(yawn) I'm tired... (falls asleep)

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The Masqurade was only a few hours way. Erik had been getting ready for it. MissingNo., well, it didn't have to find a costume. :) MissingNo. had gotten bored of waiting so it went to the Swan Bed room and fell asleep. Erik was wondering where it was.

"MissingNo., where are you?" Erik asked as he looked around. He heard snoring and looked in the Swan Bed room. Seeing MissingNo. asleep, he wondered how he could snore that loud.

"Wake up!!!!" Erik shouted. Nothing. Erik went to the organ and played a very loud note. Still, MissingNo. was asleep.

"It's time for the Masqurade and that thing is asleep?!" Erik mumbled to himself. MissingNo. Woke up.

"'bout time you were ready to go." MissingNo. said sleepily. Erik just shook his head and got in the boat. MissingNo. said that it'd just swim to the other side and dove in. By the time Erik got to the other side, MIssingNo. was waiting for him. "I am a fast swimmer." MissingNo. said.

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Meg was putting on her butterfly costume. She couldn't help but think about MissingNo. What is it? Why did it put me to sleep? Why, why, why did it look like a skeleton?? Meg thought. Christine came into the room right when Meg finished putting on her costume.

"Did you forget something, Christine?" Meg asked.

"No, I just needed to ask you something."

"Ok..."

"Where you in the main hall when everybody got notes?"

"No, I fell asleep in here..."

"Well, something must've been you, because you were there, but you were acting strangely."

"That thing..."

"You mean MissingNo.?"

"How do know its name?"

"It told me.

"Why?"

Christine and Meg got wrapped up in a conversation till the time the Masqurade started...

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MissingNo. never saw a Masqurade before. It couldn't reconise anybody. Most everyone was wearing masks. This is amazing... I've never seen anything like this before... MissingNo. thought. "When do we come in?" MissingNo. asked.

"When all the attention is at the missing of the Main Hall..." Erik said. MissingNo. tried to see if anyone was dressed up like any pokemon. Nobody was dressed up as any, but a few people looked like pokemon. There was a woman that was dressed up as a blue bird, and that reminded MissingNo. of Acrticuno. MissingNo. was dazed when Erik said

"It's time." MissingNo. went to the staircase opposite of Erik's. Just when everybody was singing, the lights dimmed and Erik made his entrance, along with MissingNo.

Everybody was dead quiet. Most everybody stared at MissingNo. They never saw him, ever. Now they knew what he looked like.

"Why so silent, good messuiers? Did you think that we had left for good? Have you missed us, good messuiers? I have written you an opera. Here I bring the finished score, Don Juan Triumphant!" Erik said and then threw the scoe on the ground and brought out his sword. By this time MissingNo. was standing right next to him.

"Foundest greeting to you all. A few instructions just before rehursal starts..." Erik said looking at MissingNo.

"Carlotta must be tought how to act. Not her normal trick of strutting around the stage." MissingNo. said. Piangi got offended by this and stood in front of Carlotta. MissingNo. pionted a scyth hand at his stomach.

"Our Don Juan must lose some weight. It's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age." MissingNo. took its syth hand away and looked at Andre and Frimin.

"And out managers must learn, that thier place is in an Office! Not the acts." MissingNo, pointed its scyth hands at both of them.

"As for our star, Miss Christine Daae..." MissingNo said looking a bit nicer as it turned to look at her.

"No doubt she'll do her best. It's true, her voice is good, she knows, though should she wish to excel she has much still to learn. If pride will let her return to me, her teacher. Her teacher." Erik said as he looked at Christine. MissingNo. noticed that Raoul was gone. MissingNo. was prepared to fight him, if he had to. Erik and Christine began to walk towards each other. MissingNo. saw Raoul runnning back to the main hall, his sword with him.

"Your chains are still mine!" Erik shouted as he grabbed Christine's necklace. "You belong to me!" Christine was confused as Erik ran up to MissingNo. As Raoul came running up, they disappeared in a puff of smoke. Raoul saw a trap door and jumped into it.

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Raoul looked around for MIssingNo. or Erik. Seeing a reflection of one of them, he swung his sword, but missed because it was just a reflection. "I'm gonna love this..." MissingNo. said as it jumped at Raoul. Raoul blocked MissingNo.'s attack with his sword. MissingNo. laughed. "You... Will... Die..." MissingNo. said followed by some laughter. Raoul felt a had on his shoulder and swung his sword. He just barely missed Mme. Giry. Mme. Giry shook her head and led Raoul out of the chamber.

"Mme. Giry, wait!" Raoul called.

"I know no more than anyone else!" Mme. Giry called.

"That's not true!"

"Please, messuier, there have been enough accidents."

"Accidents? Please! Mme. Giry! For all our sakes!"

Mme. Giry sighed. "Fine.." She led Raoul into her room and locked the door and opened a window, but they were not alone...

Mme. Giry explained to Raoul about the gypsies and how they treated Erik. Raoul didn't change his mind about Erik.

"Mme. Giry, Geniuss, has turned to maddness." Raoul said.

Fool! MissingNo. thought. MissingNo. had an idea. It'd tell them his story, but it'll be disguised as a mysterious person.

MissingNo. turned itself to a hooded man and disguised its voice.

"I can tell you about MissingNo.'s past and why it is so angry." MissingNo. said

"Who are you?" Mme. Giry and Raoul asked.

"Who I am is not important. Do you want to know about its past or not?"

Mme. Giry and Raoul shook their heads.

"Very well,"

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"MissingNo. was created in a lab on an island called Cinnabar Island. A group of scientists were trying to make the most powerful pokemon ever. They tried and tried, but failed. Without Mewtwo's or Mew's DNA, the clones kept dieing. They weren't strong enough. A scientist though if he mixed every single pokemon's DNA together, it would be the same as Mew's or Mewtwo's. They did that, and the clone almost died, but it survived.

"Its skin was gone because of too much acid in the tank. It was just a skeleton. All the scientists thought they had failed. They didn't. Just as one of the scientists was about to pull the plug on the tank, the creature broke free. It sat there, its lifeless eyes staring at the scientists. It asked them why they were going to kill it. They said they thought it was dead, so they were going to restart all over again. This angered the clone, and so thus, it killed all except one scientist. The creature ran away from the lab, and to the east coast of the island. It hated most humans for using pokemon for experiments. It hated and was hated by most everybody...

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MissingNo. finished its story. "I will not explain things to you. They are for you to figure out." MissingNo. walked out of the room and to the rooftop where it sat, staring at the sky, trying to remember its life, if it had one before it was this monster. Little did it know, it was being watched.

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