My lovely, wonderful, faithful readers. I AM SO SORRY. I haven't been on/updating in a whiiiile, and I know I have been seriously neglecting some of my more popular stories. I urge all of my readers to REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW and leave me suggestions! I need inspiration! But anyway, I know that some of you may be tired of my affinity for musical-fics, but I just HAD to try this. I've always seen so many similarities between Misty and Ariel from the Little Mermaid and I just needed to find a way to combine the two, so enjoy everyone! And don't forget to REVIEW!

OH, ALSO, this takes place during Diamond and Pearl!

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or The Little Mermaid. If I owned Pokémon, I certainly would have given Ash better voice actors and not even dream of replacing Misty and Brock. Sorry Iris and Whats-his-name.

Chapter 1: The Missed Phone Call.

"Ring-ring-ring, ring-ring-ring, Phone Call, Phone Call!, Ring-ring-ring, ring-ring-ring, Phone Call, Phone Call!"

The phone in the Cerulean City gym office remained unanswered. Throughout the gym, the ringer could be heard faintly if anyone were around to hear it, but alas, the only people who ventured inside the Cerulean City Gym these days were the few volunteers who ventured inside the Gym daily to care for the Pokémon in the Gym aquarium. Otherwise, the gym was vacant and dark. Outside, a sign reading "GYM CLOSED UNTIL END OF SUMMER" was carelessly taped onto the front door. Next to it, a much bigger, flashy, colorful sign read "The Sensational Sisters present… The Little Mermaid! Now on Tour featuring the Fourth Sensational Sister!" Under the headline was a list of locations and dates.

All of this, the closed gym and the National Tour, was common knowledge to the citizens of Cerulean City. However, to Ash Ketchum, who had just so happened to call a few weeks following the Sisters' departure, the unanswered phone call was quite peculiar. Misty, always the dependable one of the sisters, usually made sure the phone lines were taken care of.

"Hm" Ash put the phone down, "that's strange"

"What's strange?" inquired Dawn, who was lounging on a couch in the Hearthome City Pokémon Center, flipping through Poffin recipes in Coordinators Weekly.

"I was calling Misty at the gym, but nobody picked up."

"How's that strange? Maybe she's busy in a Gym battle."

"Well Misty rules that gym with an iron fist" added Brock, who was feeding Happiny, "if she weren't around to pick up the phone, she would have had Daisy manning the phone line"

Pikachu, noticing Ash's slight distress, quickly climbed up onto his trainer's shoulder and gave him an encouraging "Pika!" as if to say "This is nothing to worry about!"

Ash gave him a smile and said "You're right Pikachu, everything's fine. I guess it's just cause I haven't talked to her in awhile."

"Ah, yes, because it's not like she wrote to you or anything" said Brock sarcastically, who then after putting Happiny back in her ball, approached the Pokémon Center counter, hoping for a few moments with his beloved Nurse Joy.

Ash looked at the ground, feeling guilty "I… I've always meant to reply to her letters I just-"

"Never found the time, too busy, blah, blah, blah" said Dawn casually, still not looking up from her magazine.

"What do you mean blah, blah, blah?" started Ash angrily, "you know I've been busy trying to earn all of my badges!"

"Yeah, but you've neglected her along the way" said Dawn, finally looking up from her magazine, "given all of the letters she has written to you, and you know very well it's hard to get a letter to you Mister-I-don't-stay-anywhere-for-longer-than-two-days, she still sees you as part of her world, even if it has been years. And you know very well it isn't a picnic running that gym either. She's busy too."

"Well she could have called me if that's easier than her letters-" started Ash again, before being interrupted once more.

"It's also easier for you to forget. You can forget a missed phone call but you'll always have a letter."

Ash paused. He had no response for this. Dawn walked over to her friend and sat beside him, "Listen, just write back. She'll appreciate it." She then pulled out a pen and some Piplup-decorated stationary and handed it to Ash, "Go ahead."

Ash stood up and walked towards an empty table. As he begun his attempt to compose a letter to Misty, he found that he didn't really know what to say. How could one letter make up for the seven stuffed in his backpack? After several minutes of contemplation, Ash dated the letter (July 28th, 2011) and began. "Dear Misty…"

Mew, this was gonna be hard.

Pikachu hopped up onto Ash's table and upon seeing what he was writing offered some advice "Pikapi Pi Pikachu Pika!" ("Ash, say something honest!")

"Honest huh?" said Ash, looking back at the letter, "I could do that."

"Dear Misty, I miss you."

That was enough honesty for the day for Ash. The entire experience left him confused. Very confused, for that matter. He hadn't seen Misty in years, but he always got this weird feeling whenever he thought about her, and of course, Ash being utterly clueless about matters of the heart, had not a single idea what that feeling meant.

Ash folded up the letter and stuffed it in his backpack. Making his way back to Dawn and a freshly-rejected Brock, he failed to notice a sign taped to the Pokemon Center wall. It was the very same colorful sign taped to the Cerulean City Gym, but on this one, somebody had circled the date for Hearthome City. July 29th.

This has actually been a refreshing writing experience. I hope you guys enjoyed it! Stay tuned for Chapter 2! (which, given my boredom, will likely be posted later tonight) and don't forget to REVIEW! :)

-Scarlett