She really knew how to have fun... Dian and Misdreavus exchanged a glance, both thinking that Professor Juniper really knew how to play. No wonder her daughter still wasn't married. Who would dare take on an in-law like that? They might end up six feet under one day... Incidentally, they had already gone underground.
"Dian... we really can't get back up?"
Ayaka looked utterly broken. She hugged her Meowstic tightly and stared down into the bottomless abyss, still shaken... If someone could survive that fall, she could apply for a Pokémon Guinness World Record tomorrow.
"No good..."
Danshu swung his palm hard at the black passageway surrounding them, but the walls didn't budge. "The material these walls are made of is unusual. I can't break through it at all."
"Professor... the readings show solid material overhead. Something has probably blocked it completely... it's all quicksand."
Dian adjusted his glasses and turned his hands over helplessly. They couldn't go up, and they couldn't blast through any of the walls. It looked like their only option was to walk down... no, float down.
"Mis."
Misdreavus tugged at his hair, extending a shadow to point meaningfully at the dark abyss below.
Hmm?
Only after that reminder did Dian take a closer look at the scene beneath them.
Wisps of dark red mist drifted through an abyss of seemingly endless darkness, dotted with red points of light...
He adjusted the magnification on his glasses. Only after zooming in more than tenfold did he realize.
"Everyone... what looks like an abyss below us... is a mural."
That was right.
Dian checked again. It was indeed a mural, and one with an eerie quality to it.
Dark red mist swirled within a black gateway, while scarlet points of light peered out at every living thing outside.