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Traveling by ferry from the holiday resort of [[Porta Vista]] to [[Maiden's Peak]], {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} find out that they have arrived in time for the annual [[Summer Festival]]. After the group decides to go and enjoy the festival, {{an|Brock}} sees a beautiful girl with flowing purple hair and a red flower standing on a nearby pier. He immediately falls in love with her, but after being run over by a group of tourists, he notices that the girl has disappeared. {{AP|Pikachu}} is the only one that seems to notice that the girl is actually a {{p|Gastly}}, but Ash and {{an|Misty}} don't seem to notice her at all.

Meanwhile, {{TRT}} follows Ash and his friends to Maiden's Peak and they come up with the idea to look around for dropped coins. [[James]] gets distracted by the same girl that Brock saw before, but [[Jessie]] slaps him to regain his attention. As they leave to look for the coins, James takes a final look at the dock and notices that the girl is gone.  

During the festival, Ash and his friends meet an old lady. She warns Brock that he should beware of a young, beautiful girl who will lead him to a cruel fate. After the old lady insults Misty, she decides that they should go somewhere else where they won't be insulted, and drags Ash and Brock with her. Meanwhile, while still looking for coins, James notices a penny lying on the walkway and goes to retrieve it, but is interrupted by the old lady who once again mentions the young girl. [[Officer Jenny]] appears and takes the coin James found. When she suggests that they go down to the station with her to fill out a report, Team Rocket stammers that everything is alright and that they do not need to go down to the station, before fleeing the scene.

Both Ash's group and Team Rocket head for the Shrine of the Maiden. They see the shrine's greatest treasure, a 2,000-year-old painting of the maiden. Brock and James both realize that the girl in the painting is the same girl they saw before, and both attempt to approach the painting but are blocked by a man presenting the painting to the audience. He tells the story of the maiden, who waited on the cliff for her loved one to return from the war, and eventually turned into stone. The two groups go to take a closer look at the cliff, and {{MTR}} formulates a plan to steal the painting, with the intention of selling it for a lot of money. As night falls, Brock is still at the cliff. Misty and Ash leave to enjoy the festival while Brock insists on staying at the cliff-side. When it is about time for the local [[Pokémon Center]] to lock the doors for the night, Brock still has not returned from the cliff, so Ash decides to go look for him, but [[Nurse Joy]] holds him back, giving Ash a short lecture on the importance of sleep.

In the middle of the night, {{MTR}} tries to wake up Jessie and James so they can try to steal the painting, but the two are not very eager to wake up. Suddenly, a strong wind blows, and the doors of the Maiden's Shrine open. The ghost of the maiden floats out, causes Meowth to fall asleep, and then wakes up James. She also shows herself to Brock, telling him that she's been waiting for him. Brock replies that he has been waiting, too. Ash and Misty start looking for Brock the next morning, while Meowth and Jessie search for James. Ash and Jessie meet face-to-face and notice that they both are looking for someone who is missing. Jessie performs the [[Team Rocket mottos|Team Rocket motto]] all alone, but then realizes that she can hear James saying his lines. James, and later Brock, are thrown out of the shrine. As they all try to return Brock and James to normal, the old lady appears again, reminding them of her warning about the ghost of the maiden. Pikachu shocks James and Brock, which finally restores them to their "normal" selves. They all head inside, and the old lady explains how all young men passing through Maiden's Peak fall into its curse. They decide to protect themselves from the ghost by buying a large quantity of {{wp|ofuda}} or anti-ghost stickers, and placing them around the shrine and the two cursed ones. However, when night comes, they note that the stickers do not work, and the ghost of the maiden returns. Ash and the others try to prevent Brock and James from being pulled out by the maiden.

 

Ash decides that it is his turn again and calls out {{AP|Charmander}}. Gastly summons a fire extinguisher, and Ash quickly recalls Charmander. He summons his {{AP|Squirtle}} and {{AP|Bulbasaur}}, but Gastly summons a {{p|Venusaur}} and a {{p|Blastoise}}, which causes Ash's {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} to become too scared to do anything, and just because it thinks it is fun, it combines them into a hybrid called "Venustoise". As a last resort, Misty tries to use a cross, garlic, a stake, and a hammer to ward off Gastly, comparing him to a vampire. However, the sun starts to rise once again, and, as Gastly hates sunlight, it disappears, warning that the ghost of the maiden and the old woman will return for next year's festival.