Author Comment: This is the second try of this first chapter. After hearing the comment, I added more details where I thought it needed. I'm not sure if it's perfect, but I hope it's better for those who read it than before. I'll do this with chapter 1 and 2 too, before continuing the third chapter.

Once again, if you read this chapter again, thanks for the review Ralmon.

Here's some indication to help you follow some things in the story.

Bald = Spirits dialogue.

Bald + underline: Memories Of Old

Character Inner thought.

Act 1: The Lost One

Where was she?

That was the question she was asking herself since she opened her eyes.

How did she end up here?

That was another question she was asking herself.

The only thing she was seeing right now was nothingness, not ever darkness was present. As she felt, she gazed above, or below her, she didn't know, and saw a light at the end of it.

Am I… dead? She wondered, But… How?

Those questions were unanswered when she heard something near her. Her eyes turned towards the source of the sound and felt something grabbing her.

Give it to me!

Many voice, speaking as one, ordered.

She wondered what it was, but she was scared. She was alone with, whatever was behind her. She turned her gaze and saw an unknown and unformed entity grabbing her arm. Tendril formed on the wrist of the entity and grabbed her, before starting to pull.

Give it to me! Give what is you to me!

She screamed in agony as she felt that something was pulled apart. It wasn't her body that she felt tearing apart, as she first feared, but something pale and almost transparent, as it was looking a little like her, but incomplete. She struggled and managed to break free of the entity, as she kept falling.

She joined the light, and the entity didn't try to reach her. The last thing she saw was a part of something transparent, looking a little like her remaining in the grasp of that entity.

Prologue: The Broken Girl And The Ghost Monster

Opening Song: Nichiyoubi no Taiyou

There was a small mountain where nothing could be found. There weren't any trees, there wasn't any plants and there wasn't any Pokémon to be found except one, which was one thing contrasted with the emptiness of the small mountain. The other was the dark sky of the night, covered with shining starts and the moon.

That Pokémon was floating towards the summit of the mountain, watching the top. The summit of this lifeless mountain seemed a little strange for the Pokémon, as if there was some hidden disturbance going on. Things that only he noticed. The distortion made the impression that the clouds, behind it, were waving in unnatural ways while being partially covered by it.

That Pokémon resembled somewhat of a cyclops. His body was gray while his head and hands was of a paler tone of gray than the rest of his body. It had a large red eye with yellow iris at the middle, watching sharply the mountain. His round belly had two golden eyes decorated on it and a yellow band on the middle of his belly going around his body. He had a golden antenna on the top of his head. It had no feet, but a wispy tail.

The Pokémon frowned as it noticed something at the top of the mountain, even more when its antenna detected something strange going on, "Is there a crack?" he wondered. He was still too far away to make conclusion and flew closer.

Eventually, the Pokémon heard something yelling above him and raised his head.

The next thing the Pokémon noticed was that something landed on his head and he was on the ground with the one yelling, sitting on his buried head.

The one who felt on the Pokémon was a young girl who was panting loudly. She was a 10 years human Caucasian girl with short blond hair and blue eyes. She wore a red shirt with black pants.

She panted loudly for a few minutes, having trouble believing that she was even still breathing. Eventually, she put her hands on herself and saw that she wasn't hurt, "Wait. I'm alive?" She checked herself more, "And I'm not hurt. Is it a miracle?" She was busier with checking if she was really alright than noticing her surrounding, or even the lightly wave that the Pokémon was doing under her.

The Pokémon was grumbling impatiently to whatever was on his head to go away, but it wasn't the case.

The girl put her hands over her face and whispered, "I'm really okay," the human gazed at the surrounding and realised that she was on a mountain, "Where am I?" She looked at the bottom of the mountain and saw a forest and farther away, a blue line, which she guessed, could be a river or something like that. Her breathing accelerated as she realised she was somewhere she never was before, but it was less bad than when that… thing attacked her in the place when it felt just empty.

The Pokémon ordered her to get out of him, but it was only some grumbling that came out as he was still in the ground. He was feed up and started struggling to free himself from his predicament.

"Hum?" she wondered when she finally felt the ground under her shaking.

The Pokémon freed himself and sent the girl on the ground, "How dare you bury my face on the ground you-" the Pokémon with his face covered with dirt stopped when he saw what was in front of him. His eye shrunk to the point that it was only a small dot on his face. He watched her and couldn't say anything. His thoughts were confused as he saw the morphology and the color of the one in front of the Pokémon. He never saw something like that for a long time, he believed.

The girl took a step back when she saw the being facing her, being much taller than her. The Pokémon was imposing and intimidating while finding it a little familiar. She pointed her finger at it, "Stay back!" I've seen something like that before. Where was it? Where did I see that? Why can't I remember it? Her breathing increased even more, taking a step back, just to feel a little farther from the thing.

The Pokémon didn't want to appear weak, or letting her believe that, as, "Sure," he chuckled as he put his hands on his flanks and raised his chest while hovering a little higher than usual, "Fear me. As I am the most powerful Pokémon of this world!"

She gazed at him while twitching her head, "You're a Pokémon?" she asked in disbelief. Pokémon… They aren't real. I never saw one before. It can't be real. It's just a video game, the girl thought while ignoring his claim.

"Eh!" he gasped, "Where's the fear?"

The girl realised something as she pointed her finger at him, "Pokémon… How can I understand you!" This is not real. They either act like animals or said their name only. Unless… It's still impossible. It must be a dream. It can only be that, as if I'm in the spinoff, like the one I've played recently. Only in those they talk, but… I'm still a human. It should be impossible.

"What do- Wait. You understand my words?" he yelled at her as he flew near her face, making her fall on the ground. This is impossible, a human cannot understand us. I'm sure of it. Even if a human could, their kind is- That means that! "That's impossible. What are you? You're a Ditto, right? Trying to fool the great Dusknoir!" It's the only thing that makes sense! You are a Ditto, trying to play a mental game with me! I'll make you regret this!

She wanted to reply, but the imposing size of the Pokémon made her hold up her thought. She had so many questions, so many things impossible to understand right now or anything that make sense. They only way would be a dream. That was they only possible answer.

"Answer me!" Dusknoir ordered as his eyeball was only a few inches away from her eyes. The Pokémon was take off-guard when watching the girl very close, what is this feeling? He wondered when he thought that something was a little off about the human girl. There was something coming out of her that wasn't normal but couldn't put his finger on it. The feeling was weak and the thing that was strange about the girl was small, barely noticeable from the perspective of the Pokémon. Knowing what he could detect better than most Pokémon made it hard to believe that the strange feeling would be about it, it cannot be her spirit. She is alive, and it is inside of her. Dusknoir concluded.

The girl took a while re reply as she watched the Pokémon. What should I do? I am really dreaming… right? She asked herself. I can only answer him, "No I'm a human," she replied.

Dusknoir frowned for a few seconds. Could it be true? That looks like a human, without the Ditto eyes and mouth… Hum… She doesn't have the small black eyes and mouth, that would make it obvious. Even so, I don't think it's possible. No Ditto could weight that much and- He ended his thought. Eventually, he turned around and grumbled, "You don't sound like one," he shook his head But a real human? I cannot believe it, "You must have hit my head harder-" he remembered it. All of his thought about the girl being human or not were pushed aside as his pride took over his decision making. He quickly turned around and pointed his finger with accusation, "You landed on my head human! You dear land on the strongest Pokémon and you didn't apology!"

"It's not my fault," she defensively replied at his accusations.

"Like I'll believe you!" he grunted as he cracked his fingers.

The girl did the first thing she thought, and it was to run away. She didn't want to be hit by the Pokémon to realise if it was a dream or not.

"Gu- Come back here so I can teach you a lesson!" the Pokémon gave chase.

"Not interested!" she accelerated. She had a large disadvantage as she had to make sure than she ran on the flank of the mountain. She didn't want to lose her balance when the downward slope of the mountain was covered with bump and rocks.

Dusknoir simple flew above the obstacles so he quickly caught up with her and grabbed her wrist, "I have enough of this game human," if this is what you truly are. he showed his fist near her face before moving it away, ready to punch. He felt the warm of her skin, telling her even more that she was a human and no anything that could imitate one of her kind.

As for the punch, he wasn't intending to hit her hard, just enough to scare her. He wasn't a brute who brutalised the weak for fun.

It was then that he really gave a good look at her face. The color of her skin, her blond hair and blue eyes were standing up a lot for the Pokémon. The colors were just getting familiar with the Pokémon, as if he saw something or someone that had those features.

He stood there and did nothing else for a few seconds. He gazed at her when his head started to hurt. He put his hand on his head as a girly voice came in his mind.

"Come Dusknoir. We are going to be late."

"I'm coming ******."

"What is that voice?" the Pokémon whispered confused. That's not normal. That voice did one thing thought, it convinced him that the girl was indeed a human and not a Pokémon, why did that convince me? What is going on with me? Did I knew a human before? Maybe. I've live for a very long time already.

The girl tried to free her wrist as she wondered what was going on with Dusknoir. His grip was a little painful and the pain made her realise one thing, that none of this was a dream. The pain was real, and she wasn't waking up. That was what two persons told her.

Always pinch yourself when the dream is too scary, to know if it's real or not.

Who are they? The girl wondered. She knew those two persons but couldn't find out their identity.

The Pokémon looked at her and tried to find the will to inflict her a punishment for her foolish action but didn't find it anymore. The voice in his mind and her appearance seemed to go in pair with her somehow. He didn't want to think about it. So, Dusknoir released her and said, "Go human. You are lucky I've changed my mind."

"Hum… What?" she asked.

"I said go! Your presence is hurting my head," he declared as he turned his back. The past is the past. I don't want to think about it.

The girl knew it was the best that she remained far away from Dusknoir and went on her own. Starting to descent the mountain.

Dusknoir put his two hands on his head. Despite telling himself to now thing about the past, his thought came back to it, "What just came out of my mind? Someone was calling me and… Damn. Why does it feel so distant?" he gazed at where the human was, "And how can a human even be here anymore?" He shook his head, "Whatever. This isn't something I should think about. I shouldn't care if a human exists," he turned his attention to the submit of the mountain. He needed to focus on it, to distract his thought. He couldn't take them anymore, "I have to deal with whatever is disturbing the mountain."

He felt his antenna lightly shaking and knew that something was about to happen. He stood ready for whatever would come, but nothing came. He frowned as he watched the disturbance. It was getting clearer as he approached it, slowly and carefully. He felt that something would happen very soon and dropping his guard would likely be fatal. Once he was near the summit, he saw that the disturbance has a strange form, but looking closely to a life form.

What is that? Dusknoir wondered. The disturbance was getting stranger and stranger, when the form became long like an Ekans, but without eyes or a mouth, which made it a little creepy. Something that looks like a living Pokémon, but without those parts of the Pokémon. It made him feel uneasy.

He heard many voices talking at the same time. He couldn't understand any of it as they were too many and couldn't follow any of it, "How many?" he asked, knowing he won't have the answer, Ten, hundreds? He wondered in his mind.

The disturbance ceased to remain stationary anymore and flew towards the Pokémon. Dusknoir flew out of the way. He felt the pressure of the disturbance and when it passed near him, he knew what those where for certain. The pressure felt as if a heavy Pokémon was sitting on him for a few seconds.

He also realised that something was wrong with those things, different that what he usually faced. Those spirits were much more numerous that anything he dealt before and seemed to have an objectify. They wouldn't suddenly act with that. They would simply go with the flow, unless something provoked them, But I didn't have time to even cause it.

As he chassed it, he realised that it went at the direction of the human, where she was going, "Guess I'll see her again," he grumbled, having trouble catching on the disturbance. Which was the last thing I wanted to do.

The girl was climbing down the mountain as she looked around once again, believe that was all real. She made sure to walk on plane surface, to not lose her balance. It wasn't hard, as they weren't that many bumps and the rocks. She didn't recognise anything surrounding her. The gray mountain itself was just a lifeless mountain with a small slope, making it easy to descent it. She was not in her world which looked like… The human thought about it and wondered what it would look like. Why are there many things I can't remember? Why is it always about my world? I didn't hit my head when I landed. She was a little worried for the missing memories, but less than she should have. More questions came without any answer. She had no choice, but to chase them away.

She eventually stopped walking and sat on a rock large enough for her to sit. With everything going on, she was exhausted by the simple realisation that she was indeed in another world. How can I go back? She wondered. Knowing that everything was real, she had to figure that out. She gazed back at the mountain and signed, "I won't return home from there any-"

She noticed something coming at her. She could barely see it, but saw some part of the mountain lightly waving, as if there was something in front of the mountain, but invisible.

She gulped when she stood up, ready to escape whatever it was. In a matter of seconds, just when the human turned around to run away, the thing that came to her surrounded her and started spinning around her. The girl covered her face as she wind created by the thing blew on her. She couldn't barely keep her eyes opened at how fierce the wind was. She covered her face with her arms and tried to resist it, as her breathing accelerated and her mind lost focus.

Dusknoir came shortly after and saw the human in danger. He watched the disturbance surrounding her and aggressively seemed to attack her. The Pokémon yelled, "Spirit of another world! You have no right to be here!" He charged energy in his right hand and charge. His hand was covered with energy, taking a dark color, "Shadow Punch!"

He used his ghost type nature to hit the disturbance and tried to disperse them from the human. His offensive was mostly ignored and the spirits simple moved out of the Pokémon's way. He stopped near the human who was on the ground, still covering his face.

"Human," Dusknoir said as he gazed at her, but maintaining his focus on the spirit surrounding them. He tried to see the spirit of what was attacking them. He tried to find the form they had, but they were too many and seemed fused together to properly identify it. It just appeared as some indescribable form, where words were incapable of explaining it.

Give what is you to me! Give what is you to me!

The spirits chanted in unison towards the girl. A hand appeared from the amalgam of spirits and went towards her. Dusknoir instinct told him to not let the hand touch her and quickly used another shadow punch against the hand to protect her. The hand retracted, as if it feared the attack, Damn. There is so many spirits. Why are they after her? He wondered himself as he blocked another one, "Human! Stand up and get ready to run!" He noticed that the girl didn't move. Dammit. That stupid coward human is not moving!

The girl painfully winced as her left hand started to lightly shine. She was too scared to clearly think of what was going on anymore.

The hand! The hand is the her to us!

The Pokémon was confused and ignorant of the situation, but the spirits were more aggressive now. Dusknoir had no time for question and must act. He blocked each try they made to grab the girl and already lost energy to block all of them. Every time he saw a hand going towards, her he used one of his attack, making the hand retreat fearfully, as if it was afraid of being hit, which was helping a little. Despite that, there were too many for one Pokémon to handle. He never had to deal with that many spirits before, "Move idiot!" he yelled at the girl.

The girl heard the Pokémon and snapped out of her fear. She panted loudly as she sweat a lot and barely saw the spirits surrounding her and Dusknoir with the wind. She wondered why he was there, protecting her, but her thought was cut short as she saw the spirits trying to get her. It felt like when she was in the nothingness. Her hand shined more and felt like it was lightly burning her, what is going on with me now? She panicked.

"Human! Get ready to run!" the Pokémon ordered her.

That ended her thought and looked at him, Should I do as he say? I barely know him. But he is protecting me and- she didn't want to think of the things around her. The human had no choice but to trust the Pokémon, so she nodded.

She panted loudly as she shook vividly.

Dusknoir belly opened as dark energy focused in there. He released a shadow ball.

The spirits yelled as they avoided the dark ball of energy.

"Now!"

The girl called the little courage remaining in her and ran, following the Pokémon. They quickly passed, before the hole closed off as the spirits reassembled.

Once they were outside, Dusknoir turned around and was ready to face the spirits coming at him, "Keep running!" he ordered.

She nodded and did what told, knowing how useless she would be anyway.

The spirits chanted their fury and charged at Dusknoir. The Pokémon crossed his arms and took his ghostly appearance to block the immaterial spirits. He couldn't hold long the vast amount of pressure pushing against him and was sent back. He stopped moving back when he was above the human. The Pokémon regained his physical form and charged again, creating a beam of dark energy at the spirits, growing more and more fearful and infuriated. The dark beam hit them.

CRACK!

A sound that gave no prior warning echoed around him.

"What?" The red eye of Dusknoir searched for the source of the sound. Suddenly, the world started to crack, as if reality seemed to break apart. He looked at the girl and saw that she stopped running, seeing the world cracking itself too. Without thinking, he flew towards her as a flash came in his mind.

She had a tear coming out of her eyes while a small smile was written on her face, whispering something.

He accelerated as he yelled, "No!"

The crack spread, and the reality they were in shattered like glass. Nothing remained on the mountain. The spirits, Dusknoir and the human were gone.

AC: This is the end of the first chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

I have been thinking for a long time to make a Pokémon story like in the Mystery Dungeon, but I decided to take the concept and make my own path with it. Therefore, our human is still human and didn't turn into a Pokémon, because it was something else that happened to her.

It took a while to think, but I finally have the guts to start writing it.

It starts kinda quickly, but the first Act is a short one and focus on the main element of the plot. I added a few things by rereading it a few times, but I am satisfied for now. I hope you like it too.

As for the opening music, I think it fit one character of the story, but not immediately. I base it on the lyrics, after translation, and not for which show it was use for.

Next Chapter: The Collective Forest.