Authoress' Notes: I am so, so, soooooooooo sorry for not updating these past few months…..Sure, I have probably written this quite a few times, but it's true. You wonderful people have to understand that I am not…….how can I say it...not the most talented authoress and I am busy, like most people, so I will try to do my best in giving you the best possible 'The Unexpected Visit' story there is (I'm pretty sure there's only one…..). Moving on……This chapter may be quite short and I apologize for that. It will do for the time being, though. Okay, enjoy.

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For making me one of their favorite authors (authoresses). I'm so grateful and happy! Thank you! Also, thank you to my family and friends (even though some of them barely gave any support) and to everyone who reviewed my story!

The Unexpected Visit

Chapter six

Out the Door

"The butterflies have flown into the net. Repeat, the butterflies have flown into the net. Over," a masked man whispered hoarsely into a small, device secretly hidden inside his navy blue vest. He threw the black cloth that had concealed his face to the ground, kicking dust into the air as he out a loud cackle.

Unsurprisingly, Christopher led the young group of friends to what seemed the twentieth cave they'd seen that day, only it wasn't a cave at all. Instead, it was a tunnel, made out of dirt and stones and some other things they didn't recognize.

The leading boy stopped at the midsection of the tunnel and bent down to brush away some loose pebbles that lay in heaps next to a trailing vine of ivy. Something went click as light shone brightly throughout the dark cavern-like tunnel.

They all blocked their eyes from the bright rays of light and winced, as they have been in the dark for so long.

May blinked. Max stared. Ash gaped. And Brock just stood silently. They were stunned by what they saw. Everywhere they look, there was always glass. "It's a glass maze," explained Christopher as he noticed their shocked faces. "You know, just in case more intruders come."

(More confused faces) "Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you guys about the last few intrusions….Well, my grandmother will fill you in on that later. Let's focus on the maze, here." No one else said anything more for awhile and all you could hear were the tapping of shoes on the solid glass floor.

As they near the exit of the maze, a little man popped out from nowhere, scaring the team of 5 to death. "Aaahhh!" The youngsters screamed, obviously surprised by this visit from someone so peculiar. But Christopher rushed next to the old man.

"Grandpa, what are you doing here!" he exclaimed.

The old man snorted and whacked him on the head. "To meet your friends, of course!" he said, "Forgot about your old Gramps, huh?" Then, folding his short arms across his chest, Christopher's grandfather marched up to the other four kids who stood back against the cool, glassy setting.

He squinted his little eyes to tiny black beads and paced back and forth, stopping first at Brock, then, Max, and May, and finally Ash.

"You seem familiar, somehow….Are you not the Pokemon trainer who's from Pallet Town?" asked the old man, thoughtfully, smoothing out his long, white beard and eyeing Ash from head to toe, "Ashton, was it?"

Ash chuckled lightly. "It's just Ash, sir. Ash Ketchum."

The old man waved his hand absently. "Ash, Ashton. They're all the same…" Then, he closed his eyes with a sigh, but suddenly opened them again. "Oh, right! I nearly forgot my duty! Come….We must enter the village and introduce all of you to the neighbors! It's quite late, too! You must be tired to death!" And off to the narrow exit, he bounced.

His sudden outburst scared the four young pre-teens, but when you're with a man this strange, who knows what will happen?

"Come on, guys!" Christopher's voice called through the door as he poked his head in. "You heard Grandpa!"

As they rushed through the entrance, May spotted a bright red streak that flashed from the corner of her eye. She turned. There was no one, nothing. "May, hurry up!" called her sibling, who was standing at the exit with the others.

'Oh, well…' she thought, 'It must be my eyes playing tricks on me again…..or is it something else?'

Authoress' Note: Hi, again. I hope you have enjoyed what is of this chapter. I will try to update as fast as I can, but with the tests coming up in April, I might not make it…But, hopefully, I will be able to bring up my next chapter in the coming two weeks or so. Please, if you have any questions, ask me and I'll do my best to answer. Oh! If you want to be noticed when my story is next updated, I strongly recommend you to join my updating thing-site. Tell me if it does have a problem and I will see what I can do. The URL is located in my Bio and so are my e-mail addresses, if you need or want to contact me for any reason, almost. I will, maybe, be updating my Bio about things that are currently going on every couple of weeks. Remember, I will be happy to answer most questions from any reader. Well, that's about it. Thank you for reading this chapter of The Unexpected Visit. Ja!

Whyte Lilac

Tears of yearning,

For the past that never existed

Is hard to cry for,

When there's none.