Chapter Two

Misty has never felt this anxious. The last time she felt so nervous was her very first local swimming competition which was just held inside her grade school's pool. That's like almost a decade ago. She was so nervous back then that she missed the 'go' signal by a second, but apparently that didn't seem to matter as she was still able to leave all her opponents behind her watery sparkles.

She closed her eyes and concentrated. She knew very well that she was never good at taking risk that highly depended on mere chances. It seemed that she wasn't provided with luck since birth.

She opened her eyes.

Silver was just yelling a second ago how much he already loves the game and how perfectly evil it was for his liking, considering you have to follow whatever was ordered. But after learning of the game's intended effect, he was downright cowering behind Lyra, though he was still yelling how the game was still perfectly evil. Maybe now it was just too much for his liking.

Everyone else had that excited look however. Well except for Paul, he never gets excited.

She breathed in deeply. Her head spun a million of suggestive ideas whenever she gets to pick the red stick.

If she gets the red stick.

That was the problem, she wouldn't want some of those suggestive ideas she thought backfiring at her and Ash. She blushed deeply at the thought of Ash asking her how many babies she would like to have when they would get married soon.

It's one of the products of her crazy ideas.

She definitely doesn't want that happening to her.

She would have considered it if it was just the two of them, not announcing it in front of her friends like it's just some mere FYI.

She must have the stick with the red tip. It's either die, or die trying.

Ash just came back and sat beside her, apparently he went to the CR a few minutes ago. She didn't let his presence distract her. He was asking if he had missed anything important but she just shrugged.

Okay Mist, you can do this. You can pick up the red stick, you must pick up the red stick. You wouldn't want announcing you'd like to have 7 babies with Ash soon right?

Everyone had their eyes closed. And another second passed and the sticks were no longer at the glass, but held by each pair.

This was it, no more turning back. Whatever happens, this was the real thing. Now or never.

Misty slowly opened her right eye first, then her left eye. And when she finally saw the red tip, she was so happy that she almost stood up to do a multiple back flip of joy across the room.

She stifled a scream of happiness but she knew better to control herself. This has got to be the luckiest day of her life.

She smirked and looked at the rest of the pairs. All seemed scared and anxious. Well they should be since she and Ash were the King and Queen now.

YES! PREPARE YOUR SELVES INFIDELS! FOR WE, no, I, THE QUEEN OF THIS TURN, MISTY WATERFLOWER, SHALL BRING YOU PAINFULLY EMBARRASSING JUDGEMENT!

"I order the female partner of pair number 1 to nip the ear of her male partner!"

She ordered triumphantly, she wasn't able to hold her joy anymore that she stood up and did the 'bwahahaha' Silver did earlier. She mentally congratulated herself for the amazingly embarrassing dare she gave.

Then a minute later has passed.

She paused and looked down, nobody was doing the ear-nipping stuff she ordered. Then she suddenly felt Ash tugging the hem of her skirt.

"This is 1 right?" He asked, holding a stick with the printed number 1 on it.

For a second she thought that she was just dreaming, but what was laid before her very eyes was very clear and vivid -Ash holding out to her the number 1 stick.

Oh. My. Sweet. Lord.

Then her face contorted of pure horror, fear, murdered, dread, dismay, panic and a lot more words synonymous to those listed. The songs of victories played inside her head slowly turned to a funeral song.

She was left speechless for a couple of seconds.

"Oh!" Ash scratched his head with his impish grin. "I never knew a pair had to get only one stick." He managed to laugh sheepishly.

A dark murderous shadow then loomed over the redhead, everyone seemed to have noticed this but Ash. Everyone saw how she shivered her fist.

Both of her fists.

"So, uhh, nipping." Ash called out to her. "What does nipping an ear means Mist? How do we do that?"

"LIKE THIS YOU IDIOT!" Misty enraged at the Palette lad as she attacked him by the ear.

*C-R-U-N-C-H-!-!*

And a loud cry of pain was heard up to a mile away.

A.N: First part of the dare is done! And it's about Ash and Misty, well I thought I'd start with them since their shipping has name "poke" in it *shrugs* anyway this part was not really romantic, sort of funny, and it came from a sudden stupid idea of mine haha for the next part I already have it planned by the way :D I'll try to update this as often as I could since these chapters are just short. Tell me what you think!

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