AN: And we're back!

K: We'll meet Arceus and Julian this week.

P: And hopefully start the journey too!

T: These two writers don't own Pokemon, so let's start!

Chapter 9.

The meeting hall that they flew into was huge. It had to be, to house every legendary Pokemon currently in existence during a time of crisis. Ash pressed slightly closer to his mother, suddenly very shy about meeting them. After all, one was a god on the same level as his mother. Ash hadn't really thought about the fact that Mew and Arceus held the same amount of power, mostly because he was much more comfortable with Mew, having lived with her for most of his life. A small Pokemon came flying over to them and hugged Mew, accidentally pushing Ash out of the way.

'Aunty Mew! I didn't expect you to be visiting!' Ash shook his head and looked at the Pokemon hugging his mother. It was a small star shaped Pokemon, with two ribbons and three tag-like attachments to the star. Mew giggled, patting Julian on the head.

'It's good to see you too, Ju. I thought Arceus would have said that I was coming this morning, though I only decided last night.' He pulled back, the little orange tags waving slightly from the motion. Ash twitched his tail slightly, which drew Julian's attention to the little blue Mew.

'Aunty Mew, who's this?' Mew beckoned for Ash to introduce himself, and he floated a little closer.

'Hi. My name's Ash, it's nice to meet you.' He said, extending his hand. He took it, grinning shyly.

'Hello. It's good to meet you too.'

'Where's Arceus Ju?' Mew asked him kindly.

'I'll go get him.' He smiled to her, flying off. Ash turned to Mew.

'Didn't he know I was your child?'

'Well, I never actually brought up the fact that I had adopted you when he was around, only with Arcy, because I knew that if I had he'd want to see you.' Julian flew back to the two Psychic types and stood next to Mew. A giant white figure floated through a doorway at the side, and grinned when he caught Mew's eye.

'Hello deary.' Arceus said. 'How are you?'

'Arcy, you only saw me last night.' She sighed. 'How much could have happened between me leaving and getting home to Ashy?'

'Well, you can't expect me not to worry.' He said, bowing his head to her level. 'Most, if not all, trainers would kill for a chance to capture one of us.'

'And you really have so little trust in me that you think I'd get caught?' She asked, offended.

'Of course not. After all, it's close to impossible to easily catch us.' He smiled at her, then looked at Ash. 'And this must be Ash.'

'Hello.' The aforementioned trainer to be squeaked.

'It's very good to meet you in person at last.' He said kindly. 'I hope you've been enjoying this last week of traveling and meeting our fellow legends and your fellow hybrids.'

'Yeah. I've made loads of friends that I didn't even know existed.' Ash replied, calming down in the presence of the god Pokemon. 'Thank you for the gift.'

'Don't worry about it. After all, the tenth birthday of my best friends child isn't something I'd want to miss. Lucky that Ilex was visiting though. I would've had to send Julian with the gift otherwise.'

'I could have delivered it for you Uncle Arceus.' He said.

'I know you could have, but I didn't want you too. You don't have the best knowledge of humans, so I wasn't sure how you'd be with all the humans around.'

'Ok. Ash, come and play with me!' He said excitedly, pulling the Mew along. The two true legendaries chuckled, and shared a look. Arceus then sighed.

'Are you sure you still want to do this?'

'Of course. After all, he's my child.'

'That isn't what I meant.'

'I know what you meant dear. And I'm not going to change my mind.'

'If you're so sure.' He sighed. 'Be careful.'

'I'll be fine. After all, how badly could it go?'

Julian lead Ash through a huge amount of hallways, causing Ash to get lost in seconds.

'How do you know your way around here so well?'

'I've lived here since Memma adopted me. Of course I'd have learned my way round by now.' He replied sadly. 'It's a shame you couldn't have come last week. You could've met my Memma then.'

'Yeah. It was my birthday last week though, so we had my human friends over for a party.' Ash stumbled slightly when he said 'humans', as it was still weird referring to what he had been his entire life as a different species completely.

'I understand. Memma isn't often around for my birthday. It depends on when the meteor falls to cause her to wake up.' Ash felt bad for the small shiny, and had an idea.

'Hey, maybe next time it's my birthday, you can come over and play!' He suggested.

'Really?'

'Sure! I could come and pick you up from here while Mom gets everything ready.' Julian perked up happily at the idea.

'Why do you call Aunty Mew 'mom' instead of Memma?'

'Well, I've always called her that so as not to let the difference slip in front of humans.' He nodded at the explanation, then took a sharp turn towards another room.

'This is like a playroom for the other Children of Legendaries to stay when our Memmas are in meetings with Arceus.' Julian told him, opening the door. 'It'll only be us here though, as all the others are at their homes.'

'Do the others help their Memmas with their jobs?'

'I think some of them do, but only the 'adults'.' Julian said, floating into the room. 'Most of us littler ones don't get to help out. It's because we're too young and inexperienced, so we can't use the powers that our Memmas do to help with the jobs.' Ash nodded, and the shiny Jirachi pulled him over to one of the areas. 'Anyway, this is my main area. Any hybrid can go anywhere, but this is the place I normally stay in.' He pulled Ash over to a few areas and they started to play.

A few hours later, Mew and Arceus had finished talking, and Mew had looked over into the Pokemon World to check the time. After all, she didn't particularly want to have to walk through the grass and forested area at night. She was quite shocked to see that it was already evening, and night was fast approaching.

'Well, I think we should get going!' Mew exclaimed. 'It's almost night time already.'

'Ok dear. Ash is starting his journey tomorrow, isn't he?' She nodded. 'Well, I wish him luck on his travels.' The two of them floated over to the playroom and pushed open the door.

'Ash! Come on, we need to go!' The smaller Mew heard this and flew over to his parent, and his newest friend followed over.

'Bye Ash, bye Aunty Mew!' Julian waved.

'We'll try and visit another time.' Mew said, hugging him. 'I'll try and come again when Jasmine wakes up.'

'Ok!' The group of legends floated to the gateway room. The small Jirachi child gave his new friend a hug. 'I'll see if Memma will let us come and see you on your journey when she wakes up again!' Mew chuckled at her 'nephew', and placed her hand on hand on the door that would lead back to Route 22. They swung open, and the black soon changed to show what the route looked like on the other side.

'Come on Ashy, we need to go before people notice the gateway.' He nodded, and waved goodbye to the two legends once more, then flew after his parent Pokemon back to the side of Viridian City.

Chapter 10.

Ash and Mew reappeared on the other side of the gateway. Mew turned, transforming to a human shape as she did, and closed it quickly. Ash surrounded himself in bubbles again as he transformed too. The cliffside closed itself back up, and the split along the middle disappeared. Mew sighed, and looked happily at her child.

"So, how did you enjoy the visit?" She asked curiously.

"It was fun!" He replied happily. "It was great to see the Hall." Mew sighed quietly, as she had been worried that he wouldn't like it.

"Come on, let's head back. You're going to start your journey tomorrow, aren't you?"

"Oh yeah!" Ash suddenly perked up excitedly. "With all the excitement with meeting all of your friends and the other hybrids, I completely forgot I was supposed to have started my journey." Mew giggled.

"Well, we should get back to Pallet then, shouldn't we?" She said, walking back along that little used path that acted as a shortcut back to Pallet Town.

"Hey mom?" Ash asked her. "I said to Ju that maybe he could come over for my birthday next year. Would that be ok with you?"

"Of course!" Mew said. "After all, Ju doesn't really come here often, and is only friends with the hybrids that visit the Hall. I think it would be nice to let him come over to ours next year." Ash grinned, and Mew started leading the way back to Pallet.

Around twenty minutes later, Mew unlocked the door to Delia's house. She walked in, already using Psychic to start cooking in the kitchen as Ash followed behind her. She extended her Psychic power to quickly lock the door behind them, and Ash sat in front of the television set. He levitated a movie off the shelf, looked at it for a few moments, then sighed and put it down again. His mind was too busy buzzing with the fact that he was finally starting his journey tomorrow. He had just had a great week of visiting all of Mew's friends, and now he was going to finally get to start the trip with his new Pokemon, whichever he decides to start with. He hadn't really put much thought into which Pokemon he would start with. After all, he'd been too busy running around in each of the regions to really think about his Pokemon choice. He chose to start thinking about them now. Charmander was probably his favourite of the three Kanto starters, but he also quite liked Squirtle. Honestly, if it was his choice, he'd love to fly or teleport to Hoenn and start with a Treeko, which was probably his favourite starter out of them all. He knew that wouldn't happen though, as he wanted to start in Kanto with normal Pokemon, so as not to draw attention to the fact that he had such a rare Pokemon from a different region. Although, if it ever came into the light exactly who had raised him, and what he was… Ash shuddered slightly at the mere thought of how many people would hunt him down. He quickly shook off that train of thought, and continued weighing out the advantages and disadvantages for each of the different starters. Mew came in after around half an hour, and shook her head as she saw how seriously he was thinking. She sat on a chair across from him, and floated his plate next to him. The food snapped him out of his thoughts, and he grinned at Mew before devouring it.

"Thinking about your starter, right?" He nodded. "Which do you think you'll go for?"

"I really don't know." He replied. "I'll think about it tonight and make my decision tomorrow."

"Good idea. I always like to sleep on my choices." Mew advised, and Ash was sure he knew a few choices she had slept on. "I should pack your bag tonight to save time tomorrow. After all, I'm sure you want to get going straight away after the delay."

"Yeah." He said. He placed his plate on the table in front of him. "I'll run upstairs and sort my things out now." He didn't bother to wait for Mew's reply before he left. Mew sighed quietly when he had gone, and shook her head.

"Oh Ashy. You can't hide your thoughts from me." She giggled. "There isn't a need to be worried about people finding out about me. After all, I won't be around for them to find out…" Mew stood, taking the plate from the table and balancing it on top of her own. She quickly washed them up and packed them away, thinking to herself about the next day. She could hear Ash running around his room, pulling things off shelves and putting them into his backpack. A few things must have fallen when he was getting his stuff ready, as she heard a thump and a few muffled words as they dropped to the floor and were picked up again. This caused Mew to chuckle, and she walked over to the bookshelf in the front room. Picking up a book from the very top shelf, she flipped through a few pages and smiled again. She snapped the book shut and replaced it a moment later, and went up to her own room. She started glowing as she transformed, and quickly closed the door. 'You don't need to worry about me at all…'

Somewhere, far, far away from Pallet, and possibly the huge Pokemon World along with it, a huge creature opened its eyes, and gave the impression that it was smiling.

'Good luck indeed, little Mew. Good luck indeed.' The beast turned, its huge body twisting in a strange way. It flew towards a portal of some kind, though it looked more solid than anything around it. It flew through, heading to another dimension, even further than the strange place it had temporarily inhabited. 'God or not, you're going to need it.'

AN: Ooooooo, spooky ending!

T: That was cool! Who's the creepy thing at the end?

K: Sorry Trix, we can't tell you that.

SV: After all, that would spoil the fun of trying to guess!

P: You two are aware she'll just steal all the notes for the story like she did in New Beginnings, right?

T: That's true! I won't spoil it though. It'll be fun to see all the readers making theories about what that thing was.

K: Shadow, is she always like this?

P: Yes. All the time. You'll get used to it though.

SV: Well guys, enjoy spending time formulating an idea as to what that creature was. I won't spoil much, but I will tell you that it'll be a recurring character. I'll never refer to it by name, but surely you'll figure it out as the story progresses. Also, two more weeks to say if you want Ash to have Pikachu or not. If no, then leave a suggestion for its replacement. Bye guys!