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Hello! Welcome to my new story! I am currently working on this as well as The infection, so chapters being released for The infection may be slowed down slightly, but do not fear! I will definitely be releasing chapters for that as well so everyone is happy! I am looking forward to writing this story since I thought of the idea today and if I am writing a plot that someone has already written or came up with, then I take no credit. So in this story I will be pairing Ash with May, so if there are any pokeshippers (AshxMisty) or any other shippers reading this then please no flames! f you don't like advanceshipping (AshxMay) then don't read, thank you! (Also pokemon that only evolve by trading, evolve by levelling in this story!)

It was a bright sunny day and a certain bandanna wearing teen was making her way through the entrance of petalburg woods. She had recently picked up a small orange chick pokemon ,called Torchic, from Professor Birch in littleroot town. She hadn't really taken a liking to the other two starters since mudkip attacked her and treeko looked intimidating. Torchic was the only one who had been friendly and cute from the start, so May had picked her without any hesitation.

As may finally made it into the cooler and sightly darker forest, she looked around, there were many zigzagoon running through the grass and a few vigaroth swinging through the trees. May hadn't done much research on the hoenn region so she was surprised when a starly flew over her head. "Thats right!" She said to herself "I remember Mom telling me that there are pokemon from every region here!" May looked to her left and saw a spinarak on a tree, she shivered, May had never been a fan of bug pokemon. She remembered that she had received a pokedex from the Professor and had been asked to scan as many pokemon as she could during her journey. "Well, might as well figure out how this thing works" She said, aiming the screen at the bug pokemon. A small beep came from the machine the it was followed by a female robotic voice. "Spinarak, the String Spit Pokémon. Spinarak can climb any surface easily, and shoot a strong web from both the front and back of its body. Its prey is caught and held tight in its web." May was slightly impressed by how much information the small handheld gave. May put the pokedex back into her pocket and continued down the path.

After about two minutes of walking, May noticed a boy standing at the side of the road. As she got closer he raised his head and spotted her, the boy waved his hand at her. Intrigued as to why he waved, she made her way over to him. Once she reached him he greeted her, "Hi, I'm Dan, wanna have a pokemon battle?" May thought for a moment, this could be good experience for Torchic and how would they get far in their journey if they couldn't battle properly. "Okay, my name's May by the way" said May "But this is our first battle so go easy on us." The boy nodded and walked up the road a bit. Once he was further a way he turned and shouted the rules, "Okay! This will be a one on one match! The winner is the one who gets the opponent's pokemon to faint first! Got that?" "Okay! Torchic I choose you!" said may as she threw her pokeball into the air, the ball burst open releasing a white light that landed on the ground, materialising into a Torchic. "Torchic" chirped the chick pokemon. The boy grinned, "Hope you're ready! Go Pinsir!" Shouted Dan as he threw his pokeball, releasing a bulky brown pokemon with two spiky pincers on it's head. May backed away slightly, that pokemon was quite intimidating. "You can have the first move" Said Dan, confidently.

"Okay torchic, start this off with scratch!" Shouted may, torchic ran at full speed towards it's target ready to attack. "Oh no you don't, pinsir use vice grip!" countered Dan. Pinsir waited for torchic to get close and when torchic was about to make contact, he dogged to the left and grabbed the chick pokemon with his pincers. "torchic!" yelled the orange bird in pain. "oh no, I need to get torchic out of there fast!" Thought may, an idea popped into her head. "Quick torchic, use ember!" Dan's eyes widened as he watched the chick pokemon launch a barrage of small orange balls at his pokemon, scoring a critical hit as well as the added bonus of type advantage. Pinsir took to much pain from the attack and fell down to the ground with swirls in his eyes. "Alright torchic we did it!" shouted May as she ran up and hugged the tiny pokemon. "Torchic!" shouted the little pokemon happily. Dan returned his fainted pokemon and shrugged his shoulders, "Guess I've still got alot of work to do..." He walked over to May and handed he 20 pokedollars, "Here take this as my thanks for a great battle May, see you round!" he said walking off whilst waving his hand. "Thanks to you too Dan! Bye!" Shouted May as she watched him walk back towards Petalburg, her home town.

A while later, May was sitting down near a tree eating the lunch her mother had packed for her. Torchic was busy chewing bits of pokeblock from it's food bowl. After may had finished her lunch, she packed all of her stuff back into he bag and continued down the path. Not much else happened that day, May battled a few wild pokemon, she caught a ralts, found a pecha berry tree and collected some berries. It was a surprise when the sun started to go down, much to the dissatisfaction of May since she hated sleeping outside and would much rather have a nice warm, soft bed to sleep in. She mad her way off of the path slightly and found an open area of grass next to a pure blue lake that almost looked like a mirror, reflecting the night sky and the moon perfectly since the water was so still. "This looks like a nice spot" May said whilst setting down her sleeping bag. May had collected some fallen branches and mad a decent sized fire, lighting it with the matches that she had in her bag. She pulled out a bag of marsh mellows and began to roast a few on a stick, after the white and puffy ball had turned to a golden brown colour, she took a bite. The flavour was amazing, out of the corner of her eye she saw what looked like a blue ball sitting on top of another one. She turned her head in the direction of what she had seen and saw that it was an azurill, it looked like it was curious about the bag of marsh mellows. May smiled and pulled one out of the bag and offered it to the small creature, "Want one?" She asked, the small pokemon looked at the marsh mellow and then at May then back at the marsh mellow again. After a few seconds it hopped forward and took a small bite, May watched it's face light up as it chewed the marsh mellow, "Azu!" It exclaimed happily. May giggled and gave it another one which it happily ate, she then remembered the pokedex in her pocket. She pulled it out and aimed it at the blue mouse, the device beeped and began to speak. "Azurill, the Polka dot Pokémon. Azurill is able to throw its tail like a lasso, using the momentum to move about." May looked at the small mouse who was now looking at the pokedex with curiosity. "You're a curious one aren't you?" Stated May, the pokemon was now looking at torchic's pokeball on May's waist. "You wanna meet torchic?" asked May curiosly, The polka dot pokemon tilted it's head at the mention of the fire type. May released torchic who then looked around and notice azurill, both pokemon looked at each other for a while until torchic said somthing in pokemon speech and then they began to chase each other around.

May was begining to get tired so she got into her sleeping bag with torchic and azurill, who had decided to stick around, and went to sleep.

May couldn't tell how much time had passed but it must have been a couple of hours since the fire had died down to embers and the temperature had dropped. She was about to go back to sleep, wondering why she had woken up in the first place, when she heard rustling coming from a nearby bush. She became slightly scared, what would happen if it was an ursaring or a scolipede, May decide to stay low in hope that what ever was there wouldn't see her in the darkness. The rustling became slightly louder as something stepped out of the bush but she couldn't see what it was, she listened to the sound of it's footsteps, it sounded like it was heading towards the lake. May didn't know what to do, stay here or follow it to see what it was, at least then she could know if it was dangerous or not. May decided to follow it and began to slowly get up, making al little noise as possible so she wouldn't wake the two sleeping pokemon in her sleeping bag.

Once may had got out of her sleeping bag she slowly began to follow the sounds of rustling bushed and snapping branches. What ever she was following, it was walking quite carelessly. She came to a bunch of bushes that were not very far from the edge of the lake and what she saw slightly relived and confused her at the same time. There was a boy with raven black hair standing at the edge of the lake. "He made all of that noise?" Thought May, she began to look him over. He was wearing black sneakers with slate jeans, a black hoodie with the same colour leather gilet over the top and he had a black and white hat on with a pokeball sign on the front. The boy looked to be about 16 years old, the same age a May. He seemed to be looking around in every direction, May was about to walk up to him and ask if he was okay, when she saw him move his head. She noticed that he was looking at his hands now, which had black biker gloves on them. May had a small blush on her face she hadn't notice how strong he looked. The teen was looking around again, left and right, then up at the stars. He stared at them for a while. May decided it was time to help, she slowly made her way out of the bush, accidentally stepping on a twig.

(Earlier on that night)

The Raven haired teen opened his eyes to see moonlight, he raised a brow, he noticed that he could see trees all around him. He was in a forest, but what forest and where. Perhaps he was just having a weird dream, he tried pinching himself, unfortunately he felt the pain. He sat up and looked around, not that it helped, the only light source was the moonlight, which was being mostly blocked out by the trees. As he stood up he noticed how clod it was, he hugged his arms against his torso in a futile attempt to get some extra warmth, which didn't work. He noticed that his breaths were producing little white clouds ,through which the small beams of moonlight shined. He began to walk slowly forward, using his hands as guides to stop himself from walking into trees.

After a while he cam to a row of bushes, he began to make his way through, causing alot of rustling to wake up a certain brown haired teen. Once he had made it through the bush he could smell the faint whiff of smoke, looking around he noticed a small black pile on the ground ,which he mistook for a tree stump. He looked to his left and saw a huge, still lake that reflected the night sky so much that it looked like glass. His interest piqued and he headed towards the pretty scene, with a follower. Not being able to see was a huge burden since he tripped many times over rocks and protruding roots of trees. He finally made it out of the undergrowth and made his way to the edge of the lake, he could see alot better now since the moonlight wasn't being blocked by the trees in this clearing. The teen looked around, everywhere he looked there were trees, trees and more trees. He looked upwards towards the sky, he didn't recognise any of it. The boy brought his eyes down to look at his hands, "Who...am I?" He thought, he looked around again, suddenly he heard a twig snap behind him.

He turned his head in the direction of the noise and saw a pretty looking girl stumbling around, looking more surprised than he was. The girl had a frightened look on her face, "H...h...h...hi, I'm M-May" She stuttered nervously. He didn't say anything, the girl now had a confused look on her face, she tilted her head and waved slowly. "Hellllllooooo? Do you understand me?" She asked slowly, The boy slowly nodded once with an expressionless face. The girl pressed further "Can you talk? What's your name?" The boy just looked at her for a moment and the slowly shrugged. The girl was dumbfounded, "How does he not know his own name and why can't he talk?" She thought, "That's strange...Oh! I'm May by the way." The boy walked up to her, as he got closer she noticed that he was quite handsome and blushed a bit. He stopped about an arms length away and lifted his hand, May had no idea what he was doing, the boy poked her cheek with his finger. "Huh? What are you doing?" she asked confused, he poked her cheek two more times then stepped back a bit. May lifted her hand to he spot where he had poked her, "What was that for?" May asked, dumbfounded. The raven haired teen just shrugged and walked back to the edge of the lake with his hands in his pockets. May decided to try and find out some information, even if he didn't talk. She walked over and stood next to him with her arms behind her back. She noticed he was looking at the sky again. "Do you like the stars?" She asked, randomly. The boy looked at her, then at the stars and then back at her. He shrugged, one of the three gestures that May had expected. It was either going to be a nod, a shake of the head or a shrug. May decided to ask another question, "How did you get here? Which town did you come from?" The boy just shrugged again... May pressed further "Can't you remember?" The boy's eyes instantly locked with hers and he shook his head. "Oh, so that's why he doesn't know, he can't remember." Thought May, an idea popped into her head. "Hey" she said getting the boy's attention, "If you can't remember how you got here then maybe we should go on on a journey to see if you recognise any of the places around Hoenn! And since I know the way I should go with you. But if we're going to do that then we need you to get some pokemon" As she said pokemon she could of swore she saw a glint in the boy's eye. He put his hand to his chin for a moment in a thinking position, after about two seconds he looked at her and nodded. "Great!" Exclaimed may.

The two teens made their way back to may's camp to find a worried torchic and azurill sitting in May's sleeping bag. "Hey guys, sorry I walked off but look at who I found" She said pointing towards the raven haired teen. Both of the pokemon looked at him for a moment and the announced their greetings by saying their names. The boy smiled at their kindness and then noticed May staring at him with a slightly red shaded face that turned a deeper colour when his eyes met hers. She quickly looked away. "A-a-any way we need to make sure you have some pokemon ready for the journey, do you have any wit you at the moment?" The boy thought for a moment and then remembered that there was a bag next to where he woke up. He pointed out into the woods, "Out there?" He nodded and began walking in the direction of the place where he awoke. "Wait a minute! Take this!" May said whilst giving him a torch. The boy nodded in thanks, making may blush slightly, and headed out to look for his bag.

A while later he came back with a black and white backpack slung over his shoulder. He gave the torch back to May and then he stared rummaging through the backpack like a maniac. Finally he pulled out five pokeballs, May was surprised, he picked up one of the pokebals and released a magby. The small pokemon appeared from it's pokeball and saw it's trainer, "Magby!" It shouted happily as it ran to hug the boy. He smiled and returned the hug, after the hug was finished The teen returned magby and released another pokemon, it took the form of a little yellow creature that had what looked like a plug on its head. "Elekid!" it shouted as it began to windmill it's arms at a fast pace. The boy smiled and patted the pokemon's head, receiving a small electric shock which didn't seem to bother him. Elekid grinned and so did his trainer, the teen knew how strong elekid could become and elekid knew that his trainer wasn't a wimp like his previous trainer was. The boy returned elekid and brought out his next pokemon, it was a skorupi, the small scorpion pokemon appeared and began waving it's arms and tail around happily. May was amazed, not only did this boy have strong looking pokemon, they all looked so happy and well cared for. Torchic and azurill were also intrigued by all of these new looking pokemon.

After The boy had returned skorupi he brought out another pokemon which was a gible. As soon as the shark looking pokemon appeared he spotted his trainer and jumped up into the air, towards his head. "Gible!" it yelled as it gently clamped on to it's trainers head, earning a small giggle from May and a smile from his 'victim'. The boy returned gible, much to it's dissatisfaction and deployed another pokemon. This time it was a sneasel, when it appeared it noticed it's trainer and nodded a greeting with its arms crossed. The trainer nodded back and patted its head which it enjoyed but hated to show it in front of other people because of its uptight attitude. After sneasel was returned the boy clipped all of the pokeballs to his belt and leaned back against a tree, slightly exhausted from dealing with all of his pokemon and because it was late at night. "Wow!" Said a hyped up May "I never knew you had such amazing and uncommon pokemon!" The raven haired teen just shrugged and looked at the now, relit fire. "Do you have anything else in your bag?" asked May, the boy shrugged and walked over to begin looking through his belongings. He found a few potions, enough pokefood to feed his pokemon for weeks, several types of pokebals ranging from normal ones to ultraballs and a pokedex. He took the pokedex and put it in his pocket, he also noticed that in the back part of the bag there was sleeping bag and a change of clothes as well as some food. He ate enough to fill him up and offered some to may which she declined since she had already eaten.

A while later they were both in their sleeping bags, looking at the night sky. "Hey? You awake?" Stupid question thought May but then an idea popped into her head. "Do the thing that you did earlier if you're awake" she said. May waited a while before she felt his finger poke her cheek, she giggled slightly, "So you knew what I meant, huh?" He poked her cheek again as if saying "yes". "You know, since you don't seem to remember your name, can I give you one?" Asked May. She waited for a moment, he must of been thinking, she felt him poke her cheek again. "Okay" She said with a smile, "Well I do have an idea of what I could call you. You know you were looking at the stars tonight?" She said, he poked her cheek again so she continued. Well, that got me thinking about the way that stars explode at the end of their life cycle and the way you are now, it's almost like your memories were the star. Your memories exploded or disappeared in this case and what's left over when a star explodes?" The boy thought for a minute and one word passed through their minds at the same time "Ash..." May continued to speak, "I want to call you Ash since it's the thing that's left over when a star explodes so in this case it's the name that was left over when your memories disappeared." May rolled onto her side to look at the newly named Ash through the darkness, she could just barely see his outline, "I hope you like it..." she said as her eyelids became heavier and she began to fall a sleep. Before she fell into a deep sleep she heard three words spoken in a very attractive voice, "I like it..." May was to tired to be amazed that Ash had spoken, in fact she wasn't even sure if he had spoken or if she was dreaming so she just went to sleep with a small blush on her face from hearing the voice.

The raven haired teen looked from the girl back up to the beautiful night sky, "Ash, huh?" He thought, he moved his mouth close to the girl's ear and spoke in a voice that would make girls knees wobble, "I like it..." He said quietly. He then moved back into his sleeping bag and went to sleep, not realising that the hand he had been poking her face with was now being held by May as she slept.