[Pokémon] The Secret Academy

The way better version, made by hannahluvz, from Scarlett's view:

Chapter 13: Time for a battle!

When Fieritis finished eating his slice of bread, Hex suddenly jumped up. Cassie, Fieritis, Scarlett, Astrid and me all looked at him with confused faces.

"What's it now again?" Astrid asked.

"Well, you surely didn't forget I still have lessons right? I mean, you go ahead and eat, but I have to prepare for Type matchups in a few minutes." He replied, smiling brightly and gesturing to Scarlett and Cassie to move so he could shove away from his seat. As he jumped of the steps, Astrid stood up, half stuffing her mouth full with the rest of her fried eggs and with mouth full reacted:

"ALRIGHT! Fieritis, Lucus, Scarlett. Stand up! We neither are going to dawdle around here!" Scarlett seemed a bit flinched by the sudden announcement. Next to her Cassie also jumped up and added: "I'm coming along! I don't have anything to do for the next hour since class was canceled and if I don't have anything meaningful to do, the teachers are gonna scold at me again. Before Astrid could protest, she raised her hand to stop-height. "No, I'm not gonna change my mind. Besides, it'd be a good idea to maybe have a double battle against the new rookies." Scarlett shuffled off the couch to let the uncorrectable Cassie through. At first I thought of her as another one of those stereotypical shy girls, but I clearly was wrong. I couldn't suppress a smile, thinking that she and Astrid, still with her mouth stuffed with food, would be perfect friends. Hex seemed a bit disappointed that he'd be the only one who wouldn't be able to fight. I heard him say some mean words about Type matchup while walking away nodding. Fieritis nudged me, and I noticed Astrid looked at me with a face that wouldn't end well for me if I didn't shove up. I almost fell off the bench but just in time could regain my balance. Astrid walked to the doorway with a joyous radiation, gesturing we had to follow. Cassie was the first one to react and immediately ran next to her, the rest of us just scurried behind her. We ran across the courtyard, and entered the open gate straight across from the way to the Hall. We came in a small but very high, open room with huge apertures to what most likely would be the classrooms. The room was decorated with what looked like, gargoyle. They were shaped like the legendary Pokemon from Hoenn and Sinnoh. In the beak of a Ho-oh, hung a plague with a very formal looking paper. I looked through the glass and read this:

Name: Wally (unreadable)

Age ataccomplishment: 28

History: Wally during this period, was a boy who had asthma, despite this he wanted to train Pokémon. At the age of 14 he temporarily quit battling, but his old Gardevoir desired to recapture the feeling of battling.. At the age of 15, he resumed his journey. After a few months he came by this Academy, and made a deal with his Gardevoir that he could follow our program, as long as it could keep fighting against the other trainers.

Accomplishment: Defeating former founder Koga in a 1 vs 1 battle.

Date: 18 May 2005

While staring at the paper, a shadow darkened it. I turned around and saw Astrid's strict face, with a big wrinkle forming above her, right now scary, eyes.

"If you're just gonna look around without hearing my explanation, you might as well get to class!" I wanted to tell her I didn't even got my schedule yet, until she rudely denied my possibility to say something. "Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes. The gargoyles. So, The statues, or gargoyles, are all shaped like legendary forms." She explained with a good imitation of a very strict teacher. "If you look closely, you'd see that most of the Pokémon have a small board with them. They're the reason this place is also called, the 'Hall of Fame.' Every of those frames include a paper with a person who has done something amazing. This goes from people that studied here beating the Elite Four, to people saving the school in any way you can imagine." We didn't receive a lot of time to look at those plaques, because Astrid already walked ahead with a firm pace. Her loud footsteps echoed through the hall and I knew it wouldn't take long before it would become 'her' annoying tempo, except the yelling of course. We ran through the hall to a large field and I recognized multiple battlefields. Most of them were normal fields, but other ones differed seeing they had a type-based template. The Water type was easily found since the battlefield was pretty much clear water. The Poison one was shown with filthy leaves and mire. At the end , in the middle of the garden stood an huge stage with red curtains to cover up the wings, or whatever was hid behind it. On the fire-field stood a Janitor cleaning the place with the help of a Wooper. Astrid waved at him and he happily nodded back. Before Astrid pulled my arm I could just observe that there was a match busy on one of the original between a Bagon and a Snorunt. The Bagon just used a Dragon Rage move and I suddenly had a flashback to the point when my Charmeleon and I fought a pack of Mightyena.

"Come on lads! Time to show me what you got!" I immediately knew it was Astrid. She pulled us towards the closest double field and ordered us to stand in in the trainer boxes.

"Now, who'll go against who?" Cassie asked.

Astrid replied first with quite fun proposal. "What about boys versus girls?"

"You think that's fair for them?" Fieritis asked. "I mean, we're gonna destroy them." He winked at Astrid and Cassie was the reacting one.

"Of course! It's not fair for us, it's gonna be way to easy! Or are you afraid?" This time she nodded and all Fieritis could do was agree. So it was Cassie and Scarlett versus Fieritis and me.

"You're up! Marill!" Cassie exclaimed. "Show 'em what you got!"

"And that isn't gonna be much." I replied. I didn't know why, but it just suddenly popped up in my head that I didn't know Scarlett's Pokémon. Fieritis and I called our little guys out. Charmeleon and Froakie.

"Come on Scarlett! Choose!" Cassie yelled. She sure was excited.

The sibling was nervously looking in her bag for her Pokeball. When she finally found it, she threw it up and a small Pokémon came out.

"Go, Cyndaquil!"