ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 17 - Battle Royal
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
The trio had said goodbye to Lana and her family after staying the night at their place.
Ash and Lana had to suffer through the constant chants of 'boyfriend' from the twins for the whole night.
They were making their way back to the Paniola ranch so they could get to Ash and Hau's second trial on Akala island and the third overall.
The trek wasn't too bad as they now knew where they were going.
Lillie was holding on to a map.
"Hmm… Alright. It seems the only way to get to your third trial which is in the Wela volcano park is to pass through the Royal Avenue." Lillie explained, which caused Hau to stop.
"WE ARE!? OH, MY GOD!" he yelled in excitement.
Ash looked at him with confused look.
"Care to explain?" Ash asked.
"Oh, right heh. Located in the Royal Avenue is the battle dome where the battle royals are commenced!" Hau told Ash.
"Battle? Royals?" Ash asked again but with more interest.
"Hau. Come on. They are fake. It's all scripted!" Lillie butted in which caused Hau to growl.
"Then why does it look so real HUH!?" Hau argued.
"Um, sorry to butt in but, WHAT IS A BATTLE ROYAL?!" Ash yelled to get attention.
"4 trainers, 2 Pokemon! Battle it out till only one is standing! I use to watch it so much when I was a kid! It's inspired by the battles the island guardians once had to determine who is the strongest!" Hau explained.
"Yeah and those battles involved burning down rainforests and destroying mountains!" Lillie yelled.
"I think it sounds kind of cool I guess…" Ash muttered.
"AH HA! Wait? What do you mean kind of? THE ONLY RIGHT ANSWER IS YES!"
While Hau was in the middle of yelling, a Gumshoos fell from the sky and onto the ground, knocked out.
"Alright…. Well that happened…" Lillie muttered as she and the two boys stood there stunned.
"Gumshoos! Gumshoos!" a man called out.
The man that was calling out to the fainted Pokemon was none other than a team skull grunt.
"Team Skull!" Ash growled as he reached for a pokeball in case the need to battle was required.
"Oh shit! Hey! Listen, I'm no trouble alright! We were minding our own business and some midget lady with a Mudsdale smashed my Pokemon!" the grunted rambled.
"I find that hard to believe…" Ash snapped.
"… Alright! We were stealing a Pokemon and the rest is true! Please don't hurt me…"
Ash and Hau ran past the grunt with Lillie behind them, who was not feeling too well.
After a 5-minute run, they reached the outskirts of a large town with commotion occurring in front of the gate.
Three skull grunts were blocking the entrance and had a Drifloon captive as well.
Opposing them was the lady with the Pokemon Mudsdale just like the other grunt said.
"Y'all city folk causin this much ruckus these days huh?" the lady yelled.
She was very short and was wearing a brown sleeveless shirt and brown pants with black riding shoes. She had light brown skin with black hair that was tied back into two bun like ponytails. Around her head was a purple bandana, which was wrapped around it.
Rotom appeared and scanned the Pokemon.
"Mudsdale, the draft horse Pokemon. It spits mud that can resist both the wind and rain, which can be used to help repair buildings that are unstable. Its back legs have a powerful kick that can send a car flying without breaking a sweat."
The lady turned around and say Ash and co.
"Hmm? Who might you lot be?" the lady said.
"Never mind that. Let's deal with them first!" Ash answered as he brought out Stufful.
In front of the three grunts was a Zubat and two Yungoos's.
"Yo Brett! Look at these nerds! Yungoos use sand attack." The grunt commanded.
"Really? Sand attack of all moves? Ugh." Ash groaned. "Stufful use brick break to knock away the sand!"
"Mudsdale! High horsepower!" the lady yelled.
Stufful smacked away the sand as Mudsdale used its back legs and kicked the attacking Yungoos, who was flung back at such a high pace, it crashed into the other Yungoos and Zubat, knocking them both out cold.
"Shit!" the grunts cursed as they returned there Pokemon and fled the scene.
"Out of all the regions I've been to, these guys are the worst grunts ever…" Ash muttered to Hau.
The Drifloon floated next to the lady.
"Whew… Got yah little guy." The lady said to the Sinnoh native.
She turned to Ash, Lillie and Hau.
"Thanks for the help. My name is Hapu." The lady introduced herself now known as Hapu.
"Ash."
"My name is Lillie."
"Hiya. The name is Hau."
Hapu raised an eyebrow at Hau.
"As in Hala's grandson?" Hapu asked.
"Sigh, Yep. That's me." Hau responded.
Hapu then turned to Ash.
"You don't sound like you're from around these parts?" she asked.
"No, I'm not. I'm from Kanto." Ash explained to her but left out the whole reason why he was in Alola.
"Oh Kanto? Golly, that sure is far from here. A bit too much for little old me. I'm from Poni Island just south of Melemele Island. Like Hau, I was the granddaughter of the Kahuna on Poni Island." Hapu explained which lead to an odd question.
"Was?" Lillie asked.
Hapu saddened a little.
"Oh right… Um, he passed away a few months ago." Hapu told them.
"I'm sorry for your lose." Ash told her.
"It's alright. However, Tapu Fini has yet to pick a successor so the Island is a bit of a chaotic state right now." Hapu continued.
"So I've decided to get away from it all and just travel for a bit. Unfortunately, I've run into scum like Team Skull. Nerve of them, stealing others Pokemon… C'one little guy, I'll take you back to your trainer." Hapu said to Drifloon who gave a slightly happier look.
Hapu jumped onto her Mudsdale and went off with the Drifloon to find its trainer.
After the little incident with Team skull, the group had made their way to the Royal Avenue.
"WOAH! This place is more awesomemaner in real life!" Hau yelled.
"Hau… That's (burb) not even a word!" Lillie grunted who was holding her stomach.
Hau was about to yell back but Ash butted in.
"Lillie, you ok?" Ash asked.
"I'm… Fine! Why you as- "Lillie started only to cover her mouth as her face went green. She rushed over to a rubbish bin and proceeded to throw up.
Hau looked away in disgust as Ash gagged a little.
Lillie collapsed slightly after hurling up and was panting with some vomit on her dress.
"Urghh… My gut…" Lillie moaned. "I think I ate to much last night…"
"You think? You had like a tower of food!" Hau added in before getting punched in the arm by Ash.
Hau carried Ash's bag as Ash carried Lillie on his back who had fallen asleep slightly.
Hau sorted out the room in the Pokemon center as Ash laid Lillie down on a bed.
"Thanks…" she said weakly, gasping on to a bucket in case she had to puke again.
"Yeah… Don't worry about it…" Ash muttered, wiping off some vomit on his shoulder.
"Do you think you can pass me my pyjama's? I'm going to rest for a while…" Lillie said, coughing a bit more puke into the bucket.
Nebby and Vulpix stayed by her side as their trainer groaned in pain.
Ash did as ask and passed over the pyjama's to the sick girl and then left the room, closing the door behind him.
Hau was chilling on the couch.
"So, how is she?" Hau asked.
"Better than before but she looks like she was going to puke again…" Ash told him as they heard Lillie throw up in the background. "There we go…"
Hau got up and looked at Ash with a smirk.
"Say? Why don't we go check out the battle royal!" Hau suggested.
Ash blinked at the idea.
"Come on! We don't want to listen to Lillie hurl all day now do we?" Hau said again.
"I guess. But if she needs something?"
"She is a big girl. Let's go!" Hau said as he rushed out the door with Ash following behind.
After leaving the Pokemon center, it was like a two-minute walk and they appeared in front of a large stadium with a mini ones branching off to the side.
"WOAH! We are really here!" Hau blurted out, gaining a few looks.
Ash sweat dropped but quickly stopped as he saw someone that made his blood boil.
Walking towards the entrance of the building was none another than Gladion.
Ash placed his hand into a ball and gripped it tightly.
Hau noticed this.
"Hey? You ok?" Hau asked.
Ash sighed and let go of his anger as it would just get in the way.
"Let's go inside."
Hau's eyes lightened up.
"REALLY!" he yelled as he rushed inside.
Ash walked normally in as he found Hau at a standstill with a blunt look on his face. Opposing him was Gladion.
"Gladion." Ash spat.
"I told you two to not get in way." He spat back.
Ash wanted to punch him right in the face but resisted as much as he could.
Gladion looked at the duo's Z-rings.
"I see you passed the second trial. Congratulations I guess." He muttered while looking away.
"Thanks?" Hau said unsure.
"We didn't let the defeat stand in our way. We forgot about it and defeated the totem!" Ash explained.
"And that is meant to impress me?" Gladion snorted.
Ash grabbed him by the shirt. In reaction, Gladion grabbed him as well.
"HEY!" a male called out.
Both Ash and Gladion turned to see a dark-skinned man with jet black hair but with red streaks in it. He had no shirt on but had red shorts with red shoes. He had a necklace around his neck and a Z-ring on his left wrist with a red Z-crystal installed into it.
"If you two are going to tear each other apart, either do it in the ring or outside!" the male who was around Gladions age told the duo off.
They let go of each other and glared heavily at one another.
"The names Kiawe-"the male started to only be interrupted by Ash.
"Kiawe? As in the trial captain?" Ash asked.
He nodded in response.
"Correct. I see you have beaten both Ilima and Lana's trials and I suppose I'm next ha-ha." Kiawe laughed a little.
He turned to Gladion.
"What about you? Are you a trial goer too?" the trial captain asked.
"No. I'm a bystander, that's all." Gladion muttered, uninterested by the conversation.
"WELL NOT ANYMORE!" a loud voice echoed.
Hau froze as he recognised the voice.
"No… Way…" he whispered before fan boying like many others while Ash and Gladion stood there like complete idiots.
A man with no shirt and tight black wrestling shorts with a colourful mask appeared. He had tanned skin and a tattoo sporting on his shoulder.
"IT'S THE MASKED ROYAL!" a girl screamed as everyone gathered around the balcony as the crazy fans they were.
"Any clue on who that clown is?" Gladion asked civilised.
"You're asking the guy that practically got forced out of his home region." Ash said sarcastically.
"The Masked Royal. That's who he is." Kiawe told the duo.
The rivals continued to give blank signals.
"He is the most famous and the most successful battle royal contender of all time. He has the best win ratio with 98 percentage win record, only losing out to a regional champion that was on holiday and decided to give it a go. But some say he lost on purpose because he didn't want to ruin the champs holiday." Kiawe explained.
"Sounds stupid." Gladion said negatively, loud enough for the entire crowd to turn to him with the look to kill.
Unfortunately, they didn't know of the Pokemon he possessed which could probably kill each and every one of them if Gladion gave the command.
Some security guards formed around the Masked Royal and proceeded downstairs, pushing the crowd away as they made their way to Ash, Gladion and Kiawe.
"Inspired by the deities themselves, 4 representatives battle till one stands! 2 Pokemon each! A free f-"the masked Royal started only to be stopped by Ash.
"Professor?" Ash asked as he recognised the voice.
The Masked Royal's eyes widened and laughed.
"Hahaha! Professor? Masked Royal kiddo!" he laughed before turning to Gladion.
"I heard you're a bystander huh?"
"I like to do things my way and my way alone." Gladion muttered while looking to the side to acted all edgy. "I build my own rules. Not to be puppet for someone else's amusement. Sorry, but that's how it is."
"Oh can you stop being such a downer!" Hau yelled at Gladion.
The Masked Royal smirked and turn to Ash.
"What's your name?" he asked as the crowd roared, knowing what was about to happen.
Ash was about to answer the question till Gladion grasped on to his arm as Ash quickly turned to him.
"Despite our current run ins, we are more alike than what your think. Be careful how you give out your information. Imagine. Ash Ketchum, the boy that was killed by a monster defeats the Masked Royal. Headlines huh?" Gladion whispered.
Ash was stunned by his change in attitude.
"… Satoshi." Ash lied, thinking of a random name.
"And you?"
"Ken." Gladion lied in return, however he struggled to say the name.
"Satoshi! Ken! You will battle in the battle royal! Kiawe, care to join them?"
"An honour Masked Royal." Kiawe bowed politely.
"AND I need one more…." The Masked Royal said.
Hau's eyes widened as he jumped up and down.
"ME! ME! ME! HELLO! MEEE! MEEE! MMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he yelled.
"Alright then."
Hau squealed in joy as some security guards escorted them to separate boxes.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND POKEMON OF ALOLA! Welcome to another stunning battle royal! Today we are honoured to be joined by the legend himself, the Masked Royal!"
Ash could hear how loud the crowd was after hearing the man's name who sounded exactly like Kukui.
"Contestants! Please make your way to the ring!"
Ash, Gladion, Hau and Kiawe all walked from the tunnels they were in.
Ash came out of a Charizard designed tunnel which irritated him a little.
"Our contestants: Wela volcano trial captain, Kiawe!"
Kiawe waved to the crowd, who had come out of the Tyranitar tunnel.
"Next, the first of three debutants and the grandson of the Melemele island Kahuna Hala, Hau!"
Like Kiawe, Hau waved but with a little more excitement in it.
"The second of our debutants and from Iki town on Melemele Island, Satoshi!"
Ash lifted his arm to acknowledge the crowd.
"And lastly and our final debutant, hailing from…. Excuse us, it appears we don't have much info but that adds more into the excitement. Give a warm welcome to Ken!"
Gladion walked in with little interest.
"Two Pokemon each, only one may be out at a time. The last Pokemon standing wins! LET THE ROYAL BEGIN!" the ref shouted.
"Battle time Brionne!" Hau shouted.
"Go Torracat!" Ash yelled.
"Turtonator, battle till the end!" Kiawe called out.
"Weavile." Gladion muttered.
The four Pokemon appeared on the battle arena and all glared at each par Weavile, who stood calmly like his trainer.
Rotom appeared next to Ash.
"Turtonator, the blast turtle Pokemon. The shell located on its back is highly unstable and will explode if struck with enough force. However, it has a weak point on its stomach. It unleashes fire and poison gases out of its nostrils."
"BEGIN!" the ref yelled as the crowd roared.
"Turtonator, spin around and use incinerate!" Kiawe called out.
"Use aqua jet Brionne! Use it to avoid the incinerate and smash into Weavile!" Hau shouted, wanting to get Gladion out of the battle ASAP.
"Torracat! Flame charge on Weavile!" Ash called, following Hau's lead on getting rid of Gladion.
"Protect then nasty plot." Gladion said normally.
Weavile cried out fiercely as a blue barrier formed around him. Torracat and Brionne crashed in to the barrier and was flung back as well as the incinerate.
Weavile charged up its stats using nasty plot as the barrier wore off.
Torracat landed before Brionne did.
"Quick attack and use shadow claw on Brionne. Fling it in to Turtonator's back!" Gladion shouted.
Kiawe eyes widened.
At a rapid pace, Weavile ran and jumped up with ghost like energy surging around his claws.
A giant purple claw slashed Brionne as she was shot into the direction of Turtonator.
"Turtonator! Dragon claw!"
When Brionne was in close range, Turtonator formed a very similar claw to Weaviles except it was flowing up dragon energy.
He slashed at Brionne, landing in front of Hau heavily bruised but still conscious.
"Kens Weavile nearly set off Turtonators explosive back, which surely would have taken out Brionne and maybe Torracat! How much can Brionne take though? Folks, we are off to heated start!" the commentator announced.
"Fire fang Torracat! No holding back!" Ash commanded, getting into the idea of battle royals.
Torracat dashed back at Weavile and crunched down on his arm, making him cry in pain as flames surrounded his body.
"Aerial ace!" Gladion shouted.
Weavile swiped at Torracats under belly, making him let go and was then hit again by the flying attacking.
He landed in front of Ash and got up straight away but with cuts.
Gladion smirked.
"Actually, did something huh?" Gladion taunted.
Ash smirked back.
"We mean business this time round!"
"Surf! Get rid of those fire types!" Hau said to Brionne, who nodded back with very little energy.
Brionne created a ball of water as she charged up the attack.
Torracats eyes widened.
"Torracat! Jump on Turtonator's back!" Ash shouted.
Kiawe, Gladion and Hau all gave off looks of shock.
"Satoshi is making the strange plan of sending Torracat on to a literal mine field! Does he not know about the dangers of a Turtonator's back?" the commentator questioned.
Torracat gave a nervous look before changing into a look of courage as he believed in his trainer's plan.
Torracat ran towards Turtonator and climbed on his back as all the spikes went red.
The ball of water Brionne had exploded as a giant wave appeared.
"Move on to his head and don't let go! Dig your claws in if you have to!" Ash shouted.
Torracat climbed up more as the spikes glowed as red as possible. He dug his claws into Turtonators head.
His back exploded violently which due to the force, forced away the surf heading towards them and sent all the water Weaviles way, who gave a worried look at the rushing water.
Gladion grunted.
"ICE BEAM!" he shouted, but it was too late.
Weavile tried to use the move to freeze the water, but it was not strong enough as the water crushed him.
Once the water disappeared, Weavile was on the ground unconscious.
Due to his back shell exploding, Turtonator was extremely weak.
"Bite!" Ash yelled out.
With his claws still dug in to Turtonators head, Torracat bit down on the side of Turtonators neck, making him cry in pain.
He fell over and landed unconscious on the ground as Torracat ran over back to Ash panting.
"Both Weavile and Turtonator are out! That leaves both Ken and Kiawe on one Pokemon. Satoshi and Hau are still both on two!"
The defeated Pokemon were returned to their pokeballs.
"You did excellent Turtonator." Kiawe said to the pokeball.
Gladion just grunted.
"Marowak, let's do this!"
"Golbat."
Gladions Golbat appeared and screeched at the two starters.
However, the Marowak was different than what Ash was familiar with.
Its body was a dark purple with a black light grey belly. Its skull had tribal like markings over it. The bone a Marowak traditionally holds had green flames expelling of it from both ends. It gave a little bobble around as if it was dancing.
Rotom scanned it for Ash.
"Alolan Marowak, the bone keeper Pokemon. It is sad that the bones that it possesses is the bones of its deceased mother. Marowaks believes that if they possess the bones, their fallen parent will guard them from the afterlife. It is a custom to mourn the loss of those close to it and will lash out if angered. This is the Alolan form of the Kanto Marowak."
"Maro!" Kiawe's Marowak roared as it twirled around its club.
"Marowak, take out Torracat with bonemerang!" Kiawe commanded.
The fire ghost type threw the bone as it twirled around like a boomerang and smashed right into the side of Torracat, causing critical damage to the feline.
Marowak caught the bone and dashed at Torracat, hitting his head with the bone like a baseball bat.
Torracat fell to the ground with swirly eyes.
"Supersonic then air cutter!" Gladion told the bat.
He screeched out loud and confused Brionne. Brionne was moving around dizzily until Golbat crashed right into her with air cutter as she finally lost it and was out cold.
"It's all even again folks. With Torracat and Brionne out, all the trainers are left with one mon! It's going to go down to the wire!"
"Proud of you Torracat!" Ash said to Torracat as he returned him.
Hau did the same.
"Dartrix, go!"
"Eevee, let's do this!"
Ash gave a look to Hau as the evolution Pokemon gave an aggressive stance in front of his trainer, growling at both Golbat and Marowak.
"Hau, are you sure Eevee is ready?" Ash muttered.
Hau nodded.
"We are going to place 110 percent into this even if we lose"! Hau announced.
"Vee!" Eevee responded, now starting to listen to his trainers commands.
"Swift!" Hau shouted.
"Use swift back!" Gladion told Golbat.
The two Kanto Pokemon fired swifts at each other, with both the moves being cancelled out by one another.
While the two Kanto Pokemon fought, Marowak appeared through the commotion and prepared to slam Dartrix.
The bird flew out of the way and fired a leafage at Marowak but he just burnt right through the attack.
"Flamewheel!" Kiawe called.
The entire bone was engulfed with flames as he threw it in the air, smacking Dartrix clean.
Gladion saw this.
"No… He is mine!" Gladion growled quietly to himself.
"Golbat! Toxic on Eevee and Marowak!"
Golbat spewed the acid on to Eevee and Marowak.
They both began to hack away, with each cough being heavier than the last.
"Eevee! Shadow ball on Marowak!"
Despite the poison Eevee had absorbed, he created the shadow ball and released it at Marowak, hitting him clean.
Kiawe growled.
Ash glared at Gladion.
"Dartrix, fly and use double team!" Ash shouted as the bird multiplied himself and flew around in the air.
Golbat, Marowak and Eevee all watched the bird and his clones fly around in the air.
Ash pressed the Normalium-Z and did the dance to it.
"Dartrix! Breakneck blitz! Attack anyone of them." Ash smirked, leaving his target anonymous.
"We are seeing a Z-move folks! But who will be attacked?" the commentator questioned.
Kiawe blinked.
"Marowak is a ghost type though… What is he planning?"
The clones flew around in the air as well at rapid pace, crashing into either of the three opponents, just bursting into dust on collision.
Suddenly, Golbat was slammed to the ground as Dartrix had crashed in to his back.
Golbat and Dartrix fell on top of Eevee as he bit down on the grass flying types wing.
"Golbat! Poison fang!" Gladion shouted.
Despite being pinned to the ground, Golbat latched on to Dartrix's leg, causing serious damage.
"Eevee! Shadow ball into Golbats mouth!" Hau also shouted, shortly after Gladion.
The ghost attack was charged up and was unleashed into the bats mouth, resulting in smoke appearing out of his throat.
"Dartri-"
"MAROWAK!" Kiawe roared above Ash, which gained everyone's attention.
The two stood in a fierce stance as Kiawe hit the red crystal in his Z-ring.
He shrugged his shoulders twice at slow pace until stretching his left arm up and then down in front of him while placing his other arm just below his shoulder.
The red aura filled Marowak as he twirled his bone around.
"MAROWAK! Finish them all with Inferno overdrive!"
Marowaks bone was engulfed in flames as he twirled it in front of him as a ball of fire formed and grew bigger and bigger.
He pulled out his bone which sent the ball of fire forward, devouring Golbat, Eevee and Dartrix.
It eventually passed away and all three Pokemon were on the ground out cold.
"KIAWE IS OUR WINNER FOLKS!"
The crowd roared in excitement as Kiawe and Marowak waved to the crowd with Ash, Gladion and Hau returning there Pokemon.
Before they could be escorted away, Gladion just left like that.
Everyone noticed as well.
"Must just be a poor sport." Kiawe suggested.
Ash glared.
"I think it's a bit more than that. I'm go see him for a minute…" Ash responded.
Ash ran down the tunnel Gladion went in and saw the blonde go to his room.
Without permission to enter, Ash invited himself, leaving him staring face to face with his rival.
"What?" Gladion said bluntly.
Ash charged forward and grabbed him by the shirt, pinning him against the large mirror mounted on the wall.
"Why didn't you use it?" Ash sneered.
Gladion just grunted.
"It has a name you know? It's like if I was just going to call you he." Gladion fired back.
Ash shook his head slightly.
"I didn't use Null because it's too early for the world to know about its existence." Gladion explained.
Ash let go of Gladion.
"You didn't serious think a Pokemon like Type: Null could be found in the wild, now did you? Its manmade."
"Then how did you of all people end up with it?" Ash grunted.
Gladion flicked his hair to the side.
"Fate I guess… Found it one day wounded… Saved it and became best friends."
"I don't believe you." Ash spat. "You're not the kind of person to believe in fate…"
Gladion walked past him slightly.
"Maybe I am. Maybe I'm not." He merely said before walking off, as Ash just watched him.
"I'm sorry… But the Masked royal had to shoot off. We can organise an appointment for an autograph some other time?" a lady told Hau.
"WHAT! How much!?" Hau smiled.
"345.99"
His jaw then just dropped as he fell to the ground.
Ash walked past and saw.
"Uh… Hau?" Ash asked as the Melemele resident turned to him with tears of sadness.
Ash juts awkwardly blinked at him.
"Should we go check up on Lillie?" he suggested.
"Fine…" Hau muttered, picking himself up and slouching to the exit as Ash followed.
They returned to the poke center and went to the room they rented and found Lillie, Nebby and Vulpix fast asleep.
"They're fine… Stupid high price autograph! GRH!" Hau yelled as Ash shhh'd him.
Hau stormed out as Ah tipped toed into Lillie's room.
She was peacefully asleep on her side as Nebby snored away.
The kanto native questioned how she could sleep in fully length pajamas's in alola heat at night
Ash noticed that she had a bit of vomit left on the side of her mouth.
He grabbed a tissue and whipped it away.
Lillie began to roll in her sleep slightly while mumbling as Ash back off.
"No... Papa... don't leav..." Lillie muttered as her expressions on her face intensified.
She was suffering from another nightmare.
Ash blinked as he weighed up his options...
Wake up Lillie and possibly get yelled out for being in her room while she was asleep.
Or let her suffer what was ever happening in her nightmare.
The boy bit down on his tongue and shook his head as he was going to regret this later.
He placed his on her shoulder and moved around on it.
"Lillie." he said quietly and softly. "Lillie!"
She was still rolling in her sleep.
"Lillie!" Ash said slightly louder now as the girl stopped rolling.
She lift her head up to see Ash sitting on her bedside and with his hand on her shoulder.
"Ash... What are you doing... in my room..." she said groggily as she placed her hand on her mouth.
Ash's eyes widened as he grabbed a bucket and placed it in front of her as she let loose, with some of puke spilling on to his hand.
"Thanks..." she muttered painfully.
"No problem" Ash responded "I just came to check up on you and make sure you were ok."
Due to the curtains being closed and it being semi dark, Ash didn't notice the blush on Lillie's face.
"Th-thanks..." she stuttered. "Why did you wake me up if I may ask?"
"You were having a nightmare. Plus you were talking in your sleep." Ash explained.
The blush vanished as Lillie paled, hoping she didn't share anything to secret.
"Oh? I did... What did (yawn) I say?" Lillie asked.
Ash hesitated for a second.
"You were muttering you were cornered by a Pokemon. That's all." Ash lied, knowing he may have heard something personal. Plus Lillie wasn't in a good state to be told what he heard.
"Oh... Alright" Lillie muttered as she coughed a little.
"Get some more rest. If you need anything, just yell." Ash said as he went to the door and closed it, to allow Lillie to get some more sleep.
She shuffled down into bed and closed her eyes.
Brrrr-brrr-brrrtzz
Lillie shot up and freaked as she heard that cry again.
Due to her moving up so face, her stomach responded as she grabbed the bucket to throw up.
Lillie finished and then hide under the sheets.
"Remember children. Symbiont only killed your father because we misunderstood it, it attacked in fear. In fear of what he would do to the poor thing." Lillie's mother told a mourning Lillie as she, her brother, there cousin Ken and there Mother stood by their fathers grave.
"How is it misunderstood?! That thing killed father!" Lillie's brother cried.
"It is not a thing, it is know as Symbiont!" their mother growled.
Lillie began to cry as she thought back to that tragic day.
Little did she know Ash was listening on the other side of the door.
Lillie was hiding something.
Authors note: Here we go. Battle royal chapter and another encounter with Gladion.
Next chapter is a little filler for plot but after that is the fire trial with a little surprise in it as well.
And more of Lillies mysterious past is revealed and Ash is slowly learning about it.
Yet again, for the a billionth time, thanks for all the support and as of this chapter, we stand at 273 reviews, 336 favorites and 410 followers. I never thought i'd reach that number. So thank you to each and everyone of you.
So as always, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre Out!