Chapter 4: Seeking Redhead, Female, Great Personality, Armed & Dangerous
Leon, thinking quickly, swiped a Pokball hanging on the magnetic strip on his right pant leg and released the Pokmon inside. The Pokball opened with a puff of pink smoke and out came a tall, burly-looking Blastoise. The large turtle Pokmon let out a warcry and batted the grunts aside.
One picked himself up and released a Rhydon. Leon smirked. "Stupid Move."
Leon's blastoise fired a Water Pulse shot at the Rhydon, knocking it halfway across the room. Its hide seemd to be weakened, blistered by the water blast.
Leon looked up at his Pokmon. "Great work, Sheldon." In reply, the brute nodded, and growled at the others.
A grunt stood up and flipped the Pokmon off. "You think a bit of water'll keep us down?"
Leon chuckled. "No. But..." He took up another Pokball and released a towering orange dragon Pokmon. A raging flame spouted form his tail, and large batlike wings extended to full length. He let ojut a more feral roar than the Blastoise before did.
"Boys, meet my buddy Huma. In case you're a complete idiot, Huma is a Charizard. They can make you into a human barbecue in seconds, and those claws cut mighty deep. If you don't want to die, let us pass."
The grunds cowered along a far wall, and Leon returned his Blastoise to its ball.
Sam laughed. "Great one, Leon." He lit yet another cigarette and dashed out of the room. Leon backed out, himself, and returned Huma to his ball.
Sam and Leon ran down the hallway until they saw a room with all glass windows, and what looked like a meeting room inside. Leon remembered that room...
Givanni did not battle Leon right away. In fact, he grabbed him by the collar and made him walk with him. After a while, he let Leon's collar free, trusting the boy. While Leon could have run, he did not want to get shot.
They had reached a glass-windowed room, what looked like a meeting room in the building where his dad worked.
Giovanni gently opened the door and herded Leon into it.
Giovanni walked over to a large executive's chair and sat down in it, folding his arms. "Sit down, please."
Leon reluctantly took a seat in a lesser chair at the table.
Giovanni sighed. "You are a brave little man. You have the audacity to stop my grunts from achieving their goals in a few places, then infiltrate my place of buisness. Again, I commend such bravery."
Leon nodded.
Giovanni extracted the black handgun from his coat, examining it. Leon jumped when he saw it. What was he gonna do with that?
The tall man placed the gun gently on the table. "Again, I'm not going to kill you. I have a niece, who lives with em ebcause her parents died in a Moltres rampage. And I love working with children. I was a teacher at some point...high school...english."
Leon couldn't believe it. Him? Giovanni? Teacher? No, better yet--Giovanni, a soft spot for kids?
Giovanni chuckled. "Tell you what. I want a challenge in my next endeavor. I want to battle you. If you win, I'll give you a little device we swiped from Silph Co. that could aide you when you come to stop me again. If you lose..Well, I'll let the spirits of Lavender Tower take you."
Leon couldn't believe this. How lame was this?
Little did he know, Gio was planning to kill him later...
Leon peered into the glass room. The redhead sat facign a computer screen, her back to the door.
Now was his chance. He opened the door...
...and heard a metallic click. Kelsey had swiveled her chair around to face Leon and point a gun at him.
"Hello, Leon." she said, smiling her flirty smile.
"Hello, Kelsey. Wanna kill me now?"
She nodded. "Oh yes. But I wanna have a bit of fun first. Uncle Gio?"
Kelsey moved her chair aside, and on the computer screen was Giovanni's face. He was grinning menacingly. "Well, Leon. Long time no see. You've grown."
"Cut the chat, Gio. Let's get this over with." He held his arms out wide. "Kill me, Kelsey."
She shook her head. "Oh no. not yet. I have a little deal-ee-o for you. Battle me."
Leon rolled his eyes, and put the hood of his blue sweatshirt down, revealing spiky brown hair. "Not this crap again. Gio, did you put her up to this?"
Kelsey shook her head. "Completely my idea. See, i am a much better battler then Uncle Gio was. I'll battle you...for your life. If I win, I get the gun, and you can...well...die. If you win, you get the gun, and can do the likewise to me."
Leon didn't like this. "And if I refuse?"
Kelsey laughed. "You can't. See, I've rigged a bomb in B4F. If you refuse, I can jsut walk away...get out...and blow you and everyone in this casino to high heaven. But its much more detailed than I want to explain. And by the way, your friend is a bit tied up right now, so don't bother having him help you."
Leon looked behind him, and saw Sam with two grunts holding him i place, his hands bound tightly behind his back. Two guns were on his head. "Do the battle, Leon. It's better that one or two of us dies than hundreds."