"Come one Sian, stop being so afraid." Ian said.
"Sorry to say this, but we shouldn't be here. This is ghost territory." Sian responded.
"They won't know anything, we'll be in and out before they even wake up."
"Um, Ian, please tell me your plan is thought out better than that."
"What do you mean?"
"Ghosts don't s-sleep at night. N-nighttime is when they roam around."
"Don't worry about it. We just need one pecha berry and then we'll be out of here." The area the teenagers were in was known for its large quantity of pecha berries. Ian walked around, inspecting every tree for the pecha berry that would help his sister. Sian, who was visibly trembling, followed him. The teens were friends, best friends. Ian was a male riolu, as was his friend Sian. Both of them were knowingly trespassing on the ghosts' territory to get a pecha berry for Ian's sister.
"Are you sure we're in the right area? I don't see a pecha berry anywhere." Sian said.
"Don't worry about it." Ian said. He walked over to a tree and plucked a pecha berry from it. "See, there we go."
"T-the sky looks rather eerie tonight. Look there's no sun, or moon, and the stars are all gone."
"The stars being gone is an optical illusion caused by the ghosts' territory. Once we're out of here the sky will be back to normal."
"Oh, that's nice."
"I can't wait to see Gera all healthy and stuff again."
"Didn't she get poisoned a week ago?"
"Yeah, and no one could find the pecha berry needed to cure her. Think about it, I'll be a hero. I'll come triumphantly back into town and heal my sister. And the trespassing will be our little secret."
"I-if it's not too much trouble can you give me a bit of the credit too? Maybe you could say that I helped you find it, if you want to of course."
"Sure, I'll say that you were my sidekick."
"T-thank you so much."
"Why are you stuttering so much?"
"W-were in ghost territory, I-I'm so scared."
"Come on. You'll never find a girlfriend if you keep being such a scaredy meowth." That hit Sian hard. A tear rolled down his cheek and fell quickly to the ground. Ian quickly took note of how much he had hurt his friend. "I'm kidding, I'm sure there's a girl who likes shy boys out there somewhere."
"No, you were right the first time. Don't worry about it, I've already given up on finding a girlfriend." This shocked Ian.
"Why are you giving up? Come on, you're the one who reads all of those romance novels I steal from the humans. How can you give up on love when you've read about it so many times?"
"Those are fiction. And even if they weren't the characters in the stories aren't afraid to take risks. Look at me, taking risks is the last thing I'd do."
"Hey, there's a girl out there for you somewhere, and you'll know what love feels like when you find her."
"But how come I haven't found a girl yet. Look at you, you've already had seven girlfriends, whereas I haven't been asked out once."
"I'm different. I'm the perfect guy, but even though you aren't, you're still pretty cool, otherwise I wouldn't let you be my friend."
"R-really, you think I'm cool?"
"Of course, so what do you say? Shall we finally get the heck out of ghost territory?"
"Yeah." The two teenagers ran as quickly as they could back towards the edge of ghost territory. Sian saw a shape in front of him and tried to stop running, but it was too late. He slammed into the shape and crashed onto the ground. When Ian saw that Sian had fallen he quickly ran over to him. Sian looked at the shape he had just crashed into and found that it was Misa, the mismagius princess of the ghost territory. Misa screamed when she saw Sian.
"Trespasser!" Misa yelled after she finished screaming. Sian bent down on one knee and bowed his head when his mind registered who it was that he had just crashed into. Ian, however tried to run away. He may have gotten away if it was not for the purple energy that suddenly surrounded him and dragged him back to where Sian was bowing. "Have you no shame? Trespassing and trying to run away when caught? I thought riolus where supposed to be honorable Pokemon. Look at your friend here. He may have trespassed as well, but he didn't run away when caught and he's bowing like you should when you meet royalty." She said to Ian.
"Sorry." Ian said insincerely.
"Do you know what the punishment for trespassing is?" Misa asked intimidatingly.
"Death." Sian muttered.
"You knew that you would die and yet you didn't run away? That is honorable indeed. What is your name?" Misa asked Sian.
"M-my name is S-Sian and my f-f-friend's name is I-Ian." Sian said. He was stuttering a lot more than earlier.
"Well then, if you'll please follow me. I would use psychic to carry you as well, but that can be painful, especially for fighting types such as you, and I think that you deserve to be treated with more respect than your friend here."
"T-thank you Princess." Sian said. And so Sian followed the princess, and Ian's floating body to an old looking cathedral. Once inside the princess lead Sian to the cells in the basement of the cathedral and locked both Sian and Ian inside of it. Once Ian was in the cell the purple energy surrounding him disappeared.
"Listen, I have some matters to attend to. Be nice boys and wait in this cell until I come back, not that you have much of a choice." The princess teased. After she floated away Ian began speaking to Sian.
"Where's the pecha berry?" Ian asked while searching the cell for it frantically.
"You must have dropped it when the princess used psychic on you." Sian said.
"We really got ourselves into a jam this time, eh?" Ian said.
"Yeah. B-before we die I want you to know that you mean a lot to me. You're the only Pokemon who ever cared enough about me to spend time with me voluntarily." Sian said.
"I'm really the only one?"
"Yeah, without you I'd still be friendless and alone in the world. Since we're going to die I want you to know how much you mean to me. Thank you."