Sorry everyone for this HUGE delay. Mother hasn't been very well and I'm having to work extra hours. Hopefully by this Sunday I will have Chapter 21 published. Please reveiw and leave a vote for which Pokemon you would like Ash to use in the match. Thank you! :)

"Ok boys, enough now" a firm female voice shouted from the kitchen,

The 3 boys turned to look at their auntie's face from the living room, which was filled with annoyance. They'd been giggling since the accident and even missed dinner because they couldn't stop laughing, quite frankly everyone had had enough.

"Sorry Aunt Delia" they all sighed in sync. Jimmy had an idea that might keep their minds off of what had happened, "Aunt Delia, do you think we could go out for a bit? Ash and Dawn have already left and Rudy and Cissy are away out, there is no point of us staying here"

She stood there for a moment before walking into the living room, giving all three a stern look. "Yes-" al three boys jumped up in unisen celebrating their freedom and interrupting their aunt "BUT.." she raised her voice, causing the boys to settle down "No trouble! I mean it you three. Don't go into town and start laughing there and disturbing all of my neighbours"

"We won't, I know a place where we can go" Jimmy smiled, looking over at his brother and Red.

"Where's that Jimmy?" Red asked with a gentle tone,

"Up in the hills. Remember we used to go there when we were younger, I wonder if our wee den we made is still there Ethan?" turning to look at his brother,

He smiled, "Sounds great! I haven't been there since we moved to Johto, it would be nice to check it out again"

"Wait, are you boys talking about the bit behind the river with all the wild Pokemon and that big tree?" Red asked curiously. The twins both nodded with an excited child like look on their faces. "Wow, I haven't been there since I was 12! That would be great seeing it again"

"Great! Now off you go. No causing trouble and don't go around annoying wild Pokemon" Delia pushed them lightly with her hands out of the house as they shoved their trainers onto their feet and hurried out the door.

"Ash where are we going!?" Dawn shouted as she clutched onto Ash's waist,

Ash turned his head towards her's as it rested on his shoulder during the flight. Even though she couldn't see anything because of the blindfold she wore across her eyes, she still had her other senses.

"You just have to wait and see" he answered cheekily,

"But was it nessacery to blindfold me? I'm not comfortable sitting on Charizard's back either. Couldn't we have just drove!?" she shouted again,

"I always knew you were a bad flyer" he chuckled "We're nearly there, just don't be scared ok? I'm here and no harm will come to you"

Dawn froze. No harm will come to me? she thought. Where were they going! She clutched Ash's waist tighter and she rested her head against his back avoiding the wind that was flowing swiftly through her long blue hair. Even though she couldn't see, she loved what she was feeling, smelling and hearing.

Ash's heartbeat could be heard even with Charizard roaring through the clouds. The smell of his cologne and hair was incredible, chocolate, that's what it was. She never paid attention to it until now, that she had enough concentration to guess was it was he always smelled of.

The feeling was amazing. Just being with Ash would make her stomach flutter, but this took it to the next level. She trusted him, even though he blindfolded her and put her on his most powerful Pokemon, without hesitation she went, she just knew he would never hurt her or put her in any danger what's so ever. He's shown me that too many times, Dawn thought, smiling.

She felt like she was in one of her dreams she used to have. Her and Ash riding away into the distance, free.. that's how she felt. She finally felt free.

"DAWN! DAWN!?" Ash's voice was shouting through the air, flowing back to Dawn's ears as she finally lifted her head up, "Did you fall asleep?" he asked calmly,

"No, I was just thinking sorry" her face flushed a rosy pink, thanking Arceus Ash couldn't see her face right now.

"It's ok Dawn, we're nearly there. Just a couple more minutes" he chimed,

"Wow, look at all these Butterfree" Jimmy gasped, looking around him,

Red smiled down at his cousins, "We might be able to see some rare ones further up" he began climbing the rest of a tall oak tree. The two brothers smiled back and looked at each other.

"Why do you think he's being so nice Jimmy, it's not like him" Ethan whispered,

"I'm not sure. It was quite strange he was laughing with us earlier and then acting like he used to before we left. Something's definitely up, but we'll just go along with it for now ok?"

His brother nodded at him before returning to the spot where his hand was placed, wrapped around a thick branch that was all mossy and looked extremely old.

"Careful you two, these branches up here are a little thinner. But since were not the weight of a Wailord we should be just fine. But still, be careful" he chuckled, continuing his climb.

The two brothers looked at each other with a confused look again and shrugged their shoulders.

"Jimmy, Ethan look!" Red pointed towards a flock of Butterfree that were perched on a tree nearby.

"How do you know if their rare or not Red?" Ethan asked,

"They all have different patterns on their wings and sometimes body. See there, there's a few Pink ones, obviously must be female. Look there" he pointed "That Butterfree has green eyes and purple blobs on the bottom of it's wings"

"You know allot about this Red. Should of became a researcher"

Red looked down from his lounge position against a branch in the tree with a frown on his face. He knew then and there he was getting a bit too comfortable with his family. He liked it in some ways, but hated it more, he didn't like getting too close. He sighed before glancing back at them,

"Some things are better just left un-said Ethan" he huffed "Come on you two, let's see if we can see the river from here"

"Ok Charizard, descend" Charizard roared at Ash's command as he began slowly soaring down, making sure he wasn't putting any pressure on both of his passengers.

Ash gripped tightly onto the ribbon around Charizard's neck, not pulling too hard that it will choke him as Dawn wrapped her arms around his waist pulling him towards her, obviously feeling fear from falling.

"Dawn, no need to worry. We'll be perfectly fine" she could feel him smiling through his words. His voice soothed her as the cold air began to grind her cheeks under the blindfold. She began rubbing them into his thick jacket her mum had made for him once when they went to Snowpoint City. She smiled at the memory.

"Get ready to land Dawn" he shouted back at her,

"O-Ok. Please be careful Charizard!" she shouted, Charizard roaring back at her command.

With that Charizard finally reached ground. His big heavy dragon claws bounced off of the ground as he folded his wings against his body lightly so that his passengers could get off. Ash guided Dawn's hands into his own so she could slide off into him and placed her on her feet, still with the blindfold on.

"You ready?" he asked,

Dawn bit her lip as she nodded inadvisedly as Ash began removing the blindfold from around her eyes. He smiled when he saw her first reaction.

She gulped hard "Ash It's-It's a-"

"What do you think?" he asked,

"I-I don't know. It's beautiful, b-but how-"

Ash chuckled "It's a replica of the Lady Moura, but about half it's size. It's called a 'super yacht apparently. It has a swimming pool with retractable roofs. Both hull and it's superstructure is made of pure steel"

"Ash I can't believe you got yourself a boat!" she screamed, annoyed.

"It's not mines Dawn, it's yours"

She gasped at the sudden news "Mine?"

"Of-course! It's in my name, but it's yours"

"Why is it mine?" she frowned,

"Because look" he gently took her hand and began walking to the rear of the yacht. Dawn was checking along side of it as they approached the end. She was startled at what she saw, but overwhelmed. "You see" he pointed.

The rear of the yacht had 'Dawn' written in crystal blue italic writing against the bright white varnished paint of the yacht. Dawn noticed straight away that it was Ash's handwriting due to the note he had left her a few weeks ago when she had woken up that morning.

Dawn didn't know whether to feel excited flattered or extremely annoyed. She stood there for a moment, processing what was going through her mind at that moment.

"Ash! This must of cost a fortune! I can't believe you did this" Ash smiled at her, noticing the ecitment escaping from her blushing cheeks. He turned and intertwined his fingers with hers and stood there, staring into her deep blue ocean eyes.

"Dawn, you need to understand that I don't care at all about money. I think you deserve everything I can give you and whatever I can afford. Your worth much more to me than all the money in this world" he took a deep breath as he wiped a tear that was escaping her right eye,

"We've always had a bond that nobody could break. We've went through a hell of allot to get here Dawn and I wouldn't of changed one bit of it for anyone! Whenever we fought, we'd forget about it minutes later and move on, strengething our friendship again and again and look where it's gotten us. Doesn't matter what happens, I'm always going to be here for you, for us"

She began to whisper "But Ash-" before he placed a finger lightly on her lips. He took her left hand in his own and began to kneal down, looking straight into her eyes the whole time.

"Dawn Hikari Berlitz, will you still do me the honour of becoming my beautiful wife?"

"Of-course silly!" she beamed, bringing his head upto meet hers as she brought him on her with a passionate kiss.

Ash's smile said it all as he pulled away from her, wrapping her in his arms and swinging her around once, turning her head to face his.

He nuzzled her neck "Dawn, I love you so much"

She placed her arms around his neck and cuffed the back of his head "I love you too Ash" she smiled, pulling away from him.

"Come on then. Let's check out your new crib" he winked.

FEW HOURS LATER...

Ash pointed up towards the dark night sky filled with sparkling 'Dawn eyes' as he called them "..And that's Leo" he smiled.

Dawn nuzzled closer into his side as his arm wrapped around her shoulder. After the tour of her new gift, Ash had lit it up with golden tea lights, which she didn't realise were tied around it, and he took her upto the roof where the pool was. On a piece of green at the end of the yacht, he had laid out a big blanket for them to lay on.

"Thanks for the georgraphy lesson Mr. Ketchum" she teased,

He rocked her a little "Hey, at least I know a thing or two about the stars. Not many people do when their a trainer like me"

"It was nice. I like listening to you talk, your voice is so soothing it could put a baby too sleep" she whispered softly in to his shoulder.

"Then when we have our own children, you won't need to get up all the time. I could just ramble on and on about you and they'd fall asleep" he teased back,

Dawn sat up a little startled "Are you trying to say I'm boring!?"

"Dawn, I never said you were boring, I was talking about my apparent soothing voice" he chuckled,

"Yeah right! It's not all that great!" she crossed her arms looking away from him,

"I bet you I could make you fall asleep right now if you wanted me to" he smiled, sitting up to reach her level.

She turned to snap at him mockingly "I highly doubt it!"

He reached over to pull her towards him, resting her head against his shoulder while stroking her long hair against her thick coat.

"Ash what are you-"

"Look at the sky tell me what do you see. Just close your eyes and describe it to me.
The heavens are sparkling with starlight tonight, that's what I see through your eyes...I see the heavens each time that you smile. I hear your heartbeat just go on for miles. And suddenly I know why life is worthwhile, that's what I see through your eyes, that's what I see through your eyes-"

Ash looked down and noticed Dawn's eyes were completely shut. Her mouth was partially open and her hand rested against his chest. She was sleeping peacefully as Ash chuckled his soft singing had made her pass out.

"I guess I won then" he whispered, reaching down to kiss her forehead.

"Hey Jimmy. What do you think was wrong with Red today. He was acting.. normal" Ethan whispered,

"I don't know bro, something is on his mind. He hasn't been himself the past few days. Have you heard anything?"

"What do you mean 'heard anything?'" he emphasized,

"Well.. you know when we were in the forest?" his brother nodded "Well.. he seemed more relaxed there than he has since he turned 16. It's weird, do you think he's changing since he came here?"

"Red has only changed once! He would never change back unless a girl was involved and you know that won't happen. He's the equivalent of Gary in many ways"

"Yeah, but Ethan you have to understand Gary isn't a dick head all the time like Red is. I find it weird he's been acting normal. After he came up to the Ranch with us today he was.. relaxed"

"Do you think it might be Ash's doing?"

"No, that would lead to a battle and you know it" he said firmly,

"I guess your right" Ethan sighed "Do you think it's Dawn's doing?"

"No, that would lead to Ash fighting Red"

"Daisy then"

There was a pause before Jimmy said anything.

"It could be. He did disappear for a while when we were up there. And she did come back this morning. I'm starting to wonder what happened between those two. They were always together and then one day 'poof' finished"

"We'll find out sooner or later. Night Jimmy" he waved over from across the room,

"Night little bro" he smiled back.

It's Saturday morning at the Kethcum home and Delia, Johanna and Dawn are preparing snacks for the afternoon announcement of Ash's Championship battle against Cynthia in a weeks time. Lance had came by a few days ago to take Garchomp, Glaceon and his newly evolved Dargonite back home in Sinnoh to Cynthia's mansion.

Things had been heating up in the past few days. Jimmy and Ethan still hadn't any idea about Red's sudden change of heart towards them and Ash. Dawn had been incredibly lazy and moody towards Ash since the morning after she got her gift. Ash, fair to say, always left the house to go and train with his Pokemon and spend some time with Pikachu.

Gary and Zoey had phoned the day before to let everyone know they were returning from their project in Sinnoh on breeding and asked to meet up with Brock later on to learn a little more about it.

"Dawn dear, could you pass me that tray please?" her mother politely asked,

"Here" she grabbed a black tray on the island in the kitchen and handed it to her mother in an aggressive manner. Her mother was beginning to get sick and tired of her attitude.

"Dawn! What in Arceus is wrong with you!?"

She shrugged "Nothing"

"Nothing! Are you on your time of the month?" she screamed, causing the boys in the living room to giggle.

"No, I haven't.. Wait" she started thinking,

"Dawn, please say something.." her mother asked.

"I haven't... I've been off the pill since Ash left, when he came back, I forgot all about it" she sulked,

Johanna and Delia glanced at each other before wrapping their arms around her, covering her with different mixtures from their aprons. Dawn hated it and began screaming.

"Eww! Get off of me, it stinks in here!"

"We're going to be grandparents!" the older woman began shouting in sync, jumping up and down with excitement.

"Ash will kill me if he finds out mum! I promised him we would talk about it AFTER he becomes Champion. What am I going to do!" she paced around the kitchen clutching her head. She turned to face the two mothers "Is this why I've been getting up early all the time and falling asleep really early too?"

"I think so Dawn. Take a test and be sure, it could be a false alarm. I already knew when I was pregnant with Ash, I blew up like a balloon after a few weeks" Delia giggled.

"I can't! I can't do it! I've been so nasty to him and didn't even realise why. He'll go crazy Delia, he'll eat everything and start throwing his lamp around the place and poor Pikachu! What happens if he ends up shouting at him for it and-"

"DAWN! SETTLE DOWN!" Johanna screamed and Dawn halted to attention like a soldier to his commander "Before you say ANYTHING to anyone about this, you need to make sure you know what you want for yourself. If it does turn out to be positive, think for yourself. Ash will never leave you because your pregnant, he's marrying you for one of those reasons. You have other things to think about along the way for you life. He bought you a business.. now if you want that, have it, but don't think you can choose just one"

Delia smiled at the worried Dawn standing in front of her almost in tears "Your mother's right Dawn. Even when I had Ash, I partially studied at Professor Oaks lab and the restaurant down the street I used to run when he was growing up"

"So what can I do?" she snuffled,

"Just be calm, we'll sort something out ok dear?" Johanna reached over to hug her as her daughter melted into her body.

Ok, so what do you think? I spent allot of time on the boat scene... because I'm such a sap! :A Please read and review and remember, I will try and get Chapter 21 published on Sunday! :D