A/N: Sorry I'm late with this chapter. Been busy with finals and graduation. But guess what. Now it's SUMMER! I have the freedom to write as much as possible now. As always, reviews, comments, and suggestions are welcome.

Eterna Forest was densely populated with trees. Misaki and I walked through the woods battling mobs of wild pokemon. After some training, Misaki's Piplup and Budew evolved, along with my Starly.

While going through the forest, we ran into another player. It was a girl with braided hair that was a vine green color. The cursor showed her name was Cheryl.

"Hello" she said. On closer inspection, she looked about 15. She wore a light green dress that looked like it was the color of grass.

"Um do you know the way out of the woods? I'm a little lost." she continued.

"Don't you have a map in your menu?" I asked.

"Wait. I can do that?" she asked.

Oh brother, this girl's even greener than her dress. I can't just leave her though.

"Yeah. I'll show you." Misaki replied.

After a quick tutorial on how to fully operate the menu, we decided to lead Cheryl through the rest of the forest. We ran into a few wild pokemon on the way, but with my Staravia, Misaki's Prinplup, and Cheryl's Beutifly, we swept through them easily.

Towards the end of the forest, we ran into a creepy old house with an old lady standing in front. We walked up to her and saw that she was an NPC due to the "?" above her head.

"Is there something wrong miss?" I asked. In response, a window opened up in front of me. It was a quest window.

(Do you want to start the "Haunted House" quest?) it asked. I looked over to Misaki and Cheryl to ask if they were up for it. In response, they both nodded. I pressed the Yes tab.

"Oh you must be trainers!" the old woman cried. "Please help me. An evil pokemon has taken over my poor house. I beg of you, please get rid of it."

"Sure thing. Leave it to us." I replied. Turning to the girls, I said "It looks like the quest's objective is to defeat a wild pokemon somewhere in the house. Judging from her story, it's probably a ghost type so be on your guard."

"Got it. We'll be careful Ren." Misaki told me.

We slowly walked into the house. Out of nowhere, the doors slammed shut. The only lighting in the room were dim lights and a chandelier on the ceiling.

"What's going on?" screamed Cheryl, trembling.

At her words, shadows spread across the room and covered us. My vision went black.

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Misaki POV:

"What happened?" I said groggily as I slowly came to.

Where was I? I looked around. It seemed that we were still inside the house. However, instead of the entrance, it looked more like a long hallway with an endless amount of doors on the sides.

"Ow my head. Where are we?" said a voice that came out of nowhere.

I jumped when I heard the voice. It was Cheryl.

"Cheryl!" I gasped. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah. I'll live" she replied. "Where's Ren?"

I looked around beside me. He was nowhere to be seen.

"Ren! Where are you" I yelled. My voice echoed down the hallway. Suddenly a figure came into view.

"Ren? That you?" I asked, squinting my eyes. The figure became clearer and clearer and then I saw.

That wasn't Ren.

I don't know what that was. It was a gassy sphere floating towards us. It had a creepy face on it. My reflexes suddenly screamed 'Ghost'. I didn't know what it wanted. I just wanted to get away from it.

"Is that a pokemon?" asked Cheryl.

Suddenly my memory jogged. Ren's words echoed "There's probably ghost type pokemon here."

Of course. This wasn't some dead spirit wondering about. It was just a ghost type pokemon!

"Payback time for scaring me!" I yelled. "Prinplup let's go!"

Out came my trusted partner Prinplup.

I can't get scared here! I have to become stronger! "Prinplup bubble beam!" I commanded. It easily took out the ghost pokemon. However I soon wish I hadn't attacked. Tens, no hundreds of the same pokemon appeared, each creepier than the last.

"Let's get out of here!" screamed Cheryl.

After returning Prinplup to its pokeball, I quickly followed suit.

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Ren POV:

"Misaki! Cheryl! Where are you?!"

No matter how loud I yelled, no response would come.

After coming to in this hallway, I desperately searched for my two companions. The silence was getting a little creepy though.

"Hehehehe" a small voice started to echo throughout the hallway.

Just what was going on? I decided to check my map to see if there was any more detailed information. When I opened it, the biggest shocker yet came. According to the map, I was still at the entrance of the mansion where the army of shadows attacked.

'Come on! Think! There has to be an answer to this!' I kept thinking this to myself. This endless hallway, the shadows, my position on the map, all of it must be connected somehow.

Out of nowhere a round gassy creature appeared. It was the ghost type pokemon Ghastly. But it wasn't alone. Hundreds of them seemed to be surrounding me.

'Crap! There's too many!' I thought to myself as I ran away at full speed. The horde of Ghastly wouldn't let me get away that easily though. Eventually one came close enough and used lick on me, forcing me to trip. Once the rest caught up, a flurry of shadow balls came flying at me. I got up and ran away in time to avoid the direct hit by the attack, but I couldn't escape the shock wave.

'Damn it! I'll run out of hp at this rate' I thought. "No choice but to fight. Monferno lets..."

At that moment I noticed something strange. My hp which should have been depleted a little from the earlier attacks, hadn't even gone down by one point. It was as if the attack didn't do anything, as if it was an illusion.

'That's it!' I finally realized. Sending out Monferno, it got ready to battle.

"Monferno, use mach punch on me" I commanded. Monferno stood in confusion at first, but when I nodded to erase its doubts, it obeyed.

At the very moment of impact from the mach punch, the setting I was in completely changed. I was back at the entrance of the mansion just like it said on my map. Looking around I saw Misaki and Cheryl collapsed on the floor; a shadowy aura surrounding them.

"Guys! Wake up!" I yelled as I ran over. But a stream of lightning stopped me in my tracks.

The origin of the thunderbolt was a pokemon. It looked like a small red top surrounded by an aura of electricity. It's cursor showed the name Rotom.

"I guess you're the pokemon the old woman talked about." I asked it. As an answer it snickered like a villain in a cartoon. It then releases a flurry of thunderbolts towards me. After dodging them, I sent out Monferno.

"Flame wheel" I called out. Monferno became surrounded in an aura of fire and spun itself straight towards Rotom. The blow lowered Rotom's hp by about a third. However, while Monferno was stuck in mid air from the attack, Rotom used thundershock, lowering Monferno's hp to about 60%. After a furious clash of moves, Rotom was left with about 10% of hp while Monferno still had 40%. I wasn't gonna let this chance slip by. I threw a pokeball at it, and with 3 rattles, it clicked.

"Alright!" I exclaimed. "Did you guys see that?" I said to Misaki and Cheryl. "Oh yeah. Forgot you were still asleep."

I sent out Rotom and asked if it could wake them up. Obeying me it used thundershock on them and they awoke with a jolt, literally.

Ok. Not what I had in mind, but it worked.

"Wha-what happened?" exclaimed Misaki as if she had just woken up from a dream (well technically she did).

"This Rotom here put us all in a trance. But I caught it so it should be alright I think"

"YOU THINK! YOU BETTER BE DAMN SURE IT WON'T DO THAT AGAIN! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THAT NIGHTMARE!" screamed Misaki.

Note to self: Never pull a prank on Misaki if I want to stay alive.

"No problem. It'll all be fine now. Let's get going." I told her.

All three us us exited the mansion, and went over to the old woman NPC.

"Oh thank you trainers." she cried. "Now I can enter my house again."

"No problem ma'am" Cheryl said.

After receiving our reward, which composed of money, some healing items, and some dusk balls, we went on our way through the rest of the woods.

"Thank you both so much!" Cheryl told us as we approached the exit. "Thanks to you, I was able to exit the forest, and we got to have a cool adventure in that quest."

After we registered with her as friends, we went our two separate ways once we got to Eterna City. By then, nighttime was already well under way.

"That took longer than expected." I said to Misaki.

"Only cause you had to do that stupid haunted house quest." she responded.

"I don't remember hearing you complain when we accepted it." I countered.

After some petty arguing that we would both forget about by morning, we went to the hotel, rented a two bed room and drifted off into sleep.

A/N: Well that's chapter 5 people. I hope everyone likes it.