The Elementals
A/N- So, I got a good amount of reviews last night, so I've decided to update early! Also, there is going to be Pokeshipping in this, but not until later. I am bringing Serena in as a fairy elemental, but later. Also, I do know who is going to be a dark elemental, but I'm not revealing until later. For now it's just Ash's traveling companions. Also, just in case it gets confusing, Misty, age 14, is water, Ash, age 13, is fire, Max, age eleven, is grass, May, age 13, is air, Serena, age 12, is fairy, Dawn, age 12 1/2, is ice, Clemont, age 14, is electric, and Brock, age 18, is rock. There will be more elementals, like Calem is grass, but he doesn't know it yet. Anyway, enjoy!
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"Misty! Brock! Hi!" A 13 year old Ash Ketchum yelled, running towards his original best friends.
Misty suppressed a chuckle. "Well, it seems Kalos hasn't changed his personality too much... Still the same old overactive Ash." Misty said.
"Hey Ash! How've you been?" Brock asked, pulling his best friend into a "manly" hug.
Ash grinned, pulling out of the hug. "I've been great! I caught a bunch of new Pokemon!" He said excitedly, waving his arms for emphasis.
Misty stared at his hands. Surely he couldn't be...? No, it must have just been the light, because Ash couldn't be...
"Misty? You OK?" Ash asked, poking her in the head. Misty growled, reaching for her mallet, but Ash put up his hands defensively.
"Sorry!" He squeaked, hiding behind Brock.
"Hey! Guys!" A trio of voices yelled, interrupting Misty's angry retort.
May, Max, and Dawn approached the group, smiling and waving happily. Max had a Treeko riding on his shoulder
"Hi Ash!" Max said, slightly out of breath. The Treeko on his shoulder grinned, offering a three fingered wave. Ash returned it enthusiastically.
"So, I see you picked Treeko!" Bonnie said, smiling up at the now eleven year old Max. He grinned at his nine year old pen-pal.
"Yup! He's my favorite!" Max said happily. He turned to his sister's Blaziken, nodding. "You're cool too, though." He added.
Bonnie frowned. "I want to be ten already! Then I can get my Chespin!" She wailed. Clemont put a hand on her shoulder, joining the ever-growing group of friends.
"It's only a few more months, and then you can get your Pokemon. And you've still got Dedenne, right?" He said consolingly, pointing to her satchel. Her mouse Pokemon stuck it's head out, smiling.
"Yeah, I guess so..." She said. Cilan and Iris approached the group, the latter holding a drink. The Axew in her hair also had a drink.
"Shall we eat? I've made spaghetti and meatballs!" Cilan said.
As jumped up in he air, pumping a fist. "Yeah! That's my favorite!" He yelled. His hat lifted off of his head, revealing a grumpy, groggy Pikachu who was grumbling at Ash.
"Like I said," Misty muttered to Brock. "Kalos hasn't changed Ash at all." Misty said dryly. Brock chuckled.
"Nope. Not one bit." He agreed.
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Dawn lingered behind the rest of her friends, clenching her hands within her pockets. A thin layer of almost invisible ice was growing inside of her pockets.
She took a deep breath and thawed the ice, and pulled her hands from inside her pockets. Her hands were pale and cold, but then again, they always were.
She followed her friends, smiling nervously when May pulled her by the arm towards the table. She sat down between May and Max, hiding her icy hands underneath the table. If only they knew...
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A trio of people walked up to the now large party of friends, smiling pleasently. One, the man, looked to his magenta haired counterpart wistfully.
"Wanna do the motto? Just for old times sake?" He asked. The magenta haired woman smiled.
"Sure, James. Ready, Meowth?" She asked, addressing the Pokemon in between them. He nodded, and then all jumped behind a pillar, waiting for the right moment.
James pulled out his computer, wiring into the speaker system around them. He put on their old motto music, and they peeked around the corner to see the friends looking around confusedly.
"Prepare for trouble!" Jessie shouted, jumping out from behind the pillar.
"Make it double!" James cried, following suit. Ash leaned into Misty, whispering.
"Shall we play along?" He asked. Misty nodded, and they both stood up.
"Team Rocket!" They yelled. Jessie and James shared a nostalgic look.
"An evil as old as the galaxy!"
"Sent here to fulfill our destiny!"
"And den dere's me!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Meowth's da name!
"Wherever there's peace in the universe," Jessie started.
"Team Rocket," James continued.
"Will be dere," Meowth added.
"To make everything worse!" They all said together, and they finished to a splattering of applause.
"God, that brings back memories..." May and Max said together. Jessie smiled.
"Yes, it really does. It feels weird, being in the same area as "the twerps" without trying to steal Pikachu." James said wistfully. "Speaking of which, where is the little guy?" He asked.
Ash smiled, tapping on his hat. Pikachu jumped out, shocking Ash for interrupting his precious sleep. He promptly climbed back inside the hat, growling lowly.
"Well... At least it's not us this time, right?" Jessie asked jokingly. Brock stood up.
"Would you like to join us? Cilan made spaghetti." He asked. Jessie and Jame both nodded enthusiastically, sitting down at the table.
"It always killed us to see you kids eating like this while we had to live on Pecha berries..." James muttered, accepting the plate of food Cilan pushed his way. Ash grinned sheepishly.
"Well, yeah, but you were sorta working for an evil organization..." He said. Misty and Brock nodded, grinning.
"Yeah, you followed us all through Kanto and Johto, and then you followed Ash, May, Max, and Brock through Hoenn, and then again through Kanto..." Misty said. "And then there was Hoenn and Unova, and then part of Kalos before Team Rocket finally disbanded.
Jessie and James grinned sheepishly. "Yeah... Now all you've got to worry about is Team Flare." They said.
Ash nodded. "Yeah, but I doubt they'll find us in Kanto. They're Kalos based." He said.
"That's where you're wrong." Said a mysterious voice, and two Team Flare grunts walked dramatically towards the group.
Ash jumped up, but the grunts intercepted him. They both sent out Arcanines, and trapped the entire group in a cage.
"Now, we take not only your Pokemon, but you as well!" They yelled together. The Arcanines pushed the cage onto a truck, and the Flare grunts drove off.
"Well, it seems we've been caught. Seems ironic when you think about it..." James said. Jessie hit him with her white fan.
Meowth looked thoughtful. "How did you guys always get outta dis?" He asked. Ash shrugged.
"It was usually a mixture of water and fire, or maybe a Thundershock from Pikachu. You guys always seemed to forget one resistance in your cages." He said. Jessie growled, brandishing her fan.
"It's not our fault we were broke!" She yelled indignantly. James looked at her.
"But we always spent so much on those mechas..." He said nervously, yelping when Jessie turned her angry attention on him.
"OK, I have a water Pokemon... Anyone have a fire?" Misty asked. May nodded.
"I have Blaziken." She said. "But I don't think I should release him in this tiny cage." She added as an afterthought.
"I have Fletchinder, but there's still the same problem. Too big." Ash said sadly. He perked up with an idea, but didn't express it any further.
"Ash? You have an idea?" Misty asked, interpreting his face. He nodded, but didn't say anything. "Tell us! In case you hadn't noticed, we're stuck in a cage!" She yelled angrily.
Ash smiled nervously. "OK... But you guys have to understand... I couldn't tell you..." He muttered. He held out two hands, focused, and...
A small ball of flame burst into life in his palms. James shrieked, shrinking away.
"THE TWERP IS A FIRE-BENDER!" He yelled, forgetting that he was surrounded by people. Jessie slapped him, obviously scared but still annoyed.
Misty was shocked. "You... You're a fire elemental?" She asked. Ash looked at her, confused.
"What's a fire elemental?" Ash asked dimly. Misty face-palmed, shaking her head.
"Someone who can control fire. The opposite of a water-elemental." She said. "Like me." She muttered.
"Wait, you guys are both elementals?" Brock asked, incredulous. Misty nodded, and shot a stream of water at his face. Brock spluttered, shaking the water off of his face.
James hid in a corner, whimpering. "Where's Aang?" He muttered...
Brock smiled. "And here I was thinking I was the only one." He said, and formed a rock in his hands.
Misty gasped. "You're the Earth elemental?" She shrieked. "Anyone else have secret hidden powers that none of us know about?" She asked rhetorically.
What she didn't expect was for the entire cage to erupt in lightning, ice, grass, wind, and a bunch of other elements. The bars of the cage broke from and overload of power, and the group of seriously surprised kids tumbled out of the back of the truck, landing in a heap on the side of the road.
Misty stood up, brushing off her clothes. "How about you all explain. Right. Now." She said.
May stood up first, smiling calmly. "I am an air elemental." She said. She proved her point by warping the air around her feet, lifting her up into the air.
Max held out a hand, and a flower formed inside. He handed it to Misty, shrugging. "I can control grass." He said matter-of-factly.
"I can make electricity." Clemont said, forming an electro ball between his hands and shooting it off towards the retreating truck.
"And... I can make ice." Dawn said quietly. A thin sheet of ice formed over the dirt road they stood on, and Dawn quickly melted it.
"I can control fairy energy." Serena said serenely, and formed a ball of pink energy. She shot it off into the sky, and it exploded in a firework.
Misty just gaped. "We've all been elementals this WHOLE time, and no one told anyone?" She asked quietly. Everyone, except for the stunned Team Rocket and Cilan, Iris, and Bonnie, nodded.
"Uhhh, may I ask someting?" Meowth asked, raising a paw. "What's an elemental?" He asked.
Misty smiled. "An elemental is someone with control over a certain element. Like, I can control water." She said, and shot a ball of it right into Meowth's face.
He spluttered, wiping it off. "Alright, alright, I get it..." He said, annoyed. "How come you guys get powers, but we don't?" He asked.
Misty shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe you do have powers, and they just haven't shown yet." She said.
Jessie immediately scrunched up her face, staring at her hands. "Come on... Come on..." She said, trying to summon some sort of element.
Dawn stared at her. "It's not always good." She said quietly. "You sometimes can't control it..." She said, looking down. Misty nodded. "I only found out about my powers because I woke up with my room pretending to be a swimming pool." She said, blushing.
"I shot a rock through my wall and blamed it on the Pidgeotto." Brock said. Ash laughed.
"That's nothing! I almost set my room on fire, and ended up with blackened walls." He said.
May and Max both laughed. "We had it under control." May said. "But there were some times when I couldn't control it. I once blew my window open during a storm, and couldn't get close enough to close it." She said, laughing.
"I blew up a toaster." Clemont said proudly. Everyone just stared at him. "What?"
"OK, yes, we've all had our problems with out powers. But they're mostly for good." Misty said. "Now, shall we get off of this road?" She asked.
Everyone nodded, and they all walked off. None of them noticed the small puddle of purple energy forming where Jessie had stood...
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A/N- A bit of foreshadowing there! Also, James is an Avatar fan. I couldn't help it, sorry. And yes, Team Rocket has made up with the "twerps", and they've all become friends. I'll post a one-shot of that scene some other time.
The secret is out! Now they all know... More adventures will come because of these powers, and yes, Jessie and James will have powers, though they don't know yet.
Also, as my New Years resolution, I've decided that I'm going to post one one-shot a week. That will put me at around 50 one-shots by January of next year. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up!
Remember to review and favorite!
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