"Thoughts"
"A pokemon speaking through telepathy"
"(Pokemon speaking to each other)"
Chapter 12: Ghosts of the Old Chateau
"Alright we're gonna need a place to rest for the night!" Brock announced as he placed his bag down on the ground
The group of trainers was still in Eterna Forest, making there way towards Eterna City, but decide to call it a night once the sun had gone down.
"How about over there?" Dawn yelled out as she noticed a huge mansion in the distance.
"Alright let's go!!" Ash yelled out
"Geez, how troublesome!" a girl yelled out as she walked down an empty hallway decorated in peeling paint and burnt walls
The girl was wearing a light brown golf cap that went over her hazel hair, blue jeans that were secured with a belt that had 5 pokeballs attached, her black sleeve-less shirt had the design of a white dragon, and black cloth wristband was on her right hand. Her chocolate colored eyes traveled to the pokemon on her shoulder.
"What do you think, Yori?"
The pokemon looked like a monkey with white hair around its neck, gold armbands, blue and red markings on its face, and flames coming from the tip of it's tail. Around the pokemon's neck was also a collar that a white stone attached to it, an everstone.
"Monferno!" it replied in a calm voice
The girl sighed, "This place is confusing…"
"Mon" the monkey-like pokemon said with a nod of his head
Suddenly both trainer and pokemon heard giggles and then something zipped past them, leaving a trail of blue electricity.
"There it is! Quick Yori! After it!" the trainer called out to her pokemon before the Monferno practically flew off her shoulder and speeded after the mysterious figure with his trainer a several feet behind.
"This place is really creepy!" Dawn exclaimed as she stayed behind Paul and kept an iron grip on his sweater's sleeves.
"It looks like no ones here!" Ash called out
Zoey sweatdropped, "Ash, I don't think anyone's been here for years…"
Zoey looked around and noticed that the mansion they had entered was full of Spinarak's webs, the pokemon statues that decorated the entrance were rusted, charcoaled walls, and not only that but the place gave everyone an eerie feeling. The group suddenly heard crackling noises then blue electricity whizzed by through a door on the upper floor. The girl and Yori ran out from the same door the electricity had come from just after the figure went through another room and out of sight.
"Darn it! We lost it, Yori!" the girl growled as she looked around
"Monferno Mon" the pokemon said with a grunt as it climbed back onto its trainer's shoulder
Brock's eyes lit up and he was immediately beside the girl.
"Hello you beau-" Brock soon felt a shiver go up his back as Croagunk popped out of its pokeball with a poison jab ready while Yori glared at Brock.
"Um…" Brock began
"Hi! I'm Ash!" Ash said as he and the others walked up to the two
"I'm Zoey!"
"I'm Dawn and this is Paul, my boyfriend!"
"Hn"
The girl smiled, "I'm Mel and this is Yori! Nice to meet you all!"
"Monferno!"
"Pika!"
Dawn looks over to Mel, "So are you chasing that blue thing?"
"Yeah! You saw it?"
"Yup it went that way!" Ash said as he pointed in the direction the blue thing went.
"Thanks! Let's go Yori!"
"Monferno!"
The two ran off after the blue thing with the group right behind.
"Do you know what this place is? And what that blue thing is?" Paul asked
"Yeah, this is actually the Old Chateau, a mansion that was owned by this family who knew a pokemon who goes by the name Rotom." Mel said as they ran through the corridors
"Rotom?" Zoey wondered
"Yeah! Rotom is the plasma pokemon. You see a few decades ago a family lived in this very mansion with their butler. The youngest daughter was usually left to herself while her parents were to busy with work. While she was watching TV a pokemon came out from the screen."
Ash's eyes widen, "Came out of the TV?"
"This pokemon that came out from the TV… would that be Rotom?" Paul asked
"Yeah," Mel nodded her head, "Since the girl was so lonely she would play with Rotom. This went on for years until…"
"Until?" Brock pressed on
"Until one of the appliances had a short feud and caught on fire, the parents weren't in the mansion at the time but the girl and the butler…they didn't make it"
"Oh…"
Paul gave Mel and annoyed look, "What does this have to do with anything?"
"Paul!" Dawn exclaimed
"What?"
Mel gave Dawn a soft smile, "It's ok Dawn. But the point is that, the girl and the butler, well their ghosts are believed to be in the mansion and they've been causing problems for some people"
"Ghosts!?" Dawn and Ash exclaimed in fear
"Yeah" Mel said, "It's cause at the time of the fire, the little girl didn't know that Rotom was part ghost so she looked all over the house for it, even in the fire, in the end the girl gave up looking for Rotom because she thought that he had abandoned her. Meanwhile the butler was looking for the little girl and didn't find her by the end."
"That's so sad!" Dawn cried out as she ran
"Hey look a door!" Zoey exclaimed as she saw a door at the end of the hallway
"Drew look! There's the cave!!" May exclaimed as she ran towards the said cave with Roselia clinging to her neck.
Drew gave a sigh and walked as fast as he could through the thick layers of snow and the snowflakes that were smacking his face.
"Where does she get all her energy from?" Drew thought as he reached May
Once the two coordinators were inside the cave May took out Eevee's pokeball and throw it into the air after enlarging it.
"Eevee!" the pokemon yelled out happily once it was released
"Eevee, look! There's the icy rock I was telling you about!" May exclaimed while pointing at the huge icy rock that looked like an ice sculpture.
"Eevee?" Eevee said as it walked over to the icy rock and touched it
All of a sudden Eevee started to glow…
Ash looked around the room they had just entered.
"We're in the dinning room" Ash exclaimed
"We can see that loser" Paul called out
"Well Paul I ha-"
Ash didn't get to finish his sentence as they heard a loud creek and then footsteps. Dawn shrieked and grabbed onto Paul, Pikachu and Yori started growling in the direction the footsteps were coming from.
"I-It s-sounds like w-whoever it is, i-is c-coming th-this way!" Dawn shivered
Sure enough they see a man walking towards them, the man was wearing a black suit with a towel hanging from his hand.
Dawn's eyes widen, "I-It's th-the butler!!!"
A little girl sat in a bear room. The room was completely empty, no furniture, no toys no anything, only the little girl. In the girl's arms was a Chimchar doll that sat on the grayish dress she wore .A chuckling was heard as a dark-purple creature suddenly appeared in the room. The little girl turned her head to look at the creature. It had a roundish body, it's back was covered in spikes, it's red eyes stared down at the girl and it's mouth was curled into a sinister grin.
"We have guests, young mistress" the creature said
"Really? Is Kai greeting them?" the girl asked with an innocent face on
The creature chuckled as it's grin widened, "Oh yes… Kai is making them feel very welcome…"
AN: Bet you guys didn't see that coming!!
Anyway thanks for being patient and for reading!!