*happily drinking her iced-tea* Here's the next part to "The Hidden League".
Sorry this took so long, I had this part almost finished around Christmas... but then Christmas
came, then New Years', then my birthday, and when I finally came to finish this, I hated how
the chapter went, so I rewrote the entire chapter.
I don't own Pokemon, but I do own Eric, Cory, Shawn, and a few other things that came out
in this fic.
Translation of PokeTalk is in [ ].
Quote of the Fic: "A lifetime can be two days; it needs only a birth at the beginning and a
death at the end." The Princess from the story 'Stronger than Time' in the "Book of
Enchantments"
Part 3 of "The Hidden League"
"Discoveries"
~~
When the group of Pokemon trainers got back from the brief battle with Team Rocket, the ones
with cloaks hung them up, and then Lance sent Ash, Brock, and Pikachu off to the boys' dorm to
get some of their stuff organized. Ash paused for a moment, but Misty, who was standing next
to Lance, spoke up.
"Ash, go!" The tone Misty used surprised Ash and Pikachu and they immediately headed for the
dorm, Ash dragging Brock in tow.
"You don't use that tone often," Erika said, quietly.
"I don't like to use that tone, but they don't need to know everything. Not yet, not now,"
Misty said, her eyes downcast.
"It's for the best, mistress of water, we don't know if they hold any powers or not," Sabrina
said, and teleported herself to the girls' dorm to get something.
"Well, go down into a training room, and take your elemental form. Don't forget to call your
guide," Lance said.
The group nodded and walked off to where Lance had pointed.
"What's going on?" Ash asked from where he and Brock had hid.
Brock shrugged. "I have no clue, but Misty knows what is."
"Pika chu! Pika pi! Pika, Pikachu!" Pikachu said. [Sabrina referred to Misty as 'mistress of
water'.]
"You're right, Pikachu, so what is going on?!" Ash mused.
~~
Later That Night...
"Ash, come here, I need to take measurements for your cloak." Misty said, a tape measurer in
hand.
Ash nodded, and walked over to where Misty stood. He thought about asking her what he over
heard, but then he realized he probably wouldn't be getting a straight answer.
"Misty, are we going to learn how to fight soon, hand to hand," Ash asked as Misty instructed
him to hold his hands straight out in the air.
"Probably tomorrow with Lance. Now I need your shoulders with your arms down. Good." Misty
instructed.
"This is a cloak, why do you need my arms and such," Ash asked.
"It needs to be able to hold, and hide, your shoulders well and I need to know where to stitch
the hidden pocket for your PokeBalls," Misty said, "Good, arms bent."
"You're stitching this?!" Ash asked, frozen in mid-movement.
"Arms bent!" Misty snapped.
"Oh, sorry," Ash said, and did as Misty had ordered.
"Yes, I'm the main sewer here. Erika will help, but Sabrina doesn't sew very well," Misty
replied.
Ash frowned. "You sew?"
"I didn't sew much when I was with you, but it became a must when I got back home." Misty said,
as she marked her last measurement down on a piece of paper.
"I'm free?" Ash asked.
Misty nodded. "Scram."
"You doing anything tonight?" Ash asked, and then he mentally hit himself at how much that
sounded like a date.
Misty's eyes smiled more than her lips. "How about a walk around the area so I can show you
the best places to hide from Team Rocket?"
"Sure." Ash replied, a smile dancing on his lips.
After a quick okay from Lance, Misty grabbed a PokeBall from her room and then she and Ash
quickly disappeared.
"You're not taking Pikachu?" Misty asked, as she made sure everything was okay outside the
entrance.
"Let Pikachu rest," Ash said.
~~
"Okay, see that big oak tree over there? Well, behind it is an emergency entrance to the base.
It lands you in the kitchen. Down by the stream is another one, under a fake fern bush.
It sticks you in..." Misty paused for a moment in thought, "Oh, it sticks you in the storage
room for vegetables."
"Is that all of the entrances?" Ash asked, hoping for more time out in the night with Misty.
Misty looked thoughtful for a minute, enjoying her time with Ash. "No. It's all the entrances
Lance ever showed me. There may be more, but I don't know of them."
A thoughtful pause passed before the two. Misty was enjoying the still of the night. Ash was
enjoying Misty in the moonlight, drinking in her appearance.
"Misty?" Ash asked softly.
"What is it Ash?"
"Why don't you smile you used to? Your smiles seem fake, maybe forced. If you do smile,
you eyes don't show it like they used to, nor do you smile as much as you used to," Ash said.
"I don't know. My niece, her name was Rose. She was full of life, and she adored me.
She was only three, but she showed such promise in the water trait that is in our blood.
Her father wasn't much of one, he was always going hither or thither..." Misty said as Ash
interrupted her.
"Hither and thither?"
"Here and there. I picked those up from Daisy's husband. He always liked using big words or
odd words since he had more of an education then we all did. I did surprise that day he caught
me reading a dictionary. His facial expression was priceless. Any how, Daisy wasn't the
motherly type, and Violet and Lily thought what Daisy did with Rose was Daisy's business.
I had my hands full with getting the gym reopened..."
"Reopened?" Ash questioned.
Misty slid to the ground, her back against the tree, "Yeah, they literally run the gym into the
ground. Well, Rose was almost 3 then..."
"Misty you were only 13!"
"Almost 14. I'll be nineteen soon. No one exactly told me when Daisy had became pregnant;
I just came home and found out. Of course, Daisy was 6 years older than me. Rose kept me
going. She the light that kept both me and Daisy going. I don't think there was any time in
the world that Daisy and I were any closer then when we both kept our eyes on Rose. But then
Team Rocket came, I was only with them 9 months. Beloved Rose was gone. My sisters were
gone. My brother-in-law just didn't care. I guess that's why I don't smile any more. Rose
brought sunshine to my life, and then she was gone, just like night and day." Misty said, her
eyes glazed over.
"I'm sorry Misty," Ash said.
"It wasn't your fault," Misty said dryly.
"I kinda noticed," Ash replied, just as dryly.
Misty smiled. "The only time I smile now are when I'm with Eric and Erika. They're kinda
like my adoptive siblings. Occasionally I laugh, but my heart is too heavy still. I know I
should be over it by now, but the lose was too great." Misty said softly.
"None of you are that close to Sabrina are you?" Ash asked.
"Only Eric," Misty replied, and then looked out at the moon, "We had better head back to the
base. We don't want anyone to worry."
Ash nodded and they both started off for the base.
~~
"They should be back by now," Erika said, almost pacing.
"Calm down, Erika, they'll be back soon." Brock said.
"Pi, Pikachu." Pikachu said, still upset that Ash hadn't woke it up to go along with them.
[They'll be back. Ash wouldn't leave me here alone.]
Everyone looked up as Misty and Ash entered the base.
"I was worried about ya Mist," Erika said, taking Misty from Ash's side, and dragging her
off to the room all three girls shared.
"Thanks for the concern," Misty replied, sarcasm lacing her voice.
Sabrina smiled to the boys, "Goodnight."
All the guys watched as Sabrina shook her head, just as she and Erika began to get into
another fight. Misty sighed and just walked along, yawning.
"Are they always liked that?" Brock asked.
"Yes," Eric, Shawn, and Cory simultaneously.
"I'm taking their cue and going to bed," Ash said as he started off towards the boys' dorm.
Brock grinned his goodnight to the boys as he chased after Ash and bugging him about what
he and Misty did as they walked along in the moonlight.
~~
Urghh, it's a little shorter than normal, but this hasn't been a good week for me, so
LIVE WITH IT!
Reviews will make my week better and the next part come out sooner. I know this didn't have
much Ash and Misty romance in it, but I needed to get done with this part, and the story on
Rose, so sorry. More next time, I promise.
Peace, Love, and the Moon!
Moonfairy2000
Sorry this took so long, I had this part almost finished around Christmas... but then Christmas
came, then New Years', then my birthday, and when I finally came to finish this, I hated how
the chapter went, so I rewrote the entire chapter.
I don't own Pokemon, but I do own Eric, Cory, Shawn, and a few other things that came out
in this fic.
Translation of PokeTalk is in [ ].
Quote of the Fic: "A lifetime can be two days; it needs only a birth at the beginning and a
death at the end." The Princess from the story 'Stronger than Time' in the "Book of
Enchantments"
Part 3 of "The Hidden League"
"Discoveries"
~~
When the group of Pokemon trainers got back from the brief battle with Team Rocket, the ones
with cloaks hung them up, and then Lance sent Ash, Brock, and Pikachu off to the boys' dorm to
get some of their stuff organized. Ash paused for a moment, but Misty, who was standing next
to Lance, spoke up.
"Ash, go!" The tone Misty used surprised Ash and Pikachu and they immediately headed for the
dorm, Ash dragging Brock in tow.
"You don't use that tone often," Erika said, quietly.
"I don't like to use that tone, but they don't need to know everything. Not yet, not now,"
Misty said, her eyes downcast.
"It's for the best, mistress of water, we don't know if they hold any powers or not," Sabrina
said, and teleported herself to the girls' dorm to get something.
"Well, go down into a training room, and take your elemental form. Don't forget to call your
guide," Lance said.
The group nodded and walked off to where Lance had pointed.
"What's going on?" Ash asked from where he and Brock had hid.
Brock shrugged. "I have no clue, but Misty knows what is."
"Pika chu! Pika pi! Pika, Pikachu!" Pikachu said. [Sabrina referred to Misty as 'mistress of
water'.]
"You're right, Pikachu, so what is going on?!" Ash mused.
~~
Later That Night...
"Ash, come here, I need to take measurements for your cloak." Misty said, a tape measurer in
hand.
Ash nodded, and walked over to where Misty stood. He thought about asking her what he over
heard, but then he realized he probably wouldn't be getting a straight answer.
"Misty, are we going to learn how to fight soon, hand to hand," Ash asked as Misty instructed
him to hold his hands straight out in the air.
"Probably tomorrow with Lance. Now I need your shoulders with your arms down. Good." Misty
instructed.
"This is a cloak, why do you need my arms and such," Ash asked.
"It needs to be able to hold, and hide, your shoulders well and I need to know where to stitch
the hidden pocket for your PokeBalls," Misty said, "Good, arms bent."
"You're stitching this?!" Ash asked, frozen in mid-movement.
"Arms bent!" Misty snapped.
"Oh, sorry," Ash said, and did as Misty had ordered.
"Yes, I'm the main sewer here. Erika will help, but Sabrina doesn't sew very well," Misty
replied.
Ash frowned. "You sew?"
"I didn't sew much when I was with you, but it became a must when I got back home." Misty said,
as she marked her last measurement down on a piece of paper.
"I'm free?" Ash asked.
Misty nodded. "Scram."
"You doing anything tonight?" Ash asked, and then he mentally hit himself at how much that
sounded like a date.
Misty's eyes smiled more than her lips. "How about a walk around the area so I can show you
the best places to hide from Team Rocket?"
"Sure." Ash replied, a smile dancing on his lips.
After a quick okay from Lance, Misty grabbed a PokeBall from her room and then she and Ash
quickly disappeared.
"You're not taking Pikachu?" Misty asked, as she made sure everything was okay outside the
entrance.
"Let Pikachu rest," Ash said.
~~
"Okay, see that big oak tree over there? Well, behind it is an emergency entrance to the base.
It lands you in the kitchen. Down by the stream is another one, under a fake fern bush.
It sticks you in..." Misty paused for a moment in thought, "Oh, it sticks you in the storage
room for vegetables."
"Is that all of the entrances?" Ash asked, hoping for more time out in the night with Misty.
Misty looked thoughtful for a minute, enjoying her time with Ash. "No. It's all the entrances
Lance ever showed me. There may be more, but I don't know of them."
A thoughtful pause passed before the two. Misty was enjoying the still of the night. Ash was
enjoying Misty in the moonlight, drinking in her appearance.
"Misty?" Ash asked softly.
"What is it Ash?"
"Why don't you smile you used to? Your smiles seem fake, maybe forced. If you do smile,
you eyes don't show it like they used to, nor do you smile as much as you used to," Ash said.
"I don't know. My niece, her name was Rose. She was full of life, and she adored me.
She was only three, but she showed such promise in the water trait that is in our blood.
Her father wasn't much of one, he was always going hither or thither..." Misty said as Ash
interrupted her.
"Hither and thither?"
"Here and there. I picked those up from Daisy's husband. He always liked using big words or
odd words since he had more of an education then we all did. I did surprise that day he caught
me reading a dictionary. His facial expression was priceless. Any how, Daisy wasn't the
motherly type, and Violet and Lily thought what Daisy did with Rose was Daisy's business.
I had my hands full with getting the gym reopened..."
"Reopened?" Ash questioned.
Misty slid to the ground, her back against the tree, "Yeah, they literally run the gym into the
ground. Well, Rose was almost 3 then..."
"Misty you were only 13!"
"Almost 14. I'll be nineteen soon. No one exactly told me when Daisy had became pregnant;
I just came home and found out. Of course, Daisy was 6 years older than me. Rose kept me
going. She the light that kept both me and Daisy going. I don't think there was any time in
the world that Daisy and I were any closer then when we both kept our eyes on Rose. But then
Team Rocket came, I was only with them 9 months. Beloved Rose was gone. My sisters were
gone. My brother-in-law just didn't care. I guess that's why I don't smile any more. Rose
brought sunshine to my life, and then she was gone, just like night and day." Misty said, her
eyes glazed over.
"I'm sorry Misty," Ash said.
"It wasn't your fault," Misty said dryly.
"I kinda noticed," Ash replied, just as dryly.
Misty smiled. "The only time I smile now are when I'm with Eric and Erika. They're kinda
like my adoptive siblings. Occasionally I laugh, but my heart is too heavy still. I know I
should be over it by now, but the lose was too great." Misty said softly.
"None of you are that close to Sabrina are you?" Ash asked.
"Only Eric," Misty replied, and then looked out at the moon, "We had better head back to the
base. We don't want anyone to worry."
Ash nodded and they both started off for the base.
~~
"They should be back by now," Erika said, almost pacing.
"Calm down, Erika, they'll be back soon." Brock said.
"Pi, Pikachu." Pikachu said, still upset that Ash hadn't woke it up to go along with them.
[They'll be back. Ash wouldn't leave me here alone.]
Everyone looked up as Misty and Ash entered the base.
"I was worried about ya Mist," Erika said, taking Misty from Ash's side, and dragging her
off to the room all three girls shared.
"Thanks for the concern," Misty replied, sarcasm lacing her voice.
Sabrina smiled to the boys, "Goodnight."
All the guys watched as Sabrina shook her head, just as she and Erika began to get into
another fight. Misty sighed and just walked along, yawning.
"Are they always liked that?" Brock asked.
"Yes," Eric, Shawn, and Cory simultaneously.
"I'm taking their cue and going to bed," Ash said as he started off towards the boys' dorm.
Brock grinned his goodnight to the boys as he chased after Ash and bugging him about what
he and Misty did as they walked along in the moonlight.
~~
Urghh, it's a little shorter than normal, but this hasn't been a good week for me, so
LIVE WITH IT!
Reviews will make my week better and the next part come out sooner. I know this didn't have
much Ash and Misty romance in it, but I needed to get done with this part, and the story on
Rose, so sorry. More next time, I promise.
Peace, Love, and the Moon!
Moonfairy2000