The Journey
Chapter 5- Reunion with old friends
By Belletiger

"Human speech"

"( Pokemon Speech)"

An: sorry guys, I did promise I would update the story in January, but I kinda had a block writer. The updates might come out slower but I promise to not take so long to update the story. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new chapter.

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Blue smiled as he looked around Lost Forest in his true form. He really missed this place so much that he stared to remember all the adventures he had with Gary and Sora. He couldn't help but chucking when he remembered all the things that he and Gary did when they were young. He wondered if Gary and Sora had evolved like he did. Then he felt a presence of a familiar aura. He smirked as he blocked the kick of a Kojondo.

"Hallo, Gary. I see you also evolved" Blue said to his childhood friend

"(Don't go 'hallo Gary to me'!)" snapped Gary angrily at Blue "(Its been 4 seasons and you never visited us any once.)"

Gary used a thunder punch as Blue used a fire punch to block his attack. After many punches, many kicks and many aura spheres, Blue and Gary lied down in the ground, panting as they were covered of dirty and scratches. After recovered enough of his energy, Gary finally asked:

"(Why you never returned? I heard what happened to Zoroark and you being adopted by the great Cobalon. I thought I would only see you again after you learn enough to take of yourself.)

Blue sighted. He expected this kind of question since it's been almost 4 seasons he didn't see any of his friends. It was true he did evolve into lucario in the last season but couldn't return yet. He wanted to find clues about the humans who captured his mother.

"I admit I evolved last season, but I couldn't return yet because I wanted to find clues about the humans who captured my mother first."

Gary's eyes widen in surprise "(Wait a sec…I thought your mother was dead?)"

"No she is not. From what I could find, looks like those hunters sold her to some human organization named Plasma. I've deal with some members from that organization, but none of them knew my mother's whereabouts. I need your and Sora's help to find her."

Gary's eyes widen in surprise. He was really asking this? Asking help to find his mother, without any idea where she is? Gary really wanted to leave the forest and knowing the world outside but he was afraid to be captured by human since he's an evolved pokemon. Blue smiled as he tells him to not be worried about human capturing him. He just got up and shows him his human form. Gary's jaw dropped in pure sock as Blue smirked. Blue explained since he mastered his aura power, he was also able to use illusions like his mother. And using the illusion to guise himself as human, he was able to walk among the human without needing to worry about being captured. He also tells to Gary he learned how to speak human language to make his disguise perfect.

"Of course, my illusions are not perfect. I need avoid reflecting surfaces or else I they will caught." Blue said as he appointed his reflection in a lake. Needless to say Gary was speechless. Blue also tells him that he will be able to disguise him under an illusion as well, as long he's near of him all time.

"(Well Blue, you've already convinced me.)" Gary said , smirking. It will be good to be able to travel with Blue around the continent. "(But I don't think Sora will be able to come with us.)"

Blue blinked confused as he dropped off the illusion on him.

"Why?"

"(Well, I think it's better you see yourself.)"

Blue was totally surprised when he saw Sora; she was now a big and elegant kenhourou. But what he surprised most that his friends was hatching eggs; soon she will be a mother. Blue smiled as he hugs his friend, congratulating her. Sora was very happy to see her friend again. She gave an apologize look to him, since she will be unable to go with them.

"Nah, no worries Sora. The important is you staying with your chicks. A mother should be always be with her children."

Sora and Gary looked at their friends with sad eyes. They knew how hard was to Blue to be separated from his mother was very hard, especially in a young age. Sora nuzzled Blue and wishing luck for both of them. Blue thank her as he and Gary leaves the forest. Gary was surprised when Blue covers him under an illusion. He now was looking like a human, with white hair tied in a long braid, wearing a white and purple Chinese shirt with long sleeves , a pair of purple paints and black shoes. Gary was amazed with his human form as he commented this human form combines with him very well. Blue reminds Gary to be always near of him to the illusion not wearing off.

They were in their way to Shippou city as Gary asked why they were going there. Blue tells him that he heard from some pokemon there was some strange activities happening in there. This made Blue to believe the humans who took his mother are involved somehow. Along the way, Blue was teaching to Gary how to talk in human speech, which the fighter pokemon quickly learned, surprising Blue greatly. After a few days in the road, their ears picked some strange noises as their noses smell some humans and a pokemon coming down to the road. They saw a bunch of small human children riding in their tricycles. The duo saw there's a pokemon with them. And they recognized it was a yabukuron. Suddenly they stared to throw at the mudballs, which caught them off their guard.

"What the heck was that?" Gary asked as he removed the mud from his face.

The kids laughed as they went away on their tricycles. Blue glared at the kids.

"That's one of the reasons why I don't like human children." Blue muttered darkly as he tried to removed the layers of mud from his face.

Then a young woman and an elder woman came to them, to see if their alright, not knowing that Blue and Gary were pokemon disguised.

"I am so sorry!" the young woman said, bowing to them in an apologizing way. "Those children are from my kindergarten school."

After this, Gary and Blue were taken by the two woman to the daycare to clean themselves. After being cleaned, their eyes shined as they saw pokemon eggs inside of incubators. Blue felt the auras in the eggs; they were filled in love, a motherly love. The loving aura was from the elder woman.

The older woman introduces herself as the Pokémon Day Care owner, Kikuyo, as well as introducing the kindergarten teacher as her granddaughter, Yuri. After Blue and gary themselves, Yuri explains the that the Pokémon they saw earlier was a Yabukuron, and that children had found the Yabukuron in a scrap yard near the school and brought it to school one day without her permission.

"I see." Blue said , folding his arms

Yuri then explains that the children claimed the Yabukuron was crying from loneliness and they wanted to be its friend. She was very much against the Yabukuron staying as they were naturally more comfortable in trash filled environments and it would only make the school dirty. The children pleaded to let it stay, claiming they'll clean up after the Yabukuron. While Yuri argued with the children, Yabukuron releases a cloud of rancid air which causes everyone to initially cringe but the children later claim they can handle the stench. But Yuri's mind was made up as she picked up the Yabukuron and returned it to the scrap yard. She explained it was nothing personal towards the Yabukuron and returned to the schoolyard. Kikuyo explains that the morning Blue and Gary had arrived they found a large pile of scraps surrounding a large tree in the playground. Yuri explains the children and Yabukuron worked together to create what she calls a secret base.

"Really, I just wanted this issue not happening today." Kikuyo said in a wroiied tone in her voice. "You see I will get a visitor from Kanto today."

Then, they heard the doorbell rang. The older woman thought it might be her visitor as she went to the door to get the visitor inside of the daycare. Gary muttered to Blue what they should do. Blue simply said they should leave since the issue of Yabukuron and the human children was not their business and they should get to Shippou city soon.

"Ah, Professor Oak, I am happy you came here." Kikuyo said as they entered to the room . Blue frozen as he heard the name Professor Oak.

"The pleasure is mine, Mrs. Kikuyo. Please, call me Gary. Professor Oak is my grandfather." said a male voice.

Then, the human named Gary froze as he saw Blue in the room. His eyes widen in pure shock. In the same saw Blue was looking at him. For some reason he knew that human somewhere. But how? He never has see this human in his life before but yet he feels he knows him

"A-Ash?"

"What?" Blue couldn't help it. He remembered one of his dreams, the voice that was talking to him was the same one in his dream, only younger

"Ash?"

When Blue heard that name again, a wave of images appeared in his head, and it felt like if he was being pierced with a million needles. Before Gary ( Oak) could say anything, Blue pushed him aside and he runs off, Gary (Kojondo) ran after him. Mrs. Kikuyo asked to Gary ( Oak) what just happened. The elder woman blinked confused as he saw the young researcher's face being pale, like he just saw a ghost.

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"What the heck was that, Blue?" Gary ( kojondo) asked worried about his friend.

Both were in their true form, somewhere in the forest. Blue was quivering as he hugged his legs. Gary (Kojondo) never had seen Blue like this before. Only one time when Blue was still a riolu and he had a terrible nightmare about pokemon fighting each other to death, with a strange pokemon with an angered aura and someone sacrificing to stop the fight.

"That human….. I know him…." Blue whispered as Gary ( Kojondo) sat beside of his friend, worried.

"What do you mean by that?"

" That human… he was in my dreams…."

"What…?"

"One of my dreams…. I saw that human only he was younger….. and he had a black pokemon with yellow rings marks….. urgh…."

Blue hugged his head as another wave of headache hit him. There was many images in his head and it felt like if he was being pierced with a million needles. Gary ( Kojondo) stared at his friend and rival worried as the young lucario collapsed, unable to hear his friends cries .

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At pokemon daycare, Mrs. Kikuyo was offering to the young researcher some tea to calm him down. Gary ( Oak) was still quivering after he saw Blue at daycare.

"Young Gary, why are you like this after you saw that young boy?"the older woman asked gently to the yong researcher.

After drinking his tea and calming himself down enough, Gary ( Oak) answered to the older woman.

"That boy….. he looks like a friend of mine… a friend that passed away 4 years ago…."

When Gary ( Oak) heard about the accident, he was the first to arrive in the hospital before his grandfather and did. He was devastated when he saw Ash's corpse lying down on a table of the morgue and learning half of his body was crushed by a rock caused by a cave in. Huntress J never was caught after this and he was still hopping Ash's murder can still be caught and getting the punishment she deserves after what she did to his childhood friend. He was happy that he didn't bring Ash's Pikachu with him or else the yellow mouse pokemon would go in depression again if he had see that boy.

"I am sorry, Gary. It must have been hard for you." Yuri said to Gary.

"That's alright."Gary said, softly. "But let change of subject; I heard you have problems with your kindergarten children?

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Blue groaned, he opened his eyes as he saw Gary beside him. The fight pokemon was happy to see his rival being awaken. He noticed he was a type of shelter.

"(Ah, you're awaken.)"

Blue turned his head right and saw Yabukuron. The same one that was with those children early. Blue sat down and he looked at the poison pokemon.

"Where am I?"

"(Your friend bought you here after you fainted. Don't worry, the kids will only come here tomorrow morning. We have a lot of time before they come here.) Yabukuron said, smiling to him. Then Yabukuron gave him some berries to eat. ( Here, your friend brought these to you.)"

Blue blinked confused as he saw Gary ( kojondo) sleeping in the conner of the shelter. The aura pokemon took one of the barriers and star to eat it.

"Why are you with those human children?"

Yabukuron blinked before he smiled as he answered to Blue.

"(That's because those children saved me from the solitude.)" The trash bag pokemon said to the canine fighter. (You see, I am not most popular of the pokemon. But those children find myself being cute and they adopted me. Not all human are that bad, you know?)

Blue didn't say anything. He ust stared at his berry. He still could not forgive the human for taking his mother away from him. While he was still living with Cobalon, he met Terrakion and and Virizion. They showed to Blue their dislikes for humans as well, and how they could not trust on them. But in his travels and in his dreams showed not all human were bad. And they felt in those children aura that they really liked Yabukuron. He would see himself how much those children would go for Yabukuron before he does any jugdmenet.

To be continue it…..