Misty Waterflower: Relationship Consultant
Chapter Three
By: eek!
Disclaimer: Same old thing, I don't own the characters, some one else does.
Blurb: I have nothing to say for today!
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"Hey Mist, Yoo-hoo! You awake?" Ash asked, his hand flashing in front of Misty's zoned out face. She blinked as she snapped back into reality, her face flushing a light pink as she realized how long it looked like she was starring. She wasn't rude, she was simply remembering what had happened between them, and how it was so funny that he showed up now, after all this time. Millions of questions swirled inside her head, but the most pressing was: What in the hell happened with you, Ash Ketchum? Why here? And why now?
"Oh sorry, it's just stress ," Misty lied, trying to keep her curiosity and amazement in check, "well, you know, if you want, since I am a Cerulean city gym leader I could drive you there."
"No, its really ok," Ash responded quickly, "I didn't mean to bother you with that. If you could just give me some directions, cause its been a while. I can call a cab since you look..."
"I'm not busy, don't worry about it. Besides the cab company is all the way on the other side of town, and I would hate for you to have to wait all that time," reassured Misty, "I just have to powder my nose." Misty then walked out of the office leaving Ash and Pikachu to wonder what they had gotten themselves into. Ash knew of Misty's driving skills, but that was five years ago.
"You think she's gotten better since the last time we saw her? I mean she did mange to get her license...eventually..." he asked Pikachu. Pikachu only closed its eyes and let out a long collective "Cha."
***
A few minutes later, Misty, Ash, and Pikachu were sitting behind the wheel of Misty's fiery red "Ford Focus" as Misty dug in her purse for the keys. Pikachu sat in-between the two humans watching them both with a keen interest. The were both nervous and both for the same reason. Pikachu turned its attention to Misty, who would have probably found her keys by now if she was in the car with another friend. Pikachu understood how surprised Misty was to see both of them. The spontaneous visit of its trainer confused even Pikachu. He could have just as easily went to the gym without seeing her. Maybe he figured he would have run into her anyways? Or could it be that he actually missed her after all this time?
"Found them," cried the triumphant Misty while putting the keys in the ignition.
"Finally," Ash sighed as he wrung his league hat, " I hope this won't be as bad as your driving test." At that Misty shot him a murderous glance.
"What about my driving?"
"Eh heh, eh heh, Well you obviously gotten better since then? Right?"
"Pika pi." Was it evan possible that he was smarter than Pikachu gave him credit for?
***
The drive started out normal enough, much to Ash's relief. They made idle chit- chat and the tension between the pair seemed to ease.
"So over the summer I went on a small vacation in the Whirl islands and I got a new Pokemon that wasn't in any of the books."
"Really?!?!?" Ash asked with a gleam of boyish excitement in his eyes. Misty couldn't help suppress a smile. No matter how old he got, Ash still had as much zeal as when he was 10 years old.
"Yup, she's real cute, too. She looks a lot like a dolphin too except she has..." Misty's remark was cut short as a car side-swiped her brand new car.
"Hey that's the same car that almost crashed into me this morning!!!" Misty screamed as she slammed on the brakes. The offending green car then had the audacity to then cut Misty off. To add to the insult, the bummer sticker displayed "I break for no one" which made Misty even madder.
"Who does he think he is?!? King of the road?!?" Misty yelled at the car in front her.
"Hey Misty, isn't the gym the other way?" Ash pointed out the sign, as Misty put on her blinker.
"No one hits Misty Aurora Waterflower and gets away with it." Misty said dangerously as she revved the motor.
"Misty, I don't think this is such a good idea," remarked Ash, who for once in his life was being cautious, "maybe we could just...waah!!!!" Ash screamed, his face smacking hard against the window as Misty made a hard left.
"PIKA!!!"
***
In about a half an hour Misty and Ash had seen all of Cerulean in a whirlwind tour, courtesy of Misty's little Ford.
"Misty, that's the fifth red light you've run already..."Ash complained as he tried to hold down his breakfast. Misty didn't offer any response as she weaved, her attention completely focused. The green car knew he was being pursued. And he definitely didn't want to pay the bill, even if it was minuscule. Whoever was in the car was either very stupid or very drunk. And Misty was way past just angry...
"When I get a hold of him, I'm going to give dose of my Dragon Rage Attack!!!"
"Where in the hell are the cops when you need them?!?"
***
Little did Ash know that the cops were right in front of the place were he would most like to be, the Cerulean City gym. Coincidentally, Officers Mihoshi and Kiyone had traffic patrol today.
"Kiyone are you almost done there?" yawned Mihoshi sleepily, her eyelids drooping with fatigue.
"No Mihoshi, I'm not done," Kiyone responded curtly.
"Oh ok, when you do finish could we get a cup of coffee?" Mihoshi asked as Kiyone almost face-faulted.
"Mihoshi."
"Yes."
"What does a job of a traffic cop entail?" Kiyone asked, her eyes narrowing.
"Um...writing tickets?"
"That's right. And when do people ever stop violating traffic laws?"
"Never?"
"Well...NEVER IS WHEN WE ARE GOING TO BE DONE!!!!" Kiyone shouted, her anger reaching the boiling point, "NEED I REMIND YOU THAT YOU'RE THE REASON WE WERE DEMOTED TWICE TO THIS POSITION?"
"Wah! I didn't know they were really the bad guys, I thought they were cos-players!" Mihoshi whined, on the verge of tears. Kiyone sighed, although she was still angry, she felt pity for her partner who had to deal with her vicious onslaught.
"Listen Mihoshi, if we can finish up 34th and 35th street, there is a Dinky Donuts on 36th..."
"Donuts!!!" Mihoshi yelled, life coming to her as she opened up her pad and started writing mountains of tickets.
***
"There's the gym!" Ash cried, pointing feverishly to the gym that was only a block or two before them. The chase had wound down considerably as Misty was only about a foot away from the green car's back bumper.
"He'll be out of gas soon," was all Misty said. Though they had been going over the speed limit at times, the car in front of Misty had slowed to some twenty miles per hour.
"Misty look out!" yelled Ash as a Ratata darted from in between the parked cars. Misty severed to the left avoiding making the Ratata road kill, but smashed into the fire hydrant. The force of the blow knocked the cap of the hydrant off and sent the water flowing up like a mini geyser. Misty's car(which was practically brand new) now had a lovely U-shaped front.
"Oh my gosh, like, what happened? Are you all ok?" Lily yelled, running out of the gym which, coincidentally, the fire hydrant had been in front of.
"Yea, we're fine," came a muffled voice as the occupants of the car tried to make their way out of the air bags.
"Damn it, that's the second time this month!" cried Violet, running out of the gym with her half eaten sandwich, "Hey Misty, did you have another bad-break up or something?" The two sisters ran towards the accident as the two figures and a Pikachu finally got themselves free.
"Bad break-up?" asked the man, who had wriggled free from the passenger's side of the car. The two sisters turned their attention to the new arrival, in which Violet recognized as...
"Hey Ash! You should know about bad break-ups; you and Misty were...Ow!" Violet cried as Lily stomped her foot.
"...Best friends," Lily interrupted, trying to save the conversation from taking a nasty turn, "You were best friends all this time, and you still don't know that you should never get in a car with Misty. Heh heh heh." Ash chuckled slightly at this and looked towards Misty's direction.
"Let's see, that's one for speeding, and one for reckless endangerment with a vehicle," Officer Kiyone said as she gave Misty her tickets.
"Don't forget, parking in a fire zone," added Mihoshi.
"Correct, Officer Mihoshi," said Kiyone, who was oddly cheery as she began to write out another ticket.
"You're here to see the gym, right?" Violet asked.
"Yea, for an inspection."
"Ok then, lets go inside," Lily responded as she ushered Violet and Ash into the gym, "Misty will be there for a while..."
***
Three more tickets later the tired Misty staggered into the gym.
"Hello Misty," Daisy said, not looking up from her magazine, "did you know your boyfriend is here?"
"I did drive Ash here...but he is not my boyfriend!" Misty screamed at Daisy, who sat at the gym reception and was un-phased by Misty's ranting.
"Aww, come on Misty..."
"We broke up a long time ago!" she yelled, though her voice seemed very shaky.
His words still echoed in her mind.
"I never want to see you ever again!!!"
"Misty why did he, like, come and see you at the office?" Daisy quizzed as she looked Misty in the eyes. Obviously she had been filled in by Violet on what happened.
"Because he needed directions," Misty answered uncertainly.
" Misty wake up and smell roses, he obviously came back too see you again."
"Wrong," Misty argued mentally, "He was happy, perfectly happy, when he left her and he is perfectly happy now..."
"Misty," Daisy said, interrupting Misty's inner monologue, "I've seen the way you act around him or when, like, someone mentions his name. You know, I can tell you thinking about him right now by the expression on your face. You clearly still have a thing for him, and maybe he still has one for you too. If you two could sort things out then, like, you might be able to have something." At this, Misty was speechless. This was probably the best piece of sisterly advice she had ever gotten in her entire life. However, it was probably the most idealistic piece of advice. Deep down, she wished Daisy was right, but how could they get together after what they had said to each other.
"But hey," continued Daisy, "you better hurry, or ,like, Violet or Lily will snatch him up at the rate your going."
"Ha ha, very funny Daze..." Misty said sarcastically. It was now Daisy's turn to blush crimson as Misty had called her the name she so despised. But her embracement was short lived as she flashed Misty a devious smile and pressed the call button.
"Paging Pokemon master Ash Ketchum, there is a fiery red head here who wants.."
"Oh no you don't," Misty screamed as she leapt up on the desk. Misty tried to grab the mike, but only succeeded in knocking both Daisy and herself the floor.
"To put her hands down you p- gaah" Daisy sputtered as Misty strangled her, unleashing her ultimate(and super pent up) rage attack.....
"Big Sister = Big Trouble"
Ending Blurb: Damn that was a crazy chapter!!! Heh...Heh...Heh...Right. Anyways...every Friday is posting day and that's when usually the next part is put up unless something drastic happens. Please read and review!!! Thank you and goodnight!
~eek!~