The Memories Within An Aquamarine Charizard
By Aquamarine
aquadragon_@hotmail.com 
(OT) Part 4B

	Maya sat up with a gasp. She was still in her bedroll, but it was now on a 
small sandy island covered with rocks and boulders. She looked around, and 
didn’t see Alex anywhere. She heard his voice shout something, and ran towards 
it. Running around a boulder, Alex came into view. He was panting, and looked 
exhausted. She dashed towards him, and saw he had a plusle fighting some 
crawdaunt and walrein, their owners being an army of people in blue costumes.
	“Why didn’t you wake me up, you doofus!” she said, and pushed on his 
shoulders to make him sit. “Did you even sleep?” Alex looked up, and grinned.
	“No one could wake you up. I slept! For about two hours.” he said.
	“How dare you let me sleep while you work yourself to death!” said Maya, 
slapping the back of his head. “I’ll handle it. Um, who are they?”
	“Ow! That hurt. Team Aqua. That red-haired lady in the front is their 
commander or something.” said Alex, pointing.
	“How’d you know?” asked Maya.
	“Everyone, no offence, knows who Team Aqua when they see them. And the 
lady introduced herself as ‘Commander Shelly’ so I made that assumption.” said 
Alex, rubbing his head.
	“What do you want?” Maya asked Shelly.
	“We’re looking for someone--”she broke off, and examined her. “…like you, 
actually. Mind coming with us, Maya?”
	“What do you want from me?” asked Maya.
	“That power of yours, assuming that you are the one we’re looking for. It 
could help us greatly. You wish to battle? Then fight for your freedom!” The 
entire squad threw out their water pokemon. All crawdaunt and walrein, how 
creative, thought Maya.  There were about sixty pokemon total, their thoughts 
and speech nearly deafening her. Maya tossed out a pokeball.
	“Challa, use Absorb!” her beautifly attacked the nearest group of walrein 
as Maya threw out two more pokeballs.
	“Jake, Doubleslap! Kyuto, Quick Attack!” Maya shouted, her skitty and 
surskit entered the fray. She didn’t call out Shukumei, there were too many 
water pokemon. She heard Alex throw out his pokemon and give instructions. A 
flygon, mightyena, plusle, gyrados, and his lapras. Not bad, she thought, as his 
pokemon attacked. Her mind flicked back to hers. She could feel them faltering. 
A group of crawdaunt  closed in around her, separating her from Alex and their 
pokemon. The menacing thoughts filled with attacks and-was it pity?- filled her 
mind. Maya went backwards a step.
	“Watergun!” shouted  a voice. The claws opened. Maya saw Alex break 
through the pokemon to her left. Two dozen jets of water crashed into her, 
propelling her backwards. She slammed into a boulder, and the stream stopped,. 
She slid down the boulder, landing painfully. She opened her eyes, black spots 
filling her sight. She saw a boy land in front of her and call out a roselia. 
Then all she saw was darkness.
	“Maya!” shouted Alex, breaking free of the crawdaunt who had grabbed him. 
He rushed towards her, almost tried to wake her up, then thought better of it. 
She was out cold. He tossed out Flame and picked her up.
	“Petal Dance, Roselia!” shouted the boy. Alex looked his way as  the 
roselia  unleashed  a flurry of petals that blinded their enemy. Alex whistled. 
Both his and Maya’s pokemon burst through the petals and jumped into their 
pokeballs. He was too distracted to think about it at the moment.
	“She out?” Alex nodded, and resumed putting Maya on Flame.
	“Pleasantries later, we have to get to Dewford.” said Alex, hopping on 
Flame behind Maya. The boy called out his swellow and they took off.
	“Return, Roselia!” the boy said.  Roselia kept up Petal Dance until it 
disappeared into its pokeball.
					           ***
	Maya awoke and sat up quickly. Alex started, he was sitting near the bed. 
They looked at each other and each exhaled the breath they were holding.
	“Alex, where are we?” asked Maya, looking around.
	“The Dewford Pokemon Center. I rented a room.” said Alex.
	“How did I get here? What happened to Team Aqua?” she asked. Someone 
knocked on the door, and Alex smiled.
	“This is going to take some explaining.” said Alex, as he opened the door. 
A boy came in holding three cups of cocoa, and seemed to be having trouble not 
spilling. Alex took two of them and gave one to Maya.
	“Hey, you’re that guy from before! With the roselia!” said Maya, pointing 
at him. He had reddish-brown hair, emerald green eyes, a green T-shirt with long 
sleeves sewn on, jeans, and black VANs. He held out his hand, which Maya shook, 
being careful not to spill her drink.
	“Will Anderson,” he said, smiling.
	“Maya Turner. Oh, Alex, I think I forgot to tell you my last name. Did you 
know?” Maya said, turning to him. He stuck his tongue out at her as she set down 
her cocoa.
	“No, you didn’t tell me, but I knew. I saw it on your registration form.” 
Alex said slyly. She threw his pillow at him. 
	“Well you better tell me what happened.” said Maya. So Alex and Will 
filled her in on the events after she passed out. Will ended up telling both of 
them why he chose to help them in the first place.
	“I don’t know. I was flying to Dewford and I saw you guys battling 
desperately down there. Right when I decided to help you, Maya passed out, so I 
just jumped and landed in front of her. Seemed appropriate. Besides, my roselia 
provided the distraction so we could get the heck out of there.” said Will, 
shrugging. Alex put Maya’s pillow back onto the bed in time for her to sink into 
it.
	“My head hurts.” she said.
	“Well, you did hit it on a boulder.” said Alex.
	“Of course that wouldn’t hurt at all.” added Will sarcastically.
	“Ha ha. You two are absolutely hilarious.” Maya said coolly. “Anyway I’m 
ready for my Gym Battle.”
	“Are you sure you’re feeling well enough to battle, Maya?” Alex asked 
skeptically, as she got up and began looking for her stuff. Maya stopped and put 
her hands on her hips.
	“It’s not as if you are a good example. Half the time you nearly pass out 
from exhaustion!” she retorted, finding her backpack and putting it on.
	“That doesn’t mean you should follow his example.” said Will. Maya 
suddenly felt dizzy and sat down.
	“What about you? Do you want to travel with us, Will?” asked Maya, tying 
her shoes. Alex flashed a look at her, then nodded.
	“Okay. You never know, you two may need my help again.” he said smirking. 
“But I’ll have little of that lovey-dovey stuff you two are pulling.” Both 
blushed and began protesting furiously, saying almost the exact same words. 
	“Whoa, you two are in synch.” said Will. They blushed deeper and began 
doing different tasks of cleaning. In a few minutes they were ready to go, and 
they headed across town towards Maya’s second Gym badge.