Ugh where are all the pokemon?" I grumbled. I was hunched over and my arms were limply hanging like noodles.
"I'm sure we'll see some soon!" The always positive Ash assured me.
"Yeah right... "We had been walking through the forest for a good hour at least.
"At least Cilan gave us money" Hannah smiled at me and winked over dramatically.
"Yeah so we could buy pokeballs."
"Still..."
"Yeah thanks again Cilan" I turned around and smiled "That was really nice!"
"You're welcome" Cilan did that dreamy Cilan smile.
"Hey look!" Cilan pointed at a bush.
"That's an extravagant bush!" Iris giggled "It has a delicious flavor! Like cupcakes in the summer!"
"Aw Iris that was awesome!" I started giggling as well.
"Don't mock me!" Cilan pouted "I saw a pokemon!"
Just then a Blitzle poked its head out of the bush!
"Oh my gosh it's so cute!" I squeaked and ran up to the pokemon, who surprisingly didn't move.
"Who's that pokemon?" Ash wondered aloud.
"It's a Blitzle" Hannah smiled.
"Hmm" Ash pulled out his pokedex.
"I said it's a Blitzle!" Hannah stormed over to Ash and took his pokedex "You don't need that thing to know its name!"
"Hmmph" Ash grumbled.
Iris started laughing; Cilan seemed to be holding back a giggle as well.
I, on the other hand, was softly petting the pokemon's head. It was so sweet!
"Do you wanna go with me?" I smiled hoping the zebra wouldn't oblige.
"Blitz Blitzle!" The blitzle smiled.
"Ok!" I held out the pokeball Cilan had bought me and pressed the white button in the middle. and watched as the blitzle was sucked in with a red light. A few seconds later the pokeball stopped wiggling and I picked it up.
"I caught a blitzle!" I spun around, imitating my favorite connoisseur.
"Awesome Ray!" Iris smiled.
"Congratulations on catching your first pokemon, I think that you blitzle will be a sweet pair!"
"Thanks Cilan!" I felt my cheeks begin to redden.
"I still need a pokemon" Hannah sighed.
"Don't worry Hannah, We'll find you one!" Ash did a random fist pump.
We continued walking for a while, until we found a Purrloin!
"Oh no..." I heard Iris mumble to herself.
"Awww!" Hannah ran up to the cat pokemon and crouched down "You're so cute!"
"Please don't catch that" Cilan was now standing a few yards behind the rest of us.
"It's ok Cilan, I'm sure it won't hurt you." I smiled sweetly and placed my hand on his arm comfortingly.
Cilan didn't respond.
"I'm gonna catch it!" I heard my sister announce to the world.
Cilan began whimpering like a dog.
"Awww" my eyes started sparkling and I hugged Cilan from the side, even though he was like a foot taller than me.
A few seconds later Hannah returned with an evil grin on her face.
"Her name is Scissors!"
"Wow Hannah..."
"Yup!"
"Well let's get out of here!" Ash whined "I'm hungry!"
"Of course, what a kid!"
A while later we got back to the pokemon center and waited patiently for Cilan to finish making hotdogs. Yes hotdogs. I'm a picky eater.
"Here you go!" Cilan placed a plate in front of me and smiled graciously.
I took a bite of my hotdog and gasped.
"This is the best hotdog ever!" And then I fell out of my chair.
"Are you ok?" Cilan grabbed my hand and pulled me up.
"Yeah" I smiled "Thanks, you're so sweet."
"Uhh" Cilan rubbed the back of his neck "Thanks, any gentleman would help a young lady out."
"Mmm" I stared at Cilan for a while.
"Rachel snap out of it!" Hannah slapped my face.
"Ow" I rubbed my cheek "That hurt!"
"who cares?"
Cilan just stared.
"Sorry for staring, Cilan" I smiled nervously.
"That's quite alright."
"Hey guys it's time to go!" I heard Iris yell to Cilan and Ash.
"Ok!" Ash galloped over to Iris.
"Mmm" Cilan smiled at me and Hannah and headed over to join his friends.
"Wait!" I shrieked "Can we come with you guys?"
"Umm" Ash, Cilan, and Iris all looked at each other.
"Yeah!" The three beamed.
An hour later we headed into separate rooms and went to bed.
Well everyone except me anyway. I had a mission. Go watch Cilan sleep! Yeah I'm creepy like that.
I silently stood up and wandered out of the room and into the boy's room. I saw Ash on the top bunk, but Cilan was nowhere to be seen!
"Ray?"
Oh crap.
I slowly turned around only to find Cilan looking down on me.
"Uh yeah?"
"Why are you up?"
"Umm well I-"
"What?"
"I left my stuffed animal in here!"
"Oh"
I quickly grabbed my sister's purrloin off a nightstand. How did he not notice it there?
"You have a stuffed purrloin?" Cilan's face drained off color.
"Umm yeah..."
Then Scissors began to move, oops.
"Oops" I started backing away slowly.
"T-that's real!" Cilan stuttered.
"Ray..." Hannah appeared in the doorway.
"Oh I got scissors!"
"?"
"Here!" I shoved the purrloin in my sister's face and smiled.
"Um thanks."
"Why are you in here?" Hannah asked me.
"Umm well I...Cilan"
"You wanted to watch Cilan sleep didn't you?"
"..."
"I'm still here" Cilan mumbled awkwardly.
Just then, Ash rolled off of the top bunk.
"Ash!" Cilan quickly rushed to Ash's side.
While that was happening, Hannah dragged me out of the room.
"But he's so hot!" I yelped a little too loudly.
"I heard Cilan gasping from the other room.
"What's going on?" A groggy Iris stumbled into the hallway.
"Umm" Hannah muttered.
"So hot!" I was acting very strange by now.
"What's hot?" Iris asked me.
"Cilan!"
"What!" Iris yelped.
"What is going on?" We all turned around and saw Nurse Joy sternly crossing her arms and tapping her foot.
"Nothing" we mumbled and stumbled back into our rooms.
The next morning everyone woke up around 9 o clock except Ash, who didn't wake up until 10.
"Hey sleepyhead" Iris chuckled as Ash stumbled into the main room of the pokemon center.
Ash acknowledged Iris with a nod and sat down on a cushioned chair.
"Would you like breakfast?" Cilan asked from wherever he was (I think he was avoiding me).
"Well duh I want breakfast!"
A few minutes later, Cilan brought Ash a plate of French toast.
"Eww there's too much syrup!"
"Geez Ash, your such a kid" Iris mumbled.
"I like syrup!" I proclaimed, and marched over to where Ash was sitting.
"Uh well I do to bu-" Ash didn't have time to finish because I had already picked up his fork and started eating his French toast.
I heard Hannah snickering in the background.
"Aww man, I was hungry!" Ash complained loudly.
"Deal with it" I mumbled in between bites.
"Ash would you like some new French toast?" Cilan asked nicely.
"Nah, I'm fine, but thanks for offering!"
"No problem"
"we should get going soon" Iris had stood up and was now standing in front of Cilan, Ash, and I (Hannah was nowhere to be found).
"Yeah, Striaton city is a few hours away" Ash responded enthusiastically.
"Striaton city? Is that where were headed?" Wow, I thought to myself, were going to Cilan's hometown!
"Yup" Iris smiled "so let's get our junk and get out of here!"
We all headed into our rooms and got our junk, of course all I had was my blitzle, and all Hannah had was her purrloin, but the others had a lot more than us.
"Ash! Your underwear are on my bed!"
"Oops sorry, Cilan"
"Ash! Your underwear are on my bed too!"
"Oops sorry, Iris!"
Once we were all ready to go, we headed outside and started following a dirt path.
A really boring dirt path. It was so boring that I almost died! But luckily Team Rocket showed up before that could happen.
They were about to start their motto, but I was not going to listen to the new motto.
"Guys! Can you do the old motto?"
Jessie, James, and Meowth looked at me funny.
"Pleasssssseee?"
"Well I guess just this once..." James mumbled barely audibly.
"Yay!" I started running around in circles.
"Prepare for trouble!"
"Make it double!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth dats right!"
"That was awesome" me and Hannah sighed dreamily.
"Um yeah..."
"Ray how do you know about Team Rocket?" Ash gave me a strange look.
"Well... It's a long story!" I smiled innocently.
"Will you twerps be quiet?" Jessie grumbled impatiently.
Then I realized that James was standing right in front of me!
"Hey James! I have a question for you!"
"What do you want?"
"It's super important!"
"Tell me then!"
"Ok...Are you and Jessie a couple yet?"
"What?" James face was beet red now.
"So that's a yes!" I ran over to my sister and gave her a high five.
"Uh guys?" I looked over and noticed that everyone was staring at me.
"Yeah?"
"Let's go!" Ash shouted.
"Ok!" I then ran up to James and gave him a hug, cuz YOLO.
I think Cilan is scared of me...
"Maybe we should steal pikachu later" James mumbled, as I was still holding onto him.
"Ha ha ha Jimmy you gots you an admirer!" Meowth was rolling on the ground laughing, literally.
"James! Stop fooling around!" Jessie came up from behind James and dragged him away from me.
"Haha Ray sure is weird!" Iris chuckled awkwardly.
"Yeah she is" Hannah agreed.
Eventually Team Rocket left somehow, I wasn't really paying attention because Cilan was doing some pretty interesting stuff. Like looking at the ground, and straightening his bow tie. Very interesting.
We continued walking for a while, and it was silent most of the way, until Ash's stomach growled and we decided to stop at a small cafe that we found.
"They better have bacon cheeseburgers" I sighed.
"Bacon cheeseburgers?" Ash looked at me strangely.
"Yeah! Haven't you ever had one?"
"Nope."
"OMG you have to try one!" I could not believe this. How could Ash have never had a bacon cheeseburger before?
"Ok I will!" Ash sweatdropped.
We walked into the cafe and sat at a booth, Me, Cilan, and Hannah on one side, Ash and Iris on the other (don't ask how that happened...) A short guy with a mustache came to our table and asked what we wanted to eat.
I got a bacon cheeseburger and so did Ash.
Iris got fruit salad, and Hannah got a grilled Cheese.
And Cilan... He got a taco...? I expected him to get lobster or something, NOT a taco!
It took like 20 minutes for our food to come so during that time I decided to ask Cilan to play tic tac toe with me.
He was horrible at tic tac toe! But I was pretty sure he was letting me win.
"Here is yo food, dogs!" The waiter began to place plates in front of all of us, and left without asking us if we needed anything (which we did, we were out of ketchup!)
I began to eat my burger and accidently elbowed Cilan in the face. I felt really bad, but Ash and Iris were laughing out loud as I fumbled around trying to make sure Cilan was ok.
"I'm fine!" Cilan reassured me for like the tenth time.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!" Cilan smiled to emphasize his point.
"Phew!" I leaned back into the booth seat and sighed.
"This is good!" Ash smiled, his burger was half eaten already.
"Told you!" I smiled and shoved some French fries into my mouth.
"This is good grilled cheese!" Hannah took a giant bite of her sandwich and grinned.
"This is too!" Iris popped a grape into her mouth.
"This taco is the perfect blend of spices!"
"And beans!" Ash giggled.
A while later, we left the cafe and continued heading towards Striaton City.
"Hey Hannah I'm gonna let out Blitzle!" I smiled and threw my pokeball in front of me.
"Blitz blitzle!" My electric zebra looked up and me and smiled.
"I'll let out Scissors!" Hannah threw her pokeball.
"Eeeep!"
"Oof!"
"..."
"Cilan get off of me!"
"Nooo!"
I turned around and saw Cilan clinging to Iris's head.
"I'll help you Iris!" I ran up to her and pulled Cilan off of her head.
"Get that thing away!" Cilan was now crouching behind me in fear.
"Hannah please put Scissors away" I looked at Hannah and gave her a look that said: I don't want Cilan to be scared, he's cuter when he's happy!
"Ugh fine, but just to make you happy... Purrloin return!"
"Thank you Hannah! I'm sorry I was acting so ungentlemanly! I really owe you one!"
"Yeah, yeah whatever" Hannah waved her hand in dismissal and started walking again.
Now's a good time to explain some stuff! Because if your confused (which you most likely are) I want you to be less confused! I'll start with my appearance. Yup, what I look like! Usually I have caramel brown hair that just barely hits my shoulders, but now that I was in the anime world, my hair was down my back, and had a slightly pink tint to its usual brown color. I have hazel eyes (which have now been enlarged to anime size). My skin is about the tone of our our good friend Ash's, and my outfit consisted of a blue and white striped tank top and white shorts. Oh and I'm only 5 foot and a half inch! Yes I'm short...
Umm so yeah that's me.
It was about 4 o clock by the time we reached Striaton City. The first thing we did was head towards the gym.
"Hey Cilan, are you excited to see your brothers?" Iris questioned Cilan.
"Well..." Cilan rubbed the back of his neck "I guess, but..."
"But what?" Iris was confused.
"I know I'm going to start being teased the moment I walk in the door!" Cilan chuckled a little, but then seemed to become serious. "Teased about what?"
"Uh well most likely uh...her" Cilan gestured to me (who had giant hearts in my eyes) with his hands.
"Aw man, am I that ugly?" I asked feeling a bit self-conscious.
"Yup" I heard Hannah mumble under her breath.
"No! That's not what I meant! I would never insult a young lady such as yourself!" Cilan seemed a bit distraught that I interpreted his comment as an insult.
"It's fine Cilan!" I giggled "Really I've been called much worse!"
"Hmmph".
We reached the gym a few minutes later; it was even bigger in person! Cilan opened one of the large double doors and ushered us inside.
"Cilan!" A huge group of girls screeched from across the room. I was instantly mad at them.
"Let's go find your brothers" I suggested and pulled Ash, Iris, Cilan, and Hannah along with me.
I wandered up some stairs and in through an unlocked door.
"Brethren!" I jumped to the side as Chilli ran full force at Cilan, only to stop right in front of him and extend his hand.
"Hello Chill" I turned around and sweatdropped, I should've known that my sister would do that...
"Hey Chilli!" Ash smiled, although he was looking at Hannah from the corner of his eye.
"Hi Chilli" Iris smiled.
"Hey guys! It's good to see you!" Chilli smiled "But I could've sworn that there were only three of you last time..."
"Oh we have two new additions" Cilan explained "This is Ray" He gestured to me (which made me turn red) "and this is Hannah-well she was here...Oh" I turned to see what Cilan was looking at.
Hannah was staring up at Chilli's face with hearts in her eyes.
"Cilan! Did you let fan girls up here?"
"No! I don't know what happened! She was fine a minute ago!"
"Don't worry guys, she'll calm down...eventually" I looked up at the two brothers reassuringly.
"See" Cilan smirked at his brother.
"Cilan, I see you've made it home." Cress smiled politely.
"It's good to see you Cress" Cilan responded (also politely).
"You guys are so boring!" Iris complained "Come Hannah and Ray, I wanna show you something!"
Iris led me and Hannah down a hallway and giggled "Do you wanna see Cilan's room?"
"Uh are you sure we should go in there?" Of course I wanted to, but I had decided that the only way to get Cilan to like me was to not act creepy.
"Of course let's go!" Iris yanked open the door and started giggling again.
I looked around. This was not what I expected to see! On the walls there were posters of someone who highly resembled Selena Gomez, and the floor was covered in dirty clothes and some other random objects, like My Little Pony action figures! The bed was unmade and there was a small brown leather book lying on top of it with the word Diary scrawled across the top.
"Um Iris are you sure this is Cilan's room?"
"Of course!" Iris maneuvered her way to the bed, avoiding clothes and ponys, and picked up the diary. "Let's get out of here! I wanna read this!"
We ran out of the room and silently shut the door.
"Let's ask where the guest room is" Iris suggested and we went looking for the boys. After turning down multiple hallways we finally found them in the bathroom.
"Uh guys?" Iris snickered.
"Huh?" Ash, Cilan, Chilli, and Cress turned around.
"Why are you all in the bathroom?"
"Oh well-"
"We were looking at soap!" Chilli quickly interrupted Ash, though he was obviously lying.
"Sure you were..."
"So anyways, what do you want?" Chilli changed the subject.
"We wanted to know where the guest room was!" Iris smiled innocently.
"Uh follow me" Cress led us down a hallway until we reached a large set of double doors. "It's all yours" Cress smiled awkwardly and started walking back in the direction we came from.
We settled ourselves in the room, and Iris began to read the diary out loud.
"Dear Diary *giggling* I have recently become interested in a popular show called: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I believe it has good morals, but my brothers keep nagging me about it; saying that the show is intended for 5 year olds. I hope they stop nagging because I'm not giving up on this show any time soon. Sincerely, Cilan." Iris began having a giggle fit and soon I joined in too.
"Here let me read one!" Hannah took the diary from Iris and flipped to a random page "Dear diary, Today I-" Hannah turned the page quickly.
"What did it say?" Iris pulled the book back from Hannah and began reading silently to herself. "Aaah! My mind is scarred for life!" Iris screeched and threw the book at me, which I proceded to read.
"Mine is too!" I closed my eyes and tried to force the disturbing images out of my head.
"Knock knock" We turned around and quickly stifled our giggling.
"Quick hide the book!" Iris whisper yelled as I shoved the diary under some pillows on the bed I was sitting on.
"Come in!" Iris called
Cilan appeared in the doorway, and the giggle fits began again.
"What's so funny?" Cilan gave us a questionable glance.
"N-nothing!" We all forced out through giggles.
"I know there's something!" Cilan looked worried.
"It's just a joke we heard!" I announced, regaining my composure.
"Can I hear it?"
I gulped.
"Sure!" Hannah smiled "What's blue and white, and red all over?"
"Umm I don't know. What's the answer?"
"A bloody piplup!"
Cilan's expression was a cross between terror and disbelief.
"Umm okay, I just wanted to tell you that dinner's ready."
"Okay thanks Cilan!"
Cilan left without saying a word.
"I guess we should go eat" I huffed
"Okay let's go, we can read more later!" Iris laughed, and we headed down to the main floor of the gym, which held a private dining room for us to eat in.
"I can't wait to eat!" Ash announced from across the ginormous table.
"Dinner is served!" Cress, Chilli, and Cilan came out from the kitchen holding silver platters with lids on top of them. One by one the brothers pulled off the lids revealing ham, fancy macaroni and cheese, and an array of vegetables.
"Yum!" we all dug into the food, and soon enough we were all stuffed. Well except for me, but I'm always hungry...
"I hope dinner was acceptable" Cress smiled graciously.
"It was delicious!"
"Yeah what Ash said!"
"I'm glad you enjoyed it".
"Well I'm gonna get ready for bed" Iris winked "Does anyone want to come with me!"
Me and Hannah nodded and began to leave, but not before the ever dense Ash decided to tag along too.
"So where are we staying?" Ash asked.
"Umm I'm not really sure" Iris paused "I know that there's one guest bedroom but it only has two beds..."
"Are they queen beds?" Ash wondered aloud.
"Well yeah".
"We can share beds!" Iris, Hannah and I all gave Ash a funny look.
"What?" Ash was puzzled.
"It's just that..."
"We don't want to share a bed with you!" Hannah blurted out.
"Oh...Right" Ash blushed "I can sleep on the floor-"
"I have a better idea!" Iris gave me and Hannah a sly look "Me, Hannah, and Ray can share a bed, and you can have the other one!"
"You'll let me have the bed? Wow thanks Iris!"
"You may be a kid, but I'm not cruel!"
A few hours later, everyone was in bed, but me, Hannah, and Iris were awake of course. We had decided to play a prank on all of the boys, and I was mentally giggling just at the thought of what their reactions would be.
Iris slowly stood up leaned over to get something out of her backpack. "First is Ash" She whispered as quietly as possible.
Hannah and I sat up and watched Iris crawl on the floor towards Ash's bed.
"Here goes nothing" She mouthed and began gently tossing underwear all over Ash, and his bed. It was perfect payback for all the times he had left his underwear on Cilan and Iris's beds!
Iris motioned for us to follow her out of the room, and headed for Cress's room. Since Cress was always so formal, we had decided to give him a reason to act well less formal.
Hannah slowly approached Cress's sleeping figure and pulled some markers out of her pocket. Iris and I watched silently as Hannah added a blue mustache, beard, and giant mole to Cress's usually perfect face.
Once Hannah was done, we left Cress's room and headed towards Chilli's.
For Chilli's prank, we decided to embarrass him. I pulled out a glass of warm water, and carefully pulled off the red head's blankets. Then I quickly poured the water so it looked like it went down his pant leg, and got the bed wet as well. Perfect.
I led Iris and Hannah out of the room and smiled. Cilan was the only one left, and in my opinion this was the best prank.
We found a life size cardboard cutout of whoever that Selena Gomez look alike was, and carefully tucked it under Cilan's sheets so that it was right next to him. Then we placed some my little ponys on his bed as well for a nice touch.
The next morning was going to be hilarious.