The Dragon Master II: Chapter Eleven

	"Looks like I've won," Flargini said as he walked ever so closer to me. 
"Without this Shard, you can never defeat me. I've already proven to you 
that I can resurrect myself. So why even bother, Bob? Why not just give up 
and pledge your allegiance to me?"
	"I will never," I said. "I will never give my loyalty to a murderer."
	"But you're a murderer yourself," Flargini said. "You killed Lance. If you 
had not done so, I wouldn't be here, trying to stop you."
	"Trying to stop me," I said as I threw my cloak in his face and called my 
teal katana. I swung it as hard as I could at his face. But he called his 
katana and threw my cloak off his face and blocked my own.
	"If that's the way you want to play," Flargini said. "Then so be it." He 
unhooked his cloak and let it slide down to the floor. "We will battle where 
nobody can see us, and where nobody can interfere." He snapped his fingers, 
and everything but him and me disappeared. I hoped that I could walk safely.
	"Let's go," I said as I stepped forward, ready to attack. I swung my 
katana, though he blocked it. I was going out fully offensive, though he was 
blocking every  single blow. How could this be? Regardless, I kept on 
attacking. Slash, cut, stab, spin, block, all went through my head as I 
fought Flargini. Then I realized that there was no way to escape. He 
controlled this universe. I could do nothing except keep on fighting.
	"Duck," a voice said behind me. I did as it commanded, just in time for a 
psychic blast to come over my head. It nailed Flargini and the face, and I 
saw the Psychic Shard fly out of his hand and was caught in another. I 
looked behind me. It was Sabrina and Misty! I had no time to figure out how 
they got in there, as Sabrina brought us out with a snap of her fingers.
	"I believe that this belongs to you," Sabrina said as she handed me the 
Shard. I placed it on the medallion, and it stuck in place.
	"Thanks," I said. "But we have to-"
	"Go," Sabrina said with a slight smile. "I know. Go get the Grass Shard 
next. That is the closest one. Goodbye." She teleported us out and to 
Celadon City. She then teleported back to her Gym.
	"Wow," Misty said. "Hey, you have a cut on your shoulder." She pointed to 
my left shoulder.
	"I wonder how that happened," I said. "Flargini never got a hit off."
	"Let's go to the PokeCenter to get it healed," Misty suggested.
	"Nah," I said. "I'll be fine." I called my cloak, and we went into Erika's 
Gym. All of her underlings stared as we passed.
	"Bob, Misty," Erika said as we walked in. "What are you two doing in 
Celadon City? Away for a romantic vacation?"
	"Um...no," I said. "We're here because we need the Grass Shard. After we 
possess this one, we will need only three more. Plus, we're short on time. 
So if you had any suggestions..."
	"Well," Erika started, "I guess that you could check in my garden. There is 
this mausoleum that I can't open. Even Bruno tried to open it; but no luck. 
Come out here, and I'll show you." She walked out and we followed her. It 
was like walking into a green paradise. There were grass pokemon of every 
kind out there. Most of the were soaking up the sun.
	"Here's the mausoleum," Erika said as we saw the stone building. Misty came 
over, but she tripped over a rock. I went over to inspect it. I pushed it 
down, and the door to the crypt opened! There were some lit torches inside 
there, so I grabbed one and walked in. There was a staircase that hopefully 
led down to the Grass Shard. We walked downwards for about 10 minutes when 
we came to a door. There was a puzzle in Unown writing. It read:

				Yes, the Grass Shard is hidden I here,
				Though, why do you want it?
				What is the point of trying for it?
				As you will never will get it.

	"Okay," Erika said. "I don't know what this is about, but I'm kinda 
intrigued." Misty and I both looked at her oddly.
	"What are you talking about," I asked her. "Intrigued? There's a good 
chance that we'll be killed! Still intrigued?"
	"Kinda," Erika said. I shook my head in disbelief and pressed the button. 
We came upon a jungle full of plants. There was the Grass Shard, right in 
the middle of it all. It was on a raised podium. I stepped up onto it and 
grabbed it. I connected it to the medallion, and the ground started to 
rumble! I looked at the edge of the jungle. A Vileplume, at least twenty 
feet tall, came out and looked at me. It had the most angered look on its 
face that I had ever seen. And I had pushed Misty into a pool once.
	"Holy shit," I said quietly. "Holy shit. Holy shit. This can be anything 
but good." The Vileplume looked at me, and then it charged a solarbeam. It 
fired, and I got out of the way.
	"Do something, Bob," Misty yelled. I could never beat it with my dragon 
attacks. I would have to use the medallion. I held it up towards the giant 
Vileplume.
	"Fire Shard," I commanded. "Fire Blast." A star-shaped fire blast shot out 
of the medallion and hit the Vileplume. I quickly thought of what other 
attacks were good against Vileplume. It was part poison, so Psychic should 
do well. "Psychic!" I yelled and a psychic wave of energy shot out of the 
Psychic Shard and hit the overgrown Vileplume.
	"It's really powerful," Erika exclaimed. She then threw one of her green 
pokeballs at it. It sent a toxic at it, and blasted it to pieces. "That 
little bitch." Misty dragged Erika away from the Vileplume. What other 
attacks is it weak against?
	"Duh," I said, smacking myself on the forehead. I called my wings, and used 
wing attack over and over on the overgrown Vileplume. Finally, it collapsed 
on the ground.
	"That was both amazing and freaky on so many levels," Erika exclaimed. I 
ignored her and walked up the stairs out of the mausoleum. Misty and I left 
Erika in her Gym to train.
	"That was hard," I said. "That Vileplume didn't want to go down. Let's go 
to Viridian City and get the Ground Shard."
	"How do we know that it's there," Misty asked. "Use the flute." She handed 
me the flute and I blew into it. Sure enough, the Ground Shard was located 
in Viridian City.
	"Let's go," I said. I picked Misty up in my arms, called my wings, and flew 
to Viridian City.
When we landed, I headed directly for the Gym, Misty still in my arms. She 
looked at me kind of weird before she said anything.
	"Um...you know," Misty said. "My legs aren't broken."
	"Oh," I said. "I forgot." I set her down and she rolled her eyes. We headed 
for the Gym, where my father was positioned. I burst through the doors, and 
all of the trainers looked at me.
	"What do you need, Master Bob," one of the asked.
	"Is there anything that I can get you," another queried.
	"Nothing," I said. "Just go back to your training. I have to speak with my 
father."
	"If I may speak, sir," a young boy asked. "Master Giovanni is not here. As 
his most trusted apprentice, I must care to your needs."
	"Um," I said. "Okay. Do you have a map of the underground tunnels here?"
	"Yes we do, Master Bob," he said. "They're located on the main computer 
over here." He walked over to a big computer inside of Giovanni's office.
	"Whoa," Misty said as she came in. "There are hacking devices in here that 
could hack into the League."
	"I know," I said. I knew that my father had been monitoring League 
meetings. "I'll just print what I need, and I'll import a virus into the 
computer." Giovanni's apprentice had no objection to it.
	"Aren't you going to object," I said. "This virus will delete all of the 
files in the computer."
	"I know," the young apprentice said. "I've told Master Giovanni many times 
to stop hacking into League files. He deserves it." I turned it on, 
downloaded, printed, and looked at a map that I had taken off the computer.
	"Almost done," I said. I took a floppy disk out of my cloak, and put it in 
the computer. I did a bit of hacking, and the virus was free. The computer 
shut down, and that was it.
	"Thanks for your help," I said to the kid and I walked out. "Outrage." My 
fists erupted in a teal fire, and I pounded though the floor, leaving Misty 
and I in a dirt corridor.
	"Where are we now," Misty asked. "Is the Shard anywhere close?"
	"I don't know," I replied. I took the flute out of my cloak, and held it 
out in the palm of my hand.
	"What are you doing," Misty asked. I ignored her and continued.
	"Ground Shard," I whispered to it, and it swung around in my palm. It 
eventually pointed to the left. I turned left at the next corridor that I 
saw, and it said that I was straight ahead. I ran as fast as I could down 
the hallway and the flute did a one-eighty turn! I stopped running, and I 
felt Misty run into me.
	"Why'd you stop," Misty asked. I turned around, and walked a little bit. 
Again, the flute did a one-eighty. I turned around.
	"Come behind me," I said to Misty. I shot a hyper beam right in front of me 
and a door was left there. I walked up to it, stuck the flute inside of my 
cloak, and there was a riddle in Unown writing. It read:

				This is more of an excavation,
				Than anything else of its kind.
				Which means that you'll have to dig.
				This will drive you out of your mind.

	I looked at Misty, and I then pressed the button. Inside, were hundreds 
upon thousands of piles of dirt, which I am guessing that we had to dig 
through to get to the Ground Shard. I laid the flute out in front of my hand 
as I had done before.
	"Ground Shard," I said. The flute spun around and landed on a pile of dirt 
that was right beside me. I dug through the pile, and I found the Shard. I 
placed it in its respective spot, and was about to walk out the door.
	"Don't you ever wake up and think 'Man, I feel like dying today,' Flargini 
said as he walked up to me. "Because that would make my job a lot easier." 
He then advanced on me.
	"No katanas," I said. "No weapons of any sort. Hand-to-hand combat. I will 
follow these rules, if you will."
	"Fine," Flargini said as he dropped his cloak. "Let's go."
	"Fine," I said as I did the same. "Ladies first." So Misty came up and 
kicked Flargini in the crotch.
	"Why can't guys just get to the point," she asked.
	"Ouch," Flargini said.
	"Oh, shut up," she said as she kicked him the crotch again. "You two always 
have to be dramatic about it, don't you? That was rhetorical. Let's go." 
Flargini teleported away, but not before I said something to him.
	"Recover that," I said, as I walked out of the Ground Chamber and it 
disappeared once again. However, my father was standing outside of it.
	"So," he said.
	"So what," I said.
	"You put a virus in my computer," Giovanni said. "That is completely 
illegal and you must now pay a fine."
	"I never put any virus in your computer," I said. "I don't know about you, 
but I have to go and finish my mission. Goodbye." I walked past him, but he 
wasn't finished and called after me.
	"I will not tolerate this from my son," Giovanni yelled. "I gave you life!" 
I slowly turned around.
	"You may be the reason for my existence," I said. "But my mother, Lorelei, 
is the one that gave me life. I don't ever want to hear anything about you 
being my father again. If I do, I will take your Ground Mastery from you. Is 
that clear?"
	"Yes, sir," Giovanni said. "Have a fucking good day."
	"I will," I said as I walked out his Gym. "By the way, you have a fucking 
good day, yourself." I laughed my way out of the Gym.
	"That was kinda mean," Misty said.
	"So," I said. "You know that he deserved it. Let's go to Fuchsia City." 
Misty hopped into my arms and we flew off towards Fuchsia City.
	When we landed, Janine was waiting for us. I wondered why she was out 
there, and why she was in Fuchsia City. She lived in Lavender Town.
	"Why are you here," Misty asked as I set her down. "Don't you live in 
Lavender Town?"
	"I'm the new Fuchsia City Gym Leader," Janine responded. "My dad told me 
that you were coming. I've been filled in about the Shards. You're here for 
the Poison Shard, right?"
	"Yeah," I said. "Do you have any idea where it is?"
	"We could try the Safari Zone," Janine suggested. "It's closed, but the 
warden's granddaughter and I used to hang out, so she gave me a key. You two 
ready?"
	"Yeah," I said. "We're kinda short on time." We walked through Fuchsia 
City, with everybody on the streets smiling and waving at Janine.
	"Here we are," Janine said. She stuck the key into the keyhole and turned 
it. The three of us entered, and we looked at all of the wild pokemon in 
there. There were Tauros, Scyther, Pinsir, and Kangaskhan in there, along 
with many other pokemon. We all went to the largest tree in the entire 
Pokemon Reserve.
	"Is this the biggest one," Misty asked. "It's huge!"
	"Yep," Janine said proudly. "It's the biggest one in both Kanto and Johto." 
I, however, was examining the tree. I found a knot in the tree, and I 
pressed it. A panel on the tree slid open and the three of us walked in, 
with Misty and Janine with their mouths open. There was a big chasm and we 
somehow had to jump across it.
	"I'm gonna jump," I said to the two women beside me.
	"No," Misty said. "I won't let you." However, let me or not, I just took a 
running leap. I landed on the ledge on the other side, though I was hanging 
from it. To add to the danger of hanging over a bottomless pit, Grimer and 
Muk were climbing the walls of the chasm, hoping to reach me and kill me. I 
couldn't pull myself up. It looked like the end...
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