A Merger's Fate –

Summary – What if the chosen one was brought up being, albeit unknowingly, exposed to the evils of the world. How would this effect our young hero? With a different outlook on life how would their journey play out? Would they meet new people? New Pokémon? Fem!Ash. Partial Godlike!Ash.

Nagisa – Hello again! I know I put a poll up but I've decided which she is going to merge with after a discussion with AnonChan1. Shout out to them. They were a great help with coming up with a future event for this chapter although the Pokémon is different than what we discussed. I added it in at the last minute.

Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Disclaimer – Nagisa Maeda doesn't own Pokémon.

Chapter 3 –

It had been a long three years since she was taken in by Samuel Oak. She had turned 8 about two weeks after Gary. That had been a month ago. Today was a special day for her and Gary.

The Pokémon league had decided after a few too many complaints from overly worried parents that the age for a child to start their journey was raised from 10 to 12. It would have been changed to 15 but just as many supported the idea of keeping the age the same for those starting their journeys so 12 was a compromise of sorts. The only region exempt from this was Alola due to it not having it's own league so or even gyms.

There were a lot of children who were to start their journey soon but were denied it. They weren't at a complete loss though. Professor Oak had gotten permission from the league to give out Pokémon to aspiring trainers. They were to care for them for the years they had before the start of their journey. They could train and bond with them to their hearts content.

Gary and Rin were the exceptions to this rule due to Professor Oak. He had gotten special permission to give them their starters early as they were supervised by him, he had to call in a few favours and pull some strings though.

Well today was the day that her and Gary were getting theirs. Unfortunately for them the original three starters had already been taken by others but Oak had prepared some other Pokémon that they could choose from.

As soon as her clock hit 6:30 she sprung out of bed and sprinted to Gary's room which wasn't hard considering he had the room opposite hers.

She silently opened the door and peaked around it. To her surprised Gary was still sleeping. A mischievous smirk slowly crept onto her face.

Quietly walking into the room, she crouched down. "Gaaa~rrry!" she exclaimed before pouncing on the unsuspecting sleeping boy.

As she landed on his bed he jumped and shouted in surprise. What she didn't expect was for him to thrash around. The arms that had been holding her up had been knocked during the thrashing and he ended up toppling them both onto the floor.

Gary froze as he opened his eyes and saw Rin's face mere inches from his.

Rin smiled at him. "You nearly slept in Mr lazy. What would you ever do...without...me" she slowed down when she thought about the position they were in.

She glanced down. They had landed with Rin on her back, her arms laid near her head from where she'd tried to catch herself while Gary was on top of her, he was straddling her waist with one of his hands encircling her wrist, their faces inches apart.

Both of their faces erupted into huge crimson blushes and a few seconds later a slap and a scream of pervert echoed around the house.

Rin shoved him off and stumbled away quickly. "E-E-Erm... I-I'm going to g-get ready. G-G-Get up n-now o-ok?" she stuttered out in embarrassment. She didn't even give him a chance to reply before she shot out of the room.

She reached her room quickly and slammed the door shut. She leaned against it and slid down it until she was sitting on the floor. She placed a hand over her racing heart and tired to calm down.

"What is this feeling?" she wondered as her heart slowly went back to its original pace. Taking a deep breathe to compose herself, she stood and got dressed. She didn't want to keep them waiting now did she? For now she pushed the weird feeling to the back of her mind.

She looked through her wardrobe before picking out an outfit. She wore a white tank top with a black knee length skirt. She slipped on a pair of black ballet flats before putting her waist long black hair into a high ponytail.

After putting her hair up she went to leave the room but hesitated when she heard Gary's door open. Shaking her head she opened it and walked out. A light pink dusted Gary's cheeks when he saw her.

She smiled at him before grabbing his hand. "Come on! Let's go get our Pokémon from Uncle Sam." She said as she dragged him down to the professor's lab.

Professor Oak had already been up since he knew these two always get up at ungodly hours of the morning. There were two pokeballs on a tray for them to choose from.

When they burst into the room he grinned. Gary was blushing again. Ah to be young again...

Rin ran up to him while dragging Gary behind her. "Sammy! We're ready to get our first Pokémon!" she said with a big grin.

Oak grinned at the nickname. He nodded and grabbed the pokeballs. "Now I could only get two that were approved at the moment so you'll have to decide who gets which between yourselves." He said before releasing the Pokemon.

The first was a yellow mouse like pokemon with brown strips and a lighting bolt shaped tail. It had red pouches on its cheeks and part of its ears were black. The one thing that set this apart from other Pikachu was that one of its ears was spiked. (A/N – Think spiky eared Pichu as a Pikachu.) It was also rather fat.

The other was a cute brown pokemon with long ears. It had a fluffy mane of fur around its neck. It had large brown eyes and a dark brown nose.

"This is Eevee and Pikachu. Eevee is a normal type pokemon with the potential of evolving into one of eight possible forms. Each have a different typing. Pikachu is an electric type. They usually are quite agile and and fit but this one was lazy and chubby.

From the corner of her eye she saw Gary move towards the Eevee. She didn't really pay attention to him though.

Her eyes were transfixed to the electric mouse in front of her. The minute it was released from its ball it got into a defensive stance and started to growl at her.

She flinched slightly and reached a hand out for it to sniff. While it seemed to be distrusting it walked forward after a moment of assessing her and sniffed her hand.

It seemed to relax slightly before it saw the other humans. It immediately backed up and started growling again. Rin sighed sadly. She really wanted this Pikachu to be her friend but it didn't seem to want to be her friend.

Just then an idea came to mind. Ignoring Professor Oak's confused look she ran off to the kitchen and grabbed something she had made yesterday night.

She ran back to the lab with a small wooden case with golden leaf patterns as decoration. She slowly made her way over to the Pikachu and opened the box. She pulled out a cream coloured cake with cut up sitrus and oran berries on top.

She held it out to the Pikachu with a friendly smile. "Here! Have a pokepuff! This one is for electric types and is supposed to give you lots of energy!" she explained.

The Pikachu continued to look wary but walked forward again. It sniffed the pokepuff carefully before giving it a lick. It gave a delighted cry before it began to chow through it.

A minute later it was gone. She grinned happily when the Pikachu licked her hand.

She reached her hand a little further and petted it gently. It squealed in delight when she rubbed his cheeks. She laughed and continued while Gary looked on in awe. She had basically just tamed a hostile pokemon with one piece of food and a little cuddling.

Oak sighed and shook his head. "Only you Rin could tame a hostile Pokemon with so little effort." Rin just continued to grin as Pikachu jumped up and climbed onto her shoulder.

Gary and Eevee had bonded pretty quickly. He found out that she likes to be petted behind the ears. His new Eevee fell asleep pretty soon after he had picked her up.

"Now that you have your Pokemon, you have one month to bond before we are going on holiday to Altomare. Have fun! Here are your pokedex' and pokeballs. You two have a National Dex because I have a feeling you'll need it. Now go on. Go bond" he said as he ushered them out of the lab and into the main part of the house.

Rin smiled softly as she scratched Pikachu behind the ear. "I'll be in my room then. If you need anything don't be afraid to come and talk to me ok Gary?" she asked and he nodded before they both went to their respective rooms

Both felt a fluttery feeling in their stomachs when around each other but neither dared talk of it.

Later that day Gary went back to his grandfather's lab with the intention of talking to him about the feeling.

He didn't find him in the lab but instead found him lounging in his study. He nervously knocked before shuffling in and sitting opposite his father figure.

Oak looked at him with an expectant look and he squirmed under the look. "Well you see... I've been feeling... weird for the better part of a year... I don't know why though... I was hoping that you'd know why..." he said nervously as he continued to fidget.

Oak couldn't hide his grin any longer. He suddenly started laughing which startled Gary. After a few minutes of laughing he calmed down. "I see. So when do you feel like this mostly?" he asked.

Gary frowned but answered anyway. "It usually happens when I'm around Rin... Or thinking about her... Or dreaming about her..." he rambled.

Oak placed a hand on his head and ruffled his hair affectionately. "So you like Rin?" he continued to ask.

Gary nodded excitedly. "Yeah! I want to marry her when we grow up!" he declared and Oak was floored. So it was more than a crush eh? That was pretty interesting.

"So do you love Rin?" he asked and Gary stopped. He thought about it for a moment before nodding his head slowly. "I-I think so..." he replied with a confused look. He wasn't really sure what love really was.

Oak sighed. He ruffled his hair again and smiled. "You'll figure it out sooner or later. Don't let it get you down." He reassured. Gary simply nodded before getting up and walking out. He had some thinking to do.

Time skip – 1 month –

A month had finally passed and they had gone to Altomare just as Oak promised. At this current time they were wandering around to try and find somewhere to eat when all of a sudden Rin got separated from them when they passed through a large crowd.

Rin looked up once the crowd had passed and saw neither of her precious people. They were both gone! She immediately panicked but Pikachu squealed in her ear to let her know that he was still there. She calmed down a bit but not much.

She decided that the best thing to do was to look for them so that's just what she did. She weaved through the complex connection of back alleys but came up empty. She gave up after about an hour. She couldn't find them anywhere!

Tears slowly welled in her eyes. She hated being away from her pseudo uncle and Gary. She felt so lost and lonely. Just before the tears fell she felt a hand on her shoulder.

She yelped loudly in surprise and slapped her hands over her mouth in embarrassment. She slowly turned to face the owner of the hand and tilted her head in confusion.

Behind her was a tall boy with distinctive ruby red eyes. His hair was very light blue almost white in colour. He continued to stare at her and didn't say anything.

She was about to speak when he suddenly grabbed her hand and started running off somewhere. She let out a startled noise as she tried to keep pace with the boy's longer stride. "Hey Mr! Where are you taking me!?" she demanded before nearly tripping.

The strange boy only glanced back at her before looking forward again. They turned a sharp corner before he began running them straight towards a brick wall.

Her eyes widened in alarm and she tried to tug her arm from his grip but it was no use. He had an iron tight grip. As they neared the wall she squeezed her eyes shut and awaited impact.

Instead of feeling her body collide with the boy's and the wall she felt the ground change as they ran. It became more bumpy and soft. She peaked and eye open when after a few seconds before they widened in shock.

Her feet instantly planted to the ground which forced the boy to stop. He still made no noise though.

They were somehow now in a huge garden with beautiful trees and flowers. It even had a large stream with a stone fountain near it. If she had to admit it she'd have to say that the fountain looked more like some sort of shrine to her.

Shrugging it off, she continued to observe the wonderful piece of nature around her. Her eyes found a swing and she immediately ran over to it laughing happily all the way.

She sat down and marveled at the most beautiful place she'd ever seen. The swing suddenly moved and she looked back to see the boy smiling while pushing her.

The smile soon turned to shock however when the boy glowed before transforming into a Latios.

Her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates and she fell off of the swing in shock. She couldn't break herself from it either. She never thought she see the day that she met a legendary! Let alone a Latios!

It let out a cry of worry when she fell and immediately flew over. It looked her over as if looking for any injuries.

Seeing the Pokemon's obvious worry she shook off her shock and reached out to pet the eon Pokemon. Pikachu sat on his trainer's shoulders just watching the interaction with undisguised awe. It wasn't every day that a pokemon get to see a legendary let alone an interaction with a human that just so happened to be his trainer.

Latios purred as he rubbed his head against her hand affectionately. She smiled as started petting it with both hands.

She was brought out of her thoughts by a cough sounding from behind her. A man with brown hair with grey parts in it was standing behind them with raised eyebrows. "Well it's nice to see that Latios has made a new friend but who are you?" he asked gently as to not startle her obviously on edge Pikachu.

She immediately stood and bowed to the man as habit. "Ah excuse me for the intrusion sir. My name is Rin Ketchum. This Latios lead me here." She replied quickly.

The man chuckled. "It's fine. I have nothing against you staying. As long as it makes Latios happy then I'm ok with you." He said honestly and she felt her heart warm slightly.

She did indeed stay there for a while. During her stay the man explained to her all about the guardian of the city and the soul dew which resided in this very garden. She even got to meet a baby Latios and Latias, they were so cute!

She left a couple of hours later with some new knowledge and and interesting new friend.

She ran all the way back to the summer house that Oak had sorted out for them. As soon as her knuckles hit the door, it swung open and the worried face of Gary came into view.

She wasn't given a chance to speak before she was pulled into a bone crushing hug. Gary was shaking terribly. "Don't... Don't you ever do that again you here me!? Ever! I was so worried! You've been gone for hours Rin! I thought something bad had happened!" He shouted as his grip on her tightened.

Her eyes widened when she heard him sniff. Had he been... crying? Guilt instantly flooded her system as she brought her arms up and hugged him back.

"I-I'm so sorry. I got separated from you in the crowd and I spent ages trying to find you but you weren't anywhere that I'd looked. I ended up in this weird garden... Oh my Arceus, hey! I saw a Latios!" she ended excitedly.

He immediately pulled away but kept his grip on her shoulders. His eyes sparkled excitedly as he spoke. "Really!? Wow! You're so lucky. I wish I could've seen it." He said with a pout.

She giggled at his expression. "Well I can take you there to meet him tomorrow if you'd like." She offered and was immediately bombarded by yes's and thanks.

She giggled again but they were both interrupted by Samuel. "I'm glad to see you're safe Rin. Unfortunately you missed our visit to the museum but I'm sure we can go again at a later date." He reassured. They both nodded before heading up to Rin's room. She spent the next few hours telling him all about the eon legendary and the beautiful garden. She even told him about the soul dew. Gary took in all of the information like a sponge to water which amused her.

Time skip – 3 weeks and 5 days later –

It had been three whole weeks since they began the vacation. Gary had been introduced to Latios and, as expected, be began to take pictures of everything around him. He had always loved documenting his new discoveries for some reason or another.

Today was their second to last say before they had to go back home. Rin woke up as usual but the second her feet touched the floor a seed of dread appeared in her stomach. She froze instantly. 'W-What is this? Why do I feel like this so suddenly?' she thought.

After a few minutes of just standing still the feeling began to fade before it was gone all together. Sighing tiredly she got dressed quickly and went down to the kitchen for breakfast.

Samuel sat at the table with a serious expression on his face. As soon as both she and Gary were seated he began to speak.

"An Absol has been sighted in the city. If you are to go outside today then keep your pokemon with you at all times. Understand?" he asked and they both nodded.

His gaze softened before his familiar smile was back in place. "Good good." He said before they fell into a comfortable silence.

After they had eaten breakfast they both went outside to play with Latios. When they reached the garden however they found Latios was no where in sight and the soul dew was missing!

They raced out of the garden and nearly ran right passed some team rocket grunts had they not pressed themselves up to a wall before they were seen.

One of the grunt laughed. "We finally managed to capture that damned Latios. With it gone the soul dew was defenceless. Boss sure struck gold. Quite literally too. I heard that there is a huge store of gold in some mines underground. Boss said he wanted to destroy the soul dew so he could get rid of the city right? Then why didn't he just have it blown up? He has the fire power. He could've even sent us to dig underground... Guess the boss has always thought pretty big. Oh well not our place to question the boss. Now to the harbour. I wouldn't want to miss a bit of this chaos." They said as they and the other grunt ran off to the harbour.

Rin and Gary looked at each other for a moment and had a silent conversation. A minute later they both nodded before they took off after the grunts.

After about ten minutes of trying to find the harbour they finally reached their destination only to see a tall man with broad shoulder address the small crowd of people dressed in the white Team Rocket uniform.

This was Giovanni the leader of Team Rocket. In his hand he held a glowing blue orb. It was the soul dew!

"Oh no...!" Rin whispered in horror as the feeling of dread from earlier came back with a vengeance. Gary looked at her confused before looking back at the scene in front of them.

Giovanni held up the glowing sphere before speaking. "As Team Rocket we strive to achieve our goals no matter the cost. May this bring out a new age for us all." He shouted before he brought his hand down with as much strength as he could manage.

The soul dew hit the ground with a loud crack! Not even a second later it glowed brighter and more cracks appeared. Then it shattered.

...

Nothing happened for a moment before a deep rumbling noise echoed through the city. The grunts gasped and Giovanni turned around to see the cause of the shock and horror stricken faces of his grunts.

A massive wave was approaching the city. From what he could see it went on for as long as the eyes can see. Acting quickly he pulled a pokeball off of his belt and released the pokemon within.

A medium sized Ho-oh emerged from the beam. The poor legendary was weak and severely malnourished. You could see its bones for Arceus sake! Its wings were dirty and unkept while its body as a whole was littered with bruises.

Giovanni attempted to get on the bird so he could get to safety but the bird bit his hand a flew off to a high building where it proceeded to collapse.

Just then a familiar cry echoed in the two children's ears. Their heads whipped around and they saw an enraged Latios speeding toward the rapidly approaching wave.

Just as he sped past the two Rin tried to reach out to him but she found herself being held back by Gary. He held her arms behind her back so she couldn't try anything reckless.

Rin looked back at Gary and began to struggle. "What? No! Let go of me! I said let go!" she shouted hysterically. It was so obvious what Latios was going to do! She didn't want to see anyone sacrifice themselves again! She had seen enough of that when her parents did it!

She was stopped for a mere second as a wave of familiarity washed over her. This scenario seemed familiar somehow... but she couldn't figure out why so she quickly pushed it to the back of her mind, continuing to struggle in her best friend's grip.

Latios began to glow white just before its body angled an he collided with the wave.

"NOOO!" Rin screamed before a massive shockwave of energy blinded everyone temporarily.

From a high rooftop the Ho-oh stared down at the pair of children. She really cares deeply for a Pokemon she only met a few weeks ago. Amazing. Well at least I know that this won't be in vain then. Use this power wisely young chosen. She thought before she too started to glow.

A second later the Ho-oh had become an orb of light which was invisible to anyone who wasn't Rin. The orb floated towards her. It stopped in front of her and she stared at it through her teary eye. As soon as she laid her eyes on it, it began to move again. It moved towards her before it seemed to be absorbed into her chest.

When it was fully absorbed she felt a shockwave of pain and cried out. She hunched over as best she could in her current position and tried to take deep breathes.

While this was happening the white energy disappeared leaving no evidence of the wave or Team Rocket ever being there although... Now Latios was gone as well...

She didn't notice it but a small glow appeared around her right wrist. When it dimmed there was a small bracket made out of tiny soul dews on her previously bare wrist.

The pain died down mostly and a great flame of anger swept over her. She broke free of Gary's grip in an instant and spun around.

SMACK!

Gary's head whipped to the side and he stumbled. "Wha-" was all he got out until Rin cut him off. "Why did you do that!? Why did you have to let me see it! I could've done something! Why did you let another sacrifice happen!? Wasn't seeing my parent die while I was helpless enough!? Fuck you Gary! I hate you!" she screamed before she ran right passed him.

The scene was observed by two pairs of eyes. One was on the rooftop Ho-oh had been. The other was professor Oak.

Samuel winced when her hand connected with his face. That one had gotta hurt. She ran past him at a pace a lot faster than she usually ran.

Oak only blinked once before she was gone. He wondered where she learned to move so fast but put it to the back of his mind for now.

Gary finally seemed to snap out of his shock and was currently holding his bruising cheek in one hand while he began to walk in the general direction of a park not too far from where they were staying.

He decided to leave him to think for a while before taking him back home.

Rin had just arrived back at the house when the pain from earlier came back. She whimpered when her head started pounding painfully.

She staggered about for a moment before finally making her way to her room. All she could manage to do was move to her bed before she collapsed.

Her breathing came out in short pants as the pain only seemed to worsen with each passing second. She wasn't sure if either of the boys were home at the moment so she forced herself to stay silent.

Sometime later she passed out from the pain. Gary arrived home with Samuel a little while after and was going to go and apologize to Rin but decided against it considering the time. It was way past their bed time and she was most likely asleep.

Time skip - Next Morning

Rin awoke with a start and simply stared at the wall for a while. She was about to roll over and go back to sleep when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back.

A lock of her own hair fell over her shoulder and into her view. "Oh... Isn't that pretty. The tips of my hair are red..." she trailed off as her eyes drooped a bit.

What she just said finally registered in her head and she sprang out of bed and faced over to her full length mirror.

What stared back at her was her but at the same time wasn't. What she saw in the mirror was a girl who was a few inches taller than her. She had beautiful wavy black hair with red tips and a single red streak going through it. Her eyes that were once mismatched were now a vibrant purple with red specs. Protruding from her back were a pair of stunning red wings with white and green strips near the bottom.

She reached up and touched her face gently. "Is this really...me?" she whispered in awe.

Her mind wandered back to the new features before she made a revelation. The wings made her think of Ho-oh. She remembered seeing a book on it somewhere in here.

She immediately went to her book shelves and soon located a book on legendries. Flicking to the correct page she wasn't surprised when she found the picture of Ho-oh. "But why do I look like this?" she mumbled in confusion. She put the book back but suddenly she froze.

She suddenly remembered about Gary. She felt a small swell of anger when she thought about him but ignored it for now. She was more focused on the fact of her new appearance and what the Oaks would think of it.

Her eyes welled up with tears. "They'll probably think I'm a freak!" she exclaimed sadly as she curled up into a ball on the floor leaning against her bed.

She stayed like that for way over and hour just silently thinking to herself. She was forced out of her musings when a knock was heard on her bedroom door. "It's Gary! Can I come in?" the boy asked.

She flinched but allowed him in anyway. He couldn't see her new features at the moment because she had curled herself up in a large blanket earlier.

Gary cautiously made his way inside and quietly closed the door behind him. He looked around the room before spotting her on the floor. He looked so guilty and sad.

"Look Rin... I'm so sorry. I know you wanted to save Latios but it wanted to do what it had to. I didn't want you getting yourself in harms way for no reason because... Erm... How do I say this..." he mumbled towards the end as his face dusted pink. He seemed to work up the courage before blurting out what he wanted to say.

"I really..!... Nevermind..." he said after a moment. Her wished he had said something else but her disappointment was hidden by the blanket. It was soon replaced with a bitter sadness. She didn't want him to know but she couldn't help what came out of her mouth next.

She sprung up and flung the blanket to the side. "How is it you even want to be around someone like me now? Look at me Gary! I don't even know if I'm human anymore! It's freaky! I look like some sort of freak of nature!" she exclaimed. Tears fell down her pale cheeks as she spoke.

The first thing that came out of Gary's lips stunned her so much that she froze and stopped talking.

"Beautiful..." he mumbled with an awed look.

She blushed again and took a step back. "Yeah right... As if this is beautiful... It's not natura-" Gary cut her off.

"I think it is. You are. At least I think so..." He trailed off. He was starting to feel embarrassed now.

Her blush darkened and a small smile crossed her face. "T-Thanks I guess." She said happily.

Gary smiled back.

Maybe just maybe the next five years could be fun.

Nagisa – All done! That's my longest chapter yet! To be honest I nearly gave up on writing this because I lost the document. I'd already written over 1500 words so I didn't want to start again. Luckily I found it though.

Revised - 01/01/2019

Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

See ya next time kittens!