+Reviewer Response+
ToBlazePurple: Okay for now while the story is still young, I'm going to put review Responses here and I won't respond to all as much as I would like.
Jurrasicdiondrew: I appreciate your enthusiasm, but at the same time I have a rough idea of Ash's party in the future. I'm not saying there is no chance of what you want happening, but chances are this might not be the story you think it is.
Mokkel: Thanks dude. That's really nice of you to say.
Writer: Well that's all for now. Can't really respond to the others except with another thanks.
The attendant in the front handed the two museum tickets to Sabrina. "Here you go miss, for you and your son!"
The psychic user glared harder at the man than she had ever before in her life. "Do I look that old to you?"
He seemed a bit nervous but decided to try and answer. "Yeeeeeee," The man found himself holding that note for dear life after noticing Sabrina's hair starting to fly upward and her eyes glowing.
Meanwhile…
"It sure was nice of Sabrina to invite us over to museum with her after we won our gym battle." Ash said as they entered into the Pewter Museum. The place seemed to be in the middle of a party, and there were even food stands allowed inside.
From what Ash could read from the signs, the museum was promoting valuable relics from the mythological Pokélantis. Which was cool, he heard stories about that place. Something about it being a secretly advance civilization?
'Yep!' Riolu started chewing on some cheese sticks he got out of a small box. 'This place is awesome!'
Ash nodded before he realized something and turned towards his shoulder where Riolu was sitting. "Where'd you get those cheese sticks? I don't remember buying you any?"
!? The fighting type froze mid bite and looked back to his trainer with sweat starting to come from his head. 'UUhhhh you didn't?'
"So Riolus are capable of crime. I knew there was something I liked about you." Sabrina finally caught up with the two after buying them tickets. She had taken a bit longer than usual because… it was not worth mentioning.
'I didn't steal food.'
A few feet away, a man was complaining to a stand, "What are you talking about!? My order for cheese sticks was right here, where else could it have gone!?"
The two looked back to Riolu. 'You can't prove I did that.'
Sabrina found herself smirking. "It's too bad I can't read minds then." The smirk only grew when Riolu started eating more of the potential evidence.
"Riolu, you could have just asked." His trainer sighed.
'I'm sorry,' The little fighting type sniffed. 'I'm weak.'
Ash petted his partner's head before Sabrina realized she was staring and shook her head. She couldn't believe that the two had made her let down her guard for a moment. "I'll be heading towards the new wing. Don't touch anything."
"You make it sound like I'll break something here."
"You make it sound like something doesn't strangely break when you're near it."
Ash opened his mouth in protest, but found he could not really say much to refute it. However, his mood quickly came back up as he saw a section of the Museum on Pre-historic Pokémon.
With Ash gone, Sabrina found it much easier to slip back into her usual cold and unfeeling state and quickly made her way towards the new wing.
To her surprise, she had already spotted one of the missing Team Rocket members walking around the Pokélantis section in broad daylight. Sabrina was about to reach for that person until her powers sensed something off with the person.
She couldn't read her thoughts. No, that wasn't quite right. She couldn't sense any thoughts coming from the grunt. She knew they were mindless before, but there was usually some sign of brain activity from the underlings before today. Even from dark types, she could at least sense the interfering energy disrupting her power, but it was like she couldn't even sense it at all, like she was trying to sense nothingness.
Curious, Sabrina shadowed the grunt as she walked towards a group gathering.
"Hello, and welcome everyone!" A pudgy man greeted the large group of people. He was on top of a stage that held some covered object which obviously meant it was important.
However, to Sabrina's bewilderment, the two security guards standing next to the mayor were two other missing members of Team Rocket and they also had this strange vacant expression along with her being unable to read their minds.
"Now," The pudgy man, who Sabrina assumed was the curator of the museum continued, "It is time to introduce one of the major artifacts of the new Pokélantis exhibit. Archeologists described this as an item said to belong to the last King of Pokélantis himself!" The excited curator went towards the sheet and grabbed on to it.
He removed the sheet with flourish, showing a large, elaborate golden tree statue. However, strangely enough inside the trunk, there were hundreds of masks, and it looked like some were even gone and removed from the tree.
Sabrina felt a little off in the presence of the fake tree, especially in the middle where there was a symbol of a blade stabbing through a rainbow.
It was then that the power cut out.
Ash and Riolu were sharing snacks and looking at a machine that could revive Pokémon fossils along with fossils only meant for viewing.
Then the power went out.
'We really can't go anywhere without something going horribly wrong, can we?'
"Welcome to my life, Riolu."
Sabrina was the only one who could 'see' in absolute darkness. She could sense it, over a dozen people moving in the darkness with purpose among everyone else panicking. The psychic user felt a spike of unrecognizable power coming from the tree before it shot out its masks outward towards a large majority of people.
Sabrina used her powers to stop a mask heading her way and crush it into pieces. However, everyone else was not as lucky as the masks seemed to attach to their faces and slowly but surely get absorbed through their skin.
It was then that the psychic woman noticed how the entire group of people except her inside this section of the museum had a mask thrown into them.
The lights of the museum went back up, signaling the backup power kicked in.
There was a sudden silence the psychic user noticed nearly everyone looking at her.
"Oh?" Sabrina moved back towards the curator whose eyes now looked strangely different than before. "It seems someone wasn't caught in the initial attack."
"Who are you?" The purple haired woman asked emotionlessly, but with eyes observing the area around them.
The curator walked with a powerful commanding presence that was never there before from the pudgy man with gray hair on only the side of his head. "… You must be a descendant of the Xatu Tribe. I recognize that harsh, cold stare, and overwhelming power."
Xatu Tribe? Descendant?
Now that Sabrina thought about it, the curator originally said the artifact was from Pokélantis and that the Team Rocket Grunts were sent originally to retrieve it to sell it off themselves. When it was in front of her, there were a few dozen or so masks missing. Now? Nearly all of them were gone. With all of these facts, and with what happened just so recently…
"You are lingering members of Pokélantis?" It was farfetched, but it seemed to make some amount of sense. Some people believe ghost Pokémon were once humans, and she had met people who didn't believe in psychics or aura users, so it wasn't truly a stretch to have something supernatural happen.
"Was that a question? I was under the impression your clan could predict the future. Don't tell me you're some diluted failure."
Sabrina bristled at the insult. Still, he didn't actually refute her question or deny it. Her theory about these being long dead soldiers who must be using some power of ancient times to stay alive was starting to seem stronger with each second.
"Actually, even if you are some outcast, your powers should be able to answer this question: where is our King's container?"
The psychic user seemed to have enough of this as her eyes started glowing red and her hair started to levitate. "I have no obligation to listen to you."
Ash and Riolu noticed how the exits around them were closed in with metal doors.
'What's going on?' The blue fighting type asked innocently.
"I think the museum is in lock down mode." Ash said before looking over to a guard in the corner talking to his communication device and not being able to have anyone answer him. "Can you sense what's going on beyond the walls?"
The fighting type closed his eyes before snapping them open and pointing behind the fossil restoration machine. 'There's some kind of weird energy in the place where Sabrina went.'
"Weird energy?"
'I don't know but it feels like energy in a battle.'
The young teen was rather worried for his older—what is this weird creeping feeling he was getting—friend. However, what exactly could he do to get to her safely besides wait around?
Well… there were the unsafe options, but he promised Mary he'd tone down on those!
'Whoa! I feel a spike of energy from behind that wall! I've never felt power like that before!'
Uuuuhhhh, but if his older—again, what is that strange ominous feeling—friend was in trouble, he had to help out!
"Sorry, Mary." Ash looked around to see if there was anything he could find that could help out.
'Man, if only I was strong enough to break down that wall…' Riolu folded his arms in disappointment.
The wall did seem thick. It would take a Pokémon from a higher weight class than Riolu to break it down, something like that Tyrantrum skeleton placed in the center of this section of the museum.
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"Riolu?" Ash said as he slowly turned his head back to a certain area he was looking at awhile ago.
'Yeah?'
"Did you know that Professor Oak once showed us how to work a Fossil Revival Machine?" Ash stated emptily as he stared at the decommissioned one right in front of them.
'You don't say?'
"Yeah, I thought it would be super complex, but more recent machines are rather easy to put on. … Like this one."
'That is interesting.'
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'This plan is going to go worse than we expect, isn't it?'
"I give it a fifty-fifty chance."
The powerful psychic user back flipped to avoid being swarmed then pushed her left hand out, unleashing a powerful wave of psychic energy and tossing a good chunk of people like rag dolls. However, there were few that avoided the blast by creepily standing on all fours or doing impressive physical parkour feats with the other artifacts within this area.
Most of all, Sabrina noticed the strange shadowy power coming from the curator that seemed to animate itself and create a shield to block her psychic power.
"You are indeed powerful," The man wearing the curator's face began as the ghost-like giant behind him started to move out. "But you stand no chance against a Major of the Suneater Legion, Vious Zhan!"
Sabrina slowly raised a palm towards her opponent. "I have never seen power like that before." There was something about it that felt like that of a dark type. If that was the case, that simply meant this would be more taxing than she wanted it to be.
Vious seemed surprised before he laughed, prompting his beastly shadow to extend a tendril over towards and old, rusted stick that instantly turned into an ornate, black spear. "Blame that on the course of time, old hag."
And that was Sabrina's cue to launch another blast of psychic energy towards her opponent without any abandon anymore. However, just like before the shadowy power appeared and shielded Vious from being affected.
Instead, the shadow presence started to roar, making the other possessed people start standing back up as well. Soon, they too had much lesser shadow presences behind them.
The psychic unclipped several Poké Balls that started to fly around her. She needed more help—
*KABOOM!*
"ROOOOAAAARRR!"
Everyone watched in stupor as one of the walls broke down and a living, large Tyrantrum came in and wildly started trashing around so angrily that it even made a giant banner that said, "New Exhibit!" fall down slowly while the extinct Pokémon roared mightily.
"Ahh, I see some things haven't changed." Vious noted before Sabrina swore she was hearing more than just the Tyrantrum.
A few seconds later, she noticed a familiar boy and fighting type holding on to the head of the dragon type and screaming for their lives as the dragon and rock type tried to throw them off.
Sabrina was not surprised to find her palm on her face and a headache coming on. She opened up her Poké Balls to reveal a Kadabra, Venomoth, Mr. Mime, and Alakazam.
She didn't need to give them oral orders. They practically knew what their mistress wanted, even though they were all briefly confused at the order to protect a screaming idiot and his partner.
Speaking of screaming idiot and his partner, Ash and Riolu were holding on to the red dinosaur as it started to head towards Vious.
"What the heck is that!?" Ash cried out as the possessed curator summoned his ghost like shadow that quickly grabbed and stopped the rampaging dino in it's tracks.
Vious made, with great effort, a show of strength and started to lift up the rampaging and formerly extinct creature. Ash and Riolu quickly got off as soon as the large Pokémon was soon tossed over through another wall as if it was a toy.
"It appears," The possessed curator mumbled out loud and swung his arms around as if to warm them up. "that my powers are far too rusty."
Riolu and Ash just watched the large red dino groan in pain after being launched into the air with ease.
Despite witnessing an amazing feat of power and strength, rather than be confused, Riolu had a different reaction. 'Ash, I hate how the week isn't even over yet.' The fighting type deadpanned as he glared at nothing in his direction.
"Well to be fair this is one of my worst weeks in a while." Ash quickly got back up when he and his partner turned to the possessed curator who was spinning his lance like a twirling stick.
"That was an impressive entrance, child, it's too bad that..." The curator suddenly froze. His shadowy essence seemed to step back in fear and the expression of the proud warrior turned to shock and fear. "This presence!?"
Riolu pointed to the curator. 'Whoa what's that on his face!?'
"How do you not see the strange ghost-like giant behind him!?" Ash cried out to his partner in shock.
"You! Are you an acolyte of Ho-oh!?" The possessed curator seethed with rage as he made his giant shadow raise several limbs up with the intention to crush the two. It was then that both and Kadabra and Alakazam appeared beside both trainer and his partner, and teleported them out of the attack.
Ash blinked before finding himself next to a rather interested Sabrina who was studying him carefully because of that moment of panic. "Why did he seem scared of you?"
The teen tilted his head as he tried to think back at the weird supernatural guy. To be honest, it felt like it wasn't the first time that his presence… wait. The new trainer removed his bag pack and fished out the Rainbow Feather he got from that legendary Pokémon.
As soon as it came out, every one of the possessed people all backed off from the light of the feather as if they were demons witnessing a holy artifact. Even the curator's ghost was seemingly shrunk from the mere presence of the small object.
"HOW DO YOU HAVE THAT!?" The curator roared in a manner of an angry beast while pointing over to the new trainer.
"Of course," Sabrina spoke up which made Ash look over to her. "Legends say that Ho-oh brought the legendary city to ruin when it's king became too greedy. Just a piece of his feather is enough to bring fear to the remnants."
"Wait that's the same legendary?!" The raven haired boy was not expecting to have met with such a powerful and ancient creature in his journey! Spearow and her people were practically right to call them gods.
It was then that one of the possessed men, in a fit of rage, ran up to the boy holding the feather. "Lies! How dare history besmirch our grand king!"
"Wait, no! You fool!" The curator cried out to the random person before the light of the feather started to glow even brighter. The light blinded the man attacking and suddenly his face began to crack in the presence of the light.
The light seemed to laser in on the face of the random stranger and soon the person fell, their face completely shattering to reveal one of the masks pieces left on the face of a person.
Ash blinked. "Soooo what's going on?" He looked towards the older—wait why was she glaring harder—friend.
"Long story short: ancient magic. I'll fill you in after I take care of this. Care to hand me that feather?" The purple haired woman placed her hand out before Ash to which the young man handed over the glowing feather.
She then gave a smirk towards the remaining possessed warriors and with a smile, snapped her fingers.
It was at that moment the feather started shooting off like a bullet, moving close towards around a dozen people cluttered close to each other. The feather shined, causing the masks of the people to break and the people they possessed to fall harmless in the ground.
"Everyone, retreat! We were not expecting a power from that damnable, multicolored rat with wings!" With their leader's order, some of the people started to run away.
The curator's eyes narrowed before moving in with uncanny speed towards Sabrina with his large shadow attempting to hit her with spiked tendrils.
Sabrina's partners created a shield of psychic energy to block the attack. However, even with four, the barrier was cracking under the force of strength by the supernatural spirit.
The psychic motioned the feather back towards them, at the same time, Vious jumped up and punched the roof with all of his tendrils, causing the roof to collapse on everyone.
All of her partners and Sabrina herself used their combined powers to prevent being crushed by the rocks. Ash noticed the feather and quickly picked it up, as he did, he noticed Vious retreating in the distance, picking up an old rusty spear before letting his shadowy power grab and hurl the spear right for…
"Sabrina!" Ash cried out as the psychic user was caught off guard and looked back down towards the speeding weapon right for her face!
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The psychic user blinked once, then twice as she saw the spear frozen right in front of her. She glanced over to her Pokémon, but saw they were all holding up the many boulders from collapsing on them. Following the gaze, she turned to see Ash… with his hand extended out and actually exerting telekinesis?
'Ash!?' Riolu looked in surprised as he sensed the energy to stop the spear came form Ash himself.
Vious saw this and narrowed his eyes. "Once we find our King, you will rue this day, chosen of Ho-oh..." he whispered before he went off.
It was then that the spear seemed to stop floating and just harmlessly fell to the ground. Sabrina and the others gently put down the boulders and she looked over to Ash who was looking at his hands in disbelief.
"H-How did I do that?" Ash asked out loud.
Sabrina was silent but thoughtful. "It appears you do have powers after all," Half truth half lie. A lingering form of her power was still in Ash for some ungodly reason. "But it's obvious you have no idea how to use it besides instinct and the idea of being saved by a complete amateur isn't acceptable to me."
"Huh?" The teen looked up to the purple haired adolescent with confusion on his face.
"It means that you have no idea how to use your powers after activating it, do you?"
"What? I can probably control it!"
Sabrina only pointed a finger to Ash's left side, making the teen look up to a floating Riolu who was struggling to seemingly get a grip in the air.
'… Yeah, I think she knows what she's saying.' Riolu, while upside down said this before the power lifting him up suddenly stopped and he fell back into the ground.
It was then that a new voice came from the hole in the wall where Ash and Riolu broke through.
"Hey! Hey! I go out and try a different escape route, but when I come back there's a huge hole, the fossil revival machine is activated, and the Tyrantrum skeleton is gone!?"
A guard cried out as he came through the entrance the two made a while back.
Ash and Riolu flinched, more so when they noticed Tyrantrum getting back up from where he was thrown.
Sabrina sighed. This was going to be very tricky.
Ash kept his head down as he walked back to the Pokémon Center. Apparently, despite his intent to help, he did technically commit theft and destruction of property. If not for Sabrina, he might have actually been put to jail for what he did. He could hear his mother or any of his friends where here, they would definitely be scolding him for being too rash again. He really needed to work on that.
"Thanks for speaking up for me, Sabrina." Ash droned in sadness.
"Don't thank me, I lied to them about there being thieves. I doubt that anyone would believe me if I started talking about ancient warriors from long ago with powers no one had ever seen before." It was a bit easier for the purple haired woman to be persuasive in letting everyone forgive the young boy for saving her life. Granted, she couldn't do it fully, it would cause too much questioning if a guard started acting like a brain-dead vegetable, just a little more persuasion in forgiveness and how both she and Ash had nothing to do with this made most of the guards believe they were innocent, which they were.
Quite odd that she had to use her powers for once to prove their innocence rather than falsify it.
"What was that anyway?" Ash asked in confusion. First it was a weird group of super powered people, now ancient magic guys from long ago? His adventure was getting rather unpredictable to say the least.
"Who knows, but I think we should change the topic." Sabrina answered before looking over to Ash. "How are your powers?"
The raven haired teen blinked. He did recall that he was able to stop a spear from piercing through the woman. He stopped for a second and looked to Riolu who seemed kinda excited to see what he would do.
Ash looked over towards a park and lifted his hand out. He tried to find that same feeling from a while ago—
CRASH!
And he snapped his head around, seeing windows behind him shatter as if hit by an invisible force. People were moderately panicking.
"RUN! THE STREETS ARE HAUNTED AFTER ALL BY THE GHOST OF THE WINDOW HATER!" One rather passionate person screamed before everyone but Ash and Sabrina vacated the premise.
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"Well, it seems your raw power is a little wilder than I expected it to be." Sabrina then looked to Ash. "I believe it's in your best interest to stay with me until I can teach you how to keep your new powers in check."
Ash looked to her with bright eyes. "Really!? You'll teach me how to use these powers?!"
More like she would pretend to until she found a way to get those powers back but, "I have nothing better to do, and I'd rather you not shatter every single window we pass by."
Ash seemed rather excited to find out he could use powers! "Check it out, Riolu! I can use powers too!"
'Cool! … Are we going to tell this to Spearow?'
The raven haired boy paled. The idea of telling this to Spearow might only make the flying type beam with pride and demand that Ash be just as strong as her.
The young boy was not looking forward to her trying to shape him to her belief.
"Major?"
"At ease soldier, what did you find?" Vious looked across the new unfamiliar land before them while not turning towards the soldier behind them.
"We have secured a map of the current world sir, but that's not all."
Vious turned around with interest. "What is it?"
"Sir, it appears by the end of the year, the planets will align much like they did years ago."
A large smile appeared on Vious' face as he heard this.
"Then we best find our King soon. The Ceremony of Ascension will not be stopped this time!"
+Author Notes+
Hey folks! Hope you like how the story is being built so far. Ash can't get a break, but hey! It seems like he gets psychic powers! I have a really fun idea late in the future about this…
Anywho, thanks so far for your patience. If you enjoy the story, please follow, favorite, and review!