Ch 29: Jason's final test

It was late in the even on route 113 and Jason was on his way back from his training with Zinnia.

His training in the last few days since they entered route 113 has been the most intense training he had ever had as an aura guardian.

Instead of just simple morning sessions, she was training with him for entire days.

He made it back to the camp where he saw the others sitting around the campfire.

"There he is." Finn said as Jason walked over and to his tent.

"Another long day?" Emelia asked.

"Yes." Jason said as he laid down in his sleeping bag.

"You sure you don't want to talk to us?" Autumn asked.

"I really just need some sleep right now." Jason said.

Autumn gave a frustrated look.

"Uhhgg, they aren't even dating anymore and she's hogging him more than ever." Autumn said.

"She's just trying to get him ready for this final test he has." Emelia said.

"I just hope it's over soon. He won't see her anymore after that." Autumn said.

"Then he'll be all yours." Emelia said smiling as Autumn blushed a little.

"I'm sorry, but this still confuses me." Wally said.

The three sweat dropped.

"Sorry." Finn said.

The next morning Jason woke up early.

He cracked his neck and slowly got up before he opened his tent.

His eyes widened as he saw a team aqua aura guardian standing there.

Before Jason could say anything, the aura guardian stuck his finger up to the cloth over his lips and motioned Jason to come out of his tent.

Jason carefully came out and stood before the aura guardian and a Sceptile.

He noticed this aura guardian was wearing black and blue armor similar to the armor worn by team Magma aura guardians only it looked more advanced in terms of versatility.

"Are you ready?"

"Ready?"

"For your final test."

Jason's eyes widened and he felt his heart beat.

"Final test…My final test is today." He said shaking.

"That's correct. Follow me."

"But my friends." Jason started, wanting them to be there to see the test.

"Follow me." He said.

Jason sighed before he followed the guardian and his sceptile.

He was lead through a series of rocky paths until he was lead to a small oasis.

The aura guardian turned to Jason.

"Keep up."

The aura guardian dove into he water followed by his Sceptile.

Jason was confused but knew he'd have to listen if he wanted to get to the test.

He dove in only to find himself standing in an empty cavern.

"What?" He looked up to see the water was above him but not around them.

"What the hell?"

"Follow me."

Jason continued following him until they entered a hallway.

A hallway that looked even more ancient than the ruins at Mt. Chimney.

"Where are we?"

The aura guardian and his Sceptile continued until they were in a massive chamber with a statue of a man standing over three massive dragon type pokemon. Jason felt a very strange, and powerful energy coming out of the statue, it felt like it was effecting everything around them.

Jason recognized the man from some of his visions of Altair's life, it was Aegon Targaryen.

"The first Hoenn Mentor." He said.

"He loved dragons as much as I do." Jason heard from a familiar voice.

He turned to see another two team Aqua aura guardians and none other than Zinnia standing there.

"Welcome to the very first Hoenn aura guardian enclave established by Aegon Targaryen the dragon king. This is where you're final test is going to take place."

Jason gave an excited look as he tried to take it in.

"I'm ready!" Jason said as Zinnia smiled.

"Good to know, because you will be challenged like you have never been challenged before. Here are the rules, you get one pokemon. Then you find your mega evolution stone."

Jason was confused.

"That's it?"

"That's it." She said.

Jason knew something was up, it couldn't be that simple.

Still he took out a single pokeball and let Charizard out.

Charizard looked around and gave a strange look.

"Charizard this is it, our final test."

Charizard's eyes widened.

"We do this and we're aura guardians."

"Grauu!" Charizard roared in excitement.

Jason handed his other pokeballs to the guardian that lead him in.

Zinnia lead him to an open door with a light on the other side.

"Good luck Jason, I know you can do it."

"I had a good teacher."

Zinnia smiled.

"Find your mega evolution stone, and I'll see you soon enough." She said before she walked off.

Jason and Charizard slowly walked through the doorway and saw themselves at the base of a narrow canyon.

The canyon seemed natural but almost as if it had been made specifically for that location as well.

Jason saw the canyon go down very far, but there were a series of rock pillars sticking up across it.

Charizard motioned for Jason to get on his back, but Jason shook his head.

"This is part of the test."

He began parkouring across the the rocks with Charizard flying overhead.

Moments later Jason heard something with his advanced senses.

He looked up at the top of he sides of the canyons.

Two aqua marines revealed themselves each with a massive Onix.

"Rock tomb."

Jason's eyes widened as he saw massive rocks fly down at him and Charizard.

"Look out!"

Charizard quickly evaded the rocks while also slashing through others with Dragon claw as Jason moved across the pillars, and when he couldn't he leapt off the falling rocks.

"Dragon pulse!"

"Grauu!" Charizard roared as he unleashed a blast of dragon energy at one of the Onix.

To both their confusion the blast hit some kind of energy field and was absorbed.

Jason and Charizard nervously sweat dropped.

"No fighting them! Let's get out of the canyon!" Jason shouted.

The two rushed across the canyon as quickly as they could, avoiding each rock as they fell down at them.

Finally Jason saw something ahead of them. It looked like another doorway like the one that lead them into the canyon.

One of the rocks crashed into the rock pillar that would have allowed him to leap there and sent it tumbling down.

Jason took a deep breath as his eyes glowed blueish green and he jumped forward, leaping off the falling rock and diving onto the doorway.

Charizard quickly tightened his wings and also dove inside, knocking Jason and himself into the doorway.

They tumbled across and landed on the other side.

When they got up, Jason and Charizard looked around in amazement to see they were no longer in the canyon, but a thick jungle tropical rainforest.

"What?" Jason said.

Charizard gave an equally confused look.

Jason used his aura vision and saw life all around him, the flora were alive and there were some pokemon lingering around.

"This is a real rain forest." He said in amazement.

Moments later he heard movement.

He looked around with his aura vision to see dozens of blue auras. They were team Aqua marines with nightsticks, electric guns, and Mightyena moving in military patrol fashion.

"Stealth." Jason said.

He quickly scaled the trees and blended in as Charizard did the same.

They carefully moved up the tree levels until they reached the top.

"Let's see how big this rainforest is." Jason said as he climbed onto Charizard's back.

The two flew up into the sky until they hit the clouds.

They looked back down to see the rainforest went on as far as the eye could see.

"My Reduka, it could take us days to find the next doorway."

Jason and Charizard tried to think.

"After the canyon, I don't think those marines are here to help us. They're part of the challenge, and I doubt they'll be as easy to fight as magma grunts."

"Grauu."

"Maybe you're right, this is all a test. They want to see if we can find our way out by eavesdropping, tracking, and asking the pokemon." Jason said.

Charizard nodded and he flew down to the top of the trees before the two carefully moved through the tree levels, using their aura vision to find other pokemon and aqua marines below.

He came across a Treecko feeding off some Pecha berries when, he reached out to him with his aura.

"Hello, my name is Jason. I need you're help."

The Treecko looked at him.

"We're looking for a doorway out of here. Can you help us"

The Treecko looked confused.

He told Jason he didn't know what he was talking about.

Jason sighed as he and Charizard carefully made their way through the trees, asking any pokemon they came across for help.

Still none were able to help him.

Jason and Charizard didn't give up.

That was when they heard something else, it sounded like crying.

Jason, still using his aura vision, saw what looked like an almost destroyed aura and quickly made his way over to the aura until he saw a wrecked nest, below them on the forest floor was a crying Skarmory trying to move a large rock.

"What's wrong?"

The Skarmory looked up and saw Jason.

She was still crying as she told Jason what happened.

Jason and Charizard heard her words, a powerful burst of wind had knocked her babies onto the ground and a nearby rock onto them. She couldn't even move the rock to see their corpses.

Jason saw several Aqua Marines patrolling nearby.

"Still nothing Lieutenant."

"Alright switch to thermal."

Jason quickly used his aura to mask his and Charizard's internal temperatures.

He knew they needed to find the door, but he couldn't just leave the Skarmory.

He sighed as he turned to Charizard, who nodded.

Jason carefully made his way down to the forest floor, being very careful , he avoided detection and moved the rock away to see three Skarmory chick bodies.

The Skarmory's expression didn't change as she lowered her head over one of her dead babies with tears falling onto him.

Jason had to fight back tears himself.

"What was that!?" One of the marine said as his Mightyena barked at a tree.

He and the Mightyena rushed over to see an overturned rock and nothing else.

"Huh? That was weird."

Jason was in the tree as he placed the three bodies in the nest.

Jason and Charizard kept looking at the bodies with aura vision until he noticed something, a very small spark of life in all three.

"Charizard, they're still alive. We have to save them, together" Charizard nodded as he put his hands onto Jason's back as both their eyes glowed blueish green.

Jason's hands also glowed as he touched the three bodies.

The Skarmory mother saw their metal bodies start to snap back into place before their eyes opened and they started chirping.

Her eyes lit up before she let out a joyous cry before licking and nuzzling her three offspring.

Charizard and Jason smiled, so happy they were able to save the three baby Skarmory.

The mother came over and licked the side of Jason's face, trying to thank him.

"It was our duty." He said before the mother said something else. Something about how one particular one of the humans was the first one in.

"Who?"

She said something about him being called a major.

Jason thanked her before he and Charizard continued moving around.

Eventually they found themselves over a group of Aqua marines.

"Still nothing."

"Alright I think the major wants to see me. I'll be back in a few minutes."

That caught Jason's attention.

He and Charizard quietly tailed the marine across the forest, moving from tree to tree, being vary careful as they saw some marines hiding in trees.

Finally they came to an waterfall with a look in front of it.

Two Aggron, five Mightyena, and thirteen marines armed with electric taser rifles and one without one were guarding it.

"Major, you needed to see me." The marine said as Jason noticed the other marine had two oak leaves on the collar of his uniform.

"No activity yet?"

"Nothing sir."

"Impressive, still it's early on , we can't let him find the doorway. I want to remind you and everyone to be careful what they say, they've good really good hearing."

"Yes sir."

Jason noticed that the marines were particularly serious in defending the water.

As he looked at it through his aura vision he noticed something very strange about it.

"Charizard I have an idea, but you have to trust me." Jason said as Charizard looked at the water and gave an uncomfortable look.

"We have to do this together or they'll spot us Charizard."

He took his hand.

Charizard looked into Jason's eyes and took a deep breath.

They walked carefully to the end of the branch before they performed simultaneous leaps of faith into the water as the Marines tried to turn.

The moment after they hit the water they appeared in a dark cave.

"What?".

Moments later they saw something across the cave.

An aura guardian stepped out smiling as he touched a mega evolution stone on his hidden blade bracer underside.

A pokemon mega evolved behind him, when they saw it was a massive mega Gengar.

They were confused and a little afraid as the Gengar's eyes glowed red and the two partners felt their vision glow dark and shadowy.

Twenty shadowy men and women with nightsticks and Mightyena stepped out.

"Marines, apprehend him."

The marines and their Mighteyna came at Jason who got in a fighting stance.

He tried to strike one of the marines, but like a shadow he vanished.

"What?"

Charizard did the same to one of the Mightyena as the same happened.

They were both hit and moved back as they were swarmed by attackers.

Jason and Charizard did their best, but somehow the mega Gengar was clouding their minds and vision, making them see marines and Mightyena where there weren't.

He tried to unleash a pulse of aura, but as soon as he knocked down all the marines, more fake ones appeared as the others got up.

"Can't trust your eyes." The guardian said.

Jason breathed deeply as he closed his eyes and used his aura vision as well as his other senses.

Charizard did the same.

"Grahh!" Jason shouted as he formed dragon claw shaped aura in his hands and kept away every attack from the real marines before fighting back, knocking them out one by one.

Charizard doing the same to the Mightyena.

When they were all down, Jason and Charizard were breathing deeply.

Jason had to admit, those Marines were very well trained, they were nothing like Magma grunts. They were real soldiers, and Jason was glad they weren't his enemies.

They heard the aura guardian clapping as his Mega Gengar laughed.

"Good, very good. You have the sixth sense alright and you know how to use it." You're making incredible progress." He said before he and his Gengar walked backwards into the darkness before vanishing.

After regaining their stamina Jason and Charizard slowly walked ahead until they were through the darkness.

They appeared on top of a mountain with a steep drop beneath them.

"A mountain?" Moments later a massive dragon pulse hit the ground in front of them.

Jason jumped back as they saw a massive Hydreigon fly over them snarling.

Jason quickly got onto Charizard's back as he took off.

The Hydreigon opened all three of his mouthes and unleashed a massive Outrage at the two.

"Get in close!"

Charizard tucked his wings in close as he flew in and avoided the blasts of dragon energy.

His claws glowed green as he prepared to strike.

The Hydreigon smiled as he performed an incredible arial maneuver over and behind them.

"Look out!"

Charizard quickly flew down as he narrowly avoided a triple Crunch.

"Dragon Pulse!"

Charizard aimed and unleashed the a massive pulse as the Hydreigon spun himself around and narrowly avoided the attack.

"Grouuu!" The Hydreigon roared as he unleashed another outrage.

"Come on, we can do this." Jason said as both their eyes began to glow green.

Charizard tucked his wings in and flew up, avoiding each blast as his claws glowed green.

He moved with incredible speed and agility until he reached Hydreigon, he crashed his claws across the Hydreigon, knocking him through the clouds, following suit.

The moment they passed through the clouds, Jason and Charizard landed in a jungle.

"Wow." Jason said as they looked around.

Jason looked at the jungle closer and realized something a little scary.

This jungle looked exactly like the one where they grew up, the one on the seafoam island.

That was when their aura vision somehow took over, it made things seem like he was in an aura vision but still in real time.

The sky darkened as lighting crashed all around them and they tried to duck for cover.

As they avoided the lighting, Jason and Charizard both saw something in the trees. It was a person, a figure, Jason looked closer with normal vision in one eye and aura in the other.

It was Vaeron, somehow Vaeron was in front of him.

Vaeron smiled as he beckoned him over before freerunning across the trees.

Jason quickly scaled the trees and followed him with Charizard close behind.

As they tried to keep up with Vaeron, lighting was striking all around them and they were almost hit.

For a moment Jason almost felt irritated as he followed Vaeron, even after everything he had done, his final test, and yet his famous ancestor was still here, still butting in.

But that was when Jason realized, like it or not, Vaeron, Altair, Sir Arron were a part of him and he was a part of them, but that didn't make him any less of an individual.

He took a deep breath as he free ran like he never had before, finally catching up with Vaeron as he performed a leap of faith and Jason followed in suit.

They appeared onto of a platform overlooking the jungle with statues of Dragon pokemon around them.

In the center was a pedestal, sitting on it was a mega evolution stone.

Jason and Charizard's eyes widened as they slowly walked closer ,but just before they could reach it Vaeron leapt down from above and landed in front of them.

"Well done, you've made it this far." He said in old Kanto.

Jason and Charizard backed up as their eyes widened.

"But you still have one more test to overcome." He said as a massive Charizard landed behind him.

He raised his head and lowered his hood.

"You'll have to best your fathers." Ash said as Charizard grinned and puffed out some smoke.

Charizard saw his son in his fully evolved form and with dragon features, but instead of looking sad or horrified, he only looked proud.

Jason and Charizard were both very afraid, they would both have to defeat their own father to get the stones, how could they even do that.

Despite this they looked at each other.

Jason smiled before he sprinted at Ash with his eyes glowing blueish green.

Charizard likewise roared as he soared at his father.

Ash blocked both of Jason's strikes with ease before delivering a quick kick to his stomach, knocking him onto his back.

Charizard grabbed his son and in one motion hurdled him over him self and onto the ground.

Jason and Charizard quickly got up before rushing forward again, quickly entering a fierce melee with their fathers.

Jason using every bit of martial arts Zinnia taught him only to have Ash block them all with ease. At the same time Charizard could not land a single hit on his father, who redirected his attacks or knocked them away with his own wings.

Jason took a deep breath as he tried to unleash a dragon pulse like burst of aura at Ash while Charizard unleashed a massive Flamethrower.

Ash's eyes glowed blue as he formed an aura barrier around himself that absorbed the blow before unleashing his own blast knocking Jason back.

Likewise Charizard knocked his son's fire away with his wings before unleashing a blast of fire that carried Charizard back over to Jason.

The two got up as they looked at their fathers.

"Come on we can't give up!" Jason shouted as his hands grew aura claws and Charizard flew right behind him with his own dragon claws.

Ash and Charizard smiled as Jason leapt up. Ash quickly caught him by his wrists and held him in place as he also leapt up, Charizard snatching his much smaller son by his arms and pinning him on the ground before Ash did the same.

"Come on Jason, dragon or not you've got more in you than this. Are you going to let your own father keep you from becoming an aura guardian.

Charizard growled something similar to Charizard.

Jason's eyes glowed green again.

"Never give up until the end!" Using his aura he propelled himself up and his arms out, freeing him from Ash's grip as Charizard unleashed a massive pulse of dragon energy around him that mad his father let go.

"Together!"

Jason leapt onto Charizard's back as he flew at Ash.

Ash leapt up but Jason leapt up sooner, wrapping his legs around Ash's neck and flipping him onto the ground after striking him across the face.

Likewise Charizard made a sharp turn up, smashing his claws and then his tail across his father's face.

They waisted no time and went at the mega evolution stone, Jason snatching it in his hands.

"We got it, we got it!" Jason shouted.

"Grauuu!"

"We passed out final test!"

Ash and Charizard got up, in all of Ash's life he didn't think he could have felt so proud until he saw his son holding his mega evolution stone.

Charizard felt the same as he saw his youngest son.

"They aren't boys anymore."

Charizard shook his head.

"Jason." Ash said as they turned to their fathers.

"You've done it." Jason felt overwhelmed and rushed over into Ash's arms as Charizard did the same with his father.

"You're now an aura guardian Jason."

"Thank you dad, for everything. But uh, how is this place even possible? We started in a canyon, then a rainforest, then a mountain, now a jungle."

Ash smiled.

"Do you remember the statue of Aegon?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you feel a strange energy coming out of it?"

"I did!"

"It was a tear of Reduka."

"A tear of Reduka!"

"One of the very first ever created, given to Aegon by Altair and brought here from Kanto. It was inside the statue and it allows all of these environments to exist inside the enclave."

"So those were all real?"

"Of corse, what would we make some illusion to make you think you did all this stuff, how would that test anything but your mind?"

"Good point." Jason said.

Minutes later they were in a massive ceremonial hall where Zinnia and the other guardians were waiting.

When they walked in Jason saw in complete surprise, Autumn and the others.

"Autumn? What are you guys doing here?"

"You're dad brought us here! We saw the whole thing! It was awesome!" Emelia said.

"And we got you meet your dad, you know Kanto champion." Finn said.

When Jason reached his friends, Autumn couldn't control herself and hugged him.

"We're so proud of you, you've completed your life's ambition."

Jason hugged her back.

"Thank you Autumn and you guys too, for all your support."

"Pika!"

Jason looked over to see none other than his father's Pikachu climb onto his shoulder.

"Jason, it's time."

He was lead over with his father and Zinnia as Ash took out a very old book with a spade on the center.

"Place your hand on the book."

Ash and all of his pokemon did so.

"Jason Altiar Ketchum, do you swear to uphold the ways and customs of the Aura Auardian's?"

"I do."

"Do you swear t stand up for and protect the innocent people and pokemon of the world who are in need?".

"I do."

"Do you swear to stay to and faithful to the brotherhood, never betray us or our ways?"

"I do."

"Do you sweat or never abuse or miss use the power of aura that you have been blessed with?"

"I do."

"Do you swear to honor and trust in the legendary pokemon before us?"

"I do."

"Finally do you swear true allegiance and faithfulness to Reduka the creator of life. Our eternal father and Guardian."

"I do."

"As an aura guardian master, you are hereby made a full member of the brotherhood."

Jason felt surreal as he completed his oath. The others cheered as his pokemon gave excited looks.

Zinnia opened a box revealing a pair of hidden blade bracers.

"Special draconid blades, just for you dragon guardian." She said as Jason slowly put them on and let them out, looking at the pitch black blades.

"I'm still working on your armored dragon hooded jacked, I'll get it to you when it's done" Zinnia said.

Jason put his mega evolution stone into the holder on his right hidden blade bracer's underside.

"I almost forgot, you're Charizard will need this." Ash said as he took out a necklace holding an mega evolution keystone just like his father's.

Charizard put it on his son who stared deeply at it.

Jason looked at Charizard as he looked back.

"Are you ready?"

Charizard nodded.

Jason touched the mega evolution stone as a colorful sphere formed around Charizard, causing him to grow larger.

Everyone, Charizard in particular watched closely as the Mega evolution was complete.

Mega Charizard was almost twice as big as he was before. His body now pitch black with patches of dark green as well as grey scales on his body, a green stomach with some armored scales on it and green inside of his wings, his flames were now bluegreen and he looked more like a dragon than he ever did before, with his fangs, claws, and scales, as well as the more dragon like skull.

He raised his head up and roared with green fire coming out.

"Grauuuu! Charizard X roared.


Author's note

Ok before any questions are sent out I want to clarify some things, Jason is a fully trained guardian now and a member of the Draconid clan.

Everything in the enclave was real, not some vision or trip, it was real

His Charizard is a Charizard X! A CHARIZARD X!

I am reiterating these things because I know someone will not read close enough and freak out asking things like this.

But Jason's training is complete and he is a real guardian now.

It was nice to be able to write Ash again, though don't expect him to be a character you see a lot, just sparingly.

You will see other characters sooner or later, but we also have to focus emphasis on the new characters.

Also "Spoiler...though really you know it's going to happen" if you're wondering when Jason will get with Autumn I gave some hints earlier between Jason's pokemon, one will be right, you just have to figure out which.

Also sorry if you wanted to see Jason's Charizard as a Charizard Y, but I already did that for Ash's Charizard and besides he's suppose to be more dragon, it would make no sense for him to be Y.

To reiterate again, Jason's Charizard is a Charizard X.

So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask(via PM)