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Journey to Another World 6 Ch. 6

Reaching down towards my belt, my eyes went wide as I realized how naked I really was. No Pokeballs (Not even Samantha's ball), no sword to protect myself from an attacker, nothing, defenseless. I truly was naked right there and cursing at my amateur move. 'I should've known that this wasn't going to be an easy thing to do.' I thought to myself as I began to look about the room for something that I could use to defend myself. Not many people know this, but practically any item can be turned into a weapon. Even so much as a pen can be turned into an item that can be used for deadly purposes (Rubber band, nail, pen casing).

"What the heck are you talking about?!" I yelled at him as I slowly started to back away as my eyes continued to scan the room. "Your really going to have your Pokemon attack an unarmed person? That's criminal." I stated as my eyes finally settled on a bucket and mop in the corner of the room.

"It is not criminal when I know that you are not going to pay for loosing."

"Loosing...How am I..." I stopped in mid sentence as he pulled out another two Pokeballs and enlarged them in his hands. 'Should've seen that coming.'

"You have no other Pokemon and I still have two others." He smirked as he tossed out the two and they popped open in mid air. The first white light materialized in mid air to reveal that of a Duskull. Just like a normal Duskull, the Pokemon floated fairly high off the ground, strange white bone face mask, a cross bone sign on it's back, and had only one large pink eye that roamed between the two eye sockets as if checking everything out at once. The other white light hit the ground and materialized into a Banette. Though this one was like any normal Banette, the whole thing about that zipper for a smile was just plain...creepy. "Now if you don't want me to...where the hell are you going?"

While he was elaborating on his plan on sucking me into pawning out some cash to him, I was quickly backing away and had finally made it to the bucket and mop. Though before I could reach the mop and bucket a small blue flame passed me by and incinerated the two in a ball of blue fire. 'Will-o-wisp.' I thought as I slowly turned and saw that the Duskull that was floating near the kid had another small blue flame ready to be used. "If you were thinking of throwing those things at me, then you surely are hopeless." He said with a laugh. "I still have two Pokemon that are ready to fight for me. Now hand over your money."

It was just as the boy finished what he was saying when their came a haunting cry and Samantha floated on over and floated right in-between us. I couldn't see the look upon her face, but the way that her cloak's ends were still but still shaking, I knew that she was pissed. "What is this? Has your Mismagius finally stopped with it's chat with my...what are you doing Haunter. Get over here and..." The boy was lost in his speech as his/the Haunter floated on over to float shoulder to shoulder with his/it's mother and gave the boy the bird while laughing.

'I guess that's one way to tell someone to go F themselves.' I laughed to myself as a smirk popped up on the side of my face.

"Oh, for heavens sake," He put away the other two Pokeballs and then pulled out another. "I am not going to go through this again Haunter. You are my Pokemon now and you will do as I say. And if you do not like it, then you can just go back into your...Ouch!" With little warning a Shadow Ball collided with the out held ball, quickly engulfing it in an explosion that blackened the boy's hand and utterly destroyed the Pokeball. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF DARKRYE ARE YOU DOING!? He yelled as he quickly pulled back his hand to cradle the slightly charred hand.

It only took a moment to realize that Samantha had just thrown an attack at the boy, destroyed her son's Pokeball, and released him from the boys ownership as well as his control. "I'd say that, Samantha just freed her son from you."

"This...this is unheard of." The boy did a few double takes between his charred hand and his previously owned Haunter, only to settle his eyes on me. His nose scrunched up, eyebrows furrowed, and a snarl appeared on his face. "YOU...you did this. You ordered your Pokemon to attack me."

"Me?" I asked in an innocent/defensive way. "I did no such thing." I walked in-between Samantha and Haunter. "She did that on her own free will. Though that isn't to say that I would've done the same thing after I'd wipe the floor with you."

"You would...Now that is a laugh. How can you expect to battle me when I clearly have the advantage?" He said as he struck a classic hero pose, (Legs shoulder width apart, chest puffed out, shoulders back, and fists on either hip).

"You have the advantage?" I asked in a clearly uncertain/mocking way as I leaned on over and started whispering to Haunter as he/it would nod or shake it's head/body/whatever once in a while. "Great. Your attacks are fairly similar to those of Samantha here. This should be an interesting battle."

"Battle?" The boy asked in a confused voice. "Are you saying, that now you wish to battle me?"

"That's right," My smirk slowly turned into a full blown smile. "My Samantha here and her son Haunter, against your Duskull and Banette."

He threw back his head and began to laugh quite heavily. "You have got to be joking. That Haunter there is nothing but a weak...and...pathetic mess of a Pokemon." He said as if he really couldn't put into words the right phrase to insult the Haunter. "It only took two hits from my Banette here to bring it down so that I could capture it."

'No wonder he threw out the Haunter first. He wanted it to gain as much experience as possible to raise it up to the level of his Banette.' A smirk slowly spread across my face as I nodded to him then. "Then you wont say no to battling me now. After all, this should help ya to raise your Pokemon up a level or two."

"Alright then...Duskull use Will-o-wisp and Banette use Faint Attack!" He ordered out as his Duskull brought it's arms together to form another Will-o-wisp and the Banette launched it's shadow out.

"Samantha and Haunter use a combined Confuse Ray." To which they both did as both their eyes glowed yellow and a set of beams shot out to collide with the boys two Pokemon. The only problem is that the Banette's Faint Attack was already launched, which hit Samantha in the back by it's shadow, but after the attack and the flash from Samantha and Haunter's attacks were done both the other boys Pokemon were dancing around in confusion. "Double the move, double the potency. Now both of you use Shadow Ball on those two." With a double nod, both Samantha and Haunter brought their hands/cloaks together to form shadow balls that they quickly launched at their opponents.

"Move you stupid Pokemon before your hit by those attacks." Unfortunately the two were still under the effects of the combined Confuse Ray and were soundly hit by both Shadow Balls that were launched at them. Once the dark fog cleared I saw that both Pokemon were on their backs. After a moment of staying there, the Banette jumped back up to it's feet and scowled at us. "That Mismagius must have an item on it. Banette use Knock Off to get rid of it while Duskull recovers and shakes off the Confuse Ray."

The Banette nodded and quickly zipped forward with it's right hand back. I was to surprised by it's speed to call out a strategy, but the attack from the Banette wasn't as potent as it could've been, as Samantha didn't have an item. The Banette was quite stunned when nothing happened when he/it slapped Samantha, but when the attack had been completed the Hautner looked pissed. "Haunter. Are you going to allow that guy to slap your mother like that?"

It looked back at me through the corner of it's left eye and shook it's head. "Then I suggest it get a taste of it's own medicine. Haunter use a double Shadow Claw." The Huanter raised it's two disconnected hands and I watched as they lost the puffy look about them and turn into two claw like hands. The Haunter didn't waist any time as it brought both hands down upon the Banette and send it crashing down to the ground and tumbling away back to it's trainers side.

I looked back across the field and saw the kid had a very pissed off look about him. His gaze finally fell on the Duskull and he promptly kicked it up like a football. The Pokemon hovered there for a moment before finally shaking off the effects of the Confuse Ray. "Quit dawdling and get back in there! Duskull use Astonish and Banette use Faint Attack again." The Duskull raised it's head towards the ceiling for only a moment before letting out a shout in a bit of a startling way.

I saw Haunter flinch at the move and saw the Banette's shadow lengthen towards Samantha. "That attack wont work this time! Samantha use your Shadow Claw on the ground in front and behind you." She didn't hesitate as she quickly turned to the side and sank her claws into the ground behind and in front of her. The effect was quite strange, as the Banette yelled out from the far side of the field as it's shadow that had stretched all the way under her was pierced by Samantha's claws as she sank them into the ground.

"Haunter get up and personal with Banette and use your Shadow Claw attack while it's pinned in place." The Haunter quickly flew over and raised up both it's hands/claws again.

"Not going to happen. Banette use your Sucker Punch att....what the heck Banette, move!" He yelled but unfortunately his yells did little as the Banette stayed perfectly in place. "Duskull get in their to intercept Haunter with your own Confuse Ray before it is to late." Just as Haunter got in position to attack, Duskull got in-between them and used it's attack at the same time as Haunter's attack came down upon it.

Once the flash was finished, both were still floating there, until a set of long/purple gashes appeared on it's mask and it fell slowly back down to the ground with a swirl for an eye behind it's mask. Samantha let out a wail as she removed her claws from the ground. I looked from her to the Banette and saw that it stumble for a moment as if it was leaning forward and was just now trying to catch itself from falling.

"Finally. Banette use your Sucker Punch attack on that Mismagius." The Banette quickly leaned forward and launched itself forward with it's right fist pulled back. I couldn't help but smirk. "What the heck are you smiling about? Your Mismagius is about to be pummeled into the ground." I didn't say a word as the Banette stopped just before Samantha. It had a confused look upon it's face as it looked her up and down with it's fist still pulled back and shaking.

"That's the problem with Sucker Punch. If the other Pokemon isn't going to be using an attack, the Sucker Punch fails." I nodded to the Banette as it slowly lowered it's fist and looked back to the boy for instructions on what to do next. While the boy was still in a state of shock, I looked over to Samantha and saw that she was checking over her son as she tried to steady him/it after being hit with the Confuse Ray at point blank range.

"Damn it all. I am not going to loose this fight. Banette use Screech to weaken them both and then use Faint Attack." The Banette turned towards Samantha and Haunter, raised up it's head as if to look towards the ceiling, started to breath in through somewhere (possibly through it's zipper mouth or nose), then let out a ear piercing screech when it opened it's zipper/mouth. Both Samantha and Haunter raised up their hand to cover their ears (Do ghosts actually have ears?) and vibrated a bit as they were hit by the sound.

Once the attack was done the Banette took advantage of their disorientation and hit Haunter with it's Faint Attack. Haunter was hit pretty hard by the hit to the back and was thrown to the floor by the strength behind the Banette's attack. 'That Banette must be his strongest Pokemon. I've got to find a way to reach out to Samantha and have her fight bac...' I stopped in mid thought as I saw her slowly turn from watching her son fall to the floor and give the Banette a deathly gaze. 'Oh crap, now she's pissed. I'd better have her end this fight fast before she totally looses it and kills either the Banette or the boy.'

"Not a smart idea there Banette, attacking a mothers son. Now your going to feel a mother wrath." I quickly looked up to her and saw her give me a quick nod. "Samantha, use a double Shadow Claw on that thing and follow it up with your Multiple Shadow Balls." The Banette didn't stand a chance against her as she brought her hands down as they changed into claws onto it's head, the Banette went crashing back towards it's trainer, only to lay there in a heap. The thing looked up at it's trainer and gave it a muffled moan before being showered in a hail of Shadow Balls.

When it was all said and done and the smoke cleared, the Banette looked to be like that of a Golf Ball with many indents in it's body. "Hopefully that'll be a lesson to you as to not mess with a mothers son." I said as I walked on over to Samantha and her son. I saw that he was reeling a little bit as the confuse ray was still active. I pulled out a potion from my pocket that I'd won from the kid who thought I was a ghost. I used the whole bottle on the young Haunter and watched as it's eyes finally cleared and looked up at us. With little warning Samantha pushed past me and enveloped her son in her cloak/arms and started crying.

I nodded to the two of them, stood up, then turned to look over at the boy. The boy had his mouth open quite wide and was staring at his swirly eyed Banette that was still passed out on the ground. I walked on over to the boy and shook him by the shoulder. "My Pokemon. Beaten by my weakest..." He trailed off a bit as he slowly looked up at me. "How...How did you do it? Are you some ace trainer or something?"

I laughed at bit then shook my head. "Hardly. I'm just a regular trainer who's just trying to do a good deed." I turned back to look at Samantha as she rubbed her cheek up against the Haunters body and made a happy sound as the Haunter hugged her back. "Though now that that is done, it's time to focus on the main part of all of this."

"The main...wait a minute. Your saying that you beat me...No way am I paying you." He quickly pulled out two Pokeballs, recalled his Pokemon, then pushed past me to head for the stairs.

I quickly reached out, grabbed him by the collar and threw him back to land on his backside. "Not so fast...poser. You were all adamant about me paying up for not being able to fight back when I had no more Pokemon. I only think that it'd be fair to return the favor."

It was at that moment that the kid started to show his true colors, as he started looking frantically around the room and muttering for someone to help him. The other people, having witnessed the battle that we'd just had were now gathered around us and shaking their heads at the boy. After a long talk/shouting/scolding from several other people, the boy finally turned out his pockets and revealed that he too had no money on him.

"This is the second or maybe the third time, that someone has tried the same stunt." I placed my right hand on my hip and shook my head. "I've really got to check with my opponents to make sure that they've actually got the money to cover their losses." I then knelt down so that I was more on the level with him and held out my hand.

"What? I already told you that I do not have any money to give you for the win."

"I know that," I said as I kept my hand out. "I'm asking you to pull out any potions, antidotes, or anything else that I can pawn off for my win money." It was then that I noticed that he didn't have a backpack either and I shook my head. "That's what I hate about guys like you. All talk and no bite...poser." I then stood up and took a long sigh. "If you don't have the money, potions, or anything else I can hawk. Then I'll just have to take your trainers license then."

This caused everyone around me to stop and stare at me. "My license? What do you think your going to get out of it?" He seemed a bit confused by my idea.

"I don't exactly remember the place that I saw this but... 'If a trainer has no money/potions/etc that he can hand over for the loss, then he/she must hand over their license so that they can be brought to the attention of the local authorities." His eyes went wide. "I guess the black and white of it is, your going to have your license revoked."

When it was all said and done, I opened up a small cloth sack that now sported several different Pokeballs within. "I guess that's one way to get paid." I said to myself as I looked behind me as I exited the Lost Tower. My eyes settled on both Samantha and her son, Haunter. The two of them looked very happy together, reunited at long last after their dramatic separation. With a bit of a wave to each, over my shoulder which they returned, I headed off with a bit of a smile on my face as to have known that I'd done a right thing by them.

I finally arrived back into the room, just as the sun started to rise. It'd taken me a little longer to get back, as I'd stopped off at the local Poke-Mart to sell off a few of the Pokeballs that I didn't need or want and pocket the money from that. Plus the guy at the register wasn't any help either as he kept on falling asleep on me while I was trying to get him to stay awake long enough to count out the bills to me.

"I swear. I could've just walked into that Poke-Mart, stolen everything on the shelves in there, and gotten away scot-free without anyone the wiser." I turned the key in the lock, opened the door, and snuck back into the room. Though, before I could get back into bed, Kit raised her head up off the bed (As she'd been asleep at the foot of the bed) and gave me a soft whine.

I walked over to her, kissed her on the top of her forehead, and rubbed her cheek. "Hay there girl," I said in a low volume as I switched from rubbing her on her chin to scratching her behind her ear where she liked it. "Thanks for not waking everyone earlier." She gave me a happy/soft yip as she leaned a little heavier into my hand but then gave me a gentle lick to my hand as I pulled it away.

I looked down at her in confusion, shrugged, then gave her a nice and slow kiss, as to which she returned with a slight moan as she snuck her tongue into my mouth and wrestled around with it. We broke the deep kiss a second later as I could feel the shifting of someone on the bed and looked down to see that it was Rena was beginning to stur.

" Donovin, is that you?" She asked in a sleepy tone as she slowly pushed herself up with one arm while the other rubbed at her sleepy eyes.

I sat down next to her on her side of the bed, leaned forward, and gave her a gentle kiss to the top of her forehead. "Ya Rena, it's me. Sorry if I woke you up."

"_ Why are you up so early ? **_Did you have to do something earlier**?"

I nodded. "Ya. I just took Samantha back to the Lost Tower and reunited her with her son. Nothing major. Now, why don't you go back to sleep. It's still pretty early and we don't need to practice for quite a while." She gave me a sleepy smile as she nodded to me, lowered her head back down onto the bed and snuggled back up to her daughter.

She lay there for a minute as I got undressed and then redressed into my pajama bottoms. I was about to crawl back up and get into bed when I saw her eyes shoot open and look directly at me. I could see the stunned realization in her eyes as I gave her a smile and nodded to her. "Her son had evolved into a fairly strong Haunter and the three of us battled against a trainer or two before I left." I could see that she was about to ask a question or two in anger, but I silenced her as I placed a single finger on her lips, only to exchange it with a sweet kiss a moment later.

"I'll tell you all the details about it later." I said as a yawn slowly escaped my lips. "But right now, I'm tired and I need to get at least a couple more hours of sleep, before we get back to training."

Rena relented at that and gave me a small nod as she slowly leaned in and gave me a light kiss on the lips. " In the morning then ," To which I nodded. " We will talk more about that...as well as that kiss I just saw you give Kit a moment earlie r."

My eyes went wide as I looked at her after she'd said that and saw her give me a bit of a hard mischievous look.

'Aw, crap.'