Chapter 6

I've been Jynxed!

A large tower loomed over Kazo, Selena and Felix. A neon sign printed

in neat letters: "Mauville city pokecenter." Kazo looked at Felix who

shrugged.

This was bigger than any pokecenter they had ever seen. In fact, it was one of the largest buildings they had ever seen. It had several stories and was as wide as three standard pokecenters jammed together.

They had walked in through the revolving glass doors to the sound of soothing music. Since it really helped let go of all the tension that was building between them on the road here, they let out a small, "Aah…"

Their sneakers squeaked against the pink marble on the floor. They took a look around. There were pink recliners and glass tables placed on pink carpets in most corners. The reception was huge and had the stereotypical Nurse Joy running it. A girl with glasses sat in one of the recliners reading a hardcover book with several hundred pages. Selena leaned over to see the title but didn't get a chance, because they had reached the counter.

"How can I help you?" Said the Nurse, smiling.

"Three rooms and a pokemon healing please." Nurse Joy smiled. "That'll be 95.99$" Kazo's jaw dropped. "I only have 30 dollars!" He stood there, as if frozen in time, when Felix pulled him by the shirt sleeve and dumped him on

a chair. He was still twitching. Selena, on the other hand, was trying to negotiate with the Nurse. "Nurse Joy, how come it costs money to stay here?" she asked politely.

Nurse Joy frowned, as did the Blissey by her side. "This is the most top-notch, highly maintained Pokemon Center in the entire world, and you're asking me why you have to pay? You could always stay there, you know." She pointed over her shoulder to a window. There was a small shack with one wall half torn down and a small neon sign in what was once a window that said: "acany" with the "V" and the second "C" in the word "vacancy" was burnt out. Selena bit her lip, and then frowned. "I don't have a choice, do I?" she turned around to leave when she saw a blur of black, and a crisp 50$ bill slowly wafted down from the ceiling. She caught it in her hands and couldn't

believe her luck! She ran to Kazo, snatched the thirty dollars from his hand, and ran back to the counter.

"You're still missing fifteen dollars, hon." Said Nurse Joy. Selena rummaged

through her pockets, and to her surprise, there was a twenty in there

as well! She took it out of her pocket and handed it to Nurse Joy, who

gave her three room card keys. She thanked Nurse Joy, got Kazo and Felix, and brought them to the elevator. She pressed the number "12" on the elevator, and

the steel doors shut as they were boosted up several floors.

The girl with the glasses who was reading in the lobby put down her

book. She flicked at one of her blond dreadlocks and adjusted her glasses before laying the book down on the table. She got up, and walked outside. Once there, she took out a walkie-talkie.

"The birds are in the nest." She said seriously.

"Excellent. My condolences to Shade."

"She'll receive them, sir." Said the girl with the dreadlocks.

"Good. Now, be ready for anything to happen. Leave now and meet back only when the bejynxed is gone. Permanently." The other line went dead and the girl with dreadlocks made an impressive costume change in the shadows and ran down the quiet streets of nighttime Mauville.

Selena was astounded. As soon as she had said good night to Kazo and Felix, all the greatest things began happening! She was first declared winner of he nightly "free room service for an hour" prize, and got all the deluxe treatment she could ever have hoped for! She also got a pass to the NJ DJ Mauville pokecenter radio studio! This was everything she wished would happen! Naturally, she couldn't fall asleep.

Her watch gave a small "beep" as it did every hour. She was still wide awake and in bed, though, and even though it was eleven at night she still managed to not get a wink of sleep.

She crawled out of bed and got her clothes on. Selena secretly opened the door, careful not to wake anyone, but the whole city was still awake, considering the game corner was right beside them.

Selena walked into the lobby. Not much had changed in the few hours since she had been here. The Nurse was the same, although that was impossible to really know, since they all looked identical.

She walked through the lobby, bored, when she saw a kiosk labeled: "Lost and Found" with an Officer Jenny at the desk. She was walking by it, when a certain book caught her interest. She picked it up and began reading to a page that was bookmarked.

"The Black Jynxes are burning with an unexplainable force. Some call it powerful psychic abilities, others call it Magic. Black Magic." Selena gulped, and continued reading.

"Many believe that the Black Jynx species are long extinct. 90 of them are, anyways.

There is one thing that the mortals that had slayed the Jynxes so long ago did not know. Jynxes were full of unexplainable power. They could cast spells at their will. They also could cloak themselves from those foolish hunters. They have survived, but will not last long."

She shut the book right away. This was not her game. Coordinating was. She shut the book and was about to put it on the counter when it FLEW out of her hands and landed spine first on the floor. Curiously, no one seemed to notice, or care. Then the pages started turning on their own, Selena horrified. Books were not meant to do that. She turned around to leave when she realized she couldn't. She couldn't tear her gaze away from the rapid moving book. It finally settled on a page with stick figures of people that had names under them.

Then it began pulling her in.

She screamed, but again, everyone seemed oblivious.

Everyone but one man wearing a Javabucks cap and apron behind a counter lined with oriental coffees. He heard the scream, and the book, and had actually spilt quite a load of coffee that he was serving at the time. He watched the seconds tick away as the next shift came in. "Finally." He said, rolling his eyes. He got out from behind the counter and grabbed a pokeball from his belt.

"C'mon, Pikachu!" He sent out an electric mouse pokemon. This was no ordinary Pikachu, however. It was a very rugged one and had been in battle many times. It had a scar above one of it's eyes that may have come from a battle with a Weavile. He began running through the immense lobby trying to find the source of the scream.

And he did.

He saw a young girl, kinda cute, but young, being pulled into a book! And she was screaming madly! But, what surprised the Javabucks employee the most was that people were walking by her, as though she was invisible! He touched a lucky pendant he wore around his neck. He rubbed the turquoise stone on it, and within seconds, a flash of black appeared and pinned him to the ground! He had no time to see what it was, but in an instant, it grabbed the pendulum off his neck! Then, what he found weirder was he took a sideways glance, and the girl wasn't there anymore! The Black Shape was squishing him so hard he was losing consciousness. No one was helping him either! Or even noticing him. He was just about to pass out when a bolt of lightning came from a corner and knocked the black shape into a wall! Its features became immediately visible. A black face with huge lips, purple hair and a dress… It looked familiar, like a pokemon he had seen before! He squinted, and thought for a minute, before coming to a conclusion.

"JYNX!" He screamed, as if stabbing the pokemon. It dropped the pendulum that was immediately picked up by Pikachu and brought back to the man who once again flung it over his neck. He turned to where the girl should have been and saw she was laying unconscious on the floor. He picked her up, and she awoke. Nurse Joy saw her and immediately came to her aid, holding her as well. Once pulled away from the book, she must have become visible again. Although Selena kept insisting that she was all right, Nurse Joy plunked her on the couch and told her to rest up anyways. She did as she was told.

The Black pokemon now made it fully obvious towards its identity; it was definitely a Black Jynx. The man, now standing alongside the book, gulped as it began glowing. Suddenly he noticed something. There was a red pendulum around its neck, one much like his. He got an idea, but he had to hurry. He jumped towards the glowing Jynx, as a pair of green eyes watched from above.

Now, I'll stop for a second and try to show how absurd this must be if you were in the lobby at the time of 1:46 AM that day. You would see an unconscious girl appearing on the floor at random, and a strange Javabucks employee jumping around.

Time to get back to the story. The Man was grabbing at the Jynx, but it was not giving in, or giving the amulet. But, with one good strike, he ripped it off, and the whole lot of people gasped, as the Jynx was revealed.

Then the green eyes from the rafters jumped down and landed. It was a sleekly dressed girl in blonde dreadlocks that wore glasses, the same one reading the book in the lobby. She summoned the Jynx to her side. It then blasted a wave of neon blue, and everyone but Selena and the Javabucks employee had been frozen in time!

"Let's get this party started." The blonde girl said.