United Destiny: The Hero and The Hybrid

Chapter 36

Stopping on the way too Coumarine City Ash and Serena stared each other as they started a mock battle. After his loss to Clemont, Ash decided to finally do some training with the latest members of his team. They were in agreement, especially after the last gym battle. Hawlucha's Karate Chop clashed with Krokorok's Shadow Claw before the two of them broke. Overhead Mismagius and Fletchinder were training with Fletchinder rocketing towards the ghost type covered in a Flame Charge. A glow formed over Mismagius body before she fired a Power Gem Fletchinder ducked and waved away from the beam.

Off on the side, Braixen and Frogadier clashed. Water Pulse meeting Psybeam as Frogadier jumped forward an energy blade forming in his hand as he reached for a cut. Braixen smirked hold her want out as she used Psychic to grab him just before he could land a hit. "Close but not close enough."

She tossed him back Frogadier flipping over and landed on his feet. Braixen fired another Psybeam straight at him. Frogadier formed a Water Pulse in his hands and blocked the psychic attack with it. "Hey, I've been meaning to ask about something." He tossed the Water Pulse at her which Braixen danced around. "You ever get this weird feeling in the middle of a battle?"

Braixen raised an eyebrow at his question. "What do you mean?"

Frogadier didn't know how to explain it exactly to her. He couldn't fully describe it himself after all but he tried his best. "Ok its this weird feeling I had since I was with Ash, I first felt it in the battle with Vivillon, and again when I was facing Malamar."

Braixen lowered her wand an inquisitive look on her face. "Do you mean you feel like your one with Ash for the smallest of moments?" He responded with a slow nod and a questioning look. Braixen turned to Serena as she watched her feed Popplio. "I felt that with Serena a few times over the years I didn't think anything of it."

Thinking about it was rather perplexing for the two of them. They both had flashes of feeling as one with their trainers and they had no idea why. Frogadier went with the first thing to come into his head, "You think it's due to Serena being well you know."

Braixen shook her head at this thought. "That doesn't explain why you and Ash have it, plus does it feel like its coming from you or from them?" Braixen's words caused him to think it over a bit more.

While, yes it did feel like they were one the feeling was more coming from within Frogadier. This raised even more question for him. It couldn't be an ability. He had Protean, and Braixen had Blaze after all. 'Just what is this anyway?'

Meanwhile, Ash was trying something of his own. He didn't get time to practice with this. He held out his hand as he tried to form his aura. All he was getting was aglow with a vague barely formed shape. Finally, he lost control of it. Ash sighed in defeat as his latest attempted failed. "What are you doing?"

He turned around finding Anabel standing there with a raised eyebrow. The psychic had learned about Ash's abilities to control aura from both Serena and Ash. From where she was standing control was a bit of a stretch of the word. "I was trying to replicate the thing I did when Darkrai attacked us."

"Wait a Darkrai attacked you?" Anabel's shocked expression caused the raven-haired boy to rub the back of his neck nervously. The psychic shook her head at him. She could ask about why that happened later. "Anywho from where I stand it looks like your trying to force something without knowing how you did it." He gave her a questioning look wondering what she meant. "Tell me what was going through your mind when this first happened."

He thought about that and he really couldn't place it. His mind recalled the events when Darkrai tricked everyone. The Dark Pulse aimed at him and an unconscious Serena. At that moment he had only one thing on his mind to protect Serena. "Serena was hit by a Dark Void and when Darkrai was attacking us I couldn't let him hurt her." The aura gathered back in his hands as the small blade formed within his grasp. "I did it."