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Chapter 5: Pocket Guardian

They're here to guard your pocket.

"Lucas?" I whispered, and the navy blue haired male's eyes gazed at me. He stared lazily before he grinned. The warm smile on his face only confirmed that it was my classmate from the school in Twinleaf I went to before I transferred here. We were pretty close, and always went out on adventures with Barry. Speaking of Barry, to Lucas' right sat the hyper blonde. He grinned at me and waved, and I giggled and waved back.

To be honest, I was shocked. My two childhood friends also had magical powers and went to the same school as me. The jacket Lucas was wearing was red and Barry's tie was an azure blue. The blonde's azure jacket hung on his chair, accompanied by a green scarf. The scarf was a gift from me and Lucas when we had our first friendship anniversary. The boys had gotten me a pink one, and Barry and I had gotten Lucas an orange one. I smiled at the thought of hanging out with them again, and looked out the window.

During the rest of the class we were allowed to talk to each other to get to know each other better. I actually ended up talking to other people than my roommates or my childhood friends. Gary and I had an interesting conversation about Drew's hair and the time he uses in the morning to fix it, a girl named Lyra randomly asked if I dated different boys sitting in the classroom and two twins named Hilbert and Hilda made a flash show with fire and electricity. The whole class laughed hard when the girl burned a part of Elm's hair.

"Meet in the gardens for the next lesson, class dismissed." Professor Elm informed while he gathered his book and happily skipped out of the room, probably because the hair incident actually made him laugh. He looked like he needed a new haircut, anyways. Lucas turned around in his chair and Barry sat on Lucas' desk and they smiled. We sat there in silence without anything to say, until a certain blonde chuckled. It was like back in Twinleaf when we had nothing to tell each other, one snickered and then we all started to laugh. That's what we did when the small sound escaped Barry's lips.

"So, how you been?" Lucas managed to breathe out between laughs. When we calmed down, I rubbed my sides gently and replied.

"Fine, I guess. I thought I would die without my brothers, but both of them are here. Care to explain why?" I smiled at the males, and they looked at each other. Barry spoke up first.

"To make a long story short…" he stared at the ceiling while he rubbed his chin. Lucas continued where the other one stopped.

"…we were born with an element, and grew up knowing we would attend to this school when we turned fourteen,"

"We didn't know how to tell you we had magic powers,"

"Then we got to know you also were going to move,"

"So we kept it a secret, knowing that it wouldn't be necessary telling you… "

"And we thought it would be a nice surprise!" They grinned. We chatted for a while just rambling about our lives and old memories from Twinleaf until a beeping sound was heard from my cell phone. I fished after the device in my bag and held it up in front of my face when I found it. On the screen it read: 'new message: May M'. I flipped the phone open and read what it said.

SOS can't find my locker. Please help me!

I rapidly texted a reply and told the boys about the situation. They nodded and bid a small 'bye' each before I walked away. When I opened the door that led me out of the classroom I saw my 'lost' friend smiling and sheepishly rubbing her head. In her hand was an exact copy of the map I received from headmaster Rowan and a key was in her other.

"I don't understand this thing; I ended up walking in circles." She told me referring to the large paper she held. "Leaf and Misty have their lockers in the other part of the school, so I couldn't tag along with them. It's unfair, since they actually know how to use this." She grimaced at her map. I giggled at her behavior and started to explain with my own map.

"If I remember correctly, you're supposed to focus your powers in the hand you hold your map with, and then you think about where you're going." I started to focus and a red dot appeared on the paper. "I'll think about the fountain." She nodded and stared at the map. A small dotted line made its way from the red prick to a small picture that appeared. The picture was a fountain with water spewing out of it. "See, it's easy!" I proudly stated since I was able to do it the first time I tried.

…Okay, that was a lie. I sat up all night and practiced, but May doesn't need to know that…

"Wow, and you didn't even know you had magical power until two days ago or something." May looked at me before she fixed her gaze on the slightly brown, thick paper. "Okay, focus your powers into your hand…" The brunette mumbled while closing her eyes. Her face had a concentrated look and it seemed do turn redder by every second that passed.

"Uh, May? Are you alright?" I asked. She ignored me completely and continued to mumble some words while trying to make the map show the way to her locker. I let out a small laugh, but it stopped when a terrible scent hit my nose. It was like when you pulled out something from the oven half an hour after it actually was done. It smelt like when you held a strand of hair over a lit candle. It smelt burnt. I noticed my map had a burn mark on its upper right corner. My eyes darted to May's hands, which were on fire, and I screamed.

"Oh my Arceus, May! You're burning!" I yelled in panic and started to search for water. The fire girl opened her eyes and looked at her hands. Her mouth gaped and her sapphire orbs widened. Furiously she shut her eyes again, and a short moment after, the fire was put out. I calmed myself down before I started to speak. My left eye twitched slightly when I looked at my friend.

"When I told you to focus your powers, I didn't mean the elemental ones…" She rubbed the back of her head and giggled. When she held up a black ripped square, I started to laugh with her.

"Whoops, my fault…"

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"…I guess I focused too hard, and suddenly my hands were on fire! It was actually an amazing sensation in my fingers when they just… burned." May excitedly whispered to Leaf, who sat there nodding and giggling. Our current destination was in the flower field, and professor Oak just finished going through the class list. After Oak was done searching in his bag, he held a small red and white ball with a button in the middle in front of us.

"Welcome to my class, the class where you teach about our protectors, partners and friends; the pocket guardians." He pressed the button and then the ball grew bigger. When he threw it in the air, it opened and a red light came out of it. The light turned pink, and there stood a pink star-shaped creature.

"What the…" I was shocked. I had never seen anything like that before, but it was surprisingly cute. Its eyes were a shining black and its little mouth smiled at us.

"Cleffa!" The pink thing greeted in an adorable way. I heard some squeals coming from my fellow female classmates, and I decided to join their squeal-choir. The professor laughed wholeheartedly at our attraction to the creature.

"Time to take out your own Pokémon!" He announced, making everyone starting to dig their hands in their bags, rummaging through their backpacks or do like Ah, Paul and Gary simply grab a red and white ball they had attached to their belts. A lot of red flash started to surround me and all the other students was standing now, leaving me the only one without a 'Pokémon' sitting dumbfounded on the ground. I heard my friends' voices ring through the air as they shouted some names I've never heard of.

"Pikachu, I choose you!"

"Combusken, take the stage!"

"Come on out, Wartortle!"

"Let's hit it, Roselia!"

"I call you, Marill!"

"Torterra, standby!"

"I choose you, Umbreon!"

Some weird creatures appeared and the others patted, hugged or just greeted them. They all looked happy, even Paul gave that huge turtle of his a small smile. Seriously, it had a tree on its back. All of the creatures looked happy, except for that yellow mouse Ash had on his shoulder. It looked pissed. Ash apologized to it for something I didn't know about, and then sparks flew from the mouse's red cheeks.

"Pika-CHU!" It yelled, and Ash's hair got more messy than normal when the mouse sent shockwaves through his body.

"I'm sorry little buddy, but I had to put you in the poké ball until we got permission to send you out!" Ash sharply breathed since electricity still lingered in his muscles. The creature on his shoulder only crossed its arms and looked in another direction. Everyone seemed to have fun with the Pokémon's, and I felt kind of jealous. Gary approached me with his black dog/cat and offered a hand when he reached me.

"Why don't you send out your Pokémon to play with the rest?" He asked me as I got up on my feet. I shuffled my feet a little and scratched my cheek with my finger.

"Uh… I don't have one." I told him. It was kind of embarrassing to be the only one without a pocket guardian. Gary seemed surprised by it, but didn't say anything. He stood there for a while before he turned around.

"Professor Oak!" He shouted towards the old man. Apparently, he was too busy to notice his grandson. "Samuel Oak!" Gary tried once again, but the elder tree* still didn't respond. The auburn haired male became frustrated and breathed in before he yelled at the top of his lungs. "HEY, GRAMPS!" It worked, and the professor made his way towards us.

"What is it, Gary?" Oak smiled warmly. Gary didn't return it, but gestured towards me with his thumb.

"She doesn't have a Pokémon." The auburn haired boy told his relative. Heat rose to my cheeks when the professor looked over at me. It was uncomfortable, but he sent me a calming and reassuring smile.

"Oh, I almost forgot! We already got that settled before you came!" Professor Oak told me. Now I was confused. They knew I didn't have a Pokémon, and somehow I felt like my mother had something to do with it. "Wait here for a second and I'll go get my bag." Oak instructed before he walked off. Shortly after, he came back with a brown duffel bag. He pulled out a poké ball and threw it in the air.

"Piplup!" a small penguin squealed in delight before gently landing on its feet. It was mainly light blue, but the top of its head and its collar was a darker blue. It had two white dots on its chest and a small beak was placed on the middle of the penguin's face. The black orbs stared at me for a while before it blinked. "Lup?"

"So cute!" I squealed and started to study the small creature.

"This is your Pokémon, Piplup. Your mother sent it to me and told me to give it to you since you didn't have one." The professor explained. Piplup looked at me for a while before it suddenly spat bubbles at me. I grabbed the penguin and started to tickle it, and it started to squirm and wriggle to get out of my grip. When I finally let go of it we laughed together and I felt like I already bonded with the little fellow.

After talking to Misty, I learned Piplup was a water-type. Earlier, it had 'attacked' me with something called a bubblebeam. The red head had given me some food, and she told me it was made especially for water-types. I also learned that Pokémon and mages had the same type of elements, and it was called pocket guardian because a Pokémon is supposed to protect you during battles and the ball you keep them in fits inside a pocket.

"Seriously, April… Your Combusken still hasn't evolved and it's been years since it evolved from a Torchic!" Drew pointed out, making May blush deeply of anger and embarrassment. The brunette glared furiously at the chartreuse haired boy while thinking of a comeback.

"Only one year and nine months ago, the name's May and I see your Roselia hasn't made any progress since it evolved from a Budew, cabbage head!" May countered making Drew's cheeks turn a little red.

"It's because she isn't ready yet, airhead."

"Do ya think my Combusken is ready if your Roselia evolved a year before mine and yours isn't ready?" An argument started, and Ash didn't realize they were doing the usual fight and thought they were discussing about how weak un-evolved Pokémon were compared to evolved ones.

"Well, I never evolved my Pikachu! He doesn't want to evolve, and I'm supporting his decision! He even beat a Raichu!" The sudden outburst surprised Drew and May, so they kept quiet after that. The rest of us laughed, while the two rivals joined in shortly after. Ash thought he actually said something smart and stood there doing a victory dance, which made us laugh harder. After the laughter faded and Leaf was done showing off her Wartortle, we started to chat and tips each other about methods of training. In my case, scribbling down everything the others said. Suddenly, Drew spoke up.

"Hey, where's Paul?" Just as the 'L' rolled of his tongue, the ground shook and a loud explosion was heard. A few students started to panic, but the professor quickly calmed us down. Well, not everyone was quite calm. It wasn't easy since thick smoke covered the school area.

"Listen to me, everyone! There's nothing to worry about, but as a professor I have to help the other teachers to get rid of the flames. You stay here, and don't do anything reckless while I'm gone!" Samuel instructed before he suddenly disappeared. Everyone stared at the school and the smoke that came from the main building. A random student had used his Swellow to get a better look, and when he came down he told us the flames were electric blue. The class started to discuss what caused the flames' odd color. It quickly ended when something, or someone, started to shot at us. Some weird looking bats flew above us, and the people sitting on their backs shot purple, pink and dark brown beams at us.

"Run away from the Golbats!" a girl I believed was called Brianna shrieked. The whole class started to run in different directions, some even fleeing on their Pokémon.

"Come on, Dawn! Let's run after Misty and the others!" Leaf yelled, and we both sprinted after the rest of our small gang. A beam of red light almost hit Leaf, and Gary stopped dead in his tracks to face the culprit. It was a woman with red hair and a weird white dress with grey sleeves and tights underneath. She was flying on the back of a huge Golbat while she shot red beams at us. "Run, Gary!" Leaf shouted, but the stubborn male didn't listen.

"Hey, bitch!" The woman met Gary's eyes with disbelief and pointed at her chest. "Yeah, you! I'm going to kick your ass to Mars!" The woman turned noticeably red of an unknown reason, and Gary's hands started to glow a metallic grey. The woman ordered her Golbat to fly towards the school, and it did. Gary started to run at full speed after it while shooting small beams after it.

"Don't chase her, you idiot!" Misty yelled after Gary, but it was futile. We others started to run behind the school building because we saw more flying creatures coming from the woods with people in weird uniforms on their backs. Someone had blue hair in the same style wearing a white and dark grey uniform with a yellow 'G' on the chest. The others had orange hair and an even weirder uniform. It was white, grey and black with an emblem on the chest. A white hood covered most of their hair.

We found cover in a fairly large tree behind the school that hid us very well, and we sat there not saying a word until a lot of people had flown past us. We let out a little sigh when we thought everyone had passed us. Ash looked at everyone before he looked at Misty.

"I saw your Azurill had evolved into a Marill. That's awesome!" He complimented, and that earned him a smack on the head from the red head.

"This is not the time to think of things like that, you idiot!" she whisper-yelled, the rest of us stifled a laugh at Ash's pathetic expression.

"Sorry, Mist…" The raven haired guy apologized while reaching up to rub the bump forming on the top of his head. He whimpered when he tried to raise his right arm, but quickly covered it with raising his left instead. I wasn't the only one that noticed, since May scurried down from her branch to where Ash was and started to inspect his arm.

"Pika…" Pikachu looked at his trainer with worry.

"You're hurt!" She exclaimed while she started to pull of his jacket. The short, white sleeve had gotten a red stain, and under his upper arm there was a large wound. It was bleeding and it looked horrible, like a mouth was gaping towards us. "Do any of you guys know any healing? He can't fight looking like this!" May asked us, panic written all over her face. Misty looked like she was going to be sick, but she still managed to command May to hold Ash's arm so she could take a closer look.

"It isn't so deep, so I think he'll manage with a bandage or something…" The girl shakily mumbled while she looked for something useful. "A little help finding something to wrap around his arm, please?" We all started to search, and then I realized my scarf would fit perfectly.

"Here, you can use my scarf!" I smiled and started to untie it from my neck. I was about to hand it to a grateful Misty when someone stopped me.

"Wait a second, Dawn." Drew jumped down from his branch with a fairly large leaf, but it wasn't long enough to wrap around Ash's arm. "I want to try something out first, and it would be a shame if your white scarf got any stains. It's hard to wash away." He smirked at me, but this wasn't the kind he smirked at May. That's when a thought popped up in my head; what if he crushes on May? I smiled at the thought.

Drew took a deep breath and started to focus on the leaf. It floated in his hands, and after a few seconds it had grown large enough to use as a bandage. "Here you go." He handed the leaf to Misty, who started to wrap it around the patient's biceps. When she was done, she looked at Ash and smiled satisfied at her work. The raven haired boy tried to move his arm and flinched a little, but he got used to it.

"Thanks Mist, I owe you one!" He used his arm to bring the female into a hug, which she gladly returned.

"Pikachu!" The yellow mouse giggled.

"Aw, how adorable!" Leaf squealed.

"Agreed!" May and I yelled. Drew just chuckled. This made Misty blush furiously and push Ash away.

"Can we go check out the situation? I want to know if Gary's alright…" Leaf asked us, and everyone agreed. "We also need to find Paul." She added. We started to climb down the tree, and May checked if there was anyone nearby.

"It's clear!" she shouted. We jumped down from the lowest branches before we started to run towards the corner of the school building. When we had reached the front of the school, we all gasped. We saw different teachers, seniors and sophomores fighting grunts with their Pokémon by their sides. A few juniors and freshmen fought, but I saw many running around trying to flee from the battle. Apparently, another set of weirdoes had joined the battle. They had black pants and shirt with a huge red 'R' on their chest and a hat was placed on top of their heads.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" A cruel voice behind us spoke. We turned around to see a bunch of dangerous looking guys and Pokémon standing there, ready to attack us. Everything froze, and it was like in slow motion I saw Drew's mouth form a word.

"Run!"

And after that, everything went so fast I wasn't able to catch up. Different colored beams were shot after us, causing small explosions when they hit each other. I saw May and Ash by my side, but we got separated when an attack almost hit us. I kept running until my throat got dry, my feet numb and I felt like barfing. I stopped to catch my breath, and took the little time I had to study my surroundings.

Not far from me, I recognized Gary and Leaf running with two teachers and some other students. They chased someone into the forest, but they also had attackers right behind them. In front of the main entrance, Misty hammered at enemies with her mallet, beside her stood Lyra and a yellowish green creature with a huge leaf on its head and leaves sticking out from its neck. May stood back to back with a dude with white hair. She shot fire in different directions, and he created whirlpools in his hands that he sent towards flying Pokémon. Drew and Ash fought with a few of the people that had attacked us, and I saw that Pikachu just electrified a cat, a woman with long, magenta hair and a guy with lavender hair. They flew towards the sky, and shouted something.

"We're blasting off again!" they yelled before they disappeared in a blink. I sent out Piplup from its Poké ball to help me fight since I didn't know any spells or attacks. I was about to run towards Misty when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Torterra, use stone edge on Zubat!" My eyes widened when I turned around and saw Paul in the middle of a battle against two Pokémon and a guy with red hair. Both Paul and Torterra looked exhausted, but Paul wouldn't let it show on his face. The turtle summoned rocks that it sent towards the flying bat and it hit dead-on. The guy with red hair didn't even bother to command the Zubat to dodge it. It was covered in rocks on the ground, so the male returned it to its Poké ball.

"Not bad, Paul." He smirked, and his cold, silver eyes sent tingles down my spine even though he didn't look at me. He had light purple pants and a darker purple jacket with red details. Paul just stood there and glared, but not a single word left his mouth. "Not bad at all, your Torterra has grown rather powerful. The question is, will it be able to even take one attack from my Quilava?" The prune still didn't do anything, but then I realized the type advantage. The bad guy's Pokémon had fire on its back and head, and grass is weak to fire. I also saw how tired Torterra looked compared to the fire creature. I started to run towards them. "Highly doubt it. Quilava, flame thrower!"

"Torterra, counter with-"

"Piplup, use bubblebeam!" And just in time, Piplup was able to stop Quilava from attacking Paul's partner. The guy with red hair looked shocked and Paul stared at me with wide eyes when Piplup and I stood in front of him and his turtle.

"Troublesome?" He stated in disbelief. I just sent him a little smile and mouthed 'no need to worry'. My next command to my penguin was something I never heard of before, but it felt so natural to say it.

"Piplup, use whirlpool!" The Pokémon complied, and started to make one. When it had become fairly large he threw it towards Quilava, who got critically hit. The fire type stood up looking as exhausted as Torterra, and I was about to make Piplup use bubblebeam when the red head returned it. He sent me a look of hatred before he turned around to walk away.

"Silver?" The guy stopped and faced the one calling his name. There stood Lyra with her Pokémon and Misty. The brunette stared at this Silver with a sad look and was about to say something when he interrupted her.

"You annoy me." I didn't know how they knew each other or what happened between them, but Lyra looked hurt as he spoke those words.

"I-" her voice cracked even though it was just one sound she made.

"I said, you annoy me." He walked away towards a helicopter with a big, red 'R' on that had landed not too far from us. When he disappeared inside it, Lyra turned to her Pokémon.

"Thank you, Bayleef. You've done well." She patted it before she returned it, and then she ran away.

"Lyra, the battle is still going on!" Misty shouted after her, but it didn't help. I met Misty's gaze, and she just shook her head. Suddenly, a rain drop landed on my nose. A few seconds later, it was pouring. Paul had returned his Torterra, and he seemed angry about something. We decided to walk inside the forest for shelter in hope of finding anyone else, but when we entered it felt like I had been in this forest before. Then I realized where I had seen it.

"No, it can't be… NO!"

It was Leaf that screamed, and my dream happened all over again.

A/N:

*elder tree – I took it from this awesome video on YouTube where they called professor Oak an elder tree in their song lyrics. Here's the URL: .com/watch?v=UQg-pcGBZAM

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