Ancient War

Chapter 4: The Truth

Follow up: last time we met our friends they were caught up in a battle between them and a strange strike force. After they won the group convinced Alex and XG to tell them what was really going on. And now we join our heroes back at their camp site.

"So Alex tell us what is really going on and tell us how you used an Aura Sphere?" Ash said now very serious. "(Sigh) alright sit down you guys. This is going to be a long story."

Everyone sat down around the fire. After 5 minutes Alex and XG began their tale. "You see we work for the legendary Pokémon of this world. Now you may ask why but be patient and we'll tell you. You see the legendary Pokémon had made an enemy. They couldn't fight this threat by themselves. So they descended on Earth in human forms and began searching for people to help them. Now they only sought children with a special sign." Brock interrupted the story with a question. "What is this sign?" Brock asked. "WILL YOU BE QUIET AND LET ME CONTINUE! I WAS JUST GETTING TO THAT PART!" Alex yelled. Brock shrank back in fear. "Now then where was I? Oh yes. Now they found this sign by shaking hands of children around the world. If they shook a teen's hand and they felt a jolt of energy, they had him join their group. Now this spark is a jolt of life energy, which everyone has. But if it was strong enough were they could feel it they took the teens and gave them special powers. The powers they gave us are the ability to use aura sphere, which you saw. To teleport anywhere they chose, the ability to turn invisible and to shape shift. And finally, the ability to change the flow of time and space." Everyone in the group was dumbstruck.

"Now than we teens thought we should give ourselves a name. So we did, we called ourselves guardians. The legendaries thought this was a good idea and went along with it. Now this quarrel started when we discovered an unknown planet of lizard creatures. When Palkia, the legendary who was with our small group of troops. Now the leaders made peace with us. When we discovered some of their kind had powers, we had that small group join us. After a little while the leaders of their kind became jealous of the few that were chosen to come with Palkia. They came to our camp and demanded that we gave them powers. Now Palkia refused their demand because they didn't have what was needed. But one of our kind pitied them and gave them powers. That was his greatest and last mistake.

They turned right around and attacked him. After that they waged an eternal war against us. We fought back but where forced back to Earth. We watched planet after planet fall. Eventually we were running out of guardians. The legendaries gifted the last of the guardians the ability to give other people powers. We went to parallel Earths searching for more people. XG and I were sent to this planet." May started to speak. "Were there others with you?" she asked "Yes but there in another region looking for others. We are supposed to contact each other if we found something. And apparently we have succeeded in our search." Alex said.

"What do you mean?" Evan asked. XG smiled and started to speak. "When we shook your hands we found faint signs from you guys. But when we shook your hands…" He said pointing to Ash and Misty. Both of them looked confused. Alex finished XG's sentence. "Your signs skyrocketed higher than anyone has seen before. You two have what is needed, and more." The whole group was awestruck. XG smiled. "So to wrap this up. We will make all of you guardians. But before you make a decision this is a long and dangerous war that you guys are caught right in the middle. So what do you say will you accept this challenge?" suddenly the warning from his dream came back to him: this is what will happen if you don't accept the challenge soon to come. Ash stood up confidently. "I accept this challenge." Next was Misty. "So do I!" everyone else stood up and said yes to this as well. XG smiled proudly. "All right. We must now give you your powers. Now stand still this may hurt a bit." Alex and XG backed up about 2 feet. Both of them readied an Aura Sphere. "AURA SPHERE!" both of them yelled and launched them at the group. The first Ash realized was they were right. It did hurt a lot. But the pain only lasted a few seconds.

Everyone got back up from the ground confused. However Misty and May were angry. "You just shot us for no reason!" XG tried to come both of them down only to be hit by both of their hammers. "Hey don't be mad at us for giving you guys powers." Alex said sweat dropping. "I don't feel any different." Max said. XG smiled at this and then laughed. "Everyone says that the first time around. We'll show you how to use your powers." Ash looked confused. "Don't you have to train us battle moves?" Alex started to laugh uncontrollably. "We don't have to teach you. All you have to do is use your instincts. Let the emotions take over."

After 5 minutes of dusting each other off. XG set up some targets. Max was the first one to try. "So what do I do to launch an Aura Sphere?" XG yelled over by the glass shield. "Focus on your life energy. Do you feel it coursing through you?" Max then felt inside him. "Yes I do! I do feel something." Max yelled back. "Good! Now just focus that energy into your hand. Then make the pose Alex and I did. You should then generate a sphere. When you're ready to launch it, yell Aura Sphere." Max looked puzzled. "Why do I have to yell Aura Sphere?" Alex smiled and replied. "It sounds cooler." Max nodded at this and did as he was told. He looked at his hands and saw a bright red sphere of energy in his hands. He focused on the target and yelled, "AURA SPHERE!" he launched it at the target. When the ball of energy made contact with the dummy the dummy exploded on contact. "Alright I did it!" Max yelled feeling proud of himself. After that everyone else had taken their turn and preformed great

The last two people to go were Ash and Misty. "Alright. You two are the last of the group to go. So give it your best!" Alex yelled. "Ok. But why are we going at the same time?" Ash and Misty yelled back. Alex tried to quickly come up with a lie. "Just to speed things up. Some of us getting hungry." But the real reason why Alex had Ash and Misty go together was to see if one of his Theories was true. Both of them readied their Aura Spheres. "AURA SPHERE!" both of them yelled. Both of them preformed just like everyone else but the thing that amazed Alex was that both of Ash and Misty's spheres were a gold color. Bingo now I know these to have to be together if we are going to win this war.

After the training everyone went back to camp to have dinner. As Brock was almost done with their meal everyone else was having a nice conversation. "So I've heard Brock was a pretty good cook." Alex said. "Right now I could eat anything that is edible." XG replied. Next Brock came over with the food. "Alright guys, dig in!" he told everyone cheerfully. Ash and friends started to dig in. Alex and XG just poked at their food. Evan notices this and came over by them. "Hey guys just eat the food. Don't poke at it." They both shrugged at Evan and took a bite of their food. Next their eyes became glassy and their mouths watered. "That… is… the greatest thing I've ever tasted!" they both said happy. The two continued to dig in.

After everyone was done eating the group decided to have a bon fire. But after a bit Ash went off away from the others to go think. Misty noticed this and followed him. Ash was so deep in thought he didn't see Misty come to him. "What's on your mind Ash?" She asked sweetly. This snapped him out of his thoughts. "Just thinking about what has happened up to this point." Misty sat down next to him. "Do you want to talk about it?" "Well you see before Alex and his friend showed up I had a strange nightmare. Just before it ended I heard Alex's voice speak of a strange warning." Misty sat there listening quietly. "I see. Well that is very strange." Just as Misty was about to get up and leave, "Misty wait. I have to tell you something." This stopped Misty in her tracks.

"What is it then?" Ash started to say something but she could see it was hard for him to start. "Misty throughout all the time we were traveling together I developed feelings for you although I didn't notice at first. But after you left to work at the gym you took a part of me with you." Misty was trying to hold back the tears when she heard this. "But when you came back at the Mirage kingdom that feeling went away. I… felt whole again" "A..Ash are saying what I think you're saying?" Misty started to choke on her words. Ash sat closer to Misty before continuing. "Misty, what I am trying to say is that… I love you." Ash then closed his eyes waiting for a response. After this Misty couldn't hold the tears in any longer. "Oh Ash! You don't know how long I've been waiting to hear those words. The thing is that… I love you too."

Ash was shocked at this. But they were lost in each other's eyes. Slowly each of them moved closer to each other. Then the distant between them vanished as they shared their first kiss. What seemed like hours were only a couple of minutes. They stopped the kiss only for air. They then kissed even more patiently than before Ash then put his tongue in her mouth. She returned this by grabbing his tongue with her own.

Unknown to them Alex was hiding in a bush recording the whole thing. "He he, it's about time they got together." His smiled disappeared when he saw what was happening he closed his eyes and looked away. Although his phone was still recording.

Ash and Misty were still kissing when Ash Picked Misty up by the legs, still kissing. Both of them laid down on the ground. After another 5 minutes they stopped kissing. "Let's save this for later." Misty said with a sly look. The two headed back to the site hands intertwined. Back at the site people were still talking. Then May saw Ash and Misty holding hands on their way back. May waved her hands to get everyone else's attention. Everyone was smiling at this site. "Guess what guys. Misty and I are officially a couple now." "We know already. But congratulations!" May told them. Ash and Misty were surprised at this. "How did you guys figure it out?" Misty asked. Evan then came up to them. But he was really blocking their view of Alex and XG, who were trying really hard not to laugh. After a little while longer everyone was heading to the tents. Ash was preparing for bed when Misty came in. "Do you think you have room for me?" She asked giving him a seductive look. "I always have room for you." Ash said. Both of them got in bed. "I am doing this because I love you." one thing they didn't notice was to people were peeking in the tent. "Awe jeez. You guys are too young for that!" they both yelled. They were replied by a being hit by an Aura Sphere. "Who was that?" Brock asked.

I'm finally done with chapter four. So what do you think of it so far. Just wait till part 5 see ya later!

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