Chapter 19: Aggressive Passion

Serena took a deep breath. It was finally time.

She and Ash stood outside the festival hall, about to go inside and register herself and her five earned ribbons.

Strangely, though her nerves made her jittery, they weren't making her scared, as opposed to when she entered the master class. She paused, to wonder.

But then she gazed at the boy by her side, who looked at her with a smile. "Give it all you got in there!" he said.

Serena smiled back, her eyes bright. Yes, it probably was Ash's presence that melted away some of her stress; knowing that there was someone by your side, someone who loved you no matter what happened...

They waited in a long queue to get Serena lined up. In that queue were many coordinators from across the world, and Ash could identify each pokemon that was with them, and he told her names of Johto, Hoenn and even Sinnoh native pokemon that some coordinators had. They both could tell the majority of them were first timers to the grand festival, but also saw others that demonstrated the confidence of a veteran.

It took a long time. Perhaps even an hour, but finally, she made it to the front desk, and showed her contest pass and five ribbons. "Thank you!" the receptionist said. "Now just please write down which pokemon you'll use for each round."

Serena focused. This is what decides it all. "Which of my pokemon will be best for the qualifiers?" she wondered. "The real question is, how good are my pokemon in battles?"

Braixen, Pancham and Sylveon, her three Kalos pokemon were all good in battles. They had tag battled together, and Sylveon with Ash and Pikachu.

Serena had also used Jigglypuff in many contest battles, and she had done a brilliant job.

"That's perfect then. Popstar would be great for the qualifiers anyway."

She wrote Pikachu in for the first box, and then for the larger box which could include six pokemon, she put down Braixen, Pancham, Sylveon and Jigglypuff. The receptionist let her know that she could change between whichever of these pokemon she wanted for each round, to make things more interesting.

She handed in the sheet, and her and Ash left into the lobby.

Her eyes flitted between the other contestants, and she saw their expressions. Some nervous, some confident, some even scared, and some nonchalant.

"It's been a while since I've seen a grand festival..." Ash muttered, and Serena simply nodded. "The last time I went to Kanto's grand festival must've been..."

"It was four years ago!"

Ash spun on his heels, and Serena followed suit. "Huh?" she said, but then she looked at Ash - his mouth and eyes were wide open, and he was staring directly at a girl who was facing them. One with a blue bandana and long brown twintails, and blue eyes. She grinned hugely.

"What?! May?!" Ash exclaimed.

She winked. "Hey, Ash! It's been a long time!"

Even Serena recognised that name. "Wait, you know May, the coordinator princess?"

"Aw, that nickname's still pretty embarassing..." The girl blushed. "Nice to meet you too, by the way."

Serena nodded, and felt like bowing. Which she did, a little. "Nice to meet you! My name's Serena!"

Ash was still in disbelief. "May, i can't believe it! What are you doing here?"

"Well, I was called in by Mr Contesta to be a fourth judge for the festival, and I was happy to accept." then her eyebrows lowered in curiosity. "What about you? Here with your girlfriend?"

Ash leapt backwards, going beet red. "M-May! How'd you know she's..!" Then he stopped himself.

Suddenly it hit him that she only said the word 'girlfriend' as a joke, and she didn't really know that they were dating.

Unfortunately for him, it was too late, and May's mouth was agape.

"Wait, it's true?! You - have -"

Her sentence didn't want to come out, as her brain didn't believe what it was hearing. But she looked at Serena, who was blushing furiously, and her brain was forced to accept it. And when it did...

"Oh my word!" she squealed. "That's so cute!"

Ash cringed, fully aware that typical May would be gushing for ages over the whole situation. And he was right. "Ash, you gotta tell me all about it! How did you meet? Oh, did you confess or did she? I never knew you could actually be romantic!"

"Cmon May, lay off!" Ash groaned.

She still had the biggest beam on her face when she turned to Serena. "And you, Serena! What made you like such a doofus?"

Ash groaned again, realising that Serena would really get along with May and so May would be even more able to make fun of him, and Serena giggled, yet withdrew into herself partly out of embarassment. "Well, he's really... Positive... And kind..." she said, her voice quiet as a mouse.

May looked at Ash again, and gave him a thumbs up. "You got a keeper there, Ash! You'd better keep her happy!"

Ash nodded seriously. "Of course i will!"

May would've spoken more, but a buzz cut into her train of thought.

She pulled a mobile out of her pocket. "Hello?"

After talking for a bit, she hung up and looked back at Ash and Serena. "Darn, I gotta go find Nurse Joy, but I'll see you again later! Oh, and Serena, don't think I'll be nice just because you're Ash's girlfriend!" she winked.

Serena's jaw fell and she blushed, yet shook her head, to say that she was fully confident in her own skill.

Serena was given a guide book and dorm keys, so Ash managed to persuade her to check out her dorm room. When they got there she was definitely not disappointed.

"Wow!" she breathed, walking into a large bedroom and taking in the sights. "This place is lovely!"

Ash nodded. "Not a massive change from last times I was here. They really must put a lot of effort into this festival."

He looked out the window, overlooking a view he had seen before. Below was a balcony where he remembered May and Solidad sat, talking about the upcoming grand festival.

And now he was here once again, but this time, instead of rooting for a close friend, he was rooting for his girlfriend.

He turned back to her and smiled. "269 competitors, and 64 are going to the battle rounds, which are all double battles." he said casually. "It may sound tough, but I'm sure you'll do it."

"Thanks Ash." Serena beamed. She gazed at the pokeballs sitting in her hands. "Let's do this together. Everything we've learned... We'll show Kanto what we've got!"

The next day Serena woke up, dreading to have overslept, but thanks to an alarm, and also the help of Ash, she got up, practiced for a few minutes, and finally the time came for her preliminary round.

"Please welcome, hailing from Vaniville Town in the Kalos region, it's Serena!"

She waved to the crowd while walking onstage, and tossed a pokeball into the air. "Popstar, come on out!"

Pikachu burst forward from the pokeball, her magenta dress glinting as she descended. "Helping Hand!"

Popstar fell, and aimed her paw at the ground, and slammed into the stage with a move that sent visible shockwaves running through it.

"Landing with a Helping hand, how clever!" Lilian remarked.

She didn't stop there - once Popstar had gotten onto all fours again Serena put a hand in the air. "Popstar, now do a discharge!"

Popstar jumped as high as she could, and surrounded herself in electricity. When it became too much, she concentrated with all her mind and aimed the bolts diagonally downwards, so that the electricity smashed into the water and sent it curving above her.

"Finish this with Iron Tail!"

The wave was inches away from landing right on top of the small electric mouse when its tail began to shine silver. Then, Popstar backflipped, and sliced right through the water, the energy turning some the droplets into sparkles as the rest of the wave washed around the pair.

"And finish!"

The four judges got up and clapped. Even May was bubbly.

"Such an elegant way of showing off Pikachu's cuteness!" she beamed.

Instead of being out of 30 like the previous contests, the score was out of 100 and Serena was given 91 - a very high score.

"Awesome work!" Ash said when he met up with her below the dorms. "I think there's also a second preliminary round, and your score gets added up, so keep it up and you'll do amazing!"

"Thank you so much!" she replied. "Now, do you wanna get some lunch and go back to training?"

Ash agreed, and he scanned the guidebook. "There's a great noodle chain nearby! How 'bout it?"

Serena nodded, and the two of them got up and walked hand in hand to find their meal.

A day passed, and Serena passed the other round with 86 points, earning herself a solid 177 out of 200. Easily a great total, as long as her competition was average. Though, Ash didn't notice any failed rounds from anybody, meaning Serena wasn't out of the woods just yet.

However, the two of them gathered by the board, which had started to list the people who had passed, icon by icon.

Each row was made of 8 people. They waited until they saw Serena's face. And then,

"Serena, look! Third row, to the left!" said Ash.

And there she was - Serena breathed a massive sigh of relief. She had made it.

Immediately, she spun around and hugged Ash, taking the boy by a pleasant surprise. He hugged her back, and the board started to display the matches. In the first round, there would be 32 battles. Serena waited - then she saw she was paired against a young boy with brown hair.

Serena couldn't see him in the sea of faces, so she just decided to head back to the dorm for the day with Ash.

"Tomorrow you'll be battling!" Ash grinned. "Think you're ready?"

"I've trained with you, haven't I?" Serena responded with a blush.

Then she added, "The future pokemon master..!"

Ash laughed, though he went slightly red. "We'd better get in a bit of last minute training together, I think."

"That sounds good to me! But, uh, tomorrow. It's pretty late already."

"I guess so."

Ash climbed up into his bed, and for the first time ever, he was disappointed that they were bunk beds. But, either way, he lay down and went to sleep. At least the beds were comfortable.

Ash woke up, and noticed Serena was still asleep below him. He smiled unconsciously, and then an idea popped into his head.

About twenty minutes later, the smell of smoke woke the other girl up.

She groggily wiped the sleep from her eyes, and looked around for the source of the smell. And then she saw Ash, covered in soot sat at a table in the room.

"Morning!" he said. "I got you some breakfast!"

The image definitely woke the girl up fully. "Uh, why do you look like you've crawled out of an explosion?"

Ash scanned his arms. They were fully blackened. His hair looked like the fried mess that usually occurred when he was in the vicinity of one of Clemont's failed inventions. "Oh, this? It's probably because I crawled out of an explosion."

when Serena raised an eyebrow, he quickly continued. "I tried to make breakfast by myself, but the cooker caught fire. In fact, I'm pretty surprised I didn't wake anybody up."

Ash presented her with a slice of toast covered with an appetising jam. "Here, I bought this instead."

Serena beamed, and quickly swallowed down the bread after thanking him. "That was delicious!"

She got up, and went to the wardrobe, starting to unbutton her nightdress. Behind her, Ash spluttered and quickly turned around so as to not be rude.

Then he felt something soft on his back, and saw arms wrap around his body. "You don't have to be shy, you are my boyfriend, aren't you?" Serena giggled.

"u-uh..." Ash stuttered. "I-i-i thought I was staring..."

She laughed, and put on her outfit; this time it was her favourite dress which she wore to her Master class, which was red and pink with a bow in the middle. She even kept on her pink showcase key, perhaps out of reminiscence or to remind the audience of her roots in performing.

Either way, Ash couldn't help but crack a huge grin when he saw her. "Wow, you're looking real cute in that!"

Serena blushed, holding a hand to her chest. "I'm glad you like it!"

"Anyway, I promised you some training, didn't I?" he winked. "These battles do get pretty serious!"

By the end of the morning, Serena was ready for her first contest battle.

She entered the stage to find it has become a typical stadium. On the other side was her opponent.

He glowered, which immediately put Serena on edge but she attempted to shake it off, and tossed her pokeball into the air. "Go, Sylveon!"

Her foe did so also, and while a silver pokemon materialised on Serena's side, this boy had a fluffy brown pokemon that Serena recognised fully as a pokemon she used to have. Sylveon recognised it too, because she used to be one - an Eevee. However, what Sylveon didn't recognise was the glint in its eyes; while she used to be timid pre-evolving, this Eevee seemed much more aggressive, attempting to leer Sylveon to no avail.

Lilian the announcer was itching to start. "Let the match between Serena and Liam begin!"

Serena focused. That was the first she had heard of the trainers name. Though that's not what mattered to her at the current moment in time. What did, was finding a win.

"Eevee, use Tackle!"

The small dog charged at its elder with a speed that took them both off guard. The move connected, and while Sylveon still stood strong, Serena could hear some of her points getting sapped.

But then, Eevee lunged again, and Serena had enough time to call Sylveon to dodge. Which she did, by prancing delicately out of the way.

"Sylveon, Swift!"

The Eevee was taken off guard by the agility of Sylveon, and was unable to react to the move in time, and the swift made its mark.

The boy looked concerned about something.

Serena continued, watching his conflicted expression warily. "Now use Fairy Wind!"

"Eevee, Protect against it!" he commanded. However, when Sylveon came round to launching her powerful winds, no shield went up to cover Eevee. Instead, the little pokemon charged headfirst into it, taking Serena by shock and the boy by visible frustration. "No! Eevee!" he yelled.

"Finish this off with Swift!" she shouted, and Sylveon fired off a ray of stars that collided with the airborne Eevee and sent it crashing down.

To Serena's surprise, it wasn't enough to knock the dog out. However, the judges panel were calling the match over anyway.

Serena looked to the scoreboard. That boy and his Eevee had lost all of their points, from the disobedience and the lack of defense, so it was really no wonder she was given the win.

He returned his Eevee, looked at Serena and gave her a nod. Serena nodded back, though neither smiled - in fact the young boy was scowling. Serena felt sorry for the poor boy because it wasn't his fault they had lost, but at least he knew that Serena had skill.

She went to Ash after the round had ended - after watching that battle, he looked quite thoughtful. "That Eevee looked like it didn't want to be there, I reckon." he said casually.

"You think so?" Serena asked, curious.

"I've actually seen it before." he explained. "You remember Buizel?"

Serena nodded, thinking back to the very perky sea weasel who Ash had fought with against Sawyer in the Kalos League.

"You see, I used to have an Ambipom, and Buizel belonged to a coordinator friend of mine called Dawn. But Ambipom didn't like battling, and her Buizel was bored of contests. You could tell by the lack of effort for what they did that they didn't want to do what we were. Eventually, me and Dawn did a trade, and our pokemon were much happier for it." he finished.

Serena nodded again. "You have a lot of experience with pokemon, don't you?"

He smiled. "I try, I try."

Serena nudged him with a grin. "Well, o Pokemon Master, can you tell me which pokemon I should use for the next few battles?"

To her surprise and somewhat amusement, he took her question seriously. "Hmmm..." he mused. "Well, It really depends on your opponent. Jigglypuff seems like a good match against avoiding big enemies, for example, but say, Pancham can deal pretty heavy hits."

"Wow, I'll keep that in mind then." she said with a raised eyebrow.

Her next battles went past, and she won the second round, then the third.

Her fourth round was trickier for her.

She had Jigglypuff and Sylveon out, and her opponent seemed to hail from Johto, having a Noctowl and Crobat.

Not only was Serena faced against a type disadvantage from both of her pokemon against Crobat, the foe's Noctowl was very good at dodging Jigglypuff.

She was down in points and time had ticked down to only a minute remaining.

"Jigglypuff, Sylveon, retreat!" she shouted, trying to think of a plan.

"Double battles!" was what ran through her mind. "Gotta think of the double battles I've seen..."

Then it hit her. She had been in two double battles, one with Shauna on her side, the other with Ash on her side.

She recalled the events in her head. When one pokemon was being attacked, the other would cut off the attacks. Now, all she had to do was carry it out.

The girl on the other side seemed satisfied. "This match is over!" she exclaimed. "Crobat, use Acid on Jigglypuff."

"Sylveon, Fairy Wind on Jigglypuff!" urged Serena.

The girl looked just as confused as the judges and Sylveon blew a gust of sparkling winds to hit her teammate. However, to Serena, it made sense. Jigglypuff was a balloon pokemon, and a fairy type. It wasn't going to do much damage, and also let her escape as a result.

Crobat got knocked back by the wind, putting it right where Serena wanted. "Alright, use Double Slap!"

Jigglypuff descended, as Crobat struggled to get up. But it was too late for the bat - the pink balloon had already reached it and began to inflict a heavy amount of damage.

Serena looked up. Three seconds left.

"Spin!"

This command confused everyone, yet again. But Jigglypuff and Sylveon understood it perfectly. The white dog darted into the fray, and Puff jumped on her back, doing a twirl on one tiny flipper to announce the finish of a performance.

"And that is time!" declared Lilian. "Let's see who's won!"

But what was written on the board definitely did shock her. "The points are so neck and neck! Can one of the judges please take a look at this?!"

After a while of the four judges backstage, May had re-entered and walked over to Lilian while the other three returned to their benches, ready to announce the winner.

"These two talented coordinators came incredibly close to a tie as Serena brought back the score so quickly, so we had to read how many pixels there were." she started, a drop of sweat falling down her face as some members in the audience laughed - some even cheered.

"But, it looks like the one moving onto the semifinals will be... Kayla of Violet City! Congratulations!"

The audience clapped, some cheered for Kayla, some for Serena, which made her smile despite the feeling of a loss.

She picked up her two devastated pokemon. "It's okay you two, you tried your hardest and that's all that matters."

"Good game?"

Serena noticed the girl standing over her, the one who beat her. She was holding out her hand. "I wasn't sure if you had beaten me there, I was pretty worried. That's really sayin' something. So nice one."

Serena took her hand with a smile. "Thanks, and yeah. Good game."

She got up. "Now if you were good enough to beat me, then go on and win this whole thing!"

Kayla beamed. "I'll do my very best!"

Serena met up with Ash in the gallery to watch the final few matches. In the finals, she noticed Kayla, and she went onto win the festival.

May had talked with the two of them for a bit after it was over, but she left quickly, explaining she had a flight to Hoenn to catch.

When the commotion had died down and they were left outside the festival hall, Ash sat with Serena under the setting sun; he put his arms around her in a cuddle. "Serena, you really did amazing, you know?

She rested her head on her shoulder. "Man, I was so close..."

"But remember, what matters most -"

"Is the experience!" she finished with a smile. "Yeah, and I learned a lot for sure!"

They looked to the sky. Around then it was noisy and bustling, but it had started to die down as the evening drew in. Serena continued, "About performing, about Kanto... And one more thing that I could -"

She was cut off, however, by a bang, and the sound of screaming.

Her and Ash both jerked their heads up at the same time. "What was that?!"

"I dunno, let's go check!" he replied, and they both ran off to the source of the noise.

It came from another end of the round contest hall venue. When they turned round the corner, they saw a boy in a black tuxedo facing down an Eevee, and their expressions told the couple that they were the source of the explosion. But Serena quickly recognised the pair as her opponents in the first battle round - Liam, she recalled was his name.

He was yelling angrily at the Eevee, who growled back at him. "Go! Get out of here!" he yelled.

Ash immediately ran over to intervene. "Oi! What's going on here?!"

Suddenly, Liam yanked a pokeball from out of his pocket, and threw it on the ground, hard. Then, he stamped on it with such force that it shattered. Eevee's eyes widened, and Ash looked at the Eevee and then back to the trainer.

This damn pokemon needs to leave! I'm not putting up with him anymore!"

Ash glowered at him, his face disgusted. "What the hell! You can't just abandon -"

"I do what I want!" the boy snarled, and then he began to step forward, inching towards the Eevee.

Ash watched as Liam shuffled, hands in pockets, and when he reached his pokemon, pulled his leg backwards and aimed a kick, which Eevee deftly sidestepped.

That sent Ash over the edge. "No!" he bellowed, and he ran over to the boy, tackling him into the mud.

Then, Ash felt a pain on his leg that made it buckle and caused him to collapse. He looked up - Eevee had just used Double Edge on him.

Serena ran over to him to check if he was okay, but he just stared incredulously at the Eevee who was growling aggressively.

It's trainer staggered to his feet. "You see now?!" he screamed. "This is why! That stupid Eevee is always so aggressive and loses everything for me!"

Then he turned his back, and stormed off. Ash got up helped by Serena, but when he turned back to Eevee, it had started to run off, disappearing into the woods to their left.

"Serena, I'm gonna go find that Eevee. You wait here for me." he murmured, and took off.

"Ash, hold on!" she shouted after him, but it was too late.

Ash wandered past the trees. Pikachu scouted ahead, keeping an eye peeled.

After a while, Ash finally came across a brown outline of a pokemon throwing himself against a tree. "Eevee!" he called out.

The dog pokemon turned around and when he saw Ash again, started to growl and leer. However, Ash didn't waver and instead kneeled down, reaching into his bag and producing an Oran berry from it.

The suspicion was evident on Eevee's face. Then, he screwed up its face furiously and leapt at Ash, sinking his teeth into Ash's hand.

Ash winced. But he didn't shout. He just said, "It's okay. I know you have every reason to not trust me."

Ash heard rustling from behind him. Serena ran to him, but when she caught sight of Ash's eyes she stayed quiet.

"After all, I did attack your trainer. But I promise you, you're better off without him."

Ash's calmness came as a shock to Eevee, and he even let Ash's hand go, and stared at the red marks he left.

"It's okay now. You're free now. But I'll only leave you alone when I know you'll be okay."

Eevee watched him with wide eyes. Then, a glow came off of Serena's dress as she felt one of her pokeballs open by itself.

Sylveon materialised next to her, and she solemnly paced over to Eevee, and wrapped her ribbons around him.

Then, a tear rolled down Eevee's cheek. And another, and soon he was sobbing into its evolution's ribbons. Sylveon let Eevee snuggle into her body.

Ash waited for the little pokemon to calm down. "Eevee..." he said softly. "Please, help me understand how you're feeling. Maybe I can help you if I knew..."

Eevee sniffed, and stepped away from Sylveon, and stared down a tree with damp eyes. Then, Eevee fired a Swift into the wood, strong enough to cut in and cause a bunch of splinters to shoot off.

Then, he ran into the tree with a Double Edge and completely took out the stump, making the tree topple.

Ash raised an eyebrow from realisation. "Eevee, do you like to battle?"

It nodded once.

Ash's subdued face broke into a smile. "Well, in that case, I have an idea."

He put his arm out, and Pikachu jumped onto it. Eevee noticed the warm bond between the two of them, and listened intently.

"Eevee, me and Pikachu here want to be Pokemon masters! Right now, we're on a journey towards the league - uh, a fighting tournament, but I can't do it alone."

Pikachu nodded, and pointed at himself. Ash continued. "Me and all of the pokemon that I befriend and catch... Some of us may have different dreams. But we've got the same goal, which is to get stronger." he hesitated, seeing Eevee nod unconsciously, relating exactly to what Ash was saying. Then, Ash balled a fist, and placed it in front of Eevee. "Whaddaya say, we have a battle, you versus Pikachu?"

That managed to inspire Eevee, and he grinned, wiping the tears from his face using a paw.

Ash took a step back, while Serena and Sylveon sat down to watch. "Okay Eevee, we're ready when you are!"

Eevee nodded, and fired off a Swift.

"Pikachu, dodge it!"

Pikachu sidestepped nimbly, and with a speed that definitely gave Eevee a surprise, circled around him.

"Okay, now use Iron Tail!"

Pikachu closed in, and Eevee managed to roll away by the skin of his teeth to avoid a silver tail smashing into the ground next to him.

"Follow it up with Electroweb!" he commanded.

Pikachu spin around on his tail and using that same tail, ensnared the dog in a shocking substance. However, it didn't take out Eevee just yet, as he decided to plow through with Double Edge and hit Pikachu.

Pikachu was knocked back but got up immediately. "Okay, Quick Attack!"

Then, Pikachu zigzagged towards Eevee, who's eyes couldn't process the speed. Eevee stepped back and fired another swift, but his aim was just a little off, and Pikachu evaded it before landing a blow.

"Finish this!" urged Ash. "Iron Tail, let's do this!"

Pikachu, having already gotten Eevee onto the floor, raised his tail which began to shine silver. He leapt at the brown dog, who closed its eyes and waited for the defeating hit.

After nothing happening, Eevee opened its eyes. The silver tail was inches away from his face, stopped dead in midair. He caught Pikachu's gaze, who winked in return and lowered his tail.

He went over to Eevee and helped him up. This time, Pikachu grabbed the Oran berry from Ash and feeds it to the dazed pokemon.

"Pika pika, chupikachu."

"Evui?"

"Pi! Pipikachu!"

"Eevee, evui vui!"

Ash glanced curiously at Pikachu. "Watcha saying to him, buddy?"

Pikachu just jumped up into Ash's bag, making the boy watch him even more confused, but then when Pikachu pulled out a pokeball and placed it in front of Eevee the penny dropped.

"Eevee..." Ash smiled. "You wanna come along with us and get stronger?"

Eevee nodded with a reignited joy. Ash picked up the ball, and tossed it high into the air, and with a fleeting movement Eevee had leapt at the ball and gave it a headbutt, causing it to absorb the little brown dog in a streak of light.

It fell into Ash's palm, and clicked immediately after it had.

Ash jumped up joyfully. "Yes!" he yelled. "I caught Eevee!"

Serena hugged him tight. "Ash, I don't think I've seen a more caring person than you in my life..."

Ash blushed at her words. "Oh, I try." he grinned.

Then out of nowhere he grabbed her waist and hoisted her up. "Wah!" she yelped, but she laughed. "Ash, calm down!"

"Now, it's time for me to take the Kanto Queen back to her palace!" he laughed.

He then started to walk out of the forest with her in his arms, to the pokemon center.

"Wait Ash, put me down!" she cried. "I didn't even win!"

But she was laughing along with him, as happy as can be.

And that is it for the grand festival chapter! If it seems bleak, I'm sorry! Coming up with stuff that fits is hard. However, I wanted Ash to catch one more pokemon before Indigo, so that's why focus suddenly shifted onto him. Eevee is such an awesome pokemon considering it can evolve into most types which is just really cool. However, Ash never caught one. So you bet I'm gonna get THAT to happen.

Reviews:

magic135 - How sweet. I hope to see a chapter with the two of them on a beach.

Man, I hadnt thought of it before I had finished the storyboard. Sorry to disappoint anyone who wanted the typical beach episode. Perhaps in a oneshot sometime? if I get requests for it, of course.

JsAC - You suck.

I doubt it.

Anyway, next chapter will be the League. Buckle up, everybody, but for now thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next chapter!