"Why aren't you helping me?" I was back in the white room and the little girl had her back to me. This time I could actually move my body. I reached out and was also able to touch her shoulder. It turned her around to see that she was crying. There was a freshly cut wound on her cheek that was bleeding. "I told you to help me. Why didn't you help me?" She was crying harder now and the blood was coming out harder than before.

"You're not real. This is just a dream. I remember from last night. I don't need to help you, because you're not real." Just then a dark look came across her face. The wound on her cheek stopped bleeding and she scowled at me.

"You don't think I'm real? I'm just as real as you, or Oliver, or even the Trapinch you own. I am very real!" She walked up to me in a huff and brought her arm up as if she was going to punch me, but decided against it.

"No, none of this is real! If this was real, my leg would be in a cast because my real Trapinch almost bit it off. This place isn't real, none of it is." She backed up and turned around to me with a smile on her face. Her changing emotions were starting to actually kinda scare me now.

"Let's play a game." She started dancing and pirouetting as if she was an aspiring ballerina.

"What kinda game are we talking here?"

"Hide and go seek."

"I'm a bit old for hide and go seek."

Just then the room changed to a winding dark labyrinth. Torches were lined on the wall all along the maze. "You're not too old for this hide and seek, but I see you need some incentive. From the floor rose a white statue that looked eerily like Oliver. She tapped it in and it started to glow white. When the light subsided, Oliver, or a dream Oliver, was standing beside the little girl.

"What are you doing?" Oliver struggled as she picked him up. Even if this wasn't real I couldn't just stand there and watch my starter get kidnapped.

"Don't worry you'll get a partner too." A statue rose from the ground that looked exactly like my demon of the desert. "No, you don't understand. Bringing him here won't help me find you. If anything he will make things harder for me." Just then Trapinch's statue glowed brilliant white, and the familiar clicking sound of teeth hitting teeth entered my dreams.

"If you find me, I'll give you a prize." With that she started walking, and the labyrinth walls started to part so she could walk through them. They then closed, but I could still hear Oliver's frantic pleas for help.

As soon as she left, Trapinch leapt at my foot mouth open, but as soon as he got within an inch of my foot, he hit an invisible force field. He tried gnawing through it, but the force field was pretty solid. I wanted payback for the pain that this Trapinch had caused me. I bent down and tried to slap him in his face, but predictably a force field surrounded him as well. He let out a series of clicks, which were what I assumed to be laughter.

"Come on…Trapinch. Even though this place isn't real I still can't stand to see Oliver in pain like that, plus the only way we're getting out of here is by finding that crazy little girl. So if just for a moment, can we get over hating each other?" Trapinch looked as if he was thinking about it. After about what seemed to be five minutes he shook his bobble like head. "Okay then let's go."

It seemed we had been searching the maze for hours without finding her or Oliver. I was getting a bit desperate and wondering why I couldn't wake up. We came across what appeared to be our hundredth five pronged fork in the road. We decided on going down the middle one, because we were too lazy to decide on another one.

"RHY!"

"What was that?" I turned around to see a Rhyhorn was charging us head on. There was no dodging it, because its body took up the majority of the labyrinth width wise, and there was no outrunning it. So fight back was our only feasible option.

Trapinch seemed to take this into his own hands. He immediately dug underground and started heading for the Rhyhorn. Then he went completely underground, and I could no longer see the top of his head. He wasn't fighting the Rhyhorn; he was trying to get away! I started sprinting down the long corridor hoping that adrenaline rushes worked the same way in dreams. I looked back to see it was gaining on me. It would have me in

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Zero, but there was no impact, just a loud crack sound. I turned around to see the Rhyhorn was standing still, because the ground underneath it was starting to crack. Any sudden movements and it would go tumbling down however deep the hole was. Just then Trapinch busted right through the crack causing the floor where both of them were standing to cave in, and both went tumbling down a dizzying height of…three feet, but hey it was good enough for me. Trapinch hadn't been trying to get away. He was trying to set up a trap. Oh wow. His name actually makes sense to me now.

I walked over to the whole to see Trapinch climbing its way up and the Rhyhorn on its back struggling to flip over. It then started to glow with a dull red light. It started splitting into two distinct forms. A bird shaped form and a small human shaped form. Oliver and that crazy little girl. I immediately jumped down into the hole right next to the girl and Oliver. She smiled crazily and got up while brushing herself off. "You caught me, so now you get the prize." She pulled out a card from thin air and handed it to me. I looked at the card and it read:

Rustboro City

That's it? That was what I've been trying to get this whole time. I was already planning to go to Rustboro City. This was a pile of crap.

"Oh I almost forgot." She turned around and used a rock beside me as a stepping stone getting on top of it. She was now able to look me dead in my eyes. "You said none of this was real." She ran her finger over her cheek wound and the blood smeared on her finger. She then wiped it on my left cheek having drawn a slash mark with blood. "Well anyways…bye."

And with that I woke up.