[Serena POV]

“Wait, wait, wait, wait… you mean to say that, yesterday when you went to the forest with your friends you saw a Charizard that was twice the size of Alain's and had a Mega stone on his tail.” Calem asked me in astonishment, everyone nodded back at him. We were at the school cafe before the school starts. There was me, Calem, Shauna, Iris and Hilda.

“Are you kidding me, that's not even possible! I mean the maximum size of a Charizard is 2.1m. and if that Charizard is twice of Alain's then he would around 3m. That's crazy! I-I'm sorry but I don't believe you guys, I'm sorry.” Calem spoke. I was a little annoyed at him because of this. Why can't he believe me? We tried to convince him for some more time when Alain arrived along with Tierno and Trevor.

“Hey guys, what's going on here?” Alain asked as he took a seat near Calem. “These girls are trying to say that they saw a Charizard that was twice the size of your Charizard, can you believe it? It's not possible in a hundred years.” Calem laughed, while alain had a serious look on his face. “Actually I do believe them.” He said, a smile formed in our faces as we heard him. Calem was giving him an ‘are you crazy?’ look. “I'm not crazy, there actually is a Charizard whose height is 3.1m. I've always wanted to meet him and battle him, but he's always hidden somewhere.” Alain told, his voice told that he was desperate for a battle from that Charizard. “I agree with Alain, I've seen that Charizard too. I even have a pic in my camera. See…” Trevor said as he showed us his camera. There it was, that Charizard. He was actually carrying a large tree to somewhere.

“Is that a leppa berry tree?” Hilda asked. “Yeah, I captured this pic when, I was walking around the Santalune forest.” Trevor said. “That's amazing dude. Who's Pokemon is he?” Calem asked in amazement. “I don't know, there's a rumour about a strong trainer who is also called the legendary trainer. His three strongest Pokemons are fire, water and electric types. Charizard is his fire type Pokemon but no one has ever seen his water and electric types.” Trevor told, he seemed to have quite a knowledge about this legendary trainer. Although, I think I know his water type Pokemon. But I better keep my mouth shut until I'm confirm. I remember that night.

---flashback---

Me and my mom were coming back from shopping late at night. We were walking through an alley that was silent and empty. Suddenly, a group of thugs came on their bikes and surrounded us. They were threatening us to give them our money. One of them walked up to us and tried to touch my face but that never happened.

His hand was hit by a water shuriken and caused a cut. The thug clutched his hand in pain and looked around for the attacker. Suddenly the other thugs fell to ground unconscious. I was really scared of what was happening. One by one every gang member fell unconscious until there was one left that was trying to touch me. He had a scared look on his face. Suddenly a Pokemon landed in front of him, he was started by this and ran away.

The Pokemon turned around and was revealed to be a Greninja. He gave us a nod of approval that we were safe now. We thanked him and he disappeared into the darkness of that night.

---flashback-end---

“HEY SERENA!” “Huh? Oh… sorry, I… I was lost in some thought… Sorry.” I was so lost in my memory that I didn't notice the bell ringing. We all got up and walked to our classes.

---time skip---

“Okay class, I hope you all will do your assignments perfectly. I want it done in two weeks.” Professor sycamore, our gym teacher said. He had given us an assignment to do and it was the worst thing to do. He give us assignment to write a bio-data on our partner and my partner was none other than the outcast. I feel so terrible.

I gave a look at Ash, who was sitting by himself at the last of the gym. For some reason he was holding his head. Might be sad about this assignment as well.

After the fourth class when we were at the cafe, I saw him outside under a tree eating his lunch. “Guys I need to talk to Ash for our project, so I'll excuse for a few moments.” I said they all nodded, “do you need someone to come with you?” Calem asked. “No, I think I'll be fine. Beside what possibly would he do knowing about his outcome.” I laughed, everyone laughed as well.

I walked out of the cafe and went to Ash. He had a sandwich held in his hand and Pikachu sitting on the tree he was under. When he noticed me he quickly went to his trainer and warned him. Ash turned his head and quickly stood up.

“What do you want?” He asked, “I just wanted to ask when are we doing our assignment. And I'm not inviting you to my house. We will do it at your house.” I told, “we can start today, if you want. And you can meet me at 5 near the forest entrance.” He told, “why at five and the forest?” I asked, I don't think he's trying to do anything funny. “Well I have to do my part time job and my house is in the forest so, yeah.” He said casually, not once he looked up at me. “Okay…” I whispered, “so forest entrance at five?” I asked, he nodded. Then I went back to my friends.

“Wow, I didn't know he did part time job. His parents are so weird. Don't they give him monthly allowance?” “They won't have enough for their own living.” My friends laughed at Ash.

---Time skip---

I was sitting at the bench near the entrance gate of the forest. It wasn't yet five but I was there. Soon Ash arrived there. “You’re early.” He said, I gave him a serious look. “I just want this assignment to be finished so I don't have to see your ugly face.” I said, he gave me an apologetic look. “Sorry, let's go.” He said and walked ahead. I followed him behind.

As we were walking I remembered about his part time job so I asked him. “Hey Ash, I wanted to ask why do you do a part time job?” “I need money for my living.” He replied, “not that, I mean doesn't your parents earn money?” I asked, Ash suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around. I stopped as well and looked at him like he was psycho. “what?” I asked him. He sighed and asked me a question that puzzled me, “why do you guys say those things to my father?” “Well the way you are,I don't think your father actually take your care. So I don't think that such person should be respected, according to me those kind of people are low charactered, lame an-” “Enough!” He cut me short, I was now annoyed at his behavior. “Don't talk to me like that.” “First you stop saying those things to my parents.” “Well they really are lame.” “How can you say it? I don't even have parents!” He screamed, I was taken aback by his answer. I was surprised to know that he didn't have parents. “I… I didn't know.” I whispered. “You should not say anything to someone when you don't know anything about them.” He turned around and started walking. I stood there for a moment then started following. “I sorry…” I said softly, I didn't get anything in reply. I felt bad for Ash now. All that time we bullied him and said those things to his parents, he actually didn't have them. Now that I think about how condition, I know how much bad he would have felt all those times.

I was having a feeling that someone was staring at me so I looked around and saw a scary looking Torterra looking straight at us. “A-ash… there's a T-torterra. He's looking right at us.” I said to Ash in a low voice. “He's not looking at us, he's looking at you. He knows me because I live here.” Ash replied. “He looks scary, won't he hurt me?” I asked, “no, not as long as I'm here.” I felt a bit relieved. We soon reached a small cottage near a clearance.

“We're here, welcome to my small home.” Ash said and opened the door for me. I entered the house and looked around, it was small yet beautiful and to think Ash lived here alone. “It's beautiful.” I said, Ash chuckled a little. “Thanks..” “why are you laughing?” I asked, “it's just weird that you actually complimented me.” He replied. “Well I really am sorry for my behavior.” I said. “It's alright, I don't hold a grudge against anyone for any reason.”

“You wait for some time, I'll just patch up my injuries.” He said and went up. I sat down at the couch and started at his living room. It was all so amazingly decorated. Pikachu was in the kitchen trying to get something. I went there and saw him hanging on the refrigerator handle. “Want some help?” I asked, he looked at me with angry face and sparked his cheeks. I back away from him, I don't think he really wants to befriend me.

I heard a loud and painful yell from upstairs. I hesitantly went up. The voice were coming from, what I assume was Ash's bedroom. I knocked on the door, “Ash? Are you okay?” I asked, “uhmm… not really-oww..aah!” He screamed, “May I come in?” I asked again, “ughh.. you can.” I slowly turned the knob and opened the door.

Ash was sitting on his bed and was holding his face with both hands. There was a first aid box her near him on the bed. “What happened?” I asked him, he looked up and I saw a painful look on his face.

“Calem made a cut on my back with a knife. And it hurts as hell.” Ash groaned, I was horrified by the reply. It was for the first time Calem had hurt Ash with a knife. And now that I knew about Ash's situation, I felt really sorry for him.

“That's horrible!” I yelled, I slowly walked near him and observed his back. He had a deep cut starting from the right shoulder and went up to the side of his body. I flinched at the cut. “Do you be help dressing it?” I asked giving a look at Ash. His face was full of pain. “I guess…” he whispered.

I picked up the first aid box and searched for the medications and a bandage. When I found them, I carefully applied it on his wounds. He flinched at every touch. After that I wrapped them all in bandages.

“Thanks.” Ash have a sincere appreciation to me. I smiled back at him. “It was just a small help as an apology for what I have done to you in the past.” I replied, I smiled back at me.

We went down and sat at the couch with our notepads in our hands. “Let's start with you..” Ash said as he scribbled sometime on his notepad.

“Okay, so.. Name: Serena Yvonne. Date of birth: July 22, 2002. Hometown: Vanville, Kalos…” Ash muttered as he wrote everything on his notepad. I was surprised to know that he knew so much about me. After 5 minutes he looked at me. “Okay, now your personal characteristics have been done. Moving on to your family. So.. mother's name: Grace Yvonne. Father's name?” He looked at me. “Uhh.. Achille Yvonne.” I replied, he wrote it down. He wrote everything about me. We were so occupied in our assignment that we didn't notice the time. It was almost night.

“Hmm.. yours is done. We can do mine tomorrow. Then we can write these down on a file for a batter presentation.” Ash said as we packed up our things. We stood up and walked to the door. “I'll walk you out of the forest, it's dangerous at night.” He said. This made me think again about my behavior towards him, I tortured him yet he still acts as if was nothing bad for him.

We walked out of the house into the forest. Along the way Ash stayed quiet, I wanted to start a conversation, so I asked him. “By the way how your cut?” He turned his head to me. “Uhmm, it still hurts much but I'm sure it will get better by tomorrow.” “Well, I feel very bad for you. I have been saying things to you and your family without knowing anything about them. I am really sorry, please forgive me.” I said softly. “Hey, don't be so down, you've realised your mistake so I forgive you. Everyone makes mistake but only the great ones learn from them. Also one more advice, a pretty smile suits you better than a frown.” He replied, on hearing his compliment, a small blush crept on my face. We walked through the first and to my home, apparently he decided to walk me to my home instead. After saying our goodbye I went in my home and he walked away.

To be continued...

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