Timothy and Hinta got to their feet as they stared at the dragon descending toward the ground in front of them. All three of the dragons were silver scaled dragons, two of which were only a bit larger than Exci, however the third dragon was much larger. The dragon's landed on the ground with a thump and three people jumped off of their backs, before heading toward them.
Two of the people wore a red and black shinobi outfit which a strange symbol on it. The third one was a young long black haired light teenage looking guy who was wearing the same colored outfit.
"I've got a feeling that there's about to be trouble." mumble Ash
"Me two." agreed Misty
"Just stay cool and be ready for anything." replied Timothy
The three shinobi stopped in front of them and the long black haired guy began to look over everybody in the group.
"Who is the leader of this group?" asked The guy
"That would be me." replied Timothy as he stepped several feet away from the guy.
The guy looked Timothy up and down as if was trying to examine him for some reason.
"My name is Kaoru Ryuzzaki and I'm with the Silver Sentinel Squad of the Hidden Forsworn Village. Might I ask your name?" He ask
"My name Timothy Ezekial Tarakona Harmon." replied Timothy
Just then the guy shot Timothy a glance with his red eye's that could burn a hole through a stone wall.
"A Tarakona..." mumbled Kaoru
Timothy looked at Kaoru and he couldn't sense any from of emotion resonating from him. This lead him to believe that he must've trained very hard to keep his emotions in check. Not only that he felt barrier coming from his mind and that lead him to believe that he had also been trained to shield his mind from being read or attack. He then noticed the other two shinobi take step closer to Kaoru before whispering something to him so he decided to listen in.
"Sir we were order to capture or eliminate any members of the Tarakona." whispered The shinobi to Kaoru's right.
"So what should we do...we have no other choice. If we let them leave then they might alert the rest of the clan." whispered The shinobi to Kaoru's left.
"I know...so we'll take them in." whispered Kaoru.
After hearing that Timothy knew that they were in for a fight, but he couldn't understand as to why they would believe that he would be part of the Tarakona clan. Just then he remembered that Veral told him that he had a half-sister living in Athas before he passed on. With this though and the fact that these shinobi were talking about capturing or killing Tarakona clan members he deduced that the long thought extinct Tarakona shinobi clan might actually still exist. Before he could find out however they had to get out of their current situation so he contacted Exci.
"Exci looks like we've go trouble." said Timothy
"What do you mean?" She asked
"This is about to escalate into a fight." noted Timothy
"Are you sure, but why?" asked Exci
"Apparently being part of the Tarakona clan to these guy's is a bad thing. So their about to either try an either capture us or kill us." Timothy replied
"Not on my watch." snarled Exci
"Just wait...Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock are ready for something like this. I think Alice, Kim, Ji'irik and Hinta as well as Kachu, Nina and Nikita can hold their own, but not them." stated Timothy
"So what's the plan?" asked Exci
"I've got a feeling that all of these guy are Dragon Riders. We'll have to be careful so follow my lead." replied Timothy
"Right." agreed Exci
After finishing his conversation with Exci, Timothy suddenly noticed the shinobi walk up to him.
"Timothy I'm going to have to ask you and your friends to come with us." said Kaoru
"Why is that we were all just enjoying a nice walk." replied Timothy
"We need to ask you all a few questions back at our village." answered Kaoru
"Maybe another day, but I think we'll pass this time. We want to finish enjoying our walk." replied Timothy smiling.
Timothy looked up into the sky, before raising his hand to shield his eye's from bright sunlight before the shinobi to his right grabbed his arm.
"We weren't asking." snarling The shinobi to his right.
Timothy looked at the hand of he shinobi that had grabbed his arm, before looking over at the shinobi himself.
"I'll warn you once...if you don't want to lose that arm then I suggest that move it, before you lose it." snarled Timothy
Kaoru looked at Timothy as he stared down the shinobi and he looked into his emerald green eye's. It was then that Kaoru caught the sight of a glint in his eye's as a sudden feeling of dread began to overtak him the longer he stared into Timothy's eye's. He could see a deadly beast lurking in them that suddenly sent a wave of uneasiness throughout his body. All of a sudden he felt a powerful mental force hit the barriers of his mind that sent him stumbling backwards a bit.
"That's it we're bring you and your friend in by force." said The shinobi to Timothy's right.
Just then Timothy quickly moved his arm before grabbing his arm and digging his claw into the shinobi's arm. A grin suddenly came across Timothy's face as the shinobi screamed out in pain from Timothy's claws digging into his flesh. Timothy suddenly noticed the shinobi to his left take out a kunai and charged at him, but he quickly swatted the kunai out of his hand. He than punched the shinobi in the chest and sent him flying backwards past Kaoru, before he hit the ground.
All of a sudden the silver dragon of the shinobi that Timothy just sent flying suddenly let out a roar as if in pain. They all looked at the dragon was trembling very bad and looked like it was about to collapse at any moment. They then heard the silver dragon of the shinobi that Timothy had in his clutches suddenly roar and when they looked they saw the dragon charging to Timothy. Just as the dragon was upon Timothy and the shinobi Exci let out a roar, before suddenly charging at the dragon.
She rammed the silver dragon in the side which slammed the dragon into the large trees on the side of the path. The silver dragon quickly got back to its feet before turning to attack Exci, however she quickly attacked the dragon though this time she bite down on its throat. The silver dragon let out a agonizing roar as Exci continued to clamp down on its throat which had now began to bleed. Timothy looked at Exci as she literally tried to tear out the dragons throat, before looking back at the shinobi who now on one knee.
"You should've let go while you had the chance. Now your about to lose your arm." grinned Timothy
The shinobi looked back up at Timothy now with the sigh of fear clear across his face, before he suddenly started to scream out in pain again as Timothy tightened his grim on his arm. Just then Timothy picked the shinobi up to his feet before he hit the man in the chest with his left hand and sent him flying backward. Kaoru watched as his comrade flew past him him and land on the ground behind him before started back screaming even louder than before. As he looked at his comrade he noticed that his arm was gone and when he looked back at Timothy he was shocked to she that he still had his arm in his hands with blood splattered across his face.
Just then he noticed that the roar of his comrades dragon had become lower and when he looked he saw that the silver dragon was now close to passing out. Exci then swung her head with the silver dragon still in her jaws easily picking the large dragon off of the ground and sent it sailing through air. The silver dragon hit the ground and landed next to its rider who was still rolling around on the ground from the pain of having his arm ripped off. Kaoru looked back at his fallen comrades before looking back at Timothy who was grinning at him and Exci who now standing beside him with blood dripping from her mouth.
"I don't know if it'll be enough, but your friends could really use a hand." grinned Timothy
Timothy tossed the arm of the shinobi and it landed in front of Kaoru who looked at it before looking back up at him. Just then the much larger silver dragon that he was riding stepped over its falling comrades, before stopping behind him. It then let out a growl at Exci who started to growl back both of them baring their teeth ready to attack at a moments notice. Kaoru continued to stare at Timothy who continued to grin at him like a crazed bloodthirsty menace, before he turned around.
"Calm down Riegel...let's get pick up our comrades and get out of here." ordered Kaoru
The large silver dragon looked down at Kaoru as if it couldn't believe what it was hear, but it didn't dawdle. It turned around and follow Kaoru' who walked very the shinobi who's arm had Timothy had ripped off and help him up. The large silver dragon walked up to the dragon that Exci had tossed and nudged it a few time, before it finally struggled to get to its feet. The other sliver dragon staggered up the unconscious shinobi that Timothy first hit and grabbed him in its maw. Kaori jumped onto the large silver dragons back and with a powerful flap of its wings it took to the sky with the other two dragons not far behind.
"Well that was sorta anticlimactic...i was sorta hoping for a fight." said Timothy
"I agree...i haven't felt that alive in so long. It feels good." agreed Exci
Just then the rest of the group ran up next to the and looked off in the directions the dragons flew before looking at Timothy.
"Hay what went on...why did they attack you?" asked Hinta
"Apparently a Tarakona seems to be a big deal to those guy." replied Timothy
"Who where they?" asked Ash
"They where shinobi from a village known as the Hidden Forsworn Village." replied Timothy
"I've never heard of it." shrugged Alice
"Me neither." agreed Misty
"Well apparently they have a beef or something with the Tarakona clan. They said something about having orders to either kill or capture all Tarakona clan members." noted Timothy
"Wait if that's the case then..." said Hinta thinking.
"Yea...i put 2 and 2 together as well. If that's the case then the Tarakona clan isn't as extinct as we all thought." interrupted Timothy
Ji'irik stood back and looked at Timothy as Alice passed him a large towel to wipe the blood off of his face. She couldn't believe what she just saw Timothy do without hesitation or even the smallest amount of mercy. He had literally ripped a mans arm off without a second thought and even grinned and joked about it afterwards. She had sense a never seen such merciless brutality in a human or even most dragon for that matter in her life.
As she looked at Timothy as he now smiled and used the towel to wipe the blood from Exci's face the thought sent a chill down her spine. Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when she her heard Brock calling her name causing her to look over at him.
"Hay Ji'irik are you ok?" Brock asked
"Yea...just lost in though that's all." nodded Ji'irik
"Alright now what's our move?" asked Hinta
"Now I know what we have to do...if the Tarakona clan really does still exist the we have to find the village." stated Timothy
"But where do we look? We don't even know were to start." reminded Exci
"I know, but I sure that their might be some towns or something nearby somewhere. Maybe we can get a clue from one." suggested Timothy
"Well that might work." nodded Brock
"Only one way to find out." said Ash
"Pika...Pi." agreed Pikachu
"Chu." agreed Kachu as he jumped on Timothy's shoulder.
"Alright the let's see what we can find." nodded Timothy
All of a sudden they heard another roar that came from above them and when they looked up they saw five dragons hovering above the trees.
"Here we go again." snarled Timothy as he turned around and looked up a the hovering dragons.
To Be Continued...