A gentle breeze drifted through the woods, carrying leaves along the worn dirt path where three trainers walked, laughing together. The forest to either side of them was thick and gloomy, the sunlight unable to penetrate the canopy of leaves. As such they hadn't noticed the 18-year-old boy who had been following them for the past hour, his blue eyes gazing out from the tree line to observe them.

He crept silently through the trees, his eyes moving between them, first watching the boy in the lead. He had a Pikachu perched on his shoulder and wore a distinctive red and white cap, he'd already worked out that this was Ash Ketchum, famous for his successes in some tournaments. Behind him strode a tall boy with black hair and a strange squint, Ash's good friend Brock, the pewter city gym leader. he thought for a moment, weighing up if either of them could be a threat to him and his plan before deciding not, after all they wouldn't even know anything had happened.

His eyes moved from those two to the beautiful redhead behind them, his eyes trailing over body. She wore a pair of shorts, which exposed her long, slim legs and just covered her sweet round arse, which swayed provocatively as she walked. Her top was a low cut strap top in ocean blue, showing off her cleavage. Her arms were long and slim, perfectly formed with almost dainty hands, he wondered how soft they were and reflected that he could soon find out. Moving up he gazed at her face, which was framed by her distinctive red hair hanging loose around her shoulders. Her pretty face gazed out at the forest around her, her sweet pink lips parting to laugh at a joke Ash made. He felt a surge of jealousy as he watched this but quelled it, soon he would have those soft lips for himself.

He continued to stalk to group for another hour or so before dusk fell and the trio set up camp for the night, and as they sat around a campfire in the fading light he set his plan into motion. Silently he unclipped two Pokeball's from his belt and dropped them to the ground. The opened in a brief flash of light and revealed a Victreebell and a Tangrowth, who stood and waited for the mans command.
"All right, I need both of you spray to some sleep powder in their direction ok? I want that whole clearing asleep in five minutes." The two Pokemon nodded silently and turned to face the clearing, Victreebell using its vines to pull itself up into a tree and lifting its leaf to let a golden stream of dust out as Tangrowth did the same from within its tangled mass of vines. The breeze caught the twin streams of gold and carried them out across the camp, floating around the trio and their Pikachu.

"Guys, isn't that beautiful?" He perked up as he heard misty speak. "Look at the dust in the setting sun, it's so pretty, I wonder where it came from.... Kind of makes you sleepy, don't you agree guys?" He watched as she turned slowly, fighting to keep her eyes open in time to see Ash and Brock slump sideways off their seats onto the ground, Pikachu already lying face down on a log. "Guys?" she whispered softly before her eyelids dropped and she slid slowly to the ground to lie in the grass, now glittering softly with golden powder.

In the shadows of the forests edge the man sat with his Pokemon and smiled cruelly to himself, staring at Misty's sleeping form. "Now your beauty belongs to me."