Author's Note:

Here it is, three new pokemon join the team, all water type. On my Profile I mentioned there were a couple cannon pokemon that won't be with their cannon trainer. This is where it comes into play, Ash's Krabby is going to Misty, and Misty's Horsea is going to Serena. Check the profile for an explanation. Don't forget to vote in the latest Poll, it is here until the end of the Celadon Arc... With that, Let's begin...

Chapter 21: Splash Zone

It has been three days since the gang set off North - West from Vermillion City towards Celadon. It was mid morning and the group was walking past a mini beach area.

"Hey guys, why don't we spend the day here." Misty suggested. Every stopped at looked at her, she guessed they wanted an explanation. "We've been walking none stop since we left Vermillion.".

"Sounds good to me, our pokemon have been training really hard and would love some fun." Serena suggested.

"Yeah... Its been ages since I last went swimming." Ash added.

"Fine with me." Brock replied. "I could even cook a barbecue... Nothing better then a classic barbecue on the beach.".

"That settles it... Today, is a beach day." Ash declared. With cheers, everyone walked onto the beach began to set up. There was an old out-house which everyone took turns to change into beach-wear. In the end, Misty decided to sun bath, Brock set up his cooking gear, with Ash and Serena deciding to go swimming. With everything set, their was one more thing to do...

"Come on out... Everyone!" The group shouted as they released all there pokemon.

Pikachu, Geodude, Bulbasaur, and Tangela grabbed the beach ball and began throwing it to each other. Charmander, after helping Brock by starting a fire, decided to find a nice sunny spot and lay down on the sand, until Fennekin came over and he tried to get away without much success. Staryu, Goldeen, Tentacruel, and Squirtle all took to the water, well Squirtle took his time to water gun Ash in the face before heading into the water. Abra, teleported into Serena's arms and fell asleep, so Serena lay her tired psychic type on a towel. Pidgeotto and Zubat went to roost on a nearby tree. Diglett, shy and scared of the other pokemon, stayed by Brock side. With Onix finding a big isolated spot on the beach and lay down. Finally, Beedrill went on a little search, flying around.

Ash and Serena were soon in the water along with the pokemon...

After a couple of hours, Ash and Serena were in a splashing contest, laughing and having fun... Until a water gun in the face drew Ash's attention. When in battle, Squirtle has no problems following commands and the same goes with training, but that doesn't mean he isn't a prankster...

"Awe come on Squirtle... Can't you just relax?" Ash asked in a whinny tone. A stuck out tongue from his water type was the only answer Ash got. "That's it... Your going to get it.". Ash began swimming after his water type. Serena pouted, guess her time alone with Ash is over... But she couldn't help but giggle as she watched Squirtle lazily swimming on his back whilst Ash swam after him. Ash was going at his top speed while Squirtle was going barely over half his top speed, just fast enough to keep avoid Ash, in a mocking way.

Serena sighed sadly as she turned to face the shore. "What should I do now?". Just then, she felt something poke her back. Serena turned around to see a little pokemon. It was blue and shaped like a sea horse... "Hello... What are you doing here?". The pokemon looked into Serena's eyes and smiled.

"Horsea, Horse, Horsea." The pokemon happily cheered, then swam around in circles.

"Are you saying you want to play?" Serena guessed. The pokemon smiled and nodded. Serena couldn't help but smile as well, this pokemon is just so cute. "Okay then, let's play.".

"Come on... Squirtle... Wait up..." Ash panted. He was met with another water gun in the face. When the water gun finished, Ash cleared his eyes of the water and found Squritle was no-where to be seen. "Great.". After Ash rolled his eyes, he turned to swim back to the group, when he heard sobbing.

"What that?" Ash asked himself and turned to the source of the sound. He swam around the cliff side to find a red fish pokemon, swimming at a fast speed into a rock, at a high speed. Slamming into the rock and recoiling off, clearly crying pain, but continuing to swim into the rock. Ash couldn't sit back and watch this so he swam at his top speed and intercepted the Pokemon's tackle. As a result, he was slammed into the rock, felt a rush of pain. "ARR!".

The fish pokemon opened his eyes when he felt the soft impact and heard Ash cry out in pain. He was shocked he just tackled this person. "S-s-sorry.".

"Don't sweat it." Ash told the pokemon as he gained his balance. "But tell me what you was doing, please.".

"Training." The pokemon looked down, sad. Ash, looked confused.

"Training? That wasn't training mate." Ash replied as he rubbed the Pokemon's head. The pokemon looked up, shocked.

"Did you just understand me?" The pokemon asked.

"Yeah, I don't know how, but I can understand pokemon." Ash explained. "Now why was you doing that?".

"Sigh, I was separated from my school, by a strong current." The pokemon explained. "I wanted to train so I wasn't so... Weak.". Ash looked at the fish Pokemon with a sad smile.

"Hey, your not weak." Ash told the pokemon. "Your tackle is really strong.". The pokemon was even more shocked. A couple of trainers who were fishing found him before and simply through him back, calling him: weak, worthless, pathetic... But not this boy...

"Really?" The pokemon asked, hopeful.

"Of course." Ash replied with his signature thumbs up and toothy grin. "How about I help you train?". The Pokemon was taken back by the offer.

"Y-you would help me... Train?" The pokemon questioned.

"Of course." Ash replied immediately. "After all, I am a trainer. It's my job to help any pokemon I come across.".

"T-thank you." The pokemon thanked, greatfully.

"Come on... My friends are around the there, I'm sure they can help you with training..." Ash explained. With that, the two of them swam back around to the beach...

Out in the water, Serena and Horsea were playing together. Serena would splash the little water type, and Horsea would retaliate with a light bubble. After a while Serena pick the little mon up tickled under Horsea's snout. Horsea couldn't contain her laughter and started giggling uncontrollably. After about thirty seconds, Horsea completely lost control and a puff of smoke screen was shot out of her snout. It hit Serena's face which became covered in black soot. This stopped Serena from tickling Horsea and coughed a couple of times. Horsea looked at Serena with pleading eyes.

"Horsea, Horsea, Horse, Horsea." Horsea frantically bowed her her as a way to say sorry. Normally, Serena would be mad at being attacked like that, but she couldn't be; it was clearly an accident, and Horsea was clearly sorry.

"It's okay Horsea, I know you didn't mean it." Serena smiled. Horsea got over excited and tackled herself into Serena, nuzzling against her. "Hahaha, it's okay Horsea.". A loud rumble could be heard and Horsea slowly float back from Serena with an embarrassed blush on her face.

"Are you hungry, Horsea?" Serena asked. Horsea shyly nodded and Serena smiled. "Come to shore, I'm sure I can spare some pokemon food for ya.". Horsea excitedly smiled and nodded so the two females swam back to land.

On the shore, Serena grabbed a can of pokemon food and took it to the water where Horsea was. She sat on the bridge of the sand and sea with Horsea next to her, and she dropped one hand full of pellets into the water. Serena found it incredibly cute how Horsea would suck up the pellets through her snout. This continued until the can was completely empty.

Once Ash and the new pokemon reached the shore, Ash ran onto the beach and collected his pokemon. Bulbasaur and Pikachu were a little annoyed, after all the extra training they had for the Vermillion Gym, they wanted relax a little. Ash couldn't find Squirtle and assumed he was causing trouble for someone else, but since he couldn't hear any complaints he wouldn't test fate. Pidgeotto, as soon as she heard the word, training, was up and ready to go. Charmander, was thankful Ash showed up as he didn't know how long he could continue to avoid Fennekin... What does the fire fox want from him?

Soon, Ash, Pidgeotto and Charmander were gathered at the shore line, where Ash introduced Magikarp, and explained they were going to help train the little water type. With that, Pidgeotto would go first.

"Okay, Pidgeotto, can you fly out over the water and use gust to create a strong current like in the Cerulean Gym?" Ash requested. "We will swim against it, but don't start on full power. We will increase it as we need.". Pidgeotto nodded and flew a fair distance away.

"Ready when you are." She called back, and Ash looked towards Magikarp.

"Ready buddy?" Ash asked. Magikarp was shocked, first this person he's never met before shows up and is nice to him; then he offers to help training him; now he considers him a buddy...

"Yeah... I'm ready." Magikarp replied with a friendly smile.

"Great." Ash replied with a thumbs up and toothy smile. "We're ready Pidgeotto!". With confirmation, Pidgeotto started to flap her wings, at about 15% power. Ash and Magikarp began swimming towards the bird pokemon. When the current hit, the two were taken back, but not by to much. It took a couple of minutes before they reached Pidgeotto.

"That's great Magikarp, lets take it to the next level." Ash suggested. Magikarp looked into Ash's eyes with determination, if this boy is doing so much, the least he can do is match him.

"Sounds good." Magikarp replied.

"Great." Ash replied with pride. "Okay Pidgeotto, lets do it again but increase your power.". Pidgeotto nodded and used gust again, but this time at 25% power. The current blew Ash and Magikarp back. When they came to a stop, they swam against the current again, making sure to go against the full force.

When they reached Pidgeotto, they repeated the exercise at: 40%, 60%, 85%, and 99% power (Ash guessed it was actually her full power although Pidgeotto was adamant that they couldn't handle her full strength). Afterwards both Ash and Magikarp needed a breather before starting the next exercise... Pidgeotto returned to the tree she was resting in, since Ash said he would use Charmander for the next exercise...

On the beach, Misty was sun bathing. Lying down on a towel, socking up the sun, in complete relaxation. She was almost asleep, with how calm and quiet it is. Looking around, she can see several of the pokemon doing their own thing. Fennekin was chasing after Charmander, who was currently hiding behind Brock's Onix, who was asleep. Misty let out a light chuckle, like pokemon like trainer.

She turned her attention back to the sea, and saw her pokemon enjoying the water. It's been a long time since they have enjoyed the water like this. Normally when they find a body of water, it isn't that big and only Goldeen would be in it. Smiling at her happy pokemon, Misty looked back to the sky, slowly closing her eyes with a tired yawn... A little nap won't hurt anyone...

That was until she felt a sharp pinch on the back of her leg "AAAAARRRRR!". Misty jumped up and looked to find a little pokemon, red and shaped like a crab, hanging of her, with it's claw pinched onto her skin.

Hearing their trainer cry out in pain Staryu and Tentacruel rushed to her aid. They instantly saw the problem, and Tentacruel wrapped a tentacle around the guilty party. Staryu ordered the pokemon to do something... 'Let go.". When the pokemon didn't comply, Tentacruel tightened her grip and did so, until the claw opened, letting go of Misty.

When she felt the pincer let go. Misty instantly rubbed her saw leg in an attempt to ease the pain. Tentacruel dropped the culprit on the ground, who had swirls in it's eyes, Tentacruel may have been a little over kill. After a minute Misty loomed over the culprit.

By this time, the pokemon came back around. What he saw was enough to give him nightmares, a human with orange hair, darkness surrounding her, with a raging fire behind... Did he die and go to poke-hell? He knows not, what he has done...

"OOOOHHHHHH A Krabby... I always wanted to catch one." Misty exclaimed, turning her anger into glee. Krabby, along with Staryu and Tentacruel had massive sweat drops. Misty pulled out a pokeball and tapped it against Krabby. The ball shook three time, before dinging. Krabby would've preferred to stay on the beach, but he was too tired from that tentacle attack, plus he's not the strongest their is... Well, maybe having a trainer won't be so bad.

Misty ran to the sea line, with Tentacruel and Staryu by her side. When she arrived, she shouted Goldeen over. When all three of her pokemon were there, she grabbed the pokeball containing her new Krabby.

"Come out and meet the team, Krabby." Misty exclaimed as she threw the pokeball, up in the air...

After a short break, it was time for training between Magikarp and Charmander. Ash stood on the beach, with the sea to his side. Charmander was on the beach in a tough battle stance. Magikarp was facing Charmander from the water with a look of pure determination.

"Alright Magikarp, this exercise is going to help you build up a defence with your own moves." Ash explained. "I want you to jump out of the water and Charmander will fire embers at you. Whilst in the air, use fail and that should weaken there power.".

"Fine with me." Magikarp replied.

"You guys ready?" Ash asked and both pokemon nodded. "Alright then... Begin.".

The training exercises started at Ash noticed how over time Magikarp was getting better at resisting attacks and lowing the power of the embers with his own attack. All was going fine until...

"Ash Ash Ash Ash Ash! HELP!" Squirtle yelled as he came shooting out of the water and behind Ash's legs. Ash was taken back, he has never seen Squirtle scared, what was going on? Magikarp and Charmander were also stopped as Squirtle distrusted their rhythm.

"Whoa Squirtle, where's the fire?" Ash asked. Squirtle frantically pointed out to around the cliff side, in the water.

"LOOK!" Squirtle exclaimed and an army of five Tentacruel were swimming towards them, looking very angry. The head Tentacruel had a massive bump on it's head.

"What did you do?" Ash asked in a stern tone. Squirtle slowly walked from behind Ash's leg with a cheesy grin, massive sweat drop and scratching his head in embarrassment.

"I was simply practising my Water Gun and accidentally hit a boulder with was on the edge of the cliff. The boulder fell down into the water, and the Tentacruel got in the way." Squirtle sheepishly explained. Ash, Charmander and even Magikarp looked at Squirtle with deadpan expressions. "Come on, it was a complete accident.".

"Rrriigghht..." Ash replied, drawing the word out, clearly disbelieving his water turtle. "We can talk about this later. Right now, you two go and get the others, we will need everyone's help with this.". Both Squirtle and Charmander nodded before running off in different directions to get help.

"HHHEEELLLPPP!" Magikarp cried out in pain as he flew threw the air. Turns out he tried to tackle the Tentacruel on his own... Literally and was sent flying by a powerful poison jab. Ash saw Magikarp land hard in the water, and the Tentacruel picking up speed. With his new injuries, there is no-one Magikarp can escape...

Ash, with a look of pure determination, ran into the water and swam at Magikarp with all his strength. When he got to the water type, he covered Magikarp from the incoming threat with is body, and looked down at the injured pokemon. He was about to say something when he was hit in the back by a powerful poison jab.

"ARR!" Ash shouted as pain ran throughout his entier body.

"ASH!" Magikarp shouted in fear.

"I'm... Fine mate... Just... Save yourself..." Ash panted as he recovered from the attack. He pushed Magikarp towards the shore. Not a moment later, a tentacle wrapped around Ash and he was lifted into the air...

Magikarp watched in horror as the other four Tentacruel's fired Bubble Beams at him... Why! Why was Magikarp so... Weak... Ash was only there because Magikarp foolishly tried to take on the gang himself... Ash spent all day helping him, now he's in trouble, and there is nothing he can do...

Magikarp's fear and sadness was replaced with anger... These things want to hurt the boy who's help him did they... Well, he would show them the true results of Ash's training... With the rush of adrenaline, Magikarp glew white. His shape turned from a little fish into a giant sea serpent... He evolved into a Gyarados...

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Gyarados roared, with pure power. The five Tentacruel stopped at the scary sound and turned to the source. They couldn't help but sweat drop and the leader even dropped Ash. Gyarados was quick to react and caught him with his tail. Due to his new size, Gyarados was able to gently lay Ash on the beach before turning back to the gang.

The Tentacruel felt brave... Or stupid and prepared to launch another load of Bubble Beam's, at Gyarados. Before they could fire, Gyarados tried out one of his own attacks... The water flying type, opened his mouth and unleashed a flame like, blue ball at the centre of the gang. The exploding caused massive damage to all of them and broke them a part...

"Leave... Or else." Gyarados threatened as he narrowed his eyes at the leader, who took the brunt of the attack. The Tentacruel did the smart thing, and left. Gyarados turned his attention back to the boy on the beach...

Back on the beach, Serena had just finished feeding Horsea. Serena returned the can to her back, to throw away when she finds a bin. As she did, a spare pokeball rolled out and down to the water. Serena walked over and picked it up. Both Horsea and Misty showed up (Misty has since changed back into her normal clothes).

"Hey Serena... Guess what I just caught." Misty shouted as she approached. Then she spotted Horsea. "Wow a Horsea... Guess today is my lucky day.". Misty pulled out a spare pokeball and threw it at Horsea...

Horsea was sucked in and began shaking back and forth violently... One minute passed and it was still shaking... Two minutes past, still shaking... It was close to three minutes when the shaking stopped. Everyone held their breath... And the Pokeball burst open and Horsea appeared, a free pokemon.

"Awe man... Guess I'll have to battle it." Misty moaned as she grabbed Staryu's pokeball. Before she could release her pokemon Horsea jumped up and hit the pokeball in Serena's hand. She was sucked in, and it instantly dinged...

"I think I just caught a Horsea." Serena replied, a little absent minded.

"Come on... Why would Horsea choose you over me?" Misty whined. Serena quickly rushed to her back and grabbed her pokedex, she returned to Misty's side and scanned her new pokemon:

Horsea, The Dragon Pokemon. Uses its tail to keep its balance while spraying ink from its mouth. The ink appears to be for shooting down bugs.

Type: Water

Ability: Swift Swim

Hidden Ability: Damp (Note: Hidden Ability is locked)

Sex: Female

Nature: Hasty

Move(s): Smokescreen, Bubble, Agility, Water Gun

"Well... Me and Horsea spent most of the day playing together..." Serena explained as the pokedex finished.

"Yeah... Well, I still have my new Krabby." Misty replied. "I bet Ash will be so jealous when he see's we both have new pokemon.".

"Hehehe..." Serena giggled cutely at the thought... Suddenly, a shadowed figure, a pokemon, appeared swimming towards the shore...

It wasn't long until Ash woke up... Needless to say, he was wetting himself to see a giant Gyarados looming over him... Although he did ease up a little when the water flying type smiled as he sat up.

"Ash... Are you okay?" Gyarados asked, concern evident in his voice.

"Um... Yeah..." Ash replied, somewhat hesitant. "Magikarp... Is that you?".

"Sure is...Thanks to your training, I evolved..." Gyarados replied greatfully. "Thank you.".

"You don't need to thank me... I did what anyone would do." Ash replied.

"No... Not anyone would take a poison jab to protect a wild pokemon." Gyarados replied.

"Hehehe, maybe not." Ash sheepishly laughed. "... So, what are you going to do now, Gyarados?". Gyarados was deep in thought. What was he going to do? He was here to train, to be strong enough to rejoin his clan... But it's customary for the pokemon to leave once they evolve... And he isn't likely to find them now...

He then looks at Ash... It's thanks to this boy that he evolved, and isn't Tentacruel feed... He owes this boy so much, but if they part ways, how can he ever repay him? That's when he got an idea...

"Hey Ash... Could I join your team?" Gyarados asked, hopefully. Ash couldn't contain the smile on his face.

"Of course Gyarados, with you on my team, we can take the Indigo League by storm." Ash declared with enthusiasm, although he stopped when he felt more pain as he tried to throw his fist in the air. "My bag and everything is back with my friends, so I will officially catch you...". Ash was cut off, by the sound of his pokemon. Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Pidgeotto were all running (or flying) towards him... Pidgeotto even had Ash's bag.

When they arrived, Ash did some explaining and introductions before holding out a spare pokeball. Gyarados hit his tail against it and was sucked in, it instantly dinged. Ash smiled at his new capture.

"Alright Gyarados, come on out." Ash shouted as he pressed the button and Gyarados appeared. As soon as he re-appeared, Gyarados proceeded to ruthlessly lick Ash with affection. "Ha ha ha ha ha... Stop it... Gyarados... That tickles...". All the other pokemon had sweat drops at the show of affection... Never, has anyone seen a friendlier Gyarados... Once the affection stopped Ash fished his pokedex out of his bag and scanned his new pokemon:

Gyarados, The Atrocious Pokemon, and the evolved form of Magikarp. Once it appears, it goes on a rampage. It remains enraged until it demolishes everything around it.

Type: Water / Flying

Ability: Intimidate

Hidden Ability: Moxie (Note: Hidden Ability is unlocked)

Sex: Male

Nature: Gentle (Note: The nature is unlikely to change since this is it's final evolutionary form)

Move(s): Bite, Tackle, Splash, Fail, Aqua Tail, Thrash, Scary Face, Leer, Dragon Rage, Ice Fang

"Alright guys. Time to return." Ash announced as he tried to stand up, but fell back down still feeling the pain from the Tentacruel. All the pokemon rushed to Ash's aid but Gyarados was first and lifted him up with his tail. Ash was placed on Gyarados' back.

"Allow me... Trainer." Gyarados suggested, and Ash petted his head.

"Sure buddy... Just let me return everyone else first." Ash replied and Pidgeotto dropped his back off with him. Ash fished out the four pokeballs and returned his pokemon, except for Pikachu, and Gyarados. Pikachu continued and ran up Gyarados' body until he was on Ash's shoulder. "Alright Gyarados... We're all set.". With that, the trio set sail, staying somewhat close to the shoreline, to the rest of the group...

Suddenly, a shadowed figure, a pokemon, appeared swimming towards the shore... It was a Gyarados, with Ash and Pikachu on it's back.

"Hey guy's... Guess what I've caught!" Ash shouted as they approached the shoreline. When they arrived, Gyarados lifted Ash and Pikachu back to the ground with his tail.

"Ash... THIS IS A GYARADOS!" Misty exclaimed in complete shock. Ash remained sat on the sand.

"Really?" Ash sarcastically questioned. "I hadn't noticed.". Serena couldn't help but giggle.

"But... But..." Misty stuttered.

"Look Misty, this is how I met Gyarados..." Ash went on to explain the day from when he parted with Serena. The two girls also showed off there new pokemon. Ash and Serena scanned the Krabby:

Krabby, The River Crab Pokemon. Its pincers are not only powerful weapons, they are used for balance when walking sideways.

They returned all the water types and set off for Brock, with Misty and Serena helping Ash, since he was still struggling after the Tentacruel attack.

When they arrived, Brock got to work making medicine for Ash, they introduced the new pokemon, Gyarados licked Ash again; causing sweat drops and the journey... Continues...

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