A.N: I'll apologize first off for the lack of uploads, but school and a few personal things came up and I hardly found time to write. Chapter 17 is in the works but it will take a bit. Luckily I had the Halloween Special saved on my Computer for, you guessed it, Halloween! Tomorrow will be the ending of the Halloween Special, after all, today isn't Halloween yet ;). You'll understand why I uploaded this today though. Once again, apologies for the lack of uploads, enjoy!
Elitist Academy Halloween Special Part 1
Two Years Ago
A figure in a black hood walked into a Pokémon center. He was of average height and when he pulled off his hood he looked incredibly young with disheveled brown hair. He looked fourteen, with alert dark brown eyes. The boy walked to the nurse and said: "I'd like a room for the night please."
"Of course," Nurse Joy replied, "I'd need your Trainer ID then and in about an hour your room will be ready. I recommend you to look at the sights of our beautiful Hearthome City."
"I'll do that, thank you for the advice," the boy smiled back after giving her his Trainer ID. And waiting for the formalities to be done. Nurse Joy took it, swiped it into her computer and typed in a few things before giving the ID back and saying: "Then I wish you a pleasant stay in Hearthome City. If you stay tomorrow as well you might see the great Hearthome Halloween Costume Party with the special guest, the current champion Lucas."
"That's something I can't miss, thank you for informing me," Calem said before walking out of the Pokémon center. Hearthome was a lively town, and saying that about a town in Sinnoh was quite a thing to say, because in contrast to Unova, where everything was bright and loud, SInnoh was relatively quiet, overlooking the mines and the port. Hearthome was the center of Sinnoh and the Halloween festival was legendary. Calem had not been here before because this was the first time he visited Sinnoh although he had met Lucas before, thanks to Brendan. Lucas was a very funny and down to earth guy and Calem enjoyed being with him, although Calem enjoyed being around every champion and former champion alike, though he had spent most of his time with Red. But Hearthome was a great place, the entire city bustling with activity to get ready for the Halloween festival. Children and adults alike, with their Pokémon partners running around and building things or going from shop to shop to buy something. Calem enjoyed watching the activity but then he saw a familiar figure sneaking along in the streets of the city, unnoticed despite walking so quickly. Calem snuck after him, watching him get into an alley and pull his scarf down. Calem looked at him exhale audibly before commenting: "So, difficult being a star?"
The person whirled around and his eyes shone in recognition, a smile forming: "Hey there Cal, how are you?"
"Pretty good, and you Red?" Calem asked, smirking.
"Not bad, not bad. Anyway, what brings you here?" Red asked.
"I think people would be more interested in knowing why YOU are here," Calem shot back.
"Uh…" Red hesitated, "well since it's you, I guess I can tell you."
"Tell me what?" Calem asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Lucas asked me to help him that was also the main reason why he planned to come here for the Halloween festival. So apparently in the last three or so years, the people have been getting nightmares after the Halloween Festival. That's also why they are holding this festival with renewed vigor and giving it their all, but Lucas can't help but think it had something to do with the root of Halloween. After all Halloween is a holiday celebrated to chase away bad spirits and Lucas thinks it has something to do with a spirit. Anyway, he called all the Champions and we decided to investigate a bit on our own, you want to go ahead and help?" Red explained.
"I was thinking about doing something while being here so sure, why not," Calem answered and looked out of the alley. Pumpkins were hung everywhere with carvings, psychic and ghost type Pokémon helping their trainers build stalls and decorate them, fighting types carrying the heavy material. It was a great festival, and it should stay in people's memories along with a good sleep, not bad dreams. When he turned back around Red had disappeared without a trace. Calem smiled, this meant that the champion's lone wolf attitude was welcomed. Calem walked out of the alley and pulled up his hood. He walked past stalls that had games already set up like ring tossing. The buildings themselves received a Halloween vibe with street artists covering them in Halloween drawings like a Pikachu in a vampire costume with a Umbreon in a witch costume next to it. The Pikachu looked incredibly cute with the sharp teeth and the Umbreon was complimented by the dark witch hat and the miniature broom stuck in it.
Calem admired the drawing when he noticed that the Pikachu's open mouth was actually a door for a book store. Calem walked into the book store to snoop around for some good books. Inside the smell was amazing, it smelt of books, paper that was freshly printed with a slight hint of leather from the book bindings and a small hint of chestnut from the shelves. The store had been decorated accordingly for the holiday and Calem looked around. The books were arranged in a strange way, not alphabetically in any way. It seemed like the books were stuck into the shelves if there was space and not arranged. So there were philosophical books like: 'Inside the mind of a Magikarp' and comedy's like: 'What does Diglett actually look like?' right next to each other. But Calem was more interested in the fiction and history books. He looked glanced at the titles of all the books before he noticed that the store clerk was nowhere to be seen. He looked around and at the back of the store he found the desk, but it was hidden behind books upon books. Calem looked at the books that were stacked high in front of the desk and found one interesting book: 'The History of Nightmares'. Calem grabbed it and leafed through it, in the middle of it he closed the book and looked franticly for the shop clerk. He ran around the store, before he noticed that there was a bell on the desk. Calem ringed it and instantly a chute opened from above the desk and a man fell down. He stood up, dusted himself off, rearranged his circular glasses and looked at Calem: "How can I help?"
"I'd like to purchase this book," Calem barely managed to get out in his fascination. He handed the clerk the book and the man looked over it.
"My, it has been a while since I saw this book, it costs 600," the clerk said.
Calem brought out his trainer ID that also worked as a credit card and held it at the sensor. It immediately deducted 600 and Calem grabbed the book. He walked out of the store and called out his Charizard.
"Charizard, do me a favor and fly up and use Gigas Tornado close to the Pokémon center, it should notify the others," Calem asked of his Charizard.
The black Flame Pokémon flew into the sky and disappeared quickly. Soon after a blue spiral made of fire appeared in the sky and everyone stopped what they were doing, some even came out of the houses to look at the spiral that disappeared soon after. Whilst others were enraptured by the spiral Calem ran to the Pokémon center, arriving to see the Champions and his Charizard standing in front of the entrance.
"So who called Calem?" Ethan asked.
Red was about to say something when Calem held up the book: "Guys, look at this, in this book it says something interesting, that might also be the key to the problem here."
Lucas grabbed the book and everyone gathered around him. He leafed through the book quickly, stopping at the same page Calem did and reading one sentence aloud for the Champions: "In Sinnoh's ancient text's it is indicated that nightmare's originate from Cresselia's alter ego, which was created by negative emotions in humans, soon gaining a solid form as a new Pokémon, known as Darkrai."
A.N: I hope you enjoyed the story and wish you all a nice day! See you tomorrow :]
