Master Challenge

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Special thanks to CharmedmilliE- Karry master for letting me adopt the story.

Daniel Angeles/ revolution created by Black Falcoln

Roberto Degaldo created by Red Alfa

Silver/ Tabitha created by CharmedmilliE- Karry master

Kara-the-deaf trainer created by Dragonsrule18

Rei Kurosaki created by Artemis-no-subaku

Chapter 17: The Glowing Trio

Ash was asleep and was having a pleasant dream. Misty and him were on a boat, both of them were fishing and laughing. Misty looked beautiful in the light of the setting sun.

Suddenly the water turned black and Ash found himself facing Mewtwo himself. A second later Tabitha appeared right next to him.

"Wait is that really you, Tabs?", asked a confused Ash.

"Yeah, but I don't know how I got here.", she replied looking equally confused.

Then Mewtwo spoke, "Ash and Tabitha please listen to me, I don't have much time. Tobias has captured me and most of the legendries. Firstly Arceus says that Tobias is after a force much stronger than Arceus. I don't know what that is but you should know this place, the grounds for master challenge, they hold many secrets. The ancients used to … No! I am out of time. Please find us and remember Tobias is not alone, he has…"

The dream went completely black and Ash woke with a start. He was sweaty and his heart was pounding so hard it hurt.

Tabitha opened the door to Ash's room. She looked just as dishevelled as he was.

They looked at each other and confirmed each other's worst fear. That was a real telepathic dream.

Suddenly Pikachu woke up and looked out the window. Ash and Tabitha looked at the electric mouse who was staring at something outside the window.

Ash smiled, "hey Pikachu, what are you staring at?" ,he asked kindly but when he looked out the window he froze too.

"Tabitha there's someone out there looking directly at us.", he whispered.

Ash's room faced the woods behind the house, so it was really hard to see anything except the trees during the night.

Tabitha looked out and her eye caught the purple aura surrounding a cloaked person who was standing at the edge of the woods.

She couldn't see his face but the aura the person gave off definitely gave her chills.

"Tabs, quick grab your Pokemon and let's go investigate. Be sure not to turn on the lights and don't make a sound.

Tabitha tiptoed to her room and got her pokeballs, she wanted to kick herself for not keeping any of her powerhouses with her.

Ash and Tabitha made their way downstairs and went to the backyard.

The saw the cloaked person. He looked scarier than a ghost Pokemon. Just seeing him made Ash remember the worst moments in his life. Next to him, Tabitha shivered even though it was the middle of summer, so Ash guessed she was getting the same vibes from him.

"Hey who are you and why are you standing her at this time of the night?!", Ash yelled at him.

The man didn't speak he just laughed, but the laugh was like 15 different kinds of creepy.

Two more cloaked individuals came out of the woods. They were surrounded by the same purple aura and looked just as scary. Ash noticed that all of them were wearing black cloaks that hid their faces and each of them was wearing a purple necklace which was glowing faintly.

"Give us your aura, if you don't then we will suck it out if you before throwing " the man in center of the triad asked. He had a rough voice and it seemed as if his voice echoed.

"Yeah we're just gonna let you take our aura! Ursaring, I choose you!", shouted Tabitha as she let out her bear Pokemon.

Ash knew he didn't have any of his powerhouses except Pikachu, so he chose his starter.

Pikachu understood the little nod Ash gave it and jumped of his shoulder, on the ground, it's cheeks sparkling with electricity.

"Go Sceptile, destroy them!", yelled the man in the cloak as he let out a very strange looking Sceptile.

The Sceptile looked like a Sceptile but it's eyes were glowing red and it was surrounded by a purple aura just like it's trainer.

Ash was still wondering what that aura was when Tabitha decided to attack.

"Ursaring use fire punch!", she yelled. Ursaring fist caught on fire and hit Sceptile straight in the chest.

"Yeah! That's it!", Tabitha encouraged her Ursaring.

"Pikachu, use electro ball!", Ash shouted. Pikachu jumped up and shot a electric ball from its tail which, again was a direct hit.

The man in the cloak just laughed.

The laughter sent a chill down Ash's spine. Even Tabitha who never got fazed had taken a step back in fear.

"how did…", she couldn't even complete her sentence. Sceptile was standing like nothing had happened even though it should have been knocked out.

"Sceptile use leaf blade and make them bleed.", said the man. Sceptile obeyed. The blade on its arm glowed green for a second before it became purple.

Quicker than anyone could react, Sceptile slashed Pikachu and Ursaring knocking them back. Pikachu had a huge cut across its torso and was bleeding out. Ursaring had a cut on its stomach as well.

Ash took out a his next Pokemon, furious that this man had hurt his best friend. Tabitha got up too and sent out her Zweilous.

"Why did you hurt them like that! Don't you have any morals!", Tabitha shouted at the man.

Meanwhile Ash sent out his staraptor. "Staraptor use brave bird with everything you got!", he command his Pokemon. Staraptor hit Sceptile but still Sceptile didn't look like it had taken any damage.

"Zweilous, use dragon rush!", Tabitha told her pokemon. Zweilous released a blue energy from its body which shaped itself like a dragon before hitting Sceptile.

Sceptile was knocked back.

Tabitha told Zweilous to repeat the attack while Ash told Staraptor to use aerial ace.

"Sceptile use leaf blade!", the man yelled. Sceptile out sped both the Pokemon and injured them badly.

Staraptor and Zweilous were recalled as they too were bleeding.

Ash was out of ideas. The other two cloaked people had surrounded Ash and Tabitha. They were in the woods where only Tobias could hear them and Ash wasn't expecting any miracles from him.

The cloaked girl laughed menacingly and sent out a metagross. The metagross was surrounded by the purple aura too.

"Metagross use psychic on them!", the girl screamed.

Ash and Tabitha were lifted into the air against their will. They couldn't even move.

Ash was panicking. He was almost ready to pass out. The man in the cloak walked up to him.

"Well, well, well Ash Ketchum the winner of Kalos league and the battle frontier, where is that confidence you jade when you beat me the last time. Now you have seen my full power. Aah Silver, I'm gonna enjoy torturing the aura out of you. You are the reason I was humiliated."

"Uhh… I .. never … even met… you.", 1 told the man in a strangled voice.

"Oh we have met before, we have battled twice and each…"

The man in the cloak never finished the sentence. Suddenly the cloaked girl's metagross was knocked by a water shuriken.

Ash and Tabitha fell on the ground when a shadowy figure jumped over them and knocked greninja back by what looked like an aerial ace.

Tabitha and Ash were surprised as they saw Greninja infront of them.

Greninja looked at Ash and the two understood what other wanted to say.

"Greninja let's show these weirdos why we won the Kalos league! Go!", Yelled Ash.

Sceptile had gotten up and charging at Greninja with a leaf blade.

Greninja powered up its cut as it too started charging towards Sceptile.

They both missed in hitting their target.

Greninja and Ash started glowing.

"Ash what's happening to you?", Tabitha asked, concerned for her brother.

Ash didn't reply but just looked at her and smiled.

A whirlpool surrounded Greninja and it changed its form. It had become the legendary Ash-Greninja.

"What is this?!", the man screamed.

The girl screamed, "its that bond form of his with his Greninja. Metagross use meteor mash!"

Metagross used it's meteor mash and bolted straight for Greninja.

Ash didn't even have to shout his command as Greninja could hear his thoughts in his super form.

Greninja dodged the attack and launched its water shuriken straight at metagross knocking it out.

"Enough of this, Sceptile use leaf on Ketchum!", the man yelled

Sceptile charged at Ash, Greninja ran to intercept the attack but it was too far away.

Just before Ash got hurt, a Garchomp jumped infront of him and took the attack.

"Garchomp use dragon claw!"

Ash looked over his shoulder. It was Cynthia and Lance.

Lance hurried over to Tabitha and picked her up. Then released his Dragonite.

The three cloaked figures regrouped and recalled their Pokemon.

"You were lucky, this time Ketchum but I will be back.", the man told Ash, as a thick fog black mist engulfed the cloaked people and they disappeared.

"How did you know we needed help?", Tabitha asked Lance. She had taken support of a nearby tree and was standing up.

"Well Cynthia and I were in the Pokemon center when Greninja broke through the recovery room wall and ran off. Nurse joy said it was yours, Ash. So we followed it.", Lance explained.

"Yeah, Greninja and I have a special bond and it kinda let's us connect so we can read each other's mind. Greninja must have sensed that we were in danger.", Ash told Lance.

"We can discuss what happened later, right now Silver needs a doctor.", Lance stated as if that was the end of the discussion.

Tabitha took out her pokeball and released Alakazam, "Alakazam, I need you to teleport us to the Pokemon center.", she told him kindly.

Ash was surprised by how quickly she pulled herself together even though she and her Pokemon were injured.

As soon as they arrived, Tabitha and Ash handed their injured Pokemon over to nurse Joy.

Lance had brought one of the doctors from the league room, and now she was tending to Tabitha.

Ash was completely thoughtless when he saw the Pokemon center had a broken window and a large hole in one of their walls, he could see other Pokemon being treated by chansey through it.

"Sorry about the wall and the glass Nurse Joy, Greninja ..", Ash started to apologise, he expected Nurse Joy to be mad but she cut him off mid sentence.

"Your Greninja sensed you were in danger and thought of nothing else but to save you. That's true friendship between a trainer and Pokemon, you don't need to apologise for that.", she told him.

"Hey Ash, what happened to you?!"

Ash turned around and found himself face to face with Misty.

"You look like didn't sleep at all and why do you have blood splattered over your shirt and hands.", she asked. She looked startled and concerned.

Just as Ash was about to answer the rest of his friends had come downstairs from their rooms.

"How about we all get a bite to eat and I'll explain then."

-PM-

"So you were attacked by three masked figures and they wanted your soul?!", Dawn asked loudly

They were eating at the Pokemon center canteen. It was a relatively small room so many heads turned their way when they heard Dawn's sentence.

Brock looked at the other table and awkwardly said, "Um.. we are talking about a dream our friend had… um… sorry."

The other diners turned away.

"But it's not possible, there is no such thing as soul, they probably wanted his aura but why?", Clemont commented.

"I don't know but could you keep this a secret, I mean Lance and Cynthia told us not to tell anyone.", Ash told his friends.

All of them nodded. They continued their breakfast hastily and left the diner to go back to the Pokemon center.

-PM-

Ash and the gang arrived at the Pokemon center.

They saw Silver was standing up, with Roberto next to her, watching the TV screen.

"Hey guys, I heard about the whole incident. I have given Silver a buzzer so if those goons come back just call me.", Roberto told Ash.

"Roberto, I already told you we were surprised and didn't have our best Pokemon so, next time I'm gonna use my Charizard.", Silver told him.

Roberto laughed and assured her that the buzzer was just in case of another surprise attack.

"Hey is that the next round fighting list?", Brock interrupted.

"Yeah just came out, looks like the next round isn't for another two days. I'm going up against revolution."

"So it looks like it can be anyone versus anyone from this round on. Look Ash is going against Brandon.", Clemont spoke as he looked at the screen.

"I'm going against Drake of the Hoenn elite four. Wonder how tough he really is?", Tabitha asked everyone.

"Oh yeah, tough guy, I fought him when Sceptile was a Grovyle. He uses his surrounding to his advantage.", Ash replied.

"Have you battled every poke-league official from all the regions?", Tabitha asked jokingly.

"Not all of them yet.", Brock answered.

They all laughed. All of them had met the elite and legendary Pokemon thanks to Ash who always ended up in the middle of any disturbance in the legendary Pokemon's routine.

"Hey Misty who's your opponent going to be?", Dawn asked her. Misty didn't reply she was just staring at the screen silently mouthing something.

Ash and the rest looked at the board.

There next to Misty's picture was her opponent who was none other than Tobias.

Author's note : Guys I tried to make it less clumpy but I use the android app to publish the chapters which doesn't really allow me to leave any spaces.

I will try to use my laptop next time. please review and tell me about any problems you see in the chapters.

I will try to publish the next chapter as soon as possible. thanks for sticking to the story.