Merry Christmas everyone, TheKingHHH100 here brining you a new fic for the holidays like usual. Now this is a small one-shot horror story like you're accustomed to, which could also serve as a Halloween special but I decided to post it on Christmas because… reasons. Well, it's still Christmas day where I live, so I hope you all had a lovely holiday and happy Boxing Day to those who celebrate it. As always, I hope you enjoy this little story and if you like leave a review telling me what you think. On to the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any of its characters; all rights go to Nintendo and Game Freak.
My name is Henry and I'm a Pokémon trainer. I had finally finished my journey and managed to defeat the Elite Four to become the new champion of the Johto Pokémon League. After achieving such a feat, I decided to take a little break from battling and go back home in Blackthorn City, to rest up and see my beautiful wife and daughter once again.
However, as I made my way back home, I noticed something strange when traveling through the Ice Path. There was a really rotten smell all over the place, which I couldn't place my finger on what it was. I paid no mind to it as I really wanted to return home after so long, so I quickly rushed through the icy cave, defeating any wild Zubat and Golbat that came across.
Upon arriving at my native Blackthorn City everything seemed so familiar, yet there was also something different about it. Houses were locked and marts were closed, there seemed to be no one around in the streets as well. I ran into a few people, but whenever I asked them what was going on, they didn't seem to want to talk about it and simply left, like they were running away from something. Eventually, I met an old lady who told me that no one was going out of town due to one particular reason: the witch.
"Which witch?" I asked.
"The Witch of the Ice Path" the old lady responded.
"Can you tell me more about it?" I asked again, hoping for her to elaborate as I never heard about a witch in the Ice Path, and I just finished traveling through it.
However, the old lady simply told me: "Just be careful, take care of your wife and your pretty girl, they're in great danger. I suggest you leave this place, your family is in great danger here, just take them and get out of this town as fast as possible."
I didn't know what to make of that, especially seeing that I never met this old lady before nor did I tell her I had a wife and a daughter. Perhaps she knew me from when I was little? That still didn't explain why she knew about them, but before I could ask her anything else, the old lady seemed to disappear while I was in deep thought. I looked around but found no sign of her or what direction she had gone. I briefly wondered about her warning, but I decided to pay no mind to this as I just wanted to see my family again.
While on the way back home, I passed by a house where an old friend of mine live and decided to pay him a visit. However, upon greeting him I saw a great look of concern on his face. I asked if something was wrong, which he explained to me that his young daughter had gone to feed the Swinub that live near the Ice Path up north like she usually did in the morning, however she hadn't return yet and it was late in the evening. I told him I would help look for her once I saw my family, to which he agreed and said he would wait for me to go search for his daughter.
Once I arrived home, my pretty daughter quickly rushed in to give me a hug while my wife greeted me with a kiss. It was at that moment I realized how long I missed them, so I spent some time with them telling about my adventures throughout my journey, but I lost track of time as I recalled what I promised to my friend after dinner. I told my wife I had to go help him search for his missing daughter near the Ice Path, to which she told me to be careful around there as it was common talk amongst the town that there was a witch living in there. I told her not to worry, as I had gone through the cave earlier and didn't see anything.
After that I finally left home and went back to my friend's house, but didn't find him there. I figured he must've grown tired of waiting and went to look for his daughter by himself, so I made my way up north and back to the entrance of the Ice Path. Just as I stood by the entrance of the cave, I could smell that rotten scent from earlier which only got stronger as I went deeper.
Suddenly, I heard a piercing scream coming from the other end of the cave. Recognizing it as my friend's shouting, I quickly rushed in to where the noise came from, but it was too late. When I arrived at the place, I found the frozen dead bodies of my friend and his Pokémon. It was a horrible sight to say the least, not only because they were dead but also the state in which their corpses were, all seemed to have huge holes where their hearts were supposed to be as if something, or someone, had ripped them out. One of my friend's Pokémon, his Milotic, also seemed to have its scales skinned off, leaving only its insides and visceras exposed in gruesome fashion. I was so shocked and horrified, it took me a minute to check on my friend's body to also notice that not only his heart was missing, but also his head. I then realized what that nasty scent was: the rotten smell of dead bodies in decay.
I flinched back in horror, then couldn't hold my self together any longer and ended up puking behind a rock not too far from there. Then, I ran as fast as possible to get away from there, but I halted my tracks when a female voice somehow spoke in my head, despite being pretty sure that no one else was in there nor following after me.
"Don't leave just yet, stay with me~" the voice said in an oddly chill, soothing tone that somehow managed to calm me down. I felt into a state of trance, hypnotized by this voice, then spun on my heels and walked back to where my dead friend and his Pokémon were supposed to be, only to find a beautiful woman standing there instead. She was of a deep black skin, with great pink lips, long blonde hair and ample chest covered only by a red gown with two gold circlets around that area.
The beautiful young woman motioned for me to come closer, speaking without moving her big lips, however her voice somehow sounded inside my head, but I paid no mind to that fact as I was swayed away by her beauty. Even when trying to resist, I just couldn't prevent myself from walking towards her, the woman opening her arms and stretching them out to embrace me with a warm hug once I reach her. As I got closer and closer, I tried to stop and turn around, thinking back to my wife and daughter at home, but the smoothing voice of this woman sounding in my head was entrancing and didn't allow me to act on my own free will.
Just as I was about to accept her embrace, a jet of flames suddenly came shooting from behind me and engulfed this woman, managing to break her spell on me. I turned around once I heard my wife's voice, seeing her coming on her Rapidash towards me. As I looked back at where that beautiful woman was standing moments before, I flinched in terror upon seeing her appearance now after the flames disappeared, revealing her 'true' form. Instead of a young lady, she was actually a Pokémon, a Jynx, which looked similar to her previous form, only with her face now wrinkled and contorted into a snarl, her eyes now open like saucers and with a deep darkness inside, all of her beauty traits gone and leaving her exposed for what she actually was: The Witch of the Ice Path.
The Jynx let out an angry shriek at us, but my wife took out another one of her Pokémon, her Blastoise, and told it to use Hydro Pump, shooting a powerful torrent of water at high pressure and sending the witch flying towards the back of the cave. Before the Jynx got any time to recover, my wife told me to get on her Rapidash and we darted out of there.
Once outside of the Ice Path, my wife told me she got a bad feeling after I left home, so she decided to grab her Pokémon and followed me into the cave. I was lucky she found me before I fell right into the witch's trap and so I thanked her profoundly.
"Do you know anything about this ice witch?" I asked her.
"Yeah, people are afraid to go out of their homes due to her, and for some time now little girls with pretty faces and handsome men have been rumored to go missing near this Ice Path. An old lady told me a while ago that she knows why the witch does this, she rips out their hearts to eat and drinks the blood of the pretty girls to stay young and beautiful" my wife explained to me.
We went back home and arrived already late in the night. I wanted to make sure our daughter was sleeping peacefully like my wife told me she had left her, but when I went near her door I heard her voice inside the room. "Come on, my pretty. Let's head to the cave so you can see the beauty by yourself" I heard my wife voice's say, but that was impossible since she had entered the house after me and the voice was coming from our daughter's room. I immediately opened the door and, much to my horror, found the Jynx from the Ice Path grabbing my daughter by the hand. Before I could do anything, the Jynx shot her Lovely Kiss attack at me, making me fall asleep almost instantly. The last thing I remember before fading into unconsciousness was the screams from my daughter as that witch carried her out through the open window.
When I came back to my senses, I only found a note written by my wife which read that she went back to the Ice Path in order to rescue our daughter and tried to wake me up before she left, but it was to no avail as I was fast asleep due to that witch's spell. I rushed back to the cave as fast as I could manage, but it was too late as when I arrived there I found the bodies of my wife's Pokémon frozen like my friend's earlier. With tears in my eyes and fearing the worst, I entered deep into the cave following a path of blood that was leading towards that Pokémon and hopefully to where my daughter was. While in there, I had to cover my nose as that rotten smell of dead bodies was everywhere. Suddenly, I started hearing some shouting echoing in the cave, it sounded like the screams of my daughter.
"Daddy! Daddy! Where are you? The witch is coming! Daddy! I'm scared!"
I ran as fast as possible to where I heard the shouting, but again I was too late as when I arrived that Jynx had already pierced my daughter's chest with her hand and was in the process of ripping her heart out, much to my horror. I was devastated but also angry by this, so while crying tears of rage I took out my Pokémon: Charizard, Typhlosion, Emboar and Infernape. I ordered all of them to use Fire Blast on the Jynx, but she was quick to use her Psychic to deflect their attacks towards the icy rooftop, causing it to melt and the subsequent water to fall over my Fire-types, greatly weakening them. She then used a Blizzard attack to freeze them like she had done to my wife's and my friend's Pokémon.
I thought I was doomed just like them, but then remembered I had one last Pokémon I caught recently and took out my Bisharp. Both had a hard fought battle, but Bisharp had the advantage due to its typing and Jynx's Psychic attacks not working on it. However, just as my Bisharp was about to deal the final blow, that Jynx used her Lovely Kiss to put it to sleep like she had done to me previously. Seeing as the Jynx was weakened due to the battle and knowing full well I had to act quickly, I took out a knife I had on my backpack and stabbed that witch on the back while she was distracted. With tears in my eyes due to the loss of my daughter, I furiously stabbed her repeatedly, again and again, until I ripped her heart out like she had done to my little girl. However, before dying that Jynx gave out a twisted smile as she telepathically told me as follow, "This isn't over, I'll get my revenge… your wife's heart tasted so sweet… but not as much as your pretty girl-"
That was all I could take before stabbing her in the chest once again, ultimately killing her, or so I thought. After the witch died, I briefly saw a strange purple and white figure, pale as the snow and cloaked with darkness, covered in what seemed to be a white gown with a red band around its waist, come out of the Jynx's hollow body, laughing maniacally as it did so before disappearing into the darkness. I then realized what happened, I killed the witch but not her damned spirit, which now torments me to this day. My life has no meaning anymore, I've lost everything, my family, my beloved wife and daughter, my Pokémon. I have no reason to live anymore. I'm writing this before ending it all, so you can know the story of the Witch of the Ice Path.
