Eon Spirit vs. Athasan, Round Six
Pre-Round Stats
Team Eon (1/2 Pokémon Remaining)
![Zangoose](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/dp/Zangoose.png)
Zelx (F) [Immunity]
Health: 100%
Energy: 90%
Status: ...Onikami had trouble with
this?
Zelx's Commands:
Protect ~ Thunderpunch ~ Thunderpunch
Team Athasan (1/2 Pokémon Remaining)
![Murkrow](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/pt/Murkrow.png)
Raging (F) [Super Luck]
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Enjoying the dark but wishing she was out in the open air
Raging's Commands:
Thunder Wave ~ Featherdance ~ Calm Mind
Arena: Black Cave
This cave has very minimal lighting, and proves to be difficult to see, except for nocturnal/dark/feline/fire pokemon. Despite this, there are no natural obstacles, and ranged attacks have no obstructions. The cave also has a couple small pools of water, and is quite damp.
Other:
Darkness: 50% chance of ranged attack missing unless attacker is above mentioned exception. 10% chance of melee attack missing.
Damp atmosphere: All combatants have dampened skin/fur/whatever and take 2% less fire damage, and 2% more electric.
Water Pools: Weaker water attacks can be used. Stronger attacks requiring more water cannot be used.
Round Six: Begin
The fallen Kahen is immediately recalled and replaced with two more illuminating bursts of red light, the second ushering a small, black bird into the cave. Raging the Murkrow shudders, shaking her wings a little as she stands on the stone floor. Darkness is nice and all--she rather likes it, actually, much nicer than all that nasty sunlight they have outside sometimes--but it's cold and damp in here, and she doesn't really like the thought of having a roof over her head. Still, it's not as though the Black Cave is tiny or anything. She'll make do just fine, she tells herself; that Zangoose standing idly a few yards away from her certainly won't get in her way.
Raging's eyes flash and she spreads her wings again, allowing a thin bolt of electricity to snake around her fingerlike feathers. The bolt is joined by another, and another, and a few more until her wings are twinkling in the dark like a tacky Christmas lawn display. With a ragged squawk the dark bird flaps her wings, discharging the built up electricity and sending it darting across the cave to Zelx. The Zangoose, for her part, is entirely unconcerned. She simply watches the tiny lightning bolts fizzle and crackle pointlessly as they collide with the dome of translucent, greenish energy she now stands behind. She yawns. Dumb bird will have to do better than that.
Raging puffs herself up irritably, annoyed with herself for not seeing that coming. But there's no point fussing over it now, she tells herself after a moment's thought; the protect has been dropped, no encore appears to be forthcoming and Zelx is now wide open for her next trick. The Murkrow takes off in a loud fluttering of wings, climbing upward to the cave ceiling and then circling in a holding pattern over her foe. She begins to swoop, climb and spin elegantly in the air, twisting and arcing around in an entrancing little aerial dance; as she performs, she gives her wings an occasional twitch to shake some extra down loose and onto Zelx below. Zelx squints up at the ceiling for a few moments. She knows that Raging is flying now--she heard her take off--but trying to see what a black bird is doing in a cave that's as dark as tar is understandably difficult, and so the beauty of the featherdance is completely lost on her. That doesn't stop the down that floats gently toward her from above. The extra-soft gray feathers, oblivious to whether or not Zelx finds them soothing and hypnotic, land on her body and cling fast to her, adding a very thin layer of dampening padding to her fur.
The Murkrow looks down to check her handiwork and is dismayed to see Zelx now staring off in a completely different direction, still unable to find her target. Well, how do you like that? She just danced her little tailfeathers off for an enemy who can't even see her thanks to those stupid daytime-eyes. Even more irritated than before, Raging dives down and moves in close to see if she can't salvage her featherdance by catching Zelx's attention. What she ends up catching is a fist to the side of her beak. In her haste to finish up properly she failed to notice the bright yellow pulses of electrical energy around the Zangoose's paw, and now she soars backward with the force of the blow, the impact only slightly softened by the fluffy down clinging to Zelx's coat. Raging lands on the floor with a light
whump and stares wide-eyed at Zelx, who is now smiling in thanks for making herself an easy target after all.
It takes a moment for Raging to right herself, and when she finally regains her feet she more closely resembles a touseled old featherduster with a beak than she does a bird. Muttering vehemently to herself she hops and scuttles further away from Zelx, deciding that for the time being it might be more prudent to stay out of sight after all. She settles down a good distance away and grooms herself, straightening out her ruffled feathers; she finds that all of this primping and preening is doing wonders to calm her down, and so she goes with it, relaxing and meditating on the ground. Zelx curses to herself. Now that Raging has moved away, she's become nearly invisible in the blackness. The Zangoose squints in the direction she thinks Raging disappeared in, sniffs the damp air, but it doesn't help all that much. Even her fist, once more glowing and crackling with essence of lightning, doesn't cast much light beyond a few inches in front of it. Snarling and muttering, Zelx stumbles through the darkness and glares around, hoping to catch a little light glinting off of Raging's beak. After about a minute she finds what she's looking for--just a hint of something curved and orange--and swings out at it gleefully. Unfortunately for her, Raging has had plenty of time to gather herself and see Zelx coming; she simply scoots to the side and resumes her meditations as the Zangoose's sparkling fist plows into empty black space.
Round Six: Close
Post-Round Stats
Team Eon (1/2 Pokémon Remaining)
![Zangoose](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/dp/Zangoose.png)
Zelx (F) [Immunity]
Health: 100%
Energy: 78%
Status: Attack -1; annoyed, but confident overall
Team Athasan (1/2 Pokémon Remaining)
![Murkrow](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/pt/Murkrow.png)
Raging (F) [Super Luck]
Health: 82%
Energy: 87%
Status: Special Attack +1, Special Defense +1; calm and relaxed despite her earlier difficulties
Arena Status: Nothing has changed.
Ref's Notes
-Since Zelx couldn't see Raging well enough to make out the "calming", visual part of the Featherdance, the move was only partially effective and her attack only dropped by one stage.
-Zelx's second Thunderpunch missed.
-Eon Spirit attacks first next round.