When Ash reached the Pokemon Centre, he was panting heavily. He dashed through the doors, bewildering passer bys. He wasted no time by not paying any attention to them and only kept his eyes on the goal, the reception desk.
The nurse joy there immediately attended to him as there was no waiting there.
"N-Nurse Joy, this Pokemon is seriously injured! Please help it!" he pleaded to her.
"Certainly, please wait here, such a case needs to be attended in the IAR room" she said as two Chanseys came and took the pokeball away.
Ash wearily made his way to the seating arrangements in the Centre and flopped into one of the foam chairs. His eyelids became heavy as Ash struggled against falling asleep. But he was powerless, sleep overcame him, sooner than he expected. Though he was sleeping physically, his mind was in a different world as he was starting to dream….
Ash opened his eyes wearily, and sat up. But he was not in the Pokemon Centre. He was in a place that looked familiar but Ash knew he had never been here before. Surrounding him was the magnificently glistening sea, spread out, covering the horizons. Above Wingulls and Pellipers littered the light blue sky, crying out in their own language. Ash looked behind him and saw a large structure, towering above everything else. It seemed to be extending to the Heavens above. Ash got up and began trudging to the building, half of him saying that he should not go near it and the other half contradicting it, but some how the aura of the building was attracting Ash. Ash reached for the handle of the building and tried to push it open but it would not budge. Suddenly, in a flash of blue light, a tablet that laid beside the door, rose to the air and flew into Ash's arms. The tablet was filled with some kind of weird symbols but Ash could decipher it, even he did not know how he was able to do it. The engravings on the tablet read:
Ash was beginning to uncover its secrets when he heard a voice calling him. It appeared faint but grew steadily in its amplitude. Suddenly the voice was practically screaming in his ears.
Ash jerked awake. He looked around and saw May, Brock and Ash.
"Ash….are you ok?" said a concerned Brock, who was scrutinizing every inch of him, protectively.
"Yeah…you freaked out and started yelling at us in the forest and ran……what's up with that?" said Max, the glare off his glasses hiding his eyes.
Max said nothing but merely nodded at him, affirming what the former two said.
'What do I say? I can't just reveal the truth!' thought Ash, as he pondered over the possible excuses he could give his friends.
Suddenly a bell ranged in the front desk and Nurse Joy called him over the PA.
'Thank god!' mumbled Ash as he got up and made his way through his friends.
"Your Pokemon is good as new, but I would recommend you to not let your Pokemon get injured so much!"
Ash shook his head furiously and said everything that happened, excluding the fact that he knocked down 2 trees.
Joy nodded and affirmed his statement. She said that poachers for a team called Magma were common as their team wanted to have more Pokemon. They mainly wanted to gain a mysterious pokemon in order to rule supreme.
Suddenly the bell tinkered as a boy came in. This boy was the same as the one Ash met. He seemed to have white hair but in a closer look you can see that his true hair was hidden under a white hair cap. He was wearing sunglasses and had some black color t-shirt on, along with some reddish pants.
Ash ran up to him and exclaimed,
"Hey, you are the kid that saved—err I mean----helped me that time!" said Ash.
The boy merely glanced at him and walked away, giving Ash no other reply.
The boy asked Nurse Joy to heal his Pokemon which she did more obediently compared to Ash and she seemed to have a aura of respect around her as she interacted with him. After a while, she was done. The boy walked outside and Ash followed with his friends.
The boy took out a pokeball and threw it, white light covered the spot and within seconds, a orange beast appeared. The beast looked kind with big dome shaped eyes with green eyes filled with love.Despite its appearence everyone knew how fierce it can be. Ash stared awestruck at the Pokemon. It was a Legendary Dragonite. The boy hopped onto it and it for a few seconds rubbed its head against the boy. After that the magnificent beast spread its wings and took off, sending a gust of wind in every direction. As they took off, Ash managed to take a look at the boy's forearm. There was a red symbol similar to Ash's but not the same.
"Well, he had a nice attitude!" said May indignantly.
"Well, he can. He has proven himself to be the best trainer the world has seen yet." Said Nurse Joy as she stared at the spot where the boy and his Dragonite once were.
The response was mutual. Every single group member turned to Nurse Joy with an "aah?"
"He is the Champion of Hoenn. Not only that, but he has defeated every single Elite 4 member in this planet and claimed his place as one of the top trainers the world has ever seen yet. He could be the Champion of the world but he refused and maintained the Championship of Hoenn only. And his father, is none other than Prof. Birch, the professor who rivals Oak." said Joy, the usual serene look on her face.
Ash looked on, flabbergasted. He could not comprehend the information that was thrown at him. The boy has won every single competition he had entered?! Ash had gotten 8th place in the Johto League and 16th in the Kanto League, which does not even come within a light-year of what that boy had accomplished.
"Joy, what is his name?" asked May, a surprised and excited look dancing in the sapphires of her eyes.
"Brendan" she said, "Brendan Birch"
So, how was it? Here is the meaning for the underlined word:
Light-year: A unit of distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year:
(9.4607 times 10 to the power of 12) Nine point four, six, zero, seven times ten to the power of 12. This is nearly 6 million million miles or 6,000,000,000,000 miles.
Thank you, for reading this chapter. The update for the next chapter will arrive soon, good bye!