Eta Carinae
I really loved that farm.
Round 6
warpedplant XO
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
(Joe) Frillish [M] <Cursed Body>
Commands: Acid Armor ~ Rain Dance ~ Water Spout/Safeguard
Status: Edging hopefully towards the ocean.
Totodile OO
Health: 31%
Energy: 47%
(Applejack) Eevee [F] <Adaptability> @Lucky Egg
Commands: Bite ~ Shadow Ball ~ Sunny Day
Status: Hooting and hollering, but still just as adorable. Attack +2, Special Attack +2, Pumped up, Badly poisoned (3% this round, 4% the next)
Applejack didn’t have to wait long for her next opponent to take the stage. A second Pokeball was quickly in warpedplant’s hand, and from within it came a wispy, fragile looking creature. In form it seemed to resemble a squid, but it showed a fair amount of cephalization. It bore a look of minor fear from the second it took its place on the battlefield, and it hardly moved excepting its four flowing tentacles. One of these tentacles seemed to be on a collision course for a larger rock resting in the sand, but the Frillish did not even look over as its limb phased through the impediment, no scratches on either stone or arm. Applejack could quickly identify her opponent as a ghost-type. That would prove to be an issue.
Still, Applejack did have a moveset she could utilize against Joe the Frillish. Scampering forward with a bit less pace than earlier in the match, she opened her mouth wide and let her baby teeth show. They were not particularly imposing at first, but as she continued to charge, a dark, fluid goop began to coat her mandibles. Joe, fresh out of his trainer’s belt, was already nervous from seeing the coming attack. When Applejack reached Joe, she hastily clamped her jaws down in the midriff of the Frillish, letting the dark energy seep into his gelatinous flesh. Applejack shook Joe around a couple of times to empty all of the liquid into his form, before she darted away. Even as the Eevee backed away, Joe continued to wince and inspect his wound. It almost looked as if he hadn’t been ready for battle in the first place.
Applejack was more than happy to accept the gift given by Joe. Now it was time to fight fire with fire, or ghost with ghost as the case may have been. A swirling ball of violet energy began to form in front of Applejack’s now spotless maw. The Eevee was doing all of the work to generate the sphere, pouring energy into it that she was not particularly familiar with. As the orb grew larger and larger its revolutions picked up speed. Finally, when Applejack felt she could control the burst no more, she fired away, the ball hurtling across the beach, kicking up sand and loose pebbles as it zoomed past. Joe hadn’t paid Applejack any heed for quite a few moments now, so he was quite shocked when this pulse came through. Unprepared, he made no attempt to dodge. As a result, he endured additional suffering, with the sphere colliding directly with the open bite wounds from the prior action. Tears started to form in Joe’s eyes, the white hot pain coming so quickly after his entrance. He held them back and blinked a couple times, absentmindedness now transforming into anger.
Flashing his trainer a reproachful look on account of the non-aggressive command he had been given, Joe nonetheless began to swish his arms and tentacles around his body, letting some ethereal power keep him balanced and rooted in place. Sea spray that had been mingling towards the battlers started to be caught up in Joe’s whipping dance. He sped up the motions and began to hum, low and long. His eyes trained on the sky, an assortment of clouds began to move in from the east, dark and brooding. One by one they moved into position in front of the comfortable sun, shading the arena slightly. As soon as the sky was entirely overcast, thick drops of water began to cascade from the sky, quickly muddying the ground and weighing down Applejack’s fur.
The Eevee was not too long deterred. Rather than let herself be hampered by the rain now pounding against her body, she instead chose to quickly shake herself out and engage in a dance of her own. Whereas Joe’s routine had been slow and fluid, Applejack’s was energetic and haphazard. She bounded across the arena, striking poses with her paws and kicking up wet sand as she started to sweat from the effort. As quickly as they had come, the rain drops plunging from the heavens started to shrink in size. Soon the frequency of their splashes diminished as well, much to the chagrin of Joe. As the rains ended entirely, the clouds dispersed as well, and in their place was a glorious look at the sun, now seeming to beat down with twice the heat as only minutes earlier. It was as if Earth had been pulled out of its regular orbit and closer to the sun with Applejack’s dance. Applejack’s coat dried off almost immediately, though the sweating certainly didn’t stop.
Joe, on the other hand, had a temper that was matching the blistering heat. He could see the droplets he had hoped to utilize evaporating before his eyes. Wasting no more time, he performed another couple of limb swirls to raise up the water he had summoned from out of the earth and off of the stones. The amount little in such a small amount of time, he reached for some sea water to compensate, bringing it up out of the ocean in an amorphous glob and having it hover in his direction. Soon he had quite a reservoir above his head, and with a tremendous upward swing of all six of his appendages, the liquid flew upwards before descending rapidly back in the direction of Applejack, all the while getting absorbed by the greedy sunbeams. The vast shower hit and drove Applejack into the earth, but she was able to quickly recover, the volume of the blast not quite as impressive as Joe might have hoped. Applejack, though quite sore, continued to grin.
End of Round 6
warpedplant XO
Health: 73%
Energy: 92%
(Joe) Frillish [M] <Cursed Body>
Status: Feeling thoroughly outwitted.
Totodile OO
Health: 18%
Energy: 30%
(Applejack) Eevee [F] <Adaptability> @Lucky Egg
Status: Not letting a little water bring her down. Attack +2, Special Attack +2, Pumped up, Badly poisoned (4% this round, 5% the next)
Arena Notes:
-The sun is shining (8 more actions)
Ref Notes:
-Adaptability made everything cost more this round for Applejack
-Bite caused a flinch (which, fun fact, is the second time in two days I have reffed a dark type move flinching a male Frillish)
-Shadow Ball was a critical hit
-Totodile commands next
