Chapter 9: Trick or be tricked
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After dragging the three boys back over to the inn Trivain began to explain some things "ok you all know that you paid for us four girls to stay at the inn correct, well while you were waiting outside for us we booked you three to sleep with us girls" "that's right" continued Rhen, "You lucky boys will be sharing beds with us, Ronfork will sleep with Trivain, Zan will sleep with Ti'e'yong and the young Eevee and you Welton, will be sleeping with me" finished Rhen swooning to the fact of having her closest friend spend the night together, Before the boys could say anything else Rhen and Trivain quickly grabbed their closest friends and pulled them into their rooms leaving Zan with Ti'e'yong and the Eevee "are you going to do the same to me?" said Zan laughing quietly to himself, "no, why would I want to do that?" asked Ti'e'yong "oh nothing I was just joking, ok I think we better get some sleep" replied Zan as he borrowed Ti'e'yong's keys to her room and unlocked the door for them to enter, "just a note, I don't want to be waken too early, I need my mind fixed for me to use my magic" mentioned Zan as he looked around to find a place to sleep "don't worry, maybe if you sleep with me tonight I won't disturb you, I feel safe when you're nearby" said Ti'e'yong making Zan slightly at ease, "why thank you Ti'e'yong for those kind words, but what about our little friend here?" asked Zan, we'll just move these two beds together" suggested Ti'e'yong "very well than let's do it" said Zan as they all helped with moving the beds together.
Inside Rhen's bedroom Welton even though he was getting used to being close to Rhen was still feeling nervous "what's wrong Welton you haven't moved from that spot ever since we got in here" said Rhen looking over her shoulder as she opened her wardrobe for something to wear to bed "oh it's nothing really" answered Welton as he watch Rhen turned to her front to find her nightgown she purchase from the shop hanging on the rack, she took the red chequered nightgown and without warning she striped down to her underwear and pulled the gown over her head, "great I forgot to loosen the button, Welton help me here for a sec" asked Rhen as she managed to get her purple arms through the sleeves,Welton made his way to Rhen and turned her towards him as he undone her button and when the first button was undone Rhen's head popped out of the gown "aww that much better... you sure nothing's the matter?" again asked Rhen raising an eyebrow when she noticed Welton's face sweating a bit "oh nothing it's just a bit hot in here that's all" answered Welton and then looked with fear as Rhen was giving him a creepy smile, "those robes do look like they can absorb quite a heat" said Rhen and lunged at Welton as they fell on the bed "hay, what are you doing!" shouted Welton as he began to sweat a whole lot more "we're going to play a dress up game and you're the victim" laughed Rhen as she grabbed Welton's blue chequered night clothes from the side of the bed and began to yank Welton's robes off, with a successful attempt she shoved him into his night clothes and allowed him to lay down on his bed "let's not be too hasty next time" said a traumatised Welton as he then watch Rhen get under the duvet with him "don't have to, I can see you already had enough fun for one day" giggled Rhen as she snuggled even closer to Welton making him even more comfortable even when Welton wanted to refuse, very soon after putting his worries behind Welton fell to sleep with Rhen body pressed against him and her arms wrapped softly round his chest.
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The next morning Rhen was woken up by the sound of the church bell ringing from a distance "well now I've couldn't have asked for a more relaxing sleep" said Rhen as she gave a big stretch from her bed and then turned towards his handsome Gallade wizard "rise and shine sleepy head, we got another big day ahead of us" said Rhen rocking Welton from side to side, very slowly Welton stretched his arms as his eye open to see his Gardevoir by his side "oh morning already?" yawned Welton as he sat up "well it like nine in the morning, it's best if we don't keep the others waiting" again said Rhen looking out the window to see sun shining brightly above the town of Forlore "I guess your right there, ok let me get change" said Welton getting out of bed and grabbed a hold of his previously worn robes, "do you even wash that?" asked Rhen looking at the blue robes that were stained "oh nothing more than a good old magic trick would do the trick" replied Welton and held his robes in front of him and began to channel white sparkling magic through his arms and in an instant there was a bright flash which lit up the whole room, even the Pokémon outside the inn noticed the white light beaming from the window, when the light dimmed out Rhen lowered her arm covering her face to see Welton in his robes which looked like it was completely brand new "amazing, you think you can do that with my armour?" asked Rhen as she held her armour that had a few dents and scratched all over the plates in front of her "it would be my pleasure to help you" answered Welton and again channelled the same white magic one last time and then let out another bright flash which again made the Pokémon outside look with curiosity, after the light dimmed out once more Welton looked with a smile on his face to see Rhen back into her armour that was clean and completely scratch free "this ought to save time scrubbing them" said a pleased Rhen and twirled once for the thrill of being in clean clothes again, "you like it then?" asked Welton as Rhen turned and faced Welton "yes, thanks to you" answered Rhen and stepped towards him and gently embraced him, "well then I'm glad I have saved you back over at Riverkeep" said Welton as he wrapped his arms around Rhen until she pull Welton softly away with a worried look on her face "what's wrong?" asked Welton, "I haven't gone back to Riverkeep for a long time, I'm worried that my parents may be out there looking for me" said Rhen and then felt Welton's hand on her shoulder "then I think we better make our way there and let you return to your parents" suggested Welton, "You will do that? Oh thank you Welton, you are most generous" thanked Rhen and threw herself into Welton's arms and kissed him on the cheek "ok then, when you are ready we'll gather the others and then set out" suggested Welton until he noticed the nearby door swung open with Zan and Ti'e'yong standing there with a worried look on both of their faces, "has something bad just happened in your bedroom?" asked Welton looking over Rhen's shoulder "as a matter of fact there is, the Eevee we saved has gone missing, Trifong must've knew she had the gemstone with her" said Zan, Welton quickly lowered Rhen back down on her feet and brushed past Ti'e'yong and Zan as he made his way to their bedroom only to see an messy joined bed "It could be possible" Welton called out to them as Rhen, Zan, Ti'e'yong and who had just gotten themselves dress Trivain and Ronfork entered the room to see Welton pointing to an open window as the curtain flowed towards them by the gentle breeze, "if we move quickly we may be able to track them down" suggested Ronfork as he gave out a yawn "ok then let us make haste" issued Welton as they all geared up and headed out.
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They all quickly made their way down the stairs and out the door completely forgetting to return the keys to the owner and as they stood out in the open they all didn't know where to start "ok then, how are we going to do this?" wondered Welton as he began to think to himself until Zan came up with a suggestion, "Well they would probable make their way to the diamond of stars which is just over in Mt Diamond just near Riverkeep" suggested Zan which made Rhen desperate to return to Riverkeep "then we better get a move on" said Rhen as she and the rest was rearing to go.
After a long sprint from Forlore they ended up at the crossroad that lead to Barksap and Mt Diamond but knowing where to go they all took the left path and headed on, "dang I don't see them or the Eevee" panted Rhen as she stabled herself by placing her hands on her knees inhaling and exhaling, they all had made it to Mt Diamond, "we can't give up now, the alter is just up there" said Zan and pointed to what appeared to be another alter right next to a flowing waterfall and to get to it they had to scale a rocky path and a series of cave that were dotted high and low, "Surly there must be a simple way than this" said Ti'e'yong as she fell on her rear completely out of breath "we could try splitting up and each take a cave and see where it leads" suggested Trivain, "fair enough, Trivain and Ronfork take whatever cave you like, the same goes for you two as well" issued Zan looking towards Rhen and Welton who helped her on her feet "and what about you and Ti'e'yong?" asked Welton "I'll stay here with Ti'e'yong since she used up too much energy, but we'll be keeping a sharp eye out for anything suspicious" answered Zan as he knelled down besides Ti'e'yong and wrapped one wing round her back, "ok be careful while we're in the caves" said Welton and lifted Rhen on his back just to save her walking and made his way to a cave far ahead that was almost blocked by a small heap of rubble, as soon as Rhen and Welton disappeared into the darkness of the cave Trivain and Ronfork made their way to a cave they had just spotted behind a waterfall, "we won't be long" Trivain called out to Zan as she and Ronfork ran under the waterfall's ark and into the hidden cave "I want to help too" moaned Ti'e'yong feeling left out "you are, we're supposed to be on the lookout for anything strange" Zan said back to her, after finishing his sentence Ti'e'yong wished Fu-fu will come to keep her occupied and by the minute she had thought of that she heard a familiar melody emitting from the cave that Trivain and Ronfork had entered, they both looked up to see Fu-fu souring above their heads as it then made its way to the ground "Fu-fu, you little fluffy Manectric I was just thinking about you" said an overjoyed Ti'e'yong as she rushed up to it and was given a nice head rub to the arm, "aww you missed me as well?" asked Ti'e'yong in a cute tone, Fu-fu nodded and then looked over to Zan "well now I see you wish to lend us a hand, well you wouldn't mind looking after her while I help the others?" asked Zan hoping Fu-fu would understand and he did so Zan waved to Ti'e'yong as he made his way to a cave at the far right of the gorge, "Be safe Zan!" Ti'e'yong called out to him as he vanished into the cave, Ti'e'yong sat down on the fresh grass and watched as Fu-fu went around in a small circle pressing the grass down and then laid next to Ti'e'yong all circled up with his wings tucked in, Ti'e'yong shifted herself to him and laid back gently against the side of his back legs "keep an eye out ok" said Ti'e'yong as she started looking about.
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Deep within the twisted cave Welton was still navigating his way while still carrying Rhen on his back "I think you better put me down before you strain something and making me having to carry you" said Rhen placing her chin on Welton's left shoulder "if you insist" Welton said and lowered himself for Rhen to get off, "much better, thanks for your kind support" thanked Rhen as she gave a stretch to pull her back into shape and them watched Welton put his hands behind his back to straighten it out "don't mention it, I needed the exercise" said Welton feeling relieved from the strain and then looking down to see the path split into three, "Great now where?" wondered Welton thinking until Rhen turned towards him, "why don't we play Rock, Paper, Scissors? The winning move determines the path we pick, the left path will be rock, paper will the middle one and the right shall be scissors" suggested Rhen, Welton nodded and turned to her with their fists out towards them "ok ready, rock, paper, scissors" they both said and played their move, Welton weren't surprised when she chose scissors and had beaten her with rock "aww how'd you know I was going to choose scissors?" moaned Rhen "lucky guess I think" shrugged Welton and headed down the left path with Rhen close by him, "if this path leads us the wrong way and the path I was going to choose was right, then you should let me win next time" said Rhen "this had better lead us the right way or else who knows what Trifong may be doing to the Eevee" replied Welton and continued along the path.
Elsewhere deep within the twisted cave Trivain and Ronfork were not sure if they were making progress "we've been walking around this cave for some time now, do you think we'll ever find the way out?" asked Trivain getting annoyed of being in the dark for some time, "I don't know, maybe there's only a few exit that are hard to find, I bet Rhen and Welton are doing better than us" replied Ronfork thinking of the look on their faces if they had beaten them to it, "no they will not, I won't let them two peas in a pod get there before us" said a slightly angered Trivain "ok calm down, let just take it easy and we'll surly make it out first" again Ronfork said to her, so they continued their walk through the cave hoping to find the way out until, "hay is that a light I see over there?!" exclaimed Trivain with happiness as her voice echoed down the walls "one way to find out, come on" said Ronfork as they both dashed to the light which soon got brighter and brighter, once they were through it they were greeted a gentle breeze that is until they noticed where they were, "whoa we're about 45 feet high" said Trivain looking down to the ground almost making her lose her balance "careful!" shouted Ronfork and pulled Trivain back towards the cliff "you had me worried there for a second" said Ronfork sensing his heart beating faster "I'm sorry it won't happen again" apologised Trivain and then looked to her left to see another cave at the end of a very short path, "Great, looks like we haven't reached our goal" moaned Trivain still holding onto Ronfork "that doesn't matter, come on lets quickly make our way towards the alter" said Ronfork and looked over to see the alter still quite a bit away, "looks like Rhen and Welton still haven't made it, there still a chance" again said Ronfork as he let go of Trivain and both carefully made their way to the other cave, "please don't fail this Ronfork, I want this to be another memorable time together" said Trivain as he took another look at the golden knight's face "my lady, I shall never let you down" promised Ronfork and took her paw as they slowly entered the cave.
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Knowing that the other are completely unaware of someone else roaming the cave Zan couldn't care less about what's going on "looks like one of my lost druids did a fine job in making this twisted maze, too bad for Rhen and the others that only I know the way through this here cave" Zan said to himself still holding his right wing up in the air as a yellow light glowed brightly in his hand which helped him navigate better, "According to what my friendly druid said, he said that the right path to take is hidden with a slot" again he said remembering the fellow druid's voice, as he continued down the path he began to feel guilty for he was meant to do "if I end up continuing this then all my friends that I'm helping will surely be put down, why did I decided to do this, if that war hadn't started in the first place all my fellow druids would still be alive" Zan thought to himself as a flashback came to him.
There he stood with all the other druids watching and aiding his warriors in combat against a hoard of demon Pokémon, many brave Pokémon had perished but the battle was still in an upraise, Zan looked at the castle looming in front of them the see Trifong at the top of one of the towers as a swirling purple vortex loamed above his castle, "Zan, if we don't stop that vortex, then this whole coast shall fall under his rule!" shouted another Xatu druid donning a light blue robe with tiny stars dotted all around it, "Our men are doing the best they can, but we can't seem to breach their defences!" Zan called back at him blasting a light sphere at a nearby Sableye who'd knocked a Lucario solider down and was about to impale him with its sword, "there is one last option we can use, but we forbidden it due to it overwhelming power" said a Ledian druid who looked young and was wearing a pink robe with a pattern of a flower on it, "well I believe this the right time to use it" suggested a Scyther druid wearing a dark green robe with a tree pattern on the back, "but if we do that we'll be risking our lives!" worried Zan but all he got was them looking at him with a serious look on their faces, Zan nodded his head and pulled out the sunstone of time as the others pulled out their given gemstones and gather round in a circle, they all looked at one another for the last time as they slowly held out the gemstones in front of them, "it has been a pleasure being with you druids" said the Xatu druid "I'm really going to miss all your faces" said the Ledian druid "no matter what we'll always remember who we are and what we do for this world" said the Scyther druid, as everyone finished talking the gemstones lifted up into the air and began to spin around in a circle as it began to pick up speed "farewell everyone" said Zan as a bright light covered them all setting every soldier and demon Pokémon sights upon it.
At that moment the flashback had ended, "I just can't believe we gone and did that" said Zan feeling the pain for his lost friends but when he pulled himself together he noticed something to his left, there laid the slot he friendly druid mentioned "I thank you, Hex" said Zan as he used the light he used to light the way and slammed it into the slot, from that moment the light began to spread into a shape of the sun and then part of the cavern wall began to lift up revealing a light at the end of the tunnel, "so I guess it's up to me to stop Trifong now" again he said to himself as he made his way towards the light, looking back he could already tell that his fellow druids are with him for the entire journey so with a smile on his face he made his way towards the exit.
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Zan soon felt relived upon leaving the cave and ended up only a short walk up the side of the cliff that lead directly to the alter "well I may as well see if the gemstone that Hex was instructed to guard is still there" he said and made his way up to the alter only to be worried to the fact that is wasn't there, "No, we're too late!" Zan shouted to himself and alerted Ti'e'yong down below, Upon hearing Zan's voice Ti'e'yong immediately sat up and looked towards the source of the voice to then noticed Zan looking around the alter hoping it had fallen or something "is something the matter Zan!" Ti'e'yong yelled at the top of her voice which caught Zan's attention and looked down at Ti'e'yong who looked like an ant from his point of view, "I'm afraid it's bad, the diamond of stars is missing!" Zan shouted back down at her, with what she had heard and knowing that it was safe Ti'e'yong quickly mounted Fu-fu as he then took her up to where Zan was and after a quick flight Fu-fu landed next to Zan as Ti'e'yong then quickly dismounted him and went to see for herself "oh no, you're right it has gone, Trifong's demon Pokémon must've knew how to navigate thought the cave" worried Ti'e'yong as she got down on her flowers and knees to check the lower part of the alter, "perhaps, or maybe they decided to use something to fly up there" said Zan knowing that Hex had used his ability to restrict Trifong's magic from opening the hidden cave door, just then they heard sounds of footsteps and metal clashing and turned around to see Trivain and Ronfork exit the cave "phew, we did it" panted Trivain as she fell on her knees completely exhausted, although it didn't take them long to noticed that Zan and Ti'e'yong had got here first, "Hay! You tricked us, you said you'll stay down the bottom just to keep a lookout" said Ronfork "well somehow Fu-fu heard the melody that you played to him Trivain" said Zan, Trivain looked at Ronfork with a little smirk on her face "I guess you weren't off-key" she said to Ronfork as he rubbed his metal paws together "what'd I tell you, I good at playing the woodwind" Ronfork replied with pride and then looked back at Zan "so, is the diamond here then?" he asked, "no, Trifong demon Pokémon had beaten us to it" sighed Zan when he then noticed Rhen and Welton walking out of the cave and looked at them with disappointment "aww we came last" moaned Rhen as Welton patted her shoulder "don't worry, we'll win next time" Welton said cheering Rhen up, "I guess everyone is here now, but the question remains, where is Trifong demons? They still have the Eevee and the two gemstones in their possession" wondered Zan thinking where they may be heading next "well I know for a fact that they wouldn't leave the west coast just yet, there may be something Trifong knows that we don't" suggested Ronfork "that wouldn't be possible, he may be ordering them to move towards the ruined town of Fazlith where the sixth gemstone is kept" Zan reckoned, well I don't think Fu-fu could make a very long trip carrying five of us knowing you can fly" said Trivain "then we'll make a stop at the large market place over at the south coast, we can ship up while we're there" again suggested Ronfork "very well then, we'll make our way..." Suddenly they heard a loud explosion and a series of screaming coming from high up in the cliff "what on earth was that?!" shouted Rhen "it sounds like Riverkeep is in danger" said Zan looking up at the large cliff, "Mum, dad!" Rhen said with fright "we must go there now!" ordered Rhen as they all nodded and quickly mounted Fu-fu while Zan used his magic to lift himself off the ground by letting out a burst of light energy as exhausts "come on let's go!" shouted Rhen as Fu-fu lifted off and head up towards Riverkeep.
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As they almost reached Riverkeep they heard the sounds of explosions and villagers screams getting louder and louder, even the sound of fire was noticed as they all looked up to see thick black smoke blotting out the blue sky and sun sinking the town in darkness "we're almost there, everyone get ready!" Zan called down towards them as they all drawn out their weapons as they were soon nearing the peak of the cliff, everyone looked with shock, the once peaceful little village had been turned into blazing battleground, there they saw Trifong's familiar little Sableyes chasing the villagers as they ran with their children's while a few of their fathers tried to hold them off "we got to help them!" cried Rhen as she immediately dismounted Fu-fu before he even landed, with a loud bloodthirsty cry Rhen want to attack the small wave of Sableyes that had just noticed Rhen coming their way, the Sableyes went to fight the angered Rhen but were then surprisingly overwhelmed as Rhen strike quickly with her sword dicing Sableye after Sableye until the others came to help "if we work quickly we may be able to save this village!" Zan shouted on top of all the screaming and yelling, "I'll try to extinguish the fire, we can't let it spread throughout the forest" suggested Welton and took off to a few houses killing a few Sableyes along the way "hay Welton wait up, I'll support you!" Ti'e'yong called as she took out and shattered the emerald of loyalty and taken the form of a cute little Roserade ninja as she made her way over to him, "that leaves us to kill every last Sableye in this village" said Trivain as they all then noticed that Rhen had ditched them "forget her, I'm sure she's doing the same!" shouted Zan as they all split up to save the village.
Rhen was trying to make her way towards her home but was still getting held back by oncoming Sableyes "I had just about enough of this!" said an enraged Rhen as she quickly took out and shattered the opal of sins and was pulled down by a pool of blood the same way that it did to Tangwon, as the Sableyes gathered dumbly round the pool of blood the all leapt back as Rhen shot out of the pool and came down fast and landed hard creating smoke around her making her out of sight, but just then as soon as one Sableye walked closer to the smoke an extremely large thick blade impaled through his chest and then swung the sword to the side sending him and a few more Sableyes flying out of the village, the Sableyes quickly looked with fright as the smoke faded to reveal the Gardevoir who was holding her massive blade with two hands which was bigger than her, a close examination showed that Rhen was stripped from her armour and was now wearing an old dusty and bloody dress, bandages were covering her eyes as blood stained through, and to top it up broken handcuffs were around her arms and a chain without a ball was cuffed around her right leg, Rhen gave out a strange non-Pokémon roar and again swung her large sword in an ark shape as several more Sableyes shared the same pain as they were sent flying, after sweeping them Rhen slowly made her way closer towards her house dragging the huge blade with her as it scrapped along the grass, upon arriving to her house she heard several more Sableyes bashing through the door of what appeared to be her house, she knew it was her house because she could hear her mother's cries for help, with one desperate attempt she charged towards the Sableyes not know what was about to happen to them, when the Sableyes sensed something behind them they all turned around to great themselves with a huge scratched blade crashing down on them, not only that but the force of the impact also blew the door right open letting herself inside.
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When Rhen got inside she then reverted back into her normal self but also with a side effect of not knowing what had just happened while taking sin form "strange how'd I get here?" wondered Rhen until she again heard her mother crying from upstairs "mum!" she yelled as she dashed upstairs and flung her mum's bedroom door open to reveal a dreadful situation, right in front of her was her mother cradling her baby Ralts as a female Sneasel who had gray wings tower over them "hmm well look who it is, it appears that your daughter has returned at last" said the Sneasel as Rhen's mother looked over at the door to be on the verge of relief to see her daughter's face again "you dare harm my mother and I swear it'll be the last one you ever harm!" shouted Rhen as she drawn her sword, the Sneasel turned round showing her face "it's a good thing you came here on time, I wouldn't want to harm them without you knowing, especially with these" the Sneasel spoke and held out her claws as in an instant two bright light appeared to then reveal the diamond of space and the rose quartz of joyfulness "wait the rose quartz?! What have you done with her?!" yelled Rhen knowing that it was the Eevee who possessed the rose quarts, "oh her well let's just say that you have been had by the intelligent Tingdon" she said "you mean that Eevee... was you?!" questioned Rhen "yes and I played my cards right, now where was I" said Tingdon facing Rhen's mother and her Ralts and was about to do something evil until Rhen stood in front of her and her mother, "let's not delay things, my master wants me to deliver these gemstone double time" she groaned "well you're going to have to visit him some other time because you not hurting my family nor getting away with them two gemstones, so hand them over!" beckoned Rhen but instead Tingdon just folded her arms and looked deeply into her eyes, "Do you know who I am, I am Tangwon's sister" she said putting Rhen to shock "you're kidding?! Then this was just a setup so you can lure me here to have your revenge for what we did" said a worried Rhen "that right, and with some of his powers he taught me, I'll deal with you properly" she said as very slowly her eyes began to glow red, Rhen then heard her mother's gasp and her Ralts cries as she turned around to see them both surrounded by red aura and shortly after, they vanished, Rhen eyes widen with what had just happen and after a short second she swung round and lunged her sword down at Tingdon but then was blocked quickly by Tingdon's little dagger "oh don't be alarmed, I only teleported them somewhere" she said, "Where are they?!" ordered Rhen as her anger began to build up but Tingdon just giggled and vanished making Rhen even more angry "coward, what have you done with them!" Rhen called out but all she got were the sounds of footstep charging up the stairs, Rhen turned round with her sword pointing at the door to see Welton, Ti'e'yong, Trivain, Zan and Ronfork outside, "It's ok Rhen, it's just us" said Welton as Rhen slammed her sword back into her scabbard "what wrong? Where your parents?" asked Zan "Tingdon has them, she disguised herself as the little Eevee we was looking after, and now she's teleported them and herself somewhere along with the diamond and rose quartz" answered Rhen as the other were gutted into being fooled, "well at least the village is saved, repairs will be made the following week" said Ronfork "then that leaves us to go and find Tingdon" said Rhen as everyone had left the house to be greeted with the smell of ash "lets head back to Forlore" suggested Ronfork as all mounted Fu-fu nearby and headed out.
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Upon arriving in Forlore they made their way to Jane's fortune telling store hoping that she would know where she might be for she had the ability to see through dreams, nightmares and other dimensions, "so I guess the Eevee was Tingdon after all" said Jane as they all squeezed around one table, "yes and now it seems that Tingdon has taken the gemstones and Rhen's parents somewhere" said Zan "and that's why your here, I'll be willing to help you find her" Jane said and held her hands above her crystal ball as she began to rotate her hands around it while everyone else watched as a cloud of white smoke began to spiral within the crystal ball and after a few seconds an image of what looked like a twisted ruined castle floating above several levitating rocks appeared in front of them, "I sense her aura, she has taken your family and the gemstones to her castle deep within a twisted dimension, now I can take you there, but then you'll have to try and get the gemstones back, otherwise I can't send you back here" suggested Jane as she leaned back onto her chair, "we're willing to take that risk, my family is in there, and I'm not letting her get away with it" agreed Rhen as Jane nodded her head and asked them to stand up and hold each other's hands "remember, retrieve the gemstones and I'll be able to send you back" Jane informed them again before she began to work her magic, she began to fill her hands with rainbow crystal light as she then moved her hands to draw in thin air a number eight, from that point there was a little ping sound as a few rainbow spheres shot out from her hands and began to circle around the others making them hold their breath as a bright flash lit the room which meant that the magic was a success "I'll be praying for your safety" Jane said to herself and sat back down on her chair.
The dimension that they were heading to looked like it had been left for the dark gods, the area was a floating wasteland for trees were black as coal, houses were turned to rubble, and a few human skeletons littered the place, the dense place then lit up for a second as a bright light glowed over at the entrance to the wastelands as Rhen and the others appeared from the light, as the light faded they all looked around the cold and scary place "this is probably more worse than Tangwon's sealed dimension" said a frightened Ti'e'yong watching the dark red clouds spiral above their heads, Trivain then slowly made her way to the edge of the large floating rock and looked down to see pitch back as if it would seem to go on forever "wouldn't want to fall down there" said Trivain as she shivered a bit then they heard a faint laughter coming from the floating castle, they all turned round to see a little yellow light shining dimly from a window on the tallest tower which was about 25 feet "Tingdon" said Rhen knowing that it would only be her laughing "we must be careful, even though it's your family we're saving we must remember that this place it twisted, who knows what will happen" warned Zan as the girls held onto their mates hands, "well I don't think we'll have to worry about the wasteland, there just a bunch of floating rocks" said Ronfork stroking Trivain's head keeping her at ease "but still lets be careful" again warned Zan as they all slowly walked through a broken iron gate and entered the wasteland, but somewhere Tingdon was watching them "hmm so Jane has sent me some dolls to play with and look one of them looks like Rhen" she said watching them through her large oval beauty mirror which reached the top and bottom of the wall "you know, I haven't had fun for a long time" may as well relive it" giggled Tingdon and started chanting.
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Everyone looked around, everything was so quiet that if you drop a pin you would hear it from a short distance and that was what was worrying the girls knowing that if a loud noise was made they would surely jump with fright "you still with me aren't you?" Rhen said to Welton who was still holding her hand, "Don't worry, I won't let you go" Welton said back making Rhen feel relieved for herself, but as they took a few more steps the rock they were standing on began to rumble "what happening?!" panicked Ti'e'yong as she grabbed onto Zan, at that moment the large rock broke into several smaller rocks separating the team "ahh Welton!" worried Rhen as Welton's rock drifted from her grasp, "Do you think Tingdon knows we're here?!" Welton's voice called over to Zan, just then some Honchkrows landed on some available rocks "I think she knows alright, battle stance everyone!" Zan called out as everyone drawn out their weapons, The Honchkrows gave out a loud caw as they charged over to them "it looks like they are trying to knock us off!" shouted Ronfork "then take evasive action when you need to!" Zan called back ducking from an oncoming Honchkrows and discharge it with his light energy, turn after turn the Honchkrows kept charging at them hoping to knock one off, one got close to Rhen but then she leaned to the side letting the Honchkrow pass her but then the Honchkrow noticed that one of his wings had been chopped off "looking for this?" taunted Rhen waving the black wing at him as he spun down to the darkness below, another good shot came from Ti'e'yong who used her thorn whip to catch the Honchkrow and with a lucky shot she got him by the claw so she tugged him in hard bringing the Honchkrow towards them, from that point Zan step forth with a fist glowing with light energy and when the Honchkrow was about to meet them Zan threw his fist forward and landed it right in the Honchkrow's beak as it then flew backwards and travelled unconsciously down towards the darkness, "you never told me you had strong muscles!" laughed Welton as he cast a fireball at another Honchkrow burning its wings and fell out of the sky "we hold many secret use druid, and that was one of them" Zan called back as he watched Trivain threw her scythe as it travelled and tore the wings off the last Honchkrow as it gave one final caw as it fell.
After winning the battle all the rocks moved to each other to form a long pathway to Tingdon's castle "well that was a job well done" said Ronfork putting his sword back into his scabbard and looked towards the castle, "do you think it'll be filled with the same stuff I witnessed in Tangwon's dimension?" asked Rhen remembering the twisted and dangerous puzzles she had to navigate "I don't know, she may know some things that Tangwon doesn't know" answered Zan as they all walked up the rocky pathway up towards the castle.
Soon everyone was now standing in front of a large wooden door that would lead them to the main hall "you ready for this?" said Zan as everyone nodded as they all pushed the door open and walked inside, but when they took two steps into the hall the doors slammed shut on them and soon out of nowhere the sound of thousands of bell began to ring in their ears "ahh what is all this!" cried Trivain as they all fell to ground all strangely unconscious and were taken away by a few new demons Pokémon "your playground" they said.
To be continued...