Chapter: 7
A CD and invitation!
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon or any of it's characters but I do own the OC's of this story.
FLASHBACK
A sixteen year old teenager walked out of the Viridian airport with a pikachu on his shoulder. Once the airport was out of sight, the teen stopped.
"It's still around. Isn't it Pikachu?" Ash asked his starter.
"Pi" The pokemon replied.
"Ugh. What is that thing anyway? It's been following us ever since we boarded the airplane."
"Pi….."
"Let's go home quickly and hopefully we will get rid of it then."
"Chu" Pikachu agreed as they both started to run towards the forest at route 1.
After around half an hour, as the trainer and pokemon were running in between the woods, a shadow ball attacked them from nowhere which they dodged in the nick of time.
"What the hell!?"
Ash and pikachu started to look around frantically to spot the attacker but couldn't.
"Pikachu stay on your guard!"
"Pi!"
Just then another shadow ball came out of mid-air which pikachu blocked this time with his electro ball.
"What the heck!? It's invisible! How do we fight it if we can't see it!?"
Ash started looking hither and thither to find a way to visible the attacker while pikachu blocked the attacks coming towards him.
'C'mon! There has to be a way!' he thought to himself as he looked around.
Just then realisation hit him as he looked around.
'That's it!'
"pikachu! Close your eyes! You know what to do! Don't you!?"
"Pi!" Pikachu agreed and closed his eyes.
At that very moment another shadow ball came and just before it was going to struck Pikachu, he dodged the attack.
"That's right Pikachu! Now focus on it's movements and attack at the right time! The wind is not blowing so it should be easy to focus."
Just then another attack came which pikachu dodged easily and then unleashed a very powerful thunderbolt soon followed by an electroweb and then an iron tail giving the attacker no time to recover.
The invisible attacker screamed in pain and ran off soon after Pikachu stopped his attacks.
After a few moments Ash let out a sigh of relief when he realised the attacker wasn't around anymore.
"Good job Pikachu! Now lets go back home before it comes back."
"pika!" pikachu agreed and ran off with his trainer towards Pallet town.
FLASHBACK END
"Any questions?" Ash asked.
Bulbasaur raised his veins.
"Speak up buddy."
"Bulb aur saur basaur bulbasau?"
"Are you asking why pikachu was asleep?"
Bulbasaur nodded.
"Well, I just told you that it had been following us ever since we boarded the plane right? We were the only ones who could feel it. This made us feel uneasy so we didn't really slept all well. That's in my case though. Pikachu stayed on his guard so he didn't get a good night sleep at all.
-:-
"Hey Max! Are you awake?" Bonnie asked from above him as she lied on the double decker bed in Ash's room.
"Yeah Bonnie. I am awake." Max replied from below her.
"So you can't sleep either. Huh?"
"Ofcourse I can't."
After a few seconds of silence, Bonnie sat up and looked at all the pictures around Ash's room.
"Hey Max? Don't you think it's odd?"
"What's odd?"
"All these pictures."
Max sat up and looked at the pictures.
" They are pictures from all of his adventures. What's wrong with that?"
"Exactly! They are pictures from all of his adventures but what about pictures from his childhood? Above all, these pictures have only his pokemon and friends he travelled with or met on his journey. What about others? There is no Leaf, no Gary and very few pics of Delia. What about his father?"
"Well… didn't Ash said that Leaf left Pallet when she was six?"
"Yeah, but what about pictures before she left. Didn't professor Oak said that they were very close?"
"Now come to think about it…. Gary didn't really acted nicely with Ash when Misty and Brock first met him or at least that is what I have been told. If Ash and Gary were close friends then why would he do that?"
" I don't know why either. But whatever it is, is hurting Ash."
"Yeah. Ash has been acting oddly lately and I have a feeling that he is forcing his happy-go-lucky nature."
"Exactly!" Bonnie exclaimed and climbed down the stairs and walked towards Ash's desk.
"What are you doing?" Max asked.
" I just want to see this picture closely." She replied and climbed up on the desk to get closer to the picture which was hanging on the wall above the desk. It was a picture of Ash and all of his pokemon.
"I don't think that's a good idea."
" I'll be fi- woah!" She shouted in surprise as her foot slipped and she fell down on the floor.
"Ouch!"
"Bonnie!" Max exclaimed and quickly went beside her. "Are you okay?" He asked worriedly.
" I guess so….."
She winced as she tried to stand up.
"Your wrist! It's bruised."
"I'll be fine. Don't worry. Anyway looks like something fell off of the desk." Bonnie said and pointed towards the CD lying beside her.
Max took the CD in his hand.
"There is something written on it."
Bonnie shifted closer to him to get a good look at whatever was written on it and read it out loud
"Beach night. Eh?"
"Maybe…. It's something from Ash's childhood? I don't know."
"I think….. you are right. See, the handwriting looks so childish that means a kid wrote it and since it is in Ash's room the writing should be his."
"Yeah. Geez, his handwriting was so bad back then."
"It still is."
Max chuckled.
"Yeah. It sure is."
"So Max, what do you say? Should we watch this?" Bonnie asked.
"I don't think we should use it without his permissi-"
"Are you two okay? I heard someone falling." Max got cut off by Blue as she hurriedly opened the door and spoke up.
"Oh! Am I disturbing you kids?" she asked after noticing that they were sitting very close to each other.
"If that is the case then I'll leave righ-" "No! I mean you are not disturbing us! Not at all!" Max and bonnie exclaimed in unison and quickly shifted away from each other and blushed after they realized what Blue was implying.
"Um….. okay?... wait. What is that CD in your hand Max? It looks familiar." Blue said as she walked towards the said boy and took the device from his hand.
"Hey that's Ash's handwriting! I had totally forgotten how bad his handwriting used to be." Blue exclaimed.
"It still is." Max told her.
Blue chuckled.
"No surprise there. Alright, so let's see…. Beach night…? ...beach night … beach night ...Ah! Yes! Beach night! I remember now!" she half yelled as sly smile appeared on her face which quickly went away realising that 2 kids were infront of her.
"If you don't mind me asking then could you tell us that what's in this CD?" Bonnie asked her.
"You wanna know?" she raised and eyebrow.
They nodded.
"Hm… Nah! I won't tell you but why don't you guys see it for yourself?" She asked them with a smile.
"We can really watch it?" Bonnie asked in excitement.
"Sure can. Now let's go down stairs. The more people, the more fun!"
And with that she made her way down the stairs with Max and Bonnie following close behind with excited grins on their faces.
-:-
"You should have told someone Ash. You could have been badly injured today." Dawn told her.
"I know….. I didn't wanted anyone to worry at a time like that."
Then he heard several growl coming from around him so he looked at his pokemon who were glaring at him.
"Alright! Alright! I am sorry! I already know that it was my fault. Okay? So stop rubbing it on my face!"
He heard chuckling from beside him and noticed Leaf, Gary and Dawn were laughing.
"It's really true. Like trainer like pokemon." Leaf said as she looked at all of Ash's pokemon.
"Really? Then why were you denying it back then when your mom said the same, eh?" Gary asked with a smirk.
"I never denied it! Besides, she was implying it differently."
"Oh? Then what are you trying to imply now?"
"That his Pokémon are as caring as he is! 'Cause if you haven't noticed it yet professor Oak then his Pokémon care for everyone in the ranch. From youngest to the oldest."
Ash blushed a little after hearing this which his Pokémon noticed.
"Wow! Professor huh? That sounded good to the ears! By the way Lea, you are one lucky girl to like- hmph!"
Gary got cut off when Leaf kept her hand over his mouth to shut him up.
"Zip it Oak!" Leaf told him angrily.
"Like? Like what? Do you like someone? " Dawn asked.
"No! I don't like anyone! I do like things though. Y'know, Pokémon battles, food, etc." Leaf laughed nervously.
"Oh! You didn't told her the most important thing leaf. You like to lo-"
"One more word Oak and you won't be able to go home!"
"fine…."
And then Gary yawned.
"Speaking of home, I am feeling sleepy so I am off!" Gary said as he stood.
"Hold on! I am coming too." Dawn told him as she got up.
"I think we should get going too Ash. It's really late." Leaf told him as she stood up and dusted off her skirt.
"Nah! You guys go. I will come later. I wanna spend some time with my pokemon."
"Are you sure Ash? It's really cold out here. What if you caught a cold?" Leaf asked in worry.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry."
"Alright so then. Make sure to come home soon. I am off!" She turned around, stretched, yawned and started walking away.
"Bye Ash! See you tomorrow." Dawn waved and went after Leaf.
"Smell ya later Ashy-Boy!"
Once the trio was out of sight, Ash shivered.
"I should have asked them to bring me a blanket or something. Brr.. it's cold."
Hearing this all of Ash's pokemon came closer to him. Some small pokemon sat on his lap, some at his side to keep him warm.
"Thanks guys. That helped a lot." He smiled at them warmly.
His pokemon welcomed him.
"So tell me now. What have you all been doing while I was away in Alola?"
-:-
"Umm.. hey Dawn. Can I ask you something?" Gary asked as they made their way towards the Oak's residence.
"Yeah?"
"Well, this morning I saw you talk with your mother and you looked angry. Now I don't know you as good as Ash and Brock do but I could tell that something was wrong. So.. wanna talk about it?"
Dawn laughed lightly.
"That's really thoughtful of you Gary. Well yeah. I had a fight with Mom."
"Why's that?"
"She wanted me to come back to Sinnoh.
When I told her that I would be going to Ash's congratulation party in Pallet town, she was delighted. She said that I should spend as much time with him as I can because ones he left for another journey who knows when we will be able to meet again. But then she called me today so suddenly and told me to come back to Sinnoh. She didn't even told me the reason why and that pissed me, a lot. I told her I am not gonna come back for a while and that's when we started to quarrel."
"That's odd. Why would she want you to come back so suddenly?"
"That's exactly what I have been thinking. She has never done this before."
"That's odd." Gary wondered aloud and went deep in thought.
-:-
"I am back!" Leaf cried out as she opened the door of the Ketchum's residence and went in.
"Ah Leaf! You are back. Ash didn't came with you?" Delia said as she walked up to her.
"No. He said he wanted to spend some time with his pokemon. He will be back soon though or atleast I hope he will."
"I see…"
Just then sound of laughter came from the drawing room.
"What's that noise?" Leaf asked.
"They are watching an old CD from when you 3 were kids."
"kids? CD? What kind of CD? And where did they find it?"
"Whoa! Calm down! Well, they found it in Ash's room and as for the CD… why don't you guess it." Delia smiled slyly.
"C'mon! I don't have time to play guessing games. Tell me quickly."
"Okay fine! Geez! The title says beach night. Ah…. Brings back memories. Doesn't it?" Delia said with the sly smile never leaving her face.
"Beach night…. Beach night…. Beach night! Are you kidding me! They can't watch that!"
With that said she ran off to the drawing room.
When she entered the room she saw her mother, Bonnie, Max, Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet sitting around the television as the video played.
It was a night scene in which a young Ash around the age of 4 or 5 was picking up the disposable plates along with Gary and a man with red hair from around the burning fire on the beach and started walking towards Leaf.
"No! No no no no! Not that scene!" she shouted and quickly picked up the remote and paused the scene right when the kid Ash was about to say something to her.
"Hey! Play it!" Bonnie complained.
"Not even in your dreams!"
"Aw c'mon sweetie. Let them see that adorable scene. If not them then let me. I am dying to see it." Blue told her.
"Never!" she told her as her cheeks went pink and she quickly turned off the T. V
"C'mon Leaf! Let us see it!" Max complained.
"Let you see what? No! Don't tell me!" she turned towards her mother and asked.
"Please tell me you didn't told them about what happened!"
"I didn't. No one did. But we did told them that it was a sweet, adorable and above all interesting scene. Y'know, just the truth. And you know what? They so badly wanna see it! And since they are our guest we shouldn't deny it. It's not a good manner." She smiled at her daughter slyly.
Leaf sighed in relief, turned towards the T. V and took out the CD and while doing so she said.
"You should know this better then anyone else mom, I don't always follow rules or show manners."
She started walking towards the stairs with the CD in her hand. When she reached the staircase, she turned around and asked.
"By the way, where is everyone sleeping?"
"Your Mom and I will be sharing my room, Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet are staying in the guest room while you kids will be staying in Ash's room since it has got enough space for four of you."
"Does that mean the double decker bed is still in there?"
"Yes!"
"Great! So that means Bonnie and I will be sleeping together."
She turned towards Bonnie and asked "You won't have any problem if you slept at the top with me would you?"
"Not at all! I love sleeping up there!"
"Awesome. So I am off to bed now. See you in the morning. Night."
She waved and climbed up the stairs.
As soon as she reached up she looked around.
"Not a thing has changed on this floor." She thought out loud.
She walked up to Ash's room and opened the door but then she turned around and looked at the other door which was right infront of his.
She walked up to it and looked sadly at it.
She reached for the door knob and tried opening it but couldn't.
'It's still locked.' She sadly thought.
"What are you doing?" she quickly turned around and saw Max and Bonnie standing behind her and were looking at her curiously.
"You gave me a heart attack there. I didn't heard you coming."
"That's probably because you were deep in thought." Max told her
"Right." She chuckled nervously.
"So what were you doing? That door always stays locked or so Ash said." Bonnie told her.
"Ah well… I was just wondering what's in there…"
"Okay?... It's kind of a store room or so I've been told." Max said.
"Oh.. I.. see…. Umm… anyway I am going to bed."
She walked inside Ash's room and closed the door behind her.
Max and Bonnie looked at each other.
"That was odd."
-:-
The doorbell rang in the Berlitz house in Twinleaf town indicating someone's arrival.
Johanna stood up from the sofa and walked up to the door and opened it.
In front of her was a man with blonde hair she knew so very well.
"Palmer! I've been waiting for you to arrive! Come in!" she smiled and stepped away from the door to let him in.
"Thanks." He thanked her and the two adult made their way towards the drawing room.
As they sat on the sofa Johanna asked, "So is Barry coming home?"
"Yeah. He is. I offered him that I would train him for the PML if he came back so he agreed. He is bringing some friends along."
"Training huh? Like father like son."
The two adults chuckled.
"So is Dawn coming home?" Palmer asked.
"No. And can you imagine the guts of that girl? She denied it right infront of my face!" she complained.
"Well you can't blame her. She is your daughter after all." He said with a head shake.
"Excuse me! I never talked like that with my parents and you know that."
"Yeah. But that's not what I meant. What I wanna say is that she has your ego. And you know what that means." He gently told her.
Johanna sighed.
"Yeah. I wish she was more like her father."
"I thought you were glad that she didn't got his personality."
"I only meant his food habits and I am glad she don't eat 24 hour like her father."
Palmer laughed.
"True. But that only lasted till we were teenagers."
"Yeah…. Those were the good days."
Johanna smiled sadly.
Palmer looked at her sadly.
"You know, once I lay my hand on the man who took him away from us, he would wish he was never born." Johanna told hI'm with fury and sadness in her eyes.
"Sorry old friend but I doubt that you will be able to do that because I am going to give him something which will be worst than hell. Because of that man we lost so many of our friends and we had to loose contact with the others who survived." palmer said with the same anger as hers.
They sat in silence for a few minutes and then Johanna said, " Y'know…. It's such a coincidence that Dawn ended up becoming best friends with Ash. Their son. And how he ended up becoming friends with them."
"Them?"
Johanna smiled at him.
"Dawn sent me a pic few minutes ago before you came. Wait i'll show you." She smiled at him and picked up her phone which was lying infront of her on the table. Clicked few buttons and gave the phone to Palmer."
Palmer looked at the picture and his eyes widened in shock.
"Wow! It's….. everyone's…"
"Yeah." She smiled at him as he looked at her in shock.
"Wait. I know what you are thinking. Do you think it's a good idea? I mean they all are…." Palmer started with worry clear in his voice.
"Around the same age as we were. And trust me, Dawn already did her little adventure and I am sure everyone in that pic has." Johanna said in confidence.
"But still…" he tried to protest.
"It will be fine Palmer. It's time for the next generation to take over. All we need to do is help them when they stumble."
"I trust them more than I trust us. They will complete what we left incomplete. They have potential more than we did." Johanna further told him.
After a few minutes thinking Palmer agreed.
-:-
At the top of mount Coronet, a portal opened out of nowhere and a man with faded blue hair along with a women with white hair stepped out with evil grins on their faces.
"Finally free!" The man laughed.
"Yes. Now they are going to pay."
-:-
"Hello?" Alder answered the phone call.
"Sir. We are sorry to disturb you but we have a problem here."
"What kind of?"
"Ghetsis and Coloress escaped."
-:-
Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Rin- "Hello?" Steven answered the phone sleepily as he picked it up from the corner table of his bead. It was 5 in the morning in Hoenn.
"We are extremely sorry to wake you up at this hour sir but the situation is very bad here."
"What situation?"
"Two prisoners escaped sir."
"Who?"
"Archie and Maxie sir."
:-:
Cynthia was ready to get out of her office after completing all the paper work but as soon as she stood up from her chair the phone rang.
She groaned.
"Arceus! Give me a break! It's mid-night!"
She picked up the phone in frustration and answered the caller.
"Hello?"
"It's officer Jenny from headquarters ma'am. I am sorry to wake you at such hour."
"It doesn't matter. I was already awake. Why did you call me?" She asked while rubbing her forehead.
"Four prisoners escaped ma'am."
'Great! Another problem! And I just completed the paper works for the last one!' she thought to herself as she felt a head ache coming.
"Who?" she asked.
"Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Charon."
"Thank you for informing me." She told her and cut the connection.
"And here I was hoping to get a nice long rest. Damn you Galactics!" she shouted the last part and slammed her hand on the table causing a lot of stuff to fall down.
-:-
THE NEXT MORNING…..
Leaf came out of the washroom and saw Bonnie trying to comb her hair as the morning sunlight filled Ash's room.
"Where is Max and Ash?"
"I don't know about Ash. Haven't seen him since yesterday when he left for the ranch as for Max, he is downstairs." Bonnie answered.
"Oh. So do you want me to help you with your hair?" Leaf asked her when she noticed that she was having difficulty in untangling her hair.
"Umm I think I can use some." She told her.
"Yeah. Your hairs looks very messy." She said as she stood beside her.
"These are my worst bed hairs I ever had." Bonnie grimaced.
Leaf started untangling her hair and once it was done she took a step back to let Bonnie see them.
"Wow! You did it really quickly. It takes me hours to untangle them." She complimented her as she ran her fingers through her hairs.
"Thanks. There is this trick that someone taught me a long time ago to quickly untangle my hair. I just used the trick."
"Really? Who taught you? Can you teach me too?"
"Sure can. The one who taught me the trick is an old… friend of mine." She said the last part sadly which Bonnie noticed.
"Is something wrong?"
"No. I was just thinking something. Anyway, Do you want me to make your hair?"
"Well I only make braids with my bangs and tie the rest of the hairs in the side ponytail. I think I will be able to do it."
"You tie your bangs? No offense Bonnie but I don't think it's a good idea. I think you will look great if you let them fall. And leave your hairs open."
"You think so?"
"Trust me. I know the perfect hairstyle for you." She smiled at her.
"Ok so then. Go ahead." Bonnie agreed after thinking a little over this.
Leaf started combing her hair and after about five minutes she stepped and aside to let Bonnie examine herself.
She had her bangs open while a small part of her hair was tied in a side ponytail and the other was open.
"See? You are looking great with your bangs open!" Leaf told her happily.
"Yeah... but it keeps on coming in my eyes." Bonnie said as she tried to put the bangs away from her eyes.
"Well-"
"Hey Bonnie! Are you- whoa! You look great!" Max said as he hurriedly entered the room and after noticing her new hairstyle, complimented her.
"You think so?"
"Yea! You look better with your hairs down. You should make that hairstyle more often." He told her and stared at her.
"Well... If it looks good then I guess I don't have any problem. Thanks Leaf." She smiled at both Max and Leaf.
"I am happy to help" Leaf smiled back.
"So looks like you are ready. Let's get going! I can't wait." Max jumped enthusiastically.
"Where are you going?" Leaf asked curiously
"In the tall grass at the outskirts of town. Max said he wanted to catch some pokemon and I decided to join him" Bonnie told her.
"Okay so then. Have fun you two. But make sure you are back in time for breakfast." Leaf reminded
"Okay. See you later Leaf!"
They waved goodbye and ran down the stairs and out the house.
Once the two kids were gone, Leaf turned towards the mirror and started combing her hairs. Once they were completely entangled she sighed.
"If only I had a younger sibling..."
"You want a sibling? Why didn't you say so before?"
Leaf jumped in surprise.
"Eeeks!"
She turned around and saw her mom standing at the doorway.
"Mom! Don't scare me like that! Why are you here anyway?" she asked her in annoyance.
"What? Can't a mother check out on her daughter?" she asked with a hurt tone.
Leaf folded her hands near her chest and looked at her mother with narrow eyes.
"Okay fine. I came here to check out on Ash. Have you seen him?"
"No. I haven't seen him since last night."
"Then it looks like he never came back home from the ranch." She said out loud.
"What!?" Leaf said in disbelief.
'Don't tell me that edit slept there!' She thought to herself.
"Could you go and check out on him- whoa calm down!"
Blue never got to finish her sentence because Leaf quickly dashed past her and down the stairs. And then she heard the door close.
"Seriously? Kids these days..."
-:-
Gary walked down the stairs from his room when he smelled delicious aroma of food filling his nose.
"Yumm.. that smells delicious."
He walked up to the kitchen and saw Dawn cooking.
"Hey Dawn! What are you doing?"
Dawn turned around and smiled at him.
"Oh! Good morning Gary. I was just making breakfast."
"But you don't have to do it. You are the guest here."
She turned back towards the work at hand and replied,
"Bull-shit! Did you really thought that I would let an old man cook the food for me when I can make for him."
"Well… now if you put it that way….."
"See? Now let me cook."
"Hold on! It still doesn't matter. You are the guest here. But if you want to cook so badly then let me help." Gary said as he walked up to her.
"I don't have any problem with that." She shrugged.
-:-
"Lillie! Are you done?" Mallow entered the room in which Lillie was staying.
Lillie turned around and greeted her with a smile.
"Almost done Mallow. Just need to tie the braids and then I'll join you, Lana and Tracey in the kitchen."
"Great!" Mallow smiled and left the room.
-:-
Leaf walked up to the place where she last saw Ash and found him sleeping.
He was surrounded by his pokemon who were also sleeping.
'Looks like they have been up all night.' Leaf thought to herself.
Snorlax was lying on the ground and Ash was sleeping with his back against snorlax stomach. Bayleaf had her head on Ash's lap while rowlett was sleeping near his head. Oshowatt was hugging his right hand which was on the ground like a three year old sleeping with his doll ( in this case Ash's hand is the said doll.). Gible was sleeping upside down over bayleaf. Squirtle had made himself comfortable on Ash's chest as he snored. Which surprisingly, didn't woke anyone.
Pikachu was sleeping next to Ash's head as his tail covered his eyes blocking off the sunlight.
Snivy had her vines over Ash's neck as their faces touched.
His other pokemon were not sleeping in any better way. They were all very close to Ash and if you examined them carefully, it would look like they were fighting that who gets to sleep with Ash and somehow even in there sleep were trying to get as close as they could to their trainer.
Though there were some pokemon who kept there dignity. Such as Charizard, Infernape, Sceptile, Inceneroar and so on.
'Aren't they feeling hot? Sleeping this close to each other.' She thought to herself.
She stared at the adorable yet funny scene in front of her and started laughing.
'As much as I don't want to disturb them I am afraid I'll have to.' She smiled as she walked closer to Ash but couldn't reach him thanks to his pokemon that were surrounding him.
She smirked when suddenly a thought occurred her.
"It's been a while Poli.." she said under her breath as she threw a pokeball into the air and with a flash of light politoed came out.
Politoed looked at her trainer with confusion who just smiled at him and gestured towards Ash and his pokemon.
"I don'think I need to tell you what to do. Do I?"
Politoed smirked and then shook his head.
He turned towards the sleeping pokemon and trainer, aimed towards the trainer and fired a very powerful bubble attack.
Ash quickly sat upright and shouted frantically.
"I am up! I am up!"
Leaf and Poli started to laugh as Poli started rolling on the ground while clutching his stomach.
Ash, after realizing what had happened, scowled at the two.
"Not funny!"
His pokemon agreed as they groggily opened their eyes and grumbled.
After Leaf calmed down she apologized.
"Sorry. I just couldn't find an opening to reach you since all of your pokemon had surrounded you so poli used bubble to wake you up." She said in between giggles.
Ash glared at her.
"That's half true."
"Yeah. It was partially for the old times sake." Leaf chuckled.
"You didn't have to do it for the old time sake, Leaf!"
"Oh? So you mean we can do it whenever we want to!?"
After hearing those words, Poli quickly stopped laughing and looked at Ash hopefully.
"Ofcourse not!" Ash retorted and glared at both of them.
Leaf and Poli started chuckling.
"Stop messing with me!"
" Okay, okay, sorry."
"Poli lito"
They apologized and Ash could tell that it was a genuine one this time so he let it go.
"Hmph."
"Now will you come?" Leaf asked.
"Come where?" he asked.
"To your very own house." Leaf face palmed.
"Wha- Oh! I fell asleep here didn't I?"
"Realized too soon smarty pants?" she shook her head in disbelief.
"Hey!"
"If you caught a cold Ash….. don't blame me. Cause' I warned you."
"Yeah, yeah. I get it." He grumbled as he stood up causing a lot of his pokemon who were using him as a pillow to grumble in annoyance.
Noticing this, he reassured his pokemon after saying that he would come see them by evening. And will be waiting to see the tricks they discussed about last night. On which they happily agreed.
He then made his way back to his house alongside Leaf.
On the way, Leaf asked, "By the way Ash, where have you kept all the stuff from when we were kids?"
That caught Ash off guard.
"Eh? Not that I mind telling you but why do you ask?"
"Because last night I or rather the kids as in Max and Bonnie found an old CD from back then."
"Really? Where did they find it?"
"Above your desk."
"But… but that's impossible! I never keep the stuff from the old days at the line of sight! They are all hidden. Partially because of Mimey because he doesn't even know what he is throwing and what he is not when he cleans my room. It's as if he goes half-blind right after entering my room. And partially because of mum. And you know why."
Leaf stayed silent for a while and then wondered aloud.
"Then how in the world did it get there?"
Ash shrugged.
"It's not a matter to shrug off about Ash!" Leaf scolded him in annoyance.
"Do you even got an idea about what stuff that CD had inside it?" she asked him.
"Do tell me. I mean how bad could it be?" Ash said with boredom and laziness.
"Probably as bad as beach night."
"Beach night huh? So what's wrong with tha- oh! Oh no! Did you said Beach Night. As in that night!?" he nearly yelled at her in shock with his eyes wide.
Leaf had a slight blush appear on her face which luckily for her, Ash didn't noticed and nodded.
"No….. no no no no… please no! Don't tell me they saw that scene!" He nearly protested
"No. They didn't. Because I closed it just in time. They were dangerously very close to watching it though. And it was my mom who decided to let everyone in the house to see it."
Ash sighed in relief as he relaxed a bit with a blush forming on his face.
But then he grumbled.
"Leave it to aunt Blue to make my life a living hell."
"Tell me about it."
They turned around a corner and just when Leaf was about to say something else a man in bike quickly drove past her looking in a hurry.
He stopped in front of the Ketchum's residence which was a few steps away from Ash and Leaf so they watched the man as he opened the mailbox that was beside the door. He took out a letter from his bag and kept it inside the box and quickly drove off.
Leaf and Ash looked at each other before shrugging and ran towards the mail box.
Ash opened the box and took out the letter from it.
"To whom is it addressed to?" Leaf asked curiously as she crouched a little to read the name on the letter as Ash did the same.
"Me? And it's from the league? Why would the league send me a letter?" Ash asked more to himself than to Leaf curiously.
"Well, only one way to find out." Leaf told him and gestured him to open the letter.
Ash did so and started reading it.
Seconds after he had started reading the letter his eyes widened and kept widening (if that was even possible) as he kept on reading the letter.
"What's –" Leaf began but was cut off as Ash shouted.
"HOLY FUCKING ARCEUS!"
"ASH KETCHUM, LANGUAGE!" Came his mother's voice from inside the house.
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Ash ketchum was at the moment sitting on the couch as he stared at the letter in his hand even though his mother was towering over him with an angry look on her face. She was scolding him. Everyone who was living with him had sorrounded him. Blue, Burnet and Kukui had the very same expressions as his mother as well.
"You are not going to speak that kind of language ever again whatever the reason may be. Have I made myself clear young man?"
Ash numbly nodded while still staring at the letter.
Kukui noticed his odd expression and frowned. He has scolded Ash a couple of times back in Alola when he did something stupid and during the scolding he never acted like this. So whatever there is written in letter is the cause of this so he decided to ask him what was in it partially because he was curious and partially to stop her mother from scolding him anymore.
"What's written in that letter any way?"
Ash looked up at Kukui and then back at the letter and then at everyone who had curious faces as well. He widely smiled and fell back on the couch with a dreamy look in his eyes. With the letter close to his chest.
He looked up at the ceiling and said, "This is my ticket to heaven."
"What!?"
He sat up right and asked everyone if they wanted him to read the letter out loud and they all nodded.
He was going to read the letter but then closed it back when an idea popped up on his head.
"Nope! I am not gonna tell you. You will see it for yourself in one week." He said with a grin.
"That's so not cool Ash!" Max whined.
"Yeah. If you are not going to tell us then we will see the letter for ourselves!" Bonnie said as she jumped at him and snatched the letter from his hands before he could even react.
"Hey!" Ash complained and she ignored him.
She opened the letter and quickly read it out loud.
"Greetings, Ash Ketchum. As you know that before or after any big tournament we always has an exhibition match between two very strong trainers and the coming tournament, PML is no exception.
As the newly crowned champion of Alola and the old Orange league champion, we would like you to have an exhibition match with the current Pokemon master after the opening ceremony of the tournament.
We will be looking forward to your reply as soon as possible. Pokemon league president: Goodshow."
A beat.
"WHAT!?"
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A man walked through the corridors of a very expensive apartment. He had black hoodie jacket which was covering his eyes with a white t-shirt under it. He was wearing dark blue jeans and black sports shoes underneath.
The man came to a halt when he reached the far end of the corridor with a door. He opened it quietly and entered The door and closed it behind him.
He took off his jacket and hung it behind the door before going towards the living room when he heard laughter coming from there.
He sighed but then grinned as he walked towards the sound.
When he entered the living room, he noticed his two friends who were also a married couple sitting close to each other and watching a comedy show.
When the man on the couch noticed another presence he turned around and smiled.
"Yo buddy! You look in a happy mood. What's the occasion?" he asked with a grin.
The man smiled but rolled his eyes at the same time.
"As if you don't know." With that said he walked off towards the kitchen to get himself a glass of water.
The man on the couch was about to say something else when the women sitting next to him stopped him.
"C'mon dear. Don't tease him now of all times. Atleast wait till one week En."
The man En, grumbled but agreed either way.
Just then the other man came back into the room with a bottle of water in hand.
"Have fun as much as you want Mister pokemon master Ed for this one week. Because you are free from my teasing for just this one week." En tells the man, Ed
"Thanks!" Ed cheerfully replies and starts drinking the water.
En snorted.
"I don't need it."
"I wasn't telling it to you. I told it to Ra." Ed said calmly and started drinking the water again.
The woman, Ra chuckled while En grumbled.
Ed smirked after seeing he had again annoyed his childhood best friend successfully just like always.
He sat on the other couch which wasn't occupied and kept the bottle infront of the table.
Just then his rotom phone vibrated indicating of a notification.
He noticed that he had a message and opened it up. He got surprised to see that from whom the message came from. Looking at his surprised face the couple asked what's the matter.
"Remember when we decided that there should be a group consisting of only champions and me, the pokemon master?"
The two nodded.
"No one has sent anything in it for the past one week because of the whole tournament preparation. But there are some messages in it that was sent by the champions right about now. I didn't thought they would be sending anything in it for the next two weeks atleast. Wonder what they are?"
"Only one way to find out." Ra said as she gestured for him to read.
After he, the pokemon master started reading the messages his face turned from surprise to shock to anger to grief and his friends thought what might be written in the message to get such reaction from him in seconds. Not that it was an unusual thing for him but the messages still got there curiosity.
The champion kept the phone on the table and held his head in his hand as he breathed 'Mew'.
"And here I was hoping for nice, peaceful one week and by the end of it an amazing battle with him." He said after a few seconds as he sighed and faced his friends again with a tired expression on his face.
"I have started feeling tired already." He told them.
"What were the messages about?" Ra asked in concern.
"Twenty years. The moment has come. The one we have been waiting for twenty years has finally arrived."
His two friends looked at him with horror struck faces.
"But… But this shouldn't have happened right now! And.. and what about the tournament!?" Ra said in a panic.
"The tournament will go on. We can't stop it now. Everything has been arranged and many trainers has already registered. Besides I am so not looking forward in cancelling that exhibition match between me and the Alola champion. That's the only good thing that's going to happen with me for the next few months atleast."
"But-" Ra started but was cut off by En. "He is right. If we stopped the tournament now, a world tournament, then everyone will be in a panic and we can't afford that. We will just have to keep our security very tight. We will be keeping our personal eye on the tournament."
Ra gritted her teeth but nodded either way.
"Besides, by the time the tournament starts, everyone will realize it that it has started. The time has come." En told them.
After a few seconds of silence the pokemon master groaned.
"I am not ready for this yet! None of us are!"
"And we never will be. But we have known all along we will have to face it sooner or later and the time has come." Ra told him.
After a minute of silence, En sadly smiled.
"Heh. It's funny how the situation is good and bad at the same time."
The others smiled sadly as well.
"Let's get to work then. We can't risk wasting even a second." Ra said as she stood up.
"Yeah. Every second counts." En followed her action.
The two looked at the pokemon master who sighed and then stood up with a very serious expression on his face.
"Let's do this. We've been preparing for this for years now."
The two nodded as they made their way out of the house.
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Professor Oak took the last bite of his breakfast and fell back on the chair with a big smile on his face.
"Ah! I haven't had that tasty breakfast in a long time! You are a wonderful cook Dawn, really. And thanks again for the food."
Dawn smiled at him.
"You don't have to thank me professor. I was more than happy to be able to help you. Though Gary did also helped me in making the breakfast."
"Yeah gramps. You never praise me on my food." He asked him in annoyance.
"I Don't do that because I don't want to add fuel to your already burning ego."
"hey! I've improved a lot in controlling it, alright!"
"Sure. Whatever you say." The professor shrugged.
Dawn chuckled.
Gary gritted his teeth in annoyance but before he could say anything professor Oak asked Dawn,
"By the way Dawn, I heard from Brock that you are not really a cook, so how come you cooked the food this good? Not that I am complaining."
"Well, after I left Ash and Brock and started travelling alone, I realized I had to learn how to cook or I won't survive. I talked about it with mom and she gave me an old cook book of dad's which had several notes too. Since I had to stay away from home, I practiced it all my self with a little help from friend here and there and around an year I became a decent enough chef."
"Your dad was a cook?" Gary asked in surprise.
Dawn nodded.
"Infact, Dad was the one who taught mom how to cook. She didn't knew the C of cooking in the beginning. Or so she told me." Dawn giggled.
'So she learned how to cook from his cook book huh? No wonder the taste felt so familiar.' Professor Oak thought with a smile and watched the two kids as they chatted away.
After the plates were washed and they had cleaned the house, professor Oak left for the lab while Dawn and Gary walked away towards the Ketchum's residence.
There walk there was peaceful and silent.
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Gary and Dawn entered the Ketchum's residence and walked towards the living room Only to find that Max and Bonnie were watching TV while no one else was in sight other than Ash who was sitting away from the TV and looking at the ceiling dreamily.
They looked at each other in confusion after noticing how odd Ash was acting and decided to ask the two kids who were watching the TV.
They walked up to them and greeted while the two greeted back.
"So, what's with Ash?" Dawn asked.
"Oh him? He's been like that since before breakfast." Bonnie told him.
"Eh? Why's that?" Gary asked.
"Because he got an invitation from the league to fight against the pokemon master in the exhibition match before the PML starts!" Max told him excitedly.
"As the Alola and Orange league champion!" Bonnie said cheerfully.
Dawn and Gary looked at them in shock.
"Are you kidding me!?" they said in unison.
"Nope!" Bonnie grinned.
"And that's the best part!" Max exclaimed.
"Okay…. So where are others?" Dawn breathed still unable to process the information.
"All the elders are in the backyard, chatting with each other as for Leaf…" Max said and looked towards the stairs with curious eyes.
"What about Leaf?" Gary asked.
"She is going through all the old childhood stuff of Ash's in his room and hiding those away which she doesn't want anyone to see." Max said.
"Why's that?" Dawn asked in confusion. While Gary raised an eyebrow.
"You see, last night we accidentally found an old CD from when you guys were kids and Mrs. Hazel decided that everyone should watch it. At the time Leaf weren't home but when she did we were in the middle of watching it. Yet she took away the CD and went to sleep. She didn't let us see it." Bonnie told them in a rather annoyed way.
"Oh? What did the title say?" Gary asked.
"Beach night." Max replied.
"Bea- Ah! No wonder she would do that!" Gary grinned as memories came back from that night.
"Why?" Max, Dawn and Bonnie asked curiously.
"Well, I would have gladly told everyone about it but she kind of threatened and blackmailed everyone who saw the main part to not tell anyone, ever. Or else…." Gary shuddered at the thought.
"Now, I really want to know what it was about." Bonnie said.
"Me too." Max agreed.
"Count me in as well then." Dawn told them.
Gary grinned.
"Then find it out. Unfortunately I can't help you because I am not yet ready to die…" he shuddered again.
"Anyways, I'll go get him out of his dream land." Gary said as he went towards him and stopped infront of him.
He waved his hand infront of him but Ash didn't even blink and kept staring at the ceiling.
At no reaction, Gary frowned.
"Ashy boy! Snap out of it!" Gary shouted at him and smashed his hand at both sides of his face.
Ash jumped on his seat and shrieked.
"What the- Gary! What in the name of Arceus was that for!? Heck! I wasn't even sleeping this time!" Ash glared at him.
Gary chuckled and in the background so did the other three.
"Nope! You weren't sleeping but you were day dreaming Ashy-Boy. It was fun though. Seeing you shriek like a girl."
He grinned.
Ash's glare hardened but at the same time a light blush formed on his face out of embarrassment.
"Whatever!" he huffed and looked away.
"What do you need anyway?" Ash asked.
"A battle."
Ash blinked. He turned to look at him.
"Not that I am complaining but why so suddenly?"
Gary rolled his eyes.
"Do you seriously think you will stand a chance against the Pokemon Master without some good training?" He asked as a matter of fact.
Ash opened his mouth to retort but closed his mouth quickly realising that Gary was right.
Gary smirked at his lack of response.
"So are you ready for a battle?" Gary asked with a smirk.
Ash rolled his eyes after seeing the smirk and got up.
"Yeah, Yeah. Let's get going." He stretched a bit.
As the two started walking away, Dawn, Bonnie and Max called out.
"Wait for us!" and joined them.
"We wanna see your battle too." Max said.
They shrugged.
"Sure." Ash said as they made their way towards the door.
"Hey you guys! Wait for me!" Came Leaf's voice from above and when the group turned around they saw Leaf running down the flight of stairs and towards them.
When she reached them, Gary asked with a grin.
"So Leaf, are you done with hiding away the CD of the century called beach night? Hm?"
At this both Ash and Leaf blushed a Little while Gary's grin grew wider.
"Shut it Oak!" she glared at him and then looked at the two kids younger than them and back at Gary.
"You didn't told them. Did you?" she asked with dark eyes.
"O-of course not! I love my life too much to make a mistake like that!"
"Good. And you better not tell it to anyone. Ever. Or else I am sure you remember what will happen." She asked darkly as dark aura waves started emitting from her body that sent shivers down everyone's spine. Even Ash.
Gary nodded quickly as a sweat trickled down his face.
"Good." She said with a smile. The dark aura waves coming from her quickly disappeared as if they were never there. She walked towards the door and said, "C'mon you guys. We have a battle that's needed to be set in motion." And she exited the house.
"Has she always been this scary?" Bonnie asked.
Gary nodded.
"She is scarier than May and Misty." Max said.
"Tell me about it." Dawn agreed.
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At the port of little root town, May sneezed.
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Inside the Cerulean gym, Misty sneezed while talking to Serena.
"You ok Misty?" Serena asked in concern.
"Yeah. I am fine."
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"Rule number one while around Leaf hazel."
Ash began as he raised his middle finger.
"Never and I mean never piss her off or the consequences can be deadly."
The other nodded as they quickly went out of the house not wanting to make Leaf wait.
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-THE END-
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Hello dear readers!
First of all I apologise for late update. I was really busy these past few weeks so I didn't got the chance to write down the story.
Next, what do you think about my story so far? This is my first time writing one. So please do tell me if I am going wrong some where.
And also what do you guys think could be in the CD,' beach night' that Ash and Leaf don't want anyone to know? Tell me in the reviews!
That's it!
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