Me: Whew, it sure took a long time to get those fan girls out of here.

*All the boys panting*

Paul: What are you talking about stupid, we did all the work!

All other boys: Yeah!

Kenny: Not to mention that Gary's fan girl showed up too…

Gary: I'm like a magnet. I can't control myself.

*Everybody rolls eyes*

Jimmy: Where are the girls?

Me: Getting ready for this action-packed chappie! Since you're all so tired, I'll do the disclaimer. Empress does not own Pokemon, because if she did, Lyra and Khoury would appear in the anime on a regular basis. Oh, and BTW, one of my fav one-episode anime characters for no particular reason, Rhayonna, you know, from the episode "Try for the Family Stone!" ,is used (I'm not sure if I'll use her again…) and is WAY OOC that it's scary. I just thought it was funny.

Drew: Anything you must think is funny is not even worth it.

Me: Wanna bet, Drew! Now, on with the story!

Marina's POV

The sun beat down on all of us as we walked on the scorching curb, with not as one single breeze.

I rubbed my hands together anxiously. Today was the day I tell them the big news. But who was I to be worried, I mean, it wasn't like, bad news or anything. It was actually fantastic news. I just couldn't wait to tell all of them, I felt like I was about to explode now. I just can't keep such amazing stuff away from my best buds! I felt like I was sort of…betraying them. Oh well, now they would know.

I glanced back to see Leaf flicking Gary's over-tanned arm, and Dawn obsessing about her frizzy hair. Well, that was normal. Zoey and Kenny, being the only ones who actually really got along well, were having a real, very rare, civilized conversation.

I mentally sighed, wishing we could all be like that.

Now I was briskly walking ahead of the pack, with Jimmy keeping pace alongside me. Our footsteps matched evenly, them both beating onto the black cement at the same time.

We both locked eyes and passed a telepathic message "I can totally walk way faster than you!"

I grinned, speeding up, with Jimmy lengthening his stride. Soon enough, we were practically jogging, with the rest of the gang shouting at us to wait up. Not now, when the going was getting good!

My aqua eyes momentarily softened as I peered over at Jimmy. Both of us were childhood friends from New Bark Town, along with Vincent, and we three all received our starters from Professor Elm. I got a Totodile (my dear Wani-Wani), Jimmy got a Cyndaquil, and Vincent got a Chikorita. They're all fully evolved now, of course. With them, we all earned the eight Johto gym badges before participating in the Silver Conference. None of us won, but they sure were good times. Oh, and some annoying team was there…grenade, right? Oh wait, no it was…shooting…uh; no…it was…rocket, right, Team Rocket.

Great, you remember like an old woman.

Shut up, inner conscience.

Team Rocket was really meddlesome, but I got rid of them in ten seconds flat. Then, after that, I decided to go after being a Pokemon Idol, and I succeeded to a great extent. Arceus, I'm famous! So basically, Jimmy and I have a history and are closer than anybody would ever hope to be.

"Hey, look, Houndoom Hut!"

My head whirled to the side to see a big red hut. That restaurant's okay in my opinion. But it was the perfect chance to tell them the big news. I mean, they would be sitting down.

Marina's POV Still

We walked all the way to the back of the restaurant and slid into the long plush red booth and started waiting for someone to come serve us.

I started gazing around to pass the time. When you walked through the door, a cheery bell was rung, and someone would come to seat you and give you menus. The tables all had long cushion seats or plain old chairs. People chatted away while absent-mindedly pouring way too much condiments on their already un-healthy food, and the counter with the cash-register and everything else in the back was constantly clinging every time someone paid for their meal. Hallways in the back took people to the kitchen and the washrooms. The walls had an open yellow hue, with the carpets and seats all red.

I was sweating now, (and my sticky green shirt stuck to my back…ugh…) and not just because of the summer heat. What would happen when I told them what was gonna happen? It's not like the world would blow up; but something equal to that would probably occur.

"Marina, is everything okay? You look…worried."

I jerked my head up to find Jimmy peering at me in an anxious way. That poor dear. I gave him a small smile and replied, "Everything's fine!" in the cheeriest way possible. In fact it was so cheery that it sounded fake, like a Barbie.

Jimmy kept looking at me in that weird way, with his head cocked to the side, his crazy black hair all lop-sided, and just before I felt like I was going to spontaneously combust, our waitress came to the rescue. Thank Dialga.

"Hi, I'm Rhayonna, and I'll be your waitress for today. What can I get for you?" She had this cute smile plastered on her pink face, and she sounded sweet and sugary, like the kind of person who thought every day was a good day, even those dark stormy ones that scare Giratina a bit.

We all ordered our drinks, but Ash informed us that he was still looking over the menu. We all groaned "ASH!", but Rhayonna just giggled, obviously amused by us, and walked away yelling over her shoulder that she could give us some more time. We all turned to glare at Ash, and he grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head, which messed up his dripping spiky hair.

"What, I'm hungry!"

"Yeah, says the person who stuffed himself at the pool." Drew smugly remarked, while flipping his green hair, which glinted in the poor lighting.

"Pika Pika!"

"Hey, I thought you were on my side, Pikachu!" I rolled my eyes, bored of this classic scene that just kept repeating it's self OVER and OVER again. I wanted to get to the good part, where I could tell them THE news, so I just decided to speed up the normal process.

"Let's just order a super large pizza for everybody to share with everything on it. Whatever's left goes to Ash."

Everybody pondered on this for a moment, and then shouted their simultaneous "Yes!" Once we had gotten our jumbo pizza with all of the works from the ever happy Rhayonna, and we got settled, with the pizza disappearing at an alarming rate, did I decide to tell them. I clasped my clammy hands together under the table. It was now or never.

I clanked my silver (or plastic…you can never tell…) fork on the glass. The whole group silenced and stared up at me, some of them in mid-bite. I rolled my eyes. Disgusting.

Manners, manners. Sometimes I do wonder why you hang out with them.

SOMETIMES having an inner conscience totally sucks.

"Well? We stopped eating for you, idiot." Paul's voice rang out loud and clear through the quiet group. I glared at him before addressing everybody;

"Guys, I have some news. It's-"

"Is it good news or bad news?" Leaf asked.

I glanced at her with a "Seriously?" look before saying, "Yeah, it's good news, actually, amazing news. So awesome that you'll-"

"Get to the point!" Gary shouted.

"I'm trying to, but you guys keep interrupting me!" I retorted, running my fingers through my aqua hair. "Anyways, as I was TRYING to say-"

"If it's a shopping spree, you can count me out. Last time I carried the bags, I couldn't write for 3 days. And THAT'S what made me fail on my Legendaries report!" Kenny said, rubbing his arm. The boys all nodded, muttering curses under their breath for our insane shopping skills. It wasn't that bad, was it?

OH yeah, it was.

I'm not even going to tell you to shut your pitiful self up.

You can't shut me up; I'm you.

WOW, that sucks.

"Earth to Marina, can we get back to our lovely pizza?" Ash said through a mouthful of food, with spittle going everywhere. He then remembered that he was still chewing and closed his mouth.

Something snapped in me, and I hollered to the whole group (and the whole restaurant too,you have a WAY too loud voice to be a proper young lady.Thanks. ) "WILL YOU SHUT YOUR FREAKIN FUDGIN MOUTH! WHAT I WAS TRYING, emphasis on trying, TO TELL YOU,which wasn't possible with your STUPID FREQUENT INTERRUPTIONS, WAS THAT MY DAD RENTED A BIG BEACH HOUSE FOR 14 PEOPLE AND SAYS THAT WE CAN ALL GO FOR 2 WEEKS WITH NO SUPERVISION TO HAVE FUN AND DO WHATEVER! BUT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU GUYS WOULD CARE BECAUSE-"

My angry venting was interrupted with screams, shrieks, (How rude!)and OMG's as random people started hugging me and shouting how I was the best BFF ever, and that they would start packing right away. I grinned, and was a little late, since everybody else was beaming like a Watchog. Then, something about food from Ash, a hit from Misty with Malletory, a remark of shopping from Dawn, something about tanning from Gary, and all hell broke loose. I rolled my eyes. Two weeks with these people and I'm sure to lose my mind.

Not like you ever had one anyway.

Shut up.

Me: THAT was pure genius!

Drew: Yep, and I'm a flying Swinub.

Marina: You're just jealous that I got a beach house, and you didn't, even though you're the rich one from LaRousse city!

Drew: *Blushes and stammers* A-am no-not!

May: *Snaps a photo of Drew with random camera* Yes! I finally have the perfect blackmail! Prepare to get owned, Drew Hayden!

*Everybody sweatdrops*

Me: Well, I guess that's it for now. See ya! R&R plz! BTW, tell me in the review if this chappie was funny. I'm sure a lot of people will think its funny, grasshead!

Drew: Yeah, right.

Take a chill pill and chillax because there's more randomness coming in the next chappie!