Hello everybody once again to Trapped Together! I hope that you enjoyed the first chapter, while nothing happened, I thought that it was a good opening to the rest of the story and plot. Enjoy!
Once lunch was gone, completely gone due to Ash and May's appetites wanting not two, not three, but four extra servings before Brock, the person who cooked the stew, had barely finished one!
All that hard work, gone...Brock moped as he cleaned the table and began to wash up.
"Now that that's all over...training here we come!" The overly exaggerating trainer said with enthuasium. "Treecko! Tailow! Pikachu! Let's go!"
"Ash!" Ash stopped and turned around to see May approaching "How about a battle? I've barely trained since when we first met and I wanna train for the next contest!" May said smiling and readying Torchic's ball.
"Sure! I thought you'd never ask!" Ash smiled as they ran to an open space nearby.
"Don't get lost!" Brock shouted to them as they ran.
"Tell that to yourself!" They both called back in unison giggling like schoolgirls while getting quieter and quieter.
"Walked right into that one..." Brock sighed as he continued to wash up.
Not long after Ash and May reached the open area. Both stood on either end of the imaginary battlefield and they both called their pokemon to battle.
"Torchic, take the stage!" May shouted smiling at herself with her new battle cry she had thought up just before the match. Now more confident then she had last battled.
"Tailow, I choose you!" Ash swung his arm and out popped the tiny blue bird pokemon.
"Tailow huh? Even match then!" May smiled as she looked the tiny bird up and down.
"What was with that saying? What was it...'Take the stage'? Is that for your contests?" Ash said in confusion.
"Well, yeah!" May said still with that same smile as when she first called Torchic "You have your 'I choose you' thing so then I thought that it would be cool if I had my own battle cry." May said hoping that it wasn't strange and that Ash had liked it.
"I love y-it! It! I meant it!" Ash blushed deep red confused once again at what he just said Love? Is this due to what Brock said at lunch before? No, just a slip up. Ash thought as he quickly focused back to the battle at hand and noticed May in deep thought, still blushing.
Did he just say that he loved me? I didn't even notice but, I kinda feel the same way. Guess Brock was right. I do l- May thoughts were soon dissipated as she heard the boy who she was facing call.
"MAY!" Ash shouted at the top of his lungs as he stared into her bright blue sapphire eyes. May shook her head and then faced Ash in his bright brown, auburn eyes, still blushing at what she just witnessed "Finally, signs of life!"
"Sorry! Just deep in thought!" May exclaimed and quickly turned her sights to the battle.
Was she thinking about my slip up?Ash thought Does she love me? No, she couldn't, probably just Brock's words just in her mind. Yeah, that's it.
"Torchic! Ember!" May called noticing that Ash wasn't paying attention. Ash soon came to life when he saw the Chicken pokemon shoot spirts of fire from it's mouth and aimed them at Tailow. Before Ash could command Tailow, the ember hit the bird causing it to wail in pain "That'll teach you to not pay attention!" May teased.
"Hey! I waited for you to come out of thought! You could have atleast done the same!" Ash said with anger but at the back of his mind, he was happy that May was able to get a hit off.
"Your mistake!" May teased once again at seeing that Ash was clearly aggravated. "Torchic, ember once again!"
"Oh no you don't!" Ash said quickly coming back to his old self "Tailow dodge and use peck!" Torchic once again fired little spurts of fire at Tailow but this time, the Hoenn bird dodged with ease and quickly made it's beak glow and charged at Torchic like a certain blue hedgehog.
"That speed..." May said with shock "Dad's stories were right, Tailows are fast!" Tailow was now so close to it's target that Torchic hadn't the time for a counter attack and was hit in full force by the tiny bird's beak "Torchic! Can you still battle?" May said putting trust into her pokemon just like her mentor, the opponent she was facing had told her to. Torchic got up with ease ready for it's trainer's command. Speed and power huh? Ash sure knows how to train his pokemon! But so do I! May thought as she smirked, startling Ash.
Woah, one minute she's suprised then next, completely confident that's why I lov- what am I saying?! She's my friend! Nothing more, nothing less! Ash thought, once again, deep in thought but this time he didn't need anything to snap out of it.
"Torchic use your own Peck!" May commanded with confidence.
"What?!" Ash said once again startled "When did Torchic learn that?!"
"Oh, remember when I said that the last time I had a battle it was when I first became a trainer?" Ash nodded "Well, I lied!" May said with an embarassed giggle.
"So that's what I heard the last night..." Ash said remembering the night before.
Last night...
There had been a loud bang and it woke up Ash.
"Huh?" Ash said groggily "What was that?" Ash rubbed his eyes. Suprisingly, Pikachu nor Brock had heard the loud bang. "Guess it was just my imagination" Ash said soon heading back to dreamland with a pink puff ball in his dreams "Hey Kirby!" Ash said in his sleep.
Present Time...
"Yeah," May said still embarrassed "sorry about that!"
"Why didn't you train the next day instead of in the dead of night?" Ash asked in confusion.
"Since I had gotten over my fear of pokemon, I decided to finally grow stronger for the next contest. and..." May stopped and began to turn red "...w-well," May started to turn even more red "I w-wanted to surprise y-you A-ash." May struggled to get a simple sentence out. "W-well? Are you s-s-surpris-s-sed?"
"Of course I am May!" Ash, as dense as he is, ignored May's obvious sign of love towards him and gave a confused look when May was stuttering her words What's up with her? Ash wondered Why is she so nervous...? Don't tell me...! Ash, finally, hitting the nail on the head realized May's affection toward him "S-she loves m-me!" Ash stuttered as he whispered to himself and began to blush. May had lifted her head from the ground and saw Ash deep in thought. Her first incentive was to attack like she did before, but stopped when she saw him blush.
Why is he blushing? Unless... May thought with excitement He likes me back! May giggled with excitement and joy. Not before long she shouted "ASH!" to get the boy back into the land of the living. Ash quickly turned his head up and stared, once again into her pure and sapphire eyes and smiled.
Brock was right, Ash thought I do love her! "Sorry May!" Ash shouted to her "Let's continue this! Tailow use quick attack!"
"Torchic use peck!" May ordered her pokemon. Tailow, still at incredible speed and even more due to quick attack having priority and hitting first but Torchic still hung on and lunged it's beak towards Tailow hitting it hard. Tailow was knocked back to far that it couldn't use it's wings to gain balance, therefore, leaving it unconcious "ALRIGHT!" May jumped up and down "Torchic! We won!"
"Torchic! Tor!" Torchic, like it's trainer, started to jump up and down.
"Tailow return!" Ash called back his pokemon into it's ball "You did great! Get some rest." Ash then began to walk over to the jumping pair "Great battle May!" Ash said while smiled sticking his thumb up.
"Thanks, Ashy!" May smiled but then began to blush at what she just said Ashy?! Where did that come from?! May thought with fear while her face went completely red. Ash, also, realizing what May had just said blushed, but not for long.
"Ashy huh?" Ash questioned May's nickname for him "Sure! I like it!
"You do?" May's head shot up and started to beam with excitement and joy.
"Yeah, if that's alright with y-" Ash was cut off before being tackled to the ground by May. Ash blushed at her sudden movements. "May...air...need...live!" Ash said with what few moments of his life left. May blushed when she realized where she was and quickly stood up also helping Ash up in the process.
"S-sorry" May said looking at the ground. Before Ash could say anything he heard rustling in the bushes.
"Ash? May? You here?" The voice spoke.
"Brock!" Ash and May both said in unison and ran to the rustling bust.
"There you are! I thought I'd lost you!" Brock said with relief. "C'mon, let's get out of this forest!" Ash and May both nodded in agreement and headed to what they hoped would be the exit of the woods and into Rustboro City. Home of Ash's first Gym battle and May's first contest.
As the trio walked off, three figures followed behind, closely...
Cliffhanger! The chapter may have been longer but I didn't get to the main plot. But I swear, next chapter it'll happen! Stay tuned!