Here's part... NINE?! Oh my....



Quote of the Fic: "Courage is... When you know you're licked before you begin but you begin it
anyway and you see it through no matter what." Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Part Nine of "The Hidden League"
'Capturing the Mistress of Water'
~~

Rose looked at Giovanni, her eyes shining. "I can't wait! We'll have to give her a room next
to mine, and Martha and Daisy will have to meet her, and she'll help me with my power..."

Giovanni laughed. "I have to meet with your aunt. I'll be back before dinnertime with her, so
don't worry."

"Her name is Misty right?" Rose asked.

"Yes, darling. Misty is her name, and she was your mother's youngest sister. I believe she's
going to be nineteen soon." Giovanni said as he stood up and left the room, summoning for
Martha to come to watch Rose while he was out.

Giovanni grinned to himself. He was killing two birds with one stone. He was keeping his
darling Rose happy and getting rid of one of the rebels at the same time.

~~

Misty and Ash had just finished cooling off when Erika called down saying that lunch was ready.

Ash and Misty walked up the flight of stairs, each wondering what was for lunch.

It was a large pot homemade vegetable soup, fresh bread, salad, and fresh water (Authoress: I'm
hungry in case you're wondering). Ash sat down and then pulled Misty into his lap and kissed
her. When they finally broke for air, everyone was decidedly trying to ignore them. It didn't
work too well though. Sabrina and Eric were both blushing. Shawn was biting his tongue, trying
not to say something improper. Cory was trying to eat his food without gagging. Erika had a
gentle smile playing on her lips and Brock just had a huge grin on his face. Lance sighed,
wondering how he got stuck with this bunch of nutcases.

Everything had just been put away with Sabrina had detected that Team Rocket was in the base's
area.

"Grabs your cloaks and let's go!" Lance shouted as he headed off towards the boy's room.

When the girls came back, each donning their own cloak with their PokeBalls, Misty handed a
finished cloak to Ash and Brock.

"I did some work on it this morning and last night, but Erika did most of it." Misty replied
after getting a thank you kiss from Ash.

~~

Misty's water spells and Ash's Pokemon had knocked a good amount of Rockets out of the area
they were fighting in. Erika went with Brock, Eric with Sabrina, and Lance went with Cory and
Shawn. Each group left in a different direction, hoping to get rid of most of the Rocket
members before they found the base.

Misty frowned as she concentrated on just knocking the members unconscious, instead of killing
them. "Ash, move to the left of me."

~~

Giovanni had arrived in time to watch as Misty shot water out of nowhere towards the members
that were attacking her. He grinned. 'She's perfect to train Rose. She's strong, she can
summon an attack without an element being present. Rose still needs a source of water to
summon, and she came into her powers much sooner than Misty.'

~~

Erika frowned as she trapped more Rocket members in her vines. "I don't like this Brock.
There aren't too many Rocket members here, so that means that they're somewhere else."

Brock nodded as his Steelix 'gently' knocked five more members into a tree. "I know. Something
just doesn't feel right. I don't need powers to be able to tell you that."

~~

Sabrina shook her head. Something was tingling at the edges of her senses. She knew something
was wrong. Something was going to happen. She knocked the seven Rocket members that were
approaching her back with a physic wave before it clicked and the vision became clear. "Oh no!
Misty!"

Eric, who was using his Beedrill to guard Sabrina's back, looked at her in surprise. "What
about Misty?"

Sabrina quickly used the rest of her psychic powers to knock all of the other Rocket members
out. She didn't like to that, it normally left her dizzy, like it did now. Eric steadied
her. "It's Giovanni! He's going to kidnap Misty!"

Eric looked at her in shock. "Come on then, we need to go find her and Ash."

Sabrina nodded and the two took off, hoping to find their friends, and maybe, a few more
Rockets to beat up.

~~

Lance was using his power to blow people out of the way. Cory was using his Flareon to make
sure their Grass Pokemon dried out. Shawn was using his Pichu to give minor shocks to Rocket
members who got too close. Suddenly, all of the members dropped to the forest floor,
unconscious.

"Where did that come from?" Shawn asked.

Sabrina and Eric quickly ran through were they were stand. "Where else would it come from,
idiot?" Sabrina shouted.

"What's going on?" Lance asked.

Sabrina had pulled ahead of Eric, who was answering his question. "She had a vision of
Giovanni kidnapping Misty."

Lance's eyes widen in pure fear and worry. "This is the only thing I didn't think could, or
would, happen."

Without another word, the group of trainers left, their legs carrying each as fast as they
could go.

~~

Erika and Brock had just finished trapped Team Rocket members in vines when the others ran
past, Lance stopping long enough to tell the two what was going on.

Erika, needless to say, almost blew up. "We have to hurry!"

Brock nodded. "Misty won't be able to protect herself from Rocket members and Ash has no
powers."

Erika and Brock took off, following the others.

~~

Ash and Misty had just run out of Rocket members to fight. They were about to go and find the
others when they found them.

"Misty, thank goodness you're okay!" Erika said.

Misty stopped, and was about to comment, when more Rocket members suddenly appeared.

"Where did they come from?" Shawn asked as he ducked out of the way of a punch and delivered
one of his own.

Misty, who was about to answer, screamed. When the others turned to see what was a matter,
each of them were horrified to see Giovanni with a tight hold on Misty. Misty struggled
mercilessly, but Giovanni's hold on her was too strong.

"MISTY! No! Let her go!" Ash ran towards Giovanni, but was thrown back 15 yards by Giovanni's
ground power. The Rocket members were tensed, ready for a battle.

"Now, don't try to move to help the Mistress of Water, or I might end up doing something we'll
all regret." Giovanni said, injecting Misty was a syringe. Misty instantly became limp in his
arms.

"What did you want with her?" Lance yelled, warily eyeing the other Rocket members.

"What did you do to her?" Erika yelled, trying not to release her power.

"Oh, this is just something to help her sleep. I don't need her struggling on our back to my
base. What do I plan to do with her? Rose needs a trainer. Misty will do perfectly."
Giovanni said.

"Let her go!" Ash said, stand back up, ignoring the pain echoing from his limbs.

Giovanni glared at Ash and once again threw him back a few yards, but this time Ash was
knocked out cold. "I thank you for letting me have the Mistress of Water. Her powers will be a
great help."

Giovanni began to walk away, with the limp Misty in his arms, when Erika released a fury of
vines on him. Giovanni's power, being of the ground itself, easily deflected it. He turned
back to the trainers, motioning the other Rocket members to attack. "Don't try it again."

Erika glared as she trapped some in more vines. Lance trapped a few members into a tornado,
and only released them when they were unconscious. Eric released a string of poison darts,
used only to knock people out, not to kill them. Shawn electric them, and the trainers soon
found out there were out of adversaries.

As soon as they finished, Lance let loose a string of curses that made everyone blink. Brock
had hurried over to Ash's side, hoping he was only comatose and not dead. Erika frowned and
was about to go after him when Sabrina stopped her.

"Erika, stop. Misty was taken, but we will get her back. I tried to probe his mind, but there
are other psychics out there, they must have a mind block on him. Granted, none are as
powerful as I am, but they still exist. Erika, your power will be need, as will Lance. I do
have a plan, but it will take some time to work out all the flaws." Sabrina said.

Eric nodded in his agreement. "I have a plan also, Sabrina. Let's try and put them together."

Cory rolled his eyes. "At any rate, we need to get Ashy-boy back to the base. Then you two
can work out a plan. Maybe Shawn and I will try and get the location out of Gypsy and Keith."

Sabrina nodded. "It didn't occur to me to probe their minds on the location of the base.
Maybe I should try."

Lance nodded as Shawn lifted the unconscious Ash onto Brock's back.

~~

When Misty woke up, she was surprised to feel silk sheets instead of the cotton sheets that
decorated her own bed. Then it clicked. She was kidnapped by Giovanni. While Misty was
plotting her way out, she heard the door open, then close. She was prepared to greet whoever
it was with a flood of vulgar language. She wasn't prepared to see an eight-year-old child.
The child had blonde hair and vivid blue eyes. She wore a dress and looked exactly like Daisy
had at the age of eight.

The girl's blue eyes lit up when she noticed Misty was awake. "Aunt Misty, it's me, Rose!"

"Rose?!" Misty gasped out when the girl tackled her into a hug.

"Yes, me, Rose! Daddy said you were tired from your trip, and that I should let you rest, but
I had to keep checking on you!"

Giovanni appeared at the doorway and smiled at Rose. He then turned cold eyes to Misty. His
eyes clearly told her to watch what she said.

"I'm still a little tired Rose. We can catch up after I have a bit of a rest." Misty said.

"Okay, but after you wake up, I have to introduce you to everyone!" Rose said as she skipped
out of the door.

Giovanni waited until Rose was out of earshot. "Watch what you do and say around Rose,
Mistress. I could arrange for you to take a little trip."

~~

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