Guardian Solaris
Ages:
Ash-17
May- 15
Max- 13
Brock- 22
Dawn- 13
Serena– 9
Drew- 17
Brandon- 16
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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
(Authors' notes)
[Translated Pokémon talk
I keep on saying that I do not own Pokémon. Yet you still expect me to, like I'm loaded with money. I'm not.
:Wad of money falls out of pocket. :
He He you didn't see that. : P
Get ready for the final member of Ash's team, and a nice long chapter.
A really long chapter.
A really long epic chapter.
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Chapter 13- The Cruelty of the Guardian
The two competitors stood on either side of the battlefield. The roars of the crowd shouting, towards the great battle that they were witnessing.
Both competitors were about to release their final Pokémon in the battle that would mark who would move on in the tournament. The competitors for the battle were Max and Kate. Kate had gotten an early lead in the battle eliminating Maxes first two Pokémon with her Blastoise, although the trainer from Petalburg city was able to make a spectacular comeback, leaving the two with their final Pokémon. The crowd continued to roar at the epic battle that they were witnessing.
Kate then picked out a standard Pokéball inside the grasp of her hand; she threw it into the air as it opened out letting out a blue/gray starfish like Pokémon that had a blue crystal in its centre. It called out its natural cry as the Starmie prepared for Max to release his Pokémon.
The trainer grasped the Pokéball of one of his first Pokémon. Before releasing it, he scanned throughout the crowd, searching for his friends. 'I wonder what Mays going to think after Brandon's asked her' the boy thought as he remembered giving the white haired trainer tips about his sister. He noticed Brock, and besides the breeder, Dawn was cheering for him to release his next Pokémon. Max took a double take at the Co-ordinator as a slight blush began to form on his cheek that was barely noticeable. He then moved onto his sister who was watching the battle.
But she was not any different, he noticed that her eyes had not changed; and if anything they were slightly more depressed.
'How could Brandon screw that up?' He wondered as he took his focus back to the field. The boy threw his Pokeball as it released his Gardevoir.
"Begin" the Referee signalled.
"Let's start this off, Starmie use Bubblebeam" Kate shouted as Starmie fired a beam of bubbles towards Gardevoir, who teleported out of the way at Max's command.
Starmie then redirected its fire to the Psychic type's new location, as Gardevoir then once again teleported at its trainers command.
"Now use magical leaf" as Gardevoir fired glowing leafs towards the back of the water type, sending it flying, although it quickly regained its composure.
"Starmie, use rapid spin with bubble beam." Kate said knowing that this repeated action would tire Starmie out. Starmie then began to spin whilst firing its attack so that it spread out through the field.
This time Max could not tell his Pokémon to teleport. As the Embrace Pokémon fell to the ground.
"Looks like Kate found a way through Max's strategy" Brock said.
"What do you mean?" Dawn questioned her friend.
"Max was planning to use a hit and run strategy to wear down Starmie, by using teleport, but that won't work now. I guess he'll have to find another way to beat Starmie, because it looks like it's at a really high level." He explained.
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May took her eyes off the battle, not wanting to see anymore.
This was just like one of Ash's battle.
It was the same stadium, and the same strategy.
But the other two still didn't say a word about him.
' I can't believe that Brock had just forgotten all about the fact that Ash had used this strategy' The co-ordinator thought. She heard her companions cheering her brother on.
But she wondered shouldn't she be cheering too?
It is her brother and she should be cheering the loudest.
She took a glimpse at the battle field and saw the starfish like Pokémon spinning round, charging energy as it launched a thunder, around the whole field so that Gardevoir was unable to doge.
Her view then turned towards the face of the breeder.
He was cheering as she should be.
'I know I should be cheering, but I just can't' she thought.
She blinked and looked at the breeder once again. Although this time she looked deeper, and now she knew how he really felt. He felt the pain as much as she did; he knew what stadium this was, who fought in the championships here, and who had used this strategy before.
'But he doesn't know that he's here.' May thought. She remembered that he and Ash were like brothers, and slapped herself mentally for thinking bad of the breeder.
She then heard the crowd sheer in an uproar.
'Maybe I got a new mission; I got to get all of us back together.' The brunette thought with her thought rising with the prospect of being with one of her best friends once again; like nothing had ever happened; even if it would be a hard road.
"That was a great match wasn't it May" The Sinnoh native said taking Normans daughter out of her train of thought.
"Uh yeah" she said as she mimicked her friends clapping. She had taken her view back towards the battlefield, and saw the two shaking their hands. She shifted her view up towards the monitor and saw a picture of her little brother with a large sign that said winner.
Now she knew why she was clapping, as her little brother looked back up towards the stands and to his sister.
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Max was greeted and congratulated by his friends as he came out of the stadium.
"Well done Max" Brock said knowing that he had now made his way into the last four trainers, that will compete in the league.
"Thanks guys" the boy replied. "But isn't Brandon's battle starting now." Max stated, as his view shifted towards his sister.
"YEAH" Dawn added "We should go and see him, and cheer him on" the blue headed girl added.
May shuddered slightly remembering the last words from the white haired trainer, along with those of Drew's.
'I like him as a friend not as anything more' she thought unconsciously taking a step backwards.
"So what do you think May, should we go" Max stated giving a slight grin to her.
'I wonder what he knows.' May thought as she looked towards her brothers facial expressions.
"What do you think of course we should go!" Dawn said as they ran towards the central and largest stadium in Evergrand the complex. Although May followed more reluctantly than the others.
'Looks like my little plan is starting to work' Max thought.
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The four sat in their seats in the stands of the large stadium.
It was a new rebuilt version of the old stadium.
Where a gigantic metal arc loomed over one side of the enormous stadium where at the opposite end the burning flame that represented the tournament burned brightly, the crowds that was up to 90,000 people roared down to the enormous field where the two competitors stood on either side. There were several giant monitors that showed the Pokémon of both the competitors, unlike the one that was for Max's battle, this was an enormous crowd that was ready to witness the battle between two champions.
May and the others managed to reach their seats, as it seemed that they just made it in time to see the match. The two trainers stood at opposite sides of the enormous battle field.
"Hey there's Brandon!" Max stated, pointing to the frontier brain who was waving to the crowd. Brandon then noticed May in the crowd, and made eye contact through the vast space between them.
'I guess she dose care about me, otherwise she wouldn't have come' he thought as May blushed slightly towards him. Max only sniggered at his sister knowing that his plan was begging to work out.
"Isn't that the guy who won the grand festival" Dawn shouted pointing to the other side of the vast grassy field at the once again hooded figure who stood through the roars of the crowd that he had become accustomed to in his multiple league victories.
May looked in shock towards Ash, he was the one who was about to battle Brandon.
As she looked awestruck, at the battle that was about to take place.
"So the rumours were true." Dawn uttered.
"What rumours?" Max questioned.
"At the grand festival there were rumours going around that he was not really a co-ordinator, but a Pokémon trainer, and I guess their true" Dawn explained not taking her eyes off Ash. "And there was also something about him winning multiple leagues." She finished off.
At this May remembered the words of Professor Oak, as he said how Ash had won several leagues and now was coming to Hoenn.
"That's right" someone said from the row behind them, causing the four to turn around, looking towards a fat man who had a Hawaiian shirt and a pair of sunglasses.
"And who are you?" Dawn questioned, in a slightly rude tone, annoyed that he would eavesdrop on their conversation.
"Sorry, for being rude, I'm Scott the owner of the battle frontier." He replied in a calm voice. "Your friends already know who I am" he said.
"Hi Scott, good to see you." Brock replied in a more polite voice. "I guess that you're here to see Brandon battle, I mean he is your frontier brain." Brock said seeming to understand the situation.
"Actually, I'm here to see one of the most exiting battles ever. It's not every day that you get to see the champion of the Indigo, Johto, Sinnoh, Battle frontier, Whirl cup, Hoenn grand festival, and Orange leagues in a epic battle." He stated, not giving up all of the information.
"So I guess all of the rumours about him are true." Dawn whispered to the man.
"Yep, so who are you guys goanna' cheer for?" he asked. Dawn, Max, and Brock all said that they were going to go for Brandon, even if his opponent was one of the best of the best. May however remained silent, and although the others did not notice this Scott did but decided not to pursue the girl on it.
'So it seems that May knows about Ash. This is going to be interesting;' he thought as the match began.
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Ash had his Meganium on the field, and his opponent had his Tropious.
"Now take flight" Brandon commanded as his Tropious flew high above its opponent.
Due to its height Tropious began to absorb the powerful sunlight, leading Meganium unable to fire back, due to its shadow blocking most of the light that Maganium would have absorbed. Tropious then fired a solarbeam down to Maganium, who was unable to counter due to the speed of the attack.
"Looks like this guy is going to crash and burn" Brandon whispered to himself, although when the smoke cleared Meganium was still standing from the attack, with only a few battle scars on it. Leaving the audience and Brandon shocked at how it could have survived. Apart from those who had witnessed his Pokémon's strength at the Grand festival.
"Heal yourself Meganium" the hooded trainer said as Meganium began to use its, heal bell to give a peaceful sound that echoed through the stadium. Meganiums small wounds had seemed to heal and even the grass around the Pokémon had grown with small flowers appearing.
Brandon then commanded to fly into Meganium to attack with a steel wing. Meganium jumped above her opponent and sent him crashing down with a body slam. Meganium then stood on top of the injured Pokémon and finished off the job with a point blank leaf storm from the command of her trainer.
The dust cleared and the referee signalled that Tropious was unable to battle. In return the two returned their Pokémon into their respective balls.
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"Meganium came out of that without even a scratch" Max awed at the trainers skill.
"I told you he was god" Scott replied. While May did not listen into the conversation leaving her eyes glued onto Ash.
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Now Brandon released his trusted Swampert in retaliation to Ash letting his Typhlosion battle, as the next battle began.
Now Swampert use hydro pump, Brando ordered knowing of his opponents' weakness, and in return the Volcano Pokemon launched a Fire blast causing a great explosion in the large, grassy field.
"BUBBLEBEAM" the frontier brain ordered, and once again it was countered by a flamethrower.
The two continued to throw their attacks across the field. Looking for the other to flinch, as explosion after explosion shook the stadium.
Swampert began to breathe heavily between a water gun, and Hydro pump attack which had a second between them, after they were fired.
The combo was once again countered with Typhlosions Fire blast, and Flame thrower. Although unlike Swampert Typhlosion seemed like it could carry on and on. Brandon had to think fast otherwise he would lose his starter Pokémon. 'I got to impress May' he thought as inspiration struck him.
"Use earthquake" Swampert then got out of its routine attacks and stamped its feet onto the ground causing the field to shake and Typhlosion to lose its balance. In this period Swampert fired a bubblebeam knocking the fire type onto its back. Ash then became focused in the battle.
While Typhlosion was on the floor Brandon ordered a hammer arm, as Swampert jumped up into the air ready to strike down the fire type.
"Doge It" Ash ordered as his Pokémon quickly rolled out of the way just avoiding the attack.
"Now use focus punch!" Brandon ordered.
"Thunder punch" Ash ordered as the two attacks collided, the Pokémon recoiled their arms and repeated the action again.
"Dig, Ash ordered as the volcano Pokémon burrowed deep underground.
"Sense his movements, buddy" Brandon ordered as Swampert put its head to the ground sensing where Typhlosion was.
Brandon had a smirk on his face as he would be able to attack Typhlosion wherever it would appear. 'This match is mine'
But his contentment quickly faded away when he saw that his opponent was also smiling. The hooded figure then shouted out now, use eruption!" The ground underneath the crouched Swampert exploded throwing him into the air, and knocked out. A large crater was left in the field as Typhlosion stood in its centre breathing very heavily and having a few scratch marks on it. The explosion had also affected it but Swampert was knocked out as the second match went to Ash.
The two returned their Pokémon as the field began to sink into the ground. It was replaced by an enormous pool with a few islands scattered around the area.
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"Wow" Dawn uttered.
"Hey, how come Typhlosion was hurt" Max questioned, although Brock wasn't the one to answer.
"You see in an enclosed area underground Typhlosions eruption had nowhere to go so It remained with Typhlosion continually building up, until it erupted. In the time that Typhlosion was attacking it must have gotten hurt" Scott finished off.
"So he hurt his own Pokémon to win" Brock concluded.
This got May out of watching the match as she quickly turned to Brock, "I think he knows how strong his own Pokémon are, he wouldn't want to hurt them!" May snapped at the breeder. "Besides if he didn't Typhlosion would have come out worse from Swampert." She concluded her rant.
"Sorry May. I was just saying." he responded with his arms in a defensive position, although May turned back t the match. "it's like you have a crush on that guy" Brock uttered, causing May to blush lightly. Max saw this and got slightly agitated.
'She's supposed to go for Brandon' he thought with a frown. Scott only looked down to the others enjoying the show.
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Brandon let his Milotic into the pool, knowing that it was in its element and only a very small amount of Pokémon could beat the elegant Milotic in its own field.
Ash then got out a Pokéball that appeared as if it was made out of stone. It had etchings of various shapes carved into its shell. Ash pressed the button and a burst of red energy appeared and went into the pool. Once the energy dissipated the Pokémon was only seen as a dark shadow that lurked at the bottom of the pool, with no one able to make out what Pokémon it was, it slowly flowed in the base of the deep pool.
"Begin" the referee stated.
"I don't care what Pokémon you got there, it's going down. Milotic wrap it under water." Brandon ordered in a proud tone, and in response his elegant Milotic dove down into the pool.
The crowd hushed in silence as tension crawled up onto the spines of every person in the stadium.
Not a sound was uttered.
Brandon had a grin on his face even though he was losing to his opponent; the frontier brain had confidence in the abilities of his Pokémon.
'Brandon has no chance' May thought as she watched on. 'Ash's Pokémon can battle without him even asking them, and without commands Milotic is sure to lose'
Bubbles were then seen appearing from the bottom of the pool, the audience gasped at what was going on.
An explosion came; an object was seen flying from the pool.
Behind the blur of an object a rainbow coloured beam followed.
It landed back into the pool, and when everyone looked on, they all saw Milotic floating at the surface of the pool with swirls in its eyes.
The stadium gasped, and Brandon was left shocked as the referee signalled that Milotic was unable to battle.
The next bout was between Ashes Feraligatr, and Brandon's Shiftry.
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Mays view remained glued on the battle. This battle meant more to her than anything else. For some reason even more than the battles that she had fought in the grand festival.
For a moment she had spaced out lost in her thoughts of Ash.
How much he had changed, what he had become, how she should try to talk about him. Options and options came forth to her, after all it was something that she was not used to. One thing was certain; and that was that she was going to speak to him and not even her lovers would get in her way.
But as those thoughts that took what seemed like seconds ended. The battle was over ending in a draw.
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The grin on the Pikachus trainer grew as he began to think how the match was becoming more and more interesting. His opponent seemed to become better match after match.
'Maybe it's time to use my secret weapon' he thought.
The white haired frontier brain grew enraged at his opponent's satisfaction as he returned his Shiftry to its ball.
Brandon then let out his Aagron to the field. The steel type roared out, preparing for his mysterious opponent.
"Come on Aagron we've got to win this" he stated in determination. Brandon thought that, maybe making a comeback from a loss like this would get May on his side.
"Come on Brandon you can win this!" he heard a shout, as he turned around he saw Max, Brock, and Dawn cheering to him. He noticed that Scott was also watching the match, which then gave the frontier brain more of a reason not to lose. His eyes then scanned over to May, he notice that she wasn't cheering him on, but seemed to be deep in thought. Her eyes weren't on him but on his opponent.
'No ifs no buts I have to win. I will win' He thought. Aagron felt his trainers' determination and roared out trying to scare its hiden adversary. 'If May is going to love me I have to win'
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"Pika pi" The small electric mouse turned the trainers attention to the crowd.
He looked to the enormous crowd, and heard a familiar call. He focused his eyes and when they saw the small group, they widened once more.
'They're here?' he wondered but remembered that Max was a trainer so the chances of seeing them here were very likely.
His ears were than filled with familiar cheers.
The cheers that shouted over the rest.
The familiar voices that kept him focused, and drove him to win a Pokémon battle.
They were nothing now.
It wasn't for him, why would it be? They had turned their backs on him and have completely forgotten about him. He called them his friends. They called him various things, and yet none of them were nice.
The cheers were not for him, they were for his opponent.
His eyes then scanned away from those who he once held close, and back to the field.
Pikachu rubbed his trainers' cheek trying to snap him back into reality, after realising its mistake.
"Don't worry Pikachu." He said remembering the days and days of pain that piled up onto him. "I can't have that life anymore" he stated with his life becoming uneasy once more.
They had been with each other through the tough times and whatever life threw at them. He had talked to May and Dawn in the grand festival and yet they still did not even make a remark about him, not even remembering his voice. But now,
Now they were cheering not for him but for his opponent.
"This is my life now" the raven haired trainer uttered in a emotionless tone. No matter how much he wanted to, there was nothing he could do to change the past. He spent days hoping that he could take it all back. Sleepless nights hoping that he would be able to turn back time.
But it was all in vain.
He focused back onto the water type battle field.
"Begin" the referee stated as Brandon began to order his Pokémon.
"Aagron use Hyper beam everywhere" Brandon ordered taking one of his opponents only advantage, in the battle field.
Where the large steel type fired its attack the water erupted, time and time again.
But after a while of firing its attack it became exhausted.
"Ice beam" Ash then made his move as a white beam shot out from underneath the water and encased the large Pokémon in ice, from its legs to its neck.
Brandon was stuck, but then he saw a shadow in the water seeing the location of his opponent, he also noticed that even though his Aagron was frozen its head was still able to fire.
"Aagron fire your hyper beam there" as the Pokémon launched the golden beam causing the water to once again erupt.
In the centre of the large spray of water Aagron saw his opponent; and knew what he was up against.
"Night slash" Ash ordered to his Pokémon that appeared to be a brown blur to all other eyes. The unknown creature then had its claws glow a deep dark black as it shot past its opponent in a blur, shattering its prison, and knocking the titan on its back.
Yet to the audience it was merely a brown blur.
"Keep on going" Ash ordered, as Aagron lay on his island another burst of water appeared, concealing its identity from the viewing eyes, in another brown blur it flew into Aagron with its Night slash. It then went back into the water without anyone but Aagron seeing it.
"Come on Aagron get up" Brandon ordered, and in return steel type got up shakily.
As soon as the steel type was back onto its two feet his unknown opponent launched another Night slash.
Aagron was beginning to think that it should stay down, as it got up once again. But this time his opponent did not launch an attack.
"Now use Ancient power!" Ash commanded, the pool then began to glow a bright white. The opponent then slowly rose out of the middle of the pool standing on its legs. Its figure was a blur to make out, being strengthened by the ancient power.
"And finish him off with your X-scissor" at this the Pokémon dove back into the pool illuminating it as it swum sleekly through the body of water. It gained in speed as it got closer to the Aagron that was now shaking. Before it was hit by the island that the steel type was standing upon it rose out of the water and appeared as if it was flying. Aagron tried to counter the missile that was his opponent as he sped towards him with a dynamic punch.
But the large steel type was too slow for his opponent as it connected with its x-scissor and vanished back into the water.
The audience gasped, as Aagron was still standing.
The steel titan then dropped to the ground face first, fainted.
The audience all rose out of their seats applauding the powerful display that they had witnessed. Even if one of the Pokémon was hidden in the depths, it was cool.
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"That was awesome" Max managed to utter, even if he was supporting Brandon he could not help but be awe struck by the strategy that the hooded trainer had used
"I know, but I wonder what his Pokémon is?" the breeder responded, even he could not explain the situation because he did not understand it fully.
"Well what did you expect" May said, causing the others to look at her questionably, wondering why she would side with the unknown trainer rather than their friend.
"Yeah, after all of the championships that he won what did you expect" Scott interrupted, saving May and in return giving a look to the man that was like a thank you.
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"Now we will change to our third battle field" the referee signalled making Ash return his unknown Pokémon back into its ball.
The enormous pool then sunk down into the ground and another battle field arose. The new field was shaped like a forest with large trees, and flowers, and vines covering it. But it was well spaced out so the audience had a clear view of the battle.
The raven hared trainer then let his Typhlosion onto the battlefield, although it was still slightly weakened from its previous battle.
His white haired opponent smiled as he got out a gold and silver Pokéball in his hand.
"No, it can't be" Ash muttered as his confidence slipped away, in the view of the Pokéball.
In its view the burning flame that represented the Pokémon league burned brighter as a small roar was heard from it.
Brandon then threw the ball as it released its contents in a burst of red energy. At the Pokémon's sight the audience gasped as the Pokémon flew around the battlefield that it was most comfortable with.
"Celebi" Ash muttered as the guardian of the forest flew around.
'Try and beat the guardian of the forest' Brandon thought with gasps from the audience. The frontier brain then shifted his view to May and saw that even she was in awe. His plans that had to do with her were begging to work.
Ash decided not to waste time in his attack against the legendary otherwise he would surely lose.
"Blast burn" he commanded, although Celebi easily dodged. And by Brandon's order attacked Typhlosion with a magical leaf, knocking the volcano Pokémon on its back, as it struggled to get back up.
"Psychic" Brandon ordered once again. Celebi then lifted the injured fire type and threw him into a tree. Typhlosion fainted from the hit, but Celibi hit Typhlosion into another tree regardless, and then into a boulder, until it stopped.
Brandon did not notice that his Pokémon was begging to have a mind of its own as Ash returned his beaten Typhlosion then gave it some comforting words through its ball.
Ash looked up into the guardian of the forest and saw a dark glint in its eyes like he had seen before in the guardians' eyes. Behind the silent mutterings of the crowd he heard the flame burning more fiercely than usual.
Ash then gripped the Pokéball of his unknown Pokémon once more knowing that it was his only option against a legendary.
As he held up the ball another Pokémon released itself, from another one of Ash's Pokéballs.
'No he's too young' Ash thought as the small playful dragon got out to the field. It was too late Zenith was going to battle against the fairy like Pokémon and there was no way back. The dragon may have grown a lot since birth to the point where it was as large as a Charmelion and his horns had also grown, he was still young.
Without command Celebi launched a shadow ball at the chaos Pokémon while it was distracted throwing it back.
Zenith then looked up to his attacker, and fired his Chaos blades as the crescents dispersed and flew randomly around the field. Everybody wondered where they were going until in a split second they all launched themselves at Celebi when the dust cloud cleared celebi had a few scratches from the attack although it was fine, giving Brandon a confidence boost.
Celebi then grew angry.
Its eyes grew cold.
It shot thick vines out of the ground that lay underneath it as the vines formed a large structure around the time travel Pokémon. It then began to absorb all of the trees and grass and vines within the field so that it formed around itself.
The spectators including May grabbed onto their seats as the powerful winds nearly ripped them out. The chaos Pokémon flapped its small wings to stop it from being pulled as well as Ash who tried to keep his grip on Pikachu.
Brandon was also being pulled by Celebis attack, "Stop Celebi! You're going to hurt someone" he cried but his Pokémon did not listen. He tried to return it into its ball but the beam of energy was stopped by the thick vines it had created.
When the winds stopped Celebi was surrounded by material that it had absorbed. It was in the shape of a Celebi except that thorn covered vines covered the outside.
It smacked its arm down onto a random part of the field creating a large crater in its wake.
It then turned to its original target.
And smashed the baby dragon down into the earth and raised its arm.
All that was left was the baby Pokémon lying down flat in the centre of the crater, it began to breath heavily.
The bright flame grew to enormous proportions although it did not make the stadium warmer.
Celebis creation hammered more areas of the field to dust without thinking of its actions.
Some spectators ran, although May forced the rest to stay.
Ash stood holding his hand out to the Dragon that was close to death. A tear rolled down his cheek, knowing that he had failed to protect one he cared about once again.
The tear rolled down his cheek and slowly fell to the ground, no one in the audience cared that the dragon had just died.
The tear dropped to the earth and everything became silent. Not the screams of the crowd was heard, or the noise of Celebis rampage, or the blazing crackle of the flame that represented the tournament was heard.
Every shadow within the stadium changed its position.
They lurked towards the baby Dragon as he was covered in their combined darkness, and within them a dark figure rose higher and higher within the freezing void of silence that had ensnared the stadium.
Then the noise returned, but everybody and everything had stopped, even the legendaries. They all faced towards the dark figure.
It was two times the size of a Charizard. It slowly opened its blood red eyes. It held its head up high, as two of its sharp crimson horns extended back, while the other two curved and went forwards like those of a ram. It stood on it muscular back legs. As its dark black claws that resembled its, scaly pitch black body extended themselves. It stretched out its enormous wings that had a blood red lining. Its tail was long and ended with small red hairs that also ran down its back. It opened its mouth that contained razor sharp white teeth and roared a deafening roar that caused all in the stadium to move slightly backwards.
A few took out their Pokédexes in order to study the beast but none of them had even a single entry. Ash then got his out, as most of the stadium remained frozen in the dragons' presence. The Pokédex then generated a hologram of the large dragon and read out the contents.
A'DRITH: The Chaos Pokémon.
Type- Dragon
-It is said that this is the evolved form of Zenith.
-It is supposed to know every attack
-This Pokémon is said to only exist in myth and most references of it like its pre-evolutionary exist only in stories and remain unproven.
"So I guess you've grown up" Ash said, which resulted with another deafening roar by A'drith, as it agreed with its master. "So let's stop Celebi" Ash said as the dragon as it faced the twisted Pokémon with its blood red eyes.
Celebi launched a large shadow ball, but the chaos Pokémon slashed it down to the ground.
"Use your chaos surge" Ash shouted as his Pokémon replied, by letting the black oil like substance cover the field. Then several pitch black spikes struck out of the ground and trapped the time travel Pokémon as it attempted to struggle out.
"Now use Dragon claw" The trainer shouted as A'drith used its razor like claws to relentlessly rip off the armour that Celebi had made taking chunk after chunk of it out with enjoyment, as its opponent felt coursing pain through its body, even tough the vines that made up its armour were being torn, the pain course through it, its opponent carried on without remorse, paying back the creature that almost murdered it in confusion. The Pokémon fired shadow ball after shadow ball at the black spikes that encased it but to no avail.
The Pokémon was then left exposed as A'drith slashed his opponent down to the ground resulting in a small crater. The black spikes that encased Celebi vanished as the time traveller lay fainted on the ground.
A'drith decided to finish off his opponent as he got a claw up in the air ready to kill his opponent.
"No" The trainer shouted as his Pokémon then turned around to him. "STOP! Don't kill it. We've done enough." He reasoned with the powerful beast remembering the disobedience of his other dragon after evolution, the dragon reluctantly agreed with its trainer and returned to its Pokéball.
The referee then got up of the crouched position that he lay in and declared the winner. Brandon then rushed over to his Pokémon and checked to see if it was alright then returned it into the GS ball before it could cause more harm. "What happened to you Celebi?" he whispered, to the fainted, battered, and bruised legendary. The frontier brain then looked up to apologise for his thick headedness that almost got everybody killed, but didn't see him.
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"Wow" Max uttered.
"I know, that was... wow" Dawn replied, as she quickly let go of Maxs hand, finding out that she had grabbed it all of the time.
"Well I'm all right, what about you guys" Brock asked. Scott, Dawn and Max said that they were fine but May wasn't there.
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Ash made his way out of the stadium, not wanting to be riddled with questions. He walked with Pikachu on his shoulder; unharmed. His hand gripped A'driths black and red ball. He was heading to meet up with Serena (sorry for not including her much)
"Hey" he heard someone utter quietly behind him. He then turned around towards the stadium and saw a familiar face.
He couldn't believe it.
But he did not utter a word.
"Hi Ash" the brunette said once again.
'So she knows' he thought.
"Hi May" he said in a soft voice, if she knew there was no point in hiding anything.
"So how are you doing" she said.
"Fine, I guess" he said remembering his previous battle, and how she had seen it. "What do you want May" he slipped out. He didn't want to be rude, but it just happened.
"I know about what happened Ash" the brunette said in a soft voice slightly hurt by Ash's tone.
"Does anyone else know?" he inquired with memories of his mother filling through his mind. Opening up old wounds once again.
"No. That's why I'm here. I just wanted to be here for one of my friends."
"May we haven't talked in years and were friends now?" he questioned her, remembering their argument.
"But that didn't stop you from helping me in the grand festival, I know it was you Ash" she cried out scared by the fact that maybe Ash didn't want her back in his life. "I just want things like they were before. Don't you remember?" she whimpered letting it all flow out.
"I remember." The trainer stated "But things will never be like they once were, never." He said while looking down to the ground, knowing how he gave up all hope of things once again becoming like they had used to be. Pikachu became puzzled at what his trainer was doing, wondering how stupid Ash could really be.
"Oh" May managed to quietly let out. Tears then began to flow down her cheeks, it took a lot to come up and talk to him, and in the end it didn't even matter.
She then felt a comforting hand on her shoulder, as she looked up into her friends eyes, as hers were still flooded with tears.
"But we can try, I'm sorry for being a jerk May, can you forgive me?" he said while looking deep into her tear filled sapphire eyes. She then launched herself into him in a deep embrace, hugging him by the chest letting the tears flow freely as she held tighter. Ash slowly wrapped his own arms around her pulling tightly, but not too tight; as he closed his own eyes whispering "I'm sorry for hurting you May".
"It wasn't you" she sobbed out. "If I hadn't acted like a jerk it wouldn't have happened at all, I'm sorry Ash. You don't have to apologise for anything, even when we were apart you were still there for me." she sobbed out once more.
"So were both sorry" Ash said calmly, in a deep embrace.
They held to each other, and having no one else around.
Finally together again.
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F.Y.I.
- The Starmie had a blue, yes blue crystal, not a red one. It wasn't a typo. The crystal on a Starmie can shine the seven colours of the rainbow.
-Celibi is considered the Guardian of the forest, while the title of this fic is Guardian Solaris, linking in with the title of this chapter.
- The central stadium resembles the new Wembley stadium in London, except the flame is positioned that opposite to the arc.
- A frontier brain needs a battling style and Brandon's is to overwhelm his opponent from the begging.
- Ancient power was not used as an offensive attack here but to rather power up Ash's unknown Pokémon, and as a side effect it blinded it from view.
-His current team is: Pikachu, Feraligatr, Typhlosion, Meganium, A'DRITH???
-A'drith is like my current avatar in my bios. I may eventually change it to something else. But you can PM me if you want A'drith as my avatar for a week longer as a point of reference. 'K.
- I wonder who the final member of Ash's team is :P
- A'drith had its name changed after I found out that Anorith was already a name of a Pokémon. The name of the basic Pokemon was Zenith, focusing on the Zen portion being how it was the 'chaos' Pokémon. Now the name of the stage 1 is A'drith which resembles adrift, not literally but...you'll find out later.
"Open your mind,
Surely it's plane to see that
You're not alone."
Olive-You're not alone
PLZ R & R
I have a feeling that people are losing interest here seeing as I'm only getting around three reviews per chapter, so please review. I won't stop writing, I just like to listen to reviews.
And now I vanish...