THE POKENINJA, ADVENTURES OF THE MAELSTROM POKEMON
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Chapter 25: A Clash between Truth and Ideals for Victory Pt.2
Ash and the gang were currently resting under the shade of the trees in the playground after their recent battle before heading out to engage his next opponent. However, it seems that he wouldn't be resting for long as he was challenged by none other than Carlita herself along with her Hydreigon and a referee was nearby to observe and judge.
Ash stood before her with a look of excitement "I never turn down a challenge, so let's do it!" he took out a Pokéball and was ready to throw it.
Scraggy pulled up his 'pants' "Let me at 'em, I can beat him!" he ran forward to hit the Pokémon with a Headbutt when a tail wrapped around him and was lifted into the air to face Naruto.
"Oh no you don't Scraggy, you can't fight that Pokémon," said Naruto.
"Why not?" asked Scraggy.
"Because you're still not ready yet plus none of your moves will be able to do much damage anyways," Naruto explained "And it looks like Ash has someone in mind to use for this battle,"
"Go Pokéball!" Ash tossed the Pokéball in the air for it to open and unleash a Pokémon before him. It is a small bipedal dragon-like Pokémon that is primarily blue. It has a big mouth filled with sharp teeth, no neck, and arms that start at the outer edges of its jaws. A red underbelly stretches from its abdomen to the bottom of its jaw, it also has two horns that resemble jet engines, each with a light blue stripe in the middle. It has a single light blue stripe wrapping around its back, and on top of its head is a dorsal fin which has a notch on it for the male.
Iris let out a squeal "Oh my goodness, it's a Gible! It's so cute!"
"Looks like Ash brought back another one of his older Pokémon, though I express worry on the type matchups between those two Pokémon," said Cilan.
The referee raised both flags into the air "Battle begin!"
"Hydreigon, use Dragon Breath!" Carlita commanded for her Pokémon to open its mouth a spew a stream of purple flames at its target.
Ash quickly reacted "Gible, dodge by using Dig!" Gible then burrowed to the ground before the flames could hit him "Now come out and use Rock Smash!" Gible burst out of the ground in front of Hydreigon with a glowing fist reared back before punching it hard in the face for a supereffective hit.
"Shake it off and use Payback!" said Carlita, Hydreigon recovered from the attack then its body emitted a black aura as it quickly flew at Gible and slammed into him with a full body tackle to send and knocking him back.
"Don't give in Gible, use Dragon Pulse!" said Ash, Gible complied with the command and opened its mouth to fire a large cyan energy orb at the Hydreigon.
"Quick, dodge it and use Tri Attack!" said Carlita, Hydreigon rapidly ascended then opened all three of its mouths to concentrate orbs of electricity, fire and ice from them before firing it in a triangular formation.
"Get out of the way Gible!" Ash called out in a panic, Gible attempted to jump back to evade but the explosion from the attack sent him flying into the bushes much to the worry of Ash and the others. Naruto got up to go and check on him when he sensed a now familiar surge of energy and realized what's happening again, Gible came rushing out of the bushes looking very hyper "Are you ok?"
"Yup!" Gible responded and looked ready to do just about anything.
"Alright then use Dragon Pulse!" said Ash, Gible opened his mouth to fire another cyan energy orb but this one was twice as large as the first one. The draconic projectile rushed to slam into Hydreigon with the impact powerful enough to send it crashing into the wall behind Carlita, hence ending the match in Ash's favor "We won!" he laughed when Gible playfully chomped on his head before returning him to his Pokéball.
"Way to go Ash and Gible!" Pikachu cheered happily.
"Yay!" Cubchoo and Scraggy were just as happy.
"Wow, Ash's Gible is strong too!" said Iris in wonder.
"That last serving was extremely spicy," said Cilan.
"Man, those power boosts of Victini's kinda feels like cheating in a way," thought Naruto.
"Pretty much that," said Kurama "And it seems that she must have noticed too,"
"Huh?" Naruto snapped back into attention to see Carlita approaching them after returning her Hydreigon to its Pokéball with a serious look on her face "I think you're right buddy,"
"That was the work of Victini right?" asked Carlita.
Ash and the others sans Naruto were confused at her question with the former asking back "Victini?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Cilan confusedly.
"I saw it, the way your Gible was getting power from Victini,"
"You mean this?" Iris held out the wooden Victini charm which she had bought earlier "It didn't do anything, really,"
Carlita shook her head at that "That's not it, I meant the real Victini,"
"The real one's here?" asked Ash.
"Where is it?" asked Iris.
"Victini is invisible now, it has the ability to," Carlita explained.
Ash thought deeply about that then came to a realization after recalling the earlier incidents "So it was Victini who ate my macaroon and it must have been its voice that I heard back in the caves too,"
"Actually I was sensing Victini too at those times but I couldn't exactly pinpoint its location then, but now I can guess that it has been following us around this whole time," Naruto spoke up.
Ash stepped forward and called out in a loud voice "Victini, was it you who gave me power to save those two Deerling before?"
It was silent for a few moments then a voice echoed throughout the area "That I did!" Naruto and the Pokémon could understand what Victini was saying but Ash and co could only hear it chanting parts of its name.
"Hey Victini, is that you? If it is, come on out and say hi!" said Ash excitedly.
Cilan had an idea and ran over to his backpack under the tree and returned with the small basket containing the macaroons "I still got some of the macaroons left,"
"Good idea Cilan, Victini seem to really like these," Ash took out an orange macaroon and held it out "Hey Victini, I've got more macaroons!"
"Really?" in a matter of seconds, the macaroon was taken and everyone could see it being rapidly eaten as something landed on the side of a seesaw then revealed itself to the group. It is a small, rabbit-like Pokémon with large, pointed ears which form the letter V. It has large, blue eyes and a round, cream head, which is comparatively large compared to its small, cream body, while the tops of its ears, crest, and extremities are all orange. Its bulbous arms and legs are rounded to make a sort of "cuff" before ending with small, three-fingered hands and two-toed feet. It has two pointed teeth that can be seen on its upper jaw. It also has two cream wing-like tails, which allows it to fly.
"So that's Victini," said Naruto as he looked at said Pokémon with interest.
"Wow, so it really does exist!" said Iris in wonder, but then Victini went invisible again.
Ash held out another macaroon for Victini to appear but then it hesitated and went invisible again, the raven haired trainer then had a look of mischief and made the intention of eating only for Victini to reappear in a pleading manner for him not to do so.
"Please don't eat it!" said Victini worriedly, it was close to his mouth when Ash stopped and held the macaroon out with a playful wink and gestured for it to take. Victini looked to make sure before happily taking the cookie and eating it.
"To think Victini appeared for a macaroon," said Carlita.
"It's to be expected if you really like a certain food," said Naruto.
"Kinda ironic coming from you," said Iris slyly.
"No comment,"
Ash then introduced himself "Hi my name is Ash, and these are my buddies Pikachu, Tokala, Cubchoo and Scraggy.
"Hi!" said Pikachu cheerfully.
Naruto waved a tail in greeting "Yo!"
"Hello!" said Scraggy and Cubchoo waving at Victini.
"I'm Iris and this is Axew," said Iris with Axew saying hello also.
"My name is Cilan, pleased to meet you," said Cilan with a bow.
"My name's Carlita, it's great to finally meet you," said Carlita.
"Victini, is it true that Torkoal and Gible got stronger because of your power!" asked Ash curiously.
"That's right," Victini nodded in affirmation.
"Gee thanks a lot!"
"You're welcome! Hey let's have some fun!" said Victini.
"Sure we're up it!" said Ash excitedly.
Apparently the other Pokémon wanted to play too, soon they were all running down the street with Victini riding atop Ash's head while Naruto was running alongside them with Scraggy and Axew riding on his back as usual. Carlita, Cilan and Iris were following them from behind. The group were running along the dirt path close to the outskirts of town, Victini looked up and saw something which began to make it feel rather nervous and apparently Naruto had sensed the emotion emanating from it.
"Hey Victini, what's the matter?" he followed Victini's gaze to see a large stone pillar with strange markings on it, he was about inquire on it when Ash passed by and grabbed Victini's to pull him along.
"Come this way Victini!" said Ash.
"Ash wait!" Naruto called out, then the next everyone knew. A purple translucent barrier with mystical runes suddenly appeared and it knocked back only Victini much to everyone's confusion "What was that, some sort of barrier?" Victini then began emitting a fiery aura then it launched a fireball straight at Ash, Naruto's eyes widened in shock and was about to perform a substitution when the fireball made contact with the barrier again and this time everyone noticed that the markings on the tall pillar and possibly others were glowing purple too "So those pillars are what form the barrier?"
"Victini?" Ash called out to the Pokémon who appeared to be very distressed at the sight of the barrier, he raised a hand to calm but Victini saw him approach and panicked.
"Don't come closer!" then Victini flew away whilst turning invisible.
"What just happened?" asked Iris.
"I don't really know," said Cilan.
"I'm guessing that those pillars we're looking at form some of forcefield which prevents Victini from going beyond it, but the question is why?" said Naruto with a frown.
"It bears similarities to Fuinjutsu at a certain point," said Kurama.
"Perhaps, my mother would have an idea about it. She knows more about this town's history than I do," said Carlita.
"Let's go ask her, then we'll look for Victini," said Ash.
The group made their back to the town's square where Carlita introduced them to the woman who was the owner of the souvenir cart and the shiny Golurk as her mother whose name is Juanita, then they told her about Victini and she was quite surprised at that.
"You say that you saw Victini?" asked Juanita.
"Yes mom, we really did but then it flew away when it got knocked back by a barrier," said Carlita.
"I see,"
"Juanita, do you know the best place where someone would go to in order to feel happy?" asked Cilan.
"Actually I do, I know just the place where Victini is liable to go to," Juanita got up from the stool then turned towards Golurk "Please look after the cart while I'm gone," the Pokémon nodded in affirmation before they left.
They were climbing up an uphill path when Naruto decided to ask Juanita more about the barrier and hopefully why it was created.
"Excuse me Miss Juanita, but could you tell us about this barrier?" asked Naruto.
Juanita was still surprised about Naruto being able to talk but responded nonetheless "As long as I can remember, our village has an invisible barrier around it and it is said that Victini can't go beyond the pillar of protection," and they happened to be passing by one as she spoke with Naruto glaring at it.
"So that's what happened," Ash recalled the incident earlier and felt a bit guilty despite not knowing then.
"Do you know any reason why the barrier was formed?" asked Naruto, Juanita was about to answer when someone called out to them.
"Hey everyone!" the group looked up to see Damon standing at the top of the path with the mayor Mannes standing next to him "So we meet again,"
"Hey it's Damon," said Ash with Pikachu waving at the man.
"My brother!" Carlita ran past, surprising the gang at her statement.
"Then I'm guessing that Juanita is Damon's mom," said Iris.
"Well what do you know," said Cilan.
"It's been too long mother," said Damon with a warm smile when Juanita and Carlita reached the top though the former doesn't look very happy.
"For your information, six months to be exact!" said Juanita with a frown.
"What brings you back here?" asked Carlita.
"I'm just helping out with the restoration of the castle," said Damon.
"Upon my special request!" said Mannes but he flinched when Juanita turned to glare at him.
"Look Mannes, your position as mayor does not allow you to boss my son around!" said the angered mother.
Mannes backed away while waving his hands in a placating manner "W-whatever you say my dear Juanita,"
"Heh, kinda reminds of how Pervy Sage would try to avoid Baa-chan's anger most at times," thought Naruto nostalgically.
"Damon, Victini actually exist!" said Carlita excitedly.
Damon simply smiled "Yes I know," surprising her and the others.
Naruto closed his eyes in concentration for a few moments before speaking "Hey guys, I'm sensing Victini nearby,"
"Really? Then lead the way Tokala!" said Ash, Naruto nodded before taking the lead with everyone following him.
They entered a secluded garden area which Mannes revealed to them that it's part of a property belonging to him, they were continuing along the path when they noticed that many Cottonee, Petilil, Minccino, and a Purrloin and Drilbur were following them too until they arrived at an area with a small pool where water lily pads were seen floating in it.
"Victini's aura is getting stronger, which means that it's near," said Naruto.
"Then where could it be?" said Ash, they carefully looked around when they noticed that one of the water lily pads suddenly moved then Victini appeared sitting on it but then it saw and panicked before turning invisible. Ash ran over to the side of the pool hoping to call out to it "Victini wait, I'm really sorry about what happened earlier before! You don't need to hide from us,"
"He's right, we didn't know about the barrier at first and we'll be careful about it next time," said Naruto, they waited for its response then they heard it hit a weather vane.
"You don't need to be afraid of us Victini," Ash took a step forward towards the edge of the pool but his foot was placed on a piece which cause him to slip and teeter on the verge of falling in.
"Ash be careful!" Pikachu rushed over to grab his other foot and pull him back but he was about to fall in when something grabbed the hood of Ash's jacket before revealing itself to be Victini much to the surprise of those who hadn't seen it yet sans Damon. However Victini had lost its grip on the hood and Ash was about to fall in when Naruto appeared in front to hold him up with his tails while standing on water then helping him regain his balance.
"Geez Ash, you gotta be more careful," said Naruto amusedly.
"Thanks Naruto," said Ash gratefully with Pikachu feeling the same.
Victini flew up to Naruto with a look of amazement and the other wild Pokémon felt the same way "You can walk on water?"
"Yup, that and I can do a lot more," Naruto winked playfully "Wanna see?"
"Yeah, I do!" said Victini excitedly.
"Naruto can do a lot of cool stuff!" said Axew cheerfully.
Pikachu nodded in agreement "I can vouch for that,"
Mannes, Damon, Carlita and Juanita smiled as they watched Victini play with Ash and the others along with the wild Pokémon.
"Victini looks to be having fun with them again," said Carlita happily.
Damon looked to be rather serious "My plan is to borrow some of Victini's power,"
"Huh?" Carlita and Juanita were a bit confused about what he meant by that statement.
Sometime later as the sun began to set, Victini was playing outside in the garden of Mannes' home with Pikachu, Axew, Scraggy, Cubchoo and a shadow clone of Naruto. Ash along with the rest of the group were in the study room where Mannes had invited to tell them about their history involving Victini, Snivy had let herself out of the Pokéball and was standing next to Naruto.
"You see, Juanita and I are both descendants of the tribe called the People of the Vale," Mannes was currently searching through the bookshelves for a certain book.
"People of the Vale?" asked Ash curiously.
"It's the tribe mentioned in the castle's legend," Cilan explained.
"That's correct," said Carlita.
"We'll tell you all a story, of Victini and the People of the Vale," said Juanita.
"Here we go!" Mannes placed a large dusty volume book on the table "Have a look, over a thousand years ago the People of the Vale lived under the rule of a mighty king," he opened the book to reveal that it is a pop-up book type and they saw a picture of an elderly and Victini.
"Hey, it's Victini," said Ash.
"Was it the king's Pokémon?" asked Iris.
"It certainly looks like it," said Naruto.
"Yes, that's what the legend says," said Mannes turning to the next page.
Mannes, Juanita and Damon went on to explain how the king ruled over the land called the Kingdom of the Vale. The kingdom used an invisible power which runs through the planet called the Dragon Force to live in perfect harmony with people and Pokémon. The king also had two sons who were twins and princes of the kingdom, each prince possessed a certain quality and hence was given the monikers the Hero of Truth and the Hero of Ideal. The princes were also accompanied by two great dragon type Pokémon, the Vast White Reshiram followed the Hero of Truth whilst the Deep Black Zekrom followed the Hero of Ideal. However the princes became enemies and war broke out between them, after a long battle Reshiram and Zekrom damaged each other with all their life energy to the point that they transformed into stones and fell into a long deep slumber.
By the time the two princes realized the mistakes of their action, it was too late for the Dragon Force had turned chaotic and was ravaging the land it once harmonized. The king sought out Victini's help by lending him its power to create a barrier around the castle by using the Pillars of Protection, he gathered all of the townspeople into the castle as it flew into the air away from the ravaged land and landed on the very mountaintop which the group are standing on right now. However the king had exhausted all of his energy and died before he could disable the Pillars of Protection, leaving Victini trapped within. The two princes were full of remorse for everything that had happened including their father's death and so moved the stone forms of the dragon Pokémon to a safe and secret location within the caverns of the castle.
"And that's how it went according to legends," said Mannes while closing the book.
"But the people of the Vale lost their bond with the land and scattered everywhere, even abandoning Victini who had vanished from sight," said Damon.
"Victini has been alone all these years…" Ash muttered sadly, looking out the door to see Victini flying around Naruto's clone who had just used a Henge to transform into Jiraiya and was doing his introduction and getting the others to laugh.
"And was trapped in the barrier all this time," Cilan was saddened just from the thought of it.
"That's so sad," said Iris.
Naruto gritted his teeth, he was scorned for containing Kurama and was alone since his birth and Kurama felt the same way as he had been transferred from host to host without being able to taste freedom for even a second. They felt a strange sense of kinship for Victini, Naruto felt someone touch his foreleg and looked to see Snivy gazing at him with concern.
"Are you okay Naruto?" asked Snivy.
"I'm okay Snivy, just thinking about something," said Naruto.
"My goal is to bring the kingdom of the Vale back to life," said Damon, turning to smile at Juanita "You said it would be nice if the king of the Vale could be restored,"
"Yes I did," Juanita smiled back as she remembered the time when Damon was a child and she had taken him to where the castle used to be, it was there that Damon made a promise to her that he would find a way to restore the kingdom of the Vale back to its former glory.
Meanwhile Ash and the others were playing with Victini who had taken to them to the lower garden and was sharing fruits with them and the wild Pokémon.
"Looks like Victini wasn't entirely alone this whole time," said Cilan.
"I'm glad to see that," said Naruto with a soft smile, then he saw Victini flying over with two large Pecha berries in hand.
"Here, have some!" said Victini cheerfully.
"Thanks Victini, I appreciate it," said Naruto gratefully, using his tails to hold one.
"Yes, thank you," Snivy received hers as well with use of her vines
"You're welcome!" Victini flew off and quickly came back with a berry of his own before sitting on Naruto's furry tails which he didn't mind at all "Pikachu and the others told me that you can change into different types of Pokémon too,"
"That's true, I've got four forms so far with more to unlock," said Naruto.
Victini became curious at that "Which are they?"
"There's the polymorph form which is my default form and a normal type, the Aqua mode that is a water type, Combo mode a fighting type, and Raiden mode being an electric type,"
"Wow, then you must be super strong," said Victini in awe.
"Well that's because I train hard alongside Pikachu and the others," Naruto smiled at Victini's admiration, recalling how Konohamaru and his friends would act that way around him.
"Well, he certainly does help us a lot with our training too," said Snivy with a soft smile.
"So what kind of battle did you and Ash take part in?" asked Victini excitedly.
"Well my first official Pokémon began back at Luxuria town against a trainer by the name Trip…," Naruto proceeded to tell Victini of his and the others' battles, soon the wild Pokémon gathered round to listen to him too.
Later that night Juanita, Carlita, Mannes and Damon were in the study and having a discussion about what he had been talking about earlier.
"Three years ago, Damon returned and paid me a visit at my home. He spoke of how he wanted to reunite the people of Vale as one like in the past, I was rather skeptical but he was determined to go through with it so I eventually agreed," said Mannes.
Damon nodded in affirmation "Since that time, I had journeyed far and wide in search of the people of the Vale. However any attempts I made were rebuffed as they saw it as nothing more than legends that they wouldn't even listen to me but I wasn't willing to give up just yet. Then one night, I heard a voice and it was coming from the Sword of the Vale,"
"From the castle?" asked Juanita and received a nod in response.
"That's right, so we went to the cave located beneath the castle. The strange thing was that no matter which we took, we weren't descending but Damon was able to. That was when we realized that the path chooses the one it allows to pass, and it chose Damon," said Mannes.
"So I went alone and the path was full of obstacles but I eventually arrived at the bottom, and it was there I met the source of the voice…I met Zekrom," said Damon, surprising Carlita and Juanita.
"You met Zekrom? That's amazing!" said Carlita.
"Yes and it was with Zekrom's help that I finally able to persuade the chieftains of the scattered villages to rejoin and come together to help rebuild the kingdom of the Vale,"
*Knock, Knock*
Mannes called for the person to come in, the door opened to reveal the leaders of the villages along with their children entering the room much to the Carlita and Juanita, realizing that they're the ones now supporting Damon's dream.
Damon got up from his seat and strode towards a 3d model of the Kingdom of the Vale "And I had found the answer, Zekrom had showed me how the people of the Vale can use the Sword of the Vale to gain complete control of the Dragon Force's energy," he took hold of the castle and pulled it out to imply the meaning of his words.
Back with Ash and the gang, they were fast asleep underneath a tree as Iris and Axew slept atop a tree branch, Cilan was at the foot in a sleeping bag, Ash leant against the tree trunk with Pikachu and Naruto on either side while Victini slept on his lap with Naruto's tails placed on him like a cover.
Victini was having a dream, he dreamt of the time of the force field trapping him, and sees before his eyes the many centuries passing, seasons changing rapidly and a town springing up on the mountain below the Castle's new location. At the end, the King appeared in a golden ethereal form before Victini with a look of regret.
"I'm sorry Victini, please forgive me for trapping you here…I'm so sorry," then he began to fade away.
"Wait! Please don't go, come back!" Victini cried out desperately but the king had disappeared, leaving him behind to cry in loneliness.
Naruto's eyes suddenly snapped open as he woke up from his slumber and Ash had woken up too.
"What was that dream I just saw?" asked Ash confusedly.
"You too? I think we saw some sort of memory from Victini's dream," said Naruto, both looked to see Victini still sleeping but was clenching one of Naruto's tails tightly.
"Poor Victini," Ash petting his head softly "So you really were alone, weren't you?"
"I'm sure even now, the king blames himself for not being able to disable the barrier before he died," said Naruto sadly.
Victini then woke up and started fluttering around much to their confusion but it seems like Victini wanted them to follow him somewhere.
"What's the matter Victini?" asked Naruto.
"Come on, there's something I want to show you!" said Victini before flying away.
Ash, Naruto and an awoken Pikachu ran after the Victory Pokémon whilst Iris and Cilan also woke up and followed after them, they stopped at the ledge of the castle where they could see the ocean from the distance. They watched as the sun gradually rose from the horizon and graced them with an amazing sight much to their awe, then Victini began acting excited again as he gestured to the ocean.
Ash then caught on to what Victini is trying to say "Victini, do you want to go to the ocean!"
"That's right, I've always dreamed of going there," said Victini with Naruto translating for him.
"Then let's go there, I promise to find a way to take you to the ocean!" said Ash.
"Same here, I'll do anything I can to help too. That's a promise of a lifetime," said Naruto determinedly with Kurama grunting in agreement. Even if it would involve destroying those damned pillars to do so.
"Really? Thank you!" Victini happily went to hug Ash first then Naruto.
However none of the group would expect the disaster which was coming their way and the eventual clash between the truth and the ideal.
This is Hussbek online with the latest chapter, Ash and the gang ran into the legendary Pokémon Victini and learnt a lot about especially its legendary although Naruto wasn't pleased in the least bit about its entrapment in the barrier. However they were unaware of their friend Damon befriending the legendary Pokémon Zekrom and his plans for the kingdom of the Vale, but it's definitely going to be big.
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