Thanks again to everyone for reviewing to this story, and I want to clear something up, no Serena isn't immortal, a woman who merely looks like Serena is immortal, I hope I'm not making Ash too out of character but his personality is constantly changing so it's hard to write him that and I feel that he only acts like he's immature around the newer trainers aka Dawn and May and the bratty trainer Misty and the brattiest one Iris because he is not only trying to humor them but also to push them away so that the rejection would hurt less, also I'm not doing a whole Stephan battle because honestly it's somehow painful for me to write him, anyways sadly I own nothing.
Ash stepped out on the balcony to see May holding onto the rail and looking up at the stars, he walked up next to her and noted, "We always seem to stare at the stars."
May looked away slightly and replied, "Yeah."
He crossed his arms and chuckled, "We must have some weird love of the stars huh?"
May chuckled softly and replied, "Perhaps."
Ash looked up and said, "I'm...sorry, really I didn't meant to make you so scared like that."
She looked down and replied, "I know it's just that...well you remember the incident with that evil spirit right? Well I'm just afraid that Sir Aaron will completely take you over than you won't recognize me or Pikachu or anyone else and I'll never get to see you again!"
He nodded in understanding and said, "You wanna know a secret? I'm scared to."
She gave him a surprised look, her eyes were red, she had been crying, she asked, "But how are you afraid? You would leap off of tall buildings for a person or Pokemon that had just previously tried to kill you, you're completely selfless."
He shook his head and replied, "I know I make it sound like I'm never scared but I'm always scared, every time we go on some dangerous mission that could mean our lives there's this worry that I'll mess up and everyone will die because of it, the fear of hurting someone, the fear of never living up to all of their expectations, it's all right here inside me but I've just got to try my best and hope I do mostly everything right."
He put both hands on her shoulders and continued, "But I need you to trust me when I say I won't allow him to take over, I need you to remember that our friends will help me should he try, just have faith ok May."
She stared in slight surprise then smiled and replied, "Alright."
He nodded and said, "Come on, let's get some sleep, tomorrow is Stephan's battle."
She nodded and replied, "Right." They left for bed, Ash had a pretty uneventful night but he knew what would come tomorrow, the aura training, apparently since Sir Aaron is inside his body that instantly means he has to train with his new abilities, oh well, nothing I can do about it. Was the last thing he thought before drifting off to a world of sleep. Currently though Micheal was having an important meeting with Sabrina, Alder, Cynthia, and Drayden.
Micheal watched as the four people came in, Micheal smiled and said, "Thank you for coming."
Cynthia pulled a chair out and replied, "Thank you for having us."
After they sat down Micheal explained, "As you know Ash has been having weird dreams, according to what I could get from his mom this has happened since he was a small child. Well I believe this must be the work of his growing aura powers which means the Aura Guardians, a civilization that was destroyed many years ago and now only lives on through Riley, the Lucario and Riolu that actually know how to use aura, and now Ash, are beginning to come back but sadly I don't think Ash's Lucario can teach him without a mind link so one of you must teach him."
Sabrina spoke up first, "I'm out then."
Micheal raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why're you out?"
Sabrina looked away awkwardly and replied, "Well you remember how I had picked up the habit of turning people into dolls and shrinking them? I may have kind of turned his friends into dolls, I mean sure we ended off on good terms but it'd still be awkward if I were to try and teach him." They looked a little amused by this, truthfully it was no secret she sometimes did this but it was never a problem because she'd turn them back to normal after a while, usually after a day or two and wouldn't have let the giant ball actually kill them.
Micheal crossed her name of the list and asked, "Well how about you Drayden?"
Drayden shook his head and replied, "I'd probably be too intimidating besides I'm not the most well versed person when it comes to reading and understanding the scroll of the Guardians."
Micheal crossed his name off and asked, "Alder, can you do it?"
Alder crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and replied, "You know just as well as we do that Cynthia would be the best for the job, I'd probably be too laid back with the training and I wouldn't be able to give him the motivation only Cynthia can give." Cynthia gave a surprised look, she was surprised he had so much faith in her,
Micheal turned to Cynthia and asked, "Can you do it Cynthia?"
She smiled and replied, "You know I'd do anything to help Ash, of course I'll teach him, at least until he leaves then Lucario can at least help with the rest although I don't know if he can actually do to much for Ash due to the nature of his training."
Micheal nodded in agreement, "Indeed, Lucario and Ash have been trained in completely different ways, Lucario in relative isolation since birth and Ash alongside so many people since he was three years old."
Micheal trailed of for a second before continuing, "Meeting adjourned, good night everyone and Cynthia try getting a training schedule thought up before you train Ash tomorrow." Cynthia sighed, that was going to be a painful experience, and she was so tired to.
Before Micheal left he explained, "If we have to we'll work around the training sessions, don't worry Cynthia I know who our main priority is, he'll be ready when that day comes I promise."
Cynthia nodded in understanding and replied, "I'll come to you with the details tomorrow Micheal." She got to her private room and began working, Ok so first off after every breakfast will be a meditating session starting after tomorrow since he needs to learn how, next... She was really nervous but she was sure it would work out, somehow.
Ash sat up in his bed and let out a big yawn, Clemont smiled at his friend and asked, "Did you have a goodnight's sleep?"
Ash stretched and replied, "Yep, no weird dreams this time."
Cilan nodded and asked, "You ready for the training session today Ash?"
Ash nodded and replied, "A little nervous but it might help me sometime in the future."
Brock looked at the calender and asked, "Hey wasn't it your birthday a few months ago?"
Ash gave a surprised look and replied, "Yeah but wait how did you know?"
Brock changed shirts and explained, "You're mom mentioned that you were the first child born after the Great war of Darkness."
They heard May exclaim, "Wow really?" And suddenly Bianca, May, Dawn, Misty, and Iris fell face first onto the floor of the boy's bedroom,
Ash looked at the sight of five girls scrambling to get up and laughed, "Some things never change."
Misty chuckled nervously then asked, "Ash, why didn't you ever tell us when your birthday was?"
Ash help Dawn up and replied, "It wasn't important, it's just like how I don't tell you about every time I meet a legendary."
Iris frowned and asked, "Yeah why is that?" Ash smiled and replied, "Because by now it's pretty standard for me, go to a new region, meet the local villains, see a couple legendary Pokemon then rinse and repeat. It's no big deal anyone can do the stuff we did. Besides...some of those legendary Pokemon need to be kept secret for not only their protection but also our protection."
They gave him a confused look to which he laughed, "Last one to to dining room is a Slowpoke!"
And suddenly he was gone, Iris, funnily enough, ended up being the Slowpoke this time, Ash got some pancakes and asked, "Cynthia, do you have the schedule for our training thought up?"
Cynthia nodded and replied, "After Stephan's battle I'll teach you to meditate then we'll practice some basic aura techniques." That made him excited, like all mornings on the island the time for battling came quickly.
Micheal sent out his Altaria and Stephan sent out a four legged Pokemon with blue eyes, black and white stripes, and a white lighting bolt mane which is his Zebstrika, Zebstrika used Thunder which Altaria dodged and countered with Draco Meteor which Zebstrika dodged and countered with Facade which Altaria barely dodged. Zebstrika used Thrash which hit Altaria directly, Altaria quickly recovered and used Dragon Pulse which knocked Zebstrika out! Next up was Sawk, Sawk used close combat which Altaria dodged and countered with Sky Attack which Sawk barely dodged, Sawk used Double Kick which was a direct hit! Altaria used Giga Impact which hit Sawk hard, he shook it off and countered with Karate Chop which was another direct hit. Altaria used Aerial Ace which knocked Sawk out, Stephan sent out slender, purple feline Pokémon speckled with yellow rosettes. It had a pink "mask" marking over its eyes, a pink nose, and small yellow markings over its green eyes. It had two pairs of long yellow whiskers, and a tufted yellow underside. Its lower legs were yellow, and each small paw had a pale pink pad. It had a long, curving tail with a sickle-like shape toward the tip. This of course was Liepard, it started out with Play Rough which Altaria dodged and countered with Draco Meteor which Liepard barely managed to dodge. Altaria used Rest and it's injuries began to vanish, Liepard tried using Dream Eater but suddenly Altaria woke back up, Stephan gasped, "But...but how?" Micheal smiled and replied, "Altaria was trained to wake up the moment an opponent tried to use something like Dream Eater, it helps to keep the opponent on their toes. Altaria, show our guest what you can do when you go all out, it is time for the final act my friend!" Altaria smiled and grabbed Liepard and began spinning around in circles then threw him high in the air and use Dragon Pulse knocking him out!
Ash stretched and sighed, "Too bad Stephan lost like that."
Micheal yawned and asked, "Ash, could you and your friends come with me?"
Ash nodded and replied, "Sure but why?"
Micheal picked a black bag up and explained, "I think I know how to open that GS ball, after some intense research I have come to the conclusion that the ruins it's linked to is on our island." Nobody said a word, they silently followed him deep into the woods to a large door that sat in front of a lake of water so clear you could see the bottom.
Cynthia looked down and explained, "This lake is filled with Pokemon tears, it is said that years ago a horrible tragedy, one of which no one could ever agree on, happened. It is said that instead of falling the tears flew into the sky and landed in a pool, no matter how hard one tries the water level never changes in this lake. Cilan even tested it when there was a heavy rainfall and found that it didn't even go up a centimeter, he took water from it but the water level never went down either, we've checked and there is no place the water could've welled up so we just decided that maybe it's to be a reminder of the cruelty of life."
Micheal nodded and continued, "And there's more, on this door is a slot that the GS ball fits in perfectly, also there's some writing on the door that we are still trying to decipher." They stepped forward and on the door was carved, Nos semper protegat et infirmis.
Ash's eyes glowed blue and he read, "We will always protect the weak."
After his eyes stopped glowing Serena asked, "Ash, are you ok?"
Ash rubbed his temple and replied, "Yeah, just blacked out for a moment." The GS ball started to glow brightly and flew over to the slot in the door, the GS ball turned over so that the silver side was on top and the gold side was on the bottom, it then returned to Ash and broke in half.
The moment it broke in half the door began to open with a gold and silver light coming from inside, the beams of light struck Pikachu, who was on the ground and he screamed, "Pika!"
Ash exclaimed, "Pikachu!" Suddenly the light stopped but Pikachu was still glowing a light blue, inside the door was some kind of void and in the void was a green fairy-like creature. It had round toeless feet, three-fingered hands, and clear wings on its back. It had a round head that came to a curved point. It had large baby-blue eyes with thick black rings around them, and a pair of green antennae with blue tips. That was a Celebi and it was passed out, just floating around in the void.
Ash gasped, "A Celebi."
He got a rope out and explained, "I'm going in there, the moment I grab Celebi I want you guys to pull us out ok." They nodded and helped make sure the rope was secure on him, he began floating and noticed how warm and comforting it felt in the void, he also noticed that it felt like there was some weird energy filling up inside him.
He went further in, Serena asked, "How does it feel in there Ash?"
Ash smiled and replied, "Warm and comforting, but it also feels like I'm being filled with energy...almost there."
He grabbed onto Celebi, as they began to pull him out Celebi opened his eyes and whispered, "Sir...Aaron."
Before passing out again, Ash finally exited the void, Serena asked, "Is that the Celebi you told me about in the letters?"
Ash nodded and replied, "Yes, right now both Pikachu and Celebi need medical attention so we better hurry."
Serena nodded and picked Pikachu up and ran right behind Ash, although Serena could've sworn she heard Pikachu whisper, "Ash..." But that didn't matter right now, all that mattered was helping Celebi and Pikachu.
I hope this wasn't too rushed but right now I'm exhausted, first there were the new games then there was school then there was a bunch of stuff I needed to do research on...I research the Aura Guardians a lot to see if anyone can tell me what really happened to the Aura Guardians but so far I've got nothing. Next chapter Pikachu is going to explain what happened to the Aura Guardians and I'll just say, hope you guys have tissues because you'll need them. Also sorry if my grammar seems off, fanfiction took away my ability to spell check, if anyone knows how to fix this please tell me. P.s., you know the new game Fantasy Life, someone needs to make a fanfiction for it.
