Chapter 11: Volcano Trouble
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON!
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Ash was now waiting for Lillie to come out of her room within the Pokemon Center as he gazed at the necklace he received yesterday.
"To think she'd bought this for me. Even though she helped me out a lot already." Ash mumbled with a smile.
He was snapped out of his trance when Lillie walked into the lobby wearing the ring she received from Ash the other day.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Ash." She apologized as Ash shook his head.
"Not at all, I'm used to having to wait for a girl for more than 5 hours a day." He waved off.
"Shall we head to the ranch?" He suggested. Receiving a happy nod from Lillie.
"Sure."
The two of them walked out from the Pokemon Center and head towards the gates of the ranch, while having a mild conversation.
"I'm still surprised you bought the necklace for me, even though I owed you a lot already." Ash told the blonde girl.
"I should be the one owing you, not only are you helping me find more about Nebby and helping me when you barely even know me." Lillie retorted.
"That's not true, but at the very least-" Ash cut himself.
Lillie was in great confusion but turned to shock when she felt Ash kiss her cheeks before grinning as he watch her turn bright red.
"You still look better when you're like this." He teased with a cheeky grin before running off.
Lillie who still in the state of shock recovered as he saw the running Ash, who was giving teasing smile.
"Get back here, ASH KETCHUM!" She yelled.
"Nope!" Ash retorted.
Lillie ran after Ash, as the Kanto Trainer's Pokémon simply looked at each other before sighing loudly as they went to chase after their friends.
Ash who ran away from Lillie for the past twelve minutes was now near an edge of the cliff stopped in his tracks as he turn around to see a smirking Lillie giving him a rather evil grin as his eyes twitched.
"You got nowhere to run now, mister." She told him as Ash gulped.
"I'm fucked." He thought.
Ash closed his eyes preparing for either a never ending lecture, a light slap or a hard knock on the head, but the next thing he knew was that Lillie hugged him lightly before letting go, as she gazed at his eyes.
"Thank you for everything up till now, Ash." She thanked.
Ash's Pokémon came running before smirking at the sight of Ash and Lillie as they looked down the hill to see a rather huge farm with dozens of Pokémon running about the area as well as a familiar figure.
"Hey, Kia-" Ash stopped as he fell off the cliff, screaming.
"Ash!" Lillie yelled.
Bewear and Sceptile leaped off the cliff after their Trainer. Bewear soon launch Sceptile who grabbed hold of Ash before stomping on the ground to safe their landing.
"Thanks for the save, Bewear and Sceptile." Ash said in daze.
Charizard brought Lillie, Dartrix, Mimikyu and Pikachu down the cliff safely on his back as they got off with Lillie to Ash.
"Are you alright?" She asked.
"I'm fine, I've experience something worse than just falling off a simple cliff." He replied.
"What happened here? I heard screaming!" Kiawe's voice came shouting.
Their classmate appeared from the trees as he stares at the two in surprise.
"Ash? Lillie? What are you two doing here?" He asked.
"Alola, Kiawe." They greeted as Ash got up from the ground.
"We're actually here for Ash's Akala Island Trials." Lillie answered.
Kiawe nodded his head in response before looking behind them to see a whole team of Pokémon.
"I guess you must be very ready, if you've even brought your whole team here." Kiawe smirked.
"You bet, and I'm going to conquer them all!" Ash yelled raising his fist in excitement.
This caused Lillie and Kiawe to laugh at his enthusiasm, right as Ash looked at Kiawe.
"Do you know where the first Trial is?" Ash asked.
"Sure, I do." Kiawe replied.
He then pointed at a certain direction which was revealed to be a rather huge volcano breathing out a smoke-ash steam.
"It doesn't matter where you start your first Trials but where you take your Trials." Kiawe explained.
"And in Akala Island, we have three Trials and one of them is on Wela Volcano." He finished.
"The other two are at Brooklet Hill and Lush Jungle." He added.
Rotom proceeded to display a map of Akala Island as it showed the map to Ash and Lillie.
"This is the map for Akala Island." It said a loud.
Rotom soon pointed at one part of the map, to display a large hill of water.
"This here is Brooklet Hill."
It then pointed at another part of the map, which displays a large volcano.
"This here is Wela Volcano."
Lastly, Rotom pointed to the last part, which displays a large jungle.
"Lastly, this here is Lush Jungle."
Ash and Lillie nodded their heads once Rotom finished its map display.
"If you're planning to take Brooklet Hill's Trial first, you can make a detour to Lush Jungle by going north of Route 5 and back to Wela Volcano through Route 8 and 7." He told them.
"What if I'm going to take Wela Volcano's Trial first?" Ash asked.
Kiawe soon proceed to answer him.
"If that's the case, then you can take a detour to Lush Jungle by going through Route 7 and 8, back to Brooklet Hill by entering Route 5." He answered.
"So, it's reverse either way, that's interesting." Lillie remarked.
"So, where do you want to start?" Kiawe asked.
Ash put his hand on his chin to think, until a little girl ran up to Kiawe with a face of emergency.
"Big brother!" She yelled, catching his first attention.
"What's the matter, Mimo?" He asked Mimo.
"You're going to be late for the ceremony!" She yelled.
This confused both Ash and Lillie as they looked at their classmate.
"Ceremony?" They asked.
"Ah, right, it's a tradition that we do on Akala Island near the Wela Volcano once every year." He explained.
"You guys can come along if you like, you might eventually face a Totem Pokemon there." He offered.
Ash's face immediately bright up with excitement as fire was in his eyes.
"Let's go." He accepted.
"Alright, please lead the way, Kiawe." Lillie agreed.
Kiawe soon ran off towards the south part of the ranch while being followed by his two classmates, they ran through Route 6 and pass a city, towards Route 7 as they finally arrived at the base of Wela Volcano.
"We're here." Kiawe told them.
They looked around to see dozens of Trainers possibly forty in total just as Kiawe walked up towards the fiery stage while putting out his hand.
"Welcome, Trainers to this year's ceremony." He started, earning himself many gazes.
"This ceremony is held once every year in the names of this very volcano and our island's Guardian Deity." He explained.
"I shall now explain the rules, Trainers are only allowed to use fire type Pokémon's and nothing more, though the goal for the ceremony is for Trainers Pokémon to race to the top of this very volcano in hopes of battling the Totem Pokémon. Obstruction of races are not allowed!" He said sharply.
As he continued on with the ceremony speech, Ash and Lillie could notice several hot air balloons at the side lines, but just as Kiawe was asking for questions, Ash decided to give him one.
"What are the hot air balloons for?" He asked sheepishly.
"Those are for spectators to use just in case they want to see the top of the volcano." He answered.
Ash nodded his head in understanding as he walked towards the spectator section, surprising Lillie because she knew he had a Charizard which was a fire and flying type.
"Don't you have Charizard, Ash?" She asked, receiving a nod from him.
"I do, but Charizard probably wouldn't feet in such a tiny space like that cave. And even if we did win the race, I'll just earn myself a Flamethrower for sending him into such a cramped area." He explained the reason on why he didn't use Charizard.
They soon got into their hot air balloons, with Ash being the pilot. After all he did get chased around six regions by Team Rocket who uses an hot air balloon every time.
From the ground floor, Kiawe tossed a Poke Ball to summon a black colored Marowak with bone lighting up in green flames as Rotom flew into action.
Marowak Alolan Form, The Bone Keeper Pokémon a Ghost and Fire Type, Marowak's bone is believed to possess the spirit of its dead mother, and due to the harsh environment, Marowak has developed a great six sense.
"Who do you think is going to win?" Lillie questioned Ash.
"Hard to tell, I mean all the Trainers here look so strong." Ash told her.
Up from the mountains came a black lizard-like Pokemon before gazing down at the field of Trainers with a few smaller lizards beside it before patting one of them, while being surrounded by a half ring of fire types.
"If Trainers are ready." Kiawe started while raising his hand.
"Begin!"
At the sound of that single word, every fire type on the ground immediately started to either fly into the cave or run into the cave, leaving their Trainers behind as Ash started to move the hot air balloon.
"It's so hard, not being able to see into the cave." Ash sighed.
"Well, only if we could enter but that is only meant for the Pokémon's." Lillie retorted.
"And, by the way, Ash." Rotom started.
Ash turned around to face the flying Pokedex as it continued its speech.
"Where's half of your team?" Rotom asked.
Ash and Lillie turned around and to fine that it was true, excluding Charizard who was in his Poke Ball the only ones present were Pikachu and Dartrix, whist Mimikyu, Sceptile and Bewear were missing from their individual spot.
"Where's did they go?" Lillie questioned.
"I wish I know, but I don't." Ash replied.
Ash soon brought the hot air balloon to higher ground to see a group of fire types waiting at the top of the cliff which caught Ash's attention to two of them.
"Who's that Pokémon, Rotom?" Ash asked.
"Leave it to me!"
Salandit, The Toxic Lizard Pokémon a Poison and Fire Type, Salandit can release a sweet smelling poison which attracts males of all species and control them to her will. While not being a great fighter, Salandit is a very cunning Pokémon.
Salazzle, The Toxic Lizard Pokémon and the evolved form of Salandit a Poison and Fire Type, Salazzle releases a certain pheromone to attract nearby male Salandit and make them serve it, punishing those who serves below its expectation. Salazzle is a only-female spieces.
Salazzle continued to gaze at the exit of the cave, still waiting for her match to arrive but seen no one in sight.
Meanwhile inside the cave, Marowak curled up into a ball of green flames before charging towards a Gigalith who blast him away with a Rock Slide attack knocking Marowak far away to the end side of the cave before being caught in a net.
"This is going to make us a profit, Michael." One of them chuckled.
"I can't agree more, hunting in Alola is so much more profitable then hunting in other regions." Michael smirked.
Michael took out two Poke Balls before tossing it into the air.
"Noctowl, use Foresight and Bronzor, use Flash." He called.
Both Noctowl and Bronzor appeared on field as the Owl Pokémon scanned the whole place with its Foresight attack, taking sightings of nothings, meanwhile Bronzor lit up the area with a huge flash of light as Michael and his partner could see two shadows running off but paid no heed.
"I heard that there's a rare size Pokémon in this area, Indur." Michael told him.
"Let's go make ourselves some cash." Indur smirked.
Indur threw a Poke Ball into the air as it opened.
"Machamp, bring this Pokémon back to the cage and don't let them get away." Indur ordered.
The Superpower Pokémon nodded before carrying the net-filled Pokémon away as they continued their way to the top of the cave.
Outside of the cave came Sceptile who leaped all the way to Ash's hot air balloon with Mimikyu's cloth on his hand before facing his Trainer.
"Tile, Scep!" The Forest Pokémon yelled.
"What's wrong?" Ash asked.
Sceptile's only response was to leap from the hot air balloon towards the cave before leaping up the mountain where Bewear was at as Ash looked at the direction.
"Let's follow, Sceptile." Ash told Lillie.
As he operated the balloon to move, Kiawe spotted him as he decided to call out to his classmate and friend.
"What's going on, Ash!" Kiawe question with a yell, managing to catch his attention.
"Sceptile seems to want us to follow him! I think something happened!" Ash yelled back.
Kiawe, hearing this piece of news raced up the mountain as Ash parked the balloon to where Sceptile and Bewear was until Mimikyu returned to his cloth before landing on the ground.
"Kyu!" The Disguise Pokémon yelled.
"Hey, guys!" Kiawe yelled.
They turned around to see Kiawe running up to them in panic in his eyes.
"Marowak's missing!" He yelled in panic and fear.
"Mimikyu, lead the way." Ash ordered.
They raced up the mountain and upon reaching the peak of the volcano, they could see two people which were Michael and Indur as one of them had their Weavile out for battle.
"What do you two think you're doing?!" Kiawe yelled while bearing fangs.
"What does it seems like to you, kid? A charity run?" Michael smirked.
Salazzle slump to the ground injured while her tail was encased in ice, with several other netted Pokémon around the area unable to move.
"You'll pay for this, Turtonator!" Kiawe called.
"I'll help you out, Dartrix!" Ash called.
Both Turtonator and Dartrix appeared on the battlefield as they glared down at their opponent as Indur stood forward.
"I'll handle this fools, now, Kangaskhan, show them how it's done!" Indur yelled.
Coming out from Indur's Great Ball was the Parent Pokémon who stood ready for battle as Indur smirked widely.
"Turtonator, Flamethrower!"
The Blast Turtle Pokémon launched a torrent of hot flames at Kangaskhan who simply shatter the attack with her bare hands as Indur threw out something from his pocket, which is known to Ash as a Key Stone.
"That's a Key Stone, Kangaskhan can Mega Evolve?!" Ash yelled in shock.
"The party is just getting started, Mega Evolve!" Indur yelled.
The baby Kangaskhan's hand was revealed to be holding a shiny stone as the normal type transformed with the baby out of the pocket ready for battle.
"Now Kangaskhan, use Drain Punch!" Indur ordered.
The mother Kangaskhan rushed at Turtonator with fist spiraling with energy as Kiawe let out his hand.
"Shell Trap!"
This caused Turtonator to turn around only to be hit in the jaw by the baby Kangaskhan who used the same attack as her mother before leaping back beside her mother who stood proudly.
"What?!" Kiawe yelled.
"Dartrix, Razor Leaf!" Ash ordered.
Dartrix immediately fired out several quills at Kangaskhan who received another order from her Trainer.
"Protect and Shock Wave!" He ordered.
The baby Kangaskhan created a green shield to guard against the attack while her mother fired off a stream of electricity, hitting Dartrix dead center causing the Blade Quill Pokémon to fall from the sky.
"Dartrix!" Ash yelled.
"If this is all you have, then this is going to be easier than I thought." Indur smirked.
"We don't have much time to waste, Indur, finish this up already will you?" Michael told his partner.
"Fine, use Earthquake and Helping Hand!" He yelled.
The mother Kangaskhan soon took up a white glow receiving help from her baby as she slammed the ground with her fist to create a large earthquake which was four times the size then an original one, knocking Turnator down on the ground.
"Now, if you don't want to get hurt, hand over your Pokémon." Indur demanded.
Ash and Kiawe growled at their opponent's strength as Lillie could do nothing but watch as they were about to be defeated in battle, and by a poacher no less.
"Dartrix, we aren't giving up use Peck!" Ash ordered.
Dartrix got up from the ground before rushing at Kangaskhan with pure determination as Indur simply shook his head.
"You simply don't understand when to give up, do you little boy?" He sighed.
"Use Ice Punch!" He ordered.
Both mother and children simply punched Dartrix on each side of his face, encasing him in a very thick ice as he fell to the ground unable to move.
"Dartrix, no!" Ash yelled.
"Turtonator, let's go!" Kiawe yelled while activating his Z-Ring.
"With the symbol of fire burning through my body, let it burn anything along the way!" He quoted while doing a series of poses.
A orange aura appeared from him to Turtonator who stood ready for a very huge attack as he begins to charge at rather huge fireball.
"INFERNO OVERDRIVE!" Kaiwe roared.
Turtonator fired off the attack towards Kangaskhan as Indur let out his hand with pure disappointment.
"You just simply don't get it do you?" He told the Trial Captain with only one simple command.
"Reversal."
Kangaskhan both mother and children flashed a big grin on their faces as they glowed in a red light before punching the Z-Move right back towards Turtonator who got hit instead as he fell to the ground unconscious.
"What?! How?!" Kiawe screamed.
Kangaskhan simply grinned at the result of the battle as Indur simply shook his head.
"What a disappointment, to think you came all this way just to be defeated. Surely you've got to have a better plan." Indur sighed.
"Dartrix, come on! Get out of that ice and use PECK!" Ash yelled.
The ice shook violently as a huge shine of light was in play, the ice slowly shattered as a huge ball of light flashed pass Kangaskhan hitting the mother before flying to the air as it shattered completely to reveal a new Dartrix.
"DUEYE!" The unknown Pokémon yelled.
"Dartrix." Ash started.
"Evolved." Lillie and Kiawe finished.
Decidueye, The Arrow Quill Pokémon and the final evolve form of Rowlet a Grass and Ghost Type, Decidueye has incredible speed and accuracy being able to swiftly attack its opponent while conceal its presence, but if the prey is far away, Decidueye will fire an arrow to hit it even if they are half a mile away.
"Decidueye, I need your help! Free those Pokemon with Leaf Blade!" Ash yelled.
Decidueye simply looked at Kangaskhan before creating a green blade as he disappeared pass the Mega Evolved Parent before cutting the hostages free.
As all the Pokemon ran free, Salandit ran towards Salazzle to help free it as Indur glared at Ash for wasting all their effort.
"Why you?!" Indur yelled.
"Now, let's try your new move, Spirit Shackle!" Ash ordered.
Decidueye plucked his quill before firing it at an unknown location.
"Where are you aiming, Decidueye? Kangaskhan is right there." Ash pointed.
He was answered when the arrow turned back seconds later to hit Kangaskhan but dealing no damage instead created a large puff of smoke.
"Eye." Decidueye replied.
"Alright, use Peck!"
Instead of executing Peck as he dashed out of the smoke, Decidueye dove swiftly down upon the two Kangaskhan who had no time to react with body engulfed in blue flames as he rammed the baby backwards.
"That was Brave Bird!" Lillie yelled.
"Grrrr, Kangaskhan use Thunder and Icy Wind!" Indur ordered.
"Phantom Force!" Ash yelled.
As both Kangaskhan fired both attacks, Decidueye disappeared into an unseen portal dodging both the huge bolt of lightning and wind of ice before receiving another command.
"Leaf Blade!"
Decidueye re-emerged from the portal before slashing the baby Kangaskhan with a green blade as she fell unconscious.
"Grr, use Outrage!" Indur yelled.
The mother Kangaskhan's eye turned crimson red as she charged towards Decidueye with pure rage in her eyes.
"Giga Drain, go!" Ash ordered.
Decidueye slammed the floor with his feet to create large vines that tangled around the mother Kangaskhan while sapping her strength slowly.
"End it with Leaf Storm!"
Decidueye fired off a tornado of leaves at Kangaskhan who flew back after receiving said impact as she fell next to her child before reverting back to her normal state.
"Alright, you did it!" Ash cheered.
"He did it!" Lillie yelled.
"Weavile, use Ice Beam!" Michael ordered.
Weavile executed the command by firing off a beam of ice, but was cancelled when Salazzle burned the Sharp Claw with a Flamethrower attack, knocking him out.
"Weavile, return." Michael recalled.
"Don't think this is over, we'll get you next time." Michael scoffed, as both Indur and himself turn to run.
"Not so fast, use String Shot." Another command came.
A bundle of white thread shot out from somewhere which tied up the two Poachers as they turn around to see Hau with a brown floating Pokémon.
"Hau!" Ash and Lillie yelled.
"I saw the commotion up here so I came to see what's going on, I guess my instinct came in handy." He smiled.
"And that Pokémon is?" Lillie questioned.
Shedinja, The Shed Pokémon a Bug and Ghost Type, Shedinja are mainly just skins shed by their prior evolve form Nincada, Shedinja neither breathes or eat and they are also incapable of moving by all means.
"You guys look after this guys, I'll go search for the rest of the Pokémon." Ash told them.
"Alright, be careful." Lillie voice with concern.
Ash soon ran off down the mountain to the nearby field with Decidueye and Sceptile by his side. And upon reaching the field, they could see Machamp fly pass them as he crashed into a tree shocking the duo.
"I guess human trained Pokémon are still no match for my expectation." A voice came from the forest.
Ash turn to Decidueye who nodded.
"Let's go."
"De."
The two of them raced into the field to see a truck with a cage fill with Pokémon with a familiar Pokémon outside it.
"You'll be free soon." The familiar face crushed the cage in an instant before turning around.
"I see you've come, but you're a minute too late for an action, Ash." He told the boy.
Ash was still stunned as he raised an eyebrow to try and confirm the Pokémon in front of him.
"Is that you, Mewtwo?" Mewtwo simply nodded as he turned around.
"I do believe we'll meet again, and when that time comes. We'll battle." With that Mewtwo teleported away.
Ash looked in shock, but snapped back into reality when Decidueye nudged him.
"Dueye!"
"Right, we have to get this Pokémon's back to their Trainer." Ash stated.
After spending almost three hours, Ash finally brought all the hostage Pokémon back to the peak of the volcano as he collapse to the ground.
"That was so tiring." He panted.
"At least you brought them back safe and sound." Hau gave him a cheeky smile.
"Here's a bottle a water, Ash." Lillie said while passing him a bottle.
"Thanks, Lillie." Ash thanked.
After receiving the bottle of water, Ash begins to devour the content inside said bottle before getting up. He turned around to see the poachers nowhere in sight.
"Where did the two of them go?" He asked.
"Officer Jenny came to take them away, and now to return the Pokémon." Kiawe answered.
They spend another two hours to return all the Pokemon as they were now at the base of the volcano.
"Before we end this day's ceremony, I know that was a huge delay and some bad came into play." Kiawe started.
"But it's thanks to one brave Trainer that the catastrophe was handled without injuries, and despite without having to participate I shall crown him, Ash Ketchum as the winner for this ceremony!" Kiawe yelled.
Trainers cheered around the area as Salazzle came into view with a Salandit beside her before gazing down at Ash.
"Lazzle." She smirked.
"You're planning to challenge me?" Ash asked.
Salazzle nodded before turning around to leave, Ash grinned widely before looking at the sky.
"Tomorrow is the day for my first Akala island Trial, I can't wait!" Ash yelled.
The group soon went to the nearest Pokemon Center to rest for the night.
But somewhere else a distance away from where they were.
"You got caught, Mewtwo?" A pink colored Pokemon teased.
"I didn't get caught, I got seen." Mewtwo retorted.
"Besides, if you want to join him so badly, why not you go show yourself?" Mewtwo added.
"I want to make a grand entrance you know, like fighting something strong!" She cheered happily, making Mewtwo sigh, how did he get stuck with her?
And that's the end for this chapter, one made a short appearance but will have a longer appearance in the future chapter.
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