Damien Shay: Cypress Rest: Gastly Encounter

[Tarlar]

Gastly [LV 16] is playing tricks on you!


Encountered here

[Lamont]

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His pause at the sight of the foreboding terrain made him run a comforting hand down the chikorita's back. The ranger looked a few ways, squinting at the distant illuminated shapes from his headlamp. With only a mild bit of lip biting, Damien was about to press on when a distinct whiff of smoke would hit him.

Eyes widening, his head snapped around to try and find any other signal of where the fire was. His motions twitched with heightened urgency.
"Where..?" Before he could get another word out before the sound picked up and light caught his attention. The oddity of the occurrence wasn't even registered in his brain before he was spinning on his heel to face the opposite direction and making to run. He didn't make it more than two steps before finding himself surrounded by smoke and dancing light. Damien quickly opened a flap of his jacket and did the best he could to protect her from the aggressive elements as the polluted air scratched his own throat. He didn't have enough hands to protect himself and the sick grass type.

"Turret!" he coughed, prompting his companion to pop to life at his side. The wartortle didn't need to be told anything. The cloud stung his eyes the moment he was out of his pokéball. A stream of water erupted from his mouth toward the building flames. It both did and didn't have the effect they were expecting. The fire and smoke disappeared but only as a ghastly orb passed over with a ring of laughter. Everything returned to the normal gloom of twilight Ilex as quick as the disturbance had come.

Though, it seemed the dark spirit wasn't done. After a loud complaint from the turtle, who's fist pumped the air scolding the mischievous ghost, Gastly presented them with what seemed to be a portal. Damien's brow furrowed in suspicion, the words of the lake spirit rattling in his mind.
"I think you've had enough laughs at my expense." His voice only wavered at the edges as he faced down Gastly. The portal disappeared. The large eyes glinting back at the ranger didn't seem intimidated. Damien shifted uncomfortably, the chikorita still obscured in obvious fashion behind one side of his coat as if that would now protect it from the in their midst. "Are you done?" His answer would come in the form of more phantoms.

Witnessing the spectacle of translucent figures working around them was off-putting to say the least. Even Turret seemed a little less bold as they moved about.
"They're just illusions..." he began, a bit softly. His courage came back to him after hearing his own words. "Just like the last things. Turret," the two met in an affirmative gaze. Though, as his partner stepped forward Damien couldn't help but notice the watery ripples that were left in the wake of his steps. His first thought was just another trick. The ranger resumed his full attention on the spirit, glaring a bit in rising annoyance. Sure enough, a sudden downpour began rattling against his hat.

"In the cover of the forest this thick? If you want water we've got plenty." This was a silly scare compared to the others the gastly had shown them. His arms weren't even wet after the watery pellets contacted.

Before he could get too cocky though one of the lumbering Jacks got a bit close. A luminescent axe swept up out of the corner of his eye and startled him. He stumbled unprepared to the side, tripping over his own feet. Twisting as he fell he landed on his back with a splash of both light and water. Turret's focus changed from their unwanted guest back to his trainer and the luxio that had been released.
"War?" the water type called. Damien didn't respond immediately.
"It's wet." The statement was flat. The boy took a second to compute as Gastly's fake rain still pelted him. The water now surrounding him lapped and rushed. "No... Turret! No more water." Damien sat up, a bit pained from the fall, and found himself staring at his next problem: an agitated electric feline standing in a pool of real water.

Andromeda growled her displeasure. First at Damien for calling her out into this, but Turret drew her attention and pointed at Gastly. She hissed loudly and a crackling noise emanated from her body. The ranger barely had any time. Andromeda leapt after the ghost. Damien secured the sick pokemon in his arms and got to his knees, turning himself toward the near cliffside in a half-blind hope there was an incline that would take him out of the flooded area.

Word Count:   780
BIKE: OFF

(( Turret out, switched with Andromeda & using Spark. Adding 600 words to incubator. ))

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[Tarlar]

the gastly laughed manically as Damien fell to his butt with a splash, it whirled around always facing them as it watched Turret and Andromeda adjust to where they were. Turret was not as interesting as he had most of his attention at Damien, but Andormeda and Damien himself was another matter.
Shadows starting to drip into the water from the trees, for each cut the shadow lumberjacks did, they seeped to the ground like blood from a wound. They slowly spread and stretched towards the three (four if you included the chikorita) like long hungry arms. Turret got too close to one, although it mostly seemed like he was just accidently in the way rather than a target, it it felt like his foot was burning at the touch.
Another shadow stretched and curled gently around Damien's boot and a single thing shadow stretched out of the water and towards the chikorita, almost seeming curious. Damien could swat at it, if he hit any that part would disappear in a puff of smoke, but if he touched it with his bare skin, it would leave a burning tingling.

As Andromeda began to charge up, the water began to swirl around her. A bubble of water slowly build around her, and soon shadows followed, threatening to trap her inside a black globe of who knows what. The gastly had stopped laughing and was instead watching the bubble intently as more and more shadows crept over and began to fill all the water. Even some of the ghost workers was slowly pulled over as if a current moved them, they kept working as if they still stood in front of their respective tree, while slowly spinning and sliding over the water.

Andromeda leaped and the shadow-water bubble wrapped around her, burning into her skin and trying to pull her down, but it was not enough. She broke through and snarling as she turned yellow from the electricity, the gastly had a curious look on its face and then she hit it. It disappeared in a puff of smoke, which hang lingering in the air only to be blown away slowly by the breeze.
The water slowly began to fall as it bubbled away to lower grounds, the shadows slowly disappeared down into the ground, and only a couple of ghosts remained, although they got more and more transparent and would soon disappear too.
In the distance they would be able to hear thunder.

Andromeda won easily and gets (800/2) 400 exp (1075/1951)
She also gains +1 Happiness (+6)


Turret learned something and also grows (800/2) 400 exp (837/2611)
He also gains +1 Happiness (+7)