Author's Notes: this was the most fun chapter to write EVER.

Chapter 20

Lugia let out a massive roar, I was too scared to move. Everything seemed frozen around us. How in the world was I gonna do this.

Dallin shot out a lighting bolt at Lugia but he just took it like it was nothing. I had to figure something out fast before things could get worse.

Suddenly, Lugia spun around and swung his tail at me, and I managed to jump over it. But as he turned around he threw his wing which caused a massive gale of wind to blow. It sent me flying about 5 meters and threw me to the ground. I stumbled back to my feet. I had to think, I wasn't going to dechip him on the ground and I definitely wasn't going to dechip him in the water. It only left one option.

Flight.

It was the only way I could get level with the chip and the only way I could try and keep up with Lugia. I had to do what I had to do.

'Dallin you wanted to see me fly and you will'. I ran to the edge of the cliff.

"HEY, LUGIA. YOU WANT ME"? Lugia suddenly looked furious, I swallowed my fear. "COME AND GET ME"! Lugia suddenly jumped towards me. I turned around and jumped off the cliff.

I felt the wind rushing through my hair as I opened the gliders. I was nosediving as fast as I could, there was no looking back, literally. I closed my eyes, arched my back and pulled up as hard as I could.

I opened my eyes and found myself flying a few mere feet above the ocean. I could see my reflection through the waves, but this was no time to loose focus. Where was Lugia anyway. I looked under my shoulder to find him right on my tail. He opened his mouth and a bright light came out.

"OH CRAP"! I arched my back up, narrowly missing death below me. I arched my back more until I was flying almost straight up. I flew upwards until I reached peak height, about 200 meters above the ocean. As I hovered at the peak for about 5 seconds, time seemed frozen, except when I looked under my feet to find Lugia fast approaching.

I flipped over backwards, and started nosediving again. I felt a burst of air rush past me as Lugia flew inches away from me. I nosedived for about 10 seconds and pulled up again, only to find Lugia even closer to me than he was before. There was no out flying him, which is what I expected.

I arched my legs down while keeping my back straight to reduce speed. I had slowed down so much that Lugia flew right past me. He opened his wings and slowed down till he was flying right beside me. I pulled out the EMDAC for what was probably gonna be one difficult shot.

Suddenly, Lugia flew off about a hundred meters to my right, still remaining level with me. What was he doing? I got a chance to look at him. He looked so much more majestic in the feathers than he did anywhere else. The sun was shining on his feathers so brightly, it was blinding. But I was puzzled to find him getting closer at a fast rate. He got closer and closer and he didn't stop. He was gonna ram me.

I arched downwards, narrowly dodging hard impact with Lugia. The wind caused me to corkscrew a few times. It made me dizzy and disoriented. I finally got my head together, only to find he was fast approaching all over again.

I took aim with the EMDAC and fired around, but it was too late. I dodged him again, and corkscrewed a few times in the process, but this time, I was prepared for the corkscrews.

With the time I had left I took aim with the EMDAC, and readied my shot. I was more prepared this time as I could see predict where Lugia was gonna be when I shot the EMDAC. When he was twenty meters away, I fired around and it hit the chip. I was puzzled by my luck.

Lugia suddenly came to a halt and flew beside me. I looked into his eyes and saw that he was too surprised to think. Regardless, I angled towards him and finally landed on his back. The gliders weren't stable when I was on Lugia's back, they tossed me all over so I jerked the handle bars to get it closed. I jerked so hard that the shaft holding connecting the handle bars to the glider snapped. The gliders were now unusable.

I was within reach of the chip, but what I saw shocked me. The reason it was so easy for me to hit the chip is because it was about ten times in size as a normal chip. I didn't want to imagine the size of the spike that held it in place.

Suddenly, that reactivating screech filled my head and Lugia's. I covered my ears by instinct but I knew that it wasn't going to help. The sound stopped and the chip reactivated.

I reached for the chip but I was too late as Lugia began to fly upward. I felt myself slide down Lugia's back. His escalation became steeper and steeper, and I slid down faster and faster.

I looked around for something to grab. I threw my hands around hoping to snag something. I was finally able to grab one of the spines on his back. The force of halting suddenly tossed the EMDAC out of my hands and into the ocean. I looked to find it was the very last spine on his back and the chip looked to be about fifteen feet away.

Lugia began to fly straight up and I held on to that spine as hard as I could. He arched his back all the way and did a flip. I closed my eyes, and waited till the time was right. Suddenly he went level. I opened my eyes to see he was just flying normally, it was my chance. I started to climb up Lugia's back. I was at the forth spine, when Lugia started to flap his wings as hard as he could. The movement caused his body to move up and down rapidly, causing me to bump up and down against his back. He was trying to toss me off of him.

Despite the pain of being beaten against Lugia's back, I pulled as hard as I could. I used the up and down movement pull myself forward. I crawled up his back as my muscles ached, but I pulled with all my strength.

I crawled up each spine until I made it to his last spine. I reached for the chip but I couldn't make it, it was to far away. I didn't have anything to pull me closer to the chip, what was I going to do?

Lugia stopped flapping his wings and arched up for another flip. I grabbed onto his spine and closed my eyes again. I felt my weight shift against his body as the g-force, pushing me against his body. I felt the g-force stop. I opened my eyes, and found that we were nosediving! He wasn't preparing to level himself, he was gonna dive into the ocean!

It was my last chance. I pulled against the spine and launched towards his neck. I felt a rush of fear and adrenaline as I was free-falling without wings. I angled myself towards Lugia and landed on his neck right behind the chip. I clamped my legs onto his neck and grabbed the chip with both hands.

I pulled as hard as I could but the chip was heavy. I looked past Lugia's head and found the ocean about 100 meters away. I pulled harder, the chip was coming out at a slow pace. The glowing light that came from behind the chip was more bright and blinding then ever.

50 meters away. I pulled harder it was almost out. I closed my eyes and pulled with one final jerk, and the chip was out.

It was over.

Lugia arched his back and with incredible g-force, he narrowly missed the ocean and leveled his flight. I was finally able to relax. I tried to catch my breath but it was hard too without over doing it. Lugia looked at me with shock and fear in his eyes.

'No, NO, this wasn't supposed to happen to me. What have I done'? I looked at him still on my knees. I suddenly felt dizzy-headed and my vision began to blur. My muscles were barely able to hold me up. My hand was slipping. I tried to grip, but I was weak after the fight.

My hand slipped and I fell off. I was falling head first and everything began to go dark. I looked up as I was falling to see what was probably my last sight. I saw the sky and the sun shining on Lugia's silver feathers.

I closed my eyes and let out one final breath. I relaxed my muscles and drifted out of consciousness.