Chapter 5

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The sun was once again shining in the little town of twinleaf. But what's in store for our two coordinators today.

Dawn heard a loud crash coming from upstairs. She was sitting at the table about to enjoy her mom's breakfast until the loud commotion.

"Is that may?" Johanna questioned.

"Probably" dawn sweatdropped. "I'll go check on her"

Dawn walked to the stairs but soon found her old friend may rushing down the stairs as if her life depended on it.

"May what's wrong, something happened?" dawn asked with worry.

May rushed past dawn in a hurry to the kitchen almost knocking her over.

"Yeah there is" she yelled over her shoulder "you almost made me miss breakfast because you didn't wake me up!" she stated.

Dawn sweatdropped. "Wow, that's all? Well that's May for you" she said laughing as she went back into the kitchen to reclaim her seat. May was already stuffing her plate full of the food. Dawn just continued at her regular pace.

"So ladies, what do you have planned for today?" the blue haired mother asked.

Seeing May eating out of control dawn decided to answer. "Well we were going to go check by the port and see when the next boat leaves for Viridian City. The tournament is three days from now so were going to have to get on it" she explained.

"Okay you two make sure to be careful please?" the older woman asked.

"No need to worry mom" dawn said.

*sigh "I won't even say it this time" the mother said turning to wash up the dishes.

"May are you almost ready?" dawn turned and asked

"I think so, if I can move" she said nervously laughing at how much she ate.

"Well come on!" dawn grabbed her hand. "We have no time to waste!" she yelled dragging her out the door.

The two started on the path down to the port.

"You know Dawn, if I didn't know any better. I think you were a little more excited to see ash than the tournament itself" may gave a sly smile to her friend.

"What no! I mean yeah but that's just because I haven't seen him in so long" she stated trying to make it sound believable.

"I don't know. If you ask me I think you might have feelings for him" may winked.

"Well I wasn't asking you now was I" dawn snapped back.

"Okay sheesh, no need to get mad" may was surprised at her defensive attitude but decided to let it go.

"So may, what about you" dawn finally asked.

"What about me?" she questioned.

"You were the one to bring up the tournament in the first place. Not only that but you seemed just as excited about seeing ash again" the blue haired coordinator remarked. "Maybe you're the one with feeling for him" she then finished.

May blushed and Dawn took notice of this confirming what she said but also making her feel a little jealous.

"Well you see, I am excited to see him after so long again. He was a lot to me, a teacher, mentor, and a best friend. I'll admit maybe I have developed a little something for him but still. All I really want to do is spend time with him just like we did on our journey and if things lead from there then it would. Till then though, I won't worry about it." She finished.

Dawn fell silent due to her feeling bad for being so defensive about the subject when May opened up to her so easily. Could May's feeling be as strong as her own, or stronger she thought.

"You okay in there" may questioned raising her hand in her face.

"Yeah sorry. Just thinking to myself. Let's keep going." Dawn answered.

Soon they arrived at the port and started looking for the closest boat that would set sail for Viridian City. They found one, it left at…

"Today!" they both yelled.

"There's not another ship that will sail to Viridian City under a week. And this one leaves in 2 hours" dawn yelled fearing they wouldn't make it.

"Dawn stay calm, we can make it. We just have to run" she smiled. "Think of it as a race. You traveled with ash too so I'm positive he made you run." She laughed thinking of all the times they've raced.

A man came up to the counter. "Where are you ladies headed two?" he asked.

"Two tickets to Viridian City please, and here you go" May handed the man the money.

"Alright two tickets coming up" he responded.

"Actually could you hold on to them until we came back, it won't be long" Dawn answered this time.

"Why of course" the man said.

"Okay May we have to hurry, let's go." Dawn said as she turned to start her run.

Knowing they'd even have to pack clothes and gather there Pokémon for the trip they ran even faster. Once they arrived at the house first they panted for breath practically breaking the door down to get in.

"Whoa, what's all the commotion?" a familiar blued haired mother questioned the two.

"We… have to… hurry… boat leaves… in an hour and 40 minutes…" the two girls said breathing in heavily.

"What! Why so early?" she panicked.

"If we don't go now we won't be able to for a whole other week." Dawn exclaimed now heading up stairs to pack, as did May.

"Okay, I'll get the car ready. I'll drive you both back. No need to worry." She left the house to start the car. With that the two girls began packing everything and making sure there Pokémon were with them.

"Piplup come on out" dawn said holding the pokeball in hand releasing her first Pokémon. Piplup never really liked being cupped up inside of the pokeball just like Pikachu.

"Hey piplup, were just about to head out to the ship that'll take us to Viridian City" Dawn explained while just finishing up her packing.

"Dawn you ready" may yelled as she ran down the steps to the front door.

"Yeah, I'm on my way" she yelled back taking her suit case in hand. "come on piplup, let's go."

"pip piplup" the blue Pokémon replied jumping on dawn's head.

"You two ready?" the mother asked as the two girls came out the door.

"Yep" dawn replied.

"Yeah let's go!" may yelled.

Everyone got in the car with the engine already started.

"Mom we don't have much time, we have to hurry." Dawn pleaded.

With that, Johanna stepped on the gas flying down the road. Within no time they arrived at the port. Johanna turned the wheel making the car drift then it skidded to a stop. The girls with piplup quickly got out waving to the loving mother.

"Bye Johanna, thank you for letting me stay." May yelled as she ran.

"You're welcome dear, and anytime." She replied.

"Bye mom and thank you for letting me go" dawn also said.

"Bye hunny, be careful and take care of piplup." Johanna replied with a warm smile.

"No need to worry mom" dawn reassured her mom running backwards and waving but soon she met the dirt face first.

*sigh "That's when I worry the most" the blue haired mother whispered and sighed as her daughter was getting back up from where she tripped.

"Oops" dawn said embarrassed but gave her mother one last wave of goodbye.

The two girls ran up to the counter thankful that the old man was still standing there.

"I was wondering if you two were coming back, you don't have much time so here are your tickets." He handed them over and with only a thanks in return the girls and piplup still on dawn's head ran straight for the boat that would be taking them one step closer to seeing there long time friend.

The trip was going to be a total of two days. It was already late when they boarded the boat so they went directly to their assigned rooms. As they walked into the room they saw there were two beds on the far left and far right side. It had small dining table in the middle with a bright rug underneath it. On the left side were may would be sleeping was where the miniature stove and refrigerator was. And on the right side with dawn was a small two person couch that sat in front of a decently sized TV. So it wasn't the best room on the ship but they didn't mind. They only wanted to get to Viridian City as fast as possible.

They laid out all of their stuff ready to rest up for the night. When may started looking through the pamphlet she got on the way in.

"Hey dawn look at this?" she pointed at the pamphlet.

Dawn took it in her hands. "What is it?"

"The tournament held in Viridian City is being promoted to anyone traveling there; it turns out there's going to be a huge festival right after the tournament." May explained.

"I guarantee ash will be there" may said smiling at the thought.

"Yeah" was all dawn said, she got upset when may would talk about ash realizing that she must like ash too. And knowing this would be difficult.

'Why him? Why does she have to like him. What if he likes her, I mean she's so much more outgoing than me, not to mention prettier. But she's also my friend… this is going too hard. Just, I won't worry about it for right now' she thought to herself.

"Earth to dawn, you in there" may continue to question. "I swear you always space out when I mention ash"

Dawn snapped her head back up. "What?" she questioned.

"Nothing, let's go to bed okay." May said giving up.

"Sounds good" Dawn replied while getting dressed for bed.

The two lay in bed thinking of the reunion that will occur soon. May had a feeling she knew why Dawn kept spacing out on her when it came to ash but she wasn't for sure. Dawn on the other hand was wondering how everything will turn out with ash. She didn't want to fight one of her best friends over him, but she also didn't want to give up the chance that she could be with him. She just decided to see what would happen from here…

"No dawn, I won't do that." The raven haired boy answered back.

"Please I'm begging you, don't be with her." Dawn fell to her knees crying.

"Dawn listen, I left you years ago because I was done with our travels. I was done with you. To think I wasted so much time with you when I could have been out going after my one true love May. Just get lost…" the boy she thought she had a chance with walked away fading into the background forever.

AHHHHHH! Dawn screamed sitting up in her bed knocking piplup right on the ground.

May was sitting on the couch watching TV instantly turned around. "Dawn are you okay? What in the world happened?"

Piplup was giving his trainer a mouthful but was being ignore complety.

Dawn looked around tears at her eyes. "I just…just… I need some air." She quickly got up leaving there cabin.

"But dawn…" she was cut off by the slam of the door.

Dawn started down the hallway leading to the front deck at a fast pace ignoring anyone who happened to be along the way.

'I can't believe this. This is even affecting my dreams. Ash would never be that cruel. But what if it was true? This whole trip would be wasted and I'd just be delivering May to ash. STOP. STOP. NO. I won't let this affect me like this. If I have to I'll win ash myself. Like he said himself, what matters most is who you have beside you… I should go back and see May, she's probably worried.' She finished her thoughts.

After about 30 minutes she returned to her cabin. Walking in she was already bombarded with may's questioning.

"Dawn what in the world was that about? Plus did you even notice your still in your pajamas?" she went on.

"I just had a really bad nightmare and… wait what!" she looked at herself. The whole time people were looking and staring was because she still wore her pajamas not because they were worried. She blushed thinking how embarrassing it all was.

"Come on dawn relax I'm sure not everyone saw besides I have something that'll get your mind off whatever it is that's been eating at you. What do you say to a Pokémon tag battle that's being held here on the boat?" May eyed her friend.

"Really? It has been a while since I've been in a real battle. That sounds great!" she replied excitedly.

"You better go wash up though unless you rather battle in your pajamas." May teased.

Again dawn felt a wave of heat wash over her face and stuck a tongue out at her friend heading to the bathroom.

After some time she came out brushing the remains of her hair. She grabbed all her pokeballs and flung them all.

"All right everyone, come on out." She yelled. The blinding light flashed 5 white figures in the room. When the light cleared it showed Buneary, Pachirisu Mamoswine, Quilava, Togekiss and then piplup jumped right with them all. But everyone but piplup looked around confused as to where they were.

"Oh right, we were in such a hurry I forgot to tell everyone what we're doing. Well now that we're all gathered here me and May planned on going to a tournament that's held in Viridian City. Also we were hoping to meet an old friend there as well. You all remember ash right?"

At this all the Pokémon's ears perked up.

"Bun bun buneary" the rabbit pokemon stated jumping up and down.

"You just can't wait to see Pikachu again right" dawn smiled.

"Bun!" she yelled blushing a bit.

"Well now that you all know, me and may want to participate in a tag battle. Who wants in?" she asked.

"Lava" the volcano Pokémon ran up to dawn leg eager to battle.

"Alright since quilava was came up first I'll choose him" she said.

"So are you ready dawn" may asked

"Yeah sorry about that." She said laughing. "Do you know who your using?"

"Yup I did all that while you were in the shower. Shall we go?"

"Yeah let's do it. You all be good now." She said walking out the door with may.

All the Pokémon said there farewell for now as she left.

The duo walked 3 flights of stairs to the very top of the ship where a custom made battle field was being kept. A battle was already under way once they reached the top. The match wasn't too long; the winner came out to be a kingler over a corsola ending it with a crap hammer.

Next up was may and dawn who may entered them both while dawn was out thinking to herself knowing she'd want to be apart of a battle.

"What a spectacular match between kingler and corsola. Now our next tag team, over in the blue side is two very experienced coordinators, May and Dawn. And over in the red side are Ron and Jeremy. Let's see how this battle fairs" the announcer finished.

"Alright let's do this, Quilava spotlight!" dawn yelled while throwing the ball reveling the volcano Pokémon on the field.

"Okay glaceon take the stage" may yelled reveling her ice type.

"let's roll donphan" Ron yelled as he threw the ball reveling his ground type.

"Fearow take flight" Jeremy called out releasing the bird type Pokémon.

"Let the match begin." the referee called out.

"Okay Ron, let's not waste any time. Fearow use quick attack on quilava" Jeremy called out.

"Right. Now donphan use take down on glaceon!" Ron ordered.

Fearow began diving down at quilava with and incredible speed. While donphan was charging at glaceon with immense power that even the audience could feel the vibrations from every step that it took.

"Quilava use dig to escape and counter when I tell you too!" dawn yelled.

"Glaceon wait till I saw then jump on my command!" may told her ice type.

Quilava dug straight down while glaceon waited growing nervous as the powerful ground type trampled towards it.

"NOW!" both coordinators shouter.

Just then as fearow glided over the hole quilava dug a flamethrower shot out of it scorching the bird Pokémon. Glaceon used its tail to help it jump high over donphan.

"Now jump out and use swift quilava" dawn commanded.

"Fearow counter with your strongest gust" Jeremy quickly responded.

"Glaceon ice shard on donphan." May ordered.

The volcano pokemon jumped our right in front of fearow opening its mouth to unleash a barrage of stars. But fearow flapped its wings hard bringing together a huge amount of air blowing the swift back at quilava causeing its on attack to hurt it. While glaceon blew many ice shards at its opponent causing massive damage.

"Donphan use rollout." Ron ordered desperate.

The ground type formed into a ball rolling at in incredible rate hitting not only glaceon but quilava too in one run through. Then out of nowhere fearow came up and was using drill peck on quilava not giving him a chance to counter.

"Hurry glaceon help quilava with shadow ball!" may called out.

The purple and black attack was formed and shot out at fearow.

"Fearow fly up" Jeremy told his Pokémon.

"Don't let him escape, control it" may yelled.

Both her teammate and her opponents were surprised at what she just said. Just then the shadow ball shot upward as if it were a homing missle hitting fearow directly. But before any celebrations could be said glaceon along with quilava was hit by another rollout attack doing even more damage the second time. Both hit the ground hard struggling to get up.

"No!" both girls yelled.

"Quilava can you continue?" dawn asked.

"Glaceon we can do this, I know we can" may pleaded.

Both pokemon answer with a nod and the sound of their name loud determined to win.

"That won't scare us" Ron laughed while Jeremy just smirked sure of their victory.

"Let's end this May, follow my lead. Quilava use smokescreen in the air." Dawn said.

The smokescreen filled the air making it impossible for fearow to see anything.

"Now glaceon use your tail to jump up high and use ice shards to imprison donphan." May quickly caught on that Dawn was giving up an opening.

The shards were bigger trapping donphan in an octagon shaped prison of ice.

"Donphan break it use rollout!" his trainer yelled in fear.

"I don't think so, donphan cant pick up enough speed while in there" dawn said the quickly ordered her Pokémon. "Quilava jump over it and use fire spin right on top of him"

"Fearow get rid of the smoke with whirlwind" Jeremy ordered quickly seeing his teammate was in need.

But was too late. Donphan was soon engulfed in flames along with its ice prison. After the fire cleared it showed donpham collapsed with swirls for eyes.

"Damn it no!" Ron yelled returning his Pokémon.

"Fearow use sky attack!" Jeremy yelled threating now.

The bird typed glowed a bright color charging up.

"You ready?" Dawn questioned her teammate.

"Of course" she winked back.

"Now!" Jeremy screamed.

Just then fearow dived down at high speeds ready to break through anything that came its way. As It neared the ground it rose up to be just a few feet from the ground headed for the duo.

"Quilava fire spin again" Dawn yelled.

"Glaceon use ice beam" May ordered.

The fire spin encircled fearow causing it to slow but didn't stop it. Just when an ice beam was shot through the middle. Fearow was trapped with nowhere to go so he went on to try and endure it. Fearow and the ice beam collided which at first fearow was pushing through it with ease but quickly slowed down and within seconds frose hitting the ground hard.

"No! ahhhh. Fine whatever. Return." Jeremy recalled his Pokémon without another word walking away.

May and Dawn winked at each other returning their pokemon.

"You did amazing Quilava" Dawn congratulated.

"Great job, take a good rest Glaceon" May did as well.

"And this concluds today's event with May and Dawn taking the win. With this win they will be awarded a new poke app that allows them to feel the emotions of any Pokémon close enough to be scaned." The announcer said taking both the coordinators poke tech and placing it in the machine to download the new app.

"Wow, this will be so cool." dawn squealed.

"I know, this way it'll be a lot understanding our pokemon." May stated.

The sun was going down and the two girls were heading back to their room.

"pi pi piplup." Piplup continued to go on and on about the match.

"Yeah piplup, it was a great match. It's been awhile since I've had that much fun." Dawn responded to her starter.

"Will have to do that more often dawn." May said to her friend.

"Yeah that would be…" dawn was cut off.

"Attention passengers, we will be arriving in Viridian City tomorrow morning. That is all, thank you." The captain told everyone over the intercom.

"Wow, isn't that great dawn!" may yelled.

But dawn stayed quite thinking to herself.

'Not too much longer now. Soon I'll be…'

"Dawn wake up. Hello in there." May waved her hands in front of the blue haired girl.

"Oh sorry." She laughed nervously.

May eyed her friend.

"Really may, no need to worry." Dawn said looking back to the ground.

May noticed the tense state dawn was in and could only think of one reason. "It's ash isn't it?" she questioned.

"What? No it's…"

"Don't even try and deny it. I've seen how you've been acting when it comes to him. It's okay to be nervous." May gave her friend a sympathetic look. "Hell, I'm nervous about it too. But I'm trying my best to shake off that feeling." May finished.

Dawn simply smiled. "Thank you May, you're the best."

"I try" she laughed. "Come on, let's get some sleep."

"Right" dawn replied.

May turned the door knob to their room which they both entered ready to rest for the upcoming new day…

The next chapter will be having lots more action and maybe the plot will start to reveal itself. So those of you wanting the adventure and plot to get underway I think you'll enjoy it. Until the next post!