Update April 2013: This chapter has been updated and revised from its original version. Past errors have been fixed and adjustments have been made but the plot of the chapter, characters, and events have remained the same.
I finally reached over 100 reviews and it's all thanks to you wonderful people! Thank you all so much for all of the support you've been giving my fanfiction so far, please keep it up! I appreciate it so much! Love you all loads :D Hahaha, you reviews made me feel so bad for what I did to Brendan! Let's all give him a big hug shall we? *group hug with Brendan* Hehehe, I'll give him some happiness in some chapter in the future.
Now, before I let you guys read I'd like to do a little explaining. The battle that is hinted at in the summary of this fanfiction is going to take place in this chapter (yay!) so I will be describing moves that will be used by Drew and May's Pokémon. I just wanted to let you all know that all the moves I make them use are moves that they are capable of using, I didn't make them up. Also, I know that in the games, each Pokémon is only capable of knowing four moves at a time, but, since I found it so boring, I'm letting every Pokémon I mention in this fanfiction know more than four moves. Hope you guys like that. Happy reading! Please review! :)
P.S. Oh, and uhm, this chapter ended up being really long for reasons unknown to even me. Heh heh heh...sorry :P
Responses to Reviews...
Shikishima: They're not, this is a Contestshipping fanfiction silly! I just thought it'd be fun to add in a little Brunetteshipping moment xD
Jace'sVampiress97: Don't you? I felt so bad doing what I'm doing to Brendan :( Drew not so much though, he'll win in the end anyways. I'll just make him suffer for now :P Thanks for your compliment on my depiction of the different point-of-views! Glad to know I'm doing good with this third-person-omniscient writing. :P
Shadow Lillies: I feel terrible for Brendan :( I'm so mean... But oh hoho, is she ever! I'm so jealous of her! LOLZ! :D But request no more, here it is :)
LuvAllPokemon: I feel horrible! And hah! I'm right with you with Drew and Skyler, except I didn't pity her at all. I'll explain how they met in this chapter (or rather, May is going to explain it to you guys and Drew :p). But I'll leave you in charge of that sheet! I'm the worst at geometry haha!
LoveLoverGrl: That was one of the cutest reviews ever hahah! So cute :)
chocolatehell: Yes, let's all give the poor Brendan a hug. :( And good! I've never actually listened to his music before, I'm glad I managed to choose a good one! And yes, I'd be the one to have a secret spazz attack in my room if my lifelong crush kissed me! And because I'm a cruel person muahahaha :3 LOLZ! Totally agree with the Skyler part. I checked out your new story, too, did you get my review? :D (I totally just did a little dance because I accidentally rhymed...I'm such a dork :p)
misspokemonpro: Thanks!
iCanSeeTheLight: Oh, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. You'll have to read to find out. :)
EeveeTransformed: Thanks! Hah, all my friends criticize my taste in music! I'm glad someone thinks it's epic! And no rushy! I updated silly goose! :D
ObviouslyAsian C: No need to thank me for updating, that's my job! Thank you though for reviewing! :)
xxTheBloddyRosexx: It's fine! Start making up for it now! I appreciate everything you said though! Thank you so much :)
Catrina7077: I love you too! Brunetteshipping, woot woot! :) (don't worry people, this is still a Contestshipping fanfiction hah!)
light-chiix3: Haha, isn't Gary such a romantic? It's hard not to root for him! :D But yes, May is Drew's! As for proms, it's basically a big dance at the end of the year for the graduating class (the seniors of the school). Depending on whether or not your school allows it, dates from outside of school may be allowed. If they don't allow it, I think they'd have someone at the doors to keep strangers from going in or they'd just keep them locked (sorry, I'm not really sure about that part because my school allows dates from outside of school :p). And you're Italian? That's great! I think Italians are so beautiful! I wish I was Italian, or at least mixed. I envy you :P Thanks for loving my story more! :D
Claudette14: Pssh, there's no such thing as late reviewing, just so long as you review before the next update! :D I've decided to find someone for Brendan in the future of this fanfiction, I feel bad now hah. :( Drew's not giving up though silly goose, he still has a lot of fighting to do for May's affections. :) I'm going to add a couple of Ikari moments, too, hah, it's a funny pairing. And I did laugh! You're always so funny in your reviews hah! Thanks so much for your support!
LiteBulb: Thank you!
The Last Poison Apple: It does! Even though that was my second thought. When I first saw it, I immediately thought of The Last Goodnight's album "Poison Kiss". Go check out the album cover and you'll understand. :) Drew willwin though, so pity Brendan all you'd like. The poor guy, I'm such a mean person. :p
Love Unexpected chapter 9
Time could have gone a lot slower for May's liking; it seemed all too soon that the weekend she got to spend with Gary had passed. Already, the brunet was on a ferry back to Sinnoh, which meant she would not be seeing him until her graduation ceremony two days later on the approaching Wednesday, the first day of spring. All she had to do was endure the last two days of school—which wasn't very hard considering all of the schoolwork and finals had been put behind her—and she would officially be graduating from Lilycove University High. Then, at last, she would be able to set off on her own journey. Finally.
May had it all planned out for herself. She would spend the rest of spring in Lilycove with her family and friends until the first day of summer. Then, she would set out on the ferry at the Lilycove Dock with Blaziken by her side (she would leave the rest of her team with her mom) to either the Sinnoh region (mostly because she wanted an excuse to visit Gary) or the Kanto region. She was, however, leaning more towards the Kanto region because she was really looking forward to visiting her old friends, Ash and Brock. It had been a while since she had last seen them—a good four to five years perhaps?—and she was missing them more and more with each passing day. It would be nice to see them again.
"Are you paying attention to me?" a voice suddenly demanded.
May snapped out of her daze and turned to her right to find Drew sitting beside her on the bleachers built in one of the large battle rooms that they were in. They were currently in Mr. Ellis's class, watching as their classmates each volunteered to battle against one another. Two of their classmates, Aaron and Kristen, were currently pitting their arbok and dodrio against one another, launching attack after attack until either the time ran out or one of them lost all of their points.
May had thought that Drew would be busy watching the battle, but instead, he was staring at her with another one of his arrogant expressions. But currently, it was fused with chagrin and accompanied by a slight pout. The look was so comical that she almost giggled.
"Obviously not," she mumbled, while resting her elbow on her knee and propping her chin up on her fist to distract him from the slight upward twitch of her lips.
"Well, then start paying attention," Drew snapped in a bossy manner. "I had a question to ask you."
"Fine, then repeat it Andrew. I'm all ears," the brunette droned with a roll of her eyes.
Drew pretended to ignore it. "I asked you, how about we have a battle right now?"
May smirked and turned her head slightly to the side to face him. "Alright, why not? I'll volunteer us right now."
She began to raise her hand, but Drew pulled it back down.
"I want to make it more fun, though," he told her, and she cocked an eyebrow at him, urging him to go on. "If you lose, you'll have to travel with me after graduation."
May nearly choked on the mint-flavored gum that she had been chewing on in her mouth. She hadn't expected him to say that, or even anything remotely close to it. Travel with him? If she lost? How could she agree to that? There was no way she could agree to that. Impossible. Never in a million years.
"You've got to be kidding me," she laughed disbelievingly, but when she saw how serious he looked, she frowned. "No way. I refuse."
"Afraid you'll lose, huh?"
"What? No!" May nearly screeched, though it was partially a lie.
It wasn't that she wasn't good at battling, no. But if Drew still battled like he did in some of the reruns of the contests that he had participated in in the past (he had made her watch them once when he was over her house) then she would have herself quite a bit of a challenge. One that she was just not willing to wager her solo journey for.
"I just don't want to risk having to travel with you," she quickly reasoned.
Ouch, Drew hadn't expected her to be so straightforward. He had doubted that she would agree to it before he had even proposed the whole deal, but he didn't think that she would so blatantly say it. He would be lying if he said her words hadn't stung, but his unbelievably large ego forbade him to let her know that it did.
So, he decided to try the taunting approach. He knew enough about her to know that if all else failed, taunting was as good a choice as any to get her to agree to something.
"If you were more confident with yourself, then you wouldn't be worrying about that," he said coolly. "Just admit that you're afraid you'll lose to me because you know for a fact that I'm much better at battling than you are."
"I refuse to admit it because it isn't true," she retorted immediately.
"Yes, it is," he continued.
"No, it's not," she refuted stubbornly.
"Uh huh."
"Nuh uh."
"Then, why won't you agree to have a battle with me?"
"Because I don't want to risk it—and I'd rather travel alone," she admitted in an exasperated tone. "Besides, Brendan already volunteered to travel with me if I ever decided I wanted a traveling partner."
Drew swore the brunette brought up Brendan's name just to annoy him sometimes. Of course, he had never told her that the mere mention of the name aggravated him to no end, but he had a feeling that she knew.
"Well, Brendan's going to have to find himself another traveling partner, then," he spat rather harshly.
May glared at him in response. "Don't be rude. If this is how you are most of the time, then I'd rather travel with him than you," she snapped. "Or lock myself up in a lab doing research with Gary in Sinnoh."
The girl sure knew how to hit the nail on the head when it came to hurting Drew. Brendan's name bugged him, yes, but Gary's name downright pained him. Almost as if the name had claws that dug into his heart every time he heard it, it left an uncomfortable tugging feeling in his chest. It was probably the way she said it, how her voice seemed to soften every time, wrapping around the name like a caress, while her expression grew dreamy. The fact that she preferred the brunet over him was almost too much to bear.
"Brendan Birch and Gary Oak...what, are you just attracted to guys who are named after trees?" he asked bitterly.
May gaped disbelievingly at his comment and smacked a hand hard against his bicep, inflicting a stinging pain on both his arm and her hand, which made both of them wince.
"Shut up," she snapped, while blushing madly.
"When did you even meet Gary, anyways?" he demanded rudely as he scowled at her angrily.
"I met him while I was on vacation with my family in the Sinnoh region, but I don't see how that's any of your business," she retorted and turned away from him to watch the remaining minute of the battle.
But the answer was far from being satisfying for Drew.
"How, though?" he catechized. "Did you purposely ask your parents to go to Sandgem Town because you knew he'd be there or something?"
"No. He just happened to be in Snowpoint City when we were there."
"And how'd you meet him?"
May recalled the memory of the faithful day she met Gary to Drew with ease and much fondness. She was almost twelve years old at the time that her family all decided to take a vacation in Snowpoint City in the Sinnoh region. They had a few reasons for going to Snowpoint City in particular, one being that Max had a strong passion for snowboarding, so the city with the most bountiful amount of snow seemed the most appropriate to vacation in.
However, the main reason was that May had wanted to evolve her eevee into a glaceon, and the only way to do so was to have her eevee touch a certain rock located somewhere in Route 217, a route southwest from Snowpoint City, known as the "Ice Rock". She had ventured out from the hotel they were staying in with Eevee the day after their arrival to find the rock, plodding through the heavy amounts of snow and squinting behind her goggles to keep the snowflakes out of her eyes.
Much to her disappointment, she had wound up not finding it, even after two freezing hours—despite how many layers of clothes she had bundled herself up in to keep herself warm—of searching since it was far too concealed in the snow. She had just about turned back around in the direction she had come, when she heard a guy call to her.
"Hey, you're May Maple, right?" the guy she had recognized as Gary Oak had asked.
At the time, May was incredibly baffled. She couldn't believe that Gary Oak, the "Heartthrob Professor" and one of her idols, was standing so close to her. And he knew her name, too! Sure, she had gotten herself on TV a couple of times thanks to the amount of contests that she had won, but it had never occurred to her that he would know her name.
She could barely bring herself to respond then, but when she did, she had stammered.
Gary had ignored it, however, and went right to offering to help her find the Ice Rock (having assumed that it was what she was looking for since she had had an eevee in her arms) and the two immediately set out together.
The conversations had flowed easily after that, thanks to Gary's conversationalist trait. They mostly talked about their occupations—Gary's research and May's coordinating—as he led her through the snow, and they got to know one another as well. After her eevee evolved into a glaceon, he had walked her back to her hotel, where they exchanged contact information and a promise to meet again.
After that, their friendship just clicked and steadily, as they continued to see each other on occasion and kept in constant touch, her feelings for him blossomed. They had only gotten stronger since.
"So, you have a glaceon?" Drew asked after she was finished recalling her tale.
He didn't want to hear anymore about Gary after hearing her story. The way she spoke about the guy was filled with too much fondness for his liking. The words practically clawed at his ears and wrung his heart.
"Uh huh," she responded, a dreamy smile still on her face.
"Then battle against me with it."
The smile fell and she turned to him with a disapproving look. "No way. We already had a battle in this class and I won, remember?"
"No? Don't you remember? I gave the win to you last time to make up for causing you to fall into the pool. So, technically, you didn't win," Drew explained matter-of-factly.
"But that doesn't mean I have to travel with you if I lose! That's hardly fair," May protested.
And it wasn't, but Drew didn't care if it was or not. The only thing he cared about was whether or not she would agree to the whole thing so that he could beat her and then travel with her. It would be difficult to persuade her to go, but he wouldn't give up that easily.
"So, you think you have a chance of losing?" he tried.
"A small one, but it's still a chance," she admitted.
"Then, what're you afraid of?"
"I'm not afraid of anything?"
"Then, why aren't you agreeing to the battle?"
He took the short amount of time it took for her to think of a response to volunteer them before another one of their classmates did or she could object any further.
"Mr. Ellis!" he called to the teacher, who was currently sitting in front of the computer on the far corner of the room. "Can May and I battle next?"
"Sure thing!" the blond teacher called back without looking up.
May turned to Drew with a disbelieving look, but he was already walking down the seats. "You're incorrigible!" she called to him.
"Oh, hey, you know big words!" he chuckled back sarcastically, causing a couple of their classmates to snicker.
May stepped down after him, a blush evident on her face, while she glared at the back of his head.
"I should get Glaceon to freeze his mouth up when we're done," she mumbled under her breath.
"I heard that," Drew growled, turning around to meet her gaze, but she walked right past him.
"You heard nothing, Andrew," she insisted. "Let's just get this battle over with, so that I can beat you."
By the time Drew and May reached the battle field, Mr. Ellis had already programmed the large display screen mounted on the wall so that it showed both of their pictures, two full meters to keep track of their points, and one single timer in the center that had a five-minute time limit.
The rules of the battle were the ones for any standard pokémon contest battle, except for their private wager. The field that was randomly selected for them was a grass one, though the first one had been a water field, but May had requested that Mr. Ellis try again with the selector since she refused to be anywhere near a water field with Drew around her. Drew had rolled his eyes, while the class had gotten a nice laugh out of that statement.
Once everything was settled, Drew and May both threw out their PokéBalls onto the field in front of them, where their absol and glaceon materialized in a white flash respectively. May wasted no time in launching the first attack the second after Mr. Ellis said they could begin.
"Glaceon, Quick Attack!"
The ice type pokémon obliged immediately and charged with incredible speed, like an arrow, straight at Drew's absol, who stood tall and calm as it waited for its trainer to give it a command. About fifteen copies of the same black and white dark type pokémon circled Glaceon after Drew called for a Double Team attack.
Glaceon slid to an abrupt stop upon seeing so many copies when it had only been focusing on one. It kept its adorable face impassive, while its pretty teal eyes darted in every direction, trying to spot the real Absol.
"Ice Shard!" May cried quickly.
With a simple ruffling of its light blue fur, Glaceon sent sharp shards of ice flying out in all directions to take out every single absol copy, but the real one was quick to leap into the air. May and Glaceon both gritted their teeth in frustration, while Drew smirked.
"Absol, Night Slash!" he called, and Absol reared its head mid-jump, throwing a powerful Night Slash from the black sickle-shaped scythe at the top of its head.
The attack shot down like a bullet so quickly that it was just a blur of various dark hues of purple that was nearly invisible to the human eye. It slashed right into Glaceon before the pokémon could even lift a paw off the ground.
Points were deducted from Drew and May's meters, while Glaceon recovered from the pain inflicted by the Night Slash, but May's meter suffered the most. Already, she had lost a third of her total, while Drew had only lost a fourth. The odds were not turning out in her favor. If the battle continued to go the way that it was going, she would end up traveling with Drew for sure. She couldn't let that happen. She refused to let that happen.
"Glaceon, freeze up the field!" she commanded.
Drew's eyes darted to May in surprise. Had he heard her wrong? Could Glaceon do that? He watched in awe along with everyone else as Glaceon put its special ability into effect.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly grew cold when its body began to glow with an icy blue aura. Ice flowed from the bottom of its deep teal-colored paws and spread across the field, freezing it just like May had instructed it to do.
Drew mentally cursed himself. Thanks to his doubt, he hadn't bothered to think of a way to stop Glaceon from freezing the field. By the time he had registered that the pokémon was capable of doing so, it was already too late. The ice was already pouring across the field like blood from a wound, right underneath Absol, who flinched out of surprise from the unexpected coldness beneath its paws, as the field was made into a diamond dust flurry. Within seconds, the grass was encased in a solid blanket of ice that glistened in the light that flowed from the room. Glaceon had successfully turned the field into an ice field in a matter of seconds.
"Wow, I've never seen anything like that before! Good job, May—I'm impressed!" Mr. Ellis gushed.
And with good reason. The rare sight had truly been a magnificent one that not many people had the privilege of witnessing. It was a beyond impressive demonstration of an ice-type pokémon's power that would have gotten a coordinator a very high, if not perfect score, had it been performed for a contest appeal. Beautiful and menacing—it was the perfect combination of grace and power.
Drew practically growled with agitation caused by the sudden turn of events. Not only had Glaceon managed to get itself a power boost from the ice by its recent act of freezing the field, but it also managed to put its trainer in the lead. He needed to get May's meter down before the time ran out if he wanted to beat her. The timer beeped as the time dwindled down to the final minute, silently telling him to do it and to do it fast.
"Absol, Water Pulse!" he cried.
A surge of water appeared from in front of Absol and rushed forward toward its target, but May was quick to command Glaceon. At the sound of its trainer's voice, Glaceon shot forward using Quick Attack and ran on top of the water, working its way up as if it were running up a flight of stairs. A collective gasp filled the room when Glaceon leapt to the peak of the water and launched a Blizzard at Absol.
The attack soared through the air from Glaceon's mouth, bashed into Absol, and pushed it back a few feet with ease due to the power boost it received from the ice field. Angered, Absol slashed a Razor Wind through the air on its own accord, which surprised both May and Glaceon, who was sent flying back to May.
It leapt back onto its paws and growled menacingly at Absol, who aggressively snarled back. In respect to them, Drew and May glowered at one another. Only ten seconds were left on the clock then, after that, and their points tied. At the same time, they called out their final attacks.
"Absol, Flamethrower!"
"Water Pulse, Glaceon!"
The suspense was heavy, leaving the class and Mr. Ellis gripping their seats and leaning forward in anticipation. Both Absol and Glaceon opened their mouths to unleash a funnel of flames and water respectively.
Fire and water, two opposing types, met at the middle of the field, and were pitted against each other in one final conflict that would determine the fate of Drew and May. Both pokémon kept up their attacks for as long as they could, putting every ounce of their energy into their attacks, while their trainers watched anxiously.
In the end, Absol's Flamethrower prevailed, even though water had the upper edge against fire. The blazing hot flames slammed into Glaceon with immense force—causing it a great deal of damage since Glaceon was an ice type—and sent it flying through the air right into May's arms, where it gave a weak cry before it gave way to the pain and collapsed.
The brunette looked down at her pokémon in horror before she slowly glanced up at the display screen. It was there, clear as day for everyone in the room, including herself, to see. She had lost the battle to Drew.
Normally, a lost battle would have just been a minor disappointment that she would have gotten over after a couple of minutes. But because of the wager, it was a lot more devastating than that because it meant something else entirely other than just a lost battle.
It meant that she would be traveling with Drew.
Author's Note: I barely managed to get this chapter up on time before midnight! Thank gosh I did! Phew! Did you guys like it? How'd I do with writing out the battle scene? I just wanted to remind you all that the attacks that Absol and Glaceon used are all attacks that they are capable of using. The special ability that I wrote about is also an ability that Glaceon has (apparently, according to Bulbapedia) so I didn't make that up on my own. Make sure to tell me what you thought in the reviews! Thanks for reading! :)