A forewarning: This story is rated M. No, this will not be lemon/smut at every turn. Trainers may curse slightly, but not regularly. Some slightly more adult themes will be introduced as the story goes on including mentions of/potentially including; sex, nudity, etc... Ash is fifteen at this point so this kind of inclusion is understandable and no reason to get upset about. I haven't decided how far I'm willing to go, although I imagine not far, but you can expect me to offer some kind of warning or cautionary statement for particularly vulgar chapters. These will not be in plenty, but will occur to add to some of the themes I have planned for the finale.

Thank you so much for your support and understanding with this matter:


After an exciting day of fishing, Ash caught a new companion in Seel. Now with an ice type at his side to help him conquer Sud, Ash is testing out his new friend's skills in the outskirts of Viridian Forest...

"Pidgey!"

"Let's go Seel!" Ash yelled, hurling his Pokeball forward.

"Seel, Seel, Seel." Seel clapped, thankful to be released from the Pokeball.

"All right Seel, use ice shard!"

"SEEL!" Seel called out, chucking various chunks of ice at the Pidgey.

"Pidg-ey." Pidgey flew into the air, avoiding the attack.

"Try an Ice beam!"

"Seel!"

Several ice beams later to no avail, this Pidgey was a dodging artist.

"Now use horn attack!"

"Seel!"

This time the attack collided, sending Pidgey crashing to the ground.

"Go Pokeball!" Originally Ash hadn't intended to capture Pidgey. But the Pokemon was exceptionally quick and cunning, which would definitely be a useful addition to his team.

The Pokeball rattled around two... three... four times...

The wild Pidgey appeared from the Pokeball and it looked mad.

"Hurry use Ice beam!"

Before Seel could use it's attack, Pidgey glowed white hot.

"What the...?" Ash exclaimed, only seeing a wild Pokemon evolve in battle a few times.

"Pidgey-O... TOOOOO!" Before Seel or sh could react, the Pidgeotto struck Seel with a perfect Steel Wing that sent Seel into a nearby tree.

"seel..." Seel muttered quietly, unconscious.

"Seel return." Ash commanded, thrusting out his Pokeball. "Pikachu I choose you!"

"Pika!" Pikachu jumped off of Ash's arms, landing just in front of Pidgeotto.

"Pidgeotto."

"Use Thunder Bolt!"

"PIKACHU!"

The bolt of lightning sent Pidgeotto hurdling back towards the Earth.

"This time you're mine!" Ash said, about to throw his Pokeball right before it landed.

A spinning blur of red, white, and aqua blue appeared from behind Pidgeotto, colliding with it and capturing the Pokemon inside.

"Hey that's my Pidgeotto!" Ash complained to the unknown source of the Great Ball.

"Pika!" Pikachu voiced its own protests.

"Gotta be faster if you wanna make it in this league." A girl appeared standing in front of Pikachu, picking up the captured Pidgeotto.

"I'll show you faster you Pokemon thief!" Ash said, getting angry that someone had stolen his catch.

"Tell you what. I'll battle you one on one, if you win then I'll give you Pidgeotto."

"And if you win?" Ash demanded.

"Then you've got to go on a dinner date with me." She said, winking at Ash.

"A... dinner date?"

"Pika Pi!"

"Well, I'm not losing!" Ash said, "We accept."

"Good." My Pokemon will be..." She threw a yellow and black Pokeball into the air, releasing a large Pokemon from inside it. "Dragonite!"

"Dragonite... dang it." Ash said, thinking about the Pokemon he had on him. He knew his Charizard could handle this, but even Pikachu would have a hard time stopping a dragon/flying type like Dragonite. "Pikachu, are you up for it?"

"Pika!" Pikachu agreed, glaring at the much larger Pokemon with disdain, its red cheeks sparking.

"Begin!" The girl announced.

"Pikachu, use Volt Tackle!"

"Pika...pika, pika, pika, pika... CHU!"

"Stop it." The girl ordered, Dragonite grabbed Pikachu and held it in front of it's face. "Seismic toss." dragonite flew into the air and began circling the sky.

"Use thunder!" Ash called.

"PIKACHU!" Pikachu screamed, shocking Dragonite in more ways than one.

"Dra!" Dragonite roared in outrage, hurling Pikachu towards the hard ground.

"Use Iron Tail on the tree!" Ash told it quickly, watching his oldest friend rake it's Iron Tail down the tree (splitting it down the middle) and slowing it's descent.

"I've never seen anyone use Iron Tail like that before." The girl admitted.

"We've got more than a few tricks left. Use agility Pikachu!" Pikachu ran, gaining speed and temporarily confusing the Dragonite.

"Fly up, and use Hyper Beam!" The girl told her Pokemon, watching the enormous dragon type fly into the sky and use it's most powerful move on the ground below.

Pikachu, fast as it may be, could not hope to avoid the earthquake and ended up smacked around my several boulders.

"Chu..." Pikachu complained, getting up slowly.

"Are you okay?" Ash asked from the sideline.

"Cha..." Pikachu began, falling over unconscious.

"Pikachu!" Ash ran over and picked up his injured friend.

"Looks like I win the battle."

"First I'm going to take Pikachu to the Pokemon center, then we'll have dinner." Ash told her, not happy about the outcome of the battle.

"Fair enough, I'll meet you there in thirty minutes."

The girl got up on Dragonite's back and flew into the air.

"How could Pikachu lose?" Ash wondered, not sure how Pikachu's Volt Tackle could be stopped point blank.

Ash rushed Pikachu to the Pokemon Center and Nurse Joy, who was elated to heal Pikachu back to perfect health.

"And she flew away on a Dragonite!" Ash finished his story for Gary.

"A Dragonite huh? They are definitely rare, but I guess not impossible to find and catch."

"Thing is, I don't know any Pokemon could just stop Pikachu's Volt Tackle."

"Neither do I ash..."

"Excuse me, but did you say, Dragonite?" Nurse Joy asked, walking over to Ash and Gary's table.

"Yeah! This girl howed up with one and stole the wild Pidgeotto I was trying to catch."

Nurse Joy sighed. "That's Eleanor. She's a Pokemon trainer from Saffron City and used her Psychic Pokemon to capture that Dragonite when she was just starting out."

"Just starting out and she caught a legendary Pokemon?" Gary asked incredulously.

Nurse Joy simply nodded, "Her father gave her a Kadabra for her tenth birthday as well as an arsenal of technologically advanced Pokeballs which help her catch rare and exotic Pokemon."

"Like a Lure Ball?" Ash asked, thinking about the one he used for Totodile.

"Or a Great or Ultra Ball." Gary offered. "Trainers that go for legendary Pokemon tend to use those because they have a better ctch rate, making it easier to catch Pokemon on the first try."

"Yes, well Eleanor became arrogant over her Dragonair when it evolved to Dragonite and now only uses it to battle."

"You talk like you know Eleanor?" Gary pointed out.

"I do, she's my sister's daughter from Saffron City. She's one of the only people in our entire family not to be named Joy."

"I guess you can always tell which one she is." Ash remembered that she had brown hair, not red like Joy's.

"Yoohoo. Ashy!"

"Ashy?" Ash turned and saw Eleanor, dressed in a pink skirt.

"I'm ready for our date."

She grabbed Ash by the arm without acknowledging her aunt, and dragged him out of the Pokemon Center.

"Whew. That was a close one." She said, walking away from the city and towards a small river.

"What was a close one?"

"My aunt. She's always trying to make friends for me... but I don't need friends. I have Pokemon!"

She whipped out four Pokeballs, revealing Dragonite, Alakazam, Gengar, and Charmander.

"Everybody needs friends." Ash stated.

"Oh Ashy..." She waved her hand down like she was calling him off. "Friends just weigh you down, and you can't be weighed down if you're going to be the best of the best."

"My friends don't weigh me down. Actually, they lift me up... help me perfect my battling and stuff like that. They help me think of new strategies and to catch new Pokemon to use in battle."

"All I need are my Pokemon." She patted Charmander on the head. "When I was eleven I watched you on TV, that's how I know your name."

"TV?"

"Yep. Your Charizard burned this other kid's Charmander, and was kicking the Pikachu's butt next... but then it just stopped."

"Wah." Ash exlaimed, falling over from embarrassment. "That was back when Charizard and I were just getting a feel for each other."

Ash thought about that battle with Richie... the final sixteen of the Indigo League.

"Be careful, Charizard, Richie's Pikachu won't be as easy as it looks!"

After throwing Sparky around for several minutes, Charizard grew bored and decided that a nap was a much better use of his time.

"That's what made me choose Charmander when i went to Professor Oak to start my journey." She explained, standing on a ledge and overlooking the river. "I wanted to understand why Charizard wouldn't battle."

"Charizard got a little big headed once it evolved, but we've fixed things up since then."

"So why aren't you traveling with it now? I would think that it would be a much better opponent than your Pikachu was for my Dragonite."

"Charizard trains at the Charicific Valley in the Johto Region; he only comes back when I call him."

"Maybe we can have another battle the next time you call him in."

Ash nodded. "I'm up for it any time."

Eleanor handed him a Great Ball.

"What's this?"

"It's Pidgeotto, he's yours you know? I didn't really want him, I just wanted to have some fun with you was all."

"There's a better way to have fun with people you know." Ash said, slightly harsher than he'd meant it too.

"I agree." She said, unzipping her clothing and turning around to face the water, jumping in.

Ash covered his eyes, knowing better than to look while a woman was changing.

"It's okay, you can look." Ash walked up to the ledge and saw that she was floating around... without any clothes.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Ash exclaimed, covering his eyes and backing away.

"I said it's okay."

Ash slowly removed his hand from his face.

"Don't tell me you've never seen a girl naked before."

Ash nearly fell over again from embarrassment. "I have... I just... don't make a habit of it."

"Your what, fifteen? And you aren't the least bit curious about the way a girl looks?"

"I'm curious!" Ash defended, before realizing what he had said. "Why is it so important to you?"

"I just wanted to have some fun with you." She said miserably.

"Hey, we can have fun with our clothes on." Ash offered, still uncomfortable with the idea of her being naked under that water. The blue water was so close to clear that he could vaguely discern each curve of her body. He tried not to, the only girl he'd ever seriously thought of in that way was Misty after catching accidental glimpses of her in the midst of changing or whatever. May had been a different type of girl, not unattractive in the least, but was less careful about when she changed, resulting in Ash being more careful. With Misty, she was the careful one. Plus when Ash was ten and eleven, he didn't really think much of it.

"Can we swim?" She asked.

"Sure." Ash said, grabbing his trunks out of his bag. At the last second he realized that Seel would probably enjoy a water day, and released his Pokemon from their Pokeballs.

Ash walked to the tip of the forest and activated the Great Ball that had Pidgeotto in it.

"Go!"

The hurled Pokeball popped open mid-air revealing a beautiful winged bird.

"Go enjoy yourself Pidgeotto." Ash said, not feeling that he'd deserved the catch after all. He fought a battle for it and lost. At the very least, Pidgeotto deserved to be free. Although admittedly, part of him couldn't help but think of his Pidgeotto that evolved into Pidgeot just a little before he released it. It was, without a doubt, one of the most loyal Pokemon Ash had ever captured. He wondered if he'd ever see it again.

Ash changed under the cover of a few trees and jumped into the river.

After a few minutes of convincing, Eleanor agreed to re-clothe herself.

Ash looked away politely and watched Seel and Growlithe play with each other. Even though Growlithe was a fire type, it was still a puppy and loved to splash in shallow water. Seel liked to use a weak water gun to spray Growlithe and Charmander for fun.

"Char... Char!" Charmander complained.

"Ka...Zam!" Alakazam's eyes glowed, directing the water gun back at Seel.

"Seel, Seel, Seel, Seel." Seel replied, laughing at the reversed water gun.

Ash and Eleanor swam around for a while, did races (which Seel won of course, even though it was supposed to be the judge), and grabbed a quick bite at the Pokemon center where Pikachu was released to Gary until Ash came back from his date.

"So how'd your first date go Ash?" Gary asked, leaning a shoulder towards Ash for Pikachu to hop across.

"It was good I guess." Ash admitted,thinking about all the fun he'd had not worrying about training tactics and stuff like that.

"Are you going to ask her to come with?" Gary whispered.

Ash thought about it. He wouldn't be against her coming, but she did make him uncomfortable.

"Hey Ash, can I talk to you for a second?"

Ash turned around to face Eleanor.

Gary walked away so as not to intrude.

"I'm glad to see your Pikachu is okay." Eleanor smiled and pet it on the tail, where Ash had told her that it liked it most.

"Chaaaa." Pikachu said gratefully, loving the attention.

"Me too. We're all good to go."

"You're going to challenge Sud tomorrow, aren't you?"

"I was thinking about it, but I'm not sure if Seel is ready to battle. I only just caught it."

"Don't underestimate your Pokemon Ashy." Eleanor warned, wagging her finger.

"Where are you going after this?" Ash asked.

She shrugged. "I hear there's a new gym in Pallet Town, I think I'm gonna try my luck. I already have three badges. " She explained, opening a Pokeball to reveal the Boulder, Marsh, and Thunder badge.

"If you want, you could come with me and Gary and travel with us." Ash offered, not sure how he felt about it.

"Thanks but no thanks. I'm more of a free spirit kind of girl, I meet a new friend, make out with him, and move on with my day."

Ash wanted to say 'But we didn't make out' but he was getting the feeling that Eleanor might have wanted him to say that. To egg her on to do it.

"I guess this is goodbye. Take care Ash." She kissed him on the cheek and turned to run the other way towards Pallet Town. Before she made it to the horizon, she raised her hand and winked at him.

"Girls." Gary stated.

"Girls." Ash agreed.

"So did ya kiss her?"

"That is so not your business..."

"Hey I mean if we're traveling..."

"That doesn't mean..."

And so with a new friend in Eleanor, Ash continues to prepare for his battle with the Viridian City Gym Leader. Still unable to use Pikachu, he must figure out a way to win with Growlithe and Seel alone... Can Ash obtain an Earth Badge? We'll find out as the journey continues...

Yes yes, it wasn't that bad was it?

This chapter lays down the framework of future encounters with females, mentions will be MOST of what goes on, but there may be something more once in a while to keep things slightly realistic since Ash is getting older and frequently travels with members of the opposite sex.

Thanks a bunch!