Pokemon Center at Snowbelle City:
Ash, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie and Brock all had their backpacks ready to go and they were in front of the door of the Pokemon Center.
"Ready?" Brock asked with glee as he went up to the door to open it. The others nodded as they were going to follow him out the door.
Suddenly, something caught Ash's eye causing everyone to look back at what Ash was focusing on. Ash's eyes were glued to the television set on the wall of the Pokemon Center. It announced the Kalos League. A feminine voice then narrated over a picture of a hexagonal stadium that had a circle in the middle that lead to a dark abyss which had two paths leading to it and what looked like a large trainer box. There was three stories of seats that looked like they could harbor around a quarter million people and it looked like there was a village around the stadium where Ash assumed the participants and fans stayed. "The Kalos League will be starting real soon! After the trainers attempt to defeat the victory road, we will be left with the perfect amount of trainers to start the tournament!" The feminine voice called out.
"The League stadium looks amazing," Ash said turning to Clemont who had a bright smile looking at the television. Ash then looked at Pikachu, "Pikachu are you ready to win it?"
"Pika Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted while pumping a small yellow fist and gathering electricity on his cheeks thus making Ash smile.
Clemont scratched the back of his head sheepishly and pointed to the picture, "The actual design of the stadium was designed by me." Brock, Serena, Bonnie, Ash and Pikachu looked at Clemont with a surprised look. Clemont then turned to Ash and continued explaining, "I developed the programing software for the random battlefields and I also made it so that the scoreboard had a nice design while displaying the pokemon." Clemont and then smiled, "And the fact that I also made the idea of making it hexagonal is so that everyone can have a great view of the battle."
Brock then put a hand on his chin as he thought about something. Then, the television roared again, "The Kalos League will begin with the Victory Road challenge which was recently constructed in Lumiose City…" A cave is shown that depicts a mountain that leads up to the stadium and village that houses the actual Lumiose Conference. "The Victory Road will begin at Prism Tower in a few days! Hope to see challengers there!"
With that, the television screen went black as Ash had shining eyes. Ash then turned to everyone, "I am ready for the league! Who is ready to cheer us on?!"
"Pika!"
"I am!" Everyone else shouted while putting a fist in the air.
"Then let's go!" Ash shouted being the first one out the door and into the snowy weather of Snowbelle City. Ash the picked up the pace and with Pikachu on his shoulders, he began to run towards the route that leads back to Lumiose.
"WAIT FOR ME!" Serena exclaimed with a pink tint in her cheeks as she ran after her crush. Brock and Bonnie followed behind also running to catch up with the raven haired teenager.
"Wait! CAN WE NOT RUN?!" Clemont asked as he ran, or what he thought was running, behind the group lagging behind completely.
A/N: Ok so, this chapter will be mysterious as hell, but I need you guys to know this is not a filler. What happens here will play a huge factor in the league.
Now, one character here has a happy and always smiling counterpart, but he will be OOC for now, in fact do not expect this guy to go in character until further into the story.
Oh yea, this chapter contains two gym battles of two different people by the way, I prefered to do this than a filler with the normal gang.
Hope you guys enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 23- I won't smile until I can see her safe again!
Tower of Mastery (Shalour City):
The battlefield was populated with two trainers in their trainer boxes. Both trainers held serious faces as they stood ready to battle. The referee was a bald man that had white robes on. One could call him a "master of mega evolution" since he is known to be the keeper of the scroll at the Tower of Mastery. The Tower of Mastery was known as a great location for people that are fascinated with the origins and history of mega evolution. Of course, the tower also housed the Shalour City Gym which is ran by the gym leader Korrina. This was what was about to go down in the gym too.
"So you think you can beat me and get the rumble badge?" A blonde girl with a well built body taunted. She had roller skating gear and even some roller skates on her shoes. She had pale skin and blue eyes and she stood tall with arms crossed in her trainer box. She then shifted her gaze at her opponent. "Ashura, right? I accept your challenge!"
The raven haired man we know as Ashura stood in his battle box with a serious expression on his face, "Don't be too stubborn, Korrina, I know you are a gym leader, but you clearly underestimate my power."
"Do you question my authority as gym leader?" Korrina asked back with a sour expression. Korrina then put on a fighting pose by lifting her leg up in a kick. "I will not be a pushover Ashura, try to defeat me!" Korrina then turned to the man acting as referee. "Grandpa, get this show on the road!"
The man looked at the two trainers and carefully eyed Ashura, something about the way he acted did not sound good to him. Ashura then turned to the referee noticing his alarmed expression, "Gurkinn, my friend, let me show you what I can really do with one of my strongest pokemon."
The man we now know is Gurkinn nodded and raised his hand, "This will be a three on three pokemon battle! This match will be over when three pokemon on either side are unable to continue. Additionally, only the challenger is allowed to perform substitutions." Gurkinn then turned to the trainers, "Do all trainers agree?" Ashura and Korrina nodded. "Trainers, choose your first pokemon!"
"I will go first!" Korrina exclaimed as she put on a battle pose with her hands out. She then took out a pokeball and threw it at the field. "Go Mienshao!" The pokeball opened and from it came a bright flashing light that turned into a Mienshao. The Mienshao then made a battle cry as he waved his whip like arms around.
Ashura stood there with arms crossed, "I guess this pokemon will do." Ashura then grabbed the pokeball with all his might and threw it onto the field. "GO Aegislash!" From the pokeball, the light turned into a shield and blade like pokemon that floated ready for battle in attack mode, not defense mode as people would expect. The pokemon also stood their silently which was very peculiar as it would have been expected to make a battle cry. Gurkinn carefully eyed the Aegislash with a suspicious expression on his face.
Gurkinn then turned to Ashura, "Challenger makes the first move!"
Ashura looked at Aegislash and then Mienshao and already figured out a plan to defeat the bipedal fighting type.
Gurkinn then put his hand down, "BATTLE BEGIN!"
Battle music start! Ashura (Aegislash) vs Korrina (Mienshao):
"So, you are looking for the type advantage? My pokemon have more than just fighting type moves," Korrina smiled as she taunted Ashura.
Ashura smirked, "Stubborn little girl aren't you? It is a shame that you barely know any fighting type moves because this particular Aegislash is actually weak to fighting." Gurkinn instantly went wide eyed at what Ashura said. Without any time, Ashura called out his first move after he pumped his fist, "Sludge bomb!" Aegislash then shot a purple ball at Mienshao. Unable to comprehend what was going on, Korrina was completely immobilized as she watched Mienshao take the entire hit in a large explosion. When the smoke cleared, Mienshao was standing with purple electricity going around his body and what looked like bubbles coming from the mouth.
"Poison no!" Korrina exclaimed in shock as she watched how Mienshao was clearly poisoned. Gurkinn obviously was coming up with explanations for this as he looked over at the Aegislash. 'How does Aegislash know that move… unless… Could this even be an Aegislash?' Gurkinn thought as he watched Korrina give out her counter attack. Korrina then put her fist out and exclaimed, "Mienshao use focus blast!"
"Mien… SHAO!" Mienshao shouted as he made a yellow orb between his hands. After that, Mienshao threw the orb straight at Aegislash expecting the move to cause damage. The yellow orb pierced the sky and before it hit, Ashura made sure this move caused no damage at all.
"Aegislash dodge it by using night slash on the orb and hit it down, then use your speed and hit Mienshao with a strong night slash," Ashura commanded with arms crossed and a bored expression. The Aegislash made his blade glow purple and then he moved at a fast speed towards the focus blast. Gurkinn's eyes widened, 'NO, Aegislash would never be this fast'. Aegislash then did his orders with ease. He jumped over the focus blast by hitting the sphere to the ground and with great speed and agility, Aegislash went into the sky with a great amount of speed that made Korrina look at the Aegislash in complete awe. Aegislash then slammed the purple blade into the Mienshao and it went flying past Korrina at an unbelievable speed.
"Mienshao NO!" Korrina exclaimed as the bipedal purple fighting type slammed across the wall in a small cloud of smoke.
"Mienshao…" The pokemon groaned as he stood back up. Suddenly purple electricity marks appeared on the pokemon and with that he fell to the ground unconscious due to poisoning.
Gurkinn looked at Mienshao and knew he had to make the call, "Mienshao is unable to battle, Zor- I mean, Aegislash wins!" Ashura looked at Gurkinn with a smirk knowing that the elder master of mega evolution figured out his little strategy. Korrina though, she recalled Mienshao with a completely confused face.
Korrina then turned to Ashura and asked, "Sludge bomb? How?"
Ashura just looked down, "It is something that you have to figure out." Ashura then shifted his gaze at Korrina and shrugged his shoulders, "Do you want to continue?"
Korrina did not speak a word as she put a pokeball in front of her and threw it. The pokemon that came out of the pokeball was a Machoke, "MACHO!" he cried in pride.
Ashura smiled, "Ah, a Machoke, native to my home region."
"This time, we won't lose! Use dynamic punch!" Korrina exclaimed as she put her hands out. Machoke charged the Aegislash with a great amount of power and then made his fist glow white as he was ready to slam it into the shield like pokemon.
Ashura put his hand out and exclaimed, "Counter it with night slash!" Aegislash made his blade glow purple and then the two moves collided with sparks flying and with that night slash overpowered and made Machoke fall back in complete pain. Ashura then made his next command, "Now use flamethrower!" Gurkinn looked at Aegislash with a large amount of confirmation over his theory. The Aegislash charged up a jet of flames and blast it towards the Machoke that was in front of Korrina in pain.
"Flamethrower?!" Korrina gasped as she recoiled and looked at the attack come at her pokemon. Korrina then put her arm out palm down and shouted, "stone edge break through the attack!"
"Ma...CHOKE!" Machoke shouted as he pounded the ground made a barrage of blue rocks appear from the ground with great power. The stone edge then pierced the flamethrower due to the material of the attack and the stone edge then continued onto the exposed Aegislash.
"Jump on that stone edge!" Ashura exclaimed while pumping his fist with one hand. Aegislash then made himself go airborne and with great ability, but suspicious movement since it looked like a pokemon that floats was being affected by gravity, Aegislash jumped on the stone edge and delivered a nasty position for Machoke. "Finish it off with night slash!" Aegislash swiftly made the blade become purple and with that slammed it into the chest of Machoke. Machoke fell back in pain in front of Korrina.
"Machoke get up!" Korrina exclaimed with hope.
"Machoke…" Machoke got to his knees. "Macho…" Machoke fell unconscious on the floor of the battlefield.
"Machoke NO!" Korrina recoiled seeing her pokemon be defeated so easily.
Gurkinn instantly also made the call, "Machoke is unable to battle, Aegislash wins!" Korrina once again silently recalls her defeated fighting type.
Ashura just looked at Korrina and claimed, "Korrina, you have so much to learn in being a pokemon battler. So much to learn." Korrina then looked at her challenger that was actually teaching her a lesson. "I am doing this to clean up a mess that I made some time ago… I don't know if I will be forgiven, but I will try my best." Ashura then smiled at he young gym leader. "Give me your strongest and show me what you can do!" Gurkinn looked at Ashura with interest. There was an aura of a strong person that had a nice past, until something clouded it with pain and agony.
Korrina looked at Ashura with awe and narrowed her eyes. Korrina then gripped a pokeball from her belt and looked at it with great determination. Looking back at Ashura she smirked, "LUCARIO LET'S GO!"
The pokeball soared in the sky and from it came a pokemon that was bipedal with a fighting like stature. The pokemon also had a glove like feature with a Lucarionite to Ashura's surprise. "RIO! LUCA!" The Lucario shouted in a battle cry.
"Ahhh, a Lucario, it looks powerful, in fact it reminds me of a good friend," Ashura replied with a smile. "Aegislash are you ready?"
Aegislash to everyone's surprise turned to Ashura and put his blade in the air while giving out a small cry, "Zora!" Gurkinn's eyes went wide when he heard the cry obviously knowing that the Aegislash was not even an Aegislash at all, but a Zoroark.
"You can cut the disguise Zoroark," Ashura said. "I want this battle to actually involve your true façade." The Aegislash then began to glow purple out of nowhere. Slowly, materializing into another shape, the Aegislash became its true identity, a werewolf like bipedal pokemon with black fur. The pokemon also had some blood red claws and a long hairstyle with a blue sphere near the bottom along with red hair at the ends. The Zoroark eyed his opponent as his hair waved as aura projected as wind from Lucario's strong stance.
Korrina looked surprised as she saw the transformation. She knew she needed to go all out so she went for her keystone. "Lucario! Mega evolve!" Lucario then growled as he turned white and began to grow. The spikes he had on his body became larger and the the ends of his limbs became red. The four prongs Lucario had behind his head also grew substantially and developed some red coloring as well. Notably, Lucario's eyes became red too.
At the sight of the mega evolution, Ashura could not help but smirk at the confrontation.
"Power up punch!" Korrina exclaimed as she made a fighting pose.
"Luca…" Lucario leaped into the air with ease and made his fist glow a fire like coloration. Lucario waved his fist around as he soared to make himself stronger. Ashura gave no call as Lucario slammed his fit from the air into Zorork. Ashura smiled as he saw that Zoroark stumbled back a bit.
"We are not done, aura sphere!"
Ashura saw Lucario formed a blue sphere of energy in between his hands and put his hand out, "Counter it quick, sludge bomb!" Zoroark made his hands form a purple sphere and with that he launched it at the incoming blue sphere of energy. The gap closed between the two orbs and there was an explosion in the middle of the battle field. Ashura then made his counter attack, "Zoroark get up close and use night slash!"
Korinna then put her fist out, "bone rush, quick!" Both pokemon made their blades, Zoroark making purple ones with his hands while Lucario made two bones which he was using as kunais. The gap closed between the pokemon and they stood at a duel between night slash and bone rush. Lucario put on a more defensive approach while Zoroark countered all of the hits that came his way. Both pokemon then backflipped back to their trainers with great power. "Aura sphere!" Korrina shouted as she threw her hand out.
"Luca… RIO!" Lucario charged the aura sphere and and then made it go at an amazing speed at Zoroark. Zoroark had no time to dodge and got consumed in the sphere. The sphere then sent the Zoroark to the sky with great power and exploded.
Ashura narrowed his eyes as Zoroark fell to the ground and pumped his fist, "Flamethrower let's go!"
"Zora!" Zoroark shouted as he launched the barrage of flames from his mouth at the fighting-steel pokemon.
Knowing this would be fatal, Korrina put on another martial arts pose and shouted, "Bone rush quick!" Lucario summoned his two bones in each hand and put it in front of him as the attack approached. Then, Lucario put the bones in front of him as the flamethrower collided completely slicing the flames harmlessly. From that, Zoroark stopped the jet of flames as he reached the ground and landed with both legs and one arm. Gurkinn instantly smiled watching the battle between the two. "Bone rush again!"
"Night slash!" Ashura exclaimed as he put his fist out. The pokemon again met in the middle, but this time it was a stalemate. Night slash thought broke through and Lucario back flipped with his bones in a defensive way as Zoroark went after him again. Zoroark again collided his purpled blade with the bone, but as he went to get a real strike with his other arm, Lucario jumped out of the way. The collisions caused sparks that ignited the field. Zoroark then retreated to be in front of his trainer smirking wildly.
Both trainers then with determined faces shouted their next attack, "FLAMETHROWER!/METAL SOUND!"
"Luca… RIO!" Lucario clapped his hands together making a group of terrible sounding sound waves.
"ZORA!" Zoroark launched a beam of flames towards Lucario.
The two beams were in a stalemate until eventually the flamethrower was pushed back and slammed into Zoroark. Korrina then looked at her Lucario and said, "Let's finish this! Aura sphere!" Lucario launched his beam, but Ashura already had Zoroark ready for the final attack.
"Zoroark use NIGHT DAZE!" Ashura exclaimed as he threw a punch into the ground. Zoroark did the same while covered in a dark aura. Suddenly, a huge dark shock wave came out in all 360 degrees destroying the aura sphere and consuming Lucario completely. Lucario got pushed back into a wall and made a huge dent on it as he reverted back to his original form and slid down unconscious.
"Lucario is unable to battle, Zoroark wins, which means the win goes to Ashura!" Gurkinn exclaims. He is proud of his grand daughter despite the upset of the lost. Gurkinn knew from the way Ashura battled that the man was probably even stronger than even a champion.
Korrina praised Lucario as she recalled him. At the same time Ashura praised his Zoroark for the hard battling and recalled him too.
"That was a really good battle, I did not expect you to be that strong," Korrina explained as she walked up to Ashura.
"Yea, I was not expecting you to be that good either, you truly are a good gym leader Korrina," Ashura genuinely said.
Korrina then pulled a badge out of her pocket and presented it to Ashura, "This is the rumble badge. Go on and take it as proof of victory at the Shalour Gym!" Ashura accepted the badge and put it on his case. All eight badges that are in the case glistened at the light. "You have eight," Korrina started. "That means…"
"Kalos league?" Ashura smirked. "I don't need to do it, but I feel like I have to… I need to battle someone there, he is very strong and I have to make amends with him."
Korrina nodded at Ashura's response in understanding.
'Ash, I need to make things right with you,' Ashura thought to himself.
Anistar City Gym:
A raging battle was going on inside of the sundial. The gym was lit in vibrant colors as there was four pokemon on the field that had a clock under it. Two of the pokemon belonged to the gym leader who was Olympia. She had two Meowstic, one female and one male, and they were battling against two pokemon that even Olympia did not recognize. These pokemon were battling with their tan skinned trainer who had green hair, orange sneakers, yellow shorts and a black shirt that had a little curve at the top… Notably, the trainer had a bracelet with an orange crystal on it. One of the pokemon was a large bipedal tiger that had a belt that had fire power while the other resembled a Raichu, but it was floating in its tail. The to Meowstic managed to hit the two pokemon with dark pulse and both of them fell in front of their trainer barely able to battle.
The trainer grew stressed watching his pokemon being defeated, "Incineroar! Raichu! Come on, stand up!"
"Roar…" The tiger that the trainer referred to as Incineroar groaned as he got to his knees in pain.
"Rai…" Raichu also groaned in pain as he could barely get himself back in the air to surf on his tail again.
The trainer saw the state of his pokemon and clenched his fist while gritting his teeth. Through the adrenaline he had, he was trembling. He was forcing himself to win at all costs, there was no way that anyone would even stand in his way. The trainer then looked at his pokemon and said, "Get up please, if not for me… Then for Lillie!"
Like if magic happened, both the Raichu and the Incineroar got back up and put on a battle stance. They were still exhausted, but they wanted to win at all costs. At the trainer's statement Olympia found herself in a vision as her eye glew a light blue color. After a couple seconds, she found herself in reality and looked at the trainer, "Hau…" she said while looking at the trainer that was called Hau. "You used to smile…"
Hau looked at Olympia and kept his fists clenched. Suddenly he exclaimed, "And I won't! I won't smile until I can see her safe again!" Hau then pumped his fist and looked at Raichu, "Raichu use psyshock on the male!"
"Rai!" Raichu shouted as he got on his tail and started flying up. "Rai… CHUUUUU!" Raichu shouted while giving out a spur of pink beams out. The pink beams seeked the mostly blue Meowstic and caused an explosion.
"Meowstic, are you ok?" Olympia asked the male cat.
"Meoowww!" The feline shouted as he got back up from the psyshock still recovering.
Suddenly, Olympia smirked and when Hau looked up, he knew why. A future sight that Olympia had used some time ago had activated and was about to pelt on Incineroar and Raichu. Hau looked around fast and when he found the solution, Hau put his arm out and commanded, "Incineroar get on top of Raichu and cover him!"
"ROAR!" Olympia watched in shock as the Incineroar gave out a battle cry and put himself on top of the mouse pokemon. The future sight then hit the back of the tiger-like pokemon and caused a large explosion. When the smoke cleared, Olympia had expected the two pokemon to be unable to battle, but to her surprise Incineroar got back up from his position and looked at the Meowstic with a determined face.
"But how?" Olympia asked completely awestruck.
Hau just looked seriously at Incineroar and said, "Incineroar is a dark type, he is completely immune to any psychic type attacks!" Hau the. Put his fist out. "Raichu get the female with thunderbolt! Incineroar use darkest Lariat on the male!"
Raichu made himself go into the air with an electric aura that crackled. The Raichu then launched the electric beam at the mostly white feline. The electric beam pierced the air and caused the Meowstic to get hit in an explosion. Incineroar also made himself get enveloped in an aura, but a dark one this time. The dark aura caused Incineroar to charge the male Meowstic. Incineroar then crashed into the male Meowstic completely making it fall in pain in front of Olympia.
Olympia raised her hand as the two Meowstic struggled to get up and commanded, "Use helping hand and dark pulse!" One of the Meowstic, the male one, then gave the other a gold aura while the female charged up a dark spiral beam in her hands. After charging it up, the super powered beam was expelled with great power.
"Quick, use thunderbolt!" Hau exclaimed as he pointed at the pokemon he was battling.
"Rai… CHUUUUUU!" Raichu shot his beam of electricity which streaked the sky and went to counter the dark pulse directly. The gap closed between the two beams as the pokemon struggled to keep the attacks viable. The attacks kept going and eventually the dark pulse began to overpower and creep up on Raichu.
"Raichu, dodge and surf your way out of danger!" Hau exclaimed. Raichu stopped his attack, but before the dark pulse hit, Raichu went off the ground and started surfing over the dark beam… Only for the dark pulse to curve upwards and follow Raichu thanks to keen eye. Hau then got an idea, "Nose dive towards the Meowstic!" Raichu then did as he was told and began to dive until at the last second. "NOW!" Hau shouted as he pumped his fist. Raichu got back on his tail and leveled off, but the dark pulse kept going and hit the Meowstic that were under it. Both felines fell back in pain.
"How clever," Olympia said in an unamused tone as she saw her pokemon get up from the attack barely standing. Olympia then out her hand out, "Use psyshock!"
"Meooooowwww!" Both felines shouted as they charged up their attack and perked up their ears. Suddenly, they shot the pink beams towards the Raichu recklessly which is what Hau wanted the whole time.
"Incineroar take the hit!"
"ROAR!" Incineroar shouted as he got in front of Raichu and took the psyshock dead on. The smoke cleared and Incineroar was still there standing with no damage taken due to his fire type.
"Let's finish this!" Hau called out as he began to make movement with his arms. Incineroar then got enveloped in an aura that was passed from Hau. Then Hau shouted, "Z MOVE! Malicious Moonslaught!"
"ROAR!" Incineroar shouted in a deafening battlecry and then jumped on top of the Meowstic that were watching in awe with Olympia. Incineroar then fell on both felines in a wrestling like manner that caused an explosion in the middle of the battlefield.
When the smoke cleared and Incineroar got out of the way, it was evident that the Meowstic were unconscious and completely defeated.
"Both Meowstic are unable to battle, which means the winner is Hau!" the referee announced. Hau felt a small smile curve up to his lips, but then frowned as he praised and recalled his pokemon because he remembered the real purpose of his travel.
"Meowstic you battled bravely now take a good rest," Olympia said as she recalled her pokemon into red energy and then they got sucked into their pokeballs.
A little later:
Hau was in the pokemon center at a video phone and he dialed up a number. The screen showed static until suddenly a female voice broke the static as the monitor began to portray a green haired, light tanned with green eyed teenaged girl, "Hello? Hau?"
Hau looked and the girl and with a soft tone replied, "Mallow, I just wanted to know how my sister was doing…"
Mallow sighed and looked at Hau with a sad face, "Nothing has changed, Lillie is still on life support… The surgery price has not changed either…" Mallow then decided to look at Hau and ask, "Hau, how did it go in the gym battle?"
Hau pulled out his badge case and showed Mallow all eight badges collected, "I got them all… Now I need to..." Hau clenched his fists as he said the next part, "Get past the round of top 32 in the Kalos League so I can get the prize money that comes with passing onto the last phase… I did my research now that they updated the information of the Kalos League and the prize money is just enough to get me back to Alola and get the surgery done... I can't lose, so much is at stake…"
Mallow looked at Hau with a worried expression on her face. She had known Hau for so long now and through the time they spent together she developed feelings for the Hau she once knew: an optimistic one, a person that smiled all the time and was so relaxed even when there was trouble. She knew that person still existed, but the only way he would come back is if Lillie gets the surgery to save her done. Mallow then spoke up, "Hau, you used to be so happy… Remember when you and Kiawe had that battle in which Incineroar, then a Litten, actually used Infernal Overdrive on his first try?"
Hau remembered the memory and tried to smile, but his muscles just would not move. His temporalis was just never stimulated to smile like it used to. Still, Hau replied to Mallow, "I know, I remember that." Hau then looked down and clenched his fists again. "Mallow, what if I don't win? what if I don't find a way to save Lillie?"
Mallow looked at Hau sadly, "Hau you will do it… Your sister believes in you, your friends believe in you… Your pokemon all are with you, and… I-I believe in you." Hau took in everything that was said and sighed.
"Look Mallow, I am sorry for waking you up this late, I know you are in Hoenn time over there in Alola… I was just worried that's all, thanks for being there for me," Hau replied genuinely.
Mallow had sparkling eyes at seeing Hau thank her like that, Mallow then gave a smile, "It doesn't matter when you wake me up, I will be here for you always!"
Hau then looked at Mallow for the last time and said, "Thanks again, good night…"
"Good night Hau… Take care."
With that, the video call ended and Hau slumped against the wall and took a deep breath. "Almost there," Hau whispered to himself.
That night in route to Lumiose:
The gang had set up two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls. With that, Brock and Clemont were cleaning up the dishes after they had finished dinner some time ago. Serena went to put Bonnie to sleep and after succeeding, she returned to see the boys watching certain raven haired trainer training.
"Pikachu, use thunderbolt!"
"Pika… CHUUUUU!" Pikachu exclaimed as he ripped a lot of electricity through a stream that was next to the campsite. Ash had decided to jump in the stream as well as he trained with two of his pokemon.
Just as the thunderbolt was about to hit a certain pseudolegendary dragon Ash put his fist out, "Goodra counter it with your thunder!"
"Gooo… DRA!" Goodra shouted as he shot an electric beam at the thunderbolt. The electric beams interacted with each other and then dispersed into thin air.
Ash then pointed at the sky, "Goodra use rain dance!" Goodra shot his battle cry at the sky thus summoning clouds that slowly began to pour down rain which dampened Ash.
"Wow, Ash is getting fired up," Brock replied as he looked at the battle.
Clemont the smirked, "After I finish the dishes I am going to help train him!"
Brock's face then lit up, "me too, haha!"
Serena though, she had an agitated look on her face as she ran up to the boys and seeing as the rain was damping Ash. With a towel in hand, Serena threw it at Ash while exclaiming, "Ash you are going to catch a cold! Dry yourself!"
Ash's focus stopped being in the battle as he turned to catch the towel in time and hear Serena's advice. Brock of course, he looked at Serena and chuckled at how the performer took care of the trainer. Brock then stepped in and said, "Serena, relax, that is just a myth, take it from a pokemon Doctor."
Serena then turned to Brock and simply said, "You sure? My mother always told me that you would."
Brock just chuckled, "It is just a myth, you need to be exposed to an actual infectious agent to even catch a cold… Just because his hair is wet does not mean he got exposed."
Clemont chuckled as he heard the pokemon Doctor begin to sound smart. Clemont actually agreed with Brock stating that it seems logical.
Ash just stood there confused and turned to the worried Serena and said, "Don't worry Serena, if they say that I won't catch it, then I probably won't."
"But Ash," Serena tried to interject.
"Come on Serena, relax," Ash started. Suddenly, feeling his nose itch Ash got the urge to:
"AAAAAACHOOOOO!"
A/N: Ok, so that last part was set up for next chapter. Some of the stuff will be different, so chill it will be amusing like the anime. The reason why I am making a fun chapter is because… well… I don't think there has been a fun chapter in a while and when the league starts there might not be so many.
Also, on the new participants we know for the league… Get prepared for the role they will play because it will make things interesting!
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
Responding to some reviews:
NinjaFang1331: Thanks, glad you enjoyed it this far! Thanks for leaving a review telling me that it was good, I appreciate it!
ArmorshippingFan: It is going to happen soon, just wait, I have already planned it out, and don't worry, it will not take as long as it was on The Fallen Trainer. Maybe it will take just as many chapters, but it will not be towards the end of the story. Also, thanks for the review!
Bonnie759: Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the Angel with a Shotgun part of the battle, in fact, this is not the last of songs in battles: Expect them in big battles towards the end when it gets climactic too. I hope you enjoyed, thanks for reviewing!
Seth: I hear you loud and clear brother! I saws both of your reviews, don't worry! Also, the time where Greninja was failing in the anime was the time that he was Frogadier in this fic. Once Frogadier evolved into Greninja here, the Ash-Greninja transformation was mastered, so don't worry about the power of Ash-Greninja… Keep in mind that the form will not be seen for a good amount of chapters for now, so even though Greninja is powerful, he is not always the star of the show, so don't hate me. As for Sceptile, I am thinking of making a future development arc for him, but for now, expect his Overgrow to be like Infernape's in the anime, so he can be very overpowered! Thanks for reviewing!
HybridAshGreninja: One of my favorites too! Thanks for leaving a review, hope you enjoyed!
Guest 1: I will keep up the good work! Thanks for enjoying and reviewing!