Oliverqueen01- Chapter 8, crazy to think back in march I started this and we're already on chapter 8. So ya with out any further ado here we go and as always reviews and questions will be addressed at the end, anyway disclaimer time!

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Chapter 8: An interesting day.

Monday morning Ash gets up and waits outside of Serena's house for the two of them to walk to school. Serena is back in her usual wear of pink dress and red overcoat. Once she got outside the two of them began walking.

"Bleh, Mondays the most hated day of everyone's life." Ash groaned

"Agreed, whoever decided Monday should be a thing must have been confused or something thinking that it would be a good idea." Serena agreed while yawning.

"Ya, So how's your pokemon?" asked Ash

"They're good, they're a little sad that I won't be spending so much time with them anymore but they understand. Mom was also happy that I finally got a job too, but enough about me how's pikachu?"

"Pikachu's fine, he's usual mischievous self as usual but now he has a new friend to play with and I need to get through to."

"What do you mean?"

"Oh right you slept through everything that happened afterwards. Anyway I got a new pokemon from your professor back home."

"From Professor Sycamore? What pokemon did he send you?"

"It's a water type called Froakie."

"Froakie? That's one of the three starters you can choose when you start your journey in Kalos, but why did he send one to you?"

"Well apparently this Froakie has left its trainers before or they come back to trade it for the other two from what Principal/Professor Oak told me. I just hope he doesn't do the same to me. I really want to make him feel like he really belongs here with me."

Serena put her hand on Ash's back and gave him a smile.

"Well if I know anything from personal experience, it's that your a good person and you'll find a way."

"Thanks, I hope so."

The two of them smiled at each other as they reached the front gates of the school. They headed inside to their lockers got what they needed and headed off to english class. They said good morning to Wells as they came in and sat at their seats as he began.

"Good morning class, I hope you had a good weekend. Before we get started this morning there are a couple of announcements from the office. First off reminder that try outs for band will start this week at lunch in the music room for anyone interested. Secondly next week will be the school's annual open house if your parents wish to attend but let's face it your seniors this is your last year here so why bother right?"

The class chuckled at Wells's comment.

"Finally, what event is this year that everyone in this room can be apart of after suffering 4 years here?" He asked the class

"Prom." A random blonde hair student yelled out

"Correct, now as you know there is a committee designated to plan out this night. The only thing they don't decide on is the date since it's the night before graduation. Now the committee is being formed today at lunch so if your interested please attend in the student council room." Wells informed them.

All the girls began to get excited while the boys all sighed. Wells laughed at the reaction of everyone in the class.

"All right, All right settle down everyone. I know your excited but we have to get through today's lesson. Now then take out your textbooks and turn to page 86." Wells told them as they began the lesson.


Class ends and everyone exits to their next class. During their Spare Serena, May and Dawn agreed to go to the prom committee meeting to see what it was like and to have a hand in making prom the way they wanted. They then went back to studying for their next class, The bell rang and it was time for their next class. Serena met up with Ash in the hallway and proceed to math together. They had a test the whole period which meant no talking. Ash felt confident now that he was getting tutored. Once the period was over they headed for lunch. Serena grabbed lunch and said goodbye to ash as she, Dawn and May headed to the student council room.

They entered the large room with a whiteboard infront of them. They sat down in the middle while waiting for the room to fill up. As the room filled up Dawn began to start turning red.

"Dawn, what's wrong?" asked Serena

"He's here." Dawn replied

"Who's here?"

"The guy that I like, the one I told you about last night."

"Where?"

Dawn pointed to a boy with short black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a light blue shirt and black pants. As he walked by he sat infront of them and said hello to them. Dawn was trying her best not to rush over to him.

"Dawn, who is he?" asked May

"His name is Leonard Sonoda. He's in my economics class." Dawn answered

"Are you going to be okay?" asked Serena

"I'll try." Dawn answered quietly.

Serena and May held Dawn's hand assuring her that they would be there for her. After the room filled up Sara entered the room with the student council president. Who the trio recognized as a classmate from their english class.

"Good afternoon everyone and thanks for coming. As you were informed by your homeroom teachers this morning this committee is being put together for our grand event at the end of the year. Now in order to actually be able to have that event we need to decide on location, theme and various other things." The president began.

Everyone nodded as the council president continued

"Now as the school rules state there must be a teacher representative present for all meetings of any club/committee etc... To that end our lovely resident drama teacher Ms. Sakai has graciously volunteered her time to be here in order to maintain order should go out of control." he explained.

Everyone nodded again as the president continued.

"Now then, the objectives of today's meeting is to decide location, theme and money raising ideas in order to have a good idea of where were going with this. Now then we'll start with location does anyone have suggestions?" he asked

"How about the school cafeteria?" a random student yelled out.

"No, we want everyone to have a good time not smell like burger and fries at the end of the night it must be a memorable night."

"How about the back field?" another student yelled out

"Again no, that night the field will be prepared for graduation the following day meaning it after the final bell rings that day that the field will be off limits. Anyone else have a better idea other than here at school?" he asked with a sweatdrop on his face.

Dawn raised her hand.

"Yes, Dawn?"

"How about the hall here in town? It's big enough to dance and seat people to eat and rest plus I could talk to my mom about it since she works there." she stated.

"That sounds like a good idea. Does anyone have any objections to that?" he asked

Everyone remained silent.

"Then it's settled we will have Prom at the hall here in town. Next up the theme for prom and before you say anything no Mick hell is not an acceptable theme even if you want to see everything burn." He said

The boy named Mick slumped in his chair as everyone laughed.

"Now then, who has an idea?"

"How about a night in Hollywood?" someone yelled out.

"That was last years theme, so duplicating it two years in a row isn't a good idea."

"How about a winter theme?" another student asked.

"No, where we even find snow at this time of the year? Come on guys your killing me is there someone here who has a truly unique idea?" he said with despair.

Serena raised her hand

"Yes, Serena please tell me you have something unique."

"Well, this is the night we've looking forward to ever since we started school right? So why not have a night in wonderland?"

"That could work but how would we go about it?"

"Well us girls could dress up fancy like in ball gowns and the sort, while the boys dress up in their tuxedos and the decorations around us could all be in white which could signify the beginning of the next chapter of our lives." she explained.

"That... is actually an amazing theme for this year. I don't think we can top that, unless someone else can think of anything."

No one said a peep.

"Then that shall be our theme, now then the last point of the meeting, how do we raise money and bring awareness?" he asked

"Flyers?" a male student asked.

"That was already going to be done regardless, we need something with flair. Something with huge pizazz, something that screams help us raise money for our prom."

"Well normally I would sit here and let mick here do all the talking for me, but seeing as we have no ideas left I'll contribute to the cause." Leonard said with a arrogant voice.

"All right Sonoda what's your big idea?"

"Marker if you please?" Leonard asked somewhat nicely.

The president handed the marker to Leonard who flipped the board over and divided it into two halves and labelled them this month on one side and the other side wrote the other months.

"Now, Halloween is coming up. What would be ideal during that time? Simple a haunted house. It would raise funds for us and whatever is left over we could donate to the school or to charity. Now the other months we could do little things like a carnival, pie our teachers and the such." Leonard explained.

"Heh, for an arrogant self-centred person Sonoda you are very smart."

"I'm not arrogant or self-centred, I'm just ahead of the curve. Now I trust there are no objections to my idea." Leonard said snarlingly

Everyone remained silent.

"Good, then I think we can bring this meeting to a close Mr. President." Leonard said as he sat back down.

"Well then this has been a productive meeting thank you all for coming, you're dismissed."

Everyone got up and left the room one at a time, Leonard stopped to say goodbye to Serena and co and walked away with his friend Mick in tow. Dawn swooned at the sight of Leonard while Serena and May had to bring Dawn back to reality.

"Dawn... tell me again what do you see in him?" asked May

"He's so cool and hot why wouldn't you want to be with him?" Dawn said Dreamily.

Both May and Serena sighed at Dawn as they went to join up with the others after the meeting to tell them how it went and what was decided. The bell then rang and everyone headed to their respective classes.


After the final bell rang everyone headed to their lockers. Dawn was on her way out looking at her phone while walking out she ran into someone as they collided and hit the floor papers were scattered around them.

"Ow, couldn't you watch were you were-" She began but suddenly stopped

Dawn looked up and saw Leonard.

"Oh my gosh Leonard, I am so sorry I should have looked where I was going I didn't mean to knock you down." Dawn said in a fluster.

"It's fine, It was partly my fault too. I should know better than to be walking while reading over my notes." Leonard said calmly.

"Here let me help you." Dawn offered.

Dawn and Leonard picked up the pieces of paper that were around them. There was a single page left in the middle of them. They both went to pick it up at the same time, their hands touched. Dawn blushed slightly while Leonard picked up the piece of paper.

"So Leonard, Why are you so arrogant and self-centred to everyone?" she asked

"Like I said at the meeting, I'm just ahead of the curve. Besides it's better for you to stay away from me What was your name again Dawn was it? It's better for you not to get involve with someone like me." He told her in a serious voice.

"And what if I want to?" she asked teasingly

Leonard smirked as they got up and he started to walk away.

"Then you'll see who I really am and the path on who I plan on becoming for the future and why your better off." he answered.

Dawn stared at him as he walked away.

"Well Leonard, your a tough nut to crack but luckily for you I plan to break your hard as ice exterior." she thought to herself.

Dawn then hurried to the front to meet up with the others who asked what took her so long. She explained what happened with Leonard. She then noticed someone was missing.

"Hey, where's Ash?"

"He said something about talking to Wells before leaving." Gary answered

"Did he say what it was about?"

"No, he was all hush about it."

Serena, Dawn and May looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing at the moment: What could be so important that Ash had to talk to Wells about that couldn't wait until tomorrow. After 20 minutes of waiting Ash came out and apologized to everyone for making them wait. Everyone then said their goodbyes as May and Dawn went to work, Brock, Drew and Tommy hitched a ride with Gary, Leaf and Principal/Professor Oak Leaving Ash and Serena to walk home alone.


"So what were you and Mr. Wells talking about?" asked Serena

"Nothing, just some random thoughts in my head." Ash answered

"Everything okay?"

"Ya, it's just you know the whole trying to bond with Froakie thing. I asked him if he had any tips to share that I could use to get along with Froakie."

"And what did he say?"

"He basically repeated what you said this morning on the way to school, that I need to believe in myself and I would find a way."

"He's right you know."

"I know, but how do I get through to a pokemon with such a rough past like that? With Charizard, Infernape and Pignite it was easy but this is an entirely different matter altogether seeing as it's walked away from someone before I got him, hmm."

Serena put her hands on Ash's shoulders.

"Do you know what I would do? I would try to find something that you and Froakie would have in common, after all pokemon take after their trainers or so the saying goes and I know this from personal experience since Fenniken is like me and we both to look our best."

Ash pondered Serena's words for a minute and then an idea struck him.

"AH- I think I know what exactly what I can do to win over Froakie, I can't believe I didn't think of it before, thanks Serena."

Serena sighed as he ran off leaving her alone to walk the rest of the way home. She wondered though if she was being told everything. Something about Ash seemed off to her like he was hiding more about his conversation with Wells.

"Ash..." She thought to herself as she continued her walk home alone.


Ash entered his house and was greeted by Pikachu with his usual tackle to the ground. He looked at the time it was 4pm. His mom would be home at 6, leaving him with two hours to spare. He dropped off his stuff upstairs and grabbed Froakie's pokeball and headed to the backyard.

He threw the pokeball out releasing the blue frog from it's Pokeball. It stood infront of him with a nonchalant look on it's face.

"Okay Froakie, I have an idea for us getting along." Ash told him

"Fro?"

"Come on follow me, Pikachu you stay here until we get back." he told Pikachu

"Pika?"

"We won't be long I promise."

Pikachu nodded as Ash and Froakie jumped the fence at the edge of the backyard and entered the forest of pallet. The pair were walking through the forest quietly taking in the sounds of nature, Ash spoke to Froakie as they walked.

"So do you like this place?" asked Ash

"Fro."

"I take a walk through here sometimes to clear my head of whatever problems are bothering me at the moment, but there's something more beyond here I want to show you."

"Fro?"

"You'll see, we're almost there."

Froakie wondered where Ash was leading him to he hoped that Ash wasn't going to be like the other trainers he was with before and abandon him in the middle of the forest. Once they got to the clearing Froakie stared in amazement at what was before him.

There was a field infront of him filled with colourful flowers as far as the eye could see in red, blue, yellow and white flowers. In the distance was a river sparkling and the sun in the sky shining ever so brightly. Froakie ran to the river and began swimming as Ash layed down in the distance and started to think back to earlier.

Flashback to earlier that day:

Ash knocked on the door and a voice told him to enter the room.

"Oh Ash, hello." Wells spoke

"Hi, Mr. Wells do you have a minute to chat?" Asked Ash

"Of course, I always have time for my students I'm just marking your autobiography assignments which I'm almost done only a couple left and then next week you'll get them back with your grade, but I can tell this isn't about anything school related is it?"

"No, it's more personal actually." Ash admitted

"I see, well how can I help you?" asked Wells

"Sir, how do you know when you feel a special way towards someone?"

"Define special way." Wells said as he took off his glasses.

"Special way like if you like them as more than friends, how do you know?"

"I see, Ash these past 4 years I have seen you and your friends laugh, cry, smile, fight and grow up into the responsible young adults that come to my class each and every morning. Now to answer your question: how do you know when you like someone more than friends? Well Ash only you and you alone can answer that question the process is different for everyone myself included. But if you would like a small hint towards an answer then I will leave you with this thought: If you have a warm feeling in your body like when a butterfree enters its mating ritual then you'll know when if you feel that way about someone and yes I used the butterfree example from your autobiography." he answered as he put on his glasses again.

Ash nodded as he took in Wells's words, True he could had gone to anybody regarding how he was feeling but he thought to be safe and get advice from someone who wouldn't steer him down the wrong path or give him bad advice.

"Thank you, I think I have a better understanding now, but if you don't mind there's one more thing I'd like your advice on."

"Of course, what is it?"

"I recently acquired a new pokemon and it has a rough past what should I do to make it feel like it can trust me?"

"Just believe in yourself and you will find a way, after all if your grades are any indication it shows you are a hard worker and you always find a way to succeed no matter whether it's in my class or your other teachers."

"Well thank you Mr. Wells for all the advice you've given me today, I really appreciate it. I would have gone to the others but I fear that they would have given me advice that would not be helpful at all."

Wells chuckled

"Not a problem at all Ash you know you can come to me between the hours of 8 to 3, now run along I'm sure your friends are waiting for you."

Ash nodded and waved goodbye to Wells as he exited and made his dash to the entrance to meet up with the others.

End of flashback

Ash had thought about Wells said to him. On the one hand what Wells said to him was right that only he would know if he liked someone more than being just friends. On the other hand he wanted this feeling of uncertainty to go away.

Froakie appeared with a joyful look in Ash's face interrupting his thoughts. Ash asked Froakie if he wanted to leave and Froakie nodded yes. The two then left the field and began their trek through the forest again. They almost made their way back when suddenly they were attacked.

A wild Mankey appeared before them. Ash tried to reason with Mankey.

"Look Mankey, we just want to exit peacefully, we're not looking for any trouble at all so please let us go."

Mankey grunted and attacked Ash who winced onto the ground in pain. Froakie yelled out in shock and ran towards Ash.

"I'm okay, don't worry about me. Just get out of here and go get Pikachu." Ash ordered Froakie.

Mankey kept attacking Ash with low kick as Froakie looked on. Froakie felt conflicted and worried. He wanted to listen to Ash and go and get Pikachu but he knew if he left that Ash would get hurt worse. Froakie then called out to Mankey getting it's attention. The two pokemon stared at each other as Ash tried to get up and passed out from exhaustion.

The two pokemon traded blows back and forth. Mankey was on it's last legs as was Froakie. Mankey had enough energy left to deliver a final low kick. As Mankey lunged towards Froakie it failed to see a small water circle in Froakie's hands and took the full blast as it went flying towards it and ended up in another part of Kanto. Froakie then ran towards Ash who was still knocked out.

He then exited the forest and ran towards the house and found Pikachu who was sleeping in the same place it had was earlier. Froakie then explained to Pikachu what was going on. Pikachu then looked at the clock it was 5:30, Delia would be home in half an hour and Ash wouldn't survive that long. Pikachu told Froakie to go back to Ash and wait there while he got help. Froakie then nodded and went back to Ash as Pikachu took off. He only hoped that whoever Pikachu got would make it in time.


Serena and her pokemon were in her backyard planting some flowers in the little flower area next to the fence humming a tune. Pancham was digging the dirt, Sylveon was handing Serena the flowers to be planted and Fenniken patted the ground once it was planted. The four of them were about to get started on the next row when Pikachu ran into the backyard.

"Pikachu, what's wrong and where's Ash?" asked Serena worriedly

Pikachu motioned for her to follow him. Serena nodded as she ran inside to leave a note for her mother and then ran off following Pikachu with her pokemon in tow.

When they got to the forest Pikachu ran to Froakie and checked on Ash. Serena then saw the sight infront of her. Ash was out cold and probably wouldn't be up until tomorrow morning. Serena then decided to try to wake him up it was no use. She then manged to get Ash on her back with Svyleon's help and began walking back to Ash's house while being completely red all over with shyness.

It was 5:50 pm when they reached back at the house and they entered inside. Serena placed Ash carefully on the couch. She was worried for him but there was nothing more she could do for now except wait. Pikachu was trying to cheer up Froakie who was in a somber mood worrying about Ash. Serena bent down to Froakie and rubbed his head.

"Don't worry he'll be fine." she assured him with a smile.

Froakie's spirit rose a little bit, then Serena left with her pokemon leaving a note for Delia for when she came home. Froakie stopped Serena before she left and handed her a piece of his frubble as a way of saying thank you. Serena thanked Froakie and then went home with her pokemon.


Ash woke up about half an hour later.

"Mankey!" Ash yelled out

Delia ran over to her son.

"Ash sweetie are you okay?" she asked with concern.

"I'm fine, but how did I get here, where's Froakie?"

"Froakie's fine he's right over there with Pikachu see?"

she pointed to the backyard.

"Well that answers that question, but how did I get home? The last thing I remember was a wild Mankey kicking me in the stomach with low kick and then I'm drawing a blank."

"Serena brought you home." Delia said

"Serena? But how?"

"She left me a note saying you had been knocked out somehow and she carried you all the way back here with the help of her pokemon. As for your other question you'll have to ask your pokemon, but for now just be with them you can ask them how another time." she explained.

Ash nodded and walked towards the backyard and sat on the deck with Pikachu and Froakie who were overjoyed to see him up and walking. They sat on the deck staring at the moon each thinking different things but mainly they were all thinking the same thing: that no one got hurt worse.

Ash also heard Wells's words echo in his head.

"If you have a warm feeling in your body like when a butterfree enters its mating ritual then you'll know when if you feel that way about someone."

"Like butterfree during mating ritual huh. Then let's see where this leads, first thing tomorrow I'm making it up to her."


Oliverqueen01- Boy so things happened, let's recap:shipping moment at the beginning and end, Ash confiding in Wells about how he's feeling. Will Wells put 2 and 2 together and figure it out? Perhaps. Dawn's crush has been revealed to be Leonard Sonoda who is based loosely on DC comic villain/anti-hero Captain cold and no he will not have a cold gun in this story and the reference to heatwave was a one time mention until later. At the end of next chapter we'll meet May's potential partner but most of it will be just an amourshipping chapter. Also eventually down the line we'll meet the partners for Tommy, Brock and Drew.

But anyway that's enough babbling for now, let's get to your burning question/reviews.

Reviews/questions

Espeon44- Don't worry you'll like next chapter, btw I'm thinking of using one of your OC characters if it's okay with you.

Klay (guest)- noted i'll try and squeeze her in somewhere. If i don't decide to put her with May, but we'll see at the end of next chapter.

Rams30(Guest)- Well this chapter answered that question, but May will be the one who dates a girl cause why not lol

Ooobserver- Yup a lot of progress, like i said that was probably my 2nd favourite to write, my favourite isnt coming up till near the end :p but thanks for the kind words good sir.

Pokemonmeat- of course good sir, #AmourshippingFTW :p

Amour guest- No not in this story, another story maybe but for now normal people with pokemon who live in pallet town and Yes yes, keep up the amourshipping stuff and all that good jazz. I will don't worry about that :p

HaloWarrior56- thank you for the review, I will keep that in mind.

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