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Hades0918 · October 31

You shiver as a chilly breeze blows through the trees. You look around in the dark forest, stumbling around blindly. You yelp as you trip over an unseen rock on the ground, groaning with pain as you crash into the cold wet dirt.

You stagger to your feet, finding a tree to support you. Tonight has been awful! First you get lost in the woods chasing a Pikachu. Then night falls and you lose all sense of direction in general. Now your cut up and bruised!

You look up at the black night sky, wondering how long you've been here. You slide your hand into your pocket instinctively and sigh with disappointment when you remember you forgot your phone at home.

Suddenly, you hear giggling behind you. "Hello," you ask, turning around. "I-Is anyone there?"

You're answered by silence. "Must have been the wind," you mutter to yourself. But then, you hear a swish behind you.

You turn around quickly, but again see nothing. You chuckle nervously, walking forward a bit. You try to look for the source of the sound, bit nothing is over there.

"If only I had a light," you complain to yourself, feeling hopeless. As if a blessing sent from the gods, a bright blue-ish purple light glows up ahead. You gasp with excitement.

"Wait," you shout, sprinting after it. Branches smack you in the face. You stumble over rocks. Twigs snap beneath your feet. Bushes block your path. You don't let that stop you, though, determined to get to this being with hope they can help you.

You chase it further and deeper into the forest. You've almost caught up to it, but the light then disappears. You get to the last place it was, gasping for breath as you look around.

"Come out! Please! I need help," you shout to your surroundings desperately. You're on the verge of tears, ready to give up, but then the light comes back behind you.

You turn around and find a Lampent. It's looking at you curiously. You walk to it cautiously. "C-Can you help me? I want out of here," you tell it, and it nods and signals for you to follow it.

After traveling even deeper into the forest, the Lampent stops and looks at you. You look around and only see thick dark trees. "We're not out," you tell it and it giggles in response. "What's so funny," you ask, but before you even finish your sentence, it disappears.

"Hey," you cry out. "Why'd you do that?"

Nothing responds. Instead, a giant blue void opens up beneath the ground you are standing on. You scream as you fall into it, blacking out somewhere along the way.

…

Slowly, you stir awake, groaning as you sit up. When you open your eyes, you're no longer in the woods. You're in the center of a wide open room surrounded by obsidian pillars. The ground below you is made of quartz and there's a throne of gold at the top of a long flight of stairs. Sitting in it is a being with long green hair made of flame, a silver crown upon its head. It has long black robes and a black mask that completely covers its face, only showing its glowing red eyes. It has two majestic feathery wings coming off its back and a golden scepter in its right hand.

"Welcome," its voice booms, "to the Spirit World."