Okay we are up to Chapter 55 in the story and to the final part of the Lavender Town storyline that has been delayed because the Safari Zone Chapter took awhile to write. Read, Review and enjoy.


Story Recap:


Ash and friends have entered the Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town where they became trapped inside with the hostile spirits of deceased Pokemon who along with some unknown force are planning an attack on Lavender town, how are heroes will overcome this conundrum we will have to see to find out…


The only exit that the group could escape Pokemon Tower was now sealed shut thanks to the spirits of Lavender Town and they all except for possibly Sabrina were visible afraid that they might never come out of the tower alive.

"So ugh...where should we start looking for Mr. Fuji in here?" Dawn asked as she gripped on May's arm with a clear tone of fear in her voice.

"Wherever he is we need to find him and stop whatever's behind all this before tomorrow…or else everyone in Lavender Town could be dead by morning" Sabrina said.

Ash looked up the flight of stairs and thought that was a good place to start "Well then…lets try and look up there" He said still a bit nervous and frightful of the tower and its hostile spirits.

"Pika…Pi…"

The group along with Sabrina then went over and walked up the stairs together in a slow and careful pace and they did so with the rightful fear that at any minute the hostile spirits of the Pokemon Tower could jump out, attack them and would probably brutally kill them.

"We're almost up the stairs, but keep your eyes open the spirits are probably up on the second floor waiting for us" Sabrina said as she could sense some kind of energy up the stairs.

Cubone who walked in back of the group was very tense at the moment as Pokemon Tower was the place where his mother had buried only two years ago along with many other Pokemon and now the spirits of those many victims of Team Rocket's attacks were now prepared to kill the people of Lavender Town out of vengeance.

The group then reached the first floor, which was pitch black dark and left them unable to see a thing.

May tightened the hold her arms had around Dawn's own arm as she grew more and more afraid inside the dark tower full of angry spirits "Ugh…guys…do anyone of us have a working flashlight?" She asked.

"I do…" Sabrina said then she reached into her pocket and she pulled out a small flashlight and she switches it on.

She shined the flashlight in front of the group where the first thing they saw was some sort of bizarre creature which looked like a black ghost with plain white eyes and mouth which actually looked surprised to see it as they were.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

May's scream was loud enough to cause Sabrina to drop her flashlight on to the ground where the turned on flashlight simply disappeared to nowhere from the group's sight completely, which left them back in the darkness.

May now almost completely scared out of her wit by whatever thing that the group had just saw made her cling to Dawn's body as she breath deep and heavy breaths.

"W-what the hell was that?" She asked.

"I have no idea, I have no clue what that was, it didn't look like any kind of Ghost Pokemon that I've researched about before" Max said.

Ash's hand quickly went for his belt where he grabbed the Poke Ball off of it.

"Charizard! I choose you!" He exclaimed.

He then threw the Poke Ball and his Charizard was released from it where it gave out a mighty roar.

Charizard's tail flame was bright enough that it illuminated the entire second floor of the tower where the group looked around at all sides to see that nothing not even whatever it was that they had just seen wasn't present any longer.

"Where'd that…thing go?" Ash asked.

"Who cares where it went? At least its gone now" May said.

May then took one step and the group all saw what was ahead of her and gasped.

"May, wait! Don't walk any further!" Dawn yelled.

Before May could have responded to what Dawn had said she took one step and fell through the floor but Dawn quickly ran over and grabbed her arm, which kept her from falling.

May then used any strength she could muster to pull Dawn back up.

Dawn breathed heavily after that huge fright she had from almost falling to her death "Why…did that happen?" She asked then she looked ahead of her and she simply gasped in response.

Bits and parts of the second floors were missing from the floor, which had holes, which sized from small to large and would probably result in serious injury if someone were to fall from one but surprising none of the graves inside the room were completely untouched.

"What the…where are some pieces of the floor?" Dawn asked dazed by what she saw.

"Maybe that thing we saw did this" Max said.

"ODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

The sound of creepy moaning echoed through the room as the group except for Sabrina were scared stiff by it.

Ash looked around the room and he saw that in front of the stairs which led up to next floor where he saw a large patch of long grass which all just laid there which simply confused Ash and he wondered why it was there.

"Hey guys, where did all that grass come from? I'm pretty that it wasn't there a minute ago" May said, just as confused as Ash was because of the plants sudden appearance.

Suddenly the grass began to move around in a rather erratic manner, which almost makes it seem like it was alive when ominous purple aura began to surround it as the sounds of intense and creepy moans simply increased in volume.

"What's that sound?" Dawn asked.

Dawn's answer was soon answered when the Grass begun to rise up and reveal that it was not grass at all but rather several Oddish whose colors where much paler then a normal one's and their eyes were completely pitch black almost as if they weren't even there.

Reina was simply devastated by this sight as now memories began to flood her mind of before two years ago where she remembered all of those Oddish had been friendly Pokemon who she would always see getting along humans and Pokemon but she also remembered them as victims of Team Rocket's attack and how they all buried here in the tower.

The Oddish Spirits soon began to produce some sort of black and purple powder from their head leaves which they waved around which made the powder much larger.

Sabrina gasped as she realized what the hostile Oddish Spirits were doing "Those Oddish are about to use PoisonPowder, they're going to try and poison us all!" She yelled.

Ash then grabbed a Poke Ball off of his belt and threw it, which released his Pidgeot from it.

"Pidgeot use Gust to blow away the PoisonPowder!"

Pidgeot obeyed Ash's command and flapped both of its wings, which created a heavy wind that blew the PoisonPowder away from the group.

"Sabrina, how are we going to fight these Oddish spirits? Pikachu couldn't do any damage to the Psyduck we fought last night even with thunderbolt"

"Hmmm…then I don't think that anything will be able to harm them…and it seems that something big is going down tonight and we don't have any time to waste finding Mr. Fuji and stopping whoever is behind all of this…"

"So what do we do then if we can't hurt them with attacks?" Dawn asked.

Sabrina was silent for a moment "We run…" She said.

"Run?" Max asked.

"NOW!" She yelled.

The group heeded her instructions and they ran away from the hostile Oddish spirits and they jumped over the holes that were created by whatever they had saw and made it to the second set of stairs.

May dropped to the ground on to the second set of stairs in the middle of the stairs "That was another close one," She said as she breathed in and out heavily once more.

"We can't waste anymore time, we need to find Mr. Fuji and stop these spirits, fast" Sabrina said.

"Hello? Is there anybody there…?"

Reina heard this voice and she recognized it "That voice…it was Mr. Fuji!"

"Cubone! Cubone!"

Cubone then ran up the stairs ahead of the rest of the group to follow the voice of Mr. Fuji and perhaps find the kind old man wherever he could be inside of the tower that was filled of hostile spirits.

"Cubone, Wait! You don't know what's up there!" Reina yelled.

She then ran up the stairs after the runaway Cubone and the rest of the group followed behind her up the set of stairs ready for anything that might be up on the third floor of the ghost ridden Pokemon tower.

Cubone was the first of the group to make it up the stairs to the Third floor where the young Lonely Pokemon looked around the floor to see nothing but darkness and whatever light there was which was provided by the candles showed nothing but graves of deceased Pokemon.

The rest of the group ran up the stairs and caught up to Cubone.

"The Psychic disturbance…I can feel it getting stronger as we go further into the tower…we're getting close to whatever is behind all of this" Sabrina said.

"NOT JUST CLOSE YOU'VE REACHED ME!"

Suddenly the flames in the candles grew stronger which gave the third floor much more light enough that the group could see almost everything in the room and a dark and frightening shadow on the ground began to rise from the ground and began to take a shape.

The shape was a giant black colored ghost with a huge creepy smile and the group realized what it was.

"Its…it's a giant Haunter!" Dawn said disturbed by this.

Bianca pulled out her Pokedex to check the data on this giant Ghost Pokemon.

"Haunter the, the, the, the Licking Pokemon and the evolved form, form, form of Oddish. The antenna on its head captures radio waves from the Spirit, Missing world of microwave pizza number!"

Bianca's Pokedex then for no reason shorted out and the screen went black.

The Giant Haunter then gave a light chuckle "Don't look at me I didn't cause your little device to shut off" He said with charismatic tone of voice.

"Who and what the hell are you supposed to be?" Ash asked.

"I would not speak in such a rude tone to a being as powerful as myself human, but if you must know you may call me Black Fog and what I am is something from a time long past, long before any one of you, even this town ever existed"

"Why are you here Black Fog and what have you done to make the spirits of the tower so hostile?" Sabrina asked.

"I have come to this tower to show these spirits who were murdered in cold blood when they were all alive that they can obtain retribution from you humans and this town in death"

Ash heard what the ghostly entity had just said to the group and realized what Black fog meant what he said, "You and the spirits are planning to kill everyone here", He said.

"Indeed, when the full moon arises at midnight within the next hour the spirits of this tower will be able to all leave the tower and feast on the souls of the people of Lavender town and take possession of it as our own"

"Well that's not gonna happen, Pikachu use Thunderbolt!" Ash commanded.

Pikachu then jumped off of Ash's shoulder and leaped into the air and began to charge up electricity for an attack.

"PIKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"

Pikachu then fired a bolt of electricity from his body at Black Fog but the dark entity simply phased into the ground below it and Pikachu's Thunderbolt attack simply struck the ground that was behind it.

Black Fog then reemerged out from the ground and simply laughed in response.

"I'd stay and finish you meddlers off myself but I've got other things to attend to, so I will simply let the others eliminate you and save me the trouble"

Black Fog then disappeared from the group's sight and Bianca switched on her Silph Scope to try and see where it went.

"Ugh…you should probably turn on your own Silph Scopes if you have them…"

May, Max and Dawn the only other members of the group who had Silph Scopes followed Bianca's suggestion and switched the ghost detecting goggles on to see what Bianca had seen.

Once they turned the scopes on they all saw much to their horror the spirits of several Raticate, Rattata, Oddish and Pidgeys who surrounded them all from every corner of the room.

"We're completely surrounded" Sabrina said.

Ash could see all of the spirits around them for an unknown reason without a pair of Silph Scope and during all of this he wondered why on Earth he could see all this without them.

"This is it isn't it, we're all going to die aren't we?" Max asked Sabrina as they all stood in the center of the room surrounded by the hostile Pokemon spirits of the tower who all looked ready to slaughter them.

Sabrina looked around the room for any way for the group to escape from the spirits and she looked at Ash's Charizard and realized what they could do to escape from the spirits.

"Ash! I have an idea of how we could get out of here!"

"How do we do…?"

Ash then noticed Sabrina was looking at his Charizard and realized what she meant.

"Oh…Charizard use Dragon Rage!"

Charizard followed his trainer's command and pointed its head up at the ceiling and then opened up its mouth and fired a powerful blast of blue and black energy where it shifted its shape into a blue and black dragon and blew a hole for the group to escape to the third floor through.

"Grab on!"

The rest of the group did as Ash told them and grabbed hold of his Charizard and the dragon-like Fire type flew straight off of the ground and up through the hole on to the third floor of the tower.

Ash sighed in relief.

"Te-he-he-he-he…"

Ash's eyes widened in surprise and fear when he heard the sudden and rather creepy sound of giggling from what sounded like a little girl.

"What was that?" Reina asked scared almost out of her mind.

The group heard footsteps in the darkness and they looked to see a little girl who looked to be simply a normal little girl with black hair and had a large hat that covered her face and only showed her rather creepy smile and she approached Ash.

Ash was the first to speak to her "Uh…are you lost little girl? Its not really safe to be in the tower right now"

The little girl simply giggled in response "You're really stupid" she said.

Ash was a bit offended by the creepy little girl's comment but he figured she was simply just an illusion created by the spirits of the tower or Black fog to try and mess with his and the group's heads.

"I'm not listening to you, you're not real"

The girl then giggled even more because of what Ash said had said to her "Sure thing just keep telling yourself that and all the problems that you have in life will just magically disappear"

Sabrina looked at the little girl that stood before them at first she thought the girl was simply an illusion created by the spirits but using her psychic abilities she sensed that…the girl was something else entirely.

"It won't help you when they come for you…" The little girl said in a very ominous tone of voice.

"What do you mean, who's they, what the are you trying to tell me?" Ash asked getting slightly annoyed by the mystery girl's mind games that she may be playing on him.

"I'm trying to help you out a little dummy so you'd better listen…but then again listening and remembering important things has never really been your strongest suit after all…"

Ash scowled at her for yet another rude comment but then he realized that he shouldn't let it bother him cause that will probably give the girl exactly what she wants from him…a negative reaction.

"…In a bright Shining City, you never know when they'll strike and they all hide in plain sight and they've had you in their sights…"

The little girl was silent which confused Ash and the rest of the group.

"And what?" Ash asked.

The little girl simply smirked "…And you'll never see me strike…" she said in a deep and menacing voice.

Ash heart jumped and he stumbled back after the girl spoke in a completely different and rather scary voice out of nowhere and the girl looked as if she enjoyed his fear and confusion.

"Anyway, I can't stay here anymore those spirits are coming and they don't look happy so you'd all better get ready unless you want to get your souls consumed by them…"

"CONSUME ARE SOULS!?" Dawn asked with her heart now racing from fear.

"…Anyway remember everything I just said, it will all be important later on bye-bye Uncle!" the little girl said and then she ran off into the shadows away from the group.

"Hey wait! What do you mean?" Ash asked.

Sabrina sensed something with her powers and she grabbed Ash's hand "Ash, quick we need to get out of here before the spirits come!" She said.

The group then quickly bolted for the stair-case that lead up to the fourth floor of the tower before the spirits could have any chance to ambush them and consume their souls according to the mysterious girl.

Right before they could reach the staircase Bianca tripped on something on the ground and fell on the ground where her Silph Scope fell off of her head and hit the ground, which shattered its lens.

"Bianca!" Ash said.

"Pika, Pikachu!"

Ash with Pikachu on his shoulder hurried over to Bianca and he helped up off of the ground with her fall noticeable has left a scraped knee on her leg with a bit of fresh blood on it and to Bianca it stung like hell.

"Ash…eh…we need to hurry!" Bianca said as she felt the pain of her freshly scrapped knee.

The two of them caught up with the rest of the group and they all ran up the staircase, which lead to the fourth floor of the tower just as the hostile Pokemon spirits began to appear in the third floor.

"Sabrina, do you sense anything up there like Mr. Fuji or Black Fog?" Ash asked.

"Help!"

"It's Mr. Fuji! He must be up on the fourth floor!" Reina said.

"Cubone! Cubone! Cubone!"

Cubone then ran as fast as its leg would allow it to and ran up right up the staircase until it reached the fourth floor.

"Cubone, Cubone, Cubone?"

"Cubone…is that you?"

Cubone heard this all too familiar voice and looked to see Mr. Fuji himself who simply lay on the ground surrounded by some kind of dark aura, which seemed keep him frozen and unable to move.

The rest of the group soon caught up with Cubone and they all gasped when they saw Mr. Fuji.

"Mr. Fuji, you're alive!" Reina exclaimed filled with relief.

Behind the group something began to emerge from the ground and Mr. Fuji and Cubone where the first ones to notice it.

"Reina! Behind you! Its back!" Fuji warned.

The group swiftly turned around and they much to their horror saw Black Fog emerge from the ground and fired a large Shadow Ball attack at them.

The group quickly jumped out of the way of the ghost-type attack and avoided being struck by it.

"You humans simply do not know when to quit, don't you?"

"Not a chance!" Ash said.

"Pika!"

"Very well then, I do wonder how your souls will taste…"

May then pulled out a Poke Ball from her pocket.

"Blaziken! Take the stage!" She said then tossed the Poke Ball, which unleashed her Blaziken.

"Blaziken!"

May then pointed at Black Fog who didn't seem at all troubled or threatened by the Blaze Pokémon's presence but this didn't intimidate May in the slightest as she was ready to fight this dark entity to stop its insidious plans.

"Blaziken use Blaze Kick!"

On May's command Blaziken lifted it's foot, which became surrounded by flames and it swung it in Black Fog's direction to kick the dark entity with the fire type attack.

"Pathetic…"

Black Fog then simply stared at Blaziken as the entity's eyes glowed purple and Blaziken became surrounded by the same aura as Mr. Fuji had on his body and the fire/fighting type was left frozen like a statue.

Black Fog then let out a loud and hardy laugh feeling simply hysterical at what it had just done to Blaziken.

Ash scowled at the dark entity and placed both of his hands together when all of sudden much to the trainer's complete shock and surprise something began to form between his hands.

"What the…"

Suddenly a bright blue energy sphere formed between his hands which left Ash utterly baffled as he had not the foggiest idea what this was but for some reason it seemed somehow...familiar.

Ash then threw his hands forward and he launched the sphere directly at Black Fog.

The Dark Entity however wasn't paying even a slight bit of attention to Ash as he was too busy hysterically laughing at May's Blaziken which he froze right in its tracks after using a Mean Look attack.

The energy sphere then smacked right into Black Fog and blindsided him and the dark entity smashed right into the wall and fell to the ground clearly hurt by Ash's accidental attack.

The black aura that was surrounded Mr. Fuji, which seemed to be the reason he was on the ground frozen probably caused by Black Fog's Mean Look disappeared and he attempted to pick himself off of the ground.

Reina went over to the kind old man and helped him get off of the ground.

The rest of the group was left simply speechless by what Ash had just done and this baffled Ash himself as well.

"Ash…what did you just do?" Bianca asked.

"I…I'm not sure" He replied.

Black Fog groaned in pain from Ash's surprise and accidental attack and raised itself off of the ground where it simply scowled at Ash as a small bit blood actually bled from its side.

"That…actually hurt me…I should sensed what you are from the beginning, I have to be honest never expected to run into a wielder of aura"

"Aura? Ash what is he talking about?" Bianca asked clueless about what Black Fog just said to Ash.

"You humans are harder to get rid of then I realized…this becoming most annoying and time is running short, I have no time to waste anymore it is almost midnight and Lavender Town's demise is at hand"

Black Fog then flew up through the ceiling where it used its powers to go right through the wall and away from the group.

"Where'd he go?" Dawn asked.

"I know where he went…" Mr. Fuji said as Reina helped him keep his balance while he was standing up "…He went to the top of the tower about three floors up from where we are"

"Why?" Max asked.

"I think can think of a reason…that's where he plans to unleash the spirits once midnight comes…so that they can consume every living soul in Lavender town" Sabrina explained.

"Then we have to get up there and stop him, quick!" Ash said.

Ash along with Pikachu then jumped on to Charizard's back and the flame Pokemon flew up the staircase to get to the seventh floor and confront Black Fog and stop the entity from consuming all the souls in Lavender Town.

"Ash! Wait for us!" Bianca yelled.

Suddenly multiple Pokemon spirits began to appear in the room and converged on the group.

Mr. Fuji looked at all of the spirits of the deceased Pokemon and he pitied all of these pour restless souls as he remembers seeing many of them in the town years ago when they were all still before Team Rocket came and massacred them so he could understand they had every reason to hate humans.

"Ugh, Sabrina do you have any ideas of how we could get of here?" Max asked with sweat dripping from his forehead out of fear.

Sabrina's hand then went inside of her pants pocket and pulled out a Poke Ball from it and she tossed it in the air where it opened up and unleashed her Alakazam out of it.

"Alakazam!"

"Alakazam use Teleport and bring us to the Seventh Floor!"

Alakazam obeyed its trainer's command and it began to glow multicolored and soon the energy began to surround the other members of the group and in less then an instant they all vanished out of the room via Teleport.

Up on the seventh floor the entire room was almost completely dark except for the light from the moon, which shined from the windows, and Black Fog floated in the center of the room as he waited for midnight to come and then the souls of Lavender Town will be his.

Black Fog sensed someone approaching the room and he turned around to see Charizard along with Ash and Pikachu flew in and entered the room and the trainer and the electric mouse Pokemon hopped off of Charizard and stared down at Black Fog.

"This ends tonight" Ash said.

"Indeed it does human…for you"

Black Fog's eyes glowed red and fired a nightshade attack at the three.

"Charizard use DragonBreath!"

Charizard then fired a powerful blast of blue and black energy, which shifts into a dragon, which collided with Black Fog's Night Shade attack and the chain reaction caused a blast, which created a smoke cloud. This cloud blew in Ash and Pikachu's direction.

Ash was rather unfazed by this and simply stood as still as a rock until the smoke from the blast cleared.

Ash's focus was entirely on Black Fog who was actually surprised Ash hasn't flinched "I'm giving you one chance Black Fog…leave Lavender Town tonight and never come back…" Demanded Ash.

"Or else what, you'll kill me and how do you plan to do that?"

Ash then reached into his pocket and pulled from it an empty Poke Ball.

Black Fog's expression then turned from an arrogant and slightly creepy smile to a worried and scared expression, as he knew what Ash intended to use that Poke Ball for.

"I'll capture you in this Poke Ball"

Black Fog growled at Ash to try and look intimating but the dark entity knew that if Ash could weaken him enough then it would be possible for him to capture him with a Poke Ball.

"YOU WILL NEVER CAPTURE ME MORTAL TRASH, I WOULD RATHER DIE!"

"Charizard use Overheat!" Ash said.

Charizard's body glowed red and then it fired a very powerful blast of fire at Black Fog, which hit the dark entity right in the face where it smacked right into the wall and landed face first on the ground.

Black Fog scowled at Ash and his eyes glowed red with pure anger "YOU PATHETIC PIECE OF GARBAGE, I WILL SUCK YOU AND POKEMON'S AND I WILL SLOWLY SO YOU CAN EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF PAIN AND AGONY UNTIL YOU BEG ME TO END YOUR MEANINGLESS AND PATHETIC LIFE!"

All of sudden a multicolored flash appeared and in instant the rest of the group were on the seventh floor with Ash and Black Fog via Sabrina's Alakazam using Teleport.

Sabrina set her sights on Black Fog.

"Alakazam use Thunder Punch!"

Alakazam's fist then became surrounded by yellow sparks, which grew into of electricity and the Psychic type Pokemon rammed its fist right into Black Fog's face which cut even more of the dark entity's health which was already lowered because of Ash's aura attack and Charizard's overheat.

"OH THAT IS THE LAST STRAW, YOU HUMANS ARE GONNA GET IT NOW…"

Black Fog then raised both of its hands and both of his eyes glowed red.

"Come my brothers and sisters so we may feast upon the souls of these wretched mortals…"

Moaning was heard from all throughout the room in every corner as the spirits of the tower began to appear around the group in large numbers, which simply kept growing and growing.

"In only moments we'll be able to leave this tower and take our revenge on the townspeople but ones shall be the very first to taste our wrath"

The spirits now surrounded the whole group with their numbers in the hundreds and all hungry for revenge against humanity for what had been done to them when Team Rocket massacred them years ago.

"STOP!"

The female voice was heard by everyone in the room and surprised everyone Black Fog included. A spirit then came out of the horde of spirits and approached the group and its appearance was nothing more then a scary looking violet specter with nothing on its face except for ominous looking bright red eyes.

Black Fog was visibly annoyed by this Spirit's sudden interruption of them attempting to consume the group's souls "What the hell are you doing, can't you see we were about to feast on these mortal's souls?"

"You never said that my son would one of the souls consumed!"

The whole group were shocked by what the spirit had just said to Black Fog and Dawn lowered her Silph Scope on to her eyes and switch them on to see the spirit's true form.

Dawn gasped at what she saw with the Silph Scope…the ghost was the spirit of a Marowak "You're…you're Cubone's mother"

The Spirit's form then shifted from that of a ghostly specter to a see through Marowak surrounded by a violet aura.

"Spirits! You don't have to follow Black Fog, he doesn't care about any of you or the suffering you've gone through! He simply wants to consume human souls simply for fun!" Fuji yelled.

"THIS HUMAN IS SPOUTING NOTHING BUT LIES!"

"Its not lies it's the truth, if you look at historical texts then you'll know that Black Fog was a powerful Pokemon that existed during a time when were treated as gods and because of the way he and his kind were treated, he became prideful and the most arrogant of the ancient Pokemon!"

All of the spirits then began to glow hellish red as they felt immense anger for being lied to and they all turned to Black Fog who realized that the jig was up and they now know he is simply nothing more then a fraud.

Marowak was especially angry toward the dark entity and said, "You lied to all of us! You said that you actually cared about our suffering and you said that my son wasn't here in Lavender Town anymore and he was captured by some trainer and he was far away from here!"

"And you are all the more stupider for believing me, why would a being as powerful as myself ever care what a lowly and pathetic spirit…"

Ash realized that Black Fog was so arrogant and cocky that he'll probably just go on for a while about how powerful he is that he won't pay a thought to what he and the group were doing.

He looked at Pikachu on his shoulder and he cracked a smile and two nodded to each other as they realized that this was the perfect moment to strike against the entity.

"Pikachu use Thunderbolt!"

Pikachu then jumped off of Ash's shoulder and generated a bolt of electricity and blasted it in Black Fog's direction while the dark entity continued his egotistical bragging trip.

"…In my time, those Rockets would be long dead by…AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Before he could continue bragging Pikachu's Thunderbolt attack struck him, which severely lowered his health.

"Tonight's full moon may be when you and the spirits may result in you being at your most powerful but it also leaves at your most vulnerable" Mr. Fuji said revealing more that he knows from his knowledge of the times where Black Fog originated from.

Ash then went to pull out an empty Poke Ball to capture Black Fog. But instead he decided to use something much more powerful then a regular Poke ball, one that may have a much better chance at capturing this ancient and arrogant Pokemon in its weakened state.

The empty Poke Ball that Ash pulled out was an Ultra Ball. This type of Poke Ball had a much higher rate of capturing of Pokemon then the regular Poke Ball that Ash normally uses and up until this point Ash had yet to use any that he packed for his journey that he purchased at a Poke Mart near Pallet Town.

"No, No, No, No, No I will never allow myself to be captured by some lowly human!"

Black Fog then used whatever strength he could muster and fly away from Ash but he collapsed to the ground because of his weakened health by the attacks of Sabrina and Ash's Pokemon.

"I…would rather die then be captured by one of you!"

"To be quite honest Black Fog, I'm okay with either option" Ash said ready to capture Black Fog with the Ultra Ball.

"Then might I suggest human…that you take a few steps back from me and for future advice that may come in handy later…beware of some beautiful women"

Suddenly Black Fog's eyes began to glow orange and he began to swell up as if he were about to explode at any minute.

Sabrina gasped and realized what Black Fog was doing and yelled out "Black Fog is using Self Destruct! He's going to kill himself!"

"Everybody Run!" Dawn yelled.

The group quickly bolted to other sides of the floor as far away from Black Fog as they could before he could self-destruct and kill them in the crossfire of the explosion.

KABOOM!

Black Fog exploded in a bright flash and the insuring explosion blew a large hole through to the outside of the tower and Cubone was flung out of the hole because of the blast.

"Son!"

Cubone closed his eyes as he fell through the hole in the tower prepared to fall to its death and perhaps join his mother as a ghost in the afterlife but suddenly someone grabbed him.

He opened his eyes and he looked up to see Ash gripping his arm from the hole as he pulled the lonely Pokemon up and back into the tower and saved him from his death.

The Spirits in the room all began to change their forms from simply violet red eyed ghosts back to their true forms and revealed many different Pokemon who have died over the years along with the ones who were killed by Team Rocket and they all began to float up and disappear.

"What are all the spirits doing?" Ash asked.

Sabrina smiled happily as she knew where the spirits were going "They've all finally found peace in their deaths and are leaving this world Ash"

Cubone ran over to his mother's spirit and embraced her overwhelmed with joy at seeing her again after so many years even as a spirit.

"You have no idea how much I have missed you my son but I can't stay here with you I have to leave this realm to go to the other side…"

"Bone?"

"…Wherever I go, I will always remember you and I will always love you"

Marowak's spirit then unlatched from her embrace with Cubone and turned bright blue as she floated up into the air and vanished.

Cubone shed a tear as he realized that he'd never see his mother again until probably he himself dies and becomes a spirit.

Ash was about to walk over to Cubone and console it about his mother when suddenly...something happened.

Some unseen force suddenly struck him and he fell to the ground as he recoiled from the pain of the attack.

Ash recovered from the sudden attack and opened his eyes and he looked around the room to discover everyone in the room, Sabrina, Mr. Fuji, his friends and even Pikachu...they were no where in sight.

Ash was nervous "What is happening, who's doing all this?" He asked himself all alone.

The entire room was now completely blood red in color as Ash attempted to figure out what all this meant.

"Whoever's doing this, you'd better cut it out now…" Ash said.

He was actually very frightened by all of this as the only noise that he could hear in the entire room and the entire tower itself for that matter was his own voice and his feet walking on the floor.

"…I'm not falling for any of this!"

"…Wouldn't you aura wielder?"

Ash's heart sank in fear as he heard this creepy voice speak out of nowhere.

"Who's there?!"

The shadows of the graves in the room all began to form together and formed a huge colossal figure in front of Ash with glowing red eyes that loomed over the teenage Pokemon trainer.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want from me?" Ash asked demanded an explanation.

The dark figure then began to move around Ash as his heart began to race in fear of whoever or whatever this being was.

"I am nothing more then something to tell you that your days are coming to an end…for soon enough the hunt for you shall begin, there will be nowhere you can and nowhere that you can hide, no one that you can fully trust and when it is all said and done…you will join your father and the rest of your kind"

Ash's eyes widened and his heart sunk at the figure's last sentence and the figure vanished and the room turned from bright red to bright blue and at the opposite side of the room he saw a figure whom looked to be middle aged man, had black hair and strangest of all…looked like a grown up version of Ash.

"I still believe that you can restore us to what we once were…I deeply regret all that happens, I never intended for you…I'm sorry son"

Ash gasped as he realized whom this figure was…he was his father.

"No, No…"

Ash's father then began to fade away and Ash ran over to where he stood.

"FATHER NO!"

Ash awoke with a loud gasp and he looked around him and realized that he was now in a room in Lavender Town's Pokemon Center and it was now early in the morning probably around 8 o'clock.

"So you're finally awake…"

Ash turned to his side to see Bianca on a coach along with Pikachu as they've probably been there for sometime waiting for Ash to wake up from his sleep.

"How…how long have I been out for?" He asked.

"About Eight Hours after what happened in the tower" She answered.

"What happened to me?" Ash asked.

"Well that's the thing Ash…Nurse Joy couldn't find anything wrong with you physically" Bianca said.

Ash rubbed his back where he felt something strike him back in the tower "How is that possible? It felt like I was hit with one of Pikachu's thunderbolt attacks or something," He said.

Listening to the two's conversation Sabrina then entered into the room much to Ash and Bianca's surprise.

"They didn't find anything on you because you weren't hit physically, you were hit mentally by some sort of psychic force" She explained.

"Could you sense who…or what did it to me, do you think it was Black Fog?" Ash asked.

Sabrina sighed which gave Ash his answer "No I could not, even if Black Fog was able to survive that explosion what we saw in the tower and from what I've heard in the legends about him, there's nothing to suggest he has those kinds of abilities"

"So what do you think could have hit me?"

"Whatever it was…it was an outside source of some kind," Sabrina said.

Not long after all of that Sabrina departed from Lavender Town to return back to Saffron City and resume her duties as Gym Leader while the group themselves began to prepare to leave Lavender Town and get back on the path to Gardenia Town.

"…It just happened out of like nowhere, I was taking a walk listening to my music when suddenly my music player went all crazy, it just…started shorting out or playing the wrong music and had lyrics from songs that were all mixed up and not in the right son, its just really weird…

"…Miss we thank you for your time, what was your name again I forgot?"

"What? How can you possibly forget, me and my sisters do water ballet shows like three or four times a week at the gym, my name is Lil…"

Ash switched off the center's television.

"There's just one more thing we need to take care of before we can leave guys," He said.

The group then went back to Pokemon Tower where they headed to pay tribute to one of the Pokemon who had been killed and was buried there years ago…this Pokemon was in fact Cubone's own mother.

The group brought Cubone along with them so he himself can pay his own tribute to his deceased mother and as a goodbye before he left the town. Cubone wanted to leave Lavender Town and the painful memories of his mother behind and travel with Ash and the group and Mr. Fuji agreed as it was ultimately for the best.

Cubone walked over slowly to the grave as he held a flower, which he had plucked from Mr. Fuji own garden at the Volunteer house. When he reached the grave he placed it on top of the tombstone.

Ash smiled at this as Cubone was finally beginning to move past the pain of his mother's death…but he remembered that before he can move past anything with his father…he needs to find out what happened to him.


To Be Continued…


Dedicated in loving memory of Justin Carmical AKA JewWario:

Now…I'm sure as many you may already be aware of late in January Internet Gaming Critic Justin Carmical better known to his fans as JewWario committed Suicide. I found this out on a Saturday when I came back inside from working outside and looked at Twitter feed and saw the tragic news. I was in tears.

I was not a follower of JewWario's videos but its clear that he had many, many fans, the only reviews of him that I've watched are the first three Pokemon Movie reviews he did with Seude and Linkara and his crossover review with Linkara on a Japanese game based on 1989 Batman movie. I'm going to try and start watching his reviews and maybe I'll see why he had so many fans.


Author Notes:


You know lately I've just having this hiatuses that go on for months it took me two months to finish and post Chapter 51 and then three months to post Chapter 52, 53 and 54 and another three to post this one. To tell you the truth I was able to post three back in December because I pre-wrote 53 prior to finishing 52 and wrote 52 and 54 side-by-side with each other but still. I've got to find a way to work out this writer's block or whatever I'm having or else it could be a good number of years before I finish this story.

Anyway in this chapter there was a good number of foreshadowing to things to come in my storyline and I'd recommend that you all remember what has happened in this chapter because it will all be very important later on.

I hope that it doesn't take me another three months to finish and post Chapter 56 because this one…I'm hoping that I can post it by April 12th for reasons that I'll explain at the end of that one.