Okay! Not much to say but R&R and enjoy!!

Ages ~

Ash ~ 16

Misty ~ 16

Brock ~ 20

Jessie ~ 30

James ~ 30

Crystal ~ 17

Gary ~ 16

Ritchie ~ 16

"(This is Ash talking to Misty)"

'This is Misty thinking to Ash'

got it? Good

The Mistress

~ Part 8; On the road again ~

Misty sighed. What was she supposed to do next?

"(Don't worry 'bout it Misty!)"

'Don't worry about it? I'm supposed to save the world! I just wish I knew what to do next'

She could feel Ash's sympathetic thoughts come at her. "(Well, you've got me, Brock, Pika- hey! Where are they?)"

'I don't know. They should be here soon.'

Misty stretched her arms and stood up. "It's hot in here!" She waved her hand in front of her face in a vain attempt to cool herself down.

'Are you hot?'

"(No, well, I think some of your heat is transferring over to me, stop it!)"

'It's not me! I think the AC isn't working or something.'

Misty walked outside of the room for a moment to complain to the nurse. She let up a surprised eyebrow. 'Guess the whole hospital's AC is down, all the nurses are busy with people complaining about the heat.'

Misty walked back in the room and sat back down. She smiled at Ash for a minute then rested her head on her arms, which were resting on the bed. Misty let her gaze fall out the window to the sky. She smiled at the beauty of it all then gasped. Her head was immediately up and her blue eyes never left the window.

"(Misty? What is it?)"

'It's…'

She couldn't even finish it. This was getting too weird.

Ash, in his mind, made a face and struggled to read her mind and see, or at least find out, what she was seeing.

There was a sudden blinding light and there she was! He could see Misty! Ash grinned to himself. There she was, standing over his bed and there he was standing right beside her! Well, not exactly him… just a ghost kinda…

"(YAAAAAAH!)"

The scream broke Misty out of her gaze and held her ears. 'Stop it Ash!'

"(I'm a ghost!)" Ash cried out franticly. He could see, he could walk, and he could talk!

'What are you talking about?' Misty asked, rather annoyed.

"(I can see you! I'm right beside you but, I can see through my hands!)"

'Oh.' Misty's gaze was once again turned towards the window. 

"(Oh?! Oh is that all you have to saaaheeeeey!)"

Ash finally looked out the window and saw what misty had seen.

There flying towards the direction of were Atricuno and Zapdos were, was Moltres.

"Ash…" Misty started, still staring out the window, not quite sure Ash could hear her or not.

"(Don't worry, I can hear you.)"

"I, I don't know how, but I just know I should be following Moltres again."

She could almost hear Ash's gasp like he was right beside her. "(You mean go back to Articuno? Where you almost got killed?)"

Misty sighed, "yes."

Ash shook his head. "You're not going. It's too dangerous."

"Ash I have to. It's my duty!"

"(But, but you could get hurt!)"

Misty closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she opened her eyes again and stared hard out the window. "Now you know how we felt all the time."

Ash raised an eyebrow. What was she talking about?

"I'm talking about how you always go off into danger!" Misty sighed out rather frustrated. She closed her eyes again. She could feel the tears of all the pain and worry Ash had put her through coming. The memories came flooding into her brain, and slowly seeping into Ash's. "You'd always go off on your own and almost get yourself killed, and on a couple of occasions you did!" She opened her eyes again, the tears now gone. "Well now it's my turn, Ash."

"(Misty…)" Ash was quite for a moment then spoke up. "(I did it for Pikachu, I did it for my family, I did it, for you! I'd rather me get hurt then you!)"

Misty didn't except it. "I don't care! What would happen to us if you die and didn't come back this time?"

"(Well what about you?!)"

Misty sighed. "I have to Ash." She smiled bitterly. "It's lie you said, I'm doing it for you and my family." With that, she stepped back from the bed and smiled own at Ash's sleeping form. "I have to." She ran out of the room and closed the door with a bang, leaving Ash in his room, alone with his mind/body.

~

Brock and the others had been walking for many hours by now, and all of them were, hot tired, and easily irritable. Most of them had given up on talking and just consentrated on putting on foot in front of the other.

Ritchie had been following Brock pretty much the whole way, it looked like a train of people and pokemon. Ritchie suddenly hit something. "Wha-" he blinked. "Brock! Why'd ya stop!" He whined. Now it would be even harder to start up again.

Ritchie looked over Brock's shoulder and his blue eyes sparkled. "We're here everyone!" The other pokemon got renewed strength and ran over to see.

Ritchie was right! There it was!

"A city!" Brock cried out the obvious.

Gary chose this moment to wake up from the sleep powder. He struggled out og Geodude's tight grasp and stared down at what everyone else was staring at. "Oh wow look! A city! Gee, it sure did get hot!" Everyone turned to stare at Gary. "Dude." Geodude shook his rock head and crossed his arms.  "Geodude Geo dude! ((I'm not carrying him again.))"

Gary looked at everyone's annoyed stares and shrugged. "What?"

They shook there heads and went back to staring at the city.

"Finally!" Brock broke the silance and cheered.

"Alright! We did it! Right Sparky?"

"PIKA! ((Right!))"

"Bulbasaur! ((Air conditioning!))"

"Golduc –GOL! ((A bed and – OW!))"

"Laaaa! ((Water!))"

"Piiiiiiiiika! ((Ketchup!! Lots and lots of ketchup!))"

They all ran down the hill towards the city. Once again, Brock who was in the lead, stopped, making everyone knock into each other. "Brock!" Ritchie whined. "You've GOT to stop doing that!"

Brock ignored him and waved to a person running up the hill. "Yo! Misty! Over here!"

Everyone looked over to were Brock was waving. Sure enough, there was Misty coming up the hill.

"Hey!" Gary greeted Misty when she made it to them "It's nice for you to greet us!"

Misty smiled and shook her head. "No, I'm going back to Articuno. I'll explain to you on the way." She quickly returned all her pokemon but Togetic and went back to walking the way the group had just come back from. They all stared and watched her go.

"Should we-" Gary started.

"Shut-up." Ritchie smacked him upside the head and began following Misty.

I'm cruel aren't I? Mwhaaaaa! Erm yeah,

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