Hey everyone, here is *drumroll* Chapter 2! But! Before we get started: My disclaimer! I kinda forgot about this last chapter so just to make everything clear: I don't own Pokémon or any of the characters. *deep sigh* But who knows? Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and on my bedside table there will be a paper that says I won Pokémon! Okay, that sounded ridiculous, even for me, so I say: "Let's get busy!" (Lilian/Vivian quote ;))

Chapter 2: a nightmare during the night and one during the day.

MAY'S POV:

It started just like always, everything was dark except one single thing. A white rose with thorns on the side, and no matter where I looked, it never left my vision. The rose alone was enough to have me quivering in fear, but of course, it wouldn't be so easy. Then that hated voice started speaking:

"Now now May don't tell me you've been bad again, because if you have, I'll have to punish you." (Please don't think about this in a perverted way, he really means punishing as in kicking, beating,… you get what I mean.) I screamed. "No! No! Please don't, I've been good, I swear. I didn't sing a single note, I was quiet all the time, just please don't pu-" I stopped as a felt the pain coursing through me. I knew what would happen next. I curled up in a ball, locking out the pain that I felt. But I couldn't lock out the words. Those hated words.

"You thought that by running away you'd be rid of me, didn't you? Well sorry to disappoint you little girl, I'll never leave you alone no matter how far you run. You'll never be rid of me!" he laughed wickedly "Never! You hear me?!" then there was a scream filled with pain before everything went dark.

Then, just like every other time, I woke up screaming in my bed. After a short while I calmed down enough to notice that my sisters were standing next to my bed. Well sisters, not by blood, but we were closer than you could imagine. Literally. The bond that connected us was proof. At times like this, I really despised it, I didn't care if had to suffer from my nightmares, but I didn't want my sisters to feel it to. They had their own past to handle, and they didn't need mine bothering them as well. Normally, we could control the bond, but in my sleep, that didn't always work. Damn.

LEAF'S POV:

I woke up first, feeling May's fear and horror. I quickly went over to her bed to wake her up, which was easy, because we all slept in the same room. Partly because it was safer, but mostly because of Dawn's fear to be abandoned. While May is waking up, I think about how our pasts ruled our lives: May wakes up every night because of her nightmares, Dawn can't be left alone for more than a few hours, Misty is distrustful and overly protective towards all of us. And then there was me: a teenage girl with the worst social skills ever. Neither one of us were social beautiflys, but I certainly held the crown. While I was thinking about this, Misty and Dawn joined me at May's bed, who had now calmed down again.

"The same dream again?" I asked, even though I knew the answer. The brunette shivered. "Yes, the same stupid nightmare again." she said, before looking up at us. "I'm sorry for waking you guys up…. Again."

Dawn snorted: "As if we'd let you handle this on your own. You hurt me May, do you know us so bad?"

"I feel kinda hurt as well, but since its 2 AM, I'll let it slip. We should all get some more sleep." Misty added.

"I know, I'm just going to get some fresh air, I'll see you guys in the morning." May said with a fake smile on her face.

When she was gone Misty Dawn and I all shared a look of understanding. We all knew she blamed herself for waking us up, but we couldn't tell her, that would only make her feel worse. "Looks like it was a bad one tonight." I said, saying what everyone thought. (Not because of their bond, most of the time, they don't "turn it on", they just know each other so good)

Misty sighed. "I hope Arthur can cheer her up, she needs it now more than ever."

"He will, he always does." Dawn assured us both.

"Yeah, you're right, everything will be okay in the morning." As okay as it could be at least.

MAY'S POV:

When I stepped outside the backdoor I immediately released my pokemon, the one I needed most right now. Out came a bird-like fire/fighting type, my special partner, my Blaziken. "Hey Arthur." I sad softly (I know, I know, but this one really needed a nickname, and I always name my starter Arthur so I figured it would fit. It's just some sort of tradition) One look at me was enough for my pokemon to know what happened and it quickly grabbed me in a hug, which was pretty funny since he was almost a feet taller than me. I smiled in his chest, reminding how this was so alike to when I first met him.

-Flashback-

I rolled up in a small cave, an ice-cold one at that. I had just escaped…that horrible place a few weeks ago and I was just aimlessly wondering around. I felt like a little baby, not really a good feeling when you're 13 years old. Either way it was a miracle I had survived. Just when I was wondering when my luck would run out I heard a noise behind me. I immediately started running, but before I came more than a few meters I realized I was locked in. I took in a deep breath and turned around. Before me stood a little Torchic in a pretty bad shape that was looking at me weirdly.

"Please," I started pleading "don't hurt me."

The Torchic came closer, cautiously, and then it sat beside me. I first pulled away when I felt his touch, but quickly returned when I noticed how warm he was. I looked at his head, and was surprised when I saw it was looking for danger with its bright eyes. And by the way he stood partly in front of me, it was clear he was trying to protect me. I strangely felt safe next to this little guy, and because he gave me that felling, I wanted to help him as well. I ripped apart a part of my sleeve to make a bandage for his foot and afterwards we both went to sleep. Snuggling.

The next morning, it was obvious that Torchic's leg was a whole lot better than last night. When I started to walk away from the cave it followed me.

"What are you doing?" He looked back with a really-now-genius-look on his face. "You want to come with me?" Torchic nodded. "Okay!"

After a walking a little while I found a pokebal in the middle of the road (Hmmm… where could that come from?) I picked it up and before I knew it Torchic jumped against it and was sucked inside. Recalling my limited knowledge of pokemon I realized I had just captured a pokemon. "Sweet" I muttered, before opening the ball again and letting Torchic come out. "So you are mine now?" I asked. I took the happy chirping I got as a yes. "Hmm… maybe I should give you nickname! After all, that was what that one pokemon said I should do. Hm.. Let's see, I'll name you Arthur!" I said, and I got a happy hug as a reply. I continued walking, and when I noticed that he was watching for anything suspicious, I vowed that I would do anything to protect him. After all, he gave me something that I haven't had for 9 years: a friend, and an even more precious: hope.

-END FLASBACK-

When Blaziken let go of me, I realized that we still looked after each other all the time, even though we both weren't harmless and weak anymore. I had a special bond with all of my pokemon, but Arthur was and always would be my No. 1 partner. We talked for a while (well I talked and he replied in his own pokemon language.) and after that I returned him and went back to bed, smiling. Because I knew I wouldn't have another nightmare tonight.

MISTY'S POV:

The next morning, I was the first one up as usual. That was the way I liked it, organized, safe. I looked around our fairly large room. We all had a bed (duh!) and our own closet, besides from Dawn who has two, since she likes to shop that much. It was really easy to know which bed belonged to whom, they all had our respective colour: mine was blue, Dawn's was pink, May's was red and Leaf's was green. I quickly woke everyone up, and we went downstairs. There isn't much to say about the house we were currently staying at, just basic stuff: a normal kitchen, a living room, 2 bathrooms. The basic house you could find everywhere in the Jotho region. Jep, all pretty normal, besides the huge bunker beneath our basement, also known as our base. We always teleported and phased it when we left our real home in Hoenn. After breakfast, we went downstairs to talk to our…. I guess you could call her a mentor, not a boss, definitely not a mother, we don't have a mother anymore. She's the person who taught us everything, from spying and stealing to pokemon. Either way, she stood there, just like always, our mentor and "guardian" Solidad.

"Hey girls. How was your night?" she asked.

"Good enough." I shrugged. "Broke into a highly guarded skyscraper, stole some extremely important documents, had a little battle and then went straight to bed, like good little girls should." Everyone started laughing as I said that. We? Good little girls? Sureeee….

Leaf was the first to stop laughing. "How was your night Solidad?"

She brushed her long pink hair behind her ear. We all knew what this meant, it was serious. "Well, you guys all still remember the prophecy you got from those pokemon right?"

We nodded, how could we forget? Like many other things in our past, we couldn't forget, even if we tried.

Leaf started reciting the prophecy, she always had a nod for legends, and mythology and stuff like that. "Four maidens will answer the call. At their hands darkness will fall."

Dawn took over: "But before their pasts will part, each of them must shatter the lock around her heart."

"Speaking of shattering, how is that working out?"

We all looked sheepily at Solidad, of course that was the most difficult part, after what we've been through, you don't let people in so easily. The exception was Solidad, and even that had taken a few years. Said girl sighed. "Either way, what I discovered from the documents is that there are other people who know about it, well, actually it's a company: "The ordo draco" is how they call themselves. Since you are the maidens from the prophecy, this… awful organization thought it would be handy if they broke you so you would be easier to control. This task was handed to five people, and they all used a …different approach."

My jaw set, we all knew which "methods" they had tried. My memories were trying to break free, they wanted to let me live through it another time, but I forced them back, now wasn't the time.

Solidad noticed this and quickly went on with her story: " Well, I now know their names." We all looked up, our expressions going from furious to blank to horrified and then sad again. She showed us 4 photos on a screen, which stood next to our weapons and operating tools. "This was the man who tried to break you Dawn, Kenny." She pointed to a brunet with black eyes. Next was another brunet with blue eyes. "This one was in charge of Leaf. His name is Ritchie." Looking at Leaf, I could see her eyes turn murderous. Next up was a white/black haired boy with red eyes, or as Solidad addressed him: Brendan. We all could feel May's terror coming through the bond, even if she tried to put on a brave face, and knew that tonight, the nightmare would be even worse than usual. And then it was my turn. "Misty, these people were supposed to look after you: James and Jessie Rocket." So these were the ones… a man with blue hair and green eyes and a woman with magenta hair and blue eyes. So these were those murderers.

DAWN'S POV:

As big of a shock as it was, we couldn't let this distract us. "What else did you find out Solidad?"

"Those boys you fought last night, are named Draw Hayden, Gary Oak, Ash Ketchum and Paul Shinji." She said this while pointing at four new pictures that had appeared. "After their plan didn't work with you girls, they needed another elite team, they all control a secondary element." Hmmp… didn't work, I wonder why?

"They are all trained by Brock Stone." A new image popped up. I saw Solidad eyes get hard when she looked at him. We knew why, she had lost her brother Robert, then she fell in love with Brock, only to realize later that he was the reason Robert was dead.

To help Solidad, I asked: "What else did you find out Solidad?" Said girl looked at me with intense gratitude before continuing with her story.

"The people who were in charge of you form the inner circle, and they answer to one person, but I can't find a thing about him or her." This was a shock, Solidad could ALWAYS find something. "But I did find out that their headquarters is back in your hometown, LaRousse city in Hoenn." So all this time we were so close to those… monsters and we didn't even know? Oh, the irony.

May spoke up: "So we just head home? That doesn't sound so difficult."

"It's not that easy, you'll have to enroll in the local high school, the Rose academy." When the word "rose" was said, May's eyes turned fearful again for a split second, but they were quickly back to their beautiful blue colour.

"If we enroll in a high school, we'll have to use our secondary abilities, don't we?" Misty pointed out.

That's right, most people in our world have abilities or talents: simply it means you can do something abnormal. For example: You have people who control elements, secondary or primary. That's our ability, we all control one of the 4 elements. But, we also have something very special, we can use another ability. Mine is disguises, I can transform myself and other people in people with a different gender, face, hair,… May can become invisible and make other things invisible, but she doesn't like it that much, she likes her fire ability's much more. Misty can phase things and Leaf can an X-Ray vision. And like usual, Misty was right. Since no one can know who we are, we can only use our secondary element. I didn't mind, but I know May and Leaf did, I could almost hear Leaf scolding in herself. When I checked her thoughts, I found that she was indeed cursing.

After she was done, we all eagerly started packing. We wanted to go home.

THE NEXT DAY: (STIIL DAWN'S POV)

We quickly returned home by teleporting with Leaf's Galade and found that the house as the same way we left it. It was nothing special, it even looked a bit like the house we lived in in Jotho, but it felt more secured, safer. It was also on the beach, so we could see the ocean from almost every room. After putting away our stuff, we released our pokemon from their pokeballs, since we knew they liked to be home as well. Leaf released her Charizard, Riolu, Galade, Sceptile and Luxray. I released my Piplup, Pachirisu, Staraptor, Zorua and Typhlosion. Next was May with Altaria, Wartortle, Beautifly, Glaceon and her Blaziken Arthur. The last to release her pokemon was Misty , she released Gyrados, Politoed, Kingdra, Tentacruel and Togekiss. The pokemon were al delighted to be home again, and we all played and swam a bit together. After dinner (which Leaf made) we all sat down to have one of our "sister talks".

NORMAL POV:

"So? What did you think about those boys?" Dawn asked excitedly.

"They seem to be tough opponents, we shouldn't underestimate them." was Misty's response.

"Not in that way! You are hopeless, what about you Leaf? What was that boy's name again? Lary Oak?"

"Gary." Leaf said not paying that much attention.

"You remembered! So you like him!" Dawn almost made a dance around the room, May and Misty sweat dropped and Leaf looked mortified.

Said girl screamed "I do not!"

"Leaf's right, we shouldn't trust those boys, any boys at that matter." May nodded at Misty's statement.

"Besides, I don't think we should get distracted by anything right now. I'm just glad we won't be seeing those boys again." Everyone nodded and went to bed. As promised, the nightmare was worse this night, because no matter how much the girls and May's pokemon tried to calm her, she kept on crying and shouting and trashing in her sleep. When the girls tried to return Arthur to his pokebal, he almost shot a flamethrower at them, he just stayed next to May the entire night. Outside of that it was a relatively peaceful night, with a bright moon and twinkling stars.

AT AN ABANDOND FACTORY NEARBY:

"So you guys know what to do if you meet up with that pathetic Flower Power something." The four boys nodded, while looking at their leader. Said man brushed his long hair behind his shoulder before laughing evilly. "They won't get away again! How dare they steal from me! ME! The ultimate ruler of darkness, and soon the whole world!"

THE NEXT MORNING:

The girls all put their clothes and power suppressors on the next morning, returned their pokemon and went to school after eating their breakfast (which Leaf made again) During breakfast, they had gone through a lot of different scenario's in case something happened, so they all felt pretty sure of themselves. May was wearing a red top with a black leather jacket and a pair of jeans combined with a pair of brown boots. Dawn had on a black top, a cute pink skirt and black high-heels. Leaf was like May wearing a pair of jeans, but hers matched with her black T-shirt and green sweater, she finished her outfit with green trainers. Misty on the other hand was wearing a khaki short that came to her knees with a navy blue top and matching blue sandals. They all had the exact same power suppressor: a bracelet that held their pokeballs. They could only take it off by using their bond to literally force it open.

They stood outside a classroom, the classroom that would be their homeroom for the period of time they stayed in this school. To make everything easy, they had said they were sisters –what they were in a way- and that their last name was Fiore. While they were waiting, Misty and May had started quarrelling about the use of ability's.

"All right you win! But if someone says I should be invisible all the time or sits on me I shoot fire at their heads before I run away, got that?" said a heated May.

"There will be no running away, this could even be a good experience for us! You know, meeting other people and stuff, at least, that's what Solidad said." was Misty's response.

"Fine" grumbled the brunette.

Then the teacher opened the door and said they could come in. The moment they stepped into the class and took in their surroundings, they all stopped. Through their half frozen state May asked Misty through the bond: "Now do we run?"

Because none of their scenario's included four painfully familiar boys, standing in the back of the classroom. And who all looked equally shocked. Well f*ck.

And that's that! Ah, how I love a good cliffy. Well that's 10 pages so I guess I kept my promise to make it longer. Yay for me! Either way, reviews would really be awesome! And speaking of reviews, I want to thank Sakura Touko for being my first reviewer ever. And I'll close this chapter with a quote:

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

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