#18 BIRCHWILD GROVE SPAWN: FURRLICITY

As it turned out, Furrlicity found many more evil mushrooms. Except, these were odd.

There had been many a fairy ring out in these woods while Furrlicity had been searching for pokemon. He had stepped in every new one he found and had started to mark them on his map. No point in stepping in the same one twice.

A new one was spread before him and it was... different. The mushrooms looked almost toxic, sooty and covered in ash. They rested in a perfect circle at the base of a massive tree. The tree was beautiful, a weeping willow. It was also covered in the same soot, though. It reminded Furrlicity of the tree at the Birchwild Shrine. How it flaked Corruption, whatever that was, onto his skin each time he touched it.

Furrlicity stepped inside.

A popup appeared. Similar to a bike lock code in design with three boxes. Furrliity played with a moment and found it would let him select between dozens of odd symbols, runes?, but no numbers.

Out of curiosity he applied three random runes and hit enter.

The game did not like that.

It was like the colors inversed. Everything was neon and black, harsh oranges shining from normal textures. The ground was pitch black but solid.
The outline of things were there, like the tree, stark white in the harsh blackness. It wasn't dark. Furrlicity could see everything perfectly fine.
It was just different colors now.

A noise from behind. An Audino that hadn't been there before lumbered towards him. It almost seemed possesed, like aa zombie, as it staggered his way.

Furrlicity landed on his ass in the darkness.

Overhead a new moon glowed, barely seen between the high branches of the tree. It's glow was calmer but no less vicious as the full moon he had seen previously.

The darkness felt cold and hollow. Furrlicity could hear his breath catching in his throat with every pant. His tongue tasted like soot and smoke burned his eyes and nose.

A faint orange glow from behind. Pushing himself to his feet, Furrlicity found he was in some type of cavern. There was no way out, just an ominous passage with stone steps cut into the ground. It was dimly lit. With no other way to go, Furrlicity descended down, down, down the steps.

He felt like he was walking for hours. With his clock still on the fritz, he had no idea how long it was actually going. Technically it looked like he was still 'Battling' the Audino, but it hadn't seemed to follow him inside the strange tree.

The smell of smoke grew stronger and Furrlicity found himself in a small cavern. A statue of a beautiful woman with long flowing hair stood over an alter. Everything was blackened and seemed to glow as if heated from the inside, the 'skin' cracking to show the orange heat underneath.

On top of the alter was a curved blade, corroded and black.

Furrlicity felt his body move on it's own toward to the blade and the woman cracked open her eyes.