Back again, this was probably the hardest one to write and allot of things are revealed. With that said, on with the chapter.

Chapter 6: Bad History.

"What happened?" Ash shouted again, getting no answer. Once Delia had calmed down, she broke away from Oak "There's something I need to tell you" she walked into the living room not saying a word, deep in thought about what she is going to say. The rest of the group tried to follow but was stopped by Oak "They'll need some time alone." The group nodded and walked to the small table in the kitchen.

Delia sat down on the couch with Ash next to her "Ash, this is going to be difficult to say."

"What is it?"

"You're not the oldest."

"What?" Ash said with wide eyes.

"You're the 3rd oldest, your brothers are 29 and 26."

Ash was lost for words "W..Why haven't I seen or heard from them?"

Tears started to form in her eyes "Painful memory's Ash... Something happened years ago and he left." Ash looked hungry for more information about his new sibling "I don't know how he's going to react knowing that James isn't here." Ash looked at the ground, he couldn't remember the last time he heard his father's name, the name was like a dark cloud in his mind.

"I haven't seen him in 21 years... Ash" He turned his attention to Delia "If anything happens, just know that... That" Delia didn't know how to finish that sentence, but by chance someone knocked at the door causing Delia to run into the next room.

She opened the door and hugged the first person that was there. Once she had stopped crying and hugging she turned to Ash.

"Ash... This is your brother Nathan." Nate walked up to Ash and shook his hand. Once he was in shaking distance Ash noticed something about Nate, he had quite a few scars. The most noticeable ones being on his eyebrow, his lip and one down each of his forearms. He was wearing blue jeans, a plain shirt and a jacket.

"It's good to finally meet you Satoshi."

"Nice to meet you, and call me Ash."

The next person to walk though the door was Coeden who was stronger, older and had even more scars, the biggest one was the one going from the top of his eyebrow the the bottom of his eyelid. He had a similar attire to Nate.

"Oh" Delia put her hand over her mouth "What happened?"

"It's been a long time since I left." Delia once again started to cry but this time through sadness "I'm sorry Pren... I'm so so sorry."

"Hey, I didn't think I was That ugly" Coeden joked trying to stop Delia from becoming dehydrated through crying. Coeden looked down at Pikachu who was staring at the door "I know who you're looking for, Come on Raichu." Raichu walked through the door, he had followed Coeden against his word.

"Pi!"

"DAD!" Pikachu ran towards Raichu with arms wide "I'm here."

"I...I." Pi didn't know how to create a sentence.

"I promise that I'll stay, I'm sorry I left you."

Flashback.

Pikachu was sitting underneath a enormous oak tree, deep in thought.

Where could he be?

Pikachu's thought was broke when Luca jumped down from the branch above him.

"What you doing here?" Luca asked.

"Just thinking about Coeden... Where do you think he is?"

"I don't know, it's been 5 years... Unless he's found a way to eat... He might be dead..." Pikachu didn't want to think about that possibility, but it wasn't impossible, Pikachu sighed "Well, we should head back."

"Yeah, your misses it due soon." Pikachu and Luca ran back to there camp. When they arrived at the camp, they could hear screams "Well I guess were a bit late." Pikachu sprinted over the where the screams was coming from.

Pikachu's other half was laying down on her back with a blanket across her legs and Zoroark at her 'Lower End' Pikachu bumped him out of the way "Do you mind?"

"Well you should of been here, don't be a dick."

"Will you both shut the fu..." She was interrupted by another contraction, "She's about 6 centimeters."

"What?" Pikachu asked, not knowing anything about birth.

The screams continued as Pikachu's child was being born.

Half An Hour Later.

"Come on! Only a little bit further!" Zoroark said, he'd taken over as Pikachu didn't know what he's doing. As the baby was getting closer to being born, she started to fade in and out of consciousness. Pikachu noticed this and said "Stay with me, it's almost over don't pass out." She fell backwards just as the baby was born "It's a boy!" Zoroark said smiling "I should hand you over to daddy shouldn't I" Zoroark said.

He handed him over to Pikachu, he leaned over to her "It's a boy! We agreed on Pi didn't we?" Pikachu started to worry when she didn't respond until Hunter said "Don't worry, I can still see the life in her."

"You can do that?" Said Swablu.

"I think Pikachu needs sometime alone." When they all turned to where he was standing, no one was there but they did manage to catch a glimpse of him walking into one of the tents, which was more like a piece of cloth supported by logs.

Half An Hour Later.

Pikachu was standing facing away from the the entrance to the tent, holding Pi in his arms "You've got TINY hands!" He put one of his fingers in his palm, causing his hand to close around it "You learn quick."

Zoroark walked through the door "Pikachu..." When he turned around, Zoroark had red eyes but tried to have a stern face.

"What's a mater?"

Zoroark's eyes started to water and his face broke again into sadness "Her disease have caught up to her."

"W...What." Pikachu handed Pi to Zoroark and ran out the door.

Everyone surrounded her tears flowing down there faces, she laid there in bliss. He ran over to her "Hey, you awake? Come on... No... Please, please no." She laid there with a calm expression on her face, she would no longer feel and pain. Pikachu grabbed the fur on her chest and screamed "NO, YOU CAN'T LEAVE... I don't know what to do with out you!" His cries of pain and sadness added to the pools of tears that surrounded them. She had suffered from multiple disease, many of which are incurable. Pikachu laid by her side, face buried in her neck. Zoroark held Pi facing towards him, his young innocent face unaware to his mothers death...

Flashback End.

Pi looked up in his eyes then broke away, slightly embarrassed. His fathers eyes showing sadness, he still doesn't know.

Coeden turned to Delia.

"Speaking of Dads, where is he?" Coeden said, smiling through clenched teeth. Delia looked towards the ground, hoping that he wouldn't over react "I'm sorry Coeden, he left after Ash and Lucas was born." Coeden started to walk in circles, mumbling to himself until his anger boiled over "4 Fucking times he's left!" Coeden then walked outside, soon followed by Delia "Coeden!?" Coeden had his head in his arm leaning against the wall of the house "I'm fine mum, just let me be." Ash walked outside as Delia walked in.

Coeden quickly moved away from the wall when he saw Ash "L...look Ash I'm sorry... sigh, I'm just glad him leaving didn't effect you so bad." Coeden looked towards the forest "Should we go on a walk, I can remember a place that me and Nate used to go."

"Sure, why not." Ash said, feeling slightly anxious but tried not to show it.

Coeden and Ash started to walk towards the gap in the trees "Come on, we'll need to run if we want to get there by sun set." They both quickened up the pace and set off to where ever Coeden was taking him.

It had taken them a while to get to the place of which Coeden spoke of, so long that it was beginning to become night time, the stars just starting waking up in the sky. Coeden walked up the hill and sat on the slop facing the moon "This is the place where me and Nate went when ever we needed to get away from civilisation, you're the only other person to come here." Ash stood behind Coeden, jaw wide open in the darkening landscape.

"I'm surprised I haven't seen this place before, you'd think after living here most of my life I'd know the area." Ash sat next to Coeden and asked "So... Why did you leave?"

"I can't say, but it wasn't Nate's fault, he's always blamed himself for it."

"Sigh, why can't you tell me?"

Coeden said with frustration and sadness "Look, there is a lot about Ketchum's that you don't know, and frankly I never want you too, there's someone who tore our family apart." Ash looked confused about who he was talking about.

"But I can show you this." Coeden pulled down the collar of his shirt to show a tattoo of 2 snakes interlocked "This is the symbol of our family, our blood. The Orin will provide protection, hope and strength, if you ever are lost and need guidance, look for this. Oh and don't tell mum, this is something between us." Ash nodded and they continued to look upon the moon.

"So... What's happening with Dawn?" Coeden asked. Ash just laughed "Never mind that, what's you team?"

"Arceus I hate that word, I always feel that they're family, but anyways there are Zoroark, Alakazam, Raichu, Luca, Altaria and Gengar."

"So mainly special attacking team."

"Yep, hyper offensive, but they can all take hits pretty well."

"So where are they?"

"They are at Viridian City, Nate was nervous coming back so only me and Nate came."

"What was that other tattoo?" Coeden looked down to where Ash was pointing "Dio... He's the one who has been there for me..." the tattoo in question was Dio's name above a skull with his hair and bat wings and below that was two dates "I can guess by there being two dates that he's no longer with us."

Coeden closed his eyes and grabbed onto an Orin that hanged by his neck "Gorffwys Mewn Heddwch, Rwyf wrth fy modd i chi" Ash realised how much Dio means to him, but not to the extent had he actually did. They both continued to stare at the moon, letting the night drift away.

Poke-Centre, Viridian City.

Ash was asleep laying on Entei in the corner, all of the Pokemon's kids were huddled asleep around Entei. Rufus, Mari, Ley and Cynthia were sitting around a table. "How long does he need to take?" Asked Ley.

"I know, I'm getting worried if something happens." Cynthia replied. Rufus started to move around in his seat, he didn't think about how Coeden can become when he remembers anything to do with the past, or even his farther. This worry caused him to walk towards the Pokemon who were sitting on a table opposite them and say "Luca, can you go and look for Coeden."

"Ok" Luca turned to Ryusui who knew what he was going to say "Can I Pleeease stay up."

"No, you're already up late and Yin and Yang will end up doing something and you'll get involved with it, now go to Heddwch and go to sleep."

Ryusui walked over to Heddwch and laid next to him and the others "Rufus, make sure he doesn't get up" Luca's eyes began to glow violet and disappeared.

Hill, Just Outside Of Pallet Town.

Luca appeared behind a tree, he looked over at Coeden he was grabbing the Orin 'Oh shit, don't say anything Satoshi'

Coeden open his slightly red eyes "Don't think I don't know that you're there."

Luca stepped out from behind the tree "How did you know he was there?" Ash asked in confusion.

"It's a bond a person can have with a Pokemon but it should only be done with the children of Arceus, when you attach your self, you share a single soul and said child can appear from your mind."

"That sounds cool, but how did you do it? How does it work?"

"Well, it can happen when you and another have been around each other for a while, once you build up that link and friendship the child can link your souls together. After a while of you being attached to one of the children, you become more and more of a single entity, then you can see what they see, think what they think and feel there pain, if you attach to someone who isn't a child, you go striate to the full attachment."

"How is that bad?"

"Hehe, well that all depends on what type the Pokemon you're attaching to say a fire type, you will burn from the inside out, your blood will boil and you can die through burning alive. Ice Pokemon, hypothermia. Water, drowning. You also have there voice in you head, until you can control it, which takes about 3 months"

"Why in the fuck would you do this!?"

"Well a fire Pokemon will stop you from feeling fire, but an advantage for someone like you is that you can give orders with out speaking making battles easier."

"Still sounds like it's not worth it."

"Well then don't do it" Coeden turned to Luca "So why are you here?"

"They were getting worried about you." Coeden just shook his head.

"I think it's a bit short notice for everyone to come down, can they stay there until tomorrow?"

"Ley's going to get pissed off."

"When isn't she, oh and Luca" He walked over to Luca "Ask Rufus and Mari to get some information about the law."

"Oh for fuck sake Pren Gwyrdd, you always get you self back into shit... Just stop, you know what happened with the family and team plasma and it'll happen again."

Coeden started to roll his neck, trying to keep his anger back "Look Coeden I'm sorry I brought it back up but, that's the kind of shit that happens."

"I'm fine" Coeden said, shaking his head to get rid of the memory's "Just keep calm, if you get angry, just come here... And don't kill anyone" Luca said.

"Give me a bit of rep, I'm allot better than what I was."

"Is this something that I should stay out of?" Ash asked, he didn't know how to react, being completely in the dark about everything that sets Coeden off or why it does "Sigh, I'm sorry that I have to keep everything away from you, I do it because I care, you'll get hurt other wise." The group stayed in silent until Luca disappeared once again.

Poke-centre.

Luca appeared in the centre of the centre Cynthia ran towards him "Is he ok? Is Ash ok?"

"Yes just... Wait here." Luca walked over towards the table of which everyone else was sitting "Coeden was asking for you to try and get info about the law, what ever he asks, don't you fucking dare go looking for them!"

"We wont, why would we go looking for someone who is after Coeden?"

"Who's after Daddy?" Ash had poked his head above the chair, he was listening in on the conversation "Shit, no one Ash" Luca picked up Ash like a baby and put him back over with Entei "Is Dad ok?"

"He's fine"

"Will the bad people come after me?"

Luca teasel his hair "No of course not, Entei will never let you get hurt" Ash laid back down in his original position.

Pallet Town.

Delia was walking around in the kitchen, nervous about where Ash and Coeden was "Why are they not back yet?"

"Calm down Mrs Ketchum, they'll be back soon." Said Garry in the living room, he turned to Barry "So how was Ash in Sinnoh?"

"It's been tough, some times when he's lost ...I...I just... Don't know... Something just comes over him, just like what happened with Norman."

"What happened?" Garry turned to Dawn who wiggled in her seat, wishing that he didn't say that "Well, he'd never liked Ash and... he pushed him too far and he snapped." a tear was forming in her eye, remembering what she said to him, she'd never understood why things were how they were, how she felt. Garry picked up on her thought, he'd always managed to read people "Well... I'm going to have words, we all know what's happened in the past, we can let this happened too are friend."

Ash and Coeden walked through the door to be met with Delia "WHAT TIME DO YOU CALL THIS?" Nate stood up from the couch "Don't blame them, Coeden has bad memory problems, his mind can fade from time to time, sometimes just forget everything."

"For fuck sake Nate, don't just say it flat out."

"Coeden, don't use that kind of language, anyway you've both missed dinner."

"It was really good" Shouted Barry from the living room, knowing how Ash hates missing food.

"I wasn't that hungry anyways" Ash said.

"Well that's a first" Garry said walking from the living room "Ash come to your room, we need to talk." Both Ash and Garry walked upstairs "God I hope they don't get into an argument." Dawn said, looking nervous.

Ash's Room.

Ash sat down on the bed "So, what's a matter?"

"What the fuck happened with Norman?"

Ash's head dropped looking at the ground in a mix of embarrassment and anger "He's always been in my face, ever since I'd got there, it was a long time coming."

"That still doesn't give you the right to hit 'im, you almost ruined what you have with Dawn."

Ash looked sad and confused "What do you mean?"

"You can't be a dumb shit for ever, we both know that you like her you're just to thick headed to get that."

Ash was red as a tomato and was catching him self on his words, did he really like her "W...What?"

"Arceus you're dumb, everyone knows it, it's why Norman been a dick."

Ash looked at the ground in shock, he'd never thought of anyone like this and didn't know how to react, Coeden walked into the room "So little Ashley is finally growing up."

"DON'T CALL ME ASHLEY!"

"What do you prefer? Ashy-boy?" Gary followed.

Ash shook his head, smiling "I can tell you two will get along fine."

Garry looked at Coeden "Oh... I can take the hint."

Coeden walked out of Ash's room "All jokes aside... You have to keep this under control, if you let you emotions get a hold of you, someone is going to die... It's what happened to Gabite." A tear formed in Ash's eye in the memory of this fallen friend.

Flashback.

Ash and Garry was walking down Route 10 leading towards the Rock tunnel, it was a dark night, there was no light light aside from the moon, which got covered with a layer clouds. They had been walking for a while until they heard a noise coming from a bush, when they went to investigate, they found a group of Houndoom's surrounding a mutilated bodies of a trainer and 2 Eevee's, the Eevee's were both clearly dead, with organs on the floor and the other only being fur and bone "WHAT THE FUCK, GET OUT OF HERE."

The Houndoom's turned to fight but was deterred by Garry who grabbed a log and hit the Leader of the pack causing great damage to his head. "What the fuck" Garry started gagging "Wha...How can they get away with this?"

"There not, call the police, and get an extra ambulance ready for anyone who had a part in this." Ash started to run in the direction of which the Houndoom's ran "ASH! COMBACK... Fuck... He'd better not hurt anyone... I hate talking to police" Garry got out his phone and called the police.

Ash had released Gabite, the only Pokemon he had as he left his belt with Garry to deter him from battling and was after of the Pokemon who had run into The Rock Tunnel, after running aimlessly, Ash found a large structure and was listening into the conversation of the grunts "What the hell have we got into?" Asked one of the grunts.

"What do you mean?" Asked grunt 2

"What do you think? We have 5 Houndoom's who just killed and ate a person."

The first grunt walked up to the leader of the pack "And they killed the Eevee's, the one thing we needed to catch that little Eevee."

"It was my fault, we don't get fed and we jus..." The leader was hit around the face where he was hit by Garry, causing him to whimper "How did you get this cut?"

"We... We caught by a human so we ran." He was once again hit him, sending him to the ground "Just great, if this get media coverage we're fucked."

Ash come out from his hiding place "Oh I think that's a given." The second grunt just laughed "You said we done feed you, well... Dinners served." The grunts walked into the building leaving the Houndoom's with Ash, all of the dog like Pokemon look extremely skinny, starved to madness, shaking as they got closer to Ash.

"Gabite, use Draco Meteor!" Gabite formed a blue ball between his jaws and sent it flying up into the air, the ball broke into smaller balls and landed on the battle field knocking the Houndoom's down, the Houndoom's all got up, like the dead coming back to life the promise of food was too strong, they couldn't feel pain.

"Um... Gabite use Dragon Claw!" Gabite's hand started to glow as he ran towards the Houndoom, but before he could strike, one of the Houndoom's wrapped his jaws around his leg, and sunk his teeth deep into his flesh, with blood stained teeth the Houndoom quickly jerked his head sideways, ripping flesh from the bone. 2 of the other houndoom did the same.

Ash ran towards the group to try and stop the murder of his friend, only to be knocked back by one of the Houndoom's, teeth showing and hungry for food. Ash looked around to see if there was anything to stop his appending doom, Ash saw a gun atop of the box and ran towards it, aiming at the Houndoom... And fired, the sound echoed through out the cave.

Garry, with dead people.

Garry was with the police explaining what happened "We heard a noise coming from the bush and there was 5 houndoom's just eating them, I hit one of them with a log and they ran off." The Officer was writing everything down on the pad "You would be in trouble for assaulting a Pokemon, but this is more serious" Once the Officer had finished talking, the gunshot was heard "Oh for fuck sake" Garry had grabbed a hold of Charizard's Poke-ball "Ash is in trouble! Go find him!" Charizard nodded and flew towards the Rock Tunnel, soon followed by an army of Officer Jennie's.

Rock Tunnel.

The Bullet had gone through the head of the Houndoom, sending a mix of skull shrapnel and brains out onto the ground. The other 4 houndoom's stopped with Gabite and turned there attention to Ash. Ash backed up until his back was on the wall of the cave, he closed his eye's and looked away from them "Well this is how it ends." when the Houndoom's was a metre away from Ash, Charizard burst into the cave knocking them back.

With the sounds of everything, the grunts ran out to see what had happened, when they came out of the building they saw what had happened to Gabite and when they looked up, they started to shake as Charizard flew towards them. Ash once again looked the other way, all he could hear was the screams of a dead man, then the snapping of bones.

With Charizard distracted by the grunts, the leader Houndoom jumped towards Ash, sinking is teeth into his right shoulder, causing him to scream in pain "CHARIZARD!" Charizard looked back at Ash and ran towards him knocking the Houndoom's out of the way as he did. When Charizard had pulled the leader off of Ash, the Officers all ran into the cave and detained the Houndoom's.

Some Time Later.

Ash was sitting in Charizard's arms, unconscious because of blood loss "Why did I do that" Pikachu was standing on Ash "He'll be fine, I'm more worried about you."

"Why?"

"You just killed 2 people and they have no prof that they had anything to do with it, they're going to try and put you down."

"W..What?" Charizard looked down at Ash, 'I didn't want to leave Ash, he'd always been there for me, if it was when my tail nearly went out, when he fought for me when the guy who left me wanted me back and even when I would burn him in my teenage years' tears started to form in his eyes "I don't want to leave him."

Some of the Officer's started to walk around Charizard "You have to him down, you are under arrest for murder of two people and the attempted murder of Satoshi Ketchum."

Charizard started to shake his head "No...no no no" the Officer's walked towards Charizard and put a electric pole choker around his neck, causing him to drop Ash. Garry ran to Ash's side to make sure he's ok.

Charizard was lead into the middle of the cave and when ever he resisted, he was shocked with 5000 volts once he was in the middle of the room, a long shock coursed through him, forcing him to his knees. Pikachu was being held back by one of the Officer's to stop him from running in. An officer slowly walked up to Charizard and put a gun to his head "May Arceus have mercy on your soul."

"Stop!" The Officer's all looked around to see Ash had woken up "It was the Houndoom's who ate them, Charizard just came in to stop them from hurting me." The officer's let go of Charizard who ran towards Ash and keeled in front of him "You've got allot of blood on you're teeth" a drop of blood landed in the middle of Ash's forehead, Ash suddenly tried to get up "Where's Gabite?" Garry put his hand on his shoulder "Ash you need to sit down, you're too weak."

"Get the fuck off me, where is he?" Everyone moved out of the way of Ash to revealed Gabite's body, he was missing half an arm, a leg and laying in a pool of blood, Ash walked up to Gabite, fell to his knees in the blood. "Why did I go after them, it's all my fucking fault."

Flashback End.

Ash was looking at the ground, with him discovering his feelings and the memory's of his fallen friend, he didn't know what to say "We've both had losses of a good friend and bad things happen, none of us want to go through that again."

"I know, I know I just... Something comes over me, I just... Can't control it."

"We just have to work on it, maybe Coeden can help?"

"I don't want to bother him." Garry patted Ash on the back "We'll ask him later, but for now we need to talk to Dawn about where she's going to stay, or if she's going back." Garry and Ash walked back down stairs.

Once they have gotten down stairs, Ash looked up to see a square hole in the ceiling "What's that?" Ash asked.

Coeden poked his head out of the hole "This leads into mine and Nate's room."

"That's why I've not ever seen it, how do you get up there?"

"Well we're just fixing that" Coeden grabbed a bar, and started to drill it on to the ceiling. "You get up using this, like monkey bars." Ash looked further on in the ceiling to see multiple holes in the ceiling "What are they?"

Delia walked over to expect the holes "Oh that's it, Coeden couldn't walk very well for the first 4 years of his life, so we... Well I put up these so he can move around the house, it was the cutest thing."

"Sweet Arceus mum! Why did you say that?" Coeden went back into his room, Ash jumped up to the bar, swung backwards and forwards and jumped up into Coeden's room where him and Nate were putting a new carpet down, the room seemed very bland, all of the walls were plain plaster board, aside from one wall which brightens the room. On the wall was a painting of Nate, Coeden and his team when they were young, they were sitting on the hill that he took Ash to and the Pokemon playing around them "Did you draw this?"

"Yeah, I was 6 and because of my... Um... I spent 4 days making it." Ash just looked at the painting, it seemed that every detail was met. Between the trees there was a black spot with red slanted eyes, the same eyes Ash had seen before in his nightmares, the same eyes Norman seen in his fight with Ash. Coeden noticed that Ash recognised it and said "Come on, we both know what needs to be done."

Ash sighed, he didn't want to ask about whether she is going to stay, mostly because he knows about his feelings and that Delia would find out about his fight, but it needed to be done.

Everyone jumped down from Coeden's room and walked into the living room, Ash gave a look to Garry and said "Dawn, I think we need to talk about what is going to happen."

"If you are going to stay or not." Garry finished.

"Why would you need to talk about it? I thought that she came here because she wanted to? Ash, what happened?"

"Me and Norman had... A misunderstanding and one thing led to another and... long story short, we'd to leave more abruptly then we hoped, so Dawn" Dawn looked at Ash, her ocean blue eyes clearly showing that she if torn "What do you want to do?"

Dawn put her head in her hands and started to sob "Dad's gone too far... I don't want to see him."

"Well you can stay here for as long as you like" said Delia "And Ash, we'll be having words about what you did."

"Garry's beat you to it mum, just leave him be." Coeden turned to Dawn "So, where will you sleep?"

"Well I think since Professor Oak will be full, so I'll just sleep on the couch."

"You can have my bed, and I stay down here, if you want?"

"I think that might happen anyways." Garry said causing him and Coeden to laugh, Dawn didn't get it.

And done, I think I like doing flashback's more than anything but wow, it might just be me but the flashback with Pi really got to me, even more so when you listen to sad music .

In the next chapter will be a few days in advance, closer to Ash's 21st. Also I want to add more shippings into the story, people like Brock, Barry, Garry or anyone else.

Until next time.