Nothing to say here... just this... LET THE CURSE SPREAD!

The Curse Unleashed

(Professor Elm's Lab)

Molly pulled hard on the pickle jar Voltage's head was stuck in while the Raichu's trainer held on to the rodent's feet. By this time, everyone in the party was laughing their heads off and teasing the trainer and his Pokémon.

"Dammit, Volt!" Hiro yelled as Molly lost her grip on the pickle jar, sending Voltage and Hiro flying back. "AH! How the hell did you get your head stuck in a pickle jar? You don't even like pickles!" Voltage's response was impossible to hear with his head in the jar. All Hiro heard was a mix of mumbles and gibberish coming from the rodent.

Molly sat up after landing hard on her butt and looked thoughtfully at the Raichu. '…there must be some way to pry that jar off of Volt's head…" She thought long and heard before sighing in frustration. 'Oh forget it!' Molly reached for a Pokeball attached to her belt and tossed it into the air. "Ursaring!" She cried.

The ball opened and let out a bright flash that took the form of a large bear. As the light faded the giant brown bear stood in front of both Hiro and Voltage. All of Molly's friends gasped in shock. Many of them began discussing and wondering if that fearsome bear used to be Molly's cute and cuddly little Teddiursa that always followed her around town.

"Ursaring! Use Brick Break on Voltage!" The bear roared in acknowledgement, and brought his giant claw down on the little rodent's head. The jar shattered instantly, leaving the Raichu's head completely exposed to the rest of the Ursaring's attack, knocking poor Voltage out.

"Oops! S-sorry, Volt." Molly nervously chuckled.

The lab instantly erupted into laughter, leaving Molly feeling a little embarrassed. She turned to Hiro who was shaking his head in disappointment. "Sorry Hiro… I guess we over did it."

"Hm? Oh that's fine. Volt will bounce back. Remember, his head is harder than a Steelix's armor." Hiro chuckled.

"You know it!" Voltage zipped in between the two trainers.

"See?" Hiro grinned.

Molly giggled and looked around room for Hope, wondering how she reacted to seeing just how much the little bear cub Molly use to have had grown up. After all, after Molly's family moved, she and Hope were like sisters and spent many days playing hide and seek with her little Teddiursa. Now the little bear cub is one of Molly's strongest and oldest Pokémon on her team.

But Molly couldn't find her in the crowd. She had thought that Hope was still right behind her talking with Hiro's little sister. She looked around and began to ask some the kids of they've seen Nurse Joy's daughter, but no one knew where the little girl had gone. Molly even asked Nurse Joy herself, but she didn't have the faintest clue as to where her daughter went. Molly started to worry.

"Hiro." She called her friend. "Hiro!" She shouted over the music. "Hiro!" She caught the young trainer on dance floor talking to a group of girls.

"Yeah, I've met Lance." Hiro smoothly said. "He and I took down a Rocket base… Truth is I could've done it alone… but you know those champions… Such glory hogs." The girls he was trying to impress giggled and spoke in hushed voices amongst themselves.

"HIRO!" Molly shouted as she pulled the trainer from the group of girls by his ear.

"DAH! MOLLY! What the hell?" Hiro shouted.

"Where's your sister?"

"Huh?"

"You're sister, Samantha. Where is she?" Molly quickly repeated herself.

"Uh… isn't she with Hope?" Hiro asked, looking for his younger sister.

Molly groaned and once more began to visually search for the two girls when one of Hiro's friends walked up to them. This young boy was named Kale, and he had known Hiro for years and was one of the few trainers that had left New Bark three years prior to Hiro and Molly's departure. His original goal was to be the greatest trainer in the world, same as any other trainer but ended up quitting after his fist gym loss. Now he's the local breeder.

"Uh… are you guys looking for Sam and Hope?" Kale asked as he approached the two.

"Yes! How did you know?" Molly asked.

"Uh… it's kinda obvious… the moment I saw the two girls leave with Chris-"

"You saw them leave? And you didn't do anything to stop them?" Molly shouted angrily.

Kale took a step back nervously and began to panic as Molly slowly approached him. "W-w-well… they left the party… and I thought they were going to play a video game back Hiro's." Kale explained "…but then I Chris say that he was going to get his sister…" Kale stopped mid-sentence, afraid to finish his.

"And where was she, Kale?" Hiro asked, getting a little worried himself.

"…Uh…" Kale didn't answer them. He looked away from the duo and began to whistle off-key.

Voltage suddenly jumped up and yelled. "Yeah, that's not suspicious!" The Raichu evilly grinned. "I say we stab him in his eye!" Voltage suddenly pulled out a pocket knife from Hiro's bag and slowly walked up to Kale, with a menacing, insane look in his eyes.

"DAH! ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! I'll tell you were they went! Just call off that murderous rodent!" Kale frightfully shouted, running away from Voltage. The electric type simply laughed as he used a Thunder Wave to paralyze the human and slowly approached him with a menacing, psychotic grin.

"…It's amazing that no one's noticed them or even tried to stop them…" Molly said to Hiro as he was rummaging through all the junk in his bag. "…What are you doing?"

Hiro simply smiled and pulled out a small, biscuit like confection that had pink frosting spread onto. Voltage suddenly stopped dead in his tracks and slowly turned around to see his trainer holding the treat. Hiro smiled and tossed it high in the air. "POFFIN!" Voltage shouted as he grabbed the treat in mouth only to land on some of the other people at the party.

Kale rushed back over to Hiro and Molly, before finally breaking down and falling, face first, into the ceramic tile floor. "Ugh… uff… uff… you couldn't…. uff… have done that… uff… sooner?" He asked Hiro.

"Now tell us where the girls went!" Molly shouted. "Or that deranged rodent's gonna be the least of your problems!" Molly threatened.

"DAH! Okay, okay!" Kale shouted, before telling the two what was the girls' destination.

Both Hiro and Molly were speechless as the music ended and people cheered. It was at the point that Hiro's mother had come in with the cake she and Samantha had been working hard on since her son had returned home.

"THEY WENT WHERE?"

(Meanwhile, At the Old Bark Relic)

"Chris! We're begging you! Please turn back, NOW!" Hope pleaded, latching on to the boy's arm.

"There's something not right about that Relic, Chris! Please, let's just talk to Hiro and Molly and have them investigate it for us!" Samantha begged, tightly holding on to Chris's leg in an attempt to slow him down. The boy just powered on and managed to drag both girls with him. "UGH! You're going to get in trouble for this… And how are you so strong when I can easily beat you at arm wrestling?"

Despite having the girls slowing him down, Chris had dragged the two all the way to the Old Bark Relic site, left alone and empty. An eerie silence fell upon the children. They heard no sounds, not even the whistling of the wind. A strange presence was in the air… something that ran a cold chill up their spines. Just the mere site of the old ruin was enough to frighten, which was rather odd as they have all been here before with the professors and their escorts. Something mystical and quite possibly cynical was in the air tonight.

Chris swallowed hard before taking a step forward and tensing up. He felt his body lock up in fear as his eyes widened in fear.

"C-Chris…" Hope meekly called the boy. "M-maybe we should go get Hiro now… Something's… something's not right about this place…"

Chris whimpered and swallowed hard again before nodding in agreement. "…Y-yeah." He roughly said. "Ma-maybe we should go get Hiro…"

A blood curding shriek suddenly filled the night air, scaring the young children away. "HELP ME! HELP! SOMEONE! !" Chris stopped in tracks and turned back to face the Relic. "JESSICA!" He yelled as he ran in the direction of the shriek. That shriek was soon replaced with an inhuman howl. Causing the boy to think twice about his actions.

"CHRIS!" Hope yelled.

"I've got to go save my sister!" He yelled back, rushing into the ancient ruin.

"Wait, Chris!" Samantha shouted after him, but it was too late. "UGH! Damn him to hell!"

"W-well… we tried right? …Uh… no need to go in after him… right?" Hope asked nervously, as she slowly turned around and began walking back towards town.

"WRONG!" Samantha shouted as she grabbed Hope's arm and pulled her into the relic's entrance.

The girls entered the relic right after Chris, only to be greeted with the unwelcoming sight of three rather large doors, each leading into a different colored chamber. On top of each doorway was symbol of one of the Legendary Beast of Johto, each corresponding to the color of the chamber.

Chris was pacing about like a wild Houndoom in a cage. "DAMMIT!" He shouted. "Where is she?"

"Don't worry, Chris we'll fine her… right Hope?" Samantha asked the mini-Joy. Hope couldn't answer as she started blankly into the red chamber. "Hope? …Uh… Hope?" The young pink hair girl didn't respond. She ignored her friend and walked robotically into the Entei chamber.

"Hey, Hope!" Chris shouted after her. "Where you going?"

"…I… don't… know…" She replied slowly. "Something's…" She stopped in the center of the chamber and motioned her friends to follow her.

Chris and Samantha quickly exchanged glances then looked back at their confused friend. "…I say we leave her here…"

"Chris!"

"What? She's been possessed! Now let's get out of here before her head starts spinning and puking."

Samantha glared at Chris and folded her arms. "And what about your sister?"

"…Uh… Dammit!" Chris swore as he cautiously entered the chamber with Samantha following closely behind him.

The minute the two were in the Entei chamber, a large, stone door suddenly fell and blocked the entrance way. Samantha and Chris immediately spun around and faced their blocked exit as Hope suddenly fainted and fell to the floor. Chris cursed as he looked around the room. The rather large chamber was dimly lit a dark red color by a few torches that hung from the few pillars in the room. Other than the pillars, there was nothing in the room… nothing the children would immediately be able see anyway. Despite the torches, the room was mostly dark.

"That's just great!" Chris shouted. "Now how are we going to get out of here?" He yelled as Hope regained consciousness and slowly rose back to her feet.

"Chris could you keep it down? I have this killer headache-"

"YOU LITTLE BACKSTABBER!" Chris yelled, tackling Hope.

"CHRIS! GET OFF OF ME!" Hope screamed, as she was pinned under the boy's weight. Samantha quickly tackled boy off of Hope. "Enough, Chris! Leave Hope alone!" Samantha demanded. The boy didn't listen to her once more tried to attack Hope, but Samantha was there to defend her this time.

"ARGH!" Chris groaned. "Why the hell did you us lead here?"

"…Perhaps it was to find me, brother?" A mysterious voice called from the darkness.

The children froze up in as they heard hushed voices talking in the darkness. "What's a matter Chris? Not happy to see your older sister?" The children gasped as they finally recognized the voice.

"Jessica? Oh thank Mew!" Chris sighed as he began to walk in the direction of his sister's voice.

Samantha laughed a bit to clam herself down. "Uh… Jessica… what exactly is it that you're doing here?" She asked.

"Yeah! Why are you here?" Hope curiously asked. "You've told us repeatedly that you hate this place!"

Jessica chuckled as her voice grew cold and a little gruff. "Well… I kind of wanted to come here and see what all the fuss is about… I wanted to catch one of these Unown and see for myself why they are so special…"

"Uh, sis?" Chris asked. "Are you feeling okay? It sounds like you're fighting off a cold."

A clawed hand suddenly grabbed Chris's shoulder as a Houndoom's muzzle appeared from the darkness. "Why yes little brother… I am feeling okay." The beast evilly grinned, revealing her razor sharp teeth. "In fact… I've never felt any better." She laughed as she formed a small fire ball in her other hand, revealing more of her altered body.

Samantha and Hope froze up in while Chris's heart began to race. The creature that stood in front of him sounded like his sister… but looked more like a human-like Houndoom… Her face wasn't the only thing that changed. As Chris had found out before, her hands had claws on them and although he didn't see them, he could still feel the leathery pads on the palms and finger tips of his sister's hands. Her feet had almost completely shifted into that of a canines and she had the devil tipped tail of a Houndoom to boot. Lastly, she had the curved horns of a Houndoom sticking out of her dark hair. Her clothes had survived her transformation for the most part but her jeans were stained with blood on her left leg.

Jessica laughed and extinguished the flame in her paw. The grin on her muzzle quickly disappeared as she chomped down hard on Chris's arm. The boy screamed in pain alerting the two stunned girls to the problem. "CHRIS!" They yelled as they hurried to help their friend.

Another creature much like Jessica quickly rushed out of the darkness and stopped them in their tracks by glaring at them. "Ah, no little kiddies…" The Houndoom creature laughed. "She's not finished yet…"

"But you two are…" A serpent hissed as he slithered from out of the dark. Two red fangs protruded from his mouth. His stood up on the tail that had replaced his legs and glared at the two scared girls with his red eyes. "Well what do we here?"

Uh-oh... looks like these kids are trouble... Can Hiro and Molly make it to them in time? And if they do, what can two Pokemon Trainers do against these Pokemorphs? And weren't there more? What happened to rest of the group?
...Only one way to find out. Wait for my next chapter!

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