Chapter 4- Cutting it a little bit close, don't cha think?
Disclaimer: Its pree obv I dun own pokemon.. cause the pokemon showz suck now. And I dun suck. Im actually pree fly.
Just as the trio had set off on their way to Mt. Moon, the once so brilliant summer sun dimmed and faded into a rather spectacular sunset displaying arrays of Orange and Red.
Misty swung her bag joyfully as she skipped down the path on the way out of Pewter. Note this behavior was a complete contrast to her usually mature structure.
Both Ash and Gary staggered behind. Ash burped slightly and covered his mouth instantly. It maybe seemed as thought the alcohol was kicking in?
"You know, you guyhs… I think I might be a litthle drunk! hic—cup" He announced slurring his words a little.
Gary looked over towards him somewhat unimpressed.
"Lucky you.." He said crossing his arms. "I' am unfortunately not, two beer don't really do it for me anymore."
"Well yhoo should know I dhont drihnk that often.." Ash said smirking to himself as Gary rolled his eyes.
"Nooooo, really?!?! I would have NEVER had guessed Ketchum." He snapped sarcastically.
"Ahah! I hic-cup! don't think you're the ohnly one that mahy be a litthle drunk Ash!" Misty laughed out loud.
"Ah-..." As Ash was responding he was unexpectedly cut off by a rather unstable Misty falling on her ass for no apparent reason what so ever.
"WHAAAAAA!" She cried out as she fell to the ground. Both Ash and Gary eyed her quietly. Finally Ash broke the silence.
"Hey Myst you okay?" He muffled as he stumbled past a rather irritable Gary. Misty looked up towards Ash as he held his hand out for her.
And out of nowhere she burst into laughter. Ash grinned clumsily while Misty grabbed his hand and made attempt to stand, just to find herself falling down again.
She giggled wildly as Ash held out his hand once again. She this time pulled a bit too hard and ended up causing Ash to loose his balance as well.
He fell backwards and burst into laughter. Gary shook his head and shaded his eyes in embarrassment.
"This seriously is shit you guys." Gary said firmly as he sped his pace up. Both Ash and Misty looked over at him.
"What's his deal?" Ash whispered rudely under his breath to Misty as if he was a grade schooler scowling about a unhappy teacher.
Misty just responded with a half assed shrug. Gary ignored his comment and held both of his hands out to help the two up.
With out much effort he had them back on their own feet within seconds.
"As if I'm stuck here babysitting you two." He scowled as Misty lost her balance once again and fell against him. He smirked to himself. "Well I guess, it's not all so bad."
He put his arm around her waste to hold her up.
"Okay, You guys its going to be getting dark any time now I think I can see Mt. Moon ahead. We should get-…"Gary looked over towards where Ash had been standing, the
key word here is 'had' and realized neither Ash or Misty were able to walk on their own anymore. Gary reluctantly helped Ash back up and supported his back with an arm
while Misty clung onto Gary's other one and he walked them… slowly but surely towards the Mountain.
"Remind me NEVER to let you two drink again EVER!" Gary hissed. "Unless of course I'm going to FOR SURE get drunk too."
As darkness absorbed the landscape Gary staggered towards the Mountain with Misty dozing off against him and Ash bitching about something he read in the PokeTymes.
"Those damnn rehportahs dunno nothingh about the Pokehmnon world…" Ash scowled.
"Okay, seriously Ash… if you don't shut the hell up. I'm going to fucking leave you here." Gary snapped.
"What side are you on anhyways!!" Ash yelled in response.
"Could you two be quiet… I got a head ache." Misty said lightly.
"Sorry Mist…" Ash said sounding ashamed.
"Sorry 'bout that Red." Gary said looking down at her. She smiled weakly.
"Is kay. Are we almost there?" She said looking up slightly.
"Yeah… its right over that hill." He said motioning towards a hill a head of them. "Do you think you could walk now?"
"Why?!" Misty questioned. "Are we too heavy for you?!" Misty teased slightly.
"Noo.. but, bye the sounds of it… the alcohol in your system seems to be wearing off. Either that… or your just getting used to it. You've stopped slurring your words.
I just think we would get there faster if I didn't have to drag you too!" Gary said calmly.
"Uhm… I'm pretty sure I'm not completely sober yet… and I keep wanting to fall asleep. But yeah. I could walk… It looks like it might down pour…" She said nodding and
just as if she was on cue with the rain Gary had felt a rain drop dribble down his cheek.
"Even more of a reason for us to get there quicker!" Gary said as he let go of Misty's waist and she clumsily stumbled forward.
After that the trip went much faster.
As they finally entered the black abyss of the mountain, the rain had really started coming down.
"Oh thank god. I think we might have beat the worst of the storm." Gary said leaning a very chatty Ash against the wall. "We should probably keep moving forward though…
sounds like the winds picking up.
And I for one DO NOT want the cold rain blowing on me all night…" Gary pushed the sopping wet locks of his shaggy brunette hair from his eyes and watched as Misty sat
against the wall and rested her forehead on her knees.
"Hey red, you okay?" Gary questioned as he left Ash leaning against the wall mumbling some sort of nonsense.
Misty looked up and smiled weakly. "Yeah… I'm just not feeling so great right now. I'm really, really tired…and everything is still a bit blurred. Do we have to keep going?"
Gary gave Misty a look of sympathy. "I'm afraid so…" He said weakly in response as he sat beside her. Misty let out a shaky breath and nodded.
KABOOM a snap of thunder shook the Mountain and startled Misty causing her to jump and grabbed Gary's hand. Feeling rather foolish after the fact she smiled at him and
gently pulled her hand away.
"Sorry about that…" Misty said looking away and then yawning.
"No, biggie carrot top. Girls are always trying find excuses to get a piece of me. So I'm about used to it by now." He said proudly as a huge mocking grin stretched across his face.
"Uhg.. Gary… I'm too tired for your lame ego right now. Just quit." Misty said crossing her arms.
"Hey! Cant blame a guy for wanting to lighten the mood." Gary said putting an arm around her and pulling her closer as he did so he whispered into her ear.
"And you can pretend that your immune to my natural charm. But we both know its nothing short of a fabrication." Instead of giving Gary the reaction he had expected Misty had
buried her face into his chest and replied in a groggy voice.. "What-ever…. Gary.. I'm just going to rest my eyes for a bit now." And she before he knew it she was fast asleep
against him.
"Awwwwwwww Crap. Now I'm back to carrying Misty and Mr. Opinionated over there God Damnit."
Gary scowled as he then carefully pulled Misty into the cradling position and stood up. He then looked towards Ash. Who appeared to be yelling at an imaginary Pidgey.
"Hey! Ketchum!" Gary said sternly as A very angry Ash looked up from the imaginary pokemon.
"What!" Ash yelled back it seemed as though his slurring wasn't so bad anymore.
But by from what Gary had just saw. Ash had been seeing things. And that definatly meant he wasn't sober yet.
"You think you can walk?" Gary questioned.
"What's wrong with Misty?!" Ash questioned. "Yeah.. I can walk… not too good though."
"Good, your walking. Nothing's wrong with Misty she's just really tired. So about we go and look for a place to crash." Gary said hoisting Misty up a little more and moving
forward. Ash raised an eyebrow, looked into the black abyss of the mountain and then back at Gary.
"No fucking way am I going in there when its that dark. I may be intoxicated still but-" Ash was cut off by a minor distraction that caused Gary to roll his eyes. "HEY YOU
PIDGEY.. YEAH IM TALKIN' TO YOU."
"Okay, seriously Ash. I don't need this. Just … come on." Gary said hoisting Misty up slightly as he walked forward into the darkness. Ash shook his fist in an anonymous
direction towards the imaginary Pidgey. And then stumbled to catch up with Gary. The two of them and the unconscious Misty wondered on through the pitch black of the
Mountain until just about all the light the cave opening had given them was gone. And then slightly more sober Ash spoke up.
"Where we going again?" Ash questioned.
"No where really, just somewhere to sleep." Gary replied calmly.
"How far do you think that will be?" Ash questioned shakily.
"I don't know! Why do you care?" Gary questioned sternly.
"Because I can already feel myself burn out like Misty already did. And we wont have light to see for much longer." He said putting a hand on his head. Gary stopped.
"Well, I was hoping to find a better place to sleep somewhere more out of the way. But.. your right.. It would be dangerous for us to continue on like this... here.. take Misty for
a sec." Gary said bending over to hand Misty over too him.
"What!! Why!!?!? What are you doing?!" Ash questioned frantically as he reluctantly held the unconscious Misty in his arms.
"Woah! Ash! Calm down, look at her…" He said softly as Ash looked down.
"She's shivering?" Ash questioned.
"Yeah… we need to warm her up." Gary said blankly.
"uhhhhggggg." Ash groaned in pain suddenly. " How.."
"Well.. I don't think I should let you worry about it too much now… how about we just put her to bed. And then you can go to bed too…" Gary trailed off.
"Sure… what's she gonna sleep on?" Ash asked in a wheezy voice.
"Well… we have yet to stop by Cerulean to pick up her bags. So… I guess one of us will have to share…" Gary quickly responded, Ash looked up at Gary and yawned.
"Alright… what one of us is going to share?"
"Well, I don't really care who. I have a big enough sleeping bag to share and I don't mind sharing. But I'm also pretty sure Misty wouldn't mind squeezing in a little tight with you
either if she had too. But I'm thinking that she staying with me is a better bet. Your going to both need good night rests if you wanna feel better in the morning. And we both know
that if she slept with you in your tiny sleeping bag. That wouldn't consist of anything more of a lot of fighting and one of you ending up in the dirt." Gary explained. Ash did nothing
more but yawn and reach for his backpack.
"Okay, then she's yours. Goodnight Gary." Ash said as he laid out his sleeping bag and got in, leaving Misty to slump against his legs. And before Gary could even respond Ash
was out like a light leaving Gary to care for Misty in the solitude of the night. Gary then took off his shirt and pulled out his sleeping bag.
"Good night Ketchum. Good night Misty" He whispered as he stood to pick Misty up. And lay her in his sleeping bag, as soon as he covered her, he climbed in too and fell fast
asleep.
Misty awoke with a splitting headache and her faced buried in mass of unfamiliar muscles. She spung back to find it was none other than Gary. Outraged and a little confused she
looked at her watch to find that it was only 5 am and she had NO idea where she was. Without thinking she lifted his arm off her waste and kicked the sleeping bag sheets off her
and got up hastily to find she was still a bit light headed.
"UHG. I need a bath and some pain killers QUICK." Misty complained to herself as Togepi stuck its head out of her bag.
"Prii!" It cooed.
"Good morning baby. Looks like you might have had a better night than apparently I did.." She said as she looked back to the sleeping Ash and Gary and scowled in disgust.
"How about you and me go look for a place to bathe." Misty questioned as Togepi clapped its little paws together in delight.
"Toge-Priiiiiii" It answered as Misty picked it up.
"Then a yes it is." Misty said venturing forward into the darkness of the cave she would later remember was Mount Moon. She felt absolutely disgusting and rather confused. She
couldn't quite figure out why she even wanted to travel with Ash again. As if she forgot all of the uncomfortable situations she had to go along with on her last journey with him. At
least with Brock they had some guidance and someone who knew how to cook a half decent meal. And as if her and Ash alone wouldn't have been bad enough she had that
perv Gary to deal with aswell. Although… she had to hand it to Gary, if he hadn't have been there who knows where her and Ash would have ended up last night after drinking
like they did.
"Wow, it sure is dark in here, eh Togepi?" Misty said as she squeezed her baby pokemon closer to her chest. Togepi nodded enviously. After roughly about an hour of
wandering aimlessly in the cave to find somewhere to bath, Misty declared herself lost. It was pitch black by then and she didn't even know which direction would take her back
to the guys. She kept moving forward when the ground gave under her and sent her plummeting into a deep, dark fissure in the earth. She screamed and held on to her baby with
all her might. And as she landed her ankle broke her fall.
"Owwwwwwwwww! GOD DAMNIT!" She howled in pain. Togepi eyed its mother in worry.
"Toge?" It cooed quietly as Misty smiled weakly as she held back tears.
"Its okay Togepi! I'll be okay. I'm okay.. Ash and Gary will eventually wake up and come find me and we'll be out of here in no time!" Misty said brightly as Togepi calmed
down slightly. Misty frowned inward… "Well, I hope so anyways.."
Back at the camp site Pikachu woke up before Ash and Gary to find that Misty and Togepi were gone and without a moment spared Pikachu electra-shocked Gary and Ash out
of their deep slumber.
"What the hell Pikachu!!" Ash yelled as he sprung up.
"Yeah mouse! Whats the big idea?" Gary hissed, but before Pikachu had the time to explain Gary realized what was wrong.
"… Ash…"
"What is it.." Ash said rubbing his eye irritatedly.
"Misty's gone…"
"Huh?"
"Are you deaf?! Misty's gone!!"
"Well.. its alright.. she couldn't have gone too far…?" Gary was baffled by Ash's lack of worry.
"Ash… are you kidding me?! It wouldn't matter how far she went. Its dark In there and dangerous. We have to go and look for her…"
"No, wait.." Ash said quickly.
"What you stallin' for we gotta go find her!" Gary scowled as he pulled his shirt back on.
"I know how Misty is… What if she went to bath… if we find her like that.. she's gonna fucking kill us both." Gary stopped.
"You think that's where she is?" Gary questioned pausing for a second.
"Yeah… she always use to do that…just… I don't understand why she would go wondering alone in Mt. Moon…" Ash said clearing his throat and moving his hair out of his
eyes. Thinking back to the good ol' days Ash remembered that Misty had this habit of wandering off alone in the morning to find a place to bathe and clean up. And she always
had returned in one piece. Although, he couldn't remember any occurrences in which she had willingly left the group in the middle of a cave such as Mt. Moon.. So he wasn't
sure what to think. Gary on the other hand was annoyed.
"Did it not occur to you that Misty probably doesn't remember where we actually are? You guys were pretty drunk last night." Gary said firmly.
"… Yeah… but even if she didn't remember what cave this was why would it matter? Its still a big, dark cave!" Ash responded quickly. Gary shook his head.
"Just sitting here isn't going to help anything! If she's hurt, and we don't find her quick and it gets worse, its our fault. Its… Its……. My fault.."
"What?" Ash snapped raising an eyebrow.
"You heard me twerp." Gary snapped.
"That makes no sense at all…" Ash said ignoring the name.
"…Well to you of course it doesn't! But it would be my fault. Hell I am the reason she's here with us after all. And somewhat the reason that you two got drunk last night." Gary
said looking away and crossing his arms. Ash was dumbfounded by how Gary was acting and could hardly hold back the grin.
"How so?"
"If I hadn't have been trying so hard to make you miserable the whole time. Maybe we wouldn't have stayed longer. And maybe Misty wouldn't have joined us…and you two
wouldn't have been drinking." Gary ranted quickly.
"Is this in a round about way… an apology?!?" Ash questioned with a huge grin plastered across his face. Gary paused, what the hell was he doing? Gary did NOT freak out like
this and he wasn't going to start now. He had to regain his cool.
"Ahahah… no twerpo that was NOT an apology. You aren't and never will be worthy of an apology from me. . Ahhh what the hell do I care about your little frotch top of a
friend anyways, you don't seem to be the slightest bit worried about her. And as far as I'm concerned she could be dead out there. And it's no book on my shelf. " Gary ranted
on thoughtlessly. Yeah ... it was cruel, rude and heartless. But that's how people thought Gary was… and Gary intended on keeping it that way. Even if maybe… just maybe it
wasn't completely true. And he wasn't sure why that would be.
Ash buried his head into his hands…
"Uhggggg. Shut up Gary! SHUT UP! You know nothing!!!! I DO care about Misty. I CARE ABOUT HER MORE THEN YOU COULD EVER FUCKING FATHEM.
Pidgeotto! GO!" He hissed as he released the bird pokemon.
"Piiiiiiiiiidge" It cooed as it was released in mid air.
"Find misty, Find her and make sure she's okay. GO! NOW!" Ash commanded breathlessly.
"Piddddddg!" It responded and sped off.
"Woahh Kiddy Katchem, calm the fuck down will yeah?" Gary scowled under his breath as he crossed his arms. Gary had no idea how much inner conflict Misty caused Ash…
sure, he knew that it made him uncomfortable, and a little unhappy… but he never thought that he could push Ash off the edge so easily. And he wasn't sure if this was an
advantage to him… or just something he should leave alone.
"Where the hell are they!!" Misty hissed under her breath starting to get worried. What if.. they didn't come.. and what if… they couldn't find her in time? Her ancle throbbed and
she started to feel light headed.
"Toge?" Togepi questioned cluelessly clinging on to a berry that Misty had stored away in her bag for later. Misty ignored her baby for a split second to think, and Ash was the
only thing that had came to mind. She had missed him so much ever since they had parted. She missed everything from the old days… especially the constant bicker… now that
she was with him again, she wasn't going to pass anything up… she wasn't going to let this chance go to waste… she couldn't just give up hope now. She had to have faith in
Ash… she had to believe that he would come through… and be her hero… for once… she wished that he would be her hero.
Ash paced back and forth and Gary leaned against the stone wall silent. Observing a wild zubat. Gary reached into his bag and pulled out a notepad to jot down the zubat's
behavior.
Gary tried to concentrate on the pokemon but couldn't. Ash's behavior seemed much more vivid than the zubats at that moment. Ash was muttering under his breath with a look
of such worry blanketed across his face. Gary could tell that Ash was in pain. He wasn't exactly sure why… and even if he did… he probably couldn't understand it anyways.
Love was something he knew nothing about. And rarely ever was there something that Gary Oak didn't understand.
"..Pigeotto! Where the hell are you! GOD DAMNIT. WHERE." Ash yelled and fell to his knees. Pikachu cooed lightly and clung onto Ash's leg. Gary folded his arm's against
his chest uncomfortably and looked away. How was it possible for someone to care so much about someone that wasn't biologically connected to them? Was what Ash felt for
Misty… love? Gary shook his head, that was an irrational question that really shouldn't have meant anything to him. And it didn't… right?
Just as Misty had laid on her side to get comfortable Ash's Pigeotto appeared above her. Flapping his wings. Misty sat up instantly tears welling in her eyes.
"OMG Pigeotto!!!!!!! I'm so happy to see you! Go please get Ash! Get Ash and Gary! Please go! Now!" Misty commanded urgently as the bird cooed flapped its wings wildly
and sped off into the darkness. "Please hurry back.." She said aloud, and closed her eyes. There was nothing left to do but wait.
Pigeotto hurried back to the camp site to an eager Gary and A worried sick Ash. Pigeotto cooed wildly to alert Ash and Gary of the situation and then sped off in Misty's
direction with both Gary and Ash running behind. Just as it got way too dark for them to see Pigeotto used flash. And they could see perfectly.
"ASH!? Why didn't you tell me that you had a pokemon with flash with you?!?!?!" Gary hissed as he ran.
"YOU NEVER ASKED!" Ash responded breathlessly.
"AHH you idiotttt!" Gary wailed in anger.
Just before Ash respond Pigeotto stopped abruptly. Over a hole in the earth.
"MISTY?!" Ash called frantically. Misty slightly cracked her eyes open to the sound of a familiar voice.
"Ash…?" She said in a wheezy voice.
"Yo Carrot top! You down there?!" Another familiar voice called.
"Yes Misty Its me! Ash! You okay?! Hold tight were coming down to get you."
Misty smiled to herself. Her hero had come for her… but at the moment she was too out of it to regain consciousness fully.
"I'll jump down and get her.." Gary said then finally.
"What?! No! I wanna do it!" Ash said quickly.
"Look twerp, shes hurt. I can see her ankle, and quite frankly we both know I'm much stronger than you. And we want to resist as much damage as possible. It would be much
smarter for me to go down." Gary explained. Ash looked at the ground and remained silent for a moment.
"Alright… Go get her." He finally came to say. Gary with ease jumped into the hole. And picked Misty up, being mostly unconscious she didn't respond. He then very carefully
placed her Over his shoulder. And climbed back up the hole, then without much thought he laid her on the ground and looked over her curiously. Ash kneeled down beside her
as well.
"Is she okay..?" Ash asked. Gary nodded.
"I think she might of just fainted. But im not so sure weather or not her ankles broken or just twisted. She had herself a pretty harsh fall… but the outcome doesn't actually look
that bad…" Gary explained. Ash took a deep breath of relief.
"Hey Misty. You in there." Gary said loudly in hopes to wake her.
"Misty! Wake up!" Ash called along side of Gary.
"Come on Misty, enough of this." Gary said lightly as she came too. Misty's eyes began to crack open as she felt herself awaken. She heard the voices but couldn't tell who's
was who's. All she knew was that there were two people above her one, the one who had rescued her had his hand on her back. The other close at her side, she remembered
the last thing she had thought of before she had passed out. And that had been Ash. She slowly opened her eyes hoping to find Ash hovering above her as her hero. But as the
image became clearer… she saw more and more of a silhouette that looked nothing like Ash's. She moved a little and shook her head and finally jerked her eyes open to find
none other than the smug Gary Oak holding on to her. Gary was her hero…
AN:
OMG ITS DONE LOL! It toooook me soo long to update TT Im sorry!! Still love me? This one was my longest yet!!! And Ill try my very hardest to keep making them longer and update faster. Please Read and Review AND ignore my grammer. OH and I'd like to thank Lilineko, for being my biggest support. All of your reviews keep me motivated but she's the one who keeps me from getting tooooooooooo toooooo toooooo lazy. Thanks alot ! Love yeah girrrrl.!
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