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ash of legends (a pokemon anthology)

Summary:

Ever seen those joke theories about ash's dad being a legendary Pokemon? Yeah this is just a anthology fanfic about that. Each chapter we see ash having a different legendary for a parent.

Notes:

Please People remember this is a joke fanfic. Don't take it super seriously.

Chapter 1: Mew

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Mew knew something was up with the human with strange marks on his cheeks. from the moment they saw him, he felt a strange sense of familiarity not only with his appearance but his very aura. but he was unsure about why he felt that way. well that is until the human was attacked by the tree's immune system. it was there when ash and the other humans nearly died, that mew finally recognized why they felt that strange familiarity. and of all things he realized the why because of ash's eyes. the eyes that he knew were just like the ones from a certain someone else. A human woman named Delia ketchum.But mew decided to not to talk to ash when they recognized the truth, no matter how much they wanted to. there were more important things to care about when that realization came such as saving the tree and themselve.

So mew waited for the right moment. They followed ash. even a bit further than they probably should have. And then... when ash was walking towards a bridge together with his friends... mew quickly flied towards ash, surpising him and his friends, touched their paw on him and teleported the two to somewhere where they could have a conversation alone and in peace.

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Ash was incredibly confused. one moment he was with his friends continuning his and their's pokemon journey and the next a mew,one that looked like could be the same one from the tree of beggining, flied towards him and then when the mew touched his shoulder he was blinded by light and felt a strange sensation, almost as if his whole body was made of nothing! for almost a second that sensation remained. then it went away. and he could see again,altought it was a bit blurry. He saw a room colored mostly in tones of pink with many toys and plushes spread around it. after a while the blurryness went away and he could see that what he tought was some sort of weird pink blob as a decoration was actually mew!

"MEW!? What are you doing here? shouldn't you be on the tree? and where is here? and where are my friends? where is pikachu!?"

Ash expected for mew to awnser like how pikachu would. Trought mimicry and body language. instead he heard a voice in his head. it reminded him of how it felt to hear lucario. the difference being this voice sounded more soft and more young than lucario's voice.

"Do not worry ash it all will be explained on now as for wha-"

"Okay whoever is doing this voice show yourself! im not afraid of you" said ash pointing at nothing

mew looked at ash with a face like the one somebody did when they finded something funny.

"Ash... The voice is me. Mew"

"Oh... WAIT SINCE WHEN CAN YOU DO TELEPATHY?"

The mew laughed and then awnsered his awnser

"Since always, i just had not show this ability to you before." Mew then looked at ash in a more serious way. "Now may i awnser the questions you had done at the start?"

"uh...sure!" he said somewhat still surprised and confused at the fact mew could talk telephatically

Mew gave a quick smile before returning to a serious face

"as to awnser your questions. i am here to talk to you in a place where its only the two of us. as for why i am not in the tree...mostly i tought the tree would bring you back bad memories. id yourew worried about the tree dont be! as long as i dont stay too long away things should be ooookay. as for where your friends are? well they are where you were before i teleported you to here.Finally for your final question. where we are? Well we are in the residence, or closest they have for a residence, of another mew! Dont worry they arent here currently so they wont interrupt our conversation." the mew telepathically said to ash. they them smiled "now ash... what im going to tell you is a somewhat long tale. please dont interrupt me until its finished okay?"

ash nodded his head

"good. so... it all begun eleven years ago" the mew said with what seemed to be nostalgia on their face "you see, ash, there was this mew who had stayed on this very important tree for a long time. said mew had not left the tree in centuries! all because of a previous trip to outside the tree that ended in trouble for everyone involved. that mew loved the tree. it was a great place! but over time it became boring to be the only place to be at. so they decided to do something they had been afraid to do for so long... leave the tree for a while once again.the mew flied away from the tree and was marveled at how much things had changed! there were so many new things and they wanted to try those new things out. but to do those things withouth being noticed the mew needed a disguise. so they used transform to turn into a human, after all no one would expect mew to be a human, and went around having fun and experiencing everything they were curious about! that was when..." the mew sighed "he met her..."

"Who?" asked ash interrupting the mew
"If you let me continue you will know. Also ash remember what i said. No interruptions." The mew said, altought not in annoyed tone, more in a reprimandatory one.
" So as i was saying the mew met her. A human women of brown hair and brown eyes. She was very nice to him and the two got along very well. See ash she was visiting Rota and was planning to stay there for a few days. So the mew said they could show her some very cool places. Wich was partially a lie because altought the mew did show her cool places he knew none of them beforehand even if i acted as such. But anyway... they quickly became friends and later on they became something even more than that. See ash they ended up in love with each other. The mew was initially surprised. He only ever had been in love some very few times before and never with a human! But He knew to not fight love. So when the day arrived for her to return to her home in Pallet Town the mew asked to go with her. She was surprised but welll she was just as much in love with him as he was in love with her so she happily said a yes. And so the two of them went to Pallet town." The mew said. He paused for a moment and then continued "Days went by and over time days became weeks and then months until they were together in Pallet town for more than a entire year. Then one day the Human woman had something to say to the disguised Mew... She was pregnant. The mew pretended to be happy at that. And to some extent he was. But he also was worried and above all full of panick. What would the child look like? What would she think if they didn't look human?What would she think if she found out the truth? Out of all those fears the mew... runned away but not before making a excuse about going out there to become a trainer. And for a time they tought they would never see their son. That is until now. And i will say. Im glad you ended up human. a lot less panic for dear Delia."

"Huh?" The human boy said confused at the last part.

"Ash... Do i need to spell it out? You are the child of the story. I am the mew of the story and Delia is the human woman from it!"

"Oh... Wait that means you're my dad!?"

The mew got closer to ash, smiled and then telepatically said "Yes."

And then ash punched him in the snout.

"ARGH! ASH WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?"

" YOU KNOW WHAT MOM THINKS HAPPENED TO YOU? SHE THINKS YOU DIED! YOU WILL TELL HER THE TRUTH OK?" Ash shouted, tears on his eyes. And then he hugged the small mew. "Still happy to meet you tought... Even if you're a lot smaller than itought."

"Well sorry but thats just natural with being a mew." He smiles. "Besides you're also smaller than i tought you would be.

"Wait what?"

"Yeah i tought you would be like 20 meters tall." after a small moment of silence where ash was quite confused Mew started laughing. "Just kidding ash.I did not expect you to be that big."

"Oh! I dont geit it."

"Eh its okay. It was more funny in my head anyway. what matter is Ash... it is time for you to return to your friends and dont worry i will remember to tell everything to your mother."

"If she gets angry at you i won't feel bad for you dad." He said with a smile.

"Ha! Cant blame you for that. But now returning to friends time. And with a gift."

"Wait gift what gif-" but before Ash could finish his question he was once again today teleported to somewhere else.

The first thing ash noticed after being teleported again was how everything seemed to smell a lot stronger, the second thing was that his vision was quite a bit blurry but he could hear quite well may, brock, max and a forth person. Had they met someone on the small time he was away? Thats when his vision started to stop being blurry and what looked like a yellow blob at first was now more easy to see as a Pikachu. His Pikachu. His Pikachu that seemed a lot bigger than normal.

"HEY! Wake up! Wake up and tell me where Ash is right now or i will shock you so much your fur will fall!"

His Pikachu just spoke.... And everything seemed bigger,,, And the heighened senses... Ash might be dense but he had gone trought something similar once in Johto. He looked at his body and instead of a human body he saw the body of a mew. Pink fur, big feet and even bigger tail included. Wait angry Pikachu. He still needs to deal with that.

"Pikachu its me! I know i look different but its me. I mean its not like this is the first time i end up a po-"

Before he could finish his sentence, the rodent tackled him on a hug. A nice, fuzzy, warm hug.

"Ash... you're so lucky i recognized your voice...I was worried! I tought you had been kidnapped or something like that!"

Pikachu stopped the hug and then looked at Ash up and down and then up and down again.

" But since you're fine... CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE A MEW!?"

Ash gave a laught

"It's a long story... So okay for starters mew is my dad-"

And then Pikachu interrupted Ash with many more questions. After a while tought all of pikachu's questions had been awnsered and everything was explained. Now he just needed to find a way to explain to his friends. The human ones specifically.

Maybe he could... Hmmm... Yes that could work... He concentrated and concentrated. Trying his hardest to focus on having his thoughts be heard. As I'd picking them and making them go from his head into the air "Can you hear Me?"

"Did you hear that? That sounded like ash!"
"Maybe the mew made us hear ash"
"Don't be silly max whatever is happening here the mew is just a... Really odd coincidence.

"Actually max is not wrong! I made you hear ash! Because I am ash!"

At that the three humans went silent. After a few seconds however...
"WHAT!? HOW!? HUH"
They all said at once. Even Brock who was normally the most calm of the group.

"Uh well you see it begins right as I was teleported somewhere else...

Chapter 2: Jirachi

Summary:

events take place after the "to be a pokemon master" miniseries.

Figuring out how to do jirachi was a bit complicated buuuuut i think i found a way. just watch and see the madness

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It was another night on Ash Ketchum’s journey to be a pokemon master. A journey that seemed to have no end yet that did not seem to worry the boy who was happy to continue his adventures no matter how long they would last. As Ash laid on the floor looking at the stars, his best friend Pikachu to his right, his thoughts slowly went towards a subject he did not think often. His father.

Someone he knew so little about. He had no memories of him, and his mother did not talk about him very often. The last time she had mentioned him was probably around the time he was still new to being a pokemon trainer.
As he looked at the night sky with those thoughts on mind Ash saw a falling star. It maybe was a bit silly… But he decided to wish upon it.

"I wish... I could see my father so i could tell him about everything i accomplished."
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Ash did not know but that was no wishing star but Jirachi themselves.
But how was jirachi up there instead of stuck as a crystal on the planet? Well mew had decided that jirachi deserved some more freedom and as such allowed Jirachi to stay awake.

As Jirachi heard Ash’s wish they knew they had to grant him that wish. After all they owned ash and ash’s friends so much. As they focused their power to make Ash meet his dad, Jirachi felt a odd sensation as if split in two or duplicated and then they found themselves teleported to in front of Ash and Pikachu.

“JIRACHI!?” “PIKA!?”

They smiled. Glad to see their friends again!

“Yes its me, ash! Thought why I’m here?… Pikachu can you wish for me to learn why I’m here?”

Pikachu nodded.

“Pika! Pika Pikachu!”

And so Jirachi granted said wish. Focusing their power and energy to make that wish in a reality. Jirachi’s mind was flooded with memories as they learned why they were there and were left speechless by it. Well speechless for a moment. Afterwards Jirachi had one thing to say.

“Oh you have to be kidding me…”
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Okay that was odd. Jirachi had changed demeanor by a lot suddenly. And why were they even awake? He needed to ask jirachi about that at some point. But not now. Now he needed to ask about something else. Specifically, he needed to ask jirachi about that really weird reaction.

“What’s wrong Jirachi? Are you here because of something bad?”

Jirachi looked at Ash and for a moment just stared at him with fondness.

“No Ash I’m not here because of something bad but… The reason I am here is weird. Sort of.”

They sigh

“Okay I’m going to explain. But get ready Ash because this is a doozy.”

Jirachi looked at him seriously and then said the next words in a somewhat frustrated voice.

Ash.. When you wished to have your father to be here to so you could tell him about everything you have done… You did not have a father… Or rather you did but the father had not been made yet. See Ash your wish made some of my own energy go in the past and take the form of a human that would end up becoming your father and then a few days later after you were born that human made from my energy would disappear as the energy returned to me… Ash your wish led to your father being made which led to you being made which led you to wishing to see your father which led to him being made. You, see? It is almost a paradox. But this does not explain why I’m here in front of you does it? Well you see Ash since your father was made from my energy… Energy that returned to me eventually… Ash I think I am technically your dad. I mean thanks to Pikachu I accidentally even got all his memories now.”

Ash spoke nothing for a moment and then…

“WHAT!? YOU’RE MY DAD!? WAIT DOES THAT MEAN MAX IS MY UNCLE OR SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU TWO ACTED SORT OF LIKE SIBLINGS? AND WAIT DOES THAT MEAN IM PART POKEMON!? AN-“

“ASH CALM DOWN AND ASK A QUESTION ONE AT A TIME!” Jirachi said interrupting the boy.

“Okay…”

For some reason he felt like he needed to follow jirachi’s command… Was it their voice that now seemed to have a different tone?

“Alright Ash… Now ask me the questions you have.”
“Is Max my uncle since you two were like siblings when we were traveling together with you?”

“No Ash… Think of him as just… Your Dad’s friend that’s all.”

“O-okay. That’s… Still weird to think thought… And well next question is if this means I’m half pokemon or something.”

“…Okay to be honest I don’t know. Probably not?”

“Probably!?”

“Ash i have no clue if a human body made of my energy had my genes or not okay!? For all I know you could stay completely human for who knows how long and then suddenly turn half or fully Jirachi! I am a wish maker not a scientist!”

Ash sighed. That was not the answer he was hoping for, but it was not the worst option either. He knew that fact.

“This is weird… Look I don’t have any other questions … Well maybe one. What will you do? Return to doing Jirachi things? Visit me and mom from time to time? Something else entirely?”

“I… I think I will spend some time with you if that is okay? Won’t be grating wishes for you thought. After all, don’t think you would like to make your journey easier. And maybe can talk to Delia via one of those video call things I heard about.” The mythical smiled.

“That sounds nice… Dad. That… That sounds weird to say…” The human kid said, rubbing the back of his own head.

“Great! But as to not make you get more attention than you already do as Champion of the coronation series, which by the way really proud of you achieving that, I probably should use a disguise.” And in a flash of light Jirachi had been substituted by a human man with mostly black hair except for three blue streaks of hair. He wore what would be considered standard trainer clothes by most. “What you think? Tried to make myself look a bit older since last time but not sure if I did that super well if I am to be honest with you Ash.”

“It’s really weird but also nice to see a face I only have seen in pictures before…” He said with tears in his eyes. Ash then went to hug the currently human Jirachi.

It took a moment but Jirachi hugged ash back.

“Ash I know this situation is really weird… But I will try my best, okay?”

“Okay…”

“And uh maybe don’t call me Jirachi while I look I like this… Jay should work. It was the name that the human made of my energy used.”

“I know that. Mom did tell me my dad’s name. Er… Your name.”
And the hug stopped. Ash was smiling even if crying a little. The same could be said about Jay. And as for Pikachu? Well ash could somewhat see his pokemon partner smiling happily for the two.

“So… Ready to travel together, Ash?”

“You bet I am, Dad!” That… That was something he was glad to finally be able to say. Although wait…He still did not know why Jirachi was not asleep! And who was the Jirachi he saw on Unova during his adventure there… Was it the same Jirachi that ended up being his dad or was it another somehow? Well questions for later. Right now, he just wanted to have fun with his Father!

Chapter 3: Lugia

Notes:

Guess what? Lugia time! this one took a while because i wanted it to be a bit more special.

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Ash Ketchum was confused to say the least. Last Thing he remembered he was  on Lugia’s back while they were being attacked by those weird machines that that Lawrence guy had. Lugia had used one of  its moves and then falled into the ocean. And then the next thing he knows he felt... Weird to say the least... He had not opened his eyes yet but he could tell something was odd. When he breathed the air it did not quite feel like air... And he almost felt as if underwater... But that was impossible! If he was underwater he would not be able to breath! Yet he felt as if water was touching his Arms, legs and tail... Wait... TAIL!?

He opened his eyes and quickly went to look at his back. And there it was. A white feathery tail that was slightly moving on its own, with fins on its upper side.  Wait why was moving his neck to look behind himself that easy? He returned his neck to Looking to the front and touched it. It was a lot longer than it should be and his hands they felt odd... He looked at them now. And they were less hands and more a sort of in between of hands and wings. All of that led the dense kid known as Ash Ketchum to one conclusion that not even he could deny. He had turned into a Lugia... So, he did the Only logical Thing to do in this situation.

“AAAAAAAAAH!”

“Bad Dreams big bro?” Said a voice.  At that he looked Around and that was when he saw flyi- no swimming! Swimming towards him, Another lugia but this one looked a lot younger then the one he knew, but did seem to be his size...

“Bro? Who even are you?” And then he realized something that others would have realized right away. “Wait i can understand you!?”

“I mean yeah? You are a Lugia too Afterall.” Then the Lugia seemed to realize something. “Wait if you are asking those questions then Dad has not explained things to you yet! Wait just a moment Bro!” And the lugia swum away.

“Wait!” But it was too late... The lugia was already gone from the room. Ash didn’t know what to do. He knew how to move this body a bit but he had no clue how to swim with it... He Looked at his wings again... Maybe... Maybe he could figure out on his own! Yeah he would do it and then find where that Lugia went and then get his answers!

And so he tried. First he tried to swim like he would if he was still human and … It did not work. Then he tried to do that again but with the addition of attempting to use the tail as well. It was oddly natural to do so but still did not work. It was better but not perfect. As the fact he had ended up upside down proved.

And it was in that predicament that the Lugia he had talked to before found him at when returned to the room. Said Lugia now being accompanied by a much larger and more familiar Lugia. A Lugia that when saw Ash’s situation laughed in a way that reminded him of his mother laughing at him doing something that she found silly.

“Be as a Human or as a Lugia you always manage to make me laught.” Said the big Lugia. That confused Ash. He had not seen the Lugia laught at him at any moment while he was a human… So, what he was referring about?

“What?”
“Ah you have questions. Of course, that is to be expected. I am sure they are questions lik-“
“When did you laugh at me when I was human?”

And then the Lugia looked at him dumbfounded while a smaller Lugia near him giggled at the older Lugia’s reaction. Ash simply waited for the answer. Still upside down and very confused about the whole situation and at what the Lugia had said.

“Well Ash… I uh… Happen to have met you before the whole incident with that Lawrence the third, guy…  But… Its well complicated and…”
And then the smaller Lugia interrupted. “He is trying to say that he is your father!”

“Oh… WHAT!?”

“Uh… Surprise?”” The older Lugia said while he looked at him and gave a embarrassed smile.

“I… How? I mean humans and pokemon can’t have children together…”

“Not normally son.” He seemed happy to call Ash that. “But you see… the people of these islands long ago made a ritual to give me the ability of taking a human form when I wish to. It was their way of saying thanks for me making sure the birds were in peace between each other. So, what happened was that I fell in love with your mother while I was in my human form and well one thing led to another and you were born.”

“Does…Does Mom know you’re Lugia? And why you left us!?”

“Delia… Delia does know. Although I had asked her not to tell you it until she felt you were ready. As for why I left…” He gave a sad sigh. “I had trusted the birds would manage to behave with me away now that I had been looking after them for so long… However, that did not happen. Zapdos and Moltres entered into a battle, and I needed to return. It was then I realized I would need to live on the islands once again. Away from you and Delia. Your mom was supposed to tell you about that as well eventually…”

Ash closed his eyes and he would be shedding tears had he not been underwater at the moment.

“You could have visited us. Said a hello or something! Just because you need to be here most of the time does not mean you needed to never see us!” Ash shouted. Sad and angry at his father.

For a moment nothing was said, and Ash wondered who even would say anything next but then he heard his dad say a sentence.

“You are right.”

Once again nothing was said but ash did open his eyes. Surprised at hearing that. Of all things… An admission that he was wrong was not something Ash had expected to hear. Not that he disliked that. In fact, he was glad to hear that.

“Does that mean you will visit her now sometimes?” He finally said after a while.

The bigger Lugia smiled.

“Yes, it means that, son.”

At that he smiled as well and he could feel his tail wag quickly because of how happy he was.

“Seriously Dad? You haven’t told him about me yet?” The smaller Lugia said, looking annoyed.

“And who are you?” Ash asked still confused

“Well… I called you bro. I am a Lugia. And that Lugia is your dad…” He said pointing at the bigger Lugia. “Think you understand what I am trying to say.”

“Yes… That you are my cousin!” Ash said smiling.

“…” The small Lugia looked at Ash with a dumbfounded expression. Guess he was wrong… But then what he was to him?

“I AM YOUR SIBLING YOUR IDIOT WITH A MAGIKARP FOR A BRAIN!!!!”

Oh! That made a lot more sense- Wait what!?

“YOU’RE MY SIBLING!?” And then the surprise became anger. “AND WHAT YOU CALLED ME!!!?”

“YES, AND MAGIKARP FOR A BRAIN! “

“Enough children!” Said their dad. The two children getting quiet at his more, even if just slightly, tone.

Lugia gave a sigh and then said.

“Ash… Meet your sister… Cinder. Named her that thinking of you. And if you are wondering where she is from… Mew made her for me. All it was needed was some of my feathers and that was enough for Mew to use that as the ingredients for the egg that would become Cinder.”

“Sup Bro. Sorry for the whole… Magikarp for a brain thing.”

She said, looking at him. Waving a wing like how one would wave a hand.

Ash swum towards her even if in a very clumsy way and when close enough he hugged her.

“It’s okay sister… Bickering is what siblings do from what I hear.”

At that statement from Ash, Cinder giggled a bit and Ash smiled at the fact he succeeded at making her giggle.

The happy moment did not last forever though.

“Although I am glad to see you two getting along so quickly… I believe there is a important thing we need to deal with…” He looks at Ash. “Ash I am happy to say that your friends managed to stop Lawrence and now, everyone is safe. The birds are back to where they were before. And Lawrence the third is a danger to no one anymore and your friends are at a pokemon center processing everything that happened. Now they have not given up on you being alive so you reappearing would not surprise them… But your form…” At that he points at Ash’s Lugia body. “Would surprise them, very much. Thankfully you should have inherited the ability to take a human form. Since your sister inherited it as well. As such we must begin your training on how to shift between forms immediately. So, you may return to the human form and continue your journey with your friends without confusing them.”

“Wait… Are you implying for me to not tell them I am a Lugia!?” Asked Ash.

“Yes and no. I am saying for you to wait. Not tell them about it immediately.” Lugia stated.

“…Fine but if they still react confused, I am calling you a liar! You hear me dad?”

At that Lugia laughed. “I hear you son. Now Cinder are you ready to help me help your brother to learn how swap between forms?”

“Yes!”

Ash did not say but he would tell Pikachu as soon as possible about all of this. Maybe he could keep this a secret for a little while to the others but not to his best friend. Pikachu deserved to know it all. He was certain of it.