3v3 Single
DQ: 5 Days
Damage Cap: 35%
Banned Moves: 1-hit-KO's
Stadium: Old Chateau Courtyard
Located in northern Eterna Forest is the crumbling old mansion known only as the Old Chateau. There are cobwebs, cracks and thick coatings of dust everywhere to be seen. Should one be brave enough to enter the Chateau they would find a back door leading to the outside. Upon exiting the ancient building, one would see the remnants of an old battleground for Pokemon that once upon a time must have been magnificent, but is now in a state of irreversible disrepair. Large oak trees that stood proud and tall with vibrant leaves now sadly droop their leafless, brittle branches. The once decorative shrubbery, first overgrowing before wilting, stand starkly against the dark forest. A strange greenish haze lingers, further making things creepy and ominous. The chateau looms intimidatingly over the field, the backside having a balcony that is now weathered and crumbling.
-10% chance that the haze will rise up and obstruct the vision of the Pokemon, reducing their accuracy by 25%
-10% chance that a chunk of the balcony's support beams may crumble and fall on the Pokemon's head if they are below it, dealing 20% damage.
-The setting of this stadium is very haunting and chilly, giving Ghost and Dark moves a x1.5 boost.
Having recalled Anthy, Alraunne plucks her third and final Pokéball out and throws it into the arena. It bursts into a cloud of red light, which turns into a purplish haze and... doesn't do much else, just hanging in the air just in front of Apollo. Suddenly a face appears in the centre of the gaseous swirl, and Boo the Gastly surveys the arena- looks like his kind of place! His approving gaze falls on Apollo, and he frowns. What's this Nidoran's problem? He's shaking like a leaf. Supposing this is to be his opponent, he grimaces threateningly, and Apollo tries to regain his composure before the round starts.
Round Eighteen
Alraunne (XXO)
Boo (M) <Levitate>
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: feeling right at home.
Dark Pulse/Double Team ~ Shadow Ball/Double Team/Chill ~ Shadow Ball/Double Team/Chill
Full Metal Cookies (XXO)
Apollo (M) <Poison Point>
Health: 77%
Energy: 67%
Status: preparing for the last leg of the battle. -1 accuracy
Sucker Punch ~ Sucker Punch ~ Sucker Punch
Boo starts the round by charging a darker purple glow around himself... and then getting knocked brutally to the floor with a fierce, sudden lash from above. With an uncharacteristic yelp, he floats back up to his former altitude, wishing he had some appendages to rub his aching head with. He looks around angrily for his cowardly assailant, but sees nothing but Apollo sitting innocently on the ground and smiling up at him sweetly. Shaking his head (or should that be his body?), Boo charges up his purple aura once more, until he becomes engulfed in a cloud of dark energy. He scowls furiously down at Apollo, his eyes glowing red and his face contorted into a mask of hatred. His fury seems to feed the aura, which glows and expands as his apparent abhorrence of Apollo grows. Eventually the aura bursts, washing over the arena with a terrible, ghostly screech, picking up leaves and flinging them every which way as it rushes ever closer to Apollo. The Nidoran attempts to flee, but the aura outpaces him and blasts him with a jolt of awful, ghostly energy. Terrible pain and a thousand despicable emotions rush through Apollo's body as the attack burns at his hide, eventually letting up and leaving the poor Nidoran twitching in pain and probably scarred for life.
THWACK. Again Boo is truck viciously on the top of his head, right about when he's going to attack. Growling in anger, he floats up and scans the arena furiously once more, but sees nobody who apparently had attacked him; just Apollo, sitting quietly on the leaves, still a little traumatised. At least that hit hurt a tad less than the last one... with a scowl, Boo starts to gather a blob of shadowy energy before himself, forming a quickly-inflating ball of impenetrable darkness. When it grows to about the size of his body, he nudges it, sending it spinning across the arena towards Apollo, with whom it impacts, bursting into a cloud of shadows with a loud explosion that knocks the Nidoran several feet across the arena.
Boo grunts as he feels an abrupt tap on his head, just hard enough to feel it but light enough to cause no pain. Starting to get quite annoyed, he has a final look around the arena for the culprit. Sure, it didn't hurt this time, but it's the
principle of the thing. However, for the third time his search turns up only the harmless-looking Nidoran sitting before him. Sinking into paranoia, Boo glances fretfully around the arena one last time... he bets it was the referee. That bastard. He'll get him later. Putting the whole strange series of events out of his mind, he gathers another darkness-lump and shoves it towards Apollo. This one impacts with an explosion just as large as the one before, but Apollo is neither sent flying or even seemingly hurt in any way, bar the ghostly energy burning at some of his previous wounds and making them a little more tender. The round over, the two Pokémon both contemplate what on Earth is going on, and where the heck their nociception went.
Alraunne (XXO)
Boo (M) <Levitate>
Health: 65% (CAPPED)
Energy: 80%
Status: increasingly paranoid.
Dark Pulse ~ Shadow Ball ~ Shadow Ball
Full Metal Cookies (XXO)
Apollo (M) <Poison Point>
Health: 42% (CAPPED)
Energy: 51%
Status: feeing quite mischievous. -1 Sp. Def, -1 accuracy
Sucker Punch ~ Sucker Punch ~ Sucker Punch
Terrain Notes
Everything in the courtyard is covered in a carpet of leaves.
Final Notes
- both Pokémon hit the damage cap on the second round.
- the third Shadow Ball dealt no damage, but lowered Apollo's Special Defense.
- Full Metal Cookies attacks first next round.
