[@Rune_Alchemist][@Pirouette]

So, since the two presented their whole teams for one another…

[hider=Claire’s Pokémon][center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/e/e1/280Ralts.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/M2iR7TF.png[/img][/url]

[color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #280 – Ralts, the Feeling Pokémon. The horn on its head can sense emotions, and its own mood will be affected in turn. It will approach positive emotion and its body will warm, while it will shy away from and avoid negativity and hostility. Quite rare to see in nature.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/bb/165Ledyba.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Bezco9v.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #165 – Ledyba, the Five Star Pokémon. Known to be timid, Ledybas group together for security and warmth. If on their own, they'll be rattled and uneasy. To communicate with others, it conveys its feelings by altering the scent of the fluid it secrates from its feet.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/b6/415Combee.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/qzRETOV.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #415 – Combee, the Tiny Bee Pokémon. Three are connected at birth and stick together for life. They spend their life gathering honey from flowers to please their Vespiquen. At night, many Combee stack up to become a beehive and sleep.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/61/015Beedrill.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/pNXxsKo.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #15 – Beedrill, the Poison Bee Pokémon. Extremely territorial, should someone intrude on their grounds they attack in furious swarms. They fly at high speed and attack with their venomous stingers. A poisoned prey is then taken back to the nest to feed on.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/76/390Chimchar.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/VaOHUt7.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #390 – Chimchar, the Chimp Pokémon. A gas burns in its stomach that fuels the flame behind it, which is extremely difficult to put out except for when it puts out its own flames to protect its surroundings while asleep. It lives on craggy mountains, using its agility and grip to scale sheer cliffs and walls.[/i][/color][/center][/hider]

[hider=Erika’s Pokémon][center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6b/361Snorunt.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/t6EbUJ7.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #361 – Snorunt, the Snow Hat Pokémon. They're found in snow-regions in groups of five. In warmer seasons, they tend to sleep deep in caverns. They can survive on only eating snow and ice. According to old folklore, a house visited or inhabited by a Snorunt is sure to prosper.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/68/443Gible.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/zxKZ9gR.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #443 – Gible, the Land Shark Pokémon. It lives in holes in caves warmed by geothermal heat. It awaits prey to stray too close to said holes, and then pounce out to bite them. While usually found underground for heat, they’ve been known to venture into colder climates while huddling together with others of its kind for warmth.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/9/91/255Torchic.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/6FCnEh0.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #255 – Torchic, the Chick Pokémon. It has a flame that burns within its body, which it can take advantage of to spit fire at foes. It is famous for being one of the most comfortably warm Pokémon to hug, thanks to the warmth and fluffy coat. It’s known to struggle in darkness.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/0d/025Pikachu.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/UyvUQLv.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #25 – Pikachu, the Mouse Pokémon. It stores electricity in sacks inside its cheeks, which it unleashes if threatened. They live in forests, and use their electricity to roast berries. It monitors its surroundings by raising it tail and sensing electricity. If multiple Pikachu gather up, their power increases.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/70/686Inkay.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZE4ykQe.png[/img][/url]

[color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #686 – Inkay, the Revolving Pokémon. It’s capable of flashing lights from the dots on its head that drain an opponent’s will to fight, after which a wild Inkay tend to flee. It dazes pray with these same lights, then catch them. Evolving them involves first getting them to a high enough level, then forcibly turning them upside down.[/i][/color][/center]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/34/345Lileep.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/UvvYS88.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #345 – Lileep, the Sea Lily Pokémon. It attached itself to rocks at the bottom of the seafloor using powerful suckers and disguised itself as seaweed until it caught prey swimming close with its tentacles shaped like flower-petals, devouring said prey whole. It went extinct over 100 million years ago, exists today only due to reanimation through fossils.[/i][/color][/center][/hider]

So, it’s a battle in front of the Pokémon Center. Battles in towns happens, so nobody’s going to mind assuming they’re not breaking any of the surrounding buildings or hitting any passerbys. The road that they’re fighting on is mostly ground that has been beaten to an even dust by centuries of people walking on it, with plenty of grass around the buildings around and all around the houses are the trees of Stillwood Village, stretching up high around them and creating a rooftop with their stretching crowns high above, the air rich in the scent of forest and spores… or the heavy smell of Gloom depending on how Ralia put her back down. That aside, the villagers and Pokémon might stop to watch the two because they’re curious on the battle in the middle of the street, always interesting to see.

Anyways, 

Pokémon Trainer Claire[right]Pokémon Trainer Erika[/right][center][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqRclvvmcE]would like to battle![/url][/center]

With the natural speed advantage, considering Eep was more or less etched to the ground, Del definitely got off that Harden albeit it did give Eep some time to prepare his own move, and Del was then intending to charge in with Poison Sting. What did Erika command?

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[@Joshua Tamashii][@Eklispe]

Amelia and Dawkin noted the individuals around, dressed in fairly casual clothes with the exception for the girl in a dress, but they were unmistakably adults with a mission in mind. When Dawkin asked his quite reasonable question, most of them kept silent, but the girl with the Seviper turned to him and spoke quietly, just loud enough for him to hear.

[color=d694c1]‘There are reasons to keep one’s eyes on Angelique when she walks through a populated area. Believe me when I say you’d be happier not knowing. Move along,’[/color] she said, before peeking past the wall she was hiding behind in Angelique’s direction, otherwise keeping quiet.

Meanwhile, at the actual confrontation.

The young man, after having listened to what Angelique said, stepped forward to grab the neck of the ghost-trainer’s clothes when she turned to leave. She didn’t move very quickly, so it was easy for him to catch up. He reached for the neck and made the motion to grab, only to find that his hand went right throu-

Amelia felt a sudden flare of spectral activity all around Angelique, curling along her body, and the sensation of a powerful blast resounded from the site of the battle along with a wave of something, the same kind of energy she had picked up on that Angelique had been communicating with her Pokémon with. The blast was accompanied by the actual sound of a physical blast, making all the surrounding peeking trainers flinch and ready their Pokéballs.

For the young man, said blast was a wave of black energy, suddenly shot out from where his hand had approached, rather violently repelling him and potentially causing him to stagger as he couldn’t possibly have been ready for that. Angelique staggered a few steps forward from the force of the same blast as well, her back towards him as she fought to maintain balance. There was a sudden convergence of power from Angelique, small purple spirits surging across the surface of her clothes to gather at her neck, right where the young man’s hand had attempted to grab her.

The spirits started spinning at her nape, spinning and forming a disk of purple spiritual energy with green larger spirits circling, before a ghostly face took shape in the middle. Now, obviously the young man knew this Pokémon. He also knew the move that had targeted his hand, as it was the same one Greninja had used just a bit ago. Dark Pulse. Except, it had been far less controlled, and seemingly shot out on pure reflex in response to an unexpected event.

The Pokémon at Angelique’s neck spun its spirits and announced its name at him.

[color=c27ca5]‘Spiritooooooomb~’[/color]

[center][url=https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8e/442Spiritomb.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/VoY53el.png[/img][/url][/center]

[center][color=6ecff6][i]Pokédex Entry #442 – Spiritomb, the Forbidden Pokémon. A Pokémon formed by a multitude of spirits bound together by an Odd Keystone. They were bound into the fissure of the stone with a dark spell many years ago as punishment for their mischief and misdeeds. If freed, it is known to be as aggressive and mischievous as ever.[/i][/color][/center]

… Except, the Spiritomb had no Odd Keystone, which was usually a staple for the Pokémon’s formation. Instead, it appeared to be linked directly to Angelique.

[color=6e6e23]‘… … …’[/color] Angelique had stopped, standing still at the place she had staggered to, not turning around to look at him.

[color=6e6e23]‘… Don’t do that,’[/color] she simply said with a passive voice, before slowly placing one foot before the other and continuing her slow walk away from the scene. Spiritomb sat on the back of her clothes looking at him still. If she was let to walk, the Spiritomb would eventually disperse, the many spirits comprising the Pokémon scattering to surge about Angelique’s body briefly before seemingly vanishing. Cofagrigus and Trick Room still hovered in the air, the former considerably more alert and with a more serious look in its eyes after having let a stranger lay a hand on its trainer, glaring at the young man.

… Any particular actions?