Episode 89! Almost to 90!

Disclaimer: Okay, I hope that everyone knows by now that Nintendo, Game FREAK, 4Kids, and a lot of other companies own pokemon. I am not making a cent from my fanfiction. Oh, Destiny is mine, so is Charlotte…

Notes: *Sighs in exasperation* Let me think. Italics indicates translated pokemon speech, <> indicates telepathy, and ** indicates thoughts.

Episode 91: Still unsolved mysteries

“AAAHHHH!” Ash said, as a ghost appeared right in front of his face. He crashed into Lance, who was behind him. Lance blinked before she toppled down the stairs, Ash on top of her.

“Ow!”

“Sorry, Crystal.” Ash apologized as he helped her up. “But there was a ghost up there!”

“Um, don’t you have a Silph Scope?”

Ash looked sheepish. “Oh yeah!” He put it on and they started walking back up the marble staircase.

Silph scope revealed the ghost as Mysdreavus!

“Cool! It’s a new pokemon!” Ash said. “Okay, if it’s a ghost type, then I should use a Psychic, right?”

“Probably.” Pika-chan said.

“Skymew, I choose you! Use Psychic!” Skymew appeared and immediately attacked the ghost.

But the psychic beam did almost no damage.

< Ash! The only reason the Gastly were defeated by psychic pokemon was because that they were part poison and poison is four times weak to psychic! Pure ghosts are strong against psychic pokemon! >

< What do I do? >

< Send out something that knows Bite! Or try to catch it! >

Ash nodded and summoned forth his wand. “Okay, I choose you! Card created by Clow, please accept this new star power and take on your new form! You new mater Ashura commands you, release!”

White light suffused a card.

< What is it? > Pika-chan asked.

Ash smiled. < Raticate. Normal types are resistant to ghost type attacks, plus Raticate knows Bite. >

< COOL! >

“Raticate, use Bite!” Raticate nodded and chomped on the unfortunate ghost. Mysdreavus shrieked in pain and began to disappear.

“Finish it off!” Ash said. Raticate nodded and a second bite sent Mysdreavus from the land of the living into an empty void.

Ash sighed. “Okay, we can go to the grave now, right?’

“Probably.” Lance said. “You know, I think I might have sprained my wrist when I fell…”

“Oh no!” Ash said, mortified. * I didn’t mean to hurt her! *

“I’ll be okay.” Lance said, trying to reassure him. A pale golden glow surrounded her and Ash saw the limpness in her hand just heal itself.

“Okay, let’s go!” Pika-chan said.

They walked in. Inside, true to legend, there was a giant block of veined gray-and-white marble. Engraved on the top in cursive were the letters ‘Here lay Ryuuki the White Wizard’.

“Wow…” They both said in reverence.

They stood there, silently, staring at the grave.

“Pika-chan? Why did you want me to come here?” Ash whispered.

“I thought that if perhaps Clow was the one that lay here, then we could try and figure out the mystery.” Pika-chan told him.

“Oh. It was a good idea, pika-chan, but it is not he. Besides, I don’t feel his aura anywhere.”

“I know…” Pika-chan looked depressed.

Lance handed her a banana. Pika-chan cheered and began eating.

Ash sweatdropped. * Pika-chan… you are such a glutton sometimes… *

“What?” Pika-chan asked.

“Nothing.”

After standing in silence for a while, Ash pulled out an Escape Rope and they used it to leave.

But something went wrong.

“Are we in the basement?” Ash asked, looking around at the dusty area. There were only a few pokemon graves here.

“I believe so.” Pika-chan concluded, after a thorough investigation that took twenty minutes.

Ash and Lance were playing Gin Rummy.

“Ahem!” Pika-chan said.

“What?” Ash asked as he looked up.

“I said, yes, this is the basement.” Pika-chan proclaimed.

“Great. How do we get out?”

“There must be stairs around here somewhere.” Ash said. “Lavender only has stairs, right?”

“Right.” Pika-chan said. * There’s no way that there would be an elevator here. *

“Maybe it’s a fluke.” Ash said. He used another Escape Rope. This time, they were out of the tower. Unfortunately, they landed on the guard.

“Hey! Where did you two kids come from?”

“Oops.” Ash said.

< You need to work on teleport. >

< I wasn’t teleporting! I just used Escape Rope! >

< Ah, I see. >

“Did you go in the Pokemon Tower? It’s dangerous in there!” The guard launched into a very long and boring lecture. Ash, Lance, and Pika-chan patiently listened to his mumbling for about an hour before he finished.

“Don’t you in there again!”

“Y-yes, sir!” Lance said, saluting. She looked so funny that Pika-chan started to giggle. This cased Ash to break out into laughter.

The guard looked unhappy.

“You kids are going to lose me my job!”

“Not if you don’t remember seeing us.” Ash said politely.

“Huh?”

Ash smiled. “Crystal, close your eyes.”

Lance blinked but did as he said.

Ash activated the Destiny card. The guard gasped and fainted.

“Okay, now that that’s done…” Ash said, shrinking his wand back into key form. “Frameshift!”

White light came from his hands and wrapped around the guard in a twisted loop with a missing piece.

“He’ll forget the events of the last two hours.” Ash told Pika-chan.

“Quick thinking.”

“Can I open my eyes now?”

“No, the Frameshift hasn’t worn off yet, and the glow will hurt your eyes. Keep them closed.”

Lance obediently did not open her eyes until Ash reassured her that it was safe to do so.

The guard woke up and saw them. The bands of magic energy had been absorbed into his body, altering his memory.

“No, you can’t go to pokemon tower!”

“Why would we want to?” Ash asked as he picked up Pika-chan and took Lance’s hand. “Let’s go, Crystal.”

Lance nodded and followed him out.

< Something is wrong… >

< What do you mean, Dragonair? Now’s not the best time to call. >

< Sorry, but this is important. You visited Ryuuki’s grave, right? >

< Yes. I already told you. >

< The Channeller said he had a Clefable. >

< Correct again. What’s wrong with that? >

< Ryuu means dragon. That means, his pokemon should have been a dragon-type, not a normal-type. >

< Are you sure? >

< Positive. > Dragonair said. < Something happened in the past that was not supposed to occur. >

< What? >

< I can’t tell you. Figure it out yourself. >

< For a guardian, you’re pretty irritating. >

< Thank you. >

Meanwhile, Pika-chan was telling Ash the same thing.

“I guess we’ll have to sneak in again.” Ash moaned.

“Right. And this time, it has to happen at night.”

Ohohohoho! End Episode 91! Flames will be used to forge Dark, which will trap Nelvana in darkness forever or erase them! Comments and Constructive Criticism is always good! Leave a review, save a plotbunny!