Hey guys, how y'all doing? Well, I'm gonna keep this short, but the chapter itself is longer than normal! So please read, review and of course, enjoy!
Alexia's POV
I was making my way to my room to change, only to realize I was in my uniform still, so I just decided to go to mess hall and get some breakfast before going into the library to read or something. After eating breakfast, and being lectured by the caretaker lady to keep my health up so I won't faint again, I walked over to the library. I walked into the library, and didn't see anybody in there, to my relief. I walked around and skimmed through a couple books on Legendary Pokemon, not that I didn't know everything about them already. I just wanted to see what kind of legends they came up with for my adoptive family. I sighed at the memory of being told about my true origins. If Lugia and Kyurem aren't my real parents, who are? They're obviously human...
A hand was waved in front of my face. Since when did I start day dreaming? I looked at the owner of the hand, and it was Kate.
"Lexi! We were so worried about you yesterday! What happened?" She asked, I shrugged.
"I don't exactly know... All I remember was falling to the ground and passing out, then waking up in the infirmary this morning." I lied. Kate seemed to believe it, and nodded.
"You should be little more careful then, Lexi! If Kellyn hadn't dared Keith to talk to you, I don't think we would have found you!" Kate exclaimed quietly, since we were still in the library.
"Oh, I didn't know that..." I trailed off, then a flashback from my Nightmare erupted in my mind. My eyes widened and my heartbeat picked up gradually. To avoid unwanted attention from Kate, I looked down in the book I was 'reading.' Kate still managed to notice my distress.
"Lexi? Is everything alright? You seem kinda pale?" She asked me. I began to slightly shake, and I couldn't stop. Why won't I stop shaking? I'm not even asleep, why am I having these visions? I asked myself. Kate's voice was pushed far away, and I seemed to be alone, yet Kate was right next to me.
"Alexia, did you really think I wouldn't be able to get to you even when you were awake and not asleep?" Darkrai's deep, raspy voice asked me. Get out of my head, Darkrai! You need to leave me alone! I am not even the one who will be defeating you, so get out! I exclaimed in my head and there was silence. I sighed in relief and opened my eyes. Since when did I close them, though? Kate was staring at me in confusion and concern.
"Alexia... You get nightmares during the day?" She asked me. My eyes widened, did I mumble something and she heard me? What do I tell her?
"Umm... Yeah, sometimes, but they aren't that bad." I lied to her, she shook her head at me.
"I used to get nightmares all the time, and they always ended with me loosing someone, who I don't know. The person was a girl though... Sometimes, I would get close to her, but she wouldn't turn around. Then, I'd fall through the floor into a black pit, and the nightmare would continue on and get worse and worse..." She trailed off, my eyes widened. It's her. Kate is the one who I'll help defeat Darkrai! But she looks too innocent to go against that evil! I thought to myself. I guess appearances can be deceiving. Keith walked in, followed by the puffy blonde-haired girl, Rythmi, and then followed by the spiked up brunette-boy, Kellyn. Rythmi saw me and Kate and rushed toward us.
"Kate! Lexi! We were looking for you two!" She exclaimed. We looked up at them. My eyes met Keith's and I looked away. I still felt guilty for what happened earlier between us. It seems like my emotions are out of whack because of Darkrai. I swear, when this is just about over, I'll make sure he gets the punishment he deserves. I had been to lost in my thoughts, to realize that they had been trying to talk to me.
"Hmm? Sorry, what?" I asked them. Keith scoffed, and it made me mad, but I controlled my anger to not have a repeat of earlier. Rythmi spoke up.
"We were asking you about how you felt. You scared us yesterday when we found you passed out." She told me. I smiled.
"I'm ok, I was just exhausted." I lied, Kate looked at me with worry, but she kept quiet. I wanted to ask her what was wrong, but I couldn't at the moment. The bell to class rang and I stood up, stretching. The others did something along those lines. Rythmi smiled.
"Hey! Why don't we hang out at lunch today! You can join our group, we wouldn't mind, right guys?" She asked Kellyn, Kate, and Keith. Kate spoke up.
"I wouldn't mind at all! I mean, we all would right?" Kellyn and Rythmi nodded with smiles on their faces, but Keith just glared off to the side. I felt my chest hurt for some reason, was it because Keith is mad at me because of what happened earlier? Kellyn noticed Keith's behavior.
"Hey, what's up with you? You normally aren't this quiet. Lose a challenge?" Kellyn asked and put an arm around Keith's shoulder, He huffed. Keith shrugged out of Kellyn's arm an walked away.
"I need to get to class." Then he was gone out of the library. I looked around the library one last time to make sure I had put the books back in the appropriate spots, when I noticed a darker corner of the library. My eyes widened when I saw red eyes glaring into mine. I blinked and there was nothing there, in fact, the corner wasn't even dark. I shook my head of the hallucination. I grabbed my stuff and walked to class with the gang. Once we got to class, I sat down next to Keith in my spot, then looked anywhere that Keith wasn't. Kate, Kellyn, and Rythmi had gotten into their own seats and we all were waiting for Ms. April to come into class. Soon she came into class and class started.
After a while it was lunch and as I had promised, I sat and eat with everyone for lunch. It felt awkward to be there, since I never had been around humans that often, when I was, it'd be for missions. I listened to the others talking, I didn't say much throughout most of lunch. After I was finished eating, I stood up.
"I'm going to go wander around, and don't worry, I wont be fainting anytime soon." I stated with a light chuckle, They nodded and I left the cafeteria to go outside. The sun instantly started to gleam down on me. I walked the campus grounds and sighed.
"Why was Darkrai able to get to me?" I ask myself this question again out loud. I wondered to the port and sat down, pondering over the thought, when I heard Arceus's voice inside my head.
"Alexia, if you keep thinking about this for to long, you will lower your guard, which is something you need to have up at all times." She told me. I sighed again.
"I understand that Arceus, but anyways, is Kate the one I'll help defeat Darkrai? She used to get nightmares, and it sounds like she used to see me in them. It could only mean that, right?" I asked aloud, since no one was around, or so I thought. I jumped when I heard a voice start up from behind me.
"Who are you taking to, Alexia?" I stood up and turned around to be face with Keith. He looked like he wanted something from me, what I don't know exactly. I ignored his question, answering his with another question.
"Why are you out here?" I asked. I could tell that he was upset that I had ignored his question.
"I asked first!" He exclaimed arrogantly. I sighed.
"To myself, happy?" He looked at me with distrust, it wasn't something that I wasn't familiar with, but it was something that hurt. He must have heard me talking about Kate. I looked away.
"What do you want Keith?" I asked.
"Why were you talking about Kate? Who are you and why are you here? Do you belong to some criminal group or something?" He asked me. I sighed.
'Can I tell him Arceus? The last thing I need is to be assumed as the bad guy when I'm not.' I asked her. There was silence for a long period of time.
'It will be ok, I have ran a simulation of each and every possible future to come of this revelation. There will be a 50% chance that he will believe you and not tell the others unless you tell them too. The other 50% will be that he will not believe you at all and will tell the others, thus making your mission impossible and you wont be able to help defeat Darkrai, making the world dissolve into eternal darkness and nightmares.' She answered me. I gulped at the bad end.
"Keith... What I'm about to tell you, you can't tell anyone else except for the gang." I told him seriously. He glared at me, then nodded for me to continue.
"You are more than likely going to call me crazy and insane from this information, but I've been raised by the Legendary Pokemon." I told him. Keith's eyes widened and I swallowed again nervously. This information has never reached any other mortal ear but my own, I don't know how he will react from it.
"You were raised by the Legendaries? So you know all of them?" He asked me be bewildered and I sighed in relief, he believes me.
"Yes, I was raised by them and taught how to understand them in their own language, the also taught me some of their moves and power, which makes me a legendary in a way, too. Oh, and before you ask, don't even bother asking me to show you." I told him with a teasing smile. Keith laughed.
"Dully noted." He stated, then the bell rang to go to our rooms. We both walked back in a comfortable silence. Keith spoke up after a while.
"Hey, Lexi... When will you tell the others about this?" He asked me. I sighed, I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye.
"Whan the time is right, I guess. In other words, soon." I told him. We met up with the gang. Rythmi smiled.
"It looks like you two reconciled from whatever you were fighting about! That's good, because you're her partner for the test!" She exclaimed. I looked between the two in confusion.
"What test? Isn't it too late to have a test?" I asked them. Rythmi just laughed.
"Oh, not that kind of test- a test of courage! All new students have to partake in it!" She exclaimed cheerfully again. I'm still confused, Keith shuddered.
"Really? Why me?!" He exclaimed fearfully. Was this test really that bad, that Keith was afraid of it? Rythmi just chuckled.
"Did you seriously forget about the rules? The person to the right of the new student in class, is the person who will be that student's partner in the Test of Courage! Don't worry, though. Even Kellyn has to go, too!" Rhythmi stated. Kellyn looked up when he heard his name be called out.
"Eh, yeah, that's right... I'm going with Kate." He told us. Speaking of Kate, I looked at her figure, and saw that she was fast asleep on the couch in the room we were in and from the looks of things, she was having a nightmare. When she started to shake badly, I raced over to her abd tried to wake her up.
"Kate, wake up! You have to hight it! Don't let Darkrai defeat you before the end of all this! I whispered into her ear, and she stopped shaking. I sighed in relief. I felt someone staring at me, and locked eyes with Keith. I mouthed, 'She's fine.' to him. He nodded back to me, telling me he understood.
It was soon dark and Kate had finally woken up again. Once she was fully awake, Rythmi explained the test to us.
"Ok, we have hidden ten capture stylers around the school halls and classrooms once the first team has found five, and put them in the basement, the second team will head out to find the remainder." She told us. I nodded to the information. I could already tell where there would be a capture styler. One in the library, the teacher's lounge, the halls, Ms. April's room, and Whoever the other guy teacher is, I never took the time to remember his name. Rythmi started up again.
"Ok, Kate, Lexi, pick a number through 1 and 10." We did so. Rythmi turned to me.
"Lexi, what's your number?" She asked me.
"8." Then she turned to Kate.
"1." Kate told her. Ryth smirked.
"Well Kate, looks like you go first! My number was three and you were the closest!" Kate groaned. Me, Keith, Kellyn, and Ryth laughed. Once they left, I closed my eyes to keep an eye on them. I felt a hand shaking my shoulder, I opened my eyes and saw Keith standing next to me.
"Yes?" I asked him, and closed my eyes again to make sure nothing happened while I hadn't been watching.
"I thought you fell asleep for a moment." He told me, I smiled.
"I'm making sure that Kate and Kellyn are ok. I'll tell you why I'm so worried about Kate when it's our turn." I whispered in a low tone. Keith nodded to me. Soon, Kate and Kellyn came back with no difficulties, I sighed in relief.
"Ok, Ryth, I'm ready to go!" I exclaimed and pulled Keith down the steps of the student lounge.
"Is there any thing else I should worry about while down here, other than that guy teacher?" I asked, Keith laughed.
"You get caught by Kincaid and you're pretty much done for. Other than that, no. Maybe the occasional wild Pokemon, but other than that nothing." He explained. I walked down a hallway to the library, its so dark, that I couldn't even see my hands in front of me. My eyes widened when I remembered who hid in the dark. I turned to Keith quickly.
"Ok, I need to tell you something important! The reason why I'm so worried about Kate is-" I was cut off, by a voice in my head.
"Alexia... You're either stupid or brave to have gone into my domain..." I growled at Darkrai's raspy voice in my head. Keith noticed my distress.
"Are you scared?" He asked me with a light chuckle. I glared at him and he shut up.
'Out of my head... Now Darkrai!' I exclaimed angrily in my mind, and then there was silence. I sighed in relief.
"I was saying before, that I'm here because of Darkrai, and Kate is tied in with this. I can't tell you anymore than that, ok?" I asked him.
"Yeah, that's fine." As we continued our search, I saw one of the stylers on the ground.
"One down... four more to go." I whispered to myself. We walked into the library, and I saw the next styler on a far table. I jumped over the book crates and grabbed the next styler.
"Looks like you're almost halfway done." Keith stated. We walked back out and I heard a noise up ahead.
"W-what's that?!" I laughed at his scared expression. I looked ahead, and saw a single Bidoof in the middle of the hall.
"Dude, you're scared over a Bidoof?" I asked and started to laugh. Keith huffed at me and turned his back. I could hear foot steps coming from the basement stairs. My eyes widened and I dragged Keith to the side. I saw the guy teacher, Mr. Kincaid, walk up out of the basement.
"I could of sworn I heard some one up here... I was positive that it was Keith and the girl with the connection to the Legendaries..." As soon as he said that, my blood went cold. How does that man know about my connections? He walked back down the stairs and I had let out the breath I didn't realize I had been holding in. I noticed that Keith had been looking at me in worry.
"Let's just get the last three and put them down in the basement while Kincaid is still distracted with whatever he does down there." I told him, and we hurriedly grabbed the last three and we were now on our way down to the front of the basement room. We sneaked to the door, when I heard Kincaid talking to someone inside the room. I ignored it, and plopped the stylers down. We were about to sneak back up, when I heard a ghastly cry. We whipped around to be attacked by four Gastly. I clenched my teeth and pulled out my school Capture Styler. Keith didn't do anything, and it made me slightly ticked, but I ignored it.
"Capture On!" I exclaimed and had the four ghost-type Pokemon caught in a few minutes. I released them, Kincaid stormed out of the room.
"WHO'S OUT HERE!? TELL ME YOUR NAME AND CLASS!" Me and Keith exchanged fearful looks.
"RUN!" And we both high tailed it out of that creepy place.
Finally! I'm done! This chapter took me a long time to write, but it's done now! I honestly have no excuse for being this late, but any ways, it's done, so please review!