The Journey of Dreams
Disclaimer: Ah yes...forgot about this...so all you little corporations out there ready to chew my butt and spit it out in the trash...here it is. I DONT OWN POKEMON! Never did, god...never will. Game freak, Nintendo, 4 kids...and all the something other semi corps that want a chunk of the pokemon dish own it. Me...I get ZIPPO profit out of writing this. Though I do own Keishi, Ryu, and the other made up characters that are going to be in the story. SO DONT STEAL THEM! Ha..like I can actually stop you from doing that...with my made up super human writing powers..e_e'''

The Journey of Dreams

Sometimes heros come from the people you least expect.....

Chapter 3: Haunting Chills....

After Keishi's first battle, Keishi seemed to be confused on what he should do now. He wasn't disappointed that it was a draw, yet he was disappointed in himself. He decided to take a walk to the top of Sprout Tower to look out on the sunset. Keishi sighed and watched as the slumber of the sun took over the earth and vivid neon colors streaked the sky as if they were early shooting stars. Keishi than began to reflect about his battle today and what Nurse Joy had told him. He then began to wonder where Pichu was now and hoped he didn't run away on him. Keishi watched as day slowly received the sweet rocking of night. Within a hour, night came and the stars brightened up in the sky. Keishi looked out at Violet City and the empty street paths that were shown in front of him. The young trainer than decided since it was night time, he better start coming home. So as he started to walk back down to the second floor, he all of a sudden heard some low growls coming from a darkened corner. Keishi turned around to see what it was, all he could see was nothing, but darkness. The young dark haired boy decided to move a little faster...yet now he started to hear low screeches, what could it be? Keishi didn't want to stick around to find out, the monks were asleep at this time and you better leave if you know what's good for you.

After running a few steps down, he could still hear something following him. Keishi continued to move down the flight of stairs and across to the next set of stairs. The young boy kept looking back to see what was following him when he slammed straight into a bellsprout statue. Keishi fell immediately on the floor and started to shake. He looked around once, twice, and then three more times to view nothing more, but bright glowing eyes. Keishi looked in terror at the group of creatures that had surrounded him. He wanted to run, yet he was too scared to move. He wanted to call for help, yet the fear had seized his throat from creeping out anymore noise. Finally with no resolution, Keishi did the only thing he could do....he hid his face from the creatures hoping they would go away, thinking he was dead. The creatures swarmed around him, still making growls and screeching noises. Keishi was now shaking in fear, he didn't know what to do. All he could pull out of his voice was the silent call,"Someone...please...help me.."

Sitting at home, Pichu was on the couch with Keishi's mom and the two other pikachus watching TV. Pichu liked TV it seemed, he enjoyed watching the cartoons especially. Keishi's mom stroked Pichu softly and gave him a treat. Pichu gulped it down happily and with a cute squeal he yelled,"Piiichu!!!"

Keishi's mom looked at the time, it was 9:15 PM and it was now dark outside. Keishi's mom was now getting very worried about Keishi's lateness.

"He is still outside, he always comes home by dusk. Where is he?" Keishi's mom asked in a worried tone. Pichu looked up at her and then at the window. The little yellow creature had a very bad feeling that something was wrong. He still didn't trust him, nor was he fond of the pushy trainer, yet he didn't wish for him to get hurt. After a quick decision, Pichu hopped from the couch. The pikachu's stood up and looked at him curiously.

"Pika!! Pikachu??? Pi?" one of them asked. (Translation: Where in the world are you going?)

"Pi! Pi!! Pichu!! Chu!" Pichu responded back. (Translation: I got to go! Ill be back soon!")

Before the other pikachus could say anymore, Pichu ran out of the plastic flip door and into the night. Keishi's mom looked at the pikachu's. Both pikachu's were worried about pichu, especially the female one.

"It will be all right Kala...I'm sure Pichu will be all right," Keishi's mom reassured the female pikachu as she stroked its small head. Its black tipped ears twitched a little bit from being nervous. Keishi's mom then walked over to the kitchen and picked up the phone.

"This is an emergency phone call..." she began as she took a peek out of the kitchen to see the two worried pokemon.

In a hurried dash, Pichu ran around town. He sniffed the ground to try to pick up a scent, yet he couldn't find Keishi. He kept running as fast as he could all over the place. The brave pokemon kept searching and searching til he finally picked up Keishi's scent. With a certain hope, Pichu followed the scent to the darkened Sprout Tower which stood at the north side of town. The little yellow pokemon looked up at the huge tower, he could hear haunting noises come from it. Pichu gulped and hopped in slowly, he could barely see in the darkness that surrounded it. He kept on moving til he heard some thing scurry across the floor. In a battle position, he stood still to the sound. He charged up a little to give off a little light in the dark, a rattata runs up to him. Pichu sighed in relief of the purple rat pokemon. Pichu looked at him and asked if he had seen a young boy in the tower. Rattata nodded and signaled Pichu to follow him up the stairs. Pichu agreed and ran after him following the rat pokemon as fast as he could. The rat pokemon pointed to a boy clutched to the wooden floor of the tower in fear for his life. About eight Gastly's were moving around him in a circular manner. Pichu looked at them, there seemed to be a lot. No matter he was outnumbered, he ran over to Keishi's rescue as fast as he could. With a small Jolt, he did a thunder shock to scare the gastly off. The ghostly pokemon spread out from their formation and growled at Pichu. Pichu looked at them and ran on top of Keishi. He then growled back and did another thunder shock to the gastly as they spread back further. The gastly then without warning, grew angry and charged at Pichu slamming it to the wall. The small yellow pokemon groaned as he slowly got up at the large gang of ghosts surrounding him.

"PIIIIICHUUUUUUUUUUUU!" he yelled as he sent a small thunder wave out to the gastly, a couple dropped to the ground, the rest gained up even further on him. Pichu moved against the wall when the rattata tried to tackle the gastlys!! In a failed attempt, his attack went straight threw them and into the wall. The ghosts laughed at the pokemon's idiotic attempt to damage them. Pichu grew incredibly angry at the group of laughing pokemon. In an all out attempt, his cheeks sparked in a furious flare of violent electricity. A huge 7 bolt thunder shock was then dispelled, totally wiping out the gastly to the floor. Pichu looked at them as his ears flopped down..."chuu...." was all he could say as he flopped to the ground.

"Hey....wake up..are you ok?" called a voice from the wake of the conscious world. Keishi opened his eyes to the horrible brightness of the sun. He put his hand over his face to keep from becoming blind.

"Ughh...where am I?" Keishi asked as he rubbed his eyes.

"You must of fell asleep or something...I can't believe you are still here from yesterday.." the guy said. Keishi looked up, it was the monk, Nico. He seemed to be worried about how he missed seeing Keishi still in the tower before he left.

"There he is!" called a strong woman's voice as several footsteps raced across the wooden floors. Nico looked up to the newcomers and greeted them.

"Welcome to our tower," he said bowing to them. A woman in blue uniform nodded towards the monk and then looked at Keishi. Keishi looked up at her with a drowsy look.

"Oh my poor baby! I'm so glad you are all right!" called a familiar feminine voice. Keishi turned his head to view his mother running towards him.

"Mom?" Keishi asked softly.

"Why are you here?? You worried me Keishi! You could of at least called before you decided to take a nap in bellsprout tower!" Keishi's mom scolded angrily.

"I...I was surrounded by these pokemon..." Keishi whispered softly.

"Pokemon?" the lady in blue asked.

"Excuse me officer Jenny..maybe he means the gastly. There are ghosts that hang around in the tower at night, yet they are frightened by the daylight. We usually leave the tower before night time for that reason," Nico explained.

"If I was surrounded...then who saved me? I swore I heard something...yet I believed they hypnotized me to sleep. They could of stolen and eaten my dreams or done worse," Keishi thought while the three adults were arguing.

"You should of checked the tower and made sure it was completely vacant before you left!" Officer Jenny argued with an upset face.

"I didn't even know he was here!" Nico defended.

"How could you not know Keishi was here??" Keishi's mom said getting into the argument.

Keishi got so sick of the bickering, he finally sat up and dusted himself off. The young trainer than jumped up to his feet and said,"No harm done..."

All three adults looked at him curiously. He seemed very cool about the situation, no matter he probably was in danger. They all remained silent to the young boy's calmness. Keishi looked around to view a small rattata on the ground near something strange and yellow. Keishi walked over to see what it was. As he walked closer, he started to whisper in disbelieve at what he viewed in front of him. IT WAS PICHU! PICHU WAS HERE!! Was it pichu who saved him???? He didn't know, he couldn't remember too well of the events. Keishi picked up his worn out companion and hugged him softly. The rattata looked at him as he picked up pichu. Rattata began to smile at the young boy who cradled his pokemon softly in his arms. He watched as Keishi, with a tear of appreciation in his eyes, gave a soft smile to pichu and whispered,"Thank you..."