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Chapter 5: Feelings!

Ahh...I guess by the title you could already tell who that person Serena freaked out was...if ya can't, good luck trying to find out until you read this!! And it's a bit on the romancy side! And guess what? I made up Madeline as Darien's little sister! WHOOOOO HOOO!!

"I thought he was supposed to be on his own journey? What the heck is he doing here?!" Serena thought to herself as she hid next to the magazine rack as Pichu looked behind the corner.

"Pichu, Pichu! (It's Gary!)" It hopped off her shoulder and ran as Serena crawled out after it. "Pichu!!"

Gary was talking to Ash when it heard a familiar pokemon's voice. "Pichu!!"

He turned and laughed, "What do you know! Hey buddy!"

It hopped into his arms and laughed as the boy hugged it.

Groaning came from a girl on her face as he looked down, "Hey Serena."

"Hello," mumbled the girl.

May took the initiative and with her brother they took Serena off the floor and stood her up with fixing her smudged face.

"What are you doing here anyway?"

"I was just in the next town over when I called my grandpa and he said that Ash's mom called him saying that you were going to participate in the Pokemon Wizard and Witch Tournament tomorrow so I thought I'd come watch ya! Who knew you were able to study on your own without Raye telling you to?"

"I studied on my own because I needed to help Rini! I'm sure your grandfather told you about that too?" She stuck a finger(Not the finger, lol) at him.

His smiled turned into a frown as he let the Pichu go. "Yeah, Rini was kidnapped by team rocket, that's harsh. That's why I'm putting my journey on hold to help you get her back!"

"Wow...thanks."

Ash, May, and Max stood far away from them and sweat dropped once more.

Max was getting mad because he turned to have a liking to Serena, May was getting overwhelmed on the true love she was seeing at the moment and Ash was just getting mad that his rival likes his older cousin.

"That's so romantic!" sighed May happily.

"Oh don't make me get a barf bag," scowled Max.

"Me too," agreed Ash.

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"How'd you get a Pikachu, Meowth, a Charizard, and a Ninetales in one day?! I thought you just began a journey?"

They were both sitting at a table looking at Serena's pokemon as Ash, Max, and May kept a close eye from behind a plant.

"I do, but this mysterious person decided to help me and sent it's clones to come battle for me. Now I'm all set!" she smiled at him as she could hear Ash's steam rising.

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Now's a time to call Raye and the girls.

Serena hoped into a phone booth with the others watching behind her and Pichu and Pikachu on the table as she dialed the number.

Raye's image was the one to appear on the screen.

"Hi Raye!"

"Serena!!! What's taking you so long?!"

"Hey! Hey! Hey! I can't rush these things you know. I'm almost close now."

"Huh? Is that Ash right there?"

"Hi Raye," he waved nervously.

"And that, who would've thunk it, is Gary," she scowled at him.

"It's nice to see you, too, Raye!" joked Gary.

"So what's the deal? Where are you now?"

"We're in Tulip Town and there's a Pokemon Wizard and Witch Tournament coming up. I'm entering."

"You don't have time to enter a competition! And besides, how did you get your 4 other pokemon?"

"Long story, but they're rentals..." Serena tried to put it in nicely and not try to say that a powerful pokemon sent her clone copies of pokemon to fight. "But they should do me good."

            "Really, huh?" Raye arched her eyebrows as she kept looking from Gary to her, Gary to her.

"What are you staring at Raye! I hope you're not thinking about that!!" Ash told her as he sat in the same seat with Serena who almost fell off her seat.

            "Oh you too, huh?"

"You two what?"

            Her cousin and Raye sweat dropped as both Gary and Serena looked at each other cluelessly.

            "Serena Tskino!"

"Huh?" The gang turned as Raye's image leaned over to see who it was.

            A little blonde hair girl, holding onto her teddy bear frowned at the young queen.

"Can I help you?"

            "Hm? Hm?" Raye's image tried to see what was going on but no luck.

"Yeah! I'm here to challenge you to a battle with the revenge of my big brother!"

            "What?"

May's face dropped. "Would you go away,kid? We're kinda busy with a phone call?"

            The freckled hair girl shook her head. "No! Serena cheated against the battle against my big brother and I'm here to make his name back in the heart of goodness again!"

            Serena stood up as Gary looked at her, "Serena, don't waste your time on this little kid. You've got to get ready for the tournament tomorrow—oh" Serena's hand held up to him as to stop him from talking. "What's your brother's name?"

            "You know him! You used to date him!"

"What?! Date him?!" Ash glared at Serena. "How many boys did you actually go out with since we've last seen each other?"

            "Yeah, Serena," Gary also glared at her. "What attracts guys to you so effectively?"

"Oh would you guys knock it off?" May and Max said together as they pushed them out of the way.

            Serena walked up to the little girl and kneeled. After a moment she remembered who her brother was. "You're brother's Darien Shields, am I right?"

            "Well duh! How could you not remember?!"

"And you're name is---?"

            THUMP!

Obviously, Raye was still on the line and she fell due to the fact that Serena couldn't even remember Darien's little sister's name. She too knew Darien and knew her sister. "YOU IDIOT! That's Madeline! The 8 year old?"

            "Oh!!" She chuckled.

"That's right!" Madeline pointed to her straight in the nose. "Besides hurting my brother's heart, you humiliated him in a pokemon battle right before you left home! I'm back to regain his honor! "

            "Do you know magic?"

"Well..uh, yeah."

            "Then why don't you enter the tournament? You could get your revenge for your brother to whatever I did tomorrow..."

"WHATT???!?!" the little kid's face freaked out as she held her teddy bear more tighter. "I'm not getting electrocuted!!"

            "Electricuted? What are you talking about Madeline?" asked Gary.

"You didn't know? " Madeline looked at him. "If the person comes out the loser, he or she will receive a 1 to 2 minute electric shock."

            The others besides Serena gasped. "What?"

"Oh I see..." Raye's image was still on the telephone screen. "Ami told us about this tournament. The person who ends up the loser gets a 1-2 minute electric shock as a significant lesson that that person shouldn't make those moves on a certain pokemon they fought with ever again," She looked at Serena. "Am I right?"

            "That's right!" She smiled. But then she gave Madeline a cold dark stare. "Does this mean you think you're going to lose??"

"Noo!! " She grunted and yelled in her face. "You're on! I'm going to register right away!" And then she ran off.

            Max laughed, "You certainly showed her!"

Gary didn't obviously say anything. He just became....worried.

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            It was already night time but Serena couldn't sleep. She wanted to have a pep talk with her pokemon first before the morning of the tournament.

            They were all in a line, including Pichu as she paced back and forth in front of them.

"Tomorrow's the tournament..." she began. "I'm so excited, I can feel my adrenaline pumping in my body," she smiled to the pokemon. "How 'bout you guys?"

            They all nodded and uproared in agreement.

"Now...I have a good intent on all of you but you Meowth..."

            "Meow?(me?)" The cat paid full attention to her.

"I'm not really too sure about you're attacks so I really don't want to use this but you may not be used at all tomorrow...well..." she sat on the ground. "If I'm lucky....but I promise you-"

            The clone Meowth came up to her and sat right in front of her.

"I study your attacks long and hard and if you can put up with me until I can use you, we'll be just fine! Right?" she held her hand out.

            "Meow Meow! (That's right!)" It put it's paw in her hand as they shook hands and laughed.

Deep in the bushes, Team Rocket's Meowth was watching and starting to get angry that his clone counterpart was getting all the attention. He did know the other clones were around as well, as did Jesse and James who were obviously getting a stand ready for tomorrow's events. They would be setting up a badge collector stand as they did over at the silver conference. Meowth thought they'd be fine with out him so he'd check on what she was doing. But then he became sad that he wasn't loved as well as that Meowth was.

            Serena smiled at all her pokemon as she pet them all as some one walked up. "You all couldn't sleep?" he asked.

Serena turned her head and didn't even react to who it was. "I'm surprised you couldn't sleep either..." She turned to her Pichu. "Hey, Pichu. Take the them back to my room. You all could sleep out of your pokeballs but try not to get seen or scare anyone...and make sure clone Charizard doesn't smolder any sheets..." She looked at the large dragon who shrugged.

            "Pichu! Pichu! (Okay! Let's go everyone!)"

As the pokemon left, Serena got back to her feet and wiped her bottom as Gary walked up. The moon was shining awfully bright tonight.

            "Why can't ya sleep, Serena?" he asked her, not taking his eyes off the star in the sky.

"Oh, the sudden excitement of tomorrow. My first tournament ever! I'm sure it'll be a real breeze for you since you've seen and participated in many matches, huh?"

He chuckled, "Doesn't seem that much. I won't be doing anymore of that of course. Since I'm journeying to be a pokemon researcher just like-"
          

"Your grandfather," Serena finished. "Yeah, I know. But that's really unlike you. You change your mind only if you learned a valuable lesson....."

            Long Silence.

"Ash did really mess ya up at the Silver Conference..."

He sweat dropped, "Did ya watch?

"My whole family did. Of course this was family battling in the tournament," She looked at him as he looked at her. "We wouldn't miss neither yours or Ash's matches if the world was coming to an end. "

   "That's great you guys think I'm apart of your family..." He scratched his head as he looked down.

"Of course silly!" She giggled shortly. "We consider you as part of the Ketchum-Tskino clan!"

   He smiled back at her as they both looked up at the moon.

"So is it true?" he started.

   "Is what true, Gary?"

"That the loser of the Magic Tournament tomorrow gets a long electric shock?"

"It's been that way for awhile now...I knew the consequences and I could use some electric shock. "

   "You sound like it's good for a human soul," he replied sarcastically.

"It won't really affect me much since...I'm not human, Gary..."

   "Are you worried about me? Like I might get hurt or something?"

He blushed and looked the other way. "No way!" he denied.

   "It's okay. You can be worried. No one's stopping you," Serena told him calmly. "Oh! I almost forgot!"

She started rummaging her skirt pockets as Gary turned back to look at her.

"I wanted to thank you...for giving me Pichu...that little guy's everything to the world to me now...besides comics and my little sister of course...AH HA!" Out from her pocket she held in her hands a pink star locket. "Here, take it."

   She took both of his hands which he held it as he opened it up. Out glowed a sparkling yellow light and with a sweet melody that came to their ears(and if we all know, it's the sailor moon theme of course) as he saw a revolving crescent moon going around a pink circle.

   "You can have it..." she told him as he kept on staring at it. "That's 5 birthday presents in one so for the next 5 years, don't expect anything from me!"

   He closed the locket and rebounded, "And that Pichu's for 10 years so don't expect anything from me either!"

They both stared at each other angrily for a second when Serena's face bloated up and she started to laugh as he did too.

   "It's getting late," Gary informed her. "You better get your sleep."

"Yeah, you're right."

   He held out his hand as if he were escorting her to a dance somewhere and oddly enough, she took it as the two walked hand in hand back to the pokemon center.

   In the bushes, Meowth was already bright red and growling with anger. Almost hot enough to burn the bushes.

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CCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Alright, 1 OC down, maybe 2 more to go?