Hey everyone! This is my first story, so I'm pretty nervous, the kind you get before opening a shook bottle of coke nervous. Anyway, I hope you like it!

Well, here I am. Misty thought. No turning back now. She took a deep breath and pushed the heavy wooden door open. There, at the centre of the room stood the champion of all champions, with his back turned to her. She walked up to him, and before she could do anything, he spoke. 'I know what you're here for.' His voice was deep and rough, but to her ears it felt silky smooth. She held her tongue, longing for him to speak some more.

It all started a few years back, when the boy with the Pikachu fried her bike. She promised she wouldn't leave him alone until he paid her back, but after just a day she knew that even if he ever did she would just say 'You took so long to pay me back, so I'm charging interest!' and if that excuse didn't work, she'd try 'I've helped you out on so many occasions when I could've just left you. You owe me big time for all of them.' Accompanied with a glare, of course. Turns out she never needed them, since he never paid her back, and only she broke her side of the promise, because she was the one who left him. She didn't want to, but she had to. She found out that that was the case in many situations she had been in. Her Togetic, for instance. She didn't want to let him go but she had to. Only leaving Ash was much harder than that. Not that she'd ever, ever admit it though.

A few years on and no matter how hard she tries, the redhead can't escape the feeling. She hadn't seen him in forever, but like her sisters often teased her about, "absence makes the heart grow fonder," and in this case, it really did. Sure, she could get a boyfriend, and just about to be ready to forget him, and then he'd call her and she'd see his stupid, cute face and end it with whoever the guy was. How she wanted to rip his guts out, but at the same time she just wanted to be next to him, and have him hold her. It was a never ending circle of pain, for her only. Him, being as stupid and dense as he was, didn't pick up on how bad she had it for him. It was at times like these she wanted to scream so loud even the people in Sinnoh could hear her. But she kept it all in, and unleashed it in battle, which is why the Cerulean gym was named best gym in Kanto, and also why she got offered the job of being Elite.

It was a cold day in Cerulean, even for Misty, who seemed to never get cold. She had just beaten another opponent, making him her 20th consecutive win. As much as she loved to win, she felt that the challengers were getting a bit too easy for her, and wished she could have a proper battle that she may stand a chance of losing in. That was when he came in. A strange man, with vaguely familiar spiky brown-red hair and a long cape. At first glance, she knew he was important, rich maybe, but not as important as he really was.

'Hey,' she said to the man. 'You here to see one of my sisters?' it was the first thing she could think of, because she knew she had seen him somewhere before. And she knew her sisters had a thing for men with money.

'No,' he said, in a husky voice. 'I'm here to challenge you.'

'Hmmm?' she mumbled, taken aback.

'Wow, I thought the best gym in Kanto would be a bit more professional than this.' He said without emotion.

Misty glared at the challenger, seeing red. 'Well come on then! Let's battle! I'll win, let me warn you, and you won't be saying that after I do!" she yelled.

He stared at her still with no trace of any emotion in his eyes. This put her off a bit, but she continued by walking up to the pool were the matches were held, and called 'Come on over! You can't insult my gym, say you want a match then change your mind! Scared are we?' He rolled his eyes and walked over, his cape touching the floor slightly. When he reached the other end of the pool, she called out 'We'll use three on three, no time limit, sound good?' Not that she cared what this jerk thought, but she always asked what her opponent wanted beforehand, and wasn't about to stop.

'Sure.' He replied in the same uncaring tone. He threw a poke ball on of the ledges in the pool. 'GO!' he cried, with a spark lighting in his eyes. Misty's knees nearly gave way, because it was nearly exactly the same expression Ash wore when he was about to battle. She angrily shook her head from left to right.

Now's not the time! She yelled at herself in her head. You need to show this jackass how good you are and defend the gym's rep! She too threw her poke ball yelling, 'GO, Staryu!' both poke balls hit the ledges at the same time, and out from Misty's ball popped Staryu, ready for battle with a big 'HYA!' From the unknown challenger's ball out came an Altaria. Misty wasn't too shocked to find that he liked dragon-type, his appearance gave him away. The only problem is she wasn't too sure if Staryu matched up against a dragon type well. It's worth a try! 'Staryu, water gun!' the star shaped pokémon shot out a blast of water towards the cloud-like bird pokémon.

The challenger did nothing, as if waiting. Misty was confused, but shrugged it off and fully focused on her battle. The blast of water was just about to hit when 'Altaria, agility!' The bird zoomed out of the way, so fast it was as if it was disappearing. Misty blinked a few times in shock at how fast it was. The poor Staryu however, was following it with its powerful water gun as hard as it could, but it wasn't working.

'Staryu, stop until Altaria slows down!' Misty cried, frustrated. She had to win. She had to! The star pokémon stood on the middle ledge waiting for the bird to stop flying in circles.

'Dragon rage Altaria!' the spiky haired challenger suddenly shouted. A huge purple and yellow flame shot at Staryu from behind.

'Quick, Staryu jump into the water!' Misty screamed, so into the battle. The star jumped into the water, narrowly missing the blast. Phew, she thought, relieved her Staryu was okay. I need a strategy! She racked her brains, and finally thought of a good enough one to use. 'Staryu, dive deep down underwater!'

'What are you thinking?' he asked, interested.

'I can't tell you can I?' she yelled back, infuriated.

'Very well.' He said, going back to the same uncaring tone. Misty gritted her teeth.

'NOW STARYU! Hit Altaria with your rapid spin!' Misty's Staryu came flying out of the water, and hit Altaria straight in the stomach, sending it flying upwards, hitting the ceiling and then crashing back down into the water, splashing everywhere. 'Finish him off!' the star jumped back in and then again the bird came flying back up, followed by a powerful water gun. The bird crashed on its original ledge, with the little swirls for eyes. 'YES! Staryu rules!' Misty cheered, doing a victory dance. The pokémon jumped up next to her and gave a little cheer itself.

'Hmmm…' the opponent said, smiling. 'Just as I thought.' His smile winded as he recalled his Altaria. 'You're a very good trainer, little girl.' He put away his poke ball and walked up towards her side of the pool.

'Hey, we're having a match?' Misty cried, extremely confused. Sure, she was flattered that he thought she was good, but she still wanted to beat him.

'Were,' he said, correcting her. 'I forfeit, and would like to offer you the place of being a water elite in the elite four at the Indigo Plateau.'

Misty's eyes widened and looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. 'How can you offer me a place as one of them, your just another idiotic trainer, the kind that I hate.' she said matter-of-factly, not phased that she might hurt his feelings. His eyes narrowed at the statement.

'Didn't you recognise me? I am the champion of Kanto; Lance, the dragon tamer!' he said in a superhero-ish voice, pushing out his chest and striking a pose, with his hands on his hips. Misty's eyes opened even wider, which didn't seem humanely possible.

'Y-yo-you are h-h-him?' she took a deep breath in 'and-d-d, you w-want m-m-me to be a w-water elite?' she needed to sit down as she felt she would probably faint or something, so she went over to the bleachers alongside the arena. Lance followed.

'Yes. Yes I do want you to be a water elite. I think you'd be amazing, and you know you will be too.' He said with a firm nod, so sure of himself.

Meanwhile, Misty had her head between her legs; 'in… and out… breathe in… and out…' she said during very deep breaths. Lance looked down, and shook her shoulder.

'Are you alright?'

'Yes, I think so anyway.' She said, looking up at him.

'So; want to take up on my offer?' he asked, offering her his hand. She pondered for a while staring at his empty hand. '…what is it?' he asked her worriedly.

'I'm going to need to ask them about this before. They're going to have to take over the gym, so they at least need to know were I'll be most of the time…' she said to herself.

'Hello?'

Mistys head shot up, but didn't look at him in his eyes and she stiffly said 'Got to do something. Wont be a second.' She got up and raced through the large stadium to get to the house.

'DAISY! VIOLET! LILY!' Misty screamed for her sisters when she got into the living room.

'Like, what the hell 'lil sis. What do you WANT?' moaned Daisy, annoyed at the youngest Sensational Sister. 'I was like, sleeping!' Misty walked round the curve wall to find her sister laying in an awkward position on the small green sofa.

'This is going to sound so weird but listen right?' Misty squealed, barley able to contain her excitement.

'Okay, like, whatever. Hurry, I wanna get back to sleep.'

Misty quickly explained how Lance came in and how she thought it was for them, about the battle and then got to where he offered her the elite job. '… So, in short I'm going to be better than you all and become an ELITE. I do need your permission though, but even if you say no I'll do the "its opposite day!" crap until you give in. The only thing I'm worried about is that you, Lily and Violet need to ether get good at battling or get someone else to run the gym or else it will go back to being the worst in the whole world!' she said brightly, a big, sugar sweet smile planted on her face. The blonde raised her eyebrow.

'I'm, like, a plenty good battler! You can't like, help it when your f-king the size of an elephant!' she screamed, bursting into tears. 'Im so fat! I can't even get up off this freakin' couch! Like, even you're prettier than me and you're the runt!' she wailed, her pregnancy hormones kicking in almost instantly. (A/N Sorry, I just can't picture her not pregnant for some reason.)

Misty kicked herself inwardly. She forgot how bad her sister's hormones were. Say one mildly mean thing, and it would be somehow related to her being fat, and she'd cry for the next hour. She ran over to the couch, helped her up and rubbed her shoulder, chanting soothingly, 'You're not fat, you're not fat,' until Daisy's heavy sobs controlled themselves.

Just as they had subsided, Violet came running down the spiral stairs, yelling irritably, 'Like, get Daisy to shut the hell up crying or like, I'll punch her! I'm not a frickin' morning person.'

She screamed and sobbed even harder than before, crying 'See I, like, told you I was fat! I'm fat, I'm fat, I'm fat, I'm fat!' her voice cracking every now and then.

'Well done Vi,' Misty growled through her teeth. 'I don't think Daisy even remembers what I just told her so I'll tell you. Basically, I'm going to be an elite, you can't stop me, I'm the best, I beat the leader of Kanto's Altaria with Staryu, I'm going to train at the Indigo Plateau, blah blah blah, get good at battling or hire someone to do them for you because you all suck.' She raced through it all, giving Violet a headache.

'Like, what the hell Misty? Good for you you're an elite. I don't give a f-k. Can we please get her to stop bloody crying?'

'You're going to hell.' Misty said, glaring at her purple haired sister. 'Just because your jealous.'

'Like, get off it. There is no way I'm jealous.' She stated honestly, rolling her eyes. 'And I don't like, care if I'm going to hell or not, as long as I get away from all this crying!'

'You started her off again! You have only yourself to blame!' Misty yelled at her, getting annoyed.

'Well then I take full responsibility.' She said in a bitingly sarcastic way. 'Gawd, I need to stop spending time with you! I'm like, turning into you! Go on, leave! Or I'll, like, lose my girly-girl charm that the guys love!' she panicked.

'Get her to stop crying, I have to talk to someone. And it's one in the afternoon.' She said, looking over to the oven clock. She pushed Daisy's sobbing head onto Violet's shoulder. The hormonal mother-to-be didn't seem to care, as long as she had someone to cry on. 'Won't be a minute!' she cried, running back to the gym room.

She burst through the doors, overjoyed to see the leader was still there. 'Sorry about that,' she said, out of breath. 'My oldest sister is pregnant and very touchy, and my other sister isn't a morning person, then made the pregnant one cry over saying something stupid and yea…' she trailed off, worrying that he thought she wouldn't be fit to do the job because of her family's (and her own) mental state. 'So, is your offer still on?'

'Yes, of course. Have you made your decision?'

'Hmm...' She took a deep breath 'my sisters didn't say no, but they didn't say yes ether… but Violet did say I should go… and that she didn't give a fudge…' she closed her eyes and screamed at the top of her voice 'YES! YES! YES! I'm gonna be an el-iiii-te, I'm gonna be an el-iiiii-te!' she sang, doing a victory dance around the pool.

He cracked a smile. 'I'm pleased with your decision. You will start your elite training next Friday, so be ready.' He walked to the exit and called out his Dragonite. 'I have to get back to training. My Altaria must suck to get beaten by a puny Staryu.' Lance sighed, and hopped onto the dragon's back.

'HEY! What do you mean "Puny Staryu"?'

He laughed and soared off into the air calling 'Be prepared! Goodbye!'

'HEY! I wasn't finished!' she yelled back. Then it really hit her. She couldn't really grasp it before from the shock of it all, but it finally sank in. She was a water elite! She was a huge leap closer to her ultimate dream. Screaming until her throat was numb; she raced back into the gym and jumped into the ice-cold pool. 'Everyone, come out!' she didn't even notice the sub-zero temperature. All her water types popped out of their poke balls, and she gave them all a big group hug. 'Were the best!' she screamed, pulling them all closer, realising how stupid she was for jumping in. And how cold she was getting. But, a small voice inside told her to shut up and enjoy her moment of pure glory.

Thank you so much for reading! Sorry about my limited vocabulary, and the very bad battle. I promise to find a thesaurus next time!