*Disclaimer* I do not own Pokémon or the characters. Any new Pokémon created in this story a purely out of my imagination and I'm sorry if you thought of them first.

Before Your Eyes

Chapter 1

"I want to go east!" Said Ash stubbornly.

"I am so sick of being in the east, I wanna go west!" Said Misty.

"East!"

"West!"

"EAST!"

"WEST!"

Ash's Pikachu watched both trainers argue of where they were to go next. He looked at each trainer in turn as they spoke.

"East because that's where the sun rises and it shows fortune!" Ash crossed his arms.

"We live in the desert! The whole desert is considered east!" Misty contradicted.

Pikachu covered his ears and decided to give both Ash and Misty a nice Thunder Shock to shut them up. After Pikachu's onslaught both Ash and Misty, on the floor, didn't quite feel like continuing their argument.

Misty's Pikachu came running to see if she was okay.

"Pikachupi pika pikachu?" It asked. Misty smiled and stood up.

"I'm okay Cascade!" She reassured her Pikachu. Misty had renamed her Pikachu to stop confusion with names. Her blue Pikachu turned to Ash's yellow one.

"Pika pika!" It yelled its white tipped ears standing up straight and electricity flaring from its green cheeks.

"Pikachu chu!" Ash's Pikachu replied.

Now it was Ash's turn to stop the Pikachus from fighting.

"Knock it off you two!" He said sternly.

The Pikachus stopped instantly. Misty leaned on the side of the ship and looked out.

Misty and Ash had taken to the boat after their escape from her old castle and now it was their home…even if it did float in the sky using a hot air balloon attached on top. She sighed. She and Ash had been together for about seven and a half months now and she had grown to love him so much her life wouldn't be the same without him. He had changed a lot from when she first met him. He was a lot more carefree now. But she had changed too. A lot of qualities that she had kept well buried had worked themselves out, like her ability to love. Her long ginger hair blew about her face. She sighed again.

"Pi?" a small voice next to her brought her back from her thoughts.

She looked down on the floor to see a Pichu looking back at her. Cascade's and Pikachu's child. There was nothing very special about the Pichu apart from its cuteness.

"Hello Pichu!" She smiled.

"Pi!" It said happily. Although she could understand her Pikachu almost perfectly, this little Pokémon was a complete mystery. It had taken both Ash and Misty to be its trainers although it was more interested in Misty's stomach for some unknown reason. She picked it up.

"Chu!" It squeaked.

"So Misty have you decided to go east yet?" Ash joined her, his spiky black hair carried about in the wind.

She turned on him, "I told you we are going WEST!" Pichu covered its ears.

"Pi!" It sent a small charge through Misty causing her to drop it. Pichu ran off.

"Misty you don't have to get so angry you know!" Ash stepped back, afraid of her fury, which could match any Pokémon's Rage attack.

She sighed, "I know. I just don't know what came over me!"

Ash was suddenly struck with an idea; "Hey Misty I just had a thought!"

"Really? Did it hurt?" Misty snickered.

He cut his eyes at her then continued, "What if we have a competition to see which way we go?"

"What's that?" Said Misty, mildly interested.

He smiled, "First one to come loses." She caught his drift and smiled.

"You know. You're insatiable!"

"Huh?"

"Greedy, unquenchable, unappeasable shall I go on?" She hugged him round the neck.

"No I get your point." He kissed her a led down to the cabin they shared.

***

Ash sulked at the front of the ship while Misty happily extended the wings, a modification that helped to steer the ship, and turned the ship west.

Not only had he lost to her but just as he thought she was going to come he had also said that the one who losses had to do the cleaning. He sighed. No luck for Ash Ketchum.

"Ash you might want to start now, cleaning the ship can take all day!" Misty sang. She tried to stop herself from laughing, she really did.

Ash grumbled something undecipherable and picked up a bucket of water and a mop. Misty sauntered over to the table on deck and began to cut herself some watermelon. Ash watched.

"Misty, you know you shouldn't eat that so much." He said.

"I just fancied some." Ash snorted, she had 'fancied' some since for about two months.

"You shouldn't though. You're getting a bit fat." He slapped himself on the head when her realised what her had said. She looked at him. He grimaced; if looks could kill he'd be a smouldering pile of, well, ash.

"Pikapika, Pikachu!" His Pikachu said from beside him. A rough translation of that would be, "Open mouth, insert foot".

"That it!" Said Misty, "You're not getting any tonight!"

He groaned unhappily.

Pichu sat on the front of the ship.

"PI!!" It called out urgently.

"What is it?" Ash asked irritably.

"Pichu pi pi!" It called.

"Cascade what'd he say?" Misty asked her Pikachu. It shrugged.

"You mean you can't understand Pichu either?" Ash asked.

Both Pikachus nodded. Ash face-faulted.

"PICHU!"

Misty and Ash ran to the front of the ship.

"What?" They asked. Pichu pointed at an incoming Pokémon; a Pidgeot!

Before either Ash or Misty could react the Pokémon used its Extreme Speed and shot through the balloon holding the ship up. Two bangs told Ash all he needed to know.

"Shit the balloon 's been popped!" He said just before the ship began its very quick plummet to earth.



Thought I'd start with a cliffhanger to make things interesting. What will happen next? Not to spoil but anyone notice something odd about Misty?!?!?! If you know don't say anything because some of the Ash Ketchums out there may not know. Don't worry she doesn't die…yet. Am I lying? Only reading the next chapter will tell (and the chapter after that, and the chapter after that… etc) if you liked this one please Review!!!

Until next time

Stay Blissy,

Blissychild