Hey everybody! I been really inactive on the site for a while and I can proudly say I'm back. It feels really good to say that. I've been looking at other Mystery dungeon fics trying to see if there was a better way to make mine. I've tried already with an earlier version of this same story. Note to self: Never try writing a mystery dungeon fic when you're still a beginner. That goes for any of you other beginners that are reading this, don't try it unless you're really talented. Anyhow this is a rewrite of an earlier fic and for those who have read the original version welcome back and I hope you enjoy this one as much as the original :)

*Disclaimer: I own nothing! Nintendo owns Pokémon not me! *

Chapter 1

There was blinding light everywhere and all that was heard were panicked screams from two people- neither able to see the other- as they fall seemingly forever. The only way the two could stay together was holding on to each other's hands but even this was failing. Their hands were slipping "Whoa!" the voice of a younger kid screamed out. The other heard this but couldn't see what was happing nor did he notice what was happening "Are- are you ok?" the other older sounding one yelled out.

"I-I'm slipping!" the younger voice yelled out panic clear in his voice.

"No! Don't let go! Just a little bit longer! Come on! Hold on!" the older one pleaded. The grip was quickly loosening between the two. The boy was terrified and yelled out panicked even more now "N-n-n- NO!" the boy's hand slipped out of the grip of the older man. Then… everything was silent.

The next thing the kid knew he was engulfed in water hearing thunder booming all around him. He panicked trying to scream for help but only sucked in salty water. His arms and legs flailed uselessly trying to stop from drowning but in the apparent storm he was blinded by the rain whipping his face like tiny rock being thrown at him from all directions and the huge waves nearly drowning him and preventing him from figuring out which way was up and even which way to swim to safety.

It was as if they sea was trying to strangle him and the rain tried to help the sea push him under he could only struggle as he was thrown around and he hit his head on a giant rock. The next thing the boy knew his was head spinning, he groaned in pain barely able to move he opened his eyes weakly seeing for a fleeting moment the appearance of a bright beach and hearing peaceful calming splash of waves. It was much different from what he saw (or at least felt) and heard last time. His final thoughts came before blacking out again 'Where… am I?' then once again everything went black.

Elsewhere a day after-

A small female, blue, dog-like Pokémon standing perfectly on it back legs, the Pokémon called a Riolu, was pacing back and forth nervously. She was up high on a cliff with a large Pink tent or a small building. The landscape of the small area was still very drenched from the awful storm they had last night even though the day was mostly over. The sun was starting to set and the Riolu had been standing there all day but had never entered the structure. The small rocky cliff top area had sparse patches of grass and had several large totem poles with various Pokémon heads carved into it. There were two large lit torches on either side of the structure. All of these elements along with the current position of the sun made the small area have a mysterious and very creepy feel to it. The totem heads alone were creepy but the setting sun made the windows eyes of the structure look like they glaring at you. She moved back and forth nervously playing with a rock in her hand as she hummed to herself in thought. "Hhhhmmm…" she stopped her nervous pacing and faced the unnerving building "There's just something wrong with this place." She muttered to herself. She was about to walk away but she forced herself to stay. "No. No more waiting! I've done this same thing for days and I won't be scared anymore." She spoke like a coach trying to pump up a football team. She faced the building and started to slowly move forward "I steel my courage today!" even though she said this her voice shook with fear.

She stepped on the metal grate halfway from the stairs leading down the cliff side and the building itself and a pair of voices started yelling from nowhere.

"Pokémon detected! Pokémon detected!" the first voice yelled.

"Waaah!" She yelled in surprise and started to run down the stairs.

"Who's foot print? Who's footprint?" She already made it to the first steps by the time the question was asked.

"The footprint was Riolu's! The footprint was Riolu's"

She only heard the last thing from them before she ran out of hearing range from the voices "What do you mean WAS?" she ran down the large multitude of stairs that most would take a while to climb in only a few minutes as if she was running on flat ground. She just kept repeating the same thing over and over in her head: It's too scary! It's too scary! She made it down the final step and entered the wooded area with three different cross roads. She roughly sat down on the ground practically throwing herself and looked back up the stairs sadly. She let out a heavy sigh and looked down at the rock in her hands "Stupid…coward. I thought today would be the day but… Even with my personal treasure I couldn't get over my fear." She got back up and ran down the straight path deeper into the forest, though at a more gentle speed than she did when she ran away from the voices.

A Koffing and Zubat came out from the bushes laughing low and deviously "'Treasure' you say?" The Zubat repeated.

"Hey Zubat, You thinking what I'm thinking." Koffing asked

"Yeah, let's go mess with her. Ke-ke-ke-ke-ke!" and they went after her.

(~#)

The scenery was the same for a while and she took to walking instead of running and was admiring everything around her. The sound of bird Pokémon everywhere and the clam quietness of the woods made her feel at ease. She could start to feel the soil under her get rougher under her paws as she walked farther and the sound of waves grew louder. She could see through the thinning amount of trees the peaceful calm of the ocean. She took a big sniff as the wind blew the salty smell of the ocean to her nose. There was a beach near here and she loved to come her this time of day. She loved the beach and loved it even more when the sun would set.

She walked out of the tree line and on to the sandy beach. She could see Krabby lining up on the rocks that littered the beach and began to blow bubbles. She took a seat in the sand and just looked out into the ocean as the bubbles took to the sky and floated around her. She watched how the bubbles would catch the sunlight and shine so beautifully. It all mixed together so nicely it was almost like a dream. Her sad frown turned into a hopeful grin she loved to come her when she was feeling down it always gave a feeling of renewal. "Maybe someday but not today." Her ears twitched at an odd sound coming further down the beach. She got up and her head quickly searched for the sound but she couldn't see anything "Hello?" she called out but got no answer. All she could see was a cluster of large rocks. She cautiously approached going over the many things it could be in her head.

'It's probably nothing. It could be something though. Maybe not a monster… maybe another Pokémon. What if it is? What if it isn't friendly though? Maybe it would be made if I walked in on it. What if it's a predator that wants to eat me?' She regretted having thoughts like that but curiosity got a hold of the young Riolu and she just hoped she was wrong about a hungry violent Pokémon.

She looked around a large boulder hiding most of herself behind it just in case. To her surprise it wasn't some big tough scary looking Pokémon. It was just a little Zorua. She never saw an actually Zorua before because they are the rarest Pokémon to ever find. She didn't know anyone that had ever seen one and even few that even knew what a Zorua was. She only knew it because her dad was a Rescues team member that once saved a Zorua, he told her he saved one and even told her what it looked like. She breathed a sigh of relief but noticed something odd about him. He looked really rough fur was all soaked and matted with sand and he lay on the beach sand unmoving. His eyes where shut and his fur was such a mess it looked like he got in a fight and lost she couldn't even tell if he was breathing. He thoroughly looked dead "Hey… um… h-hello?" she spoke shakily. Please no, please, please be alive. She begged mentally. He didn't even stir or show any reaction "Is he really dead?" she asked out loud. She grabbed a stick and poked him with it a few times but still no reaction.

She knelt down and turned the Zorua on his back carefully in case he really was alive still. She gently pushed him "Wake up," No answer so she shook him a few more times "Um, please wake up." No answer. Her heart started to race "Please be alive. Wake up!" She shook him as hard as she could and wouldn't stop.

He slowly started to wake up while still being shook and noticed when he finally came to what was happening and apparently the Riolu hadn't noticed he was awake "Waaah! Stop shaking me! What'd I do?" he screamed angrily. She screamed in surprise and dropped his head roughly on the ground and ran back behind the boulder. He rolled over is world still spinning a bit from the rough waking "Come back you coward and fight like a man! Attacking me while I'm asleep then run off, wimp!" She peaked from the side of the boulder. He was such a little guy but he was about as young as her. Zorua's were very rare around here but they hide very well so that's to be expected. He seemed to act tough and was obviously angry but he seemed harmless somehow.

Hesitantly she moved out from here hiding spot. He looked at her with fascination and his ear twitched with curiosity A Pokémon? Is it a Lucario? It looks a little weird to be one though

"Sorry about that." She laughed nervously. His eyes went wide and both ears twitched with surprise. She didn't seem to notice any of this though. It's talking to me. How is it talking to me? "You were out cold and it looked like you might be dead. I'm just glad you're not. H-ha!" his mouth dropped. She knelt down beside the Zorua that was still lying on the sand "You were talking so much before why did you suddenly clam up?"

"What the heck are you!" he screamed without warning scarring her so much she fell on her butt.

"Uh… a Riolu?" It was a really weird question and she had no real idea what was wrong with him.

He quickly tried to stand up on his back legs "Pokémon don't talk- Agh!" he fell backwards. She ran over to his head and the next thing he saw when he opened his eyes was her.

"But you're a Pokémon and you can talk, why can't I?" he rolled out from under her and started to quickly back up until he backed right into another boulder.

"What are you talking about? I'm not a Pokémon and there is no way a Riolu is this big!"

"What do you mean? You look like a Zorua to me and I don't think I'm that big." It said he looked like a Zorua but that shouldn't be possible, he was human. Although he knew it couldn't possibly be true he was tempted to look at his own body. He looked down and his heart sank. He was covered in black and red fur. He didn't even have hands anymore! He tried to stand up on his hind legs but only accomplished in falling over again. He felt something weird behind him it felt like something was attached to him he looked behind himself the best he could and saw a big fluffy tail. He could barely believe it even though he was seeing it. Deciding to test it out he tried to move it and amazingly it was almost as easy as moving an arm. It lifted easily off the sand and it wagged from side to side as he tested it out. This isn't real… it can't be real. How does something like this happen?

A bubble that came their way floated just above his head. He looked at it curiously and saw his own reflection. It didn't look human at all; he did look like a Zorua. He let loose a scream of terror "I am a Zorua!" The Riolu just looked at him with confusion and crossed her arms pensively trying to figure out why he seemed so surprised. "That not possible though, I'm human!"

"This seemed to get her interest "You're human?" he visibly flinched when she spoke to him apparently forgetting she was there or maybe still not used to the fact it was talking, possibly both. "You don't look like it."

"Obviously! I know I'm human but how did I become this?"

"Uumm… you're a little weird. Are you crazy or something?"

"No I'm not crazy! I said I'm human and I mean it! I don't know how this happened, I don't know where I am, I don't know how I got here but I do know I'm human." He seemed so serious the way he said it she was starting to doubt he was making it up, could he really have amnesia?

"Well… you look like you're telling the truth and you don't seem bad. Okay I believe you… um… what's your name? I'm Aura." Aura? That's such an uncreative name, it was kind of funny. He let out a snickering laugh characteristic of a Zorua's laugh.

"I'm Konner but I also think I remember being called Konn." Konn responded trying to stand on to legs again and still not succeeding. He grabbed on to Aura with his two front paws and held himself up "Much better." He smiled to himself

"Couldn't you walk by yourself?"

"Maybe but I can't figure it out right now." He admitted quickly.

Aura went on ignoring this "Anyways, sorry for not believing you. Pokémon have been getting pretty aggressive lately. They attack others with no warning, things have been getting pretty lawless." As if opening Pandora's Box two Pokémon attacked from behind before Konn could give out a warning. They both fell to the sand and Aura dropped her rock "Oh no!"

The Koffing and Zubat laughed Aura picked herself up but Konn just lay on his belly uselessly. "What'd you do that for?" he asked angrily

"Isn't it obvious?" Zubat answered with a grin "We want to mess with you two."

Koffing turned his attention to the dropped rock "That's yours isn't it?"

"Sorry kid," Zubat apologized mockingly "We'll be taking that." And on cue Koffing swallowed it

"Ah!" She screamed in surprise

"Whoa…" Konn said simply amazed that he ate it.

"No please give it back!" Aura begged with tears coming from her eyes. This only earned laughter from the two.

"Isn't that pathetic Koffing? Crying because a little rock was taken away! Ke-ke-ke-ke-ke!"

"Whoa-ho-ho-ho! She's too much of a wimp to get it back herself! She got scared of that little sentry at the guild, now that was pathetic! Whoa-ho-ho-ho!"

"That pathetic excuse for a sentry couldn't scare a Skitty! Ke-ke-ke-ke! What a wimp!"

Aura just stood there frozen in place crying but not doing anything to defend herself. Konn shakily stood up on four legs and took slow steps forward toward them, stumbling a few times and coming close to falling but never did. "I don't know why you're picking on her and I don't really understand even a fifth of what's going on but I won't stand and watch you pick on Aura!" They seemed to be taken aback by him standing up to them but his credibility was deeply destroyed when he lost his balance and fell on his face. Whoever said walking on four legs was easier than two was wrong it took more concentration to figure out which leg to move without tripping yourself up.

They just looked at him exasperatedly "… That was pathetic, it wasn't even funny." Koffing answered plainly.

"Ah, whatever," Zubat moved on "The klutz and the chicken aren't going to stop us. Let ditch this wimps. Ke-ke-ke-ke!" The two watched helplessly as they flew off past them and into a cavern.

"No wait!" Aura yelled but they were already gone "…oh…" she moaned sadly "They're gone and they took my personal treasure." Tears started to well up in her eyes again "If I don't get it back I'll… I'll… No!" She refused to let those bullies get away. She turned to Konn, who was still struggling to get back up, "Konn, please you got to help me." He managed to stand (clumsily) on his four legs.

"Of course I'll help." He answered quickly and honestly. Aura didn't expect him to answer so readily, she expected him to make some comment about not even being able to walk. He had the walking skills of a newborn Pokémon although he was much older than that. It wouldn't seem like much if he really was newborn but he seemed old enough to walk properly and that really made him seem pathetic, Koffing was joking when he said it.

He took slow clumsy steps past her "I remember some saying something like, learn to crawl before you walk and walk before you run, I'm not entirely sure how to crawl so I guess I'll skip that part and go to walking." He said while frequently looking down at the ground. Nothing fazes him for long does it? he already seemed to be coping with the fat he lost his memory and turned into a Pokémon. He's getting over the fact he can barely walk and he's already going to try and chase two bullies that have been Pokémon all their life. "Right leg, now um… back left?" he was talking himself through literally each step. He seemed to be figuring it out fine.

They both entered the Cave entrance. The smell of salt water was stronger in here and the ground under them was soaked with water. The near darkness was not a real problem for Konn since he was a dark type and he led the way. Aura could still see but not nearly as well as him. The wet footing wasn't an issue either it was, for Konn, a matter of keeping his balance no matter where he is even if it was on dry land. You readers are probably thinking "Well he has four legs, he shouldn't have a problem balancing." That's what he thought too but he would stumble, trip and fall often.

"I notice that you're letting you tail droop on the ground." Aura said at one point feeling sorry for the poor creature that made gravity his enemy. Konn only gave a confused look and waited for her to explain "Well, I stand on two legs and I need my tail to balance. It might help if you keep your tail up for balance too." Konn tried it and the tripping stopped surprisingly fast. Eureka! Having a tail is awesome! They traveled down further and further he and Aura both could tell they weren't just going deeper into the cave they were going down. He knew it might come down to a fight and Aura, even though she scared easily, knew how to fight. Konn didn't know how to especially in his knew body. He had vague memories about human life but nothing solid on himself. He could remember the most basic moves a Zorua could do. Scratch attack, Leer and Pursuit. He couldn't help think that there was something about Zorua that he was forgetting Oh well, it will come to me eventually. He thought to himself in a carefree manner.

He knew how to scratch things and how to Leer, but pursuit might take a little bit of time to figure out. He could hear the sound of the ocean again and light coming from farther down. That had to be where those two bullies were. He could feel Aura tensing up as they got closer. She was getting scared and her fear was increasing with each step they took. She knew, though, that if she got cold feet now and gave up they would run off with it and she would never see it again. They entered another room. It had an opening to the sea and they could easily see the setting sun outside. The coral reached so high up it was like a tiny wall between the floor itself and the sea and right at the end of the small room was the two thieves'. They had their backs turned to them and didn't notice Aura or Konn.

"H-hey!" Aura forced herself to yell at them. They seemed taken by surprise and quickly faced them but the look of concern quickly vanished when they saw who it was.

"Oh, for a minute we thought it was someone dangerous." Zubat laughed mockingly.

"Yeah, but it's just a klutz and a coward. One's too stupid to stand up right and the other is to spineless to fight back."

Aura seemed hurt by that and Konn was outright offended. "Give… Give me back my treasure! It's special to me!"

They seemed surprised but it wasn't because she showed backbone "Treasure you say? Ke-ke-ke."

"Whoa-ho-ho! I thought it was just a useless piece of junk, but now I think we should sell it."

"What? No!" Aura screamed horrified by the idea.

"If you want it that bad… then take it from us!" Zubat exclaimed defiantly and Konn charged at them.

"With pleasure!" Aura wanted to tell Konn he was running but right now she needed the help. He lunged at Koffing and angled himself in mid-air to kick the floating ball of gas in the face. The force made him literally cough up the rock and Konn caught it in his mouth. The force of the rock when caught it made him tumble backwards and he landed on his feet. They all stared in awe of Konn showing such impressive grace just now when he could barely walk in a straight line a while ago. Konn's face contorted and he looked sick. He turned his back to Koffing and started to gag and heave. He spit it on the sandy ground still making gagging sounds and motions "Gross! It's covered in Koffing spit and it tastes like wet dirt! Why did I do that?" He tried to collect himself but his mind kept going back to the taste and where that thing had been. He sucked it in and grabbed it in his mouth again and ran back over to Aura and spit it out at her feet and proceeded to spit in an attempt to get rid of the foul taste.

The next thing he knew something heavy was thrown on top of his back. He fell hard in the sand in pain and the thing was lifted off. Koffing floated of him laughing "Konner!" Aura cried out and gave the gas ball a good punch with enough strength to throw him to the waters edge. Konn could have sworn when she punched him he heard the sound of a gun shot. Konner sprung to his feet and faced them "Any more dirty tricks or do you want to us fairly?" he asked angrily. His question was answered when Zubat let out a poison sting attack. Konn jumped back and the attack hit sand, Zubat charged both of them Aura dodged left and Konn dodged right.

Koffing was back in the game and came for Konn while Zubat went for Aura. Koffing tried to tackle Konner but Konn kept jumping backwards just out of his reach. The frustration on Koffings' face was evident and his body started to swell and get larger. He released a small cloud of purple poison gas And Konner jumped straight into the air higher than he thought he could and started to spin in the air while his body started to glow an attractive color. When the light vanished there was another Koffing instead. Konn wondered what Koffing was staring at and noticed his own body change Weird… I didn't think I can do transform… I don't think I like this any either. He saw the confused look on Koffing's face and couldn't help but snicker at his expression. On the other hand.

Aura was very good at running away but this wasn't a fight or flight moment, it was just a fight moment. Zubat swooped down to try and bite her but his face collided with her fist and he lay out on the sand motionless with one missing tooth. She grimaced as she found the tooth laying in front of her feet. "Ouch," she said and looked at the Zubat "Um… oops?"

She looked to see Where Konn was and saw two Koffing's staring at each other but one had a furry black tail at the end. The tailless Koffing charged at the other one. The one with a tail seemed to shrink into a small pretty purple- pink orb of light and Konn came bursting out of it right at Koffing. Konn scratched Koffing's face before jumping back off. Konn snickered again "Heeheeheehee! You stink in more ways that one but you're a great launch pad."

Koffing growled in pain and a good measure of anger "What kind of Pokémon are you?"

"One of a kind." Konn beamed. Koffing angrily swelled again and smoke came out from all of his pours. The room was quickly filled and it stung there eyes and filled there lunges. Smokescreen Aura though recognizing it. Konn couldn't see a thing and was trying not to breath in the smoke. The smoke tickled his nose and started going into a sneezing fit. He tried to hold in a really big one "Ah… Ah… Wah-choo!" The cloud of smoke was split apart when a spiraling wave of dark energy came blasting out of his mouth.

Koffing looked in shock and surprise "Oh-" BLAM! Koffing lay deflated on the sand. Aura just looked in surprise, slack-jawed.

"Was that Dark pulse?" Konn just sit on the sand blinking in confusion of what just happened and just sniffled a few times.

"Excuse me." He said simply using on of his front paws to wipe his nose. Did all he do was sneeze?

With the fight clearly won (on accident) they grabbed what was stolen and left. Outside they were giving themselves some well-deserved congratulations. "Those guys were so weak, the only thing that made it even a challenge was that they were hard to catch." Konn smiled clearly proud of himself "They couldn't even handle a sneeze."

"Konner, you do realize that you did a Dark pulse attack… right?" Aura asked

Konner just shook his head "Nope, I had my eyes shut and it was so quick. I really did?" Aura was dumbstruck that he won that fight completely on accident. "Anyways you were pretty brave, Aura." Konn decided to move on.

Aura smiled nicely at him "Yeah, honestly I couldn't have done it without you. I'm usually such a coward but I felt like I could do it if you were with me. It's weird because we just met but you give off such a confident aura. It made me feel safer." She showed him the rock that was stolen "I admit it looks like junk but if you look closer you can see it's special looking, like it has some important purpose, but that's just the feeling I get from it." He looked at it and it did seem familiar to him for some reason but he couldn't remember why. The pattern on it was really weird and intricate like a sun encompassed by many circles with wings around it. He got the feeling that this was really important somehow, but why? I call it my relic fragment, it looks like it goes to something else doesn't it? The way parts of the pattern just stop near the edge like it broke off? I wanted to join an Exploration guild so I could find the secret behind the fragment. But I chickened out," She said feeling depressed "But after what I went through I feel better… um I actually have something to ask you."

His ears perked with interest "You don't have any place to go do you? No plan about what to do next?" Konn didn't even think about where to go from here. He'd been so wrapped up in what was happening that it slipped his mind. He didn't even have a place to stay or sleep.

"Umm…" Konn tried to think of something but nothing came

"If not, I have a question."

"Go ahead" He was completely open at this point

"Well Explorers go everywhere and discover things no one has heard of and I've never heard of a human transforming into a Pokémon. I want to join the guild and you have nowhere to go and no idea what to do next so… could you please join the guild with me!" She fell on her knees with her hands together actually begging. Konn was shock by it, he didn't even know what and Exploration guild was and suddenly he was being recruited out of nowhere… still he had nothing going for him and if they did go everywhere then the chances of him figuring out what happened to him might improve, if anything it would at least help him figure out where everything was.

He considered all of this and figured he had nothing to lose and a lot to gain "Sure I'll join."

She happily shot up to her feet "Yes! We'll of course need to join as apprentices but we'll try hard and find the answers to the mystery of your transformation and my fragment."

Konn smiled seeing her excitement and, unknown to him, his tail was wagging with his joy. It was fun to see her happy. It made him feel nice.

That's a wrap people! Yes I improved the story some and made some more changes. The weird punch that Aura had in the story was called bullet punch. I know in the actual Mystery dungeon games Riolu don't really have that move in the beginning but in other games it's an egg move. Since egg moves aren't introduced at all in the PMD games I thought it would be fun for me to do it :) Konner's Dark pulse is also an egg move, and no he won't be using it too often in the beginning because he doesn't even know how he did it. Read & review please, it helps me make more and lets me know that people like it.

P.S can anyone find the reference to another Pokémon game?