ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 38 - Falling
Dislcaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
The trio were on the path to the sixth trial Ash and Hau had to complete.
Lillie was using the map she had to direct them to the location.
Turtwig was snoring away in the bag on Hau's back who was groaning due to the weight.
Both Kirlia's were out talking with one another as Vulpix was next to them.
"Alright… As we know already, the trial Captain is a girl called Mina. She is Guzma's younger sister and we were told to avoid that topic." Ash stated as the other two nodded.
"When I had a look before, I believe the main typing on the trial is fairy so Hakamo-o is no good for Hau." Lillie explained.
"Shit. That placed Decidueye in a rough spot as well and Bewear." Ash realized.
"I mean you still have Salandit and can always give Kirlia a go?" Hau mentioned.
"Or attempt to control Torracat…" Lillie added.
"Do you know anything else about the trial?" Ash asked as the blonde shook her head.
"According to my research, she used to just give the Z-crystal away but since the league is being built, she has been forced to make a trial else she would lose her position as a captain." Lillie explained.
"Ouch." Hau commented on the topic as Turtwig snored louder.
"We shouldn't be too far away in fact. I recognise that boulder on the pictures I saw." Lillie told the duo.
They continued to follow the path as colourful flower beds appeared on each side of the path, ranging from red to yellow to blue to pink and so on.
It wasn't long till a large tree appeared in sight with a girl underneath it.
She was white with long blonde hair however in her hair was paint splatter. She had paint over her face as well on her baggy top which slouched on one shoulder, showing the top of a purple bra strap. She wore jeans that were cut up and old, roughed up shoes. Next to her was a bag with art supplies and a Ribombee.
She was currently sketching away on a note pad as the group approached her.
"Is that her?" Hau muttered to Ash.
"I don't know…" Ash muttered back.
"Um? Hi?" Lillie said as the three of them were now a meter or two away.
The young women took no notice and continued to sketch away.
Lillie blinked her eyes rapidly as she realized that she was being ignored.
Lillie turned to the two boys.
"It's your trial. You two can sort it out." Lillie told them as Ash stepped forwards.
"Hey there?" Ash said but the girl still showed no signs of acknowledgment.
Then Hau came up with an idea.
"Hey? You Guzma's sis?" Hau blurted out as the girl stopped drawing.
"HAU!" Both Ash and Lillie hissed at the Melemele island native.
"What? It got her attention!" Hau stated as he stuck his hand forwards. Turtwig noticed this and jumped out of the bag and bit down on his hand as the boy screamed in pain.
"This is going to be a long day…" Lillie groaned.
"Amen to that…" Ash agreed.
"Oh, hello there." The girl muttered as she stood up. "Sorry, I get really into drawing sometimes I just block everything out around me."
"That's fine. My name is –" Ash started to be cut off.
"Ash and the one that is screaming is Hau? So that means you must be Lillie? Correct?" the girl questioned.
"Uh. Yeah, how you'd know that?" Ash stuttered as Hau walked over in pain.
The girl laughed slightly.
"I had to attend a trial captain meeting and Sophocles told me you were on your way. I guess I should formally introduce myself but you already know who I am. The name is Mina, the fairy type captain here on the 'lovely' Ula'Ula Island!" Mina explained.
"Lovely?" Lillie questioned.
"We get it easy here on Ula'Ula. The Kahuna here could care less if the island was on fire so that's why I use to just hand out my Z-crystal till that had to be changed!" Mina said to them.
"You mean Acerola's uncle?" Lillie questioned as the blonde nodded.
"Yeah and now that there is going to be a Pokemon league, I have to have an actual trial now." Mina muttered as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Which is?" Ash asked eagerly to get started.
"I think art is one of the most powerful ways to truly express yourself however… I uh, am running out of paint supplies and I know you can mash up the flowers in the valley here to create paint. So! Your trial is to collect me a red, yellow and blue flower!" Mina told them.
Ash and Hau looked at each unconvinced.
"Um, not to be anymore rude than what I was before but did you just make that up on the spot?" Hau asked the captain.
"Yeah, I thought it was a pretty good idea." Mina told them.
"I think I'll just stay here with Mina." Lillie told Ash directly.
"Okay." Ash responded back as the two-boy walked off to collect the flowers.
"Soooo… What's your deal with him?" Mina asked the light blonde-haired girl who let both Vulpix and Kirlia out and released Nebby from the bag.
"Uh… What do you mean?" Lillie said confused.
"The look you gave him was like when a rich person spots a piece of art they really want to buy." Mina explained as Lillie's face erupted red.
"Um… Again. What do you mean?" Lillie said more shakily this time.
"Don't worry about it." Mina said as she picked up her sketch pad and began to draw again.
"What about you then?" Lillie asked.
"Been a loner pretty much for the last 8 years. No one at school ever talked to me except for Ilima." Mina explained.
"Why is that?" Lillie asked.
"What do you think?"
Lillie realized she meant Guzma.
"My father was ex-military and everyone knew what he was like in the sporting fields as he coached the school's senior baseball and football team. When word got out that Guzma and his Golisopod put him into a near coma, everyone was afraid of me. All afraid that I would get Guzma or something." Mina explained as she drew on the paper as her Ribombee played with Lillie's Pokemon.
Lillie felt for the girl.
"I'm sorry." Lillie said to her.
"Yeah, my brother sure is a really piece of art. Hmm…" Mina started only to sound concerned at the end.
And Lillie picked up on the concerned tone in her voice.
"What's wrong?" Lillie asked.
"I probably showed have warned them about the old guy that lives in the valley." Mina pondered.
"Old guy?" Lillie muttered.
"Eh. Some guy that showed up one day and just started living there. Always flipping a coin or something and muttering something about falling but eh. I'm sure they'll be fine." Mina assured.
"Iron tail!" Hau commanded as Raichu flew towards the wild Granbull and slammed the fairy Pokemon in the head.
The large dog like Pokemon growled at the pair as it scurried off.
Elsewhere, Ash and Salandit was fighting Florges as the lizard spewed the toxic substances on to the Kalos native Pokemon.
Florges tried to fight back with a disarming voice but Salandit had it covered as she created a wall of fire. The heat of the flames was too intense for Florges as the garden Pokemon fled as well.
"That was easy." Hau commented.
"Remember, she made the trial up on the spot." Ash told Hau as they grabbed the yellow flower, having both already collecting the red one.
"So just blue then we are done?" Hau questioned with Ash nodding.
Little did they know, a man was watching and listening to them as he flipped a coin up and down, over and over again to please his satisfaction.
"Weird how she and Guzma are related. Like total opposites." Ash claimed, thinking about the destructive attitude to Guzma and then to the chilled attitude of Mina.
"You know? It's rude to talk about somebody behind their back." A voice called out as a pale man emerged from the shadows. He wore a black and white yukata suit with a black scarf around his neck. He had black hair that spiked back with tinges of white in them as he had black bags under his eyes.
"And you are?" Ash asked defensively as Salandit and Raichu got into an attacking stance just in case.
"Calm the jets their kiddos and allow uncle Grimsley here introduce himself." The man known as Grimsley told them. "Heh, that's all I can actually tell you to be truthful."
Ash and Hau looked at each other awkwardly.
"Okay. Um, we are kind of busy and-"
"Common kid. Take a risk by playing a game with this old washed up man." Grimsley talked. "See this coin? I'ma flip it and just guess what side it lands on. Simple!"
"I don't like the vibes on this guy…" Hau muttered to Ash.
But the Kanto born noticed what was on the wrist of Grimsley.
"You have a mega ring?" Ash questioned.
"Oho? This old thing?"
"Alright. I'll play your little game." Ash told him as Grimsley flipped the coin and snatched it with a smirk on his face.
"Heads or tails?"
Ash gulped as he looked at where the covered coin was only to notice the Pokemon that was in the tree above
"Neither."
Grimsley smiled.
"What?" Hau questioned.
"Astonishing… There are bad ways to win- and good ways to lose. What's interesting and troubling is that it's not always clear which is which. A flipped coin doesn't always land heads or tails. Sometimes it may never land at all..." Grimsley laughed as he revealed the coin wasn't on his hand at all.
"What?" Hau questioned further.
"Up in the tree. The Murkrow." Ash told Hau as he saw the dark flying type in tree.
"Congrazt kid. You out smarted uncle Grimsley." He clapped.
"I want a battle." Ash asked.
"Now we are talking…" Grimsley said as he licked his lips. "I don't remember much. One day woke up on a beach and have been a natural at battling. How does a double battle sound? You two are allowed two Pokemon each and I'm allowed 3?"
Ash and Hau stood further away as Ash returned Salandit and brought out Raichu. Grimsley smirked as he revealed he owned a Bisharp and a Scrafty.
Hau grunted as this put Raichu as a bit of a disadvantage with dark types being completely immune to psychic attacks.
"You may have the first move!" Grimsley announced.
"Nasty plot Raichu!"
"Toxic on them both!" Ash shouted.
Grimsley smirked.
"Forget about Steel's resistance bucko?"
But to Grimsley's surprise, Bisharp was feeling the full effects of the move.
Ash smirked this time as Grimsley gave a confused look.
"Salandit's ability allows her to poison Pokemon that can't normally be poisoned! Flame burst!" Ash announced as Salandit spewed the fire up.
"Hmph! In that case then! Bisharp! Night slash on the Raichu and Scrafty, rock tomb on the Salandit!" Grimsley shouted, giving his Pokemon their first commands of the battle.
And they did not disappoint.
Despite both suffering from the pain of the toxic, they ran like it was nothing as Bisharp slashed away at Raichu with the electric psychic type barely dodging while Salandit had to worry about the onslaught of rocks being thrown at her.
"Dragon rage!"
Salandit roared as the violet light appeared and smashed right into Scrafty with the rocks stopping.
However, Raichu wasn't so lucky as he was being slashed at left, right and center as a night slash finally landed with the mouse yelping in pain, falling to the ground as Bisharp stood over him, wincing from the toxic slowly burning away at him.
Hau grunted.
"Thunderbolt!" Hau shouted as Raichu gave the dark steel type a powerful shock as he felt his legs start to shake.
Bisharp gave one more slash at Raichu was the latter falling unconscious.
"Flamethrower!"
Scrafty wobbled up from the ground to be welcomed by the flamethrower Salandit had fired at his way with the hoodlum Pokemon falling to both the ongoing strengthen toxic and then to sheer power of flamethrower.
Bisharp moved back to in front of Grimsley as did Salandit with Ash.
"Impressive. Handling this though is going to be more than what you've bargained for however! Absol go!"
The disaster Pokemon appeared with a collar around its neck as Ash carefully examined it to see out what it was.
And to his horror is was what he thought it was.
"I also had this when I woke up. Hpmh, I have tried with wild Pokemon but it's time for a step further!" Grimsley explained as the little crystal ball he had released the energies of the crystal which joined with the collar on Absol's neck, resulting in Mega Absol.
"SOL!" Mega Absol roared.
Both the boys noticed the common trend and that of being he only used dark type Pokemon.
"Brionne, let's go!" Hau said as the pop star Pokemon appeared.
"Absol double team!" Grimsley shouted as Absol copied itself.
"Guillotine Bisharp on the Salandit! Send the copies to distract!" Grimsley yelled.
The Absol copies ran wild, weaving back and forwards.
"Be on your best watch!" Ash said to his Pokemon as Salandit scanned the copies but no sign of the one she was more afraid of.
"Aqua jet to get rid of the copies and crash into Bisharp!"
Brionne covered herself in water and zoomed through the dozen's fake Absol's. But by the time the Aqua Jet got rid of about 50 percent of the copies, Bisharp appeared out of the flood of clones and slashed right through Salandit with the lizard dropping backwards.
Ash returned the lizard as he heard a yelp as Brionne had just hit Bisharp directly with the Unovan Pokemon out cold.
"Hmm, interesting. Now it really is a 2 vs 1 heh." Grimsley laughed.
Ash pulled out a pokeball and sighed. Hau saw this and recognised the ball.
"Are you sure that's safe!?" Hau expressed with concern as Ash threw the ball into the air.
Out came Torracat who glared up at his trainer before glaring at the mega evolved Hoenn native. He gave a low and powerful meow.
"Now Absol! Use shadow ball!"
"Disarming voice!"
Ash gave no command to Torracat as he knew he would just be ignored as the cat rushed forwards.
"You didn't command him?" Hau questioned as he saw the look on Ash's face.
"I just want to test something…" Ash told Hau as Torracat used fire fang without command. Grimsley noticed as well and shook it off.
The disarming voice Brionne let out cancelled out the shadow ball as Torracat latched down with fire fang. Absol grunted and eventually shook him off and then slammed Torracat under the chin with shadow claw.
"Torracat!" Ash yelled extremely loud as the fire type looked back for a change but quickly turned back to see Absol charging at him with a take down.
"Dodge it!" Ash called as Torracat did it.
Absol redirected his attention to Brionne and used bite, fitting the water type perfectly in his mouth.
"Br-Brionne!" Hau muttered. "Ash! Help!"
Ash sighed.
"Hau. You are going to have to trust me on this…" Ash muttered as the Melemele native gave a concerned look but eventually nodded in agreement.
"Torracat!" Ash yelled out again but this time ignored. "Help Brionne!"
Torracat had other things on his mind as he used take-down on Absol's side.
Brionne landed on the ground as Torracat proceeded to bite on the same spot but involved shaking her around.
"BRIONNE! AS-"Hau yelled as he watched his starter be beat up by Ash's.
"Trust me on this Hau!" Ash hissed as Hau stopped.
Torracat grew bored of the now fainted Brionne and flung her to the ground as he licked his paws. But in the process, forgot about Absol completely.
"Razor wind!"
Sharp wind swirled around Torracat as he was trapped into one spot.
"Hyper beam!" Grimsley called as Absol charged up the powerful beam and aimed at Torracat.
Torracat's face grew white as he looked back at its trainer for help but Ash showed no sympathy for his Pokemon and saw Hau grabbing Brionne with both bite and burn marks on her chest.
"Tor!" Torracat meowed nervously.
"Listen to me." Ash demanded from his Pokemon as the cat turned around. "I want respect and then I'll help you."
Torracat didn't like the idea but had to accept it for now.
"Torrr."
"Sounds good… FIRE SPIN!"
Torracat did his first command in a long time and whipped up a fire spin to cancel out the razor wind as Absol unleashed the hyperbeam at the cat.
"BRACE YOURSELF!" Ash called out.
Torracat growled angrily as the normal move hit him and exploded. A large black smoke cloud was were the cat was last seen as everyone watched eagerly to see the result but everyone even Ash, had come to the conclusion that they had lost.
But when the hope was slowly slipping away, the black cloud erupted into flames as a loud roar was heard within side the now tower of flames.
"INCIROOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Jumping out of the flames was no longer Torracat but a much larger and more aggressive looking version as he used a powerful fire fang on Absol, smashing his fist into the dark types head.
"He evolved!" Hau said stunned.
Ash sighed in relief but soon realised the much bigger problem he was going to have to deal with… But that can be left for another time.
Torracat now stood on two legs as his front legs were now arms and his paws were now hands. Around his waist was a belt made of fire. The far that was on the side of his head was much wilder now as his teeth were shown to be a lot sharper which was evident thanks to the two that stuck out.
"Incineroar, the Heel Pokemon, the evolved form of Torracat and the final evolution of Litten. This Pokemon is extremely violent and selfish. If it's not in the mood to listen to its trainer, it will do what it wants. It hurls ferocious punches and flings violent kicks to attack its opponent and will finish the battle off by spewing fire from the belt around it's waist."
Incineroar looked at his new body and gave a sadistic grin as he felt his new-found power.
"Flamethrower!" Ash commanded.
Incineroar sighed and did as told as he fired the powerful flamethrower at Absol.
Grimsley grunted as Absol was hit straight on again.
"Shadow claw!" Grimsley commanded.
"Use bite when he gets close!" Ash yelled but was ignored again but for a positive way sort of.
Incineroar glowed a dark aura as he spun towards Absol with his arms stretched out, whacking Absol before he could attack.
"That was darkest lariat! A move only Incineroar can learn. Dark type and ignores all stat changes!" Rotom explained.
Incineroar got Absol in a chock lock and slammed his head again into the ground.
The disaster Pokemon coughed slightly in pain with the fire dark type grinning to finish the job.
"Incineroar use fire fa-"Ash shouted but Incineroar grabbed Absol by the throat and began to prevent the poor thing from breathing. "NO! Stop."
Incineroar glared at Ash and threw Absol on to the ground as he reverted back to his normal form.
Ash returned to Incineroar much against the heel Pokémon's liking as Grimsley walked over to the boys.
"I'm sorry about what happened at the end with Incineroar…" Ash told Grimsley.
"It's fine. Heh. Whether or not you get to fight at full strength, whether or not luck smiles on you-none of that matters. Only results matter. And a loss is a loss. See, victory shines like a bright light. And right now, you and your Pokémon are shiningbrilliantly!" Grimsley confessed. "I don't know what they are but I want you to have these!"
The man handed Ash and Hau a ribbon which Ash recognised as the winner's ribbon if you won the Unova league.
"Woah! Thanks!" Hau said as he admired the ribbon, not really realising what it was.
Ash had a question pondering on his mind.
"What did you mean by 'you couldn't remember much'?" Ash asked.
"Like I said. Woke one day on a beach in these with no memory other than my name and that I have some connection with money. Battling comes naturally." Grimsley explained.
Ash nodded as he kept a note of that.
"I think you two should get going. You have a trial to complete." Grimsley said as he returned Absol.
"Thanks for the battle Grimsley!" Hau thanked as he placed the ribbon on the bag strap. Ash placed his in his pocket as they continued one with the trial as Grimsley slipped off.
"Ok… How about this?" Mina muttered as she showed Lillie the painting. Lillie examined it as it looked perfect!
"This is stunning! How much do I need to pay?" Lillie asked.
Mina shook her head.
"It's fine. I just like when people like my work." Mina told her.
It was a painting of Ash, Hau, Lillie and all their current Pokemon. She knew it was Ash's birthday coming up and wanted to at least get him something knowing Hau would most likely just get him a malasada.
Speaking of the two boys, they both arrived back with a bouquet of flowers, ranging in the colours requested.
"Oh! You're back!" Mina said as they handed over the flowers. "Awesome. Thanks for doing that! I hope my trial wasn't too difficult."
"You can say that…" Ash muttered as he thought back to his and Hau's battle with Grimsley. He turned to Lillie next. "Torracat evolved also by the way."
Lillie nodded and gave an interested look but inside was mortified as the painting that she got Mina to do was already out of date.
"Well I present to you the Fairium-Z, pair it up with a fairy type move and you'll have the move Twinkle tackle!" Mina explained. "You now only have one more trial left and then the Kahuna here on Ula'Ula and the passage of rite in Poni Island."
"So that last trial is against Acerola?" Ash asked.
Mina nodded.
"Any advice?" Hau asked, not sure what to expect.
"Hope you're not afraid of the dark." Was all Mina said as she packed her art stuff into a bag and flung it over her shoulder. "If you see my brother, tell him I say hi."
And with that Mina walked off.
"One more left and then it's done…" Ash muttered but realised he had one more extra trial than Hau which got landed on him little over an hour ago.
Sorting out Incineroar.
Authors note part 1: Wow. Just wow.
I never thought I would ever reach the outcomes of this story when I started it over 10 months ago.
Thought I'd get lucky with the trend of betrayal story and might pick up a review or two each chapter.
But no.
1002 fucking reviews. 700 favourites and 804 follows.
As I have said many times before is to thanks each and everyone of you that have reviewed, whether it was a question, feedback, thoughts, constructive or negative criticism or just to tell me you hated me (JK).
All the messages of OC's, ideas or just to tell my they liked my story meant the world to me.
If I could go back in time and tell myself the story is going to reach these numbers, I would have told myself to "fuck off, you'll get bored after 3 weeks".
And thankfully it didn't come to that ^.^
I wish I could list everyone that reviewed to thank you all so much but yeh... 1001 reviews is a lot to go through lmao.
Authors note part 2: PLEASE READ!
Now to some negative stuff...
I was hoping I would reach 1000 reviews after this but with school and shifting house, never got time to submit this out hence why it is also shorter.
I'm not going to use names or anything due to that not being needed but I did receive a message from someone that a guest went on to their story and commenting things that should not be needed and saying "don't insult alola our savior, his story's are better than yours so shut the hell up". Setting the message clear.
Pretty much the situation I have seen: A user commented on my story that he didn't like it which is his opinion sure. So the guest by the name of Sel clicks on his page to go shit talk to him but find he hasn't written anything and decided to go spam another story that he Favorited. Funnily enough, the author of the story that recieved these vile comments messages me and turns out that he reads this story.
Not the first time this has happened either.
Please, don't do shit like this! I have things sorted which tends to be me ignoring it or learning off it.
Think before you post.
AUTHORS FUCKING NOTE 3:
To the chapter. Mina is getting an actual trial in USUM which is sweet and I really couldn't think of something so decided to just throw Grimsley in.
Plus Incineroar now who is still not fully listening to Ash so cool the jets
Mantine surf looks epic and I've grown on the photo club.
Hau looks angry now which points to the wishlist leak being more legit.
And yeah.
So once more, Thanks for all the love!
QUESTIONS:
Will Ash get his old Kalos Pokémon back?
Eventually yes.
Will Hau get the Z-Crystal for Kommo-o?
Will you include Dusk Lycanroc, Dusk Mane Necrozma, Dawn Wing Necrozma, UB Assembly and UB Burst?
Will Zach return and will he get the Z-Crystal for Lycanroc?
This covers all three, second half of the story. Zach will appear still in the first half, Every new mon will feature as will Z-crystal eventually is some form.
Are you going to accept more cotum OC's and UB's?
Yes. I will say when I'll stop.
When will Gary and ash's old Kalo's Pokemon meet up with greninja or ash or both?They only appeared once in chapter 8,and there has been no info on them so far.
Again, will appear eventually. Everything is planned. Things might change due to USUM they will appear and haven't been forgotten about.
So uh question: since pikachu is no longer with Ash, does that mean that he may catch a MIMIKYU
Ash atrapara a MIMIKYU y si lo hace ya lo veo luchar con pikachu para protejer a ash y la cara de pikachu al ver a MIMIKYU
I wonder if Ash will capture a certain mimic Pokemon that totally hates Pikachus...
well, why not Ash catches MIMIKYU with that same personality as the one in the anime?
will Ash get (a) MIMIKYU?
but I really can't help liking the idea of Ash catching a MIMIKYU.
Can Ash get the following: MIMIKYU
can ash get the MIMIKYU that jessie gets in canon cause i can easily see them bond over their hatred of pikachu and MIMIKYU is the perfect pokemon for ash to beat pikachu down
It'd be pretty cool if Ash caught a MIMIKYU to replace pikachu though
Will Ash catch a MIMIKYU at the next Island?
I just have one question will we see ash get a MIMIKYU if that was what the hint was ?
MIMIKYU for ash what do you think...
MIMIKYU definitely. For a anti-pikachu fic MIMIKYU would be the ultimate insult to Pikachu
OH! And MIMIKYU... I really wanna see Ash interact with one!
Same ;)
So as always review, suggest and PM me. Sorry for the extra long Authors note. Spectre out!