Round Two
Grass King
Kitsune ♀ @ Fire Stone
Ability: Flash Fire
Health: 83%
Energy: 89%
Status: Cursing her unresponsive legs. Future Sight pending (1 more action). Severely paralyzed (25% chance of failure for attacks requiring a lot of movement).
Commands: Hex / Ominous Wind / Howl ~ Hex / Ominous Wind / Howl ~ Hex / Ominous Wind / Howl
Music Dragon
Lillibeth ♀
Ability: Own Tempo
Health: 74%
Energy: 85%
Status: Wishing she could hop about more joyously. Severely burned (1% damage/action, 3% damage penalty on attacks requiring a lot of movement). Power Gem Spited.
Commands: Heal Bell ~ Covet ~ Role Play
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Man, this burn is really harshing Lillibeth's buzz. Her bouncing buzz. With each contraction of her spring the pain flares up, and this just will not do. The Spoink shakes her head as she continues to hop straight up and down, jangling the pearl that sits atop it. Her bouncing is kind of clumsy, so the sound isn't very delicate, but it does the job; as the sound washes over her, the red welts on her skin start to fade, until her skin is as pristine and unmarked as the surface of a brand new punching bag ready to be busted right through. Much better. Giving herself an
oink of approval, Lillibeth turns to face her opponent... and immediately wishes she hadn't. The Vulpix's eyes seem to have grown twice their size, radiating eerie purple flames as her pupils glow a hellish red colour. She mutters something under her breath and again her six tails stand straight up, curls of dark energy trailing out of them to wrap Lillibeth in their chilling grasp. The Spoink wriggles uselessly against them, overcome by a feeling of cold dread as the mist squeezes her tighter and tighter, until it abruptly disappears as quickly as it came, leaving her shivering and terrified. As she struggles to collect herself, a familiar-looking pillar of blue light shoots down from the clouds to strike exactly the spot where Kitsune now stands, engulfing her in psychic energy that twists and stretches her body as she howls in pain.
Desperate for some trace of warmth, Lillibeth finds her eyes drawn to the Fire Stone hanging around Kitsune's neck. Resonating with the other evolution stones buried in the mountains, the stone is positively radiating light and heat, and Lillibeth decides that she must have it. Widening her eyes and tilting her head slightly to the side, she slowly boings up to her foe, her pearl taking on a rosy glow. "That stone... it would go so well with my pearl! See, they were meant to go together!" Kitsune just stares at her, unfazed, so Lillibeth ups her game a little.
"
Pleeeeeease can I have it... please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please..."
Lillibeth begs and pleads and jabs her opponent repeatedly with her stylus until Kitsune finally pops, forced to shake the Fire Stone off her neck and reluctantly paw it over to Lillibeth in the name of fashion. Lillibeth employs just a liiiittle bit of psychic trickery to tie the string and perch the stone jauntily around her pearl, before gleefully ramming it into the Vulpix with a loud
smack. It leaves a large circular mark with a Fire Stone-shaped depression in it on the Vulpix's fur, and Lillibeth giggles to herself as she bounces off before Kitsune can swipe her stone back.
Kitsune curses her opponent under her breath, feeling herself go red under her fur in embarrassment at being so utterly taken in. Surely there must have been some sort of vile devilry at work here... but Kitsune has access to ghostly powers of her own, and she's going to make Lillibeth pay for humiliating her like this! Overflowing with a burning desire for revenge, Kitsune throws back her head and howls, the sound echoing ominously about the mountaintops. With her right forepaw she draws one, two, three sigils into the dirt and touches each delicately with her nose, imbuing them with ghostly power. The temperature seems to drop several degrees as the shapes rise from the ground and rush toward their target, circling around the Spoink as they stretch and contort and triple in size. Kitsune chuckles darkly to herself at Lillibeth's terrified squeals as the ghostly sigils close in on her, exuding a coldness that even the Fire Stone can't keep at bay. She doesn't really know what goes on in there for the next few seconds (she's not
that good with her occult powers... yet), but it surely can't be good.
Trembling and drenched in a cold sweat, Lillibeth lies awkwardly on her side, spring coiling and uncoiling uselessly. This battle's really taking its toll on her; those angry spirits seem to have sapped away even her will to bounce. Maybe she should just stay down... But then on the sidelines, Music Dragon stomps his foot, a manic look in his eyes, and screams out, "
YOUR SWEAT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU STRONGER!!!"
The Spoink's pearl involuntarily lights up. It's true! Her trainer's right! She can't give up now! Filled with renewed determination, Lillibeth drags herself upright to study her opponent, as more of her trainer's words echo through her head.
To defeat
Vulpix, you must become
Vulpix!
Defending is the best attack! Do it!
Surely Kitsune can't hurt Lillibeth if she, too, masters the occult! It's brilliant! Lillibeth's pearl glows with psychic energy and the rest of the world disappears from around her as she concentrates on discerning her opponent's aura. Her body subconsciously continues to bounce to keep her heart beating, but the bouncing dwindles down to a much slower, almost hypnotic rate. Without really thinking about it she licks one of her hands and attempts to drag it down her face, but finds herself unable to reach. Her mind is filled with thoughts of curses, and revenge, and other generic Vulpix things, and her Fire Stone shimmers more brightly than before as her skin begins radiating heat. The one thing she doesn't copy is her opponent's struggle to concentrate as her muscles twitch and spasm uncontrollably beneath her until she ends up splayed on all fours on the ground, all thoughts of curses temporarily forgotten.
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Grass King
Kitsune ♀
@ Fire Stone
Ability: Flash Fire
Health: 62%
Energy: 83%
Status: Sputtering out unspeakable words at her useless muscles. Severely paralyzed (21% chance of failure for attacks requiring a lot of movement).
Used: Hex ~ Hex ~ [paralyzed]
Music Dragon
Lillibeth ♀ @ Fire Stone
Ability:
Own Tempo Flash Fire
Health: 56%
Energy: 74%
Status: Swaying her imaginary six tails in the wind. Power Gem Spited.
Used: Heal Bell ~ Covet ~ Role Play
Arena Status
Damage and Energy
- Kitsune's Health: 83% - 15% (Future Sight) - 6% (Covet) = 62%
- Kitsune's Energy: 89% - 3% (Hex) - 3% (Hex) = 83%
- Lillibeth's Health: 74% - 9% (Hex) - 9% (Hex) = 56%
- Lillibeth's Energy: 85% - 4% (Heal Bell) - 4% (Covet) - 3% (Role Play) = 74%
Notes
- Featuring even more shoehorned Super Training references! And a truly heartwarming scene between Lillibeth and her trainer.
- Uhh I totally forgot to write Future Sight into the narrative so I just kind of shoved that one sentence in there because there was just nowhere nice to put it. (The original end of the sentence was "[...] where Kitsune now stands, and probably causes her pain or something.")
- Kitsune got a really bad paralysis roll on the third action, so she wasn't able to concentrate well enough to use Hex even though it didn't require movement.
- Sorry this one was a little slow! It is SHOW WEEK so for a while my reffings will be either really slow or nonexistent. I should be back by next Sunday unless I literally break a leg or some other stage adage.
- Music Dragon posts commands first next round.