And I'm back people! And bring with me, not presents, not world peace, no! None of that! It's a new chapter! Outside of a few events, I have no clue what will happen in this chapter, so this will be exciting! Also, everything that's in cursive is said through the bond. And before I forget (again), I do not own Pokemon or its characters, I only own the people I came up with, they will start appearing in this chapter,… I think. So here it is!
Chapter 3: A battle with feeling
LEAF'S POV:
"Karma hates us." was the first thing I thought as I looked at the four boys. They looked shocked, but they hadn't fired any attacks at us, yet. Misty was the first to do something. "Act normal!" she hissed trough the bond. We quickly regained our composure and walked up to the teacher. Luckily, no one had noticed our hesitation. He introduced us to our classmates: "Class, here are your new classmates: Misty, Leaf, Dawn and May Fiore." Darn, so far for the cover, we should have used other names. "What is your power?" a shy-looking girl on the front row asked. "I'll go first." I told the others. I stepped forward, pretending not to notice that the four boys looked extremely interested. . "I have an X-ray vision and I can see body heat." While I said this my eyes turned a pure gold. Dawn was next. "I can transform people." She transformed herself in a boy with blond hair and yellow eyes, wearing an orange-white striped shirt. After she transformed back, May stepped forward was. "I can make things invisible." Not just May turned invisible, but all of us did. As much as she disliked not being able to use her fire ability, she couldn't help but show how good she was with this one. "Showoff" we all said at the same moment. Even if she didn't smile, we could feel her amusement through the bond. Last up was Misty. "I can phase things" she said as she put her hand right through her backpack to pull out a pen.
MISTY'S POV:
Jeez! Could these guys be any more obvious, they looked extremely confused and disappointed. Especially that dark haired boy, Ash. He looked as if he just saw a legendary pokemon do a tap-dance. I was pulled out of my thoughts by a snobby looking girl. "Wow, those are some pretty basic powers." She said basic as if it was a bad thing. Oh no, she did NOT want to get on my bad side. But looking at my sisters, I saw she already did. "Well, that may be true, but we are very creational. " I reasoned. A swift second later, the girl fell through her chair. While trying to ignore the laughter that had formed behind her she reached for her chair, only to find it wasn't there. While she was looking for it she bumped right into it, since it was invisible. While Dawn was making her hair look like it had just exploded, Leaf was looking into said girls backpack for blackmail material that might come in handy.
"Okay girls that's enough!" said a terrified looking teacher. He was pretty short and bold. We all stopped using our powers and the girl named Katie (we knew thanks to Leaf who read it in her diary.) sat back on her now visible chair with bright red cheeks. "We're sorry Katie," I said with a bright smile. "We just have a bit of a temper when it comes to someone insulting us. I honestly couldn't care less if you insulted me, but touch my sisters and you're done for."
MAY'S POV:
After Misty said this, the class turned quiet, staring at her. The teacher tried to return order. "Thanks for the information Misty, if you girls would now take a seat. Misty and Leaf can sit in front of Gary and Ash and May and Dawn can sit in front of Drew and Paul." he said while gesturing at the four boys who were laughing their but off after our little act. They quickly turned serious again and examined us closely as we set in front of them. The teacher snapped his fingers and our schedules appeared in front of us. Pretending not to notice the eyes that were burning a hole in the back of my head I read through my schedule:
-History
-Coordinating
-Pokemon Care
-Biology
-Lunch
-Math
-Music
-P.E.
When I noticed that the teacher was talking about how Arceus was the pokemon who created the world and all other legendary pokemon, I ignored him. We already had this lesson. So I started comparing my schedule with my sisters' schedules. We had everything together, outside from our second and sixth classes. I had coordinating with Dawn while Misty and Leaf had battling. Dawn had Fashion, Leaf had cooking and Misty had technology during sixth period. I sighed, so that hour each of us had alone. I didn't mind that much, but I knew Dawn, Leaf and Misty did. Dawn because of her separation anxiety, Leaf because of her lack of social skills and Misty because she couldn't protect us in a different class. "We'll be fine." I assured them. "What could possibly go wrong?" "Do you really want an answer to that question?" was Leaf's angry response. I smiled. That was true….
When the class ended we all me and Dawn went to our next class, and Misty and Leaf went the other way. We all thought exactly the same thing: "Don't let them be in my class."
DAWN'S POV:
Omgomgomgomgomg! This will be so weird! Thank Arceus I have May with me! She always keeps her cool! But oh no! I don't have her with me in Fashion class! What will I do? The thoughts rumbled through my head when we entered the classroom/arena. May looked at me. "Calm down, everything will be okay, I'm here with you. It's gonna be okay. Just relax!" the brunette said reassuringly. Yeah, it'll be okay. The teacher, a woman with blue hair like me and a Glameow, told everyone to settle down while we just stood there awkwardly. "Okay class, first we are going to watch some appeals and after we are going to have some double battles!" the teacher said before looking at me and May. "And since you are the new girls, you will show us an appeal." She said with a stern voice. "Do we each make an appeal or one together?" May asked. "Show me one together if you think you can handle it." I looked at May and we both smirked. OF COURSE we could handle it. We went to the center of the stage, not noticing a familiar mob of green hair that was observing our every move with a frustrated look on his face.
After I tugged my blue hair behind my ear I pulled out a pokebal from my bracelet. After calling my signature call "Spotlight!" I released my Piplup. After May's signature call "Take the stage!" it was joined by her Glaceon.
"Glaceon use dig!" In a matter of seconds there were holes all over the stage, and somewhere in them were Piplup and Glaceon. "Now Piplup bubble beam!" blue bubbles appeared from the holes, twirling and twinkling. "And now" I said while looking at May, who nodded. "Ice beam!" we both shouted. The two pokemon jumped out of the holes and both fired an ice beam. The bubbles froze and kept hanging in mid-air. "Now Piplup whirlpool!" the whirlpool was thrown inside of the bubbles, reflecting their beauty. Now for the finale. "Hyper beam Glaceon!" The hyper beam was shot directly in the whirlpool causing all the frozen bubbles and the entire whirlpool to explode in little snowflakes and blue glitters. And there Glaceon and Piplup stood proudly, before bowing. Their classmates were going crazy. May smiled, a rare smile that only her pokemon and sisters could cause, it softened up her entire face. But it quickly vanished, just as usual.
The teacher approached them. "That was amazing you two! You and your pokemon were perfectly in sync with each other! Well done." I quickly pulled May in a hug before congratulating our pokemon.
"If everyone would direct their gazes to the screen, the match-ups have been made." The teacher called. May and I looked up and both held in a groan. We (thank Mew!) were matched up with Drew who looked smug and that impossible girl from History class, Katie who was looking at Drew as if he was some kind of God. "Oh, we will show them." May said to me evilly. I laughed at her, like hell we would show them.
We stood on opposite sides of the battlefield. Our match was last and every single one of our classmates looked expectant. I released my Zoroa, Drew released an Absol, and Katie released a Garbodor. "Matching" I thought before looking at May, who still hadn't released her pokemon and was just looking at her pokebal, apparently lost in thought. Drew flicked his bangs out of his face –a few girls fainted- before speaking: "Are you finally done admiring your pokebal? This match can't start before all pokemon are included Airhead, in case you didn't know." May simply glared at him before pulling out a different pokebal. One I knew very well, oh no, there in trouble now.
"Come on out Arthur!" May called before releasing her partner Blaziken. Katie shrugged: "It has a nickname? That must be the ugliest nickname I've ever heard! Isn't that right schmukkems?"(I know it's weird, it's supposed to be.) After a quick glance at May's face I called out to Misty and Leaf, who were apparently watching a battle. "Guys! Be ready to run! Someone insulted May's pokemon!" "That's not that bad, just tell her to calm down!" was Misty's response. "I know she has a bit of temper, but you should trust her a bit more, she knows how important this is." I almost groaned at Leaf's response. "You don't understand! She insulted Arthur!" It was quiet for a second before Leaf responded. "Oh no, this is bad. Dawn, you have to make sure she doesn't set anyone on fire this time! Misty and I will think of something to distract May." Looking back at said girl, I noticed that her blue eyes were starting to turn a fiery red, a sign that she was majorly pissed off. I pulled her into a hug and tried to calm her. "It's okay May, you have to calm down, it'll be okay." I whispered. Arthur quickly joined me, but even he couldn't calm her. Her hands were starting to heat up. Just when I thought she was going to set the school on fire the windows flew open. A mix of wind and rain blew us of our socks. Obviously the work of Misty and Leaf. Thanks to the shock however, May started to calm down. "Alright, I won't set her on fire now, but you have to promise me something." "What is that?" "That we show those two every side of the battlefield." Me and Arthur smirked and immediately promised. They weren't getting away with this. Looking back at Katie, who was obviously gossiping about us against her friends, and to Drew, who was looking at us with an annoyed look on his face. Then, the battle started.
DREW'S POV:
I was annoyed. Extremely annoyed. Why couldn't I read these girls thoughts? This wasn't even supposed to be possible, my psychic powers were top notch. And yet, every time I focused at their thoughts, I came up with nothing. It was like there was a wall around them. Not for the first time today I wondered if they had anything to do with those four thieves we fought. There were similarities, a lot of them. But they didn't use a primary element like those girls did, and their eyes weren't ice cold, like those thieves' ones. When I watched them after their appeal (which was extremely good, even though I'd never admit it) I saw a quick smile appear on the brunettes face. I was shocked. Not only made it look her even more attractive, it was also the first emotion I had seen on her face the entire day. Her emotions, I almost groaned when I thought about them. As if it wasn't bad enough that I couldn't hear her thoughts, I also couldn't sense her emotions. Her sisters were normal, I could sense them easily. But it was as if her emotions were…locked or something. I examined her when she was looking at her pokebal. Shining brown hair, a pale skin, red lips, a very good figure and the most beautiful ocean blue eyes I had ever seen. Clearing my head of those thoughts, I made a comment about the fact that she was still looking at her pokebal. She sent me a death glare and pulled out a different pokebal. She opened it and out came a powerful looking Blaziken with the nickname Arthur. That annoying fangirl I was teamed up with said something I didn't pay attention to. But I did pay attention to May's reaction. She shot her a look that could scare full-grown Tyranitars and I didn't need to be able to read her emotions to know she was furious. Her facial expression was enough. I felt Dawn's emotions turn nervous and afraid, which confused me. She and the Blaziken started to calm her down, but it didn't work. Only after the weather went crazy did her emotions vanish from her face again. I made a note myself to tease her, so I could study her facial expressions some more. Then the battle started. And boy was it an interesting one.
NORMAL POV:
Katie called the first attack: "Use Sludge Bomb!" but thanks to a bubble beam from Dawn's Piplup, it didn't hit. Next up was Drew, who ordered a Razor Wind. Absol created an extremely powerful one. May knew that if it hit, they would bit in trouble, so she shouted: "Arthur! Grab Piplup and jump in the air before using flamethrower!" Arthur took hold of Piplup before jumping so high that it could touch the sealing. Then it fired a flamethrower that mostly canceled out the Razor Wind, but not completely so it did get hit. Being part fighting type, this was pretty effective. May and Dawn both wanting to end it, called out their attacks: "Now! Alpha combination! Hydro pump/Overheat!" After placing Piplup down, Arthur jumped back up. They both shot out their attacks, the Hydro Pump pointed upwards, and the Overheat pointed downwards. The result was a vortex of fire and water, where the two opposing pokemon were locked in (Just like what Tucker did in the Battle Frontier) after the attack wore off, both pokemon were out like a light.
DREW'S POV:
Drew was shocked, no one was able to beat Absol up like that, and certainly not after one attack. I thanked him and returned him to his pokebal for a well-deserved rest. That Katie-fangirl was crying and shouting at her pokemon: "Schmukkems! You have to get up now! How dare you disappoint me like this?" At this, May's head shot up, since she was busy congratulating Piplup and tending Arthur's wound, even though it would heal on its own accord. "How dare you even say that! That Garbodor did its best and you don't even congratulate or thank him!? And you call yourself a trainer?" to prove her point, she ripped a piece of her jeans, sprayed a bit of super potion on it and started taking care of 'schmukkens' wounds. I was stunned, and then a warm feeling washed over me, and while I was watching her take care of the pokemon,(ignoring Katie's insults) her face softened. Now she looked even more like an angel to me. Then the class was over.
MAY'S POV:
After class had ended I told Dawn to go on without me, since I went back to treating Arthur's legs when I had taken care of that Garbodor's wounds, thank Arceus they weren't that bad. After that was done I left the arena looking for Pokemon care. I stopped when I heard something behind me. I turned around, and the first thing I saw was a rose. I walked away into the wall, closing my eyes and shaking. "May?" I heard someone ask. I opened my eyes, and saw Drew looking at me with a… wait! He looked concerned? How is that possible? But my vision quickly shot back toward the rose, when I noticed it was a red thorn-less one, I stopped shaking. "What's wrong?" Drew asked. "Nothing," I responded "You just startled me, that's all." He nodded, before pointing the flower at me. "Here" I was hesitant to accept it. "It's for Arthur, since it did so well in that battle today." I nodded, thankfully and accepted the flower. "Now Airhead, you do realize that Pokemon Care is on the other side of the building." My temper spiked up after hearing this. "Me? An airhead? Why would you say that?" I was still busy with my wrath, but he just walked away after flicking his hair. I managed to get to Pokemon Care, and all my sisters were stunned to see I of all people was holding a rose, I promised to explain everything at lunch. The next 2 classes were quickly over, we all grabbed our lunch and all sat down. After me and Dawn explained what happened during our class and after, we heard what had happened to Misty and Leaf during their class. Misty had tied with that Ash-boy, and Leaf had won against Gary. "But he kept flirting with me! It was so obvious that even I could pick it up!" we all snickered at this. While I was eating, I thought about how it went easier than expected, sure, I almost set the building on fire, but they luckily distracted me enough before I could start spitting flames. After lunch, we went to math, which was easy, and next up was our hour apart, something we weren't so happy about.
LEAF'S POV:
In the midst of class, I snapped. Partly because of that Gary guy, who sat next to me, kept on flirting with me, but mostly it was because of Katie and her sidekicks. They were picking on that shy little girl from first period. Not only was I unable to concentrate anymore, it was just all out wrong. I walked over to them (we were making desserts on our own), told them what I had to say in 4 different languages, and then I turned towards the bullied girl, Stephanie. "Are you okay?" I asked. She nodded, before tackling me in a hug. To say I was startled was an understatement. When she let go of me, I was more than happy and she explained everything: "They just keep doing this, everyday! And I just can't take me anymore! They're so mean! I didn't even do anything wrong! I…I…." she started crying. "Shhhh, it's okay, I'll keep them away from you, they won't hurt you anymore, I won't let them hurt you, okay? Just stop crying, it'll only make them feel better." I said while whipping her blonde hair out of her face, and I noticed her golden eyes were starting to get red because of the crying. Stephanie nodded, and gave me another hug. I stood next to her for the rest of the period, and none of the bullies dared to come over. I also noticed that the Gary guy was approaching us. He started speaking to Stephanie: "Are you okay Steph?" "Yeah, Leaf scared them away from me." was her happy response. After this, Gary looked at me with gratitude before saying: "Thank you Leaf, I couldn't come over, or they would bully her even more." I was taken aback by this, this didn't match his player image at all. I never thought he could actually be …caring. What Stephanie said next however, snapped me out of my thoughts. "He likes you."
DAWN'S POV:
Why, why of all people do I have to be partnered up with that annoying jerk? "Why do you even follow fashion?" I asked him. "It was a joke from my friends." was the angry response. I looked up from my sketch to watch Paul, he was just staring at some point in space, not even trying to pretend he was helping. I sighed, we were supposed to be come up with 2 outfits, one for a man, and one for a woman. And out of all people, I was matched up with Paul, just my luck.
"Are you waiting for something? An invitation maybe?" I asked kinda mad. We were paired up since I was new and since Paul scared everyone else of so he was left alone. And after this event he hadn't done a thing. He looked at me with his onyx eyes. "Well, in case you didn't notice, I'm not that good at this course. I honestly couldn't care less about this assignment Troublesome." "First: why do you keep calling me Troublesome?" he started this during Biology "And second: I do care, so you'll just have to suck it up. What's your favorite colour?" "Black." he answered, ignoring my first question. "Figures." I muttered and went back to sketching, it was a black smoking, and a long pink and black dress, one of my best designs yet, I might ad. He inspected it for a long time, and I mentally prepared myself for his reaction. Then he finally opened his mouth to speak. "It's not that bad, but if you think I am going to wear a pink tie, you're out of your mind." I laughed while looking at that particular detail I had added. Then I smirked, he was going to wear it. Whether he likes it or not. "You can say what you want Paul, but since you don't know me very well, I'll explain: When it comes to fashion, I always get what I want." "Then tell me." Paul's response shocked me. "Tell you what?" "About you, tell me about your life. About you hobby's or something. "Well, I like pink, my favorite pokemon is my Piplup, I have a knack for planning parties,…" After he let me talk for a while he asked: "And you parents?" "They're dead." My voice went from cheery to ice-cold in a split second. "I'm sorry." And he was sorry, I could see it in his eyes. After this I went back to work, he (big shock!) helped me, and even doe there was a silence between us, it was better than before. More friendly, pleasantly.
MAY'S POV:
When I entered music class (too late) I immediately noticed a mob of green hair and groaned, I soooooo wasn't ready for this class, and I didn't need annoying remarks all the time, if you don't mind. I turned to the teacher, and since most people in that class didn't know me yet, she asked me to answer some question; there were basic ones, who I answered with a smile on my face. But there were also a few difficult ones, who made my smile freeze. And the first one was asked by none other than Drew (Hmmm... I wonder why): "Why do you live with just your sisters?" my answer was monotone. "Because our parents are dead." "And you don't have any other family?" I did, I had actually. I used to have a brother, Max, but he died together with my parents…. No! Stop it! Don't think about that right now! Not now, not here. "No, I don't have any family outside of them." Any other questions that had to do with my past, was evaded. "Where have you lived before? How did your parents die? How old where you?" when the questions got to personal, the teacher stepped in. "Okay stop it! This is way too much! This girl is supposed to feel welcome, not feel like she's being interrogated! Now May, would you like to show us something? Singing or playing an instrument?" "My throat is sore, so I won't sing, but I would like to play something." was my response. She gestured for me to do so, and I walked over to the violin. I registered all the unbelieving looks and mocking laughs I was getting, since the violin was a pretty hard instrument to master, but I ignored them and I just started playing a song I had written myself. And just for a split second, I let my emotions go. After a quick glance at Drew, I realized he must have felt them, but only in a flash. I played for about ten minutes and when I stopped, almost everyone was gawking at me in awe. "That was marvelous May! Did you write that yourself? Now you can take your seat, you can sit next to Mathilde." I smiled inwardly, before walking to my seat next to a blonde haired girl.
MISTY'S POV:
As much as I loved technology, I just couldn't concentrate, I was way too worried for that. I was worried for my sisters, I had received a message from them saying they were all in a class with one of the four boys. And the final one sat next to me. Leaf was right, karma did hate us. As annoying as it was to watch him struggle and whine it was also cute. A bit. I sighed and turned towards him, already with my assignment for the day. "Do you need some help?" I asked. Ash looked at me as if I was a lifesaver, at which his Pikachu rolled his eyes. While I was explaining, I noticed he wasn't stupid at all, like I first thought. He was just dense (and constantly thinking at for it seems)
"Yes! Thanks Mist! You saved me big time!" he screamed when the numbers on his screen finally made sense. "Mist?" I asked dumbfounded. He blushed. "Yeah, it's like a nickname. I can stop saying it if you mind it."
"No, I don't, it's just… my family used to call me Mist."
"Your family, as in your parents? What happened to them?"
At this, I snapped shut. "They died." I growled through clenched teeth.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to upset, I won't ask again."
This boy kept amazing me. It turns out I was right after all. He wasn't stupid. He was just really dense, but at the same thing understanding and cute and… Hold it! I stopped my train of thoughts. He's your enemy! Stop this.
But I didn't stop talking with him for the rest of the hour.
DAWN'S POV:
Next up was P.E., this was going to be fun. I smiled when I looked at my sisters, who all looked equally excited. This is where we ruled. We were good in most of our classes, but when you're trained to be some of the best spies and thieves out there… Let's just say it wasn't like we had any trouble with running laps, like most other teenage girls did. (Story of my life!) We got into our gym clothes, groaned about the fact that the shorts were not that long, and went into the gym. The teacher was already waiting with most of the boys and some girls. "Would you look at the boy's faces?" Misty asked teasingly. I looked, and had to hold my laughter in. They were all –even the coach- looking at our legs. When everyone arrived, the teacher –some guy called Crasher Wake- explained the rules. "Okay, you'll be in groups of four persons, and were going to play a game. You need to grab the scarf that's tucked around everyone's center. And yes, powers are allowed." At this, the boy's eyes turned excited, and the girls' eyes turned fearful. The four of us didn't even have to look at each other. We were always together. When the coach called "Fiore!" we all looked up, which made the coach sweat drop. "Oldest Fiore." Misty answered. "Yes sir?"
"You're team captain!"
"Check!"
We watched the first few battles, and our first one ended in 2 seconds, no kidding. I just rushed around them and grabbed their scarfs, using a tiny hint of my earth powers for an extra boost. There's a reason they call me Shadow. The next one was in the semifinals against Katie's group. They didn't stand a chance. May fought with a girl whose power was immense strength, and still held her ground enough to grab her scarf. Leaf took Katie's' without even much of a fight. Just like me and Misty did with our opponents. But our next match, that was the one were all looking forward to. It was against the boys, and we were itching to finish our battle.
It was a pretty hard battle. Just like our first battle, the boy all went after "their" respective opponent. But since we didn't want to be discovered, we used a different strategy, while at the same time we all showed were our names came from. May fought with every single one of them, like a Fury. Leaf lured them in instable spots like the Tracker she was. I swooned around grabbing scarfs. And like always, it was thanks to Misty's instructions we managed to grab all of their scarfs after 20 minutes. That's the Controller for you. And we hadn't even used our powers, primary or secondary. It was safe to say everyone was a bit shocked. Especially the boys we had just beaten, they had used all of their powers, even fused them together, and they still lost. And they were considered the strongest boys of school. "But you have to admit, it was a pretty good battle. They gave us a good run for our money." I said to the others. We were all pretty tired and Leaf had a cut on her leg. But it didn't matter. May -being sportive as always- went over to the boy's to congratulate them and we all quickly joined in. It was a really fun game after all. When we went back to the changing room, I thought about today. It hadn't been that bad, even good at some points. But tonight, we needed to get back to work, and I don't mean homework (even though we needed to take care of that too.)
And it's done! O. My. God. That's 13 pages and over 5.200 words! I'm so proud of myself right now, this has never happened before. Reviews would be extremely helpful! And speaking of reviews, julievdv1, you know I love you, but please! If you want to post a…. personalized review, just tell me at school okay? That's a whole lot less embarrassing for the both of us ;). And guys, since my exams are coming up. *sigh* I won't be able to write for probably a few weeks. Well, thanks for reading, and once again: reviews please!
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