Misty\'s Nightmare

Misty's Nightmare.


~May 19 2008.

This is the first fanfiction I ever wrote. I did it I think in the summer of 2001, I will leave the orginal comments I put at the beginning and end of each chapter intact but will expand on them like I am here if I feel the need. if any of you are more interested in the Ravenloft campaign setting, a good basic source of information (which did not exist in 2001) is this article in Wickipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft

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I am new to pokemon fan fiction so I hope this is a fairly original Idea. Enjoy. For those of you that are unfamiliar with it (most of you probably), Ravenloft is a campaign world in the RPG Dungeons and Dragons. It is a gothic horror setting. But even if you don't know anything about it, don't worry. I have only taken general aspects of it. If you know about pokemon you can enjoy this. If anything, knowing about Ravenloft will take some of the mystery out of this.


Chapter 1. A Desperate Situation


"Is the door blocked misty"? Her oldest sister asked. "Yes it is" she replied. "But I don't know what you are hoping to do, there's no hope, we should try to get out before we are trapped". But her sister (her last sister, the other two had perished in the futile defense of Cerulean city.) would have nothing of that. "This Gym is my life and I will not give it up". "But we should try to save what we can" Misty argued. "I know you aren't as tied to here as I am. You should go" Her sister replied. Misty was appalled. " You think that I would abandon my home?". "No I don't, but you have somebody that would die inside if you were killed here". "You mean Ash don't you" Misty said "but its been three years since I`ve seen him and that was before all of this". "Don't worry" her sister said. " If anybody could survive in this hell, Ash could". The conversation was cut short by the sound of something clawing at the door. Then there was a sound like rushing wind and the door started to glow. They knew this was it. Her sister took out her blade and swiped it across her arm in a practiced gesture as her pokemon crowded around to lap up the blood that was their subsistence and source of energy. " Go now before it's too late". you can get out though the hidden tunnel in the side of the old pool." This was the last thing that misty heard before the door gave way with a crash. Misty Ran to the pool as her sister turned to face her almost certain death. When she was at the secret door that was at the entrance to the tunnel, She turned to look at her sister one last time and saw her directing her Pokemon in the battle. From her frantic commands, it looked like the fight was already going against her. Then all of a sudden her sister gave a shriek and dropped to her knees. Misty watched horrified as she exploded in a cloud of blood and gore. She then slammed the gate closed hopping that she had not been spotted and made her way down the tunnel, retching the whole way.

The next thing she knew she was jumping out of her sleeping bag in a cold sweat. She stood there panting as her heart resumed its normal beat. Just as she was calming something tugged at her pants making her jump again. "Polywrath?" her companion asked in a worried tone. He had been watching over his trainer all night and had come over to check on her when she started thrashing around in her sleep. "I `m all right Polywrath, I was just having nightmares again." Polywrath looked up at her with concern in his eyes, but he knew that he couldn't protect his trainer and best friend from this threat. She had been having nightmares since the desperate flight from Cerulean city two weeks ago and it tore him up inside to see her suffering so. Misty looked down at her sleeping bag and contemplated trying to go back to sleep but
gave that up as a useless gesture. It was almost sunrise anyway. She was actually surprised that she had been able to sleep though most of the night. Pollywrath was keeping watch for good reason. Attacks from wild pokemon had come almost nightly since she fled the doomed city. Her pokemon had fought them off but not without a dear cost. Polywrath and Starime (who was resting in his pokeball conserving energy) were her last two pokemon. The others had died defending her. Her thoughts turned to the future. She was less than halfway to Pallet town. At this rate she wouldn't make it. Misty dismissed this cold fact with a sigh; it wasn't like she had a choice anyway. The two towns that she had passed though on her desperate journey had been in ruins, having succumbed to the same thing as her beloved city. She refused to consider the very
real possibility that Pallet town had suffered the same fate. That fate was being overrun by hordes of wild pokemon. She thought in despair, Sure wild pokemon had become more vicious since the change but they had stuck to terrorizing travelers (to the point that contact between towns has become almost non existent. Radio communication had become almost impossible since the change. ) But they had always left densely populated areas alone. That had changed three weeks ago. All of a sudden, thousands of wild pokemon had descended on Cerulean city destroying anything in their path. They had tried fighting back but it had been futile. It was like the wild pokemon were working together to tear down man's creation. The organized fashion of the brutality made it almost like the pokemon were being directed by some evil intelligence. The only reason that she had made it out of the city is that all the pokemon in the area had been IN the city. Polywrath tugging on her pants again interrupted her thoughts. "Your hungry aren't you" misty said with a sigh. Polywrath nodded with a sad look in his eyes. "Hold on. Let me get my blade out". Misty reached in her pack to get out her razor blade as Polywrath watched on. She then knelt down next to her pokemon and folded her sleeve back. The dozens of scars on her
forearm marked her as a trainer of Blood pokemon as surely as any badge would. Since water pokemon had become blood pokemon during the change it was natural that she would change too. Time to pay the price for her chosen profession. She slashed the blade across her arm with practiced ease. She didn't even flinch any more at the pain. She then held her arm out to polywrath who started to suckle on it like a baby. The pokemon fed with sad resignation. He knew that he was hurting his trainer but the alternative was even worse. That was to do what wild blood pokemon did, suck the life out of the living. For only blood from a living being could sate his hunger. After a few minutes misty pulled her arm away. Polywrath let go with a sigh. He was not sated but he could tell by the way misty was swaying that she was becoming light headed from blood loss. If she let him feed any more she ran the risk of passing out. Self-mutilation was not the only price she paid though. She and her sisters were looked upon with suspicion by the rest of Cerulean city (this suspicion led them to build the secret passage in the old pool that had saved her life. Just in case this turned to open hostility). Everybody knew what wild blood pokemon did to feed and the rumors of people disappearing to feed there charges kept coming up despite their best efforts the quell them. The fact that a lot of people did disappear (the Pokemon world had become a dangerous place) did not help their case even though they truly were innocent. But Misty loved her pokemon as much as life itself and would gladly go though opening a vein and becoming an outcast for them. Once she has recovered from her dizziness she hurriedly packed up and started on the road to pallet town and an uncertain fate.


Well what do you think? Those of you that are familiar with Ravenloft(~Probably not very many,~) should know exactly what happened to all the pokemon. The rest of you all will have to wait for the answer (assuming that I go on with this. Right now I have one or two chapters left in me, after that
I will have to read up more for inspiration). I assure you that water pokemon aren't the only ones that have changed. To any of you on rec.arts.anime.misc(~ah the good old Usenet, I haven't been on it for about as long as this story has been out there, 7 years~), this should sound familiar since I broached the Idea of a Ravenloft and Pokemon crossover not too long ago. I like the Idea so much that I decided to expand on it. This is the result. I am new to Pokemon so that is why
this may look a little rough