Love and Hate

"Pikachupi, pika pikachu"

"Wha..." Misty opened her eyes slowly. She felt a little dizzy, but she could see Pikachu standing in front of her, the torch lying on the ground next to him. "Pikachu, are you ok?" She asked, sitting up.

Pikachu smiled and nodded. [Ya, I'm ok] He said picking up the torch and shining it up at the ceiling. [We took a pretty bad fall, but if Ash had the same fall were is he now?]

Misty looked around, but there was no sign of Ash anywere. "Maybe he tried to find a way out" She paused for a second as she thought she saw a pair of red eyes in the corner of the room, but when she looked they were gone. "Let's...go find him" She said nervously.

Pikachu nodded and glanced to were Misty was looking, but brushed it off and picked up the torch, handing it to Misty and climbing onto her shoulder. They walked to the door and opened it slowly, a creek echoing down the dark corridor they were entering into.

The dark blue walls looked like they had green slime running down them, and had a sticky feeling to them when Misty touched it. Most of the area was covered in shadows and a cool breeze flowed through the corridor, making an eerie sound and causing Misty to shiver. Her footsteps echoed on the floor and she walked slowly forward, getting more scared by the minute.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of footsteps ahead of her. Whoever they belonged to was running, but Misty was becoming increasingly worried. She stopped in her tracks and nerviously looked down the corridor. The sound of the footsteps became louder and closer. Suddenly, a figure darted around the corner down the long corridor and Misty gasped. "A-Ash?"

Ash was running down the corridor in her dirrection, panting heavily and seemed to be running as fast as he could. But there was something else there too, a dark figure swooped around the corridor and followed him at high speed. Ash looked up, terror shown on his paled face. "Misty! Pikachu! Get out of here! Get out before-" Ash was cut off and yelled in pain and something shape drove into his back and out his stomach.

Misty screamed as Ash's body fell limply to the ground with a thud. A skeleton, around twice Ash's size, stood behind him, blood covering the sythe it had just stabbed Ash with, and some of the blood splashed on it's arms. It held the sythe up, ready to attack Misty and Pikachu.

Pikachu sat wide-eyed on Misty's shoulder, shock overcoming him. He shook his head and shut his eyes tight, jumping off Misty shoulder and landing in front of her. His cheecks sparked with electricity and he looked up, tear falling from his eyes. [You killed by best friend!] Pikachu cried out, releasing an electric attack on the skeleton.

But it didn't work, it went right through it. Pikachu stood confused and tried again, but the illusion of the ghost blured as he electric attack went right through it. Pikachu looked up at Misty and it clicked. Chost Pokémon! Pikachu jumped up to Misty's backpack and jumped in. Misty had been asked to mind Ash's Pokémon as he went into the house, and Pikachu took out Noctowl's Pokéball, releasing it. [Noctowl, use your foresight!]

Noctowl was confused but released a Foresight attack. When it struck the skeleton, the illusion of he skeleton and of Ash dissappeared and were replaced by a Misdreavus, who panicked and flew up a whole in the ceiling and out of sight.

"It was all an illusion?" Misty asked in disbelief. "But then....weres the real Ash?"

Pikachu and Noctowl looked at eachother and Pikachu sniffed the ground, trying to find a scent. They walked along the corridor, Noctowl back in it's Pokéball, until finnally.

[Found it!] Pikachu said, following the scent of his trainer as fast as he could.

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[That stupid human messed up our fun!] one Misdreavus said in anger. [We should teach them a lesson they wouldn't live to remember!] Misdreavus were offended very easily, and when they got offended or angered in any way they got serious.

[And so we will] Said another Misdreavus. [Time to call on a few old friends] It said grinning as it floated into a room near the bottom of the building. The whole room was full of real skeletons, all of victums that had never left the house. The Misdreavus grinned and it's eyes glowed red. A faint glow surronded a few of the skeletons, and the boney hands of the skeletons began to move.

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"Pikapi!" Pikachu cried as he saw his trainer sitting by himself in a corridor, looking sort of lonely, and mumbling something to himself. He ran over to his trainer but froze a few steps away. There was something wrong with Ash, he could sence it.

Misty may not have been a Pokémon, but she could tell there was something wrong with Ash. She walked over and knelt next to him. She listened carefully to what Ash was saying.

"Misty...Pikachu...I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happened, but I know it's all my fault, it's my fault your gone..."

"Ash, we're right here" Misty said placing her hand on his shoulder.

Ash looked up and looked over at Misty with disbelief and then at Pikachu. "Misty? Pikachu?"

Misty smiled. "Don't worry, everything's alright, it was all an illusion" Misty said reasuringly. The next thing she knew Ash was hugging her tight.

"I thought I'd never see you again!" Ash said, not bothering to hold back the tears.

Misty was shocked, but she hugged Ash back. Something really bad must have happened, Ash wasn't the type to cry openly. He was the kind that always tried to hide it, especially in front of her. "Ash, whatever you saw was just a illusion, don't worry"

"When I saw that...whatever it was, I was so afraid" Ash said. "It was of you, and Pikachu, but you were dead, and you said it was my fault, and-"

"Ash take it easy" Misty said pulling away from the hug and looking him in the eye. "We're ok, and so are you, and thats all the matters"

Ash sighed. "You wanna know what scared me the most?"

Misty looked at pikachu, who shrugged, and then back at Ash. "What?"

Ash took a deep breath and sighed heavily. "Alright Ketchum, you've got this far, might as well go the whole way" He thought. "It was...the fact I'd never get to tell you that..." He froze. Could he tell her? "Come on, you can do this" He reassured himself. He sighed again and looked at the ground. "That...I love you Misty" There, he'd said it, after all this time he'd finnally said it.

Misty froze herself. Was she hearing things? Or had Ash Ketchum just said the three things that she had wanted to here him say to her for so long? "You do?" She asked and Ash noded slowly, still looking at the ground. She smiled brightly and pulled his face up so they had eye contact. Now could she say it? "I love you too Ash" Yup, she could.

Ash looked up. He couldn't believe it, she liked him back? He suddenly noticed they were both leaning towards eachother and before he knew it they were sharing their first kiss.

Pikachu smiled happily. [Well it's about time] He thought to himself.

Ash and Misty slowly pulled away and looked lovingly into eachothers eyes. But it didn't last long, there was a loud clatter from farther down the corridor and Ash and Misty both turned to see a skeleton with an axe, along with many others with various weapons. These skeletons weren't as tall as the others, but they looked more realistic.

Misty sighed. "Oh please, not this again" She said in an annoyed tone. "We're not falling for that trick again"

One of the skeletons stepped forward and tossed a dagger at them. It landed next to Ash as he dodged it narrowly. He reached out and touched it, feeling the cold metal. "They seem pretty real to me, run!" Ash said pulling Misty to her feet and pushing her forward down the corridor, Pikachu following them. "Man I hate this house" Ash thought.

The skeletons charged forward towards them at high speed. Looks like the real danger was just about to begin.

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To Be Continued

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Ok, sorry it took so long, but I have like five stories that I'm workin' on, all at once! Ah well, I brought it on meself. Whacha think of this chappy? If you liked it, please review. If you hated it then....please review ^_^;; Welp, slán go foil!
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