Okay, first, I just wanted to say that the whole thing with Max snoring was not entirely my idea. I got it from another fanfic, one that was a May and Brock ship. May was arguing with Max how he snores and that she can't get her beauty sleep and Brock broke the fight by saying that she doesn't need beauty sleep, she's already beautiful. So I kinda just picked it up…

Oh, I have to say something reaaly interesting! In the show, May uses Combusken as her contest pokemon! And I wrote my story beforehand before I saw the show! In my story, she uses her Torchic! Isn't that cool? And also, in my story, Jesse borrows Chimemeko from James, and James doesn't want her to hurt it! And she really does borrow the Chimemeko! Except it turns out differently. Well anyway, I like my story better…See what you guys think after I post the next chapter- the Contest!

Now, Reviews!

To litod3vil: Thanks for reviewing! You're so nice, usually no one reviews! I don't think I'm that great really…I make May sound like me! Except slightly more girly…Now you know how kiddish I am! Yay!

Now for the story!

Chapter 6: This is the Life

After they stocked up on food, and May got a new bathing suit, they set off again. By the next day, they would reach the town where the pokemon contest was held.

May took out a mushroom. "I wonder if this really works…" She put it close to her mouth and was about to take a bite.

"Don't" says Drew, eying it.

"Too late." says May, biting the mushroom.

Drew groans as May gets really hyper. You see, she ate a hyper mushroom. May started to run at full speed.

After 30 seconds she got tired and stopped.

By t he time she felt better, Drew caught up. So much for the hyper mushroom!

"That works better with pokemon." Drew pointed out.

"Whatever." Mutters May, annoyed. "Let's take a break. I'm tired."

"Fine. I'll meet you back here later. See ya!" says Drew, walking away.

"Wonder where he's going?" says May to her self curiously.

She sneaks behind some trees while Drew walks, and follows him to a clearing that's completely surrounded by trees.

"Roselia, go!" says Drew, releasing that infernal rose pokemon. (infernal to me, 'cuz it's waay too girly for me!- author's note) "Time to get started on training. We're definitely winning this one!"

Roselia nods and dances happily. Drew starts training it and stuff. May gets bored and she's about to walk away, when she trips and falls on her face.

"Roselia, did you hear that?" As Roselia nods, Drew walks to the source of the sound.

"How low can you go, May? Too bad I knew you were here all along. That wasn't the real training. It was a warm-up."

"Sorry!" says May in a high pitched voice. "I didn't look, honest!"

"Don't you have your own training to do?"

"Oh, right! I forgot!" May leaves. She goes to their original camping area to begin her training.

"Come on out, Torchic! I've never entered you in any contest!"

Torchic chirps "Torchic!"

"Well, first let's perfect ember! Let's make it so hot that it can evaporate water!"

May gets a bucket of water, and pours some of it to make a puddle on the ground. After the tries and three puddles of water, Torchic successfully evaporated it.

"Okay, now I'll throw some of this water up, and try to evaporate it while it's in the air!"

May throws up some water. Torchic gets so enthusiastic that instead of little balls of fire, a whole stream of fire shoots out!

"Wow Torchic, what was that?" May takes out her pokedex. "Can you do it again?" Torchic nods and does it with ease.

May looks at the pokedex. "Well I'll be! That's a flamethrower! Awesome!"

May refills her bucket. "Change of plans, this'll definitely get the judges' attention!"

After a few tries, they get their new routine perfect.

"Okay, now let's pretend all these trees are people, and let's rehearse!"

May throws up water from the bucket. Torchic does a flamethrower that swirls up and around the water in the air, and quickly shoots an ember up the middle of the big swirl. The water evaporates and comes down in steam to Torchic and Torchic wars a relaxed expression while it gets soothed by the steam. (author's note: I know…steam rises…give me a break…)

"Great job Torchic! Here, have some chocolate!" says May enthusiastically. "We'll practice that later, right before the contest! Let's do something else now…I know! We'll annoy Drew!"

May picks Torchic up and puts it on her head. "When I point, you can do an Ember and burn whatever's in front of us! You can also do that when I say 'hi'!"

May points at a tree. Torchic burns it, and it becomes black.

"Now let's wait till Drew comes back!" May grins. Torchic says it's name happily.

Drew comes back with Roselia about an hour later.

"Hi Drew!" says May, completely forgetting what she and Torchic talked about.

Drew looked at her suspiciously. "Why is your Torchic on your hea—"Torchic burned him.

Drew looks furious. May laughs nervously.

"It's a new game I'm playing with Torchic! Heh heh heh… Here, I'll make it up to you!"

May throws a bucket of water over Drew.

Torchic whimpers, afraid of what's going to happen next.

"I'm not cooking dinner for you today. I'll make enough for myself though." Says Drew calmly.

"No, not that!" says May, stricken with panic.

"Your problem." Says Drew coolly.

-----Division blob!----

"Hypnosis Experiment Alpha is working well, Boss." Says a Team Magma Executive to a more important looking Team Magma member.

"Excellent." Hisses the Team Magma Boss. "Who knew that the most cowardly so-called Team Rocket members could be so…homicidal. It's perfect how they're not afraid to kill. When they're finished with their job, bring the Meowth to me. Dispose of the others!" the team Magma boss barks out the end.

When the Team Magma Executive leaves, the Boss whispers menacingly—"I will allow no mistakes."

----Another Division blob!----

May sulked all the way through dinner, having to suffer through her own cooking. Sure, Drew's cooking wasn't as good as Brock's, at least, most of his cooking wasn't, but it was still so much better than her own.

So May ended up making soup that tasted like one of her least valuable rocks, which wouldn't really taste any different from her most valuable ones, not that she tried them of course.

Drew watched her going through various expressions while she disdainfully tried her own cooking, while keeping his food away from her reach.

"I can teach you to cook better." Drew offered.

"No thanks, I'll learn myself!" replied May with pride.

May figured she should've at least watched Brock, who was teaching Max to cook while she was still traveling with them, but it was too late now….

The remainder of the day was rather uneventful.

Drew said that after a short walk the next day, they'll reach their destination. Of course, as May was prepared to travel herself, she could've done these calculations, or at least she thought she could; but as far as she was concerned, that was Drew's job!

May followed Drew's suggestion and rehearsed with Torchic one last time, but taking care not to let Drew see. She thought that should remain a surprise until the contest.

After a while, May fell asleep, and a bit later, so did Drew, who was drawing in secret.

He was actually quite the artist, much like Forde in Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones. (For those of you who don't know, Forde's a knight, lazy and laid back. But everyone seems to be uncovering his deepest secret- he paints!)

What was he drawing? He was drawing a picture of himself. He was determined to make the most perfect self-portrait. He's been working on this project for a many nights now, but no one ever suspected. And, this one did turn out to look exactly like him, and when he was done, he finally did go to sleep.