Chapter 305: 305. Love Winona
Ash had now successfully protected the Pokémon Weather Institute from both Team Aqua and Team Magma, and now his "real" power had also appeared in front of the leaders of both Team Aqua and Team Magma, forming a sufficient enough deterrent for now.
Of course Ash had also received a reward for saving the Pokémon Weather Institute in its most desperate time. As a gift to him protect them and all of their hard earned knowledge about the weather patterns and most importantly the secret knowledge of Kyogre and Groudon, Ash received the rare Pokémon known as Castform from Professor Bart and his colleagues there.
This little guy was very well-behaved, but his compatibility with Ash was simply too low as he himself had said that he fared getting hurt and doesn't want to battle.
So Ash teleported the little guy back to accompany his mother in their home in Pallet Town. Ash believed this little weather forecast specialist will definitely able to help his mother a lot in her gardening.
Not only that, Ash also believed that the little guy would love to play with his Wobbuffet and his mothers Mr. Mime.
Now that the two Pokémon's he owned that didn't like to fight and enjoy life are doing exactly what they wanted, Ash was also very happy for them. Not only because they were his Pokémon's, but also because they were keeping his mother happy while he wasn't there to enjoy life with her.
The only person in this world who can support his dream without reservation to the extreme, that he knew of, is his dear mother, Delia.
Therefore, Ash will definitely make sure to think of his mothers life before anything else, so he was ready to let his new Castform and other Pokémon's to accompany Delia on his behalf.
After leaving the Pokémon Weather Institute, Ash and his group followed Professor Bart's instructions and soon arrived at Fortree City, where Ash's sixth Gym Badge was located.
At this moment, Fortree City is holding their annual Feather Carnival.
The people walking along the busy streets were all very lively and seemed very excited about this carnival, with all kinds of snacks and souvenirs that can be found anywhere one looked.
The most popular destination here was where a beautiful-looking young lady was taking the children to ride her Skarmory to experience flying on a Pokémon for the first time.
This Skarmory was definitely much more larger than the ones that Ash had seen before, and 100% more larger than the one that he battled with in the early stage of his Johto Journey.
However, compared to Ash's giant Pidgeot, this Skarmory could only be considered a pretty good one at best.
His Shiny Noctowl and Swellow was closer in height to this Skarmory than his Pidgeot.
The only other fully evolved and actual Flying-types in his team that was close to his Alpha Pidgeots size and bigger than this Skarmory was his almost Alpha Charizard and his Legendary Zapdos.
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(That's right, I decided to make some of Ash's Pokémon's Alpha because of their more than usual large size and strength that comes with it. Enjoy.)
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This beautiful young lady rode her Skarmory down and was surrounded by another newer group of children. "Okay, who wants to go next and be my partner?" She said with a very elegant smile.
She was wearing what appeared to be a Flying suit, she looks very capable, but also had a very gentle voice.
"Me! Me! Its my, Sister Winona!" A little girl raised her hands high, as it was now her turn to experience flying in the air for the very first time in her small life.
"Okay, then you are going to be my next copilot!" The woman now known as Winona easily lifted the little girl onto her Skarmory's back.
Just as they were about to take off, Brock rushed up and said in confidence, "Is your name Winona? What a nice name! My name is Brock, and I'm a very promising Pokémon breeder! What a wonderful Skarmory, and his owner is alls so beautiful! I have an intuition that this is a fateful encounter that we should not miss by any chance! Watching you be here, I only thought about how I would be filled with pain and suffering!"
Brock's long and affectionate confession began again for who knows for the how many times. If his heartbroken Spinda hadn't jumped out, Ash afraid he could have continued.
"Spin da spin spin."
{How about I show you what pain and suffering really is.}
Spinda said calmly.
Brock hugged his heartbroken pattern Spinda and left with a could of depression. Winona smiled bitterly. She was used to such people, so already long grown a resistance towards them, or so she thought.
"But Brock was right this time, you really arr very beautiful and graceful. You seems almost like a Gardevoir in the air like that." He said with a bright smile that earned him a knock from his Ralts and a pinch from May.
Ash stood next to Winona for a few more seconds and chatted with her for a bit more, which left her in a completely blushed state.
She had thought that after encountering such people so many times in her life, she would grow a resistance towards them, but Ash was different, she could feel her heart fly away when she heard him complement her beauty and grace.
All she could now was stop thinking of his face for now and continue her fantasy later that night when she was all alone in her bed.
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"Ash, are you really planning on going after that Winona girl?" May asked a genuine question without any hint of displeasure in her voice.
Ash took a second to respond but he finally nodded, "I guess so… I don't know what, but she gave me the same feelings when I'm with you, May, or Maya. I just feel that, you know—maybe me and her are also destined to be together like I'm with you girls."
Ash was very confused by this feeling, but all he know knew was that he liked this feeling very much.
"I see," May nodded in understanding, "don't worry, babe. I understand what you're going through, I think. I'll talk with the other girls over this, so if you want, you're welcome to pursue her." She now smiled brightly.
"Thank you for understanding, love." Ash said to her and kissed her right there in front of the bust crowd, drawing attention to them.
Some of them were just chuckling thinking it was a confession between a handsome boy and a beautiful girl; while others were jealous thinking how it should have been them in Ash's/May's position.
May then blushed but returned his kiss in form of the crowd and said that she needed to go to the Pokémon Center to talk to both Misty and Maya.
May had already built the same happy sister-wife relationship that Misty and Maya had long built.
They both treated her nicely as one of Ash's mates.
"I see," said Maya from her seat, that looked more like a throne made out of pure pearl.
She then gave a beautiful smile of approval, "Well, it that is what our dear wants, then let him have her. Me and Misty both knew that you would not be last one to join our "little" family."
"If our love said that he felt that same feeling that he felt with us three, then she must be a wonderful girl. I would be happy to have her join us."
Maya was long open to her only true soulmate having feelings for multiple others, but she also knew that no matter what, he would love all of his future wives equally and take great care of them.
May also nodded her head in agreement after hearing everything Maya had said. "Same here, if Ash wants her because he genuinely has feelings for her, then she is more than welcome to be like us."
"Okay, then. We are all on the same page here. I'll tell him with he talkies about. Bye for now, talk to you girls later." They said their goodbyes one by one and left.
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Max was already lining up among the children's to experience flying, even though he had already ridden on both Ash's Swellow and Shiny Noctowl when Ash transported them over to him.
These children all looked at Winona with nothing but pure admiration in their eyes. "Sister Winona is a genius Flying-type Pokémon specialist! And she is also our Fortree City Gym Leader!" Said one of the girls to Max in admiration for Winona.
It turned out that this Winona lady was the Gym Leader of the Fortree City Gym.
Ash's eyes lit up when he heard this from Max.
He then walked up to her with a gentle smile when she done taking the kids for a ride, "Winona, let me introduce myself. I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town in the Kanto Region. I came here specially to challenge the Fortree City Gym, but you seem to be very busy."
Winona was still heavily blushing from her last conversation with him and Ash could even feel it without needing to use his Aura power.
"Yes, umm Ash, I'm very sorry, can you wait until I'm done with the Feather Carnival before starting our Gym Battle?" Winona looked at Ash, her blush getting more intense when she realized where she heard and saw him before.
She saw it live on TV when Ash used his Latios in the final, along with all of his other extremely powerful Pokémon's to easily defeat his opponents.
She could never forget that handsome and calm look in his fave that all too common for him.
She even had many fantasies about him from then. She was even mentally hitting herself for not receiving who Ash was.
'He is the perfect man', she genuinely thought.
Her current heart was already like the night when Ash and Misty first did the deed.
Winona was too in love with Ash; and both of them realized this by seeing the look in the others eyes.
It was the look of "love on first sight", something Winona had long hoped to have.
The two got a little closer and their lips met.
'My first kiss… and with the man I love.' Winona thought with genuine tears in her eyes.
The lips finally disconnected after a minute. Winona was now breathing heavily as had she never kissed anyone before, and Ash was very experienced in this sort of things.
She didn't know why, but she just KNEW that Ash had other girls that also loved him deeply, just like her.
She didn't even question this feeling, she just thought it made sense for someone like the likes of true love would definitely attract other females just by being near them.
The two now had a look of appreciation and love towards the other, even if they had jays met less than a hour ago.
"Umn, Ash… so, what are we now?" Winona asked meekly. She hadn't thought of this yet, but she was ready to do anything for Ash.
She was one of those very few girls that once they fell in love with someone, they would always live them no matter what happens.
Ash gave her a quick peck in her creamy forehead, "This means that you are now mine and I'm yours."
Ash didn't even need to tell him about his other girls because he alredy knew that his System took care of that. His System would never overlook making her Master look bad in front of the women that he likes and the same for the women that likes her Master.
"Winona, I know that we have only just met," he says with genuine love in his voice, "but I already fell in love with you the moment I saw you sitting on top of your Skarmory. So all I want to say now is that I love you. Everything I saw about you. You." He said with great pride.
Winona now had pearly tears in her eyes, "Ash, the same can be said for me. The moment I saw you, it was like my heart was going to burst out from my chest because of you. I, too, love you."
They once again met their lips to have a passionate kiss behind the large stage.
Ash broke the kiss and asked her, "Winona, would you be willing to be my girlfriend?"
"I would love to!" She excitedly nodded and jumped into his taller frame.
Ash almost fell from the sudden hug, but he stabilized himself and Winona with his Psychic Powes, which didn't surprise her at all for some reason.
"Love, let's go back. I'll introduce you to my other beloved, May. You remember her, the beautiful girl in the shorts."
"Ohh, so that's her name. I somehow knew that you and her connected somehow. Don't worry, love, I don't mind sharing you. I'm just happy to be with you." She said without any second hesitation.
"It's all because we love and care for each other so much."
The two then walked off into the startled crowd, their hand interlocked with each other and with Winona now having her head reading on Ash's shoulder.
"Ash, I love you, babe." She says dreamily.
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I hoped you guys liked this chapter because I sure did.
Winona is one of my personal favorites from the Hoenn Region and I'm happy to add her.
Yes, there could potentially be a R-18 coming soon.
My second one ever.
As for why not with May or Maya yet; the answer is simple, Maya is after the Kyogre incident and May is for later, most likely during the time of the Grand Festival.
And also, you may add—any"—pictures of Winona as you please here.