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Lapras Valley High – Hell Blastoise

Chapter Ten – Killer Instinct

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Transforming, I stood in the form that I had avoided for months. Ever since I had come back from Lady Blastoise’s house.

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"Why am I staying here?" I demanded angrily of the woman in front of me. She had shoulder length flaming orange hair, and it seemed to curve under itself as if she was in a business magazine. Her icy eyes surveyed me, then she smiled.

She smoothened out imaginary crinkles in her posh business suit and smiled tightly. "I have offered to give one of the poor helpless critters and his or her pokemon at Quagsire Heights a holiday for a month. So for a month you will be staying here."

Lady Blastoise was trying to be kind, but there was something I could sense about her that I did not like. I gazed to the sky, and inwardly groaned.

Full moon.

How was I going to transform with her around?

Fury could sort of understand how I was feeling. She kept on glancing from me, to Lady Blastoise to the full moon, worried.

*

Sunset came, and Lady Blastoise sent me outside to go fetch the paper. Thick forests surrounded her land and the paper was about a quarter of a mile from her house. I carefully made my way to the paper with Fury. Suddenly, I felt a familiar presence of energy that I hadn’t felt for two years, since I was eight.

I looked in front of me, into the forest area, and a familiar figure stepped out. I wasn’t scared, just more or less surprised that Nafeti was here, in his Anglias form too.

"What are you doing here?" I questioned.

"You must leave here now," Nafeti warned. "You must leave!"

"I can’t, this place is like prison!" I replied. "They’re forcing me to stay here! Now I have to go, the moon is pretty high."

"But wait," Nafeti called. I turned around and looked at him. He sighed. "That person, she is not good. People think were-pokemon is bad, but she is 10 times worse. Do not trust her."

"Thanks a lot you ****ing idiot!" I hissed, feeling myself transform. "Now I’m transforming!"

"You would have had to anyway," Nafeti shrugged.

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Ever since then I had avoided it. But now, I don’t know why, but I could feel myself in the body of a Ninetales, my cream fur shone in the moonlight and Fury stood beside me.

"Let us go," Nafeti said.

I leapt out the window after him and landed on soft grass in the middle of Shady Thicket. "Your powers have increased." I commented.

I was much more polite around other Anglias and Ninetales were-pokemon than I was with humans. I knew how tough these pokemon people could be. I didn’t want to get ripped to shreds.

"Well I have been in training, unlike you," he replied. "Come along, we must see Canis Lupus."

*

"Hello Canis Lupus," I greeted formally, facing the large brutal beast in front of me.

Canis Lupus, a rather large Anglias, bore into me with his piercing stare. "You have returned, Reishe. Very unlikely, but you do know that as a were-pokemon you are expected to transform and return."

"You know I still show no respect for returning to the pack Canis," I growled. "You know me as a human and as a Ninetales, and I do not change my mind either way. I am staying with Fury, Ashley, Sugar, Nayia, Martin, Luna, Nixie, Kayla and Jackie."

"There are new names there," Canis pointed out.

"You knew the rules Reishe!" Nafeti yelled. "You were not supposed to have contact with humans and start emotional relationships! You have broken the rules and you should be punished!" Nafeti, the other were-pokemon and I looked at Canis, who was unusually quiet. "Well Canis? Reishe has broken the rules once more! She should be punished should she not?"

"Nafeti," Canis started. "Please be quiet! I believe I can handle this situation without advice from an inferior!"

Nafeti moved backwards, slightly embarrassed.

"Reishe," Canis began. "You have broken two of the highest rules. One; Not to put transforming off, and two; not to create physical or emotional relationships otherwise you won’t want to leave."

"I don’t’ want to come with you anyway," I growled again. "Neither does Fury."

Canis sighed. "As Nafeti may have mentioned, we have news on your parents."

My ears pricked up. "Go on."

"Your parents, your father, is dead. He was killed before you were born mysteriously. As for your mother, she is also dead. Suspected suicide, she was found hanging in her garage the day after you were born. That is why you were raised an orphan," Canis paused. "Both of these deaths may be related to your mothers sister, who was often jealous of your mother."

"Mum had a sister?" I questioned. I’d never heard any thing about her.

"Yes but she said she had nothing to do with them," Canis answered. "Therefore you have had great contact with her, and exchanged more than a few sharp words with this woman."

"Who is she?!" I yelled. "Come on tell me."

"Reshie," Canis sighed. "Be quiet! You will find out eventually! Now, you must go back seeing you are unwilling to join our pack. If you ever need us come to Shady Thicket and we will be here. But you must return, your roommate will be waking soon."

The powerful Anglias’ eyes began to shine as they were covered by an indigo glow, similar to parts of the sky as the sun was rising. Fury and I were surrounded by a purple aura for a moment as the scenery changed. Canis, Nafeti and the other were-pokemon disappeared and the trees and other plant life changed into the familiar surroundings of my dorm.

Sunlight shone through the window. As the early morning rays struck my fur, I began to change, and stood there in my boxer shorts and my oversized T-shirt looking like I had just woken up.

Fury looked at me quizzically as if to say ‘May I?’ I shook my head in response and headed for the bathroom, leaving Fury in the room.

*

"Court please rise," Jackie requested from the judge’s podium. Playing the role of school judge, Jackie sat, hammer resting beside her. I stood behind one of those desks where the defenders stand, while Teresa and her gang stood on the other side. As witnesses behind me sat Ashley, Martin, Nayia and Fury. Sugar, Nixie and Luna waited outside.

"This court case is to find who should be punished for the big fight in the school cafeteria two days ago at eleven hundred hours," Jackie spoke. "Now, Sal, what happened?"

"I was talking," I began. "To Nayia. We were talking about Teresa because I overheard her criticizing other people including Greg and Craig’s little group. Now if she’s bloody well going to say something about somebody then say it to their face instead of behind their backs. Teresa came up to me and she started verbally abusing me. She got her bitch brigade to surround me and then I was just pushed over the edge by nothing but endless remarks about how stupid my life was."

Jackie nodded. "Teresa?"

"Well," Teresa started, twirling her hair around her finger. "I was lining up in the lunch line behind Sal when I heard her talking about me. I didn’t like it so I told her and the next thing I knew was that she was slapping and punching me. If I didn’t take away her dagger who knows where I could be now? She surly would have killed me!"

"I wouldn’t have killed you, bitch," I snapped.

"Sal quiet," Jackie warned.

I glanced behind me. Ashley gave me an encouraging smile, Nayia was too busy glaring at Teresa and her gang to notice me; and Martin nodded as if to say ‘kick their ass’.

Fury was pacing on the floor, looking up at me. She was worried, bothered and it was much more than the court case.

*

Time passed. Witnesses were called up and questioned. The stories were similar to each other even though most people knew that I was the truthful one. I couldn’t keep my eyes on the jury. I noticed our battling teacher; Sister Eve; a few other teachers and the red head of death.

Lady Blastoise eyed me. I narrowed my stare. She stared back just as harshly. Our eyes showed pure hatred, fire burning behind each eyeball.

"Jury make your decision," Jackie announced. Jackie looked at me and winked and crossed her fingers. I sort of half smiled, then watched Lady Blastoise worried.

"Your honor the jury has made its decision," one teacher announced standing up. "On behalf of the Lapras Valley High Boarding Collage Jury-"

Get on with it! I screamed in my mind.

"- We find Sally-Anne McGregor guilty of attacking Teresa and her friends and then lying."

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Lady Blastoise strikes back, harsher than ever with a punishment that not even Sal deserves. "Part of the punishment is not only to punish them but to punish their friends as well. Most people don’t care about themselves and will just shrug off detention after detention but once you hit their friends you hit home… hard."

And Ashley knows it’s hit home on Sal, harder than ever before. "I’ve never seen her like this before, never! And I don’t trust her by herself like this. She could… could… KILL herself!"

And what’s to come is even more shocking when she disappears. "What’s wrong? Where’s Sal?"

Pressure is rising in the school where nothing is fair.