Hey guys! Well I'm hoping you guys don't kill me for taking about what, five time longer than I said I would on getting the next chapter out? I had no inspiration for the fourteenth chapter of my other fic so I got pretty lazy... But I got it done so now I can work on this one for a couple chapters. Anyways, at least I got it out finally.
Well, I need help with this fic. But it's not a very big one. First, I need people to review. Not in a suck-up way or mean way, but an HONEST way. You know, just what you honestly thought of the chapter. I guess it can be mean, I just would like your honest opinion. Anyways, the second thing I need people to do is email me at theriseofmustang[at] I need help with characters. Or more specifically, the Enduring Eight. I really can't do this on my own. However, if I don't get at least seven emails, I will resort to making up more characters. I will also have to pick pokémon from friend passes I have collected from Battle Revolution. But I'd rather hear it from you guys. Another thing, you must review to have your email be valid. So get to work! Also, the Eight will be much more than just people Luno battles. They'll seriously become important characters you see throughout the story.
Now, I plan on having a pretty large character group for this fanfiction. The Rise of Mustang has a party of four while this one may have up to ten to twenty. Quite large, I know. But don't worry, it will be pretty easy to follow. They won't all be together very often. Usually just four or six together at a time.
Sorry that took so long. But I needed to get those announcements out. Well you can start reading now.
Last Chapter:
Luno meets Estelle, Abigail's best friend and roommate. The three go through various processes to complete registration. Luno falls asleep when he finishes and waits for the two girls to finish.
The Armorian Battles
Chapter 3: Shen and Co.
Luno - Age 15
Melissa - Age 15
Estelle - Age 15
(A.N.: Hey, I have been thinking this over. In the last chapter, I kinda screwed up on the timeline. I said Ace was about thirty-five years old. I see a problem with this. In order for the whole trilogy to work out, it can't even be Ace. Instead, I went back and changed some of the wording so Ace is now Tanuki, Mustang Ranger's grandson. Tanuki will play a big part in this story so just wanted to fill ya in.)
"Awww," Estelle exclaimed. "Melissa, you have to admit, he's pretty cute. Especially when he sleeps!"
Melissa laughed. "Yeah, I guess. We better wake him, though." The young blonde walked over to Luno's sleeping form and nudged him lightly with her foot. This caused Luno to groan, but wake up as well.
"Ughnn... Is it time to go," Luno groggily asked.
"Yeah," Estelle said from behind Melissa. "The bus to take you to your school is on it's way now. What school are you staying at, anyways?"
"Oh! Um, let me check real fast," Luno said as he pulled out one of the registration papers from his pocket. He unfolded it and looked on the 'schooling' side. "Ah, the Armorian Battle Academy. Sounds fancy."
"Oh, so you're majoring in battling," Melissa stated. "They specialize in pokémon battles."
"Wow, you know quite about the city for being as new as I am."
"I know my fair share. I just like to know what I'm getting myself into whenever I go somewhere," Melissa said as she helped Estelle get Luno off his butt.
"Fair enough," Luno grunted as he stretched. "Thanks for helping me up. Let's go to the lobby, seeing as the buses are going to be here soon."
The three teens walked down the hall and into the large lobby, all three lugging their suitcases with them. Just as they walked through the doors, Luno's bus pulled in front of the building.
"Oh, there's my bus, girls! I'll see you two later! I'll call you guys tonight to see how the rest of your day turned out," Luno said before racing off, each of the girls giving a cheery "okay".
Luno climbed into the blue and silver bus. He noticed most of the population in the bus was male, but there were a few girls here and there. Luno noticed there was another open window seat towards the middle of the bus. The fifteen year old decided that was the seat for him and walked down the aisle to get to it.
Once he was there, he piled his suitcase underneath his chair and looked out the window to wait for the bus to start moving. Luno felt something on his left and looked to find a boy that looked to be about the age of sixteen there. He had short hair that was about an inch long. It was a very dark brown, almost black, color. His eyes were a vivid forest green color.
Luno decided this was a good opportunity to make another friend, a guy friend this time. "Hey, name's Luno," Luno smiled, extending his hand for the boy to shake.
The young man returned the smile and shook Luno's hand. "My name is Shen. It's a pleasure."
Shen wore a deep red tee with baggy, black cargo pants. He had black tennis shoes on is feet.
"So what are ya doing here in Armoria, Luno? I'm here to become an equipment designer (A.N.: Oooo! A hint to what this whole story is going to be about)," Shen said.
'An equipment designer? What the heck is he talking about,' Luno asked himself in his head. "I'm here just to defeat the Enduring Eight then getting my rear end out of this city to move on in my life."
Shen was shocked to hear this. 'Why would someone want to leave Armoria? There's so much to offer here. You're more likely to succeed than to fail in your career...' Shen decided to think on that topic later. "Well, do whatever pleases you. That's what my mom used to say to me when I disobeyed and she gave up trying to get me to listen to her." The two boys laughed at this, seeing as how a lot of moms might do that.
"So what region did you come from, Shen," asked Luno.
"A very mountainous area called Trenu," Shen replied, his eyes closed in bliss. "I grew up in a large city named Denite City."
"Ahhh, a city boy, were you?"
Shen sighed. "Yeah. But, I wasn't ever really happy. I wanted to see the world," Shen exclaimed. "So I left home one night without my parents knowing. I left a note, of course. I got a call from my mom the next day while I was on a boat here. She pretty much yelled at me fora good half hour, which I probably deserved for me leaving unexpectedly like that, but she understood in the end."
"Ha ha ha! Sounds like you're pretty eager to actually start your life here in Armoria," Luno said.
Shen nodded. "Yep. It's gonna be a blast."
The boys were so into talking that they didn't even notice that the bus had left the City Center and stopped at the Academy. It was huge! White marble with blue designs running all throughout it. The paint scheme on the bus matched the academy. But that was obviously on purpose.
"That went by pretty quick. Hey, well I'll see you later, Luno. But before we part ways for a bit, touch your cube to mine so we can exchange our numbers so we can stay in contact," Shen said, emptying his metal cylinder for his blood red cube.
"Oh, I didn't know you could do that," Luno said while getting his own cube out. It rolled into his open palm, the sunlight's rays bouncing off the silver cube so it looked to be almost white. It was honestly hard to look at since the brightness hurt your eyes so much.
"Hm, you got the silver cube. I heard there is a gold cube belonging to another Newcomer that was in our session, but I'm not sure I'll ever find out who has it. Anyways, just tap your cube to mine, and it will store my number in it," Shen explained. Luno did as he said and the two touched one of their cube's sides with the others, causing a small chime to go off in the air, signaling the process was complete. "There we go. It may be a tiny device, but these cubes are some of the world's most advanced memory technology," Shen continued as he put away his red cube, Luno doing the same.
"Well I'll see you later, Shen! It was a pleasure meeting you," Luno said, walking off through the sliding doors of a dormitory building with the large, blue B on it.
There was no receptionist, no pretty girls, no metal. Just a very casual room with carpet, a small TV, and four sofas lined along the wall. There were stairs on both sides of the room. On the right, a flight spiraling up. On the left, a flight spiraling down. There were a couple older guys that looked to be about seventeen to nineteen years old watching some action movie on the TV.
'Is this a joke? It's like they're having us live in some old rest home,' Luno angrily thought in his head. 'Wait, no, scratch that. Rest homes are even nicer than this joint...'
Luno sighed with an annoyed sound to it and heaved his luggage up the stairs. He heard a bunch of commotion as he entered the hall with his room in it. There were a total of four rooms in the hallway and each door was open.
"Hey! Pass me that soda," a voice yelled from the nearest room. There sounded to be about six teen guys in there.
Luno decided to walk past and into the farthest room. "Ah, room eighteen dash two B." Luno entered the quiet room and started surveying his surroundings.
It was a fairly small room. Still no technology in this room... Smooth, white brick walls with a small shelf running around the entire room a little higher than the two twin size beds. The beds had a small wooden desk next to both of them with a chair that slid into it. There was a nice, wood closet on the opposite side from the desks for both beds.
Luno set his stuff on the window bed farthest away from the door. "Well, I'll unpack when I get back. For now, lunch time."
The young teen walked off down the hallway again. But the noise had stopped from the other room. Instead, he heard it from outside the hallway on the balcony, which was about eight feet from the entrance to the hall. There were large glass windows to see who was on the balcony. Luno stepped out of the hallway and as soon as he did, he heard some boy from the balcony yell "hey! There's another!"
Luno went wide-eyed and bolted for the stairs. However something grabbed the back of his shirt, immobilizing him. "Calm down, bro! It's me, Shen!"
Luno stopped struggling against the grip, which released a couple seconds later. Luno turned around to see his friend standing there, five other young men about the same age as standing behind him with smiles. "Shen? What's going on," Luno asked.
"We're all hallmates, basically meaning that all of our rooms are in the in the same hall as each other. We were going to wait for your roommate to get here before we all head to lunch, but looks like you are thinking differently," Shen said.
Luno had a silly look on his face. "Yeah, I'm kinda... Okay, really hungry..."
All of the other boys laughed. "Understandable. Well we can go to lunch and see if your buddy is here when we get back," suggested an older teen. He looked to be about nineteen, the oldest of the group. Muscular build and in great shape - looked to be a muscle builder. "Name's Don, by the way. Your name?"
"Um, Luno," Luno replied, feeling a bit intimidated from Don's size.
Don wore a black tank top with dark green cargo shorts. His brown hair was about an inch long and put into a faux hawk. Don's eye color matched his hair with a deep brown. Finally, the teens shoes were black tennis shoes.
"Well we'll have time for introducing you to everyone at lunch, Luno," Shen explained. "But let's go. Anybody know any good restaurants?"
No one answered, which was half expected seeing as everyone in the group were new to Armoria. Shen rolled his eyes. "Fine, let's go to a mall. They've got a lot of restaurants, girls, and stores," he said.
"Yeah, okay," was what everyone agreed with. If they didn't say that, they simply nodded their head.
The seven young men walked down the stairs, into the "lobby", and outside at the bus stop. "So guys, what'd you think of the dorm? I thought was a little historic. Historic as in no technology whatsoever." Luno said to the group.
This caused them to laugh. "Well, yeah, it's a dorm. The Academy may be one of the finest schools in Armoria, but they're not going to spend money on unnecessary things in something as small as a dormitory," Shen said, who was standing next to Luno.
"Ah. Well I guess that makes sense," Luno said. "I'm just not used to things not having any technology in them."
A green bus with the word "Armoria" on the side pulled next to the street. The driver, an older man, opened the door and the guys piled in, sitting near the back of the bus.
As everyone talked amongst their friends, Luno sat quietly, pondering what Armoria would have in store for him. 'I wonder what the Enduring Eight will be like. Are they extremely powerful? They must be. That;s why they're the Eight... I wonder if one of them is a girl and if so, if she's cute or not... Wait, no, I have to stay focused,' Luno silently fought with himself the rest of the way to the mall.
The bus came to a stop in front of the mall. The seven teenagers paid the driver and headed inside. "So how much money do we all have? I mean, I'm sure we're going to get paid for pokémon battles, but until we find a way to get money, we should spend our money wisely," a small boy said. He looked to be about the age of thirteen. But to come to Armoria alone, he must be confident in himself.
"I agree with Rick," Don said. "The last thing we need is a financial problem. I say we just get some cheap food, enough to fill our stomachs, then head back."
Everyone thought Don's plan wasn't the most fruitful at the time, but it would help in the end. The remaining six teens decided to go through with Don's logic and all headed to the food court.
Wow that was a pretty dull chapter... But I'm still setting up this fanfiction so just let it be for now and give it a chance. Hey, at least I got in more characters. I need help with them though. I don't think I can make them all up by myself. If you want a character, just give me an email in your review and I'll contact you about it. They can even based off of you. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Now go enjoy the holiday! See ya! I'm gonna go pig out!