Chapter 25: The new Guardian rises part 1

The ferry continued towards Akala island as Ash and the others saw the island get closer and closer.

"So we get to Heahea city tonight. The nearest trial is in Brooklet hill, we can get there through route 4." Gary said.

"Hey guys, mind if we spend the night in the Hano Grand resort?" Lillie said.

"As in the biggest most expensive resort in all of Alola." Moon said.

Lillie nodded.

"Don't you need to book a reservation like a year in advance?" Serena asked.

Lillie looked a little nervous.

"You booked it a year ago!" Gary shouted.

"Well, it's my favorite hotel."

"Come on guys, it's not like we have a short supply of money." Red said.

"But our pact?" Ash said.

"Well maybe we can let this one slide to celebrate you guys wining your first trial." Serena said.

Ash, Gary, and Moon all took deep breaths.

"Well, why not." Moon said.

"Good thing I picked up some more gold from the city before leaving." Gary said.

Nebby came out of his bag and looked at the island.

"Neb!" He shouted as he flew around the boat.

"Nebby get back here! Get in the bag!" Lillie shouted as Nebby swam too close to the water and hit a wave.

"Nebby!" Lillie shouted as the small pokemon began to sink, unable to swim.

Red saw this and quickly jumped in.

"Red what are you doing!" Moon shouted.

"He's definitely your little brother Ash." Serena said.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Ash asked in a playful manner.

Serena giggled.

"Meaning you're probably the kind of guy who would jump off the Lumoise prism tower to get your pokemon if you saw them fall off." Serena said hugging his arm.

"I couldn't just let pikachu fall." Ash said rubbing Pikachu's head.

Lillie saw Red come back up with Wimpod in front of him and Nebby in his arms.

She looked relieved as Ash and Gary helped Red get back up.

"Oh thank you so much Red." Lillie said as she took Nebby from him, the small pokemon coughing up some water.

"You scared me half to death Nebby!" She said in a serious tone.

After Nebby got back in his bag, Lillie looked back at Red who was soaking wet. She blushed a little, thinking about how he just jumped off the boat to rescue Nebby.

As the sun continued to set the ferry landed at Heaheacity.

The city was slightly bigger than Hau'oli city, but was just as mixed with trees around it and grass.

A large piece of land was connected to the east side separated by a narrow land bright with a small grassy mountain on it and a lighthouse by another town.

The city seemed to be built along side the ocean with the water near the street edges in some areas.

"Wow, this place is even nicer than Hau'oli city." Ash said as they walked around.

"Woah." Hau said as he and the others saw a large white and blue hotel at the end of one road.

"Is that the Hotel!" Serena asked.

"What , no that's the Tide Song Hotel." Lillie said before she lead them through the cit and across a bridge to a large lagoon surrounded by rocks with a massive beautiful beach. Built beside the beach was the biggest hotel most of them had ever seen. It was orange and dark brown with over sixty floors and a massive pent house on top.

There were four pools of water near the main entrance with bridges over them and marble flooring leading to the hotel.

"Is this a Hotel or a castle!?" Gary shouted.

As they went to the door they saw two valets.

"Welcome to the Hano grand resort." One said holding his hand out.

Moon and Gary looked at them.

"You want a tip? For greeting us?"

"Hey I'm trying to pay for college."

"You're in college?" The other one said as the first one motioned him to stop.

"Well what he means is I'm going to be in college soon and." The first one said before seeing they had already gone inside.

The hotel lobby was massive, several pools of crystal clear water with artificial waterfalls attached to them.

The lobby was the same color as the exterior with several glass waterfalls and couches, many wealthy looking guests hanging around with well groomed pokemon.

Lillie approached the main desk.

"I have a reservation." She said handing them her form.

The woman behind the desk verified it.

"Yes, this checks out. Welcome to the Hano Grand resort." She said handing Lillie three room keys.

"Alright here's a key to the boys' room, a key to the girls' room, and I sort of."

"Got yourself a suite." Moon said as Lillie sweat dropped.

"Oh what it must be like to be rich." Gary said.

"Is it fair for us to say that since Daizyujin gave us all that gold?" Ash asked.

"I say we go change into our bathing suits and check out the pool, I bet it's huge!" Hau said.

"Sounds good to me." Red said.

The group each went to their rooms and put their things away before changing into their bathing suits.

The hotel indoor pool was massive, having two water slides on it and six hot toes around it.

Lillie was laying on a pool chair in a white bikini and Nebby laying beside her.

Moon was in the pool wearing a yellow bikini swimming some laps while Red did the same in a pair of red swim trunks.

Lillie would subtlety look at him as he passed, able to see his upper body when he came up, Wimpod swimming beside him.

Gary's Brionne was also in the pool.

On top of the larger water slide were Serena wearing a pink bikini, Ash in green swim trunks, and Hau in black swim trunks.

"Woah whoa!" Hau shouted as he jumped in and slid down with his arms out.

"Ok you want to go first, or should." Ash started before Serena pushed him down the slide.

She giggled a little, before she felt a hand come up and grab her arm, dragging her down the slide.

She saw Ash finally get her in his arms.

"Nice try!" He said before planting a kiss on her lips before they splashed into the water.

Red got out shaking the water out of his hair before Lillie saw him, seeing his muscular upper body.

"Hey Lillie , come in the pool with us."

Lillie looked back at the pool before Red noticed she looked uncomfortable for some reason.

"I'd, I'd rather not."

"Come on, it'll be fun. Who doesn't like swimming."

"I'd rather not."

Red realized something was bothering her about the pool.

"What about the hot tub?"

"Well, ok." She got up with Nebby in her arms.

The two went to a hot tub where they saw Gary sitting alone, looking not quite so relaxed.

"Hey Gary, mind if we join you?" Red asked.

"Sure." He said in an irritated tone.

"Uh are you ok?" Red asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Red and Lille sat down in the warm water.

"That feels nice." Lillie said.

"Yeah it reminds me of the hot springs back in the dorms." Red said before Gary's face went from irritated to slightly saddened.

"Yeah it does. Gary didn't you spend a lot of time there?" Red said as Gary got up and walked away.

"What's gotten into Gary?" Lillie asked.

"I don't know, but now that you mention it yesterday back in Iki town a girl tried to flirt with him and he seemed to get upset about it too." Red said.

The sat in the tub for a few minutes taking in the warm water, but Red still noticed Lillie seemed a little off.

"You seemed pretty excited about coming here." Red said.

Lillie cracked a smile.

"My family and I use to come here once a year on vacation. I use to love it, my father would be off work, my mom too. We'd spend all of our vacation time together. My parents would even play chicken with my brother and I."

"Sounds fun."

"You said your family use to vacation at the Seafoam islands right?"

"Yeah. I remember one year, it was well, uh, embarrassing."

"Embarrassing? What happened?"

Red looked embarrassed.

"Well, me and Ash were fifteen and it was the time of year where you could surf on there. He talked me into it and we went out. I did pretty good at first, even showed Ash up a bit, unfortunately I got a bit too ambitious and went on a really big wave."

"You wiped out?"

"Big time, but it only got worse. When I came back up and tried to climb onto my board…My trunks had."

Lillie's face turned red as she covered her mouth.

"You were naked." She said trying not to shout.

Red's face turned red.

"I begged Ash to help me find them, and he did. But we couldn't find them, so Ash went back to the hotel and got me another pair."

"How embarrassing." Lillie said.

"Lucky nobody saw me…..Wait a minute, that girl who looked my age with the snorkel, she was smiling and laughing when she came up not to far from me." Red said sounding embarrassed.

Lillie blushed thinking about this story before she had a mischievous idea, and moved herself closer to Red before quickly grabbing the end of his swim trunks.

Red jumped quickly turning to her and grabbing the sides of his trunks.

Lillie laughed a little.

"Very funny Lillie."

"Hey don't forget what happened the day you caught Wimpod." Lillie said as Red blushed a little.

"That was a good day." He said jokingly as she shook her head.

"Lillie, I said earlier you seemed excited to come here. But since we've actually been here, you've seemed a little. Well , upset."

Lille turned her head away before she felt Red grab her shoulder.

"Lillie, I just want to make sure you're ok."

She looked down before sitting back, Nebby noticing this.

Later that night Red was in the boys room with Moon and Serena joining them.

"So have you found any contests on the island yet?" Ash asked Serena as the two snuggled together on his bed.

"Two actually, one in Royal Avenue and another in Konikoni city."

"So you'll have two chances, that's great, plus plenty of time to prepare." Ash said.

Red was a bit worried about the way Lillie was acting around the pool.

He looked over at Gary, Hau, and Lillie who were playing a game of flip cup with some beer Gary bought.

"Dam it!" Moon shouted as she was the last one to not have her cup flipped.

"Hey have any of you seen Lillie since we left the pool?"

"No." Gary said as he quickly chugged a bit of beer before trying to flip his cup.

Gary left the room and went down to Lillie's suite on the next floor.

"Lillie." He said knocking on her door. There was no response.

"Lillie are you in there, nobody's seen you since the pool and." He said before the door slowly opened.

Red came inside and saw Nebby with a very worried look on his face.

"Nebby!" He said.

"Nebby what's wrong? Where's Lillie?" Red asked as he shut the door.

"Who's there!?" He hear Lillie shout, her voice sounding slurred.

Red saw Lillie in her normal white dress looking like it wasn't put on right. She looked a little dizzy but with a goofy expression as she struggled to stay standing.

"Lillie are you ok?"

"Ohhhhh Red, it's you, what are you doing here hot stuff." She said in a slurred fashion as she struggled to walk over to him.

Red catching her in his arms as she almost fell down.

"Oh you're so strong." She said feeling his arms

"Lillie what did you do?" he said before he saw Nebby pointing at the coffee table.

Red's eyes widened as he saw a bottle of liquor from the room fridge half gone and some cups on their sides.

"Lillie have you been drinking a lot?"

"Oh a little gin and tonic, ok maybe a lot. You know how it is." She said smiling.

"Lillie something's clearly bothering you. Let me help you."

She looked very upset now.

"Bothering me, like what how I wanted to come here so I could recapture the last bit of happiness and love from my family only to realize I was wrong. It's ok, the alcohol makes me feel better about the fact that my father's dead, my mother never loved me, and my brother is gone." Lillie said looking like she was about to come to tears.

Red hugged her tightly.

"Why did Gladion go? Why did my big brother leave me! I thought he cared about me! Gladion why did you go! Big brother!" Lillie shouted as Red picked her up and carried her over to her bed.

"It's ok Lillie, why don't you get some rest." Red said as he carried her over in his arms.

Lillie turned back to Red looking at him in a different way.

"Ohh Red, you're just the best guy a girl could ask for, you're so king, caring, and hot, so hot. I want you." She said pressing her lips against his, catching Red completely off guard.

His face turned red but he quickly pulled away.

"Lillie no. You need to get some rest." He said as he laid her down.

Lillie got up.

"No, what I need is you." She said as she whipped her dress off, revealing her white bra and panties.

Red now shook blushing as Lillie beckoned him over.

"Let's do it, let's make love." She said grabbing his shoulders trying to kiss him.

Red grit his teeth before grabbing Lillie's arms and stopping her.

"Lillie, no, just no. You're drunk, I'm not taking advantage of you. I care too much about you." He said as she began to tear up.

Lillie hugged Red tightly.

"Please , don't leave me too!" She shouted.

"Lillie I'm not going anywhere."

A few minutes later Lillie was fast asleep resting beside Red who was in the bed with her, Nebby sleeping on the pillow beside them.

Charmeleon was curled up on the foot of the bed fast asleep as Red had Lillie's arms around him.

He looked down at her , stroking the back of her head.

"Oh Lillie, this isn't you, this isn't the girl I adore." He said.

Elsewhere three figures waited outside the city.

"They're here my prince."

"Good, you both know the plan."

"Of course."

"Good, then tomorrow we end the Zyurangers."

The following morning Red woke up and saw Lillie holding her head.

"Morning Lillie." He said in a soft tone.

"Ohh my head, my head is in pieces." She said before she felt something else.

Lillie got up and sprinted over to the bathroom, Red hearing her vomit into the toilet.

Charmeleon was still fast asleep , but Nebby woke up with a concerned look.

Red and Nebby went over to the bathroom and saw Lillie vomiting.

He knelt down beside her, rubbing her back.

"Ohhhh , I'll never touch alcohol again." Lillie moaned as she wiped the vomit off her mouth with a rag.

She turned around to see Red standing there.

"Are you doing alright?"

"No." Lillie said as Red helped her up.

Lillie saw she was still in her underwear and blushed.

"Red, last night, what I did."

"It's fine Lillie you were drunk."

She looked very nervous.

"We didn't, uhhhh."

"Lillie you can check the sheets, we didn't do anything."

Lillie hugged him.

"Thank you, I'd never forgive myself if I lost my virginity in such a way."

"Lillie, you said things last night, about your family."

Lillie looked nervous.

"I was , just drink."

"Are you sure?" She uncomfortably nodded.

Red went to get Lillie some water.

They met the others down in the lobby for some breakfast.

Lillie sat down with Red placing some black coffee and bananas in front of her.

"Thanks." She said.

"I can't believe Lillie got drunk and we missed it." Moon said.

"I know." Serena said.

"So what's the plan for today?" Hau asked.

"As soon as we're ready we head out and." Gary started before they heard someone on tv.

"First Hau'oli city, now it seems Akala city has fallen victim to attack as strange men are attacking citizens downtown with police unable to do much."

The group watched with interest as they saw Skull grunts attacking the downtown area.

"Well they're not being subtle this time." Moon said.

"We better get down there." Ash said.

Red turned to Lillie.

"We'll be back." Red said as they quickly left, Lillie looking concerned.

Two police officers were beaten senseless by a group of skull grunts while a few more were blasted and shot at by three other officers and two Magnamite.

Several more skull grunts leapt over them as they mauled the five mercilessly.

Several people and pokemon ran in here before a series of bursts that shattered a few of the grunts.

Several people saw the Zyurangers rush up with their pokemon beside them.

"Just skull grunts, something must be up." Red said.

"Maybe the monsters have wised up." Gary said as he drew his lances and made his double lance, running forward, using his weapon to counter strike three of the grunts, shattering them. Knocking their strikes aside before smashing them into pieces. As he did this, Brionne unleashed bubble beam into another three before launching herself through them with aqua jet.

Serena leapt up firing multiple energy arrows into three skull grunts, causing them to shatter as Vulpix saw another three come at her.

"Pix!" She shouted , blasting them with a powerful Aurora beam that shattered the grunts.

Dartrix flew over five grunts, pelting them with Razor leaves as Hau moved up smashing the first one apart with a powerful strike.

Another came forward , Hau smashed his axe through its arm and body. He then kicked another one's arm aside before slashing it apart from the chest.

The next two were smashed apart as Moon came forward , delivering two powerful slashes with her daggers, shattering them.

Torracat ran under her legs , leaping into another two as she furiously scratched them.

Ash smashed apart grunt after grunt with his claws and the Dragon dagger, Pikachu joining him with Iron tail.

"Char!" Charmeleon shouted as he blasted three grunts apart with flame burst as Red leapt over him, his sword in one hand and his short sword in the other.

He slashed one clean apart with one strike before cutting another's left arm off with his dagger, finishing it off with a kick.

He came forward with a cross strike , destroying a third before he was hit by an energy blast and knocked back.

The other Zyurangers were also hit and knocked back.

Red looked up in horror as he saw three Gorma approaching them.

Two of the Gorma were larger than usual, one bing a demonic looking Fearow-human hybrid. The other a sadistic Alolan raticate hybrid.

The on in the middle was about their size with black skeleton armor over his body and a demonic skeleton like helmet over his face.

In his left hand was a black and red bone sword.

"Hmp, so you're the Zyurangers, I must say, I'm not impressed." The skeleton armored one said.

Lillie was very afraid for Red as she saw him on tv.

"You six have caused the Gorma tribe much grief over the last year. Now I have come to succeed where the triumvirate has failed." He said in a very mild manned tone.

"Who are you?" Red asked.

"I am the heir to the Gorma tribe, I am Prince Junior."

"Nice name." Gary said in a mocking tone.

"Fearrok, kill him."

"At once my prince."

The Fearow Gorma leapt off the ground, flying through the air as he snatched Gary in his beak, also snatching Hau , Moon, and their pokemon in his talons.

"Raticas, the others."

"With pleasure."

The raticate sprinted forward knocking Serena and Vulpix to the ground as he snatched them both in his tail, running off.

"Serena!" Ash shouted as he and Pikachu sprinted after them.

Red and Charmeleon stood ready to fight Prince Junior.

"You are beneath me."

"Prove it." Red said.

Junior raised his sword as he and Red charged at each other.

Junior knocked away each flame blast with his sword before reaching Red. The two exchanged blades in several fast and powerful strikes, as hard as Red tried, Junior was able to block both of his blades, each strike moving fast and agile.

Junior locked blades with Red as he brought his head closer.

"Die." He said before forcing Red back and slashing across his chest and kicking him back.

Red shook his head as he raised his blades again.

"Persistence, at least you're making it interesting."

Elsewhere Fearrok dropped Gary and the others as several local people ran off in fear.

Fearrok flew down and slashed all three Zyurangers with his wings and talons, also knocking their pokemon down.

As they tried to get up, he flew back down , his wings turned to metal as he knocked them all aside , their pokemon grunting as they laid on the ground.

Gary grunted angrily as he drew his lances, and readied himself to redirect Fearrok's attack with Hau and Moon behind him, their weapons raised.

"Try us this time" Gary said as Fearrok flew over them , beyond their reach, pelting them with metal feathers that hit them hard.

Gary grunted as he tried to leap up with his enhanced abilities, but Fearrok flew too high and came down, knocking Gary back into the ground.

Fearrok pelted Hau and Moon again before flying into all three Zyurangers again.

The three struggled to get back up.

"Time to die Zyurangers." Fearrok said as he came down , shaking the ground with his beak.

"Ranger gun!" Gary shouted as the three drew their guns and fired.

Fearrok's wings turned metal as he deflected the blasts with the outside of his wings and hit the three with drill run.

"Ahhh!" They shouted in pain as bursts went around their armor.

They landed on the ground unarmored and injured, blood coming out of their mouths.

Fearrok flew back up as they struggled to their feet.

"We're not going to beat him. We need to run." Moon said as they returned their pokemon and ran inside a building.

"You can run but you can't hide Zyurangers."

Serena and Vulpix were still being dragged by Raticas before she drew her dagger and sliced his tail, making him drop her.

Serena tried to get up but Raticas leapt onto her before she was able to avoid him.

He clawed her relentlessly and gnawed on her armor hard.

She was forced to the ground as he continued before Ash leapt into Raticas, kicking him off Serena.

"Serena!" Ash shouted as he helped her up, Pikachu doing the same with Vulpix.

Raticas faced the two before he raised his arm.

"When the mess with the rat." He said as two more Gorma monsters appeared from his arms, two smaller Rattata gorma.

"You get the pack!"

The threes' eyes glowed red as they blasted the four who grunted.

Ash leapt forward, kicking Raticas back before quickly slashing his arms as the came forward before punching his face three times, Pikachu leaping over him as he smashed Raticas's head with Iron tail.

Serena did her best to avoid the two Rattata monsters and hit them back, Vulpix blasting them with Aurora beam.

They grunted before unleashing blasts into Serena and Vulpix, making them grunt and stumble before they leapt into them mauling them.

"Ash!" She shouted.

"Pix!"

Ash and Pikachu slashed Raticas back with his cross slash before they saw Serena being mauled.

Serena!" Ash shouted as Pikachu blasted the two with electricity, Ash unleashing a blast of Dragon energy, the two attacks knocking the Rattata Gorma off them.

Serena was unarmored by the Rattatas' attacks.

She was on the ground with her cloths torn up and blood coming out of her mouth, Vulpix bloodied too.

Ash quickly picked Serena up in his arms, Pikachu putting Vulpix on his back.

"We need to get them out of here."

Lillie saw Red get blasted by Junior again and hurled back.

"Red!" She shouted.

Charmeleon tried to claw Junior only to be slashed twice and blasted back.

"Charmeleon!" Red shouted as he saw his pokemon on the ground wounded.

"Ahhhh!" Red shouted as he leapt into Prince Junior, kicking his arm and making him move back.

Red caught Junior's sword with his blades before ducking under his next strike and kicking his sword arm aside.

He slashed Junior's other arm with his sword before stabbing his abdomen with his short sword.

Junior grunted angrily as he came at Red again, Red blocking Junior's blade as he pushed back unleashing three quick strikes before slashing across Junior's chest with his sword,

Junior caught Red's off and and slashed across his chest before tossing him back with his enhanced strength. Red dropping his short sword.

As Red got up, Junior unleashed a blast from his sword into Red's chest making him stumble backwards before he ran forward knocking his sword aside with his own before slashing Red twice.

"Huaaaaa!" He shouted, slashing Red a third time, Red landing on the ground unarmored and injured beside Charmeleon.

"Hmp, nothing too it." Prince Junior said as Red grit his teeth.

He tried to get to his feet as Junior raised his blade.

"Don't worry, it won't take long." Junior said before they both heard something.

"What?" Junior said as he turned to see a car smash into him, carrying him into the side of a building.

The car door opened as Lillie ran out.

"Red!" She shouted as she sprinted over to him.

"Lillie, what are you doing here?" He said as she helped him up and returned Charmeleon.

"Getting you out of here!" She shouted as she put Red's arm around her shoulders and carried him away as quick as she could.

Junior shoved the car front away from him, grunting.

"Who the hell?" He asked before he saw Lillie helping Red away.

He was about to go after them when he saw Lillie's face.

He stared for a moment before realizing they were out of his sight.

"What? Why did I just freeze up? I need to find them!"

Author's note

Things are looking grim for the Zyurangers,

Prince Junior means business,

As for the others things, Red is not the kind of person to take advantage of a drunk girl, even one he wants to be with,

I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can

So until next time,

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