Another one by Kecleon352! Enjoy and review :)
You feel dizzy. You don't know where you are, or how you got here. All you know is that you had to get back home.
You don't know why, but it feels like you're much lighter than you were before. In fact, it almost feels like you're floating. But, whatever you were doing, you stopped as you saw something right in front of you. It looked like a little pumpkin, but you quickly corrected yourself as you find it's a Pumpkaboo. Suddenly, the little pumpkin started to bounce towards you at a high velocity of speed. You don't know why, but you know that you need to get away from this Pokemon. So, you flee as fast as you can, which was fairly fast, considering your lighter weight.
You run for what you reckon to be an hour, and turn around to find that you had lost the Pumpkaboo at some point. You breathe a sigh of relief as you find yourself leaning on a nearby tree. You find rays of the moon quite pleasant on your skin, almost leaving you completely in peace. Suddenly, you heard a gurgling sound nearby. Extremely cautious, you made your way over to where you heard the sound, only to suddenly choke on a terrible stink and leaving you trying to cover your nose.
You found yourself outside of a chemical plant, specifically near a drainage pipe. The toxic sludge pooled right next to the pipe, and caused such a horrible stench, that nearby trees and bushes are completely dead. It also bubbled ferociously, with many small bubbles popping every now and then, while very large bubbles seem to just sit there, growing bigger and bigger. Suddenly, one of them began to move, causing you to gasp before choking again and covering your whole face. Strangely, it seemed as if you could see through your hand and watch the big bubbles move towards the ground nearby. One of them turned around and it looked like it had a face. "I know what those are." you say to yourself, "Those are Grimer. Huh, I guess this is where they come from." Not able to take the stench anymore, you quickly made your way away from this place.
As soon as you got far enough away, you took in a deep breath, completely taking in the fresh air. As soon as you circulated your airways with clean air. You wonder what to do next. Suddenly, you see a woman, apparently taking a midnight stroll. You smile, and make your way over to her to ask her how to get home. You pipe up to talk to her, "Hi, can you help me? I seem to be lost."
The woman looks around and spots you. As soon as she does, she let out a high-pitched scream and scrambled away from you. You raised an eyebrow. 'What was that about?' you wonder. Seeing as she probably wasn't coming back, you decided that it would probably be rude to chase her, so you go the other way. While making your way along, suddenly you ran into the last thing you wanted to see again: the Pumpkaboo from earlier. It looks like it was bouncing and following you all along, but it kept at the same pace as he had left it at. Immediately, you ran away from it.
You kept running through the forest. But, this time, you weren't losing it. In fact, it looked like it was gaining on you. You finally made your way out to a clearing with a lake at the center. You kept running and running towards the lake until you found that you had nowhere else to go. "Way to go, genius!" you mumble to yourself as you try to look for a way out. You look back at the Pumpkaboo, getting closer and closer. When it was about two feet away from you, it stopped and the mouth on the pumpkin suddenly opened. You felt yourself getting drawn towards the hole, but you try to hold on.
Just as you thought you were about to give in, a Shadow Ball came careening along and hit Pumpkaboo, which sent it flying. You lay crumpled on the ground, panting, as you look up to your savior. It was a Dusknoir, standing high and tall over you. You thanked the Dusknoir and tried to leave, but the Dusknoir blocked your path. You broke down and started to sob. "Why? What is it? What do you want from me?" you demanded from the Ghost Pokemon.
You looked up with your tear-stained eyes and saw that the Dusknoir was simply pointing down. You looked down, as you supposed he meant, and you saw something peculiar about yourself. For the first time, you noticed that your skin was black. Ebony black. And you had no legs only a strange tail with something gold on it. Suddenly drawn to it, you pick up the gold thing and turned it around. A ghastly gasp escaped from your lips.
First of all, it was a mask. Now, there wasn't anything scary about the fact that it was a mask. The scary thing about the mask was that it was your face. Literally shaking now, you turn to the river and look down at your reflection, only to find that it isn't your own. Your face was now slightly pointed and flat, with red eyes replacing your normal eyes. Your noticeably smaller mouth was trembling at the thought of what you've become. You looked up at the Dusknoir. "I think...that I'm a Yamask, right?"
The Dusknoir nodded. "Th- Then, does that m- mean that...I'm dead?" you stammered. The Dusknoir nodded again. You sighed and layed yourself down on the ground. "So, that's why that Pumpkaboo kept chasing me, and why that woman ran away from me. And, I suppose you are to do the same." The Pokemon simply nodded it's head once more.
You closed your eyes and sighed again. You then opened your eyes and looked at the Dusknoir. "Okay, I'll come." Suddenly, many Drifloon seemed to pop out of nowhere and began to surround the two. Dusknoir floated over and opened the mouth on it's stomach. Similar to when Pumpkaboo was doing it, a tugging sensation fell over you. But, this time, you didn't try to fight back. You took it, and felt yourself being pulled away and into Dusknoir's pit of a stomach. When you finally reached your destination, it closed behind you and Dusknoir began to float away. The Drifloon began to fly ahead of Dusknoir and proceeded to show Dusknoir the way to go.
You didn't know where you were, and you didn't know where you were going. But, you didn't really care. All that you knew was that you were going home.
Base: Both Pumpkaboo and Dusknoir are said to bring spirits into their bodies and take them to the spirit world. Yamask is said to be a deceased human spirit, whose faces are on the mask that are located on their tails. Drifloon, due to their seemingly random wandering, were given the nickname "Signposts of the Dead". Grimer is born out of toxic sludge that is exposed to the moon's X-rays.