Chapter 3, some present shippyness and a little bit of city life. Pleas again RxR and enjoy.
It was misty in the City of Saffron; a new coliseum had been constructed for a tournament of any trainer who had the guts to show up.
A single trainer wearing one of his favorite outfits; a gray and black vest, walked out of the coliseum. He had just beaten a tough trainer named Buck, but he made him look like a fool ever doubting his power. On his shoulder rested a mouse pokemon by the name of Pikachu. He was in an uppity mood, and Ash decided it would be best to calm him down with the routine he's been doing after every battle they've had this week.
Not even a mile away, a coordinator was driving a shuttle to the center of the city. She looked out the window, she had just landed from a plane she had taken from Jubilife. Her beautiful hair drifted slightly in the soft breeze caused by the open window of the bus she was in.
The city was calm and relaxed as the mist loomed slowly, carelessly, and lightly over the city streets.
The Coordinator had realized what her stop was, and took her pack, and removed herself from the bus.
Not even a quarter mile away the trainer, and his Pikachu were walking towards her.
Is that possibly? Dawn's heart began to race as the silhouette began to fade as the real image appeared.
"Ash?"
The trainer looked around wondering where that familiar voice was coming from, he jerked his head until he saw the navy blue hair, and the pink and black outfit he remembered her wearing.
"Dawn?"
"Ash!" Dawn ran up to him, they embraced in a friend hug although Dawn wish it was more.
"How long has it been Dawn?"
"A year Ash," The hardest years of my life. While Dawn was holding Ash, both of them notice Ash was a head taller than her now, and she could feel the pecs that bulged from under the vest and undershirt. She loved the feel of it, even though she did not want to be suspicious of her feelings, she wasn't letting go until Ash broke the hug. In about 15 seconds time Ash did just that.
"Wow, time flies huh?"
Not when your hearts broken, "Yes it does," She lied.
"Well we should celebrate then, I'm in the mood for a drink."
"Ash, I know you're twenty-one, but I'm only nineteen, I can't walk into a bar."
Ash began to walk to a close by bar's door, "No worry, the bartender inside is a good friend of mine. He'll let it slide, but I don't think he wants you getting drunk."
"Wow, thanks Ash." Ash then grabbed the door knob and turned the door. The bar was utterly impressive, large TV's; probably in high depth displayed pokemon battles in the happening. The Bar itself was surrounded by draping walls of water, the room was a little dark but blue lights came from the ceiling, the song 'Sweet Child O' Mine' played in the background.
Ash and Dawn walked up and took a seat next to each other at the bar. Pikachu jumped on the counter and curled up to the side of Ash.
"Hey Tom," Ash beckoned the bartender; the man was bald with a short beard and mustache. He wasn't fat, but he did have a small gut, he wore a baggy cackie pants that obviously hid his legs well. His shirt was a black tee with a thick gray line across the upper torso giving it a simple look.
"Ash, nice to see you, I saw you battle on the Plasma." Tom responded,
"Thanks, how did I do?"
"You showed Buck where he belongs, in the dump."
"Sounds like I did well,"
"Who is the pretty girl?" He looked over to Dawn, she blushed "Girlfriend?"
"Good Friend,"
"She 21?"
"That's never stopped you for a friend?"
"True, but you know my rule; she can only have up to two drinks."
"No problem," Ash pulled out his wallet which actually had quite a bit of cash.
"Tom, you know my drink."
"Yep, one Heneiken® coming right up." Tom turned around and pulled out the green beer bottle with a red star over the name. Ash put the three bucks in front of him, and Tom happily accepted the money.
"So what would you like Dawn?" Ash looked to her, "Anything under a hundred."
Dawn observed that he was apparently a lot richer from being the pokemon master he was. But she didn't want to be rude, "I've always wanted to try an Appletini."
"Appletini is eight-fifty," Ash slid the money to Tom and he gave the fifty cents in change.
Tom began to work on the Appletini immediately. He took out the bottle and got out the fruit to be sliced and slid on the glass. He dropped in two ice cubes and poured the bottle.
"There you go," Tom slid the finished alcoholic drink to Dawn.
Ash turned his head to her, "So Dawn, what are you doing here in Kanto?"
Dawn shifted her head over to him, "I thought it's been a while since I've seen you and I thought it would be time."
"Yeah, I thought you'd never get over whatever happened last year."
There was snow falling on the ground. Dawn, May, and Ash were all at his house for the Christmas, tomorrow was Christmas, and tonight Gary was hosting a Christmas Eve party and a roundup of all of their friends.
It was getting dark, the three of them had slipped on their winter wear so they wouldn't freeze when walking across the town.
Hours later they had joined the party, they all sat down with their friends as they went on talking. Misty, Dawn, Soledad, and May were all at one of the tables setup all having some hot cocoa.
"So, May you've recently gotten back from the years of traveling with Drew and the other guys you've met." Misty brought up.
"Yeah," She replied.
"Do you like any of them?" Dawn asked hoping for her to say yes.
"I used to, but Brendan was too focused on winning a match, and Drew's ego always got in the way for him to be the caring type I was hoping to find in him."
"That stinks, out loud." Soledad added,
"Yeah I was hoping some guy on my journey would pay attention to me than they did." May slouched back in her chair as she gulped some of her drink.
"Which leads it to you Dawn," Misty turned to her.
"Huh?" Dawn knew what she was talking about really.
"You know, who do you like?"
"Do I have to answer?" Dawn tried to wedge out.
"Come on girl," Misty pursued, "You've had to like some boy in your journey."
"Okay this is starting to feel very uncomfortable," Dawn looked down at her cup.
"Come on, I've already said I like Tracey, Soledad has a crush on Lucas, who's your crush?" Misty cornered her with that.
"Okay fine, I like-"
"Hey May," Ash's voice rang, all the girls stopped then and there, Over in the other corner of the room, Damian, Lucas, Gary, Tracey, Brock, and Brendan were smirking at the event knowing what was coming.
"Yes Ash," May replied. Before more could be said Ash went in for a kiss and the two of them had opened their mouths and it looked like their tongue's were moving around.
Dawn was utterly shocked at the event, Ash had just shown that he had feelings for May that she had no problem giving back. The cup slid out of her hand and broke on the floor.
"Oh, god!" Dawn couldn't hold back the embarrassment of what just happened. Even Ash and May broke the kiss at the crack of the glass.
After the mess was clear out, Dawn had moved herself to the second floor balcony, where she could overlook Ash and May's passion. The thing that had brought tears to her eyes. Desperately trying to hold them back, Misty had gone up to join her in the event.
"Dawn, you like Ash don't you?" Misty asked,
"That's obvious right?" Dawn dropped her head.
"It was obvious the moment your cup dropped," Misty continued,
"I knew I should've approached him earlier about my feelings," Dawn began to weep silently.
"We all make mistakes Dawn," Misty put her left hand on Dawn's shoulder.
"But I was going to tell him after tonight, which was my plan, so we'd be spending Christmas together as a young couple."
"That's even if he likes you back. I don't think he would've accepted your offer anyway," Those words pierced like a nail, "Don't get me wrong Dawn, there's nothing wrong with you, but he obviously likes May more."
"Then why try anymore?" Dawn couldn't hold back tears anymore.
"Dawn, do you know the chances of them staying together?"
"The odds are stacked against me Misty, Ash talked about May a lot when I was around. And from how Brock described their relationship they sounded like the perfect couple."
"So, what? If they really do love each other in the end of all things, they should be allowed to be together. If they don't then you may have a shot later on, but you'll have to accept the fact that they are together right now, and move on."
"…I can't,"
"Dawn, you're gonna have to."
"It's just too hard,"
"Life is hard, life is like a river. Ever changing as it flows, every day is a struggle to stay between the shores, chance the rapids, and tackle the tides, and you'll be alright. Don't stop your voyage until you reach your destination, or when the river runs dry."
"I know you only mean good, but…" Dawn stood up and ran out the door without her winter wear. Tears running down her face, none of the words, however hard they were pushed; actually sank in.
Dawn had finally let the words sink in. She knew what they meant, and she knew what the river was going through now, a rapid.
"So what did happen?" Ash asked.
"We were just arguing, there's no reason that I should avoid you. I just was really upset and I went back to visit my Mom." She tried to cover up, and get her out of the tight spot.
I may not be good at telling when one is lying, but I know she is. I shouldn't push her, I just saw her again. Ash resolved his mind conflict in his mind; he took another sip of his beer. It was staring to lose its cold taste which every beer drinker loved.
Dawn tried some of her Appletini, and actually found it to be pretty good. She wanted the drink to last so she tried not to swallow it down.
"So I heard from Misty that you and May broke up?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, a month ago, she has changed, not in a good way either. You don't know how long I had been waiting to kiss her like last Christmas."
"Let me guess, about when I met you?"
"Exactly, but I could never pull myself together until a year ago when I knew too much longer and I would never have her."
"So about that she's changed?"
"That too, she used to be such an emotional and amazing girl. Now, she's a hollow shell. She became a second Misty; you don't know how much I wished Misty would have just shut up sometimes."
Dawn laughed, "So do you still have feelings for her."
"No, between her and I, it's gone, no coming back teary eyed sorry. Just gone, never to come back, kinda like a freight train, yesterday. And after that breakup I don't think our friendship will return either. We both said things we regret, but I'm not strong enough now to face that factor."
"Wow, the kind of things I thought I'd never hear from you Ash."
"So I've changed too huh?"
"In a good way though, you've really matured, I can tell by how you're reacting to this."
"Thanks Dawn." They remained silent for a little while when Ash brought back their conversation. "So Dawn, what have you been up to lately?"
"I tried the Sinnoh Grand Festival again. I lost in sixteenth place,"
"Sixteenth? How did you do so badly?"
If he only knew, "There are people out there better than me,"
"Is that so?" A challenging tone came in Ash's voice.
"You wanna battle me right?" Dawn smirked.
"A one-on-one, contest battle," when he said that; 'Sweet Child O' Mine' had ended, and then another song came on.
"Hey Jill, you know the whole suggardaddy they be trciking those girls!" The speakers ringed.
Ash, and Pikachu's ear peaked, "Dawn, have you heard this song before?"
"It's Rap."
"yeah but it kicks ass," Ash then got lost in th song "Whatever you like" by T.I.
"Man, that's a great song." Ash commented
"It's rather perverted isn't it?" Dawn commented.
"Yeah but doesn't mean I'll ever do it. In my own idea, I forget the Lyrics (when they're perverted.) And rythym to the beat."
"I guess that makes sense, but you said the lyrics so how did you forget?"
"I say them, but that doesn't mean I actually mean them."
"So," Ash brought up trying to change this repitive discussion, "About that battle…" he smirked a devilish grin.
I just got here, I'm not in the mood for an adrenaline rush right now. "How about tomorrow?"
"But-"
Dawn leaned forward, and placed two fingers from her right hand and put them over Ash's mouth. He immediately stopped talking and his face was blushing from what Dawn was doing.
"Please Ash," Dawn asked. "Tomorrow, I promise." Dawn winked at him and then slouched back again.
Ash submitted, "Okay fine, but definitely tomorrow." Ash crashed back in his seat again, Dawn closed her eyes smiling, "Thank you."
Okay I know what your thinking, it was originally written with Ash and Pikachu dancing to Soulja Boy but I thought it would be retarded now. So I changed it to my favorite current rap song. And yes Ash's stance on rap music is excatly how I see it.
Oh and if anyone noticed I have made some of the refrence country songs when they talk
Chapter 2 Dawns Mom used "Go with Her" By Toby Kieth
In this chapter Misty used "The River" by Garth Brooks
And Ash used "Gone" By Montgomery Gentry
Thought I'd point that out