A/N: There were a few minor errors I found in my previous chapter and, yes I know I'm bad at tenses. I cannot keep typing in the same one to save my life, I hope it doesn't bother you guys too much, I'm going to try to work on that, though. So have confidence in me please.
Thanks to these people for reviewing:
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ShadowandKnucklesgirlforever: She's just going to be really emotional in my fiction, thanks for all the constructive criticism, I'm trying to get the basics down right now, you know, past events before the actual story starts, which will be the next chapter.
jolteonforever: May does love Drew; points to first paragraph on the first chapter
Alright, when May won her ribbon cup when she was 15 – Drew 16 – Ash 19 (Misty also) – Max 13 and Brock 23.
(In my fiction there are always two regions with contests, one Vivian hosts, the other Lillian does)
I also forgot the disclaimer in the last chapter. Oops :(
Disclaimer:I don't own Pokemon yet, I'm still saving up money to fly on a plane to get across the world to steal the rights cough I mean…
Oh crap. Forget I said that. Besides, if I did own it, there'd be a spin-off about Drew and May and Brock would be with Lucy. And Ash would travel with Misty and continue to be absolutely dense (I love it when they argue). Oh and we would know the definite gender of Harley x-x.
P.S. (I promise this is the last thing)- The battles I wrote from Drew and May's POVs, but May is actually watching them on tape… I just am really bad at writing in third person. :/ especially things like that, so I'm sorry if it confused anyone.
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"Mom! We're home!" May called into her old house. She entered into the comfortable front room with Max behind her, tending to his Gardevior. On the table was a note reading:
Norman, I'm going out to the store, be back later. Love, Caroline.
"Max, mom's not home, so I think I'll watch the tapes with Espeon." May said, dully. Max knew there was something wrong with his sister – there had been for the past two years, but he wasn't going to say anything to her, it was her problem after all.
"Again May?! You watch those tapes so often I'm surprised they don't break." Max said, standing in the same place he was before, half his attention on May's odd behaviors over the years, the other half on the long burn on Gardevior's arm.
"Yes again Max, it's purely strategical." The hot-tempered brunette lied, but they could both hear the tone in her voice that meant she was trying to convince herself as much as him.
She merely stomped into her room, plopping down on her red- and white- bedspread and grabbed a brush for Espeon's coat before letting her out of her pokeball and placing the first tape into the player.
The tape began, the picture professional and smooth – the color maybe slightly off because of the age of the tape, but that did not faze May in the slightest.
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May walked up onto the stage, the sun shining down on her. Coordinating is not what it used to be for her – it no longer held the appeal it used to. She no longer pushed herself to best Drew, because she knew he would not be there, but she did know that he would watch, as she would watch his performances. It just felt like something was missing but that would not stop her.
"And now our final match-up for the Dangoh Region Ribbon Cup we have a match between two coordinators already holding a ribbon cup each, please give it up for May of Petalburg City, and Robert of Sootopolis!" Yelled Lillian excitedly.
"I choose you, Milotic and Alakazam!" Said Robert.
"Beautifly, Espeon Take the stage!" Said May, only half-enthusiastically.
"Let's go Beautifly Silver Wind on that Alakazam, Espeon hold it in place with your Psychic attack!" Said the brunette with a simple turn of her head, the light catching on the gold chain around her neck, the red pokeball on it shining. No coordinator had seen what was in that ball. Only Misty, Max, Soledad, Ash, Brock, her parents and, of course, Drew knew what was held inside.
"Milotic get in front of Alakazam and use Safeguard." Said Robert, fire in his eyes and his long hair blowing slightly. "Then follow up with water pulse and Future Sight!"
May gulped, she did not want her pokemon to take the Future Sight hit, she would have to stop it before it began. her points dropped and she began to randomly throw out attacks, hoping they would suffice.
"Beautifly use Gust, Espeon, Swift." She called. She did not manage to stop the future sight attack, but the swift cut through the water pulse, leaving Milotic open to Beautifly's gust attack. She sighed in relief as Robert's points dropped slightly.
"Alakazam use Psybeam!"
"Espeon, counter with Psychic, send it right back at him!"
Robert merely smirked slightly before he said, "Milotic, get in front of Alakazam and use safeguard, send it back at that Beautifly!"
"Dodge it!" May called, but to no avail, it hit Beautifly head-on, cutting May's points.
"And, in a close race Robert has overcome May to win this year's Dangoh Ribbon Cup!"
In the end what caused her to lose her Ribbon Cup was the Future sight attack which had successfully knocked out her already-weakened Beautifly. She gave it a job well done before she pet her Espeon and the two of them walked out together, soon to be joined by Max.
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The tape ended and Espeon purred lovingly before May got up to put in the next tape – the age the same, but the picture still as good and slightly faded as the one before it.
She looked at the tape to see Drew's face – void of almost all emotion. That broke her heart into tiny pieces, but merely seeing his face filled her with a warm contented feeling.
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Ever since his separation from May, Drew has secluded himself. Instead of the cocky, arrogant coordinator he became selective and shy. He only talked to Soledad out of the other coordinators who tried to talk to him and he no longer handed out any of his roses. Even Masquerain and Absol were found to be moping at times. Drew was simply not himself, but he continued to coordinate, knowing that somehow May was watching him, and he had to make her proud.
"And now, may I present to you the final two in our Orre Region Finals! Please welcome our coordinators – Drew of La Rousse and Soledad of Pewter City! And now let the match BEGIN!" Said Vivian before Drew and Soledad released their pokemon.
"Let's do this, Slowking and Ampharos!"
"Flygon, Roselia take the stage!"
"Slowking, use Water Pulse and Ampharos use Thunder on that water!" commanded Soledad.
"Roselia jump on Flygon's back, Flygon take to the sky!" Said the green-eyed coordinator, blowing his messy hair out of his eyes. He refused to flick his hair at all anymore.
"Roselia, aerial Petal Dance, Flygon use your flamethrower!" Drew called.
The Petal Dance hit poor Slowking head-on, dropping Soledad's points even further before she commanded Ampharos to dodge the flamethrower which was successfully executed. Drew's points dropped minimally and then she was back into attack mode.
"Alright, Slowking, use psybeam! Ampharos, follow up with Zap Cannon."
Drew could not think fast enough, and there was probably nothing he could do. Poor Roselia was her target for both attacks, and she was still in mid-air. Then he got his idea, but he wasn't sure that Roselia would make it through it in this battle.
"Roselia, use Stun Spore, Flygon blow it over at Slowking and Ampharos with your wings!"
It worked; Roselia's attack hit right after the Psybeam and Zap Cannon hit her simultaneously. Both coordinator's points dropped, leaving Soledad slightly behind.
The poor rose pokemon fainted and Drew recalled her to her pokeball. "Good job Roselia," he whispered to his pokeball before he raised his hand and shouted, "Flygon, use earthquake!"
In that moment Soledad felt the same thing her opponent had felt last year when he lost to May – she knew she could do nothing to stop the inevitable, and she accepted it whole-heartedly.
The light caught on the small, sparkling pokeball attached to Drew's vest, the pokeball that he, like May, had not used yet in any contest.
He was presented his very first Ribbon Cup, but there only one thing he could think about and that was, 'I wish May was here to share this with me.'
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May began to think of the first time she had seen this event, it was a little over a year ago and it was the one and only time she had dared to contact him since that fateful night over two years ago.
FlashbackMay watched on the T.V. in her parents' home in Petalburg City as Drew won his ribbon Cup, and even though she left so her feelings for him would diminish, they never did. They only grew more and more. They only waited for that moment when she would see him again.
She cheered and clapped for Drew with all of her pokemon surrounding her. Skitty, Espeon, Blaziken, Munchlax, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Beautifly, Seadra, Bellossom, and Dratini all sat around her as she and Max watched Drew accept his ribbon cup.
It broke May's heart to see Drew the way he was – he just wasn't Drew anymore… and she wondered why, it's not like he loved her back or anything.
She sighed before turning to her pokemon, ready to set off for their next journey.
"So, who wants to come with me for contests?" she said, cheerfully.
Blaziken flexed its muscles and lit the flames at its wrists, indicating its interest in going with her. Beautifly cried out before fluttering to her head and settling there. Espeon purred and rubbed against her leg. Dratini cooed cutely at her. Seadra – her newest pokemon – cried out and looked pumped up and Bellossom began to dance around May in circles.
Squirtle gave her a small smile, but upon seeing May's mom he jumped into her arms. May understood. Munchlax simply fell asleep. Ivysaur looked longingly towards the transfer machine – no doubt she was missing Ash's bulbasaur. Skitty made a cute sound before jumping into Max's arms. He blinked at her twice before looking up at May. May giggled before nodding.
With Skitty Max now had a well-balanced pokemon team, and he would try the gym challenge in their next region. He grabbed his five pokeballs (and skitty's pokeball) counting off his pokemon.
"Gardevior, Skitty, Arcanine, Jolteon, Starmie, and Tropius!" Max said excitedly. May asked her Beautifly to take a note to her old friend before she exited the house with Max, headed to the Balcantic Region. The next Ribbon Cup would be hers.
End Flashback-.-.- (A/N: alright, this next one is Drew, not May, but I wanted you guys to see his reaction to this)
Begin Flashback
Drew sat in the Pokemon Center of La Rousse Town. He was here visiting his sister, Alice, before he headed to the Karogen Region for the next contests and Grand Festival.
The rain was pouring down on the town, and he watched, bored, as people ran from store to store and stayed on the moving boardwalk even though half of it was closed because of the rain.
Then he saw it. He saw the flash of Black with reds and yellows and blues. It was a pokemon. And Drew just knew it was May's Beautifly, he just had this feeling.
Without a word he and his Masquerain got out of the pokemon center and ran, they didn't care that they were getting wet. They ran and ran until they get to Drew's mansion where an exhausted Beautifly was clinging to the antique wooden front doors, waiting for someone to find her there.
As soon as they saw the butterfly pokemon both Masquerain and Drew perked up. Drew carefully took the note from the pokemon before the two bugs flew off together, flying in patterns and circles around each other, both with bright red lines above their top lips.
Drew merely smiled at them before he opened the note from May, his hands shaking. It read:
Drew,
Congratulations, I knew you could do it! I'm glad you won your Ribbon Cup. I'm headed off with Max to my next set of contests, but there was something bothering me. And that was the way I left you out on the beach. That was unfair of me and I am sorry. I was upset, but I can't tell you why. I miss you Drew. I miss everything about you, even your arrogance and sarcastic comments. Do I sound completely pathetic?
-May
Drew looked at the note, and his hands began to tremble slightly. He straightened it, making sure there were no wrinkles before calling Beautifly and Masquerain over to him. Without a word he pulled out a small piece of paper and a single red rose. The note simply said: 'They were always for you'
End Flashback-.-.-
May walked over to her bookshelf and gently moved the other books away until she found the red- and gold- leather-bound book hiding behind all the others. She turned to the second-to-last page which had roses pressed inside that were three different colors – red, blue, and lavender.
She turned the next page and her breath caught as she saw the rose on the next page. It was larger than all her other flowers, and even now if she ran her fingers along its surface she could smell the fragrance and feel the velvet texture of the petals. Below it was a piece of paper – slightly yellowed with age. It read: 'They were always for you'
May looked frantically around the room to see Espeon looking questioningly at her and she quickly closed the book and stuffed it back onto the shelf before picking up the tape and sat back down on the bed as it started, Espeon now curled up on her lap.
The tape began to roll, showing a curly orange-haired woman in a blue outfit and a white visor on the screen, the colors less faded than the last two tapes.
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"Alright, let's give it up for this year's final two coordinators in the Balcantic Region! Lets hear it for May of Petalburg City and Soledad of Pewter City!" said Vivian loudly into her microphone.
Suddenly a girl with Brunette hair, sapphire eyes, and a red bandana appeared on one side of the field, followed by a much taller woman with pinkish-orange hair, steel-blue eyes and an orange shirt entering from the opposite side.
The two women faced off and taller one called, "Long time no see, May. Good luck to you!"
"Good luck to you also Soledad!" called May, flashing her friend a smile that was so rare for May Maple now-a-days.
Soledad merely nodded before calling: "Lets go! Butterfree! Lapras!"
"Blaziken! Bellossom! Take the stage!"
May went right into the battle without hesitation, "Sky Uppercut and Petal Dance, lets go!"
"Butterfree, fly away from that attack, Lapras counter with icy wind!"
The sky uppercut caught Butterfree but Lapras's counter made it so that the two trainers both lost an even number of points.
"And time is UP!" Yelled Vivian gleefully. "But wait… what is this?! The coordinators are both tied for points? Well, that simply cannot be right!"
"Well folks, this is a first! We have a tie for the Ribbon Cup itself! The tie breaker will be a one-on-one battle, continued with no time limit until one pokemon is unable to battle." The MC stated.
Both women nodded and the taller was the first to make a move.
"Pidgeot, let's go!" she shouted.
May Maple simply stood there, playing with the small pokeball on the chain around her neck. Her pokemon was ready for this – she was sure of that, but could she handle it, emotionally? She searched with her eyes until she locked gazes with her brother, Max, and he nodded his head slightly, indicating he knew what she was thinking and he agreed with it.
With that May snatched the small ball off of its beautiful chain and threw it into the air, yelling, "TAKE THE STAGE!"
Many people gasped even before her pokemon had appeared 'May Maple actually using the pokemon who's pokeball was around her neck?! Never.' Was heard throughout the stadium. But those gasps were nothing compared to the gasps of the people when they saw what the pokemon was.
There sat May's Dragonair, it's skin pinkish purple, the horn on its head started as a heart and ended in a point, the light around it glowing and shimmering with grace that many coordinators wished they could help their pokemon achieve.
Soledad nodded towards May knowingly before taking a more alert stance and readying herself for battle.
"Pidgeot use Aerial Ace!"
"Detect, Dragonair then follow up with Swift."
The swift hit Pidgeot head-on, but the damage seemed minimal, May was surprised. Her Dragonair was extremely well-trained (not to gloat or anything) and not many pokemon would be able to withstand more than a few bashings from it. But May knew never to underestimate Soledad.
"Quick Attack!"
"Stop it with Psychic." Said the blue-eyed girl.
"Now hit it with Ice Beam." She continued.
"Quick Pidgeot, Double Team!" shouted her opponent.
"Use Water Pulse to find the real one, then follow up with Thunder."
The attack was successful and the taller woman's pokemon fell limply to the ground with electric sparks randomly shooting from its body.
As soon as May was sure the match was over she rushed over to her friend and put a hand on her red pokeball, signaling her to stop from returning her pokemon. She looked questioningly to the brunette girl, but she simply said,
"Dragonair, use your Heal Bell and if need-be Recover on Soledad's Pidgeot."
With that Pidgeot began to move its wings and after a minute it was happily soaring over their heads, but both girls could sense that it felt it had let its trainer down by losing.
"Good match May, wow I knew that when you let him out that it would be a big shocker to everyone – but I thought I would be exempt from that, but that was simply amazing! I mean the attacks that it has learned… simply spectacular." Said the orange-haired girl somewhat sadly before turning around.
Before getting engulfed into the crowd of people asking her questions about her beloved pokemon she called off to her friend, "You did good too! I'll see you soon! I promise!"
And with that the tape faded to blackness.
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Espeon was happily asleep in May's lap and she absent-mindedly petted it as she waited for the next match to play (it was on the same tape as her match). If May had been more attentive or had Espeon been awake they would have noticed the faint pinkish-glow coming from the jewel on Espeon's head. The light flicked once, twice, three times, and then it died out. If either had noticed the two of them might have looked out the window and seen the sullen green-haired green-eyed boy and his large Absol standing on the walkway in front of their house. They might have noticed the boy gently slip a red rose into the mail box before he touched his pokemon's head sadly and they began to slowly trek away…
But they did not and the tape began to roll again…
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May, annoyed, fast forwarded through Lillian's little speech at the beginning and stopped at the part where the two trainers released their pokemon.
Drew's opponent was none other than Harley.
"Banette! Wigglytuff! Come out my darlings!" Called Harley in his high-pitched, squeaky voice.
"Let's go! Absol!" Drew faltered slightly before tugging on the specially-made pocket located over his heart and tore off the pokeball. People began to murmur. 'First May and now Drew are showing their secret weapon pokemon?! This is so cool!' "And you too! Milotic!"
The crowd gaped as they saw Drew's magnificent Milotic, it had to be better-looking than Robert's AND Wallace's! Its mere presence lit up the stadium, it was obviously extremely strong, and it was the wrong colors, it must be a rare SHINY pokemon!
Harley staggered backwards slightly before he regained his composure and said confidently, "Bad mistake Drew-bie! Go Banette darling, use your Lock On then follow up with thunder on that Milotic of his!"
The green-haired boy merely had the ghost of a smirk on his face before calmly saying, "Milotic, prepare yourself, Absol use Razor wind on that Wigglytuff."
The Thunder attack came from the opposite side of the field at the same time as the Razor Wind whipped from Drew's.
For the third time the crowd gasped at the marvels of Milotic's astounding abilities. It had built up a resistance to any and all electric attacks. Harley went pale as he saw his attack become useless and his Wigglytuff take some major damage.
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May began to feel her eyelids drooping as she continued to stroke Espeon's back. She let out a yawn and willed herself to stay awake to watch the rest of Drew's match (not like she hadn't seen it numerous times anyways) but in the end her eyelids won and she was taken to a place of roses, and beautiful pokemon, cakes and noodles galore, and a certain green-haired, green-eyed coordinator.
-.-.-
"May…" someone called.
"May, honey, wake up it's time for dinner."
"Dinner?!" May said, shooting up from the position she was in – to the great dismay of her Espeon.
Her mother laughed slightly and May looked over to the tape, which must have rewound itself and played again quite a few times since she had fallen asleep seeing as Lillian was just yelling, "And our winner is Drew of La Rousse City! Congratulations on your second Ribbon Cup Drew!"
May turned the T.V. off before sighing and walking down the stairs to eat dinner with her family.
She followed her mother slowly, Espeon by her side, down the stairs towards the kitchen. She headed towards the back door where she let all her pokemon out and fed them dinner.
When she came inside she looked up to see Max entering from the front room, and she followed him, 'I guess we're eating at the family table tonight.' May thought to herself.
What she saw on the small table in the corner with the mail made her breath hitch slightly. She walked slowly over to the stack of mail and picked up the single red rose, pulling it in closely to her face to smell the fragrance.
Dragonair came slowly into the room up behind May and gently nudged his head into her hand, causing a single petal to fall from the rose and land directly at the tip of Dragonair's heart-shaped horn and balance there perfectly.
May and her family looked transfixed at Dragonair before it turned its head slightly in a questioning manner and said softly "Nair?"
The petal fell softly to the floor and the moment was lost, but May continued to look at the lone petal on the wood floor at her feet.
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A/N: I only have three things to say to you guys:
No, May is not stalker-like. She is merely upset, and she feels that the only way she will ever see Drew is through his performances, and the only ones she can see are him in the Grand Festivals because they are the only ones 'important' enough for camera crews to film them for TV. She feels as if it's the one part of Drew that she'll never lose if that makes any sense.
This chapter is pure fluff, but it was fun to write, I hope you guys liked how I did the whole 'past two years summary' thing. The next chapter should be out by… at least Thursday. I'm starting my summer courses tomorrow (no I'm not stupid, I'm getting P.E. & Health out of the way)
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