[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 8: At last, the Academy!
After my pact to travel with Fieritis and Scarlett, we went to sleep. I slept outside in a sleeping bag while Fieritis and his sister slept inside their tent. They partly begged me to also sleep inside it, but I refused. The tent was anyway too small for the three of us and I liked the fresh air. I looked at the stars and they reminded me of an old story kids in the orphanage used to tell. An unidentified flying object, or UFO was spotted somewhere near a fishing town. The people in the village started to disappear one by one. After a month or two all villagers were or gone, or fled. The Pokémon Rangers came in and captured the UFO. All people were evacuated and furthermore a ton of Elygem were inside. Furthermore nothing was told about it, and it was kept secret. I finally realized all that happened these past days. I woke up in a never before seen overgrown forest, battled a wild pack of Mightyena and was bitten in my arm. Afterwards a mysterious ninja, also known as apparently the founder of the Academy, Koga, took me in and nursed me. He sent me to the Academy with just the directions that led me here, to these two siblings. I closed my eyes and heard my surrounding. A Spinarak was crawling around and five Pidgey were flying above the trees.
Then I fell asleep.
The next morning I helped Scarlett pack up the tent while Fieritis put all of their belongings together in a small shoulder bag. After that was done, we covered up the fireplace and I took out my map. I wasn't very good in map reading, I knew the basics, but Fieritis seemed to be more advanced. He politely asked for my map and I handed it to him. He told me that the Academy was just outside the map view and it would be across some mountains Northeast from where we currently were. I folded my map and placed it back in the better backpack I received from Koga. My own shoulder bag was too old and half torn apart. The new bag was way newer and was made out of thin leather, the inside was set in 2 different parts and I placed the map in the smallest one. "Are you coming?" Fieritis yelled. He already walked ahead without waiting for us. I started walking and during the whole afternoon we passed by another river, probably the same with the Lotad I saw earlier. Because I again saw some Blitzle. Scarlett pointed towards a few birch trees that were still growing. "Look, look! A Doduo!" I looked towards the trees and saw the two round heads sticking out of two small necks, barely thicker than my arm. Under the main body were two small sticks attached, who then again were attached to two small feet. Fieritis jumped on some rocks to cross the river and exclaimed: "I'm gonna catch it!" Scarlett looked with a worried look at her brother and I stood by. The Doduo turned one head towards the slim boy and its sharp beak opened to let a loud cry come out. Fieritis put his hand inside his bag and brought out a blue ball with two red stripes on it. "Let's go, buddy!" He threw his Pokéball up in the air and a red beam of light appeared out of it. The light started to form together in a frog-like stature. 'Great, another frog' I thought by myself. A day or two back I battled a Toxicroak. It pretty much beat my Charmeleon up. The red stature began to recolor into blue. It has something like cotton around its neck and jumped up. I recognized it as a male Froakie.
"Froakie! Use Bubble!" The small blue frog spread its mouth and a lot of small bubbles started to appear. They flew in a quite slow tempo towards the Doduo and exploded once it made contact with the two-headed land bird. Surprisingly enough the Pokémon flew back against the same tree it was hiding behind a few minutes ago. It seemed angry and its beaks started to glow. It rushed forward and repeatedly threw its heads towards the small Froakie. It's using Peck! Watch out!" Scarlett screamed next to me. Fieritis predicted that and ordered his Froakie to use Bounce to get on the back of Doduo. Froakie jumped up and not much long after it grabbed one of the necks and swung itself on the back. The bird Pokémon became confused about what just happened and started to use Peck again. But this time Froakie just jumped up and the beaks crashed into their own body. "Finish with Quick attack!" The frog ran forwards and smashed its head into Doduo, and it fell unconscious down, next to the river. Fieritis took out a normal Pokéball and wanted to throw it, until a second cry came out of the forest. We turned our looks towards the forest, but this time it weren't two heads , but three. A raging Dodrio came out and attacked Froakie. It rapidly swung its heads and each of the beaks started to color differently. One red, one blue and the last one, who was supposed to be the angry head, though they all looked very angry now, yellow. It opened its beaks and in each of it a small ball with the matching color formed inside. A second before I realized it used Tri attack, a normal type move. We all started running and Fieritis called his Pokémon back. I ran as fast as I could, down the river towards the mountains, who according to Fieritis, were hiding the Academy. I looked around and saw Fieritis pulling Scarlett towards him, yelling she had to run faster. I was out of breath and threw out my Pokéball. "Charmeleon! Distract Dodrio with Dragon Rage!" The Pokémon heard my voice and as soon as it appeared it let out a familiar beam of blue fire. It crashed into the Dodrio, it was enough time to get away from it before it would recover from the attack and chase us again. Fieritis and Scarlett were sitting down at the begin of the mountains, waiting for me to catch up. Just before I arrived, I heard Fieritis saying. "Stupid Dodrio, if it wasn't for him, I would've caught that Doduo. Ah Lucus!" He looked at me with a grateful face and thanked me and Charmeleon for helping out against that Dodrio. We rested for about ten minutes before going back up on the tracks. Around the way is saw a lot of different Pokémon, from Geodude to Oddish. I trained against some Oddish and Fieritis trained against the Geodude, since we'd had both the advantage. Scarlett told us that during a battle with a Graveler, she saw a Gible, but it got away before we even could attack it. We passed over the mountain in about a half hour, and finally, over a bunch of trees, we could finally see it. The Academy.
-That's it for today! Beware that in the future I won't be able to upload a chapter every day because of school, more like one every two days. Peace out, osidien.