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Patience; Capture of Wobbuffet
Topic Started: Nov 30 2010, 01:02 AM (267 Views)
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There was nothing she hated more than when temperatures conflicted--when she was hot and cold and icky all at the same time. The day was much too chilly for her, about 50-60 degrees, which would be nice to a regular person but then again she wasn't a regular person and she was pretty much all skin 'n bones. Dratini was in his ball because as crazy as she was about him and vice versa, they both needed some alone time sometimes, when they could think about nothing and everything all at the same time and their thoughts could all be jumbled into one huge mess that wasn't tainted by the impure thing called language.

Anyway, the day was much too chilly for her, but she constantly found herself brushing sweat and sticky hair from her forehead as she hiked in search for adventure. The city and shopping and light pollution and pollution in general had gotten old fast--though she did miss washing her hair each day-- and the girl had developed a dehydration in the past few days that could only be quenched by going out and doing something, anything, and the Abandoned Tower had a name that both sent chills down her spine and excited her.

As she plodded through grass and dirt and sand, trying to ignore the cold pinching at her already goosebumped skin like her grandma saying oh you’ve just grown so much my wittle shnookie wookie, the tower began to rise in the distance. With a squeal, Riley began to run--excited to reach the tower and escape the sick torture of the winter. When she reached the structure that stood tall amongst its fallen friends, she burst through the door, then shrank against a wall inside, chest ripping inside from running and breathing in air that was too cold. After maintaining composure, she rubbed her cold skin to make friction while cursing in her own mind because the goosebumps had caused prickles on newly-shaven legs. Deciding that it was probably no longer alone time, she released Dratini from his ball. In an explosion of red light that lit up the room for a moment, the pokemon emerged and chirped happily at his friend, who stood up and patted him on the head. She took a flashlight out of her backpack and shined the light on the wall she'd been leaning against, revealing words and characters that she'd never seen before. "So what do ya think, Dratini? Weird, huh?"

The dratini chirped once more, then fell silent and shrank behind the girl who still observed the walls as if she were oh-so-analytical and had the faintest clue of what they meant. Dratini whimpered, and she averted her gaze from the walls to him. "What's wrong?" The pokemon didn't answer, and the girl put this on her mental list of Weird Things That Dratinis Do. Riley started to shine her light on the walls once again, but soon joined Dratini in frozen terror as her gazed locked onto a cyan-colored creature that stood motionless before her. Hairs standing on the back of her neck, Riley shined the light on the creature like she was genius of the year.

What had just a moment ago been a terrifying monster was now only a wobbuffet, but Riley couldn't decide when it was more scary--then, when it was a monster, standing still and breathing menacingly down the girl's neck like an angry gyarados with nasal problems, or now, when it was shrieking and flailing with the rage of a child who wasn’t getting anymore ice cream. For moments, the two watched the pokemon until its flailing fell slower and slower until it finally stopped.

"Uhh.." Riley put her hand on the back of her head, confused like a psyduck, then exchanged a what’s going on kind of glance with Dratini. She shrugged, then stepped back, pulling a pokeball from her belt. Dratini looked at her like she had to be kidding, and the girl smiled deviously. "Go, Dratini, use slam!" The pokemon nodded then, put on his determined face, and jumped in the air like he oh-so-often did during battle. It was the pokemon's first time using the shiny new attack on something other than a stuffed doll, and Riley was absolutely positive that it'd do a good amount of damage. The serpentine pokemon curved his body, putting a good amount of weight into the part of his body that was intended to strike the pokemon, then slammed down.

And Riley had been right-- or that's what she assumed when the wobbuffet cried out and began to flail back and forth again as it had before. Dratini momentarily glanced at her for a moment, as if wondering if he had to do this, and then it happened. In the midst of Wobbuffet's flails and screeches, it'd hit Dratini back with what had to be twice the power that small dragon pokemon's slam had hit with. Dratini flew back like a limp noodle, hitting the ground hard. Riley stared hard at Dratini, then Wobbuffet, then Dratini again, her mouth resembling the shape of a frisbee and light brown eyes equally as big. That had to be counter, the move that hit twice as hard as whatever it was hit with. Dratini brought himself upright from being sprawled out on the ground, and gave a defeated look to Riley. "Alright Dratini, we have to be smart about this! Start off with thunder wave!"

With eyes angry with vengeance, Dratini glowed yellow for a moment, and then sent the wave of energy that lit up the whole room towards his opponent. It looked like Lady Luck had been smiling upon them and Riley crossing her fingers had worked, because the wobbuffet had failed to use safeguard. The cyan-colored punching bag was at a stand-still, occasionally crying out when the straitjacket that was static electricity sent a jolt of reminder through the pokemon. "Now use wrap!" Now she was truly feeling like genius of the year, because she supposed that the wobbuffet couldn't have used counter if it was paralyzed and-- oh, wait for it, under wraps. Dratini crept up to the pokemon slow-like, and then wrapped his self up Wobbuffet's body, then contracted. Wobbuffet cried out once again, trying hard as it could time and time again to counter and flail and throw the creature off of itself, but Dratini held tighter and tighter as if he were on a mechanical taurus ride with the knob turned to hard mode. The wrapping and flailing and shouts from Riley to keep wrapping went on for a few moments, and then Dratini's opposite finally fell quiet.

"Come back now, Dratini!" And Dratini slowly uncoiled itself, slithering down Wobbuffet's body. The pokemon was now hunched over, breathing hard like someone who just ran a marathon, and only mumbled a quiet "Waah.. Buffet," every now and again. As if by instinct, Riley threw the pokeball, which whirred and opened in the air, enveloping the tired pokemon in a ray of crimson light, then dropped onto the ground with a boop. This was the part Riley hated most, she never was Captain Patient like wobbuffets were, she had to admit. The ball shook--once, twice, and then the fading of the red light.

And that's when Riley did the little victory jig that she did when no one else that could speak English was around to make fun of her. Dratini looked tired and happy like an old dog, and Riley gave the pokemon a hug before returning him to his ball. She ran to where the wobbuffet had previously been standing and picked it up like the world's best baseball player, pride exploding with fireworks and glitter and trumpets inside her chest, then latched her two companions to her belt.
Edited by Michelle, Nov 30 2010, 05:21 PM.
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Super Smash Bros Wobbuffet? Anyway, nice, approved.
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