The Return of The Forgotten

Chapter 4

Professor Oak rubbed his eyes as it was like he tried to remove the image of it.

"Impressive, isn't he?" Asked Ash.

Flashback

A 16 year old boy walked through the deep forests of Kanto. Suddenly, he could feel something strange, something that he hadn't felt in years. He didn't recognize it.

"You sense something Pi?" Ash asked his faithful companion.

"Pi?" Pikachu asked confused.

"Something doesn't feel right, keep you eyes open." Ash said. Pikachu nodded and started look around.

"Pika!" Pikachu told its master with a low tone and pointed over to some bushes.

"Are you sure?" Ash asked the yellow rodent. Pikachu nodded, he knew that something was there, and it was spying on them.

"OK Pikachu." Ash said in a low tone. Suddenly he roared, "Use ThunderBolt!"

Pikachu shoot away a yellow lightning bolt with incredible speed towards the bushes, but suddenly it was blocked by an blue sphere.

"Was that Aura Sphere?" A confused Ash asked his equally confused partner.

Out of the bushes jumped a Rilou, Ash's brain started to work. "Rilou, Aura Sphere, that weird feeling, no... It can't be..." He thought.

"Are you the same Rilou that I helped from Hunter J?" Ash asked the little blue pokemon.

The blue pokemon answered with a happy "Lou!" and jumped up to Ash and hugged him.

"It is you!" Ash stated happily and hugged the little blue pokemon, Pikachu also started to pet it on the head with his paw.

"But what are you doing here. Where is your master?" Ash asked Rilou.

Rilou had a sad look on his eyes and looked down to the ground. Ash suddenly remembered how old the man had been the time he saw him, and that was many years ago.

"Is he gone?" Ash asked Rilou slowly. Rilou just nodded and felt tears drop from his face.

"Then we're sitting in the same boat." Ash said silently, Rilou looked up. "I lost my mother a few years ago, she was murdered by a criminal gang." Ash could also feel the tears fall down his face.

"The only thing that I have left is my pokemon." Ash continued. "Do you want to join us?" He then asked the little pokemon.

Rilou just nodded and jumped up and hugged Ash once again and started crying again in his shirt. Ash slowly rubbed the pokemon along its back. "Alright, I got a Rilou." Ash said with a silent and comforting tone. "Pi PikaPi." Pikachu piped in with a little smile.

Ash took up one of his pokeballs and let Rilou touch the little white button in the middle of it. Then when the ball had stopped shaking he summoned Rilou.

"Are you ready to start with our journey Rilou?" Ash asked the little pokemon.

"Yes... master" Ash heard in his head.

"Was that you?" Ash asked the little pokemon, still chocked. Rilou nodded happily.

"But... how?" Ash asked.

"We have the same auras, master. That will makes us able to communicate with each other with our minds." The little blue pokemon said in Ash's head.