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

[ShayShayTheShaymin]

Rosemary

After she grabbed the key from Kayla, Rosemary started running towards where she thought the Suicune dorm was. Why didn't I pay attention to where it was earlier?!, she thought as she ran around the campus grounds. Maybe I should go back and ask Jasmine to help me...,she thought. She shook her head and kept running. "I'm going to prove that I can be responsible!",she said, coughing as the key almost went down her throat. She stopped running for a while, putting the key down so that she could catch her breath. "If I was a dorm... where would I be?", she asked. Suddenly she saw blue flames appear out of nowhere. "I might as well ask someone for help..., she said, picking the key back up and running towards the flames. When she got closer, she saw that they were coming from a Ninetales. "Hi there! What's your name? I'm Rosemary. Do you know where the Suicune dorms are?, she asked.

[Meeptasm]

Meep (Academy Path)

After walking for some time, FoxFire stopped dead in her tracks. Everyone else followed suit. She began to scan the area around her for... something. Meep was starting to feel worried about what FoxFire was looking for. Suddenly, she quickly spun around, baring her fangs. This action made Meep's heart pause for a second. He decided to turn around as well and see what was making FoxFire so tense. Nothing could be seen for a moment, but then a small Skitty scampered into the dim light and up to FoxFire. Meep wasn't informed of what Pokemon could be found around the Academy, so he thought it was a wild Pokemon until he noticed something shiny dangling from her mouth. FoxFire, although not letting her guard completely down, hid her fangs from view and regained her composure. It seemed as if the Skitty was trying to talk to her. Once the unfamiliar Pokemon had ceased her mewling, FoxFire closed her eyes for a few seconds, then nodded. Before she could do anything else, however, Fluffernut rushed up to the Skitty to introduce himself, holding out his hand in a friendly gesture.

It seemed like that Skitty was talking to FoxFire, Meep thought to himself. I wonder what she wants? I wish I could just understand what they say... It'd make guessing what they want at times so much simpler...

[heretostay123]

Haru awoke yet again.Why can't I stay asleep? he thought to himself angrily. He realized that there was one thing that he had to do.I'm going out for a night on the town.He set out the Raiku dorm, angry for the fact he couldn't sleep.He heard of a place in the entrance package he recieved called Oak Town. That's where I'll go.He threw all four of his pokeballs out."Torch,Twitch,Void,Geronimo!" he called out,listing out the pokemon he released."I set you guys out because I need some travel buddies." he explained to them.However, Torch wasn't a big fan of the sneering scyther, for the fact he hurt one of Haru's friends.He growled at him, which earned a blade swipe through the air."Knock it off you two!" he shouted.They automatically knocked it off.

He started walking reading the map he had recieved in the package, with his motley crew of four behind him. After a couple of hours of walking in the right direction, he saw this tired looking blonde girl.YES! Another person! he exclaimed in his mind.He hurriedly walked up to her."Hey.I'm Haru.I'm new here.What's your name?" he quickly fired the questions off.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie Ryder - Academy Grounds

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The girl had no pokemon walking with her, but between the dragon master half-cape and the suicune dorm jacket that was currently left open she was clearly a trainer.

Valorie looked up at Hath, being a tad short. She seemed out of it, and her expression was slightly vacant for a moment as if she weren't sure what she was doing. Who was this boy, and--Oh... He was a student! Well that explained that. Valorie did her best to pretend she wasn't exhausted by standing up straight and looking Hating in the eyes.

"Oh, um... hey! I'm Valorie, Ryder."

She paused a moment.

"I'm going to become the best trainer in the world someday. What do you want to become..?"

Well it seemed like a good conversation starter anyway. She was too lazy to try very hard, and so she had more or less just started... talking about what was on her mind. She was also too tired to question why the boy had chosen her in particular, in the middle of a road no less, to talk to. It wasn't like he was rude or anything, so she just sort of rolled with it.

[heretostay123]

"I wanna save the world.You know,defeat Team Rocket or something like that." he said in his 'heroic voice'."Nice to meet you Valorie.I'm a Raiku yellow. I barely made it in, but Proffesor Oak said he saw something in me, just like most of the other yellows.Anyways, this is my team.Torch, Twitch, Void, and Geronimo." he said gesturing to the owner of each name."I caught Geronimo earlier tonight.I was in the forest with another new girl named Kayla.He kinda injured her leg, so I can't take him out everywhere." he started to ramble on not making any sense."Anyways, I hope we can be friends." he eventually said, ending his spurt of words.

[Megaman765]

Mark walked away from his dorm for awhile till he was in the main courtyard. This was like a main hangout spot for him and it was usually where he'd meet up with his friends when the day had started. Heck, maybe he'd run into someone. Everybody walked by here. He still never got a reply from Valorie unfortunately. Must have been busy. He could worry about that later though. He just needed some fresh air.

Snype of course enjoyed the night. Not only was it a perfect time to get a good scare on people, but it felt like home to him. He'd crawl around through the night if his trainer had allowed him too. His eyes were practically glowing in the night.

Mark took out each of his Pokeballs and let his Pokemon out.

"Alright everyone, it's getting late so why don't we get a bit of training in before we all head to bed?" Mark said to his Pokemon. They each agreed. Snype jumped down off of Mark's shoulder and joined the large group of Pokemon. He of course decided to train with Len. He was practically his buddy after all. Able ended up bumping into Kara. For whatever reason the two of them had a competative look in their face. They both decided to train in close quarter's combat by exchanging blows to each other with their claws.

Commodore was at a bit of a stalemate though. Shedinja really wasn't doing anything. It just kind of... floated there... Either it was really cocky since it was invincible to anything but its weakness, or it was just really empty headed. Commodore was sort of at a loss.

Mark went to each of the small groups of pokemon and instructed them properly, starting with Snype and Len.

"You two keep it up, Snype why don't you practice using Detect a bit? Len, try hitting him with Dig. See if you can get the jump on him." Mark suggested. The two nodded and proceeded to do so. Mark went over to Kara and Able.

"You two keep at it! I still got a few moves to teach you two so make do with what you got! Kara you did great in that last battle. Good job holding your own ground!" Mark said. Kara nodded with a confident smirk as she continued to spar with Able. Able was playing around with Kara mostly, purposely keeping her speed on the low so that Kara had a chance to catch her. She increased in speed as they got further in their training.

Commodore and Shedinja were an issue though. Mark still needed to figure out what to do with him... Shedinja was really fragile and unless he knew what his opponents moves were, he was pretty boned. Well, guess he could have one Pokemon scout out for moves and then throw Shedinja out there. Still, Mark kind of wished that Shedinja would do something else other then sit there. Come to think of it, it needed a nickname...

"Hey Shedinja, why don't I name you... Specter! Kinda of generic but hey it works!" Mark said. Shedinja just sat there like an empty shell.

"...I guess he likes it..." Mark thought. Commodore gave Mark a look as if asking "What am I supposed to do with him?" He was mostly worried of hurting the poor thing. One little poke and he was done.

"Why don't you try firing a couple of basic beams. At least what he's resistant too? Target practice! Test out your aim from a long distance! Specter over here will come out unscaved and you'll be able to improve!" Mark suggested. Commodore tipped his head and proceeded to do so. He decided to use Signal Beam for his training.

Mark continued going back and forth through all of his Pokemon, helping them train in the courtyard. This was certainly a productive night.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie Ryder -

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Valorie just sort of stood there for a moment. Save the world... from Team Rocket? But only Team Aqua and Magma were out of their minds enough to try to destroy the world! That was their niche! Nobody remembers you, Cyrus.. Regardless, it seemed a tad eccentric. One person? Save the world from the mafia Team Rocket? Valorie may have been from Unova, but she'd heard that Team Rocket was really into the trafficking business. They weren't some wackjobs trying to change the world, which ironically made them a lot harder to get rid of.

"Like... Get rid of them? How're you going to do that?"

Valorie seemed perplexed, to say the least.

"I used to hear on the news that they thought Team Rocket might try to set up shop in Unova..."

Of course, that was /before/ Team Plasma came back and iced half the region. Team Magma and Aqua really need to just sue. Haru went on to explain that his scyther had injured a girl earlier. This seemed to startle Valorie, her eyes widening a bit. She took a step back in response. The notion of a pokemon attacking people was apparently scary to her.

"Er... You should really get that thing trained! ...Before someone gets hurt worse..."

She had of course neglected to tell him about her own pokemon, perhaps distracted or not having thought much about it.

[heretostay123]

Haru just laughed."When my team is complete and fully evolved,we will all burst in their headquarters and take on every single grunt and admin in that buidling, even Giovanni.We'll win, mark my words." and then he switched to the second subject and grew dead serious."I'm already working on it.It was before I caught it.I'm going to make sure that Geronimo never hurts anyone again.Honestly."He turned his natural light hearted self the second after he finished that sentence."Your the third person I've met on this island next to Kayla and the secretary in the main office.Lucky you.Third times the charm."he laughed at his own joke."So can I see your pokemon?What dorm are you in?"

[Bassiroth]

Kenshin Ren
Kenshin walked over to the edge of the nearest pool of water inside the cave. He normally didn't do this with people watching, but what the heck. He may as well.

"HEY! LAPRAS!" he called out.

The cave was quiet for a few moments. Kenshin turned to Olivia.

"...You aren't too cold are you?" he asked. Things might only get colder when, let alone IF Lapras arrives. The air seemed to become a little chillier though, and the water began to bubble up before the large Dinosaur like Ice/Water Pokemon showed up. Kenshin turned around and looked up at the creature.

"It's him..."

He slowly began to walk towards the Lapras. Lapras seemed to be watching him as he did so.

"Hey," he greeted the Lapras. He pulled out a white pokeball with a red trim on it. A Premier ball huh? That's nicer and fancier than a normal pokeball. "I thought I'd use this for your pokeball. Just to help you adjust and all. Hope you're ready."

Oh hey, things were about to get started.

[Mick Fizz]

Alice Crenshaw
Academy Grounds

After a while of running, Alice slowed down to catch her breath. Her heart was beating faster, and her face was reddish, although it was because of exhaustion, not because of her previous blush. Jello had caught up, however he was less tired than her trainer because of his lack of, well, limbs that moved. The purple Solosis hovered up to her trainer and proceeded to talk to her.

"Listen, Alice...I know you said it was nothing but...whatever happened out there?" he asked, "It didn't seem like nothing. Did that Roxas kid do anything to you?"

"N-No, he didn't." Alice said timidly, as her face regained her natural colour, "Apart from teaching me how to battle, he did...nothing else..."

"Then why did you run away from him like that?" Jello said, still convinced that Alice was hiding something. The girl said no word, which troubled Jello more. "Come on, you can tell me. What happened back there?"

"I told you -it's nothing!" she replied, with her eyes closed. "Let's just go back to the dorms...I gotta sleep."

"Fine. Have it your way, Alice." Jello said. Something was going on with her, no doubt. But if she didn't want to talk about it, he was not going to push it. It is not the first time Alice acted like that, and he knew she was confused. As the girl walked back to the Entei Dorm, with Jello following her, the two said nothing to each other. It was certainly an awkward moment.

Soon Alice reached her dorm. She entered her room and closed the door after Jello was inside.

"Alice...I'm sorry." Jello said.

"It's okay, Jello." Alice said and smiled at him, "I know you're just worried about me because you're my best friend." She gave him a quick hug and then switched into her black pajamas. After that she grabbed Jello and got into bed.

"I love you, Jello." she whispered, "And thanks for worrying, but I tell you, there's nothing to worry about. Good night."

"Night, Alice. I love you too." the purple Solosis said before they both fell asleep.

[PinkSapphire]

Ruby Sapphire Fiona Destiny - Rocky Mountains

Ruby listened to what Jack had to say, he was talking about his other pokemon, seems like he had a Charizard too. 'That sounds awesome.' Ruby commented with a slight smile on her face. 'I have a charizard at home too, but... He kind of has a short temper.' Ruby rubbed the back of her head as she giggled a little, then slowly stopping.

'I also have a Arcanine, and a Latias... And a Delcatty, and i shouldn't forget my Swampert...' Ruby quietly spoke, but loud enough for both Kilik and Jack to hear. 'My sisters take care of them while i'm away from home, but that doesn't make me worry or miss them less...' Ruby looked at Hikari who was almost falling asleep on her shoulder.

'And you Kilik? Do you have pokemon at home?' Ruby asked him, after he mentioned that they were almost at the mountain. Thanks to Yuki there path was lit up, so it was less dangerous, even though Kilik seemed to like the danger.

Kilik kept acting kind of suspicious, which questionated Ruby, but he probely wouldn't tell, so Ruby would just wait untill he told it himself, she did tell him that he could tell her anything.

Roxas Jaden Asakura - Outside the Pokemon Center

Roxas was suprised when Alice apologized to him and then ran away. 'W-what's... With her...?' Roxas asked Obilivio, a little weirded out. 'Maybe she didn't like it you hugged her?' Obilivio suggested. '... Jaden, Luna, please return.' Roxas took out two of his pokeballs and returned his dark yellow colored Pikachu and his Pink Umbreon.

'Have a nice rest, guys...' Roxas said before he putted his pokeballs away. 'What are you going to do?' Obilivio asked him after awhile. 'Going back to the dorm and make us some food, i guess.' Roxas rubbed the back of his head, asking himself why Alice would've ran away, getting quite irritated from himself.

'Let's go.' Roxas said as he started walking, how Roxas acted suprised Obilivio a little, but he followed anyway. 'Are you okay?' Obilivio asked him, but Roxas ignored him, or just didn't hear it. 'Roxas!' Obilivio shouted. 'Huh?' Roxas turned around and faced his Lucario. 'You're alright?' Obilivio chuckled a little. 'This is the first time you're frustated about something like this.' Obilivio said.

Roxas turned around and started walking again, on his way to the Suicune Dorm. After Roxas made dinner for him and his pokemon he cleaned the dishes and went to bed, only Obilivio out of his pokeball this time.

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Artemesio

Arti gritted his teeth. This looked pretty bad. He ransacked through his memory of type effectivesness.

Okay....Larry is bug and electric...and the bird is obviously flying type. So electric attacks will help, but the birds pecking and wing attacks will hurt Larry a lot....

Meanwhile, Larry was still trying to attack the bird. He dug into his feathers and bit him. The bird responded with a "crow!" and pecked him off. Larry tumbled to the ground, spitting and electroweb to cushion his fall. Arti finally came up with a plan.

"Okay! Larry! Use electroweb on the crow, and follow up with a screech!"

Larry shot his electroweb, but instead of screeching, he jumped back onto the bird and started biting again. The bird got tangled up in the sticky electricity webbing, and plummeted to the ground. Larry held fast, and kept biting and shooting webs.

"Larry! Stop!"

Larry ignored Arti completely, and fell to the ground. The bird landed on top of him.

"LARRY! STOP! NOW!"

Larry finally crawled out from underneath the bird, still spitting web on him. The bird was all tangled up, and eventually fainted. Larry stopped at that point, and looked proudly at Arti.

"No! Bad Larry! Bad!"

Larry shrunk back at his master's chastising. He won, right? Shouldn't Arti be happy? Its not his fault Arti is bad at battleing...

Arti pulled his pokeball out of his pocket. His eyes spoke for him.

"Do that again, and you're going in the damn ball."

Larry frowned, and turned around. He continued towards Oak Town, trying to leave Arti behind. Arti easily caught up to him.

"You have to do what I say, Larry. I don't care if you think its wrong, but you ruined my whole plan."

Larry ignored him and kept walking. They arrived shortly, and Larry was exhausted. Arti picked him up, and put him on his shirt. Larry clung to his clothing, and ceased lighting the air as the man made lights illuminated the area. Arti made a beeline to the pokemon center, where he would leave Larry until he was finished recovering. He walked in and left Larry with one of the nurses. He told her of his injuries, and walked out. He was pretty mad at Larry right now.

Arti went to the department store first. He bought a lot of clothes, trying on just about everything they had. He bought all of the tooth and hair supplies he needed, and even a new scarf. He got a pair of comfortable shoes and a suitcase. He checked out, and all of this racked up to about 12,000 PokeDollars. Satisfied, he looked at the clock.

It's only been like 15 minutes...right?

Arti gagged. The clock said 3:42 A.M. Five hours after he started shopping. Jesus, Larry was going to be livid. He packed everything into his suitcase, and rolled back to the PokeCenter. Larry was in his pokeball. The nurse he left him with gave him back.

"We were starting to get worried about him," she said, "you left quite a while ago."

Arti put his hands over his face, rubbing the sleepiness off.

"I know.....I got lost in time....I'm so sorry...."

The nurse smiled, and checked her watch.

"Oh, its okay. He really needed the rest, he took a pretty big fall by the looks of his bruises..."

Arti tried to smile. But he couldn't find it in him. He felt terrible.

"Yeah, a...Murkrow fell on him." Arti finally remembered the name of the bird. Its was pretty rare in Unova, an overseas pokemon. "Well, thank you, but its late. I should go back to bed."

Arti awkwardly left, and started walking back. Luckily, no wild pokemon attacked him. Back in his dorm, he collapsed in his bed, next to Swadloon. He left his suitcase on the floor by his bed, not even bothering to unpack or brush his teeth. He fell asleep around 5....wishing his classes weren't until later in the morning...

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie Ryder - Road to Oak Town

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Normally, such brazen confidence might have elicited a giggle or a snickered from Valorie, but quite frankly she was too tired for humor as well. If this boy wished to bring down a criminal organization that had thus far proven immortal she certainly wasn't going to stop him from trying.

"Well, alright... I guess I'll see you in the news then--"

Valorie was interrupted by a mysterious voice. A yamask proceeded to rise from what seemed like the ground. It seemed to be the source of the voice.

Shu (Valorie's Yamask): "Careful kid, or you could end up like me."

Valorie glanced at the pokemon before gesturing at it.

"Weeell this is Shu. He--um... He knows telepathy."

Valorie began to dig around in her satchel for a pokeball, but Shu didn't seem to be done.

Shu (Valorie's Yamask): "I used to be a boy like you--Now I depend on an everstone and a /master/ to keep me from turning into a /monster/."

Valorie just sort of developed this embarassed look on her face. After Shu seemed to finish, she turned her gaze downwards. Cue anime sweatdrop.

"Sorry... He's eccentric. Let me show you my other pokemon!"

A grumble was heard from Shu as Valorie pulled out another pokeball. She tossed the ball and it opened up to reveal a mamoswine. The large mammoth pokemon just sort of looked down at Haru.

"This is Mamoswine. He's pretty friendly--Just don't hang around his feet."

She took out another pokeball. This time, it opened to reveal a Haxorus. The large, armored dragon type promptly hunched over and growled at Haru and his pokemon in an aggressive manner before being promptly scolded by Valorie.

"Thi--No! Haxorus! Not a battle! Bad!"

She totally shook her finger while she spoke too. The dragon pokemon seemed to stand straighter in a reluctant manner, falling silent.

"Sorry... She has been kind of angry ever since she evolved recently. I don't know why."

A third pokeball was removed from her satchell. Did Shu even have a pokeball? It didn't seem like it. This time, a Jellicent came out of the ball and just sort of floated there, seeming to become casually aware of Haru and his pokemon.

"This is Jellicent...Whatever you do, keep your distance. She's...um... I haven't been able to train her not to eat stuff that walks into her tentacles."

Without further comment, Valorie took out yet another pokeball and sent out a flygon. The flygon showed off it's powerful wings before literally striking a pose.

"This is Flygon. She likes people."

Simple enough. Once again, Valorie pulled out another pokeball. This was her sixth pokemon. She threw it and out popped... a charizard. The pokemon snorted, flames seeping out of her nostrils.

"This is Charizard. She has a bit of a temper, but she shouldn't be a problem~ My Dad gave her to me as a Charmander after he came back from a business trip in Kanto--She was my first pokemon."

...And then Valorie took out yet one more pokeball. Oh snap! She had seven pokemon! Though to be fair, it was unknown whether Shu even had a pokeball. Valorie tossed the pokeball and out popped... a /giant dragonite/! Well, a very large one anyway. The dragonite stood at around 12'1 feet and towered over even Mamoswine. It leaned over a bit, becoming curious in Haru's general direction.

"This--This is Dragonite. A--um... A strange man gave me her as an egg. I hatched her myself. She's actually still just a big baby though. She thinks of me as her Mom."

...Sheesh. Valorie had a somewhat intimidating team of very powerful looking pokemon around her. Shu was the only one that wasn't fully evolved, and he seemed to deliberately refuse to.

Olivia Wolf - Beach Cave

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Wild Zubat and Koffing appeared! Olivia followed behind Kenshin. Luckily, she had her long hair to help keep her warm as the air seemed to become freezing. Regardless, she hugged herself in an effort to preserve body-heat. Olivia watched as Kenshin seemed to summon the lapras, which rose out of the water rather quickly. She supposed it must've happened to be around at the time.

"Dude..."

She seemed somewhat impressed, to say the least, though she had no idea what a premier ball was or what purpose it served. She decidedly held off on asking though, allowing Kenshin to concentrate on his goal. She for one was eager to see how this went. Now... hadn't she been looking for pokemon too? She didn't say anything to Kenshin but Lapras wasn't exactly her type. She desired cute pokemon, pokemon she could fawn over. She would have to see if she couldn't find something of the sort while they were there, though it felt like it was probably night by now.

[Jbsundown]

Ryan Newson was the new 'Pokémon Legend Studies' teacher at 'The Pokémon Trainer Academy' and having had to fly all the way from Pummelo Island on his Charizard was not his ideal view of 'Business travel' but he wanted to make a good impression for Professor Oak, even if that meant travelling for 18 hours. So arriving on his Pokémon would seem like the best way to show how he cares for his Pokémon and the chemistry they have built. Just as he saw the outline shape of the island that had been on the letter he had received telling him that he had got the job he then realised.

"Where even is the school?"

With it being far too dark to see from the height he was at Ryan decided to tell his Charizard to lower so he could see what was down on the island.
However in doing so Charizard proceeded to fall towards the land in a diving motion.
Ryan thought that Charizard was just pulling another trick on him.

"Very funny." Ryan said, sarcastically.

After a few moments of dive bombing towards the ground, Ryan leaned forwards and saw that Charizard had almost passed out.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Yelled Ryan as he fell closer and closer to what seemed like impending doom.

Then all of a sudden Charizard adjusted himself slightly to slow down the fall. Ryan closed his eyes, braced for the impact and then.

THUD!

The impact that Ryan had expected didn't come, instead it was a much softer landing than he imagined.

"Wha?" Gasped Ryan as he opened his eyes. "I'm... Alive?!"

Ryan began looking around and saw that he was on some sort of beach.
It was then that Ryan realised something was missing.

"Charizard!" He yelled.

He turned his head as if to expect Charizard to be next to him, but that wasn't the case. Charizard was about 40 feet down the beach that they had crashed into. He didn't look good.

"Hey, buddy." Ryan said, calmly. "You okay? That was quite a fall you took there!"

Charizard said nothing, just rolled over and faced Ryan. He smiled, and Ryan smiled back.

"You did great! You must of flown miles! Well but I should of let you stop. Next time, Charizard, you will stop! Okay?"

Charizard just grunted.

"Good!" Said Ryan. "Now, into your Pokéball and rest!"

Ryan returned Charizard into his Pokéball.

"Right." thought Ryan. "Where is this blasted school!"

He set off inland in hopes that he would stumble across someone. He checked his watch. The time read 21:24.

"Well, it's too late to go looking for it now." Ryan thought. "Perhaps I'll just find a clearing in this wood and camp out here until morning. Besides, what's the worst that could happen here near a school anyway?"

He was about to find out.........

[Gold19]

Dante Redson --- Location-Heading to Entei dorm

Dante and Bagon continued on the way to Entei dorm as they noticed some student around the dorm as they got close. Both Dante and Bagon continued on walking, and walked by the students and entered Entei dorm. As the both of them walked into the dorm and headed for the dorm room.

"Okay, Bagon", Dante said to Bagon calling the dragon back into his pokeball. "Time to go to sleep. Return."

Dante continued onto his dorm room until he decide to go to the dorm lounge and relax for awhile.

[ShayShayTheShaymin]

Rosemary

Rosemary stared up at the Ninetales and smiled. "Can you show me the way? I need to get some things for my trainer!",she said. Then she noticed Fluffernut offering her a hand. She shook it and then started jumping around. "Yay! I love making new friends!",she said. She stopped jumping in front of FoxFire. "You never told me your name, but it's OK! I'm sure I'll learn it eventually!", she said, chasing her tail. She started jumping around again. "I'm getting bored just standing here! Let's go!,she yelled. Besides, I need to prove that I can be helpful... I don't want to see Kayla hurt again.,she thought.

[Meeptasm]

Meep (Academy Path)

Meep continued to watch as FoxFire's conversation with the Skitty carried on after Fluffernut began to hop around the path. He noticed that Skitty's energy seemed to lower somewhat during the talk. FoxFire gestured for her to follow her and proceeded down the path as Meep's group was doing before the Pokemon startled everyone. Meep tried to piece together what they discussed or why Skitty was following them, but FoxFire didn't seem to distrust her, so he shrugged his shoulders, seeing there was no need to worry, and began following her with Fluffernut hopping along.

It was some time before the group arrived at the Suicune Dorms. Heart was still asleep, curled up in Meep's arms. Everyone went through the doors into the lobby. FoxFire then turned to the Skitty and nodded.

(Here we are, young Rosemary,) FoxFire said to her. (I trust that you know what room number your trainer is residing, so be sure to get everything you've come for. It'd be a shame if you'd have to make a second trip.) She then took a moment to look through the lobby windows into the complete darkness that consumed the environment, then returned her focus to the Skitty. (I'm guessing that you'll have to travel through the darkness once more to deliver what you've come to pick up... Although I don't like the thought of Meep out in the dark this late, it's unlikely he would allow you to travel alone and wind up losing your sense of direction... I could attempt to tell him what our current dilemma is. Knowing him, there's a small chance he'll refuse the request.)

[ShayShayTheShaymin]

Rosemary

Rosemary looked around the lobby, then at FoxFire. "Thank you! I know what room she's in. And thank you again! I don't want to get lost again...,she said before running towards Kayla's room. When she got there,she stood staring at the door for a moment. "How am I supposed to open this?!", she shrieked. She jumped onto the doorknob, put the key into the hole, and turned it. "That was easier than it looked",she said. Rosemary looked around the room before finding what she was looking for: one of Kayla's bags. She unzipped it and started rummaging around the drawers. She grabbed Kayla's pajamas, and one of her outfits. She dragged all of the clothes and put them in the bag. Then she crawled under Kayla's bed and grabbed some of her candy from a box. She put that in the bag too and zipped it up. She dragged the bag and Kayla's keys out to the hall, and jumped up to lock the door back. Now to get this bag to Kayla, she thought, unzipping the bag to put Kayla's keys in it. She grabbed the bag with her mouth and started dragging it. When she got back to the lobby, she put the bag down and sat down. "I'm ready to go when you are!,she said.

[Meeptasm]

Meep (Suicune Dorm Lobby)

As the Skitty dashed around the corner leading to the dorm halls, FoxFire walked up to Meep and nudged her nose into his arm. He turned to face her with a quizzical look on his face.

"Huh? What is it, FoxFire?" Meep asked his Ninetales. "Something you want to tell me?"

Seeing that she had his attention, FoxFire poked her head into his bag and pulled out the map, unfolding it and placing it flat on the ground. She used her paw to point to where they were now, and then drew an imaginary line along the path to the Entei Dorm. She then gestured toward where the Skitty dashed to, and then pointed to the outside through the windows. She returned her gaze to Meep, looking as if she was done with her charades act. Meep was extremely confused about what FoxFire was trying to show him, but he still attempted to make sense of this.

Hmm... Well, first thing FoxFire did was take my map out and draw a line to the Raikou Dorm... Next, she pointed to the corner that the Skitty rounded... Maybe Skitty's trainer lives in Entei Dorm... No, that doesn't explain why she traveled here with us instead of stay there... I noticed she had a key in her mouth, so it could be the trainer is a Suicune student and needed her to pick something up from their room... Yeah, that makes more sense. But why did she point me toward the window last? There's nothing out... Oh!

"I get it!" Meep exclaimed. "Skitty is going back outside after finishing some business here, but you want to make sure that she doesn't get lost on her way back to where she came from! That's what you were telling me, right?"

With a satisfied smile, FoxFire nodded her head. Meep was feeling pretty proud himself. This was the first time he deciphered what a Pokemon was trying to tell him without speech. His moment of basking was short lived, though, because the Skitty rounded the corner into the lobby, dragging a bag across the floor with her mouth. Fluffernut didn't really understand what was going on because he wasn't really focused on the others right now, but he understood that the Skitty was going somewhere and gladly took the bag from her, swinging it onto his shoulder. Seeing as how everyone was ready, Meep signaled FoxFire to take her spot up front and light the path. She followed his command and began walking to the front doors. Meep and the others followed closely behind as they emerged from the building and started walking down to the Entei Dorms.

[jasonwolf]

Isaac and Orion.

"Well my life officially sucks." Isaac moaned.

"It does not people jsut care more for first impressions, and you're terrible at those." Orion comferted.

"Great pep talk." Isaac muttered.

"Look the point is you jsut need to work on it. When you have trouble in battles you practice well all you gotta do now is practice." Orion said.

"How am I supposed to practice without gettign more people angry with me." Isaac shouted.

"How should I know. I'm the orphan with no friends. I jsut know how people work." Orion shurgged.

"Ugh... well I guess tomarrow will be hell too." Isaac muttered.

The two trainers left the cafeteria and split off to their respective dorms. Isaac went straight to bed ignoring a package on his desk, btu Orion stayed up in his room reading a copy of 'Tale of two regions'.

[Bassiroth]

Kenshin Ren

"Pikachu go!" Kenshin called out as he tossed his pokeball. Pikachu popped up out of the red and white ordinary pokeball and was down on all fours, ready to fight Lapras.

Lapras began by launching an Ice Beam attack from its mouth.

"Pikachu, Dig!" Kenshin shouted. Pikachu burrowed its way underground to dodge the attack. Pikachu then burst out from under Lapras and under the water.

"Now, Iron tail!"

Pikachu spun in the air as his tail began to glow white and then struck Lapras in the face. CRITICAL HIT!

Lapras tried to use Water Pulse at Pikachu next. The ball of water hit Pikachu and knocked him back.

"Okay Pikachu, just give him a thundershock!"

Pikachu got back up and used a thundershock on Lapras. Lapras was wobbling around for a few moments. Kenshin took his chance and turned his hat around on his head before tossing his Premier ball at Lapras. After a few seconds of the pokeball wiggling with a red light on it, it stopped with a "DING" sound. Kenshin picked up the premier ball, then turned back to Olivia.

"...I won."

[ShayShayTheShaymin]

Rosemary

Rosemary looked up at Fluffernut when he took the bag from her. "Thank you!", she said. She started jumping around and walked out the door with Meep and his pokemon. I'm going to have to learn my way around this place... just in case anything else happens, she thought. Oh well. She had plenty of time to do that. For now, she would just worry about getting the bag to Kayla. "Tomorrow when I see that Scyther, I'm giving him a piece of my mind!",she muttered, hoping that no one heard her. I can't wait to eat some of that candy with Kayla..., she thought.

[Meeptasm]

Meep (Academy Path > Entei Dorm Buidling)

Meep and his Pokemon have been on the path for quite some time now while acting as the Skitty's chauffeur. About 4 minutes after leaving the Suicune Dorms, Heart awoke from her nap and was now resting on top of Meep's head. FoxFire was still leading the group, her nine tails tipped with the blue flames of her Will-O-Wisp. Fluffernut was being his usual energetic self, hopping onto the individual stones in the path while trying not to step on the cracks, and it seemed that the Skitty was trying to mimic him, skipping along in the same fashion. Meep knew that they were heading in the right direction, but he had no idea how much farther they had to travel. It wasn't long, though, before his question was answered as the Entei Dorm building came into view through the darkness. He wasn't sure if he was breaking any rules, but he and the rest of the group came up to the front and walked through the entrance.

"Alright, Skitty. Looks like we made it," Meep said. "If you could go get your trainer, we'll wait here in the lobby and watch over your things."

[Fuyu]

Skye

The male frowned, events whizzing by a bit too fast for him to grasp all at once. This girl Kayla was... kind of weird. But oh well, she was related to Holly so this must be all right, he supposed. He heard her Pokemon talk among themselves, which caused Rama to growl in sheer annoyance. Skye hissed at his Pokemon coolly, causing the Zorua to glare. These stupid humans and their Pokemon were so loud and obnoxious... made his ears burn. He briefly considered Dark Pulsing the lot of them so they'd shut up.

He pondered it and actually almost began to charge the attack before deciding placidly against it. Skye would have to carry all of them and that would be even more of a pain. So the little fox simply turned to Kayla and scowled. "Girl, give me a good reason not to rip up your face. It's late and I'm starting to care less and less about prolonging your race as a whole."

"Rama," Skye muttered and the Pokemon shrugged. It was true. She was already annoying. The trainer hummed his placid disagreement and pulled out a Pokeball. "Eh-hellie, Psychic." The Espeon burst from the Pokeball with a placid mew, lifting girls and Pokemon alike into the air. "Whuh-hat's your room number?" he asked Holly simply, acting as though Kayla hadn't done anything odd. Or maybe he just didn't care. Who knew?

[Meganium90]

Danielle Accola
Oak Town Streets; Academy Grounds

Sector returned back to Danielle after she ordered him to look for a Pokemon Center nearby. Luckily, Sector was flashing his wings, indicating that there was indeed a Pokemon Center nearby. Mienfoo, Ozzy and Danielle spotted him flying towards them excitedly.

“Good! Sector found one nearby. Now we don’t have to go across the Academy to find one.” Danielle said.

“Mienfoo!!!” Mienfoo exclaimed happily.

As they turned to the left, the Pokemon Center was about several feet down, and it was still open with lights on. Danielle was satisfied that the Center was open 24 hours. Being out this late, she would have to wait till tomorrow to get her Pokemon healed, including the injured Swifty. “Swifty’s gonna love it when he’s healed. Let’s go, guys!” Danielle exclaimed and walked towards the Pokemon Center. Mienfoo, Ozzy, and Sector followed.

A couple hours later…

Sector was the first to come out of the Pokemon Center, turning on his wings for Flash. Danielle came out then, but without Mienfoo and Ozzy. Both of them decided to stay inside their Pokeballs as they were healed. Sector, to Danielle, seems to be quite active, especially at nighttime…or maybe he could be excited on the Flash.

“I have another TM I’d like to teach you, Sector.” Danielle said while walking, “But I wanted to wait till later. Mark told me he’s willing to lend me a few TMs so we can practice our battling skills. I’m primarily going to focus more on your moveset.”

“Yaaaaaaaaanma!” Sector said happily.

As they entered the Academy at this late night, it was more deserted than when she came out of it earlier to shop. The only people Danielle saw was her Grass/Bug type teacher, Megan Sandoval. She was with an Enteier, coming out from the Academy Main Office. Danielle smiled, thinking that Megan is helping out the student. As Megan glanced at Danielle out of random, Danielle waved at her. “Haaaaaaaaay!”

Megan Sandoval
Academy Main Office; Grounds

To Megan, Jake seemed like a very interesting student. Very. He lived on his own, homeless and by himself. Many, many questions came to her mind about him, and she is willing to ask him why he ended up homeless, as well as how he lost his parents. Though that last question is pretty sensitive, but she was very curious. As the Secretary typed in Jake’s information, such as his missing address. She responded with a “thank you”. Megan smiled and retrieved the class schedule paper. “Come, Jake. Follow me.” Leah and Bree followed Jake and Megan outside the office. It was cooler than the last time they were outside.

“Okay, Jake. Next we’re heading towards the Entei Dorm. Do you have any questions at this moment?” Megan asked nicely at the boy. She walked across the courtyard, where there were lots of plants and trees, as well as two trainers battling next to the cafeteria building. The cafeteria building, however, has its doors shut.

The school was more deserted now than it was earlier. She spotted someone familiar from earlier today. It was none other than Danielle, what made her notice was a Yanma with its wings flashing. She also recognized the fact that Mienfoo and Ozzy the Pachirisu weren’t with her. She was usually with Mienfoo and/or Ozzy. Danielle waved at Megan, and she waved back.

“Oh, look! One of my students!”