Phantom Rider: Chapter 2
A/N: This chapter is going to drag, but it has a shocking ending to it, and finishes the touches of the plot. Please review and Happy Holidays everyone.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, just my characters.
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I ride carefully around the outskirts of Saffron City.
This is the most dangerous part of all of Kanto. With one of the most powerful psychics here ever known.
Sabrina.
This is where the most trainer deaths happen. I think that there's some connection with the Elite Four and Sabrina, but I'm not sure.
An agonized cry interrupts my thoughts, and Buddy roars a second before silencing.
Something big just happened.
I don't have to ask Midnight Thunder to go, he's already galloping ahead to the clearing ahead, Buddy keeping stride with us.
Thunder stops dead in his tracks at the sight of the body.
It's a trainer, judging from the pokeballs on his waist and the five badges on his shirt, about fifteen years old.
He's dead, I can tell from here.
I dismount and slowly walk to him, there's a pool of blood already gathering around him.
"Buddy, is there any other scent around here than this kid?" I ask, carefully searching the kid for his trainer's license.
Buddy whimpers sadly, confirming my worst fears...
A psychic did this.
They teleported in, killed the trainer, and teleported out, probably with an Alakazam, who has the most intelligence and accuracy, and other than the one I have, Sabrina's the only one I know with one in this area.
'Every person you save kills another six people!' Clair's mocking voice comes back to haunt me.
She's right, there's nothing that can be done fighting the rockets one by one.
I look up, for the first time in a long time ever since the day that assassin bullet grazed me, having the fire that has so long left me return.
I stand up, reaching for Nicky's pokeball.
She coos softly and sadly at the sight of the dead trainer lying on the ground as soon as she materializes.
"Nicky, fly to Officer Jenny in Saffron, and give her this note," I say, writing down the vital information about my theory of the trainers death, our location, and something else that is vitally important to be transferred to one of her relatives. "I'm going to be in New Bark Town when you're finished, so find me there."
She cheeps softly, taking flight as soon as the note is attached.
"Mystic, go!" I say, reaching for a pokeball in my backpack and releasing one of my other flying types.
My Xatu appeared in a flash of light, its psychic eyes looking at me for orders as I gently stroke its head feathers. "Up for a long trip?" I ask it as I reach for Buddy's dust-covered, and rarely used pokeball.
Buddy snarls at the sight at the most hated object in his life. "Oh, chill, it's only going to be for a short time, and then I'll let you out, unless if you want to cross the water with me." I say with a smile.
Buddy growls, but allows me to recall him. Shaking my head at his stubbornness, I untack Midnight Thunder and recall him without any problems.
Never train a baby pokemon with a pokeball as punishment; you'll regret it later.
Hopping on Mystic, we fly rapidly to Indigo League.
I grin as I recall Mystic, if Clair or any of my allies knew how close I was to the place where I am most wanted dead or alive, I would never hear the end of it.
It's quiet right now, but in a month, it's going to be hopping with trainers that want to fight in the Indigo League Championships.
I don't have much time...
On that thought, I let out Mike, my Lapras, and soon we're rapidly Surfing across the water.
I pat him, "enjoying your time out?" I ask with a chuckle as I spot land.
He lets out a soft wail of content and happiness as he lands, "don't worry, during the next month you're going to get plenty of exercise." I say, offering him a poketreat before recalling him.
A nudge on my shoulder makes me jump as I turn to see Nicky standing there. "Good job, and good time, too. I know what you want, so here." I say, offering another one to her as I climb on.
I don't have to tell her where to go she already knows the location...
Mount Silver.
I trudge through the darkened cave, only Buddy and Sheep, my Ampharos who knows Flash keeping me company.
I walk to the hiding place of the only other living trainer who defeated and quit the Elite Four.
He's at the end of a long corridor, staring at the wall, a Raichu huddled behind him.
He turns to my footsteps, his jaw dropping at the sight of me.
"Y-y-you're alive?" He asks me, eyes wide.
"Yes I am." I say quietly, my voice echoing across the cavern.
"I don't believe it, when the Elite Four announced your death..." he trails off, head hanging.
"I know."
We stare at each other across the distance.
I finally decide to break the tension...
"Hello, Ash."
TBC...
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A/N: Now that you're totally shocked, please review, and next chapter up in a week, and Happy Holidays everyone.
A/N: This chapter is going to drag, but it has a shocking ending to it, and finishes the touches of the plot. Please review and Happy Holidays everyone.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, just my characters.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I ride carefully around the outskirts of Saffron City.
This is the most dangerous part of all of Kanto. With one of the most powerful psychics here ever known.
Sabrina.
This is where the most trainer deaths happen. I think that there's some connection with the Elite Four and Sabrina, but I'm not sure.
An agonized cry interrupts my thoughts, and Buddy roars a second before silencing.
Something big just happened.
I don't have to ask Midnight Thunder to go, he's already galloping ahead to the clearing ahead, Buddy keeping stride with us.
Thunder stops dead in his tracks at the sight of the body.
It's a trainer, judging from the pokeballs on his waist and the five badges on his shirt, about fifteen years old.
He's dead, I can tell from here.
I dismount and slowly walk to him, there's a pool of blood already gathering around him.
"Buddy, is there any other scent around here than this kid?" I ask, carefully searching the kid for his trainer's license.
Buddy whimpers sadly, confirming my worst fears...
A psychic did this.
They teleported in, killed the trainer, and teleported out, probably with an Alakazam, who has the most intelligence and accuracy, and other than the one I have, Sabrina's the only one I know with one in this area.
'Every person you save kills another six people!' Clair's mocking voice comes back to haunt me.
She's right, there's nothing that can be done fighting the rockets one by one.
I look up, for the first time in a long time ever since the day that assassin bullet grazed me, having the fire that has so long left me return.
I stand up, reaching for Nicky's pokeball.
She coos softly and sadly at the sight of the dead trainer lying on the ground as soon as she materializes.
"Nicky, fly to Officer Jenny in Saffron, and give her this note," I say, writing down the vital information about my theory of the trainers death, our location, and something else that is vitally important to be transferred to one of her relatives. "I'm going to be in New Bark Town when you're finished, so find me there."
She cheeps softly, taking flight as soon as the note is attached.
"Mystic, go!" I say, reaching for a pokeball in my backpack and releasing one of my other flying types.
My Xatu appeared in a flash of light, its psychic eyes looking at me for orders as I gently stroke its head feathers. "Up for a long trip?" I ask it as I reach for Buddy's dust-covered, and rarely used pokeball.
Buddy snarls at the sight at the most hated object in his life. "Oh, chill, it's only going to be for a short time, and then I'll let you out, unless if you want to cross the water with me." I say with a smile.
Buddy growls, but allows me to recall him. Shaking my head at his stubbornness, I untack Midnight Thunder and recall him without any problems.
Never train a baby pokemon with a pokeball as punishment; you'll regret it later.
Hopping on Mystic, we fly rapidly to Indigo League.
I grin as I recall Mystic, if Clair or any of my allies knew how close I was to the place where I am most wanted dead or alive, I would never hear the end of it.
It's quiet right now, but in a month, it's going to be hopping with trainers that want to fight in the Indigo League Championships.
I don't have much time...
On that thought, I let out Mike, my Lapras, and soon we're rapidly Surfing across the water.
I pat him, "enjoying your time out?" I ask with a chuckle as I spot land.
He lets out a soft wail of content and happiness as he lands, "don't worry, during the next month you're going to get plenty of exercise." I say, offering him a poketreat before recalling him.
A nudge on my shoulder makes me jump as I turn to see Nicky standing there. "Good job, and good time, too. I know what you want, so here." I say, offering another one to her as I climb on.
I don't have to tell her where to go she already knows the location...
Mount Silver.
I trudge through the darkened cave, only Buddy and Sheep, my Ampharos who knows Flash keeping me company.
I walk to the hiding place of the only other living trainer who defeated and quit the Elite Four.
He's at the end of a long corridor, staring at the wall, a Raichu huddled behind him.
He turns to my footsteps, his jaw dropping at the sight of me.
"Y-y-you're alive?" He asks me, eyes wide.
"Yes I am." I say quietly, my voice echoing across the cavern.
"I don't believe it, when the Elite Four announced your death..." he trails off, head hanging.
"I know."
We stare at each other across the distance.
I finally decide to break the tension...
"Hello, Ash."
TBC...
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A/N: Now that you're totally shocked, please review, and next chapter up in a week, and Happy Holidays everyone.