Outside of Manor Blood from the back, Jack and Pikachu will have to be cautious around the back. It's still like the Dark Forest, but instead of Dark Wolves; there might be instead heartless and fiends. Now the forest is becoming even more like a maze Jack and Pikachu will have to solve, and Jena still in her ninja suit will have to be unseen.
"Great." Said Pikachu, looking. "This is nuts. Why do we always end up with puzzles we can never solve?"
"I think they're trying to get rid of us." Jack replied, thinking. "But somehow, we can always solve puzzles without even trying." He looks at his Pikachu, "Pikachu. Better prepare for the worse."
"Got it." Said Pikachu.
Jack checks his Pokémon, but becomes surprised. "Uh-oh."
"What?"
Jack looks at his Pikachu and replies, "My Growlithe is injured." He pulls out a Potion Card and said, "I think he needs to heal up." He uses the Potion Card, and puts the card in Growlithe's Poké Ball, and heals Growlithe's wounds. "There we go."
"Can we move on, now? I don't like this."
Jack nods. "Okay. Let's get moving." He looks up ahead, and saw a path going to the right. "This way." Jack and Pikachu head off, but to the back of Dark Forest. "Maybe next time they should have a better name other than Dark Forest?"
"Like Black Forest?"
"…Maybe later." They enter to a large open area on the backside of the Dark Forest. To both Jack and Pikachu, it looks like a terrible maze. Getting them lost is easy, but finding a way out is difficult. Jack and Pikachu will have to navigate through the maze of the forest without getting lost, or it could mean they're lost forever.
"Now what?" Ask Pikachu.
Jack looks around, and said, "Uh…right."
"Wait a second." Pikachu said, "Don't you still have lantern?" Jack pulls out a lantern, and shines light. "Cool." Jack and Pikachu head left, entering through a forest arch way. Then they enter a small open space. "What?" Up ahead, they saw a treasure chest. "A treasure chest?"
Jack walks up the chest, and opens it. He pulls out a small key. Now Jack can enter through the forest gates without a problem. "Alright, just what I needed." They head back through the forest arch, but by a surprised, encounters fiends. "What the?"
"Look out, Jack!" Pikachu shouted. There are five red hounds, howling wildly. Jack pulls out two Poké balls, and summons two Pokémon. One Pokémon is a small red fire puppy, and the other is a yellow duck with a headache. Pikachu enters the battle, and Jack pulls out his weapons. "What got their attention?"
"Hurry, Pikachu!" Said Pikachu, "Use a Slam attack on one of them."
"I got it!" Pikachu starts to charge at the first red hound, and then slams. "Pika!" Pow! That hits the first red hound. Next, Growlithe starts to inhale its breath wide enough, and then blows an Ember attack at the first red hound. The first red hound is burned by flames, but withstood the heat a little.
The fifth red hound stays back from the fight, waiting for the others to finish. The first red hound charges at Jack, and rends his body with its claws. Slash! "Agh!" Jack took a big hit, but stands strong.
The second red hound charges at Pikachu, and rends Pikachu hard. Slash! "PIKA!" Pikachu shouted, attacked. However, Pikachu stands strong. The third red hound charges at Growlithe, and rends Growlithe. Slash!
"Grow!" Growlithe howled in pain. But Growlithe manages to stand. And the fourth red hound charges in on Psyduck, and rends hard. Slash!
"Psy!" Psyduck shouted, attacked. However, Psyduck withstood the attack, and stands strong.
"Okay, now it's out turn." Said Jack, pulling out a card. He pulls out a card and said, "Bomb Card." A bomb appeared on his right hand, and chucks the bomb at the red hounds. "Eat this!"
The bomb blows up, damaging the four red hounds. One is immediately destroyed, but the other three survived the bomb attack. Psyduck starts to concentrate its mind, and then aims at the fourth red hound. With lots of red energy, the fourth red hound can't move.
Pikachu charges up electricity, and then blast a Thundershock at the second hound. "Ka-CHU!" It shocks the second red hound, and it becomes paralyzed. Growlithe inhale its breath, and then blows out another Ember attack at the third red hound.
The third red hound is hit by the heat, and becomes burned. The second red hound couldn't move, but the third red hound charges with a poison claw, and slash Growlithe. Slash! "GROW!" Growlithe took minimum hit, but now poisoned by the effect. The third red hound still takes damage from the heat.
And the fourth red hound still can't move because it's still disabled. The fifth red hound appeared from the forest, and helps the fight.
"Gatta stop the poison." Said Jack, pulling out a card. He calls, "Antidote Card." An antidote appeared, and Jack heals Growlithe from the poison. "Growlithe!" Growlithe takes the medicine, and is no longer poison.
Psyduck starts to concentrate on its mind, focusing on the fourth red hound, and then blast out a Confusion attack. Confusion hit the fourth red hound by a power shot, and now the fourth red hound is confused.
Pikachu charges up electricity, and then shock the second red hound. "Ka-CHU!" The second red hound is hit by electricity, and then falls in defeat, howling. Growlithe charges at the fifth red hound, and then bites! Chomp! The fifth red hound was bit, making the fifth red hound in fright.
The third red hound charges poison on its claw, and then attack Pikachu. Slash! "CHA!" Pikachu is slashed, but hit by poison. Pikachu is now poisoned. However, the third red hound still takes a hit from the heat, and then falls in defeat. The fourth red hound couldn't even move one bit, and the fifth red hound flinched in surprised.
Jack pulls out a card and said, "Antidote Card." An antidote appeared, and Jack heals Pikachu. Pikachu takes the medicine, and is no longer poisoned. "I need to buy more Antidote cards."
Psyduck focuses on his mind, concentrating hard enough, and then hits the fourth hound with Confusion. The fourth red hound is hit, and then falls in defeat. Pikachu charges at the last red hound, and then slams it with its tail. "Pikachu!" Wham! The last red hound is hit hard. "That's for poisoning."
Growlithe inhale its breath, and then blows out the last Ember attack at the last red hound. "Grow!" The last red hound is hit by small fire, and then howls in defeat, falling to the ground.
There are no more fiends left. Jack and his Pokémon won the battle. Growlithe is becoming strong. Jack has found 1,000 Gils from the ground, and puts them in his wallet.
"Whoa." Said Pikachu, surprised. "What was that?"
"They are panthers." Jack replied. "What are they doing out here in the woods?"
His Pokémon look at Jack worried, and Pikachu asks, "You don't think we're not alone, are we?"
Jack shook his head and replies, "I don't think we're not alone. Stay cautious and be careful." He looks at his red puppy Pokémon, "Growlithe, you did great. You deserve a good rest in your Poké ball." Jack returns Growlithe back into his Pokémon with a red shot beam, and Growlithe into the Poké ball. "Okay." He said, putting the Poké ball up, "It would be so lucky if buy more supplies on the way."
"I guess there's no turning back, is there?" Ask Pikachu.
"There no isn't." He pulls out six cards and said, "Potion Card." Six bottles of Potion appeared, and Jack heals himself and his Pokémon. "Let's keep moving." Jack, Pikachu, and Psyduck are still stuck about the forest, looking around. "Now…let's go this way." He said, pointing straight. "If we're lucky, we can find a place to find cover."
They head straight out through an open forest arch, and into another small open area. They look at their right, and saw another open forest arch. But then, three bat like fiends with one large eyeball appeared from the sky, and then attack. Jack pulls out another Poké ball, and calls, "Summoning!"
A Pokémon almost look like a small green frog with red eyes, and has a medium flower on its back. "Ivysaur!" It said.
Pikachu charges up electricity, and then zap the first Floateye with Thundershock. "Ka-Chu!" The first Floateye becomes electrocuted, and then falls in defeat. "Alright!"
"Ivy!" Ivysaur starts to bring out leaves, and then hurl the leaves at the second Floateye. "Ivysaur!" Ka-Pow! It hits the second Floateye, and it comes down, defeated.
"Wow." Said Jack, "You guys are making this too easy." Jack pulls out a card and said, "Boomerang Card." A boomerang appeared on his right hand, and then chucks the boomerang at the last Floateye. It hits the Floateye in minimum damage, but comes down in defeat.
There are no more fiends left. Jack and his Pokémon won the battle! Pikachu is becoming strong. Jack found 30 Gils on the ground, and puts the money in his wallet. They continue through the forest arch, and found another open area. Two pathways to go, straight or left they must pick.
"Okay, which way to go?" Ask Jack, looking.
"Uh…let's try right again." Said Pikachu. The whole group right, but then encountered four Floateyes coming down. "Agh!" Said Pikachu, surprised, but then feels irritated. "Wait a minute…again?"
"Again." Jack replied. The Jack and his Pokémon prepared themselves to fight. "Pikachu, care to do the honors?"
"Sure." Pikachu replied. Pikachu charges up electricity, feeling sparks on his red cheeks, and then Thundershock the first Floateye. The first Floateye becomes electrocuted, and falls in defeat. Next, Ivysaur releases leaves out of its medium flower, and then releases a Razor Leaf on the second Floateye. The second Floateye took a lot of hits, and then fall in defeat.
Jack pulls out a card and said "Boomerang Card." A boomerang on his right hand, and then chucks it at the third Floateye. The third Floateye took minimum hit, but falls to the ground, defeated. And lastly, Psyduck concentrates hard on his mind, and then blast out a Confusion attack on the last Floateye. The last Floateye took a large hit, and then falls in defeat.
There are no more fiends left. "Finally." Said Pikachu. Jack and his Pokémon won the battle. Jack and Psyduck are becoming strong. Jack found 40 Gils on the ground, and puts them in his wallet.
"Okay, now we head right." Said Jack. Jack and his Pokémon went right again, through the forest arch, and then came back to a large open are. "Huh?" They were surprised.
"What?" Ask Pikachu, surprised. "We're back to where we started?"
Jack looks back and said, "Come on. I think I know where we went wrong." Jack and his Pokémon went back through the forest arch, and to a small area. "Almost there." They went left, and through the open forest arch. Now they're back at the very same spot, choosing left or right. "Now let's go this way." He said, pointing right.
"Why?" Ask Pikachu.
Jack looks at Pikachu and replies, "That's the path we didn't take." They went right, going through the open forest arch, and then found a sign up ahead. "Hello." He said, "We made it out."
"But what's with the sign?" Ask Pikachu.
But then, Ivysaur started to talk to Pikachu. "Ivy!" Pikachu got Ivysaur's attention. "Ivy, Ivy. Saur, Saur, Ivysaur? Ivysaur, Ivy, Ivysaur, Ivysaur, Ivy."
"Pi!" Said Pikachu, talking to Ivysaur. "Pikachu."
"What is it?" Ask Jack, confused. "What did Ivysaur said?"
Then Pikachu replies, "Ivysaur said about a sign going left or right. Can you read what it's saying?"
"Sure." Jack nods, and he reads the sign. "Let's see. 'Left is Forest Labyrinth. Right is Dark Ruins'." He thinks. "Say, didn't Brent say something about 'staying away from the ruins'?"
"Jack." Pikachu said, "Going right leads up to the Dark Ruins." Jack looks at Pikachu. "We can't go there."
"You're right." Jack agrees. "We have to listen to what Brent said. Stay away from the ruins then? No problem. We'll just go left, instead." Jack and his Pokémon head to the left to what the sign said, and then found a passage to the right, going straight to Forest Labyrinth. "That way?"
"Looks like it." Said Pikachu. "Well, here we go again."
"Another haunted adventure." Said Jack. They move on, when all of the sudden…
"Are you going to be okay without supplies?" Ask a voice. Jack and his Pokémon are surprised.
They looked around, and Pikachu asks, frighten, "Whoa! What was that?"
"That voice." Said Jack, "Is that?"
"Yep." Said a voice. And then a figure with black clothes, red eyes, and black front spike hair came out of the bushes. "Long time to see, Jack, Pikachu."
"Hi, Pikachu." Said a small white ferret. "How's it been?"
And both Jack and Pikachu said, surprised, "Vincent! Furret!"
"What are you doing here?" Ask Jack.
"You're almost out of supply, right?" Ask Vincent. "Well, I have many things for you. But remember…"
Jack then interrupted Vincent, "We know. We have to pay you for supplies. We know you want to cook something as a number one chef."
Vincent crosses his arms and said, "So you remember wisely. Okay, here you go." Vincent gives Jacks a paper price sheet. "So, what will it be?" Jack bought supplies on his adventure: five Antidotes, two Echo Grasses, two Dazers, two Eye Drops, two Alarm Clocks, five Smelling Salts, fifteen Potions, and ten Bombs.
"Sweet." Said Jack, "Just what I needed." He paid Vincent one thousand and seven hundred Gils. "Okay, thank you."
"Wait." Said Vincent. "Before you go, you'll need theses. Since you bought supplies from me, I'll throw in Holy Waters for free. No charge." Vincent gives Jack ten Holy Waters. "The reason why is because there are zombies going by, attacking out of nowhere."
"What? Zombies?" Ask Jack, surprised. "That's not a good sign."
"Alright." Said Vincent. "Looks like you're all set."
"And remember, we'll be back at the Manor Blood." Said Furret. "And after you return to Manor Blood, visit us at the kitchen, okay?"
"You got it." Said Pikachu.
"Ivy." Said Ivysaur, tapping Jack with a vine.
Jack got Ivysaur's attention and said, "Oh, sorry." He looks at Vincent. "Thanks Vincent. We have to go."
"Be careful out there." Said Vincent. "And return back alive in one piece." Jack and his Pokémon go through the passageway, pass so many trees, then go left, and through the open forest arch.
Entering through the forest arch means another puzzle to solve. As they enter through the next path, everything in the whole environment is still dark to see even for Jack and Pikachu. They will have to be careful, there's no telling when fiends and shadows will be lurking around.
"Well?" Ask Pikachu.
"Let's keep going." Said Jack. And both Jack and Pikachu to continue through the open the forest arch, and then enter another open area. In the next area, but found nine standing torches like an equal square. One of the standing torches at the lower right started to light.
"Okay." Pikachu said, "What's up the torches?"
"I don't know." Jack replied. "But we worry about those torches later." They look ahead, and saw another opening forest arch. "Okay, let's go." Go up to the path, and then around some kind of path in three ways. "Uh…left." Jack and Pikachu went left, and found another path. It's exactly the same.
"Okay, how about right?" Ask Pikachu. They go right, and found another path. They try right, they try straight, and they try left again. But in a result, both Jack and Pikachu end up back at the exact same spot with nine standing torches again. "What the?"
"Where're back to where we started!" Said Jack, surprised.
"Wanna try again?"
"Okay, I got it." Jack and Pikachu went back through the path, and try again. Going up, right, up, left, and up. Instead, they came back to start again. "Again?" He asked again.
"No way!" Said Pikachu, surprised.
"How can we back at the same spot?" He thinks. "This is crazy. How can we get through the maze? We're not even trying."
Pikachu looks down, thinking, but then notice something near the lit torch. "Huh? What's that?"
"What's what?" Ask Jack, confused.
Pikachu points at the ground and replies "Look!" Jack and Pikachu down at the floor near the lit torch, and saw a line. "There's a black line on the ground."
"What's a line doing here in the first place?" He walks up to the torch lit, and follows the line. "It's going up to the this torch." He looks at the torch, "But this one is not fired up."
"Wait a second." Said Pikachu, "What will happen if you use a lantern on that torch?"
Jack pulls out a card and said, "Lantern Card." A lantern appeared on his right hand, and he lights the torch up. "Okay. Now what?" He looks at the line, but notice another line behind the second torch. "I guess we'll have to light up these standing torches in order." He lights up each of the torches in order, by going up, left, left again, down, right, down, and left.
"That's it?" Ask Pikachu.
"Well, since we created a line path, we need to use these lines and follow a path maze out of here."
"Great. I thought this would never end. Okay, let's give it a try."
"Great, but first." Jack examines the torches and starts to write them down in paper. "Okay. Up, Up, Left, Up, Left, Left, Right, Right. Got it." They go through the path, and end up at the maze again.
"Do you have the paper?" Ask Pikachu.
Jack pulls out the paper, and reads it. "Okay. Up." Jack and Pikachu go up, and continue in order. "Now we go up again, left, now go straight." Some maze it turns out. "Turn left from here." They go left, and left again. "Turn right twice." Both Jack and Pikachu go right, and then lastly right. "And that's it."
They look up ahead, and saw a different. "Hey! This is different!"
"Looks like we're on the right trail." Said Jack. "Let's keep moving. "They continue through the trail, and go through the open forest arch. Another pathway to take, but it goes right. "Let's go." Jack and Pikachu follows the path, when all of the sudden, two mummy like shadows appear from the ground. Jack pulls out two Poké balls, and throws them in the air. "Summoning!"
Two Pokémon, Ivysaur and Psyduck appeared out of their Poké balls and get into battle. Pikachu charges up electricity, feeling his cheeks with red static, and then Thundershock the first Wight Knight. The first Wight Knight is zapped by electricity, but toughens the static. "Whoops. That thing is still strong."
"That's okay." Said Jack. He commands. "Ivysaur! Go!" Ivysaur gets in position, and then release a Vine Whip attack on the first Wight Knight. Wham! It took a hit, but Vine Whip wasn't strong enough. "So close." Jack pulls a card and said, "Bomb Card." A bomb appeared on his right hand, and he chucks the bomb at the two Wight Knight.
The bomb explodes, and hits two Wight Knights. However, the attack didn't do much damage. Psyduck gets in position, concentrating on its mind, and then blast a Confusion attack on the first Wight Knight. The attack was a bit powerful, but destroys the first Wight Knight.
Now the second Wight Knight jumps in front of Psyduck, and then attacks by two claws. Slash! Psyduck took minimum hit, and withstood the attack.
Pikachu gets in a good position, and then charges at the second Wight Knight. "AGH!" Pikachu then slams the Wight Knight with his tail! "HI-YA!" POW! That was so powerful; the second Wight Knight is becoming weak. "Ivysaur! Now!"
Ivysaur releases a lot of leaves, aiming right at the second Wight Knight, and then shot out a Razor Leaf attack. It hits the second Wight Knight without defending itself; it becomes shredded to pieces in defeat.
There are no more fiends left. Jack and his Pokémon won the battle!
"Ugh!" Said Pikachu, upset, "More of those things!"
"Well, it's a good thing we're on the job." Said Jack. "Other wise, we would be fired. Let's keep moving." Pikachu looks at the path, but saw a fork on the road. "What is it?"
"Which way should be go?" Ask Pikachu.
Jack looks at the left path, and then the right path. He thinks, and pulls out a Gil. "Okay, Heads, we go left. Tails, we go right." He flips the coin, and let the coin on the floor. They look at the coin.
"Heads." Said Pikachu.
"Left it is." They follow the path to the left, but then encounter more fiends. Something appeared out of the ground. They look human, but 4 zombies appeared, wanting food. Pikachu freaks out.
"AGH! ZOMBIES!" Pikachu shouted.
And then Jack said, "Wait a second, Pikachu. They're slow. So let's finish them fast." Pikachu charges up electricity, feeling his red cheeks with yellow static, and then zap the first zombie.
"Ka-CHU!" Pikachu shouted. The first zombie becomes electrocuted, and then falls in defeat. Next, Ivysaur releases lots of leaves, aiming at the second zombie, and then shot a Razor Leaf attack. Slicing the second zombie, it remains standing. "What?"
"That zombie is still a live? I got a bad feeling about this." Said Jack. "I get the feeling sword and vines and leaves don't work against undead. Why didn't I pay attention to the academy as always? I call myself a hero for nothing."
"Psy." Said Psyduck. Psyduck starts to concentrate, aiming at the second zombie, and then blast Confusion. Pow! That's effective, and the second zombie falls in defeat. "Psyduck."
"Oh! Right! Use Special Attacks against zombies. Okay." Said Jack, understanding. The third walks at Jack, and then attacks Jack. Smack! "Ugh!" Jack took a big hit. The fourth zombie walks up to Pikachu, and then attacks. Smack!
"CHA!" Pikachu shouted, attacked. That even hurts too. Pikachu charges up electricity, feeling his red cheeks with static, and then zap the third zombie. "CHU!!" The third zombie becomes electrocuted, and then falls in defeat. Ivysaur decided to not attack since it's immune to physical attacks.
"Ivysaur, take a break." Said Jack, pulling out a card. "Bomb Card." A bomb appeared on his right hand. He throws the bomb at the last zombie, and then the bomb explodes. The explosion gets rid the entire zombie.
There are no more fiends left. Jack and his Pokémon won the battle. Ivysaur is becoming strong. Jack has found two hundred Gils on the ground, and put the money in his wallet.
"Whoa!" Said Pikachu, surprised. "What was that?"
"The explosion or the zombies?" Ask Jack.
"The zombies." Pikachu replied. "This whole place is crawling with zombies."
"You're right. We should be careful when we have the chance."
Pikachu looks at Jack with a worried look and said, "I don't want to be a zombie."
"None of us are ganna be zombies. We just have to keep moving and use potions." Jack checks his supplies. "We must have hope on our side. If we're lucky, we can use these Holy Water to stop preventing ourselves from becoming zombie."
"Really?"
"Really, really."
"Alright. If that makes me feel better." He looks at the path. "Can we go on?"
Jack nods. "Let's go." everyone hurries on to the path, and founds a closed forest arch. "Huh. It's locked."