'Ello there! Strictly DawnxPaul, or HikarixShinji, AshxMisty, and DrewxMay. Hope you enjoy! First pokemon fic, so I'm sorry if it really stinks.
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The Sunday List Of Dreams
Prologue: The Last Thing
Invitation only, grant farewells, crush the best one, of the best ones, clear liquor and, cloudy eyed, too early to…say goodnight…
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Full Summary: The three of them were best friends, always sticking with each other through thick and thin. They'd all kept their, 'Sunday list of dreams', or what they preferred to call a 'to do list.' And every Sunday, they'd get together to do something on someone's list, always alternating to each person, until they reached their goal. Soon things began to fall in place, as they crossed off those dreams achieved, and without realizing it, had fulfilled what they would have been impossible: falling in love.
Note: Using American names, not the Japanese ones. Another thing, I have no idea about landmasses, and such, so…just bear with me! I also do not know May's last name, or
She slowly climbed to the edge of the huge cliff, watching as the waves pushed and pulled against each other, slamming into the side, small pieces of rock tumbling off. She stared down, wind blowing her navy hair all around her, slapping her cheeks. She couldn't hear anything past the roar of the water, only the slapping sounds of cold, dark water and they loud pounding of her own heartbeat. Dawn took a deep breath of the fresh air before jumping headfirst, diving into the water.
"Dawn!" May shrieked, as Dawn laughed and swam around in the dark, cold water. "How is it??"
"It feels great!" Dawn giggled, diving back underneath as the sun began peeking from behind the clouds that had momentarily covered it, it's rays beating down May and Misty's back.
"Man…it's so hot out…" Misty groaned, fanning her face. Her pokemon sat sleeping in the shade, as the three girls sat off a remote cliff in Volencia island, in their bathing suits as their pokemon napped in the shade. They sat on their large towels, Misty's usually pinned up hair flowing down her back, May's headband wrapped around Blaziken's head.
"Let's go, Misty!" May laughed, grabbing her friend's hand.
"Wh-what?" She looked down the side of the cliff. It wasn't too tall, and there weren't any dangerously sharp rocks waiting to pierce her into swiss cheese at the bottom. May stood behind her, grinning cheekily as Misty observed the sea. She then pushed Misty into the water, laughing as she screamed before a loud splash was heard. Dawn was attempting to stay afloat, as she laughed hard, her Buizel leisurely floating by her.
"May Maple! I'm going to kill you!" Misty screeched angrily, waking up the pokemon. Goldeen swam by her, as did Horsea.
May laughed, holding her stomach, until she stepped too close to the edge and fell in herself, screaming as she fell headfirst into the cold, crystal clear water.
Misty couldn't help but begin laughing as May, hair all in her face and sopping wet, floated up to the top of the water. Her baby Squirtle's face peeped from the edge, looking concerned before it jumped in as well. Pachirisu, Piplup, Buneary, Blaziken, Eevee, Skitty, Bulbasaur, Togepi and Beautifly peered down to stare at them, all of Misty's pokemon already in the water. Normally, May would have her Munchlax, but instead left it with Max as he had developed a close relationship with the hungry pokemon. May watched as Psyduck floated by, a happy look on it's face as it sat in its tube.
"Hey, what do you guys want to do after this?" Dawn asked, after spurting a small geyser of water from her mouth, Squirtle watching her before aiming a watergun cheerfully at her face, Dawn gagging in the process before sinking into the water.
May watched Psyduck, before turning to help Dawn. The three looked at each other.
"Hmm, I don't know." Misty admitted, finger on her chin. "We've already finished today's task on Dawn's list. Jump off a cliff."
"Although this was a pretty small one." May giggled, as Dawn pouted.
"You're the one who was too afraid to jump off a higher one!" Dawn accused, pointing her finger directly at May's face.
May blinked. "Oh yeah."
Misty sighed. "Well, it's probably eleven by now. How about lunch, then we find something on May's list to do!" Misty grinned.
"Well, alright. But if we finish early, we go to your list, Misty!" May grinned back, before looking up and realizing something: How were they going to get back up?
After using Bulbasaur's vine whip to help them up, they searched through the hot town on Volencia Island for something to eat. Togepi cheerfully cried out every once in a while, May, Dawn and Misty giggling as they tickled the little egg pokemon, before they saw a small café that's outside menu looked appetizing enough.
"Oh, I'm starving!" May grinned, as the trio stepped into the café, the air-conditioned cold slamming onto their hot bodies.
"How cute!" Dawn cooed, as they all grinned, looking around until they spotted an open round table, facing the window to the wide, sparkling ocean.
As they sat there, looking through their menus, they let out their pokemon, ordering some pokemon food for them.
Misty looked up, and noticed a large hoard of girls chasing what seemed to be three dots on the beach. She blinked a few times.
"Hey, what's that?" She had a funny look on her face, pointing towards the beach. Rabid girls ran along the beach line, some in bikinis and others in casual skirts and t-shirts, dust trailing behind them as they ran after three boys in their swim trunks.
Dawn and May peered out the window, squinting against the sun. "Three dots being chased around?"
"Obviously, May."
They watched as the dots suddenly disappeared behind some palm trees, the huge flock of girls frantically looking around.
"They disappeared."
"Again, obviously, May."
"Shut up!"
Misty laughed, Dawn and May soon joining in.
"Hey, May, pass me your list." May blinked owlishly a few times, before reaching into her dark blue tote and pulling out a piece of paper, that looked like it was worn through, erase marks and dark pencil lines all over it. Misty blinked in surprise, when she saw only one thing was left on May's list. She pulled out her own, and grabbed Dawn's pack before digging her's out as well.
"Well now…" Misty said, laughing.
"What?" The other two asked simultaneously.
"We're on our last item."
May blinked in surprise. "We?"
"Yep."
"That means…" Dawn began.
"We're on finding love." Misty said bitterly, and the three gave a loud sigh.
"Like that'll happen. Relationships just seem to hate me." Dawn grumbled, and May nodded in despair.
"…But we can't just skip it." May started, Dawn and Misty staring at her as though she was a crazed psychopath. May sweatdropped. "Remember? We said we wouldn't skip anything."
"…Can we just forget about that?" Misty asked, hopeful.
"No." May said firmly.
"I guess she's right, Misty."
"…I guess." The girls sighed in desolation.
"This one is impossible." Misty murmured. They could hear the small bell of the front doors open to the café, but the three ignored it, too busy sulking in their seats. They could hear girl's whispering, and the boys mumbling angry things but continued to ignore it. The café was partly silent, before Dawn finally looked up, and noticed the three dots that had been running outside, were being stared at by everybody else.
Dawn poked Misty and May with her foot from under the tablecloth, and the two looked up, noticing them as well. Girls there with their friends jumped up, screaming loudly and breaking the once-peaceful silence, as girls working behind the counter and in the kitchen screeched as well, before the three boys freaked out and ran out of the café, girls flocking after them.
The other guys in the café were left in the dust, as May, Dawn, and Misty stared after the slowly disappearing dust in shock.
"We never got to eat." May grumbled unhappily, holding her empty stomach that rumbled in response.
"Let's just find a burger joint." Dawn said, sweating and moaning unhappily.
"Can we jump off that cliff again?" Misty suggested.
"I think I'll do anything to get out of this head…" May trailed off, bumping into somebody.
"Oops, sorry—May?" May froze at the voice, looking up only to find Brendan in front of her. May twitched, cursing her luck. "May! I haven't seen you in forever! You never returned my calls…"
"Um, sorry. I… lost my phone." She ignored his hand, and got up before dusting off the dirt that had gotten on her white skirt, still slightly damp from her bathing suit underneath it. There was a small awkward silence, Brendan trying to make small talk as he ate his ice cream, standing leisurely on the boardwalk in his trunks.
"Well, we'll be going now…" Misty started, before dragging May off, Brendan looking confused but decided to head back to the beach. Dawn stuck her tongue out childishly at his turned back, crossing her arms over her bikini top.
"Of all the things the tide had to bring in…" She mumbled, and the two arrived at a small burger joint, relishing the cool air inside. They noticed that standing in front of them were the three boys that had been stalked earlier by the flocks of girls.
May twitched. "I'm going to give them a piece of my…" Dawn held her back, and shook her head.
"You'd better not, I'll tell you why when we get back to the pokemon center." The three boys ordered, quite a large number of burgers and drinks before walking over to a booth. After they'd ordered their things to go, they waited by the pick up counter, mindlessly staring at each other, and secretly observing the three boys.
Then May noticed a guy about 18, with brown hair and slit eyes, a boy with glasses and green trunks, and familiar dark hair…
"Max!?" She screeched, before Dawn and Misty ducked behind the wall that held some fake potted plants. May struggled, her cries muffled as Misty peered through the potted plants, noticing Max looking around for the voice and the older boy watching him curiously before nudging him over to the boys with green, black, and purple hair.
"Why did you do that?!" Dawn hissed, nobody paying any attention to the three crouched girls.
"Because my brother could be stampeded over by those girls who are following the other guys! And my mom and dad never told me ANYTHING about this!" Misty and Dawn sweatdropped at May's angry red face.
"Order number 21." A worker called, placing three bags on the counter.
"That's our order! How are we supposed to leave with those five here?" Misty whispered fiercely.
"We go say hi then leave?" May suggested, but the two looked at her skeptically. "Well, why can't we?" May pouted.
"Considering your father is angry for letting you go on this trip with us, wouldn't your brother tell him we're out in these bikinis, stampeding around with a couple of guys following us, namely Brendan? You know how much he wants you to marry him." Dawn snickered, and May had a look of horror on her face.
"Let's just grab them and run." Misty said, and the three nodded in determination. "At the count of three… one… two… three…!" They jolted up, grabbed their bags and sprinted out at an amazing speed through the sliding doors, only leaving dust behind them.
Four of the five boys blinked in surprise as they watched three unfamiliar girls sprint out the door. Paul rolled his eyes before he began to eat again. Max hadn't turned around and simply munched happily on his burger. Munchlax sat by him, sleeping soundly after eating one of Professor Oak's pokeblocks.
Ash and Brock watched the door, blinking furiously. Drew had already turned back to his food, his pokemon sitting beside him as they ate.
"Who were those three?" Ash asked, confused.
"I'm surprised they didn't attack you like the ones on the beach." Brock commented. This caught Paul and Drew's attention.
"Maybe they just don't like you guys." Max said, swallowing.
"Well, that's a first." Brock laughed.
"It's kind of nice to know that." Ash said, grinning sheepishly as his Pikachu agreed, before shoving more burgers into his mouth.
Drew watched him in disgust. "Can't you eat one at a time?"
Ash was about to open his mouth to retort back, but Paul spoke first. "Please don't answer that question." Ash decided not to say anything, his mouth full of burger.
"That was close…" Dawn panted, the three of them safely inside their room in the pokemon center.
"So, why wasn't I allowed to give those three a piece of my mind?"
"Because they had your brother with them!"
"That was before!"
"And do you know what their fangirls would have done to you?!"
May blinked, before a look of realization dawned on her face. "Oh… Wow I didn't think of it that way."
"By the way, who were those guys?"
"Well, there was Max… the one with the spiky black head with the Pikachu next to him was Ash…"
"Oh, the famous Pokemon trainer?" Dawn nodded at May.
"I know the green-haired one was Drew…" May said, finger on her chin as she thought about them.
"The other one with the purple hair was Paul." Dawn spoke, and the three blinked in recognition.
"Wow, all of those three are pretty famous!"
"And the one with the brown hair that came in with Max must be who they call Brock, the guy that travels with them everywhere!"
"I guess he's like their manager?" Misty pointed out.
"Who needs a manager for pokemon battling and coordinating?" May asked, snickering slightly.
"Yeah, but why was Max with them?" May blinked curiously at this question.
"Well, I'd rather leave this alone. You do realize we're being stalked by our ex boyfriends at the moment, right?" Dawn sighed.
"Melvin still likes you…" May laughed, pointing at Misty. Misty blushed.
"We never went out…!"
"Oh, whatever!" Dawn giggled, and Misty resisted the urge to childishly stomp her foot. She plopped onto her bed, Dawn sitting above her in her bunk, May across from them.
"Oh yeah? Well Todd's only met you once and it was love at first sight! Did you see how many pictures he took of you, Dawn?" Misty snorted with laughter as Dawn screeched at the top of her lungs in protest. After their laughter had died down, the three sat in a comfortable silence.
"So, now what?" May watched Misty as she lay down under her covers, still blushing and giggled slightly at this. There was a knock on the door. May stood as Misty peeked from under the white covers, Dawn's face confused. May opened the door, and large bouquets of flowers stood in front of them, and Nurse Joy's muffled voice came from behind the colorful flowers.
"A little help…please…?"
The three quickly jumped from where they were and took the large arrangements of flowers, their sweet aroma filling the room.
"It seems three boys came to drop this off!" Nurse Joy smiled cheerfully, before waving and walking off. They opened the cards, and all of them looked horrified.
"Oh no…" May wanted to cry.
"Kill me now." Dawn deadpanned, holding the beautiful white flowers in her arms.
"Me first." Misty retorted, before slamming the door behind them. Ironically enough, Paul, Drew, Max, Brock, and Ash were walking down the hall, and heard the slam.
"Wonder what that was about?" Ash blinked naively.
"I don't." Paul remarked, and Ash was left behind. He blinked, looking forward.
"H-hey! Wait up for me!"
Erm. So in Chapter One, guess who May, Misty, and Dawn meet up with on the ship to La Rousse!?
No flames please, but I do accept critiques!
Preview For Chapter 1: (Or something along these lines, lol.)
"May?" The three girls froze, turning slowly only to meet the shocked eyes of five particular boys. They watched as Max and May stared at each other, one in shock and the other panicked.
"Now what…?" Dawn murmured to Misty and May.
"Can we run or jump off the boat?" May asked weakly.