Hey, guys! I'm back again with another chapter. Sorry, it's been a while since I last posted. I originally had almost all of this chapter ready, but my phone decided to be a dick and delete it all. I don't know why it does these things to me! Anyway, enjoy what I've had to write again.


Serena's head was spinning. She couldn't believe that her mother was famous and she'd faked her own death! She guessed that most people would also be shocked if they suddenly found something like that out.

"You okay?" Ash asked her, placing a hand on Serena's shoulder to comfort her.

"Y-Yeah, just a bit shook," she replied, hoping he wouldn't realise that she was only stuttering because he touched her without warning.

Ash smiled a little. "Makes sense," he muttered. "I would be too."

The four of them entered the cabin. Serena sat down on her bed for a few moments before she grabbed her bag and hoisted it up onto the bed too. "Come on, guys! We need to change."

"Ugh. Do we have to?" Bonnie asked her, pouting a little at the thought of changing her clothes.

"Yes, Bonnie. We have to," Clemont said sternly, also pulling his bag up onto his bed.

"Fine," Bonnie muttered. She couldn't be bothered at all.


A few minutes later, everyone heard the announcement from Sycamore about what they were doing.

Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie all left their cabin moments later, heading over to Sycamore to wait for everyone else to change, or even just get out of bed.

"So, Professor, what am I supposed to do?" Serena asked him, only just remembering that she would be helping to teach.

" It's not that hard, really. Just stand in front of your portion of the campers and try to think about when you get on the Rhyhorn. Try to explain to them your exact technique, but try not to make the explanation boring. Otherwise, you'll get some kids losing interest and they probably won't listen," Sycamore explained. "Please tell me you listened to that even though it was boring."

Serena giggled a little. "Of course, I did, Professor. But could you please repeat that?" She asked with a little laugh, in turn causing Sycamore to laugh.

Ash watched this with a slight tinge of jealousy. He couldn't tell why. That was just Serena being Serena and joking around a little. But why did he feel jealous? Why could he possibly be afraid of losing Serena?

His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of cabin doors opening. Ash realised that most of the campers had already arrived.

Bonnie noticed look on Ash's face when he was thinking about Serena. She knew that he was thinking about her, as he kept glancing towards her while thinking. She tugged a little on Ash's leg. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Ash said quickly. "I'm just thinking."

"About what?"

"Nothing important."

"Is it Serena?"

Ash blushed a little. "How did you know?"

"You kept looking at her while you were thinking. Come on, Ash! You're easier to read than a book."

Ash chuckled slightly, not really noticing the insult. Or was it an insult? Analysis?

Either way, he ignored it.

By now, everyone had arrived, standing there, waiting for Sycamore to start talking, which he did moments later.

"Okay, everyone. As you know, we are doing Rhyhorn racing today. And as most, if not all of you have most likely never done it before, I have another assistant to help who is actually very experienced: Serena!"

A clatter of applause flurried from the crowd, catching Serena off a little as she did a little bow.

"Right. So, the way we are going to do this is simple: I'm going to split this crowd in half; Serena will teach the side in front of her, and I will teach the side in front of me."

Everyone nodded as a response, showing that they understood.

Sycamore placed his palms together and lifted his arms up in front of him before walking into the crowd of campers, directing them as to where to go.

Ash ended up on Serena's side, while both Clemont and Bonnie were on the other side, meaning that neither he nor Serena would most likely be seeing them a lot for the rest of the day.

"Alright, everyone. All you need to do now is get chosen by a Rhyhorn. It's not hard, all you need to do is stand still, and when I call them here, all of you need to line up horizontally, and they will walk over to you when they choose you."

Everyone nodded as a response before Sycamore pulled out a whistle, blowing into it and creating the ear-splitting wail.

Not even a few seconds later, everyone could see a dust cloud in the distance, which was being created by the Rhyhorn running over.

Moments later, they had arrived and were stationed in front of everyone, who had all managed to line up in time.

As soon as all the Rhyhorn had arrived, they had started to choose their partner. Both Ash and Serena were immediately picked due to Ash's friendliness and Serena's experience with Rhyhorn.

A few moments later, everyone had been chosen. It happened quicker than anyone expected. "Okay!" Serena exclaimed, surprised at herself as she suddenly found her voice. "This can be slightly difficult, so listen carefully."

Everyone nodded as a response, also slightly taken aback at Serena's newly found confidence. "Place your palms and the Rhyhorn's neck, then swing your leg over the top. Seeing as Rhyhorn aren't the shortest Pokemon out there, you'll practically already be sitting on it. And that's all you have to do."

One of the campers put their hand up. "Um, miss? Should I call you that?"

"No," Serena said, giggling a little. "Just call me Serena."

"I don't think she'll mind if you call her cute, mate," Ash told him, causing everyone to laugh and making Serena blush a little.

"Ash! Shut up!" Serena exclaimed, covering her face with her hair.

"What? It's true."

Everyone went silent.

"A-Ash!" Serena exclaimed, a little embarrassed but a lot more flattered.

"Sorry," Ash said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.

"A-Anyway," Serena said before turning back to the camper. "What was it you wanted to say?"

"I wanted to ask why you said it's a little difficult."

"Well," Serena started. "I'm saying it's difficult because sometimes the Rhyhorn will get a little aggressive and try to shake you off it. So you need to be slow and gentle to not startle it."

Everyone nodded.

"Right," Serena said, taking a deep breath. "I'll give you a demonstration."

Carefully, Serena placed her palms on Rhyhorn's neck. It had been a little bit of time since she last mounted a Rhyhorn, therefore she had regained the little odd feeling of nervousness when there's no need to be nervous.

With another deep breath, Serena threw her leg over Rhyhorn, successfully manoeuvring herself in mid-air into the correct position before landing on Rhyhorn.

The crowd applauded, catching the attention of Sycamore and his group, who also applauded, despite almost all of them not seeing it.

"Thanks!" Serena exclaimed, sticking her tongue out at Ash, causing him to laugh a little.

"Right, it's time for you to do the same!"


There we go! Again, I'm sorry that this chapter took a while to post, but I was recently in London, so I didn't get the time to write, but, not only that, as you already know, my phone decided to delete everything I had already written... One-thousand words. It's a long story, but basically, I was going to copy and paste it from Grammarly to email so I could add to it while offline, but after I selected everything, the keyboard randomly popped up and, (because my phone is so old that the screen randomly does things without me telling it to,) my phone decided to hit backspace, and there was no way to undo what happened. So, I've written half of this chapter offline. Anyway, leave a review with anything you want in it, as I will approve. Yes, even 'hate.' It's merely constructive criticism, so I'll be happy to hear about what I need to improve. BYE!