HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAY GABRIELLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :D
This chapter is dedicated to a special young girl who.. Inspired me to.. Write.. Much.. lol, that sounds kinda wrong..
Anyways, due to the large time difference it's kinda hard uploading this on the right time (I have to upload this 6 in the morning to hit it right), so still, happy birthday, and send some cake here if you can..!
Now that that's done.. I'm so sorry! No, I'm really sorry for the short (2 month) waiting time, but surprise surprise.. Special birthday gift for this girl, extra long chapter! ;D
It's like over 20.000 words, and it originally was over 30.000, but that's already too much so I just split it, hehe..
Anyways, I hope you'll enjoy this boring chapter.. The next chapter should be up within 2 weeks, either this sunday or the one after that. :p
As always, thanks to everyone who reviewed!
(Too lazy to put you guys in sorry, but special thanks to mysterycangelcutlass14 for her/his exceptional review! :D)
Oh, almost forgot.. I hope everyone of you had an awesome christmas, and even if you didn't celebrate it, I hope you had a great time! ^^
Again, this and the next chapter will be boring.. But the chapters after, that will also be the last chapters, will be much more awesome than before, feauturing action, mysteries, and of course, tragedies. But hey; that's not until a few weeks! ;D
Also.. Huge thanks to beastmode953 who helped me to get out of writers block, helped many other writers, AND introducing more authors into advanceshipping..!
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Ehm. No chapter title. No cliffhanger. No crap. Enjoy!
The 16 year old teen/young man glared at his cheap phone intensively, glancing at his sister from time to time.
"Oh, she'll call." John told his sister, his eyes still locked on to the black little box. "Just you wait."
"So what if she calls..?" John's sister asked and giggled. "It's not like she's gonna call 4 in the morning.."
"She can call at ANY time!" John whispered out loud.
"Uh.." Aurora started and sweatdropped. "Yeah, well, I doubt that."
"Do you know who we're talking about?" John asked and grabbed the phone box, putting it on his lap as he sat down. "She'll call me for sure."
Aurora was absolutely sure that nobody would ever call, atleast not that night. The thought of that made her giggle.
"What?" John tried to whisper, but it sounded more like a scream. "What are you up to?"
"N-Nothing!" Aurora said giggling. "Why would you think something like that?"
"I've learned something as your brother." John said and sighed. "Every time you giggle.. Something's up."
After hearing this, Aurora couldn't help it and finally broke down with laughter and even fell off the little bed she was sitting on.
"Yup.. Something's definitively up." John said and sighed.
Closing her eyes, the girl tried one last time.
...
Crap.. Why didn't it work..?
Taking one deep breath, the young girl sat down on a bench near her to gather herself. Closing her eyes again, she tried to remember the instructions her friend just gave her last night. She, of course, couldn't remember a thing other than being told to be calm and concentrate.
After a few minutes of trying to remember, and failing, she instead closed her eyes and tried to contact her friend with her mind.
'AURORA, please help!' she almost screamed out loud in her mind.
A total of 30 seconds went by before she realized that her friend wouldn't answer, it was after all very early in the morning. The young girl once again stood up and closed her eyes; if this didn't work, she would probably get crazy or something and smash the whole hotel just for fun.
Her whole body was now literally shaking because of the amount of "concentration" that filled her mind and soon enough, she finally fell to the ground, shaking.
"I'm such a fail.." she whispered and felt like crying. "Hm, maybe it's because I changed clothes..?
The girl tried to stand up but stumbled and fell again, hurting her right knee.
"This.. SUCKS!" the girl screamed out loud and punched the ground.
Only hearing a soft sound by the impact of her punch, she opened her eyes in disbelief to see that she wasn't outside on the asphalt anymore. Hearing some strange moaning just in front of her, the girl nearly screeched in surprise as she quickly got up to her feet. Seeing a dark hotel room, a bed and two teens sleeping on it made her realize two things.
One.. She made it! She was on the balcony! She made it into the hotel room!
Two.. Ash was staring at her.
"You. Got. To. Be.. Shitting me."
The famous leader of the super-awesome always-finishes-every-mission team moaned and cursed everything around him.
"We checked the city's security cams and those just outside the forest but found nothing." one of the team members said and rubbed the back of his head with a smile. "Maybe we were too late..?
"Impossible." Jens stated and eyed the city's tall buildings. "Those idiots aren't that fast."
"Then where are they?" another member asked. "We checked every truck and van exiting the city for the past few hours and got nothing."
Jens thought about it for a moment.
"Those lazy idiots.." Jens muttered and declined a call from his boss. "Can't they even RUN right?"
Jens slapped his forehead and moaned again as he finally realized what those three were doing.
"Of course." he started and sighed, closing his eyes for just a minute or so. "If they're too lazy to escape then they're still in the city."
"Fine." a team member said and lit up, happy to get some rest before the sun came back up. "Then we'll just wait for them to try to leave."
Jens shook his head and shoved a live-ammo gun into his pocket, just incase.
"We're going after them." Jens started and heard all of the moans from his team. "Now."
"Are you serious? We've been after them for like six hours straight or some shit and it's 6 in the morning we need rest!"
"Fine." Jens said and smirked when he heard his team sigh in relief. "After we got them."
"But whyyyyy..!" a member moaned together with the others.
"Cause Giovanni has tried to call me all night and only stopped to get a rest or something."
"That's great!" the member who complained the most in the team, Tom said happily. "Then we can take a break, too!"
Jens thought about whether he would do it or not, but finally decided to shoot Tom with his trank gun. Tom immediately fell to the floor unconscious and even snored quietly. The other members got pretty surprised by how fast that thing came to effect.
"How much do they contain..?" a member asked and pointed at an empty dart-like thing stuck to Tom's arm.
"Enough to make him need diapers." Jens said and smirked. "Oh.. Somebody has to fix some."
The rest of the team members quickly shook their head and geared up, it's either that or fix diapers to their grown up friend.
"Very well." Jens said triumphantly. "We'll have to split up. Get moving."
The blue haired teen yawned and tried to turn her head around to see the clock. She finally made it after a few tries but instead faced a new problem where she couldn't open her slimy eyes. She tried to bypass that problem, too, but it was almost impossible and ended up with her using her hands to get them open. Just her luck, the clock didn't work because of dead batteries. She, in frustration, smashed down her hands on the bed but hit something hard with her right hand. That thing she just hit quickly sat up, covering its face with its hands.
"Oh my f-" the person, or so Dawn assumed, moaned and coughed. "This CAN'T be happening, AGAIN."
"D-Drew..?" Dawn asked and sat up, recognizing her green haired friend and rival.
Drew stopped rubbing his face and turned to see the girl, but unfortunately for him, the only thing he would see for the next few hours was stars. Dawn stared at the knocked out boy for a little while before screaming with all her might.
"DREW? WHAT THE HELL!"
Dawn started to freak out, knowing that she had just beat the legendary Drew Hayden unconscious. She was about to run and get the nurse but didn't when she heard somebody in the room giggle. For a second there she really thought it was Drew that giggled, but that would be impossible after that blow that probably made Drew forget his last 10 hours or so.
"Who.. Who's there!" Dawn demanded more than asked.
The giggling immediately stopped, and Dawn felt pretty frightened.
"I.. I know kung-fu!" Dawn said and did a few weird motions with her hands and feet.
The giggling sound that Dawn heard before had now returned but soon turned into complete laughter. Dawn almost fainted when she saw a young girl came out from.. Nowhere really.
"Who.. Who the hell are you?" Dawn asked the laughing girl in front of her bed.
"I'm.. I'm.." the girl got out but then got interrupted by another laugh attack. "I'm sorry! You should have seen your face, oh my.. My stomach!"
The mysterious stranger fell to the floor laughing with her hands on her stomach. Dawn raised an eyebrow and stared at the girl; she had a simple but beautiful light blue blouse and a matching dark blue long skirt made her look pretty cute while trying to hold back her laughter. Suddenly, the girl stopped laughing and instead stared at Dawn with a weird face expression.
"Wait, are you.." she started and raised an eyebrow. "Are you lesbian..?"
Dawn got caught off guard by that question and almost fell of her bed.
"ME?" Dawn screamed in defense and pointed at the girl. "I'M NOT THE ONE SPYING ON LITTLE GIRLS!"
"I wasn't spying on you!" the girl tried and stood up. "Jeez, you knocked him out!"
"He.. He was sleeping with me!" Dawn screamed and got out of the bed.
"Nice pyjamas." the girl said and blinked.
Dawn blushed but quickly shrugged it off, wanting to know what was going on.
"Wait, who are you, what are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry.." the girl replied and giggled. "I'm Sophia."
Dawn nodded and it got quiet for a little while.
"Well..?" Dawn asked and raised an eyebrow. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
"Oh, I was just.."
The "cute" girl didn't get much further and once again fell to the floor, laughing. Dawn crossed her arms and muttered something about getting a private room with a fancy lock.
"I'm going to change.." Dawn said and went to the bathroom. "You're going to explain EVERYTHING and don't let anyone in!"
Dawn expected Sophia to atleast give her some answer, but the only thing she got back was a grin followed up with loud laughter. Sophia's laughter finally stopped when Dawn slammed the bathroom door shut and locked it.
"You know what I'm gonna do?" an excited girl said and jumped infront of the mirror. "I'm gonna ride the ferriswheel, eat cottoncandy, donuts, and make Drew win awesome prizes for me..!"
The excited girl sighed and got lost in her own world, imagining how her day would be like.
"Yes, I know that." the girl's sister said and yawned. "But can you keep it down? It's.."
"10 am, I know!" the girl finished for his sister. "I have to hurry and get Drew!"
The girl on the bed, Solidad yawned once more and tried to get back to sleep, but that was impossible as her sister kept on talking about how "romantic" her day would be.
"Then, I'm going to force Drew to kiss me when it's midnight.." Amelia started again and sighed. "And if he doesn't, I'll simply kill him!"
Amelia started to giggle uncontrollably and even fell to the floor like she was drunk or something.
"And theeeen..!" Amelia started and giggled even more. "I'll rent a hotel room!"
Amelia smirked and watched closely to see how her sister would react. Her sister only yawned and turned around on the bed, showing her sister her butt.
"HEY." Amelia said and stood up. "What the hell!"
"What is it now.." her sister moaned with her face pressed against the pillow.
"You're not even listening!"
"Of course I am.."
"Then what did I just say?"
"You were gonna get a room."
"Y-Yeah!" Amelia said after a moment of silence. "Aren't.. Aren't you going to yell at me..?"
"Now you're being ridiculous." Solidad said and giggled. "I don't need to, I know you're not gonna do anything stupid."
"How.. How can you know that?"
"So you want me to yell at you and be like some kind of mother?"
"N-No!" Amelia whined and moaned. "It's not like that!"
"You don't have to worry, I still care for you and I'll always keep an eye out for you."
"What?"
"Nothing, now get out of here, I bet the others are waiting."
"HEY! You can't just shush me away like that!" Amelia said and jumped on the bed. "You're coming with us!"
"I told you, later.." Solidad said lowly and turned her back against her sister.
Amelia crossed her arms, if her sister wanted more sleep, she would usually get that. But this time, Amelia really, really wanted Solidad to come with her.. But she had to get her out of the bed somehow. Taking a quick glance down her hallway, she nodded to herself and giggled.
'Who's up for a quick shower?' the girl screamed happily in her mind.
Something.. Soft, was resting on his face. Right on his nose, to be more exact. Raising his hands to his face, he tried to feel what that annoying thing was, but didn't really feel something else other than his face and nose.
The raven haired boy sighed, he would have to find a mirror somewhere. The boy raised an eyebrow as he stared at the surroundings, not recognizing where he was.
"Um.. Hello..?" the boy asked out loud after realizing that no one was around. "Anybody here?"
Ash sweatdropped; if nobody was there, why would he get an answer? Atleast it was worth a try. He sighed before carefully staring at his surroundings. He was standing in an empty part of a city, with a few buildings around him. Maybe knocking on a few doors would be a good idea? Going to the little house almost right next to him, he tried to check through the windows if anybody was there before knocking on the door politely. After not hearing anything other than his own knocking, he increased the power and yelled just a little bit higher.
"Helloooo?" Ash tried again and pressed his ear against the door. "Anybody thereeeeeeeeee?"
Ash put his hand on the door knob but shook that thought away; who would leave their house unlocked?
He turned around to leave but accidentally pulled the door knob down and opened it as he turned around, making him fall with surprise.
"My knee.." Ash whined lowly.
The door he just opened slowly slid to the side and made Ash scream with surprise.
"This getting too scary.." Ash whispered and eyed the kitchen room in front of him. "P.. Pikachu..?"
Glancing at his shoulder, he remembered that Pikachu probably was with Brock and Nurse Joy at the pokécenter. He forgot his best friend.. But who could blame him for everything that happened to him the last few days? It's not like, he forgot Pikachu completely, he just slipped off his mind-
A toilet flushing could be heard from the house Ash was in, sending shivers down his spine.
"W-Why is this even scary? There's a person home!" Ash told himself and chuckled. "Excuse me, sir..?"
Ash stood up and suddenly felt uncomfortable, it didn't look like a man lived in this house, more like an old lady or something. Ash went up the wooden stairs, following the strange flushing sounds.
"Hello..?" Ash tried again as he walked up.
Finally up on the second floor, Ash went through every room, hoping to find the source of that sound. The only thing he actually found on the way up and in every room was musical instruments, paintings and a large room with pictures of.. Boys? With only one room left, he sighed when he found out that the last room was the bathroom. That sound that came from the bathroom was probably from that old lady taking a shower.
He slapped himself on the forehead, he couldn't just walk in and ask here where he was or if he could use the phone.. He didn't even know Brock's, his mother or any number at all. He could check those other houses out, but he didn't really want to act like some guy who just lost is memory. But what else could he do..?
Taking one deep breath, he decided to enter the bathroom.
"What's the worst thing that could happen?" Ash asked himself and chuckled. "She's just an old lady anyways.."
He quickly sneaked to the bathroom door and checked if it was locked. It wasn't.. This lady needs help, first the door down there, and now her bathroom..? He shook his head and slowly opened the door just a little bit to peek in. He sighed in relief; right now he could only see that toilet in front of him, and if he was lucky, that lady might have the curtains cover his view.
"Miss..?" Ash nearly whispered, and together with the flowing water, he couldn't be heard at all. "Are you in here..?"
For some season, Ash had a really bad feeling about this, everything reminded him of some scary horror movie. But he wanted to continue anyway, he needed answers now. As he slowly got into the bathroom, he was surprised to see.. Nothing. Nothing but that single toilet in front of him and a sink next to it. Then where did that sound come from? Ash noticed that the sound came from somewhere behind, which surprised him. He got even more surprised to see the old lady's behind when he turned around.
"OH SHOOT, I'M SO SORRY MISS!" Ash bursted out and quickly covered his eyes with his hands.
He wondered how the old lady would kill him.. Make him do some hard work for her or tell him stories until he would die of boredom? A short but loud scream could be heard, and Ash prepared for any incoming slaps, punches, kicks or maybe a flying soap to his face.
.. But nothing ever came, and Ash wondered if maybe he was already hit unconscious.
"ASH?" the old lady screamed.
"What the.. You have a very light voice for being a-"
Ash brought down his hands from his eyes and saw a white, triangle shaped object fly right into his face before everything went black. Although that happened quickly, he saw enough to realize that the "old lady" wasn't really an old lady.
Dawn couldn't help but giggle just a little bit when she went out of the bathroom, seeing that strange Sophia still laughing on the floor.
"Why are you laughing anyways?" Dawn asked and sat down on the edge of her bed.
"Y-Your FACE..!" Sophia started and tried to catch her breath. "YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN YOUR FACE, HAHAH!"
"It wasn't THAT funny." Dawn muttered and watched the strange girl calm down.
"Of course it was!" Sophia said and wiped a few tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry.."
"Hmpf, whatever." Dawn said and sighed. "Now, tell me what just happened here."
"You were in the bathroom for a while." Sophia said and smiled, trying to change the subject. "For how long were you in there?"
"Don't even try." Dawn muttered and gritted her teeth. "Now tell me."
"Long story or short story..?"
"MAKE IT SHORT!"
"Well, uh.." Sophia started and put her index finger on her lips, her eyes watching the roof or something. "Long story short, Drew was being a jerk so I.. Punished him."
"BY PUTTING HIM ON MY BED?"
"But he got what he deserved..!"
Dawn stared at Drew for a bit and sighed.
"What did he do to deserve all of this, then?" Dawn wondered.
Sophia lowered her head and sighed with her hands on her face.
"He.. He "complimented" my butt.." she whispered and sighed again.
Dawn just stared blankly at the girl in blue before bursting out with laughter.
"It's not funny." Sophia muttered. "It's sexual harrassment."
Dawn stopped laughing and opened her mouth to say something, but kept on laughing again and even fell on Drew's sleeping body.
"Drew!" Dawn managed to get out and poked his body while laughing. "You.. PERVERT!"
"Hm, I see.. I guess the roles have been changed, huh?" Sophia said and chuckled.
Dawn didn't really pay attention to anything that Sophia said and just continued with her hysterical laughter. Sophia crossed her arms and sighed but smirked when she came up with an idea. Closing her eyes, she managed to get the laughing blue haired girl quiet before going on with her evil plan.
The girl with the long, black hair yawned before sitting up on her bed. That was strange, really, really strange. She hadn't had a dream like that for years. A dream that, for real, surprised her. She yawned pretty loudly again and went out of her bed, trying to navigate in the pitch black room.
"I really have to get lights in here.." the girl said lowly and sighed. "AH, MOTHERF-"
The girl rubbed her forehead and could already feel the boulder growing. She raised her hands and moved the curtains, letting the morning sun's warmth and light slip into the room. Getting herself up from the floor, she quickly went to her bathroom that was basically next to her room to see if her forehead had gotten any serious damage. She sighed in relief as she stared into the little mirror on the wall; if she concentrated for like 5 minutes, it would be all gone, and she would be smoking hot again in no time.
'Sophia.' she said, trying to contact her friend. 'We should head out.'
The black haired girl raised an eyebrow as she could only hear some strange, evil laughter from her friend.
"Ugh, what's the clock?" she said and washed her face. "John?"
No answer.. Wasn't he sleeping in the room next to her? Maybe he went downstairs or something.
She took a quick glance at her shower behind her and giggled, why not..? After all, a shower could only make her more beautiful.
Jens couldn't help but chuckle a bit as he watched the surveillance camera together with the rest of his team. Minus one dozed off team member, of course.. Jens finally had to give in and bursted out with laughter together with his team as they watched the poor cat get hanged up against the wooden wall.
"Jessie, put me down!" the cat begged and tried to bite the red haired woman. "JESSIE!"
"Shut up!" the red haired woman said and giggled while she tied the cat up. "James, help me out!"
A blue haired man could soon be seen on the screen with, strangely enough, a make-up kit.
"Oh, NO, they're NOT gonna do it, are they?" a stunned team member, Kolzy, said.
Everybody in the room started growing huge smiles as they couldn't believe what was happening in the abandoned wooden house.
Jens usually never allowed his team or himself for that matter to play around like this.. But after working and searching for these guys non-stop for the whole night and morning, he thought that they deserved a little "break".
"Alright guys, five more minutes and then we'll go get them."
The whole room got filled with grunts and whines as the team members begged their leader to let them rest for a few hours more. Jens shook his head and chuckled but then raised an eyebrow as he could feel his cellphone vibrate in his pocket. Bringing it up, he hovered his thumb above a button to deny the call but saw that it wasn't Giovanni that was calling. Raising an eyebrow, he went to the other side of the room to accept the call.
"Yeah..?" he whispered, afraid that he would disturb his team while they enjoyed themselves.
"Jens..?" a soft voice could be heard.
A soft voice..? A female voice..? Jens got pretty surprised by this, and it took a few seconds before he realized that the person was calling for him.
"Hello..?" the person tried, braking Jens's thoughts.
"Who.. Who is it?" Jens asked and tried to sound threatful.
"It's okay, it's me.." the person started and sighed. "Christina."
"What?" Jens asked and started to whisper. "What is it? Are you okay?"
"Of course, I'm perfectly fine.." the woman, Christina, said pretty lowly. "Where are you?"
"I'm on a mission, I can't really talk right now.." Jens said and glanced at his laughing team members. "Is it something important?"
"You.. You could say so, yes."
"Well..? What could be so important that you had to call me right now?"
"I'm leaving."
Jens found himself pressed against the wall as he tried to figure out what his ex meant.
"What..?" Jens finally got out.
"I'm leaving.. I'm leaving Team Rocket, Jens!" Christina said, sounding like she was trying to whisper.
Once again, Jens got quiet and tried to come up with something to say.
"About time."
A strange sound could be heard, almost as if Christina didn't believe what Jens just said.
"Yes.. Yes it is." Christina said and sighed. "And I want you to come with me, Jens!"
"Excuse me..?"
"Yes.. I want you to come with me, leave with me, Jens."
"Do.. Do you know who I am?"
"Of course. You're the leader of the most famous Team Rocket special ops team."
"Exactly." Jens said and sighed. "That's why I can't leave."
"Why not..?"
"Because.. Because I'm the best, my team is the best!" Jens got out, his voice raising a bit. "We would get hunted down!"
Jens glanced at his team members again to see if anyone was listening to his conversation but quickly dismissed any suspicions when he heard his team explode with laughter.
"And they would never find us..!"
None of them said anything more, and Jens thought he could hear the fast paced breathing noises coming from Christina.
"Listen.." Christina started again and sighed. "I understand the situation I am putting you in, but.."
Christina, and Jens, took a deep breath before going on.
"I'm going to Johto in 3 days. I'll be waiting in the airport tomorrow midnight, and if you're not there.. Then this is the last time we'll ever hear from each other."
Jens closed his eyes; yes, she was right, this was a very tough situation.
"Please.." Christina said lowly. "Please think about it.."
Jens didn't really have anything to say, being quiet was probably the best way to go.
"G-Goodbye, Jens." Christina stuttered. "I.. I love you."
The call ended and Jens sighed as he put his cellphone into his pocket, wondering how this would turn out.
"Um, Jens..?"
Jens snapped his head up and stared at his team, wondering what was going on.
"What." Jens replied annoyed, he wasn't really in the mood to see a poor cat get an extreme make over.
"You should really come see this."
Jens raised an eyebrow, realizing that something was up as the rest of the team didn't laugh anymore. Sprinting to his team to see what was going on at the wooden little house, his heart almost stopped when he recognized a very familiar man, pointing a gun against the trio.
"Ow.." the raven haired boy moaned. "My head.."
The boy tried to open his eyes but couldn't manage to do that, for some season they felt very weak and.. Slimy? He tried again, but this time slowly did so and it obviously worked as he smiled widely.
Now.. Why was his eyes so screwed up, and why did he have such a massive headache? And why did it feel like he was wearing more than his usual clothes?
"Pikachu..?" he tried and noticed that his throat was dry.
.. No use, if Pikachu was there, he would already be next to him with a concerned face. But what could Pikachu help with right now? Other than telling him what was going on, of course.
Alright.. He had to try and remember what happened the last few.. Hours? Days..? So, first, why was he feeling so beat up?
'Okay.' Ash thought to himself and closed his eyes. 'Where am I?'
Slowly opening his eyes, he could distinguish a certain bathroom and a strange familiar painting, telling him that he was in the hotel room.
'Alright.. What happened yesterday..?' he thought and closed his eyes again. 'Let's see..'
Last night, around midnight..
"But please, sir!" the raven haired boy screamed desperately and hit the glass windows. "I need to get some clothes!"
The store manager or seller shook his head and continued with writing down a few notes at his counter.
"Please!" Ash tried again and this time banged the door instead. "It's an emergency!"
The man inside sighed and motioned for Ash to get away. Ash moaned and rested his head on the door, still banging pretty hard.
"C'mon, c'mon, C'MON!"
Ash, on that last word, banged one final time and did it pretty hard.. The glass door finally couldn't take it anymore, and Ash almost fell to the thousands of shattered pieces that were scattered around the floor and ground. Ash looked up sheepishly, his hands still up high, trying to read the unreadable face expression printed on the man's face.
"Ehheh.." Ash started but then lowered his head in shame. "I'm.. I'm sorry, I'll pay it all.."
"Of course you are." the man said, still writing down a few notes.
Ash sighed again before going to the, probably, very upset man.
"Now, young man.." the man started and put down his pencil. "Why is it so important to get a few clothes at this time, and even worse brake my beautiful glass door?"
"Well, it's an emergency, eheh.." Ash replied and chuckled a bit.
"Then call 911." the man said and started writing down notes again.
"What, no, I can't do that.."
"Why not?"
"Well, it's not like that.."
"Then it isn't an emergency."
"Well, yes!" Ash whined. "But I don't have a cellphone.."
"Then use mine." the man said and put a cellphone on the counter.
"But.. But.."
Ash held his index finger in the air and was about to say something else but instead lowered his head in shame, defeated.
"Jeez.." Ash said and sweatdropped. "You remind me of a friend of mine.."
'Speaking of which..' Ash thought to himself. 'What was Sophia doing in my dreams..?'
And what am I doing in your mind..?
"AH, WHAT THE HELL?" Ash screamed and fell to the floor. "HUH?"
Ash rubbed his poor butt and back before getting up only to recieve a strange look from the store owner.
"Boy, did you just get out from a mental hospital or something?" the man asked and sighed. "You were screaming, and falling, like a complete idiot."
"No, I'm not crazy.." Ash said, still rubbing his sore behind. "It.. It was my friend! She was like talking to me in my mind, and-"
Ash stopped talking and saw that the man was looking at Ash like he was some kind of a mad man, and Ash completely understood why.
"Um, never mind that, eheh.." Ash said embarrassed.
"Young man, may I see your identification, please?" the man asked and looked strangely at Ash.
"My identification.. I don't have any..?"
"No identification..?" the man asked and raised his eyebrow. "Young man, I have to ask you to leave my store."
"What, why..?"
"There's something fishy about you, boy." the store owner said and continued with writing his notes. "If you leave now you don't have to pay for the windows."
"But I really need.."
"Leave now or I'll call Officer Jenny AND make you pay for the glass door!"
Ash backed away and turned around to walk home but remembered that he actually had identification.
"Here!" Ash said and put a weird, red thing on the counter. "It'll show you who I am, somehow.."
The store owner put down his pencil once again and started checking the red thing on his hand called a pokédex. Navigating and pressing a few buttons where Ash never even had touched before, the store owner put the pokédex down and pressed one final button. Soon enough, a picture of Ash was shown on the little screen together with a beeping sound.
"Ash Ketchum." the pokédex pronounced. "Fully licensed and registered pokémon trainer. Journey started 2007 in Kanto, Pallet Town under the supervision of Professor Oak."
"Professor Oak?" the man said, obviously not expecting that. "Well I'll be damned, now let's see how many pokémon you've seen.."
Pressing on a few random buttons again, it didn't take long before a list on the pokédex screen of encountered pokémon emerged.
"OVER 600 POKÉMON?" the man screamed quite loudly, making Ash back away a bit. "Alright, you got my attention, what can I do for you?"
"That's all it took..?" Ash wondered and sweatdropped. "Anyways, I need to get clothes for my friend, quickly."
"Sure thing." the man said and chuckled. "Just take a look around my store and come back when you found something good."
Ash sweatdropped again and turned around to see the store. It was pretty big actually and packed with a variety of different clothes.
But.. Ash didn't know what to buy, or even what size May had.
"What is it?" the man asked and almost glared at Ash. "Can't see anything good?"
"What? No, it's great stuff, I just.. I just.. I just don't know what size my friend has.."
"Hm, that's too bad.. Got a picture of him?"
"Um, why would you need a picture of.. I don't even have a cellphone." Ash started and chuckled a bit. "And it's a girl.."
"I see.. Is she your girlfriend?"
"W-What?" Ash stuttered and blushed. "No! Now, can you please help me pick clothes for her..?"
"Well, you don't know her size and neither do I.. So we can't exactly just guess and buy something that might not fit.."
Ash sighed as the store owner tried to figure something out.
"You sure you don't have a picture of her?"
"Why would you need a picture of her..?"
"I can see what size she has if I look at her body." the man said and smiled proudly.
"You.. You can do that..?"
"Yup, I've been working with stuff like this for quite a while now."
"For how long?"
"Since before you were born, so I know a thing or two." the man said and grinned. "Now, is there any picture of her at all?"
"Well, she's kinda famous, so there has to be a few somewhere.."
"Famous? How famous?"
"Like, really famous..?" Ash said and sweatdropped. "I think she was in yesterdays newspaper.."
"Newspaper..?" the man said, thinking that the young boy was lying. "Well, I think I have that newspaper left."
Telling Ash to stay where he was and not touch anything, the man went into another room and disappeared. Ash got pretty impressed as he saw even more clothes and accessories - especially elegant and expensive looking dresses, like the ones he saw before entering the store - in the room before the door closed. After a few seconds, the man was back, holding a newspaper with his hands.
"Now, let's see.." he said and smiled a bit. "What's her name, and what does she look like?"
"Uh.." Ash started and thought about it. "She's a brunette, pretty thin.."
"Alright.. And her name?"
"May Maple."
The man dropped the newspaper and stared at the boy.
"What?" the man said and took off his glasses.
"Yeah.. Look, there she is!"
Ash pointed at what seemed to be the front page where a sad girl was looking down on the ground.
"You're kidding me." the man said, his eyes wide open. "You know THE May Maple?"
"Yeah, I do, ehehe.."
The man stared at Ash just like he did before, thinking he was crazy.
"Look, what's your name?" the man asked.
"Ash Ketchum, sir.."
"I see.. Now, Ash, I'm going to ask a question, and you have to be honest, alright?"
Ash just nodded, wondering what the man wanted to know.
"Is this a joke? It's not april's fools anymore and halloween is in a few months."
"No, I swear I know her, she's my friend!" Ash bursted out, tired of all of this. "Now can you please help me out? She's at the airport right now, and I don't have much time.."
"She's here?" the store owner asked stunned. "Then why didn't you say so!"
"I've been trying to do that, trust me.." Ash said and sweatdropped.
"Hm, very well.." the man said and shoved a piece of candy into his mouth. "I never knew she had a boyfriend."
"I told, she isn't my girlfriend!" Ash said and blushed again.
"No? Then how did you two become 'friends'?"
The man said that last word rather sarcastically and even raised his eyebrows in a teasing way.
"Uh, we used to travel for a year or so.."
"You traveled with her?" the man asked, not quite believing it. "Then you two must be really close 'friends'."
"W-Whatever, now can you please help me?" Ash stuttered and wondered why he was blushing so much.
"Sure, but I don't understand why this is an emergency, and why you had to break my glass door." the man said and sighed.
"Because.." Ash started and grew impatient. "She's at the airport right now about to leave, because she thinks I slept with another girl!"
"Well..? Did you..?"
"What? No!" Ash bursted out. "And now I have to make up for it, can you please help me fast..?"
"Why do you have to make up for it if you even didn't do it?"
"Never mind that, can you please get something for her, quick?"
"Oh, of course!" the man said and quickly disappeared back into the back room.
Ash tried to figure out what the time was and checked his pokédex when he realized that he didn't know how to do that. Surprisingly enough, the man was already back with a small box that probably contained the clothes.
"All done." the man stated proudly.
"Uhm, are you sure it's the right size..?" Ash whispered and brought up a pink bra from the box. "I don't think that her, eh.."
Ash blushed a bit and quickly put the bra down on the counter before unpacking the box to but the bra at the box's bottom.
"Wait a minute.." Ash said and stared at the box suspiciously after he had put the clothes back in. "These are May's clothes!"
The boy's jaw almost dropped as he held up the red-themed clothes, plus the mini white and black skirt.
"How.. How did you get these..?" Ash asked stunned.
"Well, as you know she's pretty famous, and many girls wanna be her.." the store owner started and thought about it. "So I called the companies that sold her different clothings and managed to get quite a few pairs of these.. And they sold pretty good! That's the one right there."
'Every girl wants to be May, huh?' Ash thought.
He never knew May had gotten so famous and well known, even though she was a top coordinator.
"Well?" the store owner said, braking Ash's weird thoughts. "Weren't you on a hurry or something..?"
Ash quickly snapped his head up and packed all of the clothes back, with the bra at the bottom of course, before sprinting out of the store, dodging the pieces of glass on the floor. The man almost bursted out with laughter, still thinking that Ash was some kind of a crazy kid for jumping in the way he did.
"Kids these days.." he told himself and kept on writing his notes again.
"Wait!"
The store owner sighed and looked up to see the boy pretty embarrassed.
"Um.. When should I pay for the-"
"FORGET about that!" the man nearly screamed. "Now go get your girl young man!"
Ash nodded with a grateful face expression before running off. The old man chuckled before checking his newspaper, surprised that the front page showed that May had lost an unofficial contest.
Back at the hotel..
'Okay.' Ash thought and took a deep breath. 'And then, we.. We went from the airport home, and then..'
The boy sighed and cursed himself for being so slow and stupid.
'Okay, so we went to sleep.. But how did I get up here? Has she already forgiven me..?'
Sweatdropping, the boy was quite sure that May was still mad at him.
"May..?" Ash tried again, even though his throat hurt whenever he spoke. "Are you in here?"
The boy sighed and tried to turn his head around and actually made it this time without hurting himself. Testing his luck, he tried to get up from the bed and to his surprise managed to do that, too. His body seemed to have recovered from.. Whatever happened to him before, but his face and nose still felt messed up, almost as if he had gotten a rock straight to his face. Rubbing his back a little with a boosted self-confidence, he tried to get out of the bed completely but failed and fell to the floor, face first.
"I hate this.." the boy whispered and sighed.
Feeling a nosebleed coming, he grunted once before passing out.
The black haired girl had never, ever laughed so hard in her life. Sure.. She didn't usually laugh so much at all, but this time she was literally rolling on the floor, soon finding hard to breathe.
"My.." the girl started and coughed. "My STOMACH! IT HURTS!"
Her brother, John, sweatdropped and tried to figure out what was up with his sister.
"What's so funny?" he muttered, it wasn't a treat to see his sister have fun while he stayed up all night, staring at a phone box.
"Have you.." she started and felt her laughter come back up. "Have you stayed up ALL NIGHT?"
"Yes?" John replied as if it was completely normal. "What?"
Aurora stared at her brother before bursting out with laughter, again..
After more than 5 minutes of Aurora stopping and returning back to her laughter, she finally stopped and stared at her tired brother.
"Did.. Did she call..?" she asked and tried to suppress her grin.
"Who, Angel?" John asked and yawned. "No.."
Aurora's innocent face quickly turned into an evil one as she returned to her hysterical laughter again.
"Of course!" Aurora managed to get out during laughter. "Of course she didn't!"
The 16 year old boy raised and eyebrow and leaned forward a bit from his couch.
"What do you mean with that?" he muttered and sweatdropped.
"Think about it." Aurora whispered and winked. "Why hasn't she called yet?"
"Um.." John got out and leaned back again, trying to figure all of this out even though his body screamed for sleep. "Cause.. Oh.. You little b-"
Before John could even finish that last word, Aurora had started laughing again, although much harder and of course louder than before. This freaked John out a bit, and it only got worse when Aurora started pinching herself to stop laughing. Yawning one last time, John threw the telephone box at Aurora's face, hoping to shut her up that way. Closing his eyes to finally get some sleep, he smirked, proud that Aurora wasn't laughing anymore. But a flying chair to his grinning face quickly changed that.
The bored girl finished the last piece of her cupcake and thought of getting some more, but she didn't want to get fat.. Maybe she was, already..?
Sighing, the girl stared at the clock that was hanging on the other side of the caféteria before doing some math.. 5 more minutes, she could handle that, if only there was something to do under these horrible minutes..
Getting herself up from the chair to get another piece of either a cupcake or a donut, her eyes widened as she saw a familiar brunette through the glass windows heading towards the pokécenter. She raised her hand to wave at the her soon-to-be friend, but instead slapped herself on her forehead; how could May possibly know who she was?
Sprinting to the caféteria exit, the girl stopped just before it, thinking about what 'personality' she would pick and use against May.
"Let's see.." the girl said quietly to herself. "I can either be a smart and mysterious one.. Or be the happy-go-lucky girl.. Or, maybe the shy one..?"
Putting her index finger on her lips, the girl smiled and picked the one she thought was the best.
"I'll just be friendly." she said and happily went to see a certain brunette.
After a little happy skipping trip, the happy and friendly girl finally reached the lobby and got quite surprised to see that May had already entered the pokécenter and was currently waiting for someone at the counter.
"Um, excuse me.." May started as she caught sight of the happy girl. "Have you by any chance seen nurse-"
"Hiiii!" the girl squealed and hugged the surprised brunette. "It's great to see you!"
"It's good to see you, uh.." May started and raised an eyebrow. "Do I know you..?"
"No." the girl in blue replied and giggled. "But everybody knows you!"
"Yeah.." May said and sweatdropped. "I'm just not used to that yet.. Atleast not here in Sinnoh.."
"Oh, that's alright." the girl said and giggled. "You'll get used to it, sooner or later."
"I guess so, thanks." May said and giggled a bit embarrassed. "Now, have you.. Um, what's your name..? Have you seen the nurse, or maybe a green haired boy..? Blue haired girl..?"
"Oh, that reminds me!" the girl suddenly bursted out and jumped, making May jump herself by surprise. "What's the clock?"
"Well, it's, uh.." May said and grabbed her cellphone. "It's almost 12."
"Perfect.." the girl whispered and giggled.
"What's perfect?" May asked confused.
"Oh, well.."
Glancing at May's cellphone to confirm the time, she giggled once before leaning in to whisper something in May's ear.
"Just so you know, my name is not Sophia."
The girl whose 'name wasn't Sophia' winked at May before running off, probably back to the caféteria. May blinked a few times and sighed, this wasn't something she normally went through in pokécenters. Hearing a loud, ear-piercing scream, her day was only about to get more.. Eventful. Trying to see where that scream came from by going to the room hallway, another scream could be heard, but this one sounded more like a boy scream and was cut short pretty quickly.
"Um, Sophia..?" May asked out loud at as she looked back at the caféteria. "Do you know anything about th-"
"SOPHIA! GET OUT HERE NOW!"
May screeched in surprise as she heard somebody scream from behind at the hallway.
"Oh, hey Dawn." May greeted and blinked a few times, surprised to see her blue haired friend so furious. "Why are you-"
"SOPHIA!" Dawn interrupted with another huge scream as she went past the sweatdropping brunette. "I KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE!"
The raging blue haired girl eyed the lobby pretty quickly, looking for any signs of the girl in blue. Not finding her anywhere, she turned around and faced her brown haired friend to get some answers.
"WHERE IS SHE!" Dawn asked, or more like demanded to know.
"Uh.." May got out and raised her hand to point at the caféteria's entrance. "She's probably in there.."
"Thank you May." Dawn said sweetly and nodded.
Doing a quick bow towards May, the mad blue haired girl sprinted towards the entrance of the caféteria while gritting her teeth. May sweatdropped once more before sighing deeply, her eyes locked on to the floor.
"What just happened..?" she asked no one in particular, wondering if she would ever get an answer to that.
"Where.. Where's Dawn?"
May screamed in fear and nearly slapped the green haired boy that had walked up on her from behind.
"D-Drew!" May screamed, putting her hands on her chest. "You scared me to death!"
Drew only blinked for an answer, and it was now that May noticed how.. Strange her friend was looking.
"Oh my god Drew, your eyes.. What have you done?" she asked after she had calmed down.
For some strange reason, Drew just yawned and stared into May's sapphire eyes.
"A-Are you blushing..?" May asked, seeing how his cheeks were unusually red.
To her surprise, Drew just yawned again and shrugged his shoulders before asking an odd question.
"Have you seen stars, May..?" he asked drowsily, his eyes halfclosed.
"S-Stars?" May asked and stepped back. "Are you feeling okay, Drew..?"
Opening his eyes like he had just realized something, he shook his head and stared at the sweatdropping brunette.
"I think my head is about to blow up." he quietly muttered and rubbed his forehead. "Where's Dawn?"
Pointing at the caféteria's entrance, again, Drew did a gentleman's bow before going to find Dawn. May stared at the entrance, still sweatdropping, and soon enough dropped her gaze and stared at her feet, again..
"What's happening..?" she said and sighed.
Feeling something jump on her shoulder, she screamed in surprise and fell to the floor with her knees, trying to see who that was.
"PIKACHU!" May nearly screamed, a little bit pissed that her heart had to skip a beat again. "What are you doing?"
"Pika..?" the rodent asked and blinked. "Pikachu.."
Sighing, May stood up and apologized to her friend.
"It's fine, just don't do that again." May said and rubbed her eyes.
Hearing a few weird screams from the caféteria, she could only assume that Dawn had done something.
"I know as much as you do." May said to Pikachu that was giving her a questioning look. "Let's find out what's happening, and you have to protect me in there."
Not knowing what May was referring to, Pikachu nodded anyway and prepared for anything as they went to the caféteria.
Somewhere far, far away from May and the screaming girls, a little young boy was walking through the last few blocks towards a place he had been dying to get to, home.
"Yes!" the boy said and stared at the case he was holding. "My fourth badge, only 4 more to go!"
Joining the little boy with the little celebration, the Evolution Pokémon licked its trainer on the cheeks and smiled brightly.
"Ee-vui!" it happily said and smiled even brighter.
"And I couldn't have done it without you!" the boy said and patted his friend. "And of course, not without the other guys as well!"
Putting his badge case in his little bag, he stopped and sat down on a bench to just stare at his 5 pokéballs.
"Thanks guys." he said and smiled. "Now let's head home and rest for a while."
The boy put his pokéballs back onto his belt before continuing down the road.
"Ah, the woods at its finest, don't you think?" the boy said and took a deep breath, or sniff.. "Yeah, I hope the summer never ends."
Glancing at his shoulder, he smiled and sighed at the same time when he saw that his fox-like pokémon was silently sleeping. Slowing down the tempo to not disturb the pokémon, he couldn't help but think that she wouldn't be with him in the next journeys.
'Maybe May'll let me have Eevee for longer..?' the boy thought and frowned. 'She hasn't done well lately in contests.. It's probably a given that she wants Eevee back.'
Watching the hundreds of pokémon that either flew, swum or just outright ran past him, he tried to convince himself that he had the strength to let go. A short yawn from the Evolution pokémon however quickly made that thought vanish.
'I've only had her for a few months.. Is it possible to get so attached to another trainer's pokémon that quickly..?
Remembering something, the boy wondered if his sister wanted him to start the little 'plan' they did together with Eevee. First of all, he never got to know the purpose of this little thing, and secondly, did it mean that he got to keep Eevee? Shaking his head, the boy stopped thinking about those things and went to a yummy looking restaurant; he would have to take care of these problems afterwards.
Taking a deep sigh, she stared at her sleeping brother for a bit before reconsidering her choices. If she was evil.. She would wake him up and force him to come with her to the festival and the amusement park. If she was sweet and kind, however.. She would just let him sleep since he hadn't done that for a while.
Giggling a bit quietly, she decided what to do.
She wasn't kind, right..? She was evil, she knew that. And now the only thing that remained was to show her brother that.
The pink haired girl stared at herself with the help of her mirror in the bathroom and gritted her teeth.
She couldn't believe it.
She was the one pissed off. She was the one that was drenched in water. And shewas the one to, eventually, get her revenge.
"Amelia?" a voice from outside the bathroom could be heard. "I'm all set to go, are you good?"
Not responding, Amelia blew away some wet, heavy hair that was covering her view. She sighed and tried to calm down, lucky enough, it was only her pyjamas that got drenched, but if it were her regular clothes or any of her dresses..
"Amelia?" her sister tried again, breaking Amelia's thoughts. "I'm gonna clean this up, please get ready soon."
Gritting her teeth again, Amelia thought she could hear her sister giggle quietly.
"You know, I was gonna water your plants with that bucket, Solidad." Amelia said, trying to sound normal.
"I see." Solidad said and made a few strange noises, probably fixing the messed up bed. "I don't have any plants.."
Hearing a soft giggle again from her sister, Amelia gritted her teeth and slammed the door shut before taking off her pyjamas to take a shower. Instead of singing her favorite song like she used to do when showering, she spent that time trying to figure out a way to get her revenge. And revenge it would be, indeed. Coming up with the best plan ever, Amelia started laughing like a mad person, making sure that the sound of it went through the door and out to her sister.
"Giovanni."
"Yes, it is me."
Complete silence broke out between the two men that were conversing with their cellphones.
"Jens." Giovanni said. "Would you mind telling me why you're only answering me now?"
Thinking quickly, Jens knew he had to come up with something believable or he would be in big trouble.
"No batteries." he replied normally.
If he was lucky, Giovanni wouldn't really care about that answer unless he wasn't busy.
"I see." Giovanni finally said and sighed. "I need your team to get back to the base, it's important."
Not letting Jens say anything else, the call got disconnected and he could only wonder what would happen next.
"Look, I have no idea whether he's pissed or not, but I suggest we head to him as soon as possible." Jens said to his team.
The fact that their own boss had found their target and even threatened to kill the trio was still quite surprising to all of them. Nodding, the rest of the team grabbed their stuff (that only consisted of trank guns) before getting into their own, separate vans. As Jens entered his van together with a few other men from his team, he couldn't help but smile a bit when he saw that his team member, Tom had woken up.
"Shit.." Tom said and rubbed his head a bit while getting up from the chair he was sitting on. "How.. For how long was I out?"
Jens shrugged his shoulders and started up the van after everybody had entered. It didn't take too long before Tom, and the rest of the members of course, noticed that a strange smell hovered in the van.
"What the hell is that smell..?" Jens asked and sniffed. "It smells like.."
His eyes going wide, he stopped the van and turned around, grinning when he saw that every eye in the van was staring at the embarrassed Tom.
"It isn't my fault you know.." he said and sighed. "C-Could we please just.. Stop somewhere?"
Jens and the rest of the team chuckled for a while but stopped when the smell just got unbearable.
"Fine, how much did you do anyways..?" Jens asked and tried to cover his nose as he drove after his other team members' vans.
"I.."
Tom gulped and stood up, noticing that his pants were feeling.. Heavy. The team members in the van bursted out with laughter again, seeing that his pants were containing something that was the size of a big rock. Like before, the team members stopped laughing and covered their noses when the smell got even worse.
"This.." Jens started and tried to hold his breath. "This is gonna be a long ride."
"Alright son.. I'm sure your sister won't make too much of a big deal of this."
"I sure hope so.. Thanks, dad."
The very short phone call ended, and the famous Petalburg gym leader sighed as he let out a big yawn.
"Dear, you're exhausted." the gymleader's wife, Caroline said lowly and let out a big yawn herself. "Let's head to bed."
"I'm sorry, Caroline." the gymleader said and sighed. "I have to find tickets for Max before tomorrow."
"It only takes a few minutes." his wife said and hugged him from behind. "You can do that tomorrow."
"No, it's best if Max, and Eevee of course could go see and help May as soon as possible."
"Hm, why is that so important, Norman..?"
"Well, first of all I have to head to the gym soon." Norman replied and sighed. "And second of all, May needs help, assistance! I mean look at this!"
Taking a bad shaped newspaper from a drawer, Norman almost pressed the newspaper front page at his wife's face.
"You see?" Norman said a little bit irritated. "I thought you were the one to read the newspapers."
"I do." Caroline replied and giggled quietly. "It's good to see that you do it, too."
"I only do it to see how May's doing." Norman said and sighed. "And I'm not happy. It's a real shame that she isn't traveling with Ash anymore. Real shame."
"Why is that?"
"He's the best thing that could ever happen to her career, Caroline."
"But she won the Grand Festival without him?"
"Maybe so, but she couldn't have done it without him. He's the best thing that happened to her."
"Hm, I hope you don't change that statement, Norman." Caroline nearly whispered.
"Hm? What do you mean with that?"
"Nothing. I'm going to make lunch for you before you leave, please don't take too long, I bet the trainers are waiting."
Nodding, Norman started up the computer to find a plane ticket straight to Sinnoh, preferably going tomorrow.
"Why can't you just take a day off?" Caroline said through the hallway. "I'm pretty sure the trainers won't mind."
"The challengers?" Norman spoke out loud. "Of course they'll mind, it's a pretty big deal you know."
"Food's ready!"
"Already..? Norman got out, stunned by her speed. "But I haven't booked the plane ti-"
"Come to the kitchen now or I'll trash the food."
Sighing, Norman stood up and slowly went to the kitchen, yawning. And of course.. When he arrived, there was no food, atleast nothing that wasn't frozen..
"Hm.." Caroline started and checked the clock. "Looks like you're late."
"Only with a few minutes." Norman countered and smiled. "I can make it."
"If you even think about it I'll throw the food away for real!"
Holding a bag of ramen and a frying pan with the other hand, Carolina threatened to throw away the bag of food, and, if necessary, the pan at Norman's face.
"I'll take that risk." Norman said and winked.
"It's just a day!" Caroline whined and put down the stuff. "You barely spend any time at home."
"Well, it's my work.. I can't really do anything about it."
"A hug then, will you stay..?"
"A hug?" Norman asked, resisting the urge to burst out with laughter. "I can get that from you anytime!"
"Don't be so sure of that." Caroline replied and crossed her arms. "Now, are you going to have your ramen or what?"
Picturing an awesome meal made by his wife, he just couldn't say no. Besides.. It's only a day, it's not like he would lose his spot for that.
"Fine." Norman gave in and sighed. "But you better make the food worth it."
"It'll be your best meal yet, honey." Caroline replied and smiled sweetly. "You can take a little rest in the meantime, this should only take a few minutes."
"Alright, I'm just gonna go book those tickets for Max."
Turning around with a big yawn, Norman was about to head to the living room but stopped when his wife muttered something.
"What is it?" Norman wondered, afraid that it might be something serious.
Caroline sighed and threw the large bag me ramen away, much to Norman's surprise.
"W-What are you doing?" Norman got out, his eyes wide open. "That was the last bag left!"
"I know, and it expired last week.." Caroline added and sighed.
Norman slapped himself on the forehead and could see through his fingers that Caroline, for some reason, was smiling.
"What now?" Norman asked at first but then got full of hope. "You found another bag?"
"Nope." Caroline replied and shook her dad. "And the food's not just gonna pop up by itself, so.."
Taking a few steps closer, Caroline giggled while her husband took a step back.
"So.." Caroline started again and smirked when she noticed that Norman was backed up against the wall. "That means that someone has to go get some."
"Eh..?" Norman stuttered but then cleared his throat. "I suppose you're going to do that, hm..?"
"Why, you're such a gentleman." Caroline stated sarcastically and giggled.
Norman just nodded and tried to find a way out, but that possibility turned into nothing when Caroline wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Please..?" Caroline said very quietly and pretty close to Norman's lips, also using her sweet puppy eyes.
Trying to survive this little assault, Norman closed his eyes and sweatdropped, hoping that Caroline would just magically disappear and get some for him. That attempt also failed when Caroline pressed her soft lips against Norman's dry ones, making his eyes go wide open.
"Pleeeeeease..?" Caroline said lowly again after pulling back her kiss, trying even harder with her sweet puppy eyes.
Trying to contain the small amount of dignity that he had left, Norman closed his eyes and sighed, admitting defeat.
"Fine." Norman said and tried to avoid eye contact.
As a sign of thanks, Caroline gave him a quick kiss before going off somewhere.
"Great!" Caroline said and giggled as she skipped to her bed room. "I'll book the ticket in the meantime, have fun!"
Before he could even realize what was happening, Caroline had left him all alone in the kitchen to try and figure out where the supermarket was.
"SOPHIA! GET BACK HERE NOW!"
May sighed and sat down in front of the green haired boy who was rolling his thumbs, staring at the table.
"Drew, could you please explain what's going on?" May asked and sighed, she really needed to know.
"Explain.." Drew started and rubbed his forehead again. "Explain what?"
May sweatdropped and just tilted her head to the side, staring at something. Drew, tiredly, followed her gaze and also sweatdropped once he saw what she was looking at. Soon enough, the thing, or person, literally jumped to them and put her hands on their table.
"Where is she..?" Dawn whispered and glanced at Drew. "Have you seen her? And where's Pikachu? DID HE GO WITH HER?"
Drew just shook his head and nearly slammed it to the table due to exhaustion and headache, nearly hitting Dawn's hand in the process. Sighing, Dawn redirected her eyes to her brown haired friend.
"Please tell me she's around here, May."
May just shook her head slowly, and to her relief, Dawn seemed to give up and also sat down on the comfortable the chairs next to May.
"Dawn, would you mind telling me what's going on?" May asked the blunette. "I asked Drew, but he acts like somebody just punched him in the face. And Pikachu went back to Brock since he was moaning like a drunk guy.."
"Uh, yeah.." Dawn said embarrassed and rubbed the back of her head. "What's up with you, Drew..? Hehe.."
The two girls giggled and eventually laughed a bit when the green haired coordinator just moaned something weird.
"So, who's this.. Sophia?" May asked and thought of the strange girl in.. Blue?
"Well, I have no idea!" Dawn replied much to May's surprise. "I woke up with Drew sleeping next to me, and then she pops up from nowhere and says it was some kind of payback.."
May just nodded and stared at the now sleeping green haired boy.
"So, why are you chasing this Sophia?"
Dawn blushed before crossing her arms.
"She put Drew in my bed.." Dawn muttered under her breath.
May raised an eyebrow and stared at Drew, trying to put all the pieces together. And when she finally did, Drew even looked up at the sound of May laughing.
"It's not funny." Dawn muttered again before gritting her teeth.
"I'm sorry." May apologized and calmed down. "I can see why Drew's like this now."
Dawn just shrugged her shoulders but then went to Drew's side to see if he was okay.
"Drew..?" Dawn nearly whispered and lowered her head to Drew's level. "Are you there?"
Dawn giggled quietly after hearing a soft groan from the boy.
"Are you okay..?"
Raising his head off from his hands on his table, Drew replied with raising his eyebrows.
"Alright, I'm sorry Drew for.. You know."
Drew muttered something that sounded like a 'it's fine', and Dawn sighed, feeling slightly bad of herself. Looking up, Dawn saw that May was forming a few words with her mouth. Dawn couldn't manage to understand which words were silently coming from May's mouth. But when May did a pretty disturbing.. Move, Dawn nodded with a light giggle before facing Drew again.
"Drew, are you sleeping?" Dawn asked and poked Drew's arm.
This time, there was no response at all from the green haired coordinator, making the girls' smirks go wider. Playfully covering her eyes with her hands, May tried to hold her laughter when the sleeping Drew was forcefully pulled into a sweet kiss by her blue haired friend. Barely being able to hold her giggles, May finally laughed for real when she saw that Drew was slowly opening his eyes, wondering what in the world was going on. Realizing that his lips were literally licked by his blue haired.. Friend, Drew flew backwards and fell with his butt to the floor.
"What's wrong with you?" Drew bursted out and coughed.
"I thought you liked kissing girls..?" Dawn teased and joined May with the giggling. "Besides, I wanted to wake you up properly this time."
"You call this properly?" Drew asked and sweatdropped as he got up. "How can you do that?"
"Do what?" Dawn asked and giggled, motioning for Drew to sit down again.
Raising his eyebrow, Drew took a seat next to May instead, not completely trusting the blue haired girl.
"How can you.." Drew started but then thought about it. "How should I put this.."
Getting excited about this topic, Dawn smiled and asked Drew to hurry.
"Look." Drew said and leaned forwards. "You've kissed me and Ash in just a few days. And we both have girlfriends, so that makes you a-"
"I'm not a slut!" Dawn quickly interrupted, starting a few giggles from the brown haired girl. "Take that back!"
"I never said you were a-"
"TAKE IT BACK!"
Dawn was shaking Drew's body, attempting to make him take that back. Drew however just smiled together with the giggling May.
"Um, wait a minute.." May got out, realizing something. "Ash has a girlfriend..?"
Dawn didn't notice and kept on shaking the smirking boy. May's eyes were looking at her two amusing friends, but her mind was somewhere else, wondering who could possibly be Ash's girlfriend.
'Wait.. Ash has a girlfriend..?'
That question was occupying May's busy mind, and would do that until she got an answer. Unfortunately for her, Drew noticed this.
"What's bothering you?" Drew managed to stutter between the violent shakes he got from Dawn.
"Uh, nothing.." May replied and blushed but then sighed in relief, happy that Drew was too busy trying to get out of Dawn's surprisingly strong grip.
"I'm just gonna.." May started but shook her head and left the caféteria anyway. "Never mind.."
Leaving the embarrassed girl and the poor boy, May went to the hallway to find the patient rooms in hope of finding Brock or Nurse Joy.. She thought that she was pretty lucky that nobody noticed anything about her clothes, or else she had to tell them where she got them.. Considering they pretty much got toasted. Sighing, May got a little idea and went behind the reception counter before clearing her throat.
"Hi!" she started and giggled uncontrollably. "Welcome to our pokécenter!"
Going on with the rest of the usual welcoming pact, she didn't notice a young teen aged boy enter with a strange look on his face.
"Please enjoy your stay and we hope to serve you again soon!" the girl continued between her giggles.
Accidentally opening her eyes as she giggled, she immediately stopped as she saw a familiar raven haired boy in front of her, staring at her like she was mad.
"Um.. Hey?" the boy got out and sweatdropped.
For a whole, awkward minute, the two of them stared at each others, both of them trying to find a way out of that strange mess. May finally did that by walking away with an emotion less face and without a word, wanting to clearly show Ash that she was still mad at him, although she wasn't..
"Right.." Ash whispered and sighed when the brunette went out of sight. "This morning just keeps getting better and better.."
May looked back once and saw that Ash had gone somewhere and sighed; she didn't feel like talking to him right now. Going down the ridiculously long hallway of many patient rooms, she tried to see what room Brock and hopefully Nurse Joy and Pikachu were staying at.
"Pika pika!"
Stopping on her way, May leaned backwards to see a sprinting rodent coming towards her fast.
"Pikachu!" May squealed, happy to see a friend that wasn't currently tired, sleeping or just out right crazy. "Where'd you go?"
Looking up after picking up the happy Pikachu, May could see that Brock.. Well, he wasn't looking too good.
"What.. What happened to him..?" May wondered and stepped into the little room. "Is he okay?"
Walking closer to her friend lying on the patient bed, it looked like he had a terrible night, and that it wasn't really over yet.
"Brock..? Are you awake?" May whispered and smiled, not entirely sure if he could hear her.
Hearing a soft moan from the pokémon breeder as a form of response, May giggled and slowly sat down next to him, trying to figure out what happened with him.
"So, mind telling me what happened?" May asked and giggled again. "Do you need something?"
Waving lazily with his hand, May giggled again but then started to get worried, it looked like he had a hangover or something. Looking down to her little friend sitting on her lap, she smiled and started asking Pikachu questions. He, if anyone, would have answers.
"Pikachu, I'm going to ask a-"
Suspecting that her friend maybe was listening to that entire conversation, May stopped and glanced at the sleeping Brock. Soon hearing a few low snores that soon went unusually louder, May sighed and continued her little interrogation of her friend.
"Alright, Pikachu." May started and stared at him with a serious face. "I'm going to ask a few questions, and you're going to answer them all honestly, okay?"
Not knowing where this was going at all, Pikachu nodded with a short "pi", wanting something to do other than watching Brock asleep.
"Okay, good." May said and sighed. "First of all.."
Still thinking that Brock was listening, May moved away from him although she still stayed in the room incase something would come up.
"Okay." May whispered to Pikachu's perked up ears. "Does.. Does Ash have a girlfriend..?"
Pikachu, not entirely expecting that, got caught off guard but already knew what to answer. Opening his mouth to reply 'no', Pikachu stopped and instead thought about it.
Why not?
"Pi." he replied and nodded, trying to keep a serious face.
That, however, was incredibly hard when he saw May's terrified face, and he had to work real hard to keep his laughter inside.
"Oh." May finally got out, a big frown visible on her face. "Who is it..?"
"Pikachu, pika.. Chu.." he replied and shook his head.
"But.. You're his best friend, why wouldn't he tell you..?"
Shrugging his shoulders, Pikachu turned around quickly to let out a quiet chuckle.
"Pika.. Pikachu, pi pi.. Chu." the rodent 'admitted' after turning around again.
"Please..?" May begged and used her puppy eyes.
Of course, anything like that never worked with Pikachu, but just for fun, he would play along..
"Pikachu."
Pikachu couldn't take it anymore and bursted out with laughter, and lucky enough for him, May never noticed that as she rushed out of the room with a furious face.
"ASH!" May screamed, not thinking about whether she might wake up a few patients or trainers. "Get out here NOW!"
Pikachu still chuckled and followed the raging brown haired girl, not wanting to miss anything. Even though this was probably turning out exceptionally well, he was still alert and ready to stop this whenever things would get out of hand. And judging by the look of May.. That would happen pretty soon.
"ASH!" May screamed again and eyed the pokécenter lobby. "WHERE ARE YOU?"
The brunette never noticed Pikachu, the little kids or the nurse entering the pokécenter and only had her eyes and mind looking for the lying bastard.
"What's all the fuzz about?" Drew asked as he got into he lobby, looking like he had just gotten out of a zoo.
May didn't even look at the green haired boy and just rushed past him, making Drew stutter a few words.
"Hm, what's up with her?" Drew asked no one in particular.
"You'll never guess what I just did-"
"I know what you did, it was pretty cool, I have to admit."
"How did.. How did you know?"
"Just get inside and be quiet.."
The confused but happy girl entered her friend's house and did as she said, taking off her shoes with almost no sound at all.
"Why do I have to be quiet anyway-"
"Sh."
Slowly walking into the awesome hallway, Sophia whispered a low 'oh' after seeing her friend's brother dozed off on the bed. Realizing how he was positioned, Sophia tried not to giggle and got surprised when she heard Aurora giggle too.
"I know." Aurora said and giggled quietly. "I put him like that."
Staring at the boy who was lying.. Pretty much like a monkey, the two girls giggled quietly before heading upstairs.
"So, how did you manage to do that?" Aurora asked after jumping on her bed.
"Do what?" Sophia replied and also jumped onto the bed.
"How did you get up to the hotel room?" Aurora asked and stared at the ceiling. "I thought you couldn't do that..?"
"So did I.." Sophia replied and sighed. "You saw what happened, right?"
"Not really. You were just thinking about it all the time until you got to the pokécenter."
"I wish I was like you, Aurora.."
"You don't, trust me."
"I don't mean like that, I just want to have the kind of ab-"
"Ow, that hurt.."
"No, Aurora I don't.. I mean.. You know what I mean."
"I don't, please explain."
"Well.."
Taking a deep breath, Sophia thought about it before turning around, facing her friend.
"I've known you for.. Well, a long time. But you.. I can't use my powers to the fullest, unlike you."
"You're slowly learning, that's great!"
"Yeah, but you can read peoples' minds just like that, it only takes a few seconds.. I have to prepare for minutes."
"You're getting there."
The two girls sighed and stared at the ceiling, hearing the water splash around in the pool just outside their room.
"So, how's it going with Ash?" Sophia asked, a grin starting to form on her face.
Aurora didn't answer, making Sophia think that something happened lately.
"Wh-"
"He disabled my powers." Aurora interrupted the girl in blue. "He's one of the few that can do that."
"You know how difficult that sounds?"
"What?" Aurora asked and sighed.
"That.. Curse." Sophia replied and hesitated for a moment. "I'm thinking you made that up."
"I'm serious."
"Tell me about it, everything."
"You already know it."
"I forgot."
"You're funny."
"I know."
The two girls giggled before silence took over the room, and house. Sophia patiently waited for any answer and had to eventually poke her friend to make her talk.
"Christian." Aurora finally said, memories swirling around in her head. "You remember him?"
"I told you I forgot." Sophia replied and giggled.
"My first real boyfriend."
"I see.. And?"
"He discovered my psychic powers and teached me how to use them."
"Oh, really? Cool, where is he now?"
"I don't know, probably dead."
"That's.. That's horrible!" Sophia got out and frowned. "What happened?"
"He disappeared after putting this curse on me."
"What? What curse? Why would he put a curse on you..?"
"He thought I cheated on him."
"You didn't?"
"I hugged another boy." Aurora said and glanced at her friend. "You should guess who that boy was."
"How should I know?"
"Right.. Sorry. It was John."
"I see.. What does this curse do then?"
"My powers disappear whenever I try to get close to a boy."
"Close?" Sophia asked confused. "You mean like within a few feet?"
"No, phsyical contact."
"Um.. What?"
"What's confusing?" Aurora asked and giggled.
"No physical contact? But.. But you've kissed hundreds of boys!"
Aurora giggled, not quite sure whether she would laugh or sigh.
"You're wrong.." Aurora whispered and this time, she sighed.
"What, you have to explain, I'm completely lost." Sophia whined and got up from the bed.
"Look." Aurora said and also got herself up from the bed. "Sophia."
Sighing once, Aurora stared and leaned closer to her friend which almost looked pretty scary.
"I haven't kissed anyone but him and Ash."
Sophia's eyes went wide and she nearly gasped, not believing a word her best friend said. After a few seconds of weird awkwardness, Sophia bursted out with laughter, even falling off the bed. Aurora, after repeating her own sentence in her head, also giggled a bit before lying down again, closing her eyes.
"I miss you." Aurora simply whispered before jumping off the bed to tickle-torture her friend.
"It's a little bit rude.. Don't you think?"
Jens stared at the little tv screen that showed some security footage of the captured trio.
"Why do you think so, boss?"
Jens turned around and faced the 'fat' member of his team, Tom.
"I mean.. They haven't really done anything."
"You mean.. Other than wasting over 50.000 dollars that were all Giovanni's?"
Jens sighed, he knew he couldn't really defend the three most idiotic members of Team Rocket.
"They.. They've tried their best." Jens mumbled to himself. "So, what do you think Giovanni is going to do with them now?"
"I heard they were gonna try some kind of.. Well, something."
"What?"
"Oh, I don't know, I don't really care either." Tom replied and sighed. "Look, me and the boys are heading out tonight, Giovanni gave us a day, or a night off. You coming?"
"Meh, I've got stuff to do."
Turning off the little tv screen with a sigh, Jens got himself off the chair to get something to drink, or eat since it was around lunch time.
"C'mon! It'll be fun!" Tom whined and followed Jens out of the room. "You know, you're also a leader for all of us, even outside of work."
Jens raised an eyebrow as he walked to the pathetic little caféteria the grunts had together with Tom that walked behind, still whining.
"C'moooooooooon, we can head anywhere you want!" he continued and thought of a few places Jens might like. "Uhm, let's see.. Restaurant, McDonalds? Gunshop? Museum?"
Jens couldn't help but chuckle at that strange suggestion, museum, really..?
"Fine." Jens replied and took a seat on a rusty chair. "Maybe.."
"Alright, I'll go tell the other guys!"
"No, don't do th-"
Jens sighed, before he could even finish that sentence Tom had already ran out of the little caféteria. It was amazing how his team could act like such kids sometimes..
Yawning once, Jens got up from the chair, hoping to find something awesome to eat.
"Was that really necessary?"
"Yes. Yes it was."
Shrugging his shoulder once, the green haired coordinator tried very hard not to stare at a certain someone's behind.
"Do you know any place we can go eat?"
"Huh?"
Shaking his head, Drew quickly looked up before May could see what he was staring at.
"Are you okay?" May asked and stopped walking. "I really think Dawn messed your head up pretty badly."
"No. I'm fine." Drew said and nodded. "And yes, of course I know a place we can eat. I know every place in town."
"Well..? Where can we go?"
"Fancy or fastfood restaurant?"
May put her index finger on her cheek and thought about it, imagining yummy hamburgers and roasted beef flying around.
"Hm, fancy!" May said happily. "But-"
"I'm paying, yes, I know." Drew said and sighed.
"Thank youuuuuuuuu, Dreeeeeeeew!" May said and giggled before skipping ahead of the boy.
Drew smirked, she wasn't going that far. As he expected, the girl suddenly stopped and turned around with crossed arms.
"Where is it anyways..?" she muttered quietly.
Walking past the brunette, Drew flicked his hair before putting his hands in his pockets.
"Follow me." he simply said, not turning around. "Or you'll get lost."
Gritting her teeth, May stopped herself from punching the green haired boy in the neck. Was this really a good idea..? Looking back at the pokécenter just behind her, she thought that spending a day with Drew couldn't be that bad, it wasn't really the first time either..
Sighing, May quickly ran back to the green haired boy and poked him lightly on the neck before skipping ahead of him as she giggled.
"I know you had something to do with this, don't lie to me."
"Pi..?"
Ash sighed, he knew that Pikachu had atleast something to do with May's little outburst a few minutes before.
"C'mon buddy, I'm in a tight situation with her, is there anything you know about this?"
Shaking his head, Pikachu faked a yawn before hopping on his trainer's shoulder.
"Alright." Ash said and sighed. "I just hope she isn't gonna kill me or anything, atleast she's wearing those new clothes."
"Ash, could you come in here?"
Feeling his stomach growl, Ash laughed embarrassed before heading to Nurse Joy who probably needed help with Brock.
"What is it, Nurse?" Ash asked as he entered the little patient room. "Oh, Brock, you're finally awake I see."
Chuckling together with Pikachu, Ash took a seat next to the frowning Brock. Nurse Joy was currently motioning for Brock to take a few pills, but he refused.
"I don't want those!" Brock whined and crossed his arms. "I don't see why I must 'rest'."
"Brock, it's obvious that something.. Strange happened yesterday." Nurse Joy said in a worried tone. "I even took a drug test of you while you were asleep."
"WHAT?" Brock bursted out at first but then laughed lowly. "Well, did you get anything..?"
"Of course not! But I had to make sure." the nurse replied and giggled. "Anyways, you're not moving out of the bed until tomorrow."
"WHAT?" Brock finally bursted out for real and almost jumped out of the bed. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?"
"Indeed I am." Nurse Joy said and pushed the breeder back onto the bed. "Now, if you don't want to take your medication I suggest you lay still for the rest of the day."
Sweatdropping, Brock tried to think of any way possible to get out of the center, preferably without the nurse noticing. Glancing to the side, he gritted his teeth seeing Ash and Pikachu chuckle quietly.
"Now you know how I felt, hehe.." Ash said and chuckled. "Pikachu, let's head out, to freedom.."
Still having his smirk on his face together with Pikachu, both of them headed out of the room after waving goodbye to the smiling nurse.
"Well, I have to go now, I believe a few trainers need their pokémon to get healed." Nurse Joy said and smiled sweetly. "Now, don't move or else!"
"But what should I do for the rest of the day?"
"I'll keep you company whenever I'm free." the nurse said and smiled again before leaving. "Byebye."
"This got to be a joke.."
"Ash, do you mind telling me about what happened earlier?"
Opening up the bottle of soda with his hands, Ash took a seat in the lobby near the nurse.
"What do you mean, Mary?" Ash wondered and gave the bottle to the tired rodent.
"What happened with May before?" the nurse wondered and rested her head on the counter with her hands. "Also, I've gotten complaints from a few patients and trainers about some kids screaming a lot in the morning, do you have any idea?"
"Well, I just got here.." Ash said and laughed sheepishly. "It's kinda complicated, me and May.."
"So you're together?"
"W-What? No! Why would we be?"
"Well, if it's not complicated, just tell me." the nurse said and giggled. "Pikachu, too much soda isn't good for you, your battling performance could be drastically reduced."
Thinking about it for a moment, the rodent shrugged his shoulders before drinking almost half of the bottle in one shot, making the nurse raise an eyebrow and giggle.
"First of all, no, we're not together, period." Ash said and sighed. "I don't see why everybody believes that. And second of all, she thinks I slept with some other girl, that's why she's so upset about everything."
"Hm.. Is that all?"
"Wha.. What do you mean? She thinks I had sex with a girl, that's a pretty big deal.."
"But you didn't, and she doesn't really have to forgive you for anything you didn't do.." the nurse said and thought about it. "Also, I think that you haven't really given her much attention considering you haven't seen each other for years."
"Who.. Who told you that..?"
"Brock." the nurse replied and giggled. "I was bored so he told me a few.. Interesting things. Now, why do you think she got so upset?"
"I don't know, maybe cause the girl she caught me with is kinda.. Freaky?"
"Caught you? I thought you didn't do anything?"
"She trapped me on the bed!"
Nurse Joy and even Pikachu raised an eyebrow at this and stared at the boy, wondering what he meant.
"She's.. She's psychic!" Ash tried but sighed when he saw that both Pikachu and Mary were sweatdropping. "For real!"
"Oh.. Kay?" the nurse said and giggled. "Let's say that she is, that girl. Why do you think May got so upset?"
"What's up with these questions?" Ash asked out loud and shook his head. "Well, I really have no idea."
The nurse nodded and was about to, probably, ask another difficult question but got cut off as a trainer checked out, making his room available for others.
"Byebye!" the nurse said and waved the trainer goodbye. "Ash, sit down."
Catching the boy's weird attempt at escaping, the nurse giggled again and watched the boy get back to his seat.
"I'm hungry." Ash said and noticed that it was actually true, his stomach was growling unstoppably. "Can I get something to eat?"
"Sure, but I'll go with you." the nurse replied and giggled even more. "Let's go, we can have lunch while we're at it."
Sighing, the boy got off the seat and went to the caféteria together with the nurse and Pikachu to hopefully get something yummy to eat. If only he didn't have to answer these strange questions about May..
The girl in blue tried desperately to get her friend to talk, even trying to bribe her using cotton candy, money and a ride in the ferris wheel.
"Fine, a ride in the ferris wheel, but I won't talk."
"Whateveeeeeeeeeeeer."
The girl in blue, Sophia, moaned loudly after seeing the strangely long line before the ferris wheel.
"Can't you just tell me about that stupid curse?" Sophia whined and crossed her arms. "You never told me everything before."
Sophia gritted her teeth as Aurora didn't even listen because she was staring at the ferris wheel in a rather odd way.
"Take my hand." Aurora simply said, still not facing her friend. "Now, hurry."
Rasing her eyebrow, Sophia did as her friend said and grabbed her hand tightly.
"Don't let go." Aurora said and squeezed Sophia's hand harder.
"What? Why- AAH WHAT THE HELL?"
Falling down to the.. Metal made 'floor', Sophia quickly stood up and noticed that they weren't exactly on the ground anymore.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" Sophia bursted out and stared at all of the funny looking people down on the ground. "WHAT IF ANYBODY SAW US?"
"Nobody did." Aurora replied and smiled. "Chill out, we got a free ride."
"Have.. HAVE.. Have you even tried this before? Teleporting with somebody else?"
Thinking about it, Aurora took a seat before shaking her head.
"YOU COULD'VE FAILED! WE COULD HAVE BEEN TELEPORTED TO NOWHERE!"
"But nothing happened, it's over.." Aurora said and giggled. "Enjoy the ride."
Gritting her teeth and clenching her fists, Sophia finally relaxed and also took a seat, trying to enjoy the nice view over the city.
"We could've just waited in line, you know."
"That would take at least 30 minutes."
"F-Fine!" Sophia got out and crossed her arms. "Now tell me about that curse."
"What do you want to know about it?"
"Well, what does the curse stop you from doing?"
"I can't kiss any boy I haven't got real feelings for."
Like before, Sophia bursted out with laughter, not believing her friend.
"MY ASS!" Sophia said and giggled. "You've kissed HUNDREDS of boys!"
Aurora closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the windows of the little cabin they were in and frowned.
"Oh my god.." Sophia whispered and thought about it. "You're serious?"
"Mhm. And if I can find a boy that will never leave me, the curse will.. Disappear, atleast that's what Christian said."
"Alright, now I'm confused."
"Look, I can't kiss any random boy on the street or I'll be in pain, serious pain. I tried it once and almost died."
"Oh. Please continue."
"Mhm. And I've tried to get rid of this stupid thing, but the only way to get this crap away is to find a boy good enough to never leave me for another girl."
"Have you found a boy like that yet?"
"Yes. The problem is, I have to make him fall for me."
"Who is it?"
It only took a little glare from the black haired girl to make Sophia realize who Aurora meant.
"Oh. Oh. OH." Sophia got out, her eyes going wide. "Then you're screwed."
"Exactly."
"But.. You can just find another boy..?"
"Where? Where..?"
"I.. Uh.."
"Exactly.."
Both of the girls sighed, and they both got pretty surprised when the ferris wheel started slowing down, indicating that the ride was already over.
"Anything else..?"
"Nothing I actually worry about." Aurora said and stood up. "Christian mentioned something about a sacrifice or some crap.. If I use my powers to the fullest to do good for someone, then the curse will disappear, and as a bonus, massive pain, headaches and stuff like that."
"Well, that doesn't sound too bad?" Sophia asked hopefully and giggled.
"But that would mean that my powers would disappear, too."
The doors of the little cabin opened up and the two girls exited, both of them giggling quietly when the people they met on the way gave them strange looks.
'Use her powers to the fullest to do good for someone..' Sophia wondered and walked behind Aurora. 'I wonder what that really means..'
The raven haired boy sighed deeply before taking a bite of his large sandwhich, despite his four friends staring at him, watching every move. When the nurse said that they would get something for lunch, this wasn't even close to how he expected it to be. For the last five minutes, they had been staring at him silently while he tried to eat, never stating why they did so.
"Can you, well I don't know, turn away..?" he asked his four friends. "Food isn't enjoyable this way I recall.."
"Using advanced english won't make us leave, Ash." Brock stated and grinned.
"Advanced english..?" Ash asked and raised an eyebrow. "Anyways, aren't you supposed to be resting?"
"I am." Brock countered, his smirk growing wider.
"He is." the nurse said and smiled. "Eating is partially resting, right Brock?"
Giggling, the nurse lightly pushed the breeder with her shoulder, making him blush a bit, although nobody noticed.
"I see.." Ash said and sighed. "And you?"
Ash glanced at his blue haired friend who was resting her head with her hands on the table, staring strangely at him with a weird smile.
"No reason." she said simply, still having her smile that Ash thought for some reason was pretty cute. "Can I have a piece?"
Sighing, Ash nodded and pushed the plate to the blue haired girl who happily cut off the part Ash already had eaten.
"What.. What do you guys want from me anyways..?" Ash asked and watched Dawn take small bites from his sandwich.
"Nothing, we just wanna hang out with you." Dawn replied and giggled, giving a piece to Pikachu who was for some reason sitting on her shoulder.
"Yeah, right.." Ash said and sighed. "I'm not hungry, I'm just gonna-"
"Don't move!" Dawn said and grabbed his arm, pulling him back down again. "Nurse Joy will get you something to eat."
"Of course." the nurse said and smiled before getting up. "Don't start without me!"
The nurse walked pretty fast to the counter where many meals and desserts where put in a nice line, all of them just a day or two old.
"Don't.. Don't start what?" Ash wondered, not liking the way all of his friends were staring at him. All of them except Pikachu of course, who was still munching on that piece of bread he just got from Dawn.
Ash shivered as he saw that the smirks his friends had were growing wider, and even Pikachu got a grin, although it was because of Nurse Joy coming with some ketchup.
"Alright, it seems that you were nice enough to wait for me." the nurse said with a smile as she put a plate with spaghetti together with a bottle of ketchup next to Pikachu. "So I'll start. Ash, why did you want to see Dawn and May naked?"
"WHAT?" Ash and Dawn screamed at once, causing the rest of the company to giggle or chuckle.
After a few seconds, Dawn had gotten rid of her surprised face and was now staring at Ash, who was still pretty chocked by that question.
"Yeah, Ash." Dawn added and crossed her arms. "Why are you such a perv?"
Ash still hadn't recovered from that unexpected question, and with Dawn's addition, all he could do was stutter a few strange noises.
"I'm not a perv!" Ash finally said after a few seconds. "It was an accident, I mean it was accidents!"
"Is that true?" Nurse Joy asked and looked at the girl. "You told me he ran into you on purpose?"
"W-Well..!" Dawn said and crossed her arms. "He.. He hid behind the bushes as I was changing!"
"Ash, is this true?" the nurse asked.
Ash backed away a bit, but that wasn't really.. Effective since he was sitting down, and with Dawn glaring at him from the side, he wouldn't be leaving very soon. Ash grunted and crossed his arms as Brock, and the others of course, found this very interesting.
"Well?" Brock added, wanting to know more about this subject. "What really happened? Be honest."
"That's the truth!" Ash defended himself and stared at his happy Pikachu. "I went into the woods to find Pikachu and I ran into Dawn while she was, uh, naked.. And it's not like I'm just gonna go in front of her or run away, or else she would notice me.."
"So hiding right next to me was a better plan?" Dawn asked and sweatdropped.
"At.. You were naked in front of me, Dawn! I didn't really think clearly!"
"Alright alright you don't have to remind me of that." Dawn said and pushed the embarrassed boy as she blushed.
"And why couldn't you think clearly?" Brock asked and grinned.
"Oh stop it." the nurse said and pushed the breeder again. "It was an accident, I'm sure Dawn can easily forgive Ash."
"I don't think so, Mary. Watching somebody naked is a pretty big deal." Brock continued and laughed.
"Well yes, but it was an accident, and both of them are really close friends so.."
While Mary and Brock kept on arguing about whether all of this was a big deal or not, Dawn couldn't help but giggle a bit at Ash who had his eyes closed, his cheeks deep red. She always enjoyed making fun of him, making him embarrassed..
She knew she had no shot at getting him. She knew that pretty well. But that didn't stop her from having a little fun, just as a compensation.. Leaning closer to the boy's ear, Dawn giggled once again quietly before whispering so lowly that even Pikachu had a hard time hearing what she said.
"Did you like what you saw..?"
Jumping with surprise, Ash shot his eyes open and screeched, grabbing everyone's attention.
"What's wrong?" the nurse asked and blinked a few times. "Don't you like the spaghetti?"
"N-No, it's fine, thank you nurse!" Ash said and chuckled embarrassed. "Although I think Pikachu needs it more than I do."
Throwing a quick glare back at his trainer, Pikachu shrugged and kept on eating, mostly from the ketchup bottle.
"Very well." the nurse started and giggled. "Now I believe we were supposed to ask you a few questions."
"Huh..?"
Ash sweatdropped and glided down his seat, wanting to get out of there.. A pokémon battle would do just fine.
"Yeah!" Dawn added and smiled. "I'll start this up; Pokémon battles or May?"
Everybody at the table raised an eyebrow at that question, except for Ash of course who sighed and dropped his head, staring at his feet. Even Pikachu had gained some sort of interest in this, but just to be awesome, he pretended to keep on eating his ketchup, one lick at a time..
After a little while, everybody had their eyes on the boy who refused to look up, hiding his eyes with his cap.
"Ash, answer..!"
Finally looking up, Ash glared at the grinning blue haired girl, feeling a sudden urge to just counter with some exceptional question.
"I'm not forced to answer that." he replied, trying to sound serious and still keep his laughter inside.
"Hmpf, don't play games with me, Ash." Dawn said and sighed. "Just answer it."
"Fine, pokémon battles."
"Now you're just lying." Dawn said and grinned. "C'mon Ash, the truth, or else there'll be no more ketchup for Pikachu!"
Immediately, Pikachu stopped licking what was left of the bottle and glared at his trainer, indicating that things wouldn't really turn out so well if Ash didn't answer truthfully.
"Hmpf, I was just joking, of course May over pokémon battles."
"See? Was it that hard to admit?" Dawn asked and giggled.
"No..?" Ash said and sighed. "If I have to choose between pokémon battles or a person that would be easy."
"Dawn, I think I should be the one asking the questions." the nurse stated and giggled. "Now, Ash, Dawn or May?"
Dawn's eyes went wide, and she was about to complain about that certain question if it wasn't for Brock giving her a simple look, shaking his head.
"Uh.." Ash got out and chuckled. "I have to go to the bathroom!"
"Ash, answer 5 questions and we'll let you go." Brock suggested and smiled. "It won't take long."
"Fine, but do it quick, I need to find May."
"Why?" the nurse asked and smiled.
"I can't find her.."
"I think she went off with Drew."
"What..?"
Ash raised an eyebrow together with Dawn, but then shrugged it off.
"I wonder what they're doing.." Ash asked no one in particular. "Anyways, next question..?"
"Next? But that wasn't really a-"
"The deal was 5 question, and you've asked me once." Ash stated and grinned.
"Very well." the nurse said and giggled, trying to think of something that would make the boy quiet. "You never answered this question: May or Dawn?"
"How.. Do.. You mean?"
"I don't really mean anything, Ash. Just pick one of them."
Glancing to his right, Ash looked at Dawn with a sheepish smile, almost as if he was asking for permission to answer honestly.
"It's fine.." Dawn reassured her friend and sighed. "I won't kill you."
"Okay, ehehe.." Ash continued and sighed. "I would pick.."
Taking a deep breath, everybody in the room except Pikachu leaned closer, just to make sure that they didn't miss anything of this exciting interrogation.
"I would pick.." Ash started again and chuckled. "Pikachu!"
There was a strange moment of silence where Ash was smiling proudly before Pikachu sweatdropped together with the rest of the humans as they fell off their seats.
"ASH!" Dawn screamed, removing his bright smile. "We told you, me or May! Pikachu was NOT included!"
"Jeez, Dawn, I thought you promised that you wouldn't get mad at me..?"
Dawn slowly started to grit her teeth and finally turned her head away when the nurse and the breeder finally got back up to their seats.
"Fine." Dawn huffed, still refusing to face her friend. "But you still have to answer that question."
"But I did answer-"
"Truthfully, Ash." the nurse said and smiled. "That was the deal."
"Exactly." Dawn added and turned around again only to show her grin. "Jeez, Ash, I thought you promised not to get mad at me..?"
"I see what you did there.." Ash muttered and crossed his arms.
"Ash, we're still waiting for your answer." the nurse said, interrupting the two teens. "We can sit here all day."
"ASH!" Dawn screamed and pinched him, making him jump in surprise. "You promised!"
"Alright, alright, I pick May!" Ash blurted out, extremely embarrassed.
"But, that's because May doesn't scream at me that much.." Ash added when he saw that everybody's smirks got wider.
"Hmpf, atleast you're being honest." Dawn muttered and tried to act normal, even though something inside her burst.
"Well, it's a start." the nurse said and giggled. "Now, if you had to go on a date with any girl at all, who would it be?"
Ash raised an eyebrow but then started to think hard about that question, after all, he promised he would answer those 5 questions honestly.
"Delia." Ash replied and smiled. "Definitely."
"Who's that?" Dawn asked, she had never heard a girl with that name, maybe it was somebody Ash met before he met her. The only girl she knew that had that name was..
"Mrs. Ketchum..?" Brock and Dawn asked at the same time.
"Yeah, my mom! Ash stated proudly. "She knows all the best restaurants, the best malls.. Everything! Although I would rather stay home and eat her delicious cooking instead.."
"We didn't exactly mean that kind of a date, Ash." Nurse Joy said and giggled. "But I guess I should be more.. Precise with my questions."
Ash only shrugged his shoulders, he knew what the nurse meant of course, and he was somewhat happy that he managed to avoid that topic for a while.
"Alright, let's see you avoid this." the nurse said and giggled. "If May and Dawn both asked you at the same time, who would you pick?"
"Ask me what?"
"If you would like to get together with one of them."
"Hm, I figured.." Ash said and sighed. "Uh.."
Glancing over to his right, Ash expected to see Dawn with a furious face or something but instead saw her look at him with a frown.
"It's fine, I promise I won't get mad at you." Dawn reassured him and sighed once she saw Ash's sheepish smile. "Just.. Just answer honestly."
Ash felt himself get lost there for a moment. Just like that night before where Dawn was completely nuts and weird, her eyes were shining brightly.. Even without any shining moon.
"Uh, Ash..?" Dawn said, snapping Ash out of his thoughts. "I wanna know your answer."
She already knew the answer anyways, but she wanted to hear the answer from him, no lies, no excuses..
"You."
Dawn nearly dropped her jaw in surprise, like the breeder and the nurse.
"But I thought you liked May?" Brock asked and raised an eyebrow.
"So all of this was about me and May..?" Ash asked and crossed his arms. "To be more.. Clear, I just answered your question. If both of them came up to me and asked, then I would've picked Dawn cause.. Cause it doesn't really seem so weird.."
"Are you sure about that?" Dawn asked and sighed, she really missed having Piplup around at times like these.
Ash nodded and tried to hide his fear, he didn't really lie.. More like escaped the truth.
"Alright then.." Dawn said quietly and giggled as she leaned closer. "Would you like to become my boyfriend, Ash?"
"WHAT?"
Ash almost fell off the 'couch' for 3 persons while the nurse and the breeder giggled, they knew Dawn was quite manipulative.
"We told you to be honest." Dawn said and giggled.
Ash struggled to get back up again, although he wasn't so sure if he wanted to do that.
"I'm just.. Gonna take a shower, be right back!"
Ash took his opportunity and got up before sprinting into Dawn's room.
"You know, I think it's safe to say that Ash is in love with May." the nurse stated and stood up. "You took his first kiss, Dawn, and that kiss wasn't really his last one. It's funny how I witnessed many of them."
"Pikachu."
The three humans were surprised to see, and hear, that Pikachu had said something they couldn't really understand.
"Pika, pikapi pikachu.." he continued and grinned.
The three humans sweatdropped, trying to understand what the rodent was saying.
"You want more ketchup?" Brock asked and smiled. "I can get that for you."
Pikachu opened his mouth to try and tell them again, but the sound of more ketchup sounded more fun. Brock chuckled and stood up to get some ketchup while Dawn and the nurse tried to push Pikachu into telling them what he wanted.
"Can't you understand what he's saying?" Dawn asked the nurse.
"I'm afraid that's nearly impossible." the nurse replied and scratched Pikachu's soft fur as she brought him up. "But, I've tried for a long time and learned a bit to know what pokémon wants, so I'll try."
"Pika!" Pikachu blurted out after feeling Nurse Joy's soft hands.
"Now Pikachu, what was it you wanted to tell us before?"
Pikachu sighed and tried to think of an easy way to tell them that they were wrong. But he temporarily forgot that once Brock came smiling with 2 bottles of ketchup.
"Cha..!" Pikachu said happily and brought the 2 bottles closer with a huge smile.
"Well, I think that Pikachu just said thank you." the nurse 'translated' and giggled.
The two females kept on giggling until Brock took a seat, looking like he was pondering about something.
"What's wrong, Brock?" Dawn asked and stared at the happy Pikachu. "Oh, I wonder if Piplup wants to come out again.."
Grabbing Piplup's pokéball, Dawn wondered if it was done thinking about his little plan.
"I just think it's a little bit weird." Brock stated and sighed. "It all happened too fast. Ash and Dawn had no clue about love or anything similar, and now, both of them shared their first kiss, and there's probably a lot more to come.."
"Hey!" Dawn bursted out before covering her mouth with her hand. "I knew about love before that.."
"Heh, maybe so." Brock said and chuckled. "But still, you have to admit it's happening fast, I wonder if May's gonna make a move on Ash or maybe the other way around."
"But I thought you were together with Ash?" the nurse asked the blunette while stroking Pikachu's soft fur. "Did you break up?"
"We.. We were never together." Dawn said and sighed.
"But that french-kiss..?"
"French.. Kiss..? I didn't use my tongue THAT much, and it was a dare.."
"Oh, I see." the nurse said and stood up together with Pikachu. "Well, it looked like more than just a dare.."
Dawn was about to protest but sat quiet and blushed instead as the breeder grinned together with the giggling nurse.
"Well, I have to go now, I think patients will be rushing in soon." the nurse said and put Pikachu down on the table. "You guys can take whatever you want for lunch, and Pikachu, please don't eat too much."
The yellow rodent laughed embarrassed before continuing with his ketchup licking while Dawn and Brock thanked the nurse before she left the caféteria. Brock sighed and tried to think of something to talk about, which he did, although he would later regret it all..
"So.. What did Ash think of your body?"