Chapter 4: The bets
"Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!" Misty's alarm clock rang loudly. Today is Friday. That means it's only 1 more day to their first Hearthome shopping spree! Dawn had also waked up due to her alarm clock. Both of them stared at Amelia, who was already up, sitting on the floor. "Amelia." Dawn yawned. "What are you doing?" Amelia did not answer Dawn.
Suddenly, there was a flash and a pokeball appeared. Amelia took it and smiled. "I teleported my Glaceon over." (I did say in the first chapter that Amelia had psychic powers.) "Why did you do that? May already have a Glaceon." Misty said, gesturing to the sleeping May. "I figure that it would be neat to have four eeveelutions with me." Amelia giggled.
"Erm... who would like to wake May up? Not me, 'cause the last time I did that, I almost got hit by a fire ball." Dawn said, looking at the sleeping May. "I will." Misty offered. Dawn and Amelia head over to the bathroom. Misty hovers above May and formed a water ball. She shoots the water ball at May. May was jolted awaked. "Misty! What did you do that for?" She demanded. "Come on, let's get dress." Amelia called from the bathroom.
After a while, the Maple Sisters were ready. Misty's wearing a sequined yellow tank top with a white leather jacket. She was wearing a white mini skirt and sandals with diamond. She wore that outfit in high hopes that Dawn and Amelia would not make her change. "Hmm...Great outfit Misty." Dawn said approvingly. "But." Amelia added. Misty cringed. "You can't wear sandals with that outfit!" Amelia said.
Amelia reached into her closet and pulled out a yellow spike heel boots and handed them to Misty. Misty stared at the spike heel boots before putting them on. May was wearing a red spaghetti top with a black cardigan, black mini skirt and sandals with diamond. She was also wearing her bandana. Obviously trying to get Amelia and Dawn to not make her change her outfit like Misty. "Quite nice May. I think you would need to remove the bandana though." Amelia said. "Yeah! And I know the perfect thing to go with your outfit!" Dawn exclaimed.
Dawn rooted in her closet before producing a fake rose hair pin. She removed the bandana and pinned the rose on one side of May's hair. "Sisters, why can May wear her sandals but not me?" Misty whined. "OMG! I did not notice May's sandals!" Dawn and Amelia said in pure shock. Amelia shoved a pair of red spike heel boots and hand them to May. May pouted and glared at Misty. Misty responded by giving an innocent look.
Dawn was wearing a pink cashmere sweater, white skinny jeans with white roses on both sides of her jeans. She had her pink boots to finish off her outfit. Amelia nodded in satisfaction. Now Dawn's checking out Amelia's outfit.
Amelia's outfit consist of a white sundress with lacy purple trim on the hem. She let her strawberry blonde hair flow freely, but she pinned a violet hairpin in it. She wore her purple sandals with diamond. "Nice Amelia." May said. "But why do you get to wear the sandals?" She added meaningfully. Dawn spoke up. "Amelia! This is nice. And May, she wore the sandals because it would give her a casual look." Amelia nodded in agreement.
"Aren't you gonna get cold?" Misty asked. Amelia reached into her purple book bag and pulled out a soft purple cardigan. "I'm always prepared." Amelia snickered. "Let's go for breakfast! I'm hungry!" May whined. "Alright. When are you not hungry?" Dawn teased.
(At the cafeteria...) (Normal POV)
The Maple Sisters went to a table. All the Sisters decided to have pancakes for breakfast today. Misty had pancakes with fruits. May had pancakes with chocolate fudge, marshmallows and ice cream. Amelia had pancakes with maple syrup and Dawn had pancakes with ice cream. Each of them had an energy bar and mixed fruit drink.
As May was happily chomping away, a voice behind her sneered, "Gee March. Lost your appetite?" May said furiously, "I'm not a big breakfast eater and stop calling me different months!" Drew held up his hands as though in surrender. "Alright then, MAY." He said, putting major emphasis on May's name.
"Hey, what's up with all your outfits today?" Ash asked, while munching his breakfast. "Ash, don't talk while you're eating." Misty chided. "Yes mum." Ash muttered. "He's right." Drew said, looking at Misty and May. "You both don't always dress up." Paul added.
"We decide to dress up for a change because we don't want Amelia and Dawn yakking at us." May said through her mouthful of food. Misty chided her. May pouted. "I did not expect you two to go as far as to wear spike heel boots." Justin pointed out.
"Courtesy to Amelia." May said, staring at Amelia. The boys plonked their breakfast trays on the table and sat down. Misty and Ash were both arguing over the fact that who is a better battler. While they were arguing, Ash tried to steal Misty's energy bar... again... (Ash tried to steal Misty bar in chapter 1, remember?)
"Slow down Maple. It's not like somebody is going to steal your food." Drew teased May, while passing another blood red rose to her. May ignored him and continued munching her food. Drew sneakily got near May's face, then he breathe hot breathes on May. "Eww!" May shrieked. May's always present beautifly attacked Drew instantly. Drew groaned.
While Amelia is eating her food, Justin put his arms around Amelia's bare shoulders. Once Amelia felt the warmth on her cool skin, she flinched. She stopped eating for a while to slap Justin across the face. Azuril used its tail to slap Justin as well.
People around the table sniggered, clearing enjoying the show that Justin is getting smacked by one of the new girls. Soon, the 1st bell rang. All of the head over to homeroom. Argh...why is that jerk in every single one of my classes? Amelia said through telepathy to her Sisters. How would I know? Ashy boy is in every single one of my lessons. Misty replied. Grass head is in every single one of mine. May said. I think you guys would know who's in every single one of my lessons except coordinator class 'cause he is a trainer. Dawn complained.
In homeroom, after hearing the morning announcements, Miss Casey allowed the class to do whatever they want, as usual. "Great. They are coming to bother us again." Dawn muttered as she saw the boys' heads turn.
"Looks like our gym teachers have gathered together and gave us an obstacle course." Misty said. "Really?" Ash asked in amazement. "Yes." Drew said sharply. "Do any of you know what we are supposed to do?" Amelia asked. "The obstacle course is always the same. Hurdles, 2 kilometre run, beam and 2 kilometres swim." Justin said.
"You'll need to have a Pokémon to do each round with you." Paul said coldly. Dawn narrowed her eyes at Paul's coldness. "Your Pokémon would be waiting for you at the start of the next station. No flying types allowed for the entire course." Ash said. "I'm going with Corsola, Politoad, Togepi then Dewgong." Misty said.
"I'm going with Squritle, Glaceon, and Skitty and..." May trailed off. "No worries. I'll loan you my starmie for the water course." Misty said as she knew that if May could use her blaziken for one of the course, squritle would be in the swim course. "Thanks." May replied.
"I'm going with cyndaquill, Pachirisu, Buneary and Piplup!" Dawn merrily said. "And I'm going with Leafeon, Delcatty, Glaceon (We'll call her Glacia as May has a Glaceon too.) and Azuril." Amelia said confidently. "Are you sure Azuril can swim that far?" Justin asked sceptically. "Of course." Amelia replied, glaring at him.
"Hey, how about this, I'm challenging Misty in the obstacle course." Ash said. "Really? I bet that I'm faster than you!" Misty said with a grin. "Then I'm challenging Amelia!" Justin said. "I'm challenging May." Drew said. "So I guess it leaves me with Troublesome." Paul said in a bored tone.
"If any of you loses, you would have to spend Saturday night in our dorm." Justin said with a grin. They all are determine to win. "No worries. On Saturday and Sunday, you could sleep over at other people's dorms. It's in the school handbook." Ash said, sensing the girl's hesitation. Amelia glances at her Sisters. They all look determine. "Bring it on." Amelia said in behalf of her Sisters. "If we beat you guys, you would go shopping with us to carry our bag." Amelia added with a smirk.
Dawn cheered. She loves the idea of having someone carrying her stuff. The boys gulped.
At the gym... (Normal POV)
"Remember our bet." Drew said cockily. "Of course we would." May said. "Prepare to lose." Paul gruffly said. "Not on our watch!" Dawn replied.
"Ready, Set, BEGIN!" Coach Maylene shouted. As soon as Coach Maylene said 'begin', the boys and The Maple Sisters started jumping hurdles with their partners. Ash is leading, with May not far behind. At the 2 kilometre run, Dawn caught up with Ash. She and Pachirisu are a great team. Amelia and Delcatty have great speed and stamina too. By the end of the run, Amelia and Dawn both finished their run at the same time.
But Amelia and Glacia proved to be better in beams. Dawn was lagging behind. Misty finally caught up with her. The boys and May were catching up too. Each determines not to lose the bet. At the swimming course, Amelia, Justin, May and Drew are leading. Even though they start their first lap later than Amelia, Justin, May and Drew, the rest started their 2nd lap the same time as the four.
Now it has turned into a three way competition, they are fighting themselves, their stamina and time. All of them are matched, but at the last lap, things are obviously different.
"Oof!" May, Misty, Justin and Paul reached the finishing line at the same time. But alas! Amelia, Dawn, Ash and Drew made it 5 seconds later! Uh-Oh... Amelia thought. 2 of us lost the bet. While 2 of us won? So what are we going to do?
Justin seemed to read Amelia's mind. "So what are we going to do?" He asked. "Yeah. 2 won and 2 lost." Paul added, glaring savagely at Ash and Drew. Drew and Ash gulped. "How about all of us go sleepover at your dorm on Saturday night and you all help us out while we shop on Saturday?" Misty suggested. "Good idea." Ash piped. "So I guessed it's settled then." May mumbled, silently groaned at the thought that the boys are tagging along on their shopping day and they have to sleepover at their dorm.
"Come on, let's take a shower. Then we'll have to head over to our next class." Dawn said, heading to the locker rooms. "Bummer, I have battlers class while you guys have coordinators class." Misty mumbled. "Uh-oh!" Dawn exclaimed. "What?" The rest inquired. "That means Misty would be alone with Paul and Ash!" Dawn replied. "Gosh! I had not thought of that!" Misty moaned. "Oh well..." Amelia said. "Best of luck to you." May say sympathetically. "Thanks." Misty mumbled.
(Trainer's class) (Misty's POV)
Argh...I sure hope I make a new girl friend. I so do not fancy being in the same class as two idiots! Misty thought to herself. "All right!" Miss Claire shouted above the chatters of the class. "Hey Misty. Wanna sit with us?" Ash offered. "I guess so." I murmur. "You are afraid that you are alone without your sister's right?" Ash asked kindly. I nodded in surprise. "No worries. We aren't that bad." Paul spoke up.
I smiled to myself. Ash and Paul seems OK. I said through telepathy to my sisters as Miss Claire said, "Let's begin today's lesson." I noticed in dismay that Candy and Apple are in this class too.
(coordinator's class) (Nobody's POV)
"Hmm...Let's get to work. I want to see all of you do an appeal." Mr Wallace announced. "Let's have our best at appeals to perform for us first." He added with a little smile. Drew smirked and flicked his hair. His fan girl shrieked. Mr Wallace doesn't seem annoyed by the shrieks. I guess he must be used to it by now. May thought.
"Go Masquerain!" Drew shouted. "Use sliver wind. Then combine hidden power." Drew instructed Masquerain calmly. Masquerain created a sliver tornado and use hidden power on it. The sliver tornado sparkled. "Finish up with ice beam and bubble!" Drew said. Masquerain froze the tornado then shatter it with bubble. "Good job, as always." Mr Wallace praised. Drew flicked his bangs with a smirk towards May's direction.
"Alright! Now let's have our schools best at contest battling to make an appeal, Justin Hayden!" Mr Wallace announced with a proud smile. Justin flicked his hair like his cousin and his fan girls gone wild. The three Maple Sisters sweat dropped. "Let's go Bayleef!" Justin yelled. "Use razor leaf, and then light it up with solar beam!" Justin continued. Bayleef's razor leaf glittered because of the solar beam. "Now finish up with vine whip." Justin smirked as he said it.
Bayleef's sparky razor leaf burst into glitters. The glitters were falling on the whole class. Justin's fan girls cheered wildly. The Maple Sisters sweat dropped again. Except this time, Mr Wallace sweat dropped along with them.
I guess we are still not used to fan girls cheering. Amelia thought to herself. "Very well done Justin." Mr Wallace wearily said. "Can I have May to do an appeal now?" He asked. May stood up and head over to the front of the class. Drew looked in her direction and smirked.
May narrowed her eyes. She knew what he was thinking. He thought that she can't top his performance? Well, we'll just see. She thought indignantly. "Squritle, on stage!" She said calmly. The tiny turtle Pokémon appeared in a flash. "Squritle, let's start off with a spiralling bubble attack." May instructed.
Squritle knew what to do. He went into his shell and use rapid spin. Then he use bubble. The bubbles floated in the air. The class woo and ah. May caught an amazed look on Drew's face. May smirk in satisfaction. So far so good. May thought. "Now use ice beam!" May said. Squritle's ice beam frozen the bubbles.
"Now finish up with aqua tail!" May said. Squritle let his tail shine, brightening up the class, before he hit the frozen bubbles with aqua tail. The frozen bubbles rained glitter onto the class. "Good job Squritle." May praised. Squritle beamed in delight.
"Very well done." Mr Wallace said, surprised as he did not expect such a wonderful performance from newbies. "Next up, Dawn!" "Not bad for a klutz." Drew teased May as soon as she sat down. "Quiet Drew!" Justin hissed. "I want to video down Dawn's performance for Paul." He finished, fiddling with a video camera.
"OMG! Don't tell me, you guys videoed down my performance too?" May asked. "Yep. In fact, we always video down our fellow classmate's performance and battles." Drew said. "Be quiet all of you." Amelia had joined the conversation. "Dawn's about to start her performance." She harshly whispered.
"Pachirisu, spotlight!" Dawn shouted. The electric fur ball appeared, the female population cooed at the sight of such a cute Pokémon. "Pachirisu, use sweet kiss!" Dawn shouted. Pachirisu released lots of red hearts into the air. "Now use spark!" Dawn screamed as she was feeling pretty nervous as she knew Justin was videoing down her performance.
Pachirisu's sparks made the hearts fizzled with electricity. Good. Good thing I did not mess that spark part up like I always do. Dawn thought in relieve. "Now use discharge to finish it up." She finished calmly. The discharge made the hearts explode into red sparks because the sparks has electrified the hearts.
"Yay! Good job Dawn!" Amelia congratulated Dawn once she returned to her seat. "Thanks." Dawn relied proudly. "Now I want Megan to perform." Mr Wallace said. Megan stalked over to Justin before she made her way to the front of the class. She said to Justin, "I want you to video my performance down as well. And show it to Paul." She said in a sickly sweet voice. Justin only gulped and nodded.
"Now Ledian! It's play time!" Megan said, with a hint of pride in her voice. "Use swift!" She commanded. "And then, add supersonic!" She added. Ledian's supersonic made the swift and air around it seems to vibrate. "Now finish it with dynamic punch!" She finished with an arrogant smile. The dynamic punched hit the swift. And the swift shook violently before bursting into sparks, raining into the class.
However, as it rained down, it seems to have the sound of a high A note along with it. "You did quite a good job Megan." Was Mr Wallace's comment. "Amelia, let's see what you've got."
As Amelia went up, Dawn remarked," That was OK I guess." "Hmm. You may be right. Even thought she is very conceited, I don't think it is easy achieving music with her attacks." May pointed out.
"Mr Wallace, may I do a double performance?" Amelia asked. "Sure! Why not?" Mr Wallace replied, pleased that a student had prepared a double performance.
"Glaceon, Leafeon, charm up!" Amelia said calmly, even though she knew that Justin was filming down her performance. "Glaceon, spin and use blizzard! And Leafeon, you use magical leaf!" Amelia instructed. Glaceon's spinning blizzard created a light snow tornado. And Leafeon added the sparky leaf to the swirling snow.
"Glaceon, use a shadow ball on the tornado!" The shadow ball went into the tornado, but it was stuck in there, unable to move. The class gasped. "Now let's finish it up. Leafeon, use iron tail on the shadow ball! Glaceon! Protect Leafeon by jumping into the snow tornado and use mirror coat!" As Leafeon jumped into the tornado, Glaceon jumped in there too. When Leafeon hit the shadow ball, pretty purple dust came out from the shadow ball. Leafeon was not hurt at all as Glaceon's mirror coat protected it all the way.
The two eeveelutions jumped out of the tornado. The class ooh and ahh as they see the result of the snow tornado and shadow ball combination. The purple dust that came from the shadow ball was frozen in mid air in a heart shape. Amelia bowed and said, "That's all." The class erupted into cheers.
"Whoa. I don't know that she was so good." Drew commented quietly. "She's the best when it comes to contest battling and contest appeals. Sometimes I think she might have a shot in winning the Grande Festival." May said, still in awed at Amelia's performance.
"Yeah. Unfortunately, she's still in High school." Dawn said, feeling sad for her sister. "Yep. Maybe after this high school, she could become a top coordinator." Justin said. "Hello!" Amelia bubbly voice greeted them.
"That performance was wonderful!" Dawn exclaimed. Amelia was about to thanked Dawn when Mr Wallace's voice interrupted her. "That was a fantastic performance Amelia. I think you will have a shot at becoming a top coordinator after school."
Cornelia sulked at Mr Wallace's words. "Cornelia, you up." Mr Wallace said. "May I do a double performance too?" Cornelia asked in a sickly sweet voice. Mr Wallace just shrugged. "Plusle and Minun! Do it for Cornelia!" She screamed an ear piercing scream.
The Maple sisters covered their ears. "Is she always like that?" Dawn complained. "Apparently yes." Drew replied. "How come you guys are not affected by it?" May demanded. Drew and Justin took out their ear buds and showed it to The Maple Sisters. "Idiot." Drew said to May. May glare at him.
"Plusle, Minun, use spark!" Cornelia said. Plusle and Minun did a spark combo.
(In battler's class) (Paul's POV)
There's only one word to describe this class: Boring. Nothing else except boring. On many other normal days, Miss Claire would match us up and tell us to battle. Sometimes she might get us to do a tag battle. But today, Miss Claire decided to teach us some Dragon type Pokémon traits.
I covered my mouth as I yawned. Ash, however, is not so polite. He yawned without covering his mouth. Misty, wrinkled her nose in disgust and continued taking down notes. I stared at Misty in surprise. I did not know she is the type that takes down notes. But hey, at least she's much more hard working than troublesome. I smirked as I thought about troublesome.
During science class yesterday, I was unlucky enough to be paired up with her. But she's just so easy to be made fun of. "What are you smirking at?" Ash sleepily asked. "Huh? Ash? You are awake? Gee, I'm so surprised! You are not awake when you are supposed to take notes when teachers are teaching." Paul said in surprise. "Hmm?" Ash said while smiling.
Paul ignored him and continues to take his notes. After a while, he sneaked a peek at Ash. To his horror, he saw Ash staring dreamily at Misty. Paul rubbed his eyes, he could not believe he is seeing Ash awake during class and staring at a girl!
Paul elbowed Ash. Ash yelped in pain. The sudden noise made Misty stop copying notes and look at Ash and Paul, her expression saying 'What?' Paul hissed to Ash, "Are you in love with Misty?" Ash reddens and quickly said, "No! I'm not! And, if I'm in love with Misty then that means that you're in love with Dawn!"
Unfortunately for Paul, Ash said all of the words softly except for 'you're in love with Dawn'. As soon as those words left his mouth, Misty stopped copying notes and eagerly asked Paul, "REALLY?" Paul groaned. "No! Ash is just talking trash! Continue copying notes!" He frantically said. "Nah. I've finished copying. I deserve a break." Misty said with a grin.
Paul inwardly groans. Misty is not letting me off the hook now... He thought sadly. But fortunately for Paul, Miss Claire announced that she'll be giving them a quiz right now. Misty immediately took out her pens and got ready for the test. Meanwhile, Ash groaned loudly.
Paul sighed in relief. Even though he does not like pop quizzes, but this round, they had safe him from a round of stuttering in front of Troublesome's sister.
(At the cafeteria...) (Normal POV)
"Pfft!" Dawn said wearily. "So unfair! It's only my second day in this school and I've already got homework!" "We are in the same class as you. So we have the work to do too." May pointed out. "Hey, you guys joined here in the middle of the term. So you guys should have expected homework on the first few days of you school." Ash said cheerfully.
"As I was saying during breakfast, are you guys on diet?" Paul asked Dawn and Amelia. Whose lunch consists of salad...again... "Let's drop this subject." Drew quickly said as he does not want to hear Dawn and Amelia's reason for eating salad for almost every day.
"Do you guys want to come over to our room to hang out for a while before heading back to your room?" Justin asked. "Why not?" Misty said. "We could do homework at the same time." Amelia added. A frown appeared on the boy's foreheads. "Why look so confuse? WE all had home work." Dawn said as she digged into her food.
"Oh. It's just that we gave our work to our fan girls. They help us to do our work Troublesome." Paul replied. "Geez. Never mind. We'll do it before dinner then." Amelia said, rolling her eyes. "Hey, what's wrong?" Justin asked. "It's not our fault that we are so charming that girls want to help us to do our work." He finished, flashing a boyish grin.
The rest of the boys grinned along. Misty whipped out her mallet and whacked them. Unfortunately for Misty, her mallet broke when she finished hitting their heads. "Woo hoo!" Ash cheered. "The mallet's broken!" The boys all joined in the cheers.
But their happiness is short lived. Amelia instructed Azuril to use its tail to whack the boys' head. "Now that's something that will not break." Dawn declared with a smirked.
I've finally finished the 4th chappie! It took such a long time, I'm sorry. My school teachers gave me plenty of homework to last a life time. How do you like the story so far? Please review!