(Bangs head against table) I AM SO SORRY FOR THIS UPDATE. It's insanely late…. And…. Insanely late. (Wails pathetically) So, I know they left uh, whatchamacallit really early without anything happening, but… don't worry…. (Pauses)
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The Sunday List Of Dreams
Chapter 8: Contagious
Warau toki mo naku toki ni mo
Gogatsu no hizashi no you ni
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Sorry if this chapter sucks… No Alto Mare yet, hee hee…. (Gets death threats for filler chapter)
Another note, I should mention more pokemon, shouldn't I…
Brock: Sudowoodo, Croagunk, Happiny, Marshtomp
Max: Munchlax, Ralts
Drew: Roselia, Flygon, Masquerain, Butterfree, Absol
Ash: Pikachu, Aipom, Turtwig, Staravia, Gligar
Paul: Chimchar, Torterra, Magmar, Honchkrow, Gliscor, Weavile
Yes, yes, I know Aipom and Buizel were traded, but oh well… Just ignore that aspect, and if you haven't seen that Diamond and Pearl episode, well, neither have I. I just happened to know that, heh. He also doesn't have Chimchar, sorry, pals.
Sorry if you don't know any of these pokemon, lol. I've been using BIOs from uh, Serebii.
The laughter that bounced off the walls could be heard down the hallway, people leaving their rooms glanced down the well-decorated hallway with confusion, but shrugged and went on their ways to, well, wherever. It filled the hallway and seemingly filled the boat with a pleasant pitch of laughter, combining three girls' voices in an almost harmonious melody that floated through the boat, which was in a sense, almost eerie.
"I-I can't believe—" Misty sputtered, clutching her stomach desperately, while Dawn laugh against the floor; butt in the air and on her knees as she pounded the floor violently with laughter.
May blew up with laughter at Dawn's awkward position, "Oh my god, Dawn!" She pointed cheerily at Dawn, falling over in the process and onto Misty. Togepi squeaked, waving its arms happily on the bed, as it stumbled on it awkwardly as the boat continued to tip.
"Okay, okay! Breathe, women, breathe!" Misty gasped, taking in deep breaths. Dawn heaved in the cool air, and May panted against Misty's back.
"That usually doesn't work." May giggled, and she felt Misty shake her head against her brown hair.
"Right, right, right." Misty yawned, their bowl of strawberries long forgotten, and the soap opera on commercial.
"Hm, he's hot." Dawn noted, pointing to the TV.
"Dawn! My god, you already have Paul wrapped around your finger." May cooed.
"That would be an utter lie if we said that again." Misty muttered, and May snickered while Dawn rolled her eyes.
"Whatever! Why do our topics always get back onto them?" Dawn huffed, grinning mischievously.
"I don't know…" May shrugged, blinking innocently at Dawn's face.
"…" Dawn twitched.
"Let's go to bed, now…" Misty stifled another yawn with her hand, crawling under the covers from the floor, looking like a large, large odd growth coming from underneath the covers of her once crisp bed, and Togepi shrieked with happiness, before jumping onto the pillow and bouncing once gently.
"Sounds like a good idea…" Dawn noted, ditching her magazine on the floor with all the other crap they'd decided to not clean up, and clambered into her bed, eyeing the small window that glanced out into the dark sea.
"I guess…" May gave another roll of her shoulders, before plopping onto her bed and hugging her Torchic pillow close to her, and rapidly and messily covering her cold legs, before they all closed their eyes and fell asleep, the light still illuminating the room quietly.
The light filtered through the window slowly, and Dawn groaned, throwing her covers over her head and flipping to the other side. May drooled on her Torchic pillow, covers askew and wrapped wildly and tangled all about her legs and arms, while Misty faced away from the window, breathing softly as Togepi awoke against the morning rays and promptly dug itself underneath Misty's covers to continue sleeping.
"Hello, world! It's your favorite radio station—" Dawn slammed her hand down against the clock, blinking furiously, as May moaned against her pillow and Misty sighed, getting up wearily.
"What the hell?!" Dawn shrieked, still half asleep. The clock's green letters blinked 7:30 a.m. and Misty began to rub the sleep out of her eyes. The ship was quiet, and the gentle tipping had stopped.
"Are we there already?" May asked, yawning as tears gathered in her eyes.
Dawn pulled up the blinds violently, and looked outside of the window.
"Doesn't look like it, it just looks like we've stopped in the middle of nowhere…" Dawn looked about curiously, and Misty threw her covers off her body, and Togepi opened itself up sleepily.
"We should get ready." Misty noted, and May sighed loudly, throwing her pillow at the end of her bed and attempted to untangle herself, before swiftly falling out of the bed with a yelp.
Just a usual morning, despite the fact the ship was shifting unsteadily in the middle of nowhere.
Togepi yawned in Misty's arms, and May and Dawn cooed at its cuteness. They walked towards the golden plated elevator doors, where an assortment of people and pokemon were gathered, all trying to squeeze into the doors.
"Wow." Dawn murmured.
"Maybe we should wait…" Misty noted, and May shook her head.
"Let's just find an elevator."
The three squeezed into a tightly packed elevator, Togepi protesting as a man bumped straight into Misty.
"Watch it!" He yelled, and Togepi looked like it was about to zap his ass but Misty stuck her tongue out childishly and turned away before Togepi could do anything.
The elevator finally reached the lobby, where everybody on the ship (it seemed) had gathered and were yelling angrily at the captain.
"Why aren't we moving?!" One girl shrieked, a child crying in her arms.
"Is the ship not working?" Another guy asked, quite calmly.
"May!" The three turned, to see Max waving as they all fell out of the elevator at once.
"Smooth…" May muttered.
"Do you know why the ship isn't moving?" Ash asked, with a confused look on his face.
"Mm." Misty shook her head.
"P-please, calm down, everyone!" The captain cleared his throat.
"It seems our engine had a little breakdown, but we should be up and running in a few hours!"
There was an outburst of anger.
"A few hours!? We paid good money to get to Alto Mare!!"
"Yeah!"
"Hurry up and fix the ship!"
"Man, people are loud." Misty cooed as Togepi began to cry wildly.
The group sat, bored, on the main deck at a large round table, staring blankly out at the same scenery that surrounded them.
"Well, this is… exciting." Dawn started, sarcastically. Togepi was cheerfully poking May's head, which lay against the table in her arms.
"It's been three hours, isn't that enough time?" Ash groaned, and threw his arms and head against the table.
Misty sipped on an orange soda, the ice moving and clinking in the clear, tall glass, a white straw bent towards her mouth.
Paul looked off somewhere, bored, and Max ate a strawberry parfait.
"Strawberries…" Misty murmured under her breath, and May gave a muffled snicker from her arms. Dawn swallowed a laugh.
Misty blinked at the two girls confusedly for a few moments, before remembering what she was talking about. She shook her head, giving a half cough and laugh with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Strawberries are yummy!" Max said cheerfully, naively.
Misty's cheeks puffed up but she quickly swallowed whatever was going to come out. The boat suddenly lurched forward, causing Misty to fall over and spill her drink all over Drew, who was sitting next to her.
"Uh… oops?" Misty smiled, sweatdropping at him. "I'm so sorry!"
"It's… okay…" Drew muttered; beginning to wipe it off of his oversized, black t-shirt.
"Good thing you're wearing black." May said, grinning as her chin sat against her forearms.
"Yes, lucky me. I'll just be sticky for the rest of the day." Drew shot back, and May glared at him.
"Ah, lovers' quarrel… I wish I could experience one of those." Brock sighed, suddenly feeling old, being the oldest out of the group.
"I dare you to say that again." May said, smiling cheerfully at Brock. He eyed her warily.
"I- uh, like your… shirt…" He said, lamely.
"Thanks!" May smirked at him, turning to hold a conversation with Dawn.
"At least the ship is moving again." Misty sighed, settling back in her seat. The ship glided smoothly, the water hitting gently against the side of the white boat.
"Finally!" Ash cried out, throwing his arms up to the heavens.
"I'm going to go change." May got up.
"For what?" Dawn looked up at May, confused.
"Swimming, of course." May looked at her oddly. "There is a pool here, my dear. We swam in it the first day on the boat!"
"Oh, I'll come!" Dawn volunteered, standing up happily.
"Why don't we all go for a swim?" Misty suggested, gathering Togepi in her arms and scooting her chair back.
"Sounds good." Brock nodded, and the three left without really hearing any other response.
"Should I wear this one?" May held up a cute, red one piece with polka dots of all sizes in the color yellow dancing all over the material.
"You'll look like a tomato with yellow spots." Dawn deadpanned. May scrunched up her nose, and threw it somewhere in the room.
Misty stepped out of the bathroom, her bright colored hair settling against her shoulders, in her bathing suit she'd bought before boarding the ship, white anchors decorating the bathing suit and complimenting the dark navy color.
"Just wear your heart bikini." Misty looked at May, and she shook her head furiously.
"What about my brother?" May cried, looking terrified.
"It's not like he hasn't seen you in it before." Dawn started, apple print bathing suit on, as she began to apply sun block to her legs.
May sighed in defeat, and began to strip. "I guess you're right."
"Of course I am!" Dawn replied, cheerfully.
Ash watched Pikachu as he floated in a rubber tube in the large pool. Max was brushing Munchlax's fur by the poolside, while Brock's pokemon tended to stray further away from the water, except for Marshtomp. Absol and Flygon lay lax in the sun near the pool, while Butterfree, Roselia and Masquerain sat on one large white lounge chair. Brock was laying on a lounge chair, by his Happiny, which bounced happily by him, while Sudowoodo was settled further away from water, Croagunk joining it.
Staravia and Honchkrow flew about in the sky, Gliscor settling for a spot on a lounge chair. The other pokemon simply lounged about, Ralts settling by Max.
"Go!" Three simultaneous voices cried out, and with the familiar flash of brilliant light, the white light took into the forms of pokemon.
"Togepi, you be careful." Misty placed Togepi and Psyduck in inner tubes, and gently pushed them by Pikachu.
Buizel jumped into the water, and children gathered near the pool in hopes of touching or playing with the pokemon.
"Beautifly, you stay here with Max." Beautifly flew over and landed on Max's head, who was sitting by Masquerain, Roselia and Butterfree.
Pachirisu and Buneary hopped onto a white lounge chair, while Piplup jumped straight into the water after Buizel.
Goldeen, Horsea, and Dewgong were swimming in the water, flying out and back in occasionally. Misty kept Gyarados in its ball, its size being a bit large.
Squirtle jumped into the water, while the rest of May's pokemon settled for a white lounge chair.
"I wanna go in too!" Dawn cried, throwing her towel into Paul's face, (on accident) and jumped in.
Paul angrily pulled off the towel, throwing it onto the chair next to him.
"Wait up!" May yelled, throwing her sandals off and her towel onto Absol, who in turn curiously looked up and tried to move the towel from its head. Drew pulled it off, with a small smirk before placing it on the lounge chair. He relaxed on a lounge chair.
Misty sighed, calmly pulling off her shoes and placing her towel neatly on a chair, not hearing May and Dawn getting out of the water.
"BOO!" They shrieked, and Misty yelped in surprise, before the two grabbed Misty.
"You take the feet…" Dawn yelled at May over the roars of their laughter, and threw Misty into the pool, who shrieked the entire way in.
The two laughed hysterically, water coating their bodies, their hair sticking to their necks.
"That was so evil!" Misty shrieked, as soon as she'd risen out of the water.
"Here." Paul pushed Dawn in.
"What the!?" Dawn sputtered, swimming to the top.
"I'm the only one who hasn't been pushed in." May bragged, while Misty and Dawn snickered at the two creeping up from behind her. Paul glanced behind him.
"What are you two snickering at---!" May screeched as Max and Drew pushed her into the pool.
Brock smiled pleasantly, and Ash blinked, standing by the pool's edge.
"Jerks." May muttered, under her breath, shaking her head as the water flew everywhere and her hair hit her cheeks with wet slaps.
"Serves you right." Dawn grinned.
"Oh, like you weren't pushed in either." May retorted.
"At least you weren't THROWN in!" Misty intervened.
The three laughed at each other, as the other people and pokemon watched the three friends with smiles on their faces.
"Hey, aren't you guys gonna get in?" Dawn blinked, tilting her head to the side as she swam up to the edge of the pool, hands holding onto the edge, her chin resting on the tops of her fingers.
"Yeah, you're all just sitting there." May nodded.
"Not interested." Paul shrugged, and Drew was relaxed on his lounge chair. Max was sitting near the edge of the pool. May swam up, smiling sweetly.
"What's up, May?" Max asked, unpretentiously.
"Nothing." She kept her smile, before grabbing Max's ankle and pulling him straight into the water. He yelled in protest, before he sank into the clear water.
"Hey!" Max spewed, handing his glasses to Ash, who in turn handed them to Brock.
"Payback." May grinned, sticking her tongue out cutely.
Misty splashed water onto Ash, who protested.
"Why don't you get in? It's so boring!" Dawn wailed, and Misty grinned, before diving under water. She grabbed at Dawn and May's ankles, who turned around angrily and looked at Misty, whose head popped out of the shifting water.
"Why don't we just help them get in?" Misty smiled, perfectly innocent.
"Hmm, well why not?" Dawn smirked.
"I love you, Misty…!" May cooed, grinning, and the three swam to the edge before getting out.
"C'mon, let's go!" Misty pulled Ash along towards the pool's edge.
"O-okay…" He blinked, blushing slightly and cutely at Misty's back.
"Please?" Dawn begged, while Paul blatantly replied with a 'no.' She twitched, before grabbing him and pushing him along and into the pool.
"Hah!" She laughed. He glared at her.
"Drew…" May cooed, near Drew's ear.
He yelped, sitting up straight, a blush on his cheeks. May blinked, looking at him oddly. She obviously didn't realize what affect she had on Drew, doing something like that.
"Yes?" Drew composed himself easily.
"Let's go into the pool!" May shrieked happily, grabbing his wrist and running towards the pool. (1) But, as a result of the slippery deck, the two slipped and fell, sliding straight into the pool on their bottoms.
May coughed as she rose to the surface of the water, but laughed hysterically.
"May, are you okay?!" Misty laughed, and Dawn giggled at them.
"That was fun!" May giggled, still holding onto Drew's wrist.
"Lots of fun." He said, sarcastically.
"Wasn't it?" May cried out happily.
They burst into laughter at May's naivety, and the others joined in with them, because no matter how much they denied it, they enjoyed their presence, even in the pool. The laughter was contagious.
Oh wow, it's been forever since I updated. Sorry for this stupid chapter, and it's really not all that long either.
Review, please! Any suggestions for the next chapter? Alto Mare? Eh? Eh?
(1) And the moral of the story is, kids, never run on slippery floors… Unless you want this to happen!
Yes, so… that was a pointless chapter.
But, let's all love fluff, and fillers…. (Smiles)
You know, now that I think about it… I've only seen about… 3 episodes of Diamond and Pearl. I don't even KNOW how Paul acts. Sorry if he's OOC! Well, I do, but... I don't know. Lol!
Thanks for reading!