Ch. 140: The Hidden Village of Aura

In a dark small room empty room with a tatami floor, Celes tosses and turns in a futon on the floor before jolting awake in a cold sweat and breathing heavily before gripping her head.

            "My head, my mind." Celes feels her right side before noticing her right arm is missing leaving only a small stump. "And my arm."

As Celes looks around confused about the location she notices footsteps coming closer and readying herself reaching for her Poke'balls only to realize they're missing.

            "Crap."

She jumps back as the footsteps stop in front of the sliding door before it slowly opens, as she looks Liam appears opening the door with his Beheeyem floating by his side.

            "Well it looks like your awake." Liam says walking in looking at her before turning his head away. "Sorry about your arm."

            "Your talking like you have something to do with this." Celes relaxes before getting up off the floor and walking towards him. "Now then where the hell are we?"

            "I think it would be best if you came outside and saw for yourself."

Liam and Celes towards the backdoor of the room opening it revealing the a large flowery area filled with greenery and a large forest with a small village of people living at the tops and at the bases of these trees with Pokémon flying and scurrying all about all over the place.

            "Where is this?" Celes asks curiously. "Last thing I remember we were falling into the Dividing Line, are we dead?"

            "Nope." A voice says walking up to the pair.

As Celes looks on Jaden walks up to them with al large grin on his face with Aire and Vera walking up behind him.

            "This is my home, where I was raised the Village of Aura."

            "Village of Aura?" Celes asks confused.

            "Well we never needed a name for our home before, this was just our home." A voice says from behind Jaden.

As Jaden moves out of the way a man in blue robes with short blue hair walks up to Celes and looks on her seriously.

            "It has been quite some time since we've had visitors, not since Jaden's Mother wandered in twelve years ago."

            "Who are you?"

            "This is my Dad, Lucitan the leader and guardian of the village."

            "So how does this place exist?"

            "In the middle of the war nearly a century ago a large group of us left to hide away in order to avoid the conflict and we've been living her since then." Lucitan says explaining things. "But enough about that for now, how about we all just rest and relax for now your Pokémon are waiting for you in the garden."

            "Our Pokémon?"

            "We took them out of those things you call Poke'balls to check and see if the storm had affected them, you're lucky we found you when we did or else you could've died."

            "How did you find us exactly?"

            "The Aura led me to you."

            "The Aura?"

            "Yeah." Aire says nervously. "It was kind of me, when we were falling I grabbed onto Jaden and then some energy field projected from the two of us that protected us all and before it faded away Lucitan found us."

            "We got lucky, but things aren't exactly peachy keen." Liam says thinking about things. "We've still got those Team Immortal asses to deal with."

After a while the group arrives at a large garden where the groups Pokémon are sitting around, sleeping, or playing as their trainers arrive with the Pokémon rushing to their side.

Jaden's Pokémon surround him with Blaziken and Greninja standing by his side, Noivern standing over him, Galvantula looking up happily, Togetic flying over his head, and Gligar landing on his back.

            "We've all fought hard for sometime so why don't we just rest around for now." Jaden says with a large grin on his face.

Aire's Pokémon surround her as well with Clefable and Meditite standing by her side, Buneary jumping around excitedly, Vulpix resting by her feet, and Zweilous chewing on her scarf happily.

            "Come on now, calm down and stop chewing that Zie." Aire says nervously trying to pull her scarf away.

Liam sits around with Beheeyem floating around him, Klefki in his hands, Aerodactyl leaning it's head forward as Liam pets it, Tangrowth sitting around happily, and Skrelp looking on from a small pond.

            "For now let's relax everyone, but soon we've got some plans to make."

Vera searches through her bag before pulling out pieces of candy and handing them out to her Pokémon as Floette floats on her shoulder happily, Pangoro eats with a large grin on its face, Grovyle standing by her side happily, Gabite laying around on the ground, Shellos crawling up her other shoulder, and Munna floating over her head.

            "Okay then everyone, let's have ourselves some treats and relax in this fantastique location."

As everyone and their Pokémon stand around happily Celes sits around with her Electabuzz and Monferno unable to look at her and Cottonee and Duskull staring off unable to look away from her missing right arm.

            "Come on everyone, don't act like that." Celes says nervously barely containing herself. "It's all fine, just don't look at me like that."

As everyone and their Pokémon stand around Lucitan looks on the group as he starts noticing energy slowly pouring out of the group.

            "Well while their levels may differ they are quite the admirable group. Jaden, you've made some interesting friends haven't you my boy."