Okay, I know there are a couple of people who are reading this story, SO WHY CAN'T ANY OF YOU REVIEW? I mean come on! I had at least twenty-four people read last chapter and only one of them reviewed? Its pathetic, really pathetic. Overall I have had 1,247 hits on my story, and of those, only THIRTEEN readers reviewed! THIRTEEN!! Look at this way. I need reviews in order to know what the readers want, or to know how I'm screwing up. If I don't get these reviews, how am I supposed tp know what (for example) Pokémon people want Cress and Dak to get? So come on people! Give me some reviews…PLEASE!!!!!! Oh, almost forgot. I may not be able to update this over the summer. You see, I am posting all of this from a computer at school. This is because the computer that is getting put in my room is kind of old and might have problems connecting with the wifi in my house. So summer updates all depend on whether on not I can convince a family member with a laptop to let me upload from there. Now that all of that is out of the way, on to the next chapter!
When we got off of the ferry at Canalave City, Dak and I were stunned.
Canalave was HUGE!!!!
Compared to the tiny towns and cities that we had seen in the games, Canalave was amazingly big. There were several buildings that we had never seen before, as well as some we had.
Apparently we had been staring and gaping too much that Kerin took notice.
"What's the matter, you two act like you've never seen a city before?" she teased.
I had to think fast in order to come up with some way to escape her curiosity without giving away that I had only lived in this world for a few days.
"That's because I haven't." I said, lying through my teeth."Both me and Dak have lived on that island our whole life."
For once Dak realized what I was doing and decided to change the topic.
"So, Kerin," he started, "How about you show us around?"
At this she seemed rather excited, probably because it meant she would be able to show off to the both us. (Though I had a suspicion that Dak thought it was mainly for him).
The one thing I could say about the tour, was that it went by in a flash.
On the way to the PokeCenter, we passed by a very old and slightly worn-down building.
"Hey,Kerin," I asked, "what building is that over there?"
"Oh, that's the famous Canalave Library. Supposedly they have the greatest collection of books in the entire region. I was in there once or twice, trying to find information on Cresselia."
"I think we should visit it tomorrow," I said. "You could say that reading is one of my hobbies."
Okay, that was an understatement. Books aren't my hobby, they're my PASSION! But anyways…
Right when we were about to walk into the PokeCenter (I say its right next to the library because I can) a woman angrily stormed out of the Center door, got in her car, and drove away.
"What do you think that was all about?" asked Kerin.
"I'm not sure, but did you see her eyes?" I said, "It looked like she had been crying a lot recently."
We walked into the center and rang the bell at the desk.
"I already told you, there's nothing I can do!!!" a voice yelled from the back (which I presumed was where the infirmary was).
The owner of the voice stormed out, revealing it to be none other than the resident Nurse Joy. Apparently she had thought were someone else, because when she saw us she immediately started apologizing.
"Oh! I'm so sorry. I thought that she had come back to argue with me more."
"Who, that woman who just left?" I asked, having made the simple logic jump.
Joy sighed. "Yes, that's the one." She keeps coming in and asking for someone to help her son. I finally snapped today and told her that there was nothing anyone could do."
"What's wrong with him?" I questioned, wondering what could be so wrong with a young boy that no one could give him aid.
"It's a unique case. For some reason, he can't wake up. Worse, he seems to be suffering from some kind of nightmare, because he won't stop tossing and turning in his bed."
This really caught my attention, for two reasons. First, giving nightmares, was Darkrai's job, and this sounded suspiciously like his handiwork. Secondly, as a Cresselia, it was my job to cure nightmares, and this seemed like a perfectly good time to start.
"Anyways," Joy started," What can I do for you? Heal your Pokémon?"
"No thanks," I replied, "We just need some rooms for the night."
"Well you're in luck. We have two rooms vacant tonight. Will that suffice?"
"Yeah that's good." I replied.
After she gave us our keys, we headed up for the night. As there were only two beds per room, Kerin decided to take one, while Dak and me took the other.
As soon as we closed the door, I asked Dak what he thought about the nightmare case.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
I slapped my face. Dak was showing exactly how dense he could be.
"Some kid randomly falls into a deep sleep with horrible nightmares, and you're not even suspicious?" I asked.
It took him a few seconds, but he finally realized what might be happening.
"You think Dar…, well, Dad, might be behind it?"
"Only one way to find out." I said
"Alright, what are you going to do about it though? I mean, we can't just waltz right into the kid's house and ask the mother if we can examine her kid.", said Dak.
"That's why I'm not going to." I said, having already formulated a plan in my mind.
"Then what are you going to do?" Dak replied, apparently a bit confused.
"You may have forgotten, but we're not exactly human, are we? Remember," I said, dropping my illusion, reverting back to my Cresselia form, "both Cresselia and Darkrai have the ability to enter dreams. So all I have to do is go to the kid's house, enter the dream, find out if Dad caused it or not, and leave, curing the dream on the way out."
"Wait a minute," Dak started, after I reverted back to my human form, "What about me, I'm a dream Pokémon, so why can't I come."
Once again, Dak's obliviousness had struck.
"For starters, you don't even know how to shift to your Darkrai form yet, so it wouldn't be possible for you to enter a dream. Secondly, don't Darkrai cause bad dreams? Just by being near the kid you might make things worse."
Apparently Dak was able to understand this logic, because he immediately shut up.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Be back in a bit."
At this I shifted back to my Cresselia form, and headed for the window. Dak couldn't let me go without a parting shot however…
"You know, your Pokémon form looks really girly," he said with a bit of a sneer.
Thankfully, I have a better handle on my temper than Cresselia probably does, or I would have hurt Dak beyond recognition. However, I had more important things to do, so I just let that one slide (For now).
With that, I flew out into the cool, crisp air of Canalave City.
I had thought that it would take me at least an hour to find the house of the nightmare kid, but apparently Cresselia instinctually seek out bad dreams, because I found it in under a minute.
Then I discovered that psychic powers are quite useful for breaking and entering, as they can be used to quietly open locks.
Again, my instincts guided me, as the first room I tried had the kid in it. He was indeed tossing and turning, as if in a nightmare. In a chair next to his bed, was the same women from earlier, apparently having fallen asleep while watching over her son.
Without really knowing what I was trying to do, I placed one of my hands… errr…. paws (I guess) on the boy's forehead.
All of a sudden, I was in the nightmare. Well, I guess it was the nightmare, as it certainly looked scary enough.
I was in what appeared to be some kind of park, but not a park like the ones I played on (Only with Dak, of course) as a kid. Instead, it was the Kiddy Playground…OF DOOM!!!!!!!!! (Organ playing in the background, accompanied by demonic sounding laughter).
Instead of all the fun things you normally see at a playground, like slides and seesaws, there were VERY evil looking torture devices. Rather than people walking their cute little poocheyena, there were demons holding chains leashed to rabid Luxray. And, of course, there were black and red clouds in the sky, along with random lava vents.
Man, this nightmare is too twisted for a little boy.
It was rather obvious that Darkrai had been at work here. Judging by what the nurse had said, he had been here about four days ago.
"HELLLLLLLPPPP MMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I whirled around in alarm, trying to pinpoint the source of the voice. Then I saw it.
Chasing the same little boy whose dream I was in were three blood-red Hitmonlee, with black stripes on their bodies, as well as black legs and arms.. Each time one of them got close, they would attempt to kick him, most of the time succeeding, as the boy was covered in bruises.
I decided that I had gathered all of the information that I needed, and charged in to save the boy.
As I was a Legendary Psychic facing three fighting types, it took hardly any time at all. Another advantage I had was that they were busy chasing a defenseless, little boy.
Three Psycho Cuts to the head areas of the Hitmonlee and it was all over.
Wait, where did that kid run off to?
It seems that the boy hadn't realized that the B.A. looki… I mean evil Hitmonlee had been defeated and was probably trying to hide somewhere.
Of course, it isn't so easy to hide when you have a telepathic pokemon after you.
I found him mere minutes later, hiding inside of one of those tube-things in those net-playgrounds. (Though this net playground had several holes that, if I wasn't mistaken, went down to Hell.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! GO AWAY, DON'T HURT ME ANYMORE!" the kid screamed, bursting into tears.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you." I said, in as soothing a voice as I could manage.
"Sniff… You're not? Everything else here is." He managed to get out between his sniffles.
"No I'm here to take you back," I said, settling down next to him.
"Really! I wanna go back, I miss my mommy!""
"I'll take you back, but I need you to answer this question; What happened to you to cause this?"
"I dunno. Me and momma had just gotten back from visiting the pretty town in the lake. I fell asleep and…I was here."
"Was the pretty town called Alamos by any chance?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?" He asked.
"Don't worry about it. Now, get on my back. I'm going to take you back to your mom."
"Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!"
I waited for a moment so the kid could get comfortable and took off. I hated the thought of being a pony ride (If the boy's shouts of Giddyup were any indication) but it was too dangerous to get back to the gateway I had made by ground, due to all of the demonic looking figures down below.
As I flew, my Cresselia instincts acted up again, and I automatically started releasing energy from my tail. As I flew, the Kiddy Playground……OF DOOMMMMM!! started to vanish, replaced with a normal park.
Once I flew through the gateway, I found myself back in the real world. Apparently time passes faster in the real world then in the Dream world, because I opened my eyes to harsh sunlight.
It was also at this inopportune moment that the mother decided to wake up.
"Yawwwwwwwwwnnnn… wait what the!!!!"
That was all she said as she saw me in my Cresselian glory. It was then that I consciously decided to beat a hasty retreat, but my subconscious ordered otherwise. The two battle for supremacy, but my subconscious, as it had seniority, won.
I floated back over to the boy, and placed a ring of interwoven Lunar Wings on his chest. I then nodded to the mother and disappeared.
Oh, how I so enjoyed the look on the woman's face when she saw her little boy awaken from his nightmare.
I then focused a bit, and teleported back to my room in the Pokecenter. Thankfully, Dak and Kerin liked to sleep in, so I wasn't seen. I changed back to my human form, and got some much needed sleep.
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