The next morning Ash woke up bright and early he looked down to Dawn laying on his chest sound asleep. He smiled at her before gently slipping out from under her and standing up stretching his tight muscles looking down to find Umbreon stirring as well. He quickly dressed and he and Umbreon walked out of the room. They quietly slipped outside and into the brisk early morning air. They walked around town for a bit before heading back to the hotel.
They walked in to find Maylene, Zoey, Gary, and Paul sitting around drinking coffee and laughing. He took the time to look at each of them closely. Gary still had the same spiky brown hair and eyes. he was wearing a black shirt with purple pants and a necklace with a purple pendant on it. Paul was still the same as ever purple hair, blue and black jacket with grey pants and blue sneakers, but now he smiled more and was a lot more relaxed. Zoey still had the same short orange hair, but now she was wearing a pair of light wash skinny jeans with a red long sleeve shirt and her normal brown hiking boots. Maylene still had the same short pink hair but she no longer wore the patch over her nose and now had on a white jean skirt with a black tank top and dark blue over shirt.
Ash smiled at the seen moving to the living room and sitting down as well joining in the conversation. It wasn't long before Dawn walked out of their room fully dressed and ready for the day. She smiled when she saw Ash laughing and talking to the others. She walked over to him and kissed him lightly before sitting down in his lap as Ash wrapped his arms around her pulling her close.
They all talked for a while before they split up each couple heading off to take care of their own business. Ash lead Dawn back to the clearing they had landed in Umbreon and Glaceon following behind.
"What are we doing here?" Dawn asked him confused.
"I need to train." Ash said smiling at her, she smiled back before nodding.
"I think I'll do some training too." She said dropping his hand and walking over to a corner of the clearing sitting down by a tree to think. Ash chuckled at her before grabbing 5 poke balls off his belt tossing them in the air releasing Glalie, Bulbasaur, Typhlosion, Samurott, and Staraptor, Umbreon ran over to join the rest of the pokemon.
"Alright guys time to train. I want Glalie with Umbreon, Typhlosion with Staraptor, and Bulbasaur with Samurott." He said and as soon as he was done talking they all jumped into action starting to mock battle as Ash watched over them.
At one point during the sparing Glalie froze one of Umbreon's shadow balls in a glistening block of ice, making Dawn jump up and yell "That's it!" running up to them.
They all stopped what they were doing to look at her "What's it?" Ash asked confused.
"Ash do you think you could have Glalie and Umbreon do that again?" she asked he just looked at her confused "When Glalie accidentally froze Umbreon's shadow ball."
"Oh yeah." He said gesturing for them to do as she said, they nodded before Glalie again froze Umbreon's shadow ball. Dawn seemed to be thinking a mile a minute as she looked at the glittering block of ice.
She then turned to Ash a huge smile on her face "Do you have Flygon with you?"
"Um…yeah." Ash said confused
"Good could you call him out please?" she asked and without a word Ash released his trusted dragon pokemon. "Ok now can you have Bulbasaur fire off an energy ball and have Glalie freeze it in a block as big as Flygon?" she asked and Ash just nodded to his pokemon telling them silently to do as she asked. The pokemon did as told Bulbasaur firing off an energy ball and Glalie freezing it in a block as big as Flygon. "Ok now have Bulbasaur use razor leaf to make it look like Flygon." She instructed.
Bulbasaur quickly went to work his razor leaf easily cutting through the block of ice. When he was done there was a perfectly replicated ice sculpture of Flygon sitting before them a light green glow emanating from it thanks to the energy ball resting in its center.
"Wow." Ash said amazed at what his pokemon had created. He turned to Dawn but before he could say anything more she jumped at him crashing her lips on his. Ash acted on instinct his hands grasping her waist to hold her up as he kissed her back. "What was that for?" he asked after they pulled back.
"For helping me figure out my appeal for the grand festival." She said smiling.
"But you don't have a grass type to do energy ball and razor leaf." He reminded her and her face fell as she bit her lip, thinking.
After a few seconds of thought her eyes brightened and she pulled a poke ball off her belt "Come on out." She called as the poke ball released her newest pokemon, Eevee. Dawn bent down to Eevee's level "Hey Eevee what would you say to evolving into a Leafeon?" she asked her.
"Vee, Eevee." Eevee said happily jumping up and down at the prospect of evolving.
Dawn stood up and looked at Ash "Problem solved I'll use Glaceon and Leafeon after she evolves." Dawn said happily.
Ash thought about it for a minute "That could work." He said smiling at her. the rest of the day was spent with Ash helping Dawn train Eevee getting her ready to evolve, and Glaceon's endurance up to make an ice block big enough to carve.