[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 6: Journey to the Academy!
The night before the departure, I couldn't sleep . I was too excited to join the now quite a lot mentioned Academy. Koga promised to walk along for a few minutes but then would just give me directions to the school. He had some 'business' to do, he told me. It all seemed suspicious to me, but I was in such a good mood I didn't really care. The morning I packed my bag, I received some more pie as breakfast and trained my Charmeleon a little bit. At dawn I noticed some more Durant. This time they weren't hostile against me though. One of them actually jumped in, somewhat in a battle stance. I was searching for some training, so I took it on. I used the same tactic as the day before: Dragon Rage in the hole Durant made with Dig, then finishing it off with a Slash move. This time it apparently knew that, it made multiple corridors underground so the Dragon Rage would only go one way. And it worked well. Durant got away without a scratch and defeated me with a strong Crunch attack. I let my Charmeleon rest and went back to the little cabin. Koga smiled at me, and I regained the feeling he was watching my battles. When I finally got to leave, it was around noon. The sun was shining bright, and I happily walked towards the path leading to whatever it might have. The trees around the path were steadily grown strong, and along the ride countless Pokémon were minding their own business. Some Sewaddle were chewing on leaves, and I swear that at a certain moment I saw a group of Stantler running across the forest. The ninja, as I like to call Koga, followed me on foot. Around a few hours of walking he suddenly stopped and pointed towards East. "Continue the path and turn right on the third path you find. That's all, I'll see you later" and left.
That man had a strange aptitude. But I didn't mind. As he said, I walked towards North and at a small river I waited. There was a small path, not placed down with stone or anything, but it was an open road. I didn't know if I would call this a path or not. I looked around and saw another bunch of Sewaddle and Venipede sitting by a tree. After not so long of walking I decided that nature itself could also be considered something, and turned right.
After a while I reached an overgrown spot surrounded by bushes and huge trees. A small, let's say lake, was used as bath by some Ducklett. Smoke rose up from a small hill. I walked towards it and the Ducklett noticed me, but just kept on bathing. Behind the hill was set up a small tent. Next to it was a small fireplace, hold together by some stones. Nearby the fireplace, on a fallen tree was sitting a small dark stature. It was a young boy, around my age, reading a book. He was wearing a small green shirt that was way too long for him, over white trousers. His brown belt was strapped around his shirt to keep it together. He had blond spikey hair and on the same tree he was sitting on was a small pointy green hat. He kinda reminded me of a character I once saw on a poster in town. It said something like, Zelda, or Link. I couldn't clearly remember. I stepped on a branch and he lowered his book. His blue eyes stared at me. The situation became a bit awkward so I casually went towards him, trying to introduce myself. "Hello, my name's Lucus. I'm a traveler and I'm just passing through this forest." The same blue eyes kept staring at me. But in a quick moment he suddenly jumped off the fallen tree and happily said: "Well hello, Lucas. My name is Jayden. But you can call me Fieritis. A lot of my friends do." I looked at him, like he did something wrong. "Well actually, it's Lucus, and not Lucas. With the U of… well something with an U." He smiled at me and didn't seem to mind me correcting him. Suddenly a high scream could be heard. A small girl was standing in front of the tent with a water bowl grasped in her hands. She wasn't that big, compared to me. She had light blonde hair and the same blue eyes as Jayden, she was wearing a pale yellow dress, that would make you think she didn't belong in the forest at all. Her legs were obviously shaking. Shaking legs like in a cartoon movie, alike. I didn't know why she was scared, I mean. I'm indeed an unknown person who's standing in the middle of their camp. But that was just a minor reason, I thought. She kept standing there until Jayden, or Fieritis reacted to her: "Hey Scarlett, this is my buddy," he looked at me and quickly whispered:" Is it okay if I call you buddy?" In the moment I was overwhelmed with questions, I quickly nodded. "Okay, as I said, my buddy here is Lucus. Lucus, this is my sister." The girl kept having the same look but after Fieritis nudged her and said something that I couldn't clearly hear, she seemed to gain her confidence again and greeted me. "Hi, I'm Scarlett." I forced myself to smile and greeted her back.
It became silent, none of us really knew what to do in this situation. I broke the ice. "So, what is the reason you guys are traveling?" Fieritis and Scarlett exchanged a quick look and surprisingly the little girl reacted first. "We're heading to an Academy of some sorts." I wonderingly let those words take their time, when I finally realized what she said. I jumped up and reacted: "Wait, what? I'm also going to an Academy!" The siblings looked back at each other and had the biggest eyes I'd ever seen.
-Sorry for late upload. That's it for today! Osidien out!