The Pokémon Trainer Academy (T) [Best Veteran 4Q '11]

[SelenaStar]

"BLU, SWERVE IT!" yelled Selene as she watched in horror as the twister attack was launched. Yes, now they knew which one was the real Dratini, but it wouldn't do much good if Blu was torn apart inside the twister. Blu kept charging forward, the blue aura of his facade attack crackling, and Selene wasn't sure if he had heard or not. "BLU! DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO SWERVE IT, IT'S TOO BIG! FLY UP AND BACK! WE'LL GET ANOTHER SHOT!" but again Blu carried on, ignoring Selene. She looked round at Ri and Ryan and they shrugged, not knowing what was going on. Blu was not the type of pokemon to ignore a trainer's command, yet they knew his hearing was good enough for him to have heard Selene's shout.

Blu heard Selene. He heard the shout. He chose not to listen. Yes he was handicapped by the paralysis, and yes twister was a formidable attack mid-flight but he felt the power surging through him from the facade attack that hadn't yet hit and the protection of his safeguard, that more than made up for the paralysis. He just knew that he could clear the Twister. He slammed the twister head on, diving right into the centre of the stormy winds. He felt himself getting blown off course and the winds attempting to blow him down and rip him apart but he felt the aura burning around him and it helped him push forward. The winds were growing though, he kept striving forward, eyes jammed shut.

Selene dropped to her knees as she waited for either the twister to subside or for Blu to fall out, ghosts of tears welling up in her eyes. "Blu...why...oh Please, God...please." she begged, as Ri placed a hand on her arm, looking round at Ryan, fear etched on both their faces. Suddenly, Blu dove out of the other side of the twister, seeming shaken with one wing apparently moving with difficulty. But on he drove, and he was so close to Dratini, he didn't see how his attack could miss.

Selene screamed, leaping into the air and punching upwards. "YES! BLU! GO FOR IT BLU!" she knew that facade must be a powerful attack. She had been hopeless for a moment, given Blu's paralysis, however she knew that he had the power to pull through. Her Blu had more power than people gave him credit for. "Now it's just a case of staying close enough to Dratini to pummel it...not letting up, relentless attack and aggression...WE CAN DO THIS BLU!" she yelled, her confidence renewed and her belief in Blu drove her onwards, and this same spirit filled Ryan and Ri. She watched as Blu was mere inches away from Dratini, praying under her breath.

[Nideous]

Bri had just enough time to greet Skye as he walked over before an obscenely loud bell rang. Duster looked around and waved at the pokemon she didn't know. Then Bri remembered something.

"Oh, no! I promised Snivy I'd bring her an Apple!" Bri said. He said a short farewell to his friends and ran to the cafeteria. He grabbed an Apple and hauled it to the nurse's station. Once inside, he looked at Snivy. She was asleep. So was a Charmander in the next bed over. Bri tried to think of who owned a Charmander for a moment. He set the apple down next to Snivy. He surpressed a laugh as she curled up to it.
"Good night, Snivy. I'll see you in the morning," Bri said quietly. He walked back to his dorm, and said good night to the people gathered there. Once in his room, he checked to see if his jacket was dry, which it was. He set his alarm for tomorrow, because Snivy wasn't around to wake him up. Then he lay down and went to sleep. Duster was still curled up in his arms, and was sleeping peacefully.

[Megaman765]

Snype chuckled at Rama's Illusion trick. ["Sheesh do I look that charming?"] Snype thought to himself. Suddenly an extremely loud bell run. Looks like hunting for TM's would have to wait. Both Bri and his other friend headed off to their dorms, along with their pokemon. However Mark didn't want to go just yet. He wanted to watch the battle between Selene and Valorie finish up before heading back to his Dorm. Besides, He wouldn't be able to sleep with Selene yelling so much. He would probobly end up hearing it all the way from his dorm room.

Snype enjoyed the night time. It reminded him of his younger days when he lived in a cave. He wished he could have done a battle during this time. He would have had a full advantage.

"Not sure which one I should put my bets on. Heh." Mark joked. Snype and Len sat alongside him and watched the battle unfold.

[NightOfRemorse]

Alice looked up from the sink as the teacher walked in. Quickly, she turned off the cold water and folded her arms on the lab table. "Let's go over the enzyme worksheet," the teacher said casually as if nothing had just happened. Alice was somewhat annoyed. The first class she made it to on time was boring, and the one class she's late to, she misses most of the lesson. Mr… whatever this teacher's name was explained the worksheet for only about a minute before a loud bell echoed throughout the school. That was very quick, especially since the day didn't feel that long at all. Alice looked out the window and saw that dusk was starting to arrive.

She stood up and walked out of the classroom, ignoring some students who asked why she smelled like garbage. It was cold out here, too cold. Alice could barely see a few feet ahead, as darkness was falling quickly. She grabbed a pokéball from her belt and tossed it. "Vulpix!" Jem yelled happily as he didn't enjoy his short time in the ball.

"Jem, help me out, I can't see," Alice said to him. "Vul!" Jem opened his mouth wide and blew a small amount of fire. The fire lit up a bright circle of light. They walked until they made it to the dorm areas. Here, of course, there were lamps. Jem put of the fire as Alice looked around and observed all the students walking by. She wasn't planning on going to sleep tonight. This was the perfect chance to explore wherever she wasn't allowed to normally go. Out of the places where Alice has gone, she had only seen the eight battle fields and two wings of the school. She had no idea what else there was, but she was confident to find out. Alice looked at the tall kids, the short kids, the chubby kids, the thin kids. Hmmm.

She walked away from the door of her dorm as casually as she could. There was starting to be less and less people walking around, so Alice presumed they were getting into their dorms to sleep. She turned a corner and noticed an empty hallway with a lone door. Let's see what this is. Alice picked up speed and went over to the door. She tried to yank it open, but it was locked. Jem lashed his six tails, watching Alice trying to open the door.

"It's locked… they're probably going to lock every single door here," Alice suggested. She went back down the hall and noticed the gym building across the dorms. She ran toward it and turned the handle on the door. It was open, thankfully. She and Jem made their way inside and Alice slowly closed the door, hoping she hadn't been spotted.

[SelenaStar]

Taking a sideways look at Mark, Selene smirked and waved. "Nice to have an audience!" she shouted over, Ri and Ryan waving at Len and Snype. "Have a good battle? Shouldn't you be getting back to the dorm? Bell has gone you know..." she looked hesitantly at Valorie, not sure whether they should postpone the battle. On one hand she couldn't stand breaking off a battle halfway through when it was getting interesting...but on the other she didn't particularly want to get into trouble on her second day here...it was a tough decision. But she wouldn't be the one to broach the subject - that'd be too much like a weakness in her opinion, especially when Blu was doing so well.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie became frustrated, unsure of what to feel over what just happened. She was pretty sure she'd just seen Swablu disobey orders, and Selene looked upset. Abruptly though, she noticed Swablu erupting from the side of the twister and turned her attention back to him. Dratini notices him too, but doesn't have enough time to react. A loud crack was heard as Swablu collides with Dratini's head, and Dratini was knocked away, falling a bit as it let out a pained cry. Upon inspection, the attack seems to have left a large bruise on it's head, a very painful looking one. Valorie holds her breath for a moment, but that's all it took for Dratini to right itself in the air. Even with it's enhanced power, a single facade hadn't been enough to take Dratini down in one shot. She wondered if it could take two, but judging by how much the attack seemed to have hurt, decided to try not to find out.

"Good job, Dratini! It doesn't look like we're out of this yet though!"

Dratini's double team clone came back to it, once again sharing the same space for a brief moment. If one looked at the double team clone, they'd see that it now displayed the same bruise as the original. Darn. Dratini appeared to be pretty irritated from being attacked. It was ready to continue.

[SelenaStar]

Swablu shot upwards, flying into the air so high that he disappeared for a moment. Selene assumed it was so he could take a rest and regain his strength after that huge effort. She hadn't been so proud, although she felt a stab of sympathy as she watched Dratini struggle, and she could empathise with Valorie's worry given what she'd just been through with Blu. However, she was pleased when Dratini got up again, ready to continue. She knew that neither Dratini or Valorie would be the kind of fighter to give up after one good hit, but she had to make sure that Blu didn't disobey orders again. She had to make sure that she kept trust and belief in her pokemon.

The dark was making it more difficult to see anyway, and now with Dratini's double team it could be even more difficult for Swablu to get a hit in...new tactics had to be thought up here. She couldn't use attacks that required a huge degree of accuracy...any sweeping attacks she could use had to be utilised, and she had to be as evasive as Valorie now and only attack when it was feasible. "Swablu, use safeguard again, build up your defences!" yelled Selene, and Blu layered yet another safeguard veil over himself as he flew back down to the battlefield, flying in circles around the two Dratini.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie watched Swablu climb way into the air for a few moments. She looks back to the Dratinis, both of which anxiously stare up at Swablu without giving chase. After feeling confident that Swablu was not about to turn and attack in the blink of an eye, Valorie begins to smile again.

"Alright Dratini, let's take it up a notch! Use Double Team again!"

Dratini emits a low, idle cry before splitting again. This time, though, both it and it's original clone split. That being said, there are now three clones. This time, they all swirl together chaotically to throw off anyone watching them before separating again, all an equal distance from each other. Valorie knew this would significantly increase the effectiveness of her gamble.

"Alright, enough of that. Dratini, pursue that Swablu! Be ready to give it your best shot."

The way she'd said those last two words had been mechanical sounding, as if they had some hidden double meaning. Was that a code word of some sort? The four dratinis began to rise into the air, floating in circles like a pack of sharks in a cliche sea horror movie. Had they been taught to do that? Who knew? Valorie had however made a mistake. While Dratini was capable of floating quite well, Swablu could probably fly significantly higher. That is... if it could manage with the paralysis and the strain the twister had apparently put on it's wing(s).

[Renege]

(OOC: For the sake of moving on, I'll end this.)

[Outside Battle; Wallace v Ace/Raikou Dorm]

"Its time to finish this Leafy!"

"I'm done," Wallace said as he got out his Pokeball and returned Lome to her temporary home he would have to stop by and get her healed up.

Wallace watched as Ace ordered his Pokemon to heal up and he knew that he could have Lome use Protect and stall this battle out longer. It just wasn't necessary for him to do that and beside they had been battling all day long and now it was night time. They had other classes to attend so it wasn't really Wallace's style to keep on going. He'd learn a lot during this battle with Ace and now it's time he just took a break. The trainers on this island did like to battle so he wasn't sure how long that break would be.

"See ya!" Wallace said to Ace and waved goodbye as he walked by several battles on his way out he didn't care enough to get the specifics. On his way to the dorm he stopped to get Lome healed and as he handed the Pokeball over to the island's Nurse Joy he yawned. He could get plenty of sleep later but right now he needed to stay until Lome was done being healed. She would not take well to him leaving her there overnight and going off to class without her. Wallace had dozed off when a Chansey tapped him on the head and handed him his Pokeball, "Thanks!" Wallace mumbled. Somehow he managed to get himself to his dorm without falling over and in the morning he would go to class. He could be bothered with finding his schedule right now it was time to sleep.

[SelenaStar]

From the battlefield, Selene and Blu watched as the Dratini flew upwards. Blu looked at Selene confused and Selene shrugged, shouting over to Valorie "VALORIE! BLU IS DOWN HERE," she pointed to Blu who was gliding on the battlefield. Selene assumed it was the dark...it was getting difficult to see, they really needed to end this battle. "Okay Blu, while they're up there bring on your blizzard attack!!! Make it as strong as you can!" Blu floated upwards a bit further and his eyes and aura glowed the palest blue. The clouds remaining in the night sky turned black as pitch and erupted with a blizzard of snow and ice, which would have been pretty had it not been moving at hurricane-speed, one of the most powerful attacks Blu knew.

Selene shivered, the snow even reaching her. It engulfed the entire battlefield, Ri moving over to her and placing his hand on her leg, shielding her from the cold with his aura. Selene smiled at Ri as Ryan muscled in on the warming aura, turning back to Blu and watching anxiously. He'd gotten some good attacks in during this battle even with his paralysis and the effort he'd put into getting through the twister, and this one was his most powerful ice attack. If this didn't work Selene was seriously going to have to think outside the box.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie's expression turned sour. Why did it know blizzard?! Flying pokemon weren't supposed to be so fluent in ice attacks... Meanwhile, Dratini is assaulted with high speed snow. Normally, blizzard is supposed to manifest itself in a more focused manner, namely a powerful, aimed blast of extremely heavy snow and wind. However, the high speed snow still hurt Dratini, and prompted it to attempt to dodge, only to find out it had nowhere to go.

Meanwhile, Valorie held out her hands, observing the snow melting on them. Her face became pale, and she seemed to zone out a bit before giving her attention back to Dratini. She didn't seem to mind the cold.

Dratini writhed in the air momentarily before abruptly firing off a flamethrower into the blizzard. The more focused fire attack easily pierces and could outlast the blizzard attack, shielding Dratini from some of the already diluted damage. After what seemed like an eternity to Valorie, Dratini abruptly nose dived through the air down back towards the ground. Needless to say, it was one angry dratini, which was reflected in it's glare. White streaks of energy began to shoot off it's body before a light blue aura manifests itself, and made Dratini somewhat resemble a shooting star. The clones simply follow along, emulating the attack visually. It was Dragon Rush, an extremely powerful dragon attack. As Dratini falls lower during the attack, its' speed picked up rapidly. It was not going for subtly. That was for sure.

[SelenaStar]

"We aren't out of this yet Blu!" cried Selene, shocked that such a powerful ice attack that completely surrounded the Dratini failed to do as much damage as she had anticipated. And the dratini knew flamethrower...turned out Selene wasn't the only one who was handy with a TM. That was a really smart move of the pokemon though, melting the snow like that. It appears that her tactic of surrounding Dratini wasn't working either, the direct and aggressive approach seemed to be the only one that could win her this battle now. It helped that Dratini was resorting to aggressive physical attacks in its frustration.

"Dratini needs to come close for her attack to hit - with your safeguard you should be okay from a completely physical dragon-type attack, it isn't your type weakness...ICE BEAM, FOLLOW THAT DRATINI WITH IT WHATEVER YOU DO."

Swablu stayed exactly where she was, launcing a powerful direct ice beam at Dratini, following Selene's orders and maintaining a steady stream of ice, throwing everything she had into the attack, ready to change direction if Dratini attempted to circumvent her ice beam. If Dratini wanted to hit Blu with this attack she would have to charge through this ice beam first.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

The first Dratini that was struck simply became engulfed in the beam. As would be expected, it was a clone. When ice beam was fired though, all four dratinis start rapidly circling around the beam, making themselves difficult to hit. They were far enough apart that they simply danced away from the beam, letting it chase them. The closer they got, the farther they spread out. They had split up!

Suddenly, one of the dratinis attempted to attack Swablu from the left as they got close, coming from the air with great speed. It was a clone, a decoy if you will, and posed no danger. Then, a second Dratini came low, coming at Swablu from the front. It too was a decoy. The third clone approached from the right, but the the real Dratini was above, and attempted to take advantage of the chaos by trying to smash into Swablu at an arch before the third even attacked. All of them made their attempts almost simultaneously, with only a slight delay between each attack. All Valorie could do was stare, waiting to see the results of the ploy. This was Dratini's best shot. Not to be underestimated, dragon rush was an attack to be feared regardless of typing, especially coming from a dragon itself.

[SelenaStar]

Selene was watching closely, and she noticed that the Dratini coming from above was glowing slightly brighter than the others. She found it strange that the double team had lasted all this time, Dratini must be very good at that move. "BLU, ABOVE!" she yelled, but it was too late, the clones had attacked and passed through Blu and Dratini slammed into him, engulfing them both in the aura.

"NO BLU, STABILISE!" yelled Selene as Blu began to fly backwards, somersaulting backwards. Blu stuck his good wing straight out abruptly and stopperd himself mid-somersault, his bad wing almost sending him upside down as it couldn't stretch itself as well. However, Blu recovered quickly, although one of his legs looked badly injured, and he seemed disorientated. "BLU, NOW, DRATINI IS VULNERABLE AND IN RANGE, ICE BEAM!" Now there was only the one Dratini and it was right in front of Blu there was no way Blu could possibly miss. His ice beam wasn't as powerful as it had previously been but he was so close Selene couldn't see how it wouldn't do a lot of damage.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Dratini attempted to spiral away from the attack, still moving relatively fast after having built up all that speed. The ice beam clipped it however and Dratini then let out a brief cry before dropping like a rock, and just sort of fell to the ground bodily.

"No!"

Valorie saw her dratini fall, and became alarmed when it hit the ground. She knew that a dratini hitting the ground was generally a very bad sign. She ran out to dratini, who wasn't getting up. Valorie got down on her knees and scooped the small serpent pokemon up. She then stood up, staring down at the Dratini in her arms with a deflated expression on her face. Dratini appeared to have lost consciousness.

"..."

[Megaman765]

Mark spectated the entire battle until finally, Dratini was the one to finally fall. Selene's loud voice still pierced through Mark's ears. Valorie ran over to Dratini and scooped him up in her arms. Except Dratini wasn't getting up... Maybe they overdid it in battle? Mark couldn't help but get involved. He ran over to Valorie to check Dratini's condition.

"He sure took a beating out there. Think he's alright?" Mark asked. Len looked up at Dratini, giving off a worried expression as if it were going to die or something. He only lost consciousness, but as cheerful as Len was, he was a real worry wart.

Snype crawled up onto Mark's shoulder and looked down at the fainted Dratini. ["Kehehe. He'll surely be fine. A night of rest and he'll be good as new Len."] Snype told him so that he wouldn't worry too much more about him. He hoped he was alright that is...

[SelenaStar]

"Oh no..." said Selene quietly, completely forgetting her own pokemon for a moment as she ran over to Valorie and Dratini, kneeling down in front of them. "Is she okay? Is she moving? I am so so sorry, I didn't think it had hit her fully, I didn't expect it to do so much damage, it was the only attack I had left that could possibly work, I had to use it!" she pleaded, looking imploringly at Valorie and then Mark and then back to Valorie. She didn't ever want Dratini this hurt...

Swablu flew over slowly, his head bowed from exhaustion. He landed next to Dratini and let out a loud wailing cry, and Selene felt truly awful - she took no pleasure from this victory as she thought she would...She scooped Blu up and stood up, her head bowed as Ri and Ryan looked first at Valorie and Dratini and then to Selene anxiously. "We should get them to a pokemon centre and then finally get some sleep...it's late, and we're out way past curfew." She held her hand out to Valorie, head still bowed.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

Valorie looked up at Mark. She still seemed kind of deflated to say the least, and found she had a knot in her throat preventing her from answering. She'd lost, and the shame she felt was great. She was... not exactly a graceful loser. She felt the urge to flee the area. The only thing that kept her from doing so was the fact that she had no clue where to go. Selene approached, and Valorie briefly glanced at her before averting her gaze down to Dratini, where they would remain. She swallowed the knot in her throat, and spoke in a rather quiet, shaken voice.

"I-I need to get her healed..."

She had subtly told Mark that her Dratini was in fact female, though it was of little importance at the moment.

[Megaman765]

Mark felt kinda emberessed mistaking Dratini for a boy but male and female weren't exactly easy to tell apart for him. Nonetheless, Dratini was hurt and it needed something quick, at least to last till they get to the pokemon center. Mark scurried around his pockets and found a slightly full potion. He remembered he usually carried one around for emergencies and hell this was an emergency.

"...I usually don't use these but this thing should help it until we find a Pokemon Center. It'll sting but I'm sure it'll get it moving again." Mark said kneeling down and aiming the spray toward Dratini. "Just trust me, its the best option we got right now.

Mark sprayed the potion on Dratini hoping it would have an effect. Afterwards he put the empty potion in his pocket and got back up, smiling at Valorie. "Um, I'm sure they should have big signs that lead to a Pokemon Center. Maybe in bright red. Lets look around, It shouldn't be far." Mark said to her.

"Selene, Come along with us to. Blu could use some healing to..." Mark offered.

[SelenaStar]

"Y..yeah...he needs to be taken in for sure..." said Selene shakily. If Mark had thought she was loud before, she was the polar opposite now. She couldn't find her voice, her legs were trembling and she thought she was going to be sick. When had she ever felt like this after winning a battle..? Must be first-battle-at-academy nerves, she thought as she carried Blu, walking along with Mark and Valorie. She felt a little awkward...Valorie had barely acknowledged her when she went over...surely she would understand that it was just the battle, nothing personal or that she didn't have any intent to hurt Dratini.

She looked down at Blu, lying in her arms, exhausted. His eyes were closed and his breathing was shallow. She sighed and shook her head. "I think I pushed him too hard...he's never been this bad before..." She coughed and shot a sideways look at Valorie, smiling slightly. "That was an amazing battle though Valorie...I thought you had me so many times...if it wasn't for Blu ignoring me then we'd be out of there, this is Blu's victory, not mine," she said, shaking her head. "No bad feelings hey?" she asked tentatively, hopefully. She'd hate for there to be any animosity between them.

[PkMnTrainer Yellow]

The potion seemed to do wonders on the bruises and burns Dratini had suffered. Seeing as Dratini had already fainted, however, it did little to wake the Pokemon up. Valorie had known the moment it had hit the ground that it was done. Dratini and it's evolutions did not even need to move to stay afloat. They used limited telekinetic powers to travel through the air. Hitting the ground had told Valorie pretty loud and clear that Dratini had lost consciousness, which generally indicated fainting or worse. Of course, the implications that a Pokemon could die were partially lost on Valorie. She was very concerned for her Dratini, but simply did not think something such as Pokemon death could happen to /her/!

Valorie looked up at Mark, into his eyes this time. Originally she had wanted to flee, to be alone so that she could mope without fear of ridicule. He seemed to want to help, though, and seemed like a nice guy. In her relatively short time training before the academy nobody had really showed that much concern for her pokemon. Her eyes said she was silently acknowledging Mark. That she had seen him in a new light that sat well with her. It was a nice look, to say the least. Valorie was a rather vulnerable person after losing a pokemon battle. To say the least, this was an excellent way to start a potential friendship.

Then of course, Selene had spoken to her. She attempted to glance at Selene very briefly, trying to avoid eye contact whilst doing so. She became aware that Selene was not in fact enjoying her victory, or looking down on her, or bragging like she might've feared. She actually didn't seem happy at all! This confused Valorie. She wondered why Selene wasn't happy.

Then Selene actually complimented her! Valorie became confused by this as well. During her relatively short time training not a whole lot of people had complimented her on her battling. Most of the time it was bragging, and the other half of they would be condescending. She herself wasn't any better. She was a braggart and she knew it.

Valorie's cheeks flushed pink as she looked up at Selene. Out of sheer embarrassment she would avert her eyes after a moment, but this time she spoke.

"R-right..."

She had more she might've said, but she simply felt too awkward and embarrassed to continue on her own. Valorie was not exactly a mean person. She had an admirable code of honor with the exception that it sadly did not include modesty. She simply had an extremely passionate desire to earn the respect and admiration of others by being the best at what she does, and every loss felt like reality slapping her across the face and telling her she wasn't good enough.

That being said, what Selene had said had rubbed her well, all things considered. Meanwhile l, while Valorie dealt with her emotions, one of her other Pokemon abruptly shot out of it's pokeball. Said pokeball was in the satchel on Valorie's arm and thus the beam of light ached out and onto the ground. It was a character! The small fire lizard pokemon simply tapped on Valorie's leg before pointing up at a red sign intended to lead people to a Pokemon Center. Valorie seemed surprised by her Charmander coming out of it's ball on it's own, but said nothing. Following it's pointing, Valorie spots the sign, though she doesn't immediately say anything about it, her mind having been elsewhere.

[Megaman765]

Valorie stared into Mark's eyes for awhile but didn't say anything. Sheesh she was a shy one. The look she gave him seemed to be an approving one though as she wasn't mad that Mark used a potion without even asking. Mark was actually blushing a little. "U..um, Your... welcome..?" He said, smiling back to her. Snype Chuckled again and gave off a bright smile.

Selene gave off her own share of compliments and appologies. She wasn't the kind of trainer that would be a total jerk after winning. It was good to be in a school full of at least some decent folks. A charmander suddenly appeared from one of the Pokeballs Valorie owned and was pointing toward a sign leading to a Pokemon Center.

"Good eye. Comon I'll tag along with you two." Mark offered as he already began walking alongside the two girls.

[jackblaze]

After watching the pokemon battle between the dratini and the swablu watching the strategies of his fellow trainers seeing if there was anything he could learn from the lovely ladies. They battle finished with dratini losing to Jack disappointment he would have loved to see the battle go on a little longer for his enjoyment. Jack went to the pokemon center to be with his Charmander after it was poisoned in the battle.

When he arrived he pulled up a seat beside Charmander's bed "Don't worry buddy I'll stay with you tonight" Jack leaned back and looked out into the night sky


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Blade lvl 15
Rocky lvl 10
Blaze lvl 10

[Curious.]

Nathan had fiercely lost track of the time. He noticed he had been sitting there watching a battle in which had finished an hour ago. Luckily another battle just finished so it didn't look so awkward. "Hm.." Nathan groaned. "Let's go guys." He said to his pokemon as he started walking to his dorm with them following closely behind.

Arriving at the dorm wasn't so spectacular know, since he had become used to the dorms entrance and the scenery. He looked again, however for his number 17 dorm and after a couple of minutes found it. Click! Nathan opened the door with his key. A bright light shone through his window, most likely it was from the bustling pokemon center. He walked quickly towards it, curious to find out what was happenning. He could faintly see a charmander and another trainer sitting together. The charmander looked quite hurt, but he knew it'd be alright in the hands of a proffesional like Murse Joy. Satisfied, Nathan retreated and opened his laptop. "Let's seee..." he stretched on. He swerved through his various emails to find his timetable for tommrow. "Ugh. It hasn't been updated yet." Nathan complained. "Turrrrrrrrr." Turtwig yawned. "Haha you're tired turwig? Well I think it's time to retreat and hit they hay hey!?" "Tur tur." Turtwig replied slowly and tiredly, almost falling asleep smack bang in the middle of the doorway. "Come on guys." Nathan got changed and brushed his teeth and hoped into bed. "Do you guys want to stay in or out?" Nathan asked. "Chim, GIB!" They both replied they'd prefer their pokeballs. But turwig didn't reply at all. Nathan glanced over a the bottom of his bed. "Turwig?" "Tuur.. zzz.. tur.. zzz." Turwig had already fallen asleep. "Well goodnight then" Nathan finally said. His head slowly hit the pillow, his vision slowly turning black.

VOOSH, CLINK, CLINK!

An eerie sound erupted through Nathan's ears. It suddenly got quite cold. But nothing was in his cabin. Nathan glanced around once more. To his horror he found a scary looking ghastly starring through his icy cold-frosted window. He could see the darkness in it's eyes, the mysterious sneakiness it embodied. They both stared at eachother for a few minutes before the ghastly depatured in a quiet blink. Only leaving small wafts of purple smoke trainling through the air outside, under the stars, behind his window.

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Current Pokemon:
Piplup level 15 - with his mother.
Chimchar level 15
Turtwig level 15
Gible level 16

Wild pokemon encounters:
Starly -> Staravia (Level unknown)
Ghastly (Level unknown.)

[NightOfRemorse]

Alice looked around the gym, noticing how large and empty it was. Was this the physical fitness gym, or a Pokémon gym? Alice switched on the lights and walked to the middle of the gym. There were folded up basketball hoops, so it was most likely a fitness gym. However, it was large enough for a good Pokémon battle to be fought here. At the back of the gym was another door with a sign just above it.

The sign read, "POOL" in capital, bold blue letters. Alice ran over, just to take a look. She wasn't in the mood to swim, nor did she have any water Pokémon who would enjoy the pool much. Kicking the door open, the usual way she enjoyed opening them, she walked inside. It was so hot in here! Obviously, they heated the whole room up to prevent anybody from freezing.

"Vulpix!" Jem said, enjoying the warmth. "I should throw you into the pool," Alice joked, knowing Jem really did not like to get wet. After a while of quiet admiring, the pool and gym became dull. There wasn't much else to explore here, so Alice quietly exited at the back door. The first thing that came into view were some of the classrooms.

Alice sneaked over and peered into one of the open doors. There was a teacher working at his desk, but his back blocked whatever it was he was doing. Alice moved her head from side to side until she could finally see that the teacher was working on his computer. She stared for a few moments, unimpressed.

She made her way to the next door and looked to her left. Three shadows seemed to be walking over to… to… Alice looked up at the glowing letters. They were on their way to the Pokémon Center. Because she couldn't tell who it was, she didn't really care about what happened that made them go over there. Maybe a battle, but it wasn't like it mattered. Alice returned undivided attention to the door she stood at. She turned the knob and walked in. There was nobody here, and so she walked around to view the lined up student desks. Suddenly, Alice heard the doorknob turn again and she quickly hid under a computer table.