Academy Day 15/365

Battling Facility #3

2:00 pm

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"The battle will now commence! Trainers please choose your pokemon!" Another student had volunteered to referee the mock match.

Livi stood on the right side of the field while her brother stood on the left. A few other classes that were being held in the facilities near number three had decided to take a break to watch the match. It would be a brother against sister pokemon battle and it was obvious that the two weren't going to go easy on each other. Professor Luido then at quite the surprise raised his hand up as if to stop the match for just a moment, "Wait. Although there is this style of double battling I believe we should host this mock match the same why the competition will be. Partners. Now I will have the computer pick by random." He stated rather pleased with his idea and went over to a laptop that was plugged into a small station settled at the sidelines. The large screen situated in the middle of the arena flashed on and two empty picture boxes were shown side by side on both the right and the left. A computerized voice began to ring out as one by one the school identification photos appeared placing the teammates together.

"Reinforce Yukimura and Stephen Russel. Livi Luido and Veniza Hijiri."

The students began to mutter and gossip about the matchup but then again most didn't even know who Veniza and Stephen were. Rein however stood frozen standing in the audience staring up at the screen at the picture that was facing her. She had the same brown hair and charismatic look in her eyes while her lips curled in a light smile toward the camera. Her lips quivered slowly before trying to question the possibility of Veniza being here at all, "Ven?"

"Hello Rein." A sweet sounding voice spoke from behind her as she turned around to find that the one person she was wishing to see most of all was in the very room with her. Before the Zoroark trainer could say anything in return her friend smiled, "Let's see how much stronger you've become okay Rein?" with that she sidestepped and too the stairs down to the field with Lucario proudly walking behind her.

The illusion pokemon nudged it's trainer with his claw to make sure she was alright. "Don't worry about me Zoroark. She's right though so let's go show her how strong we've become alright?"

"So I guess that leaves us as partners' right? Stephen Russel is the name." The brunette held out his hand to the girl but was quickly put in his place as her Zoroark stood between them.

"Trainers please choose your pokemon!"

"Zoroark!" "Torrterra!"

"Umbreon!" "Lucario!"

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AN:

Ven and Livi are going to be a bit harder to write about from now on as the two are quite alike in some ways.

I apologize for the very short chapter as I've decided that battles will have their own chapter and this was a small intro to that. So after the mock battle the rest of the un-introduced and neglected characters will be reinstalled into the story.

Also I've decided to try something to let you the readers give me your opinions.

Character Poll- Please send via PM

Who is your favorite character?

Which two characters have the most potential for a friendship?

Which two characters have the most potential for a relationship?

What pokemon should hatch out of speckles the egg?