Here's Chapter two! Enjoy!
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Chapter 2: SnowAxew
Iris will you please come out now?" Ash asked for the fifth time as he banged on the bathroom door
"NO!" came his girlfriend's voice from the other side of the door
"Iris, come on, you made a bet with me remember?" Ash reminded her, "How am I supposed to show you how fun winter can be if you won't even come outside?"
"Because I don't want to go outside!" Iris said as she pressed her body against the door, "it cold and snowing out there!"
"Well duh, the cold and snow are part of winter Iris," Ash said as he jiggled the bathroom door handle, which he found lock, "come on Iris come out, if you do I can show you that's there's nothing you have to be afraid of when it comes to snow and the cold,"
"But Ash…I…I just," Iris stammered, "Can't we do this next year? I don't think I can face my fear of winter right now!"
"Iris, stop it!" Ash said, "You're acting like a little kid!"
"Am not!"
"Yeah, right says the girl who's hiding in the bathroom,"
"…."
"Iris are you going to come out or not?"
There was a bit of silence behind the door, "…Ugh…fine," the bathroom door opened and Iris stepped out.
The purple haired teen was dressed as if she was about to step foot in the cold waste land of Antarctica or something. She had on a canary yellow coat that looked almost like a trench coat. The coat had white poof ball buttons and the coat reached down to her knees, she also wore jeans to go with it. On her feet she wore sturdy looking pink snow boots that had white fuzzy fluff at the top, to match her boots Iris had on pink gloves, a pink scarf and pink ear muffs.
"Alright, I'm ready to go…" she stopped to take a gulp, "…outside,"
"It won't be that bad," Ash insisted as he took his girlfriend's mittened hand, "yesterday there was a big snow storm so outside has now been transformed into a winter wonderland!"
"Oh, really?" Iris asked rolling her eyes
"Yeah," Ash said, "and Pikachu and Axew are going to join us, right guys?"
"Pika chu pi!" Pikachu, who was wearing a little blue scarf, said
"Ax…axew ew," Axew, who was wearing a red scarf and a matching red hat that had snowflakes printed on it, muttered. The Tusk Pokemon looking a bit unsure about going outside.
"Don't worry Axew, we'll be fine," Iris said as she picked Axew up, she turned to her boyfriend, "We'll will be fine…r-right Ash?"
"Yup, you're going to be 100% A-Okay!" Ash insisted as Pikachu hopped on his shoulder and he linked his arm with his girlfriend's, "come let's-"
"Hold on Ash, that's all you're wearing?" Iris asked looking up and down at the attire Ash was wearing.
The raven haired sixteen year old was dressed in plain old jeans, a slightly puffy navy blue snow coat, red mittens, his regular red sneakers and of course his special Pokémon League hat.
"Uh, yeah," Ash said as he lead Iris down the stairs
"But aren't you going to be cold?" Iris asked
"Aw, Iris you sound like my Mom," Ash said rolling his eyes, "besides it's not like we're going to some freezing snow waste land or something," he heard his girlfriend whimper, he sweatdropped, "er um…never mind now come on,"
"But Ash…no I-I don't wanna!" Iris squealed as her boyfriend started dragging her towards the door
"Iris…you…ugh…gotta trust me…" Ash grunted as he pulled his girlfriend by the arm, "now come on!" he make a quick swift movement and picked his dragon loving girlfriend up bridal style.
"ASH NO! PUT ME DOWN!" Iris yelled, flailing her arms around
"Pikachu, ow Iris stop, get the door! OW IRIS STOP!" Ash said to his Electric Mouse Pokémon as he tried to avoid his girlfriend's swinging arms
Pikachu obeyed his friend's command hopped down and opened the door. Iris gave a yelp of surprise as a gust of cold wind blew at her.
"ASH NO, NO,NO!" Iris screamed as she covered her face, "DON'T TAKE ME OUTSIDE!"
"Iris, you'll be fine, besides we're already outside!" Iris heard his boyfriend say
She gave a whimper as she peek through her fingers to see bright white snow. Iris shakily pulled her hands back to see snow, snow, snow everywhere!
"Alright, Iris I'm going to put you do, 'kay?" Ash asked as he could feel his arms starting to give out under Iris's weight
Iris shook her head, "No, no I'm fine right up here," she hugged Ash's head close to her and kissed his forehead, she gave a nervous laugh and sweatdropped, "please don't put me down,"
"Iris, ugh...I-I um c-can't hold you forever…ugh," Ash said, "so it's either I put you down or I drop you…ugh…"
Iris gave another whimper, "…Fine,"
"Okay, here we go nice and easy," Ash said, lowering Iris down
The purple haired teen cautiously let her feet land in the snow. Her added weight made the snow crunch softly, "…W-Well i-it's not that b-bad," she said hugging her arms to her body
"Thank Arceus," Ash said rolling his shoulders and stretching his arms
A cool wind blew by, sending snowflakes in the air and causing Iris to squeal, "Alright, Ash you got me to go outside," Iris stammered her teeth chattering as she shivered, "and yeah you've proven winter great, now let's go inside!"
She tried to make a run for it but her boyfriend caught her by the arm, "Hold on, Iris," he turned his girlfriend around held her by the shoulders, "It took me half the morning to get you out here, so we're at least staying outside for a good two hours-"
"TWO HOURS?!" Iris cried, horrified, she pulled away, "no way, Ash your crazy!"
"Iris, you have to stay, you promised!"
"Yeah, but not for two damn hours!" the purple haired teen stormed towards the house
"Iris!" Ash went after her and hugged her from behind, he then turned her around, pulled her close to him and pressed his forehead against hers. They were so close they could feel each other's hot breath on their faces.
"Iris I know being outside is the last thing you want to do" Ash said as his Iris's brown eyes looked downward, "but if you don't face your fear it'll be your fear forever,"
"I know…I just…" Iris mumbled she looked up at her boyfriend's amber eyes
Ash gave a smile, he pressed a kiss on her forehead, "I know your scared, but it'll be fine, besides you got me, Pikachu and Axew here to look after you," his girlfriend still looked unhappy, "come on Iris everything will be okay, this will the best two hours of your life, promise,"
"Ash, you know you shouldn't make promises you don't think you can keep," Iris said with a small smile
"I am going to keep this promise," Ash said lifting his head and allowing the cold air to seep in between them, "because guess what we're going to do?"
"What?" Iris asked
"We're going to build a snowman!" Ash said with a smile as he pulled away from the hug they were in
"A snowman?" Iris repeated as her boyfriend started to form a ball of snow on the ground
"Yeah, it'll be fun, come on Iris help me out!" Ash said, "You two Axew and Pikachu,"
The Electric Mouse Pokémon and the Tusk Pokémon came over and happily started messing with the snow. They weren't very good helpers since they quickly got side tracked and started to toss handful s of powdery white snow at each other.
"Ash if we're going to make stuff out of snow," Iris said as her boyfriend successfully made a snowball big enough to be rolled on the ground, "can we make it…fun?"
"Fun? What do you mean by that?" Ash asked as he pushed the snowball which was becoming harder to push as more snow stuck to it
"I mean if we make something other than a snowman,"
"And what would that be?"
"A snowAxew!"
"A what-AHH!" Ash had stumbled a bit and as a result landed face first into the large snowball he had formed, causing it to crumble in white powdery snow
Ash spit to rid his mouth of the cold snow and wiped his face, "A snowAxew? What's that?" he sputtered once his face was clear from the snow
"A snowAxew is just a snow sculpture shaped like an Axew," Iris explained. She picked up Ash's Pokemon League hat that was almost completely buried by the snow; she shook the white substance off of it.
"Why do you want to build a snowAxew?" Ash asked as Iris brushed snow out of his raven hair before placing his hat on his head
"Because building a snowman is boring, and only little kids build them," Iris answered as she grabbed Ash's hand and helped him to his feet, "…and beside…I-I'd always build snowAxew back in the Village of Dragons…" she blushed
"You did? But how?" ash asked, "I thought you said you didn't like to go outside when it's cold,"
"Ash I wasn't always afraid of winter," Iris said, kicking a bit of snow with her foot
Ash gave a confused look "You weren't? But then why-"
"Ash, don't worry about it," Iris interrupted; she gave a smile as a determined look come over her face, "now let's go build that snowAxew!"
"Ax axew ew!" Axew laughed mas he scooped up some snow and formed it into a ball, "Axew ax!" he went up to his friend Pikachu, hiding the snowball behind his back
"Pika?" Pikachu said looking curiously at his friend, but just as Axew got close enough he whipped out the snowball and mashed it in Pikachu's face, "PIKA!" the electric type cried as he was covered in the cold white substance
"Ax ax axew!" Axew laughed as he rushed off
Pikachu wasn't going to let the dragon type off that easy, quickly he made a snowball and then charged up and Iron Tail attack, "Pi chu PIKA!" the Pikachu tossed the snowball up in the air and sent it flying with a whack of his Iron Tail
"AX!" Axew cried as he dropped to the ground, causing the snowball to sail over his head
The snowball kept going; it didn't stop until it pegged Iris right in the butt.
"AAAHHH!" the dragon loving teen cried in surprise, she whirled around and gave a look of disapproval to Axew and Pikachu who were laughing
"Ha, nice shot Pikachu!" Ash said with a laugh as Iris wiped the snow from her butt
"Not, funny you two," Iris said smiling a bit, "and Axew for the third time can you please just stay still,"
"Ax…Axew ew," Axew pouted as he crossed his arms
Iris came over to her Axew and patted his head, "Axew I know you want to play but you have to stay still," Iris said, "how else can Ash and I finish our snowAxew if our model won't stay still?"
"Ax…" the Tusk Pokemon muttered looking at his trainer
"I promise just stay still for a little while longer, okay?"
"Axew," Axew said with a nod, he sat down in the snow and started to make a small hill, Pikachu joined him
"Alright, Iris what do you think?" Ash asked, indicating to the Axew head made of snow he had spent 20 minutes on
"It looks great Ash!" Iris said with a smile as she examined the dorsal fin that was on top of the head that Ash had made with snow
"Okay, do you time to give our snowAxew a head?" Ash asked as he carefully picked up the Axew head made of snow
"Careful Ash!" Iris warned, "You don't want to start all over on the head again do you?"
"It's okay, I got it!' Ash insisted, "Trust me the last thing I want to do is ruin it,"
The past two times while attempting to put the snowAxew's head on things hadn't gone so well. The first time the dorsal fin on top had fallen off the second time Iris had accidently bumped Ash when he was caring it causing him to drop it and to crumble into a pile of snow. Each time the head broke it took them a good amount of time to rebuild a new one.
"Easy, Ash," Iris said as her boyfriend carefully lowered the head onto the Axew's body. Iris couldn't help but hold her breath as Ash placed it down and slowly removed his hands, she sighed with relief when she saw that it stayed on the body, "Alright, Ash we got the head on!" Iris squealed as she clapped her hands
"See I told you we'd get the head on," Ash said with a smile
"It's so cute!" Iris squealed as she threw her arms around her boyfriend's neck
"Yup sure is," Ash agreed as he admired their work of the SnowAxew
"Now all we need to do is give it tusk," Iris said seeing that their snowAxew had none, "building them out of snow would be too hard-"
"Oh, how about we use carrots!" Ash suggested
"Carrots?" Iris repeated
"Yeah, why not? It works as noses for snowmen so why not use carrots as tusks for our snowAxew?" Ash said
"You're such a little kid," Iris said giggling, thinking that the snowAxew would look funny with carrot as tusks, "but alright, carrots will work,"
"There's some inside I'll go and grab them," Ash said
As her raven haired boyfriend rushed inside to go get the tusk for the snowAxew, Iris couldn't help but giggle. Sure her face was cold, she couldn't feel her nose and her hands were practically frozen from playing in the snow, but Iris felt happy. She felt almost as happy when she was a little girl and when she wasn't afraid of winter. And that was saying something.
"I love my snowAxew," Iris said as she gently hugged the snow sculpture
"Hey, did you build that?"
Iris turned to see a boy approaching her. He looked probably around the age 12 or 13, he had dark blue hair that was spiked up in the front; he was wearing a red snow coat, and black gloves and boots.
"Oh, this?" Iris asked, smiling at the snowAxew that she stood next to, "I built some of it but I mostly had help from my boyfriend,"
"Oh, cool," the boy said as his blue eyes scanned the Ketchum's front yard for a brief moment, "er um, what is it?"
"It's a snowAxew," Iris answered
"A snowAxew?" the boy questioned, rocking back and forth on his heels
"Yeah it's an Axew made of snow," Iris said, the boy still looked confused, "you see Axew is known as the Tusk Pokemon , it's a dragon type and I have one because I'm from Unova," Iris said indicating to her small green Pokemon who was once again running around with Pikachu
"Really?" the boy with dark blue hair asked, he arched an eyebrow as he looked at Axew and then to the snowAxew, "but your snowAxew doesn't have tusk like your Axew does, do you need help looking for something to use for tusk?"
"Oh, no it's okay my boyfriend is inside getting carrots for the tusk," Iris stated
"But I wanna help you out," the boy said a sly smile appearing on his face
"You don't have to," Iris said
"Alright then can I help you with something else?" the boy offered
"With what?" Iris asked
The boy laughed, "With that stupid ugly face of yours!" the boy suddenly whipped out a dirty looking snowball and smashed it Iris's face
"AAAHHH!" Iris screamed as the could substance made contact with her face, she stumbled backwards and grabbed at her snow covered face, "what the hell was that-"
But she didn't get to finish as the boy with navy blue hair suddenly cried, "NOW GUYS!"
Iris blinked the snow from her eyes only to see two other boys, a blonde and a red head, came out of nowhere. The blonde was carrying a pail full of grayish black snowballs and had a Machop at his side; the red head had two pails of the grayish snowballs and had a mischievous look on his face.
"Wh-What is g-going on?!" Iris asked as the boy closed in on her
But she got her answer as the blond boy set his pail down, "Alright Machop, let's send these snowballs flying!"
And with that the Machop grabbed some of the snowballs and started to hurl them at Iris. Having no time to react, the snowballs hit her head on. The purple haired teen screamed as the boys and the Machop started pelting her with the snowballs. The snowballs that hit her didn't have the same impact like the one Pikachu had accidently hit her with(which had been powdery and hardly hurt) these snowball were hard, and cold. Each time she was hit, Iris felt a pain that was cold and then suddenly felt like it was burning and throbbing.
"STOP IT! STOP! PLEASE STOP! YOU'RE HURTING ME!" Iris screamed, suddenly one snowball hit her in the mouth, knocking her to the ground, the taste of blood and dirt filled her mouth, Iris covered her head with her arms, pleading, "STOP PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP ME!"
Pikachu and Axew, who had been playing hide n go seek in the snow suddenly heard Iris's cry for help. They turned to see the boys and Machop ruthless hurling snowballs at Iris.
"PIKA!" Pikachu cried as he ran towards the boys to try and help
"AX AXEW!" Axew shouted as he followed close behind
But the red head boy, seeing the two Pokemon were trying to stop their act of fun, frowned, he pulled out a pokeball and threw it into the air, "Victorybell, let's go use Sleep Powder on those two!"
The large yellow grass/poison type Pokemon appeared. It cried it's name before it shot out a cloud of greenish powder. Pikachu and Axew tried to get out of the way but they were too late and breathed the powder in. In less than a few moments the two were a sleep.
"S-STOP STOP! PL-PLEASE!" Iris screamed, her voice shaking as hot tears rushed down her cheeks, but her words only fell on deaf ears as the boy laughed and continue you to peg her with snowballs
"Dude, we're running out of snowballs," the blond kid with the Machop said as he indicated that they were down to their last pail of snowballs
"Your right," the boy with navy blue hair said, he looked around and smiled mischievously as he spotted the tuskless snowAxew, "we can use that were snow thing,"
"I'm on it," the red head boy said before going over to the snowAxew, quickly he kicked the snowAxew until it crumbled apart so he could use it as ammo
But before he could do so the group of menacing boys heard, "What the hell do you punks think you're doing?!" it was Ash, and he had just witness what they had been doing
Instantly snowballs stopped flying as the three trouble makers turned to see the sixteen year old. He had an angered look on his face, the red head and blonde sweatdropped, but the navy haired boy laughed, he couldn't take Ash seriously since he had a carrot in each of his hands.
"What are you supposed to be? This wimp's stupid excuse for a boyfriend?" he sneered
Seeing that their friend had no fear the other two boys started to laugh as well.
"As a matter a fact I am her boyfriend," Ash said dropping his carrots and starting to approach them, "and you three bastard's going to pay for what you did!"
"Yeah right," the red head said, "Victorybell, get him use Energy Ball!"
Victorybell started hopping over towards Ash, it's mouth glowing bright green. It cried it's name and then launched an orb of grass type power.
Ash seeing that there was no way to prevent the attack from hitting him covered his face. Ash grunted as the impact sent him flying backwards, he was grateful for the snow that slight softened his fall.
Even though he was a little sore, Ash got up, "Is that the way you want this to go down?" Ash pulled out a pokeball, "Charizard, let's go use Flamethrower!"
In a flash of blue and white Charizard appeared and followed his order, he charge up some energy before releasing a powerful blast of fire.
"No, Victorybell!" the red head cried as his Pokemon got burnt to a crisp and then laid on the snowy ground out cold
"Don't worry dude, I got this," the blond boy said as his friend returned Victorybell to it's pokeball, "Machop go, use Karate Chop!"
Machop rushed at Charizard, arm raised high ready to land the fighting type move.
"Charizard, Wing Attack!"
Machop didn't stand a chance against Chariazrid and it's Wing Attack. It was hit hard and toppled into a snowbank, groaning as it was also knocked out.
"Machop!" the blond said going over to his Pokémon, he quickly returned it to it's pokeball as well seeing that it was to injured to fight
"This guy's not kidding, let's get out of here!" the navy haired kid said, his two friends didn't hesitate as they took off in a matter of seconds. The navy haired boy was about to make a run for it but Ash grabbed him by the back of his red coat
"Were do you think your, you little punk?" Ash growled
The boy swetdropped, "No p-please! It was on-only a joke! Don't hurt me!" he blubbered as he began to whimper
Ash shoved the boy away from him, causing the boy to face plant the snow, "Get out of here! NOW!" Ash demanded
"Guys wait up!" the boy called as he dashed off
(Tg2012: Stupid little kids, don't you know you shouldn't mess with Ash's girlfriend? :3)
"A-Ash…a-are th-they…gone?"
Ash turned to see his girlfriend huddled on the ground, softly sniffling.
The raven haired teen quickly knelt down beside his girlfriend, "Yeah, Iris their gone," Ash helped her sit up, he frowned to see that bright red blood was streaming from the right side of Iris's mouth, "Iris your bleeding,"
Iris winced as her boyfriend pressed his glove against her burning, aching lower lip, which was now busted open somewhat. She tried to ignore the tears that were welling up in her eyes as she sniffled.
"Those damn kids must of packed rocks or something into those snowballs," Ash said as he help Iris to her feet
"W-Why…why t-they do th-that?" Iris mumbled as she pressed her head against Ash's chest
"I don't know," Ash answered, he removed his glove and allowed Iris to hold it to her bleeding mouth "they were probably just trying to cause trouble or something,"
"Pika…"
"Ax…"
Both Ash and Iris turned to see Pikachu and Axew slow waking up
"Hey, buddy you okay?" Ash asked as Pikachu got to it's feet
"Pi chu pika," Pikachu answered as it yawned, but then looked around growling as he remembered the boys that were there moments ago
"Don'fth worrith, Pikthachu," Iris muttered around the glove in her mouth
"Yeah, I sent those kids running," Ash said with a smile
"Pi chu chu," Pikachu said as a sadden look came over his face seeing the damage that had been done to Iris's mouth
"I'mth fith," the purple haired teen reassured, "it's justh a-"
"AX AXEW EW AX!" Axew cried
They all turned to see Axew standing over the remains of the snowAxew they had spent so much time on.
Ourth snowAxew!" Iris cried as she pulled away from Ash and went over to the snowy mess. Seeing that there was nothing left of the snow sculpture she sank to her knees in despair as she let tears run down her face, "T-Theyth ruined it…theyth destroyed our snowAxew…"
"Iris's it okay," Ash said kneeling beside his girlfriend and placing an arm around her
"Noth..i-ith's not okayth…" Iris sobbed as she shook her boyfriend's arm off of her, "they ru-ruinedth our snowAxew…"
"W-We can build another one, if you want Iris," Ash suggested, hating to see Iris cry
"...Noth I-I don't w-want to," Iris said pulling Ash's glove from her bleeding mouth, "I'm t-tired of being outside,"
"Okay, we'll go in," Ash said helping Iris up, "do you need help going in?"
But he was quickly answered as Iris quickly pulled away and rushed inside the house.
"Alright looks like your lip finally stopped bleeding," Mrs. Ketchum said as she removed the damped paper towel from Iris's lower lip.
Iris gently poked her swollen aching lip, "Th-Thanks Mrs. Ketchum,"
"You're welcome, dear," the women said with a kind smile, "now why don't you go lie down and rest for a while?" Mrs. Ketchum said as she put the first aid kit away
"…'Kay," Iris slowly got up from the chair she was in and headed for the living room, wincing with each step.
Ash had been right about the snowballs being filled with rocks. Each one that hit her had left an ugly purplish bruise on her coconut brown skin. Since she was hit in random places the bruises were all over her, on her legs, hands, arms, and back, she looked like she had a weird case of purple chicken poxs or something. Luckily Mrs. Ketchum had gently tended to her bruises and had given her something for the pain, too bad the medicine was taking it time to kick in.
"How you feeling, Iris?" Ash asked as he got up from the couch, his mother had asked him to stay there while she fixed Iris up in the other room
Iris, looked at him and said nothing, she only sniffled and rubbed her aching eyes.
"I guess you're kinda sore, huh?" Ash said coming over to Iris, "but don't worry you'll be okay, once the soreness goes away,"
"How do you know?" Iris asked as she slowly headed towards the stairs
"Cause I had a fair share of purple bruises from rock filled snowballs," Ash answered with a laugh
"…"
Ash sighed at the sad look on Iris's face, "Okay…Iris I'm sorry that the whole snowAxew thing didn't work out…"
"It wasn't your fault," Iris said as she slowly limped up the stairs
Ash came to help her, "I know…but I feel like it is,"
"You don't need to worry," Iris reassured him, "it's not your fault those little kids did that," she sighed, "it's just that…it reminds me of what happened last time…"
"Last time?" Ash asked, arching an eyebrow, "What last time?"
"Never mind," Iris said as Ash helped her to the top of the stairs
"Hey, Iris," Ash said as she headed for the room Mrs. Ketchum was letting her sleep in, "…if you want to stop…you know trying to face you fears…we don't have to do-"
"Ash…" Iris said a small smile appearing on her face, "if I-I'm going to be a Dragon Master one day…I got to get over this silly fear,"
"So you still want me to show you how winter can be fun?" Ash asked smiling
"Yeah, but tomorrow, right now I'm tired," she blew her boyfriend kiss before she slipped into her room
"Yeah, tomorrow," Ash said, his mind already whirling with an idea
What does Ash have planned for day two of his operation? Find out in chapter 3 of Operation: Winter Can Be Fun!
There you go chapter two done! Hoped you liked it!
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Chapter Updated: 1/1/14