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

(OOC: lol, those ghosts are so silly. :3)

Leena floated along behind Snype as he talked to Skye's pokemon. She wasn't sure what to do about that. She was one of the ones that had attacked him. True, she had tried to make it better by helping get him back. And then by getting some of the nicer ghosts to bring him here. But did that make up for what she had done? She put the thought out of her mind. She was going to go scare someone really important! And the whole school as well!
"Yeah, I was a human! I... Um, I can't remember it too well. Just that I died a really long time ago. I was still a little kid, and I was living in the Lugia Dorm before it was abandoned. Now, I still live there, I think. Some of the others may not like me anymore after what I've done today," Leena said. She smiled and spun so that she was upside down as she floated in front of Snype. This was going to be so awesome! She never would have dreamed she could play with everyone! That was too much! She burst out laughing in anticipation.

Thyme watched them go and shook her head. She still thought they were idiots. She looked over at Drizzle, who was still asleep. He must have been through a lot today. Frost had fallen asleep while sitting on the chair with Drizzle. He looked very odd all sprawled out on the chair. Nova was still sleeping as well. The dumb mutt was growling at something in his dream.
"So... Those guys are idiots," Thyme said quietly. She was bored. Bored enough to talk to the only one that hadn't fallen asleep, Duster.

((OOC: Yeah XD They're cute together :p))

Snype watched Misdreavus spin around in excitement until she was upside down in front of him. He chuckled and leaned his head forward to her. "Kehe... I take your having quite alot of Fun being a Pokemon huh? You sure got a history for Pranks too. Oh! Tell me some of your older work! I wanna know just what kind of Prankster I'm working with here!" Snype said, smiling and poking Misdreavus lightly where her nose would be.

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[FONT=&quot]"You guys are naturals!" said Selene brightly as she held up her hand, indicating for her Pokemon to stop their practice, deciding that it was time to move on. She glanced over at Valorie, inwardly wondering if she should ask for a battle - Valorie's pokemon versus her own - but she kind of wanted to train them all on a one-to-one basis a little more before she took on Valorie's team. After all, Dragonair and the others were formidable foes, and if Cat or Gordon tried taking them on, realistically Sel knew that they would lose.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"So now I think it's time to put these moves to practical use hey? Ryan and Ri, Blu and Gordon, Sharpay and Cat I want you to battle each other, and I want to see these moves being used okay? However you want to - I'm leaving you to battle independently here, see how you feel most comfortable moving, and then we can work on it together." she instructed, watching as her Pokemon moved to face each other, Ryan and Ri getting well into the zone and glaring at each other. She'd attempted to avoid type advantages coming into play as much as possible - especially by putting Ri and Ryan, the two who performed the Capoeira the best, together.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Standing by the de facto battlefield, Selene watched as Ryan flew at Ri in what she recognised was his Volt Tackle, smiling impressedly as Ri dodged the Tackle smoothly with an Au Confusado - launching into the air with his legs bent up before landing lightly, turning to face Ryan who had pulled himself up when his Volt Tackle didn't hit. "Remember your Capoeira moves Ryan!" yelled Selene, and Ryan nodded, this time he crouched down, rolling forwards into an Au Chibata, a low twist kick aimed at Ri with electricity crackling along his leg. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]They were both moving so quickly the whole battle seemed to be a blur to Selene, as Ri evaded the kick with a Negativa Angola, sweeping his foot out and taking out Ryan's balancing arm, the Pikachu landing flat on his back on the floor. With a Brick Break hitting him straight in the head, Pikachu closed his eyes and held up his hands in defeat - Ri, perhaps as a Fighting Type himself, just couldn't be surpassed in his accuracy and agility with these moves...[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Turning her attention to Blu and Gordon, Selene smiled as she watched Blu perform an impressive set of acrobatics in the air, rolling away from Gordon's Incinerate with a Xango back spring, his wings swiftly changing direction as he pulled himself up to face Gordon before shooting an Ice Beam at the Fire Monkey's head that looked sure to hit. But, perhaps having taken inspiration from Ri, Gordon leapt up into an Au Confusado and avoided the Ice Beam, taking advantage of his aerial position to swing a Fire Punch at Blu, whose swift flight in his natural environment largely avoided the attack, with only a slight burn on his back leg where Gordon clipped him. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Landing back on the ground, Gordon fired another Incinerate at Blu, who flew upwards before spiralling down towards Gordon firing an Ice Beam in front of him. Watching as the two attacks raged for dominance, eventually Blu swung himself around and slammed into Gordon from behind, the Fire Chimp not able to match Blu's in-the-air agility. Falling to the floor, Gordon admitted defeat with a disgruntled shake of his head, and Selene decided that Gordon's agility would be the next area to work on.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Cat and Sharpay were also in the middle of a particularly interesting battle - Cat's telekinesis was making it difficult for Sharpay to get any hits in, but Sharpay was performing wonderfully well with her Capoeira moves, although Selene could sense some kind of discomfort eminating from her, probably from her wing and chest muscles. Yes she was being worked hard, but it would be worth it in the end with all these offensive and evasive moves added to her arsenal. As Sharpay fired her Octazooka attack at Cat, yet again Cat's Barrier held it back, but there was a gap between the deflection of the attack where the barrier fell and Cat was unprotected. It was just a case of, for Cat, minimising that gap and strengthening the Barrier as it seemed to be decreasing in it's power as it deflected more and more attacks, and for Sharpay it was down to recognising and exploiting that gap in protection.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]As yet again her Aurora Beam was deflected, Sharpay growled and fired her Octazooka directly after it, looking taken aback as it hit Cat square in the face, sending her flying backwards through the air, stopping herself abruptly and glaring at Sharpay before retaliating with her Psybeam attack that hit Sharpay in the face and making her clench her eyes tightly together as she flew backwards, holding her wings out abruptly to stop herself, suddenly shooting both an Octazooka and an Aurora beam directly at Cat, who erected her barrier just that bit too late and was thrown to the floor, surrounded by thick black, frozen ink. Selene clapped, calling all her Pokemon to a halt.
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[FONT=&quot]"Excellent! Really excellent guys!" she paused, thinking of what to do next. Glancing over at Valorie, she noticed that she looked cold...well duh, she was only wearing a mini skirt! Mentally face-palming, Selene grinned sheepishly and gestured to the Academy. "Umm...if you want to get some warmer clothes I can keep an eye on your Pokemon for you, if you would like?" she offered, realising that it just couldn't be comfortable for Valorie...[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Sniffing with irritation, Brogan watched as Calnith's Pokemon retreated with a raised eyebrow, her nose somewhat wrinkled in disgust before her eyes flicked back up to Calnith, annoyed at how he had decided to join herself, Jack and Mackenzie...Mackenzie was an unexpected addition to the two of them as it was, and now this guy? Really? That just seemed as though fate were conspiring against Brogan...sniffing, Brogan turned her back to Calnith and watched as Jack made his way deeper into the cave, Calnith following after flashing them a smile that she wanted to punch him in the face for...oh brilliant.
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[FONT=&quot]"We'd better get after them if we're going to get any decent training done I suppose," Brogan almost growled to Mackenzie, setting off after them with her chin raised, walking somewhat stiffly until she caught up with Jack, striding right past Calnith in ignorance as she did so. She glanced over at Jack, not quite sure what to say, before deciding on the one topic she knew they had common ground over for certain.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]"Is there any way we can ambush him further in here?" she muttered under her breath, her eyes flicking backwards to indicate that she was talking about Calnith. He was definitely one of the people in her line of fire in this place...bringing her Xtransciever up she tapped a message to Alex, irritation at his tardiness rising up inside her as she did so - perhaps he just had a lot of information to wade through, but even so, this was unacceptable of him to make her wait this long.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]"Alex," began the message, "check out a Calnith Sol NeverWind for me, begin now and suspend all other investigations. Make sure you dig up /everything/ that could be dug up on him, leave no link unexplored. And don't leave me waiting much longer, or else Father will be hearing about this and further information will be taken."[/FONT]

Leena laughed and spun around.
"Snype, since you're my new partner, I'll let you in on the joke. I never was a human. I got you, and all the rest of them! Hehehe! I'm so clever! I was born a long time ago, and I've lived in the Lugia dorm since before the humans abadoned it. I... I think that's how I learned to talk like a human. But... I never was one. And the name Leena? I heard it through the thing that they use to talk to the whole school! That's how I knew about it! And Leena is such a pretty name. But the others, I think it will be funny! Them not knowing!" Leena said with delight. That had been the best idea she'd ever had! She whirled around gleefully as she watched Snype's startled expression.

"Most of my pranks and tricks have been very small. Like I took some boy's clothing and hid it in someone elses room. Or scaring people by floating out of the walls at them! Silly stuff like that! But I'll let you in on something big. I was one of the ones that made the humans leave the Lugia dorm. Over the years, ghosts and other wild pokemon like me started to gather around the dorm. We wanted to have some fun one day, so a lot of us went in and scared everyone. At least, I think that's what the others did. That's all I did," Leena said. She had made up her mind that she was going to be called Leena, even after the others found out she was playing a trick on them. But she wandered around as she followed Snype.
"Hey, weren't you going to tell someone named Mark what we are going to do?" Leena reminded him.

Snype's mouth opened wide. To think he would have fallen for that. Of course, it could have been true, what with being in a haunted dorm and such. She was clever... at least he knew just who he was working with. "Heh, Well, you sure got me there. And you are right about one thing. Leena is a pretty name. I won't tell the other's don't worry." Snype said with a smile.

This girl was a pro. As they walked into the main room, Snype noticed Mark was walking in. "Hide for a sec." Snype said as he pulled Misdreavus behind one of the couches. He peeked out to see Mark wandering around the Lobby. He let off a mischievous smirk. "I was going to tell Mark what we were going to do... but first... how about a warm up before we start with the big stuff? Kehehe..." Snype asked.

Jack smirked when he heard Brogans plan She just a little trouble maker isn't she Jack joked in his head as they continued walking deeper and deeper into the cave. " If we do were gonna have to be very careful" Jack whispered back to Brogan. Why was he going along with this he knew that a guy like Calnith wouldn't take a prank very lightly, he would get upset and probably fight back. Maybe that was the reason he was going to do it, an excuse to fight Calnith again.

Jack gripped Brogans hand and began walking faster and deeper into the cave trying to create some distance between them and Calnith, Blade and Blaze staying with Mackenzie making sure Calnith didn't do anything. When far enough Jack hid behind a rock with Brogan "So whats the plan madam?" Jack asked as he readied himself for anything she was planning.

Leena was a little surprised when Snype grabbed her and hid her behind a couch. She giggled and floated into the floor, hiding herself completely.
"What did you have in mind Snype?" she whispered happily.

Duster paced around boredly. Thyme and her had been talking about nothing but those two ghosts and their stupid pranks. Duster wanted to talk about something else now.
"Say, Thyme. How did you get your name?" Dusre asked suddenly. Thyme froze. She looked at Duster oddly before speaking.
"If you must know, my old trainer before I met Brian named me. He... He loved herbs, and he said that I smelled like thyme. So that was how I got my name," Thyme said with a shrug. Logan was an odd one. But she didn't want to think about him. There were too many painful memories. They far outweighed the few good ones she had of him. She looked at Duster oddly, who had started sniffing her.
"What are you doing?" Thyme asked.
"Hey! You do smell like thyme!" Duster said. Thyme rolled her eyes.
"And how would you know? Have you ever smelled thyme before?" she asked. Duster nodded.
"Yeah! The night that Bri caught me, after you guys went to sleep, I went out into the kitchen to find a snack. I opened the spice cabnet and pulled out a bottle. It had stuff in it that smells just like you do!" Duster said. Thyme shook her head and began laughing. This was just to crazy.
"Well, I don't care what my scent is! It's not like people go around sniffing me!" Thyme said. Duster laughed and walked around on the bed. Thyme simply relaxed in Brian's arms as he slept.

Mark sat down on the couch that Snype and Misdreavus had been hiding behind, oblivious of what they were plotting. He was exsausted with all of the running. Saving a Pichu from hungry Meowth... helping both Bri and Skye from new death, Another harsh day. Why couldn't he have one peaceful day? Mark sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

Snype gave off a large smile. This was perfect. Mark didn't look like the kind of person who could be scared easily but given the right timing, He could give off quite a reaction. Snype climbed up the back of the couch and poked Mark's shoulder. Snype quickly crawled underneath the couch since there was enough room for him to crawl under it. That and he was a fairly flexible pokemon. He pulled Misdreavus with him as she would fade through it as well.

"Kehehe... the stage is set. While he's busy wondering what just got him, Fade through his chest halfway as if your coming out of him. He'll look down and freak out seeing a Pokemon in him. Anything ya wanna add?" Snype said trying to hold in his laughter.

Selene
"Okay...I'm going to work with Gordon now," said Selene brightly, glancing at Gordon who looked oh-so-thrilled by this that the enthusiasm dampened her spirits instantly - surely he didn't /still/ dislike her for catching him?! She thought he would have gotten over that by now...oh well, perhaps a one on one training session with her would help them develop a closer bond...inwardly she hoped he would actually listen to her while they trained. If not, that could be seriously counter-productive..."so the rest of you...Blu, I want you to work on your flight acrobatics, Ryan I want you to work on your Agility, Ca-" she stopped abruptly as she was aware of a Frillish/Charmeleon showdown next to her.

Looking across, she now noticed that some sort of riot had ensued amongst Valorie's Pokemon - oh for Pete's sake, now Dragonair was involving herself too?! - and her eyes widened, her facial expression that of someone who had just been flashed by an 80 year old man. Hesitating slightly, Selene decided that with Valorie gone - having, of course, promised to keep an eye on her Pokemon whilst she left - the only course of action she could take was a direct one...ultimately she'd be hurting them less than they'd hurt themseves right?

"Blu, Cat, Ryan come with me!" instructed Selene, rushing towards Valorie's Pokemon with only half a plan in her mind. "Ryan, use your Thunder Wave! Blu, Cat, erect Safeguard and Barrier between them all, keep them from harming each other!" Her Pokemon leapt forward, carrying out said instructions.

It was easy enough for Ryan, who simply blitzed the whole mass of flailing limbs with his Thunder Wave. It was more difficult for Cat and Blu, who proceeded to throw themselves into the middle of the battle and erected their Safeguard and Barrier moves, separating all four Pokemon with ease.

"Hey! What were you doing?!" demanded Selene, as she surveyed Valorie's Pokemon with her hands on her hips, an angry expression on her face. "Do you think that's how Valorie would want you too behave the moment she wasn't around?!" She sighed and shook her head - Pokemon...- and inwardly prayed for Valorie's imminent return.

Brogan
Biting her lip to keep a giggle from bursting forth, Brogan's wicked smirk was replaced by a brief flash of surprise as Jack grabbed her hand and pulled them both behind a rock, hiding them from view of Mackenzie and Calnith. As Jack asked her, ever so politey that she couldn't help but feel she was being made a figure of fun, she paused and thought for a moment.

"Mackenzie's Pokemon are going to put all the other Pokemon in the cave to sleep...so, we need to get Calnith isolated within range somehow..." she nodded eagerly as a sudden flash of inspiration hit her, gripping Jack's hand tightly in her excitement - oh how she loved this. She was in her element here..."So, we need to...ah, perfect!" she exclaimed, looking around and noticing the path branched off just after the rock they were hidden behind...the rock itself was actually part of a wall! Too ideal..."We run down there a little, then we rough ourselves up a bit you know, muss up our hair, perhaps a bit of...dirt.." she trailed off, her nose wrinkling slightly...it was all for the greater good, greater good..."we get our Pokemon to make some loud noises and throw a few attacks around. Then we run back to Calnith and Mackenzie and say that we ran into a scarily powerful Pokemon down here that we couldn't defeat, it knocked out my Pokemon and roughed up yours. Then I will take advantage of my feminine charms and explain to Calnith that," she batted her eyelashes and put on a simpering, honey-sweet voice, "we need someone rweally stwong to fight that Pokemon and how I just KNOW he can do it!" She laughed to herself and looked away, smirk firmly in place.

"There's no way he wouldn't fall for it. Especially seeing as a. Mackenzie and myself are here and b. it will be further humiliation for you, then when he's ran down there, we get Mackenzie's Jigglypuff to sing away...Calnith and his Pokemon will be well in range, they'll be knocked out and we'll just leave." she folded her arms, looking ever so slightly impressed with herself, waiting for Jack's response.

Leena grinned but said nothing. She floated up into the back of the couch. She wordlessly used Psywave, but it was so weak the most it would do is give Mark a strange feeling. She floated out, so that he could barely see her and back again. Just when she thought he thought he had been seeing things, she did it again. She cranked up the Psywave ever so slightly, to make him feel that feeling even stronger and she floated out, showing a bit more, still making sure she was unidentifiable.
"Woo... I'm gonna get ya," she said in a soft wail that only he could hear as she flew out of the couch and into full view, then dove into the floor laughing when he freaked out.
"That was fun!" she whispered when she returned to Snype.

"I'm just saying he has no imagination! I mean look at me! My name is Duster for crying out loud! He could put a little more thought into naming us than that!" Duster said. Thyme laughed.
"Why do you think he named you that? Do you remember what the first thing you did when you saw him? You started dusting off his shoe! What did you think was going to happen?" Thyme said, still laughing. Duster frowned.
"Be that is it may, I still say he doesn't think about what we should be called. Drizzle? That is a really weird name, even for a water type. And I can't help it if I have to keep everything clean! It's actually very hard to focus when things are dirty!" Duster said. Thyme shook her head.
"Well, what do you expect from him? He's only ten!" Thyme said. She was still shaking with laughter.

Mark looked around the room curiously as he began to get a weird feeling... as if something was watching him. He couldn't describe it... He grabbed onto his shoulder as he felt a cold chill go down his spine. He looked down and noticed something popping out from below him. "A...Ah!" Issac screamed as he jumped off the couch and looked down at him as Misdreavus popped out of the couch. In his shock he fell flat on the floor. Snype crawled out of the couch and jumped on top of Mark's back, Laughing histarically. "What the.... Snype? Oh you clever dog you!" Mark said happily.

"Hahaha! Nice going Leena!" Snype said givng Leena a proper thumbs up. Mark turned onto his back while Snype jumped off of him and sat side by side next to Leena. Mark smiled at the two. "I see you two have been getting along pretty well. Heheh. What have you two been up too?" Mark asked. Snype turned to Leena since she could speak in human language. Snype couldn't explain it to Mark.

Leena spun around happily. That had been perfect!
"Wee! We got you! Hehehe! We're gonna go prank the principal next!" Leena said in the human language. She rolled over in midair and started doing slow flips. She was very happy that had gone well. She loved scaring people! It was so much fun!
"Come on Snype! He knows now! Let's go!" she said happily, still whirling around like she was silly.

Snype let off a small laugh. "Kehehe... you sure are in a rush to get through with this eh?" Snype said with a large smile. "Can't say I blame ya! Let's go!" Mark shook his head, taking in what they just said.

"T...the principle? H...hey wait!" Mark said. Snype and Leena were already on their way out the door, leaving Mark in the dust. Even if Mark didn't want Snype to go off doing this stuff, He would have done it anyways. It's only a harmless prank. If anything, It'll be one way to get whoevers running the school to focus his attention on all the things that have been happening. He slumped back onto the couch, half passed out.

Snype ran alongside Leena happily as he looked around the near lit up buildings. "Erm... there may be a problem with out plan... I don't exactly know where the Principle's office is at... heh..." Snype said with a nervous blush on his face. "W...well, We could always look for a map or something. There's gotta be a bulletin or something nearby with directions." Snype looked around and it turned out he was right. A map of the whole campus was on a bulletin board. He gazed at the map trying to see where the office could possibly be.

While looking around the map he turned his head to Leena who had been spinning around happily. He let off a small smile and turned his head back to the map. "I think the offices should be right here. It's a fairly tall building. Tall enough to have a good view of the whole academy at least. Snype said, sitting down as he observed the map. The building was a ways north of them. It loomed over the rest of the academy so it was hard to miss.

He looked at Leena again. "So Leena? What do you think? How do ya like it out here? Told ya it wasn't so bad outside the dorm. Kehehe..." Snype said.

"Yeah! We need to find a map!" Leena said. Snype soon found one and walked over to check it out. Leena followed him and read it. Before she could tell him where it was he pointed right at it.
"Wow, Snype! I didn't know you could read too! And it's really nice out here! I'm glad, because I'm not sure I can go back. Those other nice ghosts weren't the only ones still there. And the rest of them won't like that I helped out a human. Oh well. Maybe that Brian boy could put me in one of those pokeballs! That way I could stay here all the time! It would be really fun too! He scares very easily, and making Thyme mad makes me laugh!" Leena said happily as she floated along behind Snype.

Snype gave off a small laugh and gave off his signature smile. "Kehe... Well... You could put it in a different way. You could say you helped me, a fellow ghost with his own problems. Of course, We ghosts gotta stick together so why not help eachother out every once in awhile eh? Kehehe. Even if it was helping humans, I kinda made the request. I bet the ghosts would have never done it if I didn't step in to speak my mind out." Snype said. "Ya know, I'd actually love to explore the abandoned dorm a bit more. Looks like a really cool place to hang out in at night! Must be ghost Paradise!" Snype turned to Leena, walking backwards while talking to her.

"I'm sure Bri wouldn't mind. He does scare pretty easily. Kehehe. Not that I've ever tried to do that. He's a close friend of Mark's after all." He continued walking backwards and eventually tripped and fell on his behind. "Oof!...Heh. Yeah. Thyme sure is a piece of work. More the meets the eye I'd say. She can be really nice if your patient with her."