Hi Guys! First things first, a big thank you to Azrael vek Chaosblood for sending his OC and sorry to the readers for an unexplained absence of 2 months. I had a fight with some friends which got physical, the cause is not relevant to the viewers, after that incident anytime I picked up my laptop for writing, I would be a nervous wreck. Anywhoo. Consider this a New Year's gift to you guys-the readers. (If I ever get it done. Hehe)

This chapter will be written in 3rd person because I went online and saw a that 3rd person stories, when written correctly, are a ton of fun to read and I as a writer want my readers to fully experience my story. I just happen to think that 3rd person stories have a better depth in than 1st person ones. Please tell me what you thought about my writing and whether you liked it or not.

So, without further ado, one more thing fuck you Matthew for writing on my account without my permission. Now I'm done. Enjoy.

The day began like any other, people bustling about the city streets. Some going to work, others going to the market. The toddlers were playing with their parents Pokémon and each other in the park, while the slightly older ones were going to school. The crisp and chilly morning helped some cafés make extra profit on cappuccinos and waffles. Everyone was having a good time but not everyone was the black haired teen trying to block out the noise of the hotel's alarm clock.

"Ugh! Why! For the love of Arceus, Why can't I ever seem to wake up to cute kitten's mewling instead of a damn war siren going off every morning beside my head?!" Zayden felt around for the alarm clock whilst braving the sonic pulses. Upon grabbing it he haphazardly threw it in a random direction hard enough to stop its annoying ring.

"Oh man, I hope they've got a mint flavoured toothpaste." He stretched his 6 ft. frame and groggily stumbled into the bathroom failing to notice the hole opposite the bathroom door which provided a clean view through the next room, it was an alarmingly alarm shaped hole.

Meanwhile down the corridor, another person was facing a similar situation of early morning drowsiness. "Ashy honey?" A sweet voice resounded from the walk in closet. "Hmm?"

"You look really cute when you absent mindedly drool but we have to get going to celadon city soon and you are still not dressed yet."

"All right Cyn" Ash spoke as he willed himself to get up. He was almost at the bathroom's door but turned round for one last peek at the beautiful seductress in white, wanting nothing more than to return and be inside her and to feel her warmth where it mattered.

"Another time my darling, another time." Ash muttered under his breath before turning his back on the suite's king sized bed to get ready.

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"Hi Zay-Zay! How is my favourite travelling companion today?!" Zayden's ears were assaulted as soon as he exited his room dressed in an exact copy of his hooded guardian attire by none other than the perky Unovan champion.

"Don't call me that."

"Call you what Z-man?" Rosa bit her lower lip to keep from laughing. Oh how she loved to tease her targets to death before actually being authorised to terminate them.

She had gotten the intel from her superior that Zayden was an operative of the enemy and that she was to extract whatever information he had until the legion classified him as unimportant and authorised her to dispatch him.

"Don't talk to me like we are buddies. We are little more than acquaintances and I have no plan of becoming your friend." Zayden spoke without emotion stopping to press a button to call the elevator.

"If you don't mind Mr. Snappy pants, I just wanted to know where you are going."

"My pants are more snappier than you can imagine. So stay away."

Rosa suddenly got a very creative idea of how to torture her victim and initiated the first stage by roughly pushing Zayden's body, pinning him to the wall beside the elevator doors and pressing her body onto him.

Zayden was startled as he was not expecting her to assault him, he was about to counterattack but was immobilized with wide eyes as his assaulter sucked on his neck before moving her rosy lips towards his ears and whispered.

"Ooh Zayden, I am going to find out how snappy those pants can get and when I do, you better be a nice boy or else..."

She nipped at his jawline and entered the elevator which had arrived a minute ago and pushed the button assigned to the lobby leaving a shaking teen in her wake.

"Hi Rosa, have you seen Zayden?" Ash asked Rosa as he spotted her exiting the elevator.

"Hi Ash, Cynthia, the last I saw him he was shaking like a leaf. He looked like he was kissed by winter herself." Rosa snickered to herself after she passed the confused duo.

"Aaaanyway, lets go to the restaurant cynth. I'm starving."

"Alright, hey I think there is a show going on. We should see it before it ends." Cynthia excitedly pointed out.

"Sure, lets go."

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"Paul, you've got to go to the celadon mansion before your friends." A silhouetted man spoke to the elite on his X transceiver. Laughing a bit at the end of the sentence.

"You know very well that they aren't my friends, S. So, better stop mocking me or else..."

"Or else what boy?!" The man roared through the stereo speaker.

"Don't forget who you work for and don't you even think of threatening me again, got that?! Because if you do...you are going to be in a world of pain."

Paul was shaken at the sudden outburst of his commander. He mentally berated himself for forgetting who he was talking to. He knew that his commander's threats weren't to be taken lightly.

"You will go to the mansion and you will use your pathetic and weak Pokémon to take down a threat to the very foundation of our organisation. Got it...wimp?!" The man's voice was silent but Paul knew it was laced with venom from hell itself.

"Y-Yes s-sir. I'll depart right away." Paul saluted the man before closing his X transceiver. He hated being called a wimp but he couldn't do anything about his situation, he was told that many horrible things awaited his loved ones if he didn't do exactly as he was ordered.

He locked his room and made his way to the elevators, he stood still as the elevator made its way up. "Please excuse my asking." A voice called out behind him, he turned around to face a cute girl supposedly a cleaning lady but it seemed that her uniform was a bit small for her.

"While I was cleaning your room yesterday, I saw this thing on your desk. Forgive my curiosity but it looks like a holographic device and it is illegal in the Kanto region to own one." She continued talking to him as she produced a purple cube with circles one each side.

Paul knew that to complete his mission at Celadon Mansion, he needed the object in the woman's hand.

"So, I'll need 50000 Poke-Dollars by the end of my shift or this little guy is going to take a trip to the police station. Ok?" The girl smirked. Clearly she was as dumb as she dressed.

Paul activated a pea sized EMP emitter which was hidden in his pant's pocket which caused the camera's on the entire floor to short out. The device gave a tiny vibration after which Paul delivered a left handed jab at the girl's stomach and a right handed uppercut to her chin, disorientating her. She pulled out a small pocket knife and held it threateningly at her assailant. He just smiled as he pulled out a flat marker rom his jacket, the only difference between his marker and a regular marker was a 5 inch long but only a centimetre wide retractable blade emerging from the tip.

He moved fluidly and struck with the laser precision he had been taught to have in all his years of training. The elevator dinged as it arrived at the floor but remained empty as its would be passenger took the emergency stairs down and flew off towards Celadon City on his Pokémon.

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"Monsieur et Mademoiselles. We have a special treat or should we say three treats for you today! From the distant Unova region, I am proud to present, living gods of cooking, the idols of worship for aspiring and master chefs alike! Please give a tres supreme round of applause for Chilli, Cress and Cilan! The terrific trio of cooking!"

The manager announced before the huge curtains pulled apart leading to an even bigger stage on which three men of varying hair and eye colour were standing.

"Good morning Vermillion city!" Chilli greeted to the applauding crowd, only for the applause to strengthen.

Chilli looked taken aback by the dramatic increase in the enthusiasm of their audience. He subtly nudged his brother Cilan to continue their speech.

"Oh wow! We certainly weren't expecting such a hot welcome you guys!" Cilan shouted to the riled up crowd. "Today my brothers and I are going to conduct the connoisseur battles event of our tour de Kanto in this very restaurant!"

"On our tour of the Kanto region, we have shortlisted a single name from thousands of applicants and he or her is going to have the privilege of being the opponent against whom we three are going to be battling in a triple battle.

Cilan failed to notice the blonde champion and her slightly shorter raven haired boyfriend at the far end of the restaurant trying to maintain a low profile and talk.

"Cynth ain't it going to be awesome if any of our names come up?!" Ash whispered to the calm and collected Cynthia.

"Only if they come up at all, right love?" She hid her smirk behind her hair, her lover's childish antics, one of the many attributes that made him exceptional to her.

Cress elongated the pause to make sure all ears were on his words. "The name is..."

"Hold on now boys!" The manager jovially yelled before getting onstage, his gaze directed at a young couple at the far end.

"We used to think that we couldn't do anything more for you, our audience when lo and behold, the hottest topic of the far away Sinnoh region lands right here."

"So help me to welcome Ms. Cynthia Shirona and Mr. Ash Ketchum. The best battlers of Sinnoh." There was a prolonged silence in the whole hall but just as Cynthia showed a small sign of movement, all hell broke loose.

The next few minutes were spent by the security as forming a small circle around Ash and Cynthia, acting as a barrier between the fans and the celebrities. Cilan knew he had to act soon because some of the questions that were being pitched their way were quite similar to the questions that were asked at their press conference a few years back.

He still recalled the absolutely absurd questions asked by the reporters present which led to Cynthia seeing red and hurting the ridiculous reporter. The lesson learned there by all the other reporters was that never ask extremely personal questions to a person that kept a firearm by their sides at all times.

He shuddered at the memory of the gunshot, the screams and the lawsuit that followed. Drawn back to reality by the steadily rising volume of the fans, he knew he had act quickly.

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His breathing was ragged and harsh, his mind fuzzy over the events that had taken place not moments ago, his head desperately trying to make heads or tails of the situation, he was feeling utterly helpless but he pushed on against all odds to arrive at his destination at the right time.

"Almost there! Hi, I'm looking for the stage coordinator its a matter regarding his guests." Zayden explained to the bouncer at the door leading to the backstage.

"Hey man this is a special event, you must have a backstage pass to enter. A large burly man, no doubt the security in charge of the place stared angrily at the teen but was surprised to see the teen glaring in return.

"Ok look I didn't want to do this right now but let me through or else!" Zayden shouted in the guard's face, knowing he had to reach Ash fast and protect him from any possible attacker in the vicinity.

"Or else what punk?!" The aggravated man shouted as he threw a pulled back the piece of meat he called a hand to slug the boy standing before him. Zayden moved counter clockwise to appear behind the man, evading the right roundhouse. He wrapped his arms around the guard's torso and used hi s circular momentum to throw the 120 kilogram man into the wooden support bar 8 feet from their feud, cracking it badly.

"Zayden Ryujin, fighting evil by discus throwing his opponents into wooden objects!" Zayden sarcastically remarked at his technique before running through the entry checkpoint and beginning his search for the celebrities.

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Zayden sprinted past a room with a large logo of the restaurant printed on the door, pausing for a second before backtracking to the door. "Stage Manager, yeah might as well ask him." He reasoned with himself while turning the handle and entering inside.

"Yes-Yes, there have been exposed. Ok-Yes master bye." A short, stout and partially bald man with a permanent scowl on his face kept the landline on his desk, completely oblivious to the angry intruder in his room.

"Who the fuck are you?!" The man exclaimed, clearly startled. "I'm your despair." Zayden growled in his Arceus-like voice after kicking the man off his chair.

"What's going on here?! How did they get to know that Ash and Cynthia were going to be here?!" He shouted at the now cowering manager that was trying to sneakily escape, through the very door that Zayden entered.

"I-I j-just th-thought it would b-bring prof-fit to u-us." The midget wailed.

"L-let m-me go p-please."

"No." Zayden spoke as he slammed the man onto the floor and delivered a hard jab at his head, knocking him out instantly.

"Right this way fellows, here we are."

"Are you sure we'll be safe here Cilan?" A familiar echoed through the corridor. Zayden walked out the manager's room to see Ash being ushered into another room not unlike the room he had been in.

"Hey guys, you alright?!" Zayden asked the duo that he had been searching for in a dressing room.

"Yeah, we're ok thanks to Cilan here." Ash spoke while pointing to the thin, green haired guy who was pouring out tea.

"Hi, my name is Cilan Dent and I'm Ash's old friend." The weird looking person held out his hand. "I'm Zayden, pleasure to meet you Clan."

"Um..its Cilan." The connoisseur tried to correct his guest only to be subject to Zayden's cold shoulder.

"We need to get out of here the press is starting to arrive." Chilli informed the occupants of the dressing room. "He is right, can you access the roof from here?" Ash asked Cilan.

"Yes, but why do yo...oh." Cilan started to ask but quickly caught on. "Come on, I'll message Rosa and Paul. They can handle themselves just fine." Cynthia, now returning to her calm and collected state mentioned.

"Alright fellas, time to fly." Cilan enthusiastically remarked as the group reached the roof. "Who told you to come with us huh?!" Zayden advanced at the green haired connoisseur.

"Its ok Zayden, Cilan is a trustworthy guy he is coming with us." Ash spoke while taking his friend's side.

"As long as he doesn't slow us down." Zayden spat. "Don't forget that you joined us due to an absolutely ridiculous reason. Not to mention that Cilan has been a friend of Ash's for more than 6 years, so if you disagree with the notion of Cilan joining us then you are free to leave." Cynthia fumed.

"..." Zayden didn't face Cynthia for the remainder of the trip nor did he fly close to the group, instructing Verity to keep a distance of 1500 meters at all times for more than one reason.

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"Here we are, Celadon City. Home of the world renowned Celadon dept. store and it also has a game cor-Hey! Watch where you are going?!" Cynthia shouted after a man who appeared to be running away from some policemen.

"Hey someone catch that thief!" The deputy shouted to the people ahead which happened to be Ash and his friends. "Alright, guys lets go!" Ash yelled, already chasing after the man.

"Hey Ash wait up!" Cynthia yelled after him knowing that even though he had a head start, she was faster than him. Cilan shrugged his shoulders at Zayden before running to catch up with his headstrong friend. Zayden said nothing as he started walking towards the Pokémon centre. Cynthia was confused as to their newest companion's odd behaviour and decided to follow him instead.

"Where could he be?" Cynthia asked herself after she had lost sight of the hooded guardian. Her grey eyes scanned the crowd with the precision of a Braviary but couldn't find him at all. She kept walking, passing street after street until she caught a glimpse of the navy blue overcoat Zayden usually wore, its wearer entering a narrow passageway leading to a rusty door behind the Silph Co. building, she crouched in the shadows and monitored the movements of the man who was undoubtedly Zayden, his hooded overcoat and brown jeans giving his identity away.

She stared intently to see his movements but froze as soon as she saw a large sheathed sword materialise at his side out of thin air, she was dumbstruck by the pitch-black and glass like covering on the sheath alone. It seemed to suck all the light inside its never ending darkness but at the same time she felt a familiar warmth course through her body, a warmth she hadn't felt in a long time. A warmth of safety and serenity that she had experienced only at her grandmother's cottage in Celestic Village back in Sinnoh.

She was so overwhelmed by the wave of sensations washing over her that she did not notice the rest of the heavenly armour appearing one by one and placing itself onto Zayden's body.

A pitch black chest plate emerged out of the shadows and placed itself onto Zayden's chest, an equally coloured cape grew out of the base of his hood lengthening to reach his knees, her view was blocked by the cape so she could not see his sneakers transform into knee high silver armoured boots or the coat surrounding his fore arm also transform to reveal two gauntlets with a capital 'M' etched on them.

Her trance-like state was broken when he stepped forwards and placed his finger on the keyhole of the door. Suddenly his entire body cape and all, was engulfed in a bright light leaving a behind a cloud of mist. The mist then proceeded to move like air through the keyhole and disappeared beyond the opaque door.

"Damn that guy can run!" Ash panted as he chased the burglar through the city and had lost sight of him in the passage beside the Pokémon centre. "Ash! Pl-please wait up!" Cilan huffed as he finally caught up to his friend and promptly proceeded to sit down on the grass to catch his breath.

"Where could he have gone Cilan and how in the world does he move that fast?!" Ash thundered and kicked the grass beneath his feet. The thief had given Ash the slip when they had entered the trees beside the centre and that had angered Ash very much.

Ash wasn't known to lose control of his emotions in a heartbeat and he certainly didn't rant if he did, but since he had matured after Kalos and had finally begun to understand the felling of his travelling companions he knew deep down that they became tired of his constant loses.

He had felt the need to prove to all those who knew him that he could win, that he could exceed their expectations by miles and that he could be the best. Every time he couldn't complete a task that he was assigned he felt like he had failed them.

"Charizard Come out." Ash sullenly commanded his Pokéball and told his faithful friend to do an aerial sweep of the area in a final ditch effort. His most powerful Pokémon accepted the order and flew off without another sound.

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FLASHBACK (FLIGHT TO CELADON CITY)

"Good afternoon Mew, nice to hear your voice." Zayden greeted the face of the pink feline on his Xtransceiver.

"Enough of the chitchat guardian, I am here to inform you that almost all of the legends have been captured or worse." Mew told Zayden her face betraying her facade of the toughest legend, her inner feelings finally getting the best of her. A single tear made its way from her closed eyes to her chin.

"Xerneas, Darkrai and Zekrom are now confirmed prisoners of the Legion. At the time only me, Rayquasa, Arceus and the newest legend Zygarde remain. Intel suggests that it usually takes 2 weeks to beat a fully powered legend physically but only 4 days to break them mentally. I have upgraded also your armour using the last of my energy." Mew informed the wide eyed teen, she herself struggling mightily to keep her voice from cracking.

"I have forwarded the locations to your X transceiver, please I beg you save whom you can and if you can't...end them...of their misery. The hall of origin has fallen, we have lost control of Earth."

Well there it is, the 7th chapter. Thanks for not giving up on the story and waiting for me. Again, I will not leave the story until it is concluded. Happy New Year.

Bye.