Journey to Another World 4
Ch. 5

From that point on, I couldn't shake the overbearing feeling of being watched. No matter what my girls or I did, we couldn't shake that feeling. No matter how many times we looked behind us, shot a stray attack over a shoulder, or anything else the presence stayed there. To say the least I was surprised that the girls could actually notice something hiding/following us.

"Donovin, is there not anything we or you could do to shake this thing that is watching us."

"I'm afraid not Jenavee. I think it's still watching us, and every time we try and get it to leave us alone it ducks into a shadow somewhere." 'I swear that thing's probably laughing at our expense.' I stopped walking around and turned and faced the darkness of the trees and anything else that was casting a shadow it could use to hide in. "Alright Ghastly. If you're trying to scare us, it isn't working. We know that your hiding behind us!" I called out. 'Rena. Use your aura abilities and pinpoint where that sneaky ghost is hiding out.' I said to Rena through the link as I continued to look from shadow to shadow.

'I would not have thought of that. Give me a moment.' With that she closed her eyes and the dreadlocks on the back of her head started to vibrate. At first the vibrations were slow, but quickly grew in speed, then begun to stand on end. About a minute or two later Rena just pointed to a small bush that was lining the dirt path.

With a quick draw from my sword that was strapped on my side, I took a quick cut and returned the sword to it's sheath. Just as the blade clicked into it's place the bush fell over and lay on the ground. Where the big bushy part of the bush was, now floated a Ghastly. Almost immediately it took stock of it's surrounds and realized that it no longer was hiding within the bush.

"Jenavee. If you'd be so kind."

"With pleasure." Jenavee placed her palms over each other and electricity started to jump from palm to palm. She gave the ghost a nasty smile then threw her palms forward, releasing the stored electricity. "How about a nice Thunderbolt?!" With that the ball of electricity was released and flew towards the ghost. The ball nearly hit the ghost but passed it by, then exploded a little behind it covering the area in a large amount of dust, then came the sound of something wailing from within the dust cloud. The sound was almost like that of a banshee. "That is what you get for sneaking around and trying to scare people."

Unfortunately the scream/wailing seemed to attract the attention of something else, as the hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end. I grabbed the back of my neck and shivered. 'This can't be good. This only happens when something bad is about to happen or a very strong opponent has just taken the field.' Once the smoke cleared, I saw that the ghost was lying on the ground crying. 'Even worse.' The tingling in the back of my neck started to get worse as Rena went over and started telling the ghost how bad it was for scaring her. 'I think we just hurt the cub that just wanted to have fun, and here comes...'

I turned around and saw he large white tower standing foreboding in the distance. A large thick cloud of dark purple energy seemed to be seeping out of a crack in the side and I could feel a malicious intent coming from the cloud. "OH SHIT! Girls run!" Both girls stopped verbally attacking the baby ghost and slowly turned to look over their shoulders at me.

Both girls seemed to freeze in place after they'd quickly clung to me and shivered in fear of the closing dark cloud. But then something that I wasn't expecting happened. Kit jumped in front of the three of us and took up her fighting stance. She let out a deep growl and fire started licking up her lips. "Kit?" She looked over her shoulder at me and nodded.

The smoke seemed to take on a solid form as it came closer, but I wasn't able to tell what it was turning into. The thickening smoke quickly shot past us and hovered over the crying ghost. After a while the baby ghost stopped crying and then levitated up to the top quarter of the smoke. Then the bigger shocker was when the baby Ghastly started rocking back and forth, just as if...

"Oh my god. I think that that smoke is..." I reached into my pouch and pulled out my Pokedex then aimed the scanner at the smoke, then hit the scan button.

"Mismagius, the ghost Pokemon. It's cries sound like incantations. Those hearing it are tormented by headaches and hallucinations." Said the Pokedex. And just as the Pokedex had finished it's explanation, the smoke pulled itself together and formed into the Mismagius. The ghost was purple in color with a sort of dark pinkish color on the tips of it's cloths and hat. It wore a witches hat with what looked like a necklace that was a cross between the tips of it's cloths and it's natural color.

It was almost like looking at a mirror when the ghost slowly lifted it's head from looking at the ghost in its arms to us as it's eyes were the same color as mine. It's eyes were bloodshot and the hate that filled it's eyes was a clear sign that we were in trouble. Just then the Mismagius started to talk in an obvious pissed off tone, and just like Kit who spoke her natural language, I couldn't understand it's either.

"Jenavee. What's this Mismagius saying." I said over my shoulder. Not daring to take my eyes off a potential attack from what I believed a pissed off mother.

"I do not really know. She keeps on going on about her baby. Wait a minute." She walks passed me and then places her hand over her chest spike. Then Jenavee too reverts to talking in her native tongue, as she talks with the now know mother of the Gastly that we attacked.

"Jenavee is talking to the mother of that Gastly." Rena said as she slowly lost her fear of the moment and placed a paw on my left shoulder. "She is trying to explain why she...we attacked her son."

"Wait a minute." I said as I looked over at her. "That little ghost is a...boy?" Rena nodded. 'No wonder it attacked us. Little boys are always getting into trouble, and causing mischief.' (Author: I should know. I was a little terror to my parents when I was little too.) Just then I saw the mother start to smother the little ghost, while tears started to streak down it's face. I didn't need Rena to tell me what the mother was saying to it's son, but I knew the outcome.

The mother froze, then slowly looked up to Jenavee. "Jenavee watch..." I wasn't able to finish what I was about to say when the Mismagius's cloak flung up and threw a dark ball of black energy at Jenavee. 'That must be a Dark Pulse attack.' I didn't have a chance to run in to protect her from the attack, but was saved none the less by a flame that shot out of nowhere which collided with the ball.

The explosion from when the ball collided with the flame was immense. The whole cloud of smoke that resulted from the exploded Dark Pulse attack covered us all. 'Shit, now what are we supposed to do? This mother doesn't know the whole story and is attacking us thinking we were the first to do so.' I shook my head. 'Ok, so it was us that first attacked her child, but she shouldn't have let her son out of her sight.' Out of nowhere, I was tackled to the ground from behind. Before I hit the ground, I quickly rotated my weight and whoever tackled me landed between my back and the ground.

"OOF!" Went the person. Then for some reason, I could feel the coldness of...Steel?

"Rena?" I turned and looked behind me and saw that I was now lying with my back on her chest, with her spike under my armpit. 'So that's where the cold was coming from.' I was about to roll off her when she grabbed me around the middle and held me tight. No sooner than she'd done this did I see another one of those Dark Pulses go right over my head.

"Few that was close. You almost got hit by that attack." She then released me from her hug and I rolled off of her. When I got to my knees again I started looking around for the attacking ghost, as well as my other two girls.

When I found them I couldn't believe my eyes. The two of them were standing side by side, facing the Mismagius. I couldn't tell exactly what was going on since I still had some dust in my eyes, but Rena surprised me yet again as she placed a hand/paw on my shoulder and everything turned it's aura blue color.

"Thanks Rena." She nodded to me in the blue color as I looked over my shoulder at her, then gave me a quick peck on the cheek. And just as she did that Jenavee and Kit turned towards us and were about to voice their opinion of the peck. "Kit, Jenavee, jump away from each other!" I shouted at them. If you'd ever seen two outfielders go for the same ball, you'd probably guess how my order was received.

Fortunately for them, the Dark Pulse that the Mismagius threw passed over the two's flat out bodies. I slapped my forehead and then pinched the bridge of my nose. I slowly turned my head over to Rena and could see her covering up a giggle. "You did that on purpose didn't you Rena?!" I asked rhetorically about the peck and the other two girls distraction to the incoming attack. She just looked up to me with an innocent face and shook her head. "You know those girls are going to be really angry with you when this battles over." I said to her as I looked back at the girls. By this time Jenavee and Kit were just getting up from their collision and looking back and forth between us and the attacking Mismagius.

"Don't worry about us girls. Face your opponent." I told them. Both girls stopped looking towards us then faced forward. "Kit use Flamethrower to cover Jenavee as she uses Calm Mind." Kit jumped in front of Jenavee and raised her mouth to the air, while Jenavee placed both her hands together and her head started to glow a purplish color. 'With her using calm mind, I hope that she wont be angry with Rena to much. As that move is supposed to calm her down a bit so that she can...'

"Do not count on it Donovin." Jenavee said. 'Both Rena and Kit have tried to put their mark on you. And I can not stand for that much longer. Tonight...it is just you and me. Out under the starts.' She said telepathically while looking over her shoulder at me.

Just then their was another explosion and all out attention flew forward. Kit's flamethrower attack had collided with another one of the Mismagius's attacks. 'I don't know if she was kidding about that whole thing about tonight, but I'd better watch that Pokemon. I don't know what kind of moves or attacks it knows.' Thinking back I remembered that ghost types had a certain move that really worked over psychic types. 'Better get that ghost to listen to reason before....'

"AAAAHHHHHH!" Jenavee screamed.

'To late.' Just as I'd finished thinking it over, Jenavee was hit with a strange energy blast that caused her to fall to her knees. She looked to be sweating quite profusely as well as shaking her head. 'It would seem that I'm to late to warn her.' "Come on Jenavee. I know your stronger than that. I need you to use Psychic to hold the Mismagius down, and Kit once she has it pinned I need you to cover it." Jenavee leapt to her feet and placed her hands together, then threw them out and I could see the ghost being enveloped by a strange light, then she instantly flew to the ground, and hit hard. So hard in-fact that I even felt the vibration from it standing pretty far away from the actual battle.

"That is what you get for using Astonish on me, you stupid ghost." Jenavee said in a superior tone. Then Kit went over and placed her maw on either side of the ghosts neck. Obviously going to use a Bite attack if the ghost were to even move a muscle, as I could see a slight blackish glow coming from her teeth.

'A Dark type attack against a Ghost type. Now that's going to hurt. I'd better get over there before that ghost gets any funny ideas and gets itself hurt.' So as I walked over the smoke and dirt settled, and I took a knee in front of the ghost. The ghost shook her head and then scowled up at me. "Now that I've got your attention, I'd just like to talk. Not shout." The ghost struggled a little in Jenavee's Psychic hold, but was instantly stopped by Kit tightening her jaws around her neck and Jenavee pushing her down a little further into the ground.

The ghost let out a little grunt from the attacks, but I quickly waved the girls off and they let up on their attacks...a little. "Now if your quite done, I'd like to tell you what happened here." The ghost just stared up at me with a hard gaze as I recounted the whole incident. "As you can see. Your child has not been hurt, and you are the one who started attacking us. So if your quite done attacking us, I'd like to put this whole business behind us and let us go on about our way. After all, you've got a distraught son to calm down, and we've got somewhere to go." I slowly lowered my hand to the ghost. "What do you say? Let bygones be bygones?"

The ghost started to say something in Poke-speak then stopped when she realized that I was shaking my head at her. "She says that she wont. She says that we attacked her son and hurt him, and she is going to get revenge for that."

I dropped my head and sighed. "But we didn't hurt him." I pointed to the Ghastly that was hiding behind a tree not far away. "Your son is perfectly healthy." I nodded to the tree. "Look, you can see for yourself. Kit, Jenavee, I need you to let go of her so that she can check out her little boy." Both the girls looked at me with disbelief.

"Donovin, you can not be serious. She tried to hit you..."

"I said let...her...gooo." I pulled out the word go to show them that I was serious. The psychic glow around the Mismagius slowly faded and Kit slowly removed her teeth from around the ghosts neck. She slowly floated up while rubbing her neck then looked at us each in turn, then finally flew over to her son to take a close look at him. "He's just scared is all. It's all in playful fun." I said but stopped when she turned back to me and scowled.

'Are you sure about this Donovin? She could still attack us, you know.' Jenavee said to me telepathically.

'And if she does, I have the perfect attack to finish this fight. Once and for all.' I said back to her. While I said that, Jenavee and Kit walked over and stood by me and Rena. We all watched as she checked over her son. Eventually she turned back to us and said something to Rena, Jenavee, and Kit which made them sigh with a smile. "What? What's going on?"

"It is alright. She says that her son does not have a scratch on him, other than the dirt." Rena translated as the mother spoke some more. "She goes on to say that he is going to get a long talk, a thorough scolding, and a long bath once they get home." I couldn't help but smile as that reminded me so much of myself when I would upset my mom when I was younger. Though I usually got a bar of soap in the mouth or a good spanking. "Finally she says that she is sorry for attacking us without knowing the full story, but would like to ask for something."

I looked from Rena to the mother. "And that would be?" She started speaking again.

"She says that Jenavee and Kit are very strong and would like to finish the battle that they had going." Rena finished translating.

My eyes went wide as I looked from her to Kit and Jenavee. Both had big smiles on their faces and were nodding to one another. Jenavee turned to me and smiled. "If she would like to continue our battle, I...we would be more than happy to oblige her."

I sighed, shook my head, then turned back to the ghost. "Well, I guess it's settled then." I turned from the ghost to my girls. "Ok girls, take the field." I told them. 'Jenavee.'

'Yes Donovin.'

'I'd like to try a combination move on that ghost. What do you think about this combination.' I said and thought to her telepathically.

Jenavee stopped then turned and looked at me with a shocked look on her face. 'That is a pretty powerful combination. Are you sure you want to try it?' I just nodded.

'We might be pitted up against another set of double battles in the future. I'd like to get a few combinations in, before that happens.' I nodded to her. 'So, if you'd be so kind as to pass the combination move on to Kit, I'd appreciate it.' She nodded to me and then turned to Kit. Without a single lip movement, Jenavee passed the combination move on to her and Kit's eyes went wide as she turned back to me. I nodded to her then pointed to the ghost.

"Alright girls. Let's get this battle on." Both girls took on their fighting poses then charged towards the ghost.Chapter End Notes:Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended