SuicuneLuver: Ok, this chapter should be much longer than the previous two… I typed this up while listening to M4 pt. 2 by Faunts, Won't Back Down by Eminem, and Zombies Don't Surf by TreyarchSound. This chapter will reveal the Pokémon School as well as keeping up with the main Human character. Now please go on and enjoy the story. But first, Mia the Mightyena with the disclaimer! Take it away Mia!

Mia: The author does not own Suicune, PokeBall, Mightyena, or anything that really pertains to Pokémon, they belong to GameFreak and Nintendo… It should be noted that the author does owns most of the original characters that shall appear in this story unless stated otherwise by the author. There, are you happy now?

SuicuneLuver: Yes, quite so! And as gratitude Mia, you're going to be introduced in this chapter!

Mia: Really? Thank you so much! That means I get to go and make fun of the poor Human!

SuicuneLuver: Let's get to the chapter now… *facepalm*

Chapter 2
Echoes of the forest
Unknown Point of View

Five hours, that's how long I've been in the forest and I'm already lost… I swear I'm walking in circles because I keep passing a tree that looks like a Sudowoodo. Right now I was walking along what I hoped was the right path but once again, I passed the tree… I was really annoyed now, I decided that it might be best to just head in a straight line and hope for the best… I mean seriously! The forest can't go on forever right?

So far I'm having better luck than following the trails; I'm not walking in circles anymore at least… The ground is starting to head uphill, I think there might be something over the next rise but I'm not entirely sure. I kept walking uphill and soon found myself at the top of a fairly large sized ravine… the ravine itself wasn't anything spectacular, it was what was in the ravine that caught my attention. A clean cut trail led straight down into it, something I found odd since there weren't any other trails that I had found in the forest…

My curiosity got the better of me and I soon found myself heading down the trail, not far down the trail I found what seemed to be an old stone direction marker where the trail forked off in three directions. On the sign, it had what appeared to be small spheres carved out and pointing in different directions along each trail.

One of the trails looked like it had recently been used while the other two seemed to be overgrown and neglected, I headed down the used trail and it seemed to go on and on without end. As I continued onward the feeling of being watched continued to grow stronger, at one point I even thought about turning back but decided against it considering that I didn't really know how to get back out of the forest.

I kept walking for what I think was another hour before something else caught my attention, what appeared to be a shadow was darting through the trees on the left side of the trail… I started walking faster, not wanting to find out who or what the shadow was but it continued to follow me. I started running but the shadow kept pace all the same… the trail curved up ahead and I ran faster, trying to lose my pursuer but as luck would have it my foot got caught on a tree root that I hadn't noticed when I turned the corner and I crashed face first into the cold snow covered ground.

It took me a minute to get my bearing again but when I finally managed to look up I saw a pair of black booted feet in front of me, as my gaze went up further I saw that the feet were connected to a pair of legs covered in black and grey fur… I gulped and looked up higher to find wolfish eyes staring down at me with a mischievous glint… it took me a moment to realized that I was looking at a Mightyena, a girl one at that… she was wearing all black, not so surprisingly.

"What's a Human like you doing so deep in the forest?" She asked with a grin, she must have been following me the whole time… "What could you possibly gain from coming out here? Unless you're looking for something, and the only thing in this forest is the Pokémon School… you wouldn't be looking for that now would you?" She had one of those smiles that obviously showed that she knew why I was out here, for a minute I thought about lying and saying no but if she really knew why I was out here there really wasn't any point…

"Maybe I am… why do you want to know?" I glared at her before standing; she seemed a bit too happy for my liking…

"No Human has ever come looking for the School before, that's why." The Mightyena seemed agitated by my tone, "Besides, I make it my business to find out what goes on in the forest and around town… like your little plan to find the Pokémon School, and you getting lost out here." She was smiling again… I shook my head in annoyance…

"Then why even follow me huh? It's not like you'd really care." I said darkly, she could have just left me out here instead of even showing herself.

"I have my reasons, one of which being a friend of mine at the School asked me to look for anything strange… she didn't say what exactly, but I'd say a Human wandering through the forest near the School counts as strange. So, you got a name?" She seemed genuinely curious now, if a bit smug…

I waited a moment before answering her, "its Hunter…" I said cautiously… to be perfectly honest I was curious about this friend of hers. "What's yours?" I asked carefully…

She seemed to think about something for a long minute before replying, "Call me Mia." She said cheerily, she turned on her heel and started walking further down the trail before looking over her shoulder… "You coming?" She asked me. I just stood staring at her dumbly before jogging to catch up with her…

"So… where are we going exactly?" I asked Mia inquisitively… I knew better than to follow someone without even the faintest clue as to where we were headed.

"The Pokémon School, where else? It's a bit farther up ahead." She was laughing now; it was a light feminine baying sound that carried through the crisp winter air with ease…

As we continued walking I wondered what the Pokémon School looked like. I had heard rumors of course but I doubted that they were true; I actually found it hard to believe that Mia was actually leading me right to it... After a few more minutes of walking down the path we arrived outside of a stone wall with a set of thick iron gates. There was something written on the upper half of the gate, upon closer inspection it read The Pokémon School of Learning.

Mia just walked up to the gates and pushed them open casually before striding right in, I stood outside a moment slightly unsure about following but my curiosity got the better of me once more and I hurried to catch up to her. Inside I saw a number of stone buildings spaced evenly around a central courtyard, unlike what I had originally thought… there were Pokémon still here, but most of them appeared to be much older than the ones I had seen in town. I received a number of curious stares as I followed Mia through the courtyard to what I thought was a dorm of sorts, I tried my best not to make eye contact with anyone but that plan failed when I saw an Alakazam staring at me from the corner of my eye… I couldn't resist the urge to look into its eyes and saw intelligence that far rivaled my own, an intelligence that I would never be able to acquire…

I broke eye contact almost immediately and quickened my pace to catch up with Mia; she was waiting for me at the entrance to the building and she seemed worried, "The Alakazam you saw was the current headmaster, he seems to have taken notice of you… normally he doesn't give anyone a second glance. Then again Humans never come here…" she trailed off before continuing, "Never mind… follow me."

She walked inside and I quickly followed, we walked through a labyrinth of corridors before we reached a room that looked like a library, there were shelves filled to the brim with books arranged in neat symmetrical rows. At the front desk a Bulbasaur was stamping a number of books that must have recently been checked in while simultaneously organizing the already stamped books with her vine like secondary arms… Mia walked up to the desk before asking the Bulbasaur something, seemingly satisfied with the reply Mia motioned for me to follow her once more and headed down one of the aisles of books towards the back of the library.

I followed close behind her and soon found myself staring at a large number of floating books that seemed to be revolving around a single Pokémon with flowing purple hair that obscured most of its body… "Sara, why don't you stop reading for a little while? I found something!" Mia told the other Pokémon, the books slowly floated down and stacked themselves in neat piles before the hair obscured Pokémon spoke….

SuicuneLuver: And… CLIFFHANGER! Yeah I'm evil like that… So far we have officially met Hunter and Mia… we have also unofficially met Sara who remains to be fully revealed… if anyone wants to guess who Sara is go right ahead!

Mia: So when will we be meeting some other memorable faces?

SuicuneLuver: Next chapter I'm revealing who Sara is…

Mia: Alright! Sara is going to be so psyched!

SuicuneLuver: just try not to tire yourself out Mia, we still have a long way to go…