Hi guys thanks for joining me once again for the next chapter of 'So Glad We Met.' I'm sorry if it's kind of lame as I've struggled for ideas lately but hopefully as I work through this fanfic more ideas will pop into my head. Before I start I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who sent in a review lately. It means a lot seeing that all of you have given up your time to post your opinion so please keep on sending the review. Without further ado, we'll start the next chapter. I hope you're all sitting comfortably...
(DISCLAIMER: I do not own pokemon.)
As and excited Ash continued to run. He suddenly stopped to take a look at where he was. Unfortunately for himself he had just run off into a forest in the past moments of sheer excitement. "Oh Great," Ash remarked sarcastically. He looked around the forest but wherever he looked it was all tonnes of tall trees and massive shadows. "How did I get here?" Ash asked himself as he continued to look confused.
"Beats me," Pikachu replied equally as baffled.
"Oh well, no big deal," Ash said, now speaking more confidently. "I can get through anywhere as long as I've got this useful map of the Unova region Professor Oak gave me." However from utter confidence Ash suddenly stood in shock as he looked through his bag only to realise his map was not there. "My map, where has it gone?" Ash panicked. "Pikachu this isn't funny, where have you hidden it."
Pikachu just stood there though looking completely stunned. "What no! I didn't take it. You must have left it on the ferry."
Ash now looked more concerned. "Oh no you're probably right as well!" Ash continued to worry. "We should probably go back to the pokemon centre by the dock and see if they have a map we can get."
Pikachu now stood looking slightly embarrassed at his trainer's stupidity. "Er Ash, the whole reason we needed a map in the first place is because we ran away from the dock and got lost."
Ash's face dropped once again. He now felt a sudden rush of anger run through him before suddenly having a massive outburst. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He yelled massively making pretty much every pidove in the forest fly out of their tree and into the skies.
Ash sunk to his knees continuing to moan while Pikachu tried to make light of the situation. "Oh come on Ash. Think about it. The whole situation would've been a whole lot worse had Dawn, Misty or May still been with you." Even though Pikachu did have a fair point, it still didn't begin to make Ash feel better. When Ash travelled with Dawn things were a lot worse. To be fair losing a map right in the middle of the forest is a decent reason to be concerned but Dawn tended to throw a strop over anything. When Ash was travelling with Dawn back in Sinnoh, she one day got up to do her hair only to realise her hairbrush had gone. It hadn't gone missing or anything it was just that Pikachu and Brock's Croagunk decided to play a little prank on her. However Dawn was completely unaware of any kind of prank and therefore went mental, thinking her hairbrush had gone missing. At first the two pokemon found the scenario hilarious as Dawn continued to get moodier. However it eventually got to the point where Dawn was so angry that Ash and co had to stay at camp until they found her hairbrush, which as the two pokemon somehow forgot where they had hidden it, was several hours. When Dawn had finally found her hairbrush, and later discovered that Pikachu and Croagunk had hidden the hairbrush as a prank, Dawn was not happy. What happened after that point was something Pikachu dreaded to recap.
"Well maybe Dawn would have had a spare map," Ash replied, his mood starting to worsen.
"Gee Ash you don't have to be so moody all of a sudden," Pikachu replied.
"Look I'm sorry," Ash apologized, starting to calm down. "It's been a long day. And the fact that we're right in the middle of nowhere just tops it all off."
"It's alright Ash, we'll make it through this forest somehow," Pikachu replied confidently, jumping onto his trainer's shoulder. If there was something more than anything Pikachu hated, it was his trainer feeling low. When he saw one of Ash's friends feeling upset, he'd sometimes feel a tad guilty but whenever it was his trainer Pikachu knew he had to make him feel better. After all Ash was Pikachu's best friend and he knew that if he himself was feeling low, Ash would always make him feel better.
"I know we will," Ash said determinedly. "Besides the whole point in going on a pokemon journey is so you can go to your limits and prove that you can get past any obstacles. If I do ever manage to become a pokemon master, I'll be able to tackle any stupid forest with my eyes shut."
"That's the spirit Ash!" Pikachu replied cheerfully.
"It doesn't matter if we don't exactly know where we're going. We'll find our way easily."
However even Pikachu was slightly unconfident about what Ash had just suggested. "Er Ash, I'm not faulting your enthusiasm or anything, but are you suggesting that we just walk anywhere and hope that eventually we'll find our way out?"
"I guess so. I mean how hard can it be buddy? It should get easier. Besides I've been in worse situations."
At this point Pikachu gave in to his trainer's determination. "Fine we'll do your idea."
"Great then lets set off!" After walking a slight distance Ash thought he was starting to get the hang of finding his way out. However little did he know that he in fact was still making no progress at all. "Er Pikachu."
"What is it Ash?"
"I hate to say this, but I've got a bad feeling about this."
As the duo continued walking, their doubts got bigger. "Why don't you just ask someone?" Pikachu asked.
"Well maybe I would if there was anyone in the forest. Surely they'd have better things to do than wander around in a forest."
"I'm sure there are a few people in here, well who aren't lost at least."
"Lets hope so, I'm getting hungry here."
The duo now walked on looking not only for a way out but also someone to ask directions for. Finally though they came across someone tucked up into a tree. As they were in the darker area of the tree, all Ash could see was a shadow. "Look there's someone in that tree, why don't you ask them for directions?"
"Fine then I'll ask them." Ash cleared his throat. "Um excuse me; do you know which way it is to Striaton City?"
The mysterious person in the tree happened to be Iris, although Ash didn't know that of course. However as she was still disappointed after what had just happened, she rudely pointed in a random direction. "That way."
"Okay thanks for that," Ash replied.
In the tree though, Axew popped out from Iris' massive bushy purple hair. "Iris, why did you just do that? That boy kindly asked for directions. You don't know where Striaton is either so you didn't need to point somewhere random."
"Yeah I guess your right," Iris replied in dismay. "I probably should've told him I was lost too. Perhaps we should go and find him and tell them."
However Ash and Pikachu had already ran off in the direction Iris pointed to. "Er I think it's a bit late to do that now."
Iris started to feel slightly guilty as she was completely unaware of what was in that direction. "Oh well I guess he'll find out sooner or later."
"I hope so," Axew thought.
Meanwhile Ash and Pikachu were excitedly following the path Iris had sent them. "Man I can't wait to get to Striaton and get my first gym badge. I might even meet Cilan again."
"I can't wait either. It's about time we get some rest as well. It sure has been a long day of travelling," Pikachu added on.
"You're right. Besides I sure could get something to eat right now."
Pikachu rolled his eyes. "Ash you're always talking about food. We have much more important issues right now."
"But I'm hungry," Ash moaned.
"Well you can eat all the food you want when we get to Striaton."
"Well let's hope that's soon then."
"Don't worry Ash; I'm sure it will be." However the duo's confidence once again worsened as they now came across a part of the forest which looked quite badly damaged. It had trees which had practically fallen down, on top of the fact that Striaton City still wasn't in sight. "Something seems weird about this place," Pikachu said rather nervously.
"It sure does," Ash trembled.
Meanwhile, in Pallet Town, Kanto was Ash's mum, Delia. As she watched Professor Oak continue to unpack all of his belongings in the house, she switched on the TV. She had her feet up and was eating a massive bowl of popcorn, right in front of the television. "Are you alright Professor?" She asked.
"Oh don't worry I'm okay!"Professor Oak replied, sweating while he carried a couple of heavy boxes up the staircase. "There are only a few more boxes to carry."
Delia rolled her eyes. "That professor," she said to herself. "Deary me!" As she began to watch TV the news suddenly came on.
"Hello I am Kent Tucker, this is PokeNews. We have been reported some breaking news from Unova. We are hearing that legendary dragon pokemon Zekrom has been spotted in a forest nearby Striaton City, attacking the wildlife there. Several trees have been knocked over, and lots of wild pokemon have appeared to have fainted."
As the news reporter continued to describe the events, Delia dropped her popcorn onto the floor and sat looking shell-shocked. "Oh no, Ash might be there!" She panicked. "I better go and get that xtransceiver, Professor Oak gave me." She rushed to get her xtransceiver and quickly tried to call Ash. However there was no answer. She tried another couple of times but there was still no answer. Now Delia really started to panic. "Professor, Professor, quickly you've got to come down there's something very wrong!" she called.
Professor Oak immediately rushed down. "What is it?" He asked panting.
"I've been trying to call Ash for ages now but he doesn't seem to be answering." Professor Oak looked slightly confused. He too tried to call Ash but there was still no response.
"Hmm, that's funny," he said looking baffled.
"I know," Delia continued to panic. "Ash never ignores his xtransceiver calls."
"I'll try calling Professor Juniper to check that it's not our xtransceiver that's having issues." Funnily enough, Professor Juniper finally picked up her xtransceiver.
"Hello Professor," Juniper began. "Is anything the matter?"
"She answered," Professor Oak thought in confused fashion. "Well there is Professor," he began. "You see we were trying to call Ash Ketchum to see how he was getting on but for some reason he wouldn't answer. He's not the type of person to suddenly ignore everyone's calls. Do you know if anything's the matter?"
"I'm not sure," Juniper replied. "I saw him earlier today though. We didn't even talk for that long I just gave him my xtransceiver details and some stuff he may need for his journey. He was off like a flash. What if I try and call him with my other xtransceiver?" For a moment the trio waited for any kind of response but still couldn't make contact with him. "No response. What's the matter? His xtransceiver can't be broken surely?" The trio now felt more concerned.
"I just hope that he and Pikachu are alright," Delia stressed.
Meanwhile on a boat, as Cilan continued to clean the tables, he spotted something unusual. "A Unova map? I wonder whose it is." He turned it over. It had a rather familiar name on. "Ash Ketchum? But he left the boat ages ago. He must have forgotten it. Maybe I should see if he's still around so I can give it back to him." However he stopped when he heard a crack of thunder. "Actually I'll give it to him when he arrives in Striaton."
Back in the forest, Ash too could hear thunder. "That doesn't sound great Pikachu," Ash said, looking up at the sky. The sky had now gone from a light grey to a very dark grey, on the verge of black.
"Why don't you call Professor Juniper on the xtransceiver for help?" Pikachu suggested.
"You're right. Maybe she has a clue as to what's going on." Ash dug out his xtransceiver and tried to call Professor Juniper. However Ash couldn't even hear the xtransceiever ring. He looked at it in confusion. "Oh no!" he panicked. "No connection? You've got to be kidding me!"
"I wonder if it's to do with the storm," Pikachu replied.
"Well whatever the case we've got to get out of this mess quickly. If only I had a map."
However as the duo still stood around looking concerned, a dragon figure appeared to be flying across the fly. "Hey look at that!" Pikachu pointed.
"Huh," Ash replied before looking up to the sky. "What is that?" He got out his pokedex, which gave a lecture about Zekrom. "Zekrom, the legendary pokemon? Cool!" However things got worse as a real sense of fear was in the air as not only was there a dark sky, Zekrom appeared to be flashing lightning everywhere.
"Oh no, what do we do?" Pikachu panicked.
"We've got to find shelter somewhere, but where? All the trees here seem to have been cut down."
"And it looks like Zekrom is heading for us!" Pikachu added on.
"What a day!" Ash thought as only worse was to come.
Meanwhile still sat in a tree was Iris. "Are you still miserable about what happened with Georgia?" Axew asked. "That was ages ago. Just put it behind you already. Can't we just move on and get to Striaton?"
"I would," Iris replied. "If I knew the way," she replied shamefully. She sighed. "Today's been a rough day I guess. I've had a couple of bad experiences. It's kind of hard to move on."
Axew sighed. "Fine then, well are you going to at least get out of the tree?" Iris didn't reply to that question and instead just stood still once again. "I'll take that as a no then." The duo continued to sit in the tree without talking to each other for a few minutes before Axew finally broke the ice. "Hey you know that trainer who asked for directions. Where did you send him again?" Iris pointed in the same direction she had sent Ash. Axew suddenly started to panic. "What! So you're saying you sent him to the place where we can hear all of this thunder and lightning coming from.
Iris finally got up and gasped. "Oh my god, you're right!" I wonder if he's okay! Oh I'm such a fool!"
Axew tried to get Iris to calm down. "Oh come on Iris, I'm sure he'll be-" he was suddenly interrupted by a loud crash of lightning and the sound of a loud cry. "Fine," Axew finished off his sentence in concern.
"Oh no, that might have been him! We've got to help him!"
"But Iris," Axew tried desperately to hold Iris back. "It's too dangerous out there. "That lightning could seriously hurt you."
Iris suddenly snapped back at him. "I don't care! I put someone's life in real danger. I've got to save them. Besides as Elder said taking risks are what make you a great trainer. Now come on let's go and save them." Iris and Axew rushed to where they heard the lightning as quickly as possible, even though they barely had a clue where they were going. They knew that they had to find whoever had been struck as quick as possible until they came across a more spooky part of the forest where a load of trees had been knocked over, as well as an electricity pole.
"This place looks scary, Axew thought. "But never mind, we have to go and find that boy." After ten minutes of nonstop running, Iris and Axew came across a rather uncomfortable sight. A stricken Ash lay on the floor with Pikachu right next to him, with a few bruises, panicking like crazy. He had been calling for help for the past ten minutes now and was relieved to see that someone had arrived.
"Oh my god!" Iris cried as she saw Ash unconscious on the floor before Pikachu came running up to her. "What happened?"
"Oh thank Arceus someone came. We were minding our own business and then suddenly a huge flash of lightning came and struck Ash," he panicked. "Please can you help?"
"I'll try," Iris replied rather nervously. Iris wasn't sure what to do in this situation. She was no doctor herself. She was taught first aid back in school but Iris always decided to mess around and therefore never actually learnt anything. How she would regret doing so. After thinking for ages what to do, she still couldn't think of anything. In the end she prayed that Ash was not in a critical condition and just slightly unconscious. She went over to Ash and just started tapping him gently. "Wake up," she whispered. "Please kid, please please wake up." Ash still wasn't waking up though leaving Iris to panic even more. "Come on wake up. It's alright the lightning has stopped, you'll be alright. Just please wake up." As Iris continued to shake Ash, both pokemon prayed nervously, until finally, after ages of being shaken, Ash began to open his eyes...
And there we have it, the end of chapter 3. Sorry to leave you on kind of a cliff hanger but I'll try and update as soon as possible to make up for it. Anyway thanks a lot for reading this. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW. It doesn't take all the effort in the world. I've had a lot of people follow or favourite this lately (which is amazing!) So if you are prepared to do that then surely you'd be prepared to send a comment. I love reading all of your comments. They certainly make my day so please don't be afraid. Even if there was something you didn't like about the story I'll always learn. Once again, if there was anything you were confused about in the story then feel free to mention so in the review or just send me a PM. I will always answer to don't sweat. Please stay tuned for more of this story...
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