Third times a charm

By: Dark Umbreon

Summary: Misty loves Ash very much but can she tell him? Gary treats his Pokemon badly and its up to Ash to teach him a lesson in respect. Disclaimer: These characters are not mine but Nintendo’s, 4 kids entertainment, etc. Rating: PG for mild violence and some touching. Just reminders as an author I DO NOT repeat DO NOT write sexual content or more than PG, clear (I’m 12)? This is my second AAML fic. If you want to know the ending go ahead and go to the bottom of the page. Note: words in italics are the people’s thoughts. Now on with the story…

“Ash don’t tell me we’re lost again!” Misty yelled. “We’re not lost I just don’t know where we are!” Ash remarked stupidly*falls over anime style* “You always say that!” she said with slight anger in her voice. With that they start one of their infamous fights. Brock just sat there staring at the map. Then he perked up and looked towards Ash and Misty who were still fighting. “Your middle name still cracks me up! Hahahahahahahahahah!” Misty pointed out slyly with a smirk on her face. “What’s so funny about my middle name? Its just Lee!” Ash retorted, a little hurt. “Think about it! Your first name and middle name! Hahahahahahahahah!” Misty replied. “Lets just go!” Brock interrupted. “Chu kachu!” Pikachu added. “If only I could tell him. Then maybe he wouldn’t hate me so much!” Misty thought. Minutes passed. “OK, lets stop here for tonight.” Brock suddenly said. “OK!” Ash and Misty replied in unison “I’m gonna go and train till sunset.” Ash stated as he ran off and disappeared into the trees “You like him don’t you?” Brock asked nudging her “Yes, but don’t tell him! Well I’m gonna go and think for awhile, K.” Misty said “OK.”

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“OK, let’s try this. Cindaquil you will race Pikachu so I can see how fast you are. Here is how you will race: you have to use agility to touch each rock, then grab the flag and use agility on each rock back. Ready, Go!” Ash yelled to start the race. “pik, pik, pik” ”quil, quil, quil” “Nice job guys. You tied!” Ash said joyfully “Well if it isn’t the loser Ashy-boy! Your little Cindaquil is fast, but is it fast enough? How about a battle? Your Cindaquil against my Umbreon!” A voice from behind the bush said “Gary!” Ash exclaimed “OK!” “Go, Umbreon!” “Go, Cindaquil! Lets begin!” “Tackle, Umbreon!” “Watch it! Good job. Now Smokescreen! Then quick attack, Cindaquil!” ”I’ve never seen a Cindaquil that fast before! Light up so you can see out of the smokescreen, Umbreon!” “Lets end this! Rage, Cindaquil!” “Oh, no! Umbreon try and dodge it! No!” “Great job, Cindaquil! Haha! Here is some super potion, Umbreon” Ash said apologetically. “Umbreon!” Gary yelled at his Pokemon. He kicked it. ”Return!” It went into its Pokeball but came out again at Ash’s feet, leaning against his leg. He grabs Gary’s collar and pulls Gary to his face. “You never kick a Pokemon!” Ash said angrily. He picks up Umbreon and starts running. “I’m taking it to the Pokemon center. Pikachu, go tell Brock and Misty where I am going!” “Pika!” He salutes. Gary followed Ash “You should learn some respect, for you and your Pokemon!” Ash yelled at his rival “You’re right. You are not the one to be jealous of me, it’s me who is jealous of you! You give your Pokemon every kind of respect there is. I was never taught kindness because my parents died before I remember, and I grew up with my grandfather. He didn’t teach me anything of kindness or moral values, he just worked and worked all day hardly paying attention to me at all. Now you have taught me what my grandfather didn’t.” Ash could have sworn he saw a tear come out of Gary’s eye. He was speechless. He had never heard anything so touching come out of Gary’s mouth. Minutes passed in silence. ”We’re almost there!” Ash said happily “One thing Ash, how can you run so far without getting tired?” He asked out of breath. “To put it this way I have been walking a lot. Other than the Orange Islands I have been pretty much walking since I started Pokemon training. Also when comes to a Pokemon in need I don’t feel a thing except the need to get it to a Pokemon Center. We’re here! Nurse Joy! This Umbreon needs a doctor right away!” Ash yelled ”Chansey get a stretcher, fast!” She quickly said to the nearest Chansey. They waited for a couple of hours, then Pikachu came in while they where waiting for Umbreon. “Pikachu, there you are. I was getting bored. You wanna play?” Ash asked his overly exited Pikachu. ”Pika!” It replied funnily. Ash pondered for a moment “Lets play…step on Pikachu’s tail.” Pikachu stepped into a corner his cheeks crackling. ”Just kidding! Lets play tag! You’re it!” Ash lost 2 times while Pikachu lost 6 times. Gary laughed when Ash lost his hat and caused him to lose. Then Misty and Brock walked in and waved hello and laughed when they saw Ash sprawled out of the floor breathing heavily. “You run too fast Pikachu! You guys wanna stay here tonight instead of camping out?” Both said “Sure!” Nurse Joy then walked out and did the peace sign with her fingers. ”Umbreon will be just fine all you need to do is give it rest here for awhile.” she said “Thank you! You too Ash!” Gary said. He went with the nurse to the recovery room. “Why did he thank you, Ash?” Misty asked

“He said that I made him realize his actions were wrong, he did kick his Pokemon and I saw it.” Ash replied “That’s terrible!” “I know!” ”You wanna maybe go out with me tonight, Nurse Joy?” Said the red faced Brock ”Come on lover boy. She is very busy and needs to be left alone.” Misty said doing her infamous ‘Pull the ear’ pose. She gave Nurse Joy a wink. Nurse Joy winked back in a thank you kind of way. Hours pass. Ash falls asleep on the couch. At about the same time Pikachu falls asleep in Misty’s lap while petting it. She picks it up and puts it next to Ash. “He’s so cute when he sleeps! Hello.” “Hi.” Gary said as he entered the room *Yawn* “Hi Gary. Hello Umbreon. Haha.” Umbreon had nudged his hand to wake him and it jumped in his lap “Umbreon seems to like you, Ash. You should have it.” Gary said “What?” Ash asked “Yep, You can have it. I can see its happier with you… Well I’d better get going. You’re still my rival, so smell ya later!” “Bye. Well let’s hope we can get to the next city tomorrow so I can beat Jasmine.”

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“I got the mineral badge!” Ash did his trademark pose “Great job, Ash. I’ll tell him now!” Misty thought. Misty brings him over to a corner of the room. “What are you doing?” Ash asked “I’m gonna tell you something. Do you remember that one night when I said that I didn’t say anything well, I lied, I said that I… I love you.” ”Wait a minute so you’re talking about you…. and me?” He asked She nods blushing. Ash gets the greenest face you could possibly imagine and runs to the bathroom. He walked out a few minutes later. ”There went my lunch. Ugggg.” Ash looks over to where Misty was standing and sighed in relief when she wasn’t there, then jumped behind Brock when he heard Misty behind him. ”Hide me.” He said in a squeaky voice. Ash runs out the door of the gym to the pokemon center. He stops running at the door to the center and walks in followed closely by Brock and Misty. Ash was giving nurse joy his pokemon when they walked in.

“Wait up Ash!” Misty yelled “Ahhhhhh!” Ash yelled. He hid in the corner of the room. “Why are you afraid of Misty?” Brock asked Ash “Cause what she said.” Ash replied

“She told you didn’t she?” Brock asked again “How’d you know?” Ash asked “It was the look on your face that said it all. I knew how you would react.” Brock answered “No not really, I love her too, but I didn’t even realize it till she told me. I’m gonna go talk to her. You stay with Brock, Pikachu” Ash walks into a medium sized room with eight bunk beds all against the wall and closes the door behind himself. There were no trainers in there save for Ash and Misty. “Misty you know what you said earlier…well me too…I just never realized till now.” He sat down on the bed Misty sat on, his face burning crimson. He looked to the ground to hide his embarrassment. Misty threw her arms around his shoulders and a tear drips slowly down her face and Ash takes a gentle finger and wipes it away. They gaze in each other’s eyes and they lean closer and closer. Then Brock comes in and says “hi” not noticing they where about to kiss. Ash gets up slowly and walks out. He wasn’t mad, sad or happy. It was a mix of emotions really. “It’s one thing that is so complex, but one second in and you fully understand.” Ash thought “Misty told me about it.” Brock interrupted. Ash grinned and blushed. “I now know what Misty meant in the Orange Islands.” Ash said “What?” “Well we came to this place on and island and it sorta looked like England. Well a girl came up to us and asked us if we had seen her Nidoran we said no and so we helped her find it. Well it turns out it was in love with the girl’s enemy’s Nidoran and so by the end team rocket had taken them and they battled Team Rockets Pokemon and won. At the end of the battle the Pokemon kissed and evolved Tracy then asked ’Do you think they evolved from the battle or the kiss?‘ Then she thwacked him over the head and said ‘Tracy, you’re such a goof’ then I asked ‘do you really think a kiss can change people?’ she then said ‘I guess we’ll just have to find out for ourselves.’ That was pretty much it.” “Oh…” Misty then walked out of the room dressed in her pajamas sat next to Ash and threw her arms around his shoulders again. Brock chuckled, Ash blushed and Misty laughed too. ”Well, I’m going to go to bed. Night.” Ash got up and went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. “I’m going to get to bed also. Good night. *Yawn* you can go bother Nurse Joy, haha.” Misty added ”OK!” Misty sat on the bed they where on earlier, in the moonlight. Then Ash walked in and saw Misty and admired her beauty. He went to sit next to her. Misty looked into his eyes and he looked back. They leaned closer (like earlier). ”Pika!” They jumped at the sound of Pikachu. Ash got up to go to his part of the bunk. ”Goodnight. Sweet dreams.” Ash said sweetly ”G’night” Misty said just as sweetly back. Ash climbed to the top of the bunk and plopped down thinking. Thinking of what just happened. Thinking of the future. It would be different. With that last thought running through his head he fell into a deep slumber with Pikachu by his side. ”How sweet!” A female voice said. ”Dey’re loveboids!” Said a rough, less than human voice. “That’s cute!” Said a male voice.“James, we were right! On the blimp that one time, remember?” ”Dats right ain’t it, Jimmy boy?” “Yes Jessie, yes Meowth.” The next morning Ash and Misty woke up at almost the same time. They looked at each other and blushed. They kept blushing all the way outside until…“Prepare for trouble” “And make it double” “To protect the world from devastation” “To unite all peoples within our nation” “To denounce the evils of truth and love” “To extend our reach to the stars above” “Jessie” “James” “Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light” “Surrender now or prepare to fight” “Dats right” “Hand over that Pikachu!” Jessie said “Or what?” Ash asked “Uhhhhhhhh…” James mumbled “Pikachu, you know what to do!” Ash yelled(I’ve always wanted him to say that on the show) “Pika………CHUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!” the little Pokemon yelled. “Looks like we’re blasting off again!*Ping*” the trademark saying was said. “Bye! Haha!” Ash said happily. He looked at Misty and they started to blush again.“Why are you two blushing so much?” Brock asked “Nevermind! I’m gonna sit.” Said Ash. Ash and Misty sat together on a park bench. “They tried to kiss again last night!” Pikachu answered ”What do

you mean ‘again’?” Brock asked ”Hahahaha!” Ash and Misty were laughing. Brock and Pikachu turned their heads to the two laughing kids. Ash was rolling around on the ground laughing hard while Misty tried hard to stifle her laughs it just made Ash laugh harder *hiccup* Ash got the hiccups which made Misty laugh hard too. Ash started to laugh at the very funny Misty *hiccup* Ash hiccupped again which made Misty laugh even harder. “Told you I could make you laugh!” Ash said. When she calmed down she kissed him on the cheek, which made him blush. “Thanks. I needed a good laugh.” “You too.” Ash said as he got up on the bench and sat next to Misty *hiccup*. “They look like a pair of Christmas lights don’t they? I mean from all the blushing.” Pikachu nods. “So again, what did you mean by ‘again’?” Brock asked again “They tried to kiss once before. Misty told me.” Pikachu said. “So that’s why she was a little afraid to speak to me. She told you and thought I couldn’t understand you. Pikachu if that’s the second time they’ve tried to kiss we shouldn’t get in their way next time. Third times a charm. And we’re gonna be there to watch.” He whispered taking out a Polaroid camera “Come on Guys!” He said out loud. Ash and Misty got up silent and still a little red from blushing and followed Brock to the outer edge of the city to another forest. About and hour after they started into the forest Misty started to have trouble breathing. ”Hey…” Misty fainted before she could finish.“Misty!” Ash yelled. Several hours later Misty fluttered her eyes open. ”What happened? My head hurts.” Misty said “You fainted. Don’t know why or how. Most likely from exhaustion. Brock just went to get water at a stream about a half a mile away so he won’t be back for a while. And Pikachu went with Brock.” Ash said. They looked at each other then kissed. They backed away and blushed. Misty threw her arms around his shoulders again, and he put his hand on her shoulder ”Like I always say, third times a charm.” Ash said. They kissed again, heard a click, saw a flash then heard a voice “Todd will love this!“

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-DU