Road to Becoming a Pokemon Master, With My Brother?
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am the one the only pika-bones and I humbly bring you chapter four of this long titled fan fiction. Thank you very much for your support, but enough with that let's begin.
chapter4: Arrival of the Star
The moon was still up, but it was already early morning, and the sun was about to come up. Paul carried Ash over his shoulder and went to the emergency room. He looked for the doctor or the nurse, but he couldn't find them.
He placed Ash on one of the beds. He was unconscious, and the only sign of life was the rhythm of his pulse and his shallow breathing. Paul made his way quickly back out to the deck, where he found May.
"Paul! Where's Ash?" she sounded extremely concerned.
"He's in the emergency room; I laid him down on one of the beds." Paul answered her tiredly, he was so tired. The adrenaline rush he got earlier from the ordeal was wearing off.
"Is he okay?" May was really concerned and she was praying that Ash was okay.
"I don't know" Paul responded with concern discernable in his voice, "he's still got a pulse and he's breathing, so he's still alive. He was still moving actually, he was able to take out the last guy trying to escape remarkably." Paul paused a bit, and then continued, "He said something about doing it for you, since he tried to hurt you".
May heard this and a single tear fell from her left eye, "Ash, please you have to be okay" she intertwined her own two hands and pleaded. Paul glanced at this but kept an unemotional front.
"I have to go see him" she began. She then turned, and faced Drapion, "Drapion you were great out there, thank you" Drapion looked at May, "we make a great team don't you think?" She reached her hand out and Drapion looked at it for a then met her halfway with his pincers. May gave Drapion a smile, "we should battle together again sometime."
Just then Paul stepped into the conversation, "return you stupid scorpion, before you start competing in contest" Paul returned Drapion back into its Pokeball.
May looked a little surprised when Paul returned Drapion, "Paul, you're that Drapion's trainer?"
"Yes" he responded simply. May realized then that she must be looking at a very strong trainer.
"Well I'm going to stay with Ash in the emergency room, to keep an eye on him" she began to walk towards the emergency room.
"May" Paul began without looking at her, "remember to rest, it's been a long night."
"Sure thing, thanks" she left right after to be at Ash's side.
"Gliscor!" Paul quickly turned to find Ash's Gliscor. "What do you want?" Paul asked startled.
"Gli-Gliscor-Gli!" Glsicor stuck its tongue out and looked at Paul with those big eyes. "I guess you did a decent job… for one of Ash's pokemon" he stated reluctantly. Gliscor's eyes began to water with happiness and he jumped onto Paul, but Paul didn't want any of Gliscor's love, "get off of me!" Paul angrily hit Gliscor over the head, and Gliscor's eyes began to water again, "don't ever do that again" Paul commanded menacingly while shaking his left fist. Gliscor then sadly dropped to the floor due to exhaustion. Paul took out Gliscor's Pokeball, "just get in and rest" he mumbled to himself.
"I wonder what happened to the crew, actually what happened to everybody?" he began to think of the tonight's events, "I need to call the coast guard, we need to get some help" Paul entered the ship and used the radio to get help.
The night sky began to fade as the light from the sun began to creep over the horizon, beginning its rounds in the sky as any other day.
It was just dark, it wasn't a normal darkness, it was deep and he could see nothing, no shapes, no light, no nothing. Just then light broke through and he came back out of the deep, dreamless sleep.
When he first opened his eyes, Ash's vision was blurry at best. "Ugghhh, what happened?" he groaned. His sight was still blurry and he could barely move, "Am I dead?" He asked unsure if he was.
"Unfortunately, no" Ash heard someone speak but he could not see them, but he had a pretty good idea who it was.
"How was your nap sleeping dumbass" apparently somebody was VERY happy to see Ash awake. Ash's vision began to clear and he was able to make put Paul, leaning on the wall next to him. He looked around as much as he could. He saw a few curtains to the sides of what now was his bed.
Paul had his tea in one hand, and he kept looking forward the whole time. He started to walk across the room. Because of his current position, Ash couldn't see what Paul was doing.
Soon Paul came back, still holding his tea, but now he had a cup of water in his other hand, "Here, your throat must be killing you." He was right; Ash's throat was both dry and sticky. Ash struggled a bit but was able to grab the water from Paul and somehow drank the water, even though he was so sore all over.
"Do you remember what happened before you blacked out" Paul asked Ash.
"Not much, the last thing I remember was an Electivire attacking us…. Wait! Paul the stones" Ash became alerted, but Paul calmed him down,
"Don't worry about that, we still have them" Paul took a sip of tea. Ash relaxed again.
Ash began to feel his other senses come back to him, he could smell the sterilized room, his hearing was returned to normal, and his sense of touch returned as well. He then began to try to move his body, he was really sore, but he managed to get some movement. When he tried to move his legs however, he felt resistance.
"Hey Paul, I can't move my legs, is something on top of them?"
Paul reached to the side of the bed and pressed a button to raise the top part of the bed, "see for yourself". When his head was high enough, he was surprised at what he saw, "May?" She was sitting in a chair to the side of the bed. Her head and upper body were laid out at the foot of the bed, on top of Ash's legs. She was sleeping, her eyes were closed and she was facing towards Ash.
"She hasn't left your side since you've been here" Paul began, "She wouldn't even leave to eat, I brought her food, but even then she wouldn't eat much".
"May, not eat much? That didn't sound like her at all, she loves food as much as I do" Ash didn't know what to say.
"She stayed here the whole time, she used this room's bathroom to change and wash up, and other than that she would just sit here, waiting for you to wake up. Heck she wouldn't even sleep on the other beds; she's going to be sore as hell when she wakes up."
May began to move around, "….Ash….Please….Be okay…." she mumbled in her sleep.
"She keeps repeating that all the time, it was annoying the first time" Paul seemed irritated.
"Why would she do that, does she really care about me that much?" Ash couldn't wrap his head around it. "How long have I been out Paul?" Ash felt like he had been out for eternity.
"A little less than two days" Paul continued on, "After we stopped the thieves I called the coast guard for help. The thieves stopped the boat by having Electivire drain the electricity. They were able to steal the pokemon, by using the ventilation system to spread sleeping gas all over the place, luckily May lured you out of the cabin and I was outside to."
"Hey what do you mean by "lured", and why were you out so late too." Ash questioned him.
"First of all, where I was is none of your business, also you know what I mean by lured."
Ash looked at Paul confused, "No I don't, May just wanted us to take a walk".
Paul went back to the moment before the Electivire appeared, when Ash and May were on the bow, "That didn't look like a walk to me" Paul remembered how they were, with Mays hand in Ash's hair, her other hand on his chest, and their lips almost touching.
He stared back at Ash, but Ash still looked confused, that's when Paul realized the extent of Ash's density, "Hey Ash, what is May to you" Paul asked, trying to confirm his suspicion.
Ash looked a bit confused at the question, "I traveled with May in Hoenn and Kanto, she was just beginning as a trainer so we decided to travel together with her brother Max and my friend Brock. We became great friends, who will always be connected" Ash finished with a tired smile.
Paul went back to that moment, "Oh yeah, she definitely was going to make you a very, very good friend" as always Paul never showed what he was thinking, though he did have the urge to say something to Ash about his density.
"Well, that's all good then" Paul began to leave the room, "I'm going to tell the doctor that you're awake, see what he has to do to get you up and around" Paul left, leaving Ash with the sleeping May.
Ash was ready to wake her up, but then he saw how she looked sleeping and he just looked at her for a few seconds, "She's…So…Cute?" Ash noticed his thought process, "Wait, cute? Where did that come from?" He questioned how he was thinking about May at the moment, and that's when May began to move again, and this time she mumbled something undiscernible. She slowly began to get to an upright position. She then stretched out her arms over her head as she let out a big yawn, her eyes still closed.
May began to slowly open her eyes; she took a quick look of her surroundings, until she looked in Ash's direction.
She froze for a bit, "hey May, sleep well?" Ash asked with a big silly grin and his face.
May then jumped out of her seat in joy, "Ash!" she lunged at him and gave him a powerful hug.
"Eeeyouch!" Ash cried out in pain, "May…Thunderpunch…Hurt…You…Breaking…meee…" She quickly released him from her death hug,
"O-oh, I'm sorry Ash, I think I got carried away. I was just really worried" she looked down towards the floor, trying to hide her heavy blush from Ash.
"It's okay May, I would be just as worried to if you were hurt." May raised her head again and tears were rolling down her cheek. "M-may, whats wrong?" Ash asked worried, why was she crying?
"I'm sorry Ash, I'm just so happy to see you're okay, I would just think about you not waking up and it just hurt thinking like that" she began dry the tears on her cheek while Ash looked at her worried. He didn't like seeing anybody cry, especially not May.
"I'm sorry Ash, I'm being silly, of course I knew you would come through, you always do" she then tilted her head and looked at Ash from head to toe, "so how you feel".
"I feel fine, maybe a bit sore. I can't wait to be able to get out of here." A long silence followed, neither seemed to have much to say. Ash then broke the silence, "wait, May where's Pikachu?" he looked around but couldn't find them.
"They're both still sleeping, on the floor next to your bed" she whispered.
"Wait, whose both?" May giggled at Ash's confusion. Ash positioned himself so he could get a look at Pikachu. Instead he found Glaceon and Pikachu snuggled up next to each other.
"They look so cute together" May gave a big smile and Ash returned it.
Suddenly a memory flashed in front of Ash's brain, the one where they were on the bow before the Electivire attack, "May, what was it you wanted to tell me the night we went for a walk. You never got the chance to tell me".
May seemed to be caught off guard by the question and she began to stutter, "We-well yo-you know the-I mean-well it-it was a-about".
"May, are you okay?" Ash became confused again.
"No! I mean I'm fine. Don't worry about it Ash, it wasn't anything important, I sort of forgot what it was too" she began to sweat a bit, certain that Ash would figure it out.
"Are you sure?" May gave a frantic nod. "Well okay then" Ash gave May a weird look, then he returned to look at Pikachu.
"Wow, is he playing dumb? Or does he really not know, or doesn't he at least suspect something. His density knows no bounds it seems." May's thought were interrupted by a low growling noise, "Uhhh" May put her hand over her stomach.
"Well looks like somebody is hungry" Ash began to grin, then another growling noise could be heard coming from his stomach.
"Looks like the feelings mutual Ash Ketchum" they both gave a small laugh.
May began to head for the door, "I'm going to get something to eat, what you want me to get you."
"Anything's good May, whatever you're having".
"Alright then, I'll be right back" she left in search for food.
"Ouuuch!" Ash cried in pain.
"Doesn't look too bad" the doctor began, "but you'll definitely have some trouble walking straight for a couple of days" Ash had a huge bruise on his lower back, which not only looked like it hurt like hell, but it hurt like it as well.
"You should feel lucky that's all you have. If what I heard was true and you where thunder punched by a juiced up Electivire like that, I'm surprised you're not worse off. You must be tough as nails, considering you jumped right in front of that attack" Doc sounded quite impressed.
"Well, maybe, I really didn't think about it much; I just needed to do something quickly, it's something I'm good at" Ash recalled the last few moments before he blacked out.
Doc gently helped Ash stand up, "well, I guess that can be both a gift and a curse" he wrote something on his notepad, "it looks like once you're ready you can leave at any time, I'll just bandage you up, also you might one to put ice on that as often as you can, other than that you should be fine. You seem to have no other side effects from the electricity thankfully."
"Alright! Ash Ketchum is back in business, eeeyouch!" Ash jumped up to do a fist pump but apparently forgot he was in no position to do that.
"Didn't I tell you will be having trouble doing that" he looked at Ash behind his notepad, "I guess it's mostly a curse" doc thought to himself as he looked at his notepad.
"Thanks doc! Just in time to, the ship is almost at Coumarine city." Ash ran out, causing him to cry in pain along the way. "Good luck young man, you'll need it".
"Hey! Paul, May" Ash ran up to Paul and May, both who were at the front of the ship.
"Ash, what did the doctor say" May turned towards Ash while Pikachu jumped from May's shoulder onto Ash, while Paul kept looking forward towards the sea.
"He says I'm ready to go at any time, as long as I don't overdo it." Ash quickly moved his eyes towards the sea, "wow, looks great, hey Paul were almost at Kalos aren't we".
Paul kept his eyes ahead, "any minute now I guess."
It felt great to finally be outside of that room. The air was fresh, the sun bathed him in warmth, and he could feel small amounts of water splash his face. "You seem really happy to be outside Ash" May walked up next to Ash.
"Yea, I felt trapped in there; you know I've always loved being out in the open air" Ash looked towards the sky as he found Wingull and Pelippers soaring in the blue sky. He also found Wailmer, Tentacool, Tentacruel, and Clawitzer in the water. "Hey, I've never seen that Pokemon before" Ash thought to himself, he was definitely planning on meeting a lot of new Pokemon in Kalos, he couldn't wait.
Finally, after what seemed to forever for Ash, the Coumarine city coastline appeared, "Ash look! its Coumarine city" she pointed towards the coastline.
"Alright, here is where it begins, our adventure in Kalos, ready Pikachu?"
"Pika-Pi!" Pikachu pumped his fist in response.
"So this is Coumarine city huh? Looks like a great town" Ash, May, and Paul all got off board with the other passengers. Ash was busy admiring the city with all its various outside markets while Paul used his Pokenav to figure out their route to Lumiose city. "Hey May, so are you coming with us to Lumiouse City?" Ash looked back to see May who was lagging behind.
"Um, about that…"
"You got a plane!" May led Ash and Paul to a small airport.
"Ya, those sponsors that wanted me to go Kalos, they sent somebody to get me from Coumarine city."
"Wow May, I knew you were starting to get big but this is something else, you've already got people escorting you" Ash looked at all the planes. They definitely weren't commercial planes, they were small, but not that small, they could probably carry a good number people at a time.
"It's not that big of a deal Ash" May tried to downplay the situation, "oh look, there's the plane".
May led the two trainers to a medium sized plane, more of a jet actually. May neared the plane until she was met by a seemingly irritated woman.
"Miss May Maple, where have you been, do you know that you are going to be late to your fitting and shoot of your new Pokemon contest dress." The woman in front them was wearing an expensive looking power suit. Black jacket, dark blue tie, white collar shirt, black dress pants, and black heels, and to top it all off she wore very dark sunglasses. Her hair was straight and barely reached her shoulders.
She was wearing a scowl on her face at the moment and May seemed a bit nervous, "I'm sorry, something happened on the ocean liner from Kanto that held me up" May rubbed the back of her hand and gave a big grin.
The woman with the sunglasses leaned closer to May "Miss, I don't care what happened, punctuality is key, especially now" she almost barked, "now get on the plane were leaving ASAP, were going to be late."
May began to walk towards the plane, definitely embarrassed by the scolding. Ash and Paul began to follow her when they were stopped, "And where do you thing you two are going" the woman with the sunglasses blocked their way to the plane.
"Um, on the plane?" Ash pointed towards the plane tentatively.
"Huh? You're kidding right, this is a private plane to get Miss Maple to Lumiose city" she leaned in for emphasis, "no free rides!" The force of her voice made Ash loose his balance.
"They're with me" May stepped in, "they're my friends and they're headed to Lumious too".
"I'm sorry they can't come" she began to walk away when May stopped her.
"If they can't go on the plane, then I'm not going either."
"Whoa May, it's okay, we can just make it to Lumiose city on foot" Ash tried to keep May from doing something she would regret, while Paul seemed to lose interest in the scene in front of him.
"Listen here Miss Maple, don't begin to assume you can call the shots because you think your becoming important in the coordinator world. You might be becoming a star, but you still have a long ways to go. I call the shots, not you. I am the reason you have this opportunity" she put pressure on May and May was struggling to keep her ground.
"Star? Has May really come this far. That's great, but she started a good amount of time after me. She's already closer to her dream than I am." For a moment doubt began to seep into Ash's mind.
She looked over at Ash and Paul, "who are you two anyway?" She demanded.
"Ash Ketchum from Pallet town, mam." Ash was snapped from his thoughts, and almost saluted for some reason.
"None of your business" Paul responded with both of his hands deep in his pockets and with the same expression he gives everyone.
"Paul! What are doing" Ash whispered loudly.
"And what is your business in Lumiouse city?" her glasses glistened in the sunlight.
"Completing a task for professor Oak and professor Sycamore for the advancement of science, mam!" This time Ash did salute for some reason.
"Again, none of your dammed business" Paul once again answered not giving a damn.
"Paul! What are you doing" Ash then turned to the Woman with the sun glasses while holding Paul's jacket "I'm sorry he's an idiot-arrrgh!" Ash then doubled over in pain,
"What did I say about grabbing my jacket" Paul hissed.
The woman then walked up to Paul and eyed him carefully, and then she gave a small smile "Hm? You remind me of me when I grew up. I like you, unlike some other young people," she looked over at Ash, "why in the world is he saluting anyway?"
"I apologize, he's a dumbass" Paul gave a small smirk.
"Alright! Everybody on the plane" she demanded, and then she looked at Ash and Paul, "and both of you better hope you don't get air sick, because if you start blowing chunks on my plane, I'm throwing you out." They began to board the plane, onto Lumiouse city.
"Wow, the view up here is awesome!" May looked down towards the ground through the window.
"Never been on a plane before, airports in Kanto are far and few between" Paul explained.
"Well I guess that's why some inconsiderate people refer Kanto to the boonies, they do seem to fall behind a lot compared to the other regions" she put her chin on her fist in thought.
"Boonies huh, I've been dying to hear that word again" Ash answered sarcastically as his mind went back to Unova.
"And why do you look so upset?" Paul asked roughly.
"Oh nothing, I was just reminded of another doushebag trainer that I met in Unova, not you of course, shitty attitude, different hair color, always taking pictures" Ash's memory of Trip was still fresh.
"Oh, somebody else that makes your life miserable and repeatedly destroys you. Wait, don't tell me, it's the guy with the level 5 Snivy isn't it." A smirk appeared on Paul's face. "I think that's somebody I'd like to meet."
"Oh yeah, you two would make a great pair" Ash shot back.
And the pointless bickering ensued, "These two make Max and I look like perfect siblings. This is going to be a long plane ride." May gave a nervous smile, "I'm sorry, they're still getting used to being brothers" May turned to the women with the black sunglasses.
"I don't care" she was busy with her laptop, "as long as they don't ruin my plane" she simply put.
And that's that. Pika-Bones is sleepy, so you know the drill,
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