[Spruce]
After about half an hour of running around and rescuing whatever stragglers I came across, I was suddenly brought back into reality when I heard M shout "Spruce, what in Arceus' name is THAT?!" I turn to see where he was looking, and all I could describe it as was... well... imagine if suddenly, in some random area, gravity just said 'Yeah, I quit' and everything just sort of started spiraling from some sort of center... in this case, the center appeared to be where the void crystal used to be, and worse, there appeared to be some unfortunate pokemon caught up in the mess... a carvanha, a few magikarp, and a buizel were all victims to this mess, and none of them looked as though they would last too much longer in there. "I... have no clue..." I admit to M, answering his question. I then see that shape again and that bubble that went with it, as well. I could vaguely make out a sort of lizardlike shape, but before I could give any warning, they were right there, a purple charmeleon, and his similarly-colored vulpix assistant, in front of us, with a void crystal in hand. I didn't know what to do, except, possibly, attack. I did so with my void whip, but, that seemed to just bounce off of the charmeleon's scales. He smiled at that, and, without saying a word, just decides to attack back, using flamethrower. Thankfully, the water around me weakened the attack, but, it still hurt quite a bit. I look towards my team, and say "Um... just... attack? Please? I mean, it's obvious they're the culprits," I had no battle plan, no way of dealing any significant damage, and worse... they both had a way of nearly KOing me in one hit... this wasn't going to end well for me.
[Anthony]
I tried and failed to hit the thing with a tackle, and it turned towards Terra, and used some sort of weird move that seemed to somehow make her sleep even more painful. "We have to find a way to turn on the lights! If we don't do something soon, Terra will just slip into... *gulp* the big sleep... so to speak," I inform my team. Considering how much she struggled against her own dreams and sleep, it didn't seem like we had very long. Daniel tried to hit the thing with his shadow rush, and somehow managed to hit him. A scream of pain from the enemy told me, as well as the rest of the team that someone finally hit the thing, and, thankfully, with another shadow move. I then hear Daniel say something "I... remember an old saying that my mom used to tell me... as black as night, a creature made of naught but fright. Be careful where you rest your head, else you may wake up dead. The one piercing blue eye, be wary of he who calls himself Darkrai... but this thing can't be what she was talking about, right?" With what I've seen with Terra thus far, something told me that this creature, apparently called 'Darkrai' might just be our mystery pokemon. If that was the case, and such a thought sent a chill down my spine, then this might be our last adventure... and it would also explain why the victini didn't want to go down here. Odd, though, that a dark type would pass down a story about avoiding some other dark type... but, maybe this thing was evil and dark even by their standards. I tried again, this time with absorb, but, like my past attempts, the pitch-blackness of the area, which our enemy blended into made me miss. The creature launched another attack, this time in the form of some sort of ghostly wind, which didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, and, heck, Daniel seemed to shrug the move off somehow.
[Bonnie]
"Well, thanks, but it's not like I was really in that much danger... these forest pokemon don't seem all that tough, though, I haven't seen Samuel around... shouldn't he be with you?" I say to William as I continue through the forest. Tini seemed oddly quiet, but, knowing him, he was overdue for a random outburst, or something. I notice that same oddish that put me to sleep earlier, and run up to him, using frustration as soon as I get close enough. The oddish falls down instantly, and I turn to say "See? No problem. Next time, just let me wake up in the forest, alright?" I then start hopping along the path, only to find myself in some completely random area with a waterfall nearby. There was some sort of old, moldy, and probably stinky tree house nearby. From the look of the thing, I was just amazed that it was still standing, and heck, I could just barely make out a family name on the place... 'The Birches'. Why anyone, let alone an entire family would live in a place like this was beyond me, but... maybe they left something behind before they died or moved. I kinda hoped they did, 'cause I didn't know what kind of supplies we had at this point. "Hey, William, wanna check this place out?" I ask William as I already start climbing up the vines in order to reach the place. The vines seemed much newer than the house, and looked healthier than the tree that the house stood on, so, I only had to assume that they weren't there when the family was, and must have grown over the tree during the time that they were gone. I don't know why but I almost felt as though I knew someone from this family... of course, that feeling didn't last long, and wasn't enough to keep me away from any possible treasure that they might have stored in their house and forgot about.
