Pokémon RBY Adventures.

Chapter 12: Lavender Town and the Mystery of White Hand

I looked Leaf. She was out of breath. "Leaf, hang on." I said, walking over to her. I grabbed her shoulders. "How long have you followed us?" I asked. She caught her breath and sat down on the grass. "Since you guys got to Rock Tunnel. I tried talking to you, but you were way ahead of me." she answered. "Oh. But wait, did you say come with us?" I asked her. "Yup. I want to come with you guys. When I cheered you on with Misty, I became really interested in joining you. And it's obvious I have," she blushed, "feelings for you." she said. I looked at her. "Well. Yeah, it would be my pleasure to have you join us." I told her, grabbing her hand as we got up. "Oh and Leaf?" I said. She was brushing herself down as she got up. "Yes?" she asked. I whispered in her ear. "Me too." A smile grew on her face. "Eevee, looks like Leaf is joining us too. You Ok with that?" I said looking up to Eevee. She jumped over to Leaf, and right into her arms. "Haha. Looks like Eevee likes you already." I said. "Hi there Eevee." Leaf said. "All right gang, we need to take the Lavender Town route to Vermilion because I got lost. Better hurry, I wanna get that Thunder Badge." I said making my way to the town. "Ok" Leaf said following behind me carrying Eevee.

As we entered the town, a weird sensation came over me. A feeling of sadness. I heard rumors of this town being haunted, but that's to be expected with a town that has a Pokémon Cemetery. "Man, this place is weird." I said as we looked around the city. "Yeah..." Leaf replied. "Hey! There's a Pokémon Center! Let's go heal Eevee and Vulpix, and see if anyone can help us out." I suggested. Inside the Pokémon Center after I gave my Pokémon to Nurse Joy, Leaf and I asked some people if they could help us get to Vermilion. Most ignored us except for one person. A guy in a red shirt, white shoes and navy jeans. Instead of answering, "You believe in ghosts?" he asked I said no and Leaf said yes. He looked at me with cold, lifeless red eyes and said, "That White Hand on your shoulder doesn't exist either than?" I looked at my shoulder only to see nothing. I turned back to say "Hey" but he disappeared. "Cody, Leaf?" the nurse called us over. "Your Pokémon are fully healed." she said handing back our Pokémon. "Thanks!" we said in unison. "Hey, Joy. Have you heard about the Pokémon Tower rumors?" I asked. "Some things are better left as mysteries." she answered with a smile on her face. "Umm, thanks." I said. Outside the Pokémon Center, I noticed a ruckus about the cemetery. "Leaf, what do you reckon's going on?" I asked her. 'I don't know. Let's go and see." she replied and we rushed over  to the tower. "Hey what's going on?" I asked someone in the crowd. "Apparently a ghost has been spotted in the Tower. And some kids in there." the man replied. "A ghost!?" Leaf said shocked. "Yeah. A REAL one this time." the man said. "Ohhh. I hate ghosts." Leaf replied. "I wanna see this for myself. I don't believe it's a ghost. No way." I said, forcing my way through the crowd. "C-Cody. Don't go in there!" Leaf said following me in. 

Inside the tower, it was very dark, quite and cold. I couldn't see any "ghost" or the kid. "Man it's dark in here." I said to Leaf. "Can we go?" She asked. "Leaf don't be afraid, ghosts aren't real." I said, trying to reassure her. Suddenly we saw a light from the other side of the room. Lef grabbed my arm and hid behind me. "Listen child!" a british voice said. The voice echoed throughout the tower. "I'm not here to harm you. I will drive malevolent force from you." the voice got closer. "Give me your han-" A tall man, about 6ft, came over to us. He was wearing jean shorts, a black shirt and black trainers. "Oh, you aren't Dylan." he said. He turned to leave. "Wait! Who are you?" I asked. He turned back and sighed.  "If you have to know, my name's Sawyer." he said. "Right, Sawyer, who's this Dylan kid?" I asked. "You're full of questions. He's a kid who got possessed by White Hand. Now go. Stay here too long and it could get to you too." he answered. "White Hand? Wait, is that a Pokémon?" I asked. The man was getting annoyed. "Kind of." he answered. "Wait, let us come with you. We can help." I said. Leaf gasped. "C-c-cody? I don't like this place..." she said shaking. I was about to say ok, when the exit door closed itself. Leaf and I jumped. "That's him then." Sawyer said. "Wh-wh-white hand?" Leaf asked shakily. "Mmhmm, I told you kids to leave." he answered. He casually snapped his fingers and suddenly a ghostly purple Pokémon appeared. "Gengar, hoped you're ready." he said, eyes closed. Gengar grinned and moved about weightlessly. "AAAHHH!" Leaf screamed at the Gengar. I held her and looked at the ghost Pokémon. It just kept grinning. Suddenly a figure rushed past us. "Greninja, Mat Block!" Sawyer said. His second Pokémon, that looked like Tsento's but bigger, appeared and used it's attack. A board appeared from the shadows, and Greninja flipped it up, trapping the figure. "Good work." Sawyer casually said. "Gre.." the Pokémon said just as casually. "Now then, Sylveon, light this up with Misty Terrain." A pink and white eeveelution looking Pokémon appeared out of nowhere, and summoned a bright arena of pink clouds. It felt relaxing. We could clearly see the figure. It was that boy from the Pokémon Center. "Hey I know that-" "Noivern, use Boomburst." Sawyer said cutting me off. He put earplugs in his ears and pointed to his ears looking at us, telling us to cover our ears. We nodded and covered our ears. The fearsome Dragon Pokémon screeched a deafening sound directly at Dylan, causing him to crumble under the sound. Me and Leaf groaned from the sound but Sawyer of course was calm and collected. While Dylan was kept under Boomburst, Sawyer called for Gengar. "Gengar, use Hypnosis." he said. Gengar let out a hypnotic wave at Dylan. It took a little bit of effort, but finally he was asleep. Sawyer raised a hand and Noivern stopped. He took out his earplugs and we uncovered our ears. "Gengar, now use Dream Eater." he said to his Pokémon, as both him and Gengar walked over to the boy. Gengar opened it's mouth as a dark liquid oozed out and onto Dylan. The boy struggled a little, but calmed down. A hand-like figure emerged from the liquid. White Hand. "Ok Gengar, now ingest that nightmare." he said to his Gengar. Gengar struggled to pull the liquidy substance back into it's mouth. The hand struggled against Gengar. "Gengar, hold on, contain it." Sawyer said, unfazed. The hand broke out of the liquid and Tyler slumped to the floor. "Greninja, get him." Sawyer said. "And Gengar, come with me." Greninja picked up the boy and brought him to us. "Huh?" I said. "Gre nin." The Pokémon said leaving the kid with us. He then disappeared along with it's Trainer. I looked at Dylan and then at Leaf who was worried. 

A few minutes passed and we saw Sawyer, Gengar and Greninja return. "Come on." he said to us. We got up, carried Dylan and followed Sawyer. "I told you kids not to stay in there, you did make things simpler though, thanks." Sawyer said to us. Dylan woke up. "Huh. Where am I?" he said. "You're in Lavender Town Dylan." Sawyer said. "Huh?" he asked and got up. "Umm, I don't know who you are, any of you... b-bye. Charizard! Fly!" he said, before calling his Charizard and the two of them left. "Odd kid, him." Sawyer said. He then turned to face us. "Oh well, I'll be on my way now. Farewell children, stay safe." he said, leaving Lavender Town as his Pokémon followed him. The people here were very weird. Leaf yawned. "Instead of the Pokémon Center, let's go to the next Route and camp there" I suggested. She agreed.

Author's Note: Lavender Town, never want to see that place again. Anyways congratulations to @Charizard193 (Dylan) on Twitter and the legendary @SawyerHull3 (Sawyer) for winning the cameo competition. Go congratulate them for me. And thank you to SawyerHull for agreeing to make an appearance, I hope I got your OC right. As always, thanks for reading, a ★ Vote is greatly appreciated!