Wow, only 3 chapters left… O.o

Oh, and since I don't remember if I ever mentioned the city they lived in I'm just going to say they live in Larousse, which is in northern Hoenn and near Fortree City.


Chapter 47

Dawn's POV

We were headed to Dewford, which was surrounded by water. I wonder why a hydra would want to live there –sarcasm was intended. We were traveling by boat and I was currently tanning in my designer pink bikini. Life was pretty good until… BAM! An explosion happened. Okay, I know that I'm supposed to be looking for a hydra, but this was just too easy!

A blue sea serpent splashed its tail into the water creating a tidal wave and crashing our boat! How rude! Just when I was enjoying my task. I was launched into the water as well as a lot of other people, but Ash and Misty were out of sight. I guess they were getting on a lifeboat or…not.

They jumped into the water. I may be their friend, but they were a little off their rocker if they think that jumping into water to nab a scale off a hydra was going to be easy. Well, at least I think it wasn't going to be easy.

"Go,Gyrados!" Misty let out her sea dragon Pokémon, which wasn't even close to how big the hydra was. It had a slimy blue-green coat of scales on a serpent body, razor sharp teeth, slimy fish lips, rabid sea green eyes, and tentacle-like fins on its dragon-shaped head. The hydra was seriously scary!

"Spotlight, Piplup!" My blue penguin Pokémon was released along with multiple bubbles. Hey, if I was battling I might as well do it fashionably! I saw Ash hop onto Misty's Gyrados.

"Piplup, I'm going to need you to be the distraction. Use whirlpool on that hydra!" I commanded. Piplup summoned a whirlpool and sent it flying towards the hydra while Misty and Ash swam toward the monster's body.

"RAWRK!" I guess the hydra didn't appreciate me attacking him. It started charging towards me as if it were going to eat me. Yikes!

"Come on out, Togekiss! Use yawn!" Togekiss sent out a yellow cloud toward the monster and it started slowing down, but sinking as it fell asleep. Gyrados swam faster. Misty arrived at the hydra, but before she could Ash jumped off and plucked the scale off before she could. Were they actually having a competition to see who could pluck the scale first while I could've died?

"Ha! I win, so that means you have to treat me to an all-you-can-eat buffet!" Ash said triumphantly. Is there nothing those two didn't bet on? They have swimming competitions, hydra plucking races, and more. What's next? Who can use the bathroom the fastest? Sheesh!

Those two needed to learn about sharing the glory of winning. "That's great and all, but now we're in the middle of the ocean!" I said. Ash's goofy smile went lopsided and Misty looked a little more relaxed. I guess being stuck in the middle of the ocean could really make you reconsider the situation.

"Do you guys need a lift? I saw you battling that iceberg and thought you might need a boat." An old man with a wispy gray beard paddled his yellow lifeboat toward us. Did he just say iceberg? I shrugged. If that's what they wanted to believe sunk their ship then it'd be my pleasure, but really? Like the Titanic?

I saw the perplexed faces of my friends and knew they were thinking along the same train of thought as me. The hydra was disguised as an iceberg to the others.

"Sure! Thanks!" We climbed aboard the ship and found it with a few children. There was even a baby Caterpie. Uh oh! Misty…

"Someone return that thing!" Misty squealed. The old man jumped and almost dropped the oar.

"Excuse me? Could you possibly mean that sweet little Caterpie?" He chuckled. I saw Ash start laughing too, but before I could stop it I started to giggle a little too. Laughter was contagious after all.

"Stop it! It's not funny!" Misty cried out in red anger.

"Actually dear, this Caterpie is a wild one. My grandson brought her on board, so I'm afraid I can't return it." He apologized. Ash picked up the Caterpie and brought it to Misty's face.

"Get it away from me! Get that disgusting thing away from me!" Misty screeched and backed up into a little girl that was about the age of Paul's little sister, Lily.

"Owie." She started crying and Misty started apologizing and I was enjoying the little drama fest. A near death experience could be quite traumatizing to some, but apparently this had no effect on my friends and me.

"Sonya, would you please refrain from teasing our boat guests?" The man said sternly. Did this mean that little girl was just messing with Misty?

"Okay!" The little girl named Sonya stopped 'crying' and started giggling. Her hair was pulled into a braided brown ponytail. Her face was like a cherub and she was wearing the most adorable one-piece, but I could tell from her expression she was a troublemaker. Lily and Sonya could be best friends!

Weird, how I'm thinking about Paul's little sister at a time like this. "I'm assuming you're headed toward Dewford like us." The man said.

"Yep, we sure are!" I answered happily. Well, we actually didn't anymore since we've already got the scale, but we couldn't contact the others about the scale until we were actually back on land unless we wanted Ash to look like he belonged in a loony bin.

"Oh, and could you be quiet for the sleeping children? I didn't want to wake them up, so I just brought them on board and my name's Henry." Henry introduced.

"My name's Ash." Ash said in a whisper that was barely audible to my ears much less an old man's.

"I'm Misty." She said in a louder whisper.

"And I'm Dawn." I introduced.

"So what are you young whippersnappers traveling to Dewford for? Are you going to challenge the Dewford gym?" Henry asked. I tried to think of an excuse, but Misty beat me to it.

"We're going there for a little R&R. It's been a while since we've had a vacation, so we decided on an island." Misty lied. I was kind of glad she thought of an excuse first since I sucked at lying. Leaf told me I blinked a lot and I always shuffled nervously when I did.

"That sounds nice. I'm going to Dewford to visit my other grandchildren." Henry explained.

"Oh, and who are they?" Ash asked.

"I'm visiting my son, Brawly. He's the gym leader and I'm visiting to see his new girlfriend, Shauna." Henry answered, but before anyone could react the hydra came back up for round 2.

Paul's POV

We were at Larousse. I surprisingly didn't have to break up the other two from their annoying flirting and whatever else.

"Who wants to be immortal?" Gary sighed. It really couldn't have been that hard, right? Find some decent mortal who was willing to bathe in the river and let him become immortal and if he's evil then we'll defeat him. Simple as that.

"Why don't we go to a children's hospital. That way we could save someone's life." Leaf said.

"Then let's go, but we need one that's dyslexic. They're the most common." Gary explained. I really couldn't say anything since I agreed.

"Okay, then what are we waiting for? Let's go." Leaf grabbed Gary by the hand and I started to walk. I wasn't going to be pulled by some smart aleck. I wasn't even sure why I was doing this, but it wasn't like I had anything better to do.

I would rather be with these losers than to go to school and talk to Pokémon like, a loser, but that was as far as I would ever admit in my head much less say. We walked through LaRousse's wind turbines, the moving paths, and past a lot of buildings until we got to the hospital.

The hospital was literally called, Hospital. It was a gray and dull building with a rusted up metal door. Nice place.

Inside was practically a whole other world. The walls were painted with white fluffy clouds, and colorful balloons. The floor had multi-colored tiles. A red sofa in a corner had stuffed Pokémon that all followed the same theme, red. Two blue beanbags surrounded by blue Pokémon stuffed animals, a green table topped with green Pokémon, A yellow TV with yellow Pokémon, orange countertops with orange ones, and purple doors with purple Pokémon stickers.

This place looked like a unicorn barfed on it, which means I loathed it. Everything was too colorful. The clerk was a girl with long flowing purple hair in clothes that resembled a Cacturne. And kids were everywhere. This place looked more like a daycare than a hospital.

"Can I help you, sugar plums?" An annoying high pitched voice asked. It was that weird clerk lady.

"Um, yes. Would you mind telling us if any of these children have dyslexia?" Leaf asked.

"There's about ten of them and please call me Harley, darlings!" Harley screeched. I guess she was actually a he.

"Can you please show us who they are?" Leaf asked. If Harley wasn't thinking that we were a bunch of molesters already then there was something wrong with him.

"Sure! It would be no problem! Do you and your boy toys want a cookie? I baked them myself." Harley held up a plate of cookies that were shaped like his face…

"Sure, those look delicious." Leaf took a cookie and took a bite. "Yum!"

"Now for her boy toys. One for you and one for you!" Harley shoved a cookie in my hand as well as Gary's. I took a nibble. There was too much sugar in that disgusting cookie. When he looked away I threw the cookie in a nearby trashcan shaped like a Pikachu.

"I've located all the dyslexic children. They're in rooms 2, 9, 13, 16, and 28. There's more than one of them in one room, so have fun! I bet they'll enjoy your company, sugar plums!" Harley gave Leaf a slip of paper with names on it.

"Thanks for the help!" Leaf went through a hallway until she stopped in room 2. She opened the door and inside was more of the stupid furniture and 4 kids on 4 beds. All of them were girls.

"Is Rosalina here?" Leaf read off the list.

"Don't call me that! My name's Rosy!" A little blond girl raised her fist in the air. What an annoying child.

"Okay, never mind let's go." Gary took the list and crossed her off. I guess he didn't like her either.

"Next stop, room 9." Room 9 was exactly the same as room 2. The only difference was that this was filled with little boys instead.

"Is Timmy here?" Gary read off the list.

"Who's asking?" A little boy with brown hair smirked. I inwardly groaned. Gary and Drew were already annoying enough, but another one just wouldn't be worth it.

"Are you Timmy?" Leaf asked.

"Who's asking? The ugly hag, the stupid Goth, or the stupid porcupine?" The kid hissed. Yep, I didn't like this kid either.

"Okay, he's definitely not the kid we're looking for." Leaf took back the list and we headed out to find another stupid kid. This was task was turning out to be more or a pain than I thought.

Jimmy's POV

I honestly didn't have much hope in finding a place that always moved around. From what I hear no one's ever been there twice and 99% of the people who get into the labyrinth go there by accident. I'm also not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so getting through a maze that the creator just barely got out of wasn't very promising.

Okay, so maybe I should be trying to feel a bit more optimistic, but right now I couldn't really find much to be happy about. Well, except for the fact that Marina was with me. I guess that was a good thing.

"What do you think the labyrinth looks like?" Marina asked. That was a good question. Maybe it was filled with booby traps or maybe it was a serene place.

"I have no idea, so let's find out." I said.

"Well, whatever it looks like we need to find a way into it first." Drew said. He was right. Honestly why did Daedalus have to make the labyrinth such a complicated place? I mean sure my life's goal is to be a Pokémon Master, but apparently his goal was to be a genius, so what better way to prove it other than making a maze that's practically impossible to find and solve?

Pacifidlog was just a simple village built on top of logs and rafts. There was no possible way to run or ride a bike without sinking into the ocean. That's why we were all leisurely walking, but when we first got here May got mad at Drew and so she tried running off, which led her to fall into the water and Drew had to dive in and save her. She was mad as a Tauros.

They were also both dripping wet, so that was why we had to spend extra time at the Pokémon Centre letting them dry off. Although, this incident did let Marina and I have a few moments together, which was actually just lunch.

We were currently walking to where Devin was. At least that's what Drew told me. Drew was definitely the brains in our group. I wonder what kind of guy Devin was. Maybe he was nice or maybe he was insane from knowing too much about the labyrinth. Heck, if I knew about the labyrinth I would've gone a little insane.

"What do you guys think Devin's going to be like?" I asked. I was growing tired of the ongoing silence. May and Drew refused to talk to each other because of whatever reason. I bet they had an argument when they were drying and Marina was a little quiet sometimes, so I guess I had to start the conversations.

"I bet he's going to be one of those cranky old guys." May said.

"I don't know. I think he's going to be our age." Marina said unsurely.

"I think he's going to be one of the insane guys who belong in a loony bin." Drew answered.

"Well, I think he's going to be a normal person." I said. I didn't know why I said that, but for some reason I felt like it was the right thing to say.

"Then let's find out! I don't want to be kept in suspense any longer!" May started to walk faster making the logs underneath her start to move. I was just waiting until she fell again, but before that happened she made it onto the tiny island where the small hut was located. Time to meet Devin.

May rapped her knuckles on the door and soon enough a girl about our age answered, "Hello?"

"Hi, is Devin here?" May asked. The girl smiled.

"I'm Devin, so what do you need?" She asked. Devin was a girl? Her parents must have planned for her to be a boy.

"You're Devin?" May asked. I guessed she didn't believe it either.

"The one and only. I'm the only one who lives here named Devin, so can I ask who you are?" Devin asked.

"Oh, I'm May. The one with green hair is Drew, the one with the hat is Jimmy, and the blue haired girl is Marina." May introduced. I guess my introduction was going to be the guy in the hat…

"It's nice to meet you, but what's with the visit?" Devin asked.

"Would you happen to know anything of Daedalus's labyrinth?" Drew asked.

"Then I should ask you something as well. Do you know anything about demigods?" Devin asked.

"As a matter of fact I do. You happen to be looking at four of them." I said.

"Then I'll answer your question. If you're looking for the entrance it's currently in Petalburg, but by tomorrow it should be in Lavaridge." Devin said.

"How are you sure about this?" Drew asked.

"All of Daedalus's true grandchildren have a special power to know. I just don't care much for the power. It's too much of a pain, so I tell all demigods, good or bad plus some Apollo kid cursed me with honesty." Devin answered.

"So you're saying that you have some magical power to always know where the labyrinth's entrance is. That's pretty strange." I answered.

"So is your friend's green hair." Devin pointed at Drew.

"If you're done here then I'll go back to my house. I have babysitting duties to attend to." Devin said.

"Actually there's one more thing. If the entrance is going to be at Lavaridge tomorrow then where is it going to be afterward?" Marina asked.

Devin sighed, "From midnight to 12:38 it's going to be at Lavaridge and then from 12:39 to 5:24 it'll be at Dewford. Can I go now?"

"How about the day afterward and its exact location?" Drew asked.

"It's going to be at Slateport the whole day, so if I were you I would head there right now, so you guys could actually make it." Devin said.

"You know it's not smart to just give out information like this?" Drew said.

"Yeah, but you're not the one under an honesty curse." Devin said.

"How'd you get cursed?" May asked.

"I broke up with a demigod, but he didn't take it too well and put an honesty curse on me. This curse is a big pain." Devin sighed. I finally noticed her appearance. I guess that if you already like someone else everyone looks plain in comparison. She had long curly hair that went down to her knees, purple eyes, long eyelashes, thin arched eyebrows, and full lips. I guess she would've been considered pretty, but compared to Marina she was a big pile of dung.

"Okay, well, thanks for the info" Marina said. Devin fixed the black beanie on her head as well as her clothes that consisted of a yellow tank top and black shorts. She also had black fingerless gloves and black sandals with a big yellow flower on it. Geez, I'm apparently a girl now. It's not quite right for a guy to notice the clothes on a girl and judging her fashion style, which was actually a really nice one.

"I have to go. I think my dinner's burning." Devin waved us goodbye and headed back into her house.

"Then let's go. Slateport's really far away and Flygon's too tired." Drew said. I groaned. We were going to have to take the long way to Slateport.

"If we hurry we should be able to make it. If worse comes to worse we'll fly the rest of the way. After all by then our flying Pokémon should be well rested." Drew said. Oh, well, at least I was paired up with the most resourceful one, Drew.

"Well, then what are we waiting for? Marina can you send out your Mantine and Dewgong?" Marina nodded and sent out a Pokémon that resembled a manta ray and a Pokémon that resembled a seal.

"So I'm guessing we're swimming to the closest city to Slateport." I said. Marina jumped onto Mantine and I hopped on with her. Well, it looks like May and Drew were going to have to ride with each other again. Let's just hope this time they don't fall into the water.


Okay, I actually finished this chapter early, so that means I'm going to have time to type the rest of this story's chapters. Oh, and does anyone have any suggestions to what I should rename this story. I feel like it's a crappy name and I'm finally ready to change it to something else since one of my reviewers even said it wasn't good. REVIEW!

Oh, and since I feel bad for not updating during my vacation I've given you guys a double update! So review the next chapter too!

~TDF~