Chapter 4
Steel Wing
Lucca is thrown aside as a, what they can only assume, fire type pokémon, attacks then. Desperately, Barry tries to help but his water attacks does not seem to do anything.
With a perfectly placed Thunderpunch, Barry is out, and with gritted teeth Lucca returns him… whoever this attacker is, they are not holding back.
"What do you want?" Lucca asks and looks over at both Ash and Lori, all their pokémon are out cold too.
"I just need to have a little chat with you?", the person says and they remove their hood. It's a young man with light-brown skin, sunspots on his shoulders, almost like freckles. His blonde hair is set up in a pony-tail and as his eyes scans the situation the brown orbs monitor the kids as well.
His body-language relaxes when he finds nothing of interest and his whole demeanor changes too, almost as if a switch is turned on…
The change is scarily fast. And Lucca is noticing it right away.
"My name is Jūbei", he starts "and I need you to come with me"
Lucca looks back at their friends, none of them are trusting the man in front of them.
"Why?" Lucca asks to gauge the situation, "and if we refuse?"
"I can't force you" Jūbei smiles "but for your own good, I would suggest you follow me"
Lucca turns their head to Lori and Ash, eyeing them over, and as they group together Lori has a worried look on her face.
"I don't trust him", she says and can see in her friends faces that none of them do.
"But what do we even do?", Ash asks barely above a whisper "he knocked out all of our pokémon and he might not be alone… heck I didn't even recognize that pokémon he is using"
Lucca sighs "he seems more interested in me, so why don't we just spli"
"Absolutely not!", Lori demands and cutting Luccas sentence short, "the last thing we do is splitting up" he huddles over her friends, closing the circle around them for more privacy "we go together, we have a much better chance if we stay as a group"
Reluctantly both Ash and Lucca nods in agreements and Lucca returns to Jūbei… "fine" they say "we are going to follow you, but only if you promise that we won't get hurt, nor will our pokémon"
Jūbei nods "you wont get hurt by us… but there are many other people out there that might have other plans", he returns his unknown fire type to produce a Dragonite.
The Dragon looks friendly and it sniffs the children before it crouches down for them to jump on…
"Where are we going?" Luccas aske
"Up" Jūbei laughs and cocks his head up to the sky…
All three get on the back of the big Dragon and Jubei finds another pokémon, a Fearow and both flying types leave the ground, flying upwards.
After breaking the clouds all three of them see what looks like a ship… but instead of sailing on the blue ocean, it gently rocks in the sky.
As they all approaches to land more people are seen, all of them wearing black jackets with purple lines down from the shoulder, and behind them, Jūbei is doing the same, the wind making it a little difficult, and on his exposed chest, a rather unnatural looking scar running down his left pectoral.