Hello again! I really appreciate that you liked my story so far!

On the last chapter, Nightshroud gave some of his aura to set Latios free!

In this chapter, Nightshroud will reveal his past.

Enjoy!

"Normal speech"

'Poke-speech'

Nightshroud: The Beginning

Chapter 2

The light surrounding the shrine died down. Lorenzo, Bianca, Latias, and Pikachu saw what kinda like that the Soul Dew was split into two. The first half was seen by Nightshroud touching it. The other took form of somebody who they thought was gone forever. Latios.

They were shocked and happy to see Latios again. Latias was the first to take action and hugged Latios tightly. As she was hugging him, some tears were shedding down on her face. Latios returned the hug and calmed Latias down. As soon as she was calmed down, Latias let go of Latios.

Bianca is also shedding some tears as she approached Latios. She hugged him and said "Latios! You are real! It's really great to see you again! We missed you very much!" she let go of Latios as soon as she finished speaking.

Lorenzo spoke up next. "Welcome back, Latios!" Latios nodded then looked at the standing form of Nightshroud. It was long long until the others followed his gaze.

Lorenzo asked first. "Ash, what happened?" Nightshroud didn't answer. "Ash?" Lorenzo called him by his old name several times. "Oh . . . Nightshroud?" Lorenzo called him by his new name. Nightshroud still didn't answer.

Bianca gave it a shot, but failed. Pikachu tried to shock him, but that didn't work either. Even Latias tried, but she failed also.

Latios, instead of trying to snap Nightshroud out of his thoughts, he sensed on what's going on. But the psychic senses could not let Latios see that a dark aura is surrounding Nightshroud.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when Pikachu gave him a strong jolt of electricity. But it didn't look like it damaged him at all.

"What . . . happened?" Nightshroud asked.

"You tell us!" Bianca yelled.

Nightshroud turned to see worried looks from everyone. "You kinda spaced out there. Are you alright?" Bianca asked.

"Yeah. I'm fine." Nightshroud said.

'Maybe you should take a rest.' Pikachu said.

"That's probably a good idea Pika . . ." Nightshroud was about to finish, when suddenly realization hit him. "PIKACHU, I can understand you."

Pikachu was confused. 'What do you mean?'

Nightshroud, who was still astonished that he can understand Pikachu, then said "I mean, I know what you're saying!"

Everyone, except Latios, were surprised when they heard that. 'You mean that you can understand what Pikachu is saying?' Latias questioned.

Nightshroud nodded. "And not just Pikachu, I can understand you as well Latias!"

Latias was surprised when she heard that. She smiled and then tackled Nightshroud into a big hug. 'Yay! You can understand me!' She got off of Nightshroud to let him get up.

Nightshroud looked at Latios and asked "Latios? Is this a side-effect of the process?" Latios nodded.

"Process?" Bianca asked confused. "What process?"

Nightshroud told Lorenzo, Bianca, Latias, and Pikachu what happened while he was in the Soul Dew with Latios. "I see. So you gave up some of your aura so that Latios could be free?" Lorenzo questioned. Nightshroud nodded. "So how is it that you can communicate with Pikachu and Latias?"

Nightshroud thought so he could find the answer to his question. "I'm not sure." he then said. He turned to Latios and asked "How can I communicate with Pikachu and Latias?"

'Nightshroud, it's not just those two that you can communicate with, you can communicate with all of the pokemon in the world.' Latios told Nightshroud.

"What!" Nightshroud shouted. "I can communicate with every pokemon in the entire world?" he then asked.

Latios nodded. Everyone else were surprised after hearing that. 'Yes and as to how, while you were transfering some of your aura, I gave you a little part of me so that you couldn't be unstable.' Latios said.

Nightshroud told everyone else what Latios said. "I see. If that is true, then you must have become part pokemon." Lorenzo theorized.

"Wow!" Nightshroud and Bianca said simultaneously.

'Wow is right!' Pikachu said.

Latios nodded and said 'But I didn't give you much. Just the power to communicate with other pokemon.'

"Cool!" Nightshroud said still astonished by the fact that he became part pokemon.

"So now that's over, you were telling us the story on why you changed your name." Bianca reminded Nightshroud.

"Oh!" Nightshroud said. "Okay! You guys might want to sit down and be comfortable." Everyone sat down as they were told.

"The reason I changed my name is because" Nightshroud began. "my former traveling companions and friends betrayed me." Nightshroud finished.

"You mean Misty and Brock?" Bianca asked.

Nightshroud nodded. "Not just them, all of my other companions from different regoins betrayed me." Everyone was shocked from hearing that. Well everyone except Latios because he knew all along.

"Everyone?" Lorenzo asked.

"Yes!" Nightshroud said. Then he thought of the memory. "Well, maybe not everyone." Everyone was confused. "I have two other friends and companions in the Unova region."

"I see. Start from the beginning." Lorenzo said.

"Okay." Nightshroud said. "It all started when I was getting home from my adventures in Unova . . ."

(Flashback)

Ash Ketchum was walking home to Pallet Town after his lost in the Unova league. He finally defeated his rival Trip with Pikachu barely still standing after his Electro Ball collided with Serperior's Energy Ball. Serperior had used up all of its energy into that attack and fainted giving Ash the victory. He lost in the finals against some guy named Tony.

Ash and Pikachu finally got up on top of the hill and saw Pallet Town closing in.

"Well, we're finally home Pikachu!" Ash said to his partner.

"Pika!" Pikachu agreed.

Ash then ran down the hill, heading to Pallet Town and to his house. When he got to his house, he opened the door and went inside. "Mom, I'm home!" he then said. Instead of seeing his mom, he saw his friends Misty, Brock, May, Max, and Dawn. "Hey guys. What's up?"

Misty spoke up. "Ash, we need to talk!"

Ash was confused. "O-kay. What do you guys want to talk about?"

Brock spoke up next. "Ash, we've been thinking and we decided . . . we don't think we should be friends with you anymore!"

Ash was shocked after hearing that. "What do you mean?" Ash said hurt.

"Everytime we go on an adventure with you, there's always trouble." May said. "We think that you're a magnet for trouble."

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Ash yelled angrily. "It's true that there's trouble in our adventures, but" Ash was interrupted by Max.

"So you agree that you're trouble!" Max said.

"I DIDN'T SAY THAT!" Ash yelled angrily again.

Dawn spoke up last. "Sorry Ash, but we think that we'll be even safer if you don't hang with us anymore."

"THAT'S NUTS!" Ash yelled angrily again.

"And that's not the only reason." Brock said. Ash is confused. "Look I know you love your pokemon very much, but it's just . . . you're just not good enough to be a Pokemon Master."

"WHAT!" Ash angrily yelled.

"Yeah, you've been competing in lots of regional leagues . . . and they're not even major tournaments. And you never win in any of them!" Misty said.

"SO THOSE ARE THE REASONS WHY YOU GUYS DECIDED TO NOT TO BE FRIENDS WITH ME ANYMORE!" Ash angrily yelled once again. He then looked down then said "Fine. If that's what you guys' really want, then I'll leave here and never bother you guys again!" Ash then ran out of his house, tears blowing off of his face. Pikachu then formed sparks on his cheeks at the others before following Ash.

Before Ash left Pallet Town forever, he went to Prof. Oak's lab and picked up all of his pokemon. He turned back to see the town once more before running off into the forest.

(Flashback End)

" . . . and that was the last time I saw them." Nightshroud finished his story.

Latias and Bianca were in tears when Nightshroud finished. "That is terrible!" Bianca said.

'I know right!' Latias said. 'How could they do such a thing?'

"So you changed your identity because you don't want them to know who you really are?" Lorenzo asked. Nightshroud nodded. "I see. So if you're not going back to Pallet Town, where are you going to live?"

Nightshroud thought for a moment. "I'm planning on to moving to the Orre region."

Lorenzo was shocked. "THE ORRE REGION!" he yelled. "Are you crazy?"

Bianca was confused. "What's the Orre region?"

"Orre is a very dangerous region." Lorenzo answered. "It's the one region that has lots of criminals!"

Bianca and Latias were shocked after hearing that. "Are you crazy?" Bianca and Latias asked at the same time.

"I'm moving there so that I can help it become a more peaceful region." Nightshroud explained.

"Uh . . . I doubt that you can do it alone!" Lorenzo pointed out.

Nightshroud smirked. "Who says that I was gonna do it alone?" The others are confused. Nightshroud looked to see it was getting late. "It's getting late, so lets get some sleep. I'll be leaving tomorrow!" Everyone else agreed and decided to get some sleep. Well not everyone.

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