Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Burning Aura

The Mystical Woods

Inside the woods the trail never seemed to end: made a right here, a left there, and next thing you knew, you were back in the room you started in.

As we walked he asked me stuff like "How did you survive that fall?" "How did you get that high?" "Did a Pokemon carry you that high?" "Were you about to be lunch for a bird Pokemon?"

My answer? "I don't know." Now that I think about it, I don't remember much other than sleeping, follwed by the voice, and my name.

We continued to walk looking for..... what were we looking for exactly? I don't see any exits, so what are We searching for? We're at the other side of the forest, so there should be an exit. I turned around and desperately asked, "How do we leave this place. I don't want to be here much longer." He said "This mystery dungeon has two stairs. We need to find them to leave."

I wanted to ask so many questions like "What is a mystery dungeon?" Now that I think about it, why didn't I ask him before we entered this place. Guess I'll ask later.

As we walked I noticed the Riolu was scared by literally everything. It was hard trying not to laugh when he scared himself by stepping on a stick.

We eventually found the stairs. Wait why are there stone stairs in a forest of all places? Whatever guess that will be another thing to ask.

I was pretty-much dry at this point, I was still soaked but no water was dropping from my.....feathers? Oh, right I almost forgot I'm a Torchic now.

So we walked a little more..... Wait did I know his name? I don't want to say "Hey you." or "Hey, Riolu." So I stopped walking and he asked "S-somthing w-rong-g?" I turned around and said "No, but I don't think I got your name."

"C-chris..."he said. "What's y-your name?"

"Emily."

We continue walking and I see this shining object and I rush over to it. It's a coin with some engraving in it.

I show it to Chris ansd ask "What's this?"

"It's Poke, how do you not reconize it?"

Why did he ask? I reeeaally didn't want to answer, but I sheepishly said "I think I have amnisia."

"Oh, sorry I didn't mean to offend you." He looked at the coin and said "The coin is worth twenty poke."

"How do you know?"

"The mark on it" Chris said

I can't believe I forgot about that in less than two seconds.

I bend down to pick up the Poke coin with my beak and I struggled. Why couldn't I've been something with hands or paw-arm things like Chris has?

Fine, plan-B, I'll use my talons. I still struggled to pick up the thing, this is torture, there is money in front of me and I can't grab it.

Chris grabs the coin for me as I give up. He hands the coin to me and I say "Could you hold onto it for me please?"

He places it in his bag, I then notice this blue; round object. It looked like a stone. Hopefully I won't struggle trying to pick whatever it is up.

I rush over and try to pick it up. Surprisingly, it's sqishey in my talons, so what is it then if it's not a stone?

I guess Chris noticed my confusion because he then rants about the item which is apparently called an "Oran berry" and how they give alot of energy when you eat the berry.

Anyways we walk more and I saw the stairs and was about to enter the room when something shoved me down.

It was a Sunkern and it was cute, minus the shoving me part. I try to get back up but the Sunkern keeps shoving me back down. After not getting up from the Sunkern it mocks me......... worst mistake ever.

I jumped up lash out with my talons, but it shoves me back down. Why am I losing to a stupid seed?

The Sunkern laughed at me and said "What's the matter? Scared of a grass type?" as he bursted into a fit of laughter. I'm starting to wish I knew how to burn this thing into a crisp.

Before I learn how to burn the Sunkern, a golden blur throws the Sunkern on it's back. I jumped up and was about to let the brat have it, but a burning sensation in my stomach.

My whole stomach is burning and I'm worried I spontaneously combusted. The pain made me gasp for air, but instead tiny embers fly from my beak! The embers burn the Sunkern and it screams in agony.

Soon the Sunkern fades, wait did I kill it? Sure I hated it, but it didn't deserve to die.

Chris must have noticed my worried face, because the next thing he said was "You didn't kill it if that's what your worried about. When Pokemon are defeated in mystery dungeons the return to the point where they entered."

Almost on the verge of tears I say "Why did it attack is in the first place?"

"Whenever a Pokemon stays in a mystery dungeon, they slowly go insane after on night. If they don't find a way out the become feral four nights after the first night. From that point, their mental health slowly deteriorates."

Once Chris was done I noticed we had found the stairs and we left.

Third Person P.O.V.
With the sun setting, Emily and Chris rushed to Chris' home as soon as they left the dungeon. They went through the town's main gate, took a right (Emily's perspective) and ran straight until they were at Chris' doorstep and stepped inside.

Once Emily caught her breath let forth her questions and she asked "Can you tell me what a mystery dungeon is?" Enthusiastically Chris replied "A mystery dungeon is an odd place in which the layout of the land changes, and if you are defeated within it you somehow end up just outside where you entered the the dungeon and you lose some items along with some Poke too."

Emily then remembered the entire battle and asked "What was the golden blur that helped us during the fight with that annoying Sunkern?" Chris became proud of himself exclaimed. "That was me using a move called quick attack, it always catches pokemon by surprise!" Chris then reached into his bag and returned Emily the items she found.

As Chris returned the items Emily asked "Do we have anywhere to place these?" Chris then replied "Of course we do but both of them are closed because it's late."

Chris then remembered that Emily had amnisia and asked "Do you have anywhere to sleep? If not, you could stay with me." as he said finished the sentence a warm, affectionate smile grew on his face.

Losing her composure, Emily replied "Uh, I guess not... Um, sure I'll stay with you." Chris was only excited and proudly said "Okay let's sleep then, we got a big day ahead of us."

Later that night Emily awake, she couldn't sleep as she thought about what happened all in one day. As Emily rested she thought "In one day I fall from the sky, bump into a shy; quirky; but nice Riolu with golden fur and who also can talk. I get amnisia and the only past event I recall is a voice telling me I was to become a Torchic and my name, so what was I like before then? What was I before? A pokemon? Was I even a human to begin with? Or did I imagine all of this and I was a Torchic all along? I don't know but hopefully something good will happen tomorrow."