Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, but I do own, Heather, Mill City, the Were-Pokemon, Fulling Town and Champion City.
Chapter 21: The Dreams Keep Haunting Ash!
After a weird morning involving Ash and a bullet in his arm, our heroes are entering Mill City, which is as big as Eterna City in Sinnoh with the Pokemon Center a ten-minute walk from the Contest Hall and the gym, for the contest tomorrow and the gym battle today.
Once they were in Mill City, they headed for the Pokemon Center so that they could put their stuff away in a room.
(At The Pokemon Center)
Once they got there, they went straight to their room and put their stuff in their room and then, they left for the Mill City Gym and Ash's eighth badge.
(At The Mill City Gym)
When they got there, they saw the gym leader standing outside of their gym, waiting for a good challenger to battle.
The gym leader quickly noticed them and went over to introduce themselves to the gang.
"Hi, everyone. My name's Heather and I'm the Mill City gym leader." said Heather, who was identical to Lucy of the Battle Pike, but without the red in her hair and not as tall, introducing herself to the gang.
"Hi, Heather. My name's Ash Ketchum and I would like to challenge you to a battle." said Ash, introducing himself and challenging Heather to a battle at the same time.
"I accept your challenge, Ash. Follow me to the battlefield, everyone." said Heather, leading them inside to the battlefield, which was a normal battlefield.
(On The Battlefield)
Once they took their battle positions and the referee, a woman, came out, the battle was ready to begin.
"This match between Heather, the gym leader, and the challenger, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town, is about to begin! Trainers ready?" asked the referee.
"Yeah!" replied Ash and Heather in unison.
"Then let the match begin!"
"Go Alakazam!"
"Go Gliscor!"
"Alakazam, Focus Punch followed by Psychic!"
"Gliscor, X-Scissor followed by Steel Wing!"
The X-Scissor stopped both the Focus Punch and the Psychic while the Steel Wing hit Alakazam hard, but not hard enough to knock it out.
"Alakazam, Psybeam followed by Confusion!"
"Gliscor, Sand Attack followed by Fire Fang!"
The Sand Attack stopped Alakazam before it could release the two attacks and the Fire Fang knocked Alakazam out in a flash.
"Alakazam's unable to battle. Gliscor's the winner!"
"Go Noctowl! Noctowl, Confusion followed by Aerial Ace!"
"Gliscor, X-Scissor followed by Fire Fang!"
The X-Scissor stopped the two attacks in their tracks while the Fire Fang knocked Noctowl out in a quick second.
"Noctowl's unable to battle. Gliscor's the winner!"
"Go Grumpig! Grumpig, Bounce followed by Psychic!"
"Gliscor, Sand Attack followed by Fire Fang!"
The Sand Attack stopped both the Bounce and the Psychic before Grumpig even launched them and knocked Grumpig out quickly with Steel Wing.
"Grumpig's unable to battle. Gliscor's the winner!"
"Go Gallade! Gallade, Psychic followed by Focus Punch!"
"Gliscor, Sand Attack followed by X-Scissor!"
The Sand Attack stopped Gallade's attacks before they even were launched and the X-Scissor knocked Gallade out in a matter of seconds.
"Gallade's unable to battle. Gliscor's the winner and the winner of the match is Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town!" announced the referee.
"Thanks for a great battle, Gallade. Return." said Heather, putting Gallade into its pokeball.
"Great job, Gliscor!" said Ash as Gliscor came over to him.
"Congratulations, Ash, and to prove that you have won here at the Mill City Gym, I award you the Vision Badge." said Heather, handing it to Ash.
"Alright! We got the Vision Badge!" said Ash, doing his usual pose.
Once they said 'Goodbye' to Heather and her referee, they went back to the Pokemon Center so that they could get something to eat and a good night's sleep for tomorrow's contest for Dawn.
(At The Pokemon Center)
Once they got there, they went straight to the dining area and when they were done, they went to their room and before they went to sleep, Brock gave Ash the usual three poffins and then, they went to dreamland quickly.
(In Ash's Dream)
Ash was dreaming about beating Team Rocket after they took their pokemon away, but he was seriously injured by the explosion since he was very close to it.
He was rushed into the hospital and straight to the operating room.
They didn't have enough time to put him under the anesthesia so they operated while he was still awake.
He had enough strength to lift his head and watch what they were doing to him.
He could feel the knife cut into him and feel them moving around inside him.
Even though he could feel everything during the surgery, he could feel pain that was so intense that it would make anyone faint, but he didn't though yet.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash was starting to toss and turn like crazy because he was starting to feel the pain in the dream a little.
The others didn't notice since they're all in a deep sleep in dreamland.
Even Ash was starting to feel a little bit better after a few minutes.
(Back In Ash's Dream)
Just as Ash was about to faint from all of the pain that he was feeling, he felt the doctors grab onto something inside him.
They started to pull on it and bring it out of him and all they heard from Ash was a loud blood-curdling scream as they were bringing an object out from him.
Again, he had enough strength to lift his head up and look at the object that they pulled out and found that it was a miniature version of the Were-Pokemon and they automatically killed it, but Ash was alright.
They quickly went back in to find anything else, but they accidently hit Ash's heart by mistake and he started to convulse as his heart was out of control.
The doctors knew that they had two choices: one, they could stop Ash from convulsing and save his life or two, just let him die from his heart having too much stress on it.
Just as they were making the decision to go with number one, Ash stopped convulsing quickly and just laid there as the doctors checked on him.
They found that his heart was too damaged to save and they left the room as they knew that their patient was dead.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash quickly woke up with sweat rolling down his face as he knew what the Were-Pokemon was trying to tell him.
"I guess it's trying to warn me about dying either as the Were-Pokemon or as myself. I guess I should go back to sleep before the others hear me." thought Ash, figuring out what the Were-Pokemon was trying to warn him about.
He quickly went back to sleep and he didn't have the dream repeat in his mind once he fell asleep, but he did have a wonderful dream without the Were-Pokemon interfering too.
(In The Morning)
Ash was the first one to get up and when he entered the bathroom to get cleaned up before they went to the contest, he was shocked at what he saw in the mirror.
He saw the Were-Pokemon staring back at him and it was moving with him wherever he moved.
"The Were-Pokemon? What are you doing here?" asked Ash to the Were-Pokemon in the mirror.
"I'm here to tell you congratulations on finding out why you're having those weird dream that I keep sending you." said the Were-Pokemon in Ash's mind.
"That was you giving me all of those bad dreams?" said Ash, almost yelling that out, but he quickly remembered that he was talking to a mirror reflection of the Were-Pokemon instead of the real Were-Pokemon.
"Yes, it was. I was trying to warn you that I've been having a bad feeling about Mike and Peter ever since you met them. I think that they are the ones that keep trying to get rid of me, but they'll end up getting rid of you too if they're not careful." said the Were-Pokemon, explaining to Ash its feelings about Mike and Peter.
"Are you saying that they are the ones that shot you?" asked Ash curiously, putting his right hand on the bandage on his left arm and winced a little from pain.
"Yes, that is true. You're just lucky that I have attacks from all of the different types of pokemon and they are the type's most powerful attacks too or you wouldn't be here right now." said the Were-Pokemon, letting Ash know that he would be dead right now if it wasn't for it having the attacks.
"I guess that's why I keep getting pain in my stomach, right?" asked Ash, putting his right hand on his stomach.
"No, that's actually a reaction from transforming from me into you. The real answer is that people that put up a fight with me or people that keep on thrashing inside of me." said the Were-Pokemon, looking at Ash's stomach and its own.
"Why do I sometimes cough up bones and blood after you get done eating someone?" asked Ash, putting a hand on his head as he felt a little lightheaded from talking to the Were-Pokemon and leaning onto the sink for support.
"That is the leftovers that don't get finished digesting before I transform into you. Ash, you need to lie down before you faint and your friends hear that you have fainted from what I've been telling you. I'll see you in your dreams, but I'll take over for you since I can feel you starting to lose consciousness." said the Were-Pokemon, taking over for Ash.
Once it was in control, it put Ash back into Bed and let him lay there unconscious since there was nothing that it could do at all with waking Ash up.
(30 Minutes Later)
The others were trying to wake Ash up since he was still asleep after he brought himself to sleep mode after being unconscious for 15 minutes.
"Ash, wake up!" said Angie as they were finally about to give up.
Once she said that, he started to wake up from a peaceful sleep, sort of.
"Hey, guys. What did I miss?" asked Ash, getting up from the bed.
"Well, you didn't miss anything, but we were starting to get worried that you weren't going to wake up for a second there." said Brock as they were heading out of the room so that they could go down to the dining area.
(In The Dining Area)
They got there in 5 minutes flat since their room wasn't too far from the dining area.
"So what was with you still asleep this morning? It's not like you to be the last one up." asked Angie curiously.
"I just had a bad dream this morning and I couldn't get back to sleep until an hour before you guys woke me up." replied Ash, enjoying his breakfast and trying to get them off of his back for a while.
They took that little explanation from Ash without much hassle since they were too busy thinking about the contest in an hour.
Once they got done, they went over to the Contest Hall before the contest was about to begin like last time.
(At The Contest Hall)
When they arrived there, they had to wait for 15 minutes before the contest began.
They found out that Dawn was going first and Jessilina was going second out of all of the coordinators since this was their last chance to get into the Grand Festival.
After waiting for 15 minutes for it to start, the contest finally began.
(Dawn's Appeal Round Performance)
"Ambipom, Spotlight! Ambipom, Swift followed by Double Hit!"
The Swift was beautifully destroyed by the Double Hit, leaving little colorful rainbows everywhere.
"Ambipom, Double Team followed by Focus Punch!"
The Double Team was destroyed wonderfully since the Focus Punch was coming from inside of the circle that the Double Team made.
Ambipom landed in front of Dawn and put its tail around her like a heart too and their wonderful performance.
(Jessilina's Appeal Round Performance)
"Go Carnivine! Carnivine, Bullet Seed followed by Bite!"
The Bullet Seed was destroyed somewhat beautifully by the Bite.
Once it was done, it landed in front of Jessilina with its Vine Whip going around her that looked like a messed up heart.
(In The Coordinator's Waiting Room)
It didn't take too long before all of the appeal round performances were finished and the judges had made their choices about the eight coordinators moving on.
When the others were coming to tell Dawn that Ambipom looked great, Marian came out to announce the eight coordinators moving on.
Dawn was first and she was in the first battle while Jessilina was seventh and she was in the last battle.
Dawn won her way into the finals with Ambipom easily while Jessilina won on points both times that led her into the finals with Carnivine.
So it's a different finals from before, but who will be the winner of the Mill City Contest: Dawn or Jessilina?
(The Final Battle Of The Mill City Contest)
"It's time for the finals! We have Dawn on one side and Jessilina on the other. 5 minutes on the clock and begin!" exclaimed Marian, looking between Dawn, on her left, and Jessilina, on her right.
"Ambipom, Spotlight!"
"Go Carnivine!"
"Ambipom, Double Team followed by Double Hit!"
"Carnivine, Bite followed by Bullet Seed!"
The Double Team confused Carnivine before it was able to release both of the attacks while Double Hit knocked Carnivine out quickly.
"With Carnivine unable to battle and 4 minutes left on the clock, Dawn and Ambipom are the winners!" exclaimed Marian, pointing to Dawn.
"No fair! No fair! NO FAIR!" yelled Jessilina, being pulled off the stage by a disguised James and Meowth.
"Oh, great. Just what we wanted to deal with today." said James and Meowth in unison as quietly as possible.
It took Dawn only a minute to get her fifth ribbon.
"Alright! The Mill City Ribbon is mine all mine!" said Dawn, doing her usual pose.
Once the contest was over, they went back to the Pokemon Center so that they could get something to eat.
(At The Pokemon Center)
When they got there, Ash started to feel a little lightheaded so he, alone, went on back to their room while the others, including Pikachu, went to the dining area.
When he was inside their room, he collapsed onto the bed, onto his stomach, and fell asleep in the same position too.
When the others saw him like that, they didn't even attempt to wake him up to give him the poffins and they went right to sleep too.
(In Ash's Dream)
Ash was in his mind as he was looking at the Were-Pokemon as it was doing the same thing to him.
It looked like it was mad at him for some reason and it has eyes that were red instead of the usual brown like Ash's eyes.
Ash was starting to get scared of it as it was looking at him differently from before.
When Ash was about to start backing away from it, it let out an Ice Beam, which froze Ash's feet right where they were and started to hit him with its Vine Whip all over his body with a few good slashes on his chest too.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash didn't notice that he was starting to bleed a little from where he got hit by the Were-Pokemon's Vine Whip until he started to feel the sting of more attacks that it was hitting him within his dream.
(Back In Ash's Dream)
Ash had just gotten hit by a Dark Pulse hard when he noticed that he was bleeding badly from where he had gotten hit by all of the attacks.
Just then, the Were-Pokemon started to charge up for its final attack to finally get rid of Ash.
He quickly knew the attack and discovered that he needed to get out of the way of its Hyper Beam or he wouldn't see tomorrow at all.
Just as he was about to move to dodge the Hyper Beam, the Were-Pokemon stopped him with its Vine Whip and all he could do was look at the Were-Pokemon as it released its Hyper Beam and destroyed Ash like that and now it was in control of his body after killing the one person that stood in its way.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash woke up quickly, but he noticed that he was bleeding a little as it was starting to come out of his sleeve, onto his arm.
He removed his shirt carefully to find the Vine Whip marks all over his chest and he went right into the bathroom to get himself all bandaged up and when he was done with that, he went right back to bed and again he didn't have the same dream as he did before.
(In The Morning)
The others were waking up when they noticed a pained expression on Ash's face as he put his right hand onto his chest to clutch it as the pain seem to be more severe than what he thought it was.
"Ash! Come on, wake up!" said May as they were trying to wake him up.
It took them about 10 minutes before they were able to wake him up from his painful sleep.
He was panting hard and a little bit of sweat was showing on his face as he was still clutching his chest where he was bleeding last night.
"Ash, are you ok?" asked Angie as they were all worried about their friend.
"Well, I'm ok, except that I started to bleed last night when I was in a crazy dream with the Were-Pokemon." replied Ash, still clutching the same spot as before.
"What was it like?" asked Brock curiously.
Ash explained everything from how the Were-Pokemon looked at him, to the whole getting eliminated by its Hyper Beam.
"Why would the Were-Pokemon do that to you even in your dreams?" asked Dawn after he as done.
"I don't know, but now they're starting to scare me." replied Ash, looking at the bed.
"What are you talking about, Ash?" asked Brock curiously again.
They were all confused on what Ash had just said.
"The dreams that I've been having lately are finally getting to me because I've had them every time that the full moon isn't up yet." replied Ash, shaking a little from having to remember those horrible dreams.
"Is there a way that we could stop them before you do something that you might regret like kill yourself?" asked May curiously.
Ash was starting to get mad at them for asking him so many questions that he either didn't want to answer or didn't want them to get involved in his problem with the Were-Pokemon.
"NO, THERE'S NO WAY THAT I'M LETTING YOU GUYS HELP ME WITH DEALING WITH THE WERE-POKEMON!" replied Ash, getting up from the bed and he started to walk toward the bathroom so that he could have some peace until, he collapsed from the pain in his chest.
They went over to check on him and found out that he was ok, but the outburst was another sign that he didn't want them to worry about him and having to get themselves get killed by the Were-Pokemon.
Once they were done in their room, they went down to the dining area for breakfast before they leave for their next destination.
(In The Dining Area)
While they were eating their breakfast, Brock was looking at the book of Almia again to find out where the Grand Festival and the Almia League was being held.
"It says that the Grand Festival is in Fulling Town and the Almia League is in Champion City. So we'll go to the Grand Festival first since it's on the way to the Almia League." said Brock, looking at the others now.
Once they got done eating their breakfast, they left the Pokemon Center for their next two destinations.
After a weird morning involving Ash, our heroes are heading to Fulling Town for Dawn and May to compete in the Grand Festival and Champion City for Ash to compete in the Almia League against Paul and win.
That was Chapter 21. Hope you liked it. Sorry to all of my reviewers for not receiving a review reply. My alerts were turned off and I just recently turned them on so I'm back up and running. :D Hopefully I can give you a chapter or two on Thanksgiving. That's my goal. See ya later!
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