The Arcane Realm - FB Training Zone

[Raddaya]

Forest of Adventure



Rangeet: Upon hearing your question Wurmple looks at you curiously. Its eyes look up and down your body, as if it's sizing you up. Not being able to give a spoken answer, due to the ever so obvious fact that it is a pokemon, Wurmple nods its head and shudders in fright. Peeves and Torchic look up at you with concern, each of them worried about what possibly could be in the forest. Suddenly you hear a tearing noise, and Wurmple jumps to the ground and curls up in fright. Not being an idiot, you realise that perhaps the noise might possibly be one of the things that is considered to be dangerous in the forest. Even though the noise has stopped Wurmple remains curled up in a ball, and whatever is in the forest must be awfully frightful.

What will you do?

"Oh damn, not good", muttered Rangeet. "Torchic, Peeves! Get yourselves ready, we might be in some trouble here!", he said out loud. Peering at the place the place the noise came from, he shuddered. "Should I go there or stay?...Blah, I'll flip a coin." Seeing the result of the coin, Rangeet took a few deep breaths and motioned to his pokemon. He walked towards the direction of the noise...

Sorry for the shortness, I couldn't particularly think of much else to write.

[Food Guy]

Forest of Adventure

Rangeet: You and your pokemon each take a deep breath as you step into forest. You slowly walk through the tree laden area, carefully checking to see if there is anything near you. Each step you take makes you think about what could have possibly made the tearing noise that you heard. Suddenly a twig breaks behind you, and you and your two pokemon turn around in surprise. Relief washes over you when you see that it is merely Wurmple. The caterpillar must have come in after you, despite the fact that it had been evidently scared by whatever was in the forest. The Wurmple wriggles over to Peeves and crawls up on his head, as it had done before. You turn back around and continue to walk through the forest. Soon you realise that the light that had previously shone through the leaves, was nearly all gone, increasing the feeling of paranoia that you have. The tearing noise suddenly bursts back into life, and you start to look around wildly. The noise starts to get closer and closer to you and the three pokemon. You hear a rustling noise, and out of the trees bursts a Scyther! The bug pokemon slashes at you, and just manages to miss you. It appears that this is the creature that frightened Wurmple beforehand, and it wants to fight.

What shall you do?

[Raddaya]

OOC: It's a Combusken now. Sorry. Also, that was fast o.O

Forest of Adventure

Rangeet: You and your pokemon each take a deep breath as you step into forest. You slowly walk through the tree laden area, carefully checking to see if there is anything near you. Each step you take makes you think about what could have possibly made the tearing noise that you heard. Suddenly a twig breaks behind you, and you and your two pokemon turn around in surprise. Relief washes over you when you see that it is merely Wurmple. The caterpillar must have come in after you, despite the fact that it had been evidently scared by whatever was in the forest. The Wurmple wriggles over to Peeves and crawls up on his head, as it had done before. You turn back around and continue to walk through the forest. Soon you realise that the light that had previously shone through the leaves, was nearly all gone, increasing the feeling of paranoia that you have. The tearing noise suddenly bursts back into life, and you start to look around wildly. The noise starts to get closer and closer to you and the three pokemon. You hear a rustling noise, and out of the trees bursts a Scyther! The bug pokemon slashes at you, and just manages to miss you. It appears that this is the creature that frightened Wurmple beforehand, and it wants to fight.

What shall you do?

"If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!", said Rangeet. He turned to his Combusken. "Let's do this, buddy!" Combusken seemed to agree. "OK, go! Heat Wave and Crossfire, let's start off!"

He then turned to Peeves. "Take care of Weedle, K?"

[Food Guy]

Rangeet, I need you to re reply to your last update. I was willing to let your first short reply go, but you need to make it longer. Take a little bit of time and look how your other AR members are writing. Directly stealing a quote from enchantress when I was first a part of FB - When replying, think about the situation you're in. What are your thoughts? What are your feelings? Given a real life situation, and in the FB world your adventures are "real" in a sense, how will you react to whatever situation you've just found yourself in? Surely you're not going to come across something like an enraged Tauros and say, "Blaze, use Flamethrower!" Your initial reaction is going to be something along the lines of "Holy S***! WTF am I going to do now?!" You're most likely going to be ready to pee your pants, so RP that into your reply. Show some emotion. Show some feeling. Think about what you would do if you find yourself in the situation you're facing and RP it into your reply before you start thinking, "Blaze! use Flamethrower!" Trust me, your replies will be a hell of a lot more believable, and one thousand times better than charging straight in to attack. FB is about role playing so the sooner you start working on getting into character and putting as much into your replies as you can, the sooner you'll be free of me and out there adventuring in mainstream zones.

[Raddaya]

Forest of Adventure

Rangeet: You and your pokemon each take a deep breath as you step into forest. You slowly walk through the tree laden area, carefully checking to see if there is anything near you. Each step you take makes you think about what could have possibly made the tearing noise that you heard. Suddenly a twig breaks behind you, and you and your two pokemon turn around in surprise. Relief washes over you when you see that it is merely Wurmple. The caterpillar must have come in after you, despite the fact that it had been evidently scared by whatever was in the forest. The Wurmple wriggles over to Peeves and crawls up on his head, as it had done before. You turn back around and continue to walk through the forest. Soon you realise that the light that had previously shone through the leaves, was nearly all gone, increasing the feeling of paranoia that you have. The tearing noise suddenly bursts back into life, and you start to look around wildly. The noise starts to get closer and closer to you and the three pokemon. You hear a rustling noise, and out of the trees bursts a Scyther! The bug pokemon slashes at you, and just manages to miss you. It appears that this is the creature that frightened Wurmple beforehand, and it wants to fight.

What shall you do?

"...Huh? What? Whoa!" Rangeet narrowly managed to dodge the Slash. Pity that sent his heart pounding, because he may have made a less rash decision then. His face a canvas of fear, it was almost possible to see his neurons firing. He seemed to make a movement as if to turn and run, but his legs were stuck to the ground. However, seeing the enraged Scyther, he seemed to recover his senses. Knowing it was too late to run, he took a deep breath. "Blaze, I need your help. Heat Wave and Crossfire." It seemed Blaze was as scared as him, he hoped it wouldn't show in this battle...

[CyberBlastoise]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: You dive into the water letting go of you Carvanha as you do so, Savage following you down. The water/dark type looks thrilled to be in the water, swimming around in circles around you. You smile at Savage and keep swimming. You pass several aquatic pokemon, a Chinchou, several Clamperl nestled on the sea bed, and a school of Goldeen pass by you. You look to your side, expecting to see your Carvanha eagerly swimming beside you. Instead you see nothing. Looking around in panic, you are relieved to see that Savage has swum to the surface of the ocean. Kicking your way up, you break the surface and see a small fishing boat, the bottom of which blended in with the ocean. A man on the boat looks across and sees you, and he starts to wave you and Savage over. Not seeing any reason to not do so, you swim over to the boat and the man starts to speak.

"It is not wise to go out swimming at the moment," he started, "There is a fierce creature out there, and it has already taken several lives. I think that you should get on my boat and I will take you back into shore."

The man's revelations are surprising to say the least, but the story of the creature is also intriguing.

What will you do?

As Bill contemplated on all the man told him, he thought about what he saw at the bottom of the ocean. There was no fierce creature as far as he saw, so perhaps the man was being paranoid, but Bill had heard numerous stories that matched what the man might have said. Being curious, Bill thought that perhaps it would be better that he dived underwater and see for himself, if it was a creatures as fierce as he said, then he would think of a way to hastily retreat, and if there was no creature, he could continue his investigation.

"Sorry, sir," called Bill, "but I didn't come here just to turn around."

Savage, Bill's Carvanha, called out, "Carv-Carvanha," it started to flit back and forth underwater telling Bill that it too had decided to dive underwater. Bill knew how difficult it would be to call commands underwater, as there was the breathing underwater issue, so he told Savage, "Okay, we run into such a creature, I think our best bet is to see if it as fierce as that man implies. If we meet it, start off with Focus Energy so that we can be ready, then if the creature starts to attack either one of us, use your Ancient Power followed by Bite, but if he does not attack, then you don't either, understand?"

"Carvanha," it replied with a surprisingly happy tone as though it was wanting to fight such a creature.

[yougirasu]

Desert of Illusion

yougirasu: The Torkoal stares at you, obviously not happy that you are in its area. It blows a puff of smoke, yet another warning to get out. When it becomes apparent to the fire type that you aren't going anywhere, it lets out a not too threatening roar. Rearing its head, Torkoal charges at you, its mouth starting to open. Seeing that its about to release a fire attack, you raise your Growlithe's pokeball and open it. Just as the fire tortoise breathes out an Ember, Growlithe jumps in front of you. The flames lick against the dog's fur, but due to his ability nothing happens. Torkoal glared at Growlithe and coughed out a cloud of Smog. The cloud makes its way towards your pokemon, but he is unable to jump out of the way. At a loss as to what to do, you are about to issue some orders when you the ground underneath you begins to rumble. The ground continues to shake, when suddenly a large pokemon bursts up from it. You look at the pokemon, and you see that the gargantuan pokemon is in fact an Onix. Torkoal looks at you, and you sense that perhaps Torkoal has a reason for you to keep away. Onix lets out a roar and you see that perhaps you might have a bit of trouble on your hands.

What will you do?

Yougi felt that he was well prepared for the Torkoals actions but was caught a little off guard. As the fire type blew out one more stream of smoke as a threat that fell on a stubborn Yougi, it let out a 'Tork' of a roar, raised it's head back and moved in for a more threatening form of 'intimidation'.

As Yougi noticed the flickering of flames within Torkoals mouth, he instinctively whipped Growlithes pokeball round in a flash and released him in between himself and the Torkoal. As the Ember is unleashed by Torkoal, Growlithe makes a jump towards the flames and they end up just licking against his soft fur as the attack is neutralised by his effective ability. The Torkoal continues and catches Yougi off guard with a Smog attack. Growlithe is unable to leap away from the toxic fumes and is enveloped slightly.

Slightly unsure of how to react, Yougirasu is ready to give his orders towards Growlithe.
"Okay buddie, thanks for the protection back there bu-" He's cut short as the earth around him rumbles violently. He's unsure if the pillar he's backed against will even withstand such a tremor.

As the tremors continue, the sand just to the side of the structure that Yougi's within shifts viciously and an enormous creature bursts out from within the sand. He has to strain his neck to see the creatures head, but instantly recognises it as an Onix, and a big one at that. As he looks back down, he catches a look from Torkoal and sees that there may have been a good reason for it trying to turn him away. A huge roar from the Onix shakes the environment and small stones tumble all around them.

Yougi's first instinct now is to run like crazy, but he was in the first place he'd found some shade and it was an interesting place to stand in. He really didn't want this aggressive Onix to change that. It seemed like the Onix was quite enraged and he suspected that he could lure the pokemon a small distance away, this was good as he could use the distance to protect the structure as he tried to repel the Onix. He had no idea if Torkoal would have any interest in trying to push the Onix away from their current location or if it'd attack if he did, but he had to do something to protect their current location. He called Growlithe to his side and moved in a very obvious fashion towards the open desert near the Onix hoping to draw it's attention. And as he moved, he called out his Aerodactyl from it's pokeball on his belt and called out to it.
"Aerodactyl, we're trying to keep that Onix away from that structure. It might follow us, so if it does attack it by striking it in the face with an Aqua Tail and then going in for a Steel Wing. Hopefully if we keep it's attention we can lead it further away."

[Atari]

Desert of Illusion

Atari: Nodding his head, your Duskull stares intensely at Numel, gaining the Foresight of the fire/ground type's whereabouts in the future. The camel pokemon stares at the ghost before Growling at Kurai, making him cower a little bit. Kurai shakes his head before he suddenly disappears. Numel starts to look left to right, confused about your pokemon's whereabouts. Still looking from left to right, the fire/ground type failed to notice that Kurai had reappeared right behind it. The Duskull narrows his eye before slamming into Numel. The pokemon is thrown forward, its eyes wide open in surprise. It falls face first into the sand, and when it props itself back up, the Numel spits out an Ember at Kurai. The Duskull tries to avoid the fire, but his side is clipped by the flames. He falls down in pain, hissing through his teeth, but Kurai gets up and stares at Numel.

As the flames of Numel's Ember attack swiped against the Duskull, Asuka couldn't help but feel the same pain as the searing heat briskly struck her body. "Damn!" Asuka shrilled in disbelief as she was forced back a couple decimetres. The flames were definitely an unwelcome addition to the already unbearable heat. Her previous assumption of the difficulty of the battle rang false as she gazed at her wounded Duskull on the sand ridden terrain. "Kurai, are you okay?"

Kurai slowly ascended from the ground, making a seemingly quick recovery from the blow. He quickly glanced at Asuka with one eye, signaling that he was ready to continue. Then he turned back to Numel, giving the spotted camel-like Pokemon his attention, and readily anticipated another command from Asuka.

"We've got to make sure that that Numel won't use Ember again..." Asuka strategized in her thoughts. The heat was jolting fever through her body; she struggled to retain a clear train of thought. "K.. Kurai! Before it moves any closer, use Disable so it can't keep spitting out those flames. In case it tries to tackle you or anything else, try distracting it with a mirage from Night Shade while you get close enough to it to deliver another blow."

[bigtukker]

Forest of Adventure

bigtukker: Chimchar nods his head and faces
Yanma, getting ready to fight the bug pokemon. He
starts to taunt Yanma, only for the bug to completely
ignore the attack, much to your frustration. The bug
turned around and started to fly away. Not wanting to
lose the pokemon, you and Chimchar run after it. You
follow it through forest, your surroundings all looking
the same. Finally you burst out of the trees into
another clearing, and this time the clearing has a
whole ton less Yanma. This time the clearing has but
two Yanma, the Yanma that you had been chasing before
hand and another of the bug pokemon. This Yanma is
wailing in pain, the bottom half of its body trapped
in an Ursaring trap (Think Bear Trap). The metal jaw
of doom and death appears to be firmly stuck in the
Yanma's abdomen, and just opening the trap willy nilly
doesn't appear to be the best course of action that you could take.

What will you do?

As Chimchar was completely ready to fight, he started taunting
Yanma, though Yanma wasn't really impressed by Chimchars foul words and
just flew away, much to Andrews frustration. Chimchar and Andrew started
to pursue Yanma. After a ten minute chase Chimchar and Andrew came in
another clearing. There were two Yanma, both trapped in an Ursaring trap
The jaws were very stuck in their bodies. Andrew tried to force them open
but no luck. The traps were too strong.

"Perhaps if you attack the traps," Andrew said to Chimchar, "Use your Ember at
those traps, but aim carefully"

[Food Guy]

Okay first off, Rangeet and bigtukker need to rewrite their replies for the following reasons:

Rangeet: Your reply is too short and you aren't really showing emotion. Also you need to reply in size 1.

bigtukker: First off, don't mess with spacing. Second your reply is also too short, and you don't appear to have put an effort into writing it. You need to show some emotion about what is happening.

I want both of you to read the advice I gave earlier, and to look at your fellow AR members replies to get an idea about how to reply.

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Savage lets out a cry, signifying that he understands what he must do if you run into whatever had been plaguing the waters.

"Fine, ignore my advice," said the man, grouchiness tinging his voice.

He started up his boat and he drove away, muttering about people being ungrateful. Ignoring him, you turn towards Savage and motion to go down. The pair of you dive into the water, Savage having more ease than you. You swim down for a little while, observing the same pokemon that you had beforehand. Soon you have to come up for, being a human being and all, and when you break the surface you hear someone cry out. You realise that the person is the man that had offered you to get in his boat earlier! There several things you could do, you could dive back down and search for the monster or you could go and help the man.

What will you do?

Desert of Illusion

Yougirasu: As you and Growlithe start to run, it actually attracts the attention of Onix. The rock snake chases after the the pair of you, leaving large grooves is the sand as it does so. Seeing this as his cue, Aerodactyl zooms to the rock/ground type's face and slaps it in the face with an Aqua Tail. Onix shakes it head and turns its attention to Aerodactyl and opens its mouth. An earsplitting Screech erupted from its mouth, making everyone in its vicinity flinch in pain. Trying to ignore the pain in his ears, Aerodactyl's wing glows silver before the Steel Wing is grater along the side of Onix's head. The pokemon roars in pain and brings its tail up, Slamming it into Aerodactyl. The rock/flying type is sent to the ground, and is at the moment in no shape to defend you and Growlithe from the large rock snake. You look up in fear, as Onix opens its mouth and you close your eyes. Only for nothing to happen. Reopening your eyes, you see that Torkoal is now standing in front of you, and that it is currently keeping Onix away with a barrage of Embers.

What will you do?

Atari: Kurai nods his head and looks at Numel. A ghostly presence moves from the Duskull's mask and envelopes Numel, effectively Disabling the pokemon's use of Ember. Frustrated over its now lack of being able to use Ember, the fire/ground type charges at Kurai and tries to Tackle him. Tried being the keyword. Due to Kurai being a ghost type, Numel charges right through him. You and your pokemon start laughing at Numel's failed attack, an action that starts to infuriate Numel. Numel begins to shake, and to your surprise it spits out an Ember at Kurai! The fire attack hits your Duskull full on, and he hisses in pain. Glaring at Numel ghost energy bursts from his body, and the Night Shade circles the fire/ground type. It constricts the pokemon, hurting it, before dissipating.

What will you do?

[CyberBlastoise]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Savage lets out a cry, signifying that he understands what he must do if you run into whatever had been plaguing the waters.

"Fine, ignore my advice," said the man, grouchiness tinging his voice.

He started up his boat and he drove away, muttering about people being ungrateful. Ignoring him, you turn towards Savage and motion to go down. The pair of you dive into the water, Savage having more ease than you. You swim down for a little while, observing the same pokemon that you had beforehand. Soon you have to come up for, being a human being and all, and when you break the surface you hear someone cry out. You realise that the person is the man that had offered you to get in his boat earlier! There several things you could do, you could dive back down and search for the monster or you could go and help the man.

What will you do?

Bill had once again admired his surroundings, all the different pokemon swimming about with him, even Savage seemed to enjoy its majestic wonder. However, Bill needed to head back up to the surface as much as he enjoyed the surroundings, to see if any shore was nearby, perhaps to figure out his location. After he broke for the surface, he heard that man's cries. Bill was definitely an adventurer by heart, but he would not forsake someone's life or safety other than his own. He looked back toward where the man was. Then he turned toward the Ocean's direction...or at least the way that he was swimming, and, with his best Captain Ahab impression, stated, "I'll be back for you, you briny beast."

Bill sent out his Totodile, Gold, out into the water. Both Savage and Gold had both looked at Bill for instruction. "Okay, you two are faster swimmers than me, I want you both to go see where those cries are coming from, as well as examine the situation. I will be behind you trying to catch up. Don't worry about me until you see what is happening, understand?"

"Toto!" cried Gold as he swam toward the cries. Savage silently followed behind. He did not want to send out all three of his pokemon in case he ran into danger and needed someone to help him out. Silver, his Squirtle, still remained in the Pokeball, but Bill started to swim toward where Savage and Gold were swimming, fearing for the man's safety.

[yougirasu]

Desert of Illusion

Yougirasu: As you and Growlithe start to run, it actually attracts the attention of Onix. The rock snake chases after the the pair of you, leaving large grooves is the sand as it does so. Seeing this as his cue, Aerodactyl zooms to the rock/ground type's face and slaps it in the face with an Aqua Tail. Onix shakes it head and turns its attention to Aerodactyl and opens its mouth. An earsplitting Screech erupted from its mouth, making everyone in its vicinity flinch in pain. Trying to ignore the pain in his ears, Aerodactyl's wing glows silver before the Steel Wing is grater along the side of Onix's head. The pokemon roars in pain and brings its tail up, Slamming it into Aerodactyl. The rock/flying type is sent to the ground, and is at the moment in no shape to defend you and Growlithe from the large rock snake. You look up in fear, as Onix opens its mouth and you close your eyes. Only for nothing to happen. Reopening your eyes, you see that Torkoal is now standing in front of you, and that it is currently keeping Onix away with a barrage of Embers.

What will you do?

Yougi and Growlithe both begin to dash across the sand and succeeded in attracting the Onix's attention as they made their way from the structure. As the Onix slithered through the sand after them, cutting large groves through the untouched sand as it did Aerodactyl put his part in the scheme into action.

Aerodactyl proceeded to dive towards the Onix, tail first, with it coated in watery energies. The aqua tail struck Onix in the face hard and as Aerodactyl used the momentum to spring himself back into flight, Onix turned it's attention away from Yougi and towards him. In a retaliation towards Aerodactyl's attack, Onix opened it's mouth and released a massive screech.

Everyone in the vicinity who had hands, clapped them to their ears with Growlithe making use of his paws as he slammed his face into the hot sand to reach his ears. Yougi was unsure as to how Torkoal was covering it's ears, but he could see Aerodactyl struggling to keep himself airborn as he was unable to protect himself. As the sound died out though, he regained his balance and turned back towards Onix with his wings aglow and charged in again.

This time, his wings sliced against the Onix's head, grating along the rocky surface to provide extra damage. The sensation made the Onix roar out in pain, but this motion covered it's attack from Aerodactyl as the Onix's tail slammed into Aerodactyl hard, knocking him out of the sky and into the sand with a buffered thud.

'At least the sand will have stopped the fall from doing to much damage' Yougi thought to himself, but Aerodactyl was clearly in no shape to be doing much more battling at the minute. He returned Aerodactyl to his Pokeball and looked up towards the large approaching Onix with no idea as to what he would do now.

The Onix opened it's mouth up wide, expecting the worst Yougi flinched, closing his eyes from what was going to happen to him. But he sensed no pain, nothing was hurting him except for the hot sun on his skin. Opening his eyes, Yougi saw an awe inspiring sight. Torkoal was stood between them and the Onix, launching a barrage of embers at the creature and managing to keep it at bay.

Yougi had no idea what to do now. He could simply turn tail and run, but that would leave the Torkoal to face the Onix alone and he suspected that the Torkoal wouldn't be able to keep itself safe against a Rock and Ground typed pokemon for long. He could help instead, but Aerodactyl who was his pokemon for every occasion due to his varied movepool had been knocked down. He looked back and saw how the flames from the ember seemed to be keeping the Onix back quite well and he made up his mind.

He looked at Growlithe, knowing he had three fire typed moves at his disposal but knew that one would likely hit Torkoal and the other might not be so effective. So he hedged his bets as he called to his partner to get him into the battle.
"Growlithe, we can't just leave Torkoal to deal with all this. Give it some back up by getting alongside it and using your Ember to help it out. If things start to get out of hand though, switch to your Heat Wave instead."

[Atari]

Desert of Illusion

Atari: Kurai nods his head and looks at Numel. A ghostly presence moves from the Duskull's mask and envelopes Numel, effectively Disabling the pokemon's use of Ember. Frustrated over its now lack of being able to use Ember, the fire/ground type charges at Kurai and tries to Tackle him. Tried being the keyword. Due to Kurai being a ghost type, Numel charges right through him. You and your pokemon start laughing at Numel's failed attack, an action that starts to infuriate Numel. Numel begins to shake, and to your surprise it spits out an Ember at Kurai! The fire attack hits your Duskull full on, and he hisses in pain. Glaring at Numel ghost energy bursts from his body, and the Night Shade circles the fire/ground type. It constricts the pokemon, hurting it, before dissipating.

What will you do?

Once Kurai pulled off effectively disabling the Numel’s Ember attack, at least for the time being, he would have an effective edge in prevailing though the battle. Asuka’s mood heightened a bit, realizing their temporary advantage.

The yellow and spotted green Pokemon, seemingly confused about what to do next, launched itself failingly at an attempt to tackle the floating Duskull. A smirk immediately struck Asuka’s face as she realized the sheer stupidity of the camel-like Pokemon’s poor move selection. Kurai also seemed pretty amused, matching Asuka’s mood through its expression. Seeing this, Numel quickly began shaking with infuriation towards the duo; enough to spit out another blast of Ember.

For the second time, Kurai was stricken with the flames, which were even more enticing under the searing heat of the desert sun. “Kurai, I know we can finish this! Just keep hanging in there!” Asuka encouraged her Duskull from a few meters away. Kurai’s spirit still ran passionately as he recovered from the midst of the flames. He slowly floated back up to an off-standard gravitation, created a mirage of himself from dark matter, and successfully constricted the Numel with his Night Shade attack.

Asuka noticed the fire and ground Pokemon’s dedication to its resilience in the battle, but also its weakened stature as a result from being counterattacked. She swiftly began running though her thoughts to compose another attempt at defeating it.

“I need to somehow use the terrain to my advantage… Maybe to distract or blind that Numel?”Asuka spectated the situation in her mind. She knew she had to act quickly before it gained enough power to attack again. Kurai meanwhile tentatively waited for her command, whilst leeringly locking eyes with the Numel.

“Kurai, surround it with an Ominous Wind!” Asuka instructed. The dry heat and the sun’s reflection off of the parched desert sand made her head throb. “It should whip up enough sand around it to completely blind it for a sec, considering how damn bone-dry it is out here,” she foresaw in her thoughts. “If you see the opportunity, strike it with another Faint Attack! I doubt it will see you coming!”

[Raddaya]

Forest of Adventure

Rangeet: You and your pokemon each take a deep breath as you step into forest. You slowly walk through the tree laden area, carefully checking to see if there is anything near you. Each step you take makes you think about what could have possibly made the tearing noise that you heard. Suddenly a twig breaks behind you, and you and your two pokemon turn around in surprise. Relief washes over you when you see that it is merely Wurmple. The caterpillar must have come in after you, despite the fact that it had been evidently scared by whatever was in the forest. The Wurmple wriggles over to Peeves and crawls up on his head, as it had done before. You turn back around and continue to walk through the forest. Soon you realise that the light that had previously shone through the leaves, was nearly all gone, increasing the feeling of paranoia that you have. The tearing noise suddenly bursts back into life, and you start to look around wildly. The noise starts to get closer and closer to you and the three pokemon. You hear a rustling noise, and out of the trees bursts a Scyther! The bug pokemon slashes at you, and just manages to miss you. It appears that this is the creature that frightened Wurmple beforehand, and it wants to fight.

What shall you do?

OOC: I'm terribly sorry. Sppf wasn't working for me at all over the past few days. I do hope this is good enough
Rangeet whipped around as a Scyther burst out of the trees. He inadvertendly walked two or three steps backwards in fear. "Oh God...not a Scyther...." His life flashed before his eyes as his brain frantically sent messages to various parts of his body to either "fight" or take "flight". He was 90% of the way to screaming "RUN!" and suiting the action to the word. Then he realised that he was not a coward.

Combusken seemed to realise his fear, in fact he was as scared and more as his master. However he made eye contact with his master and nodded. Rangeet then saw Peeves shuddering, but still managing to not look too scared of the Scyther. Then he saw Wurmple. The little pokemon was pitifully shaking: this Scyther must be a real menace to the forest pokemon. All this gave him the willpower to scream "Use Heat Wave twice! You can do it!"

[Food Guy]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: The two water pokemon swim ahead of you, determined to find the source of the cries. Quickly gaining speed over you, the pair suddenly stop and duck under water. Confused to what your pokemon are doing, you soon realise when you see a large blast of something heading towards you. You and Silver follow your other pokemons' actions and duck underwater. Once the blast passed over you, you popped back up and see what sent the blast towards you. Floating on the water's surface is a small Finneon, a pokemon who would be the last one to appear to be threatening to anything. But you can't see the man, and you suddenly realise that he is now silent. Savage and Gold swim back to you, worried about what the Finneon might have done.

What will you do?

Desert of Illusion

yougirasu: Growlithe nods his head and runs up to Torkoal, and faces Onix. The dog opens his mouth and spits out an Ember, Torkoal doing the same. The pair of fireballs speed towards the rock snake, the attacks slamming into Onix's face. The rock type lets out a roar of pain as the side of its face blackens. Raising into the sky, Onix Slams his tail into Growlithe and Torkoal. The pair of fire pokemon are sent flying backwards, each hitting the ground with a large thud. They pick themselves up, and you see that they have started to sway from side to side. Torkoal opens its mouth, and flames begin to build up. Thrusting its head forward a snake of flames erupted and made their way towards Onix. The Fire Spin constricted around the rock pokemon, but not enough to stop Onix from digging its tail into the ground and proceeding to Throw Rocks at the pokemon. Growlithe is easily able to dodge the falling rocks, but Torkoal isn't so lucky. A particularly large rock slams into its body and sends it into the ground. Seeing the now hurt pokemon, Growlithe sends out a Heatwave to attract Onix's attention, and the attack does.

What will you do?

Atari: Receiving his orders, Kurai is quick to act. As a result of his previous Leer, Numel was a bit scared and not completely focused. The Duskull raises his little arms, and an Ominous Wind begins to blow. The wind buffets Numel, the attack unfortunately snapping it back to its senses. It lets out an loud Yawn, literally! The white cloud homes in on Kurai, and forces itself into his mouth. Gagging a little bit, Kuria shoots Numel a glare before disappearing. Numel looks around in confusion before the ghost type reappears behind it. Hitting the fire type with a vicious Faint Attack, he disappears and reappears where he was before. Now a little angry at the Duskull, Numel spits out an Ember. The fire attack hits your pokemon full on in the chest, and propels him backwards. Picking himself up off the ground, Kurai glares at his opponent before promptly falling asleep. It seems the yawn has taken its toll on the Duskull.

What will you do?

Forest of Adventure

Rangeet: Nodding his head, Combusken takes a deep breath and faces Scyther. The bug pokemon twitches a couple of times as it Leers at Combusken, the leer making Combusken a bit more scared. Shaking his head, as if to clear his thoughts, Combusken's body begins to glow red before sending out a Heat Wave. The fire attack slams into Scyther, obviously hurting the pokemon but not doing serious harm. Scyther lets out a psychotic howl and lunges at Combusken. Taken by complete surprise by the Quick Attack, the fire types soon finds himself with several slash marks on his body. Grimacing in pain, Combusken tries to ignore it as his body begins to glow again. Another Heat Wave is sent out by the fighting chicken, and it does hit Scyther. The attack makes Scyther stagger backwards, but that is about all it does.

What will you do?

[CyberBlastoise]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: The two water pokemon swim ahead of you, determined to find the source of the cries. Quickly gaining speed over you, the pair suddenly stop and duck under water. Confused to what your pokemon are doing, you soon realise when you see a large blast of something heading towards you. You and Silver follow your other pokemons' actions and duck underwater. Once the blast passed over you, you popped back up and see what sent the blast towards you. Floating on the water's surface is a small Finneon, a pokemon who would be the last one to appear to be threatening to anything. But you can't see the man, and you suddenly realise that he is now silent. Savage and Gold swim back to you, worried about what the Finneon might have done.

What will you do?

Bill pondered over what happened. Just before he started swimming he had let out Silver to help him with swimming the waves and currents, the next moment, he was diving for his life. He looked to see the Finneon that had sent him this 'Welcoming Gift'. After he noticed the man had been silenced, Bill thought of only two options that could have happened. The more positive note would be that the Finneon was actually the man's and he was attacking Bill for some odd reason, the negative note was that the Finneon had actually killed the man. Bill wondered it, and knew his fellow Pokemon were also wondering the same thing. Either way, this Finneon was a menace, one that needed to be taught not to attack people. Bill said, "Okay, we better take care of this guy beforehand. Savage, I want you to see if you can find the man nearby, underwater. Gold, look for the boat, understood? Silver, you're with me. We'll fight the Finneon."

After the two Pokemon left to look for the man, Silver got into his fighting position. Bill commanded, "Okay, Silver, let's show this fish who's the real fighter. I want you to start off with Aqua Jet and combine it with your Zen Headbutt. Afterwards, I want you to Withdraw to prepare for any follow up attacks the Finneon has."

[Food Guy]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Silver looks back at you and nods, ready to jump into battle despite no one actually knowing what Finneon is capable of. He faces Finneon again and his body begins to glow light blue, before he Jets off towards Finneon. As the Squirtle nears his opponent, his little blue head starts to glow purple. There is a resounding CRACK as Silver connects with the little fish's side. Finneon is sent flying back through the water, but is able to compose itself, but by that time Silver has already been able to Withdraw into his shell. Letting out a noise that is similar to a grunt of annoyance, Finneon twirls about in the water, and an Aqua Ring forms around its body. Continuing to twirl about, several rings of energy find their way around the fish's body, the Safeguard now assuring protection from any sort of status affliction. Now with protection covering it, Finneon swims towards the withdrawn form of Silver and hits his shell with an Aqua Tail. The attack sends Silver skating through the water, but so far he hasn't actually been really hit... yet.

What will you do?

[CyberBlastoise]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Silver looks back at you and nods, ready to jump into battle despite no one actually knowing what Finneon is capable of. He faces Finneon again and his body begins to glow light blue, before he Jets off towards Finneon. As the Squirtle nears his opponent, his little blue head starts to glow purple. There is a resounding CRACK as Silver connects with the little fish's side. Finneon is sent flying back through the water, but is able to compose itself, but by that time Silver has already been able to Withdraw into his shell. Letting out a noise that is similar to a grunt of annoyance, Finneon twirls about in the water, and an Aqua Ring forms around its body. Continuing to twirl about, several rings of energy find their way around the fish's body, the Safeguard now assuring protection from any sort of status affliction. Now with protection covering it, Finneon swims towards the withdrawn form of Silver and hits his shell with an Aqua Tail. The attack sends Silver skating through the water, but so far he hasn't actually been really hit... yet.

What will you do?

Bill kept a close eye on his opponent to make sure that he did not make a grave mistake sending in Silver without any backup Pokemon. After the clash of attacks, Bill recognized quite a few moves from seeing Water-type pokemon in action before. Great...just perfect...it knows a few protective moves...better wrap this up before that Finneon has a chance to recover, thought Bill as he witnessed the moves the fish Pokemon used. He recalled that Safeguard meant that it could not be burned, so one move would be rendered useless. He then focused his attention to Silver who was protected by its hard shell and commanded, "Silver, listen. We need to hit it hard and hit it fast. Start off with your Water Spout, seeing that it should still be pretty powerful. Then use Confusion to keep it pinned down to use your Zen Headbutt once again!" He hoped that this combination of attacks would at least stun the Finneon until he could come up with a new working strategy to take care of the defensive moves the Finneon used.

[Food Guy]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Once again Silver takes in your orders before facing off against Finneon again. The blue turtle opens his mouth, and fires a powerful Spout of Water at the small fish. The spout slams into Finneon's face, and propels the fish backwards, into the water. As the water attack subsides, you see that Silver has started to pant, obviously from the powerful water attack that you had ordered. However, you decide to think about that later because Finneon seems to have vanished. Looking around in panic, you fell something tug against your leg. You let out a scream as you suddenly find yourself pulled underwater. Your pokemon shoot after you, but they aren't fast enough and your world fades to black.

"Are you okay?"

You slowly open your eyes, and see a woman standing over you, her blonde hair falling on your face.

"Thank god you're alive," she exclaims, seeing you open your eyes. "I was worried that Finneon had drowned you or something."

Sitting up, you find yourself in a strange cave, with the mysterious woman. Suddenly realising that you don't know where your pokemon are, you start to flail around.

"Don't worry about your pokemon," says the woman. "They are right here."

She lifts up her hand, and you see the minimized pokeballs of your aquatic companions. But that doesn't explain how you got there, or what happened with Finneon.

What will you do?

[CyberBlastoise]

Ocean of Mystery

CyberBlastoise: Once again Silver takes in your orders before facing off against Finneon again. The blue turtle opens his mouth, and fires a powerful Spout of Water at the small fish. The spout slams into Finneon's face, and propels the fish backwards, into the water. As the water attack subsides, you see that Silver has started to pant, obviously from the powerful water attack that you had ordered. However, you decide to think about that later because Finneon seems to have vanished. Looking around in panic, you fell something tug against your leg. You let out a scream as you suddenly find yourself pulled underwater. Your pokemon shoot after you, but they aren't fast enough and your world fades to black.

"Are you okay?"

You slowly open your eyes, and see a woman standing over you, her blonde hair falling on your face.

"Thank god you're alive," she exclaims, seeing you open your eyes. "I was worried that Finneon had drowned you or something."

Sitting up, you find yourself in a strange cave, with the mysterious woman. Suddenly realising that you don't know where your pokemon are, you start to flail around.

"Don't worry about your pokemon," says the woman. "They are right here."

She lifts up her hand, and you see the minimized pokeballs of your aquatic companions. But that doesn't explain how you got there, or what happened with Finneon.

What will you do?

Ugh...wh-where am I? Bill asked in his thoughts as his vision started to unblur. He looked around and noticed that he was lying down next to a woman in a cave, his last memories being that he was about to drown. Bill rubbed his head, as though he was bumped on it, despite the fact that he was nearly drowned. Argh, I knew ordering Water Spout was too dangerous that early...but I went on with it anyways. After he recollected his thoughts, a woman that apparently looked him was explaining how she was worried about Bill drowning because of the Finneon. She also held Bill's Pokeballs. Afterwards, Bill took a glance around the cave that he was in, the slight pitter-patter of a standard cave, as well as he could definitely hear a couple echo-y flaps, whether it was from Zubats or waves, he was too disoriented to tell. Afterwards, Bill lifted himself up to sitting position wondering more and more about exactly what happened.

Bill wanted to ask a few questions, but he also wanted to keep them short. "I hope you don't mind answering a few things for me," Bill explained. "Three questions in total, actually. Where am I? Who are you? And what do you know about that Finneon?" Bill was definitely curious about things, but he also felt that these questions were normal from someone in his situation. Soon, he layed back down as he still was a bit dizzy from what happened. His eyes closed, but his mind conscious, he would hear what she would have to say.