The Cursed Ruins [Maya][Maleko]

Well this is just wonderful.... Maya thought, seeing it happen before her eyes was much more surreal and shocking. Dororo gave a shrug of his shoulder's clearly baffled as well.

"Wh-what should we do?" Maya questioned nervously, glancing at the dilapidated ruins just beyond this ruined house. She came here to discover the origin of this feeling... but didn't expect to be trapped in the process. She reached her senses out to feel at the barrier with mental fingers, testing the strange barrier. It was perplexing and frankly didn't make much sense. And strong. However, she probably had the proper tools in her bag to break this barrier... all she had to do was... Maya blinked. Coming from within the ruins... that faint wisp...

"Is that... smoke?"

Maya smiled briefly at the Snivy, Shard, and Maleko. "Do you suppose that means... there are people here?" Maya questioned, nervously. Part of her wanted to go and find out. The other part just wanted to plop down in the grass and not move until something else happened by some miracle. If there were people here maybe the would come find them. And if it turned out to be a fire type Pokemon for some reason... well then they were doomed if it started a grassfire.

She just stood there uncertainly. Dororo sighed, slumped slightly, before springing up into the sky, blades of grass flying up in his wake. He would go investigate if she wasn't.

"Er...." Was all Maya could offer as an answer as she watched Dororo arc and land a distance away near the ruins. Another leap and he was near where the smoke seemed to come from. Dororo had a habit of choosing things for Maya. She was often indecisive and unsure, constantly second guessing herself. Often the Pokemon just huffed, sighed, and made a decision for her.

Finally, she shrugged. "I think I might have a way to break this thing... Maybe." Although it felt like she was missing something. "But Dororo often has a habit of making choices for me..." She hesitated, wondering if he would jump back. When he didn't she sighed and trudged her way towards the ruins. [/font]

She began passing by ruined wooden houses, collapsing and crumbling foundations getting closer and closer together. There was suddenly a cobble stone road with pieces and chunks missing. One part of the road was heavily fractured, the road cracking in a way that the two pieces met in a pyramid. This was clearly once a city of some sort... but what happened? And what was it doing here?
Maya stopped.
"Sorry, Maleko," she said turning to look when Dororo appeared again at her side. He nodded his head in a certain direction indicating there was something he wanted her to see. She thought that she maybe saw something moving between two ruined houses.

"N-no I don't think so either..." She said fidgeting, looking around as suddenly a figure appeared from between and Maya jumped as a Misdreavus appeared. She fumbled for her bag, reaching for the cleanse tags just in case. How did she not sense it? In fact her senses were going haywire it appeared. She couldn't place it but even with the tags dampening her spiritual senses there was a peculiar buzz, like the static on a radio, that seemed to override everything else. It was something strange and frankly annoying sense she somewhat depended on those senses.

But rather than the eager and mischievous Pokemon it usually was it drifted aimlessly, like a half inflated balloon being pushed around by a wind. It drifted right past Maya and Maleko. It didn't get very far before it drifted to the ground and slumped into the dark dirt.

"O-oh..." Maya said, confused and slightly horrified.

"Who might you be?" A voice said, and she turned to see a an old weather beaten man in front of them.

"Well I'm afraid you won't be passing through here," the old man wheezed, hobbling over to the two.

"What do you mean?" Maya questioned. There were heavy bags under the mans eyes and he slumped like there were sacks of sand on his shoulders. He was old but he also looked like he hadn't slept in a week.

"What I mean young lady is that you and your friend can't leave. Once you're in the cursed village you are here for good."

"You intend to keep us here?" Maya questioned, incredulous. Dororo looked wary, glancing around.

The man looked surprised. "Oh no of course not. We are all trapped here. By that." He pointed behind him. Maya followed his finger and stared in shock. A giant, grand temple, very different from the one she was used to, stood at the top of a hill that seemed to be in the center of the ruins. It was shrouded in a peculiar purplish haze that made Maya shudder. In fact the whole place appeared to be shrouded in peculiar darkness.

"We are all trapped her because of the cursed temple." The man explained.

Maya froze mouth open in an 'o' taking all of this in. Cursed Temple? Trapped? Maya had never heard of such a thing or knew what to do. But if that barrier has anything to do with this whole scenario then perhaps..

"I don't know," she replied baffled. "But..." A curiosity plucked at her mind. Sir... you mentioned that there are others? What others? What is wrong with the Pokemon here?" She gestured to the fallen ghost Pokemon. "Explain what is going on."

"My child it is extremely difficult to explain what is wrong here. There are others trapped here after wandering in... like you two. And then like me whose ancestors have been born and died countless times over within this cursed barrier. Everyone here is ill, ghost Pokemon as well, a ceaseless fatigue and insomnia is what we suffer. No sleep. Crops are nothing but weeds." He sighs. "I'm sorry that ones as young as you have stumbled your way in here."

Maya looked at Maleko completely flabbergasted. "I've never heard of such a thing before. I-I don't know what to do..."