The girls arrived at the store. Dawn was checking out a lot of items, while Lillie didn't seem interested in anything. When they exited the store, Lillie sighed.
"Was there nothing in there that interested you, Lillie?" Dawn asked.
Lillie nervously smiled. "I… already have everything that was in the store," Lillie said.
Dawn gasped with wide eyes. "Wow! That's so cool!"
Lillie looked down with a frown. "So, you seem to have picked out your own clothes all your life."
"Well, yeah."
"My mom… she always choose my own clothes, so I don't know what would suit me."
"Well, you have a lot of time to figure that out now."
Lillie looked at the ground. "yeah… Well, I'm going on ahead to see if Kukui needs me for anything. You go and enjoy the beach."
"Alright. See you, Lillie!"
Ash, Pikachu and Piplup where underwater seeing what was down there. Rowlet was on the shoreline playfully splashing around. Dawn walked up to him.
"Where did everyone else go?" Dawn asked.
Rowlet flew above a spot in the water where there were bubbles forming, and Ash, Pikachu, and Piplup popped up for some air.
"Hey! There you all are!" Dawn shouted.
Ash looked over to her. "You're finally done with shopping! Alright!"
Piplup happily cheered as well.
Ash then came out of the water, and got a good look at her. She was wearing a two piece that showed off her curves real well, and he couldn't help but stare at her for a moment. While Dawn's eyes were locked on Ash's muscular body that shined just right with the water dripping down from him and the sun shining on him. It seemed all that Ash did on his travels really has strengthened his body.
"…So you're all ready! Then let's head in!" Ash shouted. Ash grabbed her hand and lead her to an high edge to jump in. Dawn could only blush and follow him. All the other pokemon out followed. They all jumped off together and they went deep under the water. Dawn was amazed by how beautiful the clean water was, but her head turned to face Ash. They both smiled at each other. They both went to the surface. After getting some air, Ash dived at Dawn and made her go underwater again. They both came back up, and Dawn got him back by splashing a huge handful of water in his face. Ash then splashed her, and they continued to play in the water.
It was dinner time, and Ash and Dawn where getting hungry. So they headed out the beach.
"Hey Ash, I heard that there's a malasada place here! They even serve pokemon!" Dawn said.
"Woah! Sounds awesome! Let's go!" Ash shouted.
"Right!"
Ash returned his pokemon besides Pikachu, and they headed somewhere to change out of their wet clothes and headed down to the restaurant. There, they ordered a malasada for them and all their pokemon, and they happily ate it.
"These masala's are so good, aren't they?" A guy asked.
"Yeah! Delicious!" Ash said.
"So are you two on a date or something? Sorry for bothering you!"
Dawn and Ash both looked at each other and blushed. Then they both looked at the guy and shouted, "no! We are just friends!"
The guy gave him a confused look. "Okay... Names Hau by the way!"
"Nice to meet you Hau! My names Ash! And this is Pikachu and Rowlet!"
Pikachu said hello to him, while Rowlet gave him a friendly hoot.
"Wow! A Rowlet is the first pokemon I started with!" Hau said.
"Wow! That's so cool!" Ash said.
"Yeah!" Hau then faced Dawn. "So what's your name?"
"My name is Dawn. And this is Piplup, Buneary, Litten, and Pichu!"
Buneary was flirting with Pikachu who was sighing, Litten paid no attention, and Pichu was stealing Buneary's food. Piplup waved at him, though.
"Well it's nice to meet you all!" Then Hau noticed Ash's Amulet. "Wow! You're in the challenge too?"
"You bet! And I am going to be the Island Champion!" Ash shouted.
"Well to do that, you're going to have to beat me!"
"Alright!"
Hau laughed. "It's nice that I got a rival in this challenge! Well, see you for the champion title!"
"You bet!" Ash shouted.
"Great! Well, I should get going!" Hau got up and waved to them.
"Bye, and good luck!" Ash said.
"Bye," Dawn shouted.
All the other pokemon said their goodbyes to him as well.
Ash and Dawn exited the restaurant and heard some commotion at the docks. They went to check it out, and ran into Ilima.
"Oh. Hello again!" Ilima
"Hello!" Ash said.
"Yo Ilima! Team Skull is here for your pokemon!" some guy shouted. He was with some other guy, and they were wearing matching outfits.
Dawn and Ash gave the guy a weird look.
"So you already made your way to Hau'oli from the trainer's school?" Ilima asked.
"Yeah! We had our friend Lillie show us the way!" Dawn said.
"Hey! What? You think you're tough? We are hard as bone, homie!" one of the guys said.
"Let's get these fools!" the other guy shouted.
Ilima sighed.
"Don't worry Ilima! We'll handle these clowns!" Dawn shouted.
"Yeah! Let's go, Rowlet!" Ash shouted.
Rowlet came out of the pokeball. Dawn sent out her Litten.
The guys gave unamused looks. "We ain't here for your pokemon, but if you twerps think its okay to insult us and get in our way, we'll show you!"
They both sent out Zubats. Rowlet was going in for Peck, but one of the zubats used Supersonic. Luckily, Littlen came in with Ember, so it wasn't able to pull off the attack. Then the Zubat was hit by the Peck. The other used Leech Life on Litten. So Rowlet used Leafege, but was stopped by the other Zubat's bite. Litten came back with an Ember on that Zubat, and Rowlet knocked it out with Peck. Then Rowlet and Litten came in on the other Zubat and completely knocked it out using Ember and Leafege. The grunts returned their pokemon with a shocked face.
"What?" one shouted.
"Come on! Let's blow this place! No one has to know about this!" the other said.
The guy nodded and they left.
Dawn and Ash gave each other a high five.
"Thank you both for your help!"Ilima said. Then he turned to Ash. "I must admit, I've been wondering about you since I saw you at the trainer's school."
Ash gave a shocked look. "Really?"
"Yes! You and your pokemon seemed to defeat our teacher so effortlessly. I'd like to see if you're ready for my trail with a pokemon battle!"
"Of course! I'm up for it!"
"Alright then, let's start! Two pokemon from each side!"
"Alright! Let's go, Rowlet!"
Rowlet came out, and Ilima sent out Yungoos. Rowlet hit Yungoos with Leafage. Yungoos used Leer on Rowlet, and Rowlet felt uncomfortable. Rowlet used Peck and hurt Yungoos with that, but Yungoos used Leer again. Rowlet used Leafege, and Yungoos continued to use Leer. Then Yungoos came down with a Peck from Rowlet. Smeargle then was sent out, and hit Rowlet hard with a Tackle, and Rowlet was already struggling to keep going. Rowlet tried to go and hit Smeargle with a Peck, but it was too slow, and Smeargle took it down with a Tackle. Ash sent out Pikachu. Pikachu used Thunderbolt on it. Smeargle came in for the Tackle, but Pikachu dodged it with Quick Attack then came in hard with Iron Tail. Pikachu came in with Bolt Tackle, but it was hit by Ember before he could hit. Smeargle then came in with Tackle, but was hit by Thunderbolt and fainted.
"Alright! We won!" Ash cheered.
Pikachu cheered as well.
Ilima smiled. "Yes. You… and your pokemon, make quite the interesting team. My trail is on Route 2 in Verdant Cave. I shall wait there for you. Alola." Ilima then left.
"Let's get going, Dawn!" Ash shouted.
Dawn smiled. "Right!"
Dawn and Ash ran towards route 2, but then bumped into Tauros and Hala.
"I got this ornery guy calmed down again! How about you two give him a pet again, so he'll get used to ya?" Hau asked.
"Yeah! I'd love to!" Ash shouted. Ash went up to pet Tauros again and so did Dawn. It seemed happy. Pikachu and Piplup waved to him, and he happily mooed at them.
"Maybe he can sense your love for pokemon, because he sure seems happy to know you!" Hala said.
"You sure do have great senses, Tauros!" Dawn said.
It happily mooed at her.
"And yet, it seems to me like it wants to stretch its legs for its own island challenge!" Hala laughed.
Tauros then ran off.
"Oh no!" Dawn shouted.
"What? It's time for tag now? I never lose, my friend!" Hala then ran after it.
Dawn and Ash stared at him with a weird look and awkward laugh. Then they decided to keep going.
