Chapter 20 – Palace Guests
Misty, Tracy, Professor Oak, Lucario, Aaron, Lady Eileen and Ginny all sat in the Palace main hall waiting for Ash, Liza, Charizard, Charla and Flare to return since last night and Tracy with Professor Oak did the fireworks holding the Staff up together enjoying the dance that followed but now morning came they still waiting on the others to come back from the Tree of Beginning.
Kid walk in with her head turn to the doors waving "Thank you Officer Jenny for returning my Hum-vee!" Then she turned around walking up to the others then stopping with a smile hands on the waists. "Right Officer Jenny returned my Hum-Vee and I think we can leave to catch them up if you like"
Misty got up with a narrow eyed creep out look pointing behind her "I don't think you need to look" Kid turn around seeing something glowing then out of no where, Ash, Pikachu, Liza, Charizard, Charla and Flare appeared right in front of Kid the sudden appearance made very jump a scream with the sudden show up from the group. "ASH!!!" Misty roared out at him "What kind of joke are you pulling you scared us all half to death!"
"Sorry Misty" Ash rub the back of his head "We didn't know that Mew Teleport would bring us almost on top of you guys like that" Professor Oak step right in front of Misty with Tracy.
"Mew? You met Mew! What did it look like!? Tell me please" Tracy said with both hands raise against the chest closed up with water coming from his eyes.
Professor Oak said afterwards "Can you take me up there, I always wanted to meet one for real!"
Ash backed off nervously backing off little bit "Please clam down, Flare only went to meet Mew to get her to help out do some Aura Message, it was the last time he had to get in contact with his own family" Ash said to them both. "Then when we plan to head back Mew gave us a little helping hand and teleported us all back here"
"Pikachu" Pikachu nod his head to what Ash said agreeing to it.
Misty looked around "Erm where did Flare and the other two Charizards go?"
Liza looked around as well "Charla?" then there was a small roar of a Charizard then both Charizard and Charla came from the room next door without the armour on now. "Oh I see you two just taking the Armour off"
Oak saw the gear he was looking after was gone then see Flare with his jacket back on with the belt. "Look like Flare back in his originally outfit" Tracy drawing standing right in front of Flare.
Ash wondered about something then asked "Flare do you know Dragon Breath and Overheat? If you don't mind me asking"
Flare heard Overheat and looked really anger Ash stepped a few steps away and hid behind Charizard looking around him then Flare spoke "I would never learn a Trickle Flame, it a weak and useless ability any Charizard in Pokélonum will never learn that." Flare said loudly with fury in his voice the tail burning brightly.
"Flare calm down! Your raging!" Misty said with panic seeing it getting larger.
Tracy ran back to them hiding behind Charizard as well "It that attack, soon as you said Overheat it got Flare really heated up, it must be something to do where he come from."
Lady Eileen and Ginny step in front of them all "Please explain to us all why your upset about this attack Overheat" Lady Eileen said softly to Flare he gritting his teeth then look at her still full of anger.
"Overheat is attack that we all call the Trickle Flame. An attack that is for shamed by all Charizards, I was hit by one by a bunch of bullies when I was only a Charmander" Flare holding up the anger inside then fell to his knees then claw hands on the ground looking down to it. "It was lucky that the affect was useless afterwards but it didn't stop the first one putting me a hospital for months" Flare said with tears falling to the ground. "My parents past the word what happened and since then Charizards sworn that… that Trickle Flame would never be used again and after a mass protesting it was banned to be used ever again and that why it got that name after what it did to me"
They all watched him crying Ginny let her muscles loose then let a breath of air out "That is horrible, I never heard such of a sad thing" Ginny said with a sad look on her face.
Ash walk up to Flare with Pikachu and everyone else Lucario then said "We are all your friends and I can understand why you worked up a rage over it, being toyed with being just a child is wrong in any way" Lucario put a paw hand on his back near to wing connected point the others smiling as Flare looked at each of them
"I am sorry for letting past pains for scaring you all" Flare said sitting up looking at them Pikachu jumping up on to his chest "Pika Pikachu!" Flare look down and put a claw arm around him with a hug the letting out a happy roar.
Kid smiled then turn around she saw something coming in very fast "Everyone hit the deck!"
Ash stood up "huh? Wh… ahhhh!!!" Ash suddenly sees a red and white object come in smashing into him sending Ash and whatever hit him flying into the wall. "Ow. What hit me?" Ash slowly open his eyes then look down seeing "Latias!"
Latias recovered her senses then look right into Ash eyes with her golden eyes and cried out happily and Misty saw the Soul Dew in the water of a glass ball "Look Ash Latias is carrying the Soul Dew"
Ash saw it "Latias what happened?"
Latias try telling him but he couldn't understand any thing then look at Flare "I think your firebrain pill is worn off" Ash said to Flare.
"I gather that Teleport could of made the affect wear off faster" Flare put a claw under his snout rubbing it a little "I advice not using the pill again. It could have unknown side affects and since it specially made for a Char that all three forms for hearing problems, they usually have to take them for life just to hear as normal as anyone else" Flare said to Ash. "So I would take advice to use one again in about a few weeks or so, cause the affect could do unknown things if taken so soon"
Liza looked at Charla who roared with agreement with a claw thumb up "Charla agree to that and so do I. I believe once is enough" Liza smiled to Charla "It no fun understanding Charla all the time, I like a good guesswork" Charla nod with a happy small Charizard roar.
Latias look to Flare and spoke to him then Flare said "Latias said that Alto Mare been attacked and she with the Soul Dew is a target by a evil pokémon of some sort"
"Evil pokémon" they all said at once
"The Black Aura" Sir Aaron said with a low voice, "That must be the evil pokémon Latias talking about"
Mew flew in talking fast "Mew mew mew! Mew mew, mew mew mew!" They all looked up at her then they look at Flare for translation. "Zarkaruio is back? The Ancient Pokémon of the Ancient War is back?"
Ash stood then with a hand on his head "Zarkaruio? If Mew acting like that, this must be the cause of all that Black Aura Lucario and Sir Aaron been speaking about" Ash thought out loud.
Tracy was happy to drew Mew but stopped half way hearing about it "Sound like this Ancient Pokémon is trouble and more then anything we seen before"
"Out of the mouth of a human and a Charizard that could speak the words of humans" They all turned around and Mew freaked out in a flash hiding behind them all. Ash look back at Mew seeing real fear in her then look up at the pokémon that appeared floating down landing on it hind paws with a grin.
"You must be Zarkaruio the Ancient Pokémon!" Ash said with a raised fist.
"And you must be the legendary Ash" Ash opened his mouth a little "Wha?" he looked really confused with wonder what the pokémon was talking about. Zarkaruio shook his head a little then spoke psychically to them "While recapping on Meowths memoirs I came across one thing time after time again, a child named Ash then found on a writing speaking of a legend."
"Titans of Fire, Ice and Lightning will war against each other, the guardian of the sea will come and quell the fighting, on its own it will fail, lust the Earth turns to Ash" Zakaruio said out the words to them. "Then it clicked, you're a one of a kind creature"
"One of a kind indeed" Misty said in a sheepish tone.
Zarkaruio put a paw out and Misty froze unable to move but only breathe "Shut up human" Zarkaruio sneered they all looking scared seeing how easily he did that in one move. "Now where was I" he look back at Ash "You're a real threat to me more then anyone here and what I have to do could back fire so I will put Mew to sleep till midnight tomorrow"
Mew flew up and yelled out "Mew mew mew mew! Mew mew, mew mew!"
"Oh how touching, even I didn't kill you in the Ancient war I did manage to destroy your brother but now his alive cause of Team Rocket, might look different but it still him" Mew looked surprised. "Mewtwo I guess you know him as now but he is very much your brother Mewo"
"Mew!!!!" Mew flew right at him then Zarkaruio aimed a paw hand at her a psychic ball formed fast and fly at Mew hitting her sending Mew flying into Tracy's arms.
"You can't treat Mew like that!" Tracy yelled out at Zarkaruio
Zarkaruio grinned "Oh I can and"
"Mew mew?" Mew questioned looking at him with the blue eyes "I wish it was that simple. Destroying Ash now would make sure I will have no single threat to my conquest of this world but it not. His far too strong now and it would take almost everything I got to crush him" Zarkaruio replied calmly almost like he got a real evil plan up his purple and black fur.
Professor Oak gulped then asked "What would that be?"
Zarkaruio raised his paw hands with the index fingers raised up then move his arms crossing over each other a glow coming from the tips of his claws. "I see how well he do with that Charizard so I come up with a plan to create a curse. Under that curse Ash will have to learn Dragon Breath to undo the Curse if he don't by midnight tomorrow it will be sealed forever" Zarkaruio smirked evilly
"Mew… mew mew…" Mew suddenly felt sleepy then went to sleep "Mew! Are you ok?"
Tracy try waking Mew up "Oh don't bother, my sleep curse will make her sleep till midnight tomorrow." Zarkaruio laughed psychically at them.
Flare then spoke out "I guess your toying with us! Cause you know we all can't do anything to stop you"
"Your right" Zarkaruio look at Flare who had his claw hand shaking at him. "This curse will make sure I can keep toying with you all, so I won't go after Latias or that Soul Dew cause this Curse will have to be undo to stop me." Zarkaruio then look back at Ash and Charizard.
"Charizard Dragon Breath!" Ash gave out a command pointing right at Zarkaruio and Charizard let the attack loose at Zarkaruio.
"MIND SWAP!" Zarkaruio moved his arms away from each other spreading them in their right and left directions a energy pulse two of them fly right at Ash and Charizard the Dragon Breath being stopped without any trouble the two spinning pulses with a wire like energy between them head right at them.
The two pulses hit with a massive blinding flash of light shining through out the palace and Zapdos saw the bright flash with Moltres as they had did their task of contacting two legendary pokémon but as they head back saw the light heading down to it and find out what going on. The light died down, Ash and Charizard both lying on the ground out cold from the attack, Zarkaruio was no where to be seen everyone racing to Ash and Charizard to try and help them out in any possible way to wake them up to see if they was ok.
Flare stood there then took out a device "Alphaflame come to where I am and land" he spoke into it then lower it looking over at them trying to get Ash and Charizard to wake up "I got a feeling we will need the equipment in my craft" Flare whispered in Charizard to himself then look to the window. "Whoever this Zarkaruio is, he has a real amount of power and whatever Ash has really scare him to come all the way out here from wherever he was and do this" Flare frowned hard looking to the morning light of the sun.
