Blood Games

[Sylph]

Ming glides to where she sleeps in the undercity, the smell of her mate and children still clinging to the confined space she once shared. She sits in her room and hugs her knees, her heart slowly letting her feel the pain of being alone. She reaches down and rest her hand on a piece of cloth that once warmed her babies.

"My children...I'm sorry I couldn't protect you...I wasn't strong enough...but I'm stronger now..."

He opens her mouth and breaths out a small ball of fire to light up her room, pulling the clothe closer to her chest. For a long time, she finally cries.

"My darling Roy...Why did they have to make me kill you...You were strong. You were kind. You won all your matches...so why did they make me kill you..."

She closes her eyes, falling asleep with the clothe clinged to her chest.

----

When she woke, she knew it was time to return to the human. She glides up the stairs, and waits behind the door for it to be opened. Once it was, she glides out and stops in front of the human.

"About time. You have a battle"

Ming nods and turns away from him.

Then there was a snap.

She looks down at her neck and sees a collar. She narrows her eyes and turns back to the human, her eyes glowing purple once more. The human takes out a remote and pushes a button, sending a jolt of electricity through Ming's body.

"You will behave. If you don't, You'll be punished as such. Be a good pokemon and stop acting out against me."

Ming hisses under breath, smoke wisping out.

If this human wanted to play hard ball, then she can too....soon...soon I will kill you and save my children...

Human points to the arena. Ming reluctantly nods and glides over to the arena, stopping when she reached her side of the field.

The other human throw a ball and released a sizable Shiftry. Ming growls, her Charizard blood boiling within her.

It just had to be a Dark-type.

She looks over her shoulder at her 'Master' and saw the hint of humour in his eye. She sighs, shaking her head.

This was planned...

She takes a ready position and prepares herself for the battle ahead.

"I will not lose."

 

[Evolutionary]

The battle was deemed a tie which was the closest anyone had ever gotten to beat Markie or ???. It was Midday, the battle had taken a surprisingly long time.

'Yes...Delcatty I tied with Markie! Yeah! I totally AM GOOOODD!' Master shouted making several people stare.

'Yes Master' Serene said through she had done everything without Master's command, Master didn't like saying commands so she made Serene do the battling and the thinking.

'Delcatty, the next battle will be against Markie's little brother, who isn't that good, just a learner' Master said quietly.

'Yes Master, I will do my best Master'

Serene walked with Master to the Battle Area we were battling in next. It was the usual gray, dull walls but...

No way, it couldn't be...it was the Golden Battle Area! The walls were painted Gold and were repainted after every bloody battle.

Serene loved it, nice colourful GOLD. Gold was one of Serene's favorite colours!

Serene looked at Markie's little brother. He was short and skinny as well and he had a belt of 6 Cherish Balls. He took out one, enlarged it and sent out a Fire/Fighting type...this would be an easy battle, a Water Pulse/Air Slash or two would do it.

Sereneflew up as usual, the better to not get hit and a Water Pulse came flying out of Serene's mouth. It hit the Infernape at full force and it stumbled but then came out, looking better than an Infernape should after being hit by Water.

'Damnit' Serene groaned, Markie seemed to have lent some of her Pokemon to her little brother, not good.

The Infernape tried to use a Close Combat as it was Markie's bro's command but it failed, the Infernape couldn't jump high enough.

Serene used Air Slash, it did more than the Water Pulse so she decided to use it every turn unless she had to use something else.

The Infernape danced around waving it's hands like swords, it was a Swords Dance.

Serene flew down with another Air Slash...

The battle went on for a while. The Infernape was much stronger and less weak than most but Markie's brother's commands weren't thought out well and kept missing. The Air Slashes took a while to faint the Infernape but they did after a while.

A ref called 'Delcatty's trainer wins!' and the battle was over.

It was now nightfall, Serene was tired from the early morning battle so she without thinking flew towards her sleeping place after Master said her 'We won, remember come here 6 am tomorrow's.

Serene was so tired she dove into the hole leading to her base(Mewtwo, Moonlight can find the enterance hole, the inside of the sleeping area is just an empty human room) and shot through it getting rather dirty. She gazed at her fluffy pillow and blanket and was glad for them.

Serene sat on her pillow and sang, singing calmed her and made her headaches go away and it made her feel better. She didn't care if anyone heard, if anyone did hear they would fall asleep unless they were Pokemon in which case it might not work.

She hoped she wouldn't have the same wonderfully colourful dream as last time, it made her too hopeful to escape.

 

[shadow_lugia]

((I'll pretend that my other posts were, like, yesterday or something, because I'm bored and need to post D:))

Scissors was walking to the battle arena confidently. Her master had asked, time and time again, if she really felt that she could fight again so quickly, and even then had made her promise that if she started to feel at all like she wouldn't make it, to tell him to forfiet. She had never really seen anyone forfiet before; all the battles she had watched or, more often, fought in had been to the death. She wasn't even sure if forfiet was allowed. Still, though, she promised.

As she walked in, she saw the Spiritomb that was to be her opponent. For a second she worried if it had Shedinja DNA in it, but then remembered it was forbidden ((I would assume, since that would make it undefeatable...)). She still felt slightly stupid, however. How was one supposed to kill a ghost? She had never been faced with the problem before.

The whistle sounded, starting the match. She watched for a single moment, but it seemed quite incapable of motion, and unwilling to attack first. She knew that a simple swipe would be insufficent to hurt it; she needed to embed it with energy of any type but Fighting to hurt it. It was part Dark type if she remembered correctly, so wouldn't Bug hurt it?

Figuring the answer was yes, she raised both pinchers and ran up to the Spiritomb, cutting them down in an X shape. The X-Scissor, however, passed right through the gaseous body.

What the-

She barely had time to think before a bright, tantalizing light distracted her. It looked like her opponent. She reached out and swiped at it, but again her claw passed right through.

She looked over to the left and saw another one, laughing maniacally. What was this? She thought the laughing one was real, but the other looked real too... She could only attack one at a time, and if she chose the wrong one, the real one could attack.

She could be right, and the one on the left could be real, or this could all be some kind of psychological trick, as logic pointed to that one being real, but it could be an illusion to trick you into thinking it was while it wasn't. So which one to attack?

After a moment, she charged at the one on the right. She hit the stone on the bottom, but again her claw passed through. She knew that the rock would atleast be solid, therefore that one was fake. She turned around again to confront the enemy, only to see no less than three identical Spiritomb laughing insanely at her.

What do I do now?

The solution came almost instantly; why not attack all three with a horizontal swipe through their rocks?

She tried it.

The first two remained unchanged, but the third made her claw stop when it hit, with a dull thump.

She shook her head to clear the confusion. The crowd was laughing at her antics.

Laugh? At me?

She was really angry now.

Go for the rock, instinct told her. It relies on the rock...

Seeing her recovery, it tried to bury her in a Rock Tomb, but she was too quick. She went in with a Bullet Punch, aiming for the crack.

There was an odd, howling noise as the stone shattered. And, too late, she realized that a Destiny Bond had been put on her when she was confused.

She had barely a second to watch the Spiritomb laugh its last laugh and dissapate, wondering if Destiny Bond worked with deaths, before the world turned to neverending darkness around her.

((I shall leave a cliffhanger >:)))

 

[Dragon]

Storm returned Karg's searching look.

"Ah, okay. So, what genes do you have? If we are to fight together sometime, we should be able to guard each others' weakness." Storm looked up at the human.

"Is he good," she asked in a quieter voice.

 

[Storm Earth and Fire]

((@ Mewtwo and possibly moon-panther: Have I created recurring NPC opponents or something?))

Karg's master returned soon enough.

"They're still finalizing who you're fighting.", he simply said, "So no fights yet."

Karg hated waiting, but, like in many other scenarios, had little choice in the matter.

Karg turned back to Storm, "Magnemite. And you?", he returned.

 

[Mewtwo]

Moonlight was on her ay to her sleeping place when she heard... beautiful singing. I guess I can check it out... but I need to be back soon, or Master will punish me. She quietly opened the door to the room with the singing, but she saw the aura of no one. ((Oh yeah, forgot to mention, since she is part Lucario, she can scan for aura.)) She did, however, see some aura under ground. She found a hole, and fired a small Aura Sphere, not big enough to hurt, but bright enough to let the Pokemon know that there was someone up there.

 

[Dragon]

"Uh, Weavile." Storm looked Karg over. "What do your Magnemite genes let you do? For me it's mostly moves, and an Ice resistance." She grinned. "Which is pretty useful."
((BLARGH SHORT IS SHORT >_>))

 

[Oreku]

Harbinger sat on a stack of wooden pallets in one of the crammed back-allies of The City, he watched as Ratatta foraged for food in the dumpster, every now and then extending a curved claw and shooting a small spark. He giggled as the rat like pokemon squeaked in discomfort.

I wonder what's next around this dump... He thought to himself, Master has been gone for a while... Is he preparing my next fight?

Just as Harbinger allowed his mind to wander a bit more, a teenage boy came running down the alley, his Doc Marten boots making a loud thumping sound, "Harbinger, you've got a battle... Its against a Dugtrio, so I hope you are ready."

Harbinger smirked and nodded, the boy, his master Ben, turned around, allowing Harbinger to climb on him piggy-back style and Ben and the Weavile set off for the underground.

 

[Thorne]

((I've had nothing to do, anyone want to fight?))

 

[Storm Earth and Fire]

((Check the OOC thread...))

Another spark jumped, this time between two of Karg's claws.

"Control of electricity. I can use it to create magnetic force, too.", Karg replied, "I can fly if I generate enough magnetism."

 

[shadow_lugia]

Scissors had no idea where she was, or even if she was anywhere at all.

To her, it seemed like a dream, in which there was nothing, and nothing ever changed or happened. She just could've been in some odd sleep-like state that she could think in, or she might be about to die. She had heard of fainting before, although it had never happened to her. Down in the underground, Pokemon didn't faint; they died. She had also heard Destiny Bond was something that created a link between two foes; if the one who had cast it fainted, the other did the same. And still, she wondered if it would work with death.

She doubted she was dead though, and not only for her sanity's sake. She had heard several different tales of what happened after death; some involved the dead being born again in a different body, others involved them going to different worlds, while still others said the deceased simply had no conciousness altogether. The last one seemed most likely to her, and if she had no mind, how could she think? And none of them mentioned being in endless nothing.

But now she saw the landscape, if one could call it that, had changed. There were colors, blurred and not forming images, but there was color. Was she becoming alive again, or was she going into one of those other worlds?

And she could move once again. Her ruined wing twitched involuntarily. That had to be a sign that something was happening at last, right?

Feeling was returning as well. She had heard the expression 'a dull ache in one's bones,' but she technically couldn't describe it like that, as she had no bones. All she had was an exoskeleton lying beneath her armor, exposed at the part that her scar was on. But there was a dull ache all throughout her body.

Suddenly she felt ready for a fight. Her eyes snapped open and started getting into focus after having her eyes closed, her muscles tensed, and she sat up, realizing that she was lying on the ground. However, her head hit something hard, sending a throb of pain through it. She decided lying on the ground would be nice as the sudden burst of adrenaline ebbed away.

"Ow," someone said, and there was movement. Her eyes focused again, and she sat up a little bit to see what it was. Her master was rubbing his forehead with a somewhat dazed look; he had apparantly been crouching, but had fallen when Scissors hit him.

"Master?" she asked. "Are you alright?" Her voice was hoarse.

"Yeah..." he said. "I was just worried about you. You've been out cold for about an hour."

She was instantly relieved. That meant she wasn't dead, unless this was some illusion.

There was an akward moment where they just stared into nothingness, unsure of what to say.

"Um..." said Master, breaking the silence. "Are you hungry...?"

"No, not really."

"Then... you should get some sleep. And I don't think you should fight tomorrow, either."

She nodded wearily, suddenly feeling tired. She had been thinking just that.

"Well then, I... uh... good night." He walked away and left her to drift away peacefully in dreamless, thoughtless sleep.

 

[Darksong]

Flash looked up at her master. The morning light was just seeping in. "Your opponent is a Leafeon, I think," he said, rubbing her head. The Flareon purred slightly. "Remember, fire."

Flash nodded, rather condescendingly, as if to say, "I know that." She turned around and faced the ring, not scared one bit. Her eyes had a soft glint to them, but she would not lose.

He handed her some kind of treat. "You'll probably need something to eat."

The red fox-like Pokémon nodded, taking the small piece of food from his hand gently. She didn't feel quite so hungry any more, but was still doubtful. Grass-types weren't always easy. She would just have to try her hardest.

((That's you, Tailsy. But how does the fight go? Do we kill each other or what?))

 

[Tailsy]

((Dunno, stalemate?))

Mango padded silently next to his master, head up and eyes off unfocused into the distance. He could smell the mingled sweat of people crowding around the ring, the familiar scent of the man next to him and the faintest trickle of whoever his next opponent was filtering through the mass of smells colliding against his nose. Smoky. Flareon, probably. Huh, typical: he was always one to try and make every fight as awkward as possible just because.

It wasn't like Mango couldn't win. He'd done it before.

"Okay, you know how to handle this, right?" Condescending, too. Mango grunted in acknowledgement and padded forward, stopping right at the edge of the ring, his paw sliding against the metal marker before moving back. He couldn't see his opponent, but there was clearly no fear-scent; an experienced fighter, which was infinitely more amusing.

Mango sighed and waited for the match to begin.

 

[Darksong]

((Might sound stupid, but what's stalemate?))

 

[Evolutionary]

An Aura Sphere floated down the tunnel entrance and Serene perked up, paws raised ready to defend herself. Did someone know about her secret place? After all the years had someone found here? Would they spread it round?

Serene paced around. Maybe the Aura Sphere was from a Pokemon firing it in a random direction. No, it would be stronger. Maybe it was her husband? No, Serene was getting too hopeful. Elegane(a Glaceon) had been given away to one of Master's cruel friends, even worse than Master. He would never be let out.

Serene sighed at the memories they still had but the time they had lost. They used to meet here everyday.

Serene kept her ears open, not a whisper of the wind. Elegane was like that,a silent Glaceon.

Serene shook her head, she was probably imagining things.

But this time as she curled up on her pillow and lay beneath her blanket she was wide awake, listening for anything or anyone.

 

[Mewtwo]

The Pokemon did not answer. She fired another Aura Shpere, this time with a little bit of Shadow Ball injected in it but still small. She hoped the Pokemon answered this time.

((Just so you know what it looks like: An Aura Shere with a few strings of darkness strung aroound it.))

 

[Dragon]

((Stalemate is when both sides call a draw, in a way.))

Storm thought a second.

"Well, I can use Ice and Dark moves, and freeze things. Uh.. not to sure about the Dark type, I can see in almost complete dark, but I haven't seriously experimented around with it."

 

[Exo-Raikou]

"Begin!"

Laughing like a maniac, Fero dug underground, and began to tunnel.

Time to trip you up, big fellow!

He saw an indentation above him about three feet ahead. Clearly, that was where the Blastoise was standing

Let's have some fun! Fero thought, tunneling towards the Blastoise.

He was almost under the Blastoise when he felt dull tremor. The next second, a blast of water cut through the ground inches behind him.

Oh- was as far as got before a second blast of water struck him dead on.

This guy's smarter than he looks! Fero thought after the blast had ended. Soaked, he began to tunnel again, this time aiming to go behind the turtle.

Normally, the digging would have been easy, but with the water blasts, the ground had become mudlike, and digging was slow work.

Time for Plan B, he thought, bursting out of the ground, claws glowing with poisonous energy.

"Let's see how good you are when I cut it in close!"

 

[Evolutionary]

((Just so you know what it looks like: An Aura Shere with a few strings of darkness strung aroound it.))

((I know, I've seen Lucario and the Mystery of Mew))

Serene stared up the hole. There was someone there, blocking the light.

Serene carefully fired a small Aura Sphere back.

 

[Darksong]

"Go out there," her master said, ruffling her fur.

Flash shook her head and then gazed into the ring at the Leafeon. The Flareon then jumped into the ring. Her black eyes were narrowed as she crouched, waiting for the bell.

Finally, its loud ringing sound reached her rhombus-shaped ears, almost causing them to vibrate. She prepared with a Swords Dance, but kept her guard up as she performed the complex steps. Most of the foe’s attacks would probably evaded as she moved from side to side. After a quick move to the right, she used Double Team, creating two other clones. Bravely, Flash braced herself for her opponent’s move, red fur bristling.