Here's B, just like I promised! This one was fun for me to write. I got it done pretty quick!

Brave

"Oh, Ash, you're so brave!"

Misty rolled her eyes and leaned against a nearby tree, folding her arms across her chest as she glared at her boyfriend who stood only a few feet away from her along with another girl.

Another girl who Misty did not approve of.

It was quite obvious she was one of Ash's fan girls, what with him being the Kanto Champion that he was. But they had found her in the middle of the forest during their trek, looking quite confused. She had claimed she was lost, and while Misty didn't really care, Ash had jumped in right away and offered to help the girl.

The way her lips had curved up into that sickeningly sweet smile had made Misty want to punch the little tramp square in the face.

Anyway, that little bimbo had been squealing and shrieking because an Ursaring had come too close to them. Misty knew for a fact that the giant bear wasn't going to do anything to them, because it was unprovoked. She was pretty sure Ash had known that as well, since Pokémon were the only thing he had any excessive knowledge about, but he had managed to calmly get the Ursaring away anyway in order to relax their new little "friend."

So now she wouldn't shut up about how "brave" Ash was.

It's just an Ursaring, Misty thought acidly. That hardly makes him brave.

"Misty, come on!"

The red head snapped out of her reverie and found herself staring at Ash and…the stupid auburn haired girl whose name was Mandy or something like that.

"What?" Misty retorted, not willing to play nice with Ash at the moment.

"We have to keep going," Ash replied calmly, pointing down the path that was winding through the forest. "Or else we'll never get out of here before dark!"

Misty was about to huff that she didn't really care when they would get out of the forest, but then she remembered they still had Maria with them, and that the sooner they got out of the forest, the sooner they'd be able to ditch her.

I hate it when Ash makes a good point.

"Fine," Misty grumbled, stepping away from the tree and rejoining the other two. "Let's go."

She marched alongside Ash, making sure to stand between him and the girl, with her nose up in the air. She also made sure not to make any eye contact with the other female, either.

"Misty, don't you think Ash is so brave?"

Misty growled and awarded the girl next to her with nothing more than a steely side glance. "Why in the world would I think he's brave?"

"Because he got rid of that mean, old, nasty Ursaring!" The girl squealed. "All without getting us chased, too! That's so amazing!"

Misty scoffed and threw her head to the side so her fiery red locks swung out in the direction of the unfamiliar girl. Misty had been hoping her hair had gotten long enough to have been able to whack Marissa right in the face. But it hadn't.

Too bad.

"That's not amazing or brave," Misty seethed, still refusing to look at the girl head on. "You're just easily enamored, Marley."

"Uh…it's Maddie," the girl corrected.

"Whatever, same difference," Misty grumbled beneath her breath.

Ash was, of course, completely oblivious to the two girls by his side who were not getting along. He was too busy chatting up Pikachu about all of the things they would do once they got out of the forest…with the first and most important item on the list being dinner. Misty rolled her eyes at this once again, but couldn't help but to smirk. Her boyfriend was awfully cute, especially when it came to his friendship with Pikachu. He may have been dense, but he was sweet, and that was enough to make Misty forgive him for being so compressed.

After what felt like an eternity to Misty, but was really only about ten minutes, the trio finally reached the end of the forest. Maddie beamed and ran straight out into the sunlight, giggling before turning on her toes and grinning at Ash.

"Oh, you really are the best!" Maddie fussed, causing Misty to scowl. "I can't believe the champion helped me out of that forest, and was brave enough to scare away an Ursaring! All of my friends are going to be so jealous!"

"Glad we could help!" Ash chuckled, obviously including Misty in his statement. The gym leader, of course, wanted nothing to do with the whole mess, but she chose to stay silent and not ruffle any feathers.

"It was great walking through the forest with you guys!" Maddie trilled. "Hopefully we'll meet up again someday!"

"Yeah, and then we can have a battle!" Ash added. Misty resisted the urge to smack him upside the head.

"Bye, Maggie!" Misty finally called, waving at the bewildered female standing before them.

"Well, at least you were kind of close this time…" Maddie sighed before waving at the two and going off her own way.

"She was really nice!" Ash chirped, turning right and heading down that path. Misty's eyes widened and she quickly followed after her boyfriend, keeping pace at his side while maintaining her grumpy expression.

"I bet you're only saying that because she called you brave," Misty accused. "Which was a dumb comment anyway."

"Hey, I was brave!" Ash argued.

"For what?" Misty scoffed. "Keeping an Ursaring away from Maisie?"

"Yeah! And…her name was Maddie, not Maisie."

"Whatever. Still, that's not being brave! If anything, that's being reckless."

"Well, Maddie sure didn't think so," Ash hummed.

"I don't give a damn about Maddie!" Misty hissed, causing Ash to take a cautious step back. "Learn to not be so crazy, won't you? There's a difference between being brave and being stupid, after all."

"Yeah, but that was brave!"

"It wouldn't have been so brave if Ursaring had ripped you limb from limb," Misty calmly countered.

"No, it wouldn't have," Ash agreed. "But that didn't happen!"

"I'm just giving you a fair warning is all."

Ash folded his arms across his chest and ignored the tiny sniggers coming from the little electric mouse sitting on his shoulder. "Okay, Misty. If that was being stupid, then what do you consider being brave?"

Misty's eyebrows raised in interest. "What? You want my opinion?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Alright then," Misty mused. "My idea of being brave is…is someone like me!"

"Someone like you?" Ash deadpanned.

"Yeah, someone like me," Misty retorted. "I'm a gym leader! I have to face tons of young trainers every day, and it's my job to try and beat them, while at the same time nurture them and help them to actually want to achieve their goals and dreams! And sometimes, those kids are rough to deal with. That's being brave!"

"Hardly," Ash muttered under his breath.

"What was that?!" Misty demanded.

Suddenly, a nearby bush rustled, causing Ash and Misty to stop their arguing and turn their heads towards the shaking shrub. After a few seconds, a small Caterpie came crawling out of the bush and into the middle of the path. Misty let out an ear splitting scream and jumped into Ash's arms, startling both her boyfriend and the little bug type.

"AH! A BUG! GET IT AWAY, GET IT AWAY! ASSSSSH!"

"Oh, yeah, you're a real brave one, Mist," Ash snickered, shaking his head while the red head trembled in his arms.

"SHUT UP AND GET RID OF THAT STUPID BUG RIGHT THIS SECOND!"

"Okay, okay. I'll be brave and do it just for you."

I'm not used to writing younger Ash and Misty. It's fun, though, to do something a little different :) I like actually having them be sarcastic and in each other's faces and not entirely as mature as in my other stories. I love writing Misty's attitude and Ash's comebacks, especially :P