Poke-Half Starts out deep in Mount Moon Ash, Misty, and Brock are looking for Clefairy when they discover a rainbow-colored patch of the cave's wall that ripples as they approach it (like the paintings in Mario64)*Ash: What is it?*a Clefairy hops by at that moment. It jumps into the wall and disappears*Misty: Hey! Where did that Clefairy go?Pikachu: Pika..?Brock: *picks up a pebble and throws it at the wall. It vanishes into it*I think this must be some kind of hidden passageway. Maybe the Clefairy really came from wherever it is behind the wall, and not from the moon as thought &help; Ash: *walks up to the wall and touches it. His hand goes right through* Whoa! That's weird! *pulls his hand back* Do you think it's safe to go through? Misty: I don't know. Brock: It should be safe. That Clefairy went in, so why can't we? Ash: Well, okay *they all step through the wall and find themselves near some large area of springs (water, not metal)*Misty: *reads a sign in front of her* " Welcome to Jusenkyo, the Training Ground of Cursed Springs." Never heard of it.*they see the Clefairy on a bamboo pole sticking out of one of the springs and they run towards it. They are stopped by the Jusenkyo guide*Guide: Hey, wait! You must not enter before I tell you about springs! Ash: Huh? Guide: You see, each spring here have very tragic legend of creature what drown in spring! If you were to fall in spring, you'd- *sees Pikachu* Aiyaa! What that? It very cute, no? *picks up Pikachu* Pikachu: Pikaa! Pikachu! *smiles**the three walk away while the guide is distracted by Pikachu* Ash: *hears the Clefairy and he sees it jumping from pole to pole,getting farther and farther away. He begins to chase it* Hey, wait,Clefairy! I'm gonna catch you! *pulls out a Pokeball* Brock: Ash! Be careful, it's dangerous here! Ash: I know what I'm doing! *trips and falls into a spring with a big splash* Misty: Ash!! *runs to the edge of the spring* Ash, are you okay? Pikachu: *hops out of the guide's arms and darts over to the spring* Pikaaa! *dives in to save Ash, but lands on his hat as he gets up from underwater* Ash: Pikachu? *hears his own voice; it sounds weird to him like a girl's voice* Huh?? *looks down* Yaaah! I'm a girl!!! *gets out of the spring, dripping wet* Whoa! I have a tail, too! And paws! And whiskers! And fur! Misty: *stares at Ash* You're a cat-girl! *falls over laughing* Brock: What's so funny? *blushing* Ash: *looks at Brock weird* No. Don't tell me you're*backs away* Misty: *starts laughing even harder, and accidentally rolls into a spring* Yaah! *comes up as a Psyduck* Psy? Psy-yi-yi-yi!!!!! *gets out of the spring* Psy&help; *sits and cries* Ash: *looks at Misty/Psyduck* Serves you right, laughing at me like that. Brock: yeah Ash: Well, there must be a way to change back. I don't want to be a girl! Brock: *looks disappointed* You don't? Ash: Absolutely not! And I hate this tail! Guide: *appears from nearby* Oh, so you want change back? *holds up a kettle of hot water* This give you body back! *Ash grabs for it, but Misty gets it first* Misty: Psyy! *picks up her clothes in her beak and waddles off behind a rock* Ash: Hey I want to change back too! *runs to where Misty is,and is hit in the face by the kettle* Ow! Sorry! SORRY!!! *walks back to where Brock, Pikachu, and the guide are standing* Pikachu: Pii? Brock: Why did she hit you? Ash: *looks at her feet, blushing* She wasn't dressed yet&help; Misty: *comes out from behind the rock, human again, with her clothes on* Don't you DARE do that again, Ashura Ketchum! Just because you're a girl too does NOT make it okay to do that!!! Ash: I'm really sorry! I didn't know! *is splashed by hot water* Brock: Really, Ash, you have to learn to be more lady like if you're going to be a cute girl. Ash: Hey, I'm back to normal! *makes sure he doesn't still have a tail*Good, no tail! Guide: Remember, you change back to cursed form with cold water!*wanders off*Misty: What? You mean I'm not permanently back to normal?! Ash: And I'm still gonna be a girl? Brock: That's fine with me! *gets hit by the now-empty kettle* Ow! Ash: Is that all you ever think about? Girls? Misty: There's got to be a cure for this *meanwhile, in another area of the springs, Team Rocket is also looking for Clefairy. They are up on a cliff* Jessie: *looks at Meowth* Remind me again why we're here. Meowth: Because I saw the Clefairy come in here! James: So why do we want the Clefairy? I though we were supposed to get that Pikachu. Meowth: Where there's Clefairy, there's Moon Stone! We have to get that, too! James: Oh yeah, that's right! Guide: *comes up behind them, scaring them* You there! Be careful!Or you fall in cursed spring! James: Cursed spring? Jessie: What's so cursed about them? Guide: These spring special. Two thousand year ago, creatures come from far, far future, crash-landed. Strange ones, they were, part human, part animal. All drown in spring. Now if you fall in spring, you take body of creature! Meowth: Ridiculous. James: Yeah. Jessie: Who'd believe a story like that? Guide: Well, no say I not warn you. *walks off, talking to himself*They look like that girl what lives here now. Maybe they know her. Meowth: *looking down* Ha! There it is! *points to the Clefairy down below* Jessie and James: Where? *both rush over, trampling Meowth* Meowth: *slashes them* Watch where you're walking! Jessie: *brings her hands up to her face* Meowth! You've ruined my perfect complexion! Again! *she and James start pounding on Meowth**a crumbling sound is heard. They stop fighting long enough to realize the cliff is breaking. Meowth leaps to safety, but the humans end up falling to the springs below. Jessie falls in one, and James falls in one right next to it. Jessie surfaces first*Meowth: *watching from the cliff* Numskulls.Jessie: *shakes off water* Oh, now my fur's all wet. wait a minute Fur?! Oh no, I'm a cat! It was true, these springs ARE cursed! James: *pops up out of the water, similarly affected* What the *looks at Jessie* You're a cat!Jessie: So are you! James: Huh? Hey, I am! I don't like this!Jessie: I don't like it either!! Where's that Chinese freak, I want to know the cure!James: *gets out of the spring* Let's go find him!Jessie: Right. *they both run off carefully to find the Jusenkyo guide*Meowth: Hey, wait for me!! *leaps down to a bamboo pole and follows Team Rocket, jumping from pole to pole**the guide is in his house, boiling some water for his lunch, when Jessie and James barge in*Guide: *sighs* How I guess you two fall in spring?Jessie: Spare us the sarcasm and tell us how to get our normal bodies back!Guide: What for I help you? I warn you about spring, you no listen, it not my fault.Jessie: *calmly opens a Pokeball, releasing Arbok, who towers angrily over the guide*Guide: *scared* Aiyaa!!! *grabs the kettle of water and shoves it at the two cat-people* Here! Hot water reverse effect!Jessie: Thank you. Arbok, return! *Arbok zaps back into the Pokeball*James: Jessie, can I use it first? Please?Jessie: Shut up, it's mine! *feels the heat of the boiling water* Um,okay, sure. You can use it first&help; *pours some of the water on James*James: OWWW!!! That's hot!!!!!!Jessie: Well, at least it worked. You're normal again.James: I am, But please don't do that again!Jessie: Oh, all right. Is it really that bad? *pours water on herself*James: *covers his ears as she screams* I said it was hot they leave, dropping the kettle on the floor. The guide picks it up*Guide: Talk about idiot a girl materializes in front of him suddenly*Girl: *smiles charmingly* Thanks for helping them. *walks off after Team Rocket, making sure they don't see her*Guide: *watches her leave* I not ever understand that one. [note-- somehow I lost a few pages here I started a new notebook and some pages came out of the old one, and I don't remember what I wrote. It was so long ago in the story I'm typing this up at the time I'm halfway through part 5, so it's been awhile. What was supposed to happen right now was that everyone went back to the Pokemon world, and out of Mount Moon, and now they're in the forest outside Cerulean City. The two groups haven't met yet. Brock discovered that there was more cold water around than hot, and managed to get Ash soaked. And since she doesn't want to go get firewood to make a fire to heat water, she's stuck as a girl for now.Team Rocket has managed to avoid cold water, so they are currently normal. The girl has been following them still, and they still don't know it. Okay? =^_^=]* Brock, Ash, and Misty are walking along the path*Misty: Do we have to go to Cerulean City?Ash: Well, it is the closest city.Misty: Yeah, but if my sisters found out that I turn into a Psyduck. Brock: I see.Ash: But I need to change back!Brock: No you don't. You're perfectly fine as a girl.Ash: *to herself* I'd like to see how he'd feel if he was half-girl too. *Team Rocket is hiding up the path in the bushes, watching through binoculars*James: Look, it's those two gym leaders!Jessie: But where's the little brat that sticks with them? And who's the cat-girl?Meowth: Maybe they ditched the kid and picked a better-looking companion. (How true, how true.)James: She is kinda cute Jessie: Quiet, they're coming!*behind them, in a tree, the mysterious girl is watching. She thinks to herself, 'Almost tim **when Ash and the others are close enough, Team Rocket jumps out from behind the bushes and starts the motto* Jessie: Prepare for trouble! James: And make that double! Pikachu: Pika pii pikachu (which means 'Not again) Jessie: To protect the world from devastation! James: To unite all peoples within our nation! Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love! James: To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie: Jessie! James: James! *the mysterious girl thinks 'Perfect,' and leaps down from the tree,still hidden* Jessie: Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light! James: Surrender now, or prepare to fight! *Meowth jumps in front, but before he can land he is sent flying by a jump-kick from the mysterious girl*Girl: Hai-YAH! *lands quietly on her feet* That's right! *everyone stares at her. She turns to Brock first* What the heck is your problem?Brock: My problem is I don't have you as my girlfriend! *smiling*Girl: *whacks Brock* I don't like you. *turns and faces Team Rocket*Hiya! *focuses on James. She blinks a couple times, then runs up and hugs him* Daddy, I've found you at last!James: Wha--??? *big anime sweat drop*Jessie: *and if you thought James was surprised&help;*'Daddy? *pulls out a very large mallet* Oh, James *her eyes glow red* when were you planning on telling me you had a kid?!?!?!?!James: *backs off, very scared* I don't! She's lying! Don't kill me!!!!Jessie: Fine. *turns to the girl* Okay, who are you, and are you really who you say you are, his daughter?Girl: Y-yes, I am. *jumps up high, avoiding the mallet* Hey, let me explain! My name is Jill, and I'm from the future!Jessie: *puts down the mallet* The future, huh?Jill: Yeah. *moves her hand in the direction of Ash, Misty, and Brock,and they are encased in an invisible box, unable to escape* See, only someone from the future would have powers like I do!James: That's not fair. How come my daughter gets really cool powers and I don't?Jessie: So, if you're from the future, what are you doing here?Jill: Well, things aren't going so well back home. Mom's really sick,and we don't know what's wrong with her. I came to see if I could find out if it was the result of something that happened in the past. Once I find out what the problem is, I can find a cure, or maybe prevent it from ever happening!James: Hmm Jessie: How nice of you, Now I'm curious. Who's your mom?Jill: Not telling.Jessie: Come on, I want to know! Is it me?Misty: *in the box* Hello, can you please let us out?Jill: Oh yeah! Sure! *the box is gone, and the captives are freed* Now don't go do something stupid. I know your secret! I could tell them, you know.Ash and Misty: Secret? *nervous* How,how do you? Meowth: A secret, huh? *claws spring out* Tell me the secret or you'll have an up close and personal meeting with my claws!Jill: I don't think so, Meowth-kun. *picks up Meowth by the tail* I can't possibly hurt a cat as cute as you. But I'm sure you won't try that again, right? *sends him a telepathic mallet*Meowth: *hit* right *is put down*Jill: Good. *turns to Jessie and James* And don't you try anything, either! I know your secrets as well! Jessie: You-James: You do?Misty: So, Team Rocket has secrets too!Jessie: How do you know our secrets, Jill? Jill: Well, I had been living at Jusenkyo for a while, waiting for you Tacoma. I knew you'd be there *turns to Ash, Misty and Brock* but I didn't know you'd come, too.Brock: Hmm so if Team Rocket went to Jusenkyo that means Jill: *silences him* Yes, they know about the curse. *turns to Ash* Ashari, huh? One of my best friends. Ash: Huh?Jill: Don't worry I guess you all want to know each other's secrets, correct? Misty: Well, not re-Ash, Jessie, James, and Meowth: Yes! James: *thinking to himself* So, her name is Ashari *Jill: *a Squirtle materializes next to her* Okay, Squirta-chan, Water Gun attack! Squirta-chan: Squirtle squirt! *drenches Misty, Ash, Jessie, and James in cold water. All but Ash change*Misty: *the coldness of the water gives her a headache*Psy-yi-yi&help;Jessie: *grins* And I thought our cursed forms were bad!James: *looks at Ash* Ashari-- you didn't change! Does that mean you didn't fall in a spring?Ash: *thinks to herself* He doesn't know who I really am! *uses this to her advantage* I would have changed if I had!Jill: *shakes her head slowly* Foolish cat, Ashari. *hands a kettle of hot water to Team Rocket* Here, change back. James: Can't we eat the Pikachu first? I'm hungry! Jill: No. Now hurry up! Ash: Hot water*looks at Pikachu* Pikachu's starting to look pretty tasty *shakes her head* No, I can't think about that! I need that hot water!Pikachu: Pika! *relieved*Jessie: What would you want with hot water, cat? Ash: um Jill: Like I said, 'foolish cat.' *gives a kettle to Misty* Here. *makes achanging room appear*Misty: Psy! *waddles gratefully into the room with the water and her clothes*Jill: *telepathically talks to Ash* *laughs* James: Ashari..? Something wrong? Jessie: *whacks James* Why are you being so friendly to her?! She's one of the good guys!James: But she's so cute Jill: *sends Jessie a telepathic mallet* Don't hurt my dad! *turns to Ash* here *hands her a kettle* This situation is getting too dangerous.Ash: Thank you thank you thank you! *pours water on herself and transforms back*James: Wha--? You mean, you're that kid..?Ash: Better believe it!Misty: *comes out, sees Ash* So, you finally got your hot water.Ash: And not a moment too soon, either. *points to James*James: *sitting sadly on the ground* Oh, life is so cruel Jill: *walks over to James* Come on, Dad, let's go home.Jessie: Yeah, James, we need to talk.*the four Team Rocket members walk off* Ash: Well, they're gone- for now.Brock: They'll be back, I just know it.Misty: Somehow, I think there's more to Jill's past than what she's told us Brock: Maybe, someday, we'll find out I know I want to know more about her. Part 2 coming soon, Please send reviews to Teamrocket251@aol.com