So, this is chap 3. Finally, some of our heroes meet each other. But if you wanna know who meets who, you got to read the chapter! Disclaimer: I own nothing, if I did, each of these characters would have gotten their own seasons, and their would have been a LOT more yaoi!
Cynthia POV:
"Arceus help me." I thought to myself. Each and every new school year I had to start it off by giving a speech to the students. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the children, it was the fact that I NEVER prepared for this, even though I KNEW it was coming! I had looked over some notes I had taken from my last speech, I had written the key parts of my past speeches down so that I could reference them before I gave the next speech. Steven and Clair helped me as much as they could, but ultimately I was the headmistress. It was my responsibility to prepare for this upcoming moment, and yet, I never even tried to write anything. For what had to be the twelfth time this morning I sighed and threw a small ball of paper that contained the shit I had just written into the trash. I could feel the gaze of my two closest advisers on me, and turned to face them.
"Can I help you?" I asked drearily
"We were going to ask you the same thing." Steven replied sitting beside me
"Why don't you ever have this thing ready before school starts?" Clair asked me
"Because my summer's are always busy with trying to find ways to fight Ghetsis. I wish HE took summer vacation." I growled
"No rest for the wicked." Steven said simply. He was my adviser, true, but there were times I wanted to slap him across the face. They were right though. Ghetsis never took a break, which meant that I SHOULD have found a way to balance my school work with my real work. I sat up and picked up the pen I had been using and began to re-write my speech. Then, after about 20 minutes I was still looking at a blank page, Steven and Clair watching me expectantly. I looked at the pen in my hand and promptly threw it across the room.
"WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!" I yelled to the heavens. I then put my head on my desk and just stared at the plaque on the wall across from my desk. It read 'Pokémon Omega High Headmistress- Sinnoh Region Champion' Well, right now I felt like I didn't really deserve either of those titles.
Steven and Clair looked at each other, then back to me.
"Cynthia, you have to give that speech. The whole school is depending on you. Your the inspiration to countless amounts of students, and if you don't give that speech, you'll be letting all of them down." Clair said
I looked at her and sighed, "Your right Clair. I have to do this, for the students." I looked at the paper on my desk, picked it up and ripped it to shreds. When I turned around Steven and Clair had both fallen to the ground anime style.
"Why did you do that?!" Steven exclaimed
"I don't need to right my speech down." I replied simply
"Oh really?" Clair asked me sarcastically
"Yes, you were right Clair. I AM these kids inspiration, if I don't give them a speech they will lose faith in me. I can't write one down now, so I'm going to do what I've always done when it came to speeches." I said
"Improvisation?" Steven asked getting up.
"Of course, its worked for me in the past, so why wouldn't it work now?" I asked
"Alright Cynthia, if you really want to do it this way, we'll have a go at it. Lets just make it clear that you can't pin any of this on us." The dragon gym leader clarified for me. I knew she was joking, at least I hoped she was. It was almost time to give me speech, so then I thought to myself
"Well, I'm about to give the best improvised speech possible, or make a huge fool of myself"
White POV:
Me and Black were walking towards the auditorium. As soon as we had gotten into the school walls, we had been instructed to wait in the auditorium. The office worker who had been greeting trainers told us that the headmistress would be giving a speech this afternoon. Well, I would be lying if I said that I wasn't excited to hear that all the students would get to meet the Headmistress before the school year even started! Black failed to see why it was such an exciting moment. I wasn't that surprised, Black was still a child mentally, so there were times that he needed help to understand certain things.
I felt bad for Black though. He told me that after N left, he had felt hurt and abandoned. Black had locked himself in his room and cried for so many nights. I wanted to hurt N for leaving Black, but I knew that would just make Black more upset. I was confident that N would come back, yea, but he sure was taking his time doing it. One reason that I had brought Black along with me was because I thought he would make a few new friends. He had become a little anti-social since N left him. Black and I eventually found the auditorium. I shit you not when I say that the inside of the place looked like a ducking palace! There were pillars around the place, with a massive stage, and many seats to accommodate EVERY person in the school
I guided Black over to some empty chairs, we were about to take them when two people shoved us out of the way to get the seats. That passed me off, they had just shoved me and Black out of the way for some GOD-DAMNED CHAIRS! It was then that I realized that Black bad stumbled more than I had thought. I turned as I heard his yelp as he fell forward, if he fell all the way down he would get hurt BAD. Just as I was about to grab him, some other guy caught a hold of his arm.
"You ok?" The boy asked. Black nodded at him, then looked at me. The black haired boy turned to me, his eyes a golden color, and smiled
"Hi, I'm Gold." He informed me.
"I'm White, and that's my brother Black. Thank you so much for helping him." I said, bowing to Gold
"Ok White, I'm not a god, you don't have to bow to me." He chuckled a bit, then a girl who was sitting beside him spoke up.
"Hey, if you two need places to sit, there are two open chairs here." Said a girl with sky blue hair.
"Yeah, your welcome to sit with us." Another girl said, this one wore an exceptionally large white hat, and had brown hair. She seemed nice enough, as did the other two, but it was the fourth one who unnerved me a bit. He had red hair and had eyes that shined like silver, but they had a sort of coldness about them.
"Crystal, Lyra, before you two go swinging around welcomes and opening, at least make sure that these two aren't just people who will take advantage of you." He said
"Oh really? Silver, not only have you taken advantage of us, but I don't even think you know what its like to be taken advantage of." The girl named Crystal said
"Shut the hell up! You don't know the first thing about me." Silver snapped at her. Even so, he reluctantly moved over so that Black and I could take the seats beside him. We got better acquainted with the four, they actually seemed like fun. We learned that Gold and Silver were a couple. We also learned that Gold had a bit of a gambling problem, which might of explained the billiards cue I saw under his chair when we first sat down. After our interesting conversation, the lights dimmed. The time for the Headmistress' speech had arrived
Cynthia's POV:
Well this was it. Time to go out and wow the audience. I was gonna die of embarrassment, I knew I was. Clair had been right, I needed to steal my courage and give this speech. Oh how I wished she wasn't right all the time. I took a deep breath, and stepped forwards. Followed by the new instructors, I stepped into the light of the auditorium. The thousands of bright, cheery faces staring back at me gave me a little bit of hope. Hope that I might be able to pull this off with just a few difficulties.
I looked up, not too surprised to see confused faces. It was ordinary for people to read from a paper when it came to speeches, though some people could do it without such help. I picked up the microphone and began to speak.
"Alright, I would like to open up by saying that I didn't even bother to right a speech. This is coming straight from my heart and mind. This year won't be about who gets all A's, who beats down the other when it comes to Pokéathlon events, or even about who can pass the hatching, breeding, and training tests. This year will be about if you tried or not. It will be about you showing the initiative and giving it your all. I hope that I get to see every single one of you graduate this year. You'll be working with the best of the best, so that means that if you do fail, it will be because you simply said 'Fuck it'. I will tell you now, no student will be saying that as long as I am Headmistress at this school. You pass or fail, it is ultimately your decision."
I looked around and was surprised to see that many people were nodding their heads in agreement. They understood what I expected and they WOULD give it their all. Now all I had to do was bring it home.
"The best thing you can do is take responsibility. Far too often do we blame circumstance and even other people for a current situation. 'This is just my life...' 'Its too late for me to change' 'I can't..." these are all statements used as an excuse to justify the destructive pattern of behavior and avoid actually doing something about it. You don't need to wait until next week to do a priority check and decide its time to do a 180. This is your life and you only get one. Make the most of it. Now, on that not, lets all work together to make this school year the best one yet!" I yelled
At first, silence, then a roar of approval and applause erupted in the auditorium. I smiled as the lights came back on, then turned and walked back towards my office. I had done a good job. I could already tell that this year would be a good one, aside from the Ghetsis problem. Now, all that was left was to survive the school year
Well, did you like it, did you hate it? Please review after you read the chapter. Reviews are what encourage me to keep writing, all too often has one of my stories that were supposed to be long get discontinued because of lack of reviews. Well, anyway, luv!
