Two Hundred and Ten

Doctor Ketchum?

Third Person's POV

Ash freezes upon seeing the girl laying on the ground with no signs of moving. "Dawn!" Ash cries out and runs towards her. "Shinx use spark to distract them!"

Ash kneels beside Dawn and is relieved to hear her breathe, they're really hard and heavy however. He feels her forehead and it feels like the magma of Cinnabar Volcano. "Guys we need to get away from them!" Ash says to the Pokémon and they nod in understanding.

He packs up their small campsite quickly before calling out to Shinx who is still busy shocking the daylight out of Team Rocket. The Pokémon sends one more burst into the ground, shooting up a mixture of smoke and dust in between them.

Ash picks up Dawn bridal style and bolts away with the Pokémon. The faster and more agile Pokémon pick up or help speed up some of the slower ones.

They run in no special direction, Ash's only goal is to get as faraway as possible. It would be nice if he's going in the direction of the next town...

Like his legs, Ash's mind is racing like a Latios. Questions like "how did she get so sick?" and "was it my fault?" are the two main ones.

If only he had asked her about it.

Maybe he could've prevented it.

What if... Ash shakes the thoughts out his head after spotting a lake in the distance.

He pushes through the last wall of trees and nearly collapses beside it in exhaustion. It's an area that makes you want to stop and relax but Ash can't do that right now.

He sets Dawn carefully on the lush grass, benefiting from the lake. "The handbook," Ash remembers and pulls it out of his backpack. In turn, spilling everything he hastily packed away.

Ash looks over at Dawn occasionally while flipping through the pages, almost as if he's waiting for her to tell him what page he needs to follow. Piplup is using his soft flippers to cool off her forehead with water, even he knows what to do.

"Water..." Ash mutters and a very important memory comes to him. "My mom would be a cold cloth on my head whenever I had a... uh..."

"Shinx!" The electric type tries to get the boy's attention.

Dawn is now shivering while curled up into a ball almost. Her face is scrunched up in pain, almost like her body is trying to tell Ash to hurry up.

He forgets about the book and throws a blanket over her. She subconsciously reacts and clutches it with her pale hands to bring it closer. Ash removes her beanie and hair clips in case they are making her head hot while the rest of her body is freezing.

He's not a doctor.

Ash sits down beside her and reaches over  for the book. "It's gotta be in here somewhere," He mumbles while scanning over each page carefully. "It's like she's on fire while sitting on an ice cube." He describes the symptoms to himself.

He begins to wonder if all of this reading is worth it but then a page pops out at him.

FEVER- Pokémon and Human Treatment.

Fevers can happen quite suddenly but do not stress too much about them. Every fever I have encountered wasn't because of anything someone did wrong, just the body reacting to an unusual change in lifestyle or it took something in the wrong way.

Fevers aren't very serious and can go away on their own with rest. But it's very important to keep the ill person safe from any factors like wind, rain, etc, since the smallest of things can make the fever worse.