happily ever after ~by Emma Hi! This is my first Pokemon fic, so bare with me! Just for the record, I don't own Pokemon. Never have, never will. Nuff said! ^_^ (ages in this fic: Ash=14 Misty=14 Tracey=16 Brock=16 TR=18 Gary=15) ****************************************** Just outside Pallet in the Viridian forest ****************************************** Narration: Our heros and hreoines have just arrived on the main land and have set out to Pallet Town for some well deserved R&R. But what danger (if any) will they run into this time? Let's find out! "Ash, my feet hurt! Are we there yet?!" Misty complained. The group had been walking for a couple of hours and were trying to make it back to Pallet by nightfall. It was a little while after the group had came back to the mainland and given Professor Oak the GS ball. Brock was back on a visit and decided to do a bit of traveling with Ash Misty and Tracey. "We're almost there Misty, but we'd be there now if you hadn't stopped by the water to catch that stupid Magicarp!" Ash nagged. It was really the only thing he knew how to do with her these days. If she only knew how he really felt, then maybe thingfs could be different. "Oh, so you're saying that you stopping to catch a Weedle didn't slow us down at all?!" she nagged back. That was a typical day. One of them starts the fight, the other fights back, and they end it with a thundershock by Pikachu. It really bugged Misty that she and Ash fought so much, she knew she was in love with him, but she couldn't come out to say it. It was hard. Just so hard to even think of telling him. He was so much different than she was. Full of dreams, goals, ambitions, and so much more. Sure, she had some of that, but it wasn't the same. She was full of doubts, problems and worries. They just kept building up and building up inside of her. That's why she needed him. To ease her pain, he always did. Still, it wasn't enough when he was doing it out of friendship. She needed more from him than that. She needed love. "Misty, you still with us?" Brock asked as he waved a hand in front of her face. "huh? oh, sure." Brock frowned, as did Pikachu. "Pika pi chu? (what's on your mind?)" Pikachu asked. Misty smiled at him. "Nothing. I was just thinkin about something, but I'm ok." Thee was a moment of silence until Ash decided to break it. "Hey, there's the end of the forest, we're almost to Pallet!" He said, trying to cheer everyone up. They all looked at eachother and smiled as they began to run. They made it to Pallet just before the sun set. The group approached Ash's house, where they would be staying for about a week, and quietly knocked on the door, trying not to disturb the sleeping town. Mimie answered the door, and broke the stilness of the night by shouting "MR. MIME!!!!" as it bear hugged the group. Pikachu got caught in the middle of it all and ended up thundershocking everyone to get loose. "Oh Ash, you're home!" Ash's mother exclaimed as she hugged her only son. "Misty, you've grown so much since I've seen you! Oh Brock, I'm so happy that you decided to visit! Why you must be Tracey, nice to meet you!" Ash's mom happily continued as she led the group into the living room. they all sat down and began to talk as Mrs. Ketchum prepared their rooms. "Misty, are you sure you're alright? You looked sorta pale out there, do you feel sick?" Tracey asked, frowning. "I'm fine, don't worry about it!" Misty said, getting a bit annoyed. Brock sighed. "Yup, she's back to normal." "Ok kids, your rooms are all ready! The thing is I only have two rooms, a guest room and Ash's room. One of you will have to sleep on the floor in Ash's room I'm afraid." Mrs. Ketchum said as she came out. "I can sleep on the floor mom, I'm used to it since we camp out so often. I won't mind it." Ash said. "I'm gonna go get ready for bed, seeya in a bit!" he called as he ran up the stairs. Brock and Tracey were talking about different Pokemon and what the other had learned about them. "Hey Misty, would you mind sleeping in Ash's room tonight, me and Tracey need to talk about some stuff. It'd only be for tonight, and you'd be sleeping in a room with a guy anyway." Brock said, in case that was the issue. Misty sighed and agreed, she was too tired to be excited or nervous, it was about 11:00 pm and they had been walking all day. Misty walked over to Mrs. Ketchum, who had made some tea for her, and they started to talk about this and that. Ash suddenly came bounding down the stairs, his hair all wet, himself dressed in bagy grey sweat pants and the black shirt he lways wore under his vest. He proudly held up a Pokeball. "Ta dum! I caught a Pokemon in my room!" Ash said triumphiantly. "Really? What kind of Pokemon is it?" Misty asked as she set down her tea and walked over to Ash. She took the Pokeball from him and examined it. "A Caterpie" sh said, hands on his waist and smiling. "Yipe!" Misty shouted as she jumped onto Ash and the Pokeball dropped, releasing the Caterpie. It let out a shrill and crawled below Misty, shot a string shot onto her and climbed the string onto her back. She totally froze as Ash took his Pokedex out of his backpack. "I didn't know Caterpie could do that..." Ash mumbled as he clicked on his Pokedex. Everyone sweatdropped (except Misty) as Brock took the caterpie off of Misty's back. She unfroze and ran upstairs, yelling that she'd be down when that "thing" was back in the Pokeball. Ash sighed. "Ya now, I really don't see what's so scarry about a little caterpie." he said as he and Pikachu trudged upstairs. Brock shook his head and thought "will they ever admit how they feel?" Ash watched as Misty ran up the stairs as he called back his new Caterpie. "I'll n right back..." Ash said as he walked outside. Brock and Tracey looked at eachother and ran to the window to see what Ash was doing. Ash opened the Pokeball, and Caterpie came out. They saw sh say something, but they couldn't see what it was. After a bit of talking, the Caterpie crwaled back into the forest. Ash Had let it go. Tracey and Brock ran back to the couch and were sitting down when Ash came back in. Just as Ash came in the door Misty came back down the stairs, her hair still a bit wet and down, wearing a pair of blue jammy pants and a button up blue jammy shirt. Both were sky blue with sheep on them that had yellow faces and dark blue wool with red cheeks. Ash and Misty just sotra stood there looking at eachother for a time, until Misty finally spoke up. "Have we decided on rooms yet?" she asked everyone. "Um, yea, me and Tracey want to talk about Pokemon, so we wanted to know if it'd be ok for us to have the guest room." Brock said. "That's ok with me" Ash replied. Misty was fairly surprised, she thought he'd put up a fight about how he wanted to talk about Pokemon with the guys. She shook off her thoughts and said "It's really late and I'm beat, seeya in the morning!" and went back up the stairs. "Same here, see you two tomorrow" Ash said as he followed at Misty's heels. Misty opened the door to Ash's room and walked in. It was a normal boy's room, blue bed spread, dresser, voltorb alarm clock with a pidgey coo-coo bird, and a tv on the dresser. Misty walked over to Ash's bed and pulled free the blankets as Ash walked in and shut the door behind him. Misty jumped back a little, surprised, but quickly calmed down. "Geez you scared me!" she said, but not in her usual snotty tone. "Sorry, I didn't mean to" Ash said as he walked over to his dresser and laid out his clothes for the next day. Misty walked over to the mirror on Ash's door and began to brush her copper hair in silence. The quiet began to bug Ash, so he reached over for his remote and flicked on the tv. Ash flicked through the channels until he finally saw something that sparked his interest. "Ratatta is out! Beedrill wins!" an announcer cheered. Ash plooped down on his bed and watched the battles commence. "look at him just sit there as if he doesn't know how I feel! I know he does, so why can't I say anything?" Misty asked herself as she cautiously walked over to Ash's bed. Ash was totally engulfed in the battle, and didn't even notice Misty slip under the covers and lay down. After watching three more battles, a commercial finally came on. Ash snapped out of his trance and laid back on his bed, not realizing Misty was sleeping in it. He had laid down all the way and was about to pull up the covers when he noticed there was something next to him. He leaned over and saw it was Misty, and jumped back in embarrassment. "whew, she isn't awake" he whispered to himself. He turned his attention back to the tv and saw a commerical. "Come to the apple blossom festival held in Pallet town!" the announcer cheerfully said. Ash perked up at the sound of the festival, it meant the beginning of spring. It was his favorite festival of the year. He turned around to look at Misty. She was so beautiful, he wished she would go with him. "I will ask her to that festival!" he said out loud, then covered his mouth when he realized how loud he had said it. He carefully got off the bed, watching to make sure he didn't disturb Misty, and laid down on his blankets to fall asleep. ************* The Next Day ************* "Where to today?" Tracey said as he packed his sketch pad and pencils into his backpack. "I thought we could go to the beach and swim, it's bikini season ya know..." Brock said in that voice he gets whenever he sees a girl. Everyone sweatdropped. "Well, we have been traveling and challenging alot lately, and a swim sounds pretty good to me, so I say we got for it!" Ash agreed. Misty and Tracey both nodded, and they all ran upstairs to pack their bathing suits and beach things. about 15 minutes later they all came bounding down the stairs in swim trunks and a bikini holding folding chairs, baskets, sunglasses, and an occasional Pokeball. "Mime!" Mimie shouted as the group + Pikachu (Mrs. Ketchum was watching togepi) ran down to the beach. It was a hot day, so the beach was really crowded. The group walked along the beach until they found a spot close to the water that was a little less crowded than the rest of the beach. They began to set up their stuff until an all too familiar sound came up... "Prepare for trouble!" "Make that double!" "TO protect the world from devistation!" "to unite all peoples within our nation!" "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" "to extend our reach to the stars above!" "Jesse!" "James!" "Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!" "surender now or prepare to fight!" "dat's right! Now hand ova your Pokemon or else!" Meowth yelled. "Or else what?" Ash and Misty said in unision, and lightly blushed. "I'm so glad you asked. Arbok go!" Jesse shouted. "VictreeBell go-" James started but soon ended up in Victreebell's mouth, as always. Jesse & Meowth sweatdropped. "Arbok, glare attack!" Jesse shouted. "SSSSSssssArbok!" Arbok shouted as it used its glare attack on Pikachu. "Pikachu, Agility!" Ash shouted. Pikachu dodged Arbok's glare attack and jumped into the air. "Thunderbolt Pikachu!!!" Ash said. "pi...ka...CHU!!" pikachu yelled as it shocked TR. "Look's like Team Rocket's blasting off again!..." Team rocket dissapeared into a ping of light. "That gets annoying." Brock stated as he laid down of his beach towel. "Tell me about it!" Misty agreed. She pulled off her overshirt and shorts and laid down on a beach chir next to Brock, wearing her pink bikini. Ash looked at her for a second but snapped out of it when he heard the voice of someone he never wanted to see again... "Hey ASHY, don't tell me THIS is what you've been doing your whole journey!" Ash turned around and ended up face to face with HIM. "WAAAAA! Gary!" Ash said, surprised. "What are you doing here??" he asked angrily. "I'm takin a break, being the best Pokemon trainer of all time takes alot outta ya, right girls?" Gary said. "Gary Gary he's our man, if he can't do it no one can!!" the girls cheered. Gary turned to the rest of the group. "So I see you dorks are still hanging out with the loser!" he chuckled. Then he turned to Misty. "Hey babe, why don't you join ME on MY journey and see a REAL master at work!" Gary said and gave her a wink. Misty sweatdropped, picturing herself as one of gary's cheerleaders, pom- pom's and all. She nearly blew up at him until she noticed Ash. He looked about ready to tackle Gary! That gave Misty an idea. "Maybe if I flirt with Gary a little, Ash'll get jealous! Then I'll know how he feels!!" Misty said to herself. She turned to Gary and smiled. "Well idunno Gary, I GUESS I could go with you." Ash's mouth dropped to the ground and Pikachu scratched his head until he realized what Misty was doing, then he gave a little laugh to himself. Gary gave one of his million-dollar smiles to Misty. "Well doll, we're about to leave, care to join us?" he said, gesturing to his cheerleaders. They urged Misty on. Now misty was trapped. She didn't know if she should say yes or no! She took in a deep breath and was about to speak up until she heard an angry voice say "She's with us Gary, you and your cheerleaders can go on ahead!" Ash shouted right in Gary's face. Gary looked a stunned, Misty blushed beet red, and Brock and Tracey just sat there, not knowing what to do. Gary backed up a tad bit, then began to laugh his butt off. "Oh yea right Ash, like she'd want to stay with you losers! I'm SOOOOOOO sure!" he laughed. "As a matter of fact I do!" Misty yelled. She quickly covered her mouth. "What am I doing?! If I shout out like that then Ash'll know how I feel!" she thought. Gary frowned. "Well, since you two (gestures toward Ash & Misty) seem to have a THING for eacother, I guess I'll go. If you ever change your mind Misty, I'll be the famous guy in the red corvet. Seeya!" and then Gary left. Misty just looked at Ash for a second, their eyes met, and just before Ash said something... "AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!! YOU LIKE MISTY! I KNEW IT!!" Brock shouted as he pointed at Ash and laughed. Ash blushed crimson and shouted back "I do not! I just wanted Gary outta here!" "Then why did you stand up for Misty?" Brock teased. "She looked like she needed it!" Ash shouted back. Misty frowned. "I can take care of myself thank you very much!" she yelled back at him. "Oh yea right, you know you needed help!" "did not!" "Did too!" "Did not!" DID TOO!" "THAT'S IT!!!" Misty shouted into Ash's face. Togepi began to cry and Ash backed up a bit. Misty grabbed her backpack and ran back to Ash's house. Brock glared at Ash and ran following Misty. Ash frowned and ran after them, Tracey not far behind. When they got back to Ash's house they found Misty packing her things in a huff. "Misty, what do you think you're doing?!" Ash asked in a rough voice. Misty turned around and faced him. He had never seen her so angry. "I am leaving Ash. See you guys later." she said as she grabbed her things and headed for the door. "Hey Misty, wait up!" Brock yelled. "Don't leave Misty!" Tracey responded. A red corvet pulled up into Ash's driveway and Misty hopped in. The top of the corvet came down and Ash nearly blew up when he saw who she was with. "Seeya later losers!" Gary yelled as he hit the gas and drove off, Misty with him and his cheerleaders. Ash stared after the car as it whizzed off into the distance. He turned around and faced Brock. "This is all your fault! If you had kept your big mouth shut she'd still be here!" Ash shouted in Brock's face. "Well if you'd just admit to liking her she'd stil be here!" Brock yelled back. "Hey hey you two, break it up!" Tracey yelled as he seperated the two. Ash calmed down a bit and grabbed a pokeball from his belt. "Pidgeotto go!" he shouted as Pidgeotto popped out of its pokeball. "Pidgeotto, do you remeber what Gary's car looks like?" Pidgeotto nodded. "Good. Follow it and keep an eye on Misty." he said. Pidgeotto nodded again and flew off. "You go too Zubat." Brock said as he called out zubat. Ash soberly walked to his house and slammed the door behind him. "You took that a little far Brock," Tracey said once Ash was gone. "I didn't mean to, it just sorta happened." he replied. Tracey nodded and turned back to the street that Misty stood on moments ago. "I just hope she's ok." ********************* On the road with Gary ********************* "So Misty, you finally came to your senses and joined me on my glorious journey to stardom!" Gary said as he put his arm around her. The girls smiled. "Misty Misty she's the best! We'll give her a ten on her big test!" they cheered. Misty sweatdropped. She felt a a bit uncomfortable sitting there in the front seat of that red car with Gary's arm around her. It just didn't seem right. She slid back into the seat a little, but Gary kepther from moving any more than that. The group finally stopped at a fancy hotel and everyone climbed out. Gary escourted Misty inside and the other girls ran in to get a few rooms. Misty took a look around the hotel. It was huge! It was also very fancy, there was a huge crystal shandaler hanging from the ceiling and velvet couches all over the lobby. The girls came back from the front desk (yes all 6 of them) and announced that they had gotten the rooms Gary had wanted. Misty was amazed that they could actually afford ONE in this place. "Ok, the roomies are Tiffany and Candy, Lizz and Sara, Des and Sandy. Well, I guess that leaves only two people left!" Gary said, looking at Misty. "Looks like we're roomies!" he shouted. Misty AFed. (Anime Fall) "eheh, can't I bunk with... Tracey???" Misty asked as she grabbed the girl. They all sweatdropped and began to walk up to their rooms. Misty had no choice but to room with *shudder* Gary. The room was huge, it was more like a small apartment. there were two king size beds (thank god!) and a large bathroom, and a balcony overlooking the city (it happened to be Viridian). Misty went into the bathroom to change and cme out inthe most modest pj's she could find, which happened to be the sheep ones. Gary went into the Bathroom next, so Misty went out onto the balcony, figuring nobody would be able to see her since they were on the 10th floor. She sat down on a bench and began to think just what she had gotten herself into. Why did she suddenly decide to run off with Gary? She didn't have a crush on him or anything like tht, she wasn't even on "good terms" with him. Maybe it was because Ash was... or she didn't know. She needed answers. "Pidgetooooooooooooo!" she heard a voice call from above her. She looked up to see a Pidgeotto land on the balcony. It hopped off of the railing and into Misty's lap. "Hey, Pidgeotto, what are you doing here?" he asked the bird. It began to flap its wings around, but Misty couldn't understand it. "Hold on a second Pidgeotto, Staryu, come on out and trnslate what Pidgeotto's saying for me!" she said as she opened the pokeball. Staryu popped out and listened to what Pidgeotto was saying and ten turned to Misty. "Heeya, hya, ya hy!" (Ash sent Pidgeotto to watch over you) "WHAT?!!" Misty exclaimed. Gary opened the door to the bathroom and stepped out. "Pidgeotto, go on back to Ash now, hurry up!" she said. She called back staryu and went inside. "Care to join me over here?" Gary asked as he patted the bed he wasmsitting on. Misty nervously walked over and sat next to him. "So, now that we're friends, why don't we get to know eachother a little better?" Gary said as he leaned closer to her. She scooted farther away from him, but ended up hitting a wall. She leaned up against the wall as far as it would allow her to as Gary inched closer and closer to her. She turned her face away, but he just took it in his hand and smiled at her, a smile that she didn't like very much. He leaned in and was about to kiss her, but was inturrupted buy a shrill screaching sound. Misty looked up to see Brock's Zubat using it's screech attack on Gary. Misty quickly grabbed her things and was about to run out the door, but pidgeotto grabbed her arm in it's claws, as did Zubat with her other arm, and lifted her out through the balcony. "Let me down! I don't want to go back to Ash and Brock and Tracey!" she yelled. Pidgeotto looked at Zubat and nodded with a quick "Pidgoo". They carried Misty to the viridian forest and set her down, then they flew back to Pallet. ************** back in Pallet ************** Ash was laying on his bed, staring out the window, watching Pikachu sleep on it and thinking. He didn't know why he blew up at Misty like that, it just came out. He frowned. Maybe he did it because he was afraid, but afrid of what? That's when it dawned on him. He did like her. He really did. No, he didn;t like her, it was more than that. *flashback scenes* "Hey Ash, let's go dance!' "Um, sure!' (next scene) "Why do you keep following me?" "Um... I'm holding you responsible for my bike!" (next scene) "Hey Jesse, I think we caught two love birds in our cage!' "you mean...!" "What?!" "Now way!" "But you're blushing! kissy kissy!" *flashbacks end* He loved her. He relly really loved her. And now she was gone, cruising the towns with Gary. Gary, of all people! Ash stood up and kicked his alarm clock off of the shelf. Just then Pidgeotto and Zubat flew into his window, flapping their wings madly. "What is it??!" Ash asked worridly. (pidgeotto translation)"Well, we saw Misty in gary's car, he had his arm around her, then they went to a hotel, he made her stay in the same room as him, then he tried to kiss her but zubat used his screech ttack on Gary and we carried her out. She didn't want to come back though, she seemed afraid to, so we set her down in the Viridian Forest." Zubat nodded. Ash pictured Misty walking around Viridian forest, coming across weedle and caterpie and kakuna and metapod, man, she'd freak. "I gotta go, tell Brock and Tracey where I'm--- nah, I guess I should" he said as he grabbed a flashlight from his dresser. He ran down the stairs and told the guys where he was goin, then bolted off toward the forest. "Ash honey, wait!!" Mrs. Ketchum shouted toward him. "MIIIIIIIIIIME!" Mime chimed in. ************************ Misty in Viridian Forest ************************ "Oh, couldn't that dumb bird have dropped me off in Pewter City, or maybe at the house of Imite to visit Duplica." Misty said as she fumbled around in the dark forest. It was about 5:30 am and everything was quiet. She stumbled across a tree stump and tripped over it. Misty sat up and sighed. Why did that dumb Ash have to make her leave? I was all his fault! The sun began to rise just as she heard a voice coming from the other side of the forest, it was Ash, and he was calling her name. Misty stared behind her at the direction of the voice. She wouldn't mess things up this time, she'd tell him how she feels. She began to run in the direction of the voice, but tripped again. She looked back at the stump she had tripped on this time, but noticed it wasn't a tree stump. It was bright green. She silently scooted away from it, but the thing was already awake. It jerked up it's green head and flashed red eyes and sliver blades at her. "A Scyther!" Misty shouted. She got up and started running, but the scyther was right on her tail. It pinned her down and began slsshing at her unprotected skin. She managed to get the enraged beast off of her and began running, shouting "Ash! Help me!" She turned around to see if the scyther was behind her, but when she turned back around she was face to face with sky, she had almost run off of a cliff! The Scyther came blasting toward her, and just when it was about it hit her, a rock flew at it and knocked it in he side of the head. "Get away!" Ash yelled as he whipped rocks at the scyther. It glared at Ash and was about to attack him, but Pikachu popped up and thundershocked it. Misty sighed in relief, but suddenly, she felt the cliff behind her crumble. The next thing she knew she was falling toward the ocean below. "MISTY! Bulbasaur catch her!" Ash shouted as he called out Bulbasaur. It reached its vines down and caught Misty just before she was out of reach. She looked down at the ocean, and up the high cliff, knowing the distnce she had fallen, and passed out. The Last thing she heard was Ash calling her name. "Misty, wake up!" Ash said as he took her from Bulbasaur. He didn't bother to call it back. He gently lifted her up and carried her out of the forest, where Brock and Tracey were looking for them. "Is she ok??" Tracey asked. Ash nodded. "She'll be fine I think, she just needs a little rest." The group walked back to the house and laid Misty down in Ash's bed. Brock went downstairs to make breakfast and Tracey sat in the guestroom sketching Pokemon. Ash however stayed next to Misty until she woke up. "Ash, how did ou stop me from falling?" Misty said a little dozily. "You can thank bulbasaur here for that, he grbbed you with his vine whip. Misty reached down and pet bulbasaur, thanking him, then turned back to Ash. "Why did you save me, I thought you never wanted to see me again." "Misty, even if I never wanted to see you again dpesn't mean I wouldn't save you. Besides, I did want to see you again. Alot." Ash blushed at the comment he had made. "A-Ash, I've missed you alot. The only reason I went with Gary was because I needed to get away, well, I thought I did, but that's not what I needed at all." Misty also blushed. "Hey Misty...um...you know about the apple blossom festival...well...do..you...wanna go to it with me?" Ash stuttered. Misty looked up at him and blushed crimson, but nodded. Ash smiled at her and gave her a hug. *************** At the festival *************** Ash had worn a black suit to the festival, while Misty wore a blue dress. Brock was off somewhere trying to persuade girls to dance with him, but was turned down every time (of course!!) Tracey was leaning against a tree, acting like a real wallflower. "It's sure nice out tonight, there isn't a cloud in the sky and you can see all the stars" he thought to himself. He looked over at Misty. She smiled at him. She was wearing her hair down, he thought that was the way it looked the best. He took her hand and lead her to the dance floor. The danced to "Baby I'm so thankful I found you". After the song Ash took Misty off of thefloor and lead her to a spot well away from the festival. "Ya know Misty, I've kinda been meaning to tell you, well, I think... I think I'm in love with you." He whispered, but she heard it loud and clear. He looked up at her, expecting a surprised face, but got a tearstained one instead. He gave her a puzzled look until she threw her arms around him and cried. "I've been hoping you feel like that for so long Ash Ketchum, because I love you too!" she sobbed. He smiled sweetly at her, and she stopped crying, knowing everything was well. He tipped her head up to meet his and kissed her. She felt a wave of relief flow through her and wrapped her arms around his neck. He folded his arms around her waist and they stood there in eachothers aroms, kissing. It was total bliss. "CAUGHT YA!" a voice said as it shined a flashlight in their eyes. The two broke apart, blushing and turned around to see who it was. "BROCK!!!!!" they shouted in unision. Brock stood there laughing his butt off, until Misty conked him onthe head with her mallet. "You numskull! Don't EVER sneek up on us like that again, ya hear?" she shouted. "I HEAR I HEAR!" Brock shouted as he ran in circles, trying to dodge Misty's mallet. Ash sweatdropped and sighed in exasperation (ya know those little white mushroom things they sigh? he sighed on of those.) and said "Kay Sera Sera!!" The End Well how was it? Mail me comments to waterflower30@hotmail.com!!! seeya!