Ages: 27-Ash, 27-May, 9-Jessica, 3-Arianna, 27-Cyrus, 27-Anne

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Arianna stood in front of the window, waiting for the Sedan to come. Jessica watched her baby sister. Arianna started yelling, "Daddy's home! Daddy's home!"

Ash opened the door wide. Arianna jumped down from the box and ran at him. He fell in surprise when she grabbed him around the knees.

"That was nice of you," Ash said, smiling. Arianna looked at him.

"It was?" she asked. May walked in the door. She looked at Ash.

"What are you doing down there?" she asked.

"Nothing," Ash said. May was about to shut the door when Cyrus slid in.

"Hello!" he said. Ash looked up at him.

"Hi," he said. Cyrus looked around.

"Hey, where are you?" Cyrus asked.

"Down here," Ash said. He looked at him.

"Hi down there," Cyrus said.

"Ha ha." Ash muttered, "What do ya want?"

"I came to ask if you all would come for lunch with me and Anne."

"I'm fine with it." Ash said, "How about you, May?"

"Ok," she said. Ash stood up. Jessica walked over. May picked up Arianna. She followed Cyrus outside, Ash and Jessica behind her.

"Hi," Anne said. She let them in with Cyrus.

"Oh, why did it look like pokemon had took over?" Cyrus asked.

"We let the pokemon we've gotten run around the house. I had to get a pool for a few of them and a stable for two for them," Ash said.

"Really? Will you show them to us?" Cyrus asked.

"Yeah," Ash said. Anne looked at them.

"Why don't we eat?" she asked. They nodded.

Arianna slurped her soup like it was the end of the world. Ash laughed.

"What's so funny?" May asked.

"Remember when Mrs. Oak had made spaghetti and when I was eating it. I tried to suck up the rest of it up, and it hit me?" Ash said. May laughed.

"Yeah, I almost died laughing," May said, smiling.

"That's nice," Ash said.

They finished lunch and went back to Ash and May's house. Ash lead them to part of the yard that was covered in tall grass. "Oddish and Ledian and Bellossom," Ash said, pointing out the pokemon.

Ash led them over to the pool. "Seel, Dewgong, Lapras, and Wooper," Ash said, showing them more pokemon. He took them to a tree.

"Butterfree, Nidoran Female, Cubone, Eevee, and Ditto," Ash said, "Ok, over to the fire house."

The group went over to a little red house. They went inside. A fire burned in the center of the room. "Moltres, Ninetails, and Charmander." Ash said, "Let's go to the stables."

Ash showed them the stables. Two fire pokemon were in it, sleeping at the moment. "May's Ponyta and my Rapidash," he said.

"Can we go to that garden looking place?" Anne asked. Ash smiled.

"The pokemon nursery?" he asked. Anne nodded. He nodded and took them there.

"In these little beds are baby pokemon. In the first is Pichu, second is Igglybuff, third is Togepi, fourth is Smoochum, and fifth is Elekid. Wigglytuff sings them to sleep and Blissey takes care of them if they get sick," Ash said. He led them out and to Mystical Lagoon.

"What pokemon are here?" Cyrus asked.

"Suicune, Porygon 2, Dragonair, and Articuno," Ash said.

"Ash, aren't the rest of them in the house?" May asked. Ash nodded. He opened the back door to the house and walked in with them.

"This is my pika pal here on the kitchen table with Penny," Ash said.

"Pika!" Pikachu said.

"Pika!" Penny said.

"This is Jynx," Ash said. Jynx kissed him, paralyzing him. "Jynx! Don't do that again!" he yelled.

"Jynx, Jynx" Jynx said. It slid away. After Ash got unparalyzed, he continued telling them what pokemon were there, now on the second floor.

"This is Smeargle.! HEY!!! Knock it off!" Ash snapped. Smeargle looked at him. It wiped the green ooze off the wall.

"Smear," Smeargle apologized. Ash sighed.

"That Houndoom I got evolved into Houndoor. Why are a lot of the pokemon sleeping, May?" Ash asked May.

"Ash, you know it's nap time for the pokemon," May said. Ash frowned.

"Oh yeah. Anyway, this is Sneasel," Ash said, opening the closet door. Sneasel was curled up inside. It looked at them.

"Arianna likes Flaffy, so it stays in her room. Jessica here likes Meowth and we let her have it. Were is it, Jess?" Ash asked.

"In my bedroom," Jessica said. She showed them Meowth. It was curled up in a cat bed on the floor.

"This is the Eevee room," Ash said.

"Actually, it's one of the spare rooms. We wanted to make it into the Eevee Room," May said.

"Well, uh, that's Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon," Ash said, "there's Espeon, and Umbreon."

Ash took them to his own and May's room. "This is Mew," he said.

Mew floated over in its pink bubble. It stayed next to Ash. He walked out, the pokemon followed with the rest. They went down to the living room.

They sat down on the couch and chairs. "You have lot's of pokemon here. How'd you get them all?" Anne asked.

Ash watched Arianna. She was in one of Mew's pink bubbles, floating around the room with Pikachu. "I caught some of them. Like Oddish, Rapidash, Seel, Cubone, Eevee, and a few others are some that I got. The rest we got from a pokemon pet shop, with the exception of a few that May had already."

Chikorita slid up next to Ash. The grass pokemon sat silently. It rubbed against him. Ash looked at it.

"May?" Ash said.

"Huh?" May said.

"I don't think Chikorita knows that I'm a married man," he said. May looked at Chikorita.

"Oh?" May said. Ash looked at her.

"You are a big help." Ash said, "Chikorita, stop it."

Chikorita looked at him. It backed off at once. Ash looked at May. "You did it on your own," May said.

"Yay," Ash said sarcastically.

"We have to split," Cyrus said.

"Yeah," Anne said. May and Ash looked at them.

"Ok," they said. Anne and Cyrus stood up and left. Arianna floated over by in the pink bubble.

"What time is it?" May asked. Ash looked at his watch.

"8 to 9 o'clock," Ash said. May looked at Arianna.

"It's time for Arianna to go to bed," May said. She stood up to get Arianna.

Arianna floated in the other direction. May dug her nails into the bubble. It popped and Arianna fell down. She caught her before she fell to the floor.

"Time for bed," May said. Arianna put up a struggle, not wanting to go to bed. May took her up to her bedroom.

"I don't wanna sleep," Arianna whined.

"You have to," May said. She put Arianna into her bed, got Flaffy up onto the bed, and shut off the light, the poke ball nightlight switching on. May went back down stairs.

May pulled Ash up. "What?" he asked.

"Come on," May said. She pulled Ash to the staircase.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because," she said, pushing him up the stairs.

"Because why?" he said. May didn't answer that time. She pushed him the rest of the way up the stairs. Mew followed after them.

When May had pushed Ash into their bedroom and slammed the door shut, he looked at her and asked, "Ok, now that you aren't pushing me up steps, please tell me why?"

"Later," May said. She hugged Ash.

"Would you please tell me why you had to push me up here?" Ash asked. May looked at him.

"Take a go-o-o-o-od guess," she said. Ash looked at her. He grinned.

"You just had to say so," he said in her ear.