The Great Pokemon Conspiracies:

~The Old Chateau~

Chapter Three: The Chandelier Room

"Well, where do you want to explore first?" asked Dusk. "Nowhere!" moaned Roselio softly. "Let's get out of here!"

Ultramarine rolled his eyes. "You are well aware that you don't have that choice, aren't you?" "Well, let's start with the door right there," I said to change the subject, tossing my head at the door right in front of us.

Dusk nodded in agreement. "Great idea, then we'll work our way to the top floor. Let's go!"

She marched boldly to the door with her Pokémon following behind. Roselio attempted escape by turning on his heel and heading for the front door, but in his frightened scramble for exit, he crashed straight into Meta Knight instead.

"Trying to escape, were you?" Meta Knight sighed. He grabbed Roselio by his arm and led him back to Dusk's group. "Gaah! Lemme go! Lemme go! I don't want to stay in this horrid house a second longer!" Roselio was yelling the whole time.

Dusk was about to say something when Roselio managed to squirm out of Meta Knight's grip and ran for the door. He grabbed the handle as if hanging on for dear life and began to jiggle it.

"IT WON'T OPEN!" he wailed the horrible realization. "WE'RE LOCKED IN!"

Swiftwing simply flew over and plucked Roselio into the air. "It's probably just stuck," he grunted. "Well, anyway, that means we have every reason to go deeper in, right? We'll find a way to open that door later. Come on, we're going to explore this room first."

Dusk went into the room followed by her Pokémon, including Roselio. He did look back to attempt another escape, but saw that Swiftwing was standing in his way. He had no choice but to follow.

"Wow! This room was obviously the dining room back then," Dusk observed, taking in the very long table that almost spanned the entire length of the room and chairs on the sides of it. A huge rickety chandelier hung limply from the ceiling. It was made of glass and I bet it would have looked majestic, with light bouncing off the hanging glass. However, I reminded myself not to get too close beneath it, because it might fall off the ceiling.

Swiftwing obviously did not have the same thought as I did.

He flew past Dusk eagerly to explore and hovered right under the chandelier. At the same time, I saw that the chandelier was rocking harder.

"Look out!" shouted Dusk and Silversong together.

The cable holding the chandelier finally snapped and it came hurtling down towards the ground, glass and all.

Swiftwing quickly took to the air and flew away from under the chandelier. It hit the ground with a colossal CRASH and the glass from it hurtled in every direction.

"AAAAH!" Roselio shrieked.

Meta Knight was a quick-witted Gallade. He quickly jumped in front of us and shouted, "Protect!"

He was not a second too soon - the next moment the glass came raining down, but we were safe under Meta Knight's Protect.

And when it was over, Roselio's mouth was in a perfect O.

"SEE! I WAS RIGHT! THIS PLACE IS AWFUL!" The next second he started wailing. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"

"Don't be silly," said Swiftwing. "The rest of the place isn't as dangerous as this."

"Swiftwing is right," Dusk said. "But anyway, we'll be careful, just in case."

Roselio moaned. "Whenever you say that, that's bad." The other Pokémon responded either with snorts or the rolling of eyes.

That is, everyone but Silversong.

Suddenly she stiffened.

Dusk noticed her frozen body go even more rigid and asked, "What is it? What's wrong?"

Silversong trained her pale blue eyes on us. "I think there's someone else inside this house."