CHAPTER 4

Well here it is.

"Thanks Ash," she said to him.

"No problem," Ash replied and then smiled at her.

When May saw him smile at her she blushed lightly and looked down at her shoes and didn't say another word.

'Why does he like her better than me, I guess that I'll have to let it be and just leave it alone, because if I don't I may not have Ash and May as my friends anymore. I guess that I'll just have to move on and find someone else' she thought sadly to herself, then she realized that she was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't seem to have noticedthat she had stopped while the others kept walking. She then sighed and went to catch up with the others.

When they got to the pokemon center they all had their pokemon checked on, but Nurse Joy said that their pokemon were all in top fighting condition. They then left and went to the field where they thought would be a good place for practice battles.

"Ok May, ready for a battle," Ash said confidently grinning at her.

"I, don't know it depends on if you're ready to lose," said May sounding equally confident and returning the grin.

"Oh, I don't know about that," Ash said to her.

"Each person will use one pokemon, the last one standing is the winner." Brock said to the both of them, "You may now call out your pokemon.

"Go, Beautifly!" May shouted throwing a red and white ball and releasing a butterfly pokemon with a gray body and marvelous red, yellow, blue, and black wings with big bright blue eyes.

Misty sweatdropped and looked a little scared, because of her fear of bug pokemon.

"Common Misty, how could you be afraid of Beautifly, It's so pretty." Max said to her, a little annoyed that she was so afraid of Beutifly.

"Go, Swellow!" Ash shouted also throwing a red and white ball but instead releasing a marvelous red, white, and black bird pokemon.

Both pokemon looked like they were ready to battle, and were full of energy.

Ash decided to start out the battle head on by shouting, "Swellow, use wing attack!"

Swellow then came at Beautifly, with it's wings glowing like steal ready to strike it's opponent.

"Quick, Beautifly dodge and use tackle!" May shouted.

"Swellow dodge!" Ash shouted at it but Beautfly was to fast and hit it square in the back.

Swellow stumbled a little but quickly recovered.

"Ok Beautifly, use string shot!" May shouted

"Swellow move up to dodge it and hit it with quick attack!" Ash shouted at Swellow.

Swellow struck it hard which left it wobbling in the sky a little.

"Swellow, finish it off with wing attack!" Ash shouted

"Beautifly, move down to dodge it and hit Swellow with silver wind!" May exclaimed.

That then hit Swellow hard and in the weak spot. Swellow was blown to the ground and hit it hard.

"Swellow please get up!" Ash said pleadingly.

"Now Beautifly finish it off with tackle!" May shouted knowing that victory was moments away.

That ended it, Beautifly struck Swellow while it was weak and fainted it.

"The battle is over, the winner is May and Beautifly!"

"Yeah, Beautifly we did it!" May exclaimed hugging her pokemon.

"Swellow, you did great, return now and take a rest." Ash said as Swellow returned inside it's pokeball.

May then returned her pokemon and Ash and May both walked to the middle of the battle field.

"You did great May," Ash complimented her as he shook her hand.

"Gee, thanks Ash, you did really well to." May complimented him back also shaking his hand but blushing a little.

"Wow, May you beat Ash, that's so cool!" Max said to her.

"That was a great battle guys!" Brock said to the both of them.

"Yeah that was a pretty good battle," Misty agreed, "May you're pretty good."