"Lesse… how are my stories doing… whoa, 68 total… I guess someone has been going through all of them… no… no… Holy *beep*!!! 14 reviews?!" *faints*
Thus was my reaction when I logged on two days after posting chapter one of this story. I mean, c'mon… I've had one story up for 4 months with 11 reviews, and that had been my most until now! Despite the near-heart attack you guys gave me, thanks! I actually wrote a story people review!! Oh, and extra description and clarification added in here. First chapter slightly changed, only to add who said what in the confusing section. And can someone tell me why the others aren't doing as well?? Thanks! Here's chapter 2 of Human? I Wish… NOT!!
(Sorry this took so long, but I was outta town.)
Ash yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, then climbed over the side of the bed and down the ladder to the floor. He started to walk towards his backpack when he heard a female voice call from behind him, "Good Morning Ash!!"
He yawned again and, without turning around, groggily responded, "'Morning Misty…" He turned around slowly, but the figure moved… he saw a flash of a ponytail, but it was… "Green? Huh? Oh well…" he shrugged. He glanced to his side and only half-realized that Misty was still laying there asleep. He yawned yet again, closing his eyes in the process… he shook his head and opened them again, and standing in front of him was a green-haired girl…
"Hi!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Human? I Wish… NOT!!
#2*Day2-1: There's Something in the Back Room
"What's wrong, Ash?"
He stared for a moment, utterly shocked and confused. Then it occurred to him that whoever this was, they weren't wearing anything. "WAA!!" (anyone who watches the show too much knows what that means… he's not crying!) he screamed again and covered his eyes. "You… are not… Misty…" he stuttered amongst his panic.
"Yeah, of course I'm not silly. She's still asleep!" she giggled and took a few steps forward. "But she won't be for much longer if you keep screaming like that, Ashy…" she glanced over towards Misty, who rolled over slightly, disturbed from sleep by Ash's not-quite-loud-enough screaming. "So why don't you be quiet, huh? Right now it's just you… and me…" he listened nervously to her footsteps as she slowly padded across the floor. The soft rhythm of her feet stopped, and he stood, every muscle in his body clenched, not sure what to expect. She reached up and put her hand on his cheek and slowly stroked it… "Ash, what's wrong? Why are you acting so scared?"
"Who… who are you??"
"Who do you think I am? Who do I look like to you? Why don't you open your eyes and see for yourself?"
He gulped… this was the oddest thing that had ever happened to him… not even in his dreams had something this weird happened… close to, but not quite… and at least he knew the who it was in his dreams… He opened one eye in a squint, and peeked through his fingers, using them to keep himself from seeing anything but the girl's head… and… the giant leaf on top of it… "The leaf… what the heck… oh my god…" he noticed an illusion style necklace that sat high on her neck, which had some type of green stones spaced evenly around it. He closed his eyes again in a grimace and gulped again… "It can't be… No… how… Chikorita?"
"Yeah," she said cheerfully, "And now I'm human, just like you, and we can do *whatever* we want…" she giggled again.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHIKORITA, HOW?!!!!!" he yelled as loud as he could and attempted to scramble on top of the bed to his bunk (he screams to much…). This time he was more than loud enough to wake up not just Misty but everyone in the building, though Misty shot awake first. Ash was halfway up the ladder, so he was the first thing she spotted, then the Gijinka (human level) Chikorita who was standing in shock behind him, though she didn't know it was Chikorita at that moment. She too screamed in panic, while at the same moment Brock woke up, spotted Chikorita, almost went into pretty-girl mode, realized what she was wearing (thank goodness he only saw her back), and put his head back into his pillow to scream as well. {this is fun}Next the center's Nurse Joy ran into the room, yelled something about getting some spare cloths or a towel, and left. Pikachu and Togepi glanced over their perch on their bunk, and Pikachu immediately panicked, covering his eyes with his hands and Togepi's with his tail. Through the midst of this both Misty and Nurse Joy pulled towels out of somewhere and threw them around Chikorita, who by which point was out of her shocked mode and was attempting to climb the ladder after Ash, who was now standing against the wall on top of his bunk. The rest of the pokémon were standing staring in shock at the scene, except Vulpix who had buried her snout and eyes beneath her paws and two of her tails.
Chikorita tumbled from the ladder and landed on the floor, both towels wrapped around her, and stared at everyone in slight terror. Misty was the first person to assess the situation, having learned of Chikorita's plans the night before. "So," she said, looking back and forth between the Gijinka Chikorita and the panic stricken Ash, "I guess you got your wish, huh Chikorita? But it's not going as good as you wished it would?" Misty grinned. Suddenly tears welled up in Chikorita's eyes and she began to whimper… at the same time Ash slid down the wall into a heap on his bed with a rather loud 'plop'.
"Oh my… I think he fainted…" Nurse Joy commented of Ash.
"Nope… I'm… OK…" Ash reported dizzily.
"Well then, would someone care to explain to me what happened, and how?" Everyone glanced over at her. Suddenly Brock jumped up and ran over to her.
"Pay no attention to my friends there, miss, they always have odd problems like this happening, it's the world's only love triangle with a pokémon and two humans in it but who cares about triangles when you and I can be a circle…" he was cut off by a madder, more red-faced than usual Misty, who dragged him away.
"You bugged her enough yesterday to last an eon so knock it off ya nincompoop…" she was about to say more but she was cut off by an actually quite quiet bout of crying from Chikorita. The attention of everyone in the room immediately turned to her, and it was silent except for her quiet sniffling.
"You… you *hate* me, don't you… don't you Ash?" Everyone stared shocked, having no idea what to say… Ash was irritated by her quite a lot, but… he didn't really hate her… he had practically saved her life once… and she had definitely saved not just him but Misty and Brock too more than once. "You don't know what to say? Then you're just making up excuses…"
"No, Chikorita…"
"I… I know what to say… I'm ju-just halfway… unco-conscious up here… No, Chikorita… I don hate you…"
"Then why did you scream at me??" she shook her head to get some of the tears out of her eyes, punctuating her comment.
"I was frightened, that's all. I was a little shocked…" he said, finally fully functioning again. "You're not normally human, obviously… and plus, um… you weren't… wearing anything…"
"Oh? Should I have been? Sorry… you just always only wear that one set of cloths, so I thought this was what I was supposed to wear…"
Everyone started laughing. "You know what, Chikorita? It's gonna take some getting used to having you human, but it's gonna be fun… And for right now, let's get you some clothes…" Misty smiled and sweatdropped slightly.
"Could someone please tell me what's happening?" Nurse Joy looked at them helplessly.
"I'd appreciate a fill in too!" Brock added.
"I don't even quite know what's going on myself…" Ash agreed.
"*sigh*… I'lll tell you all in a few minutes… right now we gotta get something Chikorita can wear untill we can buyu her some clothes… And we need to get her a name too… calling her Chikorita would get odd…"
"We could call her Rita… I love the name Rita… and it fits with her real name…" Brock suggested.
"Hmm… I like it… I guess…" Chikorita commented.
"Well… lets get you some clothes then!" Misty smiled.
"I think there's some old cloths in back I'll show you where," Nurse Joy started to lead the two off.
"Bye Ashy… I'll see you later!" Chikorita er… Rita winked at him as they walked out.
"Oye… this is gonna be… dang near impossible… But at least I'm still gonna have you for help, Pikachu," Ash sighed.
Pikachu smiled then put on his best stern look. "Pikaychu! Cha Pikapi! [Chikorita! No Ash for you!]" he dictated then turned to Ash and started laughing.
"Yeah… I guess… I wish it were that simple… but things are gonna be a lot harder with an extra girl… particularly one that's trying to kiss me every 2 minutes…" he shuddered slightly, then seemed lost for a moment.
"Pikapi? Pikapi? PIKAPI!"
"Huh? What, oh yeah… she's gonna be hard to have around… And it's gonna be hard not having her as a pokémon too."
"Pika?"
"One less grass type… I hear the gym leader in Blackthorne uses mostly Dragon but some water types… I was counting on you, her, and Bulbasaur against his water types, and then you and the others on his dragons… but I'll only have you and Bulbasaur…"
"Pikachu kapi Pika-ka-chu, [Leave it to me,]" Pikachu answered.
"Thanks buddy."
*Meanwhile… in the back room…*
"Well, uh, Rita… obviously greens your color, so… lets go with… a green shirt and black skirt?"
"Well… I don't know what to say… I don't quite know what that'd look like…" Chikorita (This is getting hard to remember… I'll type her as ChikoRita) admitted shyly.
"Good point," Misty sighed. "Let's see if I can find something like that."
"I think there's someone at the door… I'll be back in a few minutes." Nurse Joy turned and walked from the room.
"Alright… I'm sure I'll be able to find something here somewhere… Chik… um… Rita, you know what a shirt is, I'm certain of that, so you look for a green one, ok?"
"I will…"
*At the counter*
"Hello, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asked in her usual cheery manner.
A young boy stood puzzled at the counter, "Um, yes, I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to Blackthorne?"
"It's almost straight south of here. Anything else?"
"Yeah… I need my pokémon checked… Hey, what's going on back there…?" he glanced through the door at where ChikoRita and Misty were searching through the wardrobe previously known as the lost and found.
"No, no, no!!! I like my hair, so there!!!" suddenly a leaf went flying past the doorway, accompanied by a rather loud 'ahh!' of complaint.
"I like mine too, so I don't need a haircut Rita! I don't wanna cut your hair, we just need to put it in to a different style so no one will notice the leaf!"
"What's wrong with the leaf, huh Misty? Afraid Ash might like it?" a girl with green hair in a ponytail in back, a black tank top and a deep green knee-length skirt stomped into view. But the thing that shocked the boy who was innocently standing at the counter was the leaf growing from her head. Another girl, one with red hair, walked up to meet her and began yelling back, holding up a leaf as she did.
"No, not really, just don't want to be around anyone who makes Brock look non-suspicious, and that leaf is danged dangerous!" she held up of hair matching her color and let it fall to the floor to add a point.
"Well then, what do you think we should do miss smarty-twerp?"
"I think we need to find a headband. Now come on!" she dragged the other girl out of sight.
"What… exactly… is in your… back… room?" the boy said, his jaw dropped nearly to the floor in shock.
"Oh, nothing… just a couple of visitors, rehearsing for a play, that's all!!" Nurse Joy smiled.
"Oh, a play… that's neat… Well, then, could you look after my pokémon?"
"Sure!!"
*about an hour later*
"Hey, you look human!" Ash smiled as he saw the two girls walk out of the back room. ChikoRita had a black bandana tied on her head to keep her leaf from showing. Misty had trimmed her hair to shoulder length, due to the unwanted 'cut' it had received earlier, and was wearing it down for once.
"Thank you… I think…" ChikoRita said.
"Not you… her! You looked human though, too. What happened? You let someone else cut your hair for once?" Ash grinned at Misty who promptly reached for her mallet.
"Why you little…"
"I was meaning it as a compliment! It looks nice!" Ash backed away slightly. Misty eyed him warily, not sure whether he meant it or was saying that to get out of trouble.
"Oh… humph…" I really should say something… he might be sincerely complimenting me. "Thanks…" she said quietly.
"So, Ashy, where are we going? What are we gonna do?!" ChikoRita was locked firmly onto his arm, obviously not planning on detaching any time soon. "Well, Ashy? Say, can I have a hug?"
"Um… not right now…" he sweatdropped.
"Aw… why not?"
"Cause… Rita… we gotta get moving, so I can go win my badge!" he went back to his normal tone, but still eyeing her, wishing she'd let go of him.
"Yeah!! And I wanna help, ok??"
"Yeah… I guess… But, um, I can't walk with you on my arm…" he tried to walk forward in demonstration.
"Oh…. Ok… I guess I'll let go…" she released his arm, and took a place right next to him. Pikachu glared at her in anger… she was putting his trainer in danger for all he knew.
Misty walked slowly behind the other three, carrying Togepi in her backpack. What is Chikorita's problem…? I've been around him for over three years without being dependent on him… and anyway, how did she get her wish to come true? It just doesn't make sense that she could have become human… And how am I supposed to say anything to Ash about… that… if she's always right there? She'll think I'm just being jealous, and he might too!! This is impossible…
A tiny pokémon flew overhead, on it's way to the Ilex forest… "Hmm… I hope I didn't make a mistake…"
Ok… *sigh* I know that had almost zero in the way of shippy stuff… It was primarily a filler chapter, and I apologize for such, except I am not a romance writer by nature… I am a humor writer… so give me a break… and I will get to the Satomi stuff more by chapter four, I promise, though there is a lot of ChikoRita problems until and through then… Just tell me about how much this sucked, ok? I know it stinks… so tell me how much so.