita had a chance the Luxray shot a thunderbolt from it's body sent Katsu skidding back. The trainer wasn't even giving it commands. Our opponent moved her hand threw her hair as if she wasn't even paying attention.

Then she said "Let's finish this within two minutes and knock out the other person while you're at it we don't need anyone tagging along." Grinning the Luxray turned towards Rikua and Katsu. It glowed blue and it's eyes lit up. The ground started shaking and rocks lifted up from the ground. It opened it's mouth and a small orange sphere appeared. It was using HYPER BEAM! But it was already too late from me to say anything as it shot the beam from its mouth at a rock sending it at Eurydike. Turning to see her Chikorita jump in front of her as the rock hit them both back into the trees. It fired another shot at the direction the shot went. There's no way Eurydike and her chickorita could survive another blast from the luxray.

Yelling to Rikua "Stop the luxray before he fires again!" Rikua nodded and jumped at the luxray. It's speed was unmatchable to Rikua as it slammed him onto the ground with it's front right paw. The luxray grinned at Rikua trying to escape from under it's paw. I yelled at the person who sent out the luxray "I give up let my Pokemon go!" There's no way Rikua stood a chance I didn't want him ending up like Eurydike where ever she might be. But something wasn't right she just stood there ignoring what I said. Looking over to Rikua to see him being slowly crushed under the Luxray's paw. If she wouldn't call back her Luxray I'd still get Rikua out of here. Running at the Luxray as it growled at me I touched it's paw to receive a shock. This made me fall backwards landing on my back and hitting my head on the ground.

I could hear the other trainer laughing at me while saying "You'd really risk your life for a Pokemon? Everyone knows trainers don't bother with that. Even if you did this weak Pokemon wouldn't be worth saving."

Standing back up I said to her "It doesn't matter to me if he's weak now or even if he will be for the rest of our time together. What really matters it that I'm going to protect him from people like you!" I grabbed it's paw again only to be shocked it was more powerful then last time. Lifting it's paw off of Rikua I grabbed him. The luxray wouldn't let us go though. It's teeth charged up with electricity, Thunder fang. This would hurt, Rikua was already too weak to take a blow like that which meant there was only one thing I could do. As it lunged at Rikua I stopped it's attack by dropping him and taking the bite with my arm. It felt like every once of strength surged out of me with the wave of electricity. Dropping to the ground I could feel Rikua tugging at my shirt as my eyes slowly started to close.

I could hear voices as I felt myself being picked up I couldn't move though. My muscles were all frozen in place. I groaned as my body was thrown onto a floor then was kicked after in the stomach. After I heard a voice "If he's supposed to be strong why doesn't he do anything?" Trying to open my eyes which didn't really work but I got them a slit open. There was a Pokemon in front of me. Focusing my eyes on him I could see them turn into something taller. But I could feel something jab my arm and it grew dark.