Oliverqueen01- Chapter 9, Sort of a homage to episode 59 of XY with a couple added things. Anyway disclaimer time.

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Chapter 9: Sorta like a date

Ash was at his locker, grabbing his books for the homework he needed to do and subjects to study for tonight. As he was doing so Gary and the rest of the boys approached him tapped him on the shoulder and gave him a weird look.

"What?" asked Ash

"Nothing, we're all just wondering what's wrong with you." Gary asked

"What do you mean what's wrong with me? As you can see I'm okay despite what happened yesterday in the forest with that damn Mankey and it's low kick to my stomach." Ash repiled

"Ya, you should be at home resting not up on your feet."

"Guys relax I'm fine, If I wasn't I would be at home eating some soup or sleeping you know that. Now what do you guys want because other than my health I assume there is an ulterior motive for checking up on me." Ash assured them.

"Ya there is actually, you in for tonight?"

"Tonight?"

"Game night."

"I thought that was on friday."

"It would be but these three here are busy Friday night."

"What are you all busy with on Friday night that we can't have our weekly guy bonding session over video games and food?"

"Well I have a date again on friday with someone so by the time we go and come back it'll be too late to even start so that's why I'm out. The other two can explain for themselves." Drew repiled.

"Mom and Dad are heading out of town for their anniversary so I have to watch all my brothers and sisters to make sure they don't kill each other while I'm distracted so that's why I'm out as for Tommy-" Brock answered

"Like Drew I also have a date. So that's why I'm out too." Tommy said shyly.

"Well I'm out too." Ash said

The other four boys fell on the floor at Ash's remark. They were in shock at what he had just said to them.

"So we're cancelling guys night for this week then, no rage of the saltiest person we know all because everyone but me is bailing to do something else?" Gary asked for confirmation.

"Yup, there's something I need to do tonight, so if you'll excuse me. I'll meet you out front after I take care of business." Ash repiled.

As Ash closed his locker and walked away to the bathroom Drew turned to Gary.

"Hey Gar, what could be so important that even Ash would even think of bailing on us and our weekly tradition?" asked Drew

"I think I know, I think it has to do with who brang him home from the forest yesterday. But I could be wrong, I'll need more proof before I can come to a reasonable conclusion, but for now I guess we're pushing smash till next week." Gary answered

"Alright then now that's settled I'll see you guys later, Dad's waiting for me at the restaurant to start work." Tommy said.

"Hold on, before you go Tommy."

"What is it?"

"You said you have a date friday and as long as we've known you you haven't talked about any interest of dating so where did this person suddenly appear from?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow, I've got to go bye."

Tommy ran off as the other three boys stared in confusion. Something was changing in their group and they didn't know where it was leading or what would happen to them all.


Serena, May and Dawn were at her locker chitchatting about the events of yesterday. When the subject of her carrying Ash back to his house came up Serena blushed furiously at the memory. The other girls teased her for a while before Leaf came over.

"Hey, what's going on here and why is Serena red like a tomato?" asked Leaf

"IT WASN'T IMPORTANT!" Serena yelled.

"Uh- okay."

May and Dawn laughed at Serena's reaction to Leaf's question, while Serena was trying to calm down from her overreaction. Leaf just stood there with a what the hell am I am not understanding here look on her face. After the awkwardness of what just happened Leaf decided to tease Dawn.

"So Dawn, what's the deal with you and Leonard? I you looking at him today while Mr. Palmer was talking about finding cost." Asked Leaf

Dawn turned the same shade of red that Serena was a few moments ago.

"I-I-I-" Dawn stuttered.

The other three giggled at Dawn's reaction to mentioning Leonard. Dawn recovered from her overreaction and began to walk to the front to meet up with everyone else.


Ash had finished his business and was standing at the sink washing his hands. When he was done he was drying his hands and looking at himself in the mirror.

"Okay you can do this you can ask Serena to hang out today sorta like a date, it's just like riding a bike except she's not a bike and the worse thing she can say is no and we get all awkward around each other. Okay time to see if Mr. Wells's theory is correct."

Ash slapped himself in the face for motivation and headed out of the bathroom to meetup with everyone at the front as usual. Everyone said their goodbyes and piled into Gary's car minus his grandfather who had to stay back for a staff meeting. Once Gary drove off with the others this left Ash and Serena alone.

They walked home in silence for the most part until they reached Ash's house. Once it became time to part ways Ash knew what he had to do, he took a big gulp and a deep breath before he spoke.

"Hey Serena, do you want to hang out later after we finish our homework?" Ash asked while starching his face.

Serena was a bit taken back from Ash's question. She didn't think that he would ask her out alone. True the first time was a tutoring session at his house but nothing happened well aside from her tripping on the stairs and landing in his arms. The second time alone was his pokemon and the events of that day lead to her conclusion of falling for him and being carried home by him on his back and now this. Serena took a moment and then answered him with a smile.

"Sure, what time?" Serena answered with a hand over her chest

"Uhh how about 7 o'clock?"

"Okay see you at 7 then."

Ash waved goodbye as he entered his house leaving Serena to walk home quickly in glee she wanted to get everything done before 7 because Arceus knew she wasn't going to wait until 6:30 to get ready.


Gary and Leaf were sitting in the park enjoying their ice creams on their blanket. After they finished Leaf put her head on Gary's lap. She looked at him and noticed the confused look on his face and caressed his face snapping him out of his confused state.

"Babe, what's wrong? It's not like you to be this quiet. The only other times you've been this quiet is if we fall asleep on the phone talking to each other or if your in extreme concentration mode for exams." Leaf asked

"Hmm, Sorry I'm just really confused by something that happened today after school when the guys and I went to talk Ash about having guys night tonight but he was acting really weird for some reason." Gary answered her.

"Weird? Define weird." she asked

"He cancelled on us because he said he had something important to do tonight."

"He probably has work or something." she repiled

"That's what I thought at first too but he would tell us if he was working which we would understand, but then I remembered about what happened yesterday to him and I can't help but feel that's playing some part too."

"Now that you mention it Serena was acting weird too."

"What do you mean?"

"After class today I went to my locker to grab my stuff, When I was done I went over to the girls and they were talking about something and then she was blushing red like a tomato."

"You don't think..."

"What?"

"That she's fallen for him?"

"I mean that would explain Serena like why she was red like a tomato May and Dawn could have mentioned his name, but that still doesn't explain why Ash cancelled on us or why he was acting so weird when he said he had something to do tonight. I just don't get it."

"Do you trust him?"

"I do but-"

"Then trust him and let him come to you or the others when he's ready to share what he's feeling we can't pressure him into it or else he'll feel like we're pressuring him to talk about what's going on in his head."

"Remind me again why I fell for you?"

Leaf smirked as she pulled Gary down to her.

"Here let me remind you."

The two of them start to kiss each other passionately as an old couple saw them said "Ah young love."


Ash had just finished the last of his homework. He stretched as he looked at the clock. It read 6:15 pm. He then checked on Pikachu and Froakie who were watching some kind pokemon show with a Growlithe as masked hero and Gengar as it's rival. Ash chuckled as he saw a bit of the show. He proceeded to take a shower and change into clean clothes.

He headed downstairs to head out but he was stopped by his mother.

"Ash, Where are you going without your pokemon?" Delia asked.

"I'm going to hang out with Serena for a couple hours, I want to thank her for what she did yesterday. I'll be back before curfew I promise." he answered

"Okay have fun and make sure you keep your hands to yourself." she teased him

Ash dropped on the floor at his mother's words. He loved her but sometimes he questioned her sanity. He told her goodbye and headed out the door towards Serena's house. Unbeknownst to him a certain blue frog was following him.

Serena was staring at two dresses that were layed out on her bed. A long pink one and a short black dress. She looked at the clock it read 6:45 pm. She eventually decided on the pink one and picked a white jacket to wear over her and headed downstairs to see her mother sitting watch the news.

"You're looking fancy tonight, where are you going?" asked Grace

Serena blushed a little before answering

"Nowhere just going to hang out with Ash for a bit." Serena answered

"Oh, that explains it, are you trying to impress him for any particular reason?" Grace teased

Serena fell to the ground at her mother's accusation, she wasn't planning on somebody else to figure out her feelings towards Ash. Grace was laughing as Serena got up and straighten herself out.

"Oh relax honey, I've known for a while now your my daughter after all did you really think that I wouldn't eventually put one and one together to figure out how you feel about him? Please Serena I'm a lot of things but oblivious is not one of them."

Serena sighed before she spoke

"So that makes 3 people who know now, please promise me you won't tell him mom, this is something I need to do myself."

Grace patted Serena on her head.

"Don't worry I won't, I was your age once remember."

"Ya, a long time ago."

Both of them laughed at the joke that Serena had just made, they laughed for a good minute or two before a knock was heard on the door. Serena got up and opened the door to find Ash standing infront of the open door. Ash was staring for a good minute before Serena broke his trance.

"Hello earth to Ash, anyone home in there?" Serena said as she tried to wake him up.

"Heh sorry, I'm a bit tired after doing all that homework from school today. You look great by the way." Ash said complimenting her

"Thank you, let me just grab my coat."

Ash nodded as Serena grabbed her white coat and a pair of brown sandals to wear on her feet. As she was putting the items on she noticed something on the ground next to Ash's feet.

"Ash, what is your Froakie doing here?" she asked Curiously.

"What are you talking-"

Ash looked down on the ground to see Froakie step infront of him with an arm behind its head and an embarrassed look on its face. Ash sighed as he bent down to talk to Froakie.

"Froakie, I know you want to spend time with me after what happened, but you can't sneak out of the house like this." Ash told him.

Froakie had a apologetic look on its face as Ash called his mother to explain the situation, He hung up the phone and spoke.

"Okay Froakie, I'm not going to make you go home by yourself, so your coming with us, but what to do with you."

"I have an idea, Fenniken can you come here please?"

Fenniken ran down the stairs quickly as she could as she heard her name. She then stood infront of Serena.

"Fenniken, would you like to come with Ash, Froakie and I out to wherever we're going?"

Fenniken nodded as she hopped on Serena's shoulder. The group then said goodbye to Grace and then were on their way to their destination. After a while of walking they ended up infront of a green building with a stable attached to the side they entered inside.


"Hello and welcome to the Pallet town stables, My name is Marta how may I help you today?" asked the orange haired blue eyed older woman from behind the desk.

"Hi, I'd like to rent a pokemon for me and my friend to ride for the next couple of hours please." Ash told the woman.

"Certainly, but before we go your pokemon must stay here we don't want them to get injured should something go wrong out there." Marta explained.

Ash and Serena nodded as they left Froakie and Fenniken inside the building and told them to play nice with each other as they left to go ride. They followed Marta inside into the stable to find 3 pokemon standing infront of them.

"So here we have Kanto's own Pontya."

"Pontya."

"Next we have a Rhy-"

The Rhyhorn tackled Serena to the ground and started to lick her face. Serena giggled at the Rhyhorn's silliness it reminded her of her mother's Rhyhorn whenever she had to practice her Rhyhorn racing skills. Serena then straighten herself out as Marta arrived at the last pokemon.

"Finally we have the grass goat pokemon Skiddo from the Kalos region."

"Skiddo, Ski."

"Now then which pokemon will you pick?" Mart asked.

"I think we'll go with Pontya, If that's okay with you Serena." Ash answered

"Sure, it can't be too different from riding a Rhyhorn right?" Serena said nervously.

How wrong Serena was when she started to ride on Pontya. Unlike the multiple scraps she would get from training and all the times she would get mad from failing to properly ride on Rhyhorn she was enjoying riding on Pontya.

"Having fun?" asked Ash from behind the fence.

"Ya, this is so cool I really like it." Serena repiled happily.

Ash smiled at her. The feeling Wells made allusion to hadn't appeared yet, he was starting to think that Wells was wrong about the whole thing. After an hour of riding Ash went riding on Pontya for the next hour and then for the final half an hour both of them went on Pontya at the same time. Ash sat infront with Serena holding him in from back so she wouldn't fall off. Both of them were a bit red without the other one noticing.

After time was up, they took Pontya back to the stable and petted it on it's head. Before they left they took a selfie with Pontya to remember the occasion and then exited to pick up Froakie and Fenniken.

"Had fun you two?" asked Ash

Froakie and Fenniken said there names in excitement as they rushed to their trainers and hopped on their shoulders. Ash and Serena spilt the payment for the ride and left the building heading home.

"So I'll bite what was this little trip for?" Serena teased

"Two things. One I really wanted to go riding again, I haven't ridden a Pokemon since I was 10 so it was long overdue and two I wanted to thank you for yesterday for bringing me home while I was unconscious." Ash answered.

"You didn't have to honestly, I just did what I thought the right thing to do was and besides If you stayed in the forest I would lose one of my friends." she told him.

"You won't lose me ever, well maybe if it's to food then you might lose me cause if there's one thing I like more than people and pokemon it's food."

Both of them laughed as they reached Serena's house. They made their way to the door and stood there.

"I had a really good time tonight Ash, thank you for taking me to ride a pokemon that isn't Rhyhorn it was really fun." Serena told him.

"Your welcome, better go before Mom starts calling me and wondering where I am seeing as it's a school night and before your mom's Rhyhorn grunts at us." Ash joked.

And on cue Rhyhorn grunted at them like it did every time Ash and Serena were standing on the doorstep both of them giggled.

"Well see you tomorrow." he told her.

Ash and Serena hugged each other and then broke apart. While that was going on Fenniken hugged Froakie who instantly started blushing. Ash and Froakie then proceeded home as Serena went inside.


Serena went inside to find her mom already asleep in her room. She quietly headed up the stairs to take a shower and change into her night clothes. Pancham and Sylveon were already asleep when she looked over at them. Fenniken hopped on to Serena's bed and instantly fell asleep.

Serena decided to log on to her laptop and check her E-mail. There was one from Clemont. She opened the E-mail and began to read it.

Dear Serena,

It's been a while since we all said goodbye to you, so I thought to write this E-mail. Everyone over here is fine, Bonnie says hi she really misses you. She's wondering when your coming back to visit so you two can hang out.

Serena giggled as she continued reading.

Let's see oh yes Trevor was here the other day, He finally completed the pokedex last week so we celebrated at Restaurant Le wow Professor Sycamore and his assistant Sophie were also there he says hello to both you and Fenniken.

The mention of Le wow brought back memories for Serena, it was the first restaurant that she and her Kalos friends celebrated her birthday. All she remembered from that day was a lot of cake and a bill so large that the professor had to pay it while crying.

Tierno well he's still old loveable goofball Tierno. Still with the dancing pokemon crew dream. Oh while we were at Le wow he got scouted by someone named Simon something so he might become famous one of these days.

Serena remembered how it was Tierno's dream to become a pokemon master dancer/performer, She was happy that her friend was finally able to have his dream achieved she knew that he would be a success.

Finally Calem defeated the final battle masion sister. In fact after he was done the triple battle sister what was her name now OH right Evelyn asked him out on a date. He accepted it and they've been going 3 weeks strong now he'll probably kill me for telling you this he said he wanted to do it himself.

Serena laughed at the last part about how Calem might kill Clemont for revealing his secret but she was happy for Calem. Sure he was a handsome boy but she just saw him as a friend and nothing more.

As for me Well um.. you remember how Bonnie had that gag of asking every girl we met during our travels to take care of me well she found one who said yes. It's umm well, It's Shauna. Surprising I know but we just both felt it was time and Bonnie just sped up the process.

But anyway, we all miss you and hope you can come visit sometime soon.

Your friend, Clemont

P.S Next time you talk to Shauna please convince her to go easy with the shopping. I do have a image of being the Lumiose Gym leader to keep up.

Serena laughed as she read the last part of the E-mail. The relationship between Shauna and Clemont was certainly a surprise but she was happy for them. She turned off her laptop and made a mental note to reply to the e-mails sometime. Once she got in bed she started to think about the day.

"Ash and I were all alone, it was almost like we were out on a date. It was so much fun, I felt something weird though it felt like Ash was feeling hot for some reason maybe it was just the fact we were on Pontya but maybe he's changing his mind and seeing me differently. I guess time will tell."

Serena then fell asleep in her bed listening to her pokemon snoring.


At Ash's house...

Ash was in his bed staring at the ceiling. Pikachu and Froakie were asleep on the floor in deep sleep. Ash was trying to figure out what had happened tonight.

"Let's see, I blew off the guys and guys night to hang with Serena and thank her for yesterday. We went Pontya riding for a couple hours and had fun. But then it happened the felling that Mr. Wells described to me. It appeared when she hugged me while on Pontya, true we hugged before but this felt different. Not only did I get the feeling of butterfrees in my stomach I also turned a bit red that hopefully she didn't notice. Maybe I am starting to fall for her, If I am there's two occasions I can do something and one of them is coming up the other isn't until June which will be enough time to find an answer."

And with that Ash went to sleep.

May was out for a walk in the park with her Galceon after dinner. They were enjoying the cool breeze for a while. They were on their way back heading home when all of a sudden Galceon stopped.

"What is it Glaceon?" Asked May.

"Galceon, Glace."

Galceon ran over to a girl who layed down face first into the ground, with May following behind her. The only thought going through her head at the time.

"I've got to get this girl back to her house and quickly."


Oliverqueen01- Well, Well, Well what can I say? Aside from the recent news of the Alola region which i'm excited for I don't know about everyone but #TeamRowelett :p but this chapter man on man where do I begin? Grace knows, Leaf and Gary are putting two and two together, Ash is finally starting to accept the fact he might like Serena as more than friends and to top it off the Froakie/Fenniken (whatever the ship name for that is) moment of and the clemont/shauna pairing that exists and pays dues to a story im currently reading. But enough babbling time for reviews/questions.

Reviews/questions

Klay (guest)- No Aria is not in this story, maybe in a future story I'll use her. As for your OC stay tuned to see who I pair her with.

Espeon44- Thank you, The last line there is one of your OC's I just have to go through and pick which one i'm going to use.

Amour guest- Yes yes, keep up the amourshipping stuff and all that good jazz. I will don't worry about that :p

Pokemonmeat- Thank you, no it was the morning, but I added the afternoon scene because I wanted them to talk somemore before the conclusion of that chapter.

Ooobserver- Ya prom lol that'll be fun and the chapter before that will be fun as well. Yes thursday never comes soon enough and when it comes it goes by in a Flash lol.

Engel2092- Thank you. Well Captain Cold is always seen with Heatwave so he had to be included in some form. Yes the cold sacrificing him scene but my god the kiss between him and Sara was so good and yes he will be back you can't keep him down. But this weeks Flash was so sad especially the last two minutes.

Mixt Number XV – Thank you for the review, yes I am in face both an Amourshipping and Kingdom hearts fan.

Which brings me to the announcement I mentioned at the end of the reviews last week.

Now when this story is completed (which won't be for a while) I'll be taking a break to recharge my creative juices. But before that I've been thinking actually writing a Kingdom Hearts story. I need a break from pokemon, unless there's a demand for a sequel. Now I won't say what it'll be about until the final chapter is released along with a poll.

Anyways that does it for this chapter along with reviews/questions and announcement. Remember if you liked this, favourite, follow and review and if you want share it with people you know who will like it.

Until next Thursday :)