"Alright. I don't know what to do until next Friday. But I have a good idea of where we should go that should be pretty interesting. I sure thought it was interesting. Follow me."
They did and ended up going up a road called Mitonga Road and then ended up in a forest.
"This forest, Noir Forest, is inhabited by Dusclops. They remove trespassers like you guys." Said Hana, surprising everyone, of her knowledge."
"I swear if you all hurt the Dusclops, you won't want to know what I'll do to you. And Hana's right. If you're not from around here the Dusclops will send you back to this spot. They don't mean to harm anyone. So try and sneak by."
Ash, Hana, Meowth and Pikachu left leaving the group to deal with the forest by themselves. Ash was hoping that Brock or Gary would at least prevent anything from happening and he also had his Chatot and Talonflame watching them from the trees.
It took 1 hour before the group finally avoided all the Dusclops before they encountered the final one, who was not a Dusclops but a Dusknoir.
"Ash said nothing about a Dusknoir!" Whispered Iris.
"Maybe one of the Dusclops evolved?" Said Cilan.
"Maybe, but it seems to be in control. Maybe it's new to Oblivia? Maybe it came here while Ash was at the tournament?" Said Tracey.
"Then this is perfect! I'll catch that Dusknoir!"
"Wait Drew! I said MAYBE. We don't know for sure!" Said Tracey. It was too late.
Drew jumped out of hiding and threw a Pokeball. "Go Absol!"
The group didn't seem to notice one bird flying away while another watched.
"Dusk!" Shouted the Dusknoir.
"Drew, don't!" Shouted May.
"May, he has no rights preventing anyone from capturing anything!"
"Yes he does!" Everyone looked at Gary. "This region is a RESERVE! No stranger is even allowed to TOUCH the Pokemon!" Drew didn't seem to hear Gary as he called out an attack.
"Absol use Night Slash!"
"Dusknoir!" The Dusknoir was hit by the attack and then used Focus Punch, knocking out Absol.
"That's strong. Return Absol. Go Roserade! Poisonpowder!"
Roserade did that and Dusknoir fell to the ground resting on its arm while summoning a Shadow Ball with its other arm. It tossed the Shadow Ball at Roserade who barley dodged it and the Shadow Ball his the tree nearby, causing it to fall on a Dusclops…
"DUSC!"
"DUSK!" The Dusknoir used all its power to levitate to the Dusclops under the tree. Dusknoir tried to lift the tree before being hit by a Razor Leaf.
"Drew! Stop right now! Don't you realize that his friend is hurt?!"
"May, this is a rare Dusknoir. I'm not letting it escape! Magical Leaf!"
Just then, a powerful Flamethrower hit Roserade, knocking it out. There they saw a Pokemon none of them recognized.
"DREW!"
However, they all knew whose voice that belonged too and turned to see a furious Ash with Pikachu generating sparks, Meowth readying his claws, Espeon with crackles of dark energy at her mouth, an angry flying Chatot and a crying Hana who ran over to Dusknoir and the Dusclops from under the tree.
Ash decided to ignore everyone and deal with them later and help Dusclops. They were all surprised when Ash was able to lift the tree with the strength of a Machamp and saw that Dusclops and Dusknoir were both barley breathing.
"Come on Dusclops, Dusknoir, you can make it. Here Dusknoir, a Pecha Berry." Dusknoir ate it but was still barley breathing. The next thing that happened surprised everyone. Ash put one of his palms against Dusknoir's stomach and his other palm against Dusclops stomach. His palms started to glow and slowly but surely, Dusclops and Dusknoir's injuries were being healed. Everyone watched in awe as they realized that this must be how Ash healed Blaziken. Aura. When Ash was done, he was pale and panting. He then reached into his bag and pulled out two Sitrus berries and gave it to the two ghost types.
"I'm so sorry you two…I never meant for this to happen…"
"Dusclops…"
"Dusknoir…"
"Thanks but I really am sorry."
Talonflame, the Pokemon no one recognized was staring at all of Ash's friend. Everyone could sense the anger it was radiating. Talonflame was one of Ash's Pokemon from Kalos except she didn't like staying in Teakwood Forest like a lot of Ash's Pokemon so she got permission to go all around Oblivia. She also made friends with the Dusclops and the Dusknoir in the area. Ash told her and Chatot to watch his 'friends' and they did and she was furious.
"Daddy, will they be alright?"
"Yes Hana. Yes they will. Watch over these fools while I go have a chat with my partner. Pikachu, Espeon, Meowth, stay with her."
"Pika!/Yes!/Esp!"
Ash left while all his friends looked down in shame, well, except Drew, who still was planning on catching that Dusknoir.
"You're all terrible people! I heard good things but you're no better than Team Rocket!" Shouted Hana. She couldn't let them get by for this. Hurting one of Oblivia's Pokemon…Despicable. A 9 Year old even realizes that.
"Listen, Hana, it was Drew, not us-" Started Dawn.
"Be quiet! You all didn't even help the Dusclops when the tree fell! You didn't even stop lettuce head from attacking the Dusknoir! You all broke your promise! And that's not a good thing to do when Arceus watches from above!"
They all put their heads down in shame and didn't realize that Hana's last sentence was more literal than they thought…
"Lucario, how am I doing?"
"You used up a lot of aura, more than on that Blaziken. It would probably take a whole week to get your energy back."
"Thank goodness. I thought it was serious. But man, 10 years and they still act as the same idiots they were. I guess I was wrong about Gary being reliable."
"Master, I suggest you refrain from doing anything to serious."
"Yeah. Although Drew was the one who caused this, it was my fault. I locked the gate from the northern entrance so we had to go through Noir Forest not to mention that I was the one who believed they would keep their promise and brought them here. What a fool I was-am."
"Master, you are not a fool. You were giving them a second chance. That takes heart. But how are you going to punish them?"
"I can't do anything serious considering it was partially my fault but I will just send them home and erase Drew's memory."
"But how?"
"A way only a certain Psychic can. I just need to lead them to him. I don't trust the others keeping this promise."
Just then, a giant Gengar appeared out of nowhere.
"What the?! How can a Gengar be so huge?!" Lucario tried to analyze it with his aura.
"Master, it has no aura! Like the Dragonite!"
"Oh great! I guess we have to fight!"
"No master! It's too risky for you to fight in your condition! Send out Sceptile and we'll deal with this just like we dealt with Dragonite."
"Alright Lucario. But I'll still give commands. I choose you Sceptile! Bullet Seed! Lucario use Metal Claw!"
Because the Gengar was so huge, it was an easy target. It then created a Shadow Ball as big as Ash himself and threw it at them.
"Lucario absorb it!" After Ash and Lucario finished training Ash, they started training Lucario and this was a technique they weren't sure would work but it seems to be the only option right now.
"Alright, Sceptile Go behind Gengar and use Leaf Blade!"
Sceptile did just that, leaving Gengar a bit unstable.
"Are you ready Lucario?"
"Yes master. But what if it fails?"
"Lucario! If it fails that means you had no faith in yourself in the beginning! You can't think 'what if!' You have to believe it will work! How do you think I mastered the Aura Shield and Healing? That wouldn't have been possible if I didn't believe in myself!"
"You're right master. Thank you. I know I can do this!"
"Alright! That's the spirit Lucario! Now go! Sceptile Solarbeam! Release!"
"BEAM OF THE SHADOWS!"
Sceptile used Solarbeam and Lucario released an evil purple beam that absorbed the Solarbeam and it hit the Gengar, making it blast off before disappearing,
"Awesome guys! I knew you could do it!"
"Sceptile Scep Sceptile!"
"Thank you for believing in me master."
Ash smiled at both of them, congratulating them for the completion of the 'Beam of Shadow,' one of Ash's newest combination moves. Ash returned the two and headed back to the task at hand. Getting his 'friends' out of this region.
Oh man. I remember when I wrote this chapter and the next and the one after. I enjoyed writing those chapters. Looking back at this one, the 'Beam of the Shadows' is pretty odd. Don't know what was going through my head with that one. I also just wrote Chapter 12 and I enjoyed writing that one more than any chapter so far. I've also decided for every chapter I upload, I write another chapter so that way I don't ever fall behind on updates.
If you have any questions on the series, you can ask and I'll reply depending on the question.
Ex. Will Kalos Pokemon be in the series?
One like that, I can.
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Well, I can't think of any that I can't answer but basically any question that will cause me to spoil the story I cannot answer.
Thanks for reading!