Lumiose City:
Calem was walking around the streets of the city. Nothing was out of the ordinary and the day was calm. One could see the bright sky and the sun was beaming down on everyone. Calem then turned around and fiddled with his belt. Yup, all six pokemon were there, the six pokemon he was going to enter the league with. It was already hard to make his team this powerful and he was going to make sure that he made it as far as he could.
Calem shifted his walking speed to a slower one as he walked into the pokemon center and walked up to the counter where Nurse Joy was standing with a beaming smile that was so contagious that Calem smiled himself.
"Nurse Joy, can you take care of my team for me?" Calem asked as he took out all six pokeballs from his belt and put them on a rack.
Nurse Joy took the rack with the pokeballs and smiled, "Yes I may, they will be right back out ready for battling in no time! Just make sure that you stand by!" Nurse Joy then took the rack behind the door to the clinic in which Calem had never been.
Calem then turned around and started to leave, but did not notice the teenager that was talking in the video phone as he passed.
Same Pokemon Center, just different third person POV:
"Hunter, YOU CAUGHT A WHAT!?" A strong voice almost echoed through the pokemon center as Hunter was trying to calm down the guy that was in the other side of the call. The teenager Hunter was speaking to had pale skin and dark blue eyes that had black spiky hair with a dark blue outline. His clothes included a black pair of pants and a black undershirt. Finally, the teenager also had a black jacket with dark blue streams that surrounded made up the edges of the jacket. Next to him, there was a sweat dropping Jolteon trying to not startle his trainer any more than he already is. Also next to him, a shiny blue Decidueye face winged looking at how his trainer was acting.
"Shhhhh…" Hunter replied with a whispering voice and covering his lips with one finger. "Someone could hear us…" Hunter inferred this as another teenager with black hair that had just given Nurse Joy his pokeballs walked behind Hunter and the call. "Dude, I had to call Leaf to come over so that she could see it as well."
"Dang…" The other boy said as he touched his chin. "Dude, you know that this is probably one your best chances to win the whole thing right?"
Hunter smirked and said, "Watch me." Then Hunter looked down and said, "If I am going down though, it will be a good battle this time and not another f***ing slaughter like last time!"
The other boy smiled and looked at Hunter, "Dude, you can always challenge the Tunod league and become champion, after that you defeat the Johto league, and then finally, after that you can challenge me at the soul stadium… Just like I did to Soul."
Hunter smiled at his friend, "Yea, I know, after you beat Soul himself and he appointed you to be his successor after he retired…" Hunter said sarcastically knowing the story. Hunter then clenched his fists and looked at the boy with determined eyes. "But I am still wanting to challenge you... but I want to win a league conference before that! I want to match your power!"
The other teenager smiled, "I know you do want to match me, but that doesn't mean you can't already… You have become stronger, so I am expecting an amazing performance from you at the Kalos league!" the boy replied as he gave a thumbs up.
"Jol Jolteon!" The Jolteon exclaimed agreeing with his trainer.
"Cidueye!" The blue hooded archer owl next to Night said while showing off a pose.
Hunter sighed, "Thanks Night…" Hunter then made himself look up at the eyes of the determined trainer apparently called Night. "Just one thing though…" Night cocked an eyebrow watching his friend wanting to ask something. "Would you, come down to Kalos? I have wanted to battle alongside you for a long time now… And the victory road is exactly where we can do this!"
Night then smirked, "You know, I am free for some time in the future, why don't I go down to Lumiose and cheer you on?" Night then witnessed Hunter's eyes look up in complete awe and happiness. "Hehe, I can tease you some more about Leaf there too!" Hunter instantly went all red and raised up a pokeball to the screen trying to intimidate Night. "Don't worry, I will try to make you look good for her, I know about your feelings bro, I am your friend." Night said as he crossed his arms.
Hunter then smiled and said, "Ok dude, see you there!"
"See ya there bro!" Night replied as he disconnected the call to leave Hunter staring at a blank screen.
A/N: So Night is in the picture now. Notice how I made him champion of the Soul Stadium. This is Pokemon Glazed stuff so you guys can probably know that Pokemon glazed is one of my favorite pokemon ROM hacks ever. I still even kept the tradition of a blue shiny pokemon for the person that is champion: Shiny Decidueye. That is probably going to be what my OC will be most famous for, his Decidueye and his Jolteon. Anyways, Night will be going to the league to see how Hunter does on there, and does this mean we will have a Pikachu vs Jolteon already… I can tell you for sure that Night is not in the league so there is no need to worry about that anyways.
But what did Hunter mean by: "battle alongside" Night?
Wait, does this mean that Ash will need to battle with someone as well? I wonder who…
Anyways, just a little bit of foreshadowing I wanted you guys to know about before the league so that you guys can start making your own theories as to what will happen.
So last chapter we actually focused a little bit on Sceptile. The green frog should now be called "Kit Fisto"... JK lol! Sceptile is just so awesome like that.
Anyways, this chapter is mostly a filler, but maybe it will have some interesting parts to it, who knows?
Also, not long until we begin the actual challenge of the fic! How will Ash be able to do against all of his competition? We will have to find out!
By the way, I have so much planned out for the league so it will be a cool thing to watch out for the things that will make the Lumiose Conference a lot more interesting than in other fics that have had a tournament. Yes, I have learned so much from The Fallen Trainer and I plan to use all of the stuff that I learned to make this so cool.
Anyways, I do want to put some emphasis on the things that will go down this episode between the gang and a lot of the competition that will happen today as well.
Enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 27- Squishy the core… Lumiose conference registration begins!
Lumiose City:
"Did you register for the league yet?" This was a voice that was heard by someone with raven hair hiding in an alleyway of Lumiose City. It was a dark place that Ashura could easily hide in, and it was a great way for Ashura to also eavesdrop on all of the trainers that were coming outside of the pokemon center. It was open registration for the Kalos League that had just been announced to be done early by the champion through the television. This was the time that Ashura was waiting for as he wanted to register, but he could not figure out a way to do it so that Ash would not know that he was entering the league.
"Yea, I just did," Another voice, this time it was feminine. Ashura saw as the voices slowly lost volume meaning that they were leaving the area. Ashura knew that he had to do this in secret so he kneeled down and slid his backpack over his shoulder to be able to see the inside contents of his bag. Inside, he saw a cloak that he thought about using. Ashura was conflicted about using a cloak throughout the league as he had once done it in Kanto and from that he was able to sweep easily. Still, the fact that he had to keep the cloak in order to defeat Lance left Ashura conflicted as to how he was going to do it. In the end, he knew that he needed to keep himself secret. With that, Ashura slid on the cloak and walked out of the shadows and into the sunlight of Kalos and from there, in front of the pokemon center.
Looking around, Ashura saw that the coast was clear, so he turned to the sliding doors of the pokemon center which conveniently opened up to reveal him to the inside of the healing haven for pokemon.
Ashura walked in and instantly noticed that the pokemon center was completely empty except for Nurse Joy who was in the counter taking care of some business with the computer. Ashura saw that it was his big chance so he walked up to Nurse Joy with a swift maneuver and finished walking in front of Nurse Joy.
Nurse Joy looked up from what she was doing to see Ashura waiting for her there, "My apologies sir, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asked in a polite tone.
Ashura reached into his bag and pulled out a badge case with all eight glistening badges and his pokedex and simply said, "I have come to register for the league."
"Absolutely sir, right away," Nurse Joy said with a bow as she took the badge case and the pokedex of Ashura and put it in front of the computer. She took a close look at the badges and made sure that there was eight, and sure enough, eight badges were glistening in the light that the pokemon center was giving off. Nurse Joy then returned Ashura his badge case and scanned the pokedex in her computer...
When the name of the trainer came up in the computer monitor, Nurse Joy went wide eyed, "R-Re-"
Ashura saw what Nurse Joy was about to say and instantly reached over to her and put a hand over her mouth while whispering in her ear while also making sure no one was looking or around to witness this, "Don't you dare say that name…"
Nurse Joy struggled a little more in Ashura's grip and Ashura let go of the nurse. Nurse Joy was shaking in fear as she saw that Ashura had let her go. Nurse Joy looked back at the computer and changed some things to hopefully cover her up and in the end she returned Ashura his pokedex. Ashura took the pokedex from the shaking Nurse Joy as he began to turn away and walk out of the door. "Congratulations, you have been registered for the league… Satoshi."
Ashura looked back at Nurse Joy and removed his cloak to fully expose his face to her. Ashura then nodded and said, "Sorry about that, I am just not ready for people to know my first name…" Ashura then looked back at the sliding door and clenched his fists. "Ever since Charizard…" Ashura then left Nurse Joy with her mouth agape. "Whatever… Satoshi is a good name, thanks for letting me be anonymous." Ashura then slipped the cloak back over his head completely concealing his face and he began to walk out of the pokemon center towards the sliding doors.
The sliding doors opened to let Ashura out, and Ashura walked through it as a gust of wind caused his cloak from behind to arch up and show off Ashura's real attire to Nurse Joy. The wind then calmed down and the cloak returned to concealing Ashura as he walked through the doors. The doors then closed slowly thus slowly making Ashura's figure be blocked by the doors.
The doors then slammed shut and Nurse Joy was left with a trembling expression by herself in the clinic.
With the gang walking towards Lumiose City:
The gang was walking through the path with the intention of Ash taking on the league with everything he had. According to Serena, the group was not far from Lumiose City, in fact, she stated that they would reach the heart of Kalos by noon if they kept up the pace. The path was nice and quiet though and the trees kept waving slightly along Ash's blue scarf to the breeze that was going through our heroes. Also, the path was getting a lot more visible which indicated that Lumiose City was a lot closer than anybody thought.
"So Ash, who are you expecting to battle at the league?" Brock asked as he and Ash led the group of five. Serena and Bonnie were not that far behind, but they were talking mostly girl stuff, or stuff that made Serena go all red. The last person was Clemont, who was trying his best not to die as he tried to keep up with the group. Brock and Ash were talking strategy for the league and it was obvious that Ash was very restless about it since Lumiose City was not too far away at this point.
Ash listened to Brock's question and put on a careful look, "The strongest!" Ash said as he put a fist in the air along with Pikachu. Brock just face palmed and Ash figured he probably wanted a legitimate answer since Ash had just given away the most obvious fact that he was excited. "Ok, maybe I want to rematch Calem… Last time I battled him, Greninja, who was a Frogadier back then, lost to his Gallade… I want Greninja to have his rematch and defeat that Gallade!"
Brock then gave Ash a quizzical look and asked, "What about your other pokemon, do you think that they would like a rematch against someone?"
Ash then looked and thought through his pokemon and then muttered something that Brock still heard, "Damian…."
"Damian?" Brock asked unaware of what was going on, but then he remembered something, "Wait, that guy that insulted you before you challenged Wulfric the first time?"
Ash looked down and clenched his fists, "Yea, that jag…"
Serena then stepped near Brock and Ash and said, "You see, the thing is that Ash and Damian never got along. Damian always put Ash down, and in the last battle Ash and Damian had… It was before we reached Anistar City."
"What happened?" Bonnie asked trying to catch up to the three.
"Wait! I want to listen!" Clemont exclaimed as he wheezed over to the group.
Ash sighed and simply said, "Yea, let me tell you guys the story, let's just sit down." Ash said as the group began to stop walking to then sit down on a tree stump. They all turned to Ash as he tried to keep his composure, this was a rough subject for his pokemon and he knew it. "Well… I met Damian when I met Charizard, he abandoned Charizard and left him, who was then a Charmander, to die in the rain."
"No way!" Bonnie exclaimed in agitation.
"Well… it happened, it turns out that Damian thought he was weak, so he abandoned it on some rock near Lumiose and when Serena and I saved Charmander, I offered it the chance to come alongside me… and he did," Ash explained thinking back to after he won his first gym badge.
"It disgusts me that someone would use such an illogical method of treating a pokemon," Cleaning said seriously as he adjusted the glare on his glasses.
Brock then put a hand over Ash's shoulder, "It is alright, you took care of him and now he is one of your strongest."
"You see…" Serena started while she looked at the distressed Ash. "Damian keeps verbally attacking Ash's pokemon all the time… to the point that Ash's pokemon completely lose it…"
"Pika…" Pikachu hung his head agreeing with Serena. He had also been called out by Damian at times.
"Wait, are you serious?!" Brock asked.
Ash slowly nodded and proceeded with his story, "It was before I took on the Anistar gym…"
Flashback:
"That Noivern of yours is pathetic," Damian smirked as he put his hand out. "Zweilous use dragon pulse!"
"Zwei… LOUS!" the double headed dragon shouted as he shot a dragon shaped beam at the sound wave dragon. Noivern took the hit straight on, but stayed flying in a large explosion. Noivern then fell to the ground covered in smoke as his wings were extremely heated up.
"Noivern!" Ash shouted as he saw Noivern take the attack and fall down to the ground motionless.
"Noivern is unable to battle, Zweilous wins!" The ref, who had brown spiky hair and hazel eyes exclaimed as he raised his flag towards Zweilous. The ref was also dressed in normal black and white official clothes on this six on six battle where Zweilous had just swept all of Ash's team except one pokemon. Ash was about to recall Noivern when Noivern slowly got back up.
"NOIVERN!" Noivern shouted in anger and with red eyes as he made himself glow gold and charge the Zweilous.
The ref looked at Ash with serious eyes and said, "Call off the attack… NOW!" Ash gritted his teeth and looked at the ref with panic. What could he do. "Just get your undisciplined Noivern out of battle before I disqualify you!" Ash hated the fact the ref was being unsympathetic about the situation, but what would Ash do? Noivern was on a mind of his own!
"Noivern no!" Ash shouted in panic as he watched the anger consumed pokemon attempt to attack the Zweilous under critical condition. "Noivern you are too hurt! Cut… it… OUT!"
"Oh wow, so badly trained," Damian said with crossed arms. "Just use another dragon pulse at that helpless flying rat." Zweilous once again launched his dragon shaped multicolored beam at Noivern and when the hit collided, Noivern fell to the ground completely helpless and unconscious.
"NOIVERN!" Ash shouted with extreme panic as he ran to the field and rushed the fallen pokemon. Ash reached Noivern and saw that his wings had severe wounds from the battle and from attempting to rush Zweilous. "Noivern hang in there."
Serena watched in panic next to the field while grabbing her ribbon with extreme worry for Ash. Ash used his scarf to stop some of the bleeding that Noivern was having because of the attack.
"Dragon pulse on Ash, Zweilous!" Damian said with an amused look on his face. Zweilous slowly began to make the blue and red beam charge up in his head.
The ref was just watching… with an amused smile on his face as well.
Serena instantly went wide eyed as she saw the command and turned to the ref, "AREN'T YOU GOING TO STOP THE ATTACK!?" The ref simply ignored her and Serena watched in complete horror as the dragon pulse began to streak it's way towards Ash and the unconscious Noivern. "ASH! NOIVERN!" Serena shouted as she found herself running towards Ash in increasing worry. She would not let the dragon pulse hit Ash, not over her dead body.
On Ash's belt, one pokeball was shaking with all of its might. Ash saw the incoming beam and put his body over Noivern to protect the sound wave dragon. The pokeball shaking on Ash's belt then emerged and shot open a Chameleon which then put himself between the two and used a strong pair of green scaly claws. The dragon claw took on the dragon shaped beam and Chameleon stood there growling at Damian and Zweilous with two claws pointed at Damian and Zweilous in a threatening manner.
"Meleon…" Chameleon warned as Damian put on a smirk on his face.
Serena saw this and narrowed her eyes at Damian. Serena had made it near Ash and was helping the raven haired trainer and the sound wave dragon get up… When she lost all control to what the ref had to say.
"Due to having used an illegal move! Ash Ketchum us disqualified from the battle meaning that Damian wins!" the ref shouted with a smile.
"ILLEGAL MOVE?! DID YOU SEE WHAT DAMIAN JUST DID?!" Serena shouted over to the ref who just ignored her. Serena walked in front of the ref as Ash and Noivern began to limp over to Serena because Noivern was so injured, he could barely walk.
"Serena, let's get Noivern to the pokemon center quickly," Ash said urgently as Pikachu and Chameleon got in front of Ash to help Noivern get back up.
"It's a shame…" everyone turned their attention to Damian who had just said that remark. "That Chameleon was what I was looking to defeat today… oh well…" Damian replied as he recalled his Zweilous.
"You got that right Dam- OOF!" The ref got the living daylights knocked out of him as Serena left towards where Ash was.
"That is what you get, idiot…" Serena replied as she went to Ash and helped the pokemon grab Noivern.
The ref stood there looking at the figures walk out of the room and Damian walked up to him. The ref had just been left with a painful hand mark on his left cheek.
End Flashback:
"Moral of the story is, the only thing that got defeated on Damian's side was the slap that Serena gave the ref after the battle," Ash said with a slight laugh but then turned to a serious look. "But yea, my team got trashed except Charizard, who did not even get to battle… and I was unable to even defeat a pokemon on Damian's side…"
"That must have really hurt," Brock replied with a sad expression. "And you said you wanted to battle him in the league? I think you two should just stay away from each other at this point," Brock remarked.
"It was devastating for Ash too, Calem would have stuck up to him, but he was already challenging the Anistar gym with Shauna… and well, Tierno and Trevor were already working for their last badge… I tried what I could, but I don't think I really helped that much…" Serena replied with a small frown.
Serena then felt a small hand around her shoulder, "Serena, that slap was the best thing I could have seen at that point to help me cope with the loss," Ash replied with a smile. "And yes, next time I will win!"
"Oh Ash…" Serena replied with a small smile as the group began to get back up and begin to walk towards Lumiose City.
A little later:
The group continued to walk until they reached a small open clearing where the group stopped walking to have a little time to drink some water. Ash and Pikachu decided to have a little race as Clemont decided to collapse on the ground next to the path in order to catch his breath. Serena noticed some flowers near where the group was on some bushes. They looked like blossoming cherry blossoms and Serena went up to them and smelled them. Brock read up a little bit on the history of Lumiose City, he was curious as to what kind of landmarks he could find…
"Oh my gosh!" A girly scream got the attention of everyone. "It is so CUTE!"
Ash was confused as to what was going on, so he and Pikachu walked over to where the shrieking Bonnie was. Serena, who was the closest to Bonnie got there first and stood looking with her mouth agape at what Bonnie was referring to. Brock and Clemont were a little slower as they came up behind Ash while also feeling a little curious as to why Bonnie was shouting.
One look at the ground and there was a small green blobby shaped pokemon on the ground that had one eye and white coloration coming off into a small circle next to it. There was also a red core in the middle of the small pokemon that was shaped like a hexagon. "What is that?" Clemont asked looking at the blob.
"I think… a pokemon?" Serena inferred.
"It is like that thing Ash and I encountered a while back with that fat dude," Brock said while holding his chin.
"Pi pikachu…" Pikachu sweatdropped as he heard Brock's description of Xerosic.
"That's…" Ash started as everyone turned to him. "That's a Zygarde core." Ash then looked at the Zygarde core and said. "It looks like it can be captured, let's bring it with us then for now, I don't think it will mind… Bonnie?" Ash turned to the small girl in front of him. "Can I trust you to look after it?"
Bonnie looked at Ash with glistening eyes and replied, "Yes Ash!" Bonnie then went over to Zygarde and said, "Hey, I am going to call you Squishy!" The core made small sounds at Bonnie indicating that it was fine with it, and with that Bonnie took the blob and put it in her bag alongside Dedenne. Bonnie then turned to the others and said, "Ready to keep going guys?"
"Ready!" Serena replied as she grabbed her hat and began leading the group towards Lumiose City. "We are almost there!"
Ash looked at Pikachu and smiled while pumping his fist, "Pikachu… WE ARE ALMOST THERE!"
"Pi Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted while running off ahead.
"Can we not run?!" Clemont asked as he felt a strong pair of arms pick him up being Brock.
"Alright, I will be your legs," Brock replied running ahead of Ash. Bonnie followed with her great speed as she attempted to catch up to Pikachu, Bonnie and Brock who was giving Clemont a piggy back ride.
"No way, Brock that looks fun!" Ash then began to run behind the honey blonde girl in front of her who was distracted while looking at her tablet with a map showing the way to Lumiose City. "Serena you are playing this game with me!"
Serena instantly looked up confused, "What ga-" Serena instantly felt a pair of arms swoop her off the ground and begin to carry her bridal style. "Ash, oh my goodness!" Serena shouted as her face went all red.
"We are winning this game, Serena!" Ash shouted completely unaware that Serena had smoke coming out of her ears with pleasure.
'Girls are always crazy for male celebrities, but for some reason I have always been thinking of Ash as one… Oh my gosh, he is bridaling me right now!' Serena thought with pink cheeks until she noticed a smirking Bonnie…
'BONNIE!' Serena mentally cursed herself.
A/N: So close! I am so hype for it all to begin!
Noivern has been shown to have had a bad time against Damian, also Charizard, let's see how this plays out because I can smell trouble already happening.
Also guys, I am so ready to write the league battles! Beat thing is… No one week breaks Woo Hoo! I can write these all I want.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode as it sets the stage for the future.
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys… Next time!
Responding to some reviews:
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