A/N: All right, that last chapter was way too short for my liking, so I'm going back to what I usually do ^^ *I cheer.* Lol. Short parts don't work for me. Anyway, here's the next part of the fic! Sorry for the wait _;; I was working on my other fic, 'Halloween Horrors'. It's not done yet but it's fun to do ^^. Please R&R!

There was a roar from not far away which made all three teens turn their heads.

Tyson gulped. "What's that?"

Kai narrowed his eyes, moving a little away from Tyson but being careful to stay off his injured ankle. He stared into the direction where the roars had come from. After another roar sounded he looked to Ash. "Are those roars from those so called pokémon you keep talking about?"

Ash shook his head. "Not any pokémon I know. Maybe it's a new type. Hey Pikachu."

"Chu?" Pikachu scampered to Ash's feet and looked up at his trainer.

"Be on guard, could be Team Rocket again." Pikachu nodded and went a small distance in front of them on all fours, tail straight up and cheeks sparking.

Tyson was about to ask whom Team Rocket were when another roar came to his ears, this one sounding like it was right next to him. The teens and pokémon turned around just as a blue blur shot out from the bushes and collided into Tyson, sending him and the 'blur' flying back about ten feet.

Kai and Ash coughed as a cloud of dust covered the area as Tyson and what ever had rammed into him skidded across the ground.

Tyson felt himself skidding across the ground and rolling somewhat before he finally stopped. Groaning he rolled over onto his front and pushed himself up, coughing because of the dust. He felt something rubbing against his cheek, something with scales, and opened his eyes. He yelled and stumbled back onto his backside.

"Tyson!" Ash and Kai made their way through the dust just as it cleared and stopped when they saw Tyson and...

"Dragoon?" Kai shook his head and looked again. Sure enough, Dragoon was sitting in front of Tyson, wagging his tail happily like a dog. It was about ten foot tall now, Kai guessed as the dragon was sitting.

"Is it really you Dragoon?" Tyson asked, standing up and looking the dragon over.

Dragoon smiled and nodded his head, going over and nuzzling against Tyson's face. He growled like a cat would purr as Tyson laughed and stroked the dragon's neck.

"This is so cool!"

"No available data."

"Huh?" Kai and Tyson looked over at Ash, who was pushing buttons on this small red thing. "What's that?" Tyson asked.

"It's called a pokédex. I was just checking something." Ash shoved it back into his pocket and looked at Dragoon. "So this is the Dragoon you were talking about?"

"I guess." Tyson looked at Dragoon again, who stood as tall as he could and seemed to puff out his chest.

"Looks like it's got a big head," Ash muttered to Pikachu and they chuckled.

Dragoon growled at them and took a few steps forward, raising his bladed claws up into a striking pose.

"Dragoon no!" Tyson yelled but Kai just crossed his arms and smirked. He didn't like Ash in the least.

"Thunderbolt Pikachu!" Ash commanded and pointed at Dragoon. Pikachu 'Cha'ed and powered up, letting the attack loose on Dragoon.

Dragoon yelped and jumped up high, dodging the attack and smirking down at the rat, but he stopped his assault when he heard a loud yell.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

Turning around, Dragoon cringed upon seeing Tyson on the ground, twitching from the electrical shock he'd just gotten.

"Whoops. Sorry Tyson." Ash scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.

Dragoon landed behind Tyson and helped him sit up. "You could have killed me you dork!" Tyson yelled, flattening down his hair that had stood up.

Ash shook his head. "Don't think so. I've gotten shocked tonnes of times and I've just fine."

"If you count out the brain damage," said Kai and he smirked.

"Hey!"

Kai ignored Ash and looked over to Dragoon and Tyson. "Hey Dragoon, have you seen Dranzer anywhere?"

The dragon looked thoughtful for a while, and then shook his head.

"Great." Kai sighed.

"Alright, I know we've all gotten off on the wrong foot, but how would you like to join me and my friends for a little lunch?" Ash offered. Pikachu grunted and glared at Ash as if to say 'You've got to be kidding!'

"Lunch? FOOD!" Tyson was on his feet in seconds. "We'd love to! Right Dragoon?" The dragon roared and nodded. "Cool. Coming Kai?"

Kai grunted and crossed his arms, looking away from them. "Like we have a choice? We don't know anything about this place, so dopey here will have to help."

"I'm not dopey!"

"Wanna bet?"

Tyson's stomach interrupted them when it growled loudly. He laughed and looked at them. "Time to eat! You two can fight later."

"Hmph, fine," Ash grumbled and turned around. "This way." Pikachu jumped up onto Ash's shoulder as he walked off.

"Right behind you! Let's go Dragoon!" Tyson marched off after Ash, his mind on nothing else but what they were going to get for lunch.

Kai trailed behind them, his ankle feeling like it was on fire with each step he took. He didn't notice much though. His mind was elsewhere. 'Where's Dranzer? How did we get here and why? What's going on?' Questions rolled around in his mind over and over again, but he hadn't an answer for any of them. A sharp pain pulling him back from his deep thoughts and he gasped, dropping down onto his knee. He held his sore ankle and winced in pain. Pulling up the end of his pants he grinded his teeth as another pain shot up his leg. 'Just great.' He looked at his ankle, which was now red and swollen badly.

"Kai? You alright?"

Kai looked up to see Ash, Tyson and Dragoon standing over him. The little rat - Pikachu was it? - was smirking at him, an evil glint in his eye. Kai glared back at him and then looked up at the others. "Yeah I'm fine." He pushed himself up to stand. "Well? Are you just going to stand there all day or are we going to get moving?"

Tyson noticed that Kai was struggling to stand at this stage, even if he was trying to hide it. 'He must have hurt himself worse than we first thought. Hmm...' Tyson looked around and at his bit beast. "That's it!"

"What's it?" Ash looked to Tyson for an answer.

"Kai, you can ride on Dragoon's back. You can't walk around on that ankle the way it is. You'll only make it worse, and I'm sure Dragoon wouldn't mind, right?" Tyson looked at the dragon, who smiled and nodded.

"I'm not riding on Dragoon, Tyson," Kai said stubbornly and crossed his arms.

"Yes you are."

"No, I'm not."

"Yeah you are."

"No, I'm not."

"Yeah you are. Dragoon?" Tyson looked at Dragoon and motioned to Kai. Dragoon nodded and went over, picking Kai up.

"Tyson! Make this lizard put me down or you are dead!" Kai growled at Tyson, trying to get free from Dragoon but to no avail.

"Sorry there Mr. High-and-mighty, but I want my lunch and we'll never get it with you being so slow."

"Slow?!" 'That does it. He's in for such hell when I get a hold of him!' Kai thought and clenched his hands in tight fists.

Tyson chuckled and faced Ash. "Ready again."

Ash was looking Dragoon over. "He's impressive."

"He should be. I trained him after all." Tyson did exactly what Dragoon did earlier, standing tall and puffing his chest out.

"So I see." Ash and Pikachu glanced at each other and chuckled. "Alright. Let's go... again." So they head off again following Ash's lead with Tyson and Dragoon following close behind and Kai grumbling to himself and scowling at the back of Tyson's head.

After walking for about ten minutes they came to a clearing. Dragoon had to stop because the trees and bushes were too dense for him to get through. He'd noticed that when he'd walked straight into a thorn bush, forgetting that Kai didn't have scales to keep the thorns out like he did, until he heard Kai cursing profusely.

"Stupid dragon! Back up already!" Kai yelled angrily, elbowing Dragoon in the chest, even if it had no effect. "Tyson! Your dragon is as thick as you are!"

"Sorry Kai," Tyson called back. "Dragoon, find another way in here." The bit beast nodded and turned around, taking the fuming Kai along with him.

Ash chuckled and walked out further into the clearing. "Hey guys!"

Brock and Misty turned around and waved a little. "Hey Ash, we were wondering when you-" Misty stopped when she saw Tyson coming up behind Ash. "Who's that?"

"Hey there. My name is Tyson Granger." Tyson offered his hand to Brock and when they'd shaken he shook Misty's hand.

"Hey there. My name is Brock," said the oldest looking boy of the group.

"And I'm Misty," said the redheaded girl.

"Nice to meet ya." Tyson smiled. They seemed like nice people.

"I met Tyson while I was training. You'll never believe what happened!"

"What? You found your brain?" Misty joked and smiled.

"Ha-ha. Very funny Mist." Ash glared at her, but shook it off. "No, really. I was training with Pikachu and Charizard when-"

"DAMN IT DRAGOON!"

Misty and Brock jumped, spinning around to where they'd heard someone yelling. "Who's there?" called Brock.

"Ohh, that would be Kai," Tyson said. "He's with me." Just then Dragoon emerged with a crash through some bushes, holding a highly pissed off Kai in his claws. Dragoon wagged his tail again; glad he'd gotten through into the clearing with no scratches, on him. Kai was another story. He was covered in small cuts with leaves and twigs stuck in his hair and clothes. Dragoon carried him over to the rest of them.

"What pokémon is that?!" Brock gasped and backed off a few steps, Misty following him.

"That's not a pokémon. Tyson here says that Dragoon is a bit beast, he told me on the way here. And that cursing guy in the dragon's claws is Kai," Ash explained.

Dragoon stood near them and dropped Kai, accidentally, on the ground when he rushed over to nuzzle Tyson again, glad to see his blader again. Tyson laughed. "It was only about a minute Dragoon!"

Kai tossed a string of very strong curses at the dragon, pushing himself up onto his knees. "Remind me never to trust that thing again!"

"Ehh, are you o-" Tyson started, but was cut off.

"Do NOT ask me that," Kai hissed, sitting painfully back on his backside and sighing. "Do I look it?"

"Good point." Tyson turned to Misty and Brock. "May introduce Kai High-and-mighty."

"Hiwatari," Kai growled, not in the mood for Tyson's comments right then.

"Heehee. Right. Kai Hiwatari," Tyson corrected, smirking back at his friend.

"Nice to meet you Kai. Do you need a hand?" Brock offered, going over to help Kai.

Misty, who couldn't see Kai all along because the others were in the way, caught her first sight of Kai and she felt her heart skip a beat. 'Wow! He's so hot!' She felt her face flush and she bit her lip.

Ash noticed her actions and followed her eye line to Kai. He growled and clenched his hands into fists. Now he really didn't like Kai.

Tyson was looking at Misty. "You okay? You've gone a bit red there."

Misty's eyes widened and she spun around quickly, kneeling down to stir the lunch in the pot.

Tyson looked at Dragoon. "What did I say?" Dragoon shrugged.

Yay! ^^ Another part down. I've really got no idea where this is going, lol. Poor Kai! *Glomps* Heehee. I like
Dragoon being a bit silly to suit Tyson's personality better. Hope you liked! Please review ^^
Kai: You put me through pain! *Growls*
Ashla: Ehh... LATER!

~Ashla~
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