Nymphali

When I wake up, I take a few seconds to just lay there. Normally I just pretend to be asleep for a few minutes on the weekends like this.

Then I realize something. Today's the day I become a Trainer! I'd already sweated over the whole exam thing, (it was an elective this year in school), and today me and my 'friends' get to choose our starter! They didn't show us which one's we'd be getting for some reason but I have a vauge idea.

Then I realize something else. I had set an alarm, and it didn't go off! I have about two minutes to fully wake up, put my cape on, try to get my mane in some acceptable condition, brush my teeth, and be out the door. Shootshootshootshootshoot. I forget that I'm a unicorn and not a pegasus as I fly around the room, sososo glad I had forgotten to put the brush back the last time I used it in my room and quickly tie up the pink bolt of cloth I had purchased when we first moved to Alletun Town. It's when I smash into door to go grab a breakfast bar and a toothbrush when I feel the points press into the side of my face that I find the brush still affixed to my mane as firmly as a Shellder to Slowbro's tail. I waste way more time than I should have prying it off.

Quickly I run a toothbrush over my teeth, finally remembering the easier way to hold it, and race out the door, pausing only to yell, "MOM! I'M GONNA GO ON AN ADVENTURE! I WILL MAYBE SEE YOU LATER!"  and hear her reminder not to trip.

Of course, my cape catches and I fall flat on the front porch. I say something you can't say on network television and, possibly in record time, open the door again and tie the cape back on. Good thing none of the neighbors are out, that there more or less aren't any neighbors, at least nearby, cuz then we'd have to move again, cuz I really don't like being shamed on for being way to old to...

Run, run, run. Across backyards, cutting in front of the rare pedestrian. Dodge trees, dodge that stroller, dodge the crazy Meowth lady taking all 52 or so of them for a walk.

Something catches my eye, blue against the pale green grass of the town... It's that old mare's Magikarp pond! Luckily I jump high enough to cross it, and I'm so surprised at having any luck at all that the usual returns and a big, glimmering yellow one flies out of the water and onto my face. Next thing I know it's bleeding on the ground and I'm sopping wet with fish eggs up my ears. The water in the pond has a giant red bloom in it coming off of the 'karp., and I start to panic. "UHH! Um.." Eventually I just end up putting the pond under a tarp. Then I'm off again, but slower now because my mane is all wet and it hasn't been cut like ever and it's seriously slowing me down.

I arrive at the lab very late, of course. Shivering from being blasted with wind, still dripping. I run to the back of the lab where my new rivals already have chosen, and they look annoyed. Of course they are. I narrowly avoid tripping on a random Flabébé that was derping around. Willow is standing in front of a table, no doubt with something cool on it. I avoid her fiery blue-eyed gaze. "Uh, sorry I'm late."