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"You can...die for me!" The woman shrieked as she lashed out at Rein with a purple ribbon of an 'arm', her face revealed to be purple as well with yellow and red eyes. The 'woman' was a Mismagius in disguise! The Ghost Pokemon would grab a hold of Rein's arm holding the Litwick and send through her to him a terrible Hex, haunting Rein's mind with terrible images for as long as she held on to him. With a shriek she would send a Psybeam flying at Allen from her center neck gem.

Odd and Kaya finally headed off after the others, running a bit behind due to the efforts of making sure the little girl they had saved was successfully returned home. Unfortunately for the two of them, they became separated from one another at some point, despite practically walking on one another's heels along the way to the Lost Hotel.

Walking the hallways of the decrepit building, Kaya shivered slightly. This place was unnaturally cold all of a sudden. He could practically see his breath as he panted in the frigid air. "What the heck, man? It's only October." He grumbled, pulling a soft suede coat from his backpack and pulling it on. "Since when does it get this cold this early in the year?"

As he walked, he began to see bits of frost on the ground in places, leaving melted foot prints in it as it got thicker. The hallway stretching on and on ahead of him finally appeared to be coming to an end in an ice-covered door. Had there been doors along the sides of this endless corridor? No. He was sure there hadn't been. So what could possibly be behind this one?

"Miiiiisssssss."

As he approached the door, Kaya shivered even harder. Did it just get even colder?! "R-R-Raye! M-m-melt the ic-c-ce." It was so cold now that his teeth were chattering. For a moment, he began to fear that he was going to freeze to death down here before he could get back out of this hallway and leave the hotel. Raye never emerged, however.

Looking at the Ball in his hand, he saw a layer of ice had already formed on it. "No." And now the feeling of isolation was setting in. If his Pokeballs were all frozen shut and he couldn't get help from his Pokemon, then he really was doomed!

"Misdreeeeaaaaaa."

"I can't....l-l-let this b-b-be the end." Kaya finally stuttered, flipping the key ring on his wrist around and grabbing one of the keys, holding it close to the door, he used Fairy Lock to try and force it to open. And, strangely, it worked! The door fell open immediately. And just as suddenly, Kaya blinked at the black void beyond it before opening his eyes to find himself looking at the ceiling with a Misdreavus staring down at him, the orbs of her "necklace" shining as she absorbed the negative emotions building within his sleeping mind.

"Bah!" Tossing out a Moon Ball, he released Tomoe the Flabébé. "Tomoe, Fairy Wind!" He cried out, jumping up to his feet as quickly as he could manage. The Fairy-type responded by grabbing her flower and holding it in front of her like a loaded gun before a massive horizontal whirlwind burst from between it's petals, blowing Misdreavus into the wall nearby. The Ghost, still drunk off Kaya's emotions a moment before, was caught off guard and knocked out by the critical hit.

Odd didn't seem to be having as many problems, himself, successfully managing to evade the local Ghost population by maintaining Guardian Halo as he walked through the hotel, repelling the spirits immediately around him for the most part. The ones that weren't repelled simply decided it wasn't worth it to fight him directly, resorting to trying misdirection instead. Despite all of what was going on around him, Odd never even noticed the lantern hanging from his belt. How long had he been carrying that?

Back with Kaya, the Hybrid looked around at his surroundings at last, wondering how he'd wound up here. "It must have hit me with Hypnosis the moment I stepped foot inside the building....." He surmised, noticing that he was standing near a door to his right. It read "06-" The final number was too faded to even read. "Huh.....What's the harm?" He asked as he proceeded to open the door, Tomoe alighting on his shoulder as he did.

The Mismagius would dodge the Will-o-Wisp but unfortunately put her right in line with the incoming Koffing which slammed into it, sending the ghost flying and passing through one of her own illusory walls. Angry that he facade has been revealed so soon the ghost witch would fly towards Allen as she fired off a wave of Hypnosis at him.

For Allen the room would begin to warp, the walls becoming fluid-like. Eventually the room completely 'washed' away to reveal what looked like a circus tent and Allen was at its center. Suddenly, without warning a group of Mime Jr. would appear from seemingly nowhere and surround him, giggling happily as they tried to pick him up. Eventually the tiny little clowns would succeed in picking him up and begin to carry him towards an opening in the tent, except it wasn't a tent opening, it was the open mouth of a giant Mr. Mime!

Back in the real world Mismagius' walls disappeared as she focused her illusions on Allen, the trainer under her spell. Despite Allen being taken out Rein would find that he wasn't alone as a fellow Snagem just took the corner and was now just a few feet away from them. It was Odd, he had caught up to Allen and rein.

As for Kaya, he would not be so lucky. The door he opened was certainly not the one he needed, in fact when he opened the door a fierce unseen force would attempt to pull himself towards the center of the room. He might not see it just yet but this force was a Spiritomb, one that had embedded its self into the floor of the room as it executed a reverse Omnious Wind as it attempted to bring Kaya within its clutches.

Odd perked up at the sound of people nearby, moving faster in an attempt to catch up. When he rounded the corner and saw what was happening, he immediately dropped his defenses and went on the attack, releasing his Lampent from her Ball. "Adagio, Will-o-Wisp!" He ordered, the lantern Pokemon tossing a small indigo flame, not at the Mismagius but at Odd himself. Catching the flame and keeping it burning with his own spiritual energy, he funneled his spirit into it for a second or two. The fire turned from indigo to a wicked green in that time, at which point the channeler threw the flame towards Mismagius. The Wicked Wick might not hurt it in the end but he'd find out. And it should be enough distraction to get the other two to safety.

While Odd was doing so, Adagio was busy being distracted and jealous simultaneously. ~You got another Lampent?!~ She demanded to know from him, spotting the lantern dangling from his waist. The channeler, being busy at the moment, didn't process her question right away. Maybe someone else should point it out after this was dealt with?

Kaya, in the room he had opened, found himself being dragged into the center of the room slowly, the chill winds around him dragging him closer by the second. "Jeez! I'm made of metal! How can this wind be so strong?!" He demanded of the seemingly empty room, struggling against the air current. "Tomoe, come back. Endymion! Hold on tight!" He called as he released the tiny dragon slug from his ball, holding tightly to the slimy Dragon-type as an anchor. Endymion's response was to use Bubble, opening his mouth and spraying bubbles into the air to be swept towards the source of the air current. They should do a bit of damage when they pop, at least.

As Arkelos opened the door reality would shift for him and Jezebel as instead of being faced with an open door directly in front of them, they were presented with a gaping hole in the ground which they immediately fell through and entered an empty room with an unseen force using a reversed Omnious Wind to pull them, and now that they were paying attention, another Snagem in the room, Kaya.

The Bubble would get pulled into the center and pop against some sort of invisible object, which was soon revealed as a very annoyed Spiritomb appeared at the center of the room, its Omnious Wind vacuum disrupted. "Tooomb!" The Spiritomb would open its gaping maw wide as a ghostly 'insects' flew out and threatened to swarm around Arkelos, Jezebel and Kaya. It was an Infestation, the 'bugs' threatening to drain their life force.

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"Magius!" Cried the witch ghost as she was hit with the strange flame. The ghost was angry about being attack but was more angry that Allen was freed from her grip. Seeing that she is becoming out matched the ghost decided to go all out as she began to conjure a ring of fire around her, the ring growing every larger until she threw her 'arms' out and sent the ring of flames surging through the room, attempting to catch all the Snagems in her Mystical Fire.

"Not a good idea!" Odd exclaimed as he released his Duskull. A Pokemon he had barely used since capturing it quite some time ago. Recalling his Lampent at the same time, he instructed Affannoso to attack. "Affannoso, use Disable." He directed as he he attempted to sneak over to Mismagius. He was going to try and get close enough to catch it without it even knowing what happened, working a Dusk Ball out of his pocket as he snuck over.

In the room with the Spiritomb, Kaya grumbled something about gnats being annoying little pests before looking to Endymion. "Can you use our own Infestation? Counter bugs with bugs." He said as he tried to focus on conjuring the small speck of light that would become a Dazzling Gleam to attack the Dark dual-type. In the meantime, Endymion would open his mouth wide and a swarm of draconian "bugs" would fly out of the slug-like Pokemon, the critters sparking with Dragon energy as they fought against the Ghost-type Spiritomb's stygian bugs, countering them fairly effectively for now. Arkelos and Jezebel could probably use this chance to deal a strong blow to their attacker, though.

Allen looked concerned at the Mystical Fire and even more at the barrage of attacks his teammates were using, one attack trying to block the fire and other trying to keep it from happening at all. "So Imma just sit this one bout out, y'all look like you've got this covered." He said, arm rested on the Koffing beside him. Uh, he didn't want to accidentally hit someine and it looked like Odd was up to something. No need to get involved here! Go team!

Cera was a bit surprised when she finally came across a door, seeing the number on it. Part of her thought about seeing if there was another number hidden on the door, but the high amount of ghost energy coming from just beyond the door made her apprehensive. Moreso when the only ally near her was a Drifloon. And it was about to go through door with or without her.

"Wait, no, hold on, we don't have to go through just like-" In her haste, she'd wind up trying to open the door as Drifloon simply became intangible and tried to pass through. "...that..."