Welcome readers! From now on i will reply to reviews this way. makes things easier for me. Now its up to you if you want to read them or not.

Stargazer: Well you have to read this chpater to find out. =P

Glameowgirl So many people hate me for that part, the whole dream part, even on deviantart. some people say it was good and some said that i ruined a good moment. im guess who said that are obessed advanceshippers. or maybe im just begin sterotypical here. xD

KickAss Yay, glad you like it. i got the idea from a asain soap over cable. its a good show as well. heavy drama. rofl.

Geny Thankyou and im sure your not the only one who wanted May to say "I love you." instead of "Thankyou." and yes May dreams atoo much, i have to get off that so i won't bored you guys. xD

Gerbil Lololol, then i think you will kill me later after a few chapters times, wait, maybe all the advancershippers will...shit. And thanks, glad you like the dream as well.

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Okay that's it, enjoy this chapter and don't forget to R&R. thankyou. =3

~midnight


Shippings in this chapter: Advanceshipping. Contestshipping, Slight Pearlshipping

Rating: M?

Chapter twelve

"Pilpup use Bubblebeam!" Dawn called out to her water type pokemon.

"Pil!" Pilpup replied as it opened its beak and started to spin its body around in circles released a huge amount of bubbles.

"Dodge and use Secret power Glaceon!" I commanded to my newest evolved pokemon.

Glaceon replied and started to run up to get speed and soon it's body started to glow pink and with the speed it gained by running up before, Glaceon landed a powerful melee attack right on Pilpup. Pilpup slid on the ground from the attack and soon got up quickly but had a hard time to stand up. I knew right after than secret power just didn't did damage on Pilpup but also paralyzed it. Dawn's points decreased with only four minutes and fifteen seconds remaining.

Glaceon and I didn't waste any more time and I soon called out to Glaceon to use the move Ice shard right at Pilpup while it was still paralyzed after the last attack we did on it. Pilpup covered its face as Ice shards landed on it. Now the timer had just under four minutes left as Dawn's points decreased even more.

"Roll into the water!" Dawn quickly replied, knowing that her Pilpup was in trouble.

"Pil." Pilpup nodded as it forced its small body to roll into the water.

Glaceon landed where Pilpup once was and glared and waited for Pilpup to come out as our friends waited for the next move by the stands. Soon Pilpup jumped out of the water and that was sign that Pilpup was cured from paralyzed we landed on it. Dawn called out to Pilpup while it was still in midair to use whirlpool while Glaceon got into a position as if it was ready to pounce on Pilpup. Pilpup opened its beak once more and released a huge whirlpool, I was amazed on how Pilpup could control such a huge whirlpool and its water control as well. Soon Pilpup moved its arms forward towards Glaceon and soon the huge whirlpool was heading our way.

"Mirror coat now Glaceon!" I yelled.

"Glaa." Glaceon simply replied as its body started to glow an orange aura around it.

The whirlpool made a direct hit on mirror coat. Glaceon withstand its power and returned towards Pilpup with the power times two, dealing even more damage. Pilpup's whirlpool attack went straight back to it and the small water type pokemon bounced back to its trainer, Dawn. Pilpup quickly got up and it didn't look very pleased. Dawn called out it to use bubble beam once more as it was running towards us. The attack landed on Glaceon before I could think a move to either dodge it or intercept it. My points went down as I looked up at the clock and only saw that 3 minutes was nearly up.

"Shadow ball Glaceon!" I called out.

"Spin and dodge Pilpup!" Dawn quickly replied.

Glaceon opened its mouth and released a ghost type attack that had the colours of black and purple on it and shaped of a ball and right at Pilpup's direction but Pilpup jumped up and spin and dodge the attack, like Dawn told it should do.

"Great move." I complimented Dawn as I looked down and saw a puddle of water. "But now I will take that water!" I called out. "Secret power!" I added.

Pilpup landed right on the puddle of water and Glaceon once more and landed a direct attack on Pilpup. I chose to use secret power on water since it could include sleep, if not, it was just like using tackle. Dawn lost even more points as the countdown of two minutes begun. Dawn called out to Pilpup to spin in the air and land on the ground. Pilpup agreed and spin in the air before landing onto the stage once more.

"Shadow ball once more!" I told my Ice type pokemon.

Glaceon followed my orders and released shadow ball into the air and Glaceon jumped and hit the ball with its own paws to gain more speed and power.

"Destroy it with Bubblebeam!" Dawn added.

"Pil!" Pilpup replied as it released more bubbles to eliminate Glaceon's shadow ball. A few of the bubbles soon surrounded my Glaceon and started to attack it.

"Now use peck!" Dawn added.

"Dodge it!" I quickly stated. "Now use Ice shard!"

"Use Whirlpool as a shield!" Dawn yelled.

Pilpup quickly used whirlpool of avoid getting hit from Ice shard. The move work and ice shard didn't land at Pilpup at all. I lost a few more points as now the timer showed there was only less than a minute left. Dawn commanded her only water type to use whirlpool once more and ride on it. I told my Glaceon to use Shadow ball on it but Dawn told Pilpup to jump off quickly. Soon the ghost type attack hit the whirlpool without Pilpup on it. Water lifted up from the stage covering where Pilpup was and before I knew where it was Pilpup came through it and use Bubblebeam right on Glaceon. I continued to lose more points as there was only forty five seconds left on the clock.

I repeated my words as I told Glaceon to use shadow ball, hoping my plan would work. Dawn countered with making Pilpup use peck on the attack. I smiled as my plan had worked .the ball spread into a thick wall of purple as I knew Dawn and Pilpup would stand there, thinking of what to do next.

"Ice shard!" I quickly demanded.

Soon shards of ice came through the wall and I heard Pilpup voice which told me it was a direct hit. Dawn's lost points from the attack with only thirty five seconds left. We both complemented each other and soon Dawn made the first move of using whirlpool once more. I knew that one more move would do the trick, so I commanded my Glaceon to use mirror move, but this time I saw Glaceon struggle and soon Glaceon gave up and both Pilpup and Glaceon got hit. Both pokemon landed at our feet as the timer stopped. We both looked up and saw the results. Vivian called out the name of the winner.

And the name that was called wasn't mine, but Dawn's.

Dawn had a huge reaction when she won, like she couldn't believe that she beat somebody who had been doing coordinating longer than her. Glaceon sighed in disappointment and I walked over to her and patted it to cheer Glaceon up.

"It's alright." I started. "You did great."

And soon we both said congratulation each other and I soon left the stage to get changed. As I walked into my room and sat on the chair and started to cry, I kept telling myself that I should be glad that Dawn won but inside of me told me differently.

"It should if been me." I muttered and soon thought for awhile. "I shouldn't be thinking like this." I told myself as I wiped my tears away. "I shouldn't think so selfish. Dawn won it fair and square."

"You did great out there." A voice congratulated me. I looked over my shoulder and saw it was Ash standing near the door with Pikachu on his shoulder.

"Did you hear what I just said?" I asked.

"All of it." Ash replied. "But it's alright to think like that. I mean when we lost sometimes we feel like it should have been us that should have won." Ash added as he placed his hand on my shoulder. "Don't be so mean on yourself."

"Even since I went to Johto by myself, winning contest started to become a blur to me." I stated. "So I thought coming here and seeing you and Brock might give me the confidence I need to start winning again."

"May." Ash begun as I looked and turned around to face him. "I still think you're great even if you win or lose."

"Really?" I asked as I stood up as a felt happiness and joy growing inside of me that I couldn't hold it anymore and soon embraced Ash. "Thank you." I added. "I'm so glad I have a friend like you around."

"I'm glad I have a friend like you around as well May." Ash added as he embraced me as well.

I opened my eyes and looked around and saw I was in bed. Lyra and Dawn were fast asleep in their own beds. I saw Mimi walk in ready to sleep as well. She had a curious face on why I was awake.

"You okay?" She asked.

"I'm fine." I replied as I stood up from bed and got my pink and green coat from the coat hanger.

"Where are you going?" Mimi asked.

"I'm going to get something to eat." I replied as I opened my yellow backpack and pulled out two instant noodle packs. "I will be back soon. Don't wait for me." I asked to Mimi and she soon replied with a simple nod and went to bed as I walked out.


"Here." I said as I handed Ash a mug of instant noodles who was sitting outside the pokecenter on a bench.

"Thanks." Ash replied as he accepted the mug as I soon sat right next to Ash. "You know this is my favorite food."Ash said to break the silence between us.

"I know." I replied in my thoughts and soon broke out and acted like I never knew. "Really?" I asked in shock, pretending I never knew. "It's my favorite food as well." I smiled and soon silence grew between us once more. I soon decided that maybe this was a good time to ask or tell Ash about his past and that I was the missing girl from his past. "Ash, can I ask you something?"

"What is it?" he asked back.

"What if I was the missing girl from your past? How would you react?"

Ash replied in silence and looked up at the starry night sky, with each star glowing at different rates, some brighter than the others while others started to fade away and disappearing into the thick blue night sky. Ash soon looked back and me before replying to my question.

"I would be angry at you for not telling me earlier." Ash answered back.

"But do you ever think why I would hide the truth from you for such a long time?" I asked as I felt myself getting angry but soon calmed myself down and continued. "I mean if I told you when we first met, you wouldn't believe me. I knew the risks that were involved each day that past. I mean imagine that pain I could be holding, imagine how hard it would be not telling you earlier. Have you tried to think how badly I would have wanted to tell you that I was the girl from your past?"

"But did you ever think how I would deal with it? A person that really means a lot to me hides the truth from me a day longer. When I think about it now, it feels like you're only protecting yourself and hiding longer for not telling me." Ash replied back to me.

"But the question is will you believe me? Will you trust me and will the friendship we share now will be the same after I tell you?" I asked.

Ash didn't reply right after and silence grew around us once more. I had enough with talking with Ash and made me upset. If only I had the courage to tell him I was that girl we were talking about. He doesn't know the fear that grows inside of me each day. He doesn't know that what I'm doing isn't for me but my friends as well. They knew that sending Ash to Johto was their last option.

They wanted the old Ash as much as I did.

I soon started to make my way into the pokecenter when I heard words coming from Ash's lips.

"My question is do you know how it feels to live in a world you don't know that you once knew?" Ash asked.

That question made me stop in my own tracks and made me close my eyes and sighed afterwards. I soon open them once more with my answer.

"Yes." I replied and walked into the white and red building.

As I walked into the building I didn't hear any footsteps or word begin muttered through his lips. My best guess was that he was thinking more to himself about the conversation we just had. I walked a few steps more until I was near Drew's room. I saw the door was open and peeks through and saw a bag full of items. I pushed the door more and saw Drew was already packing his stuff. I knew what that meant.

"What are you doing?" I asked. Just making sure that my answer in my head was wrong.

"I'm going back home." Drew replied back to me as he zipped his bag up. He looked at me and saw that I felt sad for him going. I knew I shouldn't act like a little girl and his father leaving. Normally I was happy when Drew was leaving.

But this time it was different.

"Can you please not go?" I asked which was more of a beg than a question.

"Not go?" Drew asked in confusion. "Why?" He added as his threw his bag over his shoulder.

"Because..." I begun and thought for awhile and soon answered. "I need you."

"May..." Drew asked but the question soon faded. "What happened?"

"I nearly told Ash who I was to him." I responded. "I asked what would happen if I told him and he said he would be angry." I looked at the ground and wiped my eyes. "Is not telling Ash not who I am a bad thing? Am I beginning to be a bad friend to him and to the others by lying for the right reasons?" I asked as I felt water run down my cheeks and was about to wipe them away when Drew dropped his bag and walked to me and held my hand and stopped me.

"Sometimes people do the wrong things for the right reasons, but that doesn't make them a bad person." Drew replied. "Guess I should stay awhile longer until the grand festival is over. I think you still need a friend around."

"Thank you." I replied as I embraced Drew and soon Drew did the same to me.


"Ahhh, my hair is in a mess!" Dawn panicked as she quickly grabbed a brush and brushed her hair even more.

"Dawn there really isn't any need to panic." I sweat dropped. "We are meant to make our pokemon shine, not ourselves." I added.

"Still." Dawn quickly replied as she was too focused making herself look good than listen to me.

"That's Dee Dee." Kenny teased. Dawn quickly looked at him and growled at him. I laughed at how the two treated each other. Kenny laughed as well and we both soon decided to leave and wait for her in the hallway. I patted my head and soon found out that I forgot to put my ribbon on my head. I told Kenny that I would meet with him later as I walked back to get my ribbon I left in Dawn's room but was it interrupted when I heard Ash and Dawn talking to each other.

"You look unhappy." Dawn asked in a much calmer tone than the last time I checked with her.

"I had a talk with May last night about the missing girl in my past. After we talked I felt guilty because I think I made her sad." Ash responded back.

"I know May well enough to say that she isn't that type of person to be angry at somebody for a long time." Dawn replied back.

"And it made me think what I said to her. It made me think if she said the same back to me." Ash said as he begun a new conversation.

"What did you say to her?" Dawn asked.

I peeked through the small gap of the door and saw a blush right across his face.

"Would you say the same words to me if I was in May's position?" Dawn asked in a more serious tone of voice.

Ash didn't reply but instead had a brighter blush across his face, brighter than the last one.

Soon my thoughts started to wonder once more and remember when I first met Ash for the first time in Johto.

"And Dawn?" I asked. "How much does she mean to you?"

"She's a very close friend to me." Ash blushed and looked away from me. "But she has being acting strange around me lately and I have being having a hard time talking to her."

"You love her don't you?" I asked out of nowhere, discontinuing the flow of the conversation. My voice soon became depressed and a sound of a whisper after that.

"Love is too complicated to talk about now and the grand festival is tomorrow." Ash replied as he tried to avoid my question and avoid eye contact with me.

My mind felt fresh as the memory started to fade from my mind. I remembered that Ash had a small crush on Dawn and Dawn had strong feelings for Ash.

And what about me?

Was there any room left in Ash's heart for me?

"Dawn I care about you a lot but do you have to ask a question like that right now?" Ash asked.

"Yes." Dawn replied as I saw her look towards Ash's direction. "I'm feeling that I'm starting to lose you Ash."

"You will never lose me Dawn." Ash replied to make Dawn fade away from the negative thoughts she was thinking as he grabbed her hand. "Now we should head back to the others." Ash suggested.

"Sure." Dawn nodded. "But before that, what you said to me, I want you to prove it to me."

"Prove whaa..." Ash questioned but was interrupted when Dawn laid her own lips right onto Ash's. Ash had a shocked expression on his face that instead of surrendering into the kiss he broke it my placing his hand on Dawn's shoulder and pull her apart from his. He pushed her so hard that it made him fall onto the floor with his back leaning on the wall. "Dawn!" Ash yelled in shock. "What was that for?" Ash added.

"Oh my!" Dawn said as she covered her face in shame. "I'm so sorry Ash!" Dawn apologized. "I...I didn't mean that. I'm so sorry." Dawn repeated.

Ash continued to sit on the floor with still a shocked reaction on his face. It soon turned into a serious look as he pushed himself off the floor and looked right at Dawn.

"I'm sorry too." Ash replied back as he walked out of the room and soon bumped into me. I fell onto the floor and so did Ash. Dawn heard the sound and soon came over and saw Ash and I on the floor, facing opposite to each other. I didn't know what came over me but I didn't have the time to face or talk to Ash and I quickly got up and ran away from the two. I heard Ash call my name but I didn't care because I felt my heart burning with rage.

"He kissed her, he kissed her!" Were the words that ran through my mind as I ran into an empty room that I never saw before. I looked around and saw another door and tried to open it was a pulled the door knob so hard that my hands started to go red.

"I can't face him right now." My thoughts said as I tried to open the door. "Why am I acting like this?" I asked myself. "I never acted like this before. Why now?" I asked myself as I kept on questioning myself into more confusion.

"May..." Ash called my name as he found me the the small room that was darker than the rest.

"Go away!" I screamed in anger. Knowing that nobody would hear since we were far away from anybody else.

"No!" Ash yelled back. "I'm not leaving you like this!"

"You kissed Dawn. You should be with her and not me." I cried.

"Correction." Ash begun. "She kissed me."

"I...I don't care!" I yelled. "You like her, not me." I replied as I soon found a way to calm myself down.

Ash walked closer to me and held my hand and wiped my tears away and smiled. He brushed my fringe and fixed it and clipped my orange ribbon onto my right side of my hair. I wanted to push Ash away so I could keep running away and ready to deal with my problems by myself. But my heart told me not to. Soon when Ash finished putting the orange ribbon into my hair he looked into my eyes.

"Do you want to know what I said to you when we beat Drew and Harley in the semi-finals?" Ash asked in a calm manner. I didn't have anything to reply so he continued. "I said that I like you." He smiled.

My rage and anger of Ash begin kissed by Dawn faded away so that I couldn't feel it anymore. My heart started to race and skipped a few beats at it. I stopped crying and I smiled right at Ash. When I stopped I saw him holding three white roses. I got out my hands and accepted one of the roses.

"I..." I begun as I took other rose from Ash. "Love..." I added and took the last one. "You." I smiled and soon added. "Too."

We both laughed and smiled and looked right into each other's eyes.

"Sorry for the way I was acting." I apologized.

"It's okay. I can understand." Ash replied as my held my hand slightly tighter. "We should go now."

"Yeah." I nodded. "Together."

Ash laughed slightly and soon I joined afterwards.

"Together." Ash replied with a warm smile as we both walked out of the room and ready to fight against Dawn and Kenny.

Together at last.

End of chapter.