ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 22 - The best things happen in the dark.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
The water rushed out fast, crashing on to the plate, removing the extra pieces of food that was still attached to it.
Dawn sighed as she scrubbed off the plates and then placing them into the dishwasher.
Her mother had invited over a few of her 'friends' to have dinner.
Sitting at the table with the blue haired girl mother was Barry, Paul, Kenny and Zoey. She had no idea why Paul was here, but apparently, her Mother saw him as a little angel. God knows how…
"Ah! That was so good Ms. B!" Barry complimented.
"Oh, stop it Barry, you'll make me blush!" Johanna, Dawns mother laughed as did everyone else.
But Dawn.
She wanted just to have some time to herself.
Ever since her grand win, the thought of Ash lingered in her mind.
Dawn offered to do the dishes so she could have some alone time.
Sighing to herself, she looked out the window to see it was raining rather heavily and a storm was passing through.
"Dawn?"
She jumped slightly to turn around to find Zoey with a plate.
"Oh… Zoey." She said with a sigh.
The ginger raised an eyebrow at her.
"Everything alright?" she asked.
Dawn nodded.
"Yeah… Just tired! That's all!" Dawn explained as she took the plate off her rival.
"Ok… It's just seem tense." Zoey said concerned.
"I'm fine." Dawn said assertively, as she didn't even bother rinse Zoey's plate and forced it straight into the dishwasher.
Zoey walked back to the table with Dawn in toll.
She decided to be semi-civil and make conversation.
"So, Kenny, how is this girl you've been seeing?" Dawn asked.
"She is great. I can tell her pretty much anything, go and do anything with her." Kenny explained.
"But can she battle?" Barry questioned annoyingly.
"Yes, she can. She won the indigo league about a year or two ago. Her Typhlosion was the MVP." Kenny told the blonde.
"Wow! You got a keeper then!" the blonde laughed.
Dawn grew tired of the conversation despite only just started.
"Um, I'd like to be excused. I'm not feeling too good…" Dawn lied.
"Oh? What is wrong sweetie?" Johanna asked concerned for her daughter health.
Paul on the other hand, glared at her.
"I just ate too much. That's all!" she lied again to throw her mother off.
"Oh, ok then. I'll check on you later." Johanna told her as Dawn sluggishly went to her room.
She collapsed on her bed and looked up to the ceiling, listening to the rain crash on the roof.
"Lup?" Piplup cried, concerned about his trainer.
"Oh, it's nothing Piplup. I just… I just miss him…" Dawn muttered to her started as she pulled out a photo of Brock, herself and a certain Ash Ketchum.
The 13-year smiled as she stroked her thumb over his face in the picture. Sure she didn't have the body of May or the beauty of Serena. But at least she had the guts to realise the horrible mistake they had all made.
With him owing his life…
A few tears began to dribble down her cheeks as she placed her hand over her mouth to prevent everyone down stairs hearing her weep.
"What are you doing?" a male voice called out.
Dawn jumped and sat under the picture of her Sinnoh adventure.
It was Paul, who invited himself into her room.
"(Sniff) Ever heard of knocking?" she snapped.
"No."
Dawn rolled with tear covered eyes and looked back outside through her window.
Paul grunted and sat down on her bed.
"What do you want?" Dawn snapped yet again.
"I came to check up on you, but by the sounds of things, I'm not doing a good job at it." Paul smirked.
Dawn gave a little chuckle from it.
"You hear Serena and her new prince boyfriend are getting married?"
"WHAT!? ISN'T SHE LIKE 15!?" Dawn screamed in his face.
"Yeah. Some Kalos bullshit tradition. But eh." Paul mumbled.
"Why are you really here Paul?" Dawn questioned.
The purple haired boy sighed.
"Too check on you."
"Really?"
"Yes. That's all." He said, placing his hand on hers.
Dawn started to heat up as her heart pounded faster and faster.
Sure. He was 16 and she was 13. Did he really feel this way about her?
"No! Dawn, you're overthinking this!" Dawn hissed at herself in her mind.
BOOM!
The loud thunderclap made Dawn both scream and jump into Paul, hugging him tightly.
Paul hugged her back as well till he saw a photo that she had been hiding.
"Dawn? What is this?" Paul questioned, snatching the picture before Dawn could react.
"Paul! Wait, it is not what it lo- "Dawn pleaded.
"Then what is it!" he yelled, scaring Dawn slightly.
The duo could hear running up the stairs.
Paul walked over to the window and opened it.
"PAUL! NO!" Dawn cried as the purple haired released the photo of her, Ash and Brock into the storm.
Johanna practically kicked the door down with Kenny, Zoey and Barry behind her.
"What is going on in here!" Johanna demanded.
"Nothing. We were just talking. Thanks for dinner but I have to go." Paul muttered, walking past Dawns mother and smashing his shoulder into Barry before leaving the house despite the storm.
Dawn looked down the window with it nowhere in sight.
"No! No, no, no, NO! NO!" Dawn whaled.
"Sweetie? What is wrong?" Johanna panicked, worried what was wrong with her daughter.
Dawn grabbed a coat and an umbrella. She raced past her mother and down the stairs.
"DAWN! WAIT! DAWN!" Johanna called as everyone was confused on what had just happened.
As Johanna was calling her daughter's name, the photo of Dawns past had landed on the ground in a nearby bush. It was picked up by a hand with black talons for fingers as it smirked at the photo with its razor shape, pearl white teeth.
Dawn was about to leave the house until Zoey began to hold her back.
"Let go of me!" Dawn cried, thrashing around in Zoey's arms.
Johanna grabbed her daughters arm.
"Dawn what is going on!?"
"HE IS DEAD!" she cried.
Barry and Kenny looked at each other, both knowing what this was about.
Zoey let go of Dawn, also realizing now why she was asking so strange.
"What?" Johanna asked.
"HE IS FUCKING DEAD!" Dawn screamed at her mother.
Johanna was blown back. She had never seen her daughter so aggressive before, going as far as swearing right in her face.
"I'm going for a walk." Dawn muttered as she opened the door.
"But Dawn! Its pissing down with rain!" Barry told her.
"Yeah, I can see and hear that!" Dawn hissed as she slammed the door.
She sighed and walked off with the raining plummeting down on her umbrella.
While walking down the street, she found an empty can and began to kick it to take out her angry that Paul inflicted on her.
She kicked the can near a storm drain with the water carrying it away.
Walking past an alleyway, she looked down it just to be careful and saw only a trash containers.
Dawn shook off the thought and walked a few more steps.
The street lamp that was hanging above her, began to flicker slightly. Dawn looked upwards and saw the technical issues.
"Hello?" Dawn called out, regretting her idea of running off.
Behind her, it sounded like a glass bottle smashing on the ground.
Dawn quickly turned around to see there was nothing there.
She was breathing heavily when she felt the strange feeling she was being watched.
"P-Paul? P-p-Paul? Is that you?" Dawn called out shakily.
She turned back around, only to be stunned by what she was looking at. Her umbrella hit the ground as the rain merged with her tears.
Stand about 7 meters away from her was Ash.
"A-A-a-as-as-Ash?" she muttered, struggling to speak.
"It's your fault Dawn." Ash said.
Dawn place her hands over her mouth.
"Why did you side with them Dawn? Why?" Ash questioned with a sad look.
"ASH! I'm s-s-sorry! I-I'm s-sorry!" Dawn pleaded.
"It's all your fault Dawn. You and everyone else drove me out and it killed me." Ash said with zero emotions.
Dawn was on the verge of breaking down.
Was she going insane?
"N-no! I-I-I didn't me-mean too! I didn't kn-know!" Dawn screamed.
"Don't lie Dawn. Please don't lie." Ash asked.
"O-okay! Okay! Please believe me!" Dawn whimpered now.
"I do Dawn. I do. Did you love me Dawn?" Ash asked this time.
Dawn started shaking, unsure whether to answer this or not.
"I… I… Did I… Love you?" she muttered, feeling think she was going to throw up. "I don't know…"
Ash frowned.
"Aww. Cause I love you Dawn." Ash confessed, with blood spilling out of his eyes and nose.
Dawn froze on the spot and paled.
"I love you Dawn. I love you Dawn! I LOVE YOU DAWN!" Ash repeated over and over again as Dawn could hear a loud growl behind her.
"I LOVE YOU DAWN!"
She turned around to see a monster roar right in her face.
"HAAAISSSS-Bzzztzt"
Using its pearl white fangs, it latched on to Dawns arm, making her scream and cry in pain.
It let go and using its cobra like tail, smacked her over and sent flying into the trash container down the alleyway.
She was still conscious but just.
Dawn looked at the creature that attacked, though due to it being dark and it being black, it was hard to pick out details.
It had a human like chest but with no legs, instead being replaced by a tail like a Arbok. Like an Aerodactyl, it had wing like structure that connected the arms to the body. It had large black talons for fingers with spikes piercing out at the elbow. Pearl white teeth with no eyes but what appeared to be gills.
Dawn also noticed Ash was gone. Or what she thought was Ash.
The creature growled at Dawn, stroking her face with its talons.
"HEY! WHATS GOING ON!" A man with came running out of a shop.
The monster looked over to the source of the noise and growled.
It turned back to Dawn and smirked before disappearing into the shadows of the alleyway.
The man that ran out of the shop saw the state of Dawn.
"Holy Shit… That Johanna's daughter! He muttered to himself as he pulled out a phone to call help.
Dawn saw this but lost all consciousness.
(Beep)(Beep)(Beep)
Dawn's eyes flickered open as she woke up to a beeping sound.
"Dawn?" a familiar voice called out.
"Urgh? A-ash?" Dawn questioned as her hearing and visions was still effected by just waking up.
Once her vision came around, she saw she was surrounded by her mother, Professor Rowan, her Pokemon, Barry, Kenny and Zoey plus the doctors and nurse.
"PIPLUP!" Piplup shirked as he jumped on his trainer to give her a hug, tearing up on her hospital clothes.
"Ow…" Dawn moaned as Kenny picked up Piplup, who was trying to break free to go back to Dawn.
"Dawn…" Johanna cried as she started to well up.
"You are a very lucky girl Dawn. Whatever attacked you had the intent to do some severe damage. The bite to your upper arm caused the muscles to be punctured and from you being thrown into the trash container and whatever hit you, a few broken ribs and damaged spinal damage. However, you should make a full recovery." The doctor announced as Johanna sighed in relief, being held up by the Professor of the Sinnoh region.
"We were scared out of our mind Dawn!" Zoey said, holding Dawns hand on her good arm.
"Sorry… About last night Mum. Everyone…" Dawn muttered depressingly.
"You're going to have some visitors over the next few days. The future king and Queen of Kalos just to name." Zoey told Dawn excitedly.
"I know May and Iris were also on a plane here. They said they'll call when they land in Jubilife City." Barry told her.
Dawn gave a small smile but realistically didn't want them here.
Especially if that 'thing' was still here…
"Dawn. I'm just going to go grab something to eat. Haven't eaten in like 10 hours. I'll be back soon." Johanna told her sole daughter. "Do you guys mind just looking after her while I'm gone? I'm sure you'll want to talk." She asked Dawn's friends, each nodding.
Johanna left with Rowan with her.
"So, they matched the bite wound to a feral Feraligatr. Violent Pokemon those th-"Kenny started.
"What attacked me wasn't a Feraligatr." Dawn said sternly. "It wasn't a Pokemon. It was a thing…"
"A thing? Come 'on now! The anaesthetic is probably is taking effect." Barry suggested no.
"NO! I saw what I saw!" Dawn started to yell before hesitating "I saw Ash."
"Wh-what?" Zoey muttered.
"Yeah. It's definitely the drugs…" Barry muttered to Kenny.
"I saw him, we talked. Then he kept scream 'I love you dawn' then whatever attacked me, well attacked me. When the thing hit me into the trash container, Ash was gone." Dawn explained tiredly.
"So… You think the thing made an illusion?" Zoey asked.
"What? You believe her Zo-"Barry started to stop when Zoey turned.
"She is hurt and broken. I'm playing along." She hissed quietly.
"It must have been…" Dawn muttered. She could tell that they didn't believe her, but she knew what she saw and what happened.
Something popped into Dawns mind.
"They ended the same…" she muttered.
"Huh?" all the others said in sync.
"The monster that attacked Pallet town and killed Ash and the thing that attack me. They sounded the same." She explained.
"Ok Dawn. Do tell?" Zoey asked, interested now.
"Piplup speak!" Dawn commanded.
"Pip! Pi! Lipip!" Piplup cried happily.
"Piplup made the sounds of his name. But these things just sounded unhuman. Ending with this metallic ring. Pallet town sounded like electricity sparking while the one last night hissed at me like an Arbok. But they both had this metallic ring at the end. Btzzt…" Dawn explained, trying to re-enact the cry.
The trio looked at each other.
"Ok Dawn. Once the others get her-"
"No, we are not telling them!" Dawn hissed.
"Wh-Why not?" Zoey stuttered.
"Because if I mention that whole Ash scenario to them, image what they will say?"
"I don't know Dawn… I'm also questioning why Ash appeared then this thing." Barry commented.
That's right. Dawn had never really thought about why Ash was there.
That's when it hit her.
"The photo…" she muttered.
"What?"
"The photo of me, Ash and Brock! That was the trigger!" Dawn realised.
"Ok. Now you're making zero sense."
"Paul let a photo of my Sinnoh journey fly off into the storm. That's why I got so pissy and yeah. It must have sensed I was missing Ash. And then made me see him!" Dawn figured out.
The trio of teens looked at each as if she had gone crazy.
"Ok Dawn. We'll keep quiet but it might be best to talk to your mother about it." Zoey told her.
Dawn tried to nod, but failed due to the pain.
She tried to look at the window to see the city of Jubilife, terrified of what was now lurking at there.
(Later that night)
"(Hic-hup) Oh wow! That movie was sooo bad!" a girl slurred to her boyfriend as they walked down the streets to get to their apartment. She had a bit too much to drink.
"Oh Danni. Come on! Malcolm Dinherd did a respectable job as a lead actor!" the boyfriend responded.
"You are sooo dramatic Rob!" Danni slurred again as they walked around the corner to come to a sudden stop, both freezing in fear.
To Danni, saw a clown covered in blood, holding a sole balloon with a sadistic smile drawn on it while the actual clown looked sad and depressed.
However, Rob saw something different. To him, it was the man that had killed his mother, hold the same knife that was used.
"Hello Danni/Rob." the being said at the same time.
"ETHAN!" Rob screamed.
"Ethan? Ethan who!?" Danni cried in fear as the clown walked closer. "All I see is a clown!"
"Ethan Hearten! The man that killed my mother!" Rob yelled as Ethan/the clown laughed.
"What's the matter? Lost for words? The being said.
"There is a clown their covered in blood Rob!"
"What!? No their isn't! Don't joke about this and run. Just me and Ethan!"
"But I don't see Ethan Rob! I see a clown!"
"Hey fellow. Take a behind yah!" the beings they saw said.
Rob turned first and pushed Danni out of the way as they creature latched on to him.
"ROB!"
"DANNI (COUGH) RUN! RUN!" Rob yelled as the creature roared at his face.
"HAAAISSSS-Bzzztzt" it cried as it ripped apart Robs neck, watching Danni run in fear.
Authors note: Here we go. A little filler plus an update on a 'traitor' Don't worry everyone else will be here soon (Chapter after the Kahuna battle).
And yes, the thing is a custom Ultra Beast sent in by one of you guys. Hopefully I did it justice. Its code-name is in the chapter somewhere, you just gotta figure what it is.
All the custom Ultra beasts will have names, dex names an entries, typings as well. Going to make them as Pokemonable as possible lol.
And yeah. I had some issues with the next one so made this up quickly. Had some inspiration from the IT teaser trailer which I'm hyped for. I like horror.
So until next! Review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out.