1.Ash's Story (Part 3: Hoenn)

Chapter 26

As we continue on the road, we arrive at Lake May. We see a wild Volbeat hiding from a bush, who turns out to be in love with an Illumise, but he's too shy to ask. We try a lot of things to boost his confidence, until Team Rocket tries to grab Illumise using Meowth pretending to be a Volbeat. In the end, the two of them work together to send them blasting off again.

After Volbeat finishes the confessing dance to Illumise, Illumise is delighted as she wants to be his mate. Together, they decide to join our team.

Volbeat: The Firefly Pokemon: Bug Type. With the arrival of night, Volbeat emits light from its tail. It communicates with others by adjusting the intensity and flashing of its light. This Pokémon is attracted by the sweet aroma of Illumise.

Illumise: The Firefly Pokemon: Bug Type. Illumise attracts a swarm of Volbeat using a sweet fragrance. Once the Volbeat has gathered, this Pokémon leads the lit-up swarm in drawing geometric designs on the canvas of the night sky.

"Now that the two of them are together, then how about you and Alice, Ash?" Minami asks, we blush and we try to ignore the comment.

Then we manage to find a Roselia and Alice wants to capture it. She has help from Electrike and Electrike evolves into a Manectric and learns Fire Fang, defeating the Roselia and giving us the chance to capture it.

Manectric: The Discharge Pokemon: Electric Type. Evolved from Electrike at LV:26. Manectric discharges strong electricity from its mane. The mane is used for collecting electricity in the atmosphere. This Pokémon creates thunderclouds above its head.

Roselia: The Thorn Pokemon: Grass and Poison Type. Roselia shoots sharp thorns as projectiles at any opponent that tries to steal the flowers on its arms. The aroma of this Pokémon brings serenity to living things.

Another one that evolves when we're training is Gulpin, it evolves into a Swalot and it also has a similar personality to Muk...

Swalot: The Poison Bag Pokemon: Poison Type. Evolve from Gulpin at LV:26. When Swalot spots prey, it spurts out a hideously toxic fluid from its pores and sprays the target. Once the prey has weakened, this Pokémon gulps it down whole with its cavernous mouth.

We finally arrive at Verdanturf Town, but when we are inside the Pokemon Center, we find Drew again, but this time he seems to be worried about Roselia.

"Drew, I knew you're here." May says. "I take it you're going to enter the Contest tomorrow?"

"I was, but I'm not going to enter it." Drew says with a frown.

We notice Roselia and asks, "What happened to Roselia?"

"It got hurt badly. I don't think it will be well enough to battle tomorrow, I'll have to skip the contest this time. Here's a little advice for all of you. Watch out for a masked Coordinator who goes by the name Phantom."

"Phantom?" Alice asks confused.

Just then, the Phantom approaches us and he wants to challenge us to a battle. "You and the Skitty, planning to enter the contest? The Phantom is here and whenever he goes, that's to battle."

"Oh yeah? Well if it's a battle you want, I'll give you a battle." I say.

Then he wants to have a contest battle, so I go with Pikachu, and he goes for Dusclops. I have Pikachu use Thunderbolt, but Dusclops dodges it and goes for Shadow Punch, which manages to hit Pikachu a lot.

"Dance like a Butterfree, sting like a Beedrill." He smirks. I grit my teeth, but much to our surprise, we hear the sound of a car and the Phantom just disappears from our sight.