Lover At Full Moon; The Ash Ketchum Anomaly
"Did you hear?"
"About the attack? Yeah it was all over the news!"
Whispers of fear ran down the halls of Pallet Academy, as Ash along with his cousin Cole trudged along.
"Jeez, first a couple of dogs go missing, now this?" A certain teenager grumbled. "What going on here?" Ash remarked as they searched their lockers. Looking around Ash could still hear the gossip floating around the hallway. This troubled Ash.
"Who knows?" A companion of the boy replied. "But I sure hope they catch whatever is doing it. Things are getting out of control." Cole replied as he opened his locker. He removed his dark grey pullover and shoved it into his locker without care. Underneath stood out a white shirt that was similar to Ash's. It was clear to see their clothes were part of the school uniform.
"Ugh, there goes my spikes." Cole murmured as he slid his fingers through his long black hair trying to return it to its former glory, but to no avail. Ash took noticed and wasted no time in poking fun at his cousin. "Haha, with your hair like that you're starting to look like a wolf." He said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, with my hair like this people might confuse me with whatever is doing the killings." Cole replied though with a lack of enthusiasm. Ash immediately took notice of his cousin's tone. "Anything the matter Cole?" Cole turned to his cousin to reply, a very serious look on his face, that suddenly brightened. Ash turned around and noticed why. A pair of young women were making their way over to them, both in their standard Pallet Academy uniforms. One was around the age of nineteen with light brown hair and a pair of sapphire colored eyes. She was wearing a long grey skirt with a short sleeved white dress shirt with a PA logo on the right side of the chest. The other looked around a year younger, with dark blue hair which complimented her eyes of the same color. She too was wearing the standard uniform.
"Hey May. Hey Dawn" Cole said "might I add that you two look fabulous today" he added with a grin. "Fabulous in what way?" Dawn said "this stupid skirt is too long" she said as she tugged at her skirt. "Plus, this shirt isn't at all fashionable" May added. Ash let out a sigh. "Come on you guys, this is a very prestigious academy, and you guys worry about the uniforms?" "Ash's right." Cole added "people would kill to enroll here." Dawn let out a gulp. "You guys don't think someone is dong these killings just to enroll here right?" she said as she looked around with a worried expression on her face.
"That was just a figure of speech Dawn" Ash said "Cole didn't mean that." Dawn let out a sigh of relief with that answer. "Yeah Dawn" May said "It's probably a wild animal or something." "But what's big enough to drag a human being?" Dawn asked. "Wait drag? I thought Billy's body was found next to his dogs." Ash said. "That's what was first reported, but when police got there the body was gone" Dawn said. Ash let out a sigh, "Man, I even saw Billy a few days before. Such a happy soul." "Yeah" everyone agreed.
Ash then turned to his cousin who had been strangely quite during the whole conversation. He noticed that he looked a bit pale and looked like he hadn't had enough sleep. Now that he remembered he had been acting strange the whole morning. "Cole, you OK?" he asked "you don't look so good." Cole didn't seemed to have noticed, as he was looking around the school with a blank look. "Cole. I'm talking to you." Ash said a little louder.
"Huh?" Cole asked. "I was asking you a question" Ash said "you were going to tell me something before the girls showed up. "It's nothing, don't worry." Cole said as he started walking away. Ash knew he was going to try and avoid the question. "Hold on" Ash said. "You've been acting weird this whole morning since we heard of what happened to Billy. So what's up?" Cole looked down before giving a answer. "Last night I didn't get enough sleep. Let's leave at that shall we?" he then began to slowly walk away again.
"Oh no. Every time I try and talk to you about something serious you always come up with some excuse." Ash said. He then grabbed onto Cole's arm, determined to get a answer from him. "Ash." Cole said. "Please let go" "I'll let go once you tell me what's wrong." Ash said. "Ash I'm warning you." "No"
"LET GO!" Cole screamed facing his cousin. It was then that Ash felt something that he had never felt before. Fear. But this fear was different. It was unexplainable. Almost as if something evil was in front of him. He was paralyzed , unable to move. This fear, this strange sensation. All coming from one sole person. His own cousin.
"What the hell?" he said as he slowly backed away from Cole.
"RIIIING!"
The school bell rang out signaling the start of the first day. "I'll see you around" Cole said walking away, leaving a stunned Ash behind. May had begun to walk away but noticed that Ash was just standing there not moving, staring as Cole walked away. "Ash?" she asked "is everything OK?" No response. She decided to move in front of him to see what was wrong. "Ash? Come on we're going to be late" she said waving her hands in front of his face. "Huh?" Ash said finally responding. May let out a sigh of relief as Ash finally had said something. "Are you OK, you really seemed to be out of it" she said. "I'm OK, just a little lost" Ash said with a smile.
May however wasn't entirely convinced. "But-" "Hello we're going to be late!" Dawn yelled from down the hallway, clearly annoyed at the hold up. "We'll be right there Dawn!" she yelled back. She turned her attention once again to Ash who was looking in his locker for a book. "Are you sure you're OK?" she asked again as Ash had grabbed his book. "Yes May, I'm fine. No need to worry" he said "now let's go before Dawn starts yelling again" he added with a smile.
"Yeah let's go" said May with a light smile. She hurried after Dawn who was still waiting at the end of the hallway with a slight annoyed look on her face. She clearly didn't like to be kept waiting as May made her way towards her. "OK Dawn" May said with a nervous smile "let's go" "Finally" Dawn said "I got a perfect no tardy record since middle school that I don't intend to break" she said as she walked away. May let out a sigh as she followed her. Ash looked on with a semi amused face that suddenly went away as he remembered the conversation with his cousin. "What's wrong with him?" he thought "his stare and his anger. It was almost like that of a wild animal."