Special thanks to Bluewolfbat for suggesting this prank idea. I really loved this idea, and so I decided to write it as the second prank. I hope you enjoy this prank as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I've also decided that the one-shots will have continuity. It actually took me a little while to decide whether the one-shots should have continuity or not, but I eventually decided that they should.
Anyways, onto the story.
Prank #2: Attack of the Killer Ghost
3rd Person POV
Lightning streaked through the dark clouds over the hotel in the middle of Castelia City as Ash, Iris, and Cilan stood in the dark hotel room with their eyes glued to the TV screen, which was playing an interesting horror movie. It was called Attack of the Killer Ghosts.
On the movie screen, a young woman with a long pink dress and bright blonde hair was slowly walking through an old attic with nothing but a dim candle in her hand. Sweat was visible on her forehead as the woman trembled. Faint bumps and creaks could be heard in the background as tiny little squeals of fear escaped from the woman's mouth.
"I gotta say, this actress is pretty good," Ash commented.
"I know, this is the third time you've said that," Iris grumbled while she tried her best to keep her rapidly chattering teeth still.
"Yeah, Ash," Pikachu started, "you don't have to comment on the same thing every five minutes."
"I'm just trying to distract Iris since she's so scared," Ash teased with a smile.
"Hey!" Iris yelled immediately in denial. "I'm n-n-not scared!"
"Oh, really?" Ash smirked. "If you're not scared, then why are you shaking and chattering your teeth like a maniac?"
Iris instantly groaned. "Ugh! You're such a little kid!"
"Says the little girl who's terrified of this cheap horror movie."
"He's right, you know," Axew said blankly.
"Guys," Cilan said. "This really isn't the time for fighting."
Ash and Iris looked at each other and silently agreed to shut up and watch the movie together.
Meanwhile, in the movie, the woman began to approach a rusty door with a handle that was dangerously close to falling off. Demonic screams become audible as the woman held her ear to the door as she began to cry a little bit. After gulping, she took a deep breath and swung open the door.
What happened next made Iris jump at least five feet in the air and made her scream like a tiny little girl. Several 'ghosts' (which were really just a bunch of people under some bed sheets) ran out of the room, and the woman tried to make a run for it. Unfortunately for her, the doorknob on the door had somehow vanished, leaving the helpless women trapped in the room as the ghosts cornered her. Then, the film suddenly ended with the woman's screaming.
Though Iris had completely freaked out at the jump-scare, Ash and Cilan were disappointed. "That was it?" Ash asked. "That's how it ends?"
"Well, horror movies aren't like the Disney movies you normally watch," Cilan stated. "They don't usually have happy endings and they don't often explain everything. In fact, they sometimes end with the impression that the villain will someday be back. That is why I like to watch horror movies from time to time. They're a nice break from-"
"Cilan, will you just zip it?" Iris snapped. "You're not making me feel any better here!"
"It really wasn't that scary, Iris," said Axew with a bored tone.
"Yeah, it really wasn't," Ash agreed. "The ghosts were just people under bed sheets."
"Why did you guys even watch that in the first place?" Cilan piped up.
Ash began to snicker as he thought of the answer. "Iris made a bet with me! She bet that I wouldn't be able to sit through it without screaming like a little kid! And now she's the one screaming like a little kid!"
"Don't remind me," Iris angrily pouted.
Just then, a big grin spread across Ash's face. Wait a minute! He thought. I can use the bed sheets from my bed to scare Iris! Ha! This will be so fun! And then I'll get back at her for making me drink cheesy liquid three times in a row.
11:30 p.m.
Ash slowly crawled out of bed once he was sure that Iris and Cilan had fallen asleep, ready to initiate Operation: Get Revenge on Iris. The raven-haired boy quietly wandered on tiptoe to the bathroom, dragging the bed sheet behind him.
"All right," Ash said to himself once he was in the bathroom and he turned the light on. Luckily, the switch had a brightness slider, so Ash was able to set the lights to the correct brightness. They were bright enough so Ash could see what he was doing, but they were dark enough to avoid waking up Iris and Cilan.
Suddenly, Pikachu wandered into the bathroom, still drowsy from being awakened. "What are you doing?" the mouse Pokémon questioned.
"Pranking Iris," Ash said with a grin on his face.
"With a bed sheet? Really, Ash?" said Pikachu.
"Oh come on, this has to work! Iris had a heart attack when those ghosts attacked that woman in the movie. This has to work."
Pikachu giggled, since he was thinking about how much Iris screeched when that lame jump-scare occurred. "Count me in," he said.
"Really?" Ash replied. "You want to help me?"
"I've always wanted to pull a prank on Axew," the Pokémon said. "I guess this kind of counts since he's always in Iris's hair."
"Great!" said Ash. "All we need to do is hide under this bed sheet and pretend to be ghosts!"
"Wait," said the electric mouse.
"Huh?"
"Don't you think we should use two bed sheets do we don't get discovered too easily?"
Ash suddenly froze at that comment. Pikachu was right. If they used only one bed sheet, Pikachu's shape would be visible in the blanket and Iris would immediately know that Ash and Pikachu were up to something.
"You're right, Pikachu," said Ash. "Good thing this hotel comes with two bedsheets on the beds."
Ash stepped out of the bathroom, making sure to be extra quiet. The boy breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that neither Iris nor Cilan had woken up in the last minute or two. On tiptoe, Ash grabbed the other bed sheet, leaving only a mattress with a very thin sheet on top of it.
"Now I can get back at that demonic girl for making me drink cheesy powder juice!" Ash quietly cheered.
"Ash, it really wasn't that big of a deal," said Pikachu.
"She made me drink that stuff three times!"
"It was your own fault. I mean, sure, the first time was Iris's fault. But you were pretty dumb when you fell for that trick a second time! Oh, and let's not forget what happened after that!"
"Don't say it again," Ash demanded.
The Pokémon snickered. "You poured yourself another glass of that stuff, and you drank it again! That was the best thing ever!"
"Shut up, Pikachu," Ash said as the Pokémon kept laughing. Ash simply ignored Pikachu as he put both of the bed sheets over him and Pikachu. After Ash flicked the light switch to plunge the hotel room into darkness, he decided he was ready to scare Iris.
Iris slowly opened her eyes. She groaned and turned her head to read the digital clock beside the bed. 11:43. It wasn't even midnight yet, and her sleep had already been interrupted by her racing mind. Sighing, the dragon master rubbed her itchy eyes and groaned. The room was quiet, other than the sound of Cilan snoring lightly in the bed next to hers and the light pitter-patter of raindrops falling on the windows.
Why? Iris thought. Why oh why did I make that bet with Ash? Why did I make myself sit through that movie? Ugh, I'm so stupid! I totally forgot how much I hate horror movies!
The girl shook her head slightly to shake away that thought (but not hard enough to disturb Axew, who was sleeping in her hair). No. Don't think about that. Just go back to bed. Just go back to bed...
Suddenly, the chocolate-brown girl completely froze as her ears picked up a rather peculiar sound. Something, somewhere in the thick darkness that hung over the hotel room like a curtain, there was a slight sound. It sounded like the noise that's produced when a blanket is dragged across the floor.
"It's probably nothing," Iris said quietly to herself as she closed her eyes again.
However, Iris couldn't shake off the feeling that there was an evil presence behind her. As the seconds crawled by, the feeling just kept growing stronger, and stronger, and stronger. Iris clutched her bed with an iron grip, she closed her eyes tightly, and she struggled hard to fight the tiny squeals that were attempting to escape her mouth.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity of torture, the girl just couldn't wait any longer. Suddenly, she darted open her eyes, let go of the bed sheets, and whipped her head around at the speed of light. What she saw absolutely traumatized her. Standing there, right next to her bed, was one of the ghosts from the horror movie.
"AHHHHHHHHHH! GHOST! GHOST! HELP ME!"
"Ooohhhhhh!" the 'ghost' said in a very high-pitched tone.
"Goodness!" Cilan said loudly from his bed as he quickly left his bed to turn the lights back on. "Why on earth are you screaming!?"
"Yeah, you gave me a heart attack!" Axew complained from within Iris's hair.
All of a sudden, Iris's mood completely flipped. She instantly went from being scared to death to being amused. Iris simply began to giggle after the initial scare. "Cilan, it's Ash being an idiot! He's trying to scare me by pretending to be one of those ghosts from that horror movie we watched!"
"Ooooooohhhhhh!" said the fake ghost again.
Iris simply laughed again in response. "Come on, Ash, I know it's you." She grabbed the bed sheet with two hands and yanked it away. Unfortunately for Iris, there was another bed sheet underneath.
"AHHHHH! NO! GHOST! IT ACTUALLY IS A GHOST!" Iris screeched.
Axew groaned, while Cilan gave Iris a disgusted look. "Iris, that's not a ghost. It's just-"
"HIDE ME!" Iris yelled as she ran across the room and hid behind Cilan, who was clearly not amused. Suddenly, the 'ghost' quickly charged at Iris, and this made Iris suffer a mini panic attack. "CILAN! THE GHOST WANTS TO KILL ME!"
"Will you stop, Iris?" Cilan asked. "It's just Ash. It's harmless."
"NO, IT'S NOT! IT'LL KILL US BOTH!"
Sighing, the connoisseur walked over to the fake ghost and he yanked away the second bed sheet. Sure enough, Ash and Pikachu were standing there, and they were both laughing their heads off.
This clearly irritated Iris to no end.
"Congratulations Iris," said Axew with a bored tone, "you've just won the Genius of the Year award."
"Oh, Iris," Cilan sighed. "I tried to tell you that Ash was just under those bed sheets. But you were too busy waking up the whole neighbourhood to listen to me, weren't you?"
"Ash! Pikachu! That was really mean!" Iris yelled, ignoring the Pokémon and Cilan.
"I can't believe that you were so scared of that! You're such a little kid!" Ash laughed along with his Pokémon.
Iris immediately bubbled up with anger. "Hey! That's my phrase!"
"Not anymore," Ash said, smiling.
"Ash, you know I really don't like horror movies..." Iris said sadly, changing the subject.
"If you don't like horror movies," said Pikachu, "then why did you make that bet with Ash?"
"'Cause he's such a kid! I thought there was no way he'd be able to sit through it!"
"It wasn't that scary!" Ash shouted. "Plus, you made me drink this weird cheesy powder liquid yesterday!"
Iris immediately groaned and rolled her eyes. "Will you just get over that already?"
"Not only that, but you actually thought I was a ghost after you took off just one bed sheet!"
"Ash," Iris started, "I know that was dumb. It's just that... when I get scared, I can't think clearly. And I get kind of... dumb."
"Okay, okay. How about we don't make each other sit through horror movies anymore? Deal?" Ash held out his hand and smiled at Iris.
"Deal," Iris said as she shook Ash's hand.
Cilan breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little bit annoyed by the recent events that had just occurred. "Well, now that you two have probably awakened the entire Unova region, I am going to go back to bed to catch some beauty sleep."
"I-I'm sorry that I woke you, Cilan," Iris apologized.
"Don't worry about that now," Cilan replied. "We should probably worry about getting back to bed."
Then, Iris turned to face Ash once again. "You do realize that I have to get you back for this, right?"
"Of course," Ash said before he turned off the light, causing the darkness to return to the hotel room. "Goodnight, Iris."
"Goodnight, Ash," Iris replied.
The trainers crawled back into their separate beds and fell into a very deep sleep. And this time, it was not interrupted.
All right, there is the second prank! Hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to suggest pranks for Ash and Iris to pull on each other if you haven't already.
That's all I have to say for now. The third prank should be out soon.