ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 24 - Jungle chaos
Disclaimer: Still don't own Pokemon :/
The group of four had finally left Konikoni city for now much to Hau's relief.
Raichu was enjoying the freedom of flight now as he surfed along in the air as the four of them made their way to Mallows trial. They had to pass through Heahea city again. Lillie had the thought of going to see Burnet again, but with three boys itching to get in to a trial, she decided against bringing it up. The thing was that the sun was starting to set as it was turning night, but it didn't faze the group.
"So, this is it. The last trial here on Akala then it's Olivia." Ash announced out, still with his arm in cast and sling due to his incident with Guzma and his Golisopod.
Zach, who was travelling with them to the trial, blushed at the name of the rock specialist kahuna.
"It's been so long since we faced my Grandpa. I can't wait!" Hau shouted out.
"So, with Mallow running a grass themed trial, I'm safe to guess Torracat and Salandit is going to be the lead duo for you Ash?" Lillie asked.
Ash nodded.
"Yeah, that was the plan. Torracat should be fine since he has faced previous Trials before, but this is Salandits first one. So if it gets a bit hairy for her, I can always switch into Dartrix." Ash explained his plan to the group.
"Litten and I will be handle whatever is thrown at us!" Zach told them all as the fire type smiled at him.
"What about you Hau?" Lillie asked.
Hau groaned slightly.
"I have a theory. I reckon Mallow is going to rig my trial due to me being better than her." Hau rambled.
Everyone just sweat dropped at Hau's hatred of his cousin.
"Right… What Pokémon are you going to use?" Lillie asked again, hoping this time for an actual answer.
"Oh. Raichu of course. Probably Eevee seeming I gave him rest from the tournament." He told them all.
Half an hour passed and the group had reached the entrance of a jungle with the tradition wooden carvings surrounding the way in. Mallow was leaning against the boarding.
"Took you long enough." She said with a grin.
Ash smirked while Hau muttered something under his breathe.
"Right. You already know me but a part of official rules I have to do this." Mallow shouted out as she approached them.
"Hello all and welcome to the Lush jungle. The name is Mallow and I'm the trial captain around these parts. Better listen carefully or something inside there might bite on you heh!" Mallow said to everyone.
The three boys stood in front of her while Lillie, Nebby and Vulpix stood to the side.
"Alright boys. This is going to sound simple enough but boy oh, boy, if you mistake something inside there, you might be Pokemon chow!" she told the three of them.
Ash, Hau and Zach all nodded.
"Right. So as a part of my aspiration of being the best chef in Alola, I have designed my trial around my dreams!"
"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Your saying you based your trial around yourself?!" Hau questioned as Ash, Zach and Lillie groaned. Mallow just a displeased look on the fact she was interrupted.
"Please allow me to explain the trial first and then you may question my life goals." Mallow sniped rudely at Hau.
"Well I-"
"HAU! Shut the fuck up!" Ash hissed, annoyed as he snapped at Mallows cousin.
Hau groaned but followed as told.
"Thanks Trainer… Anywho, it is based on collecting certain rare ingredients that grow inside the jungle. I'll hand you each a list and once you find everything on there, you will mix them all up and the Totem Pokemon will appear for battle. I've instructed the jungles three strongest Pokemon to be ready when needed. Any questions?" Mallow explained.
Hau put up his hand.
"No questions! Excellent!" Mallow said as she completely ignored Hau. He wanted to say something but decided on not doing so.
"Well, you three can start when you're ready. If you leave the jungle for any reason, the trial will restart." Mallow told them. She then turned to Lillie. "Lillie can help me in setting up the cooking station."
Lillie didn't really want to hang around with Mallow, but it appeared she had very little choice.
"Oh okay." She said.
"Well what are you three waiting for?" Mallow said as she pointed at the entrance.
The boys entered and found themselves in a dense jungle environment.
"Right. I gotta get 4 oran berries, a miracle seed and some coca beans. What about you guys?" Ash announced.
"A few pecha berries, a miracle seed and wild mushrooms." Hau told them.
"Yeah, I got oran berries, pecha berries and coconuts." Zach responded. "Well! Best of luck!" he said before walking off to find the items.
Hau and Ash bumped fists before walking off as well.
Little did they know that they were be watched by a pair of emotionless black eyes.
"Notic…" the pokemon laughed to itself.
Ash had Torracat and Salandit out as planned. However, Salandit was following Torracats every move, clearly annoying the cat.
Ash found it amusing. He then sighed.
"Why cant I just burn down the whole jungle to flush out the totem." He said out loud.
"Torrr…" Torracat grumbled. He looked up and saw a bush with blue berries growing off it. "TOR!"
Ash looked down at his Pokemon as the fire starter nodded at a bush off to the left of them.
"An oran berry bush!" Ash grinned, knowing that this was going to be a piece of piss.
He walked towards it only to be ambushed by a stun spore attack. He managed to cover his face in time but the attack still stung.
Growling, he looked at his attacker which turned out to be three Paras.
"Yeah, this did feel too easy. Torracat, flamethrower! Salandit, Ember!" Ash commanded.
Salandit spewed out the balls of fire while Torracat unleashed the beam of fire. Each Paras widened their eyes as the attack was a clean hit. The flames subsided fast and the three-bug grass type were all out cold.
Ash quickly rushed over and collect the oran berries needed and set off to find the next ingredient.
Hau meanwhile, was looking for the pecha berries. He knew they were used to cure poison, but they can also be a delicious snack too.
Raichu was still flying around on his tail, even disturbing some pokemon that lived in the trees.
"Where would pecha berries grow? Hey Raichu! Use your psychic powers to find the berries!" Hau called out to his electric psychic type.
"Chu?" he replied confused.
Hau groaned. He reopened his eyes to find a Pikipek and a Trumbeak feeding a pecha berry.
"Raichu, carefully ask them where they got those berries!" Hau told Raichu.
He flew over. The two birds were startled at first but soon relaxed as Raichu waved at them friendly.
"Chu! Rac!" Raichu asked the duo.
The birds looked at each other before turning back.
"Bea! Trum!" Trumbeak told the Alolan form.
Raichu travelled back over to Hau and pointed to the right of them.
Hau nodded as they travelled through the bush which lead them straight to a pecha berry bush.
"Alrigh-!" Hau started only to have a coconut thrown at his head.
Raichu flew down to check if he was ok. Hau rubbed his head and reached for Eevee's Pokémon, releasing the evolutions Pokemon.
"Guys I'm fin- Raichu! Watch out!" Hau cried.
The electric type dodge out of the way as another coconut flew right at them.
Hau, Eevee and Raichu look up to find a Passimian in the top of the coconut tree.
Hau growled. He knew Passimian was a fighting type due to his grandfather having one. So Eevee was out of the question.
Raichu however…
"Come on Passimian! Just let us have like 2 or 3!" Hau called out as the teamwork Pokémon roared at him. Using fling, the wild Pokémon flung another coconut at the trio.
"Grr! Raichu use Psychic and fling it back at him!" Hau yelled.
Raichu's eyes glowed purple as did the coconut, which was flung back at Passimian at an even faster speed. The coconut smashed on impact as the fighting type screeched in pain.
"Thunderbolt!"
Raichu charged up and let loose the electric based move as Passimian was sent flying out of the tree. Hau waited a minute to make sure it was all over. Once that passed, he walked over and got the Pecha berries.
"Right one down, two more to go."
Zach was elsewhere and was in the middle of battle with group of Phantump. He had Litten and his Dratini out.
The group of ghost type Pokémon fired a shadow ball each, heading straight at Zach.
"Dratini protect! Litten, once the protect is down, use flame burst!" Zach told his two Pokémon.
Dratini made the barrier as each shadow ball hit it and was destroyed.
Litten did as told released the flame burst with it hitting most of the Phantump, however, two managed to withstand the attack.
"Dragon rage!"
Dratini glowed a purplish blue and concentrated it into a beam which knocked out the remaining two.
"Good job team." Zach said as he collected the berries needed.
He stopped for a second as his Pokemon looked at him.
"Tten?" Litten meowed.
"It's nothing. It just felt like something was watching us…" Zach muttered. "We still need to get coconuts. Let's get a move on."
Hidden away in the bushes, were two little mushroom like Pokemon with the shrooms glowing bright colours as they hopped away.
At the start, Lillie was assisting Mallow set up three cooking stations, one for each of the trial goers.
"How was my speech before?" Mallow asked the blonde.
"Uh, it was good. It's just that Lana and Kiawe just explained theirs and got on with it…" Lillie confessed. "So what totem Pokemon is lined to face Ash, Hau and Zach?"
"Depends on who gets here first. First will get the strongest totem and last will get the weakest." Mallow told her.
Lillie raised an eyebrow as it did not really answer her question.
"Ok… Can you tell me what those Pokemon are?" she asked.
"First will battle a Lurantis, the strongest in the jungle. Second gets a Tsareena to battle and third will face a Parasect." Mallow told her.
Lillie had an awkward feeling about this place, as if she was being watched.
"Hey? Are you getting the feeling your being watched?" she asked nervously.
"Always. Young beautiful women with many amazing features!" Mallow laughed, not taking it serious.
"Mallow!"
"Ugh. No. If anything, probably just a Pokemon." Mallow told her.
The same Pokemon from early before was staring at them without the two girls noticing. It didn't even break its stare for a blink.
"Salandit! Smog!" Ash yelled out as the fire lizard released the toxic gas, consuming the Comfey that was protecting cocoa beans he needed.
The pure fairy type fled as Ash smirked and snatched the cocoa beans as needed. Salandit grinned as well, knowing she won the battle in front of Torracat, who didn't even watch the battle.
"Right. We just need the miracle seed and then it is totem time!" Ash told his two aces for this trial.
"Sal!"
"Tor!"
Ash turned around to find a wild Carnivine flung into a tree. Ash blinked as he was stunned at what he just saw.
"Bingo! Got it Eevee!" Hau shouted as Ash turned to the sound of his traveling companions voice.
"Hau?" Ash called out.
"Oh? Hey Ash! Howzit going for you?" the Melemele native asked.
"Just need the miracle seed." Ash told him.
"Actually, that is the same as me." Hau confessed. Hau then gave a puzzled look.
"Hey, have you felt anything like creepy about this place?" Hau asked.
"Hau. I've dealt with fucking legendary Pokemon tearing each other apart or trying to destroy the god damn world. In other words, no." Ash said with a heavy load of sarcasm.
"Huh okay…"
"Come on. We might as well find that dumb seed together." Ash said as Torracat walked over to Ash.
"R-right…"
While passing through the bush again, the same small mushroom Pokemon stared at the duo, with the mushroom glowing crazy colours.
"Lull…"
Elsewhere in the jungle, the same Pokemon that was watching Zach responded.
"Lull…"
The Pokemon watching Lillie and Mallow eyes glowed.
"Notic…"
Lillie froze on the spot as she turned to the sound of the voice. The bush near her was rustling.
"Pew?" Nebby cried in the bag.
Lillie gulped as a Pokemon with a large pink mushroom on its thin white head appeared out of the bush. Its face was emotionless as its eyes were black and kept the same smile. It had pink like pants that merged to its legless feet. Its arms were thin with even thinner fingers.
Lillie didn't even get a chance to move as the Pokemon created a green spore like ball and blew it all over Lillie.
"AHHHH!" Lillie screamed as she fell to the ground, falling asleep.
"Lillie?!" Mallow yelled turning to find the blonde on the ground and the Pokemon standing over her.
"Lull…"
Mallow turned around to find 5 of the same Pokemon, small mushroom like beings use spore on her as she also fell asleep.
"Siino!" the larger Pokemon yelled as more and more of the smaller ones appeared, went around the girls and took them away with Nebby thrashing around in the bag.
"PEW! PEW! PEEEEWWWW!"
Zach who was close to the start of the trial still looking for the ingredients needed heard both Lillie scream and Nebby cry.
"What the?" he muttered as more of the mushroom Pokemon appeared and used spore on Litten and Dratini as both fell asleep.
"Litten! Dratini!" he yelled as the cat and the dragon were fast asleep.
Zach reached for Lucarios pokeball but he too was hit by an onslaught of the spore attack as he conceded to the same fate as Lillie, Mallow and his Pokemon.
Further in the jungle, Ash and Hau were still walking searching for the miracle seed they needed.
"Ugh. No sign of it at all…" Ash moaned. He just wants to battle the totem already.
"Maybe if we split up again we could find it and then get one of our Pokemon to send like a signal or something?" Hau suggested.
"Yeah sure whatever." Ash muttered as he scavenged around in a bush looking for the miracle seed as Hau wandered off again.
It was only a few minutes after wandering off from Ash that Hau accidently stood on a small Pokemon.
"LUL!" the Pokemon cried.
"Huh?" Hau mumbled to himself as the Pokemon he stood on used spore on Hau with the boy falling backwards on the ground. More of the same Pokemon like before appeared and got under Hau and carried him away.
Ash, Torracat and Salandit were in a bit more of an open area.
"This is ridiculous…" he moaned about the task. Thinking it was going to be as simple as it sounded.
Salandit saw some berries on the ground and decided to snack on them. As she was eating them, she noticed a greenish seed poking out of the ground.
"Landi!" she cried out as Ash and Torracat turned to her. Ash grinned at what she had found.
"Bingo." He shouted as he picked the miracle seed out of the ground.
"That is everything!" Ash announced as he followed the path back to the start.
About 15 minutes after finding the seed, Ash and his Pokemon had his way back to the start to find the cooking stations set up but neither Lillie or Mallow were her. Both Hau and Zach were nowhere to be found either.
Ash had an uneasy feeling in his stomach about this but decided he was over thinking it all.
"They all have Pokemon Ash… They will be fine." He muttered to himself. "Torracat, start a fire underneath the pot."
The cat nodded and made a small fire as Ash poured in the provided water to the pot. While the water was boiling, he mashed up the oran berries into a pulp, chopped up the miracle seed and grinded the cocoa beans in a bowl. The instructions Mallow left was to then pour all the ingredients into the boiling water then let it sit for 5 minutes stir and repeat. He did so and now had to wait.
Ash had a bad feeling in his stomach. He knew Lillie disliked Mallow so for both her and Mallow to be missing was concern. Not to mention Hau or Zach were yet to show up either. Sure, Hau can be childish, but he is not a bad trainer and can certainly stand up for himself. Zach has a Lucario and Dratini to protect him.
"TOR! TOR!" Torracat shouted.
Ash broke out of his thought and realised it was well past 5 minutes. He rushed over and stirred the pot, removing any bits stuck to the bottom. The pot gave off a sweet aroma as the steam it was releasing was a clear pink.
"Ugh… My head…" Lillie moaned. She gave a look of shock as she could not move her arms and the room she was in was pitch black. Her eye widened as it brought back the memories
"Mother! Please! I didn't do it!" A young Lillie whaled with tears pouring out as her hands were bounded behind her back in a barren room with nothing in it but her and the chair she was on.
"AHHH!" she screamed.
"Lillie! Calm down!" Mallow hissed.
"Ma-Mallow?" she muttered. She didn't like her, but she'll let this one slide.
"Wh-where are we?" Lillie questioned.
"No clue. But judging by the rocky wall that is piercing into my back, I'd say we are in a cave." Mallow explained.
Lillie looked down on what was concealing her. She was wrapped around in vines that were giving a yellow glow.
"Do you remember anything?" Mallow asked.
Lillie shook her head. But then something hit her.
"NEBBY!" she panicked, knowing that the her Pokemon was not with her.
"What?" Mallow said confused.
"We have to find Nebby!"
"LILLIE! WAS THAT YOU?" Hau shouted out.
"HAU!" Lillie shouted back relieved, for once happy the Melemele native was here.
"I'm here too!" Zach yelled out somewhere else in the cave.
"Looks like we are all here but Ash…" Mallow muttered. "I don't know how long we were out cold for but he should have finished the trial by now or at least be at the totem."
Lillie bit her lip, concerned where Nebby was and praying Ash will come and save them all.
"Morelull…" a Pokemon cried out.
"YOU HEAR THAT!?" Hau shouted.
"Morelull. Morelull. Morelull…" the Pokemon chanted. The mushrooms on their heads glowed and revealed their kidnappers.
Though Lillie couldn't see it, Mallow paled in fear.
"I know where we are! This is not good!" Mallow freaked.
"W-what?!" Lillie panicked.
"That is Morelull, the illuminating Pokemon. Don't let their cute and friendly appearance fool you! They are very dangerous! Known for only moving at night, they attack when their foe is asleep, whether it is naturally or forced. They then take the foe to their leaders, Shiinotic, who will drain the energy out of them till there is nothing left!" Mallow explained.
Lillie started to form tears in her eyes.
"ASH! PLEASE SAVE US!" she screamed.
"WHERE IS THIS DAMN TOTEM!" Ash roared.
It had been 20 minutes now, but the Totem Pokemon was nowhere to be seen.
He decided to let Dartrix and Stufful out for some fresh air. Dartrix was practising his aim by throwing his razor-sharp quills at a tree while Stufful ran around just for the fun of it. While running around, he heard a faint cry. The bear wandered over to the source to find a bag.
"Ful!" Stufful cried. Ash heard his Pokemon cry out, so he walked on over to find a very familiar bag.
"Shit…" he muttered as he unzipped the bag to find Nebby zoom out and into Ash's shirt, shriving in fear.
"PEW! PEW! PEW! PEEEEEW!" Nebby whaled.
"Nebby! Calm do-"Ash started only to hear a loud roar. He turned around to find a large pink and white Pokemon charge towards him. It had large pink eyes with two green antennas stick out and with two pink ones behind them. It had sickle like hands with its legs almost appearing like baggy pants as they were stripped with pink and white.
"LUURRRA!" the Pokemon shouted as the orange aura formed around it.
"Excellent fucking timing! Rotom!"
"On it!" Rotom shouted.
"Lurantis, the bloom sickle Pokemon. It fires beams of concentrated light from its sickle like hands, with the beam powerful enough to pierce right through thick metal plates. Those that look after a Lurantis must go through a heavy amount of work to make sure this Pokemon maintains its bright pink colouring. This is the evolved form of Fomantis."
The totem Pokémon's arms glowed green as it charged right at Torracat.
"Grr! Torracat, when it gets close, clamp down on its arm with fire fang!" Ash commanded.
As Lurantis got close enough, Torracat smirked a devious grin as his mouth was consumed with fire, latching down on the totem Pokemon arm. Lurantis thrashed round, managing to smack off Torracat as the feline roared at the pure grass type.
"Lurtis!" Lurantis cried out.
"Be on guard Torracat!"
A Castform appeared out of the trees with a smile and used sunny day.
"Sunny day? But that will just boost Torracats fire moves. What is it playing at?" Ash grumbled in his mind as Lurantis stared right at him. Castform changed into its sunny form.
"Lits!" Lurantis cried as it made a ball of green energy before firing it in the air, with a beam firing out just like Rotom said. It slammed it down as it blasted towards Torracat, gaining a clean. The beam and Torracat ended up slamming into Ash's cooking station with the thing being teared about.
"Shit… What was that move?"
"Solar blade. A move only Lurantis can use. It's the physical version of solarbeam ok? And just like solarbeam, if a move like sunny day or an ability along those lines brings out the sun, the move only takes one turn." Rotom explained.
"To-Tora!" Torracat groaned slightly, getting out of the wreak that was the cooking station.
"Grr, Torracat took some damage off of that. I've got a plan but it's risky…" Ash thought again to himself.
"Torracat, dodge Lurantis's next move, but use bite as harder a you can on Castform, get rid of it!" Ash told his Pokemon.
The cat nodded as Lurantis charged at him, slashing down but Torracat managed to move in time, just with the slash trimming a few hairs. Lurantis's arm was now wedged into the ground as it tried to pull it out. Torracat rushed over to Castform who fired a weather ball at Torracat. The cat used fire fang and simple caught the ball in his mouth and crunched down it. He jumped up and wedged his mouth on to Castform, shaking him around before ultimately throwing him into a rock out cold.
During this, Lurantis managed to free itself from the ground as the sunlight began to fade away.
"Torracat, here now!" Ash called as his Pokemon rushed back over.
"With the sunlight gone, that gives us time to do this!" Ash shouted as he pressed his Z-ring. The red aura fused with Torracat who gave a smug smirk, showing his full set of teeth.
Lurantis began to charge up a solar blade seeming the sunlight was gone.
"Inferno overdrive!" Ash shouted as fire began to form a large, unstable ball in front of Torracat. As the ball got bigger, Torracat shakily stood on his two back legs. He wobbled around but managed to gain a steady composure, revealing the same grin as before.
"RELEASE!"
"TOR!"
The ball of fire was fired at Lurantis as the totem Pokemon unleashed its attack. But this time, the fire type Z-move pierced right through the Solar blade as Lurantis was consumed in a giant, explosion. Ash held on to his hat knowing their was no way it survived. Dartrix, Stufful, Salandit and Nebby all hid behind the other cooking stations that weren't destroyed while Torracat admired his work with a sly grin.
The cave that everyone else was in rumbled around as the force of the explosion effected most of the jungle.
"Wh-whats happening?!" Lillie panicked.
"I don't know!" Mallow panicked as well, as rocks rustled off the roof.
The Morelull all panicked as well.
Once the explosion was over, Lurantis was on the ground with its body being now completely burnt to a crisp.
"Hm. I think that is game. Good job Torracat." Ash said as the cat purred.
Ash turned to Nebby.
"Nebby, what happened?" Ash asked Lillies Pokemon.
"PEW!"
Dartrix noticed something behind the duo as he fired one of his quills at the being, getting a direct hit.
"LUL!" the Pokemon said in pain, being flung back.
"Rotom."
"Morelull, the illuminating Pokemon. It flicks spores wherever it goes, moving from tree to tree to suck out the energy of it. If anyone sees it glowing light, they will fall into a deep sleep."
Ash saw it was glowing and quickly turned away.
"Dartrix! Leafage!"
The bird fired the grass attack at Morelull as the mushroom like Pokemon was knocked out of the ground and out cold.
Ash turned back and saw little foot prints coming from the way Morelull came from, the same direction where Lillies bag was lying. Ash grabbed his bag and opened it.
"Nebby, get in the bag now." Ash told the Pokemon as he flew inside without argument. "Let's go."
Ash was sprinting as he soon found himself outside a pitch-black cave that lead downwards.
"Torracat use ember as a torch." Ash said as he and his Pokemon jumped down. Little did they know, a Morelull was hidden away to the side and began to glow.
All the Morelull's lined up as the Lillie, Hau, Mallow and Zach could see this due to the faint glow. Suddenly a larger glow started to brighten up the whole room, with enough light to let Lillie and Mallow see each other.
"A Shiinotic!" Mallow cried as the leader of the Morelull appeared.
"Notic. Notic. Notic" Shiinotic laughed as it slowly approached Lillie with the girl crying. Shiinotic began to glow as he got closer and closer
"FLAMETHROWER!"
A red glow got brighter and brighter as a beam of fire appeared, burning most of the Morelull away. Shiinotic managed to bring up a protect just in time.
"ASH!" Lillie cried tears of joy.
"Salandit smog!" Ash shouted as the lizard jumped up and released the toxic cloud. A lot of the still conscious Morelull were consumed in the cloud. Once faded, they all gave looks of pain with purple faces.
"Dartrix, uses your quills to cut Lillie down! Stufful, flail on any remaining Morelull!"
Dartrix threw the quills which sliced right through the glowing vines as Lillie fell to the ground. Stufful flailed his arms around, smashing Morelulls left, right and centre.
While the bear was doing this, Dartrix was cutting down Mallow and Torracat decided to chew on some Morelull for the hell of it.
Lillie got up with her dress all dirty as well as her arms.
"NOTIC!" Shiinotic roared, glaring at the blonde. Lillie back up against the wall as Shiinotic began to charge a moonblast.
Ash's eyes widened as he ran over as fast as he good.
"NOTIC! NOTIC! NOTIC!" Shiinotic roared as it let go of the fairy type attack.
Lillie closed her eyes in fear only to feel someone slide in front of her. Ash grabbed on to Lillie with his back getting the full force of the moonblast.
"GARH!" Ash cried in pain.
Once Shiinotic stopped the attack, Ash fell to the ground with Lillie rushing to his side.
"Ash! No, no, no, no! ASH!" she panicked as he was panting heavily.
"Ash!" Mallow shouted.
Torracat saw this and froze. He heard Shiinotic laugh as it walked to Ash.
"TORRA!" Torracat roared as he rushed over to assault the illuminating Pokemon. He used fire fang on Shiinotics arm, biting down so hard he straight through the arms. The grass fairy type yelped as it tried to get rid of Torracat, but the starter was too strong as he lifted Shiinotic up with his mouth and slammed him into a rock, shattering it. He let go and used a point-blank flamethrower on the Pokemon. Stopping only to bite on its neck.
"T-TORRACAT! S-STOP!" Ash shouted.
The cat turned around to find Ash conscious, hurt but conscious. He stopped assaulting Shiinotic and rushed over to Ash to lick his face.
"I'm fin-fine. Just a scratch…" Ash muttered in pain. Lillie tore off the shirt to see his skin had been burnt and was glowing pink from the attack.
"Aw. I lik-liked thi-this shirt…" Ash moaned.
The two girls helped him up as Dartrix arrived with Hau and Zach.
"Holy shit! Ash what happened?" Zach shouted out.
"Again just scratch…" he joked.
Thanks to Raichu's psychic powers, he lifted the injured Ash up to the surface. Ash rested with bandage wrapped around him while Hau and Zach fought their totems. On the way back, Mallow explained Morelull and Shiinotic were responsibly for most of the disappearances in the jungle as they took either tourist or other Pokemon to feed on their energy. While the fights were occurring, Lillie was elsewhere.
After Hau and Zach finished, Mallow handed the three of them a green crystal.
"Well, congratz. You've completed the trial of Mallow. That right there is the Grassium-z, giving you access to the Z-move, Bloom doom!" Mallow explained. "All that is left is Olivia."
Zach blushed at the sound of the rock beauty's name, while Ash and Hau both gave determined looks.
"Uh, Ash?" Lillie called out.
"What is it Lillie?"
"I'm not that great at mending clothes but… I tried!" Lillie said, presenting Ash with his shirt charred up, but sewed up back together. Ash grinned.
"Thanks Lillie!" Ash said, wincing however.
Lillie blushed. She felt something different inside of her, something she never felt before.
"No! Thank you for saving me earlier!" she chirped back.
Mallow saw this and gave a sly smirk.
"I think we should get to pokecentre and get that back of yours looked at." Hau suggested to Ash.
"Right, thanks for everything Mallow." Ash said to the green haired girl.
She leant forward and gave him a quick peck on the cheek of the kanto born.
"Any time cutie!" she said winking at him. Ash burnt up as Lillie gave a cross look.
Ash, Zach and Lillie were in front as Hau looked in his bag for a malasada.
"Hau. Do me a favour and keep an eye on those two." Mallow asked her cousin.
"Uh why?" he asked confused.
"Just do it." She said as she walked the other way to Konikoni city.
Authors note: 24 is here woo! So Ash and Hau now have done all the trials in Akala Island. All that remains is Olivia then what for our heroes?
And what was that strange flashback that Lillie had?
Now, many are asking when the traitors are coming back. After each Kahuna battle, will be a traitor chapter. The one after Olivia lets say you'll all be pleased. When the second half hits THEN they will be main characters, trust me.
So yeah, probs a filler chapter in between now and VS Olivia and yeah.
So as always, review, suggest or PM me! Spectre out!