The Kalos Champion Chapter 9
After taking Misty into custody and putting the tournament on hold, Ash was confronted by his old childhood friend and rival Gary Oak who explained to him that he too can use the mysterious energy of aura. After explaining what made him turn on Ash and after a brief battle where it seems as Ash was ready to end it Misty intercepts him revealing that she has fully awaken. Ash eventually figured out that their target is Korrina who is an aura guardian without knowing it herself so Ash sent Lucario to keep her safe from any harm. While that took place Dawn and Serena began to get impatient and where ready to battle the hooded figure who stood in their way who was told by Ash to keep them away from any danger they eventually did calm down. After Ash and Greninja were close to victory Gary and Misty gave every ounce of their remaining strength to Electivire who was ordered by Gary to attack the stadium full of people and that's where we find ourselves now.
"No!" Ash shouted as the lighting near the stadium with his aura vision he could clearly see the attended target where his family and friends.
To him everything was in slow motion as the attack neared the stadium and he felt utterly helpless not being able to stop the attack. As the lighting got closer and closer he felt deader inside as he was only a few feet from losing everyone, but just as the attack neared the hooded figure appeared before the attack and raised his hand to send the attack flying multiple ways avoiding the stadium.
With a shocked and tearful expression Ash shouted at the figure "thank you!" He said.
"My friend the hour is almost up if you do not return the others will stop at nothing to find you" it said to him telepathically.
"I see" with that Ash turned to Gary and Misty "it seems your saved by the bell I suggest returning back to the others, we'll finish this after the tournament" the champion said glaring at them.
"Fine by me Ashy boy" Gary who was clearly exhausted smirked at him.
Ash returned his Greninja and walked away from the two traitors "keep an eye on them for the rest of the tournament" he told the figure who disappeared as soon as he finished that.
Gary watched him and as soon as he was out of sight he fell to one knee and gasped for air "that was not as easy as I planned" he said.
Misty rolled her eyes at him "well for one he's champion to the strongest region and two he's a aura guardian what part made you think it was going to be easy" she said to him.
"Well I was hoping he'd take it easy on me but clearly it was the opposite" he said.
"I know what you mean he was ruthless against us he really loves those people" she said.
"Well we should go back to the others" he said returning Electivire and standing up. Misty did the same with Floatzel "maybe we should go to the pokemon center first and change clothes" she said as he nodded his head and walked away from the staduim.
Ash
He was walking the halls making his way back to the others while lost in his thoughts "May's reasoning for her betrayal were because she was in love with him and felt I had chosen Dawn over her" he let out a sigh of frustration "I honestly don't understand how girls fall in love with me" he said in a whisper.
He suddenly heard a chuckle from behind him and instantly turned around to see the hooded figure standing there "what's so funny?" He asked it.
"You of course, you plunder on knowing why these girls fall for you honestly guys your age would kill to have your luck with the ladies" it said.
"Didn't think you were capable of teasing" Ash said.
"Well there is a lot I keep hidden but the boy and girl are headed to the pokemon center" it said.
"Good less people to worry about"
"I'm afraid not because they well come here"
"I'll just move the tournament faster and tell Barry to finish his match quickly so Paul can win via forfeit" the champion said as they continued to make their way to the group.
"Lucario said you were going to cancel it" it said.
"Original I was but the fans would of been so disappointed and I knew the traitors might protest this and so would Barry so I have no choice but to allow it to continue" Ash said.
"I well I'll return to keeping an eye on them if you don't need anything else" it said.
"No that's all really keep a close eye on them" he said and with that the figure teleported away.
Now Ash stood at the entrance to the balcony "oh man Dawn and Serena are gonna kill me, not to mention what Bonnie might do" he shook in fear imagining all three girls exploding at him.
He pushed the door although hesitant did it anyways and as soon as the door opened Dawn tackled him to the ground completely ignoring the fact that he was dirty.
"Ash I was so worried" she said as she rubbed her cheek with his.
"He's my brother I was the most worried" Bonnie said tearfully as she jumped on her brother next to Dawn.
"I'm sorry I worried you two but I really have something important to say and I really can't do that with you two crushing me" he said.
"Sorry!" Both girls shouted as they got of him and helped him up.
"Thanks" he said to then as he turned to Serena "I can explain" he hesitantly said afraid to say the wrong thing last thing wants is a slap to the face.
She raised her left hand and he closed his eyes and waited for impact but soon left two arms wrap around his neck and heard crying, he opened his eyes to see Serena's beautiful honey colored hair. She was crying into his shirt and had her arms firmly wrapped around his neck "Serena don't cry" he whispered into her hair.
"How can you ask that of me when you do idiotic things" she said into his chest.
"I didn't mean to worry you" he said.
"I know you didn't but still look at you covered in dirt and you smell like smoke, what were you doing?" She said as she let go and wiped her tears away.
Ash gave her a apologetic look and she knew what that meant, it meant she wouldn't be getting an answer and she was ready to fight but didn't because Korrina came behind him and gave him a right hook on the head.
"Owww Korrina!" The champion said in pain as he rubbed his head.
"Oh man up! I bet whatever idiotic thing you were doing left more bruises!" She shouted at him.
"Glad to see you were worried" he sarcastically said.
"Well she does have a right to do that" Anabel said standing next to him.
The champion stared at her amazed at how much anger she was feeling right and how composed she was being, Anabel could know sense his fear and smiled at him "this isn't over" she said making Ash nervously gulp.
"Okay before anymore questions I need to tell Barry something" he said turning to his blond friend.
"What's up?" Barry said
"Listen your battle with Max, I don't need a repeat of the last two battles okay I want you to finish it quickly understand" he said.
"Oh come on Ash this is my first battle in months" Barry whined as he looked at his friend.
"I'm serious Barry end it quick there is no more time to be playing games" he gave Barry a serious look.
"Alright but you gotta battle me when we get home" he said.
Ash gave him a big smile "you got it" the champion said.
"What about me?" Paul asked
"If Barry finishes Max off quick than you don't have to worry about your match at all" Ash told him.
Paul gave him a confused look "what do you mean?" Ash looked at him "I'll explain later but I got to start the tournament now" he said as he ran out the door.
"I'm going with you this time" Cilan said as he ran after the champion.
"There here goes again" Bianca said.
"It's Ash you can't be that surprised after all" Anabel said.
The traitors
"Ash is back but Gary and Misty haven't returned yet" Brock thought to himself as he saw the champion run out the balcony.
"You thinking the same thing right?" Tracy whispered to him.
"Yeah, Ash has come back but Gary and Misty haven't" he said.
"Do you think he you know"
"Doubtful that isn't Ash's style"
"Like you earlier we don't know him anymore"
"True but I doubt he would resort to that no matter what Gary says or does"
"Are you sure about that? Tracy questioned his friend.
Now Brock plundered on the question "I'm not so sure about anything right now" he said standing up.
"Huh? Going somewhere Brock" May said.
"Yeah I'm going to look for Gary" he said.
"I bet he's just flirting with some girl" Max said.
"Well I'm going to make sure" with that he left the group and made his way to find Gary and Misty.
"Usually he wouldn't be so worried about Gary or am I just imagining things" Drew said to the remaining teens.
"Maybe he has a bad feeling after all we just saw Ash take Misty away" Iris said.
"You don't think my Ash would do anything to harm Misty" Delia said.
"Ash has changed but no way he would ever hurt anyone" May said.
Drew gave her a look for the who knows how many times ever since hearing she had feelings for the Kalos champion.
"Attention everyone our champion has decided to end this hour break early!" The voice announcer said as the crowd cheered.
"Awww man Gary might miss my battle" Max said sounding disappointed.
"I'm sure Brock will find him soon" May said.
The group
"Yes!" Barry cheered as he heard the announcement.
"Calm down you idiot" an irritated Paul said.
"How can you expect me to calm down it's time its finally time for me to battle! Yahoo!" He yelled as he exited the balcony.
"Man he sure is full of energy" Dawn said.
"Your telling me" Bianca said not realizing it came out sounding wrong.
Serena gave her a grin "oh whats that suppose to mean?" She said.
Instantly the other blond blushed "n-not like that Serena g-get your head out of the gutter" she stuttered as she waved her hands around.
"I don't get it" a confuse Bonnie said.
"Thats because you don't need to get it" Clemont said moving Bonnie away from the girls.
The battle field
"Welcome back ladies and gentlemen now that our break is over we're back with a battle between Barry and Max" the announcer said as the crowd cheered hungry for a battle. "I knew you were ready, now introducing first the second strongest of the elite four Barry!" He said and the stadium shook at the screams of the fans.
"Finally I get to show everyone my power" Barry thought as he walked to his area.
As Max entered the field he was absolutely full of joy, he's participated in every league and has challenged most of the battle frontier but this was different from any of that. Here he had thousands of people watching him and most of them were against him for the first time people wanted him to lose but he will not.
"My first lost will not be to him" Max said staring down Barry who was oblivious of the glare as he was busy waving at the crowd. "May and Misty lost because they were cocky not to mention angered their opponent and then there is mega evolution" he said eyeing the stone in Barry's belt. "How could Ash given them so much power" the young teen balled his hand into a fist thinking of Ash.
"Yo!" He looked at the Barry who just called him "please send out your strongest pokemon I don't this fight ending to soon" the elite said and this angered Max.
"You'll regret that!" Max said as he threw his pokeball, from it came out Sceptile.
"Aww come on I said strongest, not the one that got knocked out in one move" Barry said clearly disappointed in the pokemon.
Max growled at the comment "that's it! I'm sick of you and all of you for that matter" now turning his attention to the balcony full of elites "I'll defeat him first and than the champion".
What happened next only ignited the young teens rage towards them. Ash was laughing at him "you think you're anywhere near our level" the champion said looking at the boy.
"I've made it to the finals of the Johto and Hoenn leagues and I won the Kanto league something you were never capable of Ash" Max said with a smirk.
"You're right but what I didn't hear was you make the finals in the Sinnoh league oh that's right you never even made it to the top 16 in that tournament and on top of that you never even defeated a single one of the Kanto elite four" now the champion smirked.
"I-I wasn't prepared but at least I won the tournament!" He shouted.
"Good for you but look where you are Max, getting ready to have your asses handed to you just like your sister and Misty" the champion said coldly.
Max was ready to say something to him but was interrupted by Barry a very very impatient Barry.
"Ash! Sit down it's my turn to battle so no more delays, so sit down and shut it well yah!" Barry said looking at his friend who chuckled "fine look I'm sitting". "Thank you now come my beast of terror show him true power!" Barry said as he released his pokemon, "Tyranitar!" The ground an dark type shouted causing a gust of air to be blown.
The first thing Max noticed was the chest piece that covered the center of it's body "mega stone" he whispered. "Now Sceptile cover it in a tornado of leaf storm!" He said as the grass type surrounded the ground type with its attack "now into the attack with leaf blade use the leafs as camouflage" it went inside with leaf blade ready.
"Oh wow thats so cool" Barry said with sparkles staring at the combo. "Tyran!" Barry snapped out of admiration to see his pokemon being hit with leaf blades, "sorry Tyranitar" he said bowing his head "okay lets get to it Ash said no playing, lets show them the ultimate bond we share together" he touched his stone causing it to react to Tyranitar's.
"What!?" Max was surprised to see him mega evolve so early.
"Tyranitar!" Now this roar caused a gust of wind to blow out the leaf storm and send Sceptile sliding back to Max. "Behold the power of a true mega one at full strength" Barry said proudly.
"You two could learn from him" Ash said to his sister and bestfriend who just puffed their cheeks.
"We're not scared, we still have type advantage go leaf blade!" Max shouted as Sceptile ran at the mega with no hesitation.
"Tyranitar send it flying, aerial ace" the ground type's claws glow as it uppercutted the grass type sending it into the air.
"No! Sceptile flip around and use solar beam!" It did just that an charged up for the attack.
"That isn't going to work at all" Barry said looking at the airborne pokemon charge the powerful attack.
Once Max saw he was done charging solar beam he put his plan into action "wait for it" he said as Sceptile began to descend downwards "now fire it!" It shot the attack and just like Max planned it came down with power as it took a shape of a arrow.
"Ooooh now thats new and impressive" he said watching the beam go down following it with his head "maybe I should-" he was cut of by the attack hitting Tyranitar and causing a huge explosion "too late for that" he said as he squinted his eyes to avoid debris.
"That should of at least did some damage but I can't let up" Max thought "now Sceptile leaf blade" he said right as the grass type landed.
"Fire fang" Barry said as Tyranitar came out of the smoke with not a single sign of a scratch on it and before Sceptile could jump back the ground type with fangs of fire bite into the leaf blade causing another explosion of power.
"Sceptile!" Max yelled hoping some how his pokemon managed to survive.
When the dust disappeared it showed a very injured Sceptile standing in front of mega Tyranitar. "Oh wow it's standing" said a very impressed Barry, suddenly the grass type begun to glow green "growth" Max whispered.
It instantly grabbed on to the ground type "good now get that energy back up mega drain" but before Tyranitar could send it back the injured pokemon jumped on the mega's back where it couldn't reach and began to suck it's energy.
"No!" Barry said now panicking to come up with a plan.
"Yeah not so tough now" Max said as his pokemon showed signs of healing while the dark type struggled to get Sceptile off it's back. Now feeling fully restored Sceptile saw Tyranitar collapse and got off it "looks like its over" Max said proudly.
"Whew thank goodness you came up with a plan pal because I couldn't think of anything" Barry said smiling while Max had a confused look on his face and it was replaced by one full of surprise as he saw the mega stand up roaring at Barry. "Hey shut up I'm not Ash or Anabel I have no idea what your saying" Barry said as he moved his finger around in his ear.
"How much power do you have!?" Max shouted.
"Oh a lot probably more than you Sceptile to suck up actually" the elite said smiling.
"Well thanks to your idiotic ways now my Sceptile is powered up and stronger than ever, go leaf blade!" He said.
"Stop it with earthquake" Barry said as Tyranitar stomped on the floor causing the battlefield to shaking making Sceptile wince in pain and stop at the center of the field. "Keep going!" Max shouted but clearly the pain was to much for it, "well this has been fun but I'm bored so lets end this now Tyranitar time for our own combo go giga impact! And aerial ace" Barry said and his mega charged Sceptile who by the time it opened it's eyes he got hit with the combo and was sent flying pass Max and crashing into the wall.
"Sceptile is unable to battle therefor the winner is Tyranitar and Barry of the elite four" the referee said as the crowd erupted in cheers.
Tyranitar de-evolved as Barry came up to it "that was easy" he said as his pokemon hit him with his tail causing the elite to fall face first into the ground. "What was that for!?" He shouted but got the silent treatment "whatever return" he returned the angry pokemon and stood up to go shake Max's hand.
"Hey Max that was a great" he stopped when he turned around and there was no sign of the young teen "well thats not very sportsmanship behavior" the elite grunted.
The traitors
"Max!" May called out for her brother as she saw him walking out of the battle field, she stood up to follow him but Tracy stopped her.
He put a hand on her shoulder "it's his first lost May maybe we should give him some space" he said as the princess gave a displeased look knowing he was right she sat back down.
"Don't worry May he's a strong kid, he'll pull through and get even stronger" Iris said with a reassuring smile.
"Thanks" she said with a weak smile.
"Yes one must taste defeat before they can acknowledge true strength" the teens turned to Professor Oak as he spoke.
"You all really think this defeat will make him stronger" she said.
"Of course this lose will just give him a drive to be better" Delia said as she felt heartache saying those things reminding of Ash and that moment of weakness she had for trying to rid him of his dream.
"Well at least when Gary comes back he can talk to him" May said.
"I think that would be a great idea" Tracy said.
The group
"You see its not that hard to not play with your opponent" the champion looking at Bonnie and Korrina.
"Oh shut it will yah before I do it for you" Korrina said holding up a fist.
"Jeez we heard you the first time we get it alright" Bonnie said crossing her arms together and pouting.
"Yeah light up on them a bit Ash" Serena said stepping closer to Ash.
Dawn got in between pushing the honey blond away from the now nervous champion "oh no" he thought to himself.
"What was that for!?" Serena shouted
"What ever do you mean?" Dawn said cutely trying to sound innocent.
Serena growled at her best friend as Ash slowly backed away to allow them to squabble without involving him.
"Wow the champion still afraid of a couple gorgeous girls" he flinched when Anabel came behind him.
"Ahh it's just you" he said relieved the girls didn't notice him backing up.
"Geez way to make me sound non important" the maiden said pouting.
Ash nervously laughed "ahh come on you know I didn't mean it like that An" he said giving her puppy dog eyes.
"I'm not Serena or Dawn that won't work on me" she said with a light tint of blush.
"Yeah someone has forgotten I could sense feelings" the champion said in a teasing matter as he drew closer to her.
Now she was blushing red "yeah I regret that now" she said as Ash was mere inches from her face but she could sense something deep in him and she smirked "but you know I'm still better at teasing" she said putting her nose to his.
Now it was the champions turn to blush at this bold move "damn Ash how could you forget she is the one that taught you" he yelled at himself in his thoughts.
"Oh now I sense something else" she said hugging him a while she was still blushing red.
"Ahem!" Cilan said loudly and pretending to cough.
The two separated from each other as quick as lighting "oh hey Cilan" Ash said rubbing the back of his neck.
"A word please" he said and Ash nodded leaving Anabel.
"So whats up" the champion sad not looking his friend in the eye.
"Well I was just wondering who might the hooded figure be?" Cilan asked he's meet the figure before but has never known its identity but now he wants to know as he knows it's a pokemon.
"Come on you know I can't tell you that" the champion said.
"Well either you tell me or I can tell the most fearsome duo on this planet" he said smiling.
"Oh you wouldn't" Ash said shocked that his friend would resort to blackmail.
"Hey it's your own fought for always getting that way with her ever since the two of you first kissed" he said.
This the champion couldn't denied whenever he would go check up on the brains, he and Anabel spent the most time together and after Ash could finally sense feelings he would tease her but today was the first time she ever teased back like that could he have feelings for her, "It's just harmless teasing" he said.
"Yes but that can lead to more and you know it, soon you'll have three of them to deal with" Cilan said.
"She knows its just teasing we both do" he said.
"Oh really than why were the two of you blushing like crazy" the frontier brain smirked at his friend "wait a second we're not discussing that now are you going to tell me who this hooded figure is?" He asked.
Ash sighed as Cilan smiled "fine come with me" the champion said as the two once again left the others.
• Told you I would update before valentines day, so what do you think of this chapter let me know leave a review and also can you guess who the hooded figure is?. Also now I added Anabel into the mix for Ash, I always did like their moments in the anime, well I'll probably update again before valentine's day and on that day I'll post a little story involving Ash, Dawn and Serena. Well see you guys soon leave a review I like when you guys give me more ideas for the story.