Emily
11-19-2007, 04:57 AM
Characters (so far): 25, 495
Pokemon: Glameow
Hating Maria Susannon
Ugh, the parts where I had to type with a complete disregard for grammar were hell. I hope that they don’t detract from my overall grade, though, because that would be annoying.
Part one
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Maria Melody Violet Susannon looked lazily around the classroom, running a slender hand through her flowing, platinum blonde hair. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of sparkling ocean blue, glistening as if they contained the seas themselves. Of course, having large bodies of water in your eyes is probably not a good thing, so let’s drop that subject.
Maria was tall and thin enough to be anorexic (but wasn’t), and she had curves in all of the right places. Her long hair reached her knees, and was always well-groomed, even when she had just gotten up. Her face was pale and radiant, like the surface of the moon itself. She had plump pink lips, and a light dusting of freckles over her nose.
When she was young, the girl’s mother had been unfortunately diagnosed with lung cancer, and died soon after. Her father, full of pent up grief and rage at his wife’s death, decided to take it out on his only daughter, having to take her to the hospital many times to treat broken bones and burns. When Maria was older, her father began to beat her more severely, forcing her to leave home and take to the streets.
When she was roaming the alleyways, a kindly mage had taken her in, and she had been learning how to use psychic powers ever since.
Despite her traumatic past, this girl was still a kind, loving, gentle, smart and beautiful person, loved by all. Well, not quite…
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Elizabeth O’Rly looked up from her test, and glared at the beauty queen sitting across the room from her. Maria, or Mary to her friends, had finished the difficult algebra test in mere seconds, and then took to distracting the class around her by practicing telekinesis. Making objects fly around the room and occasionally hit someone in the head was her idea of a good time, apparently.
Elizabeth herself was quite pretty, but looked like a pile of Raticate droppings when compared to the goddess that was Maria.
She had medium length, honey-coloured hair, and pretty brown eyes. She was slightly shorter than average for girls her age, and quite slender. Not as stick-thin as Maria, but thin nonetheless. She had a rather mischievous sort of face, and had a rather cunning sort of look about her. She was quick-witted, to say the least.
Unlike the girl that she detested with every fibre of her being, Elizabeth had a rather normal life. A normal family, normal friends, normal everything. Sometimes she thought that she’d kill for a bit of excitement, but it never came.
Grumbling as an airborne chair almost decapitated her; the short girl ducked her head down again to continue with her test.
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Daniel Fisher stifled a snort as he saw Elizabeth duck to avoid a flying chair. However he wasn’t laughing for long, as he saw that it had changed its flight path and curved towards him. He flinched, bracing himself for the impact, but it never came. The boy looked towards the girl controlling the chair, and she smiled sweetly at him.
Daniel had short, spiky brown hair and hazel eyes. He was tall and muscular, very much into sports, and luckily, didn’t have curves in all of the right places. He was kind, though, and one of the most popular people in his class. However, he wasn’t too smart, and failing almost all of his classes.
The boy looked back at the girl that he (and everyone else) lusted after, and she winked seductively at him.
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“Alright class, hand in your tests and you can go,” said the maths teacher, after the bell had rung.
Maria leapt up and threw her test up, floating it over to the balding man. He plucked it out of the air and smiled kindly at his favourite student. Flashing her pearly white teeth at him, Maria walked out of the room, swinging her hips rhythmically.
Elizabeth glared daggers at the girl’s back, and stood up. Slamming the test down on the teacher’s desk, she stalked out of the room, muttering incoherent insults under her breath.
Daniel looked over at the two girls – Elizabeth was obviously not happy. Scratching his head, he wondered what exactly the matter was.
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“Hey, Cherrie!” squealed Maria, opening her locker and taking out an unhappy Glameow. The Pokemon hissed at her, as spending countless hours cramped in a locker wasn’t her idea of an exciting day.
Ignoring the normal type’s display of agitation, the platinum blonde admired the cat-like creature.
The Glameow had well-groomed grey fur, with the tips of her ears, her paws and her muzzle a milky-white colour. She yawned, showing an array of pointed white teeth. Cherrie’s eyelids were the same colour as the inside of her ears – light pink. She had a long, spiralling tail that had a puff of light grey fur on the end, and was waving it around.
“Glameow!” she mewed, twitching her whiskers.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes, feeling sorry for the Pokemon. She stuffed her books into her locker, and took out her bag. Sneering at Maria, she trekked out of the school gates. Plodding through the grey, dreary streets, the girl sighed.
“This is boring…” she muttered to herself.
Tearing a single green leaf from a tree, the girl proceeded to tear it into tiny pieces. Sprinkling the bits of leaf over the ground, Elizabeth turned a corner, and walked down her driveway.
Opening the door and sauntering down the hallway, the girl entered her room and turned on her computer. Putting her bag down and taking off her shoes, the girl sat on her bed and peeled off her sweaty, smelly socks.
She smiled at the red and white orb on her bedside table. It held in it her only Pokemon, Tali. She had raised the Pokemon from an egg, and had trained her well.
Wrinkling her nose in disgust at the putrid smell wafting from the socks, Elizabeth sat down at her computer, which had just finished loading. Opening her internet client, she first checked her email.
“Hey, Maria sent me an email. I wonder what she wants… and how did she get my email address?” murmured the girl to herself, clicking on the flashing icon.
hey lizzzzz,
maria here. i waz wondering y u were glaring at me 2day at skool
i hope ur not angry at me
plz meet me at the park at 4, I need 2 talk 2 u!
Grimacing at Maria’s atrocious concept of grammar, Elizabeth checked the clock. It was close to four. Getting up again with a groan, the girl slipped on a pair of sandals, snatched up her Pokeball (you never know when you’d need the protection), and headed out again.
The walk to the park was dull and uninteresting; with every house she passed looking more and more like the last. At one point, she thought she saw a dead Zubat on the road, but when she had gotten closer it had turned out to be a black plastic bag.
As she reached the park (which wasn’t really what one would call a park – it was more like a field with virtually no grass and a withered tree to one side), she saw a shining figure leaning against the black, gnarled tree.
“Lizzie!” Maria called, her voice melodious and angelic.
“Hi Maria!” said Elizabeth voice through gritted teeth, smiling a false smile.
The blonde girl gave her ‘friend’ a lung-crushing hug, and smiled sweetly. Elizabeth almost gagged from the amount of perfume that Maria was wearing – she smelt so sweet that the brown-eyed girl wanted the throw up.
“Lizzie, you aren’t mad at me, are you?” asked Maria, creasing her brow.
“Oh, not at all!” Elizabeth lied through her teeth, “I was just jealous of your powers!”
“That’s good!” smiled Maria, brightening up considerably.
It was then that she spied Elizabeth’s Pokeball, that was clutched tightly in the girl’s hand.
“Oh, you have a Pokemon? Let’s have a battle!”
Not waiting for a response from her opponent, Maria backed away a few meters and whistled. Suddenly, a grey blur fell out of the sky.
“Glameow!” cried Cherrie, leaping from seemingly nowhere.
“Um… okay… go Tali, I suppose,” said Elizabeth uncertainly, throwing the orb.
In a burst of light, a cat-like figure emerged from the opened sphere. She had a slender figure, with a long, forked tail. Her lavender coat shone magnificently in the sunlight, and ruby red jewel on her forehead sparkled magnificently. Her amethyst eyes gazed calmly at her opponent as she waved her tail in the air.
“Espeon,” Tali rasped, looking back at her trainer.
“An Espeon?!” exclaimed Maria in disbelief, “Is that all you have?! Cherrie, use Slash!”
“Try to dodge it, Tali, and then use Psychic!” countered the Espeon’s trainer.
The grey cat leapt towards Tali with a surprising burst of speed, catching her target off guard. The psychic type frantically tried to scramble out of the way, but the Glameow raked her claws through the Espeon’s silky coat, tearing through flesh and causing the Pokemon to howl in pain.
In an attempt to fight back, the Eeveelution focused all of her energy into the jewel on her head and sent a wave of psychic energy at the Glameow, slamming her into the hard dirt, denting the earth.
“No, Cherrie!” squealed Maria, a few octaves higher than would be bearable, “Use the super special awesome attack that always wins the fight!”
The normal type nodded, and gave her opponent an apologetic look. Cherrie’s eyes began to glow blue, and a wind began to blow, stirring up dust and rustling the emerald green blades of grass. Storm clouds moved in, and thunder rumbled in the distance. By now, Elizabeth was freaking out, racking her brain for a way to stop the attack from hitting.
“Tali, try to hit it with a Swift!” she yelled desperately, hoping that it would work.
The Espeon once again focused all of her power into her jewel, and this time summoned sparkling yellow stars. With a swing of her head, Tali shot the Swift at her opponent, hoping to stop the incoming attack. However, as soon as the attack got close, Cherrie’s eyes glowed brighter, and the stars halted in midair.
“Glameow!”
With a cry, the Glameow imitated the psychic type’s movements, and shot the Swift right back. Tali gasped and rolled to the side, out of the path of the stars. Unfortunately, they changed their path, and exploded on the Espeon’s back.
“No, Tali!” cried Elizabeth, “Try to use Morning Sun!”
The psychic type tried to call the sun to heal her, but the thunderclouds that had rolled in were too thick, and the sun couldn’t shine through.
The glow that started in the Glameow’s eyes had now spread throughout her body, and she was crackling blue energy. With a yowl, the normal type leapt up into the air, and shot a vibrant rainbow beam at her opponent. Tali, thinking fast, shot a Psybeam at the oncoming attack, meeting it in midair. For a few tense moments, the two beams matched, crackling in air as each Pokemon tried to surpass the other.
“Now, Cherrie! Crank it up a notch!” screeched Maria over the crackle of the attacks clashing.
Cherrie let out a surprisingly scary snarl, which caused her foe to falter. With the momentary lapse of concentration in her opponent, the normal type was able to turn up the power of her beam and engulf the weaker psychic attack.
There was an explosion, and then the field was shrouded in dust. When the erosion cleared, a large crater became obvious to the trainers. Elizabeth peeked into the crater, and saw Tali lying still in a pool of her own blood, her foreleg broken and half of her left ear all but blown off.
“Tali!” screamed Elizabeth, running down into the crater.
The Espeon looked up at her trainer with a sad smile, and gave a weak groan.
“It’s okay Tali, we’ll get you help…” whispered the Pokemon’s trainer frantically, fumbling for the psychic type’s Pokeball.
“Oh my gosh, I’m SO sorry!” squealed Maria, jumping into the crater. “I’ll heal her for you!”
Before Elizabeth could protest, Maria started to glow blue. When she put her hand on Tali, the Espeon took on the glow as well, and her open wounds started to heal. Her foreleg snapped back into place, and her ear stopped bleeding.
“Well, I’m off now, see you later!” Maria remarked, leaping out of the crater.
The brown-haired girl stroked her Espeon, frowning at the psychic type’s mangled ear. Maria would pay for doing this to her companion; she’d make sure of it.
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Maria sauntered into her house, slamming the door shut behind her. She stroked Cherrie’s head, stoked about her recent win.
“Hey Kate!” she sang, twirling on the spot.
The sound of boots on the floor alerted her to her adoptive mother’s approach. The female mage was beautiful – not as beautiful as her daughter, of course, but still very pretty.
She had short, blood red hair, with gold highlights. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of emerald green, flecked with gold. She had a small nose, and luscious red lips. She was very tall (and had to duck when she entered a room to avoid being decapitated by a ceiling fan), and very thin.
“Hey Mary, how was your day?” she greeted, using Maria’s nickname.
“Oh, it was great!” exclaimed the blonde, “Cherrie and I won a battle!”
“That’s great, dear,” congratulated Kate, giving her adopted daughter a pat on the head before walking away.
Once she was out of earshot, Maria looked at her Glameow, “You almost screwed up today, you know. If you had killed that Espeon, we’d have a big fat lawsuit on our hands. We must have some more… training.”
---
“That was a close call, wasn’t it?”
Elizabeth looked down at her Espeon as they walked home, scowling at the damage that Maria had done to her Pokemon’s ear. Tali looked up at her trainer and smiled softly, thankful to be alive. She shook out her lavender coat, dislodging a few clumps of dirt that had collected on the silky fur.
The pavement was hard and rough under the Espeon’s paws, but she didn’t really mind. She moved to the side, stepping onto the soft green grass. As a psychic type, she was in tune with emotions, and this Espeon could sense joy all around her, but loathing from her trainer.
She frowned, hoping that Elizabeth wouldn’t do anything stupid. As they turned into the driveway, she felt the familiar falling feeling as she got sucked back into her Pokeball.
---
Elizabeth went back into her home, and back into her room. Kicking off her sandals and tossing Tali’s Pokeball on the bed, the girl sat back down at the computer. Logging onto her instant messenger, and looked at the ‘online’ list.
“Daniel’s on…” she murmured, clicking on his screen name.
Elizabeth had been in love with Daniel Fisher for a long, long time. They had been best friends as toddlers, but had grown up in separate primary schools. Now, in year seven, they were in the same class! While the two were no longer as close as they once were, they still talked occasionally. The girl brought up a chat window, and smiled to herself.
<<oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Hey Dan!>>
<<-dan-: hi liz, wats up?>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Not much, you?>>
<<-dan-: nm>>
<<-dan-: lol>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Hey, you know Maria Susannon?>>
<<-dan-: yh, shes hot lol>>
<<-dan-: I think im in love with her… lol>>
Elizabeth’s heart sank, knowing that unless she could unearth a dark secret about Maria (and that the same time, get revenge for hurting Tali), then there wasn’t a chance in hell that Dan would ever fall in love with her. Despite being close to tears, she kept typing like she was fine.
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Well, her Glameow almost killed my Espeon in a fight today!>>
<<-dan-: omg, relly????>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Yeah, Tali almost died, and she lost part of her ear!>>
<<-dan-: omg, that’s meen!>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Tell me about it!>>
<<-dan-: g2g, cya>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Bye, I guess.>>
Elizabeth frowned – she would do all that she could to keep Maria away from Daniel.
Pokemon: Glameow
Hating Maria Susannon
Ugh, the parts where I had to type with a complete disregard for grammar were hell. I hope that they don’t detract from my overall grade, though, because that would be annoying.
Part one
---
Maria Melody Violet Susannon looked lazily around the classroom, running a slender hand through her flowing, platinum blonde hair. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of sparkling ocean blue, glistening as if they contained the seas themselves. Of course, having large bodies of water in your eyes is probably not a good thing, so let’s drop that subject.
Maria was tall and thin enough to be anorexic (but wasn’t), and she had curves in all of the right places. Her long hair reached her knees, and was always well-groomed, even when she had just gotten up. Her face was pale and radiant, like the surface of the moon itself. She had plump pink lips, and a light dusting of freckles over her nose.
When she was young, the girl’s mother had been unfortunately diagnosed with lung cancer, and died soon after. Her father, full of pent up grief and rage at his wife’s death, decided to take it out on his only daughter, having to take her to the hospital many times to treat broken bones and burns. When Maria was older, her father began to beat her more severely, forcing her to leave home and take to the streets.
When she was roaming the alleyways, a kindly mage had taken her in, and she had been learning how to use psychic powers ever since.
Despite her traumatic past, this girl was still a kind, loving, gentle, smart and beautiful person, loved by all. Well, not quite…
---
Elizabeth O’Rly looked up from her test, and glared at the beauty queen sitting across the room from her. Maria, or Mary to her friends, had finished the difficult algebra test in mere seconds, and then took to distracting the class around her by practicing telekinesis. Making objects fly around the room and occasionally hit someone in the head was her idea of a good time, apparently.
Elizabeth herself was quite pretty, but looked like a pile of Raticate droppings when compared to the goddess that was Maria.
She had medium length, honey-coloured hair, and pretty brown eyes. She was slightly shorter than average for girls her age, and quite slender. Not as stick-thin as Maria, but thin nonetheless. She had a rather mischievous sort of face, and had a rather cunning sort of look about her. She was quick-witted, to say the least.
Unlike the girl that she detested with every fibre of her being, Elizabeth had a rather normal life. A normal family, normal friends, normal everything. Sometimes she thought that she’d kill for a bit of excitement, but it never came.
Grumbling as an airborne chair almost decapitated her; the short girl ducked her head down again to continue with her test.
---
Daniel Fisher stifled a snort as he saw Elizabeth duck to avoid a flying chair. However he wasn’t laughing for long, as he saw that it had changed its flight path and curved towards him. He flinched, bracing himself for the impact, but it never came. The boy looked towards the girl controlling the chair, and she smiled sweetly at him.
Daniel had short, spiky brown hair and hazel eyes. He was tall and muscular, very much into sports, and luckily, didn’t have curves in all of the right places. He was kind, though, and one of the most popular people in his class. However, he wasn’t too smart, and failing almost all of his classes.
The boy looked back at the girl that he (and everyone else) lusted after, and she winked seductively at him.
---
“Alright class, hand in your tests and you can go,” said the maths teacher, after the bell had rung.
Maria leapt up and threw her test up, floating it over to the balding man. He plucked it out of the air and smiled kindly at his favourite student. Flashing her pearly white teeth at him, Maria walked out of the room, swinging her hips rhythmically.
Elizabeth glared daggers at the girl’s back, and stood up. Slamming the test down on the teacher’s desk, she stalked out of the room, muttering incoherent insults under her breath.
Daniel looked over at the two girls – Elizabeth was obviously not happy. Scratching his head, he wondered what exactly the matter was.
---
“Hey, Cherrie!” squealed Maria, opening her locker and taking out an unhappy Glameow. The Pokemon hissed at her, as spending countless hours cramped in a locker wasn’t her idea of an exciting day.
Ignoring the normal type’s display of agitation, the platinum blonde admired the cat-like creature.
The Glameow had well-groomed grey fur, with the tips of her ears, her paws and her muzzle a milky-white colour. She yawned, showing an array of pointed white teeth. Cherrie’s eyelids were the same colour as the inside of her ears – light pink. She had a long, spiralling tail that had a puff of light grey fur on the end, and was waving it around.
“Glameow!” she mewed, twitching her whiskers.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes, feeling sorry for the Pokemon. She stuffed her books into her locker, and took out her bag. Sneering at Maria, she trekked out of the school gates. Plodding through the grey, dreary streets, the girl sighed.
“This is boring…” she muttered to herself.
Tearing a single green leaf from a tree, the girl proceeded to tear it into tiny pieces. Sprinkling the bits of leaf over the ground, Elizabeth turned a corner, and walked down her driveway.
Opening the door and sauntering down the hallway, the girl entered her room and turned on her computer. Putting her bag down and taking off her shoes, the girl sat on her bed and peeled off her sweaty, smelly socks.
She smiled at the red and white orb on her bedside table. It held in it her only Pokemon, Tali. She had raised the Pokemon from an egg, and had trained her well.
Wrinkling her nose in disgust at the putrid smell wafting from the socks, Elizabeth sat down at her computer, which had just finished loading. Opening her internet client, she first checked her email.
“Hey, Maria sent me an email. I wonder what she wants… and how did she get my email address?” murmured the girl to herself, clicking on the flashing icon.
hey lizzzzz,
maria here. i waz wondering y u were glaring at me 2day at skool
i hope ur not angry at me
plz meet me at the park at 4, I need 2 talk 2 u!
Grimacing at Maria’s atrocious concept of grammar, Elizabeth checked the clock. It was close to four. Getting up again with a groan, the girl slipped on a pair of sandals, snatched up her Pokeball (you never know when you’d need the protection), and headed out again.
The walk to the park was dull and uninteresting; with every house she passed looking more and more like the last. At one point, she thought she saw a dead Zubat on the road, but when she had gotten closer it had turned out to be a black plastic bag.
As she reached the park (which wasn’t really what one would call a park – it was more like a field with virtually no grass and a withered tree to one side), she saw a shining figure leaning against the black, gnarled tree.
“Lizzie!” Maria called, her voice melodious and angelic.
“Hi Maria!” said Elizabeth voice through gritted teeth, smiling a false smile.
The blonde girl gave her ‘friend’ a lung-crushing hug, and smiled sweetly. Elizabeth almost gagged from the amount of perfume that Maria was wearing – she smelt so sweet that the brown-eyed girl wanted the throw up.
“Lizzie, you aren’t mad at me, are you?” asked Maria, creasing her brow.
“Oh, not at all!” Elizabeth lied through her teeth, “I was just jealous of your powers!”
“That’s good!” smiled Maria, brightening up considerably.
It was then that she spied Elizabeth’s Pokeball, that was clutched tightly in the girl’s hand.
“Oh, you have a Pokemon? Let’s have a battle!”
Not waiting for a response from her opponent, Maria backed away a few meters and whistled. Suddenly, a grey blur fell out of the sky.
“Glameow!” cried Cherrie, leaping from seemingly nowhere.
“Um… okay… go Tali, I suppose,” said Elizabeth uncertainly, throwing the orb.
In a burst of light, a cat-like figure emerged from the opened sphere. She had a slender figure, with a long, forked tail. Her lavender coat shone magnificently in the sunlight, and ruby red jewel on her forehead sparkled magnificently. Her amethyst eyes gazed calmly at her opponent as she waved her tail in the air.
“Espeon,” Tali rasped, looking back at her trainer.
“An Espeon?!” exclaimed Maria in disbelief, “Is that all you have?! Cherrie, use Slash!”
“Try to dodge it, Tali, and then use Psychic!” countered the Espeon’s trainer.
The grey cat leapt towards Tali with a surprising burst of speed, catching her target off guard. The psychic type frantically tried to scramble out of the way, but the Glameow raked her claws through the Espeon’s silky coat, tearing through flesh and causing the Pokemon to howl in pain.
In an attempt to fight back, the Eeveelution focused all of her energy into the jewel on her head and sent a wave of psychic energy at the Glameow, slamming her into the hard dirt, denting the earth.
“No, Cherrie!” squealed Maria, a few octaves higher than would be bearable, “Use the super special awesome attack that always wins the fight!”
The normal type nodded, and gave her opponent an apologetic look. Cherrie’s eyes began to glow blue, and a wind began to blow, stirring up dust and rustling the emerald green blades of grass. Storm clouds moved in, and thunder rumbled in the distance. By now, Elizabeth was freaking out, racking her brain for a way to stop the attack from hitting.
“Tali, try to hit it with a Swift!” she yelled desperately, hoping that it would work.
The Espeon once again focused all of her power into her jewel, and this time summoned sparkling yellow stars. With a swing of her head, Tali shot the Swift at her opponent, hoping to stop the incoming attack. However, as soon as the attack got close, Cherrie’s eyes glowed brighter, and the stars halted in midair.
“Glameow!”
With a cry, the Glameow imitated the psychic type’s movements, and shot the Swift right back. Tali gasped and rolled to the side, out of the path of the stars. Unfortunately, they changed their path, and exploded on the Espeon’s back.
“No, Tali!” cried Elizabeth, “Try to use Morning Sun!”
The psychic type tried to call the sun to heal her, but the thunderclouds that had rolled in were too thick, and the sun couldn’t shine through.
The glow that started in the Glameow’s eyes had now spread throughout her body, and she was crackling blue energy. With a yowl, the normal type leapt up into the air, and shot a vibrant rainbow beam at her opponent. Tali, thinking fast, shot a Psybeam at the oncoming attack, meeting it in midair. For a few tense moments, the two beams matched, crackling in air as each Pokemon tried to surpass the other.
“Now, Cherrie! Crank it up a notch!” screeched Maria over the crackle of the attacks clashing.
Cherrie let out a surprisingly scary snarl, which caused her foe to falter. With the momentary lapse of concentration in her opponent, the normal type was able to turn up the power of her beam and engulf the weaker psychic attack.
There was an explosion, and then the field was shrouded in dust. When the erosion cleared, a large crater became obvious to the trainers. Elizabeth peeked into the crater, and saw Tali lying still in a pool of her own blood, her foreleg broken and half of her left ear all but blown off.
“Tali!” screamed Elizabeth, running down into the crater.
The Espeon looked up at her trainer with a sad smile, and gave a weak groan.
“It’s okay Tali, we’ll get you help…” whispered the Pokemon’s trainer frantically, fumbling for the psychic type’s Pokeball.
“Oh my gosh, I’m SO sorry!” squealed Maria, jumping into the crater. “I’ll heal her for you!”
Before Elizabeth could protest, Maria started to glow blue. When she put her hand on Tali, the Espeon took on the glow as well, and her open wounds started to heal. Her foreleg snapped back into place, and her ear stopped bleeding.
“Well, I’m off now, see you later!” Maria remarked, leaping out of the crater.
The brown-haired girl stroked her Espeon, frowning at the psychic type’s mangled ear. Maria would pay for doing this to her companion; she’d make sure of it.
---
Maria sauntered into her house, slamming the door shut behind her. She stroked Cherrie’s head, stoked about her recent win.
“Hey Kate!” she sang, twirling on the spot.
The sound of boots on the floor alerted her to her adoptive mother’s approach. The female mage was beautiful – not as beautiful as her daughter, of course, but still very pretty.
She had short, blood red hair, with gold highlights. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of emerald green, flecked with gold. She had a small nose, and luscious red lips. She was very tall (and had to duck when she entered a room to avoid being decapitated by a ceiling fan), and very thin.
“Hey Mary, how was your day?” she greeted, using Maria’s nickname.
“Oh, it was great!” exclaimed the blonde, “Cherrie and I won a battle!”
“That’s great, dear,” congratulated Kate, giving her adopted daughter a pat on the head before walking away.
Once she was out of earshot, Maria looked at her Glameow, “You almost screwed up today, you know. If you had killed that Espeon, we’d have a big fat lawsuit on our hands. We must have some more… training.”
---
“That was a close call, wasn’t it?”
Elizabeth looked down at her Espeon as they walked home, scowling at the damage that Maria had done to her Pokemon’s ear. Tali looked up at her trainer and smiled softly, thankful to be alive. She shook out her lavender coat, dislodging a few clumps of dirt that had collected on the silky fur.
The pavement was hard and rough under the Espeon’s paws, but she didn’t really mind. She moved to the side, stepping onto the soft green grass. As a psychic type, she was in tune with emotions, and this Espeon could sense joy all around her, but loathing from her trainer.
She frowned, hoping that Elizabeth wouldn’t do anything stupid. As they turned into the driveway, she felt the familiar falling feeling as she got sucked back into her Pokeball.
---
Elizabeth went back into her home, and back into her room. Kicking off her sandals and tossing Tali’s Pokeball on the bed, the girl sat back down at the computer. Logging onto her instant messenger, and looked at the ‘online’ list.
“Daniel’s on…” she murmured, clicking on his screen name.
Elizabeth had been in love with Daniel Fisher for a long, long time. They had been best friends as toddlers, but had grown up in separate primary schools. Now, in year seven, they were in the same class! While the two were no longer as close as they once were, they still talked occasionally. The girl brought up a chat window, and smiled to herself.
<<oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Hey Dan!>>
<<-dan-: hi liz, wats up?>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Not much, you?>>
<<-dan-: nm>>
<<-dan-: lol>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Hey, you know Maria Susannon?>>
<<-dan-: yh, shes hot lol>>
<<-dan-: I think im in love with her… lol>>
Elizabeth’s heart sank, knowing that unless she could unearth a dark secret about Maria (and that the same time, get revenge for hurting Tali), then there wasn’t a chance in hell that Dan would ever fall in love with her. Despite being close to tears, she kept typing like she was fine.
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Well, her Glameow almost killed my Espeon in a fight today!>>
<<-dan-: omg, relly????>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Yeah, Tali almost died, and she lost part of her ear!>>
<<-dan-: omg, that’s meen!>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Tell me about it!>>
<<-dan-: g2g, cya>>
<< oXo~LiZzY~oXo: Bye, I guess.>>
Elizabeth frowned – she would do all that she could to keep Maria away from Daniel.