Howdy all! This is the new and improved Attractions! Yaaaay! Eh… anyhoo… I thought the old one was kinda… um… what's the word? I dunno… it just needed help; therefore, it's getting helped! So here it is!


Ages~

Ash ~ 16

Misty ~ 17

Brock ~ 20





Attractions

~ Part 1; Things aren't always as they seem. ~



Have you ever wished you could just MAKE someone like you? Make someone fall totally in love with you? Well, it just so happens that there may be a way, and that way may be used by using the TM Attract, but be warned, things aren't always as they seem.

~

  Misty sighed and shuffled her feet. Togepi squealed with delight in her arms. Brock stood beside her watching the battle before them intently, making sure no one cheated or anything along those lines. It was the usual battle between the famous Ash Ketchum and some anonymous opponent, Misty had lost track of who, or even how many people stopped to ask Ash for a battle, or vise versa.

  Misty sighed once again and pretended to watch. She loved to cheer Ash on and watch battles – really she did – but she just wasn't in the mood at the moment, she had other things on her mind.

   This particular boy that Ash was battling called out a cleffa, which seemed to amuse Misty because it seemed rather strange that a boy would use such a, well, girly pokemon. In retaliation, Ash called out his trusty Bulbasaur. Misty shrugged mentally and felt slightly compelled to watch as the battle began.

   "Alright, Bulbasaur, let's start this off with a razor leaf!"

   "BULBA!"

   A stream of razor leaves hit the small, pink pokemon dead on, but Cleffa pulled itself up and got into a battle stance. "Good job, Cleffa, try your double slap!"

   Cleffa jumped up and angrily slapped Bulbasaur a few times before retreating back.

  "Use your vine whip, Bulbasaur!"

  Vines flew out of Bulbasaur and straight at Cleffa, but the pokemon narrowly managed to avoid them.

  "Alright, Cleffa, time to get serious! Use your attract!"

  Misty raised an eyebrow. Attract? What kind of attack is that? Ash was confused as well and could only watch as Cleffa began to bat her eyes and slowly walk towards Bulbasaur. Hearts formed around Cleffa and she blew a kiss right at Bulbasaur causing Bulbasaur to have little hearts floating around his head.

  Ash was totally lost. "Um… Bulbasaur, use another razor leaf!"

  "saaaaur…" Bulbasaur began to drool.

  "Good job, Cleffa! Now, finish it off with your metronome!"

  Cleffa waved its small arms and began chanting its name. We all watched and waited anxiously to see what kind of attack would come out of it. Cleffa finally stopped and a red glow began to form all around the small pokemon. The red glow soon formed a ball in front of her hands and she shot a flamethrower attack straight at Bulbasaur immediately fainting it.

  Ash's mouth dropped open and he dejectedly returned Bulbasaur into his poke'ball. The boy returned his pokemon as well and walked up to Ash and held out his hand. "Good match, Ash, don't feel bad. Most pokemon can't stand up to my Cleffa's attract."

  Ash smiled a bit and shook the guy's hand just to be polite, but Misty could tell he was still a little upset about loosing to such a small pokemon. Misty ran over to the two boys and asked, "What kind of attack is that?"

  "Attract is a TM. It makes the pokemon of the opposite gender fall in love with the pokemon making it unable to battle for a few turns. It should only last a few days at best. Since my Cleffa's so cute, it usually works pretty well."

  Brock joined them and nodded. "I can certainly tell."

  An idea began to form in Misty's head. "Where'd you get it?"

  The boy thought a moment before answering, "I think it was the Goldenrod department store…"

  Misty was thoughtful while Brock and he continued talking for a few more minutes until the boy decided that he should be on his way again. "Bye!"

  "Well…" Brock started turning to the other two. "Where to now?"

  "Let's get to Goldenrod soon, we are only an hour from it, aren't we?"

  Before Brock could confirm it, Ash broke in, "hey! I want to go look for more pokemon!"

  "But I want to get to Goldenrod!"

  "Why?"

  "Um…" Misty wasn't prepared for that question. "Because I need to go shopping!"

  "But we can go shopping any time!" Ash whined.

  "No we can't! I want to get to Goldenrod!"

  Ash sighed and looked down. "Fine."

  "I sai – WHA?!?!"

  Misty, Brock, and even Pikachu looked at Ash with wide eyes. Brock placed the front of his wrist on Ash's forehead. "No fever."

  Misty went for a more, subtle approach, "Ash, you NEVER agree with me! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? You're not dying on me or anything, are you?"

  Ash grinned and looked up and Misty. "Nope, I just don't mind going to Goldenrod all that much."

  Brock and Misty blinked. Brock shrugged and continued on the way to Goldenrod. Misty was still skeptical, but she followed Brock behind Ash, keeping an eye on him to make sure he didn't faint or keel over dead.

  ~

  As soon as they reached Goldenrod, Misty dumped her stuff in a room at the pokemon center, said a quick good-bye to Ash and Brock, and raced over to the Goldenrod department store.

  Misty was in awe of the place. It was huge! Not to mention fancy and expensive looking. She stepped up the information lady in the front on the first row and asked, "Excuse me, where to they sell TMs?"

   The lady smiled at Misty and pointed to the stairs. "Up those stairs on the third floor."

  Misty smiled and nodded her thanks to the lady and headed up the stairs. She placed herself in the line of about three. The man in front of her couldn't decide what he wanted to buy so he went back and forth between ice punch and fire punch. Misty started to tap her foot impatiently. The man in front of her shrugged and continued to ignore her. Finally, he looked behind him to notice the fire in Misty's eyes. "MAKE UP YOUR MIND ALREADY!"

  The guy chuckled nervously and bought the fire punch. Misty sighed with relief and stepped up to the guy at the desk. The man gave her a cheerful smile and asked, "Good afternoon! What can I get for you?"
  "Do you have the attract TM?"
  "Well, I'm not sure, they've been going fast lately, but I'll check."
   The man walked from behind the desk and into a back room. There was some clanging noises, a few shouts, and a loud BANG.
   He finally emerged out of the room, hair slightly messed up, but still grinning.
   "I got one!" He held it up triumphantly.
   "Good thanks! How much is it?"
   "For you my dear, I'll give it to you for $25.50. That's pretty cheap! So what do you say? Is it a deal little missy?"

   "I'll take it!" 

Kay, there it is! It's actually pretty different, huh? Yeah… so… enjoy the revised version! ^_^

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