- 9 -
"Whale, hi thare. Did ya do the pokemon breeding?"
"Yes." Ash said.
"Whale? What happened?" May slipped her book bag off again and took the poke egg out. The lady at the counter was impressed.
"Now ya have to make sure it stays nice and warm so it can hatch."
"Ok...Then I'll have a Pichu!" May yelled. They said good-bye to her and ran up stairs.
"Hey, Mom! Dad!" May yelled. Mr. and Mrs. Oak emerged from their own room.
"What's the-what is that?" Mrs. Oak yelled. May frowned.
"It's a poke egg," May said stiffly.
"Take good care of it," Mr. Oak said.
"Okay," she said. Mr. Oak steered Mrs. Oak back into their room.
"Let's get back into our room," Ash said.
When they were in their room, May set the poke egg on the bed. She set to work getting her stuff out of her book bag. After that was done, she wrapped the poke egg in a blanket and put it in the book bag.
"There, all done. Let's see were these other two doors lead...I just thought of it," May said. Ash opened the door next to the desk on the left- hand side of the room-it was a corridor.
"Let's go." They started down it.
"I know where this leads now! It leads to Gary's room! So the other leads to Mom and Dad's room...but were does this doorway halfway down it lead?" May said.
"Let's look," May opened it and peered inside-another corridor. They walked down that new corridor. At the end was a room with a pool in it.
"Amazing!" May yelled. It echoed in the huge room.
"Let's go back and check on the pokemon. You never know what their up to..." Ash suggested.
When they got back they checked on the Pikachus who were once again playing a match of tag. "Let's head to dinner. I'm starving!" May said.
Later That Night
"Why is it so cold tonight?" May asked, shivering.
"It'sa snowin'," the lady at the counter said.
"But don't you have a heater here?" Ash asked.
"Yep, but it's ah broken."
"Damn! Why'd it have to be broken now?" Ash said.
"Dunno, but ain't it abou' time ya two got ta bed? It's 11 a' clock!"
"Ok. Good night." They hurried up the stairs and into their room. After they had both gotten ready for bed, May showed Ash the stuff on her laptop for half-a-hour till Mr. Oak came in. 'Time for bed, you two' he had said to them. May shut the laptop off and climbed into bed.
"When do you think that Pichu egg will hatch?" May asked. Ash sat down on the side of the bed.
"Um, tomorrow?" he said.
"Not if this keeps up..." May said. Ash lied down next to her, frowning slightly.
"It'll hatch...some time," Ash said slowly. May smiled slightly with a small 'I guess.' "Let's try to sleep at the very least," Ash said.
May shut her eyes, going to attempt to go to sleep...but as hard as she tried, she couldn't. She looked at the clock: 1:00 a.m. May was looking at the ceiling, but glanced at her book bag. She sighed and went back to looking at the ceiling. "What's the matter?" some one asked. Ash was awake.
"What are you doing up?" May asked.
"Nothing. Why are you up?" he said.
"Can't sleep." She sighed.
"Oh, why not?" May looked at him.
"I don't know why." She sat up and looked around the room. "I don't know."
Ash sat up, too, and looked at her. "Still pretty cold here, isn't it?" May nodded. She combed her fingers through her hair.
"Why is this happening?" she moaned. He frowned very slightly.
"No one knows why anything happens." She looked at him. "You never know what happens, it's just fate."
"Alright, if you say so," she replied, shrugging. He was still frowning, but tried to smile a little.
"Come here." He hugged her. "Just try to stop thinking about that Pichu and try to get to sleep."
"I'll try...again." she said. He lied back, still hugging her. Her head was on his chest, so she turned her head up, so she could look at him.
"Good." he said. She smiled slightly.
"Isn't it strange?" she asked.
"What?" Ash asked in confusion.
"Sleeping in the same room together," she replied. Ash nodded.
"Yeah, you get so used to having your own room, then THIS."
"Well, you better get used to it!" May looked at him.
"Why?" Ash asked.
"Because when we get married, we will sleep in the same room EVERY night!"
"Hey there! That's thinking a little far!" he said, his eyes going extremely wide. May laughed.
"I was kidding, silly!" she giggled. They fell into silence. After several minutes, they both bell asleep.
That morning (7:00), they both woke up at the same time. They soon learned pikachu had woke them up. "Pikachu! \The egg!"
"What's the matter with it?" May asked. She looked at her book bag, it was-shaking? "Penny, can you get my book bag?" The pikachu some how brought it over. Ash and May sat up. May grabbed the book bag, opened it, and took the poke egg out. There were cracks near the top of it.
"It's hatching?" Ash asked. He noticed he was still hugging her and let go.
"Ya," It cracked more. She set it down on her lap. All of a sudden, it split open. They saw the pichu sitting there. The Pichu was confused and was looking around the room.
It spotted them and squeaked happily. it was looking at May. Then squeaked, "Pichu Pichu!" Pikachu and penny burst out laughing.
"Now what is it with you two? What did it say?" May yelled.
"Pikachu Pika!\ It just called you Mommy!" Pikachu yelled.
"I'm not surprised by that," she said, with as much dignity as she could muster. She looked at the Pichu again. It looked at her and pointed at Ash.
"What? Ash?" May asked. it nodded and opened it's mouth to say some thing. "Before you say it out loud, tell penny. Penny!" Penny walked over and sat down next to Pichu. it chatted with penny for a second. Penny laughed again.
"What did it say?" penny whispered to May what it said. She smirked. "Oh, this is so weird. Guess what Pichu said you are, Ash."
"What? I don't know! Tell me!"
"Ok, but you're not going to like it..."
"FOR HEAVENS SAKE! JUST TELL ME!"
"Ok but you'll be sorry...I'll make it into a question: What goes next to mom in a family?" Ash's eyes went very wide indeed.
"Where do you think you're going?" she said. Pichu had climbed out of the egg shell and started walking off. She grabbed it and brought it back. It squeaked again and started hopping around the bed. Mr. Oak walked into their room.
"Hello, hey is that Pichu? Did that egg hatch already?"
"Yes." Ash said.
"Pichu seems to think of him as it's, er..." May started.
"It thinks I'm It's daddy!" he yelled.
"So? What's the problem with that?" Mr. Oak asked.
"I think it's cute." May said, "Ash is daddy! Ash is daddy!"
"Shaddup," Ash snapped.
"You two should get ready," Mr. Oak said loudly.
"For what?" they said.
"For breakfast!" Mr. Oak cried, "That lady that gave us these rooms, she said her name was Rose or something, invited us to her house for breakfast!"
"Ok."
"We'll all meet down stairs." When he left, Ash looked at May.
"Why do you mock me?" he asked.
"I was joking! Just go get ready for breakfast while I get these pieces from the poke egg cleaned up..." He jumped off the bed and slipped into the bedroom. He got dressed and when he got out of there after two minutes, May was having a little trouble.
"What happened?"
"I got cut from one of these pieces."
"You go get ready and I'll do the rest of the cleaning of this stuff and watch Pichu..." May gather her cloths from the stack she made by the desk and walked into the bathroom.
She heard Pichu squeal again, but didn't think it was in trouble or any thing. Ash picked up the rest of the eggshell and threw them away. Pichu squealing away on the end of the bed. "What do you want?" he asked, sitting down on the bed. Pichu walked over and sat back down next to him. It stretched it arms out, wanting to be picked up.
Ash picked it up, awkwardly, and looked at it. It squealed again. He had his Official Pokemon league hat on and Pichu was reaching up at it. He took it off and put it on the Pichu's head. It cocked its head to the left then the right.
May was starting to wonder why Pichu's squeals were muffled. After she was finished getting dressed, she edged into the room, as quietly as she could. She smiled. "Well now, why don't you put your hat back on before it suffocates Pichu?" May said. Ash turned around to look at her.
"Oh, that's nice. Why don't we go down stairs now? So your parents don't get mad at us or something." Ash said, putting his league hat on. She nodded.
When they were all downstairs, they headed to Rose's house. She greeted them when they made it. "hallo, all of ya. Now I say ya got ah Pichu already?" she said cheerfully.
"Yah, it hatched just a while ago," May said. Pichu squeaked.
"Well, come on in." Inside they sat at the table and talked for a while.
'"Do you have any muffins or something?" May asked. Pichu was making a lot of noise trying to get away to explore a bit.
"Yep, I sure do. I'll get um'." She walked into the kitchen and came back out with a bowl full of muffins. May took one and broke it apart over her plate and stuck some of it in Pichu's mouth.
That kept it quiet for a few minutes, but then it started trying to get away again. "Let me see Pichu," Ash said. May-with difficulty-handed him Pichu. He then said to it, "Stop that."
It fell silent. They were all watching him. Pichu looked at him. He set it down on his lap and it sat there, quietly. "That was unusual," Rose said. Ash shrugged.
"Whatever you say."
"Well, why don't we eat, eh?" Mr. Oak said suddenly. They all agreed on this.
"Pi pichu! \I'm hungry!" Pichu whined. Ash smiled.
"Pichu is hungry. May? What does your Pichu eat?" May shrugged.
"I don't really know. I just gave it a muffin to try to keep it quiet..."
"Pichu! Pi chu pichu, chu pichu! \Muffin! I want muffin, Daddy!" it squeaked. He looked at May again.
"It wants another muffin."
"Here." she handed him one. He looked at the muffin then at her.
"You want me to feed Pichu? Why don't you?"
"Because you have it. Plus, I just gave it one." Ash looked at Pichu, who was sitting silently, waiting. He, like May, broke it apart and gave it part of the muffin. Pichu chewed quietly then looked up at him again. Ash handed it more. That too, got chewed on.
"Will I ever get to eat?" he asked.
"No, not till Pichu is done," May said. Pichu looked at him.
"Pichu. \Done." it said.
"Ok. Now I can eat!" he said. All through the rest of breakfast they talked about different things that happens in Goldenrod and people who live there.
Rose, every once in a while, joked around about Pichu and it having the thought of Ash being dad. May and Ash would wonder how she knew that, and soon found out.
"Whale, I ander stand pokemon." she said after a while, "It's ah gift of mine."
After breakfast they said good-bye to her and left. Right after they left, Mrs. Oak said to Ash, "You know, if you were to grow up and had children you'd be pretty good at raising them." They all looked at her.
"What? Why do you say that?" he asked.
"Because, you do a good job with that Pichu." she said. He shook his head.
"What's that suppose to mean?" he asked.
"You'll see when you're a adult...and married"
"If I ever do." he said.
"I'm sure you will." she said simply.
"How are you sure of that, dear?" Mr. Oak asked her.
"I've got my reasons for being sure." He shrugged, not wanting to know these "reasons," for knowing.
"Come on, let's go see Robert. We haven't seen him for years! The last time he saw these kids was when they were just two year olds!" Mr. Oak cried. Mrs. Oak sighed.
"Fine! But no charms!" she said. Mr. Oak nodded.
At Robert's house they rang the doorbell. They heard a faint sound of chimes inside. The door opened up, a man with slick, jet-black hair, the eeriest gray eyes you'd ever want to see, and very odd cloths stood in the doorway.
"Robert, old man! How are you?" Mr. Oak said.
"Wonderful, Tim. How are you? Oh! Maggie!" He hugged Mrs. Oak. "And May and Gary! You two have grown a lot! And I see one of you has a Pichu! How wonderful! Oh, come in, please!" They walked into the house and into the living room and sat down.
"Tim! Maggie! I see you have a third here! Yours?"" His eyes fell onto Ash.
"No, not ours, a friend of May's, Don't you remember?" Mr. Oak asked.
"I think I do..." Robert said. He put a hand up to silence Ash, who had opened his mouth to tell Robert who he was. "Let me see.... let me see, I think I remember...oh yes, now I think I remember now...Your first name is Ashton, right?"
"Yes," Ash replied.
"I really don't now the rest of your name..."
"My full name is Ashton Satoshi Ketchum," Ash said. Robert nodded his head.
"oh yes, do I now remember...May always played with you, wouldn't play with her own brother! She never did anything with anybody but you...very weird the way she acted...had a fit when Tim or Maggie asked her to play with some one else for a change..." he broke off.
"Yes, Robert, I think that's enough of the past for the moment...have you found out any new charms?" Mr. Oak said loudly. Robert shook his head.
"No. No new ones. By the way, that pichu looks tired, I can use a revitalizing charm and it'd perk right up!"
"No," May said.
"Come on, it wouldn't hurt it..."
"No!" she said again.
"Please let me do it!" he begged.
"NO!" May yelled. She hugged pichu tighter to her.
"Alright, I won't do it. So how have you all been?"
"Pretty good," Mr. Oak said.
"Good. I'd like to show you one of my charms...It makes sparks fly out of the fire place..." He stepped to the side and took out his wand. He pointed it at the fire place and said some thing under his breath. At first nothing happened, then sparks came out.
After the sparks stopped, he said, "What a show! Now that that's done, let's, um, talk some more! May! When did you get that pichu?'
"This morning."
"Good. Well done."
"Pichu pichu, pi pich pichu. Pi pichu \Mommy, I want to go. He's scary."
"Ok. Mom? Can I go?"
"Sure."
"Come on Ash, let's go find pikachu..."
"Why?" he asked. Then catching on, he said, "oh, ok. Let's go. It was nice to meet you Mr., um, Robert." He stood up and walked out with May.
"What's the matter?" he asked, when out of the house.
"Those charms he does...I don't like them, and rather not be around them...especially when he does them."
"Why?"
"Let's just say there was a little incident when he came to my house for a few days when we were two."
"I really don't want to find out what happened at the moment, but it sounds like it was pretty bad. Let's go back to the hotel or some thing."
"Whale, hi thare. Did ya do the pokemon breeding?"
"Yes." Ash said.
"Whale? What happened?" May slipped her book bag off again and took the poke egg out. The lady at the counter was impressed.
"Now ya have to make sure it stays nice and warm so it can hatch."
"Ok...Then I'll have a Pichu!" May yelled. They said good-bye to her and ran up stairs.
"Hey, Mom! Dad!" May yelled. Mr. and Mrs. Oak emerged from their own room.
"What's the-what is that?" Mrs. Oak yelled. May frowned.
"It's a poke egg," May said stiffly.
"Take good care of it," Mr. Oak said.
"Okay," she said. Mr. Oak steered Mrs. Oak back into their room.
"Let's get back into our room," Ash said.
When they were in their room, May set the poke egg on the bed. She set to work getting her stuff out of her book bag. After that was done, she wrapped the poke egg in a blanket and put it in the book bag.
"There, all done. Let's see were these other two doors lead...I just thought of it," May said. Ash opened the door next to the desk on the left- hand side of the room-it was a corridor.
"Let's go." They started down it.
"I know where this leads now! It leads to Gary's room! So the other leads to Mom and Dad's room...but were does this doorway halfway down it lead?" May said.
"Let's look," May opened it and peered inside-another corridor. They walked down that new corridor. At the end was a room with a pool in it.
"Amazing!" May yelled. It echoed in the huge room.
"Let's go back and check on the pokemon. You never know what their up to..." Ash suggested.
When they got back they checked on the Pikachus who were once again playing a match of tag. "Let's head to dinner. I'm starving!" May said.
Later That Night
"Why is it so cold tonight?" May asked, shivering.
"It'sa snowin'," the lady at the counter said.
"But don't you have a heater here?" Ash asked.
"Yep, but it's ah broken."
"Damn! Why'd it have to be broken now?" Ash said.
"Dunno, but ain't it abou' time ya two got ta bed? It's 11 a' clock!"
"Ok. Good night." They hurried up the stairs and into their room. After they had both gotten ready for bed, May showed Ash the stuff on her laptop for half-a-hour till Mr. Oak came in. 'Time for bed, you two' he had said to them. May shut the laptop off and climbed into bed.
"When do you think that Pichu egg will hatch?" May asked. Ash sat down on the side of the bed.
"Um, tomorrow?" he said.
"Not if this keeps up..." May said. Ash lied down next to her, frowning slightly.
"It'll hatch...some time," Ash said slowly. May smiled slightly with a small 'I guess.' "Let's try to sleep at the very least," Ash said.
May shut her eyes, going to attempt to go to sleep...but as hard as she tried, she couldn't. She looked at the clock: 1:00 a.m. May was looking at the ceiling, but glanced at her book bag. She sighed and went back to looking at the ceiling. "What's the matter?" some one asked. Ash was awake.
"What are you doing up?" May asked.
"Nothing. Why are you up?" he said.
"Can't sleep." She sighed.
"Oh, why not?" May looked at him.
"I don't know why." She sat up and looked around the room. "I don't know."
Ash sat up, too, and looked at her. "Still pretty cold here, isn't it?" May nodded. She combed her fingers through her hair.
"Why is this happening?" she moaned. He frowned very slightly.
"No one knows why anything happens." She looked at him. "You never know what happens, it's just fate."
"Alright, if you say so," she replied, shrugging. He was still frowning, but tried to smile a little.
"Come here." He hugged her. "Just try to stop thinking about that Pichu and try to get to sleep."
"I'll try...again." she said. He lied back, still hugging her. Her head was on his chest, so she turned her head up, so she could look at him.
"Good." he said. She smiled slightly.
"Isn't it strange?" she asked.
"What?" Ash asked in confusion.
"Sleeping in the same room together," she replied. Ash nodded.
"Yeah, you get so used to having your own room, then THIS."
"Well, you better get used to it!" May looked at him.
"Why?" Ash asked.
"Because when we get married, we will sleep in the same room EVERY night!"
"Hey there! That's thinking a little far!" he said, his eyes going extremely wide. May laughed.
"I was kidding, silly!" she giggled. They fell into silence. After several minutes, they both bell asleep.
That morning (7:00), they both woke up at the same time. They soon learned pikachu had woke them up. "Pikachu! \The egg!"
"What's the matter with it?" May asked. She looked at her book bag, it was-shaking? "Penny, can you get my book bag?" The pikachu some how brought it over. Ash and May sat up. May grabbed the book bag, opened it, and took the poke egg out. There were cracks near the top of it.
"It's hatching?" Ash asked. He noticed he was still hugging her and let go.
"Ya," It cracked more. She set it down on her lap. All of a sudden, it split open. They saw the pichu sitting there. The Pichu was confused and was looking around the room.
It spotted them and squeaked happily. it was looking at May. Then squeaked, "Pichu Pichu!" Pikachu and penny burst out laughing.
"Now what is it with you two? What did it say?" May yelled.
"Pikachu Pika!\ It just called you Mommy!" Pikachu yelled.
"I'm not surprised by that," she said, with as much dignity as she could muster. She looked at the Pichu again. It looked at her and pointed at Ash.
"What? Ash?" May asked. it nodded and opened it's mouth to say some thing. "Before you say it out loud, tell penny. Penny!" Penny walked over and sat down next to Pichu. it chatted with penny for a second. Penny laughed again.
"What did it say?" penny whispered to May what it said. She smirked. "Oh, this is so weird. Guess what Pichu said you are, Ash."
"What? I don't know! Tell me!"
"Ok, but you're not going to like it..."
"FOR HEAVENS SAKE! JUST TELL ME!"
"Ok but you'll be sorry...I'll make it into a question: What goes next to mom in a family?" Ash's eyes went very wide indeed.
"Where do you think you're going?" she said. Pichu had climbed out of the egg shell and started walking off. She grabbed it and brought it back. It squeaked again and started hopping around the bed. Mr. Oak walked into their room.
"Hello, hey is that Pichu? Did that egg hatch already?"
"Yes." Ash said.
"Pichu seems to think of him as it's, er..." May started.
"It thinks I'm It's daddy!" he yelled.
"So? What's the problem with that?" Mr. Oak asked.
"I think it's cute." May said, "Ash is daddy! Ash is daddy!"
"Shaddup," Ash snapped.
"You two should get ready," Mr. Oak said loudly.
"For what?" they said.
"For breakfast!" Mr. Oak cried, "That lady that gave us these rooms, she said her name was Rose or something, invited us to her house for breakfast!"
"Ok."
"We'll all meet down stairs." When he left, Ash looked at May.
"Why do you mock me?" he asked.
"I was joking! Just go get ready for breakfast while I get these pieces from the poke egg cleaned up..." He jumped off the bed and slipped into the bedroom. He got dressed and when he got out of there after two minutes, May was having a little trouble.
"What happened?"
"I got cut from one of these pieces."
"You go get ready and I'll do the rest of the cleaning of this stuff and watch Pichu..." May gather her cloths from the stack she made by the desk and walked into the bathroom.
She heard Pichu squeal again, but didn't think it was in trouble or any thing. Ash picked up the rest of the eggshell and threw them away. Pichu squealing away on the end of the bed. "What do you want?" he asked, sitting down on the bed. Pichu walked over and sat back down next to him. It stretched it arms out, wanting to be picked up.
Ash picked it up, awkwardly, and looked at it. It squealed again. He had his Official Pokemon league hat on and Pichu was reaching up at it. He took it off and put it on the Pichu's head. It cocked its head to the left then the right.
May was starting to wonder why Pichu's squeals were muffled. After she was finished getting dressed, she edged into the room, as quietly as she could. She smiled. "Well now, why don't you put your hat back on before it suffocates Pichu?" May said. Ash turned around to look at her.
"Oh, that's nice. Why don't we go down stairs now? So your parents don't get mad at us or something." Ash said, putting his league hat on. She nodded.
When they were all downstairs, they headed to Rose's house. She greeted them when they made it. "hallo, all of ya. Now I say ya got ah Pichu already?" she said cheerfully.
"Yah, it hatched just a while ago," May said. Pichu squeaked.
"Well, come on in." Inside they sat at the table and talked for a while.
'"Do you have any muffins or something?" May asked. Pichu was making a lot of noise trying to get away to explore a bit.
"Yep, I sure do. I'll get um'." She walked into the kitchen and came back out with a bowl full of muffins. May took one and broke it apart over her plate and stuck some of it in Pichu's mouth.
That kept it quiet for a few minutes, but then it started trying to get away again. "Let me see Pichu," Ash said. May-with difficulty-handed him Pichu. He then said to it, "Stop that."
It fell silent. They were all watching him. Pichu looked at him. He set it down on his lap and it sat there, quietly. "That was unusual," Rose said. Ash shrugged.
"Whatever you say."
"Well, why don't we eat, eh?" Mr. Oak said suddenly. They all agreed on this.
"Pi pichu! \I'm hungry!" Pichu whined. Ash smiled.
"Pichu is hungry. May? What does your Pichu eat?" May shrugged.
"I don't really know. I just gave it a muffin to try to keep it quiet..."
"Pichu! Pi chu pichu, chu pichu! \Muffin! I want muffin, Daddy!" it squeaked. He looked at May again.
"It wants another muffin."
"Here." she handed him one. He looked at the muffin then at her.
"You want me to feed Pichu? Why don't you?"
"Because you have it. Plus, I just gave it one." Ash looked at Pichu, who was sitting silently, waiting. He, like May, broke it apart and gave it part of the muffin. Pichu chewed quietly then looked up at him again. Ash handed it more. That too, got chewed on.
"Will I ever get to eat?" he asked.
"No, not till Pichu is done," May said. Pichu looked at him.
"Pichu. \Done." it said.
"Ok. Now I can eat!" he said. All through the rest of breakfast they talked about different things that happens in Goldenrod and people who live there.
Rose, every once in a while, joked around about Pichu and it having the thought of Ash being dad. May and Ash would wonder how she knew that, and soon found out.
"Whale, I ander stand pokemon." she said after a while, "It's ah gift of mine."
After breakfast they said good-bye to her and left. Right after they left, Mrs. Oak said to Ash, "You know, if you were to grow up and had children you'd be pretty good at raising them." They all looked at her.
"What? Why do you say that?" he asked.
"Because, you do a good job with that Pichu." she said. He shook his head.
"What's that suppose to mean?" he asked.
"You'll see when you're a adult...and married"
"If I ever do." he said.
"I'm sure you will." she said simply.
"How are you sure of that, dear?" Mr. Oak asked her.
"I've got my reasons for being sure." He shrugged, not wanting to know these "reasons," for knowing.
"Come on, let's go see Robert. We haven't seen him for years! The last time he saw these kids was when they were just two year olds!" Mr. Oak cried. Mrs. Oak sighed.
"Fine! But no charms!" she said. Mr. Oak nodded.
At Robert's house they rang the doorbell. They heard a faint sound of chimes inside. The door opened up, a man with slick, jet-black hair, the eeriest gray eyes you'd ever want to see, and very odd cloths stood in the doorway.
"Robert, old man! How are you?" Mr. Oak said.
"Wonderful, Tim. How are you? Oh! Maggie!" He hugged Mrs. Oak. "And May and Gary! You two have grown a lot! And I see one of you has a Pichu! How wonderful! Oh, come in, please!" They walked into the house and into the living room and sat down.
"Tim! Maggie! I see you have a third here! Yours?"" His eyes fell onto Ash.
"No, not ours, a friend of May's, Don't you remember?" Mr. Oak asked.
"I think I do..." Robert said. He put a hand up to silence Ash, who had opened his mouth to tell Robert who he was. "Let me see.... let me see, I think I remember...oh yes, now I think I remember now...Your first name is Ashton, right?"
"Yes," Ash replied.
"I really don't now the rest of your name..."
"My full name is Ashton Satoshi Ketchum," Ash said. Robert nodded his head.
"oh yes, do I now remember...May always played with you, wouldn't play with her own brother! She never did anything with anybody but you...very weird the way she acted...had a fit when Tim or Maggie asked her to play with some one else for a change..." he broke off.
"Yes, Robert, I think that's enough of the past for the moment...have you found out any new charms?" Mr. Oak said loudly. Robert shook his head.
"No. No new ones. By the way, that pichu looks tired, I can use a revitalizing charm and it'd perk right up!"
"No," May said.
"Come on, it wouldn't hurt it..."
"No!" she said again.
"Please let me do it!" he begged.
"NO!" May yelled. She hugged pichu tighter to her.
"Alright, I won't do it. So how have you all been?"
"Pretty good," Mr. Oak said.
"Good. I'd like to show you one of my charms...It makes sparks fly out of the fire place..." He stepped to the side and took out his wand. He pointed it at the fire place and said some thing under his breath. At first nothing happened, then sparks came out.
After the sparks stopped, he said, "What a show! Now that that's done, let's, um, talk some more! May! When did you get that pichu?'
"This morning."
"Good. Well done."
"Pichu pichu, pi pich pichu. Pi pichu \Mommy, I want to go. He's scary."
"Ok. Mom? Can I go?"
"Sure."
"Come on Ash, let's go find pikachu..."
"Why?" he asked. Then catching on, he said, "oh, ok. Let's go. It was nice to meet you Mr., um, Robert." He stood up and walked out with May.
"What's the matter?" he asked, when out of the house.
"Those charms he does...I don't like them, and rather not be around them...especially when he does them."
"Why?"
"Let's just say there was a little incident when he came to my house for a few days when we were two."
"I really don't want to find out what happened at the moment, but it sounds like it was pretty bad. Let's go back to the hotel or some thing."