AC: It took a while to update this next chapter, but it was because I've returned to the previous one and updated them, before finishing this chapter.

The girl walked into the woods alone. She observed her surroundings and, the forest was reassuring this time. She knew where she was going, and it looked like a normal forest. Compared to the dark forest in the middle between this world and the spirit world, it's normalcy made her feel secured. The trees were just normal trees and didn't have any spikes on them. She tried listening around but didn't hear birds or any wild animals as she believed. The silence reminded her that she was in the world with Pokémon, nature might be completely different here.

Her stomach lightly grunted, she was getting hungry, I want to eat, but I don't know what I can. This… isn't my world. I must reach the village first.

She mentally thanked Dusknoir for guiding her, believing that he wouldn't send her in the wrong direction. More precisely, believed he wouldn't do that, with a hint of doubt. She didn't really know him, but the only thing she strongly disliked about the Pokémon was his arrogance. She was also pissed off at how he guided her. The attack did take her off-guard. It was easy to go to the right direction when she found a road in the forest. The road looked like Pokémons often walked on this road, explaining while there was little herbs and no trees in the middle of the road.

She noticed several footprints of different size and form. All of this told her that many would circulate there. Also, she wondered if it was Pokémon that made those footprints, or any other kind of animals. Knowing where she was, the former seemed the main option.

Without anything dangerous around her and the silence of the land, the girl had many questions coming back to her since she came here. Those questions were: what happened to her? Where was the human civilisation in this world? Who lived in the village? Why could she understand what Dusknoir was saying? Why was she here at all? And the last one that just came and had no answer, which was scary, where did she come from? That question also made the girl wondered why she didn't really miss her own world and her home. Was there something preventing those emotions to come out, or something amiss?

None of the answers came and the voice that guided her to use her power was now silent. The girl never knew who it was but was glad that the voice came at the right time.

The human wasn't aware, but she was being stalked by a figure, hiding in the shadow for not that long. The shadowy figure gazed at the human with a small grin, never realising that the girl was a human.

"Looks like I got the perfect pray for me," the figure said as it quietly chuckled.


Chapter 3: Partnership

As she continued her match, she felt a little uneasy. The girl marched for a while and the village was still out of sight. Did he just lie to me or did I take the wrong direction? She heard a few sounds around her and wondered if something was watching her. Or following her. She stopped and gazed behind her. The girl saw nothing, wondering if it was her imagination, but wouldn't count on it, knowing this was the world with Pokémon living in. The human continued marching through the road, which gazing around her. The feeling of being watched never fade away and seemed to only increase as time passed. Something was watching her and ready to attack and the anticipation wasn't calming down.

Her heartbeat increased, Am I imagination it or not? Was it because of the dark forest, or that Dusknoir isn't here anymore? She was started to sweat as he breathed a little faster.

Her pacing also lightly accelerated. She didn't want to alert whatever was following her. It continued for a while when she heard something walking close to her. The girl jumped backward and gasped loudly. After searching for the source of the sound, it wasn't found, and her anxiety increased. Something was near her, but well hidden, as if an ambush was about to come. The child tensed up, trying to hear anything suspicious.

It was then that a Pokémon appeared from behind a tree, revealing itself with a small grin. It was a Mightyyena that walked towards her as if it won already.

The quadrupled Pokémon looked like a hyena with black fur on its back the rest was gray. The Pokémon gazed at the girl with its red eyes as it showed its fangs and claws. The Pokémon took a step towards her and said, with a feminine voice, "Well well. What do we have here?" she grinned, "A lost Pokémon in my forest?"

The girl gulped, that Pokémon thinks I'm a Pokémon. Hasn't it heard about humans before? "I'm not a Pokémon," Dusknoir knew what a human was.

The Mightyena replied, "What does it change. You are in my woods," the Pokémon wasn't caring for her real identity.

"W-what do you want?" the child body lightly trembled.

The Pokémon grinned as she saw the fear in the eyes of the girl and the body shaking. She was savouring the moment. The human's reaction serving as an appetiser, "I noticed that you seemed lost in my forest. So, I thought that maybe, I should do something about it."

The girl didn't reply. The tone on the voice of the Pokémon clearly meant something else. Nothing was subtle at all.

"Don't want to know?" Mightyena said as she licked her lips.

That was an enough warning for the girl who immediately ran towards the direction the village should be in. She ran on the road, avoiding the risk of tripping on the root of the trees and any small rocks that might be hidden under the grass of the woods.

Mightyena chassed after her and caught up to the girl quickly, thanks to her superior speed. It was a short one that ended when the Pokémon jumped on the girl trapped her on the ground. She moved her mouth next to the ears of the girl and whispered, "Any last words strange Pokémon?"

"I'm not," she replied, trying to gaze at the Pokémon, "I'm a… human."

Mightyena was lightly confused by the reply for a few seconds, before a grin appeared on her face and chuckled loudly, "Whatever."

The girl wasn't sure what to say, it seemed like the existence of her kind wasn't a thing in the Pokémon's mind.

She struggled to free herself but was too weak. The child tried to move, anything, but she was pined down. In her mind, it was over.

Mightyena opened her mouth, to bite the girl when something grabbed her by the tail.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," a familiar voice said.

The girl turned around and saw another Pokémon, lifting the other Pokémon in the air, "Dusknoir!" she expressed her surprise. I was sure he left.

The Pokémon gazed at her and chuckled, "I'm impressed," before grinning with his eye as a mockery tone came out from him, "You got in trouble way faster than even Arceus himself could've anticipated."

She glared at him while Mightyena scratched Dusknoir wrist.

"What is a Pokémon like you doing here?" Mightyena ordered defensively when she recognised the ghost-type Pokémon.

"Are you scared? Because you should be. You are in front of the great Dusknoir. The most powerful Pokémon in the world."

Mightyena gave him an unimpressed face. Dusknoir still didn't recover from his wounds against the spirits and the bruises were visible on his chest and gut. She charging towards the ghost type Pokémon, "With your wounds? Impossible!" She opened her mouth to crunch him, but Dusknoir already became transparent and passed through. Dusknoir turned around and countered with a fire punch at her face, sending her against a tree.

"Where is your pack? I only see you here," the ghost type Pokémon said as he gazed around. He chuckled and added, "Did they left you behind?"

She didn't reply, but her blood boiled inside of her and charged again, trying to crunch him. This time, Dusknoir grabbed her snout and threw her on the ground. Charging another fire punch on her head, burying the face in the ground. She was knocked out.

"Already over?" Dusknoir asked in disappointment. He raised his finger and nodded negatively, "I was expecting more from you," good thing she was alone and weak. I am not at my best right now, "Even wounded, you cannot beat the best," as he raised his chest. He turned towards the girl and said, "Stupid human. You are safe."

She didn't reply, but her face turned red, both in anger and embarrassment, that she had to be saved, which made the Pokémon giggled. The girl gazed on the ground when Dusknoir flew closer to her.

The Pokémon said, "Better get elsewhere before she wakes up stupid human. Guess I'll have to escort you there myself."

She was tired of hearing that but followed him. As they walked towards the village, the stress coming from the girl was now gone. The sentiment of danger left behind, and the presence of Dusknoir pushed her worries aside, even the many questions that were in her mind. Even so, one question was in her mind, one that made no sense. It wasn't long before she stopped and asked, "Why are you here anyway?"

Dusknoir stopped and floated in front of her for a while. I was hoping she wouldn't ask. That stupid human is stupidly curious, He slowly gazing at her, saying nothing for a while as he thought for an answer, before finally replying, "Well…" he turned around and proudly raised his chest, "I just realised that someone as great as me just couldn't let you behind and reach the village on your own, with all the danger around. That would have been detrimental for myself."

I believe you definitely wouldn't come, the girl thought, "Why?" she simply asked.

The Pokémon frowned before crossing his arms. He was very pensive about it and sighed, "I have no reason to answer you. I just thought back and remembered the uncivilised Pokémon and I was right. Mightyena tried to eat you stupid human."

She had some doubt about his reply and wanted to press more, but Dusknoir glared at her, quietly asking her to shut up and drop the subject. The girl didn't want the Pokémon to leave her behind and sighed, "Fine," Stubborn arrogant jerk.

"You finally show a sign of intelligence stupid human," Dusknoir mockingly replied before lightly laughing at her, making the human head turn red in annoyance.

He silently took the lead and she followed him. It was clear that the Pokémon wasn't going to stop again to answer anything. They followed the road towards the village Dusknoir claimed to be.

When sun reached its highest point in the sky, her stomach grunted as she was getting hungrier and hungrier. The child didn't remember when the last time was she ate something, but it was a long time. She reached a point where she asked, out of patience, "Are we there soon?"

"I can hear you are starving stupid human," he replied with a mocking tone as he flew a little higher in the air, "We are close. I never really went in the village, but I'm sure they aren't like that Mightyena. They are civilised," he replied before lowering himself as they continued.

They heard the water, knowing that there was a small river nearby. It wasn't the only sound they heard, there were much more noises like footsteps and voices talking between themselves. It was clear that civilisation was

"We are here," Dusknoir said as they went out of the woods.

The child wondered why lived in the village. With everything she learned, there was little hope that she would encountered more humans but was certain not to be the only one as Dusknoir knew of her kind. Maybe they never went in the forest.

The girl stopped when they saw that it was a simple village, but her hope of finding more humans died out when she realised that it was habited by Pokémons only. She didn't see any humans present.

The habitants of the village where mostly of grass type Pokémon and ground type. There were a few water types among them, as there was a river nearby. There were many houses, most of small sizes except for a few, built with woods and leaves, showing the simplicity of the village. They were one building, large than the others, that was made with rocks, looking solid and ready to resist against the fury of nature. There were a few small orchards with trees covered with small fruits.

The Pokémons present were mostly talking between themselves about things that they weren't aware off, as it was mostly about how to split something that had to be done. When the child and Dusknoir were near them the Pokémons noticed them and the village was quiet. They were all looking at them, as intruders in the village and started whispering among each other's wondering who they were.

"Who are those strangers?"

"I don't know."

"What's this Dusknoir doing here? No ghost-type wanders around here."

"What about that Pokémon? I never saw a strange one like that before."

The girl heard that and realised that they too thought she was a Pokémon, what's going on here?

Dusknoir stopped when he saw a Pokémon he wasn't expecting. The girl stopped just in time, to avoid bumping his back.

Dusknoir noticed a psychic type walking towards them, Psychic type usual don't live in villages near a forest, he grumbled in his mind. He also noticed the other Pokémons were wary of his presence, as a ghost type. He saw it coming, since his origins and his types origins weren't the most respectable. He didn't care as he was the strongest Pokémon of all.

He was a Pokémon with a yellow body, except for the brown section on his chest and around his arms, a pair of ear spikes, a spoon in each of his hands and a long mustache. He gazed at the new comers with his small iris with a small smile, "Welcome to our village strangers," he noticed the girl, "That is a strange Pokémon I'm seeing here. You are both making quite an impression among us," before they could reply, the Pokémon nervously chuckled, "Pardon my bad manners. I forgot to introduce myself," he lightly smiled, "I am Alakazam, mayor of Dawn Village."

"Dusknoir," he said with a grin on his face, "I am known as the strongest Pokémon of this world."

Many Pokémons were rolling their eyes, not believing the claim.

"And you are?" the psychic Pokémon asked the girl.

The other Pokémons were still gazing at the girl, trying to figure out who she was. That made her nervous and unconsciously hid behind Dusknoir. She never tried to reply to the Pokémon when he asked the question.

Alakazam turned towards the other villagers and said, "I think we are being rude to our guests. Maybe you should come in my home while they will take care of the orchards," he gazed at them. His left eye twitched when they didn't go away, but when they saw that, they went back to their occupation, still gazing at the guests from time to time.

Alakazam pointed them towards one of the wooden house and they followed him. The girl avoided looking at the other Pokémons while Dusknoir simply ignored them. With all of them gazing at her, she knew that the best thing to do was to go along for now.

Once they were inside, the psychic Pokémon closed the door. The inside of Alakazam house was a simple one. There was nothing on the ground than dirt, just like in the game, and a few shelves that held a few objects the girl didn't recognise. There was also a map on the back of the house with the map of a fraction of the world that appeared old and a bed made of yellow leaves and herbs.

Alakazam said, "Let's continue from where we left shall we? You didn't tell us which type of Pokémon you were."

The child tapped her fingers. With the villager's reactions, she wasn't sure if she should tell them what she was. Their reactions were completely unknown to her. It could either be bad or good. The apprehension prevented her from answering.

"He can get them out of your mind," Dusknoir said, not helping her in telling him what she was.

She was on her own. She took a deep breath and replied, "I am not a Pokémon mister Alakazam."

"And you're being polite with him," the ghost Pokémon grumbled before muttering a few impolite insults as he crossed his arms.

Alakazam looked shocked when he heard the answer, "If you are not a Pokémon, then you are what?" he seemed to believe her words so far.

"My name is Angel. I'm a- a… well…," she took a deep breath and replied, "human," she finally answered.

The psychic Pokémon didn't reply. No words could come out of his mouth, as if he had trouble believing her words or not. He played with his spoons as he looked at her, making sure to see every detail about her. They heard many voices outside talking about her.

"Human?"

"Did she say she was a human?"

"Yes, she did."

"A human. The legends were true. They do exist."

"I never thought humans looked like that."

"They just have two arms."

"I heard they are the most unique beings of this world."

"My father told me the humans ceased to exist."

Alakazam frowned and grunted, "I told you to work! Now get back to it. You are frightening the human," he waved at them and went back to work, but they still heard the Pokémon's talking about it.

Angel was lightly shaking as her face turned red, hiding from sight behind Dusknoir, who snickered loudly, "That's not helping," she whined.

"You have a funny face stupid human," he grinned at her.

Alakazam took a few steps forwards and carefully looked at her face, "You are looking like a few drawings some Pokémon made about the lost one."

"Lost one?" she asked, wondering why her kind was mentioned that way.

The psychic Pokémon chuckled, "Not anymore."

Dusknoir gazed at him and pointed at the girl, "That stupid human is getting hungry. Didn't eat for a while."

Angel frowned at his demand as her stomach grunted once again, now that he mentioned it. She politely asked, "Can you spare us something please? We haven't eaten anything for a while."

Alakazam gazed at them and nodded with a small smile, "Of course. You can eat something."

He grabbed something and offered them some fruits. She grabbed some and replied, "Thank you."

"Done," Dusknoir said, already finished eating the fruits.

"You can thank him you know," Angel grumbled at him.

The ghost Pokémon raised his shoulder, "You seem the type to thank Pokémons."

"Thank you," she replied before glaring at Dusknoir.

Alakazam chuckled and replied, "I don't mind it human. I wasn't expecting much from him."

Dusknoir was offended and he pointed his fingers at him and loudly replied, "What do you mean by that?"

Alakazam raised his spoons and pointed them towards the girl for a few seconds, before Dusknoir stood in front of her and replied, "Answer me!"

The psychic Pokémon lightly frowned as he gazed at the girl, there is something… not right with this human spirit. Dusknoir obviously noticed it. Maybe that's why he's with her. Also- what the-, the villagers were once again watching the girl, obviously whispering about the fact that she was a human, "What are you all doing? Get back to work! Don't make me repeat myself another time! We need top quality orchards. We need the best we can if we want to survive winter!"

The villagers returned to their work as Alakazam opened the window and yelled, "And stop being rude with her!" before closing the window and moaned, "I can understand them thought."

"About the fact that the stupid human is unique," the ghost Pokémon said with a light mockery in his voice.

Angel frowned and didn't reply to his mocking tone. She asked, "Why is everyone looking at me like that mister Alakazam? Humans didn't cease to exist right?" remembering one of the villager claiming that.

The old Pokémon turned back and grabbed his mustaches with his right hand, letting that spoon floated in the air, "Angel. Humans are gone for millennials. The explorers confirmed this when they found traces of their existence in ancient relics, but no one knows what they looked like. We only have objects that no Pokémon can make."

Angel couldn't reply at his answer, I'm the only human here? But, that's not possible. I am not the last human. I'm not even from this world. Is it like in the games? But he said they were gone for a long time. Then they were existing long before.

The child had trouble accepting that she was the only one on this world. The only human still alive. She felt, right now, alone in this world. Angel wanted to return home, but to who could she even returned too? No vital memories of her world, for some reason, and didn't feel any emotional attachment to her home and the humans of her world. All of this made her wondered what was wrong with her.


AC: This is the end of this chapter.

Next Chapter: Welcome To The Rescue Team.

This will be the last chapter of this Act.