Author's Note: Sorry for not updating in a while. School is busy and with a job now it's becoming tough. Regardless! I will try my best to put these out.
Chapter 7: All's fair in aura and war
The reactions were slow. And not surprising for Anabel. However Scott and Brandon had a ton of questions for Ash.
"What does that mean a natural born psychic?"
"Does that have to do with the legends with aura?"
"How did this even happen?"
"GEZZ! I WILL GET TO IT!" Ash shouted being overwhelmed by Scott and Brandon's constant flow of questions.
"Haha! At least I know that part of Ash hasn't changed." Anabel laughed as Ash could only give her a slight grin and resumed explaining the story.
"Well… From what Michael and I had gathered there was a time where this world had Psychic and Aura users living in harmony. Because both were super natural powers they could easily take out any foe that opposed them. Therefore they saw no need to fight each other because it would result in heavy loses."
"That makes sense. If both were so powerful then instead of risking forces, they would just leave each other alone." Brandon conquered.
"But… Things began to change when aura users became power hungry and trying to use different methods of powering up."
"You mean those stones?" Anabel voiced out to the group.
"Yeah. The gemstones. An aura user accidentally fell into a mine surrounded by these rare gemstones. When he had activated his aura to try and leave the gemstones reacted. He saw that he could overtime take some properties from the stone and infuse it with his aura."
"But how did the Psychics even find out about this power? Wouldn't the aura users kept this thing kinda under ropes?" Scott asked curiously.
"Well it would have been easy to keep under wraps. But this gemstone user was known as Amethyst. She discovered later on that she had the ability to control people's minds. And when she tested this in her aura village it worked like a charm. Even those who were considered aura masters would eventually fall to her." Ash knew that if he had ever encountered Amethyst though he would surely lose..
"So did he control the aura users and have them fight the Psychics?" Anabel was slightly concerned. She knew that this aura or whatever was very strong but she didn't know how strong that made her. Fortunately Ash gave her some good news.
"No. She tried next to pierce a Psychic's mind. However when she tired the Psychic had sensed her mind being tampered with and was able to shut Amethyst out. Eventually Amethyst was found out and the peace between the two countries was gone. Even a powered up aura user couldn't pierce a Psychic's mind if they were trained and concentrating." Ash looked at Anabel with a comforting look.
"So that's why the two countries then fought. I had heard stories but I never would have thought it would be something like this before." Brandon was in shock. The old tablets and research he had found was completely shattered. And to be honest he was kinda glad at least he knew the truth. "What happened when they fought Ash?"
"Well… Eventually there was war. However… It was resolved when the two leaders of each side proposed a treaty and the aura apologized then for its insolence. While some aura and psychics then lived peacefully others like those with gemstones were upset. However they couldn't match the power of the two warriors though from the aura and psychic side. The reason? They had found exactly what the other 12 were searching for." Ash explained to the group.
"You don't mean?" Brandon putting all the dots together.
"It's the only thing that makes sense to me. They had found some were named the Blue Guardian and the Purple Maiden. Eventually they were others that spawned from their ranks. Such as the Silver Archer, Black Demon, Pink teleport, some others that are unknown to us." The group was left speechless after that. Aura and Psychic's did reach a time in point where there was peace again.
"Wait then what does Anabel have to do with this then? How is she a psychic?" Scott was still confused and trying to keep up was starting to hurt his head.
"Well… Remember that time when Mewtwo and I sensed something? It was an aura presence. I am pretty sure it was an aura user. And if they were going to kill her... " Ash turned to Anabel at this point. "You are a descendant of the Purple Maiden."
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BOOOOOM!
"What was that!?" Scott yelled in protest as he saw a rooftop now on fire!
"Oh no… Michael!"
Rooftop...
"Leah stop it! I don't want to fight you!" Michael said as his lance barely had deflected the aura that Leah had fired at her.
Michael had sent all of his Pokemon to a separate place and now it was only him and Leah dueling each other.
"This power… Where is it all coming from?" Michael wondered. Leah hadn't shown any signs of using aura when they were at the base. "Could she have been an aura user and I didn't sense it?"
"This game is going on to long Michael." Leah held out her hand. "Come. Join me Michael. Join me and we can be happy together."
"Quit messing with me! The real Leah wouldn't fall so low!" Michael yelled out. But Leah didn't flinch at all as her hand was still there.
"Join me Michael. Leave all of your friends behind. You should go after Ash. You should kill Ash." The words sunk into Michael's soul like a heavyweight. Killing Ash? Why on earth would he do that? Ash went through so much with him. But Leah's next statement really made Michael freeze.
"After all… If he was there wouldn't you have saved me? Wouldn't you have killed two aura users right there? What about our base? Our home? It wouldn't have been destroyed. Some of our friends wouldn't have died. And it's all because of Ash."
Aelita simply stood behind some piping and machinery on the roof as all of those words had processed through her head.
"What is she talking about? Killing? Ash? And what is this aura they are talking about?" Aelita was scared and terrified. Ever since that ball of darkness went flying and caused a fire on the roof top.
Michael was in an emotional state and couldn't quite figure it out. "Was she right? If Ash hadn't gone looking for Mewtwo and left us behind, would we still have it all? Was I wrong this whole time? Maybe Ash is my real enemy. No that can't be right! I fought off Team Galactic and tired to make this world a safer place! Even Ash tired to…"
"Are you sure that Ash was doing it to save the world?" Leah asked and Michael stared at her. "Maybe he just wanted all the fame and fortune to himself! After all he was reported defeating Team Rocket all by himself and wanted to leave a legacy behind. Meanwhile you had done great things yourself and now you haven't had a single story about you. You feel inadequate and not to mention your aura is much worse than his! After all he has Sir Aaron's aura! What do you have? Nothing even close to that! But if you join me we can defeat him together!" Leah's hand and body were much closer to Michael's now. "Come on Michael… Join me and we can crush him together."
Michael's hand was trembling… But it slowly began to move closer and closer to Leah's hand. Aelita was terrified at this point. She didn't know what she was talking about but she knew for sure that she was lying! Ash and Michael had such warm hearts. Yet Leah's seemed so dark and empty. You could practically feel the evil dripping out of her. She was twisting her words to make Michael join her.
"Michael don't! Don't join her! I know that you and Ash had something happen but you can't do this!" Aelita was practically screaming and begging at this point hoping that Michael wouldn't go. Aelita passed out though as Michael had quickly dashed across the rooftop and had his two fingers on her head with aura channeling through them.
"Sorry. It must be done."
As Michael had made Aelita pass out, he went back over to Leah and accepted her hand.
"VERY GOOD MICHAEL! NOW ACCEPT MY POWER!" A mysterious and evil voice yelled.
"UHHGGHHAAAAA!"
At the Rooftop minutes after.
"Michael!" Ash saw Michael staring off over the academy with his back to him. Anabel was closely behind him but he held an arm up to her signaling for her to wait in the doorway.
"What happened? What was that blast?" Ash questioned as he began to make his way across the doorway. The presence was either masked or gone now. The darkness however was coming from one person and he was standing right in front of him. Ash's eyes flared and his aura was ready to face who or whatever had taken his friend.
"PREPARE TO DIE ASH!" Michael yelled with his lance now a darkness yellow from the original silver. Michael leaped to Ash's position and aimed carefully for his heart. He threw the lance and it went sailing across the roof.
"ASH!" Anabel screamed as she watched Ash block the Lance in the nick of time. The Lance went flying across and Michael jumped up to grab it before landing and seeing that Ash had his aura flaring.
"A sword huh? How very fitting. Do you think you are going to protect your Purple Maiden with that puny sword?" Michael asked. Ash's sword was a ocean blue and shined like his eyes. It also had some crests and a symbol for aura on it. Symbolizing Sir Aaron's Mark on his sword.
"You leave her out of this! I don't know what you did to Michael, but I suggest you leave before I destroy you!" Ash didn't know what was going on. Michael was almost as powerful as he was. The only way that he could have been taken over like this was if it was against his will or the enemy was so powerful it could pierce through an aura's defense walls.
"Destroy me!? HA! I have looked through your friend's memories and as far as I could tell you two are evenly matched! Now with his enhancements he could easily take you down!" Michael yelled and laughed hysterically.
Anabel just learning about aura and psychics couldn't believe it. Someone or something had taken over Michael! And not to mention that each had their own aura weapons! They looked ready to kill each other and Anabel was scared. She couldn't do something like that! Ash sensed Anabel's emotions and quickly shouted to her.
"Anabel! Don't worry about that! I will protect you no matter the cost!" Anabel worries and tears slowly began to stop as Ash's words reached her.
"Ash…" Michael however simply laughed at how pathetic the two were.
"OH HOW TOUCHING! Please I could throw up. Let's finish this!" Michael had vanished from Ash's sight and began lunging with his Lance at Ash. Ash was able to block some of the thrusts and parry them away. However Michael's speed and power were almost too much for Ash. While he could block 3 to 4 strikes Michael had 5 or 7 coming his way. After Michael stopped his onslaught of attacks.
Ash was exhausted. Michael's style was always using brute force and always bursting through the defense. Although normally Ash would be able to defend that power increase wasn't a joke. He had taken some pretty early hits and he was bleeding out of his sides.
"Come on Ash! I need more of a challenge!" Michael said tauntingly.
"Damn he is strong. I don't think I can hold back anymore." Ash began to concentrate his aura and his whole body began to grow blue.
Anabel didn't know much about aura but she could sense that Ash was drawing a lot of power towards his body. It was almost scary to see that much power being poured into someone.
"Let's go!" Ash cried out as both he and Michael charged at each other with weapons in hand. Ash's sword and Michael's lance had struck at a dead even point. Ash's used his momentum and began swinging with his other hand. The aura in his hand flared as another blue sword and his sword clashing with the lance began to grow in size and power.
"No! This can't be! That is... "
"Aura Twin Swords!" Ash cried as the second sword had gone through Michael's shoulder.
"AH! NO IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! ASH WOUNDED ME?!" Michael began to stagger backwards as the blood began pooling out of his shoulder. But then… A smile emerged on his face.
"GOT YOU!" Michael screamed. Ash was too tired to notice that Michael now had a bow and had fired an aura arrow straight into his kneecap.
"GAH!" Ash winced at the pain. He sunk to his knees. The pain was incredible strong and he felt his whole body as if he was on fire. "Aura… Silver Bow…"
"ASH!" Anabel was about to come out to him but then she saw that Ash was holding a hand to make her see that he didn't want her involved. Normally she would ignore him but she had felt a presence. Something... Not human at all. It was evil and all she felt was hatred.
"I bet you didn't expect that Ash. Aura Silver Bow. Another one of my handy weapons." Michael had felt a presence and made his bow vanish.
"He is all yours my master." Michael simply bowed as a yellow light engulfed the space. Emerging however was a pink figure dressed in black.
"It's been so long Ash. I hope that Michael didn't injure you too badly." Leah's voice of despair showed that she felt no sympathy for him at all.
"Leah… So it was true. Who are you?" Ash had known that Leah had been taken away. But he had never expected something to take over her mind.
"Me? I am simply taking hostage in these two bodies over here." A now mysterious and evil voice said. "If you must know I am Amethyst."
"Amethyst? No way… The one that tried to start the war began Psychics and Aura users?" Ash was shocked but not surprised it was Amethyst that was doing all of this.
"Yes well… My mother's memories are a bit hazy but I do my best to keep her legacy intact." That statement made Ash's eyes go wide eyed.
"What are you talking about? Your mother's memories? You don't mean that you…" Amethyst realized that she had said too much and her grin had into a sour face.
"Well it's unfortunate that you found out. But I will have your body right now Blue Knight. And then I think I will help myself over there to the Purple Maiden over there. With both of them we can awaken the Orchicalum and our lord!" This information was too vital! First they need Anabel and him to awaken the Orichalcum and now there is a lord?!
Leah's hand began slowly going towards Ash's head and Anabel was now running to Ash's side.
"ASH NO!" Anabel screamed out. Hoping that somehow some way she could reach him.
Ash's face was full of despair and he realized slowly that he was out of options. He couldn't stop this. Amethyst was so powerful and this close Sir Aaron's aura wouldn't help him! Leah's hand had reached Ash's forehead.
Tap.
"Got you."
Author's Note: Yep cliffhanger. Also for those who were wondering or been commenting saying this is like Steven's universe. Disclaimer I HAVEN'T WATCHED THE DAMN SHOW. So for those who I say I am copying off of it or those who keep saying this is like a crossover I am sorry but I haven't seen it. All I have seen is that there are characters named after gemstones. If you want to compare it to this sure. But don't say I am stealing.
