The Dragon Master: Chapter Five

	The torpedoes were moving in closer. An idea had just popped into my head. 
I started up a huge twister all around us, and then Misty figured out what I 
was doing. She started up a whirlpool. I called my wings, and shot up to the 
surface, the both of us till concentrating on our attacks. When the 
torpedoes reached the whirlpool and twister, they got sucked up and went 
around and around. When I gave Misty my signal, we both slowly moved our 
attacks toward the sub. I let Misty go, and she dived into the water to save 
Ash and Brock. I concentrated on my twister and Misty came up with Ash, but 
Brock was still down there.
	"Misty," I yelled, "take care of the whirlpool. I'll go down and get 
Brock." The whirlpool kept going, and I stopped my twister. I dived down 
into the water and swam to Brock. He had been down here for at least three 
minutes. I used hyper beam to blast away the rock, and Brock changed back to 
his human form. Then we both swam back up to surface. We swam over to Misty 
and Ash, when the League submarine exploded and split us up. Ash and Brock 
went one way, and Misty and I went another.
	"Ugh," I said as I sat up and I tried to figure out where I was. It looked 
like I was on some sort of beach. Misty was knocked out and lying beside me. 
But Ash and Brock were nowhere to be found.
	"Misty, wake up," I said as I shook her gently. "Wake up."
	"What..." she said as she opened her eyes and sat up. "Where are we Bob? 
What happened to Ash and Brock?"
	"I don't know for both questions," I told her. "Don't worry, we'll find 
them." I hope, I added silently. We started to walk along the riverbank 
towards Lavender Town. We had our cloaks off and we weren't using our 
pokemon or out abilities for fear of attention. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing 
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing.
	"What's that," I asked Misty.
	"That's my cell phone," Misty replied as she pulled it out of her bag and 
put it to her ear. "Hello. Uh...okay." She handed the phone to me. "It's for 
you." She had the blankest look on her face that I had ever seen.
	"Hello," I asked the person on the other line. "Who is this?"
	"You know perfectly well who I am," said a soft voice on the other end. "We 
have your friends here with me. If you're not here within the next 
half-hour, the one with the Pikachu will be dead. If you're not here within 
an hour, the Rock Master will be dead, too. There is a hatch underneath the 
water under the bridge. Go through there. Some guards will direct you to me. 
If you attack the guards, your friends will die. When you come here, you 
will stay and they will go free. Don't bring your Water Master girlfriend. 
Do you understand?"
	"Yes," I answered with my teeth clenched.
	"Good," the teal-cloaked man said. Click.
	"Who was that," Misty asked me.
	"Nobody," I said. "Go to Lavender Town. Go to Mr. Fuji's house. Tell him 
who sent you, and he will hide you until I get there."
	"But why," she asked.
	"I can't tell you now," I said and I kissed her on the cheek. "Goodbye." 
Then I dove into the water. I called my wings to make me go faster. It only 
took me a couple of minutes to get to the hatch. Opening it though, that was 
a different matter. I summoned my Dragon Mastery. My eyes turned teal and I 
sent a twister to open the hatch. It worked. After I had gotten in there, 
the guards appeared just like the teal-cloaked man had said. I let them 
handcuff me and take me down a couple of halls and through a couple of 
doors. I ended up in a room where Ash, Brock, and Pikachu were being held. 
Brock was being suspended over a pool of water, Pikachu in an 
Electric-Absorbent container, and Ash was being held captive by two League 
trainers holding a gun to his head.
	"Ah," said the teal-cloaked man. "So good it is to have you here. Guards," 
He snapped his fingers. "let them go." On his command, the trainers brought 
Brock down, freed Pikachu, and let Ash go.
	"Ash," I whispered to him, "go to Lavender Town at Mr. Fuji's place. Tell 
him who sent you and he will show you to where Misty is. Tell her I'm all 
right. I'll be there shortly." Then the guards showed them the way out.
	"So," the teal-cloaked man said. "So."
	"So what," I asked him. He walked up to me. Then he hit me across the face 
with the wood side of his lance.
	"You sacrificed yourself so you could save your friends," he said. I could 
tell that he was wearing a smirk on his face, though he was hiding in the 
shadows of his cloak. "How very noble. But, it is ironic. The noble ones 
always die first. It's the fools that live on." I didn't even know what I 
was going to do. I didn't think of a plan before I barged in. I would have 
to stall.
	"Who are you," I said out of the blue. "I want to see the face of the 
Master that finally defeated me." Perhaps this would work. Perhaps it 
wouldn't.
	"You will see my face and know my name," he said mysteriously, "when you're 
on your last breath." He looked away from me and at the guards. "Guards, if 
he wants to see my face and know my name, put him to his last breath. But 
away from my eyes." This was my chance. This is how I am going to get out of 
here.
	As the guards took me from the teal-cloaked man's sight and out the door, I 
had a twister hidden in my hand, building up power so it could knock out the 
guards. Once they had me a minute or so from the place that the others were 
being kept in, I let out my twister. Not only did it knock them out, it 
destroyed the handcuffs that they had kept me in! I called my cloak and 
sprinted down the hallway. As I was running, I saw some League trainers 
which I easily knocked out with my Dragon Rage. I decided that I must 
destroy this place before I left. I saw an electrical socket on the wall. 
Maybe if I overloaded it with electricity, the whole place would shut down.
	"Go Dragonight," I whispered as I threw out one of my teal pokeballs. 
Dragonight erupted in a flash a teal light. "Dragonight, use your Thunder to 
overload that electrical socket." As it did so, I saw the light flicker and 
go out. Then water rushed in through the doorway!
	"Dragonight, return," I whispered as he got back in his pokeball through a 
thin teal beam of light. "Go, Scarlet." My red Gyarados came out of its 
pokeball in a flash of teal light. 	"Scarlet, use Surf." I got on and it 
obeyed. Soon, we were back on the surface of the water and surfing towards 
Lavender Town.
Once I got there, I was glad to see that the League had not gotten to this 
city yet. I quickly ran towards Mr. Fuji's house in my regular clothes and 
went inside.
	"Ah, it is Bob," Mr. Fuji said as he came forward to shake my hand. I took 
it and he continued. "Some of your friends came by." He winked at me. 
"Follow me, Bob." I followed him to his basement and there sat Misty, Ash, 
Brock, and Pikachu.
	"Bob," Misty exclaimed as she ran over to me and hugged me. "I'm so happy 
that you're all right. But what the h*** happened to you?" I sat down with 
them and Mr. Fuji and explained what Ash and Brock never saw after they 
left.
	"So the teal-cloaked man got away again," Ash exasperatedly said as I 
completed my story. "Don't you want to beat the living crap out of him?"
	"I don't know what I want anymore," I said solemnly. "Except for one thing. 
I want to stop the League for what they are doing to all of the Pokemon 
Masters. We have to get to Sabrina. And we have to get there quick. Let's 
go." With that, I used my Mastery to change into my regular clothes, as I 
had put on my cloak when I went into the basement. Misty and Brock did the 
same.
As we walked outside, we noticed a troop of League soldiers bursting into 
the door one of the houses in Lavender Town. When they came back out, they 
had within their grips a teenage girl with glowing bright purple eyes.
	"What kind of element responds to that color," Misty queried nobody in 
particular as the League troop carried away the girl.
	"Poison," I said simply. "Wait, she looks familiar. There's no way that 
that could be...but it has to be."
	"Who is it," Ash asked.
	"That's Janine," I answered him, "Koga's daughter. We have to help her." 
Before anyone could contradict me, I ran out from our hiding spot and 
sprinted directly for the League troop. I realized that I could never defeat 
them without my powers so I picked up the nearest garbage can and hurled it 
at them. I took out at least half of the troop, the other half happened to 
notice me. They let go of Janine, and I saw Ash appear from behind a tree 
and grab her. I was about to use a dragon rage attack on them, but the very 
rocks underneath their feet started to move and knocked them down. I ran by 
them after Ash, Misty, Brock, and Janine that went down the route to Saffron 
City. Brock was waiting for me at the exit from the city.
	"Nice Ancientpower," I complimented him as we ran off for the others.
	"I've been practicing," he answered as we continued running. When we had 
finally reached the others, we set up camp and explained to Janine what was 
going on with the League and the Elite Four.
	"You're all crazy," she said in our faces as I had finished. "My father, 
Koga, would never do anything like this."
	"The Elite Four don't know anything about it," I explained. "Lance doesn't 
either." This was going to be harder than I had expected. "Look, do you want 
to save your father from the clutches of the League?"
	"Well, yeah," Janine said.
	"Then you have to help us," I finished.
	"Fine, I'll help," Janine conceded. "But I can't even control my powers. 
I'll probably be more of a nuisance than a help."
	"I'll teach you how to control them," I assured her. "You just need a 
little bit of training." So we started. We taught her how to generate and 
degenerate her cloak, and her weapon of choice, a bright purple 
poison-tipped katana. Next we taught her how to use all of the poison 
attacks. By the next day, she was getting pretty good at it. Then we headed 
for Saffron City. As we reached the gate, I suddenly heard a voice in my 
head.
	"Help me," the voice said. "The League has trapped me here in my own gym." 
It had to be Sabrina. She was a Psychic Master. We had to save her.
	"The city is being controlled by the League," I said. "Sabrina is a Psychic 
Master. We're going in." I walked up to the gates that were around the city. 
I tried to open them with my arms, but I ended up failing. "A little help?" 
Misty, Brock, and Janine came immediately, but Ash just stood there. Then, 
he and Pikachu grabbed their heads and started to moan in pain. Ash's eyes 
flashed black. He was becoming a Master. A Dark Master. As suddenly as it 
had started, it had stopped. Ash and Pikachu collapsed to the ground to 
awaken a few moments later.
	"What happened," Ash wondered out loud. All of a sudden, he produced a 
black cloak that seemed to come from the shadows themselves.
	"Welcome to a Mastery," I explained to Ash. "The Dark Mastery. It's too bad 
that we don't have any time to train you, or we would. We just have to save 
Sabrina. Now help me open these doors." We tried with all our might, but it 
seemed that five teenage Masters could not even budge the gates.
	"Screw it," I muttered under my breath. I then went up to the doors and 
said simply, "Dragonbreath." I blew on the door, and it melted a hole big 
enough for us to enter through.
When we entered the city, it seemed as though warfare was going on. The 
League troops were savaging all the homes and the gyms, taking out anybody 
who showed signs of Mastery. I ran towards the Psychic Gym, where Sabrina 
was located. There were at least 20 soldiers firing at us, but we used 
evasive maneuvers and finally reached them in which I used my Outrage. My 
eyes turned teal, my hands erupted with a teal fire, and I started punching 
all of the guards that I could see. When they had been all knocked out, I 
generated my katana and Janine did the same. Misty formed twin blue sai 
knives form the moisture in the air. Brock changed into rock, and formed a 
rocky sword from his palm. Ash wasn't sure what to do as he had just 
received his powers. He looked disappointed until the closest shadows came 
and crawled up to his hand and formed a black katana. We entered the Psychic 
Gym cautiously, keeping our eyes opened for League trainers. If we met up 
with any Masters, that wouldn't be good. As we rounded the corner, five 
guards came at us.
	"We'll all take one," I yelled to the others. I ran up to them and cut down 
the closest one to me. He fell after a small scream. When the guards had 
been disposed of, I immediately ran towards the arena where I had fought 
Sabrina all these years ago. There she was, knocked out and tied to a chair. 
I supposed that they had to knock her out to prevent her from using her 
powers. I ran up to her while the others stood guard.
	"Sabrina," I whispered so we didn't attract attention. "Sabrina, wake up. 
We have to get out of here, or they'll kill us." She immediately opened her 
eyes.
	"Ah, Bob," she said with a slight smile on her face. She must have been 
really happy, because she never, I mean never smiles at all. "I sensed you 
coming right before they knocked me out. No need for help untying my bonds. 
I can do them myself." With that, her eyes turned a deep purple color, and 
the ropes binding her immediately came apart. When she had got up, she 
called her purple cloak to her, and called us over here.
	"Everybody," she snapped, "get over here in a circle and link hands." We 
all did obediently. "Now Bob, who are you going to persuade to come to your 
side next?"
	"Erika," I told her. "She's the Celadon City gym leader."
	"Good," Sabrina said. "Erika will be a powerful ally. Now, Teleport." We 
got away just as the League troops entered the arena and started to fire. 
After the teleporting had ended, we found ourselves in front of the Celadon 
City Grass Gym. We all called our cloaks as we went in. There were some 
grass trainers there with pokeballs that were going to try and stop us. I 
didn't want to hurt them, but if they didn't let us past, I just may have 
had to. But Sabrina used her hypnosis and sent them off into a deep sleep. 
As we continued through the gym, more grass trainers had to be hypnotized as 
we walked towards Erika's chamber. When we had finally got there, there were 
yet more grass trainers trying to stop us as we went to Erika. Sabrina put 
them to sleep like she had done the others and went right up to Erika.
	"Hello, Erika," I greeted her as we approached her. "We need your help. The 
League is taking all of the Pokemon Masters, whatever element, and bringing 
them to the Indigo Plateau to do...something with them. What we have know 
idea. We know you are a Master, Erika. We need you to help save Kanto and 
Johto from the League."
	"Hey, I remember you," Erika said suddenly as I finished my sales pitch. 
"You're that kid that came and wiped me out a few years ago with those 
dragons. Which all knew some kind of fire attack. You're Bob, Lance's little 
brother. You killed that woman that adopted you."
	"For the record, I didn't kill her. I was framed," I said angrily. "But, if 
you're coming with us, we have to leave now." Some of Erika's guards had 
finally awoken and came to her chambers.
	"Mistress Erika," the guard said, "the League has taken over the city and 
now they're coming for you."
	"Now do you believe us," Ash asked Erika.
	"Do I have a choice," Erika asked sarcastically. "Guess not. You caught me. 
I am indeed a Grass Master." Then she called her forest green cloak around 
her right as the League troops came in and started to attack.
	"There are seven Masters here," one of the guards said into his 
walkie-talkie. "I repeat seven Pokemon Masters."
All the League soldiers pulled out a hand-to-hand combat weapon as Janine, 
Ash, and I generated our katanas, Misty generated her twin blue sai knives, 
Brock made his sword, Sabrina made a foot-long knife made out of pure 
psychic energy, and Erika made an ebony staff. When we had finished off the 
first set of soldiers, more flooded in. But this time, they had guns. 
Sabrina wasn't paying attention to a certain soldier and got hit over the 
head with the butt of his gun. He was about to finish her off when I noticed 
and hyper beamed him unconscious.
	"Bob," Misty asked as she fought off soldiers with streams of water and her 
sai knives, "what are we going to do since or only way out of here is 
unconscious."
	"That's a good question," I responded. "With many possible answers. The 
most common answer would most likely be 'We're screwed.'"
	"That's your plan," Misty exclaimed as we knocked out the last of the 
soldiers.
	"Maybe there's a back exit," I asked Erika.
	"Yeah, there is," Erika exclaimed. "Well, it's kinda a secret passage, but 
it will work."
	"Good," I said. "We have to hurry before more League soldiers come." We 
didn't even get a chance to start running away. The teal-cloaked man was 
standing in the way of getting out.
"How nice to see you again, Bob," the teal-cloaked man addressed me.
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