… Suppi-chan!!!! Bwa-ha-ha-HA!
Ok, really… I'm OK… just a little caffinated… I really need to stop writing these stories under the influence of caffeine… thank goodness I had this written in my brain prior to today…
"Look, guys, there's something over there!"
"What? Where?" Ash asked sleepily.
Uh-oh… I better hide!
"That's funny, I could of sworn there was something here a second ago."
"Well, you swore wrong Misty."
"Say that again, Ash, I dare you!"
"Please stop fighting, Ashy!"
"Take it easy, you two. I know we're all tired, but…" *rustle* *snap* "What was that?"
"I don't know, but it came from over there…"
Uh-oh… Hide, hide, hide!
[A/N: can I please play the new theme here? Please?!]
Human? I Wish… NOT!!
#8*Day5/6/7-1: Time Is Precious, and It's Slipping Away
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Ash sighed and scratched Pikachu's ear as he went over the last few days in his mind, particularly the events of the previous night…
::Flashback::
"Where'd it go? I know I saw something over here," Misty yelled to him.
"I know, me too… Hey, there it goes again!" he shouted.
"Ashy… I'm scared… it's not gonna hurt us, is it?"
"No, ChikoRita, it's not…" 'what is it? I don't think it'll hurt us, but… What's going to happen?'
"Hey, you three, c'mere… I think I found it," Brock had called to them, fishing through some bushes. As the other three had ran over to him, there it was… what they'd never been prepared to see, but yet now they saw it…
::End::
ChikoRita snuggled a little closer to Ash and closed her eyes… Had that really been what had happened? She'd known that bright light, the gentle voice…
::Flashback::
"I guess I can hide from you no longer…" said a small fairy-like creature, rising, glowing, from the bushes the squinty-eyed-one had been digging through.
"Whoa! Are you… a pokémon?!" Ash had exclaimed, pulling his arm from her grip.
"Yes… that I am… You must be Ash Ketchum… so adventurous, so many wishes and thoughts and dreams…" Ash blinked at the pokémon and his eyes widened. Ash had explained later that it had felt like the pokémon was probing his mind…
"How do you?" Ash yelled, but was cut short.
"Please, tell us… do you know how ChikoRita became human?" Misty asked suddenly, stepping forward and putting Togepi in her backpack. They all nodded in agreement.
"Yes, I do know… for it was I who changed her to this form… I will explain everything, as he has requested," it motioned towards Brock, who blinked a few times before fully realizing what was happening…
"The wish I made?!"
::End::
Across from them sat Misty, who was rocking Togepi slowly and humming the song she'd written for Ash… She glanced up to see ChikoRita, leaning against him, half asleep. They both looked like she felt… tired and a little stunned at what had happened the night before… Even though ChikoRita had halfway known before…
::Flashback::
Misty felt the anger boiling inside her. So this… this was who had caused all these problems, who had changed ChikoRita into a human and… practically taken Ash from her… "Why? Why did you change her into this?"
"It is what she wished…" the pokémon admitted solemnly. "I can tell you all have many questions for me… I will start with the simplest to answer… I am Celebi…"
"Celebi?!"
"I've heard of you… you're the guardian for all grass pokémon, and for all pokémon in the Ilex forest…" ChikoRita shouted suddenly. "You're supposed to grant one wish to each person or pokémon… Just like Bulbasaur and Noctowl said…" she trailed off…
"Pikachu tried to warn me about this…" Misty added.
"Where is Pikachu, anyway?!" Ash suddenly panicked.
"By your feet," Celebi had directed. "I have put all in this area besides the four of you to sleep, because the wish was technically only for him to know what was going on, but since he would have told you three anyway… I'll make an exception… I think ChikoRita has fairly much summed up what my purpose is, however…
::End::
Brock looked from his place on the wall at his two travelling partners and the one Gijinka Chikorita… [I explained what that meant in Chapter 2, people!] He could tell what they were all thinking… he knew at least Ash's opinions of the two girls, and he could easily guess Misty's of Ash… So he could see the war brewing, and knew that the two remaining wishes would be made shortly… but he had bigger fish to fry… I can't believe that I only get one wish, and that I wasted it on that!
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The Next day…
And it was going fairly much like the previous day. At breakfast only Brock had really eaten anything… ChikoRita had fairly much just leaned, looking sad, against Ash's shoulder, and Ash and Misty had both just stared back and forth between into space and at each other. The clock ticking and occasional happy squeals from Togepi were the only sounds… it was really all fairly worrysome to anyone who knew the group well, especially Pikachu.
"Pikapi… Pikachupi… Pikaychu…" he whispered, watching his friends solemnly eating, as if they were at some type of funeral. He hastily went silent when ChikoRita shot him a look to do so… Maybe that's why they're all so quiet… he thought with a giggle. But this was serious. He looked out the window where it had started to rain the night before. It was all extremely depressing… Not even the normally giddy and bossy ChikoRita was saying anything… Pikachu could feel there was something wrong… shoot, even Togepi had now quit it's happy trills, and was now tapping on it's 'mommy's' arm, a questioning look in it's tiny face… it was hopeless though, nothing would bring any of those three from their trance.
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"Pikachu, you just wouldn't be able to understand, little buddy…" Ash sighed and ruffled the fur on top of his pokémon's head. "You and I both know how much I love her… but I can't do anything until ChikoRita's back to normal. I can't really make a wish on either one until I know it'd be the right decision for all of us… so anotherwards, not until I know what Misty really thinks of me… I think I do, but I'm not sure… so until she says something, I can't do anything…"
"Pikapi, pichu pika pikakachu…" he asked hesitantly.
"No, Pikachu, I can't just ask her… that'd be a little… I dunno, weird? I'll figure out something though…"
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Pikachu yawned softly through his sleep and waved his paw in the air as Ash silently rose from the bed. I'm sorry to do this to you, Pikachu, I know you'll be mad at me for leaving you alone all night… But I have to do this… I have to make this wish… he thought sadly, pulling an umbrella from behind the door and creeping from the room.
Oye, what's he up to now? Misty sighed and rolled over. If he's not back in 5 minutes, I'm going after him…
*tick…tick…tick…*
I can't stand this… I'm going after him now! she, yellow PJs and all, rolled out of bed and got up swiftly but silently, retrieved her own umbrella and jacket, and traipsed off down the hall towards the courtyard she knew he would have gone too.
"Ash? You out here?" she asked through the rain. It was much gentler of a storm then it it had been earlier… You better not be… you'll catch your death in this weather!
"Over here," said a shape on the bench. Right where they'd been two days ago, before they'd all run off and discovered Celebi.
"You don't mind if I'm out here?" she asked him, wiping off the wet metal and sitting beside him.
"Only if you're not cold. And if you get rid of that umbrella. There's no room for two umbrellas in the airspace over this bench," he said weakly, attempting to joke with her.
"Who said you couldn't put your umbrella up?" she teased.
"I was here first, so I can make the rules." She nodded in response, adding a giggle, and folded her umbrella. Leaning it beside the bench and scooting under Ash's umbrella. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized what she'd just done… but Ash seemed unusually deep in thought at the moment, and didn't seem to notice the implications of their recent actions. "It's out there," Ash said finally.
"You mean Celebi?" Ash nodded. "Yeah… I know, I bet it's watching us right now… You figured out your wish yet?"
"Sorta…" Ash said in a tone totally unlike the previous one. Misty could see, even through the darkness, that he was blushing… but she wasn't about to ask about it, incase it was just an illusion created by the surrounding cool colors of the rain and night, and his face being the only warm-colored thing around. She shivered. Warm… that's what he was… she wanted to be closer to him, but she knew that'd only be pulling a ChikoRita stunt, so she sat in place still.
"Yeah, I sorta have too…" she admitted. "But I'm not really sure if I want to go through with it… I mean, we all only get one wish… what if we make a bad decision? Or if it turns out we already used our wish…?"
"Me either… And I think I know what you mean…" She couldn't be thinking the same thing as me, could she?
He better not do that… he can't waste his wish on something like that, when I'm more than willing to sacrifice my wish…
"You know Misty… the last few days have been so chaotic… but I'm almost glad they happened… We've all become more tolerant and better friends because of it… Especially…" he paused to yawn, and felt something gently touch his shoulder. It was Misty's head, she'd fallen asleep there beside him and ended up with her head on his shoulder. "… you and me…" he smiled. He was kinda glad she'd fallen asleep before he'd said anymore… he wasn't sure where he wanted the conversation to go… That's it, I'm making that wish… he heard Misty gently snoring beside him, and was forced to yawn again. "First thing in the morning…" he looked at her and smiled. Suddenly a thought struck him, as he looked through the strengthening downpour… "Aw, man… How am I supposed to get you back inside?"
Can you tell that I was no longer caffinated by the end? *yawn* actually I was too tired… *glances at math book* man, Freshman shouldn't have to take Trigonometry X, regardless of their IQ… *grumble* stupid test… see you people next week, ok? I've got something special then… But review this one for now, so I can know whether or not to do a revamp on the next chapter.