Twinleaf Lights
Summary: Dawn invites Ash to Twinleaf Town’s annual festival, but there’s a thought she just can’t seem to shake. Rated: G Words: 1105 Characters: Ash Ketchum, Dawn Notes: This was a ko-fi commission I wrote for @mimirols! Thank you so much for commissioning me!
“Ash, you’re gonna get a stomach ache if you keep eating like that, you know,” Dawn chided, watching as Ash shoved a third Octillery-shaped sausage link into his mouth.
Ash blinked, taking a moment to chew and swallow the food before flashing her a grin. “C’mon, Dawn. I eat like this all the time!” he assured, his expression turning smug as he gave the Pikachu sitting on his shoulder a light scratch beneath the chin. “No need to worry. Right, Pikachu?”
“Chu!” the Mouse Pokemon chirped, lifting his head to happily accept the gentle scratches.
Dawn deadpanned at her own catchphrase being used against her. She hated it when he did that. “Well, don’t come crying to me when you’re puking it all up tomorrow.”
“It’s a promise.”
The normally quiet streets of Twinleaf Town were lined with food vendors and games, people merrily bouncing between them and chatting with one another excitedly. The annual festival was always a big tourist attraction, but on that particular night it almost felt as if all of Sinnoh had piled itself into the sleepy mountainside town to get in on the fun.
It had been years since Dawn had gotten to properly attend—having had spent so much time traveling to compete in contests across other regions. However, this year there was something in her that urged her to go home and enjoy her hometown’s biggest tradition for a few days. And there was something stronger and weirder in her that urged her to invite Ash Ketchum, of all people, to join her.
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