THE POKENINJA, ADVENTURES OF THE MAELSTROM POKEMON

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Chapter 12: A Ghostly Night

Dammit, why is the sun so hot at this time of the day!" a voice shouted throughout the forest. The owner of the voice was none other Naruto who was currently sweating up a gallon with the rest groaning in agreement.

"You're right Naruto, I sure wish a good rain will just pop up and cool us down," said Ash.

"Well it's times like this I'm glad that I'm sealed in your gut kit, although I can't say the same for you," said Kurama with a smirk.

"Shut up furball, I don't want to hear it from you," thought Naruto.

"Hey guys, I think we'll be getting rain soon," said Iris.

"What do you mean Iris, the sky is completely clear today and it's a scorcher out here," said Naruto.

"That's because, I can feel the south wind and smell a scent of water which means it's definitely going to rain,"

"Yeah right, if it does rain, I'll walk on my hands right guys?" said Ash.

"Of course," said Naruto.

"Definitely," said Pikachu.

As if on cue, dark clouds gathered in the sky with a rumble of thunder.

"Ha, what did I tell you?" said Iris with her chest puffed out in pride as Naruto, Ash and Pikachu were stunned, but they snapped out of it when the dark clouds started releasing a heavy downpour.

"We've got to get out of here and find some shelter!" shouted Cilan, then they started running down the road as fast as they can.

"Hey guys look up there!" said Iris pointing ahead of them, the others looked to see a large house built on top of a cliff.

"Let's over head over there and hope that the residents will let us stay until the rain stops!" said Cilan as the gang ran faster towards the house. Soon enough they had reached the entrance and Ash was knocking the door and calling out for someone to open it.

"Hellooooo, is there anyone in here?!" shouted Ash as he continued to knock on the door.

"May we come in please?" asked Iris only to receive no reply, Ash was about to knock again when the doors opened, but the strange thing is that no one was there when the door opened which made the group especially Naruto uncomfortable.

"Why does this give a feeling of déjà vu?" Naruto wondered.

They walked inside and looked around to see that the house was well furbished, but they didn't anyone in sight which pretty much confused them.

"Hello is there anyone home? We're hoping you would let us stay here until the rain stops," Ash called out but they didn't hear a reply.

"I guess there's no one home?" said Cilan.

Meanwhile in the attic of the mansion, three figures were sitting in front of an open briefcase with a screen which was displaying the rooms of the houses with one of them showing Ash and the others standing in the hallway.

"So it's the twerps and that new Pokémon who seems to have joined them now, I didn't expect to see them around here," said the female.

"Neither did I, especially when we finally found the perfect hideout for our base of operations," said the male.

"And just when we finally got communications up and running," said the cat with a golden coin on his forehead.

As it turns out the trio is none other than team rocket who had fought against Ash and the others some time ago. But they're currently wearing the white version of the uniform unlike before plus they don't look their usual selves as one could see bags under their eyes like they've never slept for days.

"With those twerps here, they could ruin everything that we've planned," said Jessie.

"I' totally sick of them always doing that and the Ninetales lookalike seems to fit right in with them," said Meowth.

"They really know how to cramp on our style!" said James.

"I have an idea, we could grab Pikachu and that Pokémon and scare the twerps away from here," said Jessie.

"We could leave the upper agent to the Litwick," said James, they to look at Pokémon that look like candles with purple flames playing with each other and a Yamask floating above them. Turns out that Yamask was the very same one which Ash and the gang met back at the Nacrene museum.

"That's right, we've been here for a while that they listen to whatever Yamask says," said Jessie.

"Oh Yamask," the ghost Pokémon floated over to James "Could you tell the Litwick to grab Pikachu and that Pokémon and then chase away the twerps quickly?" Yamask nodded in affirmation before floating back to the Litwick who also nodded and left carry out the task.

With Ash and the Gang

Back with the gang, Naruto, Iris, Ash and Cilan were looking into the rooms of the house to find out if anyone is living there but to no avail.

"This place looks deserted," said Iris.

"If so, wouldn't the place look worn down?" asked Naruto who was coming out of an empty room.

"You might be right, but we have to stay here until the rain stops," said Cilan, then they sat down and listened to the rain fall outside.

"Man, what a downpour," said Ash.

"You see? It's just like I told you guys," said Iris with pride.

"Yeah, yeah you don't need to rub it in," Naruto grumbled, he could hear Kurama snicker at him.

"With your natural senses, I shouldn't be surprised," said Cilan.

"That's right," said Axew happily.

"Guess we were wrong, so a deal's a deal," said Ash, then he stood on his hands with Pikachu and Naruto doing the same thing.

"You don't really need to do that, what a bunch of kids," said Iris.

"Hey, when we make a deal, we always keep it," said Naruto.

Then all of a sudden, one of the windows burst open which startled the others enough to make Ash and Naruto tumbled to the ground.

"Wow, the winds must have picked up to force the windows open," Cilan got up to close the windows and made sure to lock "There, it's all locked up," then the windows were forced open again to their surprise.

"What was that?" Ash wondered, then they heard rattling and turned to see a desk drawer shaking before it shot across the hall towards them. Ash and Iris quickly jumped out of the way just in time.

"Are you guys okay?" asked Cilan as he ran over to them.

"Yeah but what's going on here?" Ash wondered.

"I'm thinking the same thing Ash, there's something about this place that makes me uncomfortable," said Naruto.

"Me too, I can't help but feel like we're being watched," said Iris

"But by who?" asked Ash.

"Maybe it was just the wind that moved the desk drawer," said Cilan.

"Cilan, let's not go there again, we already had enough of that back at the Nacrene museum," said Naruto with a deadpanned look which made Cilan sweatdrop.

Naruto noticed Ash and Pikachu looking somewhere while looking pale and scared, "Hey guys, why are you looking sooooooo," he trailed off when he saw what they're looking at and started to shake in fear, Cilan looked as well and shook in fear too.

"You guys look like you've been hit by a Confuse Ray," said Iris with a quirked eyebrow.

"I-Iris y-you might w-wanna look b-behind y-you," said Naruto raising a paw to point at what is coming down the stairs,

"What do you mean look behind me?" Iris turned around and saw several objects and a statue bust floating towards them "What is that?!"

"I don't know but run!" The gang took off with the statue chasing after the around the hall for a while before Cilan pointed to the door.

"We've got to get outside!"

"Any where's better than here!" shouted Naruto, when they got close to the door, a larger desk drawer moved in to block it, "Damn we're trapped!"

"Guys get out of the way!" shouted Ash, they jumped to the side just in time as the flying objects crashed into the desk drawer, although the statue fell next to Cilan which freaked him out and made him run screaming down the hallway.

"Cilan wait, come back here!" shouted Iris as they ran after him.

With Team Rocket

With Team rocket, they were watching everything but it didn't go as they had planned

"That's strange, why did the Litwick block off the exit when we told them to catch Pikachu and scare away the twerps?" asked Jessie.

"I was wondering the same thing," said James.

"Maybe the Litwick mixed the orders up so I'll just have to go and tell Yamask again," Meowth got up and walked off to find them.

With Ash and the Gang

They were now in the dining room, sitting on the chairs of a long dining table trying to catch their breath.

"Okay what's going on with this place?" asked Ash.

"I don't but I think we should get out of here, rain or no rain," said Naruto due to his fear of ghost.

"Hey, I've noticed that this table looks fully set and ready," said Cilan, and indeed they could see the silverware laid out on the dining table.

"Which must mean someone lives here," said Iris.

"I don't know, I can't seem to sense anyone around here," said Naruto frowning a bit, normally he would be able to sense any living thing but not this time.

All of a sudden, a bell on the table rang and lifted off the floor while still on their chairs, then they started flying around as if they're in a roller coaster ride.

"Kit, it seems like some sort of energy is used to carry you around," said Kurama.

"Thanks for stating the obvious!" thought Naruto as he was getting dizzy from floating around, then the silverware lifted off the table and launched themselves at Ash and the others. But at the very last minute, they swerved out of the way before being tossed out of the room.

When they got up, they looked to see clothes moving on their own which suddenly grabbed them then except Naruto and Pikachu before they started twirling around as if they're dancing.

"Pikachu stop them!" said Naruto.

"Already on it!" said Pikachu as he unleashed a Thunderbolt at the clothes, making them let go of the others.

The clothes were starting to stand up again "I don't think so! Crush Claw!" Naruto dashed forward with his claws glowing and slashed them into pieces.

"Thanks for the help guys," said Ash.

"No problem," said Naruto then he noticed something moving among the clothes before it dropped off to reveal a group of candle like Pokémon with purple flame on top of their heads. They started running away with Naruto and Ash chasing after them "Hey come back here!" one of the Pokémon tripped and fell to the floor, then it turned around to see very angry looks on the faces of the trainer and fox Pokémon.

"So you're the one behind all of this!"

"Hey guys, it's a Litwick," said Cilan walking up to them with Iris in tow, Ash took out his Pokédex to scan the new Pokémon.

[Litwick, the Candle Pokémon. Litwick appear to be helping to guide the way of people by illuminating areas that are darkened, but (Static)]

"Hey what's up with the Pokédex, Ash?" asked Naruto with a quirked eyebrow.

"I don't know, that's so weird," said Ash as he put the Pokédex away.

"Now I get it, everything that happened so far was because the Litwick were using Psychic and they certainly know how to use it well," said Cilan.

"Okay so does your owner live?" asked Ash, the Litwick just spoke its name. Ash tried asking other questions only to receive the same answer.

"Kit I'd advise that you keep your guard up around these Litwick," said Kurama.

"What do you mean Kurama?" thought Naruto.

"There's something suspicious about them and this place but I can't seem to tell what, just be careful when near them,"

"Alright, I'll do as you say,"

They decided to carry the Litwick and take a look around the second floor for anything else.

"I wonder where those other Litwick went to?" said Ash, then a mask appeared, startling him and Pikachu, then a Pokémon appeared holding it.

"A Yamask? What's it doing here?" said Cilan. The Yamask disappeared, and they heard someone talking and was getting to where they are.

"So work with me and chase those twerps out of here on the double," said a voice that sounded very familiar to them, around the corner walked in Meowth who was talking to the other Litwick.

"Hey it's Meowth from team rocket!" Iris exclaimed.

"It's the twerps!" shouted Meowth.

"What are you doing here?" Ash demanded.

"Not gonna tell ya," Meowth took off with the Litwick following close behind.

"Get back here!" Ash ran around the corner only to find that their gone

"What in the world is team rocket doing here?" asked Cilan.

"I'm sure that there up to no good," said Iris.

"Then we'd better find out what they're up to and find out," said Naruto with the others nodding in affirmation.

With Team Rocket

"What?! The twerps didn't see you did they?" asked Jessie.

"So what of it?" said Meowth.

James noticed that Meowth looked very tired "Meowth what's the matter with you? You look exhausted,"

"Well the same can be said for you," said Meowth.

"Why do the two of you look so tired?" asked Jessie.

"We're not the only ones, you look tired too,"

James turned to look at the Litwick and noticed something weird about them "Say doesn't the flames on their heads look bigger?"

"You're right, they weren't that big before," said Meowth.

"Whatever, Yamask tell the Litwick to scare the twerps out of here and grab Pikachu," said Jessie, Yamask relayed the message and received a nod from the Litwick but no one noticed the dark smirks on their faces.

With Ash and the Gang

Naruto and the others are standing in the ballroom, calling out for Team rocket to show themselves. Then they noticed that some desk drawers started to float in midair before shooting towards them.

"Guys get down!" Naruto shouted out, then they dove for the floor as the drawers flew overhead and looked around to see a Litwick standing there who seems to be the apparent cause of it.

"Hey knock it off, we don't want to fight with you!" said Ash, but the Litwick smirked as its eye glowed blue and a chandelier broke off its hook and fell towards them. But Naruto leapt into the air at it with a Rasengan and destroyed it, the Litwick kept using Psychic to drop more chandeliers on the group, forcing them to run away from the room. Soon they were resting in one of the rooms after running from the ballroom.

"I glad we got away from there safely, but why did that Litwick attack us?" said Cilan.

Iris looked around a bit before turning to the others "Hey guys, where's Axew?"

"I thought he was running behind Pikachu?" said Ash.

"Yeah he was right behind me when we were running," said Pikachu.

"Not only that, but the first Litwick is gone too," said Cilan.

"Well we'd better look for him before anything else happens," said Naruto with the others nodding in agreement and they set out to look for Axew. They kept walking through the halls, calling for Axew until Ash stopped and spoke up.

"Hey where's Pikachu?"

"Don't tell me Pikachu is missing too?" said Iris "Do you think that Team rocket's behind this?"

"I don't know,"

"Normally I would think that it was Team Rocket, but I keep getting the feeling that they're not the ones this time," said Naruto.

"I would have to agree with Naruto on this one, but at the moment we have to find Axew and Pikachu," said Cilan, then they search for the two missing Pokémon.

With Team Rocket

Jessie and James who both look even more exhausted than before were currently communicating with a man with white hair and moustache, wearing a monocle and a white lab coat.

"Dr. Zager, we wish to report that we may have found a building which could serve as the perfect hideout but we may need your help," said Jessie.

"What kind of building is it?" asked Dr. Zager.

"It's an old mansion with kitchen, bedroom, elevators and others things. There's even a group of Litwick living here before we discovered it,"

"Did you say Litwick?"

"Yes, and they're very nice Pokémon that do exactly what we say," said James.

"I suggest that you be careful,"

"Why do you say that doctor?" asked Jessie.

"According to many researchers, Litwick are said to feed off the life energy of both people and Pokémon," Jessie and James started to pale as they began to realize why they felt so exhausted "I've actually been meaning to research this phenomenon myself-," he couldn't say anymore as the screen suddenly turned off without warning.

"Dr. Zager!" they tried to re-activate the screen but to no avail.

"So this whole time, the Litwick had been feeding off our life energy. It's even getting hard to breath," said Jessie while panting.

"We've got to get out of here, where's Meowth?" asked James.

"Off to check on the Litwick," their eyes widen upon what they just said "Oh no, we have to go after him before it's too late!"

But it was at that moment, that Meowth ran into the Litwick who proceeded to capture him using Psychic.

With Ash and the Gang

Naruto and the rest were back in the main hallway, calling out for Pikachu and Axew but they still couldn't find them.

"We still haven't found them, I hope they're alright," said Iris.

"Not only that, we haven't seen any sign if the Litwick," said Cilan which had Naruto to think about it before speaking to Ash.

"Hey Ash, could you use your Pokédex to give us information about the Litwick?"

"Okay but why?" asked Ash.

"Well the Pokédex did stop in the middle of explaining about the Litwick, so try it again so that we could hear the rest," said Cilan.

"Okay then," Ash took out the Pokédex and operated it to display the details of the Litwick.

[Litwick, the Candle Pokémon. Litwick appear to be helping to guide the way of people by illuminating areas that are darkened, but in reality they are actually leading them to the ghost world. They eat off the life energy of people and Pokémon and use it as fuel for the flames on their heads]

"Looks like your suspicions were spot on Kurama," thought Naruto.

"I thought as much, I suspected how they didn't want you to leave the mansion and this explains it," said Kurama.

"Now I get it, the Litwick cut off the Pokédex to prevent us from knowing the truth about them," said Cilan.

"We've got to find Pikachu and Axew as soon as possible!" said Iris.

"Naruto, use your Shadow clones to help us find them!" said Ash.

"Already on it, Shadow clones!" several clones appeared and took off in different directions before Naruto and the rest set off to search themselves.

As they were searching through the rooms, Naruto felt a memory of a clone flow into his mind "Hey guys, one of my clones followed a couple of Litwick to a basement and found Pikachu and Axew along with Meowth and Yamask there, so let's move it," Naruto led them to the location and found them lying on the ground unconscious and quickly ran over to check if they're alright.

"Are you guys okay?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah we've okay now," said Pikachu after getting picked up by Ash with Iris doing the same with Axew. Suddenly they heard footsteps from behind and turned to see Team rocket although they looked more drained than before.

"Judging by the looks, you guys have been drained of the life energy by the Litwick," said Cilan.

"You're right, which is why we need to get out of here," said James.

"They're here!" turning to where Iris is pointing, everyone saw the Litwick along with another Pokémon floating above them and their flames look even larger.

"It's a Lampent!" Ash to out his Pokédex again to scan it.

[Lampent, the Lamp Pokémon and the evolved form of Litwick. Rarely, Lampent can be found with Litwick leading people and Pokémon to the ghost world while stealing their life energy]

"That's sounds bad!" said Iris as the others stood tensed. The Lampent and Litwick launched two blasts of blue flames at them which they all dodged but when it hit the wall, a purple void opened up and started to suck everything around it.

"That was Inferno!" said Cilan.

"I think that's the entrance to the ghost world," said Iris.

"And I guess it's all over if any of us were to fall in," said Naruto. Three of the Litwick launched Shadow ball with the fourth launching an Inferno with knocked Pikachu and the others towards the void. "I don't think so!" Naruto created some clones that sent chakra to their feet to anchor themselves to the ground as they ran towards the Pokémon and grabbed them with their tails.

"Why did you help me?" asked Meowth.

"As much as I hate what you do, it doesn't mean I shouldn't help you," Naruto replied. Then Lampent launched another Inferno at the wall, opening the void further.

"Unless we defeat them, there's no way out of here!" said Cilan.

"Hey twerp, how about a truce?" asked Jessie.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so I agree," said Ash. "Tokala, are you ready?"

"Yeah, let's do some ghost busting!" Naruto stood at the ready.

"Yamask use Shadow Ball!" Yamask formed a sphere of darkness and launched it, but the Litwick and Lampent used Protect to block the attack.

"Tokala, use Rasengan!" Naruto lunged forward with a blue spinning orb and rammed it into the barrier, shattering it much to the ghost Pokémon's surprise "Follow it up guys!"

"Dwebble, use X-scissor!" the rock and bug Pokémon leapt forward and slashed them with its claws glowing with energy. The Lampent launched an Inferno again but Ash was quick to react.

"Tokala, switch to Natura mode and use Water Bullet!" Naruto quickly transformed and shot a large ball of water at the fire, putting it out.

"Woobat, use Air Cutter!" Woobat's wings glowed white as it flapped them to unleash spinning discs of wind which slammed into the Lampent "It's your turn twerp!"

"Pikachu use Electro Ball and Tokala use Water Bullet for a combination attack," Pikachu's concentrated electricity to its tail as a ball formed on it and Naruto's cheeks bulged with water before they launched their attacks which fused into one in midflight before colliding with the ghost Pokémon, sending them flying into the void which closed soon afterwards.

"Alright, we're back to our normal selves," said Jessie as she and the others look fine now as their life energy had been restored. "Now we can get out of here,"

"Same for us," said Naruto who had reverted to his normal mode with the others nodding in agreement. As they ran out of the house, they turned around and were surprised to see it old and worn down.

"I guess the Litwick must have used some kind of illusion to make the mansion look nicer than it really appears," said Cilan.

"That must explain why my senses weren't working," said Naruto "I've had a weakness for illusions,"

"I knew that place was weird the moment I stepped inside," said Iris.

"Now I remember why I had a sense of déjà vu, I had a mission like this back when I was younger. That time I entered a castle that was actually a chameleon in disguise, my team and I barely got out of there," said Naruto shivering as he remembered it.

"Hey twerp!" they looked up to see Team Rocket standing on the roof "Next we meet, we'll definitely catch Pikachu and that new Pokémon of yours!"

"And you can count on it!" said Meowth before they took off in their jetpacks to who knows where.

"I was wondering when Pikachu learned a move like Electro Ball?" asked Iris with Cilan wondering the same thing.

"We'll tell you guys later while on the road," said Ash. Suddenly Iris started sniffing the air.

"I smell rain again,"

"Not again," sure enough, dark clouds started gathering in the sky again.

"Well, all those in favor of finding someplace else to stay out of the rain should raise their hands and say 'aye," said Naruto.

Everyone raised their hand and said 'aye" before they started running down the road and away from the mansion until they found a hollow part of a large tree which they used to hide from rain until it stops so that they can continue their journey.


This Hussbek online with another chapter, it's been a while since I last updated this fiction like say a month. But now I'm back and I'm going to update them for a while until they catch up with the other fictions. Read and Review as always.

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