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The Next Morning: Clemont's House
The sun had risen high over the Kalos region as my friends and I were having breakfast. Well, only my crush and his Pikachu were eating while Clemont was busy waking his little sister up. As for me, I was too overwhelmed by what happened last night. Upon smelling my plate of fresh spaghetti and meatballs, everything I witnessed after my training session kept on replaying in my head.
From the mysterious man to my own dilemma, the memories of last night had been haunting me since I went to bed. Memories that I made me wonder how I was going to explain to my friends. How in the world do you say that some kind of wizard appeared and makes a card out of your memories?
"Pi-ka-chu?"
I awoke from my train of thought thanks to Pikachu's concern. I glanced up towards where the yellow electric mouse pokemon was sitting on the table and blinked at him. With a bottle of ketchup in his little hands, he squeaked at me some more. Unfortunately, I sort of ignored him since I still had trouble understanding him.
"I don't need ketchup, Pikachu." I said with a weak smile.
"Pika?" Pikachu squeaked.
"Pikachu was trying to asked you if you're okay, Serena?" My crush translated.
"Pikachu." The electric rodent nodded.
"Oh." I muttered.
"Now that he mentioned it, you have been acting stranger than usual." The Kanto trainer said, giving me an odd look.
"W-what do you mean, Ash?" I blushed a bit.
"You haven't even taken a bite of your food." Ash exclaimed, pointing at my plate.
Overwhelmed with embarrassment, I quickly grabbed my fork, stabbed a meatball with iit, and took a bite out of it. The meatball fell into my mouth as I began crunching it with my teeth until it became small enough to swallow piece by piece.
*Gulp!*
"Mmm, yum yum yum in my tum!" I smiled, rubbing my belly.
Unfortunately, the two boys saw through my fake smile and became even more concern. Despite my best effort to try to avoid the subject, Ash's concern for me became greater than his own hunger.
"Did something happened last night while you were out?" Ash wondered.
"No." I shook my head.
"I'm just wondering what I should do next?" I simply answered back
"Then, you have nothing to worry about." The raven haired trainer said.
Suddenly, I felt something that I rarely got throughout my Kalos journey. My body froze completely by Ash's smooth hand resting onto my right shoulder. Although, this was typical behavior coming from Ash, it was moments like this why I loved him. Whenever he or his friends were going through difficult times, he always finds a way to turn things around.
"I'm sure you are going to do great no matter what you do." Ash reminded me.
And after hearing that, my confidence returned. With Shauna performing with me, it was safe to say that the show was going to be a blast. She was depending on me to give the crowd some great entertainment and I knew I wouldn't let her down.
"Right, Pikachu?" My crush turned away.
"Pika pikaa!" Pikachu nodded with agreement.
"Thank you for the encouragement Ash and Pikachu!" I giggled a bit.
"You can thank us after you're done eating." Ash mentioned.
"These spaghetti and meatballs Clemont made are so good!" He praised.
After having my first bite, I couldn't have agreed more with Ash. With my worries being over thought of by the show, I had the Lumiose City Gym Leader's delicious delicious spaghetti and meatballs without any interruptions. Well, except for one important one as I saw my pokemon guiding Clemont and his sister into the Dining Room.
"Good Morning, BonHUH?!"
I dropped my fork upon seeing Bonnie's appearance. She was wearing her normal outfit with part of her hair tied up in a ponytail, but her face looked terrible. Her cheerful behavior was replaced by drowsiness as we saw bags underneath her tired eyes.
"M-morning." Bonnie waved weakly.
Upon seeing Sylveon holding the tired child with her feelers, I quickly got off of my seat, and went to my pokemon for a better examination on her.
"Are you feeling okay, Bonnie?" I asked.
"She had a bad dream last night." Clemont reported.
"A pretty weird dream if you ask me." Bonnie clarified, rubbing her eyelids to try to wake up some more.
"What was your dream about, Bonnie?" Ash wondered.
"Pika?" Pikachu squeaked.
"If it's too scary for you to talk about, it's fine if you don't want to." I consoled the young girl.
Bonnie went over to the closest chair next to her and took a seat in front of mine. I then went back to my seat as we all got ready to hear the little girl's dream.
"We were trying to save Squishy and the rest of Kalos from Team Flare when some strange pokemon started to emerge from the shadows." Bonnie began.
"Strange pokemon…" Ash repeated.
"Emerging from the shadows?" I finished the statement.
"Pika?" Pikachu blinked.
"They were these black pokemon that totally emerge from the ground and started to tackle us." Clemont's sister described.
"But the scary part was seeing you guys… die in front of me." She mentioned.
"DIE?!" Ash and I shrieked.
"PIKA?!" Pikachu gasped.
It took a moment to process what Bonnie said, but the sheer imagination of all of us getting killed already made her dream sound like a nightmare. The thoughts were so terrifying, it even made Clemont flinched a little as he was preparing a box of cereal for his sister.
"The strange pokemon tackled you three and our pokemon to death, turning you into one of them."
"And then, Manon, and I got grabbed by those huge roots and became plant food." Bonnie finished.
It was hard to respond to what we just heard despite the whole story being a dream. Just the thoughts of all of us dying was enough to send shivers down my spine. As if I wasn't spooked enough last night, but unlike him, Bonnie's story was just a dream. A dream of a previous battle we fought in real life, but won in reality.
"Wow, that is a bad dream." Ash commented.
"Thank goodness it was just a dream." I sighed in relief.
"Pikachu." Ash's electric mouse nodded.
"But still, pokemon emerging from the shadows..." The raven haired trainer rethought of.
Despite them being part of Bonnie's nightmare, the overall thought of Shadow Pokemon was intriguing to think about. It made us wonder if there were ever any pokemon from another realm that were discovered throughout history. The thought was buzzing around our heads while Bonnie was having her breakfast.
Thirty Minutes Later
With everyone fed (including the pokemon), it was time to officially start the day. With Bonnie and the boys off to the Pokemon Center to pick-up Ash's pokemon, there was nothing holding me back from doing my show. I put on my performance outfit and left Clemont's house with my pokemon fully dressed up.
"Shauna should over by the center of the city!"
"We just need to follow where Prism Tower is located." I told my pokemon.
"Braixen!" Braixen nodded.
"Pancham!" Pancham spoke.
"Veon!" Sylveon followed beside them.
"This is going to be so much fun!" I cheered, closing my eyes.
"BRAIXEN!"
"PANCHAM PAN!"
"LOOK OUT!"
"OOF!"
Please Review and Comment!
Considering how much attention Kairi has been getting recently during the KH3 hype, I'm honestly thinking about adding her and Lea/Axel into this story. Well, that and Kairi's my favorite female KH character. XD