Arena: Outside the Battle Arena
The battle takes place right outside the Battle Frontier's Battle Arena facility, out in the open air. The immediate area is covered in nicely manicured grass and a few flowers. The Arena building itself is surrounded on three sides by water and a small pond sits on the other side of the battlers, so water moves can be used and Water-types that need to swim can do so. The battlers cannot move away from the immediate area, so heading towards the plaza or another facility is forbidden. Maps of the general area can be found on this page.
Since this match is happening so close to the Arena, it seems such a shame not to follow Greta's rules... or, at least, a variation on them. As such, both battlers will send out their Pokémon and attack for three battle rounds (a total of 9 attacks per Pokémon) before the ref calls a halt. After the three rounds both Pokémon are recalled and unable to continue in the current battle, and their current health, energy and status are noted for later. Both trainers will then send out their next Pokémon and continue for the next three rounds. At the end (which should be nine total rounds), the health and energy of all Pokémon is totaled and whichever trainer has the highest score wins.
The following rules also apply:
-If a Pokémon has fainted, either due to HP loss OR energy loss, the battle stops right where it is (even if it has not yet been three rounds) and both Pokémon are recalled. Fainted Pokémon DO still count toward the final score, but as either their health or their energy is at 0% they won't add anywhere near as much.
-If, at the end of the three rounds, a battler is afflicted with a status condition, that condition detracts from their final score as follows:
Paralyzed, Burned, Confused: -10 points
Poisoned, Attracted: -15 points
Asleep, Frozen: -20 points
If the Pokémon has more than one status condition, only the first one they were afflicted with detracts full points; all others afterwards only detract five, no matter what they are.
Experience is determined like this: all Pokémon get the usual 1 experience point for being sent into battle, and if one Pokémon actually knocks another out it will get the 1 experience point as normal. If neither Pokémon faints at the end of three rounds, the one with the lower score is considered knocked out for the purposes of experience and so the one with the higher score would get the extra 1 exp.
Kratos Aurion (Ooo)
Räsvelg (m) <Torrent>
HP: 100%
PP: 100%
Status: Excited, can’t wait to get started.
MurrMurr (Ooo)
Daydream (f) <Trace>
HP: 100%
PP: 100%
Status: Calmly observant.
Räsvelg twitches slightly in his sleep. Worried, Daydream pet his forehead gently, ruffling the feathers on his head. She grows even more worried as he begins to mumble in his sleep; she can’t tell what he’s saying, but it seems to be rather nonsensical.
Perhaps his intention is to startle Daydream as much as he can, as Räsvelg soon gets up off the ground, eyes still closed, and begins to run circles around the worried psychic-type. Daydream stares in shock as the spraylet increases in speed, running so fast that he appears as simply a white blur – and though she’s sure she’s sure she imagines it, he appears to split into several versions of himself before slowing down to a stop. The second he stops running he falls back to the ground, and Daydream quickly runs to him, lifting his head off the ground and – but the moment she touches him, he disappears, fizzing out of the air like smoke. Scared now, Daydream looks around, finding several more spraylet laying on the floor around her; she has no idea which one is real.
And, adding to that, she has no desire to make the apparitions go away. They’re just as cute as Räsvelg himself, and she’s not even sure there
is a real one – maybe they’re all fake? Who is she to judge? A fake Räsvelg is better than no Räsvelg! Still somewhat unsure, Daydream sits down where she is, looking from one spraylet to the other. At least they’re not moving.
Except they are. Once again, Räsvelg begins to mumble, each of his clones mimicking him. After a few moments he pauses – Daydream waiting impatiently – before opening his small beak and releasing a deafening screech. The sound is so high-pitched that humans, and some Pokémon, would be unable to hear it; ralts most definitely could, though. Daydream yelped in shock and pain, holding her tiny hands to her head for as long as the screech lasted and then a few seconds after. Her head hurt so much that she didn’t even realize when the sound stopped; it just kept reverberating inside her ears. It hurt just to
think, and every time she moved it felt like something was falling on her head. She couldn’t help but wonder why her precious Räsvelg would hurt her so much; but she couldn’t wonder for long, since thinking hurt so much.
Räsvelg, meanwhile, was slowly waking up. His eyes slid open ever so slightly, blinking at the sudden light. As he realized what was going on, he jumped to his feet, stumbling to regain his balance. His clones moved with him, alerting him to their presence; though he wondered how he got them, he didn’t wonder for long. He was too annoyed at having fallen asleep to waste time thinking.
Cracking a mischievous grin, crosses his wings upon his chest. His small fingers begin to glow slightly with slightly greenish energy; it’s barely noticeable before the spraylet and his clones dash forwards, converging upon the ralts. Each spraylet jumps forward as if to attack, but only one actually strikes, converging on the ralts and slashing at her with his arms, leaving a glowing x-mark where he struck. The spraylet bounced away from his target, still grinning with pride, as the ralts clung to head with one hand and her new wound with the other; she was in too much pain to move.
But one thing was growing clear: her lover was not what she’d expected. He was not kind and loving, not when he kept hurting her like this. But still there was that lingering feeling, something that kept making her feel as if he was only doing this because he had to… not because he
wanted to.
She couldn’t think for long, though, with her throbbing headache worsening whenever she tried. There was a nagging feeling that she’d forgotten something important for quite a while now, and it was really starting to annoy her by now, but she pushed the thought away. Whatever she was meant to do couldn’t be nearly as important as the fact that her head felt like a led ball.
Kratos Aurion (Ooo)
Räsvelg (m) <Torrent>
HP: 100%
PP: 68%
Status: Confident and ready to kick some tiny little ass. (Has 3 clones.)
MurrMurr (Ooo)
Daydream (f)
<Trace> <Torrent>
HP: 87%
PP: 96%
Status:
It… hurts… (Attracted; minor. Confused; severe.)
Notes
- Sleep Talk came out Double Team on the first action and Supersonic on the second.
- Daydream was attracted on the first two actions and confused on the third. Really bad luck there.
- One more round for these pogies.
- Kratos attacks first.
