Ages: 17-Ash, 17-May, 17-Nimbus, 18-Misty, 19-Brock, 19-Cirrus

Lunar Magic Chapter One

"We're almost to Illusion Woods," Brock said. Ash sighed and looked at Pikachu.

"And with that.more walking!" he said sourly.

"I think Ash is a little tired!" Misty said happily, "For once in his whole life!"

"We've walked from Dalton to that other forest to here!" Ash said. Misty was looking, no, staring at him. "What is the MATTER with you?!! Stop staring at me like that!!"

A Sand Shark popped up. Ash slashed it to pieces with a Short Sword.

"You're getting good at that!" Misty said.

"I have to," Ash said, looking at the Sand Shark in distress, "when here."

"We should keep going." Brock said. They continued to walk.

It was half an hour later when Ash suddenly stopped. He was looking at something. "What 'cha lookin' at?" Misty asked.

Ash turned slightly red. "H-Her." he said, pointing. A group of three girls were by the Illusion Woods. He had pointed to one of them.

The girl he pointed to had short Soft-Pink skirt on with a Baby-Blue shirt. It showed part of her stomach.

"She is so-o-o-o-o pretty!" Ash said, in a little bit of a dazed way.

"Arg! You've been hanging around Brock too much!" Misty said. Brock tapped on her shoulder. "What?!!"

"Misty, if this was because of me, it would've started YEARS ago, not just now. Give the kid a break!" Brock said.

"It's wrong to fall desperately in love with a total stranger!" Misty said.

"You did." Brock said coldly, "You're just jealous because the boy you love is going weird over another girl!"

"I'm not jealous!" Misty yelled. Brock was watching the 3 girls. The tallest of the three said something to the two youngest.

The one Ash pointed had taken something out of her bag. Ash jumped.

They just, disappeared.

A pop was heard behind them. "Well, it's nice to know that this new group has someone in it that knows how to use a sword."

Ash looked at the speaker. He blushed and looked at the ground. The

three of those girls just appeared. The one Ash-somehow-just loves to death was the one who talked.

She walked around him to be in front of him. "Hi!"

"Who are you?!!" Misty snapped.

"My name is Madeline Oak," she said.

"We call her May!" the oldest said. Brock walked over to her. He went into 'love mode.'

"That's Nimbus," May said. May pointed to the blonde girl. She waved.

"Hi!" Nimbus said.

"And that's Cirrus," she said, pointing at a black-haired girl.

"Hi, I'm Brock!" he said. Misty didn't bother to drag him away from Cirrus and Ash didn't shake his head in embarrassment like usual.

"Uh, hi," Cirrus said. May looked at Ash. He refused to look up.

"Why you being so shy?" she asked.

"He's embarrassed that's why!" Misty shrieked.

"I'm not embarrassed!" Ash said. He looked at May, a little sheepishly, because of his silliness.

"You are so handsome!" she said. Now, he was embarrassed. Misty muttered under her breath. "What was that?"

"I said that Ash is skin and bones! He. Is. Skinny!" Misty said. Ash frowned. It was hard to believe that his only female friend had just called him that.

"He's not skinny! That's the last thing he can ever be!" May said. She got one of those 'oh yeah! I almost forgot!' looks. "By the way, what's you name, cutie?"

"CUTIE?!!" Misty yelled, "ARE YOU KIDDING?!!"

"No," May said, resenting Misty's behavior.

"My name's Ash Ketchum, that's Misty, and that's Brock," Ash said. Brock looked at him.

"Huh? Did you say something?" he asked.

"No," Ash said.

"Well, uh, Ash why don't you prove to Misty that you ain't skinny," May said, looking at him. Ash shook his head.

"I don't care what she thinks," he lied. It hurt knowing one of his friends thought that.

"Oh really?" she said. She grabbed his hand and squeezed, hard. In pain, he put his hand in his mouth.

"Owwww! Thath 'uth!" he said, wincing. Misty looked at him.

"I guess I was wrong." Misty said, "Hey Ash, you actually have some muscle on those bones of yours!!"

"It's probably from using a sword so much," May mused, glancing at the Short Sword.

"I need help using it," Ash sighed.

"I can help." May said, "But we should all stay in the forest. It's getting dark."

"Good idea!" Ash agreed quickly.

"Let's go!" Brock said, running ahead.