Okay we are up to Chapter 53 in the story. So anyway as always…BE AFRAID, read, BEWARE, review, MAY ARCEUS HAVE MERCY ON YOUR INSIGNFICENT, JUICY AND DELICOUS MORTAL SOULS and enjoy.


Narrator:


In the magnificent world of Pokemon there are many different kinds of cities and towns, some are big…some are small, some have different rules, different styles, but there is one town in the Kanto region, which is feared by the travelers who are aware of its existence but for those who enter this town not knowing of its nature…they may never come out the same way again…this is a tale of once such town with a dark past and nature which our young heroes are about to enter…


It was an extremely dark and cloudy night in a forest route in the Kanto region and a light shined from the flashlight being used by Max while him along with Ash, Pikachu, Bianca, May and Dawn walked threw the dark forest which was pitch black because of the clouds covering the moon which made the young trainer's flashlight the only source of light.

Ash groaned when he tried to turn on his Pokegear to see where they're current location was "Damn it! I'm sorry guys…but my Pokegear's battery is dead" He complained.

He then placed the powerless Pokegear back into his pocket as they continued to walk threw the dark forest with only Max's flashlight to give them light.

"I told you that you should have recharged its battery before we left the Pokemon Center in Fuchsia City!" Bianca said.

Ash sighed from what Bianca had just said, "I know and I feel stupid for not doing that," Ash replied with a hint of shame in his tone of voice.

Pikachu then sighed "Pika…Pikachu…" it said.

"Hey Max do you still have your PokéNav with you?" Ash asked.

"Yeah I do, I'll use it to check where we're going!" Max said with a positive tone of voice and then he reached into his backpack and pulled out his trusty PokéNav that he used all of the time back when him, Ash, May and Brock traveled threw the Hoenn and Kanto regions.

Max then turned the PokéNav on but before Max could the map to find out where him and the rest of the group were heading a sign of a empty battery with a caution sign over it came up that said "LOW BATTERY CONNECT TO POWER" and then the light on the screen flickered off.

"Well that's just great, what could happen next to us?" Dawn asked.

Suddenly Max's flashlight began to flicker and then it flickered off which indicated that its batteries had run dry which then left the whole group in complete and utter darkness in the forest on that night.

"Why did I say that?" Dawn asked.

"Guys I can't see anything!" May said.

"None of us can see anything May!" Max remarked to his sister.

"Guys don't freak out I have an idea!" Ash said and he took a Poke Ball from his belt.

"Charizard! I choose you!" Ash said and he then threw the Poke Ball into the air, which opened up and in a flash of bright blue light unleashed the Flame Pokemon from its Poke Ball who let out a loud and mighty roar after being unleashed from the Poke Ball.

Charizard then flew in front of the group and his tail with its flame tipped tail now provided them a good bright light which will make their journey threw the deep dark forest much more easier to move threw.

May then let out a loud sigh in relief "That's so much better!" she said.

The group then began to walk again while Ash's Charizard flew in front of them while being low to the ground, which provided them light.

"So how much longer do you guys think this forest is anyway?" Dawn asked "The only way to know that answer Dawn, is if we actually manage to get out of it" Max remarked.

"Hey guys look! I see a sign up ahead!" May said and pointed to a sign in the distance and the group rushed over to it to read what it said.

"So what does it say, somebody read it?" Dawn asked and Charizard put his tail in front of the sign, which showed that what was written on it, was "WELCOME TO LAVENDER TOWN".

"Lavender town?" Dawn asked.

"I've never heard of this place before" Max said.

"I've actually been there, it was way back when I was starting out as a trainer" Ash said.

"I say we go there, any place is better then being in this forest" May said, as she wanted to get out of the dark forest they were in as soon as possible.

The group then went past the sign and looked down from the ledge they were on to see a town which was covered in fog with the two most noticeable things about the whole place being two large towers which were located on the opposite sides of the town, one which had the appearance of a demonic creature while the other looked somewhat like a church tower.

"TURN BACK!"

"Huh?" Ash asked shocked by what he had just heard.

"What's wrong Ash?" Max asked.

"I heard someone say turn back," Ash said.

"Well I didn't hear anything" Dawn said.

"Yeah neither did I" May said.

"I didn't hear anything too" Max said.

"I didn't either" Bianca said.

"Pikachu, did you hear anything?" Ash asked the Electric Mouse Pokemon who sat on his shoulder.

Pikachu nodded his head back and fourth "Pika…"

"No huh, I guess it was nothing then" Ash said.

"TURN BACK NOW!"

"There it is again!" Ash said.

"What again?" Max asked.

"What…are you guys saying you didn't hear that either?" Ash asked.

"Hear what Ash?" May asked confused by what Ash just said.

"Oh…lets go" Ash said and then him along with the gang began to walk down into Lavender Town to stay there for the night.

"I'm serious guys, I heard someone telling us to turn back again" Ash said as he tried to convince his friends that he actually heard what he had just heard only a mere few moments ago.

"If that's true, then why didn't we hear anything Ash?" Bianca asked.

"I don't know, but whoever said that sounded pretty serious…it was probably nothing" Ash said shrugging whatever that he heard earlier off as nothing more then the wind.

Suddenly a clap of thunder boomed in the sky and raindrops began falling from the sky and soon enough buckets of rain began to fall from the sky down on to the gang.

May then collapsed to the ground on to her knees.

"WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY?" May asked as rain poured down from the sky on her and the rest of gang.

The group then walked into Lavender town and looked around the place to see several people with umbrellas walking the streets, which were in rather low numbers.

"I wonder where the Pokemon Center around here is" May said wanting to get out of the rain and while they walked threw the rain Ash accidently bumped into a young girl who held an umbrella and the two fell to the wet ground.

"Oh I'm sorry, I bumped into you!" Ash said getting up from the ground and helped the girl up from the ground.

"Oh, its okay but can I just ask you a question?" the girl asked as she picked up her umbrella which she dropped when she bumped into Ash and put it back over her head.

"Okay sure, what?" Ash asked.

The girl looked into directly at Ash's face "Do you believe in ghosts?" she asked in a low tone of voice.

"Ugh…yeah why?" Ash asked, "Oh no reason really, I was just curious" she said and then walked off with her umbrella giggling.

"That was kind of random" Dawn said a bit confused by what had just happened.

"Hey guys! Look there's the Pokemon Center!" Max said pointing his finger in the direction of the facility which is a huge source of light in the rainy and darkness of the night.

"LOOK! I AM SERIOUS TURN BACK NOW OR YOU WILL ALL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"

Ash heard this mysterious voice again and froze in his tracks.

"Lets go inside, I'm tired of being wet!" May said and the group ran toward the entrance of the center and while the rest of the group went inside Ash and Pikachu stayed outside.

"Okay buddy I know you didn't hear it but I seriously heard someone telling us to turn back, what the hell is happening?" Ash asked Pikachu who was sitting on his trainer and best friend's shoulder.

"Pika, Pika, pi"

"Ash, why are you still outside, come inside you'll get all wet?" Bianca asked at the opened entrance of the Pokemon Center and Ash heard this and quickly came back to his senses.

"Oh…coming!" Ash said and he ran threw the entrance into the Pokemon Center and the automatic door closed behind him and Pikachu.

Soon enough the group had dried off from being outside in the rain and had all sat down for a meal at the Pokemon Center.

"I'm telling you guys I heard something out there and whoever it was said it was serious about wanting us to leave!" Ash explained.

May while she listened to what Ash was telling them all sucked in some of the noodles she was currently eating with her chop sticks and swallowed them "Yeah but like we said Ash, we didn't hear anything" she said.

"Ash, don't take this the wrong way but…how have you been sleeping lately?" Bianca asked.

"Yeah, why are you asking…Wait…Do you guys think I'm just hearing these things inside my head?" Ash asked a bit offended and insulted by this question asked to him by Bianca.

"Well…Ash we're not hearing any of the stuff you've said that you heard, so…" May said.

Ash frowned at this obviously offended by what his friends were suggesting to him.

Ash sat up from the table and walked off.

"I AM NOT JUST HEARING THINGS!" he yelled as he walked off.

"Ash, wait!" Bianca said.

Pikachu followed Ash as he walked off.

Ash then went over to the window and looked at the dark and rainy night outside.

Pikachu then ran toward Ash and climbed on to his shoulder.

"I'm not just hearing things Pikachu, there's something wrong I need to find out" Ash said to the Electric Mouse Pokemon.

"Oh, you have no idea what is happening…"

"Who said that?" Ash asked and turned around to see nothing but the wall.

Ash groaned at this "I am not going crazy" he said to himself and Pikachu.

"I don't know, hearing things that other people don't is a pretty good sign of it…"

Ash turned around this time to see a Clefairy who was see through and had a purple aura, which surrounded it.

"Did you just…talk to me?" Ash asked a bit disturbed by this and Pikachu looked at Ash with a rather confused look.

"What does it look like you stupid human?" she asked him.

"You don't see this, do you Pikachu?" Ash asked the Electric Mouse Pokemon on his shoulder who gave Ash a nod which told him that he couldn't see the Clefairy Ash is seeing right now.

"Of course he doesn't, 'cause I don't want him to, but for some reason you can see and hear us," she said.

"What do you mean us?" Ash asked.

The Clefairy simple smiled at Ash and she began to laugh maniacally and began to disappear into thin air.

"Hey! Wait!" Ash said and ran at the disappearing Clefairy but it vanished and he slammed right into the wall and he and Pikachu fell right down on to the ground and Ash sighed out of frustration.

"Okay…maybe I am just seeing things," Ash said to Pikachu who is on the floor next to him.

"Pika…."

Outside of Lavender Town in the forest where the gang where before the storm started three figures in the distance ran threw the heavy rain and soon the figures came into being which revealed them to be none other then the Team Rocket trio Jessie, James and Meowth who held leaves that were no bigger then their own heads over their heads to try and keep themselves dry.

"Come on, how much longer is dies' forest anyways?" Meowth asked, as the leaf that he held above his head was not keeping him very dry from the rainfall.

"I don't know, I think I lost the map that we had!" James said.

"Mime, Mime, Mime, Mime!" Mime Jr. said while on James' shoulder.

"Hey look out there!" Jessie said spotting something.

The Trio looked out at what Jessie had spotted and saw Lavender Town, which could be seen thanks to the various lights that were on in various buildings.

"Hey guys! Look at the sign!" Meowth said and pointed the same sign that Ash and the guy found and Jessie and James came over to where Meowth was and read it.

"Lavender Town?" James asked.

"I remember! We came here way back when we first started chasing after the twerp and his Pikachu!" Jessie said.

"Wait a sec, don't you guys remember that big Rocket operation that the boss had here about two years back?" Meowth asked his teammates.

"Hmmm…now that you mention I actually do remember hearing about that," James said.

"Really, what happened?" Jessie asked.

"You sayin' ya' never heard of that 'op?" Meowth asked shocked by this.

"No, why?" Jessie asked.

"Well about two years back, some guys that the boss sent over here to…"

Suddenly before Meowth could finish his sentence the rain suddenly stopped and was replaced by thick fog.

"Hey, The rain stopped" Jessie said.

"Yes but a bigger question is where did all this fog mysteriously spring up from?" James asked.

"Mime, Mime?" Mime Jr asked as it rubbed its head.

"Chooooooooooooke…"

"Ugh…did anyone else here that?" Jessie asked.

"Actually Jessie a much more important question we should be asking is…WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT?" James asked and then he pointed out into the fog to see a large figure as it marched toward them at a very slow rate and soon it emerged from out of the fog and revealed itself to be a Machoke which had no pupils and only pure white eyes that glowed along with tears in its flesh which exposed muscle and bone with dried blood on it.

"Is that a…Machoke?" Jessie asked.

"If it is one it looks like it's been in some kind of accident or something" James said terrified by the mangled up looking Machoke.

"WHATEVER IT IS I SAY WE BOOK IT BEFORE IT TRIES ANYTHING!" Meowth yelled with obvious fear in his voice.

"CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!"

The Machoke then charged at the trio and they all yelled in fright of the scarred Pokemon and ran away as fast as their legs would allow them to, from the it as it followed in hot pursuit at a speed as fast as the trio ran at.

"'DAT THING IS GAINING ON US!" Meowth said.

"YOU DON'T THINK THAT WE DON'T NOTICE THAT ALREADY MEOWTH?" James asked.

The Machoke then released a stream of fire from its mouth aimed at Team Rocket who quickly dodged it and landed in some bushes.

"If we don't do something soon we'll be barbequed!" Meowth said.

"So then we have plenty of time for a counter attack," James said and him and Jessie pull out their Poke Balls.

"Seviper! Lets go!" Jessie said and threw the Poke Ball into the air, which unleashed the Fang Snake Pokemon from its Poke Ball.

"Seviper!"

"Amoonguss! You too!" James said and he also threw the Poke Ball into the air, which unleashed the Mushroom Pokemon from its Poke Ball.

"Amoonguss!"

"Seviper use Poison Tail!" Jessie commanded.

The dagger part of Seviper's tail then glowed violet and Seviper slammed it right on the scarred Machoke with it but it was not fazed by the poison type attack.

"Machoke!"

It then grabbed a tree and then forcefully ripped out of the ground from its roots and threw it right at the trio but they all jumped out of the way and the tree missed them.

"Jessie, it doesn't look like that attack had any affect on that thing!" James said.

"Well, what are you just standing there telling me, have Amoonguss do something?" Jessie asked.

"Oh right, Amoonguss use Stun Spore and Paralyze it!" James commanded.

Amoonguss then waved its arms and then it released sparkling orange powder from them at the Machoke but like Seviper's Poison Tail attack the grass-type attack had no effect on it.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me, that didn't work either?" James asked.

It then turned its body in their direction.

"CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!"

"Say…ugh guys…I got a new plan that might work just as well as attacking that mook in fact, it might even be better…RUN AWAY!" Meowth yelled.

The trio along with Seviper and Amoonguss then took off once again with the Machoke right on their tails at a very fast speed.

Several hours into the night Ash was now asleep in his bed in the Pokemon Center along with Pikachu.

"Well you seem to be the prettiest girl I've met so far at this quaint little gathering…"

"…Thanks, I'm actually here with Professor Oak along with Spencer Hale and his wife"

"…My name is Delia"

"…Mine is…"

But before the dream he was having could have gone any further Ash's eyes opened up wide and he woke up from his sleep.

"What…what the hell was that?"

Ash then got out of his bed and then walked over and looked outside of the window to see that the rain outside has stopped and that the moon was out which shined its blue light down on to the town.

Pikachu now awakened came over to where Ash was and looked out the window with him.

"Pika, Pikachu"

"You know, maybe I was just hearing and seeing things Pikachu" Ash said.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"What was that?" Ash asked.

"Pika, Pikachu!"

They looked out the window into the distance and saw the Team Rocket trio running into the town at a fast speed.

"Its Team Rocket!" Ash said.

"Pika!"

"IS THAT THING STILL GAINING ON US?" Meowth asked while running at the same time.

"I DON'T THINK SO, I THINK WE LOST HIM AN HOUR AGO!" James said.

Meowth then tripped while running and he crashed right into James then Jessie along with Amoonguss and Seviper and the whole trio along with their Pokemon fell to the ground into a pile and they all sighed and were now out of breath from running so long to get away from the Machoke.

"Team Rocket!" Ash said now in his regular clothes as he stepped in front of them with Pikachu.

The trio then got up from the ground with whatever strength they had left from hours of running and took dramatic poses.

"Prepare…for…trouble…"

"Make…it…double…"

"To protect the world…oh who cares…we're too exhausted to do the stupid motto" Jessie said.

She and James then collapsed to the ground once again from exhaustion.

"What are you guys even doing here anyway?" Ash asked.

"Just a sec…we need to…catch our breaths…it's…a long story," Meowth said as he breathed heavily.

Several moments later the trio after they regained some breathe and were now seated down on a bench in front of Ash.

"Alright, so why were you guys here?" Ash asked again.

"Pika, Pikachu!"

"Alright…well we were stalking you and friends like always, when it started raining…" James explained.

"…Then we reached the entrance to Lavender Town and then the rain stopped and it was replaced a lot of fog…" Jessie explained.

"…Then we were attacked by this Machoke…" Meowth explained.

"And?" Ash asked.

"Well it didn't look like a regular one, it had scars and cuts all over his body, there even some exposed muscle and bones on him and he didn't have any pupils just plain white eyes, he chased us for at least three hours in a half before we managed lose him," Meowth explained.

"Really, is that the best lie you guys could come up with, after all these years?" Ash asked unconvinced of their claims.

"Hey look Twerp! We are telling the truth that thing was trying to kill us!" Jessie yelled.

"If you are telling the truth then why was it trying to do that?" Ash asked.

"We don't know, it just showed up out of the fog and tried to off us!" Meowth said.

"Right…then where is it?" Ash asked still unconvinced.

"We don't know, like we said we lost it!" Meowth said.

"...And our Pokémon's attacks couldn't hurt that thing at all!" James said.

"Look, I'm tired and I don't want to deal with you guys right now…so…could you just leave?" Ash asked and he began to walk off back the Pokemon Center.

"You'll be eating your own words twerp, when that big galoot comes here and tries to off you and your pals!" Meowth yelled out as Ash walked away from them.

Suddenly Ash heard maniacal laughter in a deep scary sounding voice.

"What was that?" Ash asked.

"Whatever it was it didn't sound very nice sounding" James said frightened.

"Wait you guys heard it too?" Ash asked surprised by this.

"OF COURSE THEY DID, BECAUSE I ALLOW THEM TO HEAR ME, YOU INSIGNIFICENT HUMAN"

"Who are you and what do you want?" Ash asked.

"YOU WILL LEARN SOON ENOUGH, ALONG WITH THE REST OF LAVENDER TOWN, BUT FOR NOW THESE ROCKETS MUST FIRST BE PUNISHED FOR THE SINS THEY HAVE COMMITED"

"What does he mean by that?" James asked in a scared tone of voice.

Whoever spoke to the Trio and Ash simply let out a quiet maniacal laugh and soon fog surrounded them all.

"Geez, I don't like da' looks of this!" Meowth said as the trio huddled together as they shivered in fear of whatever horror they are about to face.

The sounds of feet walking could be heard in the distance inside of the thick fog.

"I hear something coming towards us!" James said.

"What is it?" Jessie asked.

"I don't know, but if it's anything like that Machoke, then we're all royally screwed!" Meowth said.

Ash then pulled out a Poke Ball to get ready to fight whatever was coming toward them and Pikachu's two red cheeks began to produce static.

"Ready Pikachu?" Ash asked.

"Pika!"

Soon a shadow of a small in stature and rather pudgy being came in the fog and it stepped out of it and revealed itself to be nothing more then a regular looking Psyduck.

"Psy…Psyduck"

The trio took a good long look at the Duck Pokemon who simply tilted its head to the right.

"Psy…"

The three of them were silent for a moment as they took in all that they have just seen and then suddenly the Team Rocket trio began to laugh hysterically at the Duck Pokemon.

"Oh how SCARY! A Water-type Pokemon that has constant headaches!" James remarked and he continued to laugh.

"I'm surprised that you just bring that Machoke back, he could at least rip us in half instead of starring at us all night!" Meowth remarked.

"If that's the best you have to throw at us, then this will be simple!" Jessie remarked.

The Psyduck then from the looks of its eyes became angry at the trio for their mocking comments and then suddenly both of its eye balls sunk into its sockets which immediately gained the attention of the trio who seized their laughter along with Ash and Pikachu.

"What in the hell?" Meowth asked.

The Psyduck then smiled a creepy smile which revealed sharp teeth inside of it and then some of its skin began to peel off of its arms, torso and feet which revealed the bones underneath which left shock filled expressions on Ash, Pikachu and the trio.

The Psyduck then let out an eerie almost otherworld-like cry, which was a bit of pain on everyone's eardrums.

"Is that…thing even a Psyduck?" Meowth asked scared out of his mind of the undead Psyduck.

"Pikachu use Thunderbolt!" Ash said.

Pikachu then jumped off of Ash's shoulder and static surrounded his entire body.

"PIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

Pikachu then fired a bolt of electricity at the undead Psyduck, which hit the undead Duck Pokemon, but it simply stood there and took the electric type attack as if it did no damage to it.

The Psyduck then let out yet another loud eerie cry and it then fired a Scald attack at Ash and Pikachu but they jumped out of the way before the water-type attack could have hit them.

"Why didn't your thunderbolt hurt that thing Pikachu?" Ash asked.

"Pika, Pika, Pikachu"

"Can any attack hurt this thing for that matter?" James asked.

"I don't know, but I say we don't stick around to find out, lets get out of here!" Jessie said and her along with James and Meowth began to walk away from where they were to try and get away from the undead Psyduck.

The Psyduck noticed this and turned to them and it fired an ice beam attack and it froze them up to their necks, which kept them from moving.

The Psyduck then smiled and began to walk slowly toward the frozen trio and pretty much ignored Ash and Pikachu.

"Why is that thing walking toward us?" Jessie asked a bit scared.

"Jess…I think it intends to…kill us!" James said.

The Psyduck was getting closer and closer toward the trio so that it could kill them in whatever way it was going to this.

"This is it guys! We're goners!" Meowth said.

Ash looked down on the ground and saw a large rock; he then bent over to pick it up from the ground.

The undead Psyduck was now in front of the trio and looked up at the three of them with its extremely creepy and frightening smile and empty eye sockets and then it prepared to do whatever it was going to do to kill them.

Ash then threw the rock right into the back of the head of the undead Psyduck, which knocked it right down on to the ground.

"Hey twerp, aren't ya' gonna get us out of this ice?" Meowth asked unable to move his body, which is trapped, inside of the ice.

"Sorry but I don't trust you guys that much to be able to wander free, while I'm fighting this thing" Ash said to the trio and they all frowned at him response.

The Undead Psyduck got up from the ground and looked at both Ash, Pikachu and the trio giving them yet another deadly state with its creepy smile, then it fired a huge stream of scalding hot water which was surrounded by steam from its mouth at them all.

Ash and Pikachu then jumped out before the Scald attack could hit them but instead it hits the frozen Team Rocket trio where they where trapped and the blast of hot water melted the ice which trapped the trio and soon enough the ice melted completely and they were freed.

The Psyduck saw this and let out yet another eerie screech.

"It might be smiling but that thing doesn't look very happy at us!" James said.

The Undead Psyduck then opened its jaw open wide and it fired a magenta colored beam of energy with multicolored particles from its mouth which hit the ground in front of the trio, Ash and Pikachu which set of a small explosion.

The explosion sent Ash and Pikachu flying into opposite directions, which resulted in the two of them, landing face first on the ground while Team Rocket was sent flying into the sky.

"Well look at the bright side at least that thing didn't kill us" Jessie said.

"Indeed, but that was not in anyway fun" James said.

"That's for sure…" Meowth said.

"LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

Ash and Pikachu then got from the ground with really no serious injuries aside from a few minor scratches and looked at the undead Psyduck who was several feet away from both of them.

"YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY WARNINGS FROM EARLIER HUMAN IT COULD HAVE SAVED BOTH YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF YOUR FRIENDS, BUT YOU HAVE MADE YOUR CHOICES AND SOON ENOUGH…ALL OF YOU MEET YOUR FATES"

"What do you mean, what are you gonna do?" Ash asked whoever it was that just spoke to him.

The only response that Ash got from whatever it was that just spoke to him was simply complete and utter silence.

Ash and Pikachu then turned around to where the Undead Psyduck stood only to find much to both of their shock that it had disappeared along with the fog that had just previously surrounded both them and the Rocket trio.

"This doesn't look good, does it Pikachu?" Ash asked his best friend and main Pokemon.

"Pika…"

"We have to do something quick, before whoever's doing this can do anything more…" Ash said.

Narrator:

And with that our hero Ash has just gotten a simple glimpse of Lavender Town and its nature, but can he and his friends overcome what is to happen to them soon?

Stay tuned and find out…

To be continued…

Okay we just wrapped up Chapter 53 of the story and Part 1 in this three-part Storyline of Lavender Town. I'm going to try and make these chapters as scary, emotionally and knowing what happened to Lavender Town in the games Tragic as possible.

Next Chapter: The Tragedy of Lavender Town