Hi, everyone!
I'm finally done with this chapter and I hope you like it. I made this chapter with the help of my friends. . . as in taking some tiny pieces from their personalities. My made up character in a couple if sentences from here is all them. =P
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Chapter 8
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Psyduck (Ash) had been jumping around in the lobby for three hours, waiting for this mysterious person to show up. The strange thing was that he wasn't tired at all. He suspected that Misty might have mixed up the C-vitamins with the caffein tabletts.
God, this was boring. Why couldn't that person just show up so he could go and do something else, like eat food that looked like food, tasted like food and that stayed in his stomach? He stopped jumping around and sat down by the desk that reminded him alot about the receptions in hotels.
He put up his feet against the side of the "reception" as he lay down on the floor, looking up at the ceiling, sighing deeply. That kinda annoying coffee song he'd heard in the supermarket a couple of days ago came back into his head and he started to hum quietly. The next thing he knows is that his head is almost smashed between the floor and someone's shoe.
"Huh?. . . oh, I'm so sorry!" the owner to the shoe apologized as he bend down and picked up Psyduck (Ash). "Are you okey?"
Psyduck looked up at this person. "What the. . . ?!" his eyes widened as he lost his ability to speak.
"Hi, Gary!" Misty greeted as she entered the lobby.
"Um, hi. . . I think something happened to your Psyduck. I almost squashed his head on my way in." Gary explained as he handed over Psyduck to Misty.
"Then something did happen to him." Misty said, "He's probably in shock." She went back into the swim rink with Gary right behind.
Misty sat Psyduck (Ash) on a bench and turned around to face Gary.
"So, what's the big urgency?" Misty asked.
"Uh. . .yeah, right. . . that's why I'm here. Um, my grampa's going to throw a fancy "society party" in a week or so, it's his turn this year. Anyway, since I've been traveling alot, I've never really been present in any of these parties. . . " Gary began.
At the bench, Psyduck (Ash) was trying to regain his breath. *What* was Gary doing?! What if he was asking her out?! Psyduck (Ash) jumped down from the bench and ran towards them, standing between Misty and Gary. Both looked down at Psyduck (Ash) who seemed to be quite pissed.
"Psyduck, what is it?" Misty asked as she bend down to his height.
"He's probably mad at me for almost squashing his head." Gary said and bend down as well. Gary was about to pet him when Psyduck (Ash) actually bite him.
"Ow!"
At first, Psyduck (Ash) thought Misty would flip out, yelling at him that it was not nice to bite people, but instead she began to laugh.
"Good thing that Psyduck doesn't have teeth." Misty said, smiling.
"Yeah, or else he would've choped my hand off." Gary said.
"So, what we're you saying?" Misty asked.
" What I was saying was that I've never been at a "society party" but when I was a kid, my mom and dad forced me to go to dance classes where I was supposed to learn how to dance waltz. I went once. . . and the rest of that term I skipped classes to go and bug Ash. And that's not all. . . I, as the host's grandson, have to dance with a newly become society lady, who probably has known how to dance for serveral years! So, my question to you is. . . can you pretty please teach me how to dance waltz?" Gary pleaded.
Psyduck (Ash) burst out in laughter but shut up when Misty smacked him on the back of his head.
"Sure I can." Misty replied. Psyduck's (Ash) jaw hit the floor, didn't that mean that they would actually have to dance?!
"Great! Um, you don't happen to have waltz CD's?" he asked.
"If I do. . .Daisy bought like a thousand of them when she dated a guy that was a John Strauss-fan." Misty said. She went into a tiny room where there was a stereo and over a hundred shelf's with millions of different CD's.
"Woah. . . talk about collection." Gary said as he peeked into the room.
"I know. Now, let's see if I can find any of Daisy's CD's." Misty said as she began to search after anything that resembled a waltz CD.
Gary went into the little room and began to help her with the search. Psyduck (Ash) went out of the swim rink, into the lobby and out of the gym.
He ran to the backside of the gym. He could swear that he had seen a couple of stilts there. . . and there they were, lying on the wet lawn, just a couple of meters away from him. Psyduck (Ash) picked them up and dragged them all the way back into the gym. Once he was in the gym, he leaned the stilts onto the reception desk, after that he went behind the counter and climbed up a chair.
He jumped up on the stilts and began to walk back into the swim rink where Gary and Misty had just found a waltz CD. As they came out, they saw Psyduck (Ash) come towards them on the stilts.
"What is he doing?" Gary asked, observating the duck's very abnormal behavior.
"That's a very, very good question." Misty said as Psyduck (Ash) got even closer, "Psyduck, what are you doing?" Misty asked worriedly. What if his brain had shrink in that machine she trained him in?
"( I have the best idea.)" he said proudly.
Misty raised her eyebrows and seemed rather surprised, "Um, an idea?"
"(Yup! I can dance waltz so you don't have to teach him!)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
Gary's eyes widened, "Eh, Misty, what's he talking about?" he asked worriedly.
"( I can teach him.)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
Now it was Gary's jaw that hit the floor, "Is a Psyduck, going to teach me how to dance waltz?!"
"Psyduck, that's very sweet of you but I think that Gary is planning on being able to walk on this party." Misty said, calmly.
"(And what exactly do you mean by that?!)" Psyduck (Ash) asked offended.
"It's just that. . . you can't walk without tripping every other step." Misty explained as Psyduck (Ash) frowned.
He was just about to say something when the yell of what seemed to come from an old lady, echoed through the gym.
"Hallooooooo?!"
More people?! Psyduck (Ash) scratched his head in frustration. Misty seemed rather surprised, she excused herself and went out to the lobby to see who had entered.
"Aaah! Misty!" an old woman burst out as Misty appeared in the lobby.
"Madame Cloissans! What are you doing here?" Misty asked shocked as the tiny little lady walked up to her. All her goldy bracelets and necklaces made a tingling noise as she walked. and her clothes were in so many strong colours that it made anyone who looked at them dizzy.
"Misty! You are in great danger!" madame Cloissans said dramatically with her french accent.
Madame Cloissans was a furtune teller at a tivoli Misty and her sisters always went to when the summer arrived.
That tivoli had been closed the year before Misty met Ash and began to travel around the world. Madame Cloissans had told her so many wonderful tales about knights that had to fight to win the princsses' love in the ancient kingdom of Mt. Silver.
Misty hadn't seen her ever since the tivoli was shut down. "Um, what do you mean "in danger"?" Misty asked confused.
"This smell!. . . this unbearable stench!. . . " Madame Cloissans seemed to be ready to die right on the spot.
"What stench?" Misty asked, holding the old lady.
"The stench of jealousy is so strong! It fills my heart with all dread in this world! This stench makes the dead turn in their graves!"
Misty giggled, she was a really funny lady. Weird, but funny.
"Madame Cloissans, what jealousy are you talking about?"
"Follow me, my child. I lead you the the source of this jealousy that has no equal!" she said as the sound of her jewels disappeared into the hallway that lead into the swim rink.
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Gary was walking back and forth in front of where Psyduck (Ash) was sitting, with the stilts lying beside him.
Psyduck (Ash) was following Gary with his glare, making Gary feel very uncomfortable.
"What?" he asked, turning around and facing the staring duck-pokémon.
"(Are you trying to screw my life from all directions?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked, trying to look as serious as a Psyduck possibly could and forgetting that he wasn't supposed to know Gary.
Gary was surprised at the question and looked carefully at Psyduck for a couple of seconds. After a moment's thinking, Gary's face lit up and an evil grin spread over his face.
"God, you're unbelieveable." He said laughing, "Ash, what are you doing here? And as a Psyduck?"
Psyduck (Ash) fell almost off his seat. One tiny question and Gary had figured out who he was!?
"(What? - How? - I mean. . . I)" he stammered.
Gary was seriously laughing at Psyduck's clueless expression.
"You're the only one that would say something like that to me."
"(Don't you dare to say this to Misty.)" Psyduck (Ash) said quietly, looking down at Gary's boots.
"Doesn't she know?" Gary asked, looking slightly surprised.
"(No.)" Psyduck (Ash) replied, still looking down.
"Why don't you tell her?"
"(Why?! If I tell her now, she'll rip me into pieces and bury me somewhere in Viridian Forest!)" Psyduck (Ash) said panicking. He looked up at Gary who was still grinning evilly. "(C'mon Gary! Be nice! I've never asked anything from you before!)" Psyduck (Ash) pleaded.
"Eh, what about that time I let you borrow my action Charizard that could move its wings!" Gary reminded, crossing his arms.
"(It was an accident! An accident! I didn't destroy it on purpose! Or was it me that was driving that huge truck?)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
"No, but who in their right mind leaves a limited edition action-Charizard in the middle of the road without any supervision?"
"(I am not having this discussion with you again. All I'm asking for right now is that you keep your mouth shut about this for at least a week.)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
"Y'know, my silince has a price." Gary said slowly, letting the words run smoothly out of his mouth.
"(Waa! What's the matter with you?! You have lots of money and I don't have anything that could interest - no, you're not telling me that you want my Pokémon for this, are you?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked worriedly.
"No, I don't need your Pokémon. I was thinking of something like labour work." Gary said.
"(Labour work?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked dumbly.
"When do you become yourself again?" Gary asked calmly, playing with his necklace.
"(How do you know I'll become myself again?)"
"I heard that Tracey was talking to my grampa' about someone turning into a Psyduck and that it would take a while for this someone to become himself again." Gary said matter of factly.
"(I guess I'll turn into myself in a week or so.)" Psdyuck (Ash) replied with a sigh.
"Okey, when you come back to Pallet - and I know that you have to go back to Pallet! - come to the lab."
"(What will I do there?)"
"You're gonna help me clean the stables, feed the Pokémon and help me get some trash up from the bottom of the lake in the Water Pokémon Park." Gary said.
"(Help you or do everything by myself?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked, standing on the bench he had been seated on.
"Hm, that depends. If I feel as being nice and polite, I'll help you. If I feel as taking a break or just sit under a tree watching you trip and fall into Pokémon crap and laugh, I'll do that."
"(Great.)" Psyduck (Ash) mumbled, flopping back onto the bench.
It was quiet for a while but there was an annoying tingling of something that came closer and was suddenly in the big swim rink.
Both Gary and Psyduck (Ash) looked towards the door that lead into a hallway and saw a little lady, practically run into the swim rink with Misty right behind her.
"Lord! The hate! The jealousy! It's enough to make satan cry!" she burst out dramatically, waving with her hands.
She looked towards Gary and Psyduck (Ash) and crossed her arms. She seemed rather angry and she walked up to them to take a closer look.
"You two! You are contaminating this peaceful place with the jealousy you are feeling." She said seriously, making both Gary and Psyduck (Ash) cringe.
"Um, what are you talking about, m'am?" Gary asked carefully.
"You, mister! Have strange vibes, you have just done something very mean." She said, looking at Gary from head to toe.
"(No arguments there.)" Psyduck (Ash) agreed.
"And you! How dare you lie to my child?! Don't you have any shame in your body?!" madame Cloissans yelled to Psyduck.
"Eh, madame Cloissans, I know what Psyduck's up to. He can be a little weird but please don't yell at him. He goes into shock if anyone but me yells at him." Misty said, sweatdropping.
Gary began to laugh at the mention of Psyduck going into shock but had to shut up when he recieved very threatning glares from both Misty and madame Cloissans.
"Erhm, sorry. . .I just got a weird scenario in my head. . . " he apologized, scratching the back of his head.
"Misty, there is something about this Psyduck that you don't know." Madame Cloissans said seriously.
Psyduck (Ash) jaw hit the floor, was everyone figuring out that he wasn't a Psyduck?!
"Uh, look! An evil spirit!" said Gary pointing towards the hallway.
"What?! Where?!" madame Cloissans said horrified, making Misty jump behind Gary.
"You didn't see it? Can't you feel the spookiness filling this whole place?" Gary said quietly, looking around as if there was someone or something there.
"When you mention it. . .I did feel something else except this jealousy . . . " madame Cloissans said just as quietly as Gary.
"Come here, my child. Stay behind me." Madame Cloissans said to Misty, grabbing her hand and walking slowly out of the swim rink.
"Gary!" Misty called, before disappearing into the hallway.
"(Hey, thanks.)" Psyduck (Ash) said to Gary.
"We'll see about that when you have to take care of the crap in the stables." Gary said, grinning before going after madame Cloissans and Misty.
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"Let's take this from the begining, 'Me llamo Flora, me gustan las flores.'" Said a young woman with a smile on the television.
Psyduck (Ash) sighed deeply as he put another slightly burned popcorn in his mouth. God, it had been a long day.
Gary had left half an hour after madame Cloissans, glad that he finally had learned how to dance waltz and madame Cloissans had left a bunch of necklaces with crosses and told Misty to get an exorcist as fast as possible because she thought that this had been an ancient grave yard for indians.
Right after that they were alone again, Misty put him in that machine. After that he floated around in the pool, almost falling asleep. Three hours later Misty went to bed, telling Psyduck to behave and not eat them out of the gym.
That was five hours ago. Psyduck (Ash) sighed once again, wondering how they could air these kind of things. What was the point of boring people even more?
Commercial Television; airing stuff twenty-four-seven, including short language lessons. It was either that or "Pretty Woman", which he had seen nearly ten times now this evening and he felt that if he watched that movie again he would throw up the little he had eaten this past week. "Let's take frases that are good to use when you go to Stockholm and visit their old buildings." Said the blonde female happily.
"(Please go ahead.)" he said sarcasticly.
"Hi - Hej, my name is - jag heter. . . , could you show me the way to. . . - skulle du kunna visa mig vägen till. . . " the female said slowly.
"(It takes a while for them to talk.)" Psyduck (Ash) said chuckeling.
"Thank you - tack, good - bra, very good - mycket bra." She continued as Psyduck (Ash) repeated. He slowly closed his eyes and yawned widely.
A couple of seconds later he was asleep, dreaming about a biiig banana split. This night would pass by rapidly.
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A big crash was heard from downstairs and with a jump Misty was up from her bed and halfways out of her room.
"Psyduck! What are you doing?" she yelled as she ran down the stairs and into the living room. She looked at the couch and saw Psyduck (Ash) crawl down and turn around, looking questioningly at her.
"(Did you hear that?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked.
"I thought you dropped something." Misty replied slowly. Psyduck (Ash) shook his head as he gulped.
Another thing crashed to the floor and it came from the swim rink.
"What if that's the evil spirit madame Cloissans was chasing yesterday?" Misty said worriedly.
"(Naa, you maybe left a window open.)" Psyduck (Ash) suggested.
"Yeah, and how often to I climb 7 meters to open a window in the swim rink?" Misty asked sarcastically.
They started to walk towards the swim rink slowly as something hit the water surface with a loud splash.
They peeked into the swim rink from the hall way and. . .
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And. . . hehehe, what they see and what they do is something I'll write about in the next chapter, people!
I had a serious writer's block while doing this chapter so be nice when you review, oki?
Well, love to y'all specially to all you cuties out there that make me smile every time I read your reviews ; )
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Nikki
I'm finally done with this chapter and I hope you like it. I made this chapter with the help of my friends. . . as in taking some tiny pieces from their personalities. My made up character in a couple if sentences from here is all them. =P
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Chapter 8
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Psyduck (Ash) had been jumping around in the lobby for three hours, waiting for this mysterious person to show up. The strange thing was that he wasn't tired at all. He suspected that Misty might have mixed up the C-vitamins with the caffein tabletts.
God, this was boring. Why couldn't that person just show up so he could go and do something else, like eat food that looked like food, tasted like food and that stayed in his stomach? He stopped jumping around and sat down by the desk that reminded him alot about the receptions in hotels.
He put up his feet against the side of the "reception" as he lay down on the floor, looking up at the ceiling, sighing deeply. That kinda annoying coffee song he'd heard in the supermarket a couple of days ago came back into his head and he started to hum quietly. The next thing he knows is that his head is almost smashed between the floor and someone's shoe.
"Huh?. . . oh, I'm so sorry!" the owner to the shoe apologized as he bend down and picked up Psyduck (Ash). "Are you okey?"
Psyduck looked up at this person. "What the. . . ?!" his eyes widened as he lost his ability to speak.
"Hi, Gary!" Misty greeted as she entered the lobby.
"Um, hi. . . I think something happened to your Psyduck. I almost squashed his head on my way in." Gary explained as he handed over Psyduck to Misty.
"Then something did happen to him." Misty said, "He's probably in shock." She went back into the swim rink with Gary right behind.
Misty sat Psyduck (Ash) on a bench and turned around to face Gary.
"So, what's the big urgency?" Misty asked.
"Uh. . .yeah, right. . . that's why I'm here. Um, my grampa's going to throw a fancy "society party" in a week or so, it's his turn this year. Anyway, since I've been traveling alot, I've never really been present in any of these parties. . . " Gary began.
At the bench, Psyduck (Ash) was trying to regain his breath. *What* was Gary doing?! What if he was asking her out?! Psyduck (Ash) jumped down from the bench and ran towards them, standing between Misty and Gary. Both looked down at Psyduck (Ash) who seemed to be quite pissed.
"Psyduck, what is it?" Misty asked as she bend down to his height.
"He's probably mad at me for almost squashing his head." Gary said and bend down as well. Gary was about to pet him when Psyduck (Ash) actually bite him.
"Ow!"
At first, Psyduck (Ash) thought Misty would flip out, yelling at him that it was not nice to bite people, but instead she began to laugh.
"Good thing that Psyduck doesn't have teeth." Misty said, smiling.
"Yeah, or else he would've choped my hand off." Gary said.
"So, what we're you saying?" Misty asked.
" What I was saying was that I've never been at a "society party" but when I was a kid, my mom and dad forced me to go to dance classes where I was supposed to learn how to dance waltz. I went once. . . and the rest of that term I skipped classes to go and bug Ash. And that's not all. . . I, as the host's grandson, have to dance with a newly become society lady, who probably has known how to dance for serveral years! So, my question to you is. . . can you pretty please teach me how to dance waltz?" Gary pleaded.
Psyduck (Ash) burst out in laughter but shut up when Misty smacked him on the back of his head.
"Sure I can." Misty replied. Psyduck's (Ash) jaw hit the floor, didn't that mean that they would actually have to dance?!
"Great! Um, you don't happen to have waltz CD's?" he asked.
"If I do. . .Daisy bought like a thousand of them when she dated a guy that was a John Strauss-fan." Misty said. She went into a tiny room where there was a stereo and over a hundred shelf's with millions of different CD's.
"Woah. . . talk about collection." Gary said as he peeked into the room.
"I know. Now, let's see if I can find any of Daisy's CD's." Misty said as she began to search after anything that resembled a waltz CD.
Gary went into the little room and began to help her with the search. Psyduck (Ash) went out of the swim rink, into the lobby and out of the gym.
He ran to the backside of the gym. He could swear that he had seen a couple of stilts there. . . and there they were, lying on the wet lawn, just a couple of meters away from him. Psyduck (Ash) picked them up and dragged them all the way back into the gym. Once he was in the gym, he leaned the stilts onto the reception desk, after that he went behind the counter and climbed up a chair.
He jumped up on the stilts and began to walk back into the swim rink where Gary and Misty had just found a waltz CD. As they came out, they saw Psyduck (Ash) come towards them on the stilts.
"What is he doing?" Gary asked, observating the duck's very abnormal behavior.
"That's a very, very good question." Misty said as Psyduck (Ash) got even closer, "Psyduck, what are you doing?" Misty asked worriedly. What if his brain had shrink in that machine she trained him in?
"( I have the best idea.)" he said proudly.
Misty raised her eyebrows and seemed rather surprised, "Um, an idea?"
"(Yup! I can dance waltz so you don't have to teach him!)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
Gary's eyes widened, "Eh, Misty, what's he talking about?" he asked worriedly.
"( I can teach him.)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
Now it was Gary's jaw that hit the floor, "Is a Psyduck, going to teach me how to dance waltz?!"
"Psyduck, that's very sweet of you but I think that Gary is planning on being able to walk on this party." Misty said, calmly.
"(And what exactly do you mean by that?!)" Psyduck (Ash) asked offended.
"It's just that. . . you can't walk without tripping every other step." Misty explained as Psyduck (Ash) frowned.
He was just about to say something when the yell of what seemed to come from an old lady, echoed through the gym.
"Hallooooooo?!"
More people?! Psyduck (Ash) scratched his head in frustration. Misty seemed rather surprised, she excused herself and went out to the lobby to see who had entered.
"Aaah! Misty!" an old woman burst out as Misty appeared in the lobby.
"Madame Cloissans! What are you doing here?" Misty asked shocked as the tiny little lady walked up to her. All her goldy bracelets and necklaces made a tingling noise as she walked. and her clothes were in so many strong colours that it made anyone who looked at them dizzy.
"Misty! You are in great danger!" madame Cloissans said dramatically with her french accent.
Madame Cloissans was a furtune teller at a tivoli Misty and her sisters always went to when the summer arrived.
That tivoli had been closed the year before Misty met Ash and began to travel around the world. Madame Cloissans had told her so many wonderful tales about knights that had to fight to win the princsses' love in the ancient kingdom of Mt. Silver.
Misty hadn't seen her ever since the tivoli was shut down. "Um, what do you mean "in danger"?" Misty asked confused.
"This smell!. . . this unbearable stench!. . . " Madame Cloissans seemed to be ready to die right on the spot.
"What stench?" Misty asked, holding the old lady.
"The stench of jealousy is so strong! It fills my heart with all dread in this world! This stench makes the dead turn in their graves!"
Misty giggled, she was a really funny lady. Weird, but funny.
"Madame Cloissans, what jealousy are you talking about?"
"Follow me, my child. I lead you the the source of this jealousy that has no equal!" she said as the sound of her jewels disappeared into the hallway that lead into the swim rink.
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Gary was walking back and forth in front of where Psyduck (Ash) was sitting, with the stilts lying beside him.
Psyduck (Ash) was following Gary with his glare, making Gary feel very uncomfortable.
"What?" he asked, turning around and facing the staring duck-pokémon.
"(Are you trying to screw my life from all directions?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked, trying to look as serious as a Psyduck possibly could and forgetting that he wasn't supposed to know Gary.
Gary was surprised at the question and looked carefully at Psyduck for a couple of seconds. After a moment's thinking, Gary's face lit up and an evil grin spread over his face.
"God, you're unbelieveable." He said laughing, "Ash, what are you doing here? And as a Psyduck?"
Psyduck (Ash) fell almost off his seat. One tiny question and Gary had figured out who he was!?
"(What? - How? - I mean. . . I)" he stammered.
Gary was seriously laughing at Psyduck's clueless expression.
"You're the only one that would say something like that to me."
"(Don't you dare to say this to Misty.)" Psyduck (Ash) said quietly, looking down at Gary's boots.
"Doesn't she know?" Gary asked, looking slightly surprised.
"(No.)" Psyduck (Ash) replied, still looking down.
"Why don't you tell her?"
"(Why?! If I tell her now, she'll rip me into pieces and bury me somewhere in Viridian Forest!)" Psyduck (Ash) said panicking. He looked up at Gary who was still grinning evilly. "(C'mon Gary! Be nice! I've never asked anything from you before!)" Psyduck (Ash) pleaded.
"Eh, what about that time I let you borrow my action Charizard that could move its wings!" Gary reminded, crossing his arms.
"(It was an accident! An accident! I didn't destroy it on purpose! Or was it me that was driving that huge truck?)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
"No, but who in their right mind leaves a limited edition action-Charizard in the middle of the road without any supervision?"
"(I am not having this discussion with you again. All I'm asking for right now is that you keep your mouth shut about this for at least a week.)" Psyduck (Ash) said.
"Y'know, my silince has a price." Gary said slowly, letting the words run smoothly out of his mouth.
"(Waa! What's the matter with you?! You have lots of money and I don't have anything that could interest - no, you're not telling me that you want my Pokémon for this, are you?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked worriedly.
"No, I don't need your Pokémon. I was thinking of something like labour work." Gary said.
"(Labour work?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked dumbly.
"When do you become yourself again?" Gary asked calmly, playing with his necklace.
"(How do you know I'll become myself again?)"
"I heard that Tracey was talking to my grampa' about someone turning into a Psyduck and that it would take a while for this someone to become himself again." Gary said matter of factly.
"(I guess I'll turn into myself in a week or so.)" Psdyuck (Ash) replied with a sigh.
"Okey, when you come back to Pallet - and I know that you have to go back to Pallet! - come to the lab."
"(What will I do there?)"
"You're gonna help me clean the stables, feed the Pokémon and help me get some trash up from the bottom of the lake in the Water Pokémon Park." Gary said.
"(Help you or do everything by myself?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked, standing on the bench he had been seated on.
"Hm, that depends. If I feel as being nice and polite, I'll help you. If I feel as taking a break or just sit under a tree watching you trip and fall into Pokémon crap and laugh, I'll do that."
"(Great.)" Psyduck (Ash) mumbled, flopping back onto the bench.
It was quiet for a while but there was an annoying tingling of something that came closer and was suddenly in the big swim rink.
Both Gary and Psyduck (Ash) looked towards the door that lead into a hallway and saw a little lady, practically run into the swim rink with Misty right behind her.
"Lord! The hate! The jealousy! It's enough to make satan cry!" she burst out dramatically, waving with her hands.
She looked towards Gary and Psyduck (Ash) and crossed her arms. She seemed rather angry and she walked up to them to take a closer look.
"You two! You are contaminating this peaceful place with the jealousy you are feeling." She said seriously, making both Gary and Psyduck (Ash) cringe.
"Um, what are you talking about, m'am?" Gary asked carefully.
"You, mister! Have strange vibes, you have just done something very mean." She said, looking at Gary from head to toe.
"(No arguments there.)" Psyduck (Ash) agreed.
"And you! How dare you lie to my child?! Don't you have any shame in your body?!" madame Cloissans yelled to Psyduck.
"Eh, madame Cloissans, I know what Psyduck's up to. He can be a little weird but please don't yell at him. He goes into shock if anyone but me yells at him." Misty said, sweatdropping.
Gary began to laugh at the mention of Psyduck going into shock but had to shut up when he recieved very threatning glares from both Misty and madame Cloissans.
"Erhm, sorry. . .I just got a weird scenario in my head. . . " he apologized, scratching the back of his head.
"Misty, there is something about this Psyduck that you don't know." Madame Cloissans said seriously.
Psyduck (Ash) jaw hit the floor, was everyone figuring out that he wasn't a Psyduck?!
"Uh, look! An evil spirit!" said Gary pointing towards the hallway.
"What?! Where?!" madame Cloissans said horrified, making Misty jump behind Gary.
"You didn't see it? Can't you feel the spookiness filling this whole place?" Gary said quietly, looking around as if there was someone or something there.
"When you mention it. . .I did feel something else except this jealousy . . . " madame Cloissans said just as quietly as Gary.
"Come here, my child. Stay behind me." Madame Cloissans said to Misty, grabbing her hand and walking slowly out of the swim rink.
"Gary!" Misty called, before disappearing into the hallway.
"(Hey, thanks.)" Psyduck (Ash) said to Gary.
"We'll see about that when you have to take care of the crap in the stables." Gary said, grinning before going after madame Cloissans and Misty.
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"Let's take this from the begining, 'Me llamo Flora, me gustan las flores.'" Said a young woman with a smile on the television.
Psyduck (Ash) sighed deeply as he put another slightly burned popcorn in his mouth. God, it had been a long day.
Gary had left half an hour after madame Cloissans, glad that he finally had learned how to dance waltz and madame Cloissans had left a bunch of necklaces with crosses and told Misty to get an exorcist as fast as possible because she thought that this had been an ancient grave yard for indians.
Right after that they were alone again, Misty put him in that machine. After that he floated around in the pool, almost falling asleep. Three hours later Misty went to bed, telling Psyduck to behave and not eat them out of the gym.
That was five hours ago. Psyduck (Ash) sighed once again, wondering how they could air these kind of things. What was the point of boring people even more?
Commercial Television; airing stuff twenty-four-seven, including short language lessons. It was either that or "Pretty Woman", which he had seen nearly ten times now this evening and he felt that if he watched that movie again he would throw up the little he had eaten this past week. "Let's take frases that are good to use when you go to Stockholm and visit their old buildings." Said the blonde female happily.
"(Please go ahead.)" he said sarcasticly.
"Hi - Hej, my name is - jag heter. . . , could you show me the way to. . . - skulle du kunna visa mig vägen till. . . " the female said slowly.
"(It takes a while for them to talk.)" Psyduck (Ash) said chuckeling.
"Thank you - tack, good - bra, very good - mycket bra." She continued as Psyduck (Ash) repeated. He slowly closed his eyes and yawned widely.
A couple of seconds later he was asleep, dreaming about a biiig banana split. This night would pass by rapidly.
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A big crash was heard from downstairs and with a jump Misty was up from her bed and halfways out of her room.
"Psyduck! What are you doing?" she yelled as she ran down the stairs and into the living room. She looked at the couch and saw Psyduck (Ash) crawl down and turn around, looking questioningly at her.
"(Did you hear that?)" Psyduck (Ash) asked.
"I thought you dropped something." Misty replied slowly. Psyduck (Ash) shook his head as he gulped.
Another thing crashed to the floor and it came from the swim rink.
"What if that's the evil spirit madame Cloissans was chasing yesterday?" Misty said worriedly.
"(Naa, you maybe left a window open.)" Psyduck (Ash) suggested.
"Yeah, and how often to I climb 7 meters to open a window in the swim rink?" Misty asked sarcastically.
They started to walk towards the swim rink slowly as something hit the water surface with a loud splash.
They peeked into the swim rink from the hall way and. . .
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And. . . hehehe, what they see and what they do is something I'll write about in the next chapter, people!
I had a serious writer's block while doing this chapter so be nice when you review, oki?
Well, love to y'all specially to all you cuties out there that make me smile every time I read your reviews ; )
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Nikki