Try To Remember Me Chapter 18, a pokémon fanfic

Helloooooo.. Very sorry, a lot of stuff happened.. Me being sick and crap. AGAIN, I'm very late with my update, and AGAIN, I'll make it up by uploading a pretty long chapter.. Also, do you think that these long chapters are.. Maybe too long? Do you think I should make them shorter? Seeing as how they are massively long.. (Important!)

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Also, this will be my last chapter. More on this after the chapter.

Chapter 18: What If..

"Wake up, Ash."

...

What?

"Wake up.."

Feeling his body getting poked non-stop, the boy barely managed to sit up straight and did so with a deep moan.

"My head.." the raven haired boy whined, feeling his head pound just like early this morning.

"Don't worry, it'll be over soon."

Not recognizing that voice, Ash quickly got himself up from the grass and backed away a few steps, trying to spot who that was while still trying to figure out where he was and how he got there.

"Oh calm down, it's just me."

He still couldn't know who that was, but of course it was some girl.. His vision was a bit blurry, but from the looks of it the girl was around the same height and probably the same age as him, maybe someone he knew? Something about her sweet voice made him calm down, but he still wanted to be sure and waited until his vision came back before doing or saying anything. When it finally did come back, he wasn't really that calm anymore..

"AURORA?" he bursted out and backed away until he hit something with his back, probably a tree.

"Yes, that is me." the girl replied and giggled as she got up from the ground herself. "Happy to see me?"

It took a while, but Ash finally managed to speak after a few seconds of letting this melt into his mind.

"Why the hell would I be happy to see you?" he almost growled more than asked.

"Ouch.. That hurt."

Ash tried to see if she was being sarcastic or not, but thought that it didn't really matter cause she was such a liar anyway.

"It should." Ash added and glared at one he saw as an enemy. "Now where are we, and where are the others?"

Glancing around, Ash could only assume that they were still in the park as he recognized the different trees and plants. Due to the thickness of these, he couldn't see anything from the actual park itself other than endless green and brown, which made him pretty sure that they were out of bounds.

Looking straight forward again, Ash nearly fell to the grass, or mud, as he saw that Aurora had somehow managed to get right in front of him with a strange smile he couldn't read.

"Why look at the nature when you got its finest creation right in front of you..?"

Ash gulped and tried not to stare into her eyes, or other parts for that matter.. Even though she whispered it in a rather seducing way, Ash had to admit that it was somehow true..

"Why thank you, Ash."

As the girl giggled, Ash felt himself go pale when he realized that she could read his mind just like that.

'I need to get out of here..'

"Naw, why..? Don't you wanna spend the day with me..?"

"Eh.." Ash stuttered. The fact that Aurora could at any time just look at him too see his thought was quite disturbing for him. "No thanks."

"Hmpf."

Ash sighed and, again, got surprised when he noticed that Aurora had gotten closer. Too close..

"You have beautiful eyes, Ash."

As Aurora got closer and closer by the second, Ash tried think of atleast 10 different thoughts, attempting to confuse her mindreading. It was obviously not working.

"Oh please, that might have worked when I was.. 5?"

Not really giving a damn about Aurora, Ash started sprinting.. Well, anywhere but close to her. She was alot of things, psychic, crazy.. He just hoped that she wasn't fast.

"Oh, there's no use, Ash."

Aurora's voice could only be heard faintly, due to Ash running like his life was at stake. It was getting harder to run at the same pace because of all of the trees and bushes, making it harder for him to navigate without getting cuts and bruises. On several occasions, Ash barely missed getting knocked out by running into a tree. Glancing back only once, the boy let out a sigh of relief after not being able to spot Aurora anywhere. Ash had to eventually get down on knees to catch his breath, but only after he was absolutely sure that Aurora was nowhere close.

"That's one crazy girl.."

Finally done with gasping for air, Ash only now realized how thick with trees it really was. They literally blocked out the sun light, and where the hell were all pokémon..? For some reason, Ash got a shiver down his spine. The reason..? It could be anything, the fact that he was alone out somewhere far away from any human or pokémon, or the fact that Aurora was-

"Hey sexy."

"How could you even think of doing it?"

"I.. I don't wanna be stuck here!"

"Do you know why I'm not letting you out of here?"

"Cause you like messin' with me..?"

"BECAUSE IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!"

Pikachu sighed, he knew it would turn out this way.. So why did he agree to in the first place? Well, he was his best friend aside from Ash.. And he wouldn't really get too much yelling from Nurse Joy anyway.. And Brock would be okay.

"As for your punishment, no more TV for you!"

"NOOOOO!"

.. Guess not.

Letting out a deep sigh, Pikachu soon grew tired over the screams coming from the small patient room and made his way towards the caféteria.

"Poor guy.. You must miss Ash, right..?"

Snapping out of his somewhat perverted thoughts, the rodent quickly looked up and faced the girl while nodding 4 times a second with a huge sheepish smile, not having the slightest idea of what she had just said.

"Don't worry, I'm at least as fun as him!"

Bending down to pick Pikachu up, he let out another sigh of relief, happy to know that his eyes wouldn't accidentally wander to that.. Pink area, at least not for a little while. "Do you want something to eat?"

Shaking his head, Pikachu suddenly felt that this wasn't the first time this girl had been holding him with her arms. Snuggling closer to her chest, he was certain. Although her chest was probably more.. Spacy.. But using her chest as extra soft pillows was just as good.

"Are you sure?"

Completely ignoring that question, Pikachu figured that it would be wise to start asking this girl questions, hoping that she would understand him. She did.. How?

"Pi.. Pi pikachu..?"

"My name is Sophia."

The girl giggled and went back to her seat, surprised to hear that sudden question but still held on to him tightly and harshly nonetheless.

"Pi.. kat-chu, cha..?"

"Oh, that's easy." the girl replied with a sigh. "He's an old friend."

An old friend..? Pikachu knows almost every old friend..

"Pikachu, pi pi-pi..? Pikachu pikapi?"

The girl seemed to flinch at that question, her tight grip around Pikachu loosening up.

"Oh, that's also an easy one.."

The coming answer seemed like an evil lie in the rodent's ears.

"He used to be my boyfriend."

"I will get my revenge, you know that?"

"Just by talking, that counts as revenge."

"My revenge will be sweet."

"I was just taking May out for lunch, chill out."

"Guys, can we hurry up?"

The group of 4 teens once again walked past the large but beautiful lake, all of them hoping to find one certain young boy. Although some of them weren't really engaged in their little 'search'.

"I'm just saying that it's nothing to be upset about."

Drew shook his head, happy that it had gotten somewhat hotter in the park.

"Oh please, you just left me!"

Amelia grunted before slapping the boy on his neck, something she could gladly get used to.

"Well.. I'm going to get my revenge sooner or later so I'll forgive you, for now."

"I didn't do anything.. At least not anything wrong."

"And why are you freezing..? I'm here!"

May gritted her teeth, didn't anyone care about where Ash was? While Drew and Amelia were arguing, Dawn just stood by the side and squealed, telling no one in particular about how cute they looked together. Why didn't they care about where Ash was? It's not like she would die if they didn't find him in here, she was just worried that something happened since Ash just disappeared like that.

May put her hands on her hips, annoyed that there weren't anyone around but them. Maybe she could ask the pokémon in the lake..?

"May, he probably went back to the hotel to wait for us or something."

May sighed and turned around to face Dawn, that could very well be true. Noticing the cap on her head again, she couldn't help but feel some jealousy, when did Ash give his cap to her..? And why..? She didn't want to think too much of it right now since she could just ask Ash later.

"I guess.."

Unlike before when they sat on the bench chatting about various subjects, May only now noticed how peaceful it was around her. Of course she had walked through this place before, but at those times, watching the lake and the trees wasn't really on her mind.

"It's just.. It's just that Ash usually tells before he goes off somewhere.."

"Try to put yourself in his position; do you think he dares to even go near you after what you've done?"

Guilt rushed through May's mind and more importantly her heart, although not literally.. Dawn couldn't help but put her hand on May's shoulder, trying to comfort her.

"Don't worry, you took it pretty well. If my boyfriend had seen other girls naked and even kissed them, I don't think that I would've stayed as strong as you."

Oh.. Right. If only you knew what happened at the hotel with Aurora..

"Thank you, Dawn."

May gave the blunette a weak smile, but it was enough to convince her and she immediately lit up, happy to be to assistance.

"I think we should forget about Ash for just a little while." Dawn suggested and giggled.

"Are you sure..?"

"Of course! Don't forget that we're talking about Ash here."

May sighed, she was right, but she still couldn't let that feeling of worry go..

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

The two girls turned around to see Amelia drenched in water, with Drew not too far away, eyeing her with a huge grin. As Amelia walked closer to the boy, he couldn't help but let out a huge chuckle due to how silly she was looking; her wet hair was covering her eyes while her clothes were slowly dropping down.

"You are brave, Drew."

Amelia was now right in front of the smirking Drew. He couldn't see her eyes because of her hair, but it was pretty safe to say that behind that pink hair were furious red eyes.

"And why is that exactly, dear?"

Amelia huffed, trying to sound smart, eh?

"Allow me to explain." she started and blew some hair from her face, somewhat revealing her red eyes. "I'm going to kill you. That is a fact. And yet you stand here like nothing, almost welcoming death's presence."

"Perhaps."

Amelia's whole body started to literally shake by anger, Drew, son of a-

"You're a jerk."

"You're an angel."

Amelia raised her hand to slap Drew, again, but stopped once she saw that he didn't even move and still had his wide smirk plastered on his face. Instead, she turned around and headed to the exit.

"I see what you're trying to do." Amelia simply said, seeing through Drew's plans. "Dawn, May, I need to change."

The girls simply followed, but not without giving Drew strange looks and whispering 'what the hell are you doing'.

Drew just chuckled, loudly, to make sure that Amelia heard him. He sighed and shook his head, it was obvious that she heard him once she kicked a stone down to the lake.

"Can we please hurry up?"

The young pokémon trainer crossed his arms as he followed a girl infront of him who claimed to know where to go.

"What's with the hurry..?"

Probably just to irritate the raven haired boy even more, the girl stopped and turned around to face him with a sweet smile.

"And WHY are we stopping, exactly?"

"I need to rest."

Letting out a fake yawn, the girl also stretched her arms and leaned her back against a tree just right next to her. Unlike with the rest of the 'woods' they were in, this area hadn't really thick tree branches, allowing some sunlight to slip in below. This, together with the beautiful nature and how Aurora was standing made Ash think that this was some kind of dream. His eyes, only for a split second, followed the sunlight that ended on the girl's chest. Unfortunately for him, she noticed.

"You really are a perv." she stated with a teasing voice and a giggle. "Who knew."

"Let's.. Let's go." Ash barely got out and ignored the girl and continued down the small path towards the exit. If there were any exit, he did not know.

"Your blushing only acts as proof, Ash."

Ash still kept on not giving a damn about that annoying girl and continued down the endless path.

"How long until we're out of here." Ash demanded to know in a harsh tone.

"Oh.. I don't know."

Ash was quite surprised hearing her voice right next to him, he never heard her walking up towards him.

"How much longer until we're out of here?"

"Maybe.. An hour?"

Ash flinched, but continued anyway, still having his mind set on getting out of there as soon as possible.

"You're tired. Don't you wanna rest for a bit..?"

"No thanks."

"Please..?"

"Shut up."

Despite the whining girl clunging on to his arm like some hungry fan girl, he kept on walking, knowing that if he walked faster they would be out of there in no time.

"You know, I could get used to this."

The girl sighed happily, enjoying this to the fullest, even though it wasn't exactly.. Um..

"Get off me." Ash said, even more irritated than before. "Please.."

"Nope, I love your muscular body, Ash, and I would love to see your six-pack."

"First of all, I'm not that muscular." Ash started and tried to shake the girl off. "Secondly, I don't have beer, and lastly, g-get off me..!"

Ash finally stopped the girl from clinging on to him, making her moan in disappointment.

"Why..?" she asked, faking a few tears. "I wanna hold you.."

"Quit it and let's continue."

"Why don't you let me hold on to you..?"

"There is no reason for that."

"You know, I have a suggestion.."

"And you know what? I don't give a crap."

Ash let out a sigh of anger, she was acting like a 5 year, no, she WAS a 5 year old.

"Don't you wanna hear my suggestion..?"

Feeling too irritated to even give her answer, the boy just walked faster, almost to the point of jogging. She could read his mind anyway, so why ask?

"Fine, I won't read your mind anymore.."

"Thank you." Ash said after letting out a sigh of relief. It was pretty scary knowing that this was the first time he had ever felt relieved over something since.. Since..

"How did we get here?"

Ash stopped, thinking that getting some answers was more important than getting out of there. Well not really..

"I'll answer your questions.. And stop reading your mind.." Aurora started and giggled, happy that the boy finally stopped jogging.

"Sounds good." Ash said simply with a nod.

".. On one condition."

Ash sweatdropped and stared at the smiling girl, or smirking.. It was impossible to tell the difference. He assumed it was the latter because.. Well, cause Aurora's one screwed up girl.

"What." Ash got out and crossed his arms.

"It's two conditions, actually."

Aurora giggled again, and Ash realized that she wasn't smirking.. Well, she did smile because she enjoyed pissing him off, but what difference did it make?

"Well..? Out with it."

"One; I can hold your arms and hands and be all over you how much I want."

"Pff, no way, let's keep on walking, read my mind if you want, I don't care."

Ash turned around to start jogging again but got stopped by Aurora as she put her hand on his shoulder.

"In return, I'll take us through a shortcut."

"There's a shortcut..?"

Instantly, Aurora had gotten Ash's interest.

"How much time does it take to get out of here with that shortcut of yours..? And why are you only telling about it NOW?"

"Duh, cause I wanted to spend more time with you?"

Ash sweatdropped and didn't really know whether to feel embarrassed or irritated over the fact the she only now mentioned the shortcut.

"O.. kay.. Anyways, if we use the shortcut, when will we be out of here?"

"In.. About.. 10 minutes..?"

Ash's eyes suddenly went wide, but it didn't take long before he was back again.

"What's the second condition..?" Ash asked, fearing the worst.

"I want you to be honest with me."

"That.. That's it?"

Ash stared at the girl with an arched eyebrow, knowing that there was something behind this. Behind all of this..

Aurora nodded, but not without another giggle of course.

"Alright, I accept..! For how long does these.. Conditions last?"

Just like he had accepted an impossible challenge, Ash clenched his fists with a determined look on his face. Aurora, strangely enough, found that pretty hot.

"Are you sure..?" she asked, not really wanting to force the boy into her conditions, she wanted that he would at least know what it meant. "You do know what I'm allowed to do with you? And.. It'll be for one month."

Ash had apparently forgotten the first condition and lowered his head in defeat, knowing that it would be hell to go through that.. Her hugging him, touching him.. k.. kissing him..?

Despite those horrible things that would happen, he nodded anyways, wanting to get out of there as soon as possible.

Aurora obviously did not see that coming and giggled in happiness, or so Ash thought, and it didn't take long before Ash turned around and started jogging again, trying his best to stay away from her.

"Alright, which way?" Ash barely got out and raised his eyebrow when he didn't see Aurora behind.

"And oh.. One more thing."

Ash gave out a short scream, he hated it when Aurora just popped up behind or right next to him.

"Hmpf, what is it?"

"If you break any of the conditions, you agree to let me kiss you at anytime."

Ash shivered and gulped, he was starting to doubt all of this. But he wouldn't break his promise, right?

Slowly nodding, as not to show Aurora he just agreed to that, Ash knew that he would regret this.. Sooner or later.

Aurora however noticed his nodding anyway and hugged him tightly from behind, slowing down his jogging. And the worst part? He couldn't do anything about it.

This.. This was going to be the worst 10 minutes of his life.

The 20 year old breeder let out a deep, loud sigh that probably went as far as to the reception. His intention was, of course, that Nurse Joy would hear his 'call for help' and eventually do something to help his inprisonment. Hearing a few steps coming towards his patient room, the breeder got up from the bed excited but frowned once he saw that it was only a pretty girl with a Pikachu. Pretty girl? Pikachu..?

"Pikaa.."

The girl giggled, partly because of poor Brock, and partly because Pikachu was still trying to figure out who she was.

"I told you it's not going to work." the girl said, still giggling. "How about I tell you everything instead."

Pikachu frantically nodded, really wanting to know the truth about this girl. Her claiming that she used to be Ash's boyfriend really caught his interest.

"Well." she started and went down the hallway, searching for the bathroom. "It was waaay back."

Finally done with walking past all of the rooms in the hallway, the girl opened the door to the bathroom with her hand while her other arm still held Pikachu tightly. For some reason, he was enjoying it, and she knew that.

"We were.. I think we were 8."

Pikachu nodded again but more slowly, motioning for the girl to continue.

"Me and Ash were best friends, I think.. Oh, we were so childish back then."

Putting down Pikachu next to the sink, the girl let the water flow before cleaning her face and hands.

"Love was something we had never heard of. It was something.. Foreign, and for those who knew what it was, they never wanted to even talk about it. As soon as somebody brought up the word 'kiss' or 'holding hands', the kids turned away in disgust and started to play hide and seek."

The girl sighed and took some soap before continuing.

"As you probably know, me and Ash used to be best friends, and-"

The rodent sweatdropped, how could he possibly know that..?

"Uh, yeah, sorry.. Well we used to, wait, haven't he told you about us?"

Sighing, Pikachu tried to recall any moments or memories about this particular girl, but found none. Ash, sometimes, would babble about some girls from his home town, but he never told him about one certain girl.

"Oh.. Well.. Moving on."

Drying her hands with the awesome, automatic hand dryer first, the girl once again picked the rodent up before leaving the bathroom.

"People always said how Ash and I were like brother and sister.. Ash always chuckled and happily agreed to that while I.. I wanted more. And his mother saw that."

Delia..? Now this is interesting. Well, not that it wasn't already before..

"In fact, only his mother in the whole town realized that I wasn't like a regular child, and she did that in more than one way.. If I ever met Professor Oak, I'm pretty sure he would notice me, too."

The girl sighed, she knew that Pikachu was interested in all of this, but she didn't feel too comfortable with it all..

"It was so.. strange back then.. Ash still kept going on with the 'brother and sister' thingy and did all of the things a brother would do for his sister; help, support, comfort, hug.. He never realized that I had fallen in love with him."

Wait, wait.. If this was BEFORE Ash turned 10, how did they get together..? Wasn't Ash too stupid for that..?

Pikachu looked at her questionable look, wanting her to continue. The girl giggled instead, happy that he was somewhat interested. The girl went past the reception with Pikachu in her arms, both of them surprised to see that it had formed a line since the nurse wasn't there.

"Where is she?"

Pikachu rolled his eyes, just keep on telling already..

"Oh relax, I'll come there."

The girl giggled even more once she felt Pikachu's body go stiff.

"Yes, I'm psychic, did you only find out about that now?"

"Gardevoir.."

The beautiful pokémon, that looked like a beautiful woman in some people's eyes, apologized for losing its target.

"It's, I know who she is."

"She..? Was it a female intruder?"

The girl with the dark blue jeans and a light purple sweater stared at her friend with wonder, he was truly something else.. Her silky black hair was tied up in a ponytail, and the girl would also, occasionally, glance at the boy with the side of her eyes to see if he noticed. He of course never did so, but it was almost impossible to miss her sudden hairstyle change, it's just that she never realized that.. Because of that she was glancing and looking away from his so much, even John noticed this in the end but decided not to bring it up at all.

"Yup."

The boy sighed and shook his head, when he met her, he would-

"Should we call the police?"

The boy raised an eyebrow and finally dared to look at the girl after that embarrassing scene back at her apartment.

"No, that is not necessary."

"Oh."

None of them spoke for a few minutes until the girl decided to break the uncomfortable silence.

"What do you think of my new hairstyle, John?"

John sweatdropped and stuttered a few weird words in response, causing the girl to giggle quite lowly.

"It's.. It's nice.."

The girl never expected that and started to blush, making John sigh in relief and Gardevoir shake her head, the two of them were so ridiculous..

The sandy path they were walking on soon turned into asphalt, and it didn't take too long before the city came up just ahead.

"Gardevoir, would you like to return?"

Gardevoir glanced at its trainer, knowing that something was up since he wouldn't normally ask her just like that. But.. He rarely did that, so she followed him.

John nodded thankfully, although he did that rather quickly so that Angelica couldn't notice. As he brought up the purple, decorated pokéball, the girl couldn't help but stare in awe at it and watched carefully as Gardevoir slowly de-materialized into some red energy before it got sucked into the precious pokéball.

"Why did you do that?"

"She doesn't like the attention she gets in the city."

"Oh.."

John could almost feel his Gardevoir laugh from inside the pokéball and decided to do something about it. The girl, Angelica, happened to start up the coming conversation, but John didn't mind.

"John..?"

"Yes..?"

Judging by her strange way of saying his name, he assumed that what she wanted would probably embarrass him.. Again..

"John, I cannot wait any longer, so I'm just gonna ask right away."

"Angelica, I told you we've been through this-"

"Would you like to become my girlfriend John?"

Sigh..

John took a deep breath like those 10 other times she asked the same question. To his surprise, three words instead of one word came out.

"I don't know."

The strange, awkward silence came back once again, and even Gardevoir more or less waited intently for the answer.

"I hope you realize that I won't stop trying until you change that answer."

Now, attention was with how he would answer that statement.

"I know."

"Do you like being hugged, Ash?"

...

"Do you like getting hugged from behind?"

...

The black haired girl giggled and squeezed the boy right in front of her even harder, despite him 'walking' in a quick pace.

"I'll take your silence as a yes!" she squealed out happily and giggled. "Hey, slow down! I wanna hug you for as long as I can!"

"That wasn't a part of our agreement."

The boy, an equally tall 14 year old boy with raven hair kept on walking, never glancing back even once.

"Oh, where are my manners?" the girl exclaimed in a rather sarcastic way. "Do you mind telling what exactly those are..?"

Ash lowered his head in shame, the bittersweet feeling of defeat slowing down his walking. He didn't know why, but he hid his eyes using his cap, he had to stop doing that..

Wait.. His.. Cap?

Ash suddenly flinched, realizing that there was a slight possibility that-

"Ash..? What's wrong?"

The girl let go of him and both of them stopped.

"It's.. It's nothing, I just remembered something.."

"What?"

"I'll.. I'll tell you if you promise not to read your mind."

"I'm not, and I won't, or else I wouldn't ask!"

The girl giggled while the boy let out a short sigh, he just wanted to be sure.. It's not like he could trust her anyways..

"I.. I miss Pikachu."

Ash started to walk again, hoping that she wouldn't suspect anything.

"Oh, how cute..!"

Ash couldn't tell if she was sarcastic or not, but he got pretty relieved when she hugged him tightly from behind again, indicating that she had fallen for it.

"Don't worry, you'll see him when we're out of here."

Surprisingly enough, at least for Ash, the girl's words somehow made him smile, but it quickly disappeared and got replaced with an embarrassed face expression when the girl squeezed him even more, making her body parts press up against his back.

Ash gulped, trying to think of something else, although that was almost impossible due to the.. 'amount of pressure' put on his back. But there was a good side with this.. If she pointed out his thoughts, he would know that she was reading his mind, and so break their agreement. She never moved from her spot on his back however, and it was about to get worse.

"Piggyback!"

"Wh.. What?"

Ash sweatdropped, she couldn't be serious..

"You heard me!"

The girl stopped hugging him from behind and instead pushed his shoulders down in an attempt of getting a ride from the boy.

"Do you.. Do you HAVE to?"

"Yes! You promised! Now get down!"

Ash sweatdropped and stuttered a few bad words, this was something that would ruin his chances of ever becoming a true man.. Letting out a deep sigh, Ash almost felt the urge to start crying, although not seriously, before he sat down on a strange looking rock that further backed up his theory about Aurora-

"Ash! Get up, get up!"

To Ash's surprise, Aurora had already jumped on his back and patted him on his neck, wanting him to move.

"Hurry, hurry!" Aurora almost screamed like a happy kid in a toy store as Ash got up to his feet.

Ash sighed and raised his eyebrow.. She was awfully light, but again, his thoughts returned to how two certain body parts were pressed up against his back.

"Yay!"

Aurora unwrapped her hands around his neck and threw them up in the air, allowing Ash's dirty thoughts to disappear.. For the moment.

"Faster, faster!"

The dirty thoughts once again returned, and he had to eventually bite his lip to think of something else. Now when did he become.. Like this..?

"Man, I'm tired, just.. Can't we slow down instead?"

"No, no, run, run!"

Ash let out a deep sigh before walking faster, at least it made her begging disappear.. Even though her screams of joy destroyed his eardrums.

"Oh, I love you.."

"What?"

"I love this, hanging onto you.."

"Eh.."

"Ah, you have very soft hair.."

"And you have very soft legs.."

Ash cursed himself and prayed that she didn't hear his whisper.

"Thank you, Ash!"

Shit.

The girl sighed, probably with happiness and rested her head on Ash's while she had her left arm wrapped around his neck and stroked his raven hair with her other.

Ash tried to keep himself from shaking with nervosity, which was pretty hard considering what he just blurted out. Ash still hadn't gotten over the fact that Aurora didn't weigh so much, even May weigh more, and she was like a stick. And her skin.. He guessed she used lotion, lots of it.

"Ash, can I ask you something?"

Ash sighed, how could he say no? Really..?

"You know I must do that."

"I know, I just wanted to remind you that."

The girl giggled and stopped stroking his hair, now hugging his neck, or whole upper body, instead.

"Well, I have to be honest since.. Hey, where's that shortcut?"

"Don't worry, we'll be out of her in.. Maximum 10 minutes, I can't keep this up for much anyway."

"Keep what up?"

"Nothing. Turn right."

Ash looked ahead of him and was surprised to see that the path had stopped and was now split into two, forcing Ash to pick one of them before going on. He did as Aurora said and turned left, now surprised that the ordinary green bushes and trees had now been replaced with beautiful flowers and roses, although the thick sunblocking trees were still there.

"Fine, 10 minutes, shouldn't be too bad." Ash stated more to himself than to the girl. "Now, what do you want to know?"

"Do you think I'm cute?"

Ash sweatdropped, and even though Aurora couldn't see it, she more or less could feel it from his body twitching.

"Um.."

"You promised that you would be honest, now out with it!"

"Damn, you're heavy.."

"I am not, ASH!"

"Fine, my back hurts.."

"Liar, you're breaking our deal! If you do that, I'll tell May what you said about me."

Ash sighed, she controlled every exit.. Not that there was one, anyway.

"Fine.."

"Yeeeeeees..?"

"Yes.."

"Yes what..?"

"Yes, I think YOU'RE CUTE!"

Ash stopped walking and turned around frantically, trying to spot any person around, more specifically May, as it would be his death if she heard him. Aurora on the other hand just giggled and hugged the boy tighter.

"Thanks, Ash, you're cute, too."

"You know it doesn't mean anything." Ash stated and continued to walk, still surprised over how light the girl was. She felt like nothing..! "I still hate you."

"Naw, why..?"

"Why..? Why do you think?"

"Cause you wanna kiss me so badly?"

"Shut up."

"Do you wanna kiss me, Ash?"

The girl giggled and now returned to stroking his hair, making strange balls out of it with both of her hands.

"No."

"I told you to be honest, Ash.."

"I am, I don't want to kiss you."

"Why not..?"

"Why would I want to?"

To Ash's surprise, the girl didn't make any lame comeback and instead kept quiet, still having fun with his hair.

Where was his cap..?

"Is there anything else you wanna know?" Ash asked, trying his best not to think more into that subject.

"Why May?"

Silence took over the.. Forest? Nothing could be heard except for Ash's footstep on the sandy path and the wind whistling through past the thick tree branches and flowers.

"Ash..?"

"Ye.. Yeah..?"

"Did you hear my question..? Or were you thinking about May?"

Ash gulped and thought about it for a moment.

"Of course I was thinking of May, you asked me about her..?"

Ash chuckled at her stupidity, which she did not take so well.

"Whatever, Ash. Now answer."

"What question?"

"Why.. Why MAY!"

Ash gulped, again, the sound of her voice raising when she pronounced 'May' didn't sound too good.

"Alright, just calm down."

"I'm not upset."

"Yeah, you're 'not'."

Aurora just giggled and playfully kicked him using her legs, making him laugh.

Now why did he laugh..?

"It's amazing how fast the nature changes around here."

Ash raised his eyebrow, just a few minutes ago there had been pretty and beautiful flowers together with colorful trees, but now there were nothing but rotten plants. The tree branches looked like they would fall off at any moment, and instead of pretty flowers, mossplants covered the sides of their path, some plants even blocking their way.

As Ash turned around, despite Aurora trying to stop him, he noticed that there were absolutely no healthy roses or flowers, even though they just passed this 'line'. That further backed up his theory, but it would be stupid to make any move while he wasn't completely sure.

"Could you answer my question, Ash?"

Ash snapped out of his thoughts and wondered how her face expression was since she asked in a rather sad and quiet way, but that wasn't exactly easy since he had to literally turn his head around to even see her hair.

"Please..?"

"Why not, but could you please get off me..? My back hurts."

"Alright.."

Ash stopped walking, glad to be able to walk straight again. Aurora, without a sound, jumped down on the dirty path and grabbed his right hand with her left.

"Can you tell me now..?"

Ash sighed and faced the girl, surprised to see that she was.. Crying..? At least she had just cried, her eyes still showing sign of it as they were red and still a bit watery.

But he knew it was fake..

"Of course, that was our agreement, I guess.." Ash replied with a slight nod. "Do.. Do you have to hold my hand?"

"That was our agreement, wasn't it?"

The girl giggled and playfully pushed him to with her elbow, causing him to mutter silently. At least she wasn't sad anymore.

"Fine, but let's keep walking, shall we?"

"Whatever!"

Aurora started to giggle again as Ash and her slowly went forwards, still holding hands. Ash was feeling very uncomfortable about this, even though her hands were so, so soft and smooth..

"Ash..?"

Once again the girl had snapped him out of his somewhat perverted thoughts and it didn't take long before he was laughing sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head with his free hand.

"Ehehe, yes..?"

"You were about to tell me why you chose May over me."

"Fine, but if you tell her anything about this conversation, I mean, anything at all that we just went through, then I'll-"

"Oh please, I promise you I won't tell her anything."

Ash sighed, it was impossible to trust this strange, crazy girl.

"Well.. First of all, she's smart.."

The nervous boy glanced to his right, checking if there was any reaction from the beautiful girl.

There was none.. She just kept on walking with her eyes locked onto the road, still holding Ash's hand, of course.

"Um.." Ash started again, not quite sure if he should continue or not. "She's of course much more than that.. She's funny, caring, kind and not to mention cute.. Yes, there are a few downsides, such as her lack of selfconfidence, or maybe her anger problems.. But I really think that those things gets canceled out by her positive side, making her.. Almost like an angel."

Ash started to blush, he still hadn't got used to all of this love stuff.. It was still amazing how fast his view on May could change. Not that he would like to change anything between them..

"I.. I can see why you've gotten interested in her." Aurora started, making Ash look at her with a questionable face. "I just.. Am I not all of those things you just listed..? So why did you pick her..?"

"Well, of course you remind me of her, in.. In some ways.." Ash replied and blushed once more before quickly shrugging it off. "And I'm choosing her to be my friend over you, not my girlfriend."

"So you you would rather have me as your girlfriend and just be friends with May?"

"Wha- NO, WHAT?"

"I see.. So you're saying that I'll never get a boy to fall in love with me?"

"What? No, of course you'll get a boy someday, everyone will, you just have to keep looking."

"I don't need to do that anymore."

"What..?"

"Ash, you're being completely honest.. Right?"

Aurora tilted her head slightly towards Ash's side, glancing at him with her eyes.

"Why of course.."

"Then tell me, am I not cute?"

"Uh.. Of course you are."

Ash started laugh quietly for himself, expecting that Aurora would do the same. But since she didn't, he figured that this was a serious subject for her and that she wanted to know as much as she could about him, herself and May.

"Am I not smart?"

"Um, yes..?"

"Am I not sweet?"

"Some.. Times.."

"Am I not kind and caring..?"

"Y.. No."

The girl instantly flinched at his answer and tried to hide it, which she successfully did, but instead she also squeezed Ash's hand tighter revealing her response anyway.

"I see that are my flaws.." she sadly stated and lowered her head just a tad. "Are those what you think are.. Necessary traits for anyone to be your girlfriend?"

"Yes, but not only that. I believe that every person has, although it might be hard to bring it out, a kind, sweet, caring and loving personality somewhere inside. There are of course those who doesn't have that, at all, and I pity them.."

"Do you think I have that?"

"What, that side? Why of course!"

For the first time since.. Well, for the first time ever, Ash saw Aurora blush even though she quickly turned away from him with her face to hide it.

"T.. Thank you.."

"I.. Uh.. Well, I mean that, like I said, everyone has that side of them, and you know what? I haven't seen that side of you."

Silence.

"I'm being completely honest now, just so you know."

"Yes.."

Silence..

"Ash, what would you do if May got hurt?"

This completely startled Ash, he even stopped walking and let go of Aurora's hand before facing her with a face expression mixed with anger and surprise.

"What are you saying?" Ash bursted out, his anger taking over. "How could you say such a thing?"

"Answer my question."

"What.. What.. What do you think I would've done?"

"You answered me with yet another question, Ash."

"I.. I would've been completely destroyed.."

"Details."

"What?"

"I want you to tell me everything; what you will say, how much you'll cry, if you can-"

"If something terrible happens to her, I'll be with her the whole way. I'll always stay by her side as much as I can, even though it means that I'll shed a few tears.. But let's hope that it'll never happen."

"Does she mean that much to you?"

"Of course. Like with all of my other friends, I would gladly give my life away just to make sure that they're all safe."

Aurora stared into his hazel eyes for a few seconds before walking off, without him. It took a while for Ash to follow, but when he did, he couldn't help but notice how quickly she had returned to her 'normal' state.

"There is something you need to know about May."

"What is it?"

"Back at the hotel, do you remember."

"Of course I do.." Ash said and sweatdropped, now who would forget something like that..? "What about it?"

"After May saw us, I was planning on waiting for her to leave.. But that would be pointless since you disabled my powers and that May's anger was.. Extreme.."

"I.. Disabled your powers?"

"Yes, and I don't feel like explaining why and how to you now." Aurora replied and slowed down, allowing Ash to catch up. "That's not important now anyway. The thing is, I could feel her anger.. Even from after she left."

Aurora raised an eyebrow seeing as she didn't hear any answer at all from the raven haired boy. It took a few seconds, but when those seconds passed, Ash bursted out with laughter, even using Aurora's shoulder as support to not fall down.

"G.. Get off me.. Unlike with me, you're kinda heavy Ash."

Ash didn't give a crap about her statement and instead chuckled more. He was at the edge of even bringing her down with him, but she quickly managed to get out of his 'grip' and watched as the boy nearly fell to the ground.

"Are you serious? Even I can sense her anger from miles away."

The boy finally calmed down, although he was still giving out a chuckle or two.

"This is serious stuff, Ash."

"Well, what's your point?"

"Her anger.. It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before."

"Heh, well, I told you that it's something we have to work-"

"She was planning on killing me."

Boom. Bang. Boom.

"Jessie, just give up.."

"I'll NEVER give up!"

Boom. Boom.

The red haired woman's wrath could be heard throughout the small area around the little cell they were staying in. Even though it was probably the most annoying sound in the world, nobody ever came or did anything to stop them. Or her..

"Jessie, it's useless."

"Shut up and help me out!"

"Jessie, quit it.. Maybe if we stop it, he'll at least let us live a little bit longer.."

Boom, bang.. Boom.

"C'mon, let's just be quiet for a while, I've got this huge headache."

Boom, bang, boom.

"Jessie, enough!"

The banging metal sound finally stopped, making the blue haired man sigh in relief.

"Thank you, Jessie."

...

Thud.

"Jessie?"

...

"JESSIE!"

"Do you come here often?"

"Every day."

"Every day?"

A cold wind whistled past the two teens, sending down shivers through both of them. One of them, the young man John, had been thinking deeply about something for the past 10 minutes, leaving the other teen with nothing to do besides doing just like him.

"I assume she was not buried at this precise area?"

No answer.

The 16 year old girl with great patience sighed and glanced at her surroundings. The cold breezes had seemed to stop, making the trees and grass stop swaying around violently. On a more descriptive view, the two teens were standing, or sitting, in what seemed to be a very small cemitary filled with various beautiful plants. Seeing as this was in the outskirts of the city, some people that had nothing to do with the cemitary itself sometimes went there just to calm their minds down or relax.

It was not a large cemitary, the girl thought, even though there were plants and trees, benches, graves and people inside its boundaries. The cemitary was filled with nearly 100 graves, and one of them had a name on it that the teens would never ever forget. Inside the circle formed cemitary that was around 200m in diameters and had white fences all around it, the two teens stood in the center of the circle, away from the crying or peaceful humans.

The cold winds had once again returned, but this time, the young man got up from the grass, suggesting that they would leave as soon as possible.

"Don't you wish to stay for longer, John?"

"No."

The boy sighed, and together with his reply, that was his only response at all during that visit.

"Let's head home before you catch a cold."

Well, that also counted as a reply..

"Of.. Of course!"

The boy gave her a short nod before heading towards the exit, expecting her to come with him, which she did not do at once..

She hated herself. She really did. It wasn't right.

But.. But she couldn't help it. He was so.. so.. She had to have him.

"I'm.. I'm sorry, Alice.."

"My back hurts.."

"Just be a man for once."

"I'm seriously thinking that it's been more 10 minutes."

"Yeah yeah."

The raven haired boy sighed and decided to 'be a man' by not obeying to her commands. He stopped walking and almost threw the girls off his shoulders, causing her to gasp in surprise and irritation.

"What the hell..?"

"We had a deal, it's been more than 10 minutes."

"Actually, it's been 9."

"And the differnce is..?"

"Fine, we're here."

"What?"

Glancing to the sides, Ash could see that they indeed 'were there'. Around the two teens were a few simple two-floor houses right next to each other with boring gray painted walls on the outside. It certainly took a while, but Ash then realized that he had seen that place before.

Just like he suspected..

"You don't seem surprised.."

Ash clenched his fist and threw a quick glance at the black haired girl.

"I've known this since we first came here."

Aurora seemed to flinch, but it didn't take long before she regained her confident grin back.

"Whatever, it's irrelevant."

"Are you kidding me?"

"Maybe, maybe not." the girl replied, feeling slightly irritated. Rolling her eyes, the girl silently continued down the path away from the few buildings that surrounded them. "Let's make this quick, I can't keep this up for long."

"Don't you think I knew this was your world? It's so obvious."

"Really? How?"

"Well, first, take a look at me."

The girl stopped walking and turned around curiously, wondering how just looking at him would reveal anything.

"I.. I don't see anything that.."

"Try looking closer."

Aurora raised her eyebrow and went back to the boy, eyeing him from top to toe. After giving up on doing that, she noticed that he was chuckling.. It was easily stopped by giving him a quick kiss on his cheek.

"W-What the hell?" Ash bursted out and backed away. "Ah, oh.. It doesn't matter, it's not for real."

"Is it such a big difference..? the girl asked and stepped even closer. "If you're cheating on May in your dream.. Wouldn't it be the same? Wouldn't the possibility still be there?"

Now.. Now that she mentioned it..

"I only let you do that because of our agreement. Besides.. It wasn't anything more than a-"

"Shut up. Now what made you discover that all of this is fake?"

"Well.."

Taking off his cap together with a wide smile, the boy started spinning the cap around with his finger in a rather flashy way.

"Oh.. I don't know.."

Aurora immediately got his point.. But did he have to provoke her so much? She was in charge. Not him. Ne-

"My cap's so awesome, don't you think?"

Not responding to his naïve behavior, the girl just turned around and continued where she left off.

"Shut up. Answer one more question and we'll be out of here."

"Fine, anything to get out of this creepy place.."

"What would you do if May died?"

"Ridiculous question."

"I don't give a crap, answer it."

"Heh, what happened..? Back to your normal self already?"

After getting a glare from the girl that would paralyze even the strongest Charizard, Ash thought that it would be best to 'play along' for just a bit longer.

"I would've.. Probably cried and always have her on my mind despite the situation. But this applies to all of my other friends too.. Just thinking about them getting hurt makes me sick."

"Let me modify my question.."

"Modify..?"

"What would you do if I killed her?"

"Wh.. What?"

That girl.. That girl infront him, she was mad. Insane. Did he only just realize that?

"Oh, what happened, back to your normal self already?"

Not only that, but her sense of humour was crazy. No.. It was madness!

"Oh.. Not speaking, hm? Only stuttering and shivering? I thought I told you to be a man?"

Just like the girl thought, Ash couldn't move nor say anything. Not that he was being stopped by anything, he just.. What was she saying?

"Don't worry, if I don't get my answer.. Then I guess I have to find out."

And just like that, everything went blurry until it was completely dark and silent. But before all of that, he saw something worse than staring Death in the eye..

Aurora's smirk.

"ASH, there you are!"

"My head.."

For a few seconds, everything was quiet and relaxing. The sound of water being splashed and pokémon screaming in joy took over his mind. That was of course until a girl came a few seconds later turning everything upside down.

"Have.. HAVE YOU BEEN HERE ALL THE TIME?"

"Huh..?"

The boy tried to open his eyes, but failed as the sunlight seemed too strong for his eyes.

".. Wake UP!"

And then, there was silence. Complete, harmonic silence. Since he could still hear the water from the fountains, he assumed that that person had left, or at least waited for him to get up by himself. After a minute or two, his eyes had adjusted to the bright light from the sun. Even though his eyes had done adjusting everything, he still didn't want to risk anything by opening them quickly.

Instead, he slowly raised his eyelids only to see a girl's face covering his view.

"Woah, May's right.. You do look cute when you're asleep!"

"E.. EH?'!"

Falling down from the.. Bench out of surprise, the boy tried to spot anyone else other than the giggling blue haired girl just next to him.

"Where's May?" the boy finally asked and slowly got up, his memories with Aurora also coming back. Was it a dream..?

"Hmpf, not even a 'hello'.. Do you love her that much?"

"EH?'!"

Ash fell off the bench he was currently lying on to escape the girl but ended up in the same situation as he started; her looking down on him with his cap still present on her head.

"You don't look cute while you're hurt though.." Dawn got out and sweatdropped. "But I guess that doesn't count cause she never mentioned that."

The girl started to giggle as the boy lazily got up to his feet, still trying to spot anyone besides the blue haired girl.

"Where are all the others?"

Seeing the girl cross her arms with an irritated face, Ash thought that he could at least say hello.

"Hi, Dawn. It's great to see you." the boy said and slightly nodded, happy to see that the girl was now smiling. "Now, where are the others? Are you here by yourself?"

"Hello, Ash." Dawn greeted and giggled, she really enjoyed his company.. "We've been worried, where've you been? Drew and May are right behind us, Amelia's back at the hotel.."

"Why's she there?"

"Ehheh, an accident.."

"What? Is she hurt?"

"No no, she's fine.. But we should head back now, the others are already on their way."

"R.. Right!"

Dawn gave the boy a simple nod before heading back towards the hotel, but out without glancing back every once in a while, of course. Ash, feeling very relieved, couldn't help but wonder about those last few minutes.

Maybe he just imagined everything..

Dawn, she actually looked cute with his cap.. Well, she looked cute wearing anything.

Don't you just wanna smack that butt?

"EH?'!"

Ash froze and frantically turned his head and eyes to the sides, trying to find the source of that voice.

Maybe he was just going insane.. Not much of a surprise really considering the amount of stress he'd been through. Not able to find anything or anyone hiding around him, the boy let out a deep sigh before meeting his friend's worried eyes.

"Ash.. What's wrong? You've been awfully strange lately.."

"HUH, eh, wah..?"

After that strange moment of stuttering, Ash couldn't really blame Dawn for thinking that he had gone mad.

"Let's just head back, we're starting to get behind."

"Heh, yes!"

"Wh.. What?"

This time it was Ash's turn to sweatdrop and wonder what was going on. Not really giving it a second thought, Ash just quickly shrugged it off before following the giggling blue haired girl.

So.. What now?

Suddenly, Ash heard a whistle from behind. He glanced back and nearly gasped once he spotted a person, leaning herself against a tree with her arms crossed.

How foolish of you, thinking that it was a dream. Are you stupid?

"If you even just look at her.. I'll.. I'll.."

"Ash?"

"Huh?"

Looking back at Dawn again, Ash could see that she was really starting to get freaked out. He was, from her perspective, talking to himself.

"What.. What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I just-"

As expected, the girl leaning herself against the tree had disappeared once he looked back.

"Let's.. Let's just get to the others."

"What.. What is the meaning of this?"

"I.. I wonder the same, John."

"I'm.. I'm so going to kill her.."

The two teens stared with funny face expressions at the garage right in front of them, or more like at what was contained inside.. As the two teens were about to leave towards the city with John's car, they immediately noticed that something was wrong when they first opened the gates. Something was definitely wrong.

"I.. I believe it is cute..!"

"Eh..?"

Unlike with the 16 year old boy, the girl was actually praising the work in front of them, even giggling at one particular sight. The boy, John, on the other hand, had thought that he would be able to drive his black and slim car once more to the city, but that was impossible.. Well, he could do it, yes, but then his manly pride would get annihilated. Not that there was much left after only seeing it, though..

Instead of what he thought he would see and drive, in front of him was his garage as always, only now it was.. Pink. The size of the actual room was as large as a school classroom, but the contents of it was vastly different. In the middle stood his what he used to call his 'sign of manliness', and just by the walls were several tools for enhancing his vehicle's performance. A few examples were saws and car equipment such as glass windows or tires, but those were only a few examples. In other words, his garage wasn't bad, at all.

But..

"It's.. all IN PIIIIIIIIINK!'!"

The computer let out a low, distinct sound and a bright light from its screen, illuminating the dark room it was currently in. Right in front of the computer screen sat an elegant lady, patiently waiting for it to finish its loading.

Which took a while..

The woman let out a deep sigh but stopped midway; she couldn't afford to wake her son up. Lucky enough for her, her son was sleeping in a very strange position with his head and eyes away from the strong light. Furthermore, his bed and the computer were at the opposite sides of the room, lowering the chance of him waking up due to the strong light.

But still.. Her little secret operation was filled with difficulties, and if she got spotted, her son would probably hate her for at least a month.

.. Whatever. It's completely fine. It's for daughter's best. It only took a few clicks, and then she would be out of there, out of the room, out of any more danger.

"Hey, mom, what are you doing..?"

With her frustration still flowing through her body, the pink haired girl tried one last time and finally succeeded with putting on her new clothes.

Well, 'new'..

Letting out a deep sigh, the girl gave herself a pat on her shoulder for being so smart, despite how ridiculous it looked.

"I'll show them.. I'll show everyone.."

Glancing at the clock hanging on the room's wall, the girl raised an eyebrow seeing as how it was already 5pm. Time goes by fast when you're having fun, right..? It's just that this time, it wasn't her that had any fun. But she would get it, eventually.

Letting out another deep sigh, the girl stood up from the small bed and went to the large mirror, allowing her to see her whole body, top to toe.

She wasn't fat, now, was she..? Nah, nonsense. But..

Doing a little swirl, the girl stared at her pink skirt and continued upwards. The most logical and obvious thing she could do was to ask one of her friends about how she looked. But the answers were always the same..

How cute. How beautiful. It totally fits you.

Why couldn't they be honest..? Her friends were awesome, of course, but why lie about how she looked..? Maybe they were too afraid to be honest, too afraid about what she might do to them?

Letting out yet another deep sigh, the girl put on her coat that was a mix of pink and red, which maybe looked like a strange color.. But she liked it. Maybe she wasn't miss Sinnoh, but she was kinda cute.. Just a little, though. But she needed an opinion from another person. And there was only one person who she was absolutely sure would give his honest opinion.

Drew.. But that was also one of the reasons she loved him. He was honest.

"Drew.." she silently whispered and made another twirl, now giggling as she thought of how she would make Drew pay.

"Pff, pink again, seriously..?"

Immediately recognizing that voice, the girl huffed once and turned around to face her boyfriend.

"Yes. Pink. Do you have a problem with that?"

"Nah, not really."

"Then shut your mouth."

"I'm just saying that it looks boring now."

"I.. I don't care! Where are the others? Are you here by yourself?"

"Yes, the others are on their way now, they should be here in a few minutes."

"I see.."

Silence took over the room, the only sounds that could be heard coming from Nurse Joy and a few other patients by the reception.

"Don't you like pink..?"

Drew sighed, being alone with this girl always ended up like that. Retarded conversation topics.

"That would be kinda gay, now, don't you think? A dude loving pink?"

"I never said anything about loving.." Amelia started and did another twirl with a short giggle. "And, I meant if you liked it on me!"

Pulling off yet another twirl, although this one was made almost next to the boy, Amelia couldn't help but stand on her toes, making her stand taller than her boyfriend just by a little bit. Anywho, the feeling that she was bigger and 'more important' overwhelmed her, but it all disappeared when Drew himself stood on his toes.

"Nu-uh." Drew got out and smirked. "I'm always gonna be better than you. Even on height."

"Shut up, buzzkill.."

"Alright, alright, break it up you two, we have a festival to go to!"

Amelia immediately got down to her normal length and glanced behind Drew, while Drew still stood tall, enjoying the 'view'.

"Dawn!" Amelia greeted and giggled. "Took you guys long enough."

"Meh, we found Ash so it took a while."

The blue haired girl yawned as she passed her two friends on her way to the large mirror, eyeing them closely as she passed by.

"Hm, what were you guys doing in here anyway..?"

Drew's smirk got wider as he crossed his arms with a silent but confident 'hmpf'. Amelia on the other hand nearly freaked out and tried her best to quickly come up with something.

But the truth was always the best, right?

"Eh, I was just trying out my new clothes and Drew popped up saying they were ugly!"

"Drew, what's wrong with you? It's amazingly cute clothes! I should totally get new ones!"

"Yes you should! Blue is boring!"

As two girls were discussing clothes at the speed of light, Drew shook his head and went to the lobby, waiting for the others was probably the best thing to do, unless he wanted to go insane from the girl's chattering.

Like always, the nurse was busy taking care of weak pokémon, trying to make them stronger. Well, stronger as in 'healthier', there was no way they could get stronger in terms of pure strength, beauty or anything else for that matter when compared to his pokémon.

Quickly taking a seat in the caféteria, it didn't take long before Ash and the others showed up and entered the center.

"Ketchum." Drew started and gave the boy a short nod. "Where've you been?"

"I.. I guess I just zoned out there for a moment, hehe."

"I see."

Ash sweatdropped, obviously knowing that Drew could see right through his lie.

"Anyways.. May has been worried, and there's alot of things you need to clear up with her."

"Really? Like what?"

"Hmpf, how should I know?"

Drew shook his head and chuckled, preparing to face the probably down-feeling May. "I've already involved myself too much, you're on your own from now on."

"Involved..? In what?"

Drew was now standing in front of the pokécenter entrance, awaiting the sad girl. Drew turned around and winked once, causing Ash to flinch for several reasons..

As May entered through the automatic doors, Ash could see that she, although only for a split second, lit up with happiness as she saw Drew waiting for her. As soon as she spotted Ash, though, her happy smile disappeared, and it didn't take long before she sped past him with an emotionless face.

"I think I get it now.."

"What have you figured out?"

Drew turned towards Ash, somewhat happy that he FINALLY found out.

"That.. That.."

Ash clenched his fists, and so did Drew, he guessed that this realization was a huge discovery.

"That May.."

"Yes..?" Drew impatiently got out and stepped closer to Ash. "May..?"

"That.. May.."

"Yes, yes..?'!"

"May's on HER PERIOD!"

"I don't think so."

"Why not?"

"I mean, Drew isn't one to do such things, especially when it's about you, Amelia."

The pink haired girl sighed, it didn't make sense.. Despite all of the facts her two friends had just told her.

"But why.. Why is he so cold towards me?"

"Pff, cold?"

Amelia turned around to see her blue haired friend walk out of the bathroom, looking as cute as ever, even though she wore her usual clothes.. There was one small difference, though.

"If you're calling that cold, then you should see how he is towards other girls."

Dawn giggled and took a seat on the pokécenter bed, trying to comfort her friend.

"O.. Other girls? You mean he's been flirting with OTHERS?"

And it didn't really go so well so far..

"It's more like the other way around, Amelia. You know how famous he is.."

"I.. I know, and I don't like it.."

"I believe you have to get used to it.." Dawn said and let out a deep sigh together with the pink haired girl. "May knows how it is, right?"

The two girls glanced to the other side of the room, hoping to get some answer from their brunette friend. However, they never got any except for a simple sigh, that wasn't even directed towards them..

"May's been awfully strange lately, don't you think?"

The pink haired girl nodded with agreement and watched the brunette as she stood there by the single window in the room, lazily looking out without a care in the world. It was hard to know whether she was happy or not due to her facing away from them.

"I wonder what she's thinking about.."

"It's pretty obvious, Amelia. About the same as you're thinking about.."

"You mean Ash?"

"I would assume so.."

The two girls sighed together once more, patiently awaiting..

"Eh, what are we waiting for, anyway?"

"Let's get a move on, girls."

Taking the two girls by surprise, Drew chuckled a bit for himself over what he had just accomplished. May, on the other hand, was staring out of the window with a somewhat sad face. Good, the green haired boy thought, it seemed that things between them was starting to make some progress.

"Why are you guys still here? You're done changing, right?"

"Yup, we're just gonna get our swim suits." Dawn replied and stood up. "So, could you, you know.. Get out?"

"What? Why?" Drew asked dumbfounded, completely oblivious to what staying in the room would result in.

"Are.. Are you serious?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" Drew continued, still not getting the hint. "I'm tired of staying with stupid people, let's head out as soon as possible."

His confidence soon decreased with a considerable amount as his girlfriend got up from the bed and stepped closer, her eyes and face not visible because of her hair.

"Drew, we're gonna get changed.. So unless you want to see us n-"

And just like that, Drew was gone and out of the room, the only real evidence of his existence in the room being the door closing fast. The pink haired girl sighed and turned around to face her blue haired friend.

"See? He doesn't even wanna see me naked.."

Before the teens knew it, time had flown by at an amazing speed. All of the clocks in the Sinnoh region now showed 5.30pm, and it wasn't anything wrong with Drew and Ash wanting the girls to finish with their swimsuit checking, which had taken quite a while now.. During that time, Ash and Drew were up to no good, with Brock joining them for a short period of time.

"I still can't believe you."

"W.. WHAT?"

The green haired boy sighed, this boy.. This, 'man', was the reason for why he was currently at the reception, receiving patients. Lucky enough for him, none ever came, although just standing there made him want to punch himself out of boredom.

"It's you fault for trying to peek into the girls' room.."

"Snitch."

"Perv."

"Shut.. Shut up, be happy that you don't have to be here like some slave or something. Could you please check whether the girls are done?"

"Yup, no problem, and for your information, I won't peek.."

The raven haired boy chuckled quietly for himself as he went away from the irritated green haired boy, only to find out that the nurse was still ranting the breeder about him trying to help Drew with his quest.

"You're lucky that I'm not making you help out Drew, young man!"

Ash chuckled even louder after hearing those words from the nurse as he went past the small patient room, being ranted by the nurse was actually worse, one way or another..

Stepping up to the door of the room where the girls were currently in, Ash was very, very careful not to enter without them knowing about his presence first. Drew did not think of this before, and it didn't end up so well.. The painful scream from him even made a few patients poke their heads out in the hallway to see what was going on.

"Um.." Ash started and knocked on the door once. "Are you guys done? It's been a while, and it's getting bo-"

"Yeah yeah whatever, we're almost done." somebody replied, presumably Dawn. "By the way, the door's locked."

Hmpf.. Couldn't they have locked it BEFORE Drew went through all of that? Not to mention Brock..

"Fine." Ash got out and sighed. "I'll be in the lobby, please hurry, you guys."

No answer. Ash let out another sigh before he started going towards the lobby.

"Yes, YES! That's epic!"

Hm, what now? Pressing his ears against the door, Ash tried to distinguish all of the strange sounds coming from the room. At first, it sounded like quiet whispers and giggles, but it later became regular talk, probably due to them being excited about whatever they were talking about.

"Are you sure you want to do this, May?"

Do what?

"Yes, absolutely sure!"

More giggles could be heard, and it took a while before they continued where they had left off.

"What about Drew?"

No.. It can't be.. WHAT are they planning?

"Don't worry, I already have something up for him. Ash is all yours."

'Oh.. I.. I haven't done anything!' the boy thought and shivered in fear.

"Now, first, we have to get him-"

"ASH KETCHUM!"

Ash Ketchum, the 14 year old pokémon trainer from Pallet let out a scream of surprise once he got caught off guard by whoever was behind him.

Oh no..

After turning around to see who this person was, Ash could almost feel his heart beating tw- no, three times faster than usual. To make things worse, the 'whispers' and giggles coming from the other side of the room ceased, and it didn't take too long before Ash gulped with a sheepish, embarrassed face.

"H-Hello, Nurse Joy!" the boy managed to stutter, barely being able to keep his cool. Which he didn't really have anyway..

"And WHAT exactly do you think you're doing, young man?"

The nurse being as strange as always, looking fine even when angry or upset, stood there looking over him with her hands on her hips. Her angry face expression clearly showed her disapproval of his actions, although he hadn't done anything.. Right?

"N-Nothin'! I'm just checking to see if the girls are ready to go!"

"It certainly did not look like that to me, Ash!"

Ash sighed and lowered his head in shame, there was no way at all for him to escape this mess. He had to pay for his actions.. Boohoo.

"I heard that you are heading towards the festival and perhaps the water land later." the nurse started with a rather calm voice. "Maybe you should keep Brock accompanied instead?"

Hm.. Why not? That way, he didn't have to spend the rest of the day trying to ignore May.

His thoughts were interrupted however by the door behind him slowly opening with a creaking sound.

"That won't be necessary, Nurse Joy." Dawn's casual voice could be heard. "We'll be sure to give him an appropriate punishment for his recent actions."

"Heh, very funny, Dawn."

Ash shivered and gulped once again when he saw that Dawn didn't smile, giggle, or anything that didn't show hostility.

"Hm, are you sure, girls? I could arrange so that he and Brock can help me with doing a few heavy works.."

"Nah, don't worry, we'll take care of him!" Amelia reassured and giggled.

Then.. Why didn't he feel relieved, despite the fact that she just giggled..? It seemed to be enough for the nurse, though.

"Well, if you insist.." Nurse Joy said lowly, possibly because she wanted to get some extra help from Ash. "Then, I'll have to scheme the schedule for Brock, you guys have fun, play safe!"

"Oh, we will..!"

The two girls by the door, Dawn and Amelia, started to giggle like some evil maniacs while Ash just stood there and sweatdropped, wondering where May could possibly be.

Maybe.. Just maybe, she was trying to stop these two freaks?

"Just wait until May hears about this..!"

Or not.

"Ash?"

"Huh..?"

"Answer me truthfully now, 'kay?"

'Why does it feel like I've heard this before..?' Ash thought and mentally sighed; he had to behave, these girls were seriously dangerous. "Of course, what is it?"

"Was it you or Drew who peeked-"

"IT WAS HIM IT WAS HIM IT WAS HIM IT WAS HIM!"

Ash, not being able to keep his cool started to sprint across the hallway and into the lobby, soon crashing down on one of the simple chairs. An irritated coordinator/nurse eyed him suspiciously, knowing that he had done something that would at least affect him, somehow.

"What. Did. You. Do." the green haired boy got out slowly, not liking any of this, at all. "You screwed up, right?"

"Don't be silly, Drew!" Ash said and laughed sheepishly. "Why would you think something like that?"

"Cause I just heard you scream and Mary's ranting. Don't be a fool and just tell me."

"Well, I told them the truth.."

"About what?"

"About who really peeked.."

"Hm, that's it?" Drew asked surprised and rested his head on the counter, he had expected more. "They already know it was me, so it has to be more."

"Well, uh, they're planning on.."

"On..?"

"They're planning on punishing us.."

An awkward silence filled the room, a feeling Ash had experienced way too many times. Only this time, Ash believed he could see Drew flinch, and probably for the first time in a very, very long time, he could see a hint of fear in his eyes. It soon disappeared, together with his tired body.

"Well, I don't know about you.." Drew started and yawned before standing straight up. "I'm tired, and I don't think that going swimming would help so much."

"Hehe, yeah, I'm also tired, ehehe.." Ash joined in and rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile, again.. "So, how about we think of what we could eat in a few hours?"

"Sounds perfect." Drew agreed and took a seat next to Ash. "Now, go tell the girls we have more important stuff to do than fooling around in water."

"You guys aren't going anywhere."

Ash gulped, while Drew closed his eyes and crossed his arms, it looked like he had regained his cool already, something Ash envied..

"And why is that, Dawn?"

Dawn was now standing in front of the two boys, her confident smile sending down shivers through Ash's body, while Drew just sat there, completely unaffected.. Following his gaze, Ash noticed that the two other girls just left the building.

"Because, you're going with us!" Dawn stated and pointed at Ash's terrified face. "Now let's go!"

Drew let out a short sigh before standing up, ready to leave.

"Alright then." Drew simply said and put his hands into his pants' pockets. "Right after you."

"Much better." Dawn said and giggled. "Don't forget Ash!"

"I shall not."

Dawn started to giggle even more than she just recently did before skipping out of the pokécenter, occasionally looking back to see if the boys were still following.

"DREW!" Ash 'whispered' as the distance between them and Dawn seemed to be large enough for it to be considered safe. "I thought we were supposed to stay at the pokécenter? And Pikachu's probably wondering where we went!"

"Sh." Drew silenced the boy, much to his annoyance. "Just follow me and everything should be fine. The girls have already talked with Pikachu, it seems that he would only be in the way for their plans."

"Huh..?"

Ash sighed, he had a bad feeling about this..

But there was no reason for that, really. The next 30 minutes went by pretty quick, without anything evil happening to either Drew or Ash. The girls did everything they had wanted to do during these 30 minutes, such as rushing through the different stores having accessories and clothes. Unfortunately for Dawn, she never found any cap that was similar to the one Ash had, so she kept it instead.

The reason for why nothing special had happened..? He didn't know. Except for the times where Dawn had begged for his cap, nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Why was that..? Wasn't the girls supposed to punish him or something?

The raven haired boy let out a deep sigh, he didn't understand girls, at all..

"You know, I've been thinking about this."

Looking to his left, Ash raised an eyebrow and wondered what Drew meant with that.

"What?" Ash asked and took another sip of his soda before he yawned and took some more space of the bench they were both currently sitting on.

"Haven't you thought of why they haven't done anything yet?"

"Well yeah, I've pretty much had that on my mind since we left the pokécenter. May has been ignoring me while Amelia and Dawn have seemed to be too friendly.. Something's obviously up."

"Of course something's up, it's just a matter of time.."

"What do you mean with that?"

"To put it in more.. Simpler words; I'm safe, you're not."

"What's that supposed to me-"

"Alright guys, let's head to the next mall!"

Ash lowered his head and felt like crying, his legs were shouting for rest, and his arms were feeling unusually strange due to him holding all of the bags the girls kept on showering him and Drew with. How come Drew wasn't feeling tired or so? Or maybe he was just hiding it?

"Let's go, don't fall behind, Ash."

"R.. Right."

And so, the teens continued to their next to last destination; The Pokétastic Store.

"Sweet name.." Ash said sarcastically and sighed. "What do they have in there?"

"Judging by the name, I'd say that they have some pretty pokétastic stuff."

"Very funny, Drew."

"Heh, but they probably have something for everyone. Considering it being so huge.."

Just like Drew said, it was enormous. Being in the center of the town's mall, this store alone probably covered more area than all of the other stores combined. Probably as large as the arena where the contest was held, it was pretty safe to say that this store had everything one could imagine.

"ALRIGHT!"

The pink and the blue haired girl started jumping up and down upon entering the large store, both of them squealing with joy. May on the other hand just stood there and smiled, what was up with her..? Come to think of it, none of the bags Drew and Ash received belonged to her. She only had one bag, and that one she held for herself.

"C'mon May!"

May, who was obviously thinking of something, got dragged by Dawn as usual, and soon enough the three girls were nowhere to be found.

"I guess we just have to sit here and wait until they're done." Drew stated and sighed. "Heh, at least I'm not doomed."

"Well yeah thanks for that." Ash said and sweatdropped, he wasn't being much of help right now..

A while went by, and the two boys eventually started to worry. By now, the girls would've been done with their shopping spree.

"Should we check for them?"

"Nah, let's just wait here.. They should be visible behind those long lines anytime soon."

Just like Drew assumed, the three girls could be seen waving towards them somewhere behind the ridiculously long line, everyone of them holding a bag or two each. Again, May only had one bag while Dawn and Amelia had obviously taken advantage over the 'Drew pays' promise.

It was funny seeing those girls, Ash thought, as he saw the girls jumping up and down even when they hadn't reached the cashier yet. The cashier, a young woman, just sweatdropped and tried to be as nice as she could despite the girls pressing their, or Drew's, money on her face.

After that awkward exchange of money and goods, the girls and the two boys were on their way to their final destination, the waterland.

"I'm surprised that this city even has a waterland, but that's probably what's to be expected from a modern city like this one." Drew stated as a matter of fact with his arms crossed. "Well, I don't have any swimming wear or so, so I guess I'll be sitting this one out."

Giving Ash a quick wink, Ash got the hint.

"Y-Yeah, I don't have any either, so I think we'll have to-"

"Oh no you're not!"

The two boys froze on their way as Dawn and Amelia stopped them on their way.

"That's fine, we even bought some for you!"

There it was again.. That awkward silence.

Everything was silent. Too silent, for the young man's taste. He didn't like it when things were like that. In a way, he felt.. Lonely, isolated from the rest of the world.

And in this case, that would be true. He had no connection with the outside world whatsoever, although he could arrange that.. At the cost of breaking a window or a door, but that wasn't really necessary. The only thing that even had some connection with the outside world was the quadratic thing in front of him, hanging on the upper side of the wall. A TV, it was called.

Only now that it had been turned of by a certain nurse..

The breeder sighed, while he was sitting here, rotting, his other friends were out having fun with either shopping or swimming, or.. Or BOTH! Unfair!

He had to escape.. And he had to grab Pikachu, for his escape plan, again.. Maybe he could get Pikachu to get a key for him?

Yes! Why did he only thought of that now? After going through all of that? He even got accused of trying to peek into the girls' room, when it actually was Drew! He only went by that room at the wrong time!

Alright, it was enough of that, it was time to finally get out of there. Or else, soon enough the nurse would enter with a list of horrible things he had to do.. And he had already been through that, yesterday, and the day before that, and so on.. But wait, WHY was he even locked inside this room in the first place..?

Getting off the patient bed he was currently lying on, the breeder stretched for a while, not wanting his body to fall behind with his sudden movements after lying still for so long.

What was the time..? He had no idea.

Going to the door, that was locked, Brock tried to see if it was maybe open, for some reason. As expected, it was not, so the breeder got down on his knees to see if there was anyone on the other side of the door.

Which there weren't..

Alright, what to do, what to do.. Should he call for Pikachu? No, the risk of the nurse walking by would be too high, and if she noticed that he tried to escape, again, then she wouldn't be so merciful towards him again.. Not that she was before, anyway..

Getting up to his feet, the breeder tried to come up with a brilliant escape plan. It was so typical that he could never come up with a good plan whenever he himself was in a situation like this, but whenever his friends needed help, his brain would automatically go into working mode and give them an appropriate advice. So unfair..

Tapping his finger on his cheek, the breeder felt that an awesome plan was making its way towards his brain and mind.

Almost there..

That's it! What an amazing plan! Now WHY did he not think of this before?'!

Taking a few steps backwards, the breeder tried to reason with himself, wondering if this was such a good idea. Well.. Either that, or being stuck in here for who knows how long. It's worth a try, hm?

Nodding for himself as to heighten his self esteem, he decided that he should go for it. And then.. Then he would have to find his cellphone that the nurse had confiscated, before calling for Dawn or anyone else to get their current location.. After that, he would run straight towards the waterland, which was like heaven for him. Seriously.

The thought of girls almost fully nude only boosted his confidence even more, and it was because of this that he decided to really go for it. Now or never. Now or never. Now or never..

Glaring at the door in front of him, Brock tried to calculate the required power to get the door down. It wasn't thick, at all, and the weak lock only made it better. One shot would definitely bring it down.

Alright.. Now or never.. Now or never.. NOW OR NEVER!

Brock took a few steps back before completely dashing forwards, closing his eyes just moments before he would hit the door. But right before he would hit the door, a sweet voice called out for his name, but it was too late..

Bam.

"I'm gonna kill her.. I'm SO gonna kill her.. Angel, would you please help me find her?"

"I would love to, John, but for your sole purpose of wanting to kill her, I have to deny your request.."

The young man sighed and slapped himself on his cheek.

"C'mon, DON'T BE LIKE THAT! HELP ME FIND HER!"

"I will, but you have to promise not to hurt her, in any way. Besides.."

The beautiful girl giggled and looked behind her, enjoying the sight of pink everywhere.

"What...?" the boy got out, if anything else popped up, anything at all that would irritate him by just a little bit.. He would seriously blow up.

"I like pink!"

"I can't believe this is happening."

The green haired coordinator, Drew Hayden, 14 years old, famous over several regions and by almost every teen girl around, sighed and leaned back on the small seat he was sitting on. This couldn't be happening.

"I thought you had 'everything under control'."

The coordinator's friend, Ash Ketchum, was sitting right next to him, chuckling over the fact that he had completely lost his cool and confidence, much to the trainer's satisfaction.

"Well, I can chill, you know."

"And why is that?"

Drew had apparently already gotten back his cool and was now smirking, before he glanced around the boys' changing room the two of them were in. Strangely enough, well not really, the room was completely empty besides the two of them, probably since nobody comes or leaves at this time. Who would come to a waterland that closes in an hour or two?

"Because, I'm off the 'punishments list' the girls have put up."

"They have a list?"

"I don't mean it literally, you fool."

"Then what do you mean?"

"I mean that I'm free to do whatever I want right now without having to worry about those girls popping up to make my life miserable."

"And.. That means what, exactly?"

Drew slapped himself on his forehead and slowly dragged it down his face.

"Are you retarded, Ash?"

"No? Could you use REGULAR english instead of these strange words?"

"I thought you knew REGULAR english, cause THIS IS regular english."

Seeing Ash sweatdrop, Drew realized that he, still, didn't understand many words he pronounced.

"Let's see.."

Drew thought about how he would bring forth this sad message to the doomed boy. Doing it straight forward was probably best.

"You." Drew started and pointed at Ash's scared face. "Are dead."

"And me," Drew said and pointed at himself. "Am free from any danger the girls might put up. Get it?"

"And why exactly am I dead?"

"Cause the girls are planning to mess with you. They don't need to mess with me, at least not right now since Amelia already has something up for me later.. But right now, you should watch your back."

"Hmpf, thanks for the advice.. At least they didn't buy pink stuff for us, that would be deadly."

"I think that what they have up their sleeve is going to be far worse.. Anyways, we should probably head out, I don't think that they would hesitate even for a second to just walk in on us here."

"As much as that sounds strange, I don't doubt that either. But yeah, we should probably go."

Drew nodded and motioned for him to follow, which Ash did with a slight nod. The two of them exited the changing room and continued down a pretty long path towards the actual waterland. Before they reached the entrance to the waterland, the smell of chlorine and sounds of massive laughter of joy could be heard, which was long before they even got close.

"Do you think the girls are done changing?" Drew asked and stretched his arms, they were feeling a bit numb after having to carry so much..

"I've no idea.. When talking about those, they can take forever."

"True, true."

The two boys smiled for themselves and prepared for the grand entrance as they closed up to the doors.

"It's funny how you can't see anything of the waterland until you're actually in it." Drew stated and sighed. "Maybe it sucks too much and they don't wanna show it until people have payed?"

Ash didn't even listen to what Drew had to say, his curiosity taking over. Drew noticed this but didn't give it much attention, that was until Ash opened the door..

It hit hit them with full force.

Kids, teens, adults and elder people were everywhere. And the best part, everyone was laughing or having fun in someway. But that wasn't all..

Everywhere they turned, there was water. Water, water, water.. Waterslides covered their sights, and if it wasn't a waterslide it was just some water pools that were scattered around the massive area. Drew started counting but gave up; he hadn't even counted half of the different waterslides but ended up with 20.

While Drew tried to count all of the amazing works of art, Ash gasped over the amazing design.. Everywhere they looked, spirals of waterslides were seen. Blue, yellow, green, red.. They even crossed each other! Wasn't that dangerous..? According to a flier just outside the entrance, this waterland had been running for a few weeks, without any accidents or so.. So it was obviously working, working very well, too.

Besides from all of the water slides, there were many, many pools scattered around the place, even a few for the more younger ones. On the other side of the waterland was a big pool divided into two; one side was for sporting swimmers while the other one was for divers, with a big diving tower dangerously high up after climbing up a ladder or going up a spiral staircase. Near the entrance where Ash and Drew were currently standing next to was a bar selling snacks and meals, with many tables surrounding it. From the looks of it, things were going great, there weren't even any tables left for other customers..

All in all, this was greater than what both Ash and Drew had expected from a good waterland.

"Man.. They even have a.. Cave?"

In the middle of everything was a strange looking thing, just like Drew mentioned; a cave. Around that area, it seemed that the water was much deeper than with the rest of the waterland, and further into the cave, there were waves, probably for the more daring people.

"I never say this often, but this is.. Awesome."

Truth to what Drew had said, it was very rare for him to state something like that, Ash thought.

"You guys!"

Ash and Drew who were counting waterslides and gazing at the big work of art next to the cave, respectively, turned their heads towards the bar to see their three friends occupying a table with happy faces. And this time, May was smiling, too.

"Come on over here!"

Due to the distance between the two boys and the girls, Dawn was forced to scream quite loudly for them to hear her, which gained a little attention from nearby people. This didn't bother her, at all, and she only continued licking popsicle together with Amelia once she saw the boys being on their way.

"What took you guys so long?" Dawn asked and took another bite of her popsicle. "Aren't guys supposed to be faster than girls."

"That is correct, Dawn." Drew started and took a seat on one of the white plastic chairs next to Dawn. "Boys are meant to be faster than girls, but not hyper people."

"Ex.. cuse me..?"

While Dawn and Drew, and eventually Amelia, all discussed whether Dawn was a girl or not, Ash pondered on where he would take a seat.. There was only one chair left around the table they were at, and that happened to be the one next to May. Right now, he didn't really feel like sitting next to her..

Though, all of his doubts and worries vanished once he saw May's sweet smile with her eyes closed. Not to mention her bikini..

"That aside, I hate to admit it.. But you seem to have a taste of fashion, hm?"

Ash had to really nod in agreement there as he took the seat next May and eyed their bodies, although he tried to be discreet and not set his eyes on a certain part for too long.

They all seemed to have the same two piece model, which was to be expected since they all bought them from the same store, but they all had different colors and patterns. May's bikini, which Ash happened to set his eyes on first, was like he had thought: red with white flower marks scattered around here and there together with a few pokéball emblems. Amelia's was of course pink, he even guessed it before he had seen it.

Unlike with May's, Amelia's two piece did not have any marks or emblems, instead she had stripes with different shades of pink, which for some reason looked very good together with her long pink hair lying on her shoulders and back.

Dawn's was vastly different from the two previous bikinis; hers had a Piplup face on the right bottom cheek, which Ash somehow spotted despite her sitting down on the chair, and the text 'Pokémon!' on her upper parts, which Ash did not spend too much time gazing at.

Because of them going swimming, all of the girls, with the exception of Amelia, had fixed their hair and let them be free; Dawn's hair was now also resting on her shoulders, some of her hair lying on her back. Amelia's hair was like usual, being almost everywhere, covering up a large area of skin.

Gazing back at May again, Ash followed her hair which went down her back. On the other hand, her hair also went down her shoulders, and eventually down to her abnormaly-

"P.. perv.."

"Huh?"

Realizing where his eyes were currently locked onto, Ash quickly looked up into May's eyes and apologized like his life was on the line.

Maybe it was..?

"It.. It's fine." May simply replied and giggled lightly.

"I guess we CAN pick out clothes!" Dawn stated proudly and laughed a bit. "What about yours, don't like it?"

"Well, first of all I'm very surprised you guys got the exactly right size.. And it's fine I guess, but it's kinda boring. It's completely green, nothing else. Look at Ash's trunks, at least it's not one-colored."

Raising an eyebrow at first, Ash lowered his gaze and stared at his blue and yellow trunks. Besides those two main colors there was a picture of a Pikachu riding with a surfing board, which was, afterall, either cute or cool.

"Who picked it out?" Ash suddenly asked, curious of who had picked it out for him.

"I-I did.."

Judging by that voice, it came from May.. And her blushing only strengthened his assumption.

"And I suppose that Amelia chose mine, hm..?"

Amelia giggled quietly, clearly showing Drew that he was indeed right.

"As I thought.." Drew got out and sighed.

"What, you think my taste is BAD?"

Amelia had already stopped giggling and was now glaring at her boyfriend, but it had no affect whatsoever since Drew had his eyes closed and arms crossed.

"In a way or another, yes. It sucks."

Amelia obviously did not expect that kind of an answer and started to shake with anger, and it didn't take long before she did a ridiculous action, such as throwing her popsicle at Drew's face.. The only problem being that she missed. Grabbing Dawn's halfeaten popsicle, Amelia was about to make another attempt at hitting Drew's face with a cold stick of icecream, but unfortunately, he had already left and had melted into the crowd of hundreds of people, laughing and having fun. Amelia, however, wasn't a girl that would give up easily, and so, her quest of finding Drew had begun.

"Ah, this is life!" Dawn started from out of nowhere and giggled, taking another look over the waterland. "I mean, just look at this! Not only does it have so many things to do, but look at the design! Those bridges that you can cross to get to the other sides of the pools look so romantic with those fake yet realistic looking palm trees swaying around.. And not to mention the FOOD! It's amazing! And-"

While Dawn kept on praising the Jubilife waterland, Ash glanced to the side and noticed that May wasn't even listening. Well, not that he was..

"Hey, May..?" Ash whispered, as not to disturbing Dawn's important speech.

"Y.. yes, Ash?" May whispered back, still having her blush on her face from before for some reason.

"Thanks for picking out such awesome trunks for me."

Putting on his usual smile, the boy couldn't help but smile even wider once he saw May's genuine sweet smile. He hadn't seen it for a while..

"You're welcome..!" May whispered and winked.

This time, it was Ash's time to blush. She sure was cute..

"Hey, May?" Ash whispered again after recovering from his short blush.

"Hm..?"

"You look gorgeous."

And now, both of them blushed.. It also didn't take long before Dawn noticed.

"Hmpf, so I'm ugly, Ash..?"

The two teens nearly jumped out of their seats in surprise upon hearing their friend's sad question.

"No..!" Ash quickly got out and shook his heads together with his waving hands. "You look just as good, and that hairstyle fits perfectly."

Those words seemed to have worked as the girl immediately lit up and giggled. She was one to know when Ash lied or not, and it made her extremely happy knowing that he thought of her as at least somewhat cute or pretty.

"Well well, you guys can smooch some other time, but right now, it's having FUN time!"

After Ash and May had stopped blushing so much, the real fun began. For the girls, it was indeed a very fun time, but the two boys saw it in a different way..

The girls were having the time of their lives, joining the other people with the laughing, giggling and water splashing. Ash wasn't able to experience much of this fun since he was forced to transport May and sometimes even Dawn between the pools and waterslides, using any means necessary.. These could range from piggybacks to simply tickle threaten them. Despite the low weights he was forced to carry around, which was May and Dawn, doing it too much finally resulted in his arms, neck, back and finally his whole body to go numb. Also, navigating through slippery floor, running children and elder people all made it harder for him.

'I wonder if Amelia has caught Drew yet..' the boy thought and let out a deep sigh; the girls were kind enough to give him a few minutes of r-

"Ash, stop being so lazy and get me to the other side!"

Well, that lasted long..

Letting out another deep sigh, Ash lowered himself and let May climb up his back before she forced him to follow Dawn to that strange cave. On their way there, which was pretty long considering the many pools and bridges required to cross, Ash thought of the positive stuff of his current 'job'. There was probably only one thing, and that would be having May's chest pressed up against his back.. Phew, they sure were soft.

Ash finally realized it, he truly was a perv. But he couldn't help it..! And it only got worse when May decided to tighten her grip around Ash's body, further pressing up her chest against his back.

He could only pray for that Dawn wouldn't notice how nervous he was.

"Hey Ash, you seem to be shaking alot.."

Crap. Dawn, why.. WHY?

"Is it too heavy..?"

"Hey..!"

"Oh relax May, I didn't mean it like that." Dawn quickly added and giggled. "I'm just saying that Ash may be too weak for this.."

Huffing once, Ash picked up the speed, ready to prove Dawn wrong with his confidence at top. But it all vanished just like that when he reached their final obstruction; the bridge.

Why..?

Unlike with all of those other bridges, this one was extra long, being the only thing between the dangerous waters of the cave and the regular waterland for kids. Not only that, but for some wicked reason, the bridge wasn't completely flat; at first it went ridiculously high up, before going steep down. From Ash's point of view, it was exactly like going over a huge hill, only to get down moments later.

"Well, Ash..?"

In other words; it was impossible.

But he was Ash, Ash Ketchum. And with May right on his back, how could he back away? He couldn't do that when Dawn was silently mocking him with giggles from the side.

"Ash.. You don't have to do this, I've enjoyed this so much already."

And now, May was feeling sorry for him.. That was it, the last straw. Taking one, single step forward, Ash did not only surprise the two girls but also himself.

One, small step, for his pride..

As the boy was about to take his other step, he suddenly noticed that his cargo got heavier.. somehow. It was almost certain that it was because of that stupid bridge. If only something could save him..

And then.. Something magical happened, at least for him..

"I said JUMP!"

Ash, May and Dawn all looked around, trying to find the source of that scream. Other people, such as those who had just spent an amount of time gazing at the three teens were now also trying to see where that scream had come from.

"JUMP!"

After that scream, almost everyone in the surrounding area was now looking upwards, seeing a pretty strange sight.. Soon enough, the life guards scattered around the large area also had their eyes on the two people near the roof.

But there wasn't any rule against 14 year olds jumping from the 10m tall tower now, was there..? But it had to be a rule against somebody threatening the other with a-

"Oh my GOD!" Dawn bursted out and gasped. "Are they going to JUMP?"

Half of the people in the waterland now had their eyes on the two teens far up, since the other half were either too far away or simply did not care about a girl forcing her boyfriend to jump.. which sounds pretty interesting, overall.

"Oh.. My.. is that a KNIFE?"

Dawn's little question grabbed many nearby people's attention, and it eventually reached the life guards due to the many whispers of surprised people. Just like Dawn and many others had spotted, despite the two teens being so high up, the pink haired girl just behind the boy was holding something sharp looking, pointing it at the terrified boy's back.

"Aren't you a MAN?"

Ash felt like screaming, and laughing.. The sight of seeing Amelia command Drew like that made him go nuts, but the situation itself didn't look to good, not to mention Drew's expressionless face as he stood on the springboard.

"HEY, you two, get down from there now!"

A few lifeguards were now trying to get the two of them to get down, but it was for nothing; Amelia had her mind set on this, for real.

"What.. WHAT IS SHE DOING!"

Dawn was obviously starting to freak out, and all of the other people pointing and gasping over the scene didn't really help much for that. Ash on the other hand tried to see how May reacted to this, but didn't want to take the risk of putting her down on the ground to see her face.. After all, his pride was on the line, but so was Drew's.. Rederecting his gaze towards the tower once more, Ash noticed something strange, and it seemed that May had also noticed the exact same thing.

"Is.." May started, her soothing soft voice ringing through Ash's ears. "Is that-"

"Dawn's popsicle.."

Cold.. So cold. And dark.. It.. It smelled funny.. What was it?

Jessie?

Meowth..?

His thoughts were immediately interrupted by a bright light coming from right infront of him, temporarily blinding him.

Where was he? Why was he chained up?

Before he could think of anything else, and before his eyes had adjusted themselves in the bright light, something or someone hit him in his head, instantly knocking him out.

"That was a very good jump there, Drew."

"Shut it."

Not being able to hold himself for any longer, the raven haired boy bursted out with laughter, although he tried not to get too much attention, which he failed at..

"It wasn't funny, at all."

The two boys were sitting by the waterland's bar, patiently awaiting for the girls to finish getting interrogated by the life guards. Due to all of the commotion Drew and Amelia put up, the tower had been temporarily been closed, much to the elite divers' dismay.

"Of course not, it's just that-"

"When Amelia's involved, she can kill using anything." Drew stated and lightly shivered. "ANYTHING."

"Even.. Even.." Ash stuttered, feeling the laughter slowly returning.

"Yes, even with a half eaten popsicle."

Just like Drew had feared, Ash nearly fell off the white plastic chair with a huge grin plastered all over his face.

"Jeez, just wait until May will threaten you with her bare hands."

Ash completely ignored Drew's failed comeback attempt, even to the extent of pointing at him and saying how 'manly' he was. Drew shook his head, muttering a few swears. This really wasn't funny.. His body still shook from the impact of the water from that height. He was very, very lucky that he didn't hit the water face first.

While Drew was thinking of all of the possible scenarios that might have occurred if he did anything wrong, Ash was finally starting to calm down. As he slowly got back up to his seat, due to his stomach hurting, he noticed that yet another person was already up at the tower, probably preparing themselves for the jump.

"Hm, guess they've already opened it up again." Ash silently muttered for himself.

Drew heard this and turned around, also surprised to see that there was a girl on top of the tower.

"Hm, she looks familiar."

"Really? Doesn't look like May, Dawn or Amelia from here. You can easily check the haircolor for that."

"Perhaps."

"Drew.." Ash got out and sweatdropped. "Quit talking like that, it's actually annoying.."

"Should we get closer and check who she is?" Drew asked, completely ignoring his question or request. "It's hard to tell anything from here."

"Alright then, I don't see what the fuzz is all about, but why not?"

As Ash slowly got up from his seat with a confident smile, Drew chuckled, thinking how much of a fool this boy was.

"And with 'we' I mean you."

"I figured.."

"Besides, I can't just leave our seats..? They'll be taken within seconds."

"Fine, whatever.. If it's somebody we know up there; you owe me a cookie."

"And the other way around, if it's a complete stranger, you owe me a burger."

"A.. Burger..?"

"No, two burgers. No, three-"

While the green haired boy thought of what he should get, since he was so sure that he would win, Ash silently went towards the tower shaking his head.

"Amelia's totally messed up his head.." Ash muttered and chuckled.

Walking for about a minute, Ash finally got in sight range, close enough to see the face, and body, of the girl at the tower together with a few other spectators.

Ash just stood there and eyed the girl from a short distance, raising his eyebrows at her very slim yet somehow beautiful looking body figure. Not to mention certain areas.. which he could see even though he wasn't close enough to really see them.

The other people around also noticed this; the girls envied her for her looks while some boys literally started to drool with very nasty thoughts.

Ash sighed, if he thought about it, it seemed as Drew was right, she did look like someone they knew. If she wasn't, Ash would have to buy a few burgers for him. Wait.. that didn't make boy sense, at all. Why would he have to pay just because-

Various gasps and other similar sounds snapped Ash out of his thoughts, it seemed that the girl was preparing to jump, finally..

Well, it would only be logical if he would try to recognize that girl now, since it would be impossible after her jump, seeing as she already had tons of fans..

The beautiful/sexy girl somehow flicked her long black hair, causing it to float elegantly in the air.

The girl started to do a few stretching moves, further showing off her body before the dive.

Wait a minute..

Sexy.. Long, black hair.. Huge chest.. Showing off..

Shit. No way.. It couldn't be..

And then, she jumped.

How would he get away with this? How..?

The answer was simple; he wouldn't. It would only take a few minutes, or even seconds, for people to notice that the nurse wasn't at her usual place at the reception. And after that. It was only a matter of time before the police and Officer Jenny would get involved.

Prison..? Could he manage that? How much did he have to sit in, for assaulting a pokémon nurse? One year? Ten?

Glancing down at the nurse's pale face, Brock couldn't help but stroke her chin.

Still warm..

What had he done?

"Are you sure?"

"I'm damn sure."

"Maybe it was just a regular hot chick..?"

"It was HER, Drew!"

Drew shut his mouth, whenever Ash was like this, things were never jokes or anything similar.

"Fine, I guess I'm just kinda pissed that we had to leave our table.. It'll be hard to get a new one."

"That won't be necessary, we're leaving."

This statement took Drew by surprise, but he still followed Ash through the two thick metallic doors, leaving the great waterland behind them.

"If it really was her.." Drew started and thought about it. "Then she's one hot son of a-"

While Drew started spitting out a list of all of the things that girl could be called and seen as, Ash couldn't help but think about what happened just a minute ago.

He had realized it was her the moment her feet left that springboard.

Her body easily pulled off many tricks as she was mid-air, but still, each and every one of them were amazing. Time seemed to have slowed down by ten times as her body slowly did moves such as spinning and rolling in the air, her long black hair still floating graciously all along the way, always touching her slim skin. It even reached to the point of the spectators holding their breath, including Ash.

The time she hit the water.. That was when he was absolutely sure it was her.

Everything went in slowmotion, yet it all passed by in a second. Her feet prepared for the impact, together with the rest of her body. After a few perfected spins from before, her incoming angle made it possible for her to finish with her body straight.

This wasn't diving.. It was an angel falling.

Her slender toes made contact with the still water, causing the million of water drops to get thrown up to the air and around, eventually landing on her smooth skin mer her body. Her 'splash' sent unbelievable waves throughout the large pool, if you now can call them for waves..

While her feet had been covered with water and the most of her legs, the girl had already thrown her arms up, letting them slowly come back down with the help of gravity. And her hair.. It was indeed very beautiful.

All of this made this a gorgeous performance, but Ash didn't have his eyes on her body while she finished. That girl, she did something interesting. While all of those amazing things happened at her finish in slowmotion, she had her eyes on Ash. Her aurora colored eyes and her mysterious yet somehow sad face expression together with her floating hair pierced through Ash's soul, being the devil she was.

Immediately after her for some reason tearful eyes went belop, with full speed. He knew why she was here. There was only one reason.

"Dude, are you even listening?"

Once again, Drew broke Ash out of his stressed thoughts, and Ash's goofy 'I'm sorry' smile only further provoked the green haired coordinator.

"We're heading the wrong way."

Sigh..

"Where are the girls, then?"

"Well, they're certainly not at the spa section, which is where we're heading now, and I believe they're in the interrogation room next to the reception."

"Fine, let's change and hurry."

"Hmpf."

The two boys did a completely 180 degree turn and headed the boys' locker room to change back to their normal clothes.

"Will.. will you HURRY?"

Ash, being very stressed and serious was already done changing, while Drew hadn't even taken on his shirt.

"If you're going to be nuts, why don't you go ahead of me?"

Great idea, Drew. Of course, Ash would never tell him anything about that. Giving Drew a quick nod, Ash quickly sprinted large locker room and continued towards the exit where the girls were.

Why was it so far..? Was the actual waterland so far inside..?

Not giving those questions much thought, Ash felt extremely relieved once he saw a door with an emergency exit sign just above it. As he opened it, he noticed two things: he had just left Drew alone with Aurora.

Also, there was no one at the lobby, not even any personnel behind the counter. Strange..

But, after all, it was just past 6.30, the guys working probably had a break or prepared for closing everything down for the day. Letting out a deep sigh, Ash slowly went towards the reception, trying to listen for any sounds from anyone at all. Obviously nothing was heard, causing the boy to sigh once more.

Lucky enough for him, there was a bell right at the counter, but what caught his interest the most was that the glass window that was supposed to be closed was opened.. maybe he or she went to the restroom?

"Hello..?"

Ash raised his voice a little bit and kept on slamming the bell, but to no avail. The boy thought of going outside to see if maybe one of the workers were smoking, but there were none. He could see a few people walking by from a distance, but there was no reason to call for them. Yet..

Ash gave up on slamming the bell, it seemed that all he could do now was to wait.

.. Which he managed to do for 30 seconds. Poking his head through the counter window, Ash spotted a small hallway with a few doors behind the counter filled with paper, some money and many lists of various stuff. But none of that caught his attention, that small hallway did; he assumed the girls were there talking about what happened.

He couldn't wait, they would take forever, even worse with Amelia trying to talk herself out of it. Even though it was clearly against the rules, Ash jumped over the counter like it was just a simple obstacle before slowly gazing at his surroundings. Weird.. No security cameras.. Maybe they're so well hidden?

Ignoring that question for the moment, Ash continued down the very small hallway which had five doors; two at each side and one, slightly larger at the end. Checking those doors closest to him, he sweatdropped when he opened all of the four doors only to notice that they were empty. Completely empty. No chairs, people.. Not even lights or windows. If it weren't for the huge lamp hanging on the hallway's roof, he wouldn't have seen that those rooms had nothing of interest for him.

And that left him with one door left..

As he stood there just outside of the only door left, he somehow felt strange.. Something was wrong. Something was definitely wrong.

Why didn't he hear any voices? Maybe Amelia was crying?

Taking a deep breath, the boy decided to go for it, despite the risks he was taking. Slowly reaching for the door handle, the uneasy feeling once returned. But screw that.. He had to save the girls, no matter how much of a cliché that sounded like.

It was just like some kind of horror movie.. the door creaked in a stupid way, the annoying sound piercing his ears. The first thing he noticed was that the lights were out.

Something was wrong..

Being pretty far away from the lamp behind him, it only managed to illuminate a very small part of that room, the entrance, barely allowing Ash to see the light switch. However, he somehow managed to randomly feel the light switch and turn it on, which he, in the end, wished he never did.

The light that suddenly came immediately blinded him for the moment, forcing him to throw up his left arm to cover his eyes. It wasn't so bad after all, and it only took a few seconds for him to recover his eyes. When everything had settled, only one thing amongst all of the other things in the room caught his eyes, his attention, his everything.. Unlike with the other rooms, this room was a lot more darker, despite now being lit up by the roof lamp. Various chairs and tables were scattered around the room, most of them also being turned over or completely drenched in a dark looking liquid while they lay there on the floor.

But he didn't care about that. As his eyes first took in the view of the middle section of the floor, his heart seemed to stop and his eyes went wide open. It was suddenly starting to get harder to breathe, and he soon realized that he was frozen.. He couldn't move.

He tried to scream.

No.. No.. It couldn't be.

He really tried.

But he just stood there, completely immobilized. His mouth and body was shaking as he desperately tried to move or call for help. But somehow, it was impossible.

This couldn't be happening.. Why couldn't he scream?

While his body and mind was about to explode, loud but slow steps from behind could be heard. One step at a time.. All while his breathing became harder, Ash simply couldn't handle it anymore and fell on his knees, trying to get it back.

The footsteps from behind came closer..

Thank goodness. This person could call the police, and an ambulance for.. For..

So much blood.

As the tears started to flood out of his eyes, the boy tried to grasp himself, but to no avail. Why didn't the person behind him do anything?

So much blood..

"H.. Hel.. Help.."

He couldn't even speak.

"Call.. An.."

Something happened with Ash's mind and body, and he suddenly got the energy he needed to move. Slowly crawling towards the pale body covered in blood, Ash realized that this was for real. His breathing was still heavy, and his eyes were covered in his own tears.

So much blood..

Even though the odds were against him, he tried to shake life into the unmoving body..

"Don't do this.." the boy whispered and continued shaking her limp body.

Finally realizing that there was nothing he could do, the boy stopped trying and instead just sat there on his knees, his mind completely lost in the sad world he was currently in.

And while he sat there, reminiscing on his past, the footsteps behind him had stopped, and soon enough, he could even hear the silent and soft breathing sounds from that person as he or she also sat down next to the boy.

But he didn't care. He didn't care about anything. He wouldn't.

After all, he already knew who that person next to him was.

Closing his eyes, the breathing sounds from that person came closer, until they finally could be heard right next to his ear. A silent giggle could be heard, before that person whispered the one single word he would forever despise.

"Booh."

Hohoho, did you REALLY fall for that? Me, quit WRITING?'!