Return of the defeated (on hold)

/Part 7/

They walked for another hour or so when the out skirts of the city came into view. Glaceon and Pikachu walked in front with their tails rubbing occasionally, May and Ash walked next to each other. She wanted to reach out and take his hand but resisted the urge knowing that time would work all this out. Lucario walked on the other side of Ash as he always did following the code of Aura Guardian and Partner. They walked past the gaurd station where he first met Officer Jenny and had his wild ride to the Pokemon Center. They decided to spend the day in the city seeing the sights, since neither of them had done it in their travels through the city. When they reached the center, they handed over their poke balls to Nurse Joy as to make sure everyone was healthy and Ash made his way to the video phones to let his mom know that they made it safely. After their pokemon had been given a clean bill of health Ash called the professor to exchange his pokemon so he could keep his training with them constant as possible.

Ash sent Primeape, Gyarados, and Goodra back in exchange for Tyranitar, Typhlosion, Heracross. He knew going into Viridain Forest the would come across some very hostile Beedrill and other territorial groups of pokemon so he wanted a good variety of types on his team. May also changed up her team as well she exchanged Munchlax, Masquiern, and Sawsbuck for Ninetales, Altaria, and Minccino. After changing their teams they explored the city, doing a little shopping, grabbed lunch at a homey little Italian restaurant and Ash refused to let May pay for the meal saying its gentleman thing to do. They returned to the Pokemon Center, put their purchases in their rooms and went behind the center to do a little training.

Ash sent out his pokemon having Heracross have a light battle with Tyranitar, Typhlosion was racing Pikachu working on their speeds, Butterfree helped Eevee with her distance on her attacks, Lucario and Pidgeot were sending an Aura Sphere back and forth working on timing. Ash moved between the groups giving pointers and advice to his pokemon smiling at how well they were all doing.

May was shocked watching the small Eevee launch powerful attacks, "Ash your Eevee is so amazing, she is so fast and strong. Why hasn't she evolved yet?" she asked him.

"Eevee wants to become as strong as possible before she even considers evolution. She has trained right next to my most powerful pokemon since day one, she has never given up and I am extremely proud of her and all my pokemon for the effort they put in." He explained scratching behind Eevee's ears getting a happy yip. May smiled at the sweet moment between the two 'His pokemon really love him deeply, and so do I.' she thought with a light blush 'I hope he will return the same feelings to me.' As Ash continued his training May sent out her pokemon wanting to work on her appeals for the upcoming Pewter City Contest.

Blaziken, Froslass, Swanna, Glaceon, Wartortle, Ninetales, Altaria, and Minncino all stood before May ready to start training. She started out by having her team stretch out and run a few laps around the practice fields to warm up. After they warmed up May had them start out by focusing their attacks to have better control and to improve their ability to bring out the colors and flash of the moves. They did training of that nature for about an hour, when May had them change it up to powering up their attacks. She liked being able to show the beauty of the attacks but her edge was that her pokemon trained in battles so their attacks had more power than other contest pokemon.

Ash was calling his pokemon together to go over training and what they could work on. Once he had finished discussing training with his pokemon, he walked over to where May was training, Ash watched her moving in between the pokemon giving her insight. He didn't know why but he was mesmerized by her movements, her hair, and the way she interacted with her pokemon. She turned to see where Ash was whenher sapphire eyes locked onto his chocolate eyes he became completely lost in them. He felt his heart rate increase and a feeling of warmth spread through his chest. A sudden jolt of electricity ran through his body bringing him back to his senses, when he heard May asking, "You there Ash?" while knocking on his head.