Light Into Darkness

Chapter 7: A New World

A New World

"Ash!?"

"Ah, now you remember me" the ebony haired trainer said. "Like I said it's been awhile. You've grown and it seems you're just as bratty as I remember" he said harshly. Dawn winced at how the love of her life talked to her. Ash began to walk down the white staircase and halted when he reached the middle.

"Ash, is that really you?" she asked with tears threatening to fall. She couldn't believe after all these years she had finally found him, but she hadn't expected him to be the leader of Organization Omni. A bringer of darkness and sorrow wherever he went. She wanted to run to the man that she loved and hug him dearly. She longed to be in his warm and safe arms. Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt a dark aura surrounding her. She tensed up feeling as if a blizzard just hit her. Her breathing was heavy. She knew she was in the presence of something evil. "What happened to you?"

"As if you don't know" Ash answered as he glared at the girl he used to love. "I have become the strongest trainer in the world. I have beaten the so called greatest trainers in the world making the title of Pokemon Master rightfully mine!"

"No, you are no Pokemon Master" she said softly while holding her hands over heart. "A Pokemon Master is a kind man that does not harm anybody. A person who can be one with all Pokemon. A person that does not lust for power" she said with her voice growing louder. "The only Pokemon Master I knew was the Ash Ketchum I knew before he made an empire of evil! The kind and compassionate one!"

The leader of Organization Omni laughed. "Ha! That Ash Ketchum is dead. He died a long time ago" he said with acid dripping from his voice. "That Ash was weak. He could never accomplish what I did."

"You're wrong!" the blue haired coordinator shouted. "The Ash I knew was the strongest trainer I have ever met. He was my mentor and the love of my life!"

"The love of your life!?" he bit harshly. "If I was the love of your life, then why did you leave me!?" Dawn sunk her head. "You broke our promise! Do you remember, we promised to love each other forever! The next thing I know is that you left me for Drew! Leaving me brokenhearted!" Dawn couldn't help letting her tears flow from her eyes.

"If I could go back I would change it" she said softly.

"You disgust me you filthy whore!" Ash shouted while clenching his fist. Dawn flinched by the harshness in his voice. "You can't change the past! Trust me I tried! If I could I would change ever meeting you!"

"Ash, I'm sorry!" she cried out. "That was my biggest regret! I should have never left you."

Ash eyes began to flare up in anger. "But you did. You left me when I needed you the most!" the ebony haired trainer shouted. "You left me right before my mother…" he paused. "You left me right before my mother died! I can never forgive you!"

"Ash, I didn't know that your mother was going to die" she said. "It's not fair to blame me for something that I didn't know."

"I thought we were in love with each other! We promised!"

"Ash, I though that I fell out of love with you for sometime when we were together. We were always training leaving no time for us and on top of that we were always bickering" she said. "I believed I was in love with Drew because we had a lot of common. He made me feel wanted. He made me feel loved. I thought it was easier for two coordinators who were similar to be together, than a trainer and a coordinator who were complete opposites." Dawn mentally hit herself for how stupid she was. "I was wrong, Drew only loved me because of my looks and skills and when he found a prettier and more skilled girl he left me. From that moment I knew that I made a mistake. I want you to know that even when I was with Drew I felt like I was missing something. The thing that I was missing was you. I couldn't face you after realizing that. Knowing that the man that you loved was brokenhearted by the ridiculous girl who was too blind to see the love her life was right in front of her." The blue haired coordinator lowered her head in shame.