On their way, they had run across Paul who once again battled Ash, with Team Rocket interrupting and Ash getting separated from the group.
"Oh, I hope he's okay…" Harmony says worriedly, Pikachu sitting on her shoulder while Chu was on the other one. "I know he has Turtwig, but still...those woods are more dangerous, especially with Stantler around."
Once they had reunited with Ash, they were chased by an Ursuring only for Paul to catch it.
With the aggressive pokemon caught Harmony swamped to Ash's side moving to get some dirt off his face, "What were you doing, swimming through the dirt?" she teases only to notice Ash groan.
"Okay...I guess you were...Stantler is annoying." she says softly to him. He moves away, his own cheeks a bit flush as he stepped to talk to Paul who had caught the pokemon wanting to finish the battle.
It didn't go well, with Ash losing once more and Paul making a remark that made Ash angry. "Ash please calm down, some trainers aren't as affectionate with their pokemon as others are," she says softly. "I'm not sure if Chimchar is a good fit for him, but maybe he'll realize that and let him go to have someone who will care. Every pokemon is different, I've been there and had to give pokemon to others as they're better suited for another type of training. I had a dragon type and she was amazing but didn't sit well with me, so Leon has her and takes such good care of her." Harmony explains thinking of her little Fraxure that she gave to Leon as she had seen that her pokemon was an ill fit for her.
"I know it's hard, but don't take it too hard on yourself, that's how he trains, just like you train different than him," she tells him, gipping his hand which he sighs and nods.
With Jubilife City just up ahead Harmony and Dawn were practicing, though Dawn out of nerves was not doing so well, while Harmony was having fun with her Sylveon's ability to showcase quite a bit in a beautiful way. Ash, Brock, and Pikachu we're all trying to help Dawn while Harmony was a little ways away.
"Okay, Slyveon start off with combo 2!" Harmony calls out snapping her fingers, her pokemon releasing a Dazzling Gleam followed by a Shadowball exploding from the Dazzling Gleam and forming sparkles to appear all over her Pokemon who jumped in the sparkles. "Great job! Now let's finish this up with combo 4 up in the air!" she tells her pokemon who did just that forming a moon blast and tossing it up before getting into the position to use iron tail before posing with the pink dust formed around her with a happy coo of her name.
"Woah! That was amazing!" Harmony heard Dawn say.
"More like incredible!" Ash says throwing his fist in the air
Turning to look at her friend Harmony's cheeks flush at the compliments. "Thanks, guys, we do try our best, right Slyveon?" she says her pokemon running back to her wrapping ribbons around her wrists in excitement.
"I wish we could be like that." Dawn said in awe, "But Piplup keeps getting really dizzy when trying a combo…" she says sadly.
Harmony frowns, "That could be because he's losing his focus." she says placing her finger under her chin, "Usually if you stay focused on one spot while doing a spinning showcasing move it works better." she explains to Dawn and Piplup. "Also believing in yourself and your pokemon does wonders Dawn."
Harmony could never have guessed what was going to happen, with Team Rocket being a menace again, this time stealing other wild pokemon's food source. But, at least this time Piplup was there to help and ended up mastering his spin.
"That was great what Piplup did back there, those water types were cute and didn't deserve what Team Rocket was trying to do to their food." Harmony praises Dawn, who after today seemed far more confident about the upcoming contest.
It was a day later when Ash had heard about a new gym opening up making Harmony furrow her brows in confusion about it seeing as the guidebook she had had no information about said gym. "I dunno, if you guys want to check it out you can, I'd rather try practicing some more," she admits to them. "How about I stay here and if it's any good you come back and tell me?" she offers, "We're already setting camp up for lunch might as well." she points out.
Ash shrugs, "Oh well, if that means I get ahead by a badge then you know I will! C'mon Pikachu!"
"Be safe! Don't get into trouble and for Arceus' sake please keep an eye out for Team Rocket! Harmony calls out as the trio of her friends head off.
"I think they're going to get into trouble…" Harmony mutters, Chu's ears going down with concern.
Of course, Harmony had been right, and Ash was pointing it out as they came back that it was just another Team Rocket ploy making her shrug as she finished up the curry.
"Well at least you're all safe." she points out having set out pokemon bowls too.
"We'll need one more though Harmony, I got a new pokemon," Brock says to her and she finally took notice to the Croagunk sitting there.
"Oh! That's lovely, I'll get another bowl then." Harmony says before Ash started snickering. "What's so funny Ash Ketchum?" she says her hands going on her hips.
"It's just that, Brock met a girl and Crogunk Poison Jabbed him when he did." Ash points out causing Harmony to grin.
"Meaning that hopefully every time he flirts Crogunk will take care of him and make us have to deal less with it, nice. Okay, dinner's ready!" she calls out, "Tomorrow we'll get closer to Jubilife city!"
The following day seemed to start out okay if one could consider Dawn freaking out at the begging as okay. "Dawn, calm down, please? I'll go get my brush, we can have Piplup use some bubbles to get your hair untangled." Harmony offers, earning a small unzip to scoot into her tent and help the poor girl with her hair. "See? All better, why do you think I braid my hair before bed? Less of a bedhead." she teases.
When Dawn had pointed out her nice clean and styled hair to Ash he shrugged it off.
"I'm gonna wear a hat anyway! So it won't matter." he says.
Harmony chuckles, "Well I mean your hair is pretty long in itself Ash, I bet you just don't want to cut it, but the messy look suits you." she teases with a wink, which made Ash's face light up a bit.
It wasn't until later that Chu became grumpy. Harmony took note of that quickly enough when Dawn had spotted another Buneary, but this one seemed to be quite infatuated with Pikachu.
"Uh, Dawn, you best catch her, I don't think Chu is gonna be very happy if Ash catches her," Harmony admits, "Last thing I want is for jealousy to be something that Chu has often if Ash catches that Buneary." she points out.
Buneary didn't seem to like that remark, and Chu getting fed up with her had jumped off Harmony's shoulder just as Buneary used Ice Beam to freeze everyone.
With that happening, Chu was livid and had raced after the Buneary and Pikachu.
Once everyone was out of the ice by Crogunk they rushed off to try and help with the bunch of trouble caused by Team Rocket as usual.
"I kinda feel bad for Dawn's Buneary liking Pikachu, because Chu and Pikachu are already happy with one another," Harmony says softly to Ash the two Pikachu's cuddled up while Buneary looked at them sadly before hopping into Dawn's lap.
"I know, but as your Professor said, it's something special those two have, I don't think even Buneary will try to break that up." Ash points out earning a nod from Harmony.
"I also hate that this is our normal now with Team Rocket, don't you?" Harmony asks him.
"I guess it is annoying, but at the same time, it means extra training if you look at it?" Ash points out.
"Hmm, I guess your right in that sense. Well good night Ash, see you in the morning."
So this is mostly filler stuff, cause I'm not going to write every episode when they don't really pertain towards my plot line I want to do. But if there is an episode you really enjoy let me know, that way I'll try and write it!