The Great Pokemon Conspiracies:

~The Old Chateau~

Chapter One: Where There is Light...

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"Look! You can't even see the sky!"

It was, of course, my fellow party member Roselio. How he has always managed to stay so positive and energetic everywhere and every time has always been beyond me.

"Roselio! Don't wander off too far," Dusk warned. "There are a lot of bugs in here."

Dusk is our Trainer. She has medium-length black hair, and a portion of it was clipped with pink hair clips on either side of her head. Since it was winter in Sinnoh, she was dressed in a warm red dress-coat, pink boots, a matching pink scarf, and a white cap with a pink Poké Ball on it. Her Pokémon Training stuff are neatly packed away in a white and pink gym bag.

By 'here', she meant the Eterna Forest between Oreburgh Town and Eterna City. Roselio was right - the leaves of the trees practically blocked our view of the sky. But Dusk was also right - there were a lot of Bug-types in this forest, which Roselio was particularly afraid of.

Roselio disobeyed her, however, and learnt his lesson the next moment as a Cascoon fell out of a tree right in front of him with a thud.

"AAAHHHHH!" shrieked Roselio, springing back to where Dusk was standing.

I chuckled slightly. Roselio may be a rose-shaped Pokémon, but he was as bouncy and lively as a bouncy ball.

Now he peeked out from behind Dusk. "What are we going to do here, exactly?" he asked nervously.

"We're looking for new Pokémon, of course," Dusk said. "I'm looking for Pokémon that only go out at night. That's why we only set out when it's about to get dark."

Roselio gulped. "You mean it's going to get dark soon?" He looked up at the sky, but of course he couldn't see where the sun was because of the heavy foliage.

Silversong glanced at Dusk's Pokétch. "Yup," she said. "Very soon." She looked at Roselio with those haunting eyes of hers. "Very soon indeed."

Roselio glared at her. "Cut that out!"

"Are you scared?" asked Swiftwing.

"Am not," snapped Roselio.

"Well then, can you go into that house... alone?" Swiftwing challenged, nodding at a large but seemingly abandoned house among the trees. It looked really old and rickety with weather-worn shutters flapping in the wind. However, it must have looked pretty majestic in the older days. It was surrounded with a wooden fence with bushes and brambles covering the opening and sealing the entrance.

As Roselio gulped nervously, Dusk sprang forward. "Oh! I've completely forgotten about this house!"

"What do you mean, completely forgotten?" asked Silversong.

"Don't you remember? We've already seen this house the first time we entered Eterna Forest," Dusk reminded her. "But then we couldn't enter it because we haven't been able to use the Hidden Move Cut, because we haven't beaten Gardenia at the Eterna Gym yet."

"But now since we've beaten Gardenia..." Ultramarine started. "We can enter the house!" gulped Roselio.

"That's right!" Dusk exclaimed. "I've been wanting to catch nocturnal Pokémon in the forest, but now I've got a better idea...!"

Roselio moaned. "Oh no, no, no, no!" he groaned. He already had an idea what Dusk was going to say.