Dark and Gloomy

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(Energy - 12. You don't get to see my math.)

Sova peered into the dark canyon before him, unable to see the bottom. Why were they doing this again? Oh, yes, because Mirage is a vampire. Of course they had to be passing by the Black Spear mountains when the complaints about the sunlight started. For some reason, the glaceon felt compelled to fix this problem his friend was having. The darkest place he knew of was the big bottomless hole in the mountain range; the Obsidian Crevice.

He kicked a rock down into the crevice and listened. While it quickly faded from vision, he could hear it bounce and roll down, deeper and deeper, until it got too far away to be audible. It didn't sound like it was intending to stop soon.... "Here's your darkness. Happy now?" He asked to the zorua as he took a careful step down the rather steep slope.

If he still had his old Anticipation ability, he would be risking falling just from the shivers.

The fake just barely avoided Mirage's attack, stumbling back onto the ground in its struggle to not be hit.  Before it could get up, Mirage was already up and ready to attack yet again, this time certain to hit as it had no time to get up and run or prepare another attack.  However, there was something much more worrisome to the copy, a female Meowstic.

The copy-zorua's ears flattened and it moaned in displeasure as red mist began swirling around it, shrouding it from view.  When the mist subsided, another of the feline creatures was sitting on the ground where the "zorua" once was.  This one was clearly different from the one standing over it, being Male its coloration was inverted and it had a few minor aesthetic differences outside of colors as well.  "Don't look at me like that....I said I was going out for a while, didn't I?"  He asked to the other, upset looking cat thing.

Sova tilted his head and slowly approached what was now evident as the real Mirage, trying to avoid the duo of Meowstics. He wasn't sure whether or not they were going to attack. "You alright, Mirage?" He asked to the zorua.

The zorua watched as the fake finally revealed itself, she was relieved that the whole mess of who was who was over, at least for now. She gave a sigh of relief, but anger surged over her again, she didn't even get to tear their face off!
"Fine," she huffed, her fur rising in anger as she glared at the male meowstic with a stronger glare of hatred than the female meowstic's.
"You were supposed to be BABYSITTING!" The female huffed, "Do you have any idea where I found our son? NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THIS HELLHOLE! I swear its like you don't even care!"

(House Orb)

Kat carried out 10 launched of one Obsidian Crevice :

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Upon overhearing mention of presumably an espurr found lower in the crevice, Sova pretended he had NOT just heard that. It seemed for some odd reason to be very....familiar. "Well, that was....definitely an experience." He joked to Mirage, hoping to calm her down a bit.

The male meowstic was clearly feeling the piercing glares of women, looking very nervous. He stood to his feet and brushed himself off, hoping to be able to look calm and presentable. "He ran off on me! I can't watch him if he never listens to me." He insisted in an attempt to defend himself.

"Then you should earn yourself some respect as a father! Raise your voice! Smack his behind if you need to!" the wife of the apparent couple spoke.

Mirage only watched, wondering if she should jump and attack them now or wait until they were both unaware of her existence. The urge to fight growing stronger...and stronger...just what was going on? Why was she suddenly feeling so violent? She shifted uncomfortably, knocking into Sova on accident and causing an orb to fly from his bag, and smash against the ground...A House Orb.

Suddenly, the group was surrounded by a massive amount of pokemon.
A zweilous blinked, of the massive group he had been the one with a strange badge tied onto him. The two heads zeroed in on Mirage, "Stop right there!" The zweilous shouted, "POLICE! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST MIRAGE THE ZORUA!"

"Why me? You're so much better at being mean, I don't like having to-" The evident husband began, but was cut off by a sudden spike in the amount of pokemon in the area. A very, very large and worrisome spike.

Sova noticed Mirage's odd behavior and decided to ask about it. "Are you sure you're alr-" He stopped as the orb hit the ground and summoned what his mind immediately registered as their deaths. Immediately, he looked for a way out, but there was none. There were enemies all around, and evidently, they were police.

"THIS IS NOT MIRAGE. This is....ANOTHER ZORUA." Sova shouted back to the zweilous in an attempt to throw it off, at least temporarily.

"As if.." the zweilous spoke, "She's the same height, has the earrings in the same exact position the outlaw wears them, and is wearing s joy ribbon, now step aside or we'll arrest you...look there's even Bonnie and Clyde, looks like we got ourselves a good catch tonight boys!" it huffed in anger, the other cops getting ready to attack.

"Oh now look what you've gotten us into!" the female huffed, pointing to the army of police, "You better help this time instead of running off!" she hissed before turning to face the police.

Mirage thought quickly, not wanting Sova to get himself into danger over her, "Pfft, really? You'll arrest him? The poor sucker isn't even doing this on his own will! He's all under my control~" Mirage rubbed against the Glaceon's chest, trying to make it convincing, "The move Attract is a rather powerful force you know?"

"You better not get any ideas short snack or i'll tear you to bits" Mirage whispered to Sova with a demonic voice.

Incoming Monster House! Contains the Following Pokemon: Klefki, Drapion, 3 Zweilous, 3 Deino, 4 Espurr, Sableye, Skorupi, and 2 Carbink

"I told you, I didn't run, I....never mind." The male sighed and prepared to fight. How would he even run anyways? There were far too many police to run from. "It seems they're in trouble too. Maybe an alliance would serve both parties well, what do you think?" He asked as he pointed to the zorua and glaceon.

Sova tilted his head at the zorua's words, a bit confused at first, but quickly gathering what she was going for. "This is not attract....It is merely my love for you." He spoke in a tired-sounding voice, in an attempt to show his lack of free will due to the "Attract." Though his words were ironic in that they were true, not that anyone there would realize that, so the words would work just the same.... He wondered if even Mirage would ever realize.

Mirage counted off the pokemon that had approached them, Klefki, Drapion, 3 Zweilous, 3 Deino, 4 Espurr, Sableye, Skorupi, and 2 Carbink. 16 Pokemon huh? and there was four of them, so they could easily split the opponents up by four and take them down, assisting the others if they were to finish their set early. The 4 espurr advanced first, holding out their paws and attempting to use a psychic move, Mirage reacted quickly and fired a quick burst of a Dark Pulse at them horizontally and hit all four of them, but did not knock them out. The drapion advanced upon her quickly while she was distracted, and swung one of its large ogre like arms at her, knocking her to the side.

Meanwhile, the zweilous and deinos seemed to be advancing on Sova while the rest ganged up on Bonnie and Clyde.

Sova turned to assist Mirage, but was instead met with an army of flower dinosaur things. "Oh, good." He commented sarcastically as he froze his fur into a spike coat. Immediately, a flurry of purple electrified beams were summoned from the mouths of the three deinos. He'd managed to avoid two of them, but the third made contact and the feeling was quite different from a normal Special attack. Normally he could take a special hit well, but this one....it felt like it burned right through him. He felt like an eevee again for a second.

Luckily, the attack its self wasn't powerful enough to knock the glaceon off his feet and he was able to continue to charge into the swarm of flowersaurus'. He carefully positioned himself with one constantly between him and the others so they couldn't attack him all at once without hitting their allies, firing Ice Beams at them while using Quick Attack to make himself very difficult to hit.

Clyde immediately moved to protect his other half rather than being offensive, creating a sparkling barrier around both of them as well as the zorua and glaceon, Safeguarding them against status effects. Just in time as the skorupi moved in to attack with its Toxic stinger.

Bonnie began to glow a bright light as she and her husband was surrounded by foes, she provided light for the two allies, and practically blinded those near her but her husband. She was struck with the poisonous stinger, but remained strong as she burrowed her way into the ground.

Mirage, meanwhile was having difficulties fighting against the large Drapion. The large poison and dark type swung its arms, attempting to strike her, and she managed to only just dodge with each swing. She prepared to fire a Shadow Ball directly into its face, but something strange struck her once more.
A familiar cry flowed throughout the area and memories began rushing through her mind once more. She recoiled from the attack and was struck by the drapion. She attempted to recover, but was only struck again, and again, and again...

The four espurr had grouped together to use Disarming Cry, messing with the Zorua's mind. The urge for violence grew, and grew, and grew. A red mist began to surround her, the drapion flailed faster, fearing it to be another attack. The drapion was wrong however, as the zorua glowed a bright white that matched the Meowstic's flash.

Her form grew, and changed. Her tail disappeared and the tuft on her head grew longer and longer until a bead held the hair together. Her snout grew longer and more pointed, and her limbs stretched out more and more.

The drapion's arms were reaching out to grab the zorua, and stop this strange attack, but instead its claws were met with the hands of a Zoroark. Mirage's eyes were wide and her pupils thin, anger obvious as she pushed back against the Drapion's strength. She had the element of surprise, as she threw the drapion aside and her claws became cloaked in darkness, slashing into its soft underbelly and rendering it incapable of movement with ease.

The new Mirage gave a loud bellow that was mixed between a scream of rage and a howl, as she charged towards the unsuspecting espurr, using the new move Night Slash on them as well to end their song of horrors.

Clyde created a Shadow Ball in one of his hands and threw it at the skorupi to garner its attention, using Mean Look once it was staring at him to prevent it from running from him and chasing Bonnie. As it scuttled to him to attack, he created another Shadow Ball in his hand and slapped the skorupi across the face with it, knocking it to the ground. Knowing he only needed to stall long enough for Bonnie to prepare for an attack, he turned to face the two carbinks and the living keychain known as klefki, creating two more of the shadowy balls of energy, one in each hand. The enemies hesitated to attack, seemingly waiting for the meowstic to engage.

Sova's attack on the rose-dragon crossbreeds was halted by a sudden flash of light. The area was now illuminated....what a nice surprise. However, a much less pleasant surprise soon followed in the form of a familiar sound. He wasn't the one being targeted, it seemed, but the collective Disarming Voice was still enough to freeze him in place with fear as thoughts of his apparent darker split personality began to surface yet again. However, these thoughts were quickly put to rest as a purple misty breath from one of the zweilous' covered him, burning him until he collapsed.

As the glaceon struggled to recover, another zweilous had slammed its body into him, knocking him into the last zweilous, who slammed a tail extended with glowing blue energy into him. This attack hit with more force than most, knocking him far back and tumbling to the ground. He could have stood back up, but it was evident at this point that the second he stood up, he would be knocked around again. Just as he was about to accept his fate and stand back up, he felt his consciousness wavering. He could have resisted it, but he knew he had no hope of fighting, not in his current state.

"Alright....take over....just don't hurt Mirage." He thought to himself as he, for the first time, willingly let the malevolent side of him come out to play.

The disarming cries were silenced, as Mirage knocked out the espurr after a few more Night Slashes. She turned quickly, lashing out at the nearest opponent, which was a Zweilous that had strayed from its group to let the others have fun. She attacked from behind, smashing the two heads into the ground leaping off of it into another Zweilous, interrupting the Glaceon Tennis game. The zoroark clashed into the other Zweilous, and tore at it with Night Slash while it attacked back at her, using various moves to try to throw her off. It failed, as it finally decided it had reached its limits and collapsed.

"Sova", or what ever the glaceon was now, raised his head and stood to his feet with a familiar sadistic, insane smile on his face. The symbol that he was officially off his rocker. The only difference between this time and the others was that he had willingly allowed it to happen.... And now the newly evolved zoroark was stealing his fun.

Sounds. Footsteps. The glaceon turned his head to see the last zweilous attempting to charge him with Dragon Rush. Instead of attempting to avoid, he spun, lifted himself onto his front paws and slammed his tail on its two heads, knocking it to the ground and allowing it to slide past him. As it struggled to stand, a deino charged forward towards the glaceon and attempted to Bite him, but was met with an Ice Beam into its open maw. It attempted to stop as it was now struggling to breathe, but its neck was grabbed in the mouth of the glaceon as it was spun around him and flung into the zweilous, knocking them both out.

"Sova" immediately turned his head in the direction of the last two deinos, who, despite their fear, attempted to attack him by firing purple shockwaves from their mouths. Using Quick Attack, he easily avoided the Dragon Rage and was in the faces of the two deinos in moments, his grin growing wider in anticipation. One turned to flee, while the other attempted to bite him, only to have its body be punctured by a flurry of frozen fur spikes from the glaceon's chest. It collapsed to the ground in pain, not yet unconscious, and he left it as it was, feeling more content letting it suffer than knocking it out.

The last deino didn't get far before "Sova" was in its face, using Quick Attack to get in front of it. It recoiled back and fell on its side from surprise, terrified of the look on the glaceon's face. He quietly laughed an odd maniacal laugh before firing an Ice Beam that continued until most of the deino's body was frozen. He then began surveying the area for something else to hurt.

It seemed that there were no more targets for the off-the-rocker Glaceon, as the Klefki and Carbinks had been taken down by the Meowstic, and the skorupi had met Mirage's Night Slash.

The freshly evolved Zoroark stood on its bipedal legs, surveying the area, every police member was knocked out, and very few were likely to remember what had happened judging from the bumps on their heads. Mirage huffed, glaring at the drapion before returning to all four legs.

The meowstics seemed to resume their argument, the female pointing at the amount of officers and seemed to be scolding the male even more. Mirage looked to Sova, waiting for him to say or do something and thinking that the psycho smile was part of his act to look like he was under the spell of attract.

Sova's gaze eventually landed on the zoroark.  Even in the wrecked state of mind he was in, he could recall that there was previously a zorua with him, not a zoroark.  His crazy smile faded to a rather blank and emotionless look, bored if anything, as he remembered he was not to harm Mirage.  This was the deal.  He would honor it, partly for the worry of being switched back out with his weak, pathetic side more quickly.

He approached the newly evolved zoroark, making no effort to act how "Sova" normally would.  "If you're done here, keep up."  He said bluntly, clearly not caring to even try to be nice, as he set off in a random direction looking as if he knew where he was going.