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Ritchie

There was a relaxed tone as Korana, Ash and Serena watched the movie. Ash let a sleepy Serena's head rest on his shoulders as he held her in his arms. Korana was at Serena's bed sitting cross-legged on Serena's bed. They room was silent except for the noise that was came from the TV. They turned off all the lights, but the TV gave a low dim glare which lit up a little bit of light from the darkness of the room. Serena grinned as see kept trying to get glimpses of Ash. Serena found herself more entranced at looking at Ash than the actual film.

In the middle of the movie, Korrina chuckled for a bit which caught the couple's eyes. Korrina replied back with a sly smile towards Serena. The movie wasn't showing any funny scenes. Ash just looked at her, and looked back at the screen to start watching the movie again, but Serena knew what she laughed about. Serena blushed at the thought of Korrina catching her look at him. If Korrina told Bonnie or Leaf they would never let this down, but she was reasonable so she mouthed the words that Serena wanted to hear at that very moment and mouthed that she wasn't going to tell them. Serena's head relaxed back on her boyfriend's shoulder.

"This is amazing!" Ash looked wide-eyed at the screen as Serena glanced at the screen as the trainers were teleported into the arena. They checked their pokeballs and strangely Ash did too as he got a slightly glazed look in his eyes. Pikachu wasn't with him and his other pokemon were resting in the pokemon center so it was empty. He clicked the button and nothing came out and he frowned before closing it and going back to watching. Serena looked at him strangely but shrugged and focused on the screen as Ash muttered a bit and shook his head looking a bit confused at some parts as if they got it wrong somehow.

The credits rolled and the couple noticed Korinna sleeping on Serena's bed under Serena's blankets and her head on her pillow. The movie lasted about two hours and fifteen minutes. Serena got up and open up the lights next to Ash's bedside table.

Korinna woke up with a groan as the light filled the room. The eyes of everyone in that room were trying to adjust to the brightness of the room. Serena opened her eyes to see Korrina rub her eyes as she looked around confused. Ash still had his eyes shut with a huge grin on his face.

"That was a great movie." Ash got up and stretch up his arms. "Thanks Serena for recommending this."

"What time is it?" Korrina yawned groggily. She got up from the bed and then proceeded to open the blinds.

"Let me check, my phone is somewhere in my bag let me get it." Serena answered back.

"No need," Korrina said as she looked outside of the window where the stars in the sky shone. The city was full of light and the moonlight went directly through the window. 'It's about midnight I should probably go."

"You can tell time by looking at the moon?" Ash asked, a bit amazed.

"Well in this city I can." Korinna answered. "I've lived here my entire because I'm suppose to inherit my grandfather's gym. I stargaze a lot when I'm in the main part of the city. I've just gotten use to it."

Serena and Ash looked out the window and was amazed by the individual lights in the city that was shinning in the darkness of the starry sky. "Your city is really beautiful at night." Serena commented.

"It's not really that special," Korrina said. "I bet every city is like this. You just got to slow down and take the scenery in."

"I guess you're right," Serena replied. Serenity was brought in to the room for a moment.

"Well, I'll let myself out." Korrina said as she grabbed her bag and left the room, but not waving goodbye to the couple while walking out leaving the young couple was alone.

"It's really late I'm going to bed," Ash said. "You wanna use the bathroom first?

"You go on ahead, I'll just go to the kitchen and see if they have any ingredients to bake with." Serena said. "I'm making some baked goods tomorrow." Serena got out a list of ingredients and headed out for a short time.

Ash went to the bathroom, took a quick shower, brushed his teeth and headed to bed. While waiting for Serena, he put the TV on and showed pokemon trainers and he was surprised to see Prima being interviewed. Orange Islands seemed like a long time ago. He remembered how Misty idolized her and wished that she was here to see him today. After that he started to reminisce of his older adventures with his former traveling companions like Misty, Dawn, Cilan, Tracy, May and many others. "It's been a long time since I saw any of them," he said to himself.

The door opened a bit before pausing. "Ash, I'm going in now. Okay?" It was Serena's voice.

"Yeah, your good," Ash said signaling her to come in. "Did they have everything you need?" Ash asked as she went in.

"Yup, everything." Serena answered back. "I'm gonna take a bath now. You leave anything in there."

"Nothing, just hurry to bed."

Serena blushed at the double meaning of the words he just said, but proceeded gathering her stuff and entering the bathroom. She got out some minutes later and Ash was nervously touching a pokeball before he threw it in the air and caught it as he was lying down on his back. She thought back to the weird scene in the movie, but disregarded that thought just went to her bed after closing the blinds.

"G'night," Serena said.

"Night," Ash said and he turned of the lamp, their only source of their light making the room fill up with darkness.

A few hours before in the train station.

"The name's Dawn." The blue haired girl replied. "And this is Piplup." She gestured to the Pokemon she was currently holding in her arms.

"My name's Bonnie." Bonnie took a good look at her, staring at her intently.

Dawn got somewhat uncomfortable and asked, "Something the matter?"

"Your Perfect! Dawn will you marry my brother?" She got down her knees.

Dawn blushed at the thought of marriage, but obviously rejected it. "Sorry, I kind of like someone else," she said dismissing that thought out of her head.

"Piplup." Piplup added on.

"Aww, that's a shame." Bonnie got up from her knees.

"So are you lost?" Dawn asked. "I could help you want some help find your friends."

"I don't really need help, I just have to go back to my brother at the waiting area."

"I'm going there later. I'm meeting a friend." Dawn smiled at her.

"Wanna go to there together?" Bonnie asked.

"I would love to, but I also brought another friend here with me that I kind of lost in the crowd and I have to find him."

"Who's your friend?"

"His name is Ritchie, and he's about this high." Dawn gave him an estimation of his height using her hands and it equaled to a normal height which didn't really help since there was many people in the station had that height.

"Any other details?" Bonnie asked.

"He has a green top, and wears gloves that are fingerless. Also he wears a blue hat."

"I'll help you find him!"

"Really, you would help me?" Dawn was kind of surprised.

"Sure thing my brother can wait, I'm like a cupid of love. I'll reunite you with your boyfriend."

"B-B-boyfriend!?" Dawn was even more surprised. "He's not-"

Bonnie stopped what Dawn was about to say and dragged her along running everywhere without even a plan to find the guy. While all of that was happening Dawn couldn't help, but thinking this girl was weird, but to her there was no need to worry, everything all ways works out in the end in her experience and they started there search for Ritchie. They asked a bunch of people for any leads, but that guy for some reason was hard to find.

In another part of the train station. The group was getting uneasy about Bonnie. Some minutes past and then half an hour pasted.

"Where's Bonnie?" Clemont started to worry being the brother. "She said she'd be back her in ten minutes."

"I don't know, but let's split up to find her." Leaf suggested. "I'll stay here if she comes back."

"I'll go in this direction, I think she went somewhere there." Clemont rushed out.

""I'll come with you." Brock caught up with him.

"Ok, the next chance I get, I'm getting Bonnie her own phone," Clemont said to himself.

The sun was setting. Ten minutes after their search with some luck, Brock and Clemont actually met up with Bonnie together with some stranger to Clemont, but not to Brock.

"Bonnie," Clemont called out to her as he approached her sister and following just behind him was Brock.

"Dawn?" Brock was shockingly surprised since this is the time he saw his friend for the first time after about a year.

"Brock?" Dawn also pleasantly surprised. They went for the high five for their greeting.

"This is Dawn?" Clemont asked.

"Yeah." Brock answered.

"That's me," the blue haired girl said.

"This is the person we were waiting on?" Bonnie asked.

"Yeah this is it," Brock said. "Weren't you listening to me?"

"Yeah, I didn't listen to you guys." Bonnie was straight to the point. "I kind of tuned you guys out. At first you guys were talking about some gym leader stuff, then you talked about some Pokémon biology or whatever, then some food recipes and somewhere between that conversation you said something about Dawn. It was boring and so I stopped listening."

"Well anyway, Where's your friend?" Brock asked. "The one you said you were gonna bring. You know, I could barely believe that you met up with Ritchie. I'm sure Ash would want a rematch with him."

"I kind of lost him in the station," Dawn admitted. "He just wandered off somewhere."

"Fine let's look around. Maybe we can find him in a short time."

"Let's split up," Bonnie recommended.

Clemont rejected this Idea completely. "No way Bonnie, you got lost once already."

"No, I didn't I was helping Dawn find her boyfriend."

"B-b-boyfriend?" Dawn got a bit flustered.

"How come you didn't tell me you're bringing your boyfriend?" Brock asked with a grin on his face.

Dawn shook her head. "N-no, Ritchie's not my Boyfriend."

"But you said you like someone." Bonnie said.

"Yeah I said someone, I didn't say his name."

"Oh, who is it?" Brock asked. He was very intrigued. "You know other than a future Pokémon doctor, I'm also a love doctor I could help you out in that department."

"Yaaaaaa!" Dawn shouted. "Just shut it. Let's just go find Ritchie, okay?"

"Fine lets go."

They started walking around the station trying to find him.

"What does he look like?" Clemont asked.

"Well he about this high." Dawn used her arms and hand to show his height. "He's tall. He's not too skinny, but not to fat. He also has a Raichu that sometimes stays out of its pokeball, kind of like Ash's Pikachu. His Raichu has a little scruf on the top of his head. Actually sometimes his charmeleon would walk around with us when we journeyed together, but when it evolved into Charizard it kind of became a hassle."

"So is that him?" Bonnie pointed to a guy that had a Raichu walking beside him looking lost.

"That was fast," Dawn commented. She went towards him. "Ritchie!" She shouted.

The guy looked at him and smiled. "Ahh Dawn, I thought I could never find you." He looked relieved.

"Hey Ritchie." Dawn replied.

"Long time no see," Brock said.

"You too," Ritchie responded as he shook Brock's hand.

"You've change," Brock commented.

"Well, not by much. I heard Ash didn't change at all."

"Where were you?" Dawn asked him.

"I was actually in the city for a short time, but came back to the station." Ritchie answered. "Team Rocket attacked me, but it wasn't a big of deal and I handled them."

"Team Rocket as in Jessie and James?" Brock asked.

"No, some other team rocket guys." Ritchie answered. "A guy and a girl. girl's name is Cassidy and the other guys is called Butch, wait, no, his name I think was Bob, or was it Ben."

"Well whatever their names are we're glad your safe." Brock commented.

Bonnie introduced herself and so did Clemont since this was their first time meeting him.

Ritchie responded, "As they probably already said, I'm Ritchie and this is Sparky." He pointed to his Raichu on the floor.

"This is such a cute Raichu." Bonnie went straight for the hug. "I can't help, but hug him."

"Wait don't." Ritchie warned them, but it was too late. Raichu as a defense mechanism electrified the whole group. Luckily, there was no one else around in proximity of that electric attack, but everyone there got an afro and got covered in some soot.

"Bonnie!" Clemont shouted.