Aura's Yami Chapter 2: The Dimensional Scream
"Huh, the Dimensional Scream? What's that?" asked Ash, with a confused look on his face. Selia chuckled, and said "Well it's no wonder you don't know; after all, you barely even know the power you yourself contain." Everyone stared at her with a quizzed look on their faces. Selia noticed this and quickly said, "Oops was I talking to myself again? I forget that I'm not alone anymore. Not that I like being alone, but it is…"
"SELIA!"
"Huh, what's wrong Ash?"
You were gonna tell us what this dimensional thingy is."
"Oh yes! The dimensional scream is a ability that only few with your power can have Ash."
"My power?"
"I'll get to that. Anyways, the dimensional scream lets you see into the past and the future."
"But what's my power?"
"So Selia, did Ash see into the past or the future?" asked Dawn.
"I don't know, ask him."
"But what's my power?"
"So wait, how come Ash has it and not anyone else?" asked Brock.
"Well-"
"FOR THE LAST TIME, WHAT IS MY FREAKING POWER!"
As Ash said this, the walls in the room were shaking very hard, as though an unseen psychic force was moving them.
"Waah! It's an earthquake or something!"
Then, as sudden as it started, it stopped. "That was weird" said Brock. "All right then Ash, I'll tell you your power" said Selia, who seemed unmoved by the recent event. Ash, however, was distracted over what happened, and brought himself back to earth.
"Huh, oh yeah sure."
"Do you mind if I tell you in front of your friends? This may or may not be of any importance to them, but it is a very important matter for you."
"I don't care, as long as I know what my power is."
"All right then Ash, the truth is you're actually descended from the old knights of life and justice."
"The what?"
"The Heroes of the Wave. Also known as the Guardians of Aura. "
"Whoa, so I'm a descendent of an Aura Guardian?"
"Not only that, but a reincarnation of one as well."
If Ash was confused before, his confusion now rose even more. "Wait, what's a reincarnation?" asked Ash. "A reincarnation means the rebirth of someone. Everyone is a reincarnation or will have a reincarnation after they die. That's the real life after death." "So Ash is really a dead guy brought back to life?" said Dawn, who was just as confused.
"I think we all are Dawn" said Brock, who was trying to make sense of everything. "But Selia, I don't get it. Was what I had right now a dimensional scream or something? And how do you know all this?" At this last sentence, Selia's face turned noticeably more serious, as if she were about to tell him a very deep and dark secret. The whole room turned quiet, and then Selia finally spoke up. "Ash have you ever heard of the story of the Crimson Aura Guardian?"
"Oh yeah, I heard of that story!" said Ash
"Yeah me too!" said Brock
"I don't get it, what's a Crimson Aura Guardian?" asked Dawn
"It's an old bedtime story that little kids in Kanto were told so that they would go to sleep. I would read that story to my little brothers and sisters."
"Well Brock, it may surprise you to know that it wasn't really a story, it was real."
"Real?" cried out Ash and Brock
"Why, what was it about?"
"Well Dawn, the story begins like this: a long time ago, there was this group of Aura Guardians who came together for a meeting. They sensed that something was wrong with the world's aura and were afraid that the world would fall into darkness because of a dark force. They didn't know what to do, until the youngest one of them spoke up. He was barely 15, and dressed in red robes, which earned him the nickname "The Crimson Guardian". He proposed that someone should go to the island of origin, the Island of Waves and see what was going on."
"The Island of Waves?"
"Yes, according to the story, it where the world's Aura was born, but it is also where the aura goes to die."
"It sounds like a very important place."
"Exactly, which is why it was protected by legendary Pokémon, to make sure nothing bad happens to it. Not many Aura Guardians go to the island."
"Well, why?"
"Because the island is hidden underwater."
Meanwhile, deep in the forest, Jessie, James, and Meowth were still trying to understand their failure this time. On any normal day, they would've shrugged it off, but their most recent failure was quite odd. "I still don't get what went wrong. One minute the twerp was unconscious, and then the balloon just exploded!" said James.
"It was as if a bomb went off, but with the air shaking so violently!" said Jessie.
"Whatever it was, it was nothin' I've seen before…" said Meowth.
"Seen…seen….oh no!" cried out James.
"What is it now James?"
"The video camera! I was recording everything for the boss to see!"
"Well don't worry; we just won't give the tape to da boss!"
"But…I recorded it live…"
"LIVE!" Now Jessie and Meowth were worried. If the boss happened to see how they failed because of Ash, they would be fired, or worse.
"You idiot! You just cost us our jobs!" yelled Jessie, as she started to strangle James.
"Who buys live recorder cameras!"
"I'm…sorry!"
"Maybe da boss didn't see the video, you know how busy he is…" said Meowth, with a hint of uncertainty.