(A/NSo, I'm back.

So I took a while to upload this, I've decided to just do it every weekend, cause evry day just makes it a pain..

But that's all I really have to say, ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!)

Ash led the group down the hallway, according to Pikachu and Eevee, it was upstairs somewhere, but they couldn't remember exactly where it was.

He sighed, they where running out of time… again.

But there where no clocks down this corridor, so there was no wayof telling, it could be right there, in the shadows, ready to pounce out at him at any second…

"Ash?"

He jumped slightly when May spoke, then laughed shakily and shrugged it off.

"Yea?"

"I think I heard something, like when something hits metal."

Ash frowned, and listened carefully.

Yes! There it was, a sort of clattering sound… and it was getting closer.

He instinctively moved between the group and the sound, always ready to put himself in danger before his friends.

He pointed down the corridor, but there was nothing there, which was strange, because it sounded so close now.

He gulped as the noise grew closer, but still nothing appeared, until it seemed to be right next to him, then it stopped.

Whirling around, he checked to see everyone still there, and now he was confused rather than worried.

"What was that?" he asked them.

No one answered, and Ash thought desperately to himself.

Then, he thought back to when he saw the creature, it had been wet.

Wet.

"It's in the pipes!" he cried.

But, it was too late.

Misty screamed as the ground seemed to tear up beneath her, and she fell through, but not before Ash managed to grab onto her.

"No! Just hang on Misty, I'll get you back up!" he shouted.

May ran to help, then screamed and pointed behind Misty.

There was the monster, slowly tugging Misty downwards.

It looked up at the two of them, and clattered it's mandibles, then it slowly raised it's claw, and scratched a cut on Misty's leg.

Ash frowned, what was that about?

Something strange was happening to Misty though, her eyes grew wide, and she seemed in deep pain.

Ash watched in horror as her skin started to become covered in black cracks, spreading out from the small scratch on her leg.

Desperately, she pulled Ash close.

"T- th- thankyou…" she said, gasping. "For… for everything."

Ash watched in horror as she seemed to just… turn to dust in front of him,and then she was gone, along witth the Kabutops.

He sat back for a while, and didn't say anything, while May, Pikachu and Eevee looked on in anguish.

Eventually, he stood up.

"Come on," he said. "Let's go find this dam library."

(A/N Wow, looking at it from here, that was pretty short, but it's not a very big Fanfic so I guess that makes sense… if you want longer chap's, then review and I'll reply.

Anyway, until next time.)