December 4, 2004 (I'm putting the date from now on XD)
Wow, it's been a long time I've updated anything…
May: That's because you're a lazy bum )
I would have updated sooner but I was busy!
May: Right… -.-;;
Anyways, thanks for all the review (and the Ash whacking mallet, Tk Macintosh XD)
Brendan: Why can't you update I'll Always Remember first?
::shrugs::
Ash: P That's because she doesn't like you!
Brendan: T.T
::whacks ash with Tk M's mallet:: That's not true!
Ash: Owwie…
'nuff said, on to the story!
Disclaimer: After all this time, I still haven't taken over Nintendo, Game Freak, or Satoshi Tariji's power (you may have noticed that the anime is still sane) so I still don't own any of these characters or Pokemon.
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The sunlight slowly peaked through her translucent curtains and tickled the girl's face. Gradually, it began to brighten to an uncomfortable glow. The girl soon found the sun to be too bright to sleep with so she slowly opened her eyes. The brunette lazily yawned and got up. She quickly brushed the disgusting smell of her mouth away and washed up. She stepped out on to her balcony and took a refreshing breath of the spring air.
'Perfect, a warm spring day, while father is gone, I can go for a ride on that new Ponyta father bought while he goes for his battles.' She thought.
Her sapphire orbs wandered the perfect blue sky, which was dotted with white clouds. She soon spotted a few birds flying back from the south and sighed.
Her one dream was to fly, fly away, far, far away, past…
::Knock knock::
The brunette turned around, "Yes?" She asked.
"Princess, do you need my assistance?" Her maid, Amanda asked. "The King said he wanted to eat breakfast earlier today so he can go for a battle."
Thought so.
"No, its okay," The girl answered. "I'll be there in five minutes!" She hated having someone do all the work for her, why can't she just dress her self like everyone else? Does she even deserve having servants to dress her? She shook the thoughts out of her mind and quickly replaced her nightgown with her favorite dress and went down for breakfast. Her favorite dress was sky blue with white materials dancing across it, just like the sky. Her parents always preferred her wearing a pink dress, "It's more princess-like," they said. She mentally shrugged 'They also said that I look good in almost any colour.'
When she reached the table, everyone was already there waiting for her.
"Okay, let's eat," Her father said.
"May, dear, why aren't you wearing your new pink dress?" her mother asked.
"Yes, May, why aren't you wearing it?" Her father joined.
May sighed, "Do I have to?"
"You should wear it, pink is more princess-like," Carolyn explained
"But why isn't blue 'Princess-like?'" May asked quoting 'Princess-like' with her fingers, "it's just a colour after all." 'Here we go again, the 'princess-like' talk…'
"Because pink is more of a girl's colour than blue, and you are a girl so you should wear pink. Do you usually see me wearing blue?" Her mother answered
May mentally groaned "But-"
"That's enough May, you shouldn't talk that way to your mother!" Norman said, "Now eat," he ordered.
May sighed, "Yes, father," she said and picked up her spoon.
'Today is the day…'
The boy smiled to himself as he went for breakfast. This meal is going to be his last meal of his mother's cooking for a long time. He and his friends were going on a journey to collect the badges so they can become The Knights of Rayquaza. The black haired boy smiled to himself at the thought and quickly wolfed down his breakfast.
(A/N: The Knights of Rayquaza is like a group of knights that are the strongest of the whole country and what not)
"I'm going for my battles. You two," Her father said, "don't get near the new Ponyta, it's too dangerous. It's not tamed yet," Her father explained.
"Yes, father," The two kids said.
"I have to be going too," Carolyn said "Be good, you two," She said and kissed their foreheads.
"Yes, mother." They repeated.
As their parents left the room, the two kids smiled mischievously at each other. They quickly ran to their chambers to change…
As the black haired boy walked to the tree by the town gates where he and his friends were meeting, he saw three figures, a brunette, and another brunette but with even a darker shade and an even darker haired brunette, which was almost black, already there along with three more figures beside them. It was Gary, Brock and Tracey, his friends and traveling partners. Like their mothers (A/N: The 3 other figures beside them), his mother was trailing behind him so she could say goodbye before they set off to their journey.
"Hey," he waved to them.
"Hey," they answered.
Gary chuckled "For once, you're not the latest!" He commented. They all laughed.
"Ha, what do you expect? I've been waiting for this journey for my whole life!"
The friends laughed some more.
May starred out her balcony again. She looked past the castle walls into the wilderness beyond them… How she hated those walls, it caged her up like those Pokemon that were presented to her father as 'gifts'. Every time she saw those 'gifts', she wanted to scream at the presenter for encaging those poor Pokemon in those tiny cages. She had spoken to her father about letting them go, but he always refused.
"They're very rare and precious, May," he said "and it's not nice to let these Pokemon free, the presenter of them would think rude of us. Plus, many of them are dangerous, do you want the citizens of our country get attacked by them?"
So what if they're precious? So what if the presenter would think rude of us? For our own joy and dignity, we can just let these Pokemon be caged up in awful cages and lose their freedom? So what if they are dangerous? It's not like most of them will attack people out of the blue, the people are the one who angered it and probably deserved to be attacked by those Pokemon for disturbing them for their own purposes.
Those Pokemon deserve freedom, they were like her, caged up and restricted from their own will, a bird without wings, wanting to take flight but, sadly, she doesn't have the ability to… Heck, she doesn't have wings! She sighed. 'Only if…'
"May!" Max's voice called. "You ready yet?"
"Yep," She answered "I'm coming," She looked out her window once more and went to meet Max.
"Wow, that took long," Max said.
"…"
"Let's go find Steven and see if he can show/teach us any new/cool stuff!" Max said changing the topic.
"Okay,"
"Then after, we can visit the Ponyta!"
May nodded. "We can let it out for a while before father comes back," She said.
"Yep, let's go!" Max said as they ran to the armory to find Steven.
(A/N: As you already might have guessed, Steven is in The Knights of Raquaza. He's also Norman's (and my XD) favorite so he is the highest ranked. He is also May and Max's very close friend who then teaches them about battling. May is not allowed to learn but he's nice so he teaches her anyway. P)
"Hey, where's Misty?" Tracey asked.
"I don't kn-" Ash started
"I'm here!" The red headed girl interrupted with her mother lagging behind her.
"What took you so long?" Brock asked.
"I lost my spell book so I had to find it!" She explained.
"Okay then, let's go!" Gary said.
"Bye," They said to their parents. After a teary goodbye, the group set off…
"Does the clothes I got for you fit?" her maid asked. (A/N: May supposedly not supposed to do anything 'active' so she doesn't have other clothes other than her fancy dresses and some other clothes so her maid had to smuggle it in for her)
"Yep," May answered.
"Good," Her maid answered.
"I'm gonna go now, remember, don't tell father!" She said.
"I swear my life I won't," She answered.
May walked to the stable to meet Max.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Yep," she said. As she opened the gate, the fire horse went wild and started to gallop wildly. It bashed into the gate, knocking May down as she was still opened it.
"Oww…" She said She rubbed her aching arm.
"You okay?" He asked his sister.
"I think so… my arm really hurts though"
"I'll get Amanda to treat it for you,"
"Okay…"
"So where are we heading first?" Gary asked.
"The town closest to Littleroot is Oldale," Brock started.
"Is there a Challenge there?" Ash asked. (A/N: A Challenge is the quest they do to get the badge, like a Gym but in a Challenge, it can be a battle or something like retrieving the badge through a maze or something)
"Nope," Tracey answered.
"Then why are we going there?" Misty asked.
"'cause we can't get to Rustboro City in one day, we have to pass Oldale AND Petalburg before we can get there." Brock answered.
"Petalburg City!?" Misty and Tracey exclaimed.
"I heard that the royal family is staying there!" Misty said.
"Maybe we will see them," Ash said.
"Yeah," Brock, Tracey and Gary agreed.
"I heard that they have a great armory there!" Tracey added.
"Nice!" Brock said. "Well, let's hope that we can get there soon!"
"Sire, Princess May would like to stay in her chamber for dinner," Amanda said.
"Why? Does she feel ill?" Norman asked.
"Yyes…" Amanda answered.
Norman gave her a strange look "I'm going to see May," he announced and walked to her chamber.
"May?" Norman asked.
"Yes?" May tried to say it in a tired tone.
"Are you okay?"
"I think so…"
"Can I come in?"
"Err…" May pretended to cough "I don't think you should, I don't want you to catch my cold," She said quickly.
"I don't mind," he said as he turned the doorknob to enter…
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I hope you liked it ) I don't think I'll update anytime soon (but hopefully I will get a chapter of I'll Always Remember up this weekend), school is very evil and taking up a lot of my time so ya…
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