… I am so sorry. I… I have no excuse, it's just…. I'm just sorry guys.
"Hardwin?" Lia had arrived to Cain's Cabin just as Hardwin asked, it was late at night but she saw the lights were on.
She saw the blue haired clown holding an ice pack before she saw three unknown creatures staring right back at her.
"Hardwin, who are these—"
"Hey, she's kinda hot." That voice caught her attention as she realized that those voices came from the creatures in front of her.
"Mugen!" The yellow dragon snapped.
"Of course you would focus only on that…" The blue dragon, Ian, stated coldly.
In response to this, Mugen the red dragon bumped heads with the blue dragon, cuasing a slight power struggle. "You want a go, blue scales?!"
The three creatures started arguing with each other until Zu flew in and inhaled.
"SIIILLLLEEENNNCEEEE! You are in the presence of a king! Ya'll should be ashamed of your selves. Especially you, Brian."
"My name's not Brian." Mugen snarled. "Do that again, bat, and I'll fry you!"
"Mugen, please do not." Hardwin walked over to the red dragon before looking over to Lia. "Hey, how's it going?"
"Hardwin, what is going on?" The daughter of Police Chief Jenny asked in confusion due to the strange creatures in front of her.
The blue haired clown sighed. "Sit down; it's going to be a long story."
It was hard to stop himself from yawning even though it was already almost one in the afternoon.
Hardwin looked over his notes and groaned. He could barely understand anything he wrote down. Ugh, he could practically hear his Auntie Clarice looking over his shoulder and shaking her head in shame for not being 'academically adept'.
He really hated homework. He hated the fact he fell of a mountain, He hated how his eye was throbbing all the time since he got it and how a black eye came back after finally healing.
Worst of all, Hardwin hated how that all happened in a school night.
The educational system is out to get him.
When he got out of class, he looked up the map of the school. He was to head to building Z-4 in room 201.
This was to be the room where the top ten ranked students among the freshmen were to meet. Who knows what kind of people they were. At least Vincent would be here, so there was that.
The building itself looked elaborate, it looked more like a tower than most of the rectangular based buildings, the academy had. And if he heard some other older students call it, the War Zone. Why was it called that?
When he entered into the building the first thing he noticed was the statues of legendary Pokémon from across the world. From Kanto to Alola, there were sculptures of many of the main legendary Pokémon.
He walked passed them and saw one of the elevators in the center of the room. As he entered into the second floor, a voice came out to him.
"Hold that please!"
Hardwin did so, as someone came into the small lift with him. A beautiful girl with orange hair reaching to the back of her shoulders and wearing a master ball earring on her right ear stepped in while carrying her bag and wearing the female uniform of Battlecraft Academy without stockings, leaving some guys and a few girls to stare at her legs.
"Ahh Thank you! Second floor please, oh you're going there too?"
Harwin yawned lazily. Honestly, in his vision the girl looked somewhat blurry to him. "Yeah. Room 201."
"Oooh! I'm going up there too!" She gasped as she put a hand near her mouth. "No way! You're one of the top ten ranked!? Which one are you?"
"Uhh, I'm number ten?" He still thought it was some kind of mistake to put him as number ten when he hadn't even won a badge yet.
"Oh cool! I'm number 2, Lissia Cypress. Nice to meet you." The girl tilted her head as she gave a cute smile.
Alas, currently Hardwin was still having trouble seeing beyond a smudge in his eyes. Maybe he should get those checked. "Ah. I'm Hardwin Wilburg, but I mostly go by Will for short." The blue haired clown spoke up casually. There was a ding in the elevator as the door opened up. "So are you heading towards room…"
The boy froze mid sentence as right in front of him was a windmill. No, he wasn't hallucinating, there was a windmill in a small—okay large room that was filled with grass and shallow water that was around ankle high and… where those floating platforms?
"Oooh! Ooh! Will, over there, at the boardwalk!" Lissia pointed excitedly as Hardwin looked on.
There were gathered people in that area. However, Will noticed someone familiar among that group. It was hard not to, the man towered over everyone.
"Ahh! If it isn't young Wilburg! Come come! You and Ms. Cypress are the last ones!"
"Mr. Stark?" The young clown wasn't expecting to see the former Ferrum League Champion to appear again. As he came closer, he noticed the other people that were in front of him, all of them wearing a single sword crest on their uniforms to signal they were also first years.
The large man clapped his hands together. "Now that we are all here it is time for some introductions! You have all been placed within the top ten of the ranking system here in Battlecraft Academy, so with that in mind we can go start with the lowest rank first."
Mr. Stark looked towards Hardwin. "Number 10?"
"I-I'm Hardwin Wilburg, but I just go by Will since it's easier." The blunette raised his hand as he introduced himself.
The former champion nodded before looking towards his right. "Number 9?"
All eyes turned towards a rather tall, a little muscular woman with dark skin, hazel eyes, and curly hair. She wore a lot of professional make up. "Beatrice Santello, but I go by Bea." She calmly stated.
"Splendid! Though we could use a lot more spirit! Number 8?"
Hardwin turned his head towards where the next student was. His eyes visibly widened as he recognized who it was.
"I-I'm Tom Specter." It was one of the twins that attacked him yesterday. He was here? Oi vey.
Glenn rubbed the back of his head. "Come on now, I know you're all new here, but you guys are going to be seeing each other for a quite a while, so make sure your first impressions last!" Hardwin fought the urge to look at Tom Specter's way since their first impression was a fist to the recently healed eye. "Number 7, it's your turn!"
Vincent gave a rather showy introduction. Hardwin supposed that wasn't surprising since he knew he would be there before hand and that they were roommates. (That reminded him: why did Vincent keep telling him he swore he heard running water around their room? Where they near some pipes or something? It wasn't like Magi was flopping around in their room while they were gone. Besides, he left him with Cain along with the Kilin today.)
"Ahh! Now we're getting somewhere! Number 6!"
"Hi, I'm Mira Balthezar!" That name sounded very familiar coming from the somewhat petite girl with pink, short hair with small pig tails and brown eyes he swore he saw before.
"Hey, are you related to the vice president?" Vincent noted out before everyone did recall seeing the VP in front of a large screen for all of them to see.
"Yep! I came to my school because of my beloved big brother!~" Why did Hardwin have a feeling to stay clear away from her? She just said that she loved her brother, isn't that how siblings go?
"Number 5?" Glenn moved along the introductions, somehow either ignoring or not noticing the air around Mira.
There was a young man with brown short hair, blue eyes, and a cocky smirk across his face while he was leaning on a tree nearby. "Hmph! Calus Obidaga, remember the name, because it won't be long before I get the number one spot!"
"(Okay, why do I meet so many cocky people lately?)" Hardwin thought to himself silently as he raised his brow at the orange haired boy who went back onto leaning on the tree.
"Confidence, I like it." Glenn saw the positive in the boy that not many others wanted to see.
"To make things easier, I'm number 4: Vode Beral, and no, I care little whether or not we become friends." A red head with his hair swept back, yellow eyed, glasses wearing man standing behind Glenn spoke up before shutting himself up.
"How rude!" A female with long flowing purple hair and gray eyes proclaimed with a loud voice as she fanned herself with an elegant and expensive looking fan. "And here I thought the top ten for this year wouldn't be such uncouth rapscallions. If not for our teacher here, I very much loathe the idea of you even knowing my name, but it's Athena Trembon. Do not associate me with my name, only address me as Duchess."
Glenn sighed at seeing how this was going on. "Now now, calm down everyone. Will numbers two then one please speak up?"
"Oooh! Ooh!" Lissia spoke up before introducing herself. She seemed to like Mira or be like her without the strange and creepy undertone.
Which left number one. Everyone looked towards the last person; she was a beautiful woman with long black hair reaching the back of her waist and some of the most noticeable amber eyes.
"Dane Adara." That was all she said.
Glenn sighed again. "Well that could have honestly gone worse. But welcome one and all to a special class reserved for the top ten students in each year!"
It was then that number nine, Beatrice, or Bea for short, raised her hand. "Mr. Glenn, there is a mistake. I don't understand how I was placed so high among the first years when I performed just as well as anyone could have in their initiation battle."
That caught Hardwin's attention since he actually lost his initiation match. He thought he was only here who was brought here because of 'events' beyond his control.
"Unfortunately, the headmaster of this school is known to be eccentric." Everyone remained silent after that sentence. It seems as if Hardwin wasn't the only one who had met with the unpredictable man.
"Why the heck does everyone listen to such an idiot anyway?" Calus asked.
Glenn actually smirked. "You'd be surprised how sharp he is under the right circumstance, and as for you, Ms. Santello, you might not feel as you belong here, along with some other students, but to everyone's surprise the students Drake has chosen end up surprising everyone, themselves included except him. This school's Student Council President, Scarlet Amelia, was chosen out of nowhere to be among the top ten freshmen in her year and now she's the top among the fourth years."
That surprised Hardwin in a different way. Did the headmaster see something in him?
The former champion clapped his hands together. "Now then, while you are all still the top ten, there is a special rule in this school. For trainers and coordinators here in Battlecraft, the curriculum is a lot more competitive."
And so he explained that how the ranking system in the school worked was as followed: Among the first four years, there are ten top trainers chosen by the headmaster and the older top ten students. This was the initial stage, since for battling, anything can happen. As such, there was a possibility for everyone to change here in the following week.
"This will begin the first Battle Week, which will properly determine the top ten seats for the next year. The reason all of you are here is a combination of the Sophomore's top ten students choosing along with choices from the teachers from watching your initial battles. However, this week will determine if you are worthy enough to keep those seats along with properly defining your actual ranks."
"Since there are over hundreds of students logged in as battlers. Therefore to weed out everyone until there are at least 24 left, the office has decided to… give me a second here…" Glenn took out a note before he read aloud.
"There will be Pokémon Trails based on the Pokéathlon game events where the top three chosen for each event will participate in the top thirty bracket system. The games are designed to challenge each Pokémon in a different area, as well as come up with new obstacles for them and their trainers to overcome." He finished reading the note out loud.
"We have to play games in order to keep our rank?" Vode raised his brow.
"It's supposed to promote friendly competition, Mr. Beral, could you imagine having a bracket tournament of around 1000 students?" Glenn calmly explained.
"Ha! It doesn't matter what it is, I'll prove to you all that the number one seat belongs to me!" Calus Obidaga proclaimed.
Hardwin was having a serious case of déjà vu right now, but said nothing.
"The only number one seat that belongs to you is a backseat to how badly you're going to make a fool out of yourself."
It wasn't the same for Vincent as he started to quip back.
However, Calus surprisingly remained cool and only replied, "Ooh sorry, I would but it has your name written all over it."
That was the straw that broke the camerupt's back as they all started to argue with one another.
The blue haired boy wisely stepped back, a good thing he did as well since it looked like everyone but him, Vode, Dane, and Beatrice were starting to get very vocal with each other.
"I'm kicking that guy's ass from here to Kalos." Vincent muttered while he and Hardwin walked out of the session, much to the clown's eternal gratitude to be out of that nightmare realm.
"No offense or anything, Vincent, but I think this guy actually has the skills to back up his boasts." Considering Calus actually had a fair amount of good comebacks to Vincent's banter, he probably was smarter than he let on.
"Doesn't matter, if we face him, we're kicking his ass in the Pokéatholon contests."
Hardwin stopped in his tracks as he looked up to his friend. "We?"
"Well yeah, we gotta sign up for them too if we wanna keep our spots."
"I dunno, I'm kind of thinking I don't really deserve to be there. Plus, the guys there are all… well most of them don't give off good vibes, so maybe avoiding them might be for the best."
Vincent seemed surprised at that kind of talk. "Dude really?"
Hardwin turned back to his roommate. "You do remember that I've technically never won a single badge before coming to this school, right? And my purpose for coming here wasn't to be the best, it was just…" It was just so he could be happy and be tired of looking down upon along with his Pokémon. "I don't think that it's for me or for my Pokémon. We could barely keep up with a fully evolved Pokémon." Not to mention there was also the thing that happened yesterday. There was something obviously going on here that was more than meets the eye. But why was it out of all the skilled trainers here, he was the one to stumble on to that? "But then again, I'd have to ask them, they all love being strong."
Vincent seemed to quiet up. "Kind of a shame, you're one of the few people I like in there. We could probably use more normal people in it than just those egos," Hardwin rolled his eyes at the man who has his own fan base here in the school. "But then again, I could see why Mr. Drake put you and that Beatrice girl in the group."
He looked on surprised. "Why?"
Vincent smiled as he started taking a different path from his roommate. "I'll leave that to you." And then he saluted his roommate and went on through the different path.
Hardwin sighed. His schedule was free today, which meant that he had to get back to…
"Incoming!" Zu cried out, making the clown instantly duck for cover.
As he did, he looked back and avoided a stray moving coming their direction. It wasn't that dangerous honestly, it seemed to be a string shot attack.
"My apologizes. I hadn't had the faintest idea you would be in that direction."
Much to Hardwin's growing unease, the young man snapped back to his zubat playing a funeral theme before looking back at the owner.
"H-Hey Maria?" He did not remember her having a caterpie before. Though the look on the small green bug's face was the same as Hardwin was feeling right now. "How are you?"
"I'm fine. I noticed you take quite on the up take: Ms. Hulia already?"
"Excuse me?" The young teen tilted his head. "Up on the take? Oh! Do you mean after the museum, you saw me leave with Lia? Oh, right, she wanted my help confirming something that happened during the attack."
"I see…" Maria seemed unconvinced. "Well do excuse me Mr. Wilburg, but I do have other business to attend to."
Will just wanted to groan and did so. "Great, the first girl I fancy and she thinks I'm a player!" He put his hand on his head and sighed deeply. "The list just goes on and on…"
"We interrupt this program to bring you—Courage, The Cowardly Lillipup Show! Starring: Courage, The Cowardly Lillipup!" The television yelled out loud, causing Hardwin to spot the three Kilin creatures sitting in front of a couch seemingly mesmerized by the boxed screen.
"Amazing! The screen that was once silent and black… is now colorful and making sounds! What is this fantastical contraption?" Ian stared a little too creepily at the TV.
"Hey down and front! I feel like watching this screen for a long period of time without any consequence of what happens in the world around me." Mugen droned on.
"…Is Chocola supposed to be drooling like a potato?" Hardwin whispered as the one who probably would be the calmest, was now the least responsive.
Cain looked actually tired now that Hardwin noticed him. "Uhh what happened?"
"They…" The officer looked back at his kitchen for the newcomers to—oh. Oh god. "Apparently the only technology they don't find scary is the television."
"Oh, I am so sorry." Hardwin could now say he saw a sink could burn. "I didn't know they would be such a hassle to you."
"It's fine. I still owe you for saving my job in the first place, and all things considered, having legendaries in my house is… quite the experience."
At this point, Lia walked in to the room as well. "Hardwin."
The bleu haired young man turned to her with anticipation. "So? Did you find anything on the mysterious attackers on the museum?"
The daughter of Officer Jenny shook her head. "No I didn't. Or rather, my mother is also at a loss. There's no sign of those people, but with how they erased their presence like that, it shows they are highly organized."
The clown didn't like the sound of that. "So what now?"
"For now, these Pokémon have to stay here and hidden. I doubt we can hide them in the school with the Ranking games coming soon. Too many people will be all over Helios city and beyond to train their party for a shot at the top ten. What about you? Your seat isn't solidified because of it."
Hardwin rubbed his head. "… I thought about it a bit, and I decided to earnestly go for my spot. It's going to be an uphill battle, but something tells me I should give it my all."
To respond to the simple answer, Lia smirked. "Alright then, it's not fun if I don't have a friend in this. Hey, how about a battle between you and me?"
Before Hardwin could elaborate more, he was distracted by a loud sound from the television.
"Oh wait a second. I remember that episode: the monster of that episode gave me nightmares for weeks." The boy distractedly commented on.
No sooner than he said this, a rather scary looking monster appeared on the kid's show. "RETURN THE SLAB~ OR SUFFER MY CURSE~"
Ian reacted accordingly to seeing the fake monster, "WHAT IN THE NINE CIRCLES OF HELL IS THAT!?" and prompted his other two friends to react in similar fashions.
"AAAAHHH!?" Mugen panicked and quickly fired his flame breath at the monstrosity.
Wait a second.
Hardwin futilely tried to calm the dragons down. "Mugen, sto—"
Needless to say, it seemed like Cain would have to worry more than just his kitchen.
As most of Lia's Pokémon were fixing the cabin up, Hardwin was glaring at the three dragons.
"I said I was sorry! It looked even scarier than that thing that attacked us back in the mountain!"
Hardwin sighed and put a hand on his head. "Okay, maybe it was a bad idea to let you watch a children's sho—."
"You let kids watch that eldritch horror? What kind of mad future is this?!" Ian asked in horror.
"Okay that is not the point," Hardwin looked over to the Lia. "Sorry, looks like I'm going to have to pass on that battle for today. Do you have everything under control here? I'd like to go and visit some of these trail myself."
The girl sadly nodded. "No problem. Be safe, Hardwin."
Hardwin was back at school with his Pokémon following him. They were currently in one of the main gyms of the area.
"So," Hardwin began reading a book about the events. "According to this, there are five special categories and in order to qualify, we have to place first in all of them to be entered into the tournament." Fighting the urge to sigh, the clown continued on. "The bright side is that I at least have to one game and according to this, there are three games for each skill. Which means I'm allowed three tries for each game."
The clown looked to his Pokémon. "Okay, I think we should start with the speed section, to see how it'll go. According to the map, the closest one that seems to give us the most edge is Pennant Capture. It's basically like Capture The Flag game, only more battle oriented."
The young man and his three Pokémon entered into one of the arenas of the place. To his surprise, he actually saw someone inside the sad box arena with some Pokémon inside.
It was a girl that looked like a kid, maybe just shy of being close to five feet. She had big blue eyes, a really childish and round face with dimples. Her hair was berry blonde and tied up in an adorable bun.
Hardwin had half a mind to ask what a kid was doing there, but he suppressed it since he actually waited and noticed the uniform the girl was wearing: it was a Battlecraft Academy uniform with two blades, signaling she was a second year and as such, older than him.
Seeing that, he turned around. "Oh uh, sorry about that. I thought this place was empty. I'll just—"
"WWWAAAIIIT!" The girl cried out before she ran up towards Hardwin. The Pokémon that followed her seemed to be all fairy types. "You're a freshmen, aren't you?"
Hardwin nodded once.
"Whoo hoo! Great!" The girl excitedly punched the air. "This works out amazingly! I can have a partner to practice PokéAthlon games with!"
The blown clown blinked. "Uuuuhhhh…"
The smaller girl seemed to be hit with realization. "Whoopsie! Silly me, I never introduced myself, did I? The name's Micheala Cinder Fullbright, but you can call me Kayla for short, or Senpai!" She practically beamed at the thought of being called a Senpai.
"O-Oh, I'm Hardwin Wilburg, but I just go by Will for short…. Senpai?"
Kayla seemed to squeal in delight before pointing back to the field. "Now let's get to practicing!"
Hardwin and his Pokémon watched as Kayla moved back towards the sand box. The young clown wondered how he got caught up in the girl's pace before sighing and going along. He might as well get full access in how this would work.
Eventually, Kayla explained how this would work out. First, a trainer would use three, or in Hardwin's case all of his Pokémon. Next the first Pokémon among the three would start at a marked line and wait for the timer to start.
The arena will activate and randomly summon flags at random intervals across the arena. The first Pokémon was gather as many flags as they can and when they return, the computer will count how much one Pokémon has captured. However, the first Pokémon must be cycled out with the second stand by when they deposit their flags. It will then be the Second's turn to do the same until the third and then back to the first, and they will continue to cycle this until the timer runs out and whoever has the most at the end wins.
However, it is also a pokémon battle, trainers will order their Pokémon to attack others and such while the other pokémon are gathering flags and can even steal some.
The game was simple, Hardwin thought. Soon he was setting up the team as followed: Jax first, followed by Zu, then lastly was Zig.
Kayla had her Pokémon. First was a carbink named Carla, a cutiefly that went by the name of Connie, and Flora, a white flower florges.
"Are you ready, my adorable junior?" Kayla huffed like a little girl trying to be an adult. Hardwin felt somewhat awkward to answer to that, but he did nod at her. "Great! I'll set this game to five minutes!"
Soon, a large hologram of numbers counting down appeared before both the pokémon. This made Hardwin tense before they were signaled to go.
Jax sped out first, collecting many flags as he could as he zipped around the arena, collecting flags that seemed to pop up from the ground. However, to Hardwin's surprise, Kayla and her carbink made no move outside a small hop beyond the starting line.
'What is she up to?' Hardwin worried as Jax came speeding back towards the starting line with like a dozen flags on his person.
It was then that Kayla shouted, "Now, Carla!"
The carbink started to glow and then Jax suddenly slammed into a invisible glass wall like a bug type randomly hitting a car windshield. It was a reflect move and all the flags phased through the psychic wall and fell harmlessly to Carla. The carbink smiled and somehow juggled all of Jax's flags and hopped back into the starting entrance, prompting the cutiefly Connie to fly quickly out.
Hardwin heard Kayla laugh. "Come on, junior! You gotta use your moves wisely!"
The blue haired boy was starting to get it. As Jax angrily fumed, the blue haired clown cried out. "Jax, silence command!"
The cry confused the older, but smaller second year before Ninjask suddenly used Dig in the sand. This time, Jax was moving even faster underground, plucking the flags from underneath and preventing even Connie from picking some up.
"Connie, he's too fast! Use—"before Kayla could even start her command, a huge pile of sand burst out, revealing Jax jumping out and smashing Connie with intense speed and power into the sand before going back down and picking up more flags.
Ninjask went in, carrying a large amount of flags as Zu flew in. "Twist!" Hardwin suddenly called out, making the zubat twist mid air and look back towards them before heading back out into the field. "Now, use Haze!"
Zu unleashed a thick fog that covered the battle field. Kayla saw this and glanced over to Hardwin, instantly figuring out that zubat would be the only one to see through the Haze while Connie couldn't. "You clever dastard!"
Hardwin returned the half insult, half compliment with a smirk. "I learned that from my senpai."
"This won't stop us! Connie, Fairy Wind! Blow the haze away!" Kayla dramatically declared as she looked back to the field.
The clone smirked as Zu came out of the smoke screen with a mouth of half a dozen flags, signaling it was Zig's turn as he dashed in quickly.
"W-What are you doing, Connie!? Use Fairy Wind to blow it away!"
This time, the cutie fly did so, blowing away the Haze and revealing that Zig was already gathering a good amount of flags.
"I don't know what you did, but two can play at that game! Connie, Stun Spore into Fairy Wind!" The little fairy type shot a special spore around it before quickly blasting it in a wide spread wind. It didn't do much damage since it was so wide spread, but that wasn't the purpose of the attack. It was meant to slow down Zig, which it did.
"Crap."
"Go, Connie!"
The cutie fly then raced, getting a few flags that were bigger than her before reaching the line and switching with Flora, the white flower florges. The evolved Pokémon, made a special dance before shooting an energy blast into the sand.
As soon as it was absorbed, grass started sprouting out, signaling that the move that was just used was Grassy Terrain. With grand hand movements, Flora made the grass move to her whim, and pluck and throw all the flags back towards her.
With Zig still paralyzed he had a hard time moving and tried to get back up…
But then the buzzer rang.
The game was over and the winner was Kayla and her team.
"Yes, I won!" Kayla laughed before looking towards Hardwin. "You did great, junior! That was actually well done on your part!"
Hardwin still remained calm. "Thank you. It was my first match, so I was really glad to learn how these games would go. I really have to be careful of status moves…" However, the young boy seemed to look at Kayla with bafflement. "By the way… senpai… why exactly where you here in the first place? Aren't only the freshmen doing their Pokéathlon games?"
For the first time, Kayla's energy seemed to die down a little. "The freshmen are always the first. The sophomores have their race to the top ten after the freshmen and so on and so forth. I came here because last year, I lost badly at the games! This time, I'm gunning for the top ten seats!"
Hardwin was surprised. "You really want to be the best?"
"Yep! I wanna show everyone that fairy type pokémon are not to be messed with!" The strawberry blonde haired girl proclaimed. "What about you?"
At the return of the question, Hardwin found himself reflecting harder than he thought he was. "I… don't have something as iron clad as your ambition. I wanted to be a trainer, so that people wouldn't laugh at me originally. But now? People, including myself seem to look down on me a lot still." The clown began with realization. "In other words, I'm still fighting to gain respect."
"Wow! That's kinda deep! But that's also super easy with the way you battle! It's so out there!"
Hardwin smiled at the simple comments coming his way. "Thanks, senpai."
"No problem! Now we got fourteen more games to go!"
This was the part where Hardwin and his Pokémon heard the sound of Zu playing a record being abruptly scratched noise.
"Excuse me?" hardwin asked innocently."
"You gotta get at least five wins right? That means we still have fourteen more games to practice until we're unbeatable! I mean, I am so glad I stumbled on to a practice partner like you!"
"U-Uh, Senpai?" The boy tried to call out to her. However, the girl quickly pointed to the next area energetically.
"Come on, junior! We've got more games to train for!" Much to the dismay of Hardwin, Kayla went off with her Pokémon looking somewhat apologetic for their too carefree trainer.
Hardwin sighed as the rest of his pokémon groaned.
This was going to be a long week.
AN: Again, I am so sorry. It took a lot, and I mean a lot. Before I could even get back to this. Hopefully the next chapter doesn't come out that far in the future then.
It didn't help that previously I had this crippling writter's block in what to do with this story. But now? I have some ideas on what to do, and I am working on introducing your characters, but I made some of my own Original chracters for sepcific reasons. (I kinda needed more girls than I thought I would.)
(Also, I'm planning to add some new rules into the Syoc, becuase now with a fresh mind, i've noticed some mistakes I made.)
Micheala Cinder Fullbright, or Kayla is made by Oily in Flight
Beatrice Santello, goes by Bea is submitted by 's Fire
Anyway that's all for now. Hopefully the next chapter will come sooner.