"Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person you thought would never hurt you" - Pintrest

2 months past

Ash and Serena soon got comfortable with their lives as the two became acquaintance with their new family. Things were peaceful as Ash trained with Zack, Kuroda, Tessa, and Alexa on battling and not for long, aura. Though things seem to get a bit more interesting as Ash is about to receive an opportunity along with his new friends on something that'll shape their lives in a good way or even in a bad way.

Kuroda POV

Ash barely got the hang of it even after 5 years of knowing he has a very powerful aura. As for his team, Ash goes outside once in awhile to catch pokemons and in a good result, his team consist of:

Snivy, Sceptile, Charizard, Greninja, Garchomp, Dragonair, and others along with a few exceptions like Latias and Celebi. His aura and battling style is very intriguing as the months gone by. In fact, the little quarrel between Zack and I on who is the stronger trainer was disproven as Ash took us out even though he hadn't unlock his aura powers yet while we used a tiny bit of ours. I am actually starting to understand why Zack is very interested in Ash's personality and ability.

Serena has been also getting the hang of things as she evolved her Braixen into Delphox but her Pancham didn't want to evolve as he had the same ideal as Ash's Pikachu. Serena's feelings toward Ash kind of wavers as it seems as she sees him as a role model. I do hope things are going well for the two of them.

Tessa soon learned that her ability was Z-Bond, allowing her to use Z-crystal powers without the use of Z-crystals or a Z-Ring surprisingly. As for Claire her greninja, she learned how to turn Water Vortex into something like Decidueye's sinister air raid. Then there was Pearl, her Sylveon, Pearl hadn't been in a battle yet but after having evaluations from both of her older brothers/friends, she knows that Pearl holds a special type of power that no type of Sylveon has, just that she is having trouble unlocking it.

Then there is Zack, his team soon became a powerhouse with Gardevoir as his head pokemon. Gardevoir and him learned have to use psychic to sync with each other and now, they can battle people without having to say anything as they worked together with telepathy. Other than that, his attitude towards other people hadn't change much but he is very open whenever the gang is around.

Alexa, how can I explain...her aura is unique. Of course, the entire gang knew that she is...I don't want this to be rude in anyway to her but she is a homosexual, a lesbian if you get my drift. Though, all of us accepted her the way she is because of her past, her entire life before coming to this village was being mocked and rejected by society for who she is. Her battling skills improved a lot as her team also grew, from what I remembered, she used to have only Espeon and Flaffy but her team grew and also became an actual battle team.

Lillie, where do I begin with her….she has something special. Neither Ash, Zack or my Aura can sense it but from what we can tell, she felt sadness and torment in her life before coming in the village. Even now, that aura still lingers in her even though she is mostly happy and helpful when it comes to caring pokemon and also nutrition facts. Her vulpix, Shiron, is technically mature age but for some reason doesn't want to evolve and Lillie also got into a bit of battling though I can tell she has a long way to go. That also brings up a topic all of us wonder, which region was she born in….

Time sure flies by quick, in fact, two months seem like four years has gone by since Ash and Serena showed up. Not just that but also how much we changed even though our appearances and growth hadn't, but our abilities and mindset has grown. Now the biggest challenge is about to come, as I felt my aura of balance is flickering telling me something big will come, an event that will either bring us to a happy light, or bring us down to the bottomless pit of hopelessness and despair.

Ash POV

"Tyranitar, use rock blast!"

Tyranitar stomped his feet on the ground causing rubble and boulders to erupt in the air. He then smacked the rocks towards Zack's Magmortar who was waiting for a command.

"Fire Blast, go!" Zack yelled.

I am pretty sure it has been awhile since everybody in this group just got to know one another, well getting to know me and Serena to be specific. I've gotten stronger from back then since the entire ordeal and in all honesty, I am actually glad that the betrayal happened.

"Tyranitar, use earthquake!"

"Crap, use self-destruct!"

Afterwards

I really hoped that Zack and Kuroda would have better strategies and other cool techniques on battling during our time together but it seems as each time we battled, I found a way to bypass their tactics and tricks. It then came to the point the two began asking me for tips and advice to use in battle.

I walked over to Zack with a smile as he returned his Magmortar with a sigh of defeat.

"Dang it, I thought I could beat your Tyranitar," Zack smiled disappointedly as he looked at me.

"Well,' I patted Tyranitar's side as he looked down at me with a toothy grin, ' you did manage to make Tyranitar use his full strength, that I have to give credit to you," I smiled as he and I shook hands with one another for the great battle.

Zack and I walked off the battlefield and let Lillie and Tessa battled one another for training since we are done with ours. As everyone else watched the two battled, my aura flared up and I felt presences nearby. It wasn't hostile but it was still familiar.

"Could it be," I muttered as I turned towards the direction of the aura.

"No way…"

Gary

"Thanks for letting me in sir," I bowed a thank you to the weird looking man in the robes as he smiled with his Lucario next to him.

"No problem kid, besides, I can tell that you want to meet someone in here, am I right?" The man said.

I looked over on my shoulder where Ash's Pikachu sat as he looked at the man with a smile and spoke to the man.

"Pika pika, Pika-chu!" Pikachu cried.

"I see….I am pretty sure he is around here, follow me," The man said as he and his Lucario walked down the steps.

I turned to Pikachu who also gave me a look and we somehow thought of the same thing.

"Guess we have to," I said shrugging.

"Pika…"

Ash POV

I am pretty sure I just saw Gary and Pikachu at the Entrance of the hidden gate, but I decided against it knowing that Gary and Pikachu wouldn't have found me this fast since it took me and Serena three years to get here.

"Hey Ash!"

I turned to my left seeing Serena motioning me over to the group as they were waiting for me.

"Coming!" I called out as I ran to the sidelines to pick up my backpack then ran over to the group as they were about to leave for lunch.

As we walked towards the Village Plaza, I am actually excited for the special that this one place has every time in the beginning of a month according to Zack. The walk was usual, us guys talking about pokemon strategies and abilities while the girls talked about fashion and something about the cutest pokemon, I don't think I'll be able to understand them anytime soon.

Though things seemed to change the second I noticed the Head Chief's Lucario.

"Hey guys, isn't that the Chief's Lucario?" I pointed out.

The group stopped walking as they looked at where I pointed and their expressions changed to a serious look on their face.

"Something is happening if Lucario is here," Zack said.

Oh boy, I feel like things are gonna be a bit hectic, my aura is tingling that an adventure is soon to come.

No One POV

Ash and his friends followed Lucario to the Head Chief's Cabin. A lot of things were going through their heads as wondering what is happening. Though Tessa suddenly perked up as she felt her aura tingling from sensing that another presence is nearby.

"Guys, I sense another two presence in the Head Chief's Cabin," Tessa said.

Kuroda and Zack didn't used their aura as they already assume someone was in the cabin threatening the Head Chief. The two boys ran up to the door sending out both Gardevoir and Charmeleon as Zack burst through the door finding….

the Head Chief was having tea with another person and a Pikachu.

"Um, sorry?" Zack sweat dropped as the person and the Head Chief gave him a surprised look.

"Hey Zack, Kuroda! What hap…." Ash caught up with the two and noticed a familiar brown spikey hair dude and a Pikachu sitting on the couch with tea.

"G-gary? Pikachu?" Ash asked warily.

"PIKA!"

Pikachu cried out in joy as he jumped into his best friend's arms as Ash also gave Pikachu a hug while also getting a little teary.

"Pikachu, did you really travel this far for me?!" Ash exclaimed with tears in his eyes.

"Pika, Pika!" Pikachu exclaimed happily.

The girls and Lucario caught up with the three boys and noticed Ash hugging a Pikachu along with another spiky hair kid who was smiling at the scene.

"Ash, is that…" Serena gasped when she saw Pikachu.

"Yes, it is, Pikachu is here!" Ash smiled as Pikachu went onto his shoulder.

"Pika!" Pikachu waved as Serena with a smile.

"Arceus, it is you Pikachu!" Serena exclaimed as she ran over to hug the little electric mouse.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group smiled as they watched the little reunion of the three before Kuroda ruined the moment.

"So, who is the other dude?" He asked pointing a thumb at Gary.

Ash turned towards Gary with Pikachu on his shoulder and smiled at him.

"Sup, Gary!" Ash said smiling as he walked to Gary and held out a hand.

"Hehe, sup Ashy-boy!" Gary said as he took Ash's hand.

"Ashy-Boy?" everyone but Serena jumped.

Ash and Gary turned around and looked at the group before they both chuckled.

"It's an old childhood name he gave me, same with Serena with Sere and Gary with Garebear," Ash explained.

The group could only look at the three with confusion, but Tessa jumped up with a conclusion.

"So you three are in a Love Triangle!" She exclaimed!

"NO!" Ash,Serena, and Gary yelled back which made Tessa smiled nervously as she kept on saying 'okay, okay'.

Time Pass

"So why are you here Gary and how did you even find me?" Ash asked.

The group finally settled down on the chairs and sofas around the Chief's table as Serena is in the kitchen making tea and muffins.

"Thank your buddy on your shoulder, if it hadn't been for him, I probably took more than two months to find you," Gary said as he nodded his head towards Pikachu who was curled up sleeping on Ash's lap.

"Wow, so Pikachu still cares for me after all these years," Ash said softly as he petted Pikachu earning a 'chaa' from him.

"But why are you here? You usually don't look for me unless you have something to prove or give me," Ash said with a suspicious look.

Gary chuckled as he grabbed his bag from the ground near him and rummage around to find the thing that he was suppose to give Ash.

"Well, for one, I wanted to see you, and two, Grandpa got an invitation for you, I think you, and from the looks of it, and your friends will like this," Gary smirked as he took out a letter and a small package.

"What are those?" Ash asked.

"...it's a letter and a box Ashy-boy," Gary said sarcastically.

Ash gave him a poker face as Serena came in and placed the muffins on the table while handing out tea to everyone. Ash continued to give Gary the look as everyone grabbed a muffin and Serena sat next to Ash as she grabbed a muffin.

"Well, you gonna answer me before I take those?" Ash asked again waking Pikachu up a little.

"Okay, okay, geez, you changed a lot," Gary said as he placed the letter and box on the table and pushed it towards Ash, who took it slowly as he looked at it.

"You can thank some certain people for my transformation," Ash hiss.

Everyone looked at Ash with concern as they never seen him like this, well, except when he first came into Primum Village. Serena placed a hand on his shoulder which calmed him down a bit but the guys can tell that his aura is still burning with hatred.

"Um, okay," Gary said nervously and decided to change the topic, "Anyway, that Letter was from Grandpa's cousin, it is an invitation to a Tournament that I think you will be interested in joing along with your friends, also, that small box is something my grandpa said to give you saying something about a chance or some kind of good luck charm,"

Ash opened up the letter first and that was when the Pokemons started to pop out of their pokeballs. Due to the size of the house, all of the trainers' Pokemon crowded the living excluding the small ones which sat near their trainers.

"Um okay, well I guess EVERYONE wants to hear you," Tessa sweat dropped as Pearl sat on her lap with a purr.

"Okay Ash, let's hear what this letter has to say," Zack said curious of the letter's content.

Ash looked at the letter and cleared his throat before talking out loud in the room:

Alola Ash,

Hello there, I am Professor Kukui, The Pokemon Researcher on Alola. I am hoping you got my Letter even though I heard from Professor Oak that you went missing, I had a feeling this letter will get to you in time before the Tournament. Ah yes, the tournament, so here is the main and juicy part. You are invited to the Alola's First ever Pokemon League Tournament! Yes, what a lucky guy you are, to be one of the few to be invited to this great Event that is happening in Alola. Now before I lose track of myself, I would like to also add that in order to join the tournament, you will need an Alola League pass to register in, I thought that you might have some friends that would like to join so in the letter's envelope, there are twenty passes, give the passes to your friends that want to join and please return the rest to either Professor Oak or his grandson as they know about this already. Anyway, I do hope to see you and your friends at the league tournament as this is not just a tournament for first place, but also a chance to be the Alola's Champion! Anyway as in Alola is for hello, we also say Alola for goodbye.

Alola!

Professor Kukui :)

"Wow, he even put a smiley face on the letter next to his signature," Zack commented.

Everyone in the room was silent as Ash looked at the letter while also having the passes in his other hand which he took out as he was reading the letter.

"So what is your decision Ash?" Serena asked.

Ash looked up at his friends and Pokemon as he reminisced his past attempts in the other leagues.

Ash POV

This is difficult, I am on the verge of exploding in happiness but also my mind is fuzzy. Though now that I think about it, there were many setbacks before which I wasn't able to cope with to use those to my advantage. This time, I am sure to win this, no going back, besides….

I looked up at my friends and the Pokemon as I had one question to ask Gary.

"Gary, will those pathetic idiots be there as well?"

Gary nodded as he add a bit more detail.

"Yes, apparently Dawn and May decided to go for battling and wanted to do this Tournament as a test along with some gym leaders and champions who want to steal the Alola Champion spot since they want to monopolize their power, so that means not just Misty you will be seeing, but you might also see some old friends as well," He said.

At that point I stood up with Pikachu fully awake as the two of us looked at each other then looked at everyone again before showing a smiled that I thought was lost three years ago.

"Alright, Then to Alola we go!" I yelled with a fist pump.

"YEAH!" everyone including our pokemon who can only say their names responded with enthusiasm.

"Hey Ashy-boy,"

I looked at Gary with a smile but was also confuse.

"Yes?"

"Mind if I come with you, I actually want to study Alola's Pokemon, I heard that the typings over there are very intriguing and different from the other regions,"

I smiled as I walked over and patted his shoulder.

"The more the merrier, right guys?!" I turned back to my friends.

"Hell yeah,"

"Weee a new traveling buddy,"

"This will be interesting,"

"This will be fun,"

"I like it Ash,"

"...sure, wouldn't hurt I suppose,"

The group gave their answer and I turned back to Gary who had a face of relief as he was accepted to tag along.

Pokemon Lab-Kanto(night)

Professor Oak is studying about the pokemon's ability and inner-self at his desk when he sigh with relief that he was done.

"Wow, seems like there is a lot more to this than I thought," he said as he wiped his forehead.

Suddenly the bell rung to his Lab which made Oak jumped.

"Now who would that be?" Oak wondered.

No one is in the lab as it was late and Tracy already left to go home while Gary was out finding Ash. Also, all the pokemon should be in the ranch so it made Oak a bit wary.

He walked to the door and placed his ear to it to see if anyone was still there. In return he heard a breathing sound that sounded like an injured pokemon. Oak opened the door and looked around the porch but saw nothing out of the sort. Creeped out by this, Oak closed the door and locked it to be safe. As he turned around and walked back to his desk, he felt a massive pain in his back to his chest.

"AAUUGGHHH!"

Okay well um….that went...good I guess, things are about to get hyped up. Also I decided to just make this official so the poll is done anyway, here is the Author Notices:

1. I am testing out 1st POV as I do suck at it but want to see how it'll work in this story, so please review and give me advices on improvements if any

2. Poll is shutdown, The AshxOC is official but I need a female OC to be shipped with him so please submit an OC to me by private messaging(PM) me

3. 2 more OC spots left, come on people

4. Okay, so a person submitted two OC, I will let it slide but next time is only 1 OC per person

5. The story will have a bit of Homosexual relationship but please respect the person who wanted the ship, everyone has their own choice and lives and lets not discriminate them for that, we are all humans, we are individuals with minds and different views, so respect that

6. If you have any questions regarding how I write or any other info, check my Profile or if it isn't on there, pm me

7. Thanks for all the support and help, been a while since I been on here writing stories so thanks for the help on the new rules and advices for my story

OC Form:

name

eye color

skin color

hair style and color

clothing

blood type

(only use if you skip #6)personality

Pokemon team(see below for terms on this)

relationship(AshxOC subject is below)

AshxOC:

Okay, so for the AshxOC, it is different from the actual OC submission that has 2 spots left, This one is open to anyone who would like their OC shipped with Ash, Once I feel like there is enough OC submission that want to ship with Ash, I will post it in the Author Notice as another poll, this isn't a story picking path but more like a character add-in to those who think that this is a Pick your path story subject I just pulled. Anyway, yeah so 2 spots left for OCs and also the OC submission for shipping with Ash that doesn't have a limit but will end once I feel like it, PM me for submitting the OC and plz have an account and not use guest, it is hard to keep track if you are on a Guest account.

That is all, thanks for reading, Review the story and any questions pm me, Peace Out! ;)