Guardian Solaris
Ages:
Ash-17
Max- 13
May- 15
Brock- 22
Dawn- 13
Serena (OC) – 9
Drew- 17
Brandon- 16
I'm back with the next chapter of GS (I will often use GS as a abbreviation of the fics name) No, the main section of the story does not have much to do with the GS ball
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Ash has his entire starter Johto Pokémon trio because, that was the trio of Pokémon that fits in with the flow of this story, and any other trio would have ruined the whole thing.
Dave, You are both right, as well as that you are right it is impossible, but well... Wait and find out ( I have a nice plan, concerning this, but it may take a while to unfold).
Max recognised Ash in battle because as a trainer, in a battle he could definitely tell that it was Ash. Max is a smart kid so would have been thinking why his opponent is helping him to learn unlike when he battled Brandon and how he has a Pikachu. In battle (the element of each trainer) it all became as clear as day to Max.
Brandon changed his name by one letter :P I won't change it to Brendan because that'll spoil the fact that I am calling him Brandon, and I'll have to edit each page previous to this with that as his name, causing errors. So for the benefit of continuality I'll keep it as Brandon kay.
You're guesses on Ash's currently undisclosed Pokémon, will be answered in this chapter (yes, you are right Bersikans Fury).
Thanks for all of the reviews, and the luck
Slightly anti-shippyness chapter here (not too much), just to add some more, you know, urm, yeah, you know. But there is still some shipping (Advance) involved as well.
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Chapter 16- Someday is Today
"Come on" Max beckoned Ash towards the Pokémon centre. The Older trainer walked slowly, occasionally being interrupted by another fan boy wanting the autograph of the champion of multiple leagues.
Ash merely mumbled as he brushed aside another fan boy, in order to follow Max inside of the Pokémon centre.
"The amount of people that are going to be at my feet in there" Ash muttered as he casually walked into the centre, With Max still further ahead.
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A small group of people made their way into the Pokémon centre.
"So do you know where Ash is?" Dawn asked Serena, almost pleading the young trainer.
"Yes" The young girl said raising Dawns hopes.
"And no"
"WHAT!" Dawn screeched so loud that the windows of the Pokémon centre were close to shattering.
"YOUNG LADY" Nurse Joy intervened from across the reception, "This is no place to shout" She continued, as Dawn became silenced immediately. Serena and May giggled slightly seeing Dawn being put down, for May it was a rare thing to see her in that sort of an embarrassing position.
Brock on the other hand did not seem to be interested at the antics of the others as he scanned around the reception of the Pokémon centre; there were a few people around. Trainers who had lost in the tournament and only remained to see who would win. Out of the corner of his eye the breeder saw a man watching the small group, he attempted to hide himself, but the breeders fox like eyes were trained for this sort of thing and wouldn't be fooled so easily.
"Well, if you're not going to help I'll just have to look for him myself" Dawn said in a resilient tone walking away, deeper into the building, in search for Ash.
"Wait" May said as she then followed Dawn, and in turn was followed by Serena.
The three girls walked down the hallways of the fairly large Pokémon led by a fairly persistent Dawn who wouldn't listen to the reason that the others would attempt to show. Dawn persistently carried on until they saw Max in a conversation with Brandon.
"Hey Max" Dawn said as she walked over to him.
May was about to follow Dawn to her little brother but noticed that Serena was about to walk away. The brunette co-ordinator then put a hand on Serena's shoulder to stop the young girl.
"I know that you and Max don't exactly have a perfect first meeting, but I'm sure he's sorry if you'll only let him have the chance" May asked softly, but Serena didn't seem to register her words.
"Do you have something against me? I've tried to be nice to you and everything, but you still don't trust me enough." May said having finally become impatient with Serena.
"No, I don't have anything against you" Serena lied. "It's your brother that I have something against" Serena said.
"Then if you don't trust him then at least trust me." May said still persistent.
"Alright then" Serena replied finally giving into Mays demand as the two then walked towards Max, Dawn and Brandon.
"Hi May" Brandon said blushing slightly towards her.
Max smirked as the co-ordinator said hi back to Brandon who began to blush even more. He then noticed Serena who was standing besides, and yet slightly behind May not wishing to become a part of the conversation. He also turned away from the young girl who didn't lay her eyes on Max. He was too far in shame of his own actions previously.
But as the young trainer diverted his gaze away from Serena, he realised that something was amiss. He looked around or a second, and once more to see if he had missed something.
But his eyes did not lie, Ash had disappeared.
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Just beyond the group, Ash stood just remaining out of their view, and yet still being able to see them.
He finished off writing an autograph subconsciously for another trainer, as he watched Serena and the others. He was dragged away from Max who had failed to notice how Ash was swamped in a sea of fans wanting autographs, from one of the closest person in the world to be a Pokémon master.
"Mask; Definitely need one. Or maybe a balaclava?" Ash made a mental note irritated about how his identity and achievements put himself into the limelight and disrupted his personal life.
Ash saw as his fan walked away satisfied, and turned around ready to head to Max as he had said to the young boy before. The only problem would be Dawn.
The trainer then felt someone tap him from behind on his shoulder, as he turned around in return to see someone standing right in his face. With barely enough room to breathe, and impossible to notice the other person.
The trainer stepped back worried about his personal space. If it was a fan girl he would find himself naked on the internet, and if it was a boy he would be screwed beyond words.
After he stepped back the face of the other person became clearer to his view. 'Brock'
"H... H..." Ash stuttered back not believing the predicament that he was now in, by just turning around.
"Have you already forgotten who I am Ash?" The breeder asked the trainer.
'Masks £5 from the Pokémart, next time I go there'
"No" he replied shaking off his shock.
"It's good to see you Ash." The breeder said, as his upright and strong appearance began to break down. "I can't believe how long it's been" He said as tears began to roll down his eyes.
"Brock?" Ash said in concern for the breeder who was begging to tear up, as he put a hand upon his shoulder.
"I'm sooooooooooo sorry about what happened Ash" The breeder collapsed onto his knees, and grabbed Ash's leg as a river of tears began to run down his eyes.
"Brock, stop, please Brock. It's alright" Ash said as he noticed that everyone in the Pokémon centre had begun to look at the two.
The breeder then slowed down his tears as they stopped. He then got up and rubbed his face free of the tears that remained.
In another random burst he hugged the trainer tightly in a hug.
"Brock"
"I'm sorry Ash"
"Yes Brock, but could you let go? Everybody's staring." Ash said blushing of embarrassment, as the breeder let go of the tight grip he had, and looked around at the people staring in disbelief at the two.
"So I guess you know as well." Ash said.
"What do you mean? As well?" Brock replied.
Well, you know who I am, and so dose May."
"May? She didn't say anything" Brock said in slight disbelief that May held back such information from her friends. The breeder knew about Serena's link with Ash, but not May.
"I'm sure she has her reasons for not saying anything" Ash said in her defence, he trusted May enough to keep his little secret. Having the fan site know his name would wreak havoc on the trainers' life.
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#Begin Flashback#
Ash had just had a large argument with Dawn and Brock recently after his victory in the Sinnoh league, as he looked onto his two friends as they both walked away in the distance. Tears slowly graced the trainers' eyes, as he saw the two walk away not turning around to see Ash. Expelling the very mention of him from their lives. Just like May and Max had done before, and although Ash had felt the pain of this form of separation before, the pain that it bought was not lighter in anyway.
Pikachu looked up to the trainer understandingly, knowing that Ash running to the other two begging for the forgiveness that he desperately wanted, would not be successful.
Ash had travelled with Brock for nearly all of his journeys, and the bond that the two shared was strong, that the tear left Ash broken. Ash had met Dawn as Pikachu had burnt her bike like Mays, and Misty's, it was apparent to Pikachu that Dawn had some form of feeling for Ash, even though Ash could only see her as a little sister. Dawn would flirt with many other guys to get Ash's attention, and maybe make him jealous, but the trainers' density stopped any hope that the blue haired co-ordinator may have had.
Ash wiped his tears with his arm, as with his other he went over Pokéball after Pokéball, until he found the one that he wanted. He realised the Pokémon that was inside to revile a bright orange Floatzel, Ash had not originally captured Floatzel, but traded it with Dawn as the water Pokémon seemed to be interested in battling, over the contests that Dawn participated in.
Ash kneeled down to the Floatzel and handed it its Pokéball which it grabbed inside of its mouth. It tilted it head slightly to the side wondering what its trainer had in mind.
"Floatzel, I want you to be Dawns Pokémon again. You have been a great Pokémon and that's why I need you to be there to take care of her, because I can't anymore." Ash explained as calmly as he could, although he could not stop his voice from slightly breaking up. His friends, and now one of his most trusted Pokémon, all vanishing from his life one by one.
"Zel" The water type shook his head not accepting the trainers command.
"Please" Ash said as he made contact with the eyes of the water type. "I know that you can take care of her while I'm not there." The trainer said a softly as he could although his voice was still a bit broken.
Floatzel did not say anything more to Ash. Floatzel just turned around and ran. It Ran to Dawn, who had originally caught the water type. Acting as if it didn't care about Ash, he wasn't the one who had caught it so why should Floatzel care for the trainer, but the tears running down its eyes broke through the strong exterior that the water type attempted top show. Floatzel cared, much more that he would admit.
Ash watched as the water type quickly ran towards Dawn, and knew that he had done all that he could and turned around. Going down a road that would leave him as a almost completely different person from who he was originally.
#End Flashback#
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Dawn walked away from the conversation turned heated argument, the young co-ordinator had become irritated about the argument that had to do something about Max using Brandon to something or other with May.
The Sinnoh native gripped a Pokéball, Floatzels Pokéball. As she remembered the mission that she had set herself a few moments ago to find Ash again.
After she had gotten Floatzel back she noticed a change almost immediately in the water type. It was determined to do its best for Dawn. Every time that Dawn may find herself in some form of danger, Floatzel would be the first of her Pokémon who would protect her. Like a big brother would protect his little sibling even though they may not always agree.
Then Dawn realised, that the look of determination inside of Floatzels eyes, the same look of determination that she saw inside of Ash's eyes.
Then she was sorry. But it was too late, and now that she had a small window of opportunity, Mays love life, no matter how much fun it was to get involved in would not be big enough of a reason.
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"So I guess we should go in." Ash said, to Brock.
"Yeah, Dawns going to like seeing you again" Brock said, in a more cheerful tone than his friend. But Ash mind was concentrated more on the subject of weather Dawn would accept him as a friend once more due to their turbulent past. Brock, May and Max were one thing, but Dawn, as Ash could remember was slightly bratty, and able to hold a grudge at times. Not to the extent that Misty could, but still.
As the trainer turned around, he saw a figure that he had not expected to see. Her blue hair, swayed as she looked around, searching for someone inside of the Pokémon centre. But she didn't seem to find Ash.
"Hey Dawn!" Brock shouted from behind of Ash, as it got the co-ordinators attention.
She took a second to register who she was looking at. Not like before in the grand festival, when she went up to the trainer without hesitation, unknowing of who he was.
But she stared for a second, or two as Ash.
'She knows' he thought.
"Ash" Dawn uttered, as she began to run towards the trainer in the hall.
Ash just stood, as Brock took a few steps backwards from Ash.
Dawn continued to run, not showing any signs of slowing down.
She then ran into Ash knocking them both onto the floor with a thud. Ash then got up into a sitting position with Dawn on his side, yet still facing him.
"OW" the trainer said rubbing his head with one hand.
"Ash" Dawn squealed, as she also got up and hugged Ash back onto the ground.
"Dawn" Ash tried to reason.
"Oh, Ash I can't believe it's really you, and I thought that I would never see you again, and it was also you who..." the co-ordinator continued on in excitement, but paused for a moment, before she continued, "you beat me at the festival"
"You could let go now" Ash said noticing that Dawn was still hugging him without having any signs of letting go. Quickly the Sinnoh native let go of her grip, as she blushed furiously.
"It's nice to see you again Ash" She said meekly as he tilted her head down, as the memories of their separation returned, from her sudden burst of excitement. "You know I'm sorr"
The co-ordinator then felt a finger on her lips, stop her apology.
"I've had enough apologies for one day Dawn." Ash smiled to his friend as he got up and helped her up in turn.
"Maybe we should go to all the others now, I'm sure that they would like to see you." Dawn said hoping that Ash would meet May and Max as well.
"They already know" Ash said. Remembering the mental note that he had made earlier.
"THAY KNOW" Dawn said irritated about how her friends knew all about this and yet didn't utter a word.
"Calm down Dawn" Brock decided to intervene otherwise, the siblings would feel the wrath of Dawn. I'm sure they were going to tell you" Brock said as Dawns nerves eased slightly.
"Eventually" he muttered under his breath.
"Speaking of them shouldn't we see them" Brock said as he began to lead, the other two. Dawn began to walk but was stopped by Ash.
"You can let go of my hand now" he said. Dawn then realised her grip almost immediately, and blushed slightly as she ran to catch up with Brock.
Ash merely shrugged this off as Dawn being glad to see him once again, and followed the other two, at his own pace, once again taking up his mask of a hardcore, loner, trainer.
But still unknown to him, Dawn was still blushing, not because of her holding his hand, but because she had managed to sneak in a kiss.
'So it looks like Dawn still has a thing for Ash, hope he doesn't screw things up again' Brock thought, as matchmaking ideas came into his mind.
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"May, I'm sorry about the things that happened in the stadium; I thought that, maybe Celebi would listen to me. She always has before, I don't know what happened." Brandon tried to gain Mays pity, for what had happened.
"Why are you apologising to her?" Serena intervened, saying what May was thinking.
"Well, because, well" Brandon thought.
"Because he likes her" Max blurted out, in his tone that made him seem smarter than anyone else, forgetting to whom he spoke to in a split second.
, therefore breaking his silence to the girl.
Serena glared daggers towards him. Max couldn't help but find his own confidence to speak deflated by the young girls glare.
He stepped back expecting to be ripped apart at that very moment.
But Serena instead, changed her view over to May.
"May?" she said questioningly.
"Yes I do." Brandon said in a proud tone, the frontier brain then gripped Mays hand as a symbol to the young girl. "May I love" but May quickly took her hand out.
"It seems that she doesn't feel the same." The white haired girl said grinning.
"May, you don't" Max said slightly shocked.
"So it was you who tried together little man." May said accusingly, "How dare you play with people's feelings like that" May screeched.
"Sorry, sorry, sorry" Max said quickly, not knowing how much additional stress, Max's plans had put onto her.
"Calm down" another voice intervened into the conversation. The four turned their heads to view a green haired boy walking casually towards the group. Brandon's teeth gritted together, in irritation by the arrival of the co-ordinator.
"Drew?" May said questioningly at the co-ordinators arrival, as she stopped her interrogation towards her little brother, "What are you doing here?"
"Yeah, why don't you just walk away" Brandon intervened, not wanting his competition to get in the way again. But Drew seemed to ignore Brandon's comment, as he continued to make his way to May; he then got out a rose, and gave it to the brunette who blushed in return.
"So it's official May" He said in confidence, after listening in to the conversation that she had just had with the white haired frontier brain.
"What?" She said questioningly.
"You don't like him." Drew said with a smirk, aimed towards Brandon.
"W, Well, not really. Not like that anyway." May said slightly unnerved, as to what Drew's intentions were, and how he would use her words against Brandon.
Drew smirked towards the frontier brain, as the green haired co-ordinator took a hold of Mays hand, as she did not resist.
He then kissed it, causing a shocked expression to go on all except for Brandon who was restraining himself from lunging at Drew; a previous battle had shown him that it would be better to hold in his anger, unless he would want the situation to deteriorate.
May blushed hard, in shock as Drew once again lifted her hand which was free from the rose which he had given previously, and had just kissed. He saw the prominent blush on her cheeks and smirked.
"I'll see you soon May" he said calmly, as he turned and walked away, maintaining his cool guy impression, leaving the rest behind.
The small group just stared, as Drew vanished out of sight.
"Is he, Stalking you?" Serena said, curious as to how Drew was hearing into each and every word of their conversation, waiting for the right time to strike, as the right words were spoken.
The other three looked towards the rash statement that the young girl said, as if it was something incredibly idiotic. But inside of their minds they saw some truth in her words.
"No of course not" May said, still blushing slightly.
"You sure? He looks like the stalker type to me" Serena said, and inside of his mind Brandon agreed with the young girls' opinion.
"Do you even know what stalker means?" May said remembering that Serena was still young and unlikely to know about what she was talking about.
"Well..." Serena began, but was interrupted.
"Nope, he's not here" Max said looking down the corridor in which Drew turned into, causing Serena to smirk holding in her laughter towards the other two who wouldn't admit to believing her.
Max then began to walk towards back to the group after his perimeter surveillance, as he saw a familiar figure come from the opposite end.
"Brock" he called, as the breeder waved and approached down the hall of the centre. Back towards the group, the other three also turned towards the breeder.
Then another figure appeared, and turned towards the group. It was Dawn; the Sinnoh native then turned to her back and dragged someone in by his and to the slight dismay of Max. They all knew who it was, and all but one knew of his name; it was Ash.
Ash glared a irritated look at Dawn for dragging him when he was perfectly able to walk. And if it was anyone else they would have run away terrified while he would send a thousand volts down there systems. But the blue haired girl ignored it and continued to grab a hold of his arm to the laughter of Pikachu.
As they walked, and were dragged towards the main group of four, Max had a large sense of dismay inside of him, just seeing that scene made his stomach churn slightly. The source remained unknown to the young boy from Petalburg, but it did not feel right to him.
Similar to her brother May had received similar feelings of sadness. But, what were they the young girl from Petalburg still was unsure. Just looking at that scene for a second was uncomforting.
'Maybe, it's because they're friends already' She made a reasonable explanation inside of the safe confines of her mind. But the churning inside of her was undeniable.
"H, Hello" Brandon said shakily to Ash offering a handshake in friendship.
His voice interrupted the two siblings' chain of thought as their thoughts vanished.
Ash looked towards, Brandon's offer; He then shook loose Dawns grip that was upon his arm, and looked at Brandon's handshake again.
"I'm really sorry. I have absolutely no idea about what happened to Celebi, and I will make sure that it doesn't ever happen again" he said, but Ash merely ignored his offer and walked towards Serena, Max and May leaving him behind.
"Guys" he said to the three, as they said hello back to the trainer. Although the hard shoulder that Ash gave towards the frontier brain was not entirely ignored.
Brandon gritted his teeth.
"What is wrong with you!" He said as Ash remained with his back towards the frontier brain.
"You talk to everybody else, Mr Big Shot. But I don't think that I am entirely responsible for what happened. Can't you just; let it go" the frontier brain began to rant on, letting his anger show; just as in a battle how he would consume his opponent with overwhelming force from the begging. He may have started down the road to learning to control his anger courtesy of the humiliation gained from losing to Ash.
Btu although the conversation may have moved on from the feelings that Brandon had for May, the idea still stung inside of his mind. He had to let loose his frustration.
"what's wrong with him" Brock whispered over to Max as a short silence from Ash remained.
"May rejected him" the young boy replied, although inside he knew how it was himself who had told Brandon to let it all out. Leaving him shot down in the end.
"Well, what's wrong with you!" Brandon boomed out his frustration once more.
"You're the one with the problem" Ash said calmly. "The idiot who thought that he could control Celebi, even though he knew absolutely nothing. Where did it leave you? At a nice spot in the battle frontier? But what about all of the Pokémon that Celebi could have killed, nearly killed" he said not giving a hint of sadness, but pity for the fool he made Brandon out to be.
"How is that my fault!" he said not picking up on Ash's point.
"Don't you get it!" May said, irritated at the harsh and angry tone at which Brandon was attacking Ash.
"What do you care!" Brandon fired back to the one he cared about in the same harsh tone in which he attacked Ash.
May was taken slightly aback, the only people who had ever spoken to her in that much spite was her rivals. Even when they were arguing Ash didn't speak with the anger that Brandon had.
"Why would you care about ME!" the frontier brain said, as his eyes slightly watered up, and then May knew what was getting to Brandon.
"Brandon" she said as her voice stayed calm, a slight shock from Brandon's tone, "I'm sorry, you're a nice guy and everything. But I don't feel that way about you" she said trying not to make the fall to hard for him, even though it was rather late for that; Drew's intervention at the time that he did made the hit, harder for the Frontier Brain.
"I'm sorry, could we just be friends" May said, exposing the feelings that Brandon would have preferred to keep private.
Brandon kept silent, and began to walk away.
"Wait" May called to him, but he didn't stop.
"Go to your precious Drew" Brandon replied, as he continued to walk away, holding in the pain.
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Brandon sat outside of the Pokémon centre, lost in his own thoughts. No one had come to look for him for the time that he was outside, in his hand he held his GS ball, looking at it, and thinking. He had stayed like that for an inapplicable amount of time. Just looking at the gold, and silver ball in the palm of his hand.
'What should I do'
The Frontier Brain was broken; the girl that he loved didn't feel the same about him. His opponent didn't respect him. Heck he didn't even command the respect of his own Pokémon.
One in particular.
Ash's words continued playing in the back of his mind.
'Knew absolutely nothing' At the time it didn't seem like much, but for some reason it continued to nag at him.
'Why?' he thought, shouldn't his feelings come first?
Before anything else?
He continued to be perplexed, as Ash's words although spoken calmly, made a large impact upon him.
'The idiot' Ash had said before.
"What dos e he know?" Brandon said under his breath. After all he barely knew this guy, yet it continued to hit him inside, more than his feelings to his childhood companion, and more than...
... His duty to his Pokémon.
'Where did it leave you?' Brandon then began to understand what it meant. His status, in Ashes eyes was a souvenir, the fact that he had a legendary Pokémon, was still nothing.
There was only one thing that Brandon could do.
He stood up from sitting down for what seemed to be ages; he took the GS ball in his hand, and released the time travelling Pokémon inside of it.
Celebi came out and Brandon remembered what the Pokémon had done before, and became scared of what it may do now.
Celebi came out of its ball and flew up, it then stared down to its trainer, its eyes were still slightly dark.
Brandon prepared himself to be attacked, but instead Celebi lost its flight, and crashed upon the grassy earth, clutching its head in pain, as Brandon cautiously approached the time traveller.
He tried to pet it, but Celebi swatted its trainer away with its small hand.
Inside of the small Pokémon's mind; a war raged on.
The frail consciousness that had protected the forest for what seemed like an eternity, just like Arceus had ordered during the 'Creation'. Past, Present, and Future was the domain of the psychic type. Yet never before had Celebi faced a sharp pain like the pain it was experiencing at that moment.
What was wrong, eluded the psychic type, as it recalled a time like this when it had been captured inside of a dark ball. A moment which Celebi had tried its hardest to fight back but its consciousness was pushed back. Celebi didn't want to harm the innocent spectators, or the Pokémon, but after the first hit was fired.
The monster was unleashed, and there was nothing that the True Celebi could do because it was chained back.
Brandon tried to pet his Pokémon once again, but in return Celebi charged a weak energy ball to distance its trainer. It was for Brandon's own safety.
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"Shouldn't we help?" May said to Ash as the group hid around the corner. They had not approached the Brain as Ash said that it would be better if he was alone. After this most recent attack May felt the need to help him, she may not love him in the same way, but she did care about him as a friend, that much was true.
"No, let him do this by himself. He needs to" Ash said, as Brandon gathered his strength and stood up. May looked at Ash's face to see if he knew what he was doing, and was reassured when he held upon her shoulder, like when she needed him to give her reassurance during their travels together in Hoenn, and when she almost gave up on her dreams.
The dreams that Ash had tried so hard to build, and try to make a reality.
She just smiled back at him knowing that he was doing the right thing.
But unlike Brandon she knew that here was something wrong, something that Ash had not touched upon even tough May felt that he knew.
The mystery as to why Celebi went berserk, but May remembered something that she had heard about, Celebi only appearing at times of peace, what did that mean.
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Brandon was sent crashing back by another light energy ball; he gathered his strength once more and stood up. He had deduced that maybe a direct approach on the confused Pokémon wasn't really the best thing to do.
"Celebi" Brandon said, although it didn't seem to be listening as it continued on in its internal battle.
"I don't know what to do, but you're free, just tell me what I can do to make things better?" Brandon said, in hope that he would get an answer.
Still his Pokémon seemed not to be able to hear his words.
Brandon gave up, as he grasped the GS ball in his hand ready to return it back into its ball. But then Celebi bean to glow a bright green light, freezing those who watched on in secret.
Several rings of energy expanded from Celebi, as it began to vanish, then it was gone, to a distant time, leaving only a small ring in its wake.
"Celebi, wherever you are. I hope that you are alright." Brandon said, as he looked at the position that Celebi was in. But couldn't help but feel a bit sad, it was only because of the time traveller, Brandon could make it to the position of a frontier brain. Without it where would Brandon's life lead to?
"Well, well, well" a mocking voice came from the distance; Brandon looked around, only to see the last person that he wanted to be there.
"Drew" he sneered towards the green haired co-ordinator, it seemed that due to their rivalry over May he would always be waiting to pounce, at the most inappropriate times, only to add salt to the wound.
"Well, what do we have here? Looks like you've just given up your ticket to the big leagues" he mocked referring to Celebi.
"What does it have to do with you?" Brandon sneered, becoming irritated by the green haired co-ordinator.
"So what will you do now? Without Celebi you're nothing, finished. I bet that you only got to be a Frontier Brain because you had Celebi" Drew ranted on not paying attention to Brandon's words.
Brandon decided not to speak, Drew was right. But then as he was looking away, he heard a large smacking sound.
The brain immediately looked up, and saw Drew red on the cheek, as he rubbed it, and on the other side, he saw May, looking out at her handy work.
"Just Shut up Drew!" She screeched, "I won't take you making my friends feel like dirt" she said as Drew regained control of his body from the shock of the sneak attack.
"What are you talking about, I thought you hated him" he shouted back.
"I don't hate him, and I don't love him at least not in that way. He is my friend, and you might have treated me like dirt all the time thinkin' that a rose will make things better, but I won't let you treat my friends like that!" she screeched once again, as Brandon looked on in amazement.
Drew grew angry, as he clenched his fist, and threw it at May, even though he had said that he had loved her.
But it never made contact as Ash gripped it in his palm before it could.
A second passed, as Ashes face grew angry, he then pushed Drew back several steps, by pushing the co-ordinators palm. Drew had to stumble back to maintain his balance.
"Walk away Drew" he said, but Drew didn't remembering the way in which Ash had humiliated him in the grand festival.
The green haired co-ordinator, gripped one of his Pokéballs in his hand, ready to let his Pokémon do his dirty work.
But then he is action stopped, as a blur passed in front of his face, closely followed by a tuft of his hair.
The others looked on as Drew slowly turned his head towards hi right to the assailant.
"Bu-Tops" the brown shellfish like Pokémon snarled as it held out its large scythe like claws it front of Drew, ready to strike.
Drew, stood perfectly still as not to agitate the ancient Pokémon.
"Have you heard that Kabutops can suck the blood out of its victims, while they are still alive." Ash said to a still stiff Drew, "so if i am you, and I'm glad that I'm not. I would run, before he gets hungry." Ash finished off, Drew thought about his choices for a second, and slowly stepped backwards, and away from, the vampire like, ancient Pokémon. Kabutops maintained his threatening demeanour, which had terrified Pokémon who were a lot tougher than Drew by far.
Its mouth seemed ready to kill, as its razor sharp claws in which it had used to capture its prey, glinted to show there sharpness.
The air remained tense, as Drew slowly walked back, further and further away from all of them. When he was at a safe distance, he pointed at the three, and gave out a warning.
"May, you made a big mistake, you could have been safe with me May. I'd watch out if I was you, Darkness is coming." The co-ordinator said, as he then turned and ran in case the ancient Pokémon may have given him chase
When out of sight, Kabutops, faced Ash, and saluted him with his claw, his eyes gave a slight glance towards May knowing of her shameful habit, but returned back to Ash.
"Nice job Comrade" Ash said as he returned Kabutops back into its stone ball.
"wow" Max and Dawn said in unison as they came out of there little hiding spot with Brock and Serena.
"So I guess he was the powerhouse that obliterated me?" Brandon said in return, still slightly down from Drew's words.
"Yeah" he replied preparing to become bombarded by questions, and he was, as Dawn, Max, and even Brock began asking questions at the speed of light.
May hesitated to ask any questions, as she felt slightly unsure about Kabutops. It seemed to know something about her that she would rather not disclose, although its appearance was welcomed by May, with her experience with Drew he could get out of control if tampered with.
The group continued to ask Ash questions, as May whispered her thanks to Ash, no one heard. Except for the only one out of the confusing bombardment of questions, who was Serena. The white haired girl didn't say anything but smiled.
"Guys, I'll answer your questions, later" Ash said irritated by the bombardment of words aimed at him. They all then stopped, as Ash asked Brandon a question.
"So Mr Frontier Brain, what are you going to do now?" wondering how much of an impact Drew's untimely appearance had made.
"Well, ur, I, well" Brandon ran through his thoughts, seeing that Ash finally began to talk to him.
"You're going to start from the beginning" May interrupted, causing everyone to look at her inquisitively.
"Huh?" Brandon said.
"Well, you're going to train your Pokémon from the beginning and get better, isn't that what every trainer dose when they get down?" May said a she shot a slight glance to Ash. Brandon nodded in agreement.
"yeah, and I'm going to battle you when I see you again Ash" he said beginning to get the message.
"I'll look forward to that" the raven haired trainer replied, he then began to walk away, and waved to Brandon, "Se ya"
"Where are you going?" Dawn shouted out to Ash.
"To eat, I'm hungry" he replied, as the group noticed how the sun had already set and the only light came from street lights in the distance, and from the windows of the buildings in the area.
The group, the followed Ash thinking that he had the right idea, although Brock thought about how the more things changed the more they had stayed the same.
May started to follow but was stopped by Brandon's voice.
"May thinks for sticking up for me there"
"No problem" she replied
"You may not like, like me. But at least were still friends" he said.
"Thanks Brandon" she replied, happy that things had remained relatively the same between them.
"and May"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sure that Ash will make you happy" Brandon said as he went in the opposite direction. May wondered what he meant by that statement, but shrugged it off and ran up to Ash, and the others, who were now waiting for her.
They all knew that they would be reunited someday. That Someday, was today.
Unknown to her someone was watching the events that had transpired patiently.
He smiled, as they all walked away, not knowing that he was there, as he didn't wish to revile himself, his past, or his intentions for the future. As that would destroy the ones he cared about and he couldn't let that happen.
"So it looks like the Guardian of the Forest is out of the game already, and he has a Kabutops, interesting?" he said under his breath.
Soon he would have to make his move.
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F.Y.I.
-I needed a reason why Floatzel was on Dawns team in the grand festival ever since I found out that they traded their Pokémon.
-Dawns character may seem very OOC at times, as I haven't really seen the D/P series. I base her character from what I have heard by the 'word of mouth' of others. If you're thinking why he doesn't just add Misty instead? It is because she has her own part to play, which is currently separate from the group.
- The concept of Ragnarök will come into the storyline again, very soon. There was a small hint at the begging, and end of the chapter, concerning more central events.
- Some people have a moment, when you know that something is going to hurt but there is that small period of time before it happens, and you just think. This is going to hurt so mu, OW.
I know I have. And before Dawn crashed so did Ash.
- You know that it is Kabutops, but now you don't know about the origins of it, or the identity of the new Mr Mystery, it is shocking when you find out.
- I may include slight Pearlshipping, nothing serious, at least unless I change my mind. But be assured that this Will remain Advanceshipping.
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"You play with fire,
You're going to get burnt"
Learnt that the hard way
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And now I vanish...