Earlier that day...

We find a young man sitting on a large orange dragon like pokemon.He stood at the height of 6' 7" and was in his early twenties. He was wearing a white tee with a black full sleeves open jacket and dark blue denim jeans which had a chain strapped on one side and a black and white cap strapped on the other side of the jeans, and on his feet a blue and white high top sneakers.

Perched on top of his shoulder was a yellow rodent like Pokemon with large black eyes, long pointed ears and a lightening bolt shaped tail. He was a Pikachu, the man's most trusted and loyal companion.

"Well Pikachu, we're finally going home. I wonder how everybody is.. "
said the young man.

"Pika Pikachu!"
"Yeah buddy I know but still I haven't seen them in about seven years, what else do you expect from me.." said Ash.

"Pikaa" said Pikachu while making a funny face.
"Ha-ha very funny Pikachu." Ash said sarcastically.

Soon they were out of the forest nearing a cliff from where they could see a very quite and peaceful town.

"Well Pi, we're back home!" said Ash.
"Pi Pikachu!"
"Let's go Charizard!" Charizard roared loudly and shot forwards towards Ash's house..

Present time..

Everyone hurriedly came out of the house to see a orange blur coming from a distance..

"Hey! What's that Pokemon?" Cilan asked.
"Looks like a Charizard to me and someone's sitting on its back." Brock replied.

'Is that who I think it is?' Gary thought and soon enough the Pokemon and the trainer were landing in front of them. No one could see the trainer's face though as it was hidden in the darkness of his hoodie.

Gary's suspection was proven correct when the trainer lifted his hood and said, "It's been a long time, hasn't it guys?"

As soon as this was said there was a shout of "ASH!" and on the next moment everyone was dog piling him..

"Uh-uh guys, I'm happy to see you all too but please move 'cause I can't breathe!" Ash managed to take out the words while trying to get in some air in his lungs..

"Oh Okay." Ash managed to stand up on his legs and look towards his friends only to find them glaring at him, with tears in their eyes...(very little in case of males but you could see them)

"Guess I have some questions to answer.." said Ash, feeling the burden of their glares.
"Of course you have mister and if you don't I'll mallet you to death!" (everyone knows who said this, 😜)

"Let's go inside, you must be hungry. Right Ash?" said Delia and on cue his stomach grumbled causing the others to sweat drop..
"Y-yeah" Ash said, laughing nervously.. Everyone had the same thought in their mind, 'Same old Ash!'

...

After they had finished dinner, they were in the living room ready to fire their questions towards Ash.

"So Ash, where have you been these past seven years?" Brock started with the questions.
"Well, I've been in every one of the regions travelling with my Pokemon but for the most part I was in Mount Silver training my Pokemon for the upcoming tournament." answered Ash.

"Which tournament?" asked Max with everyone nodding indicating they also had no idea and wanted to know about it.

"What? Don't tell me Professor Oak didn't tell you. He was the one who told me about this tournament about 4 years ago so I thought he would have told you all.. " said Ash not realizing what he has said..

"That means Gramps knew where you were the whole time?!" Gary said and it was then that Ash realized that he had unintentionally slipped out that Professor Oak knew where he was.. 'I hope Professor would be fine and he would forgive me slipping this out.. ' thought Ash.

"That old man! He knew where my baby was and he lied to me the entire time! How dare he?!" shouted Delia.
'Uh-oh, better inform Professor Oak of the storm heading his way.. ' thought Ash.

"Anyways, this tournament is known as the Master Arc Tournament in which only the Champions, Elite Four, Gym leaders and Frontier Brains can participate. But this time Mr. Goodshow is making an exception and some other elite trainers can also participate but they must have the authority letter addressed to them by Mr. Goodshow himself." explained Ash.

"Wow, Ash you sure know a lot about this tournament! Is it possible for me to participate?" asked Max with sparkling eyes.

"Well Max I know this much about this tournament as Mr. Goodshow himself explained it to me and as for participation, if you get the invitation then sure you can." said Ash.

"Oh! Okay. " said Max hoping he would get one.

"So Ash have you got the invitation for the tournament?" asked Gary.

"Well to tell you the truth, I don't need an invitation to participate in it." said Ash.

"Why? Just know you said that elite trainers can only participate through the authorized invitation and now you're saying that you don't need it." a confused Clemont asked.

"Well you see-" just then Ash was interrupted by the sudden ringing of his Xtransceiver. He sees the caller ID, smiles and excuses himself. The group is confused as to why Ash can't pick up the phone in front of them.

"Why can't Ash answer the call in front of us. Is he hiding something?" asked Misty.

"Oh don't be silly Misty! This is Ash we're talking about. He can't be hiding anything." said Gary.

"If you say so... " trailed Misty.

They didn't know how wrong they were...

Meanwhile with Ash..

"Hello, this is Ash speaking." said Ash playfully.
"Don't hello me mister! Where are you?" hissed a female voice.
" I'm sorry I forgot to tell you Elena, but right now I've come to meet my family and friends." said Ash.
"Oh so you finally got the courage to go meet them?" asked Elena slyly.
"Yeah, well I wasn't able to concentrate on my job anymore so I thought I'd come meet them." said Ash.
"Alright but next time you go off somewhere tell one of us. We were worried sick about you!" said Elena.
"Alright Dear, I'll tell you next time. Bye. Love you and see you soon." said Ash lovingly.
"Love you too, Ashy💋!" said Elena sweetly.

After ending the call, Ash went back inside the house, not noticing the figure who had heard his entire conversation and was now giggling softly...

TO BE CONTINUED..

// Well guys..this was the first chapter..Whoosh! Took a while to finish but I did. So my first OC has been introduced who happens to be Ash's girlfriend.. Well who thought that the day would come when Ash finally breaks his dense shell...😁
That's all for today.. See you in the next chapter...//