you guys all seem very impressed with this story, so I'm giving it my all and giving you another update, more backstory and battles but it should be entertaining. I probably will put up a poll for which legendary Ash is going to get. I am very close on deciding whether or not to make it a multiple shipping harem or a singular pairing. Sorry for everyone who wanted it to be a harem, it' is almost certainty going to be a singular shipping story, with one sided shippings in the traitor's group. This story will not include lemons, and I will refrain from putting swears in this story, vulgar language is the worst its going to get. If I just lost some readers on this story then I'm sorry I got you disappointed.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, Nintendo does
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man this is a long authors note
"I failed you Ash." Serena whispered.
"Another loss, it will only serve to make me stronger." Clemont sighed.
Everyone returned their Pokemon, with smiles on their faces, it had been a well fought battle. Clemont put Ampharos' pokeball back on his belt before he turned and walked away, the crowd disappeared too, but Serena stayed on the ground, cradling Talonflame lovingly.
"What do you want!?" She hissed towards Ashura as he walked towards her.
"I wanted to comment about your battle style, it's not yours, not in a bad sense, but it doesn't fit you, you're modeling yourself after someone else, but who?" Ashura wondered, acting at the end, he knew who she was modeling herself after.
"Ash Ketchum, he was my closest friend, and then he just disappeared, I didn't even know why, I didn't even get a goodbye from him." She sobbed
"Did he ever tell you what happened to him?" Ashura questioned.
"No." She said, looking up, eyes red from crying.
"His friends thought he was bad luck that he didn't deserve to be in this world, they were going to kill him, he ran away, frightened about what they were going to do to him, he promised them silently, that he would get his revenge on them someday." Ashura growled ferociously, but that passed right over Serena's head.
"We met him one time, he told us this, and I quote ' I was once deceived, and I learned to never trust, I learned to hate, I learned to despise, and most of all, I learned to hide, just tell my friends, my real friends, that I want to see them again." Dante improvised.
"So he's still alive!?" Serena asked.
"As far as we know, we haven't seen him since five years ago, even then I forget where, Kanto I think." Ashura said.
With that, the others walked away, leaving Serena to think about a conversation she had with Ash's old friends when she visited Lumiose City.
"We think Ash is trying too hard, and look at what he's done with us, he's only danger!" Misty yelled.
"I know how much danger he's put us in, but I'd rather help him than watch innocent people die, we had a 5% of survival, yet I chose to help him." Clemont growled.
"He deserves help!" Bonnie yelled.
At this point, Serena had heard about the argument and had walked into the room, seeing a videophone with many faces on it, Serena started to growl as the conversation went on, do his friends have no faith in him?
"Fine, I guess you talked us out of it." Iris said.
"You better not do anything!" Serena yelled.
but as they turned away from the monitor, you could see smirks on Ash's friends faces. They were determined to follow through with their plan and no one was going to stop them.
"They weren't truthful, they did it anyway." Serena sobbed once more after returning Talonflame to her pokeball.
Away from Serena, Ashura could be seen with a small blush on his face as he kept on walking, but his face turned pale when he saw a certain group of people, laughing over a trainer Max just beat.
"You shouldn't even be here!" Max laughed towards a young blond girl with purple eyes, she looked like she was twelve years old, dressed in white pants and a dark purple t-shirt.
"We'll deal with this." Dante said, looking at Ashura, who nodded
"We challenge you to a tag battle!" Dante yelled, holding out a Luxury Ball.
"Your loss!" Max snickered as May grabbed a pokeball as well, Ashura smiled as he pulled out a pokeball.
Clemont, Bonnie, and Serena joined Dante's friends on the sidelines, Kyle stood as referee, Dante nodded towards Ashura, who smirked and nodded back.
"This will be a tag battle with Ashura Silver and Dante Arc versus Max Maple and May Maple, each everyone gets one Pokemon, the battle will be over when one side is unable to continue!" Kyle yelled
"Blaziken, take the stage!" May yelled.
"Slacking, front and center!" Max bellowed.
"Greninja, payback time!" Ashura yelled.
"Leafeon, let's do this like we did before!" Dante yelled.
The grass type evolution of Eevee got into a battle stance as she stared at the lazy ape in front of her, and a poorly trained Blaziken next to the ape, looking at her partner she saw a nicely trained Greninja.
"Greninja and Noivern." Serena whispered.
"He's using Leafeon, he's serious, will he use her other ability?" Kate wondered.
Adam was busy helping the defeated blond trainer up from the ground, the Celebi on his shoulder invisible to the naked eye because she was cloaking with the wind.
"Water Shuriken!" Ashura yelled.
Greninja nodded and formed two watery ninja stars in its hands before throwing them at the Blaziken, knocking it across the field a good amount before the Pokemon skidded to a stop, lighting its foot up in a red fire before launching itself towards Leafeon, who merely grinned at the challenge
"Folium Gladio!" Dante yelled.
"What?" Ashura muttered.
"Latin for Leaf Sword, just something I thought sounded cool." Dante whispered back.
Leafeon's tail lit up light green and lengthened, for more range than a regular Leaf Blade, a light green crosspiece forming across the base of her tail to make it look like a sword. Leafeon's tail raked across Skacking's chest as Blaziken kept going and crashed, Greninja then seemed to disappear before striking Blaziken out if the fight with Shadow Sneak.
"Sunny Day and Solarbeam!" Dante yelled.
Leafeon's eyes flashed as the sun intensified, a green ball of energy forming at her mouth before being quickly released and shot towards Skacking, knocking it out.
"Not bad, but you won't find power if you don't care." Dante said as he walked away.
"Hmf, I expected more, from the children of Norman Maple." Ashura chastised as he walked away with the rest of his group.
Serena was drawing a blank, he looked so familiar, and he gave her a familiar feeling like Ash did, but Ash was gone, he couldn't have come back. Even though she wanted him to come back badly.
"I want him back here Delphox, I miss him." Serena sobbed that night in her hotel room.
Ashura and his group had returned to his hotel room not much later, and were exchanging stories from their travels, Ashura was particularly intrigued with Dante's or the ones he doesn't know already.
"So where are you from?" Ashura asked.
"I'll wait for the announcer to give you my answer." Dante grinned.
"I remember when you gave me Absol." Ashura reminisced.
"Funny seeing you here!" Ashura laughed as he saw a familiar figure getting off his bicycle at the cycling road outside Eterna City.
"It's not that surprising with how many times we cross paths." Dante said with a chuckle as he parked his bike on the bicycle rack next to the cycling road entrance.
So these two friends sat down at the outskirts of the city and talked about their adventures, exchanging stories of their travels to spend time, but then Dante pulled his light brown backpack off and pulled out a white egg Pokemon Egg with black splotches on it.
"You see, my Absol injured her leg for a bit after landing on it wrong during a battle, but when I left her at a daycare, I guess a Ditto spent time around her and the Ditto decided to try and transform into an Absol, and instead of normal, Er...methods? An Absol egg was there when I picked her up again for adventure." Dante explained.
"So what are you talking to me for then?" Ashura wondered.
"Absol was particularly happy with your battle style and how you handled battling her, and she sensed trouble on you, a lot of it." Dante said as he cringed.
"Yeah, that sounds like me, trouble follows me everywhere." Ashura chuckled.
"So then, Ash Ketchum, or Ashura, what are you doing here?" Dante wondered.
"So you figured out my identity, although I gave up that identity a while ago for a reason. I'm actually here to pick up my Gliscor, I just happened to stop by Eterna for supplies, my Gliscor learned everything she could from the Air Battle Master." Ashura responded.
The explanation of Ashura's betrayal came afterwards, but I don't need to repeat that story now do I? Let's skip straight to the reactions.
"So they were jealous of you maybe, you're an accomplished trainer, and are too likable to be mad at, so they devised a plan to get rid of you?" Dante questioned and Ashura nodded.
"I don't have many friends anymore, thanks to them." Ashura muttered.
"Well, I'll be your friend, but I guess I already am!" Dante laughed.
"Soooo...you want to give me Absol's egg, and she's okay with this?" Ashura questioned and Dante nodded.
With that, Ashura put the Pokemon Egg in a black bag that he slung over his right shoulder, the two friends waved goodbye to each other and both went their separate ways, both believing that they will cross paths again with how many times they already have, it was indeed a possibility.
"How's she doing anyways?" Dante questioned.
"You'll find out in the tournament." Ashura grinned.
Dante smiled and went to his room, closing his eyes he thought back to his adventures, most of his memories flowing towards the lesser known regions, where he had spent most of his time, Almia, Fiore, Oblivia, Ransei, and the lesser islands like Sevil, and Declora Islands.
"So you're leaving? To where?" A man in a red jacket with a emblem on his chest asked, blue eyes staring at a twelve year old Dante who wore a red jacket with grey pants, same attire as the man behind him.
"I'm leaving for Fiore Ken, I've learned a lot from here, after Fiore I'm going to Oblivia." Dante said as he walked out the door.
"Remember our code." Ken said with a smile, brown hair blowing in the breeze as he stood at the top of a cliff.
"A Ranger's work is never done, that's my motto." Dante said with a grin as he kept walking.
Dante had a belt around his waist, equipped with a rope, tied up carefully, a Vatonage Styler on his right side, by his waist, a oval object, colored red, relatively lightweight and thin.
"Good luck." Ken whispered as he watched a boat leave the harbor, the boy he had just been talking to most likely on it.
Dante had to smile from that memory as he stood up from his sleep, looking at the sun outside the window, they wouldn't have much time to relax before the tournament begins.
"Fire burns to ashes, leaving hot coals, where life resurrects itself, it's like a Phoenix, Ho-Oh." Dante whispered as he walked outside, seeing people running about with their daily activities.
"Thanks for the battle yesterday." Clemont said as he came up to the two.
"And the info about Ash!" Serena cheered.
Ashura visibly winced at that comment before regaining his calm look, although it quickly disappeared at the sight of two enraged people, May and Dawn stormed up to the group, and in an enraged action, May tried to hit Ashura, but Dante's hand caught her wrist, and she looked over in time to see the wild grin on his face, and then a mischevious flash in his eyes.
"YOU MADE MY BROTHER CRY ASHURA!" She had been yelling.
All confidence had deserted May, Dante put his left foot behind May's and pushed forward as he flipped her over onto the ground, Dawn was next to defend herself, they were lucky they hadn't been noticed yet.
"Empoleon, help me!" Dawn yelled as she threw a pokeball.
Ashura was about to battle, but Dante put his hand out to stop Ashura, then Dante grinned, he would take care of this, Ashura smiled and nodded, stepping back as dante drew a pokeball off his belt.
"You call that a battle cry, sounds more like a plea, Luxray, assist me!" Dante yelled
The final evolution of the harmless looking Shinx appeared, roaring its name loudly before it glared intimidatingly at its opponent, unnerving it. Empoleon tried to look intimidating itself, but that failed miserably when it's pride took over.
"Hydro Cannon!" Dawn yelled.
"All power huh, this will be a short battle, Thunder Fang, bite it." Dante commanded.
A ball of water was sent soaring at the Gleam Eyes Pokemon as it lit up its teeth with high voltage lectricity, which started to evaporate the attack before it bit it in two, shocking its opponent greatly.
"Still have confidence that you can win?" Dante asked.
"Wha-what!?" Max yelled as he registered what happened from the sidelines.
"Volt Down!" Dante yelled the unusual command
Luxray's eyes flashed as blue electricity trailed across the field before attacking Empoleon endlessly. Empoleon fell back onto the ground as Luxray roared once again. Dante smiled and scratched the pokemon's ears, which seemed to make Luxray lose its intimidating look as it let its head rest down a bit.
"Not bad boy, nice electrical discharge." He remarked before returning the Pokemon to its pokeball.
"How could you do that to my brother!?" May accused.
"How could he do that to that poor blond girl, or his could your group do that to Ash Ketchum!?" Ashura mocked.
"We regret what we did to Ash!" Dawn glared.
"He won't forgive you." Ashura replied.
"He will, we know him!" Max yelled.
"We met him, he said that he hates the people who drove him away, and he is only waiting to get payback on them." Ashura laughed.
Ashura smiled as he walked away, Dante castes a warning glare as he walked away too, but they weren't the only people watching, behind a few trees, Serena and Delphox were open mouthed.
"Could Ashura really be Ash?" Serena whispered
"Del phoox." Delphox replied, equally impressed.
I hope you enjoyed it, and if I see enough people excited about this story, ill do my best to update quickly, I'll probably have a poll about accepting OCs or not later on.
till next time!