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Chapter Six: Ready or not!
"Psst, hey you there!" I heard someone whisper from outside the cell. I was shivering, I didn't dare reply. My friends were all in different cells, we were originally in the same one but they were moved to their own. I was usually a tough kid... but I was scared. Actually scared.
I heard him whisper again and he poked his head out from where he was hiding. He was outside the cell and had keys jingling from his hands. I was still petrified to move, despite seeing his appearance. He looked kind and was about the same age as me. There was also a tiny Pichu on his shoulder.
"Hey, it's okay, I won't hurt you!" he said reassuringly, noticing my fear. "I'm bored and I wanna play something but I have no one to play with!"
I paused, wondering if I should trust him. I decided to, as his words seemed genuine. Finally, to his happiness, I nodded.
"Will I have to come back?" I asked, standing up as he opened the door to the cell. It creaked open.
He nodded sadly as I walked out into the corridor, it had dark damp walls, small candle holders with blue flames illuminating it with an eerie, dim light.
"I'm sorry," he apologised, his words sincere. "If I let you go..." He trailed off.
I smiled, understanding. "It's okay."
"What are we playing?" I understood what was happening, he couldn't let me go, he would be tortured or at the worst, killed. At least he took me out to play, I was grateful for that. Me? I didn't even know what the hell was going to happen to me.
He grinned, and I could feel a tone of gratefulness. "I don't know, lets play hide'n'seek? We'll go outside so the boss guy won't see us."
"Pi! Pichupi!" his adorable Pokémon agreed from on top of his shoulder.
"Aww! It's so cute!" I couldn't help but smile at its cuteness. Then, I nodded. "Sure, let's go."
His Pichu jumped in my arms, much to his surprise.
"That's weird, Pichu must really like you! He never goes to anyone other than me like that!"
I grinned, cuddling it in my arms.
We walked outside, it felt so good to have gotten some fresh air. I randomly wondered what had happened to my parents. They just...disappeared? They said they would come back so far, not even a trace of them. A tear fell as I thought of the possibility of them being killed. Assassinated.
He looked at me with concern, raising an eyebrow. "Are you okay?"
I nodded. "Yeah."
"Hold on, I wanna show you something!" he pulled my arm and took me on top of a high hill.
As we reached the top of the hill, I gasped in awe. The sun was just rising, and the cloudless sky was painted with shades of deep orange, red and dark blue.
"It's stunning," I breathed, taking in the sight.
He grinned, nodding. "I know! I'll hide first! Count to thirty and then you can find me!"
After taking one last look at the sky, I closed my eyes and started counting. "Okay! One, two, three, four, five..." I counted all the way to thirty and then opened my eyes, grinning. "Ready or not, here I come! I'll find you!"
The dream changed to another time and environment, a few days later.
"Quick! Go now!"
I couldn't leave him, he would be tortured or killed for freeing me.
"No!" I shouted, I suddenly gasped as I heard a gunshot and one of my friends screaming hysterically. I saw two strangely coloured Rapidash galloping across the ground. There was a boy and a girl on each, I recognised the two brunette girls, they were my friends. I didn't really know the two boys. The Rapidash with a boy with brown hair and my friend stopped next to me.
"Hurry! We have to go, now!" my friend cried desparately, ushering to me.
I gave one last look to him.
The wind blew past both of us as he smiled, giving a small nod. "Ready or not, I'll find you! I'll remember your sea-green eyes. We'll meet again someday, okay? And we'll watch the sunrise together again! Now go!"
I smiled back and accepted the boy who was on the Rapidash's hand gratefully and sat on the Rapidash as it galloped away, far from the gloomy building.
I gave one last glance back at him and his Pichu. Would we meet again?
"Wait!"
Misty woke up, shouting "Wait!" She wasn't that loud though, only Dawn woke up.
"What's wrong Misty?" Dawn said groggily, sitting up in her bed.
The athletic ginger shook her head. "Nothing. Just a dream is all." She looked over to the time, it was nearly dawn (no pun intended). She got off her bed, "I'm just gonna go for a run early."
After receiving no reply, Misty turned to look as Dawn. She rolled her eyes after the sight of the already fast-asleep bluenette. After hopping out of the bed, she changed into her gym clothes.
By the time she had her runners on, phone with earphones attached so she could listen to music and the right clothes, the sun was just starting to rise. She headed down the spiralling stairs, and was about to walk out the huge doors and as she did, she was bombarded by news journalists, fans and clicks of cameras and flashes.
"Oh my god guys! It's Misty Waterflower! From Eye of the Liepard, she's right there!"
"Can you sign my autograph?"
"Misty can you answer a few questions?"
"She's gorgeous!"
"Misty your voice is amazing!"
She nearly dropped her phone, "What the-"
Misty was pulled into the massive crowd of people, it was too overwhelming. She felt someone tug her out with strong arms, to her relief. It was Ash.
"Oh em gee! Its Ash! He's so cute!"
"Ash Ketchum, would you mind going to Lumiose News Studio tomorrow?
"Kyaa! He's right there! That red-head better get away from him."
"Are you two dating?"
Misty narrowed her eyes. What's going on... We can't be that famous already, right? Wrong.
Someone roughly pulled Misty off Ash, holding her tight.
Ash narrowed his eyes and frowned at the fans. "That wasn't very nice! Pikachu, thunderbolt! Make it light though. I don't wanna hurt our fans or Misty." He chuckled at the last bit.
Pikachu jumped in the air launching a small thunderbolt, it was enough to paralyse everyone for a few seconds.
"Mist, let's go!" Ash exclaimed, pulling her along as she was still slightly paralysed. They made it inside and locked the door, leaning against it, huffing and puffing.
Misty wiped her forehead, panting. "Phew, I was not expecting that! I just wanted to go for a run."
Ash gave a small smile, chuckling. "I wanted to see the sun rise from up high. There's a high hill nearby. We can still go see it if you want to, from the top balcony."
"Sure!" she replied, nodding with a large smile.
The two headed up the stairs, and then once more up a smaller set of stairs and up to the roof. They were gusted by a breeze as they stepped out, the weather fairly mild. A grin slowly made a way onto Misty's face at the sight of the sky.
The sight was breathtaking, the sun was half appeared and it was surrounded by deep orange. The orange then blended into a beautiful blue colour.
Ash smiled, gazing over at her. "Like it?"
Suddenly wave of déjà vu passed over Misty, it was almost as if this moment had happened before. At the same time, Ash heard voices in his head, confusing him to the max.
"Ready or not, I'll find you! I'll remember your sea-green eyes. We'll meet again someday okay? And we'll watch the sunrise together again! Now go!"
"Wait!"
Ash shook it out of his head, frowning to himself. He looked over to Misty, not realising he was staring.
The ginger noticed his gaze, and looked at him in concern. "You okay?"
The raven-haired artist nodded. "I'm fine." He paused, thinking of a subject-changer. You guys were awesome yesterday!"
"Haha, so were you!" Misty said, blushing at the compliment.
"We were better. Ha ha!" Ash stuck his tongue out playfully.
"Want me to bash you with my mallet?" Misty threatened, intimidating the joyful boy.
They sat on the balcony, legs dangling from the edge, arguing, chatting and laughing as the sun rose higher into the sky. Ash had forgotten about his mission in the moment.
Gary stepped out of bed with a yawn and stretch to see Paul standing in front of him, glare in his eyes.
The surprised auburn-haired boy raised a brow at his comrade's expression. "Uh, Paul? What's wrong?"
Fury was evident in Paul's eyes as he said, "What do you mean what's wrong? You messed up big time. Those girls told me what happened between you and Leaf."
Drew nodded, he was now beside Paul. "Not only that, you ditched Ash for that other girl. She's not important, she made you mess up all our plans," he added.
"I didn't mess up that bad," Gary retorted.
"Yes you did!" the purple and green-haired boys exclaimed in unison.
"You know how hard its gonna be to gain her trust back? If we fail this mission, we're done for, the boss won't be as forgiving as after that..." Paul hesitated, "...incident we had as kids. We were just kids and yet we were tortured! If we fail this, we'll be-"
"Killed," Drew finished.
Gary sighed, nodding. "Alright, I'll do whatever it takes to gain her trust back. Where's Ashy-boy by the way?"
"He went somewhere earlier this morning," the chartreuse-haired boy replied.
Paul sighed, "Probably to see the sunrise. He started going almost everyday after the day he met her. I think he likes the carrot-top or something, he has to snap out of it." Paul knew he was being hypocritical, he always felt some sort of strange connection with Dawn.
Misty walked back into Eye of the Liepard's room and raised her eyebrows at the two girls. They were crowding around the window whispering "I think she left!" and things.
Misty cleared her throat, "Guys what exactly are you doing?!" Her hands were on her hips and she was tapping her feet.
Leaf and Dawn all turned around with the same expression; Oh shit.
Dawn scratched her head and laughed nervously, "We were just watching the looking at the massive crowd down there!"
Leaf nodded, "Yeah, what's with all the people!
Misty rolled her eyes knowing they were looking at her and Ash from their window but let it slip anyway.
"Uhhh guys..." May said, pointing to her laptop, "You might want to look at this."
The girls crowded around and saw the screen. It was the official Eye of the Liepard Twitter page but a few things were different. They had gone from 1780 followers to over a million followers overnight.
Dawn gasped and grabbed her phone, "I have like, eight-hundred thousand followers!"
Leaf nodded, "Same!"
Misty was grinning, "Look at some of these tweets! Here are some, "You girls are amazing! You deserve to win!", "EOTL RULE!", "Liepardnator all the way!" and hundreds of thousands more!"
May ran a hand through her hair, "They must really love us. We can win this! We have amazing fans!"
Leaf nodded, "Lets go get breakfast, she will be there though."
Dawn's grin fell, remembering last night's drama, "I totally forgot! Leaf, I'm sorry she did that. Want me to show her a piece of myself?"
Leaf shook her head, "Nah, don't bother wasting your energy on her." Then she walked out of the room and went downstairs.
Misty sighed, "Lets go guys."
Ash walked in Ghost of the Night's room just as Paul turned on the HoloCaster.
Drew pulled him over, "About time, Ash! The boss told us to call."
Gary sighed and ran a hand through his spiky hair, "Uh Ash? Sorry about yesterday. I'll give you one hell of a Pokémon battle to make up for it."
Ash grinned, "Its okay, but I'm still mad at you for being mean to Leaf! Friendship!"
Gary rolled his eyes, "This friendship is an act dipshit. But yes I have to get her trust back, we have to capture them, remember?"
Ash's face fell, "Oh yeah. Right sorry forgot for a minute."
Drew sighed, "You have to make her fall for you Ash. Not the other way around."
"Guys, shut up." Paul said as a figure appeared on the HoloCaster.
All four boys slightly bowed as their boss Lysandre appeared in a blue hologram.
"Lysandre sir, why did you want us to call?" Drew said.
"You did well in your first performance but that's not it." Lysandre said.
"What else, sir?" Paul asked.
"You're not the only assassins in the house. Two others were sent by a rival organisation, they somehow hacked our files and know we're after the girls but they don't know why. They will try to take them before you to ruin our plans. Keep an eye on the people around the house, two to four boys or girls will attempt to kidnap them but you will stop them. This will also help you gain the girls' trust so it will be easier to capture them."
They all nodded, "Thanks for the information sir, we'll keep the girls safe until we can capture them." Gary said.
"Farewell, I wish you the best of luck." Then, the HoloCaster switched off.
"More assassins? Who do you think they are?" Ash asked.
Paul shook his head, "I don't know but keep a sharp eye out. Lets head to breakfast."
Drew smirked.
The four girls walked into the kitchen/dining room area to see that once again, they were late. Ghost of the Night weren't there but appeared seconds after the girls.
"You have a really bad habit of standing in doorways," Paul said, standing behind Dawn.
"And you have a bad habit of being rude. Isn't there something that soften ups your heart a bit?" Dawn said, hand on hips.
"No." He pushed past Dawn.
Dawn rolled her eyes but then gasped at the sight before her eyes. May had grabbed her bacon, scrambled eggs and orange juice and was walking toward the table and Brianna tripped her, making all orange juice fall on Ursula by accident. May was still holding her plate though.
Dawn ran over and poured May's scrambled eggs and bacon on Ursula as well, "I'm just adding to your breakfast collection!"
May and Dawn started laughing hysterically and ran out of the room as they heard Ursula scream in anger.
"May, Dawn, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" she screamed.
Paul smiled to himself, Dawn reminds me of...her...
The two laughing girls ran up the stairs and locked themselves in the nearest room because Ursula was just a few steps behind them.
Ursula started banging on the door and made death threats to the two girls but she soon gave up and left. May and Dawn then realised they were in Ghost of the Night's room.
May caught her breath, "Woah, that was close."
Dawn nodded looking at a picture on a table curiously. She ran her fingers over it, wiping off some dust, her eyes widened, "That place! T-that's the place I saw in my dream!"
May looked surprised, "The one when you screamed and I fell out of my bed? Weird." She picked up a different photo and her squinted, it was a beautiful forest which looked ever-so familiar to her.
Dawn put the photo down and shook her head, "We shouldn't be in here, lets go." She said hastily and walked out.
May raised her eyebrows, she was surprised one photo had shocked Dawn so much. She shrugged and followed Dawn back.
The photo Dawn looked at was of a beautiful river sparkling in the moonlight with a Milotic in the water and a Liepard's eye's glint through the trees.
May smirked, "Blaziken, Blaze Kick!"
"Roserade, Petal Dance," Drew said coolly. Inside he was stressed though, May's Blaziken was too strong.
"Blaziken, finish it off with another Blaze Kick!"
Blaziken hit Roserade with yet another fiery kick, knocking out Roserade. Blaziken was badly damaged though.
Drew smirked, "Lets go, Masquerain! Use Fly!" He smirked, "It's not over yet. He's been with me from the start!"
The bug Pokémon flew up high and hit Blaziken, the huge fire-type was too injured to dodge.
May returned Blaziken, saying her thanks. "I'm not done either! Go, Beautifly!" May smirked, imitating Drew's, "She's been with me from the start as well."
"Woohoo! Go May!" Dawn shouted from the sidelines.
"Beautifly!"
"Masquerain!" They said at the same time,
"Use Silver Wind!" They shouted in unison.
Both Pokémon hesitated for a few seconds but then both attacked lightly with a small Silver Wind.
"Beautifly, you can do better than that!" May shouted.
Beautifly hesitated again but then let out a full-power Silver Wind.
"Finish it off with Fly!" May said.
Drew couldn't get Masquerain to obey.
Beautifly finished off the battle with a Fly and slammed the Masquerain to the ground. It immediately landed beside the Masquerian and nudged it softly.
"Good job Beautifly!" May said, returning Beautifly.
"Beeea-uuu!" it cried, as if saying "Wait!"
May looked at Beautifly's pokeball curiously.
"You actually beat me. For some reason, Masquerain didn't obey me. Weird, its never happened before, you won't be so lucky next time," Drew said, flicking his hair.
May smirked, "Yeah, we'll see about that."
"Well May, I never knew you were so good at Pokémon battles," said someone behind May.
May turned around to see Korrina with a Lucario by her side. She scratched her head and grinned sheepishly, "Well, I guess so."
Korrina grinned and gave May a large grey bracelet with a strange, round, rainbow marble-like stone inside it. "Take this, its a Mega Ring. Give this stone to your Blaziken, I can see your amazing bond with it." She held out another stone, this one was smaller and it had yellow and red.
May was speechless, "Wow! Thanks but when do I use it?"
Korrina smirked and turned around, walking away. "The time will come, May."
May was confused but she shrugged, inspecting the beautiful stones.
"Please?!" Leaf begged.
"Why don't you just go yourself?" Dawn said.
"Because I have to ask Gary for his Umbreon, duh," Leaf said, flicking her long hair backwards.
Dawn rolled her eyes, "Fine."
Leaf's face lit up, "Thank you! Here's Espeon's pokeball!"
She took the ball from Leaf's hand and headed over to Ghost of the Night's room.
Dawn walked in to ask Gary for his Umbreon but only saw Paul there. "I need to take Gary's Umbreon for a walk with Leaf's Espeon. Know where it is?"
Paul raised a brow, "You're going at this time of the night, alone?"
Dawn nodded slowly, "Yep, because I'm a good friend."
Paul sighed, he knew he had to go to keep her safe. They couldn't have anything happen to their targets. "I'm coming with you."
Dawn was shocked, "Uh what? Really?"
He got of his bed and grabbed Gary's Umbreon's pokeball. "Lets go before I change my mind, Troublesome."
Paul shut the door behind him and stepped out into the cool night air. Paul and Dawn both released their Pokémon, Umbreon and Espeon. The two Pokémon knew Paul and Dawn well so they just ignored the humans and started to play with each other.
Dawn smiled; they were so cute. "Hey Paul, lets go up that way! We can see the whole city from there!" she said, pointing to the same high hill Ash wanted to go to.
Paul sighed and followed the bubbly girl up the hill. It was dead-dark, fireflies were lighting up the grassy hill though.
He followed Dawn to the top and sat down next to her, the view was breath-taking. The Prism Tower was fully lightened up, golden lights shining. The rest of the city was bright and busy, golden lights flickering everywhere. Despite the light, it was very quiet up on the high hill. The house was about a kilometre away from the city.
"Paul, why are you here?" Dawn suddenly asked.
He raised a brow, "Because I like singing?" She couldn't know...Could she?
"Well you don't seem like you like singing. And why are you always so quiet?"
He sighed for about the hundredth time in the day, "Don't judge a book by its cover, that quote applies to me. I'm quiet because I like keeping to myself."
Dawn smiled, "Tell me a bit about your childhood. Other than those three, who were your friends?"
Paul looked at the ground sadly and Dawn's smile disappeared, "Hey what's wrong?" she asked.
"Other than Drew, Gary and Ash I've only had one true friend. She left though, I've never seen her ever since."
Dawn's face changed into a sympathetic look, "I know them feels. I once had an amazing friend but I've never seen him since I left."
They sat there for most of the night and talked, Dawn mostly talking obviously. This was the first time Paul had ever felt so comfortable talking to anyone other than his team.
What none of them noticed was that a couple of people were watching them in the bushes.
A bluenette smirked, his hair wasn't as dark as Dawn's though. He twirled a red rose in his fingers, "There's one of them. I'm pretty sure plum-head is the assassin."
A lady with long pink hair that defied the rules of gravity, smirked as well. "Well then we need to get her when he's not around."
A small cat-like Pokémon grinned evilly in between them, "Hehehe..."
A/N Well, there it is xD I don't really know what to say...lol...
Mini plot twist! Turns out that there are TWO assassin group thingies after the girls XD Btw Korrina is actually the one who gives you the Mega Ring and Lucario's mega stone in the game XD
May's flashback-dream-thingy is coming up next! It should be the longest and most informative one!
A couple of people said I lacked Ikarishipping, I hope that I put enough in that chapter!
Ok, so I'm writing this new story, the summary is on my profile. Please go check it out, I think it might be better than this story!
Anyway, thanks for the reviews and review!