"You mean the short spiky haired woman is the champion of the Jetix?" asked Misty
"Yea and the woman next to her is her daughter." added Hinta
"I've only seen them on television, but i didn't think that i would get a chance to see them in person." said Brock
"Her name is Zira Prieto and her daughters name is Lainey Prieto." mentioned Alice
"Pikachu." said Kim
"Those two pokémon that they are using are awesome." said Ash as he pointed his pokédex at the smaller serpent pokemon.
"Ignitrous the Amphiptere Pokémon and the evolved form of Serpark. Ignitrous are that are extremely active at night are are rarely seen during the day. When threatened it flashes its dark wings to appear much larger in order to intimidate its opponents. Amphire the Amphiptere Pokémon and the evolved form of Ignitrous. Unlike their previous form Amphire are extremely temperamental pokémon who will attack anything and anyone. Legend has it that long ago this pokémon used to attack towns and tormented people for centuries, though it was later revealed that it had a love for anything shiny." said The pokédex
"I wonder what they're doing here?" wondered Hinta
"Well their probably getting ready for The Dragon Masters Tournament." guessed Timothy
"Oh yea...i forgot about that." thought Hinta
"What's The Dragon Masters Tournament?" asked Misty
"Its a special tournament held in Mizutao Town once a year. The best dragon pokémon trainers come from all over the world to enter." explained Timothy
"Cool can anybody enter the tournament?" asked Ash
"Chu...Pikachu." nodded Kachu
"Yes and no...you must either be a Dragon Tamer, a Dragon Master or use a dragon type pokémon to enter." explained Timothy
"So you mean that as long as i have at least one dragon type pokémon i can enter it?" asked Ash
"Yea...it's a tournament where dragon users face Dragon Busters in battle. Yea you see...its a elimination tournament were you have to defeat four Dragon Buster teams to get to the finals. Afterwards the dragon users face each other with the last one standing being declared the winner." explained Timothy
"Wow it sounds fun...i might have to enter it!" exclaimed Ash
"But you've only got one dragon type pokémon." reminded Brock
"Yea your right." sighed Ash
Brock was right about that he only had one dragon type pokemon and that was Gible who was with Professor Oak.
"Hay Timothy is their anyway that i can capture anymore dragon type pokémon...i wanna enter the tournament." asked Ash
"Well the tournament is still several months away, but I've got an idea." nodded Timothy
"Hay how many pokemon do you need to enter the tournament?" asked Misty
"You can have up to three." replied Hinta
"Hay those other two trainers are also using dragon type pokemon...do you think that their here for the tournament?" wondered Alice
"Ch." nodded Kim
"Maybe, but there's something odd about that guy." noted Timothy
"What do you mean?" asked Ash
He looked over at the short black haired trainer and he sensed a powerful aura signal resonating from him.
"That guy's very powerful...I feel an extremely powerful aura signal coming from him." replied Timothy
"You think he's with the Crisis Core?" asked Alice
"I don't know they might be...i'm also getting a strong signal from that girl as well." shrugged Timothy
"Well we'll find out after the battle." said Hinta
...
The boy looked at his pokémon an the over at his partners pokémon, before noting that they both were exhausted from their battle against the two serpent like pokémon .
"Hay Redir their pokemon are allot stronger that we thought." noted The girl
"Yea i kinda figured that would be." replied Redir
"So any idea on how we should continue this battle against these two?" asked The girl
"I don't know if we really can defeat these two like this Luna." shrugged Redir
"You might be right, but we're not going to quit are we?" asked Luna
"Of course not." smiled Redir
Redir looked over at the two serpent pokemon as they continued to stare down his Gabite and Luna's Altaria waiting for them to make a move.
"No we're not going to give up...we're going to fight with everything we've got." assured Redir
"Alright let's keep going then." smiled Luna
"Yea...Gabite use Dragon Pulse!" shouted Redir
Gabite suddenly roared, before firing a large turquoise ball of energy toward Amphire.
"You use Dragon Breath Amphire." smiled Zira
Amphire's suddenly began to glow as it opened its mouth and fired a green beam of air which collided with the stream of fire and exploded creating a large cloud of dust.
"Now use Dragon Rush!" shouted Redir
Gabite suddenly burst through the cloud of smoke flying toward Amphire with a blue energy surrounding it, but the Ignitrous quickly slithered in front of Amphire.
"Alright Ignitrous use Protect." ordered Lainey
Gabite continued to charge at Ignitrous, but it suddenly slammed into a white sphere that suddenly appeared around it. The impact cased Gabite to slide backwards several feet, before it came to a stop.
"Altaria use Sky Attack!" shouted Luna
Zira and Lainey looked up into the sky and saw that Altaria was heading toward both Amphire and Ignitrous with its body covered in red flames.
"Intercept with Dragon Rage." ordered Zira
Amphire raised its head and fired a large fireball at Altaria which collided with it in a powerful explosion.
"Oh no!" shouted Luna
"Quick use Hone Claws and then Dragon Claw!" shouted Redir
Gabite let out a roar as its claws suddenly started to glow with a white energy and then it dashed toward Ignitrous.
"Quick Ignitrous dodge and then counter with Flame Tail." ordered Lainey
Ignitrous quickly slithered around easily dodging Gabite, before its tail was suddenly engulfed in fire and it hit Gabite sending him rolling backwards before landing beside Altaria.
"Come on Gabite don't give of yet." coached Redir
"You to Altaria...let's give it one more shot." urged Luna
Both Gabite and Altaria managed to get back to their feet both nearly stumbling and falling over in the proses.
"Looks like there's no much else we can do...their both way to strong." smiled Redir laughing.
"No kidding." agreed Luna
"Well it looks like they've got one attack left in them...time to got all out." smiled Redir
"Alright i follow you." nodded Luna
"Ok Gabite give this last attack your all. Attack with Dragon Pulse." urged Redir
"You give it your all to Altaria with Dragon Pulse." urged Luna
Both Altaria and Gabite stood side by side and opened their mouth causing a turquoise ball of energy to appear in front of their mouths. The two balls of energy suddenly moved together and fused becoming much larger before they fired the attack at Ignitrous and Amphire.
"Amphire use Dragon Rage." ordered Zira
"You use Dragon Rage as well Ignitrous." ordered Lainey
Both Amphire and Ignitrous fired a large fireball at the same thing which suddenly began to spin around each other before fusing into one massive fireball. The fireball hit the combined Dragon Pulse attack and absorbed it, before continuing on toward Altaria and Gabite. The attack hit them and erupted into a powerful explosion sending a a large dust cloud in its wake which covered the entire area. After a few minutes the dust finally settled and Redir and Luna both saw that Gabite and Altaria were both unconscious.
"Well looks like that's it." sighed Luna
"Yea, but they gave it everything they had." assured Redir
"Yea your right. You did good today Altaria and for that you deserve a good long rest. No return." smiled Luna as she held out a pokéball and Altaria disappeared into it in a flash of red light.
"You did great too Gabite now rest." nodded Redir as Gabite disappeared into a pokéball that he was holding out.
"You both did well today." assured Zira as she walked up to them with Amphire, Lainey and Ignitrous beside her.
Yea, but we still have allot of training to do before we're strong enough to be called Dragon Masters." replied Redir smiling.
"But you do have the potential." assured Lainey
"Yes...both of you have a strong connection with you pokemon. If you continue to work hard like so then i'm sure you'll be able to call yourselves Dragon Masters in no time." agreed Zira
"We'll keep working at it." nodded Luna
Trainers from the crowd all crowded around Zira and Lainey as they each handed out autographs to the trainers. After several minutes the crowd dispersed, before Timothy and co walked toward them.
"Hay mom look who it is." motioned Lainey pointing at Timothy and his group.
"Well if it isn't Timothy, Kachu, Nina, Nikita, Alice, Kim and Hinta." smiled Zira
"Yo." greeted Timothy
"Chu." greeted Kachu
"Mew." greeted Nina
"Be." greeted Nikita
"So are y'all getting ready for The Dragon Masters Tournament?" asked Alice
"Yep." nodded Lainey
"So who are these other four with you?" asked Zira
"I'm Ash and this is my buddy Pikachu. Nice to meet you." greeted Ash
"My name is Misty...its nice to meet you." greeted Misty
"And i'm Brock..." said Brock as he suddenly rushed passed them and grabbed Lainey's hand.
"Not again." sighed Misty
"I know exactly who you are. Lainey daughter of Zira who the current champion of the Jetix. I've been following your progress on television for sometime now and i must say your even more beautiful in person." smiled Brock
Just then out of the blue Lainey's Ignitrous hit Brock in the side with its tail and sent him rolling sideways.
"Sorry about that...my Ignitrous is very protective of me, but thanks for the compliment." smiled Lainey
"I'll go see if he's alright." sighed Misty as she walked off to where Brock landed.
"So Timothy are you going to enter this years tournament?" asked Zira
"I don't know at the moment. I might." shrugged Timothy as he rubbed Amphire on the head.
"If i can get a hold of another dragon type pokemon then i'm going to enter." mentioned Ash
"So are you an aspiring dragon trainer?" asked Zira
"No...i train any type of pokemon." replied Ash
"Ash is collecting the gym badges to enter the league." mentioned Alice
"I see...how many gym badges do yo have so far?" asked Lainey
"Well at the moment I've only gotten three, but that's because I've been kinda busy." smiled Ash
"Chu...Pikachu." nodded Pikachu
"It's not two believable traveling with Timothy." laughed Lainey
Just then they looked as Redir who walked up to Timothy who was standing beside Amphire laughing as Kachu, Nina and Nikita played with Ignitrous. Timothy looked at Redir as he stepped up to him and looked into his red eye's as if Redir was trying to read his face.
"So...you must be Timothy the Cosmic Dragon?" asked Redir
"Yea and who are you?" asked Timothy
"My name is Redir Nogard and her name is Luna Lorain." introduced Redir
"Nice to meet you both." greeted Timothy
"Hay if it's alright can i battle you?" asked Redir
"Well if you really wanna battle." shrugged Timothy
"Alright you can use any of your pokemon in the battle." smiled Redir
"Sounds good..." nodded Timothy
Timothy and Redir stepped several feet apart before turning back around toward each other as they go ready to battle.
To Be Continued...
