The Closest Ones

9. Visions or seeing?

Author's note: The quality of this AMV is quite bad, but I can't find a good AMV with this motif. If anyone finds it, write in the comments and I will see if it's good so I will replace it. Anyway, enjoy next chapter. :D

"If anyone wants ride to Lumiose City, they have one last chance." shouted the captain of the ferry, on which some people were just waiting to leave.

"Wait for us!" he heard the captain and looked in the direction and saw a boy running towards him with two girls behind him.

"Then get on. You're lucky we just wanted to go." said the captain, looking at the children.

"We still have to wait for my brother." Bonnie said, looking behind her and seeing her brother slowly catch up with them.

"Wai-wait for me." Clemont shouted tiredly and taking deep breaths while he catch up with others.

"Young man, it's not my place to say it, but I think you should work on your body." said the captain, looking at Clemont, who took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"That's what I keep telling him, sir." Bonnie said, looking reproachfully at Clemont.

"Well, will you board anything or not? My ship will be leaving and we have to arrive before dark and you're not the only one who needs a ride." said the captain, standing up sideways and motioning for them to board. They all boarded and the captain gave the order to leave.

"Why do you need to be in Lumiose city so early?" Serena asked.

"We have to bring these Poketches to the shops in Lumiose city and the shops that ask for them are all over the city, so we just pass them on to the importers, who have to bring them all by midnight." captain said pointing on some boxes around them.

"Wow, I heard about Poketches. They can be really useful. My brother here, was trying to make his own." Bonnie said pointing to Clemont, who recovered already and looked down embarrassed.

"I guess it didn't turn out very well, did it?" the captain asked with a small grin because of the blond boy's reaction.

"No, they all exploded. It's not that I don't know how to work with it, I just don't know what the original looks like. If I got to some, I'd already know how to deal with it. It's mainly a bigger problem for me to create something new than fix something. I've already found out. " Clemont said, looking thoughtfully down the river.

"I can try to find some that are probably damaged. One of my workers was quite clumsy during loading. Wait here, I'll go check out some boxes." said the captain and left. Serena then looked at Ash, where she noticed that he had not spoken a word. When she looked at him, he looked around, but he looked like daydreaming. Serena approached Ash, who didn't even notice her, so when Serena tapped him on the shoulder, he jerked in surprise.

"Ash, are you okay? Since your victory at the gym, you look like you don't know what's going on." Serena asked worriedly. Ash looked around the deck as if checking something, then just exhaled and leaned against the railing.

"I'm fine, I'm just thinking about something." Ash said, trying to sound as convincing as possible. Serena just kept looking at him with unconvinced about his words, so he decided to change the subject "Clemont why did you decide to help with the gym in Lumiose city?"

Clemont looked uncertain and nervous and looked at Bonnie, who looked nervous too but nodded at him. "You know, the reason I signed up was because-" Clemont said, swallowing, "I'm Lumios gym leader."

"WHAT?!" Ash and Serena asked together in disbelief.

"That doesn't make sense. You said yourself that the gym leader is there, that's why we're going there, that the gym leader is going crazy." Ash said, looking at both siblings.