Hey everyone welcome to the next installment of 'Shadow Academy' hope you enjoy it!
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Cali smiled, she loved the thrill of battling. Adrenaline rushing while you tried to outsmart you opponent, nothing could be better. "The next battles will be one-on-one battles. I will call two names at a time, whenever your name is called please step up. Elizabeth Thomas and Chase Nguyen."
Liz stepped up along with another girl. She had black shoulder length that had a blonde streak on her bangs. She was roughly 120 pounds with a average build for a girl her age. She was wearing dark purple zipper-vest with a black tank-top underneath, a white pair of skinny jeans, black high-top converses, with a skull on one side, and a silver heart necklace.
Her face was set on a blank look unlike Liz who was openly smiling. Liz went to one side of the field while Chase went to the other. The referee stepped up and held out both hands "This is a one-on-one battle between Elizabeth and Chase. You may begin now" stepping back, he went to his respective place.
"Go Ice" Liz called as she released her Medicham, he landed gracefully on the ground. Chase silently released her Glaceon. "Fire punch" Liz called, Medicham rushed towards glaceon as his fist was surrounded with fire.
"Double team" Chase calmly said as Glaceon made multiple copies of itself surrounding Medicham.
"Try to find the real one" Medicham desperately hit each one before he could finish Glaceon sent a shadow ball towards him. Not having time to dodge he took a direct hit.
"Are you ok Medicham?" Liz asked, worried for her friend. He got slowly got up "Good, use psychic" Medicham's eyes glowed blue as Glaceon was outline in a blue aura. Medicham slammed Glaceon onto the floor.
"Use ice beam" Glaceon got up as a she shot a blue beam out of her mouth.
"Quick, use hidden power" white circles formed around Medicham. He sent it off, both attacks collided with each other.
"Swift" Chase yelled, Glaceon sent a fury of stars toward Medicham. Taking a direct hit, Medicham fell down unconscious. "Medicham is unable to battle, the winner is Chase."
Liz sighed as she returned her pokemon. Walking up to Chase, Liz stuck her hand out "That was a good battle, I look forward to battling you again." Chase silently shook her hand.
"The next battle will be between Calista Cortez and Marina Skye." Cali walked up as did another girl. She has shoulder length wavy dark brown hair with blond streaks. Her eyes are a deep blue and her skin is slightly tanned. She has shoulder length dark brown hair with blond streaks. Her eyes are a deep blue and her skin is slightly tanned. She wore a black hair band with a white pokeball symbol, a white, short-sleeved hoodie, with black jeans, white trainers and black fingerless gloves.
"Go Blaze" Marina yelled while she threw her pokeball in the air. A Infernape came out, he held a face expression that one could describe as cocky. Cali smirked
"Go Storm" a Buizel appeared as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Use aqua jet" Storm covered himself in water as he raced towards Blaze. Blaze quickly dodged in blinding speed, "Use mach punch" Blaze's hand glowed blue as he hit Storm he landed on the ground but quickly got up.
"Use icebeam to freeze him onto the ground and then use waterpulse." Cali said as Storm sent a beam that froze Blaze to the ground. He started forming a water ball and it grew bigger and bigger.
"Use flame wheel to melt the ice" Blaze cloaked itself in fire as the ice slowly melted. It finally melted but Blaze didn't have time to dodge the water pulse and took a direct hit. "Use close combat" Marina called as Blaze rushed up to Storm and started kicking and punching Storm repeatedly. When he was finished Storm was laying on the ground knocked out.
"Buizel is unable to battle. The winner is Marina Skye" the referee declared, Cali returned Buizel to his pokeball. She walked towards Liz "You were great out there" Liz said smiling. Cali said her thanks and turned towards the battle field "The next battle will be between Haru Suruzaki and Corey Spina."
Haru sent out her Rapidash named Flare and Corey sent out his Gengar. "Use thunderbolt" Gengar sent a beam of electricity at Flare, "Counter with flamethrower" Haru said as Flare sent as blast of fire. They both collided but the thunderbolt was stronger and broke through. It hit Flare as she gave out a cry of pain. "Use firespin" Flare sent a spiral of flames towards Gengar. "Use shadowball" Gengar sent a small, dark ball towards Flare. Flare jumped high in the air dodging it. "Now use stomp" Flare used all her weight as she fell and landed on Gengar.
"Shadow punch" Corey cried taking advantage at how close Flare was. Gengar hit Flare as she was sent skidding on the ground. She slowly got up breathing heavily. Both trainers called out attacks, Flare sent out a flamethrower and Gengar sent out a sludgebomb. Both attacks collided causing a explosion and for the field to be covered with smoke. When it cleared up, Corey didn't waste any time "Use nightshade" Gengars eyes glowed red as it fired a black beam at Flare. She gave a cry of pain as it hit and fell to the ground. "Flare is unable to battle, the winner is Corey Spina."
"And the winner of the tournament is Corey Spina" Mr. Grayson stated dully "And now comes the second part of challenge. You are to go on a scavenger hunt of sorts, using only each other and you're pokemon. After you finish each challenge you will go to your assigned teacher and they will give you a stamp on your arm" Mr. Grayson stated coldly only stopping to judge our reaction before continuing "Group 1 is Elizabeth, Jason, Jefrey, Bilal and Chase, the teacher will be waiting for you afer you finish each challenge Mr. Wolf. And group 2 will be Calista, Jaden, Elly, Lyle and Evan, and the teacher that will be doing the same as Mr. Wolf is Miss Jenny" everyone split up and went to their groups.
"Hey Liz is that your group over there?" Cali pointed to where Jason and Chase were standing near two new faces. Both were guys and they both seemed like they were bored.
"Yup thats them! I'll see you later, come one Sun" Liz replied before running off to the group with Sun on her heels.
"She is so gonna go crazy in the group. What do you think Loken" she asked the Riolu that was sitting on her head, he nodded before pointing over to their group.
"Hey guys are you ready for the challenge!" Liz yelled causing the group to flich but otherwise they said nothing, Liz turned to the two people she didn't know. "I'm Liz, what is your name?" she asked the dude with wild silver hair that had his bangs covering his amber eyes, he wore worn jeans, and a silver jacket over a white t-shirt.
"I'm Jeffrey just like Principle Grayson said it was" he answered dully, Liz felt her temper rise.
"Well no need to be rude!" she snapped loudly, Jeffrey just turned and walked a little further away. She turned to the guy with umkempt black hair and misty gray eyes wearing some jeans and a gray t-shirt which could hardley been seen under the hooded cloak he was wearing "So that must mean you are Bilal" he nodded but said nothing which made Liz let out a frustrated sigh.
"We should hed out" Chase spoke up watching the other groups leave, Liz nodded and stomped off in some random direction after taking the list of charms they needed to get from Mr. Wolf. Only when they were in the middle of the forest that surrounded the academy did Liz think to actually LOOK at the paper that had the clues to find the charms on it.
"What the heck is this supposed to mean!" Liz exclaimed waving the paper around until Jason snatched it away and scanned over it.
*The first charm comes from knowledge that the wood is biggest in the center and can only 160 Swings of fury can cut the strings of a 90 Weathered nights by flying 20ft to the horizon* Jason stared at it while doing mental calculations in his head.
"Any ideas Mr Smarty-pants?" Liz snapped.
"We will find the charm 160 degrees south and 90 degrees west in the middle of the woods on the biggest tree 20ft off the ground" Jason stated handing the paper back to Liz who in turn just kind of looked as he led the way with Jeffry, Chase, and Bilal wondering behind him. It took about a half hour before they got to the actual heart of the forest, which not so surprisingly was a HUGE tree with giant leaves the reflected a bright green in the sunlight.
"And what exactly are we looking for?" Bilal mumbled.
"Up there" Jason stated pointing to one of the highest branches where a deep red feather hanging in the middle of an Aridos web.
"And how are we supposed to get that?" Liz questioned stomping her foot, Sun sat on her haunches staring up at the feather in aw.
"Like this" Jason answered pulling out a pokeball "Go Slash" he said and in a flash of light out came a Scyther who buzzed around angrily. "Slash got cut the feather out of the web" Slash zoomed and started using fury cutter on the web, only seconds later came back and handed Jason the feather before returning to his pokeball.
"Well that is one down. What is the next one?" Liz looked at the clue.
*The next charm is in the eye of the beholder from a different point of view but still captured by others* Liz was once again puzzled so she looked to the others for help but Jason was studying the feather/charm that they found, Bilal was messing around with a knife that he pulled out of nowhere, Jeffrey just looked like he wasn't going to help out, and Chase was sitting by under the tree with her Pichu drawing something in the distance. Liz did a double take looking at the clue then to Chase and back again.
"Chase what are you drawing?" she asked running over to her teammate, Chase looked up and simply pointed off at least a mile away to a hill covered in multicolored flowers "Why are you drawing that?" Chase shrugged "Will you look at the clue and tell me what you think?" Liz handed the sheet to Chase who studied it for a second before looking at the hill, then her sketchpad, then the clue again before getting up and heading in the direction of what she was drawing.
"The next charm is this way" was all she said as she left the rest to follow her, it took another 20 minutes to walk to the hill when they got there they didn't see any sign of the charm.
"So where is it?" Liz asked getting impatient again.
"Around here somewhere" was Chase's sharp reply before anything else could be said though there was a cry from the bottom of the hill.
"Pi chu Pichu" Chase's Pichu called waving around gold feather.
"Where did you get that Pichu?" Chase questioned her pokemon who in turn pointed to a tiny hole that only he could fit through.
"Cool on to the next clue!" Liz cheered loudly making everyone cringe.
*Catch the shadow* was all it said making Liz get even more annoyed and was just about to tell everyone just how much when she was knocked on her but by a speeding ball of gray and black fur.
"What the heck!" she exclaimed, she shadow like figure turned out to be a Poochyena who turned around and had yet another feather in his mouth only this time it was a yellow and green. Looking back at the clue it suddenly made sense, pulling out her pokeball that contained Ice her Medicham she raced after the dark type pokemon with Ice keeping pace all with her all the way. The little sucker took off at an amazing speed and started running around the clearing and over the hills trying to shake Liz and her pokemon but they kept going at it, after about 10 minutes of running full speed the Poochyena seemed to be getting tired because they gained on him.
"Ice use force plam" Liz called when they got close enough, Medicham slammed his hand right in the dark puppy's side causing him to drop the feather and run away frightened. "Yeah we did it!" Liz danced around happily with the feather in her hand and hugging Ice before returning him to his pokeball.
*This charm is in the shadows the exsist below and above the ground* Bilal took the paper this time and walked around the side of the hill until he came to a large hole actually it was more of a cave.
"We better hurry the sun is setting" Jason gazed at the twindiling source of light.
"It's in there" he said as he walked in with the others followed, Liz was actually making small talk with Chase as the group walked down the tunnel.
"So where did you learn to run for that long?" Chase questioned quietly.
"I play a lot of sports so I'm always running around" Liz replied, there was an akward silence until Bilal stopped and let out his Shedinja that was named Fernade.
"What are you doing?" Jason questioned, Bilal shushed us then motioned for us to come over into the hole he was looking through, Liz gasped as the hole led into a wide cavern that was filled with sleeping Steelix and Aggron. What was worse was that a piece of black fabric off an Aggron's horn.
"How are we going to get that?"
"I'll get it" Bilal stated as he and Fernade slowly crept through the opening. Everyone was dead silent as he snuck over and around the steel type power houses, it was all good until one of them woke up. Bilal whipped his cloak around and blended himself and his pokemon against the shadow, the Steelix looked around lazily before putting his head back down and falling asleep. Only when it was snoring rather loudly did Bilal move and slowly reached over and grabbed the cloth and started his way back to the others, he was almost back the only thing was a Steelix body but everything turned bad because...
"Oops" Liz sqeeked as a piece of the wall broke off and landed on the lumbring giants head causing it to roar awake along with the rest of the cave.
"Fernade use haze" Shedinja let out a smoke blocking the kids from view as they ran further down the cave to a wierd door, without wasting any time the ran inside and shut it behind them.
"Guys there isn't a last clue" Jason said looking at the paper.
"That is because I am the last clue" they whirled around only to be greeted by a man in a grey robe with black hair and a beard "To get the last charm you must face me in a one on one battle" and with that he let out a Scizor.
"This one is mine" Jeffrey spoke for the first time since insulting Liz when they first got in the group "Ninetails take care of this weakling" the majestic fox pokemon appeared ready for battle.
"You will pay for that weakling comment" the old dude said "Scizor use quick attack and hyperbeam" Scizor flew at amazing speed and launched a powerful orange beam at the fire fox who just sat there.
"Dodge then over heat" Ninetails simply ducked as the beam and Scizor flew over her head before spinning around and blasted a powerful explosion of fire at the armor pokemon sending it into a wall and knocking it out.
"Alas you have beaten me in one shot" the old man cried dramatically before handing Jeffrey a green scale "As I promised here is the charm" he said before turning to the rest of us "You shall sleep here for the night then leave through that exit in the morning" he pointed to some mats, pillows, and blankets, before pointing to the another door on the opposite side of the room "Good night all" and with that he was gone.
"That was wierd" Liz commented as she and the others settled down "I wonder how Cali's trip went?" she yawned finally feeling how tired she was, Sun already asleep next to her before she went into a peaceful sleep.
Well that is chapter 4 and just an update MidnightheartXxX and myself Pontiger27 are not going to be able to update for at least a week because I am going on vacation and she is moving so we made the chapter extra long in hopes that it will tie you over until we return. Also the reason we asked about the lengendaries will be revealed in due time. Read and Review.
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