**Part two, Mishaps and Revelations**
Misty ran on, still dragging Ash, but even though she was racing as fast as she could for the beach, her mind was racing faster, among other things. Why hadn't Ash told her? And what would happen if they didn't reach the water in time? She knew the answer to the second, but she didn't want to talk about it. Pikachu kept looking back at Ash, as if he might dissapear from sight when Pikachu looked away. Misty's breath soon came in gasps. Things were happening faster than she thought they would. She paused to get a drink.
This was all the time Team Rocket needed. They had been following Ash and co all day, waiting for the right moment to set their plan into action. Jessie was startled when she saw the fins that Misty and Ash both had, but knew what it meant. As a small girl she had always enjoyed tales of mermaids and mermen. She had read all the books about them that she could find. Including one that claimed to be fact.
It had said that merpeople can 'walk among humans' for a while, for they can change from fin to legs. But on the day of their thirteenth birthday, they need to get in their home waters before sunset or they would never be able to go on land again. She remembered it saying that merpeople have small fins on their arms, exactly like the ones both Misty and Ash had. She had learned that on their thirteenth birthday, merpeople go through a series of fast stages.
First, increasing thirst. Then, the small fins come out. Third, they would start to need water to survive for more than a half hour. Then, at the fourth stage, their legs would begin the slow change into a fin, each becoming a seperate one. Then, finally, they would gain a fin at exactly sundown. If not in their home waters before this happens, they will be permanently in their mermaid or, merman, form for all of their lives. Which, if they're too far from water, are no longer than a few hours.
Jessie watched the third stage start to happen. She knew that without water Misty and Ash would not survive for more than a half hour. As cold as her heart may have seemed, she had a new compassion for these two. she wanted them to make it on time, but she couldn't let her companions know. She had to be the tough one, the rule enhancer. She was known only for fulfilling her duty at all cost. She couldn't show that she did not want this to be done. She watched, slightly sadly, as she knew that her plan would for certain, delay Misty and Ash too long. That they wouldn't make it. Jessie stared at them, a small tear almost falling from her eye.
"So, what do you tink?" Jessie hastily wiped the tear from her eye, and turned towards Meowth.
"What?" She asked, in an unusually soft voice.
"What do you tink of my plan?" Jessie got on guard, knowing that Meowth would probably scratch her if not careful.
"I wasn't listening. I've got better things to do!" Meowth was suprised. For once, Jessie hadn't said anything insulting. Well, not the way she usually did. Normally she would yell at him, call him things like 'mangy fleabag,' 'idiot'; those kind of things. But this time, it as as if she was preoccupied. Meowth considered a reply for a moment and then answered.
"Oh, dat's alright." With that, he sank behind her.
Meanwhile, Misty was starting to feel faint. She knew that the majority of it was from her next problem arising, but she also knew that Ash was slowing her down considerably. She jerked him to his feet. Ash blinked and then, seeing his arms with fins, he remembered the mermaid again. She had had fins on her arms too. It was then that he realized-or, he would have, if he hadn't been so dense. He also would have fainted again if not for Pikachu continuously shocking him.
"You'll explain later." Misty hissed. Ash looked blank. Pikachu forced him to run by shocking him every time he fell behind. For Pikachu was sure that Ash had no clue to what he as, or at least for why he had to hurry. But they couldn't continue, for a hole fell open underneath them, and suprisingly, it wasn't dirt as they expected. Jessie had secretly lined it with marble and, dn't ask me why, dropped air cushins in too.She did this to foil their own plan, as she didn't want them to be slowed down, but what choice did she have? She left it up to them to escape. Sadly, though, they couldn't get out.
"Ow...." (Honestly, I don't know where that boy gets it. He didn't hurt himself. He landed on air cushins! ::::rolls eyes:::: That boy can be sooooo dense.)
"Pika pika, pikachu pika chu?" [How do we get out of here?] Misty was suprising. She repeated almost the same thing Pikachu said!
"That was... unexpected, but how do we get out of here?"
"Unfortunatly for you, you won't be getting out of there anytime soon, except for Pikachu that is." Ash, Misty and Pikachu looked up and there was Team Rocket. After saying their 'traditional' motto, James got out a new contraption. (Or maybe it's not as new. They have so many gadgets it's hard to tell.) It was a long metal claw that reached down and grabbed Pikachu.
"Now, youse guys!" Meowth shouted and Jessie and James spontaneously heaved what looked like a giant aquarium with no bottom, and lifted it over the hole. It started filling up with water. Jessie had insisted on this. Though Ash and Misty didn't know this, of course. James and Meowth started to walk away. Jessie hung around for a few minutes. James turned toward her, slightly worried. She'd been acting strangely all day.
"You coming Jess?" Ash and Misty looked at each other. They knew something was up between the two human members of Team Rocket. What they didn't know however, was that they themselves had something up between them. Jessie turned towards James.
"In a few minutes."
"Oh, okay. Should I wait?"
"No, you go on ahead. I'll catch up."
"Okay..."
"Go on. I'll be fine. Think about it. I've survived more in my life than this."
"Oh, all right..."
"Go on." James walked off. After making sure James was totally out of sight, she lifted out the hose that was inserting water and dropped a bottle down inside. Ash being Ash, got hit in the head with the bottle. Misty at first wondered why she woud drop a bottle in there, but then she saw that there was actually a note in it! Jessie smiled slightly and walked away. Misty notice she had left the hose out of it, and had left some room in the main tank for air. Misty was suprised, but she had other things to tend to at the moment. Paticulurly Ash. He had been knocked unconscious. Misty was worried. If he didn't wake up soon, the fourth stage would begin.
Meanwhile, while unconscious, Ash was having worries of his own, a completely different kind. He was dreaming again. Once more of the black haired mermaid, but a different one too. This time, Ash was swimming once more, but towards another per- er, mermaid. Another lady mermaid was swimming towards them, and there was also a young girlish mermaid. Ash seemed to be only watching, while the Ash in his dream did everything else. But Ash soon realized, he also felt what this Ash felt.
The two adult mermaids talked together, having a conversation. The one talking the most had blue-green hair and sapphire colored eyes. The younger mermaid had orangish red hair and green-blue eyes. For some reason, he felt... attracted to this young mermaid. Maybe it was because she reminded him of Misty. But a part of him knew that it was actually this other Ash that he seemed to be at the same time felt that way.
((((Hi, I am Misty.)))) The girl mermaid said shyly. She couldn't have been more than six or seven. ((((H....h....hi.)))) (Author's note: Seems kinda odd to be able to stutter, considering that merperson language(In this, of course) consists more of clicks and whistles, don't you think?) Ash felt himself blush at the same moment Mi- wait a second, wait a second! Ash was startled by this. This mermaid had the same name as Misty. He then realized something else. This was Misty. The Misty he knew.
Ash figured it out, at last. This wasn't a dream; this was a forgotten memory! That konk on the head when the Tentacruel attacked must have caused him to lose his memory. As if in a flash, he regained his memory. All of it. He also kept the memories of the time when he didn't know what he truely was. He remembered all that was going on right as he was remembering it, and he knew for certain that this little mermaid was Misty. The Misty he knew. The Misty he-er, was friends with. Very good friends. Aw, good grief. The Misty he l...l...l...l...loved.
He blinked his eyes, and woke up. Coming to full comsciousness in a matter of minutes, he was a little suprised to see that Team Rocket had left a way to escape. The area where the hose had been was big enough for a person to fit through.(Did I mention that when Ash lost his memory, he became(slightly) more stupid, and when he regained it, he regained his intelligance too?) He explained this to Misty who seems slightly shocked.
Smiling from behind a tree a short distance away, Jessie watched as the two escaped. Then she followed them. Checking her watch, she grew worried. Those two had less than half an hour until sunset! She went and got the Rocket Jeep, and drove slowly towards them. Ash was slightly nervous, but Misty showed him the note. Afterwards they jumped in, and Jessie sped off. The jeep swerved around trees, turned corners sharply, and did all kinds of weird things.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE THIS THING?!" Misty had to shout because the wind drowned out her voice.
"NO!" Jessie shouted, laughing as she swerved around another tree. Soon they reached a bit more of a better(and slightly safer-maybe) driving place. They were at a meadow. as Jessie drove, the next stage started. Ash's and Misty's legs became seperate fins. Misty checked her watch(where'd she get that?) And saw that they had less than ten minutes. Jessie also noticed this, and sped up.
After five minutes, the beach was still not in sight. Jessie sped up again. Then, with just a few seconds to go, they came out on the beach. Ash and Misty spontaneously jumped out of the still-moving jeep into the water. Misty, however, wasn't looking. A Tentacruel was there, and reached out to sting her. Ash was parylized with fear, remembering what had happened to his mother years ago. Misty looked up and saw it, about to sting her. She too, was parylized with fear.
Suddenly, something knocked her out of the way, but got stung itself. Misty's eyes, as well as Ash's, widened in suprise. Jessie weakly tried to swim to the surface, but she couldn't make it. Misty and Ash looked at each other, and in unspoken agreement, dove down towards Jessie. Each grabbing one arm, they swam towards the surface, Jessie in tow. Jessie was only semi-conscious, and didn't know that they were there. She still tried to swim up.
Quickly, they reached the shore and laid Jessie down on it. James, who had heard the jeep driving ran up at that moment with Meowth in tow, as well as Pikachu in a cage. At the sight of Jessie, he dropped them both. Pikachu burst out of the cage strait to Ash. James ran over to Jessie and knelt down beside her. He looked towards them, pure anguish and worry in his eyes.
"W...What happened to her...?" He asked, quietly.
"I'm afraid a Tentacruel stung her just a few minutes ago." Misty answered, quietly. James' face paled. Everyone knew the deadly power of a Tentacruel's sting. He quickly called an ambulance. A few minutes passed. Jessie was getting worse, and fast. With the ambulance no where to be found, Jessie's fate looked grim...
(End part two)
Misty ran on, still dragging Ash, but even though she was racing as fast as she could for the beach, her mind was racing faster, among other things. Why hadn't Ash told her? And what would happen if they didn't reach the water in time? She knew the answer to the second, but she didn't want to talk about it. Pikachu kept looking back at Ash, as if he might dissapear from sight when Pikachu looked away. Misty's breath soon came in gasps. Things were happening faster than she thought they would. She paused to get a drink.
This was all the time Team Rocket needed. They had been following Ash and co all day, waiting for the right moment to set their plan into action. Jessie was startled when she saw the fins that Misty and Ash both had, but knew what it meant. As a small girl she had always enjoyed tales of mermaids and mermen. She had read all the books about them that she could find. Including one that claimed to be fact.
It had said that merpeople can 'walk among humans' for a while, for they can change from fin to legs. But on the day of their thirteenth birthday, they need to get in their home waters before sunset or they would never be able to go on land again. She remembered it saying that merpeople have small fins on their arms, exactly like the ones both Misty and Ash had. She had learned that on their thirteenth birthday, merpeople go through a series of fast stages.
First, increasing thirst. Then, the small fins come out. Third, they would start to need water to survive for more than a half hour. Then, at the fourth stage, their legs would begin the slow change into a fin, each becoming a seperate one. Then, finally, they would gain a fin at exactly sundown. If not in their home waters before this happens, they will be permanently in their mermaid or, merman, form for all of their lives. Which, if they're too far from water, are no longer than a few hours.
Jessie watched the third stage start to happen. She knew that without water Misty and Ash would not survive for more than a half hour. As cold as her heart may have seemed, she had a new compassion for these two. she wanted them to make it on time, but she couldn't let her companions know. She had to be the tough one, the rule enhancer. She was known only for fulfilling her duty at all cost. She couldn't show that she did not want this to be done. She watched, slightly sadly, as she knew that her plan would for certain, delay Misty and Ash too long. That they wouldn't make it. Jessie stared at them, a small tear almost falling from her eye.
"So, what do you tink?" Jessie hastily wiped the tear from her eye, and turned towards Meowth.
"What?" She asked, in an unusually soft voice.
"What do you tink of my plan?" Jessie got on guard, knowing that Meowth would probably scratch her if not careful.
"I wasn't listening. I've got better things to do!" Meowth was suprised. For once, Jessie hadn't said anything insulting. Well, not the way she usually did. Normally she would yell at him, call him things like 'mangy fleabag,' 'idiot'; those kind of things. But this time, it as as if she was preoccupied. Meowth considered a reply for a moment and then answered.
"Oh, dat's alright." With that, he sank behind her.
Meanwhile, Misty was starting to feel faint. She knew that the majority of it was from her next problem arising, but she also knew that Ash was slowing her down considerably. She jerked him to his feet. Ash blinked and then, seeing his arms with fins, he remembered the mermaid again. She had had fins on her arms too. It was then that he realized-or, he would have, if he hadn't been so dense. He also would have fainted again if not for Pikachu continuously shocking him.
"You'll explain later." Misty hissed. Ash looked blank. Pikachu forced him to run by shocking him every time he fell behind. For Pikachu was sure that Ash had no clue to what he as, or at least for why he had to hurry. But they couldn't continue, for a hole fell open underneath them, and suprisingly, it wasn't dirt as they expected. Jessie had secretly lined it with marble and, dn't ask me why, dropped air cushins in too.She did this to foil their own plan, as she didn't want them to be slowed down, but what choice did she have? She left it up to them to escape. Sadly, though, they couldn't get out.
"Ow...." (Honestly, I don't know where that boy gets it. He didn't hurt himself. He landed on air cushins! ::::rolls eyes:::: That boy can be sooooo dense.)
"Pika pika, pikachu pika chu?" [How do we get out of here?] Misty was suprising. She repeated almost the same thing Pikachu said!
"That was... unexpected, but how do we get out of here?"
"Unfortunatly for you, you won't be getting out of there anytime soon, except for Pikachu that is." Ash, Misty and Pikachu looked up and there was Team Rocket. After saying their 'traditional' motto, James got out a new contraption. (Or maybe it's not as new. They have so many gadgets it's hard to tell.) It was a long metal claw that reached down and grabbed Pikachu.
"Now, youse guys!" Meowth shouted and Jessie and James spontaneously heaved what looked like a giant aquarium with no bottom, and lifted it over the hole. It started filling up with water. Jessie had insisted on this. Though Ash and Misty didn't know this, of course. James and Meowth started to walk away. Jessie hung around for a few minutes. James turned toward her, slightly worried. She'd been acting strangely all day.
"You coming Jess?" Ash and Misty looked at each other. They knew something was up between the two human members of Team Rocket. What they didn't know however, was that they themselves had something up between them. Jessie turned towards James.
"In a few minutes."
"Oh, okay. Should I wait?"
"No, you go on ahead. I'll catch up."
"Okay..."
"Go on. I'll be fine. Think about it. I've survived more in my life than this."
"Oh, all right..."
"Go on." James walked off. After making sure James was totally out of sight, she lifted out the hose that was inserting water and dropped a bottle down inside. Ash being Ash, got hit in the head with the bottle. Misty at first wondered why she woud drop a bottle in there, but then she saw that there was actually a note in it! Jessie smiled slightly and walked away. Misty notice she had left the hose out of it, and had left some room in the main tank for air. Misty was suprised, but she had other things to tend to at the moment. Paticulurly Ash. He had been knocked unconscious. Misty was worried. If he didn't wake up soon, the fourth stage would begin.
Meanwhile, while unconscious, Ash was having worries of his own, a completely different kind. He was dreaming again. Once more of the black haired mermaid, but a different one too. This time, Ash was swimming once more, but towards another per- er, mermaid. Another lady mermaid was swimming towards them, and there was also a young girlish mermaid. Ash seemed to be only watching, while the Ash in his dream did everything else. But Ash soon realized, he also felt what this Ash felt.
The two adult mermaids talked together, having a conversation. The one talking the most had blue-green hair and sapphire colored eyes. The younger mermaid had orangish red hair and green-blue eyes. For some reason, he felt... attracted to this young mermaid. Maybe it was because she reminded him of Misty. But a part of him knew that it was actually this other Ash that he seemed to be at the same time felt that way.
((((Hi, I am Misty.)))) The girl mermaid said shyly. She couldn't have been more than six or seven. ((((H....h....hi.)))) (Author's note: Seems kinda odd to be able to stutter, considering that merperson language(In this, of course) consists more of clicks and whistles, don't you think?) Ash felt himself blush at the same moment Mi- wait a second, wait a second! Ash was startled by this. This mermaid had the same name as Misty. He then realized something else. This was Misty. The Misty he knew.
Ash figured it out, at last. This wasn't a dream; this was a forgotten memory! That konk on the head when the Tentacruel attacked must have caused him to lose his memory. As if in a flash, he regained his memory. All of it. He also kept the memories of the time when he didn't know what he truely was. He remembered all that was going on right as he was remembering it, and he knew for certain that this little mermaid was Misty. The Misty he knew. The Misty he-er, was friends with. Very good friends. Aw, good grief. The Misty he l...l...l...l...loved.
He blinked his eyes, and woke up. Coming to full comsciousness in a matter of minutes, he was a little suprised to see that Team Rocket had left a way to escape. The area where the hose had been was big enough for a person to fit through.(Did I mention that when Ash lost his memory, he became(slightly) more stupid, and when he regained it, he regained his intelligance too?) He explained this to Misty who seems slightly shocked.
Smiling from behind a tree a short distance away, Jessie watched as the two escaped. Then she followed them. Checking her watch, she grew worried. Those two had less than half an hour until sunset! She went and got the Rocket Jeep, and drove slowly towards them. Ash was slightly nervous, but Misty showed him the note. Afterwards they jumped in, and Jessie sped off. The jeep swerved around trees, turned corners sharply, and did all kinds of weird things.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE THIS THING?!" Misty had to shout because the wind drowned out her voice.
"NO!" Jessie shouted, laughing as she swerved around another tree. Soon they reached a bit more of a better(and slightly safer-maybe) driving place. They were at a meadow. as Jessie drove, the next stage started. Ash's and Misty's legs became seperate fins. Misty checked her watch(where'd she get that?) And saw that they had less than ten minutes. Jessie also noticed this, and sped up.
After five minutes, the beach was still not in sight. Jessie sped up again. Then, with just a few seconds to go, they came out on the beach. Ash and Misty spontaneously jumped out of the still-moving jeep into the water. Misty, however, wasn't looking. A Tentacruel was there, and reached out to sting her. Ash was parylized with fear, remembering what had happened to his mother years ago. Misty looked up and saw it, about to sting her. She too, was parylized with fear.
Suddenly, something knocked her out of the way, but got stung itself. Misty's eyes, as well as Ash's, widened in suprise. Jessie weakly tried to swim to the surface, but she couldn't make it. Misty and Ash looked at each other, and in unspoken agreement, dove down towards Jessie. Each grabbing one arm, they swam towards the surface, Jessie in tow. Jessie was only semi-conscious, and didn't know that they were there. She still tried to swim up.
Quickly, they reached the shore and laid Jessie down on it. James, who had heard the jeep driving ran up at that moment with Meowth in tow, as well as Pikachu in a cage. At the sight of Jessie, he dropped them both. Pikachu burst out of the cage strait to Ash. James ran over to Jessie and knelt down beside her. He looked towards them, pure anguish and worry in his eyes.
"W...What happened to her...?" He asked, quietly.
"I'm afraid a Tentacruel stung her just a few minutes ago." Misty answered, quietly. James' face paled. Everyone knew the deadly power of a Tentacruel's sting. He quickly called an ambulance. A few minutes passed. Jessie was getting worse, and fast. With the ambulance no where to be found, Jessie's fate looked grim...
(End part two)