Chapter 2

Bad Moon Rising

Sabrina was at her home in Saffron City, training Liza in various psychic activities. Liza was a very quick learner, as she began to pick up quickly on everything that Sabrina would teach her. Sabrina was currently teaching Liza how to teleport.

You already know how to levitate, Sabrina said to Liza telepathically. Focusing your mind is the key to both levitation and teleportation. It must be focused much more in order to teleport correctly.

You act like it's so easy, Liza complained.

It isn't, Sabrina said. Even I can't teleport everywhere, but only to certain places where I have been before.

Sabrina could hear the phone ringing. She then heard her mother calling for her.

"Sabrina!" Mrs. Saffron called. "It's Will!"

"I'm coming," Sabrina said. Sabrina teleported downstairs to the telephone.

"This is ridiculous," Liza said to herself. "Sabrina knows so much, but she's holding something back, I just know it!"

She felt great anger with Sabrina, ignoring the fact that Sabrina had taught her so much. She wanted to know more, and it was not enough just to have learned so much in such a little amount of time.

I wonder what Sabrina's doing right now, she thought.

Sabrina was downstairs talking on the phone to Will.

"That's great that the Silph Company is back in business," Sabrina said to Will. "It's going to be producing Pokémon-related products, not world-domination plots, right?"

"That's right," Will said. "And I plan on getting a job there."

"Getting a job?" Sabrina said. "But what about helping me run the gym?"

"I can do that too," Will said. "I want to make some extra money. Plus, I'm not going there just to work."

"What are you doing, then?" Sabrina asked, angry that Will was hiding something from her mind.

"I didn't want you to find out, but I'm going there to keep an eye out for suspicious things," Will said. "I want to make sure history doesn't repeat itself and Silph Company doesn't end up taken over by some evil organization again."

"That's nothing to hide from me," Sabrina said. "You stop it with that kind of stuff!"

"You do it all the time," Will said. "I've just learned some things from you, so I can tease you too."

"I should be careful who I teach," Sabrina said playfully.

"So, what do you want to do for dinner tonight?" Will asked.

"I…" Sabrina started to say, before feeling her mind suddenly freeze up on her.

"Well?" Will asked.

"I… can't…" Sabrina said, feeling very weak in her mind, not even able to think correctly.

"There's something wrong," Will said. "I'll be over right away."

Liza sat in her room with her Lunatone, smiling evilly.

That ought to teach Sabrina a lesson about mind control, she thought.

She then turned to her Lunatone.

Good job, Lunatone, she said.

Will came rushing over to the Saffrons' mansion.

"What is it, Will?" Mrs. Saffron asked.

"Your daughter… there's something wrong," Will said.

Mrs. Saffron and Will rushed over to the room where Sabrina had been making the call, finding Sabrina passed out on the floor.

"What happened?" Mrs. Saffron asked.

"Some sort of psychic force attacked her," Will said. "I can tell… it looks like she was trying to hold her head."

"How?" Mrs. Saffron said. "I know Sabrina… she doesn't let other psychics affect her."

"This is the work of a Pokémon," Will said. "Only a Pokémon could attack with this much psychic power."

Will then sensed Liza's presence upstairs.

"Excuse me," Will said, as he rushed up the stairs to Liza's room.

"Who is it?" Liza said in a friendly voice, as she heard knocking on the door.

"You're a psychic, and you know who it is," Will said. "Open this door, Liza!"

Liza opened the door reluctantly.

"What did you do to Sabrina?" Will asked.

"I…" Liza said.

"Go ahead," Will said. "I know you did something, and you're not getting away with it."

"I'm sorry," Liza said. "I was angry at Sabrina for not teaching me how to teleport, so I had my Lunatone attack her with its Psychic attack."

"Sabrina's been nice enough to teach you all you've learned so far, and yet you're so selfish that you want more," Will said. "You owe her an apology, and you don't deserve to learn anything more from her."

"Oh, please, not that," Liza said. "That's all I want."

"You'll be at her mercy," Will said. "Good luck with that."

After giving Sabrina some medicine to heal her, she woke up.

"I'm sorry, Sabrina," Liza said.

"You're a selfish brat," Will said. "How could you do this to Sabrina?"

"Please, Will, let me handle this," Sabrina said. "Liza, I know you want me to teach you more than I have, but you have to understand, becoming a powerful psychic takes a lot of time. Well, unless you're me…"

"You're not mad at me?" Liza said.

"You're like a little sister I never had," Sabrina said. "I'm not going to start hating you over this. Please, just don't do this again."

"I won't, I promise you, I won't," Liza said.

"And I promise that I'll teach you how to teleport," Sabrina said.

Will looked somewhat angry at Sabrina, as he didn't want Liza to get away with what she did. He understood Sabrina's decision, however.

"Now, Liza, Will and I are going to have a meal… alone," Sabrina said.

Sabrina and Will went into a dining room to have a meal that Mrs. Saffron had been preparing. Liza went back upstairs to her room.

"Will's right, I'm selfish," Liza said to her Lunatone, which she let out of its Poké Ball. "Sabrina's got so much to do, too, and she has a boyfriend. I've got to try to train myself… it will take less time for Sabrina that way."

Liza began focusing her mind, trying to teleport. She could not figure out how it could be done, however. As she tried, things around the room started to bend and shake, but she was not teleporting.

"I'm going to learn this or else!" Liza said.

Liza kept trying with all her might to teleport. She ended up lifting up the bed in the room into the air, then dropping it very hard.

"What is Liza doing?" Will said to Sabrina, hearing the loud noise.

"She wants to teleport so badly," Sabrina said. "I feel bad for her… I see a younger version of myself in her."

"Doesn't that worry you?" Will asked, remembering what Sabrina had told him about her childhood.

"I don't think she's going to go overboard like me," Sabrina said.

The two psychics heard a loud crash upstairs.

"Are you sure?" Will said.