Ash POV:
The bed felt so nice. It was like if I could sleep forever. The warmth of the covers around me and my face in my pillow...Mmmmmmm, so cozy. I should really thank Clemont for letting me sleep in the spare bed in his room. He really was wanting me to have a good night's rest because of today and I am happy that I am getting it. After all, it was the day the Kalos League would begin…
"Ash…" I hear an angelic voice resonate in my ears.
Five more minutes please…
"Ash…" I hear the same voice,only it was slightly louder this time and I groan and turn on the bed away from it. "Ash wake up… it's the big day!" I knew it was the big day, but I wanted to sleep in a little more… Is there a problem with that?
"Ash…" the voice hits me again only that this time it was louder than ever. It was a sweet feminine voice but I still felt like sleeping. "Alright Ash, you asked for it…" wait.. what did I ask for…? "PIKACHU USE THUNDERBOLT!" I hear with a strong and determined tone.
"Pika…"
Oh no…
"CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
It all started out by feeling like a tingly sensation, and then I felt my entire body completely arching itself back in pain and out of control. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I shouted as I shot open my eyes and jumped in the bed. Through the dangerous attack I fell out of the bed and hurt myself on the rug down in the ground… "Ugh…" I moaned as I scratched my eyes and looked at my attacker. What I was met with was a snickering electric mouse, a lemon blonde girl with a yellow mouse poking its head out, and the blue eyes of a honey blonde female staring at me while trying to hold in her laughter.
The honey blonde then moves to be face to face with me and says, "So you are finally up, aren't you?"
I scratched the back of my head and said, "Alright Serena I am up…"
Serena then stood back up and replied with: "Brock and Meyer have prepared breakfast while Clemont headed out to prepare Prism Tower for the opening ceremony of the Lumiose Conference…" Serena then smirked, "I'm bringing my A-game, so you better bring yours Ash."
My eyes widened at such a change of personality that Serena was giving me… But I liked it, "Since when were you the one participating in the league?"
Serena just opened the door and smirked at me with a sinister face that I did not expect the honey blonde to ever have, "Since you asked me to carry you through the Victory Road…" Serena then changed her smirk to a bright smile. "So be ready!" And with that she stepped out of the room.
Bonnie followed her, but before that she turned to me and said, "Hehe, watch her carry you bridal style to the stadium." Bonnie then left with the intention of making me blush. Which worked as I felt myself turn extremely warm in my cheeks.
"Nenne."
"Blur blur blur!" Squishy said as he followed Bonnie out the door by hopping.
"Pika Pikachu…" Pikachu face palmed as he went after the two girls.
Welp, let's put on our clothes then! I need my scarf, gloves, undershirt, jacket, pants, shoes… I then look above the dresser and grab what was on top…
Can't forget my hat!
A/N: So… Who really thought that I would not include an Ash wake up moment. Also, making Serena look like a badass was my intention the whole time xD. Anyways, today will be the trial, but I am going to introduce to us a new character that will probably play a role later on in the league. We saw him talking with Hunter before and this time he will be with him. I wonder what for… I think it is obvious at this point. Also, another girl we will see today as well.
Also, we get to introduce our traveling group to the original group of friends. So there will probably be a lot of introductions.
I want you guys to keep in mind that during this league I will try and make all of Ash's pokemon star one way or another so don't expect any crazy things like in any fic where Ash destroys all his opponents.
Also, like I said before, the Ash-Greninja transformation will be a secret for now, so don't expect it too much until later on.
I will begin to also post some things to help you with the league such as a key to the scoreboard and the announcer so it is a lot more unique than other fics.
Anyways, today we focus on the Kalos League Victory Road which I made up since this is in Lumiose City. This means that I will have a completely made up trial that will make this extremely interesting.
I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 29- Race to Victory!
At the Lumiose Airport:
"Eevee!" Eevee shouted while staring in the direction of two people coming towards Eevee and Hunter. Hunter saw the two people and the Jolteon next to the guy of the two and grew wide eyed.
"Leaf! Night!" Hunter exclaimed as he ran up with Eevee to the duo.
"Hunter!" Night and Leaf exclaimed as they ran up to Hunter. Jolteon was next to Night and ran ahead towards Eevee to have the two members of the same species tackle each other into a hug.
Leaf was a girl with pale skin, green eyes, long silver hair, who was wearing a fedora with a pokeball on it along with a long pink blouse and a long white skirt. As soon as Leaf saw Hunter she sprinted and tackled the boy into a hug. Hunter blushed slightly as Leaf pulled away obviously enjoying the hug, but then Night came up behind the duo.
"So what's cooking?" Night asked as he grabbed Hunter's hand and pulled Hunter into a brotherly hug. "Been a long time bro!"
Hunter smirked and replied with, "It has, how's your team?"
Night smirked and put a hand over his belt, "I only brought Jolteon and Decidueye with me. I left the others to relax at the Soul stadium. I made sure to tell Infernape to not throw a party with the others though."
"Oh god," Hunter slightly snickered at the thought of a party ran by pokemon. Hunter did understand that Night had such a sense of humor as his pokemon. Hunter then thought back to the time that Night's Infernape almost burned down an event center while the local school was trying to host PROM. Hunter slightly laughed a little at that. Then Hunter turned to Night and asked, "Are you ready to attempt the Victory Road."
"Haha, I am totally going to carry you," Night joked as Jolteon jumped on his trainer's shoulder. "Just kidding, but Jolteon is the pokemon I will be using." Night replied with a smirk.
"And I will use Eevee!" Hunter replied as the Eevee jumped on his shoulder.
"Ummm… Hunter?" Hunter turned to the soft voice of Leaf to then listen to what the silver haired girl had to say. "Are you going to show us…" Leaf then lowered her voice a little and asked, "Zapdos?"
Hunter smiled at Leaf and said, "Later, right now we have to get to the actual league!" The group then began to walk back to the exit of the airport in the direction of Prism Tower. "This will be an amazing league and I know it!"
With Hau:
"Alright, it all starts here… I have to surpass so many trainers to get to my goal and save Lillie…" Hau said to himself in a bench close to Lumiose City. Hau then pulled a pokeball out of his belt and looked at it while saying. "Incineroar… We have been through so much together and it is up to us to work together."
The pokeball in Hau's hand slightly shook. Hau sighed and looked up to see the podium being set up by a boy with a blue jumpsuit, lemon blonde hair and glasses. Hau recognized the boy as Clemont, the gym leader he defeated with one of his strongest pokemon.
He stood up from the bench and went up to the podium and noticed that Clemont was having a little bit of difficulty with the microphone since the cord was tangled under his feet.
"Clemont?" Hau asked as he approached the young inventor.
"Huh? Hau?" Clemont asked with confusion.
"Need help?"
Clemont went a little wide eyed as he looked down and said, "uhh...Yea, thanks!"
Hau smiled at this which shocked the inventor just as much as the person that smiled himself. Hau couldn't believe it, he just flashed a smile at someone. Hau now noticed something: It is a lot easier to smile than to frown.
With Ash, Serena, Bonnie, and Brock:
The gang was going in the direction of Prism Tower. The tower was beaming through the sunny day in front of many people that were also in the streets headed in that very direction.
"Pikachu, are you ready?" Ash asked the rodent on his shoulder.
Pikachu looked at Ash and smiled, "Pika pika!"
"Great! We are totally ready to take this trial on!" Ash exclaimed as he looked at the honey blonde that claimed would "carry" him. "So Serena, what is the plan?"
Serena turned to Ash, "What plan?"
Ash just snickered and said, "Let me guess, we are winging this, aren't we?"
Bonnie and Brock face palmed at Ash's assertion. They knew there was no possibility that Serena would be that crazy.
"Exactly!" Serena replied with a large smile on her face.
Bonnie and Brock completely fell flat at this. Serena had just defeated them when it came to deciding what her character was like. Ash looked at Serena and then turned away to snicker a little. He would have never guessed Serena would be that reckless, specially when it looked like a strategy was crucial. "Pikapi!" Pikachu shouted as he got everyone's looked at what Pikachu was pointing to and when they saw the people running towards them they smiled.
"Ash! Serena! Hi!" Shauna exclaimed as she reached the group.
"Jeez Shauna, be more careful!" Calem wheezed from behind as he fell to his knees to catch his breath. Calem then noticed Ash and Serena and said, "Hey guys, long time no see!"
"Hey Calem!" Ash said as he looked at the jet black haired boy. "Wait, where is Trevor and Tierno."
"Oh, they went straight to Prism Tower since they were teaming up," Calem then put an arm around Shauna and said, "Shauna and I are going to be teaming up as well, we will make sure to make it!"
"Oh yea?" Ash declared as he put an arm around Serena while declaring. "Serena and I will crush everyone!"
The two girls laughed at each other with slight blushes due to how the boys were treating them previously. Brock then spoke up, "You two must be friends of Ash and Serena, nice to meet you, I'm Brock."
Calem shook Brock's hand while saying, "Nice to meet you, I'm Calem!"
Shauna then spoke up, "And I'm Shauna, nice to meet you!" Shauna then turned to Bonnie and said, "Bonnie you look like you have grown so much!"
Bonnie just smiled and said, "Shauna, can I take care of your Tropius later on?"
Shauna nodded, but Calem pouted, "What about Chesnaught? He has not had a brush in so long."
"Fine," Bonnie resigned. "I can do Chesnaught as well!"
"Guys, the event will start soon, let's go!" Ash exclaimed as he started walking towards Prism Tower. The others began to follow the raven haired trainer as the event was going to start soon.
With Ashura:
Ashura was cloaked by his large hoodie that went over his face and eyes so that no one could recognize him. Ashura looked at the crowd forming in front of Prism Tower and sighed. Ashura was on a tree near Prism Tower hidden on top of it. Ashura then looked down and caught a glimpse of his son walking with a group of friends… Ashura went wide eyed as he saw who he was walking with… He recognized Calem since the time he battled his son, but that did not catch his attention. It was Serena that he looked at.
"Isn't that Tony's daughter?" Ashura asked himself as he looked at the honey blonde. He saw how close his son was to the daughter of apparently some person named Tony and sighed. "Serena… If only you knew the truth about your father…"
Ashura then saw a lemon haired boy with glasses and a blue jumpsuit go towards the group. It seemed that there was some introductions that happened, but it was very interesting how everyone was so friendly to each other.
Ashura shifted his gaze among the crowd and noticed the boy he talked to the other night, and then shifting his gaze a little more and he noticed one of his strongest opponents: The boy with the Eevee. It took Ashura Darkrai AND Aegislash to take down that person, and it definitely was amazing how someone could team so many amazing moves to such a small Eevee. Ashura did remember that as one of his strongest opponents at a top 4 battle at the Indigo League… Not even Lance stood a chance.
Ashura then shifted his gaze back to Ash and asked himself, "Would Ash be strong enough to battle my A team?"
With Ash:
Ash and his friends were down at the bottom looking up at Prism Tower. Within the crowd he noticed how everyone was looking towards the tower where there was a podium and stage set up. The stage was large enough so that Ash could see the person despite the crowd. The cheering had gotten very loud as people were waiting for the event to start.
Suddenly, everyone turned their attention to the tower as the sound of footsteps covered the speakers. Everyone looked up to see the man with the lab coat walk up to the stage. He then put the microphone to his mouth and began to talk: "Hello people of Lumiose City and all over the world!"
At this everyone responded by cheering at the professor as he kept speaking, "I am Professor Sycamore and welcome to the Kalos League! It is amazing how many participants we have this year!" The professor then looked down at a piece of paper and said, "We have six hundred and thirty seven registered trainers this year! That is more than any other year!" Sycamore let the audience roar as he then continued, "Since we added one round, it won't be the top one hundred and twenty eight that make it to the actual tournament, but this time two hundred and fifty six!" Everyone cheered at this and Ash felt that his ears were on fire as he looked to his left and noticed Clemont covering Bonnie's ears. "I notice that everyone is eager to begin, but here is how things will commence."
Sycamore then stopped as three carpets under the feet of everyone standing lit up. Ash was near the left carpet as he watched Professor Sycamore signal to them, "That, is the route to the actual stadium. People that are not participating in the tournament will be able to use the normal path to get to the stadium. All challengers including their chosen partner will have to follow this pathway through the streets of Lumiose City and travel through the inside of the hill that leads to the top and to the finish line at the trainer's village." Sycamore then looked at the crowd and followed by saying, "If you have the pokemon you are going to use, then reveal them from their pokeballs.
Ash looked around to see that everyone was taking out pokeballs as large flashes of light materialized into many pokemon that looked amazingly powerful to battle in the league. Ash then turned to Serena who took out a pokeball which opened to reveal Braixen. Ash smiled knowing that Pikachu would work amazingly well with Braixen. Serena then kneeled down to Braixen and explained the situation. Braixen looked very happy that she got chosen and from the looks of it Braixen was also very determined.
"Now, I am going to need everyone who is not participating to stand clear of the carpets," Professor Sycamore said as he looked down on the crowd. Ash then noticed as many of the people including Brock, Clemont, and Bonnie moved to the side leaving Serena, Braixen, Ash himself and Pikachu.
Looking around, Ash saw many people, to his left he saw the boy with green hair he had bumped into before using a large tiger pokemon that Ash had never seen before. He looked to be working alone, but at the same time, it made Ash feel confident that the person was probably a strong trainer. At the same time, Ash also saw another boy with an Eevee who had an emerald suit and green vest teaming with another person that had a black and blue jacket along with a Jolteon.
Ash then turned to see another person with blue hair that made him have a sick feeling to his mouth… Damian.
"Hey, good luck!" Calem said as he and Shauna snapped Ash from his thoughts.
"You too!" Ash exclaimed as he looked at Serena. Shifting his focus to what was behind Serena also made his confused, there was a man with a cloak that was looking in his direction. Next to him was an Aegislash which was in shield form. Ash could have sworn he saw raven hair inside the cloak, but he then refocused his gaze to the honey blonde in front of him. She looked worried about Ash's expression, but Ash just said, "Don't worry about it… It was nothing."
Serena shrugged her shoulders and looked at the direction away from Prism Tower… It really would be a strong competition.
"Are the trainer's ready?" Professor Sycamore asked through the microphone and everyone roared in affirmative.
Ash and Serena along with their pokemon tensed up their muscle tension… Inside their minds they told each other that they would never give up until the end…
"This challenge will begin at the moment that the fireworks of Prism Tower go off," Professor Sycamore included. "On your marks…"
"Get set…"
"(Ppppppeeeeeeewwww)... BOOM!"
And with that, everyone that was participating began to run with extreme energy through the paths. Ash saw as Bonnie, Clemont and Brock wished them luck as they passed. Ash smiled and waved as Serena also gave a small wave. The duo then ran through the city with great speed. At one point though, Ash saw as the people that were around him began to lag behind, so he turned to Serena and smiled, "Told you (pant) that we would (pant) make a good team!"
Serena blushed at this, but the blush meant increased blood flow, which meant that she could run faster than anyone she could have ever thought would run. Serena then put herself ahead of Ash as the duo ran through a corner following the pathway. The streets were littered with people watching the event live and it was clearly a great thing to watch. Ash saw as Serena looked back and smiled as Braixen and Pikachu were easily keeping up with their trainers.
In a cafe with Meyer watching the Television:
"This is so exciting, it has just begun and I know that it is already stiff in competition," Meyer said to himself as everyone in the cafe looked at the television.
The attention of everyone then went to the television where Malva was portrayed.
"Hello there citizens of Kalos, the Lumiose Conference is soon to begin as the trainers participating are shown running through the Victory Road," Malva stated as she pointed towards the side of the screen. The green back ground then turned to clips showing some of the running trainers.
The clips went through depicting as people ran in between the buildings and through the streets as they followed the pathways. It clearly was a strong challenge as the pathways then split off into many paths that could be taken that all lead to different caves. Somehow, there would be a way to reach the end of the cave and to the actual trainer village.
Malva then continued explaining, "Only two hundred and fifty six trainers will pass this stage,and only one can win the tournament." Malva then turned to the camera and said, "I am Malva and I will keep updating you in the Kalos League as the tournament progresses with Professor Sycamore, Diantha, and even some different popular people around Kalos. So stay tuned!" With that, Malva smiled and the television went blank.
"This is sure to be an interesting league," Meyer muttered to himself as the people that were in the cafe began to murmur amongst themselves their predictions for the Kalos League.
With Hunter and Night:
"Check it out!" Hunter exclaimed as he saw a cave up ahead. Night followed as they saw the entrance to the cave and stopped running to then look around and notice that they were both by themselves.
"A cave," Night said as he looked at the mouth. "Might as well go through it."
The duo stepped into the cave and the atmosphere changed from light to dark. The darkness was visible though as the duo went through the cave which was just a straight rocky tunnel. Occasionally, Jolteon would spark some electricity in order to create some light.
"Night, check this out!" Hunter exclaimed as he saw that in his way was a footprint. Though this did not look like a small one either. It was larger than Hunter's foot and it had spikes coming out of it.
"Eevee…" Eevee said as he sniffed the footprint. Night looked at the print with a perplexed look on his face until he saw Eevee point to something.
"Jolteon…" Night said with a serious tone. "Use thunder and light up what is in our path for us."
"Teon!" The electric type exclaimed as he made himself glow on electricity and began to make a beam of electricity that slammed the ground harmlessly in front of the duo.
"Eevee, keep your guard up," Hunter replied as he began to walk in front of the group.
The duo kept walking for a few minutes until they reached a fork that led either left or right. Night looked at the pathway and noticed that there was a way to find a way towards the exit if they pulled their heads together. "Hunter, did they ever tell you what kind of pokemon live in these caves?"
"No, they didn't, why?" Hunter replied until he looked at the fork and began to think about which path to use. "Why don't we try the left first?"
"Sure, let's go left then," Night replied as he began to walk in the left direction. "If we run into-..."
"ROAR!" A large sound caused the entire cave to shake as the sound of large footsteps reached the duo. Night and Hunter gritted their teeth as they saw a Tyrantrum get in their way of the fork. The dinosaur pokemon had apparently came from the left side too to make things worse, but now it was completely blocking them.
"Great…" Night said as he turned to Hunter. "No choice, don't we…"
"Nope…" Hunter then put his arm out and exclaimed: "Shadow Ball!"
"Eeveeeeeeee!" Eevee exclaimed as he formed a large Shadow Ball in his jaw and launched it in the direction of the giant pokemon. The ball of dark energy continued until it hit the torso of the Tyrantrum thus making the pokemon fall back.
"I don't want to hurt it too much," Night remarked as he looked ahead at Tyrantrum who was now on the ground. "Let's try and get around it." Hunter nodded at this as Night and Jolteon lead the way to go around the left fork and with that, Hunter and Eevee followed. Tyrantrum though, he got back up very agitated at what the duo had just down to it as he began to chase the duo to a sprint across the left fork. Night and Jolteon then stopped running and turned around as Night put a hand in the air and commanded, "Use Shadow Ball at the roof and block the path!" Jolteon quickly obeyed and made a dark purple ball form on his mouth and then he shot it at the room. The ball then caused rocks to start to fall and fall which then stacked on top of each other in a way that blinded the pokemon.
Hunter sighed and looked back, "This will definitely make the trial harder… Let's keep going then…"
Night nodded as he made it to his friend and they began to run through the caves.
With Hau:
Hau was walking with his Incineroar through a cave. Incineroar was using his blazing belt in order to create light. As Hau walked he thought about why he was doing this: Lillie… Saving Lillie. Hau knew he had to last to make it past to the round of top 32… Meaning he had to be one of the best battlers anyways. Hau just looked down and sighed as he then came across a three way fork in the road.
"Incineroar, which way?"
"Roar?" Incineroar asked as he created some light and looked at both ways. There had to be a way and Hau knew it. Hau then looked at the middle cave of the three and noticed the hooded man that had talked to him before with his Aegislash going through the cave as if sensing the way through. Hau decided to follow close behind as he noticed that the Aegislash then went into the cave walls and disappeared.
"Huh?" Hunter asked himself as he noticed that the cloaked man also disappeared. "I can see shadow sneak, but that last thing… Okay this is creepy." Hau admitted with an alarmed face as he kept walking. Suddenly, Hau reached a barrage of rocks that were on his way and he knew he had to do something about it. Hau then pumped his fist and shouted, "Darkest Lariat!"
"Roar!" Incineroar roared as he made his claws glow black and begin to slash down the rocks. The claws broke right through as Incineroar made it possible to walk right through.
"Thanks Incineroar," Hau replied as he walked through. The fire and dark type walked next to his trainer with satisfaction in his face. At this rate, they would make it.
With Ash and Serena:
The cave shook as a battle was blazing inside of it.
"CHUUUUU!"
"XEN!"
A thunderbolt and flamethrower combined and hit an Arcanine and Magnezone. Their trainers had some faces of agitation as they commanded for a fire blast and flash cannon.
"Urgh, we did nothing to you guys!" Ash grunted with frustration as he gritted his teeth. "Pikachu spin and use thunderbolt as a counter shield!"
"So what?" One of the trainers asked as he witnessed the spinning tornado of thunderbolt absorb the five pronged beam and the silver attack. The trainer then smirked, "You are that guy that took on that Darkrai aren't you? Well, let's make sure you don't participate." The man then smirked as Ash made his face show obvious anger. "Hehe, Magnezone use tri attack!"
"Arcanine use fire blast again!" The other trainer exclaimed.
"I got this!" Serena declared as she stepped forward. "Braixen use psychic and make both attacks fly back at them!"
"Braixen!" Braixen shouted as she pulled out her wand and made the fire blast and the three sphered and multicolored beam glow blue and stop in their tracks. Braixen then whipped her wand around and made one last battle cry before landing the attacks to fly back at their trainer's pokemon. The attacks collided and the Magnezone took the super effective fire blast as Arcanine got paralyzed due to the additional effects of tri attack.
Ash then put his hand out and exclaimed, "Pikachu use thunderbolt, finish these guys off!"
"Pika… CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu exclaimed as he shot the beam of crackling electricity at the two pokemon thus causing them to fall in front of their trainers unconscious. "Pikapi!" Pikachu shouted as he turned to his trainer and pointed farther into the cave.
"Let's go Serena!" Ash exclaimed as he began to run. The honey blonde easily caught up to the raven haired trainer and his Pikachu as Braixen lit the way with her wand. "Ugh, that was like the… fifth set of trainers already?"
"Sixth," Serena corrected Ash. "We were able to take them out in a matter of attacks at least so we have to keep going, at least it should not be long now," Serena replied as Ash looked at her and nodded.
Suddenly, the duo ran into a "T" shaped fork in the cave and had to decide a way to go. "Dang it, another fork…" Ash said as he gritted his teeth. "Serena, does your tablet say which way?"
"Ash, I can't use the tablet, that's cheating," Serena then pouted. "That is the seventh time I reminded you!"
"You are counting them?" Ash asked as he rubbed the back of his head. Pikachu and Braixen both face palmed at this.
"Ash, I keep count of everything that has to do with you," Serena replied with a wink. Serena then turned to the fork and said, "Well you are in luck because I see that the right side has light coming out of it, this could be the end!"
"Let's go!" Ash exclaimed happily as he and Pikachu ran to the right side.
"Ash wait!"
"Brai!"
"Oh… boy…" Ash said as he saw that what was in front of him was a fire shaped flower and bug type like pokemon. "That is a Volcarona…"
"Ash! What did I tell you about… LOOK OUT!" Serena exclaimed as she noticed that Volcarona had sent a fiery wind towards the duo. It was obviously a heat wave and Ash went wide eyed as he saw this and heard Serena's alarmed cry.
"Pikachu use iron tail and slam it on the ground!" Ash exclaimed as he put a fist on the ground.
"Pika!" Pikachu exclaimed as he leaped over Ash and made his tail glow white and harden. As soon as Pikachu reached the ground he swung his tail around and slammed it into the rocky ground of the cave which then caused a lot of dust to be sent into the air and consume the heat wave. The dust then calmed down and Ash noticed the rock in front of where the dust cloud happened to be red hot and melted.
"Serena…" Ash began. "Let's work together on this one!"
"Right!" Serena exclaimed as she turned to her pokemon. "Ready Braixen?" Braixen nodded as Serena then noticed that behind Volcarona there was a path. "Ash, look!" Serena exclaimed as she pointed. "Another cave!"
"Great, then let's get through this!" Ash declared as he pumped his fists. "Pikachu use quick attack!" Pikachu quickly began to charge the Volcarona which then began to launch towards the duo a strong beam of sounds towards the duo that made them all cover their ears in pain. It was obviously bug buzz. The bug buzz was also so powerful that Pikachu could barely get through. "Pikachu use thunderbolt!"
"Pika… CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu exclaimed as he shot the electric beam right at the Volcarona. As the beam approached, Volcarona stopped his attack and then made a blue shield appear in front of him to protect against the beam.
"Protect… dang it…" Ash cursed as he saw thunderbolt completely do nothing against the shield. "Pikachu quickly, use electric overdrive under Volcarona's body!"
"Electric overdrive…" Serena muttered in amazement as she saw how Pikachu made thunderstorm clouds in the cave that slammed lightning from above to Volcarona and making it rain so that Volcarona could not use the fire type attacks with ease anymore. Serena then gasped as she witnessed Pikachu send a barrage of electric rocks towards Volcarona to then envelop the bug and fire type to be involved in a large explosion. "So that is the move that Brock was talking about."
"Serena!" Ash then snapped Serena from her thoughts. "Volcarona is down, we can go through!"
"Awesome!" Serena exclaimed as the duo resumed traveling through the cave to later be found with an opening to the outside. Serena and Ash smiled at eachother as they went through the cave and got met with a lot of light that temporarily blinded them. Braixen put her wand back on her back as she looked at Pikachu and smiled. Ash and Serena then noticed they had reached a zone where under them was a checkered flag…
They had done it!
"Hello there young sir, may I ask for your name?" A lady asked Ash as the raven haired boy turned to her.
"My name is Ash Ketchum!"
The lady then smiled and looked at Ash while saying, "You made it just in time, congratulations on entering the actual tournament!"
"Yea, congrats Ash," Serena replied with her hands behind her back as she leaned in closer to the raven haired trainer.
"Thanks Serena," Ash replied sheepishly before turning to the lady. "And thanks to you too, do I have anything else to do in order for people to make sure that I made it?"
"Nope!" The lady replied. "You have been declared a participant as soon as you stepped out of the cave, and there is your face now!" The lady pointed to a monitor that was on top of a bench and under it was a face of Ash. "You are all set!"
"Thanks!" Ash exclaimed as the lady walked away. Ash then turned to Serena. The honey blonde had probably the biggest and warmest smile Ash could have ever seen. Ash instantly felt warmth in the smile, but he decided to smile back himself. "Serena, I could not have done this without you…"
Serena then blushed and grabbed her ribbon while saying, "How come? all I did really was light the way with Braixen."
Ash snickered and pointed at Braixen saying, "I have never seen a runner up at the masterclasses command her pokemon's psychic to redirect an attack back and defeat two trainers at once."
"Huh?" Serena asked not believing what she was hearing.
"What I am saying is that you were able to crush two trainers that are at the level of participation in the Kalos League…" Ash then turned to Braixen and said, "You really should be proud of Serena, she was an amazing battler with you today, and be proud of yourself too because she would not have been able to do this without you."
"Pika pika!" Pikachu exclaimed while giving Braixen a thumbs up.
Just like Serena, Braixen also found the praise as a lot and she blushed as she heard that.
"Ash! Serena!" Bonnie exclaimed as she ran up to the duo. "You two were amazing!"
"Can…. We…. Not… Run?" Clemont asked as he collapsed behind Bonnie.
"Oh brother…" Brock said as he facepalmed at Clemont. "Anyways, congratulations, specially on how amazing you two battled!"
"Wait what?" Ash and Serena asked perplexed.
"One of the battles that was featured was you two against some trainers with an Arcanine and Magnezone… Serena, where did you learn to battle like that?" Clemont asked as Serena sighed.
"Only from the best, am I right Serena?" Ash replied while pointing at himself and looking at the blushing Serena.
"You could put it that way…" Serena replied shyly.
"Anyways, I propose we get settled for the night as we will be staying here for the league itself," Brock said.
"I agree, it's settled then, let's get prepared for tomorrow where Ash has his opening match," Clemont replied.
Everyone else nodded agreeing.
A/N: Long chapter wow! I am expecting good and long Kalos League Chapters after all, and to be honest, I know that many things will be so much different.
Next chapter we will get introduced to someone special… or that will be special to Ash… Yes, you can probably guess who she is! And no, she won't be shipped with him!
Lmao, I introduce one dominant ship, there is no need to absolutely add unexpected drama to one of the most amazing arcs of the story. Anyways, I will be giving more context on the next chapter.
I will be starting to put a "Kalos League Key" at the A/N so that you guys can understand some of the mechanics I implemented. I hope you guys enjoy these things as they will be amazing!... At least I hope.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed!
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
Responding to some reviews:
ArmorshippingFan: As soon as the Kalos League Plot unveils itself, it is pretty awesome, thanks for reviewing!
Guest 1: I will keep up the good work bro! Thanks for reviewing!
