Night Raven College: Trial Start! (old version)

A game of Ultra Beast and Rattata?*

(Edited chapter)

She stood staring at the distant horizon glowing as an awe-inspiring white castle shone with silvery lights. The night sky seemed alive as it teemed with sparkling stars. A golden light arched over the top as golden sparks fell over the top of the castle's white spires and Kokia's urge to venture to its gates grew.

However, the closer she got to this place, the visage became darker as the castle transformed into an entirely new structure. A new castle now sat up a steep rocky cliff with imposing walls made of cold black stone topped with dark spires that reached into the inky night sky. Eight different colored lights from the eight tower spires grew brighter and brighter as the intensity became blinding.

Light footsteps beside had her turn away from the light to see an odd small figure that seemed they were trying to say something. It looked like a shadow was hiding their real figure from here.

"Ho...... ....y........M...., W..... ....?"

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A familiar weight knocked the air from her lungs. The scenery began to fade due to an added weight of warm silky fur that lay on her upper torso. "Waiho... thought I told ya not... zzz." Kokia struggled to wake up as the feeling of wanting to fall back asleep seemed to sink its claws deep into her barely waking consciousness. "Mmmm, a few hours... please?" She grumbled as the urge to snuggle into Waiho's fur grew.

Waiho also thought more sleep was a brilliant plan while falling back asleep on his trainer. Just before REM sleep kicked in, a sudden BANG and what sounded like a door was blown off its hinges above her with a loud "Mya-ha!"

"Alright! Now to grab the goods that are rightfully min- ACK! What is with the weird-looking big cat thing in here!? Where's the robes!" The loud yowl caused Waiho to immediately put his weight onto Kokia's stomach, jumping to attention with a fierce snarl at the intruder.

"Wait a second... YOU! HOW DID A CREATURE LIKE YOU GET INVITED TO THIS SCHOOL AND NOT ME, THE ALL-POWERFUL GRIM?! THEY EVEN GAVE YOU A COOL-LOOKING SCHOOL SCARF INSTEAD OF A ROBE!?" The voice from earlier cried out again, this time sounding furious and extremely upset.

"Move a bit Waiho? Kinda standing on my everythin' right now."

The unhappy feline moved to the side before she sat up to see who woke them up from such a curious dream. She looked around with tired eyes to see what had upset her Pokemon. However, coffins everywhere in the room either standing still or floating about the room caught her attention first. (''Acerola would love everything about this, not to mention the colors around us right now! I've never seen such energy so much alike yet different to Pokemon and Ultra Beasts.")

Lost in her thoughts, Kokia did not give attention to whoever was addressing them quietly, "I knew there was no way for another creature to beat The Mighty Grim to the role of a student before I did!" The voice proudly laughed, "Nya-Ha Ha Ha! Now hand over the robes- HEY! ARE YOU IGNORING ME!?"

The fantastical scenery around the room she somehow was in for countless reasons had her full attention. ("Guess this is where the saying, slept as the dead comes from.... Guessed I had a couple years left before I found myself in one.'')

Waiho noted that she must have been distracted again, then used his tail to turn her face toward the current issue right now.

"Finally! You have a lot of nerve to ignore me like that! Don't you even know who you are snubbing here?"

Kokia stared at this creature whose self-assurance was very impressive given it was currently outnumbered. ("Well, this wasn't how I thought everything would go so far. Talking Ultra Beast, nearly getting buried alive, and whatever this is now. Kinda looks like a mix of a Purrloin, Shinx, and Torracat if you used parts from each to make a new Pokemon.") "You a new kind of Ultra Beast? Never met one capable of speech yet!"