October 19th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(Drew's POV)
I was watching May as she sang; she truly does belong on the stage. She knew how to keep the crowd going and her stage presence was amazing. She was at the end of the song and gave everything she had. What she sang was true, I never listen. My stupid, arrogant self just never listened. Instead, I insulted her and called her the worst person on the planet. The song ended and a winner was soon to be decided. As Brandi came out on stage, the gang and I tried to push through the crowd to get to May backstage.
"Lin wait!" Dawn yelled as we ran up to May who called out Blaziken.
She looked pale and about ready to pass out, I couldn't let her go, "Lin wait…..please," I begged as my eyes began to tear up.
She looked sad and in pain, "I'm sorry, Kirlia use Teleport," she said sadly as she started to collapse from the headache.
"Lin!" we shouted as her form disappeared and Brandi came up from behind.
"So Drewy, you gonna take me to the dance next weekend?" she asked in an oversweet voice that made me want to puke as she hugged me from behind.
"Get off of me you tramp," I said annoyed as I shook her off. "I would never take you anywhere, you disgust me."
She looked horrified and ran off crying, good riddance. I then started to walk back to the dorm.
"You are just the heart breaker today," Gary said as we walked back.
"She deserved it though, especially to what she put Lin through," Leaf said firmly as we reached the dorm.
Dawn went to her room to see if May was there and came back sad, "She's completely gone, all her stuff isn't there," she said sadly as she took a seat next to Paul on the couch.
"I guess she was serious about not coming back," Misty said as she sat on her bean bag chair.
I went to grab my computer and start a video call with Max as I moved to the common room couch along with everyone else while Ash went to get food.
"Hey Drew, what's up?" he asked.
"Where would May go if she got really upset?" I asked anxiously.
Max looked concerned, "I don't know. She could have gone anywhere and what do you mean if she got really upset?" he asked as he was about to take a sip of his drink.
"I kind of went a little too far in making her upset today," I said lightly.
"A little too far is an understatement especially since you called her a bitch," Ash said as he came back with food as everyone glared at him.
Max did a spit take, "WHAT!" he yelled/spluttered. "No wonder she ran away you jerk! If you think I'm gonna help ya find her, forget it. You're on your own."
He ended the call leaving me stunned, "You sure got yourself in a mess," Gary said as he sat next to Leaf.
I closed my laptop and placed it on the coffee table before putting my face in my hands. Now what am I gonna do.
(May's POV)
After I fainted everything became dark. Suddenly, it was white everywhere and I saw Arceus standing in front on me.
"I sensed that you have many questions and few answers," he said telepathically.
"You could say that. I'm really confused about the prophecy and my life is a little hectic right now."
"I sense that your heart is hurting from the pain of heart break. The one you like doesn't hate you. He'll come around and treat you right," he said gently.
I gave a sad smile, "I wish I could believe that."
"I'm the one who brought life to your world and I have a connection to everyone and everything so I know though your connection to me is stronger than many," he explained.
"That makes sense," I agreed.
"I also sense you are confused with singing and its consequences."
"I don't understand why I faint every time I sing. It doesn't make sense to me."
"Let me start out this way. Have you noticed that you have a deep connection with all pokemon and that you have certain gut feelings about people and their behavior?"
"I guess, I always seem to have a good sense of understanding pokemon and people," I agreed.
"Do you know why?"
"I don't and what does this have to do with the singing and headaches?"
"I'm getting to that. The reason you understand people and pokemon well is because you possess the power of aura like your ancestor did," he explained. "Let me tell you the story of her."
Soon we drifted to the past and I watched the different scenes as Arceus explained, "Your ancestor, Latisha, was known as the healing maiden in her village thousands of years ago. She had the power of aura that made her ability to connect to pokemon and people stronger than most. Along with having her powers of aura to help heal, her voice possessed healing abilities and she knew how to heal pokemon with the herbs and berries that grew around. When she found me terribly injured that one day, she used her aura, medicines, and singing to bring me back to full health. Along with those talents, she became a guardian of me because of what she did. She kept the key safe from everyone and it was passed down each generation to the oldest girl in the family. Your mother soon possessed it and the day she discovered your prophecy, she did everything she could to help you and be the best mother she could before she died."
"So am I Latisha's reincarnation?" I asked.
"You may possess her abilities, but you are not her. You are both unique in personality and the traits of healing and singing are common because anyone can possess them, like your mother. The power of aura however is what connects you two," he explained.
"So what does this have to do with the headaches?" I asked for the third time.
"When you get your headaches from singing, it's because along with singing you activate your aura energy that needs to be yielded and controlled. When you sing, it stays inside because you don't know how to unleash it making your head hurt from containing all that energy inside you. Also because you have the power of aura, you have a pokemon partner who acts as your guide. Latisha had a special Breloom who had powers of healing and aura so he was her companion. Your companion is still small, but he will draw close connections with you."
"So Riolu is my companion through my journey with aura? I asked.
"Yes, together both of you will train with the power of aura and understand it," he said. "Once you have done this and found a way to control it, you won't receive the headaches from singing. But be warned, singing does have its price. Each time you sing, your enemy is one step closer to finding you. For your aura, it is your life force so you must be careful when using it."
I felt a sense of relief and peace, "I sense you have come to accept your fate. Good, acceptance is the first step in understanding how to control the power of aura," Arceus said in approval.
I bowed in respect, "Thank you for helping me discover myself and giving me answers. I know you can't tell me everythings, but the little you have has helped, thank you," I said gratefully.
He nodded in respect and approval, "Our time is up, I wish you luck on your journey to following your destiny."
Suddenly the light disappeared and I saw black again. I slowly started to wake up and saw that I was in my room at the bungalow with my pokemon surrounding me looking concerned.
"Ruh?" Riolu asked.
I gave a smile, "For once, I feel okay," I said making my pokemon extremely confused.
"Blaze," Blaziken asked in confusion in speaking for everyone.
I gave a small laugh and explained what happened in my conversation with Arceus.
"Ruh?" Riolu asked.
"That's right, so we're gonna have to train harder in that sense so we both can understand it," I said as I looked at my poketch. "Good grief, I was out for two hours. I better make you guys something to eat."
I got up and went down to the kitchen to start making food for my pokemon. As I was making it, I looked around admiring the room. I loved this place. It was a small brown bungalow with a gate outside of the house with a small entrance to get in and a beautiful porch in the back. On the right side of the house was a small garden and orchard with all the herbs and berry trees I planted over the summer. On the left side of the house was a large open grass area. The back was the same way along with having a small trail to get to the beach within a five-ten minute walk.
The house itself had three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms upstairs while the main floor had a huge kitchen, a small study, a beautiful sitting room with many windows, and a living room. The basement was pretty huge so I converted it into my own recording study for my music. The only thing that was missing was a gym to practice in but the outdoors would suffice for now. The bungalow itself was located between Lilycove City and Fortree City. It was also hidden from the public for the most part and there is a small-town name Rosewall Town about ten minutes away where you can buy food and such.
It was hard to believe Max and I inherited a place like this we didn't know of, but we fixed it up with the help of a lot of people and it turned out great though I appreciate it more than Max. He likes being more in a more suburban area than out in the country hence why I come here more than him.
I finished making the food and fed my pokemon while I made myself some supper. After we were done, I cleaned up after my pokemon and went to the video phone that was in the house and called Max.
"May, why haven't you been answering my video calls on your poketch?" he demanded.
"Hello to you too," I said. "Sorry about not answering, I was knocked out from another faint attack for two hours and I just finished eating along with my pokemon."
"Did you sing again?"
"Yea, Brandi pushed me into a singing competition, but I sang the song I've been working on for the past few weeks and everyone loved it," I reported happily.
"You need to be careful May; you know you're not supposed to sing at all," he scolded.
"I know," I moaned tiredly.
"Guess who I got a call from?"
"Dawn?" I guessed.
"It was Drew. May, why did you guys fight?" he asked loudly.
"We both got frustrated with each other and it just happened."
"Well, he was desperate to know where you were and he looked terribly depressed."
So I guess Arceus was right, "You didn't tell him where I was right?" I asked suspiciously.
"No, I figured after all that's happened over the past week or so, you left to take a break from everything besides that.".
"More or less. Oh, could you send me Skitty, Glaceon, Munchlax, and Bulbasaur? I think I should try to train with everyone while I'm here."
"Sure May, I'll also keep where you're at a secret," he said and signed off before sending my pokeballs.
I received them from a small pokemon transporter machine I had installed here. Before I let out my pokemon, I turned to Kirlia, "Thanks for teleporting me here, I'll see you in a few days," I smiled.
"Kirlia," he said with a smile and teleported back to Max.
After he left, I let everyone out, "How about you guys go hangout outside while I check my email real quick and then we'll do some training," I proposed.
Everyone nodded in agreement and went outside while I went to my laptop to see that I was bombarded with emails by all my friends. I sent emails to all my teachers asking for any homework assignments I would need to do while I was gone and then I saw an email from the student president Mariana asking me to play a song for the homecoming dance next week.
Hmmm…I know I shouldn't but Mariana also wrote that the originally band act wasn't able to come. Maybe I could help Mariana out by asking if Backlash could play for the night. I emailed her back saying I would get back to her in two days after I thought about it.
After changing into workout clothes, I went outside to see all my pokemon having fun playing with each other. When they saw me coming, they came up toward me ready to practice.
"Alright, I'll pair you guys up and you'll take turns fighting each other. While you do that, I'll take each of you to practice with me for fifteen minutes, sound good?"
My pokemon nodded in understanding, "Alright, let's have Skitty vs. Glaceon, Munchlax vs. Luxio, Blaziken vs. Wartortle, Dragonair vs. Altaria, and Beautifly vs. Riolu. Bulbasaur, you'll practice with me first."
Everyone then ran/flew off in their pairings and began to battle while I started to practice with Bulbasaur. After a few hours or so, I just finished sparring off with Blaziken and Riolu was the only one I haven't trained with.
"Thanks you guys, you did well, return," I said as I returned everyone but Riolu to their pokeballs.
"You ready to start practicing aura?" I asked.
"Ruh," he said excitedly.
"So how do you get aura to come to you?" I asked since technically I was clueless to this whole thing.
"Ruh," he said as he sat on the ground and started to meditate.
"Good idea," I said as I sat on the ground and began meditating as well. Hopefully all the yoga and pilates will help.
After a minute, I felt control of the energy in my body and a ball of energy appeared in front of me leaving me in shock.
"Ruh," he said excitedly as he began to glow.
"Ruh," he said happily after the light died away.
"Lucario you evolved," I said happily as I gave him a hug. "Let's work more on aura and then call it a night."
"Ruh," he said while nodding. For the next hour, we worked on controlling our aura, well….mostly mine. I could conjure it, but aiming it was another story. As I was working on the last aura sphere, I accidentally hit my cheek where Drew slapped me causing my aura sphere to go loose and me to grimace in pain.
"Ruh?" Lucario asked concerned.
I gave a tired smile, "I'll be okay, it'll heal up," I said tiredly. "I think we should call it quits for tonight."
"Ruh," he agreed as I returned him to his pokeball.
After I went inside, I locked the doors and took a quick shower before going to bed satisfied knowing I had more answers to my many questions.
October 24th (Outside of Rosewall Town, Hoenn)
I found it hard to believe that I accomplished so much in the past few days. I mastered the basics of my aura pretty well as well as fighting out with Lucario and Blaziken. I also practiced with my pokemon and got a few more moves under our belt. I also got Backlash to help out since they owed me a favor after replacing a backup guitarist of theirs for a concert and protecting them from a kidnapping attempt.
Currently, it was in the early evening and I was sparring off with Lucario. We've become quite close the past few days and our fighting was off the charts.
"Alright Lucario, I think we've done enough for today," I said tiredly.
"Ruh," he said nodding.
I checked the time on my poketch, "Better shower and call Max, thanks for match," I said bowing to him which he did in return before I returned him to his pokeball.
I quickly took a shower before putting on the wig in a ponytail and contacts before going to the video phone and calling Max.
"Hey May, you look better than a few days ago," he said surprised. "What did you do the past few days?"
"I did some homework and a ton of practicing with my pokemon."
"You calling to return some of your pokemon?"
"Yup, I'm sending Wartortle, Altaria, Beautifly, and Munchlax," I said. "Also can you send Kirlia?"
"You got it May, I'll have her teleport to ya," he said and signed off.
Soon I sent my pokemon to Max and Kirlia appeared next to me, "Kirlia," he said.
"Kirlia, can you teleport me to the tree outside of my dorm," I asked.
"Kirlia," he said and teleported me to the tree.
I used my aura powers to detect if anyone was in there. No one was, but to be on the safe side since my powers were still new, "Kirlia, you sense anyone in there?"
"Kirlia," he said while shaking his head.
"Good, can you teleport my stuff back?"
"Kirlia," he said and did as I asked while I quickly climbed up the tree to get into the dorm.
I went inside through the window to find all my stuff in place, "Thanks Kirlia, you can return to Max."
He teleported out leaving me by myself. I decided to make some tea and meditate on the balcony while waiting for everyone to come back from the meeting about the survival camping trip tomorrow.
(Drew's POV)
I was sitting in the battle arena with everyone else for the class meeting about the camping challenge tomorrow. I was bored out of my skull and depressed more than anything. The past few days were miserable for me. It didn't help when my wig blew off Friday morning before school showing everyone that I had pink hair. Then Lance called us once for a mission about some hostage situation that day as well and we were hoping May would be there. She wasn't and I was so out of sync with fighting that I almost got crushed to death if Dawn hadn't covered for me. Roselia still hasn't forgiven for being out-of-wack and mopey about May.
"That's all you need to know about the camping challenge. The groups of four will be posted on the board," Mr. Stone said as the pictures of groups appeared.
I was with the guys which was nice, I then noticed that the girls were grouped with Lin.
"How are we supposed to do this challenge with Lin not coming back?" Leaf asked.
"We better talk to Mr. Stone," Dawn said as we followed the girls down from the bleachers.
After we crossed the arena, we saw Mr. Stone talking to some other students, "Mr. Stone?" Dawn asked.
He turned to face Dawn as the other students left, "What can I do for you Miss Berlitz?" he asked.
"Leaf, Misty, and I were wondering about our fourth partner, she's left the school so shouldn't we have a replacement?" she asked.
"I'm sorry Miss Berlitz but everyone is grouped up," he said.
"There has to be someone that's not paired up," Misty complained.
"Miss Waterflower, everyone is grouped up. You'll just have to deal with it," he said sternly and walked away.
"Well, this is just great," Leaf complained.
"Calm down Leafy, you girls will do fine. Besides, it's just like traveling when we were younger," Gary said trying to calm down his girlfriend.
"Well, we better get back to the dorm, it's late and I'm in a sour mood," Dawn said grumpily.
"That's my job," Paul said as he gave a quick peck on her cheek making her smile a small bit.
"Dude, you still creep me out with the PDA," Gary said while shuddering.
"Oh leave him alone Gary, let's just go back to the dorm," Leaf said as she held his hand.
I followed the group quietly making Dawn concerned, "You okay Drew?" she asked.
"I'm fine," I said as we continued to walk back to the dorm.
We unlocked the door and stepped inside, "I still don't know how we're gonna do this challenge with just the three of us?" Dawn complained.
"What are you talking about three, you've got me on your team," May said as she came out from the hallway and leaned against the wall on her side while crossing her arms.
"May?" I said quietly with in shock along with everyone else.
(May's POV)
I grinned while shaking my head in amusement, "Who else would I be rosehead?" I teased.
"May!" Dawn shouted as she ran to give me a hug along with Leaf and Misty making it one big group hug.
"May, where have you been?" Misty asked.
"I've been at my family's bungalow the past few days," I explained as I broke out of the hug to give the guys besides Drew fist bumps.
"You have a bungalow?" Ash asked.
"Yup, apparently it belonged to my mom's family."
"May, what's on you cheek?" Leaf asked.
Crap, I meant to cover that with make-up before I came back, "What are you talking about?" I asked trying to appear clueless.
"May, is that the bruise from when I hit you?" Drew asked concerned.
"It is, though it hardly hurts these days though," I said optimistically.
Drew looked depressed making me feel a little guilty for being careless in not covering it up. I sighed, "Drew, you mind walking with me?" I asked making him looked surprised as he nodded.
"We'll see you guys later," I said as I shut the door.
We walked to the beach in awkward silence, "Are you okay Drew?" I finally asked.
"No," he said sadly before continuing. "May, I am so sorry for hitting you. I just was really frustrated and…."
"Drew, it's okay, I understand," I said gently while putting my hand on his shoulder. "I forgive you."
He looked surprised, "You do?"
I gave a smile while rolling my eyes, "Of course I do, I'm not one to hold a grudge for long," I said. "Also, will you forgive me?"
"For what?" he asked surprised.
"For getting your emotions tangling up, I didn't mean to. I guess it got a little confusing with the prank, but you knew it was coming though," I pointed out.
"I guess you're right and I forgive you too," he said with a smile causing me to beam and give him a hug.
I broke out of it with a smile "Thanks," I said cheerfully. "How's life with the rose colored hair," I teased as we continued to walk.
He smirked, "People liked it," he said arrogantly while flicking his hair causing me to scoff while smiling.
"Seems like someone is back to their normal self," I teased. "Well…almost."
I pulled out a small bottle from my pocket and gave it to him, "This'll help."
"What is it?"
I rolled my eyes, "Well, you can't be an annoying, arrogant grasshead without the grasshead. It's green hair dye to change your hair back to normal," I explained.
"I suppose I should thank you," he teased and pulled out a red rose.
"Thanks," I said as I put it in my hair before we started walking back to the dorm. "You ready for the challenge in a few days?"
He scoffed, "I think this whole challenge thing is pathetic. We went on journeys all the time as a kid."
"I look forward to it, I like a good challenge."
"You just want to show off," Drew teased.
"Of course, how else am I supposed to be," I said arrogantly while mimicking Drew's hair flip.
We shared a laugh and soon made it back to the dorm to find everyone watching TV. Drew left to take a shower to change his hair back while the girls got up and dragged me to my room. The guys shook their heads in amusement before continuing to watch TV.
"What the heck?" I asked.
"So did anything happen to you and Drew?" Dawn asked curiously.
I rolled my eyes, "I should have figured I would be interrogated when we got back."
"Come on May, answer the question," Leaf said impatiently.
"If you're wondering if anything romantic happened, it didn't. Unless you count him giving me a rose."
"Aww…..May you're supposed to get together with him," Dawn whined.
"So what did happen?" Misty asked curiously.
"We apologized, I gave him a hug and we talked a little. To be honest, I still like Drew despite him hitting me, but I want to mend what friendship we had first before any romantic relationship," I explained.
"That sounds reasonable to me," Leaf agreed.
"I agree because I think Drew wants to make it up to you for doing that. He was really depressed when you left," Dawn added.
"I'm not gonna lie, he did have a small bit of punishment coming and I think that fit the bill," I said. "Though at the moment, he seems to have gone back to his normal self."
"You have an influence over him May," Leaf teased.
"Pfft, I could say the same for you having an influence over your boyfriends," I huffed.
"It's true though," Dawn teased. "And we aren't denying it, but you are."
I rolled my eyes and left the room, "May get back here," Dawn commanded.
I ignored them and went into the kitchen to get some water and the girls followed after me, "May we aren't done interrogating you yet?" Dawn said sternly.
"This interrogation is over," I stated.
"But May," Dawn whined.
"Calm down Dawn, you can interrogate her later when she is half asleep," Drew teased as he came into the kitchen.
I rolled my eyes, "Like that'll work and I see you've got your hair back," I teased.
He smirked and flicked his hair, "It seems I have."
I looked at the kitchen clock and saw that it was late, "I'm calling it a night, see ya," I said.
"May it's only 10:00 and we don't have school tomorrow, you sure you want to go to bed this early?" Dawn asked astounded.
"I've got to get up early and do training and meditate."
"Since when do you need meditation, airhead?" Drew asked arrogantly.
I created a small aura sphere and tossed it at his hair making it stand on edge, "That's why," I said with a smile as the girls and Drew looked in shock.
I left the kitchen for my room with everyone just standing there stunned. I got ready for bed and fell asleep, having the satisfaction of Drew's shocked face put me to sleep.
October 25th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
I woke up early the next morning and changed before grabbing Lucario's and Blaziken's pokeballs and heading to the kitchen to grab some water. I soon left for a hidden park I discovered a few weeks ago and called out Lucario and Blaziken.
"Morning you two," I said cheerfully.
"Ruh?" Lucario asked.
"What else do we start with?" I said teasingly.
"Ruh," he said as he started to sit on the ground and meditate.
"Blaziken, I want you to join us in our training sessions. Even if can't fight with aura, we all need to practice fighting in general. I've also discovered that meditation helps a lot in helping control and focus your inner energy," I explained.
"Blaze," he nodded in understanding.
Soon we were all meditating in a triangle when my aura detected seven people looking at us.
"Your friends are here," Lucario said telepathically.
"I know, I kinda threw an aura sphere at Drew last night and everyone saw so they were bound to be curious."
"You shouldn't have done that."
"I couldn't help it and it was the easiest way to tell them or at least show them," I argued before breathing out deeply. "Let's spar a little bit before I flush them out."
Soon Lucario and I stood up with Blaziken following our lead, "Alright let's fight free for all."
They nodded in understanding and we gave ourselves a decent distance from each other before we rushed in and started to fight. I threw a couple of Aura Spheres and directed some of Lucario's at Blaziken to fend off. After a bit, Lucario did Bone Rush while I created an aura staff and we began to fight off again.
After about fifteen minutes, I decided to have my friends come out in the open. I gathered a small ball of energy in front of me and then threw it at the bushes behind me.
"May, what the heck was that for, you could have hurt us," Dawn complained.
"Don't worry Dawn, I have better aim than that," I said as Lucario and Blaziken stood next to me.
"So you really do have the power to control aura," Gary said amazed.
"Basically, mostly what I did while I was away was practice and train with Lucario along with my other pokemon," I explained.
"How can you control aura like that?" Ash asked.
"I'm one of the special people who can control and use it for offensive and defensive moves along with detecting other people and pokemon at close range. It also helps me connect better with people and pokemon like my ancestor Latisha did. After talking to Arceus when I fainted, he explained it to me and I've been practicing ever since. Though I still haven't unlocked the abilities of telepathy with any person or pokemon, the only one I can talk to telepathically is Lucario," I explained.
"So you knew we were here?" Paul asked.
I nodded, "Yea, Lucario and I sensed it while we were meditating."
"So basically you were showing off," Drew said with a smirk.
I flicked my hair mocking him, "For the most part grasshead," I said arrogantly while smirking.
Suddenly I felt a change in energy and quickly put up a defense shield around us that stopped an explosion from hitting us. The attack was too powerful so I fell on the ground hard from the impact.
"Prepare for trouble," a voice said.
"I really don't need this," I wheezed. "Lucario, use Aura Sphere and Blaziken use Ember."
The attacks hit Team Rocket and blew them off into the sky, "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again….." they shouted as they flew off.
"May, are you okay?" Leaf asked concerned as I sat up.
"When you use your aura, you are using your life energy. Using offensive attacks are easier than defense because more energy is involved. I haven't fully mastered it so I feel incredibly weak," I said weakly as I was trying to sit up.
"Blaze," Blaziken said concerned.
"I'll be fine, it'll take a while for me to get my energy back," I said tiredly. "At least I didn't have to hear their stupid motto again, that REALLY ticks me off."
"It is annoying once you think about it," Dawn said thinking out loud.
"We better get back to the dorm, can't do much here now," I said as I tried to stand up but almost fell over from feeling weak and I started seeing spots.
"May stop, you don't want to hurt yourself," Drew said concerned.
"Blaze," Blaziken said as he started to carry me.
"Thanks Blaziken," I said weakly as everyone walked back to the dorm.
When we got back, Blaziken put me on the couch, "Thanks Blaziken, return. You too Lucario," I said while returning them to their pokeballs.
"How you feeling May?" Dawn asked.
"I'm feeling better, it takes a few minutes for my aura to regenerate," I said as I stood up to go to my room.
I quickly took a shower before going on my laptop to find an email from Mr. Stone giving a list of locations of where we might be starting from and I became concerned because these places were dangerous.
I walked into the common room to see the guys playing video games while the girls sat and watched, "Girls, we should plan for the camping challenge," I announced.
"I guess you're right though I think it's not necessary," Dawn said.
We went back to our room and I got out my computer to show them the email, "You might want to reconsider us wanting to plan," I said.
"No wonder, these are some of the dangerous places in the region," Leaf said stunned after she finished reading the email.
"Why don't you get your computers and then we can research each area," I suggested.
"Sure," the girls said and quickly went to grab their laptops.
"Leaf you can research the first two, Dawn you look up three and four, Misty you can look up five and six, and I'll look up the last two," I proposed.
Basically for the rest of the afternoon, the girls and I planned out what would happen if we were dropped off at any one place and we also figured out which pokemon we would take. We finished up and went into the kitchen to make something to eat for supper to find the guys still gaming, they're screwed.
"How long have you guys been gaming?" Misty asked.
"Six-seven hours, I lost count," Ash said still focusing on the screen.
"Leave them be, we've already lost them to the digital world," Leaf said.
We continued to make tacos and soon the smell went into the common room causing the guys to pause the game.
"Tacos!" Ash said excitedly as the guys came into the kitchen and was about to start making one.
"Un uh," Misty said sternly while blocking him. "We girls get to go first since we made them."
The girls and I laughed at Ash's sad face while we made our tacos and took them to the table.
"Did we cover everything for tomorrow?" Dawn asked.
"I would think so because we show up and they give us a backpack of limited supplies before we get teleported to our destination," I said.
"Wait, you mean you spent six-seven hours planning for a simple camping trip?" Gary asked.
"So what if we did, it's better to be prepared than not," Leaf argued.
"That's a bunch of time wasted," Ash said.
"It's better than wasting time on video games," Dawn retorted.
"Don't insult the video games," Ash whined. "They're amazing."
I shook my head at his sad behavior and saw that Max was calling my poketch, "Hey Max what's up?" I asked.
"Got a hit on your hotline, apparently there's a Team Rocket robot downtown again."
I groaned, "I'm on it," I said and ended the call.
"I'll see you guys later," I said and quickly went into my room to change into my mission outfit and head downtown to stop the robot.
When I got there, Team Rocket saw me and began their motto.
"Prepare for trouble," Jessie said.
"And make it double," James said.
"Max, you ready to take over in a minute?" I asked.
"Yup, whenever you get the patch on the robot."
I shot my grappling hook and slid up to the shoulder of the robot.
"Are you interrupting our motto again?!" Jessie screeched.
I rolled my eyes and put the patch on the robot, "You're on Max," I called.
Soon I saw sparks come from all over and the robot slowly started to fall down. As the robot fell, I saw a little girl right in its path. I quickly shot my grappling gun at a nearby tree and swung down to pull her out of the way to safety as the robot fell making the ground shake.
"Julie," her mother cried as she ran up and hugged the little girl. "Thank you so much."
"Thanks for saving me," Julie said causing me to smile.
They walked away and Officer Jenny came up to me, "Thanks for helping out May," she said.
"I'm glad I was able to though these robots of theirs are really getting annoying," I said tiredly.
"Can't argue with that," she agreed.
"I'll let you take over Officer Jenny, have a good night," I said and skated back to the dorm.
I got back and changed into my pjs before looking out into the common room to find everyone watching "Rise of the Duskclops" which was a movie I wasn't a fan of so I went back to my room and played on the piano instead. It was annoying to hear Dawn scream every ten minutes so I decided to plug in my headphones and continued to work on a few songs.
An hour later, Dawn came in looking white as a ghost, "You alright Dawn?" I asked as I turned off my piano and took off my headphones.
"I can't believe I went along with watching that movie," she whined.
"I suggest you watch something funny and happy before going to bed to get your mind off the movie," I suggested.
"I think I'll take you up on that," she said shakily as she got ready for bed.
I sighed and then crept into bed, I wanted to be well rested for tomorrow because who knows where we were gonna be and if I would get any sleep.
October 26th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
The next morning, I woke up feeling re-energized and quickly changed into dark grey yoga pants, a blue and white tee, a red zip up hoodie, and comfortable walking shoes. I then put on the wig in a ponytail and a red ball cap. After I was done, Dawn went into the bathroom and changed while I grabbed Lucario's pokeball and went into the common area. Soon the girls came on in similar outfits like mine though the color schemes were different. Misty was black, teal and white, Dawn was navy, pink and white, while Leaf was grey, white and green.
"You guys ready for the challenge?" I asked.
"You bet, we better have a quick breakfast before we have to go to the arena," Misty said as we went into the kitchen to grab something to eat.
Soon the guys came in looking tired, "Did you guys pull an all-nighter or something?" Leaf asked.
"Something like that," Gary yawned.
"Well you guys are screwed," I stated.
"Why do you say that airhead?" Drew asked tired.
"Because you're starting in a dangerous place and you're in no condition to do any fighting or traveling."
"What are you talking about?" he asked still not getting the point.
The girls and I sighed at the guy's stupidity and Leaf went to get her computer to show them the email causing the guys faces to light up in panic.
"That's why I said you're screwed," I told Drew as I continued to eat.
"No wonder you guys planned for so long, all of these places are dangerous," Gary said stunned.
The guys continued to panic as we all finished eating and then left for the arena.
"Alright everyone, each group will be transported to a destination on the list which I sent out yesterday after receiving your backpacks, good luck," Mr. Stone said as the first group got teleported.
We were up next, so the girls hugged and kissed their guys respectively leaving me and Drew, "Don't die grasshead," I teased.
Drew flicked his hair, "As if and I expect the same to you," he said as he gave me a rose.
I took it while rolling my eyes and the girls and I stood in front of Mr. Stone and Solidad, "Here are your backpacks with the limited supplies," he said as he handed out pink, teal, green, and red backpacks to us, "Good luck."
Soon Solidad commanded Slowbro to use Teleport and we were teleported to our destination to begin the challenge.