United Destiny: The Hero and The Hybrid

Chapter 23

The sun shone over the group as they cut a path through a quiet forest which was supposed to be a shortcut to one of the Battle Chateau. Serena tapped a bit on the map with a bit of concern as it seemed they were getting further from where they should go. The one flaw of this was it only showed the major routes and not the minor ones. Pikachu noticing the honey-haired girls constant lookings at the map let out a sigh. "Great we're lost."

"Well, at least we're taking a scenic route." Serena's attempt to lighten mood about them being lost didn't seem to work for the Mouse Pokemon. Somehow Pikachu knew that Serena telling him they might be able to cut through the forest was going to get them lost. There was a reason why Brock never let him have the map.

"Serena I think you should know." Pikachu motioned to Ash. "He has a terrible sense of direction. Brock never lets him hold the map because he would very likely get us lost." Ash felt a bit insulted. He didn't always get them lost, only most of the time.

Near the back of the group, Absol couldn't help but feel something bad was going to happen. The problem was that he felt two disasters one befalling his trainer and her mate and another which seemed to be happening very soon. He didn't know however if the first one was done to the second one or if they were separate. "You alright Absol?" The Disaster Pokemon was brought out of his thoughts by Audino.

Absol shook his head looking forwards. "I feel something going to happen, something big." He didn't know if the feeling he had about it was done to the possibly of Serena and Ash jumping into the danger or if it was done to interference. Ash still had the aftermath of many disasters on him and that could make sense the cause problematic. He could get used to it with time and make better predictions but right now things were muddled and a bit vague. "Unfortunately I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what it is."

A bit ahead of them they saw a bunch of small Pokemon sharing berries together. The group probably would have let them be but as it was that wasn't to be as a voice yelled through the trees. "Hand over the berries and no one will get hurt!"

Walking out of the forest was an Ursaring giving the group of small Pokemon a smug look on his face. One of the groups a Pachirisu looked at the Ursaring nervously. "B-but their ours." That didn't seem to matter to Ursaring who almost looked ready to attack them.

His actions didn't go unnoticed as Pikachu and Mawile jumped down ready to fight him. Pikachu's cheeks had sparkles of electricity, while Mawile right hand glowed a dark purple. Braixen pulled out want from her tail igniting the flame on the tip. Zoroark's claws glowed ready for a Night Slash. Even Serena had a small Energy Ball forming in her hands.

"Stop right there." A figure lumped on one of the branches before climbing to the top of the tree. "I thought we've been over this but I see you'll never learn!" The figure was a small bipedal bird-like pokemon it's red feathers forming being almost cape-like, with green undersides.

Ash brought up his Pokedex at this noticing that it was already listed as scanned likely from Serena. Another weird thing that happened has he had a bunch of signings in his dex likey from Serena's travels. "Hawlucha, the Wrestling Pokémon. Possessing an artistic way of executing its moves, Hawlucha takes great pride in their elegance."

Hawlucha removed the leaf mask he had on as he jumped towards Ursaring his feet glowing as he knocked into the Normal type. "That's Hi Jump Kick." Ash watched as the fighting flying type stood ready as Ursaring reared his fist back as a cover of cold and snow surrounded it. Hawlucha, however, dodged the Ice Punch jumping back to the tree. Hawlucha used it as a springboard his arms glowing white as he stuck Ursaring chest knocking him down with Karate Chop.