Denryu vs. The Omskivar

Magni, still darting around, began to swim in a more rectangular pattern than before. Her swishing tail painted the water pale blue until, quite quickly, she had created a large, translucent blue window in the rough shape of a square. Rather proud of this effort, the feebas resumed swimming in quick little circles once more, this time behind a barrier.

Yuno stopped spinning abruptly, then swung around until a specific one of its legs was pointed in the general direction of its opponent. Its bright glow turned banana-yellow for an instant before electricity began arcing out of the tip of its leg. Yuno let out a triumphant striya~– or at least, it tried to. The electricity it had sent coursing towards its opponent had lost all control, spreading in every direction. Some managed to slip through Magni's Light Screen, but more of it attacked its source, making the staryu's glow flash rapidly in pain.

Magni, wearing a fishy grin now, zoomed forward at colossal speed, her wall matching her pace. At the last moment she slowed, using her momentum to twirl about and dust her tail over the staryu's body. Yuno made an odd, beepy noise and spun even faster, false powder whipping about at an aggravated rate. Magni blindly swam away, blinking her eyes to rid herself of the red stains on her corneas. Once this was accomplished, she glanced back to see the staryu that was her opponent, now sagging a bit from the exhaustion of sustained laughter.

Yuno was not eager to repeat her last attack; Thunderbolt had done more damage to it than it had to Denryu's fish, after all. However, Yuno hadn't gotten this far in life by not following its trainer's advice, so there you go. Once more, the staryu pointed a specific leg and fired off what was supposed to be a bolt of lightning, but instead blue-and-yellow static spread out across the arena, shocking all of the pokémon and making the humans' skin tingle. The referee, realizing that this was becoming a pattern, recalled both of his Water-types. The trainers weren't so lucky, however; their fish and star were both electrocuted by the time the action ended.

Beginning to tire of both holding up her shield and being mildly fibrillated, Magni spun in a couple of tight circles before swimming forward again, her fins a blur. This was one of her best attacks, the most well-practiced and well-known in her arsenal. It was a fearsome Tackle attack! She squeezed her eyes shut before the Illuminate blinded her again, and arced downwards into Yuno, smashing her hard skull into the sea-star's gem. As Magni sightlessly floundered away, Yuno smashed in the hard plastic bottom of the snowglobe, cushioned slightly by the powdery ground cover.

Once more, lightning coursed out across the field, spreading little bubbles everywhere. Magni twitched, Yuno flinched, and Blastoise signaled the end of the first round.
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The water is temperate and a bit warmer around Yuno at the moment. Little flurries of fake snow are swirled up around Yuno, and everything's a bright red color around her.
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Still thrilled at her speed and current advantage, Magni swum up a bit in the tepid water, little white plastic flakes fluttering beneath her. Her scales, which on her species were a bit more pronounced than on many fish pokémon, rippled rapidly as the feebas began to pulse rapidly with green-blue energy. Her mouth snapped open, dull rectangular teeth somehow more menacing than usual, and from the back of her throat spilled forth a spiraling column of turquoise light; water suddenly boiled for a split second, plastic bits of snow flipping through the water frantically, and the Dragon Pulse passed through Magni's screen and found its mark, sending Yuno spinning through the water. As the staryu righted itself once more, it soon became obvious that the attack had charred the sea-star a bit.

Yuno, glad to have some sensical orders now, began to quickly rotate one way, then the other. It soon added some other dimensions to the movement, until Yuno resembled a brownish gyroscope. After a dozen seconds that felt much longer due to the spectacle, a red glassy bubble formed around the star, much like the one they were all currently battling in. Some snow had even been caught up in the whirling, but sadly the effect was ruined by one small detail; the snow, being physical in nature, passed through the Light Screen as if it were, well, a screen of light.

Magni scowled at the globe encircling her opponent. That was her trick; she'd expect such tactics from a meowth, but a fellow fish? Sure, Yuno was technically a sea-star and not a fish at all, but gills had to count for something, right?!? And now, it seemed, the little copycat had the gall, the temerity to run away? Not on this fish's watch it didn't! Quite indignant now, the feebas dropped her jaw open again, and churning green-blue light pulsed outwards and towards the rapidly-retreating staryu it was aimed at. The attack halted for the splittiest of seconds at Yuno's Light Screen, seeming to diffuse itself a bit, but then lanced forth through the barrier and into Yuno itself, leaving a raw-looking patch of dermis in its wake.

Finally, and with great care taken for its damaged limbs, Yuno arrived at the church. She quickly rapped her rotating legs against the door, but nothing gave. It was locked, no, melted shut! These weren't real doors at all! The window, as well, was made of some colorful, clear plastic material that was probably more difficult to shatter than it looked... Worth a try, though! The staryu's rather powerful mind stretched itself over the double doors, looking for some kind of seam. After a bit of questing, the psychic star found the parts that had been glued onto the rest of the model; the doorframe sparkled pink for a moment before both doors, along with the frame around them and a bit of the faux-stonemasonry, separated with a loud crack. Not very subtle, mind, but it had been told to open the door.

Denryu and Blastoise began swimming their way over to the church, and so did Magni after she took a moment to mourn the loss of her blue wall. She wouldn't be beaten by humans, of course, not in a contest of swimming. The dears were so slow, even with their little motory things that sped them along, that Magni soon caught up with and surpassed them. By the time she reached the church, however, it seemed that Yuko had prepared itself for its next attack, putting them on equal footing. As Blastoise and Denryu assumed their places and The Omskivar glared at the gaping hole in the church, both pokémon attacked at nearly the same time. Yuko, floating gem-up directly inside the church's new entrance, began spitting blood-red stars from its legs and central ruby; many of them missed the mark and embedded themselves in this or that wall, but enough still managed to dig themselves into Magni's face. And one even got flung into her gaping mouth, but it was sadly obliterated by another Dragon Pulse; it seemed that Magni felt a glowing starfish standing in a giant hole was a relatively simple target. The attack, after a sparkly Light Screen detour, struck Yuko directly in its center, leaving no scratches but apparently still causing damage, if anticlimactically. The second round draws to a close as the Swift-stars dissolve away.



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1. The Omskivar, your commands seemed to rely pretty heavily on the idea that Yuko can outspeed a feebas, which it can't even if Swift Swim wasn't a factor.
2. Yuko would have just popped out the window instead, but her commands said Psychic the door. Besides, if that had happened then Swift wouldn't have worked as well.
3. Speaking of, Swift had reduced accuracy do to not being fired in all directions and being blocked partially by a door-hole. Luckily, Magni was right there in front of the hole.
4. Yuno and Mani attacked at the same time on the last action because Magni, speedy as she is, still had to swim all that way to get in range to attack.
5. Dragon Pulse was used in lieu of Double Team on the last action because it's hard not to find a glowing red pentagram pokémon.
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The water is temperate. Everything's a bright red color around Yuno, including the church that it's punched a hole in. The fake doors lay on the ground, half-covered by white plastic.
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Still darting around outside of the wrecked church, Magni swam a bit closer to the portal that her opponent had tantrumed into existence and set her eyes glowing. The bloody color that coated her drab eyes, a shade more purple than the bright light pouring from Yuno's center, would have felt inexorably soporific to any pokémon or tired human that chanced a look; luckily for The Omskivar and his pokémon, Yuno was currently focusing more on the heavens than it was on its opponent's anything.

For a moment, Yuno's red glow vanished, swiftly replaced by unnaturally brilliant starlight. (Well, star-in-space light rather than star-fish-light) Points of white light that had moments before not been visible at all glared through the glass of the snow-globe with celestial force. Shining from the heavens, the points formed a cold-white, shifting beam that leaped silently like lightning through the church's gap and into Yuno's center gem in a matter of seconds, leaving the staryu with a sheen of otherworldly strength in addition to its returning Illumination.

Magni's eyes flared with drugged red sparks again as she swam forward for good measure. This time, interested in what its opponent was doing after having witnessed that phenomenal cosmic power, Yuno happened to pass its vision over the feebas's Hypnotizing glare. Silently, the staryu slowed its spinning as the gem in its center glazed over with sleepiness. To make matters even more dire, Yuno's Light Screen immediately disappeared, although whether this was caused by loss of energy supply or simple passage of time it was impossible to tell.

Grinning rather evilly at her success, Magni darted into the church and hovered directly over her enemy, her jaw working back and forth and a slight gagging sound issuing from her mouth. She sped downward slightly and seemed to kiss Yuno in its now-dull gem, squinting her eyes at the light that continued to pour unimpeded from it. When she pulled back, however, it was revealed that she had planted not a kiss but a pile of purple-pink sludge. It rapidly disappeared into Yuno's body, attacking whatever confusing vascular system it had. Magni swam away, hoping that she had not woken the staryu up, and she was pleased to see that her opponent remained drifting lazily on the floor of the water-filled church.



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The water is temperate. Everything's a bright red color around Yuno, including the church that it's punched a hole in. The fake doors lay on the ground, half-covered by white plastic.
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