Mike: Hiya Pokemon fans! I’m back!

 

Misty: New story Mike?

 

Mike: You betcha Misty!

 

Ash: Is it another one with me and Misty? ::is holding Misty’s hand and smiling at her::

 

Mike: To tell you the truth Ash, yes.

 

Misty: Yay! ::Hugs Ash tightly while he laughs::

 

Mike: Don’t mind me guys, I’m just the author. ^_^

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon but the story and any characters I might introduce in it belong to me.

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Summary: What if that Unown that hit Misty’s head in the episode, “Address Unknown” left a small side effect that didn’t sprout until 2 months after Ash returned from the Houenn league and became a Pokemon Master? That side effect is what many would consider a gift; but for Misty, it’s a curse. A curse that can be treated but not cured…or can it? Can Ash help Misty through this and hide his feelings from her new powers?

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A Curse of Fate

 

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Chapter 1: Misty’s Powers Emerge

 

It was a peaceful day in the small town of Pallet. It had been 2 months since it’s son Ash Ketchum returned from the Houenn league and became the world’s greatest Pokemon master at the age of 19. We see the Ketchum residence with the family’s Mr. Mime sweeping the front porch. We also see on the porch, a young man wearing a bright, blue vest and a red, black, and green Pokemon League cap sitting on a porch swing (you know those bench-like swings) taking a nap with a familiar yellow pokemon sleeping on his lap.

 

The young man was the Pokemon Master himself, Ash Ketchum. He had been taking it easy since he became a pokemon master and tried to avoid challengers. Challengers kept coming to battle him and gain his title as a Pokemon Master but failed trying. But Ash didn’t make them feel bad about it; he always gave them words of wisdom whenever they tried. No trainer has ever defeated Ash in a long time.

 

Mr. Mime was continuing to sweep when he heard something coming. Following his instincts, he looked up with a slight ‘Mime?’ escaping his mouth. What he saw, was a bicycle coming towards the Ketchum residence. On the bike was a figure of a young lady who wore a yellow tank top shirt and short denim shorts what were held up by a pair of suspenders. Her hair was as red as a bright sunset and it was flowing at the back of her head as the wind whipped against her body. Her eyes were as blue as rain drops but they looked kind of sad when one looks at them up close. Her skin looked a smooth like silk and very tanned like she had been out for a long time.

 

Mr. Mime turned to the sleeping Pokemon master and nudged him awake. “Mime, mime!”

 

“Mmm not now Mimie.” Ash said sleepily trying to sleep.

 

“MIME!!!” Mr. Mime yelled in his ear and Pikachu’s ear making them fall off the swing.

 

“Ow, why’d ya have to wake us up Mimie?” Ash groaned.

 

“Still lazy as usual huh Ash?” A girl voice giggled catching Ash’s attention.

 

When Ash looked up, he couldn’t believe the beautiful figure before him. It was the girl on the bike and up close she was a beautiful girl that almost any guy would want as a girlfriend. But her heart was for one person…and we all know who that was. Ash knew who this girl was just by looking at her features.

 

“Misty? Oh my god Misty!” Ash said excitedly as he ran up to her, wrapped his arms around her waist, picked her up, and twirled her around in a hug earning a giggle from her. He then put her down and took a look at her.

 

“It’s great to see you too Ash.” Misty said with a smile on her face.

 

“What’re you doin’ here?” Ash laughed.

 

“Thought I’d come and visit the Pokemon master I used to pick on for fun.” Misty giggled earning another laugh from Ash.

 

“Well, it’s great to see you again Misty.” Ash said whole heartedly.

 

“Misty?” Came another voice from the house.

 

When Misty looked, she recognized a spiky, brown-haired squinted-eyed Pokemon breeder. “Brock!”

 

Later, Ash invited Misty inside and both he and Brock explained to Misty their adventures in the Houenn league and how Ash met May earned a laugh from Misty. They even introduced May; she had decided to stay with Ash since he still owed her a bike too. May told Misty about why she became a Pokemon trainer, her little brother, and the fact that her father is a gym leader too. Misty also introduced her Togepi to May and how she ended up with Togepi. The story earned a laugh from May.

 

The four of them continued to talk even when Tracey came over to talk and meet May. But then something Brock was reading in the newspaper caught his attention and caught the attention from the others.

 

“Hey guys take a look at this!” Brock showed the newspaper and the headlines read, ‘Terror strikes Mt. Moon.’

 

“Authorities say that the damage to Mount Moon was caused by a metronome psychic attack from a Clefable for reasons unknown. There were no reported injuries of any kind except a few pokemon. No deaths were also reported so no one was at the vicinity at the time the explosion occurred. Reports also say that there was a person near Mount Moon but could not be described anyone.

            Similar incidents had been reported in Cerulean City, Celadon City, Lavender Town, and Vermillion City. No one has reported any suspects at either incident but the incidents all have had no injuries or deaths at all, just immense damage to small areas. If you have any information about these five incidents, please contact pokemon police at once.”

 

Brock read as he continued to read the newspaper. The whole gang had shocked faces on but Misty, she had her head down and had faked a shocked look herself but she knew something about the incident. Ash looked at her in concern. “Hey Misty, you ok?”

 

“Huh?” Misty looked up then quickly recovered. “Oh no, I’m fine.”

 

“You sure?”

 

“Positive.”

 

If only they knew. Misty thought to herself.

 

“Well, I dunno about you guys, but I wanna head over to Professor Oak’s place and say hi to Gary.” Ash said getting up.

 

“Gary?” Misty asked in confusion.

 

“Oh yeah, that’s right I didn’t tell you.” Ash said sweat dropping and rubbing the back of his head with his hand. “Before our pokemon journey, me and Gary were best friends. After I came back, we became friends again.”

 

“Oh.” Was Misty’s only reply.

 

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Later at Prof. Oak’s laboratory, Ash and the others were sitting down enjoying tea that Gary made. Gary and Professor Oak were pleased that Misty came back. She told them all about what she had been doing since Ash left for the Houenn League. Ash didn’t believe some of her story, some parts of it didn’t add up when she got to her travels to Mount Moon, Celadon City, Lavender Town, and Vermillion City; especially some bits from her hometown of Cerulean City.

 

All of a sudden, explosions were heard outside in the Lab area. Everyone looked outside and saw smoke coming from various parts of the laboratory area and ran outside.

 

“What’s going on here?” Ash yelled as he saw pokemon running everywhere. His pokemon came running or flying up to him. “You guys ok.”

 

They all responded in their noises just as they heard a group of laughs. He looked up and saw a Meowth shaped balloon. We all knew what that meant.

 

“Prepare for trouble, we’ve got the place in a panic.”

 

“And make it double, we’re not here to picnic.”

 

“Do 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.”

 

“Jesse”

 

“James”

 

“Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light.”

 

“Surrender now or prepare to fight, fight, fight.”

 

“Wobbu…”

 

“Hey get yer own line! Ha, ha, Meowth that’s right!”

 

“Team Rocket!” Everyone shouted.

 

“Pipikachu!” Pikachu yelled.

 

“Don’t you guys ever quit?” May shouted throwing her index finger at them.

 

“You guys know we’ll always beat ya!” Brock shouted too.

 

“Not today you won’t.” Jesse taunted before turning to Meowth, “Hit it Meowth!”

 

“Aye, aye!” Meowth replied sinisterly before pressing a button and out from the bottom net came a net and it covered Ash’s pokemon and Ash!

 

“Ash!” Everyone shouted as Team Rocket lifted him off the ground with his pokemon.

 

“Put him down you creeps!” Misty cried out while putting Togepi down.

 

“Hey, isn’t that the twerp’s girlfriend?” James asked looking at Misty.

 

“Well what do you know, it is.” Jesse replied smirking.

 

“Heh! Too bad she ain’t gonna get ‘em back!” Meowth snickered and taunted.

 

“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet shouted as he once again popped out of his pokeball.

 

“Get back in your pokeball!” Jesse yelled as she returned her annoying blue pokemon back into its pokeball. Just then, they heard Pikachu trying to shock the net but instead he was shocking Ash and the rest of his pokemon.

 

“AHH!!! PIKACHU STOP!!!” Ash shouted while being electrocuted by his faithful pokemon.

 

Team Rocket only laughed sinisterly. “Try all you want Pikachu…” Jesse taunted.

 

“Your shocks will only fire back at your friends.” James taunted with Jesse.

 

“So try all ya want, your shocks won’t get trough dis net.” Meowth finished the taunt with a laugh.

 

“Torchic, I choose you!” May shouted as she threw her fire pokemon’s pokeball.

 

“Go Onix!” Brock shouted as he called out his rock pokemon.

 

“Scyther, go!” Tracey yelled as he called out his skilled pokemon.

 

“Umbreon, I choose you!” Gary yelled as he called out his faithful pokemon.

 

“Torchic!” “Roar!!!” “Scy!!!” “Umbre!” All their pokemon shouted as they came out of their pokeballs.

 

“So you want to play rough huh? Serpentine, Go!” Jesse shouted as she called out her new snake pokemon.

 

“Weezing, Go!” James yelled as he called his gas pokemon.

 

All at once, the pokemon clashed and for once, Team Rocket had the advantage. One by one, everyone’s pokemon fell at the hands of those two pokemon. Ash could only watch from his net and struggle to get out along with the rest of his pokemon. Misty then felt something in her head coming, she panicked and began to hold her head with both of her hands and fell to her knees.

 

“No, not again!” Misty cried as she felt as though she was in pain.

 

Everyone looked at Misty wondering what was wrong with her. “Misty what’s wrong?” Brock asked as he went to go check her out.

 

“Don’t come near me!” Misty nearly shouted as she continued to hold her head.

 

“Hey, what’s wrong with her?” James asked looking at Misty.

 

“Who cares, we got what we came her for…” Jesse said angrily.

 

“So let’s scram!” Meowth shouted.

 

“No, no! Stop!” Misty shouted before letting out a blood-curdling scream.

 

Everyone looked at her just in time to see a blue aura cover Misty’s body. Her arms fell to her sides and when she lifted her head, her eyes…they were glowing the same crimson blue as the aura around her and they were blank! At the same time, Team Rocket’s balloon was glowing the same crimson blue and it stopped in its tracks.

 

“AHH! What’s going on?” Jesse cried as she tried to move.

 

“I’m frozen, I can’t move!” James cried.

 

Misty then began to float, that’s right, float into the air still glowing a crimson blue. Everyone stared in shock as they saw Misty floating and glowing at the same time with Team Rocket’s balloon. Then, with one movement of her hand, the rope connecting to the net containing Ash and all his pokemon ripped and Ash and his pokemon fell to the ground and landed safely. Ash emerged from the net still looking at Misty. All his pokemon all looked too. Just then, Togepi came out of hiding and widened its eyes.

 

“Toge, toge togeprrrri!” (Oh no, Mommy’s at it again!) Togepi cried.

 

Ash looked at Togepi in surprise. “You mean this has happened before?!”

 

“Toge, togeprrrriii toge, toge, priiii!” (Yes daddy, she has been doing this for a while now.) Togepi replied nearly in a cry.

 

Just then, Misty took her right hand, pointed it towards Team Rocket’s balloon, and closed the palm into a perfect fist. After she clenched her fist, the balloon exploded sending Team Rocket into the air.

 

“We’re blasting off agaiiin!!!” “Wobba!” Team Rocket shouted as they flew away.

 

Misty then looked towards the others before the glow around her disappeared, her eyes closed, and she fell to the ground. Ash ran to her and caught her just in time before she hit the ground. He stroked a piece of her hair away from her face revealing her facial features. He then noticed something on her forehead and noticed it looked like the symbol of an Unown.

 

“What’s happened to you Misty?” Ash muttered as he looked at her.

 

To Be Continued…

 

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Mike: Well, that was kinda dramatic wasn’t it?

 

Misty: Wow, I never thought something like that would happen to me.

 

Ash: Me neither.

 

Misty: Please keep writing Mike, I don’t want to see anyone get hurt. ::She looked at him with pleading eyes::

 

Mike: Don’t worry Misty, I will. But I need reviews to do that so please review everyone and no flames.