[Pokémon] The Secret Academy

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Attention: It's been a while since I uploaded, and for that I wanna sorry (There's a new cover as sorry, made by hannahluvz). There are many reasons to this, mainly I'm waiting for Scarlett's POV story to be updated, second is that I'm just busy. Anyway, onto the good part!

Chapter 18: A Month Later

Five people were standing in front of me. In less than a second I recognized Astrid, Fieritis, Scarlett, Hex and Cassie. They were all talking to each other, ignoring me. I stepped forward to ask 'Fieritis?' but he didn't hear me. 'Fieritis?!' Still nothing. 'Scarlett? Astrid?' It felt like there was an invisible barrier between us and I became agitated. 'Guys! Answer me! What's going on?' Suddenly, Astrid turned to me, pointing.

'Look!' she yelled, while having a scared look on her face. What could she possibly mean with that? My other friends looked in my direction and seemed frightened by something. Finally I realized they probably meant something abaft me, so I looked behind me. A pack of grey/black creatures gritted their teeth while looking at me. In total there were three, and the front Pokémon's canines were smeared with blood. It let out a deep roar and it jumped towards me and pushed me away. With my head laying to the ground, I saw that the wolf-like animal bit in Scarlett's arm as Astrid was screaming 'Mightyena!'

'Lucus, Lucus! LUCUS!' It sounded. I opened my eyes and Fieritis was looking at me with a worried countenance. Next to him stood Hex, equally worried.

'Hm, what?' I mumbled, nictitating my eyes because of the harsh sunlight.

'You were thrashing about!' Hex called out. 'And sweating heavily! Had a nightmare?' I nodded my head.

'Seems Darkrai holds a grudge against you. This is your fourth one this month, isn't it?' Hex more said than asked. It was true, it was only the second week, but I kept having nightmares, all of them involving my friends and Mightyena ."Pray to Cresselia." Fieritis looked at him, making a questioning gesture.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Oh, nothing. It's a popular saying." And with that, he walked back to his bed, so did Fieritis. I slowly stood up, or wavered up, and set myself in the chair in front of the desk. With my right hand, that was still clammy, I opened the lower drawer where a notebook was lying peacefully. I took it out and put it on the pad, took one of the pencils from a cup and started writing. Not many people knew it, but in the orphanage I did learn to write.

It's been a month since we came here. Scarlett and Fieritis are clearly having fun, and I don't dislike the school either. Up until now, we've met a lot of people, teachers, other students, and of course friends. Astrid, Fieritis' and my roommate Hex, Cassie and lately Wolf has been more open towards us, or it's just his nature. From all the classes, Type Matchups is definitely my favorite. Ms. Jenkins is incredibly nice, and it seems I have a born talent for it, according to her. This starting months, we've gone over the basics of them all, for example that the only counter to Electric is Ground, but Ms. Jenkins told us that soon we'll be talking about exceptions like Eelektross, who's invincible to ground attack because of his Levitate ability. It all is quite interesting, but it's annoying we only have three lessons each week. My least favorite class, is Pokegeology. They practically are just about where the Pokémon are located and how they adapt to their environment, for me that's too boring, and Mr. Murph can be quite strict sometimes, they say he used to be a clumsy assistant in Oblivia at the Ranger Union , although that are just rumors. Fortunately for me, we only have one lesson each week, since it's a minor category.

"Come on, if we don't hurry we're gonna be too late for breakfast, and Astrid's already angry enough." He answered.

"Wait, she's mad? Since when's that?" It may have seemed a bit sarcastic, and partly meant like it, but I still wanted to know.

"You didn't know? She didn't get into the next rank. And she's sick of being in the Bug section. Y'know girls don't like bug types, weird right? Anyway. We have to go, or I'm gonna be sassy all day."

"What modest, you are." A few minutes later, we all met up with each other at the refectory. Fieritis, Hex and I arrived together, while Scarlett seemed the only one polite enough to wait with eating, since Cassie and Astrid already struggled, eating everything they saw.

"Hi there, guys." Fieritis said, more to break the silence between everyone, besides Astrid and Cassie's eating noises and other students chatting, than to actually greet them.

"Hello, how are you?" Obviously that came from Scarlett. I saw that she was tired and she seemed a bit hungry, so I just smiled and said:

"Scarlett, eat already. Your food's getting cold."

"Yebwah, Scarbwlet, eabwt uwbp!"

"And you eat with your mouth closed. Thank you." It would seem a rude remark to an adult, but Fieritis and Cassie were good friends, we all were, so it didn't matter to her.

"So, what have you all been up to?" Hex asked to nobody in particular. "I heard you didn't get into the Ground rank. Apparently you weren't good enough in Pokémon Battles class? Predictable."

"Wbwell, winnbwing frowbm Simbwon iswb, harwbd." Cassie explained, without realizing we didn't understand a word of what she said.

"And she doesn't need to keep her mouth shut during eating!?"

"Yeah, yeah, Astrid. We get it. Scarlett, you mind telling us?" It was more of an order then a question, but she just seemed too eager to tell to notice it.

"Astrid almost failed Murph's class, and then…"

"Well he corrects way too strict! I just mean that…"

"Astrid! Let Scarlett talk. Go back to eating some bacon." It came out before I knew it. I was too curious to why she lost, that I didn't care for Astrid's quick interruption. Scarlett nodded, while blushing a bit, and continued her explanation.

"Normally failing one class still lets you go to the next grade, but failing two classes, is more of a problem. Simon is one of our top students, who's extremely good in almost every lesson, but still blinks out in Pokémon Battles. He has never lost to any other student yet. Astrid was too unlucky having to fight him. I heard he completely wiped the floor with her, in all respect." Everybody happily looked at Astrid as she turned red.

DING DONG, DING DONG.

"Ah great, off to class, what class do we have next?" I asked.

"I have Pokémon Relations. But then again, I follow a different schedule." Astrid reacted.

"We have Pokegeology." Hex said. I just had to sigh.