Part 46! Shadow falls over and waves a white flag of surrender. Destiny nods in satisfacication.

Disclaimer: Shadow does not own pokemon. Shadow is too tired to fight the cooperations of the right to own pokemon. Shadow owns Skymew, Eterneon, Destiny...

Notes: <> Indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates poke spech which has been translated into english.

Timeline: 2 days later

Satoshi (the real one) – Hi! Thanks for reviewing my other fics. *Smile* Anyways, have fun! Teresa over Tracey? And Lance has orange-red hair? Well... Ash does have rainbow magic in some other fics, look around, but he won’t in mine.

Mathias –8888 – I am sorry, but there are only a few ways to battle and i’m not that creative. I’m trying to use normal attacks, not too many special ones yet. 1 vote for psychic!

Ranma – Keep thinking, it’s good! Anyways, thanks! The battle scenes are fun to write. I try not to make them all one hit Kos because that’d be boring.

SnowTiger – A conspiracy? *Blinks* Oh well. I’d be sick if I ate all that ice cream, but Ash is doing fine! I like Wind/Flying, one vote!
Silver2 – I said one of the three base evolutions. Espeon... i’ll think on it. Psychic? *Thinks*

Mistress of Richard Cox – Oh! You’ve been reading some of my other ficcies? 1 for Shadow!

Rowena Ravenclaw – Another wind/flying? ‘Kay.

Tmp – good, because i’ll probably use one of those 3. There are 9 gym badges in the Cosmos League. Poor ice cream man. Ash will make new cards, but not often, because he still has to change the pokemon cards into Ash cards and it takes a lot more energy.

Nikki Wind Crystal Wind – Ah. Thunder?

Eevee99 – another for thunder. *thinks* It will all make sense eventually.

Pikacar/Marle – Another agreeable one! I love Wind/flying and shadow, so... *Smiles*

Episode 46: Never judge a dimension by its cover

“So, how much longer do we have to ride?” Teresa asked. She was perched on the back of her new Doduo, but she wasn’t really comfortable riding it.

“Probably another day.” Charlotte said. She was riding an Arcanine. It looked annoyed. Probably the slow pace they were setting.

“Well, I’m glad we left Sapphire City. Everything’s too blue!”

Charlotte laughed. “You’re right about that. Every time I go there, it makes me dizzy.”

Ash leaned over and tossed Pika-chan a raisin cookie. “Here you go!” Pika-chan and Vulpix chan were walking behind the group and chatting.

Pika-chan expertly caught the cookie. “Thanks, Ash!”

“Here’s one for Vulpix-chan too!” Ash said, flinging another cookie out.

Teresa snapped a picture.

Ash sweatdropped.

Suddenly, Charlotte tensed. Her blue eyes darkened to an eerie amber-gold color.

“What is it?” Teresa asked.

“There’s something or someone out there…” Charlotte said, as she reached for the key around her neck.

“Could it be a pokemon card?”

“Impossible. I already have the whole set.” Charlotte said. She turned to Ash, who pulled out his own deck to check.

“No, I have all of mine too…”

“What could it be?” Teresa wanted to know.

“Maybe it is an evil spirit. They’re pretty common in this dimension.” Charlotte said. She extracted what looked like a golden stick with three rings on top. In one ring was a red jewel, in another was a blue jewel, and the one in the center was bright yellow.

“What’s that?”

“This is known as the Triple Devastation Wand. It’s used to seek out, seal, or destroy evil spirits.” Charlotte said calmly. “It was forged from the power of the three guardians. Fire, ice, and lightning, lifetimes ago.”

Ash was suddenly very glad that he did not live here.

“Bright flame to call the phoenix.” Charlotte chanted as the first jewel began to glow. A red light immediately surrounded a misshapen black blocky form as it tumbled out of a tree.

“Holy water to cleanse the presence.” Charlotte intoned as the second jewel glowed pale blue. Water cascaded over the figure, which began to shriek in a truly horrific tone.

“Heaven’s Fury to destroy this abomination and purify this earth!” As the last line rang out, jagged lightning bolts crashed into the demon without mercy. It barely had time to give its death-cry before it was vaporized. Charlotte dusted off her hands.

“W-what was that? A Demon?” Teresa asked, putting down her camera.

“Yes. That’s why I used the first jewel. It cannot be fooled by illusions or disguises, and it seeks out the demons with unerring skill.”

“So you didn’t just hurt an innocent bystander?” Ash asked.

Charlotte laughed lightly. “Oh no. I checked to make sure it was a demon. This type is known as a Shadowbane. Quite common and not that strong, but if there’s a lot of them they wear your magic down, little by little.”

“And then they eat you.” Vulpix-chan said impishly.

“WHAT?!”

“You heard me.” Vulpix-chan said as her tails wagged. “They eat you.”

“Now Vulpix-chan, that’s not the proper way to say it.” Charlotte said. “They don’t eat you, they just drain all of your magic energy away. By the time they’re finished, you probably wish you were dead.”

Ash silently thanked Honou that he did not have to live in such a place.

“Shall we continue?” Charlotte asked as if nothing had happened.

Ash nodded silently.

“So, trying to escape by crossing time and space?” A voice asked.

“I thought it was smart of him.”

“That just means more work when he returns to his proper dimension.”

“I guess you could put it that way… but he was sent into her dimension. Does that mean anything?”

“Perhaps…”

“Quit being so mysterious! Tell me!”

“Why?”

Later…

“What’s that?”

Charlotte looked in the direction Ash was pointing. “Oh, that’s an Eterneon. Light-type evolution of Eevee that’s pretty hard to find.” The aforementioned pokemon was pure white, with a pair of white wings. Its ruff was a mass of pale blue fur, and on its forehead was a golden sun.

“Do you have one already?”

“Yes. You want to catch it?”

“Sure, why not?” Ash asked. He pulled out a poke ball. “Butterfree, I choose you!” Butterfree popped out and began hovering in front of the Eterneon.

“Butterfree, use Stun Spore!” Butterfree nodded, and spores drifted down from his antennae. The light-type eevee froze.

“Now use Tackle!” Butterfree rammed into the Eterneon. The Eterneon’s eyes lit up and a white beam shot at Butterfree, which faltered.

“Shoot! Try using Sleep Powder!” This time, the Eterneon fell asleep.

Charlotte clapped. “Good job. Eterneon’s light beam attack usually takes out its opponent. Be careful, though. These don’t like to fight very much.”

Ash tossed a poke ball and caught the new pokemon. Then, he posed.

“Great job!” Pika-chan said.

“Thanks, Pika-chan.” Ash said. Pika-chan and Vulpix-chan were chatting together like old friends, which they were.

Teresa put down her video camera. “Darn, I forgot to have you wear a costume!”

Ash sweatdropped. “Teresa…”
“Don’t worry! Next time, I’ll make sure you have one!” Teresa promised.

Ash sighed. “That’s not what I meant…” He muttered.

Charlotte yawned and pulled out a mirror. She began doing her hair. “We might as well take a break while we have time.”

Ash blinked, but pulled out a book on spells and began to peruse it. Teresa pulled out a needlework kit and began embroidering flowers on a new costume.

“Cookies, anyone?” Pika-chan asked, holding out a box.

“Pika-chan, are those my strawberry-chocolate swirl cookies?” Ash asked in a menacing tone.

“Well…” Pika-chan looked a bit sheepish.

“Pika-chan!”

“But I’m hungry! And eating food replenishes magic energy to a certain extent! It’s good for you!”

“Besides, we like eating!” Vulpix-chan chimed in, pulling a box of white chocolate ice cream bars out of midair.

“Vulpix-chan, would that be the ice cream I was saving for a rainy day?”

“Er…”
Charlotte sighed. “Oh well, we might as well eat them now.”

“YAY!”

The two guardians immediately began pigging out. Teresa took a few pictures of them eating, before she returned to her embroidery.

“This is going to look so pretty…”
Ash cringed when he heard that statement. * Uh-oh… *

“I wonder… how much longer will it take to get to Topaz City? Can’t we just fly there?”

“If we’d done that, you wouldn’t have caught Eterneon.” Charlotte pointed out.

“Oh yeah!”

Ash then remembered something else. He released Eterneon, who promptly fell asleep, and used the SCAN function on the AIPL to catalogue her.

“Nice.” Teresa said. Ash blinked but she wasn’t talking to him. He shrugged and returned to his work.

Charlotte took a nap.

Teresa continued to work on Ash’s costumes.

Pika-chan and Vulpix-chan ate.

Time passed.

Night fell and they all went to bed.

Sometime in the middle of the night…

Ash was rudely awakened by Teresa’s shouts.

“Look! Look!”

Ash sighed and looked up at the sky. “Oh! It’s a shooting star!”
Teresa nodded enthusiastically.

Ash closed his eyes. * I might as well make a wish. I wish I go home soon… *

There was a tiny sparkle of silver light. Ash smiled. He could feel the energy from the stars, washing over him.

Thank you.

No problem. Everyone needs hope once in a while.

End Episode 46! So, what do you think? Quick, submit a review! Plotbunnies are dying faster than goldfish in the middle of the Sahara desert!