Hello! Welcome to chapter 3 of the past and the present! Really looking forward to developing the characters and the plot of this story! I would like to say that soon, I have a big holiday coming up, (2 weeks) so I hope to upload like crazy! A big shout out to Advanceforeverandafter for being my first reviewer! It makes me happy to see that people are taking a liking to my stories! So, enough blabbering from me, on with the story!

Telepathy
"Normal talking"

Ash was beginning to feel the pain in his muscles as he was climbing. He had been at it for about ten minutes, he stopped and found a good foot hold to take a rest. The teen held on with one hand and turned his body around to hang off the side of the cliff (Sort of like how King Kong hangs off the empire state building). He took a moment to take in the view, the sun was a little higher in the sky now, from all around he could see its rays spreading out over the valley. "Take a look at that torchic, you don't get many chances to see a view like this" Ash said to the little pokemon, who was sitting on his shoulder, trying not to look down. "T-Tor..." It stuttered, obviously not a fan of heights, Ash noticed this and tried to calm it down. "Heyyyy, don't worry, there's tonnes of good places to grab on the side of this cliff. We won't fall" The pokemon seemed to relax a bit. The truth was, Ash actually knew what he was doing! He could identify which rocks were safe to grab and even make huge jumps over gaps in the wall. It was like he had done this lots of times before. Whilst he was trying to think of why he could do all of these, he grabbed an unsteady rock which dislodged immediately, causing the teen to fall downwards a bit. "Tor!" Screamed a terrified pokemon, "Crap, I need to pay attention!" Ash told him self, "Sorry torchic, just wasn't focusing enough." Explained Ash, The fire type looked like it was about to pass out from fear but managed to resist the urge.

A while later, Ash hauled himself up over the edge of the cliff, he stood up and dusted his fingerless gloves. "Not looking forward to climbing back down that" He thought whilst looking over the edge. He was brought to attention by a small "Tor!" From behind him, torchic must have jumped off of his shoulder when he climbed up. Ash turned and what he saw next made his jaw drop. In front of the two of them was a huge crystal clear lake, it looked similar to the one that Ash and May were camping next to, except this one was so clear that you could see the bottom of the deepest parts of the lake. But Ash wasn't amazed at the sight of the lake, he was amazed by the thing standing on top of the water in the middle of it. It looked like a blue dog like creature with a diamond shaped crest on its head and two ribbon like tails that extended from behind it, up to its front. Ash also noticed that it had a thick purple mane. "What is that thing?" Ash thought, the creature was standing in a proud pose at the centre of the lake, on top of the water! Just at that moment, it made eye contact with Ash. He expected it to run away or attack but it didn't do anything, it just stood there, staring at him whilst he stared back. Ash had heard from May that in hoenn, if you encounter a powerful looking pokemon, you should keep eye contact otherwise the pokemon may feel like its being ignored because it's weak and attack.

A few minutes passed, or maybe a few years, Ash couldn't tell. All he knew was that this pokemon wasn't going to stop looking at him. Perhaps it was testing him? Maybe it wanted to see if he would run away, Ash thought up a plan in his head. Doing the only thing he could, he slowly pulled out elekid's pokeball, the blue pokemon seemed to raise its brow. Ash held out the pokeball towards the creature, it seemed to think for a while, before slowly nodding and taking a battle stance. Ash gulped, this pokemon looked strong, no matter! He would do what he could with what he had! With no speech and a swift flick of his wrist, he deployed elekid.

"BI BI BI BI!" Shouted the electric type as it appeared before its master. It began to wheel its arms, getting pumped for the upcoming battle, he could tell from one look at his opponent that this was going to be tough. The dog pokemon reared its head and let out a smooth roar that seemed to echo for miles. "Okay elekid, I think you know as well as I that this opponent isn't like any other, let's give it our all!" Shouted Ash to the elctric pokemon with a confident expression and a clenched fist. The yellow pokemon nodded with the same expression as its owner and took a battle stance.

(Decided to skip the battle since Ash wouldn't have landed many attacks against the pokemon you probably guessed was suicune, and those attacks which did make contact didn't do much damage since it's a legendary for arceus sake!)

Ash watched in horror as his last pokemon was thrown against a tree from an aurora beam attack. "Skorupi!" He cried out in concern to the pokemon, but it was no use, Skorupi had fainted. He looked at suicune with anger written all over his face. To his surprise, suicune launched the same attack at the unconscious skorupi, Ash couldn't believe what he was seeing. Quickly, he pulled out the poison type's pokeball and returned him. Now he was pissed, "What the hell do you think you're doing! Attacking a downed pokemon, you're a disgrace!" Ash had only a second to dodge as the attacks were now focused on him, he dived out of the way and landed in front of a terrified torchic. "Don't worry, I'll keep you safe!" Said Ash to the pokemon but as he made a grab for the fire type, another aurora beam smashed into her, sending her flying away from Ash with a pained "Tor!". Ash's eyes were frozen in the spot where torchic had just been, "stop it..." He said inside his head, he quickly looked to his left to see that torchic was barely standing. Its face turned to one of emptiness as a hydro pump crashed into its back, sending it to the ground where it stayed, motionless. "s-stop it..." Ash said to himself again, hoping that the pokemon would somehow hear him. His hopes were shattered when another hydro pump blasted him backwards, hitting him against a tree with a sickening thud. "STOP IT!" Ash bellowed out loud as his whole body was engulfed in a blood red aura with what looked like black electricity coursing through it. His eyes had turned to a glowing ruby red colour. Ash slowly stood up and looked at suicune with a glare that could scare groudon. Suicune backed up a little, It looked like this child was the one that the other legendaries had mentioned. From the rumours, suicune had heard that this boy had a very powerful aura that was triggered by anger and hatred. He had also heard that once this power was activated, the user would not stop until the person or pokemon who had triggered it was either dead or severely injured. Suicune had wanted to see for himself, unfortunately, the rumours were true...

Ash began to slowly walk towards that bastard of a pokemon, he stopped about ten meters away. The dark aura that was surrounding him began to focus around his hands, he held out his right hand, like he was holding a imaginary pokeball and began to form what looked like a shadow ball and a aura sphere put together. It was pure black and seemed to radiate negative feelings and emotions. He then brought his arm to his waist and use his other arm to increase the ball's size to the size of a basket ball. Suicune didn't like where this was going and readied a aurora beam to counter. The two spheres had fully formed, one in Ash's clutches and the other in front of suicune's mouth. At the same time, they both hurled there spheres, or shot their beam in suicin's case. The blue pokemon's eyes widened as it watched the black sphere slice through the beam like a knife through butter, there was no time to dodge and suicine took the attack full force. The damage was disastrous. After being hit by the devastating attack, suicune was thrown back against a huge rock that shattered from the impact. Ash wasn't finished there, he formed what looked like blood red claws and began to sprint at suicune with a speed that could put a rapidash to shame. As Ash began his mass wave of attacks, suicune began to dodge at the best of his ability. Sadly for the pokemon, he tired quickly and began to take one slash after another. After about ten extremely painful hits, suicune went down to the ground with a harsh thump. Ash was now standing over the beast that hurt his friends, he couldn't resist, he delivered a very painful kick to the pokemon's ribcage making it cry out in pain. He smiled evily, enjoying the pain of his victim, he kicked it a few more times before grabbing its neck and beginning to squeeze.

Suicune didn't know what to do, he had never experienced this much pain before, and now it looked like this boy was going to kill him! It thought of a way to try and stop the boy's aura surge. "B-Boy, c-c-control your anger, d-d-do n-not let it c-c-control you." Suicune desperately pleaded inside the teen's mind, "Shut the hell up, you bastard!" Ash replied furiously. Suicune felt the grip around his neck tighten, he gasped for air, not much entered his body. Just when he thought it was all over, he noticed a small orange pokemon call out from the other side of the lake, "Tor, tor tor, torchic!" Ash looked up with murder in his eyes but when he realised who it was, his aura slowly began to turn blue again, as well as his eyes. Ash took his hand off of suicune's neck, much to the pokemon's relief, and put it on his forehead."W-What happened..." he said inside his mind as he looked around, he then noticed that he was standing over a very injured version of the pokemon that did tonnes of damage to his pokemon. He jumped backwards and made a grab for one of the pokeballs on his belt, only to realise that all of his pokemon were injured. "D-Do not fear child, th-this battle is over..." Ash heard a calm voice say inside of his head, he looked at suicune to see that it had its head bowed in his direction, "I am truly honoured to have battled such a strong opponent." Said suicune as it shakily stood up but the fell back to the ground, only to be held up from a painful fall by the one who had attacked it, It smiled. "You must have a lot of questions..." It said knowingly, Ash nodded and they both moved to a more comfortable spot. Torchic had run over to Ash and was snuggling into his chest, You okay girl?" Asked a concerned Ash, Torchic nodded with small tears in her eyes. Ash smiled, "I'm glad your okay" He then noticed that Torchic was looking at his chest with a worried look on her face. "Hmm? What's wrong torchic?" Torchic simply looked up from Ash's chest to his face and then back at his chest as if to say "How could you not notice!" Ash looked down and saw what torchic had been looking at, it was a huge slash that went from the top of his left shoulder, down to his waist! The wound wasn't very deep but it would leave a scar.

After Ash had patched up his injury, he began asking suicune questions, "So, why did you attack me and my pokemon! We didn't do anything wrong!" He shouted inside the legendary's head, it simply lowered its head in shame, "I am very regretful about attacking you and your friends but it was the only way to test to see if you were the one." Ash raised a brow, the one? What did that mean, suicune continued to explain, "There has been talk amongst the legends that there is a boy who harbours unimaginable strength, and since you are the first human to ever make the climb up up here to my lair, there was no mistake. The only thing that I needed to do to make sure was to see if this strength can really be triggered. The other legends told me that this ability is caused by immense anger and hatred, so I...Attacked your pokemon...And since you were so close to unleashing your power, the last attack was aimed at you." Suicune looked absolutely guilty and regretful. Ash was amazed, he had so much power, it was kinda scary. "But remember child!" Said suicune, becoming serious, "be that as it may, this power is very dangerous, if it was not for you little friend here." Said suicune as he gestured to torchic, "You would have gladly killed me..." As suicune said this Ash noticed his eyes fill with fear. The teen couldn't believe what he was hearing, he almost killed a pokemon! A legendary no less! Ash nodded, "I'll control my emotions more from now on" He said with a confident smile which suicune returned. "This was my other reason for battling you, it was to set you on the right path, the path of light." Ash remembered hearing those words last night! But for he asked the question suicune answered for him, "If you are wondering then no, that was not my voice that you heard last night. Although I have a feeling that you will meet that person soon..." Suicune then stood up and began to walk out to the middle of the lake, beginning to be shrouded in mist. "I must leave you now child ,for my injury's need to heal..." Ash nodded and began to walk away but before he got very far he heard suicune's voice inside his head, "You are still as aggressive as ever Gio, Ever since you tried to catch me you have been so evil, it looks like the combination with the other two didn't calm you down much..." Ash turned around to ask what suicune meant but only saw a still, clear lake, no legendary pokemon anywhere...

So, that was a relatively short chapter and I'm very sorry but I will definitely get the next one out soon! How did you all like the use of a legendary huh? Some people have posted reviews about Ash's aura being slightly overpowered so I made sure to fix that it this chapter, as you saw, his true power can only be activated with immense anger or hatred so I hope that helps! I also talked about someone who has a part to do with Ash's memories, in the last chapter Ash had a dream so little hint, it's the person from that. I hope that the nickname wasn't that obvious but if it is then I'm sorry!

Next chapter we will get back to the travelling and some hints will be being dropped between the two teens so I hope you look forward to that!

Peace out!

-Killerham5ter

...Listened to the ruby and sapphire soundtrack whilst writing this...good stuff...nostalgia...gahhhhh!