… My shoulders feel really weird, because I finally have that 40 pound pack off them… Anywaysas! I am currently refusing to expand on the MMG's cut until MMG reads some more of it :P. And people, I think I'm up to 50 reviews on here now, so thank you!!! I've never even gotten 15 before ^_^ *all teary-eyed n stuff…* And now, I get to reveal the identity of the special little pokémon. Even though it's totally obvious. So here's the next chapter!
"So tell me again… exactly how did this happen?"
Three days after the incident had begun, someone had finally thought to ask ChikoRita how on Earth she could have become human. Of course, none of the humans could have thought to ask her… it'd been Pikachu, and ChikoRita had decided to respond in her own language. At which point the rest of the group had been forced to haul her back to their room, try to avoid odd looks from onlookers who were now realizing that she didn't exactly have normal hair or a normal mind obviously, and have her translate whatever the heck she had just said back to human.
"I told you! It was a wish!!"
Human? I Wish… NOT!!
#7*Day4-2: I Hope I Haven't Lost My Chance
"This is just too weird…" Ash commented.
"How come I never get any of my wishes?!" Misty complained.
"I'm not sure we'd want any of your wishes to come true," Ash mumbled, envisioning a half Golduck/ half human movie star, and Misty freaking out over him.
"Well, maybe it's just a pokémon thing…" Brock suggested.
"No, I don't think it is… but see, there was this shooting star, and I wished I could be human, and, and, well, I had this dream, where there was this really pretty bright light, and this soft voice told me to wake up… And when I did, I, I was like this…" she motioned to her now human self.
"Pika!"
"Yeah, I remember seeing that shooting star too! I didn't think to make a wish on it, until I couldn't see it anymore, 'cause I was kinda distracted,"
"Pi-pi-pi" Pikachu giggled, prompting a 'hush up' glare from Misty.
"-but yeah, I remember seeing it…"
"This is just plain insane…"
they all sighed, and ChikoRita looked around at them, puzzled, as they one by one dropped their head to the table. Pikachu just rolled on the floor, still laughing despite Misty's threat look.
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"Yea!!! I'm finally out of there!" the small pokémon smiled, turning back towards Johto. "I can get back to my fun now!!" it smiled, one of it's antenna blowing in the light breeze over Viridian as it turned north-west. It liked helping people, but it would much rather be watching the living soap-opera it had helped cause. So many random thoughts that floated through those humans' brains… unlike most pokémon, who lived mostly on instinct… But still, it could understand why the species had evolved that way… they had no natural special abilities, unlike pokémon, so they had to depend on their intelligence to survive. But it still wondered why things always had to work like that; there was so much to be said for the simple life of not thinking and just sitting eating apples and peaches all day…
But slowly it realized, that it was not that much better than those humans. It, like all psychic pokémon, had thinking and reasoning skills far beyond that of a normal one, and though it's own could not match a human's, technically it was acting like a human. Changing the world, in whatever way it wanted or needed to. Though it, unlike human's, was going on what others wanted…
It sadly sighed and shook it's head, fully realizing the fact that it was manipulating the world. "Oh well! Time for some fun!" and with that, it sped off toward the Lake of Rage.
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"…he loves me, he loves me not. He loves me, he… aw, who am I kidding. He hates me, he hates me not. He hates me, he hates me not. HE hates me, he hates me not. Ok, at least that's a little more comforting than nothing!" Misty growled. She looked for a moment at the flower in her hand. Flower. Plant. ChikoRita. "Grrr!" she tore what remained of the floor to pieces and chucked it on the ground. "WHY did this have to happen?! Why?!" she stared for a moment, struggling to calm down, at the damaged flower and petals on the ground. She reached down and picked up one of the petals, which had survived her rampage completely intact. "What… have I done? I've been such a bitch lately… I've probably lost him forever…" she sighed and collapsed back on the bench, the cool evening air swirling around her and stirring up the other bits of petal and stem. It lifted her hair up lightly and repositioned it to partially fall across her face, as she sat staring at the soft violet colored petal in her hand. And then it was whisked away… "What… wouldn't I give, to have him care about me?" she thought aloud, shaking her head and staring at the now-full moon. "Nothing… I'd die if I knew he'd love me for it…" she began to hum the song again…
"At it again, Mist? Togepi's inside and asleep, so do you please think you could sing that for me now? Please?!"
"Um… oh, hi Ash! Um… well, that is…" she sighed. "I just can't. Don't ask me why; I don't know…" I do, but… I can't tell you… she sighed and looked at the moon again, as Ash sat beside her on the bench. This is such a perfect situation though!! I could tell him everything, right here, right now… it's so romantic of a setting… but then I know she'd show up, just as we were about to… Kiss? Was that what I was thinking? Like he, we, would ever… No way does he even like me, not after my episodes the last two days… but that was what I was thinking… she sighed and her thoughts and looked over at Ash, who, to her surprise, hadn't bothered asking her why. It occurred to Misty that the last few days had really had an effect on him, and that he really had become more mature since they reached Johto in general anyway… Literally and mentally, she laughed quietly, remembering the latest time that she and Brock had been teasing him about his occasionally high pitched voice. But that had been months ago… Now…
Well, she felt closer to him than ever, and yet further away… They had all been forced to think fast and mature the past few days. They'd all grown together in their travels, and yet now… the aspect of acting older was pulling them apart in their minds and way of thinking. Yet as she looked at him, all she could see was the kindness and innocence that was there on his face. It was getting cool fast, despite the previous day's warmth… as she watched him, her eyes kept travelling between his eyes and his mouth, as she could see his breath rising in a small cloud of steam. It really was getting cooler… He turned to face her, and smiled… they both sat like that, staring at each other, the moonlight shining above… Misty noticed his breathing quicken, as she could see the little clouds of air come more frequently. It was all so perfect… she wanted to tell him, or kiss him, or anything, so bad… it was all so beautiful right then and there… she felt like this, right here, right now, might be her last chance to say something to him… or at least her first chance…
Which made it too good to last…
"Ash! Misty! Rita! Com'ere, now!!"
"Brock."
"Yeah."
"Let's go."
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"You guys are not gonna believe this. Some meteor or something, just crashed in the middle of the lake!"
"Uh-huh…" Misty said, skeptically.
"No, really. I just was sitting there, watching Pikachu and Rita argue, and I saw this shooting star go overhead and I just wished that I knew what caused all this to happen the past few days. And then the shooting star turned towards the Earth and disappeared over the lake."
"Wow!! That sounds sorta like the one I saw! It just kept going after I wished on it, and went past the horizon, instead of disappearing like it should've…" ChikoRita added.
"Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's go find it!!" Ash yelled.
"Um… I know something to wait for. Morning and light?" Misty suggested.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry!"
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"Oye that guy scared me. I didn't think anyone saw me, I thought they'd all be inside, with the temperature it is out here," the little pokémon shivered. "Lucky this water broke my fall… but I'm cold now!" it whined. "Well, if that's what he wants to wish, just for that, he's gonna get it," it scoffed. "Now let's see… where did those, um, six or so go?"
^_^ the plot thickens… and I wrote more big statements so I feal really proud of myself! Everyone around her: o_O "right then"…
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