Me: So Last chapter! (Not counting the epilogue)

Drew: Finally this is finished.

Me: But I'm starting like three more stories soon (at funstt's suggestion I already planned three) and I'm not sure when I'll update Psychological Distress but it'll have to be when I get home (I'm in Michigan and its pretty boring up here no offense to the Michigians).

Drew, Gary, Ash, Paul: NOOOO!

Dawn, Leaf, May, Misty: Yay!

Me: xXFireRoseXX and forgive-forget-princess both left reviews about the boy's mystery and there are right! And Ikarishipping4ever and ice-beam147, your answers will be revealed in this chapter.

Gary: I'm getting sick to my stomach hearing this.

Paul: Can you just hurrying up and write the god darn thing.

Leaf: SurferGurl14 doesn't own Pokémon.

Paul, Gary: And we're making it so that she never will.

Drew: By the way, the last chapter sucked, cause you got rid of me for most of it!

Gary: I liked it, I punched you in the stomach.

Paul: How about shutting up before I punch both of you in the stomach?

Misty, May, Dawn, Leaf: …

Me: (sweat drop) Well, to the last chapter! Life Starts Now!

"Where are they?" an irritated Gary asked Drew.

Drew shrugged, "Do you think they chickened out?"

Ash shook his head, "Nah. They want to know about the contest too badly."

"What if they try to jet after we tell them?" Paul brought up.

"Chain them to their chairs?" Gary suggested.

It was around three in the afternoon, the boys were sitting on long chairs in their bathing suits on the pier of the beach waiting for their girlfriends. They watched as small children ran past them to crash themselves into the fierce waves of the sea.

Ash stood, "Anybody want anything from the snack bar?"

Gary nodded, "Get me a Coke."

Drew and Paul declined and Ash went to go get food. Drew, Paul and Gary leaned back in their chairs to soak up some Vitamin D. Ash returned with Gary's Coke and for himself had gotten a pretzel, three plates of nachos, multiple ice creams, a hot dog, two hamburgers, and a drink out of those fake coconuts.

Paul looked away in disgust as Ash started munching down.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

The boys immediately sat up and Ash dropped his hot dog as they heard an ear-piercing roar. The birds in nearby trees all flew away, frightened.

"What was that?" Ash asked, "It sounded like a monster."

Gary lay back down as he squinted and saw the girls' car heading their way.

"I think it was your girlfriend, Ashy-boy."

In the car, Misty was freaking out and had let out a roar. She was trying to study for a test on Egyptology.

"Why did you even that class if you have no interest in it?" May asked.

"She thought it was an easy A," Leaf spared Misty into having to explain her logic to May.

"God, I'm going to FAIL!" Misty wailed as she tried to decipher some hieroglyphics.

Dawn parked the car and they got out, Misty's nose still in her textbook.

Drew smirked upon their arrival, "We were beginning to suspect you guys chickened out."

"In your dreams Drew!" May retorted.

Paul pointed to Misty who was beginning to hyperventilate, "What's her deal?"

"Egyptology test," Dawn grabbed a long chair like her friends and put them all into a circle on the beach after forcing their boyfriends to move so that there was more room.

Ash immediately hopped up, "I'll help."

"Oh this should be good," Drew chuckled to himself, Gary and Paul.

Ash took the book and laid it where everyone could see the strange symbols he was going to translate.

"Let's see," Ash concentrated, "Bird, umbrella, squiggly, bird and a bigger bird."

Ash looked up, grinning. "See Misty? It's not that hard."

There was a moment of silence before Gary and Drew doubled up laughing and Paul began to clap.

"Wow," Paul said, ceasing his applause, "That was worse than what I was expecting."

Gary leaned forward, folding his hands, "Guess what? You guys get to go first."

Dawn was appalled, "No way!"

"Let's flip a coin," Drew suggested, giving Gary a secretive look. "Gary, don't you have a quarter?"

Gary took out a quarter with a sly smile, "Since it's my quarter we get to call, if it lands on tails then you guys start talking and if it lands on heads then we'll spill."

Gary flipped the coin and slapped it against his hand, "Tails!"

Leaf looked at him and quickly took the quarter, "Just as I thought, a coin with tails on both sides!"

May was outraged, "Andrew Hayden! Just for cheating you guys go first!" Drew immediately began to protest.

Paul was getting irritated by the constant fussing, "FINE!"

May, Drew, Gary and Leaf immediately stopped. Misty looked up from her textbook and Ash dropped ice cream on his bare chest.

Dawn rubbed Paul's back as he sighed in defeat. "Drew," Paul addressed, "Start talking."

Drew took a breath, "Okay you may not believe this but we have-err had psychic powers." He paused to look at the girls. When they showed no emotion Gary interrupted.

"What is wrong with you girls? If anyone else heard they would have ran."

May waved it off, "Continue with your story."

Paul took up, "Okay? The psychic powers we had enabled us to be able to read minds, levitate stuff, and figure out what people were planning and such. Like, that's how I knew to rescue Dawn when Lucas had trapped her. And I still can't believe that bastard won the damn contest."

Ash carried on, "The contest was the chosen few that had the powers, like us, would go away for five years and come back to Kanto at the end of the summer of their junior year and participate in a contest if they still had their powers for a title of champion. You lose your powers by falling in love, according to the guy that challenged us with the contest. This is why Gary, Paul, Drew and I had to go in disgrace because we lost our powers and everyone was riding on us to win."

Gary scratched his head, "Not trying to make you feel guilty or anything. So when we first met we couldn't read your minds, which is why we, at first, even bothered with you girls. But soon we started falling in love, Ash and I had immediately lost out powers a little time after the date; so we were looking out for both Drew and Paul, like when I saw Paul coming back from Dawn's room I had to warn him by telling him he knows what's at stake if he falls in love with Dawn and what he must be willing to lose, his powers and the contest!"

Dawn exclaimed, "I understand now, Paul fell in love with me before I fell in love with him so when he lost his powers, the barrier that protected his thoughts against me was weakening so I could read part of his mind."

Misty jolted her head up, "And how I could read Gary's mind before I lost my powers!"

Gary grumbled, "I feel like my privacy has been invaded."

"To heck with your privacy," Misty scolded.

"Your turn ladies," Drew smirked.

"Okay well we had psychic powers too, just not as advanced as yours. We lost our powers when we fell in love with you guys, so we tried to avoid you. We learned this from a prophecy," Misty explained.

"A prophecy?" Drew snickered.

"Didn't you guys have a prophecy?" Leaf questioned.

"No," Gary laughed. "Let's hear this prophecy."

Paul and Ash laughed along Gary and Drew. "A prophecy. What a joke!"

Dawn unfolded a piece of paper, "Four maidens will travel to a ton that is dull, there they find lads of whom their powers are null. These men are special for a purpose you see, for each miss will fall in love with one of said he's. But hardships will fall on every trail, Always true love will end to prevail. Recognitions of love will the powers go gone, it will all take place during the darkness before dawn."

The guys stopped laughing, "Oh."

Leaf sighed, "I guess we were all put in the same situation."

"Guess so," Ash agreed.

"Well I have a question," Dawn asked Gary, "Why were you so secretive with May all summer?"

"It had to do with Drew," he replied, "I was keeping May updated on how we were doing on finding Drew. They both liked each other and I thought I owed it to them."

"How come you didn't tell us?" Leaf narrowed her eyes, "We would have helped."

"Exactly," Paul interjected, "We couldn't have you guys with us during the summer because of one, the contest and two, Drew promised May that she wouldn't have to see him."

"Well what did you do while you were gone?" Misty asked Drew.

"I went to my home in Jhoto to take care of my mom, and plan my return to Bell's Academy," Drew flicked his hair.

Gary muttered something under his breath which May caught.

May interrogated him, "And why were you so mad that you punched Drew when he came back?"

"Punched?" Dawn's eyes widened.

"Gary!" Leaf exclaimed.

Gary held up a hand to stop the lecture he supposed he was about to get.

"Because! The dude had me worried as crap when he left. I didn't even get a phone call. And then he just comes back without saying anything to anyone!"

"Awh, Gary loves Drew!" Leaf exclaimed.

Dawn smiled, "That was a cover-up that he cares about Drew."

"Huh?" Gary asked, bluntly.

"How sweet!" Misty and May gushed.

Drew patted Gary on the back, "It's alright man. I love you too."

Gary and Drew "man-hugged" as they called it and Ash joined in.

Paul warned them, "You dorks come anywhere near me, all three of you will wake up him the hospital."

Ash, Drew and Gary exchanged a look before tackling Paul into their group hug as their girlfriends laughed and joined in as well.

May stuffed another cherry in her mouth. Her red lips and the half-empty bag plus the mountain of seeds indicated that there was a full bag just a couple of seconds ago. All eight of them had decided to spend their day at the beach but it was getting dark. The sunset was arriving.

Gary had fallen asleep and Leaf was burying him in sand.

Misty and Ash were racing on the beach.

Dawn was building a sandcastle while Paul was picking up random shells to throw and her sandcastle and destroy it.

Drew took off his sunglasses and took her hand in his and held it on his stomach. May sighed.

"Did you finally realize you've had enough to eat," Drew asked, flicking his hair.

May threw a cherry at him, "Shut up."

He just smirked and threw the cherry back, which hit her nose; which resulted in a cherry fight.

"Does anyone want to grab some lunch tomorrow?" Drew asked.

Ash, Misty, Leaf and Gary agreed while Paul and Dawn declined.

"And why aren't you coming?" Leaf interrogated.

"We already have plans," Paul explained.

"It's just a day for me and Paul," Dawn elaborated as she held out her pink pocket calendar. June 28, tomorrow was highlighted in pink and in Dawn's girly handwriting was 6/28 written in the lines that were provided for her to write her plans.

"What's this?" Gary asked, "You guys have a date to do fractions? What gives?"

Paul sighed, "No Gary, that's a date not a fraction."

Dawn smiled, "It mine and Paul's anniversary!"

Ash laughed, "Gary thought it was a fraction!"

Everyone laughed as Gary huffed and crossed his arms.

"Well how should I know they started putting math in calendars!"

THE END.

Next is the Epilogue: Only Time Will Tell.

Seven years later, May and Drew are having their wedding and Gary and Paul try to help Ash propose to Misty.

Review pretty please with a cherry on top! (If May hasn't eaten them all yet) And check out my new story, Lunar Eclipse of the Heart with the same shippings!