Chapter 11

"Drew! Drew, you've got to wake up!" May pleaded. Drew still didn't move. May and Drew had been in this shack for a while now, but Drew hadn't made a peep since they were in the practice field.

"Drew!" May cried as she made another attempt. She still got no response.

'Oh Max…maybe we shouldn't have gone to the contest' May thought; she was worried for her brother, she didn't know where he was. But wherever he was he was probably panicking about now.

May sat against the wall; it was rough and a bit rotted out. May didn't care. She looked at the door, the same door she had learned the hard way was locked. Drew groaned.

"Drew?" May asked, but he still wasn't conscious. May took a deep breath; she felt deep sympathy for her rival. But there was something else, and it wasn't just grief.

"Oh Drew." May said "why would Harley choose you to do this to instead of…." May stopped talking so she could think harder. Why? Why Drew? Why not her? Why this harsh? Then it hit her.

"What if Harley's target is still me? What if...what if…Max!" May suddenly realized what Harley was plotting. He was taking her down…from the inside.

"If Harley goes after Max…I'll die!" May shrieked. She forgot about common sense, and started banging and pulling on the door.

"If that creep hadn't have taken my pokemon…he'd be going down! And as if he wasn't smart enough, he took Drew's too…darn!" May cried angrily as she pulled at the door that refused to budge.

"What…are…you…doing?" May froze. She slowly turned her head to see that Drew had the most puzzled look on his face.

"Oh, hi. Just, um...trying to get out," she answered, a bit embarrassed. May hadn't realized that she was still pulling on the door knob.

"Ow!" she cried as the knob broke and she tumbled to the ground.

"Well look who's doing a terrible…j-job!" Drew said.

"Well at least you've still got some humor!" May grumbled. Drew tried to laugh at this.

"Coming from the mouth…of the person…who…fell, breaking a door knob," he mused. May had to giggle at that, it was a bit funny.

"Enough of this, you need help…" she said as she walked back over to him.

Max sat at the sofa in the Pokemon Center; His terrified stare leading to the tiled floor. May had been gone for three hours now…and there was no sign of Drew either. Nurse Joy was sending out emails about the two missing co-ordinaters.

"Well, well, well!" a cheery voice said behind him; somehow, though, it scared him.

"Harley? What are you doing here?" Max asked, puzzled.

"I heard about poor little May! Oh the catastrophe! And Drew too! And so I thought to come by and see if little Maxie-kins was ok!" Harley cried, tears (fake or not) were streaming from his eyes.

"Um…ok. I'm fine, but miserable." Max answered sadly.

"Well of coarse you are, you poor little boy!" Harley cried in a sympathetic voice "so…what are you doing at the moment?"

"Waiting…and Nurse Joy is sending out emails to see if anything comes up…" Max sighed.

"Oh…how smart! I was wondering if you'd like to search with me…"

"Yeow!" Drew yelled as he jerked away from May.

"Come on Drew, you've gotta let me put this ice on that arm of yours." May sighed.

"Yah…I know…but it h-hurts!" Drew answered.

"Well you should've expected that," May answered simply. Drew took a deep breathe, and stuck his arm out once more.

"Ok, we're gonna try this again…" May said slowly as she set the ice on his arm. Drew whimpered, but trusted common sense (unlike May with the rotted out door).

"There," May said "but there's still the problem of your cheek…"

Drew groaned.

"Max! Your mother's on the phone!" Nurse Joy called, before Max could answer Harley.

"Oh! Sorry Harley, but I can't…." Max said as he ran to Nurse Joy to get onto her front-desk-phone.

"Ok Max! Too-ta-loo!" Harley cried joyfully.

"Darn! Almost had him!" Harley mumbled angrily as soon as he stepped outside. "Oh well…" he added and briskly walked away.

"Hopefully my little sweetie-tweety Houndoom has had better luck guarding the brats!" he chuckled as he made his way to the same woods May, Max, and Drew had ventured out of on their way to Rockwood.