Pleased to meet you, my name is Diancie." The familiar diamond pokemon said telepathically as it went out from the passageway it was hiding, and with that appearance, everyone just stood there, literally emotionlessly.
It was quite some time that the trio just stood there surprised and dumfounded, so Diancie talked first.
"I-Is something wrong with myself? A-Am I dirty and full of dust?" Diancie quickly exclaimed as she noticed the three just standing there in a state of shock, she checked around her to see if she actually got untidy.
"A-A-Ash..." Leaf managed to blurt out, still in her utmost shocked state.
"I-It's true..." Koharu also managed to say, she had the same expression and reaction as Leaf's.
"Y-Yeah, I can't also believe it." Even Ash himself couldn't even believe at the fact that what he just told to the two were actually true, and it's really true.
"You don't have to react like that you Beautiflies." Diancie said and chuckled, her telepathic sweet voice still is echoing into the whole cave.
"S-Sorry Diancie, w-we're just shocked at your sudden presence." Koharu said, regaining her composure an consciousness, Leaf was also the same.
"She's a pretty cute pokemon!" Leaf squealed with her usual beaming eyes.
"Why thank you, I'm am grateful with your kind words." Diancie said and bowed down slightly, she has this 'princess' personality.
The diamond pokemon hoped closer to the trio, for the pokemon that was once afraid of human, she's doing a great job this time, and is clearly and obviously not afraid of them this time.
Diancie looked particularly at the boy, he stared at him for quite some time and smirked.
"So you actually caught yourself that Vast White pokemon?" Diancie suddenly stated, to which Ash and the others was taken aback at that.
"How did you-"
"We are mythical pokemons, it's pretty normal for us to know the situations of the other pokemons, even for the other legendaries." Diancie cut him off, knowing where it'll go, and the others went back to being speechless again, staring in awe at the beautiful pokemon in front of them.
"So, how did you managed to enter this cove?" Diancie said, breaking off the awkward silence.
"Well I don't know how Ash did it, but he somehow found the way into the cove, which is pretty surprising, and that entrance was pretty too hard to be entered." Leaf explained, it's true though, with some huge branches and sharp rocks blocking the way, it made the entrance a lot more impossible to enter, but they managed to enter it.
"I see, making you much worthy of being-"
She was interrupted by some sort of soft chirp not too faraway, it also came from the passageway she went from.
"I see you also arrived, Celebi." Diancie said.
At the mention of Celebi, the said pokemon came out of nowhere, it's unique color even emitted the attention of the three, and that also again, made them in state of shock, but Ash wasn't even surprised anymore.
"They actually managed to enter this cove!" Celebi chirped and flew around Diancie.
"Ash? Can you tell me this isn't real?" Leaf asked in disbelief, Celebi just grinned at that, that reaction may be normal because not everyday you see a pokemon with the alternative color, not to mention, mythical pokemon.
I let Koharu calm down because maybe the two of them are too much for her and maybe she can't handle if Groudon and Lugia also actually came out of nowhere.
"Leaf, snap out of it, it's just a Celebi." Diancie said telepathically.
"What do you mean 'it's just a Celebi?!'" Leaf exclaimed, but she just recieve a chuckle reponse from the diamond pokemon, as well as the time traveller pokemon.
"I assume you need explanations for this?" Diancie said as she gestured her hand towards herself and Celebi. The three just nodded in response. Diancie took the cue and started to explain.
"Okay then, first of all, N mentioned the Ultra Beasts' return, and a larger evil organization are the one responsible for this"
Right now, they weren't even surprised that the diamond pokemon knew N.
"Reshiram was the first to feel the sudden disturbance of the world, and talked about it with N, then the rest of the legendaries."
"The news about it obviously got to us, we also got the news about Team Plasma's sudden fall, I'll be assuming you guys did the job." The three just nodded in response, and was slight embarassed.
"You did a great good job protecting Nimbasa City, I'm sure Meloetta and the others are pleased with it." Diancie stated and chuckled.
"Meloetta? Who's that?" Koharu asked.
"I don't know it either." Leaf seconded, Ash was just silent since he already knew the Melody Pokemon.
"Meloetta is a mythical pokemon that resides on Unova, together with Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus, the four protects Unova." Diancie explained, the two just awed at that.
"And going back to our topic, Lugia and Groudon was displeased at this news, and said that humans who were responsible for awakening the Ultra Beast shall be punished, in order to do that, I and Celebi volunteered to have ourself be caught to a trainer that manages to enter this cove." It's time for Celebi to explain.
"I have a feeling about this, but Lugia and Groudon have awaited our arrival." Ash said to particularly no one, Koharu and Leaf sweatdropped at that, thinking that it's too impossible.
"Actually, he is correct." Diancie interjected.
"What?"
"Lugia particularly awaited your arrival, I don't know how, but Lugia does, and infact, Groudon and Lugia also wanted to come with you, but he has duties here in this cove and Hoenn, and Lugia has some other things that requires his presence." Diancie replied, to which again the three were in shock.
"Wait, if that's the case, then we managed to enter this cove, then..."
"You got that right, you can get me and Celebi with that weird capsule you use to capture pokemons." Diancie concluded, to which Ash was really surprised at that.
"Are there any conditions?" Ash unexpectedly asked, surprising the two mythical pokemons, and Diancie grinned at that.
"Very well, now I know why Lugia highly praises you, for our condition, we will allow you to use us on that upcoming tournament, since were technically also pokemons, second, Celebi needs to go out sometime from it's ball, don't worry, he'll be just on your side, he's just going to get some stretches, he needs that. Finally, care and love is what we need." Diancie stated the conditions with authority, well, except for the last part, she sounded sweet and shy.
"Don't worry Celebi and Diancie, the third condition is automatically granted, right Ash? Koharu?" Leaf said, still squealing.
"Uhh, right, right." Ash said, determined, Koharu also nodded at that.
Leaf playfully crept towards Diancie and whispered something.
'Both don't know about it but they have feelings for each other, the boy right there is as dense as rock.' Leaf whispered at the diamond pokemon, and that made it amused, Koharu glared suspiciously at the two.
"That's quite amusing." Diancie was genuinely amused, poor Koharu, she thought she might give Koharu some hints soon.
"So, do you accept the condition?" Diancie and Celebi asked Ash.
Ash was determined.
"Yes, I'll do accept it." He replied.
And with that, Ash showed two Ultra Balls on his hand and then let the two mythical pokemons touch the ball respectively. They let themselves get sucked in by the ball and the ball wiggled three times, after that, the ball made a sound indicating that it was caught.
Ash was genuinely happy, as well as Koharu and Leaf, the trio was about to go out from the cave when a sudden new voice boomed out.
"Take care of them, the two will be helpful in fighting off those Ultra Beasts and one other chaos soon."
6Chapter 21
3rd Person''s POV
A week had passed after the visit in Challenger's Cove, Ash had kept his promise and let Celebi always out of it's pokeball, even Diancie.
In that one week time, the trio were training with the help of Ash's supervision, Dragonair have gotten stronger, as well as Koharu's four other pokemons. Her Galarian Ponyta also managed to evolve into her own Galarian Rapidash, making it even more beautiful. She also managed to get her final pokemon which is a Duosion, a somewhat jelly green pokemon, having a diamond-like mouth and a little bit larger body than Solosis.
Ash was no different, he had countless trainings together with his bunch of different pokemons, and with his Shiny Gardevoir's assistance, he managed the training well.
Leaf was also assisting Koharu, and she also trained her pokemons to the max.
The three are still at Kanto, staying there in order to get into the registration quickly, they decided not to jump from regions to regions for awhile because they have a tournament to attend, and is coming close.
They are now located particularly at the route that leads to Saffron City, it is still awhile before they'll arrive there but they want to call it a night and camp there until morning. They have already set up and Ash was the one who's cooking their meal, it was good since Leaf and Ash had already experienced it for the past month, he wasn't a bad cook, he was still helped and assisted by Koharu.
After that, the trio eated, together with their other pokemons, including Diancie and Celebi, but their dine was interrupted by some sort of strong gush from someone, and by that someone, it was a Dragonite landing beside them, it was carrying a duffel bag that was hanging on Dragonite's back.
And that made Ash realize.
"Wait, you're Lance's Dragonite ! " Ash exclaimed in realization, Dragonite nodded and then picked up something on it's duffel bag, what came out is a fancy looking card that has a W mark on it, it also contained Lance's signature, this is an indication that makes you a wild card of his.
Ash thanked Dragonite and it flew back to where it should be headed, Ash stared at the fancy card with awe.
"You'll gonna show it to the registrar at Indigo League." Leaf informed, Ash nodded in response.
"What does that mean ? " Diancie wondered, she's a pokemon, obviously she has no clue about it, except the whole fact that the tournament is all about battling and chasing the top.
"Diancie, it means that he's capable of earning a champion's respect and made him enter the league without getting the necessary number of badges because he already proved that he is worthy enough of entering the league." Koharu did the job and explained to her.
"I see." She said.
The trio, Diancie and Celebi continued on eating as well as the other pokemons, but then, Celebi suddenly stopped and looked around, even Diancie noticed the sudden behavior of it and wondered.
"Is something troubling you Celebi?" Diancie asked, Ash, Leaf and Koharu also noticed it.
"She's here." Celebi plainly muttered, Ash and the others have no clue what he just meant by that.
"She's what? Who's she?" Leaf asked and looked around, but no one is there.
Koharu, again, had her instict turned on, and went closer to Ash just in case, Lead couldn't help it but giggle at Koharu's doings, much to Koharu's annoyance and she just glared at the girl.
"Enlighten me Celebi." Diancie ordered, Celebi still looked around, hoping to find what he's looking for.
"She's here, Diancie, the melody pokemon is here." Celebi then stated, and with that, Diancie was surprised, as well as the two girls, hearing what Celebi just said, the two quickly recognized who he is talking about.
"Meloetta's here? Where?" Leaf asked and looked around, excited.
"Her presence is blurry, maybe she's in trouble." Celebi said, his tone is slightly shaking.
"We have to help her, Celebi, I want you to lead us to her." Ash said and he returned his other pokemons, as well as Lead and Koharu, they did the same. The three left their place and ran towards the woods, surprisingly, Diancie was able to catch up, by using Psychic on herself, which is pretty rare since the others knew it can't learn a move like that.
Celebi guided them towards some thick forest and what they saw made their eyes widen.
"What is this? I've never seen this pokemon before."
"This may cost a lot of fortune!"
"Let's sell this one and see if this thing is really rare!"
Three odd looking poachers got their filthy hands on what appeared to be a small humanoid pokemon, it's long hair swayed sideways, it has some music notes on it. The three poachers noticed Ash and the others, but Ash was the one who's more surprised and was triggered at the whole scene.
"You, released Meloetta." Ash muttered, his voice is dark, even Koharu and Leaf was surprised at this.
"Eh? So it's name is Meloetta huh? And that thing over-"
"Tha-That is a Diancie and C-Celebi over there!" The other poacher interrupted him and pointed at the two mythical pokemons beside Ash.
"What's this, what's this? We have ourselves some legendary pokemons to catch." The poacher, who appeared to be likely their leader, said and stared greedily at the two, Diancie was disgusted at this.
"You evil humans are ridiculous, the likes of you shall be perished." Diancie uttered.
"We're taking that two too, Magmortar, get out of there!" The leader of the gang sent out it's Magmortar, it cried menacingly and glared at the three.
"Houndoom, let's go!"
"Salazzle, battle time!"
The other two sent out their fire type pokemons. Ash said something unexpected.
"I'll take care of this, you guys just protect Diancie and Celebi if something isn't right." Ash said darkly, maybe his hate for pokemon poachers kicked in, Leaf, for the first time, couldn't argue with him, this is her first time seeing this side of Ash, Koharu also backed off and grabbed Diancie and Celebi, which also did followed his instructions.
"Gardevoir, please come out." He said and revealed his Shiny Gardevoir.
"You have some valuable pokemons in there, we should take them with us, Flamethrower Magmortar!" The leader commanded.
"Flamethrower!" The two grunts also commanded.
Magmortar, Salazzle and Houndoom sent out stream of fire in any way, and it was directed towards the psychic pokemon.
"Protect." He plainly commanded, and Gardevoir followed and just simply deflected all the attacks with a single Protect.
"I feel something." Diancie suddenly said, and that made Leaf and Koharu wonder.
"Feel what?"
"Feel the power between Ash and his Gardevoir drastically rising." Diancie stated.
"What?"
"Just look."
And with that, the two girls stared at the battle, at Ash, and was wondering why he's so emotionless, as well as Gardevoir.
"Poachers? What a pathetic bunch, you lot don't really know what to do in life and just decided to become some cruel poachers." Ash stated.
"Huh? This is our hobby! Get lost and find your mom kid." The leader replied smugly, and with that, Ash had enough.
His raven hair covering his eyes, the atmosphere got weirder and weirder by any second, even Diancie and Celebi was surprised at this sudden change.
But what caught their attention is Gardevoir, who seemed emitting some sort of strong energy.
"Wait, Ash doesn't have a Gardevoirite." Koharu stated.
"Does this mean..."
They just stared at the scene, Gardevoir is acting strange, but then suddenly, pink sakura leaves were surrounding her, as if it was blinding them, it is a torrent of blinding sakura leaves.
"Gardevoir, we have to save Meloetta, and in order to do that we have to get stronger! Stronger and stronger!" Ash's familiar chant was now called out, the sakura leaves is rapidly circulating around Gardevoir, Leaf and Koharu noticed the change of appearance even if it was clouded by the sakura leaves, even Diancie was surprised at this.
And as soon as the torrent died down, what's infront of them, shook their minds and eyes, it was no normal Gardevoir that was infront of them.
It's appearance is somewhat new to them, it has two long pink horns stucked out on her head, pink menacing beautiful eyes and a pair of small fairy wings on her back, her skirt is quite longer and more elegant than the normal Gardevoir, it isn't a skirt like the Mega Gardevoir, it's just longer, it's light blue appearance was mixed well between her body, a blade like bump on her hands is what made her more menacing.
And after that transformation, it brought chills to the poachers, and as well as the girls.
"It's Ash-Gardevoir."