Act 36: Whirl cup round 1
Stephen and Sandra were onboard the Leviathan with the group of Shinkengers.
"A flying ship, that's pretty cool." Sandra said.
Arkanes noticed Alex had almost a nervous expression as he saw Sandra.
"Do you know her?"
He nervously sweat dropped.
"Yes."
"Ahh, you're afraid she's going to spill who you are."
"Stephen, what's going on here?" Takeru asked.
"Are you talking about us, or Baron String?"
"Both."
"You're the Kibaranger, aren't you suppose to be with the Zyurangers?" Jack asked Sandra.
"Not anymore, I'm part of a new team now."
"You guys aren't the only ones who managed to tame legendary pokemon. My father helped start a new team of guardians around the world each bonding with a legendary pokemon. Through our connection fuels natural energy of the universe called Ki-power. These aura changers channel that Ki-power into our armor as well as abilities."
"That is what the Kibaranger always was, so when this new team was formed it was only natural I join them."
"We're called Gosei Sentai Dairanger. Six stars protecting the earth and heavens above. Rayquaza is my partner."
"Wait a minute, if you guys are protecters who are you fighting?" Emily asked.
"The Neo-Gorma tribe." Sandra said.
"Neo-Gorma tribe?" Alex asked.
Stephen nodded.
"A third Gorma faction that has sprung up, lead by Shadam's sadistic son Akomaru, he has raised a new legion of Gorma and transformed them into monsters based on everyday objects using Yo-power."
"Yo-power?"
"Yo-power is the natural darkness that exists in the world and is the opposite to Ki-power." Sandra said.
"Baron string was a neo-gorma, the foot soldiers you saw are called Cotpotros." Stephen said.
"Still what they were doing here with the Gedoshu is still a mystery to us." Sandra said.
"Well I'm glad you guys were here." Kaoru said.
"We'll be staying in Johto as we continue to investigate." Stephen said as he and Sandra prepared to depart.
"Will the Whirl cup still be happening?" Jack asked.
"Round one will still happen tomorrow."
As they left, Sandra passed by Alex.
"What are you doing here?"
He looked nervous and didn't respond.
"I'll find out soon enough."
When they left Alex noticed a disappointed expression on Jasmine's face.
"Jasmine, are you ok?"
"'Sigh' yeah, I'm glad everyone's ok, but those guys ruined the opening ceremony."
"Hey it's alright , you've still got the closing ceremony."
Mako joined Arkanes in another room.
"I didn't know you were coming here."
"I had to rearrange my schedule, and dodge Toshizo."
"Well I'm glad you came." He said giving Mako a kiss on the cheek before.
"Though I must say, trouble seems to follow you guys."
"As a samurai, it is something I must accept."
"Well it makes you appreciate peace that much more." Mako said resting her head against his shoulder.
She didn't notice Arkanes's expression change as he thought about what she had said.
The next morning the first round began, things seemed less lively after the attack, Maya didn't even make an appearance.
Arkanes went up first, his opponent was a man wearing fisherman attire.
"The fifth match of round one will now begin between."
"So explain the rounds again?" Jack asked.
"Simple there are four rounds, the three wins gets you to the final round." Takeru said.
"You said you won this before right?" Mako asked.
Takeru nodded.
"The water trainers here are usually a cut above the rest."
Arkanes held out one of his pokeballs before hurling it into the water. Seadra's head came out.
"Trainer Arkanes has chosen a Seadra."
"Time to show you why I'm the top fishermen in my town!" His opponent had a pokeball at the end of his fishing rod and cast it out.
A Starmie came out and flashed its center jewel.
Mako noticed Arkanes had a more serious expression than usual.
"Begin!"
"Starmie use Confuse ray!"
"Seadra use Smokescreen!"
Before Starmie could unleash Confuse ray, Seadra let out a ball of smoke that clouded the area and stopped Starmie's attack from hitting.
"Starmie use Spotlight." Starmie shined a light through the smoke , but Seadra had gone underwater.
"Twister." Arkanes said, Mako noticing his tone was quite serious, just like his expression.
Starmie felt the water around it was spinning with dragon energy. Starmie spun in the water uncontrollably, the dragon energy buffing him as it happened.
"Rapid spin!"
Starmie used the force of the twister to hurl itself out and crashed into Seadra.
"Recover!"
Starmie glowed yellow as it recovered its stamina.
"Confuse ray!"
"Seadra use smokescreen."
Seadra filled the water with smoke as Starmie lost him again.
"Spotlight."
Starmie shined through the smoke.
"Dragon pulse."
Seadra hid in the edge of the smoke and saw where Starmie was.
He blasted Starmie back with Dragon pulse.
Mako now wasn't the only one who noticed Arkanes's serious attitude.
"Is he ok?" Jack asked.
"I don't know." Takeru said.
"Starmie use swift and Rapid Spin." Starmie unleashed a series of sharp stars while spinning at Seadra.
"Agility." Seadra moved fast avoiding the swift stars before being hit by Starmie's rapid spin.
"Leer, Twister!"
Seadra used leer before unleashing dragon energy around the two, Starmie got caught in the twister and was hurled around before flying into the air and crashing into the water.
"Starmie is unable to battle, the winner is Arkanes." The audience app laughed loudly but the group looked concerned as Arkanes didn't seem that excited.
Mako the most concerned.
Emily and Kaoru both went up and won their first round matches while Quinn faced her opponent. A man wearing a Johto Navy camo-uniform.
"Our next battle will now begin."
"Go Quinn!" Takeru shouted.
"Go Quagsire." Quagsire came out of his pokeball and held his head out of the water.
"Go Kabutops."
The fossil pokemon came out and landed on a another platform.
"A Kabutops?" Kaoru said.
"I heard rumors that various militaries were experimenting with reviving fossil pokemon." Jack said.
"Quagsire use Mud shot!"
Quagsire's head popped up again as he unleashed a blast of mud.
"Nightslash!"
Kabutops slashed the mud apart with his scythe claws.
"Quagsire use Yawn."
Quagsire yawned as a pink cloud flew at Kabutops.
"Into the water." Kabutops leapt into the water and swam at Quagsire.
"Water gun!"
"Mud Shot."
Kabutops unleashed a blast of mud through the water gun.
"Slam!"
Quagsire slammed the mud back as it hit Kabutops's chest, Kabutops grunting as he landed on a the platform grunting.
"That's it Quinn!"
"Body slam!"
Quagsire leapt out of the water and soared over Kabutops.
"Mega Drain!"
Kabutops's eyes shined as he unleashed his grass type move and replenished his strength while dealing a lot of damage to Quagsire.
"Sire!"
"Night Slash!" Kabutops came up and slashed Kabutops twice, knocking him back into the water.
Kabutops came up with swirly eyes.
"What!?" Quinn shouted.
"Quagsire is unable to battle."
"Alright Kabutops!"
The group sweat dropped.
"Oh Quinn." Emily said.
"Well she'll probably be disappointed." Mako said before she saw Arkanes's still serious expression.
"Arkanes, are you ok?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine."
Mako wasn't convinced.
Eventually Quinn returned to the seats as Alex took his position on the battlefield.
Alex's opponent was a teenage boy with glasses, a green cap and a blue vest.
"Go Kingdra!" Alex's opponent shouted as a large Kingdra came out.
"Kingdra eh, alright. I choose you Floatzel!"
Floatzel came out and landed in the water.
"Begin!"
"Kingdra use Smokescreen!"
"Floatzel use Whirlpool!"
Floatzel formed a large whirlpool in the water, sucking Kingdra in and under the smoke as the two swam across the whirlpool.
"Kingdra use Dragon Pulse!"
"Agility!"
Kingdra unleashed blasts of dragon energy at Floatzel who swam incredibly fast under the water as the dragon energy crashed around him.
"Sonic Boom."
Floatzel unleashed a sonic wave that bounced across the water before hitting Kingdra and nocking him off balance.
"Go Alex!" Jasmine shouted.
"Kingdra use twister."
Kingdra unleashed a twister in the center of the whirlpool, setting it off balance as Floatzel was shaken up.
"Dragon pulse."
"Agility!"
Floatzel moved as fast as he could and narrowly avoided the blast.
"Sonic Boom!"
The sonic boom bounced sporadically across the water, Kingdra thinking he avoided it before it bounced back and hit his back.
"Alright!" Alex said as Floatzel looked more confident.
"Kingdra use Smokescreen."
Kingdra unleashed smoke into the center of the whirlpool, turning it all black as he swam below.
"Agility!" Floatzel also swam underwater trying to avoid an attack from any direction.
"Dragon Pulse!"
Kingdra unleashed a blast from below Floatzel, sending him high into the air.
"He's a sitting duck! Dragon Pulse!"
"Oh no." Jasmine said.
"Wait for it." Takeru said.
"Sonic Boom!" While in mid air, Floatzel unleashed another sonic boom that hit Kingdra's mouth , knocking the Dragon pulse away from him.
"Crunch!"
Floatzel came down and snapped Kingdra's mouth shut as the dragon energy began to build up in his mouth.
"Oh no, no no no no!"
Alex smiled.
"Let him go."
Floatzel grinned and snickered as he let Kingdra go before he flew through the air.
Jasmine had to cover her mouth to contain her laughter as the group saw Kingdra fly around before crashing into his trainer, knocking them both into the water.
Kaoru almost fell over as she laughed like crazy.
"Amazing." Jack said.
Mako was laughing too until she saw Arkanes still had his serious expression.
Kingdra and his trainer came up with swirly eyes.
"We have our winners!"
"Alright Floatzel!" Alex started before Floatzel leapt into Alex and knocked him into the water.
Jasmine covered her mouth as she kept laughing.
The group eventually returned to the Leviathan at the end of the day.
Takeru and Quinn were alone as Quinn massaged Quagsire's tail.
"Hey, are you alright?" Takeru asked.
"Alright? What are you talking about?"
"Well, you lost…..In the first round."
"Are you kidding, that was exciting! Sure we lost, but we made it into the cup itself. I haven't done anything like that in my life. I felt so alive." Quinn sounding excited as she spoke.
Takeru was pleasantly surprised by this.
"Well I'm glad to hear that." He said before sitting beside her.
"I guess taking care of Onii-chan kept me from doing stuff like that. I want to do more, is there another battle competition nearby!?"
Takeru smiled.
"We can look. By the way, how is your brother doing."
Quinn's expression changed.
"I, I still haven't checked."
"You haven't."
"I , I told myself I would, but I still haven't. Why haven't I?"
"Why don't you do it right now."
Quinn seemed almost nervous as the screen showed the connection symbol.
Finally it lit up showing her older brother on the other end laying in bed.
"Onii-chan."
"Quinn, it's been a while since you called."
"Daigo." Takeru said.
"Lord Shiba." Daigo said back.
"How are you doing Onii-chan?" Quinn said nervously.
"As good as I usually am. How about you?"
"I battled in the Whirl cup."
"Really how did you do."
"I lost."
"Oh, well you went out and gave it your all, and that's 'cough, cough' what matters most."
"She seemed like she was really having fun." Takeru said putting his arm around her.
"What's going on here?" Daigo said noticing this.
Takeru was confused.
"A man can't put his arm around his girlfriend."
"You two are dating!"
Quinn's face turned red as Takeru turned to her.
"Uhhh, shit we're loosing you." Quinn said before the call ended.
"You didn't tell your brother we're dating."
"I guess it just never came up."
"…Quinn when was the last time you called your brother?"
"…"
Elsewhere Mako was with Arkanes as the two practiced archery inside the large hotel room Mako was staying at.
"You did good out there today." Mako said after hitting near the bullseye.
"I could have done better." Arkanes said before he drew his bow back and hit a bullseye.
"Not good enough."
"Ok this stops now, what is up your ass?" Mako said.
Arkanes sighed.
"I fucked up yesterday!"
"What?"
"That neo-gorma, it's my fault he got the drop on us. He played me like a piano and if it weren't for Stephen and Sandra we'd all be dead."
"You couldn't predict a little boy was actually a monster. I think that's a forgivable mistake."
Arkanes sighed.
"You don't understand Mako. In situations like that, so many times it seems like it might be the time that my number finally comes. That something won't go right, and someone might die. If I let someone on my team die because of a mistake I made…..I don't think I could ever forgive myself."
Mako set down Arkanes's bow as she put her hand on his shoulder.
"You have so much put on your shoulders. You've put your life on the line more times than I could imagine. You're right, I can't understand what that feels like. But I can tell you that the more you weigh yourself down with these doubts the harder it will be for you to stand."
"…." Mako sweat dropped.
"Geez that sounded like it came from a fortune cookie." She said to herself.
"That helps."
"Oh." She said relieved.
"I guess it was easier when Lord Shiba was leading instead of me and Kaoru. I don't know how Takeru stays so calm under all that pressure."
"Well you carry a lot of pressure yourself."
"I suppose." Arkanes held his head before he undid the topknot on his hair.
"Maybe you're right, I just need to relax."
Mako hugged Arkanes.
"Are the others expecting you to come back?"
"They know I'm here."
"Good. I don't like it when we're apart baby. I want to soak as much as I can while we are." Mako said.
Arkanes's eyes widened as he saw Mako undo the kimono before dropping it to the ground.
He saw Mako wear a pair of red panties and a snug bra.
"Mako, I." Arkanes started as he shook.
"Stop talking." Mako said before she kissed him.
Arkanes's face turned red before he put his arms around her and rubbed her back.
Mako pulled Arkanes's shirt off and saw several scars across his body.
Arkanes felt his pants get undone as well before they fell to the floor.
Arkanes felt Mako begin to kiss and suck on his neck before he went backwards onto the first bed.
Arkanes reached up to the back of Mako's bra and undid it before the bra fell down.
Mako ran her hands through her long deep red hair and smiled as she saw Arkanes gawk at her breasts with a red face.
She moved her head up onto a pillow, her breasts pressed against Arkanes's face. Arkanes was still shaking, but put his mouth around his girlfriend's right breast, Mako moaning a little as she moved her feet up.
Finally she got her toes around Arkanes's waistband, slowly taking his boxers off before taking them in her hands, Mako taking a long whiff before tossing them aside.
She got up as Arkanes panted.
Arkanes then saw Mako grab the waistline of her panties before slowly sliding them off.
Mako tossed them into Arkanes's face before he quickly pulled them off , now able to see Mako as she laid on her stomach with her right foot raised in the air.
Mako beckoned Arkanes closer with her finger as she moved her butt around at him.
Arkanes climbed over as she raised her butt up. Arkanes moves his hands around Mako and onto her breasts , squeezing them tightly as he gave her a kiss on the cheek and began moving into her.
Mako gasped and then gave approving sounds as Arkanes continued.
Mako stayed in her position as she felt Arkanes continue to enter her.
"Keep going! Keep going! Yes! I love you! Ahhhh!"
Arkanes breathed heavier as he moves his hands from Mako's breasts to her cheeks. using his grip to better his thrusts.
After finishing up, Arkanes's arms were wrapped around Mako's stomach.
"I didn't hurt you did I?"
Mako laughed to herself.
"You were amazing baby. Let's make this a regular thing."
"A , a regular thing." Arkanes said nervously.
Mako turned around so she was facing Arkanes and gave him a short kiss.
Author's note
So yes Quinn lost in round one, someone had to
You will see the other members eventually
Not too much more to say
So until next time,
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