Sannie Will Write

Juliana was invited to the Land of Kitakami for a school trip with a few other classmates and a teacher from another school, and that school, the Blueberry Academy, was helping hostering them. Juliana was so excited to be selected! It was her first time traveling there and it would be a great opportunity to meet new people, a new place and new Pokémon.

Finally the long trip, ended, they finally arrived to Kitakami, the view was nothing but green grass, trees full of fruits and berries, beautiful bodies of water and rice paddies.

In the distance, the group spotted what it seems to be a small town, some houses and two buildings in the zone was the biggest places in the town.

After stepping out of the bus, Juliana went to inform of their arrival to the Caretaker, when a girl named Carmine and her brother Kieran, challenged her to a battle, she was strong, but nothing for Champion Juliana!

Juliana noticed that Kieran watched her during the battle, in a mix of astonishment and care, like studying her moves. She just smiled, maybe this was the opportunity to make a new friend? But Kieran just hid behind his sister, he was really shy.

After the battle, the class was free to explore a little. Juliana walked through the town, and she felt like it was nothing like Mesagoza, or any place in Paldea really.

The noise of the cities was replaced with the wind in the trees, the quiet chattering of people and the far cries of Pokémon. She could really use some calm from time to time, "I hope I can make friends here, it would be nice to visit this place once in a while, and mom would love it too, so many fresh ingredients for sandwiches!".

The next day, the Caregiver set an activity, and you partnered with Kieran. You two were really excited!(Even tho Kieran doesn't show his emotions very much...)

You two had a fun battle, and got to take photos with the signs.

Juliana spent the day with Kieran, he teached you history of his town and of the ogre. She found the story really interesting, and even felt sad for how the people treat the ogre, so you bound with Kieran pretty quickly.

"Hey Juliana, it's getting dark, I don't know if we'll catch the last sign today, but we better get goin' home, it's almost time for the Mask Festival!" Kieran said excited.

"Huh? Mask Festival? Tell me more please"

On the way home, Kieran explained the festival, and after putting on the outfit for the occasion, on they went.

He explained how much he loved the food and games, even tho he wasn't really good at them.

When they arrived, festive music could be heard in the distance, and a long set of stairs welcomed them. "Hehe, we also have loooong stairs at my school." Said Juliana.

"Really? So you'll get used to this ones soon!"

When they arrived, the place was completely different at how Kitakami was during the day, loud and cheerful festival music, strong smell of food and people selling their products from the top of their lungs, really set the ambience.

Juliana was a little overwhelmed, but maybe she could handle it for a while.

"So, what do you think, huh? They don't have festivals like this is Paldea" said Carmine mockingly.

"Yeah haha, we don't really, but it looks fun!" said Juliana.

"Juliana come here" Kieran called you from a candied apples tent "T-take this one, it's for y-you"

"Are you sure Kieran? Thanks you so much, it's gonna taste more delicious now that you gave it to me!"

"Oh d-don' worry, it's not big deal, grampa gave me some money so don't worry about it hehe..." Kieran slightly smiled.

After that, Juliana and Kieran played some games, ate some food, and did activities of the festival like 'Puting the mask on the ogre' and more.

After a while, when Juliana was checking the mask stand, she heard a familiar voice calling her name.

"Heey Juliana, come her! I saved us a good spot" Kieran called her from in front of the Hall, and she saw how a lot of people going there too, so she went, intrigued. "And what is this about? It's one of those shadow puppets shows? They are hilarious for what I've seen" said Juliana. "No, not tonight, since it's the first night of the festival, it's gonna be a fireworks show." Kieran explained. But as soon as the F word was said, she begging to freak out. "Fireworks show?!" Juliana squeaked. "Yes, usually the first and the last day of the festival, it's great and cool and they have ones with the shape and color of the ogre and...." Kieran kept rambling like everything related to the ogre, but Juliana stopped listening a while ago. "G-great right..? I-I'll go t-to bu-buy something to eat before the show starts, I-I'll be back...!" Juliana made a kick excuse, this usually helps. "Oh great idea! Don't take to long, I'll be waiting here." The truth is, that Juliana wasn't going back there. She bought some Kitakamian mochis(because her sugar was low after such fright), and walked down the street, to sit on the long set of stairs. As she reached a particularly comfy and far away stair step, she heard the fireworks begging. * PHIIIIIIIIIIIII BOOM *, a whistle and a boom made Juliana tremble like a stick, it was far enough so it wasn't extremely loud, but the noise still startled her. A pond near by reflected the fireworks, one after another, with no signs of stopping. "No way it's only been three minutes, it feels like an eternity..." Juliana checked her smartrotom, looking for a distraction, but there wasn't any signal on the hall. She only had her gallery to distract herself, where she saw the photos she took with Kieran that day. "I'm-I'm sorry Kieran...*sniff*, I'm too coward to even go and see the fireworks... *SNIFFFFFSNIF*" Tears dropped down her face, as she thought how she isn't with her new friend in what is supposed to be a happy moment, making a happy memory... One of her Pokémon came of their PokéBall to comfort her.

Back in the hall, Kieran started to get worried, looking for food shouldn't take this long, the stands were usually empty at the time of the fireworks, was her new friend ok? She was missing on the fireworks, and what if something happened?! So he went to check for Juliana.

"Hey Carmine, Juliana isn't back yet, I'll go check for her" whispered to her sister. "Juliana isn't here? I didn't noticed. Ok, but don't go to far, and you better bring her in one piece, or we'll both be in problems, I mean, YOU will be in big trouble" said Carmine, it was hard to tell if she was being serious or not, only Kieran knew.

"Julianaaa, Juliana where are you?" Kieran looked for her everywhere, at every game and stand. He looked for the whole festival, the only places left where the path to the mountain or back to the town, he discarded the first option because you went to the food stands, and he would've clearly seen if you took this path, so he made his way to the other road.

As Kieran went down the stairs, he saw a small figure sat on the first steps of the stairs, and a Pokémon with a distinctive ribbon used by Juliana, it was her. He SPRINTED to her trying not to fall down. "Juliana, you're... you're ok... I'm glad to see you're ok..." "Oh! *Sniff* K-kieran what are you doing here??" Juliana's voice was trying to not tremble a lot "It's just that, you went out running and didn't came back and I was worrin... Wait, are you really ok..?" Kieran noticed how she was white as a ghost and breathing weird...

"Y-yes I'm fine don't worry..." *BOOM* Another firework, this one specially loud, went off. "EEEEEK!" Juliana squeaked scared.

"Are u... Scared of the fireworks?" Kieran smelled some fear in her, but was just asking to sound polite.

"Eeeemmm... M-maybe a little... Too much...? Sorry but yes I don't like fireworks, they're too loud and surprising for me, I was never a fan... You probably think I'm weird, everyone likes fireworks... But you should go back there and watch them if you like! You wait the whole year for this festival" Juliana tried to convince Kieran.

Another day at the Academy.

After a few months of what happened at the Area Zero, things really calmed down for good.

The Gym Inspection went easy as cake, and the Academy Ace Tournament was really fun! Everyone agreed that they should do it again.

The Pokédex kept going on really well, but between adventure and exploration in this rich region, it's always good and relaxing to go back and take some classes at the academy and learn something new, or it wasn't going to be that easy this time?

It was a rainy day. Not a big storm, but wet enough to make everyone wanting to go outside think twice.

Juliana arrived just in time for Art class, one of her favorite subjects! Not that she doesn't like the other subjects, she learned a lot in every class, but Arts had something special on it, a special spark that can't be calculated or interpreted sometimes, like a Pokémon battle.

Also, Hassel, the teacher, was amazing on his job, you can see wonder in the eyes of his students, how he can bring a lot of emotions during the classes, even himself being a little emotional.

Juliana takes a seat on the first row as always, so that way she can listen better to the teacher.

"Hello again class. As everyone can see, today is not the most perfect of days, in fact, today I was planning an outside class to sketch some Pokémon, but sometimes plans change, and we have to adjust ourselves to the situation, like when we colour a drawing outside the line by accident. We can focus on the mistake and abandon the piece, or work or way through it and give or masterpiece a new perspective. There's always something we can do to work out weaknesses and turn them into virtues, or not. Not every work of art is a masterpiece, but it truly helps changing the color of the glass you're looking through."

Hassel always knew how to phrase his classes, always inspiring and uplifting. Almost as if his words alone made the rain stop and make a rainbow cross the academy.

"But enough talking, and since we're touching the subject of imperfection, let's start our class of today. Look at this sculpture of Professor Gibble I made, it's simple and not perfect, sometimes it's ok to take our time and learn from our mistakes, simple sculptures like this can be relaxing and entertaining. Can someone tell me what it's made from?"

Juliana take a good look at it, the gritty but light texture guve you a slight idea of what could it be.

"Paper mache?" Juli says, with a doubt in her mind.

"Yes! Very well Juliana, looks like you're an art expert. Paper mache is an easy way to represent something without a lot of materials, we only need for in this case: Paper, glue, water and, a balloon"

"A B-balloon?!" Juliana thinking inside herself, almost jumping when she heard the teacher say that cursed word, making a little frown.

Juliana has faced a lot if dangers on her treasure hunt: Dangerous Pokémon bigger than everyone could imagine, Rebellious students, strong trainers, fallen down to the Banned Paldean Crater, saw beast from other times, and even her Pokémon and her battled aggressive AI robots with bravery an strength, but nothing like that scared her as much as a silly balloon, one of her most embarrassing secret.

Of course, how the newly announced Champion of Paldea, who helped save the region from an ecological catastrophe, could be scared of balloons? That was inconceivable, no one has to know, just imagine a rumor like that spreading through the school? Nobody would take her seriously anymore.

Juliana was on the clouds overthinking about the stupid loud noise they make when they pop, almost not hearing how Hassel was explaining something about making a good paste for smother results. Her heart was rushing, but she was sitting still in place, no were to go, and the rain still pouring without signals if stopping

"Before we start you can choose one of you Pokémon partners to use as an example, or making by memory if you prefer it that way."

One of Juliana's Pokéballs started moving alone, making her alert again, and one of her Pokémon came out of her pokéball. Her old partner, already knew a lot about her since they've been in adventures for a long time, so the Pokémon must have feel the emotions of their trainer and just sit on her lap to help her calm down.

The time started to pass and she has barely started, scared to make a rough movement in case something accidentally pops her balloon.

*POP* A balloons popped making only Juliana jump, but her Pokémon help her calm down before it's too late and the classes notices.

"Haba! I was working with that! Don't bit the balloon again!" One of her classmates is reprehending his Fuecoco, who must have mistaken the balloon for food. "Cocooo..?" The Pokémon felt a little confused about what happened.

Some short laughs, including from the teacher, can be heard across the room. "No laughing matter..." Though Juliana.

"That's what I was talking about when I mentioned mistakes, everyone can make one, but we don't have to let them discourage us, we have to learn from them. Tell me, was something you wanted to improve from your sculpture?" Asked Hassel. "Well, actually yes, the face was looking weird, I wanted to start again but the the glue was drying up and it was a little late..." "Good then, start again, use what you learned to improve your craft, and let's feed this hungry fella.." Hassel offered a berry to the Fuecoco, wich happily munched while his trainer worked again in peace.

Juliana wasn't herself, and the clock was going extra slow today, it was hard to concentrate with all of the noise on the background, she barely made the base of the head and couldn't get through the class. Her Pokémon stayed by her side the whole time, being a good model and letting being pet whenever Juliana was feeling nervous.

*DING-DONG DING-DONG, DING-DONG DING-DONG*

The bell indicating the class was over scared Juliana a little, but at least the suffering ended ended.

"It looks like our time is over, I hope you learned st least one thing new today. And don't worry if you didn't finish your pieces, you can come back and finish them whenever you like".

While Juliana was quickly putting her thing in her backpack, she hears a familiar voice calling her name. "Miss Juliana..." Hassel say across the classroom. "Oh no, did he noticed?!" Juli thought scared "Can you help me with sort paperwork here for a moment?" Hassel pointed to a chair at his sides of his table, where mixed art projects and teacher's stuff was scattered. "Y-yes, sin problema! Coming!" Said with a little of relief on her voice. She let her Pokémon by her side, still doing it's work of a companion in case of a panic attack.

"Please help me sort this papers, put the drawings by this side and the notes here, inside this binder" Said Hassel, while waiting for the last students to retire from the classroom. Juliana takes the seat and begins to work, her Pokémon on her lap taking a nap and and working as a weighted blanket to help it's trainer.

Minutes later, the last students left the class with his Pokémon, their steps can be heard in the distance. Time for Hassel to make his movement.

"So, miss Juliana, how was the class today?" He asked. Juli waked up, she was daydreaming again, as a copping mechanism to evade her surrounding when she was scared.

"Huh... Great! It was an amazing class as always!" Juliana answers, but, this answer sounds very... automatic to Hassel, who has seen this studen in better days.

"Did you sleep well last night? I suppose, the melody of the rain help everyone sleep... And what about breakfast? Aren't you hungry?"

"Hmmm... No... I mean, Yes! I ate a sandwich this morning" Juliana starts to doubt, so she shots "Why are you asking?"

"Hmmm, for nothing, it's just, that it's... weird I think it's the word? It's very unlikely to see my best student so down like this". Juliana straights her back and wakes up fully, noticing that there's no one in the room, just she and her teacher.

"No no no, I'm fine, I had a good sleep and ate well this morning, I'm completely fine" She said with an awkward smile trying to hide her nerves.

"Are you sure?" Asked the teacher "You barely worked on your sculpture today, usually you're one of the first in finish, and look at your work today" Hassel pointed to her 'Pokémon sculpture' on Juliana's working table, was barely resembling her Pokémon, but missed a lot of details and color in comparison to the work of other classmates. "I know I said you should take your time, but this isn't like you..."

Juliana barely looks at it, and then barely looks at his teacher in the face, almost fully evading them "Yeah yeah I'm fine, I think it was the weather".

Hassel had his doubt of the answer "Ok, I believe you, but please remember, everything I do it's for the greater good of my students, if there's something wrong that you want to tell me, please let me know so I can help, ok?" Juliana looks down at her Pokémon, and her mon looks back at her. "Ok, thanks you, I'll have that in mind..." She said while organizing the last papers.

What they both, teacher and student didn't notice while chatting, is that one Skwovet has entered in the classroom and by accident, like the Fuecoco earlier, the little guy bitted one of the balloon mistaking it for a berry.

*POP*

"AAAAAHG" The once relaxed Juliana screams, jumps and hugs her Pokémon very close to her, starting to hyperventilate.

"Here you are Cheeks! Excuse me! Sorry, for bothering, he gets intro frenzy mode when he's hungry and runs away" One student enters the class to pick up his Pokémon and quickly goes away, closing the door.

"Don't worry, be careful next time!" Said Hassel quickly before looking back at you.

"Oh Juliana, are you ok my child?!" Hassel looks worried, putting his hands on her shoulders to try to ground her.

After petting her partner and looking like the area is clean now, Juliana calms down.

"Y-yes I'm f-fine, everything fine now!" She looks to the other side, embarrassed, to evade a possible judgemental or funny looks from the teacher.

"I'm sorry for my intromission, but, were the, balloons bothering you during the class?" Hassel says in the sweetest and calmest voice possible, to avoid loosing confidense from his student.

"No nonono not possible! Me? The newest champion of Paldea? Scared of balloons?! No way! It was a confusion! Eeemmmm... Thissss, this little guy just bite me! Y-yeah that's it!" But when she looking down at her lap, wanting for an excuse, Juliana's Pokémon wasn't there! Instead, it was now in the middle of the middle of the classroom playing with one of the balloon on the ground, chasing it around the room.

"*Eeeeeeek* Nononono buddy come here come on left that there please!" A scared Juliana covers her ears with her hands while calling her Pokémon back at her side.

*Fliiiiiiiiiu* Hassel whistles slow a quiet, calling the attention of the Pokémon and making it sit right at his side.

"Hmmm, who said that the dragon tamer's whistle would work on this friend huh?..."

Both teacher and student can feel the awkwardness filling the air. Juliana looks to her side to avoid crossing his eyes, crossing her arms and resting them on the table, while Hassel pets the Pokémon.

"...Excuse me again, but... Are you sure there's nothing you what to tell me? I understand if you don't want to say anything, I can't force you to talk, of course, but I always believe in confidentialit-"

"OK FINE YOU WIN!" Juliana can't take it anymore and screams "Yes, I'm scared of the balloons! I hate the loud noise they make, they make me uncomfortable, I couldn't finish my job because of that!" Hassel can feel in his student's voice a great weight being release, like something you hide for long time, feeling that he already knew very well.

"It's ok, you can laugh, I'm used to it, just please don't tell it to anyone, I can't imagine if people knew about this.... *Sniff* Embarrassing for a champion..." Juliana felt more relief, but sad by the way she had to tell this to her teacher.

"*Sniff* Sorry, I'm sorry, I made this awkward, I know this isn't the way..." Juliana looks embarrassed.

"Please, young Juliana, don't be sorry, I understand, it's something you can't control..." "I'm... I'm the one who should be sorry, for making you go through..." The teacher apologize "No please, don't say that, there's no way you could tell.."

"Yes, of course..." Said Hassel while thinking about that day when a Driftloon scared you, or the tender but skittish way you leave your Flamigo squeaky clean, as if the Pokémon themselves could pop at any moment.

"Don't worry, this conversation will remain between us, and please let me always have an eye on you in case you need help" "Y-yes! Thanks professor Hassel!" Juliana exclaimed more happy than before.

"Thank you... " Juliana wakes up and hugs her teacher, who is almost crying again, but recompose himself to look more professional.

"I have to mention, you still have to finish your work, I hate leaving work unfinish" Hassel says making Juliana shiver "But do not worry, well work together on that" Juliana gaves an awkward smile, hopping that doesn't mean what she think she means.

*EXTRA*

Of course, being at the Art class, means Juliana wasn't alone, Penny was also there, but because of her fear and because Penny usually sits in the back, Juliana didn't notice her this time.

When Hassel called Juliana after class, she wanted to gossip on what about he said to her, so Penny activate the Cassiopeia program in Juliana's SmartRotom and heard the whole conversation. EVERYTHING.

Wanting to test a theory, Penny sends a Team of Pokémon to Nemona ask her to "test the power of this team". Nemona was always happy to help, and Knowing Penny isn't the best fighting, she innocently accepts.

The team was: A Flamigo, a Jigglypuff, a Driftloon.

Headcanons

~ He usually sleeps with you at the studio at home since it's soundproof and you can barely hear thunder there.

~ Makes lighthearted jokes about it with songs and lyrics about thunders and storms. But only when you two are alone, and knows when to stop.

~ Of course he buys you a pair of soundproof headphones, or let you borrow his when you forgot to bring yours outside.

~ Humms songs to help you sleep when the storms are light. He knows how to mix tones and sounds to make relaxing tunes that hide the thunder on the background.

Scenario / Oneshot

Another rainy night at the Kingdom. It was another autumn storm, particularly loud as usual for the season. The leaves and branches crashing the roof make it feels like it was going to break y/n's house in half.

But let's rewind a little...

Y/n moved to the kingdom some months ago with Rockstar Cookie for recommendation of Parfait Cookie. The reception, public and environment was better for both Y/N and his special one, Rockstar Cookie.

So this wasn't his first storm with Y/N, but it was always a battle to make you feel comfortable.

Since Y/N was a the drummer of the duo, it was hard for Rockstar Cookie when he discovered that his companion was scared of storms, like, he saw him giving concerts on a lot of stages louder than a storm. But he wasn't going to judge, even when a lot of people told y/n to "buckle up" and "be strong" because "storms can't hurt you", Rockstar Cookie was always by his side to help to stand up for him.

One day, y/n and Rockstar Cookie were shopping at the music store on the kingdom, the shops were a little far from the residential area, where they lived.

The afternoon was windy, and since it was autumn, the weather was really unstable, at the morning there was a nice sunny day, but now, some clouds where spying on the sky.

The north wind made the leaves fly and make the usual whistle that announced rain, or even worse, a storm.

Only y/n with his good ear noticed, since the doors were closed and Rockstar Cookie was trying some new guitar strings. He touched Rockstar's shoulder slightly to call his attention. "Hey, I think-I think we should be going home", said y/n. Rockstar watched through the crystal wall and saw the black clouds for a storm coming to the kingdom. "Oh, yes of course, just let me pay for this real quick and I'm done". "Code Thunder" said Rockstar for himself.

Not even five minutes after, when Rockstar and y/n got out of the store, black clouds where already covering the kingdom.

"Do you think we'll make home before the storm start?", said y/n said in a scared voice. "If we run I think we'll make it, let's go then!", Rockstar said and they started running.

A thunder from the forest made y/n shiver a little, but he has to keep moving to get home safe.

They were near, tired from running but they can see home already just some streets more to get there.

A nearer thunder, louder this time, distracted y/n and make him trip on the paviment. Not a bad fall, but the noise was enough to put y/n in a freeze state, he was too scared to move, waiting for the next thunder to break his ears, but just some steps from home.

"Come on y/n get up, we're almost home, it's near and we can get on the studio", Said Rockstar in an attempt to get him up the ground. "I- I can't, I'll just wait here, I'm not moving..." y/n said almost crying, scared to even look at Rockstar.

"Please, we'll get soggy here outside, let's go..." No response... "Here, take my hand, you can squeeze hard if another thunder falls, no worries as always"

So y/n almost crushes Rockstar's hand, but now the only thing that matters is to get home. Rockstar puts a hand on his s/o shoulder to give him strength and balance. Step by step, slow but steady, they walk home.

"FINALLY HOME", y/n screamed to relax his body.

Just as they left the shopping bags on the table, little raindrops start falling. And another loud thunder made y/n shake, which Rockstar jump from behind to give him a big hug. Rockstar could feel y/n's heartbeat, it was loud and fast.

As the great improvisor he is, Rockstar quickly remembered a music that matched his heartbeat and started singing it with a soft voice, and the hug lasted at least some minutes.

With the now loud rain hitting the house, he takes y/n's hand "Before the storm gets stronger, let's choose a movie and get to the studio", "Thanks for everything, I'm such a looser, I'm sorry to make you go through all of this and sorr-" Interrupted Rockstar "Hey hey, don't say that, you're not a looser, or a heavy load, or anything bad you say about you, you are an amazing cookie, who makes happy a lot of people , so please don't say that to you ever again, you know that I'll love you with any little silly thing you have, that only makes you an amazing limited edition."

Y/n almost started crying, but a thunder far from the city makes him get back in himself again.

Rockstar made popcorn, and with a comfy blanket, y/n and Rockstar Cookie now are relaxing on the couch in the studio, without hearing any storms or Thunder from outside. He takes y/n's hand really tight and softly strokes his hair, and he feel the soft and crunchy dough of Rockstar, it feels like the witches really made a good job with him...