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Some Anti-Death Precautions; because who likes death?
Topic Started: Aug 22 2011, 02:53 PM (669 Views)
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Kitty arrived at Crystal Lake and thanked the Dragonite with a small tip, watching it soar away again. "I want something that can fly," she said to herself, and then snapped herself out of it and turned to the pretty lake they were now standing next to.

"A perfect place to learn some water type moves," she said with a nod, and released Hunter. He waggled his shell happily at her, and she smiled to see him showing some positivity after having shown no emotion at all until just a day or so ago. To make an unhappy pokemon happy was a feeling that she couldn't really describe - she loved it.

Speaking of which, Tyr was currently clinging onto her ankle again, having spent the whole Dragonite flight clinging onto her wrist instead. She didn't want to ease him off of this clinginess just yet; he was still fragile. She would have to find a way to get him to have more confidence and independence eventually, though.

"So, what kinds of moves would be good in this sort of situation?" she asked her pokemon. Currently out were the usuals: Rocky, Sandie and Tyr. And of course Hunter. Rocky 'vee'd a suggestion, but she could only shrug in return. The ability to understand her pokemon would be really great. She was starting to get a little lonely and tired of her own voice.

"I have a couple of ideas. Speak up if you don't like any of them. Scald?" Hunter tilted his pearly head. "Toxic, Protect and Water Pulse." Hunter showed his trademark stoicism. "What, all of them?" Silence. She sighed. "Ok, fine. This is gonna take a while. But none of these are moves that should be hard for you at all. First, look. Use a Water Gun on the ground over there."

An unexciting stream of water spilled onto the ground. She nodded. "Cold, right? Well I want you to warm it up first." She left it at that, and then nodded for him to try again. He shot another stream of water. Kitty dared to put her hand in it. It was pretty much room temperature, bordering on cool. She shrugged. "It shouldn't be too hard for you to make it hotter. That's all you have to do; control the temperature. So go, Hunter - use Scald!"

The Clamperl spilled another stream of water that splattered madly outwards in his determination. Kitty put her hand in it again. It may have been her imagination, or the fact that her hand was a little more used to it, but she thought it felt a little warmer.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a little Poliwag bouncing about. She gestured to it, and it looked at her. "Would you mind battling us?" she asked. It paused, then bounced on the spot. She took that as a no and nodded. "Ok. Hunter, use Scald."

The Clamperl glanced over to his trainer, with a look that said 'That's a Poliwag. A Water type. With Water Absorb.'

"I know, I know," she replied, though she was just guessing. "The only way you're going to cause him any damage is if the water is actually scalding hot. Get it?"

The Clamperl let out a quiet sigh, and then shot forth a torrent of water. The Poliwag shot back a matching torrent and they wildly splashed against each other for a while, until eventually Hunter's broke through and hit the Poliwag on the stomach. It was knocked through the air a couple of feet, but when it landed it looked refreshed instead of beaten up.

"See what I mean? That type of water is a treat for him. I want you to Scald him!"

Screwing up his face at this barrage of pressure, Hunter concentrated and sent forth another stream of water. The Poliwag, refreshed, dodged it with ease, allowing the droplets to rain on him and then slammed into the Clamperl.

"Clamp!" Kitty screamed, seizing the opportunity; her trainer instinct overtaking her urge to teach the move. Hunter didn't need to be told, already having locked his shell around the susceptible body of the Poliwag. When it had stopped struggling so hard, he let it go, and then bounced backwards and shot another stream of water. This time the Poliwag made a muffled noise of discomfort and moved out of the way.

"Atta boy!" Kitty said, assuming this was because the temperature was a little too hot. She squinted through the sun to see if the Water type was burned or suffering lasting damage that would suggest the move was hot enough, but no luck just yet. "One more time. I want you to really concentrate now, you have time. Focus on the fire in your belly. Feel the water bubbling. Really feel your blood boil, and then let the water go. I know you can do it~"

Hunter watched the Poliwag move about, steadying itself, and then after emitting a horrible gargling noise momentarily, a stream of water smashed into the Poliwag. Kitty wondered if the steam rising from the torrent was her wishful thinking, but she didn't want to test it with her hand any more.

"Go again, even hotter this time," she said, understanding fully that her commands were being pretty generic and unhelpful, but it looked like all Hunter needed was some encouragement - he was doing alright.

The stream hit the Poliwag again, and this time the water type cried out in pain. Result! "Even hotter. Get a burn in." She made sure Rocky was nearby, feeling bad about hurting this poor wild pokemon, but knowing that her Eevee's Heal Bell would fix it.

After two or three more attempts, she spotted the familiar faint reddened patch that on the blue slippery skin looked a little purple. The Poliwag had been burned. That made the Scald attack so far at almost 100° C. If she practised that a little more then they could maintain that temperature. That would be enough to deter some of the enemies they would encounter underwater, and that was all she wanted.

She stood by the Clamperl as he shot Scalds left and right - it was a strange combination of healing and damaging the Poliwag, so it took a little while for him to be out, but when he was she sent Rocky over to chime his tail at it, and the Poliwag stood up, blinked, and then plopped back into the water.

"Awesome," she told Hunter, and he made an expression that almost resembled a smile. "We'll practice that one again a bit later, but now I want you to try out a Toxic. Ready?"

He grimaced, and she smiled, patting him on the shell but then flinching away again when she realised how hot he was. "First you need to cool off. Go for a nice relaxing swim and I'll see you back here in a minute. Ok?"

Without needing her to say it twice, Hunter bounced off and plopped into the lake as well. While he was gone, Kitty made sure Sandie was fed and watered and comfortable. She didn't seem to be all that comfortable at all, actually, and wasn't able to lay down in a way that didn't squash some part of her body. She would also snap at Kitty occasionally, which she didn't blame her for. "You must feel like crap. I'm sure you're past your due date by now. We'll get you to a centre and see what they can do soon. But for now you've just got to drink some water and eat your food. Ok?"

Sandie huffed and looked at the kibble that was especially for Normal types that Kitty had laid out for her on a leaf, and slowly chomped her way through it. Rocky sat nearby, also used to being the subject of her mood swings so staying away, but watching carefully.

When Hunter returned, she nodded. "We'll make sure that attack doesn't heat you up like that later, because that'll just make you uncomfortable. But for now I'd like to lay the foundations for Toxic. Rocky would you mind demonstrating?" The Eevee got up and walked over. "Now, as you know, every pokemon has a different way of doing every attack, but the idea is the same. You shoot some poison, and they get poisoned. Got it?"

Before Hunter could answer, he had a face full of corrosive poison, and spluttered and gagged as it faded away into his skin. Rocky stood looking innocent, and then after getting a look from Kitty he obediently wagged his tail to produce another Heal Bell, and Hunter sighed with relief.

"So, yeah. That's what it feels like," Kitty said, frowning at her Eevee again. "Now this is what it looks like." Rocky turned and spouted a second torrent of Toxic onto the grass, which shrivelled. Hunter watched carefully, and then spewed another Scald.

"Ok, I see what you did there. You found the burning section in your belly and went from there. Well not quite. Toxic is more complicated than just a hot water attack. It's located deeper inside you, from a place that you've probably ignored up until now." She remembered the way she'd had to teach Rocky, and frowned. "It's incredibly unpleasant. You're going to have to dig deep to the parts of you that you didn't want to channel. Most pokemon have a dormant poison sac near to their throat; you've just got to wake it up and exercise it like a muscle."

He looked utterly confused. Kitty sighed. "I'm so not good at explaining things," she said. She wondered what Iz was doing now; that girl really knew how to teach a pokemon a move, and make sure they understood every aspect of it. "Rocky, you actually know how to do it, why don't you have a go at explaining it?"

The Eevee thought for a moment. It's like you gather up everything bad about the world and shoot it out from your throat. I'm sure you've felt that sickening acid feeling before. In your gut, when you feel scared or angry.

The Clamperl waited for more. Rocky realised he'd never actually heard him speak.

He opened his mouth wide so his little fangs glinted, and then a thinner stream of poison splattered across the ground. It sank into the grass and then steam rose from it. Kitty instinctively put her hand over her nose and mouth and the other one in front of Sandie's face, prompting a soft growl.

"I've never seen you use it like that before," she said. Rocky tilted his head.

When you practice it more you can experiment with different ways to use it, and then go with the one that makes you more comfortable. I feel like it's safer in this situation to use it as a liquid, but if I was desperate in a League battle I might go for gas. You know? he asked. Hunter stared.

"Just do it!" Kitty said, snapping the Clamperl out of it. Hunter opened his mouth again and a stream of diluted purple water shot out from it, splashing across the grass. "Good, good," she said. "Very good start. Now take away the water from it a little."

A second, much smaller stream trickled from his shell; the attack still too diluted, but less watery than before. Kitty could see how uncertain he was about this attack, but he had definitely located the right place in his body to bring it from. Now it was just a case of strengthening the muscles involved and producing more of the stuff.

He shot forwards a few more, continuously taking deep breaths and spewing out poison, and it grew at first more and more thick and prominent, but then dwindled as he got tired. "Snap!" Kitty cried. "You didn't scare off the Octillery and he's broken your shell in two. You've fainted and I've drowned. Concentrate!"

With a sigh, Hunter took another deep breath and shot more poison off. This time the stream was more consistent in thickness, looking a little more like an actual attack instead of just strangely coloured drool. She nodded. "Ok, the way I want you to do this attack is more controlled, though. Because we'll be underwater, and I don't want the poison to travel through the water and make lots of the pokemon sick. Understand? So you've got to practice it under the water a little, and control where the poison goes. It should just stay in a cloud around their head like my bubble."

Hunter nodded his top shell, understanding. That shouldn't be too hard. Even with only a little bit of poisonous goo it would be enough to spread and cloud around an enemy's head under the water. He was a dab hand by now at controlling water, especially knowing Whirlpool, so controlling a Toxic attack in this way wouldn't take him too very long, he hoped.

"Well, anyway, sorry to speed you along like this, but I'd also like you to know Protect. Just for emergencies, you know?" She looked at her pokemon, trying to recall if any of them knew this attack. She couldn't think of any off the top of her head; she'd have to do it the hard way.

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"Get back here!"

Sonny tch'd slightly as he watched Mira soar too fast through the air for him to follow; the Dragonite had left them close to a lake according to the map, and he figured out it was a good idea to let Mira out so she could play a bit in there. Thing is, as soon as the Mantine felt the smell of a body of water close, Sonny got left behind as the manta-ray darted there.

Mira let out a happy "mati" As she got close to the body of water and immediatelly let herself fell in the middle of the lake, making a huge splash that could might as well had hit Kitty for good measure. Some minutes after, Sonny stopped painting at the lakeside, watching as the water-type dived and emerged repeatedly, playing.

"Next time I'm only letting you out when we're close" Mused him, and then raised his head. He saw people at the other side of the lake, that bit too far to recognize someone and immediatelly thought that Mira probably gave them a bath with the dynamic entry "Hey! Did she splash water on you?" Yelled him from accross the lake, starting to move around it to get close to the training party. Well, he owed them an apology, at least

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"Protect," Kitty continued. "Is a pretty strange move to teach, I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. If only I had another pokemon who knew it so that they could demonstr-"

She was interrupted by a cry of pleasure nearby and an almighty splash. With a squeal, she leapt back, although why she was afraid of getting any more wet she didn't know. Instinct, probably.

Hunter loved it though, making a strange popping noise as he opened and shut his shell in happiness while the water poured over him. Kitty was sprayed just a little, and blew a raspberry into thin air at the coldness of the water.

As the voice called out to her, she turned to the source and blinked. There was something about the voice that was a little familiar, but she shrugged it off and looked at the blob in the distance. "It's ok!" she called back, and laughed. "What was that?" After asking, she stepped towards the water's edge to look inside, and giggled when she saw the rippling outline of a large Mantine under the surface. "Pretty."
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"Matiii..." Giggled Mira, rippling from the water surface to look at Kitty with a curious expression, - outside of the water she didn't seemed so big, but that was only her head, who could know - playfully blowing some Bubbles at her direction to see how she would react. Maybe she would decide to play with her too!

"Don't spit these on people, Mira..." Said Sonny as he approached, the Mantine giggling and diving again. The teenager held the urge to facepalm and turned to Kitty.

"Hm, sorry about that, she doesn't get many opportunities to go on water, I think she went hyper when-- Hey..." He frowned, now looking at Kitty's face better "You look familiar..." It took him some seconds for the memory to snap back - A scalding hot desert, ancient ruins, that damn Sigiliph, and...

"Kitty!" Said him, snapping his fingers when he remembered "I knew I had seen you before, good to see you again. Uh, and yeah, sorry for the bath." Said him, glancing to the water as Mira poked her head out and greeted Kitty's pokemon, blowing some Bubbles in their direction, trying to get them to dive in and play with her.
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Kitty laughed as the Bubbles drifted towards her and gently popped one with her forefinger. Her Clamperl clicked his shell happily and began to concentrate on the water, making it gently swirl around and around in a Whirlpool. Kitty hadn't noticed this playful behaviour, instead moving over to the boy just as he said that she looked familiar.

"You look familiar t-" she began, and at the same time as he cried her name, she called out his. "Sonny!" she said loudly, and then grinned widely. "It's good to see you again too. How have you been? Your team got much stronger?"

Subtly she motioned to her own team with a smile. The last time she'd seen him, she'd only had Rocky and Minos. Now she had a full team of six plus a balloon-like Eevee.
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"A bit, I think" Said him, chuckling. Meanwhile, Mira was laughing happily as she started to spin on the Whirpool. She started to spill out Bubbles again, and this time it wasn't long until there was a forest of bubbles above that part of the lake.

"Ah, I'm fine. We trained a bit, but I think we didn't work much lately" Sony said, with a frown "I'm more trying to figure out how can I get better myself as a trainer. I met this girl called Iz and she was incredibly smart and I almost got destroyed in a battle, and then we talked a bit, and I kinda figured I don't know much about lots of things to do with pokemon. At all. So I'm trying to learn a thing or two" Said him shrughing with a smile.

"So, what about you?" Asked him as he kneeled to greet Tyr, Rocky and Sandie (He wasn't getting too close to Hunter and Mira, he liked being dry, thank you) and scratched each one behind the ear with a grin "Been doing better than me?"
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Kitty's eyebrows raised a little when Sonny mentioned Iz. "I just met someone with that name," she said, then puffed out her chest a little with a grin. "I defeated her. Though I did have kind of an advantage..." She shrugged. "She helped me a lot with teaching Hunter - my Clamperl - Dive. We're going to go looking for a DeepSea something or other under the sea soon."

She smiled as she noticed Mira swirling around in Hunter's Whirlpool and popped another bubble with her finger. "So now I've caught you up, what about you? Anything in mind for the future? Done anything interesting since our adventure?"
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Sonny raised an eyebrow as Kitty said she met someone called Iz. He tought of the same girl again, but only shrughed - It wasn't the most uncommon thing for two people to have the same nam. There had to be more than one Iz around, right?

"Wow, under the sea? Nice!" Said him, raising his eyebrows with curiosity as Kitty told him her plans. When she asked if he had done anything interesting, he frowned for a moment.

"Not much to be fair. Mostly slacking off." Sonny said, standing up. " Well, until now. I think I'll go to trinxit beach next; I heard there's a breeder called Emily there, and maybe I can learn a thing or two if I ask her? That, and Mira only saw the sea once, I think I owe her a trip" Said him, looking to the swirling mantine on the lake with a smile. Mira raised her head, tilting it to the side as she heard her name. "And then..." He tought for a moment "Yeah, I'm going for a gym. Has been a while since I got my first badge, need to get back on battling so I don't get rusted." Joked him.

While the two chatted, Mira split some bubbles at Rocky, Sandie and Tyr's direction too, trying to get the trio to play with her and Hunter. She wasn't aware that it might be that bit more painfull than a normal annoyance to the Torchic, but who could blame her? She was still young.
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((Sorry Sonny for being so crap XP I'll just carry this on by myself. Also soz to the mod for the illogical explanation I have not yet thought of.))

When Kitty woke up, it was dark. She got up and looked around in confusion. Why had she just fallen asleep on the grass? She must have been really, really tired last night...

But then memories began to come back. She had seen Sonny again, hadn't she? He wasn't here any more. He must have left after she had fallen asleep. But that begged the question once again of why that had happened. She rubbed her eyes harder, willing memories to come back to her. She was alone. Nothing but the bag on the floor by her feet.

"Rocky?" she cried. There was no answer but the gentle cheeping of Kricketot. "Sandie!" she screamed. Nothing, not so much as a stir in the bushes. Then a bubbling in the lake beside her, and a familiar face popped up from under the surface, snapping his shell in what seemed like relief.

"Hunter?" she said, blinking away the blurriness in her vision. She still felt woozy. From what, though? "Hunter, what happened?" The Clamperl began an elaborate mime of what had taken place and why he and Kitty were the only ones remaining. He thought it was a masterpiece, and after ten or eleven minutes of solid mime he took a bow. To Kitty, however, it had just been a lot of snapping his shell and bouncing to and fro. She blinked. "Well that didn't help at all."

With a deep sigh, Hunter did it again, but slower. He bounced up and down as slowly as he could.

"What's that supposed to be? Something bouncy did this to me?"

He shook his shell in annoyance and started to bounce higher and slower. "Um, flying? Oh, a Flying type pokemon?" He clicked his shell happily for 'yes', and Kitty grinned. "Ok, so a Flying type did what?" He sputtered water onto his trainer's shoes and crossed his eyes. "It attacked me, you mean?" Again Hunter clicked his shell for 'yes'. Kitty laughed. "I'm so good at this," she said. "We should go on that game show where trainers have to guess the word their pokemon is miming." She got a faraway look in her eyes. "We'd be rich. We could retire early and just go live on some tropical island and Sandie could raise her kits in-" She paused. "Crap! So where are they?"

Hunter sighed again, and resumed his manic miming.

"No no no," Kitty said, slowing him down. "Just try to answer my questions. So a Flying pokemon attacked me and that made me fall asleep?" Hunter nodded. "I'm thinking that might have been a Noctowl's Hypnosis or something similar. So where did the others go?"

Hunter mimed struggling and squealing and rolled away a little, fighting himself. Kitty giggled at her Clamperl's Oscar winning acting. "Oh," she said in realisation after a bit. "They were stolen?" Hunter nodded madly once more. "Oh dear. Why didn't they take you?"

In response to that, he spurted scalding hot water on the grass in front of him and then leapt into the lake. "Of course," Kitty said. "You hid in the water. Do you know where they were taken?" In response to that, Hunter hopped over and bounced up and down on a strange mark in the grass. A small trench had been dug up in a line towards the trees. Not big enough to notice straight away, but not small enough to miss completely.

She thought for a second. "Rocky's Iron Tail, maybe," she said. If he'd been dragged away he might have made his tail heavy and sharp and dragged it through the wet grass as a trail for her. He was so clever like that. She sighed deeply, and then nodded. "Alright," she said. "Let's go get them back. Ready?" Hunter nodded determinedly and together they started to follow Rocky's trail.

*

Almost a mile into their journey, and the trail hadn't failed them yet - if it even led to the pokemon. It had occurred to Kitty every few minutes that it could very possibly not be anything to do with her Eevee's tail. But it was the only lead she had, and Hunter seemed very confident with it. The only problem was that now they were deep in the cover of trees. If they were attacked by an angry pokemon all she had to protect her was her Clamperl.

She was torn between trying to get him some quick experience in battle by fighting everything along the way, or by conserving his energy by running away from all conflict. So far she'd defeated a couple of Caterpie, but they had provided no challenge and he didn't look any stronger or more sure of himself. She was pretty sure that they were screwed. Even if she did catch up to and find her team, she wouldn't be able to win them over with brute force. Poor Hunter.

A determined hooting from above her distracted her as a Hoothoot swooped overhead, and then another. They alighted on the same branch and tilted their heads at her in tandem.

"Go away," she called to them grumpily, still with the theory that it had been a Hoothoot or Noctowl that had knocked her out to begin with. They both hooted at her and continued to stare. It was creepy. Before she knew what she was doing, she had picked up a small rock from the floor and pitched it at them. They both flew away just in time, and she continued on down the path.

Almost immediately, however, one of them came right at her, screeching and beating its wings in her face. She screamed and tried to shield her face with her arms until Hunter came to the rescue, jumping up and spewing scalding water on her feathered attacker. It squawked in pain and left her alone to pursue the Clamperl, leaving Kitty breathless and stunned. The boiling water could quite easily have hit her in the face if the bird had moved; she would have to teach her Clamperl better judgement later - for now he needed to win a battle for her.

The Hoothoot flapped its runty wings (she had decided now that she did not like them at all) and began to stare wildly into the Clamperl's eyes. The space between them began to ripple. Kitty growled loudly when she saw that he was attempting to Hypnotise her pokemon, further solidifying her dislike for them. If it wasn't for their kind she would still have her team with her.

"Close your eyes," she yelled to the Clamperl, who avoided the deadly gaze just in time. "Now Scald again." A jet of steaming water smacked the bird right in the face, and with an angry hoot it zoomed straight in for a Peck. "It's not going to learn, is it?" she said. "Dodge and Clamp."

Hunter, with the advantage of level-headedness to counteract the Hoothoot's blind fury, span out of the way of the attack and clamped his shell around the bird's small writhing body. "Don't let go just yet," she said. "Tighter...now...Toxic!"

Dribbles of purple hissing ooze spattered left and right around the Hoothoot who cried out in rage and fright, beating the Clamperl with its wings in total desperation as the poison seeped through to its blood. Just before the bird was set to faint, the second one came in like a bullet, smacking straight into Hunter with extraordinary speed and freeing its comrade. The poisoned Hoothoot flopped onto the ground and then wetly limped away as Hunter landed, shook himself off and began to bounce towards the birds again.

Kitty noticed a hairline crack on his shell and bit her lip. "Shell Smash," she ordered. After concentrating momentarily, Hunter broke through his shell completely and was exposed. Once again she was shocked at just how brightly pink his body was without the hard blue outer shell. Lines of black splotched across him too, and she was fairly sure that Clamperl were not supposed to look like that without their shells. She thought back to all the experiments he had undergone before she got the chance to save him from that lab. What had they done to him? And would she ever find out?

"Ok, now finish that first one off and trap the second with a Whirlpool."

Water bubbled up from the grass beneath her feet and began to swirl violently. The Hoothoot was too weak to escape, and just watched bleakly as it was contained within the water, and the second bird flew in to attempt to drag its friend out. They were both trapped in a spinning cascade of water.

"Good," Kitty said. Now she had time to think before she was faced with the wrath of the crazy second Hoothoot. But not time enough, it seemed. The bird crashed out from behind the water with death in its eyes and went straight for the pink, vulnerable Clamperl, beak glinting.

"Scald!" she cried. The bird was showered with steaming hot water, but it kept coming. "Dodge it now!" she yelled. Hunter attempted to leap out of the way, but the sharp end of the beak broke through his skin and made him cry out in pain - the first real noise she'd ever heard him make. Sweat broke out on the back of her neck and she cleared her throat. "Ok, try another Toxic."

The spurts of poisonous water were not quite a fully fledged Toxic attack, but it was enough to make the angry little bird pokemon back off, beating its wings in pain.

"Finish it off with a Clamp now," Kitty said. As the Hoothoot was distracted, Hunter clamped his now fleshy shell over the bird, trapping it but not doing as much damage as it would have with the sharp shell's edges. "Scald," she added.

The boiling water consumed the bird so hard and fast that the Hoothoot cried out in pain and then went limp, unconscious.

She hadn't realised that she'd been shaking - if Hunter had been knocked out there was little to no chance at getting her pokemon back on her own. She scooped up the black and pink creature and fed him a couple of the squished berries from her pack until the beak wounds looked much better.

"Let's hurry up now," she said. Hunter agreed and leapt onto the floor, hopping after her as she jogged.

*

Hours passed, until finally the trail led them to another lake. Beyond the lake was an island, and on that island, clear to see, was a lone cabin. Kitty narrowed her eyes. The trail gave way to footprints in the mud, deep and long as if they had pushed off of the ground to get into a boat. There was no such sign of any boat around, though. She frowned deeply, and looked around for some way to get there.

No choice, she shrugged, and gestured to Hunter that they were going to have to swim it. She was too tired for words. Had to conserve her energy for whatever was going to be waiting for her in that cabin. If anything.

She had faith in her pokemon, though. If she couldn't rescue them, they would find a way out. It was just a case of shortening their suffering. With a few deep breaths, she pulled off her outer clothing and stuffed it into her waterproof bag. Then she waded into the freezing cold water, resisting the urge to retch at the sudden temperature change. Overhead the sun giggled at her from behind grey clouds. Why couldn't it have been a warmer day?

As she swam, she noticed Hunter beside her, the blue of his harder shell already creeping to the surface of his body, ready to grow back. She pulled in a breath and dove, and he almost immediately caused the bubble to form around her head. She breathed easily, and her pride in her pokemon warmed her up just a little.

In the lake's depths she was shocked at what she saw. So many backpacks and broken tents and opened pokeballs. Even one or two tiny boats. She swam around, looking for anything to explain all of this, and what she did find made her almost very sick.

Bodies. Old, grey, swollen dead bodies. Mostly boys and girls around her age, but some older and some - she had to resist the urge to throw up for the third time - younger than her. They wore looks of shock and sadness, and were dressed in colourful clothes, reduced to rags by curious fish pokemon. She could tell by the emblems they wore that they were all trainers.

What on earth had she stumbled across?

She fought her limbs to swim through the numbing cold to the other side, and then barely managed to dress herself and stand up.

She went to gently knock on the door, but fear made her hesitate, and she stepped back. She suddenly saw herself in her mind, grey and swollen, and gently bobbing at the bottom of the lake. Whatever was going on, these people had her pokemon.

The door to the cabin suddenly ripped at its hinges and flew across the surface of the water before sinking. The rapid beating of her heart slowed slightly, and something about the nature of this event made her very, very creeped out. Could it have been her that had done that? Or was some sort of malevolent and powerful force on her side? Or, on that note, against her? Because that was exactly what she would have done if she had only had the power to.

She shook her head and removed the memory from her mind as gentle laughter played about on the wind. Something weird was going on with her but she didn't have the time right now to think about it. An elderly woman ran to the doorway and looked around in shock and horror.

"What on-" she said, looking Kitty up and down with furrowed brow. She looked like somebody's grandmother, with sharp features and wiry grey hair. Kitty did not apologise.

"Do you have my pokemon?" she asked firmly, but still her voice shook a little.

"What happened to my door?" the woman asked, raising a hand to her salt and pepper bun.

"I asked you a question," Kitty said, louder. "Someone stole my pokemon and one of them left me a trail. It led me here. You can let me in or I can force my way in."

"You're crazy!" the woman cried, her eyes darting about as if looking for help. But they were on a deserted patch of grass in the middle of a lake.

"And while you're explaining things, you can tell me why your lake is full of dead travellers." Kitty, still terrified, managed to put her hands firmly on her hips. "I'm not afraid of you, old woman."

The woman's eyes narrowed. "Get out of here or very bad things will happen to you," she paused, and her mouth tightened, "..little girl."

"Hunter, Scald," she ordered, pointing at the woman. After some initial hesitation, the Clamperl decided that his trainer must be sure that this woman was the enemy. His mother had taught him not to attack humans. He took a deep breath and shot boiling water at the woman's chest. She screamed in pain and ran inside the house. Kitty followed.

The living room was what you would have expected of a reclusive elderly lady. There were pictures of countless grandchildren, a grandfather clock, a grand piano - everything was grand. Doilies on mahogany end tables, and a yawning Ursaring rug in front of a fireplace. Half-finished knitting lay discarded on an armchair. Kitty's heart jolted.

Had she just mercilessly attacked an innocent old woman?

She looked around the house. Pictures of happy children and happy pokemon. Pokemon antiques, pokemon ornaments. Pokemon food wrappers lay in the kitchen bin.

But there were no pokemon. Not a trace of hair on the furniture, not a muddy pawprint by the garden. No water bowls, no food scraps. Definitely suspicious. The house was silent. If she wasn't inside the house and she hadn't left the front or back door, where was she?

She ran upstairs, checked everywhere. The bathroom, the bedrooms, a study. She ran around the house twice and nothing. She left the house and searched the island with her gaze and nothing. The footprints by the lake where the trail stopped had been fresh.

There was one place she hadn't checked.

She looked out across the lake and swallowed. Impossible, surely? But again the dead faces swam across her mind. Maybe nothing was truly impossible in this world.

She leapt in once again, and Hunter was quick to protect her from the water with his bubble. Very carefully she searched, and more and more bodies were uncovered. Various pokemon, too. There was a muscular Ninetales with a slit throat that looked green from algae. She nearly hadn't noticed it. So many disgusting sights. Where was this woman?

Pain seared suddenly through the sole of her foot and she screamed as blood curled gently upwards in the water. So much blood. She twisted around to face her attacked. Nothing but a cloud of scarlet pumping out as she kicked away.

"Hunter?" she called. Her voice was muffled and her bubble quivered as she yelled. The Clamperl appeared from the shadows, shell almost fully formed again, and looked at the red cloud with her. "What was that?" Her foot was in agony. She continued to swim slowly away, still staring straight at whatever was hiding in her blood.

A face burst out at her, all teeth and wild eyes. A big, bulbous red head and what seemed to her like thousands of arms. Hunter in his fear neglected her bubble and it rose to the top of the lake, leaving her vulnerable, drowning, and struggling to escape the grip of six thick red tentacles.

Was it an Octillery? Her thoughts grew hazier and the water burned her eyes without their protection. She struggled not to suck in a breath and willed Hunter with all her might to give her bubble back.

She would have to make eye contact with him. Maybe he hadn't noticed yet. She opened her burning eyes and instead was face to face with her attacker. Her very last ounce of oxygen escaped her in a desperate scream.

Some sort of combination of the pointy, grey-haired old woman and an Octillery. She couldn't hold her breath for another second. She would have to suck in water. Hunter... she begged as she weakly looked into the stare of this monster who was going to let her drown.

But then, just in time, her head was enveloped once again with pure, fresh, sweet air. She sucked it in a few times, almost laughing at her luck. The Clamperl had been batted away by a free tentacle, but he had arrived just in time to notice his mistake. Kitty once again stared at this creature - the pointed features of that old woman had doubled in size and her head was bulbous and ever so slightly throbbing. The shock on its face was hideous. She was not yet dead, and the woman/Octillery hadn't planned for this.

"Scald," Kitty said weakly, unable to struggle. Hunter unleashed boiling water that swirled around the woman's enormous head, burning her eyes and making her scream, a noise that made Kitty grit her teeth and the school of nearby Remoraid flit away.

"Now Toxic," she said. The thing was human enough that Toxic could kill it. She was confident about that, but then she paused as the tentacle grip loosened around her. She wanted to know where her pokemon were. She couldn't let the monster die.

As the poison was guided gently into the gaping mouth of the creature, Kitty slipped out of its grasp.

"Now, listen to me carefully," she said to the panicking abomination. "One of the pokemon you stole from me has a move that can cure you of this poison. You have about ten minutes. If you don't lead me to them, you're going to die."

"What pokemon?" the creature cried, and its stomach seized and pulsed as the poison hit it from within. Kitty backed off further.

"I woke up next to the other lake and all of my pokemon had been stolen. One of them left me a trail that led me to your house. Where are they?"

"Was it a pregnant Eevee?"

Kitty's heart thumped. "Yes! Where are they? Take me to them and I will command them to heal you."

The woman shook her hideous head. "They are gone. Too late." She grinned, showing teeth. "I have already eaten them."

"What?" Kitty screamed, and the noise made the already nervous school of Remoraid explode away again. "What are you talking about? I will kill you. Poison is too easy, too kind. No no no. I am going to kill you slowly. I will RIP your tentacles off one by one and you MONSTER."

"Oh no, wait," the thing said, resting a tentacle on its blobby chin in thought. "I was going to wait for the babies to be born, I remember. Then I could have all of the babies as starters, and the parents as a main course!" It laughed.

Kitty shuddered, confused and angry and feeling incredibly sick still. "Take me to them," she growled. "Just take me to them, ok?"

It sighed. "Fine, fine. But after you get them to cure me, I'll probably kill you."

Kitty paused. "Then I won't cure you..." she said slowly. "I'll find them myself."

The monster blinked its hideous eyes. "Oh," it said. "Well fair enough. I'll let you go then. Fine."

Kitty carefully followed the monster down to the depths of the lake, frowning in curiosity. Surely her pokemon were not at the bottom of the lake? She was led into a small cave mouth, and then up into a cavern. She could hear the nervous hiccuping of Sandie and she noticed the angry pacing of Rocky on a small platform. They could breath here. The small pool in the middle of the room was the entrance back into the lake.

"Guys!" she cried, pulling herself out and embracing her Eevee hard. She helped Hunter out too, and they all watched as the hideous monster exploded out of the pool and waved its red tentacles about.

"Cure me, fool!" the thing cried, purple drool spilling from her mouth. "Cure me or I kill you!"

"It's funny, isn't it?" Kitty said thoughtfully.

"What?" the thing demanded.

"That you're possibly the scariest thing I've ever seen and yet with every word you say I get less and less scared. You know why?"

"W-why?" the creature demanded, still shouting and waving tentacles to and fro.

"Because you're an idiot," Kitty said simply. "You're really, really stupid." She paused, and then smiled. "Rocky, Shadow Ball."

As the Eevee launched a ball of pulsing energy towards the monster, who ducked under the water to avoid the worst of it, Kitty pulled the pokeballs into her backpack. She had no idea how she would get Sandie out without one. How had she been brought into here without one?

"You awful person," the monster moaned. "You said you were going to cure me."

"Yeah," Kitty said with a frown. "Do you think I'd save your life? I saw how many people you've killed. What are you, anyway? A failed Umbra experiment? That would be so cliché."

"N-no..." the thing said. But the look in its eye clearly said yes. "I am the great and fearful Valerie! Cower before me!"

"No," Kitty said, and she stood up, walked up the pool, and booted the hideous head between the eyes. With a moan, it sank to the bottom of the water.

She sighed, then looked at Hunter and Sandie. "Can you make sure Sandie has a bubble too?" she asked. The Clamperl nodded rapidly, and as Kitty slowly lowered the Eevee into the water, a bubble covered her entire body, making sure that she was comfortable and maintained her temperature. Kitty returned Rocky, popped the ball in her bag, and let herself sink under the water. The bubble covered her head, and they swam carefully downwards, out of the tunnel, and up to the surface of the lake where they got out.

"Might as well see if the lady had anything worthwhile in her house," she said cheerily, and released her Eevee again. Rocky, Hunter and Sandie sloped after her as she explored the house once more. She stole a couple of clothes that looked like they'd fit her - probably from the trainers she'd killed, and a lot of food. She didn't touch any of the meat, though. Not after the hint that the monster ate pokemon.

On the bureau was a diary. Kitty pocketed that, too. It might be helpful later. The first entry was dated over forty years ago.

"Ok, let's get the hell out of here," she said to her pokemon. They all nodded heartily and swam back over to the other side, Sandie riding on Kitty's head.

Just as they thought they were in the clear, and could forget about this horrible ordeal, something exploded out of the water behind them.

"You thought you were free of me!" the monster screamed, its eyes wild and mouth foaming. "You will never leave here!"

"Oh, won't you die already?" Kitty grumped.

"Never!"

The creature was a hundred times uglier in the light of the morning. Kitty sighed. Suddenly there was hooting from behind her. She turned around to see dozens of Hoothoot sitting in the tree behind her, all with eyes trained on her.

"Oh, crap. Can't we do this later?" she asked them. They all stared her down. "Fine, fine. But at least you will never find the true mastermind behind whatever I did to piss you off. This half woman half Octillery person who is hiding far, far aw-" She turned around to face the monster again. "Oh no! Valerie! They've found you!"

"Who has found me?" the creature asked, scratching her head.

"Uh... your lunch?" Kitty pointed to the tree full of Hoothoot who were now all glaring at the monster. She turned to the tree. "She wants to eat you all!" she cried. Then back at the Octillery. "Don't you? How terrifying of you."

"Yes!" the monster cried. "I am terrifying! And I will eat every single one of you!"

The Hoothoot hooted loudly and took off to beat their wings in the creature's face. They bit and scratched at her while she caught some of them in her tentacles and shoved them in her mouth.

"Well that'll keep everyone occupied until the poison kicks in and that things finally dies," Kitty said with a grin. "And by then we'll be long gone." She winked at her pokemon and they all ran as fast as they could through the trees.

And so concluded the weirdest adventure ever.

(So far.)
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was nearly done but I have to run, Toxic and Scald are approved though. DAMNIT.. it was too creepy and exciting, now I have to finish later tonight
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LOL What. So random. That was cool though.. just odd. Anyway, I don't think Hunter actually battled long enough to get BP? although technically he did use enough moves, I think they were just spread apart. So like yeah, No BP. Approved Diary and clothes I guess? LOL
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