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Ah, Mesagoza, the city of learning, more like the city of torturously long stairs. After walking up what felt like a million flights of stairs, Mallory had finally made it to the entrance of Naranja academy, maybe not exactly feeling the best after climbing all those stairs but it’s the effort that counts.
”Why are the fuck are the stairs so god damn long?”
Is all she could think about in that moment before realizing she actually had to go inside the academy. She then also realized another thing, where was her Scorbunny at? It was right next to her like 2 minutes ago. So, like any normal person, she had to go all the way back down the stairs.”there’s no way i have to go back down all those damn stairs, this isn’t very Skibidi”After what what felt like two hours at least, she made it down the the stairs.
“Scorbunny! Where are you!”
”That little shit ain’t no way in ohio that that L rizz beta made me go all the way back down these stairs, this isn’t very Skibidi at all!”
Thankfully, Scorbunny heard her and somehow managed to find her on its own. She was glad Scorbunny was back, but then she realized she had to go back up the stairs.Anyways, she did eventually make it into the building, immediately being greeted by a very hyper kid, who she later learned was named Nemona. And as if Arceus himself hated her, she got a text from her brother, all it said was:
”We need to talk about your search history as soon as you get back”
Oh shit
Okay maybe her search history was, questionable, but hopefully he didn’t mean all the other questionable things she had looked up,
hopefully.
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As Mallory walked home from the academy, she was silently praying to Arceus that her brother would get hit by a bus, or hit his head and get amnesia, either way, she knew that it probably won’t happen but a girl can hope.
At that moment, as if Arceus answered her prayers, she heard a loud yowl from an alleyway she was passing by. Normally, she definitely wouldn’t go check it out, but she needed any excuse to get back home late.
“hello?”
Another yowl.
“Where are you?”
She spotted a Litten just slightly visible in the corner of the alley.
it yowl at her again before firing a flaming hair ball at her, which she just barely managed to dodge.
“Okay, just stay still….”
She quickly took off her hoodie and tossed it onto the Litten and scooped it up.
The Litten yowled again and tried to claw it way out of the hoodie, to which she just started running back home before the Litten could jump out of the hoodie.
The second she got back she breathed a sigh of relief to see that her brother wasn’t there, she immediately ran into her room and let the Litten out of the hoodie.
”Okay, now to get rid of the computer”
She snatched her computer off of her bed and opened her window.
She hesitated at first, but at least nobody else would see it.
She quickly tossed it out of the window before quickly shutting the window.
As the computer hit the ground Litten got startled by the sound and yowled, to which she quickly pulled a Pecha berry and tossed it to Litten.
The Litten hesitated to eat it at first, but after a few minutes it finally started to slowly eat the berry, all while Mallory was deleting her search history off her Rotom phone and deleting her C.ai and Chai.
”well, at least nobody will ever see my Chai or C.ai chats”
The Litten climbed onto one of her pillows and curled up before finally going to sleep.
She smiled at Litten and started petting it’s head before pulling out her phone and taking a picture of it.
She probably had a bit of time before Amethio got back, and she was going to use that time wisely, for the most part at least.
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Walking home at midnight is one thing, walking home at midnight while bleeding from the stomach is a different thing.
Amethio walked home slightly clutching his stomach and wincing at the pain while blood caked onto his shirt.
Getting hit with a whip 5 times in the stomach at full force has got to hurt.
He could just fly back on Corvikight, but just because he’s covered in blood doesn’t mean she has to be covered in blood too.
It’s not like it happened for no reason either, he failed to capture Rayquaza, Gibeon gave him the punishment for his failure, and failure has it’s consequences.
All he could think about was how he failed so terribly, first he couldn’t get the pendant, then he lost to Friede, and failed to get Rayquaza, he should stop being dramatic and accept his punishment like a grown up.
After what felt like 2 hours he finally made it back home, immediately going to the bathroom to check how bad his wound is.
He started taking off his blood caked gloves and set them off to the side of the sink, before slightly lifting his shirt up to check the damage.
The wound was moderately big, nothing he couldn’t handle on his own, he had dealt with bandaging his own scars before, this one wasn’t any different except for the fact it wasn’t self inflicted.
He grabbed a washcloth and put some rubbing alcohol onto it. He used it to slowly start cleaning the wound, it stung, but at least it wouldn’t get infected.
He opened a drawer under the sink and pulled out some bandages, he then wrapped around his stomach.
He came out of the bathroom at least 1 hour later and changed into a loose sweater and sweat pants and practically threw himself onto the couch.
He was exhausted from everything, until the the Litten that Mallory basically kidnapped jumped onto the couch and curled up on his lap.
He should’ve been confused as to why there was a random Litten in the house, but he didn’t even have ask to know that Mallory brought it there.
Just 1 month ago she brought back a whole Luxray and begged him to let her keep it, he eventually just gave up and let her keep it, and then 2 months ago she brought home an espurr, which already had a trainer.
The Litten stretched and fell asleep on his lap. He started petting the Litten as it purred and few a minutes he finally fell asleep.
maybe things might not be that bad, yet.