A few weeks have passed since Max told his whole team about his dark and mysterious secret past. They've traveled north since then, Vivi leaves, and Max finds out that no matter how hard he tries to live a decent life, his past will always follow him. While Zet chases after Vivi, due to the fact that she stole some food and money, Max decides to follow up on some clues about the location of his ex-girl friend Sola, which leads him to another confrontation with Vaison.
Some where at night, Running Monk and a child, sit by a tent and the two spot a shooting star.
CHILD: (looking at the sky) A shooting star fell.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the sky) That's no ordinary star.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the sky) That's the tear of a warrior.
CHILD: What's a warrior?
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the sky) One who has finished his battle some where on this planet.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the sky) A pitiful soul that could not find inner peace in this life.
Else where, in the air, aboard a White Dragon Syndicate private air craft, a young boy named Ling, Vaison, and 3 elders, the new leaders of the syndicate, Wang Lang, Pin Lang, and Sou Lang discuss a potential illegal substance deal.
LING: The report from Callistoe went directly to Vaison.
LING: He's requesting a deal for the pinky eye substance.
LING: 30,000 dollars per gram.
LING: A total of 7,500 grams.
WANG LANG: Why did he specify you as the dealer, Vaison?
VAISON: He was a victim of a vicious attack and we were in the same school together once.
SOU LANG: But why now?
VAISON: Callistoe is under going a depression right now.
VAISON: If he can't see the future, he's sure to worry.
SOU LANG: Vaison, are you not the one who's worrying?
PIN LANG: You have no permission to make your own decisions, due to the fact that you're only 8 years old.
SOU LANG: Regardless of who it is, those who go against the White Dragon's will are punished.
VAISON: You believe that i would betray my own mentors?
PIN LANG: You tell us, since Mack's case was merely bad luck.
WANG LANG: Ling!
WANG LANG: You shall go with Vaison.
LING: Yes!
WANG LANG: Callistoe is a frigid place.
WANG LANG: You should take plenty of winter clothes.
VAISON: Cold climate does not concern me.
WANG LANG: It's true that the city is warmer than your heart.
WANG LANG: You're just like a snake pokemon.
WANG LANG: Your heart is colder than an ice pokemon's body and it's as black as the night time sky.
Vaison stands from his seat and begins to exit.
WANG LANG: Vaison!
Vaison stops walking.
WANG LANG: Remember, a snake pokemon can not eat a dragon pokemon.
A few minutes later, near the rotating part of the private air craft, Ling and Vaison talk in private.
VAISON: I'll be fine by my self.
LING: I'll go with you.
VAISON: Remember this well Ling.
VAISON: If you want to survive, you may have to betray me.
LING: No!
LING: That would go against the White Dragon's will.
VAISON: Such old fashion thinking makes me nauseous.
VAISON: Those darn corpses.
LING: I will protect you, for the honor of the White Dragon syndicate.
VAISON: Honor you say?
VAISON: Than it's up to me to slaughter them all.
The next day, at camp, Max wakes up from a nap on the grass.
MAX: It's cold.
He spots Ellie on her laptop.
MAX: Where are the others?
Ellie gestures with her head.
MAX: What a depressing bunch.
A few yards away from camp, laying on a tree, Zet stares at the letter Vivi left behind.
MAX: What's with this cold snap all of a sudden?
MAX: It's so chilly that i can't sleep.
ZET: Oh it's just because we're in the northern part of Kalos.
ZET: I got bad news for us.
Zet tosses Max the note Vivi left behind. He catches it and reads it.
MAX: (reading the letter Vivi wrote) "It'd be hard for me to do if i saw your faces, so i'm leaving with out seeing you one last time.
MAX: (reading the letter Vivi wrote) Please don't look for me!"!
ZET: She stole our boxes of food.
MAX: (holding the letter Vivi wrote) After this stunt, we shouldn't look for her.
Zet frowns.
ZET: She emptied out our safe, where we keep the whole team's money as well.
MAX: (yelling, feeling thoroughly pissed off, and balling up the note Vivi wrote) THAT GOLD DIGGING WENCH.
Max and Zet approach Ellie to look for Vivi on the internet.
ELLIE: (typing on her laptop) 7, 8, 9, hello.
MAX: (siting behind her) Are you really looking for Vivi?
ELLIE: (typing on her laptop) 1, 0, 1, 1, and good bye.
MAX: (siting behind her) Are you just wasting time?
ZET: (standing behind her) Is there any thing else to do right now?
ELLIE: (typing on her laptop) Boom!
ZET: (standing behind her) You found her?
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) I've found a secret distress signal far off from here.
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) I wonder who this is.
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) Code name Sola.
The name catches Max's attention, big time.
MAX: (grabbing Ellie by the shoulder and shaking her a little) Where is that coming from?
ELLIE: (typing on her laptop) Lets see.
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) Looks like it's coming from the Blue Crow in Callistoe.
MAX: (sounding impatient) Where's the secret distress signal going to?
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) It got disconnected.
Max runs off to get behind a big tree, to change into his black boots, his long black pants, his black shirt with long sleeves, and his black coat. He also grabs his guns, his back pack, and his 19 inch steel bar inside his back pack.
ZET: Hey!
Zet walks off.
ELLIE: (looking at her laptop screen) Actually, there are no girls at Blue Crow.
ZET: (yelling and running after him) HEY MAX.
ELLIE: Is that it?
Zet catches up to Max.
ZET: Wait a minute.
ZET: That's a common girl's name.
ZET: What about Vivi?
MAX: Leave her.
ZET: This is a savage area.
ZET: A girl surely can't survive wandering about all alone.
MAX: Feeling sympathetic for the traitor?
ZET: I feel plenty of sympathy for the money she stole from us.
ZET: I want it back.
MAX: (getting on his bike slowly) I'm gonna go look.
ZET: What?
MAX: (getting on his bike slowly) I'm gonna go look for my girl.
MAX: (getting on his bike slowly) You can look for the other one.
ZET: You're gonna have nothing to do with this?
ZET: That's it.
ZET: I can only go so far.
ZET: Even if you do come back, there won't be a place for you on the team.
MAX: (siting on his bike) That's your call pal.
MAX: (siting on his bike) I'm sure you're not as lonely, now that you have more mysterious team mates.
ZET: My team mates.
ZET: You stayed on this team for that reason?
ZET: (yelling and feeling angry at Max) YOU'RE BEING STUPID.
ZET: (yelling and feeling angry at Max) IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE I TEAMED UP WITH YOU, BUT I NEVER KNEW YOU SAW ME THAT WAY.
ZET: (yelling and feeling angry at Max) I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU WERE THE LONELY ONE.
MAX: (siting on his bike) Well we got rid of that misunderstanding.
ZET: (yelling and feeling furious) GOOD RIDDANCE.
ZET: (yelling and feeling furious) NOW WE'LL HAVE MORE MONEY FOR FOOD.
Zet starts walking away from Max.
ZET: (yelling, feeling furious, and walking away) I NEVER DID UNDER STAND YOU, EVEN TO THE VERY END.
MAX: (siting on his bike and talking to him self) Some times i don't under stand my self either.
Max takes off for Callistoe.
Else where, Vivi sits in a shady cafe called "Rester Houser". A saxophone player named Gran plays a solemn tune.
The next day, at a junk yard, a man smashes monitors with a large mallet in the cold. Max has finally made it to Callistoe and is talking to the man.
BAM!
MAN: I don't know any girl.
MAN: Like i would know.
BAM!
MAX: Not even a rumor?
MAN: I have no luck with them.
MAN: I'd rather be with a pokemon.
BAM!
MAX: Have you heard of the name Sola?
MAN: You should have said so earlier.
MAN: There's one in front of Tony's place every night.
BAM!
Else where, on a street, Max approaches a brown haired girl that almost looks like Sola. He asks if her name is Sola and she says it's Sole.
SOLE: I'm not Sola.
SOLE: I'm Sole.
MAX: Oh, i see.
SOLE: Hey, you're my type.
SOLE: Wanna hang out with me?
MAX: I'm sorry.
MAX: I already have plans.
SOLE: Too bad.
SOLE: Any ways, Gran might know some thing.
SOLE: I've seen him with a girl before.
MAX: (feeling shocked) Gran you say?
GIRL 1: (walking towards Max and Sole) It's cold out here.
GIRL 2: (walking towards Max and Sole) Looks like there are no more boys to flirt with.
GIRL 1: (looking at Max) Oh, another one.
SOLE: Not even worth the time girls.
SOLE: He plays hard to get.
SOLE: Come on girls.
SOLE: Lets search for other boys at another place.
MAX: Hey, who and where is Gran?
SOLE: (talking with a devious smile) So you wanna date me tonight?
MAX: (feeling a little uncomfortable) I'm not really into girls that are the same age as my big sister.
SOLE: Well, since you're such a cute little boy, i'll give you a tip even though you're playing hard to get.
SOLE: He's a sax player at Blue Crow.
MAX: Thank you and i'm not cute or little.
SOLE: You are from our height and perspective.
SOLE: You're welcome.
Max calmly walks away from the 3 cougars.
Else where, at the Rester Houser, Vivi sneezes 3 times and Gran approaches her.
GRAN: Take care.
Vivi turns and sees him.
GRAN: That was close.
GRAN: When some one sneezes and doesn't get told to take care, that person becomes a fairy.
Vivi smiles.
VIVI: Than it's okay.
VIVI: I'm already a fairy.
VIVI: Don't you know that?
Gran puts his coat over her shoulders.
VIVI: I'm not as easy as i appear to be.
GRAN: Unfortunately, i'm not interested in girls.
VIVI: Oh, that's a shame.
GRAN: But the other boys seem to be highly interested.
GRAN: You didn't know that there were few females in this town?
VIVI: So i'll be very popular than.
GRAN: You should watch out.
Vivi tosses Gran's coat back to him.
VIVI: Thanks for the warning, saxophone boy.
She gets up and exits the place.
Else where, Max walks down a dark alley and finds a suspicious man.
MAX: I'm searching for some one.
MAN: There's nothing here.
MAN: The only things here are stale bread, a broken down car, and dirty water.
MAX: I'm looking for a guy named Gran.
MAX: Do you know any one by that name?
MAN: No idea.
MAX: I see.
Max continues on his way. The suspicious man and several other men in oxygen masks begin to slowly follow Max. He eventually notices and starts running. He runs into a dead end in the alley.
MAX: Hey, do you gentle men need some thing?
MAN: You're Vaison, right?
MAX: (getting a little angry) What did you say?
MAN: Where's the money?
MASKED MAN IN FRONT: If you don't put it out, it won't do you any good, you vicious little boy.
MASKED MAN IN FRONT: Vicious Vaison, it's time for you to pay with money.
Max becomes furious and bangs his fist against the dumpster, next to him, so hard, that he makes the masked men take a few steps back.
MAX: (feeling furious) You think i'm Vicious Vaison?
MAX: (feeling furious) You don't know what vicious is.
Max takes out his 19 inch steel bar and beats the living day lights out of them. His speed is that of a meowth and his strength is almost as impressive as an ursaring. He puts the suspicious man in a head lock.
MAX: (feeling furious and holding the suspicious man in a head lock) What the heck do you mean?
MAX: (feeling furious and holding the suspicious man in a head lock) Why the heck do you bad dudes think i'm Vaison?
MAN: (having trouble speaking) There was info that there was gonna be a deal for some pinky eye substance.
Max lets him go.
MAN: From Gran to Vaison.
MAN: I thought of taking that cash.
MAX: You think i look like i got money?
MAN: Foreigners are all rich compared to us natives.
MAX: What about the code name "Sola"?
MAN: Ha ha ha!
MAN: Sure sounds like some sleazy girl's name.
MAX: You really tick me off.
Max knocks him out cold with his right fist.
Else where, at a shady diner, Zet enters and Hot Shot is showing on a TV. He too, has finally made it to Callistoe.
ZET: I want a decaf.
WAITER: There are no bounties around here.
ZET: Dark with sugar please!
WAITER: Okay!
Zet watches the show. He sees and hears Judy and Punch talking about a bounty head.
JUDY: (holding a piece of paper) So, who's our customer today you ask?
JUDY: (reading the piece of paper) Gran Guo Eckener.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) That's a long name!
The name immediately catches Zet's attention.
PUNCH: Yeah!
PUNCH: He escaped from a juvenile detention center 2 years ago and the statute of limitations is about to expire.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) That means what exactly?
PUNCH: The bounty reward has doubled.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) This is a chance you can't miss, but i kinda feel like we can't let him go.
PUNCH: Judy, what are you saying?
PUNCH: He's an escaped convict.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) I know, but he's very adorable.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) Just look at his picture!
PUNCH: Lets see.
Punch grabs the piece of paper with Gran's face and info on him, away from Judy.
PUNCH: (talking and looking at Gran's mug shot at the same time) Oh, come on.
PUNCH: (talking and looking at Gran's mug shot at the same time) I'm much more adorable than he is you old cougar.
Zet takes out his communicator, forgetting he is ignoring Max. He remembers and then puts it back into his coat.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) Punch, i just can't laugh at that joke.
JUDY: (holding the piece of paper) I'm not old.
ZET: (feeling a little annoyed) Hey listen, can you turn that thing off?
WAITER: I'm sorry about that.
The waiter turns off the TV.
WAITER: Don't worry.
He points to an unconscious man, sitting to the side.
WAITER: That guy that passed out over there is a cop.
ZET: What are you saying?
WAITER: (whispering in Zet's ear) Actually, there's a bounty on my head too.
WAITER: (whispering in Zet's ear) This place is a hide out for criminals.
ZET: I see.
WAITER: (whispering in Zet's ear) So you can rest easy.
ZET: (feeling surprised) Who, me?
The waiter gives Zet a thumbs up and Zet sighs.
ZET: (thinking to himself) I'm really glad i don't live here.
Else where, Vivi walks down an empty dark alley.
VIVI: (talking to her self) What's with this?
VIVI: (talking to her self) I wanted to get rid of all this frustration and no one is coming.
She turns around and spots the group Max nearly destroyed earlier.
VIVI: Oh yay.
VIVI: You're all here.
MAN: Miss, your appearance is rather shady to the eyes or are you trying to trick us?
VIVI: Yes i am.
VIVI: Hold on a minute.
She puts on leather gloves.
VIVI: (putting on her leather gloves) If i don't do this, i'll chip a nail.
VIVI: (taking a battle stance) Okay, i'm ready now.
A masked man charges at her.
MASKED MAN: You sleaz.
She dodges and kicks him in the back. The suspicious man charges at her and Gran, out of no where, smashes the man's face against the brick wall.
GRAN: Hurry!
Gran takes Vivi's hand and they run.
VIVI: (talking and running with Gran at the same time) Saxophone boy.
Else where, a little later at Gran's apartment, Gran and Vivi talk.
VIVI: Why did you bring me here?
GRAN: Because you said you were a fairy.
GRAN: Why did you come with me?
VIVI: Because i got no place to go too.
GRAN: You can honestly trust me that easily?
VIVI: Yeah!
VIVI: You did save me from those strangers.
GRAN: I could take your money and leave you.
VIVI: I'm not weak prey.
Vivi picks up a small music box and winds it. Gran then grabs it out of her hand and puts it back on the table.
GRAN: It's broken.
GRAN: You came to such a slummy neighbor hood all by your self.
VIVI: I'm a loner.
VIVI: I don't want any comrades and they're not worth having.
VIVI: I end up worrying about things i don't have too.
VIVI: You know, since i'm such a prize.
VIVI: All the boys end up fighting over me.
VIVI: Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.
VIVI: When i'm dealing with them, it's nothing but trouble and i don't get squat out of it.
GRAN: You just got scared of losing them.
GRAN: That's why you distanced your self from them.
VIVI: I'm Vivi by the way.
GRAN: My name is Gran.
VIVI: You're an odd one.
GRAN: You think so?
VIVI: I feel like i'm in a therapy session.
VIVI: Have you ever had experience as a therapist?
GRAN: None!
They look into each other's eyes, when suddenly, Vivi sneezes 3 times.
GRAN: Take care Vivi.
GRAN: (getting up) Do you want to use the bath room to dry off from the snow?
VIVI: No thanks.
VIVI: I like feeling like an ice diva.
GRAN: Don't melt my diva.
VIVI: Well, i can't really guarantee that.
A few minutes later, while Gran is in the bath room, Vivi looks at pictures on Gran's wall, when she sees a familiar face. Suddenly the phone rings and the answering machine picks up the call.
VAISON: (talking on the answering machine) Gran, where are you?
VIVI: (getting a little scared) Vaison!
VAISON: (talking on the answering machine) I'm out on Honrouteou street and i have the mangan and the uradora.
VAISON: (talking on the answering machine) It's 32000 dollars.
VAISON: (talking on the answering machine) I'll be waiting.
Else where, at a snowy vacant lot, Max approaches Ling and Vaison, right as Vaison hangs up from his cell phone.
MAX: (walking towards them from out of a dark alley) Are you seeing Sola behind my back?
LING: Long time no see, Max.
MAX: Ling, you've gotten a lot taller.
VAISON: He used to work for you, but things are different now.
MAX: Like you using her name for an illegal substance deal.
MAX: I feel sorry for her, having her name used for some crooked deal like this.
VAISON: You were always the one leaving others out of the loop.
Vaison grabs the handle of his sword.
MAX: (drawing his gun out) We still haven't settled the score from last time.
Max points his gun at him.
VAISON: (taking a battle stance with his sword in his hand) Make your move.
Ling stands guard in front of Vaison.
Else where, back at Gran's apartment, an armed Vivi goes into the bath room where Gran is drying off from the snow that melted on him.
Back at the vacant lot, the scene intensifies when Ling gets between Max and Vaison.
MAX: (yelling and pointing his gun at Ling) LING, GET OUT OF THE WAY!
VAISON: (standing behind Ling in a battle stance with his sword in his hand) Sola was right here in this very town.
Ling draws his gun and points it at Max.
MAX: (pointing his gun at Ling) Ling!
Back at Gran's apartment, Vivi is shocked to see so much hair and a taatoo of a white dragon on his chest.
VIVI: (pointing her gun at Gran) A white dragon.
She's also shocked to see markings of a white dragon on both the knee parts of his pants.
VIVI: (pointing her gun at Gran) Are you some sort of gang member?
He corners Vivi.
GRAN: (looking in her eyes) I am both and i am neither.
Back at the vacant lot, Ling shoots Max.
BANG!
Max falls to the cold ground, allowing Ling and Vaison to walk away. Max lays unconscious in the snow while it's snowing.
TO BE CONTINUED!
That Vaison is bad to the bone. Once again, Max gets into another life or death situation, despite the fact that he's only 8 years old. Vivi also has a bad habit of walking into trouble for an 8 year old. With Gran and Ling now involved in the situation, some thing big is going to happen. With that being said, is Max still alive? Please type up your reviews for what you thought of this chapter! Keep reading to find out! Stay curious my friends!