The Rivalry On The Island

Chapter 1 ~ The Meeting of Two Old Pals

After completing the Sinnoh League, a now 15-year-old Ash Ketchum is returning to his hometown of Pallet Town in the Kanto region. Instead of coming alone this time, Ash's Sinnoh native traveling companion, Dawn Berlitz, was coming with him to his house. As eager as Dawn may be to tag along, Ash wasn't as thrilled as she was.

"So why did you want to come with me to Pallet again, Dawn?" Ash asked the blunette.

"Well, I wanted to meet that awesome poetry guy, Professor Oak," said Dawn with huge sparkles in her eyes "And I also wanted to see your hometown and meet your mom." 'More precisely my future mother-in-law' Dawn thought.

However, Ash didn't catch along with what Dawn last said (being how dense he is) so he just shrugged and said, "Ok, fine with me" although he was screaming in his mind 'No this is not ok!!! The only reason I came back to Pallet was because M-'

Ash's thoughts were quickly stopped when he heard Dawn say "Hey Ash, is that Pallet Town over there?" while she pointed to a small town over the hill with large fields and many tiny houses.

"Yeah that's it" Ash said being a little more enthusiastic this time.

"C'mon, I'll race you there, Ashy" Dawn said while running ahead of him.

"Hey!" Ash asked Dawn as he tried to catch up with her. "When did I say you could start calling me Ashy?"

She spun around and smiled at him "Since I said so, now hurry up!"

Meanwhile on the other side of Pallet Town……….

"Now which house was Ash's again?" a young brunette around 14 asked herself. She was none other than The Princess of Hoenn, May Maple. She was wearing a white collared shirt with a sapphire blue circle around her neck, a baby blue mini-skirt, sapphire biker shorts, and white tennis shoes. Around her neck she wore a white bandana with a blue poké ball design on it. However, her hair was not in her usual pigtail style. It was down and it grew to about the middle of her back.

"I was pretty sure it was around here!" said May getting very frustrated, not knowing that she had just passed the Ketchum residence. As she walked further down the street, she saw a very familiar looking blunette speeding right by her.

"Was that…Dawn?" May said looking towards the girl running into one of the houses she just passed by. May was about to turn around and continue on her way when someone ran into her, causing her to fall. May grabbed onto the person and pulled them down with her.

"OW!" she yelled as she fell onto the hard dirt road. May's anger was boiling up inside of her ready to yell at the person who made her fall. But when she looked at who was on top of her, her eyes were full of shock…and surprise.

"N-No way! It can't be!" May said looking into this boy's deep auburn eyes. "Is it really you? A-Ash?"

"MAY!?!?!?" yelled Ash.

TO BE CONTINUED!

So how was that? I know that there wasn't much Advanceshipping in this chapter, and there was some Pearlshipping, but it might take a few chapters until the Advanceshipping really starts to kick in. Well, please R & R!!

Ja Ne!, Alice-chan