Blue On Black

"Right this way!" the drowzee spoke with calm enthusiasm, gesturing for the zorua to follow him. He made his way through the rough shack to the rooms where they performed the different services The DreamCatchers had offered. This was the second customer this month! Perhaps the glaceon who had succeeded had spread word of his efforts and success to others?

"Just have a seat and we can begin. I'm going to have to hypnotize you, so don't be alarmed if you suddenly fall asleep. Some rather odd things may happen once you're asleep and dreaming, but just don't move and keep calm. I've done this plenty of times. Any questions or concerns?" he asked, after gesturing to a light purple cushion. Morpheus made sure to keep the cushions comfortable, so that the nervous clients would not get uncomfortable and become too frightened to continue with the service

As Ramira followed the Drowzee and proceeded to lie down, she thought over his question about questions or concerns. Did she have any questions or concerns? The Zorua pondered this even further. Well, there was one concern she had, and she hadn't been planning on asking it later, so might as well ask now. "Do you know if I'll get hurt in the real world when hurt in the dream world?" Ramira asked Morpheus. If this wasn't true, and the answer was here she'd be ok, then that would be better than getting hurt in both worlds. The Zorua waited for an answer patiently, but she took off her cloak because it was warmer in here, so it wasn't needed.

"No, wounds do not transfer, but it will still feel like you're being hurt, But if you die then you turn into a vegetable where you will be unable to move, feel, or think where you still slowly starve or dehydrate and be an empty shell of nothing" Morpheus spoke, not mentioning what might happen if they were to die in the dream tower. In truth, he did not know what would happen. Would they be forced to wake up, or would something worse happen? He did not know.
He took a seat in front of the Zorua, "Ok Ramira, comfortable? Let me know when you're ready to begin, and remember, when we enter the tower it will be as if you just barely hatched, all you will have is your birth-moves and you'll be significantly weaker than you are now, so don't be surprised."

"Ok.... I think I'm ready." The Zorua said with confidence. What Morpheus had said relieved her. Yes, there would be pain, but she wouldn't be hurt in the waking world. That was good. Hearing that she would have only her birth moves, the dark type realized all she would have would be her Dark Pulse, Scratch, Leer... was Pursuit another birth move? She didn't know. Wait..... the Zorua remembered. Pursuit was learned at level 5, so she wouldn't have that one. Ramira would only be one move short. That was ok with the Zorua as long as she had SOME of her moves with her. She settled more comfortably on the cushion and waited for Morpheus to start.

The drowzee nodded, and began the process, using Hypnosis and sending the zorua into a deep slumber. The zorua began to sleep, finding herself suddenly in darkness, however the darkness seemed to melt into different colors, as a large column of mist surrounding and spiraling around a tower, obscuring its true form to the naked eye.

Morpheus appeared beside the zorua, looking around and seeing sheer whiteness around them, nothing but whiteness save for the tower. He had to admit, this was rather dull but mysterious compared to the other towers he had seen. He spoke nothing of it though, and merely spoke, "Ready to get going?"

((Sorry, I couldn't think of an epic tower for her ;n; I don't know her character that well. Also pick your three numbers))

((It's ok. You haven't RPed with her enough, so I understand. Let's see..... 6, 18, 24.))

"Yeah, I'm ready. This place seems dull, but mysterious.... Why do you think that is?" Ramira asked him. She was a bit curious as to why the whole place was so misty, and if this was just her mind's sort of emptiness. Was her mind really this empty? The Zorua doubted that, as she was always constantly thinking about a lot of things at once. She thought she saw a white and navy blue shape speed out of her sight as quick as it had come out of the corner of her eye. 'What the heck?' Ramira thought in confusion. What the heck had that been? A dream Deimos or something? Nah. The Zorua looked again and knew then that it had been a hallucination, nothing more.

"Ok. I think we can get moving into the tower now." Ramira said. She was confident that she could do this. The Zorua thought she could anyway, as long as she wasn't kicked out of the tower. The dark type took confident strides as they walked, but she was also feeling a bit nervous. What would happen? Would a guardian hurt her badly? Well, no... Morpheus would eat the dream before that happened. That thought was kicked away immediately. Nothing would be upon her if it was fatal, as long as she stuck with the Drowzee the whole entire time. 'Just stick with Morpheus... stick with Morpheus....' Ramira repeated over and over in her head.

"Please allow me to be ahead, that way if something decides to attack then I'll be the one to get hit rather than risking you," he spoke, running ahead of the zorua. He entered the tower, looked around and spotting a spiral staircase of dark smoke. He blinked, approaching the stair case and cautiously placing a foot atop of it. The mist made a hissing sound as it spread away from his feet, as if it did not desire to be touched by the psychic type filth that had dared to take a step onto it. He went up a few steps, before motioning for the Zorua to come along.

Ramira nodded when the Drowzee stated that he should stay ahead. 'Makes sense,' The Zorua thought, following him up the steps with confidence and courage. This seemed safe so far, there wasn't anything attacking them at the moment, so it was smooth sailing. The dark type stepped up step after step, calmly following Morpheus like this wasn't going to have any danger whatsoever. As Ramira stepped on each step, the mist hissed like it did when the Drowzee did, so it wasn't just silent climbing. The ascent was full of "ssssss....." "hissssss....." and "sssssshhhhhhsssss" the whole time. It seemed there would be no end to the hissing mist.

The mist suddenly stopped hissing at one point, causing Morpheus to come to a stop. Something was off. Before much could be done, the mist suddenly burst from the stairs, causing Morpheus and the Zorua to fall a few feet before the mist recollected itself underneath them as a floor. This time the mist clung to their legs, making it difficult to walk and move. A clump of the dark mist gathered itself in a area opposite of them, revealing a houndour cloaked in a dark mist to be glaring at them, wide eyed and apparently seething with rage as dark electricity sparked from its entire body.

"E.....Ember?" Ramira said aloud, clearly surprised. He wasn't wearing his labcoat.... but why was he so angry? Did someone TAKE his coat? These thoughts buzzed around her head like a swarm of Beedrill. Wait..... this wasn't the real Ember. As she looked again, it looked like... Zera at the same time?! The thing was, the dark type realized it was a formation of the mist, and not the real Zera or Ember. The Zorua backed up a little, now clearly nervous. It was hard enough just to do this simple step back. 'Why does it have to be like I'm walking in swamp-water?!' Ramira thought angrily.

Morpheus noted that the client seemed to react to the houndour, he spoke as swiftly as he could, "It's not this 'Ember' you know of, it's just a Tower Guardian making itself appear like some houndour you know," the drowzee's eyes began to glow as he began to use hypnosis in attempt to stop the houndour from doing anything, but the hound leaped out of the way, moving with ease, if not faster, through the mist. Spark jumped from its dark misty coat as it seemed to move around them and encircle them like some foggy shadow. It opened its jaws and a burst of red flames erupted from the mouth and shot towards Ramira.

Ramira's eyes widened, but she wasn't shocked for long. Trying her best, she dodged out of the way as fast as she could (or at least she hoped she dodged it, anyway.). The Zorua did feel some heat against her face though, and that scared her. "Morpheus.... can he really hurt me badly?" The dark type asked nervously as she anticipated what the Houndour would do next. What was its moveset? Would it be able to kill her? Why was she so frightened all of a sudden? She was fine! Ramira's thoughts were suddenly uncontrollable. WHAT WAS HAPPENING?!

"Yes, he can weren't we over this?" Morpheus asked, before trying to use Pound on the houndour, only to find himself hitting a barrier as the houndour used Protect, or at least what he thought was Protect. The hound had actually used Counter, which caused the drowzee to cry out in pain and fall backwards. The houndour got to moving again, this time a ghostly ray spiraling around him, that suddenly shot towards the zorua and attempted to flash brightly in her face, using Confuse Ray. Morpheus struggled back up, and attempted to use hypnosis, but failed as the houndour needed to be looking at him in order for it to take effect.