Me: Ugh, welcome back. I just got done (By June 11, 2013) with chatting with my friends, and them staying over. Only two, not 7,000. I also downloaded the RWBY Trailer Songs. Enjoy and see ya later.
Ash grinned looking over his new sword. After Gavin messed with the sword the blade itself was now had medal designing's etched along the length of the deadly part of the weapon itself. Gavin also messed with the sheath so it was a heavier blunt object that he could incapacitate people with.
Ash shook his head, "I still hope I don't have to use this." He whispered to himself. Ash never fought in hand-to-hand or weapon-to-hand. He was raised to battle with Pokemon. He soon saw the Pokemon Center and saw the metal gate closing. Ash picked up the pace and when in range he slid in snow, not the best idea. Upon reaching the inside of the building Ash immediately shot up and started patting his pants, trying to rid the snow from his pants.
"You are a comedy of errors Ash." Ketchum froze and turned to Kaori who had a decently sized grin on her face and her eyes were laughing. Ash blushed when he saw Kaori staring at him intently. He backed towards the stairs slowly, watching as Kaori's eyes followed him.
Kaori frowned, "Why are you ignoring me? Do you find me annoying?" The question caught Ash off guard as he flinched and his eyes widened.
"Wha? Do you think I'm trying to ignore you?" Ash thought it was absurd; he would never do something like that. And this proves how oblivious Ash Ketchum is.
Kaori obviously didn't believe him, "Whether you're trying or not you were successful." She growled. She stood up and stomped up the stairs, pushing Ash out of the way in the process.
"Pika Pi Pichu." Pikachu deadpanned when he came down. He saw almost the entire thing and decided to appear after watching the show…uh I mean confrontation.
Ash looked up at Pikachu from the floor, "Yeah I know I'm an idiot." He glanced down at the sword and sheath.
"I'm glad she didn't notice the sword and it wasn't slammed into my body either." He mumbled, standing up slowly, the snow now water dripping from his pants. Ash growled at his luck while Pikachu just laughed at his misery. Walking up to their room Ash remembered something.
He kneeled down and whispered to Pikachu, "Are Dawn and Brock asleep?" He asked hopefully. Pikachu nodded with a thumbs up. Ash sighed in relief and checked the door and noticed it was locked.
"Thank Arceus I didn't give Dawn both keys." Ash murmured before turning his key in the lock. He turned the knob and the door opened to darkness. Luckily the window was opened so there was some type of light. Ash decided to just change his pants out and just take a shower tomorrow. Morning once again came by faster than the Ketchum expected as the boy woke up to the sight of the rising sun.
He looked over at his friends' bunks and saw Brock and Dawn still asleep.
Ash rolled his eyes, First I wake up before Dawn and now before Brock? Guh… Ash groaned before sitting up, stretching. He looked at his hands as they rested on his lap, too tired to move. Pikachu came up to Ash and saw that he wasn't moving, which confused the mouse.
"Pi?" The mouse asked. He poked Ash and nothing happened. Pikachu tried pushing, and nothing. Punch, nothing. Finally after a few more failed attempts, Pikachu shocked him, again… Ash jumped and smacked his head against the top bunk and he fell back on his pillow, clutching his head in pain.
"Ow…" Ash moaned, the electricity shifting around his body. Pikachu muffled his laughter and walked towards the door, hitting his head on it, with muffled laughter being heard. Ash sat up and glared at his first Pokemon, but soon gave up seeing Pikachu wouldn't apologize. He stood up and limped towards the bathroom, entering to take a shower. When he walked back out he saw that his friends were still asleep and decided to go downstairs and get some breakfast. He picked up the now calm but still smiling Pikachu and the mouse adjusted himself to be on his master's shoulder.
"Want some breakfast?" Ash whispered. Pikachu nodded happily as Ash grabbed a key and walked out, heading downstairs. Ash saw about three more people, a lucky for him none were Kaori. Again, this shows how dense Ash really is. He walked towards the cafeteria and grabbed a sandwich and some poke chow for Pikachu.
After sitting down, "Here Pikachu. It's not Brock's but it's better than nothing." Ash said, opening the can and letting the pellets of food fall onto a napkin. Pikachu nodded happily before chowing down, Ash doing the same.
A minute later, "This is the second time you've awoken early Ash. Are you sure nothing's wrong?" Brock asked sitting down next to Ash. Brock grabbed scrambled eggs with two pieces of toast.
Ash just rolled his eyes, "Yes everything is fine Brock. I just awoke early a few times, no big deal." Ash waved it off, finishing up his sandwich.
Brock nodded, "Just wondering Ash. I'm just saying that if anything is wrong you can just talk to me." Brock informed. Brock was the second person Ash met while traveling and they really haven't separated since, with Brock being on every journey since. Ash nodded with a small smile, knowing he could count on Brock. Ash suddenly felt an eerie air take over the room and glancing over to the stair case he saw Kaori moving to grab breakfast. Brock followed his gaze as his eyes landed on the female. Kaori felt two pairs of eyes hitting her head, so she turned and saw Ash. She sneered and turned around again, fast walking to the cafeteria.
"Who was that Ash?" Brock asked after their eyes returned. Ash didn't want to let Brock know about her so he tried to play it off.
He shrugged, "Don't know." He tried playing it cool.
Brock wouldn't have it, "With the way you were staring at her, I'm going to have to disagree with you." Ash started panicking mentally but still kept his cool.
Ash shrugged, "And? What does a stare have to do with anything? She's probably just a fan." Ash waved it off, and felt bad having to lie to Brock about Kaori. Brock believed him, somewhat, but decided not to prowl on it, knowing Ash would stand strong. After Brock finished his breakfast the two decided to conduct strategies and new recipes, Ash not really helping with the recipes too much. Dawn came down soon enough and after she got her breakfast and finished it the trio gathered their things and, after giving back the keys, they left for the ferry.
"Zoey did get us tickets for the ferry today right?" Ash asked. Dawn nodded as she pulled out three tickets for the ferry to Johto. Zoey had been kind enough to buy them some tickets but it had depleted her savings a little. Dawn had felt bad that Zoey had to do that and offered that she pay it back but Zoey declined, the red head saying that everything the three have done was payment enough. Dawn still felt bad for not being able to pay her back, but promised she would make up for it. Upon reaching the ferry Ash noted that not that many people were boarding, only about 20 instead of 50-70. Ash was glad that not many people were boarding, this way he could focus on the Intel the warrior provided him.
They flashed the tickets to the guard and he nodded, letting them through.
"Room 17, left underside of the boat." The guard said, checking over the list of available rooms according to tickets. The trio nodded and started heading towards their room.
Along the away, "Did that guard even specify which part of 'underside'?" Dawn whined after 10 solid minutes of walking.
Brock shook his head, "I agree. He should've at least tried to explain." Brock rolled his non-existent eyes. Ash just sighed, using his intuition to find their room in the center of the ship, where the majority of the rooms were. There was a level below this and a level above, but Ash assumed that their rooms were dead center in the ship, since Zoey wouldn't spend that much money for three teenagers.
After reaching a certain door Ash stopped and turned to his bickering friends.
"Hey guys?"
Brock and Dawn turned to Ash, stopping as well, "What is it?" Dawn asked, annoyed. She knew that he got them lost again.
Ash pointed at the plate on the door, "Found our room." Dawn's eyes widened while Brock held a hidden grin. Ash just rolled his eyes at Dawn before sliding one of their key cards they got from the guard through the lock. It beeped in confirmation and before Ash opened the door Dawn pushed him out of the way and opened it first, dashing inside.
"Ouch." Ash said, now being hurt twice today. Brock leant a hand which Ash took gratefully.
After standing up Ash cracked his neck, "First Pikachu now Dawn? Who's next?" Ash asked, both sharing a laugh. Dawn suddenly burst from the door, a slight grin on her face.
"Hey guys guess what?" Dawn asked.
Ash crossed his arms, "What?"
"We have a person bunking with us as well."
Brock raised an eyebrow, "Oh? And who would that be?"
Dawn opened the door wider, revealing the person, "She said her name was Kaori!" Ash's eyes widened along with the female in question.
That's who's going to hurt me. Ash thought. The two had a stare down, Brock and Dawn surprisingly not noticing.
Brock smiled, "Hello there. My name is Brock, I saw you earlier in the Pokemon Center." He held out a hand.
Kaori stood up and shook it, "Yes, same with you. As you know the name's Kaori." She said, still wary of Ash. To make it seem like they didn't know each other and suspicions wouldn't raise Ash and Kaori played it cool.
"Hello. Name's Ash Ketchum." He held out a hand.
Kaori nodded with a solemn face, "Nice to meet you. Again, name's Kaori." Their handshake was tight, almost no muscle movement. They released the shake, Ash, no one noticing, was shaking his hand at the tight squeeze Kaori gave.
He turned and checked out the room. It was four beds on the back wall that were separated with night stands in-between each of the beds, the outsides of the outer beds having nothing. In-front of the beds was a 32 inch flat screen T.V. with a phone jack for computers. Outlets were located to the right of each of the beds, and there was a closet for those with multiple overnight stays. One bathroom was located next to the door which was where the closet was held, and Ash figured it would just be trouble. There was also a decently sized port window to look out of if someone was bored enough to.
Ash whistled, "Well, seems decent enough. I'm going to the deck." He said dropping his stuff on the bed closest to the door. He grabbed his poke balls and walked out, taking a keycard. Kaori rolled her eyes, Ash always was one to just care about training. One of the things she hated and loved about him.
Kaori shook her head, Aren't I supposed to be mad at him? The feeling she was getting was suspicious at best. Brock set his stuff on the bed closest to the window and Dawn's next to Brock. Kaori knew she had picked the wrong bed.
Up on the deck Ash noticed a medium sized crowd of people gathering around something, and now Ash wanted to know what was going on. Pushing himself through the crowd Ash saw someone he never expected to see again.
"Gyarados use Flamethrower." The red-head proclaimed. The sea serpent launched from his mouth molten fire that slammed into a duel flower pokemon.
"Roselia no!" The male brunette called out when the fire shot the Roselia back about ten feet. When the smoke cleared the male trainer held a sad look when he saw the swirls in her eyes. He sadly returned his Pokemon and left the stage, the red-head female once again victorious.
"Anyone else wanna challenge me?" She called out. Ash got a massive grin on his face at the challenge.
"I will." Ash said, using his new voice to hide himself.
The girl turned to the voice, "Ok! Who are-" She cut herself off as her eyes widened, seeing a familiar face walk into the arena.
Ash grinned, "Hey Mist. Been a while." Ash informed, twirling a Poke Ball in his hand.
Misty had tears in her eyes but none the less grinned, "I agree Ash. It has been a while. Why don't we catch up after I beat you into the dirt?" Misty asked with a wink.
Ash just 'hmphed', "First off there is no dirt on a boat and second, you'll be the one to lose. Gible let's end her streak!" Ash proclaimed calling out the land shark.
Misty rolled her eyes, but smiling none the less, "It's been a while since we've battled. Plus I want a rematch after that Gym Battle. Gyarados let's finish this!" She called to her water serpent.
"We'll start! Gible use Slash into Dragon Claw!" Ash called. The land shark moved in with a Slash and with his open claw he had it turn into a Dragon Claw. Both claws connected in an 'X' and the serpent recoiled before swatting his tail knocking the shark back.
"While he's recovering use Aqua Tail!" Gyarados moved in, his tail gleaming in a blue light. When Gyarados got close Ash called out.
"Gible jump over the tail and clamp onto it with Bite!" Gible jumped over the horizontal strike but before he could clamp Misty countered.
"Gyarados quick use a vertical Aqua Tail and Hydro Pump!" Gyarados quickly sent Gible upward and was sent flying after the pressurized water slammed into Gible's midsection.
"Gible!" Ash called out.
"Gyarados finish it with Flamethrower!" The sea-serpent launched a stream of flames at the flying shark. It engulfed Gible and all you could hear was the land shark screaming in pain.
"Gible!" Ash called again. A white light suddenly engulfed where the fire was, which blinded everyone. A loud 'thump' was heard while they were blinded and when the light faded away everyone stared in shock at what caused the thump.
"Gabite!" The pokemon cried, smacking his fists together.
Ash grinned while everyone else was open mouthed, "Alright! Gabite use Dragon Rush!" The evolved charged forward, its fin extending and glowing a bright blue. It smashed into Gyarados's face and it reeled back in pain.
Misty shook herself back into reality, "Quick Gyarados use Hyper Beam!" The sea-serpent, now closer to Misty, charged up a large orange ball of pure energy.
Ash had to think quickly, "Quick Gabite before it can attack use Draco Meteor!" Ash hoped this would work. A blue ball charged inside of the shark and before Gyarados could launch the attack Gabite snapped his head up and launched the now orange-blue ball into the sky. Ash crossed his fingers, pleading that it would work. The ball exploded into multiple which caused Ash's smile to widen.
Yes, it finally worked. He groaned in victory. The meteors smashed all around the arena and few hit target, but still dealt massive damage.
However, Ash heard something that scared him, "Piplup!" Ash sweat dropped at the voice.
He face palmed, "You couldn't resist hitting Piplup could you?" He heard his Gabite nervously laugh. Ash decided to forget about that for a moment and looked on the battlefield where the smoke was clearing up. Looking through the remaining smoke cloud and grinned in victory when he saw Gyarados with swirls in his eyes.
"Alright!" Ash cheered, smashing his fists together. He immediately winced at how hard the smash was against his already injured hand from Kaori. Misty sulked, her what, 10 win streak now ended by her first traveling companion.
Misty recalled her fainted Gyarados and walked up to Ash, holding out a hand, "Good battle Ash." She smiled. Ash was hesitant to shake her hand since he was going to shake with his injured one. He decided to just grin and bear it and shook her hand, relieved that she didn't squeeze to hard.
"I agree. I'm just surprised that Gible evolved." Ash praised his land shark.
Misty however had a question, "Why did I hear a pokemon cry out after you launched a Draco Meteor?" She asked, the crowd clearing out soon enough.
Before Ash could answer, a familiar voice cut him off, "ASH!" Dawn yelled, running to him, anger in her eyes. Her Piplup was trailing her, a large bump on its head.
"Ash!" She yelled again. She got up in his face and Ash started sweating as if there was a volcano in the vicinity.
"Hi Dawn…" He stated, backing away. Dawn realized that she couldn't stay mad and just settled for angrily sighing and pinching her nose.
"When will your Gible learn Draco Meteor?" Dawn whined. Piplup chirped angrily in agreement.
Ash scratched the back of his head, "Well first off it's not Gible anymore." He said, tossing out a poke ball to reveal Gabite. Piplup was ready to fight Gible, but then he saw Gabite and instantly fainted. Dawn was shocked at the evolution of the small land shark, now medium land shark.
"Second, Gabite did learn it, but it looks like for the hell of it he wanted to hit Piplup. Right Gabite?" Ash asked, his eyes narrowing. Gabite nervously laughed, scratching, or clawing, the back of his head.
Misty cleared her throat, "You going to introduce me Ash?" Ash suddenly got embarrassed.
He scratched his cheek, "Oh right, sorry. Dawn, this is my first traveling companion Misty. She taught me basically everything I know about battling. Misty this is one of my current traveling companions Dawn. She's a coordinator like May is" He introduced them both.
They shook hands, "Nice to meet you."
"Misty, good to see you again." Another voice popped up behind Dawn. Misty glanced behind the blunette and smiled wildly.
"Brock!" She immediately glomped him. Brock hugged back, and a minute later they let go.
"It's good to see you again Misty. How've you been?" Brock asked, glad to see his fellow gym leader/friend.
Misty smiled, "I've been good. How've you guys been?" She asked, curious about her friends' adventures.
Ash nodded, "We've been good. How are you here anyway? Last I checked your sisters made you come back to the gym." Ash said, remembering back in Johto.
Misty rolled her eyes, "Yeah. But luckily they decided to actually start training after my…um…talk-"
Ash interrupted, "You mean yell." Brock chuckled while Misty just rolled her eyes.
She continued, "-yeah whatever. Anyways they decided to actually train and it worked, so they gave me some off time. How much I don't know, but I decided to go to Alto Mare since another Tour de Alto Mare was going to happen soon. When I took the ferry I didn't notice it took me to… Snowpoint City is it?" Misty asked. The trio nodded in confirmation.
Misty nodded, "Ok. Well, yeah, that's it. So, you guys headed to Johto as well?" The trio nodded again. Misty smiled and said she was glad to meet her two friends again.
Ash thought of an idea, "Why don't we head to the coffee shop and catch up there?" Ash proposed. The other three nodded and they left the arena to the main floor where basically everything was.
Dawn then noticed something, "Hey, where's Kaori?" She asked, looking around them.
Brock answered for her, "She decided to stay at the room and read."
Misty raised an eyebrow, "Who's Kaori?"
Ash answered, "She's bunking with us on the trip. I don't know why she would be bunking though since not that many people are on this ferry." Ash sounded as if there was a trace of venom in his voice. Only Brock noticed it though. Misty and Dawn shrugged, and Ash then noticed something.
"Hey, where's Azurill?" Ash asked, noticing the absence of the Polka Dot Pokemon.
"She wanted to stay home and help my sisters. Well, I let her stay home and she didn't complain." Misty explained. Ash nodded and not more than 4 minutes later they reached the coffee shop. After they sat down and got drinks: Brock got coffee, Misty with tea, Dawn and Ash got water. After about a minute of chatting about their adventures, Misty listening most of the time however since her 'adventures' were just battling challengers, Ash remembered something.
"Oh, I have to head back to our room. See you guys later." Ash said after checking his watch. He quickly left and fast walked towards their room.
Misty raised an eyebrow, "What's got him so jumbled?" She asked with a roll of the eyes.
Brock and Dawn shrugged, Brock speaking, "Not too sure. I saw him acting weird about something this morning, but he wouldn't give an answer to what was wrong." Both Misty and Dawn were also confused.
Upon Ash reaching the room he quickly slid the key card through the lock and opened the door slowly, checking the time.
4:00 p.m. He thought, checking inside the room. He heard snoring and saw Kaori on her side, her back to him, and the book she was reading was next to her back. Ash sighed, glad she was asleep so he could look over the Intel that the warrior gave him. Quietly moving to his bed Ash shuffled through his backpack, and grabbed the Intel, setting the three folders on his bed.
He sat on his bed in a cross-legged position and grabbed one, "Hmm… The Defense Mechanism of Alto Mare." Ash would've insulted the person for giving him info about this but his memory of the object was rusty so he gladly read through it.
"Using sophisticated motion sensors in the DMA's control area, one can use hand signals to perform a variety of functions. It can create a lockdown by making metal barriers appear throughout the city and can even control water itself; bending it into the shape of the controller's hand motions. In addition, the DMA can also revive the fossils of Aerodactyl and Kabutops within the Alto Mare museum." Ash mumbled to himself.
He then rubbed his chin, "Now why would Team Rocket use this to distract the citizens? What are they planning on stealing? If they would try to steal the Soul Dew Latias would just repel them." Questions were now swimming through his head.
He then realized something, "Wait, they still need the Soul Dew to power the DMA anyway. What is going on?" Before he could ponder about the DMA and Soul Dew any further he heard Kaori groan next to him.
Crap. I'd better put these away. Ash thought with widened eyes. He quickly put the Intel folders away in his backpack, careful not to rip the folders on the blade. After Kaori woke up she looked around the room, and saw through blurred vision Ash.
She narrowed her eyes to see better, "What are you doing here?" To Ash her voice showed annoyance but not enough to make it seem like she was mad.
Ash raised an eyebrow, "Why are you mad at me? What did I do?" Again, really dense Ash.
Kaori rolled her eyes, "You already forgot Ketchum. Like I said before, I could tell you try to ignore me. All I want to know is why." Ash could now tell she was pleading. He felt bad for her, and he sighed, pinching his nose.
"It's just… You can be scary…" He mumbled after the pause.
Kaori raised an eyebrow, "What was that?"
Ash sighed, a faint blush of embarrassment on his face, "I said you scare me…" He said loud enough for Kaori to hear. The black haired female got a silly smile on her face before she burst out laughing at the reason. Ash felt very embarrassed at the reason, but, he felt happy hearing Kaori laugh.
"R-really? That's your reason? That's too funny!" Kaori laughed. She did feel a little annoyed and well, pissed, that that was Ash's reason for him ignoring her.
After a few minutes she calmed down, standing up, "Well that woke me up. How do I scare you anyway?" She asked, placing her hands on her hips.
Ash scratched his cheek, "Well, with how you act… you know, your flirting." He was hesitant on the sentence.
Kaori raised an eyebrow, "So, me being who I am scares you?" Ash nodded. She walked over to Ash and slapped him across the face.
He clutched his cheek, "Ouch!" I knew she would hurt me! Ash said then thought, what he said earlier being correct.
"That's a mean thing to say Ash." Ash turned to Kaori who was shaking her hand, a few tears in her eyes.
"Are you ok?" He asked, standing up. Kaori just shook her head.
"You are such an idiot Ash." Kaori said, walking out of the room.
What the hell is going on? Ash thought…
Me: Again, don't know what I was happening half of the time. But oh well, here you go. Later!