As you will notice in this chapter and the rest of this story arc, the chapters are full instead of the usual one-shot chapters I usually post for this story. So you guys might want to wait a little than usual for this fic.
Kiawe Ahi was just making a delivery on his Charizard when he spotted Ash, who is still at the Malasada shop. The raven haired teen seems tired and a little irritated. The fire expert decided to fly down and meet up with his friend.
"Alola, Ash." He greeted before pulling up a seat at Ash's table. He looks down at the surface of the table and notices all the job ads covering it completely. "I see you're still looking for a job. I won't be bothering to ask your luck."
Ash grumbled from under his breath before lifting his head back up and picking up a random ad he previously read. He looks through it again in case he missed something.
Kiawe gave him his usual stern expression before asking him a question that has been in his head ever since Ash requested a job at his family's farm.
"I have a question, Ash and I want you to be honest with me."
"What is it?"
"How many leagues have you been to?"
Without missing a beat, Ash answered without look up. "The Lily of the Valley Conference from last year will make it five leagues I've been to."
"And despite you not making the championship, you won some prize money, right?"
"Yeah?"
Kiawe sweat drop, having an inkling feeling about this. "How much do you usually receive?"
"Uhhhh..." Ash trailed before coming up with a number, "I don't really keep count, but I remembered getting a check for $100,000,000 from the Orange League, which I won."
Kiawe's right eye twitched. A hundred-million dollars from winning just one league!? And this soon to be official adult has been to four other different leagues and, despite not making it to the top, he still won a pretty decent amount of prize money if he made it passed the first round. Also, he has been around various regions, battling various Gym Leaders and many other trainers.
"Did...you ever used any of it?"
"No, my friend Brock used to travel with me and he always pay the expenses."
If Kiawe was not such a tough guy, he would have fainted by now. His friend Lillie is probably the richest student in the whole school, but Ash's wealth from just battling trainers and in leagues, he might just rival the Aether family in terms of wealth. If all of his money is in his Trainer's Bank Account and he has not touch it for a couple of years... oh boy.
"Ash...that makes you, probably, the richest man alive in Alola, alone."
"Wait..." Ash looks up from the ad. He has a look of confusion with a raised eyebrow, "I'm rich?"
Kiawe just fell to the ground anime-style. The Pokemon, mainly Pikachu, Rotom, and Charizard had looks on confusion, which is understandable since they do not exactly know about the concept of money other than the fact that humans seems to really need it much like how all living-beings need food and water to survive for some reason, so much so that they work day in and day out to earn a decent amount.
After that awkward moment of leaving the scene and also leaving Kiawe unconscious, Ash returned to Kukui's house. During the walk back, after thinking about it, he never really give a proper look into his bank account, even after getting checks of the prize money. He just cash it in at the nearest bank and then just look for the next place to travel without looking at the sum of all the money he earned. Also, he usually pockets some of the money he received from trainers he fought and won against in battle and deposit the rest in his account without giving much care on how much he puts in his account or keeps in his person. Besides, he let his mom handle his bank accou... wait a minute.
"Alola, Ash!" Kukui greeted when he heard his student came back. Ash heard him from the kitchen. "How was your search today? Any luck?"
"Ummm..." Ash trailed as he proceed to further into the house, "Pretty good, I guess." He did not find a job, but it seems his search answered his money problem and then some.
"Oh?" Kukui said, "Does that mean you will be some earning some money now? Where're you working at?"
"...Let's just say I earned quite a lot of money." Ash said softly before sitting down at the living room couch. He turned to his living Pokedex, "Rotom, you have access to my Trainer's Bank account, right?"
[Of course!] It answered, [I have functions like any old Pokedex. Would you like to see your account?]
Ash gave a nervous look, "Uh... yes, please."
The mouth image on Rotom's screen disappeared and was replaced by a loading screen.
[Accessing, accessing, accessing...] Rotom repeated before numbers appeared on the screens. Numbers with a near countless digits along with a dollar sign.
"Ash?" Kukui called, coming from behind the couch, curious to see what his student is looking up in the Rotomdex, "What are y-AHHHHHHH!"
Ash jerk forward when his teacher and current guardian yelled really loud close to his ears. He covered his aching ears, "Professor? What was that for?"
He did not get an answer for the professor of Pokemon moves fainted much like how Kiawe did earlier; although, there seems to be foam forming in his mouth. Rotom floated near to him with a confused emoticon on its screen.
"I never seen so many digits in my life." Kukui managed to say before going into unconsciousness.
Ash sweat drop once again. He turned to Pikachu and Rotom after dragging his teacher to the couch. He points at them with a stern look, especially at Rotom.
"If anyone asks, don't tell them how much cash I have. Got it?"
Still not having a single clue on the concept of money, the two were still confused, but it seems seeing a lot of cash seems to make humans faint. Not wanting to see their love ones hurt, they agreed to their trainer's/owner's words. Rotom made a note on this.
Once they agreed, Ash turned to Rotom, "Show me my bank account again?"
The sentient Pokedex complied and show him his account. Ash has a look confusion. He was so sure that his mother would have used some his money since he lets her use his bank account since she occasionally needs some cash to use for her small restaurant, Pallet House, but it looks like she barely used any of it. However, according to the deposit statements, she has been using some of his money, quite a lot actually.
Just how did he accumulated over the years? Even if he repays Brocks all those times he paid for the expenses, it will barely leave a dent.
"Well at least it solved my money problem. Now, the question is, what can I do with all of this?" Ash spoke his mind out.
He then sat on a chair, thinking what he should do with all of this money. With this amount, he had more than enough to pay rent for that apartment room to stay in Alola with a roof over his head; not only that, he could buy a decent amount of Great Balls and Ultra Balls, both of which were expensive compared to the plain Pokeball, he has been wanting to try and use those. His mind was about to be set on that idea until a thought came to mind.
A smile appeared on his face, he jogged to Kukui's Video Phone before dialing a certain important someone's number. After several rings, the face of who he is calling appeared on screen.
"Hey, mom."
"Hi sweetie!" Delia replied with her bright smile that Ash inherited.
"Sorry if I'm interrupting anything," Ash said before continuing. "but would you happen to know how much a house cost?"
Ash also has no clue on the concept of money. Maybe Brock should of taught him that while on the road.
Meanwhile with Lillie
Lillie ate the last piece of her ordered oran berry pancakes. It tasted very sweet, but not too much. Its soft and fluffy texture could bring anyone up to the heaven. However, she was too down in the dumps to even care.
The comment that Ash made about her rich is still lingering in her head. At first, it never bothered her that she comes from her a rich family since she was used to as long as she can remember. Also, she spent most of her time at the comfort of her own home with being in school being in second common place she would be at. Her servants, she was used to them pampering her like a princess. Her classmates were her friends, they were always had her back and they all treat her as an equal.
But are they all truly equal? Well in terms in how successful they would be in the future.
Lana is undeniably an expert in water-type Pokemon. She virtually knows everything there is about Pokemon from the ocean, she even knows more than the blonde bookworm does. Her expertise in water type definitely rivals Misty, a friend of Ash's who is a water type Gym leader, who are no slouches in a Pokémon battle.
Kiawe is a strong full-grown man and a very powerful fire-type expert. His burning spirit burns as hot as the sun and a thousand fire-type Pokemon combined. Lillie could not deny on how powerful his fire Pokémon are, especially his Turtonator. Not only his Pokémon were physically strong, so is he. According to Ash's words, Kiawe, even without Z-moves, definitely trumps all of the fire type trainers he encountered in his journey; he may even rival the Sinnoh Elite Four fire type specialist, Flint.
Mallow definitely beats all of Lillie's five-star chefs and maybe some from the faraway region of Kalos, which is said to be the birth place of many famous chefs. According to Ash, she can even beat his old friend, Brock, in a culinary battle. Not only that, being a grass-type expert is a really big plus. What is amazing is that she prefers to cook than to battle and train and yet, according to Ash, she is still quite strong despite not training that much.
Her Alolan native friends were definitely worthy of becoming Trial Captains, according to the people from all the islands of Alola and from the Island Kahunas themselves.
Now...for Ash.
He has definitely gone a long way from his very day as a Pokémon trainer. Traveling to various regions to battle the respective leagues despite losing each one is still quite impressive. Sure losing is considered a stain to a trainer's win-lose track, especially when it means losing in a Pokémon league. Which is understandable for trainers, who lost, find it not easy to find the spirit within them to continue battling, especially losing in their first-ever big competition. In fact, according to a book she read, a majority of trainers change their goals or stop competing in leagues all together and just settle down in one place, most is right after their first year as trainers.
However, Ash is not part of the majority. Despite his loses, he still achieved quite a lot. Over the years, he has captured and trained quite a lot of powerful Pokémon, which is plainly obvious to Ash's performances in leagues she and her other classmates saw when they watched him battle in videos that Kukui-sensei found in the web and decided to show it to his class.
Being a expert in one type is quite, but using various types is not as simple and Ash owns almost all types, just missing a few to add to his roster. Pikachu is his starter, which is why it is understandable he is among Ash's most strongest; however, Ash's recently captured, other than the ones he current has in Alola, definitely rival or even trumps Pikachu.
Ash definitely has a knack of finding and capturing powerful Pokémon and train them to their fullest potential. That and along with his ever-burning passion for battling and reaching his dream of becoming a Pokémon master, there is no stopping him.
What about her? Lillie herself?
Sure she learned and knows a lot about Pokemon, but according to Kukui-sensei and principal Oak, she still has a long way to go from reaching a full-fledged Pokemon professor level. She's no expert in any of the Pokemon type since she only has hatched one Pokemon which is her only capture which was virtually easy, so she is no expert in Pokemon Battles or Pokémon training. She is super hard working, but only when it comes to studying, so she is not that physically strong.
Also, she was so dependent on others, especially her servants at home. Her friends help her with her fear of touching Pokemon while her servants help her have a comfortable life. She frowned, all of her friends are so independent and she is almost an adult.
"Vul?" Shiron cooed which brought Lillie out of her thoughts.
Lillie gave a half heartfelt smile to her Pokemon, "I fine, Shiron." She told her as a waitress came to her with the check. The blonde bookworm pulled out her debit card.
Wait a minute...
This is not her debit card. Sure it was given to her, but all this money in her account was made and earned by her mother, who gives her a really big monthly allowance. This card was even made for her by her mother.
Lillie frowned as she handed the waitress her card. Shiron gave her mother a sympathetic look, she may not what is causing her mother to be so gloomy, she still does not want to see her sad. She jump in her lap to give her comfort.
It worked, well, sort of. Lillie gave another heartfelt before stroking the little ice fox's fur. As she waits and strokes Shiron's white fur, she looks around the establishment. This place definitely has a homey feeling to it and she really the décor, especially the delicious images of pancakes around. Add to all this, one of the employee's Pokémon, an Alolan Raichu, was floating around giving everyone their orders and another glass of their drinks. Lillie finds that one cute.
As her eyes wander around, her sights laid into something that missed from outside. The words were backwards since she was inside and the sign is suppose to be shown for outside people, but she knows what the words are.
It was a 'Help Wanted' sign.
What do you think of the last names I thought up for Kiawe? More importantly, what did you think of the part 2?
I know Ash's classmates currently have one Pokémon each (Not counting their Pokémon rides), but this story is sort of mixed with the game which is Kiawe, Lana, and Mallow's Pokemon are owned by the three plus the ones they have in the anime. This include Sophocles, although I don't think I'll be writing him much in this.
I don't know how the currency works in the anime Pokemon world, so I used the US currency system.
I'm not sure if Kiawe and Kukui's reaction is accurate when seeing a bank account with a ridiculous amount of money, but I remembered a cartoon character had his mouth foaming when he heard that he earned quite a lot of money. It also looked like he was about to faint.
I'm sure there are some people out there hating me for making Lillie feel sad and also point out her flaws while I point out the greatness in her friends, but this is purely for character development and it was technically Lillie's thoughts as she go over how far ahead her friends are. Also, you can't deny that Lillie has some faults, like how she is quite dependent on others and her fear of course.
Please review and thank you for reading.
