Shadow: Sorry for the wait but I have lots of summer camp registration to go thtough, but here I am!
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The Test of Courage
I didn't get a chance to talk to Keith because when he left, class was dismissed, he skipped dinner, hasn't left his room so there was no chance to talk to him. The picture he drew was folded up, and taped into my diary which was under lock and key. That outta keep stupid rumors from starting.
At about 9:00 I was finishing a letter to my little sister when Rythmi suggested that we sneaked out, I didn't see why not.
When we left the girls dorm we saw some other students that I recognized from class which included Isaac, Ponte, even Keith dragged himself out of his room to come. This is when I was really confused.
"Okay, what's going on here?"
"The Test of Courage, it's a tradition at our school, you see, four of us hid our school stylers in four rooms of the school: teacher's lounge, library, Ms. April's class, and Mr. Kinciad's class. You have to find them, then put them in front of the basement." Rythmi explained.
"It seems simple enough, well, I'm off." I said as I started in the direction of the stairs.
"Hold up!" Isaac said.
"Huh? What is it?" I asked. Was something wrong, was there a catch?
"It's too dangerous, so you have to go with the person who sits next to you in class, which is Keith." Replied Isaac.
"What! No way, I thought it was Rythmi!" Keith yelped.
"No Keith it's the person on the RIGHT of the person going." Rythmi said as she read out of a blue book that looked very old.
Keith sulked as he muttered things under his breath. At that moment, Rythmi walked over and said into my ear "Don't worry, Keith is just scared of the dark." We both giggled into our palms about that.
"I am NOT!" Keith's voice rang through our ears.
'Ready, Set, Begin!'
Me and Keith trotted down the stairs and heard a loud noise which made Keith nearly jump out of his skin, the owner of the noise... a cute and harmless Bidoof walking the main hall.
"Oh, how cute." I ran up to the Bidoof and started to pet it.
"Yeah, I knew it was a Bidoof all along." Keith said trying to look smug. I rolled my eyes. 'Of course he did... What's not to scream about, a cute little brown Pokemon that couldn't harm a fly.'
Walking into Ms. April's classroom, I saw five crates which is when I used the Bidoof from the hallway to smash with ease, which showed another Bidoof, a Pichu, a pencil, a homework pass that had Keith's name on it that I handed to him, and finally the first styler. When I got the styler Keith finally got the guts to talk.
"Listen... I'm sorry if I was avoiding you, I was just scared because my tiny bit of a reputation, but I don't want to avoid you, I want to be friends, the reason the picture happened is because, if I think about one thing, my hands sometime doodle on their own. A bunch of kids in class were talking about you and I had a pencil in my hand... so uh-"
"Damn, did anybody ever tell you that you ramble a lot?"
"More times than you can imagine..."
"Look just forget the picture, lets just gather up the stylers and drop them in front of the basement, I really want to finish a letter to my little sister." I replied.
"Okay, plus I really want to go back to my dorm and sleep." Keith said drowsily.
'Geez, you'd think spending the entire day in your bed since 2:15 in the afternoon would at least have you awake at night.' Kate thought, while rolling her eyes. Kate stepped out of the class and into the class next door, Kinciad's class.
"So, how did Hairspray Head welcome you into the school?" Keith asked
"No running in the halls, I only saw him for 10 seconds and I hate him, I don't know, I just feel,well a erie aura around him, like he's hiding something... Must be imagining it." Kate responded, snickering at Kinciad's apropriate nickname.
Stepping into Kinciad's class I found two Bidoof, two Zubat, and a Pichu. I saw the styler on a table against the wall and trotted over to get the styler which I put into my pants pocket. When I turned around I saw both Zubat in front of me, I instinctively grabbed my styler and looped around both Zubat that we my friends in a few loops, and for no reason at all, I just captured the two Bidoof in the room and released the Zubat because I never planned on capturing them.
i walked over to the Library which Isaac told me was also known as Keith's nap room. Opening the door, I found a good reason that I caught the two Bidoof. There were two rows of crates that stopped me from getting to the Styler. Using both Bidoof, I smashed one Crate in each row and grabbed the Styler off the desk in the back.
I walked over to the Teacher's Lounge and found nothing out of place except a Pichu. I looked at Keith with a look that said 'Where the hell is the Styler?' Keith saw this and gestured towards the Pichu, which upon closer inspection, was in fact, holding a green School Styler, the only problem was that it was running all over without stopping.
'That Pichu may be fast, but I wasn't Captain of the track team for nothing.' Bolting after the Pichu, I caught the Electric Mouse pokemon in my hands as it tried to shock me, which didn't affect me because I was wearing the shock-proof gloves that my Uncle Lt. Surge gave me when I left for Almia. I gently took the Styler out of the Pichu's hands which it gave without caring. I let the Pichu go and it left in a hole in the wall.
"Well, time to go to the basement." Keith said. Remembering the last part of the Test of Courage, I paled, I had a bad history with basements.
"What's wrong, you look like your gonna puke or something." Keith said, his voice drenched with worry.
"I kinda got a bad history with basements..." Kate said, voice trembling.
"What happened?" Keith asked leaning on the table in the middle of the Teachers Lounge.
"When I was six my family was visiting my uncle Lt. Surge, I got bored so I wandered around the house with my older brother, Kellyn. We went into the basement and I saw something that looked like a ball, so I went to go get it."
"I don't see what's wrong." Keith said while I paused to take a breath.
"The 'ball' was actually a Electrode that shocked me senseless." Kate replied. "Kellyn ran for help, I had to be hospitalized for a while because of the power that almost put me into a coma. At my old home I stayed in the basement to think about things, but one day a wierd shadow was always in the basement, waiting for me. I told Kellyn and he found it was a Gengar which he let go, but I never went into the basement without my parent's, Kellyn, or one of Kellyn's pokemon." Kate said, downcast that she has to go into another basement.
"No problem, I'll be there, plus this basement is totally safe, come on." Keith and Kate were at the stairwell, on the first step to the basement.
"WHO'S THERE! ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE IN BED!" Both Kate and Keith recognized this as Kinciad's voice and broke into a run and along with the other students waiting for them upstairs, everyone ran into their rooms and jumped into their bed's.
'Almost caught, at least I didn't have to go into the basement.' Kate thought while handing the School Stylers from her top bunk to Rythmi's bed, which she took. 'I also gotta remember to thank Keith for listening to me and encouraging me to overcome my fear.'
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