Phantom Nightmare

Chapter 11: Scare Game of the Night

It had been a day since they left Jubilife City making their way through a forest to Oreburgh City to get their second badge. As they walked under the protective branches of the forest, Danny couldn't drop the worried feeling he had since they last talked to Sunda. "Hey Danny, what's wrong?" Darkrai asked feeling the worry coming from the Halfa's side of the link.

"Nothing," Danny told him trying to hide how he was feeling and forgetting about the link he had with the Dark-Type.

"Are you sure? Because it seems as if you are trying to slip away from the question," Darkrai asked a bit amused at how the Ghost Boy was trying to hide how he was feeling.

"Really, nothing is bugging me," Danny insisted trying to get out of the question being use to hiding how he was feeling most of the time to not worry anyone.

"You do realize that it's no use hiding it from me right?" Darkrai asked him knowingly.

"I'm telling you the truth, nothing bugging me," the Halfa tells him really wanting to drop the subject.

"Don't even try that with me," Darkrai tells him with a small glare, "Even though I'm doing my best not to invade your mind, I will do so just to find out what's bugging you."

Danny just blinked a few times trying to figure out what the Dark-Type meant, then it hit him, causing him to sigh in defeat knowing that he was not going to get out of this, "Fine, you win this time. I'm just worried that the scientists that synced our minds together may be trying to find us to bring us back to continue their experiments."

"You're worried about that?" Darkrai asked a bit in disbelief, "I'm sure that they have given up on us by now."

"I'm not so sure about that," the Halfa told him sternly, "With past experience with a group back home called the Guys in White, they are not going to give up so easily. I have a feeling that they will not stop looking for us until they get what they want or until something or someone stops them."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because when the Guys in White first started going after my ghost half thinking I was bad, they didn't stop trying to catch me even when I proved to be a hero in many people's eyes. They still continued trying to catch me even after I saved the world from being destroyed, but it's becoming lesser and lesser each mouth."

"Um...Now that I think about, I guess you're right," Darkrai agreed after thinking about it for a few seconds, "I don't know what I was thinking. Of course they will be wanting us after Looker deleted all their info on how to do it."

"Hey, at least it was hopeful thinking," Danny pointed out knowing exactly how the Nightmare Pokemon was feeling.

"Hey, isn't that a Darkrai?" a voice asked.

"Yeah, I think it is," another voice confirmed.

"What is he doing traveling with a human boy?"

"Wait, didn't you hear the rumors?"

"What rumors?"

"They have been going on for about a week now. Where have you been all this time?"

"Sleeping..."

"Really?"

"Yup..."

"Ok...Well, there are tons of rumors going around about a Darkrai traveling with a human boy."

"Really?"

"Yeah. There is one that says that a Darkrai was captured by a group of humans called scientists for some kind of experiment and the human boy rescued him. So now the Darkrai is traveling with the human boy to repay him for his help."