章節 9: Utter Genius Stupidity

Registration Area:

"Alright, your process is done, Mr Ethan. From today, you will be a student of the Royal Academy. Keep in mind that there's no hierarchy here so it doesn't matter if you are the son of a Duke or a Civilian. I am telling you as a reminder, many Nobles have been expelled in the past due to misconduct," said the registrar.

He seemed not one bit intimidated by the fact that Ethan is the only heir to the Black City dukedom. I mean there are only two Dukes in the Kingdom of Wolks, Ethan's position is only lower than the King and his Sons.

"Sure. I will keep that in mind and behave according to the rules of the Academy," he said.

"Good, you can move to the Dorms. Here are the keys for your allotted room, you will have an orientation tomorrow at 10 am. So keep that in mind and arrive at the "Nicol's Hall"," he said while pointing at a young lady who will show him the way.

"See you tomorrow, Arthur. Bye" said Ethan waving his hands. I barely returned a response as I was busy thinking,

'Damn!!!!! each person gets a guy/lady to show the way around, that's overkill,' I thought.

"Next...Excuse me Mr....."

"Ah, yes...Sorry that I zoned out. Here.... my starter is an Elekid and I am Arthur Jones from Nuvema Town," I said giving my acceptance letter.

"Arthur Jones huh? let me see... there!!! ....got your papers, you can fill in these details and put a signature at the bottom. Although rules say that you all will be treated equally, be careful not to deliberately provoke the Nobles. We had a Civilian who almost tried to kill a Noble because of some past issues, there was no way to save him for the attempted murder," he said giving me a warning.

"The last thing you would hear is me trying to murder someone," I said giving him a thumbs up while collecting the room keys.

'Because if I try to pull something like that, I will be as clean as a whistle,' I thought.

"That's good, now Mr Volmer will guide you through the campus. Please follow him," said the registrar.

I collected my bag and handed it to the person called 'Volmer' who looked lean. It was quite heavy even for me who workouts every day but this Volmer guy lifted it effortless. The fact that he is is just 5' 5" and able to lift it means he is surely contracted with fighting or maybe a rock type?

We walked forward silently as I was looking around admiring the complicated architecture. The Academy was at the airy suburbs of Striaton City, probably the safest place in the kingdom. To the North and East is a huge Ocean that has not been explored, to the South is Accumula Town, going further south will be Nuvema. Strianton City and Royal Capital are to the West, so it is protected by Artificial and Natural environments.

The Academy itself is huge with barely 80 students attending each year. One can only study for two years and in special cases, a year extension for the delinquents. Everyone receives plenty of privacy and materials to promote themselves and their pokemon as much as possible during their time. The richer you are, the easier it will be.

(Keep in mind every town or city has its normal academy)

Although the Academy contains two huge buildings and one Stadium as big as a Colosseum. One building for the Classes and other academic work while the second building is for Dorms, and that's where we are walking.

To my right and left are trees and street bulbs. At the end of this straight path ahead lies an enormous construction, it was a five-storey building, the biggest I have ever seen. The exterior looked similar to Buckingham Palace which was made of bath stone. The only difference is that the Dorm building had huge sculptures and etchings of Pokemon.

"Master Arthur, this is the Dorm building named after the previous King, It's called

"The William Wolks Hall" or in short 'Wolks Hall'," while the Academy building is called "Nicols Hall" named after the late Queen," he said. I dumbly nodded as my eyes were on the 35-40 feet tall Dragon Sculptures in front. They were in mid-air or so I thought, but realized that the back of their tail was bound to the building.

Seeing that I was gazing at the dragons, Volmer immediately said,

"There are three entrances to the building, The Centre Hydreigon is for the residence instructors which lead them to the third floor, The Haxorus entrance is for the second-year students that leads to the second floor while the Druddigon is for the first-years," he said while motioning to follow him.

I barely nodded and started walking into the building through the Druddigon door. We walked the stairs towards the first floor, the interior was exquisite and fancy. The floor seems like it is made out of white marbles, there were some bizarre paintings of Pokemon like Serperior, Samurott and Emboar.

'I am definitely not an art guy,' I thought.

"The first floor also has stair that leads down to the ground floor which is an in-campus shop for buying every essentials and food for your Pokemon. Almost anything can be found there, you can also commission them to fetch some items if you do not find them," then he pointed at the stairs that lead up,

"Finally, the stairs leading to the top floor take you to the busiest area of the building, "Reserved Practice Area" or RPA in short. That's to practise new moves and see the effect of it, more details are on this palm plate. You can go through it later," he said leading me towards my room.

The First floor was like a fancy restaurant, the rooms were just numbered from 1-50 and there were long corridors with occasional windows.

'I hope the rooms have good lighting,' I thought.

We walked for almost three minutes and arrived at Room number '35'.

"Here will be your room for the whole year, Second years are barely present as they have more outdoor assignments and missions. So you would barely see them and try not to bother them much if in case you spot them," he said and bidded me goodbye.

"Phew," too much to take in one day. I feel like I am in "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," and those statues outside were insane, the sculpture technique to achieve that level of detail would be ridiculous.

I then took the key out and went inside immediately as I heard someone coming, probably a new student. I also did not want to delay meeting my Elekid.

"Click..."

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10 minutes later:

"Okay, I am officially in a 5-star hotel, Damn the cleanliness."

This is not a room, this is a two-bedroom apartment. It has a kitchen, a big living area, a room for laundry, a balcony and two bathrooms. If only there was a refrigerator, it would have been perfect. The only things that run on electricity in this world are Light bulbs and pokemon potential scanning devices. So I guess, a long time before freezers arrive.

After settling down by putting the bags and sword in place, I changed from the stuffy uniform to a casual t-shirt over shorts look. As I was planning to release my Elekid, I spotted a hefty bag in the kitchen.

I stood up and went to check on it.

'Holy Shit!!, How did I forget? I need food for Elekid. Thank God!!!!' I thought taking the things from the bag.

It had four sealed packs of Miltank milk, a mashed pack of Pokemon food that can be used for two weeks and finally instructions to use them.

'Damn, when did they put this in?'

I took the instructions and read them meticulously. The first is to only use Miltank Milk for two days and slowly shift to the mashed food.

I took a Pokemon bowl from the kitchen and brought the Milk with me to the living area.

'Fuuuuuu' I let out a deep breath and then took one more deep breath in.

"Here goes nothing," I said and released the Elekid out.

A familiar white light flashed out and took the shape of a bipedal pokemon. The first thing that caught my eye was the black lighting bolt mark on its chest.

"Elekidddd," it said while curiously looking at the surroundings until it spotted me.

Elekid is a yellow, round-bodied Pokemon with black stripes. Elekid's arms were bulky in proportion to its body, and it had three claws instead of fingers. It also had two stripes on its arms, which wrap all the way around. There are two horns on top of its head which resemble the prongs of a plug, complete with holes in their sides. (Picture is in the comments)

"Ele Elekid," it said and immediately sent a minor electric current that was barely noticeable towards me.

"OOuch... What the fuck? Damn it," I said clenching my left hand while flailing it up and down.

"Elekid Kidd..." it said while stepping back warily. Elekid was looking around for an escape route maybe?

'Ok, it was at this moment I knew, I fucked up.'

I tried to be calm and gentle so I lowered my posture by kneeling completely down. I was almost at an eye-level with this two feet tall Elekid.

"I know you can't understand me but trust me I am your trainer. I WILL FEED YOU," I said while trying to show hand signs, it did not understand any of that and sent one more Zap towards me.

"Fuck!!! Fuck, I should have simply contracted it, Fuck!!" I said clenching my body tightly. The Zaps although were not intense, they were enough to startle or paralyze me. Luckily, this Elekid is newly born or else death was the only thing waiting for me.

Elekid was backing away so I calmed down and tried to tone my voice down. I then cautiously took the milk pack which fell from my hands after that Zap and slowly poured it into the bowl. My body was a bit numb due to the shock so the milk when pouring was shaky and noisy.

"Parr..... Parr..." was the only sound heard in the whole room. Elekid stopped looking around for an escape and noticed the sound of milk falling into the bowl.

Its eyes beamed at the image of delicious milk which gave off an enchanting aroma.

"Elekid Elekiddd," it said signalling me to push the bowl towards it while generating a hint of sparks as a defence. It almost seemed like it was threatening me.

I can almost picture it saying,

'Bring that milk or die you puny human.'

Sweat ran down my temples as I did not want to get electrocuted. I have no resistance to electricity, there is no way I will survive this if something goes bad.

"Don't worry, THIS... IS..... FOR.....YOU," I said stressing each word while pointing my hands towards it.

"Elekid," it said as if nodding that it understood. So, I slowly pushed the bowl without spilling a drop of milk. After I reached half the distance, Elekid raised some sparks signalling me to stop.

I took back my hand and cautiously backed away to give more space to Elekid.

"Ele Ele Elekid," it said and walked forward keeping an eye on me.

It slowly reached out to the bowl and pulled it back as far as possible to maintain the distance. I was sheepishly smiling to not look like a threat, deep inside I knew I was risking it by doing all this. But, it was necessary to form a better bond.

It put its finger into the milk and then licked it for an initial safety or taste check.

'How cautious are you for a baby? I mean.... why will I even poison the milk?' I thought.

"Elleeee," it said gleamingly and gulped down the whole bowl immediately. After twenty seconds, it then shouted at me

"Elekidd Kidd Elekid," it said demandingly pointing at the Milk Pack in the Kitchen. Then, it signalled with its hands to bring that to him,

'Fuck!!! when did you even see that? and what's with that attitude,' I thought.

"Hehe.... you have a very good eye, let me bring that to you, your Highness," I said knowing it can't understand shit.

I moved to the kitchen and sneakily hid the other stuff in the drawer while bringing the whole bag that contained one milk pack.

"Here, LET....ME... POUR....IT.....IN," I said signalling with my hands as unhurriedly as possible.

Elekid flinched at the hand signs but slowly took the bowl and pushed it towards me. I think he wants to seem like he is not afraid of me.

I filled the bowl back and pushed it towards him. This time it did not do a taste test, Elekid immediately drank everything down but in a more unhurried manner.

After a good old minute, he put the bowl back and patted his stomach. "Ele Elekid," he said and burped out loud.

'So Cute!!!!!' I thought.

"YOU CAN SLEEP ON THE BED," I said signalling towards the bed. I put my hand on the bed while showing that it's soft. He seemed to get the gist of it but he instead came walking towards me to my horror.

Luckily, there were no sparks this time. I tried to maintain my composure, I was still at eye level with him. He came close and opened his arms wide with his mean eyes,

'Fuck!!! No No,' I thought expecting an attack but instead, he hugged my waist by climbing up on my knees and closed his eyes, "Elekid..."

'I almost lost my soul there!!!'

I understood his acknowledgement and put my both hands to his back in a comforting way. Then I got up to sit on the bed only to realize that I have not completed my contract,

'It means I am not immune to his ability Static!! Fuck!!!'

The next second a Jolt of current passed through me and I blanked out....

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Note: That was a long chapter, I hope you are enjoying the story so far. I just want to know if you like my descriptions or should I better them? I am very new to writing and am trying my best to put my imagination into words and am finding it difficult so far. I hope it's not half bad.