Ash walked into his room, closing the door behind him...except it didn't stay closed. As soon as he turned his back, the door flew open again all on it's own! Confused, Ash closed it again, only to see it fly open again! By now, Ash knew something very weird was going on. He assumed that someone was closing the door on him, playing a joke or something.

"Okay, very funny." Ash said. "Whoever's doing that can come out now." But Ash got no reply. He looked out his doorway into the hall and found nobody. Now Ash was even more confused. "I must be seeing things." he said to himself. "I think the stress is causing me to hallucinate." Ash reached for the doorknob but before he could grab it, the door swung shut right in his face! Ash was starting to get really freaked out now.

"Okay," Ash said to himself, "It's official. I've been training way too hard. The stress is really starting to go to my head." Ash changed into his pyjamas, turned off his light, and quickly got in bed, hoping that everything would be better in the morning.

He had closed his eyes for no more than five minutes, and wasn't even asleep yet, when he suddenly felt very cold. He sat up, opened his eyes, and looked around at what was causing the sudden drop in temperature "That's strange. I know it's winter, but the windows are closed. Maybe the heating is broken. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live with it for tonight." he thought.

But then he heard a very low, dark, chuckle coming from somewhere in the room. Ash looked around but couldn't find anyone else. Ash began to feel a sense of fear coming onto him as the chuckle grew to a laugh and the sound came closer and closer until...it stopped. Ash was about to lay back down on his bed as he wondered what in the world just happened, when he suddenly came face to face with a pair of big eyes and a wide sinister smile that appeared out of thin air right in front of him!

"BOO!" The face said, causing Ash to scream in fright and fall right out of bed, hurting his leg as he did. As Ash got back up, the face revealed the rest of its body, showing that it was a Gengar, a Ghost Pokemon. The Gengar was laughing at the spooky joke it had played on Ash.

"Oh, you should've seen the look on your face!" it said as its laughter subsided - although it wasn't speaking directly, it was only just using telepathy.

"Yeah, yeah, very funny." Ash said sarcastically as he got back up off of the floor. "So the chill in the air, the evil laughter, the door slamming shut, that was all your doing?"

"Yep, and it worked great. I love playing spooky jokes on unsuspecting people."

"You do know that you made me hurt my leg in the process?"

"Oops, sorry about that. But seriously, all jokes aside, there IS a very important reason about why I came here to see you tonight."

"And what might that be?"

"I've come here to warn you."

"Warn me? About what?"

"You are blocking love from entering your heart. I know you are in love with Dawn but you refuse to admit it because you are too dense to realize it. So you will be visited by three other Pokemon tonight to show you what you were missing and you will be given a chance to change your ways. You will see that you ARE capable of loving someone and that Dawn Berlitz is the one you love."

"Oh please, not this again. I already have enough on my mind about that subject right now."

"Well then, consider this night a chance to put your mind at ease."

"Whatever, please just leave me alone." Ash said, climbing back into bed.

"Very well." said Gengar, as he began to disappear. "My job here is done. But for your sake, I hope this works, or else your future won't be a pleasant one...nor will hers."

Author's Note: Short chapter? Yeah, but as I promised, they will be released daily so stay tuned for Ash's three mysterious Pokemon visitors.