Chapter 18:Where three Pokémon have a breakdown.

Mo could not relax on this day as he intended for himself and the others. He spent most of the remaining day in the sauna area and all by himself, with Aaron mostly hanging around at the bar, even after the happy-hour.

With Team Blue still away dinner time was way more comfortable for him, but there still was a tenseness in the guild. Everyone knew by now it didn't looked good and at the moment they couldn't do anything about it. Only wait.

That night, Mo could not sleep. He couldn't stop thinking about what would probably happen. He truly believed Team Blue probably ran of with the key. And what if the enemy found it instead first? And was there anything Mo could do about it? Probably not.

Mo was laying there with Aaron and Charlotte. They didn't had problems to sleep. Mo just starred at the ceiling, trying to ignore his thoughts, trying to get though the night. He had no idea how late it was or how much time even passed since he just starred around the room. He was even starting to feel a little sick, and a little thirsty.

In the darkness and complete quietness, except for Aaron's snoring, Mo heard something. It was quiet but still something. Mo turned around and flinched as the door to their team room slowly opened. Mo rolled off the hay to the floor, wich he did by accident, and prepared his claw to attack probable intruder. Yinping peaked out from the other side of the door.

"Oh! You're awake already?", she asked surprised.

Knowing Yinping wasn't a threat Mo's claw went back under his cloth.

"I ... wanted to speak with you.", Yinping said, sounding worried. "It's important to me."

"Is the guild under attack again?", Mo asked sleepy.

"No. I need to talk with you. There is ... I tell you later.", she answered, still nervous.

Nervous himself, not knowing what Yinping wanted with him, Mo followed her through the darkness of the guild. To have a quiet and hidden place where they could talk without someone catching them and asking questions, they decided to go to Team Blue's room to talk.

Yinping decided to sit down one on the three hay beds, belonging to Team Blue. She folded her hand the breathed slowly and deep.

"You ...", Mo tried to start the conversation with her. "Is something wrong?"

Yinping looked up.

"Yes. Yes there is something wrong.", she said and then stood back up.

"After you came back I noticed a change in the atmosphere inside the guild. Things like this happen when someone leaves or arrives.", she explained. "It all depends on the Pokémon who are inside or around this building. Who it is. The soul, the emotions, the character."

Yinping walked past Mo while explaining it with her arms crossed. Mo was now watching at her from behind.

"Do we have an intruder around here?", Mo asked her.

Yinping turned around. She looked not amused at all.

"There IS a threat. The problem is ... it's you!"

For a moment, Mo heart stopped. He? A threat to the guild?

"... I don't know what you mean.", Mo said nervous.

"Oh, you do!", Yinping confirmed. "Remember when I told you there is a fight going on inside you? Good versus evil? I'm not sure what you did while you were gone, but the evil inside you became stronger."

Yinping came closer to Mo. Mo was not comfortable with what shewas saying and doing right now.

"I want to help you.", she said to him, kneeing down. "We can solve your problems, together."

"Helping?!", Mo asked. He felt something. But it wasn't relieve or sadness. It was anger.

"And HOW do you want to help me?!", Mo asked again in a tense tone.

Yinping was about to say something but was abruptly interrupted again by Mo.

"I know how! How about you mind your own business and leave me alone? That would be a good start."

Mo was about to leave the room again to go back to sleep, or at least try to, when Yinping grabbed him by his fake tail.

"That's also what I mean!", she told him. "Why are you so mad all the sudden?!"

She let go of his fake tails as Mo quickly turned around, his eyes glowing and a dark aura beginning to appear around him.

"You want to help me? Good. ... then do it now.", Mo told her.

Yinping was confused, not knowing what Mo just meant.

"Do you have magical and ghostly powers that are beyond explanation? Expect for that you can look inside other Pokémon? You know ...", Mo asked her and at the end started to shake his fake head, making his fake ears wiggle around.

Yinping looked at Mo.

"I don't know.", she then said.

"Another question.", Mo said to her. "Who am I? What am I? Can you see that?"

Yinping continued to look at Mo.

"Let's sit down for a moment.", she finally said and lead him to one of the beds were the both sat down.

Yinping started to explain:

"You are Mo. You have abilities no other Pokémon I ever knew had. You can change the world if you just want to. You want to do good things to others, but, like I said, there is a conflict. I fear you could go down the path of darkness one day and you can only stay in the light if you accept others in you heart. And if you let me, I will guide you on this way."

Mo, again, looked at Yinping. His thoughts about his relationship with her were now affirmed to him.

"You just made that up right now, didn't you?", he said, again with glowing eyes, and jumped off the hay. "That was NOT the answer to my question!"

"But I just told you! What do you want to hear from me?!", Yinping asked him, slowly losing her temper as well.

"I don't want to know what other Pokémon THINK who I am, I want to KNOW who I am? What am I? What is my destiny?", Mo said and angrily began to walk around the room. "You said I can change the world. HOW?! I don't even have a personality. Just look at me! Everyone can sew and wear a Pikachu costume. I'm a nobody while everyone around me tells me all the time what I'm not. What is so special about me you are so fascinated off? Tell me, because I can't."

Yinping stood up as well an approached him slowly.

"Mo, please calm down.", she softly spoke.

In his rage, Mo removed his disguise in front of Yinping and threw it next to him to the ground. Yinping shrank back in terror of what she was seeing, with wide open eyes and held both of her hand in front of her mouth. She looked like she never saw something so horrible.

"Look at me!", Mo shouted at her. "What even am I?! I sure don't know! You tell me! You tell me!"

Yinping fell on her back and tried to crawl back while still looking at him with wide open eyes. Then, she let you a scream. A terrible sounding scream. Like if someone was just murdered in front of her.

Mo then realised what he was doing right now. He felt exposed. No Pokémon should see him. Not like this. Not her. He took his disguise and put it back on as fats an possible. Once nothing of his true body was visible anymore Yinping stopped screaming. She still laid there on the floor and breathed fast.

"Arceus! I didn't wanted to go so far!", Mo apologized to her. "Are you alright?"

Yinping was already dead. Mo knew Pokémon can and will die when they see him, but he didn't knew what would happen with ghosts. It was not like someone can become deader.

Yinping held her head and tried to get back up.

"It's okay. I'm just ... Wow!", Yinping proclaimed. "If that's what I'll see once I go to the other side, I guess I'd like to stay here."

When Yinping stood up again, she laid her hand softly on Mo's fake head.

"Mo. I know you are hurt. There is a deep scar in your soul. And that scar is the exact place where you good and bad sides are fighting over your ... body. I can't heal that scar. The only one who can do it is you. And even then, it will never fully heal. You don't only need to believe in yourself, you also have to believe in others. And you can only help yourself, once you let others help you. And for others to help you, you need to trust them. Believe in them, too.", Yinping explained to Mo.

Even thou Yinping was younger than he was, she was still a pretty wise girl. Mo wondered if she was always able to tell things like this or if she became like this when she died. He was sure she would have been a wise woman one day. And Mo became sad by the fact this will never be.

"Do you understand?", Yinping asked him to her speech from before.

"I don't think this is possible for me.", Mo answered, because he just couldn't.

That moment, Mo heard the door slowly open. From the other side Aaron appeared, looking surprised intro the teams room.

"Mo? What are you doing in the middle of the night?", Aaron asked him.

"What are YOU doing?", Mo asked him back.

"I woke up, because I needed to go to the bathroom, and saw that you were gone. On the way I heard you shouting and then quietness and then ... who are you talking to anyway?", Aaron answered and began looking around the dark room.

"Yinpng.", Mo casually answered.

Yinping looked at Mo reproachfully.

"I told him. ... and Charlotte.", Mo said to her. "They probably don't believe me anyway."

"I do!", Aaron told him.

"I don't even believe myself.", Mo meant. "It's like with that old Probopass who lives in Capim Town back then. What was his name? Master Something-Something?"

"He became crazy doe to his age. It's not the same.", Aaron assured and approached Mo. "So! Where is this ghost girl you told me about anyway?"

Mo pointed to Yinping, who just stood there still bothered, that Mo actually told someone, even thou it was supposed to stay a secret. Aaron stood almost right in front of her and was looking around. He could not see her at all.

"That's strange.", Aaron said to Mo and grinned.

Mo then had an idea. He went to the bag in the corner of the room, where he was looking around yesterday and began to look for something. While doing it, he immediately found Richard's old plums again. This time he threw it to the other side of the room in disgust. Someone had to get rid of them, but not him. Deep in the bag Mo pulled out an old blanket. It smelled almost like the plums from before and it's colour was a mix between light blue and gray. One thing was sure, it was old.

"What are you doing?", Aaron and Yinping both asked him almost at the same time.

"I'll test something, to see if I'm really crazy or Yinping is real.", Mo answered. "Let's see if this works."

Mo took the blanket to Yinping.

"I don't think this is such a good idea!", Yinping proclaimed, knowing what Mo was about to do.

But it was too late. Mo threw the blanket over Yinping, making her almost as covered under it as Mo was under his disguise.

"I noticed Yinping is still able to hold stuff. So if she is wearing something ...", Mo explained to Aaron. As he looked at him, he immediately saw that his plan worked and also assured him, Yinping really was there.

Aaron stood there, shaking, with wide open eyes and mouth. Starring in disbelieve while Yinping herself tried to remove the blanket.

"Now you can see her!", Mo giggled.

Aaron tried to say something, but he couldn't say a single one. At least not one that was understandable.

"I'm going back to bed.", Aaron finally said and left the room, trying to look calm.

Yinping finally removed her blanket and again gave Mo that mean look from before.

"See? Told you he didn't believed me.", Mo said to her, still giggling.

Mo raised a claw, waiting for Yinping to give him a high-five.

"Please think about what I told you. Don't ruin you future.", she said to him.

Ignoring Mo's claw, Yinping left the room, leaving Mo alone.