(A/N: This is my first fanfic so be nice and be sure to tell me what you think)

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon, only the characters in this story. Dun, dun, duuuunnnnn.

Normal POV

The stars in the night sky flashed ominously as their radiance gave off a soft glow of light to the valley below. A lightning bolt struck behind the mountains, giving off a loud crash, which is strange because there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

A flaming headed monkey wearing red, white and yellow armour entered the rundown ruin of an old mansion. His sole thought in mind was to find the Demise keystone. The Demise keystone was said to give a pokemon unnatural abilities, and he would find out if the legends were true.

After walking into a number of rooms and walking down a couple of winding hallways, the Infernape finally came to a dark room with only a couple of red-rimmed golden lamps and a red carpet which was lined with an expensive golden design resembling a powerful green dragon that flew without wings. There was one big window on either side of the room covered with red velvet curtains. Very valuable paintings lined the walls whilst tiny tables with beautiful ornaments sat under them. At the end of the room was an old table that looked like it would collapse at any moment, but sitting on that table was a golden keystone with a tiny fissure embedded in the top.

The Infernape grinned, that keystone was what he had been looking for. He ran over to the table, not noticing the lamps he passed broke down and turned to dust. He stopped in front of the table and grabbed the keystone, laughing to himself at the thought of being able do things only ghosts could think about doing. He shook himself out of his daze and looked at the keystone again, frowning when he noticed a purple mist with green blobs escaping.

"What the-" The pokemon quickly dropped the keystone and took a step back in shock. The mist slowly swirled about the keystone, becoming thicker as more came out.

Eventually, the mist stopped swirling and began to take shape but the green ectoplasm kept moving. The ectoplasm in the middle of the mist began to form into two closed eyes and a closed zig-zag-shaped mouth. The "eyes" opened, swirl-shaped pupils locking onto the fire type as the mouth twisted into an ugly smirk.

The Infernape took a couple of steps back in horror as he now realized the room had turned pitch-black. "Who are you?" The Infernape asked, voice tinted with sheer horror.

"My name is what your about to face…"

The Spiritomb disappeared, an echo sounded out as the Infernape wildly looked around, panicking.

"Your Demise." Nearby bird pokemon flew away in fear as a loud blood-chilling scream filled the once beautifully silent night.

Minimus' POV

"Get back here you edible rats," the Houndoom shouted at me and my Plusle partner.

"Why did you provoke the carnivorous dog, why? Everyone knows those demons are dangerous" she snapped. She quickly jumped to the left, dodging a stream of fire that shot past her.

"I wanted to see if he had our magnet, so stun me" I retorted, running through a bush and past a tree towards the human territory.

"That can be arranged" The fire-type snarled, shooting another stream of fire at us.

"Why in the name of Cresselia would a fire type of any kind have an object that powers up electric moves?" she growled jumping onto a boulder, up onto a branch. I watched in awe as she jumped from tree branch to tree branch in a Grovyle kind of way.

"I dunno, I wasn't' thinking I guess" I said, copying Plusis's jump on the boulder and then the tree branches.

"Yes, that sounds like you alright, Minimus." She stopped on a tree branch and turned around to watch me approach.

When I got to her branch, we both simultaneously looked down at the Houndoom. It was at the base of the tree trying to jump up at us. I looked at my partner the same time she looked at me, we nodded then grabbed each others paws and launched a double thunder at the demon-like dog. The Houndoom roared before gritting his teeth and shaking off the thunder. Both Plusis and I gasped in shock.

"See, this is why we need a magnet. We're not strong enough," I mumbled sadly.

"Look out" Plusis shouted, pushing me off the branch but caught my paw. I squealed in surprise as a very powerful burst of fire (more powerful than the last) shot through the place I was standing.

I looked at Plusis above me and saw her face scrunched up from the effort of having me in one paw and holding onto the branch in the other.

"Plusis, when's Varia gonna find us?" I asked, the Houndoom jumped up and snapped at me, just missing my tail. He moved himself so he was just below me, I had a feeling that this time the Houndoom would get me.

"A few moments ago," A melodic voice said as a powerful ring of water exploded and knocked the fire-type into a nearby tree. I sighed in relief then let go of Plusis' paw. I dropped to the ground and landed on my paws, Plusis dropped next to me a second later. We looked in the direction the ring of water came from and saw a pretty, female Vaporeon sitting a few feet away with a calm but bored look on her features.

"Varia, thank Arceus you're here. This idiot ticked off a demon mutt," complained Plusis. I scowled at her for the "idiot" remark but shook it off once I decided she didn't mean it.

"So what else is new," the water-type muttered. She looked off to her left to where the fire-type was recovering from the powerful attack. "Can't you two ever stay out of trouble."

"I'm partnered up with a problematic Minun, what else do you expect?" Plusis stated. I gave her a dirty look but she brushed it off.

"You two, stay focused." Varia growled, suddenly dodging a burst of fire. Plusis and I snapped our heads in the Houndoom's direction. Only to have a flamethrower engulf us both. We both shrieked in agony at the sheer intensity of heat the flamethrower gave off. When the flaming attack stopped, I fell face forward into the ground out of exhaustion.

"That was a strong flamethrower," I groaned, shakily standing up.

I looked at the two battling pokemon as they wildly fired attacks at each other. If the demon-dog was able to fight on par with Varia then he definitely isn't a pushover like I had originally thought. I focused on myself then released the energy that was building up. I looked up to the sky in time to see a star fly over head. As I waited, I looked at Plusis to see her sound asleep. But I wasn't very surprised, she used rest to recover health, whilst I use wish. Just as Plusis started to wake up, I felt the familiar warm feeling cover my entire body then fade, taking away any pains and exhaustion with it.

Plusis nodded to me and I nodded back. My body began to glow a bright yellow as I stored up energy, Plusis taking on a similar glow. I released the energy in an electrical beam at the offending demon-dog and Plusis released her energy in a shock wave, which was also aimed at the dark-type. When the two attacks hit, the pokemon shrieked in agony.

"Nice shock wave, Plusis" I cheered, hopping from one paw to the other out of glee.

"Nice charge beam," she replied jumping up and down. We were so excited that we didn't notice a shadow looming over us.

Loud growling resounded from right behind us and Plusis slowly turned around, followed by me. And we both backed away in terror from the angry scowl of the Houndoom. Suddenly a large blast of water hit the hound in the side, sending him crashing through a tree. The tree fell on top of the fire-type which knocked him unconscious.

"Thanks Varia" Plusis sighed in relief, sitting on her butt. The vaporeon in question walked over to us and sat down next to Plusis. She still kept a close eye on the downed Houndoom but other wise seemed to relax too.

"I can't leave you two alone for a moment can I?" She sighed, she was annoyed but at least she wasn't mad. "Anyway, I found the Trainer that took your magnet. Yes, it was a human, and they were headed towards the city north of here."

"So what your saying is that our magnet is in the city. Where did you find that out?" I asked. Finally after all this time, Plusis and I would finally get our magnet back, then we'd get back at the Trainer that took it in the first place.

"Eseus told me," Plusis' eyes widened a fraction. Truth be told, a rumour went around that Eseus got himself caught and was now travelling with a human.

"But, wasn't Eseus captured awhile ago?" I asked. I glanced at Plusis to see her reaction but she seemed to be using rest again. Maybe she didn't fully recover from the flamethrower.

"That is true, but he's in the vicinity and has asked for our help, and in turn he said he would help look for your magnet." She used her paw to nudge Plusis awake but Plusis pretty much turned over to ignore her. "Why is she asleep anyway? She should be fully healed from her rest before."

"She's tired, we were running away from the Houndoom all morning. Anyway do you know where he is then?"

"Of course, just follow me." I nudged Plusis with my tail but she didn't respond, so I charged electricity in my cheeks and nuzzled Plusis. She slowly opened her eyes and smiled at me and I smiled back, she always did like it when I did that.

"Wakey, wakey. We have to follow Varia and save Eseus," I said, grabbing her paw in both of mine then hoisted her up.

"Minimus, Eseus was captured awhile ago, remember?" She looked upset for a second but it was quickly replaced with intense thinking. She'd figure the situation out in a few seconds now.

"We don't have time to explain, you'll find out later. C'mon." I dashed off in the direction Varia went dodging trees and avoiding a couple of pokemon. I didn't bother looking out for Plusis, knowing her, she was probably behind me or besides me.

Up ahead, I caught sight of Varia's mermaid tail going through a bush so I ran into that direction. I stopped when I jumped through it and saw Varia sitting down, looking at me. She gestured to behind her, so I looked and I stared in awe at the metal forest. Of course this wasn't the first time I'd seen a human habitat but it was just really, really big. Then the scent of the metal forest became clear and I found myself with my paw over my nose.

"Come on you two, let's find that certain human." She chuckled, obviously amused by myself and Plusis. I looked at Plusis and giggled. She was rolling on the ground with her paws over her nose, occasionally letting out a squeak.

Varia calmly walked off into the city and we followed with a bit more effort. We passed loads of humans, most who seemed very interested in us for some reason, whilst others didn't give us a second glance. A young human tried to block our path with a red and white ball but Varia quickly shot a burst of water at him which knocked him across the street. All the humans tried to avoid us after that. On a stranger note, I was able to charge more electricity as a certain trainer walked by but I took no notice of it, I was probably just being cautious.

After awhile I was beginning to doubt Varia's word when she stopped suddenly, staring across to the other side of the huge path at a depressed Espeon who was walking in the opposite direction as us. He seemed to be following a human, who turned around every now and again to say something to him and he just nodded in reply every time.

"Found you." Varia whispered.

(A/N: Well what did you think? I personally had a bit of trouble with this but it got easier as I went along).