Chapter 6 – Dangerous Games

There was a loud crash as Brock and James carried their feud to the floor, and Felicia had had enough of it. She stood up, placed her fingers in her mouth and whistled to break your eardrums. All stopped, James in mid-punch.

" Is it just me, or do we need something to do desperately??"

Everyone nodded.

" Well, how about we play a game?" She suggested.

" A pokebattle?" Ash suggested.

" At 10 at night? I don’t think so."

" How about a card game? Strip poker might be fun." Jessie said slyly.

" NO." Aya and the rest of the Pokemon said at once.

" It’s just a thought…. No, you wouldn’t like it." Felicia said.

" What?" They all said in unison.

" Well, I know its awfully sixth grade and immature, but..."

They waited.

" Truth or dare?"

Everyone fell on the floor, their legs in the air dramatically.

" It’s a little boring, don’t you think?" James cocked an eyebrow.

" Well, being we’re older and can think up better things, we could make it a lot more interesting." She said.

A thoughtful hmmm came from everyone.

" Alright, let’s give it a try." Ash said.

A few minutes later, they were all assembled in a circle in the center of the room. Tidal was awake yet still yawning frequently, sitting next to Ember, who was totally new to the game, and Misty, who didn’t look very enthusiastic.

" Alright," Felicia began, placing the makeshift spinner in the center of the circle. " We’ll go clockwise around the circle. Spin this and ask truth or dare to the person it lands on. Anything goes, with just one rule."

"Yeah?" Brock said.

" If you don’t do exactly what they say, you have to take something off."

At that point, just about everyone but Jessie looked a little uneasy.

" So, who wants to go first?"

***

After a while, everyone was thoroughly entertained by making total fools of themselves. Nearly no one chose truth, accept Brock on one occasion, which ended up with him losing his shirt, or at least his outer vest.

Almost everyone was without shoes or socks, and even the Pokemon played.

Tidal, as means of getting back at her for some reason or another, had dared Inferno to torch Aya from behind. Not knowing it had been an actual dare, he now sported a large spot over his eye, which was reciprocated onto Tidal. Meouth, thinking it would be a laugh riot, had dared James and Jessie to kiss, and they had, but not before dragging him into the other room by the scruff of his neck and beating the little kitty pus out of him. Jessie had also made the mistake of letting her hair get to close to Ember’s fiery mane, and had spent an hour in the bathroom trying to fix it. Felicia had laughed herself to tears over the antics of her guests, and had only been dared a few times, once by Brock, who hadn’t really dared her, but more like begged her to kiss him, but he blacked out before their lips had even brushed. Ash thought it was so funny he accidentally knocked Pikachu into the entable, which ended up being a shocking experience for them all.

Now that the roars of laughter had subsided, it was Jessie’s turn. She spun the spinner, and it landed on Ember, who blushed and ducked behind Tidal like a scared kitten.

" Come out..." Tidal said to the red ball of flames behind him.

" I don’t know what to do." She whispered back.

" Just do what she tells you to."

" Yeah," Misty chimed in. " It fun. Just do what Jessie says."

Ember, not moving, was scooped up under her forepaws by Misty, and set down in her lap.

" Are you ready now???" Jessie asked angrily.

" Give Ember a break, Jessie, she’s never played before." Tidal said as he intently watched Ember being stroked by Misty.

" It’s bad enough I have to play with you twerps and your animals, much less one that won’t cooperate."

" Just shut the hell up and play." Aya said angrily.

" Alright, fine, truth or dare?"

Ember looked at Tidal.

" Its better to say dare. Its more fun."

" Uh…dare?"

" That’s a big surprise." James said, lying down.

" Shut up, James. Anyway…" She looked around for something that would horribly humiliate the cowardly little animal, and found it.

" Okay. How about you kiss that cat-fishy looking thing?"

Everyone was at a lack of expression due to Jessie’s amazing vocabulary.

"You mean Tidal?" She said in innocently soft voice.

" Get real, Jessie." Tidal scoffed. Ember seemed kind of disappointed.

" Hey, she has to."

" Or else what? We don’t have any clothes to take off."

" So??"

" Aww, come on Tidal, it can’t be that bad." Misty said, rubbing his head.

" What, you’re siding with her?"

" No, I’m just saying…" Before she could get out the rest, Ember jumped foreword and gave Tidal a peck on the cheek before cuddling up under one of his arms. Tidal, still wide eyed with disbelief, laid himself down next to her, not knowing what to say.

" Hmm. Cute. My turn!" Felicia announced from her place by Jessie, her new friend. It landed on Ash, who was half-asleep.

" ASH!!!" They all yelled, sending him jolting up from his seat.

" What?!?" He yelled back.

" It’s Felicia’s turn to dare you." Shadowcat reminded him from his perch on Brock’s shoulder.

" Oh. Okay."

But no one accept Jessie had noticed the smile breaking across Felicia’s face. She laughed to herself.

" Please tell me this is going to be more interesting than mine." Jessie whispered to her.

" Oh, believe me, it will."

" So, what’s the plan?!" Jessie asked eagerly. Felicia told her. Jessie laughed.

"What’d she say???" Meouth asked, jumping up and down. Jessie played telephone and told Meouth, who stopped dead in his tracks. Something flashed in his memory, and he began slashing at Felicia’s face like he would normally do to James. Everyone tried to pry Meouth off of her, and once restrained yet still thrashing in James’s grasp Felicia grabbed him by the scruff of his neck for the second time that night and dragged him off into the other room. Everyone watched and waited for their return. It took about five minutes, but they came back into the living room, both still completely intact, much to James’s surprise.

" Alright, would you mind telling me what’s so interesting?" Ash said, getting annoyed by their secrecy.

" Sure Ash, if your that eager to lose your shirt and jeans."

" What? Who said I’d lose anything? I can take anything you can dish out, Felicia." He said confidently, pulling his hat backward.

"Pikapikachu." Pikachu agreed.

" This showed be fun then. I, Felicia Masters, dare you, Ash Ketchum, to kiss, on the mouth, for fifteen seconds timed…"

He started to lose his confidence. She pointed a finger across the room and Misty’s eyes grew wide as her breath caught short.

" WHAT?!?!"

***

(Hehe…I love this next part.)

To be continued….