The graveyard was not bright and colourful like the tribe place had been. For some reason, all I could see in this strange place was black and white, and several shades of grey. The black, dead trees didn't even move, as there seemed to be a lack of wind in the air. These trees looked like a fire had burned them, but they had been left standing with only charcoal left. Vengeance looked around her, frowning at the look of the empty place.
"Where is everyone?" She shook a little. "There used to be loads of pokemon here when I was a shuppet. But now...everything is grey!" Her eyes glowed red for a second as she shouted the word grey, but she seemed to calm down quickly. She gave a sigh, and turned towards us, looking Sweetie and Rick in the eye.
"What's wrong?" Sweetie asked, twitching a little.
"I don't know." Vengeance gave a sigh. "This place used to be covered with purple aura and trees that bore fruit...for ghosts of course. And this place used to be populated with ghost type pokemon...what happened?"
"I don't know, and I don't think anybody else knows." Seedeth said, shaking her head.
"Maybe they are playing some game or something." I laughed nervously, "Why don't we walk around for a bit?"
The rest of the group looked at me for a second, and nodded. And so, we walked through the graveyard. Behind the trees where a whole field of graves, seeming to crumble just at our living presence. Vengeance floated around the graves, summoning bones and dancing with them for a second before placing them back. She floated up to us, and gave us a worried look.
"Something wrong?" I asked, looking into the banette's blue eyes.
"The bones won't dance with me, or put themselves together!" She shook a little and gave a sigh. "Something has gone wrong here. I need to fix this!"
"What is the point of fixing something if it is already fixed?" A familiar voice sounded from behind a grave. Out from behind the grave stepped out the cubone I had encountered so long ago. He still held his bone weapon, which lead me to believe that he had picked it up or made a new one like it, but he had a scar over his face that looked like a giant scratch. He gave a little chuckle, and swaggered up to me.
"Nice to see you again." He grinned, pointing his weapon at me. His eyes then met Seedeth's. "And you owe me blood money!" He growled, pointing his weapon at the aipom. Seedeth growled, but didn't attack him for some reason. The cubone laughed, and turned away.
Vengeance continued looking at the cubone with an odd look in her eyes. "I remember you." She hissed. "You are one of those cubone witch doctors I have seen many a night. You take aura from this place, and use it for your potions." Her eyes glowed red. "You took the spiritual energy out of this place, didn't you?" She then lunged towards him, pins materialising next to every part of her body. I closed my eyes and held Seedeth's hand. I did not want to see another one of Vengeance's cursing attacks.
The cubone laughed, and shook his head. "No, it is not me who has improved this place." He shook his head in a cheeky manner. "A lot of people, including myself, where dependant on this aura mine for years. But there was one guy who ended up storing it all in some big tank...so we don't have to risk our butts fighting off you ghosts anymore."
"Where did the other ghosts go?" Vengeance growled, the pins getting closer to her body.
"To another place with aura...a mountain of some sort..." The cubone pondered, seeming to ignore the fact that the banette was quite pissed off at the moment.
"Useless." Vengeance hissed, and struck herself with a pin. The dark aura around her seemed to vanish as quickly as it appeared, and the cubone gave a chuckle.
"No aura here." He stated, humming to himself. "Curses can't work here with no magical energy."
"You got me there." Vengeance growled, and turned towards us. "Which one of you wants him?"
Rick gave a grin. "We water types know how to deal with these ground types." He chuckled, giving Sweetie a kiss.
Sweetie gave a grin. "Can I help too?" She asked Rick, pulling at his shell. Rick gave a smile and nodded.
Vengeance floated off the cubone to let Rick and Sweetie finish him off. At this moment, however, the cubone jumped up on his feet, and clicked a button on his bone. Blades appeared on the end of the bone, and he gave a little chuckle.
"Come get some." He said, spinning his blade around.
Rick then squirted water all over him, covering himself in a constantly running veil of water. After this, he rammed into the cubone with all his might. The cubone fell backwards, but still was able to hit Rick on the shell with the cubone's blade. It was at this point where Rick hid inside his shell, as the cubone started hitting at him with the bone.
Sweetie responded to this by punching at the brown reptile pokemon while spinning around pretty much like a ballet dancer. A few of these punches caused the cubone to end up spinning around crazily, and it was at the point that Seedeth and I decided to join in.
To help with the confusion, I started attacking with chatter. Chatter is an attack that pretty much consists of me talking about utter non sensual stuff, so I started ranting on about how the whole pokemon world was going through a social crisis. Needless to say, it did leave the pokemon to stare at me stupidly the whole time, but didn't do much else.
Seedeth had a better idea, and started shooting stars out of her tail. This swift attack went everywhere. The stars hit me, Sweetie, Rick, and even Seedeth, only not hitting Vengeance because, as a ghost type, normal type energy seemed to just fly through her with no real consequences. Vengeance gave a sigh, seeming to be unable to battle because of her lack of moves, and looked away. Rick popped out his shell and forced water to rush right into the cubone's stomach. The cubone held his stomach in pain as Sweetie ran over to him and started slapping him with his ears. He shook his head, lay on the ground, and moaned in pain.
"Guys, enough is enough now." Rick said while trying to stand up again. "We beat him."
"Yep, ok then!" Sweetie giggled, and picked Rick up. After this she turned towards the cubone and smiled. "You're so cute, little cubone...its too bad we had to beat your ass like that."
"Being ganged up on...isn't fair." The cubone moaned, blood pouring out of the skull on his head.
"Life isn't fair." Seedeth smirked. "Or I wouldn't be on the run from Jason and The warm place."
"T-the warm place?" The cubone stammered slowly. "They want to kill you? I've hated that place since...well, since you where born!" He got up slowly, only to land against Seedeth's leg. "If only...I had the strength...to get rid of you for them."
Seedeth stepped back a little with a look of disgust. "Just be glad we are letting you live."
"Why are you letting him live?" Vengeance asked, floating up to the cubone with a angry look on her face. "Look what he did to this place!"
"He didn't do this." Seedeth said.
"But, he helped it be like this!" She screamed, "He needs to die for what he has done to the place!"
"If you kill, you are going to their level." I explained, patting her arm. "It's best to leave him to fend for himself."
Vengeance pulled a face for a second. "I hope he dies." She hissed, and floated off behind some trees. We all ran after her, wondering what she was going to do now. We eventually spotted her looking at a grey river with a sad look in her eyes. We all seemed to stare at her mumbling to herself, and Seedeth pushed me over to her to council her. I felt a bit strange being chosen as the councillor, but I flew a few feet away from her and watched her carefully.
"Devio river." She uttered. "That's where I met him."
"Vengeance?" I asked, walking up to her slowly.
"He was such a cute pokemon, floating around and showing me stuff." She continued, seeming to stare into space. "I taught him and he taught me...then we started talking about people we loved. Then we discovered that we where meant to be...but why did it go?" She turned towards me. "He promised he would never leave me like this!"
"Sometimes, things like that die." I said softly. "I knew an absol, called Jason...I loved him for a while, and then moved on."
"I can't move on though." She said.
At this moment, I seemed to turn to auto pilot. My heart started ruling over my head, and I stroked her shoulder softly.
"Open your mouth." I said, looking into her eyes.
"W-why?" She stammered, seeming to notice the change in me.
"I want to kiss you." I heard myself say.
Vengeance opened her mouth slowly, and I slowly placed my beak inside her mouth. She stood there blankly for a second while my tongue massaged hers. This seemed to calm her, and she seemed to collapse around me like a sleeping baby. I gave a sigh, and lay her on the grey grass. Seedeth ran up to me, and slapped me in the face.
"Why the hell did you do that?" She growled, her gemstone eyes seeming to be on fire.
"She needed it." I said blankly. "I'm sorry Seedeth...I didn't think that words would help her."
Seedeth's fiery eyes seemed to die at this moment, and she gave a small smile. "Sign me up for your psychological treatment." She chuckled, giving me a kiss.