Guardian Solaris

Ages:

Ash-17

May- 15

Max- 13

Brock- 22

Dawn- 13

Serena– 9

Drew- 17

Brandon- 16

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

(Authors' notes)

[Translated Pokémon talk

Part of a double upload.

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Chapter 11- The faces of life

Four people stand on a path, looking down towards the large stadium that will host the Evergrand champion ships. Dawn looked at the stadium as it was something that she had not seen before, unlike the other three who were familiar with the arena in which the finals for the Hoenn league championships would soon take place.

Suddenly the younger, black haired boy known as Max began running towards the stadium. Overcome with excitement for his next great competition. 'I'm gonna win' the thoughts rushed through him as he ran approaching the Pokémon centre, with his friends chasing in close pursuit.

The boy ran through the automatic doors of the centre, and was greeted by a familiar face.

"Brandon!" he said, causing the white haired trainer to turn around.

"Max!" he said surprised, he then walked up towards, Normans son and shook his hand. "So you're competing too?" he stated.

"You bet" the son of a gym leader said with enthusiasm.

Then his friends came through the doors. All of them seemed to be exhausted by the young trainers' enthusiasm. Max turned around towards them and chuckled slightly, while holding one of his hands behind his head.

"Hi guys." He said chuckling slightly at his exhausted friends.

"MAX!" May shouted, with flames in her eyes, ready to rip her brother limb from limb. Max stepped a few steps back away from his sisters' anger.

"Hey May" Brandon said, as Max looked at him he noticed a blush forming on the trainers face.

"Oh, hi Brandon" she replied calming down. 'I'll get Max later'.

Max took his sisters friendliness in the wrong way 'I wonder if I can get those two together then I can stop her getting angry at me. FOREVER'

"These are my friends: Dawn and Brock" she said pointing towards her friends behind her. "Guys this is Brandon, he is Professor Birch's son and used to live in the same city as me until we moved to Petalburg, because my dad became gym leader." May explained to the others. "He was also the one that beat Max in the Sinnoh championships." She teased her little brother.

"Hey" Max said angrily. "I was close!"

"Close to getting your butt kicked" she continued to tease him.

"So, Brandon you're a trainer right" Dawn questioned him.

"Yes, and I'm a frontier brain" he said with pride in his voice. This surprised everyone. "The only reason I'm competing here is because I haven't got my gym built yet, and I got bored. So I decided to compete in the Hoenn league since I already have all of the badges necessary." He had finished off. His eyes were focused on May throughout the speech, and she was impressed with his accomplishments, which gave Brandon another notch up on his egometer.

"Shouldn't we find register you for the tournament Max?" the breeder said. The group said their goodbyes to the white haired trainer; they left to register Max for the tournament. As they left Max noticed that Brandon's eyes remained glued on his sister, with a slight blush forming on his face.

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Max and Brandon had so far made their way through the tournament with flying colours, with Max defeating his last opponents Magmortar with Magmar, and Brandon defeating a trainer named Jack with his Swampert.

They had now qualified for the quarter finals (A.K.A. last eight) but Max had noticed that May had continued to be deep in thought throughout his matches. This only made him more determined to get her together with Brandon, not to stop being beaten by her hammer, but to stop her sadness Max had started to become more accustomed to, even if Brock or Dawn hadn't.

May was now walking in the Pokémon centre alone, Max's battles reminded her to much of when she watched Ash, it was the same stadium and they were now in the same standings. The top-eight, she had to do something to get in contact with him. She continued to pace around the centre, it was abandoned currently, her friends were probably eating, and everyone else was watching a match between two trainers known as Paul, and Rebecca. Normally she would be the first one to go and get food, but right now she just wasn't in the mood. She continued to pace around lost in thoughts of Ash. It had been three years since they last had contact; there last words weren't the best either.

Espeon then let herself out of her Pokéball. "Espeon? What are you doing out of your ball" May said, Espeon then stretched its legs. I guess you're just stretching your legs?" the brunette said. Her Pokémon then looked at her trainer quizzically and gently nudged her leg. May immediately collapsed to the ground.

"I guess I've been walking for a while now?" May said embarrassed, "Espeon, I don't know what to do?" She said defeated. "I haven't talked to him in three years now. Now there is no way that I can reach him. I don't even know where in the world he is, or who he is travelling with. He could be dead for all I know." A tear rolled down her eyes. Her words sounded like she was going to start sobbing at any moment. The cat like Pokémon then touched her chest with one of its paws. She rubbed the tear and focused her attention at what Espeon was trying to say.

"What is it Espeon?" she said with a hint of sadness remaining in her voice. The evolution of Eevee then pointed its head towards the videophones.

The Hoenn native's eyes brightened like jewels as she got up off the hard floor. "Of course, why didn't I think of that before?" she questioned herself, "Thanks Espeon." The co-ordinator said happily as her dilemma was solved.

"Espi!" the psychic type said in glee, happy to see her trainer happy again. "Pion" [I wonder what's happened to Pikachu anyway It stated as an afterthought with a slight blush forming on the Pokémon's face.

May then rushed to take her seat in front of the videophone with Espeon jumping onto her lap. "Hope that Ash hasn't changed his home number." May said as she dialled the numbers. The line did not connect tough. She attempted several more times with the same results. May wasn't going to give up so easily, as she thought for a few seconds. "I got IT! She said while putting her fist up. She then began to dial a different number which earned her a; what are you doing look.

It ringed four times until someone picked up. Espeon noticed the person on the screen as Professor Oak, from all of the magazines that had his face on and from Bulbasaur mentioning him whenever she had talked about her time at the lab and her time with a certain other Bulbasaur.

"May" he said.

"Hi professor" she replied cheerfully.

"I haven't heard from you since you took back your Bulbasaur"

"Sorry professor, I guess I've just been busy." She said sheepishly.

"So what is it you phoned for?" he said getting to the point.

"Well; I am trying to get in touch with Ash, but I don't know where he is or anything. I tried to call his house but the line doesn't connect." May said, the brunette noticed that the professors look had darkened. "Professor, what happened?" May said more seriously.

"You don't know do you?" he said.

"Know what?"

"It all happened two years ago. After Ash had won the Sinnoh championships, he had some sort of argument with Brock, and some girl he had met there named Dawn, as you can imagine that hurt him a lot but that wasn't the start of it." He paused then started again.

"When he had returned home he found that his house was burnt down. Their Mr Mime survived, although Delia was not so lucky. Can you imagine how hard it was to be there at his mother's funeral? His mom wished to have her body cremated so it was him who lit her funeral pyre. His father was already dead and his mom was the only family that he had left.

He had no friends, to support him in his time of need. He was then left alone in the world. He left taking all of his Pokémon; I don't know where he lives now." The professor finished.

May was devastated to hear about what had happened. Ash had lost everything. The person who had saved her life several times needed her, and she wasn't there for him. Tears were free to flow down her cheeks now, and Espeon didn't bother to stop them. What kind of a friend was she, if she couldn't be there for the kindest person that she had ever met? She then buried her head in her hands as they caught the tears flowing. No one in the centre came up to her, she was sobbing but she was sobbing silently, without any sound. No one knew apart from the professor and Espeon.

"Last I heard he had won the Kanto and the Johto championships, so it is very likely that he would be going to the Hoenn championships next" He said, trying to give the young girl a glimmer of hope in finding him. "Goodbye May" The screen turned off. May had stayed there for a few more seconds, then when she got up. Her eyes were a deep red mixed in with the blue core of her eyes.

She then set off with determination. 'He is here and I will find him.'

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May had been searching for a while when she then run into Brandon.

"H-hi May he stuttered" It seemed as if he was holding something behind his back, but out of Mays view.

"Oh-hi Brandon, I'm looking for someone so I don't really have time to talk." She said in a rushed voice.

"Well Max is with Brock, and his battle doesn't start his battle in a while, but there is something that I want to tell you May." He said in a soft voice.

"Sorry Brandon, but I got to find him its urgent!" May said, and then left the trainer on his own.

When she was out of sight, he let his hand out from behind his back to reveal a bouquet of roses. 'Him? I got to catch up with her and tell her how I feel, before I'm too late.' And with that he ran to catch up with her.

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In her search May had done a lap around the complex, and found herself near to the entrance of the Pokémon canter that she begun from. 'I have no clue where he might be. Maybe I should have tried to think things through' May said as she approached the doors of the centre, walking along the wall. May then saw a white haired girl walk out of the Pokémon centre 'Isn't that the girl that nearly had her Wartortle killed by Max? I hope that it's alright.' And with that she gave pursuit to the girl who was running down the path and already a considerable distance away. 'I can always ask her if she knows Ash.' She thought even though she knew that it was very unlikely.

The girl had run into a small clearing outside of the actual stadium complex.

May had followed her, she then heard some people talking as she walked closer.

"Thanks for healing them Serena" A masculine yet kind voice said.

'So that's her name, but why does that voice sound so familiar?' May wondered as she approached staying out of view.

She then peered through the bushes, yet staying out of sight. She saw Serena, and with her was a man.

After a double take she noticed that it wasn't just any man it was "Ash" she whispered under her breath.

He was taller, his hair slightly longer as well but it was still unruly, and his face shone in the sunlight that managed to flow through the leaves, showing itself without the concealing hood there to stop it. His voice was deeper, and once again reminded her of something...

"It was him" she whispered under her breath. The person at the Grand Festival that comforted her when she was as low as she could have gone. Like every other time that she needed him and he was there for her.

For three years, she had been down, and didn't know why. Even after they parted ways for what seemed to be a lifetime he still returned.

May became lost in her thoughts, as she had not really thought this through.

'What should I do?' The Hoenn native wondered as she diverted her gaze onto the ground to be lost in her thoughts, to her it seemed like seconds but it was longer in reality. She heard Ash and his friend talking but did not really make out anything that they had said. When she looked back up she noticed that they had disappeared.

She rushed into the small clearing where the two once stood, once in the middle she looked around, wondering where they might have gone.

"M-May" she heard someone stutter behind her, and turned around in the hope that it may be Ash.

When she turned around the co-ordinator found her friend Brandon, the 16 year old slowly took a step forward, but kept something concealed behind his back.

"Hi Brandon" May said unsurely. 'What's he doing here?' She wondered.

"Well May I followed you, because I got to tell you something very important." Brandon said with a slight blush forming on him.

"What is it?" she questioned. But before the frontier brain could reply another rustling could be heard from another part of the clearing. From it another person came out.

The first thing that was noticeable about him was his bright green hair.

"Drew?" May said in surprise.

"Who else" he replied in an arrogant voice, than he flicked his hair. "May I have to tell you something?" He said, he focused his attention to Brandon for a second noticing that he was concealing something behind his back. 'What is this looser doing here? I'll have to tell her quickly'

"May" The two said in unison to the baffled girl. They then kneeled in front of her. Drew got out a rose, and Brandon got out a bouquet of white flowers from behind his back.

"I love you" They both stated. Holding flowers in front of their hands, and their eyes glittering towards her; May took three steps back with a bright red blush emerging onto her face.

The two then gave each other death glares.

May was stunned; the world was just spinning too fast for her. A while ago she had just found out that one of her best friends, or former best friends had just lost their mother, and then she discovered who Ash was, and now this. She just looked as the two boys looked at each other; this was just not the time or the place. She took her opportunity and ran.

When the two boys looked up once again they saw that she was gone, they then got up and looked around clueless.

"What's the big idea scaring her way?" Brandon shouted, to his new rival.

"Me, you're the one who scared her, I've known her throughout her whole contest career, and it's obvious that she likes me. Like someone like you has a chance." Drew retaliated, and then flicked his hair while turning away from the trainer.

"I've known her since we were little kids Mr Big Shot, and for your information I am a frontier brain, so I'd see the facts before you say anything." Brandon said enraged. "Maybe the grass on your head has grown into your brain, that's why you think that you have a chance." Brandon said trying to agitate his opponent, but it barely had an effect.

"Look who's talking about hair, Mr Snow." (I know that was the worst line ever) Drew then shot back calmly folding his arms and holding his head up high, away from the person he was confronting. Brandon was now getting really angry at the calm co-ordinator, when a speaker called out from the distance.

"All trainers competing in the next round are asked to go to their fields for their battles." With this Brandon turned and walked off to his battle.

Drew didn't question him leaving. 'I should have talked to May at the Grand festival while I had the chance' and left to find her.

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F.Y.I.

- I have absolutely no Idea where Drew gets all of his roses from, that's why I didn't describe it.

- People can have white hair, I've seen them.

-Ragnarök is the name of an event (Fate of the gods) I havn't told you the name of Leo's master. (YET)

-Zenith is more like a European dragon (2 wings, 4 legs breathe fire) while Leos master is more like a Asian dragon (head, couple of legs, long snake like body, no wings) a bit like Raquaza, but his physical form has not been seen yet only his image embedded in the clouds.

-From now on I will finish each chapter with a quote (I like to give my chapters some sort of meaning inside of them) and my sig.

The more I see the less I know
The more I'd like to let it go.

Red hot chilli peppers- Snow

And now I vanish...