A/n Lyke no wai ppls, I don't own pokemon!11!11!1!


"Dawn, I-" May began, but was quickly silenced in awe. The suite she had just pulled her friend into was beautiful. The decor was simple, but had a very delicate touch to it. The colors were mostly a pearly white with golden accents. It had two rooms-one a bedroom, one a living room-and a large, luxurious bathroom. The bed was huge, as was the living room area, which held three couches, a plasma television, and a nice sized coffee table. To add to all that, the suite also had a kitchen.

"Oh. Wow. He must really like you!" Dawn chimed.

"Dawn . . ." May didn't have a response. The room was huge, fancy, and classy. "Why did he do this for me?"

"I can only think of one reason," the other girl hinted.

"Oh, Dawn. Don't be silly. Besides, you really embarrassed me back there!"

"I'm sorry I embarrassed you, May. I was honestly just trying to help you. You don't want to go to the celebration alone, do you?"

May sighed. "I'm not going alone. I've got you and the others to go with!"

"What if we go as couples, though?"

"C-couples?" She hadn't thought of that. "That would be silly. Why in Sinnoh would we go as couples?"

"I don't know. But it is possible, May. Besides, you might as well go with Brendan. He seemed pretty nice, after all, he payed for all this, didn't he?"

"Yeah, that was way sweet," May allowed. "But I still don't know him that well."

"That's where the celebration comes in! You can get to know him better through hanging out with him!"

"Maybe . . . It still seems a bit weird, though."

"Mhm, okay. Well, whatever. If you say so. But now at least we've made a new friend, right?"

"R-right." May was still looking around the room is amazement. "This place is so pretty! I never would've been able to afford this by myself."

"You have to admit, it was sweet of him."

The other girl reddened brightly. "Y-yeah, it really, really was. I'll have to thank him somehow. After all, this is so generous of him!" May paused in thought. "Wait a second, if I'm supposed to go with Brendan, who are you planning on going with?"

A slight blush enveloped Dawn's face as well, but not nearly as deep a red as May's. "Why, Gary of course!"

"You sure like Gary a lot, don't you?"

Dawn giggled a bit. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Why?"

The other girl cocked her head. "Why do you want to know?" she asked, faking a defensive tone.

"Well, you talk about him a lot. I'm just curious as to why!"

"I-I'm not really sure . . ." Dawn considered. "It's a lot of things, really. I mean, he used to be really rude to Ash and others, but he changed. Now he's one of the sweetest guys I've ever met." Her face deepened slowly into a tomato-colored shade as she continued. "And he's really smart. Not to mention, well-" She giggled. "-he's really cute!"

May laughed at her friend's explanation. "Ah, that makes sense." After a few moments, she said, "I wonder who Drew is going to go with . . . If we go as couples, I mean."

"Yeah good question, so um, do you know much about this celebration, May?"

She raised her eyebrows at Dawn's sudden topic change, but decided not to press into the matter any further. "Not really. I think there's supposed to be some sort of challenge thing between teams of people, or so I've heard."

"Challenges? Like what?"

"I dunno. I think it's a large mix of all sorts of things."

"Teams of people . . ." Dawn considered. "How many people to a team? Do we get to choose?"

May giggled. "I don't know, Dawn! We'll just have to find out in two days."

"Guess so. Hey, I wonder if Candice knows we're here."

"Candice?" May questioned.

"Yeah, she's the gym leader here! She's pretty neat, but can get a bit-" Dawn searched for the right word. "-excited sometimes."

"Interesting. Well, if she's the gym leader, she must be really busy. After all, her city is getting overflowed by a whole lot of people, more than the usual amount of tourists, I'd guess."

"Yeah, that makes sense. I know Zoey and Kenny won't make it."

"Zoey? Kenny? Dawn, half the time, I have a feeling you're having a conversation with yourself," May teased.

"Zoey and Kenny are two of my friends, and they're coordinators too. They're both in Johto right now, trying to win some contests."

"I see. Max won't be able to come either."

"Your brother?"

"Yeah," May responded. "He's just started his trainer's journey, so he's a bit busy."

"I heard Brock can't come too. Something about getting a bunch of challengers at the gym."

"Bummer . . ."

"And he's finally gotten some girl to date him." Both girls broke into laughter.

"Well, good for him!" May said, smiling.

"I wonder if anyone else we know is coming," Dawn remarked, looking slightly spaced-out.

May didn't seem to notice her friend's statement. "Hey, you don't suppose we can get room service, do you?" She questioned, wide-eyed.

"Of course we can!" Dawn snickered.

"Well, that leaves us with one problem."

"And that would be . . . ?"

"What do we order first?"


A/n First of all-WOAH!-another update! Secondly, yeah, not that exciting. Oh well. I had to continue that train of thought somewhere. Besides, consider this the calm before the storm, cause things will be kicking into high gear pretty soon! Thirdly, you can expect three more characters next chapter! I'm sorry if it seems like a lot, but two are some of my absolute FAVORITE characters in the anime, and the other one is way sweet. It might be a lot to keep up with, but I've got a whole lot in store, so just hang on tight! ;)

Review Replies:

Ability King KK: Yup, yeah he is. OH WELL!

AlizaBeth1985: Well, I don't think I could write Brock very well at all. XD I'd FAIL. I'd fail at the Rockets, too, so I'm afraid none of them will make an appearance. I'm sorry I'm so lame like that, everyone. ;_; Oh, I've got three more characters, and they are JUST what the doctor ordered for this fic!

Dewdrop6: Really? Cool! That's kinda what I'm going for, but sometimes I stink at being mysterious. X_x Oh well. I'm glad it's working so far! :)

Ash's Mexican Girl: Well . . . I didn't have ANY of it planned out. Seriously, that's how I write. I just wing it. I wasn't expecting this story to be as popular as it is, it just started from some random idea I got that I decided to put to paper-er, screen. So . . . I counted up a rough number of how many I might have . . . And I reached a resounding 100 chapters! ^^; It's an AWFUL lot to write (and to read, too). So really, anywhere between a bare minimum of 60 more and a maximum of 100 something more. Yeah, it's a WHOLE lot, and things will probably be most interesting at the very end, but I've still got a good deal of things planned out and I'm going to have to rely on all you readers and your opinions a lot!

So, that's all I've got so far. Next update should introduce the last three characters to our group (notice the word should). Things will become really interesting coming up here, so get ready for it! Also, in the near future, I'm going to need a bunch of help with ideas (I'll give more info on that when it comes up), so you can start thinking now of certain elements you might like to read about in the story. ;) Thanks for reading everyone! And please, write a review too if you think anything is wrong, see any characters that are OOC, notice any errors, or think it's just plain bad (or good! That too.).

Y'all rock!

Finessefully,

X

P.S. I noticed a mistake in the last chapter. X( Spike cannon comes out sort of like a bullet seed, not like how I imagined it. :/ So . . . uh . . . Just pretend it was more like giant spikes being hurled, m'kay? That'd be nice of you all. XD AHem. Done now.