Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon or anything to do with pokemon so please don't sue me!!

A Wedding Reunion

Thoughts will be in italics

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Chapter 1 – A Masters Memories

It was a beautiful morning in Pallet Town. The sun was shining brightly and there was a gentle breeze in the cool morning air. At the end of the road was a young man of about 6ft with untamed spiked hair crushed under a baseball cap and a pikachu running by his side. This is of course the current pokemon master Ash Ketchum returning home after a morning's training session with his pokemon and was now racing his pikachu home (just because he's pokemon master doesn't mean he can afford to move out of his mothers house). Ash got up at the crack of dawn every morning to train his pokemon and he was always back in time for breakfast.

Delia: Hi sweetie! I made you your favourite

Ash:  Oh mom, I told you not to bother, I'm a grown man of 19… what would people say if they knew that the pokemon master was being fed by his mom!?

Delia:  (raises her eyebrows) would you rather make your own breakfast?

Ash:  no, not really, but… (cut off by Delia)

Delia:  (smiles at him) then don't complain, I made plenty for you and your pokemon so eat up

Ash:  thanks mom… sorry.

Delia: Anyway, I think you got an email this morning.

Ash:  Yeah! … who from?

Delia:  don't know, it was addressed to you so I didn't open it.

Ash finished his breakfast and went over to the computer to check the email and was pleasantly surprised…

Ash:  wow! It's from Brock, I haven't heard from him in about 3 years.

Delia: what's he doing now?

Ash: last I heard, he and Suzie had opened a pokemon breeders centre together to train, groom and breed pokemon

Delia:  oh yeah, that's right! He and Suzie ended up becoming a couple didn't they? – Oh it's so sweet that Brock finally found a girl to love him back

Ash:  well now they're tying the knot

Delia:  what do you mean?

Ash:  that's what the emails about, they're getting married a month from today in Pewter City – wow, I never realised he'd moved back home – and hey! We're both                      invited; although he is cutting his guest list a little close, I mean it's only a month away.

Delia:  that's wonderful!! … send him back saying we accept… oh hold on a minute, won't you be away to……(Ash cuts her off)

Ash:  yeah, but I'll be back by then, you don't honestly think I'd miss my best friends wedding do you? (Mrs. Ketchum walks back into the kitchen)

        I wonder if she'll be there?

Ash finished sending his email to Brock and went upstairs to finish his packing. Ash was going to Marseille in the south of France to the Pokemon League World Championships. He had already won the national title as the youngest master in the history of the league and he now felt ready to become world champion. – Ash had already fought his way up to the quarter-finals but because of 'technical difficulties', they were postponed for a month, so Ash went home as he had other duties to attend to - It was going to take 4 weeks to finish the league, which means he would be home 3 days before Brocks wedding. However, as Ash was finishing his packing to fly off that night, his mind wasn't on his upcoming matches but was on the past he left behind with Brock and her.

Ash remembered back to how he and Brock had met and to various points in their history such as when Brock left to go to Valencia Island with Professor Ivy only to return a short time later for reasons unknown, and also every time he went chasing after a girl only to have his heart stomped on. Ash laughed out loud at the thoughts flowing through his mind.

Ash:  its hard to believe that Brock's finally with a girl who wants to be with him. I guess a lot can change in 3 years, I knew he always liked Suzie but I guess I could never picture them actually getting married, but then again, Brock never ceases to amaze me

As Ash continued to remember his days of travelling around as a wannabe trainer, it was only a matter of time before 'she' popped into his head. 'She' is of course his red-haired, red-tempered friend Misty. Misty was the only girl Ash ever fell for, but of course he never realised just how much he loved her until she left. Misty's sisters made her go home four years ago just before he set out to compete in the Hoenn League. This was the last time he saw Misty and he regretted never telling her how he felt. The only comfort Ash had was the thought that Misty never really liked him anyway, so even if he had told her, she would have laughed in his face and voluntarily left him. However, these thoughts didn't stop Ash from thinking about her and what she was doing now.

Ash never wanted to believe that when they said goodbye, it would be the last time they would see each other. Even when he had finished the Hoenn League and returned home he didn't want to be without Misty. On his way home to Pallet, Ash called over to the Cerulean Gym to see Misty, but when he got there, Daisy told him that she had already left to go travelling on her own, so he just went on home (May and Max had stayed in the Hoenn region and Brock went off with Suzie to open their Breeding Centre). Of course Ash found out years later when he became pokemon master that Misty went out to the Whirl Islands to become the Pokemon Alpha Omega. But even though he knew where she was, he still couldn't bring himself to contact her as it had been so long and he wouldn't know what to say to her.

Ash:  she probably wouldn't want to talk to me anyway and I'm sure she'd have a boyfriend so I don't want to annoy her

With that, Ash headed up to Prof. Oak's lab to choose his six pokemon to travel and battle with, and also to say goodbye to the professor, Tracy and Gary (who were also invited to Brock and Suzie's wedding). They wished him luck and he went home to wait for the car from the pokemon league to pick him up. After saying goodbye to his mother, ash went off in the car. He had only been pokemon master for a year, but this opportunity arose and he felt he couldn't refuse. Ash left for Marseille with his most prized possession – his memories.

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this is the end of the first chapter of my first fic so please be cruel with your reviews