Hello, this is the next chapter.

If you guys think I forgot about Noivern, I'll try to fix the bond the two had Not in this chapter, but after maybe a week from now, story-wise.

Enjoy.

Train ride of memories.

The group was now in the busy street of Aquacorde town. They were rushing to go to the train. They had little time to get there.

"Hurry up brother!" Clemont's sister shouted.

"I'm sorry," Clemont apologized. "This is the fastest I could go."

Due to Clemont's unathletic prowess the group had slowed down. Serena, Bonnie, and Ash wanted to speed things up so the all went behind Clemont and pushed him to gain momentum.

"Wha-What are you guys doing?" Clemont questioned them. With the push they gave him increased speed.

They barely made it to the train. The group was tired and panted heavily. They got a moment to catch their breath.

"All aboard!" The conductor announced at the side of the train.

The group got to the passenger's box in the train. There was a free booth there. The company took their seats, Serena and Ash at one side and the siblings at the other one. Clemont and Serena were on a window seat.

"Clemont, you almost got us late." Ash said to him.

"Come on brother." Bonnie added on.

"Fine, I'll try to exercise more." Clemont answered.

The conductor came by and asked them for their tickets. Serena, Bonnie, Ash and Clemont complied and gave them their tickets. Pikachu, who was on Ash shoulder didn't need to give a ticket since he was a pokemon.

"How long is this train ride going to Shalour city going to be?" Bonnie asked.

"About a day," Clemont answered. "If you don't count its stops to Lumiouse city and Cyllage.

"Ok." Bonnie said.

It was silent for a few minutes. There wasn't anything to do.

Ash was bored and asked, "What do you guys want to do now?"

"I'll just admire the landscapes we passed by through the windows," Clemont said.

"I'll explore the Train, anyone wants come?" Ash asked.

"No thanks," the blonde siblings replied at the same time.

"Pikachu?" Ash asked him. The thunder pokemon was resting comfortably on Serena's lap.

He then diverted his attention to Serena, "How 'bout you?"

She gave the same response as Clemont, and Bonnie. "No thanks. Bye sweetie."

Ash left the three of them be. When he left he seemed normal, but on the inside he had a doubt about Serena. A thought popped into his mind, "Is Serena trying to avoid me?" He cast that thought off the side and looked around the train for anything intresting to keep him out of boredom.

There was a dozen coaches on the train to hold passengers. Ash went through some of them and saw a person very familiar to him, a girl. Her name was Leaf. She was sitting at a booth and was holding a bulbasaur on her lap. This was unexpected to was a person from his childhood.

They met each other when she moved to his town at five years both started their journey the same year and even got a Bulbasaur as her starter, which Professor Oak told him about. Ash could have seen her off her journey, but overslept. If Ash remembered her dream correctly, it was to collect all pokemon in all the known regions. Leaf was wearing a blue tank top and a a red skirt with a white fedora with a Pokeball on a front.

"Leaf," Ash shouted and ran to her. His voice alarmed the coaches and woke any person sleeping there.

"Please be quiet, some of us are trying to get some sleep," a passenger said.

"Yeah!" Another person said.

"Sorry," Ash whispered.

Leaf didn't notice her old friend until she turned around and saw. Her expression was of shock and some joy. She quickly got out of her seat, placed Bulbasaur at a table and greeted Ash with a hug.

"It's been so long," Leaf said to the raven haired trainer.

"It has." Ash agreed. Ash looked towards the pokemon at the table, "was that your starter pokemon?"

Leaf answered, "No, she is now a Venasaur. This is just from an egg she made."

"Cool!" Ash commented. "How many pokemon did you collected?"

"Not much, just about two hundred fifty pokemon, not counting the pokemon I set free." Leaf asked. "How about you, what have you been up to?"

"Nothing much, already have all the gym badges here so I'm just seeing the sights of this region with my friends."

"Who are your friends?"

"I'll show you."

Leaf returned her Bulbasuar in its pokeball. The two newly reunited friends journeyed back to the Ash's group. Leaf was going to be suprised by the revelation of the relationship between Ash and Serena.

To the train cart which they went in and Ash led Leaf to his booth. He found the friends he left behind;Clemont, Bonnie and Serena whispering and chatting.

"Hey guys." Ash sneaked up to their booth.

The group got shocked. Leaf giggled a little. Ash blocked the vision with of Serena and Leaf of each other by standing between them. However, they could still see glimpses of each other.

"Wow," Ash said, "Why are you guys so high alert?"

"No reason," each of them said abruptly.

"Anyway." Ash changed the subject. "Guys, I want you to meet Leaf."

Serena thought to herself, "Leaf, that name seemed so familiar."

"This is Clemont, Bonnie and lastly, someone you might have remembered, S-." Ash got cut mid sentence by Leaf.

"Serena!" Leaf exclaimed she gave Serena a hug. She immediately did that when she saw Serena's full face when Ash moved slightly.

Serena recognized that voice now. She remembered Leaf. A person of the past came back to her after a long time and In that past she always teased her and Ash of being a couple. It only affected her because Ash was so oblivious and she did have a crush on him when they were little and Serena thought Leaf was making it to obvious.

"I haven't seen you in a really long time," Leaf said. "Ash! Why didn't you tell me you reunited with Serena!" She was practically shouting now.

There was a couple of people in this part of the train. They all left and went to the other coaches to get away from the noise Leaf was making.

"Sorry, I thought it was better to be a surprised," Ash answered.

"You know I hate being suprised," Leaf said back.

"I guess I forgot about that." Ash made an excuse.

"Well anyway, us girls needs to have a girl chat." Serena said.

"But I wanted to catch up with Leaf too." Ash complained.

"Yeah why can't we have him here too." Leaf also complained.

Serena whispered something in Leaf's ear.

"Sorry Ash, us girls need some time to chat." Leaf said to Ash.

"What..." Ash was confused why Leaf changed her mind.

"Ash please," Serena pleaded with him. "For me. I'll bake you some more cookies when we get to Shalour city." She liked baking and Ash was a bit of a glutton.

"Fine." Ash admitted defeat. "Let's go Clemont." He didn't want to have a fight with her girlfriend.

"Clemont stays." Serena said.

"Why?" Ash asked. "Clemont is not a girl."

"Well he acts like one," Bonnie answered.

"Bonnie." Clemont was a little offended by the comment her sister made.

"We'll anyway please Ash." Serena asked him to leave again.

"Ok, let's go Pikachu." Ash left. Him and his pokemon got out of the train cart, but he soon left until he heard a shriek coming from one of the girls. That sound was so loud it was heard in different parts of the train.

He quickly went back and and asked, "What was that?"

"Pika?" Pikachu seemed to agree as he imitated his trainer.

Leaf answered him. "Ash, stop giving me surprises. Oh my gosh, You and Serena are dating!"

"I guess I forgot to mention it, when I was here." Ash rubbed his head. "Plus, I was going to tell you if you hadn't kicked me out of this cart."

"That should have been the first thing you said to me when I asked you what's new." Leaf said.

"I'm sorry." Ash apologized and left that part of the train. He explored some more and found nothing else. He mingled with some people and after an hour he came back to the others.

The sun was setting.

"Can I come back now?" Ash asked the group who was still at the booth.

The train stopped and Ash accidentally fell down. The train was at it's first stop, Lumiose city.

"Yes, you can." Serena helped him up and they sat together on one side of the booth and the other side the other three;Leaf, Clemont, and Bonnie.

"What did you guys talk about when I was gone?" Ash asked.

"It's a secret." Bonnie answered back.

"Come on tell me." Ash pleaded.

"I'll tell you in four days." Serena said.

"Why?" Ash asked.

"Please stop asking." Leaf answered, "and tell me how did you guys reunite?"

"Well, we reunited outside of the pokemon center-." Ash was soon cut off.

"He was there to train because he lost to Viola, the bug type gym leader in Kalos and we could have reunited after his lost, but I was completely ignored and he quickly went to the pokemon center." Serena told her at her own point of view.

"Ash, you just ignored her." Leaf said, with hint of anger in her voice.

"I didn't notice her." Ash defended himself. "I was too busy looking after my pokemon."

"For shame Ash," Leaf said, "now continue your story."

Ash continued. "So I was training and Serena went and Serena gave me my backpack that I forgot it at the gym."

"He's so forgetful." Leaf commented.

"You don't even know." Serena replied. "You know he forgot all about me when we got reunited."

"What the heck Ash!" Leaf exclaimed.

"I guess I didn't want to remember her leaving me." Ash answered.

Leaf went from angry to a person reacting to cute things. "You're lucky what you just said is cute."

"I said that once." Bonnie contributed to the conversation.

"So where are you headed, Leaf?" Ash said to her.

"I'm going to Shalour city with you guys." She answered him.

"This is gonna be great." Ash commented.

"Really is," Serena said. "It'll be great."

The group did not notice it, but at that time the sun was fully down and night was upon them. It wasn't until later when Clemont checked his watch and showed it was 7:37 P.M that the group notice nightfall was upon them

They were served dinner by a passing stewardess.

"Ash, why do you want to go to Shalour city?" Leaf asked asked.

"I'm going to ask Korrina to give me a mega bracelet, to mega evolve my Charizard." Ash had gave her his answer and reached in his backpack and showed the Mega Stone to Leaf.

"I'm going there to to mega evolve my Venasuar." She commented and then showed Ash her Mega stone.

"Sweet, maybe we could battle our mega evolved our pokemon soon." Ash got hyped for the battle in the future.

"Just so you know, I will not lose." Leaf said.

Ash responded, "We'll see."

They fed all the pokemon and talked for hours about their adventures. The siblings fell into slumber.

While Leaf and Ash kept blabbing on Ash felt something on his shoulder. Serena rested on his shoulder fast asleep, with a grin. Reacting to that, Ash rested on her head and fell asleep too with a smile.

"So cute," muttered Leaf. Leaf and Pikachu were the last one to succumb to slumber.

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