The Dragon Master: Chapter Six "I let your friends go before, but this time, they'll die with you," the teal-cloaked man continued. "Who's he," Erika wondered out loud. "That's man that framed me," I told her. "He's the real one that killed Delilah." The teal-cloaked man then generated his lance. "Now's the time to die, Bob," he said as he charged at me with his lance right as I generated my katana and blocked the blow while I did a flip over him so I landed behind him, ready to attack. "Get out of here, guys," I yelled at the others. "I'll find you as soon as I am through with this." I started slashing at him furiously. Yet, he blocked and parried every blow. That didn't discourage me as I kept on swinging my teal katana at this man that had killed the only person in my life that had cared about me. My eyes turned teal as I sped up my swings, throwing him off balance. Soon, my eyes were bright silver, and I had no way of controlling my body. I could see myself aiming for his weak spots, trying to penetrate his high defense. Yet, it was not mine to control. The guards had gone after Ash, Misty, Janine, Erika, and Brock, who was carrying the unconscious Sabrina. However, the teal-cloaked man and at were still going at it. He was so busy being on the defense that he didn't have any time to do anything offensive. I finally managed to get to his defense and slash him across the chest. The cut wasn't deep, and he would survive if I didn't finish him off right now... Some League guards burst through the door and aimed their guns at me. The teal-cloaked man was on the floor, bleeding profusely. My eyes changed back to normal, and I realized what was happening. "Hold it right there," one of the guards shouted at me. "You are wanted for the murder of Delilah Largway." I had no choice. I couldn't finish him off yet. If I wanted to clear my name, I would have to leave him love for now, so they wouldn't think me as a murderer. I noticed that there were some chairs to the right of me. I jumped on them, then out the window, glass shattering all around me, not just from the impact, but also from the bullets that they were shooting at me. Before they could find me, I ran off towards Cycling Road. It was nighttime before I had got there. When I had got there at last, I heard a voice calling me. "Bob," the voice said. "Come over here." It was Misty. I followed here voice and ended up in a clearing. "Hey, Misty," I said to her, masking the regret in my voice. "What happened," Misty asked me. "Did the teal-cloaked man get away again?" "Yeah," I said. "He did. I slashed him across the chest once with my katana right when the League guards came in. Otherwise, I would had finished him." We weren't standing very far apart. She was actually moving closer to me. "We'll get him next time," she said, moving closer to me. "Yeah," I replied, going closer to her, too. As we were moving ever so closer, neither of us knowing what the consequences would be, many thoughts raced through my mind. There was about a centimeter between out lips... "Misty," someone whispered from behind some bushes. "Did you find Bob? Where is he?" We immediately came apart and looked like we were walking towards the campsite where everybody else was located. We were both very awkward walking back to the others. "Yeah," she replied, with a dangerous tone in her voice. She sounded as though she would kill the person that interrupted us. "I found him." When we got back to the others, it was actually Ash that interrupted us, and Misty didn't talk to him for the rest of the night. I explained what happened to everybody what happened after they had left the teal-cloaked man and I fighting. "That's how I escaped," I finished. "But how did you guys escape?" "After we ran out of the room with the guards chasing us," Erika started, "we headed directly for the secret passage. I left them some of my sleep powder and right off to dream land they went. We proceeded to the secret passage and out we went." "What other Masters do we need to get from Kanto yet," Ash asked. "We have all the ones that we need from Kanto," I explained. "The ones that we didn't get will never have come with use in the first place. We would most likely be dead if we went after one of them and failed." "So when do we set out for Johto," Brock asked. "First thing in the morning," I replied to him. "There's only one way out of this country without being caught." "What's that," Erika asked questioningly. "We'll have to fly away from Fuchsia City," I replied simply. "But we'll have to be quiet about it." "I don't see why we have to do that," Janine stated. "Being a Pokemon Master isn't a crime." "The League says it is if you're not on their side," I contradicted her. "The only problem is getting on the ship. You guys might not have any problem, but I'm a wanted man. They have my face posted everywhere." "If we're leaving first thing in the morning," Sabrina said, apparently tiring of all our talk, "we must get our rest. I will keep watch all night. I can keep watch while I'm sleeping." With that, she closed her eyes and did not open them. We all just lied down, though none of us were even close to falling asleep. We were all thinking about what we had to do tomorrow, and what bit of law breaking that we were about to do next. Everyone but me, that is. I was thinking about who was Delilah's murderer, and what I was going to do to him when I got my hands on him. Misty was lying right beside me, clearly not even trying to sleep, the moon reflected in her deep blue eyes. "Go to sleep," I told her as I kissed her on the cheek and rolled over on my back. Even though my eyes were closed, I could feel her stare on me. When we awoke the next morning, we extinguished the fire, created some clothes of the color of our elements, and headed down Cycling Road. Luckily, there was no League troops and we all created bicycles with the color being our respective elements. As we were zooming down the hill on our bikes, we noticed that there were some League troopers ahead. I tried to turn my face so that the troopers could not see it. They all had wanted posters of me so I had to be extra careful. They let us pass and I let out a sigh of relief. The sigh came too soon. "Hey, stop them," one of the troopers was yelled. "They're Pokemon Masters!" "O shit," I muttered as I sped up my bike. They were all hopping on their motorcycles and chasing us. The end of Cycling Road was coming closer, and I didn't slow down. "Bob, are you crazy," Erika yelled at me. I ignored her and I nodded to Sabrina. She seemed to get my drift as her eyes started to glow a deep purple. Our bikes all did the same. She was going to turn the bikes for us! The troopers were going too fast and they were catching us. Right at the end of Cycling Road, Sabrina used her Mastery to pick up the bikes and turn them at a ninety-degree angle. After our bikes were placed in the direction of the checkpoint at the end of Cycling Road, we sped off through the open doors and watched the troopers fly over the fence because they were going to fast. As we were biking extremely fast towards where Fuchsia City meets the sea, we saw a girl with teal hair running as fast as she possibly could from a group of League soldiers. "I have to help her," I stated. "Don't wait up for me." I then changed direction towards the girl. I didn't know why they were chasing her, but most likely it was because she was a Master. We needed a lot of Masters on our side right now. The soldiers were catching up with her. There was no way that I would reach her on my bike. I jumped off the bike and called my wings. They came and the dust flew. Now I was going to make it. I picked her up, and laughed at the soldiers as they shot at us. They were terrible shots. "You're a Master," the girl said in awe. "Thanks for saving me." "Anytime," I replied still flying after the others. "My name's Bob. What's yours?" After I had told her my name, she suddenly went berserk and tried to get away from me. "AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHH," she screamed high-pitched. "A murderer kidnapped me! AGGGGHHHH!" "Shut the hell up," I told her as I put one of my hands over her mouth, which she promptly bit. "AGGGGHHHH! Maybe I should just drop you now, huh? How does that sound?" "As long as you don't murder me and take me home," she said, hysterical now, "I won't say anything." "I didn't murder anybody," I explained to her. "I was framed. Why would I kill the only person that ever even cared about me?" She saw that I was looking sad and comforted me. "That explains it," she said. "I believe you now. I'm a Master, too, and my name's Duplica." "What element are you," I asked her out of curiosity. "An element that only one pokemon is," she started mysteriously. "Change." "Change," I said, puzzled. "So, you can transform into anything you please?" "Yep," she said. "Anything I please. So where are we going?" "Seafoam Islands," I told Duplica. "After that, we're heading to Johto." "Johto," she asked, suddenly panicking. "Why are we going all the way to Johto?" "We've collected all the Masters that we need from Kanto," I explained as the Seafoam Islands came into view. I gently set down and put Duplica down. I spotted the others, and ran over to them, with Duplica close behind. "So, who's the new Master," Ash asked as he saw us coming into view. "Hey, Misty, Brock, it's Duplica! Hey Duplica!" He ran over to her and started talking to her. I however, went up to Misty and started to talk to her. "So, did you guys get out of Fuchsia okay," I asked her. "Yeah," she said, looking like we both felt. That happened to be awkward. I knew what she thought had happened after I had saved Duplica, and I wanted to set the record straight. "Misty," I said to her, "nothing happened between me and Duplica. I just picked her up, and flew her over here. Boy, there's something that I thought that I'd said in my life." After that, we both started laughing. It took awhile to stop. After we did, however, it seemed as though Ash had started a fire and we went over there. "So where are we going after this," Erika asked. "I mean, I just don't know how we're going to get to Johto from here. It seems like a long flight without any stops." "I have the answer to that," I started my plan. "Every day, the S.S. Fast Ship comes by these Islands. What I figure is, is that we'll hop aboard without anybody knowing, and hitch a free ride to Olivine City." "But what if we don't make it," Duplica said, sounding worried. "We have to make it," I said. "The fate of Kanto and Johto rests upon our succeeding." After that little talk, everybody looked decided. We were going to get to Johto. Or die trying. However, we had to push Duplica's training a little bit too fast, as we had to leave the next day. She learned how to control her metamorphosis and change into various pokemon. She also learned how to create her weapon of choice, a pink bow and arrow. Sometimes that she got out of her metamorphosis, she happened to forget to put some clothes on using her Mastery. By the next day, she had almost perfected it and we were ready to take off towards the S.S. Fast Ship. We got ready, as the ship would zoom by us, hence the name. When it came, we barley had time to react. Misty was surfing as fast as possible, with Ash hanging on to her for dear life. Duplica had changed into a Dragonite, the fastest known flying pokemon, and was flying close to me. Since there was a strong wind, Erika had chosen her Jumpluff, and the wind was carrying them faster than anybody. Sabrina was using her Psychic Mastery to lift Brock and Janine towards the ship. When we had caught up to it, Sabrina teleported us all inside one of the cargo bays. After about a 10-minute trip, the ship had stopped and we were being teleported out of the cargo bay and on top of the PokeCenter in Olivine City. Next, we had to persuade Jasmine, most likely the Steel Master, to come with us. We had to sneak around to the gym, but with the help of Sabrina's teleport, we got inside the gym easily. Now to find Jasmine. She had no underlings, as there were not many steel trainers. When we found her, she was training her Steelix, her Magneton, her Skarmory, her Forretress, and her Scizor. Her team had greatly increased since I had last battled her. She would indeed be a good ally to have. "Who's there," Jasmine said, worriedly as she turned her head in our direction. "Scizor, please go check it out." Her Scizor obeyed and sped over here to our hiding spot. We didn't have time to react, and it was there, before our eyes, in less than a second. "Scizor," the Scizor said, it's eyes flashing. It raised its hand ready to use a metal claw. Janine raised her hand to perform a toxic, but the Scizor was unaffected. "Janine," I said to her, "Poison attacks don't even affect Steel types." The Scizor was about to use a metal claw on Janine, but Erika put it to sleep with a Sleep Powder. "Jasmine," Brock yelled as he ran over to her. "Brock," Jasmine wondered out loud, "what are you guys doing here?" We all walked up to her and explained what was going on. She took it pretty well, and her eyes glowed steely silver as her cloak came about her. "I've had to hide my Mastery until now. Mostly because I had heard that the League was taking them from Kanto, so they would eventually come to Johto." "You're right," I agreed. "They are taking them from Kanto. We're not sure about Johto yet, because we haven't seen any." BOOOOOOM! The door to the gym was blasted open. The teal-cloaked man was standing there in the doorway, his hand smoking, evidently from the dragon rage that he had used to blow the door open. "You've escaped my grasp three times," the teal-cloaked man said furiously, "and that is three times to many." He then generated his lance and charged at me like a raging Tauros. I ripped off my cloak and threw it in his face. That blinded him for the moment, while I blasted a way out of the gym for the others with my hyper beam. When I looked back at him, he was charging again. He started swiped at me with his lance. I was doing fine dodging them, but eventually, he hit me right across the chest. "AGGGGGHHHH," I yelled out in pain as I fell to the floor. "Now you die," he yelled, pinning me down with his legs. All I could see was his lance coming down right for my chest... - End of Chapter Six -