Pokémon Journey: Adventures in Kalos

Hey guys Paradox here and we're finally at chapter 30. So Yes,I'm still out of the country,so I rarely have time to work on this. Not only that,it's gotten difficult for me to get inspired,that I just wish that I could turn off my thoughts and mind,and just let my subconscious do all the writing,but enough of me complaining,let's get started.


"The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude."-Rainer Maria Rilke


Chapter 30:The Forest Champion

Three days have past since leaving Mabel's house and the group continued down Route 11 to Shalour City,all while Ash did special training with all his Pokémon. Right now,Clemont and Bonnie were arguing about what happened earlier during breakfast. "It wasn't my fault!" Said Bonnie. "You spilled your orange juice on my prototype." Said Clemont. "I apologized for that,besides it would've blown up anyway." Bonnie said. As the blonde siblings continued to argue Serena then caught up to Ash who was abit ahead.

"So Ash,are you nervous for your Gym Battle against Korrina?" She asked him. But Ash didn't respond. For the past three days,aside from training,the night before they left,the talk he had with Mabel. Could he really be doing better if trained as an Aura Guardian? He will happen if he does this? He wasn't sure about any of it. All he certain is that he's gonna talk to Drake about this,since he was the only person with this kind of experience.

"Ash?"

The sound of his name broke his concentration of his thoughts,and turned to the honey blonde girl,who was walking next to him all the sudden,he didn't even notice her come up. "Ash,are you ok." Serena asked. "Um..yea I'm fine,why you ask?" Ash said. "You seem..distant these past few days,you sure you're okay.?" Serena asked again,with even more concern in her voice. Ever since leaving Mabel's house,Serena noticed Ash...acting different...staying silent at lunch,dinner,on the road,distancing himself,only staying focus on his training. Whatever was happening to Ash,Serena wanted to fine out why,what was he going through. She wanted to help him,she wanted to help her crush.

"Yes,I'm ok Serena really." Ash said hasty,then continued to walk ahead of her. Serena felt hurt by the tone in his voice,never..she never thought Ash would just brush her off like that. She really hoped Ash would feel better soon but until then this only made her distance herself abit from Ash while Clemont and Bonnie finally stopped arguing and caught up with Ash and Serena.

Along the road they saw a Pachirisu,a Sentret,and a Patrat gathering food and storing them in a hollow tree. "That's nice. They're helping each other." Said Clemont "plus,they're so cute." Bonnie fangirled over them. All the sudden they heard a roar and out of the brushes comes out an Ursaring with a very nasty look on his face. The other Pokémon were incredibly frightened by the intimidating Pokémon and stood aside while the Ursaring hoarded all the berries others gathered.

"Hey that's not nice." The group then then turned to see Bonnie already down there standing up to the Ursaring,which Clemont didn't enjoyed and ran down with Ash and Serena in tow. "You leave them alone!" The little girl said. The Ursaring didn't enjoy being standed up and then started charging up a Hyper Beam. Clemont then stood in front to protect his little sister,and Pikachu was readying to fire a Thunderbolt,until something intervened.

The Ursaring was knocked back,breaking his focus. The group was surprised and then heard a battle cry coming from above. The group then looks to a Pokémon standing proud on a branch,it resembles a fighting bird with a cape instead of wings,with a red colored cover like scarf on its face,and its arms attached to its red-green cape. "Hawlucha-cha." It said,Ash then scan it with his Pokédex.

"Hawlucha,The Wrestling Pokémon,with its wings,it controls its position in the air to attack from above.

Hawlucha then lands down and uses its speed to aim a Karate Chop to Ursaring's legs,knocking it to its knees. Ursaring groaned in pain,and by the time it looked up,it saw Hawlucha,who jumped high up,and came back down in a glowing aura and tackled him down. "Wow that was Hawlucha's signature move,Flying Press." Said Clemont. After that the Ursaring had enough and ran away. "That's right and don't come back." Bonnie shouted.

Hawlucha then shouted in victory and posed from on top of a pine tree,and apparently glided away. "Wow,such a proud Pokémon." Said Ash. "I see you guys think so too." The then turns behind them to see a man around his late twenties,wearing a watcher's uniform. "Hello there. I'm Keaton and I'm a Pokémon Watcher." He said. The gang then introduced themselves and Keaton was much obliged. "So I see you all notice,was one of Hawlucha's heroics." Keaton said. "So Hawlucha does this every day?" Ash asked. "More actually. You see this forest is actually full of fighting types,and Hawlucha manage to beat them all,thus earning the title of Forest Champion." Keaton explained. "So with the title,Hawlucha goes around helping those in need?" Serena asked. "That's right,and Hawlucha does it with pride." Keaton said.

Keaton then lead the group through the forest to show the group Hawlucha's favorite training grounds. They were led to a waterfall and on top was Hawlucha training on breaking flowing logs before they go over the waterfall. One log was flowing at the right time and Hawlucha prepared himself,unknown to him the log was already flowing away while he was busy showing off. He then jumped high and used Flying Press,but missed it and the log went over the waterfall.

"I don't understand. What happened." Ash said. "I knew this would happen. I'm just glad it didn't happen during the bout with Ursaring." Keaton sighed. Then began explaining. "You see Hawlucha has the tendency to...show off. It can't prevent itself to pose and show its pride. But unfortunately this gives his opponent time to react and counter." Said Keaton. "That does seem quite a situation." Said Clemont. Meanwhile Ash decided to go over to Hawlucha to talk to it. Hawlucha notices Ash and sensed no hostility from him.

"Hey Hawlucha, I'm Ash and this is Pikachu." Pikachu said hello while Hawlucha just stared at the both of them out of curiosity. "You're a great Pokémon Hawlucha,but don't you think if spend too much time showing your pride,that your opponents will gain an opportunity?" Ash said. Hawlucha immediately shooked its head,no way he wasn't gonna change its style,no matter how difficult he makes it for itself.

"It seem Hawlucha doesn't what to change." Said Serena. "I told you,he has that much pride." Said Keaton. Meanwhile Ash thought just how Hawlucha can keep its proud nature while trying to improve it battle technique. Then it hit him. "Well then you don't have to." Ash said. Hawlucha then looked at him in question. "All we have to do is improve your speed." Ash stated. Hawlucha was starting to like the sound of that. "And I'm gonna help you out ok?" Ash continued. Hawlucha enjoyed the pitch Ash offered and he was gonna help him out. They both shook hands and got started.

"All,I want you to try to hit me with Flying Press." Ash said. Hawlucha looked at Ash and wondered why would this person try to get hurt. "Is Ash serious?" Bonnie said. "Well,he really serious to helping Hawlucha." Clemont said. "What do you think Serena?" Bonnie then turned to the older girl next to her. Serena however wasn't listening,she still felt hurt about what happened between her and Ash. "Serena are you okay?" Bonnie asked. "Huh,oh I'm fine,in fact everything's fine." Serena said hastily. Bonnie then just looked at her in concern,clearly something was not fine.

"Alright try again." Ash said. He along with Pikachu have been helping Hawlucha for thirty minutes,but Hawlucha's speed hasn't shown to improve. "Alright how's this,use the tree and walls around us to gain momentum before you go into Flying Press." Ash said. Hawlucha nodded and charged in by foot,then slid underneath Ash's legs past him,then jumped up against a cliff wall to gain speed and gone into Flying Press,Ash didn't react fast enough and got hit,knocking him to the ground. "Wow...great job Hawlucha." Ash said while working the pain off.

Then Bonnie came over. "Hey guys Serena said she prepped Poké Puffs for everyone." She said. "Alright,we'll be right over." Ash said. He cleaned himself up abit ai the small pond where the waterfall poured into and headed back to the group along with Hawlucha and Pikachu.

By the spot where they trained,Clemont,Bonnie,and their Pokémon were eating the Poké Puffs Serena made. "Wow Serena these are delicious." Said Bonnie. "Thanks Bonnie,I take desserts with a lot of passion." Serena said. Then Ash and the others finally made it to the group. Ash then released Fletchling,and Froakie to join and Pikachu and Hawlucha were already charged enjoying Serena's tasty treats. Ash was the last one to go get his,and Serena hands one to him. "Thanks Serena." Ash said happily. Serena on the other hand just gave him an angry look,and walked away. Ash was confused as to why she did that. Was she angry at him? Ash was now deeply worried as he didn't know what was going on with Serena.

After a short break,a rumbling in the ground was felt by the group. "What was that?" Said Clemont. The rumbling got louder and stronger,and it sounds like it's coming towards the group. "Whatever it is,it's big." Said Ash. "Guys look!" Serena pointed to an opening into the forest,and out came a Conkeldurr,the Ursaring from before,and in the middle was a Machamp walking towards them. "Who are they?" Bonnie asked. "I don't understand why would Machamp hang out with Conkeldurr and Ursaring?" Keaton wondered. "What do you mean?" Ash asked. "Because Ursaring and Conkeldurr are known for terrorizing the local Pokémon,but Machamp...he was suppose to be training on his mountain." Keaton said then continued.

"You see,before Hawlucha came along Machamp was the Forest Champion and protected everyone,but when Hawlucha came and beat everyone,Machamp being the last one he'd beat,he went to mountains to train alone." Keaton explained. "So why would Machamp come back down now?" Ash said. Machamp then walked over to Hawlucha and both started to talk. "What are they saying?" Serena said. "I'm..not sure,but I'm pretty sure Machamp seems displeased with Hawlucha." Keaton said. Machamp was talking to Hawlucha in a disappointed manner,whatever the reason was,surely it must have been important for Machamp to come back down the mountain. He then challenged Hawlucha to a match as Hawlucha had challenged him before. Hawlucha had no choice but to agree its title depends on it. "What's going on" Bonnie asked. "It think they're gonna battle." Said Ash.

As Machamp and Hawlucha stood against each other across,looking each other in the eye while Ash and the others could only watch what's about to happen. Machamp then charged in to restrain Hawlucha by trying to grab it,but Hawlucha's smaller size aloud him to dodge from above and perform a High Jump Kick. Machamp,being the more buffer,just took the High Jump Kick to the chest,and just Hawlucha with its two lower arms and used a double Brick Break with its upper arms,sending Hawlucha back. "Is Hawlucha gonna be alright?" Said Bonnie. "Don't worry,Hawlucha trained hard earlier." Ash stated.

Hawlucha was still flying backwards,and when he was about to hit the tree,he spun forward and recovered by landing on the tree with its legs. It then used the momentum,like before, to gain some speed to use Flyin Press. Hawlucha's added speed plus the added strength managed to push Machamp back. Machamp retaliated by using Brick Break upclose,but countered them by using Karate Chop. "Wow this show who has the greater endurance." Said Clemont. As both Pokémon countered each other with their own attacks,not backing down,Hawlucha manage to break the cycle by doing another High Jump Kick when Machamp was fooled by a break in pattern.

Machamp then did a Leg Sweep,knocking Hawlucha down and then striking him again with Brick Break,making a Hawlucha imprint on the ground. As Machamp was going to use Brick Break again,Hawlucha retaliated by using Karate Chop on Machamp's legs,knocking him to his knees,and then jumping high enough to use Flying Press and landing on Machamp,straight shot,and Machamp fainted.

"Alright! Hawlucha won! Yay!" Bonnie cheered outloud,as everyone else joined in. Machamp woke up and felt sad that he lost,but felt better when he and Hawlucha shooked hands and ended things on good terms,and started to walk away. "Wow,Machamp sure is being friendly." Said Bonnie. "Good Sportsmanship,its the kind of thing that Machamp honors." Said Keaton.

Meanwhile Ursaring and Conkeldurr didn't like what they just saw,Machamp was suppose to win,not this little shrimp. They then looked at each other and grinned evilly,knowing what to do. When Hawlucha's back was turned,Ursaring attacked with Mega Punch knocking it back. The group then noticed what Ursaring and Conkeldurr were trying to do. "Hey stop!" Ash yelled. Machamp,meanwhile looks back and what he saw shocked him. Conkeldurr using Superpower to knock Hawlucha to Ursaring,who then using another Mega Punch,knocking him to the ground. "Leave Hawlucha alone!" Ash said.

Ursaring and Conkeldurr then hold Hawlucha up,and then turned to Machamp,telling him to deliver the final blow. Machamp meanwhile still couldn't comprehend what was happening,the only reason he came down the mountain was that Ursaring and Conkeldurr told him that Hawlucha was neglecting his duty as Forest Champion and was terrorizing the local Pokémon,that's what the arguement from earlier was about. But to only see the two Pokémon attacking Hawlucha all the sudden only show him the truth. They lied to him,lied to his face...Hawlucha never caused any harm it was all them.

Machamp only walking just so he was standing in front of the barely conciseness Hawlucha. Just by staring at him,he knew this wasn't right,and he knew how to make it right. He using Brick Break...on Ursaring,knocking him down on the ground hard,and then turned to Conkeldurr,who was shocked and scared. Machamp then picked Conkeldurr up and slammed him down on the ground,and used Brick Break to his face,knocking him out.

"Well that takes care of that." Said Ash while the others nodded. Machamp then helped Hawlucha up and ended things on good terms,even when Machamp apologized for the whole misunderstanding which Hawlucha accepted. Machamp then carried the two beaten Pokémon back to his mountain with him to deal with,leaving the group alone. "Well I'm glad that's over." Said Keaton. Meanwhile Ash then walked over to Hawlucha. "Wow,you really can hold your own Hawlucha." Hawlucha nodded and raise his hand. It it weren't for Ash,he wouldn't have been able to overcome his weaknesses. Ash then shook his hand,accepting his gesture. Hawlucha then pointed to his Ash's belt,telling him he wanted him to be his trainer. "You want to come with me Hawlucha?" Ash said. Hawlucha only nodded,he knew he was certain about this. "But what about your title?" The answer come from Machamp,who was standing right behind them,telling Hawlucha it's ok and that he take things over. "Ash nodded and took out an empty Pokéball,and threw it at Hawlucha,he then disappeared in a red flash and into the poke ball. The Pokéball wiggle for a moment until it dinged.

"Alright,I got a Hawlucha!" Ash cheered over his new capture. Later that night everyone was having dinner while the gang's other Pokémon met Ash's newest Pokémon and welcomed it into the family. Later then Ash was bring over the dishes for Serena to wash,while Clemont and Bonnie were busy setting up the tents. "Here is the last of them." Ash dropped off the last of the dishes. "Thanks." Serena said without even turning towards him. Ash sense the hostility Serena was giving off,it was clear something was wrong,regardless Ash tried to defused the tension. "You know,the pasta you made was quite delicious." He said. "Ok,thanks" Serena said in a low,uninterested manner. It was clear nothing was helping so Ash poked even further. "Serena...what's wron-"

"Ash,please just...leave me alone." Serena said then hurried to pick up some of the dishes to take back to the campsite. Ash was shock,but even more hurt that Serena was trying to distance herself from him. Ash felt he his head was gonna explode,it bad enough that he was going through some life changing decision and he doesn't even know what to decide,but now he thinks that Serena is mad at him for some reason. "*sigh...what did I do?" Ash said then sat on a rock. Now feeling even more confused more then ever,Ash hoped things will be better tomorrow. To hope that some of these things will clear up tomorrow,especially for what was going on between he and Serena.


Done,so Ash feels that's he's going no where with what Mabel told in the last episode. To buried him even further,Serena appears to be angry at him for something that Ash didn't even remember. What will happen? Will things look up for Ash or will he be buried even more. All more will be answer soon.

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter,sorry if it feels short or something,thanks for reading. This is Paradox signing off. Goodbye.

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...Oh and have a Happy Year Everyone!