ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 5
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
"Gone?" Ilima asked her.
"He is gone!" Lillie cried.
"Man, you get like a padlock or something on that bag. Or a cage." Hau suggested, but gained a glare from Lillie. "What I meant was…"
"Save it Hau! We need to find him!" Lillie panicked.
Ash put his hand on Lillie's shoulder.
"Lillie. Calm down. We will find him." Ash told her.
Lillie nodded slightly.
"This may be wrong to say this… but this would be also a good opportunity to test out the Normalium Z." Ilima said to the two boys that just completed his trial. "Go ahead without me. I've got an idea. Go heal up and meet me outside the cave."
The three left the trial site and quickly went to the Pokecenter to heal up the injured Pokemon. As soon as Litten, Rowlet, Popplio and Pichu were healed they returned to see Ilima, his Gumshoos and a bunch of Yungoos.
"I have an idea. I got my Gumshoos to round up some of the Yungoos in the cave to help search as they have underground tunnels virtually over the island. He tried to get the Totem Gumshoos, but it was rather reluctant to help." Ilima explained. He nodded to the Gumshoos.
The Gumshoos turned to all the Yungoos it had organized.
"Raaawa!" Gumshoos roared. The little Yungoos all ran off.
"Gumshoos told them to look for a purple cloud like Pokemon. We should also look as well." Ilima said with a serious look. "We should look up Route 3. I'll look to the left of the route and you three can go the right side. Cover as much ground as possible. Gumshoos, come!"
Ilima and his Pokemon went up to the left of the rocky route. The three teenagers went to the right.
"Nebby! NEBBY!" Lillie called out.
She gained a few looks from passer by trainers.
Every so often, they passed by one of the Yungoos searching as well for Nebby.
They wandered further into the route, still split from Ilima. The eventually came across a patch of tall, yellow flowers. On one of them, was a small yellow fly like Pokemon.
Rotomdex appeared and scanned the Pokemon as it fed on the pollen in the flower.
"Cutiefly, the bee fly Pokemon. It feeds on the nectar and the pollen of flowers. Because it is able to sense auras, it identifies which flowers are ready to bloom."
"Fle?" the small little bug cried as it looked up at the humans. "Cuit!" it then cried happily.
"Rotom, can you ask it if it has seen a small cloud Pokemon around?" Ash told his Pokedex.
"Got it!" Rotom said in English before speaking to the Cutiefly in the unknown language to humans.
"Fly! Cuti!" Cutiflyy explained to Rotom.
Rotom turned back to Ash.
"She said yeah. This weird purple cloud Pokemon flew past following a Butterfree not to long ago. She said they flew into the Melemele meadows." Rotom told the human as he returned to Ash's bag.
"Right. Cutiefly, could you show us the way to this meadow place?" Ash asked the small bug fairy type Pokemon.
"Fly!" Cutiefly said to him as she flew off the flower and further down the route.
"Should we trust this bug?" Hau suggested as they followed.
"Hau. It's smaller than your hand. What can it possibly do?" Lillie growled slightly.
"You know what they say, the innocent ones are always dangerous." Hau explained as Ash chuckled.
"Hau! This is serious! Nebby could be in danger!"
"Ok! Ok! Sheesh. If you don't want it escaping all the time, why don't you just return it to its pokeball?" Hau retaliated causing Lillie to stop at a standstill. Ash noticed the sudden change in both her facial expressions and her body language as if she was scared.
"Lillie? You ok?" Ash asked her, snapping her out of the little spell she was under.
"… I'm fine. Let's keep moving!" Lillie muttered.
Ash looked at Hau as he just shrugged his shoulders.
"I mean, if she is Nebby's trainer, shouldn't it have a pokeball! I'm just saying!" Hau claimed, defending himself.
"No… You're right." Ash muttered curiously, whilst watching the blonde girl walk further ahead.
The Cutiefly stopped outside a large cave opening as it waited for the three humans.
"Nebby… went in here?" Lillie muttered.
"You scared?" Hau asked without thought.
"Shut it…"
"Guys! More time you two argue, the more time Nebby has to possibly run off again. Cutiefly, thank you for your help. Here! Have this." Ash said to the bug as he gave her a pokemon treat.
"Cutif!" Cutiefly said happily as it flew off.
"Right. Let's go…" Lillie said as she and Ash went in first with Hau behind them.
It wasn't as bad as what they thought it would be, in fact it lead them to an open meadow full of the same yellow flowers that they found Cutiefly on. Speaking of the bee fly Pokemon, there were plenty of them around on the flowers.
"Nebby! NEBBY!" Lillie called out continuously.
"Nebby, where are you!" Ash called as well.
"Nebby!" Hau joined in gaining a look of surprise from Lillie. "I'm here to help. Also sorry about before…"
They continued to call and call, till they eventually got a little cry.
"Pew?"
Lillie heard it and felt a chill down her spine. She quickly spun around and saw her Pokemon on the other side of the meadow. It used its ears to wave at Lillie happily.
"NEBBY! You get right back over here mister!" Lillie demanded.
"Don't worry! I got this!" Hau called out rushing into the field to go catch Nebby, scaring off the Cutiefly's nearby.
Thought watching where he was going, Hau accidently stepped on the leg of a Pokemon, causing it to scream in pain. In response to the cry of pain, Hau stumbled backwards.
"Uh…"
A yellow bird with thin legs and pompoms at the end of its wings jumped out of the field of flowers and used double slap on the Melemele native, flinging him backwards.
"Hau!" Lillie cried out.
"CORIO!" the bird screamed at the duo as Nebby watched behind a rock where it dived to after the attack on Hau.
Rotomdex appeared and scanned the yellow bird as it jumped around ready to attack.
"Oricorio Pom-pom Style, the dancing Pokemon. This Oricorio has sipped at the nectar of the yellow flowers on Melemele Island. It can create an electric charge by rubbing its feathers. It dances to avoid its foes and then attacks with electrical punches.
"Pom-pom Style?" Ash asked curiously.
"Oricorio can change forms depending on the nectar it sips at." Rotom explained.
"You said electrical punches right… Litten!" Ash called as he released the cat for battle. "Hau. You and Lillie get Nebby while I keep Oricorio busy. But be careful!"
The Alola natives nodded.
"Litten! Get close and use ember in its face!" Ash commanded.
The Cat rushed forward and pounced towards the bird.
Like what Rotomdex said, it danced out of the way as Litten landed on the ground.
"Grr. Rotom wasn't lying when it came to the dodging bits…" Ash mumbled.
"And why would I lie?" Rotom asked with an annoyed tone.
The wild Pokemon got its two pom-poms on the end of its wings and proceeded to rub them together to create static electricity. It rushed forward and sandwiched Litten in-between, shock him with the full force of both pom-poms.
"Litten! Bite it and then use ember on its face!"
Resisting the electricity as best as it could, Litten chowed down on the wing of the bird, causing it to stop making the electricity. Litten released and unleashed an ember directly to its face. The Oricorio stumbled away and growled angrily at the human and the cat.
"COR! ORI!" it chirped at them.
"Translate Rotom." Ash asked the pokedex.
"Uh… You sure you want to know?" Rotom said a little freaked out.
"How bad could it be?"
"First off let's clarify it is a SHE and SHE said that this won't be the last you'll see of her. The rest is death threats and cursing."
"Oh."
"Tten?" Litten called out.
"What is it Litten?" Ash said turning back to Litten, shocked to see what he saw.
Only Litten… Oricorio had escaped.
"Shit…" Ash cursed.
"Pew!"
Ash turned around to see Lillie with Nebby in her arms and Hau with his Popplio.
"Sweet! You got Nebby!" Ash claimed.
"Yeah. Thanks for covering us Ash. Where did the Oricorio go?" Lillie asked.
Rotomdex and Ash looked at each other and then turned back.
"It flew away peacefully after a few attacks…" Ash lied, not wanting to startle them with the threats the yellow bird gave off.
"Oh ok then, we should probably meet up with Ilima and tell him that we found Nebby." Lillie said to the two boys as she took lead.
Outside the cave, Ilima and his Gumshoos were waiting outside cautiously until the trio came out with Nebby.
"Ah! You found Nebby! Good. Good. So it was just you lot in there. I got curious as I saw some Oricorio storm out looking annoyed or something." Ilima explained.
"Haha… Yeah. Don't worry about that." Ash said awkwardly.
"Ok? Let's head back to Hau'oil City now. I'm sure the professor would what to hear the results of the trial. Besides, you'll need some rest before we have our battle!" Ilima suggested.
The four of them with Nebby returned to the outskirts of Hau'oil city.
"Well, I'll see you guys tomorrow!" Hau said happily. "I hope you're ready for the defeat of your life Ilima!"
"We will see now won't we?" Ilima said determined, waving Hau goodbye as he ran off back to Iki town. "So Ash, Lillie. This is where we depart for now. I'll see you tomorrow." He said before walking off home as Lillie and Ash also went to Kukui's place.
Ash had a question that was pestering him.
"Lillie. What is Nebby exactly?" he asked.
Lillie sighed.
"Only a few people that are actually close to me know about Nebby's existence. Yes, that includes you and Hau even though we have only known each other for a few days. Nebby is a pokemon known as Cosmog, its very existence is surrounded be mystery." Lillie explained as they continued to walk to where they were both staying.
"What do you mean mystery?" Ash asked confused as Lillie looked out into the sun setting.
"I don't know entirely myself… You know how I said early that I wasn't technically enrolled at the school? It's because Cosmog saved me a few months ago. Nebby teleported us to the beach right outside the professors house. Kukui found us and him and his wife let me and Nebby stay at their place. Kukui was intrigued by Nebby's existence and gave me an old book past down by the Kahuna's on the species of Alola. Very little was on Cosmog, but it did say that kings of the ancient past worshiped it like a god." Lillie explained as they arrived outside Kukui's place.
Lillie stood in front of the door before Ash could enter.
"I want to find the origins of Cosmog." Lillie said to him. "We were heading up to the ruins of conflict hopefully to get some answers. But then the Spearow attack happened and here we are today!"
She opened the door to see the Professor having an arm-wrestle with a Machoke.
"That all you got!" Kukui taunted, as the Machoke gave a bored look, not even fazed by Kukui's presence.
"Oh no…" Lillie muttered.
Kukui turned his head and noticed the two teenagers.
"Oh! Sup Ash, Lillie!" Kukui greeted. The Machoke used this chance to slam Kukui's hand through the table and it just walked off, leaving the professor in pain.
"Professor! Are you ok?" Lillie yelled, rushing over to Alola's professor.
"Yeah. I-I'm fine." Kukui muttered in pain.
However something caught his eye as he saw the see through crystal in Ash's Z-ring.
"So you completed Ilima's trial and got the Normalium-Z huh? Congratz! All that remains on Melemele Island is the grand trial vs Hala." Kukui explained, completely forgetting about his hand.
"First, Hau and I are going to have a friendly against Ilima as practise before Hala." Ash explained.
"Word of advice, like his trial, Ilima uses normal types." Kukui told the boy.
"Meaning Littens lick won't work. Dang, getting a paralysis would have made it a lot easier." Ash said out loud.
"And Hala uses fighting types meaning Rowlet should have the advantage. But in a Kahuna battle, the impossible is possible. Hala was picked to protect the island and to win battles. He's been serving out battles as Kahuna for nearly 50 years now!" Kukui continued on. "How about we have takeaways tonight. As a little celebration in Ash getting his first Z-crystal?"
Neither of the teenagers had any objection and the trio went out for dinner before eventually returning and going to sleep.
(The next day)
Ash slept in this time compared to yesterday. Upon groggily waking up, he could smell something being cooked. And due to the aroma of the food, it pretty much dragged him out of bed without thought that he was only in boxers.
Lillie was making some pancakes in the kitchen area. Thankfully for her, Nebby was munching away on an Oran berry, so that should keep him occupied. And she had the professor's Rockruff watch him in case he did decided to wander off.
"(Yawn)… What's for breakfast Mom?" Ash muttered, gaining Lillie's attention.
"Oh morning… Ash." She said happily until she realised that he was only in some boxers and instantly noticing his chest. She blushed quite badly. Sure she lived with the Professor who never where's a shirt but she rarely sees someone her age without one on as she never actually spent any time on the beach.
She quickly turned away in embarrassment and tried to regain her composure.
"S-so Ash. You are versing Ilima today." She said shakily.
"Oh yeah… Where is Kukui?" he asked.
"Um. Last thing he said was that he was going to fish up some Mareanie, to see the effects of its poison sting." Lillie explained.
"Mareanie?" Ash muttered.
"A poison water type pokemon. They eat the coral on the backs of Corsola. It's not too bad because the Corsola coral piece's grow back but still." Lillie explained about the poison type Pokemon. "If you haven't already noticed, I'm making some pancakes if you want some, but you have to get change first."
Ash quickly left the room and got changed into his Alola clothing and sat down at the table.
About 5 minutes later, Lillie placed down a plate with a stack of pancakes. She took 3 and pushed the plate towards Ash.
"Help yourself." Lillie said as she started to eat.
Ash started to devour the tower of pancakes.
"So Ash… You mentioned your Mom before. What is she like?" Lillie asked curiously, causing the boy to choke on the pancakes in his mouth.
Shit. He did mention his mother before. He had to quickly think of a lie.
"Oh… She lives back in Kanto. After the league I just participated in, she had won one ticket to Alola. She gave to me saying I deserved it." Ash lied to the blonde.
"Oh. That was sweet of her." Lillie said taking the bait. "What about your Dad?"
Ash stopped eating.
"I-I never knew h-him." Ash muttered.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know…" Lillie said, feeling guilty.
"It's fine! How about you then?" Ash asked her.
"My parents? Oh. My Dad is never around. Always busy with work. And my mother is very loving…" Lillie explained. "My older brother though… he ran away two years ago when he was only 16, after he got into an argument with my parents. I haven't seen sight or word of him since. I-I don't even know if he still even in Alola."
"Life is a bitch sometimes." Ash said, giving some of his pancakes to his two pokemon.
"Yeah. I guess…" Lillie said sadly. "I miss him."
Lillie sighed.
"Ok! I say we should get going soon. We wouldn't want to keep Hau waiting… Knowing him, he is probably running around somewhere or trying to buy every malasada in Hau'oil city. The boy needs to learn to sit still." Lillie suggested while criticizing the grandson of the Kahuna.
Ash nodded and finished the pancake he was eating before placing it in the dishwasher and going.
On cue, Hau was waiting for them just before you enter Hau'oil city.
"Hey Ash! Can't keep Ilima waiting now can we?" Hau shouted out.
The two teenagers walked up towards Hau.
"Grampa is coming along to watch us! To see if we are ready to battle him!" Hau said excitedly.
"You seem quite close to Hala Hau. What about your parents?" Ash asked, wanting to know more about the Alolan native and continuing the conversation that he had with Lillie.
"Oh them? They aren't around no more!" Hau still said with a smile.
Ash and Lillie both looked at each and raised an eyebrow at each other.
"What do you mean?" Lillie questioned.
"My Dad hated the title 'Son of the great Kahuna Hala' or so I've been told. So he left far away. And my Mom died in a car accident when I was only 2." Hau explained, not fazed by what he had just said.
Both Ash's and Lillie's jaws dropped.
"Hau… I'm so sorry." Ash sympathised.
Hau shrugged his shoulders.
"It's fine, I just live with Grampa. They wouldn't want me to be sad. If I was sad, I wouldn't be able to achieve my goal of beating Hala in a full 6 verse 6 battle." Hau explained with smile.
Ash was surprised by the sheer joy in the Alolan native, even after losing his mother and his father left. It reminded him of himself in his earlier days back in Kanto.
It wasn't long till they had arrived outside the school and saw the battlefield inside the school yard surrounded by kids.
They walked to the crowd and noticed Ilima talking to a student.
"Hey Ilima!" Hau shouted out.
Ilima looked over and smiled.
"Ah! Ash and Hau. Welcome, meet Jakob. I had an idea of a potential double battle. You two versus me and Jakob." Ilima explained.
The two nodded at each other and walked to the other side, while Ilima and Jakob stood at the opposite end.
"This battle will be between Trial captain Ilima and student Jakob versus Trial goer Ash and Trial goer and grandson of the Kahuna, Hau. Each trainer is allowed to use one Pokemon! When one side has lost all there Pokemon, the battle will be over!" the referee explained.
"Trainers! Selected your Pokemon!" the ref announced.
Ash and Hau both a pokeball in there hand as did Ilima and student.
"Begin the battle!"
"Go Litten!"
"Let's go Pichu!"
The cat and the mini mouse appeared next to each other.
"Smeargle. You're up." Ilima called out.
"Go Pikipek!" the student shouted.
The Johto pokemon and the native bird to Alola was released and stood aggressively.
"Smeargle, water gun on the Litten!" Ilima called out.
The painter Pokemon released a beam of water straight at Litten.
"Pichu, use thundershock to direct the attack away!" Hau shouted.
Pichu released the electric attack and managed to push it away.
Litten had time to move out of the way as the two attacks stop.
"Litten lower their defence with leer!"
Litten used the attack and lowered the pairs defence.
"Ember on the Pikipek!"
Litten shot out the ember attack.
"Fly out of the away and use supersonic on the Pichu!"
Pikipek's tail got singed from the attack and winced a little and sent the sound based attack on Pichu as he started to wobble around.
"Oh no. Uh, use thundershock!" Hau freaked.
Pichu still wobbling around used thundershock, but on Litten. The cat shrieked and hissed at the baby evolution, who was still stumbling around in confusion.
Ash groaned and looked at Ilima's Smeargle with a determined look.
Then came up with a plan. But it relied on Hau slightly.
Ash turned his hat around to face backwards.
"Come on Litten! Form a ring of fire around it with ember!" Ash called out, pointing forward at the normal type.
Litten jumped up and shot dozens of ember pieces, surrounding Smeargle inside.
Ilima raised an eyebrow in confusion on what Ash was planning as it was clear he wasn't aiming at Smeargle with the attack. He shook it off.
"Put out the fire with water gun."
Ash smirked as Ilima took the bait.
Upon using water gun on the fire that surrounded it, a great amount of steam rose up into the air and caught Pikipek off guard.
"Keep using ember till I say stop!" Ash shouted at Litten, who nodded back.
Ash turned to Hau.
"We don't have much time. Pichu likes Malasada's right? I'm going to guess you have one?" Ash said to Hau, who caught on with it.
The dark green haired ravaged around in his bag and found a Malasada.
"Pichu eat this!" Hau shouted, giving the food the little yellow mouse.
It took a sniff of what it had just been given. It stopped at first and sniffed again, before shaking its head and started to devour the whole thing.
"Pi! Chui!" Pichu cried happy.
"Tip Hau. Even the slightest things can break your pokemon out of confusion. You either wait it off or think fast. The day you caught Pichu and gave it that Malasada, that made the connection between the two of you! The smell of something you both love!" Ash explained. "Your turn now!"
Hau nodded back.
"Thundershock on the Pikipek!"
Pichu unleashed the electric energy and shock the poor bird. It could fly due to the uprising steam. Smeargle had to keep putting it out otherwise it would suffer a burn.
The bird fell to the ground as it struggled to fly back up.
"Piki…" it moaned in pain as little flickers of electricity emerged off it.
"Hau. You handle the Pikipek! I've got Smeargle!" Ash said.
"Right!"
"Litten fall back!" Ash commanded.
The cat dashed back to his trainer and wait for Smeargle to free itself from the fire.
Ilima growled. Due to the steam, Pichu had managed to break of its confusion and now Pikipek was not copping well with the electric type.
Ash closed his eyes and thought back to the times of joy he had in his past.
The day he met Pikachu…
His adventures with Misty, Brock, May and everyone else…
The bonds he created with all his Pokemon…
The success he had…
Only to be crushed and thrown away in the span of a few minutes.
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But he had new Pokemon now!
He had new friends now!
He had new bonds now!
And he was determined to succeed in Alola!
Ash opened his eyes with a fierce look.
Like what Ilima did a few days ago, Ash got his fists into a ball and places his arms up like he was trying to show off his muscles. He moved his left arm to the bottom and the right one above it to form a square like shape. He began to obtain a white aura that eventually fused with Litten.
Ilima did the same thing as the Z-power went into Smeargle.
"BREAKNECK BLITZ!" the two trainers roared.
Litten and Smeargle dashed straight into each, trying to push the other back with the force of the Z-power, as the collusion of the two Z-moves created a wave of wind. Lillie had to hold on to her hat and her skirt.
"Keep going LITTEN!" Ash yelled.
"TTTEN!" Litten yelled.
Ilima had never seen such a strong Z-move before from a new trainer. He was overwhelmed by Ash's power.
Smeargle was struggling as its left leg slipped. Before he could recompose himself, Litten used the chance to fling Smeargle back into the ground.
The Z-power disappeared around the two Pokemon as Litten panted heavily.
Smeargle slowly picked itself, but was in no condition to fight.
Hau had finished off the Pikipek as Pichu stood by his side.
"Litten use-"Ash started only for Litten to rush forward, biting Smeargle and leaving a burns where it was bit.
"Litten used Fire fang!" Hau said surprised.
Smeargle collapsed as Litten went back to Ash's side.
"Trial Captain Ilima and student Jakob's Pokemon can no longer battle. The winners are Trial goer Ash and Trial goer and grandson of the Kahuna, Hau!" the referee called out.
The crowd shouted in excitement after the thrilling match.
Ilima walked to them.
"Ash. Never before had I seen such a powerful Z-move from a trainer using it for the first time. Both you and Hau are ready." Ilima said to the duo as Lillie walked over.
"Congratulations guys! Using the Malasada to snap Pichu out of confusion was genius!" Lillie complemented.
"Yes. Never would I have ever expected that to work. But you what they see, Trainer like Pokemon…" Ilima started as they all laughed.
"I've seen enough!" a voice boomed that was very familiar.
The crowd split to show Hala walk forward.
"It's the Kahuna!" someone in the crowd shouted.
"Hey Grandpa!" Hau greeted.
"I've seen enough! It's settled. I expect a battle from the both of you soon. Normally I would battle 3V3 but you only appear to have two Pokemon. Whether it is 2v2 or 3v3, I look forward to it!" Hala said looking directly at Ash, who look back.
"You are going down."
Author's note: And there is chapter 5. I know in the Battle with Ilima, his Gumshoos has the Z-crystal, but I thought Smeargle suited him more.
Not alot to say other than the adventure on Melemele is coming to an end and Ash and Co will be moving to Akala soon.
Now as you could tell, this is AshXLillie story, but for some reason Lillie and many other characters are yet to be added. So once they have it will be added above. I've email and requested but nothin so far :/
The question about custom Ultra beasts was mixed but more on the positive as of now. So it might be trial and era.
I've also decided to make Lillie's brother (I wonder who that could be?) a little older than her. In the games, they look like twins, but in this there is a age gap between the two.
I am looking for possible Team skull OC and later Aether OC. I like interacting with you guys so yeah.
Questions now:
Well done chapter but not really anything worth an M rating really in this fic I've noticed: True. Not yet at least. Ironically next chapter is probs one reason why it's M rated.
Also, were you not going to make Ash much stronger/OP so he could prove his former friends/family/pokemon wrong? You're keeping him weak: True again. He is weak as of now. But remember, he has been in Alola for a few days with two Pokemon again, has only had for a few days. He thought about type coverage when he had the chance to catch the Pikipek as he has Rowlet (AND YES, before someone says Decidueye isn't flying. Yeah it's not, but Ash doesn't know that yet) So he isn't catching everything at random.
Hey you do know that Rowlet evolves into a GRASS GHOST type right not flying: Yeah. Yeah I do.
Will Ash be able to use Aura? TBH I don't know as of right now. Seeming it's such a common thing in Ash betrayed stories (At least the ones i've read). I want to try and be as unique as possible.
Will he catch the both legendary Solgaleo and Lunala? No.
And to the Guest that wrote the really long review, I enjoyed reading the things you wrote in it and who knows, might see something you have said in the future ;)
As always review, Suggest or PM me. Spectre out!