Empathic Adventures

Empathic Adventures

EP 031: Aura Effects

By SSJ04 Mewtwo

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Alex looked out the bedroom window at the stars, wondering if the parents of the other girls that were tied to his son's aura would stay on their side. He could understand Norman's position. If Alex himself had a daughter and was in the same situation he'd react just like that.

"You aren't about to leave in the middle of the night, and not say good-bye to me are you?"

He chuckled, "and miss one more meal of your cooking? I don't think so. Besides, I'm not leaving, not yet anyway. Giovanni is so focused on Unova that he's probably forgotten about me."

"Then why aren't you sleeping beside me?"

"I'm worried about not telling them the rest..."

"The rest?" Delia echoed.

"Yeah," he sighed and turned to his wife. "There is a real reason why aura guardians choose to be wandering loners."

"You never told me."

He sighed, "Back when aura guardians first were appearing in our world, they would go around saving people and pokemon from all sorts of troubles. However, eventually it was discovered what effects aura had on humans that were of the opposite gender of the aura user."

"At first, much wasn't really done, until two aura guardians' aura influenced the same woman and hell was set loose on the land."

"What happened?"

Alex was silent for a moment.

"What happened?" she asked again a bit more sternly

"Wonder why a lot of people always advise trainers not to get their pokemon involved in personal grudges? The obvious answer is that the trainers will push their pokemon too far, but there's other reasons. Pokemon can sense, whether or not they are psychic or not, their trainer's emotions. This means that the pokemon in question will fight with the same ferocity as their trainer's emotions if they are angry."

"And this happened between two aura guardians?"

"Two aura guardians and twelve pokemon. To top it all off, the pull of two different auras drove the woman mad and she...”

“What?”

“Committed suicide."

Delia's eyes widened in horror at that statement.

"Because of this, the two aura guardians ended up killing each other in the battle as well. This would set up the unwritten agreement between all aura guardians that they would limit their contact to humans."

"What if they aura guardians that are out there find out that our Ash has..."

"They'll try to gang up on Ash and collectively rip his aura's influence from the four girls. But no one knows what the effects of that would be."

"Alex," Delia began.

"Don't worry," he said and wrapped his arms around her, "If it comes to that point, father and son will take on and beat every single aura guardian on this planet."

"No wonder Ash is so confident," Delia replied with a grin and Alex smiled back.

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Iris sighed to herself as she looked at her reflection in the water.

'What is wrong with me? Every time I started talking about that Cottonee being in love, I had an apple in my mouth,' Iris thought. 'Why was I acting like Ash?'

"You've been behaving strangely."

Iris jumped, hearing Anabel's voice.

"You want to know what's going on?" Anabel asked and touched the forehead of the younger girl. "His aura has gripped you."

“You mean...?"

"Yes."

"But I don't..."

"True, but you think he's a kid, but his aura woke that more base instinct up, telling you that he's a perfect provider of kids."

"But I don't like him like that."

"Only time can answer whether or not you'll want him," Anabel said and began to walk off.

"Wait."

"Hmmmm?"

"Do you...I mean...when Ash is with one or two of you...do the others...?"

"The aura drives us to mate to provide a child. That sort of thing would be a waste of energy."

"Ok, but how can you share him like you do?"

"Under normal circumstances we should be either trying to fight each other for him or killing him for two timing us all, but this is not under normal circumstances."

"But how could the five of you live together?"

"Traveling around like we are doing is a good way to bond. Ash is ours and we are like sisters to each other."

"But what if you want to settle down?"

"Pallet is a small enough of a town where there will be no questions asked."

"I just don't see how you can share him."

"Aura makes a normal relationship impossible, but there's a reason why Ash will act like a kid at times."

"Why?"

"He's under an intense stress. He has to look after the four of us...that is, he has to make sure that other members of team Rocket don't capture any or all of us. I was captured by the rockets, and like you he came to save me. It's a defense mechanism for him. He doesn't want to deal with the more harsh realities we've been in and will face for the rest of our lives," Anabel explained and started walking back for camp and Iris followed.

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Cilan was cooking dinner, Angie had her pokemon out, training them, and Ash was leaned up against a tree. May's head was resting on his right shoulder and Dawn's head was on his left shoulder.

"Ash..." May began.

"Hmmmm?" Ash asked distractedly.

"We might have a problem," Dawn continued.

"When you used your aura to help free Iris, it might have gotten to her," May said.

Ash bit his lip in worry. Anabel approached and joined the trio.

"Your aura has touched her, Ash," Anabel confirmed.

Ash turned his gaze to Iris. "Iris?"

The girl looked at Ash.

"Look, I know you don't want to be apart of this. I know that my aura is doing something to you that you don't want it to do. I promise, I'll find a way to free you from my aura's influence of you."

Iris felt conflicted yet again. Part of her was touched that he wasn't forcing her to be apart of the sisters, but a part of her was wanting him to take her and make her one.

"Soup's on!" Cilan called out, stopping Iris's train of thought. She sighed and went to eat with the rest of the group.

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Hope all my American readers had a good thanksgiving.

Hope you liked this chapter and enjoyed the bit of history in this chapter.