Chapter 10: True Training Begins

You guys loved the plot twist so much that chapter 9 was a lot easier and I thank you guys, this is my favorite story I have ever written and I have written a few good stories and am working on a couple others. But this story is my favorite which is hard to say because my stories are like my children.

And again special thanks to Aphmau, and Jacksepticeye for getting me out of my rut and getting out of my depression.

Also the characters I use in this series that are related to Aphmau's Mystreet series are fully hers and are only used her to develop Ash, they may appear later but for now I needed them to act a sort of catalysis to bring out the changed Ash.

Aaron POV~3 years later. Eggsecutor island.

"It's been three years already, huh, it feels like only yesterday that I began training." Ash says as he holds the letter in his hand. Since he began training he began to lose track of time as he was always busy. "Ash why don't we have that rematch you have been promising me." Zane says as the two of them step onto the battlefield. "Alright since Zane is the challenger today he gets to select his pokemon first." Aphmau says as she steps into the referee position. "Todays battle is a single, Gym leader battle. Ash who is the substitute gym leader will only be allowed three pokemon where the challenger Zane will be allowed to use his entire team. The challenger is the only one allowed to make substitutions where the gym leader may use moves such as U-turn and Volt Switch are allowed to be used by the leader. Both trainers if able are allowed to perform a Z-move, and mega evolve a pokemon. The battle will be over when either side is unable to battle, do the trainers understand the rules as I have read them." Aphmau says as she finishes the rules for the battle. "Yeah." Ash says as he gets into stance. "Understood." Zane says as he grabs a pokeball. "Umbreon take the stage." Zane says throwing a pokeball forward. The Umbra pokemon appears and shakes its head. It's black fur was glistening and the rings all over its body where glowing blue. "Alright Jolteon make yourself known." Ash says throwing a pokeball forward. The ball snapped open the the lightning fox pokemon two eeveelutions stared each other down and this is a battle of rivals.

"Umbreon start things off with Toxic." Zane says as Umbreon spits a glob of purple energy a Jolteon who's nimble body allowed her to dodge faster then one average to her species. "Jolteon make like a bug type, use Pin Missile then use agility, become a moving target." Ash yells as Jolteon follows the command. "Umbreon use Sand Attack to make the Pin Missile miss then try to use Toxic again." Zane says as Umbreon kicks up sand to try and blind Jolteon. "Jolteon switch combos, use counter shield to counter the Sand attack then use Shadow Ball to block the Toxic." Ash says as Jolteon begins to spin and kick off the ground like his Pikachu used to, Jolteon had become his main electric type since Pichu returned to Aaron. (I am sorry to all of my readers who really wanted him to have another Pikachu I just feel like that would bring in to much bad memories and I would have to show those and I am not sure I know how I would do that.) It was due to the fact that Pichu felt that he was bringing back to many bad memories to Ash, as his first pokemon was it's evolved form. "Umbreon, can you still stand." I hear Zane yell as I re focus on the battle. The ground was torn asunder by what looked to be a thunderbolt and Umbreon was at the heart of a crater at the end of it. The poor pokemon had swirls for eyes indication it had fainted. "Umbreon is unable to continue, Jolteon wins." I yell and raise my hand indicating Ash's side had won. "That combo what did you call it, Plasma Rush how did you come up with such a move." Zane asked Ash as he returned his Umbreon and threw the ball to KC. "Heal her up right she did really well, I don't even think a ground type could stand up to that kind of power." Zane said reaching for his next pokeball. "Incineroar, take the stage." Zane yells as he throws his started out.

"This is a match between Jolteon and Incineroar, Begin." Aphmau says as Zane makes the first move. "Darkest Lariat Incineroar, let's go." Zane says as the cat like pokemon rushes forward and hit Jolteon. This was now a more even match. Zane's Incineroar had dreams of racing when he was a nothing but a Litten. Now he was one of Alola fastest pokemon. But was he faster then Ash's Jolteon. "Jolteon, it's time." Jolteon nodded. She jumped back and I see a smile begin to show on Ash's face. We were all panicking thinking he was going to use his Z-move to early but for some reason he was smiling. It made me chuckle. This kid had spirit and he was truly a trainer that was never supposed to go through what he went through. "Jolteon, Volt Switch." Jolteon jumped into the air and launched bladed disks at Incineroar. When they connected Incineroar became Paralysed. Ash smirked as Jolteon was dragged into its pokeball and another snapped opened and the field. "Gollum." An Alolan Golem appeared appeared on the field it was shaking but still stood strong on its feet. "Still sticking with the new huh, guess old habits die hard." Zane says as they both laugh. "Although that was a nice change in strategy to try and out speed me. Now you're trying to type disadvantage me." Zane says again trying to figure out Ash's strategy. "Or maybe I am just trying to slow you down, Golem Stealth Rock followed by Rock Tomb. After all that use Volt switch once more." Golem made sharp rocks float above the enemies are then trapped Incineroar in place with rocks. Then struck again with those damn bladed rings of electricity. Golem was pulled back into its pokeball and another pokemon was dragged out. "LYCON." It howls to the sky as a Lycanroc Duck Form appears and smiles. "So maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks." Zane says as he flags that he was forfeiting his Incineroar. "I can't break through those rocks with my power at my current and there is also no way that I can stand up to Ash's Lycanroc as it is." Aphmau nodded. "Incineroar is forfeited, there for Lycanroc wins. With two victories down, if Ash can win one more match this match will be a victory in Ash's favor." Aphmau says and I nod. This was always good to see. Zane was about to show us his true skill. "There will also be a 20 minute break for field repair and trainer relaxation." Aphmau says as both Zane and Ash nod.

Pokecenter~Zane POV

"Nani heal him right please, he fought well but even he knew he could continue." I say as KC just shakes her head. "Zane you have to stop babying Ash, show him your true power. Even you know he is holding back." She says healing Incineroar. "I know but what if I over do it and end up making him regress into his previous self, push him past his limits. HIs heart is still unstable." I say as I look at Nani. "Zane...Alright then how are you going to make him try just a little harder." KC says as she hands me my pokemon back. "I'm not, I am going to switch out with Aaron and have him try to power Ash up." I say as I clip Incineroar to my belt as well as Umbreon. "You say that with disdain, you don't want to do that, you want to battle Ash, but something else is holding you back." KC says as she helps Aphmau with something. They won't tell anyone what they are working on but they say it something for Ash.

I step back outside and a smile spreads across my face. Nani was right I needed to stop babying Ash. "No more holding back." "Good, I thought that's what you were doing." Ash says sitting next to me. He hands me a soda and pops one open himself. "You know Zane, someone once told me something. Nothing in this world comes easy, you have to work for it. That's why you always greet a challenge with a smirk or a smile. It's like telling the world, I am here, and I won't be defeated." "And what dies that have to do with my current problem." "The last time you had an important battle you failed. You never battled the same again, if anything you held back in trial battles, I know all about that battle why your friend Travis isn't with us because of it." I stopped drinking my soda and looked at him. "Who told you." I ask as I stand up and turn on him.

"You need to let it go Zane, it was like 12 years ago. Travis wouldn't want it this way." Ash says as he smiles. "Latios didn't want it that way, Travis wouldn't want it that way." Ash says as he stands up. "Zane this is no longer a gym battle, I will not be holding back and neither should you. You know my three and you already lost two. There will be no backing down from a battle against someone I know has higher skills than I do." He then walked away. He wasn't as slow as we thought. He learned that from my stances and my battle style. But those combos in the beginning, was I really stopping myself from showing my true power. No one else just myself. Ash was right no more holding back.

The break finished and I stepped back onto the battlefield. The pokemon had repaired the field quite nicely and even made it bigger and reinforced. "Welcome back Zane, here we go. Trainers send out your pokemon." Ash was first and brought Jolteon back out. Out of all of his pokemon Jolteon was the only one to take damage last time and that was from a lucky shot. "Alright Krookodile I need your assistance." The sand croc pokemon appeared and let off a growl before getting into his stance. "It's you and me, I ask that Ash'h handicap be remove, he may use a full team of six." I say and Aphmau looks to Ash. He shakes his head no. "This is training Zane for me as well. If I lose here I don't lose a tournament just means I need to do some more work." I smile he had grown since we started teaching him. "Krookodile start this off with…" I never got to finish my sentence as a tall blonde girl with Lucario clips in her hair walked towards Ash and I smile. I hear Aphmau whisper something to the others as she get closer. "Ashton Satoshi Ketchum, where have you been for three years." She says firmly and Ash looks like a Deerling in the headlights. (I apologies) "Um...Um...Um you know around." He says as the blonde girl turns him around. "Yes, but you could have come seen me, maybe you know call me. Every once in a while." She says as she brings him into a tight hug and begins to cry into his shoulder. "Diantha and I looked for you for years and then we get a call saying that you have been in Alola for 3 years. What were you training for, why did you disappear. As far as I knew you were holding back in the leagues." Ash waved his hand at Aphmau giving her the signal that this battle was over. "The Battle with Ash of Eggsecutor Island and Zane of Executor Island has ended in a draw as Ash still has three usable pokemon and Zane only has four this battle would be Ash's favor." Aphmau says as the battle finally ends.

I sigh and walk over to Ash, "I wish you luck. I know if Nani and I were seperated for a long time she would have questions for me." I say as I walk towards the center. I smile as I hear Aphmau smack Aaron who probably made a comment on how Ash was a player. "Ashton Ketchum what did he mean by that." I hear the Blonde say and just start laughing maniacal. This was going to be an interesting day.

Ash POV~His House an hour later

I sat on my couch while the now quintet of girls talked in my kitchen. "So he stood up to Arceus as he went into a rampage. But he has never won a league why is that. Does he hold back, does he handicap himself." I hear Lana yell from the Kitchen in shock. "Seriously. He's that strong." Mallow says next and I hear Cynthia and Diantha start laughing from the shocked faces of the other 3 girls. I stand up and walk into the kitchen. It was only to get a soda but I still got stared at. "You have meet virtually every known legendary pokemon, and yet you still haven't won a league how do you even do that." "It's because I handicap myself, I only use the pokemon I capture in every region kinda like I am starting from scratch." I say to the girls as I smile as the stare at me again. "Okay so that means, you have faced just about every league at least once and only came in second place in the Kalos League because your team fully evolved. Well no more, starting tomorrow we are going to teach you anything you don't know yet." Lillie says as I just smile. "That's what my family here has taught me, they taught me the rest of the Z-moves and got me the crystals. Helped me to build my bond with my pokemon to the point where I can mega evolve with some of them and even helped me understand my aura and helped me learn to use my psyche. I have reached a level beyond that of my before time training by myself." I say. They all smile I had returned to my normal self even if only for the time being. "Alright well me and Aaron are heading to the mainland. Yall need anything." They shake thier heads and I nod. I walk out to the backyard and whistle for Garchomp.

In the air of Alola

"So you think you can win the tournament this time." Aaron says as we climb higher then MT. Lanakila on Ula'ula. "Maybe but then again I was sure that I could win in the leagues before and looked what happened. I failed for a while and then there was also the fact that I can't seem to control Kommo-o still. He doesn't seem to want to battle like most of my pokemon." I say as we take a hard left. We swerve to the right as a flock of Staraptor fly by. "Remember, you aren't training a normal pokemon. Kommo-o train by themselves and it takes having a good bond with him to reveal how he likes to battle he is powerful but is also very secretive. Try training your aura in front of him." Aaron says as we double tap our stirps, telling out pokemon we need to go faster. "We still have a month left before the tournament, I can give you a hand. Especially after last time you tried to train him." We both shiver at that memory. Charizard was the same way but he was timid compared to kommo-o. I have suffered three broken ribs and some nasty burns from day one. No matter what I have done I can't seem to break through to this pokemon. "You know this is dangerous Ash. maybe you can send Kommo-o to a new home." Aaron says as we get ready to land on Melemele island. We came here to check in with Kukui. "No I refuse, if I did that I would be no better then his previous trainer. I refuse to make him feel abandoned again." I say as we land on the sands of the beach outside Kukui's cabin.

"Well I say welcome to Alola." I hear Kukui say as I grab my bag and throw it on my shoulder after getting off Garchomp. "Thank you professor." I hear someone say and I cringe. "What is it Ash." Aaron says as I relax a little. "Nothing thought one of the traitors was here." I say as I turn around and see the professor talking to a girl with long Blue hair. "Always good to have the Sinnoh queen here." This time I drop my bag and hear Garchomp growl. I grab the side of his head and make her focus on me. "Focus on me Garchomp, focus on my voice." I say as I begin to pet his scales. It looks at me and calms down but is still in an offensive stance. "Ash is that really you." I hear her say as I turn around. "Yeah Dawn, it's me." I say as I let go of Garchomp. It stood to it's full height and stared her down. Garchomp was angry and was flexing its strength, charging it into one attack. "Garchomp stand down." I say as I pull out her pokeball and return her.

"How are you?" Dawn says as I put the pokeball on my belt. "Pretty good, since you know you guys tried to kill me." She reached into her bag and pulled out a pokeball nervously. She was shaking in her boots and was barely standing on her own. "Why do you shake, are you scared, nervous. Do you fear me." I ask her as I pull out my own pokeball. "Well you were dead, you were dead on the field that night, when we left you had no pulse. You were cold. Your blood was everywhere." Dawn screamed as she fell to her knees. "It's been three years, no one has seen you. We buried a body in fucking woods, there was a shrine we built a year later, we turned them in. They were arrested. We even got sued by the maples because we put thier kids in jail." Dawn says as she shakes even more. She drops to her legs and her pokeball moves away and Glameow pops out and curls up around Dawn's arms. "I went through six months of therapy." She says as she becomes distant. "Glam, i'm fine this is something I have to face on my own." She says petting the cat like pokemon on the head. She was calming down but she was still shaking and shivering. "I have to go, see you around Dawn." I say as I call out Garchomp again. I saddle him again and make sure he has the energy for the flight back if I take him somewhere else. I need to take a break already, I still need to rest and learn to control my aura. "Focus, chosen one, your aura is a little volial." I hear a voice in my head say. "I know that's why i'm leaving again." I get on Garchomp fly again.

I take off faster then I ever had before on Garchomp. So fast that I broke the sound barrier and shook the ground below us. "Sorry for taking off so hard girl, I was just distracted." I say as we focus again on the flight ahead of us. "Garrr." Garchomp says as we take a violent turn to the left. To avoid some raging Fearow. "Garchomp was it right, the way I treated her back there." I say as I begin to look back at the island I had just taken off from. The very top of Melemele island was all I could see and then like a mirage it was gone. "Take me to Akala girl, maybe something there will help me calm down." I say until I hear the sounds of wings beating fast like they were trying to catch up to me. "Bud slow down but don't stop and not to slow." I say as I grab his harness again. There were no air police here and I know I wasn't speeding so maybe this was someone who saw my take off and wanted to know if I was okay. "Dragonite, Ice Beam, Let's go." I hear a voice say and I knew who it was. "Garchomp Ninja Kazami Double Team." I say as he uses substitute and double team together. "So someone wants to play a game in the air huh, they just picked the wrong day to mess with me."

Kaitlynn POV

"Shiiiiiippppp." KC says as she stares at the five girls in Ash's house who are all drinking coffee. She had this weird look on her face when Ash entered the kitchen. ""Kiss her, hug her, do something that will allow this ship to sail." I hear KC yell from our kitchen and instantly run in. "Now listen here kitten, stop trying to hook him up with every girl you see him with." She turns around and stares at me with mischievous eyes. "But I really want some nieces and nephews." She says as she quickly grabs something off the table. "After all these little ones need little ones to go to." She lets out her Venusaur who went to a nest. "Aaron's Charizard, Zane's Incineroar, Garroth's Blastoise, My Venusaur, Your Decidueye, Aphmau's Feraligatr, Lucinda's Delphox, Ive's Sceptile, all of our friends starters and our own have had thier eggs and they can go to the next generation. "I know but that could take years for them to be old enough for that, even if one of those girls had a kid tomorrow they wouldn't be old enough for a few years and those that do make it to then may just break the rules a few times because that's who they are." I say as I help Kawaii~Chan stand up. "I don't need help Kaitlynn, Ash helps me enough when he's here." She says standing up. She was really tired of being helped. About a month ago during one of Ash's last training sessions with Kommo-o, he got out of control and scratched her chest with a dragon claw. She survived because of Ash's quick thinking. He infused his aura into hers to help it heal her. "Yes but it's Kommo-o's fault, and Ash felt that by extension it was his fault as well." I say as I hear someone land on the ground outside.

"Is Ash here." Aaron says as I run outside to check on him and his Charizard. "No we thought he was with you." Aphmau says as she grabs her Pidgeot's pokeball. "We need to find him now, he was so angry." Aaron says as he resaddles Charizard. "Here, I'll help." Zane says calling out his Braviary. "Pidgeot and I will help as well, you are going to need all the help you can get." Aphmau says as she saddles Pidgeot up. "Kaitlynn you should go with them. Your Xatu would be a great help." Kawaii~Chan says as she pushes me forward. "Alright fine, Arceus." I climb on the back of Aphmau's Pidgeot and we take to the air. "Speed is key for this mission guys, Ash could be in trouble."

Ash POV

"Dragonite, Draco Meteor." The person on the back of the dragon type yells as meteors begin to fall towards us. "Garchomp Protect, Aerial Technique." I yell as the green barrier appears. The meteors bounce off the shield but also shake the bubble as it becomes harder and harder to stay stable. "Shake them in the Cloud Bank Garchomp, then use surf on the ocean." I say as the Clone moves towards the sea and I move towards the air. "Now, Gemini Dragon God Cannon." Garchomp charged the attack as well as the substitute and fired them at our attacker. I smile we were still airborne and now I knew for sure I was ready for the tournament coming up at the end of summer.

Okay so I knew this chapter was a little shorter but I was tired of making you guys wait for the really long ones and I figured this would be a good point to pick up the next chapter.

Also Combos that appeared in this chapter

Plasma Rush: Quick Attack + Thunder + Thunder Bolt (May cause Paralysis)

Ninja Kazami Double Team: Substitute + Double Team: Makes a more permanent copy that

does damage when it attacks.

Gemini Dragon God Cannon: Ninja Kazami Double Team + Dragon Pulse + Dragon Tail + Dragon Rage + Dragon Dance + Dragon Breath + Dragon Claw

Lore Update

So Thank you to Andrew in the reviews for reminding me that I didn't explain Irene

So there is the Irene from Rota who is not my own character, however the Irene from chapter 8 is kinda like Sir Aaron, she is an original aura user who focuses on terran manipulation. So in short

Irene R: This Irene is from Rota and as far as I can remember doesn't have aura abilities.

Irene: This Irene is from the time before Rota, and has the terran manipulation aura abilities.

Descendants: Ash, Aphmau

Shad: Shad is the husband to Irene and was the first to have a shadow aura. He has lost all fear and most of his descendents have this ability.

Descendents: Aaron

Esmund: The third Aura user and Irene's guardian. His aura grows with practice only.

Descendents: Zane, Garroth

Enki: The forth aura user. She was the first to learn to use aura through knowledge.

Descendants: Travis

Thank you for reading and always remember nothing is as it's appears. And also if things seem wrong IM me please.