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Part 2
Misty sighed a large breath of relif as she sank down into the
arm bubbly bath water.She carefully undid her hair as it limply fell to
down to her sholders. She dipped under the water and resurfaced beginning
to lather and rinse her hair with the expensive first class shampoo. She
washed it 4 times before she was sure it was clean. She felt as if a million
bugs were in her hair crawling about . She hated that forest and never
wanted to go back there again. She finished cleaning and emptied the tub.
She dried off and put on her suspenders, shorts, and yellow shirt not bothering
to tie up her hair for the scrunchie she had toted around for years had
finally snapped. She put her pokeballs in her backpack, her backpack on
her sholder and started for the door that connected her and ash's room.
She lightly knocked on the door and tried to speak without cracking her
voice. "A-Ash? Are you there Ash? Can I come in?" she questioned through
the door. Ash woke instantly when his ears heard her sweet voice. The same
voice he had been dreaming " Coming!" Ash yelled. He didn't have to yell
but if he didn't his voice would of quavered and cracked at the thought
of seeing Misty. He unlocked the numerous locks on his first class door,
smiled, put his hands behind his head and greeted the girl at his door"
Hey Misty-..." He started but then tried not to stare in awe at the girl
standing before him. " Wow Misty!" He exclaimed. " You look a whole lot
better with your hair down instead of up! You should keep it that way!"
Misty was startled as his unseemeley kind remark. I never knew he even
paid attention to those kinds of things! She exclaimed in her mind." Thanks.."
was all she could get out. They stood in a comftorable silence for a moment
or two when Misty broke the silent spell." I wanted to tell you I'm going
to the women's spa to get a make over ect. I'll meet you and Brock at 8:00
in the dining hall. I suggest you and Brock go to the men's spa cuz' the
first dinner on a cruise is the traditional ' LOOK BETTER THAN EVERYONE
ELSE' dinner and we're 1st class so we need to make a lot of people gawk.."
Ash laughed and said " Alright then! See you at eight!" Misty closed her
eyes smiled, tilted her head and said happily " Okay buh-bye!" And left
the room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A knock at his door startled Brock. He opened the huge locks to find
Ash at his door. " Come on Brock!" Ash exclaimed " We have to go get all
dressed up and junk in time for the party!" Brock looked at him puzzled.
Ash let out a sigh " Misty said...AND I QUOTE '.....The first dinner
on a cruise in the traditional LOOK BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE dinner ane
we are first class so we need to make a lot of people gawk.' So let's get
going! Maybe Nurse Joy'll be here too! Brock thought to himself. As they
ran down the hall.Suddenly he was looking forward to getting dressed up
hoping to meet some cute girls. Well... Brock started to laugh at himself.
It's weird. I almost think every girl is cute! Well... All except for that
Bertha girl with the acne problem.. Brock shuddered at the thought. But
he was off to find his love on the grandest ship of all! Suddenly
he was immediately modivated to race Ash to the Men's spa.
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Misty almost gawked herself! This could not be a mirror! She
screamed in her head! It must be a picture or something.But as the picture
moved and moved in tune with Misty she realized that was indead her stunningly
beautiful reflection. And for the first time in her life her feminime
side REALLY showed. She usually hated these kinds of dresses and makeup.
But for once her girlish fantisies rose up over her tomboy personality.
Her sleevless white dress was simple in design yet, that was the
secret to it's beauty. It fit her so perfectly! This dress was made for
her!The straps strung around her neck and met back together in a round
neck line. the rest of the dress was a clean sparkling white. No sequins,
no rubys, just pure white silk carefully hugging her curves making her
seem much more older than she really was.Her hair was up but curled into
intricate twriling patterns framing her lovley face.She put one hand delicately
on her face. Her skin was so soft. Suddnely she stopped thinking about
how good SHE looked and wondered how good HE LOOKED...
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" Nice. You look nice. REALLY nice, I mean gentle men, I mean you almost
look bettter than me! now THAT'S a compliment! WOO HOO BOY! I mean
it's like Tom Cruise-..." Brock didn't even get to finish his scentence
before Ash, face red with anger and embaressment started to tighted brock's
bowtie so hard he wasn't able to beathe. After a good few minutes of floundering
around the room trying to undo the tight knot on his windpipe Brock managed
to rip the bowtie off. And fall to the floor trying to breathe. " I --
:huff huff:: ---think ----I --- :PUFF PUFF: --- get the picture." Ash helped
Brock up and wiped the dust off his Tuxedo. " Come on we have to get going
now!" Ash exclaimed dragging Brock behind him. " I 'm having second thoughts
about this party thing..." Brock started. Ash started chanting between
breaths not even looking back at Brock " Think Joy... Think Jenny.. Nurse
Joy ....officr jenny.." Brock turned red and started to run faster. They
stopped running A few feet from the dining hall to catch their breath.
They straightened their posture and started off for the entrance. Once
they entered the dining hall men and women from the lower classes gawked
at them knowing they DEFINATELY won the OH MY GOD THEY LOOK SO GREAT! award.
Brock started off without saying a word to Ash knowing he would not mind.
Ash didn't really mind when Brock ran off that soon, but he didn't like
being alone. But of course, there was no way he was going to go and search
for girls with Brock either. He Skimmed the room for Misty but, to no avail
wasn't very lucky in his search. Suddenly his eyes fixated on a girl with
beautiful red curls that twisted and winded in mystifing directions. She
was wearing a plain silk white dress that fit her perfectly. He didn't
even have to look at her face. He knew it was Misty. He gathered up his
strength and started to walk towards her She acted as if she didn't know
he was there so it was a bit more tense for Ash than usual. Of course unknown
to Ash Misty was perfetly aware of the handsome, tall sweet smellig boy
approaching her.She had only gotton to glimpse out the side of her eye
But that was all she needed. She saw a flash of a dark umpredictable
head of hair that could only belong to one person.Ash. She decided to surprise
him and turned around holding a glass of punch out to him. " Punch? " She
offered. Ash barely grasped the cup in his hand as his eyes widened
at Misty's face. Before he was almost positive it was her but.... This
girl.... was so ... beautiful (bee-you-tee-full! tee-hee) It took his breath
away. " M-MIsty?" He stuttered. The look on his face alarmed her. There
must be something wrong with my face! Oh man my chance to impress a guy
horribly ruined! I wanna go home! she cried in her head. She carefully
sheilded a hand with her face an started to slink back into the shadowss
fearing there was something wrong with her face. Ash was suddenly alarmed.
He almost slapped himself. He took Misty's hand bringing it down from her
face and sheepishly laughed . " No, no, no.. you don't look bad, you look
great. It just really threw me off guard! I had no idea your hair was so
shiny!" He and Misty laughed at the compliment. Ash still hadn't let go
of Misty's hand.. Ash took a deep breath and prepared to take one of the
biggest risks he had ever taken in his life. But he was determened and
if he didn't do this he would die. He raised her hand, still clasped in
his gesturing towards the dance floor, bowed and said " Would you like
to dance? " She was knocked off her feet. A gentleman! Ash ! It was unbelivable!
" Of course!" She said blushing. he gently led her to the dance floor and
stood for a moment. Ash started to laugh. " I forgot how I'm supposed to
dance!" he wispered sheepeshly. His face turned red as she bended his arms
into the addiquate ballrooom dancing position. She placed his hand
around her waist and put her arm around his neck. Then she grasped he remaining
hand and extended it into the air. " Twirl" She instructed. Ash started
to laugh" Twirl?" Misty started to giggle at the stupid instruction she
had given Ash. " Yes Twril!" she giggled " For the love of god, man twirl!
Twril like youv'e never twirled before!" The joyfull laughter of Misty
and Ash lit up the room. ." You know Misty-....."
" STOP IT!!! STOP IT NOW! "
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"STOP IT!! STOP IT NOW!!!" Marissa screamed. This mushy stuff
was making her sad. she wanted it to stop. She wanted eveyone to be lonly
too. Espically Misty. " Now.... Now it will happen! I was going to
wait till later, but this is the perfect time!!!" She fumed. This wasn't
supposed to be a pleasant evening! This was supposed to be a lonly night
full of hatred. But now... now it will be full of pain..emptiness..Darkness...EVERYWHERE!!!....."
Dark coulds started to form as Marissa dissapeared and timestarted up again.
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Misty fell into Ash's arms as a huge wave rockec the boat. "
What's happening Ash?!" Misty screamed over the roaring waves. Tears ran
down Ash's face. He knew what was going to happen. It had appeared to him
in a vision suddenly. " The ship is going to sink " he whispered. He didn't
want to alarm the others. ( Dont' worry this isn't Titanic or anything
there are enough lifeboats!) He quickly picked her up and they screamed
in unison" The pokemon!!" They ran towards their rooms Misty, grabbing
her backpack, Ash carring his pokeballs in his arms. Plus one Pikachu.
" PIKA KA CHU PI?!!" Pikachu wailed. " Get in the pokeball Pikachu! NOW!"
the scared tone of his master's voice left Pikachu crying inside his tight
little pokeball wondering if he would ever see Ash again. " Misty will
you take my pokemon? Please? I dont' have anything to carry them in and
I can't change so I don't have my pokeball belt!" Misty grabbed each one
out of Ash's arms and stuffed them in her backpack. Not even letting him
say thanks before they ran out of the room. " Hurry we gotta find Brock!!!"
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Marissa laughed as she stared at Brock frantically searching for his
best friends. You'll never find them.... she grinned, evil clouding her
heart. " Brock there you are!" Marissa's eyes opened wide as she heard
Ash's voice calling to his friend. But this can't happen!! I made sure
it wouldn't !!! Am I .... Am I losing my magic??!! NO that can't be it!
Marissa couldn't make sense of it. Oh well. It will have to wait untill
later. I will not have this mere boy spoil my plans. She snapped
her fingers and just like that, Brock was gone. He was not dead of course.
She would not kill unless she needed to. She just popped Brock on a life
boat miles from the ship already. She quickly attended to the matter on
hand but still... a little nagging feeling frightened her. How could they
of evaded my magic?........... Her stomach turned at the thought of someone
being more powerfull than her.... But no matter. She would dispose of them
quickly if it had to come to that. Maybe they are more powerfull than me........but
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"Brock! We have to-...." Misty and Ash stood still in their tracks."
He-he... Dissapeared!!!" Misty screamed over the roaring waves. He's dead!
Misty screamed in her head.One of my best friends is dead!! Misty's knees
started to buckle and she started to fall. Ash grabbed her at the waist
as she fell, turned her around and said" He's not dead! You have to trust
me he's not dead!" Ash didn't know where that remark had come from. His
rational mind had no idea if Brock was alive or dead. But a feeling deep
inside him stirred. He didn't just know Brock was okay. He could feel it.
He could feel Brock's panic as he floated with 20 other passengers knowing
his campanions were trapped on the ship. He could feel Brock's pain as
he realised his pokemon were still in his room on the top deck of the boat
that was sinking before his eyes.. And he cried Brocks tears as Brock knew
Nurse Joy would probably perish too. Ash could not let his friend's pain
go on any longer or he too would break down ." Come on." Ash stated " Brock's
pokemon are still in his room" A small sad smile tugged at the coners of
his mouth. "And you know that rock pokemon are weakened by water." Misty
marveled at Ash. How did he know the pokemon were still in Brocks room?
Even if he didn't know that they were still there, or even still alive,
he was still willing to save Pokemon that were't even his. But she wasn't
the one to tell him he was crazy for caring about all Pokemon. Even the
ugly ones.Even bugs. She managed to laugh at the memory of bugs. She was
able to laugh even though she was so close to dying. She was able to laugh
even when she was heading down through a dark unlit corridor water up to
her knees searching through someone elses room for pokemon she didn't even
like. She was able to laugh. Ash saw her smiling. man he thought It just
goes to show how stong a person can be. It just shows... How strong Misty
can be.
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Marissa grimaced. " I'm getting bored" she said to no one. "
Enough playing around. Let's get down to buisness." She shot a glance
at the life boats. They were instantly filled to the brim with everyone
excluding Ash. She lowered them with her mind. In no time everyone but
Ash was safe. The ship rapidly started it's descent towards the ocean floor
no longer shurly and steady, but fast paced and rushed. She visualised
the boat in her hand and squeezed all the air out of it. " Now Ash.. You
die.." Suddenly she stopped and took a closer look. She saw Ash.. yes she
did see Ash.. But.. also... " MISTY!!" She screamed her fury rising her
voice rising to a unfathomable volume peircing the ears of all within miles.
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" Ash!!" Misty cried barely able to breathe." Help.." she whispered.
Something was pulling at her. She felt she was being pulled in 2 different
directions the pressure so painful her vision blurred. One force pulled
with such fury Misty started to bleed. It's invisible claws dug into her
heart squeezing the arteries, dripping blood out of the corner of her mouth.
It pulled her towards the boat deck where a life boat lay waiting for her.
She tried to breathe but it hurt to much. But another force, firmer but
gentler pulled her in the opposite direction. This force did not squeeze
her heart to the point of eruption but instead slowly tugged on the remaining
part of her mind that lay awake, the part that didn't pass out at the pain.
This grip didn't hurt her but reassured her. She moved towards the familiar
warm grip leading her deeper into danger instead of the cold icy grip leading
her to safety. The icy grip gave up and decided to leave her alone.. Ash
had won. He had pulled her away from the force trying to take her away
from him. He ran into Brocks room grabbed his poke-balls stuffed them into
Misty's pack lifted her gently into his arms and ran. He ran for no reason.
He didn't know where he was going. He just ran to somewhere where there
was air and then continued untill he found another place with more air.
He knew the ship was sinking. He knew they were underwater. And he knew
he had to save Misty. Misty lay limp in Ash's arms fluttering in and out
of sleep. She knew she wasn't hurt bad. She was going to be fine if you
didn't concider the fact that the ship was sinking. Suddenly her eyes snapped
open as she felt the jolt of water brush her skin. She squirmed in Ash's
arms siginaling to let her down. He did. But she stood waist deep in salty
sea water.She grabbed a pokeball from her backpack. " Staryu go!"
she yelled " STARYU" the pokemon declared and stood at attention in front
of Misty. Misty turned to Ash. A small relived smile cwraled along her
face" We are getting out of here!" she declared and held on to Staryu leaving
space for Ash. Ash slowly walked up to the water pokemon, got a good grip
and took a deep breath of air. Staryu set off at incredible speeds crashing
through a porthole to escape the ship.
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Marissa mused at their attempts to escape alive. Actually they had
done pretty well. But that didn't mean they were going to get away. She
giggled as she watched the 2 pokemon trainers grasp onto a Staryu holding
for dear life , rocketing towards the surface hoping to dear god they would
survive.. She laughed even harder at the boys feeble attempts to hold his
breath. Then she laughed till she cried as a single black tentacle whipped
out from the ocean depths pulling the boy from the Staryu. and she couldn't
breathe as she went into hysterics when the Staryu pulled it's trainer
away from the dying boy and shot even faster towards the surface. Then
she stopped laughing and just smiled smugly as she watched the young boy
named Ash Ketchem wither and die on the ocean floor.
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3 minutes earlier..........
Ash gripped onto one of Staryu's many arms and took a deep breath.
As soon as his lungs were filled to the brim with air Staryu crashed through
the porthole. He yelped underwater releasing large pockets of air into
the dark ocean depths as the cold water stung his skin. He then realised
his mistake and watched as large air bubbles, the precious air bubbles
that were to decide wether he would live or die floated away from him.
He now had less air and less time to reach the surface. His lungs seemed
to grow in his chest getting bigger and bigger. His mind started to fog
and his memory began to get blurry. Each cell of Him screamed for
oxygen. He forgot where he was. He was suddenly in another place another
time. He looked around him. His Mother his father. Misty, Brock. Even Gary.
All his friends and family were there. He looked at his surrondings. There
were lush green trees and endless fields of flowers and deep green
grass. He looked around him. The air felt so warm and sweet aginst his
skin. He could amost taste it. He was tired. He needed to breathe.
He wanted to smell and breathe that sweet air, he wanted to be filled with
the warm sweet feeling it gave him.He then took a long hard breath of air.
He had expected it to be wonderful light and sweet. But it was salty harsh
and cold. It choked him. His lungs heaved exhaling the air that he thought
would taste so sweet.. wait...no...no! he wasn't on a field with his friends.
He was in a freezing cold abyss of darkness holding for dear life on to
a Staryu. No.. that wasn't right. He wasn't holding for dear life on to
a speeding Staryu. He was sinking towards death, lungs full of water watching
a girl hold on for dear life onto a speeding Staryu. She was going
to live. He was going to die. He was happy for the girl. He was not really
frightened. The frightning part of death was over. The fear of dying was
over. He was not scared. Just sad. Ash was not alone slinking towards death.
His dreams, memories, and secrets died with him. He cried. Or at least
the closest to crying you could get underwater. He didnt' cry for himself
but he cried for his pokemon and his friends. He cried most for Pikachu.
He loved Pikachu. Pikachu only loved 2 people besides Ash. Misty and Brock.
He just hoped either Brock or Misty could take care of Pikachu without
having to be haunted by Ash's spirit each time they saw his closest companion.
Then he waited for the darkness, all hope gone from his heart. He waited
for the darkness and when it came... he went willingly. There was no purpose
in pretending there was still hope. There wasn't any hope in the first
place. There wasn't any hope in the first place Ash thought as he closed
his eyes for the very.....last...time...
Well how did you like it? Don't worry! ( This story does have a happy
ending! We're just a whole lot of chapters away from it! THIS IS NOT THE
END OF THE STORY PEOPLE!!! THERE IS MORE TO COME! SO DON'T DISS ME FOR
MAKING ASH DIE!!! Okay? mail me! ( Usgichiba@aol.com)
