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As they were walking eastwards, Venusaur had along the way fallen somewhat behind. Guarding and living inside the Mysterious Garden, he really wasn't used to such a far journey anymore. While his three friends went ahead, Venusaur had lots of time to look at his surrounding and the present vegetation.

For a while now, he had noticed that the forest was becoming darker. The high trees above them shut the sunlight off, causing the forestpath to become more and more covered in shadows. The plants around were looking darker and less lifely as well. Venusaur knew the area they were now heading to all too well.

"Fellow pokmon!" Venusaur called to the rest of the group. "We should be somewhat careful from here on. We're nearing the Ominous Woods - that part of the Manifold Forest that is completely covered in darkness," Venusaur warned.

"Well, I have considered walking around this part," Venusaur replied, "but it takes time to do so, and time is precious in our current situation."
As they continued to walk, Venusaur added, "Aside from that, I know someone who lives in this area. Although we do not share a close bond, I am fearing that something might have happened around here, something bad. The Ominous Woods, after all, might very well be the most attractive place for the shadows to strike," Venusaur realized. "If it's okay with all of you, I would like to take a quick look around. I'm sure that if I can find my friend, he can help us on our quest."

And so, even though they highly disliked the idea, the group decided to enter the Ominous Woods after all. Weary of the area, they closely kept an eye on all that was around.
Despite that, though, it wasn't long before a Spookloth appeared out of nowhere in front of Alberto's face. What followed was an icey scream and a white bird flying upwards pretty fast. However, the Spookloth soon let out a friendly, childish laugh, much to the group's and especially Alberto's relief.
Before the Spookloth was able to mention that it just likes to scare passing pokmon, however, two glowing red eyes appeared behind it. And in a matter of seconds, the Spookloth was blasted to the ground, reveiling a Shadow Stalker nearby...

Venusaur was shocked by the appearance of the shadow Stalker and quickly glanced into all directions to see if there were more threats around.
"No, this is not my friend," he said to Alberto, "but if this Stalker is around, he must be near."
At this moment, Venusaur wished he would have absorbed some solar light before entering these woods. Releasing a Solarbeam at the Stalker would have come in handy now.

Immediately after this thought, however, things appeared to get even worse. All over the dark area red eyes started to glow, revealing more and more shadow Stalker...

It was indeed Skeletree that Venusaur had meant. As he and Palmer were carried away and, since doing so would probably be useless, without resisting Venusaur constantly looked around, hoping for a sign of Skeletree's whereabouts.
Even Venusaur, however, grew more and more desperate as there still was no sign, even after walking for a while.
Then the Stalker held by an enormous, dead-looking, and hollow tree. They brought Venusaur and Palmer inside, and locked them up in a wooden cage.
As Palmer turned around, he noticed a pokmon. As Palmer jumped back, Venusaur looked as well and recognized that the pokmon was... Skeletree.

"Greetings, Skeletree," Venusaur said. "What has happened here?"
Skeletree looked away. "That's a ghost tree business and really not that of a Garden Guardian..."
Once again, Venusaur was reminded of the isolation of Skeletree and his Stalker. During all the years that Venusaur has lived in the Manifold Forest, Skeletree has only once voluntarily shown himself during the large outbreak of the pokrus in the forest, agreeing that measures had to be taken. That was the only time. Of course, Venusaur had visited him several times, but the meetings were never very warm-hearted. Besides, the mischievous, and sometimes fairly evil actions of the Stalker were in fact most of the time thought up by Skeletree himself. He wasn't really fond of other pokmon but then again, that was the nature of all Stalker. It was knowing that, that Venusaur still respected Skeletree.
"Listen, Skeletree, I know you and your Stalker have isolated yourselves from everyone, but the current situation cannot be ignored. Now please tell me what happened here."
Skeletree gave Venusaur a moody glance. "One day, we were all in sleep. At night, when we woke up, five of the Stalker were missing. I sent out three other Stalker to search for them, but they only returned two nights later. When they returned, they weren't acting normally, and they had a strange red look in their eyes--"
"--and they were purple in color?" Venusaur interrupted.
"In case you hadn't noticed, Garden Guardian, there isn't much color around here. Whether they were purple or, say, bright pink, no one could've noticed," Skeletree replied sarcastically. "In any case, though, more and more Stalker gained that red look in their eyes, always after disappearing for a while. Me and the other Stalker weren't sure what to do about it. And then one night, yesterday to be precise, I was the only one left. My guess it that they're planning on doing the same to me, reuniting us all..."
"In that case, we're just in time to get you out of here," Venusaur said determinedly.
Skeletree eyed him. Afterwards he looked at Palmer. "How did both of you end up here anyway?"