The Aura Stone

Chapter 4

Ash continued to follow the mouse pokemon who was currently sniffing the air down the corriders of the pokemon centre, "pikachu, you smell something buddy?" Ash asked while pikachu pointed towards a door, the door was slightly opened, Ash looked around for the nurse while wondering whether he should go in or not, but his curiosity got the better of him, so he couldn't resist, taking one last look around for the nurse just incase, he placed a hand on the door handle and pikachu jumped onto his shoulders.

Ash slowly opened the door only to receive a shock, what he found was one of his old friends lying on the bed, he rushed to side of her bed, "Mi-Misty?" Ash breathed out, Ash starred down at the water pokemon trainer who was still out cold.

Meanwhile back in the lobby, Iris had noticed that Ash had left them, "hey where is Ash and pikachu?"

Cilian turned to her, "I saw him go down that way, come on we should follow him."

Iris nooded along with axew, "right!"

"Axew!"

Jack followed behind the two trainers and they found Ash and pikachu in the room down in the corrider, "there you are Ash," cried Iris as they all entered.

Ash looked to them, Cilian noticed the sad look on face as he watched over the girl on the bed, "you okay, Ash?"

"Misty?" Said Jack coming round to the otherside off the bed.

Ash looked up at him, "you know her?" he questioned in surpize.

Jack nooded, "yeah, she's the one that I carried into the pokemon centre." Nurse Joy had come into the room and was surprized to see them all in there.

"Oh, hello there." She greeted.

Ash quickly swung round, "nurse Joy is Misty gonna be okay?"

Jack blinked, "you know her too?"

Ash turned back round to him, "yeah, I used to travel around with her."

"Whoa."

Nurse Joy smiled at Ash, "don't worry your friend will be fine, she took in quite a lot of water, but it's all cleared, all she needs now is some rest, I'm sure she'll be up on her feet by tomorrow," Ash and Jack sighed in relief and so did pikachu.

"Thanks nurse Joy," said Ash.

"No problem," said the nurse as she left.

The trainers had left Misty to rest and they headed for the canteen of the centre for something to eat, "so, Ash how do you know Misty?" Asked Jack once they'd finished eating.

Ash took a sip out of his drink, "me and pikachu have traveled around with her since the beggining of our journey, isn't that right buddy?" Ash said smiling at pikachu, who nooded, "pika pi!" "In fact Misty was the very first person I met on my journey, she fished me out of a river while we ran from a flock of spearrow, I'll never forget that day," Ash said as he had a far away look on his face.

"Wow, that's some story Ash," Said Cilian.

What the group didn't know was that a certain trio was watching them from around the corner, a certain trio known as team rocket, "fancy running into the twerps here, and look that's the same boy from the boat, so that must mean that the redheaded twerp's here two," Said meowth with a grin while hanging off James head.

Jessie nooded, "and she has something we want."

"But Jessie, you heard thoses strangly dressed people, they said they wanted it too, they'll probably take it from us, I think we should just stick to the mission that the boss gave us, and quit while we're ahead." James suggested with his arms folded.

Jessie frowned, "do you know exactly what there after James? This could be big, we could land ourselfs with another promotion with this...No we're are getting that stone!" Jessie cried in determination, while James sighed in defeat.

It was now late at night, everyone had gone to sleep, Ash found himself unable too, he tossed and turned and almost kicked pikachu out the bed, who was curled up at the foot of it, 'I wonder why Misty came all the way out here, man I haven't seen her in so long...I've really missed her...That's it I just have to go down and see her,' Ash got out of bed not realizing that he'd woke pikachu up, he could hear the pokemon yawn, "I'm sorry pikachu did I wake you?"

Pikachu nooded but told him it was alright, "you, wanna come see Misty?" Ash said as he put his clothes back on. The mouse pokemon answered yes by jumping onto his shoulders. The trainer smiled and started to make his way down the hall and too were the room that Misty was in.

Ash sat by her bed in dark there was some light coming in from the window, Ash starred down at her while she slepted, but he noticed that she seemed to be having a dream, her eyes twitched and her hands had started to move, what surprized him even more was when she started to speak, "Ash...Ash...Please...help me." Ash shot off from his seat, now knowning that she was a nightmare.

"Pikachu, she's having a nightmare, I have to wake her up!" Ash cried in determination.

"Pika!" Pikachu jumped onto the bed.

Ash clutched her shoulders gently and shook her a little but only gently, "Misty, It's me Ash, you have to wake up, I'm here it's okay!"

Misty suddenly opened her eye's as Ash had let go, he sighed in relief, her eye's widened in surprize, "A-Ash a-and pikachu?" She said softly.