The night before they would reach Alamos Town while sleeping Harmony had the strangest of dreams, she saw the time and space towers also hearing Dialga and Palkia fighting with each other every time they crashed into each other she would wince and hiss in pain before everything started to blur around her waking her up.
Sitting up with a gasp Harmony rubbed her eyes in confusion and noticing Dawn and Piplup were still asleep she quickly slipped out of her and Dawn's tent. She spotted Ash snoring in his sleeping bag and Chu and Pikachu snuggled together sound asleep making her smile. She moved off a bit to look out into the distance watching the sun start to rise.
"I can't remember much about that dream, but I sure hope it was just that, and nothing else." she whispers to the wind, watching out into the distance, "After all that didn't feel or look like it was a battle, it looked like it was a fight to death situation," she mumbles.
Once camp was packed up and the group of four teens were back on the road Harmony glared at Brock about directions.
"C'mon Brock let me see the map!" Harmony says with a huff, "There was a sign pointing the other way towards Alamos town, I think we took the wrong trail to get to the entrance. The guidebook said it was surrounded mostly by water." she points out earning a huff from Brock who was sure they were going the right way.
Just as Harmony had predicted they were on the wrong path, they needed to be headed the other way to get in, as Harmony mentioned the town was semi-surrounded by water. "See, now how are we going to get there in time, it's going to take ages to walk around this, and even if I have Braviary take us one by one across he'd be too tired by the second trip."
"And I'm exhausted!" Dawn says with a groan nearly falling on her butt to prove her point.
"Me too," Ash complains.
"Would you all like a lift!?" A voice calls from above making Harmony, glance o with a gasp.
"Woah a hot air balloon!" Harmony cries out with wide eyes with a sense of wonder in them.
"Hi, there!" A lady who was making Brock go love-struck as usually called out, her Chimchar happily greeting them too making Harmony grin at how cute it was. It may not be a water or electric type, but it was still cute.
"We can't thank you enough for your kindness!" Brock says gushing at the lady who let the group of teens into her hot air balloon in order to get to Alamos Town. "My name is Brock, would you honor us by telling us your name?"
"My name's Alice," Alice responds.
"So it's Alice from Alamos Town!" Brock says before fishing out a book flipping through it, "I can't believe I don't have you written down in my little blue book of babes! Silly me!" he says, making Harmony groan and shove him.
"Ignore him, he's a bit of a flirtatious mess, thank you for getting us here, I'm Harmony" Harmony starts to tell her but Brock shoves her back out of the way to flirt more.
"There's only one thing to do! Let me take you out!" Brock says only to cry out in pain as Crogunk had let himself out to Poison Jab him making Harmony sigh in relief.
"My names Dawn," Dawn tells her, "Harmony and I are entering the Alamos Pokemon Contest that's happening later this week," she admits and Harmony beams.
"Yeah! We're really excited it's going to look dazzling with what Pip, my Piplup, and I have been training to do! And of course, I'm going fancy with having my Cursola as well, which none of you have met yet."
"Hi, I'm Ash, and this is my Partner Pikachu, and this is Harmony's Pikachu Chu who's on my other shoulder." Ash points out, the female Pikachu cooing happily and flashing her ribboned tail to point out the difference between the two before jumping into Harmony's arms.
It was then that Alice's Chimchar blew more fire into the balloon making them go higher and a bit faster.
"Awesome! We're really moving!" Ash states looking over the edge next to Harmony.
"We really are, glad I'm not afraid of heights," Harmony jokes.
"What a pretty lake!" Dawn says from the other side of the basket.
"YEAH not as pretty as Alice!" Brock says recovering from Crogunk's Poison Jab.
"You're quick," Ash states bewildered.
"He's used to it," Harmony says with a shrug.
"Well I work part-time as a hot air balloon tour guide," Alice points out making Harmony grin.
"Does that mean you could give us a tour?" she asks with a hopeful look on her face.
"Maybe, though I mostly spend my time as a music student," Alice pointed out fishing a leaf from her pocket and making a beautiful sound that Harmony instantly felt the effects on and her eyes drooped a bit as she relaxed at the sound; like her worries had washed away.
"Wow, a leaf whistle?" Dawn says with awe.
As Alice blew her tune out a bunch of bird pokemon lew over and flew off beautifully in a direction away once she finished.
"You see, the pokemon are showing me which way the winds are blowing," Alice tells the group.
"Woh that's amazing! That the sound of your whistle allows you to communicate with them a bit," Harmony says, still feeling relaxed.
"Okay Chimchar!" Alice calls out to her partner who nods and moves over to blow fire to get them to go the right direction. Pikachu and Chu race off to join Chimchar on the top metal bits around the balloon as they get closer to Alamos Town.
"Look at those towers!" Dawn says with wide eyes
"Those two towers, they look like the ones in my dream...the ones where the two dragon pokemon were fighting. Yelling at each other like siblings who are fighting." Harmony whispers her eyes widening and starting to water after looking at them for too long as if something was triggering her to feel sad or upset.
"Those are the Space-Time Towers," Alice explains.
"Hmmm, oh here! Listen to this." Brock says as he flips through his booklet, "The brilliant architect Godey designed the Space-Time Towers 100 years ago." Brock explains.
"Wait that's where the contest is, inside there right?" Harmony says, "I've seen the inside I didn't realize that was what it looked like on the inside." she says with awe, though still a bit confused about what her dream was about or why there was a slight feeling of dread on her.
"Right, that's where the contest will be held later this week," Alice says.
Ash furrows his brows, "A hundred years? That's like ten years times….?"
"Ten, it's ten times ten Ash, basic maths." she jokes to him bumping her side into his and blushing before turning away a bit. Dawn gave her a look again making her cheeks turn a darker red.
"Let's see, it explains why they're called Space-Time. The tower on the right represents Time, while the one on the left represents Space," Brock explains.
"Hey, I could have told you that," Ash points out at the basic information Brock was giving them.
It was then that Pikachu and Chu's ears twitched and suddenly a large seemingly gust of wind broke through the air shaking the whole balloon.
Harmony let out a hiss of pain, her head starting to pound a bit as she clung to the side of the balloon and as soon as it happened it was over, yet the pain remained in Harmony's temple.
"Is everyone okay?" Alice asks.
"Yeah, I think so..." Harmony says softly shutting her eyes briefly and rubbing her temples before opening them trying to shake off that feeling, yet it was still there. Oh well, she'd deal with it, wasn't the first time she pushed through a headache like that.
"What was that?" Brock asks.
"I suppose it could have been the air currents?" Alice says not so sure herself, "But it sure was strange, sorry if you guys got scared. I know what, I'll give you that grand tour!" She offered.
"That'd be great!" Ash says excitedly.
"It sure would!" Harmony says smiling a bit more, trying to push her headache to the side. SHe'd take medicine when they got on the ground in hopes it'd help.
Once the group was on the ground the group heads into town to soak up the sights, eat some cotton candy, and watch some Pokémon battles.
In his excitement, Ash and Harmony run into a Torterra and its Trainer introduces himself as Maury, quickly followed by his friends Kai with Empoleon and Allegra with Infernape. Harmony and her friends begin to battle their new acquaintances. Pikachu is able to topple Torterra with Iron Tail, while Piplup and Empoleon have a pride contest, and Chu exchanges a flurry of attacks against Infernape. Finally, Piplup and Empoleon battle inside Piplup's Whirlpool, which explodes.
Although the battle was fun, and Harmony had taken some medicine her headache was still going strong and every once in a while she felt herself wincing in slight pain, not unnoticed by Ash who was glancing at her a few times in concern with her waving him off.
Continuing their sightseeing, the group head down some stairs and stop by a fountain, which leads to a beautiful garden full of wild Pokémon.
"This has got to be my most favorite place in the whole town," Alice explains as she led the group down the stairs into the gardens.
"It's breathtakingly beautiful." Harmony breathes out in awe.
"This whole garden was designed by Godey you know," Alice explains as the group walks further into the gardens.
"What a beautiful spot," Brock explains glancing around before looking back down at his guide book, "It says that the design theme of arctic Godey's brilliant garden is the harmony between humans and Pokemon."
"Perfect place for Harmony, right?" Ash jokes to Harmony making her roll her eyes.
"Yeah yeah laugh it up, I love my name but please don't use it in a terrible joke like that again," she tells him with a pout on her lips.
A Shinx, Luxio, Azurill, Azumarill, and Marill watched from behind the bushes, but they quickly greeted Lisa once they took notice of her. Sensing an opportunity, the group sends out all their Pokémon to play.
"Aww, they're adorable!" Harmony coos moving to race after the Pokemon only for Ash to grab her by her waist making her frown "Aww, but the pokemon!" she whines.
"Later, let's still explore more!"
"I've been playing in this garden ever since I was a little girl, so everyone here is my friend," Alice tells Ash, making Harmony grin.
"See! We can go play, let's let everyone out though!" She unclips her pokeballs and tossing them out, releasing Lyn, her Shinx, Pip, her shiny Piplup, Braviary, and Alice, her shiny Ampharos.
The group of teens and Alice go to the end of a flowery pathway and check out the view of the lake and the mountains, leaving their Pokémon on their own.
"Look at that!" Brock yells out pointing off into the distance.
"Woah!" Dawn says with excitement.
The group of teens got interrupted by their sightseeing of the land around them when they saw blue electricity and pokemon moves being thrown around.
"Oh no! That looked like Lyn's electricity!" Harmony cries out rushing away from her friends, who were right on her heels.
Noticing the wild pokemon of the garden were now upset along with some of their pokemon the trainers rushed faster to get to them.
"Hey! Knock it off!" Harmony and Ash cry out.
"Stop fighting!" Dawn cries out
Alice then starts playing her leaf whistle again, which makes all the pokemon calm down and for Harmony to abruptly stop only for Ash to crash into her, not realizing it before it was too late.
"Of! Oww, Ash get off you're heavy," Harmony mumbles from the group, with the other teens' weight on her back.
"S...sorry Harmony! Ash says bashfully helping her up.
"It's okay, sorry for stopping so suddenly," she whispers her eyes still glancing at Alice as Ash tugged her back up the stairs.
"What a beautiful song, " Dawn compliments.
"My grandmother taught it to me," Alice tells them, making Harmony smile.
"That must make it even more special."
"It was just so moving!" Brock says getting a bit ga-ga once again.
"Thank you, Brock," Alice says with a small giggle
Interrupting their moment, a Gallade jumps through some trees in front of everyone.
"What Gallade?" Alice asks going closer to the pokemon as it points out something was wrong. "What happened?" she asks and Gallade jumps a bit up the stairs continuing it's pointing off in the distance.
"I think something's wrong...and I don't like the feeling I'm getting…" Harmony says softly as Alice starts to rush off after Gallade.
"Chimchar!" Alice calls out to her pokemon who rushes after them.
"C'mon guys!" Ash calls out as the teens return most of their pokemon with Chu and Pikachu rushing with their trainers.
Gallade stops where there were some strangely distorted pillars.
"This is terrible," Alice says sadly, "Who could have done this?"
"It was Darkrai!" A masculine voice from behind everyone calls out
"Huh?" the group calls out in confusion.
A rather confident man comes out of an opening, greets them.
"Alberto!" Alice says slightly shocked.
"It appears there have been recent sightings in town," Alberto says.
"Uh, excuse me, who's Darkrai?" Ash asks as Pikachu jumps onto Ash's shoulder with Chu doing the same onto Harmony's.
"The pokemon who wreaked this havoc!" Alberto says stamping his foot on the distorted pillars.
"Pokemon?" Dawn gaps.
"Darkrai must live here in this garden," Alice points out.
"I've heard of Darkrai before…" Brock states.
"It's a Dark-type but acts almost like a ghost type, usually associated with nightmares. They tend to live in the shadows. Darkrai's don't usually interact with humans though...why would it be causing trouble?" Harmony asks in confusion looking up from her phone she had pulled out to search for more information on Darkrai.
"Nightmares?" Ash asks bewildered that there was a pokemon like that.
"Usually one has Cresilia help out with it, the use of her feathers helps ward Darkrai away or so that's what it says." Harmony points out looking up with a small nod.
As Alberto continues to talk about Darkrai and what's been seen about it there was a rustle in the grass getting everyone's attention.
"Hear that?" Alice asks and Alberto gets a Pokeball out.
"Darkrai! Huh!" he says tossing the Pokeball up in the air releasing a Lickilicky. "Licilicky! Hyper Beam!" he calls out, making Harmony frown at the brutality he was willing to take to attack Darkrai.
The move hit, but instead of it hitting Darkrai it hit another man, "Now,...what did you do that for?" he says in broken words before hitting the tree in front of him making Harmony wince.
"That's got to hurt…" Harmony winces out.
"Tonio!" Alice cries out rushing towards the man to help him up.
"You okay?" Alice asks Tonio who nods his head. "This is my friend Tonio, he's a scientist," she explains.
"I was investigating a space-time abnormality that I had detected," Tonio explains, "Something has happened."
Tonio goes to inspect the pillars up close as Alberto walks closer.
"It isn't possible," Tonio says with confusion only to have a piece of the pillar break off and hit him on the head causing Alice to gasp.
"Tonio!" Alice cries out as Tonio groans out in pain.
"No, no, I'm fine. Really." Tonio states rubbing his head. Trying to reassure Alice.
"Alice, you don't have to be so nice to him," Alberto speaks up cockily.
"Alberto," Alice says confused.
"After all my dear you are to be my wife, remember?" he says placing a hand on her shoulder flirtily though Alice gave an uncomfortable look towards him making Harmony narrow her eyes. Clearly Alice was not liking it one bit.
Brock didn't take it lightly gasping out.
"No way!" Dawn says with wide eyes.
Alice forcefully pushes Alberto away, "Excuse me! But I remember telling you no already!" she says with a bit of anger, "Come on, I'm a bit too young to think about marriage."
"Please forgive me, this isn't the time or place for that kind of talk," Alberto says trying to get out of the hole he dug himself in, "Now that that's done, why don't you come on over to my place for a little dinner…." he starts flirting which Harmony and Dawn gave each other a look and forcefully shoved the two apart.
"Cool it!" Dawn says with a glare.
"Alice is clearly not interested in you." Harmony pipes up along with her friend.
Chimchar rushes to his trainer and angrily calls out to Alberto.
Alberto wags his finger, "Excuse me, young ladies. Butt Out!" he yells at the two teens making Harmony glare at him further.
"Tonio who is that guy?" Ash finally asks.
"Barron Alberto," Toni whispers to the teen.
"So Alice, let's get going," Alberto tries once more but Alice maneuvers away and grasps Tonio's arm and Chimchar yells out angrily at him again.
"You see Tonio's the one I like!" Alice declares.
"W-wha? I am?" Tonio says with a shocked expression.
"Haha you have quite a sense of humor, my dear," Alberto says laughing.
"So, this was all just a little joke, heheha" Tonio says almost sounding relieved while Alice glares at both males.
"Joke? Hmm," Alice huffs.
It was then that Pikachu and Chu sensed that something was wrong, as the area began to glow, and Tonio's laptop screen showed a major disturbance in time and space.
Just as before Harmony's head starts to throb and she lets out a hiss of pain stumbling a bit only for Ash to grab hold of her looking at her in worry.
"Not again….what is it? Such a strange phenomenon ." Tonio says, taking back his laptop from Alice.
A dark shadow moves around the trees.
Harmony still close in Ash's arms looks up a bit burrowing her brows, "Ash...something's there." she whispers and Ash calls out to the rest of the group pointing it out while tightening his hold on the shorter female he had pulled close.
Eventually, the shadow revealed itself to be Darkrai.
Do not come here!
Harmony let out a small groan, her face hiding against Ash's shoulder unintentionally. It felt as if Darkrai was directing that tone at her though she couldn't fathom why.
"It's Darkrai!" Tonio says and Alberto looks almost gleeful at Darkrai coming out.
"I'd say so!"Alberto states with a smirk.
"Darkrai?" Dawn gasps out.
"'Fraid so!" Ash says through gritted teeth, his grip tightening the slightest against Harmony a weird feeling stirring in him making him feel the need to protect her, even if deep down he knew she was so much stronger, whatever was going on was affecting her.
"So it was you after all Darkrai, Go Lickilicky!" Alberto calls out to his pokemon who fired off another hyper beam which Darkrai easily dodged by going in the shadows.
"What!?" Alberto calls out
"It's gone!" Ash cries out.
It then appeared and fired off a Dar Void towards Lickilicky who dodged it.
The only problem with Lickilicky dodging was that it headed straight for Ash and Harmony. As Harmony had been in Ash's arms, not only was Ash hit with the weird orb from Darkrai but she had been hit as well, the two locked in a nightmare.
When Harmony fell to the floor she glanced around in confusion.
"Wasn't I just with the others?" she whispers rather confused and slightly scared. Patting her pockets she couldn't find her phone and everything had a grey tint to it. "Whatever Darkrai did it hit both Ash and I…," she says with a whimper.
As she started to walk her shadow did not follow her instead it turned into Darkrai who engulfed the area around her as it showed her something.
Make them go away!
She heard Darkrai state making her confused. "Me? How in the bloody hell am I supposed to make whatever that is you showed me. Which wasn't a great image, thank you very much, go away!?" she cried out to the Dark-type who didn't respond instead a big hole appeared sucking things into it.
Harmony noticed Chu and Alice, her Pikachu and Shiny Ampharos standing there making her cry out, "Chu! Alice!" she cried out rushing towards her two pokemon, eventually, she reached them only for them to all get sucked down the hole, with the two electric types thunderbolting her.
With her being electrocuted brought her back to being awake.
"Chu? Alice?" Harmony mumbles sleepily before fully waking up, "You're both okay!" she cried out sitting up like a bolt of lightning had struck her, oh wait it had and hugged her two pokemon dearly.
Harmony heard Dawn call out to Ash to stop squeezing Pikachu making her glance around the room, noticing they were in the Pokemon Center, or at least that's what she thought it was.
"Huh? Where am I? Is Harmony okay!" were the first things Ash called out making her chuckle a bit.
"I'm okay, I don't know what happened to you but Darrai showed me something, and yelled at me…" She murmured, "Can't figure out why though," she admits.
Ash lets out a sigh of relief as he glances at Harmony a bit better before turning to look at Nurse Joy.
"You two were having such horrible nightmares after Darkrai put you both to sleep," Nurse oy explains with a worried expression on her face.
"It was all just a dream?" Ash says looking down at Pikachu with slight confusion over what he had seen.
"Creating bad dreams is Darkrai's special ability. If you ever fall asleep near Darkrai you'll have terrible nightmares" Nurse Joy further explains.
"You two were really in a bad way," Brock points out, "At one point Harmony had somehow ended up tossing Chu off the bed."
"Oops, sorry Chu." Harmony murmurs rubbing her partner's head.
"Darkrai doesn't normally come out when there are people around," Nurse Joy says worriedly.
"I thought that too, it was highly unusual. But then again there are unusual things always happening especially when we got here, maybe that has to do with it?" Harmony theorizes as Alice, her Ampharos nuzzles her hand demanding to get pets.
"So I don't think these townspeople are liking it one bit," Brock points out.
"Because of all those nightmares, even the other pokemon stay away from Darkrai,"
"That sounds kinda sad," Harmony murmurs, "I'd hate it if others kept away from me because of something I don't necessarily have control over,"
"Well, no one wants to have a nightmare Harmony," Dawn points out sheepishly, making her sigh.
"I know, you're right Dawn."
"If I ever come across that Darkrai, I'll give him a battle but good," Ash cries out raising his fist.
"Wait, remember it was Baron Alberto who attacked first," Alice points out to Ash.
"I have to look at more Data!" Tonio states having been looking at something on the floor.
"Huh? Tonio?" Alice says, glancing at her friend as he left the room.
As Tonio starts to leave he doesn't watch where he goes running into the wall before the stairs.
"That's Tonio for you, once he gets something on his mind, that's that," she says trying to hold back a laugh.
Harmony and Ash peek over her to see what had happened, with Harmony leaning a bit more on Ash before pulling away as her cheeks heated up a bit.
The next morning the group of teens were walking around while Dawn had bought a Lunar Wing, more than likely just a fake though, from a street cart while Ash and Harmony were seemingly sticking together at the hip, both still slightly shook over the previous day's events.
Ash however was trying to figure out why he felt the need to stay closer to Harmony, after all, he hadn't felt this way towards Dawn. But with Harmony, he just got that feeling, and he couldn't figure out why.
"No need to worry about nightmares now!" Dawn cries out happily holding the Lunar wing closer to her.
"You do know that it's more than likely not real though, right Dawn? It's just a Placebo kind of thing more than likely," Harmony points out to her friend with a sad look.
"Even if it is fake and a placebo I don't care, it was worth it!"
"Man I sure hope that thing works, " Ash mutters to himself causing Harmony to brown.
"I do too, whatever Darkrai is up to, or whatever it's warning is...I don't really want to find out," she says to him.
Alice moves closer to the two teens a bit of worry on her face, "Is something bothering you two?"
"Huh?" Harmony says glancing up at the young adult woman.
"Nah, we're fine," Ash says and soon after the bells started ringing from the Space-Time towers creating a beautiful melody
"Beautiful…" Harmony says softly.
"And this is the site of the Alamos Town Pokemon Contest."
"Gorgeous! This will be so much fun!" Harmony cries out here eyes sparkling as she thought further on what she could do with this big of a stage.
"I am so psyched!" Dawn cries out excitedly, 'I can't wait for tomorrow!"
"And I am going to be the one who wins, so look out Dawn!" Harmony says the two teens give each other playful glares as they grab each other by the hand.
"Oh yeah? Bring it on Harmony! Because that ribbon will be mine for sure!"
"The towers are just as impressive inside as they are on the outside!" Brock exclaims.
"And we're in the middle," Alice explains, as they walk over towards the center of the room. Alice points out one side of the area, "This is the space tower" she explains.
"And that's the time one right?" Harmony asks, pointing over to the pendulum swinging back and forth while Chu watches it with intrigue.
"Right. The architect Godey who designed the Space-Time towers was Tonio's great-grandfather," Alice tells the group.
"Woah, really That's some legend to live up to!" Harmony says with a grin.
"Tonio's laboratory is directly below us," Alice explains and the group follows her down the stairs to get there.
After getting down there Alice knocks on the door, "Tonio? It's Alice!" she calls out pushing the doors open as the group walks inside with looks of awe.
"Sorry to bother you!" Dawn calls out.
"Wow!" Ash says with a grin.
"Tonio?" Alice asks again as she looks around only to spot him on the ground making her gasp and rush over to him. "Tonio!" she cries out rushing to shake him, "Are you alright?"
"Huh? Oh, Alice! Good morning," Tonio says to her as she holds him up.
Alice seems to scoff and lets go of him, his head hitting the floor with a thud, "Well, don't sleep on the floor." she scolds him.
"Sorry…" Tonio says sheepishly, "I found a reference to the nightmare in Godey's journal last night. Wish I could have a nightmare." Tonio admits.
"You really don't want a nightmare, it's not something pleasant...like at all…" Harmony says with a shake of her head.
"Not only that, I found a picture of your grandmother," Tonio states, handing Alice a picture as Ash and Harmony move to peek over Alice's shoulder to see. "She's sitting with Godey"
"Grandma Alicia," Alice says with a smile on her face.
"Looks just like you!" Dawn points out as she and Brock had also moved to see the picture.
As Alice turned the photo over there were music notes that must have played out a song of some sort. "Its music,"
The Pokemon had gotten into trouble, mainly Piplup who wanted to check things out nearly having a piece of something fall only or Pikachu and Chu to try and grab it before nearly dropping it themselves. Thankfully Ash had spotted what happened and quickly grabbed the disc before it actually fell.
"That was a nice save...I guess?" Ash says glancing at the two Pikachu's who looked relieved. Ash moved to set the disc back where it was before the pokemon grabbed it.
"What are these by the way Alice?" Harmony asks having spotted not just the one the pokemon messed with, but dozens more.
"Music Discs," Alice tells her.
"Excuse me?" Ash asks confused
"That's how the towers music is able to play," Tonio says pointing to all the discs,"
"Oh! Can I try it!" Dawn says excitedly.
"I'd like to as well if it's possible?" Harmony asks, looking hopefully at Alice.
"But to do that we'll have to walk all the way to the top," Tonio points out.
"No need to worry!" Dawn says, placing a fist on her chest.
"Oh, no….that's never a good sign…." Harmony mutters, "On second thought maybe this isn't a good idea Dawn…"