Ava stood in awe as the egg fully hatched and gave away to her new Pokemon.
To say that it surprised her would be an understatement.
Before her, standing on the remains of what used to be the egg, was a Sneasel as it opened her eyes in front of her.
But it wasn't a ordinary Sneasel, unlike a regular Sneasel which has a dark blue and red color scheme, this one had a much more purple fur with red across their head for a more consistent color scheme.
She had heard about these Sneasels, apparently then are variants that were found long ago in Hisui region, in what the Sinnoh region used to be called.
She definitely wondered how her cousin managed to get a egg like this for her but she figured she could do that later.
She had a new Pokemon to greet anyways.
"Um hi Sneasel, I am your new trainer. Nice to meet you." Ava said gently to the newly born Pokemon.
Her Sneasel looked up to Ava and then to Stardust who gave her a gentle wave and then decided to jump onto Ava's awaiting arms and nuzzled her.
Ava chuckled. It seems like she and her Sneasel would get along great.
For the next two hours, Ava did her typical thing. She began checking her Sneasel's temperature, their body weight, their typing (which happened to be Poison/Fighting), and finally to see if they have any damage to their body at all.
She was so lost in thought that she didn't even hear Chris off all people coming into the room and gently tapping her on her shoulder.
"Ava? Ava!?" Chris said to her as he finally got her attention.
Ava soon accidentally hit him as she turned around and saw Chris and was shocked to see him there.
"Chris!? Oh my god, I am so sorry." Ava said as she went over to her partner.
"It is fine Ava, I could tell that you were hard at work but what is going on that made you stay in this room for a long time?" Chris asked her.
Ava sucked in her breath and soon showed Chris what happened as Sneasel came up to him.
"No way… your egg hatched! And it is a Sneasel! Congratulations Ava!" Chris said while giving Ava a gigantic hug.
"Thanks Chris but it turns out my egg was a bit special it seems. This Sneasel is the Hisuian one." Ava said to him.
Chris soon looked at Ava's new Sneasel once again and realized that she was right. He soon attempted to pet her but Sneasel got scared and ran behind Ava.
"I guess she is still pretty shy." Chris said with a bit of a laugh.
"Yeah but I am hoping that with more time that she will be able to open up to more people and interact with them normally." Ava said.
Chris soon thought about it and soon had a idea.
"Well, why don't we head to the common area? I am sure that is a good way to gently ease her into interacting with other Pokemon and people." Chris suggested.
Ava considered the idea and realized that it could work.
"Alright then, let's go." Ava said.
Soon both Ava and Chris headed to the common area, it wasn't as packed as it had been after the first day of school but there was still plenty of students chatting with each other alongside their Pokemon.
Ava and Chris soon sat at the pseudo-bar and ordered two sodas for both of them. Chris let out his Ivysaur to get some air. Ivysaur soon saw Sneasel and sent out a vine of friendship towards the young Pokemon. Ava's Sneasel seemed apprehensive about it but soon decided to go towards Ivysaur after a encouraging nod from Ava. Soon both Pokemon began playing with each other as they seemed to become fast friends making both of their trainers pretty happy.
Suddenly a Corvisquire soon came up to them and squawked at the two Pokemon making Sneasel scared and hide behind Ava. Ivysaur soon looked pissed and brought out it's vines trying to challenge Corvisquire until they heard a girl's voice call out to them.
"Artoria! Stop, you know how rude that can be!" Robyn said running up to her Pokemon. Artoria soon went on perched on Robyn's shoulder and nuzzled her a bit.
"I am so sorry about that, you see Artoria tends to be pretty energetic when it comes to meeting new Pokemon and people and thus she tends to go a bit overboard." Robyn said to them and Shion followed her as she kept a stoic expression on her face.
"It is fine. I can tell your Covisquire meant no real harm after all. I am Ava by the way and this is Chris. We are in the Breeder Course." Ava said introducing herself to Robyn.
"Hi my name is Robyn and this is my roommate Shion!" Robyn and she introduced Shion."
"Hello, it is nice to meet you." Shion said calmly in complete contrast to Robyn.
Soon both sat down next to Ava and Chris and soon began talking about their respective experiences at the academy so far.
"So wow, your Sneasel recently hatched from a egg? And it is a Hisuian Sneasel as well!" Robyn said in amazement.
"I am surprised. I know that Hisuian Pokemon aren't exactly uncommon in today's age but I still never expected to see one in real life." Shion said as she saw Sneasel eating so Pokemon food.
"Yeah, they are a anomaly but I don't mind. Sneasel seems pretty attached to me already." Ava said chuckling a bit.
Chris soon asked Ava if she thought of a nickname for Sneasel.
"Well I hadn't thought one originally but I think I got one. I am going to call her Mink." Ava said.
Her Sneasel looked up from her food and soon smiled at her indicating that she liked the nickname.
"Great! Well I am glad to for you Ava!" Robyn said as she gave her a bone-crushing hug.
Ava thanked her as she tried to breathe again by getting Robyn off her as she finally did.
"So what about you two, I assume you are in the Trainer Course?" Chris asked both of them as Robyn soon nodded yes to that.
"Yeah and right now we are just trying to get our Shadow Stripes done and over with." Robyn said as she looked exhausted by it.
"Oh really, and what are you Shadow Stripe goals?" Ava asked.
"Oh well, I wanted Artoria to learn a new move, and with the help of another student in our class we finally managed to get her to learn Aerial Ace!" Robyn said to Ava.
"Nice, that is a pretty difficult Flying-type move to learn so I commend you from doing that. And what about you Shion?" Ava asked her.
Robyn soon glared at Shion, who simply hid behind her soda can.
"I wanted to catch a new Pokemon, specifically a new Grass-type Pokemon." Shion said.
Robyn continued to glare at Shion as Chris said that didn't sound too difficult.
"Yeah but Shion wanted to catch a pure Grass-type Pokemon which means we had to search for hours. I mean hours!" Robyn said as she comically began to cry.
"Oh calm down Robyn it wasn't that bad. I mean yes it did take a long time but we eventually found it." Shion said taking out a Pokeball.
Soon she out her new Pokemon… a Eldegoss.
"Oh wow, what a pretty Pokemon!" Ava said as Eldegoss jumped up into Shion's lap.
"Yeah this little one wanted to join me for a long time and I finally did. Her name is Rose." Shion said as her Eldegoss waved to Ava and Chris.
Ava waved back as she saw the two roommates exchanged ribs and petty insults before ultimately laughing with each other.
She was glad she came here even more now.
Meanwhile, in front of the Trainer Course building, Kenan and Kasumi were training with their Pokemon trying to get Syndey to evolve into Clodsire.
It wasn't going great as Kenan soon fell down.
"Arggh! I don't get it! What are we doing wrong!?" Kenan yelled out frustrated as Sydney soon also sighed a bit frustrated.
"Calm down, getting frustrated won't solve anything." Kasumi said as she and Chun Li went over to Kenan.
Kenan sighed as he petted Sydney a bit.
"I don't get it, I am putting in the entire work with Sydney and nothing is working." Kenan said.
"Are you?" Kasumi suddenly asked.
Kenan looked up at her confused.
"Are you really putting in all of your effort? Or is something holding you back? Maybe something from your past." Kasumi said to him.
Kenan was in shock as he wasn't expecting her to say that.
Because in truth… she was right, more right than Kenan ever wanted to admit.
