A Very Advance Christmas

Author's Note: My first Christmas story is done and posted on my Birthday today (Christmas Eve🎄)! I hope you all enjoy this attempt at a Pokémon Advance Christmas story for the first time and Merry Christmas/happy holidays everyone 🥰

Petalburg City
The month of happiness and joy has finally come. People around the world had put up their Christmas decorations, getting ready for the holiday spirit. Due to not seeing many of her friends, May Maple decided to host a Christmas party at her house. However, to make things more interesting, she decided to make it a Secret Santa gift exchange as well

She was very much excited until she found out who it was she was getting a gift for; Ash Ketchum. Now don't get her wrong, it's not that she doesn't want to get Ash a present... no, the problem was she didn't know what to give him. May had made a list of ideas, but none seemed to be good enough

May sighed as she remembered the day she and the others had chosen who it was they were going to get a gift for and couldn't help but think that someone had planned for her to get Ash a gift

Flashback, Pallet Town 2 days ago
"Alright, everyone! We'll have plenty of time to catch up with one another at the party, but now we need to all write our names on the paper. Once done put it in the hat, leave the room, and then chose a name. Whichever name you get is the person you gotta get a gift for" May explained as Ash handed out the paper to everyone, while Delia gave out a few pens for them to write down their names

May and surprisingly Ash were the first to finish writing their names and leave the room. While they both waited slowly the others came out of the room, with Gary and Dawn being the last ones to leave and had smirks on their faces. After a few moments, Delia called the first pair into the room as Misty and Goh (the newest traveling companion of Ash) went in and the rest followed right after

Soon all that was left to choose a name were none other than May herself and Ash. Both went into the living room and pulled the last two pieces of paper as their eyes widened at who they had gotten, not noticing the fist bump Gary and Dawn shared behind the group
End of Flashback

May looked down at her list once again as her eyes scanned the ideas she had jotted down:

- Pokemon Battle (probably not...)

- Food (can't cook)

- Pokeballs (how original -_-)

- Books (does he even read any books?)

- Contest Performance (probably not)

- Video game (does Ash even have a game station?)

Let's just say May was not having much luck as she thought it would be at the moment and wondered if the person who had picked her name was having better luck than she was

Meanwhile in Pallet Town
Ash Ketchum sat on his bed with a small notebook resting on his lap and a pencil in his hand. No matter how hard he thought, none of these ideas he came up with seemed to be good enough

Pikachu was looking at the small list his trainer had come up with and couldn't understand what was wrong with the ideas since they had all been scribbled out right after being written down. Pikachu thought the ideas to be great gifts for a certain brunette coordinator... but then again, it could be due to Pokemon and humans thinking differently about the gifts they received

Ash on the other hand looked at the small notebook containing his list and read over what he had written once more:

- New bandana (she probably has enough)