Chapter 4

Ash loved the feel of the wind on his face as he, Latios, Latias, and Pikachu rocketed over the ocean. Pikachu had insisted on coming, as he didn't want to be away from Ash. He decided to ride on Latios because if he rode on Ash, he would have been thrown into the ocean a long time ago.

They had been flying for about two hours, and Ash was getting bored. He hated long flights, and being the one flying didn't change anything. "Are we almost there?" Ash asked.

"Yeah, Ash," Latios said. "The feeling is getting stronger, so it's close. We should be able to see it in a couple of minutes." Latios was right. In about two minutes, a group of islands appeared on the horizon. After about a minute of searching, they saw a large ruin on a small Island. Roman-style pillars made a full circle around the island. Each one had a statue of either Latias or Latios on it. The group landed in the middle of the island and began looking around. It wasn't long before they found what they were looking for. Down a short spiral staircase, they came upon the door from the article, 3 strange dots and all. Latios inspected the door carefully. "There doesn't seem to be a keyhole," Latios said. "Let's go back to the surface. There might be something there to open it."

Ash wasn't paying attention because he was looking at the door strangely. Something inside him seemed to tell him to touch the orange dot. He flew forwards and touched the orange dot with a claw. Everyone jumped when the dot started to let off a faint orange glow and a streak of orange energy followed a carved line to the center of the door.

"That's it!" Latios cried. "Latias! put your claw up to the red dot! I'll do the same with the blue!" The Eon twins put their claws onto the dot of their color, and red and blue lines of energy followed their carved lines to fuse with the other two colors.

Dust spread everywhere, and there was a creaking noise as the door slowly opened, leading to a large hallway. Ash followed Latias and Latios down the hallway until they came to a very large room with some kind of stone statue in the center.

Everyone jumped when the door behind them clicked shut. All of a sudden, the dotted pattern on the front of the statue shone a bright yellow, and the dust in the room somehow disappeared. They found themselves on what seemed to be a battlefield.

A booming voice made them all jump. It seemed to be coming from the stone golem that now didn't feel like a statue to them. "WHO DARES DISTURB MY SLEEP!? YOU… YOU HAVE OPENED THE EON GATE, AS LORD ARCEUS PREDICTED YOU WOULD! THE WAIT FOR LADY HO-OH'S CHOSEN ONE HAS FINALLY ENDED! NOW, BRACE YOURSELVES, EONS, OH, AND YOU, PUNY MORTAL, FOR THE BATTLE OF YOUR LIVES! LET THE TRIAL COMMENCE!"

This ticked Pikachu off. He was defiantly not puny! "Ash, you've never battled before!" Latios said. "You're going to need to stay back because this is a legendary Pokémon! That's Regirock, one of the three legendary golems of Hoenn!"

Ash decided that he had to do something, even if he was just tackling it invisibly. "Latias! Latios!" Ash called. "If you turn invisible you can attack it freely!"

Regirock started to charge a hyper beam. "Looks like it really means business!" Ash said as he and the eon twins became invisible.

Regirock fired the hyper beam at Pikachu, him being the easiest target. Pikachu fired off a thunder to counter. Both attacks were held at a standstill until the hyper beam broke through the thunder. Pikachu dove out of the way, barely evading the hyper beam.

"This guy sure is strong!" Pikachu said. Since a Pokémon had to rest after using a hyper beam, Latios and Latias took the opportunity to fire off dragon breaths at the opposing Regirock, causing it to topple over and become paralyzed. Being a stone golem, it already wasn't easy to stand up. The paralysis caused it to be almost impossible.

Latias fired off a mist ball, causing huge damage to the already weakened Regirock. Regirock passed out, not being able to take anymore, collapsing with a loud thud, after he had finally gotten up.

There was a loud creaking noise as a door opened in the back of the room. "Whoa. Good job, sis!" Latios praised his sister. "Now let's keep moving!"

The group continued down another hallway, until they came upon another room, just like the last. A steel "statue" stood in the center of the room. Its eyes shone just like Regirock's as the room lit up, and all of the dust vanished.

"That's Registeel, another of the legendary golems!" Latios exclaimed, preparing for another difficult battle.

"YOU HAVE DONE WELL!" another booming voice said. "BUT YOU WILL GO NO FARTHER, AS I, REGISTEEL, KEEPER OF THE SECOND TRIAL, SHALL DEFEAT YOU!

With a mighty battle cry, Registeel launched an ancient power, and since everyone else had vanished, he fired it at Pikachu.

Pikachu screamed and used quick attack to evade the magical flying boulders, then launched a thunderbolt at Registeel. Registeel used a body slam, somehow breaking through the thunderbolt, and slamming Pikachu against a wall. It then grabbed him and attempted to slam him into the floor, when it was tackled by an invisible force and thrown into the opposite wall from the sheer force of the attack, knocking it out instantly.

Ash reappeared beside Pikachu. "And that's why you don't mess with Pikachu!" He yelled at the Registeel, which was now embedded half a foot in the wall.

Latias and Latios' jaws dropped at Ash's power. Pikachu whistled. Even Latios or Latias couldn't do anything close to that! "Ash, how the heck did you do that?!" Latios exclaimed, completely shocked.

"I don't know," Ash said. "It threatened Pikachu, so I helped out." He didn't seem to care.

"Helped out?!" Latios exclaimed. "Helped out?! You just embedded a legendary half a foot into a concrete wall just by tackling him!"

Ash shrugged. "Let's keep going," he said, so they did. They went through a slightly larger hallway and came to another large room. The only difference? This one was made of ice.

As the third golem's eyes shone, Latios visibly shook out of fear. "It's Regice, the third and final golem," he said fearfully. "Ash, be extremely careful! You may have liked the cold as a human, but I'm pretty sure that you're about to change your mind!"

Regice's voice filled the cavern. "SO I SEE YOU HAVE DEFEATED REGISTEEL AS WELL! DON'T EXPECT YOUR LUCK TO SAVE YOU THIS TIME. I HEREBY BEGIN THE THIRD TRIAL!

Regice fired off an ice beam, at none other than Pikachu. Why? He felt like it. Pikachu fired a thunder, and he used a mix of agility and quick attack and slammed into Regice. Regice grabbed him and chucked him at a wall. Latios reappeared, caught Pikachu, and set him safely on the ground, before firing a dragon breath. Regice deflected it with an ancient power, and let lose a blizzard.

Pikachu dove for cover, while the three eons screamed in pain. Ash hadn't felt this much pain before in his entire life. Latios and Latias used psychic to force Regice to stop the blizzard and threw it into a wall. Ash charged at the ice golem, hitting it in the chest, cracking its ice armor, and shoving it another two feet into the wall, knocking it out.

A loud rumbling noise bellowed through the room as a colossal door opened up into yet another hallway, this one as big as the door. The group followed the Hallway until they came to a huge room. There were artifacts, carvings, and paintings of the eons, Ash included, surprisingly. There was a glass case with four strange objects, each one glowing with the colors of the rainbow.

There was a huge stone chair in the center of the room, and a colossal "statue" sat in it. There was a loud groaning noise as the "statue" stood up. Latios cursed under his breath.

"That's Regigigas!" Latios exclaimed. "He's the strongest of the golems, as well as the trio's leader! This is going to be tough!"

A powerful voice bellowed through the room, shaking the walls. "CONGRATULATIONS, EONS!" Regigigas said. "YOU HAVE PASSED THE THREE TRIALS OF THE GOLEMS, AND HAVE MADE IT TO THE FINAL ROOM! YOU TRULY ARE THE EONS THAT LORD ARCEUS TOLD US TO WAIT HERE FOR! WE HAVE WAITED, DORMANT WITHIN THE EARTH, FOR THE DOOR'S SEAL TO BE BROKEN, FOR OVER A MILLENNIUM! I AM YOUR FINAL TRIAL BEFORE THE TREASURE, AND THE MOST BRUTAL! BRACE YOURSELVES, BECAUSE I WILL NOT HOLD BACK, UNDER THE COMMAND OF LORD ARCEUS!"

With that said the eons disappeared, and Regigigas used a heavy slam on, of course, Pikachu. Pikachu screamed as he was crushed by the colossal golem, and was instantly KO'd because of Regigigas' weight.

"Ouch…" Pikachu moaned as his eyes turned to swirls. Regigigas used hammer arm and slammed Latias into the ground, knocking her out from the impact. This set off Latios, as he somehow managed to throw Regigigas into the wall with a psychic.

Regigigas fired off a Psychic of its own, and while Latios screamed in pain as the beast's mind washed over him, Regigigas threw Latios into the wall, hard, instantly knocking him out.

Ash gulped, knowing he was next, as Regigigas fired an ancient power, striking Ash and flinging him into the ground.

"No…" Latios moaned as he passed out.

Ash slowly got up, and his body began to glow white, as his injuries vanished. He then glowed again, as the twins and Pikachu's injuries disappeared as well. They each got up and flew (ran) over to Ash.

"That was recover!" Latios exclaimed.

"Stay back," Ash said. "I've got this."

Ash's body began to glow white as he began to charge power. He then launched a bright white sphere of energy at Regigigas, who fell to its knees in pain.

"Luster purge…" Latios mumbled.

Ash then started charging power again, this time releasing it in the form of an energy-filled ball of mist. The ball slammed into Regigigas who fell forward and passed out from the pain.

"Mist ball…" Latias mumbled this time.

"He can use both of our signature attacks!" Latios said, shocked. "Although, Ash, I think you overdid it."

"Sorry," Ash said. He flew over to Regigigas as his body glowed a soft white, restoring Regigigas' health.

As Regigigas stood up, it spoke in a deep yet calm voice.

"You have defeated even me," Regigigas said. "I congratulate you on completing the final trial. Please, follow me."

The group confusedly followed the golem over to the case with the artifacts. Regigigas opened the case and used psychic to hand both Latias and Latios one of the rainbow-colored stones.

"Latias, what I have given you is a Latiasite. It will allow you to mega-evolve in battle," the golem spoke calmly. "Latios, yours is a Latiosite. It will allow you to mega evolve as well."

Regigigas psychically handed Ash a slightly smaller stone, the third item in the case. "Ash," Regigigas said. "Lady Ho-oh was right when she said that you were special. You have gained the body of the legendary Latius, and are the only one to become one. In ancient times, Lord Arceus gave word to the very first eons that in thousands of years to come, a special human would gain the body of an eon, one that would have the powers of both Latias, and Latios. This was Arceus' chosen one, and, also you."

Ash gasped. He had already been Lugia and Ho-oh's chosen one, and now he was also the chosen one of the god of Pokémon himself?!

"This stone," Regigigas continued, "is a keystone. A trainer can use it to mega evolve a Pokémon that he or she has a strong bond with." Regigigas took the stones from the three of them and somehow turned them into bracelets. It then psychically put them on each of their arms.

"But," Ash said. "We can't use these. I'm no longer human, so I can't be a trainer. And even if I was, I would never be their trainer."

"But you are, and you will." Regigigas said. It then took the fourth item from the case. "Some call this an Eon Flute, as it is one, the golem continued. "This flute was blessed by Lord Arceus himself. It is usually used to call a befriended Latias or Latios to you from anywhere, but this one is different. It is to be used by the chosen one, the Latius, to switch between his two forms."

"?" Ash was confused. 'What does it mean by "two forms"?' He thought to himself.

Almost as if Regigigas had read his mind, it spoke. "This means that you can change back into a human, and then back into Latius, at any time."

"I-I can?" Ash asked, amazed. "But that would kill me because my soul can't handle having half the soul of an eon, and half of a human!"

"Since you are now partly legendary, your soul has healed completely since you gave part of it away. It was your destiny to become Latius." Regigigas then handed Ash the flute. "Try it," the golem said. "Just blow into it. The flute will do the rest."

Ash blew into the flute, and as a short melody played, a soft blue glow covered Ash. After a couple of seconds, Ash was standing before them, back in his human body. He wore the clothes he had on before becoming Latius, minus the pokeballs Brock had.

"It has accepted your spirit," Regigigas said. "You are truly the chosen one."

Ash looked over himself, glad to be human again before he realized something.

"I can still understand you!" Ash said, surprised.

"Yes, you can, as you are, and always will be, half Pokémon," Regigigas explained.

"Ah…" Ash said in understanding.

"Now, I need you to change back and use this," The golem said. Psychically handing Ash a Pokeball. "Use this on yourself so you cannot be captured by a showoff trainer. Ash nodded in understanding and changed back into Latius, before tapping himself with the Pokeball. He felt strange. He could feel the Pokeball shaking, and he stayed perfectly still until he heard a small click, and the ball filled with an illusion of a lake surrounded by a forest.

Around the lake, he could see a team of six Pokémon that Brock had. He guessed they were inside of their pokeballs.

After a minute he felt himself being pulled from the illusion, as he was summoned back into the treasure room.

"It is complete," Regigigas said. "Now, Latias, Latios, it is your destiny to travel with Ash as his Pokémon, and as a guide to his powers." Regigigas handed Ash two more pokeballs. "Latias and Latios, allow yourselves to be captured, and help Ash with his destiny by following yours," the golem told the twins.

"I would, Regigigas, but Altomare will be unprotected without us there," Latios said.

"You are no longer needed in Altomare," Regigigas said as its eyes shone a soft blue. After a couple of seconds, a blue sphere appeared in front of them. Everyone gasped at the sight of the soul dew. "Do not be alarmed," the golem said. "Altomare is safe, and it is time to free your father's soul to the afterlife, so he can live on in the paradise he has deserved for over a century."

There was a humming noise as Regigigas used his psychic powers to release the famous Latios from years ago. The transparent form of a Latios appeared I front of them. Latias burst into tears.

"Father!" She cried. "I missed you!"

The Latios took Latias into a hug.

"Father, I'm really happy for you, but is Altomare truly safe without a soul dew?" Latios asked worriedly.

"Yes," The older, wiser Latios said. "The city has no need for a soul dew, anymore. The city will be safe forever."

Latios sighed in relief. The twin's father's form began to disappear as he was drawn to the afterlife. Latias wiped the tears from her face, glad that her father could finally be happy.

"Goodbye, father!" Both eons said. "Enjoy the afterlife, and say hi to mom!"

Latios waved as he vanished to the afterlife. "Take care of yourselves…" the Latios' last words seemed to echo on the wind.

"Ash," Latios said. "We will accompany you."

Ash nodded and lightly tapped Latios on the neck with one of the pokeballs. After it clicked shut, indicating Latios' capture. Ash did the same with Latias. She smiled at him as she was pulled inside. The ball shook three times and clicked shut. He then released both of them looking rather dizzy.

"Regigigas, why is it our destiny to be captured?" Latias asked kindly while tilting her head.

"I can't tell you why because that would mess up the time-space continuum," Regigigas said. "I can tell you, however, that you will know when the time is right. Now, then. If you ever need help with anything or have a question, don't hesitate to come see me. The other golems will let you pass without another battle."

"Okay," Latios said. "Thank you for everything, Regigigas."

With that, our traveling eons, oh, and Pikachu, too, set off for Altomare, ready to head to the mainland, Ash's mind set on winning his eighth gym badge, at the Blackthorn City Gym.

Meanwhile, across the ocean in the quiet town of Pallet, Professor Oak was working on his next poem for Kanto's regional newspaper.

He was writing something about Grimer being a whiner, as usual making no sense whatsoever, when his computer beeped and said "New Pokémon captured by trainer Ash Ketchum." As he set down his work his computer beeped and did the same thing, causing him to jump and spill his ink on his poem, ruining it.

Professor Oak sighed. "Well, at least I just started. I wonder what got Ash to catch two Pokémon at the same time. Maybe he caught something good!" He lightened up at the thought and walked over to his computer, and as he sat down, the computer beeped a third time.

"Geez, Ash!" Professor Oak said. "You never catch two at once, but three? This has got to be good!"

He clicked on "trainer files" on the side of the screen, and scrolled through the page until he found and clicked "Ash Ketchum". He went to Recent and waited while three new Pokémon loaded in.

He almost fell out of his chair when he saw Latios' icon appear, with a star below it, indicating it was a legendary. He barely kept himself from fainting when another legendary star appeared under Latias' icon.

The first icon still hadn't loaded in for some reason, and after about thirty seconds a question mark appeared as the icon.

"A-Ash caught two Legendary Pokémon?!" He exclaimed in disbelief. Tracey walked into the room to check on him.

"What's with all the shouting?" He asked.

"A-Ash, he c-caught two l-legendarys!"

Tracey gasped and quickly came over to see. "And that's not all," the professor said, dazed. "He caught something the computer isn't picking up!"

He clicked on the question mark icon, and a list of random data popped up. "How can my supercomputer have no data on this Pokémon?" The professor asked no one in particular.

"Let's see what it is," Tracey said.

"Right" was his only answer as the professor clicked on the video surveillance of inside Ash's Pokeball illusion, and rewinded to the time of the capture. He watched in disbelief as what seemed to be an orange version of his legendarys appeared in the lake illusion.

He paused the video and grabbed the nearest phone. "Professor Birch has to see this! Maybe because it looks like the Pokémon registered under Hoenn, he'll know something!" He quickly dialed the number and waited for Birch to answer.

Well, chapter 4 is done...

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