Authors Note: You can follow me on Twitter for updates to the upcoming chapter :). This was written completely different than my other fanfictions, and is written in a much more professional matter. I also fixed some errors that I didnt catch while proofreading from the first day of release.

Rikez's POV:

It was just an average day for an exploration team, me and my partner Verlum were just heading to a location that was farther than usual.

"Verlum, come on! We are going to be late!" I yelled to my partner.

Verlum, a cute little Eevee slowly started walked up to where I was at exhausted. She exhaustedly tried to catch her breath before replying

"Gee, you really are eager to find out about the rest of your past, huh?"

"Yeah, it's just has been one of the greatest mysteries to me that has been haunting me since I first became a Pokemon. " I said with a smile on my face as I looked at the Eevee.

You really are a complete mystery, humans, are they all as mysterious and cute as you? The Eevee replied laughing.

"Whatever Verlum, we are almost close," I said starting to walk again towards our destination before we ran face to face with the devil himself. A dark figure came out of behind and then spoke out of nowhere

"Unfortunately for you both, you won't be going anywhere. "The figure said as I started to turn around and watched in horror as Verlum was hit with a Dark Shadow Blast. Her piercing screams haunted me as cried out in pain. After that I looked back and saw her unconscious and severely injured, I prepared to fire an Aura Sphere at the figure before he spoke again

"This will permanently dispose of you." The mysterious Male voice had said before a dark void appeared behind us, and was powerless to get out of the voids grasp as Verlum and I Gets sucked into the void before I lose consciousness.

** 2 Hours Later **

I soon woke up to find myself in some sort of different dimension with an aching head. Here the sky was darker than the blackest void, and I had no idea of where I was until immediately I started to recollect what transpired. I only cared about one thing...Verlum. As I began to look around for Verlum, I couldn't help but have this incredibly bad feeling in my stomach that something was very wrong here. Eventually, I found something that horrified me. Verlum was unconscious and severely injured on another piece of floating land that I could not reach. Immediately, flashbacks of my failures started to go through my head, and I began to jump from floating rock to floating rock to reach Verlum's body as fast as I could. It was evident to me that Verlum wasn't used to intense concentration of Shadow Energy in this place and that as a result, she's having trouble breathing. However, before I could reach her, I was interrupted by another Shadow void that was slowly started sucking Verlum into the void, I started to panic fearing that I would lose her. As I finally began to reach her body, she was already more than half inside the void. Right, when was about to grab onto her paw she was taken by void, and it disappeared. My heart then began to drop as I was now completely alone and I started to cry hysterically unable to cope with the fact I had lost my partner yelling "Verlum!"

As I begun to calm down somewhat, still depressed from what happened, I couldn't get the image of Verlum unconscious out of my head, it haunted me and then eventually made me yell in grief "WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN WITH ME!?"

Rikez falls to the ground and Starts crying hysterically as his energy is slowly drained away by the shadows and eventually loses consciousness once more.

MeanWhile with NightFrost:

NightFrost POV:

I was in another section of the world of Shadow looking at how depressing the World of Shadow really is and thinking about the cursed Riolu that trapped me in this realm before I sensed two new energies, one is the Riolu who trapped me, and another is a Shadow Intolerant Eevee. I had suspected that the Eevee was another one of the Riolu's victim's, and I knew that if I didn't save her, she would likely be dead in a matter of hours, and I started running in her general direction, ready to face to the Riolu. When I finally found the Eevee, I was shocked to see her with significant injuries "Oh my Arceus! What happened to you!" I could tell the Eevee was just barely conscious at the time, and she reached out her paw before I heard her murmur "Ri...Rikez..."She tried extending her paw to me but lost consciousness before I was able to grab her. I was determined, that I would help her as I then picked her up and put her on my back before whispering "Don't worry I won't let this happen to you, just rest. I'm going to get you and me out of here. "

After Venturing the World of Shadows a bit more trying to find an exit, I noticed that the Eevee's Verlum's heartbeat starts beating slower. I quickly set her down and then had to make a decision before saying "I'm sorry that I have to do this, but it's the only way that you'll be able to live." As I then proceed to get the item out of my bag, I heard the Eevee murmur "Please...just...do it...This...pain..."

I then proceed to put the Shadow Stone right next to the Eevee before she starts to glow changing shape into an Umbreon before she stops shining. I could then still see her injuries. As per her request, I got out an Oran Berry before saying "The Shadows should no longer be hurting you now. Here, I'm going to rub the contents of the Oran Berry on your injured areas.

Rikez's POV:

I then woke up once more, this time in another section of the Shadow World and I felt different. Then I noticed that my body was White. I tried to recall what happened before I remembered that Verlum was gone and realizing that he was not in a dream. I opened the pendant on my neck that had a picture of both of us together at the beach that both of us had met at. I started to have flashbacks of when we first met and how we trained through the guild. I couldn't believe that Verlum was gone. I knew that if Verlum were dead or alive, she would want me to escape and be optimistic, so I then started to look for an exit before I came across a rift of light. Before I approached the rift, I turned around and openly said to thin air" I'm….just going to hope that Verlum managed to get out of here. I;m clearly not okay in the state I am in. Verlum…...I'll see you back at the guild." I then walked through the Rift to which caused me to be temporarily blinded before I found myself back at the crossroads near the guild.

As I got closer to the guild entrance and was about to step on the grate, I said to myself "I really hope that you are here Verlum. I don't know what I would do without you." I told myself before I stood on the grate and heard a Pokemon speak.

"Pokemon Detected!" and I knew that voice anywhere; it was Diglett of the Guild

?: Who's footprint A loud voice that I recognized as Loudred asked before Diglett started speaking once more

"The Footprint belongs to…" studdering to which I knew he realized it was me, and my suspicions were confirmed when I heard Loudred yell and Diglett appeared right next to me. He looked happy to see me, but then he made my heart drop when he asked: "Where's Verlum?"

I instantly realized that she hadn't returned to the guild, but I didn't want to make any mistakes, so I asked: "You mean...she never came back?" Diglett was about to answer my question before; I heard the guild master's Chatot come up from the bottom floor of the guild yelling "Whats all this commotion about Diglett it's not like..." Chatot said stopping in mid sentence realizing my presence.

Chatot very excitedly flapped his wings before starting to bombard me with questions, however before I was able to answer all my energy had been used up and I fell to the ground losing consciousness another time before Chatot yelling "Rikez! Rikez! Oh, my Arceus! Chimecho! Sunflora! Assistance, please!" Chimecho and Sunflora both arrived from the lower floors of the guild and saw me unconscious before running over and picking me up and taking me back to me and Verlum's former room in the guild. Chimecho and Sunflora set me down on my old bed before leaving the room for me to rest. It wasn't long until Chimecho came and checked on me and looked at my injuries.

Chatot and Wigglytuff eventually arrived, to which she told them that my injuries weren't severe and that I was having trouble breathing and seems to be over-exhausted.

I did not have enough energy to speak, and I wanted to conserve my energy for when they brought up Verlum. The Guildmaster then spoke saying that it was strange that I managed to reach the guild when it looked like I hadn't gotten sleep for the entire week Verlum and I were gone for. It was at this point that I realized that I had been gone for a week. Time was moving slower in the Shadow World, and I remembered that I had just run out of food when I found the exit. Chatot then asked Wigglytuff if he had checked my bags and Wigglytuff replied that my bag was already ravaged.

Then Sunflora brought up Verlum, reiterating what I had told Diglett to the Guildmaster and Chatot.

"So it seems that Verlum never returned from the mission, and she isn't registering on her badge. It's likely that she was separated from Rikez. Well, whatever happened, I'm sure Verlum will pull through or call for help if she needs it."

I then proceeded to try to speak murmuring "Verlum...was..."

Chatot and Sunflora heard me talking and then Chatot asked "Yes Rikez? What happened to Verlum?"

I then tried to concentrate on speaking farther and managed to get out four words. "She was...attacked and hurt severely..." to which I then started to breathe very slowly from using so much energy.

Sunflora noticed that I started breathing faster, and she tried to convince me to save my energy, but I didn't really care. I knew that the chance of me recovering was very slim. I had to get my message across so I spoke again.

"Listen to me everyone….we were attacked from Behind,,,,,,, Verlum was... right behind me when... a Dark Blast hit her... and she screamed in pain ...before someone else spoke." This had gotten Chatot, Wigglytuff's and Sunflora's attention.

Chatot then spoke up and asked the question which I which I was waiting for "What did they say?" I then tried to gather enough strength to speak once more

He said…."This will permanently dispose of you"... Before we both sucked into this void."

I knew Chatot would bring up a dimensional hole, to which I used the last of my energy saying "No..." before losing complete consciousness.

End of Part 1

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