"Hey, Derrek, are you there?" A voice asked, I opened my eyes, and I saw a bland landscape, "Oh good, it's the second day know, I don't know what to do, I think that talking to you is going to hinder rather than help, I know for a fact that I have 2 Dream Cubes, they seem to be all over the place in your world. I'm sorry, but I can't talk to you for too long, I've got to go." Two days? There must be some sort of "Temporal Desynchronicity", heh, fun word, desynchronicity.
"Good morning." I heard, Jordan, I opened my eyes, it was time to explore already? Man, I couldn't…
"Time to go to school, Come on!" Urist said, excited to go to school.
"What?"
"You heard me, Lets go!" Urist was impatient.
"First, to whoever is altering this dream, only family lives together. Second, nobody wants to go to school."
"Don't you want to live with us? I mean, we are friends right?"
"Let me out!" I yelled, I wanted to wake up, but something was preventing me.
"WHY MUST YOU FIGHT! I'm trying to protect you from HIM." The voice from dreams past was flipping out.
"I don't need your protection! I can protect myself."
"No, not yet. It will be when you have all the Dream Cubes." The voice was softer, still the same, but softer. "Trust me, it is not enough to be strong."
"Who are you protecting me from!"
"I can't… I can't, I just can't. Although I will tell you my name, it's been a while since I've trusted someone with my name. My name is Meloetta. I'll try and protect you while you're sleeping, but when you're awake is when you are under your own protection."
"Thank you?" I was confused, I didn't know how to react. "How do I contact you in the Waking world?"
"I will contact you, until then, protect yourself."
"Gah! What did, huh. I wonder if…"
"Oh good, now I won't kill you in your sleep."
"What?" I said, hoping for an explanation.
"I said that I won't have to kill you in your sleep, it's too dirty to kill a person when they don't have any sense of what is happening. I want to see your fear. I want you to understand that you're going to die." I still haven't seen him, he must be behind me.
"May I see the face of my captor?"
"Sure, it will be your last." I turned around, it was unnatural, I could tell that whatever it was, it wasn't created through normal means. It stood at three times my height, and it started to crouch.
"Who are you? I can't…
"Me, I don't care, I know WHAT I am though, and that's Mewtwo, I was born of a choice, one that had two detrimental options, and my creation was unavoidable. I am your killer, and you shan't rest easy."
"I think I will, tonight seems like it's going to be warm." I said, sarcastically, I heard a smash, and wood cracking. I saw a pinkish stone fly at a high speed at Mewtwo. It hit him and he went flying.
"You better not touch him, you jerk!" Jeremy's sister yelled, she had evidently used the rock to try and harm Mewtwo. Everyone woke up, and made startled noised as they did so.
"What happened!" Jordan yelled, seeing the wood chunks sprayed everywhere, oops.
"Someone attempted to kill me. I don't know why though." I said, trying to remain calm, although I'm not sure if my voice obeyed, "It's fine now, it's been taken care of."
"Hey! SIS! Are you okay? I heard a crash!" Jeremy seemed to scream across the area, it was eventful, everyone was yelling and Mewtwo was nowhere to be found.
"Jordan, you are hiding much from yourself, do you really wish it to be so?" Mewtwo said, from seeming everywhere, how did he know such things?
"Still perturbed from earlier?" Jordan asked, I didn't bother to ask him if he was okay.
"I don't think I'm okay. I can't really think of what that guy wanted with me." It was horrible that he wanted to kill me, I wanted to know why someone wants to kill me.
"I wish I understood why he wanted to kill you, we've got enough of the day to go explore."
"Yeah, let's go somewhere that is normally unexplored. I wanna do something big compared to normal."
"We'll have to ask Pelipper where a Mystery Dungeon is that hasn't been explored. Those are rare."
"Alright then. I wanna be worth something."
"You've done a lot of good for this town, you already are." I sighed, I felt insecure, and just wanted to flee. I didn't want to stick around with the killer, it's time to explore.
"Well, I don't know, there's this Large Mystery Explorer's Dungeon that's just been discovered." Pelipper responded to Jordan.
"What's a Large Mystery Explorer's Dungeon?" I asked.
"Usually they're just called Large Dungeons." He said, looking at Pelipper, "But they usually don't have that only four people limit. They're also much larger." I took it in, a larger dungeon. Huh.
"Alright, so we can explore with everyone." I said, nodding.
"Yeah, normally."
"Let's GO!" I yelled.
"The Large Dungeon is here on the map." Pelipper said, pointing at Jordan's map.
"Thanks!" Jordan called, we rushed and went to the guild and got everyone.
"We're here. It's time to explore!" Urist yelled, the Vibrava was excitable, I was glad to be able to explore this Large Dungeon.
"Yeah, it's amazing, we get to explore somewhere new!" Jeremy said, we had 5 people in the dungeon, it was certainly new, "Hey, sis, did you ever tell Derrek and Jordan your name?"
"No, I don't think I did. You can call me Eliza." She said.
"Nice meeting you, This is going to be your first journey with us, just so you know, we tend to follow Derrek during these trips."
"Yeah, nice meeting you, I'll be your pilot today, I'm hoping that we have a smooth trip." I was laughing at my own joke, I don't think Urist or Jordan understood, but I could hear other laughter.
"Hey, why's that funny?"
"We're in a cave, and in the human world pilots are those who fly machines in the sky." Eliza said, laughing in between words.
"Wow, that would have been funny if we had known. Darn it, now I wish I had known." Jordan said, sad.
"Let's get a move on." I said, taking the first steps into the dungeon proper.
The large dungeon was a Steel-Type and Fire-Type cave, and It didn't really reflect what really was inside of it. It was a mix between white and red crystals. The ground was dirt mostly, and the ceiling was also crystal, although it was black, not dark like shaded, but black like eternal darkness. It was hard to see, and the darkness was encroaching on everything that wasn't near to anyone in the current exploration, this was the first time the darkness was this close. Everyone was smiling, and enjoying the time with the rest of the team. The first floor was simple and the darkness wasn't too constricting. I started checking in on people, it seems like something to do from now on. Jordan commented, "Let's do this."
Urist nodded, "So far, seems easy."
Jeremy smiled, "So long as my sis is okay, so am I."
Eliza said, "Isn't that sweet." The check-up was simple, and efficient, no time wasted. Everyone was still good, and no-one reported any harm. Exactly what I wanted for the first check-up. I couldn't tell how far we had to go, but it seemed that even if this dungeon was endless we could get through it. Time was short, and this trip was making me feel better.
"Yeah, these steel are a breeze, but it seems like this dungeon is manufactured… I can't tell if these walls were forced grown or not." Jordan said, shaking his head.
"Yeah, but the honest truth is that even if we did manage to find it out would it really matter?" Eliza asked.
"Maybe not sis, but wouldn't it be nice to know if Mystery Dungeons were able to be created?" Jeremy questioned Eliza, she frowned and shook her head. The trip remained relatively loud, with stories, and jokes, but I didn't really join in, and didn't really pay attention. I was sucked into my own head, but focused on the road ahead. There were general comments, and some horrible jokes, but all in all, the trip was rather bland. The few traps weren't very harmful, and the enemies weren't very hard. I could hear a banging further down and I couldn't tell what was really happening down there. It was certainly unsettling to listen to the constant racket.
"Hey, what could be going on down further? I'm listening to this constant banging, and it's unsettling."
"I don't know, but fire and steel are symbolic of factories back home, might be a factory." Jeremy muttered.
"It could be an angry Pokémon." Jordan predicted.
"What ever it is, I agree, that banging is unsettling." Urist complained.
"This is only the first section of the dungeon, so it'll be a while until we find out what is banging." I said, getting the feeling that there are multiple sublayers.
"Well, yeah, I suppose. Maybe when we get through the entire dungeon we'll be rewarded by some sort of group." Jeremy said.
"Yeah, there should be a reward. Pelipper might have told the Explorer's Society that we are the first to try and explore this dungeon." Jordan said.
"Really? Cool, what's usually the reward?"
"I don't know, there's a agreement that explorers don't tell the reward."
"Darn, oh well, we'll find out later. Let's try and get through this dungeon!" Jeremy finished the conversation. It was a short little chat that was common for the group to have, only two or three participate. Nobody really wanted to talk in depth, and the dungeon wasn't worth talking about yet.
"I'mma take a crystal, they're very pretty." Eliza blurted.
"Here, have this one sis. I picked one up just for you." Jeremy, he seemed to stick up for his sister always.
"Maybe we'll make it out by today, that'd be nice." Jeremy said rather quickly.
"Isn't there that temporal shift theory?" I asked, trying to remember exactly what Jordan said about Pokémon entering and exiting the Mystery Dungeons.
"No, that doesn't work with Big Dungeons. It's really strange." Jordan commented, it seemed that Jordan knew a lot more about dungeons then I.
"Huh, alright then. I believe that." I said, "Look, staircase!" I said, then walked over to the stairs, I didn't know what was up them, but I was interested in what might lay up there. "Let's go up! Come on!" I said, leading them up the stairs. It was a rest section, we could take a break. "Look, time to rest!" I said, pointing to a Kangaskhan statue. Everybody stopped.
"Don't worry, I brought lunch!" Jordan called out, pulling out a basket from the bag.
"Why does that fit in there?" I asked, seriously confused.
"Don't ask me." Jordan just shrugged. I just took food that Jordan gave me and started eating, even though it was nonsensical, it was still delicious. It seemed like the food itself was not affected from being stuffed in an extradimensional space.
"Oh man, this is delicious! Who made this?" I yelled.
"I must find out who made this!" Urist called, seconding my motion.
"I third! Seriously, who can cook this well?" Jeremy shouted.
"Yeesh, I can hear you! Shaddup!" Eliza said, "but that hurts that you don't know I cook this well, even with alien foods, bro."
"I love you too, it's just that you've never cooked, that I've seen, before!" Jeremy apologized.
"Yeesh, rude." Eliza replied. Everyone started laughing, it seemed like the best joke to listen to a couple of siblings fight. Everyone was lighthearted to start into the second part of the dungeon, the perfect condition for an adventure further. "Although it was fun getting the chance to cook."
Author's note
Next chapter's gonna be third person, I'mma give a short break from Derrek's POV, and go take a look at Team Mirror, especially since I liked what I did for the 'Waking Team Mirror' section in chapter 9. I've decided that be best course of action for what I'm gonna write about is to give it some more thought. Something big will happen in chapter 15. Major hugeness. Also PM or review about what you thought about the interview from the other chapter.