::Later, inside a pokécenter, with all the pokémon released in the next room…::

The three sat eating dinner. Suddenly, Misty spoke up, "Ash, I've been thinking… the way she was acting today… we *really* need to do something about Chikorita."

"Humph? Wai?"

"Huh?" '-_-

"*gulp* Why? Is there something wrong with her?"

"It's just that her 'little' crush on you has gotten way out of hand. She won't even battle anymore," Brock observed.

"Crush? Brock, isn't it obvious that Chikorita is madly in love with Ash? She won't leave him alone at all… it's not just a crush."

"Love… uh…" zO_oz Ash sat dumbfounded.

"And how would you know that Misty?" Brock taunted

"Uh…" =^_^=' "Oh… I forgot! You weren't there when we saw those Nidorans in the islands. It's from personal experience… having seen those Nidorans that is!"

"Uh-huh… you're right… I wasn't there… but I heard more than enough from Tracey. Heh. I remember something he commented about those two kids reminding him of you two, and some conversation you guys had afterwards about kiss… ing… um…" by this point his companions looked ready to kill him.

"That's not the point Brock."

"The point is that Chikorita needs to get a grip on reality. She's not human, and Ash is."

"So I should be left to human girls."

"I dunno… Ash, I think you've chosen a Psyduck…" Brock looked at Misty for a moment then glanced at Ash and smiled.

"WHAT?!" they both screamed in response.

::In the other room (translated)::

"*sigh*… I hate to admit it, but they're right… It's hopeless. I'm not even the same species as Ash," Chikorita sat sniffling.

"Hey, don't give up yet!" Cyndaquil smiled (sort of).

"Yeah, if there's hope for me, there's hope for you!" Totodile's comment was accompanied by his standard little dancing fit.

"That's… *really* comforting…" Chikorita sighed.

"You know… I once heard of a legend… where everyone gets one big wish in life granted. Most of their smaller wishes are too, but just one large wish. And the legend was of an Ivysaur that became human. The wishes were all granted by a fairy like pokémon that favored some humans and grass and psychic types," Bulbasaur explained.

"Wow… you really think it might work?"

"If you want it enough," Vulpix agreed.

"Yeah! I'm gonna try it! I wanna be human… so I can win Ash's heart!" she spun herself around gleefully, accidentally launching a Razor Leaf that narrowly missed Noctowl in the process. But she didn't care… she'd found her answer.

Pikachu sat nearby, watching the celebration warily. "I don't like this, Togepi. She's plotting something… again."

"Toge… what? Did you say something uncle Pikachu?"

"No… never mind…" he sighed. I'll have to tell someone… But who? I can't tell Ash, he'll think I'm crazy, and he never believes these legends anyway, ironically enough since he always ends up in them. Plus Chikorita would know that *I* told him…I know! I'll tell Misty… She believes in these legends, knows they're sometimes real, and she'll know what to do anyway.

::Outside later…(not pokespeechitized)::

Misty sat gazing at the stars, Pikachu half asleep beside her and Togepi less asleep than she'd like him to be on her lap. Behind her the silence was occasionally broken by the laughter of Bulbasaur, Cyndaquil, Totodile, or Vulpix as they played tag, Brock yawning, or Ash groaning at Chikorita constantly bugging him. She looked back at the group, smiled gently, and sighed, alerting Pikachu who sat up and looked at her for a moment. She didn't notice him for a second, but then realized he was there. "Oh… is this what you want?" she giggled and scratched his ear.

"Chaaa…" Pikachu cooed. Suddenly Togepi began chirping and pointed at the sky.

"What is it Togepi? Oh… wow…" She awed as a comet slowly made its way across the sky. "It must be fairly close… I don't know why we didn't notice it a few days ago…" She watched for another moment before a meteor shot across a short distance of sky. "Oop… hey, make a wish!" I wish… that either we could do something about the Chikorita issue… Or that Ash… that he would care about me, like I do him… I hate to admit it, but I'm jealous of that little brat, because I feel the same way about Ash that she does, and her method of showing it is just more direct. But I don't see where it's working any better than my subtle hints…

"Pikachupi?"

She smiled slightly without opening her eyes. "Don't worry Pikachu… I'm still awake, just thinking…" She opened her eyes and sighed. Suddenly a song popped into her head and she began humming it quietly before getting suddenly annoyed by it. "Uh… I can't stand that song… someone should make a better version… hey guys, whadda ya say I try?" Pikachu nodded in response and Togepi just stared blankly at the sky. She began humming a tune, then began to sing with it. "Mmm… yeah, yeah… He wanders off, he's just lost without me, doesn't matter what I say… I try to give advice, I tell him twice, he won't listen… Gotta do it his own way… He drives me crazy… All of the time…"

"Pika…" Pikachu sat lulled by the tune. He wasn't sure why, but he liked Misty's little song.

Chikorita, on the other hand, heard the quiet tune and turned to Ash with a 'stay or else' look, and headed off in the direction of the melody. It looked to Ash like she was going to play tag with the other pokémon… but he didn't much care what she was doing, it was giving him a break from her. Really she was off to spy on Misty, and find out what she was singing.

"He drives me crazy… He drives me out of my mind… So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care…"

"Chika? Chiiiikariiiii…" although startled by the song at first, Chikorita soon began growling at it… no one noticed her though… She sat continuing to listen to the song for a moment, then something sparkling in the sky caught her attention… it wasn't even the comet, which had disappeared behind some clouds, but rather a shooting star… Here's a chance to wish… I wish…I wish that I could become human… She opened her eyes again and sweatdropped realizing the shooting star was still there, and it continued to travel across the sky, disappearing over the horizon. Ahh… I guess it was a satellite or something…

How wrong she was…

::Back inside later…(some translations, in [ ])::

"Oh, hi there Pikachu! Did you and Togepi have fun today?" Misty laughed, shaking her hair out and glancing at the baby pokémon asleep on the counter.

"Pi!" Pikachu gave her the thumbs up. "Pi… Pikachupi? [Hey, Misty?]

"Yeah Pikachu?"

"Pikachu pika-kachu Pikapi… Pikaychu…[I'm worried about Ash…. Chikorita…]"

Misty, not being fluent in Pikachu, couldn't entirely decipher his message. But she definitely knew peoples' (and a few pokémon's) names, and so she easily picked out Ash and Chikorita's names from the comment.

"Are you worried about Ash because Chikorita won't leave him alone?"

"Pi! Pikaychu chachu… uh… Pikapi Pikachupi. [Yes! Chikorita wants to be like… uh… Ash and you are!]"

"Chikorita… Ash… me… wait, you're not trying to say that you think Chikorita might get in the way of ash and me, *are* you? Or that Chikorita wants to be with Ash like I am? (-_-¤) 'cause if you are, you're accusing a lot, and I don't mean of Chikorita…"

"CHA!![NO!!]" Pikachu shook his head furiously to emphasize his point, not wanting to risk a severe confrontation with Misty. Once she had calmed down a bit, he sat for a moment debating a better way to say it. Suddenly an idea hit him, and he turned to Misty, repeating the phrase with one word changed. "Pikaychu kacha Pikapi Pikachupi, [Chikorita wants to turn into something like Ash and you,]" he said, spinning his hands in a little rolling motion.

"Rolling? Spinning?" Misty guessed. Pikachu ran over to the door and began turning the knob. "Open the door? Opening?" Pikachu sighed and pointed to his hand turning the knob.

"Kacha!" he repeated again, still motioning to his paw.

"Your hand? The doorknob… wait, you're turning the doorknob…" Pikachu's ears perked up. "Turning? Is that it?!"

"Pi! Pikaychu kacha Pikapi Pikachupi!"

"Chikorita is turning into Ash and me?" Pikachu did the 'c'mon, c'mon' motion. "Chikorita *wants to* turn into Ash and me? Is that it? She wants to be human?"

"Pi!" he raced back over to a pile of fairy tale books that Misty had borrowed from the center's library. He pointed to a book partway down the pile.

"Book of Legends?" she read the title. "Wait, did she hear it in a legend?"

"Pi!" he found another book, opened it to part of Sleeping Beauty, and pointed to the picture.

"So does she have to get that to happen, or is that why she wants it to?" Pikachu pointed to The Little Mermaid. "More like that, huh? So does she have to get anything to happen at all?" Pikachu shook his head. "So how…" her question was answered when he flipped to Pinocchio and pointed to a star in the picture. "Oh… Wait a second? What if this works?! Ash might have a huge problem! We've gotta tell him!"

"Cha! Pikachupi -- Pikapi," he did his Ash impression and spun his finger around the side of his head pointing at Misty.

"Oh… Good point. You know what then? We're gonna have to keep an eye on her so she can't wish her wish anytime soon," she winked and they walked back into the hallway.

If only they had known…

That at that moment a tiny fairy pokémon fluttered alone in a valley hidden by Mount Silver. As it fluttered, it was contemplating an idea that would unknowingly decide the fate of a group of humans and pokémon…

::Back in the pokécenter…::

"G'night everybody!"

"G'night!"

"Pika!"

Several other pokémon called out their goodnights as well. By this time tomorrow, they'd all be in Blackthorne, where Ash hoped to win his final Johto badge. So as they had stopped in a nearly deserted pokécenter, they'd all decided to give their pokémon a rest, and everyone of them was sleeping on a chair, sofa, or the floor of the lobby of the center (save Pikachu and Togepi, sleeping on the bunk above Brock). As for the humans, they had pulled beds from the rooms out into the lobby and were sleeping on them as well.

Misty laid staring at the bottom of the bunk above her… the tune she had been humming earlier popped into her head, and she began singing it softly. Suddenly a head of messy black hair peeked over the side of the bed. "That's a really pretty song, Misty," he whispered.

"Oh? Thanks…"

"What's it called?"

"Um… I don't know… I really only know the first few words," she lied. "I actually am writing it myself… that's all the more I've gotten so far really…" At least that's more towards the true end… but I can't really tell him about *that* song…

"Oh… too bad… let me know when you've got it finished, ok? I'd really like to hear it."

"Oh… ok…" Dang he's being nice to me for once and I can't even think of anything better than 'ok' to say… "Hey, Ash?"

"Yeah Misty?"

"Um… what do you think…" No I can't say it… "what do you think… we should do about Chikorita?" Nice save!

"I really don't know… I'll think about it."

"Oh… ok…." There I go again…

She's being nice for once… I really should say something… but what… I can't say *that*… he tried to shake off an idea that he'd had. "Hey, Misty…" he said shakily.

"Yeah Ash?"

Maybe not right now after all… "Um… Goodnight…" #^_^# (but no one can see him…)

"Hum… Goodnight Ash… Sweet dreams," she giggled.

::Back in the valley (this part isn't translated BTW)::

The little pokémon was talking to itself contemplating the idea. "Well, I see nothing wrong with it. It doesn't harm anyone or conflict with any major wishes I've heard of… I'll do it!"

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do *twilight zone* what's going on here?! Is this some kind of severely de-ranged (and deranged) triangle or what? Ok, tell me what cha think. C ya round, and Heiwa!