Two Weeks Later…
"Ash, I need to talk to you about something." Yohana said, walking over to where Ash was training with the Lucario Raikou had found.
Ash turned to look at her. "What about?"
Yohana took a deep breath. "It's about your friends. I don't think we should meet up with them in Celadon City."
Ash stared at her. He turned, picked up his pokeballs, and started to walk away.
Yohana grabbed his arm. "If we meet up with them, they'll be in danger too! Is that what you want?! I know you're worried about them, but…"
Ash yanked his arm away. "No buts, Yohana! If you don't want to meet them, that's fine! I'll go by myself!"
"Wait! Ash!" Yohana yelled as her best friend took off into the woods. She ran after him. "Ash!"
Ash turned a corner and seemed to just disappear.
Yohana scanned the clearing desperately, looking for any indication as to where he might have gone. "ASH!" She fell to her knees and started crying, not even thinking of using her powers to find him.
Entei found her still like that fifteen minutes later. (What happened, Yohana?)
"I… I didn't want his friends to be in danger like we are…" Yohana whimpered. "So I told him I didn't think we should meet up with them in Celadon City… He… he left, Entei… I chased him away… We have to find him! He'll be killed!"
(Don't worry, Yohana. We'll find him. He couldn't have gotten far.) Entei assured her. (He'll be with us again before you know it.)
Two days later…
Ash entered a small shop filled with trainer wares. He went straight to the man at the counter.
"Sir? Do you sell evolution stones?" He asked.
The man nodded. "Which one are you looking for?"
"A sun stone. Do you have one?" Ash asked. As the man went in back to check, Ash had the urge to turn and run, but he didn't. He needed that sun stone for when he went back to Yohana.
He just hoped he could find her again.
The man returned with a sun stone in hand. "That'll be Twenty Poke."
Ash thanked the man and paid for the sun stone.
"Enjoy your time in Celadon City." The man told him.
Ash froze. "This is Celadon City?"
The man frowned. "You didn't know?"
"I don't have a map-bearer with me." Ash laughed. "Thanks for telling me where I am."
"You're welcome." The man said, curious as to why the boy was in Celadon City without knowing where he was.
Ash put the sun stone in his pocket and exited the store. A frown slipped onto his face. He hadn't meant to come here without Yohana. He'd wanted to discuss it with Yohana further before coming to Celadon City.
He sighed. He was here so he might as well rendezvous with…
A sharp sense of danger entered Ash's body and he dodged as a shot rang out.
Ash spun around to see a Team Rocket Grunt holding a gun.
After a lot of dodging and fighting, Ash found himself pinned to the ground by the Rocket, gun digging into his chest.
The Team Rocket grunt grinned and started to pull the trigger, but was knocked away by a Growlithe just as the trigger was fully pulled.
Ash yelped loudly as the bullet hit him in the shoulder. His vision started to blur as he lost blood quickly. He heard desperate shouting as the last of his consciousness slipped away.
Meanwhile…
Yohana's ears picked up the gunshot from a distance. She urged Entei to race towards the sound and soon found herself looking over Celadon City.
Worry lit up her eyes as she saw there was a commotion down below.
"It's not safe for you to go into the city, Entei. Leafeon and I will go the rest of the way alone." She told her caretaker.
Entei nodded. (Be careful. Team Rocket might be down there.)
"I know." Yohana said. "But I need to find Ash."
Picking up Leafeon, she sped towards the city.
Meanwhile…
"Pikapi…" Pikachu whimpered worriedly.
"Don't worry. Ash will be all right." Brock said halfheartedly.
"We don't know that, Brock. For all we know, he could…" Misty couldn't finish the sentence.
"Ash is a strong boy, Misty. I'm positive that he'll pull through." Brock sounded more sure of himself this time.
"I hope you're right." Misty mumbled. "First he gets kidnapped and now this? Could things get any worse?"
Just then, they heard a bang and a force caused them and the paramedics to fly into the wall.
"What's going on?!" One of the paramedics yelled to the driver.
"A car crashed into the ambulance!" The driver replied. "We need to find another way to get the boy to the hospital, and fast!"
Brock stood up. "My Onix is fast and big enough to carry us! We can ride him to the hospital!"
The paramedics agreed and the group was soon riding Onix to the hospital.
They got there quickly and Ash was handed down to some doctors and rushed into the Emergency Room.
Misty, Brock, and Pikachu were then told to wait in the waiting room for results.
A girl with a Leafeon came running in to the waiting room. She tried to enter the Emergency Room, but was stopped by some nurses.
"You can't go in there! It's doctors only!" One nurse told her.
"Not even family can go in when a person is in the Emergency Room!" Another added.
"No! He'll die! He needs my help! I can heal him!" The girl tried to push past the nurses, but it was useless. They wouldn't let her past. "Let me past or I'll have to make you let me past!"
Misty, Brock, and Pikachu watched with interest as the girl continued to fight the nurses. Suddenly, the nurses were lifted up by an unseen force. Misty, Brock, and Pikachu gasped.
"She's a psychic!" Brock observed.
"Sorry! I need to help my Ash!" The girl called over her shoulder as she burst through the doors to the Emergency Room.
"Did she say Ash?" Misty asked.
Brock nodded. Neither noticed Pikachu slip through the doors behind the girl.
Meanwhile…
Yohana could feel Ash's energy slipping away. He was dying. She could feel it.
The nurses hadn't let her through. She was too desperate to contain her powers now. She had to get to Ash.
"We're losing him!" She heard someone yell up ahead. She slid to a stop outside a certain room. She felt Ash inside.
She peeked through the door. The doctors were using conventional methods to try to save Ash. It wouldn't be enough.
She opened the door wider and ran inside.
"Hey! You're not supposed to be in here!" One doctor yelled.
"Let me help!" Yohana shouted. She shoved the doctors aside and placed her hands over Ash's heart. Taking a deep breath and closing her eyes, she started using her powers to heal him.
A green light rippled over Ash's body. The doctors just watched in amazement as the healing continued.
Finally, Yohana took another deep breath and opened her eyes again.
"I think he'll be okay now. Will he be?" She asked the doctors.
The doctors snapped out of it and checked Ash's vitals. He seemed to be doing much better, but he still hadn't woken up.
Something clanked on the floor and everyone in the room realized that the bullet had somehow been pushed out of Ash's shoulder. The wound was now half-healed.
The lead doctor turned to Yohana. "How did you do that? We were losing him, but you made him better."
Yohana smiled nervously. "Aromatherapy. It was easy."
"Aromatherapy? Isn't that a pokemon move?" Another doctor asked.
"Please. Don't tell anyone what you saw here. Ash and I are in danger enough as it is because of my powers." Yohana said.
"That's why the boy was shot? Because you have powers?" The lead doctor asked.
Yohana nodded. "And because we escaped Team Rocket's headquarters. They're after us."
The lead doctor nodded. "We'll keep your secret. Having one criminal organization after you is probably hard enough to deal with. Two would make it torture."
The other doctors agreed.
a/n Sorry for not putting much about Ash's training with Lucario or the fight in here. I pretty much blank out on that type of subject and I wanted to get to the part that's been stuck in my head for the past few days. Won't be able to update for the next couple of weeks but will as soon as I can. Hope you are enjoying Yohana's Secret so far. a/n
