We got to our knees and began digging into the ground, all except Dawn who was afraid of getting her clothes dirty.After a while we reached something red. I stuck my hand down the narrow hole we made and grabbed the ball. A ball? Strange. I brought my arm up and dusted off all the dirt. It was a red and white pokeball.
"A Pokeball?" I asked.
"Hm, I guess my metal detector caught something else." Misty said, a little disappointed.
"Well," Ash started, "one person's trash is another person's treasure. How about I take it and-"
I whacked him, keeping my calm face, "Hold on I'm still examining it."
"So it's just some pokeball toy?" Dawn said, looking closer at it.
"That's what I'm guessing." I replied to her.
I felt something inscribed in the bottom and I looked under. There inscribed the name, Maple.
"Hey, isn't that your last name?" asked Ash.
"Yeah, it is," I replied, "Why would it have my last name?"
Dawn shrugged her shoulders, "Beats me."
"More questions I see May." We all turned around. We saw that old lady again. All of us were about to scream until we covered eachother's mouths.
"Y-You're the old lady from the hall this morning!" I shouted.
"You met her before?" Misty, Dawn, and Ash asked, eyeing me strangely.
"Yeah but only for a second. She scared me too."
"Yes but right now that is beside the point May. You found your Pokeball." The old lady's voice said.
"My... Pokeball?"
"So it's May's?" Ash asked.
"Not specifically May's, but it did belong to her family." The old woman assured.
I'm still wondering how the thing made the crater" Dawn said, a little unsure of the old lady.
Misty took the Pokebal and began examining it. "By my guess, this Pokeball has been submerged underground for at least... 90 years."
"90?" I asked, "That's like back in the medieval times."
"Forget medieval. I had no idea Pokemon went back that far. I thought Pokemon was created sometime 10 years ago." Ash said.
"Well obviously Pokemon has something to do with history. May's history to be exact." Misty explained.
"Well ain't this another "normal" night," Dawn announced.
"No Dawn. Ash starting a food fight and Misty unraveling hidden inventions are normal. Finding a 90 year old pokeball and a giant crater with an unknown cause IS NOT A NORMAL NIGHT!" I yelled at her.
"K, k, sorry." Dawn said with her hands in front of her as her defence.
"So what does this mean? I still don't get it. Who are you?" I said, turning my attention back to the old lady.
"My name is Omoigakenaku. But for now you may call me Somei. As for your answers to your past May, you'll need the help of your friends. Although, it will not be enough."
"So what do I have to do? Where do I need to go?" I asked.
"This riddle is who, but not where. Find Drew and too, you must act fair." She replied. Suddenly a large wind picked up and we all shielded ourselves. When the wind went away, old lady Somei was gone.
"S-She's gone." Ash said, starring right where was just just standing.
"You're right." Dawn added, "Man, this is a non-normal night."
""This riddle is who, but not where. Find Drew and too, you must act fair." Well it's clear it's a riddle, but it's still confusing." I said, thinking about what Somei said.
"Let's sleep on it. Tomorrow we can try to figure this thing out." Misty suggested. Dawn, Ash, and Misty went out through the garden door while I climbed back up the rope ladder and into my room. Once inside, I pulled it up and stuffed it back under the floorboard. Clearly, I would be in a huge mess tomorrow with the crater outside.
'Oh well, a job for another day. Right now I need to get some rest.' I took off my necklace and held it in the air, right next to this Pokeball thing. 'This has something to do with my past... I will find out what it is. And no one, not even Kira, will stop me.'
I hid them both under the floorboard and hopped onto my small mattress, easily falling into a deep sleep. The next day after school, I had the drama club. But I skipped that today to go to the library. I needed info and I needed it now. Right now I was in the isle of medieval history. Of course no one was there since it was very unlikely for people to read this stuff. Lucky for me because I was going through about every single book. After a while I got the 32nd book. It was really old too. The tittle read "Maple" in medieval handwriting. I opened it and guess what, I couldn't read it. It was all medieval calligraphy and I couldn't real a letter. Though, I did see some pictures, most relating to Pokemon.
'At least part of my guess was right. It has something to do with Pokemon, but, how though?' I checked out this book and placed it in my schoolbag so that Kira wouldn't find out. I walked through the door seeing Kira.
"There you are May. You're early." Kira said, taking off her sun glasses,
"Uh, yeah, Drama Club ended early today." I lied.
"Whatever, get to work on the garden. I haven't even seen it yet and I can tell it's a mess from the rain storm a few hours ago. Get to work." Kira commanded. I sighed.
"Yes Mom." I got my gardening took and my backpack and went to the backyard. I had no idea how I was going to explain the crater deal. Even I didn't know how the crater happened. If the Pokeball didn't do it, what did. When I got through the back door, I dropped all my things at the marvelous sight. The crater was gone, nothing, all wet grass and plants, as if nothing ever happened.
'Impossible... there's just no way it could dissappear like that... could it?'
I shook it off my mind and worked on repairing the garden. After a few hours my cellphone rang.
"Hello?" I said.
"May? It's me, Ash, and Dawn four way. Where are you right now?" Misty said on the other line.
"My house doing chores."
"Good because we've got big news about last night." Dawn said.
"So do I." I replied.
"When you done with your chores we'll come over." Ash announced.
"You mean midnight?" I asked. And it was true. My chores didn't end until midnight.
"Uh... we'll sneak out again?" Ash suggested.
"Fair enough." I replied. That night when Kira was asleep, I was dressed in my normal clothes, waiting in my room. Suddenly I heard a pebble hit my window and I opened it, dropping my rope ladder so the others could climb up.
"May I knew you were good at gardening but I had no idea you would cover up the entire crater." Misty said, looking back out the window to where the crater used to be.
"I didn't," I told her, "When I got there it was gone, as if nothing ever happened."
"Is that weird?" Dawn asked.
"Yes." I relied, like it was the most obvious thing on the Earth.
"Ok just clarifying."
"Anyway," Ash started, "we did some research on you back at Misty's house."
"And I found this book at the library. It has my last name on it and a bunch of pics of Pokemon. Thing is all the words are written in calligraphy so I can't understand." I added.
"Well, it only makes it clear Pokemon sure wasn't crated 10 years ago, but back in the Medieval Ages." Misty stated.
"So what info did you guys find on me?"
"Well, we didn't exactly FIND info, well, how do I put this." Dawn said, trying to find the right words.
"May it just said you were found." Ash said without any difficulty. But I did find it hard to believe.
"...I was found."
"Yup." Ash said.
"No parents?" I asked.
"Nope," Ash said again.
"No relatives?" I asked?
"Nope." Ash said for the third time.
"Any recolation of before I was 6?"
"And nope" Ash said finally.
"So what I was a 6-year-old brought by the stork?"
"No May," Misty assured, "it's just, they don't have any records of your birth. No info on your family except that your name was May Maple and your birth date."
"Which is?" I asked.
"July 10." Ash said. I slapped my forehead.
"I meant the year Ash."
"Oh, uh, I dunno."
"The year I was born wasn't even in there?" I asked Dawn.
"Sorry May. " She said looking down.
"Just when I thought my life wasn't crazy enough. I wish I could just remember something, anything."
"Do you still have your Pokeball? Maby we can find something." Misty said, coming up with a plan.
I lifted the floorboard and got out my Pokeball and my necklace. I sat down on the floor, starring closely at the two objects. Somehow I knew these two were connected. The Pokeball having my last name engraved at the bottom, and my necklace that I've had ever since ever. Then somehow, I realized my necklace and the circle in the middle of the ball were exactly the same size and shape. I cocked my eyebrows and pressed my necklace against the ball, making the Pokeball make a click kinda sound.
" I opened it?"
"Pokeballs open like that?" Ash said looking over my shoulder.
"Well then what are you waiting for? Open it already." Dawn told me.
"No what if something pops out and tries to attacks us?" Misty said, feeling a little unsure.
"Ok I'll open it, but give me some room." I told them.
I stood up straight as the others backed up. I opened the pokeball, revealing a golden light. Our eyes widened as the golden light engulfed us. Now this was definitely above the scale in crazy. I felt the ground beneath my feet fade as I felt wind coming from below me, as if I was falling. And of all times to be right, it had to be now. When the bright light went away, I realized I was in the middle of the sky with Dawn, Ash, and May. We noticed were were in the sky and then we screamed. I guess the screaming was the trigger for us to start pummeling back to Earth. CRASH
"Oh... this so hurts..." Ash said moving a little.
"Guys is it me or did we just fall on grass?" I asked.We all quickly sat up and looked at the ground. It was grass, just as I had said. I looked at my surroundings. It was a vast plain with a blue sky with gentle white clouds, blowing gently against the breeze.
"I could have sworn we were just in your room May." Misty said, looking around.
"We're not dreaming are we?" Ash asked, hoping it was just a dream.
"AH MY SKY GOT A GRASS STAIN!" You could guess who said that, Dawn. rubbing his ear since he was just right next to her.
"Yup we're awake alright." Ash said, rubbing his ear since he was just right next to her.
"But... where are we?" I asked. I looked down at my hands and noticed my necklace, but not the pokeball. I chained the necklace around my neck and stood up. I tried to see up to the horizon. There appeared to be a town of some sort.
"Hey guys, I see a city up ahead. Maby we can get some help there." I said.
"Aw we have to walk all the way there?" Dawn said, shielding her eyes from the sunlight.
"W-Why we could take those two horses" Misty suggested .She pointed her arm at these "two horses". Boy was she wrong. We were starring at two, live, Tauros Pokemon.
"Misty you do know they are pokemon don't ya?" Ash asked Misty.
"I-I'm trying to not believe it." Misty said, still trying to accept the fact she was seeing pokemon.
"Well believe it because they have saddles and they're our only ticket to civilization. Come on, lets' go. I'll ride one with Misty and Dawn you'll ride one with Ash."
"Why Ash? I don't trust him with the reigns of a Tauros." Dawn said crossing her arms.
" I'm right here you know." Ash said with a little anime vein.
"Your point?" She asked.
I sighed, "Ok fine, Dawn you ride with me. Misty you ride with Ash. Happy?"
"Yes May." Dawn said satisfied.
Now I was ridding a Tauros with Dawn behind me. Ash was on the other Tauros with Misty behind him. By now we made it to town and now, I was really freaked. The houses were old style, and seriously old style. All of the people's clothing were dresses and tights. Feather hats and rags. It really was like the Medieval Ages. And to make it even more crazy, there were even more Pokemon roaming around with their "Trainers". And obviously, me and the others were getting stares from the strangers. Probably because we were ridding Tauros and that we were modern clothing, which obviously wasn't here.
"Hey May, have any idea where we're going?" Ash asked.
"Not a clue. Let's just find a place to leave these Tauros and then we'll look around for something." I said.
We came across a farming area. There were more pokemon in these fences, but they had plenty of roam space. But the owners' house, it was so tiny compared to the farm. Almost like a small cottage of some sort. I looked and saw some of the Pokemon running towards a boy. Apparently the boy was there to keep the Pokemon. He had green hair and green eyes. Beside him was a Roselia. While I was lost in my daze, I was broken out of it by a man's voice. And this man, happened to be a knight on an Arcanine. There were more knights and Arcanines behind him.
"Halt! You travelers dare steal the queen's Tauros?!"
"Q-Queen's?!" Misty shouted.
"W-We didn't know! Honest!" Dawn yelled, trying to make us seem innocent.
"Quiet and get off. You four are coming with us."
All of us jumped off the Tauros and those knights grabbed us, chaining our hands behind our backs. So this is what it was like to be arrested. Not the best feeling. I could feel that boy's gaze on me and my friends. Something seemed... familiar about him. Green hair and a Roselia. Those Knights brought us to this large castle. We were brought to the throne room, where that old woman, Somei. All of the knights bowed down, forcing us to bow as well.
"What brings you to my presence?"
"Queen Somei, these travelers have broken the law of Taurous ridding."
Me and the others made a really questioning look. It was against the law to rise Tauros? How's that a law?
"...It is ok." Somei replied.
"But your majesty-"
"Leave it be, these are our guests."
"They are?" asked the knights.
"We are?" me and the others asked.
"You are. " she said standing, "May Maple, our Princess has returned."
"Princess?" the knights asked in disbelief.
"Princess?" Ash, Misty, and Dawn asked.
"Princess?!"
Hope you enjoyed this one