Orre Academy IC

[NatsumeHack]

Beatrix sat on the folding chair as the teacher continued her lesson she had started before she came into class. Beatrix wasn't much for sitting down and listening, that made her a bit nervous, so she began to let her mind wounder, as she look over the people in the classroom, she would get to know as her classmates. One thing that bugged her has she looked was that her Duskull was missing. "Where did haunt wounder off to?" She thought to herself. Remembering how she met that Pokemon a few years back.

(please due note, I plan on explaining how she got the other two Pokemon as well, and that Beatrix has a strange way of remembering things. She tends to remember it, like it was a narrator is telling her what happen.
Hence why it's third person)

It was a day like many others, her parents had brought her along on a expedition, given her situation at the time, it was not the best idea. They could have easily mistaken her, for a wild Pokemon if she transformed, sure her eyes would tip them off...hopfully, but her parents...to put it lightly, wasn't the best for details at there first look...or second...or ever. If this was a game of DnD(Dungeons and Dragonites) they would have minus ten and all there spot check rolls. She kinda wounder why they even become Archaeology in the first place.

Aside from that little problem with her parents, they never really did watch keep a eye on her. Sure there was more then just the three of them there, but even then Beatrix had a way of sneaking off on her own, and well...we already know how that went when she was ten, and she fell into that room. Yeah it didn't end to well, for her at all. Now this time, was a bit different, her parents did tell her to not split from the rest of the group, which she didn't listen, and went off by her self deeper into the twisting pathways of the Ancient ruins.

As she walked further and further in, she got lost. This wasn't so bad, it could be far worst. She could easily trigger some kinda trap, and get chase by a giant boulder like in some movie. So if you are wounding how she finds her way out, this is what happens. She cried out for her parents, which got no response. The thought of her being lost in these ruins made her begin to cry. Until she felt something, or someone watching her. She Wiped her eyes, and looked around. She called out "Mom, dad is that you?" once she was not given a reply back.

She still felt like she was being watch, so she began to walk, hoping it would go away. She didn't walk that far, in her way was a dead end.She took a deep breath to try to clam herself down, it was not like she was in any danger, nothing has lived in the ruins for a long time. They were empty old dusty ruins, it could give even the bravest of explorers the creeps if they was adventurer alone inside. As she turned around to once again begin her journey to try to get out of the ruins, until she heard a sound. She froze up right on the spot, it was like she was a giant block of ice. As she slowly gain the courage to turn around, she came face to face with a floating skull, and she fell backwards as she screamed out in terror.


She hit the ground with a thump, her eyes were closed, not to look at the thing that scared her. To her surprise she heard a snickering, and she slowly opened her eyes. When she did she got a better look at what frighten her, it wasn't a floating skull at all, but a Duskull. "Whats the big Idea scaring me?" She said as she got up, and look very pissed. The Duskull just snickered, and began floating it's way down the hallway they was in. Beatrix Ran after it, following it every move until. It led her to her parents, who upon seeing her not only hugged her buy scolded her for running off. The Duskull the floated around Still snickering at her.

From then on, the Duskull has just followed her around where ever she went, Be it to the local mart, or at the current place she called home. It never missed a beat, and always loved pulling pranks on her. After some time Beatrix Gave it the name haunt, because of it's strange obsession with following her around, like it was haunting her. She had tried to get catch it in a Pokeball a few times, but it would always just phase pass a wall, or in a floor to dodge it.

Beatrix snapped out of her little day dream, she didn't realized that class was already over. She just sat there with a black stare for a few seconds. She heard the commotion going on outside the classroom in the hall, as she got up and went to see what was happening, Haunt popped out of the wall, scaring her again. It just snickered, and floated around her head. She got up, and dusted herself off, walking into the hall way. As people would would agreeing to help someone on something. "Ok...." Having no idea what she was getting into, she just followed the group, like Haunt would follow her.

As she went with the group to where ever they was headed. When they got there they all met some stranger. Beatrix couldn't put his finger on it, but the stranger seemed familiar in some way. It really bugged her, but she put it to the back of the mind, as the stranger threw up a bunch of Pokeballs. All different kinds of Pokemon came out, but the one that appeared to her was a Houndour, just something was off about it. She once again couldn't put her finger on what, but it really didn't matter, it really look ferocious, and ready to rip apart anything in it's way.

(Anyway Done with the post, I make a battle post next time. )

[Imperfectionist]

This was it. Albert knew there was a fight coming up, and he was ready. Whenever Lily battled, she usually sent him out first, as speed was his specialty. He couldn’t take a hit, but if he was faster than his opponent (which he very often was), he could get in a super-strong first move. Even if, after that, he was taken out in a single hit, there was sure to be a serious dent in his opponent, which Shiva could exploit to gain a win. The shifty man was running away, and they could have given chase, but their path was blocked by several menacing Pokemon, all of them itching for a fight. Albert was only too happy to oblige.

Lily was about to take off after the man, but a large Dratini was released in front of her, necessitating Albert and Shiva to do something about it. “Once again,” she thought, “these Pokemon look terrible. Dratini usually move in an aquatic fashion, even on land, but this one… We just have to capture as many of them as we can. Surely someone at the Academy has more experience than I do with tortured souls like these…” Albert shot up into the air in front of her, ending her internal monologue, and she told him to remember that Dratini was a Dragon, and as such had almost no weaknesses. He just needed to use Psychic, and try to get as much as he could out of it. The words barely left her lips before Albert had his spoon up, pointing it at the offending Dragon and lashing it with raw mental power. It reeled back, its movements a little more sluggish, but it quickly recovered, countering with a surprising burst of Agility, followed by one of the strangest Draconic attacks: Dragon Rage. Possibly enhanced by whatever darkness was affecting it, the Dratini shot a shockwave of pure anger at Albert, hitting the Kadabra in the chest and knocking it out of the air.

He wasn’t about to go down that easily, however. Though probably fatigued, Albert thrashed the Dragon with another Psychic, bringing it to what seemed to be the edge of its endurance. His opponent played a bit smarter than he expected, however, when without much of a recovery period it charged up and slammed him, full body. The Kadabra wasn’t prepared for such an attack, and went flying, crashing into a nearby tree. Lily cringed, and quickly took out his rarely-used Pokeball to bring him inside, knowing that he would be safer in there until he could be revived.

Shiva nearly instantly took his fallen comrade’s place, facing the Dratini with a snarl on his face. Lily decided that, based on the Growlithe’s capabilities, there was nothing better than the basics: a bite. Shiva, after dodging another full-body slam, bit down mercilessly on the Dragon’s midsection. Lily had a Pokeball at the ready, and as soon as Shiva had attacked, she threw it, praying that it wouldn’t be strong enough to burst out. Sadly, the thought had barely crossed her mind when, surprise surprise, it did. It was still very weak, but seemed strong enough to continue fighting, even managing to shoot of another blast of Rage at Shiva, pushing the latter back a ways, but leaving him otherwise unfazed. Concerned, Lily brought out and threw an Ultra Ball, a parting gift from her father just in case she ran into something rare and exciting while at the Academy. The closed ball shook around for several seconds, and Lily held her breath, but finally, it beeped, and was still. She let out a huge sigh and returned her attention to the Trainers around her. “There’s no way to catch the distributor now,” she thought, “but at least we know we can help some of these tortured Pokemon.” This gave her a bit of hope, and she looked down at the closed Ultra Ball with a new resolve. “I will help you,” she said quietly. “I promise.”

[Draconilian]

It seemed the other Trainers around him were somehow able to "recapture" the Pokemon sent out by the suspicious man, not wanting to leave a dangerous opponent able to recover, he threw an ordinary Pokeball (he had some spares) at the unconscious Scyther, and it worked just fine. "Definitely odd... we need to find out what's up with these Pokemon." he muttered. He got 'Tasha's Pokeball out too (it had the name scratched in the top, Aaron's did too.) and brought back his other Pokemon. Aaron was laying on the ground, watching the proceedings, apparently too weak from his injury to move much. The Grovyle had licked up the blood and the bleeding had mostly stopped, but there was still a strange glow around the injury. A faint purple aura over his shoulder. "I gotcha buddy." his trainer picked him back up and carried him in his arms.

Aaron loved his trainer, of course all Pokemon do, but Aaron had the special kind of love that only comes after having hate. He was extremely independent, especially for a starter. When Terry's uncle finally decided it was time to give his nephew a Pokemon, he had just taken a random three from the Hoenn starter stock. Terry chose the gecko Pokemon, and as soon as they met, Terry found out the relationship would need some... work. Aaron wouldn't listen to his trainer. For his whole life, Terry believed Pokemon just didn't understand English, but his uncle assured him this wasn't true.

"Pokemon understand everything you say to them, captured or not. They can understand each other perfectly too, it's one of the mysteries of life."
"So this one just doesn't want to listen to me? I'll learn to get along with him then."
"Alright then, some trainers give their Pokemon names, some just call them by the species name, what about you?"
"Dunno, I'll come up with a name eventually."
That night, after some deliberation, Terry decided to call his Treecko Aaron. There was no particular meaning to the name. He just liked it. With a pocket knife he scratched the name into the Pokeball. Which he would ironically abandon almost entirely about a week later.

[NatsumeHack]

The Houndour stared at Beatrix with a ferocious look, showing it teeth and growling. Beatrix slowly reached for one of her pokeballs. If one was to ask Beatrix why she didn't use her Duskull. She would respond with that it doesn't follow her orders, and just float around following her. She didn't know the real reason behind why it did what it did, it just seem to do what it wants. Beatrix even kept a spare Pokeball on her at all times, just encase she finds a good time to capture her little flying menace.

Feeling the ball with her hand, she grabs it just as the Houndour is getting ready to attack. Beatrix Throws out her pokeball, watching it, as the houndour begins to charge at her. The Ball fly's threw the air hitting the charging Houndour in the face, and stopping it's attack. When the ball lands, it open releasing a Eevee. The Eevee looks around and yawns lazily laying down on the grass under it's feet. "Eight!" Beatrix call out to her Eevee who Lifted it's head up toward her direction.


The Houndour Look at the Eevee and gave another growl. "Eight use Tackle on!" With out hesitation the Eevee got up on it's feet, and begin to run toward the houndour gaining speed as it got closer. The Houndour watch the Eevee as it closed in, quickly opening it's mouth as it was just a moment away, and releasing a smog attack at it. The Eevee followed though with it's attack, Charging though the smog, and inhaling some as it did. It popping out the other side and tacking the Houndour, bring both pokemon to the ground.

As the Eight fell to the ground with the houndour, it begin coughing as the poison of the Smog it inhaled began to take it's effect. Seeing A opening, the houndour landed on it's feet, and a strange dark arua sounding the houndour, it Charged as if it was going to tackle, but at a faster speed then Beatrix has seen a pokemon run at. by the time any command left beatrix mouth the houndour hit Eight with it's move sending it flying at Beatrix.

Beatrix catches her Eevee in her hands, kissing it on the head. " Good job Eight." She winks at it, and puts it's back in it's ball. Looking at the houndour it looks even more pissed off then before. The strange arua still surrounding it, as it got ready to charge beatrix again. Beatrix quickly throws out her other pokeball, releasing a Ditto. Who upon seeing the houndour Transforms into it with out even being commanded to.

"Fake use Ember!" Beatrix shouts as she points at the houndour charging. Fake shoots embers at it, but they seem to do almost nothing as the Houndour keeps charging. The hourdour was mostly ignoring the fake, and was aiming for Beatrix herself. She had to think of something fast, or else she was going to be hurt. Then she like a light bulb turning on, she thought of it. "FAKE BITE IT AS IT PASSES YOU!" It does just that, as the houndour was passing fake, it jumped at it biting the houndour on the neck. This time taking it down for now, and ending the battle.

Beatrix returns her ditto to it's pokeball, and walks over to the downed houndour. She didn't know what she was going to do, she wanted to do what she saw the other trainers do, and capture it, but at the same time she didn't want to use her last, and only spare pokeball, which she was keeping for haunt. Beatrix pondered what to do, and gave in, she took out her last pokeball and threw it catching the houndour. Sighing beatrix looked at the pokeball with held the houndour. "I should really keep more pokeballs on me." She said as she looked around at the other people still in there battles.

[ChrisShuzen]

Chris approached the trio. "Soo... I'm guessing that you guys won? Nice strategy if you ask me..." Chris pointed at Beatrix. "Especially you. You did exceptionally well. I'm Christopher Aurea Shuzen... But everyone calls me CAS." He said sharply, his facial expression had an unusual smile, something about her was different, and Chris was curious about who she was. "A ditto? Quite a smart move there if you ask me, have it shape into another pokemon of yours, an allie's or enemy. Quite a nice pokemon if you ask me." He said feeling awful at small talk. "As for these other ... Things... I'd try to take them to the infirmary to get them checked out, because if these are the shadow pokemon I read about when I was younger. Than there is deffinatly somthing going on. I also think they should know what is going on..." He said with a sigh.

Chris Turned to Terry, curious about how he felt about the situation. "What are your thoughts on all this Shadow pokemon? Don't you think they are kind of odd being here? Because I thought most if not all kind of disappeared or taken elsewhere. Also... I think Class is going to start soon, so... Where are we heading?" Chris somewhat stretched out to crack his limbs to ease tension he felt in his body. "I'm curious, where did you get your pokemon before all his if I may ask? Moon here was once my dad's pokemon." He looked down at his Espeon.

[DEMoGorgon47]

(*Cracks knuckles* Catch up post time)

Dante and the group of trainers walked briskly to the Forest Reserve, a location that at any other time Dante would most likely have tried to convince the group to go exploring in. However, they were on a mission, and as distracted as he may have been in school, once Dante had his interest on something, it was hard to get it off, and this strange situation had his interest.

They arrived at the archway to the Forest, where the man stood. He looked relatively normal, despite being older than the students and lacking the professional air of the professors, the only oddity was a mysterious yellow scarf that stuck out and up from behind his neck. At the sight of the particularly large group of trainers, the man immediately paniced. Hardly saying a few words, he haphazardly released several Pokeballs, all containing Pokemon that seemed to be as savage as the Kirlia from earlier.

Infront of Dante, a Gible appeared. The normally wide-eyed Gible was now had dark, bright yellow eyes with sinister red irises. Around him, his comrades were engulfed in similar engagments with similarly sinister Pokemon. "Well, guess I can't be the only one standing around," Dante said with a laugh. "Go Charolette! Let's take care of this!" Dante flipped his wrist, throwing a Luxury Ball. In a flash appeared a Mincinno, staring down the monsterous Gible.

The Gible moved first, charging forward surrounded by an evil purple-black aura. Mincinno deftly dodged, its speed far superior to that of a Gible. "Tail Slap Charolette!" With a squel, the Mincinno struck the Gible's exposed back, beating it to the maximum amount with its hardened tail.

Enraged, the Gible swung around, aiming to bite the tail of the attacker. But Gible's are clumsy sorts, and it stumbled over its own maw, and Charolette's tail narrowly escaped being lopped off. "One more time Charolette, Tail Slap!"

Mincinno let out another yell, and unleashed another volley of attacks upon the Gible, the final blow sending it flying backwards and landing upon its stomach. Satisfied, Dante noticed around him that the other trainers were "recapturing" these Pokemon. Not wanting to miss out, Dante threw his Luxury Ball at the Gible, and with a satistying Ping, captured the tiny brute.

Retreiving his prize, Dante walked over to the group, who had finished their battles, and said, "So, that was different. It seems the creep who was giving these Pokemon out go away though... Is everyone alright?"

[Imperfectionist]

As the boy who identified himself as CAS gave a short, kind of awkward speech, he mentioned something that made Lily slap her palm to her forehead, and burst out “Of course! Shadow Pokemon! That has to be it: these Pokemon have been transformed into Shadow Pokemon. I remember, several years ago, Professor Oak showed me a film, a kind of documentary about Wes and Michael, these two kids here in Orre who, several years apart, took on this evil organization called Cipher and purified all of the Shadow Pokemon the team had created. I knew I had seen something like these Pokemon before… From what I know, though, there haven’t been any sightings of Cipher or Shadow Pokemon since then, and that was quite a while ago… Guys, this could be very, very bad. We shouldn’t have let that dude get away…”

“Um, and yes, I agree, we need to take them back to the school, but not necessarily to the infirmary. In the film, there was a scientist called Professor... Krane? Something like that, and anyway, he helped Michael along in his journey… We need to contact him, tell him what we’ve found. Maybe he’d be able to help us!”As she descended deep into thought, trying to determine the best way to handle the situation and get in touch with Prof. Krane, Dante walked up. “Ahem, I’m fine, though Albert was knocked out in the fight… Tell me, Dante, all of you really, did you notice anything specific on that guy? Anything that we could use to identify him? I’m trying to think, but I can’t come up with anything…”

[DEMoGorgon47]

Dante listened as Lily gave her own speech. Silently Dante was impressed, this girl knew her stuff. Dante had learned much from Drayden, Iris, Cynthia, and Alder, but they had only briefly touched upon the Shadow Pokemon incident with him. It had been almost 7 years since the remnants of Team's Snaggem and Cipher were last scene, and with their vanishments the Shadow Pokemon also vanished.

"Tell me, Dante, all of you really, did you notice anything specific on that guy? Anything that we could use to identify him? I’m trying to think, but I can’t come up with anything…” Lily asked, pulling Dante out of his deep thought.

"Well," he said, recalling the brief glimpse he had of the stranger. "He did have a strange yellow scarf. It seemed to stick out from behind his neck in a very rigid fashion, though it still moved with the natural bob of his body."

[Draconilian]

"Shadow Pokemon..." Terry absentmindedly scratched Aaron on the head (dang, extremely violent and independent Pokemon, well I already have one of those... obviously these are different. Far stronger than normal, for one thing) The trainer sighed with something resembling weariness. "We need to get a way to contain these Pokemon and find out what they are capable of first. They are clearly stronger than normal, my buddy here needs some first aid fast," He glanced down at Aaron "What should we do as far as other students? Not everyone at the school has Pokemon, and, like Bobby here, they might be tricked into taking one by one of these thugs from... Cipher was it? And that isn't even getting into the more mean spirited trainers who may take one knowing they are messed up and use it simply for it's power." Terry needed to dash to his dorm, and fast, he had more than enough supplies there, and he also needed to contact his uncle, perhaps lend him the Scyther to see if he could discern anything, or see if he could locate a local expert.

"Guys, classes can wait, but I need to dash to my room, I'll find out what I can and when you all learn something, hold on." He gently put down his Grovyle and dug in his backpack for a scrap of paper and a pencil, scribbling in seven digits "Here's my phone number, contact me when anything important happens." Terry got his stuff together and got his partner in his arms again and started off

"Wait!"
"eh?" Terry spun around again, it was Bobby who called to him.
"You seem to care a lot about your Pokemon, take the Kirlia that guy gave me and see if you can help it, I'll get myself a normal Pokemon." Bobby tossed him the unmarked Pokeball that the Shadow Kirlia was in, and Terry had to make an effort to catch it while holding a 20 Kilogram Pokemon with him. "Will do,"

And then he ran off back to his dorm at the campus.

[ChrisShuzen]

Chris was feeling slightly fatigued but did not question Terry or what he was doing. He remembers hearing about Wes, very vague to him, but he was going to research him later, and this "Michael" person. "I'm going to go to class. I'll catch you guys later." Chris simply stretched out, cracking his joints somewhat. He than began to walk off, the sun somewhat messing with his eyes, he practically cracked his nose right into a wall. "Shit..." He sighed and panted, his nose was not bleeding much, but it was quite frustrating. He sighed as he went back to the nurse, after the bleeding was stopped. He went to his class late with a pass, he was excused for the most part, but the teacher could not help but chuckle at his small injury. Oh the humiliation he felt... Moon simply just watched, keeping his eyes open for Chris, that way he does not collide with another wall or person.