Aoi Hyoudou: Since it's almost Halloween, I decided to do another fun series for Pokémon. I will only update this series during each Halloween season. No exception. It wouldn't make any sense for me to continue posting updates after October. So, please don't ask for any updates from it once Halloween has passed. I won't do it. With that being said, I hope you guys enjoy this Halloween series.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Pokémon.

All Because Of… Pumpkins

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Pumpkins, pumpkins, and even more pumpkins. They were everywhere. They were in the kitchen. They were in the living room. They were in the bedrooms. Heck, they were even in the bathrooms. There were so many that even Iris lost count.

"What is up with all these pumpkins?" the dark-skinned girl asked no one in particular, wondering as to why Cynthia's summer villa was now filled with pumpkins all of the sudden.

"Good question," Cilan murmured, placing a hand on his chin in a thinking manner while he watched Ash and Pikachu poking their fingers at an enormous pumpkin that was resting on the coffee table with Axew river-dancing on top of it. Ignoring their silly little antics, Cilan averted his gaze and moved it over to Cynthia who was standing off to the side from his left with her arms crossed and started, "Cynthia." He quickly gained the blonde champion's attention after she heard him called her name. She cast her gaze towards his direction and stared at him with interest.

"Yes, Cilan?" she answered back, smiling her usual smile.

"Seeing and analyzing all these pumpkins around us, are you trying to open your own pumpkin business?"

Cynthia blinked a little and tilted her head to the side in confusion. "No, I don't think I ever recall doing something like that, Cilan," she casually replied.

Now it was Iris's turn to take a wild guess. "Then… Did you buy all of these pumpkins because they were on sale?"

"No."

"Are you planning on baking the world's biggest pumpkin pie?" Cilan tried again but once again he missed the mark.

"No."

"Oh, I know," Ash abruptly jumped in on the conversation with everyone now staring at him with full interest. "You're trying to make gallons and gallons of pumpkin juice, aren't you?" he chirped, smiling at his mentor who recently took him in under her wing.

Cilan and Iris both gave him weird looks while Cynthia simply pressed her lips against a hand and chuckled at her silly little protégé.

"No, Ash, I'm not doing anything like that either."

"Then what are you doing with all these pumpkins, Cynthia?" Iris was growing tired of this little guessing game.

"If you must know," the Pokémon League Champion of the Sinnoh Region started as everyone leaned forward and listen in closely, "Sebastian was the one who bought all of these pumpkins, not me."

The three teenagers blinked.

"Why?" Iris was the one who asked.

Cynthia shrugged. "He likes pumpkins," the blonde told the trio.

"Is that it?" Cilan was hoping to get another answer from the older female which he did.

"And he wants us to assist him in cutting up some of the pumpkins so he can make his famous Halloween Special Pumpkin Juice for us to taste," Cynthia said with some eagerness present in her tone.

"What!?" Cilan and Iris flabbergasted simultaneously, their eyebrows twitching in disgust.

"Yay!" Ash cheered triumphantly. He happily added, "Pumpkin juice all the way!"

A/N: Yes! Pumpkins and Pumpkin Juice FTW! XD I hope this series is starting off good. Please R & R! Thank you! The next chapter will be posted somewhere around this week. It all depends on my beta reader if he isn't busy with college and stuff.

P.S. - Give the proofreading and editing credit to my beta-reader, Tendou Souji.

Aoi Hyoudou (formerly known as Johan07)