A Pokémon Journey?

Chapter 3 - A big surprise!

I entered the room as I fixed my hair, it was kind of short with a light, brown color, but I usually liked to have it up for some reason. I looked down to see that I had worn a slim, purple t-shirt, not the girly kind, but a strong, dark one. Along with the shirt came a pair of dark jeans and nice, formal shoes. I then proceeded to look at the bright light that met my eyes as I laid them upon a big table, on the table was a small Xatu, they weren't usually that small and I had never seen one in my life, so I just stood there and looked at it.

"You may come sit down." I heard a voice say calmly. Then I realised that the voice was in my head. What, am I going mad?

"It's me, Xatu, and now if you will, let's start the test." the voice said again, i then realised that it was the Xatu and I sat down on the seat in front of it and blushed.

"Please, answer a few questions for me if you may?" it asked as I prepared for the questions. I just nodded my agreement and he started.

"What would you do in case of a fire?" he asked me.

"I guess I would get out of it and try to stay calm..." I answered, what a weird question!

Then I realised what he was doing, he just wanted to get into my mind to find out what rank i would be!

I laughed at how clever this pokemon was and I just sat there giggling for a while until I heard another noise and Xatu giving me a closed letter and telling me not to open it until I was told to do so. I headed towards the exit and went over to the place where all the "ranked" students stood, they all looked as eager as me to open the letter. But there was no avoiding it, we just had to wait.

As the last student made his way into the room, everyone looked as excited as they could possibly get, it was as if they forgot that they had been waiting for two hours, there were a lot of new students! "But what if I don't get ranked above twelve? I mean, that is the average for newcomers! What if I get the lowest rank in the class?" I thought to myself, worried.

I was never the most social kid and I didn't have many friends, none, to be exact... As I drowned in my own thoughts, a voice cracked through and dragged me up to the surface. It was Xatu.

"Now everyone..." He said with a pause, I think he was talking to everyone of us through telepathy and we waited for the rest of the words.

"Open your letters and reveal your ranks!" he said, a hint of happiness in his voice.

We all ripped open our letters and there was soon paper everywhere as the trainers slowly started to cheer.

"Okay, now, everyone stay collected!" a voice said from the stage, the headmaster, I had completely forgotten about him! I ripped open my letter and was shocked when I saw the numbers written in giant letters!

"35"