Dark Shadows

Childsnake

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Dark Shadows

Part 3. Interpretation

"Did you end up finding Sabrina?" Koga asked Erika in a very serious business tone.

Erika faltered then looked across at Misty, "Misty?"

"I -" Misty stopped as Erika interrupted, realising she properly should tell Koga why she herself didn't know.

"I sent Misty to find her, and I stayed to protect the city, being more advanced in…." Erika stopped as Koga raised his hand and glanced in Ash's direction.

"Huh?" Ash had no idea what they were talking about.

'Bang!'

There was a loud bang as a fist was banged on the table they all looked across at the source of the sound, and met Misty's gaze, and looking at her face, were silent.

"As I was saying……" Misty dragged on "I didn't find Sabrina, she found me, and was supposed to meet me here, actually," Misty said while turning around looking for her.

"As I did." A dark form stepped out of the shadows behind Erika, and lifted its hood to reveal it was Sabrina. She then walked forward to sit next to Erika, as she sat down a light purple blur jumped on her lap. Erika looked closely at the pokemon and realised it was the cat-like pokemon, Espeon. Her body was sleek, but fit and her fur was smooth and even in this close range Erika found it hard to tell what level she was. Sabrina must have trained it well.

Erika looked at Koga "That makes five out of eight gym leaders on our side, not including Aya."

And 'the pokemon master.'

They all looked for the source of the voice, "that was Espeon" Sabrina said when they finally tracked the voice down to her direction. They then continued on the previous subject.

"But Ash doesn't have the power we are getting and without…" Misty said, Ash looked at Misty in amazement while she continued speaking, she actually knew what they were talking about, while he was completely lost.

 "....we won't have much advantage." They all nodded their heads,

But he is still an experienced trainer Espeon said telepathically, furious anyone would consider her wrong.

 "What have you heard from the other gym leaders?" Sparky asked looking at Koga. "From Brock he said he would join us and of course my sister as well (Aya) , but I have heard no reply from Gary."

Gary became the Viridian gym leader after losing to Ash all those years ago, he said he wanted to 'keep the standards up' or something like that.

"That makes six out of eight. Good odds," Erika said, "but what about Blaine; the last gym leader and the Elite?"

"I have heard no reply from the Elite," Koga said ignoring her former question, "What about you Misty?" he looked across at Misty.

"I spoke to Prisma but no one else, she said she would."

"Where are they? The other gym leaders I mean" Ash said, everybody looked at him in amazement, Ash blinked "What?"

They all looked back at Koga, "Well…" Koga swallowed "Brock is in Pewter city and Aya should be in Fuchsia, but knowing her she most likely won't be." Koga still refused to talk about Blaine, he and Blaine had not been the best of friends.

Silence surrounded them as they sat thinking.

"What the…?" Sparky jumped up and grabbed a pokeball from his belt, everyone stood up, except Sabrina so not to disturb Espeon, to get a better look. The pokeball started to rock and shake in his hand, Erika reached forward to touch it, "Oww," she pulled away quickly, it had started to glow yellow, "it's hot."

Suddenly the ball exploded and a bright light shone from it, Sparky dropped the ball and the light blinded him. They each heard the ball 'crack' as it opened and then a soft growl sounded. When their eyes got used to the light again they saw a Jolteon covered with little water droplets. He was standing next to the broken pokeball, but this Jolteon was different, it had blood red eyes, eyes that said pure evil. Ash recognised it as the same one he had fought before. The water droplets were from when Suicune had frozen it into ice, the heat from Jolteon's electricity must have melted the ice. The Jolteon looked around the room at all the people who had frozen still at the appearance of him; his gazed moved and settled on Sparky. His body then glowed yellow and he sent out a large amount of electricity at Sparky, sending him flying into a wall. Jolteon looked around the room once again and stopped at Koga; Koga quickly lent over and grabbed his spear before Jolteon could attack again. His spear was leaning against the chair he was sitting in; he lifted it to hit Jolteon.

"Don't," Sparky's voice echoed in the room, Koga looked at him as he slowly stood up, "if you hit him he'll die!" Koga hesitated and thought about it, then lowered his spear. He was right, the poison in his spear would definately kill him, but not only that, he would die slowly and painfully. Ash looked closely at the Jolteon and he noticed a shape on his paws, "His paws!" Ash yelled while pointing at the Jolteon "Look at his paws!" they all looked down and gasped. On his front right paw there was a zigzag lightning shape, in the same colour as his eyes.

"Dark Shadow," Erika whispered. The Jolteon then turned his gaze to Misty and froze. Ash looked at Misty, she was holding a bow pulled back and ready to fire, a bow he realised, made out of flowing water. Ash blinked to make sure he wasn't seeing things, but no it was still there.

The Jolteon smirked as he realised this one was weak, Misty's knees then buckled and she fell to the ground, her energy all used up. The Jolteon leaped in the air ready to tear its prey to pieces with its sharp teeth, "No," Erika shouted as she raised her staff and vines came out to try and catch the dog. "Espeon!" Sabrina shouted, but the Jolteon was too strong for Espeon's psychic grasp. But Ash was oblivious to all this, all he could see was Jolteon heading for Misty; Ash jumped in front and covered Misty. The Jolteon fell down on the two just as Ash raised his hands to meet him. As one of Ash's hands met Jolteon's ragged yellow coat, a white globe of light come out of his palm and into the Jolteon. This act went unseen by all; expect the two people that were in the spot light, Ash and Misty. The Jolteon closed his mouth and moved so that he fell next to Ash, he lowered its head 'jolt', he then walked over to Sparky his head still lowered, 'jolt'. Sparky bent down and hugged him, "It's okay."

"You shouldn't have done that..." Misty whispered slowly standing up form the ground, Ash looked at her confused. "I didn't do that…"

"Not the light, protect me." Misty said fully standing now, while every one asked what had happened, "Don't put your self at risk."

"What just happened?" Erika repeated after no one answered and sat down. Ash opened his mouth to talk about the globe of light but quickly shut it, after a glare from Misty. He then opened his mouth again, about the bow, but shut it again after a nudge from Pikachu, feeling like the world was against him.

 "Pika pika chu," his pokemon whispered in his ear, Ash nodded his head and confirmed what his buddy said, "Later."

After no one answered her question again, Erika repeated it; "What just happened?"

It appears electric pokemon have been turned into Dark Shadows Espeon telepathically said in their heads, it came as only a whisper.

"That would explain why they all attacked earlier, but why did Jolteon suddenly stop?"

Look at his eyes they all looked at his eyes; the redness in them had faded leaving behind the normal colour of a Jolteon. Sparky turned to his pokemon, "Jolteon why did you stop?"

Jolteon looked up at him, 'jolt jolt jolteon jolt."

"Right." He said, sounding as if he didn't fully understand.

'Jolt jolt.' Sparky looked up.

"Jolteon says 'the control was released."

Silence sounded in the room as they conceded this information…

Outside people raised their hands and pointed. Just visible above the dark shadow that was the woods, a group of seven winged creatures came into view flying through the dark sky. Dragons. The lead one was carrying a figure on its back, a human shaped figure. Officer Jenny and the police went around and prepared the towns' people to defend their city. They called any pokemon to battle but they were careful to leave any electric pokemon out. The events that happened earlier were still fresh in their minds.

"How many more cities have been destroyed by Team Rocket?"

"They've destroyed Saffron city, Lavender town and...um."

"Vermillion." Sparky sadly said, even if he and his brothers hadn't been living there, they knew the town well.

"And lots of small towns around separate cities," Koga continued.

"Also they're attacking Cerulean, from what my sisters told me," Misty said.

"What are we going to do now?" Erika asked softly

Just as Koga started to talk a knock sounded at the door then an impatient yell, "Mistress Erika, Koga we're being attacked."

"Just what we need, more excitement," Koga grumbled, they got up and opened the door and proceeded to go outside.

When they got outside, a girl with a Clefable pointed the source of the commotion out to Erika and the others. As the creatures got closer the people prepared to attack, then just as the beasts came into view as large orange Charizards, they started to attack, great streams of fire, water and ice flew up to greet the approaching Pokemon, but they just swerved past the attacks and continued to descend, until they were floating just above the roof tops of the four storey buildings.

Sabrina looked up at the Charizards, and at the rider on the lead one, the rider was a woman, she then turned to the people, "it's all right, she's a friend." The people all looked at Sabrina strangely but shrugged trusting her word and returned to their work. Ash was amazed at how much they trusted the judgement of a strange gym leader. One Charizard left the group to land on the ground in front of them, while the other six stayed in the air. The one that landed had the woman on her back, she jumped off and patted the pokemon, "Thank you Sabrina, I didn't want to hurt anyone," she walked up to Sabrina and shook her hand and then walked up to Ash, "hi Ash!" Ash just blinked at her.

"Umm do I know you." The woman blinked as well.

"You don't remember me? well maybe you'll recognise Charizard?" she moved aside so that Ash could get a good view. The Charizard took a step forward, Ash peered closely at him, and shook his head "No I don't remember." The Charizard got real angry and steam came out of his nose, he then opened his mouth and let out a flame thrower. Pikachu quickly jumped off Ash and onto Misty, leaving a charred Ash standing there, the Charizard stomped his foot and snorted, more steam coming out of his nose in the process, "oh, hi Charizard."

The woman stepped forward. "Now do you remember me?"

Ash looked at her, "You're the trainer that takes care of Charizards at the Charific valley. Sorry I don't remember your name, but how's Charla?" Pikachu hit his forehead, only Ash could remember the name of every pokemon and not their trainers.

"I'm Laytoa, Cinnabar's gym leader," Misty lifted her head and looked at Laytoa.

"How come? I thought Blaine was the gym leader?" Laytoa looked at Misty.

"He was, but he was killed by Team Rocket some years ago and me," she said pointing to her self "being his granddaughter took his place. Besides I'm the only one -"  Erika's ears picked up what Laytoa was going to say next, so she started to wave her hands madly, trying to get her to stop talking, but Laytoa didn't notice.

"- element of fire." 

Erika sighed now they would have to explain every thing to Ash.

"So have you decided our plan of attack?" Laytoa questioned.

"No. We were about to consider it. Now people, lets go inside" Koga snapped. He then turned and marched back inside.

"Whoa, take it he and Blaine never made up," Laytoa stated.

"Yes, and now he'll never get a chance too," Sabrina said unemotionally as she turned to follow him inside. Erika shrugged as Laytoa's gaze moved in her direction, she then followed Sabrina and Koga, Laytoa turned and left. Misty shook her head and followed muttering under her breath as she did so, "I'll never get used to this…." Ash started to follow but then remembered, he turned to say good bye to Charizard before running to catch up to Misty.

"Misty! Wait," Ash ran to catch up with Misty, Misty kept up her quick pace, while looking at Ash out the corner of her eyes. 

"Why didn't you tell them about that white thingy,"

Misty turned to look at him, continuing her stride, "The council don't need to know everything, only if it relates to every one."

Ash nodded his head, "Is that why you kept Suicune a secret?" Misty stopped and turned to him,

'I was wondering about that'

Misty rolled her eyes, Suicune appeared next to her, Ash looked at her.

"I thought that was your voice," Misty unconsciously took a step backwards.

'You can talk to him?'

'I can talk to who I wish, Mistress,' Suicune spoke in Misty's mind. Misty turned to Ash and answered his previous question, "Keeping a legendary pokemon a secret would be wise, she'll be a great surprise for Team Rocket," Misty turned to Suicune, "Don't you agree?" Ash laughed as Suicune disappeared with a grumble. "MISTY ARE YOU COMING?" Erika yelled down the hallway, Misty rolled her eyes again,

"COMING! Is there any thing else?" she asked Ash.

"Well yea," Ash put his hand behind his head, in a sign of nervousness, "um… Misty I'm sorry if this is personal but… what was that bow you had?" Ash started to laugh nervously, his hand scratching that unknown itchy spot on the back of his head.

"WE'RE STARTING."

Misty didn't answer her face turning grim at the question and Ash moved to follow but Misty's cold voice stopped him in his tracks, as she stopped and spoke to him.

"Ash I hope you realise, things have changed and that you now have barriers. This is my element, the league was yours, this is mine, stay out of it.

"Come on," Misty said as Ash didn't start to move after her, "We don't want to miss out on all the fun."

 'Mistress…'

 " - Element Masters have complete control over their elements. Koga, Sparky, Sabrina and, I suppose Laytoa, are Element Masters while me and Erika are still in training."

Misty and Ash were sitting at one end of the table while the others were at the other, when they came in they were huddled together in a small tight group not leaving enough room for Misty and Ash. Misty was quite annoyed at now having to explain everything to Ash, but guessed that was her punishment for letting feelings get in the way. The first thing she started to talk about was the elements.

"All gym leaders have element power. The power remains in the blood line, that's why the gym must stay in the family line. I'm the gym leader because I'm the only one that got the full power, my sisters got a little bit of power but not much, their power is mainly identifying water pokemon, but they can hold their breath longer than normal. Any questions" Misty questioned.

Ash looked at Pikachu on his shoulder, "Pikachu?"

"Pi?" Pikachu knew what Ash meant but was playing dumb with him, and Ash wasn't buying it, "pika pi chu Pikapi," Misty's ears pricked, she didn't know all of Pikachu's language but she new that 'Pikapi' meant Ash and she was sure that she heard a 'want' in there. Ash thought carefully about what he was going to say to her, "What exactly do they do here?" Misty looked a bit startled by the question but recovered.

"This is the council and we protect those who need protection, and fight against Team Rocket, the council is made up of all the gym leaders and we each have a say in things that concern us. We only have the council so that if we are all needed, we know where people are and how many we have. In fact we all do are own things against Team Rocket, at our own time."

"Okay, the Final plan is this;" Koga's voice brought Misty and Ash into the conversation. "Sparky, Laytoa and myself will go west from here and take 'Bike road' down to Fuchsia city were we will continue to find Aya. Erika, Misty and Ash will go to Saffron city to Cerulean then make their way to Pewter for Brock."

Misty silently groaned at having to be paired with Ash, it seemed he just became a part of her element, she didn't know how much move she could take.

"Sabrina will try to locate the reason for the Dark Shadows."

"Erika's group leaves at 2100 hours, after dinner, meet back here A.S.A.P."

"Sparky's group leave at 2120 hours."

"What if we run into trouble on the way?" Erika said suspiciously, Koga sighed, he knew where Erika was going, "Yes, you can take some trainers with you." Erika secretly smiled. "But be careful who you take, Erika."

Erika stood up and moved over to where Misty was, "What do you think would be the best way to get to Pewter?"

They talked way until past midnight thinking of ways to get to their designated places. They only decided to go to bed when Pikachu's snores became loudly noticeable.

"Ash, you will bunk with Sparky and me," Sparky said while nodding his head in Ash's direction, "Lets go."

"Misty, you and Laytoa can sleep with Sabrina and me." Erika stated, Misty nodded and followed Erika to their room, where Misty basically fell on the bunk bed Erika pointed her to. She was asleep in minutes while the others continued to quietly talk.

At the same time Ash was just hopping into bed, "You are so lucky Ash" Sparky said as he turned of the light. "And why is that?" Ash asked timidly.

"Well you get to travel with Misty, and not only is she the most beautiful one here, she is also the sexiest." Ash felt a blush beginning to show on his face and was thankful for the darkness that hid it, he fell asleep thinking just exactly how beautiful she was.

Misty woke a little while later to the sound of Erika talking, "Erika! Do you ever shut up?"

"Oh, sorry Misty," Misty grumbled as she sat up to remove her coat and boots, they were killing her.

"So Misty, how old's your boyfriend." Laytoa teased.

"Nineteen and he's not my boyfriend," Misty said climbing under the covers.

"Well he obviously is, seeing you knew who Laytoa was talking about and she just got here.

"Oh come on Misty," Erika teased, after getting no responce from Misty.

"Drop it!" Misty snapped "Goodnight," she said a little bit softer.

"Goodnight," Laytoa and Erika both chorused.

"Oh, and Erika?"

"Hmmm?"

"Shut up."

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Last time I had this story on the net I kept on getting the same question so….

The pokemon called Dark Shadows aren't Dark pokemon; they just got the same first name. Dark Shadows are new evolved pokemon.

My thank you to all who reviewed!

Kit Kat – Yay! A long review! It made me so happy when I saw your review, sorry this chapter took so long to get out, and I wouldn't have my story any other way.

Silver Wing is like that because of the water influence from Misty and her sisters, like how some peoples personalities change when being around someone for so long.

Cause team rocket are mean pricks they picked someone random to kidnap, I didn't realize Erika sounded like that, but rest assured there is no way this is nothing but a AAML.  For the pokemon becoming shadow, you'll discover why soon, not too sure when but I will tell you, Suicune is there because Misty is connected to her being a water master (or trying) plus she called for help and Suicune happened to be in the neighborhood *shrugs*

TOGEPI!!! The evil little egg, ruining any chance of AAML scene, plus it won't evolve, (Note: it hasn't evolved in my game yet, one last pokemon and IT WON'T EVOLVE!!!)… yeah I'll include it… briefly…

Feel free to ask questions, they make me feel like someone really likes my story. And thank you I'm quite proud of it myself.

Mysteris – Thanks I'm glad someone noticed the strain between them, and in answer to your question, she just happened to be in the neighborhood, and because of Misty's connection to water pokemon.

Sorry for the long wait but I couldn't be bothered to go through and edit this chapter, but now it's done! Not as good as I hoped but…. Oh well.