Chapter 8

Only You

Ash and Pikachu continued down the roads through The Boundary Lands. After crossing The Gate of Friendship, the sky went back to being bleak and the grass went back to being drab and gray. Ash was feeling great, though. The power that his friends gave him made him feel like he could take on anything. He thought about how he was going to smash every last Hopenol robot that he saw and finally remove his father from his mind. Pikachu was quiet, though. For some reason, he had a worried look on his face.

"Pikachu, what's wrong?" Ash asked. "It's just… We're getting closer to Kanto, but there's another place we have to go first. It's another gate that we have to cross." "Really? Whatever it is, I can take it. We're going to reach Kanto, Pikachu." Ash said. "It's a dark place, Ash. It's where you store your repressed urges, your dirtiest thoughts, where you keep your libido chained up like a prisoner. It's The Gate of Desire." Ash smiled. "It's going to be a pretty small gate. I keep my head where it's important." He knew that this was a lie. "Just like how there is a god hidden away in everyone, there's also a pervert, Ash. You're going to have to face your desires. You have a lot of them, some of which you might not even know you have."

As Ash and Pikachu walked down the road, they began to see warning signs posted along the sides. "Warning! This is a restricted area!" "Stop! You are not supposed to go here!" "Do not enter! Hazardous environment ahead!" "Danger! You do not know what you will do to yourself if you go in!" A feeling of dread swept over Ash when he saw these. He knew that these signs existed for a reason. As they walked closer, a barbed wire fence rose from the ground. It blocked the path.

Pikachu turned to Ash. He was terrified. "You're scared. I know. We have to go on, though. It's the only way we can reach home." Pikachu said. Ash tried to suppress his fears, but it only made the fence rise higher. "Pikachu… I don't want to think about this. I don't want to go there. I… I just want to be the very best. That's it. That's what I desire." A voice called out from beyond the fence. "Don't lie to yourself, Ash. You want me and you know it." Ash looked on the other side of the gate. It was Dawn. She was smiled an evil smile and was covered in bruises and scars. She was even missing an eye.

"Dawn? What happened to you?" Ash said. Ash walked close to the gate. "You beat me down, Ash. You tried to suppress your urges for me, but I won't be defeated. If I learned anything from travelling with you it's to never let your spirit break." She grabbed at the chain link fence and attempted to pull it away. "You can't fight me much longer. You made me for a reason, Ash. Come on and use me."

Ash wasn't sure what to do. He felt like his mind had turned against him, like this was some kind of attack. He tried to look away. "Pikachu, stop her. Please." He said. "You shouldn't fight yourself, Ash. It'll get you nowhere." "Yes. Don't fight it. Let me in." Dawn said. Another voice called out. It was May. "Is that Ash? Oh, I've been so lonely in here. Ash!" She said. Ash turned around. Like Dawn, she looked battered and broken, but felt as though nothing could stop her. "May, help me break this fence down. If you do, Ash will be ours." Dawn said. May ran over to the fence. She was a lot stronger than Dawn. "Stop hiding, Ash. We never give up, just like you." Ash could see the chains on the fence bending. "Stop! He shouted." "What's the matter? Scared?" May taunted. "No! I… I'm…" "You're scared of girls. It's time to get over that fear Ash, whether you like it or not." Dawn said.

Ash saw the two women coming at him like lust filled zombies. They looked like they were both about to rip the fence open. Ash's defense mechanism went off. "Pikachu, use thunderbolt!" Ash said. "I really don't think it's a good idea." Pikachu said. "That's an order! I'm your trainer, Pikachu. Listen!" He growled. Ash tried to cover up his fear with anger, but he wasn't fooling anyone. Pikachu sighed. He blasted a bolt of electricity at May. She fell down, but got right up with a smiled. "Hurt me more, Ash. I like it when you don't hold back." "Yes. Hurt us some more. The saying goes, you always hurt the ones you love!" Dawn said.

May grabbed the fence again and with one mighty pull, tore a large piece of it away. She gave Ash a look of lust. It was one of the most terrifying things he had ever seen. "Pikachu, thunderbolt!" He said. Pikachu blasted May with another jolt of electricity, but it didn't do anything to her. Dawn approached behind her. Pikachu shot more bolts of electricity, but it did nothing. "Ash, I don't think this is going to work." Pikachu said. Ash wasn't sure what to do. He stood still, frozen with terror.

Dawn grabbed Ash by the arm and smiled. "Oh, it's so nice to be so close to you, Ash." She said. Her wounds all healed. Her missing eye was even restored. May moved close to him too. She held him by the chin and healed her wounds. "Your skin is so soft and smooth…" She said. Ash felt a burning sensation inside of him. He began to sweat and felt an agonizing pain, like the fires of Hell were licking at him. It was too much for him. He fell to his knees and cried. "Hey. Hey. We're not here to hurt you. We just want to heal ourselves. That's all." May said. "It sure didn't look like it!" Ash shouted. He curled up into a ball and sobbed.

"Ash, why are you crying?" Dawn said. "Because… I don't love you. No! No, I do love you. It's just…" He couldn't finish his words. "I think I can help you." May said. Ash stood back up. "Help? May, I don't know if you can help me." "No. You made me to help you. I'm an expert on romantic problems, you know. Tell me what it is." May said. "I… No. It's better to just forget about it." Ash said. Dawn gave him a stern look. "Ash, this isn't a problem that will just go away. You have to make an effort." "I know, but… I'm scared." "You don't have to be scared. We're with you." May said. She reached out her hand to help Ash up. He took it and stood up.

"Now, what's wrong?" May said. Ash looked deep inside himself and knew what the answer really was. "It's Misty. I love her, but she hurt me. She hurt me real bad and… I don't know." Ash said. "Do you want to talk to her? I know where she is." Dawn said. "That sounds like a good idea." Pikachu said. He turned to Ash. "How about it? Are you ready, Ash?" He wanted to say "No." He wanted to turn back and wander the Boundary Lands forever. He knew that this wasn't an option, though. He looked deep within and remembered the strength that all of his friends gave him. "I'm ready. Let's go."

Dawn and May led Ash and Pikachu through the hole that they tore in The Gate of Desire and down the road. There were ruins of a castle in the distance. It looked like it could collapse at a moment's notice. "So, what did Misty do to you?" May asked. Ash didn't want to say it. He didn't want to admit that this happened, but he had to. "She raped me." It felt horrible for him to say it. He didn't want to acknowledge what had happened. He wanted to pretend that it had never happened, but he had to. It was the only way.

Dawn led them to the ruins. "She should be in there. Go on in." She said to Ash. He started to go in, but noticed that no one was following him. They were stuck behind an invisible wall. "Aren't you guys coming with me?" He said. Pikachu shook his head. "She only wants you, Ash. She doesn't want us." "Yeah. She locked herself in this castle for a reason." Dawn said. May gave Ash a worried look. "We would help you more, but we can't now. Come back okay, all right?" She said. Ash wasn't sure of himself, but he covered it up. "I will. Thank you." He said.

Ash walked through the ruins and heard quiet sobbing. "Misty?" He said. There was no answer. He continued to follow her voice. "Misty? Is that you?" He said again. "Ash… Why are you here?" Misty said. "Misty, where are you?" Ash said. "I'm in the dungeon, where I belong." Ash saw a staircase in the case and ran down them. "Misty, I'm coming. Hang on." Ash said.

Once Ash arrived in the dungeon, he saw a horrible mass of flesh all over the walls. The floor was covered in gooey secretions and chains. The chains themselves jutted out of the walls like gigantic fleshy piercings. It all smelled hideous, like rotten meat and vaginal secretions. Sometimes he heard a loud beating, like the beating of a heart from within the horrific walls. A voice called out to him. "Ash?" It was Misty again. He followed her voice and found her.

Ash found Misty in the dungeon. She was completely naked. There were chains impaled through her wrists and into the gooey walls. All of the flesh on her chest was missing. Her rib cage was open. There was no heart inside. The grisly sight was almost too much for Ash. He felt like he could vomit. He wanted to run, but had to stay. The only way he was going to go home was if he resolved this.

Misty smiled. "Ash, you came for me." She said. "Misty, what happened? Who did this to you?" Ash said. A single tear ran down her face. "I did it to myself. How else would I get here?" She said. "Misty, you aren't making any sense. Here, let me get you down." Ash said. He tried to figure out how to get the chains out of her wrists. They were melded to her flesh, like her skin had melted around the metal and fused with it. "I don't know if you can. I hurt you, Ash. I deserve to be like this."

Ash noticed that just being around Misty didn't heal her like it did with Dawn and May. This was going to be more difficult than usual. He had an idea of what he needed to do. It was something that he didn't want to do and didn't want to say either. "Misty… I…" It was difficult to say the words and mean them. "I… I forgive you." Misty shook her head. "No you don't." "I do. Seriously. You're my friend, Misty, a true friend. I could forgive you for anything." "That's not true, Ash. I crossed the line that night. I destroyed your body. I destroyed your spirit. I destroyed your innocence. I destroyed you, Ash. I'm just so horrible and disgusting."

Another tear ran down Misty's face. "There is something that you could do to make this right, though. Something… dirty." She said. Ash knew what she was about to say. She whispered to him in a seductive voice. "Rape me." "No. I won't do that. Never." Ash said. "Why not? If you rape me, then we'll be even. Fair as that." "We won't be even, Misty. We'll just be two friends that hurt each other more than we already did. Raping you won't solve anything." Ash said. "Raping me will solve everything. It'll show me how much you want me. It'll make you just as disgusting as me, and then we'll be disgusting together. It'll even show us a good time. I promise I'll enjoy it." Misty said. "I'm not going to rape you." Ash said.

Misty grew angry. She tore the chains from her wrists. Blood splattered all over Ash and all over the fleshy walls of her dungeon. "You're going to rape me, Ash Ketchum! You're going to rape me and you will like it!" She started to grab Ash by the arm, but he pulled her away. She tried to punch him in the face, but he punched first. Misty fell to ground and sobbed. "Why won't you love me?" She said. "I do love you. I just don't want to rape you." Ash wasn't sure how Misty had reached such conclusions, but he knew that they had to stop.

Ash sat down on the floor with Misty. "I know I've been ignoring you. I've been ignoring you for far too long. I've just been so cold without knowing it. I'm sorry." Ash said. Misty gave him a confused look. "Why are you saying sorry? You didn't do anything wrong." "No, I did. We both could've handled ourselves better. I forgive you. Do you think you could forgive me?" He said. Misty gave Ash a smile. "I could forgive you for anything. You could hurt me all you want, but I'd still be your friend." "Same here." Ash said. She stood up and looked down at her exposed rib cage. "Can you help me find my heart? I tore it out and threw it away somewhere. It should be in this room." Ash stood up with her. "Sure!"

Ash searched around the pulsating vagina dungeon, looking for Misty's severed heart. He found a table full of strange objects, many of them very phallic. Ash wasn't sure if he wanted to know what Misty was doing to herself in this dungeon. "I found it!" Misty said. She pointed to a toothy hole in the wall. There was a vagina mouth with sharp, shark-like teeth jutting out of a corner. Misty tried to pull the heart out, but was unable. "It's biting down too hard. Think you could give me a hand, Ash?"

Ash walked over to the toothy vagina mouth in the wall and pulled on the heart. In a single yank, he removed it. The heart had some huge holes in it from the teeth, but they instantly healed when Ash touched them. "Good. Now put it in me." Misty said. She realized how dirty that sounded. "…I mean my heart, not… You know." Ash set Misty's heart inside of her rib cage. It regenerated and began pumping blood inside of her. Her rib cage started to close. Ash had to pull his hands out before her flesh could regenerate around him. He watched as Misty stopped looking like a zombie and returned to just looking like a normal human. The slimy walls disappeared. The chains all rusted and turned to dust. The table full of phallic and sharp objects faded away. The castle had returned to being a normal ruined castle.

Misty grabbed Ash and embraced him. "Thank you, Ash. Thank you for everything. I don't think I could ever ask for a better boyfriend." Ash started to feel uncomfortable. He was reminded that Misty was still completely naked when she pressed her body up against his. He had to fight the impulse to push her away. "Thanks, Misty. You're great too." She held him tighter. "No, I'm not. I'm a horrible monster, a disgusting, unlovable, evil…" "I don't care. I'll still love you, no matter how disgusting you get." Those words meant a lot to Misty. She never thought she would hear Ash ever say that he loved her and mean it, especially after everything they had been through.

"I'll be waiting for you, Ash." Misty whispered. "Where?" "Kanto. We can pick up where we left off there." Misty said. Her body began to disintegrate into particles of light. "Misty? What's going on?" "I'm giving you my strength. All of it. Use it well, Ash." Misty said. The light that was once her body went inside of Ash. He felt even more power surging through him.

The castle around Ash disappeared. He was back in The Boundary Lands with Pikachu, May, and Dawn. They gazed at him expectantly. "I did it. Everything's patched up between us. I feel a lot stronger now, strong enough to reach home." He said. May smiled. "Oh, I just love it when my advice works out!" She said. "Good luck on your journey, Ash. Maybe we'll see you again someday!" May said. They waved goodbye. Ash turned to Pikachu. "Shouldn't we take them along with us?" He said. "They're all a part of you, remember? When you cross the last gate, everyone will be there." Pikachu said. Ash nodded. "Right. Let's get going!" He said. He ran down the road, ready to face whatever challenges awaited him. "Ash, slow down! I can't keep up!" Pikachu said, chasing after him.

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Do You Love Me?
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I was delighted when my heart could fly

Spread wings of desire across the sky

But destiny clipped my wings, I was done

I realized all of my dreams had died

I then became a walking suicide

And only you could be my only one

I thought that it was all a fucking lie

I watched in despair as the world went by

I thought that lie was over when we were through

But you came back, I know exactly why

It doesn't matter how hard I can try

The only one for me has to be you.e came He