Chapter 11:The Ghost of Maiden's Peak

"Hey guys, what's that?" We all looked out to see a cliff with what looked like a statue of a maiden. "That must be Maiden's Peak." We got off the boat. The whole place looked like a festival. No wonder since they were having one that night."Cool. A Festival." "Let's check it out." "I'll ride the Ferris Wheel all by my self." Brock looked over. "Who's that?" We didn't pay attention. "Woah!" "Brock there's no one there!" "What do you mean she's right-huh?" "Come on Brock!"

"Hey where'd Lucario go?" We started looking around. "Why does Lucario hide all the time? He's not a ninja." "I don't know, Ash." Why does he hide all the time? "Hey look! Cotton Candy!" Ash ran over to the cotton candy stand. "One cotton candy please." The girl gave Ash a cotton candy. Ash dug deep into his pockets. "Uh..." "I got it Ash." I reached into my bag and pulled out $1.50. "Here." I gave her the money. "You didn't have to do that." "I know. But now you owe me one bike and $1.50." I smiled and walked to another stand. "WHAT?!" "One Caramel Apple please." I payed the kiosk worker and started chowing down on my Caramel Apple.

"That looked delicious." Espeon tried to snatch a bit but wound up somersaulting onto a bean bag. "Mine. You can have a poffin." I threw a poffin down for her. "YAY!" She ate the poffin happily. When we ran into Misty she had a magicarp cookie. "This festival is amazing. They have the best cookies." "And cotton candies." "And caramel apples!" Brock just sighed. "Aw cheer up. This is a festival." Brock sighed again. "Well I'm all out of ideas." "Hey you there." We turned around to find an old women behind us. "Beware a beautiful young maiden. She'll give you a cruel fate!"

"That girl on the rock!" "I must be the beautiful girl she's talking about." "I was talking about an elegant girl not a scrawny blabbermouth." "SCRAWNY?!" "Very." "ASH!" Misty stomped off.

We kept walking when we saw a group of people in front of what looked to be a shrine. "What's this all about?" "I don't know. Let's check it out." We got to the front of the crowd where there was a painting of a young maiden who just happened to look like the one on the peak. "For 2000 years this painting has hung in this shrine. Once a year we take the painting out to show to the world. 2000 years ago this maiden was in love with a soldier that had to leave to fight in a war. She told him that she'd wait for him. She waited so long that her body eventually turned to stone. To this day she waits for her love to return."

We left to go see the rock that was on that cliff. "So that's her. She's been like this for 2000 years. Wow." Brock kept staring at the rock. It started to get really dark. "No matter how long you wait a rock is a rock. Nothing's gonna happen." "I'm just gonna stay here a little longer. You guys go. I'll be back by curfew." So we left. It was 11 before we knew it.

"I'm going to look for him!" "Hold it right there!" Nurse Joy grabbed Ash. "It's past your bed time. Get to bed young man!" "But..." "No buts." "Please Nurse Joy, our friend is out there. He could be in trouble. Can't I at least go out to look for him?" "Okay but be back at midnight." "Right." I stepped outside. It was a full moon. "I can barely see a thing." "I got an idea." Espeon grabbed a pokeball out of my bag. When it opened, one of the Eevee I caught a while back came out. "Ahh...the moon." She took a deep breath then started to glow. She got bigger, her tail got longer. When the glowing stopped in Eevee's place was a black cat with blue rings around her.

"Cool so you evolved. How does that help?" "Like this. Umbreon could you Flash?" "Sure." The circle on Umbreon's forehead started to glow. A blue light went onto the ground, almost like a flashlight. "Oh...I forgot Umbreon can do that." We ran towards the peak. "It's almost 12. We should get going." We went back to the pokemon center. When I got upstairs Ash and Misty got out of bed and looked directly at me. "Well?" "Nothing. He wasn't there." "Oh..."

That morning we were just about to go searching when Nurse Joy stopped us. "Wait." "Huh?" "Latara there was a call for you from a Professor Juniper." "Really?" I ran over to the phone and dialed. "Hello Latara." "Hello Professor." "Who's that?" "I'm Professor Juniper from Unova." "Unova?" "Yea. She hands out the starters." "Oh cool." "So why'd you call?" "Well there was a little Professors meeting a few days ago and some of the professors from other regions had some pokemon that need 'Special Training' and I thought you'd be perfect for the job." "Me? Really?" Professor Juniper nodded. "Mmhmm. Even I have some pokemon." "Oh wow." "I'll send them to you right now."

She put a pokeball into the machine. "First up is a shy but tough Oshawott." When Oshawott arrived I let him out of his pokeball. "Osha? Um...hi." "Aww! It's so cute!" "It's a water type Misty." "Aww!" Misty went to pick it up but Oshawott used it's scalchop and hit Misty. "OW!" "Self Defence?" "Pretty much. Next up is a feisty purrloin." Purrloin jumped out of it's pokeball the moment it got there. "Purrr. That's better." "Um..." I put Purrloin back. "Next is a starly who's afraid of heights." When it's pokeball came through I just put it in my bag. "We'll work on that." "Um...oh here's Glameow." "What's wrong with her?" "Nothing from what I can see but Professor Rowan still wanted me to give you it." "Um...ok."

"Next?" "A poochyena with a bit of a...biting problem." "It is the biting pokemon." I put the pokeball in my bag. "An over energetic skitty..." "Over energetic?" I let Skitty out. She bounced around the room until I caught her and put her back in her pokeball. "A Marill and a Seal who can't swim. And a Chinchou who can't light. There's also a plusle and a minun who tend to spark." She put the pokeballs in one at a time. I know what you're thinking. How could someone have over 6 pokeballs at one time? Well see the bag I carry around everywhere has pocket dimensions in it. They're big enough to hold stuff but small enough that things can't get lost.

"Okay...So we got a Chikorita that can't exactly...how do I put this? She can't 'harness' the sun's rays." "Oh." "We also got an Onix." "What's wrong with Onix?" The Professor smiled. "He's to big to fit in the lab." She started to laugh. "And we also have a growithe who has trouble keeping scents and a Vulpix with a bad case of the flu." "That...is a lot of fire." "Mmhmm." Vulpix's pokeball came through. "Should I return her when she's healed?" "Nah. You can keep her. Think of her as a gift." "Ok." I let her out. "She's not sneezing." "She's not?" All of a sudden, from the other line there was a huge blast of fire." "Vulpix?! But you're-" There was a little snicker and a flash of purple light. In Vulpix place was a Zorua.

"Huh?" "Oh my. That Zorua is a trickster. She'll play tricks on anyone." "Not everyone...most people. She's different though." Zorua looked up at me. "You mind saying that again?" "Um ok...This girl's different. She's not like any other trainer." "You got that?" "Clear as day." Zorua looked down to see that Espeon's collar was around her neck. "Professor Juniper can I keep her?" "Why not? You're the only trainer she hasn't tricked." She put Vulpix's pokeball into the machine. I put Zorua in her pokeball and put both her's and Vulpix's in my bag. "We gotta go look for a friend now. Bye!" "Bye." I hung up.

"Brock! Brock where are you?" We could over hear someone else talking. We turned around to see Jessie and Meowth. "It's you!" "I finally found you! Oh wait you weren't who I was looking for." "Who are you looking for?" Jessie cleared her throat. "Prepare for trouble! And make it double. Doing this by myself is a real drag. And yet I got this in the...um bag. To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within out nation. To denounce the evils of truth and love." "To extend our reach to the stars above." "Jessie?" "James!" "Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light." "Surrender now or prepare to fight!" After that sentence James fell out of the cabin right beside us. So did Brock.

"Brock! Pull yourself together." "So everything happened just as I predicted." We turned to see the old woman. "Obviously these two have been lured here by the ghost of the maiden." "Ghost of the Maiden?" James and Brock were rambling on about something or other. "They're possessed! Pikachu Thunder-" "Ash let me try something." I got a pokeball out. "Skitty, Double Slap!" And so Skitty slapped Brock and James silly. "Uh...who am I? I am Brock. Mmm." "Brock's back!" "More or Less."

We went inside the cabin. "All men who travel here fall under the spell. Always the same story. And the Ghost of the Maiden is to blame!" "I'm scared! Do something Jessie!" "There is only one thing you can do. Use Anti-Ghost Stickers." She stuck them on Brock and James. I took a good look at them. "You crazy old woman. These would only work on demons." I grabbed one and pulled it off. "That and they're fake!" All of a sudden I felt a little jolt. "OW!" "See? They're not fake."

It was night time in a matter of hours. "This better work." "Let's hope so. Latara you ready?" I was listening from outside that wall. "Yep. I got my sword out and I'm ready to go." I looked at my sword. It was a demon sword and a sword that could absorb demonic energy. It was good for many uses. For example slicing cheese. The wind blew hard. "She's here!" The wind was blowing so hard I couldn't hear anything but I did see Brock floating away so I knew there was trouble. "I got her!" I ran up and swiped my blade. Of course being a ghost she was unharmed but at least she let go. "You don't have a Ghost of a chance against me." "You cannot interfere." There was another gust of wind. Skulls appeared out of no where. "That's it." I slashed the skulls, as many as I could get.

"So that's thing's a Gastly?" "Of course. Gastly can shape shift kinda like Zorua." "You finally figured it out. Sometimes I'm the Ghost of the Maiden. Sometimes I'm the old women. But I'll always be, Gastly." "Well then Gastly let's battle!" "My hypnotic powers can work on any pokemon." Pikachu looked confused. "Stop a rodent, with a mouse trap!" "Mouse traps won't hurt Meowth!" "Here's a toy you'll enjoy." A big ball of yarn appeared. "Go Ekans!" Gastly transformed into a mongoose. "Dinner time." "Um...Uh...Koffing Poison Gas attack." Gastly was then a Mongoose...with a gas mask. Am I the only one who finds that wrong? "My turn now."

I jumped and went right after it. "Catch a Dog with a crate." I broke through it. "You gotta do better than that." "Ok then." There was a white ball around me. "Aw crud!" I was pushing it. Misty tried to grab me. Her hand went right through it. "Um..." She grabbed my leg and tried to pull me out. Her hand got out but I didn't. "Huh?" "It's a Spiritual Barrier. Demonic things can't get out. Example of Demonic thing: A demon!" "Oh...I got it!" Misty rushed inside the cabin.

"Charmander, I choose you!" "Char. Char." "Tonight's forecast cloudy with a 100% chance of RAIN!" A rain cloud chased after Charmander. Misty rushed out with stuff in her hands."How about this!" "What's that?" "It's a cross! I also got Garlic, a stake and a hammer!" "What do I look like a vampire?" "Misty watch where you put those things!" Misty looked over at me. "Oh...right." A bell started ringing. "I may not be a vampire but I do hate the sun!"

Gastly disappeared and the Spiritual Barrier disappeared as well. Along with the mouse trap and yarn. Before long it was sunset. We went over to the water.

"At the end of every summer we light lanterns to help guide any wandering spirits." We lit a lantern then met back up with Brock. A little later there was a 'dance'.

I grabbed Misty and drug her behind a tree. Then I magically changed both of our outfits and hair styles. We were both wearing kimonos. Mine was black and red, hers was pink and yellow. She wore her hair down and mine was in a low bun. "Sorry we're late." "Uh..." "Come on Ash. Let's dance." Misty grabbed Ash's wrist. I walked over to Brock and grabbed his. "Huh?" "Come on it's a festival. Dance." "Ok."

We slept at the Pokemon Center for one more night. "So where are we going?" "Safron-" "Nope. This time of year Butterfree try and find mates." "I wanna see that." "Well...ok." We were off.


Hey Pokefans.

Brock-Hi.

So I'm here with Brock because he's on brake from his Pokemon Doctor training and thought he'd stop by.

Brock-Mmhmm.

I wanted to ask, how is everyone?

Brock-Fine.

Good well do you remember what happened next?

Brock-Of Course. We did our version or Team Rockets moto.

*Giggles* Yea. So next time we have to say Bye, Bye Butterfree.