Chapter 25
Spiritual Exchange
Akira sat in the pokémon center in front of one the video phones. The screens were lined up against one of the back walls, with red stool seats in front of them. "You caught a new pokémon? That's great!" Akira's mother was on the screen in front of her daughter, a large smile on her face. "I guess…" Akira pulled her bangs back, and smiled weakly. "Is something wrong with that pokémon?" Mrs. Rahcek had a half frown on her face, like when a parent gets ready for a child to confess to their misdeeds. "There isn't anything wrong with it per say…" Akira coughed. She could hear her baby sister making noises behind her mother. "It's a magikarp." She spat, and her mother rolled her eyes. "No! It's okay with me to have one, but I don't have enough time to train it into a useful part of my team!" Akira defended, as her mother gave a small nod. "So what are you going to do with it?" Mrs. Rahcek pulled a small 2 year old girl with dark hair into her lap. They little girl tapped on the screen. "Mitt! Where Mitt?" She frowned as she looked around her sister for an eevee. "Aw, Does Holly really misses having Mitt around the house?" Mrs. Rahcek bounced little Holly on her lap, causing her to giggle. "Oh! I'll send magikarp to you and Holly! And she can have a pokémon to play with." Akira picked up magikarp pokeball and held it in front of the screen. "You want a pokémon Holly?" The two year old screeched with a huge smile on her face.
Once Akira finally convinced her mother to let Holly take care of magikarp, she had to call professor Oak to send I back to Pallet City. Akira had spoken to professor a few times turning the school year, but never on the phone. She waited in front of the phone as it buzzed. "Calling…calling…" The mechanical voice told her. As the receiver picked up, Akira jumped. "Hello?" The face on the other side seemed a little worried. "Hello Professor Oak. Um, I'm Akira Rahcek." She said robotically. "Ah yes." He looked around for a minute and then pressed his spiky hair down. "Right. What can I do for you?" He sat in front of the phone, looking much more composed then before. "I would like to transfer this magikarp back home so my mom can pick it up." Akira explained as Oak nodded. "Of course. Just use the transfer machine and I'll do what you've asked. The transfer address in 725538. Thanks for calling in advance. Goodbye." He said. Akira noticed that he must be very busy to not engage in any conversation.
The transfer machine was a large black and red machine with white and blue lines and buttons all over the place. In the center, there were three silver mechanical looking holes that were the size of a maximized pokeball. Akira put a finger upon the touch screen and a little pokeball popped up. A computerized 3-D pikachu came out of the ball and waved its little yellow paw. "How can the pokémon transfer system help you today?" The pikachu asked, as three options slid out from the right side. They read; Transfer pokémon, receive pokémon and trade pokémon. Akira touched the first one as another picture appeared. Now pikachu said "Please put an active transfer address." Akira punched in the number as Professor Oak's profile came up. "Please place you pokeball in the transfer slot. Then when you are ready, press send." Pikachu explained. Akira guessed that the silver holes where the transfer slots. She put magikarp's pokeball in the slot, and pressed the red send button at the bottom of the screen. The pokeball lit up and looked as though it was slowly disintegrating. When the sphere was totally gone, pikachu finished up. "Thank you for using the pokémon transfer system. Please come back soon!" Then the screen when dark.
"So you go rid of magikarp?" Erin laughed, as the group sat down for lunch. "I did not get rid of magikarp. I'm letting my mom take care of him." Akira pulled her head back and huffed. "Hm. Ell at least I'm going to get the prize Mr. Morrison was talking about." Erin mocked as she held up shellder's pokeball and spun it on her finger. "Yeah, but I found shellder. You just go it in the pokeball." Akira flipped her wrist around and rolled her eyes. "Well it doesn't matter who find it, just who catches it." Harlan interjected, earning him an elbow to the ribs ala Akira. "You're supposed to be on my side." She growled. "Fine Akira, if it's something I don't want, you can have it." Erin put her hands on the table and smiled.
"How about we do some sightseeing?" Harlan stated randomly as the group was eating breakfast. The nurse Joy of this center had recommended a traditional island dish which Akira and Erin and plunged into. "Hmm?" Akira chewed, as Harlan sighed. "Yeah, there are a lot of interesting places to see around here. Like this." He pulled a flyer off the window pane. It featured a cliff side with grayish lavender statue. It was in the shape of a young woman who was looking over the cliff side. "A rock?" Akira groaned while Erin took the poster. "Don't down play a landmark Akira." Erin shoved another fork full of food into her mouth as she looked over the poster. "It's called maidens peak. There is suppose to be really cool legend behind it." Harlan smiled in an attempt to convince Akira, but she simply shoved the fork into her mouth, her eyes narrowed. Harlan gave up with the historical appeal and decided to give Akira what she wanted. "And sometimes you can see a rare ghost pokémon there." Akira stopped eating as a large smirked emerged on her peach colored face. "Well what are we waiting for?!"
It was slightly cloudy outside, but not in the way it as if it was going to rain. More like it just blocked out the sun and enveloped the sky in a sheer gray. Akira groaned as her pushed her stomach up against the stone railing that divided the tourist side from the landmark side. The weather didn't seem to improve her mood either. "There are no pokémon here." She whined as Erin pulled her shirt. "No be such a kid. Let's look around some more." She flipped her blonde hair back as the three of them walked along the railing. "Look at this." Harlan pulled his hands over a large rock where the top had been smoothed down. A shiny blue plate with writing it was placed on the smooth part, so it looked like a table with a place mat. "It says 'The Legend of Maiden's Peak. Over 1000 years ago, there was a woman who was in love in sailor. One day that sailor was going out to see and the woman told him that she would wait for him forever. The man never return, but she remained waiting, until the elements turned her to stone.'" Harlan read. Erin whined "Oh, that's so sad!" But Akira just rolled her eyes. Erin caught the motion and growled, "Akira you're so heartless!" "Yeah right! I just wouldn't waste my time waiting like that! Besides, there is no pokémon around here!" Akira retorted, folding her arms over her chest. "Don't be so sure little one…"
Akira yanked her head toward the statue. There was a glowing light violet around the edges, making the maiden shift around. "A-Akira, what did you do? Pokemon shouldn't even be able to talk!" Erin stuttered, as she and Harlan begun to back away from the railing. "Maybe it's a pokémon!" Akira smiled, doing the opposite from her friends and heading toward the light. "How brave of you." The statue muttered a figure begun to pull itself from the maiden's stone body. "This is right out of a horror movie…" Harlan croaked, as the figure begun to take shape. A body with large glaring red eyes pulled a heavy smirk on its face, which took up most of its body. Spikes jutted from the top of its head, its entire body sporting a violet hue. It swung its stout arms in front of its mouth and chuckled. "You shouldn't insult this maiden's love." The creature floated above the statue and made a slight hissing sound. "Akira, that's a gengar! It's a powerful ghost pokémon." Erin squeaked. "A gengar?" Akira looked at the pokémon, as it grinned at her. "What's it doing here? I though ghost pokémon didn't like areas that are sunny." Akira placed her hands on her hip. The comment was directed at gengar. "You are a courageous thing, aren't you child?" Gengar raised its hand up over its head, collecting black energy in its palm. "I am the protector of this spirit and this love!" Gengar screeched, as it hurled the energy at the kids.
The black energy smashed into the ground in front of Akira, sending her flying back. As it happened, three smaller ghost pokémon immerged from the nearby shrines. They whirled around gengar, screeching as their dark circular bodies were followed by a trails of purple gas. "Oh no! There are gastly too?! Akira we should get out of here!" Harlan gripped Akira's arm, but she yanked it away. "No way! This pokémon is so cool!" Akira's eyes were gleaming, but Erin pulled on her other arm. "This is way out of our league. You won't be able to capture it!" Her golden eyes were dark and strict. "Fine." Akira huffed, as they got ready to leave. "Where do you think you're going?" Gengar growled, as it teleported on to a shrine building that lead out of the landmark area. "You will not leave here. You have insulted the
maiden." Its eyes begun to glow brightly, reading itself for attack. "What? I didn't say anything bad about her!" Akira screamed back, breaking gengar's concentration. "I think this pokémon was a soul at one time." Harlan said, standing up and gengar rubbed its hands over its face. "What's that? And we should move." Erin asked, as the kids ran behind the rock with the blue tray on it. "It might have been the maiden when until she died…or someone who loved her." Harlan starched his head. He peered from behind the rock to see gengar looking around for its prey. "Oh. That's great Harlan. But how do we stop gengar from trying to kill us?!" Akira growled in her lowest voice, as she grabbed the lapels of Harlan's shirt. "Well ghost pokémon hate sunlight…but it's too dark out today." He said, pointed up to the sheer gray covering the sky. "That's a problem." Erin cried, covering her eyes. "Maybe not." Akira smiled as she pulled out a pokeball.
"Hey Gengar!" Akira cupped her hands around her mouth. "Sorry that you're a love loser!" She laughed as she ran across the grass. "Insolence!" Gengar screamed as her hurled another dark ball at Akira, missing her by a foot. The three gastly swung over her head, missing by a few inches. From what Akira could see, their eyes were glowing red and bright. They seemed to be hypnotized. "Flora, go!" Akira tossed they heavy ball in front of her, as she tripped. A large brown dinosaur pokémon with leaf wings and fruit dangling from its neck, Tropius, erupted from the ball. "Your pokémon cannot beat me!" gengar growled, as it landed on the maiden's statue. "Don't have to. Flora, Sunny day!" Akira smiled, as tropius shot a beam of light from its mouth into the sky. The clouds begun to disappear as the sun sleepily emerged from blanket of clouds. "NO!" Gengar screeched its body begins to shiver and shake. "My power…" It muttered, falling to the ground. The ghost pokemon that gengar had been controlling previously shook, as the red in their eyes died down. They floated or a few seconds and then the first two transported away. The last one stared as Akira with a friendly grin painted on its round boby and teleported just as the others did.
Akira skipped over, and patted gengar on the head. "You shouldn't try to hurt people." She said, while gengar gave her a gloomy expression. "But I wanted to protect her…" He grumbled, looked at the maiden's statue. The statue begun to glow again, but this time the light surrounding the stone was a bubble gum pink. A woman with long lavender hair emerged from the stone with a soft smile on her face. "Don't fret my love. You have done enough for me already." She picked up gengar's weaken body. "I'm sorry for his actions. He cannot help himself sometimes." She giggled, as Akira picked herself up off her knees. "Yeah. I guess you don't have to be waiting anymore then." Akira coughed, as the ghost of the maiden smiled. "You will one day find something worth waiting for." She giggled. That was the last thing she said, as she floated back into her stone body, gengar in her arms.
"Akira, you okay?" Erin yipped as she ran up. "We couldn't see a thing after that strange fog kicked in after tropius' sunny day." She explained. "Really? You didn't see the ghost of the maiden?" Akira rubbed her head, but both Harlan and Erin shook their heads. "Oh. She told me I would find something to wait for one day. But I don't know what she meant. Oh well." Akira shrugged as Harlan and Erin exchanged knowing glances. They left through the shine entrance. Akira turned back to see gengar and the ghost of the maiden waving back at her.
To be Continued
Author's Note
Hey Everyone! Yay for filler chapters! This chapter was a weird one, but I wanted to put something that related back to the original pokémon series. I actually have a thing for ghost pokémon, which is why Akira isn't afraid of gengar at all. She also is a huge tomboy because she believes that love and things like that are a waste of time. Bear in mind, she only 11, but she dislikes things that can largely distract people from things that are important. But she'll learn. Thanks for reading!