Yes, I am skipping out on my homework for a few minutes to bring you day 8! Seriously, my teachers CLEARLY don't know this is the week where we're suppoused to do nothing. A quiz in every subject this week, not cool. I also JUST finished an Italian essay, and have just started my english one. I also haven't been able to go to ballet in a month. That's right, a WHOLE month. Mostly for school work but for other issues too. I need a nap...

But enough about my torture! Day 8, go!

Sledding

Slowly opening his eyes, Ash immediately felt like closing them again. All he could see was pure, piercing white, and there was no sound around him. Everything was still and silent. He groaned and gave into temptation, shutting his eyes tight.

"Pikapi!"

"Huh?" Ash mumbled, still keeping his eyes fastened.

"Pika…" Pikachu whined, poking at Ash's shoulder with his nose, "pika!"

"Pikachu, why are you freaking out?" Ash breathed, rolling over onto his front. He received a face full of cold, and craned his neck up quickly; finding himself staring into a mound of fluffy, but indented, snow.

"Pikachupi," Pikachu frowned.

"What about Misty?" Ash sat on his knees, looking confusedly down at his partner Pokémon. Pikachu growled lowly at his trainer, and whipped him gently on the knee with the lightning bolt shaped tail. "Pikachu, what's up? You're acting really weird."

"Pikachupi!" Pikachu cried, "Pika pika!"

Ash furrowed his brow, trying to decipher what the electric mouse was saying. After several years with Pikachu, Ash had grown to become quite familiar with his best friend's native tongue.

"Misty…" Ash knew that was for sure what Pikachu had said first, but he still needed to think about the rest. Suddenly, he gasped, jumping up, "she's missing?"

"Ka," Pikachu nodded, a frown plastered on his fuzzy yellow face.

"No," Ash wailed softly, turning his head left and right desperately, "Pikachu, we have to find her!"

"Pi!" Pikachu stuck his ears up and began to sniff the snow, seeking out Misty's sweet, flowery scent.

"Misty!" Ash cried, "Misty, can you hear me? Please, answer!"

A heavy wind came barreling through the snowy clearing, and Ash recoiled slightly at the sudden rush of cold. He rubbed his head, confused as to how they had ended up in this situation. Ash glanced towards a group of trees, the bare, think branches coated with the powdery white snow. Lowering his eyes, he gasped as he saw a fine wooden sled crashed against the trunk.

"Pikachu, what happened?" Ash breathed out, blinking rapidly.

"Pika pi," Pikachu squeaked, "Pikachu, pi pikachupi pika."

"We crashed the sled?" Ash tilted his head, "and went flying?"

Pikachu bobbed his head up and down once again. Ash whimpered, the stinging sensation of tears biting behind his eyes. Pikachu flicked his ears and nudged at his trainer's shin.

"Pikachu, what if she's hurt?" Ash whispered, "what if she hit her head or something? I…I would never hurt her. I don't want to be responsible for that…"

"Pikapi," Pikachu jumped up onto Ash's shoulder and comfortingly licked his cheek.

"Thanks buddy," Ash sniffed, before balling his hands into tight fists, "but now we need to find Misty!"

"Don't you bother!"

Ash spun around, and atop a snowy hill, stood one very angry red head.

"Misty!" Ash cheered, eyes gleaming.

"Don't you Misty me!" She stormed, stomping down the slope until she was right in Ash's face, "how could you be so STUPID as to go down that hill? HUH? I could've broken my neck! You're an idiot, Ketchum! You know that?"

As Misty continued to rant, Ash couldn't help but to ignore it all as a sweet smile spread across his face.

She was just fine.

I miss the good old days, where Ash was constantly berated by his female companion T_T Sure, Iris is pretty awesome so far, and May wasn't bad, but Dawn was an epic fail, and Misty is still the best. Oh well. BACK TO MY ESSAY! It's so boring...but it must be done. Oh look, Glee Christmas episode as background noise :P

Until then, leave a little review? It'll cheer me up from all this horrible woooork! ;D