Pokemon: Age of War, Book 1. Claws In The Dark

Train Trouble

1954, after the Pokemon Revolution. Pokemon have just been granted the right to attend schools with human children. The Discovery of Mega Stones and Mega Evolution has been discovered by Albert Einstein (who would soon die a year later.)

"Wake up... WAKE UP!! Bishop.. WAKE UP ALREADY!!!"

Within the snug train compartment, the white, cat-like pokemon with pink long ears and strange bow-like ribons as well as pink highlights on her paws and tail pouted as she attempted to wake up her black haired  youthful human friend, who was snoozing peacefully next to her.

The black haired boy wore a long black coat with a white flame symbol on his shoulder. He yawned, but fell straight back to sleep, much to the chagrin of Sylveon.. who was once known as the small Evee that Charizard had found along with the boy 13 years ago..

"WAKE UP!!!" Slyveon yowled like an angry cat and began swatting Bishop's face with her paw.

On the other end of the compartment, sat what was apparently a girl around Bishop's age with her younger sister, who looked enthralled by the Sylveon.

"Ally look!" said the little girl. "It's so cute!"

"CUTE!?" said Sylveon looking at the little girl. "Hey! I'm not cute!! I'm hot!!"

The older sister, Ally, stifled a giggle.

"Hey!! Wh-what are you laughing at!?" Sylveon exclaimed. "Bishooooop!!!! These weirdos are laughing at me!!"

Bishop finally stirred and mumbled while waving a hand absentmindely. "You make it too easy for them Sylvy. You're cuter when you're angry.."

"But I'm not cute!! I'm hot!!!"

"Keep doing that.." Bishop mumbled, his eyes still closed. "No more you do that, the cuter you seem. And I can practically feel you pouting over there.. that's just gonna make you seem even cuter."

"RRRRRAAARRRRRRR!!!!" Sylveon let out an angry cry and began slapping Bishop with her paws irritably. "That's it!!! You owe me 3 cakes now!"

"Only 3 this time?" said Bishop opening an eye. "Wow.. that's actually affordable..."

"ALRIGHT THEN!! 5 cakes!!" said Sylveon with a sparkle in her eye and a devious grin. "Or I'm gonna keep begging you until you say yes!"

"Fine.." said Bishop. "But only what we can afford after we pay the tuition.. I'm not going broke on our first semester.."

"Semester?" said Ally. "Are you two perhaps studying to be Sync Fighters."

"Yeah.. you could say that.." said Bishop. "We got a scholarship to go study in America..I'm a Fairy Sync Fighter.. my weapon syncs with good ol Sylvy here.. though I also do good with fire types.."

"Only because you trained with Charizard for 3 months on that!" said Sylveon. "Anyways..."

Sylveon puffed up her chest proudly. "Who needs a fire type like Dad when we've done pretty good together? We passed the entrance exam didn't we? The only American Sync fighters to do so.."

"Sylvy, don't brag.." Bishop muttered with a slight sigh. "You know compared to all the others who made it in this year.. we were dead last right? The only reason we passed was because my Fairy Sword and your Moon Blast combo did the most damage...our aim sucked.. our tactics got bottom scores..."

"Yeah yeah, whatever!!" said Sylveon with another pout. "We still made it in!! And that's supposed to be impossible for non Brits!! We made it to the most prestigious Academy in the world!! WITH A SCHOLARSHIP!!!"

"the scholarship only covers 40%.."

"SCHOLARSHIP!!!!"

"Okay.. okay.. we got a scholarship.."