United Destiny: The Hero and The Hybrid

Chapter 25

After watching the sun disappear over the horizon they had decided to set up camp. Above head, the clouds slowly covered the moon as an eerie wind blew through the camp. Serena tense up slightly as the breeze blow over her. "Hey, Serena are you alright?"

She relaxed as she looked at Ash. She was just getting a bit jumpy is all. Just cause they were in a creepy forest at night didn't mean that someone was watching them. Well anymore at least. "Yes, Ash I'm fine it's just the wind."

"Alright then." He unclipped his pokeball and tossed them out into the air. "Come on out everyone!"

In a flash, his current line up all appeared. It took a second as Fletchinder, Hawlucha, and Froakie noticed that Heracross wasn't with them and instead they had two newcomers. Meganium gave Ash an affectionate tackle. "Ash it's been so long!"

Ash gave the fully evolved grass type a chuckle as she pulled back. He still didn't know when she had evolved but she was still her same old self. Well minus a crush that he apparently didn't know she had. "Good to see you too Meganium."

The grass type's attention soon fell on Serena. The honey haired girl almost felt like she was being sized up by Meganium. "Well, I see you managed to keep Ash in one piece." Finally, after a tense moment, Meganium gave her a friendly smile. The grass type looked to the side noticing the rest of the group save Mawile. Extending a vine to them she shot the group a friendly smile introducing herself. "Nice to meet you I'm Meganium, I was with Ash though Johto."

The grass type felt a tap to the side and turned to see Mawile waving at her. "Don't forget about me." The steel and fairy type gave the Johto native a friendly smile before she gave her a questioning look. "Wait were you once the Bayleaf that had a crush on Ash?"

Pikachu rubbed the back of his head when Meganium turned her to gaze at him. "Well, she wanted to know about everyone, and well since we don't spend much time in our pokeballs." He held his paws up in front of him. "In my defense, I did tell her that you got over it and a few of my embarrassing moments."

Meganium rolled her eyes at the electric type. She wasn't really mad at him. Maybe he had grown used to it thanks to traveling with Ash and Serena. "Ok then."

Serena pulled off her pokeballs and tossed them into the air. In a flash everyone else was set free with Zoroark having a stretch, Braixen a small yawn from her nap, Audino fully awake. Absol, however, was in a complete panic. "Everyone be on our guard!"

The disaster pokemon's warnings didn't go unnoticed as not soon after a Dark Pulse came aimed right for Serena. Ash acted fast and pulled Serena down as the Dark Pulse past right by everyone else and slammed into a nearby tree. Mismagius looked into the forest and gasp at what she saw. "It's a Darkrai!"

Ash and Serena picked themselves up and looked at where the pokemon were looking. True to Mismagius words a Darkrai floated out of the forest its gave fixed on Absol. "I didn't expect an Absol to be in your thrall."

The Pitch Black pokemon's words caused Absol to growl at him. Ash and Serena recognized just who this particular Darkrai was. "Your the Darkrai that was with Tobias!" Ash grit his teeth expecting the unstable man to appear from the shadows and join the mythical Pokemon. "Why are you here?!"

Darkrai response was to point at both him and Serena. It didn't matter him that they could understand what he was saying. Actually, it made this somewhat easier in the short run. "I am here to bring you both to justice."

The Dark type's choice of words naturally brought a hostile response from everyone there. Hawlucha glared at the Pitch Black pokemon in disgust. "What kind of justice is there in attacking a defensively human from behind!" He pointed a claw from his left hand at him while making a fist with his right. "If you are seeking justice then I suggest you start by apologizing to us!"