Eerie Wood: Aphrodite's Evil Spirit Encounter!

[Caramell 🍬]

A restless duskull [Lv 17] attacks!
Encountered here
Mist will be in effect

[❤ Aphrodite ❤]

Aphrodite's warm amber eyes carefully took in the scenery surrounding her and her Pokemon. The forest was dark, lifeless, and eerie. "Well, this place really does live up to its name," Aphrodite spoke out in a quiet and shaky voice. She could not help, but to feel as if the hideous and mysterious forest is going to attempt to devour her and her Pokemon. "Alright everyone, remember to stay on guard!" Aphrodite ordered her Pokemon. The Kirlia walking next to her made sure to keep her natural eyes and her invisible eye open and alert. Despite the Chikorita being ill, it managed to keep its eyes open and somewhat alert at times, too.

After traveling a little further within the forest, Aphrodite and her Pokemon would soon hear a ghostly howl calling out to them. Aphrodite and her Pokemon would attempt to ignore the howl and remain focus on the main goal to break the curse and heal the cute grass-type Pokemon. Unfortunately, the forest would continue to grow even disruptive with the howling wind, the tree branches banging against each other, and earsplitting howls. "Ugh, I really do wish that we can break this curse a lot faster than this, I'm not a huge fan this forest at all," she added before coming to a quick stop. She wanted to make sure that there was not following them.

Surely enough, the moment she stopped in her tracks an unfamiliar figure would appear above her. "I have a feeling that something or someone was following us," she stated, jumping out of the way of the ghost Pokemon's reach. "Leave us alone!" she added. Kirlia had prepared herself to take on another ghost. However, a bright white light escaped from Aphrodite's Luxury Ball and Salem appeared on in front of the, "S-Salem?! I didn't call for you!" Aphrodite spoke out loud. The Mimikyu let out a quick chuckle before rushing towards the other Ghost Pokemon.

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Salem the Mimikyu used Shadow Sneak 2x.
Running shoes exhausted.

[Caramell 🍬]

Whether the evil spirit was a sentient being that hunted the sick and injured Pokemon, or simply a mindless zombie to its hunger may have been unknown. The strange ghost simply floated up high above them, stretching its arms out from its body in strange manners that seemed to float through tree branches and anything else in their way. The burning fire that created the Duskull’s eyes stared beyond Aphrodite and beyond the strange dressed-up Pokemon who wore a Pikachu doll atop itself as it searched for its prey. “Soooouullll!” It cried loudly with a deep guttural hiss.

Salem moved fast as shadows played across the open grassy path underneath his ethereal and hidden body. The long dark forms stretched out from across the ground in strange patterns and snaked their way up the tall bases of the nearby trees. Two shot like darts out at the Duskull, who floated in erratic patterns to try to dodge out of the way. Salem was too speedy – ungodly so, as a strange and dark force seemed to move with him as he attacked – and he slapped his opponent out of the ground. Duskull’s shrieking caused the forest itself to come to life with the terrible sounds of pain.

Thousands of ghosts of the dearly departed all screamed in unison as Salem smacked the other ghost with his attack. Though many were wordless, many more screamed unholy words of vengeance and some begged for mercy in their last moments of life. “Please, don’t do this. I have a family!” “But mommy…why!” “I’ll take you out before you take me out!” “What do you want? Money? Gold? Girls?! I can get whatever it is you’re looking for, just please…don’t do this!” “Whatever, courage. You won’t pull that switch. Pfft. Like you’re really that brave!”

Then everything turned black as though someone placed them in a carboard box and put the lid over the top. It only lasted for a brief second as Duskull worked quickly to cancel out Salem’s move. Then, the world would come back to normal – or whatever sense of normal it was before.

Wild Encounter

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Weather: Clear

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Duskull ♀ LV 17
HP 49% [19/39]

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Salem ♂ LV 17
HP 100% [50/50]

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Wild Duskull [Levitate]: Normal
Aphrodite's Salem [Disguise]: Normal

SP+ Salem used Shadow Sneak!
SP18 Duskull used Disable! Salem's Shadow Sneak was disabled!


Mod Note: When Aphrodite tries to select 'Shadow Sneak' from her Pokemon's moveset, a strange message stating, 'This move is disabled. Please choose another move' appears. Therefore, Running Shoes have not been exhausted.

[❤ Aphrodite ❤]

Aphrodite's moved the Chikorita's body closer towards her body when the disturbing voices echoed through the forest. "Uhh, don't listen to those voices! They're not real!" She called out to her Pokemon. She also spoke loudly to herself to keep herself somewhat sane through the craziness happening around her. Titania nodded her head and moved a little bit closer towards Aphrodite just in case any of the other ghosts hiding in the shadows decided to make a fast move on her.


"W-what's going on?" Aphrodite asked, noticing that everything around them went black for a few seconds. Luckily, it didn't last too long. Still, there was something bizarre lingering around them. "We have to finish this quick! Sha-..." Aphrodite was about to order Salem to use Shadow Sneak, but a mysterious voice in the back of her mind discouraged her from giving out that command. "Uhh...Use Astonish!"

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Salem the Astonish! 2x.
Running shoes exhausted.

[Tarlar]

It was great that Aphrodite had a sixth sense, or a guardian spirit, or perhaps it was the pokedex which muffled from her pocket tried to help her through this encounter. Salem would feel relieved when the order got changed to something he knew what was, as the one his trainer had begun to mouth had completely disappeared from his mind. What should he have done if she had asked him to do something and he didn't know how?!

"Sssssoooouulll," the duskull cried out again as it tried to float around Salem and get to the chikorita. It was an easy picking with how sick it was, and to the lost ghost it was an easy prey. Or it would have been if te mimikyu didn't kept standing in the way. It disappeared into the ground and then slowly emerged a few feet in front of Aphrodite, thinking there would be nothing in its way between it and the weak, sick soul it was drawn to.
Salem popped up right beside it and screamed it into the ear, which made it flinch away and float upwards. Several balls of gas formed around it and with a flicker they were lit, the fire was hollow and cold though, and they zipped through the air in a very unnatural way, all slamming into the mimikyu and leaving several burn marks. He screamed at it and it hesitated but then decided the prey was not worth it and slowly fainted into nothingness.

Salem got around the trickery and grows +3 levels to [Lv 20]!
He can learn Baby-doll eyes if he forgets another move!
He also gains +2 happiness (luxury ball)! (+6)

(ooc: Salem has 55/58 HP after level up and is burned.)