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Prologue: The Street Pichu and Sorceress

"Father, do you really have to leave?" questioned a young blue-eyed, brunette who was currently clutching her father's travelling burgundy robe.

"Yeah, can't you at least take us with you?" replied the young girl's brother also tightly holding the cloth.

Smiling gently at the two siblings he kindly said, "Now, May, Max, you know very well I need you two to stay here and take of your mother while I'm gone..."

Sighing before finally releasing their father, the two young children reply with a solemn, "Okay…"

"Be careful, Norman," tenderly nagged his wife.

"I will, Caroline. I promise I'll come home as soon as I can become a Gym leader. And then we can live luxuriously, better than what we have now.." he said, determination and hope shining in his dark eyes.

With her mother standing beside her, May and her family sadly waved goodbye to her father. Together they could see his figure on top of the ever faithful Dodrio silhouetted a deep black against the setting sun's medley of orange, red, and yellow. She and Max kept waving until their father was out of sight and leaked a few tears before finally turning back home with their mother. Weeping, May knew she would not see her father for a long time. He had gone off to find fortune, not for himself but for his family…

May quickly turned back around, no longer seeing her brother or mother, only the distant figure of her father heading to the sunset. She ran hard while crying, she refused to lose him. It was selfish thinking but she no longer cared. No, she would not let him go.. She would not allow him to leave her alone…

The young brunette kept running towards her target, clumsily tripping yet determinedly getting up, continuing her strides to the far away figure. May ignored everything around her, the lovely shades of the desert blurring into nothing as she moved on, only vaguely aware of the cuts and pain that entered her small body. She refused to allow these small things to bother as she grew closer to her father who seemed to hardly notice her. As May began to close in on her father, she suddenly realized her mother and brother were there too. 'Impossible,' she thought, 'Weren't they behind me heading home?'

Calling the names of her family once they were in ear shot, the little girl felt alone and abandoned as they refused to respond.. She was all alone, left behind, uncared for, and terribly broken hearted… Shaking these thoughts out of her head she yelled at them to look at her. Suddenly stopping, causing the young girl to almost to crash into them, her parents & brother slowly turned around. As May look up at their faces, hers sapphire eyes widened in terrified fear. In place of her beloved family's caring faces she instead saw…

~~xXx~~

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

A teenage brunette instantly shot up from her bed panting, eyes still wide with horror. Her loud, and quite rude, awakening had also terrified her beloved Beautifly. The poor pokemon was sent into an unwanted flight across the room promptly crashing into the beige wall, and slowly sliding down onto the floor once the despised barrier made quite painful contact. Crying out in aching displeasure, the Beautifly agonizingly turned around to face its trainer readying herself to yell a strongly worded message for causing it pain, but that rage was quickly replaced with loving concern once the butterfly pokemon noticed the trauma its friend was in.

May Maple was still sitting up in her bed, with her legs curled up against her chest, her face buried in her knees. The blue-eyed girl was still huffing from the scare her dream had given her, she was even sweating slightly. Fluttering gently towards her master, the Beautifly landed gently on May's legs. Feeling the small amount of pressure on her shins, May slowly looked up and gazed at her pokemon who noticed the tears that still ran down her trainer's face.

"Beau," she murmured softly trying to comfort the tear-stained girl.

"Oh, Beautifly…" whimpered May, drawing out her arms to carefully pull her loyal companion into a hug.

"I had the dream again…" May said choosing to vent her emotions to her pokemon, knowing she would understand and not judge her.

"Ugh, I don't know why I keep getting these nightmares. They got even worse since Max left…" she sighed angrily. Beautifly nodded in understanding. Max had left May a few months ago after being offered an apprenticeship to an unknown professor. He needed to go after his dream, and he knew if he could make it big he and May would be able to live a lot better off than they- or at least than she, was living now. Besides, she wouldn't have been much use if she went with him, plus she intended to always be there, waiting for their father's return. Before Norman had left, he had told his family, "When I finally do return, it will be exactly at sunset right outside of the city's gates." May stayed behind always waiting at the gate from sunset to nightfall, hoping that one day her father would return, a successful gym leader, despite the fact that long ago he was reported missing… Sadly, soon after that report, May's mother, Caroline, had caught a deadly disease and was no longer able to stay with Max and May.

"I guess.. It's because… I feel so alone…" May sobbed, silently breaking down into tears once again.

"Beau, Beautifly.." replied the little pokemon doing her best to comfort her friend.

~~xXx~~

By noon, May had gotten herself out of bed and left her small room to the market to 'borrow' some food as a late breakfast for her and her pokemon. She was wearing baggy pants that went down to her shins that were probably once white, but now a nice tan, beige color from dust and dirt stains. Attached over this was a translucent, thin, flowing, pink cloth, which was also somewhat ripped and dirty that ended just above her knees. Her top was faded red with the simple design of a tilted oval shaped leaf stitched in green thread on the front. Completing the outfit was a burgundy cloak, with white circular designs that were upon the corner edge of its hood & cloak. The hood ended slightly above her bangs, and out of her face. (A/N: Her hood is like the bandana, always up & adding the final touch to her clothes. ;3)

"Shopping" was one of the most fun and amusing part of her day. She loved the thrill of nearly being caught by guards. The adrenaline from being chased. The flooding relief of escaping. It was like on big game! What made especially more fun was that her pokemon enjoyed helping her to do it. She was walking down the dirt road street calculating the schedules of stalls open, the guards on duty, and the method of stealing when she came up with the most appropriate combination. Magikarp stall 1, Lethargic Guard 21, and Method Skitty 17. Smiling at the simplicity of getting her meal, May reached into the pouch hanging on her waist containing the magic crystals that held her pokemon. Each of these jewels were a different color for each pokemon. These crystals had the power of transforming the pokemon into a light corresponding with the crystal, and sucking the pokemon into the gem for easy transportation and identification of its rightful trainer called Pokegems. (A/N: These "Pokegems" are basically the same thing as a pokeball, but since the time setting is like that of Aladdin, technology is a big no-no. x3 ..Think of it like in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Lucario was trapped in the crystal staff. They look like that but smaller.) Taking out a light pinkish purple crystal, May tossed it gently in the air.

"Skitty, Take the stage!"

"Nya, nyaa!" the kitten pokemon cried out in glee while running in tight circle trying in vain to capture its tail.

"Okay, Skitty. Use Charm!

"Myaa," exclaimed Skitty running towards the vendor.

Glancing up upon hearing a small mew, the vendor was caught up in a light dust of sparkles and looked at the excruciatingly cute pokemon sitting patiently before him. Entranced by the charming little creature in front of him, the merchant failed to notice a cloaked figure deftly snatch five of his best ruby red Magikarp and calmly walk away with his merchandise tucked neatly under the person's cloak. Skitty glanced at the retreating figure and quickly ended the attack, gracefully bounding away after said figure, while the dazed vendor blinked trying to clear his head.

Grinning quite proudly, the pink kitten glanced up at her cloaked master waiting for praise and her share of the goods. May smiled gently at the young Skitty while lifting her hood out of her face.

"Way to go Skitty! That was a great Charm attack!"

"Nyaaa nya," the kitten pokemon said while reaching up expectantly for food.

Laughing, May handed Skitty half of one of her Magikarp. The pink pokemon pranced around next to her mistress proudly showing off her prize for all to see and envy. As the brunette walked down the road, about to bite into the fried fish, she felt a light tug on her cape. Looking down, her azure eyes falling upon a thin child who was looking up at her pleadingly glancing slightly towards the Magikarp in her grasp. Feeling sorrow welling up within her, May handed over one of her fresh fish to the starving child. Seeing a spark of delight shine in the dull eyes was all the thank you she needed as the child silently ran off clutching the treasure tightly in his grasp.

~~xXx~~

As May gave the cooked Magikarp to the child, a figure watched her antics through a crystal ball. The figure was crouching, leaning over staring deeply into the crystal clear sphere, thoughtfully thinking of the possibilities.

"This, Street Pichu, may very well be the rose with the thorns I'm looking for.."

"But what about the boy, my liege? What if it he, the green haired prince?" squawked the Chatot sitting on the figure's shoulder, also gazing upon the brown haired girl.

"Hmm, you are quite right my friend. I suppose we'll just have to keep an on both of them... No matter! Either way I will get what I'm after, I will be the most powerful sorcerer... I will rule all of LaRousse!!"

A/N: Okay, to make things clear, this story is based on the famous tale known as Aladdin, but I am going along both plots of the original Aladdin, (from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) and the Disney version of Aladdin. I have seen some other fictions and arts based on this story also using one of the famous couples, May and Drew. I hope that mine is different and unique compared to these others. Knowing that this is a somewhat common idea, I am also hoping that I can prove to be a good writer by making something average, unique.

I know what you're thinking, "Wait, isn't the boy supposed to be the 'Street Rat' not the girl?!?! And shouldn't she be the princess??!" Well, this one of those 'unique' things I'm talking about! Heheh I think it would be more appropriate having the arrogant one to be the Prince (even if it does somewhat clash with the plot), but I just cannot see Drew being a lowly thieving beggar. I mean the big hot shot coordinator being 'homeless' (so to speak)??? No, I dun think so. I'm sorry but it will be a quite a long time before I actually get to update… I hope you people will stay with me though.

I know this is cliché and it annoys me when I read these too, but…

Please Review!!!; Polite, constructive criticism is the best kind of advice for a newbie writer!!! Flames will be taken into consideration as long they are not pointless rants.

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