Hello everyone, its been a long time, I wanted to apologizes for the how slow I have been writing lately, I did not mean to take so long to write the new chapters but the tablet that i have been writing in for the last year was recently stolen which had all the new chapters i had worked on. it was about 5-6 new and unreleased chapters, 3 specifically for this story, I have been able to rewrite a majority of the lost chapters, which sadly took a long time. i will be releasing the next 2-3 chapters for this story today, while also uploading the next chapter for dragon mage today as well.

once again i do apologize for the lateness of the chapter, and i do apologize if they are not as great as previous chapters, but i do promise to make sure that there will be more chapters coming soon, so do please bear with me.

i wont keep you here any longer, so please do enjoy this chapter, even though it is a short one the next two chapters will be a bit longer.

Raised In the Shadows
Chapter six

Last Time

A good hour or two had passed, both Jin and Raiza had gotten the basics of 'dig' down and were now just trying to increase their speed in using it. Another 2-3 days and they would be able to do it on command, or at-least near perfection. Ash had begun preparing a late lunch for everyone (as it was 2-3 in the afternoon), when suddenly a multiple loud "-Row"s was heard along with the beat of nearly a hundred wings. Everyone turned to face where the sound came from and saw a huge flock of Spearow's, taking flight above the trees. Suddenly Snivy dashed out of the trees with a bunch of scratches all across her body and re-entered the forest in the direction of route one. Understanding what must've happened (Or at least what he thinks might've happened), he began launching orders towards his team.

"Raiza, Launch as many thundershocks/bolts as you can to knock out as many of the flock as you can. Kaiserin, If any of them get near enough to Snivy I want you to launch either a poison sting or a double kick." Both of them nod and begin running after her, following his orders.

"Loki, I want you to help Raizan in dealing with the group of Spearow in the air. Jin, I want you to help Kaiserin in dealing with any of them that get to close to Snivy." They both nod as well, soon the three of them are rushing to catch up with the others. Leaving behind everything that Ash had brought out, but ash made sure to grab his bag as it held potions.

Now

S. Snivys POV

'shit, shit shit shit shit' I say over and over again in my head, as i dodge another one of these angry birds dive bombing attack, though just barely. Why did that rock have to hit this kind of bird, why couldn't it of hit something that understands the word "Accident"? Sliding under a fallen tree, which luckily saved me from being pierced through one of the bird's pecks, but i was running out of forestry fast...make that now, am currently out in the open fields. I continue to madly dash and dodge these flying death machines until suddenly i let out and loud screech as i get hit by one of their wings, causing me to fly up in the air and then get hit by another peck, and am sent straight to the ground. I tried to get up, but i keep getting dive bombarded by these things. I-I think I'm going to die, i start pleading to the gods, begging them to save me, as i let out another screech as the birds slash my chest, luckily not too deep, but no less painful. I saw them all gang up and start to do some kind of big dive bomb, unable to escape it i close my eyes tightly and curl up, begging one last time for someone, anyone to save me.
That's when i felt something pick me up, and i felt the wind hit us as the being dashes, trying to get me outta there. I'm still curled up, worried that one of the birds thought it would be a better idea to pick me up and then drop me to a possibly very painful death, that is until i heard it speak.
"It's going to be okay, trust me, I'm going to get you outta here alive, no matter the cost," I know whose voice it is, but right now, i could give two shits about it, all i wanted was to get out of here and fast and if this human was able to do that, and survive, then I swear to Arceus that i-ill give him a chance, i swear, so please, please let us survive.

S. Snivys POV end

Third Person POV

Ash quickly jumped and rolled, grabbing S. Snivy just in time, as the Spearow made a rather deep hole in the ground, which would've killed S. Snivy if she was still there. and now, Ash was still running off like a madman, doing his best to dodge the remainder of the Spearows. Luckily thanks to his time being raised/trained by his pokemon family, he was able to dodge a majority of the dive-bombing menaces, unluckily he wasn't able to dodge all of them, having been caught a few times on the arms, his cheeks, his hands, and all across his body. Ash wouldn't be surprised if he got a few more scares added to his repertoire.
"damn it, why don't you flying menaces leave us alone," Ash mumbled Just as another Spearow got in closer than expected and left a rather big gash on his left cheek. He was currently running out of energy, and soon would be collapsing on the ground, becoming easy pickings for the Spearows, that is until he noticed the river which leads near to the exit of the route which gave him some sort of reprieve as an idea popped in his head, one he knew he would be getting a huge chewing out by his friends. without thinking twice, performing one last mad dash, dodging another one of the Spearow assaults. Thinking quickly, Ash jumped into the river and proceeded to dive as deep as he could go and swim with the rapidly flowing water as far down the route as he possibly could.
for what felt like hours, but was only about five minutes, Ash grabbed the nearest thing to help him to get out of the water, unknowingly grabbing a fishing lure. which gave a harsh tug and pulled him and S. Snivy out of the water, and in front of, at the time he thought, resembled some kind of Banshee.
"God damn it, it was just some snot-nosed brat, hey do you mind ***Not*** messing with my fishing," the banshee screeched, causing Ash to flinch at the rather high-pitched tone of voice, sensitive ears. he got a quick look at the being who screeched and noticed it was a teen girl with orange Hair, a yellow tank top, and some jean shorts with suspenders. Ash was about to say a quick apology when the teen suddenly shot a Pokeball at him, more so at S. SNivy in his arms.
"hey, what the hell are you doing-"
"What am i doing, what are you doing hiding a pokemon i caught with my fishing skills!" the girl once again screeched at him. before ash could retort the screeching of Spearows caught his ears, causing him to *Borrow* the bike that was currently against the tree.
"I'm sorry, i need to borrow this, hundreds of Spearows incoming," he shouted and rode off as fast as possible, but not before hearing the teen screech at him, telling him to give her back her bike.
Ignoring the girl, ash placed S. Snivy into the basket in front of the bike and pedaled as fast as he possibly could, trying to get out of the area before he got caught in another Spearow storm. which he was unfortunately caught in not five seconds later, and another couple of seconds Ash was tackled off of the bike and onto the floor, and S. Snivy landed a few feet in front of him, slowly waking up from hitting the floor again.
"ROW~" the Spearow flock seemed to have doubled in numbers and stared back at dive bombing on the downed pokemon and trainer, Ash quickly covered S. Snivys body with his, protecting said pokemon with his body.
"Listen to me Spearows, do you know who I am, I am Ash Ketchum, soon to be the greatest Trainer in all of the pokemon world, i will not let you harm another bit of S. Snivy or any of my pokemon as i live and as i die giving my last breath,-" that's as far as he got when a large thunderbolt crashed from the black clouds above hitting Half of the entire flock of Spearows, causing the other have to almost stop in their tracks. and before they could regain themselves a loud *"PI-ka-CHUUUUU/Take THISSS"*. and another large bolt of electricity shot through the sky, branching off all over the place and hitting the remaining, flying Spearows, causing them all to fall and hit the ground.
"Ash, are you alright?!" the voices of his friends shouted coming over to Ash's hunched-over form, Ash then flopped next to S. Snivy, right onto his own back, and panted, lifting his hand and giving a quick thumbs up, before his arm fell to his side.
"y-yea, I'm al-alright now, how about you all, your arent hurt are you?" He asked, heavily panting and gulping. he received an affirmative from each of his friends, causing him to sigh in relief.
"thank Arceus for that" he states, remaining lying on the ground to regain some of his energy, he did run almost ten miles and dodged who knows how many attempts made by the Spearows that were trying to attack him. all of his pokemon gathered around him, flopping down at either side of him, exhausted as well from all the running and rapid-fire attacks they each had to launch to keep their friend safe. they all lay there, watching as the dark clouds above soon dissipated away, leaving a bright rainbow behind, and to the shock of them all, the mythical pokemon Ho-oh flew across the sky above them, dropping a few of their feathers, each one landing on them and healing them somewhat of their injuries, as well as leaving behind one feather for them to keep, before flying away into the sun. Ash tried scanning the mythical pokemon but was only able to get a halfway blurry picture of the pokemon before they flew away.

To Be Continued...

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, if any of you have any suggestions for a chapter you would like to see please let me know and i will try to make it happen, if i can. i hope you all are doing good and once again i do apologize for the lateness and do hope you can forgive me for taking so long to upload the following chapters.

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