Heart of Gold, Soul of Silver

"Well, that was a total loss."

"Indeed."

"What are you going to do now?"

"The same thing we do every time we lose... Try to take our revenge!"


Lucian leaves the room and closes the door behind him, he looks at everyone that was waiting outside. He could see Anabel's Espeon being comforted by Ash's Pikachu, Sparky, Chuchu and Pika.

"I'm sorry," the doctor tells them all. "We've done everything we can, but we don't know why we're still losing her."

"It's her Aura," Riley walks up. "It needs to be replenished. Please, let me in there."

"Doctor," Cynthia speaks up. "I'll vouch for him, I've studied a little on Aura at Cameran Palace. I believe that he tells the truth."

"Alright, I'll let you do as you wish. Good luck." The doctor leaves.

"Riley," Cynthia walks up to the Aura user. "Here, this'll help you." Cynthia releases her Lucario from its ball.

"Thanks Cynthia, but," Riley put his hand on his chin. "Aura can't simply be created, we need to find someone or something to transfer Aura from."

"I'll do it," Ash walk up.

"Ash?" Dawn sounded worried, everyone else looked worried too.

"It's my fault Anabel's like this, I can't just sit back and do nothing!"

Riley's Lucario nudges Riley, the trainer sees it nod in approval.

"Alright," Riley tells him. "But, this is my first time doing an Aura transfer. I don't know how much we need, or how much it'll take"

"Just do everything you can," Ash tells him. "Take everything you need. Please, just save Anabel!"

"Let me join you," Lucian stepped up. "She's my sister after all."

"Okay," Riley agrees. "Everyone else please wait out here. I don't want to risk anything happening from mixing multiple Auras."

"Lucian!" May rushes up to him. "How is she?"

"Riley and the Lucarios are doing everything they can," Lucian informs them. "But according to him, they just can't transfer Ash's Aura fast enough."

"Are they going to be alright?" Lyra questions worriedly.

"According to Riley, Ash has an abundance of Aura. A lot more than the average person, but he's having trouble controlling the flow into Anabel."

"Oh no," Dawn gasps.

"Riley's Lucario suggested something to him but he couldn't understand it. Yellow, can you come in and help them out? Don't worry, I already told him about you."

"Umm... okay," Yellow waltzes into the room, she sees Riley and the two Lucarios surrounding Anabel and Ash with a calm Aura field. Ash was holding Anabel's hand and Yellow can see a small flow of Aura from Ash to Anabel.

"Yellow!" Riley calls. "Quickly, over here. I need you to help me understand Lucario."

"Alright," Yellow walks over to Riley's Lucario and places her hand over its head. "Ah!" Yellow's face puffed red.

"What is it?" Ash asks.

"Um..." Yellow runs over to the young trainer and whispers something into his ear.

"WHAAAT?!"

Lucian busts in, "What's going on in here?"

"I-it's nothing!" Yellow nervously tells him. "Huh?"

Cynthia's Lucario pushes Yellow from behind and Riley's Lucario pushes Riley out of the room.

"Lucario," Ash speaks to the Pokemon after they close the door. "Are you sure this will help Anabel?"

The Lucario give an acknowledging nod and growl. Ash takes a long hard look at Anabel's body.


"What's going on?" Lucian asks Riley.

"I don't know," Riley answers. "The Lucarios must've thought of an easier way to transfer Aura, but I don't get why we had to leave the room."

"Yellow?" Lance walks to up the young girl.

"Yip!" Yellow jerks. "O-oh, hi Lance! Ahahahaha..."

"You're acting weird Yellow," Red walks up to her. "Did something happen?"

"N-n-n-no!" the girl waved her arms defensively. "N-nothing happened! Really!"

"What did you see in Lucario's mind?" Cynthia goes straight to the point.

"Eer... Umm... I-i-it's just a way to transfer Aura into Anabel a lot more directly."

"Directly?" Brock wonders.

"Uh... yeah... just holding her hand when transferring the Aura isn't enough to transfer the amount of Aura needed to recover her." Yellow begins explaining. "In order to transfer Aura quicker, Ash has to... um..." Yellow begins blushing immensely.

"What?" many of the girls crowded around her. "What does Ash have to do?"

"Ash is taking off his jacket!" Lucian, who opened the door slightly enough to peek through it, tells them all. But one of the Lucario heard him and closed the door again, this time locking it.

"Ash is doing WHAT?" May screams.

Yellow uses this opportunity to sneak away, but Marley sees her and follows. Lati sees them both and camouflages herself to give chase.

"I see what's going on now," Riley explains. "The Lucarios want to transfer the purest Aura, which is normally in the centermost of a person's Aura. Ash's center of Aura has to be closer to Anabel's center in order to transfer the pure Aura easier."

"Center of Auras?" Lyra is confused. "Wait! If Ash has to take off his clothes in order to get closer to Anabel's center, does that mean he has to-" The room suddenly filled with red faces.


"Alright Kitty," Yellow instructs her Butterfree, pulling out a finger. "Use String Shot."

The Butterfree wraps some string around Yellow's finger and flies off while letting out some more string.

"What are you doing?"

Yellow jumps slightly and turns around to see Marley behind her.

"U-u-umm... this is..."

"Are you trying to spy on Ash using your Pokemon?"

"Eeep!" Busted.

"Can you... describe for me what you see?"

The two of them feel a quick wind fly by and follow the Butterfree.

"That was weird," Yellow mentions, but Marley knew what it was.

Butterfree flies over to the window of the room with Ash and Anabel and peeks inside. Above it Latias hovers and has a look as well.

"Ash had just taken off his jacket and hat," Yellow concentrates on what Butterfree was seeing. "One of the Lucarios is pushing him to the bed, he's pulling Anabel closer to him. He's just... staring at her face. He rubbed Anabel's cheek, his lifting her head, he's putting his face closer... closer... his eyes are closing... He saw my Butterfree!"

"WHAT?"

A startled Yellow turns around to see Lyra, Dawn, May, Melody, Bianca and Zoey behind Marley.

"H-huh? W-what are you all-?"

"Tell us what's happening!" Lyra bursts out.

"U-u-um..." Yellow concentrates. "One of the Lucarios just closed the blinds, I can't see anything."

"Oooh..." the girls sighed.

"So this is where everyone disappeared to," a man in a cloak appeared. "Tell me, where are the Champions?"

"You're... Wally Ace?" May recognized him. "Cynthia and Lance are down the hallway."
"Thank you May," Wally makes his way down the hall.


"Hmm?" Cynthia notices Wally making his way to them. "Excuse me." Cynthia walks over to meet up with him.

"Cynthia..."

"Have you found anything?"

"No, the Intel you got from the police was accurate, but that place was abandoned. They're one step ahead of us once again."

"I see..."

"I'm sorry," Wally apologized. "I shouldn't have left the Poke Center."

"It's no one's fault," Cynthia tells him. "We all did everything we could. We just have to try harder to catch them from now on." Cynthia turns around to look at the room Ash is in. "Especially for them."


Outside, Latias and Butterfree were both trying to position themselves to look through the cracks.

Lucario used Scary Face!

Latias fainted!

Butterfree fainted!

Yellow fainted!

"Y-Yellow!" Marley picks up the unconscious girl and tries to shake her awake.


The Lucario that closed the blinds and signals to Ash that there's no one looking in on them now. Ash looks closely at Anabel's face once more, memories flashing through is mind, of their first meeting, the bonds they made, their battles and saving him.

"Anabel..." Ash brushed her face once more. "Please, come back to me."

The Lucarios position themselves on opposite sides of the bed and create a small Aura field around Ash and Anabel. Ash silently pulled her face closer to his as he slowly closed his eyes. Their lips locked, a tear flowed from Ash's face to Anabel's.

Ash's Aura began to flow out of his body as the Lucarios try to contain it and direct it into Anabel's. The lights in the room all explode from the overflowing power.

"It's begun," Riley says aloud. Bright flashing can be seen under the door as it rattled.

The wild Aura flies around Anabel and Ash. Ash can feel his Aura flowing into Anabel, he knows he can't control it properly but that doesn't matter right now. Saving Anabel is the only thought in his mind. Thoughts, memories and emotions fly around in Ash's head. All of them about Anabel, only about Anabel.

Anabel's eyes open to see Ash's face in front of hers, to feel his lips on her own. The Aura around them grew wilder as the Lucarios keep it contained. Anabel can feel... something warm flowing within her, she can tell that it's coming from Ash. She closes her eyes willingly, to take in everything Ash is giving her.

The wild flurry of Aura begins to die down, the Lucarios sense that their work is nearly finished and begins to concentrate on returning the remaining Auras to the two trainers. Anabel opens her eyes once again and places a hand on Ash's cheek. Ash feels this and opens his eyes, seeing Anabel awake. He blushed furiously and jerked back just as the last Auras were restored and the field around them faded away.

Anabel sits herself up straight and Ash just stumbled back, falling down, redder then a shiny Gyarados. The girl taps her lip with a finger, her mind deep in bliss. A Lucario opened the blinds to let some light in. The air around Anabel seemed to glitter beautifully, Ash can only stare, hypnotized by the magnificence.

"Anabel..." Ash whispers.

"Anabel?" the girl repeats, sounding confused. "Is that... my name?"

"What?"

Anabel slowly gets off the bed. She kneels in front of Ash, placing a hand on his cheek while her eyes filled with curiosity, "And... who... are you?"