Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

Author's note: I really haven't described the trainer in this, really. So imagine her any way you like really. I don't call her Crystal because there was a character named something like that in the Crystal game. I call her that because I like the name Crystal.

The sun was setting. Crystal had been walking around for a while in Goldenrod City, taking in the sites and such. She'd been a trainer for a little while now. Her starting Pokemon from New Bark Town was Chikorita. Though, Chikorita had recently evolved into a Bayleef. Her other Pokemon consisted of a Pidgeotto which she had named Furia, (Pronounced Fury-uh.) a Sentret, and two odd Pichu. The odd thing about them was that one of them was a darker color that usual. It was more of a Pikachu color. And the other had three odd spikes on one of it's ears.

These were all the Pokemon her team consisted of thus far. As the sun sank further, Crystal decided to go north, and out of town. She wasn't leaving, yet. She still needed to battle the gym leader the next day. What Crystal wanted to do was walk around in the National Park. The evening was nice, and there was a cool breeze. Plus, she hadn't been to the park yet, and had planned to go before it got dark.

"Well, it's not… exactly dark yet," Crystal said to herself as she entered the park.

Crystal had heard from some of the people in the city that there were usually trainers that liked to hang out in the park, waiting for someone to come by that they could battle. Crystal didn't notice anyone around at all. Pokemon were also said to sleep in areas where the grass taller. Crystal didn't notice any of the Pokemon around either. Not even in the trees.

At first she wondered if that was strange or not. But, she didn't live around Goldenrod, so she couldn't say that for certain. She noted that the sun still had not set, but was on the verge of completely setting.

And then she heard it.

" RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

It sounded like the shriek of some Pokemon, and it was close. Actually, it was in the patches of extremely tall grass that were in front of Crystal. The noise had made her jump back. But when she noticed where it came from, she instantly became curious as to what it was.

Crystal cautiously walked into the grass, looking downward to see if she could find the creature that made the noise. But what she found wasn't just one creature. It was two. The one that she noticed first was yellow, with a lightning bolt shaped tale that had an indent in it. A female Pikachu. The other creature was a purple Pokemon with extremely long teeth.

It was a Rattata. The Pikachu had it on the ground, and was biting into it's neck while it struggled to stay conscious.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!," Crystal yelled at the Pikachu without even thinking.

It instantly let go of the Rattata, and turned it's attention on Crystal. That's when she noticed that it had teeth that were sharper than a normal Pikachu's. Actually, these teeth that she noticed, were fangs. Blood was dripping from them, and running down the Pikachu's face.

"Wh-what are you?," Crystal asked, fear in her voice as she backed slowly away from the thing.

It blinked, and then licked the blood from it's face. Then it walked toward her.

"Stay away from me!" Crystal yelled, still backing away from the thing.

"Why? You didn't stay away from me," It said.

"You can talk?," Crystal asked in surprise. Far as she knew, Pokemon weren't supposed to talk. Well, at least not like humans anyways.

"Of course I can talk," The Pikachu said, looking up at Crystal with it's red eyes. Crystal took another step back when she got a good look at those eyes that it had. "Something wrong, human?"

"Wh…What the heck are you?," Crystal asked, voice trembling.

The Pikachu blinked again. "You can't tell? I'm a Pikachu."

" I..I've never seen a Pikachu that…"

"That has fangs?"

"Um.. Yeah. Or that can talk"

"Well, I bet you've never seen one drink blood before either."

"That's what you were…"

"Yes. I was drinking the Rattata's blood. I'm a vampire."

"But you're a Pikachu!," Crystal said. "Zubat, Golbat, and Crobat are the only…"

"They're vampire bats," Pikachu said. "There is no other vampire Pokemon."

"So…you're a Pikachu. You can talk. And you're a vampire," Crystal said, still trying to take in the whole vampire thing. She wanted to think that it wasn't true. That she was imagining things. But in the amount of light the setting sun was still putting out, Crystal could tell that the Pikachu in front of her was indeed solid. And there was no denying that it had a trail of blood staining it's fur.

"Yes. I'm a Pikachu. I can talk. And I'm a vampire." The Pikachu said, a tone of annoyance in its voice. "So are we going to do this or what?"

"Are we….going to do what?" Crystal asked, unsure of what the Pikachu was talking about.

The Pikachu put a hand to it's head. "Not a very bright one, are you? I meant do you want to battle?"

"Battle?," Crystal asked blankly. With this bizarre scene in front of her, battling was last thing in Crystal's mind.

"Yes, smart one. Battling," The Pikachu said. "Most trainers sneak up on me like that because they want to battle me and try to 'capture' me. But none of them have ever been able to." The Pikachu took on a thoughtful look for a moment. "And….after they were defeated…their blood tasted even sweeter than any Pokemon's could."

Hearing that made Crystal cringe, and wonder if she should run from the thing.

"You humans have very good blood," The Pikachu said, stepping closer to Crystal, as she stepped back. " I don't see why Pokemon are deprived of blood like that. Now. Are we going to battle, or not?"

"Um…," Crystal said, just staring at the Pikachu. It was asking of she wanted to challenge it to a battle, to capture it. But really, Crystal didn't know if she'd want this kind of a Pokemon on her team or not. After seeing what it was doing to that Rattata, she figured that it may try to hurt one of her other Pokemon like that too.

But… when she thought about the Rattata, she also figured that if this Pikachu was left uncaught, it would continue to do that to other Pokemon too. If Crystal were to capture the Pikachu, maybe she could find a way to help it control that need to drink blood.

"Well?," The Pikachu asked. " Are you going to battle me, or not? Because if not, I'm leaving."

I've got a bad feeling about this, Crystal thought to herself as she reached for Bayleef's Pokeball. But I'll do it. "Go, Bayleef!" She yelled as she sent out the Pokemon.

"Ah. A grass type…," The Pikachu said. "This should be fun…"

Crystal wasted no time in calling out her first attack. "Magical Leaf!"

"Bay!," Bayleef yelled as it sent out a storm of multicolored leaves at the Pikachu.

The Pikachu just stood there as the leaves came closer and closer to it. Magical Leave is an attack that doesn't miss. So, I'm just going to have to find a way to deal with it… When the leaves got close enough, the Pikachu jumped off the ground, and aimed a Thunderbolt at the leaves that were now just below it. The lightning hit them, and their colored changed to a charred black.

The attack didn't stop though. The blackened leaves positioned themselves upward, and struck the Pikachu. She was thrown back to the ground.

"Body Slam!," Crystal called.

Bayleef slightly nodded and began to charge at the Pikachu.

"Big mistake…," The Pikachu said, using agility to get behind Bayleef, and then jump on top of him.

"BAY?," Bayleef yelled in confusion, and stopped it's charge. It turned it's head around to see the Pikachu sitting on it.

"You know… you're in a really bad position now," The Pikachu said.

"Throw it off!," Crystal yelled.

"Bay!," Bayleef called as it began to jump around, trying to get the Pikachu off of it. But she was holding on tight. He couldn't shake her off. After a couple of minutes, Bayleef turned to Crystal and shook it's head.

" Ha ha! I guess that means I win." The Pikachu said. She brought her head closer to Bayleef's neck. "I wonder how your blood would taste…"

"Magical Leaf!" Crystal called.

The Pikachu was just about to bite into Bayleef's neck when she heard the attack called. She had no time to react when many razor sharp multicolored leaves suddenly hit her, causing her to fall off Bayleef.

"Again!," Crystal yelled.

Before the Pikachu had even a second to move, she was hit by the leaves again.

"There," Crystal said, quickly grabbing an empty Pokeball. She threw it at the Pikachu. The Pikachu attempted to move, but the ball hit it before it could do anything. In seconds, the red and white ball had opened up, and pulled the Pikachu inside of it.

The Pokeball shook for a few seconds on the ground, and each time the center of it lit up red. And then, the shaking just stopped.

"I did it," Crystal said. She walked over to the Pokeball and picked it up. "I caught it. I caught… the vampire Pikachu…"