Chapter 1 – The Entrance

Sinnoh – on a field

The wind blew through the golden hair that shined in the blazing sun. Her eyes glimmered when she looked in to the sun. Those eyes that no one else had. The Grey diamond looking eyes with a blue ring around the pupil looked in to the sun, with her hand covering the sun. The beautiful young woman sat under a tree, thinking about what has happened the last 5 last years. She took her hand and pulled her fingers through her hair.

"Ash … why did you have to leave me?" The woman whispered herself with a sad tone. She missed the excitement of watching him battle, the blood rushing through her veins, her heart beating for him. The temperature always rises in the battlefield. She always wanted to see what plans Ash made when he was stuck in a corner mid battle, how he would turn the game. He's ideas was spectacular. She sighed when she remembered those times. She looked over at garchomp were she standing guard for any strangers passing through. Garchomp only let people she was acquainted with go past. After what happened with Ash, that the friends of his never could believe happened, the woman and her pokemon have been more vigilant. Because the thing is Ash Ketchum had died. A part of Cynthia has been missing ever since that day, that day she can't forget

Flashback 5 years ago

"Latios and pikachu is down! Ash last pokemon is down, Tobias is the winner", said the referee screaming in the arena. Ash laid down exhausted and saw his pikachu running to him. He had betrayed his friends, he promised them he would win. But now he lost. He felt like there was pounds of sand laying on his stomach. He couldn't want to get up, he didn't want to see them, not after this loss.

"Great battle Ash, no one has ever been able to take down my darkrai and latios before", said Tobias when came to thank Ash for a great battle. Ash had used all 6 pokemon to defeat only 2 of Tobias. It was a big loss. But on the bright side, Tobias had 2 legendary pokemon so the fight wouldn't be easy for anyone. But Ash didn't think on the bright side.

"Thanks Tobias, I had a great battle to", Ash said as he stood up and shook hands with each other, the crowd started sheering as they did.

1 hour later outside the arena

"Ash I am sorry for your loss", said blue haired girl around Ash's age.

"' It's ok Dawn, he was just to strong" Ash said and fake smiled. His heart was beating fast, he was waiting for his friends to say something to him, like he had betrayed them and he would never accomplish his dream. Pikachu jumped up on his arm and looked at Ash.

"Cynthia wanted to see you Ash, she is over there", pikachu said in pokemon language (Almost only Ash understood pokemon language because the bond he had with his pokemon, was so strong he could understand them).

"Okay Pikachu, thanks for telling me, ok friends the champion want's a word with me real fast" Ash said and he ran away from his friends, he didn't hear a word of disappointment from his friends, but now the champion would probably say something to him. Ash clenched his fist as the temperature inside him rise, he was ready to hear anything about the match.

Ash went up to the champion Cynthia herself, well known all over the other regions. One of the best fighter out there. She had her black pants and blouse (as usual) and the unnatural golden hair Ash admired so much. Cynthia was 4 years older than Ash. Ash being 15 now and Cynthia 19. The youngest champion out there right now. Ash started to close in on Cynthia she waved at Ash. He looked at her and his heart started beating faster than ever before, not because he was afraid of the words he was going to hear, it was because something about Cynthia made Ash happy. He was always happy to see her, they always laughed together and every time they hung out they had fun. Waiting to hear those harsh words coming from her was even worse than his friends.

"Ash, that was a specta-", she started to say but Ash cut her off in the middle of her sentence, putting his finger on her lips. Cynthia took a step back and looked at Ash. He was looking down the ground, you could see on his face that he was sad. Like a rain cloud always was over him, that never stopped raining.

"I know what you are going say, I am a disappointment … I am a burden … and I will quit my dreams. You guys have carried me through this journey the whole time, now let me do my part and carry u guys …", Ash said, looking on the ground as tears started coming from his eyes. Cynthia putt her finger on Ash's chin and lifted his head up. She looked at Ash with a deadly stare that was almost frightening to him.

"Ash you can't give up for my sake, you have so much potential. I have talked with all the other champions and gym leaders across the other regions, and they all agree. You make up tactics and ideas no one ever thought about. Your brain just works differently when you fight. Taking down a darkrai isn't a loss Ash, that's a huge step to being a pokemon master", Cynthia said with that serious stare. Her rare grey eyes with a blue ring around the pupil started to glitter. Like she was going to start crying. He had never seen Cynthia cry before because she was always so happy. Ash put a big smile on his face and grinned. He got new courage as he heard those word from her, his inspiration.

"You are right Cynthia, sorry for being so pathetic. I will travel to a new region and train hard an eventually become a pokemon master! My first goal is to become a champion in some region", Ash said and that made Cynthia smile again. Cynthia took her arms and rubbed her eyes so the tears would disappear. She felt relief when he said that. Ash left Cynthia and waved at her. Turning his red cap backwards and with Pikachu on his shoulder.

"Ash … we didn't spend that much time together ... but I hope I will see you soon again. My favourite pokemon trainer ... and friend", Cynthia whispered to herself. Her heart was beating, was it something more than friends? She couldn't wait to see him again, she missed him already. She saw Ash's friend run towards her. They started asking her what they were talking about and why Ash left so sudden. Cynthia told them (them is Brock and Dawn, Ash's travelling companions through the Sinnoh region) that he was going to a new region. To train hard so enough so he could make his dreams come true.

End of flashback

Cynthia sighed thinking about that time, when she last saw him. She thought at the time she would see him again after 1 month at least, but 5 years … After a while of laying in the grass thinking about Ash, she heard garchomp calling on her. She stood up and went to see what was going on. She saw garchomp pointing at someone. It was Scott standing over there. The battle frontier enthusiast that looked all over the regions to find new talented trainers that could take on the challenge to fight the 7 frontier brains. But he was also the creator of the battle frontier himself. Everyone all over the other regions knew who he was.

"Your maid told me I would find you out here, it's a nice place. I have an invitation for you", he said. Scott took a letter from his pocket and gave it to Cynthia. He went down the hill Cynthia was resting on and waved goodbye. Scott had a jeep parked just on a road near the hill. He went in and drove away. Cynthia looked at the letter and opened it. It said the following:

Dear Cynthia Shirona

I have invited you to a party held at the main battle frontier building that is in Hoenn, the middle island of the region. You can't enter if you don't have a flying pokemon. I suggest you get one if you don't have one. I am not telling you anything in detail in the letter but I will tell you more at the party. It is going to be an ordinary party with guests all over the world. I will have big news for everyone there. I hope you show up. Party Starts on Tuesday 7.00 PM.

Scott

Cynthia put down the letter on the ground and started thinking. 'What harm can it do if I show up, I should go'. Cynthia finally started to move and jumped on garchomp. She told him to fly back to the house, and he did.

Unknown – unknown

"Come on Pikachu faster! I know u can!" Ash screamed to his fellow companion. The electric mouse also called pikachu. They ran through the forest fast as he was parkouring through the high green trees in the forest. The sun shined on the raindrops laying on the plants in the forest. The sun started to set for the day after the clouds had been covering the sun and the rain finally stopped. It left an orange colour, lighting up the sky. After a while of running they were outside A big door, leading to a mansion.

"I won buddy", Ash said to Pikachu.

"Next time I will get ya", Pikachu said to Ash as he was gasping for air. They opened the doors and saw a young lady waiting for them. She was around the same age as Ash, had brown hair, pigtails at both sides. A normal shirt, following a yellow skirt with a cap on her head.

"There you are master", the girl said and throwed a towel to Ash.

"Don't call me that Rosa, I have told you before. That is just my title, I am not actually your master", Ash said with as he dried himself up with the towel. Rosa giggled and took Ash hand and brought him up the stairs. 3 other people were waiting in a big room. With a big desk with a chair in the middle of the back of the room. Following 2 sofas in the middle of the room. The other 3 sat in the sofas in the middle, 2 on one side and 1 on the other. Rosa sat in the sofa with an empty space. Altogether it was 2 girls and 3 boys in the room. Ash went to the back and sat in the chair and laid his elbows on the desk.

"My fellow guardians, why have u brought me here in the middle of my training? I had 3 pokemon left to train." They all looked at Ash and sighed.

"You train to much Ash. You need to take a rest", said a boy, around the same age as Ash with dark blue hair and with a red shirt. Ash sighed to and looked at the boy.

"I need to train to become the strongest Hugh", Ash said to the boy with a serious face. Remembering that day at Sinnoh league, his anger started to fill up his body. Not at Tobias the person he lost to, but to himself instead for losing that day. Hugh nodded with a sigh and could see that Ash started to lit up with anger.

"Calm down Ash, we found a letter brought by a Charizard here earlier. We didn't want to open it without you", said a girl with a ponytail, also around the same age as Ash with a white shirt with a jeans jacket on and really short shorts.

"Well that's nice of you Hilda", said Ash to the girl.

"Here is the letter", said the last person in the room. He walked up to Ash and gave him the letter, and Ash thanked Nate.

"You're welcome" said Nate and went back to the sofa and sat down. Ash took a quick look at the letter and opened it. Ash read out the following:

Dear Champion and guardians of the Kyoto region

I have invited you to a party held at the main battle frontier building that is in Hoenn, the middle island of the region. You can't enter if you don't have a flying pokemon, I suggest you get one if you don't have one. I am not telling you anything in detail in the letter but I will tell you more at the party. It is going to be an ordinary party with guests all over the world. I will have big news for everyone there. I hope you show up. Party Starts on Tuesday 7.00 PM.

-Scott

"that's sounds interesting, we should go", said Hilda. Everyone except Ash nodded in Agreement. Ash looks at them all and grinned as his blood were pumping in his body. He was ready to see his old friends again. He flicked his hoodie on his head before he stood up before everyone.

"Well let's go and get ready to go meet my old friends" Ash said. He threw out a pokeball and Gardevoir showed up.

"What is it my master?" gardevoir said to Ash.

"Teleport us to our rooms so we can make us ready. The party will start in 2 days, tell to my other pokemon to be ready by then for me", Ash commanded gardevoir.

Hoenn – Battle frontier headquarters Tuesday 7.00 PM

'I hope they will show up, especially him' Scott thought before getting interrupted by some guests at the party.

"Well if It isn't the might Scott himself!" A person with white hair and a black suit said.

"Well hello to you to Steven Stone, the almighty champion of Hoenn", Scott said with a big smile on his face and hugged Steven.

"Scott, I heard rumours that you invited them", Whispered Steven. Scott nodded and putted a grin on his face.

"The champion from the unknown region, or not really unknown but a region different from the others. Not many have travelled there and they have a different system then we have", Steven said.

"Well I have been there, it sure is beautiful and they all kind of pokemon", a voice said coming from behind them. It was an old man with long white beard and clothes that looked like he was ready to go fishing.

"Well if it isn't the member of the Hoenn elite 4 drake himself" said Steven and shook hands with the old man. "I was flying with my lovely dragon pokemons one day. I wanted to see how the island looked like. When I landed the Pokemon got in love with the island. The nature was perfect for pokemon. It was so beautiful there, it didn't look like anybody lived there though, it wasn't any houses nearby where I landed", said the old man.

"Interesting, I would like to go there myself one day. And what's up with her?" Steven asked as he pointed to a girl wearing black clothes and had golden like hair. It was no other than Cynthia herself.

"She is still wondering about Ash, she is still devastated because she had taking quite a liking to him. But I guess we all had, he was different. But Cynthia hasn't come over it yet", Scott said to the 2 men. They all sighed together, remembering the times that they had with that boy. Until they saw 5 people come in the room that nobody had seen before. It was one boy in the front and 4 people following him. 2 girls and 2 boys. They walked to a nearby table and took some drinks.

"That must be them", Steven said.

"Do you know how their Island work with the League, champions and all that?" Scott asked the 2 men. The 2 men shook their heads.

"Well you see, in our regions we have pokemon gyms correct?" Scott said and the 2 men nodded in agreement.

"U get 8 badges and then you can join the pokemon league and win the tournament. And you can challenge the champion whenever you like but u need to set up a time and place to fight the champion for the tittle, an official fight", the 2 men nodded again.

"But in their region, they don't have gyms at all. They have a challenge you need to go through, testing your pokemon strength through lot of trials. A lot of people don't accomplish this, because it's too tough, even for the trainer. After you have gone through the trials you can fight the 4 guardians before you can challenge the Champion. The guy that came in first is the champion and the people following him is the guardians. The last person to have the tittle of champion in that region was the guy with dark blue hair. But the current champion crushed them all in a short time of period. That hasn't ever happened before. Every time a new champion triumphs a new guardian joins the team. The last champion becomes a guardian basically. Every time a new Champion is crowned, the harder it is to become the champion of the region. And they are in the top 10 most powerful trainers of all time", Scott explained while Drake and Steven were listening closely to every word he said.

"That's amazing, well I sure aren't going to fight for the title", Drake said letting out a laugh afterwards.

"Well it is a lot of people here, you know any of them Zac?" Nate said looking at Ash.

"I do know all of them", Ash said to Nate with a sigh. He didn't want himself to get noticed yet. He still haven't come over the day he lost, he still thinks that people will come at him, telling him he is a bad trainer and everything he did was for nothing.

"Okay I am going to go mingle with some others", Hilda said and were ready to leave but Ash grabbed her hand before she could leave.

"Remember before you go, don't tell anyone my real identity, call me Zac. Don't tell anyone my backstory either. You got it?" They all nodded to Ash and they went their separate ways except for Ash that was still drinking at the table, now alone. Ash looked around in the room. It was a big ballroom filled with beautiful crystal lamp and expensive decorations all around. And there must be at least 50 guests. Then Ash saw someone interesting. A girl dressed in black with that unusual golden hair with those grey eyes with the blue ring near the pupil in them. 'She's here, interesting' Ash thought to himself. His heart started to beat faster and his chins started to get red. For all this time, he had waited to see her again, the person he knew believed in him. He thought up an idea how to surprise her. Not to show his true self, but as the champion Zac. He just wanted to see those eyes again. He came up with an idea and called for gardevoir (She usually just flies around wherever she wants because she likes to be free and can hear Ash's thought so she knows when to teleport back to him) for help. He thought the idea and as the good pokemon gardevoir is, she read Ash's idea in his thoughts. She teleported Ash Right behind Cynthia and he patted Cynthia's shoulder. Cynthia let out a little scream and covered her mouth afterwards of embarrassment. She turned around and saw the mysterious person behind her.

"Who might you be?", she asked Ash.

"I am Zac, the champion of the Kyoto region", Cynthia froze after he said that, the thought never struck her that she would see the most powerful trainer in the whole world before her. When she took a closer look at him, he was a handsome grown up man. When she looked at him she felt a weird feeling inside of her, that feeling she only had when she looked at Ash.

"W-well it is an honour to meet you Zac", she said flustered and while her heart started beating faster and faster. Cynthia looked at Ash's shoulder and saw a Pikachu. Then the thought went through her head that it was Ash. Who else have an pikachu on his shoulder?! She felt butterflies fly in her stomach as she thought that Ash could be alive again. She gulped before she started to speak. It was the strongest trainer in the world after all.

"Not to be rude but whose pokemon is that", she asked and pointed at pikachu. Cynthia felt the sweet dripping at her forehead and her hands shaking in fear. 'What kind of person is he? Will he be mad, will he hit me? He looks pretty tough so maybe I shouldn't have said that. But I just asked if it was his pikachu right?' Cynthia thought while Ash starred at her deeply. Cynthia thought it was because he was mad at her, but the reason he starred was because he could see those eyes again. Cynthia took a step back and Ash fell out of his daze and looked at his shoulder. Seeing pikachu sitting there smiling at him. 'Why did I bring him here' Ash thought to himself. He needed to come up with an excuse fast.

"It's my friends, I am just keeping him safe for a while." Cynthia looked at Ash and it looked like she still had doubts. Ash gulped as he thought she have figured him out.

"Who is this friend then", she asked. 'Of course she would ask that, Ash u idiot'. He needed an excuse again, but he had another thought in mind. He summoned gardevoir using telepathy and he gave the command to teleport both him and Cynthia outside the Headquarters and so she did. Cynthia just looked around her and noticed that she was outside and that her head hurts and she was going to fall. Just when she was going tom fall Ash caught her making Cynthia slightly blush. Just when she was going to speak up Ash putted his finger on her lips. Cynthia backed away and held her hands against her mouth, giving Ash a deadly stare.

"So, listen here Cynthia, don't ask me how I know your name because your friend told me, Ash ketchum right. No, team galactic didn't kill him, the letter that was given to his mom was fake. He is alive in the Kyoto region", he told Cynthia. And when he said that, Cynthia put her hands on her mouth and started tearing up. 'I knew he was alive' Cynthia thought to herself. The burden she had carried all these years, that she wasn't there fir Ash left her. She could once again smile, she hadn't smiled for 4 years after Ash died. When Ash saw that he could just smile, his heart started beating faster because the woman he looked up to, was happy to hear that he was alive. The woman he cared for, was happy to see that hear that the stupid trainer he once was lived somewhere out there. She ran up to Ash and gave him a quick hug as thanks for telling her and skipped in happiness back in to the party.

"Wait up a second", Ash said to her. Cynthia quickly turned around.

"Don't tell anyone, he doesn't want anybody to know yet", Ash said. Cynthia nodded and quickly ran back in. Ash turned his face from the building and blushed because Cynthia just hugged him. "Ash she didn't even know it was you haha, but do you like her?" Pikachu asked him and grinned. It was pikachus speciality to tease Ash and other pokemon. "Wha- no I don't like her", Ash screamed in embarrassment on the street. But maybe he did, every time he saw her a special feeling in his body came up. The feeling didn't feel bad, it felt good.

"Sure, u don't master", gardevoir said laying her hand on Ash's shoulder. Ash blushed up even more while he recalled pikachu in to his pokeball so he doesn't grab any more attention in there and had gardevoir fly away wherever she wanted. He went back in to the party.

"Wait so you are one of the guardians of the Kyoto region", a woman asked Hilda. She was dressed in a yellow shirt and shorts with red hair.

"I am miss, so you are a gym leader in Kanto?" Misty giggled as she heard that

"I am but I didn't know that you would know", misty said to Hilda.

"I have my- ", As she spoke Scott interrupted them when he went up on the mainstage.

"He-hello is the mic working? Can everyone hear me?" He asked all the guests.

"Yes, we can", some random guest shouted in the back.

"Good, first I wanted to thank you all for coming to this party today. I didn't know so many would show up. Second, I just wanted to bring up an old friend of mine that died 4 years ago in the Kyoto region by team Galactic. As you should know we stopped them before they could go on with their evil plans. But this day is the 4th year anniversary of Ash Ketchums death. Raise a glass for an old friend!" Scott shouted and everybody raised a glass for Ash. Meanwhile Cynthia was smiling as he said that, because she knew now that he wasn't.

"Second thing I wanted to tell you is that I have planned to have duo battle world cup this year", Scott said meanwhile everybody else applauded.

"It is going to be held in the Kyoto region. I have already asked Zac if we can have it in their arena and it is okay", Scott said.

"Who is Zac?" A random person yelled in the back again with others wondering the same thing.

"Why don't you come up on stage Zac and introduce yourself?" Scott asked Ash kindly and Ash sighed and went up on stage. Ash took the mic and got ready to talk.

"Hello everybody, I am Zac Satoshi and I am the champion of the Kyoto region. I'm glad we can have this world cup in our region so we can show the world how we look and what we are made of", Ash said while the other guests started to applause and started to whisper to each other about Zac aka Ash.

"Thanks Zac for coming up on stage, I will send more information over pokemail or letter in a few days." Ash started walking down the stage when a voice spoke up.

"Before you go down Zac, can I ask a question?" He turned around and where waiting for the person to ask his/her question.

"You might don't know who this Ash Ketchum is that we are talking about, but I am just wondering if you have seen a boy with raven black hair, a red cap with blue clothes and a Pikachu on his shoulder?" When he heard that he started sweeting. He can't tell them that the loser he once was, was alive out there somewhere. 'Cynthia just got a hint outside and now the whole crowd. Why does these dam people want know if I live so fucking badly?' he thought. He stomped back up on the stage. His footsteps echoed through the whole ballroom and you could feel the anger in the steps he took. Some people is the crowd started to sweet as they waited for the answer he was going tell everybody.

"If you guys want to know so fucking badly about this man called Ash Ketchum. I used to know that boy. It was a long time ago before this accident. But I don't care if he is alive or not, but one thing is for sure, if I know him right he is still out there breathing." He dropped the mic, creating a sound not to pleasant for the ears and everybody in the ballroom bended down holding covering their ears. Ash called garedvoir using telepathy and told her to teleport Ash to the exit of the ballroom and so she did. Everybody was surprised at what they have heard. The 4 guardians followed Ash to the exit and they left.

'What does he mean he think he is alive, he told me Ash was alive out there right now. I need to ask him again' Cynthia thought to herself as she followed the Kyoto team outside. The feelings of burden came back to her. Was he actually dead? Wasn't she there for him when he needed her the most? While running through the corridor leading to the outside she smashed the wall next to her letting out her anger towards herself. When she reached the exit, she could hear the 4 guardians and the champion arguing about something outside.

"Dammit why do they have to ask so much about that freaking Ash?" Ash himself said, punching a tree. One hit after the other. He never stopped. You could the the veins on his arm pumping new blood for every hit he took. HE just starred at the tree like the tree had killed his family. If that tree was a person right know, he/she would have been dead after the first punch.

"Their friend is dead and they have a lot of questions, but still we can't let any more information come out. You really need to stop that habit to punch a tree to let your anger out, it hurts your body …", Hugh said.

"We have enemies that might be watching us, we are the strongest trainers in the world so it's a lot of people that wants to kill us. And if people know who you really are Zac, they might target your family, and you will need your fists if that happenss …" Rosa said with a sigh. When Rosa said the words your family Ash punched the tree even harder, making bark fly off from the tree. But he finally stopped punching it.

"Dammit these people", Ash said and pulled down his hoodie and started pulling his raven hair all around.

Cynthia couldn't speak behind the corner she was looking from, the person she was missing all these years stood right in front of her pulling his hair. The deer brown eyes with blood from his fists dripping through his forehead, the raven black hair that flew around with the wind. He looked the same as he used to do, now just a little more mature. The only real difference was the scar that went through his left eye. Cynthia hold her hands against her mouth, she still couldn't believe what she saw. All the torture she had giving herself mentally disappeared in an instant, the guilt left her body as she was swimming in the river of love. She could only see rose petals and flower around Ash when she looked at him. Was it love? Lost friendship? She didn't care at the moment she was just so happy to see him again. But one thing was for sure, she needed to have a little chat with him. She walked up to Ash with fast speed and pointed to him. "Ash u bastard I need a little chat with you!" The gang noticed her and Ash called for gardevoir to teleport him out of there and so she did. The rest of the gang went up to Cynthia and grabbed her blouse and pulled her up the wall.

"You don't tell anyone you understand? If I even hear u say the name Ash. I won't hesitate to kill you", Hugh said while he had an unnatural poker face, he didn't have any emotions at all. Just by looking in his eyes, Cynthia could see he wasn't afraid to kill anyone.

"Wow calm Hugh, killing is going too far, but we won't hesitate to hurt you. I hope u understand", Hilda said with a much calmer voice. They let go of Cynthia and she fell to the ground. The guardians called for their pokemon and flew away. She looked down at the ground. Darkness covered her eyes and she started crying. She looked up at the sky. She didn't cry because they just threatened her, she cried cause her favourite trainer was alive. A cry of joy.

Thank you for reading and I hope you like it! Maybe the story sounds original but I like it! Tell me anything if I need to change something!