Dim lights (book 2 of Lightning and Dusk's adventures)

Chapter 5: Stuck in a nightmare

Dusk opened his eyes and all he saw was darkness. "W-where am i...?" He thought out-loud. "I can't see anything, where are you, Dusk?!" Lightning asked. "Lightning? Where are you?" Dusk asked looking around albeit frantically. "Dusk!" Lightning yelled,walking around as she followed his voice. Dusk heard Lightning's voice as he approached the source, "Lightning is that you?" He asked.

"Yes" she retorted as she walked towards his voice. They eventually run into each other as Dusk happily jump into her arms. "Oh thank Arceus you're ok Lightning" he said.Dusk and Lightning hold each other as they are reunited. Then Lightning pulled back in realization, they didn't know where the others were. "Amethyst, Sparks, Chase, Electra, Phoenix?! Where are you?!" She asked as she charged an electro ball as a light. Silence filled the air, they were no where to be seen. "Where are they?" Lightning asked as she still charged her electro ball as light.

"I don't know" Dusk said, "but let's find them."

"Right, come on let's go" Lightning replied. They walked out of the tree outside in the dark to look for their friends.

Meanwhile, A certain Espeon began to open her eyes groggily. Amethyst opened her eyes groggily as she woke up in a cave. strange, she didn't remember sleeping in a cave, in fact she was sleeping with her friends behind a bush in the forest. Atleast that's what she thought. Amethyst looked around to sense her surroundings. "Uh... where am I...?" She asked. She looks around, her eyes not fully adjusted to the darkness. "Oh what happened...?" She asked herself weakly as she slowly stood up.
"This place feels.....uneasy...."

She looked around for her friends but didn't see them anywhere. "Where are they?" She asked. Amethyst's ear perked as she heard something. She looked up at the sky and saw that it was purplish. She heard a pitchy shriek that sounded like... "Yveltal!?" She came to a realization. She watched as Yveltal fired a barrage of oblivion wings across the landscape, creating a wasteland once more.

"Huh..." she gasped in terror, she hid deeper in the cave in fear of being turned to stone. She curled up into the back of the cave to avoid detection. "where is everyone!?"

Amethyst looks around to hide from Yveltal in fear of being petrified. Yveltal flew past her, unable to see her hiding in the cave from above.  Amethyst sighed in relief, "I'd better find the others before it's too late," she thought. She ran away to find her friends as soon as Yveltal disappeared. What she didn't know was that a certain Fletchling was nearby. Amethyst looked around as best as she could, her mind too clouded with thoughts on where her friends might be. Phoenix spotted her as he flew behind her unbeknownst that one of her friends was right beside her.

Amethyst was still unaware of his presence; strange for a psychic type to be so oblivious. "I hope they are ok..." she thought.

"Amethyst" Phoenix spoke calmly. She knew the voice but it came so quickly that she didn't know he was there the whole time when she jumped in fright and almost screamed but Phoenix used his right wing to cover her mouth.

"Shh... You don't want Yveltal to find us, do you?" He whispered.

Amethyst backed up from him and glared. "You nearly scared me half to death!" she quietly scolded him.

"Well sorry scaredy-cat" he spoke sarcastically.

Amethyst narrowed her eyes at that remark before turning away. "whatever," she responded. "Where are the others?"

"I don't know, all I found was you, but maybe they're looking for Xerneas so maybe we should start heading to where the tree of life is" Phoenix responded.

"hmm...I agree. Let's start our search there." Amethyst replied.

"Perfect" Phoenix chirped with joy.