"Vixie," I said as I stared at the setting sun as Vixie and I sat on a rock on this beach. I turned to her.

"Hm?" She was smiling as she stared at the golden orb that slowly returned to the sea. Her fine and beautiful(bleah) features were highlighted magically.

Unfortunately, none of these magical things were affecting my confusion, and I was pretty sure my face was showing it. "Where are we?" I then turned around, and looked around. The place seemed really peaceful and quiet, which disturbed me. "And the others?"

I looked at her.

She looked at me. She smiled.

I frowned.

"They're not important," she said softly.

I arched an eyebrow.

She placed a paw on top of my own. "Not right now, at least," she said as she leaned close.

I awkwardly leaned back, but I froze when our noses touched. I saw a weird shadow from the corner of my eye, but my gaze were locked on Vixie's beautiful eyes that made my throat dry.

She moved her head up, and licked my lips and nose in the process. She giggled as I jerked back, and I fell down on the sandy ground on my back.

"Wh-buh-hu..." Yeah, I'm a jumbling-mumbling mess at the moment.

Vixie poked her head over the edge of the rock, smiling down at me. Smiling down... Smiling as she eyed down... Oh god...

"No!" I shouted as I noticed her preparing to...drop herself on me. "No! No no no no no—" I tried to run away, but was too late, she was already on top of me, grinning as her two paws pinned my shoulders down.

"You've been a naughty prey," she growled, grinning.

My heart raced as I actually felt my pupils shrunk to dots.

She suddenly bit my neck with a 'rawr'. Well, not really. I mean, she did bit my neck, but not forcefully. She just bit my fur, and shook her head as she growled, all the while eying and grinning at me. ...and she was slowly working her way down.

I suddenly felt my shoulders were freed. I quickly pushed them up, if only I could. I suddenly found my paws, separately wrapped by two green vines, and forced them on the ground.

I shouted in horror as I then saw Fay and Shock — both grinning like maniacs — each holding down my hind legs as Vixie hungrily eyed my—!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Wow..." a voice echoed everywhere as I shut my eyes and waited for the inevitable. "You're a weird one if these arousing dreams are what you considered as nightmares..."

I ignored that annoying echo-voice as I tried to calm my racing heart by breathing fast and hard...shut up, brain.

I slowly opened an eye, and it was dark. Well, it was dark. Everything around me was dark.

I felt happy. I seriously felt really happy. Oh, god-damn it, it was all just a stupid dream!

I chuckled. I was still shaking all over, still breathing fast, and heart still racing, but I chuckled. Damn, I never felt so relieved.

"Definitely a weird one..."

I slowly rose up into a sitting position, and looked around. Weird that I can clearly see my own paws as if there was light, but everything around me was dark. Shouldn't I be awake by now?

I took a breath and called, "hello?"

Something suddenly appeared a foot or two in front of me. "Hi."

"Darkrai!" I shouted, jumping back and...and...what the heck am I supposed to do here?!

"Whoa, whoa! Easy!" he(?) said, waving his hands at me. Weird that I could actually see his features clearly despite the dark background. His white wavy 'hair' was...well, waving? And his light-blue eye, wasn't so...threatening? "I'm not going to hurt you!"

I...just froze there. Darkrai, right? A nightmare legendary than can turn itself into a shadow and can jump at you without you even knowing?

He sighed, dropping his hands on his sides. "Sorry about the nightmare I gave you. It happens each time I come near someone who's sleeping..."

...I guess I've pictured him way too wrong? "Darkrai?"

He strangely sighed in relief, and nodded. "Yes, that's me."

I blinked. "You're...um... You're weird." Is that even the right word to use?

He rolled his eye. "Says the one who considers having a sexy dream a 'nightmare'," he said.

I arched an eye. I shook my head. "Whatever. It's just that I..." I waved a paw, "...I pictured you to be more...tough? Serious? Scary?"

He actually chuckled. "Try being with Mew for a millennia. She managed to rub her childish ways on me," he shrugged.

I shook my head. "Okay, so uh..." I looked around, despite knowing there was nothing else to see around here. I ended up facing him, still feeling awkward. "You paid me a visit?"

"Yes," he nodded as he floated there.

I waited a few seconds, thinking he'll say something more. But after a few awkward and quiet seconds of nothing, I cleared my throat. "Um...why?"

He blinked in surprise. "Oh, right!" He fidgeted awkwardly, making me arch an eyebrow. "Celebi says you're a...um..." he waved a hand at me. "...human?"

I blinked. Wow, I didn't expect that. I nodded, feeling slightly hopeful.

He awkwardly scratched the back of his head. Damn, this Darkrai is weird... He completely destroyed how I pictured him. "Well um, Arceus sent me here to tell you that he'll look into it."

My hopes...dropped like an anvil as my eyebrow soared like a rocket. Am I being treated like those annoying agents on the phone? Arceus, the 'god' of all Pokémon, just told me to 'please hold' and hung up? "Bullsh*t."

Darkrai just blinked.

I stomped a paw on this dark ground and hissed. I glared at my own paw as I gritted my teeth. My eye twitched as I felt my blood boil.

...but why? Why the heck am I getting angry? Arceus just got notified that I shouldn't be here!

But what the actual f*ck! He just told me to wait for a moment? Can't his godly powers just, I dunno, send me back?! What the heck is far more important than my—!

I gasped and looked up. "You!" I shouted, stepping back and pointing a shaky paw at the blinking Darkrai. "You! You're the...y-you messed with the evolution gem thingy!"

He blinked. "What?" he asked with a flat tone.

"You're the one who caused every single Pokémon to devolve!" I shouted, feeling stupid that I'm actually saying this on my lonesome. He's a freaking legendary! Dream or not, he could kill me here if he wanted too, and I'm actually giving him a reason to!

I turned tail and ran away as I chanted to myself to wake up. This is a dream. MY dream, to be exact! And I want to wake up!

"What are you doing?" Darkrai's voice echoed as he hovered beside me.

In actuality, I seriously have no idea if I was really running or not. He was just...hovering there, staring weirdly at me.

"For the record," he said, crossing his arms, "I did NOT tamper with the evolution stone."

"Lies!" I should probably just shut up now. No idea why I felt like I shouldn't. "You're a dark-type! The Scizor told us that Mew felt your darkness around that stone!" I should also stop running now... I'm just tiring myself, strangely...

He blinked at me, uncrossing his arms. "Well, yes. Mew did told us she felt a dark essence there..." He closed his eye and shook his head. "But that wasn't me." He opened his eye and stared at me. "I haven't been there before. So," he actually shrugged again, "I have no idea where that stone is located." Then he glared at me. "And even if I do," his voice sounded...loud and scary, making me wince and stumble down.

I gasped as I felt his cold arms picking me up, helping me to stand back up. "C-cold arms," I shivered.

He shrugged as he let me go. "Anyway, no, I didn't do anything with it."

I looked down on the ground. "Then who?"

"No clue. And we legendaries are trying to figure that out as well."

I looked up at him. "For two months now?"

He scratched his arm with the other. "Well, actually, almost three months now, and it's rather difficult to solve this mystery if all we had was that dark essence to go by..."

I tilted my head to the side. "Then why not ask Dialga to open some time-portal thing to see what happened in there?"

He blinked. He blinked. He blinked. And oh, he blinked. "Huh..." he whispered. "We never thought of that..."

I facepawed.