"Come on Dawn stop being such a little kid," Iris taunted the blunette.
"I'm not being a little kid I just don't wanna die right now", Dawn retorted at the purple haired dragon loving girl.
Currently Iris was trying to get Dawn to swing on a rope in order to eventually get her to join her in the vine swinging. Dawn on the other had was very resentful of the whole idea and still wondered how Iris had gotten her to do this anyway.
"You know, I didn't come here to swing on vines I came here to train for contests," Dawn announced trying to get out of the situation she was in.
"You know, you can be training right now if you didn't spend the last 20 minutes building up the nerve to jump of this tree branch," Iris stated leaning up against the tree they were in.
Dawn peered down to the ground, which was an intimating six and a half feet below her, and gulped, "You know what Iris, um…I don't think vine swing is really my thing! Uh…I-I'm just going to get down and-" but the blunette girl was only able to mutter those words before the branch she was on broke and she slipped off.
Not wanting to fall to the ground Dawn reluctantly grabbed the rope in front of her and went tightly clutched it as she began to swing, "AHHH!" she screamed
"Finally!" Iris said pushing herself off the tree and smiling, but then frowned as she noticed how Dawn was having a hard time steering with the vine, "Hey, Dawn make sure to watch out for the trees and don't forget to not let go!"
"WELL, NO DUH!" Dawn yelled as she swung sloppily on the vine, screaming the entire time As Iris watched her friend she sweatdropped, realizing that Dawn was heading right for a nearby tree,
"M-Maybe this was a bad idea,"
"IRIS!" Dawn screamed as she headed for the tree Unfortunately Iris was Dawn how to swing on vines was a bad idea.
THUD! Iris cringed at the sound, "Hey, Dawn are you okay?!"yelled Iris leaping down from the branch she was on and rushed over to her friend with blue hair
"Uuuggghhh…" groaned Dawn, who was on the ground with swirls in her eyes from hitting the tree head on.
Dawn shook her head as her purple haired friend helped her sit up, "N-No need to worry, Iris I'm fine, j-just hit my head, that's all," Iris swetdropped and rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "Sorry, I didn't teach you how to steer, I'll make sure it's our next lesson!"
"Uh…actually, Iris," Dawn said, getting to her feet and dusting her clothes off, "how about we save that lesson for later?"
"Oh, okay then," Iris said, not knowing why Dawn wouldn't want to learn the skill of steering on a vine,
"Alright it's my turn" the purple haired girl bounded for the tree and climbed it easily, she was followed by a slight wobbly Dawn When they finally climbed to a branch, in which Iris insisted was the best for vine swinging, she searched for a good vine to swing on, while Dawn sat down and rubbed her aching head trying to sooth the pain.
"So Dawn how is your stay in the Village of Dragons so far?" asked Iris trying to break the silence which annoyed her so much.
"I like it, I mean the whole village is beautiful the dragon types are so nice," Dawn complimented, "though…I miss Ash and Brock, since they went their separate ways. Oh! By the way, Iris, how was Ash the last time you saw him?" Dawn asked, looking up at her friend
"Um…Ash…he was fine, since last time I saw him was when I invited him and Cilan here to the village for the week," Iris answered, but she stopped and gave a slight sigh, "but I doubt that Ash will come…since he's off in Kalos following his dream as always…"
she tugged on a branch but it snapped when she did this, Iris tossed it aside. Oh well that's nice..." Dawn said.
There was a bit of silence, except for the sound of rustling leaves as Iris continued to look for the right vine to swing on.
"Hey, Iris…I'm just curious…um is there any guys that you like Iris?" Dawn asked The question almost made Iris fall out of the tree in surprise,
"Wh-What?! Why would you ask som-something like that D-Dawn?" Iris stammered, as she regained her balance and at the same time turning her face away from Dawn to hide a blush that was creeping up on her chocolate brown cheeks.
But, too bad, her attempt failed miserably.
Dawn giggled as she saw the redness in her Unova friend's cheeks "Ooooh, so you do have a crush?" Iris squirmed slightly,
"Er…um….we-well…" she stammered her cheeks growing redder and redder with each passing second
"Who is he? What's his name?" Dawn shot out the question so fast you almost could not tell what he was saying.
"I-I don't have a cru-crush Dawn…so stop being such a little kid!" Iris lied, still trying to hide the growing redness in her cheeks and failing epically.
"Yeah you totally do Iris!" Dawn insisted, "You're face is red all over! So stop lying and tell me, who he is!" Dawn was practically squealing and squirming around with excitement.
"H's w-well…he's um…no one important," Iris stuttered quickly, but then mental kicked herself after for accidentally confirming that she actually did had a crush.
"I KNEW IT!" Dawn, yelled, jumping up from where she sat on the branch, an excited smile spread on her face "So, now what's his name, Iris?"
"Would you stop it Dawn! I don't go prying into your crushes!" Iris retorted, puffing out her red cheeks and turning away, trying to get Dawn to stop pushing the topic.
Instead Dawn of pursuing the answer from her like Iris had thought, her blue haired friend just sat back down on the branch, with a big funny grin and deep red blush plastered on her face.
"Wait you have a crush too Dawn?!" asked Iris in amazement. She remembered that last time she asked Dawn seemed to have no such interested and now here they were both sitting there blushing over stupid things like crushes.
'I'm acting like such a little kid,' Iris thought, 'acting all embarrassed over some guy...a really cute little kid of a guy…' Iris turned her attention from looking for a vine for a quick moment to stare out across the forest, she gave a sigh, 'Ash...I hope I get to see you again,' But no one could know Iris liked was one of her most guarded secrets. If anyone found that out, Iris wouldn't know that to do! She'd portably die of embarrassment!"
"Well, yeah I have a crush," Dawn said pulling Iris from her thoughts, "at first I didn't really like him…but after a while I really started to like him…so yeah," Dawn stated twisting a lock of her hair between her fingers slowly.
"Oh, that's nice," Iris said, resuming her search for a sturdy vine
"But besides that come on, Iris please give me a hint to who your crush is!" said Dawn as she jumped in front of Iris, a desperate look on her face.
Iris hesitated somewhat, "Okay…whatever, I'll tell you" Iris said, finally giving into Dawn rampant words, but then a sly smile spread on her face, "but only if…"
Dawn's face fell, "But only if?" she didn't like the sound of that
"If you…swing on a vine with me without complaining" Iris said finding two sturdy looking vines, she held one out to her friend.
"Okay, fine let's go!" Dawn shouted hoping to her feet and grabbing firmly onto the vine Iris held out to her
"Wow, that's all it took for you to not complain? A hint about my crush?" Iris asked, arching an eyebrow, knowing this was the same blue haired girl she had waited 20 minutes for to swing on a vine, but only resulted in fall off the branch and swing.
"Yup," Dawn said with a playful giggle, "I'm a big sucker for learning about people's love lives!"
Iris rolled her eyes "Okay, whatever, now come on!"
The purple haired girl grabbed the vine in both hands before pushing off the tree branch and taking off swinging through the canopy of branches Dawn on her tail.
Iris easily swung back and forth on different vines over and over feeling the wind blow through her royal purple hair and on her face, this activity always brought a smile to her face. Dawn on the other hand was holding on for dear life as she was doing everything to not complain as she followed her dragon loving friend. But as the minutes ticked by the two girls both couldn't keep their minds off their raven haired crush and how much fun it would be having him with joining them on swinging through the trees.
But with their minds preoccupied, neither of them noticed, until the last second, that at the height of their swing the vines they held snapped! Both Iris and Dawn were flung out of the trees and began to fall towards the opening were the forest met the Village of Dragons.
Dawn was screaming her head off and failing her arms about as they were about to crash. Iris, tried to balance herself so she could land on her feet, but she found that it wouldn't be possible and instead braced herself for the impending hard ground that she knew she would soon meet. But…it never happened instead she was caught by a pair of semi or more likely slightly strong arms.
The arms and body soften Iris fall for sure, but the person who they belonged to just got a hit from the force and toppled to the ground.
When all movement ceased, Iris peeked opened her eyes and after having clutched the person a little too close to her, "Hey thanks for saving my neck-ASH?! WH-WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" screamed Iris, upon realizing who she was clutching so tightly.
"Yeah it's me, and you're welcome…now can you please do me a favor and get off me?" Ash asked, holding back small whimpers of pain from the impact.
"I-I'm sorry Ash, I'm just so surprised to see you! Um wh-what are you doing here?" Iris asked, still very shocked upon seeing him
"I'm here to see you of course, Iris," Ash said standing up and stretching, "now what were you doing falling from the sky?"
Iris was about to say something when her blunette friend spoke up instead. "We were vine swinging and then all of a sudden our vines broke and we almost plummeted towards our deaths," Dawn answered, climbing out of Cilan's arms since he had caught her, "but now need to worry"
"Dawn what are you doing here?...Oh Shannon was that girl's name Dusk or Dawn?" Ash asked surprised before turning to Shannon with a confused look.
"Whoops…I-I guess I mixed it up again! It was actually Dawn I was referring to earlier", Shannon answered putting her hand behind her neck nervously.
"No biggie, so what are you here in the Village of Dragons for Dawn?" Ash asked looking back at Dawn.
"Well I came here to train for my contests and I guess I gotta a little side tracked, but it's not so bad, besides the village has kinda rubbed off on me as you can tell!"
Dawn said referring to her new dress style. She wore a knee high white skirt that had a blue trim skirt, an elbow length baggy blue tunic, and white sneakers and her navy blue hair was done in a small braid running on the side of her face with the rest running down her back.
"Wow, Dawn I see you have taken a liking to the village wear, it looks good on you" Ash said His complement received a small blush from Dawn and a little jealous spark from Iris.
"Well you can't say the Village of Dragons has rubbed off on you yet, when you still don't like to swing on vines", Iris announced referring to the trees.
"You guys were swinging on vines?!" Ash exclaimed, "That's so cool, come on let's go try it Pikachu!" with that he started for the woods.
"Hey, Ash don't you think it would be better if we went to Iris's house first?" Cilan stated finally speaking up.
The voice of the connoisseur caused Ash to stop dead in his tracks and to turn around, a hand on the back of his head, he was wearing that goofy smile he always wore.
"Such a little kid, as usual" Iris said shrugging her shoulders in her signature poise.
"I'm not a kid Iris! I'm the same age as you!" yelled Ash obviously angry at Iris as usual for the statement.
"Yeah right you don't even know how what day it is!" Iris taunted, playfully as waved her finger in Ash's face.
"I may not, but at least I don't look like a Pokémon," Ash retorted crossing his arms and shrugging.
"What are you talking about Ash?" Dawn questioned obviously confused by the statement just made by the raven haired boy.
Ash was about to respond when he noticed what Iris looked like, she had definitely changed. Instead of her usual pink and white outfit, she wore a pair of black cargo pants, and a rose pink sleeveless pink tunic. On her feet Iris wore a pair of slightly dirt smudged pink sneakers and a small tan pouch was strapped to the belt loop of her pants. But what stuck out to Ash the most was Iris's hair; it was the most different of all. Instead of her usual three pigtails she had it all hanging loose for her yellow hair ties. On the top of her head Iris had four locks or her dark purple hair tied with a simple yellow band, the way they sprouted upward and bounced around with her movement was nice. Her bangs were now longer and hovered in four loose strands above her eyebrows, the two strands on the far left and right made a matching pair of loops that swooped downwards and rested on her chest, which Ash noticed had also…well changed a bit in size.
As he stared at the beautiful girl that now stood before his very eyes seemed to be hypnotized by her. Staring at Iris made a feeling well up in him…a feeling he'd never thought he would possibly feel. Was this odd warm feeling he felt, love?
"I-I…um was trying um wh-what I m-meant to say was….ah never mind…I-I give up," Ash stammered.
"WHAT?!" everyone suddenly gasped in amazement at what he had just said.
"B-But Ash you never give up," Cilan muttered to the group through a very surprised expression.
"What? Iris just caught me off guard with her new outfit and hairstyle, th-that's all," Ash said trying to shake off there stares his friends were giving him.
"A-Ash…since when did you start to notice how people dress and how their hair looks?" Dawn asked in amazement.
"I-I don't know…I just started to I guess," Ash answered trying to find a way out of his predicament.
Luckily his answer came in the voice of a magenta haired girl speaking up. "Um don't you think we should get going to the house?" Shannon stated giving Ash a looking of knowing.
"Yeah, good idea," Ash said, waiting change the subject, "hey Iris, I'll race ya!" Ash shouted pumping his fist in the air.
"Oh, you're on Ash!" Iris responded facing the boy with a look of competition in her eyes.
"Ready! Set! GO!" Ash shouted With that they both took off running down the road leaving a trail of dust behind them.
"Something's never change I guess", Cilan sighed sweatdropping and then began to walk down a different road with the two other girls. They all laughed among themselves knowing that soon Ash and Iris would be running back in this direction having discovered they were going the wrong way.
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