Chapter 15: Delia's Past
As both Ash and Alice sit down in the quest room at the Pokemon Center, since Delia has something to talk with the both of them. After they are ready, Delia turns to Alice and she smiles, "Alice, it is sure nice to see you again. I remembered that the last time I saw you is what? 10 years ago?"
This causes confusion to the both of them and Alice says, "Um...well...I don't know..."
Ash also asks, "Mother? Have we met Alice before?"
Delia says, "Huh? You mean...you don't remember each other when you are little? When you are playmates from childhood?" Both teens shake their head. Delia sighs as she takes out the picture, and much to their surprise, it is a picture of Ash and Alice playing with 5 people, Alice remembered Eve and Flora are inside, but neither of them know who the other 3 are.
"Um...Mom? Is this really us? How could I not remember anything?" Ash asks in confusion. "Come to think of it, my memory is a little blur as well..."
"Yeah, although I know that Eve and Flora are also inside the picture as well...but when did we have this memory...and who are the other three people inside of the picture?"
"Wait, Ash? You don't even remember your siblings as well?" Delia asks and Ash says, "Wait, I have siblings? I thought I was a lone child..."
Delia looks at them with confusion, but then she gasps as she remembers something. "Oh my. I forgot that I wiped out your memories for the greater good." Her eyes glow white and both Ash and Alice are doing the same. Then memories start to float into their minds as the two are like reading a book.
Once the glow ends, the two of them passed out on the sofa, Damon turns to Delia with shock and asks, "Delia, what did you just do to them?"
"I just made them remember about what happened 10 years ago. Since I forgot that since my husband was killed, I wiped out most of their memories because their sadness might corrupted their aura, and Valerie decides to let Alice and her siblings to forget about Ash."
"I see." Damon says. "So you are making them remembering Red and the others?"
Ash and Alice then wake up as they hold their heads, Ash says, "Mother...I can't believe that I forgot everything...not only Alice...but also my siblings..."
"Yeah..." Alice says. "No wonder I felt familiar with Ash...I always wonder why he feels familiar when we are traveling."
Ash says, "By the way, now that my memories are back...where is Elena, Wade and Gina?"
"You will find them eventually, since they are in this region doing their training." Delia says. "And you did know that Damon was my traveling partner, so I guess that you wanted to know my past, as well as your father, right? Ash?"
"My father?" Ash asks, then they decide to hear it from Delia as she says, "Well...it was thirty years ago when I arrived at the Kanto Region, I came to Rota on my own. In Rota, I heard a commotion and I went to check it out, and I see a boy with a Pikachu battling a strong opponent. And that boy is your father, Red Ketchum."
"Wait, you mean my Father is from the Rota Kingdom?" Ash is surprised. "Does that mean he is some sort or royalty?"
"Yeah." Delia says. "And when he spotted me, he asked me for a battle. I agreed and I sent out my Sylveon to battle his Pikachu. In the end, I won against him, so he brings me to meet his family: His parents and his two sisters."
"Wait, I have two aunts?" Ash is confused. "You didn't tell me about it, Mother."
"About that, you have met them before, Diantha Carnet Ketchum and Ilene Aaron Ketchum." This causes shock to them, as Ash can't believe that the Kalos Champion as well as the queen of the Rota are related to him.
"I stayed there with them for a while, and Red decides to confess to me. At that time, I was still getting used to being a human, so I didn't understand what he meant by that. After staying together with him, he always trying to make me happy, it was then that I realize he is my Chosen one." Delia says as she smiles at the memory. "Then we traveled together in the Kanto Region, like you, we also have some additional companions, and they were our best friends."
Damon says, "Indeed, traveling with Delia and Red are the best experiences back then. Though it is annoying that Delia and Red often tease me..."
Alice says, "Wow...And what happened next?"
Delia says, "In the Sinnoh Region, I revealed myself to Red after arriving in Michina, a place where I was betrayed for thousand of years ago." Delia frowns a little and Ash remembers the memory when he got there. "I know that the time to revenge is not right, but I can't help but furious about it. Red eventually finds out the truth that I am an Arceus, and I was scared. I thought that he will be disappointed with me being a Pokemon while he is a human."
"Did he hurt you because of that reason?" Ash asks with worry.
"In fact, it is the opposite. He tells me that even if I am not a human, he loves me and he treats me like an actual human. Not only that, he doesn't greed for my powers and he is similar like you."
"Wow..." Alice says, "That is really romantic."
"Yeah, after traveling together for a while, we come to Kalos. It was at that time that we come to the Laverre City, our travel companions are actually your mother and father, Alice."
"So my parents have traveled with your parents, that is so amazing." Alice says. "But from what Mom told me, the Ketchum family and the Masho family are not getting along in the past. A lot of history books also wrote about the war between the two families..."
"You are right, and your grandparents feel like your parents are a shame to travel and be friends with us, they tried to attack us and even tried to kill us with the power of Aura."
This causes gasp to them as Ash says, "How could they do that..."
"I thought that same thing as well. So I was forced to change into Arceus and told them about everything, about how having a grudge is much more shame and how the prophecy goes with the two family working together, and that stops them and we can travel together again until we left Kalos. But this has caused much pain in Red's eyes as he knew what happened in the past, so he decided to give up the throne of the Rota Kingdom of the Kanto Region. That is the reason why Ilene is now the queen of the Rota Kingdom."
"I can tell, if I were my father, I would probably do the same thing as well." Ash says. "So this is why you come to this region?"
"We decided to create a region of our own, so when we were traveling in Alola, we are thinking about how to make an ideal kingdom, and thus Rikoto is born."
"I see. No wonder that you are the queen..." Alice says.
"Yeah, and your family is one of my best friends in the kingdom as we were together...in fact, your parents also moved with us and you have been friends since born."
"Then why do we separate if we are this close together?" Ash asks in confusion.
Delia frowns and she says, "Happy times won't always last forever. As that time, a tragedy happened..."
"That time?" Ash is confused.
"When you two were going to Professor Oak's Summer Camp, Team Rocket has attacked our Kingdom." Delia frowns. "And they killed Red."
This causes anger and sadness to Ash, as he didn't know that Team Rocket has killed his father. "How dare they..." Ash is seen trembling as Alice is showing worry to him.
Delia hugs Ash and says, "I was mad as well, so my anger killed a lot of their best members, but Giovanni escaped. Then I decided to leave the Kingdom and go to Kanto, so that I could calm myself and make you a best trainer in the world. At the same time, Valerie and her husband also go back to Kalos as they wanted to protect both you and Alice."
Ash nods and Alice says, "And what about Team Rocket?"
Ash says, "I destroyed them back in Alola, they tried to capture Necrozma, but we stopped them, as for Giovanni, he was sucked into the Ultra Wormhole and he was gone forever. At that time I felt a little pity for him, but now all I could feel is satisfaction."
Delia nods and says, "And I am proud of you, even though I am a god and I can't interfere the future, you did what I couldn't do."
Ash nods and then Delia decide to trains both Ash and Alice more about Aura.
Once they got outside, they see Rodney walking towards them. "Oh, Ash, Alice, good to see you again. You got your second gym badge already?"
"Yeah." Ash says as he shows him the badge.
"Wow! I should probably catch up." Rodney says. Then he notices both Damon and Delia, he is surprised. "Oh my goodness, it's the Queen. I can't believe I managed to see you this close."
Delia says, "I guess that you are Rodney that my son told me about, it is great to see that my son has a rival."
"Thank you, I am really glad to hear those words." Rodney says. "By the way, this is the way to Thundrome Pass. It's known for having lots of thunderstorms and rain there. It has something to do with some temple or something."
"You mean, the Lightning Temple?" Alice asks.
"Right. But hey, I wanna see how tough you've gotten. Can we battle? Pretty please?"
"Sure." Ash says as Damon helps being the referee. Damon sends out Budcherp, it is an evolution of Budcheep, but Ash still beats it with the help of Elecritter. And then Rodney sends out Moonkey. Ash sends out Beopup as his second Pokemon and also wins the match. In the end, Pikachu defeats the Salanip, the evolution of Salatad.
"Oh man! You win!" Rodney groans. "You are getting stronger and stronger, Ash. Oh I almost forgot, the Professor gave me this for all three of us." He takes out a Flashlight, and Alice says, "A Flashlight? He could have gave us when we were going in the Blackleaf Woods or when he fought Damon."
"But you have to admit that it is useful." Damon says. "Rodney, right? I am looking forward to your challenge."
"Good, so I'll see you later." Damon and Rodney then leave. Ash asks, "So what about you, Mom?"
Delia says, "I really wanted to do this for a long time, you know. I always wonder how you were been in your journey, which is why I decided to travel with you."
Ash and Alice are shocked. "You are traveling with us? That is so awesome." Ash says.
"Wow." Alice says. "It would be better if a Champion decides to travel with us."
Delia smiles at the two's excitement and then they leave the city into the Thundrome Pass.
Here is the past of Delia and her husband in this story, quite similar to Sevestar Prince Darker Version, but I made some changes. I hope you like it and in the next chapter, Ash will have some evolutions as well as new Pokemon.
