The rise of a legend: The last aura trainer

Chapter IX

Reconcile part II

Well here we are yet again. Another month has passed by since I last updated the story, time sure flies by. Oh well better late then never!

A certain redheaded girl makes a cameo in this chapter, guess who! It should be pretty obvious though. I'll give you one hint; she's a tomboy.


"Rise up and shine, Ash!" a girl's voice called out. Ash found himself getting his blanket drawn off.

"Breakfast is ready!"

"Umm Giselle?" Ash stared dumbfounded at the girl. "What are you doing? What's wrong with you? ARE YOU EVEN GISELLE AND NOT SOME KIND OF ALIEN WHO HAS TAKEN HER PLACE!"

"Geeze what's with your reaction?" Giselle replied in a sweet tone while ruffing Ash's hair. "And here I was trying to be nice.. Well I'll just eat it up myself if you aren't hungry that is.."

"Hold your horses! Give me one minute to get changed! And what's with the smirk of yours!"

"Seriously, just one minute? Is this some kind of joke?"

"Uh well what do you mean?" Ash said in a confused tone. He hadn't noticed before but Giselle was actually wearing an apron. Ash could feel something tugging on his arm. It was Meowth. He was nodding his head in what seemed to be disappointment.

Giselle just stared at him before sighing. "You're soo dense! Well are you getting changed or what?"

"Well yeah but before that... get the hel-hedge out of here!"

"Hedge?" Giselle asked with a giggle.

"You know what I mean just get out!"

"Fine fine, dunno what's your problem though." Giselle slowly got out of Ash's room with those words.

Ash got up and closed the door before turning his attention to his cat pokemon.

"Meowth?"

"I need your help. Lots of help!"

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-"In order to solve the equation you'll have to elevate the square rot of two along with all the other terms. It is necessary to keep in mi-"

Ash was barely paying attention in class. There had only been one seat left when he had gotten to the classroom. It was right next to Dawn, who seemed to be really pissed of. She ignored all of Ash's attempts to speak with her. She even turned her head with a 'hmpf' when Ash got in.

Ash's classmates (the boys) shone up when they saw it and teasingly asked Ash if there was trouble in paradise. The teacher had luckily arrived just when Ash was about to answer.

Ash was sitting on seat from the window, he usually got a window seat but he had a vague hunch that Dawn had taken the last window seat just for the heck of it. He could still remember Meowth's advice on how to deal with Dawn.

"Just keep it as simple as possible. Don't overdo it and try get as close as possible and maybe you should put your hand on her shoulder if she seems to be hesitating, believe me don't underestimate the power of physical touch." Meowth had then spun on the fact that it was vital that Ash read the mood and acted accordingly to that.

Geeze I just don't know what to do!

Meowth's advice was useful, that much he had in fact also gotten advice on how to deal with Giselle that morning. It had proven to be very successful, he and Giselle had actually gone to school together for the first time ever.

"And to think think that he arrived in school with yet another girl!" Dawn muttered.

"Uh Dawn did you say something?" Ash asked.

Dawn just gave him a glare.

"Miss Berlitz what does x equal to if z is three?"

"uh the elevate of four and a half?"

"Very good now Ash what doe-"

Ash plan had been to force his way to converse with Dawn during the lunch break but she had run out of the classroom as soon as the lesson had ended.

"Ohhh and another plan just crashed." Ash sighed.

"Well Ash I don't know what's going on but maybe you should text Dawn and decide a meeting place? I Don't think she would ignore you if it just are the two of you."

"Uh yeah you think so Misty?"

"Yes I do," Misty said with a smile. "Dawn don't want to lose face in class anymore. I mean most people have alre- sorry haha my bad." Misty gave Ash quick grin before continuing. " So what I'm saying is that Dawn probably will be able to say what she really feels if it just is the two of you."

"What did I do wrong?" Ash asked Misty. The question had just slipped out of his tongue. He already knew the answer.

"You ran away."

I know it was wrong... but aren't everyone making it to big of a deal? It's not like I have to..

"Hey Misty wait!" Ash ran after the girl who just had left him. He grabbed her shoulder and forcefully turned her around.

"Wh-what are you doing?"

SLAP!

Ugh did she just slap me? Ash rubbed his cheek with a grimace.

"Don't just go and touch me all of a sudden! Think of what it looks like to others!" Misty almost screamed with a beat read face.

"Sorry," Ash said as he hung down his head shame. "But really what should I say to her?"

"Ash.." Misty looked at Ash while slowly moving closer to his face. "That you must figure out on your own."

"Ehh really?"

"Well for starters, showing up at school with the self proclaimed beauty of this school without explaining the circumstances isn't the best thing you could have done."

"I see your point."

"I'm glad you do." She suddenly grinned as she pulled his cheek and walked away.

"Well I guess I'll have to ask Meowth.." Ash said after Misty had gone. He briefly toched his sore cheek. "She got one heck of a grip!"

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Fate did however have other plans for Ash. Just when the young boy was about to meet Dawn at the park they had agreed to, he got attacked.

Ash could feel something wet and slimy touching his cheek. It was soft but strut. Ash cheeked started to hurt all of a sudden. He touched his cheek and looked at his hand. Blood.

"What is happening?" Ash shouted out but the attacker didn't stop and he could feel claws ripping of the arms of his shirt. Something red flashed by Ash's field of vision.

It must be a Keckleon!

"Pikachu try to locate it with by sound or smell.

"Pikaaa!" Pikachu nodded and closed his eyes only to get hit by Keckleons tongue.

It's too fast! Think Ash think!

Something hit Ash's stomach and he flew backwards. "Ughh." Something red flashed by his eyes yet again. Oh yeah now I remember!

"Pikachu keckleon can't change the color of the stripe it's still red! Aim a thunderbolt and make it as wide as possible!"

"Pikachuuuu!"

The thunderbolt hit Keckleon and it got followed by a small scale explosion. Keckleon flew up in the air it was not down yet though.

"Pikachu aim another thunderbolt at it! It's in the air and can't avoid it!"

"Chuuu!" the attack flew towards Keckleon who managed to dodge the attack by using it's tongue to pull itself out of the thunderbolt's course.

"Keckle!" Keckleon jumped to the tree and barely dodged an iron tail.

"It's hard, Keckleon is much tougher than I though."

Keckleon jumped down on the ground and started to spin around with it's tongues stretched out.

The grass and trees that got in the way were cut in half.

"Woah it's dangerous! Be careful!" Ash shouted to Pikachu while jumping over the tongue. "It's hard!" Ash kept jumping over the tongue but it got harder as Keckleon slowly started to aim higher.

It's almost like I'm the target and not Pikachu!

"Sableye I choose you! Use sucker punch on Keckleon!"

The sucker punched hit and Keckleon got knocked out.

"Phew that was a close one, good job Sableye! You too, Pikachu!" Ash said.

"Two against one isn't fair at all, is it, boy?"

Ash could suddenly feel a presence, something was behind him and that something was attacking him. He could feel something, maybe a punch coming to his head.

Ash jumped to the side and spun around.

It was the same dark skinned man that had attacked him during the school entrance day.

"It's you!" Ash said in disgust. "You've gotten stronger."

"Yes it's me," The man replied with a nod. "The name is Rude."

"What's your problem? Why did your keckleon attack me!"

"That I can't answer," Rude replied while fixing his glasses. "So what do you say want to have a match fair and square no trix?"

"No way! I could have got killed or even worse expelled!"
"Uh even worse.. duude is there something wrong with you?"

"Haha sorry I had do," Ash laughed. "But seriously it's a big no, I have somethings I must settle first."

"What makes you think that you can talk your way out of it?"

"Well..." Ash looked at the man and suddenly Reno came to his mind. "Are you an accomplice of Reno?"

"Don't pack me in with that man! But yes we are... comrades or rather I should say work buddies."

Rude took out a blue pokeball. "Remember Mantyke? It has hungered for revenge ever since that shameful loss against your Pikachu."

~I want to be the very best tha-~

Ash picked up his phone, it was Dawn.

"ASH KETCHUM WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!"

"Umm Dawn this is not really the time for phone calls but I'm just.. in the forest maybe fifty meters south from the park we were supposed to meet in."

"I'm coming right away!"

"Noo it's dangerous! Just stay where you are!" Ash couldn't miss to notice the big grin on Rude's face. Ash bet he was thinking something familiar to 'ahh you love it takes me back..' .

Ash just showed Rude his finger while getting yelled at by Dawn.

"That's even more the reason for me to come!"

"No way!" Ash shouted in vain. He could hear that Dawn was panting. She must have started to run as soon as he had described where he was. The line got cut off.

"Oh fuck!"

"Well I'd love to stay and chat but I have a job to do, just hand over your Pikachu and I'll let you go. How does that sound?" Rude asked while walking towards Ash with calm and controlled steps.

"No thanks! Sableye use shadow ball on the ground!"

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It had taken a long time and lot of explanations but Ash had finally appeased Dawn enough to calm down and start to think rationally. It had actually been very simple he had just suggested that they should go to a shopping mall and that he'd explain everything as they were shopping.

"So to get things straight. You got attacked by a man called Rude who happens to be a Team Rocket grunt and also the same man you fought ages ago?" Dawn summed up.

"Yup that's about it," Ash agreed while looking at a pair of black jeans. "They look nice don't they?"

"No they are far too tight! Try these ones instead," Dawn handed Ash a pair of beige trousers. "Yeah I think they'd look great on you!"

"Really? Well I guess I'll buy them then."

"You should try them first."

A couple of hours went by that was and it was already 6.15 pm before they knew it.

"Woah time just flew by! I never knew shopping could take this much time.. or rather it was.. fun I guess."

"I told you!" Dawn beamed with a cute smile.

Ash smiled back while thinking how great it was that things were okay between them now.

"I've never had this much fun before.." Ash said. "While shopping I mean!" Ash hurriedly added after noticing that Dawn's eyes widened.

"Yeah me too," Dawn whispered.

"Sorry did you say something?"

"No nothing." Dawn said while turning around. A growl from Ash stomach could be heard, which made Dawn let out a cute giggle. "I'm also hungry let's go and eat!"

"Sure," Ash happily replied. He noticed how people where looking at him and Dawn with envy.
Where they jealous?

"Man look at that lucky bastard with that pretty chic!" Ash could hear someone say. It made him somewhat irritated but also aware how lucky he was and how pretty Dawn was.

"Ash is something wrong?" Dawn asked after catching Ash staring at her.

"Um no... So do you know any good restaurant?"

"Mhm okay well follow me," Dawn replied after looking at Ash with a frown.

It only took a couple of minutes to get to the restaurant and just a couple of minutes more before they got the food they wanted.
"That was fast!" Ash said impressed.

"Yeah the service is awesome at this place," Dawn agreed.

An awkward silence got a hold of them. They just kept eating while avoiding the other ones gaze.

How did this happen?

"Yeah-"

"So-"

"You first," Ash said while looking down on the table.

"I'm sorry," Dawn began. She quickly continued before Ash got the chance to cut her off "For ignoring you, for saying all those things..Your cheek does it hurt?"

"Hey I thought we were over that now," Ash said with a soft voice while wriggling uncomfortably in his chair. "And well a bit but it's not that big of a deal."

"Well I just had to let it out," Dawn replied with a weak voice. "You know I should have helped you instead of blaming you."

"You did help me," Ash disagreed. "You made me snap out of my grief. You... said the things no one else dared to, for that I am grateful." Ash had slowly raised his head while speaking. Dawn had done the same thing and Ash recognised trails of tears on her cheeks.

"Thanks." Dawn simply said with an voice full of emotions.

"You're welcome, Dawn."

"Do you remember when we went on a date the other day?" Dawn asked with a slight blush.

"Yeah I do. What of it?" Ash replied. He could feel how all the girls in the room gave him angry glares as if they were saying 'what an insensitive jerk you are'. Ash was painfully aware of the fact that many people seemed to have listened to his and Dawn's conversation.

"Well when the Reno guy attacked us and we fell.."
"Oh yeah I fell on top of you didn't I?" The glare from the girls got more intense. Not only the girls were glaring at him by now the boys was as well.

Dawn bit her lip and took a deep breath. "You know.. it was my first."

"Oh umm," Ash face was beat red by now. He had never expected this! "Well sorry... what do you want me to do?"

"Take responsibility!"


The next chapter will be the third and last reconcile part. Lots of things happened in this chapter. The threat to Ash is slowly growing and with that also all the complicated feelings between the teens. Cynthia hasn't shown up for a while now, the third reconcile chapter whill show how she took Ash's lost.
Misty didn't end up with too much of a role but she is just a minor character so far and will very likely continue to be one.

Dark Knight has my thanks for helping me with comming up with ideas. It would have taken much longer for the story to get updated without your help!

Thanks for reading and do review if you have time. The next update won't take as long. And also who recognized the famous quote Ash said in the story?