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Authors note: I would like to thank all who review and read and liked my story. If you noticed in the last chapter, there is some of the old Ash left, its just buried under a tone of feelings, like depression, lust for revenge, anger, and my personal bad guy emotion, hatred. And I want to apologize how Ash is going to act in this chapter, before I write it. And the reason why I am not doing mutual AAML, is not because I don't like it, its just that its more overdone than a burnt steak. And its really hard to be original about it. But onto the next chapter of We All Shine On.



While Ash was taking a walk in the Plateau , he noticed something peculiar. It was a head with red, almost orange hair and it was in a style that was only used by one person that he knew. "Good a time as ever to make old acquaintances." Ash said with a sneer, followed by what could be called silent cackling. He made his way unnoticed and waited until his 'target' was alone. That was when he struck.

It was all unexpected to Misty. One minute she was standing, the next some one slapped her from behind and pushed her down onto the ground, in a corner. But, the biggest shock was who her attacker was. It would be something that she would never forget, looking up and seeing Ash standing over her, laughing. "Yo, Misty. We finally meet." Ash said, in a voice that was almost demonic. "You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this." Ash said, as he drew back his fist. Misty could see the emerald on his ring sparkling in the light before she closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable. After a few seconds, she opened her right eye slowly, to see Ash's fist floating in front of her face, like it hit a pane of glass. And he started to stagger back, as if his legs did not want to move. In this state of confusion, Misty ran back to the safety of being with Richie and Fel.

If it wasn't for the fact that Fel was waiting for some curry that he ordered outside, he would never had seen Misty running towards the hotel. When she got close he could see that she was battered and bruised. And before she could collapse from the exhaustion of her non stop run, she let out the sigh that accompanies the relief of being safe. The next morning when she awoke, she saw Richie sitting in a chair next to her bed, sound asleep. "He zonked out half an hour ago. Stayed up all night just to make sure you were going to make it through." Fel said as he entered from the kitchen nook with a mug of coffee. "He didn't have to do that." Misty said weakly. "I told him the same thing. He said that he wanted to. And if you don't mind me asking, what the hell happened to you? And don't give 'I fell.' I've seen enough fights to know that you were beat up. So who did it?" Fel said. "I know who it was but it wasn't him." Misty said. "What the hell's that supposed to me?" Fel said in a volume that caused Richie to stir a little in his sleep. "Remember when I told you about Ash?" Misty asked. Fel nodded. "Well it was him. I don't know why he did it though. But he could of did a lot worse." Misty said, tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"Now Richie, I know your upset, but you don't want to hurt him, do you?" Fel asked Richie, who just found out what happened to Misty. "No, I don't want to hurt him. I just want to break his body! I can't believe he did that! And to one who was once his best friend! He is going to be lucky that I know the location of only 40 bones in the human body!" Richie said, the rage building in his voice as he started for the door, wanting to draw Ash's blood. Looking towards Misty, who was asleep, he whispered "I'll make him pay for doing that, Misty. He won't hurt you again." But he never got to open the door as he heard a Poke ball open followed by "SLEEP POWDER, now!" as he slipped into unconsciousness.

Ash could not believe what happened. He had her where he wanted her. He was going to make her feel the pain that he had since she left, but something stopped him from putting a dent in her forehead. And that same something caused him to back off and let her get away. But, he should be thinking of other things, though. The Games start tomorrow and he wanted to be ready for anything, so he trained and devised strategies the whole day



I think that was a pretty good chapter. What do you think? Any way soon we will have the end to Ash's problems and maybe he will regain his sanity. So review and read.