ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 19 - The Queen of Wela Park.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :(
After spending, a few days at the Royale Avenue to allow Lillie to get better, they were now all their way to Ash and Hau's third trial located at the Wela Volcano.
Kiawe had left the day he won against Ash, Hau and Gladion to get ready as Trial Captain.
Walking along the track to the volcano were the trio and all their Pokemon which they had out
"Hmm. So Kiawe is a fire type specialist meaning this should be a piece of malasada for Brionne!" Hau claimed.
"Isn't the term cake? Not malasada?" Lillie questioned the boy.
"Is now!" He responded.
"This one might be a struggle… Torracat is my only really option. He resists but won't do much back to a fire type totem Pokemon." Ash explained.
With Dartrix being grass and Stufful having the fluffy ability, the fire cat was his only resource.
"Torra!" Torracat meowed, claiming he would destroy any fire type totem.
Eevee was still distant from the other Pokemon but wasn't running off like what he used to do.
Far in the distance was a large series of volcano's.
"Wela volcano park is renowned for two things: one being an excellent tourist spot now that is dormant" Lillie started, reading a pamphlet about the park.
"What is the second thing?" Ash asked curiously.
"That it is also renown for the great eruption of 1867. When a war between the local islanders and foreigners from other regions was going on, legend says that the Akala Island guardian, who they call Tapu Lele, set off the volcano, angered by the war." Lillie continued.
"Oh…" Ash muttered.
"Hey guys look!" Hau shouted, pointing forwards.
He was pointing at a large house with a bunch of paddocks surrounding it.
As they got closer to the house, outside with what appeared to be a smaller Mudsdale, was Kiawe.
"Hey Kiawe!" Hau shouted out waving.
The fire type specialist looked up and smiled at who was arriving.
"Oh! Alola Ash. Alola Hau! Alola?" Kiawe greeted the trial goers until he stopped at the girl he didn't know.
"My name is Lillie." She introduced.
"Kiawe." He said as the two shook hands.
Ash turned to the Pokemon Kiawe was with only to realise that they were everywhere.
Rotom appeared and scanned the Pokemon.
"Mudbray, the donkey Pokemon. It is known for its stubborn, individualistic disposition. It eats dirt, to create more dirt, to stick on to its hoofs to strength them up, which will result in a powerful kick."
"Yeah. I got stuck on cleaning duty today." Kiawe confessed.
The trio turned to the multiple herds of Mudbray and all sweat dropped.
"Don't worry. Not them. This is my younger sisters own Mudbray and my parents asked me to clean him for her."
"I was going to say…" Hau muttered under his teeth.
"But now with trial goers here!" Kiawe claimed, standing up.
As he did, a door slammed open behind him with an older woman and a younger girl standing in the doorframe.
Kiawe slowly looked to the side, sweating as he got glared at.
"…We will do the trial after I clean my 'lovely' sisters Mudbray…" Kiawe grinded through his teeth.
"Um… Hi?" Ash said to the two.
The women smirked at Ash. She had the same skin colour as Kiawe. She had her hair in a bun with red highlights running through it. She wore a orange cut up tank top and shorts.
Next to her was a 6 or 7-year-old girl. She had slightly lighter skin compared to Kiawe and the older women and turquoise eyes. Like the older women, she had her hair in a bun with red highlights. She wore a pink shirt and a blue skirt.
"Alola! Friend of yours Kiawe?" the older women said to Ash and Co first and then to Kiawe.
"Ash, Hau, Lillie. This is my mother and sister, Hoshi." Kiawe introduced. "Ash and Hau are here for the trial at the volcano."
Kiawe's mother smirked.
"Oh? Is that so? Please, call me Amara." Kiawe mother explained. "So, you are here to battle the Queen?"
The two boys and Lillie raised an eyebrow.
"The… Queen?" Lillie questioned.
"The Queen of the park. Outside of us, she runs the park. All the Pokemon that live here bow to her and follow her commands." Amara explained.
"And we will be fighting this Queen?" Ash asked which lead to a nod from Kiawe and his Mother.
"She is the most powerful Pokemon ever!" Hoshi exclaimed.
"Thing is… This is how the Trial works. You battle two or three of the Queens personal guards. She will then decide if you are worthy or not to battle her." Kiawe told the duo.
"So, we are not even guaranteed a totem battle?" Ash said stunned slightly.
Kiawe nodded.
"And if she does battle you, she is going to kick your butts!" Hoshi claimed, pointing at Ash and Hau.
"Now, Now. It's rude to point Hoshi. Why don't you kids come in while Kiawe continues on with what he is meant to be doing." Amara suggested.
Kiawe's jaw dropped slightly.
"But… But… The trial?" Kiawe questioned.
"It can wait. You have work to do." Amara told her eldest child.
Kiawe's head dropped as the traveling trio followed Amara and Hoshi inside.
"Mudb!" Mudbray cried at Kiawe.
"So, you have really used a Z-crystal before?" Hoshi asked Ash and Hau.
Ash placed his bag on the ground and scavenged around in it.
Lillie had offered to Amara in the kitchen to help with making some tea and snacks.
Ash pulled out a clear, orange and blue crystal.
"The normalium-z, the fightinuim-Z and the waterium-Z" Ash explained to Hoshi.
Hoshi grinned at the crystals.
"That's really cool!" she said as Amara arrived with a pot of tea as Lillie had a tray with biscuits.
"Help yourself!" Amara offered.
Ash glared at Lillie, who gave a nervous look, mouthing the words 'I won't overdo it'.
For the next 15 minutes, they all got to know each other as they waited for Kiawe to finish up.
The door slammed open with a groomed Mudbray walking over to Hoshi.
"Erg. My back." Kiawe complained as he collapsed on the couch.
"Thanks, Kiawe! Trotty say thank you." Hoshi said to Mudbray.
"Bray!" Mudbray thanked as he licked kiawes hand in appreciation.
"Ok! Son grab a biscuit or two and we are going to take Ash and Hau too the first part of the trial." Amara told a worn out Kiawe.
"Right…" Kiawe muttered.
"Can we come! Can we!?" Hoshi begged as she hugged her Mudbray named Trotty.
"If its fine with Ash and Hau, then sure." Amara said.
"I'm cool with it." Ash replied.
"It's all goods!" Hau also said.
Hoshi grinned.
"Shotgun front seat!" Hoshi cried as she and Trotty ran outside to a large jeep.
"Come on Son. You have a trial to run." Amara said to Kiawe again as he pulled himself up.
Amara got into the driver's seat with Hoshi next to her and Mudbray in the back.
The four teenagers were in the backseat.
Turning on the car, they headed straight for the volcano.
"So Kiawe where is your dad?" Lillie asked awkwardly.
"Oh? I haven't seen him today. Probably just down doing some work on the farm." Kiawe told them.
"Woah look!" Hau said pointing out at all the fire types walking to the summit.
"What is going on?" Ash asked the fire type trial captain.
"While you are here for your trial, you have also come at the time of the Wela festival." Kiawe told them.
"Wela festival? Never heard of it before." Lillie muttered.
"Again. It is dedicated to Queen but also her child. All the fire types of the park come and deliver a gift to the royal family of the park. The one with the greatest gift, the Queen will decide who will be her child's mate." Kiawe explained.
"That is different… Unique! Unique don't get me wrong." Ash said.
Magmars, Fletchinders, Salandits and many more fire types trekked up the tall volcano.
Amara drove up the volcano and parked, allowing everyone to get out.
Hundreds of fire type Pokemon were in front of them and blocking the main path.
"Darn. It's fine, we can take the alternative way! Over here!" Kiawe claimed as he walked up a patched of dried out grass.
Everyone followed his lead only to find him on his stomach and out of sight.
"Everyone down. Ash, Hau. Too the front!" Kiawe called out.
Again, everyone did as told.
"There!" Kiawe said, pointing out of the grass slightly.
Under a wooden shelter was a large, feminine lizard. Ash scanned the area and saw others like it, but found it very confusing.
The ones in the crowd and by the ones by the Pokemon kiawe was pointing at were black with a dark purple underbelly and magenta, flame like stripes, streaking around the body.
However, the one of attention was white instead of black.
The white Pokemon was lying down on a bed of dried out grass with two Alolan Marowaks dancing next to her.
Rotom appeared and did the rest.
"Salazzle, the toxic lizard Pokemon. Only females have been found of Salazzle so far. They can create deadly pheromones that will eventually turn into its scent, attracting male Pokemon regardless to do its bidding. When Salazzle wishes to mate, it will create a reverse harem with male Salandits. This is the evolved form of Salandit."
"Alright, that is an image I didn't need to picture…" Hau grumbled.
"The shiny Salazzle is known as the Queen. She is the strongest out of all the Pokemon here." Kiawe explained.
"And is the totem Pokemon because of it." Ash finished Kiawe's sentence, whom nodded in response.
A large horn was blown which made the crowd go silent.
Appearing out of a hole behind the Queen was a small Salandit.
"The daughter." Amara said as fire type Pokemon began to place presents forward, which ranged from berries to charcoal to rare gems.
The daughter of the Queen sighed sadly as a Pokemon cleared his throat.
She turned and saw a Monferno smirking as he carried a whole bunch of stuff.
Salandit cringed as every time she saw him, he just made her blood boil.
The firefighting type dropped 5 red stones with yellow flames in them.
The Queen Salazzle signalled to her bodyguards, the Marowak's to go retrieve them.
They did so and placed them down in front of the Queen as she examined the fire stones. These would be useful for potential evolution in the future.
She smiled and walked out of her dried-out bed and walked in front of Monferno.
"Saaazl!" The Queen shouted out as she announced Monferno would be her daughters mate.
The crowd responded back with a roar as Salandit just sighed.
"It seems like it's starting to finish. Why not end in a bang?" Kiawe suggested as Ash and Hau nodded.
They got out and slid down the side of the upper ground they were on.
The attention all shifted to the humans, with many growling and charging up fire type attacks.
"SALZ!" Salazzle cried out as the growling stopped.
Salazzle waved kindly at Kiawe and Amara who waved back.
"Alola, Queen!" They said in sync. "I know it's the festival and all for you today, but we have to trial goers!" Kiawe explained to the poison fire type.
She looked at over to Ash and a waving Hau.
"Azzle!" Salazzle said, smiling.
Kiawe turned to Ash and Hau.
"She has accepted you and you will compete in phase 1! Ash, Hau. Your trial officially begins now!" Kiawe told the duo.
Salazzle returned to her bed next to her daughter, who was being stared up by Monferno.
She signalled to her bodyguards as they dashed forward, ready for battle.
"The first phase is the battle. Impress the Queen." Kiawe explained.
"Brionne! Let's go!" Hau called out as his water type appeared gracefully as the Marowak opposing him paled slightly, now going up against a water type.
"Torracat! I choose you!" Ash shouted as the fire cat roared out and stood sharply, ready to pounce.
"SAALZ!" The Queen Salazzle hissed out.
"BEGIN!" Kiawe cried in response.
The Marowak facing Ash, doubled his bone and flung them at Torracat.
"Torracat! Charge at it with a wall of fire!" Ash commanded.
Torracat created the wall of fire and ran at the attack. Once they passed through, the bones were mere ash. Torracat sucked up the fire wall and released it as a flamethrower. Marowak stamped his main bone in the ground as the flamethrower split off to two sides.
Salandit popped her head and decided to watch the battles. She also noticed her mother giving an unimpressed look.
"Surf!" Hau shouted.
Brionne made the ball of water and released as a giant wave. Marowak used protect to defend himself.
"Aqua jet!"
Diving into the water made, Brionne slammed right into the protect, shattering it in the process. Marowak took serious damage thanks to both surf and the aqua jet.
Marowak twirled his bones as flames consumed it. He flung it in to the water that surrounded Brionne, resulting in steam to be created.
Brionne panicked as everything around her was covered in steam.
Marowak picked up his bone and slammed it into Brionne, sending her flying back in front of Hau.
Hau growled as Brionne got up again as the steam faded away.
Marowak was panting from the damage caused early thanks to the aqua jet.
"Torracat! Bite!" Ash shouted as the cat rushed forwards and jumped on the other Marowak.
Marowak landed on his back on the ground and placed out his bone to prevent Torracat biting him.
"Rip it out of his hands!"
The cat bit down into the bone and started pulling back and forth on it. Eventually, Marowak let go as the fire type threw the bone away.
Salandit watched Torracat, impressed by his actions as he latched on to the side of Marowaks shoulder.
"It seems after his battle with my Marowak, he has thought about a few things…" Kiawe said out loud.
"Torracat finish this!" Ash yelled.
Torracat let go of Marowak and gave out a large roar.
"RAWWR!" he yelled as Salandit watched his every move. Monferno noticed his future mate focusing heavily on the cat.
Torracat stood on his two-back leg, wobbling around slightly. He picked up the fire/ghost type, slamming him into the side of the volcano.
"Brionne! Use aqua jet again and create a water tornado!" Hau told his Pokemon who did as told.
Twirling around Marowak multiple times, he eventual got trapped inside the tornado, taking serious damage from it as he got on his hands and knees.
"Disarming voice!"
Brionne let out a loud scream as the sound waves collided into Marowak as he fell unconscious. Brionne celebrated by doing a bow and waving to the crowd like what a pop star would do at the end of a concert.
Torracat sat down and stuck out his chest in pride.
The Queen Salazzle gave off a small smile as the crowd of fire types cheered in celebration.
"Azzle!" Salazzle said and Kiawe nodded.
"The Queen has accepted your challenge." Kiawe told the duo.
Both grinned as their third totem battle was about to begin.
"Sazl" Salazzle added on as Kiawe gave off a confused look but eventually nodded.
"The Queen has requested that we leave it for tomorrow as she has some things to organise. However, she would like to meet all your Pokemon as guest of honour" Kiawe explained.
"Since when could you speak Pokemon. Eh, Eevee! Pichu!" Hau smirked before releasing his other two Pokemon.
Ash let loose both Dartrix and Stufful. Stufful quickly rushed up Ash and dived into his bag in fear as Dartrix hide behind him.
"Guys! You're being rude!" Ash moaned as Stufful wriggled around in the bag, flailing his back legs in the air due to him going in head first.
Nebby managed to fly out of the bag as well, much to Lillie's disapproval.
"Nebby! Get back in the bag!" Lillie commanded.
He flew over to Salazzle and cried happily at her as he usually does to anyone new.
Salazzle smiled as she jumped of her platform to meet the other Pokemon. Salandit joined her mother, but had focus on one Pokemon alone.
She scurried over to Torracat, who was licking his front paws to clean his head.
"Andit!" Salandit cried at the cat, who gave a confused look.
"Torca?" Torracat responded confused.
"Sala!" Salandit said happily, that she was impressed by his battle style.
Torracat smirked and puffed out his chest again in pride.
He didn't notice the blush on Salandit.
However, Monferno did.
And was not happy about it.
He charged over and pushed Salandit out of the way before yelling at Torracat, claiming that Salandit was his!
Torracat just blinked confused before laughing.
Monferno growled and smacked him in the face with a Mach punch.
Torracat stumbled over, now growling himself.
He pulled out his sharp claws and slashed across Monferno's face. The Sinnoh native cried in pain drawing the attention of everyone.
"TORRACAT!" Ash yelled as the fire type stop in his tracks.
"Meowr!" Torracat moaned as Monferno rolled around on the ground. Nobody saw the smirked on his face.
Salandit stood divided. She wanted to get to know Torracat better but her mother was glaring at her.
She sighed and walked over to Monferno check on him.
He responded with a nod.
"We should probably get going. We will come back tomorrow." Amara announced as the Queen nodded.
Salandit gave a sad look as Torracat walked off as she felt Monferno's hand on her back. She shook him off and walked back to her bed next to her mother.
Make matters worse, her mother had invited Monferno to stay for the night.
She sighed and watched the humans walk off back to the car.
"What got into you Torracat?" Ash asked his Pokemon.
"Rawrm!" Torracat complained.
Rotom appeared to translate.
"Furball is saying that Salandit came over to talk to him and the monkey just came over and smacked him." Rotom translated as everyone got in the car to travel back to Kiawe's place.
Ash looked at Torracat funnily whom just glared back at him.
"You must not underestimate Salazzle. She has a vast range of moves such as Flamethrower, sludge bomb, dragon claw, crunch." Kiawe explained. "She is the queen for a reason."
They all reached Kiawe's place again and decided just to chill for the rest of the day as Amara had offered them to stay the night and tackle the totem battle first thing in the morning.
Meanwhile, Salandit was laying in her straw bed as the Marowak's guarded the princess of the volcano.
She sighed as she wanted to get to know that Torracat more. She would have until her 'mate' got in the way.
Thinking quickly, she came up with a plan.
"Andit!" she called out to the guards whom turned around. She had requested to go take a bath in the magma pools.
They offered to go with her to protect her but she denied as she did not want them watching her clean herself.
The Marowaks nodded as they let Salandit pass through.
When they weren't looking, she quickly slipped to the way the trial goers and captain went.
She noticed the tyre tracks engraved in the ground as she sniffed at them, picking up a familiar scent.
(About an hour later.)
All the humans were inside having something to eat while also meeting Kiawe and Hoshi's father.
Meanwhile, their Pokemon were outside enjoying the fresh air.
Dartrix was asleep up a nearby tree as was Pichu and Brionne was at the base. Stufful was sleeping on a cushion placed on an outside chair.
Eevee was practising his moves on a rock as was Kiawe's Marowak.
Turtonator just on the ground and watched the duo.
Lillie had trust issues with Nebby and didn't want Vulpix to get dirty as she was still just a baby and didn't know better so she kept them both inside with her.
Torracat was KO'ed on the deck of the house, snoring loudly.
"Sala…"
Torracat rolled around as he heard the cry.
"Sala…"
His eyes slowly opened as he saw the figure standing over him.
"Sala!" the figure cried for a third time.
Torracat eyes opened fully and jumped in surprise as he landed on his head.
Salandit stepped back a little as Torracat began to realise who the Pokemon was.
He just growled.
"Tor…" the male Pokemon gave off a low growl.
Salandit sweat dropped explaining Monferno wasn't with her, going as far as even explaining she didn't even like him.
Torracat raised an eyebrow at her.
"Tcar?" Torracat questioned yet again, why she was here then.
Salandit grinned slightly, explaining she wanted to see him again.
Torracat stepped back a little as Salandit followed him.
"Andti!" Salandit cried, saying she was going to say him how fire types greet another fire type in the park.
She used a soft ember on Torracat.
It didn't faze him but he stepped out of the way.
And realised what he had done.
One of the embers had gone far enough to reach Stufful.
Due to Stufful soft fur, it immediately caught on fire.
Stuffuls eyes widened and began to flail his arms around, jumping out of the seat in panic and charging straight at Torracat.
The cat paled as he saw Stufful running towards him, trying to put the fire out. Before he could move, the bear had hit him, flinging him over on to the back of Turtonator. Torracat moaned in pain from the hit (With Stufful still running around like a lunatic) and from the impact.
Salandit's eyes widened as the spikes on the back of the fire dragon type began to glow red hot.
"Torra-"Torracat started before getting cut off by a large explosion, flinging Torracat into the tree Dartrix and Pichu were asleep in. Pichu fell out of the tree and landed head first on the ground while Dartrix flew out annoyed.
Torracat finally fell off the tree and landed on Brionne, who used water gun to get him off. Stufful jumped on Torracat to get in the way of the water gun to stop the fire.
Eevee and Marowak watched baffled at what had just happened.
Salandit gave a concerned look at what she had caused as the humans ran outside to see what was going on.
"Turtonator!" Kiawe yelled as he saw that his pokemon's explosive back had been set off.
"Stufful! Torracat!" Ash yelled as well as he ran towards his two hurt Pokemon while Hau went over to Pichu.
Hoshi walked out and noticed Salandit.
"Mama? Whose Salandit is that?" Hoshi asked her mother as she looked down on the fire poison type.
Amara's eyes widened.
"Isn't this the Queens daughter?" Amara said out loud as everyone turned to her and saw Salandit.
Torracat regained consciousness and growled loudly at Salandit.
He shook his way out of Ash's arms and charged over to Salandit, hissing and growling at her as she backed off a little in fear of what the fire cat was saying too her.
"Rotom? What is he saying?" Ash asked with even Rotom giving off a concerned look.
"Uh… I don't think you want to know…" Rotom muttered Ash saw the terror on Salandit's face as her eyes began to well up.
She ran off into the bush as Torracat glared in the same direction.
"Well… That happened…" Hau muttered.
"Do you think we should go after her?" Lillie asked Kiawe.
"I don't know. She has probably just gone back home." Kiawe answered as everyone went back inside until he was by himself.
"I hope. Marowak, go to volcano and make sure Salandit made it home safely." Kiawe said to his Alolan form of the Kanto native Pokemon.
"Mao!" Marowak responded as he ran off.
Kiawe went back inside to help with the injured Pokemon.
(Meanwhile, at the Wela park Volcano)
"Zzale!" The Queen screamed at her guards, questioning why her daughter was not here.
"Marow!" one of the guards pleaded, claiming she had outsmarted us.
The plead with cut off as the guard speaking was hit by a powerful dragon claw from the Queen.
She growled at the other one who was on his hands and knees, begging for mercy.
She was about to tear him apart until she was stopped by a cough.
Irritated by the cough, Salazzle turned around to find her daughters future mate leaning against a rock.
By this time, Kiawe's own Marowak had made it to the top of the volcano and was in hiding.
Monferno was claiming that the humans could have taken her.
Salazzle looked at him funnily, questioning why the trial captain would take her daughter.
"Ferno!" Monferno claimed, saying she could sell for a large amount being the daughter of the Queen Salazzle and the daughter of a totem Pokemon.
Salazzle looked over to the direction of the farm and began to growl, getting latched on to the idea before thinking about it as she was just desperate to get her daughter back.
Monferno smirked as this was just a plan to get back at that stupid cat.
"SAAAZZZ!" Salazzle cried as a horde of fire type Pokemon appeared, bowing down to the Queen.
"Sazzzl!" she hissed, claiming that the humans had taken her daughter, resulting with crowd gasping. She continued to announced they would attack when it was dark.
Kiawe's Marowak's eyes shot open as he raced off back to warn everyone.
(Later on...)
The sun was setting as everyone was finishing up with dinner.
"That was very nice Amara!" Hau complemented.
"Do you want any help with cleaning up?" Ash asked.
"No. No. It will be fine. You two need to rest for tomorrow. Beating the Queen is going to be no easy task." Amara said as she grabbed some of the finished plates.
Suddenly, the door flung open with Marowak panting in the doorway.
"What's wrong?" Kiawe asked concerned.
"Maro! Mawak!" Marowak explained.
Rotom caught everything and gasped.
"What did he say?" Lillie questioned.
"Mommy issues over there is saying Salandit never made it back home. And Salazzle was convinced by that Monferno that we took her! And that she is planning an attack soon!"
Torracat groaned.
"We have to find Salandit!" Hau shouted.
"No. Torracat does!" Ash responded as everyone gave a shocked and confused look.
"I doubt she'll listen to any of us. And if she sees me, she'll probably just run off again." Ash explained as Torracat groaned. "The rest of us will stay here and defend what we can!"
Kiawe's jaw dropped.
"The Queen has control over every Pokemon in park! We will be well out numbered!" he told the kanto native.
"Well Torracat better get moving then!" Ash answered back.
The feline groaned yet again as Ash pointed at the door.
"Hurry."
Torracat ran outside, not really interested in finding the female Pokemon, but had too otherwise the whole place will be burnt to the ground.
"Hau, the Waterium Z is our last option if it gets too serious." Ash told Hau who nodded.
"We need to get the farm Pokemon to a safe locat-" Kiawe started before a loud bang could be heard.
Everyone went outside with Hoshi clutching on to her mother and with Lillie holding tightly to both Nebby and Vulpix.
On far hill in the distance, a stamped of fire types were charging towards the farm.
"Shit… They're already here!" Kiawe cursed.
"We want to fight!" Hoshi offered.
"No! It's too dangerous for you!" Kiawe told his younger sister.
"But Trotty's ground type moves will be super effective!" Hoshi complained.
"Against a normal fire type. But we about to battle the Queen! Get inside now!" Kiawe shouted as Hoshi and her Mudbray dashed inside.
"You too Lillie." Ash told the blonde.
"I'll look after Hoshi!" she offered as she went inside as well.
Ash grunted knowing that he had an extreme weakness to fire, but it was something he was going to have to deal with.
Torracat was sniffing around on the ground, trying to pick up any scent he could.
He moaned as he would rather be sleeping then looking for this lost Pokemon that tried to play 21 questions with him.
He roared out, frustrated that the fact was she could be anywhere.
Giving up, he fell on the ground and tried to get some sleep.
"Sa…" a voice cried out
Torracat's eyes shot open as he quickly got up as he heard the voice
Torracat growled slightly but composed himself.
Following the sound of the voice, he found his target looking up at the moon on the ledge of a cliff.
Torracat felt awkward but shook it off fast.
"Torra!"
Salandit turned around and then looked away, embarrassed by what she caused before.
"Tora!" Torracat cried.
"Tor. Arra!" he explained, saying that the Pokemon of the park is planning an attack on the farm.
Salandit gasped and turned around to him
Sure, she should have returned home before her mother had realised anything happened. She felt bad for the guards as her mother has probably ripped them apart.
"Dit." Was all Salandit said, claiming she wanted to stay just a little longer.
The cats mouth dropped before he cried saying that the farm was probably being burnt down as thy spoke.
"Salan" she said once more, claiming she envied him for his freedom.
Torracat stopped complaining at that point and started to listen.
Salandit explained that she never got to do anything other Pokemon got to do because her Mother was always afraid to lose her. Never got to play, adventure, meet others. All she did was sit around and have things done for her.
Torracat blinked.
She also explained, she hated Monferno but she is being forced to mate with him because of tradition.
Torracat felt bad now.
"Torra. Otrra!" he meowed, sitting beside her, claiming that they needed to go now.
Salandit gave last look to the moon before running back towards the farm.
"Brick break Stufful! Wing attack Dartrix!" Ash called out as his Pokemon used the moves to attack.
"Aqua jet! Thundershock and Swift!" Hau commanded as well with Brionne, Pichu and Eevee using the moves.
"Bone rush Marowak! Dragon pulse Turtonator!" Kiawe shouted as he watched the moves be used.
Despite hitting a bunch of the fire types out cold, more just appeared.
Ash slammed his Z-ring as the aura filled Stufful.
"All out Pummelling!" The Kanto native roared as Stufful let loose the punches, smashing back multiple Pokemon with each blast. The small bear released the last blast, hitting back dozens of Pokemon.
"Eevee! Pichu let's try this new tactic we have been working on!" Hau said to his Pokemon.
"Vee!"
"Pi!"
"Pichu use thunder shock on Eevee! At the same time Eevee, use double team!" Hau said.
The Johto Pokemon did so as he shocked Eevee.
The tough normal type grunted in pain but let loose the copies of himself towards the waves of Pokemon.
Each acted as a bomb.
When a wild Pokemon touched the clone, an electric charge was sent out, blowing them right back. After releasing about 20 copies, nearly half of the army was out cold.
"We are doing i-"Hau started to be cut off by a load screech.
All the fire types backed off as the figure that made the screech appeared.
Salazzle was standing in front of them was an angry look.
"SAAAAZZZLAAAAALZZZZL!" She cried as the totem aura engulfed her.
"We didn't take your daught-"Ash tried to yell, only for Salazzle to release a powerful sludge bomb.
"Marowak! Protect!"
Kiawe's Marowak used protect to cover everyone from the poison move, with it creating smoke.
Marowak lowered the protect and as soon as it was, Salazzle appeared again through the smoke with a powerful dragon claw.
Ash jumped out of the way as Salazzle slammed down on the chair outside.
Dartrix tried to attack with Leafage, but Salazzle just burnt right through it and hit Dartrix clean.
Her hand glowed purple as you could see the toxics dripping off it.
She jabbed both Eevee and Pichu, knocking out Pichu and leaving Eevee serious hurt.
Hau grunted at the sight.
"Salazzle is completely cleaning the floor with us!" Ash muttered through his teeth.
"Salazzle! We would never take your daughter!" Kiawe yelled out.
He saw the tears coming out of Salazzles eyes. The tears of mother who just wants her precious child.
Flames appeared in her mouth as she unleashed a powerful flamethrower.
"Bone rush!"
"Water gun!"
"Sand attack Stufful!"
The three used the attacks to counter the powerful fire type attack.
But the flamethrower was too strong as Salazzle applied more pressure, result in a mini explosion, hurling back the trio of Pokemon. They all got up as Hau placed the Wateruim-Z in his Z-ring.
"I didn't want to leave it to this!" Hau muttered as he slammed down on the Z-crystal with blue aura surrounding Brionne.
Salazzle hissed at this and began to charge up a powerful flame burst.
"Brionne use Hy-"
"Sal!" a female Pokemon cried out.
"Torr!"
Out of the bush, appeared both Salandit and Torracat.
Both Salazzle and Brionne stopped charging the attacks, as the desperate mother ran over to her daughter to hug her, crying tears of happiness.
Torracat watched and walked back to Ash.
Salazzle stopped hugging her daughter and told her that she was worried sick.
Salandit explained the what had happened as Torracat smirked.
"Why are you so smug suddenly?" Ash questioned.
Rotom appeared in case translating was required.
"Saln!" Salandit started as her mother looked around at what she had done.
Things were on fire, Pokemon were hurt from either burns or poison, stables destroyed.
She looked guiltily and nodded at her daughter.
The Queen nodded to Ash and Hau, who still had his hand on the Z-ring in case Hydro vortex was needed.
"Salz…" Salazzle said remorsefully.
"She is saying she is deeply sorry and has decided to forfeit the totem challenge and allow you both automatic winners."
Everyone gave a shocked look as both Hoshi and Lillie joined up with the group.
"Are you sure?" Kiawe asked with Salazzle nodding at him.
Kiawe left quick and came back with two red crystals with a flame in them.
"The Firium-Z. Combo it with a fire type move and you will have access to fire type Z move Inferno Overdrive." Kiawe explained as he did the dance for the powerful attack.
Monferno appeared from the crowd and glared at Torracat.
Salandit just hissed at him.
"Andt!" Salandit cried to her mother.
"Mother please! I don't want to spend the rest of my life with him! I want to adventure! Discover new things!" Rotom translated.
Salazzle blinked at her daughter.
All her time as a mother, she had done what she could to protect her from the outside world.
Salazzle nodded at her daughter.
"Azlle…" she said softly as every Pokemon gasped.
"Rotom! What did she say!?" Ash questioned with even the pokedex stunned.
"She… She is letting Salandit go! Allowing her to explore!" Rotom explained.
Salandit licked the side of her mother's face as she was crying before running. Salandit ran in front of Ash and smiled at him.
"Do you want to come with me?" Ash questioned.
Salandit nodded.
Torracats jaw dropped yet again.
He was told just to find her, not that she was joining them.
"TORA! TORR!" Torracat complained as Ash tapped Salandit with a Pokeball.
The ball signalled the capture as Torracat wept on the ground, knowing his stalker was now with them.
"Salzz.." Salazzle said to them.
"She said take extra good care of her."
"Don't worry. Next time you see her, she will be the strongest she can! And I might be able to woo somebody into her life." Ash said back as he was attacked by Torracat in pure frustration.
Everyone laughed at the cat's outburst.
All the fire types helped clean up as they all departed back to the volcano with Salazzle being the last.
Salandit waved goodbye to her mother with her new teammates.
"So… I guess you have completed my trial." Kiawe said out loud.
"I feel we kind of cheated it by not having a totem battle." Ash said.
"I mean, a first for everything. Your next and final trial here on Akala is against a girl called Mallow by the way." Kiawe went on to tell them.
Ash and Hau paled as Lillie just slapped her forehead.
"Oh? You know her?" Kiawe asked curiously.
"You… Could say that…" Ash muttered, thinking back to that night…
"She is my cousin…" Hau confessed to the fire trial.
"I do warn you. From what I've heard she had been in a pretty shitty mood lately."
"I wonder why…" Lillie muttered through her teeth.
Authors note: I'm sorry its been awhile since the last upload. Just needed a little break.
And in that little break, I had to do two programming assignments and maths assignment lol. Going to do computing forensics so a lot of programming papers lo
The last Authors note was kind of misleading but never mind that now.
Sorry if you weren't expecting this for the Totem battle, but wanted to try something different.
But Ash does have a new Pokemon and Torracat has a stalker lol.
And about the last chapter with my little talk. I want to thank you all for the support and all, it meant a lot. It probably wasn't the wises of moves by my half going so public about it. I have talked to the guy over Pm and I have dropped it. I'm just more disappointed somebody went on to his stories and went and placed reviews telling 'him to kill himself' etc. That's not ok. I have apologized for that as I never attended for that to happen.
So until next time, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out!