September 24th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(May's POV)
I suddenly woke up in a dreamlike state and it was pure white all around.
"The time shall soon be fulfilled and you shall fulfill your destiny," the mysterious voice said again.
"What are you talking about?" I asked slightly on edge. "I don't understand."
"Find the prophecy on the walls in a cave at Mt. Coronet," the voice said again but was starting to fade out.
"Wait!" I shouted and saw nothing but black once again.
Then I had the worst nightmare come back to haunt me, the death my parents.
(Drew's POV)
"Lin!" I shouted while I got up and caught her as she fell unconscious.
After I caught her, she looked extremely limp and pale.
"We need to get her back to the dorm," I told everyone as I started to carry her bridal style.
Everyone started to clean up quickly. Dawn tried to return Skitty, but she kept dodging the beam and wailed in concern about Lin. In the end, Dawn wound up carrying Skitty while everyone else carried everything else and we started back to the dorm. Once reaching there, I put her on the couch to see that tears were starting to appear down her cheeks and Skitty sat on the floor staring at her with a look of worry along with everyone else.
Riolu came out of his pokeball with a look of worry on his face and stared at Lin as well.
Suddenly the tears became more evident and she started to mumble in a sad tone, "Wake up, please wake up."
She started to toss and turn a little before she suddenly woke up while sitting up and shouting "NO!" scaring the crap out of everyone.
(May's POV)
The nightmare repeated my parent's death, but became the worst nightmare ever. After the death of my parents, the dream jumped to show that Max and my friends in the same position causing me to cry.
Then I heard the voice of the man who killed my parents, "I warned you," he said in a creepy voice.
"NO!" I shouted suddenly sitting up while waking from the horrible nightmare.
It took me a few seconds to recognize it was a dream, but I couldn't stop silently crying. It was the worst dream I ever had. I then realized that everyone was staring at me with a look of concern.
"Are you okay Lin?" Dawn asked anxiously.
I started to wipe my tears away and began to pet Skitty, "To be honest no, but I will be eventually," I said honestly though it came out sounding shaky.
"What the heck happened?" Leaf asked.
After she asked that, the tears began to fall again as I thought about what happened, "I suddenly got an extremely bad headache where the pain was beginning to kill me and I had a memory of the past," I admitted.
"Ruh," Riolu said sadly looking at me with concern and then gave me a hug which was extremely comforting.
After returning the hug, I turned to look at Riolu with a small smile, "Thanks Riolu, I needed that," I said a bit calmer.
After hearing that, he gave me a big smile warming me right up causing me to smile back.
"What was your dream about?" Drew asked causing my smile to drop and everyone including my pokemon to glare at him.
"What, I'm not the only one wondering?" he accused.
"…My parents being murdered," I whispered bluntly causing a few tears to run down my cheeks.
Drew's face then turned to a look of concern along with everyone else.
I sighed, I might as well tell them. No one else knows so I guess it would be okay and I feel the need to tell someone. I took a deep breath and began to explain.
"It was the evening of my seventh birthday. I suddenly woke up when I heard a crash come from downstairs. I quickly went to my brother's room to check to see if he was okay, then…that's when I heard the gunshots." I flinched at the memory of the loud sound. "I hid at the top of the stairs as the man who killed my parents left and I then quickly went down to find them lying on the floor in their blood dead."
My eyes started to tear up again, "Afterwards, I smelled smoke and looked out a front window to see that he was setting the house of fire," I said angrily while still crying.
"I quickly went back upstairs to grab my brother before escaping. By the time help arrived, half of my home was already in flames. As a little girl, I just sat in shock as I watched them try to tackle the fire. For the first few months after that happened, I was extremely quiet. I rarely ever spoke at all and I started to get insomnia. The one thing that snapped me out of my phase was getting my first pokemon." I smiled at the thought.
"And ever since, I was able to get over it and compete in contests. I never suffered the nightmare again until now," I said sadly.
I gave a small fake laugh while I wiped my tears, "Sorry you guys, I didn't mean to put you through that."
"You've had that bottled up for the longest time, haven't you?" Drew asked concerned.
"I suppose. I've grown to bottle everything up. I never really had anyone to talk to so….," I said looking at him like a look of sadness.
"That was really good singing earlier," Misty complimented changing the subject.
I gave her a small smile, "Thanks, but I think I'm gonna stick to playing instruments from now on," I said honestly."
"Why keep a voice as good as yours hidden?" Gary asked curiously.
"It is gonna make trouble for me," I said with a sad smile while noticing that Riolu and Skitty looked ready to fall asleep. "Come on you guys, you must be tired."
They nodded sleepily and I stood up while returning them, "I'm gonna go to bed you guys, see you in the morning."
I left with my pokemon to go to my room. I quickly got ready for bed and fell dead asleep.
September 25th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
The next morning I felt a lot better. I changed into some sweats before heading into the kitchen and saw that the time was about 8:00 so everyone would still be sleeping in for at least another hour.
I decided to make a cup of tea, grab my guitar and go on the balcony for a bit before making breakfast. After having my things and shutting the balcony door, I started to play a few chords of a song I was trying to write though it wasn't really getting anywhere. I was more or less just trying out different chords.
"That's pretty good, but you should try a G chord. I think it'll sound better," I heard Drew say from the door wearing a white cotton undershirt and plaid green pajama bottoms.
"Thanks, but I'm just messing around. What are you doing up this early grasshead, I'd thought you'd be sleeping in still," I asked curiously.
He shrugged his shoulders, "I just felt like getting up and I thought I heard you playing out here so I came out," he said while flipping his fringe.
"Want some tea?" I asked trying to be polite cause who knows how long grasshead will continue to be nice to me.
"No thanks, how are you feeling this morning?" he asked as he said sat perpendicular to me.
"I'm a lot better than I was last night, why so concerned grasshead?" I asked teasingly while putting my guitar down and grabbing my mug of tea.
He smirked and flipped his hair again, "It would be bad if a rival of mine wasn't doing well," he said arrogantly.
"Uh huh," I said while checking my poketch. I saw that it was 8:30, better make breakfast before everyone gets up.
I started to stand up while grabbing my guitar and tea, "Where ya goin' Tulip?" Drew asked.
I rolled my eyes at the nickname, "I'm gonna make breakfast. It's Pecha Berry covered pancakes, bacon, and hash browns, Misty's favorite. It is her birthday today after all."
"Sounds good, need some help to make sure you don't burn anything?" he asked teasingly while smirking.
I again rolled my eyes, "If ya want, I don't care," I said in a bored tone and went into the kitchen to make breakfast.
I put grasshead in charge of the bacon while I did the pancakes, Pecha sauce, and hash browns. Soon breakfast was done and everyone started pouring in to the kitchen.
"What smells so good?" Ash asked dreamily.
"Pecha Berry covered pancakes, bacon, and hash browns," I said with a smile.
"Awesome!" Misty said happily. "How did you know that this is my favorite?"
I shrugged, "I think I've heard you say it somewhere or you were complaining of wanting some," I said with a wink. "By the way, Happy Birthday!"
She looked surprised, "How did you know it was my birthday?"
I shrugged my shoulders, "I asked around school, I had someone hack the student records, you said it out loud a bit ago, everyone else was talking about, who knows?" I said in a mysterious tone while waving my hands to add effect.
"Seriously, how did you know?" she asked.
I winked, "That's for me to know. Come on, let's eat before it gets cold," I said gesturing to the food.
Everyone sat down and Ash was about to grab a bunch of food, but I stopped him, "The birthday girl goes first Ash."
Misty then grabbed her food before everyone else dug in, "This is so good Lin, the best of these I've ever tasted. How did you make these?" Misty asked in wonderment.
"Nurse Joy taught me, she can make anything taste good," I said with grin. "What are you planning on doing to celebrate your birthday?"
"I'm gonna go down to the beach and practice with my pokemon and then probably go out and eat in town with the girls," she said before finishing her food.
"Cool, I have to run a couple of errands this morning before helping in the Pokemon Center this afternoon, hope you have fun," I said before going back to my room to change into jeans and left to go run my errands.
(Misty's POV)
That was really kind of Lin to make my favorite breakfast for me. I'm surprised she is doing so well after the events from last night.
"I'll see you girls at 2:00 and we can go into town," I said while heading back to my room. I changed and grabbed my pokemon along with my pokenav before heading down to the beach that was by school. By the time it was 1:45, I was practicing with Azurill before I got the feeling that I was being watched.
I then turned around to look at the woods, "Who's there?" I asked.
Guess I must be hearing things. I then turned back to face the ocean and returned Azurill. Suddenly, I felt someone put a cloth over my nose and mouth making me sleepy.
(May's POV)
I finished my errands and then went to help in the Pokemon Center since they were still suffering overflow from the tournament. As I finished checking a Phanpy, I checked my poketch to see that it was 3:00. I wonder where Misty is, she was gonna stop by before we went into town with Leaf and Dawn. All of a sudden, my poketch starting beeping with a call from Max.
"Hey Max, what's up?" I asked.
"I've got some news for ya you might not like," he said in concerned tone.
"What's wrong?" I asked concerned. "Is something wrong with you or Nurse Joy?"
"No, but I was tapping into the PHPA line and it sounds like that your friend Misty was kidnapped."
"How do you know that?" I asked wanting more info.
"Misty's sisters called PHPA crying because they said that they received a ransom call saying that the captor would give Misty back if he got all the sister's pokemon and $5000 pokedollars."
"I better change and help find her. Do you know if Lance's agents here know?"
"No, I've been listening to their communications lines constantly after I heard that call and so far they haven't called them, probably for fear of being too close to the case," Max said deduced.
"Alright, start looking into the ransom call and such. I'll change, alert the agents, and go investigate."
"Alright Lin, I'll keep ya posted," he said and signed off.
"Hey Brock, I've got to jet due to an emergency. Are you and Nurse Joy gonna be okay without me?" I asked.
"We'll be fine, thanks for helping out and good luck," he called.
I left the center and silently climbed up the tree to see that Dawn wasn't in the room. I crept in and quickly changed, grabbed a few gadgets while putting them into a small black backpack along with my pokemon before I silently crept down. I made my way to the front of the building and used the elevator to get up to the third floor. I walked to the main door of the dorm and knocked.
"Coming," I heard Dawn say and opened the door.
"Wow, hey May, what are you doing here?" she asked making everyone turn their heads.
"Can I come in?" I asked.
"Sure," Dawn said cheerfully and moved so I could come in.
"What are you doing here airhead, came here to see me?" Drew asked arrogantly while flipping his fringe and smirking.
"Oh cut the crap grasshead, I'm here on business," I snapped.
"What can we do for ya?" Leaf asked.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your friend Misty has been kidnapped," I said seriously.
"Hardy har har airhead, now why are you?" Drew asked seriously.
"Didn't you just hear what I said grasshead?" I snapped. "Geez you're an idiot."
"Max did you find the call?" I asked as I spoke into the ear bud communicator.
"Got it May, you can play it on your poketch."
"Thanks Max," I said and tapped some buttons on my poketch and the ransom call started to play.
"We have your sister. If you want her back, you must hand over all the water pokemon you possess and $5000 pokedollars," a raspy voice said menacingly.
"Like how do we know if this isn't like a prank?" Lily asked.
"LET GO ME YOU JERKS BEFORE I SICK MY GYARDOS ON YOU!" Misty screamed and suddenly there was a loud slap causing me to wince. The girls looked like they were about to cry and the guys looked mad though Ash looked plain out ticked and looked ready to straggle someone.
"Where do you like want the ransom dropped off," Daisy asked in concerned voice.
"A map will be sent to you via fax at 3:30. Have the goods by tonight at 9:00 at that location or your sister is gonna find the end of her rope if you catch my drift," the voice said in a sick teasing way.
I ended the recording, "You believe me now grasshead?" I asked Drew.
He didn't answer but looked at me mad and I raised an eyebrow, "Don't get mad at me, I'm just the messenger."
"How did you know this before we did?" Paul asked suspiciously.
"Two things, one my brother hacked your hotline again," I said with a smirk before frowning. "And two, your commander never was gonna tell ya."
"What!" shouted Gary. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"He was never gonna tell ya because he figured you are too close to Misty so he decided to leave you out," I said flatly.
"You're lying!" Ash shouted surprising me.
"Max send the recording," I sighed.
"It's on your poketch," he said as I started to tap a few buttons and it started to play the recording.
"PHPA, what is the emergency?"
"Can you like please direct me to Lance?" Daisy said while her voice was cracking.
There was a bunch of beeping noises of buttons being pushed forwarding the call.
"This is Lance," he answered.
"This is Misty's sister Daisy, I like just got a call from a menacing man demanding a ransom for Misty's safe return," she started wailing.
"We'll handle it, send a map of the ransom drop to PHPA and we'll get her back," he said.
"Like okay," she said as she started to cry and then hung up.
"Haley, call up the kidnap task force," he said as he pressed an intercom button leading to his secretary.
"Yes sir, shall I alert your top agents?" she asked.
"No, they are too close to this case and may cause a problem," he said.
I ended the recording and saw that everyone was just plain mad, no, they were furious.
"What kind of a joke are you playing at airhead, no way would Lance do that!" Drew yelled.
"Whether you believe it or not, Misty is still being held for ransom and I'm sure you all want to save her. She's like an older sister to you and maybe more to some," I said while looking at Ash. "And I'm gonna help you out."
"We don't need your help, we can do this on our own," Drew snapped.
"Have you ever dealt with this kind of situation Drew? You are putting yourselves at risk. I've been in a few situations like this and have an idea of what to do."
Before he could reply, I looked at the time to see that it was 3:29, "Max, intercept that map and can you arrange a ride for seven once we determine the location?" I asked.
"Already done, the drop off is at an abandoned warehouse outside of Viridian City and your ride will arrive in five minutes."
"You rock Max," I said and hung up while tapping some buttons to see the map.
"Alright guys, ride will be at the airport in five minutes," I said.
"Who put you in charge?" Drew snapped.
"Calm down grasshead, I'm not. I'm only taking command at the moment because I seem to be the only one with a cool head," I said bluntly.
After everyone grabbed their pokemon, we started heading to the airport. On the way, I saw that a kid was in the middle of the road staring at something shiny and a car was about to hit him. I pressed a button to activate my rocket shoes and raced over to the kid to pull him from the road.
"Tommy, thank goodness you're safe!" a lady cried while hugging the boy. "I've told you never to go out into the street."
"I'm sorry momma," the boy said sadly.
"Thank you so much for rescuing my boy," the boy's mom said gratefully.
"Yea, thanks for saving me," the boy said with a smile.
"You're welcome Tommy, now listen to mom and stay away from going into the street, okay?" I said with a grin.
"Okay!" he said and then waved good bye while he and his mother walked away.
I skated by to the gang and pushed a button to convert my shoes back to normal.
"How did you do that?!" Dawn asked incredulously.
"Gotta love these rocket shoes," I grinned.
"Let me guess, your geeky brother invented them," Drew said snootily.
"Yup!" I said proudly ignoring his tone. We then found ourselves at the airport and I saw a small private jet that was our ride.
We got on board and began to take off, "How you are sir and how is Landis?" I asked.
"I'm doing just fine May, I have some business to take care of in Pewter City and Landis is on his journey traveling throughout the Sinnoh region," he said proudly.
"Thanks so much for giving us a lift," I said gratefully.
"It's the least I could do after you helped save Landis from being held captive for ransom," he said gratefully in return.
"It was no problem, I'm just glad I was able to help," I said. "Can you put up your touchscreen that you use to design poketches, my fellow comrades and I need to play how to rescue their friend who was kidnapped as well?"
"Of course May," he said and then pressed a button for a flat touch screen table to appear. I plugged in my poketch and tapped some buttons for the ransom map to appear along with a blue print of the warehouse to appear on the screen. I called Max using the speaker set that was with the touch screen.
"Okay Max, what have you got?" I asked while everyone gathered round.
"Okay, so Misty is being held in an old warehouse outside of Viridian City. What the bad guys don't know is that the cameras that are in use can be hacked by yours truly. You want me to show where they are?" he asked?
"Please and thank you," I said before looking at everyone. "Okay, so we have to grab Misty before the switch goes down. I say we grab Misty around 8:00, but we're gonna have to be careful of the security cameras. Also, here are some ear bud communicators so we can stay in touch."
Suddenly the map of the blue prints became holographic with the placement of security cameras in yellow, placement of the bad guys in red, and Misty in green as I handed out the communicators.
"You rock Max!" I praised.
"You know it."
"Okay smart alack, stand by," I teased.
"Okay, anyone spot any weak spots where we can get in?" I asked the group.
The group studied the blue prints. The building was four floors and really big. The majority of the bad guys were on the third floor in the top right corner, but there were security cameras everywhere.
"I think that the best point of entry is the basement. It looks like it has a hidden trap door used for illegal goods so I don't think the criminals know about it," Leaf said pointing at it.
I typed a few buttons to enlarge the basement, "That does seem to be best point of entry. It also looks like the security cameras are in the corners of the buildings along with in the middle, but there are more where Misty is held," I added.
"Max can you control the movement of the cameras for a short period for us to move throughout the building?" I asked.
"Do you even have to ask? Although I can't do it for long without alerting suspicion."
"So you guys will rescue Misty from going from below and I'll provide a distraction by coming through the roof," I decided.
"May are you crazy!" Max shouted, "You can't do that, you're at risk and these guys sound ruthless."
"Most bad guys are ruthless Max," I pointed out bluntly.
"I'll go with ya May," Dawn piped up.
"Ditto," Leaf said while raising her hand in agreement.
"No way," Gary argued. "You girls can't handle that many bad guys."
"Calm down Gary, I'll make sure they won't get hurt and I'm sure that they can handle themselves," I said.
I handed the girls a pair of special goggles for seeing through smoke from my backpack, invented of course by Max, and then we continued to plan til we got it memorized.
"May, we're close to your target," the president of the poketch company said.
"Thanks sir," I said as I pressed a button for the touch screen to disappear and went to the back of the plane to grab parachutes and helmets with goggles to start distributing them.
"Uh…May?" Dawn asked, "What are these for?"
"We're jumpin' out to our target," I said while getting everything on.
"What!" Leaf shouted. "That's crazy!"
"I've done it a bunch, the guys have seen me," I said.
The girls then turned to look at the guys, "She's not lying," Gary said while suiting up.
"Don't worry you guys, just think of flying," I said walking to the side door as everyone finished getting everything on.
"May we're over the site," the poketch company president announced.
"Thanks again for the ride," I said and then opened the door.
"Let's go!" I shouted to everyone.
I jumped out followed by Leaf, Dawn, Paul, Gary, Ash, and lastly Drew.
Thankfully no one screamed so at least we didn't alert anyone that we were here. I then opened my chute and started to guide myself a couple yards away from the warehouse. Everyone else did the same and we soon landed on the ground.
"Geez, how do you do that constantly?" Dawn asked in amazement. "I found it more terrifying but it was still cool."
"I just love to feel the breeze and the thrill of it," I said and then turned my attention to the guys. "You've got fifteen minutes to get into the building starting now."
Ash then called out Infernape and they started to dig a tunnel to get under the basement.
"Is it me or does Ash have a crush on Misty?" I asked.
"No you're right, Misty is the same," Dawn affirmed.
"Though both don't want to admit their feelings," Leaf finished.
"Can the same be said for both of you?" I asked teasingly.
They blushed slightly and said nothing causing me to smirk, "Paul and Gary right?" I asked teasingly knowing that the guys could hear everything we were saying and the girls didn't know.
Again they said nothing but blushed a little harder, "What about you May, you have a crush on someone?" Leaf asked curiously.
"Nope, not really," I said honestly.
"I read in a pokemon magazine that you are taking a break from the coordinating circuit. So what have you been doing in the mean time?" Dawn asked.
"I've been doing more missions these days," I said and looked at my poketch seeing that we had five minutes til we had to go. I decided to pull up a holographic map of the building on my poketch to follow the guy's movements. They were about five feet from the wall of the basement and so far the first floor was clear of bad guys.
Soon the five minutes were up and Dawn and Leaf called out Togekiss and Jigglypuff. I rode on Togekiss with Dawn while Leaf floated by Jigglypuff. Soon we made it to the roof and the girls switched out for Quilava and Espeon. We got by the door and I made a laser perforation of a square.
"Girls put on the goggles, it'll allow you to see through the smoke," I said as I put my own on.
The girls did while I pulled some smoke pellets out of my pocket and then called out Blaziken.
"Use Fire Punch and get out of way," I told him.
"Blaze," he said and then did Fire Punch before we heard yelling. "What was that?"
"Go check it out you two," a guy whispered/shouted.
We heard footprints and the bad guys came outside only to be ambushed by us.
"You three go check it out," the guys whispered/shouted again since the two other guys hadn't returned.
Again we heard footsteps and the bad guys got attacked by us along with our pokemon. I quickly checked that holographic map and saw that the guys had dodged the cameras and got to the second floor. I also noticed that there were six bad guys by Misty and one left on the fourth floor right around the corner of the stairs leading down. I signaled the girls to follow behind me and tossed the smoke pelts before I quickly knocked the guy out.
"Okay, the fourth floor is currently secure and there are six bad guys by Misty. There is a blind spot between cameras about five feet in front of you, get ready for a big ruckus," I said as I picked up a walkie-talkie from the unconscious bad guy and whistled extremely loud.
"Geez May, that hurt!" Gary and Ash complained.
"What the heck was that for Davidson?" the guy from the ransom call asked.
"Sorry but your security has been compromised," I said as I walked in front of a security camera and did a two finger salute while smirking and walked away throwing down the walkie-talkie.
"Get ready girls," I said while looking at my poketch to see three guys coming up.
"Guys, there's three grunts left guarding Misty, good luck," I said and got ready to toss some smoke pellets.
"There they are!" the guys shouted as they surrounded us. They had a Sceptile, Ursaring, and Scizor and I also that saw that one had a gun equipped with a silencer.
I tossed the smoke pellets and we started to fight.
Dawn took on Scizor, Leaf took Ursaring, and I had Sceptile.
"Blaziken Fire Combo Four!" I shouted.
Blaziken then used Fire Spin, Sky Uppercut, Blaze Kick, and Fire Punch to knock out Sceptile.
I then saw that the one guy had his gun aimed at Dawn. I started running toward him while shielding Dawn. The guys then aimed low and a bullet grazed my upper thigh.
"Ugh!" I grunted trying to swallow the scream so I wouldn't scare the guys.
The girls knocked out their opponent's pokemon along with the bad guys.
"Let's go girls," I said as I started running toward the stairs to go down a floor. My leg was killing me and tears were starting to come to my eyes.
We reached the room to see the guys battling and were having a tough time finding an opening.
"Hey!" I shouted really loud making the bad guys look at me.
"Pikachu use Thunderbolt! Ursaring use Hammer Arm! Blastoise use Hydro Pump! Flygon use Flamethrower!" the guys shouted.
The bad guys' pokemon fainted and I tossed a smoke pellet at the ground to prevent the bad guys from finding the exit. I came up behind and starting attacking them with Blaziken. I swung my bad leg to hit the leader in the back to knock him out but my leg burned in pain.
"Sweet Arceus!" I cursed under my breath.
"Masquerain use Silver Wind to clear the smoke," Drew commanded as he threw his pokeball.
"Masq," he said and used Silver Wind to clear the smoke.
"Go check on Misty, I'll take care of the bad guys," I said trying to swallow the pain.
I found spare rope lying around and began to tie the bad guys up while they were still knocked out. I then walked over to see Misty covered in a few bruises and a bit shaken up.
"Give her this Ash," I said handing him a water bottle.
He gave it to her, "Thanks Ash," she said weakly.
"You might want to eat this," I said giving her an Oran Berry.
"Thanks May, I feel better already," she said a little bit stronger now after eating it.
I then noticed a weird device on the wall with a timer saying fifteen seconds and I panicked.
"Wartortle use Protect on them now!" I screamed while running despite the pain taking the bomb.
I ran out down the hall toward the window and tossed it outside. The bomb went off a second later as I ran back and I got hit by the blowback of the explosion.
"AHHH!" I screamed in pain as the explosion threw me against a wall causing pain to shoot all over and I collapsed.
"May!" everyone shouted and raced to the hall to see me covered with a few small burn marks and soot.
I sat up and saw that the hall was on fire, "Wartortle use Water Gun!" I shouted weakly from breathing in the smoke from the explosion.
"Wartortle!" he shouted and started attacking the fire. A minute later it was completely out.
"We should get out of here," I said weakly trying to stand up but almost fell over from coughing and the pain coming from my leg.
"Stop talking May," Drew said as he caught me from falling. "It'll keep damaging your voice."
I tried to walk but I couldn't get up without falling in pain, "Sweet Arceus," I cursed again with tears beginning to come to my eyes as I was starting to feel faint from the loss of blood.
I quickly took my bandanna and wrapped it around the gash on my leg and tried to stand up but failed yet again.
"Wartortle and Blaziken return," I said as I returned them to their pokeballs and tried to stand again.
"Stop moving May," Drew said as he started to carry me bridal style outside which made me blush.
After we made it outside, Drew let me down and we saw Lance and the kidnap task force waiting outside with Misty's sisters.
"Misty, you're like alright!" they cried as they ran to give her a hug.
"Why were you here?" he asked them sternly.
"I told them," I said in a raspy voice. "I thought they should save their friend and they did a great job. *cough cough* If you're looking for someone to take the blame for screwing up your operation it's me. *cough cough cough*"
I then got hit by a coughing spasm causing me to feel weak again. I quickly grabbed a water bottle from my backpack and an Oran Berry. I started to drink the water and eat the berry, but it didn't help all the much.
"Why is your leg bleeding so badly?" Drew asked with concern.
I coughed again, "One of the bad guys had a gun and started to point it at Dawn, but couldn't see straight in the smoke. I stood between him and Dawn and started to run to get rid of the gun but he shot at my leg giving me this gash."
Tears began to fall from the pain, from feeling weak, and getting my friends in trouble.
"I better get going," I said in a raspy voice but didn't go anywhere cause Drew grabbed my arm.
"You're not going anywhere in that condition, you need medical attention," Drew argued.
"I'm not going to a hospital, the press will get wind causing an uproar and I think receiving medical attention from PHPA is out of the question," I retorted as another coughing spasm hit me.
"We'll take ya to the school nurse at our school, the students get the best medical attention from her," Dawn said.
"Max, you got a ride arranged?" I asked before coughing again.
"A helicopter is coming to get you and everyone else, why weren't you more careful?" he scolded me.
"Because," I said looking at the group of eight, "I couldn't allow for my friends to get hurt." I explained with a smile before turning my head and having another coughing spasm.
After I was done coughing, I got attacked by a hug by Dawn, "Thanks for saving me, but don't do it again. I don't want to lose a good friend of mine," she said with a smile.
"I think we all agree with Dawn's statement," Misty said. "Even Drew."
"I'll try but I couldn't allow you to get hurt, you have some embarrassment to go through first," I said with a smirk seeing Gary, Paul, and Ash blush lightly.
"What are you talking about?" Leaf asked.
"Let's just say that our conversion was heard by some other people," I teased.
The helicopter then arrived and we returned to Lilycove High a few hours later. Drew helped support me in walking to Nurse Joy and Brock who looked up in shock.
"What on earth happened?!" he asked concerned.
"I got shot in the leg and got blasted by a bomb," I said in a raspy voice.
They frowned and started attending to my wounds. Afterwards, I had my leg bandaged up, the burns covered with salve, and my throat healed from drinking a berry healing potion.
"You should rest here a little bit," Nurse Joy said before leaving the room.
"How are you feeling Misty?" I asked.
"I'm fine, Dawn will help cover the bruises but I do feel a bit sore. Something tells me I'm gonna be really sore tomorrow," she said.
"We'll be back in a minute, we have to call Lance," Dawn said as everyone left the room.
After they left, I quickly got out of bed and wrote a short note to everyone before placing a rose down and slipped out the window to go back to the dorm to change.
Dear Gang,
Sorry I had to leave, but I have other places to be. Hope we can meet again under happier circumstances.
Your friend,
May
P.S.
Drew-I've heard you like these
After getting back to the dorm and changing into my pajamas since it had gotten so late, I decided to lie on the couch and read a book. Then everyone came back chatting about my disappearance.
"Hey guys," I said and then pretended to just notice Misty's bruises. "Oh my gosh, what happened!"
"I had a bit of a training accident," she lied.
I quickly went to the kitchen and started to make a salve for the bruises, "So what's with the rose Drew, got a secret admirer," I teased.
He blushed a little and headed to his room. I finished making the salve and gave it to Misty, "This'll help with the soreness from those bruises, night guys," I said heading back to my room and got into bed.
By the time Dawn came in, she had a small smile on her face, "What happened to you?" I asked curiously.
"Nothing," she said in a dreamy tone.
Looks like someone has a secret, I'll pry some more tomorrow.
With that thought in mind, I fell asleep.