Darkaan in the Dark

[Darkaan]

Darkaan stepped into the cold dark street...
Several chills went down his spine.

For some very bizarre reason all his senses became alive. Mortochi, who was with him, suddenly noticed Darkaan's hair colour change to jet black.

<How do you that Darkaan?>
"Do what?"
<Change your hair like that?>
"Oh it naturally happens... Don't know why... I suppose it's a bit like why some pokemon moves change with the environment."
<They do?>
"Some."

They both continued walking through the darkness of the street.
<Darkaan. Why are we down here? What made you think coming down this street was a good idea?>

"I... Don't know... I have a fascination for dark places... They invite me to explore the unknown."
<But don't you find them scary?>
"I find people scary. They're unpredictable. But darkness has it's comforts depending on how you see shadows."
Mortochi shook his head. <Well then I'm glad you're my trainer! This place give me the creeps!>

[PBK]

Up ahead, growling could be heard. There was a strength in the growl. It was not fearful or defensive, but that of a trained fighter, one not afraid to attack first. This first growl was met and harmonized by a second, then a third. It wasn't long before one couldn't tell exactly how many pokemon were up ahead (for they could not be seen in the darkness.)

The growls became louder and more prolonged. Soon, the echoed out into howls, an eerie cry of sorrow or of warning, it was hard to say which. Then, just as they had begun, the noises shifted, and only the sole growl remained. Perhaps the rest of it had only been imagined.

[Darkaan]

Darkaan's heart pumped with excitement as fear mingled with excitement in his blood. The howls made Mortochi, jump up and hug Darkaan's arms.
"Easy, Mortochi!"
<Those noises!>
"What noises?"
<Those howls!>

They both paused, only to hear growls coming from somewhere in the darkness...
Darkaan, hoping to make Mortochi relax, released Marco and Thundigar.
"Marco! Thundigar! Use flash to light up the area!"
They did as commanded. A bright light quickly filled the street, but the darkness intruded heavily on their light and it was possible to see only a meter ahead now in the inky blackness.
Marco muttered something to Thundigar, but Mortochi and Darkaan couldn't hear them. Mortochi, seeing the light, did become a bit more relaxed and finally jumped down.

[PBK]

"Arooooooooo-ooooooo!" came the howl once more. It was a lone noise. Nothing met it. A couple of footsteps. "RooooOOOOOOOoooo!" The patter of more steps. "Roooooo..." A sad, almost desperate howl. More footsteps.

Suddenly, the head of a Houndoom came into the lighted area. The pokemon blinked, retreated, and began to growl. <What do you want?> The voice was low, mature, perhaps even elderly. If the light had been better, they would have been able to see the many battle scars were cut across his body.

[Darkaan]

Darkaan felt it's presence creep over his body.
Pure intimidation rattled his soul and his eyes dared to blaze with excitement towards the houndoom's direction.

<I want your soul...> Darkaan said, feeling risky.
<Up for a fight?> Darkaan said, raising a pokeball to his face.

"Why am I doing this? Why am I acting nuts?" He thought.
Darkaan's pokemon shivered at his comments. Did they even know who they were travelling with?

[Professor Gravon]

<You're asking for it!> The houndoom leered.
<Ok! Lets show him what we've got!> The houndoom snorted.

Another two sets of other houndoom eyes suddenly lit up from out there in the darkness. They came into Darkaan's pokemon's light.

They were all leering menacingly at him.
The one that spoke to Darkaan started running at him!
Think fast!

[Darkaan]

Mortochi jumped in front of Darkaan and used stone edge on the houndour... <HIYAH!>

[Professor Gravon]

It received a critical hit and lost half its hp. It's intimidate affect had it's toll on mortochi, so did the other two houndoom. Mortochi's attack was at it's weakest!

The other two jumped towards Mortochi, one bit down on him, the other using flamethrower on him.

[Darkaan]

Mortochi flinched.
But Darkaan didn't.
"Thundigar! I choose you!" Darkaan yelled, releasing his electabuzz.
"Thundigar! Use lightscreen!" Darkaan ordered. The light screen went up, encasing Mortochi and Thundigar from special attacks.

[PBK]

One of the Houndooms used smog, making it even harder to see in the already dark surroundings. The only thing visible were the dogs' piercing red eyes. One of them lunged to bite at Thundigar. The other two howled, but didn't come any closer. They waited to see if the trainer would order any more pokemon out to combat.

[Darkaan]

Thundigar inhaled and became poisoned by the smog attack. He was caught right in the thick of it.
Thundigar took in energy and released a discharge attack toward some glowing red eyes before him.
Mortochi used the darkness to his advantage and hid in it. He was hoping the houndoom would smell him when the smog cleared. He had a plan.

Darkaan was in a bit of a disarray. Mortochi was suddenly gone and he couldn't see Thundigar through the smog.
He hated when he couldn't see his pokemon battle.

[PBK]

ooc|| Discharge...*has no clue what that does* Oh wellz, I shall make it up since I am far too lazy to look anything up at the moment...ah, the beauties of schooling from morning 'til night...doesn't matter how much time you get in between.

bic||

One of the houndooms was hit by the electricity, straight on the horns (which, surprisingly conducted the force incredibly well.) The pokemon's brains were fried, and the poor thing fainted.

Thundigar gained 1 level!

The other two, however, we unharmed by the attack. They ran at Thundigar full speed, mouths wide open as they barked, and prepared to bite the opposing pokemon. Both were either unaware or disinterested in Mortochi. If it was up to them, Thundigar was going down.

[Darkaan]

Thundigar received, painfully, both bite attacks. Out of instinct, he used his thunder wave to try to paraylze them with his natural static ability. Thundigar bellowed out in pain.

Mortochi, never hearing Thundigar make such a noise before, assumed that the noise came from Thundigar. Slamming his head into the ground, Mortochi used earthquake. The attack headed straight for the three pokemon!

Darkaan could hear the sound of a quake, and felt the ground and darkness around him shake.

[Nishrocks]

Both Houndoom, twitching violently fell, paralysed.
Unable to move, they fell victim to the super-effective earthquake attack.
Their yelps for pain fell short, and mustering up their strength, they released a flamethrower towards the electabuzz and his brash trainer.

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[Darkaan]

Thundigar, managed to shake them off as the paralysis hit them, but Mortochi's earthquake followed though and severely reduced Thundigar's health. He didn't see one of the houndoom aim at him, he saw the one aim at Darkaan. By accident he dodged the houndoom's attack.

Thundigar launched himself at the houndoom aiming a flamethrower at Darkaan and threw the beast a sever thunderpunch attack.

The flame completely engulfed Thundigar as he followed through with the last of his grunt to bring down at least one houndoom.

Mortochi shot through the darkness and rolled in view of his trainer. "Mortochi use stone edge!"

[PBK]

All of the attacks added up to something that was too great for the weakened Houndooms to handle. The pokemon both fainted. Now, all three pokemon lay fainted before Darkaan.

Mortochi gained 2 levels!
Thundigar gained 1 level!

Some howling could be heard in the distance. Darkaan had only run into part of the pack. "ArrroOOOooooooo...." The haunting noise seemed to get closer. But this time, there were many more voices. Lots of yapping and howling. There must be at least thirty of the beasts out there. It would probably be best to get away as quickly as possible (or at least dispose of the evidence.)

[Darkaan]

Darkaan decided to throw his great ball to catch at least one of the houndoom.

Darkaan withdrew his mantine, Tek. He also withdrew Vain-Glory, his victreebel.

"Hey guys. We are about to do some serious training. There's a pack of houndoom coming our way. Remember what you've learnt and apply some of my teachings. Vain-Glory, be careful of their flame attacks and use your poison attacks."

"Marco. Thundigar. Use flash! We need as much light as possible!"

Darkaan could see that the dark smog was lifting as their flash light grew.

[Professor Gravon]

ooc: smart. I wasn't going to let you catch it if you threw a pokeball or luxury ball at it this time. You definitely need to catch it with a stronger ball.

Mortochi gained 1 level!
Marco gained 1 level!
ELectabuzz gained 1 level!

The houndoom remained in the ball!

((Stats))
Nickname: (you choose)
Species: Houndoom (Shadow)
Gender: (You Choose)
Level: 31
Attacks: Bite, Dark Pulse, Thunder Fang, Smog
Ability: Early Bird and Flash Fire
Persona: Serious

As soon as flash was used, three more houndoom came into view... Followed by another four... Followed by another... No. That was it.

Seven houndoom observed the scene. They showed no sign of shock, instead they stared Darkaan and his pokemon down.

One howled. <YOU WILL PAYYY!!!!>

With that cry, the lunged at Darkaan's pokemon.
Two lunged for Thundigar. One used smog, the other used bite.
Another two lunged for Marco. One used bite, the other howled to raise it's attack.

One lunged at Mortochi and used fire fang. The last two used their attacks on Tek, one used faint attack. The other used embargo.

[Darkaan]

Before they attacked, Thundigar used light screen, protecting all three of them. Unfortunately for Thundigar, he yelped as the smog attack engulfed him. He became poisoned but not affected by the physical atackdue to the light screen.

Marco responded with another tailglow and threw a thunderbolt at one of the houndoom who bit down on him.

Mortochi used his stone edge attack on the houndoom.

Tek used water pulse on the only houndoom he could see. He was taken off guard by the other's faint attack.

[PBK]

It was impossible to say how many of the attacks hit or missed as a number of the Houndooms had let out smog attacks, clouding the area from view. A couple of them yelped in pain though.

More howling. But once again, it was impossible to see whether it was more pokemon come to join them, or just the current ones raising their attacks...or perhaps calling their friends for an early dinner. Or maybe it was lunch. In a place like Shadow Street, it was hard to tell the time.

Houndours seemed to be everywhere and nowhere all at once as they used their faint attack against Darkaan's pokemon.

[Darkaan]

(ooc: did their attacks hit the houndoom?)

All Darkaan's pokemon were struck by the unavoidable faint attack!
Darkaan released Exzodus from his luxury ball.

"With your keen eye ability, use your brave bird attack and knock out one of those houndoom!"

[Nishrocks]

OoC: Some.

The Houndoom that exzodus had hit yelped in pain. It drifted back into the smog, before releasing another bout of faint attacks.

P.S: Be sure to join the plot

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[Darkaan]

ooc: where?

Tek was sturck by the faint attack!

"Retreat back to me! All of you!" Darkaan commanded.
Some of his pokemon seemed to be shivering out of fear, twitching, being sensitive... Waiting for something to emerge from the shadows...

Mortochi spun to his right and used a powerful earthquake attack on a puff of a smog cloud that managed to catch the light of Marco and Thundigar's flashlight.

They all surround Darkaan, covering each others backs, waiting fot e next assault...

[Nishrocks]

OoC: Route 3. Have Darkaan appear there, and I'll write you in.

The flashlight fell on a smog cloud, dispelling it's illusive qualities, and causing the silhouette of a Houndoom to stand out against the light. Perhaps the disguise wasn't completely foolproof!

The earthquake struck hard and true, causing one of the Houndoom to faint there and then. The only sound for a moment was their soft padding around the group.

Soon after, there was a whirl of confusion, when the Houndoom, having completely circled the group struck simultaneously with a Faint-Attack, knowing that their attacks would hit. There was a strange snarling, and then silence, as the pack departed back into the shadows, their attacks completed.

Were they running from something?

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[Darkaan]

(Ooc: Levels?)

Each one of Darkaan's pokemon let out a cry as they received blows by the houndoom's faint attacks. They continually remained strong... Except for Thundigar who was still poisoned.

They all held their breath as they listened for the houndoom.
All they heard was a gradual snarl go further and further away.

They waited in silence until they were sure that the pack of houndoom were gone.