Chapter two:
Touya sighed as he got off the boat in New Bark Town. He had sent Nate and Mei to check out Nimbasa and had taken a really fast Boat to Johto, which was only two regions away. He wanted to know what happened to both gym leaders, since they had disappeared the same way and at the same time. He grabbed a hold of a pokeball on his waist, his father's Pidgeotto's, Red Feather, letting the bird Pokémon out. He petted the flying type on the beak before hopping on to its back.
"Come on Red feather, we need to go to Ecruteak city." He said and his Pokémon nodded, taking off from the ground.
He could have just called Katone and her brother Ethan to take a look at it but he need a change of Scenery other than Unova. When they landed in Ecruteak city, he returned his Pokémon, clipping the ball back on to his belt. Before looking around. What he saw shocked him a bit. There were three people walking towards the gym. One had blue hair and was quite clearly the gym leader Clair, which he had met once, the other a man with red spiky hair, her cusion Lance, former Champion of Johto before Katone beat him and took over. But the one between them looked very familiar to him, yet she looked different. She wore a pair of jeans, black slightly heeled laced up boots, a white tank top and a black leather jacket. Her brown hair, the same shade as his, was in a high ponytail. She had ocean blue eyes and was about 6'2, the same height as him. He frowned and followed them to the gym, staying a few feet behind.
"Miss. Touko! Miss. Clair! Lance! What are you doing here?" The woman sitting out front asked.
"We came to see what happened to Morty." Clair explained. The woman nodded. Touko?! As in his sister, Touko?! No way. But still, she did look familiar to him. He had to find or if it really was her.
"Touko? Is that you?" He asked. Touko seemed to freeze and she closed her eyes.
"Shit." She muttered before she turned around. Her brother and her coming face to face for the first time in five years.
"Touya. What are you doing in Johto?" She asked.
"I was going to ask you the same thing." he said.
"You know each other?" Lance asked, him and Clair turning to look at the man.
He still wore the same thing he did when they were on their journey, his blue Hoodie, black pants and red hat that she had given him. His eyes were still the same chocolate brown too. Touko nodded her head.
"Yeah, he's my twin brother."
"So, you're hiding out in Johto then?" Touya asked as they looked around Morty's house. Lance and Clair had decided to look in the gym for anything that would give them some idea of what happened and left the gym leaders house for the twins. She gave her brother a glare.
"Good to see you too. And I'm not hiding out in Johto, I live here. In Blackthorn City and I'm a gym leader there, thank you very much." she said. Touya frowned.
"Isn't Clair the gym leader of Blackthorn?" He asked.
"Long story." Touko answered. Touya pulled out a chair from the table and sat down in it, crossing his feet on top of the table and placing his arms behind his head.
"I've got time. And besides, you owe me an explanation." He said. She frowned, kicking his feet off the table.
"This isn't your house, don't up your feet on there." She said.
"Touko." he said. Her face turned into a scowl.
"Pryce retired about three years ago and asked Clair to take over for him. She asked me to take over her gym for her. So I did and now both cities are much nicer and friendlier. Plus there is less crime. There happy? Now can we continue looking please?" She asked.
"Fine, but that didn't seem like a long story to me." He said, standing up and searching the house some more.
"Short version." She grumbled. Her Pokegear stared to ring and she picked it up.
"This is Touko." She said.
"It's Clair. We finished searching the gym and there's nothing here. No clues no nothing. It's like he really did vanish." The woman on the other end said. "What about you guys, any luck?"
"Touya? Found Anything?" Touko asked.
"Nope, other than dirty socks." her brother responded from the other room.
"No, the only thing that's missing is his Pokémon and he keeps those on him at all times, like the rest of us." Touko said. Clair sighed.
"Alright. How about we all meet outside of the gym." Clair suggested.
"We'll be there in a minute." Touko answered and hung up.
"Touya, let's go."
"So whoever these people are, they are extremely good at covering their tracks." Lance said. Touko nodded, her arms crossed over her chest.
"So, now what?" Clair asked. They looked at Touko. She frowned before looking at her brother.
"Did you check out Elesa's gym by the way?" She asked. He shrugged.
"I asked Mei and Nate too. I'm waiting for a response back." H said, checking his xtranseiver. Touko shook her head.
"You won't get one from that. Xtranseiver don't work in Johto. Only Unova, Sinnoh and Kalos. Come on, we can use the Pokémon centers phone to call them." She said.
"So you found nothing as well?" Touya asked. Mei and Nate nodded.
"Yeah, the place looked completely empty without the usual crowd of people in it, but there was no trace of Elesa. It's like she just vanished into thin air." Mei said.
"Same with her place. There was nothing out of place or anything. It was spooky. What about you? Find anything?" Nate said. Touya sighed.
"Other than my sister, no." He said.
"You found Touko?!" They said in unison. Touya nodded.
"Yeah. Turns out she's the gym leader of black thorn." He said. Mei and Nate nodded their heads together. A voice called out to them somewhere and both turned to the direction of it.
"We're in here!" Mei shouted. Touya guessed it was their friend Hryu.
"Let Cheren and Bianca know where I'm at alright? And thanks again guys." he told them before he hung up. He walked back to his sister where she was standing with Lance and Clair.
"They find anything?" Touko asked as Touya got closer. He shook his head.
"No. Same as us. No trace of what happened to her. Pokémon missing as well, most likely with her. I asked them to let Cheren and Bianca know what I was up to because I'm a good person." Touya said, saying good louder than the rest of his words. Touko rolled her eyes and ignored him.
"So what do we do? There's no evidence that they were kidnapped. For all we know they could have just wondered off, forgetting what day it was or something." Lance said, shrugging. Touko shook her head.
"Don't think so. If they did then why wouldn't they answer when their gym trainers called them? I know that Elesa never leaves without her Xtranseiver and Morty always has his Pokegear on him."
"Maybe they got turned off?" Clair suggested.
"Not likely. Elesa's a model, she gets calls almost 24/7." Touya said. Touko nodded.
"Five years and she hasn't changed." She muttered.
Her eyes scanned the Pokémon center. There were four other people in it, apart from themselves. Nurse joy, who sat at the counter, typing something into her keyboard, a young couple that were talking to each other and a man that kept looking at them over his newspaper.
"We should leave. Go somewhere else more private." She said.
"You got a place in mind?" Touya asked. His sister smiled.
"You got a flying type with you?" She asked.
"So, you live here?" Touya asked as the touched down in Blackthorn city. Touko nodded, returning Zekrom to his pokeball and walking into her house, the other three following her.
"Anyone got any ideas of what happened to the gym leaders?" Lance asked, sitting down at the table in the kitchen.
"Maybe someone is sending a message?" Clair suggested.
"Or someone's trying to take over the regions." Touya said.
"Maybe it's both?" Touko asked. They frowned and shrugged.
"Whoever they are, they are doing a really good job of covering their tracks." Touko said.
"Kind of like you?" Touya asked. The brunette opened her mouth to retort but was cut off when the doorbell rang. She shot a dirty look at her brother before walking out of the kitchen and to the door. She pulled open the door only to come face to face with...
"Katone? You're back early." She said. Katone smiled as she held the hands of two small children, no more than 5. One, a girl, had dark red hair and hazel eyes. The other, a boy, had grey hair and ocean blue eyes.
"Yeah, we were going to be out for a little while longer but Jacob wanted to see you." The pigtailed brunette said.
"Touko? Who's at the ... Door?" Touya said as he walked up behind his sister. He nodded to Katone but when his eyes fell on the little boy, Jacob, they grew wide. He looked just like his mother, minus the grey hair.
"Explain." He said. Touko sighed.
"Touya, I'd like you to meet Jacob. He's my son."