How are you all, guys and girls?
Human Soul is here with a new chapter where we will see how our favotive pokémon adventurers are doing now that they all left Pallet Town and started search for each other. Let's see it NOW!
Key:
"hello" = talking
"hello" = thinking
"hello" = pokémon speech
"hello" = pokémon thinking
"hello" = dark voice
Flashback Key for this Chapter
"Hello" = Talking
"Hello" = Thinking
"Hello" = Pokémon talking
"Hello" = Pokémon thinking
Be warned that the key may change throughout the story or for specific chapters, so I highly recommend to read the key of every chapter
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, be it manga, anime or game
Now enjoy the chapter
4º Chapter: Viridian Forest, Part 1: Realizations
Iris and Pikachu are already in route two, inside the Viridian Forest, being fast enough to make it to Viridian City before nightfall, but careful as to not attract Beedrils, Spearows, Pigdgeottos or any wild Pokémon
The sooner they get there, the better
Luckily, after a few hours trip after, they already could see the city's entrance, that made Iris run faster, finally entering the City, until something made her stop…
Pikachu saw the confusion in the girl's face and decided to ask what was troubling her
"Pika?" Iris looked to the rodent
"It is nothing, Pikachu…" Her answer was a look of 'you can't hide it from me' from Pikachu
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you if you stop using Leer on me!" She pleaded, which Pikachu laughed a little, then she continued "The problem is… is that I…"
"Pi…" Pikachu signaled for her to continue
"I don't know where… the Pokémon Center is…" She said embarrassed, while Pikachu fell anime style with a sweat drooped… it should have know that, cause this is her first time in Kanto
Luckily for them, Pikachu still remember where it is from its first day with Ash
That day…
It was so horrible yet so memorable… He was an idiot to Ash at that day, until he almost gave his live to protect its, now this time it's Pikachu who is going to protect Ash
"I will find you, Ash. Be sure of that!" It though while jumping from Iris shoulder and started guiding her to the Pokémon
After some minutes they reach the Pokémon Center
"Thank you, Pikachu. Now it's time to finally heal my pokémons" Iris said while they entered the building, quickly seeing the Nurse Joy in the balcony, she ran towards the nurse
"Nurse Joy! I need you to heal my Pokémon and fast!" She pleaded to the nurse, who, seeing the worry in Iris' eyes, got herself ready for an emergency
"Give me them and I'll see what I can to!" She exclaimed and Iris opened her bag, took the box where her Pokémon were and the key then she opened it, but stopped herself from give them to Joy, but before the nurse could complain, Iris started talking
"When you see how they are, please don't think it was my fault…" She said while tears were starting to fall from her eyes, making everyone that saw that gasp
"We were training in route one when poucheres attacked us, trying to take my Pokémon from me…" Now her tears were failing freely and she can't even tell who is to blame and the only one that understand this feeling right now is Pikachu, cause it too was feeling like that
"They were tired because of the training and that made them easy preys…" Everyone were feeling sympathy of her, she is in so much pain
If only they knew half of it
Then, Iris made a final request "I'm not saying it so that you feel pity of me…I am saying it because I wouldn't be able to endure the blame, so I ask you" She looked right in the Joy's eyes "Save them!"
Joy was astonished, she can't imagine the pain that the girl is right now and it just gave to her more strength to save her Pokémon
She gave to Iris a reassuring smile before she said
"Leave it to me!" She said receiving the pokeballs and going to the emergency room, leaving Iris alone with Pikachu, with the electric Pokémon trying to comfort its crying friend
There is still so much to be done
In the river of route one's course
All types of Pokémons that live in Route one were perplexed, so perplexed that they stopped whatever they were doing to see an unusual -and strange to some of them- sight
A Pokémon none of them has ever seen! It seems like a bipedal jackal with metal spikes in the middle of its chest and on the top of its paw
It was a Lucario, but the most strange and peculiar fact about it is that this Lucario is different
It is a shiny one, but different about the others shinies, that are yellow where should be blue, but this one…
It is black and red, black where on the normal Lucario is blue and red where should be black, its chest and stomach are black with a little bit of red coming from its shoulders and waist, making it looks like flames, its legs too have this effect, as there is a bit of black there too, its eyes were a brown colour. To finish the description, it is currently wearing a cap of the Kalos League and it has two black 'Z' like marks on its cheek, right under its eyes
It is not a normal Lucario…
This Lucario is no one other than Ash Ketchum
Flashback Ash's P.O.V IN 3º PERSON
The last thing Ash remember is falling from the waterfall, no Ash is in an endless where everything he could see was darkness. He was alone and tired
But he wasn't scared, because he still had a promise to keep
"I need to live!" He though while trying to move his body "I promised to my friends, my true friends that we would meet again!" He continue, remembering Iris, Pikachu, his other Pokémons, his mother and every people and Pokémon that he became friend with. His body was responding his emotions, it was moving
Ash, even knowing that it would probably be useless, opened his eyes, which were shining a teal blue color, then his body stated to glow, much like a Pokémon when it is evolving
"And I intend to fulfill that promise!" He said before the shine overtook the darkness
On the surface of the river
Bubbles began to appear in the river close to a cap of the Kalos League, until a Lucario paw caught it, before its owner started to swimming toward the river bank. When Ash got there, he coughed some water to next breath, he almost drowned! But he was too tired to notice he was now the aura Pokémon, he was barely conscious, for now he need to rest, that's when he saw a cave a few meters away from him, so he started todragged himself to the cave, where he rested until he heard Iris message and saw Pikachu's Thunderbolt being used as a signal to him, making it more than oblivious what he need to be do
Get to them as soon as he can!
He tried to got himself up, but he failed, so he tried again, but he receive the same results
"What is wrong with me? It feels like I am in my body, but my body isn't the same…"He tough, and then he looked at his hands, but he got freaked out when he see paws instead
"W-what?!" Ash screamed, but he didn't heard the 'what', he heard a 'luucariii'
"No… It can't be…" He though while dragging himself to the river. When he got there, Ash looked at his reflection in the water and he saw left him paralyzed, scared and worried
Paralyzed because he is scared
Scared because he doesn't know how it happened
Worried because maybe he will never be with his friends now
And all that because he was right…
He has been turned into a Pokémon again, only this time he is a Lucario
Flashback ends
After he recovered from the shock, he started, at least for now, trying to walk, but he is getting better at each step, now he doesn't need a support, but his equilibrium wasn't the best, he still stumbles sometimes, but it is enough for now
As he walks, he notes the Pokémon giving him some curious, others cautions glares, he nervously waves his han- paws to them to assure that he means no harm, that seemed to have worked as the pokémons relaxed a little
That is, until they all started running away from the area Ash was in
"Wait! I'm sorry if I scared you!" Ash shouted and tried to follow them, but stopped himself when he heard the so familiar sound of beating wings, wings of flying type Pokémon. He looked up and saw a thing that frightened him
One flocks of Pidgey, Pidgeotto and Pidgeot and another flock of Spearow and Fearow were flying over him, but what really scared him was that
The two flocks were flying towards each other
Now Ash understood what Pidgeot meant with a 'last business' before coming back to him…
'Last business' meant a final battle for the forest,
"Pidgeot… stay safe, cause I won't be able to bear lose you…" Ash tough, worried for his friend, but he calmed himself down remembering how powerful his Pidgeot is. Ash, seeing the scene of the soon to be fight, decided to help his friend. He Was about to say to Pikachu to use Thunderbolt when it hit him!
They are going to fight…
And he will be in the middle of all that…
Without any of his Pokémon to help him!
"Now I'm in for a big trouble!" Ash thought to himself while he sees the two flocks getting closer and closer to each other and to him
And he can't run fast enough to escape, not in his current state!
He will need to figure out a way to survive, but this time…
He needs to do it alone…
That's chapter 4 for you all! What do you think?
So Ash discovered that he is now a Pokémon, but how did he turn into one? Will he ever be able to at least keep a human form? Will Iris's Pokémons survive? Will they ever meet each other again?
Wait for the next chapter of 'Ash, the Betrayed Master of Pokémon' to find out!
See you all next time!
Human Soul is out!