Ch 1: A trainer's bond with his pokemon
It was a peaceful morning in Pallet town. Delia Ketchum was sitting on the coach with Felix. "This was his fifth birthday party, you should have been there Felix. I got an ace trainer to come and show Ash his pokemon. Oh you should have seen how excited he was to see those pokemon" Delia said. Felix sighed and put his hand on his forehead. "Deila I appreciate you trying to catch me up on Ash's life. But the more you do the worse I feel about missing so much of it" Felix said.
Delia put her hand on Felix's shoulder. "Felix remember that Ash is only 15 years old. You still have plenty of time to connect with him. Besides you did get to see him win his first pokemon league and beat a member of the elite four" Delia said. "I guess you're right Delia" Felix said.
May and Tracey were in the pokemon pens of professor Oak's lab giving the pokemon their lunch. May set down a bowl of pokemon food in front of Ash's croconaw. As soon as May's hands were clear Croconaw attacked the food almost violently. "Be careful May, Croconaw is a violent eater" Tracey said. "I know, he was with me and Ash a few times back in Hoenn" May said.
While May and Tracey continued to feed the numerous pokemon in the pen while professor Oak and professor Birch observed a shiny bulbasaur one of Oak's trainer's caught. "Incredible, this bulbasaur's behavior is no different from a norman bulbasaur" Birch said. The bulbasaur was drinking from a small pond. "I've taken a sample from some of the razor leaves this bulbasaur has made and compared them to the leaves from Ash's bulbasaur. They're similar but not exactly the same" Oak said.
Tracey set down the last bowl by a quilava and turned to May. "So May is Ash training with Daniel Rian today?" Tracey asked. "Yeah, he said Daniel didn't say how long they'd be training today" May said. "I con only imagine what kind of training they're doing" Tracy said.
Miles away from Pallet town near a small mountain Ash was running along a path with six pokemon running beside him. The six pokemon Ash had with him were, pikachu, Lucario, squirtle, bulbasaur, Charizard, and pidgeot. Pidgeot and Charizard were of course flying above him.
Ash was wearing a white T-shirt and a pair of black shorts as he ran. The air was cool with a slight breeze. Despite this, Ash and his pokemon were covered in sweat from running for almost ten miles. Twenty feet in front of him was Daniel Rian and six of his pokemon.
"Come on kid we're almost there" Daniel said. "Huh huh you said that two miles ago" Ash said. "Yes what's your point" Daniel said. Daniel was wearing blue shorts and a gray T-shirt with the symbol of the Kanto Air force on the back and the words Air force on the front.
Before becoming the world Champion Daniel Rain served as an officer in the Kanto air force but got an honorable discharge when he was a first Lieutenant for unknown reasons. Daniel lead Ash and his pokemon through a thick area of trees for nearly another mile before they reached their destination.
Daniel lead Ash to a secluded grove almost surrounded by massive rocks. The grove had only 4 trees, relatively short grass, a few bushes, and a pond. Ash held his hands over his head as he tried to catch his breath. "What, huh, is this place" Ash said. "It's a private grove I like to come to if I want to be alone with me pokemon. It's nice becuase I've never seen anyone else here. I harldley even see wild pokemon" Daniel said.
Daniel had all six of his legendary pokemon out. His Torterarth the legendary form of torterra. He was three times the size of a normal torterra, had three trees and four bushes on his back and a few vines on the trees also with a small pond. Also his exterior was black and cyan with a few natural earth colors.
Daniel's Parasuchus, the legendary form of Feraligaor. He was twice the size of a normal feraligatr with teeth that stuckout of the mouth even when it was closed. Parasuchus had light brown and tan skin with blue back spikes like feraligatr's but bigger.
Daniel's Arrogon , the legendary form of Aggron. Arrogon was nearly three times the size of Aggron. He had four massive arms and a spikes back. Arrogon's colors were not the same as Aggron. Arrogon had a platimum colored chest with a more dark titanium colored head and back.
Daniel's Tyranitaris-rex , the legendary form of Tyranitar. Tyranitaris-rex was two and a half times as big as even the biggest Tyranitar. He had Rudy red and black skin and two claw shaped spikes coming out of his elbows. Tyranitaris-rex's jaws were much large now.
Daniel's Charizon, the legendary form of Charizard. Daniel's Charizon was almost three times as big as Ash's. He had black skin and a light blue stomach, with dark blue wing undersides. The flame at the end of his tail was a blue tail and he had a boomerang shaped flame coming out of the sides of his mouth that was also blue. Charizard's shoulders each had a pair of blue spikes coming out one in front and one in back.
Daniel's Lacion, the legendary form of Lucario. He was one and a half times as big as a large lucario. He had a yellow abdomen, red paws with a large spike coming out of each and the tails coming from his head went tdown to the end of his back.
Since Ash had stared training with Daniel, he had gotten to see all of Daniel's legendary state pokemon a total of 3 times. Counting that session it was their sixth session. Daniel didn't always bring all six of his legendary form pokemom. Sometimes he would bring his other pokemon that weren't in legendary form.
"Alright Ash today's lesson we'll be building off of our last lesson. Can you tell me what we went over last time?" Daniel said. "Yup, we went over how important it is for a trainer not just to bond but to be truly connected with their pokemon" Ash said. Daniel smiled "Good, that's exactly right. A pokemon can be the most powerful in the world, but if he has a bad connection with his trainer they'll accomplish nothing" Daniel said.
Daniel walked over to his Charizon and patted him on the back. "You've got a good connection with you're pokemon Ash. Plus you've already started using aura with your pokemon. You've made the first steos into true connection and bond with your pokemon. Today we're going to build onto that with some excersizes that will hone those skills" Daniel said. Daniel took his T shirt off and took a black glass ball out his poket and handed it to Arrogon.
"Arrogon put that in the pond" Daniel said. Arrogon walked over to the pond and dropped it in near the center. Ash noticed that Daniel was facing the other way and thus didn't see where Arrogon dropped the ball. "Watch this" Daniel said. He walked over to the pond and jumped in. Mere moments later he came back up with the ball in hand.
"Woah, how did you do that?!" Ash said. "Simple, I hold a true connection with my Arrogon and all of my legendary form pokemon. When you hold a true connection with a pokemon it's like you share a mind" Daniel said. He patted Arrogon on the back as he walked by him and then gave the ball Ash.
"Now you try" He said. "Alright you ready Pikachu" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said happily. Ash turned away from the pond and handed the ball to pikachu. Pikachu ran over to the pond and tossed the ball into the pond. "Pika" Pikachu said. Ash turned around and took his shirt off. He jumped into the pond and tried his best to find the ball. Daniel and the pokemon watched closely and after 37 seconds Ash came back up with the ball in hand.
"So how did I do?" Ash said. "Almost forty seconds. Pretty good for a first time Ash. You're connection with Pikachu is very strong. No surprise on that one though. Alright moving on I have another exercise for you" Daniel said. He walked over to his Charizon and got on his knees. "This excessive will build on how you fight with your pokemon whenever they use a move" Daniel said.
Charizon opened his mouth and unleashed a massive jet of blue fire that lit up the sky in a blazing inferno. Ash and all of his pokemon were amazed by the sight, especially charizard. The entire time Charizon did this, Daniel was doing push ups. Charizon kept going for another two minutes.
When Charizon stopped so did Daniel and he got up. "This exercise will make you work just as hard as your pokemon when they make a move. This is a good start to the concept. We'll get more into it with your aura later" Daniel said.
Ash walked over to Charizard and got on his knees. "Are you ready?" Ash said. Charizard roared with assurance. "Ready go!" Daniel said. Charizard opened his mouth and unleashed a massive jet of fire into the air while Ash did push ups. Charizard was able to hold the flamethrower for a minute and a half before stopping. Ash stopped the moment Charizard did and slowly got up. "A little sore from the push ups" Daniel said.
"I've done push ups before, it's no big dead" Ash said. "Good additude and a good rep Ash i'm very impressed. Now then moving on to the next excercise" Daniel said. He walked over to Ash's pokemon and stared at each one through their aura. "I want your Lucario and Pikachu to spar each other. You will give them both commands and I want you to try and win with both pokemon" Felix said.
Lucario and Pikachu turned to eachother and the other pokemon backed up. "Alright, Pikachu use iron tail. Lucario use detect" Ash said. Pikachu ran at Lucario like lightning as his tail turned iron. Lucario felt Pikachu's aura to see where and when he would strike. Lucario evaded the iron tail, but barley. "Lucario use close combat, pikachu use double team" Ash said.
Lucario quickly unleashed a furry of attacks but hit nothing but copies. Pikachu landed behing Lucario and sparked his cheeks. "Pikachu use thunderbolt, Lucario use extremespeed" Ash said. Pikachu unleashed thunderbolt as Lucario sprinted away with incredible speed. "Pretty good, you're countering every move perfectly" Daniel said. "Ok Lucario use aurasphere; pikachu use agility and thunderbolt, Lucario use extremespeed" Ash said.
Lucario unleashed ball of concentrated aura and gathered up energy for extremespeed. Pikach used agility and evaded the aurasphere. However, unlike lucario who used extremespeed after he finished aurasphere. Pikachu unleashed thunderbolt as he used agility and hit Lucario. "Nice work Pikachu" Ash said.
"Ok that's enough, nice work Ash" Daniel said. Lucario shook his head and looked down at Pikachu. "Pika" Pikachu said. "Lucario" Lucario said back. "You're Pikachu is very exceptional. I'd expect no less from your first pokemon" Daniel said. "Yeah Pikachu and I have trained together probably more than any of my pokemon" Ash said.
"Ha , just imagine if every time you started a new region it was like he was a lvl 1 again" Daniel said. "Yeah, ha cause that's never happened to us" Ash said. Daniel had Ash's pokemon spar with each other for another hour before changing exercise. Ash and Daniel did a series exercises that were both physical and bonding work.
At four thirty Ash and Pikachu were ridding Charizard beside the mountain. Above them Daniel was ridding his Charizon. "Alright now that we're up here let's see how well you and charizard can fly as one" Daniel said. Daniel and his charizon connected through their aura and Charizon broke into a steep dive toward the ground. "Follow our path" Daniel said through an aura message.
"Let's go Charizard" Ash said. Charizard roared and flew after charizon. Charizard did his best to keep up with Charizon, but the massive black dragon was surprisingly fast. Ash realized what he was supposed to do and connected his aura with Charizard's. Now that Ash and Charizard were connected through their aura, they could see Charizon's trail through his aura.
Charizard was able to get closer to Charizon but he still couldn't reach him. "Alright that's enough, you did what I wanted you to do. Land back in the Grove" Daniel said through an aura message. Charizard landed beside Charizon in the grove. "You and you're pokemon did good today Ash. We've done enough for today; we'll meet again in three days" Daniel said. Daniel got back onto Charizon and the two flew off.
"Alright let's go home" Ash said. Charizard growled and nudged Ash. "What is it Charizard?" Ash said. He remember it was Tuesday , he and charizard went to the charalific valley on Tuesdays. "Oh right, actually Charizard I told May I'd come back as soon as we finished. Why don't you go without us" Ash said. Charizard nodded and took of toward the charalific valley. "Looks like we're riding pidgeot back to Pallet town" Ash said as he took out Pidgeot's pokeball.
Back at Oak's lab , Tracey and May were sitting under a tree while Tracey made a sketch of Ash's gliscore who was sitting on the branch above him. Birch and Oak were still observing the shiny bulbasaur. "Alright I think it's safe to say this thing's behavior is no different from the average bulbasaur" Birch said. "I concur. Sigh , May Tracey we're going inside can you make sure Ash's tauros' pen is still secure. The last time they got out it took me six hours to get them back in" Oak said.
After the two professors walked inside Tracey got up and said, "I can take care of the pen May you can go inside". Tracey walked off toward the tauros pens. May got up and started walking toward the lab when she heard loud flapping above her. May looked up to see Ash and Pikachu flying in on pidgeot. "Ash you're back!" May said excitedly.
Ash got off pidgeot and let out his other pokemon. "May, how was you're day?" Ash said. May came over to Ash and put her arms around his shoulders. The two kissed for a few seconds before May answered him. "Fine, thanks for asking. I'm more interested in your day with Daniel Rian" May said.
"Alright, well we stared with a ten-mile run from towards Mt Aaivon" Ash said. Ash and May went back to Ash's room before He explained to May everything he and Daniel did. "I guess all that stuff about being connected with your pokemon makes sense" May said. Ash and May laid back on Ash's bed with May cuddled up next to Ash with Pikachu just above Ash's head..
"So are we still heading up to Pewter city this weekend?" May said. "Yeah Brock sent me another email. apparently something big happened to him" Ash said. "He must want to surprise us" May said. The door opened and Felix walked in. "Ash you're back, how was training with Daniel" Felix said. Ash and May sat back up. "It went really good, if we keep training with Daniel like we were , there's no telling how good we'll get" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said.
"I've known Daniel Rian for a long time, I'm glad he's teaching you everything he knows. By the way I heard you were heading up to Pewter city. Do you mind if I come with you?" Felix said. "Of course not dad, we're heading up this Friday at nine" Ash said. "Alright sounds good" Felix said. He walked out of the room and shut the door.
Ash and May laid back down and relaxed for the rest of the day.