Nothing to say here. Now onto Chapter 4.

Chapter 4

A Ghost Type Visit

The Book World

Abigail, Ezran, Callum, and Soren followed Drake through the city. "Okay this is the place." Drake said to everyone, as they all stopped in front of someone's house. "What is this place?" Soren asked everyone.

"According to this book, this is Scrooge's home." Drake said to everyone. "This is his home… It's… cozy." Abigail said to everyone, as they looked at the house with a flat look on her face.

"It's not. This place once belonged to his old business partners, Jacob and Robert Marley. The building was a dismal heap of brick on a dark street." Drake said to everyone, reading from the book.

"Doesn't this guy have any positive things in his life?" Ezran asked Drake, as Drake flipped the page. "Well that's odd." Drake said. "What is it?" Callum asked Drake.

"It says that you must remember that the Marleys were dead and decaying in their graves." Drake said to everyone. "Yeuch!" Soren said to Drake. "Oh, there's more. That one thing you must remember, or nothing that follows will seem wondrous." Drake said to everyone, as Scrooge walked up to the house.

"Okay, how did we beat him here?" Callum asked everyone. "Who knows?" Abigail said to Callum, as Scrooge walked up to his door.

But as he got ready to open the door, the knocker on it began to warp, turning into the face of a normal form Corsola. "Jacob Marley?" Scrooge asked, wondering what he was seeing.

Then the face let out a booming groan that sounded like Scrooge's name. This surprised Scrooge and made him jump back, with even Drake, Abigail, Ezran, Callum, and Soren startled by this and jumped back a little. But a second later the face disappeared, and the door was normal.

"Humbug." Scrooge said, ignoring what just happened, and walked into the room, leaving Drake, Abigail, Ezran, Callum, and Soren outside.

"Really. After what just happened, he just ignored it." Callum said to everyone, as Drake looked at the book. "According to the book, he couldn't. It says, to say that Scrooge was not startled would be untrue. Still, the moment had passed, and the world was as it should be." Drake said to everyone, reading from the book.

"But he's still ignoring what just happened." Callum said to Drake. "Not true. According to the book, Scrooge made his way up the stairs, caring not a button for the darkness. Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it. But the incident at the door had made Scrooge wary. Before he shut himself in for the night, he searched his rooms." Drake said to Callum, reading from the book.

"Okay, that does it." Soren said to Drake. "Pardon?" Drake asked Soren. "How does it know what Scrooge is doing? We're out here, and he's in there." Soren said to Drake, pointing to the house and to them.

"Soren, I told you this is his story, whatever he does is going to be in this book." Drake said to Soren. "Oh really prove it." Soren said to Drake. "Very well. The book says, to conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps." Drake said to everyone, as a bright light could be seen from inside the house. "Okay that's weird." Soren said to everyone.

Back inside, Scrooge was looking around his place, and once he got into his room, he found his robes hanging on a rack. Thinking it was something spooky, Scrooge grabbed it and threw it to the ground. Scrooge's paws started to glow white, and he started to punch his robes for a few seconds, before realizing it was just his bed robes.

"Oh. It's my best dressing gown." Scrooge said, as he examined his robes. "No harm done." Scrooge said, before putting on his robes, and started a fire. Scrooge then started to eat some bread and cheese, as his doorbell rang once. Then Scrooge heard creaking.

But Scrooge just ignored it. Then the doorbell rang like crazy for a coupled seconds. Then when the bell stopped, the fire was snuffed out. This caused Scrooge to breathe heavily, as everything went dark.

But then Scrooge could see a faint light and hear clinking behind him. But that's when two Galarian Corsola, wrapped in white chains burst out of the light. "Look, it's Ebenezer Scrooge." A Corsola said to the other one. "Looking older and more wicked than ever." The second Corsola said to the first one. "I knew he wouldn't disappoint us." The first Corsola said to the second Corsola, before they both laughed.

But Scrooge just stared at the Corsola with a look of disbelief on his face. "Who are you?" Scrooge asked the Corsolas. "In life, we were your partners, Jacob." The second Corsola said to Scrooge. "And Robert Marley." The first Corsola said to Scrooge.

"It looks like you. But I don't believe it." Scrooge said to them. "Why do you doubt your senses?" Jacob asked Scrooge. "Because a little thing can affect them. A slight disorder of the stomach can make them cheat. You may be a bit of undigested beef. A blob of mustard. A crumb of cheese. Yes, there's more of gravy than of grave about you." Scrooge said to Jacob, as he stood up, and put his back to the wall.

But Jacob and Robert just laughed at Scrooge. "More of gravy than a grave?" Robert asked Scrooge, as he and Jacob got closer to Scrooge. "What a terrible pun. Where do you get those jokes?" Jacob asked Scrooge. "Leave comedy to the Chatots, Ebenezer." Robert said to Scrooge, before laughing again.

"Please, Jacob, Robert, don't criticize me. You always criticized me." Scrooge said to them, getting closer to them, making Jacob and Robert stop moving. "We were always heckling you." Robert said to Scrooge. "It's good to be heckling again." Jacob said to Robert. "It's good to be doing anything again." Robert said to Jacob, before they laughed. "Why do you come to me?" Scrooge asked them.

"We're Marley and Marley. Avarice and greed." They sang, pointing to themselves. "We took advantage of the poor, just ignored the need-y." Jacob sang.

"We specialized in causing pain, spreading fear and doubt." They sang, as they acted like they were walking. "And if you could not pay the rent, we simply threw you out." Robert sang, as he kicked the air.

"There was the year we evicted the entire orphanage." Robert said to Jacob. "I remember the little tykes all standing in the snowbanks." Jacob said to Robert. "With their little frostbitten Poke Dolls." Robert said to Jacob, before they both laughed, only to suddenly groan.

"We're Marley and Marley. Our hearts were painted black." They sang, as they got closer to Scrooge. "We should have known our evil deeds. Would put us both in shack-les." Jacob sang, shaking his chains. "Captive, bound, we're double-irned, exhausted by the weight." They sang, as they moved away from Scrooge.

"As freedom comes from giving love." Jacob sang, looking at the open area around him. "So prison comes with hate." Robert sang, as more chains appeared around them, trapping them. "We're Marley and Marley. We're Marley and Marley." They sang, as they made the chains rattle and wail like ghosts.

"But my friends, you were not unfeeling towards your fellow Pokemon." Scrooge said to them. "True, there was something about mankind we loved." Robert said to Scrooge. "I think it was their money." Jacob said to Robert, before they both laughed.

That's when a chain wrapped around Scrooge, startling Scrooge. "Doom, Scrooge. You're doomed for all time." They sang to Scrooge, getting close to Scrooge, wrapped in even more chains. "Your future is a horror story. Written by your crime." Robert sang to Scrooge.

"Your chains are forged by what you say and do." They sang to Scrooge, as they moved away.

That's when a large number of chains with Chest form Gimmighoul hanging from them appeared from every direction. "So have your fun. When life is done. A nightmare waits for you." All of the Gimmighouls sang to Scrooge.

Then, as Jacob, Robert, and all of the Gummighouls laughed at Scrooge, Scrooge removed the chains on him. "Why these terrible chains?" Scrooge asked Jacob and Robert, as he tossed his chain to the ground.

This made Jacob and Robert wail. "Tha chains." Robert said to Scrooge. "We forged these chains in life by our acts of greed." Jacob said to Scrooge. "You wear such a chain yourself." Robert said to Scrooge.

"Humbug. Speak comfort to me, friends." Scrooge said to them, not believing what they were saying. "Comfort!" Jacob said, before they both wail, as they both started to get pulled back to the after life.

"You will be haunted by three Mythical Pokemon." Robert said to Scrooge. "Haunted? I've already had enough of that." Scrooge said to Robert. "Without these visits, you cannot hope to avoid the path we tread." Jacob said to Scrooge.

"Expect the first Mythical Pokemon tonight, when the bell tolls one." Robert said to Scrooge. "Can't I meet them all at once?" Scrooge asked them. "When the bell tolls one!" Jacob said to Scrooge.

"We're Marley and Marley. We're Marley and Marley. We're Marley and Marley." They sang, as they were dragged to the deepest, darkest part of the afterlife. "Change!" Jacob and Robert said to Scrooge, before everything went black.

Hello everyone, I hope you like this chapter. Please follow or review if you like this story. And if you're wondering why I picked Corsola for the Marleys. Well, because in my eyes, they're the perfect Pokemon, they were once alive(Water/Rock Types) and now they're dead(Ghost Type) and that is what I wanted for the Marleys.