Soaring in the sky was truly a magical experience. Walcekite's team wasn't supposed to have a big flying type pokemon, so she tried to experience this moment to the fullest, although it was rather scary.
"Hope I'm not too heavy, Raden," she petted the white fluff on Braviary's head.
"Bravi," the Valiant pokemon let out a sound, like it was trying to say 'Don't worry'.
Walcekite smiled and checked up on the little Emolga that was still sleeping in her blue bag. The teen girl stroked Emolga's yellow little cheeks, but sadly, she didn't react to it at all and. "Don't worry. We'll get you healed," Walcekite closed up her bag, so Emolga wouldn't fall out by accident and laid down closer to Raden.
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"No, we aren't lost," disagreed Farrioust and threw one of his pokeballs to the sky. "Have you forgotten how Raden got us out of the Pinwheel forest, Walcekite? He will do it again" The Braviary flew near to the ground and cried in agreement. "But I think we won't climb that steep hill. It would be best if he flew each of us to a normal path on that hill," Farrioust pointed and looked at the girls. "Ladies first."
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"I guess I was a bigger lady than Catlesy," Wakcekite giggled, remembering the scene that happened about a few minutes ago. "Well, no matter. We will still wait for each other...But I wonder... what are the two doing," she pondered worriedly, but shook any silly thoughts away. "Catlesy will just drive him crazy."
Raden flew quickly and swiftly and was big enough for the girl on his back to feel rather safe. His wings flapped on his sides, sometimes touching Walcekite with his pointy, but still soft, feathers.
It wasn't long until Raden spotted a clearing, for there were supposed to be trees covering every spot of the forest. Once they appeared above the clearing, they understood it wasn't small, but it was the path they were looking for. Raden cried happily and descended on the route. Once Walcekite got off, he flew back to where he left his trainer and Catlesy.
After 10 minutes, all party members were present and accounted for. Farrioust gave Raden a treat and the big Braviary was sent back to his pokeball.
"How is Emolga doing?" Catlesy asked with her eyes looking at the ground.
"Still sleeping, but it seems she's alright," Walcekite checked on the wild pokemon in her bag and smiled at Catlesy.
"That's good," she sighed with relief and said impatiently. "Let's get going. We shouldn't waste time."
"Guys..." Walcekite said hesitantly after 15 minutes of walking. "Have you ever heard of a mansion on this route?"
"Yeah, I've been to it," said Farrioust.
"And what was in there?" jolted Walcekite not thinking that her friends would actually know something about that.
"Just a mansion. I ran into it when a sudden rain came up. I was training my pokemon then and we all got to the mansion soaked. We heard some creepy noises, but nothing showed up. I guess if there was someone, it probably got scared of my powerful pokemon," he smirked and added. "Oh, and when we left, we saw that the mansion is actually a pretty run down place with missing or cracked windows and holes in the walls."
"Heh, then you're lucky it was just that," Catlesy smirked. "I've never been to it, but I heard stories. They say it's a Litwick mansion. They somehow make it rain and make illusions on their mansion, so that people would go in. Then they feed off their life energy. People mostly see purple flames getting bigger and bigger and then they get so exhausted they can't move. Those who make it out are the ones that tell these tales, but I bet there were people who weren't so fortunate."
"Wow, really? Well I didn't see nor flames nor the real Litwick. So why do you ask Walcekite?"
"Um, well, I kind of want to get to that mansion and catch one of the Litwick," she scratched her head feeling kind of awkward.
"Then you'll need a whole army," Catlesy giggled. "Who knows how many Litwick are there. But if you want, me and my pokemon will help you."
"What are a few Litwick to our team?" laughed Farrioust. "I've got your back too."
"Wow, thanks guys. I kind of thought you would be scared of going there. They say that these ghost types like to drag people into the ghost world. Though I'm not sure what they do there."
"We'll take out those Litwick before they will understand what's happening," Catlesy put her hand on Walcekite's shoulder. "It will be a piece of cake."
Suddenly, the wind started blowing, though before it was such a calm, sunny day. The sun was quickly covered by dark clouds that came out of nowhere.
*flash* *rumble*
Lightning and thunder were doing their work and finally, it started to pour.
"Yeah!" Walcekite jumped from joy and all three teens started running. "Look for the mansion. It should appear here somewhere."
But it wasn't hard to spot it. When they got close enough, they saw they were on the path to the mansion on a hill. It had about two stories and seemed really dark, but rather posh. When they got to the entrance, they pushed a huge door and finally escaped the rain, entering the mansion, which was dark and dim even inside.
"So what do we try now?" asked Catlesy, when they all were closing the door. "Should we shout for them or just wait? Some objects controlled by Psychic are bound to move here, so we would get scared. Litwick play like that."
"Not sure. Farrioust, did you stay here, until you left this mansion, before?" Walcekite inquired.
"Yeah, I didn't go anywhere else."
"So we should. Let's try the second floor," she suggested and went ahead of the others.
After a semi hall, that had blue walls with golden ornaments and aqua colored floors, they reached the main stares that were the same color as the floor, but had a red carpet covering them.
Once they climbed up few step, something clanged above them. As they raised their heads, they saw a head statue "sitting" on a chair, with a painting as a shield and an umbrella as a sword. It didn't move, but the teens knew it wasn't there before. They looked at each other and knew who was behind this and that something big was going to happen.
The three froze on the stairs, waiting for movement. Walcekite was the closest to the weird knight, while Catlesy was furthest. Obviously, Walcekite was the most scared of the hit that might be inflicted.
"It won't move. Let's just go," said Farrioust and went past the blue haired girl. A few steps further and the statue just flung towards the boy, waving its sword everywhere. Screams of fright were heard from the two girls, who were both clinging onto the stairs' handrail, while Farrioust jumped out of the statues way.
The statue fell down, to the beginning of the stairs and turned around to the panicky teens. It was like a bull, who saw a red cape.
"Everyone! Run upstairs!" Farrioust shouted and sent out Raden. The girls let go of the handrails and ran, constantly turning back, to see what was happening to Farrioust and the knight. The statue showed signs of running again, waving his sword impatiently and when it moved, Farrioust commanded. "Raden, Whirlwind!"
The big Braviary flew a little higher and started flapping its wings. Not long after, the wind conjured from his wings became visible, even in the dim light. The chair, on which the statue was placed, started leaning back, along with its rider. The umbrella flew away first, then the painting. Finally the chair was knocked over and the statue fell, shattering into tiny pieces.
"Awesome Farrioust. With a simple Whirlwind, you managed to defeat our enemy," Walcekite congratulated while giggling.
"Yeah, this was a piece of cake. If the Litwick are like this, then you'll get an add to your team in no time," winked Farrioust, running up the stairs, to the girls.
"Yeah, I hope so," Walcekite smiled and they all went to a second floor corridor, that was close to the stair.
Fifteen minutes passed, and there were no signs of the Litiwick what so ever. A few paintings and plants fell while the three were walkcing, but the Psychic users didn't appear.
"Hey Litwick! Could you come out?!" shouted Walcekite, for Farrioust' and Catlesy's surprise. The pale girl just didn't want to be patient anymore. "Sorry, but this mansion actually creeps me out," she explained her outburst.
"Yeah, these falling things always get me on my toes," Catlesy said cautiously and giggled. "But its not like we don't know why these things are happening. We just need to find the culprit."
"I wonder why do they want to hide so much. Can they eat our life energy even now?" Walcekite asked.
"Maybe a little. Normally they show the way for people that are lost, with the purple flames on top of their head. The flames grow bigger the more the people are near them, but I don't believe they can do much from a distance," Catlesy explained.
"So maybe we should act like we are lost?" suggested Walcekite.
"I think we are already lost," Farrioust pointed out, looking around a corridor, that seemed to repeat in different directions and never end. "I wonder what would happen, if we split up. Then the Litwick would probably try to take us out one vs one, if there are that many."
"Well, we will surely not lose, I mean we have at least three pokemon each," Catlesy grinned. "As I said earlier - it will be a piece of cake."
Once three teens found a crossroad, or rather, a cross-corridor, they went to different directions, in hopes to find the candle pokemon.
"Lit...litwick," a joyful cry softly echoed in the corridor Walcekite was in.
"I must be close," she smiled and checked on the wild pokemon that was still sleeping in her bag. "Sorry if there will be much ruckus if I actually get to fight. Though I kind of wish it would wake you, because I'm really getting worried," the girl stroked Emolga's cheek and heard a purr. Walcekite grinned immediately and her worrying decreased noticeably.
Suddenly, the lights went out and Walcekite gasped from the little surprise. Everything was pitch black, but Walcekite noticed a blue light in the distance.
"A flame?" she whispered and grinned, hoping it was. "Who's there?" she said loudly, trying to act like someone scared and lost.
"Lit, Litwick," the same joyful cry echoed, but louder than before.
"Could you help me?" Walcekite asked when she started walking towards the magical blue light.
"Lit," the sound was even happier and louder. It seemed Walcekite wasn't the only one getting closer.
Finally they were but a few feet away from each other. Walcekite could clearly see the white candle pokemon, with one bright green eye, which was on the left, though its flame colored most things blue.
"Gorgeous," awed Walcekite, though she thought something was different than she expected, but still squated down to the Litwick. "I've been looking for you, Litwick," she whispered.
"Litwick?" the candle pokemon was a little surprised. Maybe it was the only time anyone has looked for it as a pokemon, not a light source or a guide.
"Yes, you," she smiled and extended her arm a little, so the Litwick would feel more comfortable, if he touches it. Like a sign of 'I trust you...a little'.
The Litwick pondered and approached the hand. It had small, white hands and he extended his left one towards Walcekite's right one.
"Walcekite? Is that you?" the blue haired girl heard Farrioust's voice, but she didn't get startled, though it sure got Litwick. It jolted and ran away from Walcekite.
"Wait, don't go!" Walcekite ran after it. "Farrioust, I found a Litwick," she exclaimed.
"I did too."
"Guys?! I found a Litwick too!" another voice was heard in the distance. That time it was Catlesy.
"Can it be the same one?!" Walcekite shouted her question.
"Don't know. At least if we follow what we see, we should find each other!" shouted Farrioust and fast footsteps were heard afterwards. Walcekite and, seemingly, Catlesy ran after their objectives as well.
The light wasn't very fast, but Walcekite couldn't catch up, just keep the same distance. The blue light shone on the ground, but it somehow wasn't caged by walls. It seemed there were no walls at all. Walcekite wanted to make sure, but didn't go out of her way, because she didn't want to lose any momentum in this little race.
But then, two more flames appeared, but these ones were purple. They got close to the blue one and every speck of light vanished.
"Hey! Don't leave!" Walcekite couldn't keep her voice quiet anymore. When she ran, with the blue flame still in front of her, the only sounds she made were her long boots touching and letting go of the ground and her panting. Now she felt like she lost the light she was supposed to reach, like she didn't make it in time. And although this would be good if one is dying, this light just meant her hopes falling to the ground and shattering, little by little.
"Mine vanished too," exclaimed Catlesy sadly, she was very close, but because of the darkness, Walcekite couldn't tell how close.
"Same here," Farrioust was irritated. "Lessa, give this place light. At least yours doesn't eat our life energy."
"He probably smirked," thought Walcekite, seeing a flash of light in front of her again. At first it was blue, but it quickly got orange and red. "There you are," Walcekite smiled, finally seeing the Larvesta.
Its five horns had little flames on the tips. But this light kept all the colors almost like they look like for real, not like the Litwick did. Walcekite could clearly see Farrioust and, when Catlesy joined, she was clearly visible as well.
"Lessa, shoot some fire that way," he pointed in the direction, where the Litwick disappeared.
It was neither Ember, nor Flamethrower, for it was a stream of fire, shot from the tips on Larvesta's horns, but the stream had little bullets visible in it as well.
The attack reached something and started melting it. The wanted blue and purple flames were visible inside and when the hole in the somewhat wall was big enough, all three teens jumped in.
There were more flames than before, at least six or seven, and one of them was much bigger.
"Is that a Lampent in the back?" Catlesy asked, observing the pokemon.
"Yeah, it seems," Walcekite agreed.
Lampents are the evolution of Litwick and resemble, well, lamps. The candle shape is covered by a black lampshade and it has a little black pointy body and long, fingerless arms. They are about twice the Litwick's size. The same goes for the flames.
"Get ready. These pokemon are weak to ground, rock, ghost, water and dark. I know you girls have some pokemon with good attacks," Farrioust helped in deciding what pokemon to use.
"Should we use only one?" Catlesy asked, clearly showing her wish to use more.
"Let's just use one for now. Maybe we won't have to fight them at all," said Walcekite, deciding what to do for all three.
Suddenly, the Litwicks' flames grew huge and the Lamptent put its arms together. A blue Inferno flew from the flames and the Lampent's spinning body right towards the three.
There was no time to summon aid and all of them simply jumped to different directions, including Lessa. The Inferno got the wall behind. When Walcekite turned to that direction, she caught a glimpse of the hole they made before the whole wall was destroyed, making the bricks fly away, and turned the same as the hole. Somewhat purple and grey cloud like background was visible and sucking the air out. It was a good thing the three were further from the hole, but now, with the whole wall gone, the sucking became very intense and the teens had to give it all they got to stay on two legs.
Three Litwick went to each of the trainer. The blue flame owner came up to Walcekite. She knew it was the same shiny Litiwick.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked sadly.
"Lit?" he pointed at itself, like it was saying 'me?'. It turned around to the other pokemon and saw a nod from the Lampent.
"What will you do?" Walcekite was standing with her legs spread back and forward and her arms crossed near her head. She was scared. She didn't know what would happen if they got into that cloud background.
She noticed Catlesy turning her head back and observing with fear. "The ghost world," she whispered, but even Farrioust heard.
"What will happen, if we go there?" asked Farrioust, looking at the Litwick in front of him.
"Nobody knows for sure, but its the spirit, the ghost world. Living beings shouldn't be there. But how do we break this?" explained and asked Catlesy.
Walcekite squatted down to the Litwick. It was a little easier to stand the wind sucking them, but still hard.
"Litwick, please. We didn't do anything to you... I-I just wanted you to join my team. And now I put my friends in danger for my greedy wish. If you let us go, I promise, I will never bother you again," begged Walcekite, with her voice trembling a little.
"Lit...Litwick," the candle pokemon almost seemed sad too. He lowered his head and though his flame grew a little larger, Walcekite said.
"It's alright. You can suck my energy, but, at least, let my friends go."
"Walcekite are you crazy?! I would never abandon you!" Catlesy shouted, mostly surprising the Litwick in front of her.
"Don't you dare make such bargains!" Farrioust shouted as well. They both were still standing and refusing the sucking.
Walcekite smiled and suddenly felt like she couldn't move. Someone was using Psychic. No, it wasn't the shiny Litwick, it was the Lampent. His yellow eyes glowed blue and outlined the girl in the same color.
"No! Don't do it!" screamed Walcekite, when she was carried towards the ghost world. The other Litwick started chattering and got the other trainers into their Psychic and they were carried as well.
The shiny pokemon looked sadly at Walcekite and walked a little closer.
"Lit...wick," he lowered his head, like he was apologizing.
"Lampent?!" the evolved pokemon became almost furious. He pointed his long, fingerless, black arm towards the shiny one and one of the Litwick in front of him shot a Shadow Ball at it.
From the power of a dark, purple ball, the Litwick teared off the ground and flew towards Walcekite. She would have caught it, but the Psychic still prevented her movements. The hit from the Litwick just made her get closer to the entrance to another world.
"Lessa! You are our only hope! Flame Charge!" Farrioust shouted. His tone was clearly panicky.
The torch pokemon got engulfed in the flames she created herself and she charged towards the group of Litwick and one Lampent, but the lamp pokemon used Protect and formed a blue shield that prevented any harm for any of them. He had to let go of Walcekite a little, but she just managed to hug Litwick and was again raised to the air and outlined in blue.
"No good," groaned Farrioust. "Bug bite on the Lampent!"
But from the three Litwick next to the Lampent, there was still one that wasn't Psychic, but now he got the chance and Lessa was carried faster than anyone and hit Farrioust. It was like returning the pokemon.
"That's it. Its over," Walcekite thought, feeling no power in her stiff body. Not one finger could move and without pokemon, she couldn't do anything.
*Yawn* "Emol?" a cute little head appeared from Walcekite's bag that had a white face with little, round, yellow cheeks, a brown back head and big brown ears that had yellow and white fur inside them.
"E-Emolga?" Walcekite squeezed a smile out. "I'm so glad you are alright. Although none of us will be soon," she sighed.
The little flying squirrel looked around and saw the foes and the entrance to another world. She climbed out of the bag, and glided towards the group with the Lampent.
"Emol," she winked and multiple hearts flew from her eye and spun around the three Litwick and a Lampent. Thank Arceus they were all boys and all of their Psychics broke.
The trainers fell down to the ground and looked at the infatuated opponents. The shiny Litwick and two more, that all were close to the trainers, weren't infatuated, but didn't seem all that eager to fight.
"Sorry for this, she apologized all ghost and fire type pokemon and got away from the broken wall. The ones that had their minds clear did the same. "Emolga, use Electro Ball and make them fly towards the entrance to the ghost world!" she commanded the wild pokemon. She had ideas that Emolga might refuse, but she was happy to do it and jumped over her foes and turned around.
A yellowish brown ball with sparks flying around it appeared at the end of Emolga's tail and she flung it towards the three Litwick and Lampent.
They obviously didn't refuse and didn't even try to catch anything, to stay in this world, so they fell through the portal they created themselves and the bricks that flew away before, came back and made a perfect wall again, although, with the hole that Lessa made.
Only three Litwick were left and they seemed sad their friends went away, but they smiled at the trainers and let them out of the mansion, all three of them together.
"The outside!" eclaimed Catlesy joyfully, when she could breath the fresh air again. Farrioust had returned Lessa to her pokeball and went outside, smiling at the sun. Walcekite did the same, with Emolga gliding behind her and setting on the ground.
"Yeah. I didn't think we would see this again," smiled Walcekite happy as well and turned to their guides. "Thank you very much. You spared our lives, so I will fulfill my promise - I will never bother you again.
"Lit, Litwick," the candle pokemon shook its head and came closer. "Litwick," it showed to itself with his little white arm and then to Walcekite.
"You want to travel with me?" she asked with hope and surprise.
The pokemon nodded and backed away, making a Shadow Ball on top of its blue flame.
"Oh so you want to battle? Bring it on!" she smirked and let out her pokemon.
A battle began in front of the mansion, that had lost its previous beauty, but the setting sun still made it quite pretty.
