~Escape~
After hours of running around towards multiple allusions, never finding anything, they couple eventually came across Braixen, injured and unconscious.
"Braixen!?" Serena let go of Ash's hand to hold her Pokémon, she loved her starter, and always would.
Ash put his hand on we shoulder in comfort.
"Don't worry, she'll be ok, I know it."
Serena fought to hold back tears.
"Thanks for everything Braixen." She returned her Pokémon to her pokéball, and regranted Ash's hand.
Serena stood up to face Ash.
"Now all we need to do is find pikachu." Ash said as he began to go towards the next illusion.
"What do you mean they went into the forest?!" The blue haired girl asked the nurse.
"Yeah, they really wanted to get to the festival on time." She answered.
"Those two are crazy." Miette mumbled to herself as she sat back in the seat."
The pitter-patter of the rain began to pick up on the window.
"I sure hope they find shelter soon." The nurse expressed her concern with a frown.
"Look a cave!" Ash pointed at the cave with his free hand.
"We can take shelter from this rain in there." Ash said.
"Alright." Serena said, she was growing very tired of running around in a spooky forest you could barely see in.
The rain caused the temperature to continue to drop. The cave wasn't very big, the two sat down inside, almost as if on cue, the rain transformed into a downpour.
"Ash I'm cold." Serena was shivering now.
"Im sorry Serena." Ash pulled her closer to him.
"It's my fault we are here, we never should have come into this stupid forest." Ash was wet and tired and extremely worried about pikachu.
"It's not your fault Ash, we can't think about how things could have been different, I'm just glad you're here with me." Serena nuzzled herself into Ash as much as she could, his body heat was warm and welcoming.
Ash wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm lucky to have you Serena."
Serena didn't respond, but her cheeks turned pink and she smiled.
"Thanks for allays being able to make smile Ash, you're my escape." Serena said after a pause.
"Ilove you Serena."
"I love you to Ash."
Her final words before she fell asleep to the drowning sound of the the rain.
Meowth was fixing the balloon after being struck by lightning, Jesse and James were hiding out in a cave.
Boom another chapter! I'm on fire! I'm glad to be back :)