Well, I have vanished for a while, sry bout that.. newho I am back! Woot… so much has happened while I was away…so im not gonna talk about it. Neways, heres the next chapter… and this time… I shall try to make it readable… and sorry the first couple of paragraphs are double spaced.. i have no idea what happened...

CHAPTER THREE

Santia closed her eyes and waited for the rocks to hit her. After a while, she opened them

up again and discovered that the rocks were floating in mid-air above her. She scrambled

to her feet and looked around frantically. She then spotted the weird woman who had

been following her around. The woman smirked and then held out a master ball and

returned a pokemon.

The rocks then fell down, forming a dust cloud. Santia coughed and

moved out of the cloud, only to find that the only living thing in sight was Brick. The

tauros cocked his head at her, then trotted over to see if she was okay. Santia patted the tauros reassuringly, then spotted a pokeball on the ground with a note attached to it.

"Hello. This pokemon is for you. Train him well, he will do you good. You have skill, and much more than that. A link in a chain has been broken, and you must figure out where it went. Go to the cemetery at midnight tonight. There you will meet a good friend of mine. He looks scary, but he will never harm a living being… purposely anyways. Be there.

Illauna

a.k.a. The Creepy Woman Who Has Been Following You Around.

Santia smiled at the last remark on the note, and she picked up the ball and threw it. Out popped a larvitar, and Santia furrowed her brow. A larvitar? But they're so hard to train. All they do is eat rocks. Which is exactly what the larvitar started doing. Santia sighed and returned the pokemon then looked at her watch. "Okay… it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon… so I have about nine hours to make up my mind if I want to go to the cemetery. Besides, it's not like Illauna will know where I am." Santia told herself

After passing the day off in Oldale by searching for pokemon (she happened to wander across a wingull and poochyena, which she both captured) and sightseeing, Santia wandered into the pokemon center for the night. "'Scuse me Nurse Joy, but is there any room available tonight for me to sleep in?" Santia asked. Nurse Joy put her finger to her chin and thought for a moment. "Why, yes, I do believe we have one room available to the public that's not being used at the moment. You may stay in it for the night if you want. It's the last door on the left down that hallway." Nurse Joy said. After thanking Nurse Joy, Santia gathered up her things and headed into the room.

It was almost completely bare except for a bed in the corner by a large window that just happened to face the cemetery. Wonderful… just the place I never wanted to see. Santia thought to herself. She put her things down and had to drag Brick inside the room, for he never really liked hospitals. Too many strange smells (not to mention sharp objects). After laying down a rather large blanket for Brick to sleep on, Santia wandered the hallway until she found a bathroom. There she dressed herself and did all the basics of getting ready for bed.

Santia went back to the room and found Brick dead asleep. She smiled and then crawled into her bed and pulled the covers over her head, turning away from the window. After a few minutes of debation and tossing and turning, she finally fell asleep………

Santia suddenly woke up in a cold sweat. She had a bad feeling inside her stomach. She sat upright in her bed and looked around quickly. Nothing was there except for Brick, who was snoring loudly. Santia relaxed a bit, and was about to go back to sleep when she heard whispering. "Santiaaaa….. Santiaaaa…. I know where you arrrreeee…..I know where you sleeeeeppp….. I know everything about youuu….."

Santia began to panic. She frantically searched her backpack for some sort of object to wield as a weapon when the voice called again. " Weapons are uselessss….. there is no need to fighttt….. it is futillee….." Santia leapt out of bed with a rather large book in hand and started searching the room. She slowly made her way over to the window, where she made herself look outside. There was nothing there, save for the wind and the cemetery.

"…Maybe I'm imagining these things…" Santia tried to reassure herself, but failing miserably. She went over to check on brick, who was still dead (asleep), then turned around and screamed. A big pair of glowing crimson eyes stared at her from outside the window. She fell down due to surprise, then threw the book at the window. The book bounced off the window, but the eyes disappeared. Gasping heavily she managed to stand up as Nurse Joy ran in "Are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost!" She chuckled to herself. "Oh, I am so sorry for saying that… the cemetery is, after all, right outside the window." Nurse Joy looked at the clock "My my, it's almost midnight. You'd better get some sleep. And try not to have any more nightmares, you're startling the patients." As Nurse Joy left, Santia ran over to the window and looked out of it again. Still nothing.

Santia picked up the book and put it back in the bag. Surprisingly, Brick never woke up, sound asleep. Santia collected herself, and sat in her bed. "I told you not to fight…" a voice said behind her. She whirled around (falling off the bed in the process) and there, inside the room by the window, was a man. He was tall, skinny, and pale. His messy black hair fell below his shoulders and concealed a pair of gleaming red eyes, which happened to highlight three stripes below each eye. His garb was a long sleeved black shirt, and black dress pants and shoes. He looked to be in his 20's. The man smiled, and reached out his hand to help Santia off the floor. "I do apologize for that. I really didn't mean it. I confess, I was a little bored." Santia grabbed his hand, then let go. It was ice cold. "Oh… sorry about that too. There's a lot of things I need to explain to you, but now is not the time. I am here to give this to you, and that is all."

The man pulled from behind his back and old dusty tome that seemed to be thousands of years old. "This is for you to study, so says Illauna, whom I believe you have already met before. I would finish it as soon as possible. After all, you don't have all eternity, unlike some of us." He smirked, gave a little salute, then vanished. Santia was flabbergasted. She stared at the old book for a while before setting it down on the floor next to her backpack. She finally found the will to fall asleep, assuring herself that this was all a dream, and nothing really happened.

WOOTIE! It be done. Hehe.. I like using funny words… flabbergasted… hehehehe… allrighty, hope ya liked it… hope you weren't too scared either :P newho…

SEEYAS!