***AUTHORESS NOTES***

For those of you who were readers during the olden days, you might
remember a humor story called "Nightmare House".

Well, I don't blame you if you don't, because I didn't remember either,
until Pikachu asked me whatever happened to it.

I've been doing a lot of serious stories lately and I need to relax. So
therefore, I shall redo Nightmare House.

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NIGHTMARE HOUSE

BY TORCHICK

CHAPTER 1: THE RTD AND BRIGHT LIGHTS


     "Why did we even get on the bus if nobody was on it?" asked
Torchick. "Were we THAT stupid?" She sipped a bit of her hot cocoa.

     "I guess we were," replied Soccerpixie, taking her own drink of
cocoa. "Who else would get on an RTD bus at night when nobody else was
on it?"

     "Well, we were on our way home from a party, we were tired and not
thinking right," Pikachu reminded them.

     "Stupid TPT party," grumbled Finaille Nailo. "Look at what it did
to us."

     Yes, you may not have any idea what these clueless little people
are talking about, but they do. It all started on a night long ago,
after a TPT party in the city. 

     As the authors were on their way to their boring suburban homes,
the RTD bus that they were on suddenly broke down. "Oh, this is just
wonderful," complained Cloyster sarcastically. 

      "What ever happened to the driver?" asked Soccerpixie as the
lights flickered on and off.

     "Let's get off of here. I'm getting really creeped out," commented
Finaille Nailo.

     So the six authors got off the broken down bus. "It just HAD to die
in the middle of nowhere. There's only one house around here!" exclaimed
Torchick.

     "Let's go see if the people in that house will let us stay for
tonight, or at least, if they'll let us use their phone," Pikachu said
logically.

     "Then can we rob them?" Twisted Alyx said randomly. 

     Finaille Nailo chuckled a bit and shook her head. "Of course not!
Now let's go!"

     The group cautiously climbed the steps to the old house.
Soccerpixie rang the doorbell. Almost instantly, it opened but the
strange thing was, it wasn't a person who opened it.

     "That was really weird," commented Cloyster, who was starting to
shiver. 

     They started to walk in and as they neared the stairs, they heard a
noise behind them. The door had opened again. In walked Ash, Misty,
Brock, May, Brendan and Gary.

     "Is this your house?" asked Misty. Torchick shook her head.

     "No, our RTD broke down around here and we came in to see if we
could stay here for the night. But we haven't seen anybody," the
brunette author exclaimed.

     "There's no RTD around here!" Ash told them. "It's starting to get
really nasty outside, it's starting to thunder and rain so we came in
for the same reason you did."

     The authors ran to the nearest window, and sure enough, the RTD was
gone! "This is getting scary," said Twisted Alyx. "Where did the RTD
go?"

     "Is it me or did that picture's eyes just move?" questioned
Cloyster. The group looked at the picture Cloyster was pointing to and
it's eyes shifted around. 

     "Joke painting," said Pikachu, trying to give a logical explanation
for the weirdness that was going on.

     All of the sudden, the lights got extremely bright and everybody
had to wince. When the lights dimmed and they opened their eyes,
Soccerpixie was gone.

     "Oh my God, where did Soccerpixie go?" screamed Cloyster.
"Soccerpixie, if you're hiding, this isn't funny!"

     "I don't think she's hiding," said Brock grimly. "This is like a
tacky horror movie."

     "I know, even Cursed was better than this," stated May. 

     "Cursed wasn't THAT bad," argued Ash. 

     "We're getting off the subject!" yelled May and the room quieted
down. "We need to stick together."

     "Yeah, you never know what they could do to us once we're gone,"
Gary said. "They could-"

     "Don't EVEN start to go into graphics," Misty interrupted. "We
don't need to be more paranoid than we already are."

     All of the sudden, the new Gorillaz song 'Feel Good Inc.' came on
loudly in another room. "That song is awesome!" exclaimed Finaille Nailo
as she ran down the hallway, towards where the music was coming from.

     "No, Finaille!" screamed Brendan. "It's a-" The authors,
authoresses and Pokemon characters didn't miss the flashing light that
came from the direction where Finaille had wandered off to. "Trap,"
Brendan finished lamely.

     "This is really freaking me out!" exclaimed Torchick, biting her
bottom lip.

     "Does this happen in every normal house, or is it just this one?"
asked Gary. Everyone in the group looked at him like he was an idiot. 

     Something crashed behind the people of TPT and Pokemon. They all
turned around, but a bright light flashed overhead. When they looked
around, Torchick was gone.

     "NO!" screamed Pikachu in an agonized moan. "I loved her so much."
He stared down at the limp goldfish in his hand. 

     Tears came to Brock's eyes. "No! Not Fluffy! Such an obidiant
goldfish, she was..."

     "You know, if Torch was here, she would tell you guys off for
mourning a goldfish seconds after she disappears," Twisted Alyx reminded
them with a slight chortle.

     The music from The Exorcist began to play in the background. First,
it was so light that you could barely hear it and then excruiatingly
loud. The authors/authoresses/characters closed their eyes briefly, and
they didn't notice the quick bright light. When they opened their eyes,
May had disappeared. 

     "We're all going to die!" cried Misty. 

TBC...