Pokémon Chapter 10: Strange Fate
Hello, I hope you had a merry christmas and a happy new year... Yeah I have to apologize. Deadlines were still set for some schoolwork and during Christmas and new years my friends had parties. I tried to get out early to write more but they got dead drunk and I had to help out the sober people a bit with organizing and cleaning. Anyway, answering reviews:
GryfindorChaser2018-2022 (I think I'll shorten it to GC18-22): This chapter pretty much answers your first question. If Calem comes over as arrogant etc. I am working on changing it a bit. Thanks for the review btw.
mysteryreader (yes I am taking away the numbers): The Darkrai thing is like so: Darkrai was caught by Calem instead of Lucas, why is a later thing, but Darkrai is a Pokémon that pulls you into insanity and Calem has gone over the barrier once. Any more and things would be spoiled so let's leave it at that.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, else the characters in the game wouldn't get friendzoned all the time -.-
Calem woke up in his bed. It was Thursday, a mere few hours ago he had parted ways with the other champions and former champions to go to sleep. He had a roommate, although room would be an understatement because they were given a suite, but hadn't seen his face and vice versa. Calem got up and quickly took a shower before getting changed and looking at the kitchen they had. There was a slip of paper on it that simply said: 'Roommates cook for each other unless there is an event.'
"They chose to save money on exactly that one thing," Calem sighed before looking into the fridge. It was full of stuff so he brought out a few eggs, some cheese, ham and spring onions before mixing them all up to create some scrambled eggs. He grabbed some toast from a cabinet he luckily found and toasted it in a toaster that they luckily received. Calem brought out two plates and set the table when his roommate's door opened.
"Hey, I already set the tabl-" Calem stopped midsentence when he saw his roommate.
"Calem?" A girl with long strawberry blonde hair asked in disbelief as she covered her PJs.
Calem swallowed hard while staring at her before saying: "Hey Serena, so we're roommates?"
Indeed, by some strange means of Fate (A.N: *cough* Author *cough*) Serena and Calem ended up being roommates. Funnily enough they hadn't seen each other yesterday once school had ended so they never could have known that they were in the same room. But looking at the two of them one could would never have thought that they had been friends for six years because of the awkward silence that reigned at that moment. They stood there for a while before Serena went back into her room and came out a few minutes later, clothes changed. She looked at the table where all the foods were set and steaming with heat. Calem stood there, getting some coke out of the fridge to see Serena standing there. He walked towards her and said: "Come on, let's eat."
They ate in silence, just eating before Calem sighed: "Okay, this is far too awkward. Let's just talk. I mean, we are roommates and all so we shouldn't have such an awkward atmosphere."
"Yeah," Serena replied. Calem smiled and went on to eating but tried to strike up a conversation.
"So, how did we end up roommates you reckon?" Calem asked.
"No idea, but somehow we did," Serena replied. Calem and Serena talked a lot while eating until Calem received a message. He flipped on his holocaster to see Red's name on the message.
"Hey Cal," Red's face appeared, "we were going to have a battle royal, want to join in? If yes come to the Coast, we want to try and get out some pent up stress. You kids are pretty frustrating."
Calem went into his room and picked up his second team. He didn't want to let loose today. Before he went out he turned to Serena and asked: "Want to come along?"
Serena's face brightened up as she nodded vigorously and ran into her room to get her stuff together. Calem thought for a moment before grabbing his bag with school stuff and waited at the door for Serena. She came out a few moments later with her bag and team. They walked out and Calem called out his Raikou. He got on Raikou before motioning to Serena to get on as well. Serena jumped onto Raikou's back and Calem whispered something into Raikou's ear. The Thunder Pokémon nodded before dashing in lightning fast speed towards along the coast until they saw the group of Champions, just that there were more. Calem helped Serena get off before recalling his Raikou and turned to the group: "So I wasn't the only one to bring guests?"
"Nah, we were way ahead of you," Hilbert smirked. He pulled the person next to him towards him and continued: "Isn't that right Hilda?"
Hilda nodded as she smiled and the two were in their own world before they were separated by Lucas. Lucas winked at Calem before dragging Hilbert back and talking to him in hushed tones. They came back a moment later and Lucas turned to Calem: "So Cal, when do you have to go to lessons?"
"Soon, I can fight one battle though," Calem answered.
"Oh, fight me please! Red always tells me about how strong you are," a woman said. She was pretty short, long blonde hair and had a Pikachu on her shoulder. This Pikachu though was decorated with a ribbon and Calem remembered the description, the dead giveaway was a ring on her hand though.
"You must be Yellow, Red's wife, nice to finally meet you. Red talks a lot about you, well he finally shut up after he proposed and you accepted," Calem smirked and almost everyone howled with laughter as Red blushed.
"Hey! You aren't so quiet about girls yourself hotshot!" Red shouted, blushing furiously.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Calem replied starting to run red. Now everyone was rolling in the sand and laughing. They calmed down after a few seconds but Serena was looking at this with interest. They understood each other well and must have met quite a lot to know so much about one another. And watching them talk to each other Serena noticed the champions and their life partners, every now and again a ring glittering on someone's finger. Calem was the only one who talked with a smile to everyone, but didn't have a partner. Then Serena noticed, he brought her. She started blushing furiously as she tried to calm down but heard someone talk to her: "So you're Serena. Calem has told us a lot about you."
Serena whirled around to see all of the champions minus Calem standing there. She turned to see Calem himself surrounded by the partners of said champions, talking.
"Pleasure to meet you," Serena brought out, barely. They were all quiet for a second before Calem joined them and said to Serena: "We have to go."
Serena got onto Raikou and they ran quickly to school. Once at school she noticed that they still had thirty minutes till school began. She gave Calem a questioning glance to which he replied: "It was pretty awkward."
Calem smiled as Serena giggled and they went into the school building to their classroom. They picked up the keys from the teacher's lounge and opened the classroom. They were the first to be there and Calem took a deep breath. He stood there, leaning against the window and watched some students slowly come in. Serena had her things ready and was twirling a few of the feathers on her necklace. Slowly the classmates of the two trickled into the room and Calem went to his seat. After another few minutes the teacher walked in and took a roll call. General education classes were on for the first few hours of school that day, and Calem was enlightened to the non-existence of his drawing skills. But once the major classes rolled by, Calem walked to the classroom Ethan said where they would hold the next lesson. He walked in to see that all the seats were already taken and Ethan smirking. Calem looked around before leaning against the wall and looking at Ethan expectantly. Ethan nodded before grabbing a remote and turned on a beamer. In the presentation he went over a few strategies that were crucial to battling and explained everything in great detail without spending too much time on it. While Ethan explained Calem only heard a few people write notes and looked at all of them. He himself had gotten this presentation from Ethan once before and had notes for this already, so he was curious to see who didn't write notes. Saber was one of them, but Calem saw that he had soaked in the knowledge already. But as he turned back to Ethan he saw him ignoring the students who had no intention of learning what he was teaching. Calem listened to the lesson intently and took closed his eyes. This would be a difficult major lesson.
A.N: I AM STILL ACCEPTING OCS... I decided to go with Yellow cause she has a Pikachu, I mean that's just perfect for Red. The characters will be named after their original names from the game with the exception of Yellow. Thanks for reading... Reviews are always appreciated.