Forbbiden Fortune

by killalao

now being reworked on an as needed basis, next volume is forbidden fusion

14. The Secret of the old Chateau part1

-chapter 14, The Secret of the Old Chateau, part 1-

The sun came up and shone brightly through the window, waking us up from our sleep.

We looked into eachother's eyes for a minute or so, before Phoebe broke the silence.

-softly- Phoebe: "Goodmorning honey."

-softly- Me: "Good morning baby girl."

I stretched out a little bit, then pulled her close.

-softly- Me: "This is nice."

-softly- Phoebe: "Mhm."

-cutely, lovingly- Phoebe: "You're so warm..."

Me: "Hehe..."

-lovingly- Me: "Happy birthday sweety."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe...thankyou."

We kissed back and forth for a little bit.

Phoebe: "Slow down Cj, save it for tonight."

Me: "Allright..."

-somewhat unsure- Me: " For the old chateau?"

-softly- Phoebe: "Mhm, after we find out what's going on there."

-softly-Phoebe: "And stop it of course."

Me: "Oh...ok..."

Me: "-sighs- You strange...cute girl.."

Phoebe: "I'm not cute..."

Me: "Yes you are..."

Phoebe: "No I'm not..."

Me: "Then what are you?"

-unsure- Phoebe:" Um...um.."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Ok fine I'm cute..."

She finally admitted it.

-mischievously- Phoebe: "And sexy..."

Me: "That's for sure..."

Me: "You haven't changed at all have you? Even after Charley was born."

Phoebe: "Nope..."

Phoebe: "You ok with that?"

Me: "Of course I never want you to change, I like you the way you are."

Phoebe: "Good, because I'm not going to change any time soon."

Me: "But are you sure you don't just want to go dancing tonight or something?"

Phoebe: "I'm sure."

Me: "Ok then."

We quietly snuggled for a little bit.

Me: "I just think it's weird you want to go to an old, abandoned house, kill some evil thing, and then have fun with me, for your birthday."

Phoebe:"Oh come on Cj, it's not that weird."

-jokingly- Me :"Um...actually, it is pretty weird...even for you."

Phoebe: "No it's not..."

Phoebe: "I just want to spend the day alone with you."

Phoebe :"What's so weird about that?"

Me: "Nevermind."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Phoebe :"We should probably go check on Charley, he's probably hungry."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "I don't really want to get up though."

-in disbelief- Phoebe: "Really?"

Me: "I kind of like just holding you here."

Phoebe: "-sighs-...We need to go."

She teleported out of the bed.

-confused- Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "Hehe..."

Me: "I wish I could do that."

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Oh, I bet you do."

She slipped out of her nightgown.

Me: "Honey...what the heck?"

I smiled, like some idiot, wondering why she told me to back off earlier and then just undressed in front of me.

-cutely- Phoebe: "No touch..."

-let down- Me: "Awe..."

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"But you can look all you want."

Me:"-chuckles-"

She changed into one of her dresses, then she brushed her hair out and slipped her shoes on.

Phoebe: "You comming?"

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

I got out of bed, got dressed and headed out the door with her.

Me: "Do you think we need a shower?"

Phoebe: "Nah, we took one yesterday, we'll be fine."

We headed over to her old room, only to find that both Charley and Nina weren't there.

Me: "Where did they go?"

Phoebe: "I think they just went downstairs."

Phoebe: "Come on."

We headed downstairs, Charley was playing on the floor with Nina and Matches.

Phoebe: "Why are you out of your crib little guy?"

She picked him up off the floor.

-kindly- Vivian: "Oh...goodmorning sweety."

Vivian :"Charley woke up a few hours ago and started crying because he was hungry, so I brought him down here and got him something to eat, I hope you don't mind."

Phoebe:"What did you feed him?"

Vivian: "Just some mashed oran berrys, he seemed to like them."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok..."

Me :"Why did you hear him and we didn't?"

Vivian :"I just thought I'd get up early and start making breakfast for everyone, and he started crying right about when I passed by his room."

Me: "Ok."

Vivian: "Also, Rath and Cionna should be here in about an hour or so for breakfast."

Vivian :"I just hope your father is up by then."

Vivian: "It would be a shame if he missed it."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "They're bringing Torch aren't they?"

Vivian :"Of course."

Phoebe: "Good."

Nina:"Can I go play with the other children outside?"

Phoebe :"Maybe after breakfast sweety."

Phoebe: "It's still very early in the morning anyway, there's probably nobody out there for you to play with yet."

Nina: "Ok."

Vivian :"Why don't you come help me with breakfast Nina?"

-happily- Nina: "Sure."

She followed her back into the kitchen, while Phoebe and I sat on the couch with Charley.

-cutely babling- Charley:"Awy...awy...ralts..."

-playfully- Phoebe:"What was that?"

Charley: "Ralts raaalts."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awwwe I love you too, you little cutey."

Phoebe: "So Cj?"

Me :"What?"

Phoebe: "How much do you think I can make him laugh?"

Me: "Uh...I don't really know how to answer that."

Me: "Alot I guess, it's not too hard to make him laugh."

Phoebe: "Yeah...I guess so."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "You're just a silly little guy aren't you?"

She gave him a kiss on the head, making him giggle just a little bit.

-happily- Phoebe: "He seems to be in a good mood today, as usual."

Me: "That's good."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "So if I tickle him, like this..."

She started to tickle him, and before long he began to laugh, quite loudly.

-concerned- Nina: "What's going on?"

Nina came in from the kitchen.

Me: "Nothing, your mother is just tickling him."

-playfully- Phoebe: "You're really ticklish aren't you Charley?"

Vivian :"Nina come here, I need you to help me with the swellow eggs."

Nina: "Oh sorry grandma, I'm comming, don't worry."

She headed back into the kitchen.

-playfully- Phoebe :"Allright Charley that's enough."

-playfully- Phoebe: "You keep laughing like that you'll tire yourself out and then you'll be grumpy for the rest of the day."

-laughing uncontrolably- Charley: "-giggles-...raaaaaaaalts..-giggles-..raaaaaaallllttss..."

Phoebe: "No...no more...you need to settle down."

Me :"What did he say that time?"

Phoebe: "He just wants me to tickle him again."

Me: "Hehe...ok.."

Phoebe: "But he laughs really loud, and I don't want him to wake my dad up."

And then Charley tried to tickle her, albeit unsuccessfully.

Phoebe: "No Charley, you can't tickle me..."

-happily, playfully-Charley: "Ralts...awy...ralts..."

Me: "He calls you awy too?"

Phoebe: "Yeah...seems like it..."

Phoebe: "And he calls you ahwy..."

Me: "Hehe...silly little guy.."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe :"Can you get his toys for him? They should be upstairs in the suitcase."

Me: "Of course."

Phoebe: "Thankyou."

She quickly kissed me on the cheek before I got up to get his toys.

When I brought them back down, she set Charley on the floor so he could play with them.

We played with him for a little bit until William came down the stairs...

Phoebe: "Goodmorning dad."

-tiredly- William: "Goodmorning.."

Phoebe: "Are you going to stay for breakfast?'

William: "Of course, if the whole family's going to be here."

William: "Where'd you get all these toys for him?"

Phoebe :"Um...some are from the Goldenrod Department store, others are from this other store we own that we work in sometimes."

William: "Oh...ok."

-playfully- William :"You having fun little guy?"

-cutely- Charley: "Ralts..."

William: "Hehe...it looks like you are."

Phoebe: "Say goodmorning Charley."

-confused- Charley: "Ralts?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Say goodmorning."

-awkwardly- Charley: " ay...gawy..."

Phoebe: "Hehe...that's good enough for now.."

Phoebe: "You'll learn one day."

William: "Goodmorning..."

-unsure- Charley: "G...gamawey.."

William: "Well, I have to go talk to your mother, the city doesn't run itself you know?"

Phoebe: "I know..."

He headed into the kitchen.

Phoebe: "He'll probably just stay for breakfast and then leave for the city."

Me: "What's he do in the city?"

Phoebe: "Business things."

Me: "Hehe...ok.."

-cutely- Phoebe: "He has to organize the furniture shipments and what not...you know..just business things..."

Me: "Ok."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Charley come here, get away from the door."

-confused- Charley: "Ralts?"

He crawled over to her.

Phoebe: "Hello cutey."

Phoebe :"What were you doing over there?"

-confused- Charley: "Ralts?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Are you playing with your blocks?"

-happily babling- Charley: "Ralts..wavbwa."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Wavbwa?"

-cutely babling- Charley: "ababwabe..."

-unsure- Phoebe: "What?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Can you say mommy?"

-cutely babling- Charley: "ay awy..."

Phoebe: "Not..yet.."

-cutely babling- Charley: "o Eee."

Phoebe: " Ok...here, let's play with your blocks."

She helped him build a tower, and then he knocked it down like he always did.

-happilly,cutely- Charley: "-giggles-...raaallllllllts"

Phoebe: "Ok we'll build another one."

Phoebe: "Here let's gather up all the blocks again."

We continued to play with him for a few minutes until Rath and Cionna arrived.

Phoebe: "Rath?"

Cionna :"Hi Phoebe..."

Phoebe: "Hi."

Rath :"Oh hi Phoebe."

Rath: "Who's this little guy?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "He's your nephew.."

Phoebe: "We named him Charley.."

Rath: "After our grandfather?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Rath: "Ok..."

-cutely, like a toddler-Torch: "Daddy? Can I pway with him?

Torch seemed to be a little taller since we last saw him. He was about three years old now, while Charley was just a few months old.

Rath: "Is that ok with you sis?"

-happily- Phoebe: "Of course he can, I was hoping they would get along well."

-lovingly- Cionna:" Go on sweety."

Rath :"So where's mom and dad?"

Phoebe: "They're in the kitchen, along with Nina."

Rath: "Ok."

Torch slowly walked over to Charley, while Rath headed into the kitchen. Cionna just stood by the doorway, which led to the stairs down to the ground.

-cutely, playfully- Torch: "Halwo...wha are you doing?"

Charley looked at him for a moment...seemingly not sure what to think of him.

He crawled over to me and climbed up onto my lap, apparently shy.

Me: "What's wrong little guy?"

-cutely, playfully- Torch: "Where you going?"

Phoebe:" Charley, don't be shy."

-somewhat scaired- Charley:" Ralts...raaalllts...ralts rallts.."

Phoebe: " It's allright Torch, he's just a little shy."

Phoebe: "Charley, sweety, it's ok.."

Torch picked up one of Charley's blocks.

-cutely, like a toddler-Torch: "bwocks...?"

-cutely, like a toddler-Torch: "Where you gotted them?"

Phoebe: "The Goldenrod Department store.."

Torch: "The stowore?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

-upset screaming- Charley: "RALLLLTS!"

Charley saw that Torch was holding one of his toys...and simply did not like that, so he started to cry and scream in distress..

-worried- Me: "Charley...stop..."

-nervous- Torch :"Wha I do?...Wha I do?"

-calmly- Phoebe: "Nothing sweety, it's ok."

Phoebe: "Cj hand him to me."

Me: "Ok."

I handed him over to her.

Phoebe: "Charley calm down..."

Phoebe: "Why don't you bring that block over to him?"

-cutely,like a toddler- Torch :"Allwight."

He brought the block over and Charley, took it from him.

-like a toddler- Torch: "That wasn't very nice..."

Phoebe: "Charley...you need to learn to share..."

Phoebe: "Sorry Torch..."

-cutely, like a toddler- Torch :"I unerstan...he jus a baby..."

-impressed- Phoebe: "That's right.."

Phoebe: "Charley, stop crying, that's enough..."

She finally got him to calm down about a minute later.

Cionna:"Does he cry like that all the time?"

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Well he is half human."

Me: "What's that supposed to mean?"

Phoebe: "Nothing, it's just human babies cry alot..."

Me: "Yeah, I guess that's true."

Cionna: "Torch never cried that loud before."

Phoebe: "Charley usually doesn't either, he just has his moments."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Don't you little guy?"

-solemnly babling- Charley: "Ralllllts..."

Phoebe: "Shhh..."

She carefully wiped the tears from his eyes with her dress.

Phoebe: "It's ok Charley..."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, Come on Torch I'll show you how to play with him."

-cutely- Torch: "Ok."

Cionna came over and sat on the couch behind us, while Phoebe showed Torch how to build towers with Charley. It wasn't long before Charley got used to him, and soon they were playing very nicely together. Which allowed Phoebe to speak to Cionna without worrying about him getting upset.

Phoebe: "So Cionna, what have you and Rath been up too?"

Phoebe: "It's been more more than a year since we last visited."

Cionna:"Not much, Torch has grown up a bit, and we're starting to get familiar with our new house, everything is comming together very nicely."

Phoebe: "That's good."

-nervously- Cionna: "And...um..."

Phoebe: "Yes?"

Cionna :"Can we talk upstairs?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-...allright."

Phoebe: "Come on."

Cionna: "Ok.."

They got up.

-concerned- Me: "Where are you going sweety?"

Phoebe: "Just upstairs, keep an eye on Charley, Cj..."

-kindly- Cionna: "And Torch too if you can."

Me: "Ok, fine."

-cutely- Phoebe:"We need to have some girl talk..."

Me: "-sighs-...allright."

I didn't think it would be that hard to babysit them. Charley's blocks were keeping them occupied at the moment.

Nina came in from the kitchen a few minutes later.

-cutely- Nina :"Grandma says breakfast is almost ready."

Me: "Allright..."

Nina: "Where'd mommy go?"

Me: "She just went upstairs to talk to Cionna."

Nina: "Oh ok.."

-cutely- Nina: "Hi Torch..."

-cutely-Torch: "Ninna.."

Nina:" It's Nina.."

Torch: "Sorwy..."

Nina: "It's ok."

Nina: "You trying to build towers with Charley?"

-cutely, like a toddler- Torch: "He likes to knock them down."

Nina: "Yeah..."

-happily babling- Charley: "Ralts..."

-cutely- Nina: "Hi baby brother."

-from the kitchen- Vivian :"Nina sweety can you set the table for me?"

Nina: "Ok grandma."

Nina: "Daddy are you comming to breakfast?"

Nina: "Uncle Rath and Grandpa are at the table.."

Me: "Sweety I can't right now I have to watch Charley."

Nina: "Oh...ok.."

Me: "Why don't you go upstairs and tell your mother breakfast is almost ready?"

Nina: "But what about grandma?"

Me: "You can set the plates when you come back, she'll understand."

Nina: "Ok."

She headed upstairs, and came back down with Cionna and Phoebe a few seconds later.

Cionna: "Come on Torch, it's time to eat."

-cutely- Torch :"Ok."

She led him into the dining room while Phoebe picked Charley up.

Me: "So what did you talk about?"

Phoebe: "I'll tell you later."

Me: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "Come on, let's go."

Me: "Is there a high chair for Charley?"

Phoebe:" Um...I don't know."

-cutely- Charley : "Awy."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Yes, that's your name isn't it?"

-cutely- Charley : "Aweeee."

He hugged her, as tight as he could with his tiny little arms.

-enamored-Phoebe: "-giggles-"

We slowly made our way into the dining room, and took our seats. Nina was still setting the table.

After a nice breakfast with the family, we talked for a little bit, then Rath had to go back to guarding the city, while Torch and Cionna stayed so Torch could play with Charley. Then Nina headed outside to play with the other children, while Phoebe and I packed up our things. Before long, we were ready to leave.

-a bit too worried- Phoebe: "Now mom, remember, no scary movies, he likes his milk to be at room temperature, he doesn't like loud noises, he's terrified of large pokemon, and don't feed him too much at a time, because he could throw up."

Phoebe: "And Nina doesn't like kisses, but hugs are ok."

Vivian: "I know dear..."

Vivian :"Don't worry, they'll be fine."

-lovingly- Phoebe :"Charley, you be a good boy for grandma ok?"

She kissed him on the head before handing him to Vivian.

-lovingly- Phoebe: "We love you, and we'll be back tomorrow, I promise."

-cutely- Charley: "Awy..."

Vivian: "Anything else sweety?"

Phoebe: "Well mother, if you could tell Nina we love her too, when she comes back in."

Vivian: "Of course."

Phoebe: "Thankyou."

She gave her a hug.

Phoebe: "Come on Cj."

Me: "Right."

-lovingly- Me: "Goodbye little guy...we'll see you again tomorrow."

Cionna:"Be careful, ok?"

Phoebe: "We will Cionna."

We headed down the stairs, to the ground level, and eventually we got back to the road and in the car.

-once on the road-

Phoebe: "-sighs-, I hope Charley will be ok."

Me: "Yeah, me too."

Phoebe: "My mom will take good care of him though."

Phoebe: "Although I know he'll miss me."

Me: "I think he'll be fine, he seemed to enjoy playing with Torch."

Phoebe: "As long as Torch doesn't accidently scare him."

Phoebe: "You saw how he freaked out when Torch picked up one of his blocks?"

-jokingly- Me: "Yeah, I think I heard him better though."

Phoebe: "Oh, hehe...sorry.."

Phoebe: "He came to you though when he was scaired."

Phoebe: "That means he trusts you."

Me: "I know."

Me: "That's not the first time he's done it either."

Phoebe: "Oh?"

Me: "Yeah, he usually comes to me when he gets upset and you're not around."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hehe..."

Phoebe:"That's good."

-a few minutes of silence later-

Me: "-sighs-, We have a long drive ahead of us."

Phoebe: "Mhm, about four hours."

-jokingly- Me: "Our rental bill is going to be ridiculous."

Phoebe: "Awe well, we have plenty of money."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Phoebe: "It's just you and me, like old times."

Me: "Hehe...yeah."

-softly- Me: "Like old times..."

Me: "Hey, um, I just thought about something..."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "If that place has been abandoned for awhile, and we're going to spend the night there."

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Me: "Shouldn't we get some sleeping bags or something?"

Me: "Because even if that place still has a bed, I doubt we should sleep in it."

Me: "It will probably be all damp and moldy...and...well..."

Phoebe :"Gross?"

Me: "Exactly."

Phoebe: "You have a point."

Phoebe: "Where are we supposed to get sleeping bags though?"

Me: "I'm guessing there's a store in Hearthome that sells them, if not, we're going to pass through several other towns on the way as well."

Phoebe: "Eterna City will probably have one, if nothing else."

Phoebe: "We'll probably end up stopping there for lunch anyway."

Me: "Yeah."

We made a brief stop at a store in Hearthome, we purchased some drinks, snacks, and other supplies, but we couldn't find any sleeping bags. Once we left the store, Phoebe took over the navigating, using her phone, while I continued to drive. Before long we were out of the city and on the open highway.

Me: "So um how long should we stay on this highway?"

Phoebe: "Um..."

She picked up her phone.

Phoebe: "According to this map, you need to keep going until just before Oreburgh City."

Phoebe: "It's about 60 miles away, so we're going to be on here for awhile."

Me: "Ok."

After driving for a few more hours, we made it to Eterna City. Eterna city was a fairly small town, with a population of just over 2000, but it was a very beautiful place, with many elegant, victorian-like buildings, houses, and even a few mansions in like-new condition despite being nearly 100 years old. The entire town had a somewhat surreal feeling, like it had been locked in time for the past century. There was even a small train station with a working steam train idling by, waiting for tourists. The train itself looked to be european in design, which was normal for Sinnoh's railways.

Anyway, we stopped for lunch at a small restaurant across from the train station, just so I could look at the train some more.

-in the restaurant, after ordering our food-

Me: "How much do you think it would cost to get tickets?"

-looking at the train- Phoebe: "I don't know Cj, we don't really have time to ride on it right now anyway."

Me :"Yeah I guess so."

Phoebe: "It's supposed to leave in just a few minutes."

Phoebe :"Maybe we'll come back some other time, with the kids."

Phoebe: "Charley would probably enjoy it."

Me: "Yeah."

We heard a high pitched whistle, and then the train started to pull away from the station.

Me: "Well there it goes."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Maybe we'll come back on your next birthday."

Phoebe: "We need to do something for you, afterall, you do so much for me."

Me: "Oh it's allright honey."

Phoebe: "No it's not."

Me:"Ok, fine, we'll come back on my next birthday and ride the train."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me :"Even though it's several months away."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hehe..."

We talked for awhile until our food came.

After we finished our lunch and left the restaurant, we went to another store to get some sleeping bags, or bag...we ended up getting one really large bag so Phoebe could snuggle with me, it was her idea. Anyway, after that we headed south, onto a dirt road, into the forrest. This road seemed to go on for awhile, and it reminded me of the road into the gardevoir city, except this road was flatter, and there was no river. We saw a few starlys in the trees above, as well as a handful of biddoofs, and a single kricketot, the trees started to thin out until we finally reached a large clearing at the end of the road, which is where the old chateau was.

The old chateau pretty much fit the description of a haunted house perfectly, it was a large, 3 story mansion, likely built around the same time most the buildings in Eterna City were constructed, but not in near as good condition. What was left of the paint was withered and cracked, the roof was falling apart in places, and several windows were broken. Surrounding the once oppulent mansion was a rusted iron fence, topped with particularly nasty looking spikes. Inside the fence, I could see what were the ruins of a once elegant fountain up front, full of stagnant rainwater.

Me: "You sure you want to go in this place? It doesn't look safe, I mean, what if it falls down on top of us?"

Phoebe: "Oh, it won't do that, come on."

We got out of the car, got our brand new sleeping bag and other supplies out of the back and went up to the gate. The gate had a chain wrapped around it and a large sign posted warning people that the building was condemned, and tresspassers would be arrested and prosecuted if caught.

Me: "See, not even the police think we should go in."

Phoebe: "But Cj...we're Devon agents, we are the police..."

-unsure- Me: "-sighs-."

Phoebe: "Come on, take my hand."

I took her hand, and she quickly teleported us to the other side of the fence.

Me:"I still think this is a bad idea."

We went up to the fountain, which had a statue of a lumineon on it.

The fountain itself wasn't in bad shape really, it just needed cleaned from years of neglect.

The house was a different story.

Me: "Ok Pheebles, you got be careful where you step here, I don't think all these boards are solid."

Phoebe: "I know."

We carefully made our way up to the front door. Like the gate, it was locked, but the frame around it was so weak we were able to push the door in without Phoebe needing to bypass it with her powers.

When we walked in, we came into a large, open room, with two very large, heavy marble statues of a staraptor on either side of the door, and two very elegant staircases that led up to a walkway on the second floor. There were three doors, one on the left and right side, and one on the back, below a balcony that the staircases connected to. Next to the back door was an empty, smashed display case, that made us wonder what was inside.

None of the lights worked, obviously, as the place was no longer connected to the grid, and had not been for sometime. We could still see pretty well through the light the shined through the windows.

Phoebe: "You think we can get up these stairs?"

Me: "I doubt it."

Phoebe: "Oh come on, where's that sense of adventure you used to have?"

Me: "I still have it, I just don't think that it's safe to go up there."

Me: "Besides, we're not done checking out the ground floor."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess so."

Phoebe: "It looks like the dining room is over to the left."

Me: "Mhm."

The door on the left was partially open, and we could clearly see a large table and a few chairs inside.

Phoebe: "But let's see what this room is first."

Me: "Ok."

We headed into the room on the right.

It seemed to be some kind of study, which was basically a small private library.

There were chairs, a desk and some bookshelves, with a few old books scattered around, both on the shelves and the floor. There wasn't near enough to fill the shelves though, indicating that some may have been stolen over time. Some of the books were just a bit dusty, while others were pretty much destroyed.

The room itself seemed pretty solid. There was a few small holes in the wall around the window frame, indicating it had been boarded up at some point.

Phoebe picked up one of the books.

Phoebe: "Hmm...a study on the habits of the magical creatures...first edition..."

Phoebe: "Copywrite 1886."

Me: "What's that?"

Phoebe: "It's one of the first books about pokemon ever printed."

Phoebe: "Back before pokeballs even existed."

Phoebe: "Actually this book was written a few years before Eterna City was founded."

Me: "Maybe the previous owner was a collector?"

Phoebe: "Maybe."

Phoebe: "But this house was abandoned just 90 years ago."

Me: "What is that book worth?"

Phoebe: "Alot, maybe if it wasn't so damaged, it looks like some water spilled on it."

Phoebe: "I think everything of value has probably been removed from this place, see? Most of the books are missing, and there's no paintings on the wall or anything."

Me: "Yeah I guess so."

Me: "What about those statues in the foyer?"

Phoebe:"They're too heavy to move silly."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Me: "Well come on then."

We headed over to the other side of the house.

The first room on the left was a very large dining room, which at some point in the past, was probably a very grande and elegant thing, but now, it was a wreck, both windows were broken, with evidence of them being completely boarded up at some point, with said boards being pryed out some time later. There were only a few chairs, some were broken, and there didn't seem to be near enough of them to fit the table, indicating some were missing entirely. Nothing was on the table, except for what seemed to be about an inch thick coating of dust.

Phoebe: "They stole some chairs too."

Me: "But they couldn't take the table?"

Phoebe: "They probably couldn't fit it through the door, look at this table, it's huge."

Me: "Yeah I guess so."

Phoebe :"Wait...let me look at this for a little bit."

Me: "Ok."

She got down on knees, and brushed some of the dust off the legs.

Phoebe: "Hmm..."

Phoebe: "The entire leg assemblies are made from just one, solid piece of wood."

Me: "Like gardevoirian furniture."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "But this place was abandoned long before the gardevoir city was founded."

Me: "Yeah, but that doesn't mean a lone gardevoir couldn't have made it."

Phoebe: "That's true, but this table is very well made."

Phoebe: "It would have taken months for a gardevoir to carve it all out by hand on their own."

Phoebe: "It looks like the top is split into three sections though. "

Phoebe: "Which is strange.."

Phoebe: "But given the size of the table, I don't think they could have gotten it in the house otherwise."

Me:"Yeah."

Phoebe: "The chairs are gardevoirian too."

Phoebe: "This had to be custom made."

Me: "Well it is a mansion sweety."

Me: "The people that lived here weren't exactly poor."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "But getting gardevoirian furniture in that time would be extremely difficult."

Phoebe: "Because first you'd have to find the gardevoirs to make it for you."

Me: "I guess so."

Phoebe: "Especially something like this."

Phoebe: "Could you imagine what they payed?"

Me: "What if they didn't?"

Phoebe: "Well they couldn't force them too Cj."

Phoebe: "No pokeballs, no power bracelets. Gardevoirs, and even ralts for that matter were nearly impossible to capture in that time."

Me: "Hmm."

Me: "What if the original owners of this place were gardevoirs?"

Phoebe: "That's not possible, nobody in that time would build this place for them."

Phoebe: "That also wouldn't explain how they aquired so much money."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Phoebe: "Let's see what's in the kitchen."

Me: "Ok."

The kitchen looked just as impressive as the dining room, resembling a 50's style diner, it had two refridgerators, four gas ovens, a very large sink, and a black and white tiled floor. The windows were intact, and the only ones we have seen so far that still had their boards in place, but there were lots of broken plates and glasses on the floor, and a few of the floor tyles were cracked and yellowed.

-impressed- Phoebe: "Cool."

Me: "Hehe."

Phoebe :"Why is there so many ovens?"

Me: "I have no idea."

Me: "There's no microwaves though."

There were, however, two spaces where a pair of microwaves would be, and a few wires sticking out of the walls.

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Why would they steal an old microwave anyway?"

Phoebe: "That can't be worth too much."

Me: "They'll just take anything they can fit through the door."

Phoebe: "Unless a rotom took it."

Me: "A rotom?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "You know the electric ghost pokemon?"

Me: "Yeah I know."

Phoebe: "They might be wandering around here somewhere."

Me: "I don't know."

Just then the door on one of the the fridges slowly swung open, there were just a few bottles of wine, and some really old soda in glass bottles, all of which was room temperature, as the fridge hadn't operated for decades.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "Eh, it probably just wore out and our vibrations made it open."

-confused- Me: "Huh?"

Phoebe: "The vibrations we make, you know because we're walking on the floor."

She shut the door, only to have it open again.

Phoebe: "See? No rotom, the seal just wore out."

Me: "Yeah I see."

Phoebe: "Also this place doesn't fit the rest of the house."

Me: "What do you mean?"

Phoebe: "The appliances are too new, the house was built in the 1900s, but these style appliances wouldn't exist until the 1920s, as well as the general style of the room, meaning this kitchen was remodeled at some point, possibly by the previous owner."

Phoebe: "Come on, I want to see what's behind the back door now."

Me: "Ok."

The back door led to a hallway, with about half a dozen bedrooms on each side, not one of them looked to be in very good condition, the wall paper always had a few tears in it, and in a few places there were just large, gaping holes in the wall. The beds looked okay, surprisingly, but they were very old, and weren't very comfortable either as the matresses were worn out. All these rooms were fairly plain, with 4 of them having just a bed and 2 of them having a fairly large dresser as well, one of them was empty, and another had some clothes in it, a really old, dead watch, and a few other personal effects.

Phoebe: "This must be the butler's room."

Me: "I guess."

All of the windows in these rooms were boarded up, so there wasn't much light back here. So Phoebe resorted to using her powers to light the way.

Phoebe: "I guess these would be the guest rooms, for when people came to visit."

Phoebe: "I've heard stories that the previous owner was a very wealthy man, who liked to have guests and partys and what not."

Me: "No tvs?"

Phoebe: "Tvs were very expensive in that time, they were a new technology, and nobody had more than one of them, there might be one in the master bedroom, but I doubt any of the guest rooms will have them."

Phoebe: "Come on, there's another room at the end of the hall."

Me: "Ok."

The hallway ended in a fairly large and open ballroom, containing a small bar, with more bottles of wine and other drinks, even older and more valuable than the ones in the kitchen. The floor was made of very smooth, laminated wood, but time had taken its toll, and the floor was warped and disfigured in several places. Over by the bar, there was also a large and elegant piano. Through a small, open window at the back of the room, we could see a large, empty, and disused swimming pool outside. There was a back door, heading out to the pool, but unlike the window, it was still boarded up and unusable.

-impressed- Phoebe: "Wow..a ball room."

I snuck away from her and went to check out the piano. I couldn't help but press the keys, surprisingly, even after sitting for nearly 60 years it still worked.

Phoebe noticed me right away, and came over to see what I was doing.

-curious- Phoebe: "What are you doing?"

Me: "I couldn't help it."

-curious- Phoebe: "Can you play?"

Me: "Not very well. Can you?"

Phoebe: "Um...maybe a little bit."

She sat by me, and used her powers to blow some of the dust off of the keys before playing a nice but simple song I couldn't recognize.

Me: "Not bad."

-concerned- Phoebe: "It's a little out of tune."

Me: "That's still better than what I could do."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Phoebe: "Well come on."

-excited- Phoebe: "Let's see what's upstairs."

I followed her back through the hallway and into the foyer.

Me: "Wait."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "You can't be too careful allright?"

-realizing something- Phoebe: "Wait a minute."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "These stairs...they are gardevoirian too."

Me: "They are?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "So we know they're solid, come on."

Me: "-sighs-."

We headed up the stairs, actually she pretty much dragged me up.

Phoebe: "Um I'm just going to tell you now, they weren't actually gardevoirian, I only said that to get you to come up with me."

Me: "And you say that when we're just halfway up?"

Phoebe: "Well, I just wanted to be honest."

Me: "That's allright."

Me: "Let's just keep going."

-shocked- Phoebe: "Woah..."

One of the boards gave way, I quickly grabbed her hand and kept her from falling.

-breathing heavily- Phoebe: "What the heck?"

Me: "I told you to be careful."

She closed her eyes for a second and then teleported us up the stairs.

Phoebe: "Come on, let's just do this the easy way."

-unsure- Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "Ok, maybe this place is a little more dangerous than I thought it was."

Me: "Now you see."

Phoebe: "I don't want to leave though."

Phoebe: "I still want to spend the night."

Me: "Why?"

Me: "There's nothing here sweety, this place was ransacked a long time ago."

Phoebe: "Because I just want to explore it ok?"

-starstruck- Phoebe: "I've heard so many stories about this place, ever since I was a little ralts."

Phoebe: "But I never had the chance to see it for myself until now."

Me: "So the gardevoir city knows about this place?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Everybody does, it's world famous."

She held my hands and looked into my eyes.

-lovingly- Phoebe: "And I think, if there's anyone that can figure out what's going, or what has happened here."

Phoebe: "It's us."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Now come on, I want to see the whole place before it gets dark, so I can get my bearings."

Me: "Allright sweety."

We went through another door, and down a hallway, with about a dozen rooms along side it.

Me: "I don't think there's anything here though sweety, obviously someone has been in here before, think of all the things that are missing and broken."

Me: "Like that display case in the foyer, and the chairs in the dining room."

Phoebe: "Yeah, but they probably just came in, took something, and ran out."

Phoebe:" They probably didn't stay the night and I haven't heard any stories of anyone who has, and has lived to tell the tale anyway."

Me: "And that encourages you to want to stay the night?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Your crazy."

Phoebe: "I know..."

Phoebe :"But you followed me in here, so you are too."

Me: "That's because I love you and I want you to be safe."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awwwwe.."

Me: "And...well, it's your birthday."

Phoebe: "Hehe.."

This hallway had a few more guest bedrooms, and a small lounge, with a few couches that were torn up pretty bad. A lot of the rooms had holes in the ceiling that went up to the third floor. At the end of the hall, around a corner, was another staircase to the third floor. This floor was very dark, as most of the windows were boarded up, there was just a little bit of light shining through from the holes in the third floor.

Phoebe: "Do you think we can go up here too?"

Me: "Probably, we'll have to watch our step though."

Phoebe: "Here, I can see the top, we can just teleport up there."

Me: "Ok."

I took her hand and she teleported us up there, it was this floor that we really had to watch our step, as it wasn't quite solid in some places. Once we got through the door, we could see there were just two rooms, which were the bedrooms for the long departed owners, one of the rooms was a little girl's room, or atleast it seemed like one, it had pink walls that were peeling pretty bad, a tiny dresser, and a bed fit for a small child.

The room was in pretty bad shape, there was a large hole in the ceiling that you could see the sun shine through, the windows were broken, the mattress was very damp due to rain, and its weight had warped the wooden frame of the bed. The floor was in very bad shape due to the holes in the roof, so we didn't even risk going into the room to check it out, other than that, the windows had been boarded up, but the frames had rotted so much over time the boards had fallen down and were now on the floor, waiting for somebody to step on one of their rusted, protruding nails.

Phoebe: "Um Cj I don't think we should go in there."

Phoebe: "The floor doesn't look too solid."

Me: "Ok."

She closed her eyes for a bit.

I heard a loud crash and saw the little, screwed up bed fall through to the second floor, along with a huge chunk of the floor itself, leaving a big gaping hole.

Me: "What the heck?"

Phoebe: "It's ok, that was me."

-somewhat concerned- Me: "Why did you do that?"

Phoebe: "I was just testing it to see if it was safe, and well, it's not."

She smiled at me.

Me: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "Now what's in this room?"

She opened the door to the room across the hall, this room was the master bedroom, it had a large, ornate wardrobe, and a large, ornate bed with very dusty curtains around it, and an old tv with an elaborate wooden case and a cracked screen. It was in slightly better condition than the girl's room, and the windows still had their protective boarding.

Phoebe: "Nice bed."

Me: "I wouldn't if I were you."

She closed her eyes for a bit.

Phoebe: "Well the floor seems solid."

She slowly walked into the room.

Phoebe: "Come on, I promise you it's safe."

Me: "I don't like this, what if there's a dead body in there or something?"

Phoebe: "Well let's find out."

She opened the curtain, nothing was there.

Phoebe: "Nope, no bodies here."

Me: "Ok then."

Phoebe: "I wonder if there's anything in the wardrobe."

She opened the doors to the wardrobe.

Phoebe: "Heh Cj look."

Phoebe: "There's some nice suits in here."

Me: "They're probably not my size."

Phoebe: "No probably not."

Phoebe: "There's no dresses in here either, just guy clothes."

Me: "Maybe he lived alone."

Phoebe: "The story goes the previous owner had a wife, but something happened."

Me: "What happened?"

Phoebe: "It depends on which story you read, some say his wife died in child birth, and the little girl survived, others say the little girl died shortly after she was born."

Me: "But there was a bed in her room, not a crib, so the little girl atleast survived into childhood."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "Some storys say his wife was killed in a car accident, and still others say she was murdered."

Phoebe: "But in most of the storys something happens to her, then the man goes insane, and takes his pain out on his daughter, which ends horribly."

Phoebe: "And then there's storys about their butler, who poisoned everyone or whatever."

Me: "Hmmm...ok."

Phoebe: " Anyway let's go back down to the first floor, and find somewhere to sleep for the night."

Me: "Ok."

We made our way back down to the first floor, and set up our sleeping bag in what seemed to be the most solid guest room. The windows weren't broken, and there were not any holes in the wall or ceiling.

We layed on our sleeping bag, and talked for a little bit about what to do next.

Phoebe: "So now what?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "This place is in worse condition then I thought it would be."

Me: "Yeah I thought it would be better too."

Me: "Are you scared?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, a little bit, what about you?"

Me: "Just a little nervous I guess."

Phoebe: "Oh come on you're scaired, admit it."

Me: "Ok fine."

Phoebe:" But we'll be ok, we have eachother."

Phoebe: "It's probably nothing you know, they probably just moved out closer to the city, and left a lot of their furniture behind."

Me: "Yeah maybe."

Me: "So how about some kisses?"

Phoebe: "Um not yet."

Me: "Awe..."

Phoebe: "Ok just one."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Me: "Just one?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "You have to wait till tonight."

Phoebe: "It's not tonight yet the sun is still up."

Me: "-sighs- fine."

I kissed her on the cheek.

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "Hey..."

-mischeivously- Me: "Hehe."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, you want to go back to the piano room?"

Me: "Sure, why not."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Phoebe: "That's where all the parties were held you know? It's a ballroom."

Me: "I know."

We got up and started to head back towards the piano room.

Me: "So you know all this stuff about the previous owner, what do you know about the original owner?"

Phoebe: "All I know about them is the previous owner purchased the house from them sometime in the 1920s, and since the house was built in the 1900s, the original owner was probably very old and looking to retire by then."

Me: "So you don't think they could have been gardevoirs?"

Phoebe: "No, not really."

Phoebe: "But part of me thinks...the original owner."

Phoebe: "May have been the final owner's butler."

Me:"Why do you think that?"

Phoebe:"Because that way he could still live in the house."

Me:"Honey, I'm sorry, but that's just silly, a wealthy man like that would never, ever decide to become a butler."

Phoebe: "Well why not?"

Phoebe: "He retired from whatever successful company he worked for, he didn't have a job, he couldn't make enough afford the very high maintenance costs this place would require, but he knew it very well."

Phoebe: "So he offered to be the next owner's butler, so he could keep living here without the cost, and even make a little extra income in the process."

We entered the ball room.

-calmly, lovingly- Phoebe: "Come on let's dance."

She wrapped her arms around me.

Me :"Ok."

Me:"There's no music though."

Phoebe: "So?"

There was no arguing with her.

Me: "-sighs-."

We danced for a few minutes, until she got bored with that.

Phoebe: "Ok that's enough, I want to play the piano now."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Actually why don't you play?"

Me: "Because I can't play very well."

Phoebe: "I'll help you."

Me :"Ok..."

We both sat down in front of the piano.

Me: "By the way, how do you know how to play?"

Me: "Your parents don't have a piano."

Me: "We don't have a piano."

Phoebe: "I got lessons in Hearthome City."

Me: "Oh...ok."

-confused- Me: "When you were a ralts?"

Phoebe: "Yes, but it was a smaller piano than this."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "It was a little tiny piano, and I loved it...so much."

Phoebe: "But we just couldn't afford one of our own."

Phoebe: "And nobody in the gardevoir city had the experience to make one."

Me: "Well they are very complex things."

Phoebe: "Yeah, and we couldn't get the little keys, and the metal wires and everything."

Me: "So what? You want to take this one with us when we leave?"

Phoebe: "Oh Cj don't be silly, there's no way we could."

Me: "Yeah, I guess that's true."

Phoebe: "It won't fit in the car, never the less through the front door."

Phoebe: "Besides, this one is old and worn out."

Phoebe: "It would be better if we went out and bought one in much better condition."

Me: "Yeah."

Me: "But then we'd have to figure out how to get it home."

Phoebe: "We could just load it into the van."

Me: "If we did that it would probably fall through the floor and onto the street."

Phoebe: "Hehe...yeah probably."

Phoebe: "Ok now watch me."

She played a few notes.

Phoebe: "Now do what I did."

Me: "Um...ok..."

I tried to copy her, but failed horribly.

Phoebe: "No, you have to hit these keys with your left hand like this."

Me: "I can't control my left hand that well."

Phoebe: "I'll help you, don't worry."

-unsure- Me:"ooookay."

Phoebe: "Just put your hands on the keys like this."

Me: "Ok..."

Phoebe:"And, now just relax, I'll do the rest."

She closed her eyes, and soon, I lost control of my hands, and the piano started to play do to her powers.

Phoebe: "Now try to get a feel for the keys, allright?"

-quietly,trying to concentrate- Phoebe: "I'm going to help you play it a few times, but then you're going to have to remember how to do it yourself."

Me:"Ok."

-unsure- Me:" This feels really weird."

Phoebe :"Just relax, don't fight it."

She "helped" me play this song a few times, over and over, until I started to memorize it.

Phoebe:"Ok Cj, I'm going to help you one more time, and then you have to try yourself, are you ready?"

Me: "Yeah."

We started the song again, and eventually we got to it's end and she opened her eyes.

Phoebe: "Ok now go."

I suddenly regained control of my hands, and then I started to play the song again on my own.

-tiredly- Phoebe: "Keep going."

Me: "You ok?"

Phoebe: "Yeah."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "It's just so much harder to play the piano that way."

Me: "Hehe, I would think so."

I finished the song a bit later.

-impressed- Phoebe:"-sighs-, that was good."

She kissed me on the cheek and snuggled me a little bit, she tired herself out trying to teach me.

Phoebe:"You think you can remember how to play that song?"

Me: "I can try."

Phoebe: "Hehe...we'll see."

-quietly- Phoebe: "I love you."

Me: "I love you too baby girl."

Me:"I just think it was weird that, you know a few days ago, you wanted us to have some time apart."

Phoebe: "I know, but that didn't go very well."

Phoebe: "You almost got killed."

-unsure- Me: "No I didn't."

Phoebe: "Yes you did, you fainted at the pokemon center."

Me: "Well we didn't know I would have to go up against one of Team Rocket's freak genetic experiments."

Phoebe: "Yeah I guess so."

Phoebe: "Why are you bringing this up?"

-concerned- Phoebe: "Do you want some time away from me?"

Me: "No sweety no..."

Me: "I love you, and I enjoy being with you."

Phoebe: "Ok, just checking."

Phoebe: "Just let me rest for a minute or so, then we'll do something else."

Me: "Ok."

-jokingly-Phoebe: "You gave me a headache."

-jokingly- Me: "I didn't mean too."

Phoebe: "I know."

We sat in front of the piano for a little bit, until her headache went away.

Me :"You ok yet baby girl?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, I'm fine now."

Phoebe:"You want to go outside? We haven't investigated the pool yet."

Me: "Hehe...ok."

Phoebe:"We can't go swimming though."

Me: "That's ok."

The back door was sealed up, with several boards crudely nailed to the wall over it, so we had to go outside through the front door, and then walk around the house, to the pool in the back. It was a fairly large pool, but it was also dry and cracked, there were a few old electric lamposts around it, that would probably be lit at night, but now most of them were broken, or atleast missing their bulbs, not that this place had working electricity anyway, There was also a diving board, but it looked so old and withered, that it would probably snap in two if anyone tried to use it. The same iron fence that we saw in the front yard, came around to the backyard as well, isolating it from the rest of the forrest. The pool itself had a smaller iron fence around it that was about waist-high, and just as elaborate as the fence on the outside, although it lacked the spikes on the top. Also in the back yard, was what looked to be a small playhouse for children, constructed not of plastic, but the same way a real, full size house would be constructed, with wooden siding, miniature windows, and everything, there was also a small wooden utility shed, and what looked to be the remains of a swingset.

Before I knew it, Phoebe had climbed down into the pool, trying to explore it, while I was distracted viewing the surrounding area.

Me: "Anything interesting in there sweety?"

Phoebe: "No, it has some large cracks in it, I don't think it will ever hold water again."

Me: "Did you see that small shed in the backyard?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, and the playhouse."

Phoebe: "I had a playhouse like that when I was little."

-unsure- Me: "You did?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, it was a bit smaller though, but it had two floors."

Phoebe: "It took up a lot of space, so my parents gave it to one of the guard's children when I got too old to play with it."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "You want to get out of there and go see what's in the shed?"

Phoebe: "Yeah."

She closed her eyes for a moment and teleported out of the pool.

We hopped the fence, and headed into the back yard. By the looks of things, it seemed that this was once a very elaborate and very expensive place, but the abandonment had taken it's toll, and nature was slowly taking over. The yard was in very poor shape, with wild grasses everywhere and even a few medium sized trees begining to grow. The tool shed, was barely standing, and the bolts on the door were rusted shut, this however, wasn't a problem as the hinges easily snapped off on the other side, causing the entire door to fall over.

Inside were a few old, rusted gardening tools, an old, electric push mower, a gasoline weedeater with no blades that was just as old, and a larger, gasoline riding mower, that was a 20's addition to the house. It had very fancy styling for just a lawnmower, with a rusted chrome grill and fading blue paint, even the valve covers of it's tiny vtwin engine were chromed and stuck out of the sides of the hood, like a miniature hot rod..

Phoebe: "If there's a rotom here, we better keep it away from this thing."

-unsure- Me: "It's electric?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, it's a Hearthome lawn and garden model 1E, one of the first companies to produce electric lawnmowers, using small high torque, high rpm electric motors and aluminum blades."

Phoebe: "They weren't a very popular seller, they did their job, they cut the grass as good as any, but the batterys just didn't hold their charge for very long, and in that time, they cost a lot more then their gasoline counterparts which didn't require as much copper or alluminum. The light weight, aluminum blades, also didn't hold their edge very well, but the second model was much, much more improved, and nearly dominated the push mower market."

-unsure- Me :"Why do you know all this stuff about a lawnmower?"

-jokingly- Me: "Did you take a lawnmowing history class or something?"

Phoebe: "No."

Phoebe: "We weren't the first ones to be here Cj."

Phoebe: "A lot of people know about this lawnmower."

Phoebe: "And someone posted all the information they could find about it."

Me: "But they left it here?"

Phoebe: "It weighs 70 pounds and it's a long way from the road."

Phoebe :"And the tires are bad."

Phoebe: "As for this other one, according to the website this is a UFEC Chromoline Riding mower, it was top of the line back in the fiftys, and cost almost as much as an average new car back then, it's fancy, 450cc chromed v twin engine makes 25hp, more than enough for any job a lawnmower would be expected to do."

So it was basically a lawnmower with a primitive motorcycle engine? Well, now I've seen everything.

Phoebe: "To add to that, they were never made in Sinnoh, so this one was imported from Unova, you see? UFEC stands for Unova Farm Equipment Corporation, this model wasn't a very popular seller, but then again it was never intended to be, as it was an expensive lawnmower marketed towards the wealthy."

-jokingly- Me: "This guy really liked his lawnmowers."

Phoebe: " I guess so."

-cutely- Phoebe: "This also supports my theory that the original owner became the previous owner's butler."

Me: "Really?"

Me: "You still believe that?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "The butler purchased these mowers with whatever money he had left so he could have the best tools for his job, and still look somewhat rich."

Me: "But why did he get two of them?"

Me :"And since when does the butler purchase his own lawn care equipment?"

Phoebe: "Well the pushmower works better for smaller areas, like around trees and stuff silly."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "And maybe the butler had a thing for lawnmowers, I don't know."

Me: "Hehe."

Me: "I still think that's just a silly idea."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "But it makes sense to me."

Phoebe: "Come on, let's go back to the house."

Phoebe: "It's almost sunset."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "You don't want to see the playhouse?"

Phoebe: "It's just a playhouse, I doubt there's much inside it."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "So what do you want to do now then?"

Phoebe: "What do you want to do?"

Me :"I don't know."

Phoebe: "Let's just go back to our base for now."

Phoebe: "When it gets dark I want to go back to the piano room."

Me: "Ok."

We went back inside the house and headed back to our base camp inside one of the guest rooms. We had a short snack break, and then we went down to the lobby to look through the study again.

Me:"So what are we looking for?"

Phoebe: "Some secret passage, you know, to the basment."

Me: "How do you know if there is a basment?"

Phoebe :"There just has to be."

Me: "Well then check the book shelves."

Phoebe: "I know, that's why we came back here silly."

We went through the shelves, and pulled out each and every book, but nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Me: "See? No secret passage."

Phoebe: "Hmm..."

Phoebe: "I have another idea."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "The statues in the foyer."

We headed back into the foyer, and carefully examined the statues, we didn't find anything, no secret compartments, no hidden button, just two ordinary statues.

Phoebe: "Ok, this isn't it."

Me: "Any other ideas?"

Phoebe: "What about behind the bar in the piano room?"

We headed back to the piano room.

Behind the bar there was an old double barrel shotgun, which was more for ornamental purposes than an actual weapon and several bottles of wine, unsurprisingly, no secret passage or anything.

Me:" There's nothing here sweety."

Me: "Besides, even if this place does have a secret basement, do you really want to see it?"

Me: "I mean there has to be a reason they went to great lengths to make it secret."

Phoebe: "Cj, the basement was built when the house was built, and it was always concealed, the only problem is nobody remembers how to get to it."

Phoebe: "A lot of the nice chateaus in Eterna City have secret basements too."

Phoebe: "Because they were all built during Sinnoh's prohibition era, alot of the basements were kept secret because people would go there to drink and have fun."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, this place has so many mysteries."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Wait a minute."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "There's a seam here, in the floor."

Her hands started to glow, as she lifted up the secret trapdoor.

Phoebe: "See I told you there was a basement."

Me: "I'm not going down there without a flashlight."

To me, the basement looked like a pitch black void.

Phoebe: "Relax, I'll go down there."

Me: "Just be careful."

Phoebe: "I will."

Her hands started to glow as she carefully go on the ladder and headed down.

Me: "What's it like down there?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, it's really hard to see."

Phoebe: "There's another bar, but there's nothing in it."

Phoebe: "And there's some of the chairs from the dining room."

Phoebe: "And there's a microwave...from the kitchen."

Me :"Anything alive down there?"

Phoebe: "Do ghosts count as alive?"

-unsure- Me: "I don't know..."

-concerned- Me: "Why don't you come back up ok?"

Me: "You're starting to worry me."

Phoebe: "Oh you're allright."

Me: "It's not me I'm worried about."

Phoebe: "I know, but I'm ok."

Phoebe: "There has to be a rotom around here somewhere though, why else would the microwave be down here?"

Phoebe :"There's a bunch of old lab equipment down here too."

Phoebe: "Maybe this is where rotoms were created? Like in the stories."

Me: "Why don't you get out of there before one attacks you?"

-stubbornly- Phoebe: "Because I'm exploring."

Phoebe: "Why don't you come down here if you're so worried about me?"

Me: "-sighs-, fine."

I reluctantly climbed down the stairs.

Phoebe: "There you are."

Phoebe :"Ok you see all this stuff?"

Me: "Mhm."

There was what looked to be a very old computer, you know the kind with the spinning tape reels and everything, and some other equipment, as well as a shelf full of various chemicals and what not, most of which were probably expired by now. There we saw some open archways on each side, probably leading to other rooms containing who knows what, but it was just way too dark, and this place was making me very nervous, especially with what Phoebe said next.

Phoebe :"There are some ghosts here Cj."

Phoebe: "I can tell."

Phoebe: "There's lots of them."

Phoebe: "But they're asleep right now."

Phoebe: "They only like to come out at night."

Phoebe: "So we need to wait until then to see them."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "There seems to be a few more rooms down here, but it's so hard to see."

Me: "Well we'll come back some other time ok?"

Me: "This place is just too dark to be wandering through right now."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "What do you want to do now?"

Me: "I don't know, let's go back upstairs."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, Allright, we'll go."

We climbed back up the ladder, back into the light, I felt a little more relieved now, and a even more relieved when we closed the trap door again, the black void of a room below no longer visible.

Phoebe:"Ok so what do you want to do now?"

Me :"I don't know."

Phoebe: "You think we could take a short trip back to Eterna city to get some flashlights?"

Me: "What if the ghosts mess with our stuff while we're gone?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess you're right, and we already have everything set out and all that."

Me :"Mhm."

Phoebe: "I guess you can go and get some, I'll stay here and watch the stuff."

Me: "No I'd rather stay here with you."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me :"It will be allright, if there's anything out of the ordinary in the basement, we probably don't want to know what it is anyway."

Phoebe: "Hehe...Cj..."

Phoebe: "There's not much information on the internet about it either."

Phoebe: "Only a handful of people have ever been down there since the previous owner abandoned it 40 years ago."

Phoebe: "Like us, most of them never explored beyond the main room."

Me :"So um, until it gets dark? You want to go back to playing the piano?"

Phoebe: "Sure."

-cheerfully- Phoebe:"You play, I'll dance."

Me: "Ok."

A few hours later, I was playing the piano and Phoebe was laying around on top of it, looking as beautiful as ever. She had grown tired from dancing. We were having such a good time together, but we knew as the sun set the house would start to get dark very quickly.

Phoebe :"Ok, Cj, you're getting really good, but it's starting to get dark and we should probably head back to our sleeping bag."

Me: "You sure you want to go now?"

Phoebe: "If we don't go now it will get too dark to see."

She got off of the piano and slipped her shoes on, she had taken them off to avoid scuffing the piano up even more.

Me :"Ok...then..."

Me: "I was kind of hoping...that we could...well."

Phoebe :"Just say it."

Me: " I was hoping we could have sex in here."

Phoebe :"Oh."

Phoebe: "You want me to lean against the piano like this?"

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Me :"Except naked of course."

She giggled at me.

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Well keep dreaming then."

-surprised- Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"Why not?"

Phoebe: "I told you Cj, I don't want to have sex until after we find out what's going on here."

Me: "-sighs-...ok."

Phoebe: "Now come on, lets go."

We headed back to the room our sleeping bag was in, quickly got ready for bed, and got inside. Then she snuggled up to me, as the light from the windows started to get dimmer and dimmer, until it disappeared entirely.

-whispering- Phoebe: "Are you ready for the ghosts?"

Me: "We're not even sure if there are any ghosts yet."

Phoebe :"There are, just trust me."

Phoebe: "But we need to wait for them, because they are asleep now."

Me: "Just don't get your hopes up."

-somewhat anxiously- Phoebe: "mmmm."

Me: "Goodnight baby girl."

Phoebe: "You're not going to stay up with me?"

Me: "Why should we stay up? It's too dark to do anything."

Phoebe: "But if we go to sleep we might miss the ghosts."

Phoebe: "Or they could sneek up on us and kill us."

Me: "Sweety I don't think there is any ghosts ok?"

Me: "If there were, we would have seen them by now."

Phoebe: "But ghost pokemon are only active at night, it's really hard to find them during the day."

Me :"Yeah but where do they go during the day then?"

Phoebe: "They like to hide in very dark, confined, tight spaces, where most people wouldn't normally look, like inside the walls, or in the attic, or crawlspaces, or... "

-jokingly- Me: "Like under the bed?"

Phoebe: "No, that's too far out in the open."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe:"Look Cj, i can tell they're here, I sensed them earlier."

Me :"And just how do you sense a ghost?"

Phoebe: "I...I...uh..."

Me :"You told me you can't read their minds..."

Me :"See, you made that up and you just won't admit it, because you want to stay here for, I don't even understand why."

Phoebe: "Because I want to be sure..."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry..."

Phoebe :" I just want to see if the stories are true."

Phoebe: "And we'll never know that unless we stay the night."

Me: "Ok, we'll stay here, just for tonight."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Another hour passed, I almost drifted off into sleep, but Phoebe was still awake, and anxiously looking around the room.

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, look over there."

-half asleep- Me: "Huh? Wha?"

-concerned- Phoebe: "Were you sleeping?"

-annoyed, tired- Me: "Of course, I was sleeping."

-sincerely- Phoebe: "Sorry."

A unusually timid gastly came through the wall, it was glowing very brightly and lit up the room.

-unsure- Me: "What the?'

-unsure- Gastly: "Gassss...gastly?"

-calmly- Phoebe: "We're just staying the night, don't worry."

Phoebe: "Cj, don't try to hurt it."

Phoebe: "It doesn't mean any harm."

Me: "It doesn't?"

-calmly- Phoebe: "We won't try to catch you."

Phoebe: "Who are you anyway?"

The gastly changed into the image of a little girl, who couldn't have been more than six or seven. She seemed somewhat depressed, and her voice also changed to match her form.

-worried- Ghost girl: " You should get out of here, it's not safe."

Phoebe: "I thought you seemed a little timid for a gastly."

Phoebe: "What's the matter? How did you die?"

Ghost girl: "Another ghost pushed me from the second story window."

Phoebe: "So you never lived here?"

Ghost girl: "No...I just came to visit, just like you, but I stayed too long and well, there's another ghost here that doesn't like that, you better go before he finds you, or you'll be trapped here forever, like me."

Phoebe: "How many other ghosts are here?"

Ghost girl: "Lots, most of them are friendly, but, there's one that's really, really mean, which is why you have to leave now, before it's too late."

Me :"A gengar I take it?"

Ghost girl: "mhm."

Phoebe :"Why don't you go get all your friends, and come back here, and try to fight him together?"

Ghost girl: "We've tried that before, but he's just too strong."

Me :"Well then, we'll fight him."

Ghost girl :" You won't make it to the morning."

Phoebe: "We've dealt with a gengar before."

Phoebe: "Don't worry."

Phoebe: "Just go get your friends, and come back here."

Ghost girl: "You'll be sorry."

Phoebe: "Oh cheer up little gastly, we'll help you..."

Ghost girl: "Your not the first ones that have said that."

Me: "But we've dealt with stuff like this before."

Phoebe: "We're different."

Ghost girl: "I hope so ."

Me: "She's the Kanto league champion, and I'm the runner up."

Phoebe: "Awe..Cj, I doubt she knows what..."

-interupting- Ghost girl: "You're a pokemon that trains pokemon!?"

Phoebe: "Um...yeah..."

Me: "She dragged me here just so we could help you."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Cj I didn't drag you here, you wanted to come."

Ghost girl: "When I was alive I always wanted to train pokemon..."

Ghost girl: "But now that I'm a ghost, I don't think I can."

Phoebe :"That's allright."

Phoebe: "You should be more focused on moving on than training pokemon."

Ghost girl: "I can't move on though, not until the gengar that killed me is gone from this place."

Ghost girl: "I'll go get the others, but if you see anything else ghostly before I get back, run."

Phoebe: "Ok."

The girl turned back into a gastly, and floated across the room, through the wall.

Phoebe: "See Cj? I told you there were ghosts here."

Me: "Yeah, you were right."

Me: "So that was the ghost of a little girl?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "According to the storys, lots of people have wandered into this house, tryed to stay the night and went missing shortly afterwards."

Phoebe: "The most recent was a little girl, back in the 1980s, that might be her, she looks a lot like she did in her picture."

Phoebe: "Then again, she wasn't the only little girl to go missing here either, there was another in 1974, and another in 1979."

Me: "Is there a pattern to the dissapearences?"

Phoebe: "Well, most of them are supposedly children, but that's only because children are the most likely to wander out here, not because of the preference of this gengar."

Phoebe: "Because the gengar she is talking about is probably bound to this place, which is why it can't leave, unless it is defeated or destroyed."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "And we're going to destroy it?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."

We were both completely calm in a situation that would probably freak most ordinary people out. After all this time, things like this had become more of a game to us than a traumatizing experience.

Me: "So another thing sweety?"

Phoebe: "Yes?"

Me: "Did you find out about all this yourself, or is there someone else obsessing over it?"

Phoebe: "Don't worry, this is all from the internet Cj."

Phoebe: "Somebody linked all these dissapearances to this place, both children and adults, one was even a police officer."

Phoebe: "Who knows how many actually died here?"

Me: "Aren't you getting tired yet?"

Phoebe: "Why? It's only eight pm."

Phoebe: "We only went to bed this early because there's no light."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Me: "Remember what she said sweety."

Me: "Keep your ears open."

Phoebe: "I am."

We got out of the sleeping bag, got our clothes on, and just layed there for a little while. Nothing happened for atleast twenty minutes or so until the gastly finally returned, with a few more gastlys and haunters.

They all changed into their human forms.

Ghost girl: "I came back, this is everyone."

Phoebe :"Hmm..."

Phoebe: "Which one of you has been here the longest?"

Unknown police officer ghost: "That would be Lucy."

The ghost of yet another young girl approached us.

Phoebe: "I know you."

Phoebe: "You used to live here didn't you?"

Lucy: "That was a very long time ago."

Lucy:" Who are you, gardevoir?"

Phoebe: "You wouldn't know me."

Lucy: "But you seem so familiar."

Lucy: "My father had a party once, so, so long ago."

Lucy: "A pair of gardevoirs showed up that night."

Lucy :"My father said they were royalty."

Phoebe: "They might have been my grandparents, that would have been much too long ago for it to be my parents."

Lucy: "Oh, ok."

Lucy: "You look a lot like your grandmother then."

Phoebe: "I wouldn't know, she died before I was born."

Lucy: "I remember that now."

Lucy: "The gardevoir city was attacked just a few days after the party."

Lucy: "It was so sad...those poor gardevoirs."

It looked like she was going to start to cry.

-caringly- Phoebe:"Awe, it's ok, it was a long time ago, and the city is way more protected now. It's thriving, actually."

Lucy: "Good."

Phoebe: "So what's going on here then Lucy?"

Phoebe: "What is this thing that won't let you leave?"

Lucy: "It was my father's butler, Winsby, he was always so mean.."

-sadly- Lucy: "I tried to warn my father but he didn't believe.."

-sadly- Lucy: "He killed my mommy, I saw him messing with her car."

Phoebe: "So she was killed in a car accident?"

Lucy: "Mhm."

Me: "Why did he kill her?"

Lucy: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Well then, we'll need to send Mr. Winsby to where he belongs."

Lucy: "But how? He's to powerful, not even the haunters can stop him."

Me: "What if we torched the place?"

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Cj, that's a dumb idea."

Unknown ghost: "This is my home, I didn't die here, but I live here now."

Another unknown ghost: "Same here."

Lucy: "If you did that, you would kill all of us...again..."

Phoebe: "See Cj? We can't just burn it down."

Me:" I see, I see."

Unknown Police ghost: "You'll have to defeat him in battle."

Phoebe: "Can't be too hard."

Me: "Probably easier than that damned rocket experiment."

Phoebe: "Much, much easier."

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Don't worry everyone, we'll take care of Winsby for you."

Lucy: "Be careful, he's probably in the kitchen now."

And then I saw the most bizzare thing ever, something that made me wonder if I was dreaming or not, a microwave floated into the room, with it's interior light on, and its dry, worn out power cable dragging on the ground, not plugged into anything. Not that the house had electricity anyway.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "It's just a rotom, relax."

-cheerfully- Rotom: "rotom..."

The microwave started to glow in a bright blue light, as a rotom detached itself from it.

-angrilly- Rotom: "rotom ro rotom."

Lucy:"Not you again."

Phoebe: "What are you doing?"

The rotom got in front of us.

It was angry at the other ghosts, it was a making a lot of sparks and a distinct crackling noise.

-cowardly- Lucy: "Let's get out of here."

All the other ghosts phased through the ceiling and left, and the rotom settled down soon after.

Phoebe :"What was that all about?"

-urgently- Rotom: "rotom ro !"

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "What did he say?"

Phoebe: "He said they were lying to us."

Rotom: "ro ro, rotom."

Phoebe: "And now he wants us to follow him."

Me: "Ok."

He repossesed the microwave, and floated out the door.

-in disbelief- Me: "We're following a ghostly microwave..."

Phoebe: "Yep..."

The Rotom led us downstairs.

Phoebe: "This better not be another trick rotom."

He didn't say anything, he just kept leading us down the hall, into the kitchen, where a gengar was already waiting for us.

Phoebe: "So you're Mr. Winsby?"

The gengar smiled at us, before assuming it's human form as the former butler of this place.

Winsby: "That is correct."

Winsby: "You're lucky she hasn't hurt you yet."

Phoebe: "You mean Lucy?"

Winsby: "There's times she'll kill our visitors outright, then when they come back as a ghost she'll blame it on me, to get them to join her side."

Winsby: "But when adults come through here, she tries to convince them to kill me instead."

Phoebe: "What really happened here?"

Winsby: "90 years ago, the chateau was in much better shape then it was now."

Winsby: "I worked here as the butler of this place."

Winsby: "Lucy was an only child."

Winsby: "With parents who were extremely busy."

Winsby: "Her father spent countless hours working in his lab down in the basement."

Winsby: "While her mother was a socialite who spent lots of time going to partys and what not."

Winsby: "I tried to take care of her as well as I could."

Winsby: "But she shut herself out, and started spending lots of time in the library reading books, lost in her own little world."

Winsby: "Until one day, when her father was away in town, she got into an argument with her mother, pushed her down the stairs, and then blamed it on me.

Winsby: "Unfortunately, she was very convincing, and I was sentenced to hang for a murder I didn't commit."

Phoebe: "But what happened to her then?"

Phoebe: "And where is her mother's ghost?"

Winsby: "Her mother never came back."

Winsby: "She was a very despicable woman, that obviously married her father for the money, so she's probably stuck in the spirit world for all eternity now."

Winsby: "With her father completely alone, it wasn't long before he succumbed to the grief and moved out a few months later, into jubilife."

Winsby: "He's never returned since."

Winsby: "But Lucy and I, we could never leave."

Phoebe :"How did Lucy die?"

Winsby: "Well, after I was hanged, and after the incident with her mother, she was a very deranged, crazy girl."

Winsby: "You've seen her victims, you've seen how many she has killed over the years."

Winsby: "That's not because she's a ghost."

Winsby: "She was that demented when she was alive as well."

Winsby: "After I came back, I heard her talking to herself in her room."

Winsby: "She was planning to kill her father as well, and claim her inheritance, which was substantial at the time."

Winsby: "Of course her father, because of the recent death of his so-called wife, was spending even more time in the basement than usual."

Winsby: "He was completely unaware, and he blamed me for killing her, so even though I tried to warn him, he didn't believe me.."

Phoebe: "So you're trying to say you killed Lucy?"

Winsby: "If I didn't, she would have killed her father as well."

Winsby: "And aside from that, just like her mother's death, it was an accident."

Phoebe :"Explain."

Winsby: "You see, she tried to kill her father, by poisoning his morning coffee. So, in order to disrupt her plan, as she was bringing the coffee to the table, I innocently tripped her."

Winsby: "I didn't plan to kill her, but the mug shattered, and she cut herself on the glass, along with some minor burns, the poison coffee got into her vains, and she died hours later, the doctors said it was acute pneumonia combined with shock, but really, it was the poison."

Lucy: "Why haven't you killed him yet?"

Winsby threw a shadowball at her.

Winsby: "Begone, foul demon."

She left the room, avoiding the shadowball.

Winsby: "Funny thing is, ever since I killed her, even though it was an accident I've never been able to leave this room."

Winsby:" I've been trapped here for 90 years."

Winsby: "This rotom is my only friend."

The Rotom came out of its microwave again.

Winsby: "He's the only one that will believe me."

Winsby: "Because he was there too."

Winsby: "He was her pet, a pokemon my master created in his lab."

Winsby: "Needless to say, she didn't treat him very well."

Winsby: "And it wasn't long before he started to spend more time with my master in his lab then with her."

Rotom: "Rotom ro."

Phoebe: "What if we proved to the others, that you are innocent."

Me: "That would be almost impossible sweety."

Me: "We won't be able to find any evidence."

Phoebe: "Her father could still be alive."

Phoebe: "Maybe the police would know."

Phoebe: "Come on, we have to get back to Eterna."

Winsby: "Take care."

She grabbed my hand, and teleported us out of the house.

Me :"What about our stuff?"

Phoebe: "Oh...right, oops."

She teleported us back into the house, we quickly packed up our things, and then she teleported us back out. And then, with our stuff in hand, we headed to the car.

-while walking to the car-

Me:" Her father would be over 100 years old by now honey, if he's still alive there's no way he's going to be of any help."

Phoebe: "But Cj there's revives remember?"

Phoebe: "Average human life span here is almost 4 times what it is in the other world."

Phoebe: "Even though he's 100, he can still look like he's just in his 50s, depending on when he took his first revive."

Phoebe: "Everytime we use revives we're technically 18 again, except for the memories, and experience, and Charley."

Me: "Oh, Charley didn't change you sweety, you look pretty much identical to the way you looked before you were pregnant with him."

Phoebe: "You really think so?"

Me: "Well...maybe your hair is a little longer...but...that's about it."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe..Cj."

She kissed me.

We headed back to the pokemon center in Eterna to plan our next move. We sat around in the lobby for a little bit, with the Sinnoh news playing on the Tv.

-on lobby tv- Anchorman: "Breaking news today, on a normally quiet road around Mt. Chimney in the Hoen region, the wreckage of many vehicles belonging to the police, Devon, and several illegal organizations lay strewn about the road, the aftermath of a high speed chase, believed to be all started by one man, Greg Marconi, who is a known member and or associate of Team Rocket, and possibly the most wanted man in the Hoen region at this time, at this time we have not recieved any update from Devon on whether Marconi has been arrested, or is still on the run. "

Phoebe: "Well, it looks like we know where Marconi is now."

Me: "I guess so."

Me: "I'm surprised they haven't caught him yet."

Phoebe: "Look at all those wrecked cars.."

Me:"But are they all chasing him, or is Team Rocket trying to protect him."

Phoebe :"They had to have been chasing him, otherwise Team Rocket would have moved him to one of their bases somewhere."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Phoebe: "I miss Charley."

Me: "You'll see him again tomorrow, I'm sure."

Me: "Don't worry, it's best that he's over there, with your parents, especially with what we discovered."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess so."

Me: "Since we're back in town you want to get some dinner?"

Phoebe: "Sure, and then we'll head over to the police station, if they're still open."

Me: "Sounds good."

We headed back to the same restaurant we had lunch at earlier that day, the one across from the train station, after that we headed over to the local police station, showed them our Devon Ids and asked them if we could get any records on the previous owner of the house, after waiting around in the lobby for about 20 minutes, they gave us a file.

According to the file, her father's name was Dr. Chad Rondesque, he abandoned the house in 1923, moved to an apartment in Jubilife, then at some point he started working for team galactic, and was arrested in 1935 for multiple charges of possesion of restricted hazardous substances without a permit, napalm, nitroglycerin, ricin, anthrax, and large quantitys of yellowcake uranium. 1942 for inhumane testing\treatment of pokemon. 1947 for conspiracy related to terrorism. 1949, once again for inhumane testing of pokemon. Unfortunately, his cronies seemed to be able to break him out everysingle time.

Then he dissapeared for several decades, and wasn't arrested again until 1983, for uncertified production of pokemon related medicines. Long after the other charges had already expired, once again, he was broken out this time as well, and hasn't been arrested since.

Me: "So now what?"

Phoebe: "We need to find someone who works for team galactic."

Police Clerk: "We don't have any in custody here, but according to the database, the station in Oreburgh has one of their grunts in custody."

Phoebe: "Ok then, thankyou."

Police Clerk: "I can contact them if you want, make sure they keep him there until you can meet with him."

Phoebe: "That would be great, thankyou."

Police Clerk: "Mhm."

It was a long drive so once we got there we got a room at the pokemon center for the night, and quickly got into bed.

We snuggled together, our mission wasn't finished yet, but it wasn't safe to keep going without proper rest.

-while getting in bed-

Phoebe: "I was hoping we could have some fun tonight, but we still haven't solved our mystery yet have we?"

Me: "Well you know, we still can if you want."

-insistently- Phoebe: "No...not until it's done."

Me: "-sighs-, allright."

Phoebe: "But we can snuggle all you want."

Me: "Sounds good, I'm too tired anyway."

Phoebe: "Me too."

She kissed me on the cheek

-lovingly- Me: "goodnight baby girl."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Goodnight."

We tried to get some sleep, now that we were safe and sound in our clean and modern room at the pokemon center, until we Phoebe's cell phone started to ring.

-unsure- Me: "What the heck?"

Phoebe: "I got it Cj."

Phoebe: "Hello?"

Phoebe: "Nina?"

Phoebe :" Where are you calling from?"

She put her on speeker phone.

Phoebe: "What are you doing in Hearthome? You should be in bed by now."

-from phone- Nina: "Grandpa brought me to the pokemon center so I could call you."

Phoebe: "Oh, ok then."

-from phone- Nina: "Are you ok? When are you comming back?"

Phoebe :"We're doing fine sweety, don't worry, we almost have things figured out."

Phoebe: "We may be a little late comming back tomorrow, but I promise we'll see you."

-on phone- Nina: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "Is Charley ok?"

-on phone- Nina: "He's allright, but he misses you."

Phoebe: "I miss both of you so much, but we'll be back tomorrow don't worry."

Phoebe: "Did you have a good day?"

-on phone phone- Nina: "It was ok, I guess, the other children let me play games with them."

Phoebe: "That's good."

Phoebe: "Goodnight sweety, we love you."

Me: "Goodnight sweetheart, we'll be back soon enough, I promise.."

-from phone- Nina: "What are you doing over there anyway?"

Phoebe: "We'll tell you all about it when we get back ok?"

-unsure- Nina: "Ok."

She hung up on us.

Phoebe: "Wait don't hang up..."

It was too late.

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Phoebe: "That was really sweet of her to call us like that."

Me: "Yeah...I miss her."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Phoebe: "But, I was hoping she would let me talk to my dad some too."

Me: "It's allright, we'll see him tomorrow."

Phoebe: "Yeah hopefully, he might be busy when we get back, I don't know."

We got comfortable again, and fell asleep a little bit later.