Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
At the Pokémon Center Iris sat in her chair messing with her fingers nervously.
"I told you guys to stop pulling those pranks," Cilan said shaking his head, "I knew someone was going to get hurt, I just knew it-"
"CILAN SHUT UP!" Iris said smacking him on the arm, "I'm already worried enough about Ash your just making it worse!"
Just then a Nurse Joy walked up to the two.
"Nurse Joy, is Ash going to be okay?" Iris asked jumping up from her seat
The pink haired lady gave a nod, "Don't worry, your friend will be fine," she said with a smile, "I had to give him three stitches though, he's not awake yet, but you're happy to see him if you like!"
"Thanks Nurse Joy," the purple haired girl said going to the room in which Nurse Joy pointed for her to go to. When she walked she saw her raven haired friend lying on a bed, he was still unconscious and he a bandage wrapped around his head.
"How's he doing?" Iris asks Pikachu who was sitting on the bed next to the raven haired trainer, the Pokémon shook his head. Iris pulled up a chair next to the bed and sat; Axew jumped from her hair and started playing rock, paper scissors with Pikachu. The girl rested her chin on her hands and sighed, she started down at Ash as felt her cheeks warm. Sure she knew Ash was annoying at times and his childish attitude sometimes got under her skin, but she had to admit…Iris found him a rather cute. Cute to the point that she'd almost always get butterflies in her stomach when he was around her and her face would burn with blush, she didn't know why she had feelings like this towards the Kanto trainer, but she did. She frown slightly but she knew Ash wouldn't care if she told him she like him or not, the boy was too dense and wouldn't understand love if it hit him over the head! Honsetly, teaching a Magikarp multiplication would be easier then teaching Ash Ketchum about love!
Just then there was a small groan, pulling Iris from her thought, "Ash are okay?" Iris asks as the boy's amber brown eyes blink open
Ash gives a groan as he sits up and holds his head, "Ugh…w-what happened…wh-where am I?"
"You fell from a tree and hit your head, Ash. Nurse Joy had to give a few stiches but she said you'll be fine" Iris said then sweatdropped, "hehehe….I guess our pranks got a little out of hand, huh?"
"Pika pi chu!" Pikachu cries going over and cuddling his trainer.
Ash looks down at the electric mouse, frowns and then he looks at the purple haired girl.
"Um…w-who are you?" he said
Iris blinked in surprise, "What? Ash i-it's me."
Ash gave a sheepish smile, "Your name's me?"
Iris frowned, "What, Ash no it's me, Iris!"
"Iris, huh that's a pretty name," Ash said his cheeks reddening, "suits your pretty face,"
Iris stood up shocked, "Ash what's the matter with you?"
"What…a-am I not supposed to call you pretty?" he asked tilting his head to the side, a confused look decorating his face.
Iris felt blushed creep up on her cheeks, "Well…um, ugh that's not important, why are acting like that?"
"Acting like what?"
"Like…like that!"
Ash frowned, "…I-I don't understand-"
But he was cut off as Iris ran out of the room screaming for Nurse Joy.
Amnesia!" Iris said almost screaming, "Ash has amnesia!"
"I'm afraid so," Nurse Joy said.
"Are you sure?" Cilan asked
"I'm positive, but on the bright side your friend seems to remember a few things, like his name," Nurse Joy informed.
"W-Well what are we going to do?" Iris asked glancing back into the room where Ash was messing with Audio's pink and crème colored fan like ears, the Hearing Pokémon seemed to be getting annoyed.
"Um, well you two can help jog his memory," Nurse Joy suggested.
"How are we going to do that?" Iris asked
"Well, you two have been traveling with Ash for some time now, I'm sure you'll be able to help him remember some things," Nurse Joy said.
"I guess that could work," the connoisseur said.
"Well it has to work," Iris said grabbing Cilan by the wrist, "we're helping Ash get his memory back and we're starting now,"
For the next two hours Iris and Cilan did their best to remind Ash of all the things that well, make him Ash.
"So I've caught all these Pokémon?" Ash asked, standing before the boy is all of his Pokémon.
(TG2012: Just for future references here's the list of all the Pokémon Ash has caught in the Unvoa region at the time of the end of getting all eight gym badges: Unfezant, Oshawott, Snivy, Pignite, Scraggy, Leavanny, Palpitoad, Boldore, Krookodile)
"Yup every last one," Cilan said
"Well except for this one," Iris holds up the electric mouse Pokémon, "this is Pikachu, he's been your partner ever since the beginning of your travels as a trainer, and he's your one of your strongest Pokémon!"
"Wow, cool," Ash said taking Pikachu from his friend, "he sure is cute," Pikachu said his name cutely as he cuddles his trainer, "and look at his cheeks, there so jiggle!" Ash starts messing with the electric mouse's cheeks.
Iris gasps slightly "Wait, Ash don't Pikachu doesn't like it when you-"
"WAHHHHHH!" Ash cries as Pikachu lets loose a Thunderbolt on him, the raven haired boy falls to the ground twitching as sparks fly off of him.
"Never mind…" she said sweatdropping
After another 30 minutes Cilan and Iris had explained all the types and moves of his Pokémon.
"And last but not least, Pikachu," Iris said rubbing the spot between Pikachu's ears as he sat in her lap.
"Pikachu's an electric type Pokémon, or as the Pokedex says, the Electric Mouse Pokémon," Cilan states, "your Pikachu can use four moves, which are Iron Tail, Thunderbolt, Electro Ball and Quick Attack,"
"Pika pi chu!" Pikachu said making his cheeks spark to show his power.
"What, do you think Ash, pretty cool, huh?" Iris said, but then frowns, the raven haired boy is just sitting there, looking at her with a smile on his face, she snaps her fingers in front of his face, "hey Ash did you hear me?"
Ash jumps slightly, "Huh, uh yeah, Pikachu's an electric type," his cheeks turn a bit pink as he says this, but then he jumps up as he thinks of an new idea, "hey, Iris you have Pokémon right,"
"Yeah, I have four, Excadrill, Emolga, Dragonite and-"
"Axew!" her green dragon type exclaims jumping from her hair.
Iris giggles, "Yeah and an Axew,"
"Cool, then do you think we can have our Pokémon go up against each other like you told me about earlier?" Ash puts his finger to his chin, "um…what did you call those again…uh,"
"You mean you want to have a battle with me?" Iris asked.
Ash nods, "Yeah a battle,"
"Sure thing, Ash," Iris said.
"Good, thinking Ash," Cilan said, "I'll be the referee," he leans closer to Iris, "a good old fashion might give Ash his memory back," Iris nods.
After finding a good grassy spot the battle begins.
"Alright, both of you will use one Pokémon each," Cilan said, "when the Pokémon on one side can't battle the-"
"The battle…is over, right?" Ash asked.
"Yup" Iris said, "so if I take out your Pokémon, I win, if you take out my Pokémon you win,"
Ash nods, then give a confused look, "Wait…where to I have to take your Pokémon to?"
Everyone sweatdrops.
"Er, never mind," Iris said, "besides, you're a natural at battling, you'll get the hang of it!"
"Okay, Ash" Cilan says, "why not go ahead and chose a Pokémon to battle with?"
Ash starts to pull off a few pokeballs from his belt, he frowns, "B-But I have so many which one should I use, Iris?"
Iris blinks, "Uh, I don't know, um…why not just pick a random Pokémon and battle with it,"
"Oh," Ash blushes a bit, "O-okay," he pulls out one, "alright, uh, I choose you!"
Iris and Cilan look at each other and share a smile, Ash already remembers his special catch phase!
In a flash of bright blue and white light, Ash's Snivy appears; she puts her hand on her hip and coolly says her name.
Ash swats down to his Pokémon's level, "Okay, I'm going to use you Snivy, do you think you can beat Iris's Pokémon for me?"
"Snivy sni," she says with a smile then steps out onto the battle area.
"Okay now it's my turn to pick a Pokémon," Iris says, "okay Emolga let's go!"
Iris's electric/flying type Pokémon appears, seeing her rival Emolga glares, Snivy glares back.
"What's the matter with them?" Ash asked upon seeing this.
"Oh, it just a bit of friendly rivalry," Iris said sweatdropping, "anyway Ash are you ready?"
"I think so," he said, "Snivy knows, Leaf Blade, Vine Whip, Leaf Strom and…Attract, right?"
"Right, just remember that and you'll do fine!" Iris said with a wink, making a bit of color rise an Ash's cheeks, but she didn't seem to notice.
"Okay let the battle begin!" Cilan announced.
"Okay, Ash call a move!" Iris called.
"Um, Snivy use um, Leaf Blade!"
Snivy jumps into the air spinning at full speed with her tail glowing bright green.
"Emolga dodge it!"
Emolga jumps from the left to the right, as Snivy swings her glowing tail; Emolga dodges everyone of Snivy's Leaf Blade.
"That's called dodging Ash," Cilan said, "if you tell you Pokemon to dodge, it'll go and try it's best to avoid your opponent's move,"
Ash nods.
"Okay, Emolga use Hidden Power!"
Emolga shoots powerful green orbs at Snivy.
"Uh, Snivy can you dodge?"
Snivy moves out of the way with her amazing speed, dodging the attacks and answering her trainer's question.
"Good job, Ash!" Iris said, "now Emolga, Discharge!"
The electric attack is launched, it hits Snivy hard, but she quickly gets back up.
"Okay Snivy go with, Leaf Storm!"
A flurry of sharp leaves fly at Emolga, it makes a hit knocking Emolga to the ground.
"Alright Snivy!" Ash said proud of his Pokémon.
That's how the battle goes on for a while, Snivy would attack then Emolga would dodge here and there but overall the battle ends with a draw, with both Pokémon out cold.
(TG2012: BTW sorry for the sucky battle scene…I was just too tired to write it all out, don't be mad we all get lazy sometimes ;3)
"Okay, Iris who won?" Ash asked.
Iris laughs, "We both won silly, that's why it's called a draw!"
"Oh," the Ash gives a determined look, "hey Iris lets go again,"
"Another battle?"Cilan asked.
"Yup and this time I'm gonna win for sure!" Ash said, getting that determined look on his face
Iris shrugs, "Alright, sure we'll battle again,"
But it doesn't go as Ash said it would, first he battle with Pignite which Iris took out with Dragonite. Then he use Oshawott and despite the type advantage, Iris took the water type Pokémon down with Excadrill finally Ash's Scraggy was out cold after repeated hits form iris's Axew.
"Oh man, I lost again," Ash complained returning his Scraggy, "are you guys sure I'm good at battling?"
"Of course you're good at battling," Iris said, "you're the best Pokémon battler I know!"
"You probably just need a bit of time to adjust a bit, I mean you did lose your memory and all," Cilan adds
"Oh, okay," he turned to his purple haired friend, "hey Iris are you up for another battle?"
Iris sweatdropped, "I'd love to Ash, but all our Pokémon might be a bit tired and besides I only have four so I have no one to battle with,"
Ash frowns about, then turns to Cilan, "Um, Cilan do you want to battle-" but the raven haired boy stops short as he groans.
"Ash what's the matter?" Cilan asked
"Ugh…I don't know-OW!" he slumps down to his knees and holds his stomach.
Iris rushes over to him, "Ash are you okay, where does it hurt?"
Ash looks up at her, "Right here," he rubs his stomach.
"Your stomach?" Iris asked frowning, "does it hurt bad-"
But the purple haired girl is cut off by a loud gurgling sound that's produced from the raven haired boy's stomach. Ash looks down at his middle, he blushed as felt embarrassed at the sound it made, but to his confusion this made his friends laugh.
"Oh, Ash there's nothing wrong with your stomach," Iris said, helping him to his feet.
"T-There's not?" Ash said then groans, "Then why does it hurt so badly?"
"It just because you're hungry," Cilan said with a chuckle, "come on let's go back to the Pokémon Center to grab something to eat,"
"This stuff is the best!" Ash said as he stuffs his face with forkful after forkful of food.
Iris laughs, "Not only are the best battler I know, Ash, your also the biggest eater I know too!"
Ash blushes a bit, but says nothing at that comment.
As Ash continues to eat Iris stares at him, 'His memory, i-it's really gone…' she thought as she messed with the food on her plate, 'wi-will he ever get it back? And if not... what is he going to do?'
After lunch, which included Ash eating about five plates of food and nearly chocking on some, Iris got up, "Hey Ash I'm going to Nurse Joy to get our Pokémon healed up, do you want to come with me?"
Ash gave a sheepish smile, "Uh, sure,"
As they walked over, Iris noticed how fidgety Ash seemed to be. He wouldn't stop glancing up at her with his amber eyes, he was fiddling with his gloves or ever so often and he'd open his mouth as if he was going to say something to her but quickly closed it as if he changed his mind. The dragon type trainer didn't know what to make of this behavior, it was strange…maybe a bit too strange.
"Nurse Joy can you please heal our Pokémon?" Iris asked handing the nurse their pokeballs in which their weaken Pokémon where contained.
"Of course," Nurse Joy said, then glanced over at the bench a few paces away where Iris's raven haired friend sat, "how's your friend? Have you managed to jog his memory yet?"
Iris shook her head, "No not yet…"
Nurse Joy gave a sympathetic smile, "Don't worry I'm sure his memory will get back soon, just keep trying,"
"Alright, Cilan and I'll will keep trying" Iris said, as the nurse and her Audnio went to go heal the trainer's Pokémon, Iris went to sit by her raven haired friend.
He looked up at her and gave a small smile, "Hey Iris, can I ask you something?" he asked.
"Sure, thing Ash what is it?" Iris responded with a smile.
"Um, well Cilan told me earlier that we've been traveling around this region, called Unova right?" Ash said
Iris nodded, "Uh huh, we've been traveling all over Unova together so you can get all of your gym badges for the Unova League and so I can learn all about dragon type Pokémon and one day be a Dragon Master!" she said getting a determined looked in her brown eyes.
Ash gave a small sigh, Iris looked over at him. Ash was staring at her again, he had an expression on his face that made him look like he had his head in the clouds, it almost looked like he was staring…lovingly at Iris. The purple haired girl felt her cheeks turn pink as a warm butterfly feeling filled her.
"Um, Ash are you okay?" she asked after two straight minutes of Ash starting at her
The raven haired boy blinked slowly and his smiled widened a bit, "Um, Iris I-I was just thinking um," he looked down at the floor, "since you and I have been traveling together, that makes us friends right?"
Iris laughed a bit, "Well, yeah that makes us friends,"
"…Er a-and you like me right?"
"Um…yes,"
"So, if you and I are really good friends and you like me and I like you…" Ash said taking his eyes off the floor and looking at her, "d-doesn't that make us...boyfriend and girlfriend?"
Iris jumped slightly, "Wh-What?!"
Ash gave a sheepish smile, "You're my girlfriend right, Iris?"
Iris sweatdropped, "Oh, Ash um I'm defiantly…uh" she stopped.
'Wait a minute… Ash wants to be my boyfriend?…Well he is just so cute!' Iris blushed a bit, 'I mean Ash can't remember anything…and besides I know Ash would never say a thing like that if he had his memory …this maybe m-my only chance I'll ever get! I can't just let this slip by!'
Iris smiled, "Er, yeah Ash of course I'm your girlfriend!"
Ash's face lit up, "Really!" Iris nodded, "yay, this so awesome!" he went over and pulled Iris into a hug.
Iris hesitated for a second, "Yup and your my boyfriend Ash!" she said hugging him back with a smile on her face.
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