The year passed by quickly, with only a day to go until she earned her Pokemon, Lucy had a feeling of nervousness rush through her, she felt as if she drank 5 energy drinks. For some reason she had a bad feeling about this upcoming year, she felt as if something bad would happen, but for once she brushed it off, as she had been wrong many times.
Staring at the ceiling, Lucy recalls her first year at this academy, she had avoided her teacher as best as she could, she knew that there was something off about them, there were also strange things that had happened. Like things catching fire by her teacher, Ms.Takanashi. She also got into a fight with that fat prick that sat near her on the first day of school, he had tried to force her work onto her. When she refused he tried to threaten her by saying he would hurt Collei.
Lucy had snapped and beat him to a bloody pulp, and ended up getting arrested but got out quickly because someone had paid the bail she had, but for some reason they didn't put it on her record. She never knew who bailed her out that day. The sad thing is that the snob didn't get expelled but for some reason the boy was on thin ice, apparently he did something bad.
Looking over, Lucy sees that Collei is asleep with her blanket at her waist. She lets out a sigh and get up, out of her bed, and heads over to Collei. Once she gets to Collei she pulls the blanket up to Collei's shoulder before she checks the time. It was 11:52 at night, yet Lucy was still awake. Lucy heads to the bathroom and opens the cabinet, grabbing out melatonin. She opened the bottle and grabbed two gummies, before plopping them in her mouth and chewing it.
Lucy heads back to bed but is stopped when she hears shuffling for Collei's bed, Lucy glanced over to Collei only to see her awake and staring at Lucy with concern. Lucy wonders how she woke Collei up, she was as quiet as a mouse. Collei gets up from her bed before walking over to Lucy, she stops in front of Lucy, looking her in the eyes.
Collei:" What are you doing awake? We have to wake up early tomorrow." Lucy lets out a sigh, Her and Collei got closer throughout the year here, to the point where Collei was comfortable with physical contact with Lucy. They only did physical contact when they're alone, Collei was not comfortable having physical contact in public, Lucy was also not comfortable with it.
"Well, I guess I am just anxious. I don't know what type of Pokemon I will have. I tried going to sleep but I just couldn't." Collei let out a hum before thinking about how to help Lucy, she could see right through Lucy's mask, she can somehow tell what emotions Lucy is feeling even when she has a neutral face. Lately she saw that Lucy was more tired than normal, and guessed that she was having trouble sleeping, and searched up ways that she could help. The answer she got was a bit embarrassing, Collei grabbed Lucy's arm and dragged her to her bed, before laying down on the bed. "How about you sleep beside me? I heard that sleeping next to someone helps with their anxiety." Lucy shrugged, it wasn't embarrassing to sleep beside your friend when you are tired.
Lucy climbed into Collei's bed and laid down next to her. She closes her eyes and not even a few seconds later Lucy falls asleep. Collei lets out a small chuckle before going to sleep as well, happy that she helped her friend. It was lucky that Collei got Lucy to sleep, because the next day was not going to go as the principal wanted.
It was also the day that Lucy wouldn't forget for a long time, a day that changes everything. The same goes for the other rangers in training, well at least those that actually passed. Sadly somehow some of the snobs passed, to the teachers and Lucy's anger. She was going to keep Collei safe from them, they seem to have it out for Lucy ever since she beat up the prick that threatened to hurt Collei.
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-Flashback-
"If I ever even see you go close to Collei then I will make sure that the hospital will put you back together after you mysteriously get ripped apart at your joints. Do I make myself clear? '' Lucy said as she glared down at the boy who just threatened to hurt Collei. The boy was bloody and had a broken nose, blood dripping down his face.
"Y-yes" The boy said, his voice showed that he was clearly in pain and was afraid of the girl in front of him. He had never been beaten by someone before, not even his parents. This was the first person to go against whatever he said, Lucy was the first but probably not the last. Boy does he not know what is coming for him in the future.
"Yes what?" This sent chills down the boy's spine, Lucy's voice was cold and full of anger. This girl was like the grimm reaper in human form. The boy did not want to anger this girl anymore then he already has, even though he was already planning revenge for what Lucy did.
"YES MA'AM!" Lucy huffed and walked away, unaware that a teacher had watched her beat the boy who was paying them to change all his grades to passing. The teacher had called the cops, exaggerating about how badly Lucy beat the boy. It seemed that the teacher didn't see that the cameras in the hallway captured this moment and the moments when he was bribed by his student.
A few hours later, Lucy had gotten arrested and was going to face trial, but someone had paid her bail and all charges were dropped. She tried to find out who paid it, but never got far. There was just not enough evidence.
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Daytime came quickly and now both girls are sitting crisscrossed in a field with almost all of the teachers with pokemon eggs in incubators, Lucy took a deep breath, she was feeling a bit better then she was earlier. She glanced at Collei, the green haired girl was tapping her knee nervously. Turning her attention back to the principal, Lucy sees a little girl with white hair and blue eyes, but don't be fooled, she is older than she looks. Her name is Theresa Apocalypse, a powerful pokemon trainer.
Theresa glanced at all the students, some with hidden disgust (The ones who bribed some of the teachers, but didn't get caught due to there being no evidence.), her eyes landed on Lucy (She knew Lucy was looking for information about someone.) for a couple of seconds before they continued wandering.
"Most of you all have come a long way, some having more trouble than others, but you have passed your first year. Under our guidance you all have come to a point where it is time for you to receive pokemon. With the watchful eyes of our soon to be 4th year rangers in training, we will watch as you choose your first pokemon. If we see any trading pokemon, you will get them taken away from you." Lucy glances at the soon to be forth years and spots Amber with them, she also spots a teen with white hair and blue eyes next to another teen with dark purple hair and indigo colored eyes. There was also another girl with gray/silver hair who had her attention elsewhere so Lucy couldn't see her eyes.
Lucy looks back at Theresa and sees that she already finished her speech. Other students start standing up and heading over to certain eyes that they seemed to recognize, Lucy shakes her head, she decided to learn about which eggs belong to certain Pokemon during her second year as she wanted her first pokemon to be a surprise. Getting up, she sees that almost everyone is avoiding a certain egg, letting out a slight hum, she walks towards the egg before kneeling down on one of her knees.
Taking off the cap to the incubator, the egg glows bright causing Lucy to shield her eyes with her forearms. Once the light died down, there was a blue, bipedal, reptilian pokemon that looked to be similar to a pachycephalosaurus. The pokemon looked around before their eyes landed on Lucy, they stared at Lucy before walking towards her and hugging her leg.
A small, yet barely noticeable, smile formed on Lucy's face as she placed her hand on the pokemon's head. She hears heavy footsteps stomping towards her, causing her to sigh as she knows who the footsteps belong to. She ignores the person approaching her to focus on figuring out who her pokemon was.
While in her thoughts she feels someone roughly grab her shoulder, which didn't actually hurt her. Before the person could speak, Lucy grabbed their wrist and twisted it which forcefully removed the person's hand. The person screams in pain causing everyone to go silent.
Lucy stood up, still twisting the person's wrist, "What do you want now, you rich prick?" The boy turned red from anger and pain. Lucy let go of his wrist and stared at him, it was the same kid that she had a physical fight with. She was getting pretty annoyed as she wanted to bond with her pokemon. This boy won't make it in the real world if he keeps being an annoying prick that is like a fat version of Draco Malfoy.
"How dare you take the egg that was mine!" Lucy blinked at the boy, there was no name on it and it was first come first serve. Besides, he has already chosen his pokemon egg and got a beautiful Ponyta, Lucy thinks for a moment.
"It didn't have your name on it, plus you got a Ponyta from your egg. So why is it that you are claiming that I stole your egg? Could it have something to do with how strong my pokemon will be when it is fully evolved? If so then you should know that any pokemon can be strong if you train it right, plus you need to work on getting your pokemon's trust. So please leave, don't try to cause a bigger scene because you will just embarrass yourself in the end." Lucy turned back towards her pokemon, or at least she was going to before she heard the boy have a tantrum.
"My daddy will hear about this!" The boy yelled at Lucy before walking away with the Ponyta begrudgingly following behind. Lucy was now sure that this boy was actually just a fat Draco Malfoy. 'Gezz, he is acting like a little kid when they don't get what they want. I feel bad for Ponyta.' Sighing slightly, Lucy felt the eyes of everyone on her. It made her aware of what she just did. Clearing her throat she turned her attention to her pokemon, after a few seconds almost everyone turned back to their pokemon, except the fourth years who for some reason didn't seem surprised at all at what Lucy did.
Lucy was still rummaging through her mind at what her pokemon was, yet everything was drawing blanks. She was sitting down with her pokemon resting on her lap, she was pretty sure that the pokemon was sleeping. "What are you?" She mumbled.
Soft footsteps approach Lucy from behind, Lucy noticed but didn't do anything. She noticed that it didn't seem hostile. Once the footsteps stop the person is right beside Lucy. Glancing up, Lucy eyes meet blue eyes, it was the principal. "Here, it is the Kalos Pokedex, same as your brother. Also here is the pokeball, I forgot to give you one like the other students." Lucy freezes, she never told anyone that she was looking for her brother.
"How?" Lucy asks as she accepts the Pokedex and the Pokeball from her principal. She made sure not to use her last name on any papers, so how did Theresa find out. Theresa smiled at the look on Lucy's face, Lucy was like a combination of Bronya and Kiana...But mostly Bronya.
"Meet me at 12 pm at my office, we will talk there, I am sure you don't want to have this conversation in front of so many people." Lucy nodded at Theresa's words, but one problem. She has never been to the principal's office, she doesn't know where it is. "Good, I'll have someone come get you when the time comes." With that Theresa walks away.
Lucy looks down at her pokemon, seeing that they are now awake and staring at her. Lucy nods and holds out her pokeball to her pokemon. "Will you be my pokemon?" The pokemon continued to stare at her before what looked to be a smile came to the pokemon's face. They tapped the pokeball with their nose and suddenly a red light covered them, sucking them into the pokeball.
Lucy watched as the pokeball rolled once... twice...three times... it stopped with a ding. Afterwards, Lucy immediately released them from their pokeball. Said pokemon arrived in a red light and appeared in front of Lucy. Though it unexpectedly jumped back into Lucy's lap, sending slight pain through Lucy. Using her Pokedex, Lucy scans her pokemon, to finally see what they were.
"Woah, there aren't many dragon type pokemon at this school. I wonder what I should call you." Lucy says as she watches as Bagon jumps off her lap and explores around, Lucy was not the best at giving names but she was not the worst. "I think... I'll call you Mercury." Bagon looked happy at his new name, giving out a slight roar of happiness.
"That is a Bagon right Lucy?" A familiar voice asks from behind Lucy. Looking back Lucy sees Collei right behind her, this causes Lucy to jump as she never even heard Collei walking up on her. Collei looks shocked for a second before she starts laughing, Lucy could feel her face turning warm which was new to her because she never felt her face go warm unless she was sick or just warm. She spotted a green cat-like pokemon on Collei's shoulder, it looked like a grass type pokemon.
"Yes it is a Bagon, his name is Mercury. What pokemon did you get Collei?" Lucy says while clearing her throat, her face cooling down from how warm it got.
"This is my Sprigatito, his name is Lotus. He is so cute, I heard he was the grass type starter pokemon for one of the regions." Lotus jumps off of Collei's shoulder as she sits down next to Lucy, Lotus chases Mercury around, both of the pokemon were clearly happy to have a friend to play with. Collei smiles as she leans back on her hands,relaxing. Everyone had the rest of the day to bond with their pokemon so there were no classes. Even better, it was a friday, this was perfect.
Lucy spots a familiar pokemon watching over her from a distance once again. It had been watching her since she first came here, but Lucy didn't mind. It had yet to hurt her so it was fine. She decides to ignore it for now, if the pokemon is trying to tell her something it should try harder.
Suddenly Lucy felt a shiver down her spine, almost as if someone was talking about her. Not in a bad way, but it felt as if it would make her embarrassed. Lucy shrugged it off and continued to talk to Collei while watching their Pokemon play.
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"Amber, why are you recording those two girls?" The purple haired female from earlier said as she watched Amber record Lucy and Collei, who were sitting next to each other watching their pokemon play with each other. Amber freezes at being caught.
Amber:"... Well Lucy and Collei are cute together, I mean just look at them, Mei. They act like Bronya and Seele."
Mei:"... I can see that now, Lucy acts like Bronya and Collei acts like Seele.
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Time had passed and now Lucy was in the principal's office, sitting on a chair in front of the principal's desk. Lucy was fiddling with Mercury's Pokeball, which Mercury was resting inside, a monotone look on her face. Theresa smiled at Lucy, calming her slightly.
"I noticed that you are looking for your brother, Lincoln, right?" Lucy nodded at Theresa, the principal most likely does background checks on her students. Lucy completely forgot about this as she was too busy with school.
"Yes, but does that mean... you know where he is?" Lucy asks as she fiddles with her fingers, she wasn't going to get her hopes up just for it to be crushed.
"Yes, I do know where he is."