The MOUNTAIN Team

Kyu gasped as her eyes widened in horror as she fell to the ground, her body weak as she spat up a few bubble of purple spit. She saw the foot crashing down on her, a ice beam had made a wall against the foot but that proved to not be useful as it was shattered.

Kyu was to frozen in fear to even move as the foot came crashing down on her back. A sickening CRACK! rang through the air as she screeched in pain. She couldn't feel her back legs or tail anymore.

Weakened and in agony she pathetically squirmed out below the foot of the infected and dragged her body about a meter away before collapsed to the ground. Her face contorted. Not in pain or sorrow, but in pure, sheer anger.

Her battle cry was weak, but with all the energy she could muster she sent out the strongest Thunder she's ever used towards the Kabutops, before she fell limp onto the ground, crying quietly.

[OOC: I was actually hoping Kyu would get crippled somewhere in the RP. ;; Anyways, she's not dead, but the bones in her tail and back legs are broken. Meaning, she can't run. :U But I'm sure one of you can figure out a way to move her around. ;;;;;]

Arashi almost snarled as he watched the Kabutops almost go completely mad. Thoughts flickered through his mind of how it would be like to have this infection and he shuddered at the thought. In a leap of faith, Arashi strung his Electroweb to a tree far away from the battle and climbed it to the tree. He had a hunch that the Infected was following him and he wanted to get it away from his new friends.

((OOC: I have started my Junior year of Highschool so it may sometimes take me the full limit of days to reply. I'm sorry please bear with me. I have lots of honors classes and it's extremely tiring.))

Mountains West of Blackthorn City | Afternoon

Ahriman "smiled" as he felt the spine of small brown breather part beneath his foot with a satisfying crack and a gurgling scream. Lifting his foot, the Kabutops watched as the pathetic creature began to crawl away, dragging it's now useless hind legs and tail, before collapsing only a meter away.

Satisfied that it wasn't going anywhere soon, Ahriman began rotating slowly on the spot, eyes and nose searching for his original prey. The infected hissed as he saw a tiny flash of yellow fur disappearing into the trees by way of the same web that had wrapped the Kabutops before."COWARD!"screamed his mind as a dark blue glow suffused the area as Ancient Power rippled outward from the Shellfish Pokemon, sending boulders, trees and other rubble shootings towards the other breathers, hoping to scatter them.

Then with a scream Ahriman dove beneath the earth and shot off after the fleeing insect at a speed approaching Mach 1. It is without honor.....kill it whispered the creature's ancient instinct as he shot through dirt and rock at too great a depth to be felt by his fleeing prey on the surface.

Finally, as he felt the small, rapid staccato of the insects heartbeat draw parallel to him and he aimed himself upward, towards the surface and his foe. Soon both his blood lust and his hatred of Bug-types would be sated. With this in mind, Ahriman put on a final burst of speed which sent him bursting through the surface directly in front of the bug, causing it to tumble from it's perch onto the ground. This a triumphant hiss, the enraged hunter rushed forward with his, teeth bared and his twin scythes raised for the kill.

(Ooc: Obviously I'm putting a lot of stock in either how fast Arashi can flee or how long Ahriman lingered over Kyu.)

Ujue panted and trembled with exhaustion as she slunk around the bushes by the stream, trying not to be seen. Water steamed off her hide, and she kept her eyes riveted toward the scene going on in the clearing.

The delibird was using good logic to try to distract the undead, the furret was in bad shape, and the froslass was making some sort of ice contraption for it. The bug pokemon made for the trees, and Ujue saw the infected's beady eyes targeting the bug pokemon. It dove underground in a flash.

Ujue made a flash decision to aid the bug pokemon (because the two ice pokemon could help the poor furret) and made for the direction of the bug pokemon with a quick attack, faltering and nearly crying out at the strain on her broken ribs. Nonetheless, she picked up speed, and, trailing the small insect by scent, ran faster to try to pick up the small pokemon and run away. She almost reached it when there was an explosion in front of her--the undead burst out of the ground with a terrifying rumble, and the bug pokemon fell to the ground.

Ujue, still sprinting at quick-attack speed, overshot the small pokemon (on accident) and barreled towards the newly-surfaced undead pokemon.

Kringle’s worst nightmare had come true, one of his friends had been badly injured, and by the sound of the bones, it did not appear good. The injury might even be enough to kill the Furret if not taken care of. Arisha had gone off deeper into the woods, and for some reason the infected chased after him, Kringle figured that it just did not want to lose its food. The ninetails immediately followed them; he figured it had run off to mend its wounds during the last part of the ruckus, but apparently not. He wanted the infected to leave them alone, for his friends to have some peace for a while, but he did not want to leave Kyu alone with the frosslass, there was no telling what the icy ghost would do to her if left alone.

Kringle took out a present for himself, and inwardly sighed in relief as it turned into a berry, he was going to need it in a moment. He flinched as he did another substitute, leaving him practically drained, he would not be able to run anytime soon. He ate the berry as he told his double the plan, it helped, but not nearly enough as was needed to properly act, if the plan failed, he would be practically useless for a while. He sent the subsitite out into the direction the others had gone while Kringle went to look for the items he needed. It took some time, but he finally found the right roots needed. Wandering the land for so long had brought him to many wise pokemon, and one of them told him about this particular root, if he were to grind it down and eat it, then it could numb the pain, which was perfect for Kyu right now, but the taste was horrible. He got a rock and began his work; it would take longer than normal considering his limbs felt heavy like lead.

The substitute on the other hand was lively as Kringle was before he made the double, it quickly found where the group was at just in time to see ninetails ram into the infected. It immediately started throwing present after present after present at the infected’s head, some turned into berries mid-way, but others would explode. The goal right now was not to defeat it, but to get its attention, so the Substitute upped the ante by turning around and slapping its own rear end at the infected before giving a wink to the others and running further into the woods as he blew a raspberry. His mission was to lure the infected as far away from the others as possible to give them a chance to regroup and recuperate.

Kyu felt the frozen water envelope her legs and tail. She looked up to Wind. "Thank you." she nodded her head, happy. She looked towards some rustling bushes to see Ujue come back. 'The more Pokemon the better.' she thought. She turned her head towards Arashi to see him flee.

Her head turned to Kringle who had made a new Substitute, who gleefully threw present at the Kabutops. The real Kringle, however, was doing something she had no idea what it was. He was smashing a root with a rock. "He must be making something..." she muttered under her breath, getting a bit used to the pain on the back and legs.

Arashi looked towards Ujue as she ran to his rescue. Anger built up inside the small Pokemon and seemed to brim to the edge of his mind spilling into a liquid energy that engulfed the small Pokemon and flowed out of his body.


The tiny Pokemon shifted from a form smaller than a foot too a form 2 feet high as he stepped towards the Kabutops with newfound strength, speed, and bravery. It was almost as if this transformation matured the little always happy Pokemon into one that thinks quickly and without mistake. In a fluid movement, Arashi barreled into the Kabutops with a Slash so powerful it sent the creature spiraling backwards.

"Leave us you horrid beast!" Arashi yelled threateningly with a voice that was also grown up sounding.

((OOC: I edited his living profile I'll inform Suicune when I come back from dinner))

Mountains West of Blackthorn City | Afternoon

Blurring forward, Ahriman ignored the Flier-without-a-heart who had somehow returned and was foolishly attempting to taunt him. He would die slow. Releasing a scream, he hurled himself towards Tiny-yellow-bug but faltered as it suddenly expanded outward in a flash of light. Taking a step back, the infected attempted to guard himself as life-light struck his eyes, causing white hot pain to bloom within his tiny, death-fogged eyes.

As it receded the enraged Kabutops shook his head in an attempt to rid himself of the spots that now danced across his vision. Looking back to his foe, Ahriman was met with the sight of a much larger insect that hissed and gave off tiny bolts of electricity as it advanced on him "Worthy foe". Raising his scythes to charge, Ahriman was surprised as it barreled into him with a cry, sending flying backward to come to sliding stop, several feet away.

The Kabutops "smiled" as black light enveloped his blades. This one had power now, time to see if it could use it. Bringing forth his Ancient power, The Shellfish Pokemon caused a pillar of stone to burst forth from the earth, sending him blazing towards his rival with a demonic battle scream. Ahriman ignored his eternal hunger for flesh, he ignored the breathers he could smell nearby. All that mattered was this, a chance to bring down an enemy close to his own strength and ferocity in a one-on-one battle to the death. This is was why he existed, this was the only thing that kept him from perfect insanity, this was his purpose. He would meet this opponent head-on and he would win, because no other option existed. It was simple, it would die and he would continue to hunt until insanity finally dragged him down into that comfortable darkness within.

So with a heave, he collided with his foe with earth-shaking impact.

Ujue prayed that the little bug pokemon's evolved form could combat the huge undead; her energy was running so low, Ujue guessed that she might faint if she performed another one or two attacks, let alone withstand the undead's powerful attacks. She peeled herself off the ground and loped away from the dueling insect and infected, back to the original clearing by the stream.

As she limped quickly towards them, she heard the ice pokemon and the gravely wounded furret conversing.

"Thank you," said the furret. It looked upbeat for someone with half it's body crushed. . .Ujue was just glad that it could stand the pain.

"No problem," the ice pokemon replied. "Don't strain yourself, time will heal you legs." She fetched the wounded pokemon some water.

As the pokemon continued to converse, Ujue felt worry build up in her chest. If the infected had broken the Furret's spine, it would never be able to walk again. Ever. It also wouldn't have feeling in most of the places below the break. . . .Ujue nursed a little candle of gratitude for the ice pokemon's warmth and optimism that the poor pokemon would heal, but now was not the time for condolences. It was only a matter of time that an Undead would come raging out of the wood, and if the insect pokemon could hold it off.

Ujue halted by the two pokemon. "I don't know if the Undead One will be held off for long," Ujue addressed the two. "We should find a more sheltered place for you to rest; we are in much danger here." She stopped talking and looked at the wounded furret. It was huge, would they even be able to move it?

Kringle sighed, trying to grind the root after doing two substitutes was torture arms, and taking a lot longer than it should be taking. He hoped that the furret would not be mad at him for taking longer on the concoction than normal, he wondered if any of the other pokemon even knew what it was he was doing. He barely even knew what he was doing, he had no clue why the root had the property to ease pain, nor why it only worked when it was mushed down, but he had witnessed the effects firsthand, and it worked very well. He took a break to rest up his sore arms and also to take in his surroundings. The little bug he had witnessed before was not so little anymore, it had grown more than three times its original height, he almost thought it might had been due to an attack it did, but he quickly realized that the small pokemon had evolved. As far as he knew, Delibirds had no evolutions, which kinda made him sad, he liked to see the new forms of an evolved pokemon, and the fact that he would never get a new form was depressing, but yet again, the form might not be as fun and agile as his current one, so there was that thought.

Apparently with the electric bug’s new height, came newfound speed and power, it seemed to effectively be able to hold its own with the renegade Kabutops now, while before it seemed to take more to running and dodging. The ninetails was witnessing the new marvels of the bug, while the froslass continued its administration of the ice casing. He didn’t know why the furret was not wary of the icy ghost, it had been spying on them right before the infected showed up, but it seemed to be getting really friendly with it, even learning her name, Wind.

Kringle was surprised that his substitute was still okay, he figured it would have been cut down easily by the infected, but it seemed to stand there confused as to what to do next, it seemed like the infected was ignoring his double. Kringle merely motioned for his substitute to continue on as he got back to grinding the root down, he was nearly finished. The substitute let out an inaudible sigh, it didn’t know what to do next, and his master not telling him what to do was rare. It looked at the battle, the infected seemed too preoccupied by the bug, but previous encounters let it know that an attack from all sides where quickly stopped by its quick sickles, so if an attack from the sides did not work, it would have to try an attack from above. There were many trees covering the sky, and one which had branches hanging over the infected’s position, the substitute flew into the tree tops and ice beamed the branch completely, leaving the underside with a rough spikey edge to it, with the preparations complete, it used an ariel ace on the part near the base of the tree with the intent of having it crash on top of the infected foe.

"Sorry that I didn't introduce myself. I'm Wind, and you are..?" Kyu coughed. "Kyu. Kyu the Furret. Pleasure." she said in a strained voice. 'I doubt this wound will ever heal.' she thought. Her eyes downcast and staring at the dirty ground.

"We should find a more sheltered place for you to rest; we are in much danger here." Kyu nodded. "But with my original weight and the ice casing included, would it be possible for one of your to even move me?" she asked. "At the least, I would be 70% heavier now."

Kyu watched as Arashi evolved from afar. She frowned. 'Would that be enough to get rid of this damned infected? Will we be able to even escape?' she let out a wheeze, craning her head up just in time to see Kringle Aerial Ace a tree, which start to topple towards the Kabutops.

Arashi watched the infected with growing distaste. His new intellect allowed him to see everything slowed down and he thought through a strategy in his head. With a speed new to him Arashi launched himself to land on top of the pillar of Earth and he sent a web that weaved itself around the infected's blades as he flipped over it and landed on the other side. Slash quickly detached Arashi's hold on the web and his Signal Beam hit the infected with a force that assured strength.

Arashi was in awe of his new found power and ability. The last drops of his Signal Beam faded in the air and he was proud of the new move that had just burst from his jaw. Although he was proud, he didn't let that distract him and he waited, calculating, for the infected to retaliate.

Ahriman saw his opponent tense as he shot toward it. But instead of the expected collision his enemey suddenly leaped over him whilst spraying that same tingling web across Ahriman's scythes. The Kabutops slid to a halt as the insect landed behind him, taking a moment to rid himself of the annoying bindings, he suddenly felt something hit him from behind which effectively knocked him out of the way of a large tree that landed were he had been with a crash.

With an enraged hiss, Ahirman spun around to see the insect sitting astride the piece of rock he had brought forth. With an evil grin, released an Ancient Power, causing five collosal pillars of rock to burst forth towards Large-yellow-bug, pinning it in place, but not doing any actual damage.

Smiling, the hunter strode forward, a small piece of web-that-tingles stll clinging to one of his blades. Noticing this Ahriman stretched it between his blades and pushed it over the face of his opponent, blocking it's mouth. He was going to enjoy this. It would die slowly.

(Ooc: Rocks blocking electial attacksand pinning his arms to prevent slash , web blocking any attacks that come from the mouth( signal beam jolt web),rendered helpless pretty effienctly if you ask me :P)

Kringle wiped off a bead of sweat that had formed on his forehead and leaned back to admire his work. The root took longer to prepare than he thought it would, but it was now an unappealing mush of a remedy. He had added in two berries to help reduce the awful taste that came from the root, but he feared it would not be enough to rid it of the taste. He slowly made his way to the wounded furret and her companion who she was getting quickly close to for some reason. He got there in time to hear the icy ghost’s idea of using a shadow ball, it was actually possible, which he doubted, then she was too smart not to be suspicious of. He fought back his urge to question how the froslass ever thought of that technique as he gave the mushed up root to Kyu, “Tastes horrible but helps greatly for the pain.”

He looked back to the fight that was continuing, the ninetails had decided to re-enter the fight with a fire attack. If it was not a matter of life or death for the delibird’s companions, the substitute would have given up already, he had been ignored, dismissed and had his iced over tree foiled by his own teammate’s attack, today was defiantly not a good day. His master motioned for him to save the yellow bug stuck in the pillars, but the fire type seemed to want him to help get the infected’s attention so that the little bug wouldn’t get hurt its fire attack. Normally he would ignore all orders not from his master, but he knew his master would want everyone safe, and not burnt to a crisp, so he would need to find some way to do both.

He flew down from his spot in the sky, using Ariel Ace to get to the infected faster, when he was almost there, he threw three orbs at the stone pillars and used a quick ice beam as it almost hit the structures so that they would stick to the pillars and not bounce off it, even if one of them turned into a berry, it should be enough to weaken, or destroy a pillar so the yellow bug can get away. He himself attached himself to the infected’s exposed back, it looked like it might not have good reach behind it so the substitute hoped to take advantage of that, knowing any slight hit would make him disappear, and yanked backwards away from the bug as he fired a point blank icebeam at its head hoping it could stun or blind it long enough to execute the fire attack.

((OOC: I literally had no clue what to do, so i winged it <-- fail joke))

"It would be easy if I were to do it, I could just use Shadow ball to engulf you and carry you, it won't do any damage unless I command it to." "That would be best. It would be best to start moving as soon as possible," Kyu gave a small nod. "Alright then..." she murmured, tired.

She saw as ringle gave her a pile of... Muck? Whatever it was, Kringle must know what it was. “Tastes horrible but helps greatly for the pain.” Kyu blinked. "I see, alright..." she opened her mouth and ate, wincing at the taste.

(OOC: I have no idea what to do. I hope you know that trying hard to make me just kill Arashi off isn't going to work. I told you before and I'll tell you again, I don't want him killed.)

Ahriman looked up from his kill to see many-tail limping towards him, flames licking at it's mouth. At the same time, flier-without-a-heart plunged out of the sky and planted balls of light on the pillars of stone before clinging to the Kabutops's back like a barnacle. Feeling an icy shock run through his head, the infected gave an outraged scream before leaping backwards away from the advancing many-tail and into a nearby tree, causing flier-without-a-heart to disappear once again.

The hunter thrashed his great head to rid himself of the searing ice that still clung. As he spun back to the fox, something whispered to him behind his death-fogged eyes. He didn't understand were it came from, he didn't need to, he was an instrument of his own insanity and he would obey. He leapt into the sky, preparing to retreat into the ground.

(Ooc: "oooh know, what's that rascally widdle kabutops gonna do?!" *Cue Jaws music*)

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You've already been warned.

In the afternoon sky, a dark blot lazily rode the air currents. Its heavy, leathery wings were tattered and frayed, enormous in length. Its belly was spilling its contents, split open from decay. Its skull was exposed, half shattered, left eye socket collapsed and worthless. It let out a heavy shriek as it spotted an ancient pokemon down below.

His undead brain recognized a form he had known from long ago…a time he could barely remember. He did not know how or what the other creatures were, nor did he care.
His eyes fixed on the bladed creature he knew from his past…
He had no language, he had no speech.
He just knew of the primal desire to feed…the all-controlling, mind obliterating, need for blood.

The ancient prey below him leaped into the sky, giving him all the opportunity he needed. Nothing could escape an Aerodactyl in the sky; nothing. Tucking in his wings, he dive bombed towards the now falling Kabutops and readied his giant, lethal talons.
Closer and closer he got. Gravity pushed him towards the retreating pokemon.

Within inches of each other, the mighty harbinger croaked loudly as he lashed out and hooked his talons underneath his preys rock-hard armor. The creature had no idea what hit it. It struggled violently in shock.
But he knew exactly where its weak spots were. He had feasted on this kind of creature many times. He expected blood to come spouting out of the large puncture wounds he had just inflicted.
He felt none.
Angered and frustrated, he pushed the creature off its talons, throwing it into freefall. The Aerodactyl used Sky Drop, plummeting the both of them into the ground far below.

As the dust cleared, the ancient harbinger stared into the dead eyes of its prey. Its body was badly hurt from the attack, but it didn’t seem to notice the overwhelming pain it should have been feeling from the impact.
It hissed in rage, mercilessly gazing back at its attacker.
The Aerodactyls’ rage built.
His prey should have been writhing and screaming in agony by now.
There should be blood.
He did not understand.

He wanted blood.
He NEEDED blood.
Crazed, he released a ground-shaking roar as he pinned the large creature and started to shred its dead face.
He hated those dead eyes.
He hated that it wouldn’t give him what he wanted.
Talons as long as knives dug into the chest cavity of the convulsing beast, holding it down with his immense weight. The enemies' blades desperately struck at the decaying body of its attacker with no success.
The harbinger felt nothing.

Razor sharp fangs viciously tore at the neck and head, where dark and coagulated blood flew in chunks, until there was nothing left but an exposed spine, a splintered skull, utterly unrecognizable, and dark spatters covering the decaying head of the ancient tyrant of the skies.

With an enraged roar, he opened its leathery wings and rocketed off into the sky, as quickly as it had arrived, to search for more prey.

((Ooc: I guess I deserved that))