52 The Mysterious Book part1 (1/2)

After resting he took out the books he bought at the antique store which attracted Haunter's gaze.

He took the book out of the backpack and looked at it's cover. It was pretty old book. The cover was made of rough paper and had a image of a menacing Gengar.

Even though the photo of the cover is blurred over time, the aura and the prestige of the Gengar on the cover hadn't faded.

Alex now tried toopen the book but no matter how hard he tried it wouldn't open. He thought the pages might be struck with some glue or something and he couldn't use water to weaken the bond or else it might damage it

He sent out Butterfree.

on being released, It floated on the air and seeing no battle around she sat on his head. And greeted the Eevee sitting beside Alex.

He told her about his problem andasked her to use psychic but nothing happened. She used all her powers but the book didn't even move.

Haunter too tried using psychic. Even then the combined powers of the two were ineffective.

This frustrated all of them and Eevee even wanted to blast it off with her shadow ball. The moment it reach the book, Haunter took it out of the way of the shadow ball.

But something unique happened. On contact with Haunter, the book began to grow purple and then the glow subsided.

Then Alex took the book and once again tried to open the book and this time he could open and turn the pages similar to any other book.

Alex saw that his pokemons were puzzled by this and looked at him for answer. Butterfree was disappointed that she wasn't able to help. Recently all the pokemons strength had been increasing exponentially but his growth was smaller compared to others as if he had stagnated.

This experience strengthened his belief that she was dragging the team down. Alex too knew her mind so he always tried to cheer her up whenever she was down.

He always told her that her strength was her powder warfare, her maneuvering and her speed. All the others were just a supplement to enhance her strengths.