KenyaCalico7743 here to bring you readers chapter number 3. This chapter was a nightmare to work on but it was worth it. So the inspiration songs for this chapter are "One Family" from Tarzan, "Go! To the tree of Beginning" from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and "Mew Mew Pudding no theme" from Tokyo Mew Mew. I'm sure the places where the songs come in are pretty easy to see, but if not message me please and I will tell you. It may take me a while to get the next few chapters up, but I will do my best in getting them up as soon as possible so please bear with me. In the meantime, R&R please and also if you see critism, please state it. I can take it and I will accept any help I can get.

Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon or the movie Lucario and the mystery of Mew, nor the other movies/ songs that I have gained inspiration from (Tarzan, Prince of Egypt, etc.) I only own the characters that I have created.

Chapter 3

Instead of heading straight to bed, I went to the stables and spent some time alone with Silver. Ever since we were little we were like brother and sister, close friends but never going above that. When I was down on a lesson I failed, he was there to cheer me up just as how I would be there if the tables were turned. Speaking of being down, the two of us exchanged sadness over what happened earlier today along with talking to Mistress's and Grandmaster's Rapidashes. I grabbed the brushes my masters used to clean the firehorses and got to work on trying to help mine relax.

I gave a soft laugh as I worked on Silver's coat, "Coat is in tip-top shape as usual my friend. I'd like to know your secret, but it wouldn't be a secret then would it?" I asked Silver with amusement.

In response, he gave a whinny and a flip of his fiery mane.

*In the ballroom*
Lucario opened the glass courtyard door to the ballroom and walked toward the center. He stopped to look up and see a banner of Sir Aaron holding the staff in a pose. Lucario was in thought as he heard footsteps behind him. He jumped up to the top of the glass door and tackled the source. Ash struggled under Lucario's arms until the jackel released his grip on the boy.

Ash gasped and glared at Lucario, "Why'd you do that?"

Lucario just stood and looked down at him, "You snuck up behind me. That is always a mistake" he said as he turned to leave.

Ash then got up and spoke, "Hey Lucario. I'm really glad you're coming along with Legacy to help me find Pikachu"

Lucario stopped and turned slightly to the trainer, "This Pikachu, are you it's master?"

Ash looked as if he was taken aback, "Master?" but then he turned and laughed, "Are you kidding? No, Pikachu and I are best friends" he stated while dusting off his hat.

Lucario looked at him with confusion in his eye, "Friends?"

Ash took a few steps toward him, "If one of your friends was lost, you'd want to bring him back too, wouldn't you?"

Lucario then turned his head, "I don't have any friends, and I don't want any" he then walked out of the ballroom leaving Ash to comment, "Nice attitude." He then put his hat back on and left the ballroom.

*back at the stables*

After a while of brushing and cleaning his coat, Silver then perked up his ears and looked in the direction of the castle courtyard.

I followed his gaze and sure enough there was Sir Aaron's Lucario coming from the ballroom steps, to which I looked away to avoid eye contact. I felt my heart race with excitement as I heard him stepping closer to the stables but I kept my cool, hiding my emotions as usual.

"You ride a Rapidash?" he asked closer than I thought he'd be.

I jumped in surprise and turned to him, "Please don't do that, you could give someone a heart attack" I spoke while placing a paw on my chest.

After recovering I simply answered him, "Yes. Ever since Silver and I were little, I've been riding him"

"I see" he stated.

"Is there a problem with that?" I asked, glaring at him.

Normally people would see me riding Silver as wrong, awkward, and unnecessary, which is why I take it offensively at times.

He looked at me with a hint of shock in his eyes, "No, nothing wrong with it at all. It's just," he paused looking at Silver then back to me, "I've never seen a pokemon ride another pokemon before"

I snickered at what he had simply stated as Silver snorted in his face.

"What did I say?" he asked in confusion, whipping off the mess that Silver gave him.
"Oh nothing lets just say that what you just said could be taken the wrong way in this time period. Anyway, why are you out here? Shouldn't you be asleep? After all, you are helping in leading us tomorrow" I reassured him.

"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to see how the kingdom has changed. But it was interrupted when I was spooked by Ash. I was on my way back to the room I was given until I saw a glow coming from the corner of my eye, so I decided to see what it was" he said looking at Silver.
"I see, so you got curious at Silver's glow. And back with Ash, he's worried about his Pikachu and not finding him again. I can understand him, but I can't bring back my two friends" I said while looking down.
"I'm sorry about your masters. The maid said something about you master Horus never telling how you became Athena's student. Do you remember?" he asked.

I looked at him, then to silvers hooves, "Honestly, I didn't know the real story until earlier today." I then explained to him what my master told me.

*flashback*

"Is there something wrong, Grandmaster?" I asked.
"Legacy, there's something I should have told you a long time ago" he then reached into his side bag and pulled out something wrapped in what looked like wolven Mareep fabric.
"What's that?" I asked.
He then removed the fabric to reveal what I wish I had not seen. It was the dream catcher necklace from my dream. It wasn't a dream though, it was real.
"I found this in the box that you were sleeping in when I found you at the river about two years ago. I kept this hoping that I would one day find your mother and return you to your family, but I realize now that you may not see your family again, if the dream you had is proven true. I don't know what your real name is, but I called you Legacy when I found you because you were the start of us aura guardians training our pokemon as students of aura, just as Sir Aaron did all those years ago" Grandmaster explained.
I sat down on one of the benches nearby, needing time to take this all in.
"So….all I am, all I was trained to be….was a lie?" I asked.
"No! You are still a part of this family, Cameron Palace, the Aura Guardians. You just weren't born here like the rest of us. But as we all know, in order to be happy, we must find ourselves for who we are, not what we were born to, what we have, or what we were raised / trained to be, but simply for the living beings that we are. Remember that." Grandmaster stated.
I nodded.
*end Flashback*

"That's the story" I told him looking down.

There was a long pause as I looked to the floor, feeling like Lucario was staring at me. I turned my gaze to him only to see him break contact and look away.

I decided to end the conversation, "Well, we better head off to bed. Big day ahead of us after all" "Wait" he stated, grabbing my paw "I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name earlier"

I turned and looked into his eyes, "To be honest, I don't know who I am anymore. But until I do find myself, call me Legacy. It's the name my Grandmaster gave me"

I then turned around, released my paw, and went to my room to catch up on some much needed sleep; it was a hard day after all.

Morning came in the form of a green and grey misty abyss spreading across the entire valley. As I brushed out my hair and fur, I thought about how this would be my first mission without my masters by my side. I felt tears well up in my eyes as to who could have done such an action, especially to two of the greatest aura knights Cameron's ever had.

I looked over my dresser and my gaze stopped at a picture of me and my masters that was taken the day I was knighted as an aura apprentice. Horus and Athena were so proud that day and I was happy as I could be. I remember tackling the two of them in joy, my tail wagging like crazy as the queen and observers laughed at the sight. That was the happiest day of my life, but now it's the best memory of my masters. I wiped away the tears from my eyes, gathered up the last of my things for the big journey ahead of me, and made my way down to the meal hall where everyone was going over what to expect beyond the castle.

Knowing already what to expect, I simply grabbed my food and went to the stables to fetch Silver from his stable. Unfortunately when I arrived, Silver was not in his stable but luckly he wasn't gone from the barn. Somehow he was able to escape and move in with his love, a normal rapidash named Fiona, during the night. He probably needed comforted from the situation last night and I don't blame him. As much as I enjoyed watching the two lovers rest, I had to break it up for duty.

"Silver," I whispered while rubbing his neck, "Silver, time to get going"

He slowly moved his head up and looked at me with dead, tired eyes. I moved into Fiona's stable and moved Silver out to get him prepped for the journey ahead. While he fed on his usual diet of oats and chopped berries, I placed my supplies on the back part of his saddle, strapped them on and secured them. I also had a sack filled with berries I was able to swipe from the pantry, not that the cooks needed to know.

"Ok boy, all set. You finished eating?" I asked looking at Silver. He whinnied in approval as I mounted him. Once set, we went to meet with Lucario and the others.

After a word of approval from Kit, I moved first with Silver's burning coat making a glow to lead the way. Lucario followed close behind while using his aura sight to guide him. Kit and the gang followed last in the large jeep the size of an army tank. The gray mist turned into a thick fog as we moved further away from Cameron Palace and closer to the vast wilderness.

As I rode my pearl white steed, I kept alert for any signs of ambush. After the assault last night, I knew that I had to be on my guard. Two close losses is one thing, but losing seven more is out of the question. If I failed this mission in not just rescuing Pikachu, and worse not even to bring Ash to it, I would never forgive myself and never return to Cameron. So I had to make this mission count, because this would determine if I truly deserved to be an Aura Guardian or if I should move on and find the truth of who I really was meant to be. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I didn't even notice that Silver had stopped abruptly and I went flying off him not so gracefully into the hard grass on the ground.
"Legacy! Are you ok?" asked Ash in worry.

I pulled myself off the ground, rubbed my snout a bit and shook my head to clear the confusion. "Yes Ash, I'm fine, but why did we stop?" I asked.
"Brock thought that we should stop for lunch. We've been driving for quite some time and we need to stretch our legs" explained Kit.

"Fair enough" I said as I noticed Silver reaching to grab something off his sadle and sticking his snout it in.

"Silver! Don't you eat all the berries again!" I rushed after him to grab the bag, but he noticed me and took off, swinging the berry bag out of my reach all while whinnying in laughter.

"Silver you glutton, give back the bag!" I shouted while trying to reclaim my stolen stash, but sadly my actions were in vain as Silver kept on rearing his head back out of my reach.

While I was busy with Silver, I heard the humans laughing at our little game. Finally I was able to grab his reins and lower his head to grab the sack.

"You crazed Munchlax! You think I'm gonna fall for your old tricks?" I looked in the bag to see that he hasn't eaten the berries yet. "Good. Now you and I will share the loot instead of you gobbling down all the berries and leaving nothing for me like you did last time." I stated while glaring at him on that last part.

Silver just showed his tongue and shook his head side to side, as was his normal way of mocking me. All I did was roll my eyes and tied the bag in a knot.