Chapter 18: Blackened.

Time to bring the war to an end, with the next chapter having a special event happening.

Hilda was on the back of her dark/flying type pokemon, hoping that everything was going to be fine, wondering what this dreadful feeling was, she was thinking about the final battle Ash was fighting in and wondering whether both her brother and Ash were going to make it out alive, she heard the rumblings of the war in the distance, the trees that had fallen over and the destruction that had occurred from the war that had been going on for far too long, she looked around wondering what to do next, she could sense that there was something wrong be she still couldn't make sense of it, 'why is it that he needs to help solve everyone's problems?' Hilda thought while her uneasy sensation continued to plague her mind.

Cynthia looked over to Hilda who was keeping her eyes on the vulture like pokemon, 'she is having a serious problem with what is happening, first her family and now this war,' Cynthina wondered as her powerful dragon continued to fly towards the warzone, "Hilda, we're almost there!" Cynthia yelled out as a powerful explosion sent a massive shockwave towards the women, Cynthia and Hilda held on tightly as the two pokemon tried to maintain an even flying level, "Garchomp, stay steady," Cynthia hurriedly instructed her pokemon

"Mandibuzz, don't stop flying, we need to save Ash and to see if my Brother is okay," Hilda declared with a determined expression. In that moment a dark shadow passed the woman's head zooming towards the battle, "what was that?" Hilda asked while turning her attention to Cynthia who was equally perplexed like Hilda.

"No idea Hilda, but whatever it is, it's making its way to the battlefield," Cynthia told the younger trainer with an uncertain expression. The two ladies flew towards the battle to find Ash being pushed against a destroyed building's wall by an unknown force, "Ash!" Hilda yelled out in horror to see the trainer writhing in pain.

"What are you doing here, stay back," Ash replied while being lifted off the ground.

Suddenly a powerful dark wave of energy crashed into the mighty psychic type pokemon, "what was that?" Giovanni hissed in anger as the pokemon under his control easily got back to its feet and turned to a black pokemon with an hourglass figure, the rockets looked over to see the dark figure standing on top of a building.

'Arceus sent me here to finish this war,' the pokemon stated with a piercing gaze at the Rocket and Plasma members, 'I Darkrai, will end this war,' the powerful pokemon decreed while leaping off the building and unleashing a powerful ghostly sphere at the psychic type pokemon.

Ash got back to his feet after recovering from the torment of the psychic pokemon, he looked over his shoulder to see Hilda tending to him, "Hilda, why did you come here?" Ash asked tiredly.

"I felt like something was wrong, so I needed to come and find out what was going on," Hilda replied while looking up to see two of Ash's friends commanding Hilbert's legendary pokemon, "hey wait a second, those four pokemon belong to my brother," Hilda said with shock while trying to search for her brother, Ash dropped his head in shame thinking about what had happened, "Ash, where is my brother?" Hilda asked the saddened trainer before she completely realized what had just happened, she sat on the ground and started to cry again this time un controllably, "no I can't not my brother," Hilda muttered while looking around to finally find Hilbert's lifeless body on the ground, "Brother!" Hilda screamed out , she went limp after seeing her older brother on the ground not moving from her cries, she ran up to him to see if he was alive, "HIbert wake up brother," Hikda called out while pushing him, but there was no reply, he remained in a unresponsive state, "first mom and dad now you Hilbert," Hilda cried while Ash placed his hand on her shoulder, "why is my family gone? Why?!" Hilda cried out loud.

"Hilda, I am sorry I couldn't save our brother," Ash stated with regret while looking at his best friend, 'Hilbert, I will make sure your sister is well looked after,' Ash resolved with a serious expression, he looked up to see the powerful psychic pokemon approaching him before being pushed away by the dark type legendary pokemon, "no way, when did Darkrai get here?" Ash asked himself in shock.

'I came here due to the assistance of Arceus, initially Arceus wanted me to destroy anyone involved in this pointless battle, but I managed to talk it around by imprisoning the two leaders in different realms,' Darkrai explained while hearing the roars of two powerful pokemon coming from a distance away.

"You mean Dialga and Palkia?" Ash asked in amazement, the trainer stood up and watched the pitch black pokemon sending a wave of dark energy at the controlled genetic pokemon, it was then another loud roar echoed through the skies, Ash looked up to see two massive portals appearing in the sky, "oh man they are here," Ash commented while seeing a large blue, four legged pokemon jumping towards the battle field and a bipedal white pokemon flying towards the battle with the pokemon of time.

"I have never seen these pokemon before," Hilda commented in awe, she kept her attention on the two pokemon as it stood between the dragons of ideals and truth, "amazing, they are on our side," Hilda commented with a smile.

"They aren't here to fight for us, they are here to imprison Giovanni and Ghetsis, to prevent them from starting another war," Ash replied with a confident grin. the two powerful pokemon glared at the boundary pokemon ready to begin their battle, Palkia suddenly flew off towards Mewtwo and Giovanni while Dialga stayed back to battle Kyurem, Ash recalled his dragon with N following suit, "Hilda let's get out here now, this battle could get really dangerous," Ash yelled out to a hesitant Hilda, Ash quickly grabbed for the brunette's hand and pulled her away from the battle that was about to take place.

Hilda looked back to see the two legendary pokemon clashing sending a powerful shockwave in every direction, it seemed like time had slowed down after the collision, "what, did time just slow down?" Hilda asked with great surprise feeling like everything around her slowed down, "Ash tell me what's going on?" Hilda asked while forcing her hand free from her loves grasp.

"Dialga, the large blue pokemon has the ability to manipulate time, slow it down or make it go faster, Palkia has the ability to manipulate space," Ash replied while retaking the woman's hand and running away from the battle. After reaching a safe distance Ash turned around to see Kyurem falling to the ground unable to battle, then turned his attention to Darkrai who was battling the Kami Trio with the help of the four swords of Justice.

Hilda began to wonder why legendries of other regions were helping them in this situation, she had never seen them before and noticed that the powerful pokemon had begun to gain the upper hand in the battle forcing the enemies to surrender and give up, but the bosses continued to fight even when it seemed hopeless for them, "these pokemon are powerful," Hilda commented in awe at the display the she was seeing.

"Well these pokemon are from the Sinnoh Region, how and when they got here is a mystery even to me," Ash told the woman as she watched the dragon of time preparing to trap Ghetsis in a temporal prison, "I guess this is it," Ash stated while watching Ghetsis disappearing from sight, the dragon roared as it closed the portal of time from the rest of the world, Ash quickly looked over to where Mewtwo was fighting Palkia and the raging battle between them.

"I never knew that such powerful pokemon could manipulate such things as space and time," Hilda said while gasping at the power of the legendary pokemon that were fighting against one another.

Ash smiled knowing that Hilda was learning new things about the other region's pokemon, "you know, each region has many different pokemon, our region is only home to a small number of pokemon, there are other regions that are home to many other species," Ash told the woman with pride.

"No I refuse to give up, this world belongs to me," Giovanni declared angrily as he watched his psychic pokemon fall in battle, the powerful white and pink dragon formed a spatial prison to trap the Rocket leader in, the leader tried to run away from the prison but was caught in a vortex that pulled him into the prison, "NO!" Giovanni yelled out while the prison seeled him in forever.

"That was quick," Ash said smoothly as he started to celebrate the victory that had been achieved, but the winds of battle still continued, the dark type pokemon was still fighting off the Kami trio with all its might, the dragons of space and time left the battlefield to keep an eye on the prisoners that had been taken from the battle, "well it seems like they are heading back to their dimension," Ash said with a smirk, the two watched the battle between the pitch black pokemon and the Kami trio coming to an end.

"I can't believe this, our leader is gone," the leader of the Shadow Triad said in shock, he collapsed knowing that the war was over and that neither side had achieved victory, "we were assured victory, yet it seems like pokemon from different regions interfered," he said while looking up to see Dawn and May teaming up against them with a confident smile from each one.

"You know, you start a pointless war, how ironic," Dawn started while May stood next to her.

"That neither Team Rocket or Team Plasma win this war, too bad you never saw it coming too," May shrugged her shoulders while the swords of justice finished off the two flying type pokemon in the battle. The dark type pokemon got ready to end this war with one mighty Dark Pulse, "this war is over!" May yelled out confidently as Dawn and the rest of the friends agreed.

"For peace in this world," Dawn replied with a confident smirk.

Ash placed his hand on Hilda's left shoulder, "come on Hilda, the war is over, now it's time for us to help with the recovery," Ash assured the woman with a frown, he knelt down to see Hilbert's lifeless body on the ground, 'Hilbert, I will realize that goal of yours Hilda will be my wife, I will marry her as soon as possible, rest in peace old friend,' Ash thought while taking Hilda's left hand.

As the rest of the enemies surrendered, Ash and Hilda stood up, they looked around as the police force of the region started arresting members of the respective armies, "it seems like everyone played their part in bringing an end to this war, even my brother," Hilda commented, she looked back at her brother and started to cry, "Ash, I want Hilbert buried in Nuvema Town," Hilda requested as the legendary pokemon flew off towards the regions.

A dark figure stood in front of the two, "Darkrai, thank you for the help," Ash told the pitch-black pokemon.

'Peace is back, make sure you keep this peace,' Darkrai requested before taking off towards its home region.

Every one of Ash's friends approached the couple with pride, the war was over and the chance of heading back to their home region was now a very real possibility, "everyone, I have an announcement," Ash declared while turning around to see his friends with pride.

N approached the trainer while placing his hand on his shoulder, "Ash, Hilda, you have this new destiny about you, as the new royal family of this region," N stated with a smile as he called out his deep black pokemon, "I will be doing something I have never done before, become a pokemon trainer and make bonds with my own pokemon," N stated while smiling at his friends, 'Hilbert, please rest in peace,' N requested before flying off into the distance with tears streaming down his face.

Ash and Hilda nodded, Ash then turned his attention to his friends, "before you leave this region, I want you guys to stay here and witness a special event," Ash told his friends while taking Hilda's hand, "I am going to marry Hilda in just over a week, you're all invited," Ash declared while his friends accepted the invitation. "But first, Hilda and I have something we need to do," Ash stated while walking to his fallen friend, he picked him up and called out for his legendary pokemon.

"Ash, please win the Unova League," Dawn requested with a confident smirk.

"I am afraid I am going to win the Unova league," Hilda replied with a smirk.

Ash and Hilda looked at one another before nodding, "well it doesn't matter which one of us wins," Ash replied with a smile, he looked back and stared at the devastation, 'well, I think we both have two badges to get, we will put our badges on hold after finishing the funeral of your brother," Ash commented while climbing onto his legendary pokemon.

Hilda nodded and extended her hand out to Ash who grabbed it and helped her up, " yes Ash, let's let my brother rest in peace," Hilda requested as the legendary pokemon flew off towards the starting point of their journey.

(5 days later)

Ash and Hilda were standing in front of the grave of Hilbert, the weather was warming up, the gentle breeze allowed for the brunette's hair to move around, Ash knelt down and placed his fist gently on the head stone, "I will look after Hilda, no matter what, the war is over so please rest in peace brother," Ash whispered while smiling proudly at his brave friends grave. Hilda placed her left hand on his right shoulder, the trainer grabbed the brunette's hand and squeezed her hand.

The trainer got to his feet while holding Hilda's hand, they looked into each other's eyes and smiled proudly, it was almost time for the major event and they knew that Hilbert would be happy to see them finally getting married, "Ash, I am not sure about this, sure my brother would be happy that we are going to tie the knot," Hilda commented with a sigh, she continued to hold Ash's hand. Eventually after a while Hilda turned around to start walking away from the cemetery, "come on Ash, we have some work we need to do," Hilda told her soon to be husband.

Ash nodded, but his attention was soon fixed back towards the grave, "Hilbert, it is my turn to keep Hilda safe, from now on it will be me that stays with your sister from this day forward I will stay by her side," Ash stated with a smile, he turned around to start walking towards the brunette, he looked over his shoulder and smile, "if I fail you can haunt me forever," Ash commented with a cheeky grin.

Ash walked up to the brunette, they took one last look at the grave of Hilbert and nodded, "come on Ash, I have an appointment with the doctors," Hilda remarked happily as she walked away with Ash by her side.

"Yeah, I can't wait to see what is going happening, I am also excited about this whole thing," Ash replied while walking Hilda to the doctors.

(Two Hours later)

Ash was sitting in the waiting room, with Hilda talking to the doctor, Ash grew impatient and grabbed the remote control, his Pikachu slept on the seat next to him, "you know buddy, I am nervous as hell, I can't even hold the TV remote properly," Ash confessed while spotting the video phone at the far end of the hall, "you know, I should be ringing up my mother," Ash commented with a smile. The trainer got up and walked over to the phone, he picked up the receiver and dialled in the numbers.

Ash waited for his mother to pick up the phone, after the short wait his mother appeared on the phone, "Ash, my son, how are things going?" Delia asked her son with a positive smile.

"Well mom, do you remember Hilda?" Ash asked the brunette.

"Yeah, I remember her; she is the sweet little girl who always helped me out, I felt a little guilty leaving when she was always trying to give you and Hilbert a good name," Delia explained in reply, she spotted her son who was visibly upset with the mention of Hilbert's name, "did something happen Ash?" Delia asked with sadness.

"Yes mom, Hilbert was killed in battle, and there is something else," Ash replied with a frown.

"Oh Hilbert was such a nice boy, too bad we had to separate you both because of the trouble you two got into," Delia giggled as she reminisced on the times that she was having to deal with the town's folks berating her son and Hilbert, "you two were as close as brothers," Delia commented with pride, "also you said there was something else," Delia enquired before hearing the voice of the Brunette in the background, "who is that?" Delia asked before spotting the woman approaching the video phone.

"Hey Miss Ketchum, you might not remember me, but I am Hilda," the woman reintroduced herself to Ash's mother.

"Wow, Hilda, you have certainly grown into a beautiful young woman," Delia replied before noticing a bulge on Hilda, "is this the something else?" Delia asked in shock.

"Yep, I am having twins," Hilda noted with great pride.

Ash almost fell out of his seat after hearing the news, "what? No freaking way," Ash complained while Hilda sat on his lap.

"I can't wait, you are going to father two children instead of one," Hilda commented with cheeky grin, "and on top of that, in just two short days we will be husband and wife," Hilda commented while Delia was watching Hilda hug Ash.

"Wow, I am going to be a grandmother and Hilda is going to be my daughter-in-law," Delia stated with great pride, "I will be there as soon as possible," Delia declared before hanging up on Ash to get the next plane to Unova.

Hilda continued to sit on Ash's lap, the two smiling at one another, "well we better head off on our own for a while, your parents will most likely want to see you and I will be doing everything I can to get ready for later on," Ash explained the plan to his fiancé.

Hilda leapt of the raven haired trainer's lap and started to walk towards the entrance of the doctor's surgery, "then we can continue on our journey," Hilda commented with a smile as she left the building confident that everything will go the way she had hoped.

Hilda walked to her family home, she knocked on the door, a woman with long brown hair wearing a white jumper and a red dress, "hello mom, sorry I haven't contacted you in a long time.

"Hilda, it's so good to see you," the woman replied with great excitement.

"Mom, a lot has changed since I started my journey with Tepig," Hilda confessed with a nervous smile. The older brunette allowed her daughter into the house.

"I can see, you're more confident as well as more beautiful too," Hilda's mother replied with great pride, she watched her daughter take a seat in the kitchen and followed her in, she prepared a cup of tea for her daughter, "tell me everything," Hilda's mom requested happily.

"Alright mom, first off, I am getting married to Ash in two days' time," Hilda stated with a smile.

"Ash Ketchum, I bet he has grown into a wonderful young man," Hilda's mother said while giving her daughter a cup of tea, "please tell me more," she requested as she sipped the cup of tea.

Hilda gulped not knowing what to say about the loss of her brother, "Mom, you know that there was a war between Team Rocket and Team Plasma right?" Hilda questioned her mother, she nodded after hearing the reports on the news, "well Mom, Hilbert was killed in action," Hilda cried while her mother dropped her cup of tea in shock, she gasped at the prospect of never seeing her son again, "but he has left you a grandchild with Skyla," Hilda explained with a solemn expression.

"I told him, hundreds of times he had to get married before having any children," she said while doing everything she could to contain the tears that were welling up, "but I guess there is nothing I can do about it, I am certain he would have married Skyla anyway," the mother said with a smile.

"Mom, Skyla isn't the only one who bears your grandchildren," Hilda said while placing her hands on her stomach, "mom, I am expecting twins and Ash is the father of them," Hilda explained the secret pregnancy to her mother, "I promised not to tell Hilbert about it, but Ash taught me that it is better to be open about everything," Hilda explained proudly as her mother continued to cry at the loss of her son.

"Well, you know, you an adult, I cannot expect you to keep following everything we say, you have to make your own choices and I can see that you are a very responsible and beautiful woman, I am proud of you Hilda, I am also very proud of Hilbert too," Hilda's mother confessed with pride as she sipped her tea.

"Thank you mom, that means a lot coming from you, I promise that I will do everything to look after my children, like the way you looked after us," Hilda promised her mother while sipping her cup of tea.

"No Hilda I want you to do better than me and your father, Delia and I had you and Hilbert separated from Ash, I bet if we never did that I wouldn't have lost Hilbert," she said with tears rolling down her face.

"No mom, you aren't to blame, no one is, we were kids at the time, kids get into trouble, Ash and Hilbert were no exception to that rule," Hilda stated with a fond smile.

"Well, then I guess Ash and you were always meant to be together, as long as your both happy, then I can say that I am also a very happy mother, just like my old friend Delia," she stated with happiness.

"Mom, will dad approve, he has always been really strict about who I should marry, he always wanted me to be with Cheren, but you and Hilbert always thought that Ash and me were meant to be together," Hilda explained with a smile.

"I know, but he was saddened by the fact that Cheren started dating Bianca instead," Hilda's mother professed with a smile, "plus no matter how much he hated to admit, he always thought of Ash as his son, deep down inside he knew you belonged to Ash," the older brunette explained with a warm-hearted smile, she got up and started washing the empty cup, she looked back to her daughter and nodded, "remember, you make me proud Hilda, no matter what you choose to do," she told her daughter as she began to cry.

Hilda cried after her mother's words, "Mom, thank you, I will never let you down, I will win the Unova league, even if it means that I have to defeat Ash," Hilda promised with her right arm raised, she clenched her fist and punched the air in front of her.

"Hilda there is something I want you to have, don't worry about buying a wedding dress, I was planning on handing our family wedding dress to you when you chose to marry," she said with pride, the older woman ran to her room and moments later appeared with an elegant white dress in her arms, "I want you to have, go to your room and try it on," Hilda's mother requested.

Hilda walked to her room after receiving the dress, she closed the door and got undressed, she looked at the dress and put it on, the fit was perfect, she looked at herself in the mirror to see what it looked like on her, "wow this dress is beautiful," Hilda commented blissfully.

Hilda walked out of her room and towards the kitchen, she spun around to show her mother who was really impressed with the way the dress looked on her daughter, "wow Hilda, that dress really suits you," she said with a proud expression.

"Thanks mom, I really appreciate it," Hilda replied with great pride.

(2 days later)

With the large crowd of friends watching them Ash and Hilda were standing at the alter ready to take their vows, "do you Ash Ketchum, take Hilda White as you lawfully wedded wife, to take care of her in sickness and in health, never to set eyes upon another woman, until death do you part?" the priest asked the trainer with a smile.

Ash looked at the beautiful brunette with a smile and nodded, "I do," Ash replied with confidence.

After Ash's reply the priest repeated the sentence but directed at the brunette, after waiting for a moment, Hilda gathered her breath and smiled at her soon to be husband, "I do," Hilda replied to the priest's words.

Ash and Hilda placed their respective rings on their left ring finger, "by the power of Arceus, I now pronounce you Husband and wife, you may kiss the bride," the Priest directed the newly wedded couple.

The crowd watched in anticipation, Ash leaned in and kissed Hilda to seal the deal, the crowd cheered with all their might knowing that there was no separating this duo now. After the couple pulled back Ash placed his forehead on Hilda's, they looked into one another's eyes and shared a few silent words with one another.

Ash and Hilda then walked down the aisle together this time as a married couple, holding hands before stopping at their parents, "I am so happy for the both of you," Hilda's mother cried while Delia cried blissfully.

"Amanda is right, you both look so happy, please Hilda, take good care of my son," Delia requested before seeing them walking further down the aisle.

Ash called out his legendary pokemon after exiting the chapel, Hilda with her bouquet in hand threw it into the air for the next bride to be to catch, without knowing the large bouquet of flowers were caught by a small brown pokemon with long ears, "wow Ash, it seems like there might be another wedding," Dawn laughed at her friend after her Buneary started to blush.

"Well Pikachu, good luck buddy," Ash teased his partner pokemon with cheeky grin, Ash and Hilda climbed onto the pokemon with Pikachu soon afterwards.

"So where are you going Ashy boy?" Gary asked his friend and rival, "you have to take Hilda on a honeymoon now," Gary instructed Ash.

Ash and Hilda looked at one another and nodded, "completing our journey, that will be our honeymoon," Ash and Hilda replied in unison with a confident smirk.

This one happened after a while, but I still hope you enjoyed it, Hilda is having twins and now she is married to Ash.

Even after Unova their journey is far from over, be ready for a sequel sometime next year, until then please continue to read this awesome story.

Next time chapter 19: Challenge.