Today was the big day, July 10'th, my 13th birthday. It was now afternoon. And to be truthful, I still haven't made my decision. I sneaked quietly to the balcony, away from all the last minute preparations for the Princess Ball. I let the sun light set on me as my hand covered the top of my head.

"This is it May..." I said, seeing a flock Swablu and Altaria fly up in the air. It made me wish I could be free and just do what I wanted to do, rather than make the biggest decision of my life. Then I noticed something by the Pecha Tree. I looked father down ahead and saw Drew reading one of his books again. His Roselia was resting beside him. He noticed me and looked up, making a small wave. A smile appeared on my face as I waved back at him, sadly.

"Ok, that settles it," I said, " I can't stay here, or go home. It pains me to leave one group of my friends for another."

I turned around and walked back into my room. Drew looked confused by my actions. I wasn't always this sad or upset about something, and to him it seemed obvious.

Now it was sunset. The guests would arrive very soon. I had my small sack with some things inside, things I'd need. I wore my original outfit from home. I tied my bandanna over my head in front of the mirror, tightening the knot. 'I'm sorry everyone.'

I walked out onto the balcony. Obviously I couldn't use the front door. I saw some vines at the side and started climbing down it.

'If I had known these were here, my escape from Harley wouldn't have been that hard.'I landed on the ground in the shadows. I began running. As I passed by the farm, no one was outside, not even the Pokemon. Except my Torchic. She blended in so well the field during sunset. She noticed me and ran over. Seeing me in unusual clothes and a sack over my shoulder told her what I was doing. I knelt down to her and petted her head. "I'm sorry Torchic. I can't go back to the future, but I can't stay in Petalburg either. It's just to hard for me, you know?"

She chirped sadly with those big watery eyes. Then she jumped into my arms. "You wanna come?" I asked her. She nodded vigorously. At least I would have one companion during this journey,

--MISTY'S POV--

Dawn and I were in out room, getting ourselves ready for May's Princess Ball. I fixed my dress and my hair in front of the mirror.

"Alright, I'm done," Dawn said, twirling around in her dress.

"I'm kinda worried though," I said, playing with a strand of my hair.

"About what?" Dawn asked.

"I mean, it's May. We haven't seen her for a while," I said, looking at the moon's reflection in my mirror.

"Don't worry Misty," Dawn said, walking behind me, "I'm sure she's fine. May probably went out or maybe she's busy around the palace. It is her ball anyway. And all the Nurse Joys have kept her busy for the past three days."

"I guess, but..."

"Shhh," Dawn said, putting a finger in front of her lips, "May is fine."

"Hey Misty, Dawn," called a voice. We looked at the door seeing Ash. He was wearing this outfit that made him look like a Prince. White pants and a blue and a blue tunic with all the yellow garnets on it and on the shoulders.

Dawn laughed, "Nice."

"Don't laugh," Ash said glaring at her, "Nurse Joy said I had to wear this thing. Besides, you two look happy with what you're wearing."

I blushed at his comment. Dawn just giggled. "Of course we do," she said.

Ash rolled his eyes smiling, "Come on, Queen Somei said the three of us have to be in the Ball Room now. The guests are arriving."

"Oh, I'm so nervous. And it's not even my ball," I said sighing.

We all stood and walked to the Main Room. There already was a lot of people. I guessed it was a good thing that the Ball Room was huge. Dawn immediately ran down seeing Drew, Max, and Solidad.

"Well, we should get down there too," I said.

"Yeah," he said. We both walked down the flight of stairs with the huge red carpet. To the others.

"Hi guys," we both said.

"You two going together or something?" Max said, since we were both holding hands. How I did not notice that, I will never know. We both blushed and let go.

Dawn giggled at the scene, "I guess May and Drew aren't the only love birds around here."

"W-What?!" Drew shouted.

"Oh come on Drew, it's so obvious!" Dawn said, shaking her hand, "We know how you two used to be such close friends a long time ago."

"Wait, y-you know about that?" Drew asked.

"Afraid so Drew," I said, "Soladad explained everything to us.

"Soladad!" Drew said.

Soladad smiled nervously as she held her hands up in defence, "Sorry Drew, just had to."

"Besides," Ash said, "What difference does it make that we know?"

"I don't... really know myself, "He replied.

"How come you didn't tell May?" I asked.

"Actually," he started, " she already knows. She just doesn't remember it."

"Well you could have tried to remind her or something," I said.

"Maybe I didn't want to," he said with his hands in his pockets, "I wanted to see if she would remember, on her own."

"Well apparently she couldn't," Dawn said, crossing her arms.

"Guys! Guys!" yelled Nurse Joy. We turned around seeing her run up to us, trying to catch her breath.

"Nurse Joy, what's wrong?" I asked.

"It's Princess May, she's gone!"

"What?" We all asked.

"Princess May is not in the palace! My sisters and I have searched everywhere for her!"

"I knew I felt something," I said, looking down.

"We better go and look for her," Soladad said, "If she's out, she couldn't have gone too far.

We all nodded, and sneaked out the Ballroom.

--DREW'S POV--

My Roselia and I searched through the night town. The others and I split up to "cover more ground'or something like that. The streets were practicaly empty, since probably the entire Kingdom was invited to the ball. A ball in which the Princess wasn't even at.

'You idiot, where are you?'

While we were runing, my Roselia suddenly stopped, Sencing something. I stopped too, wondering why why she stopped.

"What is it Roselia?" I asked, confused.

"Roselia,rose roselia!" She replied. Then she began running off.

"Roselia hold on!" I yelled running after her. Eventually I ended up near the borders of town, near the river. After crossing the bridge, you'd be out of the town. I guess you'd expect for May to be here.

"Torchic wait!" yelled a girl's voice, a voice that I recognized to be May's. I looked ahead at the rope bridge and saw her running after her Torchic as I was with Roselia. When Torchic stopped they were right in front of me, at the start of the bridge. It was a long way down from here, considering it was night. I noticed May was in the original clothes she wore when she first came to Petalburg and got arrested. She also had a small bag slung over her shoulder.

"Drew?" she asked starring at me.

"May?" I asked back, "What are you doing? The others and I have been looking everywhere for you."

"Maybe I didn't want to be found alright?" She said with a stern voice. I don't think I've ever seen his this serious before.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, placing my hands in the pockets of my pants. I was still wearing my normal clothes. Soladad, Max, and I couldn't afford anything fancy to wear to May's ball, "Well?"

"Well I just don't wanna stay in Petalburg. But I don't wanna go home either ok?"

"May you're talking nonsence," I said.

"Drew you don't understand!" she yelled, "I have to make the most important decision of my life tonight, wheather I should become a real princess or not! Which of my friends I should stay with or leave behind! I dont want to have to go through any of that."

"So you're just gonna run away from it I see," I said, keeping my calm face. She just starred for a second before she turned around. Her Torchic looked at her.

"Come on Torchic, let's go." she said, not facing me at all.

Her Torchic made a few chirps before looked back at Rosellia. They both nodded and ran to the edge of the bridge, where the rope was tied to keep it raised. My eyes widened as May turned around, the same expression I had. Torchic and Rosellia were trying to taken down the bridge? I heard the rope snap, and then the bridge started to give out, with May still on it, as well as Torchic and Rosellia. They began falling as I ran to the edge. I grabbed onto may's hand as I hit the ground.

"May!" I shouted out to her. I could feel myself being pulled in.

"Drew just let go of my hand!"She yelled back.

"What are you crazy?!" I asked. Roselia and Torchic were holding onto the edge of the cliff as well. Roselia seemed to have that under control with her Vine Whip, so our two Pokemon weren't in any danger. Why they weren't helping out, I'd never understand.

"Drew let go!"

"No!"

Then my entire body fell off the edge and we started falling down, heading towards the dark river below. As we were falling, May and I grabbed hands. I looked up and saw Roselia's Vine Whip let go, and on purpose. Just what had gotten into those two? May and I screamed as we were falling, eventually into the river. It wasn't as dangerous and wavy as we had thought, probably due to how hark it was and considering it was night.

"Drew! Drew you alright?!" May said, gasping for air.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine!" I replied, trying to keep my head out of the water.

Torchic and Roselia started calling us. May and I looked to them and saw them swimming over to something. We saw a small piece of ground across the river with a cave there. May and I both swam there, following our Pokemon. Once we gotten inside the cave and away from the river, we slid to the ground soaking wet.

"Drew you dolt," May said, catching her breath, "Why didn't you let me go? At least you wowouldn't have had to be dragged into this."

"I wasn't gonna let you fall in like that. What were you thinking?"

"Don't ask me. Ask that Roselia of yours."

"Then you as your Torchic, seeing that they both obviously planned for this to happen."

After realizing what we just aid, we stopped glaring at each other and looked over to our two Pokemon. They both seemed very calm. Why?

"Roselia?"

"Torchic?"

"Is there something you'd like to explain?" May and I both asked simultaneously. They both turned around and began running down the dark cave. Before I could call out to them, they were already gone. I just groaned and rubbed my head.

"What in the world has gotten into them?" I asked.

"Hold on, I think I have a flashlight in my pocket," May said, searching her pockets.

"A flashlight?" I asked, cocking an eyebrow. It was probably some future invention thing. She got out this hand size thing and pressed this switch, making a light shine in the front, almost like a lamp. She pointed it down the cave as it lit up. Our eyes widened as we saw.

"What is this?" May asked, looking around with her flashlight.

"I don't know," I replied with the same amount of surprise. on the walls were chalk drawings of Pokemon. And dozens of them too. I walked up to the chalk drawings, feeling the hard rock on my hands.

"Where exactly are we?" May asked.

"Maybe we should go deeper ahead. First we need to find Torchic and Rosellia," I explained.

--MAY'S POV--

nodded and we both ran down the dark cave. When we got to the end, what we saw was amazing. It was a giant cavern with so many Pokemon. It was hard to believe this was all inside a cave. All the Pokemon you could think of, right there. There was practically grass growing from under our feet. In the middle of the huge cave was a lake. And behind the lake was a tree house. And not the kind of tree house with the tiny house on top of the branches. It was really like a tree house. The door was at the bottom of the tree and there were windows around the trunks. On its branches were some nests of the bird Pokemon. I'd bet it looked even more beautiful during the day time. This place... just what was it?

"Amazing..." I said,"This place... it has almost a nostalgic feeling in it."

"Me too," Drew said, looking around. He then looked down at Torchic and Rosellia, "Were you two trying to bring us here?"

They both nodded and began running again, this time towards the tree house.

"Guys wait!" I yelled out, but they wouldn't stop. I just groans and slapped my forehead, "We better go after them again."

"Right," Drew said.

We ran after Rosellia and Torchic, again. They went through the door in the tree house, which was open by the way. We followed them inside. It was rather dark, until Drew lit up some of the lanterns inside. By now Rosellia and Torchic have stopped running.

"Now where are we?" I asked.

'This tree house... No way...' Drew thought.

Rosellia and Torchic led us to this treasure chest in the corner of the room. I'd explore the rest of the tree house but we came here for a reason. Obviously this reason involved that treasure chest.

"You want me to open it?" I asked. Both Torchic and Rosellia nodded. I starred at Drew and he just shrugged, just as confused as I was. I knelt down and opened the treasure chest. My eyes widened. Inside were a bunch of photos, books, toys, costumes, a lot of children's things. And the weirdest part, I could remember these things, even a little.

"Drew... what are these things?" I asked, "Drew?"

When I turned around, he had the same facial expression I had when I opened the treasure chest. He walked by and knelt down starring into the chest as well. By now he was calmer as less surprised. He then took out this book from the chest.

"Drew what's that?" I asked, pointing at the dusty old book.

"Here," he said, handing it to me," I think you should take a look at it."