Ch 20: Pokemon Aura
Several days had passed since Dr. Marrs had been kidnapped by Rocket X. Ash and May were on their way to Mauville city so Ash could challenge the new gym leader. It was early in the morning and Ash was the only one awake.
Training his pokemon wasn't the only thing had been doing the last few years. Ever since his journey with lucario in the tree of beginning Ash had tried to learn more about aura. Without lucario's help he hadn't made much progress. Ash took a deep breath, "Come-on Ash you can do it just believe you can" He said.
Ash tok another deep breath and closed his eyes trying to find peace of mind. This wasn't easy for him though after Dr. Marrs had been kidnapped. After nearly 20 minutes he let out another deep breath and then found his inner-peace.
Ash had finally done it he could see the aura of the living things around him. He could see several pokemon around them through their aura. He could see the aura of a pack of poochyena and Mightyena. He also saw a few tailow flying above him.
Ash felt the aura of Pikachu and May. Ash felt wonderful feeling all of the life around him in such harmony. Suddenly he felt someone else's aura someone who had just appeared. "Who's there" Ash said. Suddenly whoever it was started to flee. Ash quickly got up and tried to find out who it was. But it was no use whoever it had been was out of sight.
Ash closed his eyes and tried to find them through their aura. He was in luck he found the person's aura and ran toward it. Ash followed the aura for several minutes until he came to a small pond in a grove surrounded by trees. "Hello, who are you?" Ash said.
Suddenly Ash felt the aura again before he was knocked onto his back by a sweeping kick. Standing on Ash holding one of his paws to his face was none other than a lucario. This lucario however was not like the one he saw at the tree of beginning , the one Riley or Maylene had. This lucario's color pattern was red and black instead of blue and black.
Ash started to feel something, it was the lucario's aura he was trying to speak to him somehow through aura. Altough it wasn't clear words he could tell what the lucario was trying to say. It was asking him why he was following him. Ash used his own aura to respond saying "I was following you because you were watching me. Why were you watching me?" Ash said.
The lucario sent another aura message saying he felt Ash's aura and went to see who he was. Ash used his aura to ask the lucario if he was wild or if he was a trainer's pokemon. The lucario's eyes widened and he used aura to say he belonged to no one.
The lucario sent another message to Ash. He said he had met few humans who can use aura like Ash. Ash responded saying he wanted to learn more about aura and asked lucario to battle with him. The lucario got up and stared at Ash for a few more moments before running off. "Wait!" Ash said.
He tried to sense the lucario's aura but saw he was already far off. Ash could have gone after him but he was already far enough from the campsite. After a few minutes Ash was back at the camp where pikachu and May were both up. "There you are where'd you run off to?" May said.
"Sorry about that guys it's just, remember back when pikachu went missing in the tree of beginning and we met lucario who taught me about aura" Ash said. "Yeah" May said. "Well ever since then i've been trying to get down aura and this morning I finally did. I was able to sense the aura of all the living things around me" Ash said.
"Pika pika!" Pikachu said sounding interested. "You did that's amazing" May said. "That's not all, I saw the aura of a lucario and went after him . After I finnaly caught up with him he tried to talk to me with aura" Ash said. "You mean you talked with him" May said. "It wasn't exactly talking more messages I interpreted" Ash said.
"Did you try and catch it?" May said. "I asked it if it wanted to battle but he ran off when I did" Ash said. "Well if we're lucky maybe we can find him again" May said. "Hey Ash if you can sense aura now can you try and sense ours" May said.
"I could try" Ash said. He closed his eyes and tried to put his mind at peace. After he did he sensed Pikachu's aura. Pikachu was feeling happy and amazed at his new ability. "Well pikachu you're feeling happy and are amazed by my ability to sense aura" Ash said. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said sounding astounded.
Ash closed his eyes again and began to feel May's aura. May was feeling passionate about her romantic life but at the same time timid about somthing else. It was clear somthing was bothering her. "May I can sense that something is bothing you, and it's about our relationship" Ash said.
"Oh you saw that, well it's just my mom. I'm afraid she'll freak out that i'm with you instead of Drew. For the last 2 years she's been hounding me about Drew" May said. "Come on May it's your mom as long as she knows your happy i'm sure she'll be fine. Your are happy right?" Ash said.
May put her arms around Ash's shoulders then kissed him. "Ash of course i'm happy with you, can't you tell that from my aura" May said. "I think I did but I'm still a little new to this" Ash said. "Ash I think your right about my mom as long as she knows I'm happy I know she'll be fine" May said.
After Ash and May had packed up their camp they continued toward Mauville City. "So May who is the new leader of the Mauville City gym?" Ash said. "From what I head it's Watson's Niece but she's not an electric type trainer. Her name is Kelly and she uses grass types" May said.
"Grass types, well I should be good with the pokemon I have with me for a grass type gym" Ash said. It took them almost the entire day but the two finally reached Mauville City and were now at the pokemon center's overnight rooms. May and Pikachu were already asleep but Ash was still up trying to feel the aura around them.
Ash had finnaly been able to use aura that day but despite that he was more concerned about something else. Finding and catching the lucario he had met.
