Chapter 21! If you don't like ghosts skip the chapter!
Sky
I groaned and opened his eyes. "What happened?" I whispered, slowly getting up. I noticed that the group was now in a small cave. Kyle and Sophie seemed to watching a pot strummed over a small fire. To my left was the outside world. Stars twinkled in the dark sky. The Rapidash were sleeping on the sand outside.
"Don't get up until you feel like it," spoke Rein, from his spot near the entrance of the cave.
"What happened?" asked Fang, his face filled with concern, "You suddenly fell off your Rapidash and you looked very pale."
"There was a girl's voice," I explained, "And she… she was screaming in pain."
"A ghost?" wondered Sophie, "There have been reports of ghosts in this desert. It seems to come from the fact that hundreds of years ago, this area was the home for the Clan of Light."
"You mean the clan of shiny pokemon back when they were oppressed?" asked Spark.
Kyle nodded and stirred the pot, "Correct. They have all moved out now."
"Please…"
I clamed my paws over my ears. I didn't want to hear her screams. Her cries of pain and despair. Rein got up and sat down in front of me, watching my eyes carefully. I wasn't really caring about what he did. I didn't want to hear her screams again. The screams became louder and seemed to come from deep inside my head. I clutched my ears painfully and fell to the ground. I could vaguely hear Pokemon calling out to me but I couldn't-wouldn't reply. Her voice was too much. Just as suddenly as her voice came, it left me. I shakily got up and sat upright. I looked around and saw everyone staring at me, their faces filled with concern.
"Sky, you are Sky right?" asked Rein.
"What are you talking about?" I snapped. I was tired and just wanted to sleep for some reason. It was quite odd.
Rein grabbed me by my shoulders, "Don't fall asleep. You hear me? Don't you dare fall asleep!"
'What are you talking about?" I snapped, removing Rein's claws from my shoulders. What was his problem? Why was he staring at me with such concern? All I wanted to do was sleep.
"Listen to me," Rein's face an inch away from mine, "Don't you dare fall asleep." I was getting tired of listening to Rein. I pushed him and got up. "Where are you going?" asked Rein.
"Out," I answered leaving the cave. Outside, I was hit with the cold air of night desert life. Without looking back I headed into the desert. The moon was full in the sky above me and seemed to lay a path out for me in the sand. I don't know why put I followed it. Around me the scenery didn't change, it was just sand dunes for miles around but somehow I knew I was moving. The path of moonlight seemed to grow smaller and smaller until it was about the length of a Weedle. I paused. Sitting in the middle of the road with her back to me was a Turtwig. Her body racked as she sobbed and sobbed. I reached out a paw, "Hey are you okay?"
She paused in her sobbing and whispered with her back still to me, "Who are you? Are you going to poke me?"
"Poke you? No." I moved closer to the Turtwig, "Here let me help you up. Turn around so I can see your pretty face."
"Thank you," she placed her foot in my paw. Then she turned her head towards me. I cried out in shock. Her face was torn away revealing the bones underneath. Her empty eye sockets seemed to glow red. I tried to remove my paw away from her foot but I found out I couldn't. She chuckled and whispered, "Thank you for your body." I couldn't believe it! The little Turtwig was a ghost! Most ghosts wandered around looking for bodies to take over and I couldn't believe that I would become one of the many Pokemon whose souls fell to the ghosts. I began struggling franticly but she seemed to pull me downwards, closer to her face.
"Holy Seal!" A card with markings on it seemed to fly out of nowhere and hit the Turtwig in her face. She screamed and released my paw as the card burned her skin. Fang, and Rein seemed to appear out of nowhere. Rein grabbed me and so did Fang. Together they dragged me away from the screaming girl. Suddenly the path of moonlight was gone and I was back in the desert. Kyle and Sophie were standing by the Rapidashes. Sophie was holding a card in her hand, ready to throw it again if she had to.
"You okay?" asked Spark, once we reached the Rapidashes.
"Yeah," I whispered, turning back to the girl. However she was gone, only a skeleton in the sand remained.
Kyle and Sophie carefully crept over to the skeleton. Sophie was clutching the card tightly, her eyes scanning for anything unusual. When nothing happened, Kyle picked up the skeleton and carefully took it back to us. When he reached us, Kyle grimly pointed to a dog's chain around the neck bone.
Rein read it, "Number 3475. Property of the Purity Organization…"
"That explains the screaming," I said numbly, "It was her past memories of being captured by the Purity Organization."
"They probably dumped her body here after she died," spoke Sophie putting her cards away, "So her ghost isn't at peace…"
"Will my sister end up being like that?" wondered Fang, "Will…Yuana….suffer like her? Will she turn into a ghost and take away Pokemon souls?"
"We won't let them," comforted Spark.
"But first we should do something about her," I gestured to the Turtwig skeleton.
Without a word we headed back to the cave and dug a hole in the sand inside. Kyle carefully placed the skeleton within the hole and covered it with more sand. Sophie took out some prayer beads form her bag and whispered something under her breath.
"Is Sophie a priestess?" whispered Fang to Kyle.
Kyle nodded, "Yup. An ex-priestess."
After Sophie finished her prayers we climbed back on our Rapidashes and got going. I looked back and in the rising light I thought I saw a Turtwig smiling at us from the cave.