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This is the old Chapter 7. Wonderful, right?
Platinum gently knocked on the her senior's door. "Blue." Platinum softly called out. No reply. She knocked on the door and called again a little louder. "Blue!"
"What?" The girl jumped back a little to avoid the door opening. Blue stood there, annoyance written on her face, but softened when she saw it was Platinum. She gestured for her to come in, silently closing the door. "So what's up Platinum? Trouble with Dia?" Blue asked, stifling a yawn.
"Yes." She lowered her eyes a bit. "Does everybody know about us?"
"It's easy to see." Blue laughed, before suddenly looking furious. "What's with the sad look? He didn't turn you down did he? Wait here, I'll go knock some sense into him!" She stood up, heading for the door.
Platinum jumped up. "No! It is not that! He did ask me, and we are going."
"Oh, then whats the problem?"
"He said he wanted to go, but just as friends..." Platinum said.
Blue sighed a bit. "What's the problem with that? He still asked you, didn't he?"
"Yes, but he said-" She started before Blue cut her off.
"Just as friends. Yeah, I heard already. But you should know he's just shy." Blue winked. "And he still asked you to the dance, didn't he? I'm surprised he got that far. Anyways, I wouldn't worry about it. You can still have a fun time dancing with a friend."
"Blue..." Platinum smiled at the older girl, a little shocked that the young woman was so nice to her. "You are right. Thank you."
Blue laughed. "Aren't I always right? Now, I'm assuming you didn't bring a dress, did you?"
The girl shook her head. Blue's eyes lit up. "Great! Now we have an excuse to be able to go shopping!"
"Shopping? Where? Were not allowed to leave the island without permission, and there are no shops on here, are there?"
"Of course not!" Blue winked again. "But there are some great boutiques on the Sevii Islands. And of course, I need a new dress too!"
"Sevii Islands? But how are we going to get there?" Platinum cocked her head a bit, looking confused.
"They're not far from here. We're technically still on them! I'm sure nobody would mind if we just took a quick trip down there."
Platinum's eyes brightened. "Really? Oh, thank you Blue!" She looked down again though. "But, I do not have any pokémon that can fly."
"Just leave it to me! Now go get some shut-eye. We can go this friday, before the big dance."
"Right. Thank you so much again Blue!" The girl hugged her senior before rushing out. Blue smiled before jumping back into bed and drifting off to sleep again.
Platinum was up early the next friday morning, brushing her hair. She had set her clock for four o'clock A.M for the past four days in order to get her body to adjust. After making sure she looked satisfactory, she quickly grabbed her pokéballs and walked to the door, opening and closing it as quietly as she could. She hopped lightly down the stairs two at a time, and stood at the front door, waiting for her senior to come. The clock ticked four thirty before she saw Blue come down. They waved to each other as the older girl ran over.
"You ready? Got your money?"
Platinum checked her pocket, looking for her wallet. "Oh dear, its back up in my room. I'll be right back."
She ran back up the stairs as quietly as she could and rushed to her room. She scanned the room quickly and spotted her wallet on her night side table. Grabbing it, and running her hand through her hair one more time in front of the mirror, she jogged back downstairs. As she got nearer, she could hear the strained whispers of Blue and... Crystal? When the girl got to the front door, she saw Blue and Crystal all dressed up in her day clothes in an argument, whispering at each other so as not to wake anybody.
"I can't believe you Blue!" Crystal whispered in what Platinum thought would have been a yell.
"What do you mean Crys? I'm sneaking out for a good cause!" Blue countered.
"Shopping is not a good reason for sneaking out!"
"Yes it is! Platinum and me need a dress. Are you really going to ruin her chance at love?"
Crystal bit the bottom of her lip, deep in thought about what she should do. Finally, she said, "Alright! You can go, but I'm coming with you!"
Blue clapped her hands. "Great! You need a dress too, and so does Yellow. I guess we should get one for Sapphire too."
Platinum giggled. "I guess everyone needs a dress. I will need to buy a suit for Dia too." She laughed again when she realized that she had just called Diamond by his nickname. 'That's a first.'
"Oh my, I hope you have enough money for all these formal clothes Platinum." The three girls laughed before she opened the door.
"Alright, let's go!" The trio ran outside to an open field. Blue called out her wigglytuff while Crystal called out Xatee. Blue grabbed on to Jiggly's leg before throwing another pokéball. Aero appeared, looking confused at not seeing his trainer. When he saw Blue, the prehistoric pokémon immediately flew over to her, cocking his head as if asking why he was sent out by her. She whispered quickly into his ear and turned around to Platinum. The girl was about to ask what they were talking about when Aero suddenly flew over, grabbed Platinum by the shoulders and flew up to follow Crystal, with Blue close behind.
The three landed a few minutes later in the middle of a town. After the first shock of being grabbed by a flying dinosaur pokémon, Platinum thought the ride had been almost enjoyable. Blue recalled their pokémon while Crystal recalled hers. The later turned to Blue.
"How did you even get Aero?" She asked.
Blue giggled a bit. "Let's just say I borrowed it from Red."
"Right... borrowed" Crystal said a little skeptically.
"Well? No sense in waiting. These stores are open twenty-four seven! Not really, but they open pretty early." Blue started to walk to a brightly colored store, with a few dresses on display behind the window. Platinum thought the dresses looked ridiculous, hoping this wasn't the "Most amazing store ever!" as Blue put it. Blue didn't hear the groan from her juniors as she walked into the store. She turned to her friends. "Alright Platinum, I think you can pick out your own dress. Take Crys with you too, and make sure she doesn't choose something horrible! I'm going to go find a dress for Yellow, Sapphire and myself. I can also pick up a suit for Dia. See ya, and good luck!" With that, she walked to the stairs and climbed up to the second floor.
"The nerve of her." Crystal huffed as she turned to her friend. "Alright, let's go find some dresses and get this over."
For the next half hour, Platinum was fighting hard not to laugh. Crystal really didn't know much about fashion. She had chosen the most ridiculous dresses to try on. She had just put down a pink dress that looked like it was mad of tinfoil when Platinum had burst out laughing.
"What?" Crystal asked, genuinely confused at why she was laughing. "Its shiny."
"It is shiny because it looks like it was made of tinfoil." Platinum giggled again. "When you are choosing a dress, it is not supposed look like tinfoil."
"Oh, so what?" She replied, which made Platinum laugh even harder. "Alright, fine! Then you choose a dress for me to wear."
"Very well." Platinum got up and looked through the racks. "Now let us see..." After five minutes of looking through the racks, she held up the perfect dress for her. It was a light blue dress that was slit up one side and reached down to her shins. It had a short V neck that wouldn't show too much cleavage, to Crystal's relief. Platinum stifled a giggle as she told her friend about the slit in the dress.
"Well, Gold did say you have nice legs so I guess he will like this dress. At least more than the pink tinfoil dress." She added under her breath.
"It really is a nice dress. How much is it?"
"Hm, only Fourty thousand pokè." Platinum fumbled with the price tag will her older friend gaped.
Crystal almost had a heart attack. "Only?"
"Yes. That is much too cheap for a dress." Platinum replied, looking at the dress. "Let's see... How about this one? " The girl held up another dress with a much longer price tag.
Crystal quickly grabbed the other dress and put it back. "No, no. It's fine. I don't want you to spend too much."
The girl shrugged. "Very well. It is your choice."
"Now we need to get you a dress."
"Oh, I already chose one." She giggled.
"Really? Which one?"
Platina held up a gray dress with a high neckline, not wanting to show off more than she had to, and very short sleeves. It reached down to near her anklest. She held up a pair of elbow length gray gloves and heels. "I thought these would go nicely with it."
"They do, but won't those be hard to walk in?"
"Maybe so Crys, but that's the price of fashion!" A girl laughed behind them.
The two girls turned around to see their senior. She had picked out a simple dark blue dress for Sapphire and a pale yellow dress for Yellow. She had chosen the most expensive dress for herself. It was a tight-fitting black dress that would barely cover her thighs and had slits on the side from her mid thigh down. It had a low neckline with straps so thin they looked like thread. Crystal rolled her eyes at the dress.
"That dress is perfect for you Blue."
Blue smiled. "I know." Turning to Platinum, she held up a simple, charcoal gray tuxedo. "For Dia." She explained. When they had paid and left, Crystal was still staring at the receipt. The price was more than she had ever seen. They had spent almost five hundred thousand pokè on just their clothes. She was so absorbed into how much money they had spent that she hadn't noticed Blue had stopped until she ran into her and fell down. Standing back up and dusting herself off, she turned to Blue.
"Why did you stop?" When she didn't answer Crystal followed her gaze and looked over at a playground. Two trainers were battling, if it could be called a battle. A rattata was desperately running around the field, dodging the opponents frenzied attacks. The rattata's trainer, who couldn't have been older than ten, was trying to return it, but the fearow kept knocking the poor mouse away from the red light that came from the pokèball. When she turned back to Blue and saw she had Blasty out, Crystal smiled.
"Blasty, Hydro Pump!" The giant pokémon aimed its cannons at the bird and shot two matching streams of water at the flying type, knocking it out in one hit. The rattata finally collapsed and was recalled. The three girls ran over to check on the little trainer who was now crying, clutching his pokèball. Crystal and Platinum comforted him while Blue turned to the group on the other side.
"You jerks! Can't you see he was trying to return his pokemon?"
"Hey! We we're just having a little fun. And no one was really getting hurt!" One of the bikers called back.
Blue scoffed. "Yeah, well someone's about to get hurt. That's for sure!" Blasty walked onto the makeshift field, his cannons pointed at the bikers. "Why don't you try battling me instead?"
"Try it!" The man sent out a jolteon while his friends sent out a victreebel and a magmar. Blue looked at her opponents and tutted.
"Teaming up on me? I knew you were wusses to start with, but this is just ridiculous." She raised her shoulders and dropped them, adding a sigh for more effect.
"Shut up!" The leader growled. "Victreebel, Razor Leaf!" The said pokémon swung the leaf on it's tail, sending a flurry of leaves towards Blasty. Before they could hit, a jet of flames erupted from behind, burning the leaves to ash. A rapidash jumped next to Blasty, glaring at his opponents.
"Damn! Where the hell did that thing come from?"
"It doesn't matter, just another pokémon to defeat. Go Magmar, Flamethrower!" Flames immediately shot towards the other side, but instead of aiming towards the pokémon, the flames flew past Blasty and headed towards the two girls. Platinum froze, her body refusing to move. She closed her eyes, preparing herself for the hit. After a few seconds, she opened them and jerked back a bit. The flames were right in front of her, however, they had stopped moving and were now frozen in place. The flames shot back towards the enemy, engulfing them in flames. Xatee flew down to land next to Blasty and Rapidash, it's eyes glowing blue briefly before turning back to normal. Crystal walked next to Platinum and sighed.
"This has gotten way out of hand."
His friends were visibly starting to panic. The main man however, looked calm as ever. "A three on three battle. Stop cowering you fools!"
Blue called over to the leader, taunting him. "Hey big boy, why don't we fight one on one, just you and me!"
The older man smirked. "You two stand back, I'll take care of her." He called back. "Sounds good! It'll be a good warm up to thrash you around a bit!"
Blue whispered to her friends. "Make sure his two buddies over there don't interfere with the fight, got it?"
"Of course." Both of the girls ran to opposite sides of the field with their pokémon, glaring at the other side and daring the two men to interfere with the match.
"Alright big boy! Whenever you're ready!" Blue sang out.
"Thank you, I'll be happy to shut that pretty mouth of yours."
"Perfect! Come try it!"
"Glad to. Jolteon, Thunderbolt!" The dog-like pokémon shot a bright flash of electricity at the turtle, only to have it jump to the side.
"Tail Whip Blasty!" Blasty turned around and wagged his tail at the opponent, smirking.
The bully was starting to get slightly annoyed now. "Damn it Jolteon! Thunderbolt again!" The pokémon sent out another bolt of electricity only to have the same thing happen. "Pin Missile!" White needles shot from the spines on the jolteon, heading straight for Blasty who was still smirking.
"Counter with Water Gun!" A fairly weak burst of water collided with the needles, effectively blocking the attack. "Now, hit it straight in the face with another Water Gun!" Another stream of water came forth, hitting the electric type straight on and blinding it momentarily. The big turtle took advantage of this, following up with a tackle and knocking the pokémon to the ground. Blasty walked back wagging it's tail again, taunting the man to attack.
Growling, he turned to his companions. "Damn it! Jolteon, Quick Attack, now!" The jolteon darted forward at light speed, head butting Blasty in the stomach and knocking it back. "Now follow-up with Thunderbolt again!" A flash of light and Blasty was crying out in pain from the voltage. Blue gritted her teeth as her pokémon came to its knees. The victreebel from the side sent out a Razor Leaf while Magmar sent out another Flamethrower. The moves hit Blasty straight on, knocking him out.
"Blasty!" Blue cried out. Fumbling with her pokéball, she returned him. Crystal and Platinum rushed over to their friend. She continued glaring at the men. "That was cheating!"
"Oh, go tell someone who cares missy." Platinum winced at the way he said the last word. It was much different from how Pearl said it. Standing up, Platinum called out Empoleon with Rapidash leaping to its side. She glared at the men before calling out a command. "Empoleon, Water Pulse! Rapidash, Fire Blast!" A pulsing blast of water along with a jet of flames shot forward, hitting both the victreebel and magmar straight on, knocking both out in one hit. As they recalled their pokemon, Rapidash and Empoleon converged on the remaining pokémon. Platinum smiled coolly before calling out her next command. "Empoleon, finish it off with Hydro Pump." Her empoleon released a final blast of water, knocking the jolteon off its feet and into its trainer. Calling back her pokémon, she turned around and walked back to her friends and the little boy. Blue was crouched by him.
"Are you all right now?" She was surprisingly calm, despite her battle.
The little boy shook his head a bit. "Y-yes I'm f-fine. T-thank y-you for helping m-me." He stuttered so much Blue couldn't help but smile.
"Alright, that's good. Those jerks shouldn't bother you anymore." Standing up, she gave him a small wave. "Well, we have to be going now. Good luck with training your rattata." She paused a bit. "Wait!" She reached into her pocket and pulled out a revive, a potion and a candy in a blue wrapper. "Here, use this on your rattata. It'll make him both stronger and happier. Bye-bye now." The older girl smiled and walked back with her friends to the nearest pokécenter, with the boy still staring at her before looking down at his rattata sleeping peacefully in its pokèball.
"That was amazing Platinum!" Blue exclaimed as she handed her pokémon to the nurse.
"Yes, it was!" Crystal agreed.
Platinum giggled. "Oh, it was nothing much. Blue did much of the work in actuality." Blue just laughed this off before looking at her pokétch. The clock only said three-thirty P.M.
"We still have while before we have to be back."
Crystal frowned a bit. "So what should we do?"
Platinum took out her wallet and smiled at her friends. "We could have a long dinner then do some more shopping? Would that be okay?"
Blue screamed in joy at this. "Free dinner and free shopping? Let's go you guys! Hurry up!"
Crystal and Platinum laughed before following her to an expensive looking restaurant. Platinum turned to Crystal, giggling. "So are you still regretting that you left the island without permission?"
"I guess not. It was pretty exciting. Maybe we should do this more often!" The girl laughed.
Platinum put on a face of mock horror as they sat down. "Oh dear. We're corrupting Crystal, Blue."
"Shame on you Crystal. You're not thinking of cutting classes are you?" Blue teased playfully.
Crystal smirked. "Depends. Would you tell on me?"
Blue smiled. "As long as I get to go too I won't. That, and if you pay."
"Never mind. It's not worth it." The girls laughed at this before taking a much needed break. Platinum smiled inwardly at herself. Maybe this wasn't how school was or would be normally like, but she was still grateful for the experience.
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