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Post by Professor Gravon on Jun 2, 2006 3:51:41 GMT
(Ooc: I'm about to introduce some new characters into this thread. Sorry for the delay!)
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 2, 2006 15:11:22 GMT
Outside the room an absol padded silently towards the door. Following close behind him was a young trainer. She looked from left to right, taking in all of the 'landscape' even if it was too dark to see half of the hallway. Her footsteps were louder and caused the absol much worry. They didn't know what had caused that clomping noise, but they didn't want to find out. Suddenly, the dou came upon a door. It was the one that the absol had told Jacklyn about.
<This is it.> He said. <So go on, just do what I told you.>
Jacki stepped up to the door and thought back to what the absol had told her. Her mind went blank. 'Uhhhh....' Jacklyn desperatly tried to remember her instructions. "Hey...." She began, but was cut off by the absol. <I'm Idris.>
"Hey Idris?" Jacki corrected herself, "What am I suppose to do again.
<I just told you five minutes ago.> Idris sighed, <Just knock and tell them you're a trainer. They should let us in.>
Jacklyn nodded to him and faced the door once more. Raising her right clenched hand, the girl banged lightly on the door loud enough to be heard, but soft enough not to attract any unwanted visitors...hopefully. "Hello? I'm a trainer. Do you think I could come in?"
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Post by Darkaan on Jun 2, 2006 16:09:57 GMT
Darkaan tightened the bindings around the shiftry's arm's and legs. He managed to find some sticky glue-like chemicals and merged the shiftry's lips.
He heard a voice at the door and ran to it. He flung it open. He saw Jacki there. "Hey! Come in! We're waiting for these giants to stop looking for us!" Darkaan whispered at her.
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 2, 2006 18:27:10 GMT
Jacklyn was caught off guard by Darkaan's hastiness, but didn't waste any time. She ran into the room immediately, Idris closely following behind her. Jacki was a bit confused though, as well as curious. She had heard Darkaan mention giants. She looked over to see the huge shiftry with its arms and legs bound.
"Are those the things roaming the halls?" She asked, forgetting to lower her voice to a whisper.
Idris stood at her side, a fierce anger flaming in his eyes. He had had seen the cruelty and horridness of Herald's experiments first hand. How could he not be angry with these pokemon for helping him?
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Post by PBK on Jun 2, 2006 20:40:14 GMT
Jai watched nervously as Darkaan let the other trainer in. At first, she was afraid that it might be Herald, so she was relieved to hear a female voice. Then, she eyed Darkaan and the tied up Shriftry. She noted that the boy was stronger that he looked. She just hoped that what he had done would be enough to subdue the large pokemon.
Viper slithered up to Jacklyn. <Ssssssoooooo.... I bet that you are Herald's little ssssspie,> the Ekans spat. She turned to Darkaan <Jusssst like yyyou.>
"Give it up Viperette, they're the good guys," Jai said.
<Annnd h-how would you know?> the snake pokemon asked, putting extra emphasis on the word "you." Jai shrugged. Viper glared at the other two trainers, but returned to Jai's side.
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 2, 2006 21:50:02 GMT
Jacklyn shrugged off the snake pokemon's words. It wasn't the first time someone had gotten mad at her for no reason. She looked down at Idris. The absol on the other hand was quite upset by Viper's words. His white pelt was bristling in rage and his teeth were clenched as a sign for him to back off. The fire in Idris's eyes had gotten more intense.
<Jacklyn's not a spy, ideot! And I don't see how you can come off so high and mighty as to judge every person that you lay eyes on!> Idris growled ferocity dripping off of every word.
Jacki had ignored the absol as well and had gone to greet Jai. Holding out her hand, she smiled at the other trainer. "Hiya! The name's Jacklyn, but please called me Jacki!"
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Post by Kris/Jillian on Jun 3, 2006 2:22:00 GMT
Two trainers approached the door wandering what was on the other side? Was Herald there? Where pokemon being held hostage there? Was there anything? An Houndour and Ralts stood with them. Both females were acting very jumpy and would jump at the sound of anything. The two pokemon were leading the trainers to the other trainers.
"So now what do we do?" asked Kris, who looked tense. She pulled her hand to her mouth to bit her nails, but she had already bit all of them. She put her hand back down to her side and looked at the door. "We should probably knock," said Jillian. Kris nodded her head to show she agreed. Jillian put her hand up to the door and knocked softly, and then harder. She quickly took her hand off of the door in case it was trapped and was somehow recording everything.
"Is anybody in there?" called Kris,"We're here for something and we have no idea what's going on. If anybody is there, could you help us? Our names are Kris and Jillian."
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Post by PBK on Jun 3, 2006 2:41:58 GMT
"Hey Jacki, I'm Jai," Jai said, holding her right hand out to shake. The girl steadied herself on her left crutch with the other. She was happy to have another female trainer there. Being there alone with Darkaan had been, well- awkward, at least for her. And her pokemon didn't make it much better.
<You want me to show you why?> the Ekans hissed, glaring at the Absol. She bared her teeth at the other pokemon. Then, the pokemon's voice lightened, <Anyways, it never hurts to be a little cautious.>
Jai walked to the door. "You have to be kind of quiet," Jai warned, "the Shriftry are on the prowl. And as for having no clue, well, join the club. Oh, and by the way, my name's Jai."
ooc|| Lol, I used to rp a charrie named Kris.
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 3, 2006 2:54:10 GMT
Jacklyn turned in a rush of excite at the newcomers. She felt so much better now that there were others around. The more people the better. She passed Idris and hurried to Kris and Jillian. With two outstretched hands, Jacki grabbed one of Kris's hands and shook it in a cheerful greeting.
"Hi! I'm Jacklyn! I'm glad you guys found us!" She chirped, forgetting to lower her voice once again.
Idris continued to glare at the ekans. The absol seemed to be very different from his partner. <Before you start acusing others see more than what you choose to see. Do you really think someone as naiive and scatter-brained as Jacklyn would be working for Herald? If you do than you're an untrusting fool.> With those final words, Idris padded to Jacki's side.
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Post by Kris/Jillian on Jun 3, 2006 3:07:24 GMT
"Thanks for the warning," said Jillian, opening the door that was between them both. She lowered her voice. "Shrifty? What shrifty? There are Shrifty here too? Oh, do you know anything about Herald? This houndour and ralts told us a little about him, but not much," she said.
Kris turned as Jacklyn came rushing up to her to shake her hand. Startled, all she could say was,"Hi. Well the Houndour found us. I guess we got lucky." Both females turned and saw everyone. "Who are you?" Jillian asked, looking at the other trainers besides Jacklyn.
(Cool. Most people I use often are Kris and Jillian. Kris is my favorite though.)
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Post by PBK on Jun 3, 2006 6:22:00 GMT
Jai shrugged, "No, I don't know much about Herald- only that he has masterred the faint ability, usually only known by pokemon. This allows him to disappear at will. He's experimenting on Eevees, quite cruel I must say, trying to get them to evolve with moon stones." Jai tapped her crutches around on the ground nervously. What if the other Shriftry looked into this room? Despite her Ekan's big mouth, she doubted Viper could do much damage against Herald's highly trained pokemon. Come to think of it, she hadn't gotten a chance to even use her new pokemon in a battle yet.
<And that, my dear friend,> Viper said, <Is exactly why I don't trust her. If she is as naiive as you say, it would be easy for her to be manipulated by someone such as Herald, no?> The Ekans smirked, sure that this time she had won.
ooc|| Let's see... most often, I would have to say that I use a character named Kai. He's kinda like my charrie Marco, 'cept without all the stupid allergies. I also use Kris(tal), Lime, Zeph(yr), Jon, Kat(atra), Jai, Shiloh, Dyl(an), and um, that's all I can think of right now. And as some random trivia, Jai's original character name was going to be "klaw" and she was going to be male. o_0. But then, I figured I had enough male charries at the moment (I try to keep gender ratios relatively even.)
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Post by Darkaan on Jun 3, 2006 9:04:46 GMT
"Well we've got quite a group here now. The best thing we can do now is call the local authorities on our pokenav's. We now know he is definetely here! Once we've done that, we should be less intimidated! I reckon we have a big enough group to find Herald!" Vain-Glory edged to the door, eager to kick shiftry butt.
"My victreebel knows the 100% accurate attack of inducing the foe to sleep: Spore! We should have no trouble getting past the shiftry if Vain-Glory leads the way... Just don't touch him! He's not trustworthy to anyone yet!" Darkaan slowly edged to the door. "Are you all ready?"
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Post by Professor Gravon on Jun 3, 2006 9:07:14 GMT
The coast was clear! There were no sound of the clomping shiftry feet! But the darkness that was now in the Laboratory was so dense, it was nearly impossible to see the others in the room!
The trainers needed to take action now!
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Post by Kris/Jillian on Jun 3, 2006 13:10:24 GMT
"That's cruel," said Kris, after Jai had finished explaining. She shuddered thinking of the eevees and what might be happening to them. 'Poor little things,' she thought. She wished she could do something for them, but she knew she could do nothing. She made the thought go away and concentrated on what they were doing now. Jillian looked out into the area and saw it was almost pitch black. "How are we going to get through that?" she asked.
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Post by PBK on Jun 3, 2006 15:28:00 GMT
"My Poochyena might be able to help," Jai said, patting the wolfish pokemon on his head, "Since Poochyena have a great sense of smell and hearing, well, the darkness shouldn't be a problem." Her words came out confident, but in reality, the trainer had never been more scared in her life. "And maybe, if someone has a small fire pokemon or one that knows flash..."
<Youuu are forgetting smmmmeeeeee,> Viper hissed, <Sssssnakessss have great ssssssmell too.>
"Uh, right," Jai said, "And Viperette can help too cuz snakes have a great sense of smell too."
<That'ssss right,> Viper repeated, just in case anyone had missed what her trainer had said.
<Well, what are we waiting for?> the Poochyena barked, practically jumping up and down. He was just a little to eager to kick some butt. With that, the little pokemon darted into the darkness.
"Poochyena, don't you think we should wait for the others?" But the pokemon had already disappeared.
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 3, 2006 16:16:17 GMT
Jacklyn stepped back from the victoribell, eeven though she wasn't close to begin with. A sudden shiver ran up her spine at the thought of going back into the halls where the clomping had been heard. However, she wasn't about to miss a chance to get this 'Herald' captured and set the eevee free. She turned to Jai once more when she heard her speak of what Herald did.
"What do you mean he can use a pokemon attack? Isn't that impossible?" Jacki asked with a sudden calmness. She was very interested.
Idris stood at her side and gave a quick glare towards the ekans. His pelt no longer bristled, but Jacklyn could still feel the anger emitting from him. She ignored the naiive comment. Well ignored it, or wasn't paying any attention to them to hear it.
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Post by PBK on Jun 3, 2006 22:08:14 GMT
Jai shrugged, though it was possible for the others to see. "Herald had a pokemon, Kekleon, who taught the move to him. I'm still not entirely sure how this is possible, but then again, Herald isn't exactly a dumb bunny. He could have injected himself with something that allowed him to learn the move- I'm really not sure."
<Sssshouldn't we be getting out of heeere?> Viper asked.
"Yeah, I gotta go find my Poochyena anyways," Jai said with a sigh. She couldn't ever remember having this much trouble with pokemon. She used to be such a natural. Following a Poochyena is easier said than done, especially when it involves being on crutches, in a pitch black area. It took Jai a few tries just to get to the door.
<Hurry up!> Viper yelled to her trainer and the others.
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Post by Kris/Jillian on Jun 3, 2006 22:20:07 GMT
The two teenagers looked at each other and then the door. "We're ready," said Jillian, holding the Shiny Ralts. She knew she couldn't teleport out of here until this was all done, but she held it anyway. They both walked slowly to the door. The Houndour walked besides Kris.
"Maybe we could use my Houndour's fire for light? I don't know its attacks yet," Kris said, embarrassed. She quickly put her head down and looked at the floor as if there was something interesting down. Jillian looked worried as both of them stepped into the hallway or where ever they were going.
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Post by Darkaan on Jun 4, 2006 14:14:21 GMT
Darkaan stepped away from the now open door. He didn't know where the poochyena ran too. He hoped it was Ok.
Victreebel hovered in front of him as it waited for him and the other trainers to step out into the corridors. "Your ekans should get on fine with my victreebel. They should both go together. Vain-Glory will have ekans covered. Don't worry." Darkaan said, hopefully looking at Jai. He put his hands in front of him and his hand slammed straight into the wall! "Yowch!" He said. He'd just been talking to a wall!
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Post by PBK on Jun 4, 2006 18:22:43 GMT
"Yeah, if your houndour could just hold some fire in its mouth, it should light up the room pretty well. Just don't let it burn the lab down," Jai said, laughing a little. Then she heard Darkaan smack into the wall. "You okay?" she asked, looking back to where she had exited from. She couldn't see, but it hadn't sounded very serious. At least she hoped it wasn't very serious.
<And why would I sssswant to go with that plant thing?> Viper asked, <SsssI bet that it'sssss jusssst trying to catch me ssssso it can hand me over to Herald.> Viper shook the rattle on the end of her tail menacingly.
A howl was heard, then rapid scurrying, presumably Jai's Poochyena.
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Post by Kris/Jillian on Jun 4, 2006 19:12:59 GMT
Kris whispered something to her Houndour and it opened its mouth. A glare of orange/red came from its mouth. "Is that enough light?" she asked. She could see things, but just barely. Kris looked at Jillian and her shiny ralts just to make sure they were ok. Jillian turned to Darkaan.
"Are you ok?" she asked. She could see him by the wall, but just barely.
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Post by Darkaan on Jun 5, 2006 2:44:15 GMT
"Um... yeah." He said, still quite embarassed. His hand was throbbing. He could now see a bit more clearly due to houndour's light. "Where abouts should your houndour walk? Back, middle or front?"
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Post by Jacklyn / Joshua on Jun 6, 2006 4:42:45 GMT
Jacki came a bit closer to the group now with Idris matching her every step. She was relieved to have some light. However, a giggle escaped her lips as Darkaan ran into the wall, even if she had done it a million times back in her home. Suddenly, she noticed the outlined silhoutte of somone, no wait, two someones. Jacklyn squinted her eyes, but she couldn't make out their features.
<What's wrong?> Her absol asked. Jacki answered, "I think I see someone."
She had seen someone indeed, for the white-haired boy and his shiny smeargle were approaching the room as she spoke. Joshua looked down at his new pokemon, a bit of disappointment rising in his gut. He had been so excited to get a chikorita, or a shroomish. His love had always been for the elegant grass pokemon, but now his partner was this painter pokemon. Joshua silently told himself that this would just be something to prove himself at. He would continue to train grass types, but along side Smeargle. Perhaps one day it might even be to an advantage. While he thought, the shiny smeargle looked up towards him.
<Hey, uh, what's-your-name," The smeargle piped up.
"Huh? The name's Joshua. Oh, what is it?" Joshua asked.
<Oh, I'm Quirk.> He said, <Anyway, I see a light up ahead. I think it's the group of trainers I saw come in.>
Joshua looked up ahead and to his surprise there was a light, and it appeared to be growing brighter. He hadn't seen it before though. Joshua started to run towards it with Quirk running beside him. Once they had gotten to the room, the duo skidded to a halt in front of Darkaan, Jacklyn, Jillian, Kris, and Jai. His face held a blank expression on his face for a moment then scratched the back of his head and smiled.
"Uh, I'm Joshua and I don't exactly know why I'm here."
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Post by Darkaan on Jun 6, 2006 9:16:13 GMT
Darkaan stopped walking with everyone and turned to see Joshua be greeted by Jacki. Darkaan smiled at Joshua. "Hey I'm Darkaan, nice to meet you!" He said, extending his hand. "We're off to take down Herald!" He said, his hand still extended, waiting to shake hands...
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Post by Professor Gravon on Jun 6, 2006 13:52:36 GMT
Whimper's and sounds of eevee's could be heard in the distance... So could the familiar sound of the patrolling shiftry!
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