A Few Hours Before (Slateport City, Hoenn)
(May's POV)
After Max and I went down to congratulate Lizzy, we broke off from the group saying we would meet them later.
"What's the plan?" Max asked as we walked to the park to where we could talk in peace.
"We need copies of us to take our place that look human-like as much as possible, holograms won't work this time," I said thoughtfully.
Max grinned, "I think I have just the trick."
He called out Kirlia and soon we found ourselves in the basement of the Pokemon Center in Petalburg City, "Now mind you, this is an experimental prototype," Max cautioned as he started typing an two glass tubes appeared with bodies that looked like ours in it.
I looked at Max and sweatdropped, "Please tell me you didn't create clones with our DNA?"
Max looked disgusted, "Ugh no, I don't like the thought of cloning. Besides, I borrowed a program from a tech company working on robots that use animatronics."
"You mean steal?" I asked tiredly.
"I prefer the term borrow. Anyways, I tweaked that program so well that the animatronics seem almost like the real thing. Of course I added a few things like a system of tubes that are filled with fluids that look like body and a bunch of other features that make it almost like a human body."
I felt a small grin appear, "This is perfect, but just to make sure it's as life-like as possible."
I formed a small ball of aura and gently placed it into where the heart my robotic self would be, "This way, it will make it like I'm me."
"That's a good idea May, could you do the same for me?" Max asked.
I bit my lip, "I'm not sure, it's one thing for me to take my aura and place it in something. You're a different case, I've never taken someone else's aura and placed into something else?" I said nervously.
Max frowned slightly, "That's a good point, maybe we'll hold it off until the last minute. You've said that doing what you just did drains your aura levels."
I nodded, "Now that we have a disguise planned, we have an hour or so to come up with a plan to capture the person behind this."
Max nodded, "Let's start with following the twins' footsteps for the past week."
"That's a good idea, maybe we'll find a connection to someone who is behind this," I agreed.
Soon we started typing and followed the path of the twins for the past two weeks.
"I got something," Max called causing me to stand behind him as he pulled up a video from a security camera off the street somewhere.
The video showed the twins in disguise and using a payphone, "Can you figure out what the twins are saying?"
Max nodded and ran a program to figure out what the twins are saying, "We don't want to do this, you can't make us," Thistle cried.
During a few seconds of silence, we saw the twins' facial expressions change from anger to fear, "We understand, we'll be there in an hour," Spike said quietly before hanging up.
"What do we do Spikey? We decided to turn our life around, now we have to set up a bomb by this guy's instructions. I don't want to kill anymore," Thistle cried.
Spike nodded, "We have no choice Thisty, this guy is blackmailing us, but we won't let this plan go through, we'll change the design of the bomb so that the when all the wires are pulled, the bomb timer will shut down."
Thistle nodded before they walked away.
"I guess the rumors were true that the twins wanted to change their life around," Max said quietly.
I nodded, "We'll catch their murderer, something tells me that the guy who killed them is the guy behind this."
Max nodded before beginning to type, "Let's see where the twins went an hour later."
After a few moments, we saw that the twins walk up to a newspaper box and grabbed a paper from the middle, they opened it up slightly and we saw a small glimpse of blue.
"Can you zoom in to see what it is?" I asked Max.
He shook his head, "If we zoom up any farther, the pixels will become too blurry, what do you think it is?"
"Maybe blueprints for the bomb?" I questioned thoughtfully. "Can you keep this camera up but go back about twenty minutes, I want to see if we can spot this guy."
Max nodded before typing rapidly, we then watched the footage. Soon we saw a guy in a trench coat smoking a cigarette walk up to the same newspaper box and stick something in the newspapers. He then grinned slyly before throwing his cigarette down and crushed it with his heel. He walked away and we lost sight of him after that.
"Hmm…..Max, if I could get that cigarette butt, do you think you could pull DNA off it?" I asked.
Max nodded, "It shouldn't be too difficult."
I smirked, "Be back in a flash," I called as I let out Gardevoir telling her to teleport us to the place I was thinking of.
We arrived and I soon found what I was looking for, I picked it up with a Kleenex and had Gardevoir teleport us back.
"Got it," I called as I gave the cigarette butt to him before returning Gardevoir.
He set it on a plate and scanned it while typing rapidly on his computer. A few minutes later, a face came up with a name, "The guy's name is Harry Grover, he's got a record for a few assaults and is possibly tied to a few murders," Max read.
I furrowed my eyebrows, "Does it list any affiliations to any known baddies?"
Max typed some more, "Not really, he's a shady character. It says here that there are rumors that he is a gun for hire."
My frowned, "That doesn't sound good in the slightest," I said as I looked at the time. "Better let my look alike take my place."
Max nodded, "Sounds like a plan," he said as he typed some buttons and a door opened on the glass tube of my double.
After a few tests, I was positive my double could pass as me. We then teleported her to cause less suspicion.
"Back to our gunman, there has to be a way to figure out who he is targeting and who hired him," I said thinking.
"I think I might know a way to figure out who hired him," Max said as he began to type rapidly.
Soon pictures of other men appeared on the screen, "What do you figure?" I asked.
"These are business men that have been murdered though the police have never caught their killers, there were other suspects, but they never stuck because all the businessmen were killed the same way," Max explained. "The connection to all of these besides them having been possibly murdered by the same person is that they turned down the threats of surrendering their companies to man named Dinko Siggars."
I frowned, "I think I've heard of him, his company has become incredibly huge in recent years, it rivals Drew's father's company. Can you dig anything up on this guy?"
Max began to type again, "Nothing that puts this guy on the radar, all this stuff is good, he's clean."
"Too clean," I muttered. "This guy seems suspicious to me especially with what you about the murdered businessmen. I know this is a long shot, but can you run this guy's name through an anagram program."
"You got it," Max called as he quickly did as I asked. A few seconds later, a name appeared with a picture.
My eyes widened, "No…way," I breathed.
The face I was looking at was Grings Kodai, a huge businessman with tons of connections to crimes. The law has been trying to find him for years.
"This is bad, but yet it doesn't make sense. Who does he want killed and why have the twins mixed up in all of this?" Max asked.
"He needed a distraction which explains the bomb which means he wants someone killed, but who?" I asked frustrated.
Max sighed, "I don't know May."
"Grr…we're running out of time," I said angrily. "Can you do a quick search of connections in his life and have that list of people compared to those at the Grand Festival, maybe something will pop out."
"This will take a while May," Max warned.
"Do it," I said sternly.
Max nodded and got straight to work. Half an hour later, the computer beeped and Max began to type rapidly, "This isn't good," he said flatly.
"Why?" I asked as I stood behind Max.
"The connection is Christopher and Jennifer Hayden," Max answered.
"What!" I shouted. "How does he have a connection to him?!"
"From what I can gather how stuff pulled off the web, this jerk dated Jennifer for a few months before she broke up with him. A month later, she started doing contests in Johto, the guy never did forgive her and its rumored he harbors hatred for the both of them once they started dating and got married. Then the guy has a connection to the Christopher because he tried to shut down the Hayden Company, but it backfired and the guy was on his way to prison for having criminal connections. Unfortunately, he escaped before seeing prison and has been off the map for years. Then a few weeks ago as Dinko Siggars, he tried to snag the Hayden Company, but failed," Max explained. "But why pull the murder here, why not back a few weeks ago?"
I gasped, "Because he wants all out revenge by killing Drew and his family. He picked the Grand Festival because he knew that Lizzy was competing and would rank high meaning that Christopher and Jennifer would come to watch her!"
"But they weren't there?" Max said confused.
"No because they were busy, Lizzy said so a while ago, but she said that they would be at the after party," I said quickly. "Where are they now?"
"Jennifer and Christopher are on a plane heading here, Lizzy is at the hotel along with Drew," Max quickly said after locating them by GPS through their poketches.
"This is bad and it's too late to explain this to the authorities, we're gonna have to stop this ourselves," I said quickly. "When's the party start?"
"In half an hour," Max answered.
I nodded, "Okay, you stay here and help keep me posted on the movements of everyone, I'm gonna change and head back. If we are lucky, we might actually be able to bring both these guys down."
Max nodded and I went to change into a stealth suit that I wore for break-in missions. After putting on the hood to hide my hair along with mouth and nose, I grabbed a few gadgets and Gardevoir's pokeball.
I then walked back to Max seeing him dress his double, "You ready?" I asked.
He nodded, I then focused on his aura and took a tiny piece to stick into his double. We then had Kirlia teleport him to where he was supposed to go.
"You ready May?" Max asked.
I nodded as I double checked that the earbud communicator was working. I called out Gardevoir and had her teleport me to the roof of the building where the after party was supposed to take place. It was supposed to take place outside the Pokemon Center a distance away from the beach. I quickly explained to Gardevoir what we were doing and she nodded in understanding.
For an hour or so, the Haydens were mixed in with the party guests, "Any sign of the guy Max?" I asked.
"No…..wait?! What The Hell!" Max yelled.
"What's going on?" I asked curtly.
"Someone is jamming the signal in your area, I can't tell anything," Max called in frustration. "Be on your guard."
"Right," I called as I saw that Drew and his family along with our doubles go towards the beach.
I followed them at a distance and focused on all auras nearby. Suddenly I felt one on a rooftop on a building nearby, "Gardevoir, teleport me on that roof silently," I said telepathically as I called her out.
I felt myself being teleported and then peered around the corner of a section of wall. I saw the guy assemble a rifle and then looked through the scope. I quickly sent a communication to the doubles through my aura to push Drew and his family out of the way a second before the guy fired his gun multiple times. I then heard the guy curse and then pack his gun away quickly before bolting. I quickly returned Gardevoir before chasing after him.
He went into the building and climbed down the stairs before running through alleyways for a few minutes before slowing down and stopped in one.
I followed in and ducked behind a dumpster, "Did you finish the job?" a voice asked.
"Uh….," the guy said nervously.
"You failed didn't you," the voice said angrily.
"No, I killed May Maple though," the guy said proudly.
"That's not the point, you screwed up and now the feds will be after you. Do you know how popular and well-loved May Maple is you fool," the voice whispered angrily.
The voice stepped out of the shadows, Grings Kodai himself. He then pulled out a handgun and shot Harry, "Your services are no longer required," he said venomously.
He was about to leave when I caused a wall to appear in front of him and behind me curtesy of earth bending, "What is this?!" Grings asked angrily.
I stepped out of the shadows, "Who are you?" Grings asked me as he pointed his gun at me though I remained silently. "Damn it, answer me!"
He then shot the gun, but I dodged it by sensing his movements beforehand. I ran to him and kicked the gun out of his hand before grabbing is wrist and swung him into the wall causing him to cry in pain. I pulled a pair of hand cuffs and cuffed his hands behind his back before gagging him. I brought down the walls and did a knife hand strike to Grings' neck causing him to black out.
I called out Gardevoir again, "Teleport Lance, Claire, and a few agents here to arrest this jerk."
Gardevoir nodded and did as I asked while teleporting me and herself to the roof above the alley, "What the….?" Lance asked as he, Claire, and the agents were confused.
"What! Is that Grings Kodai handcuffed?!" Claire asked in shock.
Grings started to wake up and shouted though his shouts were muffled by the gag, "You bet it is," Lance said with a grin before turning to face the agents. "Take this guy to headquarters."
The agents nodded and started to drag Grings away, a ringtone played and Claire answered her phone, "I see, we'll be there soon."
"Who was that?" Lance asked.
Claire looked disturbed, "That was Dawn, apparently someone gunned down May and Max."
Lance sighed, "I didn't like 'em, but they didn't deserve that," he muttered as he looked at Harry's dead body. "Do you know who this is?"
"Yea," Claire answered. "That's Harry Grover, a gun for hire."
Lance opened the case beside Harry, "He must be responsible for the shooting, this is a high powered rifle."
I then turned away and looked at Gardevoir, "Teleport us to the beach a ways."
Gardevoir nodded and did as I asked. I then looked to see that the doubles were by themselves as the gang and Drew's family left to speak to the cops.
"Teleport the bodies back to Max, I'll handle everything else here," I said gently.
Soon the bodies were gone and I bent the sand so that the traces of fake type blood were thrown into the ocean before I smoothed the sand over making it as if nothing happened here.
I hide in the shadows when I heard voices coming close, "No," I heard Lizzy murmured.
"This is impossible, what happened to their bodies," Drew said angrily as I sensed him trying to hold back tears.
I sighed silently, I didn't want to put them through this pain, but it had to happen in order to save him and his family.
"We'll find out what happened?" Claire said gently. "Mr. and Mrs. Hayden, why don't you along with Lizzy get some rest, we'll figure out what happened."
They nodded and left as I heard Lizzy sobbing, I followed them to the outside of the hotel they were staying at, "May, the signal is no longer jammed and I sent a huge anonymous report about what happened to PHPA," Max quickly said.
"Good, do you mind coming here, we should probably explain ourselves," I said tiredly.
A second later he appeared, "They are on the fifth floor," Max answered.
I nodded and told Gardevoir to teleport us up onto the balcony of their room, I knocked on the balcony door and waited. I heard scared whispers and the blinds slid to the side. Lizzy then saw Max and I before fainting causing her parents to cry out before taking her to the couch.
I sighed as I pulled out a lock pick and picked the lock allowing Max and I to walk into the room while telling Gardevoir to stand outside. Christopher and Jennifer then saw us and pulled out their pokeballs, "You don't need to do that," I said gently as I pulled my hood off.
"Who are you?" Jennifer asked angrily.
I sighed, "It's really us," I said as I formed a ball of fire in my hand causing them to relax.
"What in the world is going on?" Christopher asked exasperated.
"It's a long story," Max said tiredly before I started to explain, ten minutes later they looked sad.
"So he was after us for revenge," Jennifer said sadly as Christopher put an arm around her pulling her close.
I nodded, "Thankfully Max and I caught on quick enough a few hours ago and we figured it all out just in time," I said quietly. "I apologize for the trauma I put on you and your children, but we had to play our cards right in order to catch the guy."
"You did what you had to," Jennifer said quietly. "I just wish it didn't have to turn out this way."
"I'm sorry it had to, but your son and our friends didn't believe me. I think this is punishment enough for the doubt," I said gently.
Christopher and Jennifer nodded in agreement as Lizzy started to stir, "Mom, dad, I had the scariest nightmare, May and Max died right in front of me and then I saw their ghost on the balcony."
"It wasn't a dream," Max called.
She immediately became awake and walked over to Max and slapped him before hugging him to death crying, "Don't you dare do that to me again."
Max said nothing, but blushed slightly and hugged her back, "I have to go, I still have to explain myself," I said tiredly. "Again, I apologize for what happened."
Christopher shook his head, "Please don't apologize, we owe you two our lives, you saved us."
I smiled softly, "It's what we do."
I then walked out to the balcony and had Gardevoir teleport me back to the dorm. I returned her and yawned before I took a shower and got ready for bed. I then walked into the common before sitting on the couch and pulled out a book. Half an hour later, I heard footsteps outside the door and the lock clicked open, Dawn walked in first and screamed in fright causing everyone else to rush in and look at me in shock.
"It…IT'S HER GHOST!" Ash cried.
I sighed, "Ash, I'm not a ghost and I didn't die a few hours ago, my animatronic double did."
Everyone still stared at me dumbly causing me to sigh in exhaustion, "Look, if you guys are gonna act like a bunch Magikarp, I'm going to bed."
I stood up and started to walk away when I was caught in a tight hug from behind me. I froze and stood there allowing them to hold me tightly. Soon I felt a wetness on my shoulder causing me to silently sigh in guilt.
"May, why did you do that?" Drew asked me in a whisper as he held me tighter.
I sighed, "I had to so that I could save lives."
I felt Drew let me go so that I could face him. It broke my heart to see his eyes looked swollen from crying.
"May, was it really necessary for you to have a double?" Misty asked.
I nodded, "In order to play the cards right, Max and I had to do this our way."
"Did you know that we were supposed to be killed?" Drew asked coldly.
I sighed, "Max and I figured it out that way, your whole family was supposed to be killed in an act of revenge."
"Why didn't you say anything to us May, we could have helped you!" Leaf shouted angrily.
"Because you didn't believe me in the first place when I said that I had a gut feeling the twins weren't behind all this," I argued.
"You still should have told us, you had no right to keep this from us," Drew said angrily.
I said nothing and kept a straight face as they continued to shout at me in anger, I figured they would get mad at me. I sighed and started to walk toward my room.
"May, where are you going?" Ash asked.
"I'm going to bed," I said tiredly.
"May, you can't just walk away from this," Misty said angrily.
"I think I can if you are just going to keep shouting at me. Til you guys have calmed down, I'm not gonna explain what happened," I said calmly before I walked into my room.
I then crawled into bed and fell asleep as I heard everyone talking outside the door.
May 16th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
It had been almost two days since the gang found out I didn't really die. I could tell they were mad/disappointed with me because they were giving me the silent treatment. It hurt in a way, but I guess I deserved it. Thankfully, I was called to help in the Pokemon Center the majority of the time along with having longer practices for gymnastics with the competition this weekend meaning that I didn't have to see them. For the most part, I've been suffering conflicting emotions over the whole thing, I felt guilty and annoyed with them.
"That was good May. If you keep this up, you'll win the competition for sure," Jenny praised.
I panted a little while nodding, "You can go May, I'll let you leave a little early tonight," Jenny said with a smile.
"Thanks, see you tomorrow," I called before I showered and changed.
I left the building and soon saw that Max was calling me on my poketch, "What's up Max?"
"Nothing good, I'm picking up criminal activity around the Veilstone Meteors," Max called.
I frowned, "I'm on it."
He ended the call as I called out Gardevoir to teleport me to my room to grab my mission stuff before teleporting to Veilstone City. Soon I found myself where the meteors were and that Domino was barking instructions for Team Rocket grunts to take one.
"Well, I should have figured you'd show up," Domino said slyly as she pulled out a black tulip.
"I won't let you take a meteor," I snapped.
"I'm sorry, but we need it for our plans," she said with a sly grin.
I smirked, "Want to clue me in?"
She smirked back, "I'll take a pass," she said before throwing the tulip at me.
I dodged it and raced forward to her which led to us being locked in hand-to-hand combat. While doing so, I noticed that Team Rocket had secured a meteor and started to pull it up to the carrier helicopter.
"No!" I shouted as I tried to run and stop them, but Domino hit me back causing me to fall to the ground.
"Better luck next time," Domino called sweetly as she jumped up on top of the meteor as it was being hoisted up.
"Not on my watch," I snapped as I shot the grappling gun from my poketch at the chain hoisting the meteor.
I slid up before jumping up using the forced momentum and landed on the meteor, "You are such a pain," Domino muttered as she swung her legs causing me to fall forward.
I placed my hands in front to brace the fall, but when I touched the meteor, it felt like I was hit with lightning and I saw flashes of the past being wrapped in the red chain and flashes of the future, of the final battle. I was so out of it and frozen in fear as I saw the flashes of the future and a felt burning sensation run throughout my body, Domino laughed before shoving me off with her foot.
The last I saw was her laughing at me as the carrier helicopter flew away. I created an air couch on the ground to break my fall slightly before I passed out. I awoke to the voices calling out to me, I slowly started to move and open my eyes to see a concerned Reggie and Maylene.
"May, are you okay?" Maylene asked worriedly.
I nodded slowly while sitting up before I was hit again with the flashes of past and future, "May, what's wrong?" Reggie shouted.
The burning sensation came back and I looked at my arms to see symbols of some sort while my palms displayed a weird symbol.
"May?" Reggie called.
The flashes and burning sensation disappeared, though the symbols on my palms remained, "I'm fine," I said tiredly once I calmed down.
"What was with those symbols?" Maylene asked.
I shook my head, "I don't know, don't worry about," I said gently as I stood up trying to remain calm.
"May, you should go to the Pokemon Center," Reggie said concerned.
I shook my head again, "I'm fine really," I lied. "I'm sorry about the meteor getting stolen, I'll have Max try to track it down."
I started to walk away, "May, wait!" Maylene shouted but I called out Gardevoir asking her to teleport me to the beach near the school.
"Are you alright, you look like very pale?" Gardevoir said concerned.
"I'm fine, just had a bit of a scare, I'll be alright in a few minutes," I said tiredly trying to still calm down.
She looked at me wearily as I returned her to her pokeball. By then, my cool façade disappeared and I collapsed on the sand in fear. Is this what's to come, do I suffer that greatly?
I couldn't believe the visions of the future that I saw. So much pain I would suffer, the destruction to be had. The thing that scared me most was that I was engulfed in light feeling pain like no other. I held myself shakily as I tried to calm down, but the more I tried, the more panicky I became and tears began to leak down my face. After thirty minutes, I regained control and walked back to the dorm before climbing in through the window.
Dawn was on her bed doing homework, she looked at me for a second with a forlorn face before turning back to her homework. I silently sighed before I got ready for bed and passed out only to be more troubled in my sleep like when I was filled with darkness.
May 19th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(Dawn's POV)
It had been five days and everyone including myself still hadn't talked to May, I was currently sitting in History with May, Paul, and Drew.
I heard faint snoring causing me to turn to look and see that May had fallen asleep for the second time today, "Miss Mason, could you please tell me when the Battle Frontier was introduced in Sinnoh?" Ms. Williams asked.
May woke up with a start, but before she could answer, the class phone rang causing Ms. Williams turn to her attention to answering it.
She picked it up and a few seconds later told May that Nurse Joy wanted to see her. I thought I saw that May looked relieved as she packed her stuff and left. A second later the bell rang meaning that May wouldn't be around for lunch again. It was strange, I'm getting the vibe that she was now avoiding us for some reason.
"Dawn, you coming?" Drew asked as he and Paul stood by the door.
I nodded as I quickly grabbed my stuff and followed them to the cafeteria. We grabbed our lunch and went to sit with the others. Soon everyone started eating though I just picked at my salad while deep in thought. I knew we haven't talked to May since Sunday, but I'm starting to worry about her.
"Troublesome, you in there?" Paul asked snapping me out of my train of thought.
I said nothing as I took a bite out of my salad causing everyone to stare at me, "What?" I asked.
"You're way too quiet, I think you have Paulyngitis," Leaf pointed out. "What's up?"
"Nothing, I just have a lot on my mind is all," I said shortly before continuing to eat as I shoved all thoughts of May aside. I'm still mad at her for what she did. Whatever is going on, she's a big girl, she can handle it herself.
(May's POV)
After I left the Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy said to go home and I was glad she said that, I don't know how much longer I could keep up with my calm façade. I kept falling asleep all the time because I couldn't sleep at night due to night terrors from those visions. I had to use my aura to help retain my normal look since I looked terrible from lack of sleep. This caused me to have a lot less energy and for it to become an endless cycle of hiding and telling lies to keep my true appearance hidden.
I had Gardevoir teleport me to the bungalow and returned her quickly so she couldn't ask as to how I was feeling. I didn't want to tell anyone to worry them and I was losing my grip of hiding it. I let go of the force of aura disguising my appearance giving me some relief but not enough. I looked at my palms to still see the symbols there. Since yesterday, Jenny sent me home saying that I needed to put my act together since I didn't have the energy for practice.
Since then, I've been practicing with the elements to help me from falling asleep and to prepare myself for the final battle. I was practicing a firebending sequence when I slipped and fell causing me to slap my face in anger. I stood up and tried again and every so often I would slip up and insult myself from being sloppy.
Suddenly I felt the presence of some auras behind me causing me to turn around. It was a couple of the gang's pokemon, Pikachu, Azurill, Piplup, Torterra, Umbreon, Espeon, and Roserade.
"Do your trainers know that you're here?" I asked tiredly.
They shook their heads, "Pika pikachu pika chu chu pika," Pikachu said. (We want you to come back and talk to them.)
I sighed, "I can't do that, right now they're mad at me. If they want to talk to me, they need to make the first move."
"Pip piplup pip lup lup lup pip pip piplup," Piplup argued. (Someone needs to and we tried to tell them to, but they won't listen.)
"It'll blow over eventually," I said tiredly.
"Roserade rose rose rade rade roserade?" Roserade asked concerned. (What's up with you, you look terrible?)
I chuckled lightly, "Like every person wants to hear that," I said with a small smile. "It's nothing that won't blow over."
Piplup stared at me angrily causing me to raise an eyebrow, "What's with you?"
"Piplup piplup lup pip piplup piplup?" he shouted angrily at me causing to look shocked for a minute along with everyone else. (Why are you lying, why are you setting up holograms of yourself sleeping and then sneak out, why did you scream three nights ago?)
"Like I said, it's nothing that won't blow over," I said again causing Piplup to look even more ticked off before using Bubble Beam at me.
I put up an aura barrier to protect me from the attack, but it used a lot of energy causing me to collapse from exhaustion.
"Roserade!" she cried as she raced forward.
"I'm fine," I strained to say as I tried to stand up, but failed so I decided to sit down. "You should get back to your trainers before they become suspicious."
Roserade didn't look happy as the other pokemon walked up and looked shocked at my palms before I realized what they saw and quickly called out Gardevoir to teleport the pokemon back. I then returned her before she could say anything to me. I felt myself drift off to sleep, but immediately hit myself to wake up. Keep practicing, you have to stay awake and be ready.
(Dawn's POV)
"Piplup!" I shouted. Gosh darn it, where was that silly penguin at now?
For the past ten minutes, we realized that Pikachu, Azurill, Piplup, Torterra, Umbreon, Espeon, and Roserade went missing as we were training in the park.
Suddenly the seven appeared, "Where have you been?" Misty yelled angrily. "You had us worried sick."
The pokemon said nothing but looked to be out-of-it, "Guys, what is up with you, where did you go?" Leaf asked.
"We went to see May," Espeon said telepathically to all of us.
"Why would you do that?" Leaf asked angrily.
"Because you idiots won't talk to her so we tried to get her to talk to you instead, but that didn't work because she's not doing well," Espeon explained.
"What are you talking about?" I asked suspiciously.
"She's not well in the slightest, she looks terrible," Piplup explained.
I explained to everyone else, "So what, she can handle herself just like she did this past weekend," Drew snapped angrily.
I didn't blame him for being angry, it looked like May died right in front of him and he thought he lost her forever only to find that it wasn't her. Then she won't explain what happened. If Paul did that to me, I'd be pissed too.
"No, she can't," a voice said.
Suddenly May's Gardevoir appeared, "What are you talking about, she seems to be handling herself just fine," Misty snapped.
This made Gardevoir angry causing her to shot a small Psybeam at her making her jump back, "She's not, you have to get her to stop. If she doesn't stop, she'll let herself burn out from using too much of her life force."
"What are you talking about?" Drew asked with a small hint of concern in his voice.
"She hasn't gotten sleep in three nights. If she tries, she wakes up screaming bloody murder. That's why she sleeps at the bungalow so you can't hear her. She's been trying to avoid talking to anyone and has been using her aura to disguise her appearance to avoid suspicion. She's also been using her powers non-stop to prevent her from resting and it's all taking a toll on her body," Gardevoir explained rapidly causing all of us to look at her in shock.
She then bent forward putting a hand to her head in slight pain, "May," she muttered.
"Take us to her," Drew ordered.
Gardevoir wasted no time in doing that, we found ourselves teleported and found May working on hard earthbending forms.
I gasped in shock at her appearance, she looked totally tired and beat up. She slipped up on the form and hit herself in anger before trying to stand up, but fell forward instead.
"May!" we cried as we all ran towards her.
She looked at us tiredly, but ignored us as she went back to training and I could tell the strain it was putting on her.
"May stop it!" Drew shouted as he held her from behind.
She tried to struggle, but was too tired to do it long. Her knees then buckled causing her to fall down, but Drew held on and slowly sat on the ground while still holding May from behind so that she was resting against his chest.
"Let me go," she protested tiredly. "I need to keep training."
"You'll kill yourself if you do," Misty argued as we sat around them.
"I have to, I can't fall asleep again, please," she murmured tearfully. "Let me go."
Drew didn't but looked at her sadly, I think he was kicking himself for not noticing May was suffering and wished he knew sooner so that he could have helped her.
"May, what's going on? Why do you look like your half dead?" Ash asked.
May sighed, "I can't explain it."
"Can't or won't?" Drew asked.
May sighed again, "Fine, but I can't tell you everything. But first, since I didn't really explain my actions from last weekend let me tell you that first."
Soon she explained everything causing us to understand, "That's why if you have a gut feeling about something, follow it. it's the only way I saved your family," May said quietly causing Drew to kiss the top of her head.
"Now explain yourself as to what you were hiding," I demanded gently.
May said nothing as she showed us the palms of her hands. There was a weird symbol on both of them, "Three days ago, Team Rocket stole a meteor from Veilstone City. When I touched it, I was hit with flash backs of being wrapped with the Red Chain and visions of the future that were to come. The visions keep coming in my sleep and now I'm too freaked out to sleep or think," she said quietly.
"What were the visions of the future?" Gary asked.
"That final battle with the pain and suffering I must endure," she said tiredly as she nodded off and fell asleep.
A minute later, weird symbols covered her body and she then woke up screaming causing the symbols to disappear, "Drew, let me go. I need to practice, I need to stay awake," she begged.
Drew gave us a look saying that he wanted to talk to May alone so we nodded in understanding and left as Gardevoir teleported us back to the dorm. I hope Drew can help May out.
(May's POV)
After I begged Drew to let me go, everyone left so that it was just him and me, "Drew, please, if you love me, let me go."
Drew sifted slightly so that he could look at me, "I can't do that May, you need to sleep," he said softly.
"I can't," I said as I felt tears fall down my face.
"Yes, you can, you can overcome these night terrors. Besides, these visions won't happen, I know they won't," Drew murmured softly.
"Drew….," I started to say, but was cut off when I felt him kiss me softly.
"Go to sleep," he murmured softly as he pulled me his chest.
"But…" I argued weakly only to be silenced by another gentle kiss.
I closed my eyes, but still fought against falling asleep. I felt myself being carried bridal style for a few minutes to be placed on a bed. I then heard Drew walk around to the other side and lay down next to me before pulling me into his arms.
Mew I missed him this past week, "I'm sorry," I said softly.
I heard Drew sigh, "I'm sorry too May," he murmured as he kissed my forehead.
Knowing that we were both forgiven allowed me to relax and let out a content sigh before I finally fell into a dreamless sleep.