A Special Kind Of Love?

Chapter 15

[Ash POV]

"C'mon Snorlax! You gotta try harder. Move your muscles faster." I yelled, Snorlax was having a running session while all of my other Pokemons were resting. They were all in good shape and battle ready, but Snorlax was kinda unfit. 

I had to give him extra training to make him active till the tournament. He had been sleeping and eating since I quit my training all those years ago. 

"Pikaa!(Ash I'm back..)" I heard Pikachu, I turned my head and so him and infernape coming towards me with a bag. I had sent them to the market to bring me those options and revives. 

And yeah, Pikachu and Charizatd returned back from their task yesterday.

"Thanks Pikachu and Infernape. Now go and have some rest after that I'll give you lunch." I said as I took the bag of meds from him. They both went and laid near the other Pokemon. I turned back to Snorlax who was still struggling to run.

"Alright, that's enough come back." I said as Snorlax, slowly walked up to me and and fell on the ground, taking long breaths. "We got to do some serious work on you." I said with a sigh. I went to my bag and took out the Pokemon food packets. I distributed them to all of my Pokemon before going home. 

It was almost noon and I had nothing else to do so I decided to go to the Pokemon centre in Santalune city. After reaching there I went up to a PC. You can say I didn't have a smartphone. I opened the internet and searched for the tournament information. 

Sure enough they had uploaded it there. I went through the rules and then went to the trainers column. All of the participants name were added to this section. So that, trainers could form their strategy against their Pokemon. 

'Ash ketchum' I typed in the search field and it showed me one result. I opened it. It had all of my info.. but the information only what I wanted to be put up.

"Such a pity. Those trainers won't know who they're going to deal with!" I heard a voice behind me. I turned to be met by a familiar face. I smiled instinctively as the person came up beside me. I stood up.

"Hello Ash! It's been such a long time" he greeted as he placed his hand forward. I took his hand in a firm handshake. "It sure has. How are you doing?" I asked, he gave me a small nod. "I'm good, my team has been training hard since the last time we met." He replied.

"So care to have a -" I was interrupted by an explosion from the battle field. We both knew that a battle had just ended and had a smile on our faces. We both rushed to the back of the Pokemon centre. Not forgetting to close the PC first.

When we reached there we saw a tag team battle going on. On one side were a girl and a boy, a twin pair  whom I knew from my school. And on the other side we two boys whom I didn't know. From the looks of it the boys had clearly destroyed the twin's team. 

"Is there anyone who can defeat our pokemon? Or maybe perhaps just give us a perfect battle?" One of the boys yelled out in the crowd, no one answered. I assume everyone was scared of their powerful Pokemon. Obviously any one would, if you had a Dragonite and Metagross in your tag team.

I looked up to my friend, he looked at me and we both smiled knowing we were thinking the same. "We will!" We both yelled together and walked towards the battle field. Other trainers cheered for us as we took our positions. 

"Alright, choose your Pokemons." The other boy said, a boy who was acting as the referee asked our names then started to announce the battle.

"THIS WILL BE A TWO ON TWO TAG BATTLE BETWEEN THE DYNAMIC DUO, JOSH AND ZACK AND THE CHALLENGING DUO, ASH AND HILBERT. ALL TRAINERS CALL OUT YOUR POKEMON." The boy announced.