[PKMN OPEN] The Pokémon Trainer Academy (T) [Best Veteran 4Q '11]

Zayne Alta

Zayne thanked Steven as he, Aura and Tetra walked through the door to the desk in the rear of what could be described as the academy's foyer.
"Excuse me" he asked the older woman who was manning the desk, steadily typing something out
"Oh, can I help you young man? What dorm are you in?" she replied in a sweet, grandmother voice, causing Zayne to actualy consider head-desking on the marbel exterior of the front desk
"Actually, I'm a teacher" he said, Do I really look THAT young? he wondered to himself
"My name is Zayne Alta, I arrived today and I'm supposed to stay in the Entei dorm"
"Oh" the woman who reminded Zayne of his own grandmother chuckled "I'm so sorry I didn't know you are so young! Here is your room key and I'll be sure to fill in that you have arrived". Zayne thanked the receptionist, walking back to Steven who stood in the middle of the room with Tetra and Aura, who were still chatting amongst themselves, Zayne had no idea how she had gotten Aura to be so vocal.
"Well now that is taken care of, shall we head to the training fields before I go to my room?" he asked his new found friend, holding open the door as he had done for Zayne.

I slowly walk back to the Raikou dorm just looking around thinking to myself "So what am I gonna do tomorrow? I should go to town and buy some thicker clothing but Knowing me I'll find a way to get myself lost. To think an Island with a volcano on it would be so cold..." I whine to myself, Ignoring the fact that it's November.

"Maybe I should teach Cally Sunny day... Its only for a bit but it would sure make it warmer. But that would be taking advantage of Cally..." I debate with myself "Ugh, Why did my parents give me this TM? What use is making the Weather a little sunny?" I ask myself.

I look up from my Ranting to see I walked clear past the Raikou dorm and was approaching the Suicune dorm "Ack, I passed it!" I say to myself And start running back to the Raikou dorm, Half way there I stop and look back. "You know, I could go take a look. I'm a new student so I doubt I could get in too much trouble... Nah, Maybe Some other day, I still need to unpack and call my parents. I don't have time to go snooping around." I head back to the Raikou Dorm Taking glimpses of the Blue roofed building.

Sammy chuckled and shook her head. It was nice to see he had a bit of energy to him, it hopefully meant he wasn't going to nod off anytime too soon. Long enough for the nurse to arrive and check him over at least. Still, she hadn't quite expected him to jump on her suggestion of training so enthusiastically - not that there was anything wrong with that.

"I'm happy to train with you Shawn, but I'm not in any big rush to catch pokemon. I'll meet the right ones at the right times and if I'm meant to catch them, then I will. I'll be happy with whatever I end up, Dragonite or Dunsparce, Metagross or Magikarp. So long as they're happy being my pokemon, I'll do my best to train them as far as I can take them. I guess it's why I'm kind of cool about catching Shuppet by accident. I was clearly meant to."

She said it all with a soft smile and small shrug at the end. She seemed to mean everything she said, but such a laid back attitude didn't seem to gel with the concept of a competitive pokemon trainer.

Drake

Drake sat and listened to Kiyoko's story while he waited for Valorie to continue speaking. R men... R men... Wait, Rockets? Those were the only R men he could think of. Those bozo's had tried to cause trouble back home too, but they had been dealt with. Had they returned? Was it even possible?! Bother, and if they were here... This was not good. But he might be over reacting though. Anyways... Kiyoko could use Aura.At least it certainly sounded that way. Drake focused and closed his eyes, trying to remember exactly what she had told him so many years ago.

Any idiot can use Aura, they just need to know how.

Yes... Yes he had it, his Aura Senses began to light the room up to him, nearly blinding him with the dazzling aray of blue lights that was everybody's essence. He tried hard to focus on the ones right in front of him, namely Kiyoko, but was having difficulty. He was very out of practice. What would he see by looking at the little Zorua's Aura?

Brian

Brian yawned as he sat in front of his dorm, sitting against Nova's back, looking at the stars. He still could not believe he had gotten lost out in the wild earlier, but it was ok. He had been reunited with Nova, and gotten to know all of his pokemon better. And that was incredible. Maybe he should think about going to bed soon... Funny, before he would never have considered sleeping outside, but tonight, the sky was clear, and while it was cool he had a large fire type blanket to lay against. Funny... Maybe he was cut out to go on a journey after all... He had learned a great dal about pokemon already, as well as battles, and was stronger both physically and mentally. In fact, he had even lost some weight in the few months he had been here. Heck, before he couldn't keep up with his friends, now could he get to Oak Town by himself. Sure he would never amount to anything as far as battles went, but he loved helping pokemon and humans get better, and bringing them closer together. Yes, he belonged here, and he was going to stay. He had so much to do, like help Mark figure out why the wild pokemon were acting crazy, and study more about medicine. And he still had his still sleeping companion Vulpix. The little fox needed a good home. He needed a trainer. But who could Brian ask? He lay his head back and yawned softly, closing his eyes. That was tomorrow's problem.

"Sure, whatever." Jimmy replied, not really minding what little was there to do in what little was left of the day. There wasn't much stuff eh could think of, it looked a little bit too late to train, and he turned his head to the girl whose hand he was holding. "For now let's get back to the Academy, then we'll see what to do, or not." he added in a somewhat deadpan tone, not showing much interest in the activities. He was feeling slightly hungry. Perhaps a dinner and then hitting the hay?


The inevitable had happened. Jello was unable to keep on battling, and the last resort Hidden Power didn't work out as well as Alice had expected. But, then again, she should have seen it coming, as the cyborg-like bird looked pretty strong. She bit her lip, her mind giving her flashbacks of her first loss, but before tears could form in her eyes, Whitney handed her over what she recognised as a Revive, and said that she had done good.

"R-Really?" shhe asked, "I-I d-didn't know I could be g-good at this. I mean, I-I lost!"

She gave her fainted purple ball the Revive and in a second he opened his tiny eyes and became airborne again, floating at the same height as Alice's shoulder. And it he had a mouth, it would show a grin, as he knew that despite having lost, he had given his full power into the battle.

"G-Good game..." Jello said to Pidge, sounding exhausted.

"Hurry up slowpoke! I have no idea where we are going!" Issac called out to C.J.

C.J. smirked, he ran to catch up to Issac then laughed and pointed to the Mountains in the distance, "Kinda hard to miss don't ya think." He said poking fun. The Base of the mountains weren't that far of a walk, 15 to 20 minutes maybe. But climbing up them would be the time consuming part.

As they continued on their way C.J. thought he'd spark up a conversation. "So how far up do you want to go? There's going to be a lot of Pokemon along the way, probably ground and rock type mostly until we near the volcano, if you want to go that far that is." he said.

Ax watched perched on C.J.'s shoulder. She couldn't see much through the darkness but she still enjoyed the view. "It sucks not being able to see to far." she said. Ace laughed at the comment, "To far? Try not being able to see at all-- Ever." He said in response.

As they got closer to their destination C.J. could start to see the pathway that leads up into the mountains. "There we go," He said, "we can just follow the path until we get farther up, I doubt theirs much of interest down this low."

Issac Milke - Mountains

"I see the mountains! Just don't know where the path starts!" Issac responded slyly, " I wouldn't mind hitting the volcano, but it depends how late it gets I guess."

Could really use a fire pokemon.. and that would be the place to go. Heck I may be able to get 2 new party members with the diversity between the mountains and the volcano.

As they closed in on the path to the mountain Issac could hear the nighttime activity of wild pokemon all around. This caused Trunks to become a little more hostile.

"There we go," C.J. said, "we can just follow the path until we get farther up, I doubt theirs much of interest down this low."
"Well let's get moving then!" Issac responded with excitement of meeting new pokemon as he picked up his pace.
"Twii-" Trunks sighed as sped up to keep up.

"To the volcano it is then!" C.J. exclaimed. This was his first time he would be going so far into the mountains, he wasn't exactly sure of what to expect. One thing was for sure, he wasn't leaving without a Druddigon.

Ax looked down at Trunks, she could tell he wasn't exactly enthusiastic about this trip. She dropped down landing beside the Turtwig. "Something wrong?" she asked concerned. "If you're nervous don't worry, I'll protect you." She said puffing out her chest but slipping as she does so. Ace laughed at her for a moment, "You mean you'll try to." he mocked. "Hey! I'm stronger then I look!" she yelled at him.

As they continued to climb Ax noticed something moving behind a rock on the side of the pathway. She ran over to it the movement turning out to be a young Lavitar. "Hiiii~" Ax proclaimed excitedly. "Hello," The Lavitar responded. "Ax, what is it?" C.J. asked, noticing the Axew running off away from the group. "C.J., I found a new friend." she explained.

"A new friend? Should we check it out?" C.J. asked Issac. The rock Ax was now standing on was in front of a pretty decent sized cave. The Pokemon Ax was talking to could be anything, it was hard to see from this view point.

Hearing her chuckle before she spoke hit Shawn in such a way that he was unknowingly staring at her. Sammy was so laid-back, so nonchalant about what happened. In other words, almost the opposite of how he was. He wanted to take risks, he wanted to blaze his own path in life. First and foremost, though, he wanted to find his missing folks.

Having to sit and wait was excruciating for him, but he had to do it. He wondered how the others were doing. Kiki and Andy were probably having their own fun. He didn't want to interrupt them or trouble them with his injuries, so he was content with talking to Sammy. Maybe...

He realized that he was staring at her a little too long than intended. Feeling embarrassed, he looked out the window, clearing his throat. "Now I'm curious. Why did you come to the academy? What do you want to do with your life?" Shawn asked her, keeping himself focused on their conversation.


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Sammy thought for a moment over Shawn's question. Why she was here at the Academy and what she planned to do with her life were, of course, tied up together. But the simple answer was that she didn't know what she wanted from the rest of her life - not in the focused way so many people seemed to expect her to answer that question. The majority of the time she was unusually at peace with herself for a teenage girl, but when she considered her future she felt adrift. A distinctly uncomfortable sensation for someone who had spent the majority of their life on the open ocean.

"I mostly grew up on ships," she admitted," so me and my Dad figured it would be a good idea for me to do the normal kid stuff for a while. You know, dry land, school, friends, trying to be best that there ever was... the usual. As for what I want to 'do with my life'... I don't know really. I don't know what sort of person I'll turn out to be in a years time, or five, or twenty. Trying to decide what I'm going to do with my whole life right now just... I don't know. It's daunting I suppose."

She shrugged and smiled again. "But for now, I'm happy to give the pokemon trainer thing a shot. It might work out."

Shawn nodded, temporarily forgetting he was hurting. Instinctively, he put his hand to his head and groaned slightly. He, too, wasn't concerned with what the future had in store for him. He had his own problems to worry about, he had a mission he HAD to complete. At least, a mission in his own mind. He needed to be ready.

He looked back to Sammy and smiled, "I haven't thought about it much either, to be honest. I've been...distracted, lately." Thinking about what she said about her past, he felt more comfortable around her. She mentioned a dad, but no mom. Maybe she knew what it was like...

Shawn looked down, not sure why he was feeling this way. He was feeling...unusual...he didn't know why.


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"Distracted, huh?"

She had been about to make a wry comment about how, yes, running into allegedly haunted buildings to hunt living undead candles that burned up your soul and then receiving a headwound at the hands of an invisible force would be very distracting... but something told her that Shawn had something quite serious on his mind. Or maybe he was just acting strangely because of the knock to his head, but either way he seemed to be getting more intense. Probably best if she didn't let him go too far in that direction until the nurse had checked him out. Hopefully she wouldn't be too much longer, she still had to take her new Shuppet to a pokemon centre before turning in for the night.

"So have you been a trainer for long then?" She asked, completely changing the subject. Being subtle was not one of her skills. "Any Gym Badges under your belt, anything like that?"

Corphish, finally satisfied that Shawn was going to behave himself for the time being, scuttled closer to Sammy. Cubone was sitting on the floor next to Sammy's feet, his skull encased head dropping down towards his chest before quickly jerking back up. The poor little guy seemed to be all tuckered out from the days exertions.

It was Shawn's turn to chuckle. "I was never too big on being a trainer in the first place," he said, "My parents didn't push me in that direction. They believed that I should know how to battle, though, just in case. They even helped me catch my first pokemon." Shawn smiled as he thought back to those days. "Mostly, I'd practice battling wild pokemon. In fact, I didn't have my first trainer battle until I got here."

Shawn suddenly stood up. He was getting very uncomfortable with just sitting around. He had to walk a little, but he was still having a little trouble getting around. He walked slowly so as not to hurt himself.


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