Brock- 27

Misty- 27 Ever since I began watching pokemon when I was a kid, I always thought

Misty was as old as Brock.

Tracey- 27 The same goes for Tracey.

Dawn- 12

May- 14

Ash- 17

Max- 12 He did say, I think, by the end of the Battle Frontier series, he was going back

to Hoenn to get his starter pokemon. So he may be as old as Dawn.

In case you have not noticed, PikamasterADV is back, however, because of criticisms he received when he is in college he is in a somewhat state of despair. He lost his confidence in his writing and is ashamed of it. He may not continue to write, if he stays in this state. Check chapter 32 of May's Crush 2: Final Frontier for more information. So let's give PikamasterADV a warm welcome and encourage him to continue writing. After all, it will improve his writing skills and it will make us proud of him, right?

Does anyone know if Cybercubed is still an Advanceshipper ? If not can you explain to me why ? I haven't seen him in the shipping forum in Serebii for a long time.

On a similar note, what happened to Skatoula? Skatoula seems to have disappeared.

Oh and, is it possible to write a story in script form? (i.e Romeo and Juliet.)

I do not own Pokemon.

Thanks, please review when finished. You don't have to have an account to review.


Infernape reaches into the crown of flames on his head and takes out a stone. Not just any ordinary stone, however, it is fiery orange with a translucent appearance. It helps some pokemon evolve or morph; it is known as the fire stone.

He watched hippopotas shift slightly in her sleep and she ended up leaning on the sleeping grotle. Infernaped gave a slight chuckle at the two, then he abstractedly looks up at the sky while fiddling with his stone. He thinks back at the time when he was a chimchar; a period when he was devastated and then rose from the ashes.


Flashback

Chimchar stood at the center of the stadium and cowered at the sight before him. He was too scared to listen to the attack orders of his trainer, Paul. A bipedal mongoose known as zangoose towered over the stunned chimchar and slammed a metal claw onto the little monkey, pinning him down.

A younger version of grotle, known as turtwig, charged to assist his injured comrade. He tackled zangoose out of the way, injuring himself in the process. Zangoose's trainer ordered a fire blast attack at the turtle. Chimchar saw that turtwig was too hurt to dodge the fire, so he quickly jumped in front it and held back the fire; despite Paul's order.

Another one of chimchar's opponent, a metal four legged creature with a white cross across its face, known as metagross, was spotted by chimchar. Chimchar used much of his strength to reflect the fire at metagross. The fire engulfed the metal pokemon, burning it. It could no longer endure the fire so it collapsed onto the floor.

In a last desperate attempt at victory, zangoose charged into turtwig, hoping to knock him out. The turtle saw him coming and made a charge of his own. Turtwig crashed into zangoose's belly, knocking him out.

The chimchar turtwig duo emerged victorious in the match. Ash bent down to compliment the two pokemon. However, Paul just turned away from chimchar and ignored him. Chimchar felt devastated, unable to please its trainer.

Later, outside of the stadium, Paul held up chimchar's pokeball and a light blue light emanated from it. Chimchar was released from the pokeball and Paul stated that he released chimchar because he was weak. He failed to live up to Paul's expectations; even with all the apparent effort he gave in to win battles.

Ash, Brock, and Dawn appeared behind Paul and saw Paul walk away from chimchar with his hands in his pockets. Chimchar despaired and attempted to follow Paul, but Paul turned to give a cold stare and continue to walk away. Chimchar stopped where it was, depressed by his release. Ash, with pikachu on his shoulder, and turtwig walked behind chimchar and Ash offered a helping hand to him. Chimchar turned around and looked at the trainer; to him he saw a new hope and a fresh beginning.

Paul stopped for a moment to look at Ash and chimchar, but was unmoved by chimchar's desperate pleas. Then he continued walking away. Chimchar despaired and nearly broke down into tears. He contemplated on whether he should trust and join Ash or wander back into the wilds.

As he was in a reverie, several pin missiles flew out of nowhere and cause an explosion that sent dust and debris into the air. During the obscurity of the dust clouds, a mechanical gloved hand grabbed chimchar. Everyone, with the exception of Paul who was some distance away from the scene, turned to see the familiar thieves that have followed Ash almost since the beginning of his adventure.

"Listen is that a voice I hear?" Jessie rhetorically asked.
"It's speaking to me loud and clear." Answered James.
"Floating on the wind,"
"Past the stars,"
"In ya ears," Screamed meowth.
"Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace,"
"Dashing hope putting fear in its place,"
"Jessie."
"And James,"
"Meowth, now that's a name."
"Putting the do-gooders in there place,"
"Team Rocket,"
"We're in your..."
"FACE!"
"Wobbuffet!" yelled wobbuffet.
"Mime, Mime, Mime."cheered mime jr.

Chimchar gave a screech while being held in the glove. Thinking quickly, he turned his head and used a flamethrower destroying the balloon and sending Team Rocket flying through the air.

Chimchar fell from where the balloon once was, but he was caught by Ash. Ash asked if he would like to join Ash and chimchar accepted his offer. Ash threw a pokeball into the air and chimchar happily inmaterialized when he jumped into the pokeball.


End Flashback

Infernape then took one last look at his fire stone before storing it in the tufts of fur on his fiery head. As the boat is approaching shore Ash turned his head and took out his pokeballs.

" Well guys, we're here, at my home. " Ash returned all of his pokemon as the boat approached a dock.

" Well, it was nice chatting with you. I've got a few errands to run in Viridian city; so goodbye and I hope to see you again. " Mr.Briney started speeding away after Ash got on the docks. "

" Goodbye Mr.Briney, thanks for the ride. And I hope to see again too. " Ash waved at Mr. Briney.

Ash then began running, with pikachu on his shoulder, from the Pallet Town seaport to his house next to a windmill on a hill. He pass by many Christmas decorations on houses while running. Once he finally arrived at the front of his house, panting, he found a note on the door.

" Honey, I'm out for a little while. I'll be back later. Go visit professor Oak's lab for now" the note read.

" All right, lets go to professor Oak's lab. Right pikachu? "

" Pika, pi ( Sure Ash )."

Ash then ran up the hill next to his house where a windmill is situated. He released all of his pokemon at the front of the door and rang the doorbell. After a few moments the door opened and a man with a green shirt, shorts, sneakers, and a headband holding his black hair appeared.

" Hi, Tracey, it is good to see you again."

" It is nice meeting you again Ash. How are you doing? Wow, is that all of your pokemon? "

" Yeah, all the pokemon except for pikachu are new and I won the sinnoh league."

" Amazing and good for you, Ash , professor Oak and Delia will be very proud of you."

" Yeah, my mom is already very happy when I called her after I won. I'm sure the professor will be as well."

" Well, come on in, your pokemon are waiting for you." Ash stepped into the lab and noticed that the professor doesn't seem to be here. The lab had many rooms, each filled with various lab equipment or furnitures that would be found in a house and a lab; the lab doubled as a house.

" Hey Tracey."

" Yeah, Ash? "

" Where is professor Oak?"

" He is out right now. Would like some hot chocolate?"

" Sure. " Tracey gave Ash some hot chocolate and Ash walked to the back of the lab to the corral where all of his pokemon that he ever caught stayed at. There was only one pokemon that did not belong to Ash but stayed at the Oak's corral, that was May's bulbasaur, a green somewhat reptilian creature that roughly resembled a four legged dinosaur.

Ash's new pokemon, the ones he caught from Sinnoh, followed Ash into the corral where they greeted Ash's other pokemon. Tracey walked up to Ash.

" You might want to go the park, where the Christmas tree is, in the center of town, Ash."

" Huh, why? "

" You'll see. "

" Umm, okay. " Ash walked back to the lab and threw the empty cup of hot chocolate away.

" Ash, you can leave pikachu here, if you want. I'll look after it. " yelled Tracey.

" Okay, since I want pikachu to play with the other pokemon, I'll leave it here for now." pikachu jumped off Ash's shoulders and ran to the corral to socialize with the other pokemon.

Ash then walked out of the lab to go to the park. Tracey watched as he walked a far distance away then turned backed to the corral.

" All right guys, you can come out now " Tracey called out.


So far, I have two suggestions for the name of the pairing of Ash's infernape and May's blaziken:

Firefightingshipping

Blazeshipping

Any more?

A hint in the future chapters; remember the episode where there was a baby lugia...

Please review and Merry Christmas and a happy new year everybody!