Hello and welcome to the first "Pokémon the Series: XY" Amourshipping Drabble. I've been doing these on my Tumblr for quite a while, so that's why most of these are going up in a really short amount of time. But from here on (XY011) I'll be doing them once a week, each time an English Dubbed episode airs on Cartoon Network. The reasoning behind this is because I want to refer to specific dub Dialogue and character names in the drabbles. So no matter how easy a subbed version is to get, I'll only do one each time a dubbed episode airs.
Another thing is that these will be short. Sometimes, ridiculously short. Some will be only a little over a hundred words, I'm guessing. Sometimes an episode doesn't give me much to work with (XY004 is like this) so all I can do is work with what I have. It's less a point to have a long, epic storyline that runs parallel to the anime and more a point to write even just a little AmourShipping every week. Think of it like running maintenance on a machine. If you don't work with it, eventually it rusts and shuts down. So bear with me when they're really short. You'll be getting one for each episode of the XY Anime that airs. (And obviously this doesn't replace my ordinary fic writing, since this is just one day a week).
I'll do my best, though. Without further ado, let's get to the first one. "Kalos, where Dreams and Adventures Begin!"
"I hope today's interesting." Serena said, staring out the window. Her mother's Fletchling took off and began flying around outside. She and her mom would probably see it where Serena receives her Rhyhorn Training lessons, like they do every morning.
She crawled back over to her bed and pulled a shoe box out from underneath. Inside were a lot of keepsakes from over the years. She opened the lid and started going through them, if only to put off training.
On top was a picture, cut out from a newspaper. It showed her Mom, in her Rhyhorn Riding Gear, holding a trophy. Serena was there, next to her Mom in the picture. She was so proud of her Mom for becoming the first woman to win the Rhyhorn Riding Grand Prix. Below the picture, were keepsakes from the regions where her mother had taken her while she raced. Here was her subway card from when she and her Mom rode the Subway in Nimbasa City, in Unova. And beneath that, an old Poketch her mom wore for an advertisement in Jubilife City in Sinnoh. From their trip to Hoenn, a Soot Sack containing some Volcanic Ash. She remembered crying when they had to leave before they could turn the ash into a flute.
Smiling from that memory, she found an Apricorn underneath the Soot Sack that reminded her of when she was a little girl and her Mother had taken her to Johto. Serena never figured out what the people of Johto used these for. She remembered throwing her Red Apricorn at Rhyhorn because the color reminder her of a Poké Ball.
And below that… a handkerchief.
Serena felt her face heat up when she thought of it. The Kanto Region felt so far away, and that boy still probably lived there. That sweet boy who gave her this handkerchief.
She idly wondered what he was doing now.
"Serena! I'll eat without you and then you can do your training on and empty stomach unless you come down here!" Her mother called.
Serena closed the box. "Coming, Mom," she said with a roll of her eyes.