Pokémon Spirited Away
Alright new chapter! This fanfic is going by so fast…Once it's all done, I'll do some editing and cleanup work on it. So…Take it away, White!
White: Okay! WhiteOwl74 does not own Pokémon or Spirited Away…Why do we keep having to do this, though?
N: It's just so people don't try to sue, I think. Keep reading to find out what is going on, please.
Summary: Yubaba told White to see to the stink spirit and White used the bath tokens she got from the spirit to help clean it up. There, she discovered what was alike a thorn in its body and got the entire staff to help pull it out. It was really a bike and after a while, the stink spirit was revealed to be a Dragonair. It gave White a gift, a medicine ball, before flying off. There was a party that night and White was welcomed into the staff better. She and Lin talked for a bit before they broke into an argument with Snivy. Far away, N was done with his mission, but was making a stop for something that could help White. What was N trying to get? What's going to happen? Read to find out!
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It was in the early dark hours, when something stirred. While the rest of the bathhouse slept, a Pokémon scuttled through the building and tried to stay quiet. Lombre had managed to sneak into the bath tubs and scurry all the way to the back, where the big bath tub laid. It was cleaned up, but still closed off to thoroughly make sure it was safe to use again so all the contamination wasn't harmful to the other guests. But Lombre ignored the warnings to stay out and went in anyways.
"There's got to be some gold in here somewhere…" He mumbled.
Lombre was hoping the other employees and Yubaba missed a speck of gold or two. Couldn't hurt to look. He really wanted that money.
Clink!
"Huh?" Lombre asked as a gold pebble dropped from the top of the bath. Lombre grabbed it right away and inspected it. Sure enough! Real gold!
"Gold! And it's all mine!" Lombre gasped, overjoyed.
He looked up. The strange spirit White had seen before was now inside the bath tub. It sat there, watching the Brass-Water type Pokémon.
"Hey! What're you doing here? Bath's closed." Lombre strictly told it. "Get out you! Shoo!"
The strange spirit held out its palm. From it, two more gold rocks appeared and dropped to the floor, landing at the Water-Grass types feet. Lombre snatched them up.
"More gold! Are…are you giving it to me?" Lombre, asked surprised.
Within its cupped hand, the strange spirit formed a pile of gold. It waved its hand, beckoning Lombre to come to him. The Pokémon clasped the gold pieces tightly, tempted by the wealth. With all that gold, he'd be able to get out of the bathhouse and travel, like he had always wanted. Lombre climbed up the edge of the bath, his eyes focused on the gold.
"Gimme!" Lombre reached for the gold.
But the strange spirit wrapped its hand around the poor Pokémon. It grabbed him and, in a swift movement, ate him. Lombre yelled and kicked from inside for a minute before he became silent. The strange spirit eased back, satisfied from eating him. Since this Pokémon could talk, he could now communicate with Lea and properly thank her with the gold. Then he felt strange as numerous emotions swept over him, he gave a groan at the pain of the horrible feelings as they soared close to the spirit's heart.
"Hey! What's going on!"
The foreman marched in. He heard talking, thinking Lombre was up to no good again. Now he was concerned the Pokémon would be causing trouble for the guests. The foreman went to the big bath tub, not seeing anything.
"Hey boss!"
Gold stones dropped down from above. On top of a wall was the strange spirit. Only now it had a voice as well as frog-like limbs.
"Up here. I'm hungry. Starving! And I want you to serve me!" The spirit said.
"Wait…I know that voice!" The foreman realized.
"Here, I'll pay ya up front." The spirit dropped a massive amount of gold onto the foreman. "And I wanna take a bath too. Why don't ya wake everyone up?"
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White lay curled up into a ball on her blankets, shaking uncontrollably. Tepig and Oshawott were looking nervous while Snivy was gently shaking her shoulders when White woke up with a cry. She lurched upwards, throwing the Grass-type forward. Her blue eyes showed fear and panic before she realized she was awake. She sighed in relief and sunk back down.
"You okay?" Snivy asked as she patted White's hand.
"I…Was having a nightmare…Cheren and Bianca were…I failed," White whispered softly.
"Don't worry, it'll be okay," Snivy soothed.
"We'll save them," Tepig agreed.
"Yup!" Oshawott shouted.
"These spirits are going to have to work harder if they're going to make us fail," Snivy said with a smirk, pointing at herself.
White smiled and sat up to hug them all. "Thank you guys. If there's any better encouragement in the world, I can't imagine it." White glanced around the room, puzzlement sweeping over her face. "Huh? Where is everybody?"
White was right, the room was empty. The blankets lay everywhere, sloppily shoved and wrinkled. Not even Lin was there. White got up and quickly pulled her clothes on. She drew open the door to the balcony. She and the Pokémon looked out onto the water, still a sea stretching out in front of them.
"Oh! There's the stable where Bianca and Cheren are!" Tepig said, pointing it out with his tail.
Indeed, the large stables were off in the distance.
"Can we go visit them again?" Oshawott asked, wagging his tail.
"We can't," White said sadly. "N said we can't go there alone."
"Aw man…" Oshawott said, slapping himself for not remembering.
White looked up at the tall steel chimney that came from the boiler room. To her surprise, a steady stream of black smoke was pouring out.
"Kamaji lit the boiler already? How long was I asleep?"
The Pokémon shrugged. The room had been empty when they had woken up too, but they had been more concerned about White's condition. Together, they headed for the main area of the bath house, which was in full swing. The kitchen was full of noise as Politoed were cooking up a storm, even using leftovers to make new dishes. Pokémon girls raced about with tasks, some carrying food and others carrying empty plates back to the kitchen. Everyone around White was buzzing with excitement as they rushed about, hard at work. White wondered what was going on when she heard a voice.
"Lea!" Lin shouted from the bottom of the stairs. White stared in surprise as the Sneasle-Spirit raced up the steps.
"I was coming to get ya'! Look what I got," Lin said, holding up a small nugget of shiny yellow.
"Gold?" White asked surprised. Had Lin, while cleaning the big tub again, found a remainder from the Dragonair?
"A new guest showed up and he's loaded! He's throwing gold away by the handfuls!" Lin said, her eyes shining. "I'm gonna be able to buy my train tickets sooner than later!"
"Who's the new guest?' White asked, suspicious. Even the most frivolous of the guests that came by didn't simply toss gold about to the workers. A tip now and then, but nothing quite like this. Snivy understood too, a frown forming on her face.
"Who cares?" Lin asked, stowing away her gold pellet. "Come on! Before Yubaba wakes up! We might be able to snatch a few more pieces!"
White thought for a moment. It would be fun to hang out with Lin. But she was more concerned about Bianca and Cheren. She desperately wanted to make sure they were okay. To do so, she'd have to go find N.
"I'm going to find N," White said to Lin.
Lin groaned. "Ugh! Quit worrying about N! He's a grown apprentice; he can take care of himself!" Lin turned back to the stairs. "Let's go! Before he stops handing it out!"
"Come on Lin!" a Vulpix-spirit shouted next to an Audino-spirit.
"Yeah, let's go get some more gold!" Lin cheered as the three girls ran off giggling. White turned away and headed back to the bedrooms, the Pokémon in tow. She quickly scanned the rooms, searching for a sight of the Zoroark-boy, but it didn't seem like he slept in any of the rooms. Where could N be? She hadn't seen hide nor hair of him since yesterday.
"Where is that damn Zoroark?" Snivy hissed.
"If we can't find him, we can't see Bianca or Cheren," Tepig said worriedly.
"I just hope he gets here before I forget what they look like," White said with a sigh.
"You won't," Oshawott said. "'Cause we're here too."
White smiled and patted his little head. He was right, as long as the Pokémon also remembered and they all reminded each other, her friends were safe. White sighed and leaned against the railing, letting her ears reappear and her tail to poke out. Perhaps with the added skills of a Mienshao, she could hear N coming.
Oshawott and Tepig settled down besides her to nap while Snivy climbed her shoulder, in look-out mode. White stroked Snivy gently on the head as they searched the skies for any sign of a green-furred Zoroark.
Whoooooosssh!
A strange wind sounded. White snapped, alert. She gasped as she saw a green and grey shape flashing around on top of the water far beneath her, a cloud of fast moving white things surrounding it.
"There's N!" Snivy shouted, waking up Tepig and Oshawott.
The Zoroark, N, dove beneath the water and swam towards the building.
"He's back!" White said, relieved.
"But what are those things? Swablu?" Snivy asked, straining her eyes to see.
Kate narrowed her eyes. Sure enough, the white things raced after him. They appeared to be some sort of tiny, flat, white Flying-types. N burst out of the water and made a leap up to the building, before beginning a rushed climb.
"WATCH OUT!" Tepig cried as the Pokémon pulled White away from the railing, as Zoroark and the birds flashed by.
Once they were gone, White ran back to the railing, stunned at the sight above her. N was leaping around on the building, in combat against the weird creatures that attacked him.
"Come on N! Fight them!" White shouted out to her friend.
On closer inspection, White could see that the Zoroark was covered in deep scratches and scrapes all over his body and a trickle of blood came from his mouth as well. N would lose this battle if he didn't get help and even then, it looked like his severe injuries would do him in.
"N!" White shouted out, waving her arms furiously. "This way, hurry!"
"You can do it!' Oshawott and Tepig shouted.
Snivy's eye twitched as she shouted, "Idiot! Get your ass down here!"
"Snivy!"
"Shut up, it's working."
Indeed, hearing White's and the Pokémon's' calls, N managed to leap down towards them. But he must have been in too much pain to judge the distance correctly. He crashed through the window, destroying the wooden frame. The birds whizzed after him, but White was read. She and the Pokémon got to the glass screens and closed one before working on the other.
A large mass of birds crashed into the screen, but a few managed to slip through the crack. White screamed and tore at the birds as they attacked her body in a frenzy, the Pokémon fighting as well. It was only when one of them floated to the ground did White realize what they really were.
"They're…Just paper?" she asked in surprise.
More of the flat pieces of paper, cut to look like birds or angles floated to the ground. The ones White hadn't destroyed quickly rose up and flew away, disappearing across the ocean. N had only been attacked by paper? Well, paper with an enchantment on it, no doubt. White froze.
"N!" she shouted as she dashed into the room where N had crash landed.
He was staggering to his feet. The floor was covered in blood, as were the walls, and blankets lay ripped and ruined, as N's wounds leaked fresh blood. His mouth hung open to reveal that blood was also foaming out. His eyes were a fierce white, like those of the black creatures that had taken away Bianca and Cheren.
"N?" White asked as she hurried towards him. "Careful! You're bleeding!"
The Zoroark growled fiercely at her.
"White…I don't think he's listening," Snivy whispered. White ignored her as she came closer to the injured Zoroark, who growled again.
"You don't have to worry! Those paper birds are gone! It's going to be okay," White coaxed. She held out a hand, meaning to give a comforting pet to the poor Pokémon. "Here now, let me look at your wounds…"
HOOOOOWWWLLL!
N suddenly leaped past White, through the window, and began to climb up the side of the building. White ran to the railing. N had smacked his head into a wall, much to Snivy's amusement, but he managed to climb and leap up to the top floor through a window.
"N!" White shouted as he disappeared from view. She looked to her blood covered right hand. "He flew up to Yubaba's floor!" White looked at the Pokémon, fear ad desperation in her eyes. "I've got to go after him before he bleeds to death."
Snivy muttered something while Tepig and Oshawott nodded. Together, the four raced off to the elevator, unaware that something was following them. One of the paper birds, missing its left wing, suddenly floated after White before landing on her back.
White didn't notice it as she shouted, "N! Hang on! I'm coming!" as she ran down the halls.
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"Welcome the rich! He's hard for you to miss! His butt keeps getting bigger so there's more for you to kiss!"
A ceremony of some sorts was being help up at one of the finest floors in the bath house. Both sides of a long hallway were lined up with numerous servants, as many that could fit in the place, plates of food and empty boxes besides them. The foreman led the singing, dancing about in a good mood.
"Beg for tips, now is the time!" he chanted as the spirit, now much bigger after consuming large quantities of food, walked up the stairs and into the hallway.
Everyone there was cheering to him, offering food for more gold, as they had done back in the baths. White didn't know this as she fought through the crowd, Snivy, Oshawott, and Tepig darting beneath feet and tails. Their destination was right in front of them, the elevator that led to the very top. But when White got there, she crashed into one of the Politoeds.
"Hey! Lea, what do you think you're doing?" he snapped angrily at her, mad that she had run into him.
"Sorry! I need to go up!" White shouted to make herself heard. The strange spirit stiffened and turned towards her, recognizing her voice.
"Oh no you're not!" the Politoed said, grabbing her right hand. "Yubaba would have my head if she cau…What the…? BLOOD! ACK!"
He pushed White away in fright. She stumbled backwards before she twirled around, trying to find another way to reach the top, but she almost crashed into the foreman instead.
"Hey! Lea, get out of the way! We have a guest!" the foreman said angrily.
White looked around him and spotted the spirit from before, the one she had let into the bath house. White could have sworn that he was much smaller before, though. He stared at her, knowing who it was.
She quickly bowed to him, her Ponyta tail flying forward. "Thank you for helping me yesterday," she said to him.
"No talking to…Hey!" The foreman shouted as the spirit grabbed him by the throat and tossed him into the crowd.
The strange spirit bent down to White, its painted face staring at hers. His hands came in front of her, a massive pile of gold forming upwards, until it nearly spilt from his hands. The crowd gasped, it was the most gold they had seen the spirit offer. He held his hands out to White, a smile painted on its face.
"Ah. Ah. Ah." He said, offering the gold to her.
White's eyes widened at the large amount, Snivy and the other gaping in shock. It was more money than White had ever seen, but she really had no use for that much gold. She had other things on her mind at the moment anyways. And if she didn't hurry…
White shook her head. The spirit looked confused. Again, he tried to get White to accept his gift.
"Do it Lea!" one girl whispered.
"That's more gold than what Yubaba makes in a month!" another cried out to White.
Again, White shook her head as she looked into the spirit's face. "No thank you, I don't want or need any." She ducked down again, saying, "I'm sorry, but I'm in a really big hurry. Excuse me."
With that, White ducked into the crowd, the spirit shaking and scattering the gold on the ground. The crowd went nuts, scrambling to get some, and a few fighting one another for it. White managed to slip away throughout the madness, Snivy, Oshawott, and Tepig at her heels.
The spirit watched her disappear among the jostling bodies, standing still in shock and disappointment. It sulked silently as the foreman managed to move the other employees out of the way.
"Please excuse Lea, sir. She's only a human," he apologized with a polite smile.
"Hmpth," the spirit said angrily as he lowered himself to stare into the foreman's eyes. Under the negative influences of Lombre, he assumed that the foreman was mocking him. "Wipe that smile off your face."
"Wha?" he asked, confused.
"You're still smiling!" he cried as he grabbed the foreman and a Sunflora woman.
He swallowed them both at the same time, his size increasing and his shape becoming more grotesque. This caused the employees to scream and scatter, leaving behind the food that they had brought in offer for gold. They fled from the hall, away from the strange masked spirit now referred to as a monster.
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So yeah, poor Lombre got greedy and got swallowed. But the spirit is being influenced by negative emotions too, making things even worse. And N's hurt now too! What's White going to do?