Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Mountain Town ❯ In a Daze ( Chapter 2 )

Mountain Town Part 2

Misty walked into the bathroom; a steaming hot bath was prepared for her with incense filling the air. Surrounding the bath were an arrangement of perfumed oils and bath salts, all of which smelt absolutely wonderful. The water was a delicate pink, with rose petals floating around and a sweet smelling aroma arising from it. Misty looked around and decided that perhaps these sisters weren't against her after all. She smiled, slipped off her clothes, and put one foot into the bath. With a loud scream she quickly wrenched her foot back out. The bath was almost at boiling point. She quickly began running the cold tap, placing her throbbing foot under it's cool flow. Once enough cold water was in the bath, she timidly stepped into the bath. It was perfect now she could finally relax.

Slipping into the warm water, Misty felt her muscles relax, and her body go all tingly. The perfume rising from the water was delicious, almost intoxicating. She thought this was the best time to think about what had happened today, but couldn't concentrate on anything else other than relaxing in her bath. Eventually she gave up, and slipped further into the water.

The air around her was hazy, and started to glow pink. Soon all the surrounding walls seemed to be melting together, swirling into colourful patterns. Misty tried to sit up, but found herself dizzy, and slowly floating back down to her original position. The bottles of aromatherapy oils and bath salts began to dance around the room, while she herself seemed to be floating on a fluffy cloud. How relaxing she thought this all was. She looked at her hand, it seemed to blur and misshapen then blur back to normal again. She looked up, and saw that the pink steam rising from the bath had formed a sort of face, one that she found familiar. She thought about it for a while, and realised it was the black haired sister. She smiled hazily at the figure in the steam, and waved childishly.

"Hello Misty." The figure spoke warmly.

Misty tried to say something back, but could only manage a range of sluggish sounds.

"How are you feeling? Relaxed? That's good. I just wanted to say, we all love having you here, so don't feel unwanted. You're our special guest, and we'd do anything to make your stay comfortable." The figure smiled, "You just relax and let all your worries run from your mind." The steam dissipated, and Misty waved and mumbled a `bye bye' to it.

All the walls stopped swirling, and melded together to form a blurry cream colour. Misty blinked and found herself in her cream coloured room. She blinked again, feeling a little disorientated at the fact that she some how wound up in her room. To top it off she was tucked into her bed. The dizziness returned, and she laid back down on the satin pillows and decided to sleep.

That night Misty had haunting dreams, she kept dreaming of walking into the red closet, reading the scrawled writing "Of beauty, beware…" only on closer inspection I seemed to be written in blood. And the black haired lady with her sisters kept taking her away to a dark room, leaving her their for what seemed eternity until her dream started to repeat itself again. Tossing and turning and perspiring heavily, Misty began tearing at her sheets and kicking walls. Through what seemed hours of endless torment, Misty opened her eyes to see Pikachu on her chest, and Ash holding a wet towel dampening her forehead.

"I tried to wake you, but you just kept thrashing around. What's the matter?"

Misty was about to say something, but thought it best not to. Ash wouldn't understand what she was going on about in the first place, and she thought it best to keep it a secret. If she wanted to do further investigating, she had to. Next time she was going to be careful to avoid the sisters, especially the dark haired one.

"Um, nothing just a really bad dream…I don't want to talk about. Ok?"

"Sure, that's fine Misty. You get some rest, Jessabelle will check if your ok in the morning."

"Who's Jessabelle?"

"The dark haired one, I'm tired and you most likely are too. So let's get some sleep."

Misty nodded and rolled over, she hadn't realised till now but none of the sisters had actually formally introduced themselves. Not to her at least. She still felt somewhat left out by this. Why hadn't they introduced themselves to her, but she suddenly felt a jerk inside her and she felt all relaxed, warm and fuzzy. Things started to go hazy and dark. Soon she was fast asleep.

The next morning Misty awoke to find the house totally deserted, with a note left on the kitchen table reading. "Misty we've gone for a hike through the valley Jessabelle and her sisters. We thought it best for you to get some more rest after last night.

Catch you later, Ash"

Misty was somewhat disappointed that she didn't get to go to, if not suspicious, but also happy that this gave her the perfect change to sneak around the house unnoticed. Skipping breakfast she began her investigation straight away.

Misty found her way back to the red closet, this time it wasn't locked and there was no writing on the walls. She could have sworn that it was the same closet, but figured it couldn't be. So she moved on down the hall. Suddenly something seemed to jerk at her, almost wrenching her off her feet. Regaining her balance, Misty looked around apprehensively. Nothing was to be seen, except that a distant giggling could be heard. From what direction she couldn't tell. She moved back towards the closet. She looked inside and noticed on the wall something else had been written.

"Follow those you can't see…"

"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Misty looked puzzled at the writing, what could it possible mean. And how could you possible follow those you can't see? Misty heard the giggling again, this time a lot closer and seemed to be coming from behind her. She shot around to discover nothing. The whole situation was starting to freak her out; she began to run down the hall, conscious that something was following her. She ran to a window, and saw that Ash and the others were returning. But she noticed that there was only Jessabelle and the twins. Where had the other sister gone?

Suddenly somebody had grabbed her from behind, the next thing she knew she was getting dizzy and everything was becoming dark as she was slowly dragged off somewhere.

Well still haven't finished yet, but I think that it's developing into something fairly interesting. The next chapter should be the finale, so make sure you read it to find out what happens.

By issekiwa