Ash opened his eyes. He was laying on a big bed in the Cerulean nursery. His head hurt.
"Rise and shine, sleepy head!" Daisy trilled. Ash jumped so much he fell out of his bed.
"Wha- what happened?" he asked, rubbing his head.
"You were running after Misty, and you were wet, and you pulled Pikachu onto your shoulders, and, then you crashed to the floor, and now, here you are!" she sang, in her happy voice.
Ash couldn't stand it. "Can I go?" he asked.
"Of course, silly!"
"Good. I need to see Misty."
Daisy sobered up a little. "Ash, maybe you should wait, she's a little, how should I put this," Daisy stopped to think for a moment.
"Unstable." she decided.
But Ash was already pulling on his jacket to leave. He swung Pikachu onto his shoulders, and adjusted his baseball cap, leaving Daisy alone in the nursery, nervously calling, "Ash, wait…"
Misty steadied herself. She needed to pull herself together. She wiped her eyes, and pulled on some shorts and a green vest, topped with a light pink sleeveless zip top. She swung her backpack over her shoulder and put her hand on the doorknob, when she heard footsteps in the hall. It was Ash! Misty had to think fast. She looked around, and spotted Marill sitting on the window seat. Think, Misty, think. Marill was blinking at her from the window. That's it! The window! Misty locked the door and raced over to the window. It was jammed.
Ash hurtled up the hall to Misty's bedroom. Pikachu was tugging on his sleeve as he ran, but it was no use. He got to the door. "Misty? It's me. Ash."
Misty heard his voice and pulled harder on the window.
"Are you OK?"
Misty pulled as hard as she could, but it was stuck tight. She turned to her frightened Pokemon. "Marill, help me!" she pleaded quietly, praying Ash couldn't hear.
"Misty? I'm coming in." Ash tried the door, only to find it locked.
Misty was nervous as she heard the handle move.
"Misty? Misty, what's going on? Why did you lock the door?"
Misty pulled on the window with all her strength, urging Marill to use a little water to make it slippier. She knew Ash could break down the door if he wanted.
"Misty?" Ash was worried now. "Misty, if you don't answer me, or unlock this door, I'm gonna break it down!"
Misty pulled hard, and with a jerk, the window opened a little. She turned to her Pokemon and surprised it with a flash of blue light from her Pokeball. "Sorry Marill." she muttered.
Ash braced himself. "OK Misty. One…."
Misty tugged at the window.
"Two…"
She lifted her leg over the sill.
"Three!"
Ash burst through the door in time to see the last of Misty disappear through the window.
"MISTY!" he yelled.
Hearing him yell her name, Misty looked up, swinging to one side on the ivy she was clinging to.
Ash was leaning over the windowsill, the curtains billowing around him. "What are you doing?" he yelled over the deafening noise the gales of wind were making.
"I have to leave Ash. You don't understand!" Misty called back, her face white, her hair flying around hair, the wind causing the ivy to swing dangerously.
"Misty, you can't go on your own!"
"Yes I can! I'm not as hopeless as you think I am!" Misty hollered over the wind.
Downstairs, unaware to what was happening to her little sister, Daisy was wrestling with the switch to turn off the water slides. The wind would make a whirlpool at the end, and she knew her darling Horsea would hate to be sucked into one of those at the end of the flume, never mind the innocent little children that would probably be thrown off before the end by the hurricane winds that battled outside. Finally, she got the switch to OFF, and went to make the guests some more pancakes.
Misty was desperately trying to hold on, but the ivy was becoming harder and harder to hold onto as the wind lashed viciously around her head.
Then she heard a snap. She looked up, peering between her eyelids. The ivy was beginning to break! Ash had looked too, and was now finished with doing nothing. "Misty, take my hand!" he called, leaning slightly out of the window.
"No!" Misty cried. "I have to do this!" The ivy snapped again, it's tendrils barely able to support Misty's weight. The sudden jerk as it snapped made Misty scream and try in vain to hold on.
"Misty! Take my hand! Do it NOW!" Ash hollered.
Misty looked down at the masses of dry pink water slides she might hit, and back up at Ash. She reluctantly reached to take his hand.
"That's it, Misty, nice and slow. Be careful!" Ash cautioned soothingly.
Misty nodded and gulped, edging herself up the vine. Their fingers were almost touching when…
SNAP!
The ivy snapped, and Misty let out a scream as she plummeted towards the slides. "MISTY!" Ash yelled, snatching too late at thin air.
Misty landed with a bump on one of the slides, and immediately started sliding forwards at top speed. Misty screamed as she was tossed from side to side, going faster and faster down the water-less flume, when she finally landed with a bump in the empty swimming pool.
Ash tore through the house, grabbing Pikachu from the kitchen, stopping only briefly to explain what had happened to the others.
"She fell out the WINDOW?" Tracey yelled.
"Yeah."Ash panted.
"Is she OK?" May asked with concern.
"I don't know." admitted Ash sadly.
"Where is she going, what does she have to do, why does she want to go alone?"
Ash opened his mouth to say he didn't know when a voice said from the kitchen door, "Perhaps I can answer that."
Who is this mysterious voice? IS Misty OK? R&R!