"Morning, Phantom!" Lucina giggles back while dandling her legs on the hay as the little ghost turns around to her.
"Let me guess, dreamless night?"
"Awwww...I was hoping for confusion, but it is!" Lucina gets up and stretches herself. "Sometime I get them, I was hoping we wouldn't but...Here we are!"
Phantom shrugs. "Eh, could be worse. I guess it's already time to pick up Flame and Destiny?" The little ghost floats back to the windows and look outside.
"Yep! Right now it's around six, so I got enough time for a bite. Come on, let's go!" Lucina beckons Phantom with a paw as he joins her side. The Riolu opens up the hatch and make her way down the ladder.
"Morning, sweetie!" A Lucario waves back to her while preparing food on the fire pit, a pot floating up from the fire. Lucina jumps down from the ladder and quickly rejoins her Father, giving him a hug.
"Oh shit...Er-" Phantom subconsciously float away into a wall, however he couldn't phase through it, knocking himself onto it.
"What's wrong, Phantom? Are you afraid of Dad?" She snickered back at him, Lance did the same in a childish fashion.
"WAGH!"
"AHHHHH!"
Phantom flew away from an appearing Gengar, knocking himself onto the ceiling as he tried to phase away upward, then let himself slide along as the trio laughs it up.
"Awwww, lookit that! Your little friend's scared! What a nice source of energy you got there!" Gengar came next to Lucina and Lance, the trio cheerfully laughing it out.
"Okay, okay, I get it, it's a dream, right?" Phantom ask while keeping himself away, still trying to phase through the wall while patting them.
"Yep!" Lucina kept snickering. "...No really! Your reaction was priceless! ...And dreamless night? Really?"
"You'll wish for dreamless night from ME!" Gengar expands herself toward Phantom while he covered himself with a invisible forcefield as he kept pushing himself into a wall. She phases right through the little ghost, then beyond the wall as she cackles.
Lucina and Lance kept laughing, both holding their sides while the little ghost kept himself in a defending position, then looks back at the wall as the sound of the cackles becomes faint. "Wow, Phantom! You're a ghost but you easily get scared like that?" The Riolu then gives out a smug look to the little ghost. "No wonder you didn't want to fight!"
Phantom turns around toward her and get nearby of the the duo. "Come on, fighting and this is-AHHHHH!" He quickly backward himself toward the wall as both Lance and Lucina's face becomes disfigured as they stretch their paws with long claws sticking out of them. They then become normal again while bursting into another fit of laughter. Phantom takes a more pissed off look. "...Alright, if it's a fight you want, we can do that outside!" He points toward the exit.
Lucina furtively look at the door before looking back at Phantom. "That's not the way! Come on, follow me!" She beckons the little ghost while heading over the floating pot and getting inside of it, slipping into it. Meanwhile Lance gets on his knees to look back inside the pot.
"What the fuck." Phantom let out while heading toward the pot and seeing nothing inside.
"Come on, get in!" The Lucario says while shoving down Phantom into the pot. He then enter it himself while holding onto the edge of the pot as he press down his feet onto the little ghost who yelps back. The pot somehow bends inward as the Lucario passes through it, and the duo falls into a void. Lance manages to grabs Phantom between his legs as the pot expand as a sort of balloon, halting the duo's falling speed before gently floating down in a pit of absolute darkness.
A clear blue ocean appears before them along with a clear blue sky with a sun appearing...Except larger than usual. Several stars in the sky appears along with the three moons visible in the open, as if day and night mixed together. Downward of them a island appears with an active volcano on one side, a snow mountain on the other side, and a ring like mountain range relying the two together as a sort of circle. Inside the mountain range is a big forest with a lake in the middle with several cut stepping stones in it, nearby is a wooden cabin. Outside the circle is a large beach.
Some Pelippers nearby appears flying about, one soaks up the falling duo. "What the fuck!" Phantom covers himself, however late. He then rub off the water while trying to squeeze himself away from the Lucario's legs.
Meanwhile Lance laughs out as he keep gripping onto the gigantic balloon-like pot. "Welcome to my daughter's training island, Phantom! Thanks to Gengar, this place has been carved for one sole purpose: Can you guess what it is?" Lance chuckles up.
"Gee, I sure wonder!" Phantom rolls over his eyes while trying to pry himself out of his current position.
"Believe it or not, but the idea was mine!" Lucario says with one hand onto his chest, taking a proud pose despite his current position. "My daughter absolutely need a way to train in a safe way, so this place is perfect! No dangerous criminal, no unsuspecting traps...No nothing! A perfect place to flourish her skills without exposing herself to the thoughts of others and the true dangers of life!"
"...That's what this old fart believes!" Gengar suddenly appears next to the duo, cackling.
Phantom screams up while Lance tries to shoo her away, waving off a paw toward her while trying to kick her despite tightly keeping Phantom between his legs. "Shoo! SHOO! Go away!"
Gengar gives another hearty cackle. "Please! PLEASE! Do you really believe your daughter would shy herself when she hears the thoughts of everyone? How many time will I explain that? Even now we're arguing when..." She takes a sinister look. "We aren't real!" Both Lance and Gengar disappearing as Phantom began to fall straight down toward the island screaming, looking back up while trying to fly but no avail.
Meanwhile the gigantic pot that was in Lance's hands flies upward. As it passes through the sun, the day quickly becomes night before the pot faces downward and start pouring a hot stream of lava while Phantom passes through leaves and branches in a solid state before splatting onto the ground.
A wave of heat settles onto the island while Phantom rose up, giving himself a rub while getting some grass off of himself then place a bubble around himself before looking back upward at the lava. The stream began to leak on a sort of invisible barrier around the island, forming a sort of lava sphere and giving the island a red hot glow, the snow mountain giving a stronger glowing shine from it's icy peak.
"Let's make this interesting!" Lucina's voice resonate through the island. "You have ten minutes to find me and beat me before the lava ceiling start crashing down the island! Have fun!"
"WHAT? NO!" Phantom shouts in a panicked state. "STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW! THAT AIN'T A FIGHT! THAT'S MURDER!" He start flying around the island, trying to spot Lucina while she gives out a hearty giggle.
"COME ON! SHOW YOURSELF!" Phantom shouts while looking around, trying to shift his eyes and looking through things, however he find himself unable to. Some lava drips down from the ceiling onto the ground, burning some of the trees, and one falling onto the little ghost's bubble. "Awww Jesus christ-" He shift the bubble around, allowing it to fall down onto the ground.
"COME ON, LUCINA! THIS AIN'T FUNNY!" Phantom shouts while floating back toward the ground at the mountain range, looking around it as he makes way toward the volcano. He spots a cave that leads inside of it. As he makes way inside, a large stream of lava pours downward of the hole onto a gigantic diamond that somehow stops the flow completely. The cave itself is filled to the brim with different gems, gold and treasures.
A roar comes off from the lava stream while a Groudon comes out of it, stomping onto the diamond and cracking it before slashing off some lava toward Phantom, which hits up the bubble. The little ghost backs away, startled. "JESUS CHRIST!" He then spin himself toward the cave exit while flying toward it...Only to see the upper walls crash down, covering the way out. Phantom keep flying, letting himself slam onto the blocked hole.
He looks back toward the approaching Groudon while pressing his back onto the walls. The large fire type sends out a flamethrower from his mouth, which Phantom nearly misses before sending out a invisible spike toward the legendary's eye, bursting it. It's then let out a massive growl while slashing toward the little ghost, striking him toward the wall, which makes him bounce back toward the legendary, who gives another smack to him.
Phantom releases himself from his bubble and uses his telekinesis to launch gems onto the groudon, which lounges into the legendary's skin as he tries to defend itself from them and sends out another flamethrower. The little ghost barely has the time to cover himself with his bubble that he gets hit up, giving out a sharp scream of pain.
He takes a moment to rub himself from the pain while looking back at Groudon who stomps onto the ground, making everything cracks around him as the ceiling start to crumble, some stones falling downward next to the two. Phantom then flies toward the legendary and throws a invisible rope onto the fire type's head, imagining it thinning as if the edge of the rope became sharp, and then start pulling it as it digs onto the legendary's neck. The groudon tries to remove it, however his head gets sliced down and rolls down onto the ground.
The little ghost takes up the big cracked diamond and launch it toward the exit, shattering the walls and the gem itself. He then flies outside, seeing everything burning...And everything trembles as more lava drips down from the red hot ceiling. Phantom flies off toward the snow mountain which was getting covered in lava. COME ON! SHOW YOURSELF!"
"Nah! Find me!"
"GOD DAMN IT, YOU BITCH! COME ON!" Phantom roars. He then slows down his pace, taking a moment to look around. The entire island is burning...Except for the lake that didn't evaporate and the wooden cabin.
"Pffffffft..." Phantom start laughing while heading down to the cabin, heading toward the door and taking his time to knock it. "Knock knock!" With no response, he opens it up...Revealing Lucina lazily waiting in a comfortable laying position on a stack of hay, her paws behind her head, and one foot onto her leg. "There you are!" Phantom grins toward her, slowly getting to her side.
"Wow, it's took you some time to realize I was here! I thought it would have been the first place you'd check!" She then snickers.
Phantom leans back next to her onto the hay, trying to take the same position as her with his body. "Hmhm...That was pretty obvious, right?"
"I guess I misread you on this!" She chuckles. "You were so uppity on getting me, I was getting chills!"
"And you screwed it up! Now here I am, completely devoid of any will to beat you." Phantom looks back to her with a smug face. Lucina gives him a smile while pointing outside the window, showing the lava ceiling starting to slowly fall as everything shakes around them."Meh. Go ahead, do your worst, aren't you gonna feel it too?"
"Not really." She then looks back at Phantom. "You know you shouldn't let yourself feel pain in your dreams? A ghost like you shouldn't even have that!"
"Hey, I'm a human! Of course I'll feel pain!" Phantom shrugs. "Beside a dream is better if you feel everything, right?"
Lucina looks back at her chest, a wide hole forms up as it began to bleed. The hole then cracks upward slicing off the girl's head, then downward to slice her in half. The two half flops on it's side, one leaning onto Phantom who looks back outside as the ceiling suddenly crashes down. He then let out a yelp as the cabin falls onto him along with the hot lava.
The duo wakes up in a panicked haze, seeing the room lit up by the night sky. Lucina rubs a paw on her head as Phantom gets out of her. "Hot damn, what a dream. Let's never do that again, alright?" Phantom ask toward her.
"I don't feel too good..." Lucina gets herself into a ball while putting her other paw onto her head, and suddenly splits her skull into two.
"JESUS CHRIST, LUCINA, STOP!" Phantom screams while backwarding himself into the ceiling.
Lucina then start to laugh. "Come on, what's wrong with me? I just feel like I have a split personality!" She then looks back toward Phantom with a smug expression. "You really are a coward!"
The duo wakes up again in the same room. Phantom pops up of Lucina body while she stretches. "Are we finally awake?" Phantom ask while looking around.
"Yeah...What time is it outside?" lucina ask as she leans onto the hay.
"It's..." Phantom shifts his eyes while looking outside. "Dream O'clock." He looks back toward Lucina while crossing his stubby hands. She stick out her tongue in a teasing fashion.
Once more, the duo awakes again...This time with Gengar in their face. Lucina screams up and backs up into the nearby wall, scattering the hay underneath herself. Phantom gets out with an angry look while Lucina and Gengar laughs it up. "Awww come on, not again!"
The duo awakes themselves again, this time at the cabin back on training island. Phantom comes out out of Lucina who stretches herself. The little ghost looks back outside from the window. The mixture of day and night is back in the sky while wingulls are flying about. A light breeze passes through the nearby trees...And not a single sign of molten lava anywhere as if nothing happened. "Okay! No more surprises, Phantom! ...I hope I didn't scare you too much back there, hehe!" Lucina sticks out her tongue at him.
"Yeah, you sure did. Honestly I wasn't expecting to fight a dinosaur or that entire lava deal.-Nor to slice you up like this."
She then snickers. "Oh please, that's what I wanted! I've made this ordeal specifically to push you at your limits!-And I got the reaction I was hoping to see!" She then points behind him. "Turn around if you want to see the reason I've pushed you this way!"
Phantom gives a 'really'? Look before turning around. Gengar roars in front of him while he backs away, however unimpressed. Both lucina and Gengar laughs. "That's right! Auntie's the reason why I've pushed you! I know it's a bit of a pain at first, but the element of surprise really brings the best out of pokemons!" The two snickers back toward Phantom.
"AHHHH!" Phantom screams as two paws press onto his shoulder, getting pulled into the floor while he tries to pry himself away as Gengar and Lucina laughs back.
The little ghost then get chucked into a sort of fighting hall, he tries to fly upward however he can't make it out of the ceiling. He then looks around, seeing Lucina pops up in the middle and beckoning him to come. "Over here!"
Phantom flies back in front of her. "So, where are we now?"
Lucina snickers. "...This...Is the REAL training area!" She says while expanding her arms. "The island is fun, but it's way too big for the real deal! And frankly, I don't wanna chase a ghost around. Here we can beat up each others without leaving, or hiding!" She then snickers. "Of course, unless I want to!" She then takes a fighting stance as a blue swoosh appears between her feet, her paws and her eyes. "Take up your stance, Phantom! We're gonna fight!"
"Pffft, not much of a stance with this body, right?" Phantom says while taking a sort of fighting stance while going a few meter away from Lucina, and facing her.
"I can still see your invisible hands, so it's kind of counts!" She let out a little laugh. "Before we start, it's tournament rules! So no killing! It's a fight until one gets exhausted! ...Let's do this!" She start rushing at Phantom with a confident look.
"Ah-Wait!" Phantom evades a punch, then another. He moves away but then takes a confident look as he assault her back with a sort of invisible hammer, sending off Lucina flying. She hits up a wall, kicking it off to gain speed toward the little ghost, grabbing him and slamming him onto the ground. She then twirl herself to send him flying off upward to the ceiling.
Phantom stops himself mid-flight and throws off some branches toward the girl who quickly jumps around, and takes one, throwing it back at Phantom...Which hits another Branch. She then sends off a few aura blast toward the little ghost who defends himself with a bubble. It's strikes him as he hits up the ceiling, and bounces back down.
Lucina takes the opportunity to kick him onto a wall, then kick him again, then again as if playing with a ball. Phantom forms spikes around the ball, which Lucina kicks again with no issue, some holes forming up on her foot, however it's quickly heals up. Phantom then releases himself and gives a spark from his eyes while heading to her, forming a sort of half thick ball in front of him as he knock Lucina back away.
She hits up the ground, then runs back at Phantom while jumping and twirling herself toward him, who quickly evade her. Phantom then spits up a fire and expands it between the two, forming a sort of bluish firewall.
Lucina let out a sigh while looking back at the wall. "Phantom, that's just mean! Get that down this instant!"
"Fine..." The wall start slowly getting toward Lucina who backs up toward the wall.
"WAIT! STOP!" Phantom chuckles back on the other side, letting the wall get near to her. Lucina groans and appears behind Phantom, tapping on his shoulder. The wall suddenly comes crashing into Lucina and Phantom. A yelp comes out of Lucina as she rubs herself from the pain. "Ow! Ow ow ow!" Meanwhile the wall of bluish flame goes beyond the training hall's wall.
Phantom chuckles back. "My bad! I thought everything was allowed except death?"
Lucina pouts back. "Yeah, but try to keep it as real as you can! I want our fight to be as believable as it can be! Else I'd be teleporting around and that would be no fun, right?"
Phantom shrugs. "I guess so! Let's spice it up then." Phantom transforms into a scorbunny, rubbing against his patch while grinning. "Hope you don't mind!"
"Flame? You want to fight as him?"
"Yeah! Why not?" He then takes a smug smile. "Or maybe that'd be better?" Phantom then transform into a Riolu, snickering back to Lucina.
She groans back. "Fine, but be a male instead of me. I don't want to fight myself."
"PFFT!" Phantom laughs, then look at his body. "Wait, how do I even do a male of you? Is it literally the same thing like Flame's family?"
She then pouts again and look away, patting her paws together. "...Um...I think it's the same? I really have no idea, I never saw another Riolu in my life..."
Phantom then takes a surprised expression. "Really?"
"Yeah, there really isn't another Riolus in town, nor are there other Lucarios...I don't even know my mother..."
"Hm...What about this?" Phantom says while making a book labeled 'Captain Riolu' appear into his paws, walking back to Lucina and forwarding it to her.
She takes a moment to examine the book. "Oh, I've read that! It's 'The adventures of Captain Riolu!' ...Not whatever you just popped out." She snickers back to the other Riolu while flipping the pages. "This one's entirely empty too!"
"Yeah, I didn't read it at all, I was just busy talking to some ghost, one that your Dad arrested at the team base." Phantom chuckles. "Who knows? You're a Riolu, and that book's about one, so the Author is either one of your species, or someone who saw your kind as fit to be the main character!"
"Yeah, maybe I should look into it." She smiles up to him, then pouts. "...But really. I didn't want to talk about this. Dad screamed at me when I tried to get some answers, and Auntie..." She then grins. "Said that I should bother her once I join a team!" She then snickers while throwing the book away behind her, taking a fighting stance while beckoning the little ghost. A confident look settles onto her face while a blue aura wraps her feet, paws and eyes. "Come on, let's not talk about that anymore! I want to fight you!"
Phantom smiles back, taking his own stance while keeping himself as a Riolu, except with no blue aura appearing anywhere on himself. "I'm glad to hear that! Let's have some fun!"