December 26th (Snowpoint City, Sinnoh)
(May's POV)
"Help us please!"
"They're trying to take us!"
"Save us!"
I quickly bolted out of the room and ran toward the other pokemon, "Kirlia, teleport me to the place I'm thinking of," I said quickly.
"Kirlia," he said and soon I was out in the bitter cold near the lake and I saw a huge carrier helicopter above it.
"No you don't," I yelled as I sprinted to the machine.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't our favorite princess," Mars said slyly as she stood next to the lake.
"I don't have time to deal with you," I said annoyed as I side kicked her backwards causing her to fall in the lake.
I then used the grappling gun on my poketch and shot it at the helicopter allowing me to fly up to the ledge.
I looked ahead and saw that Uxie was a in a glass tube container along with Mesprit and Azelf, "Hang on, I'll get you out," I shouted as I tried to find a way to get them out.
"Look out," Azelf screamed in my head.
I turned around to see a grunt about ready to strike me. I quickly dodged his fist and punched him in the face causing him to fall down. Grunts kept attacking me from all over and though I avoided most of them out, I was pushed to the edge of the helicopter door.
"Looks like you're out of options, princess," Mars said slyly looking soaking wet. "Time for pay back."
She kicked me in the gut causing me to fall out into the lake below. Thankfully before I killed my back, I changed my position to dive in hands first. The cold water shocked my nerves from the extreme change in temperature, but I had enough energy to swim to the edge of the lake and crawl out.
Great, now I'm at risk of hypothermia again for the second time this week. I shivered violently from the cold as I stood up and suddenly found myself back at the chalet with everyone staring at me in shock, concern, and a little bit of anger.
"May, what the…..?" Dawn asked in shock. "You're shivering like crazy and you're all wet! What happened?!"
"I went to Lake Acuity to try and rescue the Lake Guardians. I found them contained on a helicopter, but was surrendered and pushed out to fall into the lake," I explained annoyed with my teeth chattering.
"May, what were you thinking? You scream in pain and then rush out without saying what happened to you. Now you're shivering like crazy and you've probably got hypothermia," Drew said angrily.
I glared at him, "I had to rush out and try to do something. The pain came from Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf telling me to save them from being captured, which I failed to do. Now they will be forced to summon Dialga and Palkia," I retorted. "Max, start scanning Mt. Coronet. We need to find Team Galactic's base and the cave where they will try to summon the legendaries."
"K May, but you need to warm up or you're gonna go into shock," he said concerned.
I raised my hands in surrender, "Fine, I'll be back in a little bit," I said tiredly before I left the room to take another shower to warm up.
Team Galactic will try to summon Dialga and Palkia soon. We have to take them down now or the world will end as we know it. With that thought in mind, I changed and went back downstairs to find everyone still in "command central", "Any luck with the scans?"
"No, we haven't found any trace of Team Galactic anywhere. At this rate, we don't have time to scan everywhere. Our best bet is to stop Team Galactic at the cave," Drew said.
Max turned and faced me with a look of concern, "May, I don't want you to go. It's too much of a strain on you especially from the past two weeks."
"Max, I've recovered fine, I'm healthy enough to do the mission," I argued.
"May, we all agree that you should stay here," Dawn voiced quietly.
I looked at her in surprise and hurt, "May, you've have a really bad cold, suffered terrible conditions from being kidnapped, and have gotten hypothermia twice all within a week. You need to sit this out," Drew said firmly.
"Guys, I'm fine. Believe me, I can do this," I begged.
"May, please, just stay here," Leaf said softly.
I went from begging to angry, I hated it when people told me I wasn't capable of something.
"Fine, if that's what you want, I'll stay here," I said bitterly as I secretly crossed my fingers behind my back. "Good luck, I'll be elsewhere."
I turned on my heels and stormed out of the room back to mine. I then dug out my laptop and started to do research on the Sinnoh Time Space Legend. I was still upset that I was forced to be held back and I understood why my friends wanted me to not get hurt, but with this whole legend stuff, it's too risky to not have me there.
"You think correctly, what Team Galactic is about to do is a risk to the world as you know it. Your destiny has been written out to protect the world," Arceus briefly voiced.
The typical "talk-to-Arceus" headache started to appear causing me to wince slightly at the pain. Now how am I going to get to where I need without anyone noticing my disappearance?
"Perhaps I can help," Gardevoir reached out.
"Gardevoir, but you're in no condition to do so," I said surprised.
"I can at least teleport you," she argued.
I sighed, "Fine, I'll let you know where to teleport me when I'm ready."
I quickly changed again into something more combat friendly before strapping on my poketch and putting my hair in a high ponytail. Since I didn't have my mission outfit or any gadgets, I'd have to do with what I had.
Now to hack into the bug that I set up before I left the room. I got on my laptop and started to listen in on everyone while waiting for the right time to leave.
(Drew's POV)
"Good thing the scans picked up Team Galactic's headquarters after May left. Otherwise, we would have a harder time of getting her to leave," Max said before turning back to the computer screen and began typing. "Even though I was able to hack into Team Galactic's system, I could only grab the blue prints before they caught on that I was hacking them."
Gary nodded, "At least we have that, it'll make it easier to map out a plan."
"I can't believe that their headquarters were east of Mt. Coronet, but I guess it makes sense since they are obsessed with the Time Space Legend. It didn't help that they cloaked the place so no one could find it," Dawn said annoyed. "That would explain why it was so hard to scan for in the first place."
"Well, as for the plan, we should find the room where the Lake Guardians are and rescue them before Team Galactic can use them to summon Dialga and Palkia," Paul suggested.
"According to the blue prints, it's almost impossible to figure out which room the Lake Guardians would be in," Leaf said frustrated. "And we don't have time to look all over the place."
Suddenly, we heard a faint cry, "What was that?!" I asked concerned.
"I don't know, was that May?" Dawn asked panicky.
Suddenly Kirlia appeared, "Kirlia, can you please teleport us to where May is?" Max asked urgently.
Kirlia nodded and soon we saw May gripping her sitting on the floor gripping her head with her face contorting in pain.
I quickly knelt beside May, "May, what's wrong?" I asked concerned.
"The Lake Guardians….I feel…..their pain," she strained to say before she cried out and we were suddenly teleported to the inside of Team Galactic's headquarters.
Crap, we were surrounded by grunts and the Lake Guardians had red gems on their foreheads as they floated near Cyrus.
May had a strained look on her face as she stood up, "Let them go!"
Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter only looked amused, "That's not going to happen. You see, we need them for the plan," Saturn said slyly.
"I don't care, let them go!" May ordered.
"Sorry no can do, go Purugly," Mars ordered as she tossed her pokemon.
Soon Jupiter and Saturn followed suit with releasing Toxicroak and Skuntank causing May to take a battle stance, "We're no match, since we don't have our pokemon with us," Leaf said frustrated.
"We can still take them," May said determined.
"Fighting is pointless little girl, you have no more options," an old guy in a lab coat stated.
"Oh shut up, you don't know what I can do," May retorted.
Saturn scoffed, "Toxicroak, use Poison Sting."
As Poison Sting came our way, May made an aura shield to protect us from the attack causing everyone to look at her in shock.
"I dare you to do that again," she threatened as she made the shield vanish.
"Hmm, so you are the Guardian of Arceus, interesting," Cyrus commented. "No matter, a new world shall be born where someone like you will not exist and taint the world. Capture them."
He then left the room with the Lake Guardians following him, "Purugly, use Thunderbolt," Mars ordered.
May quickly made an aura dome to protect us, but looked tired because Purugly wasn't giving up.
The three stooges looked mad at the lack of progress of the attack, "Toxicroak, use Hyper Beam," Saturn ordered.
Soon May fell in a heap as the dome broke, "May!" I cried as I was grabbed from behind along with everyone else while Mars and Jupiter lifted May up and put chains on her wrists.
"Lock them up and have them watch their friend's demise," Saturn ordered.
"So what special punishment do I get?" May asked bored.
"We dump you in a tank of Sharpedo to be eaten," Jupiter said with a smirk as the three stooges left along with the old wacko scientist before grunts took May away.
"May!" we all cried as we were shoved by thirty-some grunts to a room where we were forced against a wall. Our arms were held in place above our heads as metal bands were activated to secure our hands and feet in place.
The grunts then left and a flat screen TV showed May's chain being attached to a hook from a second floor and then lifted above a pool with angry and hungry Sharpedo.
"Why does May have a straight face, shouldn't she be scared out of her wits?" Dawn asked surprised.
Max smirked, "It's because May has a plan," he said proudly.
Sure enough, he was right. May smirked before pressing a button on her poketch causing a laser to appear and cut the chain. She fell and placed her feet on the edges of an open Sharpedo's mouth before using the force when the mouth closed to launch up and do a back flip in the air to land on the second floor.
"Get her!" a grunt yelled as they ran to capture her.
"Oh please, as if you can get me," she scoffed as she started to attack grunts like crazy.
"Geez, May sure can pack a punch," Misty said surprised.
"That's how May rolls," Max said proudly and then we all cringed as we watched a guy get punched in the face hard.
"That's got to hurt," Lizzy said before we cringed again as May kicked a grunt into a wall before doing a low sweep to knock two grunts down.
Soon enough, May incapacitated everyone and started down the hallway where we were. We heard rattling outside the door and soon it opened. May then punched a button to deactivate the metal bands causing us to be released.
"Thanks May, awesome moves by the way," Lizzy complimented.
"Thanks, but right now, we need to get out of here and stop Team Galactic," May said sternly.
"How are we going to do that? We don't know where they went and we have no way to get there," Gary said annoyed.
"Gardevoir," Gardevoir said as she appeared.
"Gardevoir, you're in no condition to be here," May scolded.
"Gardevoir garde," she argued.
May sighed, "Fine, but please don't overdo yourself," she said concerned.
"We should hack the system for Team Galactic's research and find out where they went," Max advised.
"We'll just use the computer where we were earlier," Lizzy said before all of us ran out of the room back to where we first were.
Max then pulled out a flash drive and put it into the computer before he began to type like crazy pulling up a map of where Team Galactic went.
"Looks like they are in the middle of Mt. Coronet," Paul said.
"We better get going," May said. "Gardevoir, are you well enough to use Teleport?"
She nodded and soon we found ourselves outside in front of a huge dark passage way with white stairs, "Gardevoir, teleport back and bring help. Send them to where you sense me in the passageway," May said.
"Gardevoir," she said with a nod before disappearing.
"Let's go," May said before we all sprinted down the stairs which seemed to last forever.
We soon appeared to where Team Galactic was with multiple spear marble columns in a darkish atmosphere with a white triangle on the floor at the end of the path. The points of the triangle had columns with the Lake Guardians resting upon them while there were two columns in the middle holding both orbs. Then we saw see-through forms of Dialga and Palkia with a red chain surrounding them, it was amazing and terrifying at the same time.
"Let them go!" May ordered as a bunch of our pokemon appeared.
"Will you never just stay down," the old scientist complained as his companions came forword.
"Toxicroak, Purugly, Skuntank go," the three stooges shouted.
"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt. Corsola, use Spike Cannon. Absol, use Dark Pulse." Ash, Misty, and I shouted.
The attacks hit the pokemon causing them to be knocked out, "Espeon, use Swift. Electivire, use Thunderbolt. Piplup, use Bubble Beam," Leaf, Gary, and Dawn shouted.
Their attacks hit the red stones on the Lake Guardian's heads causing them to shatter, "Espeon, use Psychic," Leaf yelled.
Espeon's Psychic stopped the Lake Guardians from falling and brought them over to May who knelt on the ground and held them.
"Now that the Lake Guardians are free, shouldn't Dialga and Palkia be able to leave?" Dawn wondered aloud.
"I wouldn't say that," Cyrus said flatly as he lifted his arm and the rings attached to Dialga and Palkia caused them to fully appear.
May then winced in pain as she gripped her head, "I feel….their pain….it hurts," she strained to say in a whimper.
The rings then attached to Dialga and Palkia causing them to cry in pain. Suddenly May screamed that made everyone turn to look at her. It's as if she felt both of their intense pain.
"Well well, it looks like the Guardian of Arceus has a connection to the legendary pokemon, let's attach the red chain to her," the scientist said.
"May!" I cried as I tried to run toward her, but the three stooges stood in front of me blocking the way as the chain surrounded her.
She then strained herself to look at Palkia and Dialga in tears, "They are now under the control of the red chain," she said quietly.
"Dialga ruler of time, Palkia ruler of space, show me your power and create a new world before me!" Cyrus shouted.
Soon green beams of light came out of both legendaries' mouths and started to create a vortex, "At last….a world that will be perfect, untainted, and glorious," Cyrus said amazed. "A perfect world of my own."
May strained to stand up, "No….there is no perfect world…..you alone would taint it," she said painfully.
"Silence!" Cyrus ordered as the red chain around May glowed causing May to scream in pain.
"Interesting, since she is the Guardian of Arceus, she has a small bit of him in her causing her to feel the pain of other legendaries and the pain from the original powers of the universe. She is under the influence of the chain," the crazy scientist said in awe.
May then smirked as she stood up, "One problem old geezer, I'm not a pokemon meaning I can't be controlled."
Suddenly May's eyes shined blue light and she broke free from the chain using her aura to radiate out and destroy the chain, "We need to break the chains. Lucario, use Aura Sphere rapid fire," she shouted as she started to shot a beam of aura at the red chains as her eyes changed back to normal.
"Torterra, use Razor Leaf. Piplup, use Bubble Beam. Pikachu, use Thunderbolt. Corsola, use Spike Cannon. Espeon, use Swift. Electivire, use Thunder. Absol, use Dark Pulse," we all shouted.
"Dialga and Palkia, stop them!" Cyrus ordered.
Soon a dark beam of energy came toward us and absorbed our attacks. Then the Lake Guardians appeared in front and created a shield.
"Thank you, please help us," May said as we ordered our pokemon to use the same attacks once again. This time with the Lake Guardians' help, we destroyed the rings causing the pokemon to be collapse on the ground and the new universe to start to disappear.
"Cyrus sir, we should go into the new world before it disappears," Jupiter advised.
"No, only I can enter. If you come, you will taint what I have tried to achieve, you are not needed," he said flatly as he started to walk toward the vortex.
"What?" Mars asked quietly.
"This world is mine," he said in a trance.
"Cyrus, stop!" I shouted, but May put her arm out to stop me.
(May's POV)
"There is no point Drew, he is drowned in his lost cause. There is no hope in saving him," I said tiredly.
I felt drained, hurt, and off. It was a weird combination, but despite it, I felt like there was still energy within me somehow. Right now, I was scared. I didn't know where this energy was coming from.
Cyrus stepped into the vortex and floated within before it closed and became a small ball of white light, "Cyrus sir….NO!" Mars shouted as she tried to go forward but Jupiter and Saturn stopped her while shaking their heads.
"Is it all over?" Lizzy asked scared.
I had a gut feeling it wasn't and I was right. Dialga and Palkia then unleashed attacks at the small ball of light to create a huge black vortex trying to swallow us in.
"There's no way we can stop this, it's impossible!" Leaf shouted over the roar of the vortex before turning quiet. "It's over."
"You can save everyone, you are a guardian. You have powers that can help," Arceus called.
I felt strange as power began to flow through me and my eyes once again shined blue, "No, it's not over."
I then stood in front of the vortex with the Lake Guardians floating next to me, "Call on the power of my name and I will give you help," Arceus called.
I raised my arms to the sides, "I call on the power of Arceus, grant me power to help save us," I shouted.
Suddenly I was surrounded by white light and I felt a huge burst in energy. The light faded away and I saw that I was wearing a white knee length dress with thin straps and a gold ribbon around the front along with gold strapped sandals.
"This is not your full power, it is a small portion, but all shall be revealed in due time."
"May, we can't do this alone, but since you have some of the power of Arceus, you can help us by using our powers combined with what you have been given to stop this," Azelf explained.
I smiled, "I will do what I can," I said. "Azelf, led me the willpower to help close the vortex."
Soon I was covered in a light blue aura and I shot a beam of silver light into the vortex to have it close.
"Uxie, led me the power of knowledge so that I may give it to Dialga and Palkia."
Then I was covered with a light-yellow aura, "Dialga, Palkia, please calm yourselves. You are no longer being controlled by the one who has tortured you," I said gently.
The two legendaries calmed down and landed on the ground, "Mesprit, led me the power of emotions to help bring peace."
The color of light surrounding me changed from light-yellow to light-pink. I then walked up to both legendaries before floating up and to place my hands on their heads, "I feel your pain and suffering, but feel it no more for I give you the feeling of peace and tranquility," I said softly.
The Lake Guardians then started to float above in a circle and create a portal, "Return to your dimension where you will be harmed no more," I said before the legendaries turned into a stream of color and went into the portal.
I floated down back to the ground, "With the power I've been given, I give it back to one who gave it to me," I shouted as I was covered in light and then fell to the ground back in my original outfit.
"May!" Drew shouted as he knelt next to me and helped me sit up as the Lake Guardians floated down.
I opened my eyes to see Drew looking relieved and the Lake Guardians smiling, "We sense that you will do well. You possess the same greatness as your ancestor," Uxie said.
"We thank you for your help in saving us," Mesprit added.
"Until we meet again," Azelf finished before the Lake Guardians floated up and disappeared.
"Well, hopefully this won't happen again," I said as Drew helped me up to my feet.
"I'll say, but what you did was awesome. You almost looked like an angel," Lizzy said amazed.
"If you say so," I said before I turned to see that Team Galactic was trying to sneak away. "Don't think of trying to escape."
They froze as we our pokemon quickly surrounded them as we walked over.
They said nothing but looked solemn except for the scientist, he looked at me excitedly, "You would make a most interesting study, so much power, you…," he didn't say anymore because I pressed on to pressure points on his shoulders causing him to fall unconscious.
"Anyone else wanna get on my nerves?" I asked.
The trio didn't say anything so I took the lead with Lucario and all of us walked up the stairs to the outside to find a few helicopters belonging to PHPA as well as Professors Rowan and Carolina, and Cynthia.
"Can anyone please explain what happened here?" Professor Carolina asked.
"It's a long story," I said as I watched PHPA agents taking custody of the trio along with the scientist and placed them in an armored truck.
"May, are you okay?" Drew asked concerned causing all attention to turn onto me.
To be honest, I wasn't okay. I felt drained and ready to pass out. I was scared about what happened and I felt confused from what Arceus said, that this was only a small bit of my power and what I am.
I faked a smile, "I'm fine, just a little tired," I lied.
"Could you tell us what happened?" Professor Rowan asked.
"I think it would be best to show you," I said as I saw a time flower appear from the ground and I touched it.
Soon we watched the whole replay of events and when we were finished, the sun was starting to set.
"That must have been a frightful experience," Cynthia commented.
I said nothing. Right now, I felt incredibly faint. I used too much of my aura. I tried to stay awake, but I eventually saw black and started to fall.
(Dawn's POV)
"May!" Drew shouted as he saw May start to fall.
He quickly caught her and everyone raced over to her. Lucario then put his paw over her and his flaps levitated.
"Ruh," he said concerned.
"Piplup pip," Piplup said to me causing me to look concerned as well. (He says she used up too much of her aura.)
"Will she be alright?" I asked Lucario.
He nodded before Drew picked up May bridal style, "We should be getting back, it's getting late."
We all nodded in agreement before we were suddenly teleported to the room the girls and I were staying in while our pokemon went elsewhere.
"How did we get back here?" Leaf wondered.
"Gardevoir," Gardevoir said as she appeared in the room.
I smiled, "Thanks."
She nodded before disappearing and our families appeared, "Would you care to explain where you went?" mom asked with a frown along with everyone else.
"We'll come down and explain," I said as Drew lay May on her bed.
We then left for the family room and it took hours to explain what happened. It didn't help that they kept interrupting with a bunch of questions. It was 10:00 PM by the time we finished and I think all of us were exhausted. The girls and I said good night to the guys before we went to our room and got ready for bed.
"I think I've had enough excitement for a while," I said tiredly.
"You said it, I think we're drained from the adrenalin rush," Misty yawned.
"I wonder how May is doing, she looked pale earlier," Leaf said concerned.
"She'll be fine Leaf, she just needs rest. A whole lot of it from what she did today," Misty said.
"I wonder how she's dealing with it, I would think it'd be scary to have that much power," I said thoughtfully.
"I would think so to, but we won't know until May wants to tell us so we'll just have to wait," Misty said.
Leaf and I nodded in agreement before we crawled into bed and fell asleep.
December 28th (Snowpoint City, Sinnoh)
I couldn't sleep, I kept tossing and turning from discomfort. It also didn't help that my brain didn't want to shut down either. I was worried about May, she didn't wake up at all the whole day and it didn't help that Lucario decided to stand guard and would threaten to shoot aura at us if we didn't leave. For the whole day, we were lazy and worked on homework for the days of school we missed before break. Thankfully, there wasn't much. Max also finished going through all the files that we stole from Team Galactic's computers. The majority of the files were about the Time Space Legend, some files about research of shiny pokemon, and a file was about May. May's file was about how she busted them in the past and thankfully, there was little information about her being the Guardian of Arceus which put us at ease.
I turned over to see that it was 2:30 AM. I groaned, okay brain, shut off and go to sleep.
I then looked over at May and I felt uneasy. I got out of bed and crept over to look at her. She looked pale and really sweaty, I felt her forehead and it was burning hot. I felt her hand and it was ice cold, this is not good.
I quickly went into the bathroom and pulled a thermometer that was in the cabinet. I came back and stuck it in her mouth.
Misty and Leaf stirred in their sleep, "Dawn…(yawn)…what are you doing?" Leaf asked sleepily.
"Checking on May, I think she has a fever," I said quickly as the thermometer beeped.
"Oh my Mew," I said panicky. "Her fever's 108.5 0F (42.5 0C)!"
"What!" Misty and Leaf shouted/whispered as they got off their beds and stood next to me to look at the thermometer.
"We need to get her temperature down now!" Leaf said.
"How do we do that?" I asked.
"We need to fill the tub with cold water and let May sit in there to bring her fever down," Misty said.
We soon had the tub filled and placed May in to try to help bring her fever down. Suddenly Lucario appeared along with Piplup.
"What are you doing here?" I asked Piplup.
"Pip piplup pip lup lup," he said. (Gardevoir woke up Lucario to have him check May's aura since she felt May's discomfort telepathically and Lucario woke me up to be a translator.)
Lucario then had his paw raised over May trying to read her aura.
"Ruh," he said to Piplup who translated for me saying that May's aura was still really low despite all the rest she got.
"She's sick from her exhaustion as her immune system is overtaxed," Leaf voiced. "The only thing we can do is have May take pain meds, drink fluids, and rest more."
"We better get May out of the tub, she'll get hypothermia if she gets too cold," Misty called. "Leaf, can you help me out, we'll have to dry May off."
Leaf got off her bunk as she and Misty went into the bathroom while I grabbed some sheets and a pillow so Lucario didn't have to sleep on the hard floor.
After a few minutes, Misty and Leaf came out with a pale looking May and helped her into bed before placing a cold clothe on her head.
"We can't do much now, all we can do is go back to bed," Leaf said with a yawn.
I nodded tiredly and crawled back into bed. Piplup joined me while Lucario went to sleep in the middle of the floor.
(May's POV)
Ugh, I feel like crap. My throat kills, I feel sore all over, and I'm cold.
"How do you feel May?" Misty asked as I blinked my eyes open.
"Cold, sore, and my throat kills," I said weakly. "Lucario, what are you doing here?"
"Gardevoir sensed your discomfort and had me come to check on you," he explained telepathically.
Suddenly, I was hit with a hot flash and the soreness increased causing me to black out.
(Leaf's POV)
"May!" I called in concern as I saw her slip out. "Dawn, get me the thermometer."
She went into the bathroom and came back with the thermometer to give to me, "Lucario, check her aura again," I ordered as I put the thermometer in May's mouth.
The thermometer beeped and I looked in shock, her fever was a degree higher than it was earlier last night, "That's impossible," I murmured before looking at the girls. "Misty, Dawn, we're gonna have to put May in the tub again. Her fever is still way too high."
As they were doing so, I called up Lizzy on my poketch.
"Leaf, where are you? Everyone is waiting for you and the girls to come down and eat with us."
"Can you have Gardevoir send some food up here along with an IV?"
"What do you mean an IV?" she asked suspiciously.
"Don't ask questions Lizzy, just do it!" I snapped and ended the call.
I then hunted down May's poketch to look up Nurse Joy's number and called it, "Hi May, how can I….oh hello?"
"Hi Nurse Joy, I'm May's friend Leaf. I was wondering if you have any medicine to treat flu-like symptoms. May has it badly with a dangerously high fever," I said concerned as I told her the number.
Nurse Joy looked worried, "To help combat it, Misty and Dawn are having May sit in the bathtub full of cold water to try and bring it down," I explained.
"Good, you need to get her fever down," she agreed. "Has May been drinking a lot of fluids?"
I shook my head, "She's been asleep since Monday evening so I trying to get an IV set up."
"Good again, do you have a lot of medical experience?"
"No, I only know so much from watching May."
"That should be quite a bit, I'll send some meds immediately and here's a recipe for a tea that should help. Have Max make it, he's done it before. Just make sure May's stays hydrated and keep her fever down. Then all you can do is wait it out," Nurse Joy said as she sent the recipe over IM.
I nodded, "Thanks Nurse Joy, I'll keep in touch."
I ended the call as I heard a knock on the door.
"Come in!"
Gary opened the door with Max, Lizzy, and the other guys walked in with the IV with a look of concern.
"Thanks for finding it Lizzy," I said as I moved it closer to May's bed to prep it for when the girls got her out of the bathroom.
"Um….a little explanation might be needed here Leafy," Gary said as I continued to work.
"We're fine. May's sick and needs fluids."
"What do you mean May's sick?" Drew asked frowning. "And where is she?"
"She hasn't woken up since we came back and now, she has a really high fever so we put her in the tub to try and bring it down."
The guys along with Max started to voice concern, but I cut them off, "She'll be fine, I just talked to Nurse Joy and she'll send some meds shortly. All we can do is wait it out.
I turned to Max, "Can you make up some tea Max? Nurse Joy said you know the recipe."
He nodded and left to make some with Lizzy right behind him while Dawn came out of the bathroom.
"Leaf, how long should be keep here in there?"
"We'll try a couple more minutes and then check her fever again."
She went back into the bathroom to relay the message to Misty while the guys looked at me in various stages of concern.
"We'll be fine. If you could do us a huge favor and bring lunch up to us, we'd greatly appreciate it."
After a few seconds to comprehend what I asked and an encouraging look from me, the guys left to do what I asked.
My smile started to drop my face as I sighed and sat on a chair in the room. Hopefully May recovers quickly, last thing we need is for this to escalate.