Ash Descends, Red Ascends
Drinking And Butterflies
Okay, so I didn't mention their ages, so…
Alex - 27 (Yet he still acts like 13)
Amber - 28 (He acts like 3)
Luna and Diana - 19 (Acts like 22)
Raven - 29 (Same as Alain in my perspective)
"How is this not creepy and obvious?" Alex asked, holding his red sunglasses, a hat and a mask.
"If you want to get surrounded by fans, feel free to take them off," Amber joked, then got into a serious face. "Seriously, do it."
Ash did a fainting pose followed by pikachu, "Please no…!"
"Um…" Luna sweat dropped.
"We can just go," Raven shrugged, earning yells from all four of them.
"Are, you, crazy?!" They yelled.
"I mean, we can use psychic, right?" Raven fainted on the bed sideways with his arms still covering his ears. "Protect."
"Or… we can just teleport there," Diana suggested.
Alex shut that idea down, "Why don't we let our Espeons rest for once?"
"So how are we going to go?" Diana asked.
"Let's just go," Amber moaned. "Like, what's the worst that could happen?"
"Basically everything," They all said.
"I'm, going, to, a, pub!" Bonnie chirped, all of their jaws dropped to the floor hearing that.
"Bonnie! Aren't you too young?" Clemont asked.
"I'm eighteen!" Bonnie protested. "Even so! I haven't had a drink once because you'll stop me every time!"
"I'm also getting a drink," Serena said. "Come on!"
"Race you to the pub!" Iris yelled.
"Get your dragon master butt back here!" Bonnie yelled jokingly, leaving the group sweat dropping.
"Um…" Clemont murmured.
"Johto Pub! Here I come!" Serena yelled to break the silence.
"Pi pikachu!" Pikachu scooted off with Serena.
"This can go so wrong," Diana said as she held her scarf higher to her nose.
"Says you," Amber sweat dropped, looking at Diana and Alex wearing hoods. "How'd you get so popular?"
"I don't know," Alex huffed under his hood. "People say I'm the best singer."
"And…" Diana murmured. "Forget it."
"No kidding," Luna sighed, noticing fans coming from behind. "We have company!"
"You're kidding!" Raven said as he started to pick up the pace.
"Whatever! I'm using psychic!" Diana panicked.
"Here?!" Alex yelled.
"What choice do we have?" Luna asked, focusing her own psychic shield.
"Let's bail!" Raven yelled.
"We… made… it… to the… pub!" Diana collapsed in her forcefield, making it floating shaped in a ball, so she just sat there.
They walked in, basically Diana floating in, making the waitress sweat drop.
"It's the Elite four and the champion!" Someone yelled.
"It's the Crystals!"
All of them groaned, "The elite's room, please."
"Of course! Right this way!" The waitress who greeted them said awkwardly, leading them to the VIP room.
When they entered, they collapsed big time with Diana still in her forcefield.
"That was tiring," Alex panted, looking up at Diana, who had a very shocked expression on her faces, which soon broke into a very, very awkward smile.
"Guys," Diana whispered. "Everyone is here…"
"What did you say?!" Luna yelled, jumping to her feet, looking at the huge group who was staring at them. "Hi…?"
"Alex!" Serena broke the silence. "So glad you could make it…"
"Y-yeah," Alex blushed.
"Are you the Elites of the Johto region?" Alain asked, walking up to them.
"Yes," Amber said. "And you are?"
"Amber," Diana nudged him in the elbow. "That's the Champion of Kalos."
"And… here I thought we could get some peace," Amber groaned.
"I'm going to our room," Diana said and walked away, but Bonnie grabbed her.
Bonnie unleashed her puppy-dog-eyes, "You're not leaving that soon, are you?"
Diana looked at Bonnie sweat dropping, "I don't want to, but look at this."
She opened the door, and found at least fifty men standing outside the door, sticking their faces on the door, making everyone inside sweat drop when Diana slammed the door on their faces.
"See what I mean…?" Diana groaned.
"You sure have a lot of fans…" Cynthia chuckled and joked. "Not as many as mine."
"You wanna bet?" Amber said sitting down next to Trip, who is now Champion of Unova.
"I sure do," Alex laughed, his female pikachu fell from his shoulder laughing.
"Is that your… pikachu?" Trip asked.
"Sure it is, why not?" Alex asked back.
"We had a friend… who carried a pikachu on his shoulder like you do… just male…" Alain explained, the mood getting dimmer by the moment.
"Pikapi…" Pikachu, on Serena's shoulder, sobbed by hearing that.
"Is… Ash your friend?" Alex asked, squatting down to pikachu, somehow feeling a bond to this male pikachu for no reason.
"How'd you know?" Diantha sniffed. (Yeah, she's here, in fact, everyone's here.)
"Aura," He answered bluntly. "How'd he go missing? Or… dead?"
Everyone fell silent, the five knew they were feeling rage towards… Team Rocket.
"Team Rocket happened," Trip growled, sure he was his rival, but he knew how a good friend he was when he's gone. "I'll make those bitches pay!"
"I'm going to pound the living daylights out of Giovanni when I get the chance!" Alain growled louder than Trip, then looked at Alex. "You… somewhat look like our friend, he went missing after the explosion."
"Explosion?" Raven raised an eyebrow. "We found him seven years ago in an explosion, lucky we were there."
"Really?" Alex asked. "I don't remember anything."
"Maybe, there were a lot of people there," Cynthia sighed. "You'd look like him, just… taller, more muscular and without the thunderbolt marks on his face."
"Did he have those when you rescued him?" Alain asked.
"No… it was bloody hell back then, if it wasn't for Espeon, he wouldn't be alive," Luna sighed. "Healing."
An awkward silence filled the air once again.
"Anyway, let's honor his legacy by moving on? He'll want that, wouldn't he…?" Serena asked.
"Of course he does," Alain sighed, grabbing some whiskey. "To Ash!"
Each champion and elite all raised a glass of beer or some sort, even the pokemon grabbed some juice out of nowhere. (Let's hope that's juice.)
"Maybe it just wasn't meant to be…" Serena thought, tears forming in her eyes, she felt lonely without Ash. A hand reached out to her shoulder, making her jump slightly.
"Serena?" Alex asked. "I-I…"
Why was this so hard to tell her? Why can't I just tell her that… I have feelings for her?
Why does this feel… so familiar? I've only felt this… when Ash… have I moved on? Without him?
"Alex, I…" Serena stammered. "I-I… I…"
"Serena…" Alex blushed. "I lo-"
The sentence cut off, was just like when Ash said that seven years ago…
"Serena…?" Alex asked, waving his hand in front of Serena, making her snap back to reality.
"Oh! Uh…" Serena stammered, still blushing slightly.
"You.. okay?" Alex asked, handing her a glass of champagne.
"Thanks…" Serena gradually accepted the glass. "It's just…"
"... if you don't want to talk about it… don't," Alex laid his hand on Serena's shoulder, making her blush a crimson red.
Touching her skin… makes him feel connected, for some reason.
"I…" Serena sighed. "Ash wanted to say… he loved me… but he was cut off… by that explosion… just like how… Amber did…"
She started sobbing uncontrollably, she tried to stop, but the memory was too traumatizing for her.
"..." Both of them said nothing, save for the Amber and Raven's constant drunk-singing, Iris, Diana and Luna's yelling at each other for type advantages, Cilan, Chili, Cress, Cynthia and Dawn talking about evaluating or coordinating. So… yeah.
"I'm… sorry about that," Alex murmured, but Serena heard it. "Serena?"
"Yes, Alex…?" Serena sniffed, slowly regaining her composure. "Anything… you need to tell me?"
"Uh…" Alex is starting to chicken out, the female pikachu on his shoulder sweat dropped to see her trainer to chicken out at a time like this.
"Pikapi…" The pikachu whispered into Alex's ear, giving him a little confidence.
"I know Pikachu," Alex answered back through aura, but was still blushing like a full-on tomato.
"Serena…" Alex took a deep breath in. "I-I love you."
Time stopped for the two, even Serena was shocked hearing this, even she had feelings for him.
"Alex… I-I…" Serena stammered once again, then also took a deep breath. "I…"
Inside, Alex mentally slapped himself, "Why was I so bold?!" But, unexpectedly, Serena hugged him back, she whispered to him in his ear,
"I love you too."
When all of that happened, Diana, Cynthia and Alain was watching all that unfold, none of them spoke a word.
"... oh Arceus," Diana said to herself, half drunk.
"... looks like we have a new couple…" Cynthia said dumbfounded.
Alain mentally cursed, "We're in public…! Still…"
Even so, they were all blushing at witnessing the start of the new couple.
"I thought Serena said she would only fall in love with Ash," Bonnie whispered to her brother, who refused to take anything alcohol, instead he just worked on his machines.
Clemont shoved her down blushing, "Well, love is a strange thing!"
You'd think everyone in this room will be full on blushing, but most of them are so stinkin' drunk at the moment, Amber and Raven even started to sing to the fans outside, even their pokemon are getting drunk. (Don't ask me)
Serena and Alex broke apart, noticing the three staring at them dumbstruck, "Uh…"
Awkward silence filled the room again, okay, not entirely quiet.
"Would you two like a private room?" Cynthia asked.
"You three saw that?" Serena blushed, Alex blushed more.
"Espeon," Diana facepalmed and called out her psychic eeveelution, and said something through their aura bond. "Teleport those lovebirds to Alex's room."
"Diana, if you're trying to-" Before he can finish, he and Serena got teleported to his room. "Nevermind."
"Are we in… your room?" Serena asked sweat dropping. "How…"
"Psychic teleportation," Alex groaned.
Serena looked around, this room was fairly alike that the room she's staying in.
She noticed something familiar at the room's darkened corner, she walked towards it, and noticed it was a part of a baseball hat.
Serena recognised this as… Ash's hat when she traveled with him. "Alex…"
"Yeah?" Alex replied, massaging his temples out of frustration. "Anything wrong?"
"Is this… your's…?" Serena asked, slowly picking up the burnt cap, or what's left of it. "Where'd… you get… this…?"
"Yes," Alex shrugged. "They found it on me when I'm in the accident, I don't remember much though…"
"... do you remember anything before the accident…?" Serena asked, her hands trembling.
"The only thing I remember is… a pikachu yelling 'Pikapi', and a sylveon," Alex thought.
Unexpectedly, Serena tackled him to the ground hugging him harder than ever, Alex was still blushing full on.
"Ash! It is you!" Serena yelled, tears of joy streaming from her face.
"Ash…?" Alex wheezed, getting crushed by the hug. "I thought… he's gone? Wait… are... you calling me Ash?"
"You don't remember…?" Serena asked. "Anything about us…?"
"I'm… afraid not," Alex sighed, slowly returning the hug on the ground. "Am… I really your friend before…?"
"Not friend," Serena sobbed. "Girlfriend."
"..." Alex stayed silent. "... I guess we can start over…"
"We can," Serena cried tears of joy, she was quickly pulled in for a kiss.
"Welcome back."
Alder spat his drink out, "You two are dating?!"
"Looks like it…" Trip sweat dropped.
"Oh Arceus, why can't I get a date?!" Brock yelled, making everyone around him sweat drop and think, "He's going to die a virgin."
"And I thought he was too dense for love," Luna suppressed a laugh.
"Is this love at first sight?" Diana face palmed.
"Pikapi…" The female pikachu sweatdropped laughed, Pikachu on Serena's shoulder noticed her and blushed, sorry Buneary…
"Pika~" Pikachu fell with hearts for eyes and blushed.
"Pika?" The female pikachu asked if he was alright. "Pi…?"
"Pika pika pi…" Pikachu blushed full time, he quickly got up and got a bouquet of roses from nowhere. "Pika pika pika chu!" (Be my date!)
"Pi…" The female pikachu blushed, and gradually accepted the roses, and gave Pikachu a small kiss on the cheek. "Pika!" (yes!)
"Chu pi…" Pikachu fainted blushing full on with sparks flying off his cheeks.
"Eh?!" Bonnie looked at the two pikachu's sweat dropping.
That just made Brock more upset, "Even pikachu's have girlfriends…"
Misty sat next to him trying to comfort him awkwardly.
"I hope Alex's not going to be too mad at me," Diana chuckled lightheartedly.
"He doesn't stay mad for long," Luna shrugged. "Because you keep teleporting away when he does."
"I can't just sit here and watch those two get together so slow, can I?" Diana laughed.
"My trainer Ash has been gone for long…" Pikachu sighed while telling his new pika girlfriend about Ash.
"Oh… I'm sorry about it…" The female pikachu answered, giving him a pat on the back.
Bonnie's phone rang, and she picked it up lazily, "Hello? Serena?"
What came through was shocking for her ear, hope that ringing won't last long, "I HAVE BIG NEWS!"