Chapter 4: The First Day

After trying for what seemed like an hour to try to wake up Calem, I gave up and decided to wait for Snape outside of the office that Calem and I shared, my messenger bag in hand. Once Snape arrived, I followed him toward the classroom that Calem and I would be using the following morning. I grinned looking around the large room. The desks were lined up in neat rows and a desk sat at the front of the room. Along the walls, various familiar machines lined the walls and empty shelves were lined up at the front of the room behind the desk at the front of the room. I was amazed at the amount of time and thought that Dumbledore appeared to have put into this classroom. Snape turned to me before breaking the silence, "my classroom is at the end of this hallway if you need anything." I nodded and thanked him as he walked out. Once Snape had left, I took a quick look at the three eggs in my bag and smiled. They were shaking even more than they had been yesterday. Deciding to leave the door open until class began, I looked for something to prop the door open with. I found a small block to use as a door stopper and placed it by the door.

Digging through my bag, I found posters that I had collected on my journey. The posters were advertising the various Pokémon Leagues and Pokémon Contests from every region, which now covered most of the walls of the classroom. I placed various types of Pokéballs, all empty, onto the shelves that were at the front of the room.

Before I knew it, Calem wandered into the classroom, still running sleep from his eyes. Calem grinned when he saw me, "classes are about to start. Is everything ready here?"

I nodded, "as ready as it's ever going to be today."

Not even five minutes later, students started to spill into the classroom. A group of students with red and gold ties sat on one side of the room, laughing loudly and talking amongst themselves. The next group consisted of people with blue and bronze ties and people with black and yellow ties. The last group had their heads held high and sneers plastered on their face, wearing green and silver ties around their necks.

Once everyone was seated at a desk, I cleared my throat. Everyone turned to Calem and I, waiting for either of us to start the class. I had to admit, I was disappointed with the turnout. Not one of the students was below fourth year, and most of the students seemed to be in their fifth year. I hopped up on the desk at the front of the room as Calem grabbed the desk chair and pulled it around so that it was next to the desk. "Welcome to the Care and Handling of Pokémon. I'm Serena Bellamy and I'm from Vaniville Town in the Kalos region."

Calem gave the class a wide grin, giving everyone a small wave. "Hey guys, I'm Calem Mercier and I'm also from Vaniville Town in the Kalos region."

"Just where is this Kalos Region," a blonde boy from the house with the silver and green ties sneered.

"It's in a completely different world," I said calmly.

"And you expect us to believe that," another boy said sceptically, this time from the black and yellow house.

"Yeah, we do," Calem said, "how else would we have grow up knowing all of the things that you're going to be learning about and you are just starting to learn about?"

"The point is," I said, stopping Calem from saying anything else, "is that Dumbledore came to our world and asked us to teach you guys. If you have more questions about our homeland, you can ask us after class."

The class then fell silent. I glanceded around the room and couldn't help but notice that each of the different houses had separated themselves from each other. That would be changed very quickly in this class. Ron turned to Harry, who was sitting beside him. "I just hope that there isn't any homework in this class," Ron whispered to Harry, who nodded his head in response.

I slid off of my desk and walked over to his desk, grinning and slapping my hands onto his desk, "do you have something to say to the class Mr. Weasley?"

"I-I, uh-"

"Yes there is going to be some homework, something that you don't seem to enjoy doing." I heard snickering from the students that proudly displayed their silver and green house colors as I started walking back toward the front desk. I turned to the blonde boy with the green tie, "is there something funny Mr. Malfoy? Perhaps you would like to share what's so funny with the class."

Hearing the snickering stop immediately after, I slid off the desk. "This class will have homework and few tests, however most of these will be within the first few weeks," I turned to find the class grinning and whispering to each other. Calem looked over the class before continuing where I left off, "however you will still have to work in this class. None of us will stand for anyone who refuses to work in this class."

I grinned at the class. "Stick to our teachings and you all will become great trainers. Fail to complete this simple task and you will fail miserably."

Calem and I glanced made sure to look at every single student before I took a small step toward them. "So if you don't want to work," I said slowly, "then I suggest that you leave this class now."

No one made any move to the door, which actually surprised me. "Alright then," I said, smiling, "let's get started." I turned around and wrote the word Pokémon at the top of the board. "Does anyone know what a Pokémon is," Calem asked.

No one raised their hand. No one even wanted to attempt to answer, whether it was because they didn't want to answer the question wrong or if they were waiting for Calem or I to answer the question, I'll never know. I sighed, realizing that this was going to be harder than I thought. "We don't bite, guesses are welcome as well," I looked at Hermione and smiled, "Miss Granger you must have some guess. From what I've heard from Dumbledore and many other teachers, you're extremely intelligent."

Hermione shook her head, "I…I don't know Professor Bellamy."

I looked to the students with blue and bronze ties, "not even the Ravenclaws want to take a crack at the question?" Silence ensued, telling Calem and myself that no one had the slightest idea what a Pokémon was, just as we had anticipated.

Calem smiled at the class and took a Pokéball off of his belt and pressed the center button, expanding the Pokéball. Kioko's smile grew as she threw it into the air. A beam of light shot out of the open contraption and took the form of a creature that stood 4'11", covered in skin in various shades of blue and cream, with a scarf that resembled a tongue.

"Grenin," the creature said. Calem placed a hand on the creature's shoulder. "This is my Greninja. We've been traveling together since I was 10 years old."

Greninja nodded his head in affirmation. Malfoy moved his seat backwards in an attempt to move farther away from the water Pokémon. I rolled my eyes and threw one of my own Pokéballs into the air, releasing Kitsune. Watching the boy back up even further, an exasperated sigh escaped my lips, "they won't hurt you unless you threaten us. This is my partner Kistune, a Delphox."

I smiled, turning to the board to continue writing. "Pokémon is a short term for Pocket Monsters. Pokémon can be found in almost any climate or surrounding. For example, most ice Pokémon live in colder climates while many of the fire Pokémon can be found near volcanoes of some sort of heat source."

Calem looked around the classroom, "you should probably be writing this down…unless you all have photographic memories or something." The sound of shuffling papers and the scratching of quills on paper followed Calem's comment.

I tried to keep myself from smiling too much as I continued, "there are multiple types of Pokémon. A Pokémon can have a maximum of two types. Although this does not limit the Pokémon to those types of attacks. These types include: normal, fire, grass, water, electric, ice, fighting, poison, ground, flying, psychic, bug, rock, ghost, dragon, dark, steel, and fairy. Kitsune, for example, is a fire and psychic type Pokémon, while Calem's Greninja is a water and dark type."

I finished writing what I had just told the class before waiting for everyone to copy the notes on the board. Harry looked up from his notes, "but why would people want dark type Pokémon? Doesn't that make them bad?"

I shook my head, trying to get over the ignorance that had been instilled into these kids. "Just because something is dark, it doesn't mean that it's evil. Similarly, just because something is light, it doesn't always mean that the person, creature, or Pokémon is good. It all depends on how you use it. For example, most of you assume that hexes are bad while charms are good, yes?"

The class nodded in agreement, so I continued, "so what if I used the Imperious Curse in order to keep someone from falling off the edge of a cliff to their death? Does that make me a bad person?" I looked around the room to see the class contemplating what I had just said, "or what if I used Wingardium Leviosa in order to lift someone into the air and throw them unto a sharp spike or off the same cliff as before?" I walked closer to the students as my words sank in. "Everyone had good and evil inside of them, and these forces are constantly at war with each other, but it's what we choose to act upon that makes us a good or a bad person."

As the class fell silent, I turned toward Calem noticed Calem going through my bag out of the corner of my eyes. "What's wrong," I whispered.

"The eggs," he whispered back, "they're shaking."

"Yeah they were doing that last night. They should be hatching in a few days."

"No…I mean that they're about to hatch."

"What," I yelled before attempting to calm myself again, "you can't be serious."

Calem pulled out the three eggs, one grey and pink, the second grey and blue, and finally a grey and yellow egg. "See for yourself, Serena."

Sure enough, all three eggs were shaking back and forth more than this morning. My eyes widened in shock. I looked up at Calem, "can you handle teaching while I prepare for these three?"

He nodded and tried to get the students' attention, but their attention was completely on the eggs. "Well this is hopeless," Calem mumbled. I looked up to find the class staring at me in confusion. I sighed, "fine, I guess we'll just have to teach them about Pokémon eggs a little sooner than expected." I placed the three eggs on the front desk. "These are obviously Pokémon eggs. Each egg will look different depending on what Pokémon had the egg and what the Pokémon will become. Pokémon can only be bred if they are in the same group. These groups will be discussed at a later time and more in detail if any of you decide to become Pokémon breeders, which we will get to later as well. Eggs hatch at different times depending on the care that they receive as eggs as well as the type of Pokémon that is in the egg. The rarest of all eggs, however, are legendary eggs. No one knows exactly how the legendary Pokémon breed, but there have been some cases where you can find eggs or even juvenile legendary Pokémon."

"I remember that," Calem said, nodding, "there was a case that Lyra and Ethan were talking about where they found a young Lugia and his mother."

I nodded and took off my jacket and grabbed the blanket that was inside my bag and wrapped my jacket under the grey and blue egg and the blanket under the pink egg, while Calem took off his jacket and placed it under the yellow egg. I turned to Calem, "do you have medicine ready?" Nodding, he grabbed the few medical supplies that I had stuffed in my bag this morning. He turned to me before asking, "are you sure you're ready for this?"

"I've raised Pokémon from eggs before, it can't be that different."

"But we actually knew what those Pokémon were. We have no clue what these could be."

"Maybe you don't," I muttered. Calem and I turned toward the eggs, gripping the edge of the desk. Cracks formed on the side of the eggs. In a matter of moments, the eggs broke open to reveal three tiny Pokémon looking up at me. The grey and yellow Pokémon's eyes were closed, the pink and grey Pokémon's eyes were half opened, and the blue and grey Pokémon's eyes were fully open; each one of them smiling up at me.

"Holy crap," Calem whispered in awe. I smiled as he turned to me in utter shock, "how did you get these eggs? Do you know how rare it is to find eggs of any of the legendary Pokémon?"

"Extremely rare, though I just found them in the three lake caves in the Sinnoh region, where you can usually find the lake guardians."

Hermione raised her hand, "Professor Bellamy, what are they?"

I looked from the babies to Hermione. "These are three Pokémon that are only found in the Sinnoh region. They are the three Lake Guardians. The yellow one is Uxie, the blue one is Azelf, and the pink one is Mesprit."

A boy with tanned skin from the silver and green side scrunched up his nose, "they don't look like much."

Calem chuckled, "of course they aren't Mr. Zabini. They just hatched. They obviously have some growing up to do." Mr. Zabini slid back in his chair before Calem dismissed the class. All of the students left except for three, who just so happened to be Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger, and Mr. Potter. I smiled at the three as they slowly stood up, "what can we do for you all?"

"Well," Hermione began, "you had said that these three Pokémon are the three lake guardians." I nodded and waited for her to continue. "Are they rare or are there more of them?"

"These three are what most people call legendary Pokémon. They are extremely rare and no one knows much about the legendary Pokémon other than what we hear from stories and legends from the various regions." I looked down to see Uxie grab my finger and start chewing on it, "I made a decision when I first started my journey that I would protect Pokémon and do my best to make sure that no one disturbs the legendary Pokémon."

Harry looked up from the three small legendary Pokémon, "if you don't mind me asking Professor, when did you start your journey?"

I looked at my friends and reached for my bag. I pulled out a bottle of milk, "we started when we were 10 years old, same as Calem and most other trainers. Although, your situation is a little different than ours," I said with a smile. I reached to pick up Uxie and held him close to my chest. I brought the bottle to his mouth and started drinking. Calem then started searching my bag for two other bottles to feed Azelf and Mesprit. Hermione looked at Uxie in awe, "it's cute…"

"Pokémon are amazing creatures," I said, smiling, "I just hope that the other students will think so too." I paused to take the empty bottle from Uxie and placed him on the pile of jackets and picked up Azelf next. "And if you could tell other students from your House that this class will be open to others until the end of the week that would be great."

The three of them nodded. Looking at my clock, my eyes widened. I quickly scribbled a note on a piece of scrap paper and handed it to Hermione. "Take this to your next teacher and give them my most sincere apologies." The trio nodded and ran out of the room. After Azelf was fed I put him next to his brother and picked up Mesprit. I turned to Calem, only to find that his Greninja had been returned to his Pokéball. I followed his example, returning Kitsune to her Pokéball before I placed her in my bag. "I have an idea of what we can do after we give the kids their Pokémon."

Calem looked at me, a puzzled expression etched on his face, "what could we do besides let them train?"

I smirked and pointed to all of the posters. Calem looked at the posters before laughing, "we're going to set up gyms here?"

I nodded once, "Just one gym league, and maybe some contests too. We could let the students choose what they want to do. Like how new trainers can decide between trainers, coordinators, rangers, professors…"

Calem grinned, "Then we can group them together and teach them that way."

I nodded, "it sounds like a lot of fun to be honest."

Calem threw his fist in the air, "then what are we waiting for! Let's go see Dumbledore!"

The three brothers started to whimper, leading to me smack Calem on the back of the head. I reached over to carefully pick the three up. They slowly calmed down after I rocked them back and forth for a few minutes. Calem smiled and offered to help me carry them, but I turned them down. "It's alright," I said, "they're small. I can still carry them at the same time."

We managed to find our way up the stairs, after taking what seemed like fifty wrong turns, and eventually found Dumbledore's office. Calem gave the password and the gargoyle jumped to the side. Climbing what I hoped to be the last set of stairs, I knocked on the wooden door.

"Come in," Dumbledore said from the other side. I carefully opened the door with my back and walked in. Dumbledore smiled at us, "seems like you have your hands full, Miss Bellamy."

I nodded, looking down at Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf, "you could say that, Professor Dumbledore."

"So what can I do for you today?"

Calem stepped forward, "well sir, where we come from, we have different leagues and contests, among other things, in the different regions. So we were wondering if we could set up gyms here with some of the teachers."

Dumbledore nodded, "what are these gyms and contests like?"

And so for the next hour we explained how the gyms worked and if a person had all eight badges they could challenge the Elite 4. And we explained the basics of contests and the Grand Festival.

"And there are other areas that some trainers choose, such as researchers and rangers," I finished.

Dumbledore paused for a moment before looking back at us, smiling. "What teachers did you have in mind?"

I turned to Calem, grinning. Calem turned to Dumbledore, "obviously the four House Heads."

I clapped my hands, "what about Trelawney?"

Calem snapped his fingers, "and Madam Hooch!"

"And when Hagrid gets back he can be a gym leader," I said.

I looked up at Dumbledore before continuing, "would you be the eighth gym leader Professor Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore nodded, "yes I will."

Calem threw his fist in the air, "this is going to be awesome!"

Dumbledore's eyes sparkled, "I will talk with the chosen teachers are ask them if they will participate."

"Thank you sir," we called as we raced out the door and down the stairs to our rooms. We would have a lot to if we wanted to teach these students the basics and prepare the teachers for gym battles in two weeks. But we could make it, even if we had to stay up all night.

Thank you to all of my reviewers and other readers. I would love to see more reviews from those who have not reviewed this story before, and to those who have already reviewed, thank you and continue reviewing. I'm sorry if I have offended anyone for keeping the eggs the same. I am taking my evidence from the anime, movies, and manga, which included the baby Lugia (named Silver) and the Manaphy egg. I've been working on the other chapters, which (hopefully) have made some improvement. Please continue to review and hopefully, the next chapter will be posted soon!