Chapter 13

"On the Road Again"

"Gah, Edgar why'd you have to go and get the last bike?" Mal asked majorly annoyed.

"Hey! I thought you were happy with your roller blades! It's not my fault if I was faster than you were!" Edgar said in an exasperated tone.

Mal rolled her eyes, "Whatever, come on let's find Karania so that we can get a move on.

Just then Karania came zooming out of the forest. "Spoke too soon..." Mal muttered.

"Hey Karania! Let's go! We've got a lot of ground to cover if we're going to get to Fallarbor before the week ends!" Edgar said.

"Then let's go, I'm ready, and... Mal, I thought you were getting a bike." Karania said.

"Rydel, ran out of bikes so he gave me roller blades instead." Mal replied.

"Let's hope you can keep up. We'll try to take it slow for you, but if we get too far ahead we'll stop and wait for you. Okay, Mal?" Karania replied.

"You better, okay, let's go." Mal said, clearly wanting to get the show on the road.

Mal, Karania, and Edgar now began getting ready to leave Mauville. Mal strapped on her roller blades and put her shoes in her backpack, while Edgar climbed on his bike while Karania kept her balance on her own. Once everyone was ready, they took off and headed out of Mauville towards route 111. Edgar and Karania easily got ahead of Mal. "HEY YOU GUYS! I CAN'T GO THAT FAST! WAIT UP!" Mal yelled so that Edgar and Karania could hear her.

Karania and Edgar slowed down and waited for Mal, and while they were waiting a group of reporters spotted Karania and walked over to talk to her. "Hi, Karania! What's up, and what brings you out here?" Gabby asked.

Ty was taping this, since he thought that people would want to know what Karania had been doing recently.

"We're on a journey to stop Team Magma since they're up to no good again." Karania replied.

"I see, and if I remember correctly you stopped them once before when they tried to capture Groudon, is that correct?" Gabby asked.

"That's true, I did stop them. This time however, they're after the Soul Dew so that they can control Latias and Latios. We don't want them to succeed so me and my friends decided to set out and stop them from getting their hands on it." Karania replied.

"Now Karania, your family now keeps guard over the Cave of Origin after they went after Groudon, is that correct?" Gabby asked.

"Yes, well it's mostly just me, but my dad helps me keep an eye on it since I'm also the League Champion, and I can't be everywhere at once." Karania replied.

Mal had caught up from this point and saw Karania being interviewed, "Not again... Why does Karania always get all the attention..." Mal asked herself wearily.

"Thanks for your time Karania, we hope to see you soon." Gabby said. Ty now stopped taping and put his camera away.

"Come on Mal, let's get to the Fiery Path, then we'll rest for a while, it isn't too much further. It's just another five or six yards ahead." Karania said.

"Gah! Karania! Some of us don't have a Mach Bike, you know!" Mal exclaimed, falling to the ground in exhaustion.

"Okay, fine, we'll rest for ten minutes then we'll continue on towards the Fiery Path." Karania said.

"THANK YOU!" Mal exclaimed.

Karania and Edgar climbed off their bikes and took a seat on the ground to wait for Mal to rest. The time seemed to pass slowly for Karania and Edgar, but for Mal it seemed to pass too fast. The ten minutes Karania promised Mal came and went, and Karania, Edgar, and Mal got back up and continued on to the Fiery Path, hoping that they were getting close to catching up to Team Magma, so that they could stop them and put an end to their nefarious deeds once and for all.