The Curse of Fear

Jenna’s victory dance was soon interrupted by a sudden, paralyzing terror, which she could not immediately pinpoint the source of. Floating lazily behind the newbie trainer, the Gastly chuckled to itself. The diminutive ghost pokémon was an expert in fear-based curses, and this one was a doozy. A few choice words, and boom! Instant vestiphobia. The idiot girl would likely never again be able to wear clothes without having a nervous breakdown.

While Jenna screamed in a terror she still couldn’t find the source of, the unnoticed Gastly quietly made its way to one of her Poké Balls and allowed itself to be caught. It wasn’t missing this for the world.

It took several more minutes for Jenna to piece together what was causing her distress. She was afraid of the very clothes on her back! What followed was a frenzy as the girl quite literally ripped her clothes off in a classic example of a “fight or flight” response.

The “problem” was out of the way, but...