"Hmrph...Phantom! it's tickles!"
Flame says while trying to muffles his giggles. As Solar gallops into the woods as fast as possible, the little ghost has his body half-way into Flame's back while looking around the forest. The Scorbunny uncomfortably shuffles onto the saddles, trying to rub his back with one paw, which passes through Phantom. The other paw of the Scorbunny tightly wrapped around Lucina's waist. Meanwhile Lucina has her eyes tightly closed with a serious expression, reins at paws.
"Alright-Lucina, what the hell is going on here?" Phantom ask while grabbing onto the reins with an invisible grasp, and pulling it, startling Lucina.
The flaming horse stops himself before rising himself and kicking the air in front of him. He then looks back toward the trio while Phantom pops out completely of the Scorbunny body. "What's wrong?"
Meanwhile, Lucina shouts. "PHANTOM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" She ask while tugging and pulling onto the reins, which stays in the air.
"Yeah! What's going on?!" Flame ask while rubbing his back with both his two paws.
"We CAN'T stop now! We have to go! I've been CURSED!" Lucina shouts
"What the hell do you mean, cursed?" Phantom ask.
"CURSED?!-Why didn't you say ANYTHING to me?!" Solar exclaims in a serious tone.
"Wait, cursed?" Flame ask.
"Look, when I was wandering alone in the woods, I found a hill...I felt a strange aura but it's concealed itself before I could properly make out what was it! I did the stupid mistake of laying down on the hill and...Falling asleep. Someone stole my backpack and I was cursed!"
Phantom let out a sigh while quickly floating around the Riolu. "Are you sure? A curse? And a stolen backpack? Can you even see a curse? How do you feel?"
"I felt weak...Like my energy being drained away from me...And now my heart hurts..." Lucina let one paw onto her chest where her heart is.
"Oooooooooooooh-THAT'S BAD!" Flame yells while putting his paws onto his head while his ears flops.
"As disgusting as it is inside your body, you-"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, DISGUSTING?!" Lucina screams while pushing Phantom.
Phantom backs away. "Hey! Hey!-Haha...I have x-ray visions! I see all the nasty-You know-All the blood, bones, brain-The stuff you don't want to see usually!-I could make a great doctor now but..." Phantom looks away and let out a small "M-ewh." He then shakes his head. "Anyway-"
"It's not funny, Phantom! I've been cursed, If I stay around the village, my soul will get taken away by whatever laid a curse on me!" Lucina points out while darting the little ghost.
"But how do we break the curse? Just run away?" Flame ask.
"If you'd like, I can get the Guardians of the village to help. They'll know what to do about all of this." Solar ask.
"PLEASE DO!" Lucina shouts toward the flaming horse.
"But doesn't that you have to stay away from the village entirely?" Flame ask to Lucina.
"Um...If the one that laid a curse is following me, then yeah it means I have to stay away, and go far-far away! But..." Lucina looks down.
"How did you feel inside the village? Were you still being drained?" Solar ask.
"...No..." Lucina meekly say, unsure while rubbing one of her arm.
"Look, you can't be possibly cursed entirely, you are fine at the moment-So as long as we don't return to the one who did it with you-Or go to the area where it happened-You should be fine!" Solar explains while trotting toward the village. "Beside, don't you three have backpacks filled with important stuff in the village?"
"AH! RIGHT! OUR TEAM STUFF!" Flame shouts.
"...Maybe I should stay here?" Lucina says while turning around and looking down the road.
"It's best if you stay on top of me, I can take you away in a rush if they come back...Just stop me if you start feeling the curse and I'll rush on the other side. For now, we'll head straight to the guardians." Solar says while continuing his trots.
"I can also fly with you upward or elsewhere depending on the situation." Phantom says while going inside of Flame's body and wrapping his paws around Lucina's waist.
"...Right. Let's go!" Lucina says while gripping onto the reins.
Solar hasten his trots to a gallop as the stars twinkles upward in the sky. Lucina closes her eyes and look toward the left at the woods while Flame keep looking right and left. As they return into the village, the flaming horse serpents through some dirt paths with houses nearby without slowing down until he reach a large shrine. "GUARDIANS!" The Rapidash shouts. "WE NEED YOUR HELP!"
Phantom pops out of Flame.
"...Are you sure they're awake at this hour...?" Lucina ask.
Solar respond back. "Certain are, just give them a-"
"WHAT'S THAT?!" Flame shouts while pointing at the shrine as a circular yellow shape appears at the entrance, taking a moment before advancing itself toward the group.
"What's going on?!" A voice respond from the circular shape, revealing a Umbreon who takes a moment to look around while taking a defending position.
"One of my client has been cursed! We need your help!" Solar says while nudging his head toward Lucina.
"Cursed?! I'll have to wake up my sister-Stay here!" The Umbreon shouts while returning inside of the shrine.
"Woooooooooooooooah! THAT'S SO COOL! ...So an Umbreon's fur REALLY DO SHINE IN THE DARK!" Flame happily shouts, mouth agape and eyes shining.
"Flame, I don't know if you've noticed, but your weird patch do that too in the dark!" Lucina respond back.
"It's not weird, it's a heat patch! All scorbunnies has them!" Flame pouts back while rubbing it.
"I don't know about you guys but I can see everything in the dark so that Umbreon and your patch are just...Normal I guess?" Phantom respond back.
"There they are, sister! They need your help on breaking off a curse!" Umbreon shouts to a Espeon, the two of them running out of the shrine.
"Which one?!" The Espeon ask while stopping in front of the flaming horse. She takes a moment to look at everyone.
"The Riolu." Solar respond.
"Lucina!" Flame respond back while pointing at the Riolu.
"Her." Phantom respond back with his tail end toward the girl.
"Can you come down? I need to take a closer look." The espeon ask.
"Of course." Lucina jumps down from the flaming horse's saddle. She then stand in front of the psychic type.
"Hmm..." The espeon let out while closing her eyes. The gem on her forehead shines, a glaze of shadow emanate around Lucina and wither away.
The Riolu let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you, I feel much better now!" She smiles back to the psychic type.
The espeon nods back, the gem on her head returning to a lighter glow. "It's no problem. Where did you get cursed? Did you see who did it?"
Lucina turns around toward the path behind the group. "I was cursed somewhere north-east of town on a sort of little hill surrounded by woods. My backpack also got stolen over there." She then turns around while rubbing on. "I need to fetch it back."
The espeon gives her a odd look. "...But have you seen the one who did it?"
Lucina rubs one of her arm. "Um...I was actually sleeping on the hill when someone took away my backpack and got cursed."
The Umbreon groans. "Really? No wonder you got cursed-You slept on a Pokemon's tomb!"
"WHAT?" Lucina shouts back.
The espeon nods. "Indeed...The ghost that lives within the mound must have felt you were desecrating it's tomb. It's best you do not return to it at all tonight. Go get some sleep, and tomorrow come back to the shrine...I and the other Guardians will be able to lend you some help in retrieving your bag."
"...What do you think, guys?" Lucina ask back while looking at the others.
"Sounds good to me, you, Flame and Solar really need the rest." Phantom says.
'WHAT? NO! I don't wanna sleep!" Whines Flame. "Why don't we just head over and find it right away?" He smiles up to the other, both Lucina and Phantom shakes their head.
"Nah, Lucina need the sleep, and you can read your book." Phantom respond back. He then looks toward the Umbreon and Espeon and smiles. "Thanks, you two. We'll be back tomorrow morning!"
Espeon nods. "Good night." She then leaves toward the Shrine.
Meanwhile Umbreon takes a moment to look at the group. "Night!" He then leave. Both Lucina, Flame and Solar gives their goodbyes.
Solar start to trot away while Phantom takes Lucina and places her on the saddle in front of Flame, then goes inside of the Scorbunny. "So back to the inn for you guys?" The Rapidash ask.
"Yep, it's time to get some sleep. Tomorrow we'll get that backpack, the winter clothes, see Charmander and Mareep then leave!" Phantom says within Flame's body.
Lucina groans. "I'm sorry...I should have been more careful..."
"Bah, it's fine! Beside, it's a bit my fault for not asking you to get some sleep at the inn in the first place!" Phantom respond back. "No really, I feel bad as well since I got you scared."
"Wait? Why did you get her scared? Did you do a spooky ghost trick of your own?" Solar ask.
"Phantom squashed some fire together and sent it to the moon!" Lucina exclaims in a panic. "...But nothing bad happened so I guess it's fine?" She let out a sight. "I don't know about that but that really did a number on me."
"Yeah, but there's no way the fireball will actually do anything in space. It's just too wide and spacious, and by the time we know it, the ball will hit in theory some plankton or something that isn't anywhere close to a planet or a moon." Phantom explains.
"I don't think you should play with nature like that, ghost." Solar let out.
"Bah, I wouldn't if I didn't know my science." Phantom respond back.
"...You say that like you know what's really up there! Have you even went to space?" Lucina ask.
Phantom shakes his head. "Nah, I never did. But the science's all there-I'm fairly sure your galaxy should be somewhat the same as mine if this planet has the same environment, the same seasons, whatever. There's a lot of oddities but...Y'know, magic and stuff. Where I came from, you have electronics that can be sent to space-And people too. There are living people who saw what their planet looks like where I came from, and that's a big feat! Here...I bet a lot of pokemon can do that-I bet I can do that too but I'm way too afraid to do that myself!" Phantom gives a small nervous chuckles.
Lucina looks back to the stars. "Why not? You can probably fetch back your fireball and advert whatever could happen from sending it upward!"
"Eh...I doubt I can find it now, it's too far...And the planet moves about every Milli-seconds so there's no way I'll find it back from just flying upward from where I sent it." Phantom respond back.
"Doesn't the sun revolves around the planet?" Solar ask. "I swear that's what I've heard!"
"Nah, it's the other way around. The sun revolving around us is impossible due to the gravity pull.-The galaxy itself has a black hole that swirls everything around soooo...Yeah"
"Can we just stop talking about these things?-And can you stop sending me those images? I don't wanna think about that all night..." Lucina ask.
"But where have you learn all this? Am I just sleeping right now?" Solar ask.
"Television! I wish I could shove all of you guys in front of it!" Phantom chuckles.
"Television sounds like a nice name! I hope one day I'll get to see it." Solar exclaims. "On the bright side, I still have my life in front of me, and I bet one day a rider of mine will bring me somewhere close to where you used to live, little ghost! For now, you guys should head off to the Inn and get some sleep, you heard?" The flaming horse ask while stopping in front of the Inn. "-And don't go wandering off again!"
"Gotcha!" Phantom peeps up while getting Lucina off the Rapidash.
"Thanks, Solar." Lucina says. "Sorry for getting you on the run like that."
"Ah-It's no problem. I don't mind being on the run for a long time-But you guys shouldn't push if yourselves. We'll see each others tomorrow. Good night!" Solar says while trotting away.
"Bye!" Phantom shouts while getting out of Flame. The Scorbunny and Riolu does the same.
"Are you sure you guys want to get some sleep? I bet I could find it all on my own!" Flame says proudly while taking a pose.
"Sorry, kid! Why don't you read me that book with meowth and Pikachu instead? I want to hear what happens next!" Phantom ask while rubbing the scorbunny's head.
"You heard what the Espeon said. It's best we wait for tomorrow-Beside we need to prepare ourselves properly if we are to go to the ice gates like Phantom said." Lucina says while heading back into the inn.
"Yep. Tomorrow we'll get Lucina's backpack, then the rest so you two don't freeze out there in the cold!" Phantom peeps while heading to the side of the Riolu.
"Why would we freeze? We got fur!" Flame says while heading off to them.
As the trio enter the inn, the Blaziken at the reception gives them a nod, both Lucina, Phantom and Flame gives him back one as they go upstairs. As they reach their floor, Phantom goes to open up the door for Lucina. "here you go, have a good night, girl."
"Night you guys!" She smiles back while entering her room, she then looks back to Phantom. "If something happens, I'll call you guys."
The little ghost nods back. "Night!" Both him and Flame says at the same time while Lucina closes down her door.
Flame grins back toward Phantom and pulls him toward the stairs. "C'mon! Let's go get her backpack!"
Phantom head inside of the Scorbunny and head toward his room, opening the door through his telekinesis and then entering it before closing and locking the door, then laying onto the hay comfortably. He then pops out of Flame while chuckling. The other groans back to him and pouts. "No way! I don't wanna sleep!"
"Why don't you read me that instead?" Phantom ask while taking the book that was chucked to the side of the hay bed, and place it onto the paws of the scorbunny. He then lay himself on the hay in a sort of begging position. "C'mon! I wanna hear it!"
Flame pouts back to him. "No, I've read your mind! You don't want to hear about my story, you want to occupy me! I wanna search for that backpack!" Flame says while getting up and throwing the book toward the wall.
Phantom let out a sigh. "C'mon, kid. I don't need your ass cursed, or your soul taken away. We can wait for tomorrow, it's not like something bad will happen!
Flame takes his backpack and put it on. "Are you really scared of that?" He then takes a proud pose. "C'mon, Phantom! I've laughed at the face of death before! ...And that curse? Pssh! I bet the healing wand will remove it!" He then moves toward the door. "I promise you nothing bad will happen tonight, and we'll find that back faster than we can say YEAH!-Beside, you have your x-ray vision or whatever you call it, so you can see the bag from afar!" With a smug face he looks back toward Phantom. "Aren't you scared? I am not! So come on, coward! Let's get that backpack and do something out of our night!"