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"Misty? Misty? Wake up! Misty!"
"What?! Huh? Ash! You-you're ok!" Misty awoke with a start, seeing Ash's face staring down on her.
"Why the heck wouldn't I be?!" he responded, startled by her response to his simple wake-up call.
"And Togepi! Where is he!" she yelled, searching for a distraction, then jumped up and ran to where her 'baby' was sleeping…
Human? I Wish… NOT!!
#10*Day 8-2: Wish the Real World Would Just Quit Hassling Me
On the dresser, by her bed, in her backpack. Where she'd left him.
"Misty?! What the heck is wrong with you?!" Brock yelled at her, leaving her stunned.
"I… but… the flood… and, I left him… and you… were… and I…" she stuttered, motioning to Togepi, Ash, and herself during the respective points in her rather confused statement.
"The flood? You mean the 4 inches of rain outside?!" Ash motioned towards the window, where, sure enough, the dam was still intact and the water was no more than ankle deep.
"But then…? Wait, what time is it?!" she looked at the clock frantically. 8:42. Well past the time of the 'flood'. "Then… was it… a dream?" she collapsed on the bed behind her, confused. "How… it was so… real…"
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"That was all too close for comfort… I expected they would have survived through that, but I had to pull them out… I hope that Ash boy isn't too disappointed… but he just can't understand that she already does love him, whether he knows it or not… He didn't have to waste his wish on that whole mess… I hope he remembers it as a lesson," Celebi was sitting on the roof of the pokémon center, taking deep breaths to try and get it's energy back. "I know I'm the time travel pokémon, but that was the easy part… stopping what had been done once wasn't. But I'm betting that this was the correct way… nothing I had seen from the future said anything of that flood… And besides, something like that, from his simple wish? Sometimes I regret allowing the Unknown to assist me in my ventures…"
It flipped around, looking in through the window where only just over an hour before it had seen disaster… "Ash, I gave you all a second chance for you to find her… don't loose it!"
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"Gees… Misty sure was freaked out this morning, wasn't she?" Brock asked Ash, as they both packed their stuff. Misty was in the lobby, waiting for them, with ChikoRita and most of their pokémon.
"Yeah… I guess she was…" Why is it that I remember that, and Misty seems to… but Brock doesn't? And why did Celebi bring us back to here that quickly? And why'd it choose that as a result anyway? Ash sighed. Brock noticed the silence and reluctance in his answer…
"Don't you go weird on me too. C'mon, what's wrong Ash? Something I should know about?"
"Huh…? Oh! No, nothing! Just, I had this… dream, and it was kinda weird…"
"You too? Geesh… what exactly happened in it? Misty was freaking out about some flood…"
"I don't quite know… I think there was a flood in it, too… but what's weird is I think… I think I died. I don't normally have dreams, let alone ones that I die in," Ash complained, then went back to his previous silence. All that Brock knew was that it was very un-Ash like to be silent, unless he'd failed at achieving one of his goals…
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And all Misty knew was that the similarities between Ash's 'dream' and hers were too odd to ignore. "He did die, we both did, I know it," she complained, after overhearing Ash's comment. She also noticed he was being too quiet. "Maybe… no, he wouldn't of. Ash wouldn't waste his wish on something like that… I know it. Ash wants to be the pokémon master. And I'm just lying to myself if I think he'd choose me over that dream. I'm lying to myself to even think he likes me as more than a friend. But there's no way he'll be able to, without ChikoRita being back to her normal self…" She sighed and sat down on the couch, watching ChikoRita sit, looking nervous and sad, on the chair beside her. Togepi waddled over to her, and soon Pikachu and Vulpix had joined her as well, looking for attention. "*Sigh* you know guys… all I really want is for Ash to be happy. And he'll be happiest if he becomes the Johto league champion, for right now at least. *Sigh*… I think I know what my wish is going to be." Pikachu's eyes got wide as he heard her make that statement.
"Pikachupi…"
"I know, Pikachu… but still…" she got up and walked over to ChikoRita. "Rita… what's wrong?"
"Everything…" she whined, fiddling nervously with her necklace. "Nothing worked out as I hoped it would… Now I just wanna be me again!" she started to cry.
"It's ok… you know what? I think I know how to get you back to normal…"
"How?" ChikoRita looked up with a look of hope shining in her eyes, but then saw the strained smile on Misty's face… "Oh, no, Misty… not your wish! If there's one thing I've learned this week, it's not to have others do everything for me…"
"And if there's one thing I've learned this week, it's not to make your wish revolve around yourself. Besides, what choice do I have? Ash won't be happy until he can be the Champion, and I think it's best if you help him... it would make you both happy… and I'd be happy because Ash would be happy," Misty smiled.
"But shouldn't you use… your wish for you? You could have anything you want, right here and now… You could be with… with Ash, forever…"
"You really did learn a lot while you were human, didn't you? You know, it was fun having another girl around, but next time… Why don't we try having a non-vital pokémon become human? Like Vulpix?" Misty began leading ChikoRita outside.
"What's that supposed to mean? Oh no, you're going to do it, aren't you?"
"It means you're too important to have to suffer through being a human. Hey, Celebi! I know you're here somewhere! Celebi!" Misty yelled, standing in the alley behind the pokémon center.
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Ash heard her through the window. "No! she'd going to turn ChikoRita back to a pokémon, I'll bet. She's crazy… I can't let her do this!"
"I'd help, but I'm afraid I already used up my wish," Brock shook his head in mock sorrow and grinned once Ash's attention was away. Then again, there may be high points to having already used it…
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"Pikachupi! Pi, chua Pikachu! [Misty! No, let me!]" Pikachu came running outside, just as Celebi appeared in front of the two girls.
"What do you want," it asked. "Please… I don't want anymore of you wasting your wishes… you only get one, after all…" Celebi complained, a noticeable sadness in it's eyes.
"Pi! Pi, Pikachupi! Pikachupi pika pichu pichupi piika! [No! No, Misty, you have dreams you need to go for…]" Pikachu yelled.
"That's so sweet…" ChikoRita smiled at Pikachu. But Misty couldn't understand him.
"No, Celebi. I'm not wasting my wish. I'm just doing something that will make all of us a whole lot happier. I wish, that Chikorita would become a pokémon again."
"Very well… I'm happy as well, you seem to have realized that some dreams, the only way to achieve them is to make them happen yourselves. No wishes can grant true eternal happiness."
"Yeah, I found that out the hard way."
Misty spun around to face the voice. "Ash! What are you… doing here?! And what do you mean?!" Misty spun around to see him standing behind her.
"I've got a lot of explaining to do, and I know it," Ash smiled in response. "But I guess you've already used your wish?"
"Ash Ketchum, just the human I needed to see…Could you put Chikorita in her pokéball and let her back out?" Celebi asked calmly.
"Uh… but, she's still human!" he complained.
"Yes, but once you put her in the pokéball she will no longer be human, the wish will be fulfilled," Celebi giggled.
"Um, ok…" z^_^z' ChikoRita?" she nodded. "Return," he held up his pokéball, not knowing what to expect.
"It's been fun," ChikoRita shrugged, then disappeared into the pokéball, the clothes she'd been wearing falling to a heap on the ground.
"Wa! Gees, this better work or else you're gonna pay," Ash false-threatened Celebi. He then closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Ok, Chikorita, I choose you!" he tossed the pokéball into the air, not knowing entirely what to expect.
"Chika! Chikori!" Chikorita, now her original self, yelled enthusiastically, running over and jumping into Ash's arms, before turning to Misty and thanking her.
"Ahh, it was nothing. But ya know what? There was only room for one of us around here."
"Chika!" Chikorita grinned evilly.
"Yeah… maybe now things can get back to normal. Or better than normal," Ash glanced at Misty.
"Didn't you have some explaining to do?" she asked him.
"Yeah… but first," he set Chikorita on the ground and motioned to her and Pikachu, "You two are going inside."
"Pi… Pikapi, pikacha? [Ah, Ash, do we have too?]" Pikachu whined, then laughed and scurried back around the corner and into the building.
"Now, for my explaining… first, there's something I have to do," Misty looked at him skeptically. "This," he said, gently pulling her into a hug.
"Ash… I,"
"That's for all I put you through… that 'dream'? It was real. That was my wish, though not how I intended it to happen. I wanted something to happen, that would put us both at risk, so that I'd have a chance to tell you… the truth. But looks like we… or at least I… died first…" he gulped, then took a step back. "That truth… is that… Misty, I used that wish so I could tell you… that… that I love you."
"Ash… two things," Misty said softly. "One… DON'T EVER DO ANYTHING THAT INSANE AGAIN DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DID TO ME SEEING YOU DYING IN MY HANDS?!" she screamed, tear flooding from her eyes. "And second… Thank you so much for doing that… it wasn't a waste… Because if I can tell you when you're dead I can certainly tell you now… I love you too," she held out her arms for him to hug her again. "Thank you, Ash… your wish wasn't really a waste…" she smiled, placing her lips to his…
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"That is so cute… but it's not fair!! Why does he get a girlfriend before me?!"
The truth is, Brock… that it's just because we all hate most everything about you, except Vulpix. And I dunno, was that too sappy? But it ain't over yet! I'll have the epilogue up next, lol! Prepare to laugh your head off! (Yes I do have a way of ruining cute endings) Review, onegai! And CCRya@aol.com!