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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 23, 2012 19:37:20 GMT -5
stepping carefully around the shiny, wet rocks at the base of the waterfall that made this region famous, finnikin was in a rotten mood. he'd been dispatched here by the guard to deal with an apparent nest of pirates who had been making a resistance in this jungle wasteland, but so far finnikin had barely even seen a living thing, let alone a pirate. well, there were plenty of bug pokemon buzzing about in his face and making his life hell, but nothing important enough to register in his mind. his fancy new boots were soaked up to his knees, where they stopped, and he was so close to getting filthy river water on his new uniform pants that he could kill someone. his royal guard jacket with the nice red piping and the black velvet was covered in splashes of water and had a few dozen caterpie, wurmple and weedle casually sitting on it, just to annoy him, and his pistol was soaked through and useless until he could get it home and dry out the gunpowder. whose dumb idea was this? it had to be the dictator taking revenge on him for being so two-faced, giving him such a ridiculously awful assignment. his usually laidback, happy-go-lucky expression had been washed away the first time a sloshing wave of water had hit him waist-high and now he was just grumpy, irritated and ready to stab someone with his sword, which luckily still worked when it was wet. he really didn't want to be washed off the edge of the island, he really didn't want to catch any dumb tropical diseases, and he really just didn't want to be here. the next person he saw, pirate or not, was going to get a taste of his wrath. holding a small pokeball in his left hand, turning it absent-mindedly through his fingers. hearing a splash behind him, he whirled around and threw the ball, releasing his undeniable favourite, luxio. the electric canine growled at the mysterious attacker, and as finnikin yelled out, " who's there? show yourself, by order of the crown!" cloud added his own menacing warning of, " lux, lux, luxio!" if they had half a backbone they would show themselves and fight in this godforsaken jungle, knee-deep in river water and soaked to the bone. finnikin knew if he were them, he would have turned tail and ran, but nobody else was truly like him. they al had these codes of honour, valour and bravery and other such nonsense. pah, how stupid.   CLOUD THE LUXIO
charge, crunch, swagger, roar
thunderbolt, attract
held item: scope lens
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Post by sera on Jan 23, 2012 20:13:33 GMT -5
Sera had been wandering around the waterfalls, something she hadn't done in awhile either. The sky was clear, for the most part, and the stars were welcoming. The sound of the rushing water was strange, a sound that managed to soothe her and frighten her all at the same time. So even though she loved this place the girl kept her distance, staying far away from the water where she knew she was safe.
Now that they were off the ship the girl thought that she would let a few of her pokemon out to relax. She couldn't imagine being stuck in a capsule all day long, she almost felt back for them. It was unfair how she let Exile roam around all the time but kept the others in their pokeballs. Duke her Ivysaur was laying belly down, snoring away and Cloud was somewhere up in the sky flying around. The girl had just got comfortable next to her ivysaur when she heard nose coming from near the dark rushing water. Like something was splashing around near the rocks or something... The girl was no coward but water was never something she liked, ever. Plus it was night time and it was probably cool and everything about it just scream gross. The girl wrinkled her nose and pushed herself off the grass making her way closer to the water where she spotted a man who looked absolutely soaked. She couldn't help but giggle, there was no way that she would be caught dead in the water.
The man must have heard her because he sent a pokemon out and started yelling in her direction. "Dammit," the girl murmured making her way closer to the water than she wanted to. The voice sounded familiar but she could really put a face to it, well not until she got close enough to see who was yelling at her. No, oh no. It couldn't be could it? "Finn?" Sera squinted her eyes to see better in the dark. Yep, it was him, the rat himself. Well more like a drown rat now, "Finn you look like a drown sewer rat." Her voice was monotone and blunt as she wrinkled her nose at the thought of being in his position. "Why in the name of Arceus are you playing in the water?"
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 23, 2012 21:31:53 GMT -5
" could this day get any worse?" well, apparently, it could. not only was he now soaked up to his waist, he was being confronted by a sassy redhead who somehow recognised him. and people who recognised him had a genera habit of not liking him one bit, so he was pretty much destined to not have a friendly conversation with this girl, whoever she was. she had even called him finn, which meant she knew him on personal terms, not just that attractive turncoat royal guard. growling back at her, he was halfway through his sentence before he realised who she was. " do i know y-- oh. sera." he growled the last word, throwing his head back and heaving a deep sigh at the universe. this was actually just the worst day of his life. he had spent twelve hours trudging through this damn jungle without a sight of the victims of his mission, he had a myriad of bug pokemon bites and now, darkness was falling and he was going to have to trudge back through this river in the dark. he'd left his one-man ship somewhere on the river so he could find it, so that meant the only way he could be assured of not getting lost was to follow the river upstream all the way back again. great. he scoffed at her as she insulted him, throwing back, " and you're just as charming as usual, sera." the bratty little sister of his childhood - and current - best friend, seraphina had been the bane of his existence ever since they were about eight, demanding to play with elliott and him and ruining their muddy rowdy boyish games, and then later making his best friend so depressed with his disappearance that he didn't even want to come drinking with him anymore. this girl just made his life awful. " quite clearly, sera, i'm taking a bath. though i know personal hygiene is a foreign concept to you pirates," he said sarcastically, then an idea hit him. she was a pirate. he was supposed to hunt for pirates. if he brought her in then he wouldn't completely fail his mission and the day wouldn't be a total waste. with a growl, cloud by his side pawed the ground impatiently and finnikin agreed wholeheartedly. " i've been waiting years to find a reason to do this. with the authority vested in me, i hereby arrest you - unless you can beat me!" okay, so it was over the top and completely unnecessary but sometimes finn liked doing things just because he could. and this was one of those times. CLOUD THE LUXIO level 36 • intimidate • male
charge, crunch, swagger, roar
thunderbolt, attract
held item: scope lens
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Post by sera on Jan 24, 2012 13:12:51 GMT -5
Sera grinned when the man recognized her, it was nice to know that she was at least remembered. At one time or another she remembered actually having a crush on this guy, but she had no idea what it was she had liked about him. Now he was just a royal guard and a sneak, no loyalty to anyone at all, the fact that he was her brother's best friend only worried her.What was to say that he would turn on Elliott if given the chance?
"Oh but of course I am," Sera smirked still refusing to get closer to the water that she had to. "I wouldn't be me if I was this wonderful and charming all the time." Her words will fill with thick sarcasm, "I'm a regular lady aristocrat, didn't you know?" A bath, the girl snickered at the though, she distinctly remembered him running away from his mother as a child refusing to bathe. "Be careful with that bath of yours," Sera warned wrinkling her nose. "I was certain that you were nothing but street scum down to your very core, you might was away completely." It was strange thinking about how Finn acted, in Sera's mind it was allot like how here father had acted but if that were true the man wouldn't have got himself thrown in prison. At least Finn was managing to stay a float, how ever it was he was managing it Sera had no idea.
The words that came from Finn's mouth next made Sera cock and eyebrow, he was going to arrest her? She snorted and moved back up ground, "alright Finn have it your way..." Nudging her ivysaur with her foot the girl frowned, she had a feeling this wasn't going to go well. "Come on Duke, time for battle." The usually lazy pokemon stirred and pushed himself off the ground, he liked sleeping but battles were even more fun.
Stomping his way forward the grass pokemon grumbled, "saur."
[style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px]   DUKE THE IVYSAUR
vine whip, leech seed, razor leaf, sludge
tm 11 sunny day, tm 22 solarbeam |
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 24, 2012 19:42:38 GMT -5
the amount of times he had wished he could just throw sera off a boat and call it an accident welled up in his head behind his eyes. those were the days, back when he had the time to create master plans to murder his best friend's little sister. ahh, memories. more than one of those plans had involved this very waterfall, considering it was quite lethal if you got too close to the edge and were sucked into the hazy vortex plummeting over the edge. and well, if one was inside a duffel bag they had very little chance of navigating the falls successfully. but alas, they were older and slightly more sophisticated now - or at least, he was - and straight-out murder just wasn't going to cut it. instead, he'd crush her team to pieces, chain her hand and foot and jail her. at least for a night, after which elliott would release her and no doubt give finnikin a lengthy lecture on how it wasn't cool to arrest your best friend's sister. well, he was grumpy and she was there: it all made perfect sense to finn, at least. " then i seriously pity the regular gentleman aristocrats," he said with a grin. assuming a mock-concerned expression, he posed the question with arms turned out wide by his shoulders. " you've probably infected them all with your grime by now. everybody in the street will be the same muddy colour, how will we tell them apart?" he almost took offense to her next comment; it wasn't often that finn found himself offended by anything. but street scum? that was low. he'd put a lot of effort into getting out of the gaping black hole that was his childhood home. he was self-sufficient, clean and above all, deadly rich now, and he doubted she could say the same; for at least two of those, anyway. " perhaps a trip down this waterfall will do you good, sera. i was missing that pretty face under its seven layers of mud." it was a pretty face, he wasn't even lying here. sera had always been off-limits though, all throughout his childhood. perhaps now that he and elli were grown up they could be grown up about such things? but who was he kidding. he and sera hated each other way too much for it to ever work, and finn wasn't so interested in chasing skirt that he couldn't figure out when he didn't have a chance. why bother? besides, there was a battle to be had, all his training meant that battling was the one thing he was able to get serious about. " i always have it my way," he returned with a smile. soon it was wiped away, though. with a groan, he acknowledged her ivysaur trudge its fat, lardy way over. perhaps he and lulu his flaaffy could host over-eaters anonymous meetings together. lard and lardette: oh, how sweet. electric moves were not going to be powerful at all against the plant pokemon, so instead finn resolved to use his own stupidity against him. bristling his fur full of electrical charge, finn hoped his luxio's intimidating glare would scare the grass type into submission. " let's get this show on the road. you might as well give up now, sera," he taunted, meanwhile directing cloud with a gesture to leap forward, jaws wide to attempt to crunch them down on his opponent. CLOUD THE LUXIO level 36 • intimidate • male
charge, crunch, swagger, roar
thunderbolt, attract
held item: scope lens
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Post by sera on Jan 25, 2012 18:15:33 GMT -5
Sera felt her face flush with a mixture of embarrassment and anger, how dare he say she was dirty! It was a well known fact that he was still a slimy man that only did what he could to keep himself alive. He was the slime not her! "Obviously dressing you up doesn't change your personality, still the same giant asshole you've always been." The redhead stepped back and let her grass pokemon move forward. Upon seeing the luxio Duke stopped, it was a slightly intimidating pokemon but it was seeing that man behind the pokemon that really set the ivysaur off. Cringing back the grass pokemon nearly began refusing to battle, Sera growled. "Come on Duke, this is no time to be a chicken," the girl huffed. If she ever ran into the middle child of her family she would give him a good boot in the pants.
Trying to shake himself off the ivysaur stomped forward as the luxio charged the ivysaur sent out two vines, attempting to use vine whip on the enemy. Noticing the man use a hand gesture Sera snapped into action, "quick Duke, give him a little surprise!" Just as the luxio leaded toward him the grass pokemon released sludge from the flower on his back hoping to poison the electric pokemon its teeth dug into him.
"Don't think not voicing your attacks to your pokemon will be enough to keep me from noticing," Sera grinned. She had a few tricks of her own and she wasn't about to let this two-faced royal guard get the best of her.
[style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px]  DUKE THE IVYSAUR
vine whip, leech seed, razor leaf, sludge
tm 11 sunny day, tm 22 solarbeam |
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 25, 2012 23:43:53 GMT -5
as much as she might have wanted to, sera could not hide something as obvious as the flush which sprinkled across her cheeks, and it gave finn's insides a quick twist of joy to know he still had it in him to irritate the redhead, just like old times. it was almost like they could sit at the bar tonight and laugh about those stories which always started with 'remember when' and 'do you recall the day'. but the world might stop spinning and the islands come crashing down if seraphina avery and finnikin dare stopped hating each other, even for a minute. he swung a low bow, a sardonic smile twisting up the sides of his mouth as he wryly spoke. " you can stop lying, there's nobody here to impress. you know you love me," he said as he straightened up, musing to himself. " i'd pay to see you in a dress, anyway. and perhaps if you can't breathe in a corset there'd be less air for that utterly unladylike tone of yours. you'll never get a man with such manners, sera." with a light-hearted tsk, tsk, he turned his attention on the scaredy-cat grass type. waggling his hands beside his head in a caricature of antlers, he leant forward and said harshly, " boo!" before collapsing into laughter, hands on his abdomen. which then reminded him that his coat was all wet, and sobered him up rather quickly. watching his luxio complete the crunch attack with zeal, he approved silently, one hand wrapped across his waist and the other resting lightly on his chin, a classic finnikin thinking pose. he knew luxio's attract technique wouldn't work on this male pokemon, and thunderbolt - while powerful - wouldn't be so effective. he was so caught up in strategising that it was only cloud's surprised yelp which alerted him to sera's sneaky move. the vine whip had caught him across the flank, fine, he was used to physical pain; but a squirtful of sludge in the face was definitely unexpected. " come back here, cloud," finnikin commanded, not unkindly, and he ruffled the mane of his favourite, muttering soothing nonsense under his breath. yep, that was definitely going to poison and weaken the poor electric type, but he'd managed to get a good bite into the hide of the ivysaur. " i would only expect the best of you, seraphina. after all, you did learn from the best," he said cockily, pointing with a thumb at himself. with the other hand, he directed cloud forward with a strong arm, his movements very reminiscent of a tactical militia team. finnikin decided to go for an all-out offensive front, and directed cloud with quick, barked orders to crunch down again onto the leafy hide of the ivysaur and then, while still holding him down, hit him with a strong thunderbolt. the electrical charge in cloud's fur should have made up for some of his type disadvantage: but whether it worked would become clear in a few moments. CLOUD THE LUXIO level 36 • intimidate • male
charge, crunch, swagger, roar
thunderbolt, attract
held item: scope lenscloud is poisoned!
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Post by sera on Jan 27, 2012 2:49:36 GMT -5
Sera couldn't help but wrinkled her nose and look at Finn with an expression that almost resembled disgust. "You can't honestly think that anyone could love you," the girl shook her head. "Finnikin Dare, if there were ever any feelings other than hatred for you, they died a long time ago." Feeling like she had already said too much the redhead turned her head and decided to distract herself with the battle at hand. The last thing she wanted was for Finn to be able to think she liked him at all, seriously, ew.
"Come on Duke we can do this," Sera tried to reassure her ivysaur who didn't look like he was having too much fun after the luxio's crunch. Looking over to the electric pokemon the girl couldn't help but smirk, hopefully that sacrifice was enough to poison it, not that she could tell from where she stood. "Seed 'em," Sera's words were cold as she tried to think of a plan. It was no doubt that the man had stronger pokemon but she was going to at least take a couple of his with her.
The grass pokemon listened, first doing his best to avoid the teeth of the scary looking luxio before shooting out a few leech seeds at his enemy. Distracted by planting his own attack the ivysaur was hit with the thunderbolt, Sera was thankful that she didn't favor water types at this very moment. She could only hope that now the seeds would do their job and leech some of the luxio's life force to Duke and heal him.
[style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px] DUKE THE IVYSAUR
vine whip, leech seed, razor leaf, sludge
tm 11 sunny day, tm 22 solarbeam |
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 27, 2012 23:07:34 GMT -5
finnikin was enjoying this far more than he enjoyed torturing average people. sera's facial expression was simply packed with distaste, which only made him smirk even more. she couldn't ignore his fatal attraction, couldn't help herself, and one day she'd give in to it just to allow him the pleasure of denying her. " plenty of people love me. plenty of people have. don't project your petty insecurities on me, sera," he taunted, knowing that teasing her would inflame her even more - which amused him the most, because then her face matched her hair. raising an eyebrow at her next comment, he made a surprised, " oh?" and grinned. he knew she liked him, even if it was a passing thing. he had been a bit of a dashing teenager on the streets. famous, even, the pair of them - and tag-along seraphina had evidently been caught in the spell of his mud-streaked, fairytale attraction. growling under his breath as she gave her command, luxio - already whining from the loss of health through his poisoning - was implanted under his skin by three little seeds. finnikin growled as well, placing a steadying hand on his buddy's head. this was painful, hew knew; poisoning was one of the worst feelings, a creeping weakness that spread through all the limbs. and he had thought the food poisoning he got from some off salmon was pretty bad. cloud looked up at finnikin, and the well-trained duo understood what was going on between each other's looks. the luxio only had it in him for one more all-out attack, and that would be all, so he had to make it count. finnikin stood from where he had been kneeling, and luxio rose as well, gathering up the electricity in the air to collect the charge in his coat, then as finnikin cried, " now! thunderbolt!" luxio released all the charged electricity, plus that from within the air and inside his veins in a last-ditch effort at the ivysaur. as he stood, panting, the seeds beneath his fur sapped the last bit of his energy, and luxio fainted to the ground. with a glare at sera that spelled murder, finnikin brought his favourite back into his ball. " let's go! myrtle!" with a flash, out popped his pidgeotto, hopefully to do some killer damage to the grass-type. with a dark smirk, finnikin waited on her next move. it was payback time. CLOUD THE LUXIO level 36 • intimidate • male
charge, crunch, swagger, roar
thunderbolt, attract
held item: scope lenscloud is poisoned + leech seeded!luxio has fainted! luxio gains +1 level! ivysaur gains +2 levels!   MYRTLE THE PIDGEOTTO
twister, featherdance, quick attack, gust
aerial ace, thief
held item: sharp beak
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Post by sera on Jan 29, 2012 3:25:11 GMT -5
Sera wrinkled her nose, getting distracted by his teasing was silly, focus Sera FOCUS! The redhead did her best to breath deeply, she need to stay calm. Being patient wasn't a skill she was blessed with but she needed to focus on the main task at hand. Despite what Finn may think it wasn't bickering with him, the girl didn't want to get thrown in jail. She had just told her brother the other day that she would stay out of trouble. Duke didn't look too good, she didn't doubt that Finn being a royal guard would have meant that he had stronger pokemon and it was a miracle that her ivysaur had lasted this long. The seeds planted into the luxio, good at least that would help out a bit, the poison sapped come of his energy and then the attack.
"Duke watch it!" she shouted out to her pokemon but it was too late. Obviously the electricity travled faster than the ivysaur would make up his mind. Duke fell to belly and groaned and Sera couldn't help but grit her teeth, she wasn't going to let this finish her. Leech seed would heal Duke a bit but not enough to do anything like the thunderbolt. Sera watched closely as the luxio fainted and waited to see what Finn's next choice would be. Eyebrows frowning as she say the pidgeotto released, crap.
"Okay Duke last shot!" the ivysaur pushed itself back up onto it's feet and closed it's eyes tight shooting out sludge at the bird pokemon before falling back onto his belly. "Oh Duke..." Sera's tone was worried as the pokemon fell obviously not willing to carry on.
"Alright Ex, your turn." Out of the bushes rushed Sera's pikachu, anger obvious on his face.
"Pika," the pokemon growled looking very much like what Elliott looked like when he was mad. Maybe a pokemon gifted from her bother wasn't so bad...
"Alright give 'em a good one," Sera told her pikachu with a smirk. The rodent nodded eagerly, his cheeks starting to spark before releasing a zap cannon at both the pidgeotte and it's trainer. It was always like Exile to take out his anger on any male that tried to hurt Sera. Just as protective as her old brother, the pikachu really was.
[style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px]   EXILE THE PIKACHU
slam, thunder wave, thunder shock, thunder punch
tm 7 zap cannon, tm 23 iron tail [style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px] DUKE THE IVYSAUR
vine whip, leech seed, razor leaf, sludge
tm 11 sunny day, tm 22 solarbeam |
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 29, 2012 5:04:20 GMT -5
finn was just about ready to give up, shoot sera in the leg with his pistols and carry her back to the city bleeding and complaining. but he was feeling stubborn, and as much as it would have been enjoyable to shoot sera, it would be far more enjoyable to defeat her soundly and have her submit her inferiority to him. preferably on her knees, but he would take what he could get. before he could get an attack out, or even think of a new strategy, he realised he wouldn't have to, as luxio's final stand had given the ivysaur much more damage than he originally thought. as sera called this the lumbering grass pokemon's 'last shot', finn smirked and let pidgeotto off her perch on his arm to hover in the air, waiting on the attack. the bird pokemon was showered in sludge, shaking it off with quite a few feathers attached to the slimy, gooey stuff. then, exhausted with the effort, the ivysaur collapsed onto his stomach, too tired to go on. finnikin called myrtle back to his arm like a hunting hawk with a whistle, petting her feathers on the top of her head slowly, watching for sera's next move. anything, he prayed, anything but that goddamn-- " exile," finnikin groaned. oh, he and the pikachu went way back. too far back for finn's liking. he would have liked to put the sparky pokemon in a duffel bag and toss it off the island more than once in his life, but he hadn't out of respect for the gift elliott had given his sister. but that didn't mean he couldn't inflict a hell of a lot of damage on the irritating little creature before the day was through. and if all else failed, he could send out lulu, who could use her immense weight to sit on him. finnikin thought about dash, his own pikachu; dash was a chatterbox, but he certainly wasn't as violent or as annoying as exile: the famous exile. " myrtle! quick attack!" speeding up, the pidgeotto took off from finnikin's arm and struck the pikachu before he could move, flying back faster than the eye could see. he had just arrived back on finn's arm when the zap cannon struck. flinging his arms up - so that hopefully the pidgeotto would take all the damage - to cover his face, he flung them back by his side then pointed accusingly at sera. " tell your little runt that if he wants to make this personal, it can get personal!" he motioned to pidgeotto to use an aerial ace, her sharp beak glinting in the low light reflecting off the water beneath them as she flew towards the tiny mouse with murder in her eyes. she may not have loved luxio - being finn's favourite - but she loved her trainer, despite his apathy towards her. she put all her effort behind this attack, knowing that her keen eye and the overwheling accuracy of this attack meant that the pikachu couldn't avoid it. she was fatigued from the highly effective attack: one more and she'd probably be down. but finn wasn't about to tell sera that. he still had his two strongest pokemon to bring out, plus his own pikachu. this wasn't over yet. ivysaur has fainted! ivysaur gains +1 level! luxio gains +2 levels! MYRTLE THE PIDGEOTTO level 30 • keen eye • female
twister, featherdance, quick attack, gust
aerial ace, thief
held item: sharp beak
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Post by sera on Jan 29, 2012 18:27:22 GMT -5
Sera smirked when she saw how Finn growled at the sight of her pikachu. "Oh you know better than anyone that if Ex doesn't like someone he lets the person know," the girl laughed. Looking over to the bird Sera frowned her brows, looked like an aerial ace, there was no dodging that best to take advantage of the closeness of the pokemon though... "Okay Ex get ready," Sera warned as the bird dove in to strike him.
Waiting for the opportune moment Exile began focusing all his electricity into his paw, just as the bird stuck he aimed a thunder punch right for it's face, wincing as the sharp beak dug into him. If the attack didn't knock the pokemon out maybe the static in his body would paralyze it.
"Good job Ex, keep it up," Sera smirked. The pikachu nodded before turning his attention back to Finn and sending a thunder shock in his direction. Of course the pokemon was going to make this personal, he knew Finn well and what he knew more was that he had been trained to use him as a shocking dummy.
"Pika," the pokemon taunted doing a handstand and wiggling his butt at the man. "Chuuu!" the rodent continued flipping back right side up and sticking out his tongue and pulling down his cheeks.
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slam, thunder wave, thunder shock, thunder punch
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 29, 2012 19:58:14 GMT -5
finnikin, usually the more laidback of the two, was starting to get more than a little irritated as seraphina. more than that, he was practically furious at exile. oh, of course, they went way back. elliott had come up with the fine idea of teaching exile to shock any men who came near sera, using finnikin himself as a test dummy. wasn't that just fricking hilarious. and elliott had the nerve to call him the frustrating one in their friendship, huh? " i also know better than anyone that he's an insufferable little bitch," finnikin replied with a fair amount of poisonous malice dripping off the words. looking away as pidgeotto was struck in the face with a thunderpunch, he heard the thump as she fell to the ground, as the force of the punch skittered her along the dirt to land in a heap in the waterfall's river. ko'd straight away - type advantages were finnikin's second-to-least favourite thing in the world, after this pikachu right here - myrtle wasn't moving, and finnikin scooped her up in his arms and cradled her sopping wet feathers. he was going to make one of his usual threats reality today: lulu was going to sit on this little pikachu. out she came, chewing - as usual - on her leftovers. rolling his eyes, finnikin took off his jacket, wet as it may be, and left his pidgeotto lying on it. it was lucky, then, that the thundershock didn't singe his guard jacket, because they cost a lot of money to replace, and he might have had to lose his cool entirely. instead, finnikin felt a thundershock streak past his entire left side: was he missing an eyebrow? he hoped against hope not. it was also lucky that he still had control of his nervous system, because electrical attacks could occasionally rob people of their basic motor skills. " exile, i am going to tie you up and throw you off the island," he muttered, another of his usual threats; he hadn't gone through with that one yet either. well, perhaps today could be a day of firsts. lulu the flaaffy lumbered forwards, licking her paws nonchalantly. she was generally opposed to using her weight for good, seeing as finnikin and the others teased her about it all the time. she just had big bones, okay? but nobody seemed to listen. fluffing up her coat vainly, she sent out a few fluffs of cotton spore in exile's direction, then followed it immediately with a strong, fierce thunder attack. unlike dash and luxio, the flaaffy had been well-trained to use the superpowered lightning attack, and its power was not beyond her. finnikin was hoping that maybe this time, she might evolve; she had been holding off until she felt ready, because her self-esteem was severely cut down by her obesity. then again, as an ampharos she would be tall and slender and beautiful, so finnikin couldn't guess what the sheep pokemon might do. it all depended on when he fainted the annoying rat before him. once upon a time, exile and dash had been good friends, almost the best. well, wasn't that a laugh! MYRTLE THE PIDGEOTTO level 30 • keen eye • female
twister, featherdance, quick attack, gust
aerial ace, thief
held item: sharp beakpidgeotto has fainted! pidgeotto gains +1 level! pikachu gains +2 levels!   LULU THE FLAAFFY
growl, discharge, cotton spore, charge
thunder, volt switch
held item: leftovers
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Post by sera on Jan 29, 2012 21:17:38 GMT -5
Sera tried her best to keep a straight face when Finn faced her after Exile had attacked him. Her pikachu had managed to fry his eyebrow off, "uh... Finn?" Sera couldn't help but giggle a bit. "It looks like you're, uh, missing something..." the girl raised her hand to her face and pointed at her eyebrow as if the show him what she meant. Wrinkling her nose as she held back laughter, "what me to draw you a new one?"
While Sera was trying to hold back laughter Exile found no urge to hold back anything, falling over the pikachu laughed hysterically. It wasn't until Finn let out his big fat flaafy that Exile stood up and looked around to see what was going on, only to fall over and start laughing at the sight of the fat pokemon. Sera watched as the flaafy fluffed it wool sending out the attack of cotton spores before sending thunder crashing down on Exile - who was too busy laughing to pay attention. The pikachu squeaked as the strong electrical attack hit him.
"Okay time to get serious Ex," Sera said rolling her eyes at the dumb rodent and pointing to the flaafy. Exile hopped back onto his feel before prancing over to the fat pokemon readying to use slam. Before he even had time to feel himself hit the fat pokemon his tail began to glow. Ready to chain in the iron tail Exile let out a little battle cry.
"Pikaaaah!"
[style=font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 3px] EXILE THE PIKACHU
speed lowered 2 stages
level 20 • static • male
slam, thunder wave, thunder shock, thunder punch
tm 7 zap cannon, tm 23 iron tail |
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Post by FINNIKIN DARE on Jan 30, 2012 1:07:39 GMT -5
slapping a hand to his face to cover the singed spot, finnikin groaned and closed his eyes. could this day get any worse? no, it legitimately could not. he could actually die and it would be a relief from these past twelve hours of torment. " keep talking and you'll be missing more than an eyebrow," he growled, his hand still covering half his face. taking it away, he glared fiercely at exile who was falling over himself laughing, treating the little pikachu like a human being. unlike most pokemon, whom he saw as slightly lesser in stature than he, exile was almost a real person in his eyes, complete with quirks, a recognisable - and eternally grumpy - face and an irritating voice. even his little battle cry was getting on his nerves: and usually finnikin didn't let anything get on his nerves. the pikachu just had a way of getting under his skin. " you'd better," he replied, brightening up at the thought of not looking so much like a freak as he returned to town. peering down at his reflection in the water near his ankles, finn dejectedly poked the spot where part of his left eyebrow once had resided. it would grow back. right? right? he hoped that the pikachu, upon coming into contact with flaaffy's statically electrified body, would get a little shock, or maybe even become paralysed. that would be hilarious. flaaffy took the slamming tackle pikachu laid on her with barely a batted eyelid; she was, after all, insulated with a strong layer of belly fat. however with the iron tail cutting through part of her rump, she bleated worriedly, " flaaa, flaaa!" and turned this way and that, clearly not intimidating or really in the mood for this battle at all. nibbling on her leftovers, restoring a little of the health sapped by the attacks, she looked back at finn, waiting for orders. she could probably have dodged the attack if she were thinking straight; exile was running decidedly slower after being bombarded by fluffy cotton balls. unlike his zebstrika and luxio, the flaaffy wasn't self-sufficient enough to know what to do in a battle; the besotted sheep pokemon instead relied on finnikin to tell her what to do at all points in her life, including when she should sleep and what she should eat, who to talk to and how to go about her duties on finn's little airship. she was really a little irritating in that way. " charge, then discharge," finn said with vigour, holding a hand over his eyebrow now, as if in doing that he could pretend nothing was wrong. flaaffy ruffled her fur again with her two front paws and charged up the static electricity into it, releasing it in a direct wave towards the pikachu. finnikin wondered what other pokemon she had hidden in her party. the sooner this was over and he could get sera back, the better. LULU THE FLAAFFY level 37 • static • female
growl, discharge, cotton spore, charge
thunder, volt switch
held item: leftovers
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