Cranidos woke up from his slumber on Mawile's couch in the living room. Wasn't keen on sleeping with Mawile yet. He lets out a big yawn and went to check up on Mawile. When he went to her bedroom, she was still asleep but seemed to be having a nightmare. Cranidos was worried that his girlfriend was having these nightmares for a while.

"Mawile! Are you ok?", Cranidos shouts in a worried voice.

Cranidos walks to Mawile and tries to wake her up. she finally woke up with two good shakes from Cranidos.

Mawile cries a river and hugs Cranidos, "Cranidos! I had the worst nightmare ever! I dreamt that you were going to leave me and you did some horrible things to me, and I couldn't wake up from it!"

Cranidos had a shocked expression and tells Mawile, "Well... I'm still your boyfriend and I have no reason to leave you. What did you do that made me leave you?"

"That's the thing! I don't know! I'm scared, Cranidos!", Mawile started to cry immensely and Cranidos tried to comfort her.

Cranidos sighs, "I'll figure out how to fix your nightmares, I hope they just don't get any worse."

Mawile looks at Cranidos with loving eyes and smiles, "Really? Thank you! I don't ever want to sleep until this problem is sorted out."

"Good, because I don't want to be the only one who is having nice dreams around here.", Cranidos patted Mawile's back and rubs it. "Now let's go to town! I feel like exploring today!"

Mawile nods and they head off to the town of Pokeport, they were greeted by their friends upon arrival and they noticed Mawile doesn't look too good.

Psyduck was first to say something as he was always the rude one out of the group, "Soo... what's wrong with your girlfriend, Cranidos? Psy." Still going by saying 'Psy' a lot.

Cranidos replies to Psyduck and making sure everyone else hears this, "I don't know, I woke up fine but I saw that Mawile wasn't and I felt worried for her."

Nidorino and Nidorina looked at each other as they looked like they know something's up, Nidorino explained to them with contempt, "You aren't going to like this, but... there's might be a Pokemon responsible for this."

Cranidos was furious and shouts, "What?! If it's Yveltal again, I swear I'm gonna-"

Nidorino interrupts Cranidos and tries to clears things up, "It's not Yveltal, I banished him from this town for good and I hope to Arceus he keeps that. It's a Pokemon who is the causer of bad dreams... Darkrai!"

Everyone else gasped but Cranidos as he doesn't know him, he replies with a, "Who?"

Everyone but Cranidos falls anime style and Mawile explains it to Cranidos, "He is a dark legendary Pokemon who goes to Pokemon's dreams and makes it a complete nightmare.

Cranidos scoffs and says, "He doesn't scare me, obviously I didn't get his nightmares so he's doing his job poorly."

Nidorino and Nidorina was shocked to hear this and asks Cranidos, "You didn't get the nightmares? We of us did! How did you resist his dark void?"

Cranidos crosses his arms and replies confidentally, "I guess I'm too strong for his nightmare fuel!"

Nidorino continues with his conversation about Darkrai, "Whatever the case shall be, It seems we need someone to fix this, I should say that Cranidos should since he is unaffected with it."

Cranidos objects to this decision and says, "Me? No way! I am not fixing this problem, you guys should stop being cowards and fix this yourselves."

Mawile looks into Cranidos' eyes and says to him, "Please? If you won't do this for them at least do this for me. I'm a victim to this too, you know."

Cranidos sighs and says, "Alright... for Mawile. So, how do I fix this?

"Alright... you need to stop him in the act, we need you to go into someone's dream and take care of him from there.", Nidorino explains to Cranidos. "Now, who will do the sleeping?"

Mawile steps forward and says, "I will! It also will be a wonderful experience for Cranidos to see my dreams up close."

Nidorino nods and says to Nidorina, "Alright, will you get Hypno for me, dear?"

Nidorina smiles and says, "Why of course, my love!" She walks off to fetch Hypno.

"Hypno creeps me out, with his big nose and his pendulum. Psy... I can think of lots of stories about him.", Psyduck says to everyone.

"What did you say about me?", an unknown voice says, It was soon shown to be Hypno's voice.

Psyduck panicked and says to him sheeply, "Me? Psy... I didn't say anything!"

"Well... who here is going to be the one sleeping?", Hypno asks the group.

Mawile raises her and and steps forward to Hypno, "Me, I will."

Hypno nods and raises his pendulum at her and moves it in a side to side manner, it make Mawile go to sleep on the ground, Hypno then tells everyone, "Back off of her, this can be a bit dangerous if you don't give her room to dream!"

Mawile started to have frightened expressions and Cranidos was getting worried again.

Hypno tells Cranidos, "She's your girlfriend right?" Cranidos nods. "Well... then you'll be doing the honor and going into her dream."

Cranidos nods, Hypno started to use some psychic attack and turns Cranidos into particles of light and it goes into Mawile.

Psyduck didn't know what just happened and blurts out, "Psy! What happened to Cranidos just now?!

Hypno replies to Psyduck, "Relax... I just transported his physical being into Mawile's subconcious. Just like how Darkrai does it, this is the only way to harm Darkrai as your subconcious self cannot harm him."

Psyduck understands with a "Oh...psy." Hypno faces Mawile and back at Psyduck, "You're a psychic Pokemon, correct?"

"Psy... I suppose so." , Psyduck responds to Hypno. "Well... I need you do keep an eye for Mawile as I need to keep Cranidos access to the real world. Can you do that?"

Psyduck nods and goes next to Mawile. Hypno keeps swinging his pendulum to keep Cranidos' exit from the dream world.

At the dream world... Cranidos floats out from a portal from the physical world, he looks around puzzled as to what he's seeing, random barrage of stuff in the sky, he pretends to ignore those and travel ahead to find Mawile, he finally sees her with another Cranidos.

"What? Who is that? He better not try to steal Mawile from me!", Cranidos whispers to himself while spying on Mawile and the other Cranidos.

Mawile asks the Cranidos, "Don't leave me! I can't stand this!"

The Cranidos says, "Face it! You're annoying, you like mushy things and the face that I just plain don't like you." A bunch other Cranidos' appear from nowhere. "The other mes think so,too."

Cranidos understood what's happening and says, "Oh... It's the dream representation of me. Of course I would say those things before but Mawile should know I don't think that way of her anymore." Cranidos walks up to the copies of dream him. The Cranidos clones see him and say, "Let's beat it! It's the real Cranidos!" They run off and fade into nothing.

Mawile is still crying and Cranidos comes to her and hugs her, Mawile then says to Cranidos, "Why would you say such hurtful things and then hug me?"

Cranidos then comforts her and says, "I would never say those things, you should know that by now." Mawile looks at Cranidos and says, "Wait, something's off with you."

Cranidos then tells Mawile, "That's because I'm the real Cranidos, those guys are the jerkwads in your dreams." Mawile gets really excited and says, "Oh my gosh! You're in my dreams! This is really cool!" Cranidos get confused as Mawile should know that he was going into her dreams anyway.

Hypno appears from nowhere, he explains it to Cranidos, "This isn't really Mawile, just her subconscious, her deep feelings is stored in this one." Hypno vanishes.

"Oh." , Crandos says as he gets it, Mawile or in this case, Dream Mawile says to Cranidos, "I can't believe you're actually here! You are a lot cuter than I imagine. Can you please come with me?" Dream Mawile grabs Cranidos' claw and drags him to her house. Inside it looked wierd and trippy looking, what Cranidos expected from a dream.

"Please sit." Dream Mawile said to Cranidos is a cheery happy tone. Cranidos sat down, Dream Mawile sat real close to him and made him feel uncomfortable. Cranidos spoke to Dream Mawile, "We have to talk.", she got worried thinking it was a breakup since it always starts like that. In a panicked voice, she replies, "Oh no! I knew it! You are going to break up with me! I promise whatever I did wrong I can change. Please don't leave me!

Cranidos freaks out with her freaking out and settles her down by saying, "It's not that! It's-" He gets cut off by Dream Mawile saying, "Oh good! I thought you were going to break up with me. I was so gonna freak out." Cranidos shouts something to her, "Focus! I'm trying to tell you something important! Darkrai is the cause of your nightmares. The reason those fake mes were haunting you! Now do you understand now?"

Dream Mawile thought for a moment and then was alerted, "Oh yeah! I remember now! Sorry, Cranidos. I just get caught up in my dreams I let go of my reality." She turns around to one side then to the other then finally back at Cranidos, "I hope you forgive me." "Of course I forgive you... you are my girlfriend... well the subconcious of my girlfriend." Dream Mawile giggles at Cranidos and hugs him.

Hypno reappears next to them, Dream Mawile recognizes him but didn't know how he got there. "I can go into Pokemon's dreams, like Darkrai could, but I keep my physical form in the real world. Are you two ready to fight Darkrai?" Dream Mawile with huge enthusiasum replies, "You bet I am, what about you, Cranny?" Cranidos raises a claw in the air and shouts, "I was hatched ready! Bring him on!"

Hypno is impressed with their spirit, "Love that confidence in you two, however, this isn't such an easy task to accomplish. He lurks in the deepest parts in your dreams and tries to corrupt it. You two must find him in it and stop him! Good luck!" He disappears once again, Cranidos and Dream Mawile explore Mawile's dreams until they find what Hypno was telling them about.

Cranidos looks around Mawile's dream world, bunch of flowery things and mostly girly objects around making him feel unconfortable. "Ehh... this part of your dream is making me nervous. And the fact that it smells like perfume is also making me nausious." Dream Mawile looked at him and smiles, "Hee hee! What kind of perfume, Cranidos?" Cranidos scratched his head and replies, "Err... I don't know... Do you think I go around all day sniffing perfumes? Dream Mawile laughs and smacks towards a stone wall up ahead by accident. She covers her mouth with one hand and says, "Oops... are you ok?"

Cranidos popped off the wall falls on his back with swirls in his eyes, "Man... how the heck are you that strong?" Dream Mawile giggles and explains to Cranidos, "I can be as strong as I want to be, usually when I'm very happy." She walks up to Cranidos and notices he was out cold, she decided to give him a big kiss, this made Cranidos shot up and the air like a rocket and land right on the ground headfirst. Dream Mawile laughs at him playfully.

Cranidos gets up all frustrated, and proceeds to yell at her, "Why did you do that?! I don't like when Pokemon mess with me when I'm sleeping!" Cranidos looks down from where he landed and it created a cracked opening to a glowy dark place, "This looks like the center of dreams or whatever Hypno called it. Well, lets go..."

Dream Mawile was tearing up at Cranidos yelling at her, the world started to get cloudy and she started crying, it rained after that. Cranidos tried calming her down and gently tells her, "Hey, look... we found the place, lets go." Dream Mawile started to cry more and it rained harder, Cranidos hates water and tried to go in the opening but was rejected.

Cranidos tried to calm her down more, "I'm sorry! Don't cry! I didn't mean it, I was just agitated from the impact, that's all!" This didn't work as Dream Mawile cried even more, it created a tornado in the background, Cranidos is freaking out as it comes towards him. Cranidos tries to hug Dream Mawile but a forcefield prevented him from doing so.

Cranidos didn't know what to do as it seems that Dream Mawile is more sensitive than the real Mawile. Cranidos then said to her, "Please don't cry... can you tell me what I can do to cheer you up?" Dream Mawile replies while sobbing, "You rejected my kiss... and then you yelled at me... You're so mean!" She cries even louder. Cranidos tries to apoligize, "Sorry! I just got surprised, that's all. Don't take it like I hate you because I don't."

Dream Mawile sniffles and says, "Do you promise that you will love me forever?" Cranidos doesn't know what to say to that, "Err... sure, I guess..." Dream Mawile replies confused, "You guess?" Cranidos sighs, "Can we talk about this later and try to find Darkrai?" Dream Mawile got a bit angry about this and replies, "Is finding Darkrai more important than our relationship?"

Cranidos replies, "Err... yes. Otherwise he will-" Dream Mawile cuts him off and yells at him, "So you don't care about my feelings, do you?! Well! I'm going away and you can find your stupid Darkrai all alone!" She runs off and then fades away into nothing. Cranidos says confusingly, "Ok... what was that? Should I be worried?" He noticed the world is fading away into a void of white, Cranidos hops into the crack he opened with his head and falls into it.

What will be waiting for him underneath? Find out next time!