Hey everyone, Toadettegirl2012 is back again! And guess what, more Holiday Fun! Yay! Anywho it's October the tenth month of the year and that means yeah Halloween. Me and my family doesn't really celebrate Halloween since were Christian so this technically isn't a Halloween fanfic. But even so I decided to make for October anyways, mostly because I think it would be weird if I didn't have a fanfic for the tenth month of the year, what I didn't want to leave October hanging! Anywho this one is more of a supernatural based fanfic…and I guess just a little scary but it doesn't matter, so go ahead and read to see how you like it!

The Midnight Dragon

By: Toadettegirl2012

(Tenth Fanfic in Holiday Fun Collection)


Ages: Ash:16 Iris:16 Cilan:18

Chapter 1: The Story

"Wow Shannon, you got a part in a play?" Iris squealed, "That's so awesome!" she pulled her friend into a hug.

"Thanks Iris," Shannon said hugging her purple haired friend back, she then pulled away from her friend and sweatdropped "b-but…I-I didn't actually get a part in the play, I got the part of the narrator!"

"The narrator!?" Iris said falling over anime style

Shannon laughed, "I told them I was shy, so they gave me the role of the narrator!"

"Oh Shannon," Iris said getting to her feet, "you really need to get over being so shy!"

"Hey, at least give her credit for getting a part in the play," Ash said to Iris

"Yeah besides in every play, weather the part is big or small, every part makes a big impact in the overall performance of the entire play," Cilan added

It was October the air was cool and the trees, was mostly bear or had a few brownish leaves dangling from their branches. And since it was close by the three friends Ash, Iris and Cilan decided to stop at Iris's home town the Village of Dragons. The trio was invited by Elder to stay at her house, which they accepted, but they had just started getting comfortable when Iris's childhood friend, Shannon came over with some news. Shannon had obtained a part in a play, which came to a shock for everyone since Shannon was rather shy person.

"Is there a special reason why the village is showing a play, Shannon?" Cilan asked as the four friends gathered on the comfortable couches in the large living room of Elder's house.

"Yes, the play I'm in, along with many others, is for the Festival of Dragons!" Shannon informed.

"The Festival of Dragons!" Iris gasped, "I almost forgot about that! Shannon when's the festival?"

A wide grin appeared on the brown haired teen's face "The celebration's only a few days away!"

This caused both girls to squeal and start to jump up and down around the room; Cilan and Ash sweatdropped and stared at them in confusion.

"W-What's the Festival of Dragons?" the raven haired teen asked

"Oh, it's a big festival that's held here in the Village of Dragons, every year," Elder said as she entered the room carrying a tray of refreshments in her hands, she placed the tray on the coffee table "we hold the festival to celebrate the day the Village of Dragons was founded,"

"Not only that the festival is tons of fun, too!" Iris exclaimed with a smile

"Yeah, it starts at noon and lasts all the way to midnight!" Shannon added

"The theme for the festival is all old timey so people are all dressed up in really pretty reissuance clothes," Iris said clapping her hands, "with the big poufy dresses and jester outfits and stuff like that!"

"Iris, remember when we were little and we would always wear the exact the same dresses?" Shannon asked her friend

"Uh-huh, I remember that!" Iris said, "We would go around all dressed up, playing fun games,"

"And we would go around eating yummy food!" Shannon added.

"Yeah and winning lots of prizes!" Iris said happily

Shannon then gasped, "Oh, Iris do you remember all the dancing?"

"Of course I do! The dancing was my favorite part!" Iris squealed, spinning around in a circle, "there would always be music playing and people couldn't help but stop and dance!"

"And then at midnight couples would always gather around the statues of Zekrom and Reshiram as they played a slow song, and people would always slow dance!" Shannon added

"Oh, yeah that part of the festival's always so romantic!" Iris giggled

"Wow, you two sure know quite a lot about this festival," Cilan said

"Well, who blame them," Elder said with a smile, "those two went every year to the Festival of Dragons,"

Both Iris and Shannon blushed at the Elder's comment.

"Hey, Iris," Ash said turning to his purple haired friend as she and Shannon went back to their seats, "since this festival thing's so fun, do you think Cilan and I could come to?"

"Of course Ash," Iris said with a smile

"Yeah, everyone's welcomed to come to the Festival of Dragons!" Shannon finished

"Speaking of the festival,," Elder said as she settled down into one of the arm chairs, "Shannon, dear you said you were going to be in a play, correct?" the magenta haired teen nodded, "with so many plays that are going to be put on at the festival, do you mind sharing what play you're going to be in?"

"Oh, you want to know what play I'm going to be in?" Shannon repeated, picking up her bag she had set on the floor, she rummaged through it before pulling out a thick packet of paper that were all stapled together, "I have the script right here," Shannon looked at the script for a moment, "let's see, the title of the play I'll be in is called…oh, the Midnight Dragon!"

At the name of the play, a small gasp escaped from Iris's lips.

Ash looked over towards her, "What's the matter Iris?" he asked upon seeing her reaction

"Huh, oh i-it's nothing," Iris said with a half-smile, "it's just that the Midnight Dragon…is one of my favorite plays, that's all!"

"Oh that good to hear," Shannon said as she flipped through the script of the play, "since you like it so much, Iris, is it okay if I practice my line in front of you guys?"

Everyone agreed

After clearing her throat Shannon started to read her lines off the script and started to tell everyone the story of the Midnight Dragon.

The story was about a princess, who lived in a kingdom long ago and far away. The citizens of the kingdom loved the princess dearly; this was because of how sweet and kind she was to everyone. The princess (TG2012: who I will not give a name to because I'm too lazy to do so) could always be seen playing with the children of the kingdom or having a Pokémon battle in her free time. But even though everyone loved the princess there was one thing, not even her parents, knew about the princess.

On nights with a full moon the princess would always slip out of the castle and head to the forest. There at exactly midnight, when the princess was bathed in the full moon's light, the beautiful princess would be transformed into a scaly dragon. With her wings, scaly reptile like skin, long tail, razor sharp teeth, and claws the princess thought she was hideous. She hated the dragon; she hated the scaly creature that would take place of her body. She hated how she didn't know the reason of the transformation; she hated every bit of it!

This would send the princess, in her dragon form, into a rage! A rage in which she had no control over herself, in her dragon form the princess would go about the forest destroying everything in her path. She burned, smashed, and obliterated everything she saw all through the night all the while screeching the horrible roar of a dragon.

When the first rays of the morning sun rose, the princess was happy to find that she would return to her normal form. But even though she could cover up being a dragon the princess couldn't cover up the damage that had been done to the forest. Many of the kingdom's citizens noticed the large amount of damaged done to the forest and were frighten by it. She even heard people saying that they witnessed seeing the attacks on the forest which they described as horrifying and terrible! They claimed that a vicious and hideous dragon like creature was destroying the forest with fire, dragon type moves and pure strength as it roared loudly through the nights.

At first the princess didn't think much about it and hoped that everyone would think it wasn't true, but it was when she overheard her father saying that there will be a large amount of money given to the person who can capture the creature that had been destroying the forest, is when she became concerned. Now throughout the nights the hunters and knights of the kingdom were out searching the forest in search of the Midnight Dragon, which the people had given the title due to how the attacks happened at midnight.

With so many people out in the forest at night the princess was finding it harder and harder to escape to the forest to transform, every full moon. When midnight came, on a night of a full moon, the princess change into her dragon form, but now without the feeling of rage from how ugly she felt when she was a dragon she no longer attacked. Instead she would roam around the forest doing her best to avoid the knights and hunters who pursuit her. If the princess happened to make contact with any of them she had no choice but to slaughter them, she couldn't risk getting captured by them, it could expose her secret.

As the bodies of the people the princess had killed started to appear more and more often and the stories that were told of people witnessing the attacks of the Midnight Dragon became more frequent. Soon news about the Midnight Dragon speared to neighboring kingdoms. This caused people to greatly fear the Midnight Dragon! Hearing all of this deeply saddened the princess that she would often find herself weeping the night before the full moon. She hated having to go to the forest and transform but she had no choice.

The miserable princess would have died of grief if it hadn't been for a knight that came to her kingdom. The knight had been hired by her father; her father had hired the knight because of his excellent hunting skills. The king was tired of his knights coming back from the forest empty handed and wanted the dragon gone for good, so he hired the knight and even offered to pay him double the amount he had originally set for the capture of the dragon. The princess was frighten at first when she learned all this but her frighten thoughts were quickly washed away when she laid her eyes on the knight.

He was tall, strong, brave and very handsome; within a few days of the knight working in the castle the princes fell very much in love with the knight. As for the knight as he worked in the castle he noticed the princess and was memorized by her beauty the minute he saw her, he feel in love the princess. The knight didn't hesitate to confess to the princess the feelings he had towards her. He would often give her gifts and would shower her with complements any time he could. The princess also wanted to tell the knight how much she loved him, but she was too afraid of what he might say if he found out she was the Midnight Dragon. Would he despise her? Would he love her? The princess just didn't know. So to answer her questions the princess deiced to test the knight.

On the night of the full moon the princess took the knight to the forest and poured out her feelings and told him how much she loved him. The knight was very pleased to hear all this, but the princess wasn't done testing him. When midnight struck she allowed the knight to witness her transform into the terrible Midnight Dragon. She told the knight, who was now terribly frightened, that if he truly loved her, he would embrace her, kiss her and never tell anyone about her being the Midnight Dragon.

But the knight knowing about the large reward for the Midnight Dragon, he drew his sword and rushed at the princess. The princess was startled at this, as the knight swung his weapon at her, as she dodged every swing of the sword she realized something. The princess realized that the knight didn't love her. She realized that he only wanted the large reward that her father had put in place for the capture of Midnight Dragon. She realized he wanted to capture her more then he wanted to love her! She realized because of this dragon form that would take over her body at midnight on the night of a full moon that the knight didn't love her. That no one would love her!

This terrible realization sent the princess into a rage! This horrible rage made the princess want to get rid of them, all of them, all of the people that wouldn't love her because of her dragon form! The princess destroyed everything and everybody in her path! She burned the forest, the trees, the people and Pokémon that were within it. She destroyed her kingdom, the houses, farms, the castle, everything that she could physically reduce to a pile of nothing, was obliterated!

As her kingdom was aglow with flames the princess didn't know what to do but to throw herself into the blazing flames. The princess died that night, along with everyone else in the kingdom, but her soul remained upset, angry and hungry for revenge! She wanted revenge for no one willing to loving her!

As the story goes they say that the princess's angry soul roamed the earth for a while before she decided to do something about her misery. She discovered that she could implant herself into humans' bodies the princess's soul would mostly stay quiet but a few days before a full moon her voice would appear in the person's head, reminding them of what her soul wanted: true love. The princess would always tell the person that she'd promise to leave them under one condition, that condition was if the person could find someone that will love them even in their dragon form. The princess would stay as a voice in the person's head except on the nights with a full moon, that's when she would take control of the person's body and transform them into the Midnight Dragon. Then she would roam about searching for someone to love the person. If she is able to find someone to love the person, even in dragon from, a kiss from the person's true love will ease the princess's angry soul and she'll go off in peace.

"So, that's the story of the Midnight Dragon," Shannon said looking u from her script, she gave a sheepish smile, "yeah, I know the ending is kinda…um-"

"Bitter and cold," Cilan said, with a slight frown, "it leaves a rather unpleasant after taste in the person's mouth," the connoisseur then chuckled a bit at the confused look on Shannon's face, "in other words, that wasn't the best fairy tale that I've heard,"

"Fairy tale? Oh, no it's not a fairy tale," Shannon said with a shake of her head

"Shannon's right," Elder said, "most of the plays that are performed at the Festival of Dragon's are true stories. And the Midnight Dragon happens to be one of those true stories,"

"Whoa, no way!" Ash said, his eyes growing wide, "so there was really a crazy dragon princess that rampaged through the night and burned down everything even her own kingdom?"

Elder chuckled at the raven haired teen's shocked expression, "Well, yes. Only the last part is a myth,"

"Yeah, the director of the play said that last part about the princess's angry soul roaming around and all was added a long time ago just to add a bit of flare to the play," Shannon said with a smile

"Oh, well who ever came up with that did a good job then, because that the whole angry soul thing…makes the play sound really creepy," Ash said rubbing the back of his head

"But Ash it's just a story," Cilan said shaking his head

"Yeah I know," Ash said sweatdropping

"Besides only a little kid would believe something like that, right Iris?" Shannon said with a giggle as she turned to her friend, when she got no response she frowned, "Iris?"

The purple haired teen was huddled up on the couch. Her knees close to her chest, with her hands wrapped tightly around them. Iris was gnawing on her lower lip and her brown eyes were fixed on the floor, and uneasy look lingered in them.

"Hey, Iris…you okay?" Ash asked realizing that his dragon loving friend has said nothing throughout the entire time Shannon had been telling her story, "Iris!" Ash said a little louder.

Finally hearing her name being called, Iris's eyes darted up from the floor she jumped slightly as she was startled to see everyone was staring at her, "What?" she asked, clearly she had been unaware of what had been happening for the past few minutes.

"What did you think of the play Shannon's going to be in?" Cilan asked, "Did you like it?"

"No," Iris said quickly, as if she didn't have to think much about her answer

"But Iris," Shannon said giving a confused look, "I thought you said the Midnight Dragon was one of you favorite plays,"

"Huh? Oh! I…uh, um…that's r-right, i-it is," Iris said lowering her knees as her fingers reached up to mess with some of her hair, "it is my fa-favorite it's just that-"

"That story totally spooked you out didn't Iris?" Ash asked, a small smile appearing on his face

"What! No it didn't!" Iris protested

"Yeah it did your totally scared!" Ash said laughing a bit

"What…I-I mean um," the purple haired teen's cheeks glowed a soft pink with embarrassment, "I'm not scared of some silly old story Ash," Iris said crossing her arms over her chest and turning her head away from him, "like Shannon said only a little kid would believe a story like that!"


That's all I got for the first chapter! Hoped you liked it! Now on to the next chapter! But please review on chapter 1 please :3

BYE:Toadettegirl2012 (even though the fanfic isn't over yet, I gotta put my little signature :3)

Chapter edited: 1/20/14