Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Mountain Town ❯ And So, It Ends ( Chapter 4 )

And So, It Ends.

After Brock, Ash and Pikachu had eaten their fill of the delicious food, they started to feel very tired. They passed it off on eating too much, but none of them could hold back the urge to close their eyes and sleep. Soon their eyes became too heavy, and they succumbed to sleeping. The last thing Ash saw, was a smirk on all the sisters' faces, but unable to keep awake couldn't think further of it.

During this sleep, none of them dreamt anything. It was a deep, thick sleep of total darkness. Unaffected by the dream world, impenetrable by the real world. It wasn't really sleeping, but more of an unconscious dream. No idea of time, and now way out of the sleeping coma, Ash and his friends slipped further into the thick black of the strange world surrounding them unaware of what was really going on.

Sighing and quivering violently on the ground, Misty wiped the blood from her face and arms that hadn't dried yet. Had it been light in the void, you could see the red scars across her face and arms, her ears red aflame from the burning atmosphere.

Silence had fallen in the void for some time now, although Misty was not quite sure how long, as time didn't seem to exist here. However, it had given her time to recollect what thoughts her brain could hold onto. Memories of events that had happened flitted across her brain, painfully she struggled to catch them, make some sense of what was going on. Why she was being tortured. Very faintly she heard the sound of dripping water. She couldn't tell where it was coming from, but the sound reminded her of something. She clenched her fists, and screwed her eyes shut in hope to help her remember. She saw steam… pink water… bottles… swirling walls. Putting all these images together, her memories started flooding back to her mind. After what she'd just been through, she realised now that it was the sisters' doing. As well as the whole bathroom thing, they did that too. To stop her from trying to discover what they were up to. But what were they up to? It obviously had to be something they'd do anything to stop people from knowing. But now there was nothing she could do, she was in the middle of no where, and in no physical condition to get out of there.

Off in the distance she could hear the sound of a hollow, ghostly voice. It wasn't quite audible, but it was trying to tell her something. Straining her ears, she tried as hard as she could to hear what it was saying.

"Follow those you can't see…"

It was saying the same thing that was written on the wall. Only this time, it sort of made some sense. In this void, Misty couldn't see a thing. However, she could hear everything… enough to send her to the brink of her sanity. Although this time it was a different voice, and it was only coming from one direction, rather than from all around her. Swaying her head from side to side, Misty tried to determine just where exactly the voice was coming from as it chanted away. Moving towards where she thought it was, the air became lighter and cooler. She swore that she also felt a faint breeze against her cheek, just for a moment. She was sure she was going in the right direction now. Slowly the void became lighter, so Misty began to move faster. Still following the voice she felt her heart pounding with excitement. Finally she was going to get out of this hellhole. The voice calling to her was getting louder and louder, each time sounding more human rather than a ghostly hollow echo. Almost running now, Misty didn't notice that figure that stepped out in front of her. With a loud SMACK, Misty fell crashing to the ground. Looking up, she couldn't tell which one, but she knew it was a sister. Her teeth glaring a bright white through the dimness, but her teeth were pointy, and her tongue was forked and flickering. Misty backed away in disgust. She was in trouble now, the voice that was calling her had stopped, and she was trapped with this snaky sister. There was no way out.

Ash awoke sore and stiff, he went to rub his eyes, but then realised he couldn't. Try as he might, he couldn't break free from what. He looked down and realised he was tied up in ropes. Tied with him were Pikachu and Brock, who were already awake. However, both of them were gagged.

"What the heck is going on! Who are you?" Ash cried out to the three strange creatures surrounding them. Their scaly bodies writhing and coiling, their tales impatiently swishing back and forth. Ash looked up at the hideous green monster, and suddenly didn't feel so confident anymore.

"Why Ash, don't you remember usssss?" The largest of the three spoke out, "It'sss Jessssable, can't you tell? It just so happens that me and my sisters are pokemon."

Ash flinched back in disgust, how could such vile a creature be Jessabelle. By the looks of the other two snakes, they must be the twins. But where was the fourth…for that matter where was Misty? He knew it, she wasn't sick at all. These freaky weirdo reject pokemon had done something to her.

"Where's Misty, what have you done to her!" this provoked muffled responses from Brock and Pikachu.

"Well, let'sss jusssst sssssay she'ssss been taken care of. Anyway, I'd be much more worried about yoursssself at the moment…" She trailed off into a maniacal laugh.

"I said, where's Misty!"

The snake gave a large sigh and walked to the middle of the room where there was a claw shaped staff with a ball of white energy inside. Waving her hand over the staff, the image of a girl in a dark void appeared in everybody's minds. She was screaming and clawing at her face and arms. Her screams were so heart wrenching, Ash was trying to fight back tears for her. Then the image changed to a figure in a dim room, still and motionless on the floor. No sound, nothing. Ash couldn't hold it neither could Brock nor Pikachu. They all knew it was Misty; they all began to cry for the loss of their companion. The snake flashed a wicked grin at Ash. Ash started to struggle with all his might against his restraints, wanting to lash out at the evil creature that tortured Misty so horribly. But found to his disappointment, that it was no use. They were stuck, and there was no one to help us.

The snake sisters began to advance on Ash and his friends hungrily, with saliva dripping from their fangs. Ash's eyes widened it horror, they were going to EAT them! The three companions started struggling to move away from the advancing monstrosities. The lead snake was one inch away from Ash; he cringed away from the foul smelling breath of the vile creature, and prepared for the worst. He could feel it's hot breath flowing over him. It was so feral, it seemed to almost melt the skin right off his face. The snake opened its mouth wide, pulled its head back to strike. Suddenly there was a loud BANG! The creature screamed in pain.

Ash opened one eye and looked up. The snake was gone. He looked at his feet to see a coiled lump of green scales lying motionless on the floor. The twin snakes spun around to meet the enemy but found no one. Looking frantically from left to right they tried to make sense of the situation. Another shot was fired, and one of the snakes slumped to the floor. Leaving the one snake by itself, it freaked and began to slither away as fast as it could. Not fast enough, with a large booming sound, the snake was blown from the air and sent flying out of the room creating a whole in the roof and letting sunshine flood into the area.

Squinting in pain from the light, Ash tried to look around the room to see what had destroyed the snake sisters. He saw a blurry figure standing on a rock, with a taller figure next to it. One had blazing red hair, the other pure white. Focussing on them, he screamed with delight to discover the red haired figure was Misty; she had a red bandanna tied around her head, and a shotgun over her shoulder. Her face and arms were red and bloody, but it was Misty none the less. Misty quickly ran over to them with a knife, and promptly began to cut their ropes.

"Oh Misty, we thought you were dead! We saw it and everything, you were screaming in pain…then … then you were on the floor, motionless."

Misty gave Ash a smirk, "Oh yeah, that was me screaming all right. But last time I checked it wasn't me lying on the floor, rather that brunette sister or should I say ugly snake."

"But…but how" Ash asked in confusion as Misty was taking off Brock and Pikachu's gags.

"Yeah Misty, how'd you manage to get out, and get a shotgun no less. And who's that guy over there?"

"Well it's a long story, so I'll cut off the first half of when we got here. I'll just start with the void.

As you already know, I was being tortured in their it was unbearable. Hence the scars on my face and arms. Then I heard a voice calling to me, I started to follow it. I got faster and faster as the voice got louder. I was concentrating so much on finding a way out, that I didn't notice the brunette sister step out in front of me. She caught my off guard I admit, and at that point I was down for the count. She was about to attack me when out of nowhere; this guy showed up, "Misty pointed behind her where the old man with white hair was gingerly climbing down from the ledge he was on. "He came up and clobbered her from behind with this weirdo light ball thing. And that was who you saw lying on the ground."

"But Misty, that doesn't explain how you got here, who he is, and why the heck you have a shotgun."

The old man stepped forward, "Perhaps I should explain this. I was in fact that voice that Misty was trying to find; the moment you travellers got here I've been trying to warn you about these evil creatures. I concentrated mostly on Misty, as these pokemon have no power over women. However I did manage to get to you once, Ash, remember the door?" Ash looked down at his hand and nodded. " I tried to warn you, but you just wouldn't listen. These pokemon have the power to make a dream world, a gigantic illusion if you like, they use it to lure male travellers into this cavern so then they can devour them."

Brock looked disgusted; to think he thought these women were beautiful.

"And I don't really have a shotgun, this man was able to control the snake sister illusion, and he just created one." She smiled and giggled.

"And he just created the bandanna too?"

"Well, it goes with the look, OK!"

Ash put his hands up in defence as if to say he didn't do anything, but Misty knew he was trying to imply something.

Brock joined the conversation again, "But how do you know so much about these pokemon? And how could you tap into their illusion?"

"Well, you see I am the creator of these creatures. An experiment gone wrong I'm afraid. I am in fact over centuries old, and every day I feel the guilt of creating such monstrosities that go round devouring people, and that's a lot of days. Their power of illusion isn't actually there's alone. It's my power as they are linked to me. That is how I could tap into it, as technically on some subconscious level I'm the one who created all of this."

Brock noticed something, "But if you're linked to them, doesn't that mean-"

The old man cut in, as if he already knew what Brock was going to say, " Yes, soon this illusion will dissipate, along with me. And before you say anything about it, I am glad of this. Over the centuries they have created so much havoc that I think that its time I payed for it, it's also liberation for me. Life is just not a joy anymore; I think I've lived my quota." He smiled as he began to fade away. Everyone was at the point of tears, but they all felt it was for the best, its what the old man wanted anyway.

Misty was the saddest of all, this man had helped her help her friends and saved them all. So what if he created them, he was still a sweet old man in her eyes.

"Thankyou for everything!" Misty cried out as she waved a goodbye to the disappearing man. The bandanna and shotgun had disappeared, and the dead snake pokemon had also left the room. Seeing no point to hang around longer, the three trainers and Pikachu decided best to move on.

Each trainer left the townless valley with the experience weighing heavy on their minds, but looked brightly towards the future of their life, which they now respected more than ever.

Ta da! It's finally over, I hoped you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing, this was a real fun fan fic to write.

issekiwa