Characters reading fanfiction about them and commenting on how strange it is, from Kael Hyun

Chocolate Cake

Dawn wasn't all that obsessed with the internet. She could use the internet to log onto her favorite contest sites, check her email from her mother, her friends, and the aforementioned websites. So she wasn't one for websurfing. So she wasn't one to sit in front of the computer for hours. So it was quite shocking when Dawn spent the better part of the day sitting in front of the screen with her mouth hanging open, clicking through pages and pages and pages of text. She couldn't bring herself to look away, to stop clicking, because she felt as if she had just stumbled into an entirely different world, and she was desperate to see as much of it as possible.

"Dawn?" Ash asked curiously, stepping in the room. He had knocked, but she hadn't responded. Ash, being Ash, assumed the worst and walked on in, expecting Team Rocket to have carried her off, instead finding yet another internet addict. "We were supposed to have a practice battle three hours ago and, uh…we're not battling. We can cancel it today, if you're busy. And, I mean, if you want to be alone I-"

"I'll be out in ten seconds."

"That's what you said two hours ago!" He crept closer, looking over her shoulder because he knew she wouldn't mind, and reading: "Fanfiction dot net. Unleash your imagination. And you're looking at…Pokémon Adventures? There's a book? I thought it was just a comic book."

"Graphic novel," Dawn corrected, not looking away from the screen. "And it's not canon. There isn't any canon book. It's fanfiction. Other people write it. Oh and there's fanart, that's where people draw stuff. None of it's canon, though."

"What's canon?" he asked. "And are people allowed to do that?"

"You have to put a disclaimer. Once you do that, you can do whatever you want." She suddenly let out a high pitch squeal and clicked a link. "KasumixRed! Oh, Mew! Do you know how hard it is to find that pairing? It's all RedxYellow or RedxGreen or RedxBlue. It's impossible to find RedxKasumi!"

Nervously, he read over her shoulder, seeing: She lifted the fork to her mouth, sucking the chocolate cake off it with a moan. "Face it, Red," she taunted, her blue orbs shining, "You'll never have anything this rich." He stared, drowning in infinite pools of cerulean, feeling his soul detach from him and making him feel like he was flying. He couldn't resist her. Her lips were two rose petals, pouting, and he seized them as his own, conquering her mouth with his probing tongue while her knees went out and she moaned desperately, "Oh, Red! I've always loved you! I need you so-"

"That's so OOC," Dawn said in disgust, clicking back. "Not to mention doesn't make sense. Red was supposed to be training in Mt. Silver."

"Wait!" Ash yelped. "Go back!"

"Why? It was stupid," she scoffed. "Besides, isn't it weird for you to read it?"

He cocked his head, confused. "Because I'm a guy?"

"Because of Kasumi."

"Huh?"

"Kasumi, the character who got her design from your friend Misty?" she asked. She saw his blank stare and huffed, crossing her arms over her chest, "Isn't it weird seeing your best friend being paired up with people and making out with them? I mean, I'd be freaking out."

His face turned bright scarlet. "But it's not really Misty."

"Yeah, but-" She cut herself off then rolled her eyes, shaking her head at it all. "Boys."

"Fine!" He snapped, stomping his foot. "I'm going to go into town, and get some hamburgers and sodas and chocolate cake, and when you're done with your stupid…your stupid stories, you can come and find me and we can actually do something worthwhile!"

"Whatever." She waved her hand absently, and he stormed out of the room, acting like he was ten rather than sixteen. On and on she clicked for the next twenty minutes. She looked at stories and fanart, and, on closer inspection, happened to notice that Red was from Pallet Town, and while certainly not identical, Red actually kind of looked like Ash. Ash knew about the manga, so that must have been weird, to see a version of himself and Misty mak-

She sat up from her computer, blinking off the bright lights from the screen, and mumbled, "Did he say chocolate cake?"