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Lapras Valley High – Hell Blastoise

Chapter Six – Hidden Secrets

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"Why thank you," I glared. "What the hell are you doing here anyway, Lady Bitch-stoise?"

"Teaching, what do you think, Sally-Anne?" Lady Blastoise replied. "I do believe there is a rule at this school. No pokemon allowed during classtime, is that right? Well then I suggest both you and Vulpix leave the premises immediately."

Teresa laughed, while I stood there, glowering. "If there are no pokemon allowed then why are we about to be taught by a Wobuffett?" I snapped.

Lady Blastoise just smirked. "Because I’m not a Wobuffett you imbecile. Sit down, and get your pathetic fire rat out of this classroom."

"Fury is NOT a pathetic fire rat you… you tight-arsed bitch!" I screamed. Even Teresa was quiet now.

"Is everything okay, Lady Blastoise?" another teacher asked poking her head through the door.

"Yes thank you," Lady Blastoise nodded, smiling her sickly smile of evil and death. I shuddered, praying that I was still in Quagsire Heights with its familiar gloominess and depressing feel. I would have traded my position for all the empty, syringe lined garbage filled rotten streets of my old home.

"Look, I came here to get away from you. I won’t be listening to anything you say, nothing you do can hurt me anymore," I glared.

Lady Blastoise just smirked. "Well you’d better do well in geography otherwise I’d not only have to flunk you…" she threatened.

I froze. She had me in a position where if I dared say anything she would spill my darkest secret. If I did my work badly she’d let loose. If I didn’t do my work, she’d spill it.

I don’t know how she found out but she did. Not even Ashley knew this secret. And nobody except me and Vulpix was supposed to know. Not Lady Blastoise.

Never Lady Blastoise.

I sat down and groaned deeply, giving the satisfaction to Lady Blastoise that she could boss me around.

"Get rid of that filthy vermin off your desk, unless you’d like me to take care of it," Lady Blastoise instructed sharply. "Now if you’ll all open to page 54 I’d like to start our topic on geography."

She scrawled the words ‘Pokemon habitats’ over the board and turned. "Everybody knows that wolf and fox pokemon such as Lupus, Vulpix and Ninetales live in thick forests, and the full moon can drive them crazy. One night I’ll take you out to Shady Thicket, the forest at the back of the school, when it’s a full moon, to observe the behavior of pokemon in the full white light."

I stopped half way to the door, and turned, snarling.

This was not good.

*

Lady Blastoise must have done that on purpose, seeing she knew my secret. Those last words that she had uttered were just pure evil. "One night I’ll take you out to Shady Thicket when it’s a fool moon, to observe the behavior of pokemon in the full white light."

She was here to get me, just as I had tried to avoid.

*

"You know the problem with Geography," Nayia was saying. She was always saying something. "Geography is supposed to focus on land formations and land masses and just basically ‘How did that mountain get there’. But this Lady Blastoise, she seems strict and yet, she might turn the class into fun."

"Don’t ever underestimate Lady Blastoise," Ashley advised. "She may seem to be nice but once you show her your weakness she’ll pin you down and strip you of your pride if you don’t’ follow her orders."

"She’ll pounce on you like a Persian hunting for food, she’ll hunt you down, tear you limb from limb just to find your weakness," I continued. "Once she finds it, you’re a goner, under her power for as long as she is around."

"How would you know?" Martin questioned.

My face clouded over. "You don’t want to know," I replied, shutting off my small social life. I turned and faced away. Ashley looked confused, even she didn’t know, but she knew me well enough to keep off. Nayia and Martin exchanged nervous glances.

"Um… What’s going on?" Nayia asked curiously.

I whirled around, on the verge of exploding. "Look, I don’t want to talk about it so LAY OFF," I snapped, and walked away.

"What’s up with her?" Martin asked Ashley.

"She’s sensitive about something, and doesn’t really want to talk about it," Ashley answered. "I don’t really know but I have a feeling Lady Blastoise is making her edgy."

*

I looked out to the calm rippling water of Shellder Bay. Why was the water so calm? Why? It was just rolling in onto the sand in small waves, the crystal clear liquid fresh and cool, the gentle sea breeze flowing through the air with tiny crystals of salt. I looked back at Lapras Valley High and buried my head in my hands.

I couldn’t take this. Lady Blastoise had followed me to this school, and she was going to expose my secret.

"Vulpix Vul," Fury said quietly, trying to calm me down.

I petted Fury’s silky smooth fur. "Fury, you’re the only other person who knows my secret. I’m going to have to tell them one day aren’t I?"

"Pix," Fury answered nodding.

"I don’t want to."

"Pix Vulpix Vul Pix Vul Vulva Pix!"

*

"Starmie Ice Beam!"

"Sugar Quick Attack!"

Sugar the brown fluffy Eevee responded with agility to the sharp orders of Ashley. With one nimble bounce it had avoided the steaming light blue ice beam from Martin’s Starmie, allowing the patch of grass below it to freeze. Landing again, Sugar started to run, but slipped on the icy ground, sliding forward on her nose. Sugar looked up and glared at Starmie, who would have glared back if he had eyes.

"Starmie! Blizzard!"

Starmie’s core began to glow a light ice blue, looking very much like a crystal of ice, and a cold gust of wind started to rush through the arena. Out of the gem in Starmie’s indigo body, snowflakes and cold icy frostbite began to fly out and hurled towards Sugar in a whirlwind of snow.

"Sugar! Sand Attack!"

Sugar furiously rushed through the field a distance away from the blizzard and began countering it with a miniature sandstorm. The blazing cold storm overpowered the sandstorm, and Sugar was hit by the angry iced fingers of the blizzard, which slapped her back onto her back.

"No! Sugar!"

"Right Starmie! Good work!"

Sugar stirred from her position on the ground. She had been hit hard, and was on the verge of fainting. Starmie began to hover closer, preparing itself for another attack, but Sugar wasn’t sure which attack. She knew she had to get up, but how?

Starmie’s core shone like a rainbow, mostly white with the other colors mixed in. It was like looking into a stormy sky when it starts to clear. The star shaped indigo fighter looked as if he was ready to fire any second, while Sugar just lay there, stirring. Thoughts crept into Starmie’s mind as he powered up for the aura beam. ‘What if she’s just faking the stirring? What if she’s waiting for all my energy to be released then attacks me?’ Starmie shook himself. The ‘what if’ game was a dangerous one, one that a pokemon could not play in the middle of a battle. Pokemon had to be sure of themselves and of their attacks, and couldn’t judge what the opponent would do. But that was the most important element of a battle.

The element of surprise.

Starmie flew back high into the air, releasing the rainbow ray. It struck the ground about a meter in front of Sugar and traveled through the ground, breaking everything in its way. Sugar waited, and once the beam had come close enough for her to feel the heat placed in it, she leapt up and sprung out the way with such agility that both Martin and his Starmie were shocked. Ashley grinned, she had expected Sugar to do that. It was one of her favorite tricks.

Sugar leapt up into the sky, ready to comeback and take victory. She smashed headlong into Starmie, just striking the gem’s edge. Starmie flew down and hit the ground hard. Sugar landed on all four paws a bit away from Starmie, breathing heavily, chest heaving. Her fur was dampened by sweat and messy from the hard battle.

Starmie was able to get up, his core still hurting. Sugar saw that and began to charge at Starmie once again, but instead of hitting Starmie, ran around him, and began to power up. The grass around her began to rise, as she was charging up. Starmie hovered around, watching, not sure which attack to use.

Starmie had just been ready to fire off a powerful water gun when Sugar slammed into Starmie with her side, taking Starmie down. Starmie landed down with a heavy thud, Sugar on top of him. Starmie released a hyper beam at that very second, taking the energy he had been using for the water gun and transforming the attack.

Sugar was hit, right in the delicate stomach area, and skyrocketed off Starmie and fell to the ground with a sickening splat. The teacher in charge of the Pokemon Battles class, Mr Burke, watched Sugar, looking for any signs of stirring.

After 5 seconds of eternity, he held up both hands. "The match is over," he announced. "The winner is Martin and Starmie."

"Nice match Starmie," Martin congratulated Starmie.

Ashley walked over to the unconsious Sugar, and picked her up in her arms. "Come on Sugar, lets go get you better. I’m very proud of you."

"Hey Ashley!" Martin called. Ashley turned around. "Nice battle, Sugar is really tough."

Ashley smiled. "Thanks!" she called back before leaving to get Sugar healed.

Pokemon battling was pointless, I didn’t see a point in the class. Fury had taken down Kayla with ease. Kayla had a Flareon that was poorly trained, it was skinny and wearing too much fragrance that was flammable. Fury had pointed that out with one flame-thrower.

I stared out into nothing, not caring whether I was going to math or not. Secrets were going to be revealed; fights were going to happen.

Lady Blastoise was going to go down.