The Pok?mon Academy

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Nat opened up her bag and pulled out a 1st aid kit. With Ruby's help, Nat examined Agile. She had a temp of 105, a bit above the usual Pikachu. She took out a voltage meter and examined Agile's power levels. They were normal. After a bit of poking and proding the sickly Pikachu, Nat rose to Skye's level.

"It's the flu alright," she said. "Lucky you caught it early, or this could have been serious." She rummaged about in her kit again and pulled out a bottle of shimery green liquid. "Give this to Aglie tonight and tomorrow morning," she instructed. "Aglie should be back to normal by tomorrow evening."

Nat then turned to Ruby. "Thank you, Chancey!" she kidded. This was a standing joke between the two. Although today, Nat didn't even smile about it.
 
Meanwhile, Dex was moving into his room, it didnt take him long with his Abra, Merlin's help, he had psychicly applied the black paint, and put up the quite evil looking posters depicting pokemon in very serious battles, the bed had been removed in place of a meditation area in the corner, the lights dimmers were on very low, and the windows were closed, the blinds closed and the curtains drawn, eery music played out of the cd-player on the cabinet in the opposite corner, Dex looked up to his loyal and long-lived pokemon and nodded.

"Its perfect in my opinion.." he said calmly

the words seemed to form in Dex's head as his Abra answered back in his mind

"yes...ive heard that the colour black goes with everything..."

"Its about time I explored the area, and met the nuisances that my room is now next to, you may stay here and meditate if you wish.

the abra just nodded slowly and sat on the smaller cushion in the meditation corner as Dex left out of the newly black-painted door, he had only gone a couple rooms down when he spotted a few trainers looking over a sick pikachu, interested, he entered slowly.

"Is there some sort of problem here with the pokemon?..." he said slowly.
 
Nat shot upright. She thought she had closed the door behind her. "No," she said briskly. "Everything is fine here."

The look of this new guy creeped Nat out a bit, and it brought memories of Tim up to the surface. She fought to stuff them back inside her mind. She couldn't help trace her scar yet again.

Sparks exploded fron Ruby's cheeks. Nat knew her Raichu was not fond of strangers and was being extra protective, considering the state Nat was in.
 
Dex looked at the pikachu, noticing its condition, and then took a quick clance at the Raichu in an aggressive stance, he then looked up at Nat

"If this Raichu is yours, I suggest you train it to be more accepting of people.." he said seriously and then walked over to the pikachu.

"Unusual, Id say flu, not very good for a pikachu, and it seems quite severe, is there anyone in this academy trained for this kind of situation?" he said while looking around the room.
 
"I've taken care of it," Nat said, heat rising in her cheeks. She cuffed a strand of curly black hair behind her ears and said hotly, "And you shouldn't be saying anything about Ruby and I. As you have no idea what we've been through!"

She walked over to Agile and carefully picked it up, administering the mediacation herself. She then handed the weak Pokemon to Skye. She glared at the newcomer, her green eyes blazed. Ruby stopped the sparks, but still looked on him with menace.
 
Dex tipped his hat brim down over his masked face and started to walk slowly out of the room.

"Whatever youve been through, it is no excuse to have your pokemon behaving like some wild animal, but as long as it doesnt distract me from becoming stronger, then I have no problem with it...good day" with this he walked out the door and down the hall way to look around the rest of his new surroundings.
 
Wild Animal!? Nat thought. I'll show him a wild animal! How dare he insult Ruby like that!

Ruby looked hurt at the put down, and Nat rushed to comfort it. "There there, love." she crooned. "He doesn't know, he doesn't understand. How could that ingrate know about Mom and Dad, Ali, or Tim. How could he know how we've been hurt?" She continued like this for awhile, and it seemed that she was comforting herself as much as Ruby. She sighed.
 
Skye walked over to Nat, Agile in her arms securely. She put a hand on Nat's shoulder reassuringly.

"Don't let him get to you," she told her softly. "He doesn't know what he is talking about. And thank you so much for taking care of Agile."

She smiled. Agile spoke a soft "chu," in thanks, and Skye put her on the bed gingerly. She sat down on the floor beside Nat at Ruby, leaving Agile to sleep. Now or never was the best time to ask. Skye would do anything to pull Nat and Ruby from their state of unhappiness. They had been through so much together all ready.

"Hey, Nat..." she began slowly. "I'm sorry for being so...so blunt with you...but that scar under your chin. How...?"

She bit her lower lip. She was never very good at asking questions she was not comfortable asking, but hopefully, she could help resolve the unhappiness in Nat's heart.
 
Nat sighed. This wasn't going to be easy. She looked down at Ruby, and then started her tale.

"It was about a year ago, now," she started. "I met a guy, Tim, and he seemed like the most perfect guy I'd ever met. He bought me flowers for no reason and was always ready to listen to me. I was head over heels for him.

"Well, he wasn't as wonderful as I thought he was. He got in a jealous rage one night. Not over another guy or anything, but over Ruby. He thought I spent too much time with her.

"Needless to say, we got into an argument. I found him beating Ruby the next day. It was the most aweful thing I'd ever seen. He was crouched over her bleeding form. I could hear Ruby wimper. She was hurt badly, and I knew it.

"Then, he turned on me. His eyes blazed with an inner fire I'd never seen before. He pulled a knife out of his coat and began to threaten me. He cursed me and Ruby, then slashed me. Right under my chin."

She finished her tale, and bent down to Ruby. She clutched the Raichu to her and sobbed. The memories were aweful. She hardly remembered her own pain. It was all about saving Ruby.

"For awhile, we thought we'd lost my Ruby. I was so scared-" she broke off, unable to say any more.
 
Skye moved closer to Nat and put her hand on her quivering shoulder. Everything began to connect...why she was so heartbroken over Ali, her distant-ness today. It all made sense. Skye felt awful for making her cry, but she was glad to know the problem, and maybe help to fix it.

"Gosh, that's terrible," she said softly, looking at Ruby sadly. "I'm so sorry that happened to you. It should never happen to anyone..."

She trailed off and decided that silence was perhaps the best form of support. She got up off the floor, and went into her desk drawer, pulling out a bar of chocolate. She handed it to Nat.

"Here," she said gently, trying to smile, to brighten the mood a little. "Chocolate always helps me when I'm upset."
 
Nat managed to smile through her tears. She was so lucky to have Skye as a friend. To be honest with herself, she knew she wouldn't have been able to make it through the year without her.

"Thanks Skye," she said, taking the chocolate. "I'm sorry. I was over it, I really was. That is untill this whole Ali thing came about. It just brought back so many painful memories...." she sobbed again.

"This is stupid!" she said suddenly. "I shouldn't be brooding like this. I'm only dragging you and all the others down...."
 
"Everyone has down time," Skye assured her. "And it's okay. I don't mind. Just like how we helped each other through before, I can help you through this now. As best I can."

She patted Nat gently on the back, looking at Ruby softly. Deep down, Skye had a feeling that she and Nat would be friends for a very long time. She could picture them thirty years down the road, sitting on her front porch, drinking tea and talking about old memories at the Academy. Agile and Ruby would be talking non-stop...

Smiling at the memory, Skye got to her feet, and checked on Agile. Her fever had gone down a little, and Skye considered being absent for the rest of her classes that day, but Agile told her not to. With a quick hug for Agile, Skye returned to Nat, carrying her books for her next class.

"Did the chocolate help?" she asked grinning.
 
Dex walked down the hallways towards his first class, he looked as emotionless as ever, and on either sides of the corridors, people he passed had a tendency to back away or pretend not to look at him. He was paying them no attention, the classroom was his destination, and he wasnt going to be distracted, he rounded the corner and found the door where the others were waiting for the same class's door to open, he went to one side of the door, the opposite side of the way it opens, and leaned against the wall, arms-folded, some of the crowd started to back away, turn around to their groups or just plain look worried, he closed his eyes and awaited the start of the class.

"these peons had better not ruin my learning to become a strong trainer" he thought inside his head to himself.
 
"Yes," Nat said, chomping down the last of the chocolate. She reached over to her bag and pulled out a small silver box. Opening it, she revealed many colored Pokeblocks. She picked out a pink one and gave it to Agile, and then a purple one went down Ruby's never ending pit of a stomach.

"Wanna walk to class together?" Nat asked Skye as she rose from the ground. "I've got Mythology next, and then Art. What do you have?"

The thought of art made Nat's stomach churn. She only had the sketch of Ruby made, and that wouldn't be good enough for Professor Daisy. It was an okay sketch, but her emotional state clouded her artistic ability. She sighed and decided one bad grade wasn't going to make or break her grade.

Turning back to Skye, she awaited her answer, hoping she would accept. For some reason, she had trusted Skye enough with this secret. She hadn't told anyone about Tim before. Not even her parents knew....
 
OOC: Ummm....I havn't been here in while, can anyone tell me what is going on?
I am too lazy to read the whole thing!!!!
 
"I have physics next," Skye replied, a little disappointed that they didn't have the same class. "Maybe I will see you after? I have capturing sims, then fitness and then literature. If not, I'm sure I'll see you at dinner."

Skye was glad to see Nat was feeling a little better. Ruby seemed to cheer up a little too. Shouldering her book bag, Skye headed towards the door, waiting for Nat to follow.

"I'll see you later," she told Nat, locking her door carefully. "Cheer up, okay? What happened in the past is over, and it won't happen to you again if I have anything to say about it!"

She smiled at Nat reassuringly.
 
Nat smiled, glad for the reassurance. She and Ruby headed down the opposite hall and went into the Mythology classroom.

Professor Chan was pleased with her essay. He rated it and "A" and read it to the class. With her cheeks much redder than when she had entered, she left for Art.

As expected, Professor Daisy was quite dissapointed in the sketch of Ruby. She rated it a "C", the lowest grade Nat had ever earned. Her cheeks now burned even more as she went to Capturing Simulations.

This class went quite well. She managed to sucessfully capture a Zigzagoon simulation without depleating Ruby's power levels. She was making progress.

Her last class, fitness, went surprisingly well. They did a series of trust exercises with partners and even meditated a bit. The teacher informed them that spiritual fitness is just as important as physical fitness. This was certainly a nice change.

Realizing she had awhile before dinner, Nat raced to her room. She dove under her bed and pulled out a red colored box. She then raced back outside.

She paused on a grassy hill and opened the worn box. Inside were her prized posessions. She pulled them out and unwound the soft pink laces. She inserted her feet into them carefully and twisted the lace up her bare leg. She stood and tested herself quickly. The cold cement bit into her toes, but she didn't care.

She rose up onto pointe and did a couple of Borets. She then let it all go. She leapt and spun. She bent and rose. She danced away all her anger and sadness. She danced with more feeling than she ever had before. It felt so right and good that she almost missed dinner. She was torn away from her trance by a whine from Ruby.

The pair raced into the Hall and ordered a chicken basket. She sat at the usual table and then undid her shoes.
 
Skye's classes also went well that afternoon. Physics involved some rather in-depth thinking that left her in the dust, but she got the hang of it eventually. Calculating the strength of an attack after a rebound or two was not an easy task. Skye had elected to take the class to just get it out of the way. She was never very good at anything math related.

Capturing simulations was actually kind of boring. With Agile resting up, Skye had to work with a virtual team, and since they were computer programmed, she didn't know much about them when she started to work with them. She only succeeded in capturing a Sentret and a Caterpie, which the teacher complimented her on, considering her situation. Skye felt unaccomplished despite it.

Skye was excused from fitness because Agile was not with her, and they were working on trust exercises with their Pokemon. Skye returned to the room she shared with Anna, and checked on Agile. Her temperature was nearly back to normal, and she had enough energy to eat something, which made them both feel better.

"Hang in there, Ag," Skye assured her gently, giving her a loving pat before heading to Literature.

In Literature, they were working on analyzing a piece by a poet. The poem involved a telling of a creation story, which Skye found really interesting. They read the poem aloud, and were asked to write an interpertaion on it based on the class discussion. Skye did not participate in the discussion, but she took some good notes.

Finally, it was time to go to dinner. Skye went up to her room, stomach rumbling, and found Agile good as new. The little Pikachu hopped off Skye's bed and into her arms, squealing with happiness.

"I missed you too!" Skye exclaimed, feeling a wave of happiness wash over her at the sight of Agile. "I'm glad you are feeling better! Let's go to dinner!"

With Agile on her shoulder, she walked down to the cafeteria, and ordered a BLT wrap as well as her usual cup of tea. She sat down with Nat just as she was removing her dancing shoes. Agile was already conversing with Ruby, making up for lost time.

"I didn't know you danced," Skye said, pointing to Nat's shoes.
 
Ali's last 2 classes, Fitness and Travel, were both fairly bland. The Fitness class was working on trust exercises, and for Princess and Ali, that was kind of a joke, considering they had already been with each other for a year… But when he thought this, the fact that Princess was still a Pichu began to worry him… He hadn't realized it until then, but Pichus evolve from happiness-if it still hadn't evolved after a year, what could he be doing wrong?… Trying to ignore it, he continued to Travel, which revolved around reading maps, and calculating the distance between one destination and another, using the scale and the legend of the map. After proceeding to dinner with Princess by his side… momentarily, until she ran up to the table that Nat and Skye had been sitting at, Ali took a seat at the table, ordering a simple dinner of chicken wings, and fries. He took a look at Nat's shoes before he was able to ask how the girls' days were.

"I didn't know you danced…" He told her, somewhat impressed, not often finding someone who attempted to do such a thing. The only other person he knew who danced at all was his sister, Julia.

"Y'know… Rustboro Academy has a performing arts program. My younger sister is actually going there, too…" He told her, hoping he didn't sound as if Nat was unwanted. Princess jumped off the table, and attempted to converse with Agile and Ruby. Feeling like the "baby", she had never had a very deep conversation with them, and was hoping to. Ali looked down at her, glad that she was finally becoming sociable, then glanced back across the table to Nat, waiting for a reply.
 
Dex's class went as well as could be expected, he sat down, and immediately after doing so the 2 people either side of him shuffled a little out of his way, he looked down upon a sheet of paper that was covered in questions.

"Alright class, this is a quick test to make sure you know all there is to know about pokemon, you have one hour, and begin." the teacher said happily, and everyone began.

After staring at the questions for a few seconds, Dex began to answer them very quickly, within 15 minutes he was walking to the teacher with the paper in his hands, and placed it on the desk.

"oh...you cant possibly have completed it this quickly...your the new student..umm.." the teacher began

"Dex..." he said quietly "and the questions were simplistic at best... I had no trouble"

"wait a minute, what have you written down below the test, it looks like....10 more questions?!"

"Yes, your questions were easy and dull, I believed I'd challenge myself greater if I made up some extra questions afterwards and answered them..."

after 20 minutes of looking over the sheet, the teacher could only sit there looking almost stunned.

"there...there all correct...even the ones that you asked yourself! ...100%! Ive never seen anyone get a perfect score!"

"with my extra questions it should be somewhere in the region of 105% but that does not matter, call me back to class when something challenging occurs." Dex said seriously and walked out of the class room towards the cafeteria and sat alone at a table, alone that is, until is Abra, Merlin suddenly teleported onto the table.

"lets eat...the classes here are even less challenging than I 1st summised, there is no risk in resting up..."

He looked over a few tables to there Nat, Skye and Ali were all talking.

"one of them is someone Ive yet to meet, but the other 2 are the one who's Pikachu was sick, and the one with the Wild Raichu...I have no intention of wasting my time introducing myself to amateurs." he said to himself.
 
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