The Return of The Forgotten

Chapter 12

Ash woke up with a yawn, he looked around the forest to check if anyone was close by. Not even a Pidgey was there.

He looked down to the little rodent that was sleeping on his stomach, then picked it up and got up from his half-laying position in the tree. He didn't have any problems sleeping like that, he had done it for four years, he was used to it.

"Come on buddy, time to get up." Ash said with a kind and low voice to his pokemon.

"Chaaa!" Pikachu yawned as he stretched on himself and then started to rub his little yellow and red cheeks against Ash's.

"That's good Pi!" Ash chuckled. "Are you ready for today?"

Pikachu started to look serious and looked at its trainer, it then nodded and gave Ash a little salute with his paw.

"That's great, I've been waiting for this battle for so long..." Ash said as he got up and began to walk towards his battlefield.
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Sarah opened her eyes. She didn't know why, but she had slept in Ash's bed last night. She looked around and started to look for him, then she remembered what had happened yesterday. She got up and started to get dressed from her nightclothes to her normal clothes. She then walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth.

She stopped when she heard a knocking at the door. She happily thought it was Ash, that had come to get her. That he had regretted his decision and that maybe he didn't want to battle alone after all. She skipped to the door and opened it.

She was very surprised to see a group of seven people standing in front of her. The person that stood closest was the short geek with glasses. Sarah wondered if she should close the door and jump out through the window. Then the brunette started to talk.

"Is Ash here?"

Sarah observed her, it looked like she hadn't gotten any sleep, but she was still very attractive. She looked like she was both happy, nervous, sad and... angry?

"No he isn't." Sarah said carefully.

"Are you gonna tell us where he is?" Gary asked.

"Nope!" Sarah said with her cheerful teasing voice.

"We are his friends you know!" Dawn said with an annoyed voice.

"What kind of friends would abandon him when he needed them the most!?" Sarah hissed at them without thinking.

May could feel tears build up in her eyes again, Sarah noticed that and regretted immediately what she had said.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it!" Sarah said, afraid that May wasgoing to cry again, Ash would be furious if he heard what she had done.

"It's okay," May said as she dried her eyes. "it's just that we want to meet with him."

Sarah could see the pain in her eyes, she also wanted to see him.

"I don't know where he is, he told me to go up to our room and stay there. I think he's sleeping in the woods." Sarah stated. "He said that he wanted to battle this battle alone."

"Alone? Why? Who's he going to face?" The group started to shoot questions at the poor girl.

"How the hell should I know?!" She yelled frustrated, the group flinched at her rough choice of words.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Tracey asked.

"Well, we can split up in groups." Gary replied with a smirk. "I go with Misty, May goes with Dawn, Sarah goes with Max and you go with Brock."