Disclaimer: No, I do not own pokemon. I do own Destiny, Charlotte, Pika-chan, Skymew, etc.

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates translated pokemon speech.

Episode 93: More lectures in store for Ash, after the battle

“Charmander, use Fire Spin!” Lance said, releasing her fire lizard. “Take care of those snakes!”

Charmander nodded. It’s eyes turned silver as it drew on the power of the dragons. It spat out enough fire to consume a forest, much less some magical snakes, and they all disintegrated.

Ash was still jumping around, trying to dodge Teresa’s clumsy swings. * She’s getting better. If this continues she will hit me next time! I can’t jump high or far enough on my own! *

“Die!” Teresa hissed as she swung at him again.

Pika-chan transformed into her large form. Rearing up, she charged Teresa, intent on knocking the weapon out of her hands.

Instead, Teresa waited until Pika-chan was almost upon her, before shoving it into the guardian’s unprotected underbelly. Pika-chan howled and leapt away. Blood splattered onto the floor.

“Pika-chan!” Ash said, rushing over to his wounded guardian.

“Ash… you have to fight her.” Pika-chan whispered as she curled herself up into a protective ball.

Lance was trying to figure out how to incapitate Teresa without revealing who she really was.

“Articuno, go! Blizzard!” The ice attack slammed into Teresa’s mace, freezing it solid. Teresa dropped the now-useless weapon with a thunk.

“Darn! I liked that one too! You’ll pay!” Teresa said, as she summoned more dark energy. This time, it formed into a scythe, a long, glittering black blade on a handle of green wood.

Howling, Teresa charged at Ash.

“Nidoking!” Ash called desperately, changing a pokemon card. He felt himself take on Nidoking’s form and transform into the pokemon. The scythe simply impacted off his armored scales. Growling, Ash used his thick tail to knock Teresa to her feet.

Lance jumped out of the way and onto a waiting Articuno’s back. “Ash! You have to figure out some way to free her!”

Ash nodded.

“What she said!” Pika-chan called. She transformed back into her small form to save energy so she could heal herself.

“How?” Ash called as he used Earthquake to send Teresa flying into a wall. * I hope we don’t have to pay for this damage. *

“Well, you could try going back into the past…”

“Pika-chan, I don’t have any pokemon that can do that!” Ash said. He sounded miffed.

“Well, it’s worth a try.”

“How about ofudas? Gary used them.” Ash said.

“Do you have any?”

“Of course not! You think I carry magical charms around with me?”

“Yes.”
Lance decided to help by having Articuno freeze Teresa solid for a while so they could debate.

Teresa found herself incased in a block of ice.

“Okay, you two can debate now.” Lance said, as she recalled Articuno and sat down next to Pika-chan.

Ash transformed back into himself. “Do you have an ideas?”

“What’s an ofuda?”

“Never mind.” Ash said with a sweatdrop. “They’re little pieces of paper with wards on them. They are usually used for sealing demons.”

“Sealing demons! That’s it!” Pika-chan said, jumping up, before she realized that she was injured and flopped back down.

“Pika-chan! Stay still!” Ash commanded as he sprayed her with a Super Potion.

“Sorry. But I just got an idea.”

“What is it?”

“Didn’t Charlotte give you something that can be used to seal demons?”

“Oh! The lightning wand!”

Pika-chan nodded. “That just might work!”

“Well, it’s worth a try.” Ash said as he pulled out the lightning wand. He frowned when he saw the ice? water? wand also glowing brightly. He shrugged and focused his power on the lightning wand. * Now what was that chant again? *

“Heaven’s Fury to destroy this abomination and purify the earth!”

Jagged lightning bolts crashed from the yellow jewel imbedded in the wand. They headed for Teresa, shattering the cage of ice.

Teresa screamed. But a faint, black wisp of something got out and tried to float away.

“Oh no you don’t!” Ash said angrily. “I’m not going to allow you to hurt anyone else!” He dropped the lightning wand and snatched up his staff.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokémon card!”

The being shivered as it was captured. It was Scarlet after all… the dark Rattata. (Remember? From twenty or so episodes back?)

A white card floated down.

Ash peered at it. “The Dark Rattata?”

“Bizarre.” Pika-chan commented. “But not that surprising.”

Ash blinked. * Am I in for another lecture? *

Pika-chan cleared her throat and began talking. “Pokemon come in five forms. Normal, Magic-type (also known as Shiny), Light type, Dark type, and Shadow type.”

Ash blinked again.

“Um… run that by me again?”

Lance listened with interest.

“Normal pokemon are, well, as their name implies normal. Nothing wrong with them, they breed, hatch from eggs, grow up, and the cycle continues.”

“Like what…wait a minute! I don’t have any normal pokemon anymore! They all evolved to magic-type!”

“Yes you do. Flareon, Vaporeon, and Jolteon haven’t evolved to magic-type yet!”

“Oh yeah.”

“You know what Magic-types are, right, Ash? I already told you months ago, when you were still a card captor.”

Ash nodded.

“Okay, what’s next? Right. Dark, Light, and Shadow are all specialized magic forms. However, some pokemon can reach them naturally.”

“What?” Lance asked.

“Sorry, Crystal, am I going too fast for you?”

“A little bit.”

Teresa was still out.

“Oh. I’ll just explain in more detail. Light-type pokemon usually belong to very powerful magicians. However, some pokemon evolve to light type on their own. For example, if an Eevee has an extremely pure heart, or something like that, it could evolve into a Light-type Espeon instead of a normal Espeon. There are also certain pokemon that are born as light-types.”

“Like Eterneon?”

“Precisely, Ash.”

“Now where was I? Dark is like light. However, not all pokemon that evolve to dark-types are evil. Some are misguided, others are simply sorrowful, but many have evil masters.”

“Is Umbreon evil then?”

“I just said no! Umbreon is like Eterneon, kind of. It’s born as a dark type…”

“Wait! Umbreon evolves from Eevee!” Ash protested.

“Some eevees are predestined to become Umbreon, some Espeon, some Eterneon. That’s what I meant.”

“Oh.”

“Now Shadow types are the rarest of all…”

“Shadow seems to be not dark or light, but a mix of the two. So they may have characteristics of both camps. It is very confusing. Also, almost no mages are shadow-type. It’s too difficult. If one attempts to walk the path of shadow, they usually fall to the dark. A few may make it back to the light, but it is an uncommon event.”

“Wha?”

“Oh! I’m sorry, Crystal.” Pika-chan apologized. “Anyways, in simple language, it means that pokemon are either preordained to be shadow-types, which is rare, or that they evolve because their masters are shadow type.”

“Thanks for explaining, Pika-chan.”

“No problem.”

Teresa finally stirred.

“Where am I?”

“Lavender tower. Do you remember what happened?”

Teresa shook her head.

“Oh well. Come on, we’ll take you to the pokemon center.” Ash said as he scooped Teresa up. “Teleport!”

End Episode 93! This was pretty hard to write… *Groans*

Anyways, please review and inspire me to continue. Flames will be used to forge Float, to float Nelvana about 60 miles up into the air before dropping them. Gravity should do the rest.