Episode 108!

Disclaimer: Oh, come on, I don’t own pokemon. So don’t say a word, or else prepare to face a hot iron! Pokemon belongs to Nintendo, Game FREAK, 4Kids, Shogakukan comics, etc. it does not belong to me. However, Destiny, Hope, and some other pokemon do belong to me, as well as magic chants, the idea, etc. ‘Nuff said.

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, and italics indicates pokémon language in English of course!

Lance is a girl. Lance goes by the name Crystal while she travels with Ash.

Aragorn the Ranger – the kid just annoys me.

Xaero – Hehehe, ^_^

Ranma – you know my writing style quite well by now, don’t’ you?

Digifan1 – yes, sometimes I do take episodes from the anime and revamp them if I’m stuck w/writer’s block.

Episode 108: Danger lurks in the Safari Zone

“Well, this is it!” Teresa said cheerfully. “We’re finally here!” Above their heads, the sigh proclaiming the Safari Zone glittered.

“I can’t wait!” Ash said.

“Think of all the pokemon we can catch.” Lance added.

“This is so cool!” Teresa said.

Pika-chan shrugged and munched on a cookie. “Whatever you say.”
Rapidash tossed her mane and tail as Ash and Lance dismounted. Well, I’m ready for a break.

“You deserve one.” Ash said, tossing Rapidash some berries before returning it to its poke ball. “You’ve been working hard.”

Rapidash yawned and nodded, before curling up and enjoying the embrace of sleep. All that trotting and grazing was tiring!

“QUIET!” A voice yelled.

They looked up and saw an old man brandishing a gun.

“I’m the warden of the Safari Zone! Now why are you disturbing the peace?”
The group sweatdropped and sighed.

When they had paid for admittance into the Safari Zone, they were given a basket of safari balls and a fishing rod.

“You can only use these Safari Balls in the Safari Zone.” The warden explained. “And once you run out of Safari balls, you’re done.”

“I hope there are some good pokemon out there.” Teresa said.

“So you can take pictures?” Ash asked.

“Of course!” Teresa said. just then, she noticed a picture of the young warden and a Dratini. “It’s so cute!”

“There are no Dratini here!” The warden roared as he shoved them outside.

“Weird man.” Lance commented.

“You’re right about that, Crystal. Why don’t you catch some pokemon as well?”

“A Chansey would be nice…”

“Yeah! Maybe we can find a real one this time!”

“And not an officer jenny in disguise.”

The group chattered as they headed into the Safari Zone.

“Did you hear that?” Amy asked.

“Oh yes I did.” Jake said. “So there’s a Dratini in there somewhere. We’re going to capture it!”

“Of course!” Amy said. “And this time, we’ll be promoted for sure!”

“Giovanni wasn’t too happy when we told him how we failed to get the butterfree.”

‘This is different! As long as we bring back a rare or strong pokemon, he won’t be angry at us anymore!”

“It’s the perfect plan!”

Ninetails yawned. Whatever you guys say… I for one think it is way too risky. We could get hurt or lost.

“Don’t be so pessimistic! Let’s follow the twerps!”

Teresa was having fun taking pictures galore.

“Look! A pair of Eevee!” She said excitedly as she snapped a photo. Unfortunately, she startled the evolution pokemon so much that they ran away fast.

“Aw…” Ash said. Then, he reminded himself that he already had several eevelutions. Fire, electric, light, and water.

“Maybe we could try fishing.” Lance suggested.

“Cool, Crystal! See any pools around here?”

“Plenty.”

They headed for the nearest body of water and Ash dropped his fishing pole in. The lure was shaped like a Magikarp.

“I wonder what I’ll fish up.” Ash said, as he slowly reeled something in after fifty minutes.

Teresa looked up from her book. “I hope its good.”

“Me too.”

The line jerked, and Ash flew into the water.

*SPLASH*

“It’s dragging him away!” Pika-chan said.

“Ash! Let go of the fishing rod!”

But Ash hung on with all his might as he frantically tried to pedal back onto dry land.

“Use your magic, Ash!”

“Right!” Ash said. His eyes turned green as he chanted a spell. From his eyes rings of pale gray flew out and collided with whatever was dragging him away. It suddenly stilled.

“Hypnosis?”

Ash nodded and began slowly pulling his hooked pokemon back to land. He climbed out and began wringing water out of his blue-and-white jacket.

After ten minutes, they finally managed to get a good look at the pokemon.

It was a Psyduck.

“No way.” Ash said in disbelief. “How could a psyduck be so strong?”

“I don’t know.” Pika-chan said. Then, she sniffed the air. “Wait. Ash, do you feel?”

Ash reached out. “Clow’s aura.”
“Yes. It must be the Power card.” Pika-chan said.

“Great! How do I defeat it?”

“Use your own magic of course!”

Ash drew his key out from his sopping wet clothes. Just then, Teresa popped up. “You can’t look so wet on tape!”

Ash blinked.

“I made you a costume!”

Ash sighed. “Very well… I’m already wet anyways…” Teresa smiled and put something in his arms. Ash headed behind a large boulder to change. When he emerged, he was dressed in a bright orange pair of poofy pants and an orange ruffled shirt, trimmed with pink and yellow. His shoes were floppy and yellow and resembled duck feet. On his head was an orange bowler hat with pink squiggles.

“You look like a clown.” Lance commented.

Ash blushed. He released his staff and faced the still-fainted Psyduck.

“Card created by Clow, please accept this new star power and take on your new form! Your new master Ashura commands you, Release!”

He flipped a card into the air, and it flashed as it transformed into an Ash card. “I choose you – Kabutops!”

The fossil pokemon easily defeated Psyduck. But as usual, the card vanished. Ash sighed. * I can’t do anything about it… *

“Bingo.” Jake said, as he and Amy spotted a Dratini in the clear shallows of a pool. “Let’s go get it.”

Amy nodded and quickly netted the little dragon pokemon. “Let’s go!”

They immediately headed for the balloon, before taking off.

Lance shuddered. * Pain… there’s a dragon pokemon close by… *

“Ash, I think something’s wrong. Look.”

Ash looked up into the sky and saw Team Rocket’s balloon. “Team Rocket!”

“Don’t worry, little boy, we already have our prize!” Team Rocket called, as they flew away.

From inside a tank was a baby Dratini.

“Oh no you don’t!” Ash said, throwing out his pokemon. “Pidgey, I choose you! Use peck to break that tank!” Pidgey nodded and bashed her beak into the tank quite forcefully.

The glass shattered. Pidgey quickly threw the baby Dratini down to Ash.

“Grr. Slowpoke, go! Use Disable!”

“Articuno, use Blizzard!” Lance called, throwing out her pokemon. * How dare you kidnap a dragon pokemon! *

The ice attack slammed into the thieves’ Meowth balloon, sending them flying off into the distance. Who knows how Slowpoke wound up with them?

“Let’s take Dratini back home.” Pika-chan suggested. They did so, and by the time the Warden arrived to check on his old friend, the Dratini was back home and nothing was out of the ordinary.

“You did great, Ash.” Teresa said.

Ash blushed.

“Not really…”

“You’re doing fine.” Lance said. She ruffled Ash’s hair. “Now let’s go have some fun!”

The group cheered and fanned out to search for more pokemon.

End Episode 108! Yay! Finally done! You have no idea how long it takes me to write a chapter… around 4-5 hrs… anyways, please review…

Questions:

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A note to the readers:

Due to the fact that Dragon’s Mastery contains spoilers for Episodes 186-88 of CCA, which have not been posted yet, I am probably going to postpone posting for that fic until the CCA episode is up.

Please go read my new fic, ‘Shelter from the Storm’