I bet you guys want me to go from where I left off the last chapter, but too bad. Well, maybe. :3 honestly, writing all of these stories have been loads of fun! :D By the way the guesses are still not right. The closest is 101berrycake, though. Here's another hint: It's only five letters long.

By the way I'm breaking my rules again, oh well. This chapter is also dedicated to an anonymous reviewer who inspired this chapter, so thanks for the inspiration! By the way if you're reading this, I was really upset when you said that, then I was like, "Hey, you're right!"


Chapter 26

Dawn's POV

Paul wasn't really looking. He was sitting on a bench. I was looking 'frantically' for Misty if that didn't count my many breaks in stores. If anyone asks I'll say I was looking for 'her' in the stores.

"Hey, Paul, didn't you say you had to show me something?" I said trying to start a conversation.

"Yeah, but we need to be in a more private place than a mall." Paul stated.

"Then how about after this? We could go to the park." I said hopefully.

"This time try not to make plans at the same time." Paul said. I felt guilt in the pit of my stomach.

"Okay." I squeaked. I decided finding Misty was more important than shopping right now, well this one time. One day it'll be the opposite of that. I went into every store I could to look for Misty. I even looked in the bathrooms!

"This is impossible!" I complained.

"You're really an idiot. She's just been standing there the whole time." Paul pointed to the second floor on the mall. In front of a shoe store was….Misty!

"MISTY!" I screamed. She saw me and tried to hide herself.

"YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME NOW!" I screamed running up some stairs and in time to see that Misty had already disappeared.

I sighed. "Maybe, I shouldn't have yelled for her." I looked around for any trace of Misty. The only thing I saw was Paul coming up the stairs slowly.

"Who are you trying to yell at? Your friend or some random person in Canada?" Paul said.

"Just help me!" I said making sure to yell into his ear.

"Stupid, Troublesome." Paul covered his ear and sat on the nearest bench.

This is what I get for trying to match my friends up!

"Argh, you are impossible!" I swear I would pull my hair out if that weren't such a tragic thing to do! I started stomping toward where I though Misty left.

"She went the other way." Paul said.

"Well, if you're so sure then why don't you go catch her?" I said in a smart-alecky way.

"I would, but that's not my problem." Paul said with a hint of…..teasing in his voice?

"Why can't you just catch her, please?" I begged.

"Fine, but if she's mad you're dealing with her." Paul sent out his Dusknoir and told it to go het the red head behind the ice cream stand…..

I looked at the ice cream stand and a bushel of red hair was behind it.

"I'm just really dumb today, huh?" I said to myself. Paul must've heard because he said,

"No, you're just always like that." He said.

"Hey, I can be smart when I want!" I argued.

"Stop arguing, kiss already!" A familiar shout echoed throughout the mall.

"Misty!" I blushed.

"Well, you caught me. What're you going to do now?" She said angrily.

"Well, I kind of want to know why you hate Lisa so much." I said.

"Well, I just don't trust her and I can't think of a way I can trust her, unless she can prove it she's going to be enemy number 137." Misty barked.

"Just wait. Leaf's the genius, she'll think of a fair way to make you a little bit friendlier." I got out my phone and looked up Leaf under my contacts. After 3 rings she picked up.

"Did you find her?"

"Yeah, we're near that ice cream stand May loves so much. Get everyone else, 'kay?" I hung up after that. Paul was sitting on the bench playing; I think Temple Run or Angry Birds on his iPod. Misty and I just waited in awkward silence for about 5 minutes. We just stood there hearing the music from Paul's iPod.

Finally, I snapped, "So, what have you been doing?"

"The usual, eating, sleeping, etcetera." Misty said sarcastically. We went back to the awkward silence.

Where the heck are they?

Leaf arrived in about 2 more minutes, which felt like hour to me.

"Misty!" Leaf said happily.

"Why's that thing here?" Misty gave a disgusted look to Lisa. She winced.

"Misty is there any way you could find a way to get along with Lisa?" Leaf said pleadingly.

"I've already been through this and that answer is not that I can think of." Misty folded her arms.

"How about a battle?" Marina jumped in. I realized May wasn't here, so I was desperately looking for her.

"That sounds pretty good. I'll rip out every single lock of that pretty hair." Misty gave a glare.

"I think she meant a Pokémon battle." Lisa said nervously.

"You have Pokémon? Must be some wimpy ones." Misty snorted.

"Hey, making fun of me is one thing, but not my Pokémon!" Lisa gave a death glare instead of wincing for once. She held out a poke ball.

"Fine by me, but if I win then you can't even be a yard near us." Misty got out her customized poke ball with a bubble pattern.

"Okay, it's a deal. If I win you have to give me a chance. Not complete trust, a chance." Lisa said.

"Let's take this at the park. Right now." Misty said.

"Wait, where's May?" I interrupted.

"Text her and tell her to meet us at the park. She might be 'busy' with Drew." Leaf said girlishly.

"'Kay." I gave her a quick text and left with them. I guess our 'private' chat at the park was going to start a little early.


Paul's POV

I was glad something dumb wasn't happening. We rushed to the limo. Jimmy hadn't said a single word. He was probably thinking of what he should do on his date with that blue haired chick.

When we arrived at the park Misty and what's her face didn't waste a single moment. The got out the car and sent out their Pokémon. Misty sent out a Blastoise and the girl Lisa-Dawn told me her name after she nagged me that I should learn names, what a troublesome girl- sent out a Milotic. This was a 3 on 3 battle with that girl Jimmy likes-I never said I'd try- as a referee.

"Milotic, use aqua ring." Misty made a curse.

"Blastoise, use skull bash!" The Pokémon started charging at Milotic. Lisa gave a confident look.

"Use hyper beam." The water snake had a yellow orb of energy getting bigger every few seconds.

"Blastoise, move out of the way!" Blastoise stopped and tried to dodge.

"Too late." The fully charged hyper beam blasted at Blastoise.

"Blastoise!" Misty returned her Pokémon. She took out another one and sent out a Starmie.

"Blastoise is unable to battle, Milotic is victorious." The referee said.

"Beginner's luck!" Misty screamed. Lisa returned her Pokémon and sent out a Gardevoir. I raised my eyebrow at this girl's Pokémon. So far all of her Pokémon were fully evolved and top notch.

"Use thunder!" The clouds turned gray and a struck of lighting struck the Gardevoir before it could react. A sickening wail echoed out. A few people gave it a pitiful look.

"Oh my gosh, can you get up?" Lisa looked worried.

"Gar." It got up with a few bruises.

"It's our turn, use psychic!" Starmie was lifted in the air with a purple glow holding it up and Gardevoir's eyes were glowing. It threw the Starmie into a tree.

"Get up!" Misty yelled. The jewel in the middle of it started flashing, but got up nonetheless.

"Use giga impact!" The impact of the attack left the Gardevoir on the ground unable to get up.

"Gardevoir is unable to battle, Starmie is victor!" The referee yelled out-man, I should really start learning names…-again.

Lisa returned the fainted Pokémon and released an Espeon. The purple cat-like Pokémon stretched out. Misty sent out a Gyrados. The water dragon roared causing most of the park visitors to run away in fear.

"Time to win this thing!" Misty said giving a wink to Lisa.

"I think you're wrong. I'm going to win this thing!" Lisa said giving a wink of her own.

"Gyrados, use hydro pump!" Misty yelled quickly.

"Espeon, use psychic and blast it back at Gyrados!" Lisa commanded. The hydro pump went back and hit the Gyrados in a psychic/hydro pump combination. Once Gyrados was hit a wave of fog erupted. A deafening roar rung in my ears.

"Gyrados!"


May's POV

My eyes widened then I slapped Drew across the face. My face was probably blushing, though.

"What the heck!" I glared.

"Aww, are you in denial?" Drew used his hand to cover where I slapped him.

"I swear you ever do that again I will freaking send out my Blaziken, personally to burn you into ashes!" I hissed.

"Don't deny it. You liked it." I saw that he was acting, but for who?

"Whatever, Hayden, you're impossible." I felt my phone vibrate.

'Meet us at the park if you're not too 'busy'. ;)

-Dawn

I didn't get the whole 'busy' thing, but Drew saw it as an opportunity to catch up to me.

"About that 'kiss' I saw Brendan or whatever other name's he's been using and when I glanced at us I had to make sure he didn't recognize us, so I kissed you, simple as that." Drew gave me a rose.

"Oh." Disappointment filled my stomach.

"I knew you wanted me." Drew smirked.

"Hey! Wait, our friends are waiting for us at the park, but we're going to have to find another way to get there because they took our ride." I said.

"Then tell them we're just heading home and tell them to tell Paul, 'Drew gave us a ride'." He said.

"Um, okay?" I said unsurely, but sent Dawn the text anyway.

"Hey, want to go back to get Ash, Gary, and Leaf?" I said.

"Sure, better than being with you all day." Drew shrugged.

You're mean!" I gave him a playful punch in the arm.

"C'mon, let's just go." Drew said. As we were walking I felt someone was watching us. I looked behind my back, but saw nothing but an old lady with the same dark robe I saw at school?

"Hey, you! Wait, right there!" I screamed and ran after her. She patiently waited for me.

"Yes, dear?" She gave me a sweet smile.

"Don't 'yes, dear' me. Tell me who you really are." I gave her a glare.

"Don't smart mouth me, young lady," She gave me a whack to the head and continued, "But if you must." There was a flash that no one else seemed to notice and soon enough there stood a brunette girl that looked about the same age as me, but the fact that she was dressed like a princess kind of made her stand out.

"Who are you?" Drew asked.

"I'm Hera, goddess of marriage, not that my lousy husband respects that at all!" Hera grumbled.

"Wait, why are you here?" I said.

"I've come to tell you something and tell you a story." She said.

"Your mother Caroline was one day strolling through the woods like the kind of foolish things mortals do and Zeus was thinking about making a storm right where your mother was strolling and he caught sight of her. He thought her to be 'the loveliest of all maidens'" Hera made a disgusted noise.

"He was actually brave enough to ask me if this one time I wouldn't punish the maiden that he were to cheat on me with. I was shocked, but didn't think it fair, so I lied to him and said 'yes'. Like I thought he had a child with her and when the time came I decided to play a little curse making. I gave the child the worst curse I could think of. Can you guess what that was?" She said.

"I don't know, what?" I said intrigued.

"I gave her the curse of falling in love, but never being able to be with him unless she does the 5 quests I've made. If she didn't complete them by the age of 16, then she'd turn everyone she loved to stone until she died herself. The other gods and goddesses of Olympus thought that my 'quests' were quite awful and impossible for a mortal demigod, so they each gave her a little gift. Aphrodite gave the child a suit of armor that was somehow still stylish, Poseidon gave her a Pegasus, Hades gave her nothing, Ares gave her a sword made of celestial bronze, Apollo gave her a beautiful voice, Artemis gave her a mark, Athena gave her amazing creating skills, Demeter gave her a beautiful enchanted staff, Hephaestus gave her a red ruby necklace that would store anything she needed into it, Hestia gave her a bright attitude, and Zeus gave her one of his weaker lightning bolts." Hera paused to see Drew and my reactions. She continued,

"Her mother didn't want her child being born into this crazy world and kept enchanted gifts that were items into a safe place. This child had a prophecy from an oracle. Apollo had the liberty to write it down and give it to the child. Can you guess who that child was?" She asked.

"Is it someone I know?" I said.

"Yes." She said.

"Marina?" I said.

"No, think about it hard." She said.

"Misty?" I said.

"For the god's sake, it's you!" Drew blurted out.

"I'm that child? I'm already 15. My birthday's in May. It's August!" I was speechless.

"Yes, now is that time to complete the five quests. Here's your prophecy, you're 5 tasks, and my gift that hopefully will make you forgive me. In time I've come to realize that you're father, my husband truly did not want you to have a cursed life. I'm giving you this peacock feather necklace. It'll be your light in the dark." Hera handed me 2 pieces of paper and a blue and green diamond in the shape of a peacock.

"Thank you, can I have help with my 5 tasks and can you tell me where my gifts are?" I said.

"You can only have mortals help you and that's for me to know and for you to figure out, goodbye child of lightning." She disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"I wonder what tasks she gave." I looked at the first task.

1. Steal a whisker from Cerberus.

"Who's Cerberus?" I asked.

"That's Hades' three-headed dog, let me see that." Drew plucked the paper out of my grasp and read the list.

"This is impossible. There's no way you could do this being a mortal." Drew said.

"Give me that back. It's mine." I swiped it back and read the rest of the list.

Steal a whisker from Cerberus

Go through the Labyrinth without the golden thread.

Get a scale from a hydra

Eat the food of the gods and live

Make a mortal willingly bathe in the river Styx

I honestly didn't understand a single thing. If I couldn't even read the list then how am I supposed to even complete them? I looked at the prophecy; it looked like a pile of math with a sprinkle of history mixed with crazy talk!

When the foremost of the undertakings have been fulfilled

The moon shall bring a mighty huntress unto the stars.

Her trials will be hard and her decisions tough,

But she shall get through until the end.

The moon shall guide you to resurrection.
Your life you shall give up

Save your life by Moon's full
Hunt with it
But she shall get through until the end.

What was that even supposed to mean? Drew seemed to know what these things were about, so I turned to him.

"Hey, Drew, do these things make any sense to you at all?" I said.

"Yeah, well good luck." Drew flipped his hair and turned.

"Wait! Hera said I could have help!" I pleaded. Drew turned around.

"Fine, but if I help you, you have to admit you like me." Drew said.

"I don't like you!" I screamed.

"Relax, I'm just kidding." Drew took the prophecy and list from me.

"Your prophecy makes no sense to me whatsoever, but your tasks are pretty simple to read.

"Really, what do I have to do?" I asked completely clueless.

"Well, the first one says to steal a whisker from Cerberus. He's Hades' three-headed dog from the underworld. He uses it sort of like a guard dog." Drew explained.

"I have to go to the u-underw-world?" I asked.

"Yeah, the next one is to go through the labyrinth without this golden thread that would glow in the dark, I guess you could just use the feather, though. Well, at least she made that last one a little bit easier." He shrugged.

"What's the labyrinth?" I asked.

"You seriously have no clue about Greek Mythology, huh?" Drew cursed.

"Well, what is it?" I huffed.

"It's this complicated maze made by this guy named Daedalus and he made it so hard, he barely escaped it himself." Drew said.

"Then how am I supposed to get through it? I can barely figure out those mazes on the kiddie menus at restaurants!" I felt hopeless.

"Well, you could ask your friends for help, you know?" Drew sighed.

"Oh, yeah! Will you come with me to do these task thingies?" I said.

"Well, I have to check my schedule." Drew teased.

"I'm not kidding!" I said.

"Fine, but you have to say I'm the hottest and you're a Drew obsessed fan girl." He said.

"Do I have to?" I said,

"Yes."

"Fine, Drew's the hottest and I'm a Drew obsessed fan girl." I crossed my arms angrily.

"Okay, looking forward, Maple." Drew smirked.

"Just explain the rest of them to me!" I spat.

"Chill, the third one's simple. Pluck a scale from a hydra. Before you ask a hydra is a water monster type of thing." Drew said.

"What about the fourth one? What's so special about the food of the gods?" I questioned.

"It's called ambrosia. If a mortal eats it they burst into flames." Drew explained.

"I don't want to die by bursting into flames." I squeaked.

"What does the last one mean? What's that weird word, right there? Sty-ix?" I puzzled over the word.

"It's called the river Styx; it's also in the underworld. If you've ever heard of Achilles then you might know that he bathed in the river Styx to become invincible except for his heel, but knowing you I bet you have no idea who Achilles is." Drew smirked, even when I get a list of impossible tasks, he still has to mock me…

"No, I've actually heard of that one!" I retorted.


Brendan/Jake's POV

I was spying on May and Drew, but mostly May. The master said I had to, but I'm still not sure why. I've been watching her for 2 weeks now and all I've found out about her is that she's a daughter of Zeus, who doesn't have a clue how to use her power and she has this weird mark of a deer, which I'm guessing what my master meant when he said,

Beware the one who bears the mark of Artemis

I listened to the conversation they were currently having. I missed most of it, but they were talking about these tasks of some sort.

"Look, let's go get Leaf, Gary, and Ash, so we can get home and talk about this tomorrow." I heard May say. I peeked over the fake shrubbery and saw Drew nod. They left to who knows where. I decided I had done enough spying for the master and should make a report.


I kneeled upon the master, "Master, I have a report for you." I said bowing my head down.

"Then report." The low, masculine voice echoed through the dark room.

"The girl was talking about doing these five tasks." I said.

"Is that all?" He asked.

"Yes, my liege." I gave him one last bow and left the room.


Lisa's POV

The steam fog covered everything. I couldn't see anything through the thick fog.

"Espeon!" I screamed.

I heard a voice that belonged to Misty yell, "Gyrados!" I heard a weak roar some from the middle of the fog. An idea popped into my head.

"Use swift, Espeon!" I screamed. I heard the yellow starts impact of Gyrados because a roar was heard. The fog was clearing up a little.

"Gyrados, use rain dance." Misty said. The fog dissipated.

"Gyrados, use hyper beam full blast!" Misty screamed.

"Espeon, use hyper beam full blast too!" I screamed back! The two Pokémon charged up and blasted. The blast collided with such a huge amount of friction that the ground was being crushed by being near the blast. Then BOOM! The blast exploded. Sand and rock flew everywhere. I couldn't tell who won. I squinted trying to see which Pokémon won.

The debris let up to see…..It was a tie!

"The battle is a tie! No one is victorious!" Marina yelled, but coughing right after due to some sand flying into her mouth. I returned my Espeon with a calm smile gracing my face. Misty returned her Pokémon as well.

"So, what are we going to do now? It was a tie." I said.

"Let's have a rematch tomorrow and you're not half bad, Lee-sa." Misty smirked. Looks like I have a new rival. I grinned and ran with her to the nearest Pokémon Centre to heal our Pokémon. It started raining along the run. I grinned. Rain made me hyper….

"Oh my gosh! I love the freaking rain! It's so amazing!" I ran around even faster. Rain was something I loved almost more than anything!

"You too? I thought I was the only one!" Misty screamed and started sprinting.

"Whoo!" I ran with my arms in the air. Misty and I were drenched when we got into the Pokémon Centre. Nurse Joy rushed into the back room and came out with two towels.

"I think you're going to need 4 more towels." Misty said grabbing the towels and handing me one.

"Thanks." I wrapped it around my now exhausted body.

"Oh, dear. There are four more of you out in the rain?" Nurse Joy gave a worried expression. When she barely said that a crying Dawn came in complaining about her 'ruined' outfit, then a grumpy Paul, then a soaked Leaf, and then another soaked Marina.

"My outfit's all ruined now! Stupid rain!" Dawn fussed at her outfit that had been covered by a pink rain jacket the whole time.

"You were wearing a rain jacket for god's sakes!" Misty rolled her eyes at her.

"My outfit's still ruined! Look, right there. It's a wrinkle!" Dawn smoothed out invisible wrinkles that seemed to only exist in her mind.

"Relax, you look good. Like, girly girl good, okay. Even perfect if you have to hear it." I put my arm around her shoulders.

"Really? Thanks!" Dawn was definitely like your average girl teenager. One minute your sad and depressed and then BAM! You're all happy and excited. I was still dripping wet.

"Hey, Nurse Joy do you have any extra clothes we could borrow?" I asked.

"Yeah, do you?" Marina asked shivering in the towel I loaned her.

"Of, course, but they might be a tad bit too big." Nurse Joy went into the back room and a few minutes later she came out with some pink and white dresses. She also had a white T-shirt with pink shorts for Paul. I stifled a laugh when Paul came out of the dressing room in pink and white.

"Nurse Joy, do you have any more T-shirts and shorts? I hate dresses." I said. I head Dawn gasp in horror.

"Well, I have one more, but they're kind of big on even Snorlax big, I'm sorry." She gave me a sympathetic grin and handed me the dreadful dress. I heard Misty groan too. I went into the room I was staying in for the night and changed into the pink and white dress.

It even had a matching nurse hat to go with it. I refused to wear the hat because I still want my dignity. The dress had a white top with a hot pink bottom. The white part had buttons. The skirt was also kind of short….Gross. Well, I know that I'm not going outside until my clothes dry.


Well, this is officially my longest chapter yet! Woohoo! Oh, yeah! This is also and early update instead of a late one for once! Woohoo again! Well, don't be shy to review!