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Post by DaveTheFishandChipsGuy on Apr 9, 2008 0:19:42 GMT 12
Ah, I thought the Darkrai version looked too much like Shadow Ball, and the Spirtomb version looked more like Supersonic.
Well, here's the last chapter, chronicling 'Year 9' of Dave's adventures. This gets a bit surreal, but try not to get freaked out. I'd like to think I've done a unique story here, though again some inspiration comes from James' story 'Project Arceus'.
Oh yeah, italics represent 'Aura speech'... and now I've given the plot away... darn.
Anyway, enjoy!
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Year 9 Laura wins the Johto Grand Festival, winning her second Ribbon Cup. Alan finally wins a League, placing first in the Silver Conference. They decide to head to Sinnoh next.
Dave continues with his intense training regimen in the Coronet mountain range, occasionally meeting up with Cynthia and Steven to spar with them. He catches new Pokémon, including some that Alan owns, taking the hatred he felt for his old friend and turning it into a drive to get himself and his Pokémon stronger. His Pokémon learn attacks they would not be able to learn naturally, a testament to how hard they train. Among these new additions are twin Riolu, nicknamed Delphi and Delpho, which evolve into two powerful Lucario. Dave spends a lot of time with these Lucario, even engaging them in discussion. Unbeknownst to him, however, these Pokémon are training him…
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“Now Delphi! Use Aura Sphere on that rock!” I ordered. One of my Lucario brought her paws back to her side, and charged up a ball of blue-green energy. “Hold it!” I shouted. Something was…different. Delphi looked at me, confusion in her eyes, but held the ball of ‘Aura’ still, at her side. I walked up to it. It made a small humming noise, but for some reason it had sounded louder before. I wouldn’t have been able to hear it from over there, but now I could. “Hold it still, okay Delphi?” I asked.
“Cario.” She replied, nodding. I walked backward, to where I had been before. I could no longer hear the humming the ball made. I looked back at Delphi, and felt the weirdest thing. The ball was making no noise to me, but it felt like the loudest thing around. Like when a loud stereo or speaker system is suddenly put on mute, you still hear the noise for a bit. It was silent, yet ridiculously loud at the same time.
I closed my eyes. I could still ‘hear’ it, for want of a better word. I felt a presence next to me. I looked over to see my other Lucario, Delpho. “Luar?” He asked. I expected he wanted to know what was wrong.
“I’m fine buddy.” I replied. He still looked doubtful, those piercing red eyes seemed to be looking into my very soul. “Come on, I’m fine already! Let’s get back to training.” Delpho nodded at this. I looked over to Delphi, who had since dissipated the Aura Sphere she had been holding.
“Okay! Delphi, use Dragon Pulse!” Delphi’s mouth opened, and a blue shockwave shot out, smashing apart a nearby rock formation. “Alright, nice one! Now try another Aura Sphere!” Delphi drew her paws back to her side, and the blue-green ball of energy formed again between them. I concentrated. The…‘sound’ had returned. But as Delphi fired the ball at another heap of rocks, I could have sworn I heard someone whisper something.
“Well done Delphi! Take a rest now, you’ve earned it.” Delphi leant against a convenient rock, while I turned to Delpho. “Your turn now buddy. Ready?” I asked.
“Cario!” He replied enthusiastically. I smiled at that.
“Let’s get to it then. Use Close Combat on those rocks!” Delpho leapt off, and started working on the rock pile with a flurry of lightning fast punches and kicks. Delphi came over and stood next to me, both of us watching her brother chip and grind the boulders down into sand. “Now use Bone Rush!” I called. Delpho put his paws together, like he was holding the world’s smallest set of handlebars, before spreading his arms, holding a blue-green bone-like object. It proceeded to use this to smash the rocks. I concentrated again…
The bone, it was the same as the Aura Sphere. Loud, yet silent. A supernova to the eyes of the soul, it was so bright. At least…it felt bright, it felt loud. I’d had enough of this for today, so I called Delpho off. The sun was going down, I had to start getting ready for one of the Coronet range’s harsh nights.
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“Wha…what’s going on?” I asked. I had the sensation of falling through the air, but there was blackness in all directions. It was like sinking through the deepest part of the sea, only still able to breathe, as well as not being crushed into jelly. I looked around. There was nothing there. I then felt movement behind me, and turned to face it.
Two blue, glowing shapes were floating there. They were on the same level as me, but a few metres away. They did not appear to have noticed me, and I could hear voices coming from them. I started listening to them. There was something very familiar about these beings…
“Do you think he is ready?” One of them asked of the other, in a deep, masculine voice. “You saw what happened earlier, he definitely sensed it.”
“I agree,” replied its companion, “We will have to try to give him that last little push, then he will be able to realise his true potential!” This one spoke with a more delicate, feminine tone.
The first one spoke again, “We are agreed then? Tomorrow we shall try to reach out to him. He’s so far along now, he’s bound to feel something.”
I couldn’t help but think that these creatures had it in for someone, but I couldn’t catch anymore of their conversation, as I fell away from them, back into the darkness.
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“Good work Gengar, you were awesome! Take a good rest now buddy.” I withdrew my ghost back into the Pokébox as I praised it for training so hard. “You guys were great as well, so you take a rest too.” I recalled Gallade, Weavile, Houndoom and Wobbuffet, my ‘occult-types’ into the Pokébox as well. I considered who to train next, and made my decision. I needed to see if anything had changed since yesterday. “Heads up, Delphi, Delpho!”
My pair of Lucario materialized before me. I knew I was lucky to have just one of these rare, intelligent Pokémon, but they were brother and sister, and would not be separated.
“Ok lets try some other attacks today guys.” I encouraged. These Pokémon could learn a lot of moves, and I decided to train Delphi as a long-range attacker, with Delpho being able to hold his own with close-in moves. “Delphi, use Psychic on those rocks over there.”
My female Lucario nodded, before her eyes glowed blue. Several nearby rocks rose into the air, surrounded by a similar blue aura. I was pleased with this, Delphi had only been learning to use Psychic for the last couple of weeks, yet seemed to have almost completely mastered it. I could sense that Delpho was itching to do some training as well.
“Okay Delpho, use Metal Claw to shred those rocks!” Delpho ran toward the boulders at this order. The spikes on the back of his paws glowed, and then each extended into three long, metallic claws. He jumped, slashing at the rocks as he passed them in the air. While he was doing this, I turned to Delphi. She was still concentrating on the rocks in the air, her eyes still glowing blue. As I looked at her, I thought I could hear the whispering from the day before. I tried listening closer, the words becoming clearer, and clearer…
“Hurry brother, can’t… hold them much longer!” Was Delphi speaking? This was amazing! I didn’t have much time to think about it though, as when I tried focusing on the words again, my vision went black.
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I was falling again, through the blackness. Like last time, there was nothing there at first, but I soon felt a presence behind me. I turned, and saw the blue figures again. However, they were a lot closer this time, almost right in my face.
“What happened?” The nearest one asked of the other.
“I don’t know!” The second, feminine voice exclaimed. “I was busy holding up those rocks, and when I looked round he had fallen over!”
“You were saying something to me at the time yes?”
“Yes! I was asking you to hurry up, my mental hold on those rocks was slipping!”
“Well, it may be that your Psychic attack projected your thoughts to within range of his picking them up. He’s obviously sensitive to us, and that may have just been that push we were looking for.” The nearer figure explained, before turning to face the other. “This is a great achievement sister, we shall have to see what state he is in when he wakes up.”
“As long as he is alright.” The female voice muttered.
I didn’t understand. Were these…beings my pair of Lucario? But why were they talking about me like I was unconscious? Unless…
I looked around. Maybe I was unconscious, yet dreaming, and being influenced by my Lucario, who were both nearby when I blacked out. I didn’t have much time to dwell on this, however, as I began to fell away from the glowing creatures, back into the dark.
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“Look, he’s coming to!” I heard a voice say as I opened my eyes. Heard was entirely the wrong. The voice arrived in my head without any assistance from my ears. It was strange, almost as if I remembered hearing it, but with my mind instead.
I looked around, and saw my Lucario twins standing over me, looking at me with concern, as well as a bit of anticipation. “Hey guys.” I muttered, trying to shake off a massive headache I had developed, “What happened?” I asked them, expecting a range of syllables made of Lu-car-io. They both looked at each other, and nodded.
“Can you hear me, sir?” a voice in my head asked. I jumped, as this had severely aggravated my headache. “Sir?” the voice asked again. It was familiar, but I could not imagine where I had heard it.
“Sir! It is vitally important that you say if you can hear me or not!” the voice practically shouted. My eyes widened. It was the voice of one of the creatures in the dreams I’d had recently.
“Yes, I can hear you.” I said, in barely more than a whisper. I saw Delpho relax a little at this, and then turn to his sister.
“See, I told you we’d done it.” the voice said in my head. I then realised what had happened. My Lucario were somehow communicating with me without words.
“Well done brother, I just knew we would be able to eventually!” a second, more feminine voice now joined in. I recognised this voice as the other creature from my dreams.
“Wait a minute!” I suddenly burst out, making them both jump. “What exactly just happened? I black out, have a crazy dream, wake up and can now understand you two?”
My Lucario looked at each other again, before turning back to me. “My apologies sir, I can appreciate that this is slightly distressing.” the first voice, which I could now identify as Delpho, echoed inside my head. “We have suspected that you were sensitive for some time now, but we did not think that you would reach this level so quickly.”
“Hold on, sensitive? Sensitive to what, exactly?” I asked, still not fully understanding them.
“To Aura.” came the clear, female voice that I took to be Delphi. “Only a few select species and individuals can sense, manipulate and harness its power.” I was starting to get confused again.
“Aura? Isn’t that some form of energy? I’ve seen you use it for attacks, like Aura Sphere, and Bone Rush.” I asked of them.
“Aura is not simply ‘energy’. A more appropriate term would be…Life-force. Everything releases Aura, even rocks and machinery. Living things have a store of it inside themselves. Some creatures have a greater store of Aura, and this makes them more sensitive to it. Our species, Lucario and Riolu, are examples of this. And so are you.” Delpho explained.
“Me?” I asked, incredulous. “Why me? I’ve never heard of humans being able to do this.”
“There are very few humans capable of sensing Aura.” Delphi ‘said’. “In the past there were more, but their number has declined in recent years. You have an unnaturally large Aura for a modern human, master.”
Delpho ‘spoke’ next, “You mentioned a ‘crazy dream’, sir. Would you care to enlighten us to it?”
I told them about my dreams, falling through a void, the blue shapes that I now related to them. They seemed surprised at this.
“It seems, sir, that you were sensing our Aura while you were asleep.” Delpho ‘said’.
“So that blue stuff, that was your Aura?” I asked. They nodded. “Oh great. Why do I get the feeling my life just got a lot more complicated?”
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A few months later, I was walking around one of the mountains in the Southern Coronet range. I stopped for a moment, and closed my eyes. I focused, and felt my hair stand on end, being blown backward, despite the wind blowing the other way…
I could see silver streaks in the air, blowing past me. I was on the right track. I went to move, but then saw a blue flash a few dozen metres away, around the bulk of the peak.
“I can see you Delpho!” I shouted over the wind. I saw the blue shape stop, before moving up, coming toward me. I opened my eyes and saw my male Lucario crest the ridge of the mountain, and then jump down to me.
“Most impressive master, you were able to sense me a lot further away than before.” He ‘said’, praising the development of my Aura abilities. He and Delphi had trained me to sense their Aura, as well as the rest of it. When I closed my eyes, and reached out with my mind, I could see them, as bright blue shapes. My other Pokémon had a slightly less bright, but still noticeable, blue glow to them. The only exception was Gengar who, being a ghost-type, had no ‘life-force’ and therefore very little Aura. The surface of land, and other inanimate objects, was also very faint, but still noticeable. I could see through solid objects, as bacteria and other micro-organisms on their surface exuded the majority of their Aura.
There was only one niggle that I had with being able to sense Aura, which I kept explaining to the two who would understand. “Delpho, I’ve told you! You don’t have to call me ‘Sir’, or ‘Master’ all the time, ‘Dave’ is just fine!”
But neither my Lucario could understand this concept. They thought that they were my servants, not, as I kept trying to tell them, partners and friends.
I had also been taught to focus part of my Aura, and also part of the Aura surrounding me, into a ball in my hands. This was very similar to the Aura Sphere attack that Delphi used. However, I was told that this was only to be used for defence, never to attack.
One more thing that my Lucario had told me was that Aura could help tell me where I was meant to go next. While I was training the last few months, I felt like it was time to re-challenge the Sinnoh League. Since I nearly won it last time, the new strength of my Pokémon and myself should be enough to win this time. So I had decided to do the same as when I re-challenged the Indigo League: work round all the gyms in the region, staying and training for a few weeks in each, before entering the Sinnoh Conference, which was still a year away.
The problem was that, being on the Coronet range, I had a choice of three or four gyms to train in. Where to start? Fortunately, Delphi and Delpho taught me to sense the Aura, and develop instincts based on it. If I tried sensing Aura, I could see silver streaks being blown by an invisible wind. This was where the Aura was telling me to go. Right now it was taking me south.
I rounded the next mountain, closing my eyes again. The wind my Aura instincts were picking up had changed direction, it was now blowing to my left, the southeast. I opened my eyes and looked down at where it had been blowing. There was a city down there, the third city I had visited in my first journey through Sinnoh, and where I had earned my first badge in the region. Oreburgh City.
This was fine, I had acquired a few new rock-type Pokémon recently, as well as some that were weak to rock-type attacks. Plus it would be good to see Roark again, he and I had got on well when I was in town last time.
Smiling, Delphi, Delpho and I headed down the mountainside, toward the city. At least I knew that the next few months would be uneventful…
Unfortunately, as uneventful = boring.
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'Occult-types' is my nickname for collective Ghost, Psychic and Dark-type Pokémon. 'Lucario' backward is oiracul, a corruption of oracle, and there was a famous oracle at Delphi in Greece, hence the nicknames.
Well, that's it. All of the backstory is now done, and I hope you all liked it, especially the Aura aspect of it. Now the proper story can begin. If you want to see what happens with this storyline, you'll have to check out my other story, 'Speculum Aura'. The first chapter should be up soon, so stay tuned!
Dave
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Post by LuciferIX on Apr 9, 2008 6:05:50 GMT 12
Okay, really the only problem that I have is for a moment it was getting a little close to "Project Arceus." I understand that there are differences but just be careful with that. We had a problem like that a while back, and while the issue has been settled we don't need another one coming up.
I figured that you would have a Special and Physical sweeper type out of the two Lucario. Pretty much the entire chapter was based with the growth of your own Aura and a little bit of the Lucario training. While it was done well, there really isn't too much to comment on.
But the future looks promising. After barely missing each other several times, the three old friends will have a very good chance of joining together again. Even if it won't be on the best of terms. And something tells me that Alan is going to get another surprise when he battles you again.
Nice chapter, although the prequel leaves a few questions to be answered. Well keep the updates coming!
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Post by DaveTheFishandChipsGuy on Apr 9, 2008 12:02:49 GMT 12
Yeah, I don't think I would have thought of the Aura storyline if I hadn't read 'Project Arceus'. But I did clear it with James, and I've tried my best to make it my own as much as possible. The Lucario are based on my game Pokemon. Lucario have great stats in Attack and SpAck, so if you send one out, people crap themselves cos they don't know what's gonna happen. Most of Dave's Pokemon are based on my own. Alan won't be the only one in for a shock if they have a battle, remember, he's a League champion as well now, and Laura's on her way to becoming a Top Co-ordinator. Anyway, I said I'd thought of teams for all three of them in each region, so here they are. An interesting note is that Laura captured most of her Pokemon for their cuteness, only for them to evolve and that cutenss to disappear. Ah, Sod's Law ;D Dave, Kanto: Out of these, only Gengar is on Dave's active team. The rest spend their time at Prof. Oak's ranch. Johto: Houndoom and Ampharos are still on Dave's team out of these Pokemon. Hoenn: Only Flygon still serves on Dave's team. The rest are relaxing at Oak's lab. Sinnoh: Torterra, Luxray and Garchomp still battle with Dave, the other three are resting at Oak's. Other: These Pokemon were captured and trained by Dave after the Sinnoh League, during his training in the wilderness. They are all on Dave's active team from time to time. (Delphi) (Delpho) Alan, Kanto: Johto: Alan's Mamoswine was orignally a Piloswine in Johto, but has since evolved. Hoenn: Sinnoh: It is unknown which Pokemon Alan keeps on his teams, as he tends to switch them around. Laura, Kanto: Johto: Laura's Mismagius was originally a Misdreavus in Johto, but has since evolved. Hoenn: Again, Laura's Roserade was originally a Roselia in Hoenn, but has since evolved. Sinnoh: It is unknown which Pokemon Laura keeps on her teams, as she tends to switch them around. Whew! That took so long to do! Anyway now you have a better idea of what Pokemon each character has. And so, until the sequel/proper story, Adieu...! Dave
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