Operation: Aether (Aureliashipping Variant)

Chapter 4: Complicated Meetings...!

"Ash, what's the matter?", Lillie asks, quietly

"That thing is an ultra beast!", Ash replies, shouting in a quiet whisper

Everyone else, save for Mohn, having heard this, is confused, but then confirmed the same. Everyone went from unsettled, to disturbed

"Come on Lillie, don't be shy.", Mohn tells her

"Does... he not see it?", Chloe asks Ash quietly, though Ash is unresponsive

"I apologize on my daughter's behalf", Mohn says to everyone, "my daughter is a bit shy when it comes to the occasional house guests."

Zoroark growls bit, knowing very well what an illusion is when it sees one

Mohn then goes to the kitchen to make more tea. Once he's left, Gladion looks at Zoroark

"Come on Zoroark," Gladion tells to Mohn's former partner, "let's deal with this!"

"Zoroark!", Zoroark sounds, as it gets ready to attack

"Gladion, wait!," Lillie says, stopping him, as Lusamine calms Zoroark down

"Right now, father thinks this... thing, is his daughter", Lillie tells him, "what would attacking it do for us right now? In his home?"

"Lillie's right", Lusamine tells them, "we need to play it cool for now, at least until we have some kind of idea as to what's going on."

Everyone nods in agreement. After a long night of failure to get Mohn to realize who he is, everyone goes to bed. Ash and Chloe sleep on the seats in Mohn's dining room, Lusamine sleeps in a chair, and Gladion sleeps on the floor with the Pokémon so his sister can sleep on the couch. Everyone is sound asleep...

"Ash... Ash... Ash...", a mysterious voice echos in the abyss, growing gradually more quiet as it goes on. "Ash... Ash... ... ... Ash...", by this point, the voice becomes nearly silent...

"ASH WAKE UP!!!!!", the mysterious voice shouted, as the face of something appeared, something with a big bulb head and blue eyes

Ash shoots up from his sleeping area, with sweat covering parts of his face. Pikachu jumps onto his lap, nudging his stomach and bringing him back to reality. Ash then looks around, and realizes that it was all a dream

"What the heck was that...?", Ash thinks to himself

Ash then noticed that Lillie is not sleeping on the couch, she is nowhere to be seen. Ash then looks around and sees the door slightly opened

Ash puts his snow gear on, and exits the house. Looking around, he finds Lillie sitting on a bench in front of the house, with Snowy sitting by her lap, in the direction of the full moon

"Oh father...", Lillie mutters to herself, in a slightly broken voice, "we came all this way to find you, to get you back... and now I feel like I'm back at square one

Lillie begins to shed a tear, before Ash comes in and says "at least I'm not the only one who couldn't sleep!", surprising Lillie, although surprise is not enough to change her mood at the moment

Ash sits next to Lillie, hoping to comfort her

"Y'know... it's a beautiful night tonight!", Ash says, while pointing at the stars above

Lillie looks above, and gazes at the beauty of the night sky

"Yeah... yeah it is", Lillie replies

"Y'know, I read in a book once that the legendary Pokémon, Solgaleo and Lunala, become the sun and moon respectively", Lillie continues