Keiths' P.O.V
Kate and I stood in front of Erma as we listened to her tell us how Sven needed help at the Chroma Highlands, well Kate listened, I tried to think about how much Kate knew about me.
"So are you both ok with this?" Erma asked, successfully bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Yes Chairperson Erma," Kate and I both chorused before we started walking out of the Union. Buizel walked by me with Glaceon at his side while Kate walked next to me.
"So, what was Erma talking about in there?" Kate asked me, I looked at her in confusion.
"Erm, something to do with Sven," I answered, Kate sighed.
"You should have been listening Keith, we're heading to the Chroma Highlands to help Sven because he's ran into a lot of Dim Sun," Kate answered with a frustrated look on her face. "You've been zoning out a lot lately, are you ok?" she asked as she turned to catch a Staraptor.
"Fine, why?" I answered with my own question.
"Keith, I know you're not you after being kidnapped, but you never zone out when it comes to a mission," Kate answered as she hopped onto the successfully caught Staraptor.
"It's nothing ok?" I snapped, Kate gave me a hurt look while I rubbed my temples. "I'm sorry, I just-,"
"It's fine Keith, talk to me when you're ready," Kate interrupted as she held her hand out towards me. I took it before hopping up onto the Staraptor's back. Wendy had told us a couple of nights ago that we were able to ride Staraptor now that we were Top Rangers.
I slipped my arms around Kate's waist before burying my head into her back, I felt her stiffen at my movements.
"You uncomfortable?" I asked, she shook her head.
"Nah, just shocked," she answered before ordering the Staraptor to take off towards the Chroma Highlands. I sighed slightly, how much did Kate know about me? She knew I was cocky, arrogant, that I was the Curse of the Son and that was probably it.
"Keith?" Kate brought me back to reality as she turned her body to face me, "we're here," she added. I looked around, realising she was right I jumped off of the Staraptor before helping Kate off. The Staraptor then flapped its wings before taking off into the air one more time.
Kate smiled as she turned to the left of the square we were in. I gave her a confused look before speaking.
"I thought we were going to the Chroma Highlands?" I asked, Kate looked at me before rolling her eyes slightly.
"Have you forgotten when Wendy said?" she asked, obviously I had, "you can only ride Staraptor to the place you've been, and since neither of us have been to the Highlands, we have to stop here," Kate stated as she started walking towards the left of the square we were in.
We followed a forest like route until there was a fork, dodged and number of pokemon and made it to the Highlands in no time.
"Well, that was easy," I stated.
"Too easy, I thought Dim Sun were around here," Kate responded, I only shrugged at her as we walked into the Highlands, once we were in; I knew something was wrong right away.
I looked around the black mist trying to get my eyes to adjust to it, but they wouldn't. I sighed as I gave into some of the aggressiveness that I had been holding down, making my eyes turn red, all the while making me able to see in the darkness.
Kate came up behind me as she began coughing like there was no tomorrow, which there probably wouldn't be if we didn't get out of this soon.
"What is this?" Kate asked as she coughed louder and louder. I growled silently under my breath, her coughing was annoying.
"It's a mist, probably caused by Dim Sun," I answered in an annoyed tone. Kate tried her best to stop cough as we walked around the darkness of the cave.
As we took a steady walk around I heard something moving around, looking in the direction I saw it was a Carnivine, I looked over my shoulder to Kate.
"Be careful, there's a Carnivine nearby," I told her, she looked up at me.
"Really where?" Kate asked, on that note the Carnivine launched straight for her, tackling her to the ground. I quickly rushed over to her with Buizel and Glaceon, forgot they were with us. Buizel used water gun to get the Carnivine off, while Glaceon froze it with ice beam. I walked over to Kate; I saw her jump slightly at the sight of my eyes.
"Get up already," I hissed at her, I didn't mean to sound horrible to her, it was just the way everything was coming out, my anger was taking control of me.
Kate quickly stood to her feet as we started walking again. I could see and hear Dim Sun up ahead, but then again, I wasn't sure I wanted to.
Three of them came running towards me and Kate, I quickly grabbed her and pinned her to the wall before slapping my hand over her mouth.
"I can't believe how easy it was to lock away all the Skarmory," one of the grunts said.
"Tell me about it, it was totally easy," another replied.
"If some Rangers get in here now they'll never find the pokemon," the third laughed as they ran off. I took my hand off of Kate's mouth before looking at her.
"What the hell is your problem?" she asked in anger as she glared at me, I glared back at her.
"Excuse me for not wanting to get caught," I replied in a hiss as I grabbed her wrists, I could feel myself blacking out. I unconsciously began moving my hips against her as I ran my hands up and down her sides; Kate's moans filled my ears as I did so.
"Keith, stop," she whispered as I grinded my hips to her, Kate quickly pushed me off of her. "We're getting you sorted after this mission, that's a promise," she stated as she began walking ahead of me. I just shrugged as I walked behind her.
It didn't take us long to find a pokemon that could help us clear a wooden fence which was what held the Skarmory in place. We then caught one of the Skarmory before using demist.
I looked at my styler while Kate looked at hers. I then looked at hers while she looked at mine.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" we both yelled, we had lost an enormous amount of life. I growled slightly before jumping down from the rock we were on and catching four Pikachu.
I then had to walked all the way back around to where I had left Kate, but along the way I also caught a Bastiodon. I then walked over to Kate, who was talking to Rythmi and the Professor.
"So you have no idea what caused it?" Kate asked.
"We're thinking it was the mist, considering it was giving off weird signals from your styler and we couldn't get through to you. It could have been what was blocking the communications," Rythmi answered as I stood next to Kate, she nodded her head as me before I used two of the Pikachu to charge my styler up. "How is he?" I heard Rythmi asked.
"I'm fine," I answered in a bitter tone; I didn't need to look at Kate to know she was shaking her head.
"I'll talk to you later Ryth," Kate said as she ended the transmission. I ordered the Pikachu to recharge her styler before she could say anything. Once that was done, she started on lecturing me.
"Rude much?" she asked as she glared at me, "Ryth was only checking on you, she wasn't hurting anything," she added as she put her hands on her hips.
"So, like I care, none of you know anything about me," I replied as I stood to my feet and started walking away.
"Dont you dare turn your back on me Keith Atreyu Dazzle," Kate hissed, I turned to her in shock.
"How do you-,"
"You might have been kidnapped yes, we might not know what's going on inside your head but that gives you no right to act more of a dick than usual-,"
"That's just it, you don't know what's going on in here, what I'm living with, so before you start making assumptions about knowing why don't you take the time to find out," I interrupted with a hiss, Kate looked at me as her eyes narrowed.
"I do take the time to find out Keith, you're the one who doesn't take the time to answer them," Kate replied as she grabbed the necklace around her neck. "Arc-,"
"I'm sorry," I interrupted again, Kate looked at me in shock, I just stared at me. "I know I don't have any right to yell, but after what's gone off the past few days, I don't really know what to think. I don't even know how much you guys really know about me or if you're really my friends," I added in a mutter as I sunk down the wall to the ground.
"That's what you're worried about?" Kate asked as she knelt in front of me. "I thought we cleared this up, you're one of our best friends and no matter what you do it wouldn't change a thing. We all love you dearly, as for how much we know about you, well, where do you want me to start?" Kate asked as she looked into my eyes.
"Your full name's Keith Atreyu Dazzle. You love your friends, pokemon, annoying me, meeting new people, perving on me, and reaching your goals in life. You hate your father, Phantom, Darkrai, soon you'll also hate my dad, you also hate Blake and possibly some pokemon that rampage. Your favourite things to do are hang with us, play with your pokemon and, again, annoy and perv on me," I had to laugh at that part slightly. "Your favourite colour's red, your favourite pokemon is Buizel. Your mother died when you were very young and you miss her dearly, need I go on Keith?" Kate asked as she looked at me.
"Please don't," I answered as I looked at her. Kate smiled as she hugged me tightly.
"We're always here for you, and I promise after this mission we will fix any doubts about us you have," Kate replied as she smiled into my shoulder.
"Yeah, but for now we better go, how much you betting that Sven's in some shit now?" I asked as I stood up, pulling Kate to her feet as I did so.
"Heh, I'll make the bet when we know how many Dim Sun are down there," Kate answered as we began running up the stairs.
Once we were at the top I used the Bastiodon to move the large rock before we descended into the darkness below us.
'She's only playing with you, why would she be your friend?' I heard Darkrai's voice asked, I looked into Kate's blue eyes before smiling to myself, I knew she was telling the truth.
'You know what Darkrai? Fuck you,' I replied, knowing without a doubt that Kate and everyone would get me out of this mess.
Another chapter finished, we shall see the pokemon Cresselia in the next couple of chapters, requested by BrokenBlackCat, so stay tuned, hopefully the next chapter will be up in a couple of days, but I do have revision to do, so I'm not sure. Also I must ask you all to read pokemonrangerwriter2's first story called Shadows Unleashed, I'm reading it myself and finding it very funny, so please check it out. Until next time guys, REVIEW!