[Battle] CALISTA vs ELLE & NORA

[abyss]

ROUND 1
CALISTA vs ELLE & NORA
BATTLE COMMENCE

[Calista]

Calista walked swiftly through one of the many settlements, her Garchomp, Alakazam, and Vaporeon in tow closely behind. "Kazam, set up a reflect for the team, we could use that extra defense." she stated quickly, her face hidden by her coak as she pulled it up over her head, her eyes drifting up to the planes that were now flying overhead, dropping what she assumed were trainers onto the unsuspecting Whirl Islands. She paused as her psychic type set up the barriers around her other two Pokemon, quickly making her way to the edge of the settlement. "Yui, aqua ring," she stated quickly, looking around at the place as she neared the edge of the small settlement. She was nervous, very nervous. It was the first battle for the girl, and the first time she was going to refer to herself as Blood Rose. Who was going to be her first opponent she wondered. Would they be a big name, or some small person wanting to make a name for them self like she was trying to do. She smiled a little to herself, thinking about what the future had in store for her. Would she become the war hero and future commander she wanted to be, or would she die a miserable death without even having made a name for herself?

No, she couldn't think the later. She had family back home who were rooting for her safe return. She had to make her parents proud, had to show them what she was doing was not for not. She stopped at the edge of the small settlement, her cloak falling lightly around her, hiding her over all figure along with most of her face, only her mouth being plainly visible. Her three Pokemon took formation in front of her, knowing what exactly was going on. They would fight with Calista tooth and nail in order to continue living the way she had been with her. Especially Yui, her first Pokemon and most trusted partner.

[elle & nora]

Elle and Nora peeked over at the settlement, and then looked back at each other. It looked too easy to just walk right into the middle of it. They were a ways from the edge of the settlement, hiding amongst some large boulders. It was surprising how nice it felt to hide behind something big and strong when you knew that in a moment all feelings of safety were about to be stripped away. But even so, they remembered they had a job to do – their first real one – and neither were about to back down from it.

When they could hear the planes, Elle tried to make a joke about it, although her voice was too low and serious for it to work. “Well, they definitely know we’re here now. We might as well storm the place.”

Nora was too nervous to give her a proper “Don’t you dare say that” glare, but the feelings were still there. Elle tried to shrug off the failed glare, but Nora didn’t so much as blink until Elle admitted, in a low whisper, “I promise I’ll stick to the plan. Now…” she pulled out two Pokeballs and released them behind a nearby boulder, “… wait a minute, okay?”

She then turned to her Pokemon – her Masquerain and her Wigglytuff – and whispered instructions it could already guess at. The Masquerain gave a sign of understanding, and dispersed a mist where they stood by the rocks. As the mist started to thicken, Elle stood up and signalled Bluebell to move towards the settlement, dispersing more mist as it moved. Elle, along with Willow, followed the Masquerain, keeping enough distance so that they weren’t crowding her, but close enough so they didn’t lose sight of it.

The idea was simple and obvious: don’t let them see you, don’t let them see anything.

While Elle and her bug went forward in covering the area, Nora released her own Pokemon. Only one. Her Altaria. Together, and under the disguise of the mist, they hurried quickly towards the settlement, veering towards the right where Elle and her two Pokemon had veered towards the left. And once they had reached near the outskirts of the settlement, oblivious to the opponent standing in the middle, and to much else thanks to the mist, both girls gave their Pokemon the same instruction:

“Sing.”

Then the lullabies of the Wigglytuff and the Altaria filled the air.

(ooc: hope this is okay and that you don't mind a bit of a blind battle ^^

[Calista]

The drone of the planes was getting annoying to the young girl, so she quickly shifted a little, slipping on her headphones and the soft rock music playing in them as she spotted a sudden spreading of mist along a rocky area surrounding the settlement. She couldn't help but smile, they were trying to hide from her. Only problem with that was that she could obviously see what was going on, and she smiled. She released her Staraptor, still smiling. "Jet, keep an eye from the sky and signal when you see anything." She stepped back, giving a signal for Tatsu and Kazam to do the same. The mist was obviously being used to cover the advance of whoever her opponent was, something the young trainer could use to her own advantage. If it was as thick from their point of view as it was from her's it meant that they more likely than not couldn't see her as well, meaning they were oblivious to the presence of another trainer in the area.

She could use that fact alone to her advantage.

"Yui, muddy water aimed directly at the mist. Let's give them a little surprise." She smiled as the wall of water reared up before her, quickly rushing towards the mist as she noticed Kazam and Tatsu suddenly start to nod off. she growled under her breath, while at the same time glad she put her headphones on before barking a command to Kazam. "Kazam, future sight! Tatsu, fight it! Don't fall asleep on me now!" She turned back to watch the wave of muddy water roar towards the mist. Hopefully they would be caught completely off guard by the attack. She knew she would be if she was approaching under cover of mist and a sudden wall of water reared it's head in front of her. She hoped that her calling to Tatsu and command to Kazam would keep the two awake long enough for her attack to land and silence whoever was singing. She knew Jet would be fine, he was probably out of range by now looking for any sign of life for her.

Blood Rose wasn't going down without a fight after all.

[elle & nora]

Their opponent’s attack had certainly been a surprise, and that they had one in the first place had also been a bit of one too; of course the pair had considered the likelihood that Nox would be ready and waiting for them, but they hadn’t seen any real proof up until now. Not until a the jet of muddy water hit Willow’s right side and easily knocked her over. The unexpected hit had completely thrown her off-balance, voice and body. The Wigglytuff’s song had halted abruptly, and some spray from the attackhad rebounded at Elle. Luckily, her Masquerain seemed to be untouched and dry.

“Air Slash!” Elle reacted immediately, calling out to her Masquerain and pointing in the direction the attack had come from, although her Pokemon didn’t need to be told where to aim. Only once Bluebell had fired back a counter-attack Elle let herself be concerned about her other Pokemon. Willow managed to bring herself back up to her feet, which was a great relief; Elle needed both of her Pokemon to fit enough to fight if she wanted to keep fighting blindly. “You’re okay, Will,” she said to her Pokemon, consciously trying to keep her voice far lower than when she had called out her previous attack. “I need you to use Hyper Voice.” The Wigglytuff noddded determinedly, took a deep breath, and let out the sound-based attack.

On the opposite side stood Nora, glancing nervously between her Altaria, whose song had finished by now, and the mist. From where she was, she hadn’t seen any attacks, although she had certainly heard them and could make a few guesses as to what was going on. Unfortunately, merely making guesses was anything but comforting. It didn’t help that the plan they had come up with had, for the most part, been based on a strategy Elle used; it was made by Elle, for Elle, with Elle in mind. Of course, it didn’t help that the original plan, the one where everything was nice and perfect, would have ended when everyone fell asleep. Now that they definitely had an opponent, Nora needed to improvise.

She knew that Elle would tell her to have her Pokemon take blind shots into the mist and hope for the best, but Nora was convinced that that would hardly end well. Doing nothing was also undoubtedly another thing that wouldn’t end well either, so Nora gave Betony the only instruction she could think of on the spot; one that didn’t involve taking random shots into the mist. She spoke quietly, so as not to alert her opponent that she was there (because if the opponent did know, then why weren’t any attacks coming this way too?). “Use Safeguard.”

Nora tapped at her belt, trying to decide if she should release another Pokemon or not - and whether it would be able to do much in the first place.

[Calista]

Calista saw the attack coming, but she wasn't fast enough to move out of the way. She threw up her arms in an attempt to protect herself, but Tatsu was faster. The dragon Pokemon put itself between the young trainer and the air cutter, taking the full on blunt of the blow. She smiled nervously at her Pokemon, the dragon shrugging off the blow, though she knew it had to sting for it at least a little. He may be a dragon type, but a flying move was normally effective against them, it had to sting a bit for him. Yet, instead of flinching back he let out a loud roar, obviously enraged that the attack almost hit his trainer. Calista stood there for a moment, noticing that Jet was diving down quickly, shifting into an aerial ace, having spotted the place where the attack had come from from the shifting in the mist below. She couldn't help but smile a little at this, taking note to praise the Pokemon for it's initiative. Well, they now knew she was there, and there was nothing she could do about it. She could still use the mist to her advantage, seeing as it was a completely blind fight right now. She would prefer it not be, but she had no way to clear out the mist, none of her Pokemon knew whirlwind or defog.

She shook off the scare of nearly being hit before she saw Yui bounce back, having been hit by the hyper voice. Calista mumbled under her breath, realizing that she needed to hear because the enemy Pokemon seemed to know a lot of sound based attacks. She quickly slid the headphones off her head, keeping her hood up before looking back to the mist. "Ready to get up close and personal Tatsu? Go ahead and charge forward and use a dragon rush, Yui, aim towards the portion of the mist you didn't attack and use muddy water once more. Kazam use-" As soon as she turned to the psychic type she realized it was asleep. She let out a frustrated shout, knowing it wouldn't wake the Pokemon up from it's sleeping state. She shook her head, realizing that at least she hat told it to use future sight. She wasn't sure when it would strike, she knew it would come no mater what though, but was it going to even do anything since they couldn't see their enemy?

She looked back to the mist, wondering how Tatsu was doing. The Pokemon had charged into the mist, aiming in the direction it had heard the loud voice from, having spotted Jet as well going after the spot where the air cutter had come from. Could she win this blind battle? Was there a single trainer or two? Did she even stand a chance in this kind of battle, or was she going to lose her first battle ever and have nothing left in store for her? She glanced at Yui, who had turned back to her, looking at her for a command while glancing back at the mist every now and again, obviously anxious about her two partners who had chaged into the mist, aiming to attack the enemy directly. "Don't worry Yui, Tatsu's hardy and Jet is fast and hard hitting. I'm sure they'll be fine." She smiled, hiding the fact that she herself was nervous about the two's safety as well.

(OOC: I hope you don't mind a blind charge XD)

[elle & nora]

It was just as well Elle couldn’t see what was going on. In her mind, this was just an ordinary Pokemon battle – even if the atmosphere was more intense than usual – and if she had seen that her Pokemon’s attack had nearly hit a person, rather than a battle-hardened who could take it, the illusion would have been shattered and the truth would have shaken her up. That was something Elle could do without. She needed to keep her head in the game, and at the moment she was managing to do that just fine.

Something attacked from the sky and hit her Bluebell's wings. Elle had been close enough now to see the shadow of the attack, as well as hear the sickening sound of the impact. The attack had obviously hit hard, and it was hard to tell whether it was because of some type advantage, the angle of the attack, or just the simple fact that an attack from the sky had been completely unexpected. Either way, the type disadvantage didn’t sound appealing, and Bluebell was best saved for later. Elle rushed over until she could see her Pokemon and returned it. Before she sent out another she shouted as loudly as she could. “There’s a bird Pokemon! Take care of it!” The bird Pokemon spelled trouble. She called to her Wigglytuff as well, moving away she spoke, “Use Hyper Voice on the bird! Here!”, and was answered by the sound of her Pokemon’s attack.

Nora heard the request. Not loudly or clearly, but she had still heard enough to be able to make out the sentences. “Go. Above the mist,” Nora told her Altaria, who was already starting to move. “Keep it busy.” Betony nodded and took off, and as soon as she did, Nora quickly settled on which Pokemon to send out next, although she almost dropped the Pokeball with a fright; something brown and wet had pummelled into a rock at her left. She swore under her breath. The thought of standing here on her own without a Pokemon near her was unsettling, especially now that the attacks were coming here too, so out came her Delcatty. “Vi. Use Sing. That direction. Now.” The Delcatty blinked slowly as it took in its surroundings, unaware of what was going on. “Now, Vi.”

Elle frowned when she heard the Delcatty’s voice – Nora wasn’t really going to use her Delcatty to fight a flying Pokemon, was she? – but her attention was snapped back to her side of the battle when there was an ominous, rumbling sound, as if something was charging at them. She was right, something had made a run for them but had missed Willow by about half a metre, and Elle by about two. This close up, the enemy Pokemon and its attack sounded terrifying, and for a moment Elle froze up.

Luckily the sounds of attack around her snapped her out of her daze just as quickly as she had fallen into it. She threw the first Pokeball she could reach, and as soon as she saw her Breloom, she wasted no time in using it. “There’s a Pokemon out there.” An understatement, but Elle didn't want her Pokemon to worry about more than one enemy. “Find it and stop it.” The Breloom had already sensed the air of battle and was off in an instant, searching for its opponent.

That made two of them, now. Nora’s Altaria hadn’t found any opponent above the mist, and had to content herself with waiting to see if anything resurfaced. Elle’s Breloom, on the other hand, had better luck as it had sounds it could easily follow. Before he knew it, he had found an unfamiliar Pokemon which Elle must have meant, and with a grunt fired an attack at it. Stun Spore.

[Calista]

The Staraptor had been moving around for another go when he heard the hyper voice and felt it whip by just behind him. Without a single cry he spun around, having heard the commands from the other trainer and the direction the hyper voice had come from and slammed forward towards the Wigglytuff, shifting into a close combat and letting out a cry of anger as soon as he was within range. The bird Pokemon had nothing to prove, it just wanted to help his trainer achieve her goals. He had been one of the first members of the team after all. Calista's Garchomp had paused and been focusing his senses on the area around him. The mach Pokemon didn't want to let his trainer down, so it was going to fight it's hardest to help her reach her goals. The dragon spotted the Breloom just about when the grass type spotted him. He moved quickly, avoiding the stun spore and struck with dragon claw and suddenly found itself nodding off. It could hear distant singing, but why was it falling asleep now! The mach Pokemon didn't understand before he fell to the ground, fast asleep.

Calista back outside the mist was watching before she caught a sight out of the corner of her eye. She looked up into the sky and raised an eyebrow, spotting the Altaria above The mist. She raised an eyebrow, looking down at her Vaporeon who had also spotted the Pokemon and was gazing at it curiously. That must have been one of the Pokemon using sing, but she hadn't noticed the cry before. She thought for a moment, trying to remember what it's type was before remembering, it was a flying type, no matter what weak to ice. She smiled for a moment before looking down at her Vaporeon who was still gazing up curiously. "Yui, aurora beam on the Pokemon up there. We have to do at least something, cause right now it's all up to Tatsu and Jet!" The Pokemon nodded before turning and letting out a powerful aurora beam right at the Altaria.

She turned to her Alakazam who was just starting to wake up and smiled. "Have a good nap there Kazam?" she asked teasingly, causing the psychic type to wave a spoon at her, though it wasn't irritated by the claim. "Alright Kazam, calm mind!" Hopefully that was soon enough to strengthen the future sight she knew that was going to be hitting any moment, she could use all the firepower she could get. She turned back to Yui, who had finished her attack and was looking at Calista expectantly. She offered the water Pokemon a smile before turning back to the mist. Was her pair of Pokemon in there alright? And how much longer was this mist going to last anyways, the other trainer had to realize how difficult it was making it to battle.

[elle & nora]

Elle was alone now, and after taking three deep breaths she mentally readied herself to wander closer, into the settlement. The fighting around her wasn’t exactly silent, so it was easy to avoid walking into the middle of a clash. She wasn’t here for a battle, she was here to do her job. Nora was also on the move, having said very firmly to her Pokemon, “We're finding Betony.” She didn’t mean it, yet she did. Nora hated how this was being carrying out, more than she usually did, and wanted to know what was actually going on, see it with her own eyes unclouded by some stupid mist.

Dragon-type moves are nasty to be on the receiving end of, but survivable. Sure, the move hurt like hell and nearly knocked him who-knows-how-far, but at the end of it the Breloom was still able to stand and ready to keep on fighting. The same couldn’t be said for the opponent he had singled out, and it didn’t take all that long for the Breloom to figure out what was going on. Another Pokemon had sent the dragon to sleep, and if another Pokemon had taken care of this one, then maybe the Garchomp hadn’t been the Pokemon Elle had mentioned. Reaching that conclusion, he decided to leave the Garchomp alone to sleep – he had only been told to ‘stop’ a Pokemon, not actually defeat it – and followed some near sounds of battle.

He arrived just in time to almost have a familiar Wigglytuff collide into him. The Wigglytuff had made a sharp leap to the side in order to avoid an attack, and had nearly missed her opportunity when this damn bird decided to be silent about his attack. Weren’t bird-types the kind of Pokemon that squawked every single time they were going to do something, helpfully alerting opponents in the process? Who did this bird think he was to try and differ from the norm and be less obvious?

Oh, whatever. There was no time to think about that, and what small seconds the Wigglytuff had already wasted on that had been taken over by the Breloom who promptly launched a sky uppercut at the bird Pokemon, possibly with the intention of hitting it back up into the sky where it belonged. The Wigglytuff was also quick to join in and let loose yet another hyper voice (yes, she is just as tired of the attack as you are, if not more so, but she’s following strict orders to use sound based attacks, and why merely sing something to sleep after it just attacked her like that? She’d far rather have another attempt at destroying its eardrums).

They were quite proud of their teamwork, the two of them (if you really counted that as teamwork in the first place), so it was a shame that no sooner had they started feeling the self-pride with a well-coordinated attack something sharp and painful struck their minds. The pain from this, the Breloom quickly decided, was far worse than any attack the Garchomp could’ve used. Willow, on the other hand, didn’t give two craps about comparisons. Not when she was busy trying to deal with some annoying psychic pain.

Things were also starting to get exciting for the Altaria. From the air she easily manoeuvred out of the way of a potentially fatal attack, and was quickly settling on which one of her own to use. Experience had taught her not to get too close to Pokemon that could usethose sorts of attacks and she was more than willing to keep her distance. Unfortunately, even using an attack with a longer range would require getting closer than she already was, so there was no choice but to risk it; the Altaria swooped down keeping at least a good few metres above the Pokemon, and another Pokemon, it seemed, and – oh? Was that its trainer? Well… – let out a carefully aimed dragonbreath in the direction of the enemy party, trusting that the Pokemon below her would put their trainer’s safety first before their own.

Nora could hear another human’s voice. She could hear the opponent, and the sound of it made her cautious. She stepped more quietly, and kept inside the mist. She heard her Altaria’s attack too; she was too familiar with it to not. “What do you want to do?” she whispered to herself as well as Violet, bending slightly to briefly pat the cat’s head. She had been waiting for this opportunity for a while now.

(ooc: i'm so sorry this turned out so long >.<")

[Calista]

Jet realized that he was in a bad situation as soon as he missed with his close combat. He quickly shifted into a double team, creating illusions of himself that were attacked in place of himself as he darted quickly upwards. He shot above the mist, catching sight of the Altaria that was now attacking Yui and Kazam, with Calista dangerously close. The Pokemon quickly changed direction, waiting for a moment to see how the Vaporeon and Alakazam would react before acting. Calista was jumping back from the flames, her boots sliding on the rocks as she avoided the attack and nearly lost her footing. She looked at her Pokemon, who had also avoided the strike, well Yui had, Alakazam had taken the blunt of the blow, but was still standing.

"Yui, counter with an aurora beam! Kazam, use Psychic!" she shouted, her voice giving away her obvious youth. She shifted her footing, quickly retreating more, her arms staying to her side, her cloak waving with the motion but keeping her overall covered. She needed to end this quickly, but how could she with so much going on at once? She had four Pokemon out, two unaccounted for, and two with her right now. At least she had thought two were unaccounted for when she heard a cry and looked up, watching in surprise as her Staraptor tore straight towards the Altaria, using an aerial ace. She couldn't believe how well the bird Pokemon was performing in the circumstances, it had nothing to prove to her. She already knew the bird Pokemon was powerful, so why was he working so hard? She watched as the Predator Pokemon attacked, her mind continuing to wander before she realized that maybe she could possibly call the battle.

She paused, thinking to herself for a moment, trying to find the right words. Hopefully whoever was out there would hear her and listen to her. She didn't want the fight to continue on. She had already had two near misses, she didn't feel like having anymore. But would they want to surrender? Who was even winning? She didn't know, but it was obvious that with this blind battle things were going nowhere. She crossed her arms under her cloak, thinking for a moment, her Pokemon looking at her expectantly as her Staraptor continued to circle above. Did she would to make a proposal, or did she want to wait and see what would happen next? She didn't know, but calling out to whoever she was fighting was at least worth a shot, and demanding a surrender would be good, right? Maybe, but only if they did so.

"If you surrender now I'll let you go! We don't have to keep fighting like this! Back off and I'll turn the other way as you retreat!"

[elle & nora]

From where she stood, she couldn’t see her Altaria, narrowly missing another aurora beam, only to get halted by a psychic attack. She was struggling to right herself again as another Pokemon came after her – the bird Pokemon that she was told to fight in the first place. The Altaria knew she’d have no time to dodge this attack, and instead paused for a second, waiting for the perfect time, waiting until it was too late for the bird, before rearing her head back before unleashing another dragonbreath, this time aimed at a target which was coming straight for her.

Nora didn’t believe the girl, not for a second.

Liar, she wanted to shout. You rotten little liar. Because that’s how it worked, wasn’t it?

Made-up scenes flashed through her mind, imagining her parents confronted with that same offer. And while Nora couldn’t say for sure what their answers would have been, she knew that either way they had wound up dead. Gone. The answer didn’t matter. As soon as they saw your unprotected back they’d stab it, promise or no promise. But even though she believed this, Nora didn’t want to stay in the mist anymore. She wanted to see what a Nox soldier actually looked like.

But if she was going to do that, she’d need some protection. It was easily done; the rest of her team was released, hiding on the outskirts of the mist. If anything happened, they knew who to attack.

“What was that?” Nora called out to the girl, as she stepped out of the mist. “If you want a time-out already, you don’t have much endurance, do you?” It was supposed to be a taunt, but Nora had always been horrible with taunts (giving and receiving) and this one just sounded like an annoyed accusation. For a moment she glanced over her opponent – a girl, around her own height, in a pretty dress and red cloak – and the Pokemon nearby, but her eyes were quickly drawn to her Altaria, struggling with the bird Pokemon in the sky. Betony looked horrible. It was time to call her back and send someone else out instead.

After she said one last thing. “Lux outnumbers you. You’re the one who should be thinking of surrendering.” Although the girl carried around impressive Pokemon, Nora was not impressed by the girl herself. She didn’t look like a real enemy, not like the ones Nora had seen pictures of or imagined in her dreams. It would have almost felt like a let-down if it weren’t for some stupid, nagging feeling of relief. Nora ignored it and took out her Altaria’s Pokeball, ready to return it. The time-out was over, and now that she could see exactly what was going on, Nora was more than ready to return to the fight.

She nearly smiled, and if she had it certainly wouldn't have been a friendly one. It hadn't crossed the Nox fighter girl's mind yet, had it? The more she kept her busy with battles, the more time Elle would have to call in reinforcements and to handle the residents of this settlement and whatever the hell else she was doing. And Little Miss Nox had been too battle hungry to even notice…

[Shale ♠]

VICTORY: ELLE & NORA

+500 WEP to Lux