HILDA'S POV (I figured that I will use POV more often now)

I opened my eyes as the harsh sunlight hit my eyes, ugh I hate waking up early in the morning, I rubbed my eyes before I saw my starter pokemon tepig sleeping next to me, I smiled to myself before I looked around, everyone were still asleep. I looked at all my travelling companions.

Cilan

Cilan, well what can I say about him.. hmm well he is a gentlemen, maybe his too much of a gentlemen, but still his a great guy. He has some weird quirks, but then again don't we all have weird quirks? Oh oh he has amazing cooking skills, and he is very passionate about almost everything, he always wear that waiter suit I mean no offence to him but won't it be very hot for him? Hmm I guess it doesn't bother him, but I'm glad he is travelling with us, he makes travelling less dull and more exciting!

Iris

Okay I know we met because of an incident but we have became really great friends, her goal is to become a dragon master and I could tell she is determine to reach that goal, I'm glad that I'm not the only female travelling companion here, it tends to get awkward. Iris is great a girl, all wild, fun and free, though she is at times shy, she is reluctant to share her past with us, I guess it must be very personal for her. Iris is also energetic, she kinda reminds me of Bianca, oh Bianca I missed her already, she is my bff, oops I'm off topic here, anyway back to Iris, she is great and I really glad that she decided to travel with us.

Ash

Ash... his really a great guy, he has been teaching me on how to become a trainer, I'm glad that he is my mentor and I'm glad that I got to travel with him, not that I like him! I mean-err, well okay I admit he is handsome, caring, kind and above all selfless... Ah! but I-I only like him as a friend, I mean his like the older brother I never had despite being the same age, he is also a very strong trainer and I really admire the bond that he shares with his pokemon, it is really heartwarming when you see it. I also met his mother and wow she looks like a 20 year old, it is so hard to believe that she is Ash's mother. She's very nice, kinds reminds of my own mom, ironic that my mom looks like a 20 year old too, what are the odds in that? Plus both of us are single child... and we wear hats, okay its kinda creepy but its kinda nice to have something in common.

I shook my head to get rid of the thoughts, especially Ash. I heard a loud yawn and it was none other than Ash. He noticed me staring at him and smiled at me.

"Morning Hilda, man you're early." Ash said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Morning Ash." I said to Ash, he looked at our sleeping travelling companions and then looked at pikachu.

"Buddy wake up its morning already." Pikachu began to stir up and looked at his trainer with those tired eyes. Ash chuckled before he stood up and wore his hoodie.

"Say Hilda, you ready for our next gym?"

"Of course I'm ready!" I said while putting my hand on my hips, I was all fired up and was ready to take on anything that comes in my way.

"Well we better wake Cilan and Iris up." Ash said as he walked towards our 2 travelling companions.

"Cilan, wake up!" Ash said as he shook Cilan.

"5 more minutes Cress." Cilan murmured, I giggled before I saw Ash sighed, until his eyes landed on pikachu.

"Pikachu if you would be so kind." Ash said mischievously.

"Pikachuuuu!" Pikachu sent a small thundershock attack on Cilan causing him to jumped up with his hands flailing in the air.

"Ash was it really necessary?" I asked him, he looked at me and nodded, sigh, typical Ash.

"Ash you don't have to wake me up like that!" Cilan shouted angrily, Ash and I was trying not laugh at Cilan's angry expression, it looks so hilarious.

"Sorry Cilan but you won't wake up, plus wasn't that a shocking experience?" I couldn't hold back my laughs as I laugh at Ash's pun, I could see Cilan was fuming at Ash, he was about to shout at Ash when we heard Iris's voice.

"Good morning everyone." Iris said as she straighten her large bushy hair with her brush.

"Morning Iris." I smiled at her, I suddenly felt someone nuzzling my legs and soon saw tepig who was looking at me with those cute beady eyes.

"Morning tepig." I picked her up in my arms and she cried her name while licking my cheek.

"So what's for breakfast?" Iris asked as she stretched her limbs.

"Hmm pancakes." Cilan said as he took some ingredients out from his bag. Oh pancakes my favorite!

"Though it will take a while, for baking pancakes needs skill and patience!" Cilan held his 2 frying pan in a victory pose, right what ever Cilan said.

"Sure Cilan take your time, in the mean time maybe we all can look for pokemon!" Ash took his pokeballs and looked at me with that smile of his.

"So ready to go Hilda?" Ready? I was born ready.

"Sure, hey Iris why don't you join us, we might find some dragon pokemon." Iris looked at me and nodded vigorously.

"Let's go axew." Axew popped out of Iris hair and nodded.

"Wait you are leaving me all alone?" I could hear Cilan's voice was slowly breaking down.

"Yeah don't worry." Ash released his corphish.

"Corphish stay with Cilan and help him in anyway you can alright?" Corphish nodded before he looked at me, he started to walk towards me and extended his claw, that's nice of him.

"Oh hello to you too corphish." I shook his claw.

"Well we better get going, after all the early pidgey gets the caterpie!." Pidgey? Caterpie?

"Ash what's a pidgey and a caterpie?" I could see Ash face fault at me and waved his hands comically.

"*Sigh* Never mind." The 3 of us soon entered the forest, they weren't much pokemon here considering its early in the morning.

"Hmm where are all the pokemon?" Ash said as he looked around, its true, we haven't encounter a single pokemon yet, strange.

"Hmm I think its the pokemon mating season is near." Pokemon mating season?

"Huh what do you mean Ash?" Ash went into his 'lecture' mode.

"You see when a certain group of pokemon are in the 'heat' they will usual go search for mates, though before the season comes, the male pokemon will usual hunt for food in advance and find a warm and comfortable shelter for their future mates, most of the time males will be in some sort of cave or burrows or whatnot, making the nest as comfortable as possible, they don't usually appear on the open that often. As for females, the same species pokemon will usual group up and stay at some place together, till the day of the season comes the females will appear on the open and choose their desire mate."

"Wait so the female pokemon choose the males? I thought that the males will fight each other and the last man standing gets to mate with the female."

"Yes normally but they are in rare occasions where the female pokemon gets to choose, take the pokemon luxray for an example, the female luxray will choose their mate based on their strength, looks and of course personality, like all pokemon, the males will usual perform in front of the females to impress them, looks plays an important row in choosing a mate, then it comes to strength where the males will battle each other out, the last man standing is obviously the strongest of the bunch, now when it comes to a pokemon's personality, some female may like males who are aggressive, some may like males who are generally caring all and so on, its like choosing a girlfriend or a wife, except that you really have to fight for them." I have no idea that Ash knew that much, maybe he was enjoying the research on pokemon mating, eww.

"Wow Ash you sure know your stuff." Iris said in an awkward manner, I don't blame her, pokemon mating is not something I want to know.

"Well professor Oak kinda force me to study on it." I could see Ash's blush, did he mean? No he couldn't have.

NO ONE'S POV

"Well then we wasted our time for nothing." Hilda said dejectedly.

"Oh c'mon girls, at least you 2 learn something right?" Ash said with a smile, Iris and Hilda glared at the raven haired trainer making him gulp, while the pokemon, well they were uh not looking at each other, especially tepig.

"Well let's go, I'm sure some of Cilan is done cooking." Iris said as she looked at the direction they came from. The trio then walked towards the campsite where they saw Cilan reading a newspaper article, how he get it I don't know.

"Ah you all are back, I'm surprise you ended your search that fast, so how was your search?" Ash was about to open his mouth where he saw 2 females glaring at him, 3 if you count tepig.

"Eh it went well." Cilan nodded and put the freshly made pancakes on the dish before he put some maple (If only May was here) syrup on it.

"There you are, so what's our plan for today?" Ash who busy eating his pancakes stopped and looked at his male companion.

"Well we should continue our way towards Nacrene city, I want to get the badge as soon as possible, right pikachu?"

"Pika-pika" While eating Cilan notices something.

"Hey that's odd, I put an extra bowl here for the pokemon, now its gone." Cilan said as he looked around.

"Huh?" Hilda stood up and looked around when she heard a rustling from the bushes.

"Hmm." Hilda looked at the bushes before she approached it and saw a snivy eating the food.

"Looks like I found the culprit." Ash got over and saw the snivy glaring at them.

"It doesn't look too happy." Ash said as he knelt down, snivy walked backwards and was looking at Ash and Hilda.

"Hey it okay we are not here to hurt you." Hilda knelt down as well and smiled at the grass snake pokemon.

"S-snivy."

"Yeah that's right, we're not here to hurt you, if you're hungry you could have just asked us for some food." Ash said with a chuckle, snivy let its guard down a little.

"C'mon, hey Cilan do you have more food left?" Hilda said as she turned around.

"Well we have some apples that is more than enough for us." Cilan said while peeling the apples, he looked at snivy giving it a small wave. Snivy was very reluctant but when it saw the co's none hostile intentions, she slowly began to walk towards Ash.

"There you go." Ash's pikachu jumped off his shoulder and conversed with snivy in pokespeech, effectively convincing her that they mean no harm.

"Snivy." Snivy nodded before she walked towards Iris.

"Oh hello, my you are so cute." Snivy blushed slightly.

"Yeah she is."

"She?" Hilda looked at Ash.

"Yeah pikachu told me, he pointed as his tail and told me."

"Tail?" Ash sighed and turned to her.

"Well you could tell if a pokemon is a male of female by looking at their features, for example, pikachu's tail here is a straight one and at the tip of the tail it didn't bent inwards, while a female pikachu would have its tail that would bend inwards." Ash took his pokedex and showed Hilda 2 pictures, one is a male while the other is female."

"Oh wow! Man Ash you are like a pokemon encyclopedia." Ash winked at Hilda before he stood up.

"Why don't you sit with us and have breakfast with us." Snivy looked at Hilda before she looked at Cilan who was holding a plate of pokemon food.

"Sni-vy." Snivy nodded before she sat next to pikachu. (Shipping unconfirmed!)

"Well would you look at that." Hilda saw pikachu's blush(even though they weren't too obvious) and he glared at Ash for a second before he started to eat his food.

"Well let's dig in guys!" Ash quickly said as he gobble the breakfast like no tomorrow, typical Ash. Iris sighed and muttered 'stop being such a kid, and 'I think I lost my appetite.'

"Ash can you slow down? It's not like we're on a hurry here." Cilan said as he watched in horror that all his food go down in a savage way.

"I pour all my soul to create THE best breakfast for all of you, and now looked at them. All the blood, sweat and tears that I put in, ruined! RUINED!" Cilan shouted comically.

"Sory- Cilan- butt- tis- foud- is- grate!" Hilda and Iris sighed and shook their head, no wonder Cilan is so pissed off.

"Sni?" Everyone turned their attention to snivy who pointed towards the forest.

"Ash I think snivy say she wants to go back." Cilan said as he watched snivy talking to pikachu.

'Aww pikachu looks sad, poor guy.' Hilda thought as she could see the disappointment in pikachu's face.

"Pika- pika- pikapi- pikachu?" Pikachu turned towards Ash and knelt down, Ash raised his eyebrow and looked at snivy who was looking at pikachu with a shocked look.

"It depends on her buddy, we can't force her." pikachu dropped his head and sighed, knowing that he can't force snivy to stay.

"Snivy sni?" Hilda, Iris and Cilan was wondering what the heck are the pokemon talking about.

"Ash what are they saying?' Hilda asked impatiently.

"Pikachu is saying that I should catch snivy, but snivy said that no one is her master."

"Oooh" Snivy soon turned around and went back into the woods without looking back.

"Pikachu." Pikachu said sadly, he looked at his breakfast and sighed.

"Aww poor pikachu, can you persuade snivy Ash? In any way?" Iris said with her hands cupped together.

"I can't forced a pokemon to join me Iris, plus I could tell that snivy doesn't trust humans, perhaps she was another trainer's pokemon and then got abandoned. Either way, she doesn't want to come with us." Iris sighed, and nodded glumly.

"C'mon we best head to Nacrene city, we have a long way to get all our badges." The co nodded and they quickly finished their breakfast and packed their belongings.

"You okay buddy? Do you want some ketchup?" Ash asked pikachu softly as he took a bottle of fresh red ketchup out from his bag, pikachu shook his head without even looking at the bottle.

'Man not even ketchup, KETCHUP! can cure pikachu's sadness, this is bad, very bad."

"You ready Ash?" Hilda said as she looked at Ash.

"Yeah, I'm ready, wait Hilda!" Hilda looked at Ash curiously.

"Yes what is it?"

"I think pikachu wants to hug you." Ash said with a devious smile.

"Pika-" and he was immediately hugged by Hilda.

"Aww you do?" Hilda closed her eyes in content while pikachu is giving Ash the 'I never asked for this' look.

'For your own good buddy, if ketchup can't work, then being hugged by a pretty girl will definitely do it's job.' Ash sighed in jealousy, what a lucky mouse.

"Hey Hilda why don't you carry pikachu, I can carry tepig for you." Tepig jumped into Ash's arms and licked his cheek.

"Haha okay I like you too tepig!" Ash patted tepig's head.

"Sure I don't mind, looks like tepig likes you to carry her too." Hilda said as she patted pikachu's head.

"Hey are you 2 done yet?" Iris shouted.

"Yes!" They shouted in unison before they joined up with Iris and Cilan. The co then walked towards Nacrene city in the hopes to catch new pokemon, and meet more new friends.

Meanwhile...

"I trust that you will handle them well?" A shadowy figure said in a frightening yet calm voice.

"Yes, you have no need to fear, those children won't hinder our plans milord." a man dressed in a coat with beret said ash he knelt down, his attire was the colour of the deepest night.

"Good." The figure then stood up and walked around the man in the coat.

"Because if you fail me." The man's voice getting scarier and scarier.

"If those children hinders my plans." The man continue to walk around the man in the coat.

"If that Ash Ketchum reaches his full potential." The man in the coat clenched his fists.

"You will face my eternal wrath, understood?" The man stopped walking and looked at the man in the coat.

"Have I ever failed you before?" The man in the coat said with a small smirk. The shadowy figure turned around and looked at the man and met his smirk with his own.

"No."

Sorry for not updating this story, I was busy on my new story, Sonic's shine, so yeah go check it out and if you like it please leave a feedback to let me know, if you like the story, thanks!