Hello Mystical87 here with my first ever story! This definitely would not be a thing if i didn't get the encouragement from a couple of people.
Totem-Mimikyu: Check out his story called A Darkness Descending, it's a altoshipping story so in progress and he recently released chapter 5
Syrup-Waffle: He helped me read the intro and give me criticism (which I agreed with) about the plot holes in the beginning. He currently has three stories under his belt, two of them completed (an altoshipping and a meloetta x Ash story) and one a work in progress (AOT story shipping ErenxMikasa). I haven't read the AOT story yet but I know it's good
ARCEUS-master: I'm currently in his server and if I wasn't this story wouldn't have happened. Arceus here has three stories under his belt two finished and one in progress. I highly recommend reading these books. After he finishes A New Chance for Adventure he has two more books planned (of course they will be small altoshipping in two of those books but then slowly work on it after ANCFA)
And of course it isn't an altoshipping without mentioning
Mekon: He's is currently MIA but I highly recommend reading The Black Latios. Even though he is MIA he has a great story up and I recommend reading
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND READING ALL OF THESE GUYS STORIES THESE GUYS ARE AWESOME
I don't own Pokémon and if I did I would've made Ash catch Latias
Anyways onto the story
"Hello" Speaking/Signing normally
"Hello" Speaking telepathically
'Hello' Thinking to themselfs
Chapter 1: That faithful day
In the City of Water, Altomare. We see People and Pokémon going around their daily business enjoying the sunny Friday morning. It seems like a perfect day in Altomare and nothing could disturb this peaceful morning.
As a old looking tug boat enters the Harbor we see two figures on the front of the boat. One young looking woman in her early twenties with mahogany hair breezing through the wind, amber eyes, and a sad smile on her face. The other figure being a small young boy not even five years old with black messy hair, brown eyes, and a huge smile on his face.
"Mom! Is this Altomar!?" The young boy asked his mother excitedly.
"Yes Ash, and it's Altomare" The older women replied to the now named kid Ash.
"This is such a cool place, I wonder how many Pokémon I'll run into!" Ash exclaimed.
The Mother named Delia Ketchum always wanted to be a trainer when she was younger but had to put that on hold due to her being pregnant with Ash.
She decided that she still wants to follow her dream to become the greatest like no one ever was, but she needs to take care of her son first (something she wasn't looking forward to do).
As the old Tug boat pulls in to disembark the passengers (only Ash and Delia since they don't usually carry passengers) Delia suggest they should go explore the city then book a room for the night.
We see both Ash and Delia roaming the many alleys of Altomare, Delia finally comes up with an idea to leave Ash on his own. (Man I don't like writing this sad part)
"Hey honey, why don't we play hide and seek?" Delia asks.
"Sure! I love playing hide an seek!" Ash yells not knowing his mother was gonna be leaving him soon.
"Okay, I want you to count to 100 and no peeking." Delia sadly instructed her son.
"Okay mom I will!" Ash says as he puts his hands to his eyes and starts counting.
Delia forced a laugh and turned around to walk out of the alleyway leaving her son there, counting happily to himself.
"98! 99! 100! READY OR NOT HERE I COME!" Ash yelled loudly thinking his mother heard him.
Ash starts to look around trying to find his mother so he can be the hider next since he loved being a hider.
After a couple of minutes he decided to give up and yell "I give up! Where are you hiding mom?"
A moment a silence passes and he hears nothing so he yelled louder "MOM I GIVE UP WHERE ARE YOU?".
Nothing, not even a single sound of movement. Ash started to freak out thinking something bad happened to his Mother.
"MOM WHERE ARE YOU?" Ash cried loudly hoping to hear his mother's voice respond.
Ash started to cry now since he lost his own mother in this labyrinth called Altomare thinking he would be here forever and never see his own mother again.
??? POV
For some reason today felt almost perfect. The sun was out and i see Pokémon and children playing together, the sky had no clouds, and it was a nice warm day. I figured today would be great to go out and paint a new area i haven't been before. As i was leaving i told my grandfather that i'll be going out for a bit to paint the beautiful day.
I began to walk down the street thinking to myself 'should i paint in the garden or should i go out to the docks to paint the sea?' But as i was on my way to a split in the road that would determine my answer i hear the strangest noise.
"A child crying?" I said to myself out loud kinda worried. I got curious and decided to go check out where to noise was coming from so i duck into an alleyway to find it. As i started to get closer i see him, a kid curled up in the fetus position, crying to himself about something i can't make out.
"Hello?" I said to the kid, 'why is he crying?'
The kid turns toward me and now i can make out what the kid looks like, he has brown eyes which were irritated due to the crying and messy brown hair, he had a cap to his chest holding on to it as if it was gonna blow away from him at any minute
"Where's my Mommy?" The kid cried out to me, hoping for an answer. I look at him distraught 'did i hear that correctly?' I thought to myself, looking around 'Where is your mother?'
"What are you doing out here buddy and where are you parents?" I asked calmly hoping for a positive answer
"I don't know" he stated hysterically
'What do i do? Okay first things first i need his name, getting freaked out is the last thing that needs to happen' I stated calmly
"Hey, What is your name?" I asked in a soothing tone, hoping to calm him down a bit
"Ash" he said wiping away the tears
'Ash? Who names a kid Ash?'
"What is your last name?" I asked, glad that he is finally calming down
"Ketchum" He stated still trying and failing to wipe away his tears
"Okay Ash Ketchum can you follow me back to my house so we can help you?" I asked in a cheery tone
"Ok" He nodded while getting up and taking my hand
As we were walking back to the house i felt eyes all over watching and judging me, possibly thinking he's my child but i didn't care they don't know the full story and neither do i. As we were approaching my house Ash said something that caught me off guard for a second.
"What's your name?" He ask me curiously
"Oh My name is Bianca, Bianca Fontana." I stated happily
I opened the door and i called out to my grandfather that we have a problem and i hear him descending the stairs and gasp when he saw a crying child holding my hand
"Bianca who is this kid, And where are his parents?" He ask clearly worried about the child
At the mention of parents he started to cry again, almost instantly answering his question
"I don't know granddad, i found him in an alleyway crying to himself about his mom. I asked him but he didn't know where she was." I responded worryingly wonder what we're gonna do with him
Being the nice and kinda grandfather i remember him being, he runs over to Ash and kneels down to hug him to try and calm him down. Ash returns the hug crying into Lorenzo's shoulder and after 5 minutes of sobbing into his shoulder he cried himself to sleep. I look at Ash, then back to Lorenzo still wondering what we are going to do then i hear the front door opening 'oh no, not now'
I turn around and i see another me right down to the clothing with brown hair that looks kinda like wings, but the only thing different is her eyes which are amber unlike mine being brown. The other me walks towards us until it sees the 'little human' in my grandfathers hands and tilts her head in curiosity
"Who's this Lorenzo?" The other me wondered
"Latias this is... you never did tell me his name Bianca." Lorenzo realized
"Oh! His name is Ash, Ash Ketchum"
2 years later
We see Ash and Bianca in the same room together idly chatting to each other about tomorrow's events. What's happening tomorrow? It's Ash's 7th birthday and he's excited because Bianca and Lorenzo told him that they have something special planned tomorrow for his party.
"Come on tell meeee." Ash practically begging
"Nope not gonna say a thing!" Bianca responded teasingly
It's been two years since Bianca found Ash. Lorenzo decided to raise him on own since the officer Jenny's couldn't find a person matching the last name Ketchum on the island.
"Fine I'll just ask your sister since she tells me everything." He said triumphantly
A week after they 'adopted' Ash. Ash ran into 'Bianca' while exploring the city, so Ash being Ash ran after her while screaming "Bianca!" The girl of course ran to 'her' house and told Lorenzo about Ash. Not even a second later Ash ran in and asked "why'd you run away from me Bianca?" Then Lorenzo came up with the excuse of a mute sibling they were hiding from him, and Ash being Ash he fell for it hook line and sinker.
After that little incident they had to teach Ash and Latias (who was in the room invisible) sign language so they could speak to each other better.
"She won't tell you a thing~" Bianca yelled back at Ash knowing she wouldn't spill the secret early
Bianca realized that Latias always acted weird towards Ash when he was around and wondered why that was the case. Until one day she found her blushing looking at Ash, and everyday it's nonstop teasing to Latias about her "crush".
We see Ash running around outside looking for Tia (since calling her Biancatwo wasn't a good idea) so he can ask her about the surprise, but he couldn't find her for some reason. Being stubborn that he is he decided to head back home so he can beg it out of Lorenzo or Bianca. Unbeknownst to him he was being followed by a invisible Pokémon giggling to herself.
Next morning
Ash wakes up in a burst of pure excitement, ready to start the new day he looked around his room and saw that Bianca wasn't in the room with him so he checked the clock next to his bed to see what time it was
"8:30?!? Man I never get up this early" he said to himself thinking the world might end soon
While getting out of his bed to take a shower and to put on his clothes (Kanto clothing). Ash then ran downstairs and to his surprise Bianca, Lorenzo and Tia were waiting for him.
"Happy birthday!" Both saying that at same time causing Tia jumped, not expecting him to be up so soon
"Thanks guys!" Ash said as he ran over and hugged his family tightly hoping they wouldn't go away either
Ever since that day, Ash has developed a bad case of anxiety due to being abandon, but he never blamed his mother for leaving him because once he turned ten he would go out and find her again. As the hug ended they decided to go out for breakfast at a Pokéhop (I don't own ihop sooo). Ash gotten 5 large stack chocolate chip pancakes while everyone else got sausage and eggs.
After breakfast Lorenzo said the festival was happening this week so all four of them decided to walk together to said festival, Tia holding Ash's hand along they way. Ash never knew why Tia always held his hand but he didn't mind it since she was the closet person he knew (Bianca being a close second). As they arrived they saw many booths around full of games so they decided to split up. Tia goes with Ash and Lorenzo goes with Bianca.
"So which game would you like to go do first?" Ash asked Tia curiously.
"Let's try the ball game!" Tia signed excitedly.
They both ran over to the ball game and Ash being Ash decided to do the nice thing and try to win Tia something for herself. Tia absolutely loved a little Latios plushie but in order for him to get it he needs to knock down all the cups. With a throw he hits two stacks of cups easily like he's a pro pitcher and he threw another ball at last stack of cups, almost all of them went down but one stood defiantly. All of a sudden that last cup glowed blue and decided to fall over causing Ash to win the plushie.
"Huh" Ash says aloud wondering how in the world that cup fell down.
Latias on the other hand was giggling like a madwoman because she might or might not have knocked down the last set of cups with her Psychic.
After a couple more hours of playing and having a great time they decided to meet up with Bianca and Lorenzo, who were already waiting for them.
"What took you so long" Lorenzo ask curious on where they've been.
"Yeah Tia what did you and Ash do together~" Bianca asked Tia teasingly.
Tia lit up like a firework and Ash being dense as ever (bless his heart) was completely oblivious to it, and blankly stared at Bianca causing her to giggle.
"Well you must be hungry for lunch, follow me I know a place." Lorenzo said causing Ash's stomach to grumble in protest over the lack of food.
While on their way to the secret spot Ash began to wonder about his surprise and and when he would be shown to him but his wondering began to stop when everyone stopped at a dead end in a alleyway.
"Which way next Lorenzo" Ash asked, he knew he could call him granddad but he like his name better for some reason.
"Well Ash, we go straight through this wall" Lorenzo stated calmly while Bianca and Tia push him though the 'wall'.
As he was pushed he prepared for the impact but nothing came, instead he felt warmth all over as he passed straight through the 'wall' with ease. Ash looked around not knowing where he was. He was in a dark hallway and at then end of said hallway was sunlight so being the explorer that he is decided to, well explore. At the end of said hallway he saw something that blew his mind. A huge garden filled with Pokémon all over with trees as tall as the buildings and pathways for people to walk on them. He decided to go down a pathway (unaware he was being followed by Bianca, Lorenzo, Latias and Latios) and he found himself at a swing set.
For some reason this swing set called him over so he decided to sit down on said swing set and start to swing happily, laughing along. Then something caught his attention. He didn't know what it was but it was calling him so he got off the swing and follow his gut feeling and that brought him to a pedestal filled with water with a small beautiful jewel in it, he wanted to pick it up but then someone called out to him.
"Ash!" Ash turned around and saw Lorenzo and Bianca running up to him
"What is this place?" Ash asked in wonder completely awestruck by the beauty
"We call this place The Secret Garden" Lorenzo informed Ash
"But why keep this place a secret?" Ash wonder why a place this beautiful would be kept secret
"Well we keep this place a secret for two reasons. One is to keep that jewel in the water safe and Two to make sure these two are safe at all times" Bianca said smiling at Ash causing him to wonder.
"To make sure who is safe?" Ash asked loudly.
"Us" said someone in Ash's mind causing him to freak out a little bit before he could freak out more, he saw two blinding lights shining right in front of him causing him to look away. When the lights died down he looked back in awe in what he is seeing right in front of him.
Two dragon Pokémon that kinda look like jets, one is red and white with a blue triangle on its chest while the other is the exact same thing but instead of red it's blue and has a red triangle on its chest.
Ash was completely mystified by these two Pokémon but then he noticed that Tia isn't with Bianca and Lorenzo.
"Wow. Just who are you? And where's Tia?" Ash asked well more like stuttered out.
The Red dragon Pokémon giggled and started glowing again causing Ash to look in wonder and curiosity. When the light died down, there she was Tia in place where the dragon Pokémon once stood.
"What happened to the Pokémon?" Ash spoke causing everyone but Tia to facepalm.
"I am that Pokémon Ash" Tia replied while giggling at Ash's naivety.
THAT threw Ash through a loop as he began to himself 'Was Tia always a pokemon? Where is that beautiful voice coming from? And why are they keeping this place a secret?' More and more question keep piling up.
As if to answer three of those questions Lorenzo spoke up.
"Tia has always been a pokemon but due to her human form lacking vocal cords she can't speak in said disguise. Tia and the other Pokémon are called Latias and Latios and they are legendary Pokémon so the have the ability to use telepathy so the voice you are hearing is Tia's" Lorenzo stated calmly hoping not to freak out Ash more.
Just like a circus act, this threw Ash through another loop.
"Why wait so long to tell me though?" Ash wondered why his family kept such a secret.
"Well, we wanted to tell you sooner but we needed time to trust you, and now we do" Bianca stated sadly wishing they did this sooner.
"Oh" Ash said dishearteningly because they didn't trust him enough until now.
"So wait, Tia is a legendary Pokémon named Latias and the other Pokémon is named Latios?" Ash asked still not knowing that it's been explained to him.
"Yes my sister in her human form is named Tia, but I don't have said ability so I never got to meet you face to face before Ash, so hello young Ash Ketchum." The blue dragon now known as latios stared as formally as he could.
Ash was understandably shocked at the news. HE knew a legendary Pokémon for two years and another was watching the entire time. Then it hits him, Tia was a Pokémon.
"Wow Tia! That's soooo cool!" Ash said excitingly, running up to Tia and pulling her into a hug.
Tia of course blushed really hard and hugged back, causing Bianca to slyly look at her, but she didn't care she was hugging Ash. As they broke from the hug, Ash remembered the jewel in the water.
"Wait why would you keep that jewel a secret then? And why must it be in the water at all times?" He didn't know it HAD to be in the water he just figured it had to be.
"Well, that beautiful jewel is called the soul dew and it keeps Altomare safe at all times" Lorenzo stated calmly ready for the next bit to follow.
"But how does it do that?" Ash asked curiously.
(Gonna skip this because this chapter is WAY longer then I thought I would be, but hopefully you all know what happened)
3 years later
"Today is the day" Ash said to himself.
Today was the start of his journey to find his mom again and ask why she left him in such a awesome city.
Ash got up from his bed and walked to the bathroom to start his daily cleaning routine and changed his clothes (Kanto still) so he can be ready for his adventure.
Ash walked downstairs and saw Lorenzo and Bianca looking at him sadly, knowing this will be the finally time they see him, at least for a while.
"Good morning guys" Ash said sadly knowing this would almost be the last time saying good morning to them.
"Good morning Ash, are you sure you want to do this?" Lorenzo stated calmly hoping to change his mind.
"Yes I really want to find her again. Besides I won't be alone" Ash said with a sad smile.
He remembered when Ash told everyone what he was gonna do once he turned ten. He planned to start his Pokémon journey not to be a trainer but to find his mom again.
"Well remember if you ever get in trouble latias is with you always" Bianca said remembering how they were 'convinced' to bring latias with him.
flashback
"WHAT?" Everyone stared at once now knowing what Ash was planning to do once he turned ten.
"Yeah I decided to look for my mom again and start my journey" Ash said nervously.
Everyone was shocked to find out Ash was gonna go on a Pokémon journey by himself to look for his own mother again.
"I'll come with you" Latias (I'm gonna call her Tia from now on) said hurriedly hoping to follow her crush anywhere.
"No Tia you have to stay here to protect the soul dew" Latios said demandingly to his sister to change her mind.
"But if I go with him I can learn how to protect myself and come back stronger then I was before" Tia almost yelled to her brother.
"What if someone catches you Latias?" Bianca said worryingly knowing that there some truth to that statement.
"Then Ash will catch me himself!" At this everyone looked at her like she was growing a second head.
"But Tia I cant capture you, you're a legendary Pokémon you're needed here" Ash stated.
"Pleeeeeeeease?" Tia said using the fiercest growlith eyes anyone could ever see (maybe Arceus would even fall for it).
"Fine I'll catch you" Ash stated defeatedly knowing he could resist those eyes any longer.
Present
"It's not like I have a choice anymore" Ash stated while shrugging his shoulders and walking out the front door.
Ash and Tia said they would meet up at the dock with latios with her and Bianca and Lorenzo would follow Ash to say their last goodbye to them both.
As they were approaching the dock we see what boat they are getting on. It's a huge white boat that has multiple stories to it (think of the S.S Anne except this ship wont sink) called the S.S Eon. Ash snorted at that name thinking how convenient they would get that boat while THE Eon Pokémon was riding said boat. Ash turned to Bianca and Lorenzo for a final goodbye.
"Well this is it" Ash stated sadly leaving his family behind.
"Looks like it" Bianca said almost in tears.
Ash saw this and ran into Bianca and Lorenzo to give them a big hug (joined by Latias and Latios but they are invisible).
"I'll miss you guys soo much" Ash stated trying to keep the waterworks from flooding.
"We will miss you too Ash" Lorenzo said proudly knowing his own son would be just fine out there.
As the hug broke they heard a loud bell signaling last calls so Ash had to hurry to get on board with Tia still in her Eon form (invisible of course). Once they got one and got their assigned rooms they went to the back of the boat to wave off Bianca and Lorenzo for one last time. Tears, tears was all Ash could see as he waved to them for a final time as they were departing.
And now Ash realized something. This was it, he was starting his journey to find his mom again
GEEEZ THAT WAS A LONG CHAPTER
I never expected this chapter to be this long but I sadly have a habit of 'once I start typing I just keep going and going and going'
Anyways if you enjoyed this chapter please leave a review and if you didn't please leave a review to tell me what I'm doing wrong
Anyways guys Mystical87 here and have a great day!
(Updated 4/22/19 fixing some grammar)