 Our heroes arrive at a town where the local summer s end festival is being held. However, Brock, lamenting over his lack of summertime romance, is in no mood to celebrate; that is, until he spies a beautiful and mysterious woman. Meanwhile, Team Rocket sets their sights on the prospects of dropped change when James see the same woman. Both groups then meet an old, not-so-beautiful woman who warns them of a cruel fate brought about by the maiden. This is further driven in by an ancient picture of the same woman, painted over 2,000 years ago. The maiden had been waiting for her beloved to return from a war, but he never did, and her body eventually became the stone of the cliff she stood upon. Meanwhile, her ghost goes after both Brock and James, instead, and it s up to both groups working together to bring them back. But they may find that they can t trust anyone, especially not a certain ghost-type Pokémon...