Trace lead our group down the road in the middle of the night from the village they 'saved' from a Solrock that landed near said village from space which Sakura captured, along with one of the Bellossom to add to her collection, now making it Espeon, Solrock and Bellossom in total.
"So, this is where the millennium comet will be, right?" Elaine asked as she looked around.
"I think so. About tomorrow to be precise." Sakura replied as she then asked her Espeon with a smile, "Isn't that right?"
"Esp!" He agreed.
"Weird they'd put a carnival in a valley. Wouldn't a flat plains or city be better?" Trace wondered as he looked at his Rotom phone.
"Well I want to get a first look!" Ash yelled as he ran ahead of everyone. "Last one there's a Slowpoke!"
"No way I'm a slowpoke to you Ash!" Elaine retorted as she ran after her boyfriend.
"Wait for us!" Sakura yelled as she and Trace followed suite.
"Hey, I don't want to be a Slowpoke!" Trace complained as he ran last, but upon reaching the carnival grounds, it was lacking said carnival as advertised.
"Aw man, where's the carnival!" Ash sighed as he panted somewhat.
"This should be the spot." Trace looked at his phone again. "They must've not arrived yet." Everyone's stomach growled, for it was getting to dinner time. Taking a break, it was decided they'd wait there for the festival to arrive, so they ate their dinner, then went to sleep. Hours later, just before the light of daybreak, an audible rumbling could be heard, which perked up Pikachu's ears as she opened her eyes.
"Pi. Pika?" She asked as she looked around, wondering where the noise and rumbling was coming from. Ash woke soon after just before everyone else one by one, either curious or annoyed at what was waking them up. Many vans, trucks and eighteen wheelers came towards the spot they've been waiting for, setting up shop. And to their amazement as they packed up and went to investigate up close and personal, the process was quick and efficient. The rides were set up in minutes, the stands placed down on their respective spots, and lights coming on to illuminate it all. From a certain traveling bus, a purple haired man in a white outfit came out with a giant box he gripped with a handle, weighing apparently nothing. Taking out a handkerchief which he pulled into a wand, he tapped the box to let pink bubbles come out which he batted away. A blonde woman in a fancy red dress with giant fans walked towards the incoming bubbles, and brushed them aside with grace and beauty. The bubbles converged before bouncing off each other towards certain spots. They popped to show these weird things which were hard to describe for the awestruck teens, as they watched before their eyes like magic that a gigantic tent started to inflate itself with no manual labor outside of the two from the beginning!
Before they knew it, the carnival was set up and open for business by morning's start! And just in time for the masses of people to come in, as the place became packed within the hour. The gang immediately went to have fun as they got to ride on the bumper cars.
"Yeah!" Ash cheered in his Zigzagoon car before being bumped from behind by Elaine whom laughed in her Slaking car. "Hey, come back here!" However, it was not all fun and games as three (self-proclaimed) masters of disguise dressed as clowns discussed among themselves.
"This is the best job ever!" James cheered.
"We just get to throw around paper!" Jessie agreed.
"And clean manuer, whateva' that is!" Meowth mentioned as they were passing out flyers. It didn't take long though when they soon spotted the protagonists. "And there's our prizes."
"Prizes for the taking." James said as they giggled and hid from sight.
"The Great Butler Magic Show." Ash said aloud as he read the flyer.
"It's that magician from before this morning." Sakura recognized.
"If that's how he builds his tent, he must have something really amazing in his show." Trace pointed out.
"Then let's go!" Elaine proclaimed, to which they joyfully agreed to.
The Great Butler started his act by taking off his hat, tapping it with his cane, then letting a flock of Swablu fly out chirping, pleasing everyone! Jessie and James brought out a table before running off stage laughing. Putting his hat down on it, Butler picked it back up to reveal a Kirlia had suddenly appeared!
"Kirlia! Kirl! Lia!" It said as Butler let a Mightyena take his hat away, before tapping the table which let the sides of a box fold up over Kirlia. Turning his cane into his handkerchief again, he draped it over the six sided box. Butler reformed his cane but with a flame ignited at the end. Setting the cloth into flame, it puffed into pink smoke in which his beautiful assistant stood up, which a purple rock in her hands!"
"Whoa, what a trick!" Trace gasped as he, his Eevee and his friends cheered and clapped. The woman held the rock up high, letting everyone see, which it glowed a brilliant light like a diamond. But Sakura then heard something, making her gasp.
"Wish. The star." It sounded like a little girl was coming from there. The light dimmed down from the stone as the woman let it down to rest in her arms. Butler helped her down from the table, and they bowed.
"You're too kind! For me, the real magic is when I hear your applause. Thank you very much! Give a round of applause for my assistant Diane, and I couldn't do the show without Mightyena and Kirlia!" The canine growled and barked while wagging his tail as Kirlia lifted the hat he carried her in off of her and threw it onto the Bite Pokemon.
"Wish. The comet." Sakura heard the voice again.
"The comet?" She asked. "Where are you?" The stone began to glow, but only for the trainer.
"I wish you were here, with me."
"You're in there!" The girl gasped as she stood up, confusing her friends and Pokemon as she went down, followed by Espeon.
"Sakura?" Ash questioned as the three watched her approach the two and get on stage, gaining the attention of the magicians.
"Hey, you have to get back to your seat young lady." Diane told her.
"Sorry ma'am, but I thought I heard a voice from that rock you're carrying." That certainly got their attention as they looked at their possession, before Butler smiled and nodded.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we have a volunteer to help us with our next act! Miss, you must be in show business because your timing is impeccable!"
"Fellow magician, what is your name?" Diane asked.
"I'm... Sakura. The... Sacred?"
"Let's do it Sakura the Sacred!" Butler announced as Jessie and James brought in another box. "Feast your eyes on Butler's Burning Box! You must simply escape the box before it bursts into flames!" Sakura paled.
"Burning... box?"
"That's your cue." Diane whispered as she escorted Sakura into the box, Espeon jumping into her lap.
"But I'm not a magician like you guys!" She weakly protested.
"Yeah yeah sure, and we're not really clowns." The disguised Jessie chuckled as she and James closed the box around her.
"Dang, not fair Sakura gets to be in the show and I don't." Elaine complained as she aggressively took a bite out of her ice cream.
"It does look pretty fun." Ash nodded.
"Dusclops, step forth!" Butler ordered with gravitas. A roundish grey Pokemon with light grey hands and a singular eye with a red pupil came forth from the shadows.
"Dusclops, Dusclops, Dusclops." It said with each step.
"Sakura the Sacred should have no problem escaping a box like this! So, to make it interesting, she only has ten seconds till Dusclops destroys it with his Will-O-Wisp!" The lights turned off except for Butler and the box. "Ten, nine..."
"Don't worry Espeon, we'll get out!" Sakura said as she tried to get out, but it was locked from the inside.
"Vee?" The normal type was worried they'd get seriously hurt as she inspected the box. Elaine scarfed her ice cream down while crushing the cone, while the boys gazed in in concerned wonder as Dusclups lit a blue flame within its hands.
"...One! Dusclops, Will-O-Wisp!"
"Dusclops!" It fired the blue flame towards the box, just as Sakura dropped down below the stage with a startled gasp as she and Espeon were moved by a machine towards somewhere, while the box she was previously in was destroyed. It then exploded, letting bouquets of flowers fly from the smoke as the closest audience members caught them.
"Not only did they escape from the box just in time, but they made bouquets of flowers appear as well! Let's thank Sakura the Sacred and her Extravagant Espeon!" He pointed to Sakura as she came up through the floor behind everyone, shocked as she saw everyone turn to her and cheered from such an amazing trick.
"Oh, thank you, uh, thank you." Sakura said with both appreciation and confusion to all the bravos she was getting as she waved her hands, while Espeon just looked around, wondering how they got there.
"I can't wait for her to tell us what happened!" Elaine clapped.
"I'd certainly like to know." Trace agreed.
"Thank you!" Sakura told them again as she walked back on stage, only for a mechanical hand to capture Espeon from her side. "Espeon!" Not only that, but Trace's Eevee and Pikachu were captured from the other protagonists as well as they screamed, being retracted into a glass dome held by Jessie.
"Now that's magic!" Jessie quipped. Throwing off their disguises, they revealed themselves as Team Rocket! "And now on with the show!"
"Team Rocket!" Elaine growled.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" James began to say,
"For our final trick of the day, we're going to make all of the Pokemon disappear!" It was revealed that they had captured Butler's Mightyena and Kirlia as well in a net!
"This is the best part of the show!" Meowth said as he opened up the top of the tent, before jumping with his partners in crime to laugh as they soared high. "Who's the clowns now?!"
"You can keep our salary!"
"We take our payment in Pokemon!"
"They're too high up!" Sakura yelled in despair, but Butler was undeterred.
"Allow me. Behold! We have one final performance as our encore! Dusclops, Kapi Tata!"
"Duuuuus...clops!" It shouted as it formed another Will-O-Wisp as it fired the blue flame towards Team Rocket. Jessie fearfully jumped out of the way climbing onto James and stepping on Meowth as the fire burnt the bar and ropes where she was, causing them to both disintegrate, making Team Rocket loose their footing with the bar which was now vertical, and the three Pokemon they had to fall free, letting Pikachu and the two others free.
"Pikachu!" Ash cheered as he and his friends got their Pokemon back. "Let's show them an encore of our own!"
"Right!" Trace and Elaine agreed.
"Thunderbolt/Shadow Ball/Moonblast!" Each of the three ordered as their three Pokemon shot forth three powerful attacks at the mini blimp holding Team Rocket in the air, sending the criminals up with an explosion while the rope holding the net snapped, letting Mightyena and Kirlia land safely on the ground.
"Team Rocket's blasting off again!" The trio screamed as they left a twinkle in the sky.
"Everyone, give those three a cheer for giving such an explosive vanishing act!" Butler told the audience, so they received applause from the whole crowd, to which they waved and thanked the audience like Sakura as they joined her. Said girl laughed as well before noticing the whispering rock, and grew quiet as she stared at it.
"Jirachi?" Ash asked for clarification.
"That's right. According to the legend, Jirachi is a very special Pokemon that awakens just once every thousand years. I think it's sleeping right in this very rock."
"Like a cocoon. Talk about your long power naps." Trace joked.
"So the voice I heard..."
"Yes, Sakura. It is said that in order to awaken from its said, there are two things that needs to happen. The comet must be visible in the night sky, and Jirachi must find itself a friend."
"A friend?"
"Is that why it talked to Sakura?" Elaine wondered.
"Now we need the millennium comet." Ash said.
"And that's tonight." Trace remembered.
"Hello... Jirachi." Sakura said to the nearly awakened geode.
"They also say Jirachi has the power to grant wishes. But it can't do anything without first having you as a friend." Sakura smiled.
"Okay, I'll do it!"
"Sakura, meet Jirachi." He handed her the rock, only for Sakura to nearly bulk from its weight.
"Oof! Quite a heavy one, isn't she?"
"She?" Elaine asked.
"It sounded like a little girl."
"Well, it certainly looks cool." She complimented the stone as she stroked the crystals with her fingers, feeling the smooth and cool texture. Overall, it was a pretty fun day. The group played more games, Elaine got herself a wishing star trinket just for the fun of it, and watched the fireworks. When night fell, the gang moved far enough away from the carnival to not only see the millennium comet, but just the stars in general. The night sky was pretty.
"Uh oh, it's cloudy." Ash noted.
"We may not see the comet tonight." Trace groaned.
"Hmph, no fair." Elaine complained. Sakura didn't say a word as she hugged the stone close to her, staring constantly into the sky. The lights of the festival turned off, diverting three of the teen's attention.
"Guess we didn't need to move this far away." Trace commented. As the clouds moved, a light could be slowly seen through them, and everyone looked up to see the comet in all its glory. They all marveled its beauty, which appeared to be still in the air, but knew it was traveling a few thousand miles per hour at least in space as it grazed the Earth's atmosphere!
"Better make my wish." Elaine took out her wishing star, and closed the first flap. She liked how much of a dream catcher it looked.
"Once in a thousand years." Ash said. His girlfriend nodded as she sat on a boulder.
"We're so lucky."
"Countless societies come and go, and this one is the first of approaching in modern times." Trace held his chin in contemplation. "It'll probably be well documented by astronomers."
"Clefa." Elaine's Clefable gazed up at such the marvelous entity. She remembered back at Mt. Moon in Kanto worshiping precious stones and the moon, dancing to its magical light and flying to absorb its gentle glow before sleeping the rest of the day. This comet may not be the moon, but it reminded her of it. The Fairy Pokemon closed her eyes, thinking back to such good times before becoming Elaine's Pokemon. That is until the stone started to glow, startling everyone, Sakura the most since she was holding it.
"The star! The star is calling me!" This time, they all heard it.
"Is that Jirachi's voice?" Elaine inquired. The land started to glow like the energy of the earth went to the geode before shining even brighter and started floating up into the air. Now glowing completely white, it was unseeable for a few seconds as something began to form in it. Soon enough, the light dimmed down until they saw Jirachi's true form. On its cute white head is a large, yellow structure with three points extending outward: one from the top and one on either side. On each point is a teal tag, known as a "wish tag". A rounded extension hangs from either side of the yellow structure, framing Jirachi's face. Two yellow streamers flow from Jirachi's back, resembling comet tails which wrapped around its small body like a blanket, similar to a bundled up baby. They unraveled though as it gently descended to the ground, prompting Sakura to carefully catch it. Jirachi opened its cute black and blue eyes, the comet reflecting in them as it looked around at the company surrounding it.
"Jirachi." Sakura uttered, filled with joy at seeing the mythical Pokemon.
"So it's true." Ash grinned.
"Pika Pika!" Pikachu agreed.
"It's really kind of cute."
"Hi, I'm Sakura."
"Hello, Sakura." Jirachi greeted, using telepathy to speak in English.
"I'm Ash, and this is Pikachu."
"Pikachu!"
"And my name's Elaine. This here is Clefable!"
"I'm Trace, and this is Eevee."
"Hello Ash, Pikachu, Elaine, Clefable, Trace, Eevee, Espeon." The steel/psychic type listed off with a hello. All the Pokemon greeted with their own names. Diane in a red jacket, black tank top and grey shorts ran up to them, panting from the run she had to make.
"Diane, it's Jirachi, she woke up!" Sakura told her.
"I'll go tell Butler the good news. Meanwhile, you guys can sleep in our bus tonight!"
"Thanks!" Trace said as she left. Butlet stared up at the comet when Diane came in.
"It was true."
"I knew it!" He shouted cheerfully with his arms held high. Jirachi will be our star, of our greatest show!" The floor opened up to show pieces of machinery. "I've waited forever for this day!" Diane only looked worried, knowing this could only lead to no good.
Our protagonists were in the magician's bus, looking down at the mythical Wish Pokemon. "So, is it true you can grant wishes?" Sakura asked it.
"Wishes?" Jirachi asked.
"Let's test it out. What to wish for...?" The purple haired girl tried thinking about it.
"Let's keep it reasonable. We don't know if she can grant any wish." Trace suggested with caution. Sakura scoffed.
"What, and see whether or not Jirachi can grant us a million dollars?" Jirachi tilted its head.
"A million dollars?" Closing its eyes, the wish tags floated and glowed for a second before resting back down in their blue colored state. They all waited for a moment.
"Where's the million?" Ash asked. Elaine shrugged.
"I don't think it worked."
"No bills or coins." Trace looked around.
"So Jirachi-huh?" Sakura looked down when she saw a random piece of money was in her hands. Jirachi then floated around as it cheered,
"Money! Free money!" Various dollars and coins started appearing and falling into the ground
"The wish, it came true!" Trace gasped as he protected his Eevee from the falling currency. In other parts of the world, people all over were noticing that dollar bills in their pockets or purses were disappearing to their confused fear. Especially at banks where there was a panic on where the money was going to. So much money was appearing that the teens were shoulder deep in money!
"Whoa, who knew a million dollars took up so much space!" Sakura laughed.
"Ah, no! Not again!" Elaine cried out as being submerged in a sea of green was making her flash back to the sea she nearly drowned in, and thrashed about while Clefable tried calming her down.
"Don't worry Elaine, I'll save us!" Ash declared as he tried to swim through the bills as he reached for the door, trying to open it until it did, and the four all fell out in a wave of green, yelping all the while. Butler and Diane ran to the bus and gasped at seeing what had just happened. Ash and Trace got themselves out first before Sakura did.
"Where's Jirachi?!" Butler questioned.
"She's right here!" Sakura giggled as she held up the steel/psychic type.
"Right here, right here!" It repeated.
"What happened here?" Diane asked her.
"I jokingly wished I had a million dollars since Trace told me to be reasonable, and Jirachi granted it anyway!"
"Jirachi has the power to teleport things." Butler said. "So all this stuff must've came from all over the world as far as I could guess."
"Then the money is all..." Trace paled as Elaine popped herself out and yelled in a rage,
"Stolen! We're thieves! No better than that lousy Team Rocket!"
"Clefable! Cle!" Her Pokemon tried calming her down, but the girl stood up and stomped over to Sakura and Jirachi.
"Jirachi, get rid of the problem!"
"Get rid... of problem? Okay." Jirachi made Elaine glow before she was gotten rid of.
"Elaine's gone!" Ash gasped.
"Disappeared!" Trace followed. Sakura looked down at the mythical Pokemon.
"Jirachi, what did you do with Elaine?!" She asked it, but they soon heard muffled scream as they looked to see a pair of scar bitten legs flailing around from over the money in the van.
"Elaine, we got ya!" Ash yelped as he, Trace and Clefable went to get her out.
"Sleepy, getting very sleepy." Spoke Jirachi as the remaining humans looked just as it went to sleep.
"Jirachi. Is that all she stays awake for?" Sakura wondered, but Butler smiled.
"She's just recharging her energy. Jirachi won't hibernate again until the comet is gone next week."
"Thank goodness." The girl sighed.
"I'm fine guys, just get me out of this!" Elaine cried out as she was helped out of the pile of money, only to run off sounding distressed. Clefable followed suite out of worry.
"Clefable!"
"What's wrong with Elaine?" Diane asked.
"She had a drowning incident a while back." Ash sighed. "I guess being buried in money made her flashback to that moment."
"Oh how awful." The blonde woman gasped.
"At least there wasn't any Carvanna." Trace tried to put a silver lining to this. As Elaine sat leaning against the boulder she sat on just a little bit earlier, she trembled with her face buried behind the legs she hugged to herself despite Clefable trying to sooth her.
"Cle?" She heard her Pokemon say before someone sat down right beside her. She looked up, her face wet with tears as she saw Ash whom said nothing, but didn't need to to show that he wanted to make sure everything was going to be okay. The two hugged as they silently let time pass by, only getting up once it was getting too cold, and most of the money cleaned up, waiting to be returned to its rightful place before. Elaine however didn't want to go back there so they slept out for the night, Trace included for added comfort for his friend, leaving Sakura alone to watch over Jirachi. Once daybreak has risen, Sakura woke up from one of the couches she was sleeping on, first looking down to see Espeon in her arms which also woke up, to which she hummed happily and snuggled with it.
"Vee." He said with tired glee. Then the two remembered and looked to see Jirachi under a blanket she set for it, its head laying on a pillow. When the creeping sunlight hit her eyes, it got its friend's attention as she got out of bed and greeted it.
"Good morning Jirachi. How did you sleep?" Jirachi didn't answer however when as it floated upwards into the air, only stopping when it bonked its head on the ceiling, softly grunting from the tiny impact before descending back down like a deflating balloon, sitting back down where it lay all night. "Are you okay?" Sakura questioned. Jirachi looked up at Sakura, smiled and pointed at her.
"Sakura! Espeon!"
"Yep, that's me!" The girl giggled.
"Wish maker, hehehehe!" The mythical Pokemon floated to hug her head as the three laughed.
"Haha, tada!" Ash presented himself dressed as a clown a few hours later, along with Trace, though he didn't seem happy. "What do you think Pikachu?!"
"Pika Pika!" His partner agreed.
"I look ridiculous." Trace grumbled, even more so when his Eevve started giggling.
"Hey, we drew straws so I get to help Diane behind the scenes." Elaine said, having recovered from what happened last night. "Besides, now you two really look like how I envision our childhoods." She giggled at her friend's expense.
"We look like clowns?" Ash inquired.
"Not really, but we had so much fun and you two boys were so silly you might as well have been."
"You both look great." Diane told the two. Sakura ran up to them, Espeon by her side while Jirachi still clung to her head.
"Hey guys, I'm going to enjoy the carnival with these two!"
"Don't go too far, and be sure to come back before the show so the money can be returned!"
"I will, don't worry!" Sakura said aloud as she ran into the festivities.
"Don't worry, don't worry!" Jirachi echoed with joy.
"Those two sure are getting along." Trace chuckled.
"Like sisters." Ash agreed, to which Elaine smiled somewhat. She was glad Sakura was happy, but she hasn't forgiven Jirachi for burying her in the money like a joke. Still, Sakura was happy so she wasn't going to ruin the fun for them. They rode on multiple rides, the swinging inverter Wingull ride, the tilt-a-whirl to the point they got joyfully dizzy, the Ferris wheel to gaze into and over the valley, it was great. By sunset, pretty much all the rides were ridden and the foods have been munched on. What they didn't know was that a Pokemon has come for them.
"Hope you enjoyed the show!" Ash told leaving costumers that were exiting Butler's tent.
"Thank you very much." Trace said as well. Elaine was pushing a big and tall metal frame when it got caught by a random two by four and started to tip over.
"Agh, help me Sakura!" Elaine pleaded as she tried to keep it from falling.
"Okay!" The fellow female said as she went to pull it back, Espeon helping as she jumped onto the lowest bar on Sakura's side to help.
"Sakura, let's go play some more." Jirachi requested, but it didn't seem to dawn on the mythical Pokemon the girl was busy not having her friend crushed.
"Just a second!" She grunted. Seeing they were struggling, Clefable simply used Psychic so that it stood up right to fix the problem right away.
"Oh, thanks Clefable!" Elaine smiled from her help.
"Clefable!"
"Now we can play!" Jirachi tried flying away, but it was easily caught by Sakura when she hugged it close.
"You're gonna have to try harder than that to escape me!" The two and Espeon laughed until they heard something foreboding. Looking up, one of the pieces of the tent was slit open, releasing air while also letting air from the outside in.
"Absol." Something said behind a mirror they were standing right in front of, until it was smashed down by its signature move Razor Wind, prompting Sakura to yell as she stepped back.
"Sakura!" Elaine cried out. It stepped through the mirror frame, its lone black horn glowing white.
"Absol."
"Ab-Absol?" Sakura shivered from seeing this dark type come out of nowhere. She tried running away, but Absol used another Razor Wind to blow up a couple of boxes to her right, forcing the girl to go left as she and Espeon fearfully went up some short stairs to jump over a chair. Everyone came running in.
"Huh?! An Absol?!" Trace gasped upon seeing it.
"It's a Pokemon that only appears before a great tragedy!" Butler told them.
"Sol!" Sakura was knocked back by an explosion as she landed on a rolled up yoga mattress before landing on her feet accidentally, and ran to get away from the Disaster Pokemon.
"Don't worry, we'll help you!" Elaine yelled as the teens went to save her. The two went onto the stage of the tent, where Sakura was nearly caught up to by Absol. Luckily, Pikachu and Pikachu came to her rescue.
"Clefable, use Moonblast!" Forming a ball of pink energy, she threw it at the dark type, but it simply leapt over, letting it explode behind it.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
"Pikachuuuuu!" She sent out a surge of electricity which hurt and pushed back the incoming Pokemon, but aside from being stunned and a bit hurt, it was undeterred as it said its name defiantly.
"Absol is here, for me." Jirachi said as it let its wish tags glow, sending Pikachu and Clefable away. Where did they go? Several dozens of feet above the tent where they screamed from the fall until they were bouncing up and down on the bounce house like tent. Looking towards the people getting in the way, it dashed towards them to attack until Butler confidently pressed a button on his cane, and a trap door opened for Absol to suddenly fall into.
"A good magician always has a trap door standing by." Butler grinned as he pressed the button again, letting the Absol come up trapped in a cage which it was trying to break out of. "Final trick." The magician said before sending out his Kirlia. "Kirlia, Hypnosis."
"Kirlia." It said as its eyes turned blood red, thus turning Absol's iris's blood red before it literally fell to sleep on its side. Butler bowed just as Pikachu and Clefable came running back to their owners.
"Pika Pi!" "Clefable!" They each said.
"Pikachu!"
"Clefable you're alright!" Elaine cheered as she hugged her Pokemon. Though when she looked back at Absol, her smile dropped as she asked, "Why was Absol attacking us?"
"Jirachi said it came for her." Sakura possibly answered.
"Is it possible they know each other?"
"Unlikely since Jirachi has been asleep for a thousand years." Trace replied.
"What can you tell us?" Sakura asked the mythical Pokemon, but it was tired.
"I am... so sleepy. Forina..." It then fell asleep.
"Forina?"
"That was where we found Jirachi when it was sleeping inside that rock." Diane told the group.
"It must want to return there after Absol arrived, like a reminder." Butler deduced. "I'm sure you'll take care of things." He winked to her, but she didn't smile.
Everyone was sleeping in the dead of night inside of Butler and Diane's bus, resting from a festive but danger turning day. From outside, Butler watched as Diane went into the bus to retrieve Jirachi. But the woman knew better. Not just of his plan, but the fact there was four Pokemon sleeping outside their Pokeballs, all of which had impeccable hearing so there was no way she could realistically steal Jirachi out of Sakura's hands. So instead, she went inside, waking up the Pokemon briefly before going back to sleep but still aware of her presence, and went to the driver's seat. Elaine was the first to wake up when the engine started, looking down at her wish maker with two folded flaps, then towards where the noise was coming from, along with all the waking passengers. Butler gasped when the bus turned on, and tried to drive away.
"Diane?!" He uttered, before growling at her betrayal as he yelled "Go Mightyena!" Sending out his Bite Pokemon, he gave it a bit of technology which it held onto with its mouth. "Attach this to the bumper." As it chased after the bus, Butler went towards the stage inside his tent, only to see that Absol had escaped during his leave, the bars having been damaged after hours of bashing its horns against them. "Dang it! I've waited too long! Diane..." His trusty Mightyena soon came, carrying a note that it saw was dropped from the driver's side window. "Give it here." The magician said as he took the note and read it. "Butler, I've never wanted this. Please forgive me. Diane." Butler crumpled the note, feeling the rage that he's kept bottled coming back up. "Diane, I thought you of all people would understand how I feel."
A/N: Hey. I know it's been super long since I've posted, I was just trying to get through a very difficult semester of Int. Algebra. But now I've finished, though whether I passed is still up in the air. I'm that close to failing. But now I'm back for regular updates again. If this chapter seems long, I just don't want to make too many chapters on the movie and I tried to cover as much as possible. How was this chapter, and what did you think of me changing the wish from candy to money? It took me a bit but I thought that was funnier for teenagers to accidentally wish for incorrectly.