Chapter 3: Revelations

In the Tower of Mastery, Red and Gurkinn had been working all day and Red had worked up a good sweat as he and his pokemon had exhausted looks from the training.

"You've made progress, I have do doubt you can feel aura now."

"Can he fight that Gorma?" Lillie asked still holding Korrina.

Gurkinn turned to Lillie.

"Red had made progress but he has only taken the first steps into becoming an aura guardian."

"He's not here to become an aura guardian, he's here to be able to land hits on that Gorma monster, then we leave. That was the deal remember." Lillie said.

"You have to appreciate that."

"Gurkinn that monster is still out there, can Red fight it or not?"

Gurkinn took Korrina from Lillie trying not to look evasive.

"It's late, I need to get Korrina to bed." He said walking off.

"That sneaky old man is trying to trick you into spending more time here." Lillie said sounding irritated as she came beside Red.

She didn't notice the nervous expression on his face.

"..What..What if he's right?"

Lillie slowly turned to Red.

"You want to stay here?"

"I don't know, for the longest time I've always felt that there was something missing in my life. When I heard people talk about things beyond professional leagues, I thought maybe I settled in the AAA and never looked for anything else. But even in this one day of training, I feel more whole than I have in years."

"You actually want us stay here in Kalos so you can become an aura guardian?"

"Yes, no, I, I don't know. All I know is that this aura stuff, I think Gurkinn is right about me. I can't get the feeling out of me."

Lillie sighed.

"Red we can't just uproot out lives because of this."

"….I don't want us to. I'm not quitting the AAA or abandoning everyone I just…..I just want to feel whole again."

Lillie wanted to feel irritated with Red, but she couldn't deny she had noticed Red seemed bothered lately. She couldn't pretend that she didn't understand, it couldn't be that different from her being separated from her brother and father for so long.

"Red this is all happening so fast, let's not do anything drastic without giving you time to breath and think it over."

Red looked back a this pokemon before sighing.

"You're probably right. Let's get some rest." Red returned his pokemon as the two went inside.

Elsewhere in Courmarine city Gary was with Mallow in the pokemon center.

Mallow was inside as Gary looked out at the bay around him.

He had a conflicted look on his face as he watched the ocean.

"I'm not wrong, this is what I should do. I've always wanted to be a champion."

"When debating with yourself, it could help to have another point of view." Daizyujin said.

Gary sighed.

"Are you going to tell me to stay in Alola too."

"I can't tell you what to do Gary, I can only help guide you on what path is right for you."

"Oh boy."

"What you don't enjoy my cryptic words even after all this time." Daizyujin said in a joking tone.

"Why shouldn't I become the champion here if I'm good enough to."

"I suppose I can understand your reasoning, but as long as I have known you, simple titles haven't been your goal, nor Ash's. The two of you have always been about one thing, improving yourselves and your pokemon."

Gary's expression changed.

"Your rivalry has driven you both to become the best you could possibly be, and so far neither of you have reached the ceiling, because its not there. Now you wish to become champion of Kalos because you don't believe you'll ever beat Ash. If you believe your ceiling is here, that's on you. But the Bastioranger I know would rather be an elite four stronger than every other champion in the world instead of a champion who settled for trailing behind someone he thought he could never beat."

Gary was almost shaken by what Daizyujin said.

"Why do you always have the answers?" Gary asked.

"It's the perks of being part of Reduka."

Mallow was inside a room at the pokemon center trying to sleep while being concerned about Gary wanting to stay.

The door opened as she heard Gary come in and take his shoes off, laying down beside her.

"So you are enjoying your time here?"

Mallow sighed.

"Yes."

"Too bad, you'll miss it when we go home."

"What!?" Mallow shouted as she turned over to Gary.

"I've been thinking, if I become champion of Kalos then I'll have no one to compete with. Even if I can't beat Ash now, there's no way I'm letting that stay. As soon as I get back , we're training even harder. Even if I never become champion of Alola, it's only a title, the legacy of Gary Oak will be a trainer who got stronger every day of his life."

Mallow hugged Gary tightly before planting a kiss on his lips.

"There's the man I love." She said as Gary hugged her back.

Back in Shalour city, it was early in the morning and Gurkinn was up with Red doing some training as Lillie picked up baby Korrina in her arms.

"Not that I haven't enjoyed our time together, but I hope we don't see each other again. No it's not you, I just have to get home and take my husband with me. We'll try to have a son soon so you can have a boyfriend. But I don't want any funny business between you two until your married." Lillie said before hearing footsteps.

"Done training already?" Lillie asked before she saw someone else standing there holding a pipe.

"Bonjour." He said as Lillie tried to reach for her spirit battery before a ring of smoke was blown around them.

On the tower top Gurkinn and Red were training with Gurkinn's Lucario and Red's pokemon.

Red trying to project aura as Gurkinn guided him.

"You can do this Red, feel the aura and summon it."

The two heard Charizard roar as they turned and saw a skull grunt come up through the door holding a letter.

Red snatched it and began reading it before he smashed the grunt apart with his fist.

"What's going on?" Gurkinn asked sounding very concerned.

Red sprinted inside with his pokemon as Gurkinn followed with his Lucario.

Red saw Lillie's spirit battery on the ground.

"Korrina!" Gurkinn screamed as he looked at her empty crib.

"Spirtree has them both, he wants all of those creatures." Red said trying not to rip the paper into pieces.

Lucario and Charizard growled as Red and Gurkinn looked at each other.

In the forest, the two arrived with Gurkinn holding several of the creatures.

"Spirtree! Gorma where are you!?" Red shouted.

"Show yourself!" Gurkinn screamed.

They heard someone nearby, and saw Spirtree leaning against a tree with his pipe.

Four skull grunts were guarding Lillie who looked afraid and Korrina who was crying.

"Korrina!" Gurkinn screamed as he saw this, one of the skull grunts holding a knife to her throat.

"Ah ah ah, my creatures." The Gorma said.

"I'm going to rip your tongue out of your mouth." Gurkinn said adamantly as he saw one of the skull grunts come forward and take the creatures from him before vanishing.

"Alright you have your creatures, now release them." Red said.

"I have the creatures, but instead of releasing them. You die!" Spirtree shouted as he transformed into his monster form and unleashed a blast of ghost energy at the two.

Lillie screamed in terror before she saw the smoke clear and Red standing in his Tyrannoranger armor.

Gurkinn was on the ground behind him as he looked up at Red.

"Let's go!" Red shouted as he leapt at Spirtree who held his arms out, expecting Red to go right through him.

Instead Red's foot made contact with Spirtree knocking him back before Red kicked him another two times, then punched his arms back and grabbed his eyes, the Gorma screaming in pain as blood came out.

"Impossible! Kill them!" Spirtree shouted before the three grunts were hit and shattered by an extreme speed.

Mega Lucario holding Korrina as Lillie got up and took her battery.

"Merci." She said fortifying before attacking a few skull grunts coming back.

Gurkinn smiled as he got up.

"Show him the power of aura Red."

Red concentrated as he closed his eyes and raised his hands.

"Aura power!" Red shouted as Lillie saw a blue aura form around Red and his armor.

His gauntlets glowed blue with aura as Red unleashed his furious lightning fast attack, hitting Spirtree dozens of times each moment as the Gorma felt his body get beaten and broken by the attacks.

Red held his hands together before thrusting them forward as a blast of blue aura crashed into Spirtree hurling him back.

"Unforgivable!" Spirtree shouted as he got up with an enlargement bomb and hurled it on the ground.

The explosion shook the ground as Spirtree grew massive.

Lucario rushed over with Korrina.

"Tyrantrum come forth!" Red shouted as the ground shook again, the guardian beast Tyrantrum rose up and roared, Red leaping onto his head.

Spirtree faced the armored dinosaur and unleashed a blast of ghost energy at him.

Tyrantrum hurled his tail around and smashed the blast apart before charing forward and crashed into Spirtree snapping his massive jaws around Spirtree's right arm. The Gorma tried to smash Tyrantrum off but the guardian beast dragged him across the ground before tossing him away.

Tyrantrum roared as he charged forward and rammed his head into Spirtree, hurling him onto his back.

Spirtree tried to get up as Tyrantrum roared again, glowed red with energy as he charged forward, crashing into Spirtree as he surged with energy before exploding into nothing.

Tyrantrum roared in victory as Red stood on his head.

"You should be proud Red, you have started on the path of an aura guardian." Daizyujin said.

"Daizyujin, what should I do, I can't stay here in Kalos, but I want to become an aura guardian, find out what all of this really means to me."

"Yes, this is quite the conundrum. I almost wonder if there was some kind of compromise. "

"Compromise? Wait a minute. What would we do without you."

"Sometimes I wonder what I'd do without you."

Red came down as he met the others.

"Alright we got the Gorma, now we need to go." Lillie said.

"Red, I stand by what I said."

"Red is going back to Alola." Lillie said grabbing his hand.

"Red."

"Gurkinn, you said there were aura guardians around the world. There wouldn't happen to be any in Alola would there?"

"…" Gurkinn couldn't believe he hadn't thought of that as Korrina laughed in his arms.

Back in Lumoise city, Hau and Cana had returned with Hau working with Sycamore as they looked at Puni.

The others were playing with the creatures they had found thus far, Cana among them.

Hau held Puni as Sycamore looked at him closer.

"Still not matching anything I've seen before." Sycamore said sitting back.

Hau looked back at the other creatures.

"Hmm, I wonder. Puni, mind coming with me." Hau said.

He took Puni over to the other creatures.

"Go on." Hau said as Puni looked at each.

Hau used his earth bending to scare Puni who yelped before each of the creatures glowed, and merged with Puni.

The others were almost afraid as they saw a new creature form, the creature was green and black in the shape of a dog, growling as it looked around.

"Puni?" Bonnie asked as the dog turned to her.

"Incredible!" Sycamore shouted.

"It's like there's dozens of creatures in it, but at the same time all one." Cana said.

"Ohhh, I have it!" Clemont said showing a large robotic magnifying glass.

"Take the closer look you need." Clemont said before the machine started to smoke before exploding, covering Clemont in soot.

"Another failure brother." Bonnie said as Shauna laughed a little, putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Could it be, Zygarde." Hau said as Sycamore turned to him.

"You really think so?" Sycamore asked.

"Zygarde." Tyler said in interest.

"Zygarde?" Shauna asked.

"Zygarde is a legendary pokemon." Sycamore said.

"From what I've read Zygarde is part of the aura trio, Yvelta being the pokemon of death and destruction , Xerneas being the pokemon of life and birth. Zygarde is suppose to be the balance and harmony between them, the heart of Kalos." Hau said.

"I've heard of that legend too, it says that Zygarde splits itself up into hundreds of beings across Kalos with a center intelligence calling upon the lesser beings to form into its true self."

"Puni is Zygarde." Bonnie said looking at the dog creature before it split back into the other creatures and the small light green creature.

Bonnie giving a concerned look as the held Puni before Puni looked at the box near Sycamore.

"Puni?" Bonnie asked before Puni forced himself out of her hands and over to Sycamore, poking his head at the box.

"What's in there?" Aria asked.

"It's the stones Gladion gave me." Sycamore said opening the box.

Shauna and the others looked at the jewels.

"Ohh so pretty." Bonnie said.

"What are those!?" Shauna almost shouted, also enticed by them.

"Those look like the legendary heart jewels Gladion's been looking for." Cana said.

"Each of those jewels has the heart of a legendary pokemon in them. Gladion thinks that they could grand someone powers like his Kiba ranger powers." Hau said.

"Really!" Clemont said before Bonnie grabbed him.

"This is what you need big brother, become a super hero!" Bonnie said grabbing the green one.

"Ahh, be careful with that." Hau said taking it and carefully putting it back.

"My brother needs this." Bonnie said.

"Maybe." They heard as the doors opened again and they saw Gladion come in with Moon.

"Ahh there you guys are." Cana said.

"How'd the hunting go?" Hau asked.

"He got away." Moon said.

"Well at least you forced him out." Hau said.

Gladion came over to the jewels.

"Did you find anything?" He asked.

"I'm afraid not."

"Excuse me, how does my brother become like you?" Bonnie asked.

"Bonnie." Clemont said.

"Sorry to say this, but the legendary pokemon won't pick just anyone." Gladion said.

"Wait a minute, I've seen two jewels like this." Aria said.

"You have!? Gladion almost shouted.

"Yeah, back at Lysandre's museum." Aria said.

The group went back to the museum only to see a closed sign.

"Shoot." Shauna said before Gladion forced the doors open.

"Gladion." Moon said.

"I have to know if those jewels are here."

They followed him inside with many of the lights off before they heard violent coughing.

They followed it to the center area from the other night where they saw Lysandre with two men beside him. Lysandre taking another pill as he regained himself.

"Lysandre." Gladion said as the man turned to him.

"Huh, what are you doing here, we're closed." One of the men said.

"No it's alright. What brings you all back here?" Lysandre said.

"Lysandre, I was told you have jewels like this." Gladion said showing one to him.

"Ohhh yes I do." He said leading Gladion and the others to a pair of statues, one of Yvelta and the other of Xerneas.

In the forehead of each was a jewel, one pink and one blue.

"It's them!" Gladion shouted.

"You have more of those lovely jewels." Lysandre said in interest.

"Lysandre I know this is a lot to ask, but I'm going to need to take those."

"What?" One of the employees said.

"It's very important that I."

Bonnie felt her satchel shake as she opened it to see Puni inside looking very angry/ ajutated as he

saw Lysandre.

"Puni, what's wrong?" Bonnie asked before Lysandre turned and saw Puni.

Moon saw his demeanor changed slightly.

"I'm sorry, Puni seems upset." Bonnie said.

"Ohh, it's, it's quite alright. I." Lysandre said staring at Puni.

Shauna noticed the look in his eyes as well.

"Lysandre are you alright?" She asked before Gladion heard more footsteps.

The door opened as a familiar man came in with a container.

Puni turned to the container and began looking longing at it as Moon also saw it was the fisherman from Cyllage city.

"Argh." He said seeing Moon and Gladion.

"My, you really shouldn't enter a place when it's closed." Lysandre said as they saw his eyes glow blue before he slammed the ground, a wave of energy hurling them all away as Shauna tried to get up, one of the men grabbing her necklace and ripping it off as Lysandre reached for Puni only to start coughing again.

"Run!" Clemont shouted as he grabbed Bonnie who now had Puni before pulling Shauna up and running.

Aria and Tyler got back up as well.

"Thank Reduka we left Will with Sycamore." Aria said as the rangers fortified.

Lysandre , despite his cough unleashed another wave of energy into them.

As they were carried away the men transformed into their gorma forms, one being Firewing while the other was a Malamar esk Gorma.

"Let's make a tactical retreat." Gladion said as he lead the others away, Lysandre not noticing the two jewels in Gladion's hands.

Author's note

I'm sure many of you saw some of these things coming, but I still enjoyed bringing back these characters

Only one chapter left

So until next time,

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