A Dragon's Tail
Tail 3: Richard's Tail - Ignorance
Tail 3-8: End of the Line
"D…Daddy?!" Viola said with a shocked voice as she looked at the Heliolisk who stood near the end of the roof of the train. That Heliolisk was none other than the Pokemon she despised to the deepest part of her heart, her very own father.
"…Daddy, hm?" The male Heliolisk mumbled. "When was the last time I heard someone calling me with this name? I think it must be... No… It's so long that I couldn't remember it…"
"…What are you doing here, dad?" Viola's voice suddenly changed into a serious tone. "Why did you show your face to me again?"
"Is that the way to speak with your father, Viola?" The male Heliolisk glared at Viola. "I thought I taught you better than that…"
"You never taught me anything, dad!" Viola suddenly became angry. "You abandoned me for 12 whole years! You heard me! 12 YEARS! You don't have any right to say something like that to me!"
"And yet you still call me 'dad'…" The male Heliolisk mumbled before turning his attention to Jasper and Zenpai.
"Perhaps I should introduce myself to both of you..." The male Heliolisk said. "My name is Ellisk Sparkvolt the Heliolisk. I am one of 14 Hero/ine of Legend who saved Symmetria from the Fallen Crisis 30 years ago, and I am Viola's father."
"Whatever!" Grimlock spoke up. "What did you mean by that question?!"
"Oh, I almost forgot…" The male Heliolisk, Ellisk mumbled. "So, how does it feel like for all of you to become a murderer just like me?"
"Us?! Murderer?!" Grimlock said. "I accept that I usually did such bad things such as illegal trading or something like that, but I am sure that I never kill anyone!"
"Poor creature, Maxnet…" Ellisk mumbled. "Among four of you, the guilt of being a murderer belonged to you most, Maxnet."
"W…What do you mean?!" Grimlock asked. "A…And why did you have to call me by that name?!"
"Well… Right now, you are the Hero of Steel type, right?" Ellisk said. "In order for you to become a Hero of Steel type, you must get a power transferred from the former Hero of Steel type, which was your father. However, your father didn't transfer his power to you, right? So it must be that he was already… dead."
"W…WHAT?!" Grimlock said.
"Tell me…" Ellisk said. "What happened just before you received the blessing and became the Hero of Steel type?"
"Hm…" Grimlock said. "Before the gray aura surrounded my body, there was an explosion… I think that it came from the self-destruction of…"
Grimlock suddenly stopped speaking. His eyes suddenly widened with fear as he had just realized something. Not only Grimlock, but Viola, Zenpai and Jasper were also in the very same reaction as the Aggron.
"No… It can't be…" Grimlock mumbled. "It's a lie, isn't it?"
"Well?" Ellisk said. "What did you just realize?"
"…" Grimlock didn't say anything as he had just realized an ugly truth. He truly wished that it wasn't true, but deep in his heart, he knew that this is true because it could explain many unexplained things that happened recently…
"…The experiment specie that you all just fought…" Ellisk mumbled. "…He is none other than Kamui Rusteel the Aggron, one of 14 Hero/ine of Legend who saved Symmetria from the Fallen Crisis 30 years ago… But for you, Maxnet, you would acknowledge him as your father."
"…Maxnet Rusteel the Aggron…" Ellisk started explaining. "You are one of two Pokemon that were arrested 12 years ago during the Civilusion War… The other was Kamui Rusteel the Aggron, your own father… Both of you were brought to the Civilight Laboratory in order to be used as experimental species. You were given a code name 'Experiment Beta' while your father was given a code name 'Experiment Alpha'. However, you were rescued from that place, leaving your father there… Thus, your father was taken into the experiment of increasing the power of Pokemon by attaching machines to his body in order to boost his power. The reason why they chose this method to increase his power was because Kamui was the Hero of Steel type. With the steel Blood of Legend in his veins, attaching machines to his body would benefit from this most. However, Kamui's body was against the attachment of machines, and he then became berserk. Not knowing what to do right now, the scientists of Civilight Laboratory decided to keep him in the hibernate state and locked him up in the deepest and the safest room of Civilight Laboratory. With this, Kamui would stay alive peacefully if anyone didn't step into that room and woke him up. But… There were six bad Pokemon who entered that room without permission, and they didn't only wake him up, but they also killed him! The saddest part of this story is that one of them didn't realize that they had killed their father until now…"
"!" Everyone was shocked after hearing everything from Ellisk. The Cyborg Pokemon they all had just fought turned out to be none other than Grimlock's missing father, Kamui the Aggron.
"…And right now, four of them are standing in front of me while the other two are on the train." Ellisk continued speaking.
"You don't say!" Viola suddenly spoke up. "If we are murderers, then you are no better than us!"
"Shut up, Viola." Ellisk scolded and turned his attention to Grimlock. "Maxnet Rusteel the Aggron, you have committed an unforgivable crime of murdering your very own father. What do you have to say about this?"
"…Answer…" Grimlock mumbled.
"Answer?" Ellisk repeated Grimlock's word. "What's the answer you want?"
"…Ellisk Sparkvolt the Heliolisk, I demand you an answer…" Grimlock slowly spoke up and looked at Ellisk. "You were the one who rescued me 12 years ago from that hell, yet why? Why didn't you rescue my father too?! If you rescued my father, he wouldn't have to suffer like this!"
"So, you couldn't bear the guilt you committed and tried to pin all of that guilt on me, eh?" Ellisk spoke with a sarcastic voice. "Well… The answer of that question would be that it was your father's wish."
"What?!" Grimlock was surprised after he heard an unexpected answer. "W…What did you mean?!"
"…It meant that it was your father who asked me to rescue his son from the Civilight Laboratory while leaving him there." Ellisk answered.
"B…But why?" Grimlock asked.
"How the hell should I know?!" Ellisk scolded.
"…I think I know the answer…" Zenpai suddenly spoke up. "Grimlock, your father did that in order to protect you."
"W…What?!" Grimlock quickly turned his attention to the Scyther.
"What would happen if both you and your father could escape from that place? Think!" Zenpai said. "Of course, the scientists of Civilight Laboratory would send someone after you and your father for sure! But if there's still one Pokemon left behind, they wouldn't waste their time in doing something like that…"
Grimlock was shocked again once he knew the truth about everything. It could answer so many questions that he couldn't answer before…
"…Dad…" Grimlock mumbled.
"Back to our topic, Maxnet." Ellisk said. "You have committed an unforgivable crime of murdering your very own father. What do you have to say about this?"
"…No regret." Grimlock answered.
"What?" Ellisk looked at the Aggron's face.
"I say that I have no regret in doing that!" Grimlock said.
"…You would say that you didn't feel any regret about killing your own father, right?" Ellisk said.
"Of course, I feel sad that he is now dead…" Grimlock continued speaking. "…However, what the hell I can do about this?! I am not a god of time who can change the past and the future to their will! And I am sure that all of this is also his wish too!"
"What do you mean by that, Grimlock?" Viola asked.
"…Just before we escaped, I heard someone call my name." Grimlock started explaining. "I am sure that it was my father's voice. Although he couldn't say it, I am sure that he wants to thank me for releasing his soul from a terrible fate. The father of mine that I knew was a very gentle and kind Pokemon despite him being an Aggron. So, I am sure that he didn't want to be a killing tool of destruction. That's why he chose to end his life after a fight with us. That's why I have no regret over all of this."
"…That's your decision over all of this, right?" Ellisk asked.
"Right." Grimlock said.
"…Then, I have no more to speak with you, son of Kamui." Ellisk said and turned his attention to two other Pokemon, Jasper and Zenpai. "You there, Sceptile."
"…Me?" Jasper looked at the male Heliolisk.
"…You are Joshua's son, right?" The male Heliolisk asked.
"…" Jasper said nothing and looked at Ellisk.
"So, tell me…" Ellisk said and looked at the Sceptile. "How's Joshua doing right now? Is he still doing fine?"
"…He is dead." Jasper answered with a cold voice. "His life was taken away by this cursed blade, the Emerald Katana." Jasper showed his weapon to Ellisk.
"…I guess so…" Ellisk mumbled. "How silly of me… If you are the current Hero of Grass type, then Joshua must be… Well… Too bad for him. But I wonder… How could he die? He was a very strong swordsman… None could match their skill of mastering the use of blade against him…"
"He committed suicide after he lost a battle against us." Zenpai answered.
"…Let me guess…" Ellisk mumbled. "Before he died, he became some sort of lunatic swordsman or something like that, right?"
"H…How did you know that?!" Jasper and Zenpai were surprised when they heard Ellisk's words.
"…I guess so... Not only Sharon, Kamui, Nyxier, Garland and I, but also Joshua too…" Ellisk mumbled. "All of us either turned into the bringer of chaos or brought a chaos to the realm upon our death… I start to wonder about Rucas, Zira, Magnus, Leonel, Fenrir, Tyrus, Iris and Hawkins…"
"What are you talking about?" Zenpai asked. "Who are those Pokemon you mentioned?"
"…Nothing." Ellisk mumbled. He then slowly turned his face from everyone and turned his back to everyone. "Well… I guess that it's time for me to 'go'…"
"Hey!" Viola spoke up. "We are not done talking yet, dad!"
"You wish to continue speaking with me, Viola?" Ellisk asked without looking at Viola.
"Right." Viola said. "Grimlock already knows the truth of his father, and now it's my turn to learn the truth of my father."
"…" Ellisk said nothing. His face was still facing the Underground Tunnel that the train passed.
"Dad, tell me…" Viola spoke up. "Tell me the real reason why the dog of President Voltson is here?! Are you here to arrest us?!"
"Dog?" Zenpai spoke up.
"Right!" Viola said. "After the Civilusion War ended and Voltson became the second president of the Republic of Civilight, that Heliolisk had turned himself into a dog who served that damned president without any reason!"
"Watch your tongue, Viola." Ellisk scolded. "Stop speaking if you don't know anything."
"I don't know anything?!" Viola said. "How dare you split those words out?! Don't you remember what were the things that happened after you had become a dog of President Voltson?!"
"…" Ellisk said nothing in response.
"After Voltson had became the president of Civilight, he had ruled over this nation with an iron fist! Of course, with this, protestations from the Pokemon of Civilight would follow…" Viola mumbled. "But there was no protestation! None! You know why?! It's because of you, dad!"
"…" Ellisk said nothing.
"President Voltson used you as his spy. Whether a Pokemon planned to start a protestation, you would actually find out and report to President Voltson so he could send a group of mafia who work under him to 'take care' of them!" Viola said. "And you know what's worse?! One of the Pokemon that was taken by them is your wife!"
"…" Ellisk said nothing.
"Wait…" Jasper spoke up. "…That must be… your mother, right?!"
"Right!" Viola said. "My mother decided to start a protestation, but one day, she was taken away from me, and she never returned! All of this was your fault, dad!"
"…It's true that I did almost all of that…" Ellisk mumbled. "However, you don't have any right to judge me, Viola."
"What?!" Viola said.
"First, it wasn't me who took away your mother from you, Viola." Ellisk said. "It may seem like it was me who reported that she tried to start a protestation."
"WHAT?!" Viola was shocked when she heard her father's words.
"I still remember that day clearly…" Ellisk said. "The last time I met her before she was taken away, she told me that the only thing she wishes is for you to be safe, Viola. So…I decided that I would do anything to keep you safe, no matter what…"
"But you didn't do anything!" Viola said. "All you did was become a slave dog to President Voltson!"
"…Tell me one thing, Viola…" Ellisk said. "You are a thief who stole from many travelers who visited Gamma City, and yet you are still walking free around the city without anyone coming to arrest you… You know why?"
"D…Don't tell me…" Viola said.
"…President Voltson offered that he would allow you to run free if I serve under him." Ellisk said. "He always wants someone with a quick paw and nimble feet to serve him. Combine this with your mother's last wish result in me right now…"
"…" Viola was shocked after she heard the truth from her father. Everything he did was for her own safety!
"…But it seems like our deal is now broken…" Ellisk said. Then everyone realized that, although quite far from the train they were on, another train with a logo of Republic of Civilight's police was chasing after their train!
"T…They are still chasing after us?!" Grimlock said.
"Too bad for you…" Ellisk said. He still didn't look at anyone. "It's time for me to go…"
"Wait, dad!" Viola spoke up. "Why don't you stop serving President Voltson right now? You could come with us!"
"… Are you really capable of forgiving me, Viola?" Ellisk's question pierced the heart of the female Heliolisk.
"!" Even thought she finally learned the truth of her father, her heart still didn't allow her to forgive her father!
"See?" Ellisk said. "Even with the truth in your mind, it's very hard to forgive someone like me. I have learned this before… In a hard way…"
"…" Viola, including everyone else, said nothing and looked at Ellisk.
"But since everything has come to this point, it's time for me to break everything I have and start following my heart…" Ellisk mumbled. "That reminded me… No matter what I am… Be a Hero of Legend, a Lightning Thief, a husband or a wife, I have always followed the order of everyone. It's time for me to start following my heart too."
Ellisk stopped speaking for a while before he continued speaking.
"…All of you, leave this city…" Ellisk spoke. "…And find the Aquamarines…"
"A…Aquamarines?!" Everyone repeated Ellisk's word.
"Y…You want us to go and find some sort of jewel?!" Grimlock asked. "What a stupid Pokemon you are!"
"…I am not very sure who's the stupid Pokemon around here…" Ellisk mumbled. "It may be all of you, but it's most likely to be me… Well… So long, little Hero/ine of Legend…"
After he finished speaking, Ellisk picked something up. Upon seeing that thing, Viola immediately recognized that thing and realized what her father would do next!
"Daddy, wait!" Viola said and rushed up to her father, but it was too late as her father jumped off from the roof of the running train!
Everything that happened afterward was very fast. All of this only happened within a few seconds, but for Viola, it seemed like the time had slowed down during the moment her father jumped off the roof of the train. During that, Ellisk turned his face toward Viola for the last time before speaking his last sentence…
"I know that you hate me, Viola, and I am always a very bad father to you… But… Sorry for never saying this before… I… I always love you, Viola…"
"DADDY!"
Viola's voice echoed through the Underground Tunnel as the tunnel started collapsing from the explosion at where her father jumped down. The cause of the explosion was from her very own father… But this explosion also…
"Viola! What are you doing!?"
Grimlock grabbed Viola's tail as the female Heliolisk tried to jump off the roof of the train.
"LET ME GO, GRIMLOCK!" Viola struggled, but her strength was no match against the Aggron.
"It would be suicide if you jump off the roof right now!" Grimlock warned.
"I DON'T CARE!" Viola said. "DADDY!"
Viola's voice echoed through the tunnel once again, but there was no response. The only thing everyone could see right now was a huge pile of rubbles that came from the collapsing of the tunnel after the explosion. These rubbles also blocked the tunnel, making the police's train that was chasing after the group's train stopped following them and lost the track of them!
"No…" Viola mumbled as the train moving far away from the pile of rubbles…
Far away… From her father…
And…
"What?!"
A yellow aura suddenly appeared and surrounded Viola's body. This made everyone shocked as the same thing had just happened to Grimlock a few minutes ago. This also meant that…
"No… No… No…No… NONONONONONONONO!" Viola cried as the yellow aura surrounded her body and gave her tremendous power. The very same aura also surrounded Viola's crossbow and started upgrading it into a sparkling yellow crossbow as if it was made of a real jewel.
"…" Viola slowly flipped her paw and saw something there. It was none other than the Mark of Legend. This, not only it indicated that she was now the Heroine of Electric type, it also told her that the former Hero of Electric type, Ellisk Sparkvolt the Heliolisk, was now dead.
"…Viola…"
Someone walked up to the female Heliolisk and placed his paw on Viola's shoulder. Viola then looked at the green paw on her shoulder and saw that the owner of this paw was none other than the current Hero of Grass type, Jasper.
"I understand how you feel, Viola…" Jasper slowly spoke up. "Several weeks ago, I saw my father dying in front of me… That moment… That feeling still lingers through my mind… The moment when my father pierced the cursed blade through his flesh and ended his life… The moment when an aura surrounded my body… The moment I became the Hero of Grass type…"
"…" Viola still said nothing.
"…Me too, Viola." Zenpai spoke up. "Despite I didn't receive the title of the Hero of Bug type from my father, it was still painful to see my own father die in front of my eyes while I couldn't do anything…"
"..." Viola still said nothing.
"…For me…." Grimlock started speaking once again. "Not knowing anything about my father… And once I know, he was already dead…"
"…Thank you, everyone." Viola slowly spoke up. "Thank you for comforting my broken soul…"
Everyone said nothing. They all then gave Viola a patient smile.
"…There's no time for me to be a loser…" Viola said. "I must follow my father's words…" Viola looked at her crossbow, which was now the Sacred Weapon of herself. "…With my Topaz Crossbow… I promise that I will continue the duty of the Heroine of Legend!"
"…Right." Zenpai said. "But… What should we do next?"
"I think Viola's father wants us to do something…" Grimlock said. "He wanted us to find an Aquamarine or something like that… Why would he want us to find a jewel? I don't really understand him…"
"You dumbass!" Viola suddenly became angry at the Aggron. "He didn't want us to find a jewel! He wants us to find someone!"
"Someone?" Jasper said. "Who?"
"I will tell you once we could escape from Civilight." Viola said. "Right now, we need to tell Richard that we must go to—"
"CRASH!"
The train suddenly shook very hard as if it bumped into something, but it didn't as the train still ran at a very fast speed on the rail. Still, this made everyone who stood on the roof of the train fall down!
"Ugh!" Jasper mumbled as he tried to stand up. "What's that Latios doing?!"
"Yeah…" Zenpai mumbled as he was able to stand up again. "His skill of driving a train is so rough…"
"Strange…" Viola said. She was now able to stand up again too. "I don't think that Richard would be someone who would do something roughly…"
"Whatever…" Zenpai said. "I will go to the control room to give that Latios a good scolding… Viola, Jasper, help that Aggron, would you?"
Viola and Jasper then realized that, while Zenpai and they were able to stand up easily, Grimlock was now struggling in trying to stand up.
"Here…" Jasper said as Viola and he helped the Aggron stood up again.
"Thanks." Grimlock said as he was able to stand up again.
But then…
"WHAT?!"
Zenpai's voice attracted everyone's attention. Everyone then saw Zenpai standing at the other side of the train's second car's roof.
"What's wrong, Zenpai?" Jasper said as he, Viola and Grimlock approached the Scyther.
"…The first car…" Zenpai said and pointed his blade-like claw forward.
Everyone then looked ahead and realized that at the spot where the first car of this train should be was now… empty… In other words, the first car of this train had been separated from the second car at some point, leaving Jasper, Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock on the roof of the second car of the train that was now running on the rail with a gradually-decreasing speed, and the first car of the train was now missing, including two Pokemon who were in that car, Rachael and Richard…
Meanwhile…
"Rachael, are you alright?"
Richard reached his paw forward in order to help his younger sister up again after the bump that made both of them fell down.
"Thanks, Onii-chan…" Rachael said as she took her brother's paw and flew up again.
After helping his sister, Richard turned his attention to a Pokemon who was controlling the steering wheel right now. "Didn't your parents teach you how to control a train smoothly?! Your driving skill is the worst!"
"Sorry!" The Pokemon who was controlling the steering wheel spoke up with a sarcastic voice. "My mother is now dead and my father would be dead soon! And don't forget that it was you who taught us how to control this train!"
"Sigh…" Richard sighed and looked at the Pokemon who was now controlling the steering wheel, who was a Garchomp.
The Garchomp ignored Richard's words and turned his attention to the last Pokemon in the controlling room, who was a Charizard. "Diego, speed up this thing."
"Don't order me, Zetarus!" Diego said.
"Come on!" Zetarus said.
"…Is it a good idea for me to let both of you took control of this train?" Richard mumbled.
"You have no choice, Latios." Zetarus said. "It was us who stole this train, and then both of you showed up and asked us to use this train too."
"Right." Diego said. "We were kind enough to let both of you come with us. If it wasn't for our kindness, both of you wouldn't be here right now."
"Do not say something like that." Richard spoke up. "Both of you didn't even know how to control this train when Rachael and I came here. So, if it wasn't for my brain, both of you would get caught by those guards who chased after two outlaws who stole their train!"
"What?!" Diego said. "Both of you don't even have enough strength to take control of this train! You may know how to control a train, but you don't have any brawl to do it!"
"P…Please…" Rachael said and tried to stop Richard and Diego from getting into an argument. "I…It is because of all of us that we could control this train. Zetarus, Diego, both of you let us use this train at the price that we must teach both of you how to control a train, and both of us must guide you to your destination, right?"
"Speaking of our destination…" Zetarus mumbled and turned his attention to Richard. "Latios, how far until we could reach the end of the line?"
"Not too far right now…" Richard said. "We are now at the border of Republic of Civilight. Within a few minutes, we would reach the end of the line, which was an abandoned situation, so both of you don't have to worry of getting caught."
"Great." Zetarus said. "Now, Diego, speed up!"
"Hey!" Richard was surprised by Zetarus' order. "Shouldn't we slow down instead!?"
However, the Charizard didn't listen to him. Diego then sped up the train, making the train run at a faster speed despite that they almost reached their destination!
"Oh…Arceus…" Richard mumbled.
"SCEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!"
A sound of train braking echoed through everywhere around here as the train that ran at a very fast speed suddenly got braked when it reached the end of the line, which was an abandoned station.
"Aww…" Richard mumbled as the train finally stopped moving. "I hate this…"
"Woohoo!" Zetarus said. "That was fun! Hey guys! Who wants another round?!"
"Fxxk you, Zetarus." Diego said and tried to stand up after his body was pushed forward when Zetarus suddenly braked the train.
Richard then helped his younger sister again before he moved to the door of the train and opened it. Once he opened the door of the train, a cold wind blew into the train, making three of four Pokemon in the room shiver!
"W…What the hell is this?!" Zetarus said as his body shivered from the cold wind.
"Wow!" Rachael said as she looked outside and saw a snowy landscape full with pine trees! "This is so beautiful!"
"W…What is that thing?!" Zetarus said and looked at snow.
"That's snow." Richard explained.
"Zno?" Zetarus asked.
"…Forget it." Richard said. "Anyway, as I told you before; we couldn't go to Fireview Kingdom by using the train as there's no tunnel that leads to Fireview Kingdom. So, here we are… We are now in the snowy part of the Queendom of Riverbrine."
"T…Then…" Zetarus said as his body still shivered from the cold wind. "H…How long until we could reach the Fireview Kingdom?"
"…From this map…" Richard opened the map of Symmetria. "I would say that it would take both of you at least one week before you reach Fireview Kingdom."
"O…One week?!" Zetarus was shocked after he heard Richard's words. "I…I have to stay with this terrible 'Zno' for at least one week?!"
"Nah… It's not a big deal…" Diego said. "Zetarus, why does your body shiver so hard? It's not that cold.
"Not that cold?!" Zetarus said. "H…How could you say something like that?! It's very cold!"
While Zetarus and Diego were into another argument, Richard and Rachael left the train in order to see what happened to their friends… Before they found out that the second car of the train was missing!
"W…Where is the second car of the train?!" Rachael was shocked as she realized that Jasper, Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock weren't here!
"…" Richard said nothing and approached the back of the first car of the train. "…I knew it."
"Knew what?" Rachael asked.
"Look here, Rachael." Richard said and pointed at a broken drawbar, which was a part of the train that connected one car of the train with another car of the train. This broken drawbar was old was rusty. "This drawbar is old and rusty… So I think that it broke during the time when the train was still running… Maybe it broke at when we fell down while the train was still running."
"B…But…" Rachael seemed to be worried. "If that's true, at least the second car should still follow the first car, right? But I don't see anything that follows the first car…"
"…" Richard said nothing and went back into the train. He then ignored Zetarus and Diego and looked at the control pad again. "This is it…"
"What's wrong, Onii-chan?" Rachael asked.
"Look here…" Richard pointed at a part of the control pad that controlled the shunting of the train. "When we fell down, I think one of us must have pressed a switch on this pad after the first train had run passed the shunting point. Because of this, the second car of the train would be shunted to another route…"
"T…Then…" Rachael said. "It meant that Jasper, Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock were taken to another station?!"
Richard said nothing and opened the rail map of Civilight's Train. "I think that the second car of the train was shunted at this spot…" Richard said and pointed at a spot on the map. "With this, I am sure that they all would end up in another station in Queendom of Riverbrine too, but they would end up at the beach part of Queendom of Riverbrine, which was quite far from this spot."
"T…Then, what should we do?" Rachael asked.
Before Richard could answer his younger sister's question, Zetarus and Diego approached both of them and spoke up. "So, here's the end of our second deal. We finally got out of Civilight, and we would proceed to Fireview next. What about both of you? What would both of you do next?"
"Well…" Rachael said. "We would go to—"
"…Could we go with both of you?" Richard suddenly spoke up. His words surprised everyone here!
"W…What?!" Zetarus and Diego said. "Y…You want to come with outlaws like both of us?!"
"Onii-chan!" Rachael said. "Shouldn't we go to the beach part of Riverbrine to find our friends?!"
"…There's no point in trying to find them." Richard said. "They would be alright without us. So, I think we should go to Fireview next…"
"Why would both of you go to Fireview?" Diego asked.
"Charizard, you told me that the ores of highest quality could be found in Fireview, right?" Richard asked.
"…I see…" Diego nodded. "You want to go to Fireview in order to find Blancer and Noiria so you would be able to upgrade your weapon to its fullest potential, right?"
"Right." Richard said.
"Well… What do you think about this, Zetarus?" Diego asked. "Should we let them come with us too?"
"…Yes." Zetarus said. "Both of them already knew our identity, right? So, it would be better to keep both of them close to us. And… At least they could guide us to Fireview…"
"As expected…" Diego mumbled and turned his attention to Richard. "Alright, both of you can come with us. However, do not be such a burden to us, okay?"
"Agreed." Richard said before turning his attention to Rachael. "Rachael, are you okay with this? Are you okay with that you have to be separated from your false 'brothers'?"
"…Jasper and Zenpai…" Rachael mumbled. "Both of them would be okay without me… Onii-chan, I really want to stay with you… So, I would stay with you no matter what, and I would always follow you no matter where you go."
"…Sorry for being selfish, Rachael." Richard said.
"Oh, that's okay, Onii-chan!" Rachael said. "I totally understand your feelings! You just want to fulfill your promise to me, right?"
"…" Richard said nothing. He just nodded in response.
"And…" Rachael turned her attention to Zetarus and Diego. "Zetarus-san and Diego-san, Onii-chan and I are very pleased to be a part of your team!"
"Same here…" Zetarus mumbled.
"Whatever!" Diego said. "Come on, everyone! Let's go! The sooner we reach Fireview the better, right? We still have a long way to go!"
Rachael, Zetarus and Richard nodded before four Pokemon left the train and went into the snowy forest area of Queendom of Riverbrine. Upon leaving the train, Rachael, Richard and Zetarus' bodies shivered from the frozen climate of this place. However, deep in their heart, all four Pokemon were very eager to continue their journey…
Two dragons had been separated from their legend friends… And now they were travelling with two outlaws…
However, there's one thing that they didn't know…
It was… this day…
This was the day the gap between them and their legend friends started to widen…
-End of Tail 3: Ignorance-
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: Merry Christmas to everyone! (A bit late, but whatever…) Here, I present you with the end of the third tail: Ignorance. The reason why this tail is called 'Ignorance'… Do you already know or not?
Rachael and Richard had been separated from Jasper, Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock, and now, they joined up with Zetarus and Diego and decided to go to Fireview Kingdom with them. What is the adventure that lies ahead? And what about Jasper,m Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock? What happen to them? None would know…
This tail is quite boring as it mostly consists of detail and explanation, but don't forget that the protagonist of this tail is a bookworm… Just like the second tail, which has a psychopathic criminal as the protagonist, and the first tail, which has a cute girl as the protagonist…
Alright, the next chapter would be the interlude of this tail, and then I would take a little break until the next year, which I would start the fourth tail, Rachael, Richard, Zetarus, Diego, Jasper, Zenpai, Viola and Grimlock would appear in the fourth tail for sure! However, their role would be different from each other… Some may have more role than others…
A special thanks to Ridin Valon for helping me with the error correction.