pokemon adventure

chapter hundred forty two

Chapter 142

Darkrai and Cresselia,

The Naughty Rotom

And the trouble with Piloswine & Mamoswine

Some things happened after Ash and Tomo finally got their fifth badges from Fantina. First of all Tomo captured a wild Skuntank. Second Barry and the gang had another encounter with Team Rocket trying to steal their pokemon again, but of course the trio got blasted off again. Then Barry left the gang to train on Iron Island.

Today the gang made it to Canalave City, where the sixth gym was. The Canalave Gym was made out of iron and steel, so it nearly looked like a factory building. Ash called out to the gym, asking for a gym battle, but no one answered. "Is no one here?" asked Dawn. Before her question could be answered a loud scream was coming from inside the gym. "What on earth?" said Ash.

Just then a man came out of the gym and he looked very tired; he even had dark circles under his eyes. "Oh hi there" said the man, once he saw the gang. "Hi there," said Ash "um were you screaming just now?" "Oh you heard that?" asked the man "I'm sorry about that but I was having a nightmare and it was really horrible. To tell you the truth I haven't been sleeping well for a while because of these nightmares". "Oh okay," said Ash "um is the gym leader here by any chance? My brother and I wish to battle him for a badge". "Oh I'm sorry kid by I'm afraid the gym leader isn't here," said the man "you see he's training on iron island and he won't be back for a few days". Ash and Tomo couldn't believe they had to wait again for another gym battle. Suddenly the man started nodding off to sleep and he ended up screaming because of a nightmare. "Oh sorry about that, come back another time" said the man, and he went back inside the gym.

"That man was acting weird to me" said Tomo. "Yes especially since he said he hadn't slept for a while" agreed Dawn. "There's something else weird too" said Ash. The gang were walking through the city, but nobody was around and all the shops were closed. "According to the guide book it's always busy around here in Canalave City" said Brock. "Well it's certainly isn't busy here, something's not right" said Dawn. "Hmm," said Brock, thoughtfully, "let's go and see Officer Jenny; I'm sure she can tell us what's going on".

Brock was right because once the gang went to the police station Officer Jenny told the gang exactly what was wrong. She said that every year a Darkrai visits Canalave City and gives everybody nightmares. "Well that's a big nightmare to have" said Ash. He remembered what a Darkrai was like. Officer Jenny also explained that at the same time a Cresselia, who lived on an island called Fullmoon Island near Canalave City, would appear at the same as Darkrai, and Cresselia would use its powers to dispose all of the nightmares. "But Darkrai turned up early this year and Cresselia hasn't shown up yet at all, so everyone here has kept on getting nightmares for the past couple of days, and not been able to get any sleep" said Officer Jenny. "That explains why that man at the gym was acting weird and why the town was completely empty" said Ash. "Isn't there anything that can be done about this?" asked Dawn. "Well truth be told everyone, including I, have got these Lunar Wings that are supposed to dispel nightmares because they come from Cresselia, but they don't seem to be working" said Officer Jenny. She showed the gang a light yellow and green feather. "Can I have a look at that please Officer Jenny?" asked Brock. Brock had a look at the so called Lunar Wing with a magnifying glass. "Wait a minute," he said "this is a fake! This isn't a Lunar Wing; it's an ordinary Pidgey feather that's been painted to look like a Lunar Wing". Officer Jenny got very cross when she heart that; she had paid with money for her fake Lunar Wing. "It's arresting time!" she shouted, and ran out of the police station. "Let's follow Officer Jenny" said Brock, and the gang agreed.

In the park of Canalave City Team Rocket, disguised as merchant sellers, were selling fake Lunar Wings to people. Meowth gave out his last one to a man, but Jessie promised the remaining customers they would get some more. Jessie and Meowth went into the tent. In the tent was James making fake Lunar Wings by painting some Pidgey feathers. "Hurry up James we need more of the fake Lunar Wings" said Jessie. "I could hurry up if you two were helping me, I've only got two hands you know" complained James. "I have to say this machine of ours has done really good" said Meowth. In the tent was a strange looking machine; Team Rocket created it to make everyone in the city have nightmares. "Yes it has, but we haven't got a good night's sleep ourselves ever since we created it" said Jessie. It was true because the machine made Jessie and James and Meowth get nightmares too. "Never mind," said Meowth "after we sell our fake Lunar Wings to all the people in this city we'll stop the machine and leave".