I've read back through Chapter 9 and saw lots of mistakes so I will be going through all of my work again, so don't expect me to be updating anytime soon, I'll try and keep the plot the same so you won't have to re-read everything but anyways.
Back again, in this chapter there will be training and more pearlshipping, I'm also changing how I write a little so:
If I write like this It means that the character is thinking something while:
'this' Means that someone is speaking through telepathy but anyways, on with the chapter.
Chapter 10: Step Up In The Relationship and The Return.
With the terrible weather from last night, it was a surprise to see the mountains was covered in snow, the markings of the storm had seemingly disappeared under the blanket of white. When Ash awoke, a white mist escaped from his mouth, the room only slightly warmer than outside. The negative temperature caused Umbreon to curl up to Pi during the night.
"Aww." Ash couldn't help but say. Pi just opened his eyes and stared at Ash who awkwardly scratched the back of his head and laughed. He stood up, trying not to wake up Umbreon and walked down stairs.
With the slam of the fire door, Dawn woke up "Morning." Ash said with a warm smile.
"Why is it so cold?" Dawn pulled the covers up to her neck and shivered a little.
Ash looked towards the bedside table to see a folded piece of paper which said 'Please turn on heating once you enter the room, if assistance is needed, go to the main desk.'
"Oh..."
Dawn laughed and rolled her eyes as Ash walked to the other side of the room and flicked the heating switch, a warm breeze coursed through the room. Dawn got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom, goose bumps forming on her skin as the room hadn't heated up.
Opening the bedroom door Garry poked his head in.
"You alright Ash... Why is it so cold?"
"I forgot to turn on the heating."
"Oh well done." He said patronisingly. "Anyways breakfast is ready." Garry left from the gap in the door as Ash walked over to the bathroom "I'll see you at breakfast." Dawn rolled her eyes again when she heard the door open and slam close in rapid succession after each other.
Ash jumped the last few steps and was met with nurse Joy, who was wearing a lumber jack's checked shirt with the sleeves rolled up and old jeans with her hair tied up in a pony tail, Ash pulled a confused face with Joy laughing.
"I don't usually wear work clothes 'cus not allot of people ever come up here and well, you lot seem to be the kind of people who wouldn't really care, anyways how was your first stay?"
"Good, well we forgot to turn on the heating so it was a cold morning."
"Oh terribly sorry about that, we run off of are own power that we get from the ranch out back so we can't afford to have the whole place warm 24/7."
"It's fine, I cant feel much any more anyways."
Joy was took back by that statement but didn't show it, all of the nurse staff learn not to show any form of negative emotions "Well everyone is at the table, we'll bring through the food."
An Hour Later, After Breakfast.
Ash leaned back in his chair, as did the rest of group who were all full. Joy walked over to the table "Well I'm glad you all enjoyed it." She looked over to Ash "So what is your plan for today?"
"Well I think we'll just do basic battling and tomorrow we'll think about tactics." Ash got up and attempted to run out through the double door until a deathly cold breeze crashed into his face and was quickly pulled back by Dawn who wrapped her arms round his neck, and his just above her waist "You need to cover up before you go out." She handed him his coat then walked over to the table to get something to eat.
The powdery snow got picked up and floated around in the swirling wind as Ash ran out from the Poke centre soon followed by his team. They all went into the forest to look for a place where they could train.
After a few minutes of running they found a circular clearance which was a good distance from the centre, the clearance looked like a crater from a meteor "This'll do." Ash said "Right lets get started." He slid down the short hill to the lower ground. Umbreon pressed his head against Pi side "Well we did miss out on last night's training session." Pi and Umbreon walked off away from the group to find another quiet place for them to train.
Foot sized holes were left as Ash walked into the centre of the training area and turned to the group who had all lined up "I'm guessing that the weather is going to be the norm, so we'll just have to get used to it, where's Pikachu and Umbreon?"
Charizard just moved his head in the general direction of which they had just come from "I guess they went off to do some training."
You both need to train with us
In The Forest.
Sitting in the trees, Zoroark looked over Pi and Umbreon who were attempting to unlock his Psychic ability's. Pi was in a worse state then he was on the boat, blood coming from his eyes and mouth with blood shot eyes "Come on try again."
Umbreon had tears streaming down his face, even though he wants to train, he hates it when ever he harms his 'father'. Pi spat blood behind him and walked over to Umbreon and got on one knee "Look, I know you don't like hurting me but this is the only way to get this done, now please... try again." Umbreon breathed in and tried to connect to Pi, both of their face's started to contort as he fought to try to enter Pi subconscious.
After a minute of attempting, a voice appeared in Pi's mind.
"Hi"
"YOU DID IT!" Pi shouted, with a massive grin on his face Umbreon as Pi ran over and hugged him. He tried again, his grin was soon replaced with frustration as he couldn't make a connection.
"Fuck sake, HELLO!"
"HEY! Watch your language!" Pi said angrily.
"Sorry Dad." Umbreon's looked at the ground, ashamed that he swore. Then his eyes widened when he realized what he said, Pi just laughed "Come on, lets show the others." They both ran off as fast as they could.
Training Area.
Floatzel and Arcanine both stood in a cleared part of the area battling and Tyranitar was the ref. Ash and Charizard were doing pull ups, Ash had taken off his coat and shirt, he trained better like this.
Arcanine gathered flames in his mouth which created a white mist as it heated up the cold air, then the ball exploded forwards turning into a burning tunnel. Floatzel jumped into the air avoiding the attack, the flames melted a path behind Floatzel who then started to run at Arcanine while gathering water around him. Once the aqua jet had grown, he opened his mouth and started to freeze the water, the Ice Jet crashed into Arcanine carrying them into a large tree which somehow, managed to stay up.
Ash dropped from the tree and shouted from the sidelines "Hey calm it down! We don't want to go to the centre this early." At this time, Pi ran out from the trees with Umbreon standing on one of the leafless tree branches which had fallen.
"Pika, Pika Pi!"
"Really?" Ash ran across the training area and everyone followed his example. Floatzel reached his hand out to Arcanine "Sorry about that." He said mockingly, Arcanine grabbed a hold of his hand with his teeth and pulled his to the ground "It's fine." He said in the same tone.
Ash was on one knee in front of Umbreon "Hey" He said, not knowing what to say.
Umbreon closed his eyes and tried to get into Ash's mind, but accidentally accessed his memory's, visions of his dead mother and father flooded his mind, their mutilated body's forced him to start bawling out tears but still inside of Ash's head.
"What's a matter?!" Ash asked, the same memory's started flood his mind "Oh... Shit that was his..." Ash's eye started to twitch. Pi, knowing fully well what was going to happen, said "I'm sorry for this." He put his hand on Umbreon's head and gave him a light shock.
The shock managed to jump from Umbreon to Ash, shocking him as well. He looked at Pi and ran into his arms "I... I saw my... My Mum and Dad." Pi just started to rub the back of his head, trying to comfort him "It's ok."
"Did he not know about..." Ash said, he knows how it feels to lose someone you love but not at this age and not someone this important.
"No." Umbreon said to Ash, who now moved away from Pi "I can see why you didn't tell me." Ash just nodded, in shock about how he didn't link the two situations.
Half An Hour Later.
They all sat in the battle area as it was the only place where there wasn't any snow. Umbreon had improved his ability's so he could talk to two people at one time. Throughout the conversations that where happening around the group, Umbreon kept on looking behind him, almost to try and see someone. Tyranitar noticed this and said "What do keep on looking at?"
"I can sense someone over there, but it can't see it." with this information, everyone got onto there feet, preparing for a battle of some kind.
Well cats out of the bag now
"Calm down it's just me." Zoroark walked towards Umbreon then got on his level "I underestimated you." He then rubbed the top of his head, causing him to frown.
"So what are you doing here?" Ash asked.
"Well after the whole Heddwch scene, Coeden sent me to look after you all but it seems everything is ok around here so I'll take my leave." A dark void opened behind him which he jumped into and disappeared. Tyranitar turned to Umbreon "So... Why was you afraid of me when you first saw me?"
Umbreon looked at Pi who put his hand on his back, reassuring him that he was safe "Well..."
Flashback.
A white Eevee slept on a bed made of hay and a blanket which laid inside a hollowed out tree, his parents stood in the entrance hole to the 'house'. His mother looked worryingly to him "They're going to come looking for him, we shouldn't stay here."
"He's asleep now he needs rest, we'll leave tomorrow." His father said.
"Sigh, this gift seems to be more of a curse." She looked out to the darkening grasslands, depressed for her son's struggles.
"He has been blessed, we need to protect him at all costs."
She took a deep breath in and turned back to him with a smile, her deep azure eyes warming their home for this cold night. Suddenly, the tree started to shake, waking the young Pokemon "Mum!? Are they here?" he said, frightened.
"Hunny come here!" She said, as he ran over he looked over the edge to see 2 Tyranitar's ramming into the tree, forcing it to swing left and right. Walking calmly, a Houndoom approached the Tyranitar's, a grin cracked over his face when the child came into view.
"We've got him now." He said in a devilish tone.
"We need to go!" His mother shouted jumping to another tree top soon followed by the father, but when it was Eevee's turn, he couldn't make the jump and dropped down from the tree top and landed on the hard tree root that stuck out of the ground. The Tyranitar's gradually grew a sinister grin on their face's. One bent down to pick up the white Eevee.
He closed his eyes, waiting for his capture which didn't occur, just sounds of blood curtailing screams and wind fly past his head as he flew through the air.
Flashback End.
"... And that's all I can remember, Dad said that the Tyranitar kicked me and I hit my head on the tree." since Umbreon couldn't speak to everyone, he spoke to Pi who repeated what he said.
Tyranitar stared at Umbreon, feeling ashamed at what his kind did "How sad... Just remember that I'll always look after you." His fear for Tyranitar's was starting to fade.
"And so will all of us." Floatzel said.
"Especially Pi and Charizard." Arcanine added.
Umbreon looked towards Charizard remembering what had happened on Charicific "Don't speak just think the answer but... Has anything happened like what happened at the valley?"
Yes... But it was defending Ash against the same people who...
Umbreon nodded, understanding who it was 'Well, at least you told me.'
Ash looked up to see a pure black sky encrusted with glistering stars "Well, Dawn's going to be pissed."
"Pika pika pi!." Pi said.
"Oops sorry, I'll try and watch what I'm saying."
"Can you understand me?" Floatzel asked, he'd never actually tried to talk to Ash outside of battle.
Ash just looked back blankly "Sorry?"
"Oh great."
"Well we better get back to training." Everyone stood up and huddled around Ash, Umbreon tried to poke his head in the group but was pushed out by Pi.
"What do you think you're doing? You going home to bed."
'Aww can I not stay up? Please?'
"No you need sleep." Pi turned to Charizard "I'm just taking Umbreon to the Poke-centre to get some sleep."
"Bye everyone" He said to Ash and Charizard as they both ran off into the forest.
"Do you think he knows that he only said that to me and you?" Ash joked "Oh well, Tyranitar you fight Arcanine and when Pi gets back, he'll go against you Charizard."
Outside Poke-Centre.
Umbreon and Pi walked out from the dark forest into the light of the centre. This centre was different then most others in that it was a wooden building with the inside looking like a normal centre. They both walked up to the double doors and Pi got onto one knee "Now when you get in, you can stay up for a little bit with Dawn, Garry and Barry but only for another 10-20 minutes, ok?"
'Yes.' Umbreon put his front paws around Pi "Night Dad." Pi smiled and hugged him back "Now get inside, you've been in the cold too long, you might turn into a Glaceon."
Umbreon walked through the double doors to see an angry Dawn tapping her foot "Oh it's just you, where's Ash?"
'He still doing training.' He said.
"He's going to get hyperaemia... Did you just speak?"
'Yeah, me and Dad have been practising.' Dawn looked at him in a mixture of awkwardness and confusion.
'I... meant to say Pi...' Dawn scratched the back of his ears and sat back down at the table with Garry and Barry.
Training Area.
Pi walked back into the tree opening to see Charizard standing at one end of the arena, tapping his foot impatiently "Pi, you'll be practising against Charizard, first one to get a clean hit on the head or body." Ash shouted as Pi walked to the opposite side of the grass ring. Where he stood wasn't damp like the rest of the grass, it was dry and lightly burnt as it was where Arcanine was battling "Alright I want a clean battle, no smack talking and Charizard... Just don't do anything stupid, normal moves and try and avoid each other's."
Pi nodded his head, drawing Charizard to the first move. Charizard stood still, patiently brewing flames inside his closed mouth until a rapid flow of fire jolted from his mouth, Pi jump out of the way but his tail still got caught in the attack.
When returned back to the ground, Charizard was surprised to see he wasn't in pain, Pi moved his tail into his view, the normally yellow fur was replaced with a white glow like molten iron, he then ran quickly jumped and brought his tail down on Charizard's head, sending him crashing down to the ground.
"Pi got the first hit" Ash said walking into the circle arena as Pi ran into the snow to cool down his tail, causing Charizard to laugh "You ok bud?" He nodded "You'll have to remember that in proper battles." Charizard said.
"Yeah if I want to set my arse on fire." Pi said sitting in the snow and steam stream rising from him.
"I think I should of won to be honest."
"Well you didn't" Pi said, defending his victory.
"Round 2?" Pi asked as the stream slowed down.
"You're on!"
They both ran back over to their places and waited for Ash's command.
A Few Hours Later.
Tyranitar and Floatzel were doing doing basic hand to hand combat with Zoroark over seeing this "Hook" Zoroark commanded as Tyranitar bent his arm and swung it at Floatzel, knocking him on his side.
"Why are we even doing this? Isn't it a bit pointless fighting with out using actual moves?"
"Well not really, if you can get fast at hand to hand fighting, you can combined that with lots of other things." Zoroark said. Floatzel tilted his head, not really believing him.
"Well our team trains like this and were the highest champion team in existence."
"Wait what!?"
"Ah um... Yeah I wasn't suppose to say that, I'll explain later."
Over on the actual area Pi and Charizard were still fighting, since they had been going at it for so long they've managed to avoid each other perfectly. Ash just stood amazed at how they've went an hour not hitting each other.
Pi charged towards Charizard using extreme speed which barely missed his since he leaned backwards, almost bending to a right angle. Pi looked at him about 10 feet away, panting.
"How much longer can you keep this up?"
"How ever long it takes." Charizard was panting but still kept the same playful grin that he gained after the second battle.
"Well how abouts we call it quits?" Pi asked, walking over with arm extended. Charizard grabbed Pi hand, due to there size difference Charizard laughed slightly "I've never thought about how small your hands are."
"At least I don't have to compensate for something."
Charizard's eye brows dived downwards in pure anger. This was him opportunity. Pi turned his tail into iron at side flipped, smacking Charizard in the neck.
"YOU PRICK, GET OVER HERE!"
"Right come in guys." Ash said, waving his arms, Pi ran over to Ash and jumped onto his shoulder while Charizard flew driectly towards Ash and on;y stopping a few inches infront of his face, steam escaping from his nose. His look of intimidation was melted when Ash said "Your breath stinks" Pi fell on his back laughing. Charizard lifted his hand and flicked Pi off of Ash, landing about a foot away from him.
"It was a good first day training, tomorrow we'll practice combo moves; Don't expect this to get any easier." Ash and the group walked back into the black abyss that was the forest.
Saffron City Hospital.
The room was completely black with only the light coming from the end of the corridor which shone dimly through the window of Heddwch's room. Coeden sat on one of the chairs in the room alone, Cynthia had gone back to Pallet Town to calm Delia down.
Simultaneously, Heddwch and Ryusui gradually opened their eyes and Ryusui wrapped his arms around Heddwch's neck, knowing that he can live another day. The commotion woke Coeden from his slumber and he ran to the side of the bed, Heddwch looked to him confused and sad.
"Dad?... Why can't I hear Entei? Where is he?"
He took a deep breath in then exhaled "Well, after Zapdos' attack you fell unconscious and we took you to the hospital... Entei... He went to see Arceus and... He..." Coeden started to choke on him own words as his son's face started to contort "He took his own life to save you and Ryu."
"Y... You mean."
"Yes." Heddwch put his face in his hands; he lost a friend, someone who was a part of him since the day he was born, a part of his heart and soul. Coeden brought him closer and rubbed his back, trying to calm him down.
Heddwch moved closer to the opposite edge of the white sheeted bad to let his father on.
"We all have a reason we will die for, his and mine are too keep you alive and safe."
"But... But is there anything we can do?"
"I'm afraid not." Heddwch rested his head on Coeden's chest with pain filled tears leaking from his eyes.
I'm surprised that bastard even bothered to let Entei take his own life for him, couldn't be fucked to save me.
Coeden shook his head and looked back down at Heddwch who had fallen asleep but still sniffling.
Ryusui started to scratch the back of his head, not knowing how to tell Coeden was he saw "Um... Coeden?"
"What?"
"I saw... Rio."
"Really? What did he say?"
"Well he talked about Zak and about... Plasma, how that he's no longer with us and there is no reason to beat myself up about it." Ryusui looked towards the ground.
"You're not insane."
He looked up at him "I've seen Dio before." This didn't change his mind set since Coeden is a few cards short of a deck, he climbed into the gap between Coeden and Heddwch and fell asleep, soon followed by Coeden.
Mt Silver Poke-Centre.
The double doors opened with wind which carried snow into the building, Ash walked into the main room, still shirtless. Dawn jumped from the table furiously "You said you wasn't going to be out late, and why aren't you wearing a shirt?"
Ash brought Dawn in, arms around her "I'm sorry, promise it won't happen again." he said in an innocent, child like accent.
"You say that but you still stay up till midnight training." Dawn's anger melted when she looked into Ash's deep hazel eye's and his infectious smile.
"I really do hate that, I can never win with you." Ash pulled her closer into a hug and Dawn's anger subsided with everyone "Aww"ing at them. Pi walked over to the table to see Umbreon sitting between Garry and Barry.
"Umbreon I told you to go to bed now come on."
"But the door was locked and Dawn said I could." Not knowing what to say and just blurted out. He jumped over Garry and started to walk with Pi up the stairs.
"We're going to bed now." Dawn said for Ash.
"We are?"
"Yes." Dawn walked/dragged Ash upstairs.
Barry looked back at Dawn "Well that's going to be you Garry." He joked.
"Ha funny." Garry said sarcastically.
"What did happen between you and May?"
"Nothing." Barry tilted his head and grinned lightly.
"I'm going to bed." Garry stormed upstairs, past Joy who walked over to Barry
"Relationship problems?"
"How did you guess?"
"He was blushing." Barry laughed as he followed Garry to bed.
Ash's Dream.
Ash stood in a place he once called home, the acts of the ones he loved had forced his actions. The roofless buildings seem to still have their previous occupants walking inside of them, like ghosts in castle runes. His vision blackened, a light could be seen in the distance, drawing him towards it. The plain light soon morphed into a room. Everyone in the room bared a recognisable face. Masked in cloth, two men stood facing each other, and another with his back to Ash, all armed. As he examined the room he saw himself, the barrel of the gun bouncing between the 3 targets with no clear sign of who to shoot. One of the masked men turned to face Ash like a Krueger in his dreams 'Can he see me?' he questioned.
His vision stayed on his path, eyes burning into him with sparks of insanity, 'those cold , dead red eyes'... He took a step closer to see if recognized who they belong to. A gun shot could be heard booming inside of the room.
Bedroom.
Ash awoke panting and sweating, Dawn was hunched over him, practically in tears "Oh Ash." she said as she swung her arms around him.
"What happened?"
"I don't know, I woke up go to the bathroom and you were just sweating and mumbling, I thought you was having a stroke or something." Her tone turned from a worried panic to reassurance "What was you dreaming about?"
Ash was reluctant to answer, knowing how she felt about him joining the Orin, he didn't want to worry her "I don't know, I'll have to talk to Coeden about it when I see him, don't worry I'll be fine."
"But what if there is a problem? We cant just wait for him to come to us."
"You're right, but that's the only option we have." Dawn sighed at the thought that she was not in control of things and turned back over to go to sleep.
Ash looked down at Pi and Umbreon who were both next to each other
I didn't see my belt, where were they?
While Ash was running through ideas about where his belt was, he failed to notice a dark oval appear on the floor and Zoroark come from it.
"Come with me." Ash jumped when he heard the voice out of nowhere "Arceus man don't do that." Ash slid out of bed, picked up Charizard's ball then walked outside with Zoroark. Just in case.
"I know you have questions about who you saw and why he could see you."
Ash seemed slightly angry "I'd like to know why the fuck he's shooting people and why I have a gun!"
Zoroark smirked as he paced across the cold snow "You really don't know anything about us do you?"
Ash just looked with the similar look of anger but this time, mixed with confusion "You will eventually face your demons, that is inevitable, the only thing you can change... Is who they are."
"Who did looked at me?" Zoroark didn't respond, just seemingly faded away in the gusts of snow. Ash stormed back into the centre, still needing answers.
Next Morning.
It was later than usual when Ash woke, this time he was greeted with a warm breeze instead of the harshness of the cold awakening of last night. He laid back in his bed and stared at the ceiling.
After a few minutes of blank staring Dawn woke up "Morning." She said through yawning. She looked up to the wall mounted clock "It's nearly 1:00, you're late."
"Well, I stayed in because..." Ash scratched the back of his head "I wanted to spend today with you." Dawn rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes in bliss.
Down stairs.
Barry and Garry were sitting on opposite sides of the elongated table, both looking impatient "Where is he?" Barry said.
"Well... There is something that could of happened."
"Oh get your head out of the gutters." He said, scraping the last bit of food off his plate "Your like Jimmy."
"Do you know why Jimmy and Ethan call Ash 'Uncle Ash'?"
Barry dabbed his mouth his the napkin while thinking about how he'd put the news "Their parents past away while ago and... that's just what they started calling him, maybe to try and have a fatherly type figure without replacing their farther?"
Ash and Dawn walked down stairs with arms around each other, smiling and doing couple things.
"You've took your time, Pi and everyone has been waiting outside for ages, I think they've gone."
"It's fine." He said, hoping that they didn't ask any more questions about there location.
"Anyways, we're going out so we wouldn't be training." Joy pulled out a basket from inside of the kitchen and handed it to Ash, a grin braking through "Have fun." Ash picked up the basket and waked into the cold outside.
After a few minutes of walking, they came to a crystal clear frozen lake. The sun reflecting off of the ice particles which littered across the lake. In the centre of the lake was a ice sculpture of Ash and Dawn, every inch captured them perfectly, every curve and every detail. Ash had the biggest grin on his face, everything was done perfectly.
"You had this planed?" Dawn asked, Ash didn't respond but just kissed her and led her to a melted part of the grass, bone dry to touch. They start to unpack the food from inside the hand woven basket.
From across the lake, the group of Pokemon looked over at Ash and Dawn "Well that worked better than expected." Charizard said.
"Yeah, considering I wont be able to use my tail for a while." Pi said, sitting in the snow with steam rising from his tail, Umbreon still snickering. Pi scrunched up some snow into a ball and launched it at him.
'Hey!'
"Children! Stop messing around! They'll notice us." Charizard demanded.
"I'm not that younger than you!" Pi said.
'Both of you stop bickering." Umbreon said, they both looked back surprised. Pi walked over to Umbreon and scratched behind his ear "Come on, we might as well do bit of training." They all walked off into the forest and left Ash and Dawn to them self.
7:00PM, Lake.
Pi, Charizard and Umbreon all walked back over to their previous position, across the lake from Ash who laid back looking at the sky and Dawn laid on his chest.
Pi looked down at Umbreon, they both summoned their elemental ball and fired into the ice, the electricity and darkness ran there way through the solid lake and made its way to the sculpture.
Ash lifted his head to see the sculpture which now glowed with a yellow and black aura, the energy flowed like blood in their veins. Ash looked down towards Dawn who was staring in awe at the beautiful display of colour. She eventually looked back at Ash, her deep azure eyes drowned out any other light and was the only thing Ash noticed. He brought his head closer to hers and their lips met. Dawn ran her hand down his body until he stopped her.
"Dawn..." She looked at him with panic "I don't want you to do this just for me." Dawn looked confused.
"What I mean is... This will be are first and... I don't want you doing it for my benefit."
"Ash... I love you and I want to." Ash smiled and brought her close.
Umbreon tilted his head as he looked at Ash and Dawn move closer to each other 'Dad? What are they doing?'
Pi put his hands of his eyes, blocking his vision "Arceus sake Ash, come on." Pi, with hands still over Umbreon's eyes, walked back to where the rest were.
Training Area.
Sitting in the centre of the training area, Tyranitar, Floatzel and Arcanine were taking a break. "How long have they been gone for?" Floatzel asked as he sat up stretching until he was knocked over by Umbreon who fell out of the tree above them.
"Well, you're here." Pi and Charizard walked back into the opening with Charizard grinning.
"They have!?" Arcanine asked.
"Arceus is that really everything everybody talks about? No one can keep their noses out of other peoples business." Pi said.
'What is!?' Umbreon asked, frustrated that he's being left out.
"You're too young, you'll understand when you're older." Floatzel said.
"What are they talking about?" Tyranitar asked.
"We'll tell you later, for now Umbreon, do you want to battle someone?" Charizard asked.
Umbreon looked towards Pi for permission "It's fine but who could he battle? I doubt he'd want to fight me and well, I'm bit edgy with you Charizard."
Charizard had a look of offence but understood why he's worried. "So it ether Tyranitar, Floatzel or Arcanine."
Umbreon looked at each of his potential opponents one by one.
I don't want to fight Tyranitar and Arcanine looks kind of scary, um.
'I know, Floatzel.' He galloped over to the north side of the arena, waiting for his opponent. As Floatzel was making him way to his side of the area, Pi grabbed his arm and pulled his down "If he makes a mistake, act upon it but let me tell him what he did wrong before you do anything else." Floatzel nodded as the group moved off of the snow-less arena. The arena was less grass but now harden mud, torn from previous battles.
Umbreon stood staring at Floatzel, waiting for his move. Floatzel looked back with a similar look of anticipation until he quickly fired out a torrent of water at Umbreon which carried him and slammed his against a tree.
"If you're going to stare him down you ether need to be preparing an attack or preparing a way to reverse his attack." Umbreon got back up and started to stare him down again. Floatzel released the same torrent of water but Umbreon made a barrier of psychic energy "You're doing good, now try and send it back to him."
Umbreon was thinking of how he could change the flow of water although, something seemed to drag his legs from underneath him causing his to fall, his barrier to break and flying against the tree again.
"Ok that was bit unfair as not many people can do that, he manipulated the water on your fur to push you over, but you still need to think fast as they will be able to predict how your going to counter them and change their plan. If worst come to worst, get out of the way and come up with a new way of attacking."
Umbreon scrapped the waiting game and summoned a Shadow ball as he was on the ground which caught Floatzel by surprise sending him into the air and crashing to the cold, hard mud.
"Good, always try and catch them off guard."
Floatzel didn't get back onto his feet, but started to crawl on all fours, picking up speed as he surrounded himself in water, Umbreon just stood there, waiting for the right opportunity. When Floatzel was only a few feet away, Umbreon created a thick dome of black aura which solidified into a reflective crystal. Floatzel crashed directly into the black matter, stopping instantly and knocking him unconscious.
The rest of the group ran back over "You ok Float?" Charizard asked before his eyes widen at the sudden danger that Umbreon is in.
"GET HIM OUT!" Charizard screamed.
"What's amatter?" Pi asked.
"Just break this shit open." Everyone started going in on the dome, everything they tried came out fruitless until Zoroark ran over with a focus blast primed and blasted it at the dome which smashed a small hole.
Umbreon was dragged out of the black sphere by Zoroark who immediately started to check his eyes.
"Is he ok?" Pi asked, frightened in the confusion.
He sighed with relief "Yes, but only just." Zoroark laid him next to Pi "We need to destroy the aura crystal" He then leaded into the small hole in the dome.
I'll be taking that.
"What's an aura crystal?" Pi asked while holding Umbreon's weak head.
"It's the life essence of the Pokemon of who made it, if you hold their aura crystal you can control the Pokemon against their will." Charizard said "I think Coeden has mine."
Zoroark opened 2 dark voids one by his feet and one above the crystal then formed an aura blast in this hands, when the ball of aura dropped into the void, a pillar of orange and red rained down from the second void. When the pillar disappeared, a circler hole going around 10 feet into the ground was where the dome once sat.
Zoroark approached Umbreon "Hey little man." Umbreon just looked up to him.
'Do you remember how you did that?'
'No'
'Good, don't ever try it again, your lucky both you can Floatzel are still alive'
'Can we take a break?' Umbreon asked the rest on the group.
"Sure, you did good." Umbreon got off of Pi and sat with his back legs open and his front paws between them.
Ash came walking through the trees with a sleeping Dawn in his arms, Pi approached him, shaking his head. "Check your trousers."
"What's happening?" Arcanine asked as Pi wiped something off of his hand which was previously on Ash's leg back on Ash's leg, causing him to squirm.
Pi walked back over to "Umbreon, go with Ash and Dawn." Pi looked up to the sky to see where the moon is. "It's about 11-ish, about your bed time."
'Since when did I have a bed time?' Umbreon asked, wining slightly. Pi still kept the same look.
'Ok, night Dad.' Umbreon started to walk with Ash towards the Poke-centre. Pi returned back to the group.
"So what happened with Dawn and Ash?" Tyranitar asked.
"Can you really not guess?" Floatzel asked.
"They fucked, to put it bluntly." Pi said, he lets his language become more 'colourful' when Umbreon's not there.
Tyranitar looked embarrassed "Do you not find it awkward to talk about Ash's... Personal life?"
"Not really, both me and Charizard have seen Ash covered in blood and all sort and multiple other things that we shouldn't." Charizard chuckled slightly at the thought of how much they've seen.
"We should head back as well, doubt Ash is going to come back." They all set off, although Charizard still grabbed Pi's tail and pulled him back to him.
"Seeing Ash reminded me of something, you remember?"
"And you have a go at me if I bring that up." Pi said, slightly smiling but still annoyed.
"Why are you smirking?"
"Just shut up and start walking."
They both started walking away from the training area, the night had made it nearly impossible to see but Charizard expression was clear.
"Why does this suddenly bother you so much? It's been like 11 years calm down."
"I know I just..." Charizard was lost in thought
"Oh don't say your remembering what happened?"
Charizard looked way, he didn't like what happened, but he can't say it didn't.
"We were kids and shit happened. Just what ever you do, don't let Charla and any of the guys know."
"Why the heck would I tell them?"
"I was just reminding you, anyways can we drop this? I'm getting unconformable now." They quickly changed the subject as the Houndoom's howl at the moon.
Pallet Town.
Everything was still. The only slight movement was the leaves in the wind. The silence was broken by the engine of an ambulance which drove over the gravel path towards the ranch, Coeden climbed out from the back of the ambulance carrying Heddwch in his arms soon followed by Cynthia and Luca carrying Ryusui.
"We should go see Oak before we go home." Coeden nodded and they all went inside the ranch as the ambulance drove away.
Coeden, Cynthia and Luca entered the ranch and was met with Oak, Nate, Ethan, Jimmy, Brock and his team who were all in the lab.
A look of relief sprung onto Nate's face when he saw his brother and Heddwch.
"Oh thank Arceus he's fine."
Coeden smiled "Yeah he was semi awake at the hospital but he fell asleep after we told him."
"Told him what?" Oak asked.
"Well, sigh... Heddwch did die but, Entei sacrificed himself to save him..." An expected look of sadness plagued the room as they all went silent. "Well we just stop by to say that he's fine, we'll be heading back to mum's so he can rest."
"Before you do." A voice said from the stairs "Can you tell me why Garry was worried for his life?" The voice now had a body to go with, it was Delia.
"Not now mum it been a long few days." Coeden stormed out of the ranch before she could ask any more questions.
At The House.
Upon arriving, Coeden laid Heddwch on the couch as well as Ryu and wrapped a quilt around them, Nate and Delia walked up to see him.
"Can you please tell me, I know something happened when you left, what?"
"We're not talking about it."
"Well at least tell me where you was living for the past 20 odd years."
Coeden sighed "Well when we left, I found Nate in the ship. Then it was taken over..."
Flashback.
Coeden and Nate sat inside a food create, swaying left and right with the rocking of the boat. Sounds of splashing waves was blocked by Nate who was bawling his eyes out.
"Why does she do this?"
"Shhh it's fine, we're safe now."
Nate breathed in, the way you would after crying "Will, sniff, will we be going home?"
"We don't have a home any more." This set off Nate's crying again, water rushing out of his eyes and dripping into the sea.
After a few hours of shaky sleep a loud bang could be heard from starboard side. Coeden poked his head out of their box to see the grey and blue soldiers herd the seamen into the centre of the ship.
From the hole in the hull of the boat appeared Ghetsis in his strange robe which covered most of his body and hair which hid one of his eyes. He casually strolled over to the captain of the ship who was being held down by 3 grunts.
"Where is the shipment?" He said as he pressed his cane into the captains neck.
"We have nothing!" He pleaded "Only food!"
He removed his cane "Oh why don't I believe you? Search the ship!" The second those words was spoken, the grunts started busting open boxes. The 3 grunts dragged the captain into the control room for further interrogation.
Sticking his head back in, Coeden looked at Nate "We have to go." They both started to creep out of the box and headed for the life boats.
"There they are." Nate said, under his breath in fear, Coeden looked back with a smile and headed over to the boat. They quickly hid behind a wall when one of the grunts came out of the control room, blood on his fists. He lighted a cigarette and took a deep drag. As he was pacing down the side of the boat, he pulled out a knife and started to cut the rope that held the life boats the to ship.
Coeden looked back to Nate "Look away." He picked up a brick and ran towards the grunt, swinging the brick at his temple, sending him to the ground.
He stood over his motionless body.
Is he dead? Sigh, better make sure.
He repeatability hit his head with the brick until the bone from his skull pierced his brain, sending blood squirting over Coeden, the blood mixed with the rain that fell from the stormy clouds ran down his shirt.
"Come on Nate!" He rushed over to Coeden then asked "But we don't have a boat." Coeden looked over the edge to see one of the boats was running by the ship "We'll have to jump." He picked up Nate bridal style and jumped the 20 foot drop to the boat.
Flashback End.
"We drifted astray for about a month, I think anyways."
"How did you eat?" Delia asked.
"We had bare supplies in the boat but that ran out and... I made Nate eat Magikarp and other raw Pokemon." Delia looked at him in shock.
"He needed to eat, I didn't kill someone just for him to starve to death." Regret started to fill Delia's body, more so now then ever before as she knows what pain she has put her children through, but there is more pain hidden away, in the graves of the ones they loved and hated.
And Finished, well this is the longest chapter I've written so I hope it was worth it, and yes I know I was going to stay away from things like lemons, but I don't think that really counts. Not allot of obvious plot development but there was something very, very important. The next chapter might take alittle bit longer than usual because of updates and things, at the start of the next chapter I'll put anything that I have changed through updating.
Until Next Time.
