A/N: Okay, so I'm just going to forewarn you that this really isn't as dark and intense as the title is. It's not disturbing or gory, even though I thought about doing that. But then, I would have gotten carried away and made it into an actual story lol so…don't get your hopes up but please do enjoy just a taste of what this could have been.

Killer

Kill-er: n. 1. The act of killing. 2. Something that is killed or destroyed, as an animal in hunting.

He had five days to save her.

Whoever sent him the goddamn letter only allowed him five friggen days to save her from her death. Five days.

"We need to go to Olivine," he said turning to Brock and Dawn who were sitting at the table behind him with Pikachu and Piplup. His friends looked up at him with obvious confusion and he knew it was because of the seriousness and hardness in his voice. He couldn't help it though. He was angry, worried, and scared for his friend. He only had a few days to save her. Eight days.

"What about your gym match?" Dawn questioned, her dark blue eyes narrowing in annoyance. "All the way here we had to listen to you and how you wanted to win Volkner so badly," she drawled that last word out prompting a chuckle from Brock.

"That's not important! We have to get to Olivine right away!" Ash declared, barely snarling the words out. Dawn's face portrayed shock at his edginess and Brock frowned and both pokemon squeaked in surprise.

"Calm down Ash and tell us why we have to get to Olivine," the older boy said. The words had only just poured out from his mouth when Ash thrust the letter into his face with anger.

"Damn it Brock, she's in trouble!"

"Who's in trouble?" Dawn mumbled getting up from her seat so that she could lean over the dark skinned boys shoulder and read. Ash watched their expressions turn from interest to horror in a matter of seconds, flipping their heads around to stare at him.

"Misty's in trouble, and I have to save her," Ash stated clenching his fingers together so to calm the emotions that suddenly flooded through his system, emotions he didn't know he even had.

"Who would do such a thing?" Dawn asked with a slight tremor in her soft voice.

"Someone who wants Ash obviously," Brock replied crumpling up the letter and getting to his feet.

"We have five days to save her," Ash's voice had turned to a soft whisper.

"We better leave now," Brock nodded heading towards the receptionist to grab the rest of their pokemon while Ash grabbed their gear and Dawn grabbed onto Piplup. Pikachu leaped onto Ash's shoulder as he turned to head out of the sliding doors.

"Ash wait!" Dawn called after him as he broke into a run. He couldn't let them see though. He couldn't let them see the guilt that flooded through him.

AMAMAMA

It had taken four days to get from Sunnyshore City to Olivine City. Four days of a tremendous ache that even haunted his dreams. Her face was always scared, tears falling from her cerulean eyes as she pleaded for him to save her from her despair. Those three nights he woke with a start, jolting from the way her lifeless eyes gazed accusingly at him, for not getting there on time. He didn't know what would happen to him if she lost her life.

The minute the ferry was docked, he pushed through everyone to get off. The letter was held tightly in his fist, his only guide to the location of where she was being held. Somehow Brock and Dawn had gotten left behind as he hurried through the streets, glancing at signs as he turned corners. The only one able to follow closely behind him was Pikachu and they together located the ware house that stood by the ocean.

"I'm here! Let me in I'm here!" he shouted banging on the doors with desperate fists, his voice high and unable to contain the nervousness that it held. He stood back with a held breath as he threw out Infernape's pokeball and ordered the monkey to use flamethrower on the door. "MISTY!" he shouted running into the abandoned building, glancing this way and that but only seeing crates and larges boxes piled against the walls. Where was she?

"Well, it looks like you got here in plenty of time," an annoying voice called from behind him. Ash turned on his heel to see a young man with platinum blonde hair that flared out from under his baseball cap standing at the entrance of the door he made with his pokemon's attack. He was dressed in a white t-shirt covered by a black jacket and blue jeans. A smirk was covering his face.

"Where is she!" Ash shouted, followed by Pikachu's snarl as his red cheek sacks began to spark with electricity as he dangerously lowered his yellow body into a defensive position.

"Here like I told you she would be," the boy shrugged. His voice had a twang to it and somehow it was making Ash want to punch the guy in his face

"Give her back! And you better not have harmed or touched her in any way!" Ash growled angrily.

"You thought that I would just hand her over like that? What kind of bad guy do you think I am?" the blonde laughed harshly before walking towards Ash with a sneer. "I brought you here for a reason Ketchum and the only way to do that was to take something important from you," he walked past Ash and headed towards a crate, a crowbar had been lying on top. With a strong pull, the blonde was able to tear the cover of the crate off and sitting inside tied and gagged was a beautiful redheaded girl.

"Misty!" Ash cried out, relieved to see that she somehow looked okay, and instead of looking scared she looked pissed off.

"If you want the girl, you'll have to battle me Ketchum. If you win you get her safe and sound. If I win, I get her and all the Sinnoh badges that you have."

"PIKA!" Pikachu cried out angrily as Ash frowned. His eyes strayed to the girl's who's narrowed eyes widened and caught his own dark brown ones. She shook her head, and he knew that she didn't want him to lose all the hard earned badges he had collected.

"Fine," he said with a fierce determination. He would win this, and when he did that guy was toast.

"Alrighty then! Let's get this party started," the blonde grinned pulling out his pokeball and winking at Misty who glared in return.

"I choose Pikachu!" Ash shouted and Pikachu immediately leaped in front of him to battle. The determination in his eyes matched those of his trainer's.

"I call out-"

"Freeze!" A woman shouted and both boys turned to see Officer Jenny holding out a pistol with Dawn and Brock and a few dozen other officers behind her. Ash looked at them with shock and waited as Jenny and a few of her men ran behind the blonde so that they could cuff him and drag him away into the cop car parked a few feet away. Ash ran towards the redhead and quickly tore off the tape on her mouth and Pikachu helped gnaw off the ropes around her wrist and Ash got the ones around her ankles.

"That bastard! He caught me off guard at the gym when I wasn't paying attention!" She shouted once she had use of her mouth. "I should have hit him with my mallet once I got the chance," she said grumpily as Dawn and Brock finally made their way over to them.

"I'm just glad you're all right," the raven-haired boy sighed, shaking his head with affection and smiled as Pikachu leaped into her arms. He should have known that she wouldn't have been a scared helpless girl waiting for her knight in shining armor. She had always been able to take care of herself.

"When we got the letter that he was going to kill you if we didn't show up…" Brock started only to stop as Ash glared at him.

"We knew that you probably would have fought your way out of it the whole time, but it didn't hurt to come just in case," Ash finished looking at Misty who raised her eyebrow in disbelief.

"If you thought I would just sit and wait for you to save me your dead wrong Ash Ketchum, I can take care of myself!" She argued airily, turning her head with a snobbish attitude.

"That's exactly what he thought," Dawn giggled.

"Hey!" Ash fumed.

"Well, I guess it's nice to know that even you would stop your journey to save me," Misty said suddenly causing all heads to turn towards her. "But honestly, that guy was just a bunch of hot air. Hardly the killing type if you asked me."

A/N: So I thought about going full out on this, but it is just a one shot for an alphabet series and well…I'm not sure it's supposed to be a full blown out story thing for just one letter. Even though I really wanted to, cuz I could have made this a lot more intense and I would have totally added the battle instead of having them interrupted. Anyhow…review if you can =)

~waterfalls