The Dragon Master: Chapter Seven

	"DIE, BOB," the teal-cloaked man yelled as his lance came closer to my 
already freely bleeding chest. Right before the lance had got there, a jet 
of water came and knocked the teal-cloaked man off of me. Brock came, picked 
me up, and followed Misty, who was running after the others. Then, I blacked 
out.
	"How long do you think he'll be out?"
	"I dunno, he took a pretty bad gash to the chest."
	"He's lucky that it didn't hit anything vital." These were the voices that 
I heard as I awoke. I opened my eyes and it was Misty and Erika sitting 
above me.
	"Hey there," Misty said as she smiled.
	"Where are we," I asked. As I took a look of my surroundings, it looked 
like we were in a barn of some type.
	"We're at the MooMoo Farm," Erika explained. "The farmer here told you to 
drink this as soon as you got up." She handed me a glass of their famous 
MooMoo milk. I tried to sit up, but Misty put her hands on the uninjured 
part of my chest to stop me. That's when I noticed that I had no shirt, and 
blood soaked bandages were wrapped around my chest.
	"Where are the others," I asked as I drank the milk.
	"Waiting inside the house," Erika said. "They told me to come get them when 
you awakened. I'll leave you two alone." Then she walked out of the barn and 
went into the house next to it.
	"How long was I out," I asked Misty as I finished that milk. I actually did 
feel stronger.
	"About three and a half hours," Misty replied. "But you did get pretty beat 
up." We were moving closer as we had done that one night in the clearing. 
Our lips were a few millimeters away...
	"Hey, Bob, how you doing," Ash said as he entered the barn with his black 
cloak on. Misty and I acted like we were just waiting for the others. The 
other six Masters followed him in and all of them immediately crowded around 
me.
	"I'm fine," I told them. "We leave tomorrow morning."
	"What," Janine exclaimed. "How can we leave tomorrow when you're not even 
better yet?"
	"I heal quickly," I explained. "All Dragon Master's do. Did you see the 
teal-cloaked man? He was fine and I slashed him across the chest a couple of 
days ago."
	"This is crazy," Erika said. "Misty, you're not gonna let him do this, are 
you?"
	"Yes," she said. "Yes I will. We will take on the League and defeat them, 
just him and I if we must. We're leaving tomorrow morning, like he said." 
With that, everybody went back into the house where they were going to stay 
for the night.
	When we awoke the next morning, we got ready and set out for Ecruteak City. 
We were in disguise in the clothes that we created with our Mastery. As we 
were walking down the road to Ecruteak City, I felt that we were being 
watched by something. I tried to remember back to the days that I was 
traveling this route. I gave up on that, as I had more important things to 
do. We were walking along in silence, until Sabrina said something.
	"Where's Misty at," Sabrina said, looking puzzled. "My mind didn't detect 
that she was gone." I, however, knew something was wrong. Sabrina would know 
about it unless...
	"Head on to Ecruteak City," I told them. "I will not be long." Then I ran 
off the other way. I was walking down the route back to the MooMoo Farm when 
many powerful psychic blasts went through my head. I collapsed to the 
ground. Those were so powerful that only a Master could use produce. And a 
Master it was. Will teleported right beside me. He put one of his hands on 
my back and teleported us away. I then blacked out.
	"Wake up," a voice said in my head. "Wake up." It was Will, the first of 
the Elite Four and a Psychic Master. "WAKE UP!" The last one was loud and a 
psychic blast followed. I opened my eyes involuntarily. Will was using his 
telekinesis to hold me down. When he had stopped, I noticed that Misty was 
right beside me. All he did was look at her and she burst out in pain.
	"AAAAGGGGGHHHH," she yelled and then went quiet again.
	"Now Bob," Will started, "you must know by now that the League has been 
abducting Masters and taking them away."
"Do the other Elite Four and Lance know about this," I asked him.
"Yes," he said. "Well, Lance doesn't. He thinks were on a 'Special mission.' 
We were more than willing after we knew that you had killed Delilah. I was 
given certain orders by a higher power than I, that any Masters found in 
company with you, should be killed. Now, I'll start with her."
	"No," I yelled in his face.
	"No," Will questioned me. "And why not? If you wish. I shall not kill her." 
I sighed in relief. "You will." I looked at his face in utter hatred.
	"You can't make me do anything," I told him.
	"How can you be so sure," he argued with me. "I can control you if I want. 
And I do." I felt myself lift off the ground, and to my surprise, I raised 
my arms and called my teal katana. I was going to stab Misty!
	"No," I told myself out loud, "I will not kill Misty. There is no way in 
hell that she will die now, at my hands. I WILL NOT!" I had yelled that last 
part and broke the psychic hold over me. I went over to Will in the blink of 
an eye, and sliced right over his wrist. I saw his hand fall off. He looked 
at me and teleported away. His hand remained there, blood still flowing out 
of it. I degenerated my katana and went over to Misty. She was still 
unconscious, so I picked her up and went down the route to Ecruteak City 
after the others.
	When I had reached them, they were just entering the gate into town. When I 
had reached the guard, he told me to get Misty to a hospital right away. He 
asked if I needed any assistance.
	"No," I replied quickly as saw a wanted poster of me inside his post. I ran 
inside Ecruteak City and quickly spotted the others at the entrance of 
Morty's Gym. I ran inside after them with Misty in my arms. Morty was having 
a gym battle with a trainer in there. Sabrina ran out onto the arena and 
stopped the battle. I then ran up to Morty and started talking to him.
	"Morty," I started, "the League is kidnapping Pokemon Masters and taking 
them to the League. We don't know what they're doing to them. All that we 
know is that you're a Master and you have to come with us to stop the League 
and the Elite Four."
	"I'm not a Master," Morty denied.
	"This device says you are," I said as I turned on the HED that Professor 
Oak had given me. I pointed it at Morty and it went crazy. The type said 
Ghost.
	"That's probably just my pokemon," Morty said with a wave of his hand.
	"Nope," I contradicted him. "HED stands for Human Elemental Device. As it 
is pointing to you, and it says ghost, you are Ghost Master. If you don't 
come with us, the League will kill you."
	"Okay let's go," Morty said as a put my device away. His eyes turned a 
light purple and his cloak appeared.
	"I thought he said that he wasn't a Master," Erika suspiciously said.
	"I lied," he simply said. "I just didn't want to be affiliated with you 
people. I didn't want the League thinking that I was working against them." 
He then walked right though the wall of his gym and proceeded outside. We 
all followed him, except we opened the door. Morty was waiting for use 
outside in a light purple T-shirt and pants.
	"So," Morty asked, "where are we headed next?"
	"Goldenrod City," I explained. "We're going to get Whitney, then Busgy at 
Azalea Town, finally, Falkner at Violet City." Misty then awoke.
	"Where are we," she asked dazedly.
	"Ecruteak City," I replied, "and now were heading to Goldenrod City."
	"Uh...there may be a bit of a problem with that," Erika said, worried. 
Soldiers, hundreds and hundreds of League soldiers. Ecruteak City had just 
quadrupled its population.
	"There has to be a way out," I said. Misty was now walking on her own, 
mostly because of the shock of all the soldiers there.
	"Come to think of it," Morty said, "there's an abandoned sewer that heads 
out on the route going to Goldenrod City."
	"Any other ways," Janine asked hopefully.
	"It doesn't even smell down there," Morty reassured her. "It hasn't even 
been used for 30 years. We got a new one that long ago. As we don't have 
much time, I suppose that we should get going." Morty led the way, as the 
rest of us followed. We all climbed down and put the lid back on just as the 
soldiers tramped above us. As we went down, it got dark, so Misty threw out 
a pokeball.
"Togetic, Flash," she ordered as the evolved form of Togepi with wings came 
out and lit up our path. We were walking for quite a bit when Morty suddenly 
stopped.
	"O shit," Morty cursed. "There's a huge puddle of toxic waste from here all 
the way to the end."
	"Toxic waste, you say," Janine asked with one eyebrow raised. "I just might 
be able to help out here. Just let me through." She walked up past Morty. 
Her eyes glowed bright purple as she spread her hands apart, and the toxic 
waste spread enough for us to get through.
	"I don't think that she can hold it if we walk," Morty said, because he 
knew the length of the tunnel. "We'll have to sprint to the end." He took 
off in a dead sprint and we all followed him, Jasmine in last because poison 
doesn't affect steel. We finally saw light up ahead. The end of the tunnel. 
The light was blocked off. Something wasn't right here. As we got closer, we 
saw that it was a massive pile of Grimer, waiting for us to get there so 
they could attack. As they all started to throw sludge bombs at us, we had 
to dodge and we all threw our attacks back at them. There was a huge 
explosion. Not only was that enough to faint them, it was also enough to 
blow off the grate. When we finally got out of the sewer, we saw the 
Goldenrod City Skyline in the distance. We were almost there. We had almost 
finished our quest. Almost is not good enough.
	As we continued to head for Goldenrod City, nothing happened to us. There 
were no League guards, soldiers, trainers, or Masters attacking us. This was 
too easy. There had to be something behind it all. What, however, I wasn't 
sure. All that I knew was that we had to get there, before we were ambushed.
	"Let's pick up the pace," I said to the others. "I have a bad feeling about 
this place. A very bad feeling." We started to run towards our destination. 
I didn't know where we were going to stay when we got there, but I knew that 
we had to get Whitney. Wham! Someone's Tauros had just rammed into me and 
had me pinned against the tree.
	"AAGGHH," I yelled as the Tauros was still charging, though its horns were 
stuck to the tree.
	"Sleep Powder," Erika yelled as she held out her hand over the Tauros. The 
trainer was coming down the hill as the Tauros fell asleep.
	"O my gosh," the trainer said, "Are you alright?"
	"Yeah," I replied. "I'm fine."
	"What the hell do you think you're doing," Duplica exclaimed. She had been 
quiet for some time now. "Letting your Tauros run wild and hurting people 
like that. Do you know what I should do to you? I should..."
	"I'm fine," I cut her off and steered her further down the path. "We'll 
just be on our way sir." He looked like he didn't believe me. I heard him 
mutter something under his breath as he returned his Tauros to its pokeball.
	"Duplica," I said, "I know, I wanted to hyper beam his ass, but I couldn't. 
We have to stay as secluded as possible. We can't go in and fight every 
battle. We just have to go on to Goldenrod City and get Whitney."
	"Bob," Sabrina said, "I heard him mutter something under his breath after 
we left, psychically, I mean."
	"What did he say," I asked, fearing what the answer would be.
	"He said, 'There's no way on Earth that a teenager could walk away from an 
attack like that. He's gotta be a Master,'" she said.
	"So much for staying secluded," Duplica said in a smart-alecky tone.
	"Be quiet," I ordered her. "We have to stay as private as possible. That 
means not worrying about it and just taking it." We continued to walk to 
Goldenrod City. It was dark when we got there, and there was something going 
on in the middle of the city. It was the trainer with the Tauros.
	"There are ten Pokemon Masters coming to Goldenrod City," the trainer was 
yelling into a microphone. "Wee must drive them out of town before it's too 
late. Ah...there they are now." He pointed at us. Most of them had torches 
and other weapons. "Go get 'em." With that, the crowd started to chase us 
down the street. This was not the kind of welcome that we wanted. But this 
wasn't ours to decide. The mob of people came closer. There was no way 
out...
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