Chapter 6
I had to shake my head before it was all cleared up. I looked and saw the Hypno on the ground and a rock nearby. Barney was picking me up off the ground. Dawn had picked up a rail from the small seating area on either side of the pool. Hypno stood up and lifted Dawn off the ground. She screamed in terror as she went higher into the air. The bar was pulled below her and she uncontrollably dropped to the ground.
She propped herself and saved herself from having the rail in her gut. I charged towards the Pokémon, but it simply threw me over the pool of flames. I landed on the other side and scooted to a halt. I proceeded to stand up before he started to attack.
While it was focused on finishing me, Dawn and Barney brought it to the ground. "Go get Amy and Brendan!" Barney screamed.
"Yeah, we got this thing." Dawn said. I started to climb up the high dive. When I got to the top, the board was incredibly weak from years of rotting. I felt it slowly giving way under the weight. I went out to the tip and reached for the ropes around Brendan.
I carefully untied his legs first. He pivoted his legs back towards the board. His feet hit the board and released a mighty crack. I untied his hands and ankles and sent him down the ladder towards safety. I proceeded to kneel down and untie the rope around her hands. The board was rapidly giving out now. I had untied her waist when board snapped and we both plummeted down. I untied her legs and held her tightly against my chest as we neared the flames.
I felt the flames lick at my clothes, begging to be fed my body when everything went white. I opened my eyes and found myself in the woods. Several clones of the Hypno surrounded me. They all laughed at me and were stabbing me. That was when it hit me that I was tied to a wooden stake. I couldn't budge.
I screamed for help, but only was drowned out by the laughter. They cut me down and kicked my battered body. I squirmed around, feeling a pain. It was swallowing me. The never-ending pain of self-pity was killing me.
When my eyes opened, I wasn't engulfed in flames; I was in a pit. A large summoned Dusclops was thundering towards us. I couldn't climb the surface. I whipped out my Pokédex. It said, "The Dusclops is a ghost type Pokémon that has a hollow inside. It is said that its insides are like a black hole that can't be escaped when something is pulled in. It is a bottomless pit. I cringed in fear as a hole opened in its back. I grabbed up Amy, and together we ran for the pool's rim. Instead of suction, I saw it spurting out fire. It was shooting for us.
I grabbed onto the ladder. The rusted metal was too weak and broke away. Barney was offering his hand. I started to reach for him. The Dusclops pulled Barney into the pit. He was pulled straight towards the hole. He was sucked in with a whoosh of air. "Barney!" I yelled. The Dusclops sprayed fire again. I ran at the shallow end and jumped up onto the railing. The fire was catching up rapidly. I saw Amy reaching up for me. Her sweet face was truly swallowed into a blanket of fear.
I grabbed her hand and pulled her up. She leaned on my chest and started to cry. I let her tears soak into my jacket as I stared into the pool of flames. The Dusclops seemed pleased with its catch and disappeared among the flames. Dawn was on the ground with the Hypno starting to control her mind. She stood up and ran at me. I grabbed her arms and shook her up.
While she tripped over herself, I picked up the rail and held it in my hands. The Hypno was still focused on controlling Dawn. I drove the rail into the Pokémon's gut. It retched and fell to the ground. It was coughing up vomit while a loud thundering began to shake through the building, "What's going on?" Dawn said from Amy's arms.
"The only thing holding this building together was these creatures need for revenge and righting the wrong. This building had been marked form destruction, but after 3 hours of hitting the building and not even denting the walls, they gave up. The building was incredibly weak. Only the spirits of the Pokémon was holding it together. With their only source of power gone, they have given in. We're all going to die under the rubble." The Hypno explained all of this in short sentences.
It dropped its pendulum. Brendan grabbed it up and scattered across the room to the door. We all followed in close footsteps. I saw the Hypno struggling to stand up. I sprinted across the pool and picked up the wounded body of Hypno and carried with me. The rubble was falling around me. I entered the hallway to see the walls rapidly caving in. The rooms were covered in rubble from the busting ceiling. I saw the entranceway being crushed under the building's weight.
The only exit was crushed. I was trapped in with the monster that caused this. He wasn't really a monster. He was truly a prophet. He only tried to recover the forgotten ones. His deeds were truly an inspiration. But to humanity, he was nothing but a monster.
The ceiling support was coming down on top of me. The Hypno used the last of his psychic power to lift the support up and lift the door. "All the Pokémon ever wanted was someone who understood their pain and wanted to remember them. You have done this, Ash Ketchum. You are a true Pokémon Master." He said as I fled out the door and up to the entrance to the lost wing. I slammed headlong into it as the hallway came in on me. I fell out the door. The windows were all being pushed out as the walls bulged out.
I could hear the satisfied callings from beyond the grave. I looked at the Hypno, which seemed to be smiling in gratitude. All it could say was "Hypno!" The other Pokémon must have been able to allow it to speak. The gang stared at me. "You really saved that thing after what it did?" Brendan said.
"Maybe he sees something deeper than the surface." Amy said. Brendan seemed to look at her in confusion. I got in the sedan along with everyone else. We drove down the road to the Pokémon Center. I got out and sprinted inside with the Hypno. The nurse Joy looked at me with a face of disgust.
"What did you do?" She said as she looked at the bloody spot on the Hypno.
"I found it in the woods like this." I lied. She took it into the ER. I sat in the room for several hours before she walked out with the Hypno walking too.
"He should be fine now. He kept acting like he wanted to see you." The Hypno walked forward and used his hand to nudge my pockets. He knocked out one of my Poke balls. "I guess he wants to be with you." Nurse Joy said. She walked away and the Hypno kept smiling at me.
"You want to journey with me?" I asked. It smiled and said, 'Hypno'.
I nudged the ball against its head and it was shortly captured afterwards. I walked down the hallway with my first official catch. I opened the door to see the sedan still sitting in the lot. I drove it home and parked in the driveway. It was oddly quiet inside. I opened the door slowly and walked in. Amy, Brendan, and Dawn jumped up in front of me. I nearly passed out. Brendan handed me the pendulum after I showed them the new Poke ball. I called out Hypno and brought Pikachu into the room.
"Hey buddy, look at our new friend." I told Pikachu as Hypno took up his pendulum.
"Make that two friends." Amy whispered in my ear. I turned to her to be greeted with the lips of an angel. Her eyes alone told me it was truth.
After the lip locking session, I looked into her eyes and said, "You always welcome in this heart of mine. We were two lost souls, swimming in a fishbowl, that is, until we finally met."
"By the way, my real name is May." May said lovingly. We talked and hung around for a while, but eventually, everyone went home. I needed sleep for tomorrow's classes.
I walked upstairs and closed my door. All I could think about was my coma dreams. I had to forget those things. I fell asleep fitfully, but experienced no dreams. When I woke up, Hypno was sitting in a chair across the room, feeding on something. I walked over and noticed it was a bubble of some kind.
I flashed the Pokédex over it, and it told me that the bubble was a dream bubble. It was filled with the essence of dreams. Only Hypno and Drowsy could even touch this. They fed on it and sucked the essence from it. That explained why I had no dreams. This Hypno had a bonus. I could finally focus on reality and leave the lies behind. Hypno smiled at me and I smile back.
Epilogue
It was four years later. It was near the end of school for May. I had graduated two years ago myself and had decided to do a real Pokémon journey. I had become the champion of the Kanto region and decided to travel back to Pallet Town for her graduation.
I had become extremely rich. I was riding into town in Porsche 918 Spyder. It was a royal blue similar to the shade of blue of a Heracross. Like Barney's. I had never gotten over his death. The next day after school, I had went over to his house and retrieved his Pokémon. I then traveled out with both Barney's and my Pokémon. It was a terrible tragedy. Anyway, I had to look past the facts of the past and looked into the future. Every night, wherever I slept, I used Hypno to eat my dreams.
He made it so much easier to sleep every night. I then raced down the streets at over 90 mph and swerved around the corner to the school. I pulled up in front of the awaiting May and Brendan. May got in the seat in the middle and Brendan sat in the other seat. Most of the kids stared at the car in mesmerizing astonishment.
I revved the smooth engine a couple of times and peeled out across the hallway. The car shot down the road until we stopped at my house. May and Brendan went in and got their dress clothes for prom. I also went in and came out in the same black tuxedo I graduated in. Brendan walked outside and was in a dark green tuxedo and May wore a red dress that that faded further to black as it went down.
They got into my car and we put the roof up. I drove calmer up the road to the school a few hours later. I drove up to the parking lot to the school and let Brendan and May out at the entrance. "I'll be inside in a moment." I drove the car up into aisles and parked. I walked in and approached the door counter. I was instantly recognized by the other teachers and was let in. I approached May for a slow dance. While I started to dance with her, the floor quickly started to clear up. The whole floor was soon cleared, leaving only the two of us on the floor.
May had already turned 18 and the graduation was less than a month away. While the song was ending, and before people could get back on the floor, I knelt down on the floor in front of her. She looked surprised but also expected it too. "May, would you do me the honor of being my wondrous fiancé?"
"Yes, Ash Ketchum. I would love to become May Ketchum."
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