Serena, Dawn, May, Iris, and Misty were all watching the sunset on the beach that concluded their summer vacation.

"Sunset by the beach. What a great way to end our summer vaction." Said May shoving her cold feet into the still warm sand that she sat on. May had a red and black biker suit, a red bandanna that had the pokeball symbol on it, and a yellow phany pack. She also had brown hair that went down to about to her sholders and seperated so they seemed more like pigtails.

"Yeah." Said Iris in a soft tone. Iris had crazy long purple hair, a beige long sleved shirt that had pink at the end of the sleves, a pink skirt that was put into a bow on one of the sides, and white leggings that went a little farther then her knees, with yellow to conclude it.

Serena nodded in agreement. She wished this moment never ended. If it did then that meant that it was time to go back to school. She had chestnut colored hair that was pulled back into a fluffy ponytail, a black sleeveless shirt with a white collar, a high waist red skirt, black tights that went up her leg until there was a few inches between it and the skirt, black shoes which had a pink pokeball symbol on them, a pink hat that had a black ribbon tied around it, and beautiful blue eyes.

Dawn was sleeping on a blanket not caring about the sunset at all. She wasn't one for outdoors. She had a black and pink short dress, a pokewatch, blue hair, white beanie that had pink pokeball symbol on it, pink boots, black socks that went up to her knee, yellow hair clips, a pink scarf around her neck, and blue eyes.

Misty was admiring the water Pokémon swimming in the ocean that was colored gold due to the sunset. She was wearing a yellow sleeveless shirt, jean shorts, then red band to connect the two, her hair was orange and was pulled to the side in a pony tail.

Dawn woke up and said, in a tired voice, "What time is it?"

"Not sure." May replied.

Serena pointed at Dawn's watch and said "You're the one with the watch."

"Oh that's right." Dawn laughed. "Oh no! It's almost 6:30! I need to go guys bye!" She waved back at them when she ran back to her house. It wasn't to far, but if night fell before she got home, she could easily get lost.

"Yeah she's right, I think we all need to go." May said standing up, and shaking her foot to get all the sand off of them.

"Yeah." Iris agreed. Then Iris left saying "Bye guys! See you tomorrow!"

Soon everyone left, except Serena. The sun was still setting, but at this point it seemed like an egg on a frying pan.

She sighed knowing it was her turn to leave. She really hated school. The classes were so boring, and lunch time seemed so short. "I whish there was little bit more excitement in my life." She wished when she saw the first star in the night-even though it was most likely Jupiter-.

Serena waited for a second, then she headed back home.

-Then next day-

"Serena! It's time to wake up!" Serena's mom was shouting down stairs. Serena pulled up the covers hoping to block what sound she could. After a second she felt something hit her head...hard. Serena fell out of bed to find a Fletchling sitting there amused about what it had just done.

Serena growled at the bird Pokémon, and charged at it. Fletchling dogged Serena landing on the pink coffee table. Serena hit her head on the same coffee table and grunted in pain. She stared at that bird Pokémon in annoyance .

"Serena, it's time for school!" Came her mom once more. She groaned and fell back. 'Ugh, I don't want to go to school. Well I bet being a sophomore is better then being a freshman.' She thought.

After a while she sat back up and got ready for school. She wore the same thing that she did last night. She ran down stairs, grabbed her backpack, and ran out the door while saying goodbye to her mother.

She slowly walked down the street admiring the blue sky that had the perfect amount of clouds that dotted it. Then she heard heavy, and fast footsteps behind her. When she turned around a mysterious person ran into her. Serena fell and landed on her elbows.

"Oh man I'm sorry." Said the person. Serena looked up to find it was Gary, one of the people in one of her classes. He had a black short sleeved shirt, purple cuffs, purple pants, a gray phany pack, brown hair, black eyes, and a half a pokeball neckless. He said that a childhood friend had the other half. He said that one day he was fishing in creek and so was his friend, but they ended up catching the same pokeball, so they fought over it but it snapped in half.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah. Why are you running anyways?"

"You see there's a new student, and he's an old friend of mine, so I wanted to greet him."

"Oh. Who's your friend?" Serena asked as she got up.

"It's a secret." He said before he ran off.

Then Serena felt a sting on her elbow. "Ow." She looked to find she was bleeding. "Great." She said before shrugging it off. She knew she could just get bandaged at the school so she started walking again.

When she got to school, she saw May right away. "Hay May!"

"Oh hay Serena!"

"Did you hear we're getting a new student?"

"Yeah Gary already told me."

"Oh. Did he say who it was?"

"No, but he says he's a pretty strong battler."

"Really? Gary's never called someone strong."

"I know right. He must be really strong for the top battler in our school to say someone was strong."

Just then Gary yelled "Hay you're finally here!" to someone at the front gate. Then he ran to that someone and said "Ashie-boy."

"Gary! How many times have I told you not to call me that?" Said a voice with a tad of anger in it. The boy had a blue jacket that was outlined with white, a black under shirt, jeans, a red hat with a pokeball symbol on it, black and red gloves, red and black shoes, big brown eyes, spiky black hair, 'z's under each eye, and a Pikachu on his shoulder.

"Oh lighten up Ashie-boy." Gary said patting this boy's back. Then they smiled at each other then clamped each other hands in a secret handshake way.

"Long time no see Gary!" The boy had said.

"Yeah. Though gramps was worried about you after a while when you-."

"Gary why don't you introduce me to your friends." Said the boy trying to change the subject.

"Oh right. Everybody this Ash Ketchum. Ash, everybody."

Misty, Tracey, Brock, May, Iris, Dawn, Clemont, Sawyer, and Cilan all said hello in a big mess.

"Hello." Ash said smiling and rubbed his finger under his nose.

Serena just stood there staring at Ash. 'I swear I've seen him before.' She thought.

"Well I think I should get going." Ash said.

"I'll come with you to show you around." Gary said.

"Yeah that would be awesome." The two left the group of friends. When they got a reasonable distance away Gary said "So what happened to you?"

Ash looked at him then looked left to right. "Now's not the time for that." Ash grabbed his sides.

"Why won't you tell me?"

"Just drop it please, Gary." Ash looked at his feet, and he seemed to be bothered by something.

To be continued.