A Gathering

Ash and Serena were at the Pokémon center, in there room just relaxing side by side and watching tv. It was a cool seventy five degree weather. The sun was just about to set. Both were just sitting at their individual beds and eating the cake Serena baked this morning.

"A lot of things happened today, huh." Ash reminisce of what happen in this one day.

"Yeah!" Serena agreed. "Hey why didn't you stop me from talking?"

"Well I didn't wanna be rude."

"So instead you would rather let me drown in my own sorrows." Serena had a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "I'm offended."

"Really?" He replied earnestly.

"No." Serena was amused by how dense her boyfriend was. "By god, how dense are you."

"It varies."

"How's Noivern?"

"Resting in its pokeball." Ash held up his pokeball and showed it to Serena.

"So what now?"

"I don't know. What do you wanna do?"

"Well, how about we try to find the others, I haven't really seen them all day."

"Nope, they um..." They have something to do right now um... Brock has an exam for his school that he has too uh... turn in online so he's at the library. You know this is just his two week break from his undergraduate courses. You can't bother him."

"What about Bonnie, Clemont and Leaf?"

"Leaf is... is... on a hunt for a rare pokemon in the woods and we can't disturb her from her focus."

"Huh... funny we didn't ran into her."

"Well it is a big forest."

"And the other two just wanted to have some brother and sisterly bonding. You know that uh... they haven't been alone for a while just the two of them and they are family so... yeah." In the back of her mind she was stressing so much. She believed that anyone could see straight through the web of lies she just woven, but then again this was Ash.

"Right." Ash's tone had a bit of uncertainty. Which made, but her panic a little in her mind, but when he didn't act upon the uncertainty she relaxed. His goofy, happy expression stayed constant.

"Wanna watch a movie?"

"Ok, which one?"

"How about the Pokémon: The battle of the legendaries."

"What's that?" Ash curiously asked.

"Well it's about all the legendary Pokémon in some cosmic war that has one side being some legendries bent on destroying and resetting the while the some other legendaries were against that idea."

Ash was getting hooked to the story. "Who won?"

"Well if we watch the movie you would know. I wouldn't wanna spoil the whole story."

They went to a video rental place and got the movie in a few minutes. They walked on a narrow street with street lights looking like they were about to flaker.

"That was quick," Ash commented. Ash was holding the DVD box holding it examining the pictures. "The movie looks good."

Serena was at disbelief. "It is one of he highest grossing film in Kalos. I can't believe you haven't heard of it."

"Well I traveled a lot. Plus, I am not from Kalos."

They walked together to go back to the pokemon center. On the way there they passed by a skate park. Ash couldn't help, but stare at the park with a feeling that he had forgot something.

Serena tugged him along and Ash just followed her lead and he shrugged off that thought.

It was getting dark now. Streets lights were turning on and Ash was getting hungry. A wind brushed up against the feeling of their skin.

"It's getting cold," Ash started to walk at a faster pace.

Serena clasp her hands together for warmth. "I should have brought a jacket."

"Hey Serena," Ash said.

"Yeah," She answered back.

"Let's get something to eat first before watching the movie."

"Okay let's just get something from the cafeteria."

They entered and went inside the pokemon center. It was considerably warmer inside than outside. They saw Korrina standing in there. She was leaning on the counter of the lobby waiting for her pokemon to get healed. It wasn't a big surprise seeing that she was the gym leader of this town.

"Korrina," Ash said as him and his girlfriend walked towards her. They waved at her.

"Hey Ash, I haven't seen you for a long time," Korrina replied back. "Hey you want me to give you your activation stone for your mega evolution. I heard from Leaf that you already got a mega stone."

"Really you have it with you right now." Ash was excited.

Korrina held the stone after getting it out of her pocket. "Yeah just in case I ran into one of you guys."

"One of you guys?" Ash asked.

"Well there was another guy that asked for a mega stone. He's about our age. He's like a Pokémon researcher in training or something like that. We didn't really set a specific time to meet up, but he should be around here in town. "

"What's his name?" Serena asked.

Korrina faced Ash. "Ash probably knows this guy. His name is Gary Oak."

"What!" Ash exclaimed. "Gary's in town."

"Sounds like you do know him," Korrina commented.

"Yeah, we're friends. we lived next to each other since we were born." Ash said. "Actually Serena knows the guy too."

"Really," Korrina said.

"Yeah I do. I did used to live in Kanto with Ash, but if I were to meet up with him I would probably not recognize him if I ever bumbed into him. It has been to long." Serena said.

"I wonder if mom knew about this, or maybe I should call professor Oak." Ash said.

"Well any way." Korrina handed him the mega stone. "Here a gift from me to you."

"You're really just giving it to me?" Ash questioned. He accepted the gift and putted it in his pocket.

"Well I heard something about you." Korrina said.

"What is it?" He replied

"Sorry I think I tipped of to much stuff to you already. It's suppose to be secret." Korrina answered.

"You just made me more curious what is it?" Ash commented.

"Nope." Korrina refused.

Ash was going to continue, but a hand was felt on his shoulder. It was Serena.

"Just let it go. Let's just go to bed. I'm kind of sleepy." Serena faked a yawned.

"But I thought we were going to watch the movie we just got and have dinner."

"What movie?" Korinna asked.

"Pokémon the battle of the legendaries," replied Ash.

"Cool, can I watch. I loved that movie." Korrina exclaimed.

"Don't you need to go back to the tower?" Ash asked. "The tide is about to rise."

"I got a room here and the tide already rose. Can't go home even if I wanted tonight."

"Okay then. Let's watch." Serena suggested.

As the two girls walked towards their room, she was stopped by Ash's hand.

"Wait." Ash said. Ash was looking down at the floor with his serious face. To the trio, the room grew silence. Nobody even moved an inch, despite the other people clamoring and chatting. The two ladies looked at Ash intensely as they waited for him to speak. His stomach growled loudly. "Let's get something to eat first."

The girls chuckled a bit.

"Why did you look so serious Ash?" Korrina asked still chuckling a bit.

"Well I was hungry," he responded.

"That was a bit anti climatic," Serena said wiping a tear of her right eye. "So Korrina you wanna eat with us."

"Well I haven't had dinner yet so yeah okay let's eat." Korrina responded.

They proceeded walking towards the cafeteria.

Korrina thought about something and asked it. "When are you guys leaving town?"

"I don't know." Ash answered. He moved his head towards Serena. "When are we leaving?"

"I don't know either. Maybe two three weeks from now," Serena replied.

"That's a long time. How much free time do you guys have?" Korrina asked.

Ash faced Serena once more and asked, "When's master class performance?"

"It's in about six weeks from now," Serena answered.

The trio grabbed food and sat down.

"So where are the others?" Korrina asked while eating.

A few a hours before, Brock, Clemont, Bonnie and Leaf waited for someone in the train station. The station was crowded and the group was just standing there in the waiting area mingling, sometimes just dazing out, sometimes just doing absolutely nothing.

"Is she here yet?" The eight year old asked.

"It's only been twenty minutes," answered Clemont.

"This is boring." Bonnie commented. "I'm going around."

"Okay just be back here by ten minutes."

"Sure thing," The blonde girl said taking her leave. She wandered about in the train station. It seemed she was unable to stay in one spot for a few seconds. She counted each step she took. When finally stopping she counted 561 steps.

She sat in a bench and looked up at the sky and saw that it was the color of the mid afternoon, blue sky. Then she realize she was lost. She was in the dazed, but snapped out after a thought occurred in her mind.

She hadn't realize that she was lost and looked around each direction trying to remember where she came from. A girl approached her and lightly tapped on her shoulder.

"Excuse me are you lost?" The girl asked.

Bonnie looked back and faced the girl. She had a beanie over her blue hair. She was also wearing a short pink skirt, a black tank top, and a pink scarf. The girl was also holding a piplup in her hands.

"Yeah, I am lost," Bonnie replied.

"No need to worry, if you want I could help you," the girl replied.

"Who are you?"

"The name's Dawn."