Chapter 75: Future

That night he was in the hotel with the entire group.

"Well we'll be going back to Kalos, leaving this ghastly region. Until we meet again." Laura said as Luke and Jason eyeballed each other.

"Next time Ketchum."

"I'm looking forward to it." The three departed.

"I better get going too, Jason thank you for everything." Wally said.

"Good luck with your future Wally."

Finn and Emelia were with their friends.

"Make sure you write, I'm going to be very mad if an entire week goes by and I don't hear from you two." Emelia said.

Autumn hugged Emelia.

"I'm going to miss you two so much." Emelia said.

"Before we go." Finn said as they saw Wingull with his camera in his beak.

The four stood together before Wingull took a picture.

Emelia and Finn held hands as they left to hotel together.

"Alright I told my parents I'd be back in Kanto soon, so I have to get going too. Great seeing you guys again, congratulations Jason." Andrew said.

"We have to go too. See you back in Kanto." Jasmine said as they left with Andrew.

"That just leaves us." Autumn said as Jason gave an unsure look.

It was late at night in Ever Grande city and Jason was leaning against the railing on his balcony.

He took a deep breath as he took in the night sky.

Just then he heard a loud growl and looked up to see none other than Rayquaza's massive head and neck lower beside him.

"Rayquaza, what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to congratulate you on your victory."

Jason smiled.

"Thanks. I guess I'm still nervous."

"What you won, and after all that fighting at the Temple of the Sea why are you nervous?"

""Sigh" Rayquaza, everyone keeps telling me I'll find something after this is all. That I just need to follow my passion. But the truth is I'm afraid of the unknown, not knowing what's ahead of me. I mean my entire life I've always had a tangible achievable goal to work towards, become an aura guardian, compete in the pokemon league , win the pokemon league. I've done all of those. Now do just go back to being a guardian, helping people and pokemon. Do I compete in another league? I have passion in all of these, but it just doesn't seem like a tangible reachable goal."

"Ah that's it then."

"Let me guess, Circe was just like."

"She was nothing like that, Circe was able to go through life without knowing what was ahead of her. "

"What?"

"Jason you've always felt angry when you were compared to your family. You've always been afraid you'd never live up to them. You also wanted to create your own legacy. But you need to realize that your heritage is who you are. Vaeron was Altair's descendent, but he made his own legacy, Circe was Aegon's descendent and she made her own legacy, you're all their descendants and you have made your own legacy. "

Jason took a deep breath as he began to realize that Rayquaza was right, he had created his own legacy, but he was his family, Circe, Altair, Vaeron, and his father's aura were inside his own, he was everything they were and more, he no longer felt shame in this.

He smiled as he hugged Rayquaza's head.

"Perhaps you're finally ready to know the truth."

"Truth?"

"I thought I'd hold back on this when you hated thinking you had to live up to your parentage. Now that you've finally gotten past that you're ready to learn why only you have had visions of Circe's past."

"Finally." Jason said.

"It's because Circe isn't related to Ash."

"What?"

"She is no ancestor of Ash , your uncle Red, your grandfather Felix, or his father Arthur ."

"Wait a minute, that's impossible she's my ancestor isn't she?"

"Oh Circe is your ancestor , your direct ancestor."

"But how?" Jason's eyes widened as he looked into Rayquaza's eyes as he nodded.

"Circe's my mother's ancestor."

"Yes."

"No that can't be possible, my mother's not an aura user?"

"Ha ha ha, your mother is almost forty years old and yet you never wondered how she has retained her health, vitality, and beauty for so long. She is like your father, like you, she feels aura , and makes connections with her pokemon without realizing it."

"But my father, he made an aura connection with her years ago. After all this time he never realized she could feel aura?"

"Circe and Cole left Hoenn after the end of the war against Malik. Soon after Ahmed and his guardians overthrew the Ottoman empire in Sinnoh. Circe and Cole went to live in Kalos, Vaeron was still the mentor there when they arrived. The two gave up guardian life and lived as normal people. Their son married and had children with a normal human woman. Over thousands of years their guardian genes were preserved because of their aura maintaining dominance, but were still hidden by the aura of a normal human. Circe and Cole were ancestor's of Serena's mother, your maternal grandmother."

"My mother is descendent from Aegon." Jason said in disbelief.

Surprisingly , this news only made Jason feel a little better.

He looked at Rayquaza and then at his dragon Buckler.

"Altair, Aegon, Vaeron, Circe, Arthur, Felix, they were all mentors, leaders. Circe and you created the Draconid clan, now it's scattered, leaderless. If I was chosen by you, if I am the dragon, then I know what I'm going to do." Jason said.

The following morning Jason was with his parents and Autumn.

Behind Jason were his six pokemon.

Jason took a deep breath.

"Dad, mom, I know what I'm going to do now."

"That's wonderful." Serena said.

"Alright son, let's here your new goal." Ash said.

His six pokemon each nodded in agreement as they turned to him.

"Mom, dad, Autumn. I'm going to stay in Hoenn."

"What?" They all said, Autumn sounding excited.

"Maybe some day I'll return to Kanto, but I know what I'm meant to do. Rayquaza and I are united forever now. I am the dragon, the Draconid Guardians are my people, and they've been lost for thousands of years. I am Circe's heir and it's my duty to unite the Draconid Guardians."

Ash and Serena looked at each other before nodding with Pikachu on Ash's shoulder.

"If this is what you want Jason." Serena said before she and Ash hugged him.

Ash hugged back.

"Just make sure you keep in touch with us, and visit, you're only 18 you know." Serena said.

Jason contemplated telling his mother what he knew about her now.

"Jason, some day, but not today." Rayquaza said.

"Good luck Jason."

"Good luck with school." Jason said before he hugged Alex before Alex's pichu climbed back on his shoulder.

Charizard and Charla nuzzled their son for a moment before they returned to their trainers.

As Ash and Serena walked away with Pikachu on Ash's shoulder, their charizards beside them and Alex.

"With Jason and Alex gone it's just going to be us and the pokemon now." Ash said before he noticed a look and a feeling from their connection.

"Ash, about that."

Later that day, Jason was in the air flying over the ocean near Hoenn.

Sitting behind him with her arms around his waist was Autumn with her head on his shoulder.

"So what's the plan now?"

"Well I was thinking I should meet up with Drake, get in touch with Clair too."

"Good idea."

"We should also start thinking about your future."

"Well I should probably get my Ribbon cup, I don't think I ever got that."

Charizard flew beside them.

Jason and Autumn were ridding on the back of Rayquaza as they flew over Hoenn

Epilogue (18 years later)

It was early in the morning in the Draconid Aura Guardians Grand Enclave and thousands of Draconid guardian men , women, and pokemon were inside.

A young woman with long raven black hair, and light blue eyes was walkign through.

She had an aura guardian armored jacket on and Charizard beside her.

She passed dozens of Draconid Guardians with various dragon guardian pokemon.

Eventually she reached a massive chamber with several Draconid masters and their pokemon around the Grand Mentor.

"The enclave in Jubilife city has been set up, we have over four hundred Draconid Guardians in Sinnoh."

"Excellent work Zinnia, that gives us exactly two hundred thousand six hundred and forty eight Draconid Guardians worldwide."

"I'll never understand how you Grand Mentors can do that." Another master said.

"That's all for now masters, meeting adjured."

The masters and their pokemon left as the young woman saw a massive Dragon-Charizard with a smaller normal charizard and three black and green dragon charmander infants.

Also in the open roof of the chamber was the head of the legendary pokemon Rayquaza, who looked down at the young woman as she approached the Draconid Clan, Grand Mentor.

"Well looks like you've got your stuff together." She said as the man saw her.

"Delia, I was wodering when you'd get here." He said as he came over and hugged her.

"Ohh how's my baby sister doing?"

"Really good, now that I've got these." She said showing him her hidden blades and mega evolution component.

"Oh look at you, a fully trained Aura guardian, it seems just like yesterday you were in diapers."

"Well Jason it was weird growing up with a brother who was already married. Where is Autumn anyway."

"Three, two, one."

"Delia!" She heard as the young woman saw a woman roughly the Mentor's age with long black hair and a boy beside her.

"Autumn, and my favorite nephew Brendan."

Delia said as she hugged the little boy.

"You like me more than my cousin Felix."

Delia sweat dropped.

"Don't tell uncle Alex and Aunt Lillie."

They got up as the mentor showed them a picture.

"Alex and Lillie sent it to me just the other day." The Mentor said as he showed Delia a very high resolution picture of their brother, his wife, and son in front of the Alola league stadium.

"Look at Alex, the first champion of the Alola league, hard to believe he founded it." Delia said.

"Finn's company's pictures are the best." Autumn said.

"How are him and Emelia doing, it's been a while since I've seen them."

"Well their daughter Susan is the top of her class, though her mom is in charge of the school so she's not exactly unbiased." Autumn said.

"What about you sis, running the Grand Festival. That must be fun."

"It's plenty fun, though there's a lot more work that goes into it."

Delia's charizard went over to the other charizard and began nuzzling the baby dragon-charmanders.

"By the way what time is Jess coming over to check on Charline again?" Autumn asked.

"Actually not until tomorrow." Jason said.

"Ahh."

The adults kept talking before another guardian entered the chamber.

"Sorry to disturb you." He said.

"Oh no you're fine."

Delia saw the guardian and noticed he was a normal guardian like her.

"This is Wally, he's one of Matt's masters from the Hoenn brotherhood." The Draconid Grand Mentor said.

"I didn't know you had family here, I'll come back later." He said before he left.

"So how's the big guy doing?" Delia asked.

" I'm doing exceptional, my brother Groudon has just returned from his rehabilitation with our father." Rayquaza said.

"Well Jason, it looks like everything came together for you."

The end

Hey there everyone, KuramaFTW making sending one last message to you all in this story. It sure has been a hell of a ride these past two years helping Storymaker here with this story as a whole. Its kinda bittersweet. In one way I'm glad we are done, for now at least, since I really needed a break from this story, but at the same time I'm sad to not really be able to see you guys enjoy our efforts anymore, or at least for a while. But I do want to say that helping Storymaker write a few of these chapters has really gotten me to really want to start getting back to working on my own stories. I currently have a Naruto/Digimon crossover called A Shinobi a Long Way from Home that I plan to get back too. Not to mention I've got like a thousand different story ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for years. I say this because I would really like to get as much feedback about my work so I know what I'm doing right and what I need to improve on. Also it would be awesome to just hear from some of you from time to time. Either way I'm glad that you all at least enjoyed this story and perhaps Storymaker and I will work on another one. So till next time.

-KuramaFTW

Author's note

Well this is a real landmark , this story is finally complete, it's been over a year and I'm finally done, this has been a lot of fun, but it's time for me to move on

Now from the epilogue you may think I am hinting the next story, It is not about Alex in Alola I'm afraid,

I have a winner from the poll, coming from behind, the Reboot was the winner!

If and when Serena returns I will begin writing it, until then I will begin posting my 5d's chapters, starting tonight.

The name is Yugioh 5d's reimagined,

As I said in an earlier author's note it will help me stay motivated if you guys read and give me feedback on the 5d's story, so please check it out, it will be up tonight

This story has been real, but like all stories it must come to an end, thank you for reading it.

So until next time,

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