POKEMON: The Smiling Moon

Chapter I: Revel Revealed

Chapter I

-Revel revealed!-

The bus arrived six minutes after my sister and I finished our meals. We took our bags and hurried off to the big yellow bus fashioned after the body of a Furret, a weasel Pokémon. The bus inherited its eyes for the front lights, and its whiskers. When I was younger the bus was a welcome sight for me, but now every time I ride in it, I feel my classmates squishing me with their funny looks.

You see, I’m never a popular one. I was a regular guy, not the bullied, not the bully. You’ll pass me by. I was nothing special. But still, a bus for little kids! That’d caught the attention, going down that bus, especially when my sister’s not in school yet. I won’t have any excuse of holding her hand while going down.

My sister’s name is Missa. She’s six years old and started studying just this year. Soon, she’ll be screaming for her own Pokémon, like I did.

We entered the Furret school bus.

“Good morning, Revel and little Missa.” The driver greeted. He was an old man, been old since I was young. Now, he looked older with grey colored beard and a balding grey head. His name is Mr. Soilu.

“Good morning Mister!” My sister greeted cheerfully. She skipped happily into her seat. I followed her.

The bus began moving, and I started monouloging… For our speech recital later.

I’m Revel, fifteen year old, grade nine student from the Pokémon Western Institute Region Jotho. I’ve been in the school for ten years, and I’ve been studying a number of things.

They’ll start you off as a grade one student, learning the basic of Pokémon. Berries, their nature, until you reach off the stage of Math and Algebra, it’s pretty simple. A mix of normal subject taken with Pokémon related subjects. A memorable one was ‘Pokémon 102: who’s that Pokémon’ and that was the only subject I’ve got an A plus, pretty much everyone got that mark, and that was in second grade!

I’m just a normal middle school student with average scores of B minus. It was a pretty high score if you ask me.

So, we have that. After graduation you have a choice, of either going on an adventure or finding an apprenticeship for a job. (Well, most of us do go for adventures and retire later on) Rarely, they never settle and become full pledge adventurer… Like my dad. His name was Roose, a full-pledge adventurer. He used to show me his badges, completed the badges from Kanto and Jotho, then he went to the Hoenn region… The last I’ve heard of him was six years ago.

The bus stopped in front of our school gate.

I saw people busy walking and talking. Our school incorporates grade school to middle school, but the two lies in two different buildings, these two building lies facing each other, both with four long floors. On the center of our school lies a long pathway, that if continued, it would lead you into a staircase going down a slope, into the arena, a semi-circular shape area wherein most people do their Pokémon battles.

I stepped out of the school bus making sure I was holding the hand of my little sister. She giggled and skipped more as we walk forward.

We went to the guard for inspection, of our things and our Pokémon. Missa gladly gave her bag and announced she has no Pokémon for herself. I followed by giving my backpack and showing my Geodude.

Missa began tugging my uniform and pointed to the grade school department.

“Missa, calm down.” I said.

But she just giggled more and led me to her building.

The grade school department is a red colored that towers over forty feet. The main entrance is into a long hall that stretches into different stairs and pathways. In the left is the way into a playground, it was large, and allowed children to bring out smaller Pokémon. (It is prohibited to bring out larger Pokémon, that’s the purpose of the inspection.) In the right comes the main staircase that leads to the other floors.