S.R: Hi all, and sorry about the wait on my other stuff…

M.R: And my re-writes!

S.R: Any who, M.R here was bored the other day and started reading some Pokémon fan fiction. Of course she found some that she really liked and had to show me.

M.R: Hey, you liked them too!

S.R: Never said I didn't dear. But that's not the point. The point is we both read these stories, liked them, and then started getting ideas.

M.R: Ideas that we started sharing with each other, and talking about until we had made our own Pokémon story...Granted it sucked.

S.R: I'd say it sucked only because we didn't really refine it like we are doing now with this story.

M.R: With all that out of the way, I suggest we now give an explanation for this story.

S.R: Right, right.

Story Summary

The idea behind this story is that Aura Guardians are still around, in small numbers. All Aura Guardians are members of a group called the Order of Aura, which was founded in ancient times to maintain the natural balance and protect the world during crises. Ash's father is a more prominent member of the Order, and sensed that Ash could use Aura as well. He began to train Ash for a few years, before leaving to help deal with a crisis and never returning (Ash is 7 at this point).

Ash wanting to be like his father who was not only an Aura Guardian, but also a field researcher for professor Oak and a world class Pokémon trainer, begged professor Oak to take him on as an assistant and teach him all he knew about Pokémon. Studying under the professor and helping out at his ranch until it was time for his Journey.

This story will have a smarter Ash, who can use Aura. (A/N: Due to our recently discovered appreciation of Ash X Cynthia we are changing her background and age. Ash is of course 10, where as we decided to have Cynthia be 12, and a traveling trainer instead of champion of Sinnoh)

Due to this being an RayShipping (Ash X Cynthia) story, we will not have Misty traveling with Ash.