The Great Pokemon Conspiracies:
~The Old Chateau~
Chapter Twelve: The Last Seancé
A tiny Electric-Ghost-type Pokémon, a Galactic, and a microwave were all it took to make it happen.
The truth did make Fantina feel bad for suspecting the butler for the fire. He never had anything to do with it. How could he? He loved the little girl very much.
But the truth, if anything, also made her despise the Galactics even more.
Now, back in the Hearthome Gym, she poured a vial of Gengar poison into her bowl, watching as smoke rose.
"...and with this I contact the world of the dead."
Just like any other seancé, she received another short vision.
Blue skies.
Laughter.
A girl in two ponytails was running across a field of blinding green, laughing. A few paces behind her, a pink Clefable was struggling to catch up. Due to its short legs, the Clefable got left behind and finally gave up, lying down onto the grass and panting. The girl laughed but then returned to her Pokémon's side.
An old man entered the vision, carrying a basket. The girl smiled up at him. The old man crouched down and began to take out some things from inside the basket and handing them around.
Sandwiches.
As the girl happily bit into it, the old man and the Clefable doing just the same to their own sandwiches, the vision faded away into nothingness. And as much as Fantina wanted to see her daughter a while longer, she knew she'd seen what she needed to see.
She was happy, even in the other side.
Fantina sighed, got up, and put away the bowl forever.
The candles flickered, dimmed, and finally went out altogether, throwing her and her Gengar back into the darkness they had come to love.
...
Meanwhile...
When we emerged out of the Old Chateau, we found that it was already really dark outside. I wondered how much time we'd actually spent inside that house. It amazes me how a mystery can seize so much of your time.
"Case closed, let's go back to the rest house so I can go to sleep," yawned Swiftwing lazily. Meta Knight, Ultramarine, and Silversong echoed with mutters of agreement.
Suddenly Dusk turned around, a huge smile on her face.
Uh-oh. I know this face. And it means trouble.
"Not so fast," she said. "Don't you remember why we came here in the first place?"
I didn't. It seemed such a long time ago since we last saw daylight. Do you?
"We came here to look for nocturnal Pokémon, remember?" Dusk said enthusiastically. "As Kammy always says, a good Trainer never gives up under any circumstances. Now's the right time to really get started! I wonder what kinds of Pokémon we'll see? That particular excitement in the chateau just pumped adrenaline into my veins! Don't you all feel the same?"
...We could only groan.