Chapter 5

Here's a new chapter! I'm very late with this one, but it's good. Pokemon is good too, you know I don't own the characters, though. That's ok, I'm having fun writing about them!

"Ugh..." Ash had woken up in a fire lit cave. He felt warm fur underneath him. It was different than the cold floor his legs were resting on.

"Haha,...stop it Teddiursa!"

Ash heard someone laughing and quickly turned around to find that Paul was playing with Teddiursa!? She was fiddling with Paul's hair, and wearing Ash's hat! He watched for a while as they laughed and played.

Paul, soon after Ash had noticed them, picked her up and pretended she was an airplane. He made wind sounds and starting dipping Teddiursa in the air every once in awhile to make the ride more fun.

"Rwa Rwa!" Teddiursa was enjoying the game very much. "Teddiursa! Sa!

"Hahaha," he set Teddiursa down gently in his lap. "Wasn't that fun?"

"Ursa!" She cheered.

"Heh, good. But, it would be better if I could run around." Paul said, smiling at Teddiursa. His smile was warm and loving, certainly not the kind of attitude he had toward his own pokemon.

'I've never seen him act this nice...' Ash thought to himself. "hmm,..."

Paul heard a sound from the other side of the cave. 'Uh oh' he thought. Paul quickly put Teddiursa down onto the stone floor. "I see you're awake now."

"Ursa...?" Teddiursa wanted to play some more. She wondered why they stopped in the first place.

"Heh,...yeah..." Ash sat up and crawled closer to the fire, and all the while, for some odd reason, his wrists hurt like crazy, but he kept pushing himself forward. He then sat down just across from Paul. 'I should have walked over instead,' Ash thought, 'but my legs are too weak to do that.' He stared into the fire for a few seconds, then looked to Teddiursa. Ash put on a smug face,"I didn't know you liked playing games, Paul."

Paul simply leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. "What are you going on about...?"

"Like you don't know." Ash leaned in a little close annoy him.

'Jeez,...he's not going to leave me alone,' Paul thought. "I didn't play games with Teddiursa," He paused for a second, "nor would I want too."

"Rwarr...?" Teddiursa whimpered, then sniffled. She felt a little hurt. 'He doesn't like me anymore...?' Teddiursa didn't know what she did wrong, they were having so much fun, and she began to cry.

Ash shot Paul an angry look. "I never even said Teddiursa's name. But look, Paul, that wasn't very nice. See what you did, y-!?"

"Don't cry Teddiursa..." Paul sighed, immediately regretting what he had just said. He picked her up from the cave floor and sat her in his lap. "I didn't mean any of that, Teddiursa. I don't even know why I said it in the first place..."

Teddiursa hugged his chest while he gently rubbed her back. Paul's touch was comforting to her. "Raa...," she burrowed deeper into his jacket.

Paul couldn't help but smile at this, 'she must really like me, I guess...'

Ash smiled as well, "Teddiursa really seems to like you, Paul. She doesn't look like she's going to let go of you anytime soon."

"Yeah, I guess so..." Paul agreed as face returned to it's normal expression. He was in a dark, fire lit cave with a broken ankle, a person he hates, and he didn't have most his pokemon. Worst of all it was the middle of the night! 'Why me...?' Teddiursa nuzzled against him. Paul smiled once again, with her there it wasn't all that bad.

Ash stayed silent for a long time, then spoke."Hey Paul...?"

"What?" Paul said this normally, which surprised Ash a little. He didn't speak in his usual tone, most of the time he's rude and somewhat mean.

"What time is it...?"

Paul brought his wrist to eye level to check a watch that Ash didn't even know he had. "It's 11:45,... no wonder it's so dark..." Paul looked at the cave entrance.

Ash followed his gaze, 'the sky is still beautiful' he thought to himself.

"Hmmm, it's not that dar-a-a-AHCHOO!" Ash quickly covered mouth. His sneeze made his entire body shake and echoed through the cave. He stayed still with his hands over his mouth, listening until the noise faded.

The noise scared Teddiursa, causing her to dig her claws into Paul's side's.

"..." Paul just stared at him. That sneeze was a little too loud. Then, he winced after noticing the sudden pain from his sides.

"...Ring?" The sneeze was so loud it woke Ursaring. She simply stared at Ash, wondering what could have caused him to make such a loud noise just then.

"ugh,...sorry..." Ash groaned, letting his hands down from his face. His head was spinning again, and he wasn't even standing up. 'How does that work?' Ash thought to himself. 'Shouldn't you get dizzy only when standing?'

Paul looked him over. "Are you alright...?" He actually had a hint of concern in his voice. "When we met in the forest you really did look terrible..." As he said this, Paul noticed that Ash was swaying slowly from side to side. It was barely visible, but it easily progressed as he spoke.

"Not really, but I think I'll be fine... I'm just cold..." Ash's eyes were closed. His headache was coming back stronger than ever, and that sneeze nearly knocked his brain loose. "...ah-ahchoo!"

"Hmmm..." Paul frowned at Ash. 'Only this idiot would go walking in a forest at night sick and with no pokemon.' He then sighed. This, again, got Ash's attention.

"Huh...?" His eyes opened halfway and moved sluggishly to meet Paul's face. It was full of disgust, like always, and surely he was going to say something awful. "What...?" He asked, his voice sounded tired and hoarse.

"Ugh, nothing..." Paul straightened his back and turned Teddiursa around to face forward. It took him a while to do so, since she was so comfortable in her previous position.

Teddiursa looked at the fire and her eyes followed bits of ash that wandered out of the flames. She occasionally caught ones that fell towards her, then blew them away.

Ash was still gently swaying back and forth, confused of which way was up or down. He couldn't really tell left from right either, the world in front of him was spinning wildly in many different directions.

"What the...?" Paul couldn't figure out what was happening to him. 'What is he looking at...?' He lifted a hand waved Ash's face. "Hey...! Ash...!"

Ash didn't know what was going on, all he had heard was,

'...hormf... ...arshne...,'

and there was a strange blurry object in front of him. He didn't know what it was, nor was he going to figure it out. Ash shivered a bit, it then became hot. Then hot became very hot, but very hot became blazing hot. Blazing hot, became insanely hot, what next lava!? Ash felt himself trembling. But, it was so hot, he didn't think it was possible. "heh...wow..." He mumbled.

"huh...?" Paul stopped waving his hand. Ash did just say something, but it was hard to understand. It sounded slurred. "What?"

Teddiursa looked at Paul, confused about the situation. "Sa sa?"

Ash's eyes began to roll back slowly, "Like lava..."

"Rwa...?" Teddiursa didn't know what he was talking about.

"Lava...?" Paul didn't understand either. "You mean the fire...?"

"La-...va..." Ash fell back, landing hard, and now lying motionless on the cave floor.

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