The Ruins of Lavender Town — Mark Mulle

Something spooky is happening in the ruins of Lavender Town, and it's up to Embry to find out! Dear Diary, We had a newcomer at the village today! He was very strange, and he spoke of a faraway city all in ruins. No one has lived there in years, not since the humans went away, and he says it's all crumbling walls and empty houses. This sounds just like the adventure I've been needing ever since I came home from the Fire Festival â€" everything back home has been so boring. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that any of my friends want to go with me, but that's okay! After all, I went to the Festival all on my own at first, and I made great friends along the way. I'm sure this adventure will work out the same way. The only thing I'm a little worried about is that the town is supposedly haunted. No one knows why everyone left the city, or at least not anyone I talked to. The stranger said that I probably shouldn't go alone, but I don't see what the problem could be, it's just an empty city. Right? But that's not what the travelers on the road said. One of them told me that the city is haunted by malicious spirits, and that I do better to go somewhere else for my adventure. Now I can't resist â€" an abandoned, ancient city full of ghosts? What makes for a better story, diary? Nothing that I can think of! So far everything has been going smoothly, much more so than my travel to the Fire Festival. Even without Pearl I'm not terribly lonely, as there are many Pokemon on the road. Yet everyone says the same thing â€" to leave the city alone. What's the big deal? Don't they know they're just making me more curious with all these vague answers? I've got to find out, diary. I'm going to Lavender Town.