Finally, Summer vacation! That means I can update more regularly!

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Julie- I hope you haven't already left yet! I'm so happy that you like the story, because I was starting to have doubts about it! Hemophobia, otherwise spelled haemophobia, is the fear of blood, so you are correct. In answer to your questions. 1.The idea of this was from a nightmare I had, but the girl is based on Alice McGee (It's a long story, I'll explain it at the end of the chapter, but think Alice In Wonderland). 2. The "will you play with me?" was kinda from a Fire Emblem fanfic I read called Plea of Insanity, but altered. 3. I hope this is fast enough!... OMG, no Internet access!? How will you survive!? Lol... j/k. oh and the only actual official Japanese name I used was Hikari, the female protagonist or Diamond and Pearl.

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Hikari Sunomoto- The female protagonist from Diamond and Pearl

Erikah Taylors- The female protagonist from FireRed/LeafGreen

Robyn Atlantin- The female protagonist from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

Maxwell/Max Hunter- Male protagonist from FireRed/LeafGreen

Kakashi Douroshi- Male protagonist from Diamond/Pearl

Seth Monroe- Antagonist/Rival from Fire/Red

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"Will you play with me?"

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...Chapter Four... Cracked Paint...

The five teens ran down the hall to the Master Bedroom. When they reached it, they stood panting, catching their breath before entering.

The room was empty. Erikah was nowhere in sight. The bedsheets still looked unused. In fact, the room still looked as if no one had stayed there in years.

Seth walked slowly towards the bed. "Erikah?" he whispered, quietly. No answer. "Erikah?" he asked a little louder. There was still no trace of Erikah.

"She's not here..." said Kakashi, nervously.

"In fact, it looks as if she was never here." said Robyn. "No pack, no pokeballs, no... nothing."

"D..do you think she's downstairs?" asked Kakashi, still nervous.

"The scream definitely came from here." said Hikari.

"We would know, we were awake..." said Max. "We could have helped her..."

Hikari stared down at the floor.

"Hey, this isn't you guys' fault. Besides, she's probably fine." said Robin, trying to comfort the downcast pair.

"Yeah, she's probably playing a trick on us." said Seth, speaking for the first time.

"Maybe you're right." said Max. "We should look for her."

"Let's go." said Robyn.

As the group left the room, the portrait of the girl caught Hikari's eye. Before, she was sure that the girl's eyes had been looking the other way, and that there had been no trace of a smile on her face. Now, the girls eyes were facing the bed, and the was a small, but malicious-looking smile on her lips. She also noticed small cracks around the eyes and mouth, as if the paint had been slightly chipped away. Hikari's eyes fell towards the floor beneath the painting. There were several flakes of paint on the ground. When she looked up, the cracks were gone.

"Hikari?" asked Max. "Are you coming?"

"Was that painting like that before?" Hikari asked. Max glanced at the painting.

"I don't know. I don't see a difference... but then, I wasn't really paying attention to it." he said

Hikari pulled her eyes from the portrait and followed Max out to join the rest of the group.

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"Where should we start?" asked Robyn.

The five of them had climbed down the large, long, main staircase, and were now standing in the great hall, looking around at the many doors surrounding them.

"Dammit, this place is huge!" said Seth. "How are we supposed to find anything in this dump?"

"We should split up into groups." said Robyn.

"S..split up!? I..isn't that dangerous?" asked Kakashi, alarmed.

"What... are you scared of seeing Erikah?" asked Seth, scornfully, although he had a worried look in his eyes.

"N..no! That's not it!" said Kakashi.

"If we are going to split up, we should at least have our Pokemon out." said Max.

"Oh..." said Kakashi. "I left them upstairs."

"Do you want to go get them?" asked Robyn. "I'll come with you."

Kakashi had had the feeling all night that the others though of him as a scaredy-cat. He wanted to prove them wrong. He also wanted to appear brave for Hikari.

"Nah, it's okay." he said, "You guys wait here, I'll be right back." On that note, he ran back up the stairs. It was a mistake.

The others sat down on the floor.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" asked Hikari. She remembered what she'd noticed about the portrait, and was worried for her friend.

"He'll be fine, don't worry." said Max reassuringly.

"As long as he doesn't wet his pants." sneered Alex.

"Shut up." said Max and Robyn, simultaneously.

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As Kakashi ran past the rooms on the way to the guest room, he noticed an two odd red lights on the floor just inside the door of the Master Bedroom.

"Erikah?" he asked, taking a step inside. "Hello?"

The door closed behind him. He heard a scratchy, feminine voice from across the room: "Erikah didn't want to play with me..."

"T..this isn't funny, Erikah!" he cried, looking up.

Kakashi gasped at what he saw. The moonlight that illuminated the dark room showed him the portrait. It was just an empty, gaping canvas.

He backed against the door and tried the handle. It was stuck. A thick red substance, that smelled distinctly of blood, was oozing out of the lock and cracks in the handle.

His head whipped around to the side when he heard the voice again. "Will you play with me?"

A girl stood there in a ripped, extremely dirty dress. Her blond hair was covering half her face, but her one visible eye looked like a gaping black hole. She raised her arm towards Kakashi.

"Play with me..."

Kakashi didn't have time to scream. He was to stunned to speak, anyway.

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"What's taking him so long?" groaned Seth.

Kakashi had been gone for ten minutes already, and there was no trace of him.

"Maybe he got lost? I mean, there are a lot of rooms up there." suggested Max.

"But the guest room was relatively near the stairs, and it's easy enough to find." said Robyn.

"I'm sure he's-" Max started, but was cut off when something dripped from the ceiling and landed on his shoulder.

He looked up. "Aargh!" he cried out in disgust and fear. The other's eyes followed. A pool of deep red blood had seeped through the ceiling, and began dripping to the ground.

"That's..." started Hikari.

"The master bedroom!!" Seth finished.

...End Chapter Four...

Eew... a very bloody chapter.

Anyway, I believe I said I was going to explain the significance of Alice McGee. (Her name isn't actually McGee.) Alice is the character in Alice in Wonderland, the movie where she falls into some weird world. It is commonly thought that Alice was a disturbed girl suffering from schizophrenia, who went completely mad after her parents died in a fire. This landed her in an asylum. It was said that she made up worlds and "friends" in her head and then "played" with them, eventually murdering them. Her last name is derived by fans from the game American McGee's Alice. A game that is a twisted version on Alice In Wonderland. (Pretty gruesome, huh?)

Anyways... please review!