CHAPTER 6

"Well," Boris said. "This place is cool."

I nodded in agreement. This place was cool. Actually, speaking of cool...

I walked over to the edge of the pool and took off my shoes and socks. Then, I dipped my bare feet into the pool.

The weather had been quite hot lately, and this felt soooo good.

Rachel did the same thing.

We both sat there, enjoying the coolness of the pool.

Suddenly, I knew what was going to happen next. I took a deep breath and held it, just as Boris pushed both Rachel and I in the back.

"Yaaahhh!" Rachel cried. We both fell in the pool.

Oh, that was so cheap! And sooooooo not funny.

Michael may be the big joker of our group, but Boris likes to joke, too.

Rachel surfaced just about immediately. I stayed under, still holding my breath.

Up above, I saw Boris leaning over the pool. Probably worried, because I hadn't come up yet.

I kicked off the bottom of the pool, surfaced, grabbed Boris' arm, and pulled him in too.

"Huh? YAAAHHH!" he yelled.

Rachel and I floated there, laughing. Boris surfaced with an angry look on his face.

"Okay, that wasn't fair," he said.

We all suddenly started laughing at once.

We had all been under a huge amount of stress lately, and it felt good to just have fun.

"Hey! Didn't you hear? Out of the pool! We're about to fight!"

I looked up to see who had said that.

Standing on one of the platforms that were floating on the water was a girl, maybe a little younger than us, who had orange hair.

That must have been Misty. And she was giving us a pretty sour look.

We quickly got out of the pool.

"Okay!" Misty said. "Let's make this fight one Pokémon versus one!"

"Okay!" another girl said. She was standing on another platform. "I choose... Magnemite!" She opened a Pokéball and a Magnemite emerged.

"Ha! Starmie, go!" Misty opened her Pokéball, and out came a Starmie.

Those were two very strange Pokémon, let me tell you. The Magnemite floated in mid-air and made weird buzzing sounds. It looked like a ball with two magnets on either side of it, one big eye, and screws sticking out of it. Overall, a very strange-looking Pokémon.

The Starmie, on the other hand, was basically a huge starfish with a red jewel in the middle.

"Magnemite, Tackle!"

The weird, buzzing Pokémon suddenly rushed forward. Don't ask me how it could float like that.

WHAM!

It hit the Starmie and the Starmie fell backwards.

"Starmie, Tackle!"

The Starmie leaped through the air, spinning round and round, faster and faster!

WHAM!

It hit the Magnemite.

That was weird, too. Both these Pokémon had used the same move, but in different ways.

"Starmie, Water Gun!"

"Quick Magnemite! Sonic Boom!"

The Starmie jumped into the water, then surfaced again and started firing water out of one of its 'arms', or whatever they were. The Magnemite suddenly released a huge wave of sound, straight towards the Starmie!

The Starmie was knocked underwater.

At the same time, the Magnemite was hit by the Water Gun.

"Hi, enjoying yourselves?"

I jumped. It was Daisy.

"Oh, yep," Rachel said.

I noticed Boris had gone an incredibly bright red.

"You seem to have had an unexpected encounter with the pool," Daisy said, eying our still-dripping clothes.

"Um, yeah. Something like that," I said, blushing slightly. "Well, I suppose we'd better go home and get changed before we all catch a cold."

"Okay, thanks for your visit!" Daisy said. "Now, I'm supposed to be barracking for my sis."

As we left, we heard her call out, "Come on Misty!"

Misty's her sister? I thought.

"Aaawww... why'd you have to go and do that?" Boris said. He was slowly returning to his normal color.

"You like Daisy, don't you?" Rachel said.

Boris became red again.

Author's Annotation: Daisy was one of Misty's sisters in the anime. These stories are mostly based on the games Red/Blue, but with some elements from the anime mixed in such as Daisy.