The Return of Ash the Aura Guardian

by Lord Ravenclaw II

This is not my story. Well it is but I 'adopted' it from its previous author whose link will be found in the author's notes of each chapter. This is a story where Ash is betrayed, how original, but he gets transported to Cameron Palace where he will train to become a full Aura Guardian and maybe above that. Shall we see how the others react to the new and improved Ash.

2. Chapter 2

The Return of Ash the Aura Guardian

Legends:

"Talk"

'Thought'

"Pokemon talk"

Chapter Two

Recap from last chapter

"Now I send you to Cameron Palace, just outside where the guards will be. They will threaten you but you need to say: 'Under the authorisation of Arceus, Creator of all things living, I have been chosen to become an Aura Guardian.' They then should open up but if not then they will start feeling a pressure of judgement on them and then if they don't because they are stupid then conjure an Aura Sphere. That should convince them. Goodbye, chosen one and good luck." With a bow, Ash and his mother was engulfed in a glowing white light, never to be seen as the same people again.

To this chapter

Ash leaned forward against a stone balcony rail as he looked up into the star filled night sky. It was truly a breath-taking sight, you feel so small and inconspicuous compared to the heavens that lay above. That is how Ash felt right now but was grateful regardless that he was here and the life that he led was so. His little buddy, Pikachu, slept on a chair that was beside him, completely unaware at the divine space above. A man calmly walked up towards the man that was Ash and gently puts a hand on his left shoulder. The man said: "Well Ash, you really have out done yourself. Not only are you the chosen one but you have also been able to master the ways of Aura in just a mere five years while it took me twenty years to master it, and not only that, but you have been able to duel with me on equal skill and strength." Ash turned his head slightly and smiled a thin smile towards his friend. The man had blue eyes and dark blue hair; he wore a black hat with a blue band, a black robe, blue top with grey sleeves, grey trousers and blue boots. He also wore special gloves and used a staff in his right hand.

"You sure Aaron, if I take on both you and Lucario then I can never beat you two, heck sometimes I doubt I am the chosen one." The man now dubbed as Aaron smiled sadly at Ash's self-confidence issues.

"That might be true but that is just by a few skills, you can easily go up against 6 expert Aura Guardians or go toe-to-toe with 3 Master Aura Guardians. Either way, you have reached the rank of Master Aura Guardian in a record time. You beat my time by one and a half decades, and don't forget that I had stopped a war that required all my powers and skill and that was no easy feat and I was the Grand Master of the Aura Knight Order at the time." Aaron, or better known as Sir Aaron, was the greatest Aura Guardian of his time. He served under the twenty-third Queen of Cameron Palace, Queen Rin. He gave up his life to stop a war between two rival kingdoms that would have left his region and Cameron Palace a waste land, an uninhabitable place torn by war that took place one hundred and fifty-two years ago, before Ash was even thought of. A blue bipedal pokemon came up to the building and jumped onto the balcony and said in a gruff voice.

"Mas- I mean Aaron is right Ash, you have a talent that makes you so skilled and powerful with Aura that Aaron has a hard time trying to defeat you, unless I help him with all my powers and that is no easy feat as well. You really are the Chosen One Ash, do not doubt yourself." Lucario was one of Aaron's closest friend and his first apprentice. The last time Ash saw Lucario was when he sacrificed himself to stop the destruction of the Tree of Beginning by giving all his Aura to heal Mew then faded and was followed by Aaron's soul who had died in the very same place Lucario and Ash were in at the time and so followed Lucario's soul in the afterlife. Aaron had watched as Lucario finished his duty to protect the world and watched as his closest friend give up his life like he did to complete his task. This event was eight and a half years before Ash had visited Cameron Palace. It wasn't long before a beautiful young lady walks up from behind and articulates.

"You three better hurry and prepare, that means you as well Ash, the ceremony is about to begin in ten minutes.

"Yes, Queen Ilene." The three bowed and said in unison. Queen Ilene was the one hundredth and twenty-fifth Queen of Cameron Palace and was a descendant of Queen Rin. Ash quickly downed his Aura Knight apparel which was similar to Sir Aaron's but had a light blue cape.

'It's been a good five years already since I became an Aura Guardian, and I have even surpassed Aaron's expectations as well as Lucario's. It appears that the decision that Arceus offered me was a good thing to take up.' Ash thought back to the second time he was in the Hall of Origins with Arceus.

Flashback

It was only a few days after Ash's arrival at Cameron Palace that found Ash having a nice comfortable chat with Arceus about the little things that happened to him, his good times and bad times. His wins and his losses though he tends to miss the betrayal as it is still a sore spot for him as it only happened recently. He was sitting in front of the throne, enlarged by Arceus so he didn't have to always look up and give himself neck pain. A make-shift throne was what he was sitting on, nothing as fancy as the one that Arceus had curled himself in but it was snug anyways. There was suddenly multiple flashes of light the could only signal a teleportation and Ash looked around him to see each and every legendary that was in the five regions looking at him, he now sat in the middle of a circle that was made out thrones that held the pokemon of legends. Ash was completely overwhelmed, even though he had met every single one, he had only met them one or two at a time, not all at once. It took a while for his brain to reboot but he was still in shock as he realised that he was under the presence of the best pokemon and most powerful. Arceus then stood at his full height and looked down his nose towards Ash and to who was feeling that he was being weighed and judged. "Ash Satoshi Ketchum. You have proven to be an ally of both human and pokemon capacity. You have saved the world countless amount of times and have befriended not only me but all the legendaries of all five regions. You have showed courage, kindness, determination, goodwill, and a pure heart of friendship for all things. You have not only stopped Team Rocket from taking over the world but also Team Magma, Team Aqua, Team Galactica, Team Plasma as well as myself from destroying the world. I have been watching over you since you started your journey and have proven to be a force to be recon with by winning all forty three gym badges from the five regions but also the collection of Battle Frontier Symbols and imprints. You have bonded with your pokemon on a scale never seen before and have released some of their true potentials, you have brought back some Gym Leaders fighting spirit back by showing your love and compassion for your pokemon and have changed the hearts and minds of many people, some you don't even know, who have but hard and gruelling lives. So I ask you here today, are you ready to become the legend, the Chosen One. The one with a heart of gold and a soul of silver, the one to fight against the coming darkness, the one with the legendaries behind him to fight and defend the world. Are you ready, Chosen One?" Arceus then bowed low as did the rest of the legendaries around Ash. He was stunned, he couldn't be the person from legend, he wasn't anything special, hell he hadn't even won a single league.

"I cannot be the Chosen One. There is nothing special about me, I haven't one a league, I have no special powers." Arceus answered again.

"You have the power of Aura. You may not have won a league but to us that means nothing. A league is something that you humans had created, the gyms was my idea. It was a test to help me look out for the one from legend and here you are." Ash was still wondering if he was dreaming and he must of projected that thought because Mewtwo pronounced.

"You are not dreaming, Ash. You have helped each one of us, one way or another. We are here to support you, all the way through to the end." All the legendaries rose and looked towards the one that held all the attention.

"Ash, you have helped us protect the world from each one of us as well as other threats and have gained our respect. We will help you anyway we can to repay the debt that has been placed upon us." Lugia said next with a tone of homer at being the one to say something to the Chosen One. Ash looked directly into his eyes with no fear at all.

"You do not need to worry, you have all been battling for so long with each other that it is pretty much instinct for you and I only helped by breaking that and made you all the peaceful beings that the world needs you to be. I am just happy and honoured to help with that." His tone was full of honour and truth that many if not all the legendaries respect for him grew dramatically. Each and every single legendary looked at him with eyes full of happiness and joy as he was the one who ahd helped them throughout their regions and also helped protect them from evil. Even was selfless enough to throw his own life away if it was needed. Zekrom then uttered.

"Ash, we all wish to fight alongside you if you ever need a pokemon for battle." It was a few seconds before Ash answered as he stared into each of their eyes looking for the truth in all that Zekrom said.

"It would be an honour to have all you fight with me." All of them let out a roar of joy and Arceus looked at this with a smile creeping over his face and a peaceful mind and thought to himself. 'I have faith in you my Chosen One, that you will defeat the darkness that is slowly becoming more and more noticeable with each passing day, I hope though that it doesn't show its self soon as you will need to prepare for the up and coming battle that is to come.' It was a while before Ash left for Cameron Palace as he talked with each legendary about them, how they had been and what they have been up to.

Same time in Pallet

Cynthia and her elite four, consisting of Aaron (a bug type trainer); Bertha (a ground type trainer); Flint (a fire type trainer) and Lucian (a psychic type trainer), wanted to talk to Ash about taking over Bertha's position as Head of the Elite Four of Sinnoh. It wasn't only them that wanted to see Ash and Cynthia was surprised when she saw the other six groups which consisted of the other Elite Four and Champions of the other Regions as well as the Battle Frontier Brians of both Hoenn and Johto/Sinnoh as well as Ash's rivals and friends from Sinnoh and Kalos. One group was of Lance, the Champion of Kanto and Johto who came with his Elite Four to have a good catching up with Ash and to see if he wanted to battle them for fun.

The second group entailed the Champion of Hoenn Wallace and his elite four. He had the same thing in mind as Lance and his group. The third group was of Alder and his Elite Four who wanted to see if Ash wanted to go on a journey with them around Unova to find new pokemon yet to be discovered. The fourth group was Scott and the other Frontier Brians of Hoenn and Johto/Sinnoh: Brandon, Anabel, Noland, Greta, Spenser, Lucy and Tucker, Polmer, Thortans, Dahlia, Darach and Caitlin, and Argenta. They had come with the idea to see if Ash wanted to become a Frontier Brian as he had so much potential.

The fifth group involved the Champion of Kalos Daintha and her Elite Four with four special guests that were Ash's travelling companions from Kalso: Serena, Bonnie, Clement and Shauna. Finally, the sixth group held Paul and Trip. They wanted to ask Ash if he wanted to travel with them to find and catch new pokemon from the other regions since his knowledge of the other regions would be greatly valuable and to challenge him for fun. Whey they all got to Pallet Town and saw each other they were surprised and asked them why they were here and to their even more surprise the other group's answers were the cause of so.

They were all surprised by Ash and his adventures through the six regions, he had not just defeated all the Elite Fours from all five regions but also got to fight the Champions but after hard fights lost to all. They were surprised when he won against all Battle Frontier Brains of Hoenn who the Johto/Sinnoh Frontier Brians and all the Champions and Elite Fours consider the hardest. Paul and Trip were especially astonished as they considered him a stupid trainer but won against so many people who were considered the strongest was just a shock that they smiled at the fact their rival was well known by these Elite Trainers. They all soon made their way to Professor Oak's lab.

When they did reach said lab they came across the other members of Ash's old companions outside the lab with a Professor Oak, when the old companions saw them they were shocked that the strongest trainers in the world would come to a small town like this. Brock was the first one to come out of their stupor. "What are you all doing here, shouldn't you all be in your regions or at a meeting." Cynthia was the that walked up and said.

"We wanted to see Ash, we have a few things to ask him." Misty in all her wisdom, walked up and answered back in an annoying tone.

"Well that weakling isn't here. He left a few days ago and won't be coming back." All six groups were confused and so Alder asked.

"What do you mean he left and won't be coming back?"

"We told that pathetic excuse of a trainer to give up on his dream to be like you guys and ran away with his pokemon and stupid mother to Arceus knows where." Was Max's reply to the question. Anabel, Serena, Bonnie and Shauna all shouted together.

"Why did you chase him away, he is your friend!"

"He was our friend. He is a weakling and was holding us back, we chased him so he couldn't bother us again." Dawn said non-clause. Paul looked at them with anger filled eyes, he was not weak, he had defeated Paul with skill that Paul only obtained recently after seeing Ash bonding with his pokemon and trying it out. He stormed up to Dawn and looked straight into those now scared covered eyes.

"He is not weak, if he was weak then how can he have defeated all the Elite Four from all the regions and come face-to-face with each Champion from said regions." Iris in all her stupidity said with a smirk on her face.

"He had lost to all the Champions and only won against the Hoenn Battle Fronteir. He is weak." Cynthia was a anger filled voice that betrayed her calm look.

"Then you have chased off a great friend, why though, he can defeat all you of you wil the pokemon he has ten times over?"

"Oh please, he was holding us back from completing our dreams and that is why we did it, got anything to say about that." All the Champions, Elite Four, Frontier Brains and companions left with anger and worries filling their heads. They obviously knew that Ash was hurting and so began their long search of all the regions, high and low but they did not know that they would see him soon in the next Grand International Tournament.

End Flashback

Ash walked through his room, waking his Pikachu up, and into the hallway. As he went down the many flight of stairs he made his way down to the Courtyard. He walked into the area to see Mew with Aaron and Lucario. They were going to the Hall of Origins to Knight Ash and he will begin his new journey to prove his ex-friends wrong. He walked up to the three and asked: "Is everyone ready?" They all nodded and so Ash said. "Then let us head on." With that, Mew teleported them to the Hall of Origins, Ash saw the Knights aligned into a Isle formation with each legendary on both sides. He walked behind his two masters with Pikachu on his shoulder who looked around in wonder. At the end was Arceus with the current Aura Knight Grandmaster on one side and Queen Ilene on the other. Though he did she his mother standing slightly behind the Queen smiling proudly at her son.

When the four reached the end, Aaron stood before Arceus with Ash, Pikachu and Lucario at his sides, it was at this point that Arceus began his speak. "Ash Satoshi Ketchum of Pallet Town, you have finished your training as an Aura Guardian and have begun your knighted as an Aura Knight, you will swear an oath to complete you knighting. Let us begin. Do you, Ash Satoshi Ketchum, swear upon your Aura to protect those both of pokemon and human origin?"

"I swear."

"Do you, Ash Satoshi Ketchum, swear to keep the peace and balance of the world?"

"I swear."

"Do you, Ash Satoshi Ketchum, swear that if the world is corrupted as well as I, you will fight to bring it back to the light if it also meant your life?"

"I swear!" Ash shouted this time with conviction.

"Then by the power vested in me and by the powers and command over the Legendary pokemon of all regions, I now knight you Sir Ash Satoshi Ketchum, Aura Knight." A series of roars and shouts rang throughout the area form the pokemon and humans as they cheered for the Chosen One's Knighting. Ash then stood and flared his Aura as a sign of joy for it but it did not go unnoticed.

Somewhere in Unova

Cynthia was at her summer home in Unova thinking of area's to look for Ash, she and the other Champions missed him greatly and have been desperately trying to find him but with no luck. For the past five years they searched and never found a trace, they presumed hi m dead just last month. But not Cynthia, she has been searching for one person who made her feel happy and joy's for the first time in her life. Then for a moment, she felt something that she only felt from one person. The sense of safety and joy as well as making her feel energetic, the feeling she wanted to have again. She walked onto her second floor balcony and started into the night sky and said in a quiet yet angelic voice that only an Evee could hear. "Ash is that you." She and the rest of the people missing him felt this presence in their regions and though the same thing. 'He is still alive. We have got to find him!'

A/N: Thank you for reading my latest chapter in this story. I know that many of you had pm'd me and I have responded to the ones that I could. Pm's from guests I cannot respond to, just to let the ones who did know, so they wouldn't of had a response. Also if you didn't know, I am in my final year of secondary school (or High School for you Americans) and the final exams are coming soon. The classes are turning into revision sessons and I am having to do more revision at home. So the length between updates might vary, depending on when I can continue writing. I am not abandoning it or putting it on HIATUS but instead am warning you that updates might be slow going.

Thank you for reading,

Lord Ravenclaw II.