Morning arrived and Leaf was the first one to be awake. She noticed Ash's arms was still around her, she was wondering when would they break the thin ice between them.
'Maybe I should just tell Ash.' Leaf thought to herself, yet she is also worried. What if he just want be very close childhood friends?(Friend zone). She shook her head and instead she focus on Ash's handsome face. She caress his cheek before she heard a knock on the door, the knock also woken Ash up. Leaf quickly retracted her hand.
"*Moans* who is it?" Ash shouted, he let go off Leaf and stood up.
"It's me nurse Joy, sorry to wake you 2 up but there is a alakazam who wanted to see you with a poliwag next to him." Ash immediately perked up and opened the door. He then walked to the pokemon center waiting room and was greeted by a tackle.
"Hey." Ash said while laughing, the poliwag who tackle him was jumping up and down.
"Ash? Oh are you okay?" Leaf said while kneeling down, Ash smiled and nodded.
"Yeah I'm fine Leaf, look who's here." Poliwag cried its name cutely before it nuzzled Leaf.
"Aww aren't you the cutest thing." Leaf put cradled poliwag before she helped Ash to stand up.
"Thanks Leaf." Ash said while patting poliwag.
"Pikapi? Chu-pika (Ash? Oh there you are)" Pikachu said while jumping onto Ash's shoulder with vulpix on Leaf's shoulder.
"Meet your new team mate pikachu!" Ash showed poliwag to pikachu who in return smiled.
"Pika-pika (Hi there)" Pikachu waved his hand-err-paw at poliwag.
"Thanks a lot alakazam, oh tell professor Oak and my mom thanks."
'Of course Ash.' Alakazam said using telepathy, it was about to teleport away before it added on.
'Nice catch Ash' Alakazam grin as it looked at Leaf. The duo blushed before the alakazam teleported away.
"Ash, let's go change into something appropriate." Leaf said while referring to their nightwear.
"Are you saying we are wearing something inappropriate?" Ash said with a smirk.
"Ash!" Leaf shouted, Ash waved his hands before he put them on her shoulder.
"Kidding Leaf." The 2 then changed into the usual attire before they knocked on Brock and Misty's door. Ash had capture poliwag in the progress.
"*Knock*knock*knock* Brock? Misty? you 2 awake yet?" Ash said while knocking, receiving no response Ash sighed and looked at Leaf.
"Well what now?" Leaf put her hands behind her back and looked at the ceiling.
"Well maybe we can get breakfast first, we can leave a note behind telling them that we left first." Ash nodded, seems like a smart idea.
"Great idea Leaf." Ash and Leaf then went to the cafeteria to have some breakfast.
"Man that was good." Ash said while patting his belly, Leaf giggled and put a lock behind her ear.
"Yeah I agree."
"Ash, Leaf!" Brock shouted while walking calmly.
"There you 2 are, have you signed up for the tournament yet?" Brock said while sitting next to Ash. Misty grumbled and sat next to Leaf.
"Yeah we did, how about you and Misty?" Brock nodded while sipping his drink that he ordered.
"Great! But no matter what happens, we'll all still be friends!" Ash said while smiling warmly. Brock smiled and nodded.
"Of course Ash, hey nurse Joy said that the tournament would be held at 10:30 AM." Brock said while finishing his drink.
"Well its 9:52 now so we should make our way there." Misty who had just finished her breakfast said while looking at the cafeteria clock. The trio nodded and they soon walked towards the arena.
"Wow they are so many trainers." Ash said in awe, pikachu looked at the crowd and mouth a pika-pika.
"Well the tournament will start in 10 minutes time, I think we should use the time to discuss battle strategies with our partner." Ash said intelligently, his travelling companions nodded and soon Ash was led Leaf to some place quiet.
"I'm going to use poliwag for the tournament, he is on the brink of evolution since he had fought many wild pokemon when he was in Pallet town, not to mention I want to see how strong is poliwag." Pikachu sighed glumly, oh well at least he gets to battle the Vermillion city gym.
"Sorry pikachu." Ash said while patting his pikachu, pikachu nodded while looking at his trainer. Vulpix nuzzled pikachu to cheer him up.
"Aww that's so nice vulpix." Leaf said while standing closer next to Ash.
"So who would you use?" Ash asked while looking at Leaf's sapphire eyes.
"Well I'll use spearow I guess." Leaf called spearow out who looked at his trainer with a serious and loyal look.
"Spearow would you battle with me?" Leaf asked nicely, since she recently caught spearow she haven't tested him out yet.
"Spearow-row-spear( Yes Leaf, I'll fight with you!)" Spearow said while bowing his head down, he is very humble for his species, usually spearow are usually proud and arrogant.
"So you'll battle with me?" Leaf asked while clasping her hands together. Spearow smiled slightly and perched on Leaf's shoulder.
"Thanks spearow." Leaf patted spearow's head earning a coo from him. 10 minutes later the tournament started.
"Welcome ladies and gentleman to the fight-for-prize tournament, the team who wins the competition will receive a prize respectively and I'll give you a hint." The announcer bend down a little and used one hand to cover his face while leaning towards the microphone. He whispered quietly.
"It's a pokemon." The crowd roared in excitement and were having a look of anticipation.
"Now for the first round, it would be Ash Ketchum and Leaf Green competing against Tyler Flinch and Leon Evans, so let the battle begin!" The 2 opposing trainer were having a smirk on their faces and were winking at Leaf.
"Poliwag let's go." Ash said while giving them a glare which made them gulp.
"Spearow let's do this!" Leaf yelled in confidence.
"Machop crushed the opponents."
"Golbat fight the odds!"
"Machop use karate chop on that tadpole." Machop immediately rushed towards poliwag with a hint of wickedness in its eyes.
"Golbat use wing attack on that plant!" Golbat's wings glowed before it flew towards bulbasaur.
"Spearow use fury attack combined with peck on golbat!" Spearow was seen striking golbat at a very fast pace and at various spots. Leaf was quite surprise of spearow's speed and agility, and the way he moved looks graceful as well.
"Poliwag use water gun on machop" Poliwag shot a stream of water at machop who was too slow to dodge the attack, machop landed on the ground while letting out a grunt.
"Golbat/machop!" The 2 pokemon got up and was glaring at spearow and poliwag.
"Grr use supersonic!" Golbat's then emit ear piercing sound that will annoy you to death. Ash covered Leaf's ear before shouting with his eyes close.
"Fill its mouth with water gun." Poliwag who managed to control himself filled golbat's mouth with water which cause it to choke.
"Machop help him out!" Leon Evans said while panicking. Machop patted Golbat's back but in my opinion I think it patted golbat's back A BIT too hard.
"GOLBAT!" Golbat shouted while flapping its wings in agony pain, well I stand corrected.
"Leaf let's finish them while they're distracted." Ash whispered to Leaf, Leaf nodded and silently ordered spearow to use pursuit at golbat. Golbat who was failing its wings like a retard was than hit by spearow.
"Huh, grr you sly bitch." Tyler said angrily, Leaf was a quite hurt by this and Ash was well...
"Poliwag used hypnosis on golbat." Ash said in a cold and angry voice. (Uh oh)
"No one calls Leaf a BITCH!" Ash shouted in a loud demonic voice which shocked the crowd. Tyler looked at Ash with a fearful look. Golbat who was patiently waiting for its trainer orders soon fall to poliwag's hypnosis. Soon golbat is under poliwag's command, well Ash's.
"Use wing attack on machop full power then fly up high." Golbat who was in a trance state immediately used a full power wing attack which brutally injured machop. It then fly up to the sky.
"Drop." Ash muttered while glaring at Tyler icily, Tyler couldn't believe that a tadpole just controlled his pokemon like that, golbat then dropped down in a very fast pace and *slam*. Everyone in the arena had one thought in their mind.
'Don't get to Ash's bad side'
"Uh looks like machop and golbat are unable to battle." The announcer said awkwardly, Ash looked at Leaf who was rubbing her shoes together with her hands behind her back.
"You okay Leaf?" Ash asked warmly as he put a hand on her shoulder, Leaf flashed Ash a smile and nodded.
"Yeah I'm fine, though I think you were a bit too harsh." Ash lowered his head, maybe he was a bit too harsh on the pokemon.
"Sorry." Leaf smiled and gave him a quick yet comforting hug.
"It's okay." The crowd awe and smiled at Ash, maybe he isn't as scary as they thought.
''Well we can move up to the next round now right?" Ash asked the announcer who just nodded, Tyler and Leon was just looking at their pokemon before at Ash, how the hell did a kid just beat them? Ash then grabbed Leaf's hand before they walked to their next battle.
'If I see Tyler again I'll pummel him to the ground' Ash thought to himself while walking hand in hand with Leaf. They went into the other room and saw Misty and Brock, who was beaten by-
"Gary-Gary-Gary his the man, if he can't do it no one can! Goooo Gary!" Some cheerleaders were cheering for Gary and his partner. Ash sighed, of course Gary has cheerleaders following him around, what's next? He has his very own car? Ash looked at Brock who was during his usual routine again on one of the cheeleaders, as for Misty... she is 'pulling a Brock' on Gary.
"Gary you are sooo handsome, would you go out with me?" Misty said with stars in her eyes as she hugged Gary's arm, pressing her breast against them. Gary was well...
"You? Hah don't make me laugh." Ash and Leaf looked at each other and sighed before they pulled Brock and Leaf respectively. That's when Gary saw Leaf, he was about to make his move but then remembered, where there is Leaf, there is always-
"Hey Ashy-boy, how are you doing?" Gary said while shaking, the injuries that Ash gave him were still there, but it was healing. Ash glared at Gary and pulled Leaf closer. Ash then looked at Gary's partner. He has blue hair with a pair of black sunglasses on his hair. A pink collar shirt with a brown vest that he wore opened. A red scarf and a pair of black long pants. He was smirking like a arrogant brat and was currently enjoying the attention that Gary's cheerleader was giving the both of them.
'Judging from the looks of him, it is clear that he is another Gary, arrogant, cocky and has a very large ego. His charmander was treated like trash from the looks of it, poor guy. No wonder him and Gary got along, and I don't like how he stares at Leaf.' Ash thought to himself while looking at Leaf's uncomfortable demeanor.
"Hey want to ditch that loser and come with me?" The boy said while standing in front of Leaf with a smirk on his face, Leaf glared at the boy before she leaned onto Ash's chest.
"No thanks, and Ash is not a loser!" Leaf said while grabbing Ash's hand. (much to his surprise) The boy frowned and looked at Ash before he snorted.
"You won't stand a chance against me." Ash was surprisingly being very calm in this situation, he just shrugged and took his battle position.
'I'm going to destroy that bastard' Ash thought to himself while releasing poliwag while Leaf released bulbasaur, they were allowed to switch pokemon after each battle.
"This would be the second and the last round for the tournament, the team who wins this round would receive the special pokemon. This last round is between Ash Ketchum and Leaf Green versus Gary Oak and Damian Daisuke(Can't find a last name). so let the battle begin!" The announcer said while shouting at the microphone.
"Charmander, DO NOT fail me." The boy known as Damian said in a cold and callous tone. Charmander whimpered and nodded.
"wartotle let's go!" Gary yelled while throwing wartotle's pokeball. Wartotle appeared and as soon as it saw Ash, it grinned wickedly.
"Show no mercy poliwag!" Poliwag appeared and was eyeing on charmander.
"Bulbasaur let's do this!" Bulbasaur appeared and readied himself.
"Charmander flamethrower in that bulbasaur." Damian's charmander fired a stream of burning fire at bulbasaur.
"Bubblebeam on flamethrower." Poliwag shot a stream of bubbles that collided with the flamethrower attack.
"Bulbasaur use razor Leaf on wartotle." Bulbasaur immediately shot multiple sharp leaves at wartotle.
"Withdraw." Wartotle retracted into its shell and the leaves bounce of the shell harmlessly.
"Poliwag use rain dance!" Poliwag was dancing around happily when suddenly the rain poured, Damian's charmander was shivering and weakened.
"Full power flamethrower on bulbasaur!" Damian barked.
"Full power water gun on bulbasaur." Gary said while smirking, he thought Ash was a fool since he also powered wartotle's water move. He was so wrong.
"Poliwag activate swift swim and jump in front of bulbasaur and activate your water absorb ability." Ash said calmly, their attack may be fast, but poliwag was a lot faster, since it was raining and fire attacks doesn't deals much damage and since some idiot use water gun on FULL POWER. Poliwag's health was restored. Damian and Gary looked at Ash with a 'what the hell just happened' look. Not only the attacks didn't do anything but it let poliwag gain some exp which means-.
"Poliwag you're evolving!" Indeed he was as a white glow surrounded the little tadpole and it soon grew arms and legs.
"Poli-whirl!" Poliwhirl said while raising his glove like hand into the air.
"Awesome you evolved!" Ash said while grinning.
"Leech seed on the both of them and use razor leaf, rapid fire!" Leaf shouted suddenly, Damian and Gary were distracted so they didn't react fast enough. The leech seed trapped the 2 pokemon and was slowly siphoning their energy, to make matter worse for them, they were cut by multiple sharp leaves.
"Charmander use flamethrower on those-"
"Body slam!" Ash shouted to interrupt Damian. Poliwhirl launch himself to the air and slammed its body towards the 2 pokemon.
"Rapid spin!" Gary shouted while panicking, wartotle immediately did a 360 degrees spin, that caused it to be free from the leech seed. Poliwhirl was sent flying back to the ground since he made contact with wartotle's rapid spin, though Gary's wartotle fainted from the impact that poliwhirl did, the same thing could be said for charmander though since poliwhirl's body is big enough to cover the both of them.
"Well folks looks like we have a winner for this tournament." The announcer yelled, Brock and Misty cheered for them along with pikachu and vulpix. Gary and Damian looked at their fallen pokemon and recalled them wordlessly before they glared at Ash and Leaf. Damian looked at his charmander's pokeball before walking towards Ash.
"Hmph my charmander was useless, are you willing to trade your poliwhirl with my charmander? It is a Kanto starter after all.' Damian ask while pulling charmander's pokeball. Poliwhril looked at Ash worriedly, hoping he won't trade him for Damian's charmander.
'No! I wouldn't trade my pokemon for anything. You only use them as tools while I see them as family, so never! Besides I already have a charmander and you better treat yours nicely because if not I can call Gary's grandfather here to revoke you trainers license." Damian looked horrified and he quickly walked away, Gary followed his partner's actions but he glared at Ash before leaving. He can't believe his arch rival beat him again. It was then Leaf noticed bulbasaur was glowing.
"Ash look!" Leaf said while pulling Ash's arm, Ash turned to bulbasaur and smiled.
"Ivy-saur!" Ivysaur said happily, he no longer have his green bulb, instead it was a pink one with leaves on it. His skin is darker now, but his red ruby eyes are still there.
"Bulba- I mean ivysaur you evolved!" Leaf said while hugging him, Ash smiled and poliwhirl went to congratulate ivysaur.
"Wow we did it Leaf, we won the tournament!" Leaf smiled and gave him a hug which he returned.
"Yeah we did!" The announcer cleared his throat to get the duo's attention.
"Since you 2 are the winners for this tournament, we will give you the prize pokemon. Here you go! Open it." The announcer gave both of them 2 pokeball each.
"Come on out" they both yelled, it both revealed a cute ad furry pokemon. A eevee.
"Oh my arceus it is sooo cute." Leaf yelled while hugging her eevee. Ash smiled and welcome it to the family. He used his pokedex to scanned his own eevee.
Eevee the evolution pokemon. An extremely rare pokemon that may evolve in a number of different ways depending on stimuli. This eevee is male and it known moves are tackle, sand attack, quick attack, bite and growl. Its ability is run away.
"Wow you are very strong eevee.a" Eevee yelped and nuzzle him. Ash then called all of his pokemon out. Pikachu, charmander, pidgeotto and butterfree welcome him and congratulated poliwhirl. Ash then scanned poliwhirl with his pokdex.
Poliwhirl the tadpole pokemon. Its two legs are well developed. Even though it can live on the ground, it prefers living in water. This poliwhirl is male and its known moves are water gun,bubblebeam, hypnosis, rain dance, double slap, body slam and ice punch. Its ability is damp, water absorb and its hidden ability is swift swim.
"Whoa ice punch poliwhirl, must been an egg move that is unlock upon evolution and 2 abilities? Awesome!" Poliwhirl nodded and use ice punch on mid air. Misty and Brock was saying how cute and all eevee is.(mostly Misty)
"Well give it up to the winners of the tournament folks!" The announcer said while laughing, the crowd then chant Ash and Leaf's name out loud. Soon after the tournament, the co then went back to the pokemon center to heal and to train their pokemon.
"Alright pikachu use light screen one last time!" Pikachu nodded and used light screen to block the flamethrower attack that charmander's executed. Thanks to Misty who was more than happy to lend her starmie to Ash, pikachu was able to learn light screen in just a few hours.
"Alright pikachu here." Ash tossed an oran berry to pikachu who happily eat it. Ash rubbed pikachu's head before he approached his eevee.
"Hi eevee." Eevee looked at Ash and nuzzled his cheek against Ash's. Ash let his eevee to climb onto his shoulder and he went to see his pidgeotto who was talking to Leaf's spearow, they seemed to get along quite well.
"~Hey Ash" Leaf said in an angelic sing song voice. Ash looked and saw Leaf holding a plate of food for him.
'You haven't have dinner yet." Ash rubbed the back of his head and smiled, he had been training all day and he forgot about dinner- wait dinner?
"Dinner? what time is it?" Ash pulled his pokedex out and it read 7:34 PM. Leaf giggled, Ash can be so clueless sometimes, though she find it cute.
'Oh wow I didn't even noticed, thanks Leaf." Ash recalled all of his pokemon and went inside the pokemon center, they saw Misty holding a large bag.
"Hey Misty what did you bought?" Ash asked while holding his plate of food. Misty smirked before she looked at her bag.
"Oh nothing, I just bought myself a tent so that I won't have to use Leaf's." Ash and Leaf looked at each other and frowned, that means Leaf doesn't have an excuse to share with Ash anymore.
"Oh you know you don't have to spend your money on that, I'll be happy to lend you my tent." Leaf said while forcing a smile.
"Nah I don't want to be a burden, anyway I'm going to sleep, good night." Misty said while waving her hand to them.
"Pikachu (That Misty...)" Pikachu squeaked his name out while shaking his head. Ash looked at Leaf who was frowing.
"Well I think we should get back to our room, I don't want my dinner to be cold." Ash said in a joking tone. Leaf giggled and the 2 went into their rooms.
I hope you guys found that song, it is really nice and I have to tell you I was addicted to it, it's really touching and its a shame that the band wasn't famous so I decided to help them out, like them or write something nice about them in the comments, a little kindness goes a long way. In case you forgot it is called-My escape by Ravenscode.