"Wow..." Taro said as everyone left "They all sure are quick to take off, arn't they?"
"Yup yup!" Wigglytuff replied cheerfully "I wonder what thats all about! But they will be back! Cuz they are our friends!~ Friendly friends!~"
"Whatever you guys are having for dinner..." Taro said, lifting his nose in the air and sniffing it "Sure smells good..."
"I suppose your taking the Guildmaster's offer and staying for the meal then?" Chatot asked, before Wigglytuff answered.
"Silly Chatot!" Wigglytuff replied "Taro wants to join the guild! Isn't that right friend?~"
Taro nodded, not bothering to ask how the Guildmaster knew, and taking some more bites out of his apple. He saw the pokemon that had left the area now coming back, but with one more, who seemed to be injured.
"What the..." Taro said, and began to run up to the pokemon arriving, Wigglytuff and Chatot following close behind.
"Aw..." Wigglytuff went, seeing that Marc was hurt, and helping him to the Medical wing of the guild "Don't worry friend!~ We'll get ya fixed up in no time!~"
Taro smiled at Wigglytuff's upbeat happiness. Many people would think him to be a complete goof, but then thats how many people thought of Taro, so they had that in common.
"Oh no... Its struck again..." Taro heard Chatot say, and turned to see the Mudkip from earlier, asleep, but shivering, with tears rolling down her eyes. "The nightmare!"
"Nightmare?" Taro questioned Chatot as he followed him down to the Medical wing as the Mudkip was carried there.
"Yes." Chatot replied "Its a type of... 'disease' if you will, that sends pokemon effected into an endless nightmare... None have awakened from it yet."
"None?" Taro asked, wide-eyed.
"Yes." Chatot replied, helping the Mudkip onto a bed, and stroking her with one of his wings. "I can only imagine what she is going through at the moment..."
Taro looked over her as she slept, obviously in much trouble from the dream she was going through. He wanted to do something. He couldn't just sit there. There had to be something he could do.
Sleep. A musical female voice rang out in his head.
What? He responded.
Sleep. Use Rest. In the physical world there is nothing you can do for her, but in the world of dreams...
Taro felt drowsy as he attempted to use Rest. His first time using a move, and It was working.
"Chatot..." He said, drifting off "Tell the Guildmaster that I appreciated the apple... But ill skip dinner tonight... I feel like taking a nap..."
Before Chatot could respond, Taro's eyes had closed, and he fell backwards onto the empty bed behind him, fast asleep.
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He was dreaming. It was a pure white room, nothing else in it. The floor was indistinguishable from the walls and celing. Everything seemed to stretch on forever.
"So you listened to me..." A voice said from behind him. Turing, Taro found himself facing a floating pink pokemon, Cressalia. "Im glad to see that."
"Whats going on here?" He asked, looking around at the empty space.
"You are dreaming." She said "The area is white, because you have yet to create your dream world. But that is beside the point now. You wish to help that Mudkip girl, right? You have a special power. You may enter the dreams of others. Through this, you may help her."
"Really?" Taro asked "How?"
"Go the door." She said "It is the bridge between your dreamworld and hers."
"What door?" He asked, confused. The pokemon was not being very specific on how he was to do this.
"The one behind you, of corse."
"Behind..?" He had said, and turned to see a doorway, like that you would see inside of a house, standing in the middle of the room, with no wall or anything behind it. "Oh... So I go through this thing, right...?" He asked, but looked behind him to see Crissalia was not there anymore. She seemed to have vanished into thin air while he wasn't looking, but seeing as this was a dream, that wasn't so surprising. He shrugged to himself. It wasn't worth thinking over where she had gone now, as he had somebody who needed helping. He grabbed the doorknob and opened the doorway, stepping into a room of total darkness, high in contrast to the one he had just been in, with the Mudkip he was looking for at the center, looking even worse then she did in the physical world.
"Hey!" He called to her, running through the doorway, which creaked shut and dissapeared as he left it. "Mudkip! (he didn't know her actual name) are you all right?"
