Chapter 52 Gastly
After leaving Lampur City, Ash's group headed towards their next destination, Saffron City. They traveled by cruise ship to a port called Maiden's Gorge.
Misty looked at the bustling scene in the port. "There are so many people in this port!"
"It looks like there's some kind of celebration happening here." Ash pointed to the decorations and colorful flags hung around the port, creating a festive atmosphere.
"A celebration, doesn't that mean...?"
Brock's narrowed eyes instantly turned into heart shapes as he scanned the crowd for beautiful older women.
Just after disembarking, Brock noticed a young woman not far away. "Ah!? (♡▽♡) , So beautiful!"
Just as he was about to run over and introduce himself to the young woman he saw, Brock was trampled by a group of people.
At that very moment, the young woman transformed into a Gastly and disappeared.
"Ah, she's gone." Brock looked despondently in the direction the young woman had disappeared.
Pikachu also showed a confused expression.
"What's wrong with Brock?" Misty asked.
"I think Brock saw a beautiful young woman, and then she disappeared," Ash said.
"A beautiful young woman?" Misty was startled.
"Ash, you saw her too, right? Wasn't she beautiful?" Brock asked Ash, lost in self-admiration.
Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, the young woman's exquisite beauty seemed to have been etched into Brock's mind, impossible to forget.
"I did see you, but it wasn't a young woman."
Ash hadn't seen the young woman's face; he had only sensed the Aura fluctuations of a Ghost-type Pokémon.
"What do you mean?" Brock was utterly confused.
"What you saw was actually a Gastly."
"Gastly?!"
Misty's face showed a horrified expression.
"Didn't the promotional brochure for this port mention a legend? More than two thousand years ago, a young woman bid farewell to her beloved at this port, and then waited at this port for her beloved to return, eventually turning into stone. This Gastly must be fascinated by this story. The image of the young woman Brock saw was the image of the young woman from two thousand years ago," Ash explained.
"So that's it!" Both of them suddenly understood.
At this moment, a thin, pale-faced, white-haired Granny behind the three of them was a little flustered.
She was the Millennium Ghost transformed, and she thought to herself, "How does this human know about me?"
[Pokémon: Gastly]
[Gender: Female]
[Level: Gym Intermediate]
[Ability: Levitate]
[Potential: Quasi-Champion]
[Moves: Confuse Ray, Lick, Hypnosis, Mean Look, Payback, Grudge, Curse, Night Shade, Dazzling Gleam, Destiny Bond, Energy Ball, Giga Drain, Imprison, Psychic, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball...]
[Description: This is a Pokémon that has lived for a thousand years. It enjoys mischief and is extremely obsessed with love stories. It likes to tell the love stories it knows to humans who discover it in the form of pranks. Note: This Pokémon's Psychic power is extremely strong, and when combined with Hypnosis, it can produce unexpected effects. The Pokémon's original source has been lost, and its strength increases slowly.]
"Gastly, how about we find a place to chat?" Ash's voice rang out behind the Granny.
"Gastly? What Gastly, there's no Gastly, I'm just an old woman," Gastly said, feigning ignorance.
"Aura doesn't lie. Having lived for so long, you should know what Aura is, right?"
Blue light flickered in Ash's eyes, and a small Aura Sphere instantly appeared in his hand. Although an Aura Sphere couldn't harm Gastly, it could prove Ash's identity as a Aura Guardian.
"Alright, you guys follow me."
Upon seeing the Aura Sphere, Gastly immediately chose to comply. After a thousand years, not only had she learned to speak human language, but her knowledge was also extraordinary. While everyone possessed Aura, Gastly had only seen it used in such a way by a Aura Guardian.
Soon, led by Gastly, the three arrived at a small wooden cabin on the edge of a cliff. On the cliff edge in front of the cabin stood a stone statue of a young woman.
The moment Brock saw the stone statue, he was lost in thought.
"Gastly, that's the young woman you Role Played, isn't it?" Ash asked.
Gastly transformed back to her original form and looked at Ash and the others: "That's right, humans, would you like to hear her story?"
"I'm not interested in the story, but if this story were made into a movie, I might be a little interested. Gastly, every year at this time, you choose suitable people and force them to remember this young woman's story through pranks. Don't you think the effect is very limited?"
"What is a movie? Will many people watch it?"
"A movie is finding people to act out a story for the public to watch. Gastly, I think your story is very captivating. How about we make a deal? I'll invest in this project, and you become my Pokémon?" Ash suggested.
Gastly gave him a look as if he were an idiot. "Human, although you are a Aura Guardian, it's still daytime. Can you stop Sleep Talking with your eyes open?"
She thought Ash had something important to discuss with her, but it turned out to be just this? He wanted to get rid of her with just a movie? Was she that cheap?
"Gastly, I really want to catch you. How about we have a battle? If you lose, you come with me. If I lose, I'll find someone to turn your story into a movie, how about that?"
No matter win or lose, Ash wouldn't be at a disadvantage.
He actually had connections for making movies. After all, Ms. Diantha, the part-time Champion of the Kalos region, was a professional renowned actress. As the discoverer of the Fairy type, Ash knowing a Champion whose ace Pokémon was a Gardevoir shouldn't be a problem, right?
"Fighting is too tiring. It's not impossible for me to go with you. I also know legends from other places. If you help me turn those into movies as well, I'll go with you," Gastly said.
"You've wandered around other places too?"
Ash was stunned. Could it be that this Gastly had the template of an old protagonist?
"This port is very small, and the festival only happens once a year. Can't I go see other places?"
"Okay, how many other local legends do you know?"
Gastly calculated silently for a moment and said, "The ones I've seen with my own eyes plus the ones I've heard about, add up to nearly a hundred."
"Nearly a hundred? These wouldn't all be similar, would they?"
Ash was also calculating silently. If only three or five out of nearly a hundred were exciting, he could write a good script, then ask Diantha to find connections to turn them into movies, and he would make a huge profit, wouldn't he?
"Naturally, they are similar, but the endings and processes are all different."
Gastly didn't really understand how to categorize them. He only knew they were all related to love, and he didn't care if they were heartbreaking or not. He only knew it was fun to prank people using the backgrounds of these stories.
"Alright, I promise to turn all of these into movies."
Just like that, Ash effortlessly caught a Gastly.
"Ding, detected host captured special Gastly. Reward: 10,000 points, Master-level Screenwriting ability."
"???"
Hearing the reward broadcast suddenly stop, with no item-type rewards, Ash was very confused.
When he caught the giant Tentacruel, he received a Mystic Water as a reward. But for this Millennium Ghost, that's all he gets?
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