Ok everybody as of lately I've been feeling more and more restrictive of my writing…. Typing(no I'm not shutting down the story). Starting now there will be a lot longer chapters .I'll play this one by ear and see if I'll have to limit my chapters to once a week or 3-4 a week I don't know. Good news is longer chapters yay!

Chapter 21 Ash POV

Year 2. A step up.

After the events of last night the last thing I would expect to do was emptying my lever action in a spar with Siearra. She created a shielding of pure aura so we could play as rough as we wanted. I quickly loaded the slugs into the port on the underside of the weapon. After loading my 6 slugs I cycled to lever just as the Lucario pounced on me with her shroud blades. I clubbed her head with the stock of my shotgun, kicked her onto her back and fired a single slug at her shielded head. I could see the blue shield losing color and weakening I guess that's how you found out who wins. She sweeped her legs as I fell on my back now, the Lucario got and stamped my neck. I extended my hookblade and slid past her between her legs I got up just intime for her to turn around. I half ran and stepped and rolled over her back carrying the hook to her neck as I wrapped my other arm around her head and threw her small body away as I landed back on my feet.

She hit a tree with a painful grunt. A aura sphere blasted my face as I flew backwards. I regained awareness as Siearra leapt at me shroud blade turning to an axe. It impacted my abdomen and she elbowed my neck in afterwards. So it's gonna be like this… I kicked her off with my feet, she did a backflip in midair and landed gracefully on her foot. I unholstered my Tomahawk and my Ninjaken, also loosening the strap to my double barrel as well.

"The power of a god and you don't even realize what you have in the palm off your hands." She almost taunted. She was doing the bullshit you have to realize your power and I will do nothing to help accept beat the crap out of you and mock you bit.

I charged her striking down her shroud blades with my Tomahawk spinning around and slashing at her head with my sword. I punched her neck kneed her stomach and then high kneed her lowered face. I kicked her into a tree thrusted the sword through the aura shield at got stuck in the layer of aura, I took out the double barrel and unloaded it point blank range on her weakened chest shield, it broke with a white flare and a sizzling sound. We exchanged deathly stares for what seemed like hours. The staredown ended when she slapped the back of my head.

"You know realizing my full potential is a lot faster when you actually tell me what I'm suppose to be realizing." I said angrily as she walked away.

"The results are much more exemplary if you realize it on your own." She said.

"I'm not aiming for straight A's."

"Well now you are." She ended the conversation, yup she was cranky probably the fact it's mating season for Lucarios too.

I holstered my blades loaded a full clip into my guns aswell strapping them to me. The needle rifle, I didn't have it on me at the moment but It was a strapped to my back the strap went under the bow I usually had their so I can unswing my bow as well. In hindsight I should rethink my placement of gear I had to much strapped to my back. The leveraction was rather short so I holstered it in a pistol like fashion to my right though. The double barrel was strapped to my lower back right above my ass. Desmond walked by.

"I'm not gonna be a stereotype, what can I do to help?"

"Well what powers can I get from this…." I replied looking over my mark. Desmond put a hand on his chin and started thinking, he had become a really close friend of mine over the year so he knows of my history.

"Well there is no specific power that I can suggest but let's just base all of this on your personality." He said I climbed a tree and laid on the trunk as he sat down at the base.

"Shoot." I said.

"Well your entire life has been a shadow, not really living in the shadows but it reflects your personality hiding your true self all your life. So something involving shadows probably. By the way I have no clue if this is even remotely correct."

"It's ok I'll take anything at this point." I replied.

"Well one emotion or passion that stayed true all this time is your love for pokemon. So maybe you're a shapeshifter or some shit." He said if he wasn't a Native Unovian prince he could have been a psychologist, a very unorthodox and rough psychologist but still a psychologist. That didn't give me much.

"*sigh* thanks anyways man."

"No problem." Well atleast I have some clue of what I'm capable off. I miss Dawn… knowing her she would always be there for me when I needed it. Arceus dammit…. The following I hours a chopped a tree, and punched various things around.

After several hours of heart pain, rage, and many dead saplings.

I decided to take a stroll in the forest, and by take a stroll I mean go Awol for around a week as I relax my mind in nature. I found myself relaxing in a tree chewing oran berry while petting Chuck. It was a relaxing past time, another Braviary perched on the same branch as us, my mark burned. I didn't know squat about it but I'll take that to be a bad sign. Upon closer examination it is revealed that the Braviary is female that is rather strange in an all male species. By the way how do they even reproduce? Is it with that damn all female vulture pokemon? An Eagle and a Vulture, that makes sense. The Braviary immediately figured out my train of thought and it transformed into a pink cat like pokemon, yea that's much better… It was Mew.

We sat there for the next couple of minutes, what a strange sight it must be to any passing trainer or pokemon, the mother of all creatures sitting next to a guy on a branch petting a Braviary, and as the freaking seconds passed my freaking hand keeps burning more and more!

"I see you have taken alignment with… my child." She finally said. Many things ran through my mind like. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TRY TO KILL YOUR OWN BABY. She was taken off guard because my raging thought to word filter has broken beyond repair.

"I…I was…younger when the world was created, I didn't know how to nurture or love a child. It is easy to use your instincts when you are the 1st mother of the universe." She said sadly. I kinda wanted to punch what seems to be the worst mother in the universe at that moment.

"It may be sad and.. pitiful but my mission still remains." Yup she gone done it, after all this time she still wants to kill her own child and will use his own son(yes no maybe so.) to get to him. Excessive use of Italic go! Now to the choking Mew part.

I felt a very hateful surge of rage flow through my veins, it wasn't like me to do what I'm about to do but she crossed that fine red line I had drawn out 10 minutes ago. My father died when I was just a kid, my mother works her ass off to provide for me and live the difficult life a single mother. And now Mew has the nerve to want TO KILL HER OWN SON after over 600 MILLION YEARS of SERIOUS MATERNAL ISSUES! My mark glowed bright orange as waves of oily shadows erupted from my arm. I thrusted my arm out at her in a choking fashion, a shadowy mass grasped her neck, it chocked her as it lifted her into the air.

I could actually feel my eyes glow a bright orange as wisps of visible orange mist faded off my eyes. The shadowy mass mirrored my hand movement, my veins were glowing blue pulsating white. It felt powerful and exhilarating but I knew better I did not become power hungry half of it was on Mirclex's urgent plead.

"Don't" Was what stopped me, so he actually cared about his mother? I mean that is a fantastic thing but after everything she has done to him? Honestly that's what stopped me from chocking her out.

So I dropped the choke, the pink cat fell to the branch coughing and gasping for air. You know if she's a god than why does she need air?

"I… I know of what I have done. But that abomination must be destroyed!" She replied in a furious matter. My eyes and hands returned to overpowered mode shadows appeared on my right arm aswell now. Mew morphed into a Feraligatr and chomped at me, Chuck had flown off long before.

"So be it!" She said before biting down on my leg. It really hurt we fell to the forest floor and proceeded to have an epic battle.

I kicked her off and shotgunned her in the face. She recoiled from the blast and I used the time to take out my Tomahawk and knife, I emptied the rest of my rounds into her. I dropped all my emptied guns and emptied my needle rifle as well, it was irrelevant to fight such close quarters with such a range oriented weapon so I dropped that aswell. Now I'm faced with a very pissed Hydreigon with needles sticking out its ass. Now running purely on instincts I threw a shadow pulse at Mew. She charged me into a tree actually breaking the base and rammed me into another tree. I planted a knife in her head and kicked her off of me. She stumbled back and I threw my Tomahawk impaling the now Salamance's neck. Now emanating black shadow and orange glows, I felt primal forces driving me, and a terrible pain in my stomach.

I stumbled back and felt a sudden rush of pain full my body. I let out a scream at the air, I felt my body morph into a Lucario and along with that actually saw a mental picture of a Lucario. I felt confused at first unto I just went with it. I summoned shroud blades and just as fast transformed back into a human the shroud blades still on me. Oh yea I'm gonna kick some ass. I charged Mew and shoved my blue blade up her chest and slashed her neck. The now Tyranitar fired a hyper beam it actually blasted me into the air so high I actually free fell for a good ten seconds before morphing into a Shelgon for a split second before landing back in the Natio Cervex village right ontop of the campfire. The villagers were obviously shocked.

"Oh my Arceus master! What happened!" Siearra cried before a pink Rayquaza hovered over us. Everyone looked up in awe.

I morphed into an Entei and fired a fire ball at the Rayquaze, than a Raikou and shifting away in a firework of storm clouds thunder and a lightning bolt. I teleported right ontop of Mew following a lightning bolt striking her I went Escavalier and lanced her in the back, sending us into the forest under. We hit the ground and now we were to Ryhorns duking it out but the only difference is I still retained my huminoid form while doing the pokemon's attack. I morphed into a Machamp and punched her across the forest landing in a ditch, with a yell I went Lucario shroud blade once more keep in mind this battle would be more epic if it were a film depiction. Hydreigon fired a triple flame thrower at me I rotated my shroud blade and stuck her head into the ground. Morphing into a Dialga which means staying human while the crown structure grew on my head. Roar of time came out of me and at Mew, a triple transformation of Raikou, Zapdos, and Thundurus, storm clouds blotting out the sun I called an airstrike of hundreds of lightning bolts down upon Mew. They rained down upon her for a good 30 seconds before they receded.

Transforming back into human form I looked over what I had done. There lay a singed crater of burnt grass and dirt, at the center was a singed and… pitiful carcass of Mew now back to being a cat now. I let out a blood curling roar as I transformed for a flash second to an unknown creature than turning back to human form, this was different my entire body morphed instead of specific sections. I didn't notice that I had started a forest fire….Who knew? Lighting in a forest cause fire! But it's winter! I didn't have much to fear the storm clouds quickly gave way to rain. It blanketed the small fire extinguishing them. Siearra and others finally arrived as I walked down the slopes to the burnt body of Mew. She gave painful groins, I lifted her head to look me in the.

"…I know you are a powerful and caring mother to almost all of your children, but to damn your 1st born to death and continue to pursuit that goal is quit frankly pathetic. I… I do not wish to make an enemy of you, but I stand with Mirclex and it would be wise of you to stop this sad quest." I whispered to her quietly her bruised blue eyes watching me.

"It was a mistake for all of you to damn that child, and you will have to live with your mistake not try to get rid of it. For you have brought all of this upon yourself, I would kindly suggest you tell the other legendaries about this…." I said she was looking down now I was still holding her head up to eye level.

"And the sad thing is… he still loves you.." I told her tears rolling down her face as I dropped her turned around and walked away. I walked out of the crater and was met by the tribe. They looked at me with an unexplainable look. Siearra looking the saddest.

"Well atleast we know what I can do."

Several Weeks later.

That last part would have probably given a pretty sound ending but no that dam author guy had to give you guys longer chapters. So… enjoy.?.?.?

After the events of a couple of weeks ago I felt awful. Sure the tribe treated me with more humble and respect after the dust cleared and everything was explained. But frankly I did not want the extra attention, I was popular just being a son of Mirclex now no one leaves me alone once they realize my true potential. A lot of closet narcissist would dream of this spot but I just wanted to be alone. So I took to laying in a tree for the past few days, a year without Dawn and with the tribe made me very comfortable around trees sleeping on them, eating on them, eating from them, hunting from them, and stalking from them.

Now I'm just watching the sunrise with a sleeping Siearra cuddled next my chest. The past few weeks she had tried everything to make me feel better, yes I just beat the crap out of Mew but somehow I manage to feel like number 0. The more she tried the more I missed Dawn, Siearra just wasn't the same. I'm not saying I've made any moves on the Lucario even though it is is very easy to, I just missed Dawn not much to explain. Sure we talk regularly but it wasn't the same as being there in person. Well that was my rant I don't have the mental will to carry on, and just scratched Siearra's neck. Chuck was perched on a tree nearby. I carefully got out of the tree leaving a sleeping Siearra. I summoned Alicia with plans to ride off. I didn't know where I just wanted to ride, so I let Alicia take lead on our location. She knew what my mood was so she trotted at a relaxing speed, we rode past some lakes, a water fall, a herd of Sawsbuck, if I could play some peaceful nature music this would make a fantastic montage I wait… I can! Good thing I had Alkira.

Upon my peaceful relaxation session I stumbled upon a cave, this wasn't any normal cave it was pulsating a bright blue color. Knowing me and how I am with glowing caves I dismounted Alicia and jumped in. Running blindly into the cave was probably a bad idea because just as I reached the mouth of the cave and took a leap in the floor below me gaveway. I fell down a large shoot with a yelp, I tumbled and hit many objects along the way as the tunnel curved down, backwards, left, right, I think I even got impaled by a cactus along the way. It was not a smooth ride as I was constantly off balance, I didn't have to endure that for long as I reached the bottom revealing another dead end floor. Please break, Please break, Please break, it broke way after I landed on it. I fell 20 feet and hit the bottom with a loud thud, I think it actually knocked me out since I can't move my body right now.

After several hours I finally woke up.

"Auughhh, shit what happened." I said weakly as Chuck stopped pecking my face, I assume he has been pecking my face. Siearra was taking a nap in the corner.

"You know master, most people upon seeing a glowing cave don't high tail into it."

"How many people have seen a glowing cave?"

"…Touche."

I got up, the cave was very dark so Siearra made an aura sphere that can float around, it was a pretty good light source. My mark glowed a bright navy blue with a white center. I had this most uncanny suspicion.

"Siearra turn off your aura ball… thing." The Lucario did just that, I walked over to the cave wall it was a pretty big room. As I got closer the wall began to pulsate some runes, curiosity getting the better of me I placed my marked hand on the wall.

In a flash of light the entire cave lit up with a network of glowing runes. The runes glowed a bright yellowish green they were a series of dashes and dots, well they aren't unkown.

"Whoa." I said amazed. I was standing infront of an ancient looking cave drawing I looked slowly to the right, I saw multiple rows of pictures and runes along with them. They are… telling a story. The runes looked similar to the dragon language on my sword so I had Alkira translate them.

"Alkira, translate."

"Very well Mister Ketchum."

The first set of rune and drawings was off a Arceus and Mew in the upper left and right corner, with the mark of Mirclex in the bottom center of those two. Alkira translated all of this but I already figured out the story, this is where Miclex was born… that or I'm completely wrong and some random guy decided to draw pretty pictures on a wall of a cave. The next set of runes was a close up of the last one except a red dagger was ontop of Arceus and Mew. The next set was storm clouds and the legendaries pursuing the mark with a barren landscape, and burnt earth in their ruins. The rest I can leave to your imagination you know a tortured life of an outcast, being hunted to the ends of the earth, finding salvation and have it taken away from you, and the first child of the mark(we should all know what the mark is by now.).

I observed all the ancient runes piecing the story together. Until I got to one strange rune in particular, it wasn't a rune at all it was just black space. My hand burned even more when I'm near it so I placed the mark on the wall. The black picture shifted it shocked me because I didn't know paint could physically move like that. It shifted for about a minute before it gave way to a shocking new image that shocked me even more than the shifting itself. It formed a singular portrait. It showed 5 black shadowy figures, in the center was a black figure and what really looked like the assassin's battledress he held a Tomahawk in his right arm and a knife in his left (that sounds familiar….). To his right was a massive titan of a figure standing in a quadrapedal stance with its knuckles holding it up. To the right was a quadrapedal winged figure, to the far right was a horned creature with what looked like the silhouette of heavy plated armor it was mostly blocked by the knuckled creature. To the far left was a bipedal creature with pillar like legs a pretty small head with what looked like a heavy dome on it, it actually reminded me of a silhouette of a Rampardos.

"Siearra…. What is this?" I asked her looking over the portrait again.

"The wall appears to be telling your future master."

"….You know I don't believe in that shit."

"Well if you see those 4 in the near future, than I hate to say I told you so." She replied phasing away killing the mysterious mood.

I let out a sigh,… SHIT! How am I gonna get out of here now?!

"*Screech*"-Chuck.

"Arceus dammit Chuck how are we gonna get out of here." Chuck just kept screeching, he wasn't talking to me so he was doing it to piss me off.

I went on for 5 minutes or so before I realized I had the ghetto version of Mew's transformation power. So I Alakazmed and teleported us out, teleporting was new to me so I appeared right above Lance during a speech and dropped my ass on his head. It earned me a scold and several kicks to the shin worth it.

12:00 am.

I stayed up this night, I didn't really feel tired so what's the point of sleeping. So now I'm left laying on a hillside staring at the full moon. I didn't really complain it was a really beautiful sight something I'd probably never have seen if I stayed with the gang. That's the upside of coming out here living with the tribe, I get to see nature in its fullest and most beautiful yet dangerous state. Chuck was roosted in a tree nearby and Siearra was back at the village. Kairi walked by she was wearing her usual Sawsbuck pelt dress.

"Hey." She greeted sitting down next to me.

"Sup." I replied. We just sat/laid there looking at the moon, I could tell she was holding up some stress and frustration. So a few tense minutes was spent there before Kairi finally said something.

"Do you know how… frustrating, it is to love somebody even though it is impossible for them to love you back?" She asked, it wasn't as a surprise to me Kairi has always been outright with her feelings. And I can't blame her for her frustration I had that effect on the girls I travel with, not to be a high-rapidash but my ignorant thick incompetent deminor attracts the wrong kind of attention from the opposite gender. I just sat up now and looked her in the eye.

"Don't do this to me Kairi." I said, we had a lot of time to "bond" over the summer so her intest in me wasn't such a big surprise. I'm assuming she is referring to me otherwise I'm gonna seem like the biggest self-centered douche bag ever. She just looked at me.

"I know, I know its pointless but a girl can try." She said looking away.

"Kairi… you know who my heart belongs too, I'm sorry that it wasn't you but I'm not the only guy on the planet." She didn't reply.

"Do you always make it this hard?"

"It's not suppose to be easy… but I know of my crimes." I gave her that much, yes I break many hearts and can only cater to one but there is no point trying to win me over when there is so much water pokemon in the ocean. I decided to end this and give her some closure.

"*sigh* Kairi it is obvious I cannot be the one to make you happy, but there is so much other people out there, other people that can make you happy but I'm not the one." I said placing a finger on her chin and raising her head to look at me. One single tender moment passed between us, we both leaned in closer and closer what the hell was I doing! I planted a single kiss on her lips it wasn't as deep as something I would give Dawn but to her it was something. We broke after that 5 seconds of heaven.

"That should be enough closure for you." I whispered to her shadow phasing off it was a damn disappointing ending but she deserved that kiss, even though we weren't together in the first place.

I teleported right above a raging river.

"Shitshitshit!" I fell down and at the last second teleported away, I gotta get this teleporting thing down. I finally ended up on another hillside this time Siearra was on it. She gave me the weirdest stare.

"Don't ask."

"Ok." We enjoyed the full moon for a while unto Siearra asked me what happened after I said don't ask. So I told her everything and she gave me the scolding off a lifetime.

"You could have atleast given her this night master. After all it is a very special occasion." She told me.

"What?" Was my reply, Siearra just gave a loud sigh.

"These last feel days mark the end of breeding season for many pokemon. Some mate for life some and some just for the season make final vows to each other their final loves before saying good bye. That phase ends on the last moon of mating season, and after that they part ways putting full faith that they'll see each other the next year. Hence the reason we pokemon call tonight Lover's." Siearra explained.

"You know going back to my last statement you could have atleast given Kairi this night. There is such thing as a one night standoff."

"….Ughhh no Siearra! No! You know I'm loyal to Dawn!"

"You don't even have to tell her it'll be that one dark secret you'll take to the grave."

"No Siearra no! Why are you suddenly like this?!" She just raised her hand and walked off.

"Ok, ok I'm not gonna force my sexual preference on you that's fine with my." She said walking off.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm gonna find myself a nice Zoroark or Lucario and I'm gonna take his virginity." She said phasing away. I was left confused and to shudder with the thoughts she put in my head.

So I was left there alone left with the thought of this "Lover's moon." And then a thought occurred to me, the thing Siearra explained was almost the exact way I had to leave Dawn. So the greatest idea came to my head all I needed was a block of wood which we still have some left over from the Ash tree I cut down a couple weeks ago. I got the block of wood and sat down leaning against a log infront of the main campfire. I unclasped my knife and started carving my present for Dawn.

The next day.

"Master, master wake up." Siearra shook me awake. It was probably a bad idea to stay up all night working on a carving…but it was worth it.

"Ohh… ok I'm awak…, I'm awake." It was around noon and the clan has already started dily tribal life hours before.

"Master what kept you up all night?" Siearra asked, I showed her the carving I made.

"Aww." She awed it was a really cute and symbolic carving, as you can see I'm not telling you what I made anytime soon.

I took today as a free day to fine carve all the little imperfections. In the end after about a pound of wood shavings I had two necklaces. I blew a whistle calling Chuck over, I also got Siearra to find his messaging tube. So while Siearra is searching for that I'll tell you what I made. I decided on a more symbolic style which was a pain in the ass to make. I split the necklace into two pieces one for me and one for Dawn. Representing me was a Braviary with outstretched wings looking downwards to the left, representing Dawn was an Espion I'd always thought of her as an Espion her independent I can take care of myself personality to her cat like nature. The Espion was looking to the top right. The two pieces were about half the size and width of a necklace so the two halves put together would make just one talisman. So when I put the two together via magnetic attachment (don't ask me where I got the magnet.) their eyes closed as the two formed a hug. The Espion enveloped in the Braviary's wings formed a very cute image. Too bad I could only send Dawn the Espion I have a plan of surprising her when I got back for now just don't mention the Braviary and that I got it as a gift for her. Chuck flew in with his carrying case strapped to his back I got a piece of charcoal and a slab of wood, this is gonna be good.

"Deer Dahn sorey I hanv't wrtn to u in a wile nywys the nite b4 I wrte this ws wht we call "Lovrs moon." I intantly thot of u. The gft I sholl xplane latr I no mi riting is a trnreck I mss u sweathrt." I concluded, yup I've been writing like that for the past year so far Dawn has been able to translate it pretty well. I placed my message and the Espion half with a string for her to wear over her neck inside Chuck's carrying case. I kept the Braviary with me and put it on, I grabbed Chuck by the talons.

"Have a safe trip Chuck." I said throwing him, with a mighty screech and a flap of his wings he took off. And to that I leave you my friends.

Whoo that was a lot more difficult than I had expected. Need to work on my pacing for longer chapters like this but that is remedied by experience. By the way I'm typing author's notes in bold now. Next chapter we fast forward another year and meet Grimlock and friends. Unto next time mates!