Hurray part 2 is here! Be sure to let me know what you think of it and remember flashbacks are in bold and thoughts are in italics, but I'm sure you all knew that by now.
Disclamer: I do not own Pokemon, just a few original characters throughout the story.
Chapter 11: Misty—Part 2
14 years ago…
A young Misty was running down the steps. A lot of feelings were running through her anxious mind, but the one that prevailed was excitement. Today, being her fourth birthday, was going to be the best day ever for her—at least until next year.
She hopped down the final step and ran into the kitchen, but when she found her sisters, she had gotten an unpleasant welcome.
"What do you want?" Lily spat out.
Misty had noticed that her three sisters were here, but not the ones closest to her.
"Where are mom and dad? Are they back yet?" Misty asked innocently.
"No. They are never coming back, thanks to you." Violet looked at Misty as she spoke these words, and that's when she felt it—the unknown feeling. Misty had looked from Violet, to Daisy, to Lily, of course not understanding.
"They're dead, Misty," Daisy spoke up, the only one showing a small amount of concern for her, "They can't ever come back. They're gone forever." She had begun to cry now, placing her head on the table, buried by her arms.
"Would you get out of here already? You little pest, look at what you've done to Daisy!" Violet yelled.
This had caused Misty to jump and she ran out of the room, but not in time to miss Violet's last comment: "This is all her fault! She's nothing but a murderer!"
Misty was shocked by this. Weren't murderers supposed to be bad guys? So…is she a bad person? She made it to the main hallway, and noticed the picture of her parents hanging above her. It was then that she had realized what the unknown feeling was, one that would never leave her side: grief.
However, as Misty looked sorrowfully across the battle field, she held a new feeling altogether for Violet: disappointment.
Brock, still being the stand in referee, slowly walked to his place and looked unsurely at the two sisters. "Alright, what are the stipulations?" he asked.
"How about the best two out of three? What do you say, Misty?" Violet gave another mischievous smile.
"Fine." Misty's eyes held a glassy look.
She was completely out of it; her mind was in substantial turmoil.
What should I do? If I win, I gain the gym but I lose my sisters. If I lose, I lose the gym and my sisters! What's the best option? Is there even a point in shooting for a victory?
Misty entered this match because she felt it could be the only way to earn respect from her sisters, but now being face to face with it, would winning really shut Violet up?
"I still don't get the whole point of this match," May looked helplessly at Misty, "Ash, you know more than any of us, so what are they fighting for?"
"Weren't you listening, Violet wants the gym." Ash was also too busy looking at Misty to be involved in a normal conversation.
"We know that, but we want to know why! What's the point of it?" Dawn spoke up now.
"Look, it's kind of a long story, and it would take a while to explain, but I will tell you all after the match," Ash reassured them.
"I've never seen any of them like this before," Tracy showed his concern and maybe a hint of fear in his voice, "I've got a very bad feeling about this."
"Yeah, I do too," Ash commented.
"Alright, this is a 3-on-3 match with no time limit," Brock took one last look at Misty and Violet, "Begin!"
"Prepare yourself Misty!" Violet yelled out her determination. "Go!" She had released her first pokemon, which turned out to be a Seaking.
Misty held an emotionless expression as she held up her pokeball. "I'm sorry I can't get into this today, but please do your best." She released Corsola.
"Alright, Seaking versus Corsola, Misty should win this one hands down." Dawn smiled.
"I wouldn't be so sure…." Tracy said taking another look at Misty. "I don't think Misty's into it."
"Seaking go for it! Take it out with your horn!" Seaking charged forth with awesome speed, Corsola barely had time to dodge.
"Corsola, Spike Cannon." Corsola obeyed, despite noticing her master's strange behavior.
"Not going to work on me, use Agility!" Seaking had dodged the spikes and began to zig zag back and forth across the water. Violet smiled; Seaking was without a doubt her fastest pokemon.
Damn, what can I do about Seaking's speed? Maybe…
"Corsola use Double Team!" Corsola had glowed to a faint white before creating about a dozen copies of itself and surrounding Seaking in the process.
"Use Blizzard attack!" Misty yelled out.
Seaking was hit from all directions by snow, and its body was beginning to freeze over.
"No! Seaking get out of there! Use Supersonic!" Violet commanded. Just before Seaking could be frozen he used his tail to escape and launched a powerful shrilling sound.
Everyone covered their ears.
"It's so loud!" May yelled.
"The louder it is the stronger!" Tracy yelled back.
Corsola was confused, and this gave Seaking his chance.
"Seaking use Fury Attack!" Violet watched in happiness as Corsola was getting pounded by horn after horn, unable to recover.
"Corsola!" Misty yelled in agony. She felt that every horn attack was meant for her.
"Finish it! Use Horn Drill!" Violet said smiling.
Corsola fell to the ground in pain, almost unable to get up.
"You can do it Corsola! Recover!" Misty commanded. Corsola had glowed white again, only to be on her feet once again. Misty breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's not over yet, use Agility, get toward Corsola and take her out!" Violet was not going to give up so easily, and neither was Seaking, as it charged once again.
"Corsola, try you're Bubble beam," Misty said in desperation. She was getting tired already. Corsola tried hitting Seaking with all its might, but she just wasn't fast enough. Then Seaking was right in front of Corsola.
"Use Water Pulse!" Violet commanded.
"Mirror Coat, Corsola!" Misty yelled out her counterattack.
Both pokemon had managed to do their attacks, but being so up close, neither was sure how it would turn out. There was big explosion, and when the dust had cleared Violet cried in despair.
"Seaking is unable to battle, Corsola wins!" Brock yelled.
Misty fell to her knees, she couldn't believe she had two more matches to go, she didn't know how much more she could take.
"You did a great job, Corsola. Thank you."
Corsola smiled as she went back to her pokeball.
Everyone relaxed again.
"Wow, I didn't know Seakings could be that strong," Dawn commented.
"Yeah, their horns are what you have to really watch out for," Tracy said. Ash nodded in agreement, knowing that for a fact all too well.
Violet gritted her teeth. "Don't get all happy just because you won one match," she responded, "I have a surprise for you." She gave Misty a smile that made her shiver to her core.
Violet released her next pokemon, and even Daisy and Lily were shocked at what it was.
"It's Slowbro!" Everyone yelled in surprise.
Since everyone was too shocked to make a comment, Misty was the first to break the ice. "H-how do you—w-when did you—get a freaking Slowbro?"
Violet smiled triumphantly. "I caught a slowpoke a few months ago, and trained it really well, and since we only had one Shellder, I figured it was the perfect opportunity!"
Everyone was still shocked, never expecting Violet to actually go out a catch pokemon—that was usually Daisy's job.
"Well, come on what are you waiting for? Choose your pokemon!" Violet yelled in excitement.
"Oh, right." Misty held up a pokeball.
Damn, I have a feeling she only caught that pokemon so she could use it against me, which means she's been planning this! Fine, then two can play at that game. Without further hesitation, Misty released her pokemon.
"Oh wow, how cool is that!" May held out her pokedex. "Wow, so that's a Chinchou huh?"
"It's so cute! When did she catch it Ash?" Dawn asked.
Ash smiled and thought a bit. "Umm, oh yeah, we had went to Johto about a year ago. That's when she caught it."
"What were you two doing in Johto? Weren't you supposed to be training?" May narrowed her eyes and raised an eyebrow.
"Hey I was training! Just with Misty that's all, and we went to Johto because she had wanted to do some special water training there—there was a training camp and everything! But Daisy was unsure about Misty going alone so I decided to travel with her, good thing too, as it turns out Goldenrod City is a sketchy place."
"Really? You would never think that because of all the advertisements to go see the place," Dawn said.
"Guys, the battle is starting!" Tracy interfered, and everyone became once again fixated on the match.
Slowbro had started off with a water gun, but Chinchou had simply dodged and dove underwater.
"Chinchou go for it! Use your Confuse Ray!" Misty yelled. However, Violet was one step ahead, another unusual surprise.
"I thought you would try that! Evade it and strike back with Focus Punch!" Slowbro had disappeared so quickly that Misty hardly had any time to react. The next thing she knew, Slowbro was behind Chinchou, and it was too late. Chinchou screamed in pain as it was being punched up out of the water.
"Chinchou!"
"Follow it with Headbutt!" Now Slowbro had appeared above Chinchou as it was still going up in the air and suddenly forced it back into the water with a powerful crash.
"Whoa, Slowbro is fast, ironic to its name huh?" Dawn asked in shock.
"Amazing! There's no way a Slowbro could be that fast after just a few months, no matter how hard you train it," Tracy answered in response.
"So that means," Ash added, "That this had been planned for a long time." Ash gritted his teeth. Damn, that Slowbro is way too fast for Chinchou!
"Chinchou, try your Thunderbolt!" To Misty's never ending despair the attack failed, due to Slowbro's amazing speed.
Violet laughed. "It's time we end this, Slowbro use Disable!" Slowbro had finally stopped Chinchou's wild thunderbolt attacks and had it suspended in air.
NO, Slowbro's disable! Chinchou! Misty was at a loss, she no longer knew what to do.
"Slowbro, hyper beam!" Chinchou was finally hit with a strong beam of light that made it crash to the ground.
"Chinchou!" Misty's cries were in vain.
"Chinchou is unable to battle, Slowbro wins." Brock sounded just as depressed as Misty was.
"What's the matter, little sister, can't take the pressure? If you want to give up I understand, but if you don't, I want to let you know that for the last match I intend on sticking with Slowbro." Violet smiled victoriously, knowing that the battle was already won—especially when seeing the look on Misty's face.
What should I do? Was the match a mistake? What pokemon can comeback from Slowbro's speed? Slowbro didn't even take any damage from the last battle, and I can't use Gyarados—it's still tired from the last battle. What choice do I have? Misty had hated to admit defeat more than anyone, but maybe she had nothing left. The first battle had drained her, and now she was in near tears from this match. What else was there left to do? Misty swallowed hard. She didn't want to do this…
She was ready to hand in the towel, "I—", when a familiar voice erupted throughout the gym.
"Don't you dare give up Misty!"
She looked up at the stands to see Ash standing. But how did he…?
"You can't give up Misty, not for her, don't give her the satisfaction!" Ash yelled.
Misty couldn't stop her tears now. "But what can I do?"
"Do you know who you are? You're Misty, the best freaking gym leader Cerulean has to offer—you can't bow down to the likes of her!"
"Ash stay out of this!" Violet said in disgust, "This is a family matter that has nothing to do with you!"
Ash rolled his eyes and continued: "You're stronger than this I know it! You can beat Violet and her Slowbro, but you have to stay focused, don't give in to her bullying—she's just jealous cause she's got nothing on you! Believe in yourself, and don't you dare quit on me!"
May stood up too. "You can do it, Misty! We're cheering for you!"
Dawn followed it up, "You're still the gym leader, Misty, and now's your chance to prove why! Go for it!"
Tracy added, "If anyone can beat Violet it's you, Misty!"
And Brock only had this thing to say: "Misty…kick her ass!"
Misty laughed and wiped her tears away. My friends…thank you.
"Violet, I AM the gym leader! YOU are the challenger, therefore I have no right to give up! You want a fight—well you got it!" Misty kissed her last pokeball. "You're my one last hope, do your best. Go Politoed!" Politoed came out doing its little dance, and suddenly Misty became happier. Politoed…I have faith in you!
"Wow, a Politoed? Can Misty win with it?" Dawn asked.
"I don't know, it seems pretty even, they're both water types and Politoed can use psychic type attacks as well as Slowbro," Tracy observed.
"Of course Misty can win this!" Ash being as enthusiastic as ever, "Slowbro might be experienced, but Misty has had Politoed a hell of a lot longer!"
"This battle will be over in one shot, Slowbro psychic!" Slowbro's colorful beam of light headed quickly toward Politoed.
"Politoed dodge it!" Politoed jumped in the water in the nick of time.
"You can't get away that easily, use water pulse!" Violet yelled. Slowbro slammed his hands against the water and created huge waves the crashed up against each other. Violet smiled, but only for a minute.
"What the hell?" She yelled again in shock.
"No way, Politoed is riding the waves!" May laughed. Politoed was on top of the waves, having a good time, the only thing missing was a surfboard.
Misty laughed. "Politoed must've used surf somehow—I never even taught it that!" She laughed even harder when all the waves crashed down on Slowbro and Violet.
"Ha ha ha, you should like see your hair, Violet, you look like a wet dog!" Lily laughed now along with Daisy.
"Shut up!" Violet growled in frustration, "Slowbro headbutt!" But before Slowbro could react, Misty had a secret trick up her sleeve.
"Politoed quick, double team!" One Politoed quickly became a dozen, and they all circled around Slowbro making it confused.
Violet looked in horror—how was she going to get out of this?
"Slowbro take them down with your Water Gun!" Violet yelled in desperation. Slowbro had used water gun on what seemed like ten Politoeds before it finally hit the real one, of course doing no damage.
"Politoed, ice beam!" Misty commanded, slowly gaining back her momentum. However every time Politoed had gotten close to doing the attack, Slowbro would retreat.
"That's it, Slowbro keep it up!" Violet smiled once again.
"Damn that speed, Politoed's never going to catch up." May had said in distress.
"Maybe that's how Misty wants it," Tracy suggested. Seeing the confused looks upon the others faces he continued, "Well, Slowbro has to get tired eventually."
Sure enough, Slowbro's agility was getting slower.
Violet noticed this and decided to end it quickly: "Slowbro, focus punch!" Slowbro charged forward, just what Misty was waiting for.
"Politoed, use Mega Punch!" To everyone's surprise, Politoed disappeared, and reappeared behind Slowbro. The attack hit at full power, and Slowbro was pushed back.
"Slowbro! Disable!"
"Hyper Beam now!" The hyper beam had struck a lot quicker than Slowbro could use its Disable, and it was knocked up against the wall.
"Slowbro!" Violet cried out.
The attack was slowly draining Slowbro of all its energy, plus the toll it had taken moving around so fast. Slowbro had slowly gotten to its feet.
"That's the way Slowbro!" Violet encouraged.
Misty was in shock. She was sure her strategy would work.
Violet smiled victoriously again, "Try your headbutt!"
Slowbro nodded and placed one foot forward, but then fell forward, unable to get up.
"What? NO!" Violet's smile had disappeared once again. Turns out the hyper beam attack had taken out the rest of Slowbro's energy—it was a whole lot stronger than first thought.
"Slowbro is unable to battle, therefore the winner of this match is Politoed and Misty!" Brock smiled for his friend's victory.
Misty sighed. It was finally over. Politoed came over to her, tired but still dancing.
Misty smiled, "You were great, Politoed, all that training had paid off huh?" She gave it a hug. "You deserve a good rest." After putting Politoed back in its ball, the exhausted Misty just sat down.
Well, that took more out of me than I would've liked. What about Violet…? She looked across the field to see Violet on her knees, completely angry out of her mind. Her sisters didn't help much when it came to consoling.
"Aww, come on Violet you didn't like, actually expect to win did you?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, you're a good trainer, Violet, but Misty's like, a hell of a lot better. She's been training for years, and you've been training for what, like, months?" Daisy started to laugh a little. "There's no way you could have beaten her!"
Violet held Slowbro in her arms, getting angrier by the second.
"It's not fair, the gym was promised to me, to me before she was born! I was meant to have it, and then she came and took everything from me! Who the hell does she think she is…" Violet stood up now and looked at Misty. "…huh, who the hell do you think you are? You're nothing, nothing but a cold blooded murderer! My parents died in a car crash, and you never cried even once, and you know why?"
Violet's voice gotten louder now, "Because you were happy to see them dead! You ugly, deceiving girl, you never cared once about them, how could you have what you don't deserve? You don't deserve this, you don't deserve shit! You think I'm jealous—me jealous of you? You don't have anything for me to be jealous of!"
Violet's eyes were in tears, and she could no longer hold back what she had wanted to say for years: "I hate you! I wish it was you that had died instead of them!" Violet fell once again to her knees and began to cry even harder.
"Violet how could you say that? Apologize!" Daisy screamed at her.
"No…" Misty stood up now, her head hanging down, "She said what she wanted to say right? This is how she truly feels about me, right? I hate to admit it, but she's right. What right do I have, coming in and taking what had originally belonged to her? I was just an innocent, young girl, how would I know how to run a gym? I had never asked to be born, I never wanted…any of this…"
Misty began to shake now. "Maybe, this is for the best."
Misty looked up at Violet. "Violet, if this is what you want, who am I to stop you? I never wanted the gym, at least not like this. It's yours, Violet, you take the gym. Let's just say that you won this match and you get everything you want. Congratulations." With that, Misty turned around and left the arena.
"Misty!" Her friends ran after her. Ash was about to walk out, but turned around.
"I hope you're happy, Violet. You just took away the only thing Misty has left of her parents. She doesn't remember anything about them, not like you all do. She may have wanted to travel more at first, but she had really grown to love this gym, and all of you guys. Me and my stupid ass, trying to make things right, I thought you would all act like adults about this, but I guess I was wrong." Ash ran after Misty.
They found Misty looking pale and in despair with two bags in her hands, looking at a picture on the wall.
"Misty?" Dawn inched closer toward her.
Misty snapped out of her reverie and looked to see her friends beside her. She smiled, "I'm sorry to put you all through this, but I hope you can forgive me."
Dawn ignored this, but instead she thought it was best to get her family back together. "Are you sure you want to do this Misty? Can't you think about it a bit more?"
"That's right, we all know you had won that match, Misty," Brock said, "You have the gym in more ways than one."
Misty sighed and looked back at the picture, "I'd rather have the gym passed down to me, like a precious family heirloom, than to be won like in a stupid gambling contest. There was never any purpose for me here except the gym. Now that it's gone, what's the point?"
"But it's not gone, it's yours! It would always be yours! Why give that up?" May asked.
"Think about it May, is keeping the gym really worth this much? If I keep the gym now, I'd just be miserable, and I can't deny the challengers that come here the quality of a good match. I don't want the gym if I have to live with this regret for the rest of my life."
She looked at the picture again. It was the same picture of her parents she saw the moment they died that day. They always seemed to glow from that very moment.
"But Violet is wrong about one thing. I have cried for my parents before, I just never let them see it. Think of how badly they would tease me then?" Tears began to fall down her face, but she felt a strong pair of arms hold her from behind.
"I'm sorry, Misty. But I think that shouldn't hide your tears. In the end, showing them only makes you a stronger person, and if your sisters don't respect that then they don't deserve a person like you," Ash whispered in her ear.
Misty closed her eyes. "Ash… thank you. You don't know how long I've been waiting for someone to say that to me." She turned around and buried her head in his shoulder.
"Misty!" A voice yelled from behind the group.
Everyone turned to see Lily and Daisy. Ash only brought Misty closer to him, hiding her face. "What do you want? Haven't you done enough?" He said to them.
"We just wanted to say…how sorry we are for everything," Daisy started.
"That's right, we never meant for this to like, happen. We always knew what Violet felt but we never thought she would say it like that," Lily added.
"Please," Daisy begged, "Forgive us Misty. This isn't how we all feel. We love you, and don't want you to leave."
"Yeah, like don't leave us please?" Lily pleaded.
Ash could hear Misty's heavy sigh and she looked up at them. "Guys…" She stepped forward. "I—I can't forgive you."
"But why not?" Lily asked, obviously shocked along with Daisy.
"Guys, don't you see what we're going through? Every year, it's always the same, you tease me and call me names; you apologize and the next year we go through the same thing. I…I can't do that…anymore, I just can't! I'm sorry, but I can't forgive you until you are absolutely sure that you're sorry, and until I can forgive myself."
"But Misty, we—" Daisy began again but Misty cut her off.
"No, no, I can't ok? I can't because…I've become tired…of everything. I'm—I'm sorry…I just need to be alone now, ok?" Misty ran off, finally giving in to the stresses of the day.
Everyone was silent as they watched her run off. Ash and the others slowly began to walk out, when Daisy caught Ash on the arm.
"Please, Ash…Misty trusts you a lot more than she trusts us. If you tell her how sorry we are, maybe she'll listen to you and come back." Daisy's eyes were beginning to fill with tears. "Please I can't lose her!"
Ash sighed. "Well, I doubt what I say would help, I mean, I don't think she's going to forgive you so easily this time. But…I'll see what I can do ok?"
Daisy smiled and let Ash go. "Thank you, Ash. Thank you," she said softly.
I never did like Misty's Politoed but I thought it would be fun to include it. Anyways I hope you guys like it!
Until next time...
