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Chapter 4: There's Something About Dawn
Ash and his friends were confused by what had just transpired before them, especially Bolt. Bolt had claimed that the night before Dawn had come into his room and essentially rocked his world. Yet when Bolt had made advances on Dawn just moments ago, Dawn had reacted by slapping him storming out of the room. The whole incident was quite perplexing to Bolt, and very unsettling to Misty. It seemed to reinforce that there was something very wrong with Dawn.
"Bolt, are you sure you didn't just dream what happened last night with Dawn?" Ash suggested.
"Hey man, I couldn't get to sleep with all the noise you guys were making last night." Bolt told him. Bolt's response caused the other four to blush.
"Y-you mean you could hear us?" a flustered and slightly enraged sounding Lisa asked as she stood from her chair.
"It's not like I wanted to you know! The walls of this shack are paper thin." Bolt pointed out. "I didn't fall asleep until Dawn rode me into the ground. After that I blacked out for some reason."
"Bolt… what were Dawn's eyes like when she… came to you?" Misty asked.
"…Now that you mention it, they looked kinda… well, crazy I guess." Bolt answered. "I mean looking back, I did notice when Dawn came into my room. But I got, um, distracted."
"By the rest of her you mean?" Marie assumed.
"What is this all about?" Lisa demanded to know.
"Last night, Misty told me that she's seen Dawn acting strange." Ash explained.
"In what way?" Marie asked.
"Well, it's like she's two different people." Misty explained. "One minute she's the kind Dawn we all know, and the next she's this weird and creepy girl."
"So… you're saying that Dawn's insane?" Lisa asked.
"I'm not sure what I'm saying." Misty told her.
"Hey Bolt, you know something about this?" Ash asked after noticing that Bolt seemed deep in thought.
"Huh? Well…" Bolt began. "Nah, it's nothing. Forget it man."
"Alright, well assuming that what Bolt and Misty have said is true, I think we should confront Dawn about this." Marie suggested.
"I agree." Lisa cut in. "If Dawn really is crazy, who knows what she might try next?"
"Then let's go find her." Ash decided. "Lisa, Marie, you two look in the east wing of the house. Misty and I will look for her in the west wing, and Bolt, you try looking for Dawn outside."
"Check." Bolt replied, and with that the group split up to look for Dawn.
A few minutes later, Lisa, Marie, and Zoroark had entered the library of the Old Chateau. It was a large room with many dusty shelves full of moldy books.
"How many rooms have we searched now?" a frustrated Lisa asked.
"I think we've almost covered the whole wing." Marie told her. "Are you doing okay?"
"Yeah, this place isn't quite as scary during the day." Lisa sighed. "Still the sooner we leave this place, the better."
"We should be almost done." Marie assured her. "Why don't you take a break here and rest while Zoroark and I finish searching the library?"
"Okay, but don't take too long." Lisa told her.
Marie gave Lisa a quick kiss before she and Zoroark went down one of the alleys of shelves. Lisa leaned back against one of the shelves and crossed her arms with a sigh. She glanced around and noticed on a far shelf an old book that she had read once before. Lisa went over to that shelf and began to pull out that book. But as soon as she did the floor beneath her started to move and rotate. Suddnely Lisa found herself in another room.
It was a fairly small room lit by the light of a single window. The floor and a few tables against the walls were littered with old Pokemon Dolls that were covered in dust and cobwebs and had stuffing protruding in places. In one corner of the room was a small table and chairs, and atop the table was and old tea set.
"Well hello there, Lisa." A voice said from the darkness. Dawn soon emerged from a dark corner of the room into the light of the window. Lisa noticed the crazed look in Dawn's eyes. "I see you found the secret door in the library. This place is full of all sorts of fun secret passages."
"What is this place?" Lisa asked.
"Oh, well this is the secret play room of the little girl who used to live here." Dawn explained. "She used to come here a lot before she died. In fact… she still does now and then."
"Well I don't know about you, but I'm getting out of here." Lisa told Dawn before turning back to the bookcase.
"But you can't leave yet." Dawn said to her. "The spirits don't want us to go."
"I don't know what kind of game you're playing Dawn, but it's not funny!" Lisa said in an angry and frightened tone.
"How old were you again when that swarm of Duskull attacked you?" Dawn suddenly asked, causing Lisa to freeze.
"H-how do you know about that?" a frightened Lisa asked as she slowly turned around. "I've only ever told one person about that!"
"You must've been a bad little girl." Dawn continued. "Duskull only go after children who're bad you know. They just don't like seeing kids misbehave."
"Just who are you anyway?" Lisa demanded.
"Let's play… Duskull!" Dawn called as she threw out a Pokeball.
From Dawn's thrown ball came a small floating creature shrouded in black cloth. Over its face it had a white mask resembling a skull. Lisa began to tremble upon seeing the Pokemon that had caused her childhood trauma. Suddenly Duskull's body began to glow with a white light. It floated down to the ground and began to change in shape and size. When the cleared Duskull had become a creature that seemed to be wrapped almost completely in grey bandages. It stood on a pair of stump-like legs and had gained hands on the front of its body. Hanging from its back were long grey flaps that resembled the ears of a rabbit, and it had a large eye with a red pupil.
"Oh how wonderful! Duskull just evolved into Dusclops!" Dawn said with a sort of insane glee. Lisa was terrified of the Pokemon before her. Though she feared Duskull, she feared its evolved form even more. "Now, are we going to play?"
"Go… Entei!" Lisa called out after managing to throw out a Pokeball.
Roaring from Lisa's thrown ball was a large brown creature reminiscent of a lion with a cream-colored underside. It had white paws and a pair of spiked grey plates on its back. Between those plates was something like a cape that looked like billowing grey smoke. The creature had an almost mask-like face with a three-pointed yellow plate on its forehead, red plates on the sides, and a white mustache-like plate on the front of its snout.
"How did you get a Pokemon like that?" Dawn said sounding impressed.
"Entei… attack, attack with…" Lisa began to command with fear in her voice.
"Confuse Ray." Dawn commanded, interrupting Lisa.
Dusclops fired a ball of red light from its eye that hit Entei in the face. The beast of fire suddenly began to stagger as if it had trouble standing.
"Oh no, Entei!" Lisa cried.
"Now use Shadow Punch!" Dawn commanded with glee.
From Dusclops's hands extended a pair of grey shadowy fists. The first one hit Entei in the jaw, while second hit it in the cheek. The ghostly fists kept hitting Entei in the face over and over.
"Aren't you going to do something Lisa?" Dawn asked. "As powerful as Entei is, it needs your help."
Lisa wanted to help Entei, but she was too frightened to move or speak. She kept standing there as Dusclops kept launching its shadowy fists at Entei. Dawn suddenly began to laugh as Entei continued to be hit over and over.
"Stop... Stop it!" Lisa cried out. "STOP!"
Suddenly Entei snapped out of its daze and roared as it breathed out a tidal wave of flames at Dusclpos. The ghostly entity fell to its side unconscious.
"Aw, too bad." Dawn said as she called Dusclops back. "And Dusclops almost had Entei there. Oh well, our battle is just getting started. Let's play Helen!"
The Yamask, Helen, emerged from Dawn's thrown ball. Suddenly a spot in the wall behind Lisa exploded, and through the large hole that had formed was a growling Zoroark.
"What the hell is going on here?" Marie said in a low angry tone as she walked in behind Zoroark. "What are you doing to Lisa?"
"Oh, hello Marie." Dawn greeted with a cheerful smile. "Lisa and I were just playing. You're welcome to join us."
"I'm in no mood for games." Marie told Dawn as she stood next to Lisa. "Now just what are you up to?"
"I'm not up to anything." Dawn said innocently.
"Whatever, Lisa and I are leaving." Marie scoffed.
"But you can't leave yet." Dawn told her. "The spirits don't want anyone to go yet. And I'm having way too much fun."
"You think you can scare me you pathetic girl?" Marie said with a dark smile. "I've lived through hell, so I'm not one who's easily frightened. Let's see how you endure hell? Go Darkrai!"
Emerging from Marie's thrown ball was a floating black shadowy creature with an hourglass figure. Atop its head it had white hair that resembled a billowing flame and covered one of its light-blue eyes. Around its neck was a red growth that looked like a necklace of large beads.
"Wow, where did you get that Pokemon?" Dawn asked sounding impressed.
"Darkrai, attack that Yamask with Dark Pulse!" Marie commanded.
Darkrai raised its arms forward and fired off a blast of black energy rings at Helen. Helen was hit by the attack and fell to the ground out cold. Dawn quickly called back Yamask and ducked back into the shadows of the room. Marie and Darkrai quickly went over to the other side of the room to find that Dawn had somehow vanished.
"Where did she go?" Marie asked, but before she could figure out an answer she heard the sound of Lisa falling to her knees. "Lisa!"
A few minutes later, Marie had guided Lisa out of the Old Chateau with Entei, Darkrai, and Zoroark following close behind. The five of them exited through the rusted iron gates of the courtyard and went to a nearby tree to rest.
"Are you okay?" Marie asked Lisa.
"I'm better now that I'm out of that house." Lisa told her on the verge of tears. "I… don't think I can go back in there."
"It's okay, you've done enough." Marie said with a gentle smile.
"You must think I'm pretty weak, huh?" Lisa assumed. "All I did was stand there while Dawn's Dusclops pounded Entei. And in the end you had to come and save me."
"I don't think you're weak at all." Marie assured her. "You're the strongest person I know, and you must've beaten that Dusclops in the end because I didn't see one. I don't think any less of you Lisa."
Lisa then fell to her knees sobbing and Marie pulled her in close. As Marie comforted Lisa, her thoughts momentarily turned back to the house. She knew that Ash and the others were still in there with Dawn. And it seemed all too clear that Dawn was a very dangerous person.
Author's Note: That probably wasn't the best battle I've written, but I wanted something that was kind of quick. You never will believe how this story is going to end, but we've still got a little ways to go. Dawn still hasn't had her fun with Ash, Misty, and Bolt yet.
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