Pokémon Chapter 6: Meet the Old Friend

Okay, so thank you mysteryreader for your character, I built her in quite quickly because her existence is actually quite a blessing XD. I was trying to bring in a new character and had a writer's block with that one… Anyway, I am very sorry for not uploading sooner but I have exams coming up and I had to write a report and soon I have to start with this essay -.- eugh.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, else the characters in the game wouldn't get friendzoned all the time -.-

It had been an hour since Calem had battled Red and it was not very quiet for him. Calem had somehow made it to his classroom without being spotted by anyone. But in his classroom there were the smart ones, waiting for him. Among them Serena, Trevor, Tierno and Shauna. Much to his relief though, his homeroom teacher walked in at that exact moment. But that actually made things worse, his homeroom teacher was Cynthia. The first thing they talked about was actually his battle against Red. They analyzed it to the smallest detail. But Cynthia didn't seem to do that on purpose, it was more like she was amazed by the battle so much that she couldn't help but analyze it immediately. But Calem felt the stares the entire time from the other members of his class. It had been a gruesome hour for him to listen to what he had done well and what was excellent from Red as a counter and for him to live through all of those stares. Once the bell rang though, Calem ran away from the classroom before anyone could talk to him, not even Cynthia whom he knew personally. He walked quickly past students with his hat covering his face. It helped a lot more than some might have thought, because before they could recognized him he was already gone. But then he was grabbed by someone and dragged into a room. He looked at his kidnapper to see red eyes and a smile.

"Hey there Cal, where are you going in such a hurry?" Red asked.

"Rooftop. The rooftop might be my only haven from this crowd," Calem sighed.

"Yeah, I was asked by my students where I had been the entire time. I wish I hadn't come down from that mountain," Red commented.

"You aren't regretting winning the Pokémon league?" Calem smirked, knowing the answer well.

"Hell no! Winning the league was probably the funniest thing in the world for me. Finally shutting Blue up about being the best and actually showing that I can win if I put my mind to it," Red reacted. Calem laughed at his reaction. He had actually done this before, always looking forward to Red's reactions.

But this time Red asked a question: "Do you regret winning the league?"

Calem thought about his answer for a bit before answering: "I don't know."

Red smiled and walked out of the door: "It's good that you don't lie about that. Not knowing isn't a bad thing, pretending to know is a bad thing though."

Calem smirked at Red's words and walked out of the door himself, but they took different routes. Red walked into the teacher's lounge and Calem walked up stairs to the rooftop. On the rooftop he took a deep breath before walking towards the edge. He threw all of his pokéballs and out came seven Pokémon. Calem actually was allowed to carry seven Pokémon because he didn't fight with his strongest team. He only fought with the seventh Pokémon he carried around, a Gardevoir. But sometimes he switched his team up to Gardevoir, Gallade, Ninetails, Milotic, Breloom and Raikou or Suicune. It was something he used to do to give himself a challenge, but soon that challenge disappeared because of his battle habits, habits he had that made him find the easiest solution. Calem looked at his Pokémon looking at him expectantly, and said: "Okay, I think we actually made quite the spectacle with the fight against Red. I am being chased by weird people who want something from me, not sure what though. So what I want to do now is this; I want to take team 2. I know you guys haven't seen action for a long time but team 2 will actually enable me to blend in a bit."

Looks of disbelief came towards him and Calem said: "I said 'a bit', not that I would completely blend in."

Nods of understanding came from his Pokémon and he recalled his Pokémon before he recalled six of his seven Pokémon and let Vee jump onto his shoulder. Afterwards he walked towards a small PC and sent away five Pokéballs, all except for Vee's and Gardevoir's. Then he withdrew another five. He walked through the hallway with his new Team on his belt and turned a corner only to run into Serena. Serena had fallen to the ground but Calem hadn't and he held out his hand to help her up. Serena grabbed it and was pulled up thanks to Calem and then asked: "So, why did you run?"

"Attention is a bit of a pain. I'm trying to… you know, disappear into the shadows a bit," Calem answered, forcing a smile. Serena returned his forced smile with a genuine one which made Calem smile for real too. They stood there for a moment before Calem looked at his Xtransciever.

"We should return to class," He commented and Serena nodded. They walked back to the classroom, talking about Calem's travels when suddenly Calem ran into someone, again. She had long straight black hair and blue rectangle glasses, a black leather jacket underneath which one could see faint signs of a brown shirt, brown pants and black boots, a weird infatuation with the color brown and black maybe.

Calem picked up her book for her and held it out to her saying: "Sorry about that, didn't look where I was going. My name is Calem."

The girl took the book back and said with a quiet voice: "No problem. My name is Kate."

Serena looked at the girl for a few seconds before asking: "Did you live in Vaniville Town?"

Kate was a bit wary now and slowly answered: "Yes… why?"

Calem remembered something Serena had once told him about an old friend named Kate and knowing how she reacted to meeting old friends again he covered his ears with his hands, ready for the noise, which came immediately. Serena was screaming in delight as she grabbed Kate and held her hands while jumping up and down. Kate in turn was confused and didn't know what to do.

"Don't you remember me Kate?" Serena asked, stopping the jumping and screaming, "It's me, Serena!"

Realization dawned upon Kate who looked very happy herself and grabbed Serena's hands. Calem took this moment of silence to say: "Um, am I still needed?"

"Yes," Serena said, turning to him with a serious expression. Luckily enough they had stopped with their 'touching reunion' as Calem would call it and were now talking about what had happened. Calem had heard about Kate from Serena long ago, when they were stuck in Frost Cavern while helping the Abomasnow. He had heard that she moved away a year before he moved in and his family had moved into her old house. They walked to the second year classrooms and met someone Calem didn't want to meet, Ethan.

"CAL!" Ethan shouted upon spotting him and ran towards him, "are you ready for your very first battle lesson?"

A.N: Cliffhanger :D STILL ACCEPTING OCS BTW