HEY GUYS IT'S ANN1AMOUR, AND I KNOW YOU ARE MAD AT ME RIGHT NOW.

TWO WEEKS WITHOUT UPDATES WHAT THE HECK!

WELL, FIRST OFF I'M SORRY FOR SUCH A DELAY, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WILL BE ABLE TO BRING UP THREE CHAPS THIS WEEK. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE WORKLOAD I'm HAVING NOW. I REGRET IT WHEN I SAID THAT THERE WAS A 'HELL LOTTA TIME' CUS THERE AIN'T NO FREE TIME (ALMOST) NOW.

Amourshipper35: Yeah the 'kids' gained the upper hand, XDXD

Pedrored122: hey buddy, thanks and I hope you'll like this chap.

I CAN'T EVEN PROMISE THAT I'D BE ABLE TO GET ON WITH THE NEXT WEEKLY UPDATE, BUT I HOPE THIS PROJECT WOULD BE DONE BY THE END OF May OR EARLY JUNE, (YOU CAN DISS ME IF IT GETS ANY LONGER). ANYWAYS, HOPE YALL ARE SAFE AS OF NOW, AS THE VIRUS IS GETTING DEADLY.

ENJOY CHAPTER 18. AND LEAVE A REVIEW.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Pokémon, COULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE IF I WAS BORN OF SOME NINTENDO FREAK FAM.

"Pikachu use thundervolt!"

"magmar flame thrower!"

The volt followed by the fire did help clear the mob, but only for more to barge in.

And o boy they had guns ready with them, ready to fire, whenever they get the order to.

"FIRE" a elderly man shrieked

But it was just then, another voice was heard.

"Braixen, flame thrower!"

If it wasn't for Serena that time with braixen to halt their firing before it got started and burn them down, there was nothing Ash and gary could do to protect themselves.

Serena ran through the wiped out force to reach Ash, and throw her at him.

She sobbed lightly, then added,

"O Ash thanks goodness your safe. What were you doing." She wailed uncontrollably.

Ash wanted to say something to comfort her, but nothing came in his mind, he frowned.

"It's alright now, Serena. I'm safe, and so are you. I'm glad that you came, and I don't wanna imagine what would have happened if you didn't."

"But-but"

"Sshh!" he stroked her hairs, and whispered in her ears,

"Never give up till it's over Serena. I've told you that before right?"

And again Serena felt the familiarity with that phrase,

"Hey Serena, didn't you say that you had a fennekin, did it evolve." Ash stated trying to talk something different.

"OH" Serena wiped off her tears,

"Yeah it got evolved the previous week before, when we were practicing moves in the lawn."

Ash smiled and said,

"Well, anyway let's wait for our friends, they are coming here."

"Mhm." Serena did not want to leave his side this time.

"Hey Ash,…. Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah sure go ahead."

"Did you ever were in a summer camp, in Kanto by prof. oak?"

"Yes, I was, I was five I guess by then." He remember his good old days.

"So…..um…..do you remember helping out any girl with straw hat back then?"

"Uh yes actually." He was beaming with excitement.

"Were you the same girl?" he couldn't contain it any longer.

"YES." Serena stuck her tongue out as he leaned in.

"That's just-"

"You see sorry to interrupt your moment but looks like Clemont and iris have been covered by ememies.

"Huh!" Ash and Serena looked back at gary and then at Dawn, before they watched Clemont and his heleoptile and iris and her axew taking on a darkrai and a nidoking.

"We better help them."

"right."

They rushed out of the room.

WITH CLEMONT

"Heleoptile, use Thunder charge!"

"Darkrai, dark pulse."

The dark pulse was working on a fatigued heleoptile, and before it could use parabolic charge darkrai's dream eater made it to faint.

"Oh no, heleptile!"

"It's okay Clemont leave it to me." Pausing a bit, said,

"Talonflame, I choose you!"

Facing darkrai was always a hectic takedown, and when the stakes are high…..

WITH Iris

"Awex, dragon claw!"

"Nidoran, use megahorn!"

The megahorn was too much for the little axew, as it was thrashed back.

"Come on, axew, get up and use rock tomb!"

"use Iron tail, then thrash!"

The axew was getting out of energy, as it heard the bigger one execute one last move,

"Nidoking, use Dragon rush!"

"Axew use outrage! Quick!"

Axew gave all to apply it's move still wasn't enough to counter the bigger move.

"AXEW NO!"

Iris went up to pick up her Pokémon as she could feel tears well up in her eyes,

"I lost!"

Someone tapped her shoulder. It was Serena.

She was smiling, as she implied.

"It's okay Iris, I will win for you."

She felt the need of pancham now, as she took out her Pokéball.

"Talonflame, brave bird let's go!"

"Darkrai, use confuse ray!"

Ash smirked as he jabbed,

"switch from brave bird to quick attack!"

The confuse ray missed it's target as the other gasped, seeing a switch move for the first time.

"now talonflame use overheat!"

"Darkrai, use dark pulse then nightmare!"

"Talonflame fire blitz!"

But it was too late nightmare did the trick for darkrai,

"Use dream eater now!"

"Talonflame! No! use flame charge!"

The flame charge was mostly directionless, as it was looking easy for darkrai to wrap this up.

"Okay Darkrai, time to overrule, use focus punch!"

That did it.

Yet another win for darkrai. Just when the man was getting in orders to faint down Ash and Clemont,

A gyarados appeared in the scene.

"MISTY!" Ash and Clemont were overwhelmed to see her.

She smiled at Ash,

"Your gonna gimme a treat for this, okay." Then turning back to the man with a death glare she pointed at her gyarados.

"I promise it will be one last fight, let's see what your darkrai's made of"

She had to win this.

AND THAT SETTLES IT. I'm AFRAID BUT YOU GUYS HAFTA WAIT BEFORE THE NEXT CHAP GET PUBLISHED. REALLY SHORT ONE RIGHT?

BUT THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE THE BIGGEST, THOUGH IT MIGHT TAKE A FEW MORE WEEKS TO GET PUBLISHED.

AND I'M REALLY SORRY FOR THAT.

TILL THEN,

R&R.