hello readers this is my new story i wanted to rewrite the one i made because frankly i felt my other one was horrible i got what i call writer's remorse anyways hope you like the story i will update a few times a week or once a week but i will update every week thank you and please review
It was early in the morning and the sun was rising over the horizon lighting the vast forest at the foot of the mountains. On top of one of those mountains stood a young man looking out into the forest. That young man's name was Ash Ketchum the aspiring pokemon trainer with the dream of becoming pokemon master someday, well it used to be his dream. Suddenly a pokemon jumps out of a nearby bush and attacks him but something stops the pokemon midway and pushes him back.
The pokemon asks "how long were you aware"
"Ever since you got here, you really should practice on concealing your aura lucario"
"I will work on it master" he said. Ash rolled his eyes for he had told lucario thousands of times to stop calling him master, in ash's mind him and his pokemon were equal they were the only ones he could trust and they only trusted him this being a result of something that happened many years ago. Of course ash could understand all of his pokemon due to his strong bond with them and the mastery of his aura.
"someday you'll have to teach me that aura shield technique" said lucario
"of course my friend" said ash
Just then a small yellow mouse came running at an amazing speed
"you almost had him lucario, maybe next time" said pikachu
Lucario turned to pikachu and nodded, pikachu then hopped onto ash shoulder and asked
" we saw you ash what's on your mind" asked pikachu
" nothing just thinking" he said
"About that day" lucario snarled as he said this
Ash remembered that day like it was yesterday
Flashback.
Ash had just won the sinnoh conference and had been presented with his trophy. He had challenged the elite four and won now there was only one person standing in the way of him becoming sinnoh champion. He had trained for weeks for this battle this was his chance to become a champion and be one step closer to becoming a pokemon master. One day ash was training when he suddenly saw smoke rising from a building off in the distance he gathered his pokemon and ran to see what was going on. When he arrived he noticed the building was the one where Cynthia kept her pokemon it was sort of a daycare/nursery the firefighter pokemon were already there putting out the fire. After a while the fire was out and all the pokemon were safe. He tried to find Cynthia to ask her what had happened but he didn't find her so he decided to walk back to the pokemon center. When he walked in he saw Cynthia and all his friends glaring at him. He asked what was going on which is when Cynthia stepped forward and said
" How could you! You tried to injure my pokemon before our battle"
Ash was shocked he didn't know what she was talking about, he tried to explain that he was nowhere near the building when the fire broke out. Cynthia said there were eye witnesses that saw him running away from the building when the fire started, she then ran out of the pokemon center crying. Officer jenny was there to question ash on his whereabouts, ash said he was training and said his friends knew he went off to train for the match, but they said that he could've been doing anything. Everyone said that he would do anything to win they talked about him like the didn't know him at all. He was being betrayed by all his friends, the people he had helped and saved countless times. They didn't believe him when he told them he had nothing to do with it, they even confessed against him saying that they had heard him plan it all out. Ash was banned from ever competing in any league and was stripped of his trainer's license. When he returned home he learned that his mother had passed away in a car accident, ash had nothing and no one else to turn to so he decided to leave. Leaving every trace of his old life to start a new one, at night he took all the pokemon he had befriended throughout the years and left.
Present time
"Yea its been 6 years and I still cant get that memory out of my mind" said ash
" It will eventually go away master just give it time" said lucario
" Thank you my friend I appreciate your concern, common guys lets head back the others might be wondering where we are" said ash
Ash, pikachu and lucario all headed back to the place they now called home, it was a small cave a little bit down from the top of the mountain. He loved his new "home" it was peaceful up in the mountain, sure it took some time to get used to living up there but after awhile he found it was a good place to train his pokemon and master his aura abilities. Ash had trained his pokemon to absolute perfection but he felt that it was selfish if his pokemon were the only ones who trained, therefore he occasionally sparred with his pokemon he thought if his pokemon had to train hard and be pushed to their limits so should he.
They were arriving home when a loud roar was heard, ash looked up to see a giant orange dragon fly down and land next to him.
" Hey charizard how'd you sleep" asked ash
Charizard grunted and smiled at ash " fine" he said.
"subtle as ever huh" said ash
Charizard responded by sending a weak flamethrower at ash a habit and sign of friendship they've had for a long time.
When ash got to the cave all his pokemon were there waiting for him like every morning waiting for ash to tell them what kind of training they would be doing. Ash stopped and looked at all of his pokemon, he was proud of every one of his pokemon, they were his friends, they were his family. Ash had many pokemon all which had evolved into their final form except for pikachu of course but pikachu had been considering it but ash always told all his pokemon it was their choice he would not force them to do anything they did not want to. To name a few of ash's pokemon there was charizard, venasaur, blastoise, feraligator, meganium,and typhlosion, infernape, torterra, sceptile, swellow, staraptor, garchomp, heracross, a red drapion, Pidgeotto, a white salamance, his black lucario and pikachu of course, but these were not all of ash's pokemon, and of course ash had encountered many legendary pokemon throughout his travels some of which were part of his team he let them roam free but when he needed them they did not hesitate in coming back to him for ash had also forged a strong bond with them and they considered themselves his pokemon and his protectors even if the young man could take care of himself. Ash snapped away from his thoughts and told them to take the day off telling them he had to go contemplate a decision he was trying to make. Everyone looked at ash confused wondering what he had on his mind but all eventually went their own way to find breakfast since they fed on the plant and animal life that grew and lived on the mountain, ash had discovered it was better for his pokemon to eat fresh food rather than processed food.
While everyone went their way ash went over to a nearby waterfall and sat on a stone in the middle of the lake under the waterfall, this was the place he went to meditate when something complicated was on his mind. Ash sat down on the rock while lucario came and joined him they always meditated together and its where lucario first taught ash how to concentrate to improve his aura abilities.
" so master do you really believe its finally time?" asked lucario
"reading my thoughts again my friend" said ash
" my apologies master I didn't mean to…"
"I was joking lucario I would never keep secrets from you guys I know you are concerned, but yes I've been thinking and I think it is finally time to return, I also received an invitation from Scott for a tournament" said ash
"but master I thought they had banned you from any competition and revoked your license" said lucario
Ash remembered the day and felt anger inside, he suddenly became surrounded in a black aura. Lucario saw this and tried to calm down ash, he knew that when ash released his dark aura he was dangerous. Ash then calmed down and stared down at lucario.
"master I am sorry for saying that forgive me" said lucario.
" don't blame yourself lucario its not your fault, thank you for calming me down I appreciate it"
"anytime master" said lucario.
"thank you, and about what you asked, I was cleared two years ago but by then I had no interest in going back to all the people that betrayed me."
Two years ago during the sinnoh conference Paul had admitted to max that he had framed ash all that time ago because he hated ash. Realizing that he had betrayed his best friend he felt horrible, he lost the match he had against Paul the next day but max told authorities and then went to Cynthia to tell her the truth. After a long and grueling interrogation he admitted to framing ash, after that ash was cleared of all charges and his trainers license was reinstated. Everyone looked for ash for months but no one found him, he was gone and in ash opinion he wanted to stay gone.
Meanwhile
"Max will you stop bragging already"
"I don't tell you to stop bragging when you win a contest May so just leave me alone"
"okay you two how about both of you stop its getting late and we need to set up camp and start dinner" said Brock
"finally" said a redhead and bluenette.
"dawn, misty can you please go get firewood so I can make dinner. May and max can you go find some berries for dessert please" asked brock.
"allright" everyone said.
All of them had known each other for a long time and were now traveling together.
First there was misty the cerulean city gym leader and water pokemon trainer, then there was brock, the ex pewter city gym leader, may and max maple, may was an aspiring coordinator from hoenn max was a trainer who one day hoped to take over his fathers gym. Finally there's dawn she was also a coordinator but was from the sinnoh region. All these people had one thing in common they all knew and had once traveled with a young pokemon trainer years ago and all of them had made a big mistake and each one of them knew it. Everyone was sitting down for dinner when max started talking about the pokemon battle he had won earlier that day. While he was retelling everyone about it the girls started talking.
" you know his energy kind of reminds me of ash" said may
As soon as she said this everyone grew quiet and looked at her, then they lowered their heads remembering the long lost friend they had betrayed. Ever since that day none of them would speak his name because every time they did they felt the guilt all over again.
" allright guys we still got a long way to go to get to the tournament, we don't want max to be late" said brock
Meanwhile on another part of the world a blond woman stood at the edge of a lake as if waiting for someone, suddenly a large dragon came flying down and landed right in front of her this woman was the champion of sinnoh Cynthia.
"did you find anything garchomp" said Cynthia
Cynthia's garchomp looked down at the ground and shook his head. As soon as she saw this a tear slid down her face, she had been looking for such a long time and yet she had found nothing. Garchomp knew what this meant to her so he placed his claw on his shoulder in a way of telling her they would keep looking. She looked up and smiled at him, then before she left she looked up at the sky and said
" ash where are you"