- 12 -
At 7:30 Mr. Oak had shaken May awake. "What is it?" she asked.
"Get dressed and meet me in the hall way."
"All right. What about pichu and Ash and the pikachus?" she asked.
"They're staying here."
"What?!" May gasped.
"Just get ready."
"Ok." Mr.Oak walked out. May climbed out of bed, careful not to wake Ash up. She got dressed quickly and quietly. Then she wrote a note to Ash and the pokemon, in case he and the rest woke up while she was gone, and set it on the desk, then walked over to the door, opened it, and walked out.
Out side, Mr.Oak stood with Mrs.Oak next to the stairs. She ran over to meet them. "Where we going?" she asked.
"You'll see," Mr.Oak said. She stayed silent after that. It took a few minutes of walking to get there...to Robert's house.
"What are we doing here?!" Mrs.Oak demanded to know.
"To help you." Mr.Oak said.
"I'm out of here!" Mrs.Oak yelled. Mr.Oak grabbed hold of her shoulders.
"You shall stay here."
The door opened all of a sudden, and Mr.Oak pushed Mrs.Oak in, while May came in after them. They went into the living room and soon Robert came in.
"Let's get this over with." he said. He pointed his wand at Mrs.Oak. She shrieked and ran. Mr.Oak took hold of her shoulders and held her still.
"Do it."
Robert took a deep breath and pointed his wand at her, again. He looked at them then said, "No, not yet. May? Do me a favour and go get that mirror and stand next to the fire place, to the right of it."
She hesitated till her father said, "May! Hurry up!"
She grabbed the mirror and ran over to the fire place. "Ok, hold the mirror at a side ways angle...good, hold still now..."
He pointed his wand at the mirror and said some thing under his breath. There was a flash, and Mrs.Oak fainted.
"Wonderful! It worked. Er, that can happen..." Mr.Oak set her on the couch, and they waited.
Back at the hotel, Pichu was having a panic attack.
"chupichu! Pichu pichu pi pich!\Daddy! Mommy is gone!" it yelled. Ash awoke at the yells from Pichu, because he wouldn't have slept through it.
"Gone? Well, I guess she's ok, Pichu. Don't worry about it."
"Pika.\Note." Pikachu said, hoping onto the bed, a piece of paper in it's mouth. Ash sat up and took it and read what it said out loud, "'Dear Ash, Pichu, and Pikachus, Dad's taking me some where. I don't know when I'll be back though, because he didn't say where we were going. See ya later. Love, May' I told you she's fine."
Pichu cocked it's head to the left. Ash said, "Now what? Don't tell me you want to go find her?"
Pichu nodded.
"We'd have to search the whole town...unless..." he thought a moment about the night before and what Mr.Oak had said to them.'I'm going to get Robert and get this over with tomorrow faster then you can say 'pokemon''
"I think i know where she is." Ash said," If you want, I'll get dressed and we'll go."
Pichu nodded. He hurried and got ready.
"Let's go."
He picked up Pichu and whistled to the Pikachus. They left for Robert's house.
When there, he rung the door bell. Robert hurried to the door and opened it. With out a word he let him in. "Hi, how'd that charm work?" Ash asked.
"We don't know yet."
May looked around the corner. "Hi. pichu, made you?"
"Yes."
She walked up. "Pichu has to stop that."
"Yeah. It never seems to want to be with only one of us...and it's your pokemon."
"Well, it seems not to think that...come on, let's go into the living room."
They walked into the living room. Mr.Oak looked up and smiled. "Hello."
"Hi, Mr.Oak. Er, what happened to her?" Ash asked.
"Fainted," Mr.Oak said.
"When will she wake up?" he asked. Mr.Oak shrugged.
"We have no clue."
They had to wait one hour for her to come round.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Robert put a charm on you."
"For what?"
"Because of a problem you had."
"Alright."
` "Let's get you back to the hotel."
Mr.Oak helped her up and said a quick thank you and they left.
At the hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Oak went into their room as fast as possible. May and Ash were in their room playing with Pichu.
"Why are we playing Hide-and-Go seek with Pichu?" Ash asked.
"Because it wanted to," May said, "Found ya!"
Pichu had been hiding behind her laptop, whose lid was up and Pichu was small enough to hide behind it. She picked it up.
"Can we do some thing else now?" May asked. it nodded and jumped out of her grasp onto the bed. it curled up for a short nap, but said, "Pichu pi pichu pi pich pichu.\I'll take a nap and you can do what ever you are thinking of doing."
They looked at each other, thunderstruck. "ok, that was not usual...any way, what do you want to do?" May said.
"Let's see...we can't use the laptop because you said it was defragging, whatever that means...and we can't go talk with Rose because she's off sick...so why don't we just read or some thing?" Ash said. May smiled slightly.
"I think I got a book or two..."
She dug into her bag and found a red covered book at the bottom. All About Pokemon, it said on the cover in gold letters. She sat down on the bed, and flipped to the first chapter. "Oh, stop standing around like that! Get over here!" May said. Ash walked over sat down next her.
She read out loud: As most people know, there are over 150 pokemon in the world. 251 known so far. Researchers are still looking for new pokemon that haven't been discovered yet.
"There's alot of pokemon...251 known." Ash said. May nodded and read on. "'People called pokemon trainers go out to catch these pokemon. Others go out to compete in the pokemon league to become the
pokemon master....or both.'"
She leaned against Ash and continued: To become a pokemon master, you must beat the Elite Four and the resent pokemon master. The longest some one has been the master was one year.
She read on through the book till the back. "Here there is a list of pokemon that they've discovered so far." May said. Ash nodded and looked over her shoulder at the list of pokemon.
"I wonder if they'll find any new pokemon..." Ash said.
"They might," May said, putting the book back in its place, "Now what do you want to do?"
"I really don't know," Ash answered.
"We could go swimming or some thing," May suggested. Ash shrugged.
"I guess," Ash said, shrugging.
"Ok, you get ready. I'll go tell Dad were we'll be..."May said. Ash nodded. She walked to the door and left.
"Dad!" May yelled, knocking on the door. Mr. Oak opened the door.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Ash and me are going swimming."
"Where? There's no place to go swimming that I've seen of..."
"Yes there is! We found it. There's this corridor that leads from our room to Gary's and halfway down it another corridor branched off it. We went down that one and found a pool."
"Well, alright, I guess...Hope you have fun."
"ok, bye."
"Bye."
May walked back to their room and walked in. Ash was sitting on the bed, all ready, trying to catch Pichu. "Oh, look, you've made a new game- Catch The Pichu," she said.
"Ha-ha." he said, taking another swipe at Pichu, but it was jumping out of the way, "I give up trying to catch this bolt of lightning, here."
"Whatever," May said going through her bag once again. She was taking things out of it and setting them on the bed. After a moment of searching through the tangle of stuff, she had found what she had been looking for- her bathing suit.
"Ok, let's get this stuff stuffed into here..." May said.
"I'll do it. It's not like it's the hardest thing in the world to do." Ash said, "Just go get ready."
While she was getting ready, she had a very uneasy feeling. She shook her self mentally and tryed to ignore it.
When she was ready, she walked out. Her expression had most likely shown that she was worried about some thing, because when Ash looked up from putting one of her CDs in her bag, he suddenly frowned. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I don't know." May replied, "Let's go to the pool."
They walked over to the door but then May stopped. "Pichu? Pikachus? We are going to leave the doors open ok?" The Pikachus nodded, but Pichu ran up to them and looked up. "Let me guess...your
coming?"
It nodded. She opened the door and it walked up to the door way. "Go on."
It walked into the dark corridor and they tryed to keep up, but it was a very fast walker. When they had gotten to the pools edge, they saw Pichu at the other side looking over the edge. "Careful there, Pichu!" May called. It looked up in surprise and fell in. The bad part about it was...it couldn't swim. It struggled against the, was still water to stay surfaced.
Ash looked at the struggling pichu and made a decision. He dove into the pool and didn't come up for air till half way to Pichu. The Pichu was still struggling, if more so. Ash dove back under and that time made it to
Pichu. He took hold of Pichu and it stopped struggling to stay up. May dove into the water.
"Where's Pichu?!" she called. She started over.
"Right here!" Ash called back, lifting it up so she could see Pichu. She stopped swimming when she got to the center, out of breath because she had hurried. Ash swam up to her, Pichu on his head, afraid of the water now. May could only see his head and pichu looking around the place and back down at the water, afraid it's going to fall back in.
"Here it is," he said, when he made it over to her. She hugged Pichu, who winced because water had just dripped into it's eyes.
She looked up at Ash from Pichu, who was still wincing.
"Thank you, Ash," she said. She hugged him.
"It was no problem. Get Pichu over to the side of the pool."
"Aren't you coming?"
"I'll be there in a minute," he said.
"Ok." she said, "Let's go Pichu."
It jumped onto her head as she slid through the water. She looked back over her shoulder, Ash was taking deep breaths, as if he couldn't breath properly, but then slid under the surface of the water. May looked ahead of her and went the rest of the way to the side. Pichu jumped onto the solid ground and sat a little from the edge.
"I wonder what Ash saw..." May said to herself. She was about to try and touch the bottom of the pool when Ash surfaced a little ways out. "Don't!" he yelled.
May turned around to look at him. "Don't what?" she asked.
"Try to hit the bottom. I just looked down there to find the floor of the pool...and I couldn't find it." he wheezed, now not shouting and out of under the water.
"That's impossible...you mean to tell me there is no floor to this pool?" she asked.
"Yes, I went as deep as I could till I needed to get to the surface for air." he said, finally gotten his breathing back to normal.
"Ash, we have to get out of here." May said, "If there is no bottom to this, then there could be any thing down there..."
"Yeah, I know...I'm postitive there's some thing down there." he said, keeping hold of the side of the pool.
"How do you know?" May asked.
"I heard some thing down there and it didn't sound too nice...like a growl or some thing." he said.
"Alright. I got a idea." she said. Ash looked at her, puzzled. She shook her head and said, "We got to get out of the water before I put the plan to work. It involves electricity."
Ash nodded and hopped out and took hold of Pichu. May climbed out and whistled. Penny came speeding in. It stood in front of May.
"Thunder Bolt the water." she ordered. it nodded and did so. After the shock on the water had died down, she looked over the edge.
"RUN!" she yelled, "PENNY! COME ON!"
Ash tried to keep hold of Pichu, but mixing him being soaking wet and Pichu squirming, it had jumped out of his hands.
"NO, PICHU! GET BACK HERE!" May yelled, running to catch up to Pichu. Pichu had ran up to the edge of the pool. Just as she grabbed pichu and turned around to get away from the pool, a dog-like creature had emerged.
She turned to face it, but was backing away. It's fur was a bluish shade, she noticed, and if it was a pokemon, it must of been a water type.
She kept backing away, til she had backed right into Ash who was standing, transfixed, near the doorway.
"Why isn't it attacking?" May asked
. "Don't know and don't want to know." Ash said, "Let's go."
She nodded in agreement. He ran over to the door way, where Penny had stood ready to leave, but prepared to battle if the need came. May ran up next to him and looked back at the dog thing. It growled slightly, but did not budge. She went back into the corridors at a fast walk. Ash was behind her and Penny came up last, making sure it didn't follow them.
"That was creepy," May said.
"Creepy? You call that creepy? How about psycho? That-that thing just emerged from the pool!" Ash said.
"Alright, Psycho it is then." she said, "I'm going to go get dressed...then try to get Pichu to stop hiding."
Ash nodded. She gathered her cloths then walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Then it dawned on her. Before they had went to that pool she had that weird uneasy feeling, but since they got into their room, it was gone. She shook the thought off and got dressed, humming a small tune she had heard a few times, that she remembered.
When she walked out, the first thing she did was look at the clock- 9:00 P.M!
"Hey, Ash. Where'd you go?"
"Down here!" he yelled. He was down on the floor, looking under the bed.
"What in the world are you doing down there? It looks like you're looking for some thing." May said.
"I am," he said, standing up.
"What?"
"Pikachu."
"Huh?"
"Pikachu!" he yelled, "My Pikachu!"
"Oh, it probably wondered off some where," May said, "Go get dressed."
Ash nodded and went into the bathroom, saying, "Sure, let's hope that's all Pikachu did." May sat down and saw that he had put his hat on the edge of the bed. It was about ready to fall off, so she grabbed it and set it on the table. After a minute Ash came back in the room.
"Did you find Pichu?" he asked.
"Yeah." May said, "It's over there."
She pointed over to the desk, where Pichu sat on the chair. He looked at it before walking over and sitting down next to May. She hugged him tightly.
"I'm tired. How about you?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm b-b-bushed," he said, attempting to stifle a yawn.
"Then let's go to sleep," May said. Ash nodded in agreement. He laid back and May did the same.
Ash hugged May. She smiled. "I love you, Ash," May said.
"I love you, May," Ash said very softly. May smiled, again. They shut their eyes to go to sleep, for the next day they would be going back to Pallet Town on the plane.
At 1 o'clock, Ash had woken up for some reason. He looked around the room. Nothing was there. Then out of the shadows a voice said, "Nice to see you again, Ash."
He stifled a yell to keep from waking May and the pokemon up. He turned his head to see who had said that-Mr. Ketchum.
"How did you find us here?" Ash asked. Mr. Ketchum walked to the end of the bed before answering.
"I guessed."
"Ok, but that's not even possible."
"Oh, yes it is."
"Ok how?"
"Never mind. How are you?"
"Fine."
"Good. When are you going to be going back to Pallet Town? I'm just curious."
"Today, in the after noon, I think."
"Alright, listen, at 12 o'clock, meet me at the dead end of that secret path in the National Path. I'd like to talk to you two a bit before you have to go."
"Ok."
"Right. I ought to be going now..." Mr. Kechum said. He looked at Ash and smiled.
"Isn't that a very weird position to be in during the night?" he asked. Ash looked at him.
"Not really," Ash said.
"Alright. Good night, Ash."
Before Ash could say another word, Mr. Ketchum left. Ash stayed up a few more minutes, before drifting off to sleep.
At 7:30 Mr. Oak had shaken May awake. "What is it?" she asked.
"Get dressed and meet me in the hall way."
"All right. What about pichu and Ash and the pikachus?" she asked.
"They're staying here."
"What?!" May gasped.
"Just get ready."
"Ok." Mr.Oak walked out. May climbed out of bed, careful not to wake Ash up. She got dressed quickly and quietly. Then she wrote a note to Ash and the pokemon, in case he and the rest woke up while she was gone, and set it on the desk, then walked over to the door, opened it, and walked out.
Out side, Mr.Oak stood with Mrs.Oak next to the stairs. She ran over to meet them. "Where we going?" she asked.
"You'll see," Mr.Oak said. She stayed silent after that. It took a few minutes of walking to get there...to Robert's house.
"What are we doing here?!" Mrs.Oak demanded to know.
"To help you." Mr.Oak said.
"I'm out of here!" Mrs.Oak yelled. Mr.Oak grabbed hold of her shoulders.
"You shall stay here."
The door opened all of a sudden, and Mr.Oak pushed Mrs.Oak in, while May came in after them. They went into the living room and soon Robert came in.
"Let's get this over with." he said. He pointed his wand at Mrs.Oak. She shrieked and ran. Mr.Oak took hold of her shoulders and held her still.
"Do it."
Robert took a deep breath and pointed his wand at her, again. He looked at them then said, "No, not yet. May? Do me a favour and go get that mirror and stand next to the fire place, to the right of it."
She hesitated till her father said, "May! Hurry up!"
She grabbed the mirror and ran over to the fire place. "Ok, hold the mirror at a side ways angle...good, hold still now..."
He pointed his wand at the mirror and said some thing under his breath. There was a flash, and Mrs.Oak fainted.
"Wonderful! It worked. Er, that can happen..." Mr.Oak set her on the couch, and they waited.
Back at the hotel, Pichu was having a panic attack.
"chupichu! Pichu pichu pi pich!\Daddy! Mommy is gone!" it yelled. Ash awoke at the yells from Pichu, because he wouldn't have slept through it.
"Gone? Well, I guess she's ok, Pichu. Don't worry about it."
"Pika.\Note." Pikachu said, hoping onto the bed, a piece of paper in it's mouth. Ash sat up and took it and read what it said out loud, "'Dear Ash, Pichu, and Pikachus, Dad's taking me some where. I don't know when I'll be back though, because he didn't say where we were going. See ya later. Love, May' I told you she's fine."
Pichu cocked it's head to the left. Ash said, "Now what? Don't tell me you want to go find her?"
Pichu nodded.
"We'd have to search the whole town...unless..." he thought a moment about the night before and what Mr.Oak had said to them.'I'm going to get Robert and get this over with tomorrow faster then you can say 'pokemon''
"I think i know where she is." Ash said," If you want, I'll get dressed and we'll go."
Pichu nodded. He hurried and got ready.
"Let's go."
He picked up Pichu and whistled to the Pikachus. They left for Robert's house.
When there, he rung the door bell. Robert hurried to the door and opened it. With out a word he let him in. "Hi, how'd that charm work?" Ash asked.
"We don't know yet."
May looked around the corner. "Hi. pichu, made you?"
"Yes."
She walked up. "Pichu has to stop that."
"Yeah. It never seems to want to be with only one of us...and it's your pokemon."
"Well, it seems not to think that...come on, let's go into the living room."
They walked into the living room. Mr.Oak looked up and smiled. "Hello."
"Hi, Mr.Oak. Er, what happened to her?" Ash asked.
"Fainted," Mr.Oak said.
"When will she wake up?" he asked. Mr.Oak shrugged.
"We have no clue."
They had to wait one hour for her to come round.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Robert put a charm on you."
"For what?"
"Because of a problem you had."
"Alright."
` "Let's get you back to the hotel."
Mr.Oak helped her up and said a quick thank you and they left.
At the hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Oak went into their room as fast as possible. May and Ash were in their room playing with Pichu.
"Why are we playing Hide-and-Go seek with Pichu?" Ash asked.
"Because it wanted to," May said, "Found ya!"
Pichu had been hiding behind her laptop, whose lid was up and Pichu was small enough to hide behind it. She picked it up.
"Can we do some thing else now?" May asked. it nodded and jumped out of her grasp onto the bed. it curled up for a short nap, but said, "Pichu pi pichu pi pich pichu.\I'll take a nap and you can do what ever you are thinking of doing."
They looked at each other, thunderstruck. "ok, that was not usual...any way, what do you want to do?" May said.
"Let's see...we can't use the laptop because you said it was defragging, whatever that means...and we can't go talk with Rose because she's off sick...so why don't we just read or some thing?" Ash said. May smiled slightly.
"I think I got a book or two..."
She dug into her bag and found a red covered book at the bottom. All About Pokemon, it said on the cover in gold letters. She sat down on the bed, and flipped to the first chapter. "Oh, stop standing around like that! Get over here!" May said. Ash walked over sat down next her.
She read out loud: As most people know, there are over 150 pokemon in the world. 251 known so far. Researchers are still looking for new pokemon that haven't been discovered yet.
"There's alot of pokemon...251 known." Ash said. May nodded and read on. "'People called pokemon trainers go out to catch these pokemon. Others go out to compete in the pokemon league to become the
pokemon master....or both.'"
She leaned against Ash and continued: To become a pokemon master, you must beat the Elite Four and the resent pokemon master. The longest some one has been the master was one year.
She read on through the book till the back. "Here there is a list of pokemon that they've discovered so far." May said. Ash nodded and looked over her shoulder at the list of pokemon.
"I wonder if they'll find any new pokemon..." Ash said.
"They might," May said, putting the book back in its place, "Now what do you want to do?"
"I really don't know," Ash answered.
"We could go swimming or some thing," May suggested. Ash shrugged.
"I guess," Ash said, shrugging.
"Ok, you get ready. I'll go tell Dad were we'll be..."May said. Ash nodded. She walked to the door and left.
"Dad!" May yelled, knocking on the door. Mr. Oak opened the door.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Ash and me are going swimming."
"Where? There's no place to go swimming that I've seen of..."
"Yes there is! We found it. There's this corridor that leads from our room to Gary's and halfway down it another corridor branched off it. We went down that one and found a pool."
"Well, alright, I guess...Hope you have fun."
"ok, bye."
"Bye."
May walked back to their room and walked in. Ash was sitting on the bed, all ready, trying to catch Pichu. "Oh, look, you've made a new game- Catch The Pichu," she said.
"Ha-ha." he said, taking another swipe at Pichu, but it was jumping out of the way, "I give up trying to catch this bolt of lightning, here."
"Whatever," May said going through her bag once again. She was taking things out of it and setting them on the bed. After a moment of searching through the tangle of stuff, she had found what she had been looking for- her bathing suit.
"Ok, let's get this stuff stuffed into here..." May said.
"I'll do it. It's not like it's the hardest thing in the world to do." Ash said, "Just go get ready."
While she was getting ready, she had a very uneasy feeling. She shook her self mentally and tryed to ignore it.
When she was ready, she walked out. Her expression had most likely shown that she was worried about some thing, because when Ash looked up from putting one of her CDs in her bag, he suddenly frowned. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I don't know." May replied, "Let's go to the pool."
They walked over to the door but then May stopped. "Pichu? Pikachus? We are going to leave the doors open ok?" The Pikachus nodded, but Pichu ran up to them and looked up. "Let me guess...your
coming?"
It nodded. She opened the door and it walked up to the door way. "Go on."
It walked into the dark corridor and they tryed to keep up, but it was a very fast walker. When they had gotten to the pools edge, they saw Pichu at the other side looking over the edge. "Careful there, Pichu!" May called. It looked up in surprise and fell in. The bad part about it was...it couldn't swim. It struggled against the, was still water to stay surfaced.
Ash looked at the struggling pichu and made a decision. He dove into the pool and didn't come up for air till half way to Pichu. The Pichu was still struggling, if more so. Ash dove back under and that time made it to
Pichu. He took hold of Pichu and it stopped struggling to stay up. May dove into the water.
"Where's Pichu?!" she called. She started over.
"Right here!" Ash called back, lifting it up so she could see Pichu. She stopped swimming when she got to the center, out of breath because she had hurried. Ash swam up to her, Pichu on his head, afraid of the water now. May could only see his head and pichu looking around the place and back down at the water, afraid it's going to fall back in.
"Here it is," he said, when he made it over to her. She hugged Pichu, who winced because water had just dripped into it's eyes.
She looked up at Ash from Pichu, who was still wincing.
"Thank you, Ash," she said. She hugged him.
"It was no problem. Get Pichu over to the side of the pool."
"Aren't you coming?"
"I'll be there in a minute," he said.
"Ok." she said, "Let's go Pichu."
It jumped onto her head as she slid through the water. She looked back over her shoulder, Ash was taking deep breaths, as if he couldn't breath properly, but then slid under the surface of the water. May looked ahead of her and went the rest of the way to the side. Pichu jumped onto the solid ground and sat a little from the edge.
"I wonder what Ash saw..." May said to herself. She was about to try and touch the bottom of the pool when Ash surfaced a little ways out. "Don't!" he yelled.
May turned around to look at him. "Don't what?" she asked.
"Try to hit the bottom. I just looked down there to find the floor of the pool...and I couldn't find it." he wheezed, now not shouting and out of under the water.
"That's impossible...you mean to tell me there is no floor to this pool?" she asked.
"Yes, I went as deep as I could till I needed to get to the surface for air." he said, finally gotten his breathing back to normal.
"Ash, we have to get out of here." May said, "If there is no bottom to this, then there could be any thing down there..."
"Yeah, I know...I'm postitive there's some thing down there." he said, keeping hold of the side of the pool.
"How do you know?" May asked.
"I heard some thing down there and it didn't sound too nice...like a growl or some thing." he said.
"Alright. I got a idea." she said. Ash looked at her, puzzled. She shook her head and said, "We got to get out of the water before I put the plan to work. It involves electricity."
Ash nodded and hopped out and took hold of Pichu. May climbed out and whistled. Penny came speeding in. It stood in front of May.
"Thunder Bolt the water." she ordered. it nodded and did so. After the shock on the water had died down, she looked over the edge.
"RUN!" she yelled, "PENNY! COME ON!"
Ash tried to keep hold of Pichu, but mixing him being soaking wet and Pichu squirming, it had jumped out of his hands.
"NO, PICHU! GET BACK HERE!" May yelled, running to catch up to Pichu. Pichu had ran up to the edge of the pool. Just as she grabbed pichu and turned around to get away from the pool, a dog-like creature had emerged.
She turned to face it, but was backing away. It's fur was a bluish shade, she noticed, and if it was a pokemon, it must of been a water type.
She kept backing away, til she had backed right into Ash who was standing, transfixed, near the doorway.
"Why isn't it attacking?" May asked
. "Don't know and don't want to know." Ash said, "Let's go."
She nodded in agreement. He ran over to the door way, where Penny had stood ready to leave, but prepared to battle if the need came. May ran up next to him and looked back at the dog thing. It growled slightly, but did not budge. She went back into the corridors at a fast walk. Ash was behind her and Penny came up last, making sure it didn't follow them.
"That was creepy," May said.
"Creepy? You call that creepy? How about psycho? That-that thing just emerged from the pool!" Ash said.
"Alright, Psycho it is then." she said, "I'm going to go get dressed...then try to get Pichu to stop hiding."
Ash nodded. She gathered her cloths then walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Then it dawned on her. Before they had went to that pool she had that weird uneasy feeling, but since they got into their room, it was gone. She shook the thought off and got dressed, humming a small tune she had heard a few times, that she remembered.
When she walked out, the first thing she did was look at the clock- 9:00 P.M!
"Hey, Ash. Where'd you go?"
"Down here!" he yelled. He was down on the floor, looking under the bed.
"What in the world are you doing down there? It looks like you're looking for some thing." May said.
"I am," he said, standing up.
"What?"
"Pikachu."
"Huh?"
"Pikachu!" he yelled, "My Pikachu!"
"Oh, it probably wondered off some where," May said, "Go get dressed."
Ash nodded and went into the bathroom, saying, "Sure, let's hope that's all Pikachu did." May sat down and saw that he had put his hat on the edge of the bed. It was about ready to fall off, so she grabbed it and set it on the table. After a minute Ash came back in the room.
"Did you find Pichu?" he asked.
"Yeah." May said, "It's over there."
She pointed over to the desk, where Pichu sat on the chair. He looked at it before walking over and sitting down next to May. She hugged him tightly.
"I'm tired. How about you?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm b-b-bushed," he said, attempting to stifle a yawn.
"Then let's go to sleep," May said. Ash nodded in agreement. He laid back and May did the same.
Ash hugged May. She smiled. "I love you, Ash," May said.
"I love you, May," Ash said very softly. May smiled, again. They shut their eyes to go to sleep, for the next day they would be going back to Pallet Town on the plane.
At 1 o'clock, Ash had woken up for some reason. He looked around the room. Nothing was there. Then out of the shadows a voice said, "Nice to see you again, Ash."
He stifled a yell to keep from waking May and the pokemon up. He turned his head to see who had said that-Mr. Ketchum.
"How did you find us here?" Ash asked. Mr. Ketchum walked to the end of the bed before answering.
"I guessed."
"Ok, but that's not even possible."
"Oh, yes it is."
"Ok how?"
"Never mind. How are you?"
"Fine."
"Good. When are you going to be going back to Pallet Town? I'm just curious."
"Today, in the after noon, I think."
"Alright, listen, at 12 o'clock, meet me at the dead end of that secret path in the National Path. I'd like to talk to you two a bit before you have to go."
"Ok."
"Right. I ought to be going now..." Mr. Kechum said. He looked at Ash and smiled.
"Isn't that a very weird position to be in during the night?" he asked. Ash looked at him.
"Not really," Ash said.
"Alright. Good night, Ash."
Before Ash could say another word, Mr. Ketchum left. Ash stayed up a few more minutes, before drifting off to sleep.