A Vacation, an Adventure, and the Story of a Lifetime

Chapter 71- Homeward (with Homework, UGH!)

Because what better way to "celebrate" school on the horizon in times like these than to remember when we actually did have early days with make-up work due?

        -Luna the Space Fox

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Author's notes

Thoughts

"Telepathy"

"Speech"

"{Pokemon speech}"

Disclaimer: If I owned Pokemon, this wouldn't be a Wattpad fanfiction and the Sun/Moon anime would've had the same animators as X/Y~

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Luna groaned as she slowly came to, her eyes shut tight as she tried to battle a painful headache. "Nghh... What's going on...?"

The brunette reached up to rub her face just to find her body was still in its Pokemon form, her paws uncomfortably sliding over her fur and pushing it the wrong way. With an irritated sigh, she put it back on the ground- it was relatively hard and kind of dusty, so it couldn't be her bed, or anywhere in the house- and slowly opened her eyes.

Above her, multiple people were all staring down at her. Luna jolted under such scrutiny, letting out an undignified "Gah!" before composing herself, climbing off the floor to indignantly shake out her ruffled fur. She looked back up to see her classmates, including her sister and half-brother as well as the Professor.

She shifted back to her human form, wiggling her fingers graciously, glad to not be a few feet shorter than everyone there. "What's going on? Why's everyone staring at me like that?"

"Your battle with Tapu Koko," Lana began. "Both sides fainted, so I guess it turned out to be a tie... Are you alright?"

She nodded to the bluenette, looking around. Lunalox was being lifted up by the white-furred Raven, Midnight, and Gleam.

Funny... I don't remember when my big sis got here...

"Guess so," she murmured. Her eyebrows furrowed as she noticed a strange silvery outline around Lunalox, but when she shook her head and blinked, it disappeared. Now I'm seeing things? Maybe it's still too soon for Lunalox's Z-Move... "What are we going to do, now that the battle's over?"

"Well, seeing as you were wiped out by that last attack, I'd say you can head home early," Kukui told her. However, when met by a smile- who didn't love a free pass to skip school?- he smirked. "However, this means you have homework: write a report of the battle; what you did right, what you could improve on, and how you plan on trying to beat Tapu Koko the next time it challenges you to a battle. Tomorrow, we'll continue studying battle practices, since the rest of today's a review day, alright?"

Luna's jaw dropped, but she lowered her head and nodded. Of course there'd be a catch. She watched the rest of the class go inside, the once-full battlefield in the yard suddenly empty aside from Luna and her Pokemon.

She walked over to Lunalox, who was starting to wake up. A worried Raven was standing over her, while Gleam and Midnight noticed her unhappy expression. "{What's wrong, dear?}" The former asked her, reaching out with her white-gloved hands to cup Luna's face, making sure she wasn't hurt.

"The Professor gave me homework," she groaned dramatically, falling backwards into the Pokemon's arms. She trusted her Pokemon with her life, so the simple act of making sure she didn't fall down was something she believed they would do in a heartbeat, just as she'd do for them. "Can you believe that? We fainted during a battle with the Island freaking Guardian, and he wants me to write a report!?"

"{It's not that bad,}" Raven told her over her shoulder, but the Espeon still seemed distracted, worry etched across her face as she helped Lunalox stand. From a distance Luna hadn't noticed, but the young canine's blue-violet fur has retained some of its brown tinge from before.

She looks even more like my own Pokemon form, she realized.

"{What!? Writing a report sucks, Ray! How can you say that it's not that bad!?}" Midnight protested, her yellow eyes darting between Luna and Raven.

"{Because it's not. Now stop being dramatic and let's get home so Luna can finish it,}" the elder Eeveelution instructed. Once Lunalox was on her paws, the white-furred Espeon began padding toward the schoolyard exit and down the hill, the others following, not daring to disobey their big sister's orders.

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Once the gals all made it back to the house, Luna collapsed on the couch and groaned before sitting up and reaching for a piece of paper. Her younger sister always left notebooks lying around to sketch in if she got inspiration, so Luna was never far from something to write on and with.

The one Cloudy had left on the coffee table had a dark blue cover and a spiral holding the papers together, which were lined. She huffed and flipped open to the first clean page she found, folding the other sheets open before clicking the pen.

"Analysis of my battle with Tapu Koko," she mumbled as she wrote. "Written by Luna Oak-Ketchum Fox, Professor Kukui's class at the Pokemon School on Melemele Island."

Luna didn't notice the others around as she continued writing, detailing her strange lack of motivation in battle again, but how she and Lunalox improvised like before. She expressed regret on choosing to use Lunalox's Z-Move without enough prior training, and made a small list of things she still wanted to work on with the young Pokemon, as well as a few moves she wanted her other Pokemon to teach her- Nightshade being back meant that she might finally successfully learn a Water-Type move, and she had always wanted to know what it was like using Water Shuriken, for one.

After about half an hour of scribbling a full three-page report, she dotted the period for the last sentence and practically threw her pen down in joy. "I FINALLY DID IT!"

"{That didn't take you long, now did it?}" Raven asked, almost appearing out of thin air as she stood in the open area between the halls to the bedrooms and the living room.

"Mostly because I just wanted to be done with it," she countered, pulling the pages from the notebook. Luna walked down the hall past her elder sister and stepped into her bedroom, finding a stapler on her desk and attaching the papers to one another. "Please make sure I get this to the Professor tomorrow. If I forget it, I'll never forgive myself, or you."

"{Drama queen,}" she heard Raven mutter.

Luna tossed a pillow in the Espeon's direction. "Am not!"