A/N: You know what? Let's just skip the witty intro and jump right in, shall we?

Route 103…September 20

"Keep up, will ya?" Sapphire yelled to Ruby was falling behind.

"Can't we just rest a while? We've been running non-stop since we left Littleroot!" Ruby yelled back.

"You can rest we get on the ship! Hurry up or I'm leavin' you!"

Ruby's legs were started to lose feeling. With every step he took, his legs lost even more feeling. His face was completely covered with sweat at this point. His lungs felt like a hot knife inside them. It didn't help that his hat only made his head warmer, it was absorbing the sweat, making it wet.

Ruby's POV

Those stupid tickets are making my day terrible. Those things were also really weird. How are they weird you ask? Well, I won them in a contest, right? Here's the thing though…I never entered the contest. I got the mail a few days ago I they were in the mail, in an envelope, addressed to me, telling me I won a random contest.

At first I thought it was really convenient, since I didn't get Sapphire a birthday present. I almost always forget birthdays and stuff like that. You think I'd remember Sapphire's though…oh well, that's beside the point.

It's not my fault for forgetting it though…okay it kind of is but usually Mom or Dad reminds me, so I just give her clothes that she never wears. But they didn't tell me this time, oh wait. Yes they did, this morning! I walk downstairs and Mom asked if I got anything for Sapphire. And at that point I was fearing for my life because I didn't remember her birthday and I didn't get her a birthday present.

That's when I remembered I got those weird tickets in the mail the other day. So without really thinking about it, I decided to give them to Sapphire for her birthday so she wouldn't kill me. Man, it seemed so flawless at the time. It still does now actually, well to me anyway.

"HURRY UP!" Sapphire yelled.

I decided not to yell back, it wasn't really worth the effort. I need to get back in shape…

Normal POV

Slateport City

Ruby and Sapphire walked through the gates tired, but victorious. They managed to get to Slateport before the ship left, which was about in an hour. Sapphire literally had to carry (It was mostly dragging) Ruby after he collapsed coming off Route 103. Sapphire made fun of him the whole time.

"You know, you're really out of shape"

"Shut up"

Sapphire dropped Ruby before they got to the gates, she didn't want to be seen in public holding (or dragging) Ruby.

Anyway, they both went to the dock and got on the ship. If Ruby wasn't so tired, he would of done some shopping in the Slateport Market but since he could barely walk, he decided rest would be the best choice.

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The ship was big…really big. There was just about everything you could think of on this ship, and they were going to aboard it for the next couple of days. They both were pretty excited, that's about that time where they just realized they were booked in the same room together.

"What? Did you know about this?" Sapphire yelled grabbing Ruby's neck.

"What are getting mad at me for? Your mom gave you the stupid tickets for this thing!" Ruby said. "Think about it. Since your parents are married that generally means that they would get a room that they both would be in!"

Sapphire released Ruby and thought to herself for a moment. Ruby caught his breath and noticed how everyone was staring at them. "Come on, let's hurry to the room"

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Their room was in a decent enough part of the ship, in the middle, but with a view of the sea from one window. Sapphire put the key in the keyhole and turned to hear the lock unlock. They both walked in the room, and it was fascinating enough. Almost everything was sea-related. The couch had sea-shells designs on it, the walls had ocean wave wallpaper, the bathroom had everything relating to fish, the bed post was a giant shell, and then they noticed it.

There was only one bed…only…ONE…bed. They both looked at each other awkwardly when they realized their situation. A few seconds later, Ruby spoke up.

"Dibs" Ruby said, putting his stuff on the bed

"Nuh-uh, I get the bed" Sapphire said, pushing his stuff off the bed and replacing it with her bags.

"Hey, I'm exhausted. My body is aching all over and I can barley stand. Let me take the bed"

"That's no way to treat a girl, especially when it's HER BIRTHDAY"

"Oh please, you don't even like to acknowledge that you're a girl, you don't even act like one"

"Shut up, you act more like a girl than I do, that's pathetic"

"Yeah, for you" Ruby muttered.

"What was that?" Sapphire asked sternly

"Nothing"

"Well, my birthday, my rules" Sapphire said "Rule 1, I get the bed. Rule 2, do what I say, when I say it. Rule 3, keep your mouth shut at least 70% of the time we're together on this trip. Got it?"

Ruby just sighed and sat on the couch, he knew he had been beaten and was too tired to try to argue with Sapphire. The couch wasn't too bad, but it wasn't too good either. The cushions were generic, and the pillows smelled like they were thrown in the sea.

That's when Ruby noticed that the room stunk. Did it smell this bad when they got in? No, it smelled like the ocean when they arrived. Now it smelled like a wet gym sock in the middle of the ocean. Ruby lifted his armpits, and fell over to the stench. All that running they did made both of them sweat a lot, and now they smelled like they hadn't bathed for days…well worse in Sapphire's case. Since she usually only bathed once every few days. One of the things that drove Ruby insane about her, probably one of the reasons why she did it in the first place.

"We need to take a shower, and get rid of this…" Ruby paused a moment to smell the air, "GOD-AWFUL STENCH"

Sapphire looked at him, and smelled the air, "What stench?"

"Don't you smell that? It's our body odor!" Ruby said, taking some air-freshener out of one of his bags and spraying the air around him.

"Well it doesn't smell wonderful but not too bad, right? And stop spraying that crap!"

"I'm cleaning the poor air we've contaminated! Now go take a shower and I'll stay and freshen up the room"

"What? No!"

Ruby stopped sprayed and looked sternly at her, "Go take a shower, Sapphire. You reek"

"Hey, I do not! And you do too!"

"I'm taking a shower after you, now go"

"No, I don't smell that bad, you're just complaining about something like you always do"

"Don't take a shower, and I guarantee you the wallpaper will start peeling in about an hour or so!"

Sapphire got an idea. She walked over to Ruby, and her stench followed.

"Sap-sapphire, stay over there! It smells bad enough over here!"

Sapphire just slowly got closer and closer. Ruby could feel the stench getting stronger. Ruby began to back up, but he hit the wall. Sapphire finally got in front of Ruby, and Ruby's nose was about to fall off. Ruby, with all the strength in his body, pointed the air-freshener and sprayed it on Sapphire.

Sapphire backed off and started coughing. "Gah, that smells like poison! Watta tryin' to do ya-"

Ruby grabbed Sapphire from behind and started to drag her to the bathroom. "You're taking a shower!"

Sapphire was resisting and held on to the bedpost. "I…will…not!" The both of them struggled to get what they wanted, and weren't about to give up. Ruby felt the last of his strength leaving him however, but he was going to use that strength to win this struggle.

Then Ruby's hands slipped from Sapphire's leg and he flung backwards into the bathroom door. Sapphire got up in victory and stuck her tongue at him.

Ruby just looked at her blankly, "Fine, I'll take a shower and we'll settle this later"

"Good boy"

Ruby was about to walk in the bathroom but he turned around and spoke sternly at Sapphire, "You know, most girls care about the way they look, or smell in your case. It's amazing that you're allowed to be qualified as a female!"

Sapphire got up and spoke back, "Look who's talkin'! You're more girl than boy! You're one of the girlish people I know! Toughen up you wimp!"

"Ruby didn't even say anything back; he just went in the bathroom and slammed the door behind him. Sapphire got angry and marched out of the room and also slammed the door behind her. She walked back on the main deck. The ship had just left the port and you could see the people still waving at the departing ship. It was about a mile away from port if that. People were sunbathing, eating, having pokémon battles, and other things as well.

She wasn't thinking about anything else, except what Ruby said. Ruby had always questioned her lack of female tendencies, but this one got to her for some reason. She remembered back when she used to be girly and wimpy. Back when she was a little girl and when she first met Ruby.

'Oh no, now I'm gonna start remembering back when we were kids, and how he saved me, and how he got the scar, and when he showed me the scar years later and he told me he…' Sapphire stopped thinking right then. Those days were dead. She only liked Ruby as a good friend, and Ruby felt the same way about Sapphire. But Sapphire started to think again.

'I act like a girl sometimes! There's umm…uhh well…' Sapphire couldn't think of any times she acted like a normal girl. The only times was when Ruby would force her to model clothes and dresses for him. Which she hated to do so that doesn't really count.

She started to walk again, she walked by two trainers who had just got done battling, when one of them made a snide remark, "Oh god, what is that stench?"

Sapphire turned at the one who said the remark, "You got something to say?"

The trainer squeezed his nose, "As a matter of fact I do! When's the last time you bathed?"

"What do you care?"

"You smell like crap!" the trainer said.

"Actually she kinda smells like air-freshener doesn't she?" the other trainer said.

"Shut up!" he said, then the other trainer just

Sapphire started to walk away when the trainer called out to her, "Hey! Don't turn your back on me! Do you know who I am?"

Sapphire didn't know who the guy was, she didn't really care either. The guy was about her age, maybe older…he looked familiar somehow. His elegant stance, his advanced vocabulary, his clean-cut…everything…it was disgusting to Sapphire. Sapphire hated people who were cocky like this guy. She just look at him, "No, I don't. Should I have?"

"You should! I'm the greatest pokémon trainer you'll ever see. You may gaze upon my glory now, but not too much…I wouldn't want a simpleton like you to give me some kind of disease."

"Watch it, bud. And you think you're all that, huh?" Sapphire asked him.

"Indeed I am"

"Let's test that theory" Sapphire said smirking, reaching for her trusty blaziken, Chaka.

"Oh please, I wouldn't waste my time with a smelly weakling like you…literally." The trainer said, walking away.

Sapphire wasn't about to let a challenge pass, since the only other thing was go back to the room and get harassed by Ruby. "Sounds to me like me like you're scared of fighting a girl!"

The trainer turned back to Sapphire, "Oh that's right, you are a girl aren't you? I didn't notice with the way you act and more importantly smell"

"Oh that's it" Sapphire said as she released her blaziken.

"Fine then, if you're in hurry to be humiliated." The trainer said as he released an alakazam.

"Let's go!" Sapphire yelled.

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Ruby stepped out of the shower and looked at himself in the mirror. He started to think about Sapphire. They got into another fight today, at this point they couldn't go the rest of the day without bickering but it got to Ruby somehow. Today was Sapphire's birthday, and she probably just wanted some peace.

He started to think about what he said to Sapphire, about her not acting like a girl. He told her that a lot, but she seemed to be really bothered by it this time.

'What a friend I am…' Ruby thought.

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Sapphire and Chaka looked like champions the way they were battling against this cocky trainer and his alakazam. Each time the trainer would attack, Chaka would dodge the attack. Sapphire was at a disadvantage here though. Since her blaziken was part fighting-type, alakazam's physic moves would injure Chaka greatly. Sapphire was used to fighting at disadvantages however, whenever she forced Ruby to train with her, they would usually have practice battles with Ruby's swampert, Zuzu against Chaka. Swampert was a water type, so it was always a challenge. So this battle was nothing too new, she just had to stay at a distance and dodge the physic waves.

'Why can't I touch that blaziken?' the trainer thought.

He was starting to get angry. He wouldn't admit it, but he was losing. 'I never lose!'

"PSYBEAM, NOW!" he yelled. Alakazam unleashed a physic beam towards blaziken. Sapphire just smirked, "Dodge"

Chaka then did flipped upward, narrowly dodging the attack. Chaka was several feet over the beam, over looking the ship. "Oh crap!" the trainer yelled.

"FIRE BLAST!" Sapphire yelled.

Chaka's mouth unleashed a giant fire wave that was hurdling towards the ship at alarming speeds. The alakazam couldn't get out of the way and was hit with a direct hit. Some people who were watching were amazed by Sapphire's skill and started to applaud her.

This made the other trainer angry, 'I can't lose like this! I'm the best!'

He then grabbed another pokéball and released an arcanine. Sapphire looked at him with some confusion and anger, "Hey! You can't use two!"

"This just became a double battle!" The trainer said.

'Fine by me. I'll just use-' Sapphire stopped for a moment. She tried reaching for another of her pokémon but she didn't have any of her other pokémon with her.

'Oh crap! I left the rest of them in the room!' Sapphire thought. "Hey, I don't have any others! Call back one of your pokémon!"

"Arcanine, extreemesped. Alakazam, psychic." The trainer commanded.

Arcanine bolted towards Chaka, making heavy contact. While Chaka was flung in mid-air from the attack, the physic attack hit Chaka directly.

"Hey! Didn't you hear me?" Sapphire demanded.

"Too bad. I don't lose" The trainer said.

"WHAT? Why you no good, lousy cheater!" Sapphire yelled. The crowd started booing and some just walked away before making some rude gestures to the cocky trainer.

"Now, time to end this" The trainer said. "GO! PSYCHIC!"

Alakazam unleashed a powerful psychic blast. Chaka was too hurt to dodge this attack. "It's over" Sapphire muttered.

Then all of a sudden, there was a sudden smoke cloud that just appeared. It emerged in-between Sapphire and the trainer.

"Ugh, what did you do, girl?" The trainer asked.

"I don't know" Sapphire said, staring into the smoke. She saw a figure inside the smoke, it wasn't human. It was about the same size of one though. As the smoke cleared, both trainers held their breath to see what would emerge from the smoke.

To Sapphire's surprise, the figure was a swampert. The swampert dived in the way of the blast at the last moment to prevent Chaka from getting hurt.

"Good job, Zuzu" a voice came from behind Sapphire. She turned around to see Ruby standing behind her.

"Cheating against a girl, huh? You must be really weak" Ruby said to the trainer.

The trainer kept his cool, "And who are you? Her boyfriend?"

Sapphire blushed and was about to yell at the trainer, but Ruby grabbed her arm and looked at her. Sapphire looked at Ruby's face; he had a certain look about him. She had seen that look before, it meant that he was ready to battle with all of his might.

"Let's take this guy down" Ruby said.

Sapphire just looked at him ,lost in thought. After awhile, she realized she was staring she was blushing and broke from Ruby's grip, "Fine. Sure. Whatever."

"Arcanine, alakazam! Same as last time! Focus on the swapert this time!" The trainer ordered his pokémon. Arcanine rushed towards Zuzu, but Zuzu just stepped out of the way, and arcanine flew off the ship and into the ocean.

The crowd laughed at the last move. "Quick, alakazam! Use psychic to pick arcanine out of the sea!"

The pokémon did as ordered and arcanine was hovering over the ship.

"Zuzu, use water gun on alakazam." Ruby orded, and Zuzu unleashed high speeds of water at alakazam.

"Quick dodge!" the trainer ordered, but alakazam was too bust using psychic on arcanine and was hit directly. That made arcanine start falling since the psychic holding it up faded.

Sapphire saw this as her chance to strike, "Chaka, sky uppercut!"

Chaka jumped up and struck the arcanine in the stomach. It howled in pain, and plummeted down back on the ship. The crowd started cheering more than ever. This made the trainer even more angry, "Alakazam use confusion on the swampert!"

Swampert was hit with a invisible attack, and became confused. "Oh no, quick Zuzu! Jump off the ship!" Ruby told Zuzu.

Zuzu did as asked, but had some trouble getting off the boat. "Hey! What do think your doing cheater!" the trainer yelled.

"Oh right, he's the cheater…" Sapphire muttered.

"Sapphire!" Ruby yelled.

Sapphire jumped, "What?"

"When I say now, tell Chaka to jump, really high. Got it?"

Sapphire didn't understand, but she guessed Ruby had some sort of plan. She smiled, "Got it"

"What are you up to?" The trainer asked them.

"Zuzu! Surf!" Ruby yelled.

Nothing happened. There was only the silence of the waves. Was Zuzu still confused?

"Ha! Didn't work!" and on cue, a rumble came from under the ship. "What's going on?"

Then a giant wave rose over the ship, and Zuzu was riding the top of it. "NOW!"

"Jump, Chaka!" Chaka did as ordered as jumped high, then the giant wave hit the battlefield. The wave crushed alakazam and arcanine, along with everyone else on the main deck. The wave was so powerful, it nearly tipped over the ship. The ship swayed back and forth, freaking out everyone.

After all the rocking, the battle was won. Ruby and Sapphire jumped around in victory, leaving the other trainer to sulk. "I never lose…how?" he then looked at Ruby and Sapphire with a death glare, "You haven't seen the last of me!"

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They walked back into the room, celebrating their victory. They gave a big high five to each other and sat on the couch.

"Thanks" Sapphire said.

"No problem. That guy was a jerk. Consider it your second birthday presnt" Ruby said.

"Well…because you helped me out…I'll…" Sapphire started.

"What?"

"I'll take a shower…"

Ruby had forgotten about that, since they all got wet from the surf attack, they both smelled like the ocean. Ruby didn't really care right now to be honest, it was nice for them both to just sit down and talk like this, even though they hadn't said more than twenty words.

"Oh well, okay"

"But not a shower, I'm taking a bath. Those are my demands. I'll get the smell off me, but it'll be a bath"

"Why would you want to take a bath? It's like bathing in your own filth" Ruby argued.

"I knew you'd say something like that" Sapphire said as she got up and walked in the bathroom. Ruby heard her turn on the bath water. Ruby just shoved it out of his mind and turned on the T.V.. It was kinda small, but decent enough. He skipped through some channels and saw a news report on the upcoming pokémon contest in Goldenrod City.

"Sapphire might like this" Ruby said to himself. "Hey, Sapphire!"

"What?"

"They're talking about the contest in Goldenrod on the news."

Sapphire immediately rushed out of the bathroom and sat on the couch with Ruby to watch it. The newscast was about ten minutes long. It was talking about some of the trainers that are going to show up. Sapphire a few from last years contest on the newscast, training for the upcoming battles. Sapphire completely forgot what she was doing before the newscast however, and didn't realize she left the water on.

After the newscast concluded, she walked over to the bathroom door. Before she opened it, she noticed water coming through the crack under the door. Then it struck her, 'Oh no. this can't end well'

"Um, Ruby?" Sapphire said in an innocent voice.

"Yes?"

"We may have a slight problem in the bathroom"

Ruby got up and walked over to the door, "What's the problem?" ruby turned the doorknob.

"NO! Don't open the-"

Then all the water flooded in the room. It became knee-high in seconds, and then it came up to their waist. Sooner or later the whole room would be flooded with water.

"Quick! Turn the water off!" Ruby said. But Sapphire wasn't listening, she was swimming in the hotel room.

"Hey this is serious!"

"Nyeh nyeh! Can't catch me!" Sapphire said as she splashed water on Ruby.

"Hey! Come here!" Ruby said as he tried to grab her.

After awhile Ruby finally caught her by grabbing her arm and dragging her to him, "Got ya"

Then they heard some cracking. They looked over to where the sound came from, and it was the front door.

The door was about to break, which it did. All the water flooded out in the hallway and Ruby and Sapphire followed. Ruby was freaking out but Sapphire stuck her hands in the air and enjoyed the ride, "Wheeeeeeeee"

After they stopped, Sapphire started to laugh. "That was some ride, huh?"

Ruby just looked at her and smiled. "I guess I'm used to these shenanigans that you and I get into"

Then they heard someone give a stern cough. They both looked up and saw two men. One was tall and muscular with some arm tattoos. The other was tall but frail looking.

"Here are the two that almost flipped the ship, captain" The frail looking man said.

'Uh oh' Ruby and Sapphire both thought.

"And it appears that they just destroyed one of the rooms" The captain said.

Ruby and Sapphire looked at each other and gulped. "Ride's over" Sapphire said.

A/N: Chapter two done, yippie hurray. Even though Sapphire's birthday was over a week ago, I'm still going to make this whole story's time-span last about a week or so. I still have future plans for the story, so don't think I'm going to start and quit. Thanks for reading.