What would you do if all your dreams came true? From your deepest wishes of success and grandeur, to your darkest desires of pleasure and spite?
Kayla, a Buneary adventurer one day discovers that she has this very power - the power to make her dream...
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"How long've we got left air-wise?" Kayla asked.
"About twenty minutes. We should think about escaping once those units are in the red, however," May answered, arms tucked behind her back as she walked. Shannon had taken to transporting Ashe for now, while everyone else had given up on swimming.
Beyond the cave was the foot of the mountain in the centre of the orchard. This section was cleaner and more ancient than the rest of the area, with an arrangement of bright white, perfectly smooth and square pillars jutting out of the mountain in random spots. The path led directly into the side of the mountain for some reason, where a white hallway awaited them, its distance dark and fuzzy. Kayla walked right in without a second of thought, drawn to the red spheres embedded into the strange patterns on the walls. This hallway looked like an ancient ruin, but it was far too clean, smooth and unnatural feeling to be one.
"Think it's some kinda secret exit to the shrine?" Pola guessed.
"That would make sense, but the floor's like a kitchen floor. Er, the sorta refined one you'd find in a city home. If this is meant to be old, it feels really new," Kayla remarked. She glanced at her map, confirming they were in the centre of the orchard. Without the moonlight, darkness soon took over, so she turned to Pola.
"Oh, hold on. I've got this this time," Shannon said. He clenched his muscles and cheeks, and then strained, making his body glow the colour of his fur.
"Probably could've used that earlier, y'know," Pola rolled her eyes.
"I didn't want to alert us to the enemy. But I'd be surprised if Mathildaath doesn't know that we're here by now," he reasoned.
It's a fair thought, Kayla paid attention to the walls, hoping to find something, anything of note. However, the patterns weren't consistent, and implied nothing in the way they were laid out. At least the hallway started to slope upward here. She could even see the surface. "Ah, finally!"
Upon saying that, her heart jolted as she suddenly choked. She instinctively snapped her mouth shut and stalled. She was out of air all of a sudden, and unlike a few moments ago, her instincts were saying she was underwater proper. A gurgling Kari and Pola suddenly scrambled past her, both flailing their arms as though they were struggling, so Kayla took off after them. All three gasped for air once they jumped out of the water.
"Ah, what the heck just happened?" Pola cried. "Did the PET? Just? That wasn't just me, was it?"
"I couldn't breathe!" Kari squeaked. Her ears flicked, and she beamed up. "Oh my gods, Shannon, May!"
The remaining trio came out just before she dove back in after them. Shannon fell on all fours and choked to get his breath back, while May and Ashe seemed unaffected.
"You girls okay? What just happened there?" Kayla asked.
"It seems we left the vicinity of the mystery dungeon. Usually the PET warns us of that, or when we're nearing the edge of the mystery dungeon," May explained. "If this is Mathildaath's work, it means we're being toyed with."
