Here's another chapter. On another note, POKEMON SUN AND MOON VERSION CONFIRMED!
Daozang: Kanone is the kind of person who only wants to become stronger and stronger. By that, I mean facing stronger and stronger opponents.
Duskzilla: Kanone doesn't care about type advantages, he'll smash anyone with his power. I once heard he defeated a Shedinja with normal moves. I wouldn't put it past Kanone.
Phantom-Jester: Maybe. PM me and I might use it. At the very least it'll help with writing her character.
Silverwing58: Thanks!
Arcana of the North: Maybe… maybe…
Eclipsed Umbreon: We're just getting started. If you've read any of my other work, you know what level Kanone is at compared to everyone else on the planet.
Pokemon Academy: Beginning of Beginnings
Chapter 21
As Blake and Julia were eating lunch on the Snorlax patio, Cynthia ran up and slammed a poster down on the table.
"What is this?" Blake asked, confused.
"Read it!" Cynthia exclaimed, excited.
"The Fall Festival Tournament?" Julia asked.
"It's a four day long tournament open to Freshmen and Sophomores!" Cynthia said, excited. "Look at the top prize! 2000 Pokepoints!"
"Whoa, that's twice the amount we start each semester with," Blake said, surprised.
"I know, not only that, the top 16 is full battles! That should be awesome! I can't wait!"
"Full battles, huh?" Julia asked, sighing. "I guess I'm out. I only have 5 pokemon to work with."
"I'm sure you can borrow a pokemon from the school to use, don't be a Debbie Downer!"
"Oh, shut up," Julia sighed. "Fine."
"So, Blake, I asked Serefina, and she said that we can use the Pokemon Friends Club as time to train our pokemon!" Cynthia said, trembling in excitement. "I can't wait!"
After his classes for the day ended, Blake headed to the clearing at the edge of campus where the club had arranged to meet up, Cynthia already training her pokemon.
"James, use echoed voice!" Cynthia ordered. James opened his mouth, releasing a shockwave of sound.
"Marisa… use disarming voice…!" Kitty ordered. The pink and cream colored Sylveon opened her mouth, releasing a blast of sound to counter the other sonic attack.
James ran towards Marisa, who leapt out of the way, opening her mouth, releasing a wave of stars, hitting the Loudred head on.
"Oh, hey Blake!" Serefina said, waving at him. "You here to train?"
"Yup," Blake said, nodding.
"Can I train with you?" Nick asked.
"Sure," Blake said, nodding. "But most of my pokemon are pretty well prepared…"
"Well, come on, let your pokemon out of your balls!" Serefina said, smiling. Blake released his five pokemon, Serefina looking over each of them.
"Wow, you take really good care of them," Eli said.
"You know that this tournament will have full battles, right?" Serefina asked. "You only have five pokemon?"
"No, I… I have more, but… well…" Blake sighed, looking down. "I don't know about my last one…"
"Come on, what's the harm?" Eli asked, frowning.
"…I, I guess…" Blake said, nodding. He looked at the pokeball in his hand, and pressed the button. A large Salamence emerged, growling.
"Hey… Sarah…" Blake said, reaching a hand out towards the Salamence, who snarled at him.
"Umu…" Kitty shivered, backing away, falling to the ground in fear.
Marisa ran in front of her trainer, extending her feelers protectively.
"Hey, are you okay?" Cynthia asked, running over to the fallen girl.
"It's… it's a…" Kitty held her head, shivering in terror as she stared at the dragon.
Marisa growled at Sarah, who scoffed. She turned away, whipping her tail, knocking Marisa off of her feet.
Marisa landed on the ground and opened her mouth, releasing a shockwave of sound. The disarming voice attack hit Sarah head on, Sarah crying out in pain.
"SALAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Sarah whirled around and roared, the trees shaking. She opened her mouth, a blast of flames shooting out.
Marisa cried out in pain as she was burned, falling to the ground. She stood up, trembling. Sarah raised her claw, swinging it down towards Marisa, who flinched in fear.
"Marisa!" Kitty screeched.
James jumped in front of Marisa, hitting Sarah in the jaw, enraging her even more.
"Sarah, stop it!" Blake exclaimed.
Sarah roared again, swinging her tail wildly, hitting Kitty with it. Kitty clenched her stomach as she was flung onto the ground, gasping for air. The Salamence loomed over her, her eyes glaring down like a demon at the shaking girl.
Sarah flapped her wings, flying into the air. She opened her mouth, violet flames shooting out and raining down on her. Weiss shot forward, scooping Kitty up, flying her to safety. He then turned, and darted towards Sarah.
Weiss caught Sarah in the side of the mouth with a bullet punch, Sarah roaring in anger. A swipe of the claw, and Weiss fell to the ground, injured.
"Kitty!" Cynthia cried, cradling the injured girl.
"Sarah, STOP!" Blake exclaimed, running towards the dragon. Sarah released another blast of flames in anger, Weiss pushing Blake out of the way and taking the full force of the attack, falling unconscious.
Sarah's flames danced wildly, setting the trees in the clearing on fire.
"Crap!" Eli reached for her pokeballs as the dragon pokemon continued its rampage.
"SALAAAAAAA!" Sarah roared, releasing another blast of flames.
Blake's pokemon rushed out to try and suppress Sarah, but it was no use. Tara was badly hurt with a blast of flames, while Cory and Rogen were both easily knocked aside by dragon claw attacks. Uni hid behind Blake, shivering in fear.
Blake's face was completely pale. He tried to return Sarah to her pokeball, but the Salamence dodged the beam, roaring in anger, sending a blast of flames Blake's way. The trainers too cover behind the trees, as Sarah flew overhead.
Along with Sarah, another set of wings were heard, however.
Erik, carried aloft by his Noivern, flew overhead.
"Valiant, X-Factor, go!"
From the bushes, two pokemon leapt up, a Grovyle and a Weavile.
Valiant, the Grovyle, opened his mouth, releasing a dragon pulse attack, as X-Factor, the Weavile, focused icy energy into its claw. The two attacks struck the Salamence, injuring her badly, Sarah landing on the ground. Sarah released another blast of violet flames, pushing the two pokemon back.
"Not good," Erik said, frowning, dropping onto the ground. "Midnight, think you can handle her?"
"What are you doing here?" Serefina asked.
"Once again, it seems the Pokemon Friends Club goes around setting fires," Erik said, frowning, revealing a training Capture Styler. He released the disk at the Salamence, but Sarah easily broke the line, firing a blast of flames at him.
Midnight opened his mouth, blocking the flames with a water pulse attack.
"Looks like I'll have to use my last resort, then," Erik said, frowning. He withdrew a flare gun from his pocket, firing it up into the air. "Guys, keep this up until she gets here, okay?"
Midnight, Valiant, and X-Factor nodded.
The three pokemon used attacks to hit Sarah, not trying to injure her, but trying to force her to remain in place as Erik attempted to capture her with the styler. However, Sarah was simply refusing to go down.
Suddenly, another roar, nearly as loud as Sarah's, broke out. A dark figure descended on the clearing from the mountains, roaring ferociously.
The massive black and blue dragon pokemon, Hydreigon, roared as it glared at the Salamence.
"SALAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Sarah roared, shaking off the other pokemon and focusing on this new threat.
"HYDREIIIIIIII!" the Hydreigon roared at well.
"Destroyer, try as hard as you can not to hurt her," Erik said, frowning. "We're trying to incapacitate her, understand?"
Obviously not understanding, the dragon fired a blast of dragon energy at Sarah, hitting her head on, Sarah crying out in pain. Sarah flapped her wings and bombed for the Hydreigon, holding her claws out, hitting the dark dragon with a powerful dragon claw attack, knocking her into the ground.
The two dragons struggled against each other, powerful attacks flying as the Pokemon Friends Club cringed in fear.
Blake watched on, powerless, as his Salamence was rampaging.
Destroyer hit Sarah with a second dragon pulse, Sarah wincing in pain, collapsing to the ground. Erik released a disk from the capture styler, looping around Sarah, taming her, Sarah surrendering.
Blake returned Sarah to her pokeball, staring at it.
"Midnight," Erik ordered. Midnight raised his head, releasing a powerful water pulse, which burst into a deluge of rain, extinguishing the flames.
Destroyer looked around anxiously, seeking another opponent. Erik glared at her sternly.
"Destroyer, return to the farm, understand?"
Destroyer glared at her partner, but nodded, flapping her wings, and flying back towards the mountain.
Erik turned to Blake, and grabbed the pokeball from him.
"Hey! Give that back!" Blake exclaimed.
"Not a chance," Erik said, glaring at him. He grabbed Blake by the shoulder, dragging him towards the campus.
Erik turned to Cynthia, frowning.
He picked up his phone, and a few minutes later, an ambulance rushed onto the scene, lifting Kitty up onto a stretcher and taking her to the on-campus infirmary.
"Explain the situation to me again."
The Headmaster stared out the window, frowning. Several teachers had been gathered together to decide what would happen with Blake.
"It… it wasn't my fault…" Blake said, looking down, frowning. "No… it was my fault… I let out my Salamence, even though I knew I didn't have complete control over it… and she went on a rampage…"
"I had to use several of my partner pokemon to bring her down," Erik said, frowning. "It was just a fortunate coincidence that I was training my team nearby, otherwise there's no telling the damage that could have happened."
"OBJECTION!"
All heads turned to see Cynthia standing there, pointing accusingly at Erik.
"Cynthia Fafnir here in defense of Blake!" Cynthia declared. "I declare that it wasn't his fault the event that occurred!"
"…Ignoring the idiot," Erik said, frowning, "Blake holds the responsibility to look after his pokemon and ensure that they don't danger others."
"I agree," Headmaster Albreicht said, nodding. "So all that matters now is determining what sort of punishment we should apply."
"Previously, suspension from class for a week has been the punishment, yes?" one of the teachers Blake had yet to meet asked.
"As well as being forbidden from participating in school events for at least a month, and being unable to participate in any battles outside of class," another teacher said.
Blake's eyes stared blankly at the ground, saying nothing. Cynthia looked worriedly at her friend.
"I don't think that's necessary," Professor Reinhart said, frowning.
"Aurore? Anything you'd like to add?" Headmaster Albreicht asked.
"Well, in past experience, those have been punishments when the student was undoubtedly at fault," Professor Reinhart said, nodding. "But is that really the case this time?"
"Of course it is," one of the teachers said. "This student sent out a pokemon he could not fully control."
"Other students witnessed the event, right?" Professor Reinhart asked, glancing at Cynthia. "Perhaps we should speak with them about what happened, before casting judgment."
"Yeah, exactly!" Cynthia exclaimed. "It wasn't Blake's fault, see, his Salamence only attacked because she was being provoked, and went wild!"
"We'll talk to the other students about the incident," Headmaster Albreicht said, nodding. "You two can leave for now."
Blake and Cynthia left the room, while the other members of the Pokemon Friends Club went in to go talk to the teachers.
"Hey, don't worry, Blake, it'll be fine!" Cynthia said, smiling. "I'm sure they won't be too hard on you!"
"It's not that…" Blake said, frowning. "What I did to Kitty…"
"She's fine, don't worry about it!" Cynthia said. "Come on, let's go check on her!"
Blake and Cynthia headed to the infirmary, where Kitty was sleeping.
"Hey guys," Sango said, glancing up at them glumly.
"Is she still unconscious?" Cynthia asked worriedly.
"Yeah, but she could wake up at any time, so there's nothing to worry about…" Sango said. "Julia was here a few minutes ago, and said that she'd bring her some food, but she won't wake up to eat it…"
As if on cue, Kitty's red eyes blinked, and she sat up, rubbing her head.
She was in a daze as she sat, then noticed everyone around her.
"Oh, hey guys…" Kitty's eyes landed on Blake, and widened.
"Oh, Blake…"
"Hey, um, about what happened before…"
"It-it's okay…" Kitty said, forcing a smile to her face. "I just… I'm scared… of Salamence… and dragons in general, I guess…"
"Listen, I-I'm really sorry, if I had known that Sarah was going to react like that, I never would have sent her out!"
"I told you not to worry!" Kitty said, smiling. "I'm feeling better now, honest!"
"Well, I bought this for you, hope you get well soon!" Cynthia said, handing Kitty a small can.
Kitty looked at the can of cat food and her eyes started to tear up.
"Waaaah…"
"H-hey, it was just a joke!" Cynthia said, nervous, Kitty chuckling.
"It's al-ow…" Kitty clenched her head in pain.
"Your injuries?" Cynthia asked worriedly.
"No, I've just been having headaches recently, it's nothing," Kitty said, smiling. "Um, about Marisa…"
"Your Sylveon?" Cynthia asked. "Don't worry, she's gonna be fine. You were actually hurt more than her."
"Okay, that's good," Kitty said, smiling.
"Look, Kitty, I'm really sorry about this…"
"N-no, I already said it was fine!" Kitty said, her face flushed. "Seriously! Don't worry about anything! I just had the wind knocked out of me!"
"Good, tell that to the headmaster and the other teachers, that way Blake won't get in any trouble!" Cynthia said, smiling, Blake shooting her a dirty look.
"What?" Cynthia asked, confused. "I mean, she's not injured, we don't want this whole thing blowing out of proportion!"
"Cynthia…" Sango said, frowning, reminding them for the first time that she was still in the room.
"What?" Cynthia asked.
"Blake needs to accept responsibility for what he did. If Erik hadn't been there, Kitty might have died. You all might have died."
"It was just a pokemon going wild!" Cynthia said, frowning. "I mean, yeah, it's dangerous, but we handled it!"
"That's not the point!" Sango said, frowning. "Blake was reckless, and he put everyone in danger!"
"Whoa, wait…" Blake started, Kitty looking at each of them nervously, trying to find a way to speak up.
"Ahem."
Everyone turned to see Julia walk into the room, holding a bag.
"Here, this should get your strength up," Julia said, handing Kitty a juice.
"O-oh, thanks…"
Julia sat down in a chair next to the bed, flipping through a magazine. She looked up.
"…What?"
"You interrupted us like you wanted to say something," Sango said.
"Oh. No, I just wanted you guys to shut up. You were being annoying."
"Anyways, as I was saying-"
"It doesn't matter," Julia interrupted. "What it comes down to is the fact that Blake released a pokemon he couldn't control, and it went wild. And Kitty nearly died."
"…I-I'm fine!"
"No matter what, this looks bad for Blake as a trainer," Julia said, frowning. "I'm talking suspension. Expulsion. If Kitty's wounds were a little more serious, maybe jail time. Blake should have known better than using a pokemon he couldn't control."
"Sarah never acted like that before!" Blake said, frowning. "Usually, she just refuses to listen to my orders! That's the first time she's rampaged like that, except for-"
Blake shut his mouth, going pale, his eyes turning to Kitty, who looked at him cluelessly.
"Except for what?" Julia asked, narrowing her eyes.
"It's nothing…" Blake said, narrowing his eyes curiously. He looked at Kitty as if he was trying to figure something out, rubbing the pendent around his neck unconsciously. "No, no, nothing… I just need some fresh air…"
Blake walked out of the infirmary, putting his headphones over his ears and looking up at the sky.
"It can't be…"
Ooh… something seems to be going on! I wonder what…?