Pokemon: Corruption of truth and ideals.

[Jorsh]

"Sure thing. Lets have a go, eh? Come on out, Oshawatt! Get up in there, Totodile!"

He throws his Pokeball and Totodile jumps into the air and runs into the arena when the Pokeball opens to release the black-shelled Oshawatt from his home.

"These happen to be my only two Pokemon, but we'll battle you really hard, right guys?" Nods "TOTO!" Smirks "Osha..."

"Well then, lets see what you got."

[Bubbalubber]

"I remember these two, unfortunately for you this will probably be a hard fight" Will says nodding at Arachne and Emerald who leap forward into the arena ready to fight. Spike makes his way back to stand at Wills heels and watch the fight.

"3, 2, 1, GO" Will counts down once both teams are ready.
"Ill take the first move, Arachne use electro web to cover the whole field" He commands to his Joltik who shoots out electrified threads to cover the floor of the arena, slowing everyone it touches and aiming to cause heavy electric damage to the two water type opponents. Emerald also takes some small damage, though her grass type helps to nullify most of it, and her ability causes her to gain additional speed instead of slowing down, allowing her to dart towards her two opponents even faster than normal.
"Emerald now, while they are unable to move as freely, use vine whip" Will calls to her as a pair of wines extend out from her next and swing towards the oshawatt and totodile.

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current team

sandshrew
name: Spike
sex: male
level: 14
nature: jolly, proud of its power
moves: scratch, sand attack, dig, rapid spin
ability:sand rush

joltik
name: Arachne
sex: female
level: 15
nature: timid, alert to sounds
moves: leech life, thunder wave, electro web, string shot
ability: compound eyes

snivy
name: Emerald
sex: female
level: 10
nature: hasty, likes to run about
moves: tackle, vine whip, leer
ability: contrary

[Artemis1369]

Nemi smiled at her companion and nodded clearly to him as if, accepting his choice before Violet chose to jump on her lap and curl up happily causing her to blush ever so, slightly but it was a good sign for her. Leaning back against the tree she, hada clear view of the sky and the landscape. It felt good to just relax and chill out on her own but with company it was much more enjoyable considering Zane also had pokemon and her three seemed to get along with them. Watching the Drifloon flit about on the wind and the Deerling, graze upon the grass. The soft breeze carassed her cheeks lie a soft hand stroking along the contours of her face before somthing hit her squarely in the face.
"Ow! Oh, a Drifloon." Nemi has in her hands a balloon shaped pokemon with string arms and giggles as the sudden commotion has awoken Violet and she was now, attempting to catch it with her claws outstretched before dashing forwards to catch up with it, but to no avail.
"Violet you will not catch it im afraid as the wind has picked up and it will just tease you." Nemi laughs trying to reason with the silly Purrloin before it turns to face her.
"Purrr... Purrloin...." Violet returns to her trainer before jumping onto her sholder then into the tree. It was as if she were doing morning execises yet the sun was setting. The sun was.... setting.
"OH NO! I need to challange the gym before it falls to night time or it will be shut and we trained so hard today, quickly."
Nemi shakes her pokemon awake gently before grabbing Zanes hand and begins to sprint forgetting he may not be as quick as her but it wouldn't have attered for the moment as the adrenaline in her blood stream would be enough to carry him along if needed. Followed swiftly by Requiel and Sakura with Violet giving chase also. It must have been a rather funny sight to those around them.
A young woman dragging a young man in a rush followed by a small rabble of pokemon, Nemi was set on her mission and as every second ticked down, the time the gym closed grew closer and closer. Rushing to the doors just as they began to shut her fingers released Zanes before throwing a pokeball into the small gap between the doors preventing them from shutting before almost slamming into the door from the sheer force of stopping herself.
"Please! Please! I need to battle with one of the leaders, im not that late please just make an acception this once."
She looks at the two leaders in front of her of, Cress and Chilly whom both seem a little ticked off with her.
"No way, i need my sleep to keep up with the fast pace of my Pansear"
"Sorry you should have got her sooner otherwise it would have been a good match."
As Nemi turns away almost in tears because she was too late another voice piped up.
"Hmm a trainer with such a distinguishing flavour of life. Its sweet with a hint of spicy for that extra kick. Just like a freshly baked cinnomen and honey pie. Il take you on." A green haired man approaches the doors and removes the pokeball before returning it to Nemi and gently takes her hand and kisses it.
"Ahh a fine young lady with an aura of intelligence but yet a kind heart." He smiles at her before speaking again.
"Also a fine perfume for such a fine trainer, i would like to sample your talents of pokemon for an all mighty array of sweet desserts."
Finding herself blushing from his compliments she enters but pulls Zanes hand gently and whispers.
"Id enjoy your company while i do this, please... Im just a little unprepared and nervous."

[Axion]

Zane laughed as he was pulled by Nemi, his pokemon immediately following them. He quickly matched her pace, keeping a hold of her hand as they ran. He could have ran faster, but he decided to let her set the pace. When they just barely got there, he was glad that one of the leaders had decided to battle her. He got an odd feeling in his stomach when she had her hand kissed and she blushed about it, but it faded as she took his hand again, causing him to look at her. When she invited him in to watch her, he blushed slightly, simply nodding as his team caught up to them.

"Uh, yeah sure, I'll be there..."

He was caught off guard, half expecting her to have forgotten him after the kiss to her hand. There was a warm feeling within his core, one that he never felt before. He shrugged it off, moving his arm over her shoulder to reassure her.

"Don't worry Nemi, you got this! You'll win hands down!"

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Team
Pokemon: Axew (Hatchet)
Gender: Male
Level: 13
Moves: Scratch, Leer, Dragon Rage, Dual Chop
Ability: Mold Breaker

Pokemon: Pawniard (Xena) (shiny)
Gender: Female
Level: 13
Moves: Scratch, Leer, Fury Cutter
Ability: Defiant

Pokemon: Growlithe (Fire-hound)
Gender: Male
Level: 13
Moves: Bite, Roar, Ember
Ability: Intimidate

[Empyre]

As the sun shone down on the beautiful Castelia City as always, it appeared there was a single cloud of gloom, almost tarnishing its perfection. Sat on pavement, with the face of a smacked behind Rem sat there, his pokémon imitating him in an almost comical way.

"Well that was a bad idea" He said glumly. "Stupid Nurse, I can't believe she even suggested that."

Rem thought back to the battle which took place only moment ago against the Castelia City gym leader, Burgh. To say Rem was defeated would be an understatement, if anything he was trounced, quite badly in fact. It was bad enough that Burgh used bug type pokémon so already Rem had the type advantage, but with a Snorunt who wouldn't listen to him, a Torchic that was easily provoked and an all-around lack of pokémon knowledge from Rem in general, the fight was a colossal fail. Rem spent half the battle 'umm-ing' and 'ahh-ing' flicking back through the page of the manual he got from Nurse Joy trying to determine his pokémons moves, forgetting the fight was taking place before him, and faster input would have been nice. That wasn't the worse part though.

Rem looked at the floor, both quizzically and a little depressed. "Maybe poking fun at the guy wasn't a smart move. For a pansy he didn't have throw a hissy fit when I told him the 60's wanted their style back." He folded his arms and closed his eyes, aggravated by the thought. "Still for a 'gym leader' I think he overreacted. I mean the handbook says nothing about what to do if the gym leader bans you from his gym."

Rem heard a door open from behind him and a jingle of keys. He looked around and saw Burgh, the gym leader, he was fiddling with his keys, he appeared to be closing up the gym for the day. As Burgh turned around, Rem stood up to face him.

Burgh's expression showed that Rem was the last person he wanted to see. "Hope you're enjoying it on the pavement there, it's the closest to this gym you're ever going to get."

His attitude annoyed Rem, Burgh was being so childish that rem actually wanted to slap him, but he restrained himself. "Listen Burgh, I'm sorry for what happened back there, I'm not the smartest of people at the best of times, much less when I'm panicked. I kind of just said those things to take the pressure off, you know?" Rem scratched the back of his head and smirked, more than a little embarrassed, explaining himself was not his strong suit.

Burgh's expression relaxed a little, but still appeared aggravated. "Rem, was it? I am an artist, but before that I am a gym leader, you may insult my style as much as you like, but you under no circumstances insult my abilities." Rem gulped, as Burgh paused, obviously waiting for his point to sink in. He then continued. "You enter my gym, start flaunting your dim-witted one liners, just being generally arrogant. That much I can take, what I can't take is when you can't even back up that bad attitude with a decent fight. You and you're pokémon are completely out of sync, they neither listen to you or respect you. You're Torchic will only listen to you as long as it can stomach you, otherwise its resolve lies elsewhere and Your Snorunt won't even look at you. To me you are no trainer, just some guy who was lucky enough to catch two pokémon"

Rem thought it best he not attempt to correct Burgh here by telling him technically only one of his pokémon he caught himself, Torchic wasn't technically his, and making that known would only further his humiliation. Instead he simply bowed his head.

"I'm..Sorry, Burgh." Burgh looked shocked by this genuine act of apology, but let Rem continue. "You're right, I am no trainer, actually, I work in a mart, in Hoenn for that matter. I came here looking for my sister whose been kidnapped by Team Plasma. In truth I know absolutely nothing about pokémon, not a thing. the nurse at the pokémon center told me to come to a gym if I wanted to make my pokémon stronger. I can't say much for these guys, but, after watching you battle, I think, for the first time, my eyes are open to how a real trainer battles. I..definitely have a long way to go before I'm at your level."

There was a silent pause, neither knew what to say at first. Finally Burgh breathed an exasperated sigh and spoke up.

"Burgh you are a sucker for the dramatic speeches. *sigh* That is ok Rem, I am sorry too, the way I reacted was...far from professional, but actually..." He folded his arms "In truth I have no right to actually ban you from the gym, without the permission of the 7 other Unova Gym leaders, the Elite Four and the Pokémon Counsel. It's all in the disclaimer, if you were a true trainer you would have known that."

Rem snapped his fingers, irritated by this thought. Burgh continued.

"However, we find ways around this. I can simply refuse to battle you and make excuses. If you don't think that will work forever, let me tell you, the last Gym Leader here refused to fight this one trainer because of his disgusting attitude. The trainer died of old age before he got a chance to re-battle my predecessor, true story."

Rem gulped at this thought. Burgh decided it was time to stop teasing Rem and end on a good note.

"Fine Rem. We shall pretend this event never happened, I will allow you to fight me freely again on three conditions: 1) Ditch the attitude." This was kind of a given, but Rem nodded in agreement anyway. " 2) The next time you fight me, you must defeat me, so I suggest you go away and train for some time, you only get one chance remember." Burgh smirked.

"Heh, now whose being cocky?" Rem goaded him. "Alright Burgh it's a deal. I promise I'll train hard, and the next time we meet, I'll crush you so bad you'll think you've been hit by a bus."

Pumping his fist with pride Rem turned to walk away, but an under the breath cough from Burgh made him turn back, obviously there was more to be said.

"So impatient Rem, I said THREE things remember?" Rem wondered what this third condition could be? Truly diabolical no doubt. Just then Burgh held up a small package and thrust it in Rems face. "Could you deliver this to my cousin? She lives on the outskirts of town, I figured if you were going that way, it'd be like hitting two pidoves with one stone."

Rem looked at Burgh, a little embarassed by the request, but was in no position to decline.

"Sure, ok, I guess. What's in it?"

Burgh waggled his finger disapprovingly "No, No, it's bad luck to open somebody elses package. If you do, you'll be cursed for life. Happened to an acquaintance of my predecessor; Opened a package that wasn't his. Next Morning, BOOM! Woke up with no hair."

Rem was lost for words, it was an act of idiocy he thought capable of him and him alone. "Uh huh. This predecessor of yours. I hope I never get to meet him, he sounds like a Hex. So anyway, you're cousin, who is he?"

Burgh giggled "Oh trust me, you'll know HER when you see her. We have what you would call a 'family resemblance'. She lives in a cottage just before Skyarrow Bridge, be careful, they say it's haunted".

Rather than stick around to see what other surprises Burgh had in store, Rem turned around and made way towards Skyarrow bridge, and beyond that Nacrene City.

OOC: Yes this time I DO mean Nacrene City. xP

[Criss421]

Character profile:

Name: Siegfried, normally goes by Free

Age: 19

Appearance: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs49/i/20...y_castiboy.png The shirt is white and the trousers are a tan colour.

Personality: While normally quiet around people Free has a strong moral compass causing him to disdain the current treatment of pokemon with a passion. He harbours an unshakeable determination to change the world for the better and doesn’t see his unfortunate past as something that can get in his way.

Pokemon:
Squirtle (Male) (Delta): Moves= Tackle/Tail whip Ability= Torrent
Torchic (Male) (Blaze): Moves= Growl/Scratch Ability= Speed Boost

History: While most 10 year olds began their adventures into the pokemon world Free was never so lucky, where most kids were at home with a loving family Free was just another orphan waiting to be put into a home. Neglected and alone he grew up waiting until he was old enough to get out in the world on his own and that came the day he turned 16, the day he left his past behind him and left Kanto for Unova and the adventure he had waited for. However the adventure he had waited for seemed tainted, after the news of a new Champion had swept through the region so had cases of cruelty to pokemon. His heart now filled with determination he set out on the path to change the world for the better, managing to convince a breeder to give him two baby pokemon he now had a reason for his adventure. He wants to change the world.

IC: “GO DELTA!”

Free yelled loud in the abandoned Dreamyard, he could never really believe it, he was finally a trainer. As the Pokeball finally hit the concrete it snapped open with a blinding light bringing out the Squirtle it had inside. Both Free and Delta stared at the Purrloin ahead of them as it readied itself for an attack.

“Ok Delta here we go, let’s start things off with a tackle!”

[Bow-Bow-Kun]

While the day was getting on and the gym was closing Jak and Daisy decided that they'd watch each others matches tomorrow when they challenge the gym leaders. "You mind I watch you battle first? So I can see how it's done." Daisy requested.
"You realise that this is a new for me as it is for you." Jak retorted, "But very well, I would like to get some momentum going in the morning for when I face them."
Sat in a small cafe at the far side of town they chatted about strategy.
"I've decided using Pansage will be most effective in beating this Cress who will use Panpour to defeat my rock type pokemon. What about you, Daisy?"
"I think I'll wing it and use the tricks you showed me" he replied with almost an irritatingly cute giggle.
Jak rubbed his eyes in frustration that this girl could be so laid back about it all. They were like heads and tails, opposites, but in the same way a dedicated trainer.
"Then lets stop at the poke'mart and stock up on items while we have time then we'll find somewhere to sleep" Jak suggested. Daisy agreed and they both set out for the poke'mart to buy two of each of the items most commonly found.
They were now stocked up for a small journey to the next town; each carrying a set of pokeballs plus extra; two potions and Daisy one super potion that her mum gave her; two antidotes, paralyze heals, and Jak had a white herb he found on his travels. They headed over to the pokemon centre looking for a place to spend the night.

[Empyre]

Breathing heavily Rem emerged from the pokémart, almost dragging his sister satchel across the floor.
"My GOD! How do they do it? 10 of each item and this bag is fit to burst, not to mention my back." *Huff* *Wheeze*. And I don't care what anyone says, 50000 pokécredits is not easy money to come by, I don't even know what I'm going to do with 10 escape ropes, and this mobile phone was seriously over-priced" He paused in thought "Man...I'm really going to have to pay Si Si back for this."

As he made his way to the exit of Castelia city and the entrance of Skyarrow bridge he was stopped suddenly by a woman in police uniform.

"Excuse me sir, may I ask you to empty the contents of your bag?"

Rem was in no mood, even if the policewoman was kind of hot.

"Sure you can." He replied, forcing a fake smile "But it's all on you, sweetheart, you know how long it took me to fill this thing."

The officer didn't bat an eyelid over his retort. Taking the bag from him and flicking through till she was satisfied she handed it to him.

"You're clean." She then adopted an apologetic tone, marrying her hands together as she did so. "You will have to forgive my rudeness. Team Plasma have been acting in the area of late, and we have to do these security checks on people."

Rem felt a little guilt over his earlier sass, so tried to make things right. "It's fine really, you gotta do what you gotta do. Actually my sister was kidnapped by Team Plasma not too long ago, I'm actually looking for them too."

The officer looked shocked. "Oh my that's terrible, now I feel really bad, you're a victim and I'm treating you like a criminal. Tell you what, here's my number, if we catch wind of anything here I'll let you know." She took out her notepad and proceeded to write her number on it. She handed it to Rem. Reading it to himself the name read "Officer Jenny".

"(How very authorative)" He though to himself.

"By the way." Officer Jenny continued "Pink is definitely your colour." She gave him a cheeky wink. Blushing and bidding her adieu, he made leave of the city.

When he was out of earshot he took his newly acquired phone out of his satchel and began flicking through it to find the number he wanted.

"10,000 pokécredits my behind" He said turning to his pokémon, whom he only just remembered were there. A sigh of relief denoted that he was glad they were still following him. "This thing is older than gram-ma, I'll be lucky if it still works."

Pressing the 'dial' key the phone began ringing. Rem was silent until he heard a 'Hello?' from the other side.

"Hi mom! it's me, just ringing you to say this is my new number."

The pokémon attempted to listen in to the conversation, but Rem was too high up, his mothers voice was distant and incomprehensible, they could only judge what she was saying via Rems responses.

"Yea, I know you've been nagging me to get a phone for ages, but better late than never, eh?............Yea, I got it, go you mom. Anyway this officer chick, totally hitting on me, I got her number and everythi-......yea, her names Jenny how'd you guess?.........Jen-Pecked? Oh come on mom now you're just making these up...........Mom, are you just over-reacting here, or is there a problem with your marriage that you're just not telling me?"

As the discussion dragged on, Rems mother nagging as usual, Rem's mind wandered off, in doing so he caught glimpse of a broken crate a way off the side of the road.

"(Hang on a tick...)" Rem thought to himself. "Hey mom, I'm going to have to call you back, something came up....Yea, love you too...bye" He hung up and made for the side of the road where the crate lay. A dark mist was seeping out of the cracks. Byrnie approached the crate cautiously, examining it closely.

"This crate seems oddly familiar" Rem said out loud, his pokémon barely listening as they were examining the wreck before them. Rem thought back and recalled the plane incident, as he fell out of it he was knocked out by some stray cargo. He looked down at the crate and saw a head shaped dent in the side, a bit of blood on it. "There we go, now I remember." Sneering at the crate Rem proceeded to join his pokémon examining the thing "So, crate...We meet again...Been up to much lately?" Rem bent down and began eyeing the black mist. "What is thi-?" before he could finish the crate burst open, catching Rem, Snorunt and Byrnie off guard. A black shadow emerged, and darted off in the direction of Nacrene city at an alarming rate. It was hard to identify exactly what it was itt was moving so fast, but in the brief second it emerged Rem could swear it was a pokémon he had seen before. Getting up after their sudden fright, the gang dusted themselves off, pausing before deciding if advancing was such a good idea, they were going in the same direction after all. The pokémon looked to Rem, obviously electing him the decider of their fates. Rem sighed, they weren't getting anywhere fast standing around, plus they still had Burghs package to deliver. So off they went, their eyes now constantly locked onto the shadows, looking out for danger round every corner.

[DarkImpetus]

Silver began walking the same direction, but not too much as to seem as though he was following Xen.
"Really? You too?" He said with surprise. "You have the same goal as me then, I plan on taking on all the gyms." Silver smiled, Deino and Riolu walked close to Silver with Deino occasionally batting his ankle with affection every so often. "You don't mind if me and my team tag along with you for a while do you? I would imagine it'd be fun travelling with others. Besides we're heading the same way anyhow, I don't mind stopping off at..." Silver had immediately forgotten to location where this so called Drifloon was. It thought for a short while before accepting he wasn't going to remember. "Wherever this pokemon you're looking for is." With a smile Silver tried to laugh it off, by this time he was walking at the same pace as Xen and only a meter apart from him. Deino was jumping as she walked, barking happily and Riolu merely walked calmly by Silver's side.

[Empyre]

"Now Byrnie, while its stunned, use [Scratch]!"

Abiding her masters command Byrnie hardened her feathers into a set of deadly claws, striking the foes Lillipup to the side of the face, sending it flying. As it collided with the floor, its movement being reduced to a steady roll, it collapsed in a heap, unconscious. The young trainer looked devastated as he returned his pokémon to its pokéball, the victory went to Rem.
Looking disgruntled, the trainer paid up and Rem bid him goodbye. Thanks to the almost limitless supply of resources in Rems bag, he was able to make it across Skyarrow bridge with little difficulty. He was actually starting to get the hang of this, even if his Snorunt wouldn't listen to a word he said and sometimes Byrnie would act without being instructed, Rem was at least able to hold his own in a fight, and was actually able to defeat all the mediocre trainers plaguing the bridge.

Finally Rem left Skyarrow Bridge. It had not been long, but Rem was still surprised that he was almost at his destination. Looking over the horizon Rem spotted what looked like a shed in the distance, as he got closer he noticed it was in fact a ram shackle apartment. Rem grimaced at the sight of it.

"Is this...Where Burghs cousin lives?" he looked at Byrnie who was equally as disturbed at this realization as he was. "You'd think being a gym leader he could afford to situate his cousin somewhere...a little more home-y?"

Shrugging the trio made their way towards to apartment. Knocking on the door Rem braced himself for what he was going to encounter on the other side.
As the door slowly opened, Rem was met by a hooded figure.

"Welcome to Madam Barabrelli's house of wonder. How may I be of assistance?"

Rem and his pokémon stared, there were no words to be said at this point. The woman, who appeared to be some sort of Gypsie-mystic was clearly just a few Magnemites short of a Magneton. Spying the wrapped parcel in Rems hand the Mystic beckoned for the gang to enter. They did so accordingly. Despite the houses outside appearance, inside was very much different. Lit only with candles and incense sticks Rem could make out various unique decorum: A Persian rug, velvet curtains (which were strangely shut, even though it was daytime). What caught rems eye most of all was the crystal ball sat perched on top of a large circular table. The Mystic made her way towards the table and knelt down by it. Rem did the same, though at this point he was just doing what he assumed she expected of him, lest she place a Gypsie curse on him or something. The woman began making a circular motion with her hands around the ball, and it lit up.

"I seeeeeee" she whispered, her eerie voice causing Rems palms to sweat "Yes, you are an interesting one. Your aura places you as a relaxed, carefree individual...Possibly too much...You are very lazy and lack the motivation or drive to accomplish anything of importance in life."

Rem was a little aggravated by this "Well I wouldn't go THAT far, I'm actually a pretty good cook-"

"THE SPIRITS SPEAK!" the woman interrupted, silencing Rem, making him think its best he remained that way. The sooner she finished babbling the sooner he could leave. "You have a long journey ahead of you, Remington. One filled with good memories, but equally as much pain and hardship, it will not be easy. You will be a strong trainer, this much is true."

Rem stood up "You're right. I see, it's all very clear to me now...It's clear to me why there ISN'T a huge queue outside your house, and why you're outcast here in the boonies." Rem was getting angry, it was unlike him, but if she was going to waste his time, he would rather it not have been this blatant act of false hope. "You're crazy lady, I admit that knowing my name was pretty good, but that's not exactly an achievement if you know my dads a CEO of Silph and have heard of a thing called 'the internet'. I'm outta here!"

Rem made to leave, clearly more angry than weird-ed out at this point, when suddenly the mystic dropped to the floor, seizing as she did so, she appeared to be having convulsions, but continued to talk as she did so.

"I see.....14 spires....The league....You're going to save this world Rem....You'll be great....But you won't do it alone....seek out the others....they will guide you...I see....A Forest..."

Kneeling down next to her, unsure how to deal with her sudden turn, the mystic reached up towards him. Rem noticed he was still carrying her package. Passing it forward to her, the mystic jumped to her feet, recovering instantaneously.

"Oooooooooooiiiiiiiiiieeeeeee! You brought them?! Thank you so much, give Burgh my best wishes, tell him I'll see him next week at Gram-Grams birthday!"

Rem had seen some wacky things so far, but this by far the wackiest. She seemed like a completely different character. Rem stood up, trying to think where to begin.

"You...said something about spires? And...A forest? Umm....?" He was baffled, he had no idea how to perceive what he had just witnessed.

The Mystic turned to him. "Oh sorry, I don't remember any of that, the spirits don't show me anything when they take control of me like that, I'm just a medium. But if you're looking for PINWHEEL forest, just continue going the way you were going and you should reach it just before Nacrene City."

Rem though it best to do as he was told, his pokémon had already made their way to the door, obviously as intimidated by this woman as he was. Before taking his leave Rem had just one more question.

"So...What's in the package?"

The Mystic looked at him, obviously surprised that he hadn't checked himself. Opening the package up she revealed a plate of...

"COOKIES" she squealed girlishly. "Gram-Grams own batch, they have mystical powers you know. Here take one."

She tossed a cookie towards Rem, who caught it. It took every ounce of his being to stop himself from crushing it in rage and going off on a rant. Burgh had him travel down the bridge of seemingly infinite trainer, using up a vast supply of resources leaving his bag feeling lighter than it had yet to deliver cookies? Rem was beyond annoyed but he retrained himself. Following his pokémon out the door he looked back at the mystic and through gritted teeth replied:

"ENJOY. YOUR. COOKIES."

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POKéMON:


SNORUNT
Name: Snorunt
Level: *7
Gender: Female
Attacks: Powder Snow, Leer, *Double Team.
Ability: Ice Body (HP is restored when it’s hailing)

TORCHIC
Name: Byrnie
Level: *10
Gender: Female
Attacks: Scratch, Growl, *Focus Energy, *Ember.
Ability: Speed Boost (Speed increases by one stage each turn except the turn that the Pokémon is switched into battle)

(* Indicated changes)

[jackorias]

"I have no qualms with it" he replied, truth be told a little companionship would most probably do him some good, he wasn't naieve enough to think he could do it completely alone. Returning the Golett back to it's pokeball he made his way out of the city and towards Straiton. The sun was setting in the bright sky causing the sky behind them turn a vivid shade of orange, yellow and red. Xen was hoping to reach the Dream Yard before nightfall, but at this rate it seemed like an impossiblity.

[Empyre]

Continuing his journey through the Unova region, Rem found himself at an Impasse, as a large tree seemed to be blocking his way to Nacrene City.

"Typical. Borderline psychotic mystic tells me to go to a forest, I go to the nearest forest because I'm stupid enough to listen to her, and this whole time I haven't seen a single pinwheel." Rem sighed looking at his friends who were overcome with exhausting and sprawled on the floor. "Too bad she wasn't a real psychic, we wouldn't be in the mess, I bet Abigail would have had a thing to say about phony psychics."

Rem stopped in his tracks. "That's funny. I haven't thought about her in such a long time. Why now?"

Rem's mind began to wander as he recalled his first ever home delivery working at the Mossdeep Mart. He remembers being beckoned into the house by a woman, before being assaulted with some lego bricks by the figure atop the balcony. Looking up he saw her there. That girl.

Rem was snapped back to reality by a loud noise nearby. It sounded like a howl. Byrnie and and Snorunt instantly jumped to their feet and began huddling close to Rem in fear. Rem pulled out a Super Repel from his bag and began aiming it in all directions like a weapon.

"Y...You'll leave right now if you know whats good for you" He couldn't disguise the panic in his voice, and the deathly howl began to get closer.
Grabbing his pokémon by their waists Rem tore into the undergrowth running at full pelt. Be it spectral being or really creepy pokémon Rem didn't want to find out, he just ran, a forest is an easy place to hide a body.
Charging through some bushes Rem suddenly felt air beneath his feet. Noticing a little too late that beyond those bushes lay a steep fall into a small ravine, Rem fell forward, turning as he did so landing on his back, grabbing his pokémon tightly to his chest, shielding them, Rem slid down the ravine. His slide was interrupted when Rem struck his head on a rock near the bottom. Albeit a light strike Rems vision began to blur. There was another howl, but Rem was too busy fighting his consciousness to do anything about it. It was really close now, it came from the right. as Rem turned his head in the direction of the noise, he noticed a black shadow coming towards him. His vision still blurred, identification was impossible. The creature howled again, but now that Rem could hear it more closely he could tell it was a howl of pain. As Rem began to regain his vision he focused on the creature that was now almost at his feet, locking eyes with it for what seemed like an eternity. The creature was Umbreon, the shadow pokémon, one of Eevee's many evolutions, and from the looks of it, it was bleeding quite heavily from the side. As the pokémon's footing began to fail and it lost consciousness, Rem lurched forward and grabbed it before it hit the floor. Caressing the creature in his arms he noticed it was wearing a tag, almost like a collar, the inscription read:

"Walk with the shadows, because at the end of every dark tunnel there is light"

A Haiku? Rem grimaced a little, it wasn't a very good Haiku, but suddenly Rem found himself remembering that same little girl again. Why had she suddenly come back into his life? The Umbreon coughed, almost like it was choking. Now was no time for a trip down memory lane, Rem had to get this pokémon to a centre fast. He noticed a path behind him leading onwards, almost like a detour around the giant tree he had earlier encountered, but he had to take it. Taking the Umbreon in his arms and beckoning for his pokémon to follow Rem charged along the path and was shortly met with a welcoming sight. Nacrene City. Spotting the pokémon centre almost instantly Rem made his way there at a fast pace. Prying open the automatic doors he yelled in a panicked voice:

"I need some help here!"

Everyone turned around in response to rems outburst. A team of medics quickly swooped in, taking Umbreon from his arms, putting it on a stretcher with an oxygen mask and whisked it away.

There was a moment of silence after this. Rem was a little embarrassed by his outburst, but at the time he didn't care. he then spotted a familiar face at the desk and made his way there.

"Nurse Joy" He beamed "You really must be dedicated to your job. How'd you make it all the way here from Castelia before me?"

The Nurse looked confused for a minute, then, realizing the situation snapped her fingers and replied. "Castelia? Ah no, you must be thinking of my cousin Nurse Joy. Always ambitious that one, always wanted to work in the big city."

Rem drew back shocked "Cousins? Wha-? But you look...exactly...the same...YOU EVEN HAVE THE SAME NAME! I've seen identical twins with less in common. You're jesting me right?"

Shaking her head in response the Nurse turned around and resumed her duties.
Sinking into one of the guest chairs Rem attempted to process what had just taken place. "Cousins?....Baffling."
He lay back, exhausted from all that running, which was momentarily interrupted by Byrnie jumping onto his lap and snuggling up to him. Rem placed his hand on her head comfortingly, scanning the room with his eyes for Snorunt. She was, as usual, at the farthest possible point from Rem, at the other side of the room, making rude gestures with her tongue at him. Squinting at her in disapproval, Rem suddenly realized he had something in his hand. Bringing it to his face to examine it he realized it was the Umbreon's collar. Reading the text again he began remembering the lone little girl who was ever so fond, if not entirely bad at writing Haiku's. This thought proceeded to dominate his mind until he drifted off to sleep.

~ 4 years ago ~

Sat in a small chair inside a young girls bedroom Rem glanced at the door.
"(Some mother)" He thought to himself "(Forcing some stranger into her sick daughters bedroom. I could have kidnapped her, or worse...)" he gasped "(She could have got me sick)"

Without warning the little girl came bounding across the room with a stuff toy in one arm and a plastic kettle in the other.

"More tea, Mr Remington sir." She beamed.

Rem eyed her up suspiciously "It's Rem, kid. Sir Remington is my old man. Emphasis on the old."

The little girl giggled in response "And I am Abigail. Empastis on the -igail. I don't like my name shortened. that's where we're different."

Looking around her room Rem could spy a thousand other ways they were different. Si Si's room had its shades of girlie colours, but this was just milking it. Rem had never seen so much pink and purple in his life, the room was plastered. To top it all off, on every stretch of wall was either some kids drawing or a magazine cut-out of a pink looking cat pokémon."

"So...uh...Abigail" Rem began, not sure if calling this girl out on her obsession would offend her or not. "You...like cat pokémon?"

Abigail looked at the toy in her hands, which was also a stuffed toy of the pokémon littering her room, and nodded. "Yup, it's an Espion! I LURVE Espion. they are so cute. <3" Rem attempted to stop her before she began going off on one, which seemed very likely at this point, but was too late. "Mommy said that when I'm 10 I can be pokémon trainer. I'ma get an Espion and we are going to challenge the league together. I've even been working on Haiku's so i can send it out in style. Listen. "She did a pirouette and motioned as if she was throwing a ball. "Let your rays of light dazzle the crowd. Shine, Espion!"

Abigail paused for an imaginary applause. Rem just raised his eyebrow. "You know that wasn't really a haiku, more of a badly thought out one liner."
He smirked at his own wise crack, Abigail merely inflated her cheeks to show she was annoyed, then changed the subject.

"So, are you gonna be a trainer Rem? Gots any pokémon?" She flashed him a smile, obviously expecting a more heartfelt response than she was going to get.

Rem thought of a nice way to break his boring life to her, alas chocolate coated manure was still manure. "I have no desire to be a trainer" he began, trying to make that sound cooler than it actually was. "Too much walking around, a lot of hassle, I'm just happy living my easy life, working part-time at the mart. As for pokémon, I don't really like 'em. When I lived with my parents we did, they still do, have a Liepard. Persephone they called her, continuing their tradition of bad names. She was a nasty piece of work, one of the things I DON'T miss about living at home."

Rem looked at Abigail, unsure if that huge speech had even sunk in to her under-developed brain. He would never know, she responded all the same, with a big grin and a giggle.
"You're funny Rem. Mommy won't let me keep pokémon, she says they make me sick-er, BUUUT-!" She leaned in closer to Rem and whispered in hiss ear. "I secretly been feeding this stray Eevee I found. It was so thin and alone, I couldn't just leave it. So I took it home and fed it. It sneaks in every night, and we pay games. he tells me he likes my Espion drawings, maybe more than me. He says he wants to grow up to be an Espion one day so he can be my first pokémon."

It was a very cute story, even Rem had to admit that, but alas time was getting on and Rem had to get back to the mart. As his emotional attachment to the memory came to an end Rem found himself drifting between being awake and being asleep.


~ Present ~

Amidst his limbo, Rem heard a voice that sent a shiver down his spine:

"S'ank you Nurse Joy, it 'as been a..How you say...Pleasure."

Rem knew that voice all too well, forcing himself to wake up, he still found himself clutching on the that memory of the little girl, almost pulling him back in. As her smiling face faded away Rem Jolted up, knocking the was sleeping Byrine off his lap. Running over to the desk, frightening the Nurse half to death, he began panting, trying to force out his panicked thoughts all at once.

"That man...The french guy...Where is he?"

The Nurse looked shocked for a moment, still trying to process things. Eventually her eyes lit up and she spoke.
"You mean that nice Italian Gentleman? He left some time ago, you probably missed him by about 20 minutes."

Rems head began to spin.

"(20 minutes? Has it been that long? Italian guy? UMBREON!)"

Looking back at the nurse, before he got a chance to ask, a panicked Audino came rushing in from out back, making a lot of noise, that was ultimately gibberish because no-one could understand it. Finally a medic came out, likely panicked by the same thing, he attempted a more understandable panicked gibberish.

"The Umbreon! It's GONE!"

Rem's heart surged into his throat. He felt sick. Physically sick. Turning around and running out of the pokémon centre, his pokémon following, half-dazed from sleep deprivation. He yelled with all his might.

"UMMMBREEEOOOONNNN!!!!"

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POKéMON:


SNORUNT
Name: Snorunt
Level: *8 (...Behind the scenes she wandered off a lot in Pinwheel Forest. True Story)
Gender: Female
Attacks: Powder Snow, Leer, Double Team.
Ability: Ice Body (HP is restored when it’s hailing)

TORCHIC
Name: Byrnie
Level: 10
Gender: Female
Attacks: Scratch, Growl, Focus Energy, Ember.
Ability: Speed Boost (Speed increases by one stage each turn except the turn that the Pokémon is switched into battle)

(* Indicates changes)

[Tsumugi Kotobuki]

"Thank and well... My parents sent me out on my own at my request. Ummmm and this poor little pokemon that is inside this ball, is the reason why I'm here," Ai says, "She fell into the river, I tried to save her, but I had to follow the river to a part where I could actually grab her. This city was the closest and so I took her here to get treated." She looks at the menu and quickly chooses a meal for herself and then her two pokemon.

Terra looked over to where Ahri's pokeball was and pressed the button. With a red light out popped Ahri. She opened her mouth and yawned. Then closed it and laid down next to Ai her head on Ai's lap. Terra then looked up at Ai and then sighed patting the Vulpix on the back.

[Bow-Bow-Kun]

Looking through his bag Jak nodded, "Hmm, this should be enough to take on the gym. Now I need to find a bed.... or I could just camp out. he said to himself.
Daisy beamed at Jak with glee, "Camping is amazing!!! Lets camp out!".
"Weren't you going to rest at the poke'centre?" Jak retorted; her energy enervating his.
Daisy huffed at him and puffed, "Fat chance, I want to camp out. Camp out! Camp out! she began to chant.
Running a dark hand over his face and back through his silvery hair Jak interrupted her chanting, "OK! We'll camp out. But I only have one tent and sleeping bag."
Fidling with her belongings, Daisy came to realise she didn't bring her sleeping stuff... which caused her to cry out; both annoyed and upset that she can't sleep outside. Her hot and bothered ranting was even more annoying to Jak, "Okay kid, take mine. I'll sleep on the floor; no big deal.", "Thankyou so much!!! And it's Daisy...!"
After many failed attempts of hugs Daisy had given up and instead they both went to the edges of town near the dreamyard to set up camp. Fumbling with the tent and rolling out the sleeping bag they were all set, Jak faster than the both of them, considering he had nothing to sleep with anymore.
They had set up a fire and were roasting some berries for the pokemon, and cooking up some roasted apples for some form of dinner. The sky was slowly getting darker, the city lights being the main source of light, shadows of trainers dashing back home or to the poke'centre for much needed sleep. "Peace and quiet." said Jak smiling.

[Empyre]

"UMBREOOOOOOOON!" Rem began calling the pokémon desperately. His pokémon did the same, but to em it seemed that they were just calling out to themselves. After hearing that abominable Franglais accent back at the centre there was no doubt that Team Plasma guy was here, Rem was worried he'd done something to Umbreon. Suddenly Rem noticed some lights, they appeared to be hovering above Pinwheel forest. He dashed there as fast as he could.

***

Arriving at Pinwheel forest in record time Rem looked up and gawked at the giant ship hovering above them, lashing at the trees with its propellers. Looking back to ground level Rem saw him, just about to board a platform that had descended down from the ship, with intention to bring him aboard. The man paused and looked at Rem, stepping off the platform as he did so.

"Ah, moisseur hot-head, Zees is a surprise. I never expected to see you again, alive mooch less."

Rem was in no mood for chit chat, he clenched his fists and screamed at the man. "Where's Umbreon, you filth!?"

The man was disgusted by this outburst, but nevertheless proceeded to answer. "Umbreon? I 'av no idea what you-" He snapped his fingers in realization "Ah. Now zat you mention it, I did notice zere was a box of cargo missing from the airsheep. I will 'av too look into zees. But now zat you know what zey contain, I can't just let you walk away."
Withdrawing a pokéball from his belt he flung it into the air.
"Go! Mienfoo!" The pokéball opened, and from the red light emerged the form of Mienfoo.

Rem reciprocated this by outstretching his finger and calling forth Byrnie. "Byrnie, use scratch"

As Byrnie went in for a scratch, the Franglais man grinned and reacted. "Mienfoo. Fake Out."
Faking out Byrnie and stunning her in her tracks, Mienfoo went in for another attack "No, while eet's stunned Pound." Mienfoo pounded knocking Byrnie off balance. "No Pound eet again"
Rem reacted "Byrnie duck it, and use scratch" snapping out of her stupor Byrnie reacted, unleashing a devastating uppercut to Mienfoo's chin. It fell backward, but was not deterred. "Now Byrnie again, scratch."
The man was starting to get annoyed now. "Mienfoo. Brick Break" hardening its hand the Mienfoo broke through Byrnie's scratch delivering a crushing blow to her forehead. She flew backwards in pain. That attack had done a lot of damage, she wasn't out yet, but was struggling to find her feet, the man was not about to let that happen. "Mienfoo, finish it off with pound."

About to in for the kill Miefoo charged up to Byrnie with alarming speed, but before it could get its attack in a dark shadow shot out from the darkness, rugby tackling the Mienfoo and knocking it to the ground. Both Rem and the caped man looked to see who this intruder was. It was Umbreon.

Rem smiled "Umbreon you're alright!" He was overjoyed, but noticed the creature was still fatigued, it had not fully recovered yet.

The caped man sneered. "So zere you are, my pretty. Perfecte timing, now I can capture you again and use you to beeat zis brat to a pulp."
Byrnie slipped back, prepared to leave the fighting to Umbreon. The caped man chuckled " A bad move birdie. Zees battle is in ze bag, the advantage is mine! Mienfoo brick break!"

Responding to its masters orders, the Mienfoo went in for a brick break, but Umbreon was too fast and dodged it. Despite not owning this pokémon Rem was still in battle mode and attempted to issue orders nonetheless.
"Umbreon Pursuit!" The Umbreon looked at him perplexed. "You...don't know that move? Weird I thought that was like the first move you knew....Umm...Bite?" Still nothing.

Before Rem could get another word in the Mienfoo landed a perfect brick break on Umbreon doing major damage, knocking it backwards. The caped man sneered. “Mienfoo. again." Mienfoo went in for another brick break. Umbreon attempted to dodge again, but it's wound retrained it, resulting in a brick break to the back. The caped man turned psychotic "AGAIN MIENFOO! AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN!!!!"
Rem felt helpless, Umbreon didn't seem to have any dark attacks, it's like it's entire skill set was different, Rem had no idea where to begin. Then amidst the fight, he locked eyes with the Umbreon for a second time. The images of memories gone by flooded his mind again. Even though he had encountered her numerous times in the past lately he had difficulty remembering the girl; her face, her hair, the only thing he could remember was her smile. Now though he could picture her perfectly; her short brown hair, her numerous freckles, her bright pink dress, but still the thing he remembered most about her was her smile.
Flashbacks became whizzing through his mind at the speed of light;

***

Abigail: Rem, Rem! Look Look! I saved all my pocket money and I was finally able to buy it!
Rem: TM29? What is that?
Abigail: *Tapping her nose* it's a secret.

***

Abigail: Eevee only comes in at night. He's ascared of the dark, so he likes to cuddle up to me. When he becomes an Espion, he says he'll make it light all the time.
Rem: Isn't Espion psychic though? Not light? How would that work?
Abigail: *giggling* You're such a big head.

***

Rem: ...Is that an Espion costume?
Abigail: Yup, when I become a trainer we're going to enter a contest like this. We'll surely win. Don't I look cute?
Rem: *Squinting*...Adorable.

***

The final flashback was by far the most heart wrenching one, causing Rem's eyes to water like a tap. He remembers going to her house, he had become quite fond of the girl, much to his own embarrassment. Whilst walking by a store earlier he'd noticed the most beautiful Espion glass figure, even he, who didn't care much for pokémon had to admire its craftsmanship. It was expensive, but Rem with all the overtime Rem had been pulling he felt he could afford it. He recalls being met at the door by the mother, in floods of tears. Most of the conversation was a blur, but he didn't need to remembe all of it, he'd rather not, he knew the outcome and it wasn't nice. Turned out the girl was sicker than she made out to be, passing away that very night. The glass figure dropped from Rems hand shattering into a million pieces of the floor.
The next minute he's standing at her tombstone. He had no words, they were meaningless at this point anyway. It was raining heavily. He remembers looking up hearing a howl. He couldn't see past the rain, but he could swear he saw a shadow, before it disappeared into the trees.

***

Re-entering the normal world with a calm mind, he looked back towards the fight. Umbreon was taking a beating, there was no way it could last much longer, Mienfoo's Pound->Brick break tactic was working like a charm. Umbreon would dodge the brick break and be hit by pound, it couldn't do anything. Casting his hand forward in a commanding motion Rem spoke.

"Umbreon. PSYCHIC!"

The capes man stuttered. "P-Psychic!?"

Umbreons eyes glowed and its body trembled as a psychic storm was unleashed from its body taking the Mienfoo off guard connecting with a critical hit. It fell back, that was a heavy hit, it was now on its last legs.

The caped man snarled. "Mienfoo. BRICK BREAK!"

As it closed in for another brick break Rem responded swiftly.

"Umbreon. Sand-attack!" The sand attack seeped into Mienfoos eyes, causing its attack to miss. "Now, finish it off with another Psychic!"

The caped man called out to Mienfoo, but it was too late, the psychic connected, tearing at the trees as it did so, knocking the Mienfoo clean out.

The caped man gritted his teeth in rage "Mienfoo Return" Returning it to its pokéball he composed himself and spoke calmly. "Brava Moisseur Remington. I commend you. Fortunately for you, I have little time for games. So I bid you adieu" He launched a spherical object at the party, blinding them.
When the smoke cleared Rem caught a glimpse of the ship taking off. He was gone again. rem snapped his fingers annoyed. Rem looked down at Umbreon, it was clearly struggling to keep its balance. For the second time since they met Rem swooped in catching it before it hit the floor.

"You did good Umbreon. You did real good."

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POKéMON:


SNORUNT
Name: Snorunt
Level: 8
Gender: Female
Attacks: Powder Snow, Leer, Double Team.
Ability: Ice Body (HP is restored when it’s hailing)

TORCHIC
Name: Byrnie
Level: 10
Gender: Female
Attacks: Scratch, Growl, Focus Energy, Ember.
Ability: Speed Boost (Speed increases by one stage each turn except the turn that the Pokémon is switched into battle)

(* Indicates changes)