Chapter 10: being toyed with
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Locked away in an empty bedroom Rhen had woken up from her bed and looked around, all she could hear was the sound of thunder and rain going on outside, "rain? But we're in a dimension how can that happen?" Rhen asked herself until she saw her bedroom door open by itself;
Rhen looked with amazement to see her mother and her child walk through the door, "mum! Your alright" Rhen said with glee and went up to embrace them, "there, there now, everything's alright now, we're back together at last" Rhen's mother said back to her, but then Rhen noticed someone was missing "mother, where's dad?" Asked Rhen as her mother became silent for a second and then said something Rhen was not ready to expect,
"Your father's dead, he tried to fight off the horde of demons" replied Rhen's mother, from that point Rhen released from her embrace and took a step back "what?! He can't be, he must still be alive somewhere" said a now worried Rhen "there's no hope in denying it, he has left us" again replied Rhen's mother,
Rhen soon began to feel very suspicious with her mother, she knew her mother would never lose hope in her father so she decided to ask her mother more questions, one of them seemed to get her right where she wanted her, "and what about my little brother? You also need a father to care for him" said Rhen as her mother slowly shook her head side to side which was the reaction Rhen was hoping for "there is no need, I can take care of him by myself" was her answer, from that moment Rhen quickly drawn out her sword and penetrate in through her mother's chest as she went silent,
Rhen looked with curiosity, she was expecting blood to drip from her mother's chest but instead nothing came out, in fact her mother's limbs, arms and head popped from it sockets and landed on the floor like a pile of logs, Rhen looked at her mother's corpse "huh? She was a doll? A living doll?" Said a confused Rhen and then looked to see her little brother gone missing "where'd he go?" Wondered Rhen as she searched the bedroom,
She looked under the bed, in the wardrobe, even the ceiling but there was no sign of her brother, "well he did like to play hide and seek" Rhen said to himself and then heard footsteps going down the stairs,
Rhen made her way out of the bedroom and was about to head down the stairs until she spotted the bathroom door shut by itself "wonder who's in there?" `Again said a curious Rhen and advanced up to the bathroom door and tried to open it, but it was locked, "hay, is anyone in there?" Rhen asked knocking on the door but there was no answer,
Instead a note slid under the door, Rhen picked it up and unfolded it to reveal a message "the key is in the basement, look behind the calendar" Rhen read from the letter and then looked to see a keyhole to the bathroom door,
Before she left she took a peak through it to see the other end of the bathroom for a few seconds only then to see a shadow swooped by it making Rhen jump with fright "oh my god what a shocker, so someone is in there, but do I really want to know who's in there?" Questioned Rhen as her heart raced from that experience,
After that incident Rhen made her way to the stairs and looked down them to see a faint aqua light below, Rhen made her way downstairs and towards the light which lead her to the living room, Rhen looked to see the aqua light was coming from an old fashion TV, "I wonder who left this on?" Wondered Rhen and walked up to the TV and was about to turn it off until an image came up on the screen,
Rhen looked at the scrambled TV to faintly make out someone standing in a graveyard "huh, must be one of those late night horror movies" shrugged Rhen and made her way to the basement not knowing that the person in the graveyard was Ti'e'yong.
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Upon arriving at the basement door which was located beneath the stairs Rhen slowly pulled down on the handle and opened the door as it made a creaking noise, "must've not have been used for a long time" Rhen said to herself as she made her way down the stairs to the basement which seem to get darker and darker,
But as she reached the bottom a light bulb flickered to life and revealed a workbench in a corner, Rhen walked up to the workbench to notice several bits of disassembled dolls "someone really must like to take dolls apart" Rhen said to herself and then noticed something down by the side of the workbench,
"Is that scrape marks?" She wondered seeing a faint black mark trailing away from the workbench, she went to the side and took a firm grip on the table's lip and pulled with all her might as the workbench began to move with a loud noise, after pulling the workbench quite a bit away she went to look what was hidden behind it and to her surprise it was the calendar still pinned up with the month July on it
"Someone must've forgot to change it, this is dated 1876" she said to herself and began to investigate the dull calendar,
Remembering what the letter said she lifted the calendar off the nail and dropped it on the ground to reveal a hole in the brick wall "how dull is this house, there's a brick missing here" shrugged Rhen and took a peak through the hole only to see pitch black, she took a deep breath as she reached her hand down the hole as it went right up to her shoulder, after blindly searching about she felt something cold and as she pulled it out it turned out to be a rather old key,
"This must be the key to the bathroom" said Rhen and made her way towards the stairs, that is until the light bulb made a loud crack as the light disappeared as the basement became pitch black.
"Ahh, what happened to the light?!" Cried Rhen as she was forced to stretch her arms forward and feel her way out, after wondering about she bumped into something hard "was that the workbench?" Wondered Rhen but she was wrong,
Suddenly a second light bulb flickered to life as light returned to the basement revealing Rhen and Welton standing in the basement,
"Eek Welton you scared me!" Shrieked Rhen with fright as her heart raced, but Welton said nothing instead he stretched both his arms out as he slowly moved towards Rhen "ok you can stop now, you got me ok" said Rhen but Welton didn't answer and continued moving closer to Rhen making her frightened, "please Welton you're scaring me" Rhen said one more time but yet again Welton didn't answer,
Then she realised that it wasn't Welton when she saw him open his mouth to reveal sharp fangs dripping with saliva "oh god! He's a zombie!" Panicked Rhen as she shoved Welton out of the way and charged up the stairs into the hallway slamming the door behind her, her heart began to pound even harder when she heard footsteps slowly coming up the stairs so she made a break to another set of stairs and dashed right up it without hesitation,
Upon reaching the top she jumped when she heard banging coming from downstairs "I got to get out of here" said a terrified Rhen and had just remembered the bathroom door, so she rushed right up to the bathroom door and quickly took out the key from out her pocket and inserted it into the keyhole, once she twisted it she heard a loud smash as the sound of bits of wood fell to the floor, with one last twist the door was unlocked as she swung the door open and shutting it behind her, she then lock the door again hoping she would be safe but caught goosebumps when she heard footstep coming up the stairs slowly.
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While Rhen was having problems with the zombie Welton chasing after her, the real Welton had finely woken up from somewhere inside a tomb,
"Have I landed in a graveyard or something?" Wondered Welton and sat up to look around to see his teammates missing "where'd they go? Last thing I remembered was hearing the sound of bells ringing my ears to death" Welton said to himself tracing back at what happened,
He got up from the dusty stone floor and looked around the dimly lit room, surrounding him were several coffins completely covered with cobwebs "I must be in a tomb, but I'd best get out of here" Welton said to himself and made his way up the stairs behind him.
Upon pushing a stiff stone door open Welton was now standing in a misty graveyard littered with tombstones, the mist was above his knees completely covering his feet from sight and the sky was covered with dark purple clouds,
"Is this the backyard of the castle?" Wondered Welton and tread carefully across the graveyard hoping not to trip over any tiny tombstone,
The graveyard looked like it would go on forever but that didn't stop Welton from getting out of here, "I must be nearing the exit by now" Welton said to himself and then stopped when he heard a twig snapped behind him, he quickly turned round to spot a shadowy figure a split-second before it then hid behind a dead tree,
"Who's there?" Demanded Welton as his voice echoed through the graveyard, there was no answer instead he heard a faint feminine moan coming from the tree that sounded familiar "is that you Rhen?" Again he asked, he watch to see the familiar shape of a Gardevoir come out of hiding and made her way towards Welton who was unable see her in the darkness "watch your step, here let me get a light he said and channelled some magic to his staff which began to illuminate revealing a terrifying zombie Rhen,
"Good lord!" Shouted Welton and leapt back as the zombie Rhen tried to grab hold of him, he immediately turned round and made a run for it as the flesh hungered Gardevoir made chase to him at a snail's pace, "that Tingdon, why I would so much as to rip her like a doll for doing a evil thing, said Welton as he looked behind him to see the zombie Rhen getting further away from him,
But then while he wasn't looking where he was going he tripped over a tombstone which flipped him over and landed on his back slightly crippling it "ah, oh that hurts!" Yelled Welton as he struggled to get back up, but then his heart began to race as he heard the grass shifting as he had the feeling that Rhen was behind him, he looked up to see the zombie Gardevoir looking down on him as she then got down on all four and was about to sink her teeth into his neck until a voice broke the silence "sorry Rhen!" the voice said and out from behind her a rose whip got a hold of her by the neck and was flung to one side, Welton then heard footsteps making its way to him and was relieved to notice that it was Ti'e'yong who had saved him,
"Help me up" asked Welton as she carefully lifted him up as he tried to keep the terrible pain inside him and then they both looked at the zombie Rhen as she got up and continued her way towards her targets,
"I still don't know if this is the real Rhen or not" wondered Welton "well I don't know as well but let's get out of here" said a scared Ti'e'yong as she and Welton continued to run away from the zombie Rhen,
And after a hasty sprint across the grave yard they eventually made it to the back gate to Tingdon's castle "this is probably her doing, let's put an end to this" said Welton as he broke down the gate and both made their way back inside.
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Upon entering the castle Welton and Ti'e'yong were now stuck as to where to go, ahead of them was an extremely long corridor filled with doors on both sides "I don't recall this being part of the main entrance" said a now puzzled Welton as Ti'e'yong went to knock on a door only to get a terrifying growl back at her, the frightened Ti'e'yong immediately ran up and hugged Welton very tightly "it's ok I got you, this could take us awhile" said Welton stroking Ti'e'yong's hair and looked ahead of him to see pitch black,
"There's got to be something down there" again said Welton and with Ti'e'yong still clinging on to him they both made their way down the long corridor which then led to a staircase but was blocked off by a metal gate which was padlocked, "well that's just great, where do you think the key is?" Wondered Ti'e'yong, "I don't know, but I think there may be another way upstairs" replied Welton and turned round to see the rows of doors in his sight,
"One of these rooms may have access to the upper level" suggested Welton and noticed Ti'e'yong quivering with fear,
"What's wrong?" Asked Welton "you do remember when I knocked on one of the doors don't you, who's knows what will be living in the other rooms" answered Ti'e'yong and moved closer to him "will just have to take our chances" suggested Welton and took Ti'e'yong's hand as they both walked back down the corridor to choose a door,
Just then Ti'e'yong stopped at one of the doors "what is it Ti'e'yong?" Asked Welton and looked at the door she was looking at,
The number on it said 207 but that wasn't the case as Ti'e'yong looked at the door next to it which strangely said 205 "that's odd, where's door number 206?" Said a perplexed Welton and was about to open door number 205 when all of a sudden they heard a crash,
They both swung their heads over towards the back door to spot and complete forget the zombie Rhen that was still chasing them "quick, in here!" Ordered Welton as he swung the door open and dashed inside along with Ti'e'yong in hand as he then shut the door behind them and then waited.
Very soon Ti'e'yong began to grasp Welton tightly with fear as she and Welton heard the zombie's feet shifting across the floor until it came to a complete stop, Ti'e'yong got down on all four and peeked under the door to just make out the zombie's white feet standing in front of the door, at first her heart began to race the longer the zombie stood there but then she silently sighed with relief as the zombie Rhen move on down the corridor "she's gone" whispered Ti'e'yong as she quietly got back up on her feet "thank goodness, now, where did we get ourselves into?" Wondered Welton and began to use the same luminous magic to light up the room,
Ti'e'yong then gave out a quick squeal when she thought she saw tiny skeletons hanging from the ceiling but from a second look what she actually saw was a bunch of wooden puppets,
"What's all this, a huge toy closet?" Questioned Ti'e'yong and walked along still looking at the puppets until she bumped into a table and looked to see what it was, and then there was a shocker, on the table laid six puppet which strike the exact resemblance of Rhen, Welton, Ti'e'yong, Trivain and Ronfork,
"Tingdon must've made these not long ago" said Welton as he walked up by her side, Ti'e'yong nodded in agreement and then looked at the puppets again until she spotted something missing,
"Hay, where's the Zan puppet?" Wondered Ti'e'yong but before they could answer a small tremor began to rattle the ground "get down" said Welton as they both did and held each other tightly as they waited for it to end.
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They both still remained on the floor as the small tremor continued to rattle them from side to side, even the puppets hanging on the ceiling fell off and landed on the floor one after another, after a minute the tremor stopped as Welton and Ti'e'yong got off from the floor,
"What do you supposed has happened?" Questioned Ti'e'yong as Welton pointed his illuminated staff toward the door, "I don't know, but it sounded like it came from outside, come on" replied Welton as he held Ti'e'yong's hand and walked up to the door as he then slowly pulled down on the handle and pushed the door open leading them back to the corridor.
"well it looks like nothing touched this place, even I don't know if that zombie is still lurking around here" said Welton as he looked to the left where the back door would be, but when Ti'e'yong came out from the door she noticed some broken planks on her right,
"Welton look at this" said Ti'e'yong pulling on his robe, Welton turned round wandering what the panic was about and was surprised to see a gap in the wall between room 205 and 207 "well, well, a hidden passageway, I wonder what Tingdon is keeping down there?" Snickered Welton and took Ti'e'yong's hand and walked through the gap and down a pitch black passageway,
Very soon they heard the sound of glass being broken under their feet "that tremor sure made a mess of things" said Ti'e'yong still holding onto Welton's hand very tightly,
just then they made out a tiny light flickering at the end of the passageway so they made their way toward it quickly and stopped in front of a door, when the light stayed lit they both looked at the door's number plate which said 206 "so this was where this room was, I wonder why it was boarded up?" Wondered Ti'e'yong not noticing that something else was on the door,
"Maybe this is the reason" said Welton and pointed out several claw marks around the door, "these look pretty big, do you think it's another giant demon like the ones Tangwon used?" Asked Ti'e'yong,
"I wouldn't be sure, take a closer look, these marks must've been made by something sharp and I mean very sharp, whatever is behind this door is something far dangerous" explained Welton as Ti'e'yong began to shiver with fear,
"Your scaring me Welton" said a frightened Ti'e'yong and hugged Welton tightly hoping to do it any good "so sorry, it won't happen again" apologized Welton as Ti'e'yong loosen her grip,
"Something tells me that the key to the stairs back there is inside that room" said Ti'e'yong "what makes you think that?" Wondered Welton, "it's like them stories where something is hidden somewhere which is guarded by some dangerous monster" mentioned Ti'e'yong,
"You could be right there Ti'e'yong, which is why we should look and see if it's there" suggested Welton, Ti'e'yong's eyes widen "are you crazy?! There's something in there that'll make pancakes out of use" panicked Ti'e'yong as her heart raced a bit,
"If we don't do something that zombie that looks like Rhen will have our brains, I'm sorry Ti'e'yong but this is the only way" explained Welton, Ti'e'yong swallowed her fear and looked up to Welton with a brave face on,
"that's it, ok then we'll slowly open this door to see if whatever's in there, if not then search around for the key if it's here" again explained Welton as they both advanced up to the door and was about to open the door when Ti'e'yong told him to stop for a second,
"your rushing ahead, just give it a second so I can feel confident" suggested Ti'e'yong, after a few more second they held their breath as he reached for the handle and then pulled it down which then opened by itself for them.
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Also somewhere in the castle Trivain had regain mobility and lifted herself up under a single light inside a dark room "where am I?" Wondered a dizzy Trivain looking around to notice no one was with her, "I guess we got separated during that bell incident" Trivain said to herself when all of a sudden the light over her switched off,
"Ahh what's happened to the light?!" Worried Trivain knowing she wasn't alone, from that moment she then heard a series of banging echoing all around which seemed to slightly frighten the Absol,
"Who's there? Show yourself?" Pleaded Trivain when all of a sudden the noise stopped and the light flickered back to life, Trivain looked ahead to see a long shiny crystal staircase that lead up to an outstanding light "am I dead or something?" Said a puzzled yet worried Trivain and walked up to the first step of the glowing staircase,
she took a deep breath to eliminate her current emotion and began to walk up the stairs as her black boots made a sound which echoed with each step she took, "if this is still the castle then it's bigger than it looks on the outside" Trivain said to herself and continued to walk towards the light.
As she reached the last step she now stood in front of a gleaming white archway with stain glass window which strangely had light beaming through it,
"Now how could this be here, and in a dreaded castle?" Said a now very confused Trivain as she looked back down and the pitch black darkness which she came out from,
She turned her head back around and stared down the pure white hallway and slowly walked down it feeling relax from the scene back down in the darkness, after a short walk she noticed a fine marble door that nearly blended with the wall patterns but as she neared the door there was a load shrike which badly rang Trivain's ears to death,
"Arggh what the hell is that?!" Shrieked Trivain as static was the only thing she could hear,
Even without her ears she noticed the lights vanishing one by one, she looked up and saw the rows of stain glass window being shattered into fragments as they littered the entire archway while the mysterious shrieking noise continued, Trivain was soon losing herself as she fell to her knees gritting her teeth and still keeping her ears covered with her hands until the shrieking noise stopped dead,
Trivain was panting hard as the static was still heard but there was still some strength in her to get back up, gladly once she did very slowly her hearing became clear,
"Phew what a relief, if I became deaf how am I going to help the team and be with Ronfork, oh no Ronfork I wonder if he's safe?!" Panicked Trivain and turned around to where the door was which was hidden in the darkness, before she pushed it open a stain glass window which managed to survive began to glow again to reveal an old wooden door,
"Hang on, weren't that used to be marble? This is really messing up my mind" Trivain asked herself as she scratched her white furry head,
As she was about to reach for the latch the sound of footsteps being shifted along the broken glass fragment reached her ears "hello?" Called Trivain, the footsteps stopped, Few second gone and then came the sound of moaning as the beings footsteps picked up again, Trivain began to think that she was in danger so she quickly slid the latch open and ran inside and immediately shut the door and locked it and then looked around to see where she was,
Things couldn't get any weirder for she was now standing in a children's playroom "ok now I really think this is the castle" Trivain agreed to herself and looked around the bright room until she heard something in another room to her left so she made her way there to see what it was.
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Upon approaching the pink oak door she placed her ear up to it and listen in to make out the sound of two children Pokémon "oh look at this one, isn't he right for a prince?" Asked a young girls voice "no way, what we need as an all powerful wizard like this one" said a young boys voice,
Then Trivain heard a voice of someone who she actually knew "unhand me you selfish minded brats, if I'd would I'd use my magic and make you drop me!" Shouted the voice,
"That sounded like Zan" Trivain whispered to herself in shock and then listened to more,
"This thing's got some bugs, I thought this toy was good enough to play" again said the boys voice, "toy?" Wondered Trivain and looked at the golden doorknob in front of her, with a nervous breath taken in she opened the door only to find herself in a small castle made completely out of building blocks,
"Is this a joke? How would kids be able to lift these huge blocks?" Trivain said to herself as she couldn't take much more of this topsy-turvy world, but just then when she walked up to a nearby hole in the wall she got a nasty shock when a huge eye peeked over it,
"Hay look at this, we got another toy we can play with" said the girls voice as another eye showed up from another hole on the opposite side "and just in time, this toy was really boring, hay sis watch this, Christmas came early" snickered the boy as Trivain looked at a hole in the ceiling to see someone fall down towards her "I got you" she said and catch the fallen victim,
Once she successfully rescued the victim she looked to see that she caught Zan however he wasn't what he meant to be,
"Oh Trivain, good timing I could use a rescue" thanked Zan but then looked at her to see her looking back at him in shock "you're a, a puppet?" Said Trivain and from that moment she fainted as Zan fell to the floor,
"Perfect, things couldn't get any worse" Zan groaned to himself as he lay there helplessly, the children outside however were quite angry,
"Hay, you broke our new toy Jake!" Shouted the girl "it wasn't me, that puppet scared her, don't you ever look at what's going on here Vice!" Jake shouted back and without warning he swung his hand at the block castle as it crumbled into rubble in an instant,
Luckily Trivain and Zan didn't get crushed and also with luck Trivain woke up,
"Ow my head, hay why it is dark all of a sudden?" Wondered Trivain rubbing her head better "you ok there Trivain?" Asked Zan who was below her feet, Trivain sat upright and picked up the Zan puppet "how did you end up like this?" Trivain asked back as she fiddled with the Xatu's wings and legs,
"Somehow this must be the work of Tingdon, I don't know what magic she used but one thing's for sure is that when I become all feathers and bones I'm going to turn that Tingdon into timber" answered an enraged Zan,
"But first we got to get out of here" suggested Trivain looking around in the slightly dark area and then looked at Zan again,
"Are you still able to use your magic?" Asked Trivain "hang on let me check" answered Zan and began to focus which from Trivain's point of view looked like he was doing nothing being a helpless puppet,
But then with a bit of luck Zan's whole body began to glow, he became a human light "there we go, I guess I still got my abilities" chuckled Zan as Trivain then held him up high to light the way,
"This feels silly" giggled Trivain, "how's it silly?" Asked Zan as his wings moved all over the place with each step,
"I'm holding a powerful druid, and now he's been turned into a puppet, and now I get to carry him around like a nightlight, oh I wish it was Ronfork instead" again giggled Trivain as the puppet didn't show any feeling at all, "enjoy while you can, it'll be over very soon... I hope" moaned Zan as they both continued to navigate through the rubble of building blocks.
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It took quite a lot of time but eventually they managed to emerge from the rubble, "phew, though we'd never get out of there" sighed Trivain and looked down at Zan in her right hand who had turned out his light,
"But we did, and now we need to get out of this room before..." just then the children spotted then from a short distance,
To the others it was a huge shock, the children were giants and were heading their way, Vice was a Misdreavus and Jake was a shiny Metang,
"Hay Jake their still playable; come on lets finish up" suggested Vice, "run!!!" Yelled Zan and at that moment Trivain broke into a sprint as they made their way to the door where she came in from, she looked back to see the two colossus Pokémon chasing then at a slow pace until she collided with the door and fell backwards,
"Quick Trivain, they're getting closer!" Shouted Zan as Trivain got back up on her feet, reached for the doorknob and swung the door wide open as they both ran out of the room, "shoot they got away" frowned Jake as he tried to squeeze his enormous metal claw through the door, but it was no good, "never mind, we'll find some other toys very soon" shrugged Vice as they all sat back down and began to build up their block castle.
Still thinking that the children would still be after them Trivain and Zan began making their way down the glass staircase away from the white archway behind them,
"I don't hear them Trivain, I think you can stop now" suggested Zan as Trivain came to a halt while still halfway on the steps, she turned around to see no children in sight "well looks like we won't ever set foot in there again" she said turning around and again made her way down the steps until she heard a crack,
"Did you hear something?" Asked Zan, Trivain looked below her feet to notice in fright the step was beginning to break, but before she was about to run down to the bottom, she looked ahead to see all the steps beginning to break,
"The whole staircase is going to fall apart along with us!" Cried Trivain and before Zan could reply the entire staircase shattered beneath their feet as they then began to plummet down into the darkness as their cries filled the area until it was heard no more.
After a minute of screaming and yelling, they both decided to open their eyes to see where they ended up and to their surprise they ended up back at the main hallway where the bell incident took place,
"Well I'll be, we're right back where we started" said Zan sighing to the fact that he was still alive, Trivain was doing the same as she got up and picked up Zan and looked around "where'd you supposed the others are?" Questioned Trivain,
Suddenly the sound of metal boot caught their ears as they both looked behind them to see what it was,
"It might be one of Tingdon's troops" said Trivain readying her scythe, but it wasn't an enemy; in fact it was Ronfork emerging from the shadows of the hallway "Trivain?" Asked Ronfork "Ronfork, oh my sweet prince you came to save me!" Gasped Trivain with joy as she ran up and threw herself in the Lucario's arms,
"Well I was hoping someone came to save me" chuckled Ronfork until he heard mumbling from behind his back, Trivain realised and stepped away from him a bit so Zan could catch his breath "next time, think before you act" suggested Zan who had now surprised Ronfork,
"Is that Zan?" Asked Ronfork poking Zan's wooden eye "hay knock it off, yes it is me, under some sort of spell" answered Zan, but before they could talk even further they then heard a nearby door being closed, very slowly they all began to head on over and ambush whoever it was.
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When Trivain, Ronfork and puppet Zan got closer to the source of the noise they then heard more footsteps, but they weren't made of metal in fact it was made out of sole,
"Watch out, it could be one of those zombie versions of us that I encountered before" warned Ronfork as he drawn out his sword out from his scabbard,
When they thought they were close enough they gave out a battle cry and lunged into battle only to be repelled by a magic barrier,
"Who's there?" Demanded Ronfork, "hay that sounded like Ronfork" said a feminine voice and from that moment two figures stepped forth from the shadows,
"Hay its Welton and Ti'e'yong, we finely found one another" said Trivain with joy as she noticed Ti'e'yong clapping her hands in excitement,
"I take it Rhen and Zan are still somewhere then?" Asked Welton noticing two people missing from their team, "well Rhen is still around here somewhere but Zan is right here, see" replied Trivain and held the puppet Zan in front of his face,
"Hello Welton" greeted Zan as Welton was shocked to see one of the greatest druids being turned into wooden toy "what happened to you Zan?" Asked Ti'e'yong walking up and asked if she could hold him,
"Like I said to Trivain, Tingdon must've used a spell and turned me into a puppet" explained Zan and had just reminded Welton of something,
"Say, didn't we also see dolls of ourselves back at room 205?" Welton asked Ti'e'yong as she lifted Zan's wings up and down "yes we did, and it was missing a Zan doll, which we have right here" answered Ti'e'yong,
"Could you take us there?" Asked Ronfork, "sure thing, this way" replied Welton and lead them all over to the door where they came in from,
Trivain and Ronfork looked at a plate that was on the door, it said 206 "what's behind this door then?" Asked Trivain "ah well you see when me and Ti'e'yong here encountered the door we thought there was a demon behind it, but when we opened it we ended up here" said Welton and opened the door to let everyone inside.
After walking down the dark hidden corridor and then into the other corridor where the other rooms were they had now arrived and entered room 205 where all the old puppets still littered the floor,
"What happened here? An earthquake?" Questioned Trivain, "no, it was just a small tremor, come on the other puppets should be this way" said Welton and lead them to the desk at the end of the dark room,
Upon walking up to it they all looked down at the range of wooden puppets of themselves "dear me" said Trivain picking up a puppet of an Absol "this puppet doesn't look anything like me" again said Trivain examining it,
"Never mind that now, Ti'e'yong try placing Zan in that empty spot there" issued Welton pointing at a gap in between the Trivain and Ronfork puppets,
With that given Ti'e'yong gently placed Zan in place but nothing happened for a couple of seconds "nothing's happening" shrugged Ronfork until then all of a sudden all the dolls excepts Rhen's began to glow in a majestic blue light,
"Its working" Zan called out as the light got brighter but as it did the others began to feel funny "why do I feel as if something is drawing me towards it?" Said a puzzled Trivain,
It wasn't too soon as they then found out that they were being pulled into the puppets, they all tried their best to keep their feet firmly on the floor but to no use the vacuuming grew stronger and stronger until all their feet's were lifted off the ground,
With their last cries they all flew towards their puppets but since they kept colliding with one another it began to mess up the process but still everyone began to shrink as they then plummeted inside the tomb of each other's given wooden puppets.
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When the blue light faded there was no sign of them, in fact they were now trapped inside wooden puppet "great, now we became puppets" moaned Ronfork examining his prison but then noticed something odd,
"Hang on, where's my golden armour? And why am I wearing a blue school uniform?" Said an extremely confused Ronfork,
This alerted Ti'e'yong as she looked to see that she was wearing Ronfork's golden plated armour "oh no, I'm not in my body, and I'm trapped inside a Lucario body!" cried Ti'e'yong,
Which meant that when the other two looked at their given bodies Trivain would be stuck in Welton's robes while Welton had to put up with being inside a female Absol body wearing nothing but a embarrassing red school uniform,
"Ahh this is so bad" whined Welton staring hopelessly at his skirt "we need to change back" said Trivain,
Just then the door opened to show a familiar figure, "oh no please don't tell me it's her" said a now worried Welton,
"Who Tingdon?" Asked Ronfork, "no a zombie that looks like Rhen" again said Welton as the shadowy figure advanced towards them bringing slight fear to them,
"Were going to be taken apart aren't we" Ti'e'yong said quietly till the figure of Rhen was now standing in front of them but something was different, this Rhen seemed to wear clean armour plates, she wasn't covered in blood or scratched and she still kept the silky Gardevoir dress,
"Ok why are there puppets that look and sound like my friends?" Said a puzzled Rhen, when she had just spoken to them the lot went into an outburst,
"Rhen?! Oh thank the stars your ok" said Welton with relief as Rhen picked him up "is this a dream? Is Welton really a puppet" Rhen said and looked at the other puppets,
"No this isn't, we been put under a spell and now we're all puppets" said Zan as this just made Rhen drop the Welton puppet with shock "what?! No this can't be, why has it come to this" panicked Rhen,
"Hay, hay calm down girl, look maybe if we beat the living daylights out of Tingdon then maybe the spell will be broken" suggested Ronfork as he couldn't wait to lay his paws on the twisted demon Sneasel, that is if he had them instead of flower,
"Sounds good, but where do you suppose she is? This castle has too many twist and turns" questioned Rhen, silence filled the area for a bit, "we don't know, this place seems to look bigger inside then it was from the outside" said Ti'e'yong,
Just then there was a loud sound which came from outside the room "what was that?!" Gasped Rhen with a nasty shock "that sounded like a metal gate colliding with the floor, maybe it was that gate which was blocking the staircase" said Welton,
"Then that's where we'll go, Rhen, are you able to carry us?" Asked Zan, Rhen brought her bag round to the front "I could squeeze you lot in here for now, well except you Welton, you're the one I want to keep close" replied Rhen winking at Welton as she picked the Gallade up off the floor,
"ok all aboard" giggled Rhen as she picked up the guys first and dropped them into the bag as they all piled on top of one another "ow, careful next time" said Ronfork, "ok" replied Rhen as she gently placed Trivain and Ti'e'yong on top of them,
"yay, we're the king of the hill" cheered Ti'e'yong as everyone was now all jumbled up inside the bag, "ok now as for you Welton" said Rhen and placed him on her shoulder "you didn't have to do that you know" suggested Welton as Rhen was about to walk out the door,
"I care for you the most, I don't want them lot in there give you any ideas about us" replied Rhen, "I heard that" said Ronfork from inside the bag, "good, because you may learn something for you and Trivain, turtledoves" giggled Rhen as she looked ahead and then made her way out of the dark room and along the corridor to see what made that strange noise not so long ago.