The Path to Light and Darkness: Rated PG 17

Charizard_Man: Great post! I definitly enjoyed the flashback into his past at the end of the post!
 
"Come back!" Gil shouted, running blindly through the knarled trees and foggy area with only a glimpse or flash of those jewled eyes before the Sableye completely disappeared from view. Gil came to a stop, breathing lightly with a frown marring his face.

"Well, what have we here?"

Gil actually groaned as he turned around. "What is with you damn dark brotherhood members popping up everywhere? You're like stinkin' ants."

The man frowned. "My, what a fiesty thing you are. A fine mistake, especially when one is so lost."

Gil sneered as Growlithe and Murkrow jumped in front of him. "I'm not lost, I'm simply passing through," he said with a glare.

The man actually paused and seemed to shift closer. "You seem familiar," he murmered. "Tell me, do you know anyone by the name of Shuan?"

Gil blinked at the question. He had no friends, therefore he knew no one by that name. "No."

"Indeed? How strange..."

Gil actually growled. "Are you going to let me through or are we actually going to have to battle? I have things to do." Like chase after that damn Sableye...

The man still seemed unsure as he studied Gil's dark look. "I am truly sorry, child," he said this delicately, "but unless you're with us, you're against us. We do live by those type of rules. There is no neutral ground in this war."

Gil nibbled at his lip. "No neutral ground?" he parroted, looking up at the sky and seeing nothing but darkness. "That's pretty foolish." The man remained silent. "I guess I'm just one of a kind, then..."

The man let out a bark of laughter. "I pray that you never meet with Shaun - or, as we like to call him, the Clawed Assassin."

Gil actually broke out into an amused grin. "The Clawed Assassin?" he asked with a laugh.

"He kills everyone he meets with the deadly claws of his Weavile," the man snarled quietly, glaring into Gil's eyes. "He is a traitor to everyone but seems to have his claws deep into both leaders, both wanting his power." The man glowered for a minute. "He is disgusting."

"You are... jealous," Gil stated after a moment before shaking his head. Most underlings were jealous of those with superior standing. "Why are you telling me this? I don't know, nor have I ever heard of the man."

"He is but a boy," the man spat, much to Gil's amusement. "A brat of boy, and I am telling you this because I can sense the same deranged darkness that clings to your body like ink to paper." Gil said nothing. "There are plenty of crazed killers in this world, and we don't need another one." This time Gil tilted his head, dark amusement filtering through his veins. He had never killed a person before... "Go!" the man shouted, releasing two pokemon with a bright flash of light.
[PokeCommunity.com] The Path to Light and Darkness: Rated PG 17
[PokeCommunity.com] The Path to Light and Darkness: Rated PG 17


"Growlithe, Murkrow," Gil stated calmly as he went into his crouching position and folded his arms around his body, eyes becoming half lidded, "attack."

"Growlithe!" the fire pup snarled, firing a blast of burning hot Embers.

"Murk!" Murkrow cawed, slamming into his opponent with a purple energy of Astonish.

The fire sizzled into the air, slamming against Haunter as the ghost howled in pain. Haunter flailed his arms in front of the barrage, but that only caused his hands to burn and allow Growlithe to crawl closer. "Ter haunt!" Haunter cried.

Gil laughed insanely. "Kill the ghost!" he laughed. "Just like all the others!"

The man faltered and stared at Gil. "Others..." he turned back to his pokemon, wincing as the Growlithe Bit his Haunter as hard as he could. The attack was enough to make his pokemon howl in pure agony. Did this child loath ghosts?

"Mur row krow!" Murkrow taunted, twisting and turning and flipping about in the air as Houndoom snarled with anger, muzzle wide as it shot its own Ember's high into the air, each attack missing.

Gil watched the dark type with interest, wondering what was wrong with it. It's attack seemed weaker than his own fire type's, but it was an evolved pokemon. Then again, it did seem like it was at a small level, so then why had it evolved? What was wrong with these pokemon?

"Houndo!" Houndoom howled in pure rage, teeth crackling with electricity as it lunged high into the air.

"Pursuit," Gil ordered quickly. "Growlithe, drop!"

"Growl," Growlithe let out from his grip on the wailing ghost type and dropped to the ground.

"Haunt!" Haunter snarled, long tongue coming out as it prepared for a Lick as revenge, but Murkrow had been right in front of it, exactly in the direction that Houndoom had lunged.

"Ko," Murkrow smirked, disappearing in a black energy.

"Houn!" Houndoom yelped, accidentally biting down on Haunter's exposed tongue where the electricity spread through the ghost type.

"Murko!" Murkrow cawed, reappearing and slamming into the two with its dark energy where the two fell to the ground in a clump.

"Get up you two!" the man yelled. "Ember and Hypnosis!"

Gil tsked. "Ember and Icy Wind," he purred. "And try to make sure that damn Haunter is gone."

The man blanched as the two very different attacks slammed into his two fallen pokemon where the different hot and cold energies mixed, creating a type of shock through their bodies.

"Hound!"

"Haunt!"

When the two attacks dispersed, Haunter's gas body seemed to be disappearing and Houndoom lay in an unconcious state with his tongue hanging out. "Return!" the man yelped, not wanting his ghost type to disappear into the darkness where he could not be retrieved.

"Look's like I'll be passing through," Gil stated in a dull tone. A tone that was far too different than how he had been speaking earlier. It set the man on edge. Was this child bi-polar?

"RA! GIR! RA!"

The man broke into a wince. "It look's like this is where we depart," he snarled, turning heal and running away.

"Lit," Growlithe whimpered, gazing in the direction the roar was coming from.

"Ko," Murkrow cawed in awe as it landed on Gil's shoulder.

Gil blinked at the sounds of the roar, actually feeling his feet taking toward the sound, feeling oddly attracted to the roar of anger...
 
Wolfwhispers: Good post! I definitly like how you included Shaun! Anyways Growlithe grew to lvl 16, Murkrow grew to lvl 14!

Note to everyone: I will be revealing another NPC tonight! So look for his history and TC in the OCC Thread!
 
Gil followed in an almost hypnotized state, his darkened eyes wide as he went deeper and deeper into the forest, attracted by the deep growls that was filling the area. Growlithe was pulling at his pant leg but Gil paid the fire pup no mind while Murkrow was once more whispering in his ear, but like his fire pokemon, Gil paid no attention to the dark type.

"RA! GIR! RA TINA!"

Again was that vicious roar and Gil felt intense shivers running down his spine in ecstasy. With a deranged laugh, Gil finally noticed that while his body was frightened, his mind was not.

"Fool!" a voice snarled from seemingly above Gil.

Gil looked up, blinking as blood red eyes glared down at him from the sky and, to Gil's curiosity, a dark claw seemed to break out of the sky as it reached down to wrap Gil up.

"Time's up!" the voice rang.

Gil paid the voice no mind. He reached his own hand up, unaware of his pokemon's quivering or the diamond eyes of Sableye watching him. Gil was only aware of his fingers brushing against the dark claws before darkness swept over his mind, and for the first time Gil welcomed it.
 
Finally, the ball stopped shaking. Though he was proud of the fact that he had just successfully captured something, Kabir couldn't really find it in him to smile. He walked over and picked up the Pokeball, and then glanced back at Kadabra, who was standing there watching him. Kabir saw the eerie glint of energy from his spoons, providing them with little light. Kabir smirked at his Pokemon and muttered a thanks, then recalled it. He stowed the two balls in his pack and suddenly felt his limbs grow heavy. His mind sank into a state that one would call depressed, though Kabir told himself he wasn't.

The voices still echoed in his head as he continued to walk in an almost trancelike state. He continued to look for some sort of exit, but sadly for him he couldn't find one. Eventually Kabir sort of just gave that up, and sighed as he stopped dead in (what he guessed was) the middle of the cave. He had that eerie feeling that he was being watched again, but this time only a slow smirk appeared on his features. Kabir chuckled darkly, and then shook his head. He was about to take another step when none other than Beo himself appeared in front of him. Kabir wasn't too interested in Beo, however. No, he was more interested in the Charizard that stood at Beo's side. The fire type entranced Kabir, but sadly for Kabir that led to him thinking about Sabir again. He gnashed his teeth together and looked at Beo.

"I trust you want something. What is it?" Kabir snapped. He wasn't in the mood for this. In all truth, he really wanted to crawl across the cave like a worm and dry out and die. Internally, Kabir cursed his memories as he stood there without much emotion showing.

Beo laughed, and then began to clap. Kabir's eyebrow rose, but he said nothing. "I think it's very funny and entertaining that you children think you are making such a difference in this place even though it is hopeless and you aren't even powerful enough to beat me blindfolded." Kabir knew that was true. He had known that from the start, actually. Why was he fighting then? Well, Kabir wasn't too sure, but he figured that if he didn't it would be a bad idea, so oh well. Pure power emitted from Beo, and Kabir's lip curled.

"Yeah, I get the picture. Stop flaunting," Kabir grumbled. "You're like a freaking peacock." Kabir was probably overstepping his bounds, but he really didn't care.

"Now, I've come to you with a bit of a proposal that you shouldn't refuse. You see, I think you do have potential to be very strong, but you're fighting on the wrong side, my young friend. You could have all the power you want if you just accept the darkness and let it grow inside of you like I did." Apparently, Beo was choosing to ignore Kabir's rather rude comment.

Kabir let out a harsh laugh and shook his head. "Power isn't the only thing about life, you know. If you think that's true, then you're less mature than I am. Hell, you're probably less mature than all of the other trainers, which is saying something." Kabir thought back to that one cocky kid and the sniveling one.

"Ha, very childish of you. Listen, I know what it is you really want in life," he said. He paused. Kabir's eyebrow rose yet again. He seriously doubted that this dark freak knew what he wanted. Kabir opened his mouth to say something, when Beo suddenly smirked. "You just want to feel wanted again, don't you? You want your brother out of the picture forever. You want everyone else to feel how horrible it is when no one cares for you, and you want to make them suffer as you did." Kabir stared at him silently, his face a mask to hide the thoughts that were running through his head.

It was exactly what he wanted. The only thing was, Kabir wasn't sure if Beo knew how he was going to get it. "Yeah. So what?"

"See, that's just some of the things the darkness can do. Now join me, and I promise you when this is all said and done you can have exactly what you want," he said. Beo held out his arm, and Kabir stared at the hand. It would be like a pack with Satan, selling his soul for a life of servitude.

Kabir stared at the hand, and thought hard about the decision. He thought about all of the fights he had had with his parents and his brother. Sabir was the first thing in his mind. If he could get what he wanted, then would that mean Sabir would be dead by the end of it all? Kabir thought of his brother's journey in the land of Johto, far away from the region they were in. He closed his eyes and saw the look of happiness that Sabir had on his features when he was with the people he cared about. Finally, with a heavy sigh, Kabir opened his eyes. Though his brain and wounded heart were screaming for him to accept, Kabir knew his decision.

"...No."

Beo stared at him for a moment, and then retracted his arm. "Heh, the fact that you would turn me down truly shows that you were the right choice for this job. Unfortunately, your life ends here!" Beo cried. Kabir cursed as the shadows suddenly reached up and slammed him down on the ground, pinning him down and keeping his mouth shut. He really didn't like this position at all. It felt way too vulnerable.

"The fact of the matter is you can't fight it, you're all pawns in my game and you'd be surprised to know that I had a hand in who was chosen as the Clan of Hope's replacements," he said. Kabir snarled a curse into the hand covering his mouth. He knew it. Of course he was a pawn. He saw Beo grab the dagger, and felt the tip suddenly right against his stomach. Kabir snapped his eyes shut, deciding that if he was going to die he would die happy enough. He tried to think of the good things that had happened to him, but of course none of them came.

"Beo, sir!"

Kabir opened his eyes at the voice. A man, presumably a Dark Brotherhood member from the cloak, was standing there saluting Beo. Beo looked rather annoyed, in turn.

"What is it?!" he snapped. Yeah, he was definitely annoyed.

"The Clan of Hope's base has been destroyed, every member killed." Kabir wanted to slam his head against the wall at that. Either that, or he wanted Beo just to kill him already. Stupid choice.

"Good, and Zypher?" Beo questioned. There was a haunted grin on his face, full of evil.

"We have him captured, sir," the man said. Beo got to his feet. He then glanced at Kabir. "I'm sorry, we'll have to finish this another time, haha," Beo said in mock apology. He began to walk away, but then paused. The Dark Brotherhood member watched with an arched eyebrow as Beo turned around and knelt back down next to Kabir. Kabir stared at Beo silently, pretty sure of what the crazy man was going to do.

As soon as the dagger pierced his skin, Kabir was proven right. The stinging pain hit him before he saw the blood, and after the blood welled up and overflowed the pain shot down his arm in bullets. Beo chortled and licked the blood off the dagger, make Kabir rather sick to his stomach. He could stand the sight of blood, he just hated that a nasty pervert was licking his blood off a dagger. It was just creepy.

"That was so you know I'll be back, but first I'm going to finally have my rematch with Zypher!" he shouted, though it was more a scream than anything. It echoed through the cave, and made Kabir's sensitive ears hurt a little. Then suddenly Beo, his Charizard, and the man disappeared. The shadows soon released Kabir after, making him suck in a heavy breath.

Kabir rolled over on his back and stared up at the ceiling. He felt his blood pouring out of the wound, but couldn't bring himself to fix it up. He had just picked the side that suddenly crashed down around him. Kabir sighed and closed his eyes, vaguely wondering if he was doomed to die there. He figured that if he was, it would be better than dying and having his intestines eaten or something by that Beo guy.
 
Through some strange morbid curiosity or simply the sound that completely stunned her, Cain just stood there and listened to the gutwrenching sound. Misdreavous was still mad at her, but the had stopped her glaring to look ahead in a distrustful manner. Cain just stood and listened. The roars were getting louder and louder, her ears were starting to scream as the eardrums wer ebeing violated by the noise. The ground vibrated, causing Cain to almost topple over. Just in time she grabbed the trunk of a tree for balance, even though the shook as well.


Misdreavous was unbothered by anything, she just kept floating, looking only in one direction. The roaring was just getting louder in a wicked crescendo, the ground didn't sop shaking either and all Cain could do was wait, a little dazed. She had already locked her encounted with her brotherin a cupboard far in the depths of her brain. It would come out again, but now now.


Misdreavous bumped against Cain harshly and she blinked. With urgent eyes Misdreavous conveyed one clear message: Whatever they'd do, they had to move. Cain shook her head, clearing it from the fog of doubt and fear and removing the dazed feeling. The ground was shaking a little less now and it wasa gonizing, but she could walk without falling.


"Now what do we do?" Cain muttred to herself. They could go on, searchfor whatever was making the noise and most likely die. There was darkness by that path, when she looked ahead there were shadows blocking her sight. The thought of going there made her heartrate go up for miles. Or she could go back, take the safe way out and report what had happened. There were other more foolish ones who had most likely ran straight ahead at the thing and would either get themselves killed or return with glory. Let them have the glory, Cain didn't care for it.


If the others could hear the roaring at all. If it weren't just in her head, only there to drive hercrazy. She terminated the tought and started to run for the exit. The ground was slowly coming to a rest and only quaking ever so slightly not. "Come on Misdreavous," she called to the ghost. "Let's get the hell out of here!"


But it wasn't quite as easy as she thought it would be. The forest was endless, and every step felt like it took up an hour. Her muscles were hurting from running and keeping her balance over the gently shaking ground. Her ears hurt from the roaring that was only getting louder, not fading into the distance as it should. Something was wrong, terribly wrong.


And there were the noises. They had started faintly, barely to be heard over the roaring, but they had approached quickly. Cain stopped and listened. She found the clicks and whirrs were very loud almost at the edge of the forest. Whatever made them would be very close now. And then they were there.


Black bodies in strange shapes, a great big eye somewhere ruling it to be compared with a cell's nucleus. Pupils staring at her as they closed in, constricting her space. She stepped back only to be greeted by the Unown in the back. They circled around her, she was completely surrounded. They started to circle her in some bizarre dance almost. They sped up and sped up. Cain tried to follow them but all she could do is stare at the blur of white and black as it whirred past her and again and again.


Stare at the shadows. Beneath the Unown their shadows started to dance as well. Like an enchanted snake from a flute they snaked up slowly, up and up. Cain started hyperventilating again but she controlled herself, just watchingas the shadows danced up and up. Untill all the points touched in a dome around Cain, separating her from the creatures that were till zooming around the dome.


It was getting hard to breathe. No new oxygen entered the dome and with every breath the ar was robbed of a little of its oxygen which got replaced by carbon dioxide. Cain started to feel lightheaded as she collapsed on the floor, breathing in big inhales that only ccaught a little bit of the molecule she so desperately needed. Deep breaths, darkness, no light, no oxygen no nothing.


"Time's up!"

She fainted.
 
Chapter 5 parts 2/3: Lies, anger, decisions, and darkness

"....Boone...uhh.." Grecko mutters as he slowly wakes up. "Cu..." Boone cries as it lays flat on the ground with it's head slumped down. "You ok buddy..." Grecko asks as he picked the pokemon up in his arms. "Bone" Boone slowly nods it's head up and down as Grecko tried to stand up but just couldn't find the strength.

Grecko who was now sitting indian style with Boone in his lap, looked down at the pokemon for a second and as he lifted his head up he saw a black cloak waving in front of him. "UH!" He cried as he rolled backwards and then stood up still holding Boone. That's when he saw who the man in the robe was, Tai Fayling.

"You?" Grecko confusingly asked. Tai gave the boy a somewhat evil stare as he slowly began pacing back and fourth. "Aren't you just a lucky person today" he says as he walks closer to Grecko. "Where am I, and who exactly are you!" Grecko began to get angry, he could finally feel his energy coming back into his body.

"Beo has separated you from the rest of the group" Tai says as he folds his arms across his chest. "Seperated!?!?...that can't be good..." Grecko thought himself as he continued to stare at Tai.

"He's going to come to you with an offer you can't refuse; I suggest you accept his offer, otherwise he'll kill you" The double sided man laughs as Grecko's face turns pale.

"What offer!" Grecko barks back.

"Well you could say it's because your Kanto's last hope and I don't want you to die, or you could also say I have my own agenda" he says as Grecko turns around to set Boone down and think about this situation. "Where is Be..." Grecko began as he turned around but noticed no one was there anymore.

"I....i'm all alone now..." Grecko says as he starts to worry. The place he's at is dark and damp as if it was some kind of cave. "Boone you should probably rest buddy, return to your pokeball." Grecko decided as he returned the pokemon to it's ball.

"I guess i should work on finding a way out of here..." He paused as he stared off into the dark abyss, and then he began his journey.

After wandering around aimlessly Grecko stumbled upon a sign, which answered the question as to where he is. "I'm on Mt. Silver...How did I get here...it must of been Tai!" Grecko slams his fist off the wobbly sign causing it to break and fall apart. The sound echoed throughout the cave, which caused another odd radiating sound to come from the other direction.

"What's that noise..." Grecko wondered as it began to get louder. The trainer pulled out his pokedex to see if maybe it was a pokemon that was making the noise. "Ding" the pokedex regsitered some kind of pokemon. "Zubat? well that shouldn't be to hard to battle" Grecko relaxed because it could have been worse.

But that's where he was wrong...it was worse. "Oh...that's not good.." Grecko says as he now sees a huge amount of Zubats flying his way. "I can't run, because I can't see what's ahead...so I guess I should battle..Ekans, Kakuna go!" he says as he throws out two pokeballs and prepares for a fight for his life.

"EKKAA!" "KAKA!" the two pokemon shout as they emerge from the balls. Now the Zubats were hovering over top of Grecko and his pokemon. They began to dive down and attack Grecko. "Ahh, Ekans use Leer to get them off me! Kakuna use string shot and wrap some of these Bats up" Grecko began giving commands as he tried to wave the Zubats away from him.

Ekans quickly obeyed it's trainer and used leer, which distracted the Zubats that were attacking Grecko. Kakauna began to use string shot, and wrapped up a few of the Zubats.

"Ok Ekans use Bite on as many of them as you can. Kakuna use poison sting as many times as possible." The trainer continued to battle, but it seemed hopeless because the noise they created from the battle was causing more Zubats to rush their way.

"Kakakka!" Kakuna continued to send poison sting needles at the zubat's but was only making contact about 33 percent of the time. "EKANS!" The snake pokemon cried as one of the Zubats slammed it into the cave wall.

"Come on guys! We can do it! I know we can!" Grecko yelled out as he continued to try and keep his hope up. The two pokemon were getting tireder and tireder and it was very noticeable. "We need some kind of miracle..." Grecko put his head down and began to unclip Ekans and Kakuna's pokeballs to return them, when some form of light began to shine at the other end of the cave.

"What is that...Ekans! Kakuna Return!" Grecko yelled quickly as the two pokemon were zipped into their pokeballs. The boy then dove down to the ground as flames rushed up top fainting all of the Zubats. "where did that fire come from..." he wandered as he stood up and noticed all of the fainted Zubats.

"Cynda!" a faint noise was heard coming from the same direction as the fire. "Is that a pokemon?" Grecko wondered as he could see some form in the distance. He quickly whipped out his pokedex, which registered the form as a Cyndaquil. "A Cyndaquil huh? I gotta have it!" Grecko's frown turned into a overzealous smile of a four year old as he realized his favorite pokemon was right in front of him.

"Cynda cynda quil!" the pokemon cried as it was now two feet in front of Grecko. "hey there Cyndaquil...my name is Grecko Rage and I thank you very much for saving me a second agao." they boy squated down and put out his hand for the pokemon to shake.

"Cyn?" the curious pokemon began to sniff Grecko's hand before it finally grasped it and shook. "Well how about that, I guess some pokemon are friendly even if there not tamed. That's something I didn't think I would see here." The trainer thought to himself as he looked at the pokemon for a second and wondered just exactly where it came from.

"Well Cyndaquil do you know the way out of here? I sure could use some help." Grecko stated to the pokemon, whose flames on it's back made it possible for Grecko to see. Cyndaquil happily shook it's head as it walked over to Grecko's jakcet and pushed the button on an empty pokeball. "BZZT!" the pokeball clicked as the Cyndaquil now belonged to Grecko.

"That's weird...it's as if it was told exactly what to do..." Grecko was getting more curious about this random Cyndaquil. "Come on out Cyndaquil!" he said as he tossed out it's pokeball.

"Alright are you ready to go then?" Grecko looked down at the pokemon and asked it. Cyndaquil seemed to be frozen in fear though is it just stared up in front of Grecko. "What is it..." the boy started before turning around and noticing a Charizard standing right in front of him.

"ahh....Beo!" Grecko then hollers as he saw Beo standing beside it.
"I think it's very funny and entertaining that you children think you are making such a difference in this place even though it is hopeless and you are not even powerful enough to beat me blindfolded." He says as Grecko realizes it's true just from sensing the pure power emitting from the Charizard next to him.

"Now I've come to you with a bit of a proposal that you shouldn't refuse, you see I think you do have potential to be very strong, but your fighting on the wrong side my young friend you could have all the power you want if you just accept the darkness and let it grow inside of you like I did" he says with a stern and powerful look.

This comment really gets to Grecko as he yells back at the man, "ACCEPT THE DARKNESS? WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT RUINS PEOPLE, AND TURNS A BEATUIFUL PLACE LIKE KANTO ONCE WAS INTO THIS DESOLATE WASTELAND!" Beo laughs for a second before responding to the young trainers outburst, "This isn't a wasteland, it's a glorious new world. A world that you could have some power in if you just accept it."

"I will never accept that, because I care about pokemon and I would never do anything to hurt them." Grecko yells back as he looks down at his new partner, Cyndaquil.

"Ha very childish of you, listen I know what it is you really want in life" he pauses for a second as he actually grabs Grecko's attention. "how could he possibly know what I want..." Grecko thinks to himself as he looks over at the darkest man alive. "You want to see your father again don't you?" Beo then asks, which really gets under Greckos skin.

"MY FATHER! OF COURSE I WANT TO SEE MY FATHER! BUT WHY WOULD THAT MAKE ME JOIN YOU...YOUR THE ONES WHO TOOK MY FATHER!" the angry trainer yells in rage. Beo shakes his head after this comment, "we didn't take your father kid...in fact your father lied to you. Didn't you ever wonder why the people who jumped you guys were wearing white robes not black ones?" he finishes up, realizing he hit his mark.

Grecko had never thought about this before...but now he was..."Did the clan of hope kidnap may father.." the boy's spirit was crushed, as so many thoughts rushed through his mind. "It's a sad thing when a father abandons his child, you weren't even old enough to take care for yourself really. You haven't even heard anything from him have you? He's alive and doing just fine actually, that's why I brought you up here...this is where he stays." Beo continues to dig deep down into Grecko's spirit.

"NO YOUR LYING! MY FATHER WOULDN'T JUST LEAVE ME...THATS NOT WHO HE IS...HES NOT YOU!" Grecko was beyond anger now, his rage had gotten the better of him and now both fist were clenched tightly.

"He's not me? Well what did I ever do to wrong you? I think for someone with as much power as me, someone who could have killed you with my finger already, I think i've given you plenty of reasons to trust me." Beo struck up a point, because up until now all he had done was randomly attacked the new hope members but they were never in any real danger.

"SHUT UP!" Grecko yelled as he ran at Beo and began to swing. At the first sight of this Beo, quickly disappeared and reappeared behind Grecko. "Now now, we don't need any of that." Beo laughed as he knew his plan was working.

"If my dad lives in this cave...prove it.." Grecko said with his fist still clenched and his teeth grinding. "That's easy" Beo says as he materializes something out of shadows and tosses it at Grecko.

"This pokeball...it's got one of my dads markings on it...which means he has been here all along...where did you get this..." Grecko asked the man. It was here a couple of days ago I found it lying on the ground. Don't worry I haven't hurt your father, i'm leaving that for you if you join me...wouldn't you like revenge on the man who is the whole reason your in this place anyway." Beo stated.
"Revenge..." the angry Grecko clenched his fist even harder as he realized he never even considered the word Revenge a word.

"See that's just some of the things the darkness can do now join me and I promise you when this is all said and done you can have exactly what you want" he says as he extends his arm out for you to shake, basically throwing your soul to the devil. Grecko finally had enough, he was to angry, to destroyed inside to consider what he was about to do. He returned Cyndaquil to it's ball, and without the slightest look of any emotion shook Beo's hand.

"I am pleased with your decision" Beo says as he begins to laugh as shadows reach out from below the two of them. Instantly Grecko and Beo are in some kind of inter-dimension and flying through it fast. They finaly arrive on solid ground, and Beo tells him that they are home. They boy who now has no kind of emotion what so ever, is wearing a black cloak just like everyone else in the base.

All of a sudden the other members start to cheer and Grecko sees why. Zyphers body is being carried into the base all bloody and tattered. Grecko just stares at the man as the dark brotherhood carries him through the halls.

"Pathetic..." is the only word to emerge from his mouth...
 
tim0789: Good post =) I'm pretty sure you merged both the second and third, right? Anyway...Ekans grew to level 11! Kakuna grew to level 10! Kakuna wants to evolve, will you allow it? (OOC thread) It seems like Cyndaquil is tagging along with Grecko now. Congratulations, Grecko got a level 10 male Cyndaquil!
 
Mathias woke up to the taste of dirt in his mouth and the smell of dank mold. He took a deep breath and then choked on the air, it felt dirty in his lungs. He spit the bile from his mouth onto the ground and as his eyes began to work again started to take a good look around. There in front of him stood a familiar face but not a welcoming one.

"Aren't you just a lucky person today." It was Tai who walked over and smacked Mathias on his back to help him catch his breath.

"I wouldn't necesarily call myself lucky.. How the hell did I get here anyways?" Mathias said after coughing up what was left of the dust trapped in his lungs.

"Beo seperated you from the rest of the group." Tai said with a look of disgust on his face, guess even the thought of Beo makes this guy sick.

"Makes enough sense, so where exactly is this place again?" Mathias asked as he looked down on himself for any dirt on his clothes.

"Not important, Beo is going to come to you later today with a offer you wont be able to refuse, I suggest that if you want to live than you accept it." He said as he began walking away from Mathias.

"Yeah... I'll keep that on my mind. One last question though, what stake do you have in whether I live or I die?" Mathias asked the obvious question.

"I got some plans for you kid." He said before dissapearing from sight.

"And I'm guessing those plans don't involve helping me out of this cave. Fantastic." Mathias yawned and stretched as he began to take in everything around him. He decided wherever Tai was walking must have lead to an exit so he decided to follow behind and scope things out as he got farther into the cave.

After a good half hour of walking blindly through the cave Mathias decided hew as getting no where fast and decided to rummage through his bags. He pulled out a zippo lighter and grasped its cold steel tight in his hand. "Perfect!"

He flicked the small metal box open and illuminated the dark black cave. Apparently he had a greater audience than he had imagined but as soon as the light was introduced to the tunnel dozens of small odd Pokemon began to scatter away from Mathias. All but one, a small brown and tan looking creature with a relaxed expression on its face. He scratched his head and looked up at Mathias.

"Curious little bugger eh?" Mathias laughed and the small Sloth-like Pokemon intimidated his expression with a toothy smile. Suddenly from the corner of the cave there was a loud his. Mathias aimed the light up and there could on the ground was another Pokemon, this one looking much more aggressive than the friendly Slakoth. It leapt at Mathias with its mouth open going to take him down but was stopped by the small tan Pokemon who swung out its claws lazily knocking the snake back against the wall. Mathias took out his Pokedex and aimed it at the two.
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Slakoth
The Slaker Pokemon
Normal Type
The way SLAKOTH lolls around makes anyone who watches it feel like doing the same.

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Seviper
The Fang Snake Pokemon
Poison Type
In battle, it uses its bladed tail to counter any ZANGOOSE. It secretes a deadly venom in its tail.
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Seviper gave Mathias little time to regain composure and attacked again, this time making Slakoth its target. It wrapped its entire body around him and began squeezing tightly strangling the air from his lungs.

"Lets help him out Shuppet, use your knock off!" Mathias announced as he tossed the Pokemon ball containing Shuppet to the ground. "Use your knock off attack!" He followed up.

The small puppet ghost slammed into the snake knocking him off of the innocent sloth, who it seemed had passed out from the assault. The Seviper was quick though and wasted no time attacking again fangs outstretched. It sunk its teeth deep into Shuppet causing her to let out a wail in pain.

"Night Shade! Get him off of you!" Mathias yelled to his Pokemon who let loose a blast of white light in contrast to the black backround. The surreal looking light constricted Seviper and tossed it toward the ground. The enraged snake extended its fangs again and sunk them back into shuppet flesh causing her to let out another wail of pain.

"Damn! What will it take for you to stay down!?" Mathias exclaimed angrily. "Screech!" Shuppet obeyed and her squeels of pain turned into a focused blast causing Seviper to release and writhe in pain. Shuppet hit the ground unconscious, that last attack had taken the last of her energy out of her. Once again though, the
Seviper was back on its feet and ready to attack. It jumped out at Shuppet but just before it struck it was nailed by another scratch attack. The Slakoth was awake and pissed.

"Shuppet return!" Mathias said removing Shuppet from the struggle. The Slakoth was relentless now leaping onto the still recovering Seviper and letting loose a barrage of scratch attacks knocking seviper around like a rag doll. The battle was more than won and Slakoth slowly shuffled over to Mathias and clutched his leg.

"So I guess your coming with me then?" Mathias asked the small sloth grinning. The Slakoth looked up at him and gave him another lazy-eyed toothy grin.

(This came out quite terribly for some reason, my apologies.... I promise my posts will pick up in quality.)
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"Goddammit, is there no exit to this place?" Mathias said pulling a Pokemon ball out of his Pocket. He began waving his hand back and forth causing the ball to roll over his finger tips and roll over to either side of his hand without falling off. Mathias was too focused on his trick to see where he was walking. Mathias began to realize there was a light close ahead of him down the tunnel and so continued down the path focusing on his trick.

"Cute trick." Mathias felt his heart sink at hearing the sound of the voice. He looked up and clutched the ball in his hand.

"Glad I could entertain." He looked up and there stood Beo with his ever faithful Charizard standing by his side. The Charizard must've been what was producing the light. Beo smiled his confident annoying smile and looked up at Mathias.

"I think it's very funny and entertaining that you children think you are making such a difference in this place even though it is hopeless and you are not even powerful enough to beat me blindfolded." Beo said motioning his hands and sharpening his gaze towards Mathias. All he could do was stare up at the giant hulking dragon standing less that 20 feet from him.

"You know whats funny? I was just wondering why you haven't been able to beat us children. Looks like your all talk buddy." Mathias laughed a hollow laugh, he knew he was only encouraging the psychopath to attack him even more but he figured if hes going to die he might as well go out in style.

Beo clenched his teeth and his Charizard beside him looked as if he were ready to burst. "Now I've come to you with a bit of a proposal that you shouldn't refuse, you see I think you do have potential to be very strong, but your fighting on the wrong side my young friend you could have all the power you want if you just accept the darkness and let it grow inside of you like I did" Beo said through clenched teeth.

"Now what in the hell could you possibly do for me? You rule over a broken wasteland and a bunch of brainwashed minions, you have nothing I want." Mathias responded keeping up his tough-guy act.

"Such an ignorant child, you don't think I know about your home? You play it as if your so tough but in reality your just a homesick little boy! You know I can make Saffron beautiful again, I can make it a haven for everyone you deem worthy. It can be your little paradise, all you need to do is join me and side with the dark... What do you say?" Beo took his hand off of the back of his giant fire Pokemon and extended it before Mathias. Mathias would get everything he set out to do and yet it would be a bitter-sweet victory. Where would the honor be if he abandoned everything he promised to do? Mathias quickly made up his mind.

"What are you dense? Are you stupid or something? I thought I made it perfectly clear that I didn't want to join your mindless groups of slaves." Mathias yelled to Beo who face turned to immediate disgust. The Charizard behind him lunged its giagantic arm out clutched Mathias by the throat. He swung his arms up trying to release himself from the monsters tight grasp.

"Haha the fact that you would turn me down truly shows that you were the right choice for this job, unfortunately your life ends here!" From his long black cloak he removed a silver dagger, still stained with the blood of the kindly old proffesor. Mathias' eyes widened as he realized that this was going to be his final moment of life.

"The fact of the matter is you can't fight it, your all pawns in my game and you'd be surprised to know that I had a hand in who was chosen as the Clan of Hopes replacements." Mathias smiled and lifted up his middle finger in one last act of defiance. Beos face swelled with rage as he raised the dagger up to stab Mathias in the chest.

"Beo sir!" A voice came from behind the black-cloaked man interrupting his attack.

"This better be important!" Beo snapped angrily.

"Sir our assault on the Clan of Hope has been a complete success, every member killed and their base destroyed." The stooge responded.

"And what of Zypher?" Beo asked, his tone of voice changing.

"We have apprehended him and he is at our base sir."

Beos face converted into homicidal glee. "We're going to have to conclude our business at another time then my friend." He said to the still choking Mathias. He stabbed the dagger directly between Mathias' left arm and his shoulder blade. The cold steel felt foreign as the flesh encasing it began to burn furiously. "Release him." He said to his Charizard who all the while had been loosening his grip to keep Mathias from drifting off into unconsciousness.

"You might find that tricks a little harder to do when your arm no longer works!" Beo laughed as he placed one foot on Mathias' chest and kicked forward while maintaining his grip on the hilt of the blade. Mathis felt the steel leave his body and a flood of stinging pain as blood began pouring from the hole present in his arm and began running down his body.

Mathias slumped over on his side and watched as the two cloaked men dissapeared into the shadows. He continued coughing and gasping for air before coughing up blood and clutching his shoulder from the stinging pain resonating through his entire body.

"Well this day just keeps getting better and better..." He said rolling over onto his back and staring at the stone ceiling above him.
 
Monochrome: Great post! Poor Mathias's arm! ha but none the less a good post! Anyways Mathias stayed true to the Clan of Hope!
 
From the feel of it, Cain was on a linoleum floor. It was a bit slippery and damp, but there was no mistaking it. She could feel where one tile stopped and another began, and there was a faint buzzing in the area. She tried opening her eyes and for one moment the entire world shook. It was a good thing that she was still laying on the floor or she would have surely keened over.


Frustrated with her vision Cain sat up a pit, using her arms as the support and waited for her eyes to adjust from that terrible tunnel vision, and for her head to stop feeling like her brain was spinning inside the skull.


There was a laughing to her right and Cain's head immediately snapped in the direction. Her eyes kept focusing and unfocussing but she could just make out the silhouette of a guy in front of a TL beam that kept sputtering on and off.


"Well you're a lucky little duckling," The guy commented, and the voice rang a bell in Cain's ears, she just couldn't place it. And she was feeling so vulnerable, still having problems focusing and there was the dizziness. She tried to stand to get on equal ground with him but any attempts were met with a great headache. "That would be the effects of the lack of oxygen with the help of Unown. Don't worry, it'll pass within the hour."


"Come into the light!" Cain demanded, spitting out the words even though her brain was still fuzzy. Therefore, it must have sounded funny because the guy laughed again.


"As you wish," his laugh was more forced now, like someone who is under a lot of pressure and suddenly someone makes them laugh. Only it wasn't a kind laugh. He stepped back, waiting for the beam to sputter on again. And it did. Tai Fayling.


"Why the hell are you here?" Cain spat, anger boiling up inside her. He didn't look so smug this time at least, he looked far more on edge, like he was spreading himself too thing and now there were holes appearing. Another thought crossed her mind, one she should have thought of far sooner. "Where am I? And Why?"


"Why do you think little ducking? Beo separated you from the group."


"Of course," Cain muttered. "Don't try to kill 5 mice in one room, spread them out and hunt them one by one, it's much more convenient."


"See, you think like he does," Tai comments, getting a glare from Cain. "You do! And that is a very valuable something. Either way, he's going to come with an offer you can't refuse. My advice to you? Don't refuse it." He laughed again, and he didn't have to spell it out to her what would happen if she did refuse. "You may, of course, be wondering why I am telling you this."


"Yes, of course I'm wondering that, I mean 'he' must wonder the same thing since we think alike," Cain snapped, voice dripping of sarcasm, but Tai just ignored it.


"Well, you are Kanto's last hope…"


"And that hope really needs to join the dark side? Because they have cookies?"


"Shut up and listen duckling." Tai snapped at her. "So, you're Kanto last hope, all of you, and I don't want you to die. You see refusal equals death, acceptance equals not death. It's a simple mathematical question. Choose not death and don't die. Don't die and stay in your little bubble of hope. Just keep in mind, even behind his lines, there are other lines crossing."


"And I suppose you are one of those lines."


"I could tell you if you suppose correct or not, duckling, but it far more fun to let you figure that out yourself. Agenda's are a precious things, nearly everyone has one, the question is are they their own agenda's they are keeping, or someone else's. Be sure not to get electrocuted while I'm gone." And with that he was gone.


With a few curses Cain hoisted herself up by leaning on one of the metal boxes littering the area. Every once in a while a TL light would flicker on for a few seconds, but there were sparks all over the place. Enough to light the way, not enough to keep her from being incredibly paranoid. The blood still had to properly return to her legs causing her to limp awkwardly, looking for the exit. She recognized the place, it was the famed Power Plant.


The Power Plant had shut down years ago when people were too afraid to come to work. The thing turned to ruins, and so did everything around it. The river dried up, the plants died, everything turned barren. Some say it had something to do with chemical spills from the Plant itself, after people stopped working and regulating everything.


Cain cured as a spark found her and shocked her. It wasn't as if the nerves in her arm needed any more persuasion to fail her. Now the contraction of her muscles from the shock was making her arm feel very funky and she made a point to not venture too close to the equipment. That must have been what Tai meant with not getting electrocuted.


There were wild Pokemon everywhere. Little mareep looking from behind the corner at an intruder and running as soon as she got too close. Voltorb hissing menacingly when she got too close and the small of burn would enter her nose. Every once in a while she saw the friendly faces of a Plustle or a Minun, but they never stayed long either. There were sounds everywhere and far not enough light to show them all.


Before she knew it she had angered an Elekid. She hadn't meant to, but she just hadn't seen him until he was buzzing right by her feet, incredibly mad at her for intruding his territory. She released Pandora. "Careful though, please don't hit any of the machinery!" She cautioned, and the Sableye nodded that it understood.


Elekid had an advantage over them, he knew the grounds, knew what to touch and what not to touch and was immune to the shocks surrounding him. "Pandora, use night shade," Cain urged and the part ghost jumped forward. The Elekid was much too quick, using a quick attack to speed behind Pandora and then used a thundershock. Pandora gritted her teeth as the shock went through her body and turned to fight Elekid, but the creature was gone already.


She and Cain both looked around but couldn't find the Elekid. As soon as they were about to walk on the creature jumped from one of the stacked machines, electricity buzzing around his feet as he hit Pandora painfully. This time she was able to turn around and scratch the Pokemon with her shadow-infested claw though. And the little electric Pokémon cried out in hurt. To escape further hurt it used a nightshade again to get away from Pandora.


For a few seconds the two Pokémon just stared at each other, formulating a pan. But Sableye's wasn't the only brain working on her side. "Pandora, use astonish!" There was just time for a single nod before Pandora disappeared in a poof and reappeared behind Elekid. With one swift movement she clawed his back, leaving Elekid startled for a moment. On Cain's command Pandora used another night shade attack, this time launching the creature up. She then used an astonish to appear right above where the Elekid had been thrown in the air and brought her claw down hard, causing the Elekid to crash into the floor. With that move it was out for the count.


"Great job Pandora, let's go find the exit, before God knows what happens," Cain muttered, but it was a vast labyrinth of machinery. More than one spark had hit Cain, and even Pandora was getting annoyed. Cain was getting anxious however, there was no of even saying if they were going on the right direction, and Beo could be there any minute…
 
Dusk…

Images of a single, glowing eye pierced his mind, his very soul. I ate away at what little hope he held for the world and tore at his strength. That single eye, that eye of the demon that had set his path, was more than enough to turn the strong man he was becoming into the quivering, deranged little boy he had been when he had started this journey.

"Wake up, you fool," a voice hissed.

Unwillingly, Gil felt his eyes open with a slow agony. The sight that met him was not something he had been expecting. He was in a cave of some sort with barely any light, but that wasn't what made Gil's hackles rise. Before him stood that Tai fellow that had tried to force him to that Clan of Hope meeting.

"You," Gil growled, getting to his wobbly feet. He stumbled a bit and raised a shaking hand to his head.

Dusk…

Shadow's crept through the house like weeds, taking all light with it. The air had grown cold, and his only source of protection, his only family, was being ripped apart with merciless ghostly hands.

Gil hissed and shook his head, eyes widening in fear and mind betraying him in just the slightest as the cave dripped with blood, but as soon as he blinked, the cave was no longer covered in blood. It was just him and Tai.

"What happened?" Gil asked, trying to remember. Glowing red eyes from the sky… claws… his eagerness… the darkness enveloping him. Why did it bring him both pain and sweet bliss?

"Your time isn't up yet," Tai said coldly, eyes glaring into Gil's, a hint of a sneer appearing. "Beo still wishes to play with you, though why he wishes to play with broken minded boy like you I have no idea."

Gil glared but didn't deny it. His mind was screwed up.

Blood staining the carpet in puddles. It would be impossible to ever truly clean this house again. The blood could be cleaned away after a time, but the event, the bad energy, it was here forever, as well as the presence of death. The thought seemed to delight the ghostly being as its stomach opened to reveal an abyss of a mouth as it tore at a dismembered leg.

Gil only had enough time to hear Tai finish up with, "Beo will soon be offering you a chance between life and death. If you're smart, I'm sure you'll take the obvious answer." With a bitter sneer, Tai snapped his hands and disappeared like a ghost.

Gil blinked, wondering what snapping had accomplished, but his question was soon answered as various roars of, "Larvitar!" filled the area. He looked up at an upper level of the cave, taking in with large eyes several large boulder's tumbling toward him, all being pushed by greenish little pokemon with a large horn on its head and bitter sneers. They were snarling as Gil jumped and rolled away into safety.

"Go!" Gil yelped, tossing his pokeball and releasing Growlithe. The fire pup appeared with a loud snarl as it took in its master being attacked by these wild Larvitar. "Ember!" Gil barked.

"Growli!" Growlithe howled, muzzle wide as it unleashed the barrage of hot fire balls at the offending pokemon.

"Larv…" the various Larvitar grunted, looking rather annoyed than effected. They stomped their feet and looked prepared to start throwing more boulders, but a new, and rather high pitched, snarl made them pause.

"Muud!" Gil staggered back as a little blue pokemon shot by him and Growlithe on all fours and opened its mouth rather wide, unleashing a large blast of water. Water Gun…

"Tar larv!" the Larvitar screeched, yelling out in pain as the water drenched them. With a baleful glare, the ground types retreated by digging into the ground.

Gil sighed before looking as he felt a tug at his pants leg. It was the little blue pokemon that had literally just saved his life. "Mudkip!" it cried happily, sitting on its haunches and smiling up at Gil. It wagged its flipper of a tail and pawed at Gil, confusing the poor boy. It was so rare to come across a wild pokemon that had not been tainted mentally and been made into a beast. Curiously, Gil brought out his pokedex.

Mudkip, the Mud Fish Pokémon. Mudkip uses the sensitive radar receptors on its head fin to determine what's going on around it. In a pinch, it can remish enough power to crush rocks.

It certainly sounded strong. Gil lifted his eyebrows at the smiling pokemon. It was still tugging at his leg, and with a frown, he pulled away. "Sorry, but I just don't take strays," he said coldly. The Mudkip's horn on its head seemed to droop a bit as it gazed forlornly up at Gil. "I battle them first." Might as well give it a chance since it had saved him.

"Mud!" Mudkip barked gleefully, smiling with thanks. It was so happy to finally meet a trainer! Mudkip's father had always told her of tales when trainer's fought for the pure joy of it made her kind strong, and now she had finally found one! She had always loathed this cave and this could be her chance! "Mudkip!" Mudkip cried, getting into a battle position.

Gil pursed his lips and felt his eyes become half lidded in thought. "Tackle," he ordered smoothly.

"Lith!" Growlithe cried, rushing forward as fast as he could, paws picking up dust and small rocks.

"Mudk," Mudkip growled, opening her mouth and breathing in air to prepare for a Water Gun, but the fire pup was too fast and slammed right into her head, sending her tumbling back as pain tore through her body. "Mudkip!" she cried, springing to her feet and kicking up a vicious Mud Slap.

"Lit!" Growlithe snarled, muzzle wide as it fired an Ember to meet with the mud. The two attacks slammed into one another, creating a small explosion that sent a burst of power all throughout the cave. It made Gil hunch forward in eagerness as he watched and sent Growlithe and Mudkip back a few steps from the force.

"Kii," Mudkip breathed, watching warily before opening her mouth wide. "Kip!" Heaving, a blast of cool water exploded from her throat and shot straight at Growlithe, but it seemed that the fire pup had been anticipating that. Curse her slow body!

"Lithe growl!" Growlithe snarled as it leapt about in the cave, avoiding the water with all its might. Despite the joy it felt for battling, Growlithe's eyes were alight with fear from the water, his greatest enemy. "Lithe!" Growlithe howled, charging forward and still jumping over the water attack.

"Tackle!" Gil ordered to his charging pokemon, getting to the balls of his feet in his hunched position and bringing a hand to his chin. His eyes glanced away from the battle for just a moment, taking in the cave and shivering as all he was met with darkness and the image of that single glowing eye before it disappeared in a blink. Damn his mind for playing tricks, for he was already becoming a trembling mess.

First the toes went, each with a horrible crunch that made his small body twitch with each sound. Next it was the entire foot, the blood end being licked at like a lollipop by a large, disgusting gray tongue that was the same dirty color as its body. That singly eye glanced at him and narrowed in delight.

"Mud!" Mudkip cried out, managing to dig her paws into the ground to avoid being thrown back. With a strong glare, Mudkip kicked up her feet and sent a wave of mud straight at Growlithe's face.

The poor fire pup let out a loud yip as it jumped and staggered back, licking at its face and paws as it trembled from the effective attack. "Grol," he whimpered, fire leaking out of his mouth to dry the mud around its body. The fire oozed out of his mouth like magma and provided a strange sort of healing for the fire type.

Gil gritted his teeth, shaking his head in a valiant effort to relieve himself of these memories and focus on the battle. "Ta… Tackle," he stuttered, wrapping his arms around his body.

"Growlithe!" the fire pup howled, charging again with its head lowered, but this time Mudkip was ready. She wasn't the type to fall for the same trick over and over.

Dusk…

Little darkling, why do shadows eat the light when it is supposed to be light that eats the shadows?

That red eye closed in delight as it opened the stomach of his dead father to reveal his internal organs. The eye reopened and thick fingers pet his cheek in a mocking manner and guided his face to watch the organs be taken out slowly, almost as if the damn ghost was trying to show him something of grave importance.

"Mudkip!" With a loud bark, the water type had her mouth wide open and blasting a cool blast of water straight at the incoming fire type. With a howl of agony, Growlithe was blasted back.

"Lii," Growlithe whimpered, eyes closing and fur thoroughly soaked as he lay unconscious.

Gil blinked, realizing that his Growlithe had lost. "Re… return." He cradled the pokeball for a moment, seemingly unsure of what to do with not just the battle, but with everything. Why was he fighting this pointless battle known as life when he couldn't even focus on life itself? His mind was still so wrapped up in memories of old and not allowing him to move on. "Go," he muttered angrily, tossing his next pokeball.

With a bright flash of white, the dark bird pokemon appeared. "Murkrow!"

Wing beats echoed about in the cave for a moment, that being the only sound until Gil snarled, "Astonish!" before his mind was once more consumed in shadows best left untreaded from within his mind.

"Krow!" Murkrow cawed eagerly, happy to be battling. Wings angled, it dove down at the small blue pokemon, cackling as it spun and wove about, avoiding the blasts of Water Guns being hurled at him. "Mur!" Body being consumed with a purple energy, Murkrow slammed his body into a stunned water type.

"Muu," Mudkip moaned, closing her eyes in pain, body shuddering.

Murkrow snorted as he glanced at his master, taking in the glazed look. It seemed that his master wasn't in the battle yet again. Alas, such a thing was to be expected when his masters mind was plagued by horrific visions. It was a good thing Murkrow knew how to battle for himself and knew how to fight without help. Taking in Mudkip's stunned body from the flinch, the flying type wasted no time in landing a few hard Pecks with his sharp beak. "Krow! Krow!"

"Mudki!" Mudkip cried out, eyes watering from the pain as her head pounded. Angrily, hew paw dug up a Mud Slap. It was ineffective against Murkrow, but it was enough to make the bird pokemon screech in irritation as it slapped the attack away with a single wing and fluttered back at a safe distance. "Mud," Mudkip breathed out with a thankful sigh before getting in a defensive position, knowing more was still to come.

He wrenched his face away from this demon, pure loathing gleaming in his eyes as he glared at the ghost, promising revenge, but first he had to survive through this experience.

Dusk…

A flash of crystallized light caught Gil's attention, once again drawing him out of his horrific visions. "Saaabe," a voice crooned, causing Gil to move his head from its face down position on his knees. With horror, he realized tears were trailing down his cheeks, and that caught his attention more than the fact that a Sableye, the Sableye, in fact, was crouching right in front of him. It jerked its head toward the battle, making Gil grimace guiltily as he realized he had left his pokemon all alone.

"Murk!" Murkrow snarled, wing feather's nearly touching the ground as it flew in an arc to avoid another Water Gun, beak poised. "Krow!" Murkrow cawed, smirking as it reached attacking distance, but Gil saw Mudkip grin happily.

"Kip!" it cried, immediately stopping its water attack and lunging, startling the flying type. With its head lowered, Mudkip smashed right into Murkrow's face, sending it tumbling head over heals in midair.

"Krow!" Murkrow screeched in pain.

"Murkrow!" Gil cried out worriedly, realizing that this was also the first time he had ever cried out with worry. "Quick, Icy Wind!" he cried.

Cawing happily that his trainer had finally gotten back into the battle, Murkrow opened his beak wide and blasted a cool icy attack. Mudkip jumped away, whimpering as the cool air just barely missed it, but what the water type didn't realize was that all her Water Gun attacks had thoroughly soaked the cave ground. As soon as that Icy Wind hit the ground, the floor began to ice over and harden into a slippery substance, and since Mudkip jumped high into the air, it increased her speed and as soon as she set foot on the ice, she went sliding.

"Muuud!" Mudkip cried, legs flailing and falling straight on her stomach and chin. She was sliding all around the cave, body occasionally hitting rocks.

Fury coursed through him, but he had to run, he had to survive, so with an animalistic cry, he ran for it. He ran outside of his house and into the shadows, the one place he had always been forbidden to go into. He knew the demon was floating after him at a casual pace, enjoying the hunt, but then a high pitched scream made him turn around. The demon was on the ground, writhing in pain with a small, hunched figure over him.

He couldn't see what it was, but a flash of what appeared to be two diamonds glanced at him before the figure was completely covered in a dark energy before it slammed into his torturer's body, it once again screaming in pain. Thanking whatever beast it was that saved him mentally, he ran, he ran and promised to bring pain to all ghosts.

"Saab." Gil blinked again, vision meeting the Sableye, taking in its large, Cheshire cat smile and gleaming diamond eyes before glancing at Mudkip, noticing it wobbling forward, still trying to hold out before it finally collapsed to the ground, still grinning at Gil. Gil didn't want to deal with that right now. His mind was a mess. He stuffed his face back into his knees and wrapped his arms even harder around him, but a firm claw under his chin forced his head up. "Sable," Sableye growled, staring deeply into Gil's eyes.

Chin up…

Gil gulped, realizing that he couldn't keep pushing life away because of his hallucinations. They would always be there, but so was life. He had to deal with both. With Sableye's grip still on his chin, Gil fumbled for a pokeball, tossing it in Mudkip's general direction, eyes glancing away from Sableye's to watch the water type be sucked into the pokeball with a happy cry where the ball began to shake.

1…2…
 
Swan: Duckling XD... haha anyways Pandora grew to lvl 14! Now move on!

WolfWhispers: Good post! I enjoyed the backstory it lets us get a feeling of why he is the way he is... Anyways Growlithe grew to lvl 17. Growlithe wants to learn helping hand delete a move to make room? Murkrow grew to lvl 15! Murkrow wants to learn wing attack delete a move to make room? Gil caught a lvl 12 female Mudkip!
 
Gil blinked as the pokeball stopped with a loud Ping! Carefully, he rose from his crouching position and looked down as Sableye took hold of his hand with that toothy grin of his and walked Gil over to the pokeball. Breathing deeply, and feeling incredibly good, Gil grabbed the pokeball and held it with a feeling of triumph.

"Excellent work, child."

Gil nearly choked on his own saliva as he spun around, darkened eyes taking in a tall, sinister looking man. He had pure white eyes and black hair that was as dark as Gil's. Next to him was a large, fire dragon that Gil remembered was a Charizard. It seemed to just ooze power as it gazed at Gil with its fangs glistening. The light from its tail lit up most of the cave and scared off any wild pokemon that had been near.

"You're that guy," Gil murmured, watching the man with a tilt of his head. He felt Sableye tighten its grip on his hand, almost as if the diamond eyed pokemon was giving him strength.

The man chuckled. It was a sinister sound that echoed loudly, but Gil detected the amusement. "I am Beo, yes," he said softly, gazing at Gil with an almost fond expression, but Gil knew that look. It was the same look that damn Duskn... ghost gave him. "I am the leader of the Dark Brotherhood, and I'm here to offer you something that only a fool would refuse."

Gil blinked slowly as Murkrow landed on his shoulder and glared at Beo but cast a wary glance at the large fire dragon. "You don't know me," Gil said quietly. "You don't know who I support or if I even care for this war of yours." Gil tilted his head even more, eyes narrowed into a dark look. "You don't know what I would do to get what I want." And it was true that Beo couldn't possibly know the lengths to which Gil would go to gain freedom from absolutely everything because Gil himself didn't even know.

Beo frowned as he gazed carefully into Gil's face, studying his form. "Do I know you?" he questioned forcefully, demanding an answer.

"We met when you killed Professor Oak," Gil offered.

Beo sneered, white eyes darting all over Gil's face. This boy, if he had been vicious, would look just like... "Did we?" Beo said softly before giving a smirk. "Perhaps we should continue with why I am here." Gil nodded warily. "It's rather simple, boy. Either join me or die."

"What, no neutral ground?" Gil asked bitterly.

Beo allowed a smirk. "Until you gain enough power, boy, to evade me, there is no neutral ground for you. There are bery few people in this world with enough power to evade me, and luckily for me most of them that would choose to have already joined me. Now, little darkling, tell me what you choose, and again, choose wisely. And do not think you are without more than the benefit of living." Beo once again gazed at Gil thoughtfully. "I can sense your darkness, even if it is a bit hindered by your pecular dernaged hatred of ghost poke - don't look so surprised, boy! I am very much aware of the happenings of those chosen by the deceased Oak. Now, what say you, boy!"

Gil actually flinched back from the town, lip curled and a snarl was just waiting to escape, but Sableye's grip on his hand warned him not to make any rash actions. Taking another glance, Gil noticed that the Charizard was in a position to open an attack, and a close ranged Flamethrower could kill them all. He closed his mouth but still allowed a small snarl.

Beo allowed an amused smile at the animalistic display. Yes, very similar... "Well, child?"

Gil frowned. "I want to live," he said forcefully, grip becoming firm to give Sableye a good squeeze, but when he did, his hand gripped empty air. He blinked and looked down, eyes wide as he saw nothing but air. The Sableye was gone. He gulped and hurriedly looked back to Beo.

"Excellent choice," the deranged man said with a hiss. "Isn't amazing what people will do in order to survive?" Gil said nothing and Beo offered a sadistic grin. "Though I'm sure you know what its like, to do what you have to in order to live when there are... ghosts after you."

"Watch it!" Gil hissed, yelping and staggering back as a forced split open his cheek. He held up a hand and snarled as he felt blood trail down it and stained his hand. His eyes darkened with rage and Murkrow cawed in anger, spreading his wings but a loud growl from Charizard kept him from attacking.

"No, child," Beo hissed darkly, "I suggest you watch it. You are a pawn, but a pawn with a life, and if you wish to keep it you'd do well to hold your tongue."

Gil's expression was still of one of pure venom as the darkness floated around Beo's hand like some sort of living weapon. It was what had slashed his cheek and was now surrounding them, taking Gil away from the cave and transporting them to a new location.

"Oof!" Gil gave a loud, annoyed grunt as he fell to the ground. He pushed himself up, taking in that he was wearing a heavy, black cloak. There were cheers and excited cloaked figure's, obviously celebrating something.

"Ah, there you are," Beo announced, striding away from Gil, "my Clawed Assassin." Gil's eyes actually widened in fear as a hulking figure stomped its way toward Beo. It was a Charizard, but unlike Beo's fire dragon, this one actually reeked of both power and evil. Even its color gave it a demonic look. Its skin, a coalish black, and eyes as red as Satan's skin. With each breath steam from its fire sac was brought forth, making the area around it hot.
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It dropped a white haired figure to the ground. The man was clearly unconcious but appeared to be very important, what with the cheers and roars of celebration.

"Brothers! Sisters!" Beo roared, shadows licking his body like pampered pets. On Gil's shoulder, Murkrow shifted nervously as it gazed at the Charizard, uncaring of the shadows. "Today marks a new chapter in the war! We have the so called Light's side leader, Zypher!" Another roar of approval broke through.

Gil gazed at the unconcious man. Huh, so this was the man he was supposed to have met. "Weak..." he whispered to himself.

"And I have my thankful Clawed Assassin," Beo continued, turning to an approaching figure.

Gil too turned, blinking as a teenager no older than him appeared. He wore all black. His jeans, completely ripped, and a sleeveless tight black shirt with a large Koffing skull imprinted on the front. His right arm had long black dragon tattoo that's body started from his shoulder, encircled the arm, and its head ended at his hand. His hair was the same, messy black as Gil's and had hard eyes that seemed to hold power and a superiority. He obviously looked down on everyone, including Beo.

"Shaun..." Beo announced, grinning possessively at the only boy he knew to have two shinies and a team full of powerful pokemon at such a young age. He glanced at Gil, his face still lit with animalistic anger, and knew that he would soon have two.

"Beo," the one called Shaun intoned. "I brought you a little gift... but you know I demand rewards..."
 
WolfWhispers: Great post! I don't think the Sabeleye liked the he decided to join Beo ha... Also loved the way you added Shaun in at the end, since he will start playing a role in the rp come the next few chapters! Anyways Gil has joined the Dark Brotherhood!
 
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