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Dan could feel his heart sink in his chest when Trishella started talking all of a sudden. She had gone complete unnoticed, given the circumstances, which is why he was now looking at her like she committed some unholy sin. Taking a deep breath, he looked to Darts who suggested they look for this lantern, most likely to avoid further pissing this ghost off. "Yeah, sounds good to me. If it's part of the festival it should be on display somewhere. I'll get an aerial view; see if we can spot it then." Talon didn't really get much rest, but he really needed his help right now. He'd send the bird out again, asking to keep a lookout for a lantern. Once he took to the skies, Dan would nod to the others before beginning his search.

As for Electra, she was having a wonderful time getting to run about familiar roads. She didn't seem to be paying any attention to the device her trainer strapped onto her, even when it started speaking. And then she saw the lantern...which didn't interest her in the slightest; however, the human's gathered around it did. As she neared, the Pikachu could see they actually didn't seem too concerned about it. "Pika?" she squeaked, hopping onto the table. Something didn't sit right here...

"So let's summarize. There is a lantern, which is apart of this festival. For whatever reason the local ghost population, which includes several hybrids, are very angered over this lantern and want it returned to the Lost Tower. This still doesn't answer the question of what this chi signature is doing here, and what is causing it. I refuse to believe it's from the ghosts, or even the hybrids. Could it be the lantern perhaps?" Sub spoke.

"Dan's Pikachu has found a lantern." GRAY blurted out through their SNAGs.

"What? Where at?" GRAY wouldn't get a chance to answer that question as Odd's spiritual senses would trigger big time at that moment. He knew where it was now.

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As Electra neared the lantern the temperature around her would suddenly drop. No, that wasn't right. It didn't drop, in fact it stayed the same and yet it was bitterly cold. The cold wasn't anything of this world however, it was beyond the mortal realm. Electra was a Pikachu, a Pokemon, and all Pokemon seemed to have this latent sense trouble, and this thing oozed trouble. How vile it was.

The moment Electra got the courage to get close enough to the lantern and touch it (it called to her almost), an explosion of spiritual energy was released. The fabric between the mortal world and the spiritual torn open, the lantern being the bullet that pierced the wall and Electra was the one that fired it. Odd could feel the lantern now, as if it was not in this world until it was touched by Electra.

Electra was now no longer the same Pikachu as before, the lantern changed her immediately. She felt like she could do anything now, that the rules of the mortal world no longer applied to her. Even gravity was a big joke. All she could think about were two things; causing as much mischief as possible and her lantern. It was her's and only her's. Which might be a problem as now, all the sudden, the town folk were aware of her and her lantern.

"The lantern! That Pikachu has the lantern. Someone has to take it from it so it can still be taken to the tower." One person declared, the old man most near Electra. "I'm not." A younger boy blurted out. "No one is going to want to take it." A middle aged woman declared. "I will." Sighed a man in his twenties as he approached Electra. "Come here you little rat."

It'd be around this time that Amaranth got the new message GRAY had sent. "I think they already know," she remarked, trying her best to ignore the few images still being shown to her. It wasn't working perfectly, but she was far from being paralyzed by it. For now. Still, between the earlier mayhem from the Mareep and now Electra going crazy with power, hearing the commotion was impossible to avoid. At once, she recalled her Togekiss and hurried towards the crowd.


"Maybe. There's that old legend surrounding it, right? What if maybe-"

"Aden, discern it later!" Sol spoke up. "If there is something up with the lantern, his Pikachu holding it is among the worst ideas available." He immediately ran off in search of Electra, but considering the commotion, he doubted he'd have to search long at all.

"...I was just gonna ask if maybe the lantern really isn't from this plane..."

"If that's causing the chi signature, probably not. Odd or Darts would be able to figure that one out better than me, though." Otherworldly things weren't exactly Cera's forte. She and Aden opted to a more prepared role, both of them looking in the distance and hoping Odd would have a more pinpointed area than "follow the noise". Or even Darts, they weren't picky about ghosts. Usually.

Odd had started to say something when he was hit by such a forceful wave of energy that he nearly hit the ground. "GAH! What the hell?!" He demanded, positive someone had just struck him with a baseball bat. He spun around for a few seconds in search of the culprit before his senses came back to him and something registered in his conscious mind.

"That's not right." The emotion in his voice? Fear.

Not far from the bonfire, he could see a massive convergence of soul threads. The silver strands of spiritual energy emanating from that one point were so numerous he couldn't count them all and a sense of pure and undeniable evil wracked his soul even from this distance. "There's something seriously wrong over here." He called out to the others, starting in that direction in a dead run from the moment he started moving.

Trish nodded to Dan and followed after him, spreading out away from him a bit but keeping close to him at the same time. She preferred not getting lost again and wanted to keep someone in sight that might prevent that. Idina walked beside her the whole time, little sparks floating from her ears from time to time.

Electra shuddered as she sat next to the lantern which was an odd thing to happen next to a flame. Whatever this light was, she didn't like it, not one bit. The Pikachu thought about breaking it and be rid of the disgusting thing. Yeah, that seemed like the right thing to do. She reached out to touch it, a look of surprise appearing on the rodent's face. Or...maybe she could take it and keep it in good paws. Yeah, that seemed like the right thing to do. Electra felt this lantern was now rightfully hers as no one else wanted. Also, the light made her feel good, like really good! Like Rhyme on Zapdos Heart good! The mouse started snickering at her new found power when the stupid humans suddenly decided they wanted her "precious". The poor guy who stepped forward would discover he made a very poor decision in doing so as Electra emptied 100,000 volts into him. She laughed in a series of "Pika's", feeling a bit of a rush from all of this. The Pikachu brought the lantern into a hug, nuzzling it with a smile.

Dan's Braviary, who was circling the town above, spotted the flash of lightning and flew closer to investigate. Seeing that it was Electra and that she held a lantern, he tried to convince her to come with him but was only received with lightning. So he flew off to get his trainer instead...

"Braaaa!" the bird cawed out to Dan who was checking an empty kiosk. "What's up? You find the lantern?" He had to assume so as Talon slowed his speed as he soared away. Well that was a lot quicker and easier than he expected. The trainer followed behind, making sure to keep up with his pokemon.

Odd arrived just in time to see Electra attacking everything in sight and reacted as quickly as possible. "Cadenza! We need the lantern! Shadow Sneak." He called out as he released his Shedinja. "Dissonance, Stone Edge! We need walls to protect the townspeople." He said as he called out his Golurk.

The two Pokemon followed orders to the best of their abilities. Cadenza vanished into the shadows in an attempt to shock Electra into releasing the lantern while Dissonance summoned massive stone blades from the ground to wall the Electric-type in to the best of it's ability.