It had been a week since the day they came back from their retrieval mission. Since then Cerys had managed to enroll themselves into Arceus Academy, the academy that the girls' targets went to, and they had been given the uniforms for the school.
All the girls had looked amazing in the uniform. With a choice in their clothing they all decided to spruce it up towards their liking.
Dawn had decided to shorten the sleeves to her elbows and wear a golden vest with Arceus Academy's logo on it. May kept everything the way it came except she decided to not wear the blazer or a vest, and she also had her signature bandana added. Misty decided to forget the skirt all together and wore black slacks, however she did keep the golden blazer, that also had the Arceus Academy logo on it, and the white long-sleeved blouse. Cerys kept the pleated black skirt and blouse, but decided to wear a baggy, light gray jumper instead of the golden blazer and pinned the academy logo on it.
All the girls had to wear the tie that came with the uniforms, along with the white penny loafers.
But now it was finally time for them to go and actually be by the boys' side. Each girl sighed but all for different reasons. May and Misty had a lovesick look on their face and no matter how much they denied it, anyone could tell that they had already developed crushes. Whereas Dawn and Cerys had sighed with displeasure. Dawn was happy that they got to do something other than retrieval missions for once, but the boy she was stuck with was colder than Snowpoint City. Cerys was just upset that her time was spent protecting a person where she would need to be on guard at all times.
The girls boarded the plane that was to take them to Arceus Academy and within three hours they were there. Fortunately, Arceus Academy was in the same region so they hadn't messed up their appearance.
Landing at the Donte Airport the girls searched the place for their guide. Seeing a gigantic sign with their names on it the girls smiled and lunged for the person holding it up. Wrapping their arms around his waist, the guide grinned down at them and ruffled their heads.
"Gary! Stop doing that you're messing up my hair!" May yelled out.
"But how can I mess up your hair when it's in a bandana?" Gary smirked as he ruffled her hair even harder. "Anyways, the institute said you girls were here for the boys right?"
"Yeah, it's sad though. None of them are nice except for one of them." Cerys sighed out. Her eyes were focused on a mini laptop that she held in her hands. Turning it around she showed him what was on her screen. "It's these guys."
Gary pondered over the images, he could've sworn he'd seen them before.
"Oh, it's these guys…" He sneered with a disgruntled look on his face. "They're pretty popular, it's going to be hard to get close to them. By the way, isn't it dangerous to just let your mission be shown to everyone?"
"No, you see Cerys here is a technological genius, Gary. She's programmed this computer to bring up videos of cute cat pokemon whenever someone who shouldn't be seeing her stuff is looking at it!" Dawn explained to Gary.
"You should join the computer club while you're here, we don't have any cute girls." Gary suggested with a wink.
"Hmmm, nah. I'm too lazy to do that Gary Green Oak." Cerys decided. She walked past everyone and out the doors before she finally looked back and asked, "Are you coming?"
The others rushed over to her as soon her head disappeared from the airport doors and piled both their stuff and themselves into an Arceus Academy limousine.
As Gary began to drive the girls started to discuss on what they would do.
"So… what do we do first? Other than the obvious..." May asked. She started to fiddle with her bandana, a nervous habit she had picked up some time ago.
Cerys pulled out her mini laptop from her bookbag. Pulling up the school's web page, she showed the girls the school social media site.
"Definitely show these four girls whose the boss. It's a tradition for them to haze new girls into staying away from the boys." she spat out, disgusted by the bullies' acts.
"No. We'll come off as attractive, something we don't need." Misty declined.
"We should see what extracurriculars the boys are in." Dawn suggested.
"Already beat you to it." Cerys murmured to herself, typing on her keyboard at breakneck speed. She hacked into the school's files and looked into the student profiles.
"Drew is in classical music, Neo's in pokémon design, Paul isn't in one, and Ash is in pokémon sparring," May said with a confused look on her face. "What's pokémon sparring?"
Both Dawn and May turned to Cerys, who shrugged and looked at them with a 'Does it look like I know anything about pokémon sparring?' face.
Luckily Misty, the resident know-it-all of pokémon battling, was able to explain.
"Remember that fad from a few years ago? Where trainers would battle with their pokemon? Well it started becoming more serious and schools have started to implement it in their courses."
All three girls 'ahhed' and nodded their heads at the explanation.
"That makes sense." May affirmed.
Gary called out at the girls. "Are you guys okay?"
They apologized and reassured Gary of their health before coming back to their original topic.
"Say, how did we meet Gary again?" Dawn pondered readjusting her scarf.
"We know him from Cerys baby here!" May answered, tackling said girl onto the floor.
"Mmhmm, Cerys introduced us to him remember?" Misty asked. "They're research buddies because Gary's grandpa and her brother are both professors!"
The girls continued to tease Cerys and Gary until she finally stopped them. She revealed the secrets neither of the three others wanted loose.
"Shut up guys, don't think that just because I'm the youngest that I've forgotten when Misty went through her bubblegum pink phase, or when May had to take over Petalburg gym for a week and had to let all the trainers rebattle her dad, or when Dawn would sleep walk over to Professor Rowan's house and egg it." She threatened with a dark growl. Her thick glasses glared as a shadow crept over her face. "I'll tell the whole school about it if you let anyone knowthat I'm related to the professor of this region!"
The three nodded and scurried away from the growling bookworm as she calmed herself down. Right as she had nearly relaxed, Gary told them they had finally arrived. The girls quickly hurried out of the limousine to stare in awe at the ginormous building in front of them.
There were six types of buildings in total: the gymnasium, the main school building, the dorms, the greenhouse, the dining hall, the library, and the stadium.
The main school building easily towered over the rest, excluding the library and the stadium. It was a clean white adorned with millions of golden accents and emerald etchings. It had a large archway over the doors and also had finely-polished dark oak doors. Right beside the doors was a silver plaque that read: "Praise Arceus, the Alpha Pokémon, who gifted us with his own life." Along with a carving of Arceus flying over a glowing green jewel as his plates glowed in correspondance.
The interior of the building was even more extravagant. The walls were white with a pale golden sheen, a sharp contrast to the black marble flooring. A chandelier hung from the cieling, twinkling lights from its numerous jewels. The hallways mimicked these throughout their long passages.
The girls kept staring at the blatant show of boasting until the secratry cleared her voice.
"Hello, you must be the transfer students correct? Cerys Aspen, Dawn Berlitz, May Burg, and Misty Waterflower?" she asked at a rapid pace. She handed them four sheets of paper. "Here are your schedules."
She pointed to the doors they entered in through just a moment ago. "Follow the people carrying your stuff outside, they're taking it to your dorm room." Then she continued with her fast paced talking, typing, and filing. The girls thanked her as they left the lobby of the school.
Stepping out of the doors once more, the girls were quickly surprised at the long line of workers carrying their stuff. They followed them to the dorms, which was also extravagantly designed. It even had the same plaque by the doors. The interior was alot different from the school, though.
From the moment they stepped inside they were instantly calmed by the atmosphere in the dorm lounge. Leading away from the lounge were five halls, each with a different legendary pokémon theme. There was Diance for coordinators, Victini for battlers, Phione for breeders, and Celebi for researchers. There also seemed to be another dorm being built for a different class of trainers, or so the sign by the construction site said.
The girls giggled as they walked over to one of the numerous couches in the lounge. Cerys had just sat her butt on the seat when she was approached by a certain redhead.
"Hello there beautiful, how are you doing today?" Neo asked. He lifted up her hand and gently kissed it.
"It was going great!" Cerys responded enthusiasticly. "... Until you got here." She insulted with a deadpanned voice. Neo smirked back at the girl.
"Whatever Ryry." He said. The girls grew shocked as he revealed that he knew who Cerys was.
"Just shut up Neoneon."
"Can you maybe not call me that?"
"Sure, when you stop calling me Ryry?" The two looked at each other fiercly, spitting insults of poisonous words. The other three girls looked back and forth between them until finally Dawn had enough of it.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Are you telling me that you guys know each other?" She called out. She yanked the two away from each other from their close positions.
"Yeah we d-" Cerys was cut off as another voice called out.
"Neo, there you are!" A boy with a red cap yelled out. He and two others, a green haired boy and a purple haired boy, ran up to the group. "Who're you talking to?"
"Ash, isn't it obvious that he's talking to some beautiful girls." The green haired boy said. "Well, at least three of them are..."
"Look, lets just get Neo and go," The purple one grumbled. "I don't need to waste time on some troublesome girls."
"Everyone, meet my friends. Cap is Ash, grasshead is Drew, and grumpy is Paul." Neo introduced. Turning to the guys he did the same thing. "Guys, this is my childhood friend Cerys! And her friends... Who's names I don't know."
"Are you sure he's 'gentlemanly'?" May whispered. Cerys nodded in response. Misty however could not handle the rudeness they showed to Cerys.
"DON'T YOU GUYS KNOW THE MEANING OF RESPECT!" She yelled out as she pulled her gigantic mallet out from nowhere and hit them all over the head.
"Misty it's okay..." Cerys mumbled pathetically. The girls all knew that it was futile to try and stop a rampaging Misty.
As Misty continued to shout at the four boys an electric yellow rat jumped up from Ash's back.
"Pika?" It yawned. It quickly awakend as it saw its friend get hurt. "Pika pi! Pikachuu!"
Misty, and the boys, were electrified by Pikachu's thunderbolt and had finally calmed down in the shock of it.
"Oh, well now we have something that can calm her down." Cerys said with a smile. Both Dawn and May hit the back of her head for the remark as they went to check on Misty.
"Misty, are you okay?" They cried out, shaking Misty's shoulders.
I don't know, is she? Anyways I decided to update on Fridays.