"… and here we are, my guild!"

I stopped and stared up at the tipi like structure in awe, my eyes widening at the sight. Two torches sat on either side of the building, their flames brilliantly shinning through the darkness of the night. The guild itself looked almost like a tipi, except the top half was built to look like Wigglytuff himself. I could only think of one word to describe this structure: absolutely amazing. Wait, that's two words.

"This tiny shack is your guild?" Seth asked in bewilderment. I shot him a dirty look, which ignored because he continued on with his criticisms on the place.

"I thought you said that your guild was famous and very well known for training new explorers. How the hell does anyone fit inside that thing?"

Wigglytuff widened his in shock, probably very surprised at Seth's dissaprovements. He probably never heard of such insults before. Worried that the grumpy Riolu's words may have persuaded Wigglytuff into changing his mind about offering us a place to stay, I opened my mouth in attempt to apologize for Seth's rudeness, but was interrupted by loud, booming laughter.

"Bwahahahahahahahaha!" Wigglytuff cried out, bursting into a fit of uncontrollably laughter. "You're so funny friendly friend!" Ok, now I was confused. Wasn't he supposed to be mad at Seth for insulting his guild's size? Why was he laughing?

I looked over at Seth, but he was just as confused as I was. He just stood there, as if trying to figure out what the heck was going on.

"Uh… what's so funny?" The confused Riolu finally asked, breaking out of his confused state.

Wigglytuff, who was now trying to calm his giggling, wiped a few stray tears from his eyes. He turned to look at Seth, still trying to hold in his laughter.

"W-well it's just th-that the gu-guild is actually underground. This tent is just a landmark!" Wigglytuff attempted to explain through his giggles. "I j-just find it f-funny that you th-think somebody would extually b-be able to live in a p-place that s-small! A caterpie couldn't even comfortably live in a place of that size!"

He then took a deep breath, finally having calmed down and motioned us to follow him into the tent.

" Come on! It's late and you don't want to be tired for your first day of your apprenticeship!" He called out joyfully, slightly skipping in excitement.

I gaped at him. His sudden mood changes completely throwing me off. I usually quite good at reading others, but I have no idea what goes on in that head of his.

I followed quickly after him, leaving Seth frozen in puzzlement, unable to say anything which is a rarity for him.

"H-hey! Wait for me!" I heard Seth cry out to our retreating figures, obviously snapping out of his stupor. He raced over to catch up to us just as we were disappearing into the tent.

"Straw? We have to sleep on straw? You're kidding me, right?"

We had all just finished registering our teams and now we were getting ready to hit the hay (ha ha.) . We all decided to split the teams up into two so that we wouldn't be so overcrowded when we went off exploring in the mystery dungeons. Plus, I figured we would find out more about our sudden appearance in this world in half the time if we split up. Our teams were now Team Catclaw (Brayden and Jessica) and Team CMS (Me, Seth, and Matt). Ok I know my team name is lame but I'm tired and couldn't think of anything better. Plus Seth doesn't really care and Matt thought it was fine.

"What the hay! You don't really expect me to sleep on this, do you? I'm not going to get any sleep laying on something as uncomfortable as straw!"

I groaned lowly in annoyance, at both Seth's complaining and the awful pun. I'm really starting to get sick and tired of these stupid hay jokes.

"Well if you'd rather go outside and sleep on the cold, hard ground, by all means." Matt snapped. Wow, Matt getting irritated? That never happens. He's usually the calm one in our group.

The two of them stared each other down, fiercely glaring into each other's eyes. I swore I could see flames forming around the two of them as their heated staring contest dragged on.

"Hey you guys, we've all had a rough day so let's all just calm down and get some sleep. OK?" I carefully told them, not wanting them to turn on me or start destroying the room with the fight I was sure was coming.

Seth turned to look in my direction, still glaring. With a low "humph", he finally gave in a lay down in his "bed", his back facing toward me.

When Seth didn't speak up again about how crummy his bedding was, I looked over at Matt, giving him a small smile in gratitude for helping with shutting Seth up. He smiled back at me as if thanking me with the same thing and strode over to his pile of straw.

I sighed in exhaustion as I lay down, and within minutes, I was deeply sleeping.

Cold… it was so cold… and dark.

I shivered, but I didn't know if I was shivering from the cold or from fear. I had never felt so cold in my life… I didn't even know fire type pokemon like myself could even feel cold…

I saw a bit of movement in front of me, or at least I thought I did. It's almost impossible to see anything in this darkness. I squinted my eyes in attempt to see something that I suspected was there.

I suddenly felt another chill creep up my spine, only this time a dark and slightly sorrowful feeling came along with it.

"d…ness… d…ing d…oy r…enge…" a voice hissed into my ear.

I jumped away from the sound. Terrified, I frantically looked all around me for the source of the voice, but I still couldn't see anything through the blackness.

"W-who's there? Show yourself!" I called out, immediately regretting doing so.

A pair of red eyes appeared out of nowhere and stared right at me. They slowly blinked once and then stared straight into the depths of my eyes.

I felt as if they were staring straight into my soul… finding out all of my hidden secrets; seeing my thoughts, my desire; analyzing exactly who and what I was. Though I disliked the feeling of the two eyes in my head, I couldn't look away nor could I get rid of its presence.

The eyes blinked once. Then twice. And then, it spoke to me in a quiet whisper, too quiet for me to catch exactly what it was saying, but it was enough to send dread flooding through me.

"d…oy… r…enge…"

So there you have it. I finally decided to finish this chapter. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it and please review!