Chapter 7
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CHAPTER 7: An Old Friend
Ash just stood there, immobile, not knowing what do or what to say, there stood Brock, his best friend, they were together through thick and thin, and next to him, Pidgeot, his first ever flying type, and very loyal Pokemon, was staring right at Ash.
"This may take a while." muttered Misty, she seemed annoyed, and pulled out the Battle Frontier Guide, and started observing it.
Ash moved one step closer, so did Pidgeot, and then, Ash just jumped and hugged Pidgeot. Pidgeot had tears in its eyes, it was an emotional reunion. Ash's eyes started to water a bit, but he did his best to hide them, if even a tear fell off his eyes, Misty would tease him for the rest of his life.
May looked at Ash and Pidgeot, she thought that the most beautiful moment in life is between a trainer and its Pokemon. She never knew Pidgeot, but she had tears forming in her eyes. She moved to Mina and gave her a hug, catching Mina off guard. "Oh, this is such a beautiful bond." May told a surprised Mina, and started to wail.
"Will you calm down?" said Mina, trying to shove May out of the way.
May let go of her, and gave her a vicious glare. "Pokemon bond hater." she muttered under her breath, and entered Brock's house.
Ash still did not let go of Pidgeot, so Brock, May and Mina entered the house, Misty, however, was so absorbed in the book, she still didn’t know whether Ash had finished hugging Pidegot or not. Brock chuckled.
Ash let go of the long embrace, "Its really good to see you again, old buddy." brushing the beautiful coat of Pidgeot.
Pidgeot looked better than ever, tall and bulky, its hair with yellow and pink stripes and massive wings. It was truly a spectacular sight to see, and Ash grinned to the Pokemon, knowing that the Pokemon would never have been the way it is now if it wasn’t for him.
"So, what are you doing here?" asked Ash curiously, still admiring Pidgeot.
"Pidgeot! Pidg!" said the aerial Pokemon.
"So, you heard from Brock that I was going to the Battle Frontier, and you wanted to surprise me?" asked Ash, anxious for the answer.
Pidgeot nodded its magestic head to Ash.
Ash smiled at Pidgeot, and Pidgeot let out a cry. Ash and Pidgeot all entered the house.
"Ash, don't you think you are forgetting something?" asked Brock, a smirk appearing on his face. He perfectly knew what Ash was forgetting.
"Brock, tell me, come on,
what did I forget?" said Ash, fretful.
"Misty, you forget Misty!" laughed Brock.
"Oh, no!" Ash dashed to the Pewter Gym Entrance, and found Misty standing up, still reading the guide, her eyes completely glued to the book. "Misty!"
Misty went back to her senses, she jumped from shock. "Ash, what are you planning to do to me? Scare me half to death?" she yelled at Ash, fury written all over her face.
Ash hid his grin, "I'm sorry, Misty, I hope you will forgive me for my wrong-doing." Ash said to Misty, trying to act cute, unfortunately, it didn’t, Misty saw right through him.
"Stop, you are not acting cute, you are acting obnoxious." she told Ash, snatching her bag, and carried Azurill lovingly, and walked towards the interior of the gym.
Ash stood there, yet again in the same position, "
She likes me, she likes me not, which is it?" thought Ash intriguingly.
Ash looked at Pikachu, "You are so lucky that you don’t have to deal with love, you know." Ash added to Pikachu quietly. "I mean, if you just see another Pikachu that you are attracted to, you immediately mate, and have babies, no thinking, Pokemon Love is so primitive.
Pikachu looked at Ash, sparks flying from each cheeks, it obviously took that comment as an insult, infuriating Pikachu. "PIKA!" Pikachu blasted Ash with a powerful thunderbolt.
Ash fell to the ground, the shock obviously hurt him greatly. Pikachu did not care at all, it just continued to walk towards the Gym, and in it went, not even looking back at its trainer. Ash slowly got back up, he walked slowly too. He eventually arrived at the Gym, and marched himself towards the dining room, it was dimly lit, with a low but long table, and plates of sandwiches, and a lot chairs, he there saw the whole group enjoying lunch, finger sandwiches and drinks. Pikachu and Azurill kept popping the Pokemon treats inside their mouths, appreacating the food greatly.
"Ash, come and have a seat next to
me." said Mina, tapping the chair next to her, she shot a furtive glance at Misty. Misty was not happy at all, she banged her fork on her salad, furious at Mina. May looked at them alarmly, she didn’t know what could happen, for all she knew, they could end up killing each other. Ash walked slowly over to the chair next to Mina, and sat himself.
"Brock, are you coming with us to the Battle Frontier with us?" asked Ash, grabbing a sandwich and taking a large bite from it.
Brock swallowed the piece of chicken in his mouth, and looked at Ash, "I sure am, how can I leave you and Misty alone, you guys would get lost instantly." he said, looking at both Ash and Misty, thinking that it would be good if he and Misty were alone together. "Of course, I couldn’t leave the lovely Mina alone." He added, love in his eyes, and quickly took hold of Mina's palm, and placed a kiss on it, maybe a bit too wet kiss.
Mina let out a weak smile, "Oh you are too kind."
"You pervert." she thought disgustingly, wiping her hand on the napkin.
Brock then looked at May, "So, have you seen Drew yet?" he asked grinning.
May stared at him, "No, I didn’t, why do you ask?" blushing furiously, started stuffing mouthfuls of sandwiches all at once.
"Just asking, you don’t have to blush, it was just a simple question." He looked at her inquisitively, wondering if May had any feelings for him.
"Is Drew the guy who keeps popping out of nowwhere and showering you with flowers?"
"Not flowers,
roses." May corrected Mina.
"Same thing." said an angry Mina.
May got heated up, "No, they are
not. Flowers are just flowers, and roses are…red." she finally filled the small interval.
Mina stood up, and pushed her long chocolate brown hair out of her face, and looked extremely ticked off that she kept getting corrected.
"Good God, what are you, my flourist?"
She went to take the dishes to the sink, and soon came back, her expression still anger.
Everyone kept sending glances at Mina, except Brock, who kept staring at her beautiful face.
"Don’t hate me 'cause I'm beautiful!" said Mina, snapping her fingers at all, except Ash.
Misty snorted loudly, "Excuse me." She placed her hand over her mouth and continued to giggle uncontrollably.
"What is so funny, red head?" asked Mina hurtfully.
Misty straight away stopped laughing, she was angry at Mina's remark. "I am a red head, so? Is that a problem?"
Mina sighed, "No, no it is not." Tears started to form in her eyes, everything was dead-silence, no one said a peep. "All I ever want to do is to be your friend. What gives?" she stood up, and ran up to the guestroom.
Everyone had stopped eating, they all stared at Misty, she was shocked too, she didn’t expect Mina to cry.
"You should go over and apologize to Mina, I think you really hurt your feelings!" said an angry Brock, sitting up and looked at Misty sternly, like her father, and pointed his fingers to her first then moved them to the ceiling, which meant the upper-floor where the guestroom is and probably Mina is there too.
"Okay." She got up, grabbed her bag and put them over her shoulder, and marched off to the room. She soon came back and gave Azurill a quick kiss.
She saw the stairs, and slowly started ascending the steps. She didn’t know how to apologize to Mina. She finally arrived at the top of the stairs, and saw six rooms, three on one side, and three on the other side. She took a wild guess, and opened the room, it wasn’t the guestroom, she saw Brock's two sisters, one of them doing the other's hair, they were both angered by Misty's sudden and quite rude appearance.
The taller sister looked up at Misty, "Buzz off, sunset head, and shut the door on your way out." she added rudely.
Misty was taken aback at the rude comments, she didn’t lay her finger on why Brock's sister turned out to be the exact opposite of him. And, she was the second person in less than a quarter of an hour to be teased because of her hair."O-kay." she said quietly, closing the door on her way out.
She opened the next door, and it was the guestroom, she stepped inside the cozy room. She didn’t see anyone inside.
"SURPRISE!" yelled Mina, shocking Misty, making her jump high in the air. Mina took a soap bottle and squirted it all over Misty. It was a red shampoo, and all its liquid has been poured on Misty.
Someone outside the door gasped, it was one of Brock's brothers. He stared at them, stepped back and yelled. "BLOOD! BLOOD!"
The whole gang heard it, Ash, May and Brock quickly sprinted to the upper floor, nervous on what they might see. Brock reached first, he looked at Misty, and laughed. He turned his head to Ash and May, "False alarm, just red shampoo."
Ash started to laugh too, Brock joined, and they started laughing madly, May, however, was her usual nice self, and was considerate towards Misty, she walked towards her and took her to the bathroom. She let out a glare at Mina, "You guys don’t catch a brake." She moved her head towards Misty, and signalled her to go to the bathroom for her to take a shower. Misty entered the bathroom.
"Ash, will you wait here?" asked May kindly.
"Why?" Ash asked May back curiously.
"Because, you have to stay here with Misty incase she needs help in something!" responded May, she seemed to have a plan.
"Mina and Brock, you guys come help me wash the dishes!" ordered May, walking towards the door.
"But-, Mina stuttered.
"No buts, now!" she yelled again, holding the door open for the both of them. Mina and Brock walked towards the door. "Thank you, and Ash if you need anything, were just a floor away." she added nicely.
"All right." he answered May.
"May! Could you close the A.C, I don’t wanna get a cold after I get out of the shower." screamed Misty from the bathroom.
"OK! And I'm Ash by the way!" replied Ash thoughtfully, heading towards the A.C, and turned it off.
"ASH?! What are you doing here, where is May?" she asked him quickly, a bit shy that he was in the room while she was taking shower.
"May went down, if you want me to go, then I will." replied Ash sadly.
"NO! That’s Ok!" said Misty quickly.
She closed the shower tap, put a warm towel over her wet body, and stepped out of the bathroom, and she saw Ash.
"Oh!" Ash yelled, covering his eyes with his hands, but Misty could still him blushing.
"Ash, I see you blushing, you naughty boy!"
Misty soon got dressed, and sat on the same bed with Ash, they started talking about life in general, Misty thought it was so pathetic, she wanted to tell Ash how she feels about him, but once Ash talks about battles, well, you know the rest. She didn’t realize that she had been laying her head on Ash's shoulder. There was a knock on the door, it swung open and there was May.
She looked at them with a huge grin on her face, her hands were behind her back, and before they could say anything, May took a picture with her camera, picturing Misty laying her head on Ash's shoulder. May immediately dashed out of the room. Misty got up, but Ash held her hand.
"Come on, its just a picture, were friends, so whats the big deal?" asked Ash, looking at Misty's face.
"Friends, just friends?" she thought sadly. "Does Ash only think of me as a friend?"
"Actually Ash, I wanted to talk to Brock, and ask him how the Gym is going." Misty lied through her teeth.
Ash nodded and let go of her hand, "Sorry."
She left the room, she wanted to see May. She bumped into Mina, none of them said anything to each other, except continue to ignore. She finally saw May, at the end of the hallway, they locked eyes for a second, only to see May spriniting down the stairs, Misty went after her and caught her.
"Don’t worry." She panted, placing her hand on her heart. "I'm not going to take the picture away from you. I actually want to tell you something Ash told me." Her voice deepened, she got sad, and May believed her, and gave her a reassuring hug.
"What happened between you two?" asked May inquisitively, from what she could see, it didn’t seem that good.
"When you pictured me and Ash, I tried getting back the picture, but Ash told me to stop." She took a deep breath, "He said it didn’t matter because we're only friends." She continued sorrowfully.
May looked at Misty, "So you think Ash thinks of you as a friend?"
"I'm afraid so." she added sarcastically.
The way Misty said that made May laugh, she couldn’t help but giggle too, who knows, maybe Ash was not thinking straight that time. She saw Ash opening the door, she looked at him and said, "Ready for dinner?"
Ash beamed, "You bet I am."
So they all headed down to the dining room, Ash was glad to find that Misty, May and Mina did not continue to fight anymore. They all ate happily and soon after that, they headed up to their room to sleep.
It was passed midnight, the guys were already fast asleep, but the girls were wide awake, all were taking turns on the computer chatting with friends. It was May on the computer now, Misty and Mina were both lying on their separate bed.
Mina had a prank. "May, someone called Drew wants to speak to you."
"What? Drew? GIMME!" screamed May, jumping off her chair.
"Kidding, no one on the line for you." Said Mina nastily.
Misty couldn’t help but laugh, that was a good prank.
"Ahh, you do have feelings for Drew!" said Mina naively. "Drew and May, sitting in a tree. H-U-M-P-I-N-G. First comes lust, then comes love, then comes a baby in a baby carriage."
"Eeww! Gross! Whats the matter with you, changing the lyrics of the song?" asked May angrily.
Misty giggled, but she couldn’t let Mina see her laughing. May got sad that Drew was not on the line for her.
The phone rang.
Mina answered it, "Hello?" she said uncertainly, looking at Misty.
"Yes, could I please speak to May?" the voice asked uncertainly.
"Who is it?" Mina asked the stranger, courage in her voice.
"This is Drew, May's friend." responded Drew.
"May, Drew is on the line for you." she called to her.
May was facing the computer, her back towards Mina. "No, stop lying to me!" she said sadly.
"Uh…May, it really is Drew." Misty told May.
May looked at Misty, then at the phone, and she galloped like an animal to the phone and cleared her voice. "Hello?"
"Hey, May, whats up?" asked Drew nicely.
"Hi, Drew!" replied May, blushing cutely.
"How are you doing, little brunette?" teased Drew.
"Oh, I am spectacular, and you?" she asked back.
"I'm fine, I just miss…-, there was silence.
"Miss what?" asked May, curiousity getting the best of her.
"Uhh…Umm…I miss beating you in the battles…" stuttered Drew, his face burning with emberassement, he was too shy to tell May how he feels about her.
"Oh…okay." said May sadly.
"May, you are heading to the Battle Frontier, right?" he asked her.
"Well, yeah, I am there to support Ash." She told Drew.
"Ash, he has to travel and get badges. There were some coordinators that were picked, I was one if them. So, the good thing is that I don't have to travel and compete for symbols. I am through to the League. But, I...I want to ask, would you be my partner?" he informed May.
May stood there, all this information was too much to swallow at once, but she finally had her answer.
"Yes."
May could hear Drew scream in happiness, she blushed harder than ever, and they both bidded each other goodbye and she will hopefully see him in the grand opening of the Battle Frontier. She then told Misty and Mina everything, it took even more time for them to digest the new information knowing that they were all opponents in the League.
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The next morning, May, Misty, and Mina all told Ash and Brock about May competing and her partner is Drew. Ash smiled, he enjoyed the fact that all of his friends are going to hopefully compete in the League.
The whole group had a hardy breakfast, which they ate well. They would leave tomorrow for the Battle Frontier.
"You better watch out, Drew and I will pulverise you." May said maliciously.
"No, me and Ash will destroy you." retorted Misty.
"I don’t have anything to say, ran out of ideas. But I already defeated you." She added, grinning to herself.
Misty's temper rose greatly, it seemed that that everyday Misty and Mina will have a go at each other. May, the sweet person, will always try to be the matchmaker, even though she is very naïve, and Brock, will fall for any girl, and Ash, the most determined boy on the face of the planet, caring and sharing, and eating. All of them have different personalities, which set them apart from each other, making each one of them…unique.
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