Well I recently got back into Pokémon. I personally enjoy the first couple of season after battle frontier I lost interest. I would always watch and collect the cards and stuff. The Pokémon in my opinion were getting ridiculously weird they just made too many. And the impression of Ash still being ten was kind of a letdown I would have probably kept watching if it showed him possibly growing up as the seasons came and go. When the new season started with May and Max I thought Ash was eleven or twelve and when the next season came out he still was ten? Oh well. Well any way I always like May and Ash paring a whole lot. This is my first shot at a Pokémon Fanfiction so be kind! Let me know if I should continue?

So info right quick before you enter the story.

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Ash – 19

Gary – 19

Drew – 18

Max – 14

May – 17

Misty – 19

Misty's Sisters- 24?

This story will be in POV's between Ash and May and maybe a few other characters.

So here is Chapter 1.

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"Come on Ash wake up!"

"I'm awake!" I yell as I slipped on my red vest overlapping my black t-shirt. I slipped my belt through my dark blue jeans and slipped on my black and red sneakers. Pikachu was sleeping with my hat on top of his head my new cap is red with a white half Pokéball on the front. "Hey if I have to be awake so do you Pikachu!" I yelled as I slip on my black fingerless gloves.

"Ash!"

"Geez Gary I heard you the first time!" I yell coming out of my tent.

"Well come on Ashy-boy we need to get to packing." He says as he proceeds pack our gear.

"Alright I will. I just want to get off this peak and go get some real food." I say helping out.

"Hey, I told you if you wanted you can stay down near the reef."

"I told you Gary I wanted to use this terrain here to train not just relax."

"Whatever you say Ash."

After my last journey ended Dawn had gone to a different region to compete at contests while Brock had to go back to his duties as Gym Leader. I haven't heard from Brock in months he said he was doing great and was still studying as a breeder. I hadn't heard from Dawn nearly a year now. Last time we talked she said she was in Kanto.

When I arrived at Pallet for a break from traveling I found Gary was home as well. We talked and I learned that he in fact was going to planning to travel. Though Gary traveling did involve staying at one place for a certain amount of time it didn't bother me. I entered in few leagues here and there and winning some.

I had re-entered in the Silver Conference with Gary and I won. Gary and I both made it to the finals and went against each other. I had competed again in the Indigo Conference and won.

We even took a detour to Cerulean City and saw Misty we caught up some it was great. Misty was the official Cerulean Gym leader. She was still as ill-tempered as usually. Her battling skills were remarkable and was rated the number one toughest gym leader to beat in the region next to of course Brock.

Max had started his journey years ago. I called him to wish him luck in his first tournament which he got to the top sixteen. That was three years ago I haven't heard from him since. May is still a coordinator. For a while I didn't hear much of her but lately it seems she is all the coordinating world has to talk about. I haven't heard from her in four years. The only time I see her is when she is on TV for contest but Gary and I hardly ever watch TV.

Last time I saw May we got into some kind of argument about traveling. Her pals weren't always so nice to her so why travel with them? Drew and Harley aren't that good of friends.

I wished we kept in touch. Though it is kind of my fault the place Gary and I stay aren't really tech friendly and hard to get a hold on people.

It has been nearly two years since I started to travel with Gary we mostly been traveling to some previous regions we have been in before. We had gone to excavate in Mountain Silver. To other places neither of us has been. Now we are on the Orange Islands. It's been years since I've been here. We have been for a month now. We've been camping out on the peak of the Islands to study the nesting ground of some Pokémon.

"Alright looks like we are done here." And we are now finally coming down from the peak. We haven't been down to the beaches since we got here. "Now all we have to do is go pick up the surveillance and we can go down."

My stomach started to growl. "Can we do that later? For the past month all we've eaten is each other's crapping cooking let's go down for some real food."

"But the surveillance cameras-"

"We'll get some on the way down and the rest as after we are done eating. Pikachu is starving!" I argue.

"Pika Pikachu!" he says nodding.

"Come on you and I both know we've been dying for some real food." I say then I hear his stomach.

"Alright let's go." After a few hours trek down the peak we go into a restaurant. We eat order our food and release our Pokémon so they can have their own food. Since I wasn't really going to a new region I had gone back and gotten a few of my old Pokémon.

'Ladies and Gentlemen the Orange Festival is officially over!'

I turn around to look at the flat screen TV.

"Hey I didn't know they held a festival too." I say to Gary who just shrugs.

'This is the first year the Orange Island ever hosted a festival for coordinators and what a show out!' blared the woman on TV. 'Coordinators from all over the regions came to participate and only one won! That's not all it! After the Festival we had trainer compete for the Orange League and won!'

Looks like someone beat Drake and Dragonite. I thought remembering back to my battle all those years ago. The doors swing open to the restaurant and people start flooding in. "Wow look at this place it's really getting packed." I say.

'This Orange Island winner and the first ever winner Orange Festival are brother and sister this family due stole the show for both competitions! This family sure knows how to dominate! The names will be announced after theses commercial breaks.'

"Look at that Gary the winners for the League and Festival are brother and sister." I say to Gary who had just paid the waiter.

"Yeah that's something must run in the family to win. Come on Ash let's get going." He says getting up recalling his Pokémon.

"Hold on I haven't found out who won yet." I say interested who this family duo is.

"We can look it up later on my laptop we have to go now."

"What now?" I say recalling mine as well since they were done eating. Pikachu climbs onto my shoulder.

"Yeah, we aren't eating anymore and this place is getting flooded in with people. Besides you have to go get the rest of camera's while I go get the ferry tickets." He says as we exit the building.

"What? How come I have to go get the cameras?"

"Because you're the one who said let's come down to eat before collecting them all. So go catch them all Ketchum." He says laughing a bit. "Furthermore with the festival over the tickets will get sold out soon so I'll go buy them." He hands me map. "Here go have fun buddy. I'll meet you at Pokémon Center."

"Really? You're going to make go get them now? It's blazing hot out!" I say unzipping my vest.

"Your right what was I thinking hey Pikachu you wanna come with me? I'll buy you some ice cream or . . . Ketchup." Instantly Pikachu jumps off my shoulder onto Gary's. "Now hop to Ash." He says walking away.

"Aw man . . ." I say trudging toward the woods again. I open it up and look at the map for the red marking that mean we left a camera there. "Hold on a sec . . . Gary wait! Which way is up and down!"

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"Hurry Max!"

"Don't close the door yet!" yelled Max as he ran down the hallway and jumped into the elevator. "Now close it!"

I push the button to close the doors. "That was close come on Max keep up." I say resting against the wall. It's been a few hours since we both won our competitions.

"Gosh May I have no idea how you've been doing this for the past couple of years. Dodging and avoiding people are hard!" he says panting slightly leaning against the wall as he sat on the ground.

"Lots of practice." I say. This is the second festival I've won and to be the first ever winner of the Orange Festival I have to say I'm ecstatic about it. That will show Drew I'm not a loser. People start to recognize me wherever I go especially after winning the Johto Grand Festivel. "So how does it feel to conquer your first League?"

Max looks up at me smiling broadly as he stands up. He's grown so much. Max isn't the little brother that annoyed me anymore. He and I are practically the same height now I beat him by one or two inches. And well he's still annoying. Max looks a bit like our father his hair is shorter than he wore it when he was younger it matches our father's now his is just darker. He wore a dark green V-neck with our gym badge symbol stitched into it. He had on brown shorts and green and black sneakers. He wore a belt where he had all his Pokémon. He carried a backpack with to carry his stuff.

"Awesome! I can't believe I won! Now I know what Ash felt when he won! I mean . . ."

Ash . . . haven't seen him in years. Wonder how he is doing?

" . . . It was great feeling when I saw my picture up on the board as winner! It was super tough! That Dragonite just wouldn't stay down! Do you think dad and mom are going to be proud?" he asked eagerly.

"I bet they will be once you've told them Max. You know they are going to proud having that trophy in the house. I know they are proud of you because I am." I say placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I bet they are proud of you too May! You are the first ever Orange Festival winner!" he says back. I feel all thrilled again. "Your outfit and everything was great you blew away the whole crowd with your performance!"

"My outfit was beautiful wasn't it?" I say.

"You looked great sis." He says. The outfit I wore was orange short dress. I changed back a while ago into my travel clothes. I look down at my outfit now it change over the years but this one is a bit similar to the one on my first journey. The shirt design was the same as the one I wore long ago except with long sleeves and it is red with our gym badge symbol stitched on in red. My bandana was the same one from my first journey I decide to wear this time around. I had on a black skirt this time with white fingerless gloves.

"I still can't believe I won! I can't wait to tell Dawn!" I say. Dawn was traveling in Kanto with some of her friends. We kept in touch regular always talking about how we are doing. We were going to travel together but we just had different places in mind to go.

Arriving home I found Max who was also home for his own journey. He had gone with his own friend from town. When I was leaving his friend decided he had enough traveling and Max ended up coming with me.

"I bet she'll be happy! But first you and I need to get ready to bolt for that door so we don't get mauled. Who knew my little brother was a heartthrob." I say tousling his hair as he blushed trying to fix it. Those girls just loved him.

"Alright one . . . two . . . three!" the door reaches the lobby of the arena where there we fans and some reporters. We already talked to those reports from the contest and league these were just reporters that wanted a story. We bolt out the door and run for the streets.

"Hey, May let's get some Ice Cream." says Max as he buys us some as we walk through the less populated part of the Island keeping a low profile. We sit down on a bench eating.

"Come on Max let's go back to the hotel."

"I don't want to let's go walk around the Island a bit longer." We end up going into the wood area of the Islands we there are less people. We walk around and end up in field just lying there. After a while I sit there and look through my bag for some water and then I notice it my ribbon was missing.

"No, no, where is it? I put it back in here. . . It should be right here." I say throwing my stuff around.

"What is it?"

"My ribbon! I can't find it." I say looking over my bag again turning it over shaking all the contents out.

"You had it sent home remember along with our trophy's." says Max as he was leaned up against a tree playing his games on some handheld device.

"Not that one!" I snap.

"Oh . . . You mean the-" he says realizing.

"Yes! That one! I must have left it in the pocket of my dress. I thought I took it out after I change but I must have forgotten." I say realizing I never took it out.

"Well then it's on it way home too right?"

"Yeah, but I don't want it to be home I need it here with me. Come on let's get going before they send it home. They said they would send it by eight at night."

"You go I'll stay back a bit more."

"Fine just be back at the hotel room by nine o clock I mean it Max no wandering around."

"Okay, just go get you're ribbon before you have a panic attack." He says.

"I meet you at the Hotel!"