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Ok, I'm sorry it's been ages since I updated, but I just got really busy. And then I was trying to keep up with my Yu-Gi-Oh stuff too. So now I'll answer the reviews.

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Chapter two
Pay

Blood. That was the first thing Ash noticed. It was all over the girls face, dripping from a cut across her forehead, into her eyes and mouth, over her chi and down her neck. Some was even being blown onto Ash. He screamed and screamed pulling back from her, still screaming. It was like a spell had been lifted. All thoughts of following this girl, of not being scared, were gone. All around him, trainers and injured pokemon alike were raising their heads to find the source of the screaming. A flash of lightning illuminated the scene one more time, showing Ash the girl for another time. It faded, and when, seconds later, it flashed again, she had vanished, leaving Ash's arm still hanging out of the window getting steadily wetter.

"Ash?" Brock was standing beside the younger boy. "What's wrong? Did you hurt yourself?" the words Ash was so desperately trying to get out caught in his throat. He couldn't manage to put what he had just seen into words. If it wasn't for his rain socked arm being pulled back through the window he would have sworn it was all his imagination, a dream.

When the police arrived, fifteen minuets later, it was quite obvious to everyone that The Lady of the Night was long gone. It was decided that it wasn't safe for any of the trainers to wait in the reception, so now all the bedrooms were packed to bursting point with up to six total strangers in each. It took a long time to get everything sorted out; which is how Ash found himself sitting in front of a particularly tired, over worked and frustrated Officer Jenny at just gone three in the morning.

"This is the fifth time in three days that she's been seen." She sighed, rubbing her forehead as though it was giving hr pain. "She's attacking more often than before, she must want something badly." She looked up at Ash.

"Can you remember what she looked like?" ash stretched his mind back, but the harder he thought, the less he could remember. He described anything he could remember which was really just the age she looked and her hair colour. He could remember seeing her at the window, and he knew he had walked over to her but in his memory it seemed more as though it had been someone else who approached the window while he watched from the side.

"That's al I can remember…" he sighed.

"Are you sure? We need to catch her." Ash nodded slowly.

"I'm sorry….but that's everything." Officer jenny got up from her seat and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.

"It's alright. You've given us more information than anyone else. It will all help." The young trainer managed to force an almost convincing smile, earning an identical one from Jenny.

"You've done good Ash. Try and get some sleep and if you have any more trouble, we'll be here all evening."

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Ash managed to keep it together just long enough to reach the room he was sharing with his friends and another girl who was staying there with her younger brother. The second he was through the door however, he was shocked to find tears already dampening his cheeks. First he had to tell everything to Brock max, and the other girl. Then May came in and he had to choke out his story all over again. All the while, Pikachu sat in his lap, gently leaning against him and making soft, worried and anxious noises.

"What do you think hurt her?" May's voice was almost a whisper. "Do you think it could have been a pokemon or something?" Ash shrugged.

"I don't know." Was his simple reply.

"Why did you go to her?" It was Max this time.

"I don't know."

"Do you think she would have taken her with you?" To Brock's question, ash gave no reply. He wished that he could have, once again, answered with a simple 'I don't know' but the truth was, that deep down he did know. And the answer was yes.

"Were you frightened?" It was the first time anyone had heard the other girl talk. Ash turned to look at her.

"Well….yes…." he blushed, but no one said anything. "It was just…..the look in her eyes….she looked so…so…"

"Angry?" suggested May.

"No…..sad…."

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"Oh this is useless!" sighed James. "We've been wondering around in the dark for hours now. We'll be lost out here for ever! We'll all die!" Jessie hid her head in her hand, giving an 'I don't know him' look to anyone who was around. Except there wasn't anyone around to see. The whole forest seemed deserted.

"I'm telling you there's a Pokemon centre just a little further down the road. We can stop there." She said, pushing James along.

"Yeah….but you said that about three hours ago too." Complained meowth, not loud enough to hear. They had barely taken two steps when it happened.

A twig snapped. A shadow flickered between the branches of the surrounding trees. Another twig snapped and this time all three team rocket members looked up. There was nothing but the swish of the wind between the braches.

"Come on…let's keep moving." Meowth once again, had barely taken a full step when he was forced to stop. A figure had landed directly in his path, a shadowy silhouette against the silvery moon. All three were frozen to the spot as the girl raised here head, wiping blood away from her mouth. Her dark, hidden eyes scanned over the poke-balls attached to their belts.

"You trainers?" she snapped in a low, snarl of a voice. With startled fear, both Jessie and James nodded.

"You know Ash Ketchum?" the girl growled. It took a few minuets for this to sink in. after a few moments silence, meowth made a sound like he was being strangled, while Jessie's expression grew steadily darker, and James finally managed to speak.

"W-what do y-you w-want w-with him?" he stuttered. The girl growled again.

"So ya do all know him?" three nods were her response. A smirk spread across her lips. "Then you will pay."

End Chapter

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