Shadow Games

Chapter Five -Of Love and Death

"NO!" Ash yelled. He stood in front of May, creating a human shield. "Don't shoot her!"

"Heh heh... why not?" Rosso said. "I said fire!"

"Right." One of the Cipher Peons said. He held his gun up.

"Pikapika!" Pikachu jumped out of Ash's backpack. "Chuuu!" Pikachu used a light screen attack to create a giant dome of energy around herself, May, and Ash. The peons began to fire, but the shots just bounced harmlessly off of the light screen. "Pi pikachu!" Pikachu said toAsh.

"Listen, May. We don't have much time," Ash said. "You haveto run when the light screen breaks."

"What?" May said. "No! I can't leaveyouto...to..."

"Look, May. I might never have told you this before, but... I... I love you," Ash said. "You can't die here. You just I promise I'll catch up to you."

"Ash..." May said. "I love you too. And that's why I can't leave you here to die."

"I promised that I would come," Ash said. "Run. As soon as the light screen breaks then run." Silently, May looked atAsh, and then nodded.She knewAshwas right.

"Oh, Ash... please, be careful," May pleaded."But I'll run. I'll be waiting for you."

And at that moment, the light screenshattered into pieces.

"Give it up, Wes," Verde said, shakingthe spider webs from his body. "It's thirty-one against one. We all have guns. You have nothing."

"Wrong," Wes said weakly. "I might die here, but the only thing I will regret is not having said good bye..."

"Then, you are not afraid to die?" Verde asked, confused.

"No, you bastard!" Wes yelled. "I wan never afraid to die! I'd die a thousand times to rid this world of Cipher!"

"Then so be it," Verde said, firing his gun into Wes's gut.

"Team Rocket!" Mirror B. said, toting his giant gun under his arm.

"Mirror B.," James said. "You may have quit Team Rocket, but some things will never change.

"Oh, how I don't need a gun to disposeof you two? Ludicolos, use hydro pump!" Mirror B. said.

The four duck-like pokemon shot powerful streams of water into Jessie and James, which sent them flying.

"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off..."

Mirror B. fired his machinegun several times into the air, and Team Rocket never finished their catchphrase.

"Lark, NO!" Silver said. She ran up to Lark, who now had a bullet in his side. "Lark... you didn't have to... go get shot..." She began to sob.

"Silver... behind you..." Lark said.

"What?" Silver said. It was too late. A rain of bullets had already began to fall in Silver's direction.

"May, go, NO!" Ash yelled.

"Ash..." May sobbed as she ran down the alley.

"Should we give chase?" One of the peons asked.

"No. Just kill the boy." Rosso responded coldly. A rain ofgunfire engulfed Ash.

"Pikachu... thunderbolt..." Ash said wearily.

"Piika, chuuuuu!" Pikachu yelled, as she sent 10,000 volts of electricity through Team Cipher.

"Unh..." Rosso groaned as he fell over. He had a special shock-freeze-proof uniform on, but the other peons were dead.

"Now... to find May..." Ash walked off as fast as he could, trailing blood after him as he moved. "May... May..." He called out.

"Ash?" May's feminine voice asked from the distance. "Oh, Ash!" She ran up to him from the shadows and threw her arms around him. "Ash are you all right?"

"Me... I'm fine..." Ash said, coughing up blood. "What about... you..." Ash's eyes closed and his head went limp in May's arms. May watched as his chest heaved up and down and blood poured out of a wound near his heart.

"Ugh..." Wes gripped his stomach as the bullet made contact. "Unh... goodbye... Rui..."

"WES!" He heard a voice calling, distant in his mind, though he saw a girl approaching him. "Wes, Wes, are you all right?" The voices grew farther and farther away as Wes closed his eyes, blood leaking from his stomach on to the ground.

"You did this to him..." The girl said coldly to Verde, the gun still smoking in his hands.

"Of course," Verde said. "And I'll do it again."

"Silver... NO!" Lark pushed Silver out of the way. The rain of bullets hit Lark full on.

"Foolish kid," Gonzap said. 'I kinda feel sorry for him... but not really. I think to ease the guilt, I'll let his girlfriend go free,' Gonzap thought. "See you around, losers." Skarmory and Gonzap flew up into the sky.

"Silver..." Lark said. "Before... you know... I want to tell you..."

It was difficult to look at Lark now. He had gunshot wounds all over his body. The one on his left cheek was most prominent... it opened a clean hole to inside of his mouth, and most of the flesh around it was burned away.

"...I love you," Lark said, as he fell unconscious.

((I have really nothing else to say about Team Rocket... but they're not dead.))

OOC Section!

People die. Deal with it. You won't know who's really dead until the next chapter.

I decided to add 2 chappys today...