Summary: Drew, apparently, meets May and company on the same ship. They're heading to a new town, with more greater challenges than anything. But, along the way, they meet a great deal of trouble.
For those of you that have seen Titanic, surprises may or may not lie ahead in this fanfic. For those of you that haven't, good. Keep it that way. At least, until you've finished this fanfic. xD
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Disclaimer: If I owned Pokemon... I'd keep their original names.
Drew walked slowly down the blocks and blocks of shops of Higurashi Naku town. There really was an annoying reason as to why the town was called "Higurashi Naku"- because of the screeching cicada cry.
He had just arrived a couple hours ago, until girls began swarming around him. They shoved all kinds of ridiculous presents to him, which he couldn't care less about. He had trashed them in some kind of landfill area, while none of the crazy girls weren't watching. Of course, he wanted to laugh at them and see their sad faces, as he trashed them. But, wouldn't that be just too heartless?
He rounded a corner, then stopped dead in his tracks. His eyes grew wide, just for a split second, then returned to his normal "cool" (as his fangirls may say) expression. May, and her little friends (as he would put it), were, what it appeared to be, taking a break.
'Maybe they're heading to Fuhen, too?' Drew thought, as he approached them, then decided against, and turned back. He decided to go another way. He wanted to see the look on May's face, as she met with him on the ship. Only.. if she was going. He felt the urge to go back and ask, because it'd be pretty meaningless to get his hopes up. 'Hopes up for what?' he thought. He adjusted the straps of the bags on his shoulders. They had gotten heavier since he arrived, when it should have felt lighter; since he was traveling with them for the past few days.
The ship would be leaving tomorrow in the morning, but he really didn't feel like renting a room in a hotel, since it was nighttime already. If he were to fall asleep on a bench, he would be considered poor, and therefore made fun of. But his bags were really straining his shoulders, so he decided to take a break, taking the bench he saw closest to the ship.
Eventually, he fell asleep.
He awoke when he heard a few voices, and probably, but finally, by the sun. The sun was pretty high up, which meant his head was probably facing straight down towards the bench, and his eyes shielded by the drooping straps of his bags. He rubbed his eyes a big, made his hair look normal, then stretched. He was wide awake- which was a good thing.
People were already boarding the ship, so he made his way pass the crowds, and began to board it. At first he was excited, knowing how big the ship was (which was the largest ship he'd ever be on), but then his thoughts went back to May and her little friends. He wondered if they were actually coming. But he bet they were; they'd go just about anywhere for badges.. and ribbons.
He slowly set foot on the ship's floor, then took a seat at one of the empty white circular tables. There was really nice weather- well, it was also summer. He set his bags down by his feet, and stared down over at the crowd. If May and her friends really weren't coming, the "ride" there wouldn't be too exciting. Seven days of boredom, it would definitely be- besides the occasional mini Contests.
"Drew!"
Drew immediately flicked his head towards the person calling his name- which was May. He hadn't seen them board the ship, since he was spacing out.
"Well, well. If it isn't May and her little friends. I never thought I'd meet you here." He did one of his "famous" hair flicks.
She speed walked toward him, and took a seat directly in front of him. Brock and Ash took the two side seats, and Max pulled a chair over between Brock and May. They, too, set their belongings on the floor, as close to each other as possible.
"Of course we'd be here! Who would want to miss out on the only ride to Fuhen, until next year? This is the first time anyone, from outside of Fuhen, get to visit. And this is the only town, for awhile, that'll actually travel there. Plus, I heard this ship serves awesome food!" She clasped her hands together, and went off to one of her food daydreams.
Drew smiled at her, for a moment, then smirked. "We only get to stay there for one month, until the ship leaves us. And, if we don't get to the ship on time, we'll be stuck on Fuhen until the next year the ship comes again."
"I know!" She thought for a second, wanting to get away from this idiot boy. "Oh! I'll go get some snacks, you guys want some?"
After they all agreed to have some, she trotted away, looking for the table of food. Of course, she bumped in to so many people, that couldn't have been funny. "Man..! How many people are boarding this ship!?" she mumbled to no one in particular.
"About 1200," someone replied. A familiar voice.
She turned her head. After a painful jab of someone's elbow against her back, she focused on Misty. "Misty! Ah, uh, what are you doing here?" She walked over to her.
"My eldest cousin runs this ship. I just had to come along, since there will be competitive water battles and tournaments at Fuhen! It's completely surrounded by water, after all."
"Oh, that's right," May sweat-dropped. "Do you happen to know where the food tables are?" With a nod of Misty's head, she followed after her.
"What room are you all in?" Drew asked, staring absentmindedly at May's empty seat. He was bored, and they weren't saying much. They said a few things about how excited they were for the "ride" there, and for Fuhen, but it wasn't that interesting. Drew just sat there, occasionally looking towards a few people that boarded the ship, and the crowd still waiting to aboard.
"Suite 226," Max answered. Then added, "What about you?"
"Heh, that's not much of a surprise. 120, still in the range of the best rooms." He thought about asking whether or not May was in their room, but he knew that she slept in the same room, or place, as them regardless. Generally, a female wouldn't sleep in the same room with another male, right? Especially, three other males. He considered the thought of switching rooms with her. "I assume May's in the same room?"
"Yes. Why? Don't tell me you want to sneak in." Max made a "what the hell do you think you're thinking?" expression.
"Heh." That was all he could think of. Close his eyes, smile, and "heh". Until May reappeared again, he saw her bring a tray full of food and drinks, with Misty walking along side her.
"Misty! Hey!" Ash said, smiling wide.
"Hello." She dragged a chair in between Ash and May, then sat. She exchanged greetings with Brock and Max, then started a conversation with Ash.
May set the tray down in the middle of the table. "Well, dig in!" She finally took her seat, when Max grabbed a drink.
"Hey, May," Drew said slowly, as he, too, grabbed a drink. He had to wait for the time to ask, because he didn't want it quiet while he asked.
Her "yes" was muffled, as she drank, or rather ate, her smoothie.
"Do you want to switch rooms? I mean, instead of you being stuck with all guys.."
"Heh? Why?"
A "she really doesn't know..." expression was plastered on his face. "Y..you... should consider the thought of sleeping in the same room as guys, once in awhile."
"But, I've always slept with them. What's the difference now?" She took another "bite" of her smoothie.
'Doesn't she... She really doesn't know how wrong that sounded..' He maintained the same expression. "Consider it now, then."
"I guess it's all right to have a room of my own. Sure, I'll take it."
Drew thought for a moment. "Let's go drop off our stuff, then. Since, you'll get lost if you go alone." He stood, which made May stand afterwards.
"I'll take all the luggage then, you wait here and see! Do you guys.." her voice trailed off, as she saw the table with only two people: Ash and Misty chatting away. May turned around, and saw Brock talking to some girls, while Max tried to get a hold of him.
She turned back around, to see Drew already holding everyone's luggage. "I'll take mine, thank you very much." She reached for hers, but was only handed Max's bag instead. The lightest bag, it was. "I'm not a little kid. I can carry mine!"
"Sure, sure." Drew only smirked, then walked ahead of her.
She was still thinking about what to say back, but he was getting too ahead of her. "H-hey! Wait!" May trotted beside him. She looked back at the table where Ash and Misty sat. 'I wanted to eat something, at least...'
"Look everyone! It's Drew..." a girl whispered quietly to a few others. "Who's that next to him? His girlfriend?.."
"Aww, they look great together, don't they?" one girl whispered loudly- at least, loud enough for them to hear.
"What are you talking about? Don't you just want to kick that girl off the ship? Then, we'll be able to get him..." another girl said.
A tinge of heat spread across May's face. 'Me?.. and Drew? No way.' She looked down towards the ground, then side-glanced a bit at Drew. 'Thinks he's all high and mighty.' She looked towards his fangirls.
"Heh, you better be careful, May. It'll be a great lost for you, while you're stuck in the water and the ship leaves, huh?"
"As if!" May walked ahead of him. Then, turned towards him, "And that's after one of your fans accidentally pushes you off the ship." She turned back around, and laughed.
A large crowd passed between them. There was a group of twenty-some people still boarding the ship.
'Looks like the ship will be leaving soon.' He flicked his head around, noting that in this amount of people, May would definitely get lost. He looked ahead- she wasn't in front of him anymore. "May?" He scanned the crowds of people. He had no idea why, but he was panicking a bit. "May!" 'Dammit! Where is she!?' He continued searching the crowds, frantically. 'Calm down, calm down. Maybe she's already on the second floor. She could have ran there, knowing how stupid she can get.' He hurried off to the second floor, where the rooms were.
He went straight to Ash's room, knowing that she would drop by there first. After all, she had the key to the room. He turned the knob. It was still locked. He knocked on the door, "May? May!" He sighed, 'Not here.' He turned around- he would stop by his room.
"Boom!" May was face to face with Drew. Her hands were up by her face, with the strap of Max's bag hanging from one hand to the other, and going across her face.
He wanted to tease her and her stupidity, but found himself saying how worried he was about her, and not to do that ever again.
"S-sorry. I couldn't find you on the deck er.. first floor... You know what I mean. If you had just stayed there, it would have been better." She lowered her hands.
"But, that doesn't mean you can still carry out your joke. Do you have any idea what could have happened out of your stupid joke?" He adjusted his bags, so that he had a free hand.
"I know! I'm sorry."
"Good. Because you really couldn't do a joke, even if it depended on your life. Now, let's go." He grabbed her hand, and walked towards his room. He had no idea why he went to his, when they were just standing by Ash's.
"Oh really? I'd like to see you do better!"
Drew turned his head towards her, and smirked. "A million times better." He then returned to focusing on what was ahead of him.
"We'll see about that." She looked towards his hand, that was holding hers. 'He's... shaking.'
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They returned to their table, where Ash and Misty still sat, talking away. Max was talking to Brock about.. something, maybe even lecturing him.
"Hah! Where's all the food!?" May stared down at the tray, devastated.
"Oh, some kids came by and took it. They even took your drink, May," Max answered, then returned to his conversation with Brock.
"Let's hope whoever took it doesn't get rabies." Drew said, crossing his arms.
After just sitting down, she quickly stood. "I'll go... take a look around, or whatever!" She stomped away, walking to the other side of the ship. Once she was out of their sight, she sighed. She walked over to the railing, and peered down. The ship began to move. "He really gets on my nerves!"
"Venting out your anger?" someone said, from her side.
"Yes. Heh?" She turned towards the voice, and was met with a beautiful shade of deep sky blue eyes- which she couldn't turn away from.
Short dark orange hair (literally) and blue eyes. About the same height as Drew- maybe a bit taller. A white collared shirt, revealing a bit of his chest. Just a bit. Black long pants, and black shoes.
'He's really, really cute,' she thought. Then shook the thought out of her head, and focused down at the water.
"Hiro." He brought his hand out, for a handshake.
"Oh, uhm, May." She shook his hand.
"It's a really nice view, isn't it?" He crossed his arms, and set them on the rail. May did the same. "Just wait until the sunset, I bet it'll be something you wouldn't ever forget."
"Yeah." May smiled. For a moment, though, she thought she heard someone call her name. She tried ignoring it, but couldn't help thinking that it was Drew's voice. She knew it was. She felt like getting away, and just talk to Hiro. Drew teased her too much, and she would become frustrated a lot. But, he also helped her, which she was very thankful for. At least, for the rest of that day, she wanted to stay away from him.
"Hiro, um... Do you want to walk around the ship?" She pulled away from the rails.
"Sure," he smiled.
The voice disappeared as soon as they started walked away.
They took most of the afternoon walking around the ship talking, and stopping a few times to either take a rest, or get something to drink or eat. They talked about all kinds of things, personal life, Contests and battles... Just taking the time to get to know each other, after all, they had nothing better to do.
Hiro had to join his friends again, right before the sunset, which was pretty bad timing for them both. But, of course, he left, and May returned to the same table where everyone still sat, except--
"Where's Ash, Misty, and Brock?" May took her seat.
"They got in an argument, and decided to battle. Brock's the referee," Max answered.
'Max probably stayed to keep Drew company, then. Good, I wouldn't want to be alone with him,' May thought. She looked ahead to Drew, who was staring intently at her.
Max whispered to her, "He's been like that for awhile now... Bad mood, don't talk to him."
"Who was that, anyway?" Drew asked, out of nowhere.
May set her arms on the table, and buried her head. "I'm tired..." 'I have to avoid whatever he says...'
"Don't avoid the question!" Drew snapped.
"Why do you want to know anyway?" May asked, calmly. 'He doesn't need to know. It's totally none of his business.' "Wait, forget it. I'm leaving." She walked off to the second floor. They had switched keys while bringing their luggage to their rooms.
"Wait, May!" Max walked over to her, "Can I come with you? I need to tell you something."
"I guess." She glanced over to Drew, who looked away immediately. She made a silly face at him, to reassure him of whatever (because she didn't know herself), then left with Max.
Drew smirked.
May was lying on the bed, and Max was staring out the window.
"I'm not sure if you want to hear this or not. But..." Max started.
She sighed. "If it's something I don't want to hear, don't tell me. If it's something I want to hear, tell me."
"All right then..." He walked over towards the door out,but stopped and turned to her. "I think... you should consider your feelings." Then, he left.
"Consider... my feelings?" she said aloud, to herself. A few minutes passed by, thoughtlessly. "What is that supposed to mean?" She looked towards the window. "Maybe I should have told him to tell me, whether I wanted to hear it or not. Why not?" She decided to ask him what he meant.
While running in the hallway, she, in no surprise, bumped in to Hiro.
"Oh, great timing May! You want to eat dinner with us?" Hiro asked.
They looked so high class, to May. Well, Hiro was still wearing the same attire as before, but his friends were wearing clothes that appeared to be expensive. Aside from that, there were two females wearing very beautiful dresses and jewelry.
"Of course, you'll need to be properly dressed," one of the females said.
"Yes. Come on," the other female said.
"Ah! But uhm..." She was being dragged away by both of the girls. "N-nevermind," she smiled. 'I guess it wouldn't be that bad to join them. Plus, I can always ask Max later.'
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Drew was dressed in a collared white shirt (Hiro's wearing one of those weird collared ones, not Drew), with a small opening, wearing black pants and black shoes. He didn't feel like wearing a tuxedo, even if more than half the people did. Since his suite room ranged within the 150 numbered rooms, he was allowed high class dining- no one knew about the suite room switch, so he decided to attend. Since Misty was the cousin of the person who owned the ship, she was allowed to bring in friends- but only for three of the seven days. At least that meant he wouldn't be alone. Of course she'd invite Ash, Brock, May, and Max.
Now, he scanned the tables for them. He spotted the orange hair, but in a different style. No surprise there. He walked over to them, and took a seat between Max and Ash. Ash wasn't wearing his hat, good thing, too.
"Where's May?" Drew asked. 'She wouldn't miss out on this. Definitely wouldn't.'
"She wasn't in her room, when we went to check. Speaking of rooms, Drew.." Max started.
"We'll talk about that later. It's not a big deal, anyway." 'Idiot. Of all places to talk about it, this was one of the worst.' He didn't want to dine with the other lower classes, for one reason or another.
"There's May! She's looks so pretty." Misty exclaimed. "I bet she's going with them, though."
Drew flicked his to the direction Misty was looking (which was basically just in front of him).
May was in a red frilly dress- well, it wasn't that frilly, but it was still frilly- and she wasn't wearing her bandanna. It was one of those weird puffed out shoulder sleeves dresses. She wore long white socks, and white boot-type shoes (in Drew's way of describing it). To her sides were three guys and two females.
"Hey, you all wouldn't mind if I joined someone else, would you?" Brock asked, looking at a table with a single female.
Max sighed. "Just make sure you don't embarrass yourself."
"Yeah, for all we know, she could be waiting for someone," Misty laughed a bit.
"No, I can just tell," Brock said, dramatically. "I'll be going then." He "fluttered" off to the girl, and took the seat in front of her.
"I'm starving..." Ash whined.
"They'll be coming with the carts soon, so just wait." Misty looked over to where Brock and the girl were, making sure he wasn't doing anything idiotic. They were talking just like regular friends, it appeared.
Drew focused his full attention on May, and the guy she was with before. He was the one that called her name a few times. He furrowed his eyes brows. But, all May did was walk away with the guy. That was when he felt weird, in two ways he couldn't explain. Right now, he could feel one of the emotions he had felt. Was it jealousy, anger, or hurt? Or affection and annoyance? Whatever it was, he just couldn't stand May being over there with that guy- or with him at all.
It was almost the same as when she was with Harley. Maybe... it was the exact same.
Drew looked away- searching for any carts that might be going around- just when May looked up towards him.
It was like they were in the same table. Sitting in front of one another, only, there was a long distance between them. But, they were alone. All the noise from the chattering people were gone. The whole scenery had turned black, except for themselves and the white clothed table, with it's small teardrop cut out designs on the edges.
Drew slowly turned to her gaze. Their eyes were locked on to each other, for that moment, until the guy, she was with earlier, interrupted. Drew suddenly felt choler. He wanted to leave, but he also wanted to watch over her and eat- he hadn't eaten all day.
He could barely hear what they were talking about, and felt even more annoyed. At least, with Harley, all he had to do was take care of his Pokemon. But, right now, this had nothing to do with Pokemon. Not a single Pokemon was around, even.
The people with the carts of food started walking around. As they came by, everyone would pick the foods they favored.
"I hear that there'll be a dance at twelve o'clock midnight, tonight. Actually, it's every other night at the same time. Would you like to accompany me, May?" Hiro asked.
"Oh, uhm... But, I can't dance well," May said, a bit embarrassed.
'Change that to "at all".' Drew laughed a little at this thought.
"Don't worry about that. I can't dance well either," Hiro laughed.
"That's right!" one of the boys laughed- a bit too much. He soon received a thwack upside the head by one of the girls, and continued eating quietly.
"You, be quiet. Anyway... What are you talking about, Hiro? You dance very well, don't you agree, Yozakura?" one of the girls said.
"Yumiko, that'll only make May not want to come. If I were her, and I just heard that, I wouldn't want to come, to be honest. Really, I wonder, I wonder," Yozakura said. The second "I wonder" was a bit lower than the first.
"I... guess I could come. It'd be fun," May said. She, accidentally, looked over to Drew- wondering if he was looking to her direction. She really wanted to go over there and ask if he was coming to the dance, she would laugh at him if he couldn't dance. Drew was looking at (and eating) his food.
She did see some people walk around, and switch tables, so she thought it'd be okay if she'd move to Drew's table, temporarily. "I'll be right back."
"Where are you going?" Hiro asked.
May stood from her seat, "I just want to check on my friends..." After his "oh, all right", she quickly left, and took Brock's "old" seat- which was, conveniently, set in front of Drew. "You guys don't mind if I sit here for a little bit, do you?"
"'Course not," Ash said.
Drew felt relieved that she came, and thought he was stupid for that.
"You going to the dance, Drew?" May asked him.
"Why? I couldn't bare to watch you dance, since I'd probably die of laughter."
"She couldn't dance, even if it depended on her life," Max added.
"Well, I'm so sorry I can't dance. If you'll excu--se me!" She, abruptly, stood from her seat, until-
"Wait," Drew said, quickly. He had no idea what to say, all he wanted to do was keep May from going back to Hiro.
"What?"
Ash and Misty watched the two, very amused.
"I guess you have nothing to say. I'll be going then," she hastily walked over to Hiro's table and returned to her seat.
Drew stared at her, as she made a face at him.
"Aheh." Misty stared at Drew. She had a really odd expression.
"Wh-what?"
"Nothing."
Hiro looked over to Drew, which Drew could see at the corner of his eye. It looked as if he was glaring at him. But why? Was it because he made fun of May? Shouldn't he be glaring at Max too? Then again, she could have told him that the four-eyed kid was her brother.
He decided that he'd attend the dance. It was only so he could laugh at May as she embarrassed herself, he assured himself- to rid of any weird thoughts.
"Who is that guy?" Hiro asked. "The one you were talking to."
"My rival!" May replied, dramatically. "Anyway, he doesn't matter." She wanted to change to topic, and to avoid any more talking, she took a bite of her food.
"Really? So I guess it doesn't matter if I... kiss you?"
May coughed, drank a bit of water, swallowed, and sputtered, "Wh-wh-what!? We-we only just met, what... Me?"
Drew twitched. Hiro slowly leaned in towards her, she backed away. 'I've never kissed anyone, or been kissed by anyone, before..! At least, not on the lips..' she thought.
"Oh my. Hiro, you realize there's over a hundred people in here," Yumiko said.
"May!" Misty called to her.
"Oh uhm.. I gotta.. go. I'll see you tonight, okay?" May rushed over back to Drew's table. She heard him say "see you".
"Dammit," he hissed.
"Competition, I wonder, I wonder," Yozakura said.
"What is it, Misty?" May asked, almost breathless.
"Nothing. I just thought I'd get you out of some trouble," she smiled.
"Oh. Thanks." In her mind, she was screaming thank you, though.
"So, you're still going to the dance?" Misty set down the silver ware, and wiped her mouth with the large napkin- indicating she was finished eating.
"Of course! I'm sure the sky would be a nice sight, too."
"I'll go too," Drew said.