Chapter 6; FINALLY. It's Unova Academy Exploring Time!
Recap;
After roughly half an hour of waiting, numerous staff members from the Unova Academy arrived in three different buses – which would separate everyone into their different dorms.
Three dorm leaders stood at the entrance of each three buses either neutral, smiling at the students, or just plain cranky.
One, of which was Archer Pyre, the energetic dorm leader of the Cobalon dorm, located in the middle of the three buses.
The other, surprise, was Dougan Maddox, the seemingly cranky dorm leader for the Terrakion dorm. He held his clipboard lazily at his side, twitching.
Last but not least was Maikee Davis, dorm leader for the Virizion dorm. She was pretty neutral for now, but did offer smiles to the students.
And that's when the separation began.
"Wow, this city is huge," mused Lessly Opalin while adjusting her purple Bulbasaur backpack. Her violet-blue eyes shone with curiosity as she stepped off of the Unova Academy boat. A few minutes ago, a guard was yelling at a said 'stow-away', but she paid no mind. She was talking to another student – one going by the name of Noah Wilson – and then separated with him once they docked. Now, she was on her own – minus the fact she could let out her Pokémon now, so her Ampharos was now out and walking with her.
Lessly fixed her glasses, planning on heading with the group of people going to the Virizion bus, since her name was just called. She just stood in line, right behind a boy with shaggy black hair. Unfortunately, she couldn't see any of his face.
"Brady Lemmings?" Maikee Davis, dorm leader of the Virizion dorm checked him off the list when he walked up – the boy who was in front of Lessly.
"Lessly Opalin?" Maikee looked up, checking her off when she walked to the bus right after Brady. Everyone was excited and was already on the bus – except, our male friend here.
Brady smiled, moving his hair out of his left eye to reveal his also black eyes. He held out a hand to the newly accepted Virizion dorm student. "Hey, welcome to Virizion."
She blinked, taking his hand with slight hesitation – shy, maybe? "Oh.. thanks.. are you a second year?"
He shook his head, releasing her hand with a gentle grip after shaking it. "Nope! First year ; I applied since my sister did. Do you know her? Alexis Lemmings?"
"Ah, no, sorry. I didn't see her on the boat or out here yet – but I did hear her name be called for Cobalon."
Brady nodded, taking in the information. "Right, thanks. She doesn't know I enrolled, so that's for the best. C'mon, let's get on the bus,"
"Hold on," She re-adjusted her backpack strap again before walking up the steps of the air conditioned bus. Thank goodness, because it was at least 97 degrees outside. Summer was rolling in fast.
Lessly paused once, following Brady to a bus seat in the middle of the vehicle. "Mind if I sit with you..?"
"Ha, no! Not at all." He smiled warmly at her, letting her get in first to get the window seat. Afterwards, he took his seat. A Houndoom was seated near Brady's feet.
"Hey, Hooper, buddy," Brady bent down to pat his Houndoom's head, receiving a soft bark as a reply.
Lessly smiled softly at the two, but she suddenly remembered something. "Oh, why did you wait for me?"
His answer was simple. "I wanted you to be my first friend here."
The bus was just that big, allowing trainers and Pokémon to relax comfortably on the ride to the inner parts of Castelia City to the UA. Everyone was chatting and having a good time on the bus, but it'd take a while before they could get to Unova Academy, since the other dorms were having some trouble..
"Hurry up, I don't have all day," Dougan was in a bad mood most of the time – and the pain killers weren't helping at all. Stupid, lying labels. He made a mental note to throw them out later.
Dougan sneered at the 15-year-old brunette, who was yards away, in line for the Cobalon Dorm. Apparently, he blamed Sammy for his mishaps lately.
His Pidgeot, who was perched on the ground, blinked at him curiously. He shook his head. Cyclone thought Dougan was acting a bit silly, but brushed it off.
"Collin Greywald..?" He checked off the clipboard when the green haired teenager shot him a grin, hopping onto the bus.
Dougan sneered, sighing. "Briana?" He flipped the page on his clipboard, to the female part of the list.
Briana walked up, waving. "Hey, Mr. Malachi, what happened to your head?"
"Just shut up and get on the bus,.."
She rolled her eyes, brushing off his reply and got on. Briana smiled, seeing Collin on the bus and took a seat right next to him.
He seemed equally happy, waving. "Yo, Briana." Collin's Charmeleon, Flare, was seated on his lap, staring at the brunette.
"Nice to see you too, Collin," Briana sat down, her Quilava hopping onto her lap. He curled himself into a ball and yawned, slowly easing himself into a deep sleep.
Briana shook her head at him, smiling. "Silly,.."
The Fire-type didn't stir, breathing softly on her lap. Briana glanced over at Collin, who himself was fast asleep, his head leaning against the bus window.
Brown eyes look past the boy's head, to outside. Seems like the Cobalon dorm was having .. problems?
Sammy Riverdale tapped her foot and nodded her head to the beats of the song that was blasting in her orange headphones – Celebrity Status by Marianas Trench. Hm, nice choice.
Ombra wagged his tail, glancing at his trainer before smiling slightly. Trainers were filing onto the bus in front of them. It didn't really matter, since Sammy was near the back of the line anyways.
Alexis Lemmings was reading a book while waiting in the middle of the line. Her Pokémon, Gothia {also known as Pinly} closed her eyes next to her. The sounds of the ocean were relaxing, although the voices of excited, energetic Cobalon students were not.
Archer Pyre chuckled to himself as he checked another student off of his list, grinning. "This is gonna be an interesting year.." He thought aloud before blinking when a teenager with mid-length brown hair got on the bus.
What Archer found odd about him was his searing red face – wait, was that a hand mark?
The dorm leader shook his head and looked at the list. "Huh, Noah Wilson. Interesting.. alright, Alexis Lemmings, check, Kenneth Strife, check.."
Eventually, he reached everyone's sarcastic brunette – last in line. How awkward when she wasn't listening..
"Hey, you're Sammy, right?" Archer was focused on his clipboard, looking over everyone again before checking her off. Unfortunately, Sammy didn't reply, her music deafening.
Ombra nudged her forward a few inches, but she barely budged.
He looked up now, raising an eyebrow at the odd teenager nodding her head in the middle of the square and mumbling some song lyrics..
"Uh, Sammy?" Archer was walking over there, about to tap her shoulder when Ombra nudged her again.
She stumbled, her eyes shooting open when she accidentally flailed her arms.
That resulted in something horrible.
In the process of trying to save herself from falling, dear Sammy had smacked Archer in the face, gaining an "OW." From him. Not only that, but she stepped on his right foot and due to his reflex, smacked her in the chest with his clipboard.
The scene was amusing to most of the other UA students in all three buses, laughter coming from all.
Dougan shook his head from his bus, riding in the first seat on the left aisle, near the door. "Idiot short cake.."
"G-gah! I'm sorry! Sorry!" The short brunette was trying to see if Archer was bleeding in any way while he was doing his own apologizing.
"No, no. It's my bad! I didn't mean to hit you in your boo- chest area! Sorry!"
Ombra snickered, heading on the bus first as the mess sorted out.
When that was done, a beet red Sammy climbed on the blue and white modern bus.
It was finally time.
".. And over here are the Unova Academy grounds, where you guys can train your Pokémon. You're only allowed to get off school grounds for fieldtrips, vacations, urgent family visitations and," Maikee took a deep breath, smiling during her explanation to the Virizion students. "even jobs given to you from Headmaster Juniper."
Melissa, who found the job part interesting, raised her hand to ask a question. Maikee nodded in her direction.
"What kind of jobs?" Mel asked, blinking her eyes.
Maikee went from grinning to smiling now, her hand on her right hip. "Glad you asked! By 'jobs', I mean certain errands for any of our teachers and or any of the dorm leaders, meaning me, Archer or Dougan. These jobs can be as silly as "Finding a lost Skitty" or getting some berries or something. Other than that, there are also certain times you can get off campus to walk around Castelia for a while."
Mel nodded, leaning back in her chair slightly as Chase Muffett, who sat across from her blinked. He found her characteristics interesting, like how she moved her hair behind her ea- no, he's not a stalker. Nononono.
Foxy shook her head at Chase, also looking at Melissa. Interesting she was.
"And don't go around sneaking in my room or anything,.." Dougan was explaining what to do and what not to do. Especially to him. "damn brats.." He muttered under his breath.
Rosalie glared at Dougan once from the back of the bus, wondering what his problem was. Her Honchkrow was sitting on the floor, cleaning his feathers and smirking at other Pokémon, all boss-like.
"Sheesh," She shook her head, turning to Adam Melendez, her bus seat partner. "What Trapinch crawled up his butt and died.. anyways, why'd you come to UA, Adam?"
Adam shrugged his shoulders, leaning back in his chair slightly. "I'm a coordinator, so I wanna brush up on my skills."
"Bui!" Adam's Buizel waved at Rosalie from his seat on the floor, smiling.
Buizel's trainer grinned, gesturing to him as he bent down. "And this is Buizel, my best buddy! He's awesome in contests,"
The blonde girl nodded, her mouth stretching into a smile. "He sure seems like an energetic one, aren't'cha Buizel?"
"Bui!"
It had only taken a short 20 minutes to finally able see the academy. Unova Academy.
It's towering white walls and silver iron gates proved to be giant, compared to the buses.
Students stared in awe as the gates slowly eased open, inviting them in with open arms, bus by bus.
Each of the buses were being driven on the same, slightly curved cobble-stone road to the front of the academy.
One couldn't see it from the front, due to the fact the large and only the front of the academy covered it, but there was a large beach behind it's white walls.
And inside were the halls, dorms and gymnasium of the academy. We couldn't forget the theatre, either, for the year-round Unova's Got Talent talent show. No, never.
As the buses pulled up into their respective parking places, the UA students couldn't help but try to get out of their seats – especially Evelyn. She was seated next to Sammy {who was glad to see her again, phew. And to get to know her better, despite the fact she got made fun of for hitting Archer..}.
"Come onnnnnnnnnn, we need to get off, now!" Evelyn was tugging on Sammy's hoodie collar, almost choking her in the process.
"W-we're getting there," Sammy paused to cough. "c-calm down, Evelyn!"
"But I can't wait!" She was practically trying to shake some excitement into Sammy, having her flail helplessly like a rag doll.
Ombra snickered, slowly rising from his half-laying and half-sitting position near Sammy's feet.
Naga, Evelyn's Snivy was standing, staring up at her in curiosity. "Sniv?"
Evelyn's attention turned to Naga as she scooped him up, jumping up and down. "Let's go, go, go!"
Sammy took a deep breath, shutting off her mp3 and getting up.
Archer was filing everyone out one-by-one, offering an apologetic smile to her when she got off.
Her legs still felt a little wobbly, so she stumbled a bit before regaining her posture.
From what she could see, everyone was jumbled up with their friends and not their dorms. It'd take a while to get everyone settled.
Eventually, though, their attention was ripped from their friends to the huge, oak doors slowly opening.
Out came Headmaster Juniper, followed by a few other teachers. Her smile was warm and inviting – I guess she didn't lie in the letter.
She clapped her hands, issuing utter silence from everyone.
"Welcome, everyone! It's so good to finally have all of you here with us today," Headmaster Juniper's smile grew as she continued talking. "Before you all get a tour of our campus and get comfy in your dorms, I'd like to make a few announcements,"
A teacher walked up, holding out a polished wooden box of large size with both hands. He smiled at Juniper before she took it, holding it up in a way almost everyone could see.
"Inside of this box and more to come, are the different color X-Transciever's you shall all receive! But before that," She shut the box, her smile growing – almost mischievously. "We're going to have our Unova Academy tradition,"
All three dorm leaders – yes, even Dougan, after hearing about the 'tradition'. He was actually smirking – were grinning.
"The Unova Water Wars! You will all be competing against each other in a series of challenges behind our academy on the beach. The first five trainers who make it to the last round will have to compete against each other in our 'Hidden Challenge'. Now, even you, dorm leaders, do not know what you'll be up against since it's new every year," Her hands were on her hips now, surprisingly not wrinkling her merry yellow colored dress – quite formal.
"Be sure to be dressed in your swim clothes! Anyone using their regular clothes are out for the count! You can only use 1 Pokémon throughout this whole challenge! I'm very happy to have all of you here, so," Did her smile grow even more?
"Go on, get to your dorms and change. We'll be starting in an hour,"
Headmaster Juniper turned around, walking back inside with the other teachers as the doors were kept open.
Loud chattering came from everyone – heck, even Ty joined in! - , from all dorms.
Dougan hopped onto the front hood of his dorm, smirking. He had his arms crossed. "I think Headmaster forgot to mention this, but,"
Archer cut in, from the ground. "All of the dorms will be competing against each other as well, so be careful who you wipe out.. you might get your dormies!"
Maikee waved from her side, next to the Virizion bus. "Not to mention the dorm with the most remaining students will win an even bigger prize –"
She was cut-off by Dougan, a little pissed from being cut-off himself. "The honor of choosing which dorm goes first on our nightly 'Scavenger Hunt' in a few weeks.. in the woods over there..," He pointed to his right, where, indeed, a thick forest lay.
"So, be ready," Archer finished, trying to get the Cobalon dormies organized.
Sammy blinked, looking down at Ombra, who in return grinned. He was eager to win.
And nothing would stop him from doing so.
DONE! .. Was it too short? ;_;
Anyways, sorry for not putting everyone in this chapter and if it was a little rushed! Here are the lists for who's in what dorm. I tried making the amounts even, so, don't kill me.
Cobalon:
•Archer Pyre – Dorm Leader
• Sammy
• Alexis
• Felicia
• Evelyn
• Ty
• Kenneth
• Noah
Virizion:
• Maikee Davis – Dorm Leader
• Riley
• Lessly
• Melissa
• Midori
• Luna
• Chase
• Guill
• Daniel
• Alistar
Terrakion:
• Dougan Malachi – Dorm Leader
• Briana
• Rosalie
• Luna
• Adam
• Collin
• George
• ? – Mystery OC.. He/She's mine, don't worry
Hopefully, I didn't miss anyone. If I did, you guys have all right to hunt me down and stab me with sporks.
This is just a sort of short into to what UA's going to be like.
Everyone's probably going to be heading to their dorms in Chapter 7 and The Water Wars begin.
Thanks to everyone's who's supported me 'till now and has helped me. (: I appreciate it!
Sorry for slow updates!
OH and I have a few future pairs worked out .. keke,