Aaaaaaand another one! So for those of you who haven't realized this yet, I'm going to do something slightly clever. I didn't realize I was doing this til now but here it is. For the games, there is PMD Explorers of Darkness, Time, and Sky. That's actually all I'm going to say, but I wonder how many people will understand it...

Disclaimer: Oh Nintendo and Game Freak, you own Pokemon, you do!

NOW ON WITH THE STORY! Nyah!

Chapter 5: A Journey of Darkness Starts

The world returned to me in all it's greyness with me swallowing bile down my throat. The teleportation wasn't nearly as bad as the first one, but I still felt sick. I recovered slowly as I tried to take in the area around me.

I was in front of a forest that was shrouded in... more fog. A dirt road stretched out before me, extending beyond my vision into the fog. To the left and right of the road there were trees that disappeared into the fog as well. I then jokingly thought up a name for this place, 'Welcome to Foggy Forest!'

I looked behind me and saw that the road stretched on a bit more like this. Treeko was also behind me, crouched down on the ground looking at something. I walked over to him, asking, "What are you looking at?"

He turned his head to look at me before motioning for me to come over with his hand. In front of him was what looked to be a old piece of paper. But as I looked at it, I could quickly tell that it was a map. There were clear land marks on it and dots through out the map showing a rather large area. There were clouds near the edges of the map that stretched into water, as if purposefully obscuring the map. But out of all this, the thing I found most shocking was the fact that it was colored. Every bit of the map had color, with the paper itself being a dusty orange color.

I noticed one dot in particular was glowing. This dot was on the left side of the map next to some clouds covering the rest of the land. Under the dot was some green looking trees with swirling with lines like clouds. I touched the glowing dot and letters began to roll off it, forming the words: Foggy Forest.

The words were in obvious English, but I couldn't help but feel as if they weren't, because why would there be English in a world where it isn't spoken? But then I started chuckling, thinking back a few moments when I had jokingly named this place. How ironic that I got the name right, I guess the Pokémon named the place for what they were.

"Treeko?" Treeko asked, looking at me curiously. I understood what he asked.

"Oh, I was just chuckling at the irony of the name." I said still slightly chuckling. Treeko gave what sounded to be a sigh before he rolled up the map and handed it to me. I looked at him curiously before I realized what he wanted. I was suppose to hold onto it since I was the one with the pockets, as pointed out by his pointing (no pun intended).

I took the map and unrolled it before folding it up so it would actually fit in my pocket. Once that was done I looked up to see Treeko walking down the path gesturing for me to come. I quickly followed, nearly tripping as I ran to get to him, causing a giggle to emit from the little gecko. I shook my head as I reached him and we began walking down the path.

The path was, of course, foggy, but I didn't miss the random rock on the ground. There were no rocks anywhere to be found and most of the area was covered in frozen grass or trees. The rock actually looked like a heart of all things, like one of those boxes of chocolate you'd get on Valentines Day. I picked it up while Treeko watched me with a slight impatience saying "Tree treeko!"

I ignored him as I held the rock in my hand. The rock was warm, but how could anything be warm in this forest? And then I felt dizzy, but not nearly as much as last time. I focused on the dizziness before my vision blacked out in a flash of white light.

My vision remained black but I heard voices.

"So this is Groudon's heart!" Said a sing-song voice that sounded awfully feminine. "Great job Bidoof!"

"All shucks Chatot," Said who I assumed to be Bidoof. "All did was pick up this really warm and pretty rock off the ground, yup yup!"

"Well never-the-less fantastic job," The feminine voice of Chatot said. "Let's go see the Guild master and then get everyone over to the statute. Oh and get that coward Lightning too. He needs to toughen up for once. The poor kit flinches at practically every sound!"

A flash of white light blinded me.

My vision returned to me and I found myself still holding the rock with Treeko standing behind me tapping his foot impatiently. I stood up holding the rock and looked at Treeko, "Let's go." I said. And so we set off again into the fog, with me trying to look for this statute that Chatot had mentioned. The fog had become so thick that I couldn't even see the trees.

We walked in silence, with our ghostly trails following behind us. I then saw something shiny and walked over to see what it was. It was a pool of water. I looked around some more and found that we were surrounded by these pools of water. And what's more, some had frozen waterfalls attached. It was truly a sight to behold, or it would be, if it weren't or the fog.

I then heard treeko calling for me and followed the sound of his voice. As I got closer to his voice I could make out what looked like a huge hulking figure. I, without thinking, ran towards Treeko's voice, thinking he was in some kind of trouble. This in turn caused me to run head long into the hulking 'creature' where Treeko's voice was coming from.

"Treeko!" I heard his voice in my daze state. It took me a second before began to feel what was happening around me. I was lying in the ground and Treeko was trying to pull me up with his small hands. Above me, which I had previously thought was a creature attempting to harm him, was a statute.

I then felt the dizzy spell once again, preventing me from sitting up. And then my vision went.

Once again, I had no visual. But I still heard voices.

"Allow me to read the inscription of the Foot Print Runes," Said a feminine voice that I connected to be Chatot. "'Reignite the life that burned within Groudon, then the sky shall blaze with the sun's heat. The path to treasure shall be revealed.'"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Said a new voice, this one sounded, in a word, bubbly. "But what does it mean by 'Reignite the life that burned within Groudon'?

"Maybe it's referring to it's heart..." Said yet another voice, this one small and very quiet. "I mean there's a hole in it's chest after all..."

"Hmm..." Chatot said thoughtfully. "Did you say something Lightning?"

"N-no..." The one named Lightning replied. A flash of white light.

"Hey Lightning," Asked the voice of Bidoof. "Where's the Wonder Map?"

"OH!" Said the panicked voice of Lightning. "I'm sorry Bidoof... I lost it..." I heard some quiet sniffling.

"Oh," Bidoof said, his tone unreadable. "Well that's alright, Lightning, this stuff happens sometimes..."

Another flash.

My vision came back to me and I found still looking at the statue of Groudon. Treeko was still trying to pull me up. I sat up and looked at Treeko who, in turn, looked at me with concern. I then explained to him what I heard in the last two Dimensional Screams. He looked at me questioningly before his eyes took on a look of realization.

His eyes darted to the statue only to land noticeably on it's chest. He began saying things in his language that I didn't understand, but I understood the gestures he was giving with his hands. I nodded to him and took the stone that I still, somehow, had in my hand and climbed up to Groudon's statue and placed it in a hole on it's chest.

The effect was immediate as the statue's lit up with a brilliant red light. Everything began shaking, causing me to fall off the statue on my back, right next to Treeko. Before I could recover, the statue flashed a godly white, completely blinding me.

My vision returned to normal allowing me to see a jaw dropping view. In front of me, or technically above me, stood a giant stone bowl with frozen water cascading over the side. How the thing hadn't fallen over was a mystery to me. It had the partial shape of a martini glass (AN: Martini glasses are perfect for cell projects! Sorry...) that was overflowing, but was made of rock and earth instead of glass.

"Oh wow..." I said, still in awe. Treeko was having a similar reaction. "We were up there?"

"Tree..." He said, nodding his head, with me seeing it in my peripheral vision. I slowly got up and looked around. The fog was completely gone allowing me to see a entrance into the stone martini, yes, that is what I was going to call it. We didn't need to enter it seeing as we already knew where it led.

"Looks like we solved the first puzzle Treeko!" I said happily, turning to him. He smiled back at me saying something gleeful in his language. My goodness this language barrier was annoying. I then pulled the map out of my pocket. It was then that I remembered the part of the Scream that had talked about a lost map, called a Wonder Map. Could it be that we picked that up? I shook my head and looked down at it. The dots now all held words under them, no doubt being the names. I looked down at the names, spotting the ones Uxie had told us about. I put my finger on the dot labeled Mystifying Forest when I was trying to trace a path from there to where we are now. I received a figurative shock however when more words appeared under its name.

Would you like to teleport to Mystifying Forest?

Yes. No.

I quickly recovered from my shock and looked at the words, finally understanding what they were saying. I then grabbed Treeko's confused hand and placed his and my hands on yes. We might have a means of quick transportation now and I was going to make full use of it if it worked. The words wiped out and were replaced by more.

Are you sure?

I put Treeko's hand and mine on yes once more, and the world became distorted.

So this chapter was completed rather quickly, but I do hope you all enjoyed it! Also reviews with criticism of any kind would be much appreciated! And last but not least, remember the beginning AN. So without further ado, Nyah!