The Shining Latios

A/N: Hello, people! Triforcelord is back with a new story! This one is my first Pokemon fic, which kind of surprises me that it's my sixth story and I'm just now getting around to writing it. I've loved Pokemon ever since I was small, and Pokemon Heroes has, ever since I saw it, been my favorite Pokemon movie. So, without further ado, here's the first chapter!

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

'Telepathy'

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The Shining Latios Chapter 1: I Need A Vacation!

Ash was feeling kind of put down. Okay, scratch that, he was feeling very put down. His hopes and dreams had just been crushed. Or at least, that's what he felt like, being so put down that he couldn't see far ahead enough to see that maybe his next journey would pan out.

What had happened was Ash had gotten to the top 8 of the Silver Cup, and then was defeated. Badly. The defeat had made Ash's morale suffer greatly, which is why we now find him sitting alone on the front porch of his home in Pallet Town.

It really hadn't helped that he had had to say goodbye to his friends on the way back home either, although Brock had said that he was going to call him sometime to plan their next adventure.

Delia Ketchum, Ash's mother, was getting a little heartbroken at seeing her little boy so down like this. He was usually so happy and carefree. She didn't even know if he was changing his underwear every day!

Delia decided to talk to him about this, and help him get over this once and for all.

And that is why we find her going out to the front porch on this fine afternoon to talk to her son.

"Ash, honey," Delia said softly, "Are you okay?"

Ash just grunted in response.

'Oh dear,' Delia thought, 'He isn't acting like himself at all.'

"You can talk about it you know." Delia continued, still speaking in the same soft tone.

Ash finally turned around, and Delia's heart ached to see deep sadness in her baby boy's eyes.

Ash sighed and said, "Fine, I'll tell you. I guess I'm upset because this is exactly the same as the Indigo League! Again, I collect these stupid badges, solving some problems along the way, then I get this close-" here Ash held his pointer finger and thumb barely apart-"And, just like that, everything is taken away from me!" Ash was really starting to get heated up. "I get everyone telling me that they're sorry, but I don't want that! I want to win me a Championship!" Here Ash finally stopped, breathing heavily.

Delia had just sat there, listening, and now she went over and gave Ash a hug.

"I know how you feel." Delia said, "I felt the same way when you're father died. And yes, he died." Delia said this last part to Ash's surprised gasp. "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you earlier. I had such big dreams and hopes, only for them to come crashing down. But I picked myself up and moved forward."

"How did you do that?" the now released Ash asked.

"I took a vacation." Delia said simply. "Which is exactly what you're going to do. Now march straight up to your room young man, and choose a destination and pack your things!" Ash straightened up and took off towards his room after seeing his mom go from nice to scary.

"And don't forget to pack plenty of clean underwear!" Delia called to her son's retreating back.

Satisfied that she had done everything that she could, Delia went back into the kitchen to continue making dinner, telling Mimey to prepare the dinner table a little more special than usual. She was going to send Ash away tomorrow morning, and she wanted him to have a nice last dinner at home before he left for wherever he was going.

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Meanwhile, up in his room, Ash was packing his backpack, thinking of places to go. 'Maybe I could go to Cerulean City? No, Misty would just whack me with her mallet. Orange Islands? No, too many legendaries. Hmmm, where to go, where to go. Someplace with good food…" Here Ash's thoughts were interrupted by his mother calling him down, saying that Brock was on the phone.

Once he got down there, he took the phone from his mother and said, "Hey, Brock! What's up?"

"Well," Brock said, "I planned out where we're going to go for your next League, Ash, if you want to go."

This immediately got Ash's attention. "Yeah, of course I want to go!" Ash said excitedly, "Where are we going?"

"The place I have in mind is a region called Hoenn." Brock said, "It's a region across the sea, so we'll have to take a boat to get there. I was thinking about meeting you in Altomare in about a week. That okay with you?"

"Sure Brock, fine by me!" Ash said, getting excited about both the new League and the fact that he now knew where he was going on vacation.

"Okay, see you in a week's time, Ash." Brock said.

"Yeah, see ya!" Ash said, then hung up.

When Ash walked into the dining room, dinner was ready, and the table looked much better than it usually did. Pikachu was helping set the table, but he was trying to carry a salad bowl that was at least as big as he was. He lost his balance on a napkin and fell off the table. Ash made a decision and "saved" his best friend, leaving the salad bowl to a dark fate indeed, mwahahaha.

Pikachu looked up at Ash, overjoyed that his best friend was finally over sulking about his defeat in the Silver Cup. Ash scratched in between his ears, and Pikachu gave a little "Chaaa" of pleasure before hopping on Ash's shoulder.

Just then Delia walked in with the main course: Ash's favorite food, roast beef. With gravy. Lots and lots of gravy.

Ash's mouth watered as his whole head followed his personal delicacy, and, right when Delia set down his plate, Ash did to the food Giovanni wanted to do to the world: he completely owned it.

In less than five minutes, Ash had annihilated half of the entire roast and was finally full, due to not just the roast beef, but also three bowls of salad, seven breadsticks, four helpings of french fries, and two bowls of ice cream for dessert.

"I swear, Ash Ketchum, someday you will become a Snorlax from how much you eat." Delia said, shaking her head.

Ash just rubbed the back of his head mareepishly and said, "I don't know where it all goes, trust me."

"Well, at least use your manners when you eat, young man," Delia said, switching to her "Strict Parent Mode", "You looked like a pig, eating like that!"

Ash gulped and said, "Yes maam, sorry maam." His mom could be very scary when she wanted to be.

Delia's eyes cleared, telling Ash that she had gone back to the realm of calm, and she asked, "So, what did Brock want to tell you about?"

Ash, being Ash, had forgotten all about Brock's call in the face of food. "Oh, uh, he wanted to tell me that he had our next trip all planned out, and that he wanted me to meet him in Altomare in a week."

"Mmmm, so you're going to take your vacation in Altomare, right?" Delia said, glaring at Ash.

Ash paled and said, "Yes, mom. That's what I was planning."

"Good." Delia said, "I guess you'll be leaving in the morning, huh." She said this as more of a statement than a question, letting Ash know that he was leaving in the morning and was going to like it.

"What Pokemon were you thinking about taking?" Delia asked, already knowing at least one.

"Well, Pikachu, for sure." Ash said. Delia nodded, she had though as much. "I can't go anywhere without my little buddy. Other than that, I think I'll just made new friends wherever I'm going like usual."

Delia nodded, approving, and said, "Well you'd better be going to bed now, you have a big day tomorrow." Ash yawned in reply and looked out the window, surprised to see that it was dark already.

Ash dragged his feet upstairs to his room, and when he was lying in bed, thinking about his next journey, his mind wandered to Altomare. He was looking forward to seeing his friends from there again.

Far away, a certain dragoness felt really, really happy for some reason as she drifted off to sleep.

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A/N: Well, that's the end of the first chapter. Hope you guys like it! Now, I'm just going to tell you, I haven't watched too much of the TV show while they were in Hoenn, so I'm going to use my author powers to warp reality in the story to create my own situations for them to come out of. Except for the movies. You can never forget the movies. Author powers rule! So anyway, please Read and Review. I want to know what you guys think. Triforcelord, out!