Chapter 21

Team RWBY has been on the road for a couple of days now on the way towards Unova City. Along the way, they faced many trainers and gain lots of experience. Not only that, some of their pokemon have evolved. Stringer has evolved into a Swadloon, Qrow evolved into a Fletchinder, Reginald evolved into Staravia, and Rex evolved into a Mightyena. Plus they caught a few new pokemon as well. Blake caught a Purrloin, a Minyan, and a Stotox. Weiss caught a Deerling she nicknamed Vert due to the summer coloring, (Vert is French for green.) and a Fawning nicknamed George. Ruby caught a Birbie nicknamed Enya, a Lavenseed she nicknamed Pinky but later evolved into Lavenbelle, and a Shiny Ditto nicknamed Azure thanks to Weiss' shiny charm she borrowed...which she did without asking. Yang caught a Spearow nicknamed Sparrow and an Ekans nicknamed Viper.

After a stop at Rosa Town they march straight towards Unova City.

Along the road, Blake is looking at her treasure glistening in the sunlight again. "Loving the keystone you found, Blake." Yang asks. "Indeed. This is such a rare find. Who knew something like this would be amazing." then she puts it away. "But don't forget," Ruby says while walking backwards, "we need to find a compatible megastone for our pokemon to get them to mega evolve." Weiss looks at her megadex to see how far it is as Ruby faces forward. "So, how far do we need to go?" the red team leader asks. "Pretty far." Weiss responds while concentrating on the map, "There isn't any Pokemon Centers along the road except for outside the city. Luckily we packed some supplies and food back at Rosa Town so we should be fine."

After a few hours on the road, they feel the wind picking up speed as dark clouds start to form and thunder can be heard. Yang looks up at the sky, "That can't be good." Ruby looks at her team, "We need to find shelter!" So they ran along the dirt path road, hoping to find something to take shelter from the storm. As they ran, the sky becomes completely dark and raindrops start pouring down. "I hate this!" Weiss says as the team runs in the storm. "I really wish there is a Pokemon Center or something!" Yang yells right before a flash of lighting followed by thunder. While running and getting soak, Blake looks towards her right and noticed something in the forests. "Over there!" she pointed as everyone start to notice it. What they see beyond the foliage is a mansion that seems to be in prime condition at first glance but parts of the wall or worn and some of the windows are cracked. So they decided to go in since they have no choice.

They got in through the door and are relieved to be inside while shaking the water off. "My hair is ruin!" Yang complained as she dries her long golden hair off. "That's why I have a hood." Ruby points out while removing her hood smiling. "I hate rain." Blake complains while drying herself off with a towel. When Weiss got done drying off, she yells out, "Hello!? Anyone here!? Anyone home?!" Her voice echoed throughout the old dusty manor with no one answering. "Guess no one is answering." Blake takes a good look around, "Looks like no one has been around for sometime judging by the decor."

Ruby then looks for a light switch, "Can we get some lights?" Then just as she asked, the lights came on without somebody pressing a button or flipping a switch which spooked the four girls. "Who did that?" Ruby asks with a fearful tone. Weiss took a big gulp, "Must be voiced activated. Yeah." Yang then smirks, "Or maybe there might be ghosts." "NOT FUNNY!" Ruby and Weiss yelled at Yang with a mix of anger and fear. "But there could be some ghost-type pokemon." Blake point out, "Don't worry. They mostly like to play pranks. Remember, Weiss?" Weiss then starts to calm down, "Y-yeah. Y-y-you're right. I remember back when we were getting ready for the Pokemon Showcase." "So there should be nothing to fear. They just want to have fun...like a certain someone I know." Blake says while remembering Sun. "So who wants to eat?" Ruby asks, "There has to be a kitchen somewhere."

Ruby and Weiss went to the kitchen to cook some pasta. While Weiss look through their food supply, she is upset. "Darn it!" she says, "We forgot to get tomato sauce." "Don't worry, Weiss." Ruby says while pulling out a jar of- "Salsa?" Weiss says with an awkward look. "Yeah. Whenever we ran out of tomato sauce, Dad used salsa as a substitute. Both are made from tomatoes and the only difference is one is a little spicy." Weiss thought about it for a moment, "Valid point." Then Weiss looks in the double-door fridge and brace herself for whatever grossness she finds. When she opens it, it is completely empty. "Whew." she went, "Nothing gross." then closes the door.

But when she turned around, the fridge turned orange with a purple outline opened its doors and let out a cold rush of freezing air behind Weiss. Ice starts to form on her back so she quickly turn around to see what is causing it. But before she can react, the fridge has gone back to normal. Weiss is confused on what happened as she looks around frantically to see what caused it, but found nothing. "Everything alright, Weiss?" Ruby asks as she boils a pot. "Did you feel that?!" Weiss asked all frighten with a scared look on her face.

"No, I was preparing the-" Ruby then noticed the ice. "Where did the ice come from? How did it get on your back?"

Blake and Yang prepare the table for dinner while noticing how hard it is raining outside through the windows with flashes of lightning. "Sure is bad outside, isn't it?" Yang asks as she gazes outside. "Sure is." Blake responded while putting down the plates on the other side of the table. "Can you hand me the utensils?" A bunch of utensils started floating in the air next to Blake without her noticing. Blake grabs them and says, "Thank you." "Um..." Blake looked up and noticed Yang is turned around and still at the window. "...I'm over here."

There is a long period of silence in the large and once elegant dinning room. They were about to say something until- BANG! BANG! BANG! The sound of a door being banged causes them to jump as they got frightened. "Ruby!" Yang scolds, "Don't scare us! This place is creepy enough as it is!" BANG! BANG! BANG! The door to the room made loud bangs again. Yang marches towards the door as it keeps banging. As she opens the door, there was no one there. She looks both ways of the hall and sees nothing. Yang gave a disgruntled sigh and thought, 'Must've used her semblance.' Right before she went back, she noticed a mirror on the wall in front of her.

It is odd because it is showing her back rather than her face. "What the-?" Yang has no idea what is going on. However, the reflection slowly turns its head around which is freaking out Yang. When the reflections face is fully revealed, it showed a mummified face of Yang. Yang screams and falls back as Blake runs towards her. "What's wrong?!" Blake ask out of worry as she helps Yang get back up. Yang pointed at the mirror, "I'M SO OOOLLLD!" "...what?"

Blake then walks up towards the mirror and sees nothing wrong. She turns around to talk to Yang, "It's probably some of the filth that made you look like you have wrinkles...or a mummy." She then wipes the mirror with two of her fingers and show the grime, "See? This mirror is so filthy and the fatigue settling in, that-" "DINNER'S READY!" Ruby screamed out with a tray full of pasta and salsa. She looked at her two teammates and noticed that Yang isn't looking well. "What happened?" "Oh nothing. Yang is just delusional." "B-b-but..." Yang tries to explain but something drained the fear out of her. "Wait." Yang noticed that she is no longer scared, "Why am I not scared anymore?" Then she looks at what they're about to eat, "Salsa Pasta?" "Yep!" "ALRIGHT!" Yang jumped and cheered.

Blake just look at Ruby, "Salsa Pasta?" "It's something that dad used to make when we ran out of tomato sauce." So the four settle down to eat along with their pokemon. Yet unknown to them, their little visit is gonna get worse as shadowy figures are spying on them from the edges of the doors, from the corners of the ceiling, and outside the windows. "Oh and by the way," Ruby looks at Yang and Blake, "what was all that banging?" Yang stopped before stuffing her face and is confused. "I thought that was you pulling a prank?"

Ruby: "Wasn't me. I was in the kitchen the whole time."

Yang: "Really?"

Weiss: "She was. Although something weird happened with the freezer side of the fridge."