Ash and Dawn continued on towards Mallow's trail in Lush jungle after eating breakfast. They ran in a couple trainers and won and trained some on the way. They stopped at another pokemon center to heal up their pokemon and eat some lunch. Then they continued to follow their map on their rotom dex and made it past the trail gate to Mallow's trail.

"Welcome to Lush Jungle, this is my trail grounds! Thanks for stopping by!"
"No problem! Can't wait to get started with my trail!" Ash shouted.
Mallow grinned big when she noticed the two came in walking holding hands. "Well, it's good to see you two again! Looks like you are much happier with each other than when I first met you!"
Ash nervously smiled and scratched the back of his head, while Dawn looked away with a small blush.
"S-sorry about that! I… It was really rude of me to have done that, when you two came out to greet us," Dawn said.
Mallow shook her head. "It's fine. I know things happen. I'm just glad you are okay and everything is good between you two now!"
Dawn smiled. "Right. Thanks Mallow!"
"So anyways… Ash! I knew it when I saw you and your pokemon! You mix great together! That's why I'm going to make you help me- I mean, you should try my trail!"
"Of course!" Ash shouted.
Dawn narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms. "Why do I get the feeling this isn't really a trail."
"Relax Dawn! With the breath of the jungle, I can tell you what todays special shall be…"
"Woah! Cool!" Ash shouted.
"Yeah! It's gotta be! The Mallow Special, which is my own personal specialty!"
"…Wait, what's this gotta do with my trail?"
Mallow smirked. "Everything! You are going to find me four ingredients I'll need to make it!"
Ash frowned and scratched his head. "Uh Mallow, we already had lunch, so I'm not really hungry at the moment…"
"Come on, Ash! It's part of the trail!"
"Alright…"
"So the four ingredients needed will be a mago berry, tiny mushroom, revival herb, and a miracle seed."
"Well… I have no idea what any of those are…" Ash nervously laughed.
Mallow got out a picture book for ingredients. "Here's a mago berry!"
Ash's rotom dex popped out. "Here! I'll take the pictures for them in case you forget!"
Mallow showed them all the pictures of the ingredients he'll need and rotom dex took pictures of them all.
"…And here, you can borrow this Forage Bag to put them in for this trail, so it won't get mixed up with your own stuff!"
"Alright…" Ash took the bag.
"So you're all set! Just call for Stoutland's help, and you'll shall be able to find the ingredients we'll need!"
"Okay Stoutland! Find these items I need!" Ash shouted.
His rotom dex showed Stoutland the pictures of the ingredients that he took, but he didn't seem to understand.
"Sorry Ash, but it won't find them that way! Stoutland needs to search for them," Mallow said.
Ash sighed. "Alright."

As Stoutland searched around he mostly found trash, poop, and twigs, but nothing close to what he needed.
"Are you sure that there's even anything useful at all that can be found in this forest?" Ash asked.
Mallow crossed her arms. "Of course there is! You just have to know where to look, is all!" Mallow shouted.
"Well how about a hint then?"
"No way! It's a challenge! You're going to have to find them on your own!"
Ash sighed.
Then Stoutland found a seed.
"…More useless stuff. Good job, Stoutland." Ash was about to toss it, but then was stopped by his rotom dex.
"Wait! That right there is a miracle seed! One of the items you need!" his rotom dex shouted.
"Alright!" Ash shouted. He put it in the bag, and he continued his search.

It was way past sundown, but Ash finally found all the items that he needed for Mallow. After she got all the items, she made her Mallow's Special.
"Well I may not have been hungry going into this, but I'm starving now!" Ash shouted.
Mallow smiled. "Well that's good, because I made a lot of my specialty here, so go ahead and dig in!"
"Alright!" Ash shouted. After Mallow gave him a fork, he placed it right into the big dish.
The pikachus and Piplup tried to warn Ash, but he already put the fork in his mouth.
Ash was still for a moment, before he fell down to the ground.
"Ash!" Dawn shouted. She ran over to him.
Mallow laughed. "It was so good, that it paralyzed you? Man, I am a great cook!"
Dawn held Ash as he coughed with the pikachus and Piplup surrounding him with a worried look.
"…It's awful. Don't eat it," Ash whispered.
"O-Okay. Are you going to be alright, Ash?" Dawn asked.
"Y-yeah. I think so…"
Slowly, the totom pokemon, that drawn by the aroma of the dish walks up behind Ash.
Ash and Dawn turned to it.
"Woah, who's that pokemon?" Ash asked.
"That is the totom pokemon, Lurantis. It loves Mallow's Special!" Mallow said.
"I see. That's why Ash had to gather those ingredients," Dawn said.
Ash slowly got up.
"Ash, are you sure you can battle right now?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah. I found some energy just seeing it! Besides, I'm not letting all that work of getting those ingredients go to waste!" Ash shouted.
Dawn stood by Ash as he held onto her for support during his battle. He first sent out Dartrix and he did some damage before getting knocked out. Then Salandit came out, and hurt Lurantis a bit before fainting. Dewpider came out next, but barley did anything. Then Rockruff came out, and was able to take down the Lurantis by evolving into Lycanroc.
Ash's rotom dex came out. "Wow, that's dusk form lycanroc!"
"Wait, there's other forms of Lycanroc?" Ash ask.
"Yep. Three forms to be exact!" His rotom dex showed him all the forms.
"Wow! That's so cool!"
"Wow Ash! You made the totom pokemon bow to you!" Mallow shouted.
Ash let out a weak laugh. "yeah, it was nothing…"
"For getting through my trail in which I'd say is a real doozy, I must give you a gift." Then Mallow gave Ash the grass Z-Crystal.
"A-Alright… Thanks."
Mallow smiled. "No problem." She looked over to the dish that she made. "It looks as though Lurantis was unable to finish her dish. So you two are defiantly welcome to eat it!"
Ash and Dawn's face dropped.
"S-Sorry Mallow. We… should get going! Bye!" Dawn shouted. Then her and Ash dashed off.
"Mallow sighed. "Man, you two are really missing out."

Ash was at a table at the pokemon center and the pokemon are getting healed up by Nurse Joy. Dawn came in with a meal for them.
"Nurse Joy is pretty busy, so I asked if it'll be alright if I can use her kitchen to cook tonight! So here's some dinner made by me!"
Ash groaned. "I'm just feeling better from Mallow's special. I honestly don't want to eat anymore tonight."
Dawn glared and him and slammed the plate down. "Ash, I took Brock's advice to learn to fend for myself more and learned to cook some meals on my own! It's good! Trust me!"
"A-Alright!" Ash took a fork and put the food slowly in his mouth. "Wow! This is way better than Mallow's special!" Ash shouted. Then he continued to scarf down.
Dawn sighed. "Glad you like it." She then sat down and ate.

Not too long after, Kukui arrived to the pokemon center.
"Hey Kukui!" Ash shouted.
"Hey Ash! Heard you defeated Mallow!"
"You heard right!" Ash held up his Grassium Z.
Kukui smiled. "That's great! Anyways, I have a favor to ask of you?"
Ash gave him a serious look. "What is it?"
"Is it possible for you to come to the Dimensional Research Lab tomorrow? There's somethings I'd like to tell you!"
"Of course!"
"Great! Well, I'll see you then! Night!"
They all said their goodbyes to each other and Kukui left.

A trainer walked up to Ash and Dawn as they were talking. "Are any of you trainers taking on the trail?"
Ash stood up and shouted, "I am!"
"Well I'd like to battle!"
"Alright! I'm in!"
"But I don't want just any battle! I want a double battle!"
Ash smiled. "Sure! It's been awhile since I did a double battle!"
The guy waited for Ash to send out his pokemon.
Ash decided to go with Pikachu, but he wasn't sure about the second one. So he sent out all his pokemon and thought about who would be best.
Crawbrawler looked over to the seating area designed for others to watch and saw Dawn, Piplup, and Buneary. Crabrawler then started shouting for Ash to choose him.
Ash smiled. "Well, I guess sense you really want to, I'll choose you Crabrawler."
The other trainer sent out a raticate in its Alolaian form and an alolan dugtrio.
The match began and Dugtrio used Sand Attack then Raticate came in with a Hyper Fang.
Pikachu and Crabrawler got hit with the Sand Attack and Pikachu got hit with the Hyper Fang.
Crawbrawler heard Pikachu cry in pain, so it attempted to flex for Buneary. Instead, it flexed for Raticate due to the sand affecting its vision.
The Raticate took that as a challenge as Dugtrio used Sand Tomb to trap Crabrawler.
Crabrawler slammed its claw into the sand, believing that one Raticate wrapped himself around him.
Raticate came in and started to bite it, causing it to flinch and unable to do what Ash commanded.
Pikachu came in and Quick Attack the Raticate off Crabrawler.
Dugtrio then came up to Ash's Pikachu and hit it with a Night Slash.
Crabrawler attacked blindly with Bubblebeam, and accidentally hit Pikachu.
Raiticate and Dugtrio came after Pikachu with Night Slash and Bite, and knocked out Pikachu.
Crawbrawler used Bubblebeam on himself to get rid of the sand in his eyes, and saw both of them looking at him with Pikachu out. He looked up at a worried Buneary and figured this was his time to win her over. Raticate and Dugtrio quickly came after him. Crabrawler went after the Raticate with Brick Break and knocked it out. But then Dugtrio unleashed a powerful Magnitude and knocked it out.
The trainer jumped with joy. "Alright! Great job Raticate and Dugtrio!"
"Wow! You are great at double battles!" Ash said.
"Thanks! I'm Justin by the way!"
"I'm Ash. Thanks for the great battle!"
"No, thank you! I think I'm ready to try out a grand trail!"
Dawn gave him a confused look. "But… there are no double battles in them."
Justin put a hand behind his head and let out a nervous laugh. "yeah. But I find double battles much more challenging and require much more skill than single battles. So I prefer them."
"Well that's true."
"Well I'm going to see if I can get into the grand trial! Hope to see you again!"
"I'm sure we will!"
They all said their goodbyes and waved as Justin left.