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When the moon was covered and total darkness enveloped them, Katara instinctively took in a deep breath. When she could see once more she had pounced forward, pinning one of the Poochyenas down. She underestimated her own strength, for though she is now a Houndour, she is now a Houndour the size of a Skarmory.

It was dead before she released her flames.



Cecil's sat patiently the entire time, sword-tail across his crossed legs. When the darkness came he hopped to his feet, and charged forward to meet the enemies. He's heard about the attacks of course, and he showed no mercy.

He and one Poochyena engaged in combat, and the two twirled around each other, jumping forward and back, exchanging blows. in the end he prevailed though, and slipped his blade through his opponent's defences, through skin and flesh into heart.



Acer's attention lagged as they waited and waited and waited. He was a small kid, what did you expect? He started to wander just before the attack, his attention shifting to an Ivysaur. He paused for a moment, blinking in confusion as a sense of familiarity tugged at the edge of his consciousness.

He headed for the other grass type, stumbling and tripping when the moon's light suddenly disappeared. He was stopped by another Pokemon, and when the light came back on he was on his back, staring up at the Ivysaur.

For some reason that pose triggered his memory.

"Serrin?" Aw, he evolved already! No fair!

As the battle began Cress saw a guildmember fall. The Milotic glanced with worry over at acer and then slithered full speed across the grass to an orange Treeko on the ground, circling the grass type.

"Are you OK?"

((Echo))



When Zero skidded out into the plains just outside the guild, he calmed down, his mind slipping away from his memories to a blank, and he curled up, docile once more.

His fur stood up on edge suddenly when he caught the scent of Poochyena in the air though, and the Glaceon was suddenly on his feet even as darkness descended. He charged forward before the light came back, his fur frozen into deadly spikes, his lips curled back in a growl.

The first poochyena found its throat in Zero's mouth before it even had time to react to the fact battle had begun.

((-3))

When the trio noticed a pack of Poochyenas was charging forward at the guild, they braced themselves for battle. They didn't do much before the other guild members have finished the Poochyenas themselves. Luckilly no one have mistaken Nadia for one of those other Poochyenas. When the sky suddenly blotted out, it became darker than before! Blinking eyes gazed aimlessly at the scene. How could anyone possibly see now? "W-What happened?" Nadia panicked at the sight. She tilted her head left and right, noticing the other team missing. "Jacob? Zorora?" She called them out. "We're over here!" The Heracross responded to her. Without hesitating she followed the source of the voice. When she could feel the presence of the two Pokemon she catch a white glow emitted from a distance in the corner of her yellow-red eyes. It grew brighter as it shined the face of a Mightyena. A second later the Mightyena then scurried off. "Follow that light!" Exclaimed Zorora, already tracking it down. "W-Wait!!" Jacob quickly grabbed her tail before she could go any further. "Don't get too near the Mightyena!" He warned the two females. They both nodded at him even though he can't really see it. The trio then split up to track down the Mightyena.

Zorora was quick to find the light first. She builds up a lot of electricity, a few sparks came out of her fur making a tiny source of light. When the sparks faded she released a large amount of blue electricity at the Mightyena. A neon blue lighted the area for a moment.

Nadia was second to spot the light that was from the relic. She saw Zorora across the field when the blue electricity lighted its surroundings. She turned to see the Mightyena. She was tempted to make a move but he was the same type as she was, most of her moves won't do good enough. Well at least it will do a few damage, right? The Poochyena opened her mouth to only form a small purple ball. It grew larger until it was slightly bigger than her mouth before flinging it at the Mightyena. She then formed another Shadow Ball and threw it again at it.

Last but not least, Jacob noticed a blue light from Zorora's electricity. He followed the source to find the Mightyena. Well that Discharge was really helpful than anyone expected. Without any hesitations he released a Reversal. He knew it wasn't the best way to use this move but it was the only move that he knew that doesn't really make contact with the Mightyena.

{{Charge + Discharge= 2 + 2x Shadow Ball= 2 + Super Effective Reversal= 2 = -6}}

Katara's wasn't exactly one for "attacking from a distance". She's a freaking Skarmory most of the time, she flies into things and they die. That's how it works. But she couldn't see, even as a Pokemon of the night, and she heard Epitaph's warning clearly.

The silvery houndour's image began to waver, her features melting away and shifting. Katara worked the best she could from her memory, and a few moments later she stood as a large Flareon. Power flared inside her, not nearly as bright as that of the real Atra's, but the magical potential there was much higher than her own.

Hesitantly, she dove into that magic and began to pull it out, forming a spell. The ground around her glowed slightly as her inefficient handling of the magic allowed it seep out all around her.

A simple swift attack flew at the glowing light a moment later as she grasped onto something more familiar.

((-1 swift))



Cecil pulled his sword out of the Poochyena grimly as the limp body fell to the ground, quite dead. He looked up at the approach of the Mightyena, as darkness spread all around them.

Cecil shut his eyes closed then, forgoing what little sense of sight he had left to rely on his others. His floppy ears twitched as he picked up what sound he could, hearing the scuffing of claws against ground. Something attacked it and it retreated backwards, and Cecil held his tail-sword by his side, suddenly running across the plains towards where he believed was the Mightyena.

He broke into a roll as he sensed some oncoming attacks, allowing the vacuum wave to harmlessly pass over him. Something bright flashed and he opened his eyes as he came up from his roll to see the Mightyena's outline shining clearly in a discharge attack.

He slammed into the dark Type with his sword leading, feeling its tip part skin and flesh even as he tensed up in preparation for the counterattack. He had sensed what had happened to the Zangoose, and he prepared himself for it as the blast of darkness sent him back.

Seconds later he was gone, having escaped into darkness, now a part of the endless shadows that covered the field. Stunned from the power behind the attack, Cecil was left crouched in the plane of shadows, recovering his strength.

((-2, Stab x Sword Dance.))



Acer watched Serrin fight with open-jawed amazement. Double not fair! Serrin's been training! He barely heard the other's question.

"Whoa. I'm, uh, fine." Was all he managed to get out, staring up at the Ivysaur. Wait, weren't they the same age? He seemed...a lot older though. Much older. The turtwig knitted his eyebrows in confusion, temporarily forgetting the battle all about them as he tried to figure this puzzle out.

His attention was taken when darkness descended though, and the young grass type suddenly remembered they were in a fight for the Guild. Right! Curse that short attention span!

Darkness doesn't bother Acer nearly as much as it does for many grass types, but there's still that instinctive unease with the absence of sun. The small turtwig glanced around in the total darkness, wondering if he had gone blind as the sound of battle recommenced. A flash of light here and there confirmed that he could still see, but he was hesitant to attack. Where was the enemy? Is that ominously glowing speck the Mightyena, or perhaps one of their light-giving teammates?



Zero isn't completely here. His mind had shifted once more, the sound of battle driving it to a time of conflict and fierce fighting. He slashed at enemies that weren't there, zipping around the field, crossing back and forth as if he were chasing some invisible creature.

The ground where he passed glistened with ice as his body temperature went down low, very low. He stopped suddenly and reared back, a small speck of blue light forming in his mouth, a beacon in the darkness.

Then suddenly that ball of light elongated, shooting out in a multicoloured beam, back towards the guild, the path of its projectory going through a few of the guildmember's positions, including that of the poochyena Nadia.

A wind picked up around him and shards of ice began to form and fly in a veritable blizzard, following the Glaceon as he ran after his attack, his course starting to veer to to side as his imperfect memory did not align with reality.

The Glaceon ran into something, someone, and he toppled into the other Pokemon, a look of utter confusion on his face. In his memories where this battle was being played out, there was nothing here where he had collided with another Pokemon. His memory shifted again to try and compensate for this discrepancy, and he suddenly calmed down, the living blizzard around him dissipating and the frozen spikes of fur beginning to thaw.

He suddenly leaned against whatever unfortunate, confused pokemon he had run into, which, by the way, was the Guildmaster, letting his weight pull himself to the ground as a small purr sounded in his throat.

"Good night mommy, good night daddy. Night Zose~" He murmured quietly as he wrapped his tail around Solaris's leg and curled into a content ball.

((Zero shot an Ice Beam in the general direction of guild members, in which Nadia is confirmed to be in the path of the projectory. Have fun with that.))

When the ground beneath her began to collapse into a large dark void of, well, nothingness, Katara's form began to shift once more. She leaped into the air as she changed again, and she very quickly assumed the form she was the most familiar with.

Finally being able to see again, Katara saw a small Glaceon charge at the Mightyena and the Skarmory-Ditto brought her wings in for a dive. She saw Sai being flung away and the Skarmory flared her wings, slowing herself down enough to swoop down and catch the Glaceon, careful not to dig her steel talons in too deeply as she dropped the eeveelution a foot or so above the ground.

With that Katara came back up and dove once more at the Mightyena, letting out a loud, ear-splitting screech. With a mighty beat of her wings blades of air flew ahead of her to assault the dark type and she swooped down, talons locking around its midsection. Unlike with Sai she squeezed hard with her claws, trying to force it through skin and flesh as she struggled upwards into the air.

It was a lot of extra weight, and she was not able to gain much height- but enough, just enough to do some damage. She loosened her grip and allowed the canine to fall, letting her claws run along its side as it slipped past.

((-4))



Cecil burst from the shadows when he felt himself being dragged down into a nothingness he cared not to explore. He could suddenly see again, and he didn't waste a second.

The darkness and the shadows grabbed at his legs, slowing him down but an Agility more than made up for it. He saw the Mightyena being taken up into the air by a Skarmory and rushed to where it was going to land.

His sword out, he got to the dark type just as it hit the ground, and came in with his blade leading, striking cautiously but hard before the canine could recover.

((-2))



Acer isn't exactly a very fast pokemon, and the young Turtwig began to panic as the ground seemed to turn into a giant pit of black mud or something, sucking him down into the ground. He waved one leg frantically only for his other three to begin sinking.

Aw great, it doesn't look like he's any help this battle.

Cress very quickly saw the situation his partner was in and the Milotic quickly swam his way across the field, struggling through the viscous ground, if it could be described as such. He picked the Turtwig up and Acer struggled onto his back. The Milotic moved in slow circles, constantly climbing free of the sinking ground as Acer found a comfortable perch. Cress slithered to Serrin's side at one point, offering the Ivysaur a place on his back as well.

Meanwhile, Acer was enjoying finally being able to see and do something, and he took aim at the Mightyena. He shook his head and several Razor Leaves came off the sprout on his head in the direction of the Mightyena when he saw a clear shot- the Smeargle had dived and rolled to the side.

((-1))



Zero was blissfully ignorant of the happenings of the world around him, his memories having lulled him to a time of pleasant deep sleep, a time when he had still been an eevee under the care of his adoptive parents, Shard and Valkist.

He was completely limp in the paralysis of sleep, barely twitching as he was caught by Epitaph.