I'm really sorry about how non-cannon some things may seem, like with Norman not being Dawn's father. Most things that seem to be wrong, aren't (This was totaly not because I messed up) Also just in case, Nate is an OC, it's not Nate as in Black, also there is a time skip between the last chapter and this one.
So on with the chapter.
Also... PearlShipping...woo
Chapter 7: 21 Years.
Coeden walked towards the body that laid in front of him. The body was the only visible thing in the room, the rest was darkness. Once Coeden had walked up to the motionless entity he rolled him over, pinning his shoulders to the ground "Why?... Why did you do this?"
The green hair man struggled in pain "I didn't have nothing to do with this... Please let me go!"
"The king begging for mercy." a voice echoed in his mind "Do it, Let your anger consume you!" Coeden followed the voices command and started hitting the green haired man in the face.
After a while Coeden stopped, the man spat blood from his mouth "Just fucking kill me already!" Coeden lent over and picked up a shard of glass "I'm not going to kill you" He started to carve an Orin into his neck and surrounded it with a cycle "But I will come for my vengeance... The murder of the innocents is on your hand's"
Coeden woke from his nightmare, drenched in sweat "Nightmares again?" asked a mysterious voice from the shadows.
"Yeah, I don't know why... I haven't had them for years."
"How can you tell who you are talking too?"
"I think I can tell it's your voice Dio."
Dio stepped out from the shadows, his skin was pail with violet hair, a black leather jacket with a violet strip in the collar and black trousers.
"I haven't seen you in a while."
"Yeah, I'm not exactly allowed to leave the distortion realm." Dio walked over to Ash's bed "Cute kid, how old is he now?"
"5 years old, nearly the same age as Nate when we left."
Ash sat up from his bed "Dad, who are you talking too?"
Coeden go up from his bed and walked over to Ash "Just go back to sleep Heddwch."his his head fell back on the pillow. When he stood up from his bed, Dio was no where to be seen. Coeden shook his head, went over too his bed and fell asleep.
The Next Day.
Pretty much everyone in the house was up, side from Coeden and Cynthia. Garry had come around and Delia was preparing breakfast "Coeden breakfast will be done soon, and can you get Heddwch from the ranch."
"Uhhhhhhh." Coeden groaned as he sat up, looking extremely tired "Thanks allot Dio." He got out of bed and got changed.
Lab.
Heddwch was running around in the fields next to the Tauros pen. Over at the ranch Rufus, Ley, Mari, Nate, Tracy and the Pokemon were sitting looking over "So how long have you been working here Tracey?" Asked Rufus.
"Ha Arceus knows, been so long since my sketching days." He looked down to his right, trying to remember "Well I'm 27 now so, 'bout 6, 7 years. What jobs have you had?"
"You don't want know, I think Ley had the most... 'Interesting' Job."Joked Rufus, Ley hit him in the arm "You can stop right there."
"So what you lot up too?" Coeden asked as he walked up to them.
"Nothin' much, anyway what time do you call this?" Asked Rufus.
"Coming from the one with a beer on his hand."
Rufus took a swig "You let Raichu drink with no problem."
"Yeah but, that was when he couldn't see Pi, he would drink to mask the pain."Raichu looked away from the group, embarrassed about his problem.
Coeden turn towards the fields "ASH! BREAKFAST IS READY!"
"Don't need to be so loud." Coeden slapped the beer out of Rufus' hand and turned to Ash again "Thanks."
Ash came rushing past on the back of Entei "Race you back!" Entei immediately turned to run, clearing the wooden gate with ease.
"See you at the house." Coeden fell backwards into a dark void and reappeared in front of Ash and Entei at the house "Aww you can't use Darkrai that's cheating."
"Well next time you just need to be faster, now come on, off of Entei." He lift Ash off and they walked in. Everyone was sitting in the living room, but they all rushed for the table the second the words "Foods ready." left Delia's mouth, the first arriving being Ash.
Once Ash had stopped stuffing his mouth full of pancakes he turned to Garry and said "So, who is coming to my 21st?"
"Well... Pretty much everyone May, Zoey, the twins Ethan and Jimmy, maybe Cheren, Bianca, Hugh and N, but they didn't respond." Coeden looked downwards in shock, he'd hoped that he'd never see him again. But he made a promise on the Orin, a promise that cannot be broken. Rufus and Ley noticed the way Coeden looked and excused themselves from the table "What are we going to do? Coeden will loose his shit if he sees him."
"I don't know, we'll have to find out if he's coming tomorrow."
"The bank?"
"The bank."
Lab.
Once the group had left for breakfast, the Pokemon came over an sat in there seats, making Tracey feel a bit uncomfortable "Calm down, we don't bite, well working here you're probably use to it." Said Luca.
"Y...You can talk?"
"I surprised you don't know, Oak's been bothering us about it ever since we've got here." said Gengar
"I've got a question for you." Tracey scratched the back of his head "What's with the... whole Leon Veigus thing? I've never seen that happening with Pokemon."
"Well they been together ever since he was a Riolu."
"And you've been as much of a pain in his ass as much as he is." Joked Gengar.
"I wasn't that bad was I?"
"You have no idea, it's been allot for them... Did you not realize?" Altaria added.
"Well, I thought I was just doing what any farther would do, I'll talk to them about it sometime."
"So... What's with Ryusui's thing covering his eye?"
"Holy shit we have allot to explain." Said Zoroark.
"If we get Coeden drunk enough... Well that'll still take forever."
Barn.
Leon and Veigus were tidying around the barn and Ryu was hanging from the beams in the roof "You will always find something to hang off of." Ryu jumped from the beam down to the ground, a good 30 foot drop. "I still don't get how you can drop from such hight and not brake your legs." Ryu just shrugged his shoulders, walked over and sat on one of the stables.
Leon walked over to him "Let me see your eye." Ryu lifted his head to face Leon, he'd only ever take his bandanna off when only Leon was there. Ryusui's right eye is usually shut because of the scar that ran over his eye lid "Open up" Ryu hesitated and kept his eye closed for a while, he never liked what he'd done. When he did open his eye, he had a white line going though the iris.
Ryu quickly closed his eye's, every time he opened his right eye he remember the day of his brothers death, tears started to form in his eye's "Hey look at me." Ryu looked up "What happened is in the past, I miss him too." Leon turned to Veigus "I think we're done here."
"How did we get talked into doing the work for other people?"
"Do you really think Ley was going to pull her own weight?"
"No, not really."
Lab.
Professor Oak came barging out of the doors leading to the porch "Zoroark, can you please take Yin and Yang off of my hands."
"Oh arceus what they do?"
"Well is was working on the computer then suddenly Yin and Yang just came running in, knocking over the servers and in turn, deleting all of the boxes."
"YIN, YANG, HERE NOW!" They both walked over with drooped heads, knowing what is about to happen "Not only have you lied to me about not getting in trouble, but you have also lost all of Ash's Pokemon, that 11 years of work! sigh, Mari can do some hacky hacky, magic BS to get the files back?"
Mari walked over to Oak's computer "Pretty simple job really, all I have to do is hack in to the Poke-centre main frame, trace all Pokemon for Ash's ID, and put them back in the boxes." The Pokeballs appeared on the shelf which holds all of Ash's Pokemon he's collected over the years "You'll have to give a minute to make sure everything's alright, and so you don't get arrested for hacking into one of the biggest databases in the world."
"Oooooookay... Alright." Oak stepped out side of the room, not knowing what a single word of what she said.
The Ketchum House, A Few Hours Later.
Delia walked into the living room where Ash, Barry, Garry, Dawn, Brock, Coeden, Nate and Cynthia were sitting, everyone else was already of the lab "Ok Ash, I'm going to be leaving the keys with you and you'll have tomorrow all by your self, take down the chandelier it's probably the most expensive thing in the house and Ash, don't make any... Mistakes."
"MUM!"
"Just making sure, Nathan keep Coeden right."
"I'll be staying at Oak's with Delia" Said Cynthia who, after goodbyes, left for the ranch.
"So..." Ash said
"So... What do we do?" Garry continued.
"Well, if I remember correctly, Viridian City has the best spirits... I'm guessing you're drinking for you're 21st?"
"Of course" Ash said.
"Ash is finally loosing his Drinkinity." Joked Garry.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I've been clean my whole life."
"Well I wont get you on the hard stuff right a way. But you wont exactly be waking up tomorrow morning."
Ash turned to Dawn "Are you ok with this?"
"I'm 20 years old Ash, I'm not a child."
"Ok, Ok, just want to make sure you were ok with everything that happened."
"I'm fine, we'd better get going before anything shuts."
Ash grabbed the keys, walked out of the house and looked towards the SUV that was parked out side "Wait, when did she get SUV?" Ash asked.
"Well at least we know that I'll be paying for the drinks." Coeden joked.
Garry walked up to the SUV "Not that bad, who's driving?"
"I don't know, I'm the only driver aside from Coeden so." Ash said, slightly nervous.
"You drive, but when were done the keys are given to Barry." Coeden said
"Why me?"
"You look sensible, not likely to do anything stupid."
"But there isn't enough seats for everyone." said Ash
"We could throw Garry in the boot?" Brock joked.
"Haha very funny."
"I'll just stay back." Said Barry.
"You sure?" Ash asked, not like the fact that someone had to be left out.
"Yeah, not exactly missing anything." with Ash reassured, the group got into the car and drove off to Viridian City.
Viridian City.
They had been around the shops and were carrying around bags,"There is just one place I want to see." Coeden started to walk down alleyways trying to find a building. Dawn was looking nervous and eventually whispered into Ash's ear "I think were being followed." Ash turned around to see a group of kids around 16-18, all with hoods with R's on them "Coeden"
He turned around and looked at the mob and immediately walked away from the group towards them, arms open "What the fuck you looking at!?" the group started to walk towards him but stopped when someone else walking out of the shop "HEY YOU BETTER BE CLEARING OFF OR YOU'LL BE LIKE YOUR LITTLE FRIEND, 6 FEET UNDER."
The group all ran off in different directions and The man walked into the shop and went behind the counter "So what can I help you with?"
"Maybe an explanation on how you're alive?"
"Ayyyy, you made it man." He walked over from the counter and hugged Coeden "How's it been?"
"Good got a family now, kids in all."
"Fuck man, surprised, I mean after Dio passed, I denni think you would find anyone else."
Coeden leaned into the man "Keep everything on the low, Ash doesn't know of the Family." Coeden turned to Ash "Ash this is Uncle Michael."
Ash shook his hand "Nice to meet you, didn't know I had much family around this area."
"You can always find a Ketchum, anywhere, and you too." He turned back to Coeden.
"So what can I do for ya?"
"Well we've got about 10 + people to get shit faced, and it's going to Ash's first drink."
Michael tilted his head sideways towards the back room.
They all followed him to a room full to the brim with bottles and the only way to get past was thin corridors between the racks.
"There's allot of bottles in here, there better not be any Brompton here."
He picked out multiple bottles and examined them"I know what that shit does to people, what it's done to you I don't want anything to do with it"
They all walked back to the counter, paid for the drinks and they walked out but Coeden stayed.
"So how did you get out?"
"We got drive by'd, they thought I was dead, so I ran for it."
"If it was only that easy, stay safe."
Pallet Town.
The group had all gotten back and put all the bottles on the island table in the kitchen.
"How much did you spend?"
"Way too much" Coeden put his arm over Ash's shoulders "But hey, it's my little brothers birthday."
"So what's going to happen when everyone comes over? This house is big but I don't know where people are going to sleep."
"You'll find somewhere."
"Yeah one time I was drinking in Kanto and woke up in Sinnoh." Garry said with a slight look of confusion about how he exactly got there.
The group all walked over to the living room to watch TV while Ash went upstairs with Dawn.
Dawn Sat on Ash's bed and he sat next to her "There is something I need to say and... well it'll be better me saying it now instead of doing it when I don't know what I'm saying but... here we go."
Dawn's mind was running rampant with what Ash is going to say 'Is he actually going to say it, but do I like... How will this effect us'
"We've been with each other for about a good 2-3 years and... I've never really noticed something and... I hope that what I'm going to do isn't going to effect us in a bad way... Fuck it, Dawn I... I love you." Ash looked at the ground, face red expecting rejection, but when it didn't come he looked at Dawn who's head was in her hands
"I'm sorry... Oh fuck why did I say that."
"No Ash" Dawn lifted her head to reveal a smile "I love you too." Ash sat still not knowing how to show his emotions, which Dawn noticed 'He's so thick headed' Dawn tilted her head and kissed Ash. When they pulled away, Ash had a goofy smile on his face causing Dawn to laugh, Ash interlocked his fingers with hers and walked down stairs.
Ash sat down and Dawn sat next to him, putting her head on his chest "How long has it taken?" Garry asked.
"What?" Barry asked, not understanding what had just happened.
"They're going out dumb ass."
"Oh... Yeah that did take a long time."
Ash was blushing again with his stupidity, somehow a part of him that never felt missing was filled when he was with Dawn.
"So Ash, do you want to open the gifts now or later?"
"I'll open them tomorrow, I'm feeling tiered."
"So I'm guessing that Dawn wont need to sleep down stairs any more?" Garry said.
"Um..."
"Don't put him on the spot, he wouldn't know what to say. He's too thick headed." Barry said.
"Hey!"
"I guess you're right." Dawn said, making the room go silent.
"Come on then" Dawn said getting up from the couch and heading upstairs "Night" Ash said as he followed.
Once Ash was out of ear range Garry leaned in "Right, tomorrow we have to stop Ash from 'Making Mistakes' as Delia called it, ok?"
"Sure." Said the group.
"Oh and that doesn't count for you Garry, I know how you been talking to May." Coeden said.
"I don't know what you're talking about...
"Then why are you blushing slightly?."
Garry just looked over at the TV, angry at the fact that he can find out anything.
Upstairs Dawn was in the Bathroom while Ash was Once again getting changed "I hope this isn't as awkward as the first time." Dawn came out of the bathroom and climbed into bed "Love you." Dawn said as she laid down facing way from Ash.
"Love you."
The Next Day. Wow 3600 words and were not even on the day that the chapter is about.
The sun rises on another day in Kanto, the room was still dark, the blinds blocking out the sun. Dawn awoke before Ash but laid there in his arms.
How did I get in his arms? Oh well.
Dawn looked at his right shoulder which large bite like scar.
I'll have to ask him about that
She laid back but just as she was getting comfortable, a someone was knocking at the door.
"Come on love birds, we need to get everything ready." This woke Ash and they both walked down stairs half asleep.
Coeden was in the kitchen, mixing alcohol with pretty much everything while the others where taking the chandelier down "Don't drop it." Ash joked, the chandelier had marquise shaped crystals which seemed to distort its colours, almost like the lustrous orb. As Ash inspected it further, he noticed the Orin appeared hanging from it in multiple places, shaped in diamond.
"Just put it in Mums room, most likely the safest place for it." Coeden said walking away from the drinks, Garry, Barry and Brock carried the chandelier up stairs with Garry shouting "To me!..." Getting no response.
"Too you!" Garry said to himself.
Coeden looked at Garry, disappointedly "So how you two?" Coeden asked looking back at the new couple "Good, can I see you out side?" Ash walked towards the door followed by Coeden.
"Why do they always talk in private?" Dawn sat down at the kitchen table and tried one of the drinks that Coeden made which contorted her face with it's strength.
Once outside Ash turned to Coeden "Why was there Orin's on the Chandelier?"
Coeden looked around, thinking of what to say "There is lot of things you don't what to know."
"Coeden! Stop saying the same answer every time I ask you this! I'm not a child any more, I think I can handle anything you have to say."
"Alright... If you really want to know... I'll... I'll tell you why I left... But please don't think less of her, she was going though allot."
Ash just nodded, unsure who 'she' was, but happy that he was beginning to piece together what happened to his family so long ago.
3 Hours Later.
They were all sitting in the living room, waiting for there guests to arrive "So when did you tell them to come?" asked Ash
"Well about 5 o'clock, there only 15 minutes late, calm down." A little bit later a knock was at the door. May, Zoey and the twins Ethan and Jimmy was standing outside "Long time no see." Ash said as they all walked in and greeted the rest of the group.
Ash walked over to dawn and put his arm around her "So Ash finally got a girlfriend." Ethan Said.
"Uncle Ash isn't so thick headed." Said Jimmy.
"You're related?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, you haven't really met much of my family... I've just noticed something, where is Ley and Rufus?" Ash asked.
"I don't know." Coeden said, not thinking anything of it.
Viridian bank.
Rufus and Ley walked through the automated doors of the bank and sat down at one of the waiting sections "So how long is it going to take?"
"Well depends of how much I remember and how good the security is."
Ley stared at him as if she's saying 'Really?' "Its been 11 years since I've needed to do this, give me a brake."
"Just don't take long, I don't want The Law around here."
Rufus opened up the laptop and started to get into the banks mainframe "Right were in now we trace N's bank account... Right he hasn't bought a ticket but he did take out..."
Ley put up her hood and whispered to Rufus "That's Rocket what the hell are they doing here?"
Team Rocket walked into the middle of the room, formed a cycle and opened fire.
Pallet Town.
By this time they had already started drinking and playing music but the celebrations were halted when the door was slammed open with Rufus and Ley covered in blood.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Coeden screamed in fury.
"Coeden we went to the bank to try and find out if N was coming, Rocket comes in and starts shooting up the place, we take out half of them then the Law turns up with some pigs and started shooting back, things are going to shit."
"For fuck sake." Coeden pulled out the gun that he took from his glass case back at home and gave it to Nate "You have to keep everyone safe." Coeden turned to Ash "This is why I didn't want you to get involved... And STAY HERE!"
Ash nodded as Coeden, Ley and Rufus ran out the door. "Ash." Dawn ran into Ash's arms "What's going to happen to us?"
"Nothing... But you all cannot leave this house." Nate walked towards the TV and turned on the news "Please don't show who we are, we don't want the Volk or anyone after us" the TV showed the bank surrounded by SWAT vans "We are in front of Viridian bank where someone tried to hack into the system and then the gang Team Rocket walked in and opened fire, there have been 13 casualty's with more expect... There seems to be someone on top of the bank" people started to run from the ally that was next to the bank, a large explosion soon followed, sending the bank into ruins.
Nate turned off the TV and leaned on the bottom of couch, the door once again was burst open and Coeden, Rufus and Ley ran in, Ash ran up to them "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?"
"You don't think we did that? We just went to the ranch to make sure mum and everyone was ok." Coeden turned to Rufus "Will they find us out?"
"Untraceable laptop, which has been shot and burned in the explosion."
Coeden walked into the living room and took a bottle of whisky, took a swig and sat down. "So you still want to know why we left?"
Ash nodded and sat down with Dawn who was shaking, there actions was soon followed by everyone else.
"Sigh, well it all started when I was late coming back from school, back then it wasn't voluntary, you had to go..."
Flashback.
It was dark, the small town seemingly covered in black ink, with only faint outline of buildings casting shadows from the lunar light. Coeden was walking down the gravel path, he was 8 years of age, playing with his ear lob as he walked into his home. Greeting his entrance was a thick layer of smoke rising from a cigarette held between Delia's fingers "Why you back so late?" she said with a groggy tone.
Coeden just continued to walk towards his room, Delia got up and grabbed his arm "Hey I was talking to you." When she had pulled his arm way from his ear she found a earring on his right ear "Why did you get that? Why I wasn't informed?"
"Since when have you cared about what I do, and non of your business." Coeden jolted his arm out of her grip, causing her to shout "YOU STAY RIGHT HERE!" she once again grabbed a hold of his arm, Nate was standing at the top of the stairs looking down at them "Don't touch me! Dad didn't fucking stay so why should I?" Delia lifted her arm and brought her fist down on Coeden's eye forcing him to the ground, Nate ran from the stairs and out the door, crying.
Coeden stood up, his eye blackened "Now look what you've done... Don't think were ever coming back." Coeden turned around and ran out the door, he bumped into professor Oak "Why was Nathan crying, what's wrong with you eye, what's happened?" Tears were falling down Coeden's cheeks.
"You need to change her, fuck knows how, but please... Please help her." Before Oak could respond, Coeden ran off to look for Nate. Oak walked in to see Delia on her knees crying, Oak ran to her side. After a while she just sat motionless, he looked up at Coeden's room to see a bag of his clothes.
Flashback End.
"I found him hiding in a storage crate, we both got locked in, boat gets commandeered and we escape too Tyuro where we spend the next 10 years of our lives." The whole room was astonished, how someone so young could be so dysfunctional. Ash broke the silence "I'm... Sorry... I should of never pestered you about it."
"It's fine but, don't blame mum for what happened and Nate; don't blame yourself, this all happened because of Dad." Coeden held back his anger and looked towards Rufus and Ley "You can't stay here, if they find out that you had anything to do with it, we'll all be locked up." Luca appeared next to them with their bags, they quickly picked them up and ran out the door.
"I'm sorry this had to happen today, just bad luck. We have Luca and everyone patrolling the whole of Pallet Town so were safe, should we continue?" they all quickly grabbed a hold of there drinks to try and calm there nerves "Oh I've almost forgot, I've not given you your present" Coeden pulled out a guitar with a black mahogany body in a les paul shape "That guitar is cut from the same tree as both mine and Nate's." Ash started to play basic scales, slowly getting faster as he did "Wow, your good." Dawn said putting her head on his shoulder.
Jimmy and Ethan were in the kitchen talking "So, Uncle Coeden live up to the stories?" Jimmy asked.
"Not all of them but... he's keeping something secret." Ethan turned around to look at Garry who was flirting with May "Well look who lover boy is interested in."
"I hope he doesn't just bang her and leave her like he does with everyone else." Jimmy was look along the line of people to see Barry and Zoey making out "GET ON BARRY LAD!" this caused Barry to laugh and brake away from Zoey. Jimmy turned back to Ethan "How much do you bet that they'll smash?"
"Barry? Nah... Garry maybe."
"I'm talking about if they will, not who you would."
"Shut up, 1k Poke says Garry will.
"2k Barry"
"Deal" they both said shaking hands.
"What about Ash?" Jimmy Asked
"Nah, Ash is too kind"
"5k?"
"Arceus you so weird, betting on people having sex."
"Offer stands?"
"... Deal."
The night continued on a similar path; Ash and Dawn talked to Coeden and Nate; Barry was with Zoey; Garry trying his luck with May; Brock had joined Jimmy and Ethan and were talking.
Dawn stood up, grabbed Ash's hand and went up stairs to his room, all of the men looked to each other then at Coeden "I'll stop it if it happens."
Upstairs Dawn led Ash into his room, he slammed the door behind him and they brought their lips together, after a while Dawn walked to the bed and to take of her shirt, but he stopped before she could remove it, Ash put his hand on hers "Stop."
"But... But why?" Dawn asked.
"I love you, I do... I just don't want it to happen like this." Dawn nodded and put her head down on his bed, Ash kissed her on the fore head and left the room, leaving her on her own.
When Ash walked into the room it seemed that he had been there for at least an hour as everyone was sleep, the room was dark and Garry was nowhere to be seen. Ash stumbled across the dark room before he tripped on something, crawling cross the floor he found something soft and fell asleep.
And done, This is about the time in the story if anyone found out that I wrote this, I would die, I think this chapter got a little side tracked around the middle but still seems good news alround, also I might be doing something with the Tyuro Region (Which will explain more about Coeden's past and be WAY more fucked up) but I'll finish this story before then.
New shipping's
Brunettshipping - Garry and May
EmulateShipping - Barry and Zoey
I got the names from Midori12 so, Big up to Madori12
Until next time.
