Pokémon - Ash and the Power of Love

[PokéMaster2694]

Hi!
This is my first go at a fan fic, i decided i wanted to write one after reading a lot of them on here. like them all I I'm an advance shipper and this is what this fic is, i hope you all enjoy it!

I'll just put in the intro first and see what you all think.

It's a PG-13 for now, but is subject to change.

In this the main characters are:

Ash - Aged 17
May - Aged 16
Brock - Aged 21
Max - Aged 13
Dawn - Aged 15

Chapter 1 – Introduction

It was the evening of a cold December day, where a young boy was walking down a winding road, surrounded by glistening tree’s covered in blankets of snow, this boy had just got back from the Sinnoh region after going back to compete in the league for a second time, although this time he travelled alone something he wasn’t used to. With him on this beautiful sparkling road was his best friend a little yellow mouse. They had come back for the Christmas holidays, something that he had to share with his family, friends and of course his pokémon.

This boy goes by the name Ash Ketchum, and his best friend the pokémon called Pikachu. As he got nearer to town he decided he wanted to get home sooner rather than later, and Pikachu reading his masters thoughts, due to the unbreakable bond they share, decided to shoot off.

“Pikachu, wait up buddy!” Exclaimed Ash, realising his best friend had started a race between the two of them.

“Pika” replied Pikachu, shaking his head and giggling.

They finally reached the house, with Ash huffing and puffing after what seemed to be a run the size of a marathon.

“Mime, Mime” Ash looked up to see that his mum and her Mr Mime were waiting for him to come.

As Ash and Pikachu walked closer to the house, out of nowhere came a kid no older than 13 wearing A green and white polo shirt, brown shorts, and green trainers. He was running towards the house when he slipped on some ice and slid on his backside, until he came to a halt at Ash’s feet.

“Hi Max, what are you doing here?” Asked Ash.

“Hey Ash, I thought I’d stop by for Christmas, if that’s okay with you Mrs Ketchum?”

“That would be terrific Max, the more the merrier” said Delia in a very festive jolly voice.

“Come on then” said Ash “Let’s get inside out of the cold.”

“Hey Mum, is there anyone else coming over for Christmas?”

“Professor Oak is coming over, and I believe Misty and Tracey are two.” Replied Delia.

"Sounds awesome Mum" "I'm looking forward to them getting here" Ash said in a jolly voice.

“Hey Ash” Max piped up, “Could I bunk in your room?”

“Sure Max” said Ash “We can talk about how your journey’s been going.”

“Yeah that’d be great!” Max shouted.

With that Max and Ash went to bed after what seemed an endless journey home for the two young boys.

[Skiyomi]

Gonna need you to add a rating to this or I'll have to close it.

[PokéMaster2694]

Okay sorry about that, at the moment im going to say PG - 13 but it may change as i go along, if so i'll update it.

[Skiyomi]

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[PokéMaster2694]

This is the next chapter, hope you like it
Chapter 2 - Who’s your Pokémon!

It was Christmas Eve morning in the Ketchum household, Ash had been woken up by an energetic Pikachu.

“Hey what’s up buddy” said Ash, half asleep.

“Pika Chu” said the little electric mouse pointing to the door.

“Come on lazy bum, get up, thought you might want to see me” said the girl standing at the door way, giving Ash a cheeky wink whilst doing so.

Ash being half asleep didn’t recognise the girl at first, but as he came round he could just about make out what she was wearing: A green bandana with a white circle and semi circle, black, white and green gloves, black shorts, orange trainers, an orange top and a green waist bag.

“May?” Ash asked.

“The one and only” May said giggling

“Hey sis” Max said, sitting up after being woke up from the conversation.

“Hey Max, when did you arrive?” May asked

“Last night, after a bit of a bumpy ride” Max said laughing, whilst rubbing his backside.

“Well” said May “Delia’s making breakfast, do you reckon we should go down?”

“Sounds like a plan” shouted Ash, jumping out of bed.

By this time Pikachu was already downstairs waiting for the three trainers to come down. As they made their way down the stairs Max said to Ash,

“Hey Ash, do you want to see my pokémon?”

“Yeah Max that’d be awesome and you could see my new pokémon too”

“Hey, what about my pokémon? I think you’d love to see them!” exclaimed May.

“Of course May” replied Ash, “I’d love too.”

The three trainers and Delia were at the table eating their breakfasts, talking about their adventures without one another when they heard a knock at the door.
“I’ll get it” said Ash, wondering who it could be.

Ash opened the door to two friends of his, one was a tall boy, with brown hair and squinty eyes, and he was wearing grey trousers, a green shirt, blue trainers and an orange and brown jacket. Whilst the girl compared to the boy was really short, she had long blue hair and wore a white hat with a pink circle and semi-circle on it, similar to that of May’s. She was wearing a black and pink dress, with knee high black socks and pink boots that came to the top of her shins, and round her neck she wore her favourite bright pink scarf, and she was holding a little blue pokémon.

“Hey Ash” the two said simultaneously.

“Hey Brock, Hey Dawn, it’s nice to see you both, are you staying over for Christmas?”

“That sounds like a plan” said Brock

“Ditto” added Dawn

“Awesome” Ash said joyfully, “Come in, were in the kitchen eating breakfast”

As Dawn and Brock walked in May and Max turned round to say hi, with May recognising both of them, but Max only recognised Brock.

“Ash, who’s the girl?” asked Max

“That’s Dawn, she travelled with me and Brock when I was in the Sinnoh region, the first time round.”

“Oh” said Max, “Then hi Dawn, I’m Max, May’s little brother”

“Hi Max” Dawn said with a joyful smile.

The trainers finished their breakfasts and all went into the living room. They were all sat down talking when Max jumped up and said:
“Why don’t we show each other our pokémon now?”

“That sounds good Max” said Ash “Why don’t you go first?”

“Okay!” shouted Max

“Here they are!” Max shouted throwing 6 poké balls in the air.

Six silhouettes could be seen coming out of the poké balls, one a green pokémon that everyone recognised suddenly, another was a little crab pokémon, one which Ash recognised. The next one was a pokémon that looked in many ways like a human, another one a large dog type pokémon, another that of a monkey, and the last one a giant dragonfly.

“Meet my pokémon, Grovyle, Corphish, Gardevior, Mightyena, Chimchar and last but not least Flygon.” Said Max

“Wow Max” everyone exclaimed

Brock piped up “Is that the Ralts and Mightyena you met when we were travelling?”

“Yup, the very same” Max replied smiling. “Ash, you might recognise this Flygon”

“Wait is that the Flygon we used to help save Jirachi?”

“Yes” Max said “I travelled all the way back to Forina, and it recognised me, I’d gone back to remember that week I’d had with Jirachi and just before I was about to leave Flygon wanted to go with me, so I threw my poké ball and Flygon activated it and we’ve been together since”

“Wow Max, that’s really great” said Ash “Well I guess I’m next then”

With that Ash grabbed six poké balls from his belt, excluding that of Pikachu’s, he threw them upwards and again out popped six silhouettes. The first of the silhouettes was a dog like pokémon, with what looked to be a blade on its head. The next a huge salamander like pokémon with teeth like razors, another one was a familiar shape it was that of a gecko, one which Max, Brock and May recognised straight away. The next pokémon was one which Brock recognised a pokémon shaped like a dragon with a flame burning on its tail. The one after that was a small aquatic pokémon, one which Dawn recognised, as it was once hers. The pokémon after that was a tall jackal like creature, one that could talk through a thing called aura, a magnificent fighting machine, one which respected Ash very well. And of course last but not least a small yellow mouse jumped in with the crowd.

“Well these are my current pokémon” Ash said, with a giant smile on his face

“Say hello to Absol, Salamence, Sceptile, Charizard, Buizel, Lucario and of course Pikachu”

“They’re awesome Ash” exclaimed May, blushing because of the fact she was the first to say something.

“Yeah ash it looks like a really strong party of pokémon” added Dawn

“They all look so confident as well” Max said in a voice he would have when he was 7.

“There’s just one thing I don’t get” Brock said “How are you carrying seven pokémon?”

“I knew someone would ask” laughed Ash “It’s because I keep Pikachu’s ball in my bag rather than on my belt, meaning I have an extra space on my belt to carry another pokémon.”

“Very smart Ash” said Brock.

At that moment Brock threw his poké balls revealing four pokémon, these pokémon were a pokémon shaped like a tree, one that looked like a frog, the third a pink baby pokémon, and the fourth a blue fish type pokémon.

“Behold my pokémon, Sudowoodo, Croagunk, Happiny, and Marshtomp” said Brock

“Still keeping the same roster Brock?” Ash replied.

“Yep, Forest has my other pokémon so I thought id keep the four I have”

“What about Ludicolo?” May asked

“He keeps my younger siblings amused, and he loves it too” said Brock

“Well that’s nice to know” May replied

“My pokémon are next!” shouted Dawn

Dawn threw up three poké balls, these revealed the silhouettes of a large flying pokémon, a little gecko pokémon and a large bear like pokémon with flames residing on its back. Then a little blue pokémon ran over from where Dawn was sat.

“These are my pokémon, Togekiss, Treeko, Typhlosion and Piplup”

“Well Dawn that quite a decent combination of pokémon” Brock said

“Well I decided to bring with me just these pokémon and see if I could see anymore to catch” Dawn said smiling.

“Well guess I’m up last then” May said striking a pose, and winking at Ash. This made Ash smile and gave him a feeling he’d never felt before.

May threw in the air six poké balls, The first pokémon to become visible was her fire type she’d had since she started her journey, the next a huge dinosaur pokémon with a flower on its back one Ash recognized straight off, another a small feline pokémon it was different shades of blue and looked beautiful when the light was glistening off it. The next pokémon was a huge turtle pokémon with cannons on its back; another pokémon was one which she had carried with her since catching it as a Wurmple in the Hoenn region and the last pokémon to come out of May’s poké ball was a small blue aquatic pokémon, which made Ash, Brock and Max gasp, it had a red gem in the middle of its body, two antennae like ears, and big yellow and blue eyes.

All three of the boys, completely in synch said “Is that who I think it is?”

[PokéMaster2694]

Hey guys, this is the next installment, hope you enjoy it

Chapter 3 – Christmas Eve

May took a deep breath and replied,

“Yes, It’s Manaphy the very one from those years ago”

“Wow May, when did you capture it?” Ash shouted in excitement

“Well....” Just as May was about to tell everyone another pokémon released itself from it’s poké ball, but this poké ball was inside May’s bag, there in front of everyone stood a little mouse like pokémon, it was yellow and black.

“May is that a Pichu” Brock asked

“Yep, and now you know about Pichu I’ll tell you what happened with Manaphy.”

“It all happened when I was travelling the Hoenn region again, just before I set off to come here actually. I was walking alongside the seashore when saw this Pichu jump out of the bushes, and it reminded me of you Ash, because of Pikachu, I thought to myself I’m going to catch this Pichu and have it with me to keep me reminded of the times the four of us had in Hoenn and Kanto. (In her head May thought the main reason was to keep Ash as close to my heart as possible but everyone doesn’t need to know). So I started to battle Pichu and I’d won and was just about to throw my poké ball when another pokémon jumped in front and got caught instead, so I quickly threw another poké ball and caught Pichu as well, I put Pichu’s poké ball into my bag and picked up the other ball and opened it, because I had no idea what pokémon it was that jumped in the way. When it came out Manaphy jumped into my arms and said ‘Love you mama, love you May’ and that’s when I realised that this was ‘my’ Manaphy.”

“Well May that’s great, especially now you’re reunited” said Ash

“I know Ash it feels amazing” Said May, thinking to herself but not as amazing as it is being here with you.

Everyone called back their pokémon, with the exception of Pikachu, Piplup and Happiny. But as May went to call back her Pichu, the little electric type smacked the poké ball with its tail back at her. Just then a voice came from the door way:
“Well that brings back a memory of de ja vu, wouldn’t you say Ash?”

Everyone turned round to see professor Oak laughing.

“I’d say it’s a huge case of de ja vu professor” Ash laughed

“Whattaya mean?” May asked looking puzzled

“Well May, when I started with Pikachu I went to recall him, and did exactly the same as Pichu did. It looks as if you’ve got a pokémon that doesn’t want to go in it’s poké ball” Laughed Ash

“Wow” said May looking at her Pichu, “So you want to travel with me like Pikachu does with Ash”

“Pi Pi” said the tiny mouse, smiling and jumping around.

The 5 trainers were sat in the living room when Ash remembered that he’d not bought any presents for his friends and his Mum.

“Guys I’ve got to pop into to town”

“Okay Ash” said Brock, “we’ll stay here and help with the decorations and food”

“Okay Brock, see you all in a while”

With that Ash and Pikachu darted out of the house and ran towards town. He couldn’t believe that he’d forgotten to buy presents for everyone. Pikachu looking at he dearest friend laughed realising what was going on. Ash got to the shops and made a list in his head, right Pikachu we need presents for May, Brock, Max, Dawn, Mum, Professor Oak, Misty and Tracey.

“Pika Pika” replied Pikachu, with a smile on his face.

Just as Ash and Pikachu were about to go into one of the shops a girl popped up out of nowhere, it was one Ash recognised she wore pink trainers, a green shirt, green socks and a short white skirt, and had brown hair shaped like pokémon’s wings.

“Bianca?” Ash called out.

The girl seemed to acknowledge the trainers call though she didn’t speak but merely walked towards the trainer and his Pikachu. The girl then gave Ash a kiss on the side of his cheek, this made Ash blush. At that moment she picked up a poké ball and through it in the air.

[The Spirit Trainer]

Wow! Very well done so far! I'm new on the forum, and I thought I'd let you know that you are doing a great job! But I can't help wondering, did Bianca bring Latias?

[Foxyvulpixie]

woahhh :] this is really good so far, i love it!
i like your writing style ^^

[PokéMaster2694]

Wow! Very well done so far! I'm new on the forum, and I thought I'd let you know that you are doing a great job! But I can't help wondering, did Bianca bring Latias?

Thank you very much, and so am i haha, tbh i'm quite nervous writing this but enjoying it at the same time as well. And that you shall find out in the next chapter!

woahhh :] this is really good so far, i love it!
i like your writing style ^^

Thanks it means a lot

I hope to have the next chapter up in a few days, hope you'll enjoy it

[The Spirit Trainer]

I'm writing a fan fiction story, but the most important thing to any story, is feeling. Feeling that your right there with them, as the story goes on. So just write from the heart.

[PokéMaster2694]

Here's the next installment, it's the longest to date hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 4: The Shopping and the Shocking!

The poké ball hit the girl on the head and opened, shooting a red beam as it did so. The girl went inside the poké ball, this shocked Ash, the ball began rolling and eventually stopped, Ash had caught Bianca.

With that Ash threw the ball up, and the girl came out, she then transformed revealing the pokémon Latias the newest member of Ash’s team. Ash was overjoyed with this and the jet plane like pokémon flew towards him tackling him to the ground to hug him.
With Ash’s brand new pokémon he rushed in to town to buy the presents for his friends.

“Hey Pikachu, let’s look for Brock first”

“Pika, Pikachu” replied Pikachu giving a saluting stance

“Let’s go then” Ash smiled

With that Ash and Pikachu looked round the shops looking for a present that would be suitable for Brock, they were finding it hard and couldn’t really find anything until they came up to one shop that sold cooking utensils shaped like different pokémon.

“Wow” said Ash “Pikachu look at this”

The small mouse turned around to see a serving platter shaped as a Lotad. It was larger than a Lotad to create more space to put food on the leaf on it’s head.

“This would be great for Brock, come on Pikachu let’s get it” said Ash joyfully.

With that the trainer and his pokémon went into the shop and bought the poképlatter. Just as they walked out of the shop Pikachu ran to another shop and pointed out the latest pokénav on the high street.

“Wow Pikachu well spotted buddy, this will be great for Max” Ash said

“Pi Pika” Pikachu exclaimed with a grin on his face.

Ash went into the shop to buy the pokénav for Max and whilst in the store he saw a brand new sketch book that came with a whole tin of pencils and a book to keep them in once they’re drawn. Ash thought to himself that would be ideal for Tracey, and that’s another person I’ll have got a present for.

“Well Pikachu we only have to get a present for Mum, Misty, Professor Oak and May” Ash said to his best friend.

The next shop the two of them went into was a computer shop, the reason Ash went into it was to buy his Mum a videophone to have in the house as a Christmas present this would mean that she wouldn’t have to go to the poké centre or to the professors lab to call Ash on his journey. But whilst they were there he also spotted a new device that was about the size of a computer screen but it was handheld it seemed to have a camera in it as well, when Ash asked the sales assistant he said it was the latest in technology and was called a tablet. Ash thought this would be great for the professor so he could work on his studies even when he’s not at the computer.

“I’ll take this and this then thank you” Ash said to the sales assistant,

“Okay, and because the tablet is new we are doing a special deal on buy one get one free” replied the sales assistant,

“Thank you” gleamed Ash,

Ash thought this to be good as he would take the spare one for himself on his journey’s as the tablet also made as a portable videophone and this would enable him to contact his family and friends wherever and whenever. As Ash and Pikachu left the shop they thought what a good present for Misty would be when it hit them;

“We need to get Misty something to do with water” Ash exclaimed

“Pika-chu” said Pikachu following his friend down the street

They both came to a shop that sold everything you could imagine to do with water, anchors, boats, pokémon dolls and many more things. Ash thought this would be the ideal place to buy something for Misty so they went in. They looked around and eventually came up to a shelf that had different types of pokéballs, at first Ash wondered why they would be pokéballs in a shop like this but then the shopkeeper came over and explained to Ash that these weren’t ordinary pokéballs, something Ash had realised with them being a completely different design and colour to ordinary pokéballs, it was a turquoise blue colour with black strips on it that in some way resembled a net. The shopkeeper explained to Ash and Pikachu that these were net balls and they increased the chance of catching water type pokémon, with hearing that Ash thought to himself that is ideal for Misty.

“I’ll take five of them please” Ash said

“Certainly” replied the shopkeeper “I’ll also throw in a complementary gift box for them seeing as it’s Christmas”

“Thank you very much” Ash said happily, thinking to himself that’s one present I don’t have to wrap.

With that Ash left to get one more present, May’s.

“Hey Pikachu, what do you think we can get for May?” Ash asked

“Pika Pi Pika” replied Pikachu shrugging his shoulders somewhat.

“Hmmm yeah, guess you’re right buddy it’s a hard one.” Replied Pikachu

The trainer and his Pikachu carried on walking down the street when they came to a shop where clothes were on a huge sale, so they went in and bought a turquoise blue bandana in the same style as her red one, the same colour top in the same style to her orange one, and a pair of turquoise blue trainers, they also got her a pair of gloves, that were black on the finger tips and cuff and were turquoise in the middle. All the clothing’s accents were black. Ash loved what he had bought her thinking she would adore it, however it was the cheapest of all the presents bought he wanted to get her something else, because after all it was May. Whenever he thought about her he seemed to get a weird feeling inside of him that he couldn’t explain, but he liked it.
After they left the shop they were looking for something else to get her when they noticed that all the shops had closed, this made Ash feel upset due to the fact he really wanted to get her something else when out of the distance he saw the silhouette of a pokémon it was a small red lizard pokémon with a flame on it’s tail, then he realized it to be a Charmander.

“Wow Pikachu, we should catch the Charmander for May, that way she’ll have all the Kanto region starters” Ash said so jolly and fast that his best friend could barely understand.

“Pika Pika” The mouse said jumping up and down

“Right okay then, Go Buizel” Screamed Ash throwing his pokéball

Out of a red beam came a small fox like aquatic pokémon.

“Right Buizel were gonna catch this pokémon for May” Exclaimed Ash

“Bui Bui” replied Buizel

With that the battle commenced with Ash’s first command being a water pulse, this blue sphere of water shot like an aurora sphere, due to the fight Buizel had against Maylene’s Lucario in the Sinnoh region, hit the little red lizard head on. Charmander then turned around and fired an ember attack on Buizel which the aquatic pokémon easily dodged.

“Okay the Buizel, Aqua jet go!” Ash shouted,

With that Buizel shrouded itself in water and again made contact with the Charmander, however this time the contact was that powerful that the Charmander fainted allowing Ash to do the rest.

“Go Pokéball” Ash shouted after spinning his hat round.

The Charmander was turned into pure red energy and went into the pokéball and with that the pokéball began to shake from side to side and eventually stopped, signalling Ash had caught the pokémon. With that Ash and Pikachu headed off to the Pokémon Centre to get the Charmander healed, because he didn’t want May calling out a fainted pokémon in the morning.

After having being to the pokémon centre Ash and Pikachu headed home to wrap the presents and put them under the tree. But he also wanted to pay a trick on his friends so he called out is Latias.

“Hey Latias, do you want to play a joke”

“eee” replied Latias giggling

“Okay, turn into your human form and I’ll return you to your ball so that when you come out it will look like I captured a person” Ash explained

“eeeeeee” Latias replied nodding her head.

With that Latias turned herself back into Bianca and Ash proceeded to call her back into her pokéball. And with that Ash went into the house, ready to scare his friends and family. Ash walked through the door and straight up to his bedroom where he barricaded the door so that no-one could get in whilst he was wrapping the presents. He’d finally finished wrapping the presents and went downstairs to put them under the tree. Whilst doing so he realised everyone was in the living room and decided this was the time to reveal his new pokémon.

“Guess what I caught when I was out shopping” Ash said to everyone

“We don’t know Ash what did you catch” everyone in the room replied in unison

“Guess I’ll have to show you” Ash said smiling

Ash then tossed in the air his pokéball and watched the faces of his friends and Mum, at first the silhouette they saw sort of resembled a Gardevior with it being human shaped however there faces went from being normal as if it was a normal pokémon to be caught, to completely horrified as they realised they had caught a human, even more so for Misty and Brock as they realised it was Bianca.

“Ash” exclaimed Brock in shock “howww hhave yoouuu ccauuughhht Biannca?”

The others followed by asking how he’d caught a human, and Ash merely chuckled to himself with Pikachu giggling as well,

“Well then do you reckon we should show them how we caught a human Pikachu?” Ash calmly asked his electric pokémon

“Pika Pi” replied the little mouse giggling

“Okay then, Latias reveal your true form” Ash told his newest caught pokémon

“eeeee” replied the eon pokémon phasing to her pokémon form.

The sigh of relief in the room was great, and whilst hearing it Ash, Pikachu and Latias were all rolling on the floor laughing to themselves, this in turn made Misty angry and she punched Ash on his head much like she did to Psyduck, this made Ash rub his head in pain, but then everyone else started to laugh including Pikachu and Latias much to Ash’s dismay, but he himself saw the funny side in the end.

With that Brock asked how he caught Latias to which Ash answered straight away, however Brock saw that may looked a bit uneasy when Ash mentioned the kiss on the cheek. Due to this Brock decided he was going to watch the two teenagers to see what may happen. However he also thought to himself why would a kiss from a pokémon unsettle her. After talking everyone went into the other room to get their tea’s and then went to bed waiting to see what tomorrow would bring.
Before he went to bed Ash helped Brock wash the dishes and the two of them headed upstairs, due to the Ketchum household being fairly small sleeping was a bit of a pain as the rooms weren’t very big, Tracey and Professor Oak went back to the lab to sleep and were coming back in the morning whereas everyone else par Delia were in Ash’s room, due to the ‘gentlemen’ they were Ash, Brock and Max slept on the floor allowing Misty and May to top-end-tail in Ash’s bed, which they both thanked the boys for. And with that the five of them crashed out and awaited the arrival of what tomorrow would bring.

[The Spirit Trainer]

Wow! So it was latias! Great turn of events, there! I especially like the joke that they played on everyone, even at Ash's expense. Lol!

[PokéMaster2694]

Haha, thought you might like that haha and yeah i'm trying to put bits of comedy here and there just to spice it a little

Hope to have the next chapter up soon, just a bit busy with college work at the moment

[The Spirit Trainer]

That's cool. Hey when are you going to post the next chapter? I was just wondering.

[PokéMaster2694]

First of all I'm sorry for the amount of time it's taken to get this chapter up, but i have now so it's all good

Next thanks for everyone that has read it so far

Well here we go chapter 5

Chapter 5: Christmas Day

Tomorrow morning came faster than expected for the kids in the household they had woke up early so they could rush downstairs to see what had been brought for them, after all of the household rushing downstairs, Professor Oak and Tracey turned up. With everyone here they all decided to start opening their presents, everyone had opened all their present apart from the ones that Ash had gotten them. The first person to open their present was Brock he loved the present and was very grateful to Ash for it.

“Thanks Ash I love it, I’ll be able to take it on our journeys” said Brock

“Don’t worry about it Brock, I’m glad you like it” replied Ash

The next person to open their present was Max, due to the fact Ash put the pokénav in a box he couldn’t figure out what it was, however when he opened it max was over the moon, the updates in the pokénav included the new video call and a new colour rather than it being yellow it was now red and white.

“Wow Ash thank you this is awesome” Max exclaimed

“Aha, don’t worry about it Max” said Ash smiling

After Max, Tracey, Professor Oak and Delia opened their presents, with each of them knowing exactly what the presents were, and each of them were ecstatic with their gifts, the fact they knew what they were was better for Ash as he didn’t have to explain to them exactly what they were and how to work them, however he did explain to his mum that the video phone would have to be installed and would be on the 2nd January, as the places were closed till after the new year.

Next to open their present was Misty, at first she didn’t have a clue what they were but she loved them anyway, Ash then explained to her that they were net balls, and they have a higher catch ratio for water pokémon than ordinary pokéballs do. After hearing that you could clearly see she was overjoyed and couldn’t wait to use them and increase the amount of pokémon she has at her disposal in the cerulean gym.

“Thank you Ash these are great, you couldn’t have got me anything better” said Misty

“Haha, it was nothing” replied Ash, scratching the back of his head

After Misty had unwrapped her present Delia called into everyone to tell them that breakfast was ready, with that everyone but May ran into the kitchen to get some, before Ash ate most of it, but as they were going in Ash was last to go through the kitchen door when he himself had realised that May hadn’t moved, which in his eyes was odd considering they both had the same kind of appetite.

“Hey, May you not hungry?” asked Ash, looking dumbfounded

“Hey Ash, and yeah I am but...” replied May before Ash cut in,

“Oh, you haven’t opened your present yet have you?” said Ash realising that she was the only one not to open their present from him.

“No, I didn’t get chance” said May, slightly upset

“It’s okay, open it now while it’s just me and you” said Ash sympathetically with one arm round May to comfort her.

Whilst he put his arm round May even though it was just to comfort her, which he’d done on a few occasions, this time was different that feeling was back and he still didn’t know what it was. May however knew what this feeling was and she had it also and it cheered her up, however she didn’t know if Ash felt the same, because well Ash is Ash. From the kitchen Brock could see what was going on and he chuckled to himself.

“Aaah young love” thought Brock

May then opened her present, she hadn’t a clue as to what it could be as Ash had put the pokéball in the middle and wrapped the clothing around it as a ball and put the ball on top of the shoes. As she opened the present she gleamed with excitement, Ash could see it in her face which made him feel warm and fuzzy inside, it was different but he liked it, however he didn’t want to show it in case May didn’t feel the same way.

May carried on unwrapping the present and laid out all her clothes on the floor in the way they would be if she had them on, then realised the pokéball was laid in her right shoe, she picked it up and said;

“Hey Ash, did you buy me a pokéball”

“Sort of May, why not open it?” replied Ash

“Okay, I will”

While saying that May through the pokéball into the air and was shocked to see a silhouette of a small lizard like pokémon, she then put her pokédex forward to identify the pokémon and thus hearing the description of it, turned round and literally threw herself on Ash and hugged him, he felt like he was in a pokémon’s bind attack.

“Maa-aay, ease up a little pleeeease” said Ash gasping for air.

“Oh, sorry Ash, it’s just I wanted to thank you for these great gifts” replied May

“It’s fine honestly, it’s just I couldn’t breathe you were hugging me that tight haha” Laughed Ash

“Oh haha, sorry” laughed May

“Don’t worry about it, I’m just glad you like your stuff” Ash said with a gleaming smile on his face

“Thank you Ash” May said softly

With that May and Ash had another with both of them feeling the same inside and carried on hugging until Charmander jumped up onto May’s lap and laid there nudging May asking her to stroke her in the process. When May finished they both went into the kitchen to get some breakfast when they realised there was no food left to which both the teens looked at each other and fainted.

30 minutes later they both woke up to the scent of sausages and eggs, which Brock being the loving man he is cooked the two, in his mind love birds, some breakfast as he felt bad that everyone else had eaten the food before they had even got a sniff in.

After everyone had eaten Max asked Ash if he could have a battle, to which Ash replied of course. Especially with Ash being Ash and never giving up the chance to have a battle. With that everyone went outside to see the two of them have a battle, Brock was referee and said the battle would be a double battle with each of them allowed to choose just 4 pokémon each. To start with Max called out his Gardevior and Flygon, so Ash thinking logically called out his Salamence and Absol. The battle started well with Max causing blow after blow of Psybeam and Dragonbreath, the Dragonbreath was causing damge on Salamence however Absol was doing great at holding of the Psybeam, Ash then turned round and ordered two direct attacks.

“Absol Shadow Ball on Gardevior and Salamence Dragon Claw on Flygon” Cried Ash, both attacks hit causing super effective critical hits, causing both Gardevior and Flygon to faint.

“Gardevior and Flygon are unable to battle, Max you need to send out your remaining two Pokémon” called Brock

“Well done guys you battled well, You got lucky Ash, my next two Pokémon will take you down” Max said “Come on out Corphish and Chimchar” cried Max

“Well” said Ash “Interesting choice Max, I waiting to see what you will do”

The battle then commenced with Ash calling Absol to use Razorwind and Salamence to use Dragonbreath, both made direct hits but both Max’s pokémon took hardly any damage and got straight back up.

“Chimchar use Dig, Corphish Bubblebeam” Cried Max

“Quick Absol jump onto Salamence and Salamence soar high into the sky” Ash Cried out

Both of Chimchar and Corphish’s attacks missed making Max think of his next move but while Max was thinking Ash cried out his next move.

“Absol, Air Slash on Corphish, Salamence Flamethrower on Chimchar”

“Quickly” Max cried out “Corphish Ice Beam on Salamence, Chimchar....”

Corphish managed to make his hit causing damage to Salamence, but unfortunately for Max Absol’s Air Slash connected with Chimchar causing the fire type to fall down.

“Chimchar!” Max cried out

As Max called his little fire type was glowing white, as they saw it everyone said in unison,

“It’s evolving”

Max’s Chimchar had just evolved into Monferno, thus gaining an extra type, fighting, Max thought to himself,

Excellent Monferno is part fighting and knows Mach Punch, a move that is super effective against Ash’s Absol, If I can get Ash to draw his pokémon close enough I could knock them out in the move.

“Salamence, Absol attack using Flamethrower and Shadowball.” Ash called out

“Wait till the attacks come then dodge and Corphish use Ice Beam on Salamence and Monferno use Mach Punch on Absol” Max cried out

Both pokémon did as instructed and landed each move perfectly, knocking both Ash’s pokémon out at exactly the same time.

“Both Salamence and Absol are unable to battle, Ash call out your last two pokémon” Brock said

Both May and Misty were sat next to each other watching the match and both asked each other what pokémon Ash was going to call out, they thought about it and then it hit them, the weaknesses of Max’s two pokémon were psychic and electric, they waited to see who Ash was going to call out, and he called out who they thought he would.

“Pikachu I’m choosing you for this battle, and to make the tag team, come on out Latias!” Cried Ash

“Feel free to make the first move Ash” Max said confidently

“Well, if you’re sure okay Max, Pikachu Volt Tackle on Corphish and Latias use Psychic on Monferno” Ash cried out.

“Quicky Monferno use Dig, and Corphish get in the hole too” Max called

Monferno evaded the attack however Corphish wasn’t quick enough to avoid the attack and Pikachu’s Volt Tackle hit head on, knocking Corphish out because of the sheer power and type advantage Pikachu has.

“Corphish is unable to battle, the remainder of the battle will be a 2 v 1 battle in the favour of Ash” said Brock

The rest of the battle lasted all of a minute as Ash had Pikachu jump on the back of Latias and re-create his own special move Thunderarmour such a powerful move if it was to become a direct hit however max had Monferno use Dig and he evaded the attack, then Ash had Pikachu use Quick Attack to knock Moferno out of the whole and into the air, then having Latias have a very powerful Zen Headbutt to knock out Max’s Monferno.

“Monferno is unable to battle the winner is Ash” Brock said.

“Thank you Monferno, you battled well return” Max said

“Max that was a great battle, you can tell you’re turning into a great trainer” Ash said

Everyone went over to the two trainers and told them how great a battle it was and May said to Ash how strong he’s gotten and that his Pokémon are looking great, just as everyone was about to disband and head back to the house Professor Oak came out to speak to Ash, he wanted to ask him to accompany him tomorrow when he visits his friend Professor Juniper in the Unova region for two days. Ash replied yes to this so Ash told the others they could stay at the house while he was gone and then they would think of what adventure to go on next.

The next morning it was 9am and the only people in the house awake were Ash and Professor Oak, or so they thought unbeknownst to them May was also awake, Ash and Oak were just finishing getting their stuff ready before setting off Ash let out all of his pokémon and told them to wait at the house and take a rest while he was gone and that he would see them when he gets back. Just as Ash and the Professor were about to leave May appears behind them and gives Ash a hug, she tells Ash that she’ll look after his pokémon while he’s gone to which Ash replies,

“Thanks May”

And with that Ash and the Professor head for their flight. Whilst on the flight Ash asks the Professor about the Unova region but all the Professor could say was it’s something that you need to find out yourself Ash and left it at that. The flight seemed to take forever but they eventually got there and headed towards Professor Junipers lab.

When inside Ash was keen to look around and did while Professor Oak went in search of Professor Juniper. Just then Professor Juniper came out to greet Oak and Ash and showed them around however because Juniper and Oak had a meeting to attend Juniper had a favour to ask of Ash.

“Ash, whilst me and Professor Oak are in this meeting can help me out with something” asked Professor Juniper

“Of course Professor Juniper what do you want me to do?” replied Ash

“That’s great Ash, I’d like you to watch the starter Pokémon Snivy, Oshawott, and Tepig for me” informed Professor Juniper

“Sure that’d be awesome” Ash replied ecstatically.

With that Professor Juniper showed Ash the three pokémon a female Snivy and male Tepig and Oshawott, all three pokémon took a liking to Ash straight away and Professor Juniper could see this and smiled. After that the two professors headed of to their meeting and left Ash with the pokémon. Ash and the starters were having a great time laughing and playing it had been over 2 hours now and the three starters were now bonded with Ash as if they were his own pokémon. Then both Professors came through the door and laughed at Ash who was being pilled on by all three of the pokémon.

Over the course of the rest of the day Ash continued to look after and play with the pokémon and they really enjoyed it, something that made Ash extremely happy, at about 10pm Ash and the Professors went to bed before Ash and Oak had to set of the next morning. The next morning at 10am Ash and Oak were ready to set off when Professor Juniper came to the door with three poké balls she opened them up so that Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott could say goodbye however rather than the three pokémon saying goodbye they jumped on Ash and refused to go back with Professor Juniper.

“I thought this might happen” laughed Professor Juniper

“Thought what might happen Professor?” asked Ash confused

“Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott have bonded with you and want to go with you Ash, which leads me to the next point here are their poké balls.” Explained Professor Juniper

“Wow, are you sure Professor?” exclaimed Ash

“Yes Ash, but make sure you take care of them” said Professor Juniper

“I will do Professor thank you” replied Ash

With that Professor Oak and Ash accompanied by his new pokémon headed towards the plane only to find two wild pokémon quarrelling Professor Oak said these pokémon were an Axew and a Scraggy, he also insisted they needed to be calmed down so over they went to help the two pokémon. Whilst trying to help Ash came up with a brilliant idea of catching them so that he could have a new roster of pokémon to start another journey with so that’s what he did using his new Snivy and Tepig Ash knocked out both pokémon and caught them both, thus stopping the quarrelling and allowing both the Professor and himself to get to the plane before it left without them.
After another energy draining flight Ash and the Professor returned to the Ketchum household for Ash to be pilled on by his pokémon, and May.

[The Spirit Trainer]

Wow! Great job, dude! Can't wait to read the next chapter!

[PokéMaster2694]

Hey, I know it's been a while but I've now finished the next chapter, and about to start work on the one after, hope your all enjoying reading it as i am writing it. And thanks to Spirit Trainer for following the story, you rock dude
So here we go!

Chapter 6 – Home Again

Ash’s Pokémon were so grateful to see him again and from Brocks point of view May was even more so. His pokémon finally let Ash get up for air, as Sceptile got up however May went flying across the room, it looked as if she was heading straight for the opposite wall. But a split second before she about collide with it two vines gripped her and stopped her from hitting the wall. Because her eyes were closed the first thing May said was;

“Venasaur?” thinking her dinosaur grass type had popped out of her pokéball to save her trainer.

“Sni, Snivy” replied a small green pokémon that no-one recognised.

“Huh!?” May said in shock. “What’s that pokémon?”

“Thanks for helping May Snivy” said Ash to his newest grass type.

“Snivy” the little grass pokémon replied smiling.

Everyone was shocked to see that Ash no had another new Pokémon and started asking questions about the new grass type Pokémon Snivy. However within a matter of seconds another four pokéballs popped open revealing the other Pokémon Ash had received whilst over in Unova. The Pokémon were Oshawott, Tepig, Axew and Scraggy. Each of the five Pokémon including Snivy had its own individual trait. Snivy was a very confident Pokémon, Oshawott being a clumsy one, Tepig very shy, Axew was very playful and Scraggy was headstrong never backing down from a challenge.

Ash introduced his new Pokémon to everyone, they were all fond of the young Pokémon with Misty and May clearly pointing out how cute the five of them were. Ash explained to everyone that he was going to start training with these Pokémon to see how well they would fair in battles. Delia then came through to tell everyone that lunch was served and to come and get some. As everyone were making their way to the kitchen there was a knock at the door.

“I’ll get it” shouted Ash

Ash opened the door to see a fairly large man stood in front of him, he was wearing his signature Hawaiian flower top, still had his ruffly hair, Ash new from the minute he laid eyes on him who it was.

“Hey Ash” said the man

“Hey Scott, what are you doing here?” replied Ash looking confused

“I’ve come to talk about something Ash if you’re interested that is?”

“Sure thing Scott fire away”

“Well Ash the thing is we’ve now got a space for a new frontier brain and I was wondering now it’s been a while if you would like to be the newest frontier brain to be in the battle frontier, if you do you will also become the final challenge for the participants.” Explained Scott

“That sounds really interesting Scott, what would my facility be and could I choose my staff?” Asked Ash

“The choice of the facility is up to you Ash, we haven’t built it yet but it would only take a couple of month’s tops, and of course you can choose your staff. Why? What have you got in mind?” Scott asked curiously.

“Well the thing is Scott I know Max wants to challenge the battle frontier so I could travel with him until the facility has been built, with regards to my staff, there isn’t a facility where double battles occur is there?”

“No there isn’t Ash, but I think I know where you’re going with this” replied Scott enthusiastically.

Ash then ran to talk to one of his friend’s to which they replied about the idea with another two suggesting terms, the only person that didn’t know what was going on was Max but he figured he’d find out somehow anyway. Ash then returned to Scott and told him where he wanted his facility based and what he wanted it to look like, and how the battle area would operate. Scott was delighted with what he had heard, you could tell this by the overwhelming size of the grin on his face, and with that Scott said farewell to Ash and began preparing the facility of Ash’s.

With that Ash decided to join everyone in the kitchen to eat. While at the table everyone asked what was the next move for the trainers, Max said he was going to challenge the battle frontier to which everyone knew anyway but he felt like saying it again because of how fired up it made him feel. Misty said she had to go back to the Cerulean Gym to wait for more challengers, May said she was going to tag along with Max, and Ash and Brock looked at each other and said simultaneously;

“Count us in!”

The next day arrived and everyone was raring to get out on their next adventure, Ash had decided that he was to take his new Pokémon with him and Pikachu of course. May decided to take Charmander, Manaphy, Glaceon and Pichu, Delia suggested leaving her other Pokémon with Ash’s at Professor Oaks to which May said yes. Brock decided to take Marshtomp and Max took all his Pokémon. It felt different for Ash knowing he wouldn’t be challenging the frontier but cheering Max on instead. However he would still train his Pokémon whilst on the journey. In hopes that they’d get stronger for when he gets to the final destination.

At 11:00 the gang set out to their first destination, the battle factory. They had just left Pallet Town and were walking down a long winding road when they came up to what looked like a battle field, as they got closer they realised it was a battle field, there was a mini tournament going on with the winner getting a special candy that made Pokémon evolve into their next evolutionary stage. Ash from the minute he read battle wanted to sign up for it so that’s what they did.

Everyone signed up, the rule was that you could choose just one Pokémon each and once they are unable to battle you are knocked out of the tournament. The tournament was about to start and there were 40 trainers eager to make the final. As the tournament progressed the semi-finals came down to May vs Max and Brock vs Ash, May decided to use Glaceon whilst Max sent out Grovyle.

“Grovyle use Bullet Seed” commanded Max

“Glaceon, dodge using dig, and carry on digging” May shouted to her icy fox Pokémon

“Grovyle, watch for Glaceon” Max exclaimed

“Glaceon, now use a full powered Icy Wind attack.”

With that command from May all the holes on the battle field had silver shards flying out of them surrounding the grass type, it was like 100’s of geyzers coming out of the ground. Because of the closeness of the holes, Grovyle was being thrown about all over the place and eventually thrown to the ground knocking the speedy grass type out.

“Grovyle is unable to battle, May and Glaceon win” announced the referee

“Thank you Grovyle, take a good rest” Said Max sympathetically

“The next match is between Ash and Brock” announced the referee

Ash and Brock took their positions at either end of the battle field, and Ash knowing that Brock only had one Pokémon with him decided which Pokémon he was going to use.

“Come on out Marshtomp” cried Brock

“Your time to shine Snivy” shouted Ash

The two Pokémon showed up on the battle field ready to battle, Marshtomp made the first move without Snivy realising.

“Marshtomp use Take Down” Brock cried out

“Sniiiiiiiii” the grass type cried out whilst flying through the air

“Snivy, are you okay?” Ash asked

“Sni” the little grass type said confindently

Just as Snivy replied she was surrounded by a white glow, with the shock on everyones face the little grass type was evolving after just one battle. Ash checked his pokédex to see what his new Pokémon was called.

“Servine – They avoid attacks by sinking into the shadows of thick foliage. They retaliate with masterful whipping techniques”

“Wow, Servine use Leaf Blade” Ash commanded

The newly evolved grass type obeyed straight away making a direct hit on Brocks water/ground type. You could see that both Pokémon were tired because of the two attacks they had both taken. But then Ash called Servine to use Leaf Storm which was another direct hit that wiped out Marshtomp.

“Marshtomp is Unable to battle, Servine and Ash win” said the referee

“Thank you Marshtomp return” Brock said returning his Pokémon

“Servine that was great” Ash shouted hugging his newly evolved grass type

The Final battle would consist of May vs Ash, because of it being the final they had to use a different Pokémon to ones they had previously used. Both Ash and May new exactly what Pokémon they were going to use and were getting ready to get the battle started. With both trainers I position their pokéballs in hand it was just a matter of seconds before they released their Pokémon and started the battle.

[The Spirit Trainer]

Holy cow! Very interesting, bro! You should think about putting this on fanfiction.net! I'm sure you'd get tons of likes! And while you're there, check out my story, "Latias and the Spirit Trainer" it's a very intense story and new chapters are added very often!

[Azran Flame]

There are a few reasons why I couldn't bring myself to read this fic.

1) Double spacing between each of your paragraphs would really help. I can't make head or tails out of the blocks of text O.o
2) The chapters are a bit... short. At least, compared to others. You might wanna add a bit more length, a bit more detail into it.
3) Some of the punctuation is missing. You know, full stops, and all that. It... degrades the quality a bit.
4) The main reason... sorry to say, but I absolutely hate AdvanceShipping. But it doesn't really matter here XD

So yeah, fix those little pesky things up a bit, and the story will be a whole lot better (in my opinion, amyway). But what really matters is the plot, and how you handle the characters. Concentrate on that as well. Though I'm pretty sure practically everyone knows that XD Good luck!

[PokéMaster2694]

Thanks Spirit and flame mistress i dont know why but when i write it in word it has the spaces but when i put in here it doesn't which is quite annoying. I'll go through it and edit it so the spaces are in .

Holy cow! Very interesting, bro! You should think about putting this on fanfiction.net! I'm sure you'd get tons of likes! And while you're there, check out my story, "Latias and the Spirit Trainer" it's a very intense story and new chapters are added very often!

Yeah i think i shall and of course, i was actually wondering where your fiction was haha!

Sorry for the late reply been having problems with my internet just recently, hope to have the next chapter up soon thanks again!