Chapter 4: Lumiose City Pursuit! Ash's Unique Vajra!
Serena's Point of View
It has been a few hours since meeting the mysterious Demigod of Melancholy, Yasha...wait...I'm getting ahead of myself! Let's start off where we left off.
Hours earlier…
My mom and I managed to carry the man into the house and laid him on the couch getting him comfortable while Mom made tea. I just stood there watching the strange man before he began to move… "Ugh…" He muttered with a calm yet slightly melancholic smooth and balanced tone male voice as he started to twitch and opened his eyes slowly. "Mom! He's waking up!" Serena shouted as my mom got into the room and placed a tray of tea cups and macarons on the table. "What...happened?" The man muttered as he sat up and rubbed his head before noticing us and the tray of tea and treats but also Fletchling. "Oh! You're awake! We're so glad that you're okay after your fall." My mother explained as the man looked at her before smiling. "Thank you. I really don't know how I got here. My name is Yasha." Yasha answered kindly.
"My name is Grace, this is my daughter Serena and my Fletchling. We're just glad you're okay. Do you want some tea and macarons?" My mother asked as Yasha noticed the tray. "Thank you." Yasha answered as he took some of the tea and drank it before taking a bite of the macaron. "These are pretty good. You know how to cook very well." He praised kindly as my mother blushed. "Thanks very much Yasha." Mom answered while Fletchling approached the man who looked at the Pokemon puzzled. "I haven't seen a bird like this before. He's beautiful." Yasha stated as he extended his finger and Fletchling landed on it happily chirping away. "Fletchling is my mom's Pokemon, he's part of our family despite him pecking me awake. Can you tell us how you got here?" Serena asked curiously as the man nodded.
"Well. I'm not exactly human. I'm the Demigod of the Mantra Melancholy and...I'm supposed to be dead because I've died long ago." Yasha answered as I grew paled and screamed in terror. "You're a ghost?! But you look real to me!" Serena stated shivering nervously. After that Yasha explained some of his past to us and we listened carefully. We also found out that he had a brother in law and a niece and he gave up his life for them. "That's so sad but at least you did everything you could for them." Serena answered as the man lost his frown and just gave me a small smile. "Thank you but somehow...I can feel my brother's presence somewhere in this region. I believe he's out there and alive." Yasha stated as we were completely shocked from his statement. "That's great. I hope we can help you find him. Would you like to see Serena doing some Rhyhorn training? I bet with your skills you can help her out with it." My mom asked as I looked completely embarrassed while Yasha looked interested. "I won't mind…" Yasha answered as we now got back to present time.
Here we are, I was riding on top of Rhyhorn while my mom coached and Yasha watched us. I was freaking out as Rhyhorn was going buck wild trying to launch me off of it. "Serena! You've got to be calm, Rhyhorn senses your emotions and your making him very uncomfortable and startled! Calm down!" Yasha shouted as I looked surprised but lost my chance to do it as Rhyhorn bucked me off while Yasha just sighed while my mother had a sheepish smile. "MOM! I HATE THIS!" Serena shouted as loud as I could while Yasha helped me up. Meanwhile at Lumiose City…
Ash's Point of View
We were running through the city heading towards the Professor's Lab with an injured Froakie in my arms while my dad was carrying the injured Volcanion on his back while Clemont was having severe trouble trying to keep up with us. I was still in my Demigod Mode but I didn't care because I needed to get Froakie help. "Guys! I'm going as fast as I can! Go on ahead and I'll catch up later!" Clemont shouted. "We will Clemont! Come on Dad, Pikachu and Bonnie!" I shouted while Bonnie commented on how slow Clemont was. However when we were close in range of the Pokemon Lab, I sensed Team Rocket hiding in the trees and shot them an ominous glow through my glasses. "There it is Ash! The Sycamore Pokemon Lab!" Bonnie shouted as we opened the door and ran into the building.
The building was huge like giant mansion that had a long staircase, multiple highways, glass window frames for some of the bigger rooms and bookcases scattered about but we didn't see anyone around. "Professor Sycamore! Are you here?!" I shouted loudly as my voice echoed through. "It's an emergency!" Asura roared loudly as we heard footsteps coming our way. "*yawn*...coming." A male voice sounding like Yasha but slightly more laidback answered as a man a ft and a half shorter than my dad with light peach skin, slightly wild black hair, stubbles of a beard around his chin and brown eyes wearing a white lab coat, blue shirt, black pants and black shoes who was currently scratching his head. "Are you the Professor?" I asked surprising the man from my appearance before he noticed Froakie and Volcanion. "Froakie! Volcanion! No!" He shouted as he approached us quickly. "You know this Froakie and Volcanion, professor?" I asked curiously as he nodded. "Sophie come quick! Froakie, your trainer has been worried about you." Sycamore answered while Froakie glared to the left as my dad noticed it while Sycamore's long blue haired assistant came over and took Froakie.
"Sir. Take Volcanion and follow Sophie. They'll be treated over there." Sycamore stated as my dad nodded and he followed her to the medical room and came back quickly in a second stunning the professor for his speed. "Professor...is Froakie's trainer on his way to get Froakie?" I asked worriedly. "No. He contacted us to tell that he was giving up Froakie." Sycamore answered as I was stunned while my dad looked very angry and a serious glare on his face. Clemont came walking in tiredly as he fell on the floor while Bonnie complained but their attention was drawn away as I glowed once again before returning back to normal shocking the Professor. "You...changed! How is that possible!?" Sycamore asked completely surprised but Asura just told him to wait for a moment as we went to see Froakie and Volcanion.
Both of them were in medical pods with glowing orange lights from long tubes shining on them while Sophie worked the machine through the computer. "Poor Froakie…" I stated sadly looking at Froakie while my dad mumbled something. "Don't worry. Sophie is the best we have for this job. Those two will be okay." Sycamore stated as we followed him to a living room like place and sat on the coach aside from him introducing ourselves. "So Ash, I guess it's true from the rumors that you're half demigod. Oak told me everything but I was astounded to see you in your Demigod form. You definitely looked like your father back there." Sycamore answered as Bonnie and Clemont were completely shocked from the information. "What…!? Ash and Asura are Demigods…! That's unbelievable! I've never heard of anything like that before but explains Asura's ability to glow and fire energy but also Ash's transformation and powers back there!" Clemont explained completely stunned while I just rubbed my head with a sheepish smile on my face.
"Yes. After all, you haven't seen my eyes." Asura stated as he took his glasses off showing his glowing white eyes to the three surprising them. "Your eyes...they're pure energy! I guess it comes from being resurrected back in Kanto. Oak told me everything about your arrival and some of your known origin. It's incredible to meet you two in real life." Sycamore answered as I looked at my dad with a question on my mind. "By the way Dad, why were your runes glowing back there? I can feel your power getting intense during the battle." I asked as my dad sighed.
"That my son is Unlimited Mode. When a Demigod fights, some of our Mantra can build up to incredible levels and once it's at the right point we can unleash it and take a temporary phase known as Unlimited Mode. In Unlimited Mode, we can use Heavy Attacks as much as we want without overheating and we become stronger. We use special gauges to monitor the flow of power but give us bonus effects during battle. In the fight, I was using Avenger Gauge to boost my length in Unlimited Mode during the fight. Since you're going to need some help with your powers, I'm going to give you this." Asura explained as he handed me a small green stone shaped like a shield in my hand.
"That's a Defender Stone, when you use it, you'll gain the Defender Gauge which will reduce the damage you take in Unlimited Mode but also limit the Mantra so it doesn't overpower you. Place it on your shoulder to equip it." My dad explained as I followed his instruction and placed the stone on my shoulder, immediately it went into my shoulder causing a small green shield like gauge to appear on the palm of my hand. "Whoa! That is so cool!" Bonnie shouted excitedly while Clemont inspected my shoulder first then my hand. "Incredible, the stone went into your body and became synched with your system. I bet it's because of your demigod heritage that you can do this but how can he remove it or switch it out?" Clemont asked a little confused. "He can't remove it unless he replaces it with another Gauge. Right now he'll be only using the Defender Gauge until he gets better control of his powers." Asura explained as I just shrugged before we changed topics.
"So what's the deal with Froakie's trainer and what's with that Volcanion too? What happened to have him give Froakie up?" I asked curiously with a small frown on my face. "Froakie is one of the starters we give to new trainers but this Froakie is different. He didn't listen to his trainers that he didn't like and ran away from them most of the time leaving them to bring him back. Then there was also Volcanion, it's rare to find a Legendary Pokemon like Volcanion to be near Kalos because they live near geyser filled areas but this Volcanion had recently came to the town. He doesn't respond to any people or Pokemon and usually is challenged by trainers who want to capture him and he defeats them with ease before leaving but still stays around the city. The two of them encountered each other when Froakie ran away and defended Volcanion who got jumped by some bad trainers. Volcanion stays at the lab but he leaves whenever Froakie leaves doing what he wants and only comes back when Froakie comes back. He doesn't like being around the other Pokemon either like there's something bothering him but this the first time he've left with Froakie to protect a trainer." Sycamore explained surprising us.
"This happened a lot to Froakie, a bunch of trainers and Volcanion?" I asked concerned. "Froakie and Volcanion sure have a hard life." Bonnie answered. "It's almost like those two are searching for something but we don't know what." Clemont stated while Asura just looked through the window at Volcanion. "Gar-gar!" A screechy dragonic growl voice answered causing us to look at the window of the medical room to see another assistant and a new Pokemon there. The Pokemon resembled a 15 ft tall bipedal dark purple dragon with a red underbelly, a stinger like claw with purple sail wing arms, razor sharp fangs, black iris and yellow sclera eyes, two torpedo like horns on the side of his head, a huge fin on his back, spikes on his legs and side of his chest, a long tail with 3 fins at the end and razor sharp claws and thick legs. "Whoa! That's a Garchomp!"I shouted as my dad looked a bit interested. "Garchomp? Ain't that the final evolved of your Gible that Oak told me about? He looks pretty strong." Asura answered with a smirk on his face.
"Garchomp lives here in the lab, it has a good heart. Garchomp, how are you feeling*pets Garchomp* Don't worry Froakie will be fine. You have these people to thank." Sycamore answered as me and Bonnie helped calm and pet Garchomp before Garchomp glanced at Asura looking in his glowing white eyes. Clemont, Sycamore and Bonnie began to talk about Sycamore's research and a bit later they left to see more Pokemon. Asura and I decided to go into the room and look at the injured Froakie and Volcanion. "Froakie, thanks for what you did. You're an amazing Pokemon. I don't get why people just want to give you up. I mean it'll be awesome to have a Pokemon like you." I answered as Froakie looked at me before closing his eyes. "Volcanion, thank you helping protect my son and his friends. I can see in your eyes the loneliness, something I had long ago. You may not think but you aren't alone. You are strong and have much to life then you think. Maybe one day we could be friends. Get well Volcanion." Asura answered as Volcanion looked at him in the eyes and I thought I saw a smile on both of their faces. "Come on son. Let's see Sycamore." Asura answered as I followed him to the Pokemon habitat.
We had met up with Sycamore and the others to see tons of different Pokemon in lush grassy area with a pond and multiple trees to see tons of different Pokemon from Zigzagoon to Helioptile. "I never seen this many Pokemon before, if Mithra was here she'll be so happy." Asura answered as Clemont looked confused. "Mithra?" Clemont asked. "That's the name of my daughter before Ash. The one I gave up everything for." Asura answered as I smiled. "I wonder how she was like." I muttered in excitement. "So what kind of evolution research are you doing Professor?" I asked curiously as he faced us. "What I believe is that Pokemon may have an additional evolution then what we know." Sycamore answered as we looked surprised. "Are you saying Garchomp might still be able to evolve?" Clemont asked a little stunned. "There have reports of certain Pokemon evolving despite being in their final stage. Other researchers and I call it Mega Evolution. We believe a strong bond between people and their Pokemon and a special stone play a part in it. What's more a Pokemon is able to return to its previous form from that way." Sycamore explained as we looked surprised but Asura looked up at the glass ceiling and glared fiercely before he left without us knowing.
Asura's Point of View
I was listening to Sycamore's explanation of Pokemon evolution before I sensed a familiar and annoying presence close by. The presence of the scum Team Rocket before hearing a Wobbuffet from the ceiling seeing the 4 jokers above. They noticed me looking at them especially my undercovered eyes as I gave them an intense glare while my eyes glowed blood red causing the jokers to fall off the roof. (I don't like the looks of it. I better go and see what stupid plan they're going to have.) I thought as I walked out of the room and headed back to the main hall of the lab. I was walking to the door when I saw the jokers dressed up as lab scientists confronting one of the Professor's assistants and Garchomp. "Froakie! Volcanion!" Two familiar cries howled as a fully healed Froakie and Volcanion entered the room glaring at Team Rocket. "That's the Froakie and Volcanion that blasted us off!" Meowth muttered as James took out two mechanical cubes from his bag. I immediately knew what they were going to do.
"NO!" I howled as I ran out while James threw the two cubes at Froakie and Volcanion but Garchomp and I got in the way as the collars clapped onto our necks forcing blue electricity in our bodies. "GAR!" Garchomp howled in pain as his eyes turned completely blue. "GET THIS &*#$ COLLAR OFF OF ME!" I howled as bright orange energy circulated from my back before forming into a giant bulked arm with razor sharp claws scaring the living crap out of those present. "What's going on?!" Sycamore shouted as Ash and the others arrived to the scene in order to be shocked as well. "There's a giant arm coming from Asura's back!" Bonnie shouted amazed as the arm reached for my collar and snapped it off before dissipating while I sent a death glare to Team Rocket who shuddered in fear. Garchomp however let out a huge dark purple energy beam at the walls causing a huge explosion before slamming into the wall causing the collar and his eyes to glow bright red.
"Alright who are you!?" Sycamore shouted as I slapped the air pushing Team Rocket's costumes off with a powerful gust. "They're Team Rocket, criminals that steal people's Pokemon and like pissing off Demigods. By the way, this is for putting that collar on us!" I howled as I charged towards the three with my fists glowing red and delivered a powerful punch sending them flying before they could say "We're Blasting Off Again." Garchomp however began to fire Hyper Beams around the lab. "What's going on?!" Ash asked shocked and concerned. "Team Rocket put a collar on me and Garchomp and tried to control us. I broke my collar but Garchomp's malfunction now he's in pain." I explained before getting blasted with Hyper Beam while Garchomp took off. "Dad!" Ash shouted as he ran to me to notice I got up and I wasn't happy.
"Garchomp is suffering from the collar, if we don't something it won't end good for anyone." I stated as Ash looked determined. "Then let's save Garchomp! Let's go Pikachu!" Ash shouted but Volcanion and Froakie got in our path. "Froakie! Volcanion!" The two shouted as they wanted to come along. "You want to help us? Then we accept it but we must hurry." I answered as the two nodded and we took off after the runaway Garchomp. The only thing we had to follow to find Garchomp was the rapid fire Hyper Beams shooting across the city. "It seems he's heading for Lumiose Tower, we better be careful Ash." I warned as Ash nodded and we headed to the tower at full speed. Meanwhile somewhere in Kalos…
It was now the middle of the evening after Rhyhorn training. Yasha and Grace helped Serena bandaged the cuts all over my body and Serena was currently getting myself something to drink while Yasha and Grace were sitting on the couch talking. "Serena, came here. Something happened." Serena's mom asked as Serena looked at her annoyed. "Yeah! To my face!" Serena shouted as my mom sheepishly frowned while taking a sip of her tea. "No. On the tv." Yasha answered as Serena sat down and noticed a scene of rapid Hyper Beams was being shot through the city. "What movie is this?" Serena asked a little surprised. "It's real and live from Lumiose City. Something awful is going on." Mom explained as they looked nervous while Yasha frowned. Back at Lumiose…
Ash's Point of View
We had managed to arrive to Lumiose Tower to see Garchomp was firing multiple Hyper Beams from there. "Garchomp! I've got to get close and get that color off!" Ash shouted as Clemont looked at me like I was crazy. "Ash! That's dangerous even for you!" Clemont shouted but he knew I was determined to help Garchomp and so was dad. "I can easily jump up there so can you Ash. It's a good distance for you to start." Asura answered as I looked surprised. "Whoa! That's incredible Asura!" Bonnie shouted amazed. "I don't think it's a good idea. Ash, follow me. I know a way to get in plus we don't want you guys get plastered everywhere." Clemont explained as my dad nodded while frowning but we followed Clemont to the side of the building. "This stairwell is used for emergencies like this. Glad I got my backpack. The future is now thanks to science! Clemontic Gear on, Aipom Arm go!" Clemont explained as a 3 fingered long robotic arm came from his backpack and turned the switches of the console opening the stairwell door. "Whoa! Science is so Cool!" I shouted as my dad sweatdropped.
My dad, our Pokemon and I went through the stairwell only for a Hyper Beam to come down almost hitting Bonnie but also blocked the doorway with rubble. "Clemont! Bonnie! Are you okay?!" I asked shocked. "We're fine but go! Help Garchomp!" Clemont shouted as we nodded and went up the stairs arriving on the floor where Garchomp was but also getting the attention of the crowd below. "Hey Garchomp." I answered softly but Garchomp faced us and fired a Hyper Beam at us. "VOLCANION!" Volcanion howled as he fired a huge blast of highly pressurized water or Hydro Pump back at the Hyper Beam cancelling each other out but Garchomp took off to the top of the tower. I looked to the side to see ladder handles sticking out of the wall as I quickly grabbed ahold of it and began to climb. "Come on Volcanion!" Asura shouted as he placed his foot on the wall and began to climb while Volcanion slammed his feet into it and started to climb as well. We quickly got to the top as it became night. "We're here for you Garchomp." I stated as Garchomp fired another Hyper Beam but we sidestepped out of the way.
Pikachu however looked ready to attack Garchomp. "Wait Pikachu! We can't attack Garchomp. He's hurting." I answered as Pikachu stand down. "Garchomp, we know you're hurting but we came to help you. Please let us take that collar off. We're here to help Garchomp. Okay?" Asura and I answered in sync as Garchomp struggled for control trying to break the collar backing towards the edge. Froakie immediately used his fruffles to glue Garchomp to the floor while I grabbed onto Garchomp ordering Pikachu to use Iron Tail destroying the collar. Pikachu and I got off of Garchomp as he slumped down exhausted. "Don't worry Garchomp. Help is on the way." I answered but the floor Pikachu was standing on broke apart as he fell off the building. "PIKACHU!" I shouted as I leapt off the building after Pikachu suddenly switching to my Demigod mode but more rubble came after us. "ASH!" Asura howled as more of the side of the tower came off as Volcanion was the next to drop with Asura following after him.
I dove down and quickly grabbed Pikachu as the Pokemon from before try to rush to our aid but was too busy to handle the rubble coming down on us as well. "PIKACHU! I WON'T LOSE YOU! WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH AND I'M NOT GOING TO LOSE YOU AFTER ALL WE'VE DONE! YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I CARE ABOUT YOU! I WON'T LET YOU DIE!" I shouted with all my might as my back glowed brightly. Suddenly 6 arms shot out of my back the top bigger than the others like they were a pair of arm shaped wings. "That's Vajra Form! ASH! FLY!" Asura shouted as I noticed the wings and began to flap slowing our descent. I managed to get in a good position as I flew down landing on my feet letting Pikachu got before I slipped and found myself on my knees with everyone staring. Asura landed down with Volcanion in his arms before letting the Pokemon go as the Pokemon from before landed next to us. The Pokemon looked like a Blaziken but with a pointed single horn, its feather like hair sticking straight in the air and some of its red feathers were black.
"Are you okay Pikachu? What's on my back?" I asked as my wings came down showing themselves to me as arms causing me to look shocked. "Oh my Arceus! I've got 8 arms! What's going on?!" I shouted surprised at the limbs while seeing if I could control them but the arms vanished into red energy like they weren't there. "Ash, what you just did was Vajra transformation. Only a few demigods can activate this power transforming into a state depending on their Mantra. My mantra allows me to grow extra arms turning into 6 armed Vajra Asura. Since you're my son, you inherited my vajra power." Asura explained as everyone came over to us. "That's Mega Blaziken!" Sycamore answered as I thanked the Mega only for it to leap away out of sight. "I'm pretty sure Delia is going to yell at me tomorrow for you jumping a long tower." Asura sighed as I sheepishly chuckled. We had returned back to the lab and rested for the remainder of the night. Dad did get yelled at by Mom for what happened yesterday but it was easily calmed with Dad promising this wouldn't happen again. It was now morning as we were currently standing in front of lab entrance with the Professor, Bonnie and Clemont.
"There! You two are set with a brand new Pokedex and Asura now has Pokeballs for the journey." Sycamore as Dad looked at his red flame black Pokedex. "But what about his Pokemon?" Bonnie asked as we realized Dad didn't have a single Pokemon. "Vol!" A familiar voice shouted as Volcanion and Froakie came out of the lab and walked up to us both holding a Pokeball. "Volcanion… you want to be my partner?" Asura asked as Volcanion nodded as he handed Dad a Pokeball. "So Froakie, you want to come with me on my journey? I'll be honored to have you part of the team." I answered as Froakie smiled and I took the Pokeball. "Go Pokeball!" Asura and I shouted as we tossed the pokeball at Froakie and Volcanion sucking them into the device as it shook back and forth before pinging. We picked up the Pokeballs. "Alright! I caught a Froakie! My first Pokemon in Kalos!" I shouted raising it in the air and looked at Dad who sighed. "I've caught Volcanion! My partner and I walk the path of Wrath now!" Asura shouted doing a Kabuki stance with the pokeball in hand. "Wow! That's so cool!" Bonnie shouted as Dad let out Volcanion.
"Since your my partner, I think I shall name you. I'll call you Timaeus. How does that sound?" Asura asked as Volcanion nodded in acceptance while Dad put up Timaeus' pokeball. "You're going to keep Timaeus out?" Clemont asked surprised. "Yeah. He's my partner. We'll walk this road together." Asura answered petting Timaeus. "It's time to head off. We're off to Santalune City for our first Gym Badge." I answered excitedly as we headed down the road saying goodbye to Sycamore. Our heroes journey has just begun with the newest addition to Ash's team and Asura's team in the form of Froakie and Timaeus the Volcanion. What lies ahead for our heroes as the journey continues…