Chapter 1: A 100% harmless festival, no legendary Pokémon are here, trust me *evil laugh*
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Ash was on a trip with his friends, and this trip was destined for Cameron, where there would be a festival in honor of a hero of the kingdom and, above all, Ash's reason for excitement: The pokemon battles that would take place there, his friends They were also excited about the festival for different reasons, Brock also wanted to compete in pokemon battles to win the title of ''Aura Guardian of the Year'', as this would attract the attention of some women, May wanted to dress in elegant clothes of the time. , and Max because he wanted to see new pokemon and eat new foods
They were on the bridge to the castle when May said ''I think we need matching clothes before they decide not to let us in, everyone around us is in themed costumes and we are not!'' she said and Ash already felt a headache. thinking about having to look for new clothes
''Don't worry, at the castle we can get something to dress up for the occasion'' Brock said and May looked relieved and joked about Ash having to dress Pikachu too, which was extremely tempting, the mental image of Pikachu in old clothes as a court jester they made him laugh and Pikachu hit him lightly with his tail on the back of his head, that was a threat from the electric pokemon that if Ash went ahead with the idea he would get a nice thunder shock as revenge
''I don't think Pikachu agrees'' Max said and laughed and Ash wondered if it was worth a shock of thunder in exchange for having Pikachu look like a jester
He decided it was obviously the most sensible choice, it was worth it, and with one look at Brock, his friend understood what Ash was planning and happily gave him a thumbs up.
As soon as they entered the castle, one of the guards took them aside to show them where the costumes available to the public were, which obviously had to be returned at the end of the ball in perfect condition, to which the four travelers agreed without any problems.
''They're all so beautiful'' May said as she looked at each dress or feminine outfit ''how can I choose just one?'' she complained as she held two hangers, both of the same model, but with the difference in color palette
''Wear one now and change it before the dance'' Max suggested as he looked without interest at the children's clothing items, only to be hugged by May
''You're a genius Max'' she says and kisses her younger brother's forehead ''Now I'll be able to wear two pretty dresses today!'' and with that May went jumping to the dress racks excitedly, while Max sighed
Ash laughed at the brothers' interaction and ran in search of a cape, Brock followed automatically and Pikachu sat on the floor, saying without words that he would be waiting there while they had fun with the replicas of old clothes.
(unbeknownst to Ash, Pikachu was interacting with a legendary pokemon that would soon make his life more difficult and miserable)
In the men's area, he and Brock had fun seeing that men used to wear clothes with skirts, before choosing the first outfits they saw (actually just Ash, Brock spent almost 10 minutes changing clothes until he found the most masculine one that would suit him. more chances of getting a date with women), and soon after that they went out and were surprised to see May showing off already in a dress, Ash prayed that that was the dress chosen by her friend
''What do you think Pikachu?'' May asked the pokemon, the dress was simple, the bottom skirt was dark red, while the top was pink, with golden ribbons holding a well-decorated butterfly behind the girl's back and the white top, her bandana had now been folded into a bow in May's hair.
''May? what a surprise to see you ready'' Max says, and when he looks down, Ash sees the youngest boy on the team in a white blouse, with a green cape on the outside and red on the inside (this would be a good cape to wear for Christmas Ash thinks when seeing the cover), blue shorts and yellow boots, and a red hat with yellow details, the boy had definitely chosen his own clothes by himself, and the only thing that prevented May from having a heart attack was the joy of wearing a dress chic
Brock had chosen strange clothes, more like Egyptian clothes than ancient ballroom attire, with a white dress (it was a dress, Ash refused to see it by any other name), and on top of it an orange poncho with gold details that They made it look like it was coming straight from Egypt
He had already luckily picked up a good outfit (which strangely reminded him of the Three Musketeers outfit), a gray jumpsuit underneath, a dark blue cape and hat with a gold wool design and a blouse that imitated the blue armor breastplate. petroleo, his boots were the same shade of blue with gold laces
''Well, since all the humans on the team are dressed...'' Ash said and gave an evil look to Pikachu, who cowered in despair, which only got worse when his three friends joined him.
The next 10 minutes were filled with a Pikachu running desperately from May and Brock while Ash and Max looked for the most ridiculous pokemon-sized clothes for Pikachu, and in the end Pikachu wore a two-tone blue jester outfit, red shoes with pink feathers and a scarf. with a pink pompom, and after another 15 minutes the pokemon had agreed to wear those clothes for a while in exchange for fancy pokemon food once they arrived in town in a few weeks
Ash was walking with his friends, exploring the areas allowed to visit, and some children even asked to pet the pikachu on his shoulder in a strange dress, which fortunately only ended with a shock of thunder (on Ash and the child) after one of the kids pulled the poor pokemon's tail
And of course, May, Max and Bro laughed in his face along with the child's parents, who soon after that ran to organize their half-burned son again, while Ash, already used to it, took some wet wipes from his backpack and continued the walk through the animated castle until time for pokemon battles
This time came relatively quickly and in the blink of an eye Ash found himself with Brock waiting for the time to battle, and after a few minutes introducing the princess of the castle, who gave a brief speech about Sir Aaron (who Ash discovered was the hero honored by the festival)
Ash's first battle was against a breloom, a fighting, flat-type Poemon, which Ash defeated using Pikachu and then waited for his next turn, observing each Pokémon battle while waiting and seeing his potential opponents. In the end Ash won the last opponent, few people had signed up for the pokemon battles, and he used Pikachu again against the opponent he would face, one trained in armor who used a Weavile against him, who even though he was better trained than the breloom they had faced before, Ash and Pikachu had still won (Brock had unfortunately lost to this mysterious knight a match before, a shame, Ash would like to fight him again)
''This year's Aura Guardian is Ash Ketchum, from the city of Pallet in the Kanto region!'' his victory is announced and the knight goes to him to congratulate him
Well, the knight was actually a girl, Kidd was her name, and Brock had magically teleported next to her as soon as the woman removed the helmet that hid her gender, and after more of Brock's failed flirtations, Max had appeared to drag Brock along the way. ear as May apologized for Brock
Kidd laughed, which was a relief, Ash didn't want to deal with an angry woman.
Night fell quickly and May disappeared to choose another dress with poor Max being dragged along, unfortunately as Ash had won he had been dragged away to have his clothes straightened, receive makeup on his face and take some photos to be displayed with the other Guardians of Aura from previous years, and yet after all that, he had been taken to a stage, in full view of everyone at the ball.
Don't get him wrong, Ash isn't shy about speaking in public, but he felt a little ridiculous wearing the old clothes and being presented as an aura guardian, something he didn't even really know what he was, but that's okay, he I would stand there at the front and tune out all the princess' speech about Sir Aaron and how the man had saved the kingdom.
''This staff once belonged to Sir Aaron'' she winged and raised the staff, showing it more to the public than to Ash aura of this year, so I, with all my power, hand it over and entrust it to you Ash'' she says and extends the ancient but well-preserved staff to Ash, who takes it carefully
(Why did you betray me?)
Ash is momentarily startled by the voice in his head, but ignores it, he was in front of several people now and didn't want to embarrass himself anymore.
''Now we will begin our ball in honor of Sir Aaron and our guardian of the year'' the princess says and Ash feels himself getting redder with the attention he received, wanting to get off that stage and join his friends and eat something ''I hope everyone has fun'' and with that the princess climbs on top of Ash, who also had a throne and sits down, Ash is told to do the same, at least he had the view of Brock humiliating himself to dance with Kidd, and May, who had changed into a long red dress with pink details and was wearing pigtails with pink pompoms holding up each side of her hair.
But he couldn't take it anymore, especially seeing Max eating the food he wanted to be eating, and to make matters worse Pikachu had run out with a pokemon to play with, and when he tried to leave the lady who was nearby pulled him back to the throne saying that as Guardian of the aura of the year, he should be visible to everyone all the damn time
Ash sighed, he should have researched what being an aura Guardian should do, and shouldn't have even participated in that tournament, that's why few people had signed up for the tournament, who would want to be bored while everyone is having fun all night?
The hours dragged by as he had to sit, and after a while he had released his other pokemon to have fun, unfortunately none of them stayed next to him and he saw them going after Pikachu to play.
(It's a shame he stopped paying attention to things after a while, just staring into space and anxiously waiting for the time to leave, as a certain legendary Pokemon was just a few hours away from making his life miserable)
(Sir Aaron)
The voice from before returned and gave Ash a fright, which if the lady next to him saw it, she decided to ignore it.
Minutes after hearing that voice, the princess had come down ''Now let's pay one last respect to Sir Aaron'' she says and looks at him ''Our guardian of the year will give the signal for the fireworks to start'' and even under the With careful eyes, when looking at the painting on the side, Ash saw the pose he should do and did it, raising his staff, and the fireworks flew into the sky as soon as he did that pose, and when Ash started to observe the lights ascending, he once again heard that evil voice
(I trusted in you)
And with these words the staff began to move in his hands and emit a glow from the stone on top, attracting the attention of everyone at the ball again, and in the blink of an eye, he was thrown back before the light now gave. origin of a pokemon
An angry pokemon, which even with its eyes closed, seemed to look towards him
Chapter 2: Sometimes we make mistakes (and traumatize a 16-year-old along the way)
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''Sir Aaron'' comes the voice in his head again, but now Ash knew the owner of that voice, and that owner ran towards him irritated ''Why did you abandon the queen?'' the pokemon asked in his head and moved closer, Ash involuntarily took a step back and the pokemon took a step forward to follow him ''Answer me!''
''I-I don't know what you're talking about!'' Ash finally responded to the telepath pokemon, who still didn't look happy at all, and took two steps forward, to which Ash responded by taking five steps back.
Unfortunately, this angered the blue pokemon even more, who growled and jumped at him, his paws with sharp nails going straight to squeeze his neck in a way that felt like he was going to break and cut off all the air Ash had, the boy's hands trying to take away what cut off his air, but it was useless, he was weaker between the two
''Liar'' the pokemon speaks in his mind, those words increasing his despair ''I trusted you'' the grip on his neck loosened for a thousandth before returning with more strength ''but that wasn't enough for you , and you imprisoned me in that staff''
Ash was going to die, and the pokemon wouldn't stop talking, he was going to die at the hands of a pokemon, something he was dedicating his life to, the pain in his heart made tears invade his eyes and start to run down his face, until they went to his chin and finally falling into the paws of the pokemon on his neck and Ash sobbed, both for air, both for sadness at dying at the hands of something he loved, so much for knowing that his pokemon would be left behind.
But as soon as he sobbed in his cry and choked for air, the pokemon's hands loosened and became like tickles on his neck, and Ash gasped for breath in despair, and as soon as air entered his lungs he vomited (fortunately it was in the pokemon's chest, at least he would have vomited on his killer), but Ash only vomited gastric juice, it had been hours since he had eaten, his last meal had been breakfast before going to the castle, and with the exchange of clothes, pokemon battle and the dance where they wouldn't let him leave the place or talk to anyone to ask for something to eat, all that came out was gastric juice that left his throat on fire from something other than the tightness and cuts that the pokemon's claws left
This Pokemon was even more shocked to hear (and feel) Ash's vomit
''Sir Aaron?'' the pokemon asked uselessly in his mind, and in the next second he had been hit with a glass cup behind the head, and Ash only had time to see May before being grabbed by the girl, his attacker. Almost a murderer was Brock, with another glass in his hand and Max coming running with a tablecloth, which he placed on top of the pokemon and Brock hit it again before running to Ash
''Are you okay?'' Brock asked, but when he tried to answer, Ash coughed, his throat felt like it was being scratched from the inside and it hurt ''Forget it, don't say anything, it will only make your condition worse now and-'' Brock is interrupted of his occupation of May
''He's lifting people, run'' She says and grabs Max's hand, running as Ash stumbles to try to keep up, but is grabbed from behind and pulled violently by paws with familiar claws and everything he sees before being forcefully thrown into a wall is Brock worried before almost passing out
''WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? LEAVE ASH ALONE'' Brock screams and the pokemon freezes, which leaves the older boy with the path clear for the fallen and attacked boy ''Ash, don't you dare pass out, not on top of me, it's going to be okay, I I'm going to get you out of here'' Brock whispers to him and tries to lift him up only for Ash to scream in pain, he had probably broken something in his ribs
Behind them, the pokemon finally opens its eyes and comes across an injured child, hurt by him.
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Lucario looks at the child who had the aura like Sir Aaron's, the one he almost killed and without a doubt had traumatized beyond the limit even for an adult, and that scream made his blood run cold, it was his fault, he had been the cause of that scream of pain and despair, he should have opened his eyes before, now all he had done was hurt an innocent man
The pokemon takes a few steps to where the two boys were, the older one whispered guarantees and promises to the almost fainted child, Ash, if he's not mistaken, heard it, he felt the power of the aura going to his hands, everything he needed was to touch the boy and repair the damage that had been caused to him
The older boy heard his footsteps and looked at him with fear and anger and immediately shouted ''STAY AWAY, I WON'T LET YOU KILL ASH'', that felt like a stab in his chest, but he deserved it after what he had done
''I want to help him'' Lucario sent his message into the boy's mind, who stared at him in shock and grabbed the boy on the ground, standing in front of him and shaking his head.
''Stay away'' He spoke and the injured boy shuddered and whimpered, bringing the attention of the oldest and the pokemon
''Bro-ock'' Ash choked and the boy (Brock?) looked at him with affection and concern ''It hurts, p-please. . . make it stop'' the child coughed in the middle of the sentence
''Shh, don't talk, I'll make the pain go away Ash, don't worry, I'm here'' Brock said and pulled the boy carefully against his chest, putting one arm behind Ash's back and the other behind Ash's knees. and got up with difficulty "We're going to take you to a hospital, hang in there, stay awake Ash"
Lucario sighed and again tried to go to the injured boy (which was caused by him) and narrowly avoided a glass cup and three other plates, which were thrown by a girl and a little boy, both angry and scared (that was his fault), the pokemon then uses its speed to its advantage and in less than a second it was removing Ash from Brock's hands, its aura infiltrating the injured humans wounds, and in seconds, everything was gone, not even a single scar was gone. left
"Let go of him" Brock demanded and ran towards him, and Lucatio didn't want to hurt another human (besides Aaron), but he wasn't going to let himself be hurt without a fight, so he unconsciously moved Ash to one arm and got into a fighting position. fight e-
"Stop Lucario!" a familiar but strange voice says, and Lucario sees his queen there, and as ordered, he stands still, awaiting her orders and bows as best he can with a fainted child in one arm
"Your Highness" Lucario speaks respectfully in a greeting
"Oh, well, I'm not your Queen, in fact Lucario, you're a descendant of hers, a very distant one" she says and Lucario feels a bad feeling growing in his stomach "in fact, you are 1,000 years in the future Lucario"
What?
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It was difficult to accept that he was a thousand years in the future, but the lack of war, things behind glass like a museum and the damn technology spread around didn't leave him in business for long, so Lucario did what he could do and left from the banquet hall to reflect on his new life
Oh, and he still had the boy in one arm, in fact, every time one of Ash's friends came to him to remove the boy from his arms, Lucario would dodge, and he didn't even know why, maybe it was a desperate search for familiarity. that Ash's aura and his clothes provided, but letting go of the boy seemed like the worst thing to do, so he continued to hold him.
Just a few more minutes, Lucario promised himself, and even then, he only let go of the boy when he started to wake up and fled to the room he had been in a few days ago and wondered what the hell he was going to do from now on, he was in the room. future, without wars, without Aaron, Aaron who betrayed him, but was his best friend, Aaron who betrayed the kingdom, but was celebrated as a hero, it was like a sick joke, he missed the man who did him so much harm
If Aaron had killed him it would have been more merciful, but no, now Lucario was alone 1,000 years in the future, so finally, the gravity of the situation hits him like a bunch of Tauruns trampling him and Lucario cries
He cries until he sobs for hours, just moving from the depressing fetal position he was in when he heard screams.
"PIKACHUUU: WHERE ARE YOU?!" Ash's voice shouts and the boy enters the room Lucario was in, and the two stare at each other for a millisecond before the boy takes a step back in fear (and this makes Lucario feel like a knife has been stuck in his heart ) and the boy winced as Lucario took a step forward (the knife was twisted in several ways now)
"Ash... Sorry" Lucario finally speaks and hurries to leave the room, the boy didn't say anything and backed away when Lucario walked past him to leave, but his eyes were now confused instead of wide in fear
(The knife was finally withdrawn, and his heart was finally left to recover from the pain)
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Ash had been looking for Pikachu for hours, even though it was likely that his pokemon was now with Mew on the tree of life, he couldn't help but look for his pokemon all night long, and the worst part was that Lucario would be the guide to Mew, since the pokemon he could see auras and Mew had an aura that was distinct from the others, but the thought of having his almost-murderer taking him around looking for his pokemon wasn't good for his mental health, so Ash clung to the hope that Pikachu was somewhere in the world. castle, but of course, with his luck, he was wrong and lost a night's sleep in search of Pikachu
Sadness and worry clung to Ash's heart, thinking that his friend could be fighting for his life made him almost vomit again, but of course, he didn't even have time for that because in the blink of an eye he was in a car that would be driven by Lucario Even Mew, it shouldn't even surprise him where he had gotten himself into, but still, Ash found himself surprised by the insanity of his situation, caught between laughing like crazy or crying until he drowned in his own tears.
In short, Ash was anything but mentally well when they got into a jeep to go in search of a fucking legendary pokemon that had kidnapped his pokemon.
It was insane, and even with his stomach churning, Ash found himself hoping to find his friend at any cost.
EmpressGeek on Chapter 1 Mon 12 Aug 2024 03:58AM UTC
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Gio69 on Chapter 1 Fri 16 Aug 2024 12:56AM UTC
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