Misty looked at her coffee. " Misty.. Where is Ash?" the police officer questioned. " I told you I dont' know." Misty's face was emotionless. Ash was gone. She was alone. That was all she could think about. She was a nervous wreck after Ash just dissapeared. A cop had been driving by and had seen her and Ash right after Marissa left. The cop picked her up and took her to the station not knowing anything else to do. the cop had told his story of what he saw and the Cheif sorta misinterperted it. There had been a group of psycic kids running about the neighborhood makking people dissapear and he wanted to know what happened to them. He just figured that Misty was one of them. How else could that Ketchum kid of just dissapeared into thin air? So he sent her into the questioning room with the new rookie cop. The cop leaned over the table and looked Misty in the eyes. Misty was disgusted with the lanky greasy faced cop whose nose was just 3 inches away from hers. " How did you kill him? Huh? You enjoyed it didn't you? You got a few dates and a bit of money out of his pocket and then you wasted him huh? Just tell me one thing.... did you enjoy watching him die?" He looked at her cocky. He was trying to pry a confession out of her. He was a new cop, just graduated, and he decided to do it like it was done on TV. He decided to pry a confession out of her with emotion. Misty's head snapped up. Her eyes were a swirling turquoise blue. HOW DARE HE!!! She would never do anything to hurt Ash!!!!! Much less KILL HIM! Her rage grew out of control. A feeling deep within her started to stir.... a feeling of power.... suddenly a crash of thunder roared outside the police station. rain and hail poured down relentlessly harder than ever before. She started to glow with a dull greenish blue light. From the ground a tornado of water wisped and whirled around her. " I WOULD NEVER HURT ASH!!!" She screamed. The room crashed as water exploded from Misty and slammed into the police officer. He was knocked into the wall hard. Then Misty stopped with the flow of water. calmed down, and still glowing with the greenish blue light she walked over to the officer kneeled down and looked him straight in the eye and said with tear filled eyes. " I love him. I would never do anything to hurt him. And don't you ever doubt that." He nodded his head hard and Misty went and sat back in the chair. Then she realized at that moment she wasn't Misty anymore.. she was someone else. She looked at her hands glowing blue. No... Misty didn't glow blue. Misty didn't control the water. She was someone else.. she had transformed.. into.... she had transformed into... "Kimi" Misty, no.... Kimi, said as she realized her name. Then she transformed back into Misty. "Woah.." Misty said. For about 20 minutes she just sat there transforming back and forth... back and forth... back and forth.. Misty was facinated with her new power. Then she turned to the cop still lying on the floor staring at her. " Can I leave now?" Kimi said( Misty had transformed) The cop's eyes were opened wide not even blinking as he nodded his head viguously. Then she left. As Kimi. Walking out of the police station as if nothing had happened. While everyone in the building watched her with fear filled eyes. She then transformed back into Misty and headed towards the hotel. When she got there she found Brock crying at the phone. She ran up to him. " Brock What's wrong? What is it Brock?" Brock took in a deep shaky breath. " It's my dad.. He's in the hospital....:" Brock was devastated. He had just met his father a year ago and he never got a chance to get to know him and now he might die! And his siblings! They must of gotten attached to him by now! His siblings... his siblings! What had become of them?!" What happened? How did it happen?" Misty questioned with wide open eyes. He looked at her with sad eyes and said " All my brothers and sisters are missing. My dad was awake long enough to tell the nurse what happened and then he passed out. He said a kid came in. A kid with psysic powers. A kid that encased all my brothers and sisters in balls of fire and took them away." Misty held a hand over her mouth gasping. Brock continued. " My father described the kid that took my siblings away." Misty's eyes grew wide. Somewhere inside her she knew what happened. But she wasn't sure. It was just a feeling from deep inside her mind. Barely noticeable... but it was still there. " The kid...." Brock started as he walked to the window. " perfectly matched Ash's description. Perfectly." Misty gasped. She fell down into a chair hard. Brock walked up to her. His face was hard with terrror driven rage. " Why did he do that Misty?! I know you know why! Tell me Please!" He said as his face softed from anger to tears. "He didnt do it." She stated as she stared blankly into space. Brock was about to yell at her about how he was SEEN AND IDENTIFIED AT THE HOUSE but she went onbefore he could. " Marissa did it. Not Ash.. she has complete comtrol over his body. All he can control is his voice and his expressions. He's totally helpless. and... and... there's nothing I can do....." She still stared into space with tears streaming down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Misty. I didn't know.. just... I don't want my family to die..." Then Misty collapsed into Brock's arms. " It's okay Misty. It's okay.." he said as he cried along with her. He held her tight and rubbed her back like a baby trying to calmher down. He spoke words of encouragement even though he felt he was the one to be consulted. " We'll find some way to find him. We will save him Kimi. We will." Misty stopped crying abruptly. She shook out of Brock's grasp eye's wide. She backed away from him. " What?" Brock said confused. " You... you called me Kimi! You didn't call me Misty you called me Kimi!" Brock put his hand over his mouth and gasped. " Your'e right! I did!" he then noticed why. He pointed at her and said " Look at yourself Misty!" Misty looked down. She was Kimi. She had transformed just at the thought of Ash. Then she looked at brock staring at her. Then she looked back from her hands, glowing bluish green, and then back again at brock. She then laughed and smiled at brock. " This is gonna take a lot of explaining to do!"

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Marissa looked at the children encased inside the firey bubble. The small child once again steppd out of her evil mind. The little 5 year old gasped with happiness at the people in her cave. " Friends! Now I have someone to play with!." Marissa spoke calmly to the inner child who wanted to go and play so badly. " First we have to go get more friends." The child was delighted. " More friends?!" She jumped happily! She always wanted friends! Always! Now she would get them! She was so happy! And for once in a long time she smiled. Friends! Oh what a concept....... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"KImi?!" He looked around him. He looked and looked but could not find her. The fog.. it was everywhere... he couldn't see! "Kimi! Where are you Kimi? KIMI?!" He screamed into the darkness. He had to find her. He had to save her before Puplan could steal her from this world! He had to find her! " Hikaru? Are you there? HIKARU ANSWER ME!" He turned around. "KImi!" He ran up to her. He ran with his arms opened. But then he stopped.. or he tried to stop. He just realized the dull glow of fire surronging his body. and the bright blue water essence surronding Kimi. He tried to stop. he didn't wanto to die.But he tripped and fell right into her. Both of them were transformed. Water.. and Fire. He screamed. The chilling pain running through him. Kimi Screamed " Hikaru! Stupid Stupid! Why didn't you transform back? Why Why?!" She started to pound the ground crying. She looked at him as he lay sprawled on the ground, his light slowly diminishing. Steam rose all around him as he started to die out... and he was sprawled on the ground as steam from Kimi's body, evaporating in to the air. He lay there spwraled on the ground as he died.....as THEY died....'

"KIMI!" Ash screamed. He leaped from his sleep and into pain as he lay on the ground. He moved his eyes down as far as possible. Marissa still had his body in an iron grip. he was covered in a coat of cold sweat. His eyes were wide with fear. Then his face tensed up and he started to speak to himself.

"Who... Who's Kimi?" His mind reeled with confusion. Kimi... kimi, kimi, kimi.... he had heard that name before... but where? Where was if from? and who was it? Marissa swaggered into the room. She went over to Ash. He lay on the ground covered in sweat. She sneered at him. She kneeled down and sarcastically mocked him."Awwww.... Ashy have a bad dream? Poor baby." Her burnt, crippled, charred hand still hurt like anything. And she hated him for making her experience such pain. She kicked him. "Serves you right!" Then she walked over to the children. They backed away from her and into the metal bars surronding them. She willingly, for almost the first time, let the scared little child in her head leave the confinements of her insanity. She let the child out... she let the child out and play... but more than just come out of the corner in her mind.. she became the child. A swirl of mist slowly surronded her and encased her body. It slowly cleared... and in the middle of it was....was.... Marissa! But not the old Marissa.... the young Marissa. The one true Marissa. The one that no one loved....

******* FLASHBACK ..... 2 years ago.........FLASHBACK *********

" You stupid!! Stupid Stupid! That was my best shirt!" Joel kicked his child. He then picked her up and stuffed her in the corner. She was 3 years old! She should know how to iron by now! How dare she ruin his best shirt! He had an interview today! He went to his room and fished out another one. " Now you stay there and DON'T YOU MOVE!!" The abusive father ran out the door not bothering to drink his coffee. Marissa stayed in the position her father had kicked her in for 3 hours untill she was sure he was gone. She wandered to the window. She looked at the children outside in the street. They were having fun. There was a boy. He looked like he was having so much fun. Him and his mother were playing catch. Her small child heart filled with sorrow. why....why didn't she have friends? Wait.. .she knew. She was a bad person. Even her own Papa hated her. She had to be a bad person if her Papa hated her. Then she walked into the kitchen. She looked on top of the refrigerator. She saw the large buldging package of chocolate chip cookies. Her stomach growled. Her father hadn't bothered to feed her last night and he didn't this morning either. She looked up sorrowfully at the large jar of cookies on the fridge top, almost 3 times her height. She would never reach up there. She lifted her hand. She reached. She reached as far as she could for the cookies. She squinted her eyes as sweat ran over her face. The jar started to rumble... it started to vibrate. it shook and shook and then fell! It fell fast, heading straight for Marissa's head. She screamed and raised her hands to try to block the heavy jar falling fast to hurt her. But after 5 minutes it hadn't hit her. She opened her eyes. Her hands were glowing....... and so was the jar,as it floated in mid air. she raised her hand and the jar moved higher. She lowered her hand and the jar slowly moved lower. She lowered it to the ground and then stuffed as many cookies as she could into her mouth. Then she started to wander. It wandered to the locked room in the very back of the small apartment. The room she never saw. If she ever went in there Papa would maybe go to the lengths of murder to stop her. He had killed the cat because she had entered that room. What would make her any different? But now...... now she might be able to get it open. She walked to the room. She made her hand glow, and then the door knob. She shook her hand back and forth violently and the doorknob did the same. Soon it was loose enough and she entered the room. She was instatnly sorry she went in there. There were knives and torture devices in racks all over the wall. In the middle of the room there was a pedastool with a book. A big, fat, glowing book. She walked towards the book almost unwillingly. She reached up and touched the leather cover. Then she pulled it back. She looked at the fingertips that had touched the book. They were sparking and electricity danced over them. It didn't hurt.... but it filled her with a power that wasn't her own. She then overcame her fears, pushing the demons of abuse and lonliness deep down where they could not reach her. She opened the book. On the inside cover of the book there were the gnarled words .....I......AM..PUPLAN.... there were childish words. Written by someone who had just learned how to spell their name. Then she turned the first page. *PWHISHHHH* Light ran through her veins, her nerves were on fire! Knowledge... Knowledge of all magic... all the magic in the book... knowledge of the book itself flooded endlessly into her brain. She knew then... She knew then what her father was and she knew that what she was capable of. She knew how to get away and she knew how to make people her friends. And she knew how to grow up. How to become someone that no one could abuse. She knew how to become an adult. She wanted this power.... to be able to do whatever she wanted. she needed to be grown up. She had to. She placed her hand on the evil, golden pages. Power surged through her veins. Slowly the ceiling grew closer and the floor grew father away from her now 17 year old eyes. She was a grown up! Now she could do anything! ANYTHING!. CREEEEEEAK! Her father! The door! He was home. The procedure took longer than she had predicted. A wave of fear racked her body. Papa was going to catch her! She wasn't supposed to do this! She was going to be punished! She would be bruised and hit and hurt and sent to her room with no food for days! NO... no! She was a grown up! Nothing could hurt her! Nothing could hurt grown ups! She grabbed the book firmly in her hands. " MARISSA! YOU WORTHLESS PEICE OF CRAP! WHERE ARE YOU?! I TOLD YOU TO STAY IN THE CORNER!" Her father stormed through-out the house untill he came to the last room in the house. His face burned red with Fury as he saw the door slightly ajar " No....... no you didn't!!!!!! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU! I AM GOING TO WRAP YOUR NECK IN A BARB WIRE AND HANG YOU OVER A BURNING FIRE!" He crashed the door down only to find Marissa, A 17 YEAR OLD! NO! no she couldn't of! She would't! He screamed to himself. That book was his and only his! Ever since he learned how to write his name.. Puplan.... anyone who touched that book was killed Nerve endingings burned to a cristp, collapsed heart, and a mass of exploded brain in their skull! This was impossible!. "Hi Papa, I mean hi Puplan. I'm grown up not and you can't hurt me!" Her father strode up to her and slapped her back and forth 5 times. " OH YES I CAN! YOU MIGHT KNOW MY MAGIC BUT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT!" She fell on the ground as he kicked her laughing. " YOU don't have any idea how to comprehend my magic! HA HA AHA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!" She grimaced. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she realized the injustice. But..... Grown-ups can't be hurt! She screamed in her head. Then she realized, Grown-ups couldn't be hurt but Marissa could. Everybody hates her. People with no friends were hurt all the time. If she had some friends she wouldn't ever be hurt! And she was going to get friends if it killed her. " STOP IT PAPA!" She screamed as loud as she could. He roared with the pain of her high pitched shriek magnified by the magic of the book. Darkness swirled around him as he transformed into Puplan.

**** Author's note: Remember Ash's dream? He had to save Kimi from PUPLAN! Get it, Get it......?****

His eyes were blackness and his hands glowed red. He started slowly walking to Marissa. She screamed and threw a chair at him. He wasn't hurt. She threw everything she could get her hands on. But he still came slow and steady, to surely kill her. She was backed into a corner.. there was nothing she could do! She was going to die. He held her arms against her body as he slowly peirced her skin with his now forming claws. Blood slowly dribbled down her leg as she cryed out to her mother, where ever she might be. If she even had a mother. But deep down inside she knew that she must have a mother. Everybody does. And if her Papa was this mean her Mother must love her. Mother's are the good ones. Or at least they are supposed to be. Marissa felt the wall behind her. She patted the wall all over untill she found one of the many knife rack's on Papa-- on Puplan's-- wall.She grabbed the sharpest knife she could find and gripped the handle. Then she screamed as loud as she could. Her father couldn't resist clamping his hands over his ears, enen if only for a second. But that was enough time for her. She jabbed the knife into his cheast . He didn't even scream. He fell to the floor and the darkness was suddenly pulled away from him. Then 2 people laid on the ground. Her father, the person, and beside him a person shaped cloud of darkness. The darkness suddenly WHOOSED towards her. It engulfed her and entered her brain before she could tell herself to breathe. Then suddenly she was Puplan... the dark force that engulfed her father now engulfed her. She was possesed with the true essence of Puplan.... and she was angry. She grabbed the book and charged out the window. She then flew to her secluded island to begin her-- to begin Puplan's mission. But first she would complete her own.... She would have friends... no matter what.

***** END OF FLASHBACK.******

For half an hour she played with the children who, despite how nice she was to them, were still afraid of her. She then walked away to her bed as she was ,sleepy. Ash watched her leave and sighed a breath of relif. He looked at the children. They were huddeled together and crying. They would never see their father again. Never..... they would never see Brock again! And Brock would never see even a faint trace of his siblings and only parent member he had left. He pictured in his mind Brock, crying. Brock was one of the best and friendliest guys he had ever met. Ash's best friend degrated down to tears by Ash himself. And the children would have to entertain Marissa untill.... untill.... Ash grimaced in determination. Untill he did something. He closed his eyes and thought of a way, any hopeless way to get out of this mess. He saw none. After 5 hours he didn't even see a sliver of hope in his drained mind. He started to cry. There was no way. he would be stuck with marissa forever! It was inevitable! He started to cry harder with anger and hate. The rage he held for Marissa started to increase and fill him like his own blood. His eyes snapped open as he was totally engulfed in anger, hate, and rage. He screamed out in anguish. Suddenly something clicked..... he was someone... someone else... he was.. he was... Hikaru! And he was going to, one way or another, make sure Marissa knew that name very very well.....

TO BE CONTINUED!