Okay. On the day this was published, I went on like, a writing spree. Now, I'm back to being a slow writer. Sorry. I write short chapters… Sorry for OOC characters, I haven't seen many episodes of the X and Y anime. I'm sorry. Thanks for the support this has been getting so far! Okay, so I hope I don't have to put a disclaimer at the beginning of every chapter. I don't like disclaimers because it should be obvious. FAN-Fiction. Oh well. I don't own pokemon.

Just quickly, I'll go through ages.

Ash-13

Misty-14

Clemont-13

Serena-12

Bonnie-8

Misty's POV

"Turn! around! you're with her now. I just can't figure it out! Tell me why you're so hard to forget, don't remind me, I'm not over it! Tell me why I can't seem to face the truth… I'm just a little too not over you." Misty sang to herself as she strolled leisurely along the path. She was coming up on Shalour city. Ash was so enthusiastic, he'd probably already been at this gym. But Misty wanted to check. Shalour city's magnificence overwhelmed her at once. She had heard many amazing things about all the cities in Kalos, and so far, they had not disappointed. If all this is true, I can't wait to see Lumiose City. Misty thought to herself. She stopped off at the pokemon center quickly to give her pokemon a speedy rest, then sprinted to the gym. It was dark when she entered.

"Hello?" Misty called into the darkness.

"Welcome challenger, to the Shalour City gym!"

"Challenger!? No! No! You've got it all wrong! I'm here to ask the gym leader a question!" The sentence sounded weak.

"Well then, you've come to the right place!" A teen with a blond ponytail and skates jumped off a ledge and came skating over to Misty. "I'm Korrina! Master of Mega evolution! What can I do you for?"

"Uh…" What's mega evolution? Misty thought nervously. "Two questions. One, what's Mega evolution, and two, has a black-haired kid with a Pikachu passed through here?"

"Well! Those are good questions! What's your name, stranger?"

"I'm Misty, gym leader of Cerulean city, Kanto."

"Cool! So the second question is easy. The first one, not so much. So I'll start with the hard one!" She decided. Misty looked at her. This girl seemed rash, hot-headed, boastful, and good at heart. In other words, she reminded Misty a LOT of Ash.

"Walk with me. I'll talk you through the basics." And the blonde skated out the door. Misty sweatdropped. Walk? Do you mean skate? Cause I don't have roller skates. And Misty ran after her.

Serena's POV

The daisy chain she was making with Bonnie was starting to wilt. Serena looked at it sadly.

"It just needs water!" Bonnie said, noticing Serena's expression. She snatched it out of Serena's hands and started running to the stream. Serena laughed and ran after her.

"Bonnie! It doesn't need water, it doesn't have a stem!"

"It'll work!" Bonnie called over her shoulder, arriving at the bank of the stream. When Bonnie floated it in the water, it started to drift away.

"Hey!" Bonnie nearly jumped in after it but Serena held her back. It was suddenly snagged on something Serena couldn't see and tugged it down the stream. Bonnie broke free of Serena's clutches and ran down the bank in the direction it was going. Serena tore through the underbrush after her.

"BONNIE! COME BACK!" Serena yelled, panicking.

"Don't worry Serena, I'll get it!" She called back. They arrived, around the same time, to where Ash was on the bank, reeling it in. He didn't notice them.

"Get ready… Okay… Now! Hawluch- Oh. It's just a daisy chain." It snagged on Ash's fishing line! That's why it was swept away.

"Ash!" Bonnie yelled. "That's our daisy chain!"

"Hmm? Oh! It's you two!" Ash said, hiding his rod behind his back. "Well here's your daisy chain it's very nice why don't you keep moving it's a lovely day isn't it Pikachu's iron tail is really useful sometimes I like pie!" Ash babbled on and on.

"Ash… what's behind your back?" Serena asked carefully.

"Nothing! Wh-what makes you think I have something behind my back?"

"Because you're not tall enough to hide a fishing rod. Now, why are you hiding it, it's just a fishing rod, right?" Serena said matter-of-factly.

"Y-Yeah! Just a fishing rod!" Ash said, grinning.

"Then show me." Serena watched him slowly take the rod out from behind his back, his hand on the place where the hook should have been. He snapped his wrist and ripped the rope, keeping what had been on the end of the line in his hand. And then handed her the rod, thrusting his hand into the inside pocket of his jacket. Serena took the rod with equal slowness and held it while looking into his eyes, eyes that were shifting uncomfortably from side to side.

"What's that in your pocket?"

"What do you mean?"

"Aaash!"

"Okay, fine. But I want to tell you two WITH Clemont. So if you bring it up Clemont knows what we're talking about. I'll tell you when we eat dinner tonight." Serena couldn't argue.

Misty's POV

"And that's Mega evolution!" The skater finished with a flourish. Misty was quite out of breath from keeping up.

"Okay. So can all Pokemon mega evolve?"

"Only fully evolved ones as far as we know, and stones have only been discovered for about 48 mega forms."

"Any water types?" Misty asked, panting.

"Of course. Sharpedo… Swampert… Uh… Slowbro… Oh, and Gyarados!" Misty's face lit up.

"Gyarados? I have a Gyarados! I think we have a good bond… If I can find a keystone and a gyaradosite…" Korrina grinned.

"You take care of the mega stone… I have a spare keystone!" Misty felt like she was flying. "All you have to do for it is beat me in a pokemon battle!" Misty smiled and held out her fist in challenge like Ash did.

"Deal!" Before Misty knew it, she was standing in the challenger's square of the gym, Korrina across the field.

"This will be a one-on-one match!" Korrina called. "Use your Gyarados, this is a test to see if you two are truly worthy of mega evolution!" Misty nodded, pulling a pokeball off of her belt.

"Gyarados! I choose you!" Misty yelled, throwing her pokeball on the ground. Gyarados came flying out, roaring, ready to battle

"Go! Lucario!" Korrina called, sending out her pokemon.

"Gyarados! Use flamethrower!" Called Misty, thinking this would work well on the steel-type.

"Bone rush to deflect it!"

"Flamethrower again!"

"Bone rush, once more!" Misty grit her teeth. She wasn't going to win that easily, it seemed.

"Hydro pump!"

"Aura sphere!" Both attacks hit, but both pokemon were still standing. Misty claimed the next attack.

"Hyper beam!" It did a lot of damage, but the Lucario was still standing and Gyarados had to recharge.

"Lucario! Power-up-punch!" Gyarados fell.

"Gyarados! No!" Misty yelled, nearly running onto the battlefield. But she stayed in place. "Gyarados…" Misty closed her eyes. "You can still do this…" Gyarados struggled up. Korrina gazed at it, dumbfounded.

"How did it get up?"

"Gyarados! Flamethrower!" The fiery blast smashed head-on into the unsuspecting Lucario. It toppled, already unsteady from the shock of seeing it's adversary get up. Misty grinned and jumped in the air in celebration.

"Yay! Gyarados!" The Lucario struggled to it's knees, and fell again. Misty had won.

Ash's POV

The food was great. His friends were happy. Pikachu was chasing Dedenne around in circles. He should have been content. But at that point, Ash's brain was whirring with ways to avoid telling them about the lure. He didn't know why he wanted to keep it private, it just seemed… He didn't know how it seemed. All he knew was that Misty, or at least her lure, was his.

"So Ash, is there something you'd like to share with the group?" Serena asked.

"Nothing I WANT to share, but there is something I'm being forced to share."

Bonnie leaned forward in her seat. Serena sat a little straighter. Clemont looked confused. "I've travelled with a lot of different people on my journey. I've done a lot of things. But there was one that just…" He trailed off, not knowing what to say. He changed his approach. "When I was traveling in Sinnoh, my traveling companions were a girl named Dawn and a guy named Brock." Serena tensed up at the word 'girl' although Ash didn't know why. "We were fishing one time, and I pulled out my special lure. Dawn wanted to use it, and we had a big fight over it." Ash pulled out the lure. "That's why I never use it when I'm fishing with other people. I'm worried it'll get damaged, and it's the only thing I have of hers." Ash finished, feeling warm for some reason.

"Ash, why are you blushing?" Clemont asked him carefully.

"I'm not blushing." Ash said quickly.

"Right…" Clemont said, unconvinced.

"The only thing you have of whose?" Serena asked in a panicky tone.

"Well- Uh- Mi-Misty's." Ash didn't know why her name was so hard to force out. It was like a bit of his past that he wanted to keep for himself, and yet here he was, spilling everything.

"When I started my journey, I was late to pick up a starter Pokemon. Pikachu was all professor Oak had left, and I took him. Pikachu hated me at first, but when we were attacked by a flock of angry Spearow, I picked him up and dived off a cliff with him, over a waterfall." Ash took a deep breath. He'd never given a full account of the beginning of his journey before this, and it felt like he was violating some unspoken law. But he continued.

"I was swimming through a dark river, holding onto Pikachu tighter than I'd ever held anything before. Suddenly, we were snagged on something, and fished out of the river by a girl with orange hair, a yellow shirt, jean shorts, and red suspenders. I remember exactly how she looked then, because she had just saved my life and she was like a guardian angel. That illusion was broken when she slapped me, and slapped me hard." Serena looked Ash full in the face, and Ash started to feel uncomfortable.

"Uh, yeah. Basically, after that, I stole her bike to save Pikachu's life, I accidentally got it completely destroyed, and with her hot temper and stubborn spirit, she followed me across two regions until I repayed her. She might seem like I would hate her, but she means more to me than… I don't know, all I know is she means a lot to me." Ash finished, putting the lure away in its special pocket. As Ash watched in stunned fascination, Serena burst into tears.