The Dragon Master: Chapter Three I couldn't say anything. When they stopped in Violet City, the coroner said that she had been stabbed with a lance. I was shocked. Who would even want to kill Delilah? I was sitting in the PokeCenter in Violet City, when Ash, Misty, and Brock walked through the door. They saw me and immediately ran over to me. "What's wrong, Bob," Misty asked kindly. "Delilah," I answered in a low, quiet tone. "Who's that," wondered Ash out loud. "The woman that adopted me," I replied in the same tone as before. "My mother." "What happened to her," Brock asked. "Someone killed her," I said, in the same tone. "Who," Ash asked. "I don't know anything except that a teal cloaked man stabbed her with a lance and killed her," replied except this time, there was some anger in my voice. "I'm going to find Lance." "What would that do," Brock asked. "She was his mother, too," I said in finality. I went outside, Ash, Misty, and Brock followed me. I sent out Flare and hopped on. "Flare, fly to Indigo Plateau," I said and we took off, leaving Ash, Misty, and Brock behind in Violet City. As Flare I flew to Indigo Plateau, he eventually got tired and we stopped somewhere outside of Blackthorn City to set up camp. I let my pokemon out, and we got a fire started. My pokemon went to sleep, but I stayed up, wondering how these powers got within me. I would get revenge on whoever killed Delilah. I would make sure of it. I didn't care if it took my life, but I would get revenge. In the morning, I got on Flare again and we took off for Indigo Plateau once more. After an hours flight, we got to the front gates of Indigo Plateau. The guards let me in and said to proceed directly to Lance. They said that he wanted to talk to me. As I walked through the Elite Four's chambers, I noticed that none of them were there. But when I got to Lance's chamber, I found them all sitting around a table with six chairs around it. One was empty. Lance stood up. "Sit down, brother," Lance said calmly. He was not even disturbed. "Now I am sure that you know that Delilah is dead. She will be buried in New Bark Town's cemetery tomorrow at 12:00 P.M. But unfortunately..." "What do you mean, 'unfortunately'," I asked with suspicion. "Unfortunately," Lance continued, "you will not be there." "What do you mean," I asked. "Of course I will be there." "No, you won't," Lance stated, his voice still calm. "Because you killed her!" "Bob would never," Karen butted in. "I've seen them together. If it weren't for her, he would most likely be turned out on the streets by that abandoned orphanage." "I have good reason for believing what I believe," Lance told her. "Guards, search his bag." Five guards appeared from the doorway and ripped my bag off my shoulder. They opened it, and out came tumbling all of my training supplies...along with a teal cloak and a lance. "This is bullshit," I yelled in Lance's face. "I would never..." But Lance cut me off. "This lance has your fingerprints and this cloak has some DNA that matched your hair," Lance said, his voice rising in anger. "Guards, arrest him for the murder of Delilah Largway. "I didn't do it," I pleaded. "Help me, Will...?" He didn't even move. "Koga?" He had his eyes closed and arms folded. "Bruno?" He was still in shock. Evidently, he wasn't sure what to believe. "Karen?" She was just staring at me, eyes tearing up. The guards moved in closer. All of a sudden, my wings sprouted out of my back as they had done the night of my birthday. This was my only chance. I had to fly away. I jumped and flapped my wings, hoping that it would work. I was moving up. Ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet, I went up so high that not even Lance's Dragonite could catch me now. I took off from Indigo Plateau and did not look back, as I flew towards the one thing that I could see in the distance. The Goldenrod City Radio Tower. A storm was coming. I told the storm to come. Dragons control the weather. I am The Dragon Master. This is where you came in. I am still sitting on top of the Radio Tower in Goldenrod City. I am framed for murder of the woman that adopted me. I don't know how that cloak and lance got in there, but I didn't do it. I would go to the PokeCenter in Goldenrod City, but Lance has already put out a reward for my capture. The reward is 500,000 PokeDollars. I will still have my revenge on the person that killed Delilah. Nothing will stop me. I just need to find some allies. Those three people down there on the street look familiar. It's Ash, Misty, and Brock! I have to let them see me without being seen by anyone else. There's an alley beside the PokeCenter. I'll hide there and wait for them. My cloak disappeared and wings took they're place. I jumped off the Radio Tower and glided down to the alley quick. I recalled my cloak back and ordered my wings to go in. They were about to head in to the PokeCenter... "Ash, Misty, Brock," I whispered from the alley. "It's me, Bob. Come over here." Ash and Brock looked confused. But Misty immediately ran towards me. Ash and Brock followed suit. "Bob, what are you doing here," Misty asked me. "The last thing that I heard was that you were arrested by the League for killing that woman." "You mean Delilah," I told her. "I didn't do it. I was framed,but by who...I don't know." So I explained what had happened after I left them on Route 29. "So, you're able to wield the powers a dragon pokemon could," Ash asked, with a tone telling me that he didn't believe me. "I know that it sounds crazy, but it's the truth," I exasperatedly explained. "Meet me on Route 35 in a half-hour and I'll prove it. Don't be followed." As I ran off into the dark alley, they ran off into the PokeCenter. My cloak faded away when I told it to, my wings appeared, and I took off for Route 35 by flight. Ash, Misty, and Brock, were a little late but that was okay. I had my cloak on, so they would know that it was me, and it blended in, so nobody would notice me unless I talked. "You'd better not be wasting my time," Ash said grumpily. "I could be sleeping." "I'm not wasting your time," I said, not believing that Ash didn't know the seriousness of this matter. "Just trust me." I willed my body to change. My eyes turned teal, my cloak disappeared, my wings sprouted from my back, I blasted a hyper beam from one of my hands, a dragon rage with the other, a twister formed around me, and hot, steamy, dragonbreath flowed from my mouth. Then, I made it all stop, everything went back to the way that it was, and I recalled my cloak. "Now do you believe me," I asked, enjoying the astonished looks on their faces. "If you had all this power," Brock asked suspiciously, "how do we know that you didn't kill Delilah?" In the blink of an eye, I generated a teal katana under my cloak and held it to Brock's neck. "The only weapon that I can generate is a katana," I stated calmly. "All Masters have a designated weapon. Delilah was stabbed with a lance. The one who wields the lance...that's the one that killed Delilah." I degenerated the teal katana and put my arms back within the folds of my cloak. "I believe him," Misty stated firmly. "He wouldn't kill the only person that cared about him enough to give him a home." "I'll help, too," Ash said. "I'm in, on one condition," Brock said, "don't hold that sword to my neck ever again." Then he smiled. I held out my hand, and Ash shook it. "Where are we heading first," Ash asked innocently, "Indigo Plateau?" "No," I said, with my mind made up. "Not yet. Do you really think 3 kids and one Pokemon Master can stand up to the Elite Four and the League Champion. Not to mention all of the guards and trainers." Ash shook his head quickly. "Didn't think so. What we need is more Pokemon Masters. Let's go." "Where are we going," Brock asked. "Pallet Town," I answered with finality in my voice. "But what's in Pallet Town," Misty asked. "Professor Oak," I replied. "If anyone's gonna believe me, it's him." "How are we gonna get there," Ash asked. "Are any of you guys cared of flying," I asked innocently. "Go, Dragon, Dragonight, and Puff." My three Dragonites came out of their teal pokeballs in a flash of teal light and Ash hopped on Dragon, Brock got on Dragonight, and Misty got on Puff's back. I had my cloak degenerate and my wings appear. "Let's go," I said. "Fly fast so we aren't seen. Remember, we're wanted now. Ash, Misty, Brock, hold on tight." Then we took off into the night sky. As we were flying over Silver Cave, I heard a strange noise. Sounded like a rocket of some sort. "Get out of the way," I screamed at my Dragonites. They all performed some aerial maneuvers to dodge the missile being fired at us from the League helicopters coming and I followed suit. "Ash, go ahead to Professor Oak's place. I'll be fine here. I can handle these helicopters. "You there," a League Trainer shouted though his microphone, "Come with us silently before force is necessary." "What's the fun in that," I asked sarcastically. "Go Scarlet, Flare, Aeroy! Use your attacks to stop those missiles that they are firing at us." That's when the rally of missiles came at us. Scarlet and Flare were blowing them up with Flamethrower, Aeroy was exploding them with Fire Blast, and I was deflecting them into the other helicopters with Twister. I turned my head around just in time to see a hyper beam nail me right in the back coming from the direction of a helicopter. I started falling down towards Silver Cave, with helicopters landing all around me. The last thing that I saw though my blood-filled eyes was League Trainers and coming towards me. Following them was a man in a teal hooded cloak, holding a lance... - End of Chapter Three -