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Misty swam around for hours slowly approaching the warm shoreline in search of an infamous pink vaporion. She admired the sun as it baked her body underneath the salty current.

"Where are they?" Misty said to herself looking into gloomy caves & peeking behind slimy green rocks. She swam vigorously looking for the slightest clue to wear she could find a pink vaporion. She often wondered if she was wasting her time.

Misty thrusted her tail propelling her self forward into a giant wall of boulders. She felt quite foolish.

"What?!" Misty screamed in agony, shaking the sea floor with her sonic voice octaves. She rubbed her head over & over again. "Where did those rocks come from?!"

She swam up and down the wall of boulders. Looking for an entrance. "I can jump over it!" she thought, instantly rocketing up the wall. The warm summer air met her bright pink seductive hair; the sun kissed her tanning shoulders as she readied herself for a jump.

"Who am I kidding?" Misty looked forward, nothing but sharp broken seashells and rocks were ahead. She couldn't make the leap. After thinking about it Misty dove her body under the current once more. She met the soft sand at the bottom of the sea floor.

Something caught her eye.

"I wonder what's behind this…" she said to her self, easily swimming sideways threw the seaweed. To her surprise it was a large community of Seel, Dewgong, Magincarp, Gyarados, Goldeen, polliwag, squirtle, & many many other water type pokemon…including vaporion swimming happily right in front of her eyes.

Misty gasped in shock. It was so beautiful like a tiny little city just for under water pokemon. A Dewgong swam up to Misty & started to wave its white flipper madly.

"Are you saying hi?" she said waving back with a laugh.

"Dewgong!" it said excitingly nodding its head up & down.

"Well hi there, aren't you friendly." She said patting its head gently. "Listen have you seen a pink vaporion?" Misty asked still rubbing its head.

"Dewgong Dewgong!" it agreed with a back flip before leading the way threw more seaweed & coral. Misty could see the population of Vaporion & Dewgong increase heavily.

"Maybe there like royalty." Misty thought. She swam a little faster. As they entered one more patch of seaweed they came to what looked like a castle made from smooth rock & coral. The Dewgong pointed to the castle with its horn & swam inside.

There wasn't much to the inside it was just a large building with a million tunnels leading to who knows where. Misty followed the Dewgong threw about 7 different tunnels, each tunnel getting colder than the last.

"Dewgong!" it cheered signaling the vaporion was very close.

A spectacular show of underwater flowers & large broken sea shells filled the room where only one tunnel was present.

"You want me to go alone?" Misty asked her new poke-friend. She listened to what it had to say; apparently being a mermaid meant understanding pokemon. "She'll get mad?"

Misty understood & swam up the tunnel alone. It was a rather long tunnel to a fairly large room, it wasn't underwater like all the other rooms, but it was very wet, ice was everywhere. It seemed to be a room of Vaporions. They all looked very comfortable & relaxed.

"Excuse me." Misty said half her body still under the water in the tunnel. her hair wet pushed down on her face.

All the vaporions got extremely defensive; the webbed mane around their neck flared, and their mouths opened wide screeching horribly, to signal there was an intruder.

"Who brought you here?" A translated vaporion asked slamming its tail hard against the stone.

"I…found my way here." Misty could feel her stomach turn and her face heat up. What was she getting herself into?

"Impossible!" another one yelled.

"What is the problem?" A pink vaporion walked onto what looked like thrown. It looked at misty, its crystal pink eyes widened, it knew what Misty wanted. But you see, The vaporion were at war.

As this was all explained to Misty, she felt a large amount of failure wash over her body. She was going to be stuck like…this.

"That's so sad." She said softly, holding back tears.

Apparently the dominant Tenicruel from Sea foam Island had invaded & are currently killing off some of the weaker pokemon for food, they used their brawny tentacles to create a new, stronger current to help drift the pokemon away from their natural habitat. The Vaporion were outraged of course, but weak & short handed.

"So you can't help me." Misty said sadly. As she was told her answer & was about to leave she stopped.

"Ill help you. Even if you can't help me, I want to be your friend." She said with a smile. If she was going to be stuck like this she might as well make a few friends.

She received a thank you from the vaporion & the fastest way to the Sea foam Island palace, she also received a silver choker like necklace with a pink star shaped crystal hanging off it. This necklace could be used as a sign showing she was part of the royal vaporion family. Or could be used as a distress call, if she was in any trouble she could squeeze the crystal & the Vaporions & Dewgong's would instantly know where she was.

"Its beautiful, thank you." Misty said on a litter note. She was now on her way out, they let her use the immediate short cut, where she could leave the castle threw one small tunnel.

"It's so pretty!" she said twirling underwater. She looked up at the surface, if she swam fast enough she could catch some major air. She dived deep before readying her fin.

"Alright…" she said calmly. "I can do this."

So she did it, she swam faster & faster &…oh it felt great! Her heart was racing as she approached the surface. Misty never felt so alive! It was as if she was flying. The warm rays of the sun drenched her body.

To her surprise she stayed in the air a lot longer then she thought, piercing the air with her body she managed to look to her right, she saw Ash…Staring right at her…gawking at her, his eyes were wide, memorizing her every feature. This made her think like crazy, did Ash see her? Did he recognize her? Misty had a feeling she would be hearing about this later. She was still starring at him until the cold splash of salt water shook her from her worried thoughts.

"Come on Ash its getting late & I'm tired." Brock said rolling up the sandy beach towels. "Hey Ash I'm talking to you!" he said waving his hand in front of his face, a little agitated.

Ash was taken off guard, while he was watching his squirtles water gun/ ice beam combo he saw what looked like a flying Gyarados?...no it was much too small to be a Gyarados, a Dragonair? No…it was much too gorgeous & stunning to be something as plain as a Dragonair. If it wasn't for the sun setting behind it…This made Ash wonder what he saw, Even though it was only a glimpse, it was the most magnificent thing he's ever seen. A Dewgong? No. A Vaporion…no!

This was frustrating Ash, before he could think anymore he was shocked by his pika pal.

"Pikachu!!" Ash yelled violently, it was the wrong time to do something like that when he was clearly deep in thought.

"Were going." Brock said handing some of the beach stuff to Ash.

He couldn't take it anymore way too many things were rushing threw his head for him to think about what he was about to say! He had to let it out! He had too! Ash was going to explode. "I SAW A MERMAID!" he blurted out absentmindedly.

A silence was made between them…a very awkward silence.

Brock just stared. A moment passed. A large grin appeared on his face."I think you caught a little too much sun today buddy."

"I know what I saw." Ash was angry. He continued loading the pokeballs back into his back pack. He grabbed an umbrella & a towel & started to walk off to the Gym.

Misty saw the whole thing from behind a large smiley rock. Misty pulled out a note pad, taking a second to wonder exactly where she pulled it from.

"It appears being a mermaid enhances your vision & hearing. She leaned back, letting it all sink in.

"He did see me…" Misty said quietly. She wanted to swim up to him so badly. To say that he wasn't crazy & what he saw was her. But she knew that could never happen.

"Dewgong!"

"OH my god!" Misty screamed kicking herself high off the rock. She looked at Dewgong. It nudged against her side.

"I missed you too!" she said catching her breath... "It is getting late…I should go…" she was exhausted, and needed sleep. She pulled herself onto the rock and transformed back.

"I'll play with you tomorrow." Misty said as she started to swim towards the shore. "It feels so weird to walk." She said, wobbling towards the gym.

Once inside she heard something, the reason why she had left the gym in the first place… She heard fighting.

"Ash do you really think there are mermaids?" Brock yelled at Ash. They had been arguing for about 10 minutes, Brock seemed to have pushed Ash a little too hard, and didn't like his reaction one bit.

"Whatever Brock, your best friend is crazy." He turned his back quickly. "Believe what ever you want!" his voice was icy & full of frustration. Ash didn't want to hear what Brock had to say any longer, he grabbed the door knob & slammed it shut.

"Whatever." Brock whispered walking into his room.

"Gosh were you two fighting?" Misty said coming up the stairs catching Brock as he was turning into his room. Misty did not welcome the bickering, it brought back bad memories.

"Um…" Was all Brock could say.

"Brock?" Misty said confused, she stepped closer. "Are you okay?" he starred at Misty with glazed eyes.

"Umm…Brock?" she squeaked.

His eyes widened and turned to hearts, you could hear him panting. "You're so beautiful! Please Misty give me a chance I promise ill be good!" he advanced towards Misty. "Oh please oh please!"

Misty leaped backwards, jumping onto the wall like spider man in a cheap knockoff movie. He wasn't even making sense! He was pledging his undying love for the red head, inching closer…& closer…

"I WANT YOU, I NEED YOU!" He cried passionately, he looked as if he was going to cry. Brock waved his arms in the air, to emphasize how he couldn't control the love rushing threw his body.

"Oh Misty were meant to be together, as one!" he had that perverted grin plastered on his face again. He inched closer…and closer…and…

"I got to go!" she screamed in panic, making a lethal dash to her room.

"Ill be waiting my love!" he called out to her.

She slammed the door, & locked it. Misty found it hard to catch her breath; she had realized just what had happened.

"Brock…oh no…" She thought to herself, a wave of guilt submerged her; Misty couldn't take it she was gasping for relief. "He's fallen under the…curse." Misty felt horrible, she knew Brock would never lay a finger on her…if she didn't want him to. "What have I done?"

Misty nearly took off her bathing suit until she found Ash squeezing a stress ball. He always did this when he was upset. He squeezed it harder and harder. Misty started to feel bad for the stress ball as its squishy eyes bulged in and out of its head.

"Ash?" she said softly, sitting down next to him.

"What." He said. His voice was bitter, he obviously didn't want to talk, but Misty never really listened to what he wanted.

"I…are you okay? I heard you & Brock fighting."

"Brock who?" His body tensed, forcing himself to look the other way.

"Come on Ash." She said calmly resting her hand on his shoulder. "You don't mean that."

He looked into her deep cerulean blue eyes, he always found himself

"It's just that…I saw…"

"A mermaid?" Misty said finishing his sentence.

"How did you…"

"I over heard."

"Oh…you probably don't believe me." He said looking away, a light tint of pink brushed his cheeks.

"I do." She said simply, sitting next to him on her bed. "I remember when I was little I saw mermaids all the time." She lied. And it was eating her up inside.

"Really?" he said turning to her.

"Yah everyone thought I was crazy, especially my sisters, they thought It was just a stage, & after awhile I stopped seeing them."

"I barley saw her, she was so beautiful." Ash said lying down on her bed looking up at her ceiling.

"I bet she was." Misty sounded a little disappointed. Ash was falling in love with the mermaid, not the human she was.

"Hey Misty?"

"Yeah."

"Did you dye your hair?"

Her heart stopped; did he just say what she thought he said? She didn't wait for a reaction & with that she catapulted herself off her bed and ran into her bath room checking out her hair & the rest of her body.

Her hair grew a lighter shade of pink. It wasn't even red anymore & it was 4 inches longer…4 inches!!

"Great." She said reaching for a pair of scissors & started to cut off her hair. As soon as she thought it was back to normal it grew back, painfully.

"Misty are you okay?" Ash said knocking on the door.

Cringing to her head hoping it would stop the pain, she managed to sneak out some words…"I'm fine…I guess the sun did a number to my hair." Misty checked herself in the mirror & walked out of the bathroom. "It's pretty bad."

"I think it looks…" 'Beautiful.' Ash said in his head. 'Spectacular, perfect, stunning, remarkable, incredible, astonishing….' The list went on inside his head.

"Oh I knew it was bad!" Misty whined running over to her bed burring her face in her pillows.

"NO!" Ash stressed. "It…" He knew he couldn't say the things he wanted to say…it would totally creep her out. "Fits you rather well." 'Rather?' he thought. 'Rather well?' he couldn't believe he just said that. He sounded like an old grandpa.

Seeing he wasn't getting a response, "I'll sleep on the futon in Brocks room. Ash said. "You can have the bed."

"Ash…" there was a pause as he opened the door. Misty knew she couldn't back out now. She had to muster up her courage &… "I would really like it if you stayed." She said laughing at his hair comment.

Ash agreed a little to fast, he said he would sleep on the floor, even though that's not what Misty had in mind it was good enough. I mean it wouldn't be any different from camping out side right?

Sooo what did ya think? Hmmmm?? Lol well the next chapter will be up in a few dayssss. Read & review!! I wanna know how you guys like the story so far.