A/N: shout out to Negima Uzumaki for guessing right on it being Zoey. Also to clarify, Tiether is a made up pokemon created by PsychicEevee0103. Also another thing, yes, N can understand pokemon now and he can still feel their emotion as well. Yes, Ash, being his brother, will gain this ability as well but thanks to his aura instead of N's ability which will be explained later on if I haven't already.

Beta reader note: Hi all, sorry this took so long. Sheanon sent it to me right at the start of the school year, which was about two months ago. It was also the start of my time as a high-schooler so I took a long time adjusting and barely even had time to sleep, I was so busy! I have a huge amount of excuses but the overall theme is I'm sorry I took so long!

As Ash and the others began to leave the airport, a voice called out to Misty.

"Misty!" a girl with orange hair, sunglasses on top of her head, and red eyes shouted towards the darker orange haired girl. She wore a pinkish-red long sleeve t-shirt, an orange vest that looked like it could be a winter coat if not for it not having any sleeves and no way to zip it up, blue jean capris that came down just below the knee, dark brown black lace up ankle high boots, pinkish-red socks that could just barely be seen behind her boots as it was about an inch higher than the boots, and a yellow tear drop shaped pendant hanging on a black string around her neck.

"Zoey, is that you?" Misty asked in disbelief as she turned around and faced her.

"The one and only," She replied.

"What are you doing here in Kanto?" Misty asked.

"Well, since the contests in Sinnoh don't start till next year, I felt why not compete in the contests here?" Zoey replied with a wave of her hand.

"So Misty, who is she?" Ash asked, curious about Misty's friend.

"She's my best friend from Sinnoh, Zoey. I met her when my sisters took me along to Sinnoh when they were competing in a beauty contest. It was a rare occasion as they normally don't take me along on those kinds of things," Misty replied.

"What are you doing here at the airport, Misty?" Zoey asked.

"We were saying goodbye to a friend, until we meet her again," Misty replied.

"Oh, that makes sense," Zoey said with a nod. "Anyway, who are your friends?"

"I'm Ash Ketchum and the lucario and gible beside me are Blade and Fang," Ash said.

"I'm N, Ash's brother, and the zorua beside me is Kek," N stated.

"Name's Damon and the drowzee beside me is Hypnotic," he said with a smile.

"I'm Mark and the fletchling beside me is Archer," Mark whispered shyly.

"I'm Brock, Misty's boyfriend, and the oshawott beside me is Afa," Brock said.

"Wow, Misty. So you finally got yourself a boyfriend, nice job," Zoey smiled.

"Well Zoey, you don't have a boyfriend now, do you? Well you're younger than me and don't have a boyfriend, how sad" Misty joked.

"Ouch Misty, you wound me," Zoey said, holding an imaginary wound.

"So Misty, why did you start nicknaming your pokemon?" Zoey asked, quite curious about this.

"I didn't; those are their real names. They told me themselves," Misty stated.

"Huh?" Zoey asked, confused.

"Well kinda; Ash translated what they said to me," Misty stated.

"So he can understand pokemon?" Zoey asked.

"Yeah I can," Ash said with a nod. "So can my brother."

"Well, can you tell me Glameow's name" Zoey asked, motioning towards the grey cat-like pokemon on her shoulder. This grey cat like pokemon had a tail that looked like a spring, a white underbelly that came to just below her chin, black eyes, and a pink nose.

"Well, what's your name?" Ash asked the pokemon.

'It's Charisse' the glameow replied, her tone flowing with kindness and grace just as her name suggested. She was also beautiful like her name suggested as well.

"She said her name was Charisse," Ash told Zoey.

"Well, I personally think that name suits her well," N stated, scratching Kek absent- mindedly under his chin.

"Yeah it really does" Zoey agreed, scratching Charisse under her chin. "Hey, do you mind if I travel with you guys you see I'm new to Kanto and I don't know where all the towns and stuff are?" she asked with pleading eyes.

"Sure," N replied before Ash could reject her. He seriously thought Ash needed more friends and this seemed like a good time to get some more.

"You always do this, don't you N?" Ash sighed. He was trying to change he really was; it's just he really didn't want any more friends and the only reason he was being nice to her was because she was Misty's friend.

'Hello, handsome.' Charise purred, sending a flirtatious wink at Blade. You see, the thing about Charise was she was a bit flirty to male pokemon and was very proud of it.

'Great, now I have to put up with this! Why can't we get a normal pokemon in our group just once?' Blade complained.

-Hey I'm normal!- Pearl complained across the bond from her Poké Ball.

'Keep telling yourself that, Pearl.' Blade teased.

-Meanie- Pearl said, sending a mental image of her sticking her tongue out.

-So cool! How did you do that Pearl?- Volt asked, stary eyed at the ranch, but the others couldn't see that.

-Don't tell him!- Every pokemon shouted, with the exception being Pearl and Volt.

-Aww guys, it's not like I'd annoy you by sending tons of mental images.- Volt stated.

-Yes, you would.- they all said, this time Pearl with them.

-Everyone is against me.- Volt said depressively and everyone sweat dropped, including Ash.

"What's with that reaction, Ash? Do you not want me to come?" Zoey asked.

"No, it's not that, it's just I have this aura bond with my pokemon that allows me to communicate with them across great distances and it's just something Volt, one of my pokemon, said." Ash replied.

"Oh, that's actually really cool. I wish I could do that" Zoey sighed.

'Well, actually she can. I sense the potential for her to become an aura guardian from her' Blade stated.

"Really?" Ash asked Blade and he nodded.

"Well Zoey; looks like you will be able to do that if you train with Ash to hone your aura. You see, Blade said you have the potential to become an aura guardian" N stated.

"Really? Well then I'll be sure to train hard with you guys" Zoey smiled.

"You know I like to see that kind of determination in people; alright let's do it." Ash smiled.

"Hey guys, in case you forgot, we gotta hit the road." Misty stated, a bit annoyed.

"Oh yeah. Sorry Misty" Ash said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.

"It's fine; let's just get going." Misty sighed and they started to make their leave.

~Linebreak~

Eat Lunch

Travel

Break/look for new pokemon

Dinner

Sleep

So this would be the start of their schedule from now on; they would start it today.

"Okay, Psyblade, you'll be working on learning Reflect. Blaze, you'll be perfecting Hone Claws. Chalfon, you're on stat training today. Spike, you'll be working on Screech. Akili, you're on stat training as well, and Torch, you're on Lava Plume." Ash assigned each of his Pokemon their training for the day.

"Ciethan, you start on learning Return." Brock started off. "Afa, let's try X-Scissor. Adrl, keep working on Rock Blast, Aleron, continue with Substitute, you've almost got it. Dax, you work on Iron Defense. Angel, you can start with learning Copycat, okay?" The pink Pokemon nodded happily. "And Kakar, you can work with Chalfon and Akili on stat training."

Misty released her Pokemon, most of them materializing in a nearby pond where the group had decided to train. "Blaz, let's work on Bounce today. Myuna, you practice Agility. Unnr, you're going to be working on Round. Yuudal, you work on Rage, Clara, you and Neptune work on stat training today."

N sent out his Pokemon. "Kek, if you think you have Snarl down start working on Substitute, Narayan, you practice the accuracy of your Skull Bash, Clarice you work on Charm, you should get it easily enough, Danny you could start on Growl, and Flare you practice Extrasensory for now."

Damon instructed his Pokemon. "Hypnotic you practice Headbutt, Flora you work on stat training, and Duncan you work on Water Pulse."

Mark rounded the group off with his instructions. "Rana you start with practicing your Double Team and when you're satisfied start on Smokescreen, Archer you're on stat training today, Pixel you work on Charm with Clarice, and Bolting, you work on Thunderbolt."

All the Pokemon nodded eagerly and went off to train, well except for Flora who just lied down and ignored her trainer. Yeah this was going to be great training.

A sudden glowing stopped them from working more on their aura training they were doing. Blaze was evolving, along with Psyblade and Aleron. Slowly Blaze changed shape into that of a grey dragon shaped being with red under wings and a cream colored belly that stretched to the tip of her tail, underneath it anyway. Next was Psyblade; he transformed into a dark blue cat with two tails, white paws, white tip of his tails with a white stripe one inch underneath the white tip that went around the tails, his ears looked like they folded down after coming up two and a half inches the tip of ears was white as well as the bottom of the fold and in between the white tips was a horizontal white stripe, and he was standing up on two legs, much like he was in his previous evolution. Aleron evolved into a blue bat with purple underwings, a giant mouth that practically made up his whole body, two stubby feet connected by small legs about two inches tall, and he had two fangs on the top of his mouth as well as two more on the bottom that could be seen.

"Good job Aleron I'm so proud" Brock smiled at his pokemon.

"Good job to you too, Blaze and Psyblade; I'm proud of you, now you two just get used to you new forms by working some stats, alright?" Ash asked and they nodded.

"You do the same, alright Aleron?" Brock requested and he nodded and flew off to do just that.

"I think after about thirty minutes more we should get to traveling, ahead of schedule just this once" Ash figured. Thirty minutes passed by quickly and they got up and packed up their stuff, well after eating that is. They were soon ready to go and got up and left, well after switching around his pokemon, in Ash's case. Ash now had Blade, Fang, Spike, Ace, Pearl, Shift and Chalfon.

They had currently made it to a new town and were looking around the town when Damon noticed a fair skinned purple haired girl with a flower in her hair.

"That girl…. she looks so sad." Damon commented.

"Huh? What girl are you talking about?" N asked, looking in that direction and noticing the girl. He could feel her emotions, it was anger towards humans, wanting revenge on them, then there was the feeling of self doubt, doubting she was good enough for anything, and lastly there was the crushing feeling of despair he felt for being abandoned by her human.

"That's not a human' it's a pokemon" N stated.

"What? Really?" Damon asked and N nodded.

"Ash, that pokemon over there, the one that looks human, it has been hurt badly and has been abandoned. I think we should help her." N frowned slightly and Ash nodded. They were just about to go over there when some people blocked their way and she was gone.

"We'll find her tonight then. After all, she was impersonating the ghost of Maiden's Peak" N noted.

"Yeah, you're right; we will" Ash nodded.

"Plus we can give that gift from our great great grandpa. After all, he was the maiden's lover's brother and he gave him the engagement ring after he died in the war as a part of his will. Great great grandpa was the only one who knew where the maiden was until ten years after he died from a sickness that prevented him from giving the ring to the maiden. After then everyone in our family had forgotten the ring until Dad found the ring and the note from our great great grandpa saying to return the ring to the maiden, but dad couldn't return it since he had duties as a champion to fulfill. That's when Dad entrusted this mission to us" N informed the others as well as reminded Ash.

"Wow, so the maiden has been waiting all these years for that ring. Well, I say it's time we returned it to her lover, we'll do it tonight." Zoey agreed, as did the others.

~That night~

"Here we are. The statue of the maiden" Ash said.

"I've been waiting for you, my lover." the pokemon from before disguised as the maiden stated. Then she began to get angry and was about to ruin their minds.

"I know you're a pokemon, as does my brother, you don't have to hide that. We also know that you were abandoned by your trainer and we're deeply sorry that had to happen to you. Please, let us help you" Ash said seriously as the 'maiden' calmed down, sensing the kindness in Ash's eyes. The 'maiden' then turned into a candle with a face on it and a purple flame.

"What can you do to help?! I was abandoned all because I learned to talk just for my trainer! He said he didn't want a freaky pokemon like me and that I was useless in battle! I thought that if I learned to speak his language then he would stop pushing me so hard and seeing me as a tool and instead see me as an equal! That wasn't the case! He saw me instead as a broken and useless tool that could no longer do anything! I just wanted to prove myself." the ghost type pokemon cried and Ash embraced her, rubbing her back. Her cries soon turned into hiccups as she calmed down again.

"Thank you." She stated, looking at Ash.

"What's your name?" Ash asked.

"Litwick" she responded, thinking he meant her species since she was known in Unova and maybe one or two other regions.

"No, I meant your real name, the ones your parents gave you." Ash corrected her.

"No human has ever asked me that, but how do you know that we have different names?" Litwick asked.

"He and his brother can understand pokemon." Zoey replied for him.

"Really? So that means you call all your pokemon by their real names right?" she asked.

"Yeah he does and he translated our pokemon's real names for us as well." Brock put in.

"Well then, my name is Daleen" the litwick stated.

"Motherly, you definitely seem like that kind of pokemon who would be motherly" Zoey noted.

"I have a request of each of you." Daleen said.

"Yes, what is it?" Mark asked.

"I would like each of you to take care of a pokemon I have been looking after since I came here, with the exception of Ash, I have a different request to make of you." she answered seriously, leading them to an abandoned shack where they saw a light brownish-pink dinosaur like pokemon with white tusks sticking out of it's mouth, a hot pink collar that was apart of its body, a brown point that was sticking five inches into the air, and the tip of its head was brown coming down from the point by about one inch. Next there was a purple rattlesnake with a yellow rattle, a yellow underbelly, and a yellow horizontal stripe going around its body about two inches wide and six and a half inched away from its head. Then there was a grey rhinoceros looking pokemon with a hump in the middle of it's back that looked like you could ride him on. Next there was a floating piranha fish looking pokemon, it had two pale yellow spikes on its head and underneath its belly, the top part of it was blue while the bottom part was pale pink with a pale yellow star on its chin, its fin back fin had a pale pink outline while it's actual gill on the fin was a pale yellow, its other two fins were pale yellow and sticking straight out on both sides, and it had two fangs sticking out of the bottom of it mouth. The next one there was a greyish-blue ghost pokemon with red eyes with yellow instead of white inside its eyes, it had what looked to be several greyish-blue tentacles with light pink tips that looked somewhat similar to hair if not for the thickness of each strand, and she had what looked to be a light pinkish-red pearls around her neck that seemed to be attached to her body. Finally, there was a cream colored gecko shaped pokemon with the top half of his head with it coming down until it reached two inches before the chin, it also had a yellow what looked to be footed pants, though it was actually a part of his body, with his tail the same color looking like it was in the 'pants' in a zigzag pattern, a red what looked to be a apple stim without the leaf on top of its head, and its white teeth where revealed showing that it didn't have and skin to cover them, especially when it opened its mouth.

"These pokemon species are, respectively, shiny Axew, Ekans, Rhyhorn, Carvanha, Misdreavus, and Scraggy. Their names are Lloyd, Kekiokolanee, or as she is nicknamed Kekio, Aasimah, Cenehard, Matata, and Ualtar." Daleen introduced.

'Daleen, who are these people?' Kekio asked curiously.

"These people will be your trainers. You see, I've finally found some people who are worthy to be called a trainer for you guys." Daleen stated.

'That's so cool! Who am I going with?' Matata smiled excitedly, he seemed to be very excited at the prospect of having a trainer.

"Misty, I wish for you to have Cenehard, he is a good pokemon and acts like a guardian, yet he is very bold and outspoken as his name suggests. Zoey, I want you to take Matata, he is very playful and a huge troublemaker as his name suggests, yet he will do anything for his friends. Mark, I wish for you to have Lloyd, he is a very shy pokemon yet when it comes down to it he will become very brave when defending his friends. Damon, I wish for you to take Kekiokolanee, she likes to kid around and is very honest yet she can carry a secret to her grave and never have told a soul and she tends to have a laid back, carefree personality most of the time. She lives up to her name. Brock I wish for you to take Aasimah, she is a very laid back and kind yet she is very very over protective of her friends, if she sees anyone hurting them outside of a pokemon battle she will likely attack that person or pokemon that is hurting them out of rage, it is as her name suggests she is the one who protects. Finally, N I wish for you to take Ualtar, he is brave and reckless and is a strong fighter, yet he can be the kindest pokemon there is to his friends, he is as his name suggests a strong fighter. Now, my request for you Ash is that you take me on as your pokemon." Daleen stated to each Trainer in turn.

"I would be happy to accept." they all nodded as they caught their respective pokemon. This was one day they would never forget, that was for sure.

To Be Continued! Tune in next time to find out what happens.