Misty, Dawn, Max, Ash, Soladad, Drew, and I ran up the stairs to our room. We went through the door, seeing it the same as usual. Huge room with three canopy beds, a wardrobe, and two corridors for the balcony.

"So, uh, where exactly is this secret passage?" Soladad said, looking around.

"RIght here," Misty said, crossing her arms.

Everyone looked confused except Misty, Dawn, and me. After a few seconds they realized we were all standing on this huge round rug. Then the floor flipped over like a coin and we started falling down. Everyone was screaming while Misty, Dawn, and I were falling with our legs crossed, acting very calm.

"AAAAH! WHAT KINDA SECRET PASSAGE IS THIS?!" Max screamed.

"HOW LONG ARE WE FALLING ANYWAY?!" Drew asked.

"Dunno, we never took the time to measure as we fell the first time," Dawn said, crossing her arms trying to think.

"THEN WHY AREN'T YOU THREE PANICKING?!" Ash yelled.

"Well we've done this before. It doesn't come as a surprise," I replied.

"WHEN EXACTLY DO WE STOP FALLING?!" Soladad asked.

Misty pondered for a moment, "Um, right about n-"

But we all fell on a hard floor in a dog pile, with Ash in the bottom.

"I picked a bad day to wear a dress with a miniskirt," Dawn said with swirly eyes.

"Couldn't you have put a matress or something down here for the landing?" Ash said, his question muffled from all the weight on his back.

"We would have, if we had time to," Misty replied.

We all stood up and looked around the strange cave. It had a lot of computers and monitors.

"Oh, so you have time to build all this but you can't get a mattress?" Ash said.

"Shut up Ash," I said with an anime vein. Misty went over to the main computer and started typing stuff onto the keyboard. Then all of the monitors changed, so it was like one huge screen.

"Rolling playback," Misty said, pressing one more button. We watched the screen play the video. Everyone seemed to be going normally. All the Nurse Joys working and Queen Somei guiding them. Then a glass window broke, with someone falling in with a blade. And all our eyes widened, it really was Drew. Same clothes, same green hair. He aimed his sword and swung it, throwing all the women into panic. He was about to strike my grandmother until one of the Nurse Joys ran in front of her. His sword hit Nurse Joy and then there was a huge flash of light. When it went away, there stood Nurse Joy, a stone statue. Then he asked about my where abouts and my grandmother said that I wasn't there. Drew's impostor ran out, but he said he'd be back, putting the Maple Family to an end.

"N-No way, Drew you really did try to kill Queen Soemi!" Max yelled.

"Hey that's not me alright? Like we said earlier, it's an impostor."

I looked closer and relized that the Drew in the video seemed... different. I could see a black aura around him.

"H-Hey guys, is it me or do you see some black aura around the Drew in the video," I asked, pointing at the screens. They all looked at me confusingly.

"May we don't see anything," Soladad said.

"Well I do. H-He has this blackish purpleish aura around him. That's not you Drew."

"Finally, someone who believes me," Drew said, rubbing his head.

"Well it's clear that May can see something we can't," Dawn said, "Maybe it's your power?"

"Power? Dawn I'm a princess not a witch. I don't have any powers. If anyone it's you with all your psychic readings and all," I replied, waving my hands in the air.

"Hm, maby. Hold on a second," Dawn said. She sat down on the floor with her legs crossed. She took a huge breath and then pointed her arms a the monitors.

"What's she doing?" Drew asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"I'm... not so sure either," I said sweatdropping.

"I... I see it," Dawn said in that drowsy voice, her eyes closed. She was meditating.

"What? See what?" Ash asked.

"That dark aura around Drew... It is there," She said, opening her eyes and letting down her arms. Soladad and I helped her back up, "So it's like I said, May can see something normal people can't."

"Well then obviously you're not normal," Ash said, eyeing Dawn.

She just got an anime vein and smacked him upside the head, "You idiot, I'm a psychic. It's my job to see these things. And for your information bub none of us four are normal."

Misty giggled, "True, we time travel on a daily basis and that's not normal."

"Whatever, point is there's someone impersonating me and trying to kill the royal family."

"Don't worry Drew, I'm sure May and the others can figure it out," Max assured. Then that sly grin appeared on his face, "Maybe your impostor asked about May because he has the hots for her."

Drew got a sweatdrop as he slowly turned his head, glarring at the mischifous little boy.

The next morning, I waked to Hajime Middle School with my three friends, like usual. During homeroom in the morning, I was looking through my Medieval Times History Book for some kinda clue.

"Oh May, you haven't taken your eyes off that book since this morning," Misty said, placing her head on her hands.

"But there has to be something. Obviously something bad's gonna happen in Petalburg and I need all the info I can get my hands on."

"Ok class, take your seats," The teacher said. His name was Akio Maialais, a 17-year-old student teacher. Sure he should be in high school right now, but he's smarter than you think. He's been one of the school's substitute teachers since last year.

Everyone went to their ususal desks as I put my book inside my bag.

"Everyone, we have a new student coming today," Mr. Maialis announced.

"In the middle of the year?" Ash asked.

"Surprising but yes Ash," Mr. Maialis replied. He went over to the door and there stood a 13-year-old boy. He had dark green hair and blackish blue eyes, "This is Deven Ronce. Deven, this is your homeroom class."

Everyone made random greetings as Deven smiled a bit.

"Why don't you sit by May Maple, over there," Mr. Maialis said, pointing at the empty desk behind me. As he walked by, he smiled at me and I smiled back.

The rest of the school day went by fast, normally. Anyway now we were in out last class of the day, with out homeroom teacher Mr. Maialis.

"Ok, since it's already about three more months until the end of the school year, I think I should give you guys one more project," Mr. Maialis announced. The entire class groaned as I giggled. I was too interested in my book, trying to find something about Drew's imposter.

"The project is about your family's history, your ancestors," Mr. Maialis explained. This was a great project. I don't have a family tree of ancestors. And I couldn't go to Kira since she could care less about my school work. And even if I did have info on my ancestors, they were probably from the time of cavemen, "I want you to find all the info you can get on that one person. Their full name, date of birth, place of birth, anything. I'll be due a month from now."

We heard the bell ring, which meant the school day was over. We packed our books and stood, ready to leave.

"Hey May," Daven said, walking up to me. Since we had almost the same schedules, we got to know each other.

"Oh, hi Devan," I greeted back, "So how was yoru first day here at Hajime Middle School?"

"Pretty good I guess. I already made a good friend," he said, meaning me.

"Thanks," I said.

"No thank you. I thought I'd be ignored all day, being the new student and all," he explained, "My parents move around a lot so I don't stay in the same school for very long."

"Must be pretty awsome, seeing new places and traveling,"

"Yeah, it's really fun. Adventurous even. But my parents and I are settling here for the next three months. So I'll be graduating here in Hajime."

"That's good to know," I said smiling.

"Oh just look at them, how cute," Dawn said from a distance with Misty and Ash, "I could already imagine them going out."

"I know," Misty said agreeing.

"You two are really fast when it comes to this stuff," Ash said sweatdropping.

"It's a girl's instinct to know about romance," Dawn said with stary eyes.

"Yup, some instinct you have," Ash said, "Just let May choose her own life. You two can do matchmaker for her when she's 20."

"Oh quit acting like she's your little sister Ash, " Misty said hitting my arm playfully.

"Does anything interesting ever happen around this area?" Deven asked, getting the last of his books into his bag.

"Well, for me and my friends at least. If anything else, it's us playing our Pokemon Games," I said.

"Pokemon? I love Pokemon. It's like my favorite video game series."

"No kidding? Wow, we have a lot more in common than I thought."

"Yeah... Um, May, uh, maybe if you're not doing anything later, we could... hang out or something?" Deven asked, rubbing the back of his head as he looked away.

"Um, I'd love to Deven but, uh, I'm sorta busy all afternoon during the week," I replied.

"Oh, so um, maby at night if it's ok?"

"Sorry, I usually have to, uh, be somewhere each night. You can say I have a tight schedule," I admitted, "B-But maybe tomorrow during free period. Meet me at the library?"

"It's a plan," he said nodding. We smiled and then he exited the classroom. I walked to my place and got through all of the chores Kira gave me. I finished earlier today luckily. The guys sneaked up to my room right after Kira fell asleep and we time traveled to Petalburg.

"Ah, May, welcome back," one of the Nurse joys said.

"Thanks Nurse Joy. How's your sister?" I ash,ed referring to the one turned to stone.

"Oh, she's fine, inside the security control room fo protection," she replied, going back to her work.

"Hey guys!" we heard Max, Soladad, and Drew yelled. We saw them running down the stairs.

"Hi everyone," Dawn greeted.

"You see happy," Max said.

"Yeah, we got a cute new student today at school. And I'm thinking he has a thing for May," Dawn said with a wink.

"He does not," I said in defence, "We're just friends, that's all."

"Oh stop it May. Didn't you see all the girls glaring at you during homeroom classes? They are so jealous. I mean, he only talks to you," Misty said, taking sides with Dawn.

"Oh, so May's got herself a little boyfriend," Soladad said in a taunting way.

"Hey why's everyone against me?!"

"What's going on?" Max asked.

"May made friends with the new guy at our school, Devan," Ash explained.

"Oh really," Drew said, sounding curious.

"Yup, they've spent a lotta time together today." Ash said with a sigh.

"Oh, everyone's here," Queen Somei said as she walked into the room. Everyone bowed their heads in response.

"Hi grandma," I said.

"Hello May, have you found anything retaining to our situation?"

"Um, hehe, sorry, I sorta got caught up with some things at school," I said rubbing the back of my neck.

"Yeah, 'cause May's got herself a boyfriend," Dawn said in a sing-song voice as she poked my arm.

"And she's got a date with him tomorrow," Misty said, joining with Dawn again.

"Argh, it's not a date guys! I'm just meeting him at the library, geez," I said with a sweatdrop, "Anyway I think I'll get the info by to morrow in the least."

"Very well May."

The next day, at school, it was free period. I went into the library seeing Deven at a table.

"Hey," I said.

"Oh, May, nice to see you again," he said back. I took a seat across from him. Then I took out my book.

"So what are you reading?" I asked.

"Just something for that project Mr. Maialis gave us yesterday. I did some research at my place and found out one of ancestors are in here. I just can't find it yet," he explained, returning his eyes to the book, skimming pages, "So what do you have?"

"Oh, um, same thing sorta," I said, placing my book in front of me, "I think my ancestors went back all the way to the Medieval times."

"Really? That's so cool, so do mine's."

"Wow, I guess we have a lot more in commonm than I thought."

While Deven and I were having our chat, little did we know some people were watching us.

"So we have to? I mean, come on guys, give them a little privacy," Ash said starring at Dawn and Misty, cocking his eyebrow.

"Oh come on, I know it's not officialy their first date, but it is a date if the guy asks the girl to meet him somewhere in a later time, "Dawn explained.

"And apparently, that later time is now," Misty added.

"Oh boy," Ash said, rolling his eyes.

"So what do you do around here, like not in school?" Deven asked me.

"Well... you can say my friends and I ususaly do very crazy things in the craziest of times," I said with a laugh.

"Well, at least I know you guys aren't normal people and that you're into that whole adventure stuff."

"I know, adventure is probably the only exciting thing outside of school," I said, "Hey, you've met my friends already right?"

"Yeah, Ash Ketchum, Misty Waterflower, and Dawn Santezz."

"What's she doing?" Misty asked in a harsh whispered tone.

"I really hope she's not doing what I think she's doing," Ash said shaking his head.

"Um," I started, playing with my fingers, "Maybe you'd like to meet me at night today in my backyard? We'll be doing this thing and maby you'd like to-"

Before I could finish, I found my mouth cvered by six hands, all belonging to Misty, Dawn, and Ash.

"Hehe, sorry Deven, we have to borrow May right now! See ya later!" Dawn said running off with Ash and Misty, who had to practical drag me out of the library.

"May what were you thinking?!" Ash yelled.

"You know we're not supposed to tell anyone about Petalburg!" Dawn yelled.

"I'm sorry! I just thought that since he might be one if us, he should come too. I mean, he's into Pokemon, the old Medieval Ages, you know."

"Well it's just to dangerous May. We can't trust anyone right now," Misty said as she placed a hand on my shoulder, "Especially with the situation going on in Petalburg. We still have to catch whoever it was that tried to kill Queen Somei."

I groaned in defeat, "Fine, fine."