Title: Articuno's Soul

Summary: Misty has made a new friend- a mute friend. Brock thinks that he has seen her before and Ash is a little oblivious but he knows that something is going on- especially when Ash catches her with Zapdos!

Pairings: Future MistyxAsh, onesided Brockxwomen... (obviously)

Disclaimer: I don't own. Please Read and Review.

"Where are we anyways?" Misty complained. "Are we lost again, Ash?"

"No, we're just taking a short cut!" he said, hopelessly looking at the map.

"Quit arguing you two!" Brock said. "Look, there's a Pokemon center up ahead. We'll stay there for the night and leave with directions tomorrow." Ash and Misty pouted a bit.

"Pikachu…" Pikachu said, its ears twitching when it felt something wet hit its head.

"Something wrong, Pikachu?" Ash asked. Then the rain began to fall, lightly at first but after a few seconds, it began pouring.

"Hurry!"

"Excuse me, miss-" Ash began but Brock interrupted him.

"Oh, Nurse Joy, you're so beautiful! Hi, my name is Brock! I'd be-"

"Okay, Romeo, time to cool it," Misty sighed, grabbing his ear and pulling him away.

"Sorry about that, ma'am," Ash said.

"It's quite all right," Nurse Joy smiled. "How may I be of service to you?"

"Please, go out with-"

"Brock!" Misty said, hitting him with a paper fan.

"We were wondering if we could stay here for the night," Ash said.

"Of course you can," Nurse Joy said. "You'll be sharing your room with a girl named Ari. She's mute so she can't really communicate that well- where is she...? Hmmm..." Nurse Joy surveyed the Pokemon center with a worried look on her face.

"She must still be in the rain. Can you call her in? She's usually by the cliff," Nurse Joy said. "I worry about that girl. She seems to seclude herself, not to mention she never fails to be out when there's a rainstorm... and there's been a lot of them lately. It's unusual in the summer time to have even a little rain here."

"Sure, we'll bring her in, won't we Pikachu?" Ash said, taking the umbrella that she offered him. As he went outside, he opened it. Pikachu nuzzled his cheek and he smiled at it.

"What do you think that she's doing on the cliff?" Ash asked Pikachu.

"Pika?" Pikachu tilted its head.

"Hey, are you Ari?" the girl turned, almost panic stricken and Ash's eyes widened. A magnificent yellow bird was perched on the cliff near her. It flew away instantly and by the time Ash blinked, it was gone.

"What was that?" Ash asked but Ari shook her head, smiling nervously as she went under the umbrella. Her hair was an ice blue and her eyes were red. Something about her struck Ash speechless for a moment but a flash of lightening brought him back to his sense.

"Come on you have to tell me what that was!" Ash encouraged. She tilted her head to the side, pretending to not know what he was talking about. He studied her closely and then looked out to where he had seen the giant bird.

'There's no way I imagined that Pokemon...' Ash thought.

"Ash, get inside!" Misty shouted.

"Hurry before you get sick!" Brock shouted.

"We're coming!" Ash shouted back.

Kinda short, I know, but please tell me what you thought.