The Dragon Master II: Chapter Twelve

	The poison pokemon were moving ever so closer to me. Except now, they were 
throwing sludge bombs at me.
	"Hey," I yelled at them. "Watch where you're throwing those things." There 
was only one thing that I could do. I had to fall. I kicked off from the 
wall as hard as I could, and I heard Misty scream.
	"Bob, no," Misty cried. As I plummeted deeper and deeper, the Grimer and 
Muk jumped off the walls as I had done. I looked up, and they were all 
following me deeper and deeper.
	"Hyper Blast," I said quietly, as I held out my hand in the shape of a gun. 
I thin beam of white light shot out of it. It reached the Grimer and Muk 
that were freefalling. "Now!" It was like a bomb just went off. The tip of 
the beam exploded, splattering all of those pokemon down into the bottomless 
pit. I called my wings and flew back up, where Misty was kneeling on the 
ground, crying. I landed behind her and kissed her gently on the neck. She 
looked up at me and screamed.
	"What the hell did you just do," Misty scolded. "Do you have any idea what 
I was going through up here? God, men drive me insane." Misty walked a few 
feet away and did not look at me.
	"You really messed it up this time," Janine said to me. "She's not gonna 
talk to you for about a week now."
	"Oh, what would you know," I replied. "Now, have you two figured out how 
you're gonna get across?"
	"Um, yeah," Janine said. "You're gonna fly us across."
	"Great," I said. "Come on, Misty. Let's go and get the Poison Shard." 
Reluctantly, Misty came over and I grabbed her with one arm, and Janine with 
the other. I flew the three of us across the gap and onto the other side. I 
set the two women that I was carrying down, and the three of us walked 
towards the door. There was a clue on there in Unown writing. It read:

			If you are reading this,
			You must have survived the pit.
			The way to get past this test,
			Is to get yourself out of this deep shit.

	"What deep shit are we in," I asked Misty and Janine.
	"We aren't," Janine replied. "But we will be once we've entered this door. 
Let's go." She pressed the button below the clue. When it opened, we were 
amazed by what we saw. It was just the Poison Shard lying on a podium in the 
middle of a chamber.
	"Some deep shit," Misty said sarcastically. The three of us walked in and 
stood in front of the podium. I grabbed the Poison Shard and placed it onto 
the medallion. I heard a rumbling sound. The ground started to shake. We ran 
towards the door, but it closed. We were trapped inside of there!
	"Fuck," Janine cursed. "Fuck this shit. What the hell is going on?" I knew 
that whatever the answer would be, it was bad. A square foot panel opened on 
each of the four walls, and sand started to pour out of it. It grew in 
piles, and we would soon be out of air.
	"This can't be good," I said. "Help me get this door open." I called my 
katana and stuck it through the crack in the door.
	"What are you doing," Janine asked me.
	"Trying to pry open this door," I replied. "Now help me pull, or we won't 
get out of here alive." The three of us pulled at the door, but it wouldn't 
even budge.
	"So this is the deep shit that the clue was talking about," Misty said. The 
sand kept on pouring in, and the air was getting scarce. I took my katana 
out and degenerated it. I took a look at the back of the door. It looked 
like a place to put the Poison Shard! We were up to our thighs in sand. I 
was trying to pull the Poison Shard off the medallion. Six more pores 
opened. Sand was falling out of ten openings! We were up to our chests in 
sand.
	"I can't get it," I said. Then I remembered what my mother had said about 
removing the Shards. Whatever element you wanted to take off, the respective 
Master had to do it. We were up to our necks in sand, though our arms were 
above it.
	"Hurry up," Misty said.
	"Janine," I said. "You're the only one that can take it off." I handed it 
to her. She took off the Poison Shard with ease, and handed it to me. I 
stuck it inside the hole that it was supposed to go in, and the doors 
opened! The three of us fell out, along with a couple thousand pounds of 
sand. Janine handed the medallion back to me, I took the Poison Shard out of 
the door, and I put it back on.
	"Whew," Janine said as we went back into Fuchsia City. "Let's go and get a 
bite to eat. I'm kinda hungry."
	"Okay," I said. "But we have to hurry. We only need one more Shard, the 
Change Shard." We sat down at a little café and ordered. After we got 
through eating, we went back to Janine's Gym.
	"Get the flute out," I said. "I have no idea where the Change Shard could 
be. It has no respective city." Misty got out the flute and played it. I 
looked around Kanto and Johto for the Shard.
	"There," Misty said as she stopped playing. "It's on Silence Bridge. That's 
where Duplica's house is. Let's go. Thanks for everything, Janine." We ran 
out of the Gym. We had no time to fly, as Flargini might be following us. So 
we proceeded to Silence Bridge incognito.
	"Hey guys," Duplica yelled when we came to her house. "What are you two 
doing here?"
	"We were about to ask you the same question," I said. "Go back to the 
Palace of the Elite Four. That is an order. I'm sorry, Duplica, but that's 
just the way that it has to be."
	"Whatever," Duplica said. "Just don't go through my clothing drawers." She 
then transformed into a Pidgey and flew off towards Indigo Plateau.
Misty and I, however, went into her house and started to poke around. I went 
over to her bookcase and started to look for books on the history of her 
house. I found an interesting book titled: Imitate House of Wonder. I tried 
to pull it out of the shelf, but it wouldn't budge. So, I turned it sideways 
and the bookcase moved to the left to reveal an opening!
	"Hey, Misty," I said. "I found a secret passageway." Misty came over to me 
and looked at the corridor with a wide-open mouth.
	"How the hell did you find that," Misty asked.
	"I pulled a book, and it moved," I said. "It's amazing how simple secret 
passageways can be sometimes." In a flash of teal light, I let out Flare. 
The three of us advanced though the corridor.
After about five minutes of walking through the corridor, we found a steel 
door with a picture of the completed medallion on it. I took out of what was 
completed of the medallion and placed it in there. Something on the wall 
slid open next to us. It was a clue. It read:

				So this is your final Shard,
				Perhaps it will be not easy.
				If you find it, good job!
				If not, you shall be queasy.

	"This won't be good," I said. I took the medallion out of the door and 
pushed the button underneath the clue on the wall. The door, instead of 
sliding open, transformed into a huge shiny Ditto. It looked at us with the 
most evil eyes, and then it transformed into a huge shiny Dragonite.
	"Dammit," I cursed underneath my breath. "This is not good."
	"You think," Misty said. "The Shard must be behind it. You distract it, and 
I'll run away."
	"What," I said to my girlfriend.
	"Fine," Misty replied. "You distract it and I'll get the Shard." The shiny 
Ditto fired an ice beam at me, which I promptly back flipped away. It came 
after me, and Misty slipped underneath of it. Then she disappeared. I had a 
different problem. The shiny Ditto was now firing Hyper Beams at me. I got 
hit, and was lying on the ground, with a cut above my eye that was bleeding. 
The shiny Ditto advanced on me in its Dragonite form. I saw it powering up a 
Dragon Rage. Suddenly, a blizzard caught it in the back, and it fainted. It 
landed about a foot from me. Standing behind it was a Lapras, with then 
transformed into Misty. She was holding the Change Shard in her hand.
	"Good timing," I said, as I got up holding my head. "Though a bit sooner 
would have helped. Let's go outside." We ran outside as quickly as we 
possibly could.
	"O my God. O my God," Misty said, jumping up and down. "We've done it. 
We've gotten all eighteen Elemental Shards. Come one, put the Change Shard 
on." I put the Change Shard on, but it didn't stick like the others. It fell 
off right away. I wondered what was going on.
	"It won't stick," I said. "Let me take the Dragon Shard off and then try 
it." Using my Mastery, I took the Dragon Shard off of the medallion. I then 
stuck the Change Shard on there. It snapped into place as all of the others 
had done.
	"This is fucked up," Misty said. "What is wrong?" I tried to put the Dragon 
Shard in again, but like the Change Shard, it wouldn't stick. Something was 
terribly wrong.
	"Problems," a voice said behind Misty and me. The both of us whipped around 
and saw Mystiman John Flargini standing there, with his arms folded, looking 
at us trying to fit the Dragon Shard in.
	"Now we can defeat you," I spat in his face. "We've collected all of he 
Elemental Shards, so you're going down."
	"Right," Flargini said. "How can you do that when I have your girlfriend 
here under control?" I looked back at Misty, and sure enough, her pupils had 
disappeared and she was advancing on me with her two blue sai knives.
	"Misty," I said. "Snap out of it." She didn't. She sliced at me, while 
Flargini just stood there, chuckling.
	"This has been good entertainment," Flargini ordered Misty. "But now I'm 
bored. Kill him now." I called my katana and blocked all of Misty's stabs. 
She cut through my cloak, where the medallion was stored. It fell out, and I 
flew away. I couldn't fight her. Mostly because I loved her. I flew away 
towards Goldenrod City, while Flargini put a hand on Misty's shoulder and 
teleported away.
	Things had never been worse. I had lost the two most important things to 
me. I lost Misty and the medallion. The only Shard that I had left was the 
Dragon Shard. I was in Goldenrod City, on top of what they had finished of 
the Radio Tower. All of the other Masters were under Flargini's control, and 
they were destroying all of Goldenrod City, the buildings, the PokeCenters, 
and even the residents. There was nothing that I could do. The locals were 
fighting back, however. They were all on a platform, with a radio on. Most 
of them had guns. They were playing 'Hero' on the radio before Chuck smashed 
it to pieces. Then there was only screaming left.
	"And they say that a hero can save us," I sang under my breath. "I'm not 
gonna stand here and wait. I'll fly on the wings of and eagle, and watch as 
we all fly away..." I felt a tear run down my face as I stopped singing. I 
heard screams coming down from the crowd below. The song is right, I 
thought. The song is right. A hero can save them. And I won't stand here and 
wait. For the first time, I realized that I was more than a Master or a 
Pokemon League Champion to these people. I was, and had to be, a hero.
	I silently landed on the front steps of the Palace of the Elite Four. I 
walked in, and two guards rushed up to meet me.
	"Outrage," I said as my fists erupted in a teal fire. I punched them both 
out, and that was that. I soundlessly sprinted down the corridor to my 
chambers. I had to find Flargini and the double agent inside the League, 
whomever it was...
	I found myself outside of my chambers. I heard Flargini in there. He was 
with a woman. Her voice sounded familiar, way too familiar. I burst through 
the doors, and I saw Flargini, making out with Clair, the Gym Leader of 
Blackthorn City, my cousin, and now, the double agent inside the League.
	"Dammit you, Clair," I whispered. "Dammit you and him for all that you've 
done, and for all the pain that you've caused me to go through. And for all 
of this, you shall both die. Don't worry, your bodies will be thrown off the 
same cliff together."
	"Very funny, Bob," Flargini said. "But your Master friends might have 
something to say about that." I spun around, and I saw all of the Pokemon 
Masters, except Lorelei, standing in the doorway, all of their pupils gone.
	"Yes, Bob," Clair spoke up. "It is actually Flargini who was working for 
me. I was so angry with you for killing Lance that I had to get some 
revenge. It just happened that Flargini wanted you dead as much as I do, 
perhaps even more. But in the end, I know that you would somehow end up 
dead. Not to mention the entire world that you so much loved. Plus the 
people in it." I felt a nauseating pain in my head, as Flargini was taking 
me under his control...
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