Guardian Solaris

Ages:

Ash-17

Max- 13

May- 15

Dawn- 13

Serena – 10

Simon (OC) - 15

Robert (OC) - 18

Sorry for my prolonged absence, it was caused by unavoidable events, and there was no way I would ignore it, but I'm back to writing. This may not be so much as 'mini' an arc, than I had originally stated, and I hope things become better, it is quite a long chapter with some shipping goodness thrown in with the action (gets better as the chapter goes on... I hope ). Find out after the...

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Once more, I'll have to see if My 5pEll1nG has improved :P

Other than that I have just noticed how the site doesn't accept the second square bracket (thanks to a reviewer), and how it has taken away from each section of Pokémon speech. Which is really pointless, as it allows the opening of the brackets and not the closed brackets; so I'm gonna have to use something new (points down)

"Translated Pokémon talk is now in speech marks and in bold otherwise if it isn't in bold it is not translated"

Which is really irritating as I'm gonna have to use a whole new format, but I'll prevail around these shortcomings. Where the short comings are mostly on my part as I haven't noticed before.

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Chapter 21- A Guiding voice

The group continued to walk through the forest as Scythers continuous slashes came one after the other in the front. Other than the slashing of vines and hollow branches, an eerie silence surrounded the group from every other direction.

Their progress was slow but steady as most of the group made small talk among themselves, apart from Scythers owner as he remained contempt with his own silence. But his thoughts were not like the general chatter of the rest of the group. His thoughts were focused more on the situation at hand, and how perilous it could be.

'He'

' it?' Simon thought as Scythers continual slashes prompted him to move forward slowly. 'I know that it's here' the still hooded fifteen year old thought, 'so why hasn't... it, attacked?' he tough wearily, and slightly paranoid. But then again someone needed to be. The rest of the group had seemed to forget completely about where they were. Lavender Forest, One of the most haunted places in the world, people came in and would not make their way back out.

Simon's thoughts although slightly paranoid, were justified. Because from behind some withered bushes in the lifeless forest a Marowak watched on.

She held her bone upon her shoulder like a trooper would carry his gun whilst waiting. She looked on at the group that began to move slower with each passing moment as the vines and branches became thicker and thicker, the closer that they would get towards their destination. The destination that her new master wanted him to be, not them, only one member of the group was needed. He had to be there in order to stop the oncoming darkness. Or at least aid him to stop it. One thing was sure to the Pokémon that was how the others in the group would not be needed; they were just humans, cruel humans.

Now it would be a human who would help to save the world, a world created for Pokémon. By experience she had learnt how humans were cruel. They had killed her, and still to this day she had no clue as to the fate of her son, her innocent baby Cubone. The humans known to her as the Team Rocket did this, and now she was nothing more than a phantom, unable to move on from her former life. Not able to find what death would bring;

Heaven?

Reincarnation?

What would death bring? Marowak had learned that she may never know, but she could always take the lives of those who had taken away her own life. To take the lives of human beings' would bring her vengeance.

"Do it my friend" she said as a breeze passed, shaking through her ghostly body like a ripple, but she didn't feel a thing. She hadn't felt the crisp cold air brush past her, or the sweet taste of food in years now. That was what death had bought her.

Simon began to slow down as he felt the cold wind shiver through his soul; he panicked internally as his eyes scanned from left to right.

'Thought you'd forget me?' The voice said as it had spoken sinisterly once more inside of the boys mind.

'But I'll always be here, always, not until I get my own Vengeance' it spoke up once more, but then turned silent. Simon then looked towards his Pokémon, noticing how the repetitive slashes of blades against the branches, and vines had stopped.

"Scyther?" he said as the Kanto native Pokémon looked towards its trainer with some concern, but the bond between him and his Pokémon had alerted Scyther that something was amiss.

"Scy?" the Pokémon had said wondering if its trainer had any concern.

"Hey, what's going on?" Serena asked.

"Simon, why have you stopped Scyther" Robert said assuming that it was the hooded trainer who had halted the Bug type from clearing a path.

"Something's wrong" he said, covering for his Pokémon.

"What?" Dawn said as she folded her arms.

"Something" he replied, as Ash decided to remain silent about the voices that spoke inside of his own mind.

"I know that something's wrong. But What?" Dawn said raising her voice.

"I don't know?" Simon replied in a calm voice

"Then why'd we stop" Robert asked.

"Didn't I already say" Simon replied becoming aggravated, "Robert you should know better than anyone that not everything's as it seems here" he said as he looked towards his friend.

Robert nodded, but other members of the group weren't as convinced. "How can we save that boy then?" Dawn said.

"We will," Simon said playing along with her assumptions.

"So we should get goin" Dawn fired back.

"Calm down" Simon said, noticing how Dawn raised her voice towards him more and more as the conversation went on.

"Why? Don't you care about His Kid?" she said back.

"And stop screaming" he said gritting his teeth.

"What? Look, I'm just trying to save a innocent boy here" she said

"Then GO!" he said pointing towards the everlasting darkness entangled with thorns covered in vines, filled with twisted branches that had been stripped from all forms of life.

Simon had become really angry with the co-ordinator, he was nearly always calm as he could be but the constant conversations about him behind of his back, and the degrading tone of her voice was piling up, "If you gave a Damn about him then you would have bloody helped me!" he said, "Scyther's been doing all the friggin work, and all you bloody brilliant trainers have been so high in your selves that you can't even let your Pokémon out to help" he said talking about the group as a whole.

"Then you should have said something" Dawn retaliated not giving an inch.

"Oh So- rry I thought that you had half a brain" he shouted back, "And now we're in one of the deadliest places in the world, and you're busy saying a bunch of crap about me behind my back"

"What?"

"I've got ears you know" he said with his eyes reflecting his anger.

"Well you're the one who didn't say Anything! If you were smart you would have said something about all of this" she said back, keeping her stubborn approach to the hooded boy.

"And you're just one of the most helpful people in the world. All you've really done is gossip about me. YOU- ARE- USELESS" he said in return, as everyone hushed in silence.

"You, you" Dawn said cumulating her anger, preparing to rip him into shreds. But another being that was watching on had become tired of the argument.

"Take him out, at your will" the Marowak said to an invisible force as it complied with its wishes.

Simon then lost his feeling of anger as it slowly turned into fear. He began to realise the mistake that he had made. He tried to move his feet to stop any injury that could come from staying in the same place, but found that he couldn't move. He looked down, and found that his feet were completely encased in a bright green crystal like substance, he couldn't move as Dawn was now the least of his worries.

"Scyther" he called out as his bug type leaped in front of his trainer and Dawn with the aid of its wings.

"Scy" it said, glinting its blade like claws, as Dawn suddenly became really scared, 'He wouldn't, hurt me?' she tough as she remembered what Drew had tried to do to May.

Scyther then moved its large claws holding them up in an attacking position as Dawn moved a few feet backwards. It then attacked its own trainer's feet aiming for the crystals that encased them, but just before the attack had made contact the crystal had seemed to vanish, forcing Scyther to attack the legs of his own trainer. The bug type then pulled out its claw as fast as it could but the damage was already done, Simon stumbled one step back as a natural reaction before the crippling pain in his legs bought him down, he grabbed his legs in pain as his eyelid and jaw clamped shut holding back screams of pain.

Dawn looked on in astonishment.

"Scy" the Pokémon said in astonishment at its grave mistake, it held out one of his scythe like arms trying to help his trainer back up to his feet, it may have been a small cut that just caused a little bit of damage

Maybe.

But Simon opened his eyes to his bug type and gave a look of pain and anger to his Pokémon.

"Scyther" he said gritting his teeth together, in a voice that was deeper than it usually was. The green Pokémon became fearful of his Trainers judgement, "Scyther. Save yourself"

But his message wasn't received inside of the Pokémon's mind as a large green crystal erupted out of the ground throwing the bug type away several meters.

Another large green crystal then grew out of the ground throwing the young boy a few feet himself as he crashed on the ground not too far away from his Pokémon, continuing to grip onto his leg in an attempt to stiffen the crippling pain that was inflicted onto him by his own Pokémon.

"You alright?" he said to his Pokémon who had seemed to taken a heavier hit back than he did.

"scy" the bug type said although as it tried to take its scythe like arms back up, they were then suddenly entangled by green crystals that had sprouted out of the ground almost immediately. Their appearance seemed to be like that of a plant, and their colour was a bright Emerald green, "Scy- ther?" the Pokémon grunted as it tried to untangle itself from the crystal which would show no signs of breaking.

"They won't break little insect" a sinister voice boomed out from all around the forest, "I will not break again".

Simon looked towards the others in the group as he saw them break out of their trances by the impact of the sudden events.

Dawns eyes opened out wide as she was the first one to attempt to come to the trainers' aid, but in front of her a bright emerald wall grew out of the ground. She rushed pounding against it as she attempted furiously in an attempt to reach the boy on the other end.

After her the others reached out of their shock educed trances and also attempted to get through the barrier.

'Please be there' the blue haired co-ordinator thought, as the emerald green shine that was originally there diminished slightly allowing a view of the events on the other end.

'Why?' thoughts came running through the co-ordinators mind as the rest of the group took a step back, Dawn then decided to follow suit. Ash's Pikachu jumped off of his shoulder as the Electric type lit up bolts of lightning from its cheeks. One by one the others released their own Pokémon from the Pokéballs: Max released his Metagross, May released her Blaziken, Serena released her Ninetails, and Robert released his own Nidoqueen, and following suit Dawn released her own Empoleon.

All of the Pokémon took up a stance in front of the Emerald wall, as Simon watched from the other end with his Syther besides him, still on the ground.

"FIRE" Ash commanded like a general ordering his troops as the Pokémon let loose some of their most powerful attacks upon the wall, engulfing it in flamethrowers, Hydro pumps, Thunder, and a Hyper beam, creating a cloud of dust from the impact.

As the echo in the silent forest fell, so did the veil of dust and smoke. As the dust had cleared it appeared that the wall had been destroyed, Dawn prepared to rush in and aid the injured boy, but was stopped when the cleared dust reviled a Marowak standing in front of the group with her bone hung upon her shoulder.

All of the Pokémon took two steps backwards at its sight, clearly sensing something that their trainers had not about the Marowak. But Dawn didn't really seem to be fazed by the Pokémon as she took another step forwards in an attempt to help Simon. The Co-ordinator was stopped when the emerald barrier reappeared, although it didn't grow out of the ground. The emerald wall seemed to reappear like a ghost would vanish, which caused the Pokémon to return themselves into their Pokéballs and force Pikachu to rush over to Ash who dropped down to comfort him, while staring at the Marowak on the other end of the wall.

The Pokémon looked towards the people with some humour knowing how helpless they were. Marowak looked towards Robert who looked at her with a look that contained Anger and Determination. Anger because of his current situation, and determination. He had a sense of determination to capture the Pokémon, because that was what he had to do, the reason that he had called upon his friend for help.

In return Marowak looked upon Robert with a smirk of supremacy against the human who was helpless once more against her.

The Pokémon then shifted her view to look at the rest of the group until her eyes lay upon Ash who had a hold of a petrified Pikachu. The reason for its state of fear was because just about every Pokémon would feel the same way when put in front of the presence of a ghost, almost all; and this effect would take either eons of training and discipline to overcome or that Pokémon should be filled with pure power.

'So he is here' the Marowak thought as she looked upon Ash, 'I'll have to separate them, if we are to survive this chaos I must follow his orders and bring him the boy. But how?' she pondered as she continued her gaze among the humans trapped behind the barrier passing May and Serena who had taken up positions either side of Ash, until she had reached towards Dawn.

The Pokémon looked at the blue haired co-ordinator. Dawn's eyes looked on as her fists lay upon the impassable wall, not looking towards the Pokémon, but towards the person at the other end who lay injured. Her eyes filled with desperation.

Marowak smiled as she didn't try to decipher Dawns thoughts; and turned around towards the boy who lay on the other end. Simon had managed to sprawl up onto his back holding a tight grip on his leg as blood dripped down his leg staining his clothes turning them into a dingy dark colour. Besides him his Pokémon remained bound to the dirt by the crystal vines.

Marowak took a step towards the injured boy, as Dawn looked on knowing what may happen, 'Don't'

'Please, don't Ash, do something, save yourself' she thought even though she was looking at Simon, but when she looked on at the boy as Marowak advanced. She saw Ash, even though Ash was standing few feet away to her side.

For some reason, Marowak stopped in her advance and glanced towards the group. The Pokémon then smirked as it once again looked towards her original target and continued to walk.

Simon looked on at the Marowak, unable to move away from his current position. He noticed how he wasn't the only one in danger, and pressed the button of a Pokéball from inside of his pocket. Immediately his Syther was converted into bright red energy, and sucked into the Pokéball.

He then saw the crystals that had once encased his Pokémon vanish into thin air, and smirked. He then drew his eyes towards Marowak who stood two meters away from him.

"So you must be the Marowak" he said, remembering his mission objectives. Even though Ash and the others didn't.

"Ye- yes" the Pokémon spoke in a feminine voice; something that she had learnt to do in death. The voice seemed scratchy, breaking with every line.

"Still attacking innocent children I see" Simon said. "Guys, if you can hear me, I'm guessing this is the thing that had captured that kid." He spoke.

"I-I D-ID noth-ing l-ike tha-t" Marowak replied coldly, her words still cracking, as she utilised her abilities as a spirit to communicate, "You, you a-re the m-murderer"

Ash looked on, his mind hadn't yet thought about breaking the wall with the stronger members of his team, as he had become intrigued in the conversation. The fact that Marowak had questioned Simons integrity had been enough, as Ash hadn't liked the boy since he had met him.

"So you say?" he said, trying his best to hide the pain in his leg, "Now what are you going to do?"

"Y-ou, will di-e" she said holding out her bone club towards Simon's neck, as he was still kneeling down in an attempt to stiffen the pain in his leg. Dawn looked on helplessly.

"Now who's the murder?" he whispered. Marowak, grew an angry look upon her face, as her anger could be sensed by all of the group who stood behind of the wall. She pulled her bone back, ready to deliver a blow to the trapped human.

Simon closed his eyes and turned his head, preparing for more pain.

But nothing came; he opened his eyes and saw the Marowak walking away as he sighed a sigh of relief.

"I-I-I do-n't need to serve in such a task. A-n-other sh-all" she said continuing to walk away as she disappeared into the forest. Simon then thought for a moment wondering what she had meant, but then noticed that he was half encased in the bright green crystal.

"Damn" he whispered to himself.

His heart began to beat faster, as his breathing became heavier. He attempted to get out of his predicament, by moving his trapped limbs. The crystal seemed to be too tough as he relaxed his muscles, but as he did so the crystal tightened even more.

His heart beat became more erratic, he wasn't ready to die.

"no" Dawn whispered as she saw the crystal slowly grow up the boy's body. He couldn't get his Pokémon out to help as his hands were trapped still clasped around his injured leg.

But all this time, the Marowak continued to watch in concealment, "Wak" she whispered in her native tong, not required to put on the false facade of human speech. "Maro- Wak" she commanded as the great crystal wall that blocked Dawn and the others disappeared in an instant, leaving a dim green haze in its wake.

Dawn jolted forwards as the solid matter in front of her vanished, and she had nothing to lean her weight upon. After a second of thought she had realised that the wall had just gone, and like Max, Robert, and Serena rushed forwards towards the injured boy, who was also freed as the crystal that had encased him also vanished into thin air.

Simon began to breath heavier as he regained control of the rest of his body. But in his current condition it did him no good as he continued to kneel upon the ground clasping his bleeding leg in pain. The scuffle of feet could be heard, rapidly gaining, as he was suddenly surrounded by those who had rushed to help him.

"Are you alright?" Robert said from his shoulder.

"Yeah As-" Dawn said stopping her sentence as she had realised how she had mixed up names.

"Come on" Robert said slowly pulling Simon up by the arm.

"no, he" Simon tried to say, but out of nowhere a bone came flying in like a boomerang, hitting the boy in the shoulder, and throwing him upon the floor once more. Simon clamped his mouth shut, attempting to get a message to the others although they didn't seem to notice, as they were more enticed in Simon's condition.

The group went back down to the ground as to evade the bone as it flew back on its return flight, and flew away. Robert attempted to get Simon back up to his feet, causing the fifteen year old to grunt in pain once more.

"STOP" He said showing signs of great pain in his voice.

"What is it?" Max asked

"Save, Them" he said pointing towards Ash and May who remained in their original positions all of this time. All the others turned their heads away from the injured boy, to the direction he was pointing at, and what they saw shocked them.

Ash was standing, behind of the great Emerald wall that had reappeared, with the lower half of his body encased in bright shards of crystal.

The view was slightly blurry from behind of the Green mass that stood in the void between the two groups. HE tried to scream, but the crystals had encased his chest. Ash would try and breathe in, and as he exhaled, the crystal would once more tighten its grip, leaving less air for his body, as his supply of air was slowly being lowered. His face began to change colour as the blood underneath his skin became deprived of the oxygen that allowed it to be a bright red.

But Ash wasn't alone in his plight, as May stood beside him, attempting to hack away at the crystal with her own brute strength.

"May" Ash croaked out as the crystal tightened around him once more, forcing him to let out a breathless scream as no sound whatsoever came out of his mouth. The crystal gently tightened once more.

May called out her Blastoise. The water type came out looking at the scenario it was in with intrigue, as it then turned towards May and Ash and took a look at their predicament.

"Blastoise, help us out" May called out to one of her most powerful Pokémon, even though she knew that her efforts could just be in vain. The Water type's natural instincts to protect her trainer kicked in as she launched one of her most powerful Hydro Pumps, towards the crystal that was encasing Ash.

Without thinking Blastoise let out her attack upon the crystal that encased Ash, but her attack also struck her trainer as May didn't have time to move away from Ash. The surge of Water gushed throwing May off of her feet and into the air, forcing her to fly. May screeched, but her screams were held at bay by the great torrent, as Blastoise continued her Blast. May began to get closer to ash as her body was set to crash upon the crystal that had encased him.

But before the impact that could have ended the Co-ordinators life took place, the crystals had vanished, as she hit Ash sending the two of them to crash onto the floor, soaking wet.

Blastoise looked back up realising her grave mistake of injuring her trainer; although the water type was quickly taken out of her guilty state of mind, as she was poked on her back. Blastoise turned around to see great vines made out of the bright Emerald crystal growing out of the ground, glowing brightly. In shock the water type had no clue about what it should have done as it was slashed across the face by one of the crystal vines. The water Pokémon fell upon her shell, left unable to get back up as another vine slashed her across her side with a distinct cracking sound.

Blastoise was sent rolling around, flat onto her face, by another couple of vines striking her on her left. The water type used her arms to lift herself up but as she got up, she spotted something on the ground. It glistened dimly, and would normally go unnoticed but to the water type this was something that couldn't go unnoticed.

There on the ground lay fragments of her shell.

The Pokémon immediately turned towards the strong vines, with a look of complete anger in her eyes, having lost a portion of her shell, a portion of her pride. Blastoise almost immediately launched a Skull bash towards the animated crystals, although the Pokémon came in contact with the impenetrable Emerald wall that separated the two parties.

On the other side the group seemed to be in perfect safety, looking on as horror filled their eyes. They watched as Blastoise got herself back up onto her feet. Finally finding herself an opponent worthy of her power. But being overcome by that power. Blastoise turned around and found many more vines erupting out of the ground, with their Emerald glow; and had enough.

Blastoise had no way of winning this, and with that thought she recalled herself into her owners Pokéball, allowing her to fend for herself.

May regained consciousness as Blastoise had returned itself. She found herself on the ground, besides her another person lay regaining his breath. May turned her head around and found her arms holding onto Ash for dear life.

"May" he whispered still attempting to catch his breath.

"Yes" she whispered, still holding on as some parts of her body became cold almost instantly.

"Are, Are you alright?" he asked, unable to move his body, or even speak in his normal tone, due to the lack of Oxygen.

"Yeah Ash, I'm fine" she said, as the cold sensation grew slowly. Creeping up her body.

May held Ash tighter, in fear of what was going on around, trying to find safety somewhere. Trying to make sure that Ash would still be alright. She didn't know what she wanted to do, but besides Ash was where she had to be.

"May?" Ash said realising something was amiss. "Do you know where Pikachu is?" he said, as oxygen began to once again return into his bloodstream.

"Pi-Kachu?"She said, as she noticed that the yellow mouse like Pokémon was nowhere to be found.

She tried to move her limbs, but found that she couldn't. All around her, she felt cold.

Too cold.

It began to get hard opt breath, as all external feelings became numb, all feelings apart from Ash in front of her.

He was the only thing there in the world that she was sent in that was as cold as pewter.

The rest of the group could only look at the two in shock. Unable to respond as they were too shocked. The sight they were witnessing was something that they had never seen before, and in front of it they were helpless, as the Emerald wall blocked them from moving to aid. Even though aiding the two would just be an act of suicide.

They watched as the two were slowly became encased in crystal, unable to move. Slowly loosing the feeling of air in their lungs.

Slowly dying,

Without anyone able to help them in any way.

Yet still hidden the Marowak watched on as the sight, as she felt some form of pleasure. The only form of pleasure, or happiness she had experienced in ages. The happiness that no food or wealth could fill in her current state, where Wealth and Gluttony could no longer satisfy her. The only happiness she could feel at that moment was the life being drained away from others.

Marowak shook her head, back to reality. Or at least the reality that she was in; the dreaded limbo without any escape, apart from the nearby town, and every entrance there would disgust the Pokémon, with the stench of the living.

"No, we have to keep them alive" she spoke in her native language, indecipherable to most humans.

"As you wish" another voice whispered through the wind of the forest.

And with that Ash began to be moved by the crystal along the ground, slowly at first. But with time he began to gain speed. May on the other hand was not being moved, but was dragged, as her arms began to stretch further. The crystal had let loose its death grip upon her, but in her new situation, that did her no good, as the being seemed to have any interest in the young girl, in comparison to Ash.

With great speed they vanished, through the deep vines, and branches that had made up the forest. The great wall had also vanished, as it had no use. Those who had stood behind it were too in shock from the rapid events that had just transpired, and would have been unable to do anything even if they were in the right state of mind.

Marowak continued to watch on, "That was fun while it lasted. But the girl was unnecessary" she spoke

"I know" the voice whispered once more, "but she did have a tight grip. Nothing I can do now. So how about revenge?" it suggested.

"Not... yet. Wait, and when the time's right we'll strike them down" she spoke.

"When the time is right" the voice echoed, as Marowak began to walk calmly in the distance that Ash and May had been taken in.

"Out of all the souls in all the planets, in all the universe. It had to be a human." She said, to herself

"Why? Just what makes this one species so special?"

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F.Y.I.

- Simon is similar to Ash, He acts like Ash was in the begging of GS, and still dose occasionally.

- The Crystal being, is the ghost of the Tree of Begging, I thought the new ways of attacking others would be better than big red blobs.

- Chapter was originally planned to be longer, but I just had to leave you guys on this cliff-hanger. Something that I should have NEVER done, but if I did carry on it would be two times the length. I just hope that it isn't all that large a cliff- hanger, but you have something to look forward to in the next chap as Ash and May are now alone.

- the genre of this story has changed to Supernatural/friendship.

PLZ R & R

And now I vanish...