Okay so far in the story we are up to Chapter 54 in the story. We are also up to Part 2 in the three-part Lavender Town storyline. So anyway as always Read, Review and enjoy and yes I am not trying to be scary when saying that this time.


Narrator Recap:


After arriving in Lavender Town at night, Ash discovered things were all but well with the mysterious town after he began to hear and see strange and unusual things and then became convinced to take action after he and Team Rocket were attacked by a spirit of a dead Psyduck commanded by an Unknown Force. But the question still lingers…can Ash and his friends overcome whoever is behind all this?


End Recap.


Merely an hour after the battle with the undead Psyduck creature, the sun had risen high in the sky to signal the start of a brand new day in Lavender Town and Ash along with Pikachu had left to go the local police station to tell the local Officer Jenny of what transpired the night before.

"Okay, Okay…young man…just please start from the beginning, what did you say happened?" Officer Jenny asked as Ash had just told her everything that had transpired not long before in a rather fast and rushed fashion.

"Sorry Officer Jenny…you see yesterday I started hearing a voice telling me and my friends to leave Lavender Town, then I saw a Clefairy even though my Pikachu couldn't see it and then I woke up before the sun came up and me and I saw Team Rocket run into town and…"

"Wait, did you just say you saw Team Rocket, where?" She asked showing more interest in Team Rocket then from the rest of what Ash was telling her.

"Ugh…I just said that I saw them run into Town" Ash said.

"How many were there?" Officer Jenny asked.

"Only three of them and they weren't really doing anything wrong, they told me that they were running from some kind of Machoke monster thing" Ash explained.

"Okay…then what happened?" she asked with obvious doubt in her tone of voice.

"Then some fog came and some creepy voice told us that Team Rockets needs to pay for their sins and then this zombie Psyduck thing came and attacked us!" Ash explained.

"Pika, Pikachu!"

"So, what happened to the Team Rocket members?" Officer Jenny asked.

"They got sent flying off when the Psyduck zombie used Psybeam!" Ash responded.

"Pika!"

The Officer Jenny then simply looked at him with a confused look on her face.

"What, you don't believe me?" Ash asked.

"Young man…are you on any kind of…well how do I put this lightly…hallucinogenic drugs?" She asked.

"What? No! I'm serious, after Team Rocket blasted off that voice said everyone here would all meet their fates soon and the Psyduck disappeared, you have to believe me!" Ash said.

"Do you have any witnesses to support this claim?" She asked.

"Ugh…well…Team Rocket saw everything but I don't where they are now…but I've got Pikachu to back me up," Ash said.

"Pika, Pikachu!"

"Can anyone that speaks human back up your claim?" she asked.

"Ugh…no, not…really" Ash said.

Not very long after this Ash and Pikachu left Lavender Town's Police Station after their unsuccessful attempt to get the Officer Jenny to believe their story.

"Well, that didn't work Pikachu…" Ash said.

"Pika, Pi…"

"There's gotta be someone that believes me, we have to do something before whatever was talking to us last night does whatever he's gonna do!" Ash said to his best friend.

"I believe you, Ash"

"Huh, who said that, Pikachu did you hear that?" Ash asked.

"Pika, Pikachu" Pikachu said and he nodded which answered his trainer's question.

"Hey, who said that, where are you?" Ash asked.

"Come to the café in the center of town where we can talk to each other in private"

"Well Pikachu, if we're going to find out more about what's happening here, then we'd better get moving" Ash said to his best friend.

"Pika, Pika, Pi!"

The two then went off into Lavender Town to the center of it to meet whoever had just called Ash and Pikachu threw some sort of psychic means.

Meanwhile back at the Pokemon Center in Lavender Town the rest of the gang, which consisted of Bianca, Dawn, May, and Max looked for Ash and Pikachu, as they hadn't seen either of the two since they left the Pokemon Center hours earlier.

"Where's Ash and Pikachu, I haven't seen them all morning?" Dawn asked as she and the rest of the group searched the Center for the two of them.

"I don't know, I haven't seen them either" May replied as she ate a rice ball she was eating for breakfest.

"I asked the Nurse Jane…Jenny…Jamie…no that's not right…Oh wait Joy! She said that she hasn't seen them either" Bianca said.

"I'm kind of worried about him guys, Ash said he was hearing voices that we couldn't hear last night…" Max said.

"So what, do you think he just went crazy and ran off with Pikachu into the woods?" Bianca asked.

"Well…for all we know…" Max said.

Back in Town Ash and Pikachu were now in the Center of Lavender Town as they both searched for the person that had summoned them there threw some sort of psychic means.

"Hello, where are you?" Ash asked out loud while he tried to see where this person was.

"Pika, Pi!"

"Turn to the left and walk twenty-five steps"

"Okay…let's hope this doesn't get us killed Pikachu" Ash said unsure that whoever is talking to them isn't simply another hostile spirit.

"Pika…Pi…"

The two then proceeded to do what the voice had instructed them to do and turned to their lefts and began to walk twenty-five steps to wherever it would lead them to and soon enough they stopped when they reached the twenty-five steps mark and realized that they both were now in front of a small and empty café in Lavender Town.

"Huh?" Ash asked, as he did not see anyone in the café.

"Pika? Pikachu?"

"You're right Pikachu, there's nobody here" Ash said.

"Don't speak so soon Ash…"

Ash and Pikachu heard this and they turned around to see a woman that was seated down in a chair in the café who had long dark green hair, wore a large sun hat that partially concealed her face along with red and black clothes.

"Ugh…who are you?" Ash asked.

The woman then tilted her head up in Ash's direction, which showed her face and revealed that it was none other then Sabrina the leader of the Saffron City Gym.

"Sabrina?" Ash asked shocked by this.

"PIKA?"

"Its nice to see you again Ash, you too Pikachu, seat down we have a lot of things to discuss" She said.

"Ash! Ash, where are you?" Bianca asked out loud as she along with May, Max and Dawn searched for him and Pikachu in Lavender Town.

"Maybe he's not even in Lavender Town anymore" Max said.

May then looked out and she saw Ash and Pikachu seated down at the café with Sabrina.

"Hey look, there he is over there!" She said.

"Why do you call me over here Sabrina?" Ash asked.

"Pika, Pi…"

"I came here to Lavender Town when I sensed an intense disturbance several weeks ago and I when I arrived I started hearing someone telling me to leave or I'd face terrible consequences" She explained.

"Yeah, that's what happened to me when my friends and me came here…and that's when things starting getting pretty weird" Ash explained.

"How weird?" Sabrina asked.

"I saw a talking Clefairy that called me stupid that disappeared and an undead Psyduck" He explained.

"I thought so, I did sense something like that earlier" Sabrina said.

"Ash!" Bianca yelled.

Ash, Pikachu and Sabrina then turned the attention to Bianca, May, Max and Dawn who had managed to catch up to Ash and ran over to the café.

"Ash, there you are, we've been looking for you everywhere" Dawn said.

"Don't worry guys, I'm fine" Ash said.

"Yes, we were simply talking" Sabrina said.

Bianca, May, Max and Dawn heard this and turned their heads in Sabrina's direction.

"Huh, Sabrina?" Max asked.

"Who's she?" Bianca asked.

"Allow me to introduce myself…" Sabrina said and then removed her sun hat and placed on the café table "…My name is Sabrina and I am the leader of the Saffron City Pokemon Gym" She explained to Bianca.

"Oh well my name is…"

"Bianca, I'm fully aware of who you are" Sabrina said.

"How do you know who I am?" Bianca asked.

Sabrina then smiled at Bianca's question "I have my ways" she said.

"So what were you guys even talking about?" Dawn asked.

"Oh I was telling Sabrina about that voice I heard, along with a ghost Clefairy and that undead Psyduck me and Team Rocket fought last night outside the Center" Ash explained.

The rest of the gang after they had heard what Ash had just explained stood dead silent and still for a moment.

"Ugh…Ash…I think you should see some sort of doctor" Bianca said.

"What…No, I'm serious guys I saw all those things, Pikachu saw that undead Psyduck and if Team Rocket were here they'd back me up!" Ash said.

"Ash is telling the truth," Sabrina said.

"How do you know?" Bianca asked.

"Because I've been sensing psychic disturbances throughout Lavender Town in the last few months, I'm a psychic which is how I was able to read your mind Bianca" Sabrina explained.

"That's amazing" Dawn said.

"Wait, if what Ash is saying is true…that…that means…"

"There are spirits of deceased Pokemon here in Lavender Town and it seems they're rather hostile towards humans," Sabrina said finishing May's sentence for her.

"But why are they mad at us anyway, what did we do to them?" Dawn asked.

Sabrina sighed "Well the reason is…it's…it's just tragic" she said.

"Why, what happened?" Ash asked.

"Pika, Pika, Pi?"

"About Two Years Ago Team Rocket came here to Lavender Town…its never been clear what they wanted them for but they tried to capture all of the Pokemon but the Pokemon wouldn't give up without a fight and when they did…Team Rocket murdered over thirty Pokemon" Sabrina explained with clear pain in her tone of voice.

"WHAT?" Ash asked in a shocked tone of voice.

"Sabrina a-are you serious?" Dawn asked visibly shaken by this revelation.

"I am…like I said it's was just terrible what happened" Sabrina said.

Ash then slammed his fist on to the table of the café.

"I knew Team Rocket have done some really bad things, but I didn't think they'd do anything like this!" Ash said with extremely clear and obvious rage in his tone of voice and facial expression.

"No wonder the ghosts you saw said they wanted Team Rocket to…"Pay for their sins"…the worst part is that I kind of agree with what they're saying…" Max said.

"So what are we supposed to do now?" May asked.

Sabrina sighed "That's the tricky part…I'm starting to think that something is influencing the spirits' behavior, something very powerful…more powerful then anything that I've ever sensed before" she explained.

"So where do we start?" Dawn asked.

Sabrina thought about what Dawn had just said for a moment and then stood up from her chair.

"We're going to start…at the Pokemon Tower," She said.

"The Pokemon Tower, what's that?" May asked.

"Look there" she said and Sabrina then pointed across the town in the direction of a rather tall and large tower, which slightly resembled some sort of church which stood at the edge of Lavender Town.

"It kind of looks like a church" Dawn said.

The gang along with Sabrina then began to walk over to the tower.

"So do you feel anything, you know something psychic that's coming from the tower?" Bianca asked Sabrina who then placed two fingers on her forehead and began to scan the tower with her psychic powers for anything that might give her and the group any answers about what's happening in Lavender Town.

"I'm…I'm actually picking some kind of energy inside of the tower and it's the same kind I've been feeling in Lavender Town for the last weeks now, but…"

"But what?" Dawn asked.

"Its…its more powerful then I remember…as if its been growing more and more over the last few weeks" She explained to the group.

"So should we go inside the tower, Sabrina?" Dawn asked.

"Cubone!"

"Huh, what was that?" Max asked.

Suddenly out of nowhere a bone was thrown in front of the group and they turned around behind them to see that the thrower of the bone was in fact a Cubone which had a very aggressive look in its eyes which were visible through the skull on its head.

"Hey, it's a Cubone!" Ash said.

"A Cubone?" Bianca asked and then she pulled out her Pokedex.

"Cubone the Lonely Pokemon. It is known as the Lonely Pokemon due to its tendency to keep to itself and avoid sociality and if it is sad, the skull it that it wears will shake and emit a plaintive and mournful sound"

Cubone then ran over to its bone where it removed it from the ground and then pointed it at the group in a threatening manner.

"Cubone!"

"I don't think that Cubone wants us to go into the tower guys" Dawn said.

"But why would it do that?" Ash asked.

Cubone then put both of its hands together and then spread them apart and created a light green bone of energy.

"Cubone!" It yelled as it ran toward the group where it then jumped into the air to strike them with the Bone Rush attack.

"Hey, what is wrong with that Cubone, what did we do to it?" May asked.

"Perhaps I can learn why it's attacking us," Sabrina said.

She then looked directly at the Cubone and used her psychic powers to look into the Lonely Pokémon's mind to see why it acted hostile toward the group.

"Cubone, please open up your mind for me" She said to Cubone with her psychic powers.

"The Cubone went that way, after it!"

"Out of our way, skull head! The little runt is coming with us!"

"ERGH! How dare you get in the way, I'll show you!"

"Cubone! Cubone! Cubone!"

Cubone soon began to shake its head viciously not wanting Sabrina inside of its head any longer.

Sabrina knew why it did that and severed her psychic link with Cubone.

"What happened?" Dawn asked.

"I saw…nearly everything inside of Cubone's mind…This Cubone's mother was one of the victims of Team Rocket's attack here," Sabrina answered with very obvious shock, horror, sadness and sympathy for Cubone in her tone of voice.

"You're…you're kidding, that's just…awful," Bianca said.

"Yeah…it is…" Ash said as he clutched his fists in obvious anger over what he had just learned.

"Sabrina, did you see who did it while you were reading its mind?" Max asked.

"No…Cubone didn't want me inside of its mind anymore so I left before I could see who it was that killed its mother" She answered.

"So its mother must be buried inside the tower, which is why it doesn't want us to go inside," Bianca said.

"Look Cubone, we're really sorry what happened to your mom, but when need to get into the tower, something bad is happening and we need to find out what it is so we can stop it…" Ash said as he tried his best to reason with the orphaned Cubone.

Cubone's eyes merely sharpened their hostile look at Ash and held up its bone then it threw the bone in Ash's direction.

The spinning bone then hit Ash right in the chest, which caused him and Pikachu to both fall on the ground below with Ash grabbing his chest as it throbbed from the pain the Bonemerang attack Cubone just used.

"It appears that this Cubone is not going to listen to reason...and in that case I have no other choice" Sabrina said and pulled out a Poke Ball.

"Hypno use Hypnosis!" She said and then she threw the Poke Ball into the air, which unleashed the Hypnosis Pokemon from inside of it.

"Hypno!"

Hypno then stepped in front of the Cubone and it began to swing its pendulum in front of its eyes.

"Cubone! Cubone…bone…"

Cubone soon began to get tired out from the pendulum's swinging as its eyes struggled to stay open but soon enough the Psychic powers of the pendulum worked its magic and Cubone laid down on the ground and feel soundly asleep.

Sabrina then recalled her Hypno back to its Poke Ball and then went over to where Cubone slept on the ground.

She then picked up the sleeping Cubone with both of her arms and rubbed its skull head with a look of sympathy on her face.

"You poor child, to think such a horrible thing could have happened to you," She said with a sad look on her face.

Sometime later the group along with Sabrina all returned to Lavender Town's Pokemon Center to get the orphan Cubone some medical assistance from Nurse Joy.

The group after they arrived gave the orphan Cubone to the Center's Nurse Joy to examine it and help restore its not so perfect health.

Soon after that they seated themselves down in the Center's waiting room and waited patiently for Nurse Joy to come out and give them the result of Cubone's medical examination and while they did Ash gathered his thoughts about all that has happened that day.

"I can't believe that Team Rocket would something like this…I know they've done other horrible things like kidnapping Pokemon or performing experiments on them which you could say is just bad or worse…but killing them just for defending themselves…who could even live with themselves after something like that?"

The Center's Nurse Joy entered the waiting room where the group had waited about forty-five minutes for her to come out and tell them about Cubone "Cubone is doing fine, his only injuries were some scratches and cuts and I don't think that he's eaten in awhile" She explained.

May then stood up from the bench the group sat on "So why did it take forty-five minutes to figure that out?" She asked.

"Well…Cubone didn't seem to like being examined by us and…well take a look," she said.

She then lifted up her shoulder sleeve to show a bruise mark, which looks rather fresh and looked like the Orphaned Cubone caused it with its bone while Nurse Joy and her Chansey tried to examine it.

"Cubone was being very violent, it was nearly impossible for us to give it an examination…we had to give him a mild sedation injection to calm him down," She explained with a sad tone of voice.

"But don't worry about Cubone, I've already called the people who run the Pokemon volunteer house and they'll be here to come get him soon" She said.

"What volunteer house?" Ash asked.

"It's a place where people raise and take care of abandoned and orphaned Pokemon, Its where Cubone was staying until he ran away about two weeks ago"

"Why did he run away?" Dawn asked.

"The caretakers think it's because of Mr. Fuji disappeared recently, no one has been able to find him," She explained.

"What? Mr. Fuji has gone missing?" Sabrina asked shocked by this.

"Ugh…I don't mean to sound stupid by asking but who's Mr. Fuji?" Ash asked.

"We can tell you"

The group heard this and turned around to see that the one who had just spoke was a young girl with red hair which was tied into a ponytail on the back of her head along with a blond woman and a man.

"Oh Reina, you came here fast" Nurse Joy said.

"So Cubone is here, thank Arceus we've been looking everywhere for him, we've been so worried" The man said.

"So you all know who Mr. Fuji is?" Ash asked.

"Yes, Mr. Fuji is the man who started up the Volunteer and he was the one who found Cubone after its mother had died…" the girl named Reina explained.

Flashback-Lavender town-Two years Ago

The young Cubone whose mother had just been ruthlessly murdered by Team Rocket operatives sat alone against a tree with it now filled with sadness, anger and hatred by what had just happened.

Suddenly a man walked over toward the tree Cubone was and the Lonely Pokemon looked up to see the man who was bald and had white eyebrows named Mr. Fuji.

Cubone simply scowled at the old man as the very young Lonely Pokemon did not trust humans after the death of its mother but Mr. Fuji simply kneeled down and petted its skull head to show that he does not mean any harm to it.

"I'm not going to hurt you, I simply wish to help you and all the other Pokemon harmed by what Team Rocket had done," He explained to Cubone.

Cubone took in all of what Mr. Fuji had just claimed to him and it placed its bone on the ground as I sign that it did not intend to attack Fuji with it.

Mr. Fuji then picked Cubone off of the ground and held it in his arms.

"You poor thing, it makes my heart ache to think such atrocities can happen to innocent Pokemon like you," He said.

Cubone began to weep and sob in the kind arms of Mr. Fuji as it let out all of the emotions that it had felt since its mother's murder at the hands of Team Rocket.

End Flashback

"But I don't get it, if Cubone was looking for Mr. Fuji then why was he just outside Pokemon tower when we found him?" Ash asked.

"Wait a minute…what if Mr. Fuji…went inside of Pokemon tower?" Reina asked as she pieced together what possibly could have happened to the kind old man.

"If that's so and Mr. Fuji did go inside of Pokemon Tower, he could be in serious danger especially with all of the ghosts inside!" the blond haired woman said with clear fear in her voice.

"What, you've seen the ghosts of the dead Pokemon inside of Pokemon tower?" Sabrina asked.

"Yes, I have, I went in there one day to put some flowers on the grave of my Sunflora and suddenly some voice told me to get out or else I would die" she explained with very clear fear in her voice as she recounted her experience in Pokemon tower.

"So what are we gonna do about Mr. Fuji, if he's still alive and in the tower, he won't be much longer?" Dawn asked.

"Well then we have no choice…we need to enter Pokemon Tower and rescue Mr. Fuji" Sabrina said.

"That's insane, what are you going to about all the ghosts inside of the tower once you get inside?" The volunteer house man asked as while he wanted to rescue Mr. Fuji as much as anyone in the room but knew that the spirits of Pokemon tower were probably hostile toward humans by what the blond woman had described happened to her.

"Wait! If you all are going in there I have something that might help you notice ghosts easier!" Nurse Joy said and then she ran over to a storage closest near the reception counter and began to dig through a box where she pulled out several sets of some sort of goggles and brought them back over to the reception area.

"What are those things?" Dawn asked.

"These are Silph Scopes, they're a special type of goggles developed Silph Co, They can allow who ever uses them to see things you can't normally see which I think may be able to show where a ghost might be" Joy explained.

"That sounds great!" Max said.

Max along with Bianca, May and Dawn go over to Nurse Joy and they each take a Silph Scope from the box and they placed it on their heads which all managed fit their heads very well.

Nurse Joy handed two of these over to Ash and Sabrina.

"So we just put these on, turn them on inside of Pokemon Tower and we'll all be able to see ghosts?" Ash asked as he examined the Silph Scope given to him.

"Yes and hopefully you'll all be able to find them very useful inside the tower" She said.

"Thank you, Nurse Joy" Ash said.

Sabrina then turned her attention to Reina and the other two Volunteer house "Don't worry, we will do all that we can to bring back Mr. Fuji alive," She said.

Sometime later as the sun began to set over Lavender Town the group stood in front of the Pokemon Tower where potential both the answer to why the spirits of deceased Pokemon in the town are becoming so hostile and Mr. Fuji if he was still alive.

Sabrina closed her eyes and used her psychic abilities to check the tower for a brief moment and then opened them.

"The spiritual energy inside of the tower is even more now then it was earlier today…we need to go in there and stop whatever is going on inside and find Mr. Fuji before its too late" She said.

"All right then…let's go inside" Dawn said in a semi nervous sounding tone of voice.

The group along with Sabrina then walked over slowly to the Pokemon Tower's main entrance and Sabrina grabbed hold of the door's handle and she opened the door and the group along with her entered the tower and closed it behind them.

Cubone's eyes opened up immediately as it awaked from its sleep that was caused by Sabrina's Hypno and it looked around its surroundings and realized that it was back in the Volunteer house.

"Cubone! Cubone, bone!"

Reina heard this and went over to Cubone's pen and saw that it was now awake after sometime.

"Oh, Cubone you're awake" She said.

Cubone then began to smash against the door of its pen until it broke open and it ran away from Reina who quickly ran after the Lonely Pokemon.

"Hey! Cubone! Come back here!" She said as she chased after Cubone who had just ran out of the volunteer house right through the door.

The Sun soon enough finally set over Lavender Town and the darkness overtook the whole town as the night fell and the full moon became the only source of light and the group saw this even while inside the Pokemon Tower.

"I don't get it why haven't any of the ghosts try and attack us yet?" Dawn asked.

"That is a good question Dawn since I can sense many of them around us all at this very moment, my best guess is that they're trying to toy with us and make us frightened" Sabrina suggested.

May heard what Sabrina had just suggested and her heart sunk a bit and she took a big gulp and went over to Dawn and wrapped her arms around her "If that's what the ghosts are trying to do then its working because I'm absolutely terrified right now" she said.

Outside of Pokemon Tower the now conscious Cubone ran over to the tower of graves with high speeds and burst through the entrance with Reina not far behind trying to catch up to it.

"Hey, wait up!" She pleaded as she struggled to keep her breath.

The two of them entered Pokemon Tower and were noticed almost immediately by the group along with Sabrina.

"Reina, what are you and Cubone doing in here?" Sabrina asked.

Reina soon caught up to them and she didn't answer the Saffron City Gym Leader's Question for a moment as she stopped for a moment to catch her breath.

"Cubone woke up and it came bursting in here…" She explained, "I tried to stop it but it was too fast for me to…catch up with"

"SO I SEE THAT SOME HUMANS HAVE DECIDED TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE DEAD OF LAVENDER TOWN…AND YOU'VE COME AT THE PERFECT TIME…"

"Who is speaking, why are the spirits attacking so hostile this has never happened until now?" Sabrina asked out loud to whomever just spoke to them with such a tremendous and scary sounding voice.

"BECAUSE THEY'VE ALL FINALLY REALIZED THAT YOU HUMANS DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE AND BY THE END OF TONIGHT THAT WILL BECOME A GLORIOUS REALITY!"

"What do you mean, what are you doing, who are you?" she demanded to know.

Sabrina got no answer from the voice.

"ERGH! ERGH! Come on open!"

Max struggled to try and open up the door, which was for the moment the only visible way to escape the tower but no matter how hard he tried to get it open he could not until he finally gave up and let go of the handle and breathed in and out heavily.

"Guys I can't get the door open!" He said as he tried to catch his breath "It won't even budge!"

"Hmph…the spirits probably did that…they don't want us to live and warn anybody about what's going on in here" Sabrina theorized.

"Wait so let me get this straight…" May said "We're all trapped in this tower with no way to escape and there are dozens maybe even hundreds of hostile spirits inside that want to kill us all?"

Sabrina then nodded which answered May's question with an obvious, yes.

May's face sunk immediately "Well…we're dead" She said.


To be continued…


Okay we just wrapped up Chapter 54 of the story and the second part of the three-part Lavender Town storyline.

Next Chapter will be the final part of the storyline, which I was supposed to post in October but got delayed for various reasons. But better late then never I suppose.


Storyline Notes:


Next Chapter will give some hints of what storylines are to come so I ask you all to read carefully as a few things are going to be foreshadowed which you should remember in later chapters.

I'll update as soon as I can.