[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 15: A New Friend
After the battle, Cassie went annoyed back to her classes, while the usual hyper Astrid showed the siblings and me the rest of the school. Besides the open terrain where the different-region Pokémon roam, there wasn't really a lot I cared about. The fields were located pretty much around the whole academy, this included the courtyard. Stairs to the classrooms were constructed in the rooms next to the Hall of Fame, and when entering those, you would come in more hallways that stretched out over the dorms and refectory. Astrid told us that our schedules laid on our (and Hex's) desk in the sleeping accommodation. Scarlett and her brother walked back to the room, since because it was starting to get late, and they said they didn't wanna get caught by teachers hanging around. To my belief that was just something Astrid made them think, but I stayed behind.
"Aren't you coming?" Fieritis asked. The three of us were walking through the open corridor connected to the dorms, directly next to the courtyard. We finally were freed from Astrid's incessantly babble about what every class contained. I wasn't really listening, ever since she showed us the Pokémon area, something had been bothering me.
"No, I want to discover a bit more, particularly the catching area." I replied. Scarlett looked worried but Fieritis just grinned.
"Planning to catch some Pokémon?" Fieritis reacted. "Just don't make it too late."
"Sure Dad." I said sarcastically. "Of course, I'm gonna actually catch Pokémon, and not run from them, like you with the Doduo back then." At first he just plainly looked at me, but after a few seconds Fieritis and I burst out in laughter. Scarlett just watched us, seeming rather confused. I turned around, same did Fieritis and his sister, said goodbye and we both walked away. They towards the dorms, me toward the open terrain. The sun was only visible at its upper half, and the moon was already rising up. I crossed the courtyard into the main reception hall, but the lady that usually stand behind the counter, was already gone. When I wanted to exit it, I heard two voices, one familiar, the other one unknown. The known voice was from a girl. I went in the direction the sounds came from, back to the courtyard. Two people were running hand in hand over the garden to the bench in the middle. They thudded on it and I could identify the girl, Astrid. The boy was covered by the buildings shadow, so I wasn't able to get a clear look at him. I saw him whispering into Astrid's ear, followed by her high-pitched giggle. Her giggle was way less annoying, like when she's so hyperactive, it was more soft and even cuter. To prevent interfering, and also having to cover my ears from Astrid's angry loud yelling, I revolved, still having Astrid's giggle in my head. My steps echoed through the hall, and so I walked outside, onto the front yard. The fountain kept spitting water out like always, and took the first path on my right. During the tour, when Astrid was explaining what kind of Pokémon lived here, I noticed mysterious holes in the ground. In the orphanages garden were also Pokémon gaps, but they looked more round and were dug by local Drillbur. However, this hole was more tortuous. I finally reached it, and kneeled down to look inside. Even if I wasn't surprised I didn't see anything besides darkness, I still felt disappointed. I leaned rearwards, placing my hand on the with dirt covered ground, and sat down. I sighed.
"San-sandi!" It sounded. The noise came from a tree further in the field. I jumped up, and walked curious toward it. In its infancy, nothing seemed different from the normal landscapes, but then, suddenly, a little head popped out of the ground. It was sand-colored but its eyes were surrounded by black, making it look like sunglasses and it had a long alligator-shaped mouth. It turned to me, and gritted its teeth. I just smiled, trying to make clear I meant no harm. While continuously looking at me, it slowly crawled outside of the ground. Now I could see the rest of its body. It had a few black horizontal stripes on its back, and as small tail on the end. Its feet stood roughly on the ground and on its front left paw, I saw something red. I observed the whole gesture one more time and concluded it was a Sandile.
"Hey there, buddy." I said. It was angry but also careful. "What's the matter?" I knew that I would had to keep smiling, so Sandile wouldn't become agitated. It still appeared hostile towards me, so I continued. "Is it your paw?" The crocodile-like Pokémon looked from me to its paw and back. I flinched when the Pokémon fell to the ground, next to the hole it dug. My hand automatically reached out to the gold brown colored creature, and it was too weak to even roar at me. The red I observed earlier came out of a deep wound, probably done by another Pokémon. I rummaged in my back, searching for whatever I could find that might help. When I pulled my hand out of my bag, I was holding the paper I grabbed the day before. The cover was too hard to use so I turned the page around, the other pages were made out of softer cloth. On the page was practically nothing that was of any interest, so I ruptured it off and started to wrap it around the Pokémon's paw, it wasn't much, but enough to stop the bleeding and since it was so soft, it didn't inflict more damage. On the tree I just passed hung some blue-looking berries with a light-green top. I stood up, and pulled one off the branches. It almost fell out of my hand but I just before that would happen, I closed my fingers over it. I kneeled back down, and held before the poor Pokémon's mouth.
"Eat. It'll help." To be honest, I had no idea what kinda berry it was, but berries always help against something, so why not this one. Sandile moaned while opening its mouth, and I gently placed it infront of the teeth. It tried to close its mouth, this time with the berry in it, and began chewing.
"Feeling any better?" I asked after it swallowed the rest. Sandile looked clearly better and even quickly jumped up. It nodded and quickly scurried back, further into the forest. As I sighed and faced back to the entrance of the school, I swore I saw somebody standing by the gate. He or she must've seen I noticed somebody and quickly disappeared. I ran to the drawbridge, but there was no sign of anyone. 'Strange, the sun's already down… Why would someone be here…' I thought. 'Wait, the sun's already down… ' A little light lit on in my head and I hurried to the dorms. 'I have to be in bed!'