Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon.

This is a Halloween fanfic about Weavile and Sneasel. Why do they always get such a bad press? This explains why…

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That night was All Hallow's Eve. Bob and Jane ran through the streets of Blackthorn City, laughing and daring each other to go faster. They reached the gym and hurried in.

"Auntie Clair! Please tell us a story! " Jane cried.

Clair smiled and sat down on a chair. The children sat beside her.

"Well, then," Clair began. "Would you two like to hear the story of why you must never go in the Ice Path alone?"

"Yes please!"

"Well, let me think a moment. Ah yes, I remember now. One night, about 5 years ago, a trainer named Krystal went to the Pokémon Centre in Mahogany Town. She had just defeated Pryce and she wanted her Pokémon headed so she could travel through the Ice Path. Everyone warned her not to go in the Ice Path at night, to wait for daylight, but she thought she knew best. So she went in the Ice Path. But she didn't come out again that night, nor the next day, nor the next. Eventually they sent a group of powerful dragon trainers in. The trainers had hardly gone a dozen steps before they found her body. It was barely recognizable. The Weavile and Sneasel had eaten her…alive."

"Ew! Were you alive then, Auntie?"

"I was one of the trainers who went into the Ice Path, Jane!"

"Wow!"

"That is why you must never go in the Ice Path alone. Now, you'd better go, your mother will be wondering where you are. Goodbye!"

"Bye, Auntie Clair!"

The moment they were out of Clair's sight, they looked at each other, and said, at exactly the same time, "Let's go!"

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Shock murder in Ice Path!

Early last night, the nephew and niece of powerful gym leader Clair of Blackthorn were found dead in the Ice Path. Their bodies were severely damaged in the exact same way as the body of Krystal Elm. It is believed that the murders were both caused by Sneasel and Weavile.

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I would just like to say that I have absolutely nothing against Sneasel and Weavile; in fact they are some of my favourite Pokémon. It's just that Dark types are often given a bad press, so I decided to see what would happen if Clair told the kids not to go in the Ice Path because the 'evil' Sneasel and Weavile would get them. And yes, I do know that Weavile don't live in the Ice Path but I changed Johto just a tiny bit.