Hello, welcome to chapter two! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. I failed to mention it last time but the prologue will last for about three chapters. After that, most chapters will be focused on the characters, their adventures, light-hearted moments and every once in awhile serious events. Kinda like in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. Anyways there's not much to add besides the friendly reminder that updates are random. With that out the way, I hope you enjoy this chapter!


Internal Mystery

Prologue Part 2

No More Worries

Orange light loomed into the room through a circular window. The room was just barely lit thanks to the natural light. The room lacked decorations and the only furniture there was were the piles of hay used to sleep on. In the middle of the room was a pile of hay especially prepared with the dewott Mat laying on it. He started to come to wakefulness after getting sandwiched from before. As his eyes opened his mind was coming back into reality too, he lifted his head and inspected the room for himself.

"H-Hello, anyone here?" Mat asked out-loud, hoping for someone trustworthy to answer him back.

Mat stood up slowly, still feeling a little dizzy even after resting. He stood-up and walked towards the window to his left, he was just barely tall enough to get a glimpse of what was outside. Upon inspection, the first thing to catch his attention was a jaw-dropping sight of a beautiful and vast ocean with the sun setting. A coast filled with sand that shined and peaceful waves entering. The sight absolutely stunned Mat! It felt marvelous for him to finally see something amazing all to himself after one bizarre day! Just watching the waves gave him a great feeling relief and oddly-

*SNORE*

"Gah!" Cried Mat, nearly jumping out of surprise.

A few feet behind where Mat slept was a small chikorita sleeping on the floor against the wall. Mat turned around and stared at the Pokemon who made an incredibly loud snore as it slept. It started to snore again, feeling weak, Mat could no longer handle the agonizing sound.

*SNORE*

"Hey! Cut it out! What have I done to deserve this?!" Shouted Mat, no longer able to endure the sound.

The Chikorita only mumbled a reply while half awake, "does anyone have a pillow?"

"N-No? What do you want with me?.. Assuming you dragged me here." Replied Mat, hoping for a real response.

The chikorita finally woke up, completely startled it replied, "WAH! Y-You're awake, Mat?"

"'Mat!?..' How do you what my name is?" Asked Mat, completely shocked to hear his name from another Pokemon besides Pam.

The chikorita only shook its head and replied, "like, how could I forget?! You were always such a child, even after this huh?"

"C'mon, I just woke up. Don't go blaming me for not knowing everything!"

"Fine... Anyways, Nymphia and Pam are waiting for us so let's get moving."

Mat paused and then asked, "whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop for a second please, how do you Pam and who are you even?!"

The chikorita stopped and sighed, "gosh silly, how do you forget one of your best friends? Me, Channah. Anyways, Pam already told us most of your story so I'll tell you what happened to me when we all meetup.

"Wait, you are?... WAIT, NO WAAAAAAY!"

"Hurry up! I'm going to tell you everything that happened, now let's not keep everyone waiting!"


Yesterday

A familiar blue and cloudy scenery filled the sky. On the shore, calm waves came back-and-forth and a chikorita laid on the dry sand unconscious. Facing the beautiful sight of the ocean, her eyes quickly opened and they darted all over the place, looking all-around she did not understand where she was.

"O-Ow.. What happened?" Mumbled Channah as she was regaining consciousness. "Is anyone here?"

There was no response, Channah was left on the sand, watching the ocean and left with silence.

"H-Hey, can someone help me up please? I-I can't move!" Channah cried, "someone, anyone help me please... Maaaaat!"

The poor Chikorita was stuck there on the sand, helpless and crying for help. No matter for how long she pleaded, how many tears shedded, no one was there for her. Channah tried to flail but she laid there helplessly as if she was paralyzed. She continued crying out of fear and just wanted to smack the sand and throw it around. After enough effort, her leaf did just that! Her leaf was slapping the sand while she was yelling and crying and soon she was able to move the rest of her body.

After taking a few minutes to calm down, take a few deep breaths and wiped her tears. Channah quickly realized that she had become a chikorita.

"I must be in a dream! Something this supernatural is unreal... Sweeet! Being a Pokemon might just be fun!" Said Channah full of glee, shaking the fact of how realistic her "dream" was. She faced the water and declared, "first; let's test out what it's like to have fun and play-around as a Pokemon!" Channah hopped into the water and it quickly rose to her neck height. She enjoyed her time in the water; dancing-around and giggling, Channah was happy to be a Pokemon. At the same time, she couldn't figure it out but something felt odd about playing in the water. It didn't get to her though as she continued for another hour.

Day was becoming night and the sun was setting. After playing in the water, Channah's feet were wet and full of sand. She told herself, "even if I'm in a dream I need to get myself cleaned 'asap!'" Channah turned around and found a hill behind her that was past the beach. She was excited to explore more as stated, "I should reach the top of that hill and if I'm lucky, get a good view of this place!" And so the zealous chikorita decided to make a quick trip up the hill which would soon turn into an awful idea very quickly. Branches poked her, leaves got stuck and traversing the terrain was painful and tiring overall. After an awful walk, before Channah could start complaining, she spotted a wooden structure at the top of the hill! She came to the conclusion and shouted, "that must be a Pokemon's house!" She dashed towards the front entrance and knocked on the door. She waited for a few seconds (that felt like a minute) before footsteps could be heard running from inside. As Channah witnessed the door open, her heart was beating quickly and she was stoked to see what would happen next.

"Hello. Is there anything I can help you with?" Asked the sylveon behind the door.

Channah could not respond, she was in complete awe! She didn't know what to say, would the pokemon even understand? Channah just stood in front of the sylveon; shaking, surprised, she didn't know what to do.

"E-Er, is something the matter?" Repeated the sylveon, head tilted in confusion.

Channah snapped out of awe and quickly replied, "yeah, yeah... My name is Channah... Can I, uhh, get some rest here please?..."

"Oh yes. Come in, my name is Nymphia. Make yourself comfortable." Offered the sylveon.

Channah was absolutely stunned by how smoothly everything had went. She soon entered with Nymphia guiding her to a room to the left of the entrance. Upon entering the room, a noticeable feature upon first glance was that it lacked any sort of furniture or decoration, just three piles of hay and a round window facing where she came from.

"Please wait here as I get you something to eat." Said Nymphia as she walked out room.

"I guess not all of this dream could have been filled with adventure." mumbled Channah to herself as she pouted.

Nymphia came back and setted up a new pile of hay especially for the chikorita.

"I'll be right back with some food." Nymphia stated before leaving again.

Channah thanked Nymphia for her kindness before sitting down on her newfound bed. Upon sitting down, the softness and the comfortable feeling of her bed soothed the chikorita. She soon became very exhausted and her eyelids began to shut.

Nymphia could be heard outside in another room when taking a right turn upon entering, "ugh, really? You should get some more apples tomorrow then."

"Yes, do not worry, I will go early tomorrow and get lots of them!" Replied another Pokemon.

Nymphia came back into the room, ready to apologize for the inconvenience but instead she found Channah exhausted and asleep. "Oh, she's all tuckered out. Must be her bedtime. Hopefully she'll be fine for now. In the meantime, I'm gonna continue research upstairs." Nymphia whispered to herself as she exited the room and climbed up the stairs.


Morning came, sun shining and another clear day! Channah woke-up that morning feeling famished and eager for breakfast.

"Rise and shine sleepy-head." Called Nymphia from a room above, "you're throwing your day away at this point."

"Oh, uh... Good Morning Nymphia..." Channah responded as she woke up, stumbling on her words.

Nymphia came down the stairs to greet the chikorita, carrying a basket half full of food using her ribbons.

"Well we don't have too much left, my friend is out getting more food so we'll have to settle for this as breakfast for now." Said Nymphia as she sat down next to the chikorita, "so I see you've gotten comfortable. Anyways, could you properly introduce yourself?"

Channah stopped eating and replied, "again, my name is Channah and I came here looking for help after playing in the ocean."

"Uh-huh, playing in the water?.. Well I bet you had lots of fun," Nymphia said as she finished eating. "So then, what brought you around this area?"

The chikorita looked stumped and responded, "before playing in the water, coming-up here and sleeping?.. Before all of that? Hmmm..."

Silence had soon filled the room but it was quickly interrupted as Channah gobbled up her food. Nymphia decided to let the chikorita eat and think over her question for just a little longer.

"Well it was nice getting to know your name at least," Nymphia uttered. "But it's important if you would be able to tell me more. I know we just just met but it's necessary to know why you're here, where you came from and if there's anything else I can offer."

She thought for a few seconds. Channah closed her eyes and her expression showed that she was struggling to find an answer until it came to her: she only knew her name, there were only memories (besides from the other day) about two other people from some place and that she was being in denial about being in reality

"I-I-I don't remember anything before then." Channah silently stated as a traffic of thoughts clouded her head.

This made Nymphia confused and agitated which made her ask again, "do you have any idea where you came from? You couldn't have forgotten who you are... Or are still a little sleepy?"

More and more questions clouded Channah's mind, she could not understand what happened to her. She became afraid of the thought that she was alone and left in a world inhabited by pokemon.

Tears began to form as Channah whimpered, "I don't have any friends here and, and I'm all alone."

The chikorita just sat there, tears beginning to drip. Nymphia felt bad; she understood that feeling of losing hope and watching the chikorita only wanted her to help out more. But before she could do anything Channah stood up with her head down and ran out the room. It took Nymphia a second to think it through and chase after her. The chikorita ran as fast as her feet could let her. She raced out the room and ran towards the door. Luckily for her the door was unlocked and flew open quite easily. But unluckily for Mat, he got squished. Channah tumbled onto grass in front of the entrance and Nymphia quickly caught up to her a little out of breath.

"Are you two alright?" Asked Pam in complete shock.

"Yeah, yeah, we're alright." Responded Nymphia in relief, "but you might wanna look out for that dewott over there."

The pikachu turned around only to find Mat falling face-first into the grass and stars spinning around his head as she cried, "oh no, I'll help you out in just a moment Mat!"

Channah jumped back onto her feet from the sound of the name and muttered, "could that be him?!" She rushed over to the fainted dewott, throwing her arms the pokemon with her friend's name. For the chikorita, there was no doubt in her mind that it was somehow him. Now Channah was crying out of relief.

"Oh my!" Said Nymphia astonished, "do you know this dewott?"

She raised her head and looked into the sylveon's eyes with a small smile, "yes, he's a boy I knew in a small recollection of memory I have. I cannot explain it but he's an important friend to me..."

"S-Small recollection of memory you have left?" Nymphia gasped, "but first, let's nurse your pal back to health."

Pam and Nymphia carried Mat into their house and placed him onto a pile of hay to rest. As soon as Channah finished drying her tears, Nymphia came back outside again and patted her on the back with her paw.

"Nymphia, I'm sorry." The chikorita said, her back still facing away.

"Nah, don't sweat it!" Nymphia replied enthusiastically. "C'mon, let's go back inside. If you ever need a friend though, I'm here to help!"


"That is all folks!" Nymphia stated proudly, head high and tail wagging.

The four Pokemon sat around a rectangular table that was large enough to have eight pokemon sit around it. Night loomed and the moon was full and bright. Mat and Pam already finished telling their perspective of the story and so did Nymphia and Channah finish their part, completing the puzzle.

"I still can't believe I got splatted," Mat said discontent. "But anyways, I don't wanna be the bringer of bad news but I don't have anymore memory left than what Channah has."

Channah sighed, "I guess that can't be helped."

"But hey, does anyone else find it funny that I was being hugged while knocked out? I bet Channah thought I'd never find out!" Mat teased with a smirk.

Channah in complete embarrassment quickly retorted, "n-no! Nymphia made that up! Pam, please back me up!"

The pikachu did not know how to respond; to be honest or to help. Nymphia turned her face away from the embarrassed chikorita but just enough to see her and hide her heinous grin.

* Knock Knock *

"I'll get the door!" Offered Pam as she stood up.

Mat leaned back with arms behind his head as he said, "I just want things to be easy and peaceful as soon as possible. And maybe all the pieces of this puzzle will fall into place and this maze of life will-"

"AAAAIIEE!" Screamed Pam from being terrified.

"Pam!" Mat cried desperately as he raced to entrance.

Everyone soon reached the the front entrance only to find a filthy and fainted keldeo at their doorsteps.