moon-panther vs. Negrek, Round Fifteen
Pre-Round Stats
Team moony (1/3 Pokémon Remaining)
Riza (F) [Keen Eye]
Health: 52%
Energy: 61%
Status: Speed +2; Paralyzed (mild); flailing around in the pond with waterlogged feathers, more concerned with keeping her head above water than anything else
Riza's Commands:
Get out of the water ~ Hide ~ Ominous Wind/Hide
Team Negrek (2/3 Pokémon Remaining)
Igneous (M) [Flame Body]
Health: 84%
Energy: 71%
Status: Attracted (light); Look, I was just trying to help you, what do you want, woman?! You want me to jump in there and get you?! Er, wait, no... uh... just... don't drown! Lifeguaaaard! D:
Igneous's Commands:
Captivate ~ Thunderpunch/Secret Power/Captivate ~ Thunderpunch/Heat Wave
Arena: Moonbeam Meadow
A open meadow that is bathed in moonlight. Butterfree and Beautifly can be seen flying about peacefully. Near the Meadow there is a pond that Lotads and Goldeen are be seen swimming.
Round Fifteen: Begin
Igneous nibbles at his fingernails as he watches Riza flounder and struggle her way to the shore, short wings clumsily slapping the water in an awkward attempt at a stroke. He wants her to get out of the water okay, but not if she's still furious with him... perhaps turning on a little charm of his own will win her over again. He jumps up and down and waves encouragingly at her with both arms. "You can do it, Riza baby!" he calls. "I love you! I believe in you! I swear I would totally swim out and help you if I didn't think I would die, really!"
Riza scowls as she keeps fighting into shallower and shallower water. The going is painfully slow but steady, and she has thoughts of what she's going to do to that awful Igneous when she can reach him to keep her going. As she draws closer, however, she can make out more of what Igneous is saying. If she weren't so busy swimming for her life she would sigh and shake her head. Is he
still that smitten with her? Really, how pathetic can this guy get? The Magby continues to cheer as she inches toward the shore, and the more Riza hears, the more she can't help but feel... just a
little flattered in spite of herself. Sure, Igneous is clearly an idiot, but it feels nice to be admired. Make no mistake, she
will kick his little smoking tail, but... she might be merciful and not utterly destroy him in one fell swoop. Maybe. Since he's that dedicated and all.
Riza reaches the shallows after an exhausting swim and flops forward onto the muddy bank, exhausted. The weight of the water caught under her feathers makes standing up, let alone flying, too great a feat to attempt at this point; she just lies there with her eyes closed, hoping that Igneous will just be estatic that she made it out safely and leave it at that.
The thunderpunch that hisses through the air and slams into her back dashes those hopes in short order. Riza screams and thrashes erratically about as the electricity runs rampant through her wet body. "That's what you get for yelling at me! How's this for 'effing sucking', huh?!" the Magby snaps. Hey, if Riza can hit him for making a mistake then he can hit her for the yelling, right?
All thoughts of "being nice" run straight out of Riza's head at that point. Steam rises from her partially-dried feathers as she struggles to her feet; she still doesn't think she can muster the energy to fly right now, but she can sure as hell aim a vehement kick at Igneous's legs and then scurry away toward the forest on foot. Her muscles ache and she's really very tired, but her desire to get away from more thunderpunches and into relative safety keeps her little legs pumping until she is able to dive behind a long row of scraggly bushes and obscure herself from view. The little bird hunkers down in some brown, fallen leaves and takes several deep breaths, glad at a chance to rest on dry land.
That little kick, as it would so happen, is the straw that broke the Camerupt's back. That's not fair! Igneous snorts with anger, a few embers dribbling out of his beak and landing in the mud before him with a faint sizzle. All he ever did was try and help, try and show his appreciation, and she just walks all over him and beats him up. And then the
one time he really stands up for himself it's "too much abuse" and she kicks him and walks out on him? Nuh-uh. It doesn't work that way. If this relationship won't work both ways then there isn't going to
be a relationship, pure and simple. Now fully intent on breaking it off with Riza, Igneous strides toward the stand of trees with a malicious glint in his eyes. He knows the Pidgey ducked into some bushes, but he isn't sure exactly where she is right now. Oh, well. If he can't give Riza herself a piece of his mind, the entire forest is just going to have to get a piece of his mind.
The heat wave roars out from Igneous's body, blazing flames and superheated air blasting out in all directions. The meadow's short, damp grass is blown flat and singed, but otherwise relatively unharmed; that is more than can be said for the forest. The bushes, saplings and dry leaf litter at its border flare up instantly, hungry flames rising up from bases and branches and quickly spreading further back into the wood. Old branches catch and carry the fire to healthier parts of the trees, then snap ominously and fall to the burning floor to ignite even more leaves. Before long all of the forest that faces the meadow is ablaze and the wildfire races backward. The dark, serene night is filled with cracking, popping and roaring, smoke rises up to obscure the stars and encroaches on the moon, and ground level is suddenly bathed in an angry orange glow.
When the wave of heat and fire first hits the bushes Riza screams again. She sprints back out toward the meadow immediately and throws herself onto the ground, rolling on the dried-out grass in a bid to extinguish the small flames burning merrily on her back and tailfeathers. When she is satisfied that she is no longer lit up like a candle she stands one more time. She shuts her eyes painfully tight as she concentrates, fighting to keep the roaring blaze and its hellish heat out of her mind until she can punish that little demon over there. A familiar moaning can just barely be heard over the sounds of the fire, faint at first but then rising to a crescendo as more and more agonized, disembodied voices join in. The wind around the meadow picks up, although it doesn't seem to disturb the burning forest or fan its flames; instead, it ignores the inferno entirely and rushes across the clearing, battering Igneous as if with invisible, ghostly fists. Riza falls foward after she lets the ominous wind die down. Her heart is racing anew, the acrid scent of thick smoke is filling her nostrils, she's hot, she's exhausted... she's absolutely miserable, and all she reallywants is a chance to rest.
Igneous winces as the howling wind hits him, but all in all isn't terribly fussed about it. He is, for the time being, far too absorbed in the growing fire to care much about what stupid Riza is doing. Fire... such a big fire... such a
pretty fire...
fiiiiiirrre... buuurrrn...
Round Fifteen: Close
Post-Round Stats
Team moony (1/3 Pokémon Remaining)
Riza (F) [Keen Eye]
Health: 26%
Energy: 53%
Status: Speed +2; Paralyzed (light); panting on the ground several yards from the fire, a few wisps of smoke and steam rising from her body; hey, at least she's dry now, right?
Team Negrek (2/3 Pokémon Remaining)
Igneous (M) [Flame Body]
Health: 78%
Energy: 54%
Status: BURN STUFF
Arena Status: A hole several feet deep sits in the center of the field, and another, smaller hole sits near the pond. A few feet away from this hole, several rocks of varying size and shape sit at the water's edge. The two Butterfree and Beautifly have finally reached the opposite shore and are sprawled in the mud, spent. A cluster of frozen Goldeen sits at the bottom of the pond. The three frozen Goldeen are about halfway free of the ice.
Also the forest is on fire.
Lotad Trauma Count: 3
Beautifly Trauma Count: 3
Goldeen Trauma Count: 5
Butterfree Trauma Count: 2
Foliage Trauma Count: OVER 9000
Ref's Notes
-Captivate only reduced Riza's special attack by 1 since she's still very annoyed with Igneous. The reduction also went away entirely after Igneous, you know,
shocked her and set her on fire. *sings* Caaaan you feeeel the loooove toniiiight...
-It took Riza the whole action and then a bit to get out of the water, and she was still far too wet to fly. She hopped into the cover of some nearby bushes instead.
-Heat Wave's damage was reduced because it didn't hit Riza directly.
-Negrek attacks first next round.
