Chapter 22
After dinner and returning their pokemon back to their balls, Weiss went to the bathroom while the rest of Team RWBY check their megadexes to see what kind of ghost-type pokemon they will be facing. While checking, Yang has come up with some puns. "Wow. Talk about Ghastly. These pokemon have a lot of Spirit Tomb. Not to mention that-" "WE GET IT!" Ruby and Blake yelled in unison at Yang. "You must be a Desperado for using pokemon puns." Ruby says to her sister then realize that she did a pun, "Oh great, now you got me doing it." Yang laughed while Blake covers her mouth and giggles. Then Yang checks on another ghost-type on her megadex. "Hey, check this out." Yang says while showing her megadex. "Shuppet. The puppet pokemon. Shuppet is attracted by feelings of jealousy and vindictiveness and grows by feeding on dark emotions, such as vengefulness and envy, in the hearts of people. If someone develops strong feelings of vengeance, this Pokémon will appear in a swarm and line up beneath the eaves of that person's home. It roams through cities in search of grudges that taint people."
"So cute!" Ruby squealed and fawning over the pokemon. "Actually," Blake says while having and idea, "that could be useful back on Remnant. With everyone's negativity being drain, the Grimm won't attack people!" The two sisters thought about it for a moment and think it could be a good idea. "Right!" Ruby got up from her chair, "I'll go catch one!" Yang placed her hand on Ruby's shoulder, "Sorry, little sis, I'm catching it! Because that thing drained me of my fear." The two argue while Blake just rolls her eyes and sigh.
Weiss got done using the bathroom and gets out while drying her hands. Then presses her hand on her stomach. "Ugh." she went, "THAT did NOT sit well. I will never eat salsa pasta ever again." Weiss then walk through the halls with a stomach ache to get back to the others. While walking back, she notice something a little...off, about the place. While looking at the walls, she noticed that the paintings she passed before have been replaced and moved around. Not only that, the furniture has been switched out. 'Am I going the right way?' she thought to herself while trying to remember, 'I'm pretty sure that I came from the right side of the bathroom. And there should be another hallway right at the end.'
Once she made it towards the end of the hall, it is just a corner. 'Wait.' she thought as she looked around, 'Isn't this supposed to be a T-section?' She just shrug and walks down the corner. While walking down the hall, she comes across another corner and another corner until she made it back to the bathroom. "What the heck?" she says with a confused expression. "Just what is going on?" She then runs down the hall to see if she made a wrong turn. However, she keeps making the same turns till she came back where she started.
"Oh come on!" she yelled while being upset. She turns the doorknob, "How can I be running in circles an-" When she opened the door, she somehow ended up in the upstairs of the grand hall. "Okay," she blinked twice, "how did I end up here?" She looked down the stairs and noticed a washing machine at the bottom. Weiss is completely confused at what is going on. "Why is there a washing machine-" Before she could finish her pondering, something pushed her down the stairs while the washing machine turns orange with a blue outline and a smiling face. The machine opened up and Weiss fell in and starts washing her with Weiss screaming with water getting into her mouth, "BLELP! BLELP! FOMEONE BLELP ME!"
The washing machine laughed right before the rest of Team RWBY slam the door to the dinning room open with Yang yelling, "WHAT IS GOING ON?!" The washing machine turn back to normal and Weiss used her glyph to force the lid open. Weiss popped out soaking wet as she gasps for air. "What happened?!" Ruby asks as she helps get Weiss out. "Where did this washing machine come from?" Blake also asks while helping Weiss too. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON!" Weiss screamed out all of her frustration and wrings out the water from her sleeves. "ONE MINUTE I WAS USING THE BATHROOM! THEN END UP GOING IN CIRCLES IN THE HALLWAY SOMEHOW! THEN SOMETHING PUSHED ME AND THE WASH MACHINE CAME TO LIFE AND NEARLY DROWN ME!" The three backed away to give Weiss some space while she's having a temper tantrum, "I AM NOT STAYING IN THIS FUN HOUSE ANY-" Right before she knows it, all of her negativity has been drained.
"What the-? How come I'm not angry anymore?" The other three looked at each other before looking back at Weiss. "Well..." Yang then starts to explain, "It has to do something with a Shuppet in this house." "A what?" Yang pulled out her megadex and shows the information about the ghost pokemon. After hearing about it, Weiss went, "Aww. But that would explain why my temper is calm now. Although..." Weiss then starts to get an idea, "How about we bring some of these to Remnant? They could be help full." "That's what I said." Blake stated about the conversation from earlier. However, the lights start to flicker, the doors and windows open and close rapidly, and horrifying screams and creepy laughs is heard throughout the house. Not only that, most of the furniture starts levitating and fly around the room. The four huddle together while all the creepiness keeps happening.
"Wait a minute!" Ruby realizes something, "I get what is going on!" Ruby broke away from the huddle and explains, "Sometimes ghost-type pokemon like to play pranks for fun right?" "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!" Weiss screamed. She can barely understand what Ruby is saying because of all the screams and laughs along with all the other sounds. Then Ruby cups her mouth with her hands and yells, "WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SCARE US SO THAT THEY CAN FEED SHUPPET SINCE SHUPPET FEEDS ON OUR FEARS AND ANGER!" After hearing that, everything stopped. The furniture just stopped in mid-air, the lights no longer flicker, the doors and windows stop in the middle. Then everything just dropped.
The other three members of Team RWBY stop holding each other as everything just sort of stop. As they look around, they hear something went "Oricorio." The sound came from above on the chandelier and see some sort of purple bird with the tip of its wings in the form of fans. "What is that?" Weiss went when Yang pulled out her megadex. "Oricorio. The dancing pokemon. Sensu Style. This Oricorio has sipped purple nectar. Its elegant, attractive dance will send the minds and hearts of its enemies to another world. It summons the dead with its dreamy dancing. From their malice, it draws power with which to curse its enemies." "So that what it is." Yang says as she puts her megadex away.
The lights of the chandelier starts to flicker and a Rotom came out, smiling and giggling. "There it is!" Weiss points and shouts, "That's the pokemon that's been messing with me!" Then a Shuppet appears next to Oricorio's left side as well as a Haunter to its right that is laughing. Then more ghost-type pokemon started to show up. A Parafox, a few Desoulas, a few Litwicks, and many Wisperns, Sandyghasts, Drifloons, and a Honedge started to appear right before them. All of them started to make creepy or maniacal laughs at Team RWBY. "Things are pretty-" "Please sis, now is not the time." Weiss then comes up with an idea, "I think I have an idea on how to beat them." "We're all ears, Weiss." the team leader says. "Normal-type moves don't work on ghost-types, correct?" "Yeah." Blake responded. "So ghost-type moves have no effect on normal-types either." Yang then started to smirk, "I see where this is going. Not to mention that they are weak against dark-type moves."
The four pulled out their pokeballs and get ready for battle. Ruby tosses hers first, "GO ENYA!" Then Weiss tosses hers, "GO BILLY AND TILLY!" Blake throws hers, "COME OUT, MINYAN AND FRILLISH!" Then it is Yang's turn, "GO SPARROW AND REX!" All seven pokemon came out and are ready to fight. However, Tilly is wearing a pretty ribbon while Billy wears a blue color with an ice rock on it. The Sensu Oricorio flies down and wishes to be the first challenger. Shuppet, Haunter, Parafox, Honedge, and Rotom wish to join the fight. Will Team RWBY win? Or will they be victims of becoming ghosts themselves? Stay tune next time for the clash next week!
AN: Hey everybody! Listen up! I decide to take a page from TehArbitur53 by answering any questions that you may have. So feel free to ask any question you like about the story. I'll happy to answer them in the next chapter. See you soon!