Now came the next day, the day we invade Kurai and save Misty, Dawn, and all the other girls and women from Harley. We were outside in the sunlight, something I had longed to see while I was inside that horrid base. I was dressed in a tunic with armor strapped to my shoulders, my arms, my legs, and my torso. None of us had shields. Just our weapons, our swords. In my case, whatever I just made yesterday.

While the Royal Knights rode on Arcanines, we walked. Luckily Kurai wasn't so far away. As we got closer, the skies darkened and the grass on the grounds started disappearing. We arrived there, seeing a bunch of these dark knights. Actually, it was just armor being held together. Except they could walk... fight... kill- Ok that wasn't helping. But it made me wonder how they could move with no one inside the armor. I guess the Medieval Ages did have its weird points.

"Alright men!" shouted one of the Royal Knights, "CHARGE-"

Before he could finish, he started being lifted into the air, along with all the other Royal Knights. They flew into this huge cage like thing, metal bars all around. Everyone was startled.

"What's going on?" Ash asked.

"I... I don't know," I replied, in the same state of shock.

"Guys look!," Drew yelled, bringing us out of our current state. We looked up at Harley's castle and we saw him, along with his Cacturne.

"Harley!" I shouted, glaring at him. Of course when he spotted me he had a somewhat surprised face.

"Ah, so you made a disguise Princess May. Clever."

A commotion started about the men and boys everywhere. Drew and Ash stood beside me, just as worried as I was.

"Yeah so what?!" I yelled back at him, "I'm fighting for my kingdom!"

"Ha, if so then you shall die with them!" Harley shouted. He waved his arm and all of those Dark Knights stood straight up, making us all gasp and step back. They all brought up their swords, pointing at us.

"W-We can't fight alone!" said one of the men.

"Yeah! Especially without the Royal Knights! We're weak!" said another little boy.

"They've got a point May," Drew explained, "We're helpless against Harley's knights."

I glared at my feet and then looked up. I then started walking onto a huge rock, climbing to the top of it.

"May what are you doing?" Ash and Drew asked simultaneously.

"Everyone! Listen!" All attention went to me. Each man and boy had the look of worry and death in their eyes. As if they knew this was going to be the end. "I know the odds seem dim! Us against those knights of Harley's! The only way we'd loose is if we give up!" All of them starred at me. "But I came here, to rescue my friends, my people!... Sure I don't know if I'll be staying in Petalburg, if I'll accept the throne! But I do know this, I will protect my people if it's the last thing I do! Because it's my duty as a princess!... And as a friend."I said the last part, looking at Ash and Drew.

By now the small boys had small tears in their eyes, tears of hope. They had tiny smiles of hope as well. The men had confident faces, faces they had not shown to the Royal Knights during their previous training.

"Hm, I agree with her," Drew said. Everyone's attention went to him. "She's the Princess of Petalburg. And look at her, she's risking her very life to fight in battle. She even went to deceive all of us just to get here. And now look at us, cowering in fear. What kind of people are we to not serve our Princess?" I was amazed that Drew was speaking for me, and well at that. "And she's Royalty. It's not common for royalty to be this courageous about her people... Now, are we gonna stand by and let that Harley take down Petalbrug? Or are we gonna fight, with May leading?"

By now the entire crowd started cheering. A smiled appeared on my face as I used my sleeve to wipe off small tears starting to form in my eyes. 'Thank you Drew.'

"Well then," Ash started, "Now that we've got our spirits, who's ready to save the women of Petalburg?!"Everyone screamed, pointing their swords to the air.

"CHARGE!" I yelled. All of the men and boys headed towards the dark knights. I fought my way through, using my fighting skills rather than my weapon. In fact, my weapon was hung around my belt. I used my fists better anyway. And I was doing fairly well on my own. But those knights weren't my main goal here. They'd just come back to life anyway. I needed to get inside that castle, and get to the women and girls. If only I knew a way, or at least a door or window.

--MISTY'S POV--

I was pacing around the tower, trying to think up something. Dawn was trying to meditate again. Suddenly we heard something, like a commotion. And apparently all of the women and children heard it. Dawn was snapped out of her meditative state and stood up next to me.

"What was that?" she asked.

"I don't know", I replied. I think it came from outside.

We walked over to the one window in the tower. When we saw what was outside, our eyes widened. There stood an army of men and young boys. The Royal Knights were in this cage thing behind Harley. And on top of a large boulder was May, trying to talk some sense into this "army" which was rather scared and gloomy. After May's and Drew's little speech, it seemed they all had their spirits back.

"Wow, I guess your prediction was right Dawn," I said astounded.

"Even I'm surprised," she said, "My prediction was right. May, Ash, Drew, and everyone else is going into war."

The both of us starred worryingly until we both got the idea to our heads, "THEY'RE GOING TO WAR!" we both yelled simultaneously. Our panicking obviously caused a commotion in the room with all the women and little girls.

"What are we going to do?! They're all gonners!" Dawn yelled.

"Well obviously we can't let them do this by themselves. And what kinda girls are we to let all the boys do the work? Come on Dawn, we're helping them!"

"But what can we do Misty?" Dawn asked looking down, "Were just the damsel's in distress. We're supposed to be the rescued, not the rescuers."

"Although it would make sense you help your friends," said a voice. The women and girls parted making a path, with Queen Somei walking down it.

"Q-Queen Somei!" Dawn and I said.

"Where have you been all this time?!" Dawn yelled.

"Sorry laddies. I fell asleep. Getting kidnapped can take a lot out of an old lady like me," Queen Somei explained. Dawn and I made an anime fall since that's what's she's been doing all this time, resting and sleeping.

"What should we do to help the others?" I asked her.

"First of all Misty Waterflower, you obviously have a girl of inventing. You're quite smart. I'm sure that with the raw material here, you can come up with something to, as you say, "Bust us out of here"."

I brightly smiled and saluted, "Yes mam!"

"And you Dawn Santezz," Queen Somei resumed, " I saw what you did with that meditation. You're one of the people who can align their chakras easily. You have much potential. I'm sure that if you can meditate in an awake state, you can perform magic."

"Me? Magic? Sweet! I'm on it!" Dawn said, saluting just as I did.

Queen Somei smiled at us, as she turned around, facing the rest of the women. "Alright everyone, do as these two young girls say. It's time we return to Petalburg."

"Yes your majesty!" they all replied, bowing their heads.

"Misty look! It's May!" Dawn shouted, pointing out the window. I ran over and looked out.

--MAY'S POV--

"HEY MAY!" Yelled a girl's voice, and a familiar one. I looked up, seeing Dawn and Misty up in a window, a VERY far window. It was at the top of this tall, wide tower. That's where I supposed all of them were being held.

"Misty! Dawn!" I yelled out, "Don't worry! We'll bust you guys outta there in no time!... Ok maby it'll take a little more time!"

They both sweatdropped. "May! There's no door!" Misty shouted.

"What? What do you mean "no door"?!" Ash asked, yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Harley uses his Pokemon to slide through the walls!" Dawn explained, "There's no way in!"

"Well there's gotta be a way somehow!" I yelled back, knocking out yet another dark knight.

"Leave that to us!" Misty replied, "You need to take out all of the dark knights!"

"We can't!" Drew shouted, swinging his sword up as a shield from an attack, "These guys regenerate their energy a second they're brought down!"

Misty and Dawn looked at each other, looking for a plan. With their serious faces, they both nodded. Misty ran off into the room whiel Dawn took a huge breath, sticking her arms out of the window, then closing her eyes.

"Dawn now's not the time for meditating!" I yelled, jumping into the air and dodging an attack. Suddenly, I saw the dark purple aura holding the knights together start disappearing. It all formed into a small ball that was forming in front of Dawn's hands. In a second, the ball vanished.

"Ok May!" Dawn yelled out, "Just take down the dark knights and they should stay down for good!"

"Gott'cha!" I replied. Then I began taking out all of the knights in speed record. It was hard to believe no one got hurt or injured.

"May where's Harley?!" drew yelled out to me. I looked around frantically, trying to find the man who caused all this.

"I don't know!" I yelled out.

"Cacturne use Needle Arm!" Harley yelled out from no where. I turned around seeing a Cacturne flying towards me with a glowing arm, aiming for me. My eyes widened. I knew I couldn't dodge this attack. In turned and it didn't hit me scare in the chest, but it scraped my arm severely, where my old cut used to be, but this wound was bigger. I winced as I grabbed the would with my hand, falling to my knees.

"May!" Drew and Ash shouted. I fell down as Ash and Drew picked me up, turning me over. I could see a huge crowd forming around me, all of the men and boys. The pain was too much to bear and tears started falling out of my eyes and I kept my cries in. Drew could see this and he had a look of pity on his face. Here I was, Petalburg's Princess, the most wealthy girl in the Kingdom and I was the one, the only one, suffering in this battle.

"May! May calm down!" Ash said, trying to keep me calm.

"I-I can't. I-It hurts!" I yelled out, finally letting the pain go through me. The tears continued going down my face. Just then we heard a huge explosion. We looked and the men and boys parted so I could see. There at the castle where a wall once stood was all the women and little girls. In front of them all was Dawn and Misty, who was holding this giant future like water gun thing. Except, the rubble that was once a castle wall were ice and in pieces.

"Well I guess you can invent something rather quickly when you put your mind to it, "Misty said with a wink.

"Misty! Dawn! You're ok!" Ash said. When they all saw me, they came around the crowd as well, Misty and Dawn pushing through.

"What happened to her? Is she ok?" Dawn said with a serious look on her face. I was taking fast, deep breaths.

"Harley's Cacturne attacks May with Needle Arm. It hit her shoulder and it's a really severe injury."

Dawn took my hand off my wound and looked at it. Dawn was always the medical expert in our group, the girly girl she was she was serious sometimes. Soon I felt myself loosing to the pain. My eyes started to close and I could hear my friends screaming my name. "May!"

When I woke up, I felt MUCH better than what I felt previously. After my vision returned, i could see I was in my room. My room in the palace. I was in my fancy canopy bed and in my night gown under the covers. I lifted my arm and saw it bandages, along with some more bandages all over me on my small cuts.

'W-What... where am I?'

"Princess May! You're awake!" shouted a Nurse Joy. My door opened and I saw Nurse Joy walk in with a Tracy of food. She sat it on my side table and sat on my bed.

"Oh Princess May, we thought you would never wake up."

"We?" I asked weakly. The door opened again and in walked Misty, Dawn, Max, and Soladad. As well as Ash and Drew who had small bandages on their cuts.

"Guys?"

"May we were so worried after you blacked out!" shouted Misty, giving me a big hug. I blinked in confusement.

"I blacked out?"

"Yeah," replied Ash, "You were out for a week."

"Wow, a week?" I asked with wide eyes, "I've never been out that long before."

"Don't tell us, tell Harley. He's the one that gave you that wound on your shoulder." Drew said, pointing at my arm. Then it all came back to me.

"Hey wait!" I started, "Where's harley? Where's all the town's people-

"May calm down," Soladad said covering my mouth, "All the town's people are back here in Petalburg safe and sound. If you haven't noticed, Misty, Dawn, and Nurse Joy's here."

I looked at the three girls as they waved at me. I didn't think about that.

"So what happened?"

"Well you took care of all the dark knights," Drew said, "And that's when you were attacked and blacked out. Misty made this weapon-shooting thing and busted herself and all the other women out. Dawn used her magic to free the Royal Knights from that cage. Then Torchic and Roselia came out of your pokeballs."

"They did?"

"Yeah," he replied, "Torchic made a campfire and provided heat. My Roselia tried to heal all our wounds as best she could using Recover."

"If it wasn't for Roselia, you probably wouldn't have made it here," Max added.

smiled, nodding, "Thank you."

"No thank you!" Nurse Joy said, "You gave our town's people hope, that they could survive the battle and rescue us. And look what happened. No one got majorly injured, well, except you." I smiled, hiding my tiny laugh, "But each and every single one of us came back home, because they had such an amazing leader, you."

"Thank you Nurse Joy."