Ok, I'm sorry that I could keep this fanfiction in the Teen rated section, but after planning out the story, I knew there was no way this would stand as a "teen" rated story. You'll see what I mean in a few chapters….
Anyways, onto the story…
"No, please!" May screamed at the top of her lungs, tears pouring out of her red eyes from the pain that was going through her entire body, "Please stop!"
May's eyes groggily opened as the direct rays of sunlight started to dive into her eyes. She had to squint at first as she awoke, because of the direct sunlight cascading into her eyes, but her vision was soon restored to normal proficiency. She realized she was in her tent still, and by the looks of it, it was about 4:30 in the afternoon. Her head was pumping in pain from the lack of sleep that she slept the night before; her nightmare still controlled her emotions for most of the night.
She rubbed her eyes and reached into her backpack. She rummaged through it for a couple of moment and pulled out a mirror. She faced the mirror towards herself and looked into it. She had black ovals under her eyes, which only added onto the redness of her eyes from crying as much as she did the night before. Her hair was now rumpled and laid down to her back, although it still shone from the sunlight that was reflecting off of it from outside the tent.
After putting the mirror back into her backpack and zipping it back up tight, she crawled over to the zipper of her tent and started to fondle with it, trying to get the tent open. A few moments after, she succeeded in opening the tent and crawled out of it, rejuvenating herself in the direct sunlight that warmed her whole body.
As she got out of her tent, she looked around the cleared section of the forest that she and her fellow travelers had resided in for the night. She saw that Brock had made some type of ramen for lunch, and was starting to cook up more for the hungry travelers. Ash, who was sitting right by where the fire burned last night, was literally attacking the ramen, almost forcing the noodle as fast as he could into his mouth to hurry up for second servings that Brock was making. The sight of Ash lack of manners forced a smile onto May's face.
"He looks so cute when he does that!" May thought, almost out loud to herself, not realizing that she thought it until she did
She had to admit; she did think that Ash was good looking. He had a handsome face, a nice body, and hot eyes. She kept this bit of information to herself and her diary, though, since she didn't want Ash to know exactly how she felt about the young sixteen year old boy. It was not only that, but he had the liveliest and most caring personality that she had ever seen in anyone. He always cared for the safety of his Pokemon and his fellow travelers when they were in a heated situation much more than he cared for his own safety. That sometimes caught up to him in some situation, though.
She looked over to the other black hair traveler, which happened to be her brother, Max. He was amusing himself with a new device that he had bought at the store in Rustboro city the day before. She believed it was called the Poketachi, although she had no idea of what it was and what it was supposed to do; and by the looks of it, neither did Max. After playing with it for a few more moments, he grabbed his backpack and threw the device into it angrily, apparently angered because he did not know how to work the crafty device. He then grab his backpack, and after slinging the backpack over his shoulders, turned to the woods and started to run towards it, yelling "Pikachu!".
"Hey, May!" a voice called out from the other side of her, "You hungry?"
May turned to the direction of the voice to find Ash, still sitting where he was the moment before, but now finished devouring the noodles. Ash's face expression was now a worried one, telling that May had cried more the night before after Ash left her tent. May's stomach growled, she was quite hungry for noodles at the moment; which wasn't saying much, since she was always hungry for ramen. Her constant hunger was not apparent considering her appearance, which was slim and as other boys had told her, sexy.
"You know it!" May answered happily to Ash, a smile creped onto her face
"Then you better come over and eat fast, before Ash eats it all." Brock said to her with a laugh, then continued to cook the noodles
May walked over to where Ash was sitting and sat next to him, a smile still on her face. Just the smile on May's face alone lit up Ash's face, who was now starting to playfully shove May from right beside him. After a few shoves, May started to shove Ash playfully also.
"I get the next bowl of ramen!" Ash said playfully to his companion as he tried to get her to move by shoving her
"Why do you think that you get it?" May asked, playfully shoving Ash back, "You're not king around here, ya know!"
"Who said I wasn't?" Ash said, continuing to shove May and laughing
"Me!" May answered to Ash laughing
After shoving each other for a few more moments, Brock spoke up, finally undistracted from his noodle making at the moment to deal with Ash and May.
"Who's up?" Brock asked the two teens, both appeared to be hungry
May grabbed the bowl and chopsticks from Brock's extended hand and proceeded to eat her noodles just as Ash did a few minutes before, as fast as she could, leaving no noodle behind. As she ate, Ash had his eyes locked onto her. He was not disgusted by her bad manners when she ate, since he had the same terrible manners when he ate as well, so he was accustomed to it.
"Don't mind me asking," Brock started as she watched May shovel down her noodles, "but why are your eyes red, May?"
May instantly stopped eating her noodles and looked at him with her crimson filled eyes. Knowing that she didn't know how to respond to the question because of embarrassment, Ash decided to fill the older breeder in himself.
"She just had a bad dream last night, that's all." Ash answered Brock
May looked Ash straight into his brown eyes with her ocean eyes and vice versa, thanking him without saying a word, but only with expression.
"Ash is always so quick to back me up," May thought as she started to get a depressed feeling, "Yet I feel that I can't trust him with anything."
May suddenly felt a light jab on her shoulder. She turned to see that Ash had lightly punched her in the arm; a smile still lighting his face.
"Come on, May!" Ash started to say as he stood up from where he was sitting, "We need to go find Max and Pikachu so we can get started to Petalburg."
May's face once again lighten up with a grin as she got up. After she finished brushing off her shirt and shorts and putting the empty bowl that had before contained the ramen down, she grabbed Ash's hand and started to run into the forest with Ash right by her side. As they started into the woods, Ash let go of May's hand and started to run faster.
"I betcha I can find Pikachu first!" Ash said with a smile on his face as he ran past May, almost running into a tree in the process of trying to pass May up
"You're on!" May answered back to Ash, clearly accepting the boy's challenge as she herself started to run faster
May was now right by Ash's side, running neck to neck with him in the heated race. Ash looked over at May; she was panting and he could tell that she was running her hardest, which was a shame, since Ash was only letting her get this close to winning. Ash could accelerate and run faster than he was now. Mrs. Ketchum had told him something before, though, that he was always supposed to let ladies win in any kind of competition that he engaged them in.
"Of course," Ash thought to himself with a grin, "besides Pokemon battles."
Knowing what he should do, he slowly started to slow himself down, letting May get ahead only by a bit.
"Maybe we should split up?" Ash suggested to May, who was easily in earshot to hear him, "It would be quicker to find Max and Pikachu if we did."
"Are you crazy?" May replied to Ash, "Are you trying to get me lost by myself?"
Ash started to play the joke by putting on a small grin on his face, which caused May to gasp.
"Well….Maybe." Ash replied to her playfully, and then started to slow down from running, eventually going to a complete stop
May took notice and started to slow down to, breathing hard from just trying to keep up with Ash. Cold air was rushing throughout her lungs as she was breathing, which gave it a sharp pain to her lungs and chest every time she took a single breath. She turned around and walked to Ash's side, who she noticed wasn't breathing hard at all.
"Do you have any idea where we are?" May gasped to Ash while she bent over, holding onto her knees trying to catch her breath
Ash turned his head around and started to look around, trying to find anything that he recognized. All he saw was lines and lines of what looked like an endless abyss of trees; frost and dew slightly covering the branches of the worn trees. He turned back to May with a confused and worried look on his face. May returned the look with a confused look also; since when Ash wasn't feeling confident about something, she usually didn't either.
"Not a clue." Ash answered May, who had finally caught her breath and was standing upright
Ash heaved a heavy sigh, wondering now what they were going to do. Not only were they lost, but they have not found Max or Pikachu yet; both of which were most likely lost as they were in the confusing maze that was the woods. Ash looked down to the ground; he had also forgotten to bring his Pokemon with him too, so they had no way of getting out of the woods besides walking. Ash turned around to May, who was now rubbing her hands together, trying to get a spark of heat.
Ash had to admit, it was getting a bit chilly in the October air. His feet were starting to go numb from the intense coldness and wind that caressed his panted leg. Looking back over at May, it seemed as though Ash was barely even cold compared to May; whose lips were starting to turn a pale-blue color. Ash reached his arms around behind him and took off his black and yellow vest. He put it in his right hand and extended it to May, offering it for her to wear.
"No, I'll be fine." May replied to Ash's gesture, a slight tint of pink over her cheeks
Ash smiled; May always looked after Ash more than she did herself. In fact, she looked after almost everyone else more than she did herself. She was just that type of caring person; although she was always bit too modest to ever accept help herself. Even if it was her own brother Max, she still would usually want to do things her own way and get things by herself.
"She's just like me." Ash thought to himself as he still had his arm extended with the vest in his hand
"No, you'll catch a cold if you stay out here with just the clothing that you have on." Ash said to her, trying to convince her to put on his vest
"Are….Are you sure you won't get cold?" May asked Ash, hesitant from grabbing the black vest that Ash was offering
"I'm positive." Ash replied to May with the happy smile and the cheerful tone of voice that he always talked to people in
May slowly grabbed Ash's black vest from his extended right hand. She slipped the piece of fabric over her head and onto her being. After a few seconds, she nuzzled into the black vest that Ash had given her.
"It does feel warm." May said with a slight blush, not meaning to actually say that sentence out loud to Ash
Ash started to laugh, while May still was comforting herself in the vest that Ash had lent her. Ash's smile and laugh soon disappeared; a look of confusion now took the once cheerful smile's place. May noticed that Ash's eyes were once again scanning the area, looking for a path back to the camp where Brock was, most likely worried to death on where the two had gone off to. He looked towards the sky, noticing that the sun was already starting to go down.
"God, how long have we been out here?" Ash thought to himself as he looked up into the sky, now just starting to see the first stars of the night
The time, Ash guessed, was around 7:30. It felt as though they haven't been out here for that long, but the sky was saying different. After gazing at the sky for a few more moments, Ash turned back to May.
"We might have to set camp here tonight." Ash said with a slight tone of grimace in his voice
"Set camp with what?" May asked Ash, panicking from thinking that she would have to sleep on the cold, hard ground without a sleeping bag, "We left everything with Brock!"
Ash thought for a moment, puzzled. It was too cold to try to tough it out in the forest with no supplies. Yet, it's not like they had much of a choice. It was either they stay and make camp here, or they try to find Max and Pikachu then trying to find there way back to the camp.
"….Max!" Ash thought out loud, knowing that his puzzle had been solved
"What about Max?" May asked Ash with a confused tone in her voice
"He has his Poketachi with him!" Ash yelled out to May in excitement
"So?" May asked, still puzzled by what Ash was so excited about
"When he left to go look for Pikachu, he brought the Poketachi with him." Ash said to May, now calm and trying to explain his burst of excitement to her
"So?" May repeated to Ash, still as puzzled as before
"Don't you know what the Poketachi does?" May was asked by Ash, who was now getting frustrated by May not being able to understand the situation
May's cheeks started to hold a crimson blush as she shook her head no. Ash calmed down and started to explain to her what this device was.
"The Poketachi is the newest version of the Hoenn Pokenav." Ash quickly explained to May, "We can use it to find our…….."
Ash suddenly became quiet and looked up at the sky. As he looked up, he saw a huge Pokemon almost eclipsing the Moon that cascaded the evening sky. The Pokemon appeared to have two wings, two antennas of some type jetting out of its head, and a long tail; at which of the end of the long tail rested three diamond shaped flaps of skin. The skin of the Pokemon seemed to be totally green, with a bit of red tinted onto it.
The Pokemon seemed to have stopped over Ash and May's current position. After a few seconds of hovering above Ash and May, the mysterious Pokemon started to lower down slowly to Ash. After lowering for a few seconds, Ash started to have a clearer view of the Pokemon.
The Pokemon seemed to be a Flygon, a Flygon that he knew he had seen before. The long green wings blended into the night sky almost instantly, because of the dark green color of the wings that jetted out of Flygon's sides. As the Pokemon drew closer to the two travelers, Ash saw that the Flygon appeared to be carrying quite a few passengers along with him. As the desert Pokemon came closer to the ground, Ash heard a cry from one of the passengers on the Flygon.
"Sis!" one of the passengers cried out from the Flygon, a voice that Ash could instantly tell was Max's
The Flygon was close enough to the ground now for Ash to see every person on the flying Pokemon. There were four people on top of the Flygon, as far as Ash could tell. The shortest one was Max, his black hair clearly visible even camouflaged into the night sky. The other, taller person appeared to be Norman. The third he could tell was Drew; Ash now remembered how he recognized the Flygon, which he now knew belonged to none other than Drew. The last passenger, though much to Ash's disdain, was…..
"Look who we have here!" the brown haired boy said smirking as the Flygon lowered to the ground, the collar of his black coat popped up in the newest fashion
Ash rolled his eyes, if there was anyone he didn't want to see right now, it would be the brown haired boy standing on the Flygon…Gary. Gary always knew how to show up at the worst possible times.
"I'd say we have two losers." Drew continued off of Gary's sentence, after which both started to laugh
Ash and May started to stare daggers at Drew and Gary, who appeared to have cared less of what Ash and May thought. Since the Flygon was now inches from the ground, Max jumped off of the Flygon, running to her sister. When Max got to her, Max embraced her, in which May returned.
"I was….so worried." Max said, almost crying onto May
"Don't worry." May replied to Max, almost with a blush of embarrassment, "I'm ok."
Norman stepped off of the Flygon, his arms folded across his waist. Much to Ash's surprise, May didn't run to her father to give him a hug. In fact, May didn't even show any sign of him even being there. Ash continued to think about it for a moment, but dismissed the thought quickly out of his mind. Ash now turned to Gary and Drew, who were still laughing on top of the Flygon after what Drew had said about Ash and May.
"What are you two doing here?" Ash asked Gary and Drew in a very forceful nature
Gary and Drew stopped laughing and turned towards Ash. The laughter at Ash and May were completely gone from the faces of Gary and Drew. The laughter was now replaced with two grins on the faces of the two boys.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Gary replied back to Ash in a matter-of-factly way, "We just heard from a source that you and May might have been lost."
"I personally didn't want to go looking for both of you." Drew continued from where Gary left off, the smirk still on his and Gary's faces, "Yet Brock and Pikachu convinced us to come and find you."
Ash took in what Brock and Gary had just said, and spat back with yet another question.
"Where's Pikachu?" Ash asked the two, who still stood on the Flygon
"He's at the Petalburg gym with Brock." Drew answered to Ash
"That Pikachu is looking pretty pathetic, Ash." Gary said to Ash, trying to contain himself from laughing, "Have you been feeding him?"
Ash's force now turned to anger towards Gary. Gary always knew how to push Ash's buttons, as he always did throughout the time that he and Gary had known each other. He was always demoralizing Ash at any time that he could. If it was insulting his Pokemon or his constant name calling to Ash, Gary always found time to pick on the younger boy, Ash. Yet, before Ash could throw an insult back at Gary; Norman decided to stop the situation.
"Now you three need to calm down." Norman told the three, instantly grabbing the attention of the three young boys
Ash remained angry for a few seconds, but then a smirk appeared on his face. He turned his back towards Gary and Drew to see Norman, who was now starting to walk back towards the Flygon. When he arrived at the Flygon, he climbed up onto Flygon, near the Pokemon's head. He then turned back to Ash, May, and Max.
"Let's go." Norman told the three, smiling, and motioned the three towards the Flygon, "My wife cooking and she wouldn't be happy if we were late."
Ash walked over to the Flygon and climbed on top of the green Pokemon. May and Max followed suit after Ash. As Ash watched May and Max walk over to the Flygon, Ash noticed that May was ignoring her father once again, as if she was mad at her father. May and Max climbed up onto the Flygon after a few tries by Max (mainly because of Max's short stature). Max took a seat next to his father as May sat right by Ash, an uneasy look on her face. After he turned around to the children to make sure that they were all on the Flygon, he turned back face forward.
"All of you better hold on." Drew whispered to the rest of the group as the Flygon started to lift off of the ground
The Flygon started to flap its wing quickly, so it could start to get altitude above the woods. After a few seconds of flapping its wings, it's started to slowly lift off of the ground, inch by inch. When the Flygon got up to about three meters, it started to slow down it's wing flapping and jetted into the night sky to Ash's next destination: Petalburg Town.
Yet, there was one child on the Flygon that wasn't as excited about going back home….
Sorry if that chapter dragged on for a bit too long; but since it is Christmas Break in Houston, I want to get as much written as I can. As always, I hope all of you enjoyed the chapter and please review….
And just in case I don't update in time….Merry Christmas!!