Phew! What a load of work just got off me. Enough with the back story. I feel like my story's getting boring with all these grammatical mistakes and unwanted scenes. I also feel like I could've done better with the last chapters about Ash's back story.

Well, all that matters are the results. And since this is my first fanfic I don't expect anything more from myself.

Well! read on. We're back to our Present Story. So, Enjoy and Review..

~PokeWielders


Pokemon Fanfiction:_

Pokémon Fanfiction: Lost Foundation

Chapter 7: Arrival of the Strongest, Departure of the weakest

Ash's POV

Everything was black. Only a sore glint of light illuminated through the darkness. I found myself standing on a surface of water. Then I realized, it's that dream again. That Dream where she lived, within me.

"Remembered the past again.." she asked like she already knew the answer. I didn't say anything to that.

"Why have you given up?" She was sitting on the surface hugging her knees looking downwards. I wasn't surprised. This was like a regular basis.

"There's no point for me to fight anymore.. I'm done." I gave the same plain answer like always.

"Why do you keep saying it?" She had a bit annoyed tone in it.

"Is there other options?" I went for logic. There's no other choice but to give up on madness.

"Then why are you attending the school?" She asked with a stinging voice, I didn't reply.

"Distraction, Excuse, Freedom... That's what you think.. Right?" She was right. Attending classes, learning about Pokémon and battles.. These were all made up. I just wanted an excuse to keep myself from battling.

"If you think you are now free because of not battling...then why am I still here..." That was the last thing I heard before,

Ash's POV ended


Ash opened his eyes suddenly only to see the sky full of stars. 'Why did I remembered all that...' Ash said to himself while having a flashback of all the events two years ago.

'Ever since then, I've had nightmares, sometimes fade memories and sometimes just her talking to me normally at a water surface. This must be the first time someone have three kinds of dreams in their sleep' Ash sheepishly smiled while watching the night sky. "Just how many times have you made tears fall from my eyes... Sarena.."

In the Morning,

"Good Morning Everyone" Dawn yawned while getting up from her sleep. She only saw Brock making breakfast alone. Ash's sleeping bag was empty.

"Where's Ash?" Dawn asked Brock.

"He went to brush his teeth near a small pond." Brock told her. She became a bit worried hearing that.

" He went in the Forrest all by himself? He doesn't even battle now.." She knew Ash would have trouble if there's wild Pokémon where he's at.

"Don't worry, Ash will be fine, he has Pikachu with him." Brock gave a thumbs up.

Somewhere in the Forrest,

"Oy, Pikachu what are you doing walking so front." Ash was confused while Pikachu was acting cautious every moment.

"Pika Pika ppi, pika chu!"

"What? 'Cuz I'm worthless? And may get into danger?" Ash's eyes were burning in anger. "Don't worry, I checked this place, There's no Pokémon here-" suddenly he heard a fimilliar buzz. "Pikachu... I take that back." Ash sheepishly smiled as Pikachu became angrier. Because right then a group of Beedrill went towards them to attack.

"Pika!" Pikachu used iron tail on the ground making the ground break into rocks and shoot through the group of Beedrill.

"Nice, Pikachu... But..."

Ash suddenly held Pikachu in his arm and ran from the angry mob of Beedrills

"Pikachu!"

"Sorry Pikachu, I can't act selfish and let you get hurt fighting..." Ash said to the yellow mouse while running for his life. Pikachu only sighed at him thinking how stubborn he was.


Moments later,

Brock and Dawn had finished with the breakfast and was waiting for Ash to arrive. But as he did their expression narrowed. Dawn couldn't help herself but laugh at Ash.

"Tweeniddle, Fury Attack, Bug Bite... Every possible bug type attack you can hope for..." Ash said as his face had countless lumpy spot because of Beedrill's bug attack. So was Pikachu.

"And what about that Lightning shaped mark on your whole face?" Dawn asked still having rough time to stay still.

"One Powerful Iron Tail from an Electric Rat." Ash glared at Pikachu.

Brock and Dawn laughed out like they were gonna die laughing. Ash only sighed as Pikachu still had quite an angry look.

"By the way, is breakfast ready?"

"Yup, I also made some Pokémon food for the Pokemons,"

"And I made Poffins.." All three nodded.

"Fortress, Steelex, Swampart/ Piplup, Dewott, Lupponny, Leafeon, Mamoswine/ Kirilia.. Come on out!" Everyone said in unision throwing there pokeballs in the air.

"Fortress for! Gree..! Swam..Pert!" Brock's all three pokemon came out calling for their trainer.

"Piplup pip! DeWOTT! Lupp! Eon! Mamoswine!" Every pokemon of Dawn's came with style since they were all top class Coordinating Pokemons.

Kirilia came out and made no sound only looked towards Ash if he had any orders for her. "No no... I just called you to eat..." Kirilia was a bit surprised as she turned and saw every pokemon was happy to have a snack. She then looked at Ash with worried eyes. Ash knew she didn't want to join them. She quickly hid behind Ash.

"Ash, anything wrong with.." Dawn asked Ash. Ash gave her a reassuring look. He then turned to Kirilia, taking out a can from his bag. It had some candies and some Pokefruits. He then reached his hand forward to her, with the food on his palm.

Kirilia took the food one by one from his hand and bit a little in every second. Then soon her face became relaxed and happy after eating her favourite candies.

"What's up with that?" Dawn was confused. Ash stood up and explained,

"Kirilia's a bit shy from start, you already know that. And she had a rough past, so she doubts on the food Brock made. But she kinda trusts me, so she only eats those candies and Pokefruits that I picked myself.

" that's soooo cute of her.." Dawn said having sparkling eyes.

"I understand, that way, she enjoys the candies and gets some nutrition from the fruits." Brock stated after understanding.

"But then it would be a problem communicating with the other pokemons." Dawn told Ash.

"I know.. But as long as she gets to eat, nothing else matters.."

"Why?"

"When she became my pokemon, she hadn't eaten for 10 days. She believed me but still always had doubt on Pokemon foods.. The first thing she started eating was those sweet candies, and then my hand picked fruits." Ash said to them, "And I think her doubting over Pokemon food has something to do with the past."

Both Brock and Dawn understood.

"Well, once we're done, we have to enter Eterna City as fast as possible. I already got a call from Professor Rowan that we should immediately go to Eterna where Cynthia will be waiting." Brock notified them.

"Cynthia..." Ash felt a sudden shiver reminding her name.

"Anything wrong?" Dawn asked. Ash shook his head.

"And when all this is done, We'll be going to Hoenn." Brock's decision made Dawn a bit unhappy.

But she shook off the feeling as they went to the table for breakfast.


Exit of Eterna Forest,

As the trio along with Pikachu moved towards the exit of Eterna Forest, the sight of the new and great Eterna City flashed before their eyes. "Woah!" Ash's eyes grew in amazement.

"This is the first time you saw New Eterna, right Ash?" Dawn said smiling a bit.

Ash was confused but Brock understood.

"What do you mean New Eterna?" Ash asked her.

"Eterna was a big city but now its even bigger. Its been constructed from zero.

"Awesome!"

"The main attraction is the Forestry Gym." Brock said to him.

"Huh?"

"Gardenia renovated her Gym making one of the three hugest gyms in the world. Its kind of a mini Forest."

"Why did she do all this?" Ash asked out of curiosity.

"The Mayor of the City pleaded her to renovate it since the city was so big. Just to attract more attention." Brock said before pointing at something. Ash followed his hand to his finger and saw what he pointed at.

It was the Gym. It was a giant Gym which could be seen even from the high hills of the Forest. While they were on their way to the entrance, Kirilia suddenly came out. Ash suddenly felt a ton of Aura Surge. The Egg in Dawn's bag was glowing red.

Ash fell on his knees. Kirilia also had a rough time standing. Her telekinesis power faded as she was plucking her ears.

"Brock... The Egg... get it away.." Ash said while sweating hard. His eyes had a frightening sight.

"What do you mean? Why?" Dawn was confused.

"JUST GET IT AWAY!" Ash yelled at her as she was taken aback. Tears fell from her eyes.

'Damn... Its too... Late...' Ash's eyes lost its sparkle and wore a faded colour.

"Ash..."

"No.."

"Ash..."

"No stop it.."

"Why did you..."

"Don't.."

"Give up on me..and let me .. Die.."

"Myaa!" Kirilia suddenly was enraged as her eyes turned blue. "Enough!" She suddenly used her telekinesis power and threw Dawn away in mid air along with the Egg.

"Damn it! Swampert , C'mon out and use Whirlpool!" Brock said calling out Swampert.

Swampert came out from its pokeballand instantly used Whirlpool. "Ahhh!" Dawn was safely down to her feet with the balancing whirlpool. But her whole dress became wet.

Right after landing she rushed towards Ash but Kirilia prevented her from going any further by blocking her path. "Kirilia..." Dawn didn't know what to do.

"Kirilia... Its okay.." Ash suddenly held her shoulder, stopping her."Mya?" She was confused. "Return.." Ash returned Kirilia to her Pokeball.

"Damn... " Ash suddenly broughtout a time flower and placed it on the ground. He sat on the ground then started releasing Aura around it.

"The Aura is inside me..." He had a the blue aura's veil over his body.

"What's he doing?" Dawn asked Brock. "I don't know, but let him do what he wants..." Brock reassured Dawn.

After a while Ash got on his feet and turned towards them. Both Brock and Dawn were shocked. Ash's eyes were pale and the sparkle was no more. He also was really weak and breathing heavily.

"Ash... May's not here..." Brock notified him.

"I know... That's why I had to use the Time Flower." Ash told him.

"Time Flower? May?" Dawn was confused.

"Sorry, Dawn, leaving you out in the Dark... Very few knows about this." He said to Dawn.

"Know about what..?" She asked out of curiosity.

"Actually, you already know that I'm a Aura Guardian, a descendant of Sir Aaron." Dawn nodded to him.

" But there's one more secret I have..." And the next thing Ash said shook Dawn in fear.

" I have a dying decease." Brock had to look away as Ash said that.

"What?! But.."

"It was during my journey in Hoenn... As always Brock, I along with May and his little Brother Max were facing danger related to the Tree of Beginning. There was a Lucario who was like thousand years in age. He helped us save Pikachu who was taken away by a Mew. And after several events, there was a situation where the Tree of Beginning had fallen Apart along with Mew."

It was impossible but Dawn seemed to understood his sudden throw outs. It was because he already heard the story a little bit from Brock.

"Only the ones who have full fledged Aura ability could save Mew and the Tree of Beginning in the Kingdom. The only ones who had such ability was Lucario and myself. There was a cost of using so much Aura."

Ash was about to tell her more but she cut him off,

"Using too much Aura could take your life. But Lucario took the danger and died saving both you and Mew along with The Tree of Beginning, right?! So what does this have to do with all this?" She was frustrated. It was natural. To hear a friend is dying suddenly out of nowhere was a bit heavy on her.

"Sorry, Dawn.. But Lucario could save me whole... He bought me time... To be exact, I used Aura a bit much too. So it cost half of my lifespan." As Ash told her that, her eyes became teary. But she knew tearing all over him won't do any good. So she wiped it off.

"So is that why you were suffocating from before?" Dawn asked him worriedly.

"" No... The reason was the egg..."

"What?" Brock and Dawn were both confused.

"I don't know but that egg messes with my Aura. It kinda makes a high Aura Surge over me. And since my Aura is very little now, I can't resist it..."

"Don't we all have very little Aura inside us, then it would be heavy for all of us."

"The Surge is attracted by Aura Guardians and Psychics. As an Example, me and Sabrina of Saffron City in Kanto. Psychics and Aura Guardians are completely different but they both are hunted by the Aura Surge."

"That's why Kirilia was also suffocating.."

"But Ash, isn't there a way to save you from this danger?" She asked.

"Well, There is a way to save me..." He said sitting down a bit so that he could rest.

"Another Aura Guardian from the Kingdom of Rhotta can place his source of Aura inside me so that my own source could be cured and I retrieve my full fledged ability." He said to them.

"Actually, there's only one other person left in this generation who is an Aura Guardian." Brock told Dawn.

"Sir Riley..." Dawn said remembering.

"Yup... He was willing to do the Replacement..." Brock further said.

"Really?"

"But I can't take the offer..." Ash replied without delay.

"Why?" Dawn asked him a bit angry.

"If he places his own source then..."

Dawn knew what he wolas about to say.

"He would die...right?" She felt sad. There was no way Ash could be saved from this.

"Then, why did Brock mentioned May?" Dawn asked Ash immediately after remembering.

"Well, Three years ago, after hearing about this problem of mine, she unexpectedly went to Rhotta and trained how to Purify one's Aura and cure him or her from the Aura Surge. Sir Riley taught her that." Ash sheepishly smiled.

"But it would only cure him from the Aura Surge. The problem he has is on another level." Brock said.

"That's why I stored the Aura in the time flower. It an alternative way to Purify Aura." Ash said to Dawn.

"Well, I thought I could help somehow, but this seems beyond our reach." Dawn sadly said. Then suddenly Ash patted on her shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'll find a way!" Ash grinned at her which made her smile. 'Maybe I can't close our distance anymore... But at least I can help you and stay with you as a friend.' Dawn thought in her mind. "Now, c'mon, let's not waste time on this anymore. Lets get going." Ash walked forward leaving them behind.

As they followed him, Brock walked a bit fast and went at Ash's side. He turned towards Dawn who was smiling a lot. Even having a blush on her face.

"Is it okay to lie to her Ash?" Brock asked.

Ash's smile soon faded. He turned back to Dawn then again turned forward.

"It would mess up her mood and she wouldn't be herself anymore. I don't want that.. I remember how May reacted knowing about this. Although we haven't talked for years and she seems to pull a grudge over me. She didn't even pick up the phone last week when I called her... I wonder why..." Ash became thoughtful. Brock sighed and seemed like he already knew the reason.


"We're here!" Ash exclaimed in joy as they finally were inside the New Eterna

Suddenly the Egg glowed.

"I'm having a bad feeling about this.." Brock said.

"Ash.. Is it again?" Dawn was worried.

"No.. I don't know what's the matter this time." Ash was also unaware of the situation.

"I think I know..."

A voice spoke into Ash's ears as Ash turned around.

"You're..." Ash's eyes grew in fear as the man with orange hair smiled evily at him.

"Lysandre!"


Oh Yeah! Lysandre:s back. Although he was obliterated by Zygarde in Kalos. But he's back. So with a devastating plan to destroy the world and be king. Soon, Lysandre's intention will be cleared and a load of troubles will occure.

Those who are looking for May's arrival wait a bit more and read about the normal Pokémon hazards. Even I'm getting impatient about May's arrival. Let's see how she enters the story further on.