[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 7: New friends and Koga's past!
Fieritis and Scarlett looked surprised. I couldn't blame them. Both of us ran into each other and both of us were headed towards the same destination. The fireplace started to burn out and the sun was already going down. Koga had given me the directions to keep heading north and at the third right path, I'd have to continue to the East. The end of that same path led to this spot. It couldn't have been coincidence. Scarlett was the first to react. "Are you sure that you're also heading to THE Academy?" I answered quite confused: "And what do you mean, THE Academy? Which one is THE?" She focused herself on the ground and mumbled something unclear. I knew we were going to a school, but actually I wasn't given any more information about it than the directions. And I couldn't go anywhere else in the first place. I decided to ask what they knew. "What do you actually know about the school? I haven't been there, and it's quite a long story to tell." Fieritis answered. "Well, we have a friend, and he also went last year to this particular Academy. You see, we come out of a middle-class family and never really got the greatest education. My sister became very close to a local Pokémon, but our dad was against that creature since he had a terrible experience with it." Scarlett started to blush a bit and I could clearly see she was embarrassed. "Uhm, before I continue, don't you want to sit down?" Fieritis said. I nodded and installed myself on the hard tree trunk. I took off my backpack and placed it next to me. Fieritis jumped right of me and Scarlett quickly sat down behind him. "So, as I was saying. Scarlett got friendly with a local Pokémon. Our mother thought it was good since I had already gotten my first Pokémon too, but our dad didn't like the idea. My mother and father got into a huge fight and we had to run. I've always taken care of little Scarlett here and I didn't leave her for just that. Mostly in times like this we just return in a day or two and everything is fine again. But sis didn't want to return, and for half I neither wanted to. So we'd travel to this same school as you're traveling to. We've been traveling for a few days now. And according to an old map I found a few days ago, we must be pretty close."
Fieritis looked around like he would expected to suddenly see a huge building. With a disappointed face he turned back to me and finished his story. "That's pretty much how we got here." The two siblings looked at me and I knew I was supposed to answer. "You've got a special story there, but I think mine would surprise you even more!" I answered politely. "Before I'll tell you, I got to drink a bit, is that alright?" The two youngsters nodded, I reached for my backpack and took out a new water bottle that I received from Koga. The funny thing was that he had stick a picture of himself in the corner. And at the back of it his name was written in huge letters. It was almost like it was made especially for him. Scarlett noticed my bottle and while I was drinking, she asked. "Are you a fan of Koga?" I looked at her like she said the most amazing thing. "How do you know Koga?" Both Scarlett and Fieritis looked at me in shock. I looked at them as if I missed a very important thing. Fieritis stared deep into my eyes and yelled that I had to flinch. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO KOGA IS?!" I startled and stuttered over my words. "Yeah, but I know… how do.." Scarlett went to her tent and not much long after she walked outside with an old-looking poster. On the poster was Koga with a text bubble saying 'You think you have what it takes?' and the words 'The Academy' under it. Fieritis continued yelling: "He has created the school. Somebody else is now in charge of it, since Koga retired from being a gym leader and afterwards making his 'debut' as Elite member. But they say he's still living in these woods!" and kept talking and talking. But I didn't listen, I was too focused on the poster. Finally things started to make sense, how he knows so much about the Academy, these exact directions. Why he reminds me so much of a grumpy old, but agile teacher. Koga was the founder of the Academy.
I knew I had to tell my own story now, so I did. It took me only a few minutes until I ended. The four blue eyes stared at me and it sort of began to creep me out. We talked and laughed for another two hours about all kind of different stuff, including how life at the Academy must be. Scarlett had heard some fun stories that Koga might've hidden himself close to the school and that the first year apprentices first task was to find him. As expected, nobody ever found him. The fun thing was, that he was just sitting in their classroom. Only after a long while Fieritis noticed it was already late and the sun went down, while the stars came out shining brightly. He walked towards a backpack close to the small tent and took a tin box out of it. Inside were two stones. He kneeled down and began rubbing the stones against each other. Scarlett and I still sat on the trunk. During the two-and-so-many hours we talked, I felt even she wasn't scared of me and had to laugh. I looked at the currently weak fire when Scarlett nudged my arm. I turned around to her and asked what was the matter. "Lucus, do you think that the three of us.." She obviously was a shy girl and seemed to search for her words, though I knew what she was gonna ask. "Do you want to travel together with us?" A little further I heard Fieritis cursing and biting on his thumb, he burned his finger in the fire. "I'd love to, Scarlett." Her eyes started to sparkle and after the fire turned on, Fieritis shouted: "What's all the commotion about?" I smiled happily and replied. "I'll be traveling a while with you guys!"
-That's it again for today! See ya later! Osidien.