Shupple
I walked alongside Gray as I heard more screaming, which made my walking turn into something just a little faster. I came to the main room, as if I had been turned just around. Wait a second... I thought I just came this way...
I saw Hon being sucked into darkness by a huge hand that looked like it was part of a Dusknoir's hand but I wasn't entirely sure. This whole thing could be caused by a Dusknoir... Who knows...
Looking at where Hon was now being taken away at, I saw something on the hand. It looked like... a hat. It looked like a... painter's hat. Wait a second, where was Mear?
Apparently, Gray had seen it too when I whipped my head towards him. He just nodded.
"Yeah, go ahead. I got your body," Gray murmured as I concentrated on my spirit and soul and took myself out of my body, I appearing now as a ghost and my body being empty.
I looked at Gray, since he could see me since he was a Ghost Pokemon, and nodded. He nodded back and laid me on the floor carefully, guarding it. I turned around and disappeared into the shadows.
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*In the Shadows*
I searched all around the house in the shadows that images gave off. There were a few distractions, I having to avoid a grasping ghost hand coming at me, and I saw what was happening to everybody else. Lux looked like he was dying, and everybody looked like they were hurt badly. I sighed, nobody being able to hear it. Things were getting worse...
Going up to Mear's room, I came upon a little girl sitting on his bed. A little girl? Just get away, Shupple...
"Where's Mear?" I demanded and the little girl just giggled.
"Where's this person, where's that person, everybody wants to know. I'm just having some fun," she giggled as I noticed two bloody knifes in her hand. One looked drenched in blood and the other not so much.
"What do you mean by fun?" I questioned. Most ghosts answered me when I asked but she just shook her head, I now finally noticing her whole soul was drenched in blood.
"You were murdered, weren't you?" I asked softly and she didn't answer. She just stood up and looked at me funny in a disgusting way.
"You're going to go to Hell you know. All of you," the little girl laughed as she quickly got behind me and stabbed me in the shoulder with one of her knives. I can't believe I didn't dodge that...
I coughed up blood, I know my body doing the same with Gray.
"Aw, what's the matter? Don't like dying?" the little girl laughed as she stabbed me again in the back, which made me spit up more blood into Mear's room onto his floor.
I regained breath as she left, probably going off somewhere to torture somebody else. My back hurt from the stab wound, I using my right hand to hold my left shoulder, the one that had been stabbed.
I floated over to Mear's bed and looked around. Normally, something that related to the person would be holding the body hostage. I looked at his canvases, paintings, and his sketchbook. Then it struck me. His sketchbook.
Gliding over to it, I forced myself into the sketchbook, and passed through all of the pages, finally coming to the last one, which was covered in all black paint. I figured this must be where they were hiding Mear. I took a deep sigh and went into the painting, since any ghost Pokemon could do such a thing with any inanimate objects.
I now was in a room of darkness, the entrance to the room just sitting in mid-air behind me. I saw Mear, in flesh and blood and body, floating in the middle of the room, looking like he was unconscious. I floated over to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He stirred barely but I saw his eyes rest on me.
"S... Shup-ple..." He whispered hoarsely, and I put a finger to my mouth, motioning him to be quiet. He did, and looked like he was about to fall asleep again, drifting back into unconscious.
"Oh, no you don't," I heard a voice giggle. It was the girl again, except she looked more dangerous. She was in a bloody, ripped up shirt like she had just been enjoying the person she was killing. This only made me a little bit cautious.
"You don't get to take him. He's being dragged into hell," she giggled as she threw a knife at me, I barely being able to dodge it.
I took a deep breath with anger filled deep inside it, a sudden fire coming into my hand. I looked down and saw that it was Will O' Wisp, but it was shadow instead of fire. I smiled. I had been told about this move before. It was to only be used once in a dangerous situation. I smiled even wider. I whipped the whip at the little girl and she screamed bloody murder. All she did was disappear into the darkness. I knew she wasn't done torturing people tonight. She would be back sooner or later.
I turned to Mear, who had been watching the fight scene, but now he drifting back into unconsciousness. I picked him up, my right arm holding him under his knees and my left arm, which burned from how heavy Mear was, under his back. I floated out of the dark, spacious room, and got Mear out. It seemed like he had been unconscious the whole time he was in there from how he looked. He didn't even seem to know what had happened from my senses.
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*Out of the Shadows*
I floated out of his notebook, and came to full size, Mear also coming into full size, he then weighing more than I expected. I turned him invisible, and I floated back down into the second floor and into the main room, where Gray was keeping an eye on me.
I put Mear onto the couch, and then floated back into my own body. Once I entered my body, I sat up almost immediately, coughing up blood painfully. I looked over at Mear and saw he was slowly regaining consciousness. I smiled and scooted over to him.
"What... h-happened? I... I remembering b-being dragged into some sort of darkness... And you fighting..." Mear told me softly and I smiled.
"Yeah..." I muttered as Mear slowly looked at me, looking me over. I felt myself blush a bit as he did.
"What... Did you... evolve?" I nodded and he continued. "What... was that move you did?" I sighed. It was hard to remember the name for that move.
"Shadow Flame," I told him softly.
"Shadow Flame, huh? I.. guess I'll have to mimic that sometime later," Mear chuckled and so did I.
I winced after laughing, the pain in my back affecting me.
"Shupple? ... Are you okay?" Mear suddenly asked, and I nodded in a painful way.
"Yeah... I'm okay..." The only thing I needed to worry about was Mear and the people around me, who seemed to bring Lux to the main room by Estelle. I wondered what happened between them for a sudden moment, but then put it into the back of my mind.
This was going to be a long night...
