A/N: Sorry it took so to get this chapter out. Honestly I've been wanting to write for weeks now but work's been keeping me pretty busy, for the last two weeks I was supposed to only work 4 days out of the week and have 3 days off but end up working 6 days and only getting 1 day off all because people decided they want to call out or just not show up for work and I got called in to cover for them, or in one instance , that pisses me off to no end , one employee just walked out and quit on the spot in the middle of a huge lunch rush.
Anyway tiny rants over here's the next chapter.
Chapter edited on 12/31/2019
"Let's see, where should I go next?" Harry idly mumbled to himself looking down at his Town Map. At the moment he was walking down one of the side streets off of the main avenue of the city, Sylveon like always trailing beside him.
He had decided to look around Jubilife City and see the sights. Jubilife was apparently the largest city in the Sinnoh region. He had already gone to the TV station, though he had only been able to get a look at the building from the outside, and the B-Button League HQ. Oralie and Haley, the league founders, had been there at the time and had been more than happy to talk about their organization's believes that Pokémon evolution wasn't the only way to achieve ultimate strength and beauty. Apparently the league was made up of coordinators who were aiming for the top spot without evolving their Pokemon. Harry wasn't sure how anyone would think they could train a Magikarp, literally the weakest Pokemon in the world, to be strong without evolving it but kept his mouth shut. He figured that if they were coordinators that strength wasn't necessarily the most important thing. He still held skepticism about how far someone would be able to get with a Pokemon that can only know three moves, one of which was literally useless. Harry himself didn't have any strong feelings one way or another whether or not his Pokemon evolved, Sylveon was already evolved, and if his Pokemon evolved into Kirlia, Gardevoir or Tyrantrum he would be just as happy as if he did. And he didn't even have a dusk stone to evolve Murkrow to Honchkrow so there was no use pondering over, what was at the time, a moot point.
"Let's see, looks like there's a Pokétch shop around here. Maybe I should get one." Harry queried allowed. He tapped on the shop on his Town Map and clicked on a related items Link showing a page from PokéChic magazine featuring a blue haired coordinator sporting the wrist watch.
"What do you think," he asked, turning the device a bit to show Sylveon the article while they continued walking. "Should I get one, apparently all top coordinators have them." He said in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic voice.
"Sylve!" It cried, and Harry felt the jolt of happiness.
Rolling his eyes he chuckled "Yeah, why not." He stopped walking for a moment to look back at the map to find his way to the shop.
"Excuse me, are you the Pokemon trainer Rowan sent?" Someone called out from his left.
Harry looked up and noticed that he was in front of a large building that was dwarfed between two high-rises with a large front courtyard. A young brown haired women in her mid twenties was comeing from the building and jogging towards him.
"Um, yes I am." He answered, as she stopped in front of him, not quite sure what this woman wanted with him or what Professor Rowan had to do with it.
"Thank goodness, with how long you were taking I was afraid something had happened, I hope you weren't lost." She said, leaving Harry even more confused.
'How long I was taking? Why was she waiting for me? Did Professor Rowan set something up for me and forget to call about it or something?'
Before he could ask her why she had been waiting for him, the woman was already talking.
"Well please come this way, the children have been so excited for your visit." She told him as she started walking hurriedly back toward the building prompting Harry to follow after her.
'Children? Visit?' he thought to himself, bemused.
"I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused on what's going on?" Harry asked as he and the woman walked Into the building and down on of the side halls.
" Don't worry all you have to do is show your Pokemon, tell some facts about each one and how to take care of them. Maybe talk a bit about what it's like being out on a journey of your own. I know it can seem a bit intimidating to stand up and talk in front of an entire class, even if they are just children, but it's not that hard once you're up there."
At her last statement Harry actually looked around the building he was being led through, seeing a number of doors with numbers over them. As he walked past each one he could see through the windows rows of desk and realize that he was inside of a school.
Before Harry could say more the woman whom Harry guessed was a teacher opened a door to what looked like an attendance office.
"Now once we have you scand in we can get to the clas-" Before she could finish her sentence she was interrupted by another questioning voice.
" Laura, there you are, I'm sorry but I have bad news, our guest trainer isn't going to be able to come."
The woman, Laura, and Harry turnd at the sound of the new voice, and standing in the doorway was an older looking woman in her early to mid forties, she wore her rustie red hair back in a loose bun and a pair of square frame glasses.
"Hillary, what are you talking about, he's right here. "Laura said, turning questioning eyes on Harry.
"No, I just got a call from Rowan a minute ago, our guest isn't going to be coming to Jubilife at all." The now named Hillary explained, also looking at the green eyed teen.
Harry took a step back and raised his hands in a 'don't look at me gesture'.
"I'm sorry but I really don't know what's going on. I wasn't even looking for this place or anything, I didn't even know that Professor Rowan had arranged for me to come here for what ever reason." Harry quickly explained, hoping to get an explanation before any more interruptions came up.
"Oh dear, it seems there's been a bit of a misunderstanding." The older of the two women said regretfully. "You see we were expecting a trainer to come and speak to one of our younger classes today. The trainer we were expecting is a friend of my daughter; Rolanda, but we call her Rowan. She was who, Laura was talking about, not the Pokemon Professor Rowan. I'm sorry for the mix up." She explained before turning her attention back to her colleague.
"I got a call from Rowan, apparently her friend decided that he would be going to Hearthome City, so looks like we won't be having our guest speaker today." She sorrowfully reiterated.
"Oh no, the class has been looking forward to this all week." Laura said, sounding genuinely disheartened.
"Um excuse me," Harry piped up, gaining the womens attention. "but is there something specific you need from your guest speaker or did you just need a trainer on a journey?"
"Thank you so mutch for agreeing to do this. You're absolutely sure this is no trouble right?"Laura asked as she and Hillary led Harry through the hall.
"It's no trouble, for me ma'am." Harry assured. "You said all I had to do was talk to this class about my pokemon and tell them about what it's like being a trainer, right?"
"Yes, that's right." Hillary answered instead. Just talk about your Pokemon, there species and what you do to take care of each of them. Then talk about what your goals as a trainer."
He let out a shaky breath , a little bit apprehensive about having to speak in front of a bunch of people, even if they were only little kids even younger than the first years back at Hogwarts. When he had offered to fill in for the guest speaker he had been genuine in his offer to help, but there was a good part of him that hoped that they needed some sort of a specific qualification from the guest speaker and his help wouldn't be needed. As it turned out all they needed to do was scan his Pokedex to verify his identification and to make sure that he was a legally registered trainer with Pokemon under his possession that he was willing to let them play with and that was it, he was eligible to speak to the class.
Harry took another breath easing his nerves. ' Calm down there just kids. There probably more excited to see pokemon than listen to a lecture.'
"All right here we are," Hillary said as they came to a stop in front of a door, muffled noise could be heard on the other side. " I'd like to say again how appreciative I am that you agreed to do this for us even though you didn't have to. The children work so hard this last term and had been so excited for today I would have hated having to disappoint them. I can't thank you enough." She said, appreciation clear in her tone. The two teachers had explained to him that the class he was going to speak to had the highest grades overall for the last term and they had wanted to do something special for them as a reward for their hard work, and seeing that it was a trainer School they thought having a real life trainer come in and speak and show live Pokemon would be a nice change of pace from having a lecture or watching videos.
Harry ducked his head, still not use to such gratitude. "Its no problem, really. I mean you could have just grabbed any random trainer off the street right?"
"Well that is technically true, but not just any random trainer would have agreed." Laura countered as she opened the door to the class room, the sound of excited chattering no longer muffled.
"Alrighty class settle down, settle down." She gently chided as she walked in leaving Harry and Hillary in the hall with the door slightly ajar.
"Now class I know we were supposed to have a special guest come in to class today to speak and show us their Pokemon." she started, ignoring the small cheer that came from the class at her last words and continuing on. "But I'm sorry to tell you that something came up and they will no longer be able to come."
From in the hall, Harry heard the disheartened exclamations from the class.
" However," Laura said, after a few moments getting the classes attention, "Miss. Hillary and I were lucky enough to run into a trainer here in Jubilife who's actually out on a journey of his own and he agreed to fill in as today's special guest." The statement had the class letting out exclamations of joy and relief.
"Now I expect you to be polite and respectful while he's here." There was a chorus of "Yes, Miss. Laura" before she called out the door, "Could you please come in now?"
Harry open the door and walked in with Hillary following behind. Looking around he seen that the class he was talking to were comprised of students who looked around six or seven years old. They were all wearing uniforms, the boys consisting of a blue blazer, a white shirt, blue shorts, white knee high socks, brown loafers and a blue bow tie. The girls wore the same outfits only instead of shorts they wore skirts and instead of a bow tie they wore a blue cravat.
"Alright class, this is Harry. Harry pleas introduce yourself and then tell us about your Pokemon ." Hillary said from Harry's other side.
Clearing his throat, still feeling a bit nervous, Harry began his introduction. "Hello, as Miss Hillary said my name is Harry and I'm from Anistar City in the Kalos region and I'm currently planing on competing in the Grand Festival."
This had half the class looking amazed and the other half confused. Almost immediately one of the students hands was in the air, and after a nod from Harry the little girl asked "I've never heard of the Kalos region, wheres that?"
"The Kalos region is actually on the opposite side of the planet, and it's still considered the newest discovered region by the Sinnoh, Johto, Kanto and Hoenn regions. Becaus of the strange migration patterns of certain deep sea Pokemon like Wailord and Gyarados it's very hard to travel between Kalos and the other four regions. " Harry explained.
This elicited more looks of amazement and excitement from the class.
For the next few minutes the class spent time asking Harry different questions about the Kalos region like; do they have a Pokemon League, are there starter Pokemon there, how many gyms do they have, do they have Nurse Joy ect.
After a few minutes of questioning on the Kalos region Laura decided to ask a question.
"Do you have any Pokemon from the Kalos region to show us today?"
At that question the class started buzzing with excitement. Harry smiled catching on to what she was doing, she had seen Sylveon outside with him and correctly assumed it was from a different region, and was trying to get the class back on track.
Harry nodded taking out Tyrunts pokéball and releasing the Pokemon, to the mostly amazed gasps and words of awe of the students.
"Wow it's so big. "
"I bet it's really strong."
"It looks kinda scary."
"TyRunt?" The prehistoric creature grunted in question at its unfamiliar surroundings and looking to Harry.
Harry smiled and put his hand on its head rubbing its horns right were he knew it liked. "Don't worry it's just like the observations that you use to do with Professor Rowan." Harry reassured gently before Turing to the class.
"This is Tyrunt, a dual Rock/Dragon type. Tyrunt originally lived in the Kalos region a hundred million years ago but in recent years scientist have been able to restore them from fossils." This elicited more reactions from the students and even a surprised "Really?" From Laura.
Harry nodded his head, now feeling a bit more confident speaking with the positive reactions and anticipating experience.
"If something happens that it doesn't like, normally, it throws a tantrum and runs wild. But this one is actually very calm though it does run off when ever it gets board or upset." Harry explained.
"Before I caught Tyrunt and left on my journey, whenever it would get upset, it would go and challenge this Lucario that lived at Professor Rowan's laboratory as a way of letting off steam. According to the research done by Kalos Pokemon Professors Sycamore, this one behaves a bit strangely compared to other Tyrunt that have been restored. Normally Tyrunt have a selfish, spoiled nature and have a tendency to unknowingly inflict injuries while playing. Despite the overall weight of its body the muscles in its legs are strong enough to propel it over 6 feet in the air from a standing jump and propelling it more than 60 feet from a running jump."
Harry continued on explaining different facts about Tyrunt, surprising even himself at just how much he actually knew about his Pokemon and not just as his own individual partner but it's species as a whole. This extended to his other Pokemon as well, he had alredy explained things from preferred habitats to grooming needs about Tyrunt, Murkrow, and Ralts.
The class had been very taken with all of his Pokemon, asking questions about each of them, most of which Harry actually knew the answers to. Harry had thought that Tyrunt being what was still considered an extinct Pokemon, would have garnered most of the attention but so far it had actually been Ralts and her unique coloring that had most of the children intrigued. Some of them wondering if Ralts had any extra powers or abilities or if her attacks looked different to.
One girl had told him that she had an older brother who had a shiny Quagsire and that it had been her dream to find and catch a shiny Dratini. Harry had smiled and told her that she would have to be very dedicated and patient.
"Alright this is my last Pokemon." Harry informed the class getting disappointed groans from a majority of the class but a few students were looking at him with eager anticipation.
Pressing the button on the pokéball he released Sylveon.
The males in the class looked at Harrys final Pokemon with awe and excitement, most never seeing one. The girls of the class were mutch more, vocal in there enthusiasm ,there were more than a few hight pitched squeals at the sight of what most all of them thought was the 'cutest pokemon they'd ever seen.'
"Its so cute!"
"Look at the pretty ribbons."
"I want one when I become a trainer."
On instinct Sylveon wrapped one of its ribbons around Harry's wrist as he started to explain.
"This is Sylveon, one of the evolution forms of Eevee and a fairy-type Pokemon. By releasing enmity-erasing waves from its ribbonlike feelers, Sylveon stops any conflict. Sylveon will also wrap its ribbons around its trainers arm as they walk together because this touch enables it to read its Trainer's feelings."
Harry had gotten farther in his explanation than he thought he would when a hand belonging to a green haired boy raised into the air. With a nod of his head Harry gave him permission to speak.
"I've never heard of a fairy-type before, what are they?"
Harry had saved Sylveon for last for this exact reason
"Fairy-types aren't found in Sinnoh, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn or even Unov or the Orange Islands." Harry said, this even had the two teachers listening intently to him.
"There are Pokemon, in Kalos, that are pure fairy-type that can be found in the other regions, like Clefairy and Snubbull for example. However Clefairy and Snubbull that are found in the other regions are normal-type. It's still being studied as to why this is but right now the main theory is that it is a naturally occurring geographic species difference. Or to put simpley; they are different because they are from different places. But there are still many of different theories, most of which I don't even know, about the secret of fairy-types."
Harry continued to answer questions about fairy-types; what were there weaknesses and what other Pokemon from Sinnoh were fairy-types in Kalos as well as what he did to take care of Sylveon, for a few more minutes before Hillary got the classes back on track.
"Alright class it's almost time for lunch and we can't keep Harry from his journey for to long. Harry you started on your journey so you could compete in the Grand Festival correct? What's it like actually doing it, please tell us."
"Actually that's not why I headed out. I didn't even know that I wanted to be a coordinator until I competed in my first contest."
Harry's response got many confused looks.
"You entered a contest but didn't know if you wanted to be a coordinator?" Laura asked this time, sounding a mix of mildly shocked and disbelief.
Harry nodded. "When I first headed out I had no idea of what I wanted to do, it was only because I had heard so many wonderful stories from the people around me about what they had done when they set out that I wanted to go out and explore the world for myself and experience something new. When I first entered a contest and even when I was about to go on stage for the first time I thought that I might be making a big mistake. I had never done something like it before. Getting up on a stage and performing infront of a crowd? Never once have I thought i would ever do something like that let alone enjoy it, but it was one of the most incredible things I have ever done in my life, and now I'm aiming to put on an even better performance. That's something I'm so glad that I didn't miss out on, I had nothing to lose by trying something new and now I have a goal I want to reach that I would never have had if I hadn't taken that chance on a new experience. Even now I'm looking for new experiences, I'm heading to the Oreburgh Gym and who knows maybe on a new path that will lead to the Sinnoh League." Harry finished, not noticing how, what he intended to be a short explanation had turned into a full blown speech.
The entire class was just staring at him in stunned silence, before a smile started to grow across Hillary's face. "That's right. A Pokemon journey is not only about achieving your goals but finding new ones. New experiences and adventures along side Pokemon are a wonder that every trainer and aspiring trainer should embrace fully when setting out. Thank you very mutch for coming and sharing with us." She began clapping which the rest of the class started to do as well.
After the applause stopped Hillary looked at the clock in the back of the class.
"Looks like lunch times going to start soon, why don't we see our guest out."
Harry stood out side the school gate looking at the kids who were trying to get a few pets to Sylveons ribbons before he left. The entire class had come to see him off and were lined up at the gate.
"Thank you for seeing me off." Harry said once Sylveon had managed to get its ribbons back from the kids and had rewrapped it around his wrist.
"No thank you for coming and speaking to our class. Right students?" Laura prompted.
"Yes, thank you very much." The whole class said in unison. Harry wondered if they had rehearsed that.
One boy with green hair stepped forward and held out, what looked like a cardboard ticket to Harry.
"This was supposed to be a gift for the trainer that was supposed to come in, it seems only fair that you should have it." Hillary explained.
"A free pokétch!?" Harry asked a bit shocked seeing that the ticket was a coupon for a free pokéch.
"Landis father was kind enough to provide it."
" Yeah my daddy has a new application for it that hasn't come out for it yet, but that coupon will let you get it ahead of time." The boy who gave it to Harry said cheerfully.
"Well please tell him I said thank you." Harry told him before addressing the class. "Its was nice talking to all of you keep up your grades and I'm sure you'll all become brilliant trainers."
They all started to bid him farewell as he started walking away with a wave.
"Goodbye!"
"Good luck at the gym!"
"We'll be cheering for you in your next contest!"
"Alright Sylveon let's go to the pokéch shop and then start making our way towards Oreburgh City." Harry said to his partner as they headed off.
A/N: Happy Holidays please leave me the present of an exstra long review.