Pokemon: The Lost Quest

The New Moon of Truths

Author notes:

I placed a time skip in here because of a certain battle that takes place. Hopefully my battle scenes are written well enough, but the winner of that particular battle was more important than the battle itself. Like I said before all moves I use are from their level list, egg list or any move list. Pretty much if they can learn it its fair game in my book. And if they can't and I have them do it anyway I will also make a note of it why I defied the laws of Poke physics.

The Chestreen is another little creation of mine...you will find out later in the story what that is...but like I said many times before one of my many goals for this story was to make the organizations/teams seem like they have their own way of doing things. Whether their tactics are ethical or not is a discussion for another day.

Lastly...do you remember the big brother at the end in chapter 3?

Chapter 25: The New Moon of Truths

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"Honestly Ash, if you had caught it we wouldn't be having this problem." Professor Oak chastised. It was already the afternoon as Ash and his friends were searching for the scratch cat Pokémon that must have taken off in the middle of the night. Professor Oak wasn't going to stay in town for long. Today was the last day of lectures and he really wanted to take advantage of the fact that Meowth was now traveling with Ash. He knew to perfectly well what happened last time and he didn't want to lose a chance like this again.

"Why didn't you catch it? The last time we spoke to each other it sounded like that was what you were going to do."

"Well you see, I didn't really trust it so we made a deal and it promised that it wouldn't do anything as long as we didn't catch it," Ash explained.

"You made a deal...Pfft...Ha, Ha!" Professor Oak laughed.

"That Meowth sure outsmarted you! Ha, Ha!" He continued to laugh at Ash's expense.

"Ash, I told you that all you had to do was to catch it. It's a wild Pokémon and it would have become bound to you. Its desires to return to Team Rocket and its misguided actions would have diminished as you trained it. There was no need to make such a deal. A deal to not catch it...now that's one for the books, Ha, Ha!" Ash shamefully listened to the professor as the man continued to laugh.

"Did I just hear you right?" A voice echoed, it was Barrett.

"You lied? It's not yours, after all, is it?" He demanded, he didn't wait for Ash to respond, as he took off in search for the missing feline.

"That boy again?" Professor Oak said. Ash was on his way out but Professor Oak stopped him as he placed a hand on his free shoulder.

"Ash, I'm not mad at you for not capturing it. I have a pretty good suspicion as to why you may have held back." He eyed Pikachu before continuing.

"Do you trust it now?" Ash stared at him bewildered by the question; he was unsure how to answer, did he? He thought back to last night. It took every ounce of patience to calmly convince Meowth to go back to the school. It was as if Meowth was planning to stay out all night in the city park.

"It's hiding something." He muttered softly.

"Trust goes both ways, Ash." Ash looked down at his feet as he listened to the Professor's words of wisdom.

"I think I know where it might be." Ash thought out loud.

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