Hey everyone! I'm back from Stotesbury. We didn't do as well as we wanted to…but we still got really good times compared to some of the other teams. But anyway…point is I am back with a thirst for writing. I was working on this chapter all weekend as well.
Don't forget. The Master's Cup Registry is open for all Trainers and Coordinators alike. The more reviews for the Registry as well as this story, the faster chapters will come!
Also, I noticed how many of you want Ash to be the light/dark hero battling N. Well…I have a special little surprise for you all. There's a bit down at the bottom of this chapter, But it's only a bit. The real deal will never be revealed until it is the right time. Remember, you hold the power to determine when that time will come.
So here it is. The seventh chapter of the Master's Cup. Enjoy!
Previously…
He ran to his house. Or…rather…what used to be his house. A fire had started at the beginning of the battle and most of the roof was gone. The furniture and everything was for the most part, intact. He ran across the first floor. Delia was nowhere to be found. He raced up the stairs.
Bathroom? No.
Guest Room? No.
Master Bedroom? No.
Finally he checked the last room left. His room. As soon as he opened the door, he cried. For there, on his bed, sitting right next to a dead Mr. Mime, was his mother. Blood splattered across her ripped clothes. She must have run home to try and find Mr. Mime. But it was too late. The clown pokemon was already gone. Ash's room was intact. But his mother…oh his mother…there was a large chunk of rubble piercing through her stomach. Cuts, gashes, every kind of injury imaginable ran across her broken body.
"MOM!" He cried out.
"Ash…" his mother said weakly. "don't cry sweetie." His mother had a warm smile on her face.
"Mom. Please. No! Please don't go! Please don't die!"
"Ash…everyone's time ends eventually. Mine just ended early."
"No! Mom! Don't talk like that!" He screamed at her. She feebly raised an arm to rub the tears from his eyes.
"Ash listen to me. There are three things I need to tell you. Promise me you will listen to and follow them."
"Yes?"
"One…this was never your fault. Never think that it was. Two…Live your life the way you want to. Find that special girl of yours and follow your dreams. Who knows? You may find them both sooner than you think. And three…know that I always love you. And that I always will. I will always watch over you Ash"
"Mom…" Ash choked out.
"Promise me Ash."
"I promise mom." Delia's eyes were a million miles away. And yet they still stared at Ash with warmth.
"Goodbye Ash. I love you."" Her arm fell limp. She was still smiling. Ash silently closed her eyes. They had showed their famous warmth for the last time.
Delia Ketchum was dead.
The Master's Cup
Chapter Seven
Betrayal
Ash Ketchum stared at the corpse of his deceased mother. He then gazed out the broken window. Pallet Town, without any need for words, was destroyed. Some buildings had been completely destroyed. Few, like his house, had survived. Most of Pallet Town was devastated. Only little pieces were not scratched. His house had survived. Only a few chunks of the roof had fallen. And one of those chunks had pierced his mother, it had been slowly eating away her life.
A warm wind breezed through the town. The mountain were he and May had just talked jutted out against a bright blue sky. He saw rolling green meadows spread on for miles. The forest was still standing proud. The river was trickling down lazily. The world beyond the town looked beautiful in the bright, peaceful sunlight.
His mother was gone. Gone. The whole world should be cold, not warm. The rivers and oceans should have run dry. The forests should have been set ablaze. The sunlight should be blackened. Nothing should be beautiful. Not one thing.
Ash looked back at his mother. She lied there, on the bed. One arm clamped around Mr. Mime's hand. The other, pointing towards him, as if she was still trying to comfort him.
He was wrong. There were few things in this world that were still beautiful. Even in death, his mother had a look of peace surrounding her. Her smile would never leave. It would always be there to face the world. Even though it would soon be in a grave, Ash knew that it would still be there.
He thought about her last request. The three things she made him promise.
Maybe…maybe the world's beauty was still there.
He sat down in a chair right next to the bed. He took one last look at her and went into a silent slumber. Water slowly trickled from underneath his hat.
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One day later, we find ourselves inside the Pallet Town Cemetery. Ash never left the coffin's side. He never took his eyes off of it.
Professor Oak was really full of grief. He had known Ash's mother the longest out of all of Pallet Town. He stared sadly at the coffin in cold, stony, silence. The exact same as Ash.
Ash's friends all tried to comfort him. They all felt the sadness radiate off the silent teen. Everyone in Pallet came. Even the injured. Fortunately, no one else had died. His friends' family had all shown up as well. They all expressed their apologize as well.
The time had come. The simple brown coffin was lowered into the ground. It was buried in the earth right next to the coffin of Mr. Mime. A stone monument of Delia Ketchum was made. It captured her beauty perfectly. When everyone else had left, Ash grabbed a rock and carved words into the monument's base.
Here lies Delia Ketchum
A great friend
A kind woman
A loving mother
Ash laid a lily onto the grave. Pikachu laid one too. He stood and place a hand onto the name of the woman he missed so dearly.
"Goodbye. We will see each other again one day." He mumbled. Ash turned around and left the graveyard.
"Pika." The mouse cried. He jumped onto his friend's shoulder.
'This is not the end.' He thought. 'They will pay.'
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Ash had not come home yet. May was getting worried. He had not said a single word since his mother had died. When they found him in his room next to his dead mother, she had been brought to tears. Ash…oh the poor guy! So much sadness has happened in his life. He was now an orphan. Where would he live? He didn't have enough money to pay for the house! Not to mention the repairs! They had just found out that the water pipes had burst clean open during the attack. Dawn was still complaining that she couldn't take a shower now. The water had caused sections of the ceiling to crumble and one of them had landed right onto Delia. And then…
"Ash…why wont you open up? Why wont you let me know how you are feeling?" She asked herself.
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-and then…Ash will be ours!" Misty said excitedly.
"Are you sure that'll work?" Dawn asked skeptically. Misty's face was redder than her hair.
"It's way better than your plan! That one would never succeed!"
"I t-thought w-were in this t-together." Dawn said. Her eyes full of fear.
"We are!" Misty said as a matter of fact. "Now then…how about this? If my brilliant plan doesn't work, than we'll switch to yours. If that one doesn't work, we'll go to mine. So on and so forth. Whoever's plan works gets the first dibs on Ash. Agreed?"
"Agreed." Dawn said confidently.
"Good. Now remember, we've got to point out all of May's faults to Ash. He is hardheaded but we cant go overboard. The other's might notice."
"Okay."
"Let Plan Get Our Ash Back commence!"
'He wasn't even yours to start with.' May thought as she overheard them from in the bathroom. 'And those two really do need to learn to whisper.' She was really tired.
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Ash walked back inside the house alone. He had left Pikachu at Professor Oak's Lab. He thought the mouse needed some time away from their home and some time with its Pokemon friends. Flint, Lola, Daisy, Violet, Lily, Norman, Caroline, and Johanna all were sitting in the living room. Ash noticed that all talking ceased when they saw him.
"Hello Ash." Lola said simply.
Ash walked into the kitchen and started to make dinner. Ash's mom had taught him how to cook in the past week. He wasn't about to let her teachings go to waste.
Half an hour later, he finished and walked out into the living room.
"Is dinner ready yet?" Norman asked. Ash nodded. "Good. About time. Go get the kids."
It sounded a lot like a command. He nodded again and walked up the stairs. He told Brock and Max and they both headed down stairs. He then walked in front of his bedroom. He didn't dare walk inside of it. It still held too many memories.
"Dinner's ready girls."
"Okay Ash!" Misty said. Her voice sounded flirtingly. He noticed she wasn't wearing her usual outfit. It was a yellow V-neck. She was also wearing really, really tight jeans.
"We'll be down in a minute." Dawn batted her eyes at him. She was wearing a black dress with an even shorter skirt than usual. Ash simply nodded and walked away. He still needed to find May. He walked into the master bedroom. There he saw May asleep. She looked so peaceful. Like an angel. He didn't want to wake her but he knew she'd be mad if she missed eating. He gently shook her.
"May. May. Come on, get up." He said quietly. May groaned. Ash then got an idea. "May. Dinner's ready!"
The result was instant. She jumped out of bed, ready for her food. He smiled for the first time since the attack and walked out of the room.
May grumbled. She had used that trick on Ash quite a few times to get him up. But he finally smiled so she decided to let it go…for now.
She walked out of the bedroom and followed Ash towards the stairs. When she reached the top step, something pushed her. She fell down the steps and crashed into Ash. They both tumbled down and May landed hard on her leg. Ash landed on top of her a second later. She definitely heard a crack. And pain ripped through her leg.
"May! What happened?" Caroline shouted.
"I don't know. I was walking down the stairs when something pushed me!"
"Who could have pushed you?" Her mother asked. May looked to the top of the stairs. No one was there, but she knew one of those two had caused this.
"I'll carry her to the doctor." Ash said. May saw him struggling to get up. The fact that he would get up despite an injury and carry her to the hospital made her heart flutter.
"You've done quite enough!" Norman shouted. "We're her parents. Not you. We'll take her to the hospital." And in a second, they were out the door.
"May…" Ash said. She looked like she was in such pain. And he had helped cause it.
"Hey Ash. Boy, May sure is clumsy." Misty said a second later.
"Did she hurt you? That was some fall you had." Dawn bent over to "help" him up. Her skirt was way too short.
Both of them were way too close for comfort. The rest of the adults stared at him as he stumbled quickly out the door, after May.
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May was to come home a few days later. She did break her leg but luckily it was only a minor crack. The doctors were able to fix it easily. Ash came to visit her everyday. He seemed to get sadder every single second. He talked to her, entertained her, joked with her. He did everything he could to make her feel better.
Then, then night before she could leave, her parents had found out about their meetings. They chased Ash out of the room, blaming him for May's broken leg. She had fallen asleep half an hour ago and had no idea of what would occur that night.
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Ash had hidden behind a house. May's parents had chased him for ten minutes now. He waited in silence another ten before deciding to come back home. Night had fallen and the black clouds blocked all the stars and the moon.
He opened the door and silence greeted him. There was a chill in the air. He was guessing the occupants of the house had fallen asleep.
He was wrong.
There, in the living room, sat Flint, Lola, Daisy, Violet, Lily, Norman, Caroline, and Johanna. All of them stared at him. Ash looked into each person's eyes. Each pair held only one emotion. Hatred.
Norman took one step forward. The next thing Ash knew, he was on the ground. He felt liquid run down his face and Norman's hand was coated in a red substance.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" He roared.
"W-what?" Ash asked. Why were they all so mad at him.
"Our daughter was hurt because of you!" Caroline shouted.
"I'm sorry! It was an accident! I-I didn't mean to-"
"Yeah right! Look where May is now! Where is she? In the hospital!" Flint raged.
"How long will it be until Dawn is in the hospital?" Johanna shrieked.
"Or like Misty?" Her three sisters shouted.
"Or Brock?" Flint and Lola shouted.
"How long are you going to continue this?" Caroline shouted.
"Continue what?" Ash chocked out. He was seeing stars from the pain.
"Continue putting our families in danger! Johanna raged.
"But…I…I never-"
"YES YOU DID! LOOK AT ALL THE ENEMIES YOU'VE MADE! YOU JUST HAD TO PLAY THE HERO! DIDN'T YOU!"
"Never thought about the consequences did you? You never thought about the dangers our children were in!"
"I always told them not to come! But they would-"
"Try and, like, prevent you from getting, like, killed because of your stupidity!" Lily shouted.
"You never even needed to sabotage their plans! You could have just left it to the police…but no! You were too arrogant and cocky to think about that!" Caroline shouted.
"I… know. You're right. I did knowingly always put them in danger. I never wanted to…but I was always playing the hero. I was always stupid, didn't know what I was doing half the time, and…"
"GLAD TO SEE YOU'RE TAKING SOME OF THE BLAME FOR YOUR STUPIDITY! EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT! WE'D BE SO MUCH BETTER OFF IF WE HAD'NT OF MET YOU!
"I…I guess you're right…"
"OF COURSE I'M RIGHT! AND NOT ONLY US! YOU PUT EVERYONE IN DANGER EVERYWHERE YOU GO! THE WORLD IS IN DANGER BECAUSE YOU EXIST!" Norman spat at him.
"You think this world would be better off if I never existed." Ash hissed, The adults stiffened. They had never heard that kind of voice from anyone. It wasn't human. Or Pokemon. It was something greater. Ash's eyes shined. One vast white. The other deep black.
"N-now wait a s-second-"
"You have no idea what the world is like. You have no idea what chaos truly is. You have no idea of the hell I have gone though to save this world countless times. To save you countless times even though you had never deserved it. You all have betrayed the Pokemon World. And one day, you all will beg that this day never happened. There shall be no salvation for those who have betrayed the Pokemons' Chosen One." With the last word, Ash fell to the ground. The adults glanced at each other. The all silently agreed Ash was completely insane.
The teen groaned. "Please I…I never wanted t-to…" Norman stood forward again. His confidence was restored once he saw Ash broken down. But he was slightly hesitant after that display.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT YOUR MOTHER DIED! THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF YOU'D JUST LEAVE AND NEVER RETURN!"
Ash stared at them. For a second, they thought they saw one eye flicker black and one eye flicker white. Then, Ash Ketchum ran out of the house and into the night.
"Good riddance." Norman said as he shut the door.
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Ash Ketchum kept on running. He was in serious pain but he did not care. He couldn't stay here. They would all die because of him. He fell to the ground as soon as he reached the top of the hill where Professor Oak's lab sat. He crawled to the wall. He heard a cry and felt something wrap gently around his waist. He was carefully lifted into the air and over the wall. His feet touched the ground and he collapsed. A green light filled the air and the pain in his wounds eased down greatly. He saw via the light, a green dinosaur.
"Bayleef!" The dino rubbed her face against him.
"Thanks Bayleef. You saved me."
"Leef! Ba!" She said.
"We're going to go on trip together. All of us."
"Ba?"
"I'm not sure where." He admitted truthfully. "Just far away from here."
"Ba." She said sadly. Baleef had seen Ash's memories when she healed him. She felt his pain and wanted to kill those betrayers. But Ash told her not to and she reluctantly followed his orders. One by one, Ash gathered his pokemon. They all were saddened when he told them what had happened. They all happy agreed, when Ash asked them if they wanted to come with him on his journey. Paul's Torterra included.
Bayleef silently used her vine whip to sneak into the Pokeball room and take all of Ash's pokeballs. And soon, Ash had all of his pokemon in their poke balls, save Pikachu of course. He put all of his poke balls into his backpack. None were clipped onto his belt and therefore, none were registered on the Pokemon League's computer network.
It was the network that sent extra pokemon to the PC when a trainer already had six pokemon with them. But now, their network said Ash Ketchum was nowhere to be found.
Ash began walking. He passed by the hospital. May's room was on the ground floor and he lowered himself by a window. May was so beautiful, even in slumber. She deserved much better than him. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a note he had just written. He cracked opened the window just slightly and slipped the note onto the bedside table. He closed the window.
"Goodbye May." He turned around and walked out of Pallet Town. He was going to travel. He didn't know where the destination led though. He entered the Viridian Forest when something swooped in on him.
"Pika!" Ash and Pikachu found themselves flying through the air.
"Hey!" Ash said startled. He looked up and saw a huge bird with a mane of red and yellow.
"Pidgeot!" It shouted.
"Pidgeot! Long time no see!" The bird responded with a couple of loops. Ash and Pikachu held on for dear life. Then, finally, the bird landed.
"Wow! You've gotten fast!"
"Pid!" It pointed one of its talons at Pikachu. Then at Ash.
"Do…do you mean you want to come with me?"
"Pidgeot!" It sang.
"But what about the Pidgey and Pidgeotto?"
"Pidgeot!" Ash's smile widened.
"Okay. If you're sure." He pulled out an empty poke ball and tapped it against the bird's head. It twitched three times and made the famous pinging noise signifying a successful capture. Ash sent out Pidgeot, put the ball back in his bag, and climbed onto the bird.
"Pidgeot?"
"I don't know! Let's just fly and see where we're going."
"Pidgeot!" And the three flew off, heading towards the moon. For the first time in his life, Ash didn't have a destination in mind. For the first time ever, he was just going to go wherever the world took him.
And so a new journey begins.
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A/N: And there you guys have it! Chapter seven! I know that I said Ash is going to Unova. And he will get there! So don't worry. But don't forget, in the anime, he went with his mom and Professor Oak. I don't think Oak is up to traveling at the moment. Plus, Ash needs to travel around the world a bit before landing in Unova. You'll see why next chapter, where he will finally get there!
Poor May. She doesn't even know what happened!
I made the parents bad in this one. They're not evil. They're just misguided. They think that what they did would protect their kids. Even if it was a bit over the top.
I got Pidgeot back into the storyline. I always like the bird. (Spoiler Alert)Could this be a hint of something to happen next chapter?
And what was up with Ash near the end? What was causing him to speak like that?
"It wasn't human. Or Pokemon. It was something greater."
What could that possibly mean? And one eye glowed white while the other glowed black. Huh?
And as I said at the beginning of this chapter, I will reveal a little more on the plot of the Dark/Light hero.
Ash and N will meet. Both seek truths and ideals. The same as the two brothers that started the war in Unova long ago. Something happened that caused the legendary pokemon to split into two that day. Becoming complete opposites of each other. What would happen if history was to repeat itself?
I'll leave you hanging on that. Reflect on it and do the challenges below.
Thanks To…
Keiton Ghost of the shadows lightningblade49
Batthan Mafee Espeon960
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NEBSparky86 Luiz4200 Vital info
Dom65 pkmnfankael92 maxy2010SilverSaiyanTrainer LAWLS117 Demonbloodfeeder
ShinigamiChop55
Bragging Rights go to…
SilverSaiyanTrainer-Misty and Dawn
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Challenges…
1. What was the state Ash was in when one eye was black, the other white?
2. What Pokemon will Ash have when he gets to Unova?
3. What do you think will happen regarding the relationship between Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem? Remember, I asked once before, "What would happen if history was to repeat itself?"
And there you have it. Ash has finally left. There has been too much trauma.
See you next chapter
SuperXBrother
