Ch 2: Daily life
It was early in the morning in the Seafoam islands and the sun rise began to light up the island. Inside Ash and Serena's house the light began to shine through the window and light up the room.
As it did, Ash and Serena were slowly awakened.
Serena's head was still up against Ash's chest and her arms around him.
"Morning Serena." Ash said.
"Morning my love." Serena said before kissing him.
When she laid her head back onto her pillow, Ash moved his hand onto his stomach and rubbed it before lowing his head and kissed her there.
Serena laughed a little.
"Are you saying good morning to the baby too?"
"Maybe." Ash said. When he laid back down Serena rubbed her hands against her stomach.
"You know we should probably start thinking of names." Serena said.
"Alright why not. They'll be here before we know it."
"If she's a girl, I was thinking about naming her after my mother Grace."
"Not my mother?" Ash said.
"Well."
"I'm just kidding, if you really want to name her after your mother I'd love to have a little baby Grace." Ash said.
Serena wrapped her arms around Ash's shoulders and kissed him again.
"Thank you so much." She said.
"Ok so if she's a girl we name her Grace. But what if he's a boy?" Ash said.
"Well I was thinking maybe Alex." She started.
"May I have any say?"
"Sorry, just got a little excited." Serena said sweat dropping.
"Do you want to name him Felix, or maybe Arthur?"
"I don't know. I mean we don't have to name him after my father or grandfather. I was actually thinking we name him after someone else." Ash said.
"Who?" Serena asked.
"Well, I was thinking maybe naming him Vaeron." Ash said sweat dropping as Serena stared at him.
"You want to name him after your ancient ancestor?"
"Well, I had another name in mind too."
"What?"
"Satoshi."
Serena looked at him again.
"Well maybe we don't have to decide yet." Ash said.
He was about to get up when Serena wrapped her arms around him.
"Wait where are you going?"
"I was going to head to the guardian guild, see if they have any assignments that need to be done." Ash said.
"Stay a little longer, it's still early." Serena said.
"Alright." Ash said as he laid back down and Serena rested her head on his chest.
An hour later, Ash was up with Serena as they fed each of their pokemon.
After feeding his, Ash went back to his room and changed into his guardian hooded jacket before riding Aerodactyl towards the mountain with Pikachu.
Back at the house, Serena was still in the enclosure with their pokemon.
She watched as Charla and Charizard gave their son a bath in one of the water holes.
She watched as the baby Charmander protested bathing.
"Char!" He shouted as he tried to get out of the water.
"Grauu" Charla growled at her baby, irritated how much he was resisting.
Charizard held him down as Charla cleaned him.
Serena smiled before she walked over.
"Need any help?" Serena asked.
Charla sweat dropped.
She knelt down in front of the water hole and put her arms around Charmander's body, trying to clean him up.
"Easy Charmander." She said. When he was finally clean enough, Charizard let him out of the water before Charla let out a small amount of fire around him, drying Charmander off in moments.
"Char!" He shouted , happy the bath was over.
Charizard let him go as he ran off to play with the other pokemon.
"Hey Charla, any advice for a soon to be mother."
Charla growled.
"I should really do this with Ash, who can translate." Serena said.
Serena practiced martial arts like Korrina taught her, then did a swim with Vaporeon, Blastoise, and Feraligator in the ocean for some more exercise.
She swam parallel to the shore with Vaporeon, Blastoise, and Feraligator beside her
Every few minutes the 4 would swim underwater and saw some Shellder and Krabby on the ocean floor. They also saw some Seel, Magikarp, and even a few Gorebyss swimming around.
As she swam past them, the 3 Gorebyss turned to Serena and began swimming at her.
Soon the 3 were swimming around her as Vaporeon, Feraligator, Blastoise were about to do something when they felt no hostility from them.
Serena began treading water as the 3 Gorebyss began making buzzing sounds as they stared at her stomach.
Serena could feel vibrations coming from the 3 Gorebyss before one brought his head in licked her exposed stomach.
Another rubbed his head against it while the third swam under her and tried to lift her up.
Serena began to laugh as the 3 Gorebyss kept playing with her. She didn't know from sure, but she believed that the 3 Gorebyss some how new she was pregnant.
The 3 Gorebyss kept swimming with her and the others until she got out of the water. As she walked out she felt herself more fatigued than she normally was from her swims, most likely from her pregnancy.
When she went back into the house she saw her computer and realized she would have to inform places that wanted her to perform that she wouldn't be able to for a while. She was about to get on when she realized that the only people who knew were her, Ash, and that healer.
"I still have to tell everyone." She said in a tone of nervousness and excitement.
She got on the phone and put in her mom's number.
She took a deep breath before her mother appeared on the other side.
"Good morning Serena."
"Morning mom."
"How are you doing dear, married life treating you good?"
"Actually mom there's something pretty important I need to tell you." Serena said slightly nervous.
"Well your father should hear it too, he's here."
"What?!" Serena said sweat dropping. She was hoping she would have a little more time before she told her slightly over protective father. She was afraid he wouldn't take it well and march division down to the island after Ash.
Moments later Alex came up behind Grace.
"Serena, how my little girl down?"
Serena nervously sweat dropped.
"Well about that, you see Ash and I have been married for 2 years now and well. Certain things can come from that."
"What are you talking about?" Grace asked.
Serena took a deep breath.
"Mom, dad. I'm pregnant."
Grace and Alex gave completely different reactions.
Grace gave a look of happiness and excitement while Alex gave one of terror.
"You're really pregnant! Oh Serena that's such good news!"
"How did this happen!" Alex screamed.
"Alex, she's married how do you think it happened?" Grace said.
Alex put his hands over his face and tried to take a deep breath.
"So does Ash know?" Grace asked.
"I told him first."
"Well that's good. Now that I know, I can run you through everything you need to know about being a mother."
That is when Alex noticed Ash wasn't there.
"Wait where is Ash!?"
"He's out doing guardian work."
"He didn't have the guts to face me with this news."
"Dad please try to calm down. This is a good thing, Ash is just as excited about the baby as I am. We're going to be parents."
Alex sighed again.
"Alright, it's just. You're still so young. I just have to get use to the idea."
"You know Alex if I remember right, I wasn't much older than Serena was when I got pregnant with her."
"That's different." Alex said.
"How?"
Alex sweat dropped.
"It just is."
"Well I still have to tell Ash's side of the family. But I'll wait until he get's back to do that." Serena said.
"Alright , now remember to take care of yourself. You've got someone else inside you." Grace said.
"I know mom." Serena said.
"You know Serena, your father may calm down about this if you consider naming your baby after him if he's a boy. What do you say Alex." Grace said.
"Sorry mom, Ash agreed that if she's a girl we'll name her after you. But we still have to decide on a name if he's a boy."
"Really! My grandchild might be named after me! Oh I love you Serena!" Grace said.
Elsewhere in the old castle on top of the mountain, Aerodactyl landed in front of the main entrance where Ash placed his hand and used aura to communicate with it.
Moments later the main door opened as a guardian with a Tyanitar stood on the other side.
"Welcome brother." He said as Ash and his pokemon walked in.
As they walked through the enclave Ash made his way to the vault room where he saw an older guardian with a Alakazam sitting beside him. They sat in front of a large wooden desk with several log books and laptops with information on them.
Behind them was a large vault.
"Good morning Guardian Ketchum. Here to make another deposit?" The guardian asked as he wrote in one book then typed something down on one of the computers.
Ash took 3 gold bars, a silver and a platinum bar from his bag and placed them on the table in front of the guardian and his Alakazam.
"Well, well. Even more, I must say you've acquired far more gold and precious metal than any other guardian here. The elite 4 must pay well."
"It does." Ash said.
The guardian and his Alakazam got up as they walked over to the vault and placed their hands on it as they used their aura to unlock the massive door.
When they did, Alakazam used his physic powers to open the massive door, revealing a colossal vault filled with gold, some silver, and other precious metal. Coins, bars, and other forms of them.
The aura guardians had never adopted paper money, knowing it could become nearly worthless at times. They knew precious metals would always be valuable , and that their value would only rise in time. All guardians were compensated for assignments in gold, silver, or platinum depending on the level of risk or time needed.
Guardians would also use vaults as sort of banks. When individual guardians put their gold in, the brotherhood would use that money to fund ventures that eventually brought even more money back to the aura guardians and earned interest for the guardians that deposited the money.
The guardians had done this method for thousands of years and always provided them with more than enough funds to run the brotherhoods, which were not cheap to run. The guardian took Ash's gold and went over to his section of the vault and put it in.
He then wrote down Ash's information.
"Thank you very much, your contribution is greatly appreciated and as always you can expect more money back."
Ash respectfully bowed to the guardian as he bowed back.
Ash and his pokemon made his way through the castle and past several other guardians with their pokemon.
Eventually he walked into a large room filled with bulletin boards as well as terminals.
In the center of the room was another older guardian sitting down with his eyes glowing blue as he felt the aura around the entire island.
After a few moments he turned to another guardian who nodded and entered something into a computer as well as wrote something down and put it on one of the boards.
The guardian in the center was a master who's job was to focus on the aura of the entire area of the island. He then discovered disturbances. Pokemon wounded, in trouble, humans in trouble, humans trying to disrupt the ecosystem.
He then sent this news to another guardian who put the assignment up for guardians to complete.
Ash looked around at the terminals and boards until he found one. Apparently a woman hiking through the jungle dropped a case of anti depressants she had. A Rhyperior found them and ate them and was reacting badly with them and was going berserk on the other pokemon nearby.
The Rhyperior was suppose to be very powerful and the assignment said to use caution when trying to stop him.
"How about this one guys?" Ash asked.
"Aroo."
"Pika." His pokemon said nodding.
A few minutes later Ash was parkouring across the jungle trees with Pikachu on his shoulder and Aerodactyl flying over him.
As he got farther into the jungle he felt something below him.
Aerodactly flew through the trees as Ash performed a leap of faith onto his back.
When Aerodactyl landed, he let Ash off.
Ash and his pokemon looked around for any sighs of a disturbance.
That was when Pikachu saw a hurt Bulbasaur on the ground.
Pikachu ran over with Ash beside him and Aerodactyl behind him.
"Saur." The Bulbasaur moaned in pain.
"Pika , Pikachu." Pikachu said, telling Bulbasaur they were there to help.
Ash knelt down and took a deep breath as he tried to use his aura to heal him.
The Bulbar started to feel his pain lessen and some feeling return to his side.
"Saur." He said.
"Bulbasaur, how did you get hurt?"
"Saur, Bulbsaur."
Pikachu listened closely to the Bulbasaur.
"Pika, Pikachu." He said to Ash, telling him that Bulbasaur claimed he was attacked by a mad Rhyperior.
"Where is he?" Ash asked.
"Saur, Bulba."
"Pika."
Apparently , he went towards the river after attacking him.
"Well now we know where he is." Ash said.
When the Bulbasaur was healed enough, he let him walk away.
Pikachu climbed back on Ash's shoulder before Ash scaled a tree and used his aura vision to help guide the way. As he parkoured across the trees, Aerodactyl flew from overhead.
Finally whey they got close to the river, Ash saw a few pokemon with distressed aura and one with aura that seemed like he was going mad.
Ash and his pokemon also heard crashing sounds along with cries of terror.
"I think we found him." Ash said as they rushed down to an open area beside the river and saw several wild pokemon being attacked by a massive Rhyperior.
"Growww!" Rhyperior roared as he rushed at the wounded pokemon with Bulldoze.
"Aerodactyl get those Pokemon! Pikachu Iron tail on his feet!" Ash shouted.
Aerodactyl flew down incredibly fast and caught the 3 wounded pokemon in his wings , carrying them safely out of harms way.
At the same time, Pikachu sprinted forward with his tail turned metal and crashed it into Rhyperior's legs. This caused the massive rock rhino to trip and crash into the ground before tumbling into the river.
Ash and Pikachu gave grim looks, they didn't want to hurt the Rhyperior, just stop him.
Moments later the Rhyperior burst out of the water with an enraged expression on his face.
"Groow!" He roared.
Ash and his pokemon noticed his pupils were far larger than they should have been. Likely an effect of the anti depressants.
He turned his attention from Pikachu to Ash.
"Groww!" He roared as he charged at Ash with Bulldoze.
"Pika!" Pikachu shouted in fear.
Just before Rhyperior could reach him, Ash acrobatically leapt out of the way, landing beside Rhyperior.
The mad Rhyperior made a sharp 180 and tried to smash his horn into Ash.
As he lowered his head, Ash leapt up and onto his head before running across his back and doing a front flip as he leapt off the back.
Rhyperior tried one more time to hit Ash with take down, only to have Ash slide under him between his legs and do another flip to get up behind him.
Seeing Ash do all his acrobatic movements to avoid him made him even angrier.
"Pikachu Iron tail!" Ash shouted.
Pikachu sprinted forward across the battlefield like lighting with his tail turned to metal.
Rhyperior saw this and turned to face Pikachu. Hurling his arms forward to try and smash him.
Pikachu, however, leapt up and off each of Rhyperior's fists.
"Pika chu!" He shouted as he crashed his tail into Rhyperior's face.
"Groww!" Rhyperior shouted before he fell over and landed on his back with swirly eyes.
"Whew." Ash said as he and Pikachu walked over to Rhyperior on the ground.
Ash reached into his bag and took out a Persim berry and then cut it into small pieces with his hidden blade. After doing so, he poured the cut up pieces into the Rhyperior's mouth to help cure him of confusion.
When the Persim berry took effect, the Rhyperior's eyes returned to normal.
He then waved his hand over Rhyperior's face with his hand glowing blue.
A few moments later, Rhyperior slowly got up and began breathing deeply.
He looked over at Ash and the pokemon he had hurt.
"Groww." He groaned in shame before he walked off.
"We did it." Ash said.
Aerodactly let the wounded pokemon out of his wings. Ash walked over and used his aura to heal them enough where they could walk off safety.
"Looks like we're done here. Let's head back." Ash said.
It took Ash about 30 minutes before he and his pokemon got back to the castle.
Once there they went back to the assignment room and waited in line to get to the front
Once there they saw a female guardian at the table.
"Your assignment?" She asked.
Ash handed the assignment notice to her.
"Ah yes the Rhyperior, master Dulin felt his rampage end. Well done." The guardian said as she reached down and came up with a 100 oz bar of silver.
"Here you are." She said.
"Thank you." Ash said.
"No thank you for your work guardian." She said before Ash and his pokemon left the room, then the castle.
Back in the house, Serena was still on the phone with Lucy.
"And that's everything you can expect in the first 4 months." Lucy said.
"Thanks Lucy, it's nice to have a friend who's already a mother." Serena said.
"Anything you need Serena."
Moments later the door opened as Ash walked in.
"Serena, I'm back." Ash said.
"Ash, great timing. I'm still on with Lucy." Serena said.
"Really." Ash said as he walked over to the phone and saw Lucy.
"Hey Ash, congratulations." Lucy said.
"Thanks Lucy. Does Brock know too?"
"Not yet, he's still at the pokemon hospital. I can't wait to tell him." Lucy said.
Moments later they heard crying from the other side of the phone.
"Well I guess Jasmine's up. I better go take care of her."
"Goodbye." Serena said.
"Bye." Lucy said before the image vanished.
"So how did the assignment go?" Serena asked.
"It went well, we stopped a crazed Rhyperior. We also got some more silver." Ash said.
Serena smiled.
"Ash, I told my parents about me being pregnant. I hope you don't mind."
"Well, if I was there your dad might have tried to strangle me through the phone." Ash said.
"I haven't told your family yet though. I wanted you to be here for that."
"Thank you. Want to do it now?"
"Yes." Serena said as she dialed in Felix's number.
A few moments later the screen lit up showing Felix on the other side.
"Serena, Ash. I wasn't expecting a call from you two. Is everything alright?" Felix asked.
"Yes, well. Uh." Ash said nervously.
"What's going on?" Felix asked.
"Felix, we have some news and we'd like everyone to hear it together." Serena said.
"Alright I'll get the gang." Felix said. A few minutes later, Delia, Red, and Korrina were with Felix behind the phone.
"Ash, Serena. There's something important you need to tell us." Delia said.
"Yes, we just found out some big news. Very exciting, and big." Ash said.
"Well what is it? Stop dragging it on." Korrina said.
"I'm pregnant." Serena said.
"What?" Felix said.
"You're pregnant!" Delia shouted out in excitement.
"Wow, congratulations Ash." Red said.
Korrina's face turned red as she gave a frustrated look.
"By Reduka first Lucy, now you too." She said before she grabbed Red by the collar of his guardian jacket and pulled him closer.
Red gave a freaked out look.
"We have work to do." She said before she dragged him out of the room.
All 5, including Pikachu sweat dropped.
"Well, anyway. Congratulations you two. I can't believe we're finally going to be grandparents." Delia said.
"So that's why you weren't feeling well." Felix said.
"If you two need help with anything. We're here for you." Delia said.
"Thanks mom, dad." Ash said.
"Ohh, I just can't wait to see that little baby." Delia said.
"Have you thought of any names yet?" Felix asked.
"A few." Serena said.
"Well what about Satoshi if he's a boy." Felix said as Delia and Serena looked at him.
"What, it sounds like a good name."
Elsewhere outside, baby Charmander was playing with 2 Poochyena puppies and a Furfrou puppy, the offspring of Ash's Mightyena and Serena's Furfrou. They were also playing with a Fennekin pup, the child of Delphox and Zoroark. The Fennekin pup looked just like a normal Fennekin, except her fur was light grey rather than yellow.
They were playing hide and go seek, as Pikachu , Charizard, Charla, and the other parents watched.
"Grauu." Charla growled as she smiled, watching her son find one of the Poochyena pups and chase her around trying to catch her.
Charizard looked over at Pikachu and lowered his head over to him.
"Grauu." He growled, asking Pikachu about him and the wild Pikachu.
"Pika." Pikachu said saying it was going well, that they were officially mates, but she still wanted to stay in the jungle.
"Grauu." Charizard growled as he motioned his head at his son.
"Pika." Pikachu said shaking his head.
"Grauu?" Charizard growled, asking when it might happen.
"Pika." Pikachu said saying he didn't know when.
"Yena." Mightyena growled saying there would be enough babies around there already with Ash and Serena's child on the way.
Pikachu and Charizard sweat dropped.
As baby Charmander continued to chase after one of the Poochyena pups, the Furfrou pup accidentally ran out and slammed right into Charmander, before they both fell onto their backs and started crying.
"Grauu!" Charla growled as Mightyena also looked over. They both rushed over and picked up their babies, trying to comfort them.
Later that night, Serena was fast asleep while Ash was still outside with Lucario doing some sparring.
After catching , Lucario's palm again , he held him in place for a moment before letting him go.
The two were very tired now and breathing deeply.
"Alright I think that's enough for tonight." Ash said.
"Group." Lucario said nodding.
Lucario walked over to the area where he slept, as Ash looked up at the stars .
He had a lot on his mind about Serena and the baby. He was excited about it, but he was still nervous about becoming a father.
Moments later Charizard came up behind him.
"Grauu." He growled asking if he was concerned about the baby.
"You read my mind." Ash said.
"Grau." Charizard growled.
"I know I've raised plenty of pokemon, but this is different. A human baby, from scratch." Ash said as he held his temples.
"Grauu." Charizard growled saying not to worry, that being a father comes naturally. That before Charmander was born that he was worried to. He also reminded Ash about how he told him he would be there for him.
"Grauu." Charizard growled saying they would all be there for them.
Ash smiled.
"Thanks Charizard." Ash said before he walked back towards the house.
Charizard walked over to his area where he laid down and cuddled up beside Charla and their son.
Author's note
Some of you have been concerned with my update times. Let me just explain the process it takes to make a chapter, first I have to conceive a plot for the chapter, then my beta reader and I must agree on the idea.
Then when I'm done studying for class/exam and doing ROTC work, I type it up which works well when I work on a chapter I find more interesting.
Then I must send my first draft to my beta reader, then he must find the time to read it and explain any problems with it.
After which sometimes we disagree on things.
Once we finally agree and I find the time, I make the changes we agree on and I finally publish it
I'm only saying this because I've gotten complaints about update times.
On another note, I will say that once Exams are over I will have more time on my hand, since ROTC will be on break too.
Also some of you are wondering what Zahara is, I have explained it before but I will explain again.
Zahara is a region I came up with that is based on Africa, it will be visited later in this story.
So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask.