As they began walking into the forest after hiking down the mountain's trail, the sunset light shun down on the little group...And Kirlia still wasn't awake. Flame stopped, looking around. They reached a little clearing. "...Should we stay here for the night?" "Yeah, might as well. With luck she might wake up soon."
They gently let down Alice on the ground. Flame takes off the extra backpack he's been carrying around, takes out a special band with two different shades of pink on it and ties it around Kirlia's neck before putting the same backpack underneath her head. Meanwhile Phantom made several sticks appear on the ground next to them, then went to seek stones and leaves.
Not too soon and the little group had a nice, cozy safe campfire. Phantom sat down and looks up at the sky. It was barely visible through the leaves, but the little ghost could spot some stars and see a shooting star pass by. Meanwhile Flame allowed himself on his stomach, waddling his legs and pressing his face while watching the girl. "What do you think happened to her?" He ask. Phantom looks back to Alice, she was still sporting a nice little smile.
"Honestly...? I have no ide-" "What did she dream about?" Flame cuts off Phantom, putting his paws on the ground and lifting himself as if doing a push-up, eyes sparkling and mouth agape. "Pfft...Darkness. She's standing still in a dark, pitch black area and knocked me out." Flame tilts his head. "Really? You'd think a psychic type would have all these weird, fantastic dreams but nope!" He says while flopping and setting back his hands on his cheeks.
"Hm...It might just be because of what happened and she doesn't want to talk about it. Thought...This is just odd. Between you and I, I was sure we'd find her corpse after what Pelipper said...Or someone else with her." Phantom floated in front of Kirlia and looks between her legs. "Hm...Doubt that's it." "That's what...?" "Nothing, just watching if she's got scars or something." "Does she have any?" "None at all." Phantom sits back next to the fire, Flame crawled next to the little ghost.
"Reminds me...Phantom, when you got inside of me, what did I dream about?" "Hm? You don't recall?" "Nope! I tend to forget my dreams fast!" Phantom smiles back. "You were just dreaming of sleeping right in front of the cave actually, and it was surprising to see how your dream almost nailed everything right from the real world...Hell! You even had a second me!" Phantom chuckled."OH YEAH! HE TOTALLY GRABBED YOUR MOUTH!" "Haha, yeah, that was actually pretty hilarious man. Didn't think I'd see the day someone would be dream of...dreaming!" "Do you have dreams?" Flame ask.
"Yeah, I do." Phantom looks back at Kirlia. "Didn't think I could but Alice here made me sleep, and I still remember everything from my dream. Mine are just weird, nothing much happens in them." "Mine are weird too! But only if I start exploring! They start completely normal but there's always something telling me I'm in a dream!" Phantom takes out the beer he's been carrying in his backpack, takes off the cap and drink it. "Yeah, mine are just outright weird, I can't make sense if I dream or not until I somehow realize I am."
Phantom looks back at the fire, then at his drink. "Hey, wanna see a magic trick?" "SURE!" He screamed out, lifting himself again with a push-up. Phantom rose into the air, and trickled his drink into the fire, which spew flames and grew larger. "WOAH! IT'S EATING THE DRINK!" Phantom chuckled.
Suddenly, a shadow ball hit Phantom, making it get smacked over a tree along with its drink, and falling down to the ground soaked in alcohol and shards falling down on it. "PHANTOM! NO!" Flame rushed over to the ghost, but stepped on a shard. "OW OW OW!" He backed off jumping on his other leg, pressing his paws on his wound before falling down on his ass. Then check for his injury, just a slight opening...dripping hot blood, which burnt some grass.
As Flame placed his wounded foot over his other leg, he pats away the flames. Meanwhile, a bunch of Phantumps appeared around them, their eyes darting down on the trio...And one Trevenant approached from where the shadow ball appeared. "Well well well, what do we have here?" Flame looks back at the walking tree, waving his hands in a panic. "Wait! My friend was just doing a trick! The fire didn't reach the woods!" Meanwhile Phantom groaned, rubbing its head, feeling pain covering its body and shaking off the shards of glass from itself.
"Tch. Thanks to our intervention, that is. We had our eyes on you lot ever since you stepped into the forest." Trevenant says while it lifts its right hand toward the campfire, rising it into the air and separating the elements that makes it burn, dissipating the flames and making the area much darker, barely lit by the stars above. With its other hand, it used telekinesis to launch Phantom from the ground to its grip as it lets out a scream. "PHANTOM!" Let out flame.
"I must say, I'm quite surprised. Our eyes were locked on you." It says while pointing a Flame. "And yet your little friend, a PHANTUMP. NO LESS. STUMPLESS. RECKLESSLY CAUSING A WILDFIRE!" "Hey man, the fire didn't reac-hey HEY HMPH!" Trevenant squeezed Phantom's head with his other hand while keeping his eye on Flames. "There is nothing wrong with a controlled campfire, but your friend will learn some manners." Trevenant makes a small head movement, signaling they can leave."You two can go, but your companion will go back to..." Trevenant's quickly look at its hand before looking at Flame. "its root." It says, then began to leave.
"WAIT! YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE PHANTOM LIKE THAT!" Flame shouts, putting himself in a racing position, his wounded foot facing upward. Trevenant looks back without turning back. "As a matter of fact, I can. If it was you, or any other pokemon...They'd get death. Be glad your friend won't befall this fate." "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" He screamed, rushing at the Trevenant and using a flame kick.
A Phantump knocked Flame away, who abruptly stopped in the air, then violently got knocked to a tree before falling down and fainting on the ground. The bunny then got positioned in a way his blood wouldn't drip all through the power of telekinesis. "Hmrph...Keep a watch on these two." The Trevenant let out toward the Phantumps as they disappeared in the shadows. The tree began to walk away. Phantom kept trying to struggle and whine.
After a few minutes, the ghost finally settled down into the hands of its kidnapper, trying to think of a plan. (Alright. What sort of powers do I have? I can't phase through these hands, and I don't have anything I can feel to bust me out.- Wait. Hey! You! Tree! Can you hear me?) No response from the other one. (So it got telekinesis powers, but can't hear shit? How the fuck does that work?) Phantom got squeezed "HMPH!" (ACK-)
Phantom struggles, then realized. (WAIT WAIT! So you CAN hear me! Come on, man! Why the silent tune?) No response. (...Hey. If you can hear me, what am I suppose to be?) No response again. (...How about I tell you that I am not a Phantump?) "WHAT?" Trevenant removed its hand from Phantom's head, glaring at him. Phantump recoil back, furtively looking around for a split second, noticing they're still the forest. "E-Err..It's true. I used to be human."
The walking tree takes Phantom by the tail with its other hand and stretches the ghost. "OW OW! STOP THAT!" "Tch. Liar, you'd turn back into whatever you were by now." "Wait! Wait! It's true! Not even two days ago I was given life here! Or something like that! Look in my memories man! Did you ever see these before?" Phantom imagined cities, building, television, just the stuff from its dreams, the slutbunny...Then how it met with Archen when he woke up for the first time "You seeing that, right?"
Trevenant set its free hand underneath its eye."What tells me you're not trying to lie to me? These could come from anywhere from this very world. You're not even showing me what a human is." "Because I can't remember what a human looks like! I can't even remember any of my memories apart from mundane shit!" The Trevenant sets back its hand on Phantom's head. (WHY THE HELL ARE YOU COVERING MY HEAD?) "Because you look pitiful without a stump. I'm not gonna look at your face until I find something proper." (Is this why you've been ignoring me?) A silence came between the two. (I'll take it as a yes.)
Another silence came between the two. (...Alright, so you're not gonna budge until you find a stump to put on my head?) "You're a smart one." Phantom shudders in its hands. Memories of when it took off it's flooding back. (Yeah, nah, I just don't like having something on my head man. How the hell can you handle something restrictive and that same smell in your nose? I couldn't handle it.) "Hey. What's your gender?" (Huh? You can't tell?)
Trevenant remove its hand from Phantom's head. "I can't smell your gender, that foul stench is on you." "Huh? You can SMELL IT?" Phantom gives out a weird out look. "You better say it now." "What the hell? I have no idea what am I! I thought I got none! GHOSTS got none!" "So you got no idea which one you are...?" "No. What about you?" The Trevenant looks around. "No good stumps around. Fifty-fifty chance of being the right gender...Let's skip the first step, it's punishment time."
A long tongue extended from the mouth of Trevenant as it grips Phantom's tail once more, extending the ghost but not as brutally as last time. "Hey HEY HEY! I'M A MAN ALRIGHT?" Screamed out Phantom, but the other didn't care, letting its [M+] "S-STOP-AHH!" It struggled against the intruder, but couldn't, moaning some more and begging to stop.
Trevenant then wrapped its tongue against Phantom before gulping it down. "NO!" Inside the darkness, something else wraps and pins down Phantom to the inner walls of the bigger spirit, and the ghost could feel something [M+]
