Misty opened her arms to show Drew they arrived. Drew stepped inside to find a huge pool area.
"This is where you keep your pokémon?" Misty simply smiled and ran towards the pool.
She moved her head closer to the pool so that she could see directly in, "Drew, come on. You saw the side view. Now its bird's eye view!" Drew sat next to her and uneasily put his head next to Misty's.
He looked down to see what seemed like a million pokémon swimming and playing in the water. He kept staring, looking at how deep the pool was. He didn't notice that Misty had left his side. Drew was too interested in the beauty of the water and its pokémon.
Misty bit her lip, trying not to laugh as she plowed through her pocket and pulled out a silver whistle with a heart on the side. She placed it gently on her lips and blew as hard as possible, but nothing came out of it. No sound at all, but Misty seemed satisfied and hastily put the whistle away. She then stepped back a couple of feet.
Drew didn't notice any of her actions. He was watching as a golden and poliwag were trying to pick up a pretty pink stone on one of the layer platforms. Then suddenly…..
"ROAR!!" out of nowhere a gyradous comes flying out of the water roaring loudly. And poor Drew happened to be standing right were the gyradous had jumped out of the pool, the water splashed all over the boy. But he wasn't paying attention to the water, more like the terrible beast that had scared him half to death that was in the water.
"AHHHHHH!!" By the time he realized the gyradous was laughing and trying to be friendly, Drew was completely soaked. He was also tipped off by Misty laughing on the floor.
"Not funny." Drew hissed trying to get up, but instead slipped and fell on his face. Which received another point and laugh moment for Misty.
"Oh, it's pretty funny from here. Oh I bet it's funny from there to." She held a finger up showing a box in the corner of the ceiling.
"What, I don't get it?" Drew asked confused.
"That's where the security camera is!"
"What!! You're recording this!" Drew howled covering his eyes with his cupped hand and dropping his head.
"For future generations," Misty grinned "And May!"
"You show May this then she'll think I'm a-"
"A little girl, because you sure scream like one!"
"Misty, you show her then I'll…I'll tell Ash that you love him!"
"Fine I'll say the same to May. She is going to have a fun trip here, don't ya think Drew?" Misty winked at him and then giggled. She skipped towards the gyradous, and started stroking his side. The water beast happily bent low so that she could scratch his back.
"Don't worry Drew; we'll just keep this our little secret." Misty looked at Drew and smiled,
"Come on, gyradous was just playing around. He is actually quite friendly, compared to most gyradous."
Drew hesitated, what if this was another joke?"
Misty slumped over and sighed, "Oh I was just kidding before. Come one before you hurt his feelings."
Drew heaved a sigh, but lifted his still wet body up. He cautiously slipped next to Misty, watching the Pokémon's actions carefully. Drew warily raised his hand and patted him. Gyradous just relaxed himself more from Drew's touch.
"He is pretty friendly."
Gyradous moved to the side, and was offering for Drew to climb on his back.
"Aww, Drew gyradous wants you to ride him!" Misty cooed.
"Uhh, I don't think so." But before Drew knew it he was pushed by two soft hands on the rough skinned pokémon.
"Drew you can hold your breath under water for a minute right?" Misty inquired with a finger on her chin.
"Um, I think the longest was 45 seco-"
"Close enough!" Misty patted gyradous, and he lifted himself up as high as he could go. Drew was clinging on to some scales for dear life.
Misty proceeded to cup her hands over her mouth, "Alright Gyradous ready to go, bring him back safely! May wouldn't be too happy with me if her boyfriend drowned on my account!"
"Hey wait! Boyfri-"But Drew was cut off as he plunged into the water; He gripped onto gyradous's scale harder. It took him a while but his eyes finally adjusted to the water. He looked around to see himself surrounded by pokémon swimming happily around him.
If he thought the view from the side and up were amazing, words couldn't describe him now! Drew noticed that bunches of pokémon were waving at. Drew waved back, but was then caught off by surprise when gyradous made a sudden plundge deeper into the pool.
When Drew seemed to be slowing down he opened his eyes and saw that they were way down at the bottom of the pool. He glanced around and saw to the right of him was another viewing glass. And then to the left of him was a big circle thing. He didn't have much of a good look, because gyradous made a turn.
Drew started to loosen his grip and bit, he was getting more and more comfortable surrounded by Misty's water pokémon. He was enjoying himself, much to his surprise. Drew was looking at a seaking pass by when he saw something quickly scatter right before him. It was a blue blur, but it seemed almost snake like. And there was a glowing ball dangling from its neck.
I think that could have been a- but Drew was cut off by his thoughts as he felt like choking. He became conscious of the fact that he hadn't taken a breath of air for a long time. Drew clutched onto gyradous as hard as he could, but the pokémon kept swimming at the same pace.
Drew tried pinching it, and slapping it but nothing happened. Drew became scarred, how he was supposed get out! He considered swimming up by himself, but he knew that he was already too deep. Drew, in panic, started flailing his arms desperately. His hand hit a scale behind him, he couldn't tell but that scale was colored differently than the others.
Before he could make another action Gyradous jerked up at full speed, Drew was lucky enough to snatch back onto him or else he could have fallen off. By the time Gyradous emerged from the water and placed him on the floor, Drew was dazed and confused. His eyes were shut, trying to relax again
When he opened his eyes he saw a red-head girl frowning at him. But as soon as his eyes were wide open, she beamed and yanked him all the way up.
"Hey, hey, hey! Watch it!" Drew scowled.
"Aww, you didn't like it?" Misty pouted sarcastically.
"No, it was great! I was talking about you nearly pulling my arm off!" Drew replied rubbing his limp.
"Oh you are such a drama king." But before Drew had a chance to respond, Misty started asking him questions.
"Was it cool? Did you see some pokémon you didn't know? Did you see anything weird? How did you mange not breathing for a minute? Were you scared at all?" Misty blurted them all so quickly, Drew had to organize them in his head for a minute.
"It was really cool, I liked it a lot. And no I wasn't scared! But I did see this big white whole thing way down deep in the pool. What is it?"
"Oh that," Misty swayed her hand "that's just a tube where the pokémon can transfer from this pool to the training pool/gym pool. Did you see any weird pokémon?"
Drew swayed his head to the side a bit, "Um….I don't thi- Wait!! There was this blue blur that just swan right in front of me super fast. I couldn't tell what it was at the moment, but it kind of looked like a dragonair. But that's silly, I mean you don't have a dragonair right?" drew said laughing. When he looked at Misty's expression his laugh faltered. Misty had a nervous look on.
"Hold up, you have a dragonair?!" Drew asked in disbelief.
Misty's face twisted into an angry expression. "So! So what if I do have a dragonair! Am I not supposed to have one or something?"
Drew stumbled his words, gosh why do girls have to taking everything like an insult! "I didn't mean it like that, it's just that dragonair's are really rare. It's a real privilege to have one, and only really good trainers can catch one."
"You saved yourself there, "Misty grumbled. She then went to the door and started leaving.
"Where are you going? I thought you were going to show me more of your pokémon." Drew called behind her.
"I am, while battling!"
When Drew finally reached the battle area, Misty was already at one side of the field waiting for him. The field was a pool with hard platforms here and there. There were also stands surrounding the arena. Drew went over and stood at the empty trainer box. He suddenly a felt exhilarated, thrilled at the fact of being in an actual battle after so long. Suddenly both the field and the trainer box started rising up. Drew, shocked, swirled his head towards Misty who stood still and calm. She smiled and waved her hand, assuring him this was normal.
When the lift stopped, Drew was a couple of yards off the ground. He was sure that this feature was added so that underwater battling could be viewed and enjoyed. As the safety bars shot up, Drew felt something run through him. He suddenly felt exhilarated; thrilled at the fact of being in an actual battle after so long .He felt a smile creep onto his face as he reached for his ball belt to pick a pokémon.
"Ready?"
"Don't worry about me. Bring it on."
"Kay, no holding back."
"Let's go!" Drew said with over enthusiasm. Misty grinned and shook her head.
"Alright, come on out Piplup!" An adorable penguin pokémon bounded happily before Misty on the platform. She made a quick dive under water, before returning to her platform. Misty folded her arms waiting for Drew to choose his pokémon.
"I choose you Flygon!" Drew threw the ball towards one of the platforms, summoning one his younger pokémon. Flygon emerged out and quickly adjusted to its settings; he stretched his wings and took off in the air ready for combat.
"Flygon quick, use your wing attack!" Flygon charged ahead with gleaming wings towards Piplup.
"Piplup, underwater now!" Piplup responded fast as lightning and dove under water right as Flygon had swooped down. Piplup remained underwater, waiting for Misty's next commands.
"Flygon use your dragon breath to get Piplup out of the water."
"Fly! Gon! Flygon!" Screeched the dragon pokémon as it spewed a nasty smelling spray of gas at the water. Misty quickly covered her nose from the foul smell, while Drew (who had mostly gotten used to it after training with Flygon) watched and was getting ready for when Piplup came back to the surface.
The penguin pokémon looked as if she was choking, but she waited for her master's commands before proceeding to do anything. "Piplup aqua jet!" Misty managed to squeeze in her yell before hacking some more.
Drew had never seen or heard of a aqua jet and watched in astonishment as the tiny water pokémon jetted from one end of the pool to other heading straight for Flygon at lighting pace. "Flygon watch out!" Just as Piplup was about to land the first strike, Flygon swished out of the way by curving his body to the right and ducking underwater. This sudden change of movement didn't stop Piplup as she simply made a U turn and went into a chase after Flygon underwater.
Both pokémon were underwater, while both trainers watched anxiously for their pokémon to re-emerge. Suddenly Flygon came flying out of the water and was being rammed by Piplup and her aqua jet. Drew watched grimaced as he saw his pokémon getting beat, "Flygon counter with dragon claw."
Flygon squinted his eyes enough so that he could get in good position to strike. "Fly….." Flygon began to get ready for a full force dragon claw, waiting for Piplup to show her weak spot. There! Piplup's side was tucked in such a way that if hit the right way the penguin pokémon would fly in the other direction. Misty's eyes widened as she saw this, "Piplup, get off Flygon and get back in the water. Now!" Too late. Before the command got registered in Piplup's mind Flygon had already started the attack.
"Flygon! Fly!" Piplup's entire body was thrown back to the pool from the force of the slash that struck Piplup perfectly on the side of her stomach. Flygon only needed one hit, Misty figured out Drew trained him to go for the perfect hit. She was going to have a hard time figuring this guy's strategy out.