[Serena’s POV]

“Ash, I was wondering, if…..” I started, we were at his house and all the pokemon had gone to their resting place after the training, except for pikachu, who was here and happily nibbling on a croissant I had brought. Hilbert was in the living room watching TV and ash and I were in the kitchen, I was helping him with the breakfast. 

"What is it?" He asked when I didn't speak forward. I felt really flustered at this point and didn't know what to do. "Umm.. I was wondering if y-you could… uhhh.. g-go shop-ping with me…" I stuttered out, I didn't dare to look up from the counter or else I'd get crazy if I saw his eyes. "You mean like a date?" He asked nonchalantly. I shot red at his question, that was too straight forward. "Uh uh uh… I- I don't know…. Maybe, but I- j-just wanted your help in picking out outfits for my opening ceremony performance…" I stammered at the start but soon got the hold of it. 

"Sure." He replied softly, without hesitating. My head shot up at him and he gave me a cute smile, my heart was beating at really high speed and my face was red as a tomato. 

I jumped suddenly when I felt someone touch my arm. I gave out a shriek and stumbled back only to find it was Pikachu asking for more croissants. I heard laughter and looked at Ash, he was holding his stomach and laughing hard. "Oh my Arceus Serena, you're so cute when you get scared. You should have looked at your face when pikachu touched you." He laughed out, I puffed my cheeks and glared at him, yet at the same time I was blushing.

"Idiot!" I huffed out in anger. He wouldn't stop laughing, "I'm sorry, but you looked hilarious." He kept on laughing. "I'm gonna cancel the date if you won't stop!" I warned him, he suddenly got normal and asked, "I thought it was not a date?" I felt myself heat up again, I was so embarrassed that I didn't move until I heard him laughing again.

"Oh my! You're being so adorable today!" He laughed softly, then turned back to the counter and poured out the porridge in the bowl. I stood there flustered, my attention was brought back by him saying, "Are you free after the breakfast? I wanna show you something." He looked at me expectantly.

"Yeah, I am free. But what is it?"

"You'll see soon." He said and took the bowl to the dining table. I nodded my head slowly, wondering what could it be.

After breakfast we told Hilbert that we're heading out, of course he teased us about it but Ash wasn't affected by it, while I on other hand was beat red. We through the forest towards Aquacorde town. 

"So what is it exactly that you wanna show me?" I asked changing the topic from Pokemon battles as I was clearly not interested. "I told you you'll see when we reach there." I pouted at him and kept following him as he led the way. Pikachu was tagging along occasionally stopping at different trees or flowers to look at or sometimes to converse with wild pokemon. It was really sad to know that he lost an eye in a battle.

"Which Pokemon was Pikachu fighting that scraped the eye?" I asked looking at pikachu, who was now looking at me at the mention of his name. "If I remember correctly it was an aggron." Ash replied after a few moments, clearly trying to recall it. "Wow, that aggron sure was tough, I mean to injure Pikachu so bad. What was the end result? Did Pikachu win?" I noticed Pikachu getting a little stiff at my words but I ignored it as Ash replied, "No, when the aggron injured him I quickly called out the match and took him to the Pokemon centre. I didn't want him to get infected." I looked at Pikachu with concern as now he was sulking a little. "It's okay Pikachu, everyone faces someone stronger than them once in a while." I encouraged him and it sure worked as Pikachu climbed up my shoulder and started licking my cheeks. I giggled at this, Ash smiled at us from the corner of his eyes.

We soon reached Aquacorde town, while talking about random things. It was already lunch time so we went to a restaurant. It was nice and small but not too small, just the cozy size. The atmosphere was very friendly. We ordered our food and waited while we talked about what I wanted to wear for my performance.

"I think red and black would be a better combination."

"No, white and purple will be better!" 

"No, I'm telling you, red and black better!" 

"No, whi-"

We were in the middle of an argument that, what combination of color would suit best for me and sylveon. We were interrupted by the waitress as she brought our food. "Sir, ma'am, I have been observing you for a while and it looks like you are in some kind of argument. Would you mind if I help?" She asked politely, I smiled happily as this could be a big help. "Of course not, please help us. You see we are arguing on what color combination would suit better for me and my sylveon. I say it should be red and black-" "but I say white and purple would be better." Ash butted in. 

The waitress took it into consideration and spoke, "I think white and purple will be better as white we go with sylveon's white fur and purple being darker will stand out from here naturally light pink nd blue fur." At this Ash pumped up his fist, "That's what I was saying, though I didn't think of it that far…." He sweatdropped at the end. I just stared at him with a blank expression, then turned back to the waitress. "I guess it's white ad purple then. Thanks a lot for helping us" "My pleasure ma'am." She bowed gently then took her leave, leaving me with a wide grinned raven boy.

I sighed at his childishness, "you never change do you?" I asked him with a pout. "You guess that right!" He mocked. We continued our food while chatting a little bit. After eating weade our way to a another place. "Serena, do you know how to roller skate right?" Ash asked out of nowhere. I was partly confused at his question, "yeah…" but replied nonetheless. "Great cos we'll need one for where we are going…" he as he kept on walking. "You are being seriously mysterious today, you know that!" I muttered. "I very well do." He laughed, I just pouted as my patience was being tested for no reason in general. 

We reached a big office building, "Please wait for me while I'm gone to talk, I won't take long." He said as he gestured towards the waiting area as he made his way to the counter. "Okay…" I replied and went to the waiting place, I sat at a couch as Ash went in an elevator. Seeing he would a little while, I picked up a fashion magazine and began reading it, who knows maybe I could get some outfit  ideas from it? 

It had been 15 minutes when I heard his voice, "sorry to keep you waiting, let's go." I put the magazine back and followed ash on his mysterious journey. At this point I just wanted to know where I was being taken. "Y'know, no girl is patient enough to follow a boy to somewhere she has no idea of when she has been walking since morning!" I yelled at him, Ash turned back to reply, but his eyes widened suddenly as he lunged at me. I was surprised but before I could do anything Ash had already tackled me and we both fell back on the ground just as I heard a loud crash. I opened my eyes to see that a glass pane was shattered on the ground. The pieces of glass scattered everywhere. I looked at Ash who was on me and my expression horrified as I saw a large shard penetrated into his flesh at the side of his stomach. Pikachu was worried as well, and ash was barely holding it as he was clearly in pain.

"Oh my Arceus! Ash!" I quickly looked into my bag for my phone and stumbled across the keypad, I dialled the hospital quickly and then put it back and moved so as to lay him on my lap, while trying to think what to do. A man sound his 40's came to our aid, and told that we should probably try to take out the glass from his body. He was probably a worker at a clothes shop or something as he had a bundle of white fabric. He quickly pulled one sheet out md wrlled it around Ash and pressed it gently around his stomach, then carefull pulled out the glass piece. Ash grunted when he did so but didn't resist. When the glass ws out he quickly wrapped the would with the cloth tightly and pressed it with his hands to top the blood flow. Ash was breathing heavily from the blood loss. I was very worried at this point, "Don't worry Ash, the ambulance is coming, everything will be alright!" I said to him. He looked at me with a sad smile, and put his hand on my cheek, "It's okay, Sere. Stop crying, nothing will go wrong." I didn't realise I was crying until he said so, but no sooner he said that his hand fell as his eyes closed and he slumped down. 

"Ash! No please don't leave me Ash! No!"

To be continued...

Hey, so I found I had this chapter half ready, I took some time and completed it, I hope you liked the chapter... Also tell me the next pov I should write it in.. I'm thinking of Hilbert's.

Thanks a lot for reading stay tuned for next chapter.
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