RPG Pokemon Depression

[Brooklyn]

[COLOR=MediumTurquoise]OOC: Look people other role players can add you in in their posts if your involved with them kay.Also Please loengthen your post to at least 2 paragraphs or the adminastraters will yell at you so yeah.

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[sakurasuka]

[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]OOC: Umm... DarkMark, sorry for putting your person so much in my posts, then not knowing what you're supposta act like >.< Yeah, well, whatever. I don't know if you care or not, but I'm not trying to rule your person or anything, or make him different, but I tend to put everyone around my person in my posts, and you're the only one around my person...

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"Hmm... You've got guts. Go, Azura, Hydro Pumo followed up with a Thunder!" Anizaki pointed at the opponent and Azura leaped around, dodging some ash balls and getting hit with others, losing HP but finaly finding an opening to attack... It hits! But somehow Flame isn't fainted?

"How can your Azzurill learn Hydro Pump? Let alone Thunder! What is this? Grr... Okay, Fire Blast!" Dark quikly lost interest in what attacks Azura knew, he was now just concentrated on winning... The fire blast hit it's mark and sent Azura flying.

"It's okay, Azura! Now, Arora Beam! Oh, and dark," She turned her attention momentarily to Dark, "I've never seen any trainer ('Cept the TR twins back there) ever get through that combo of attacks! You really are tough, I'll give you that, but no way you're gonna win. Azura, to your left!" Anizaki pointed out a Flame Wheel coming, and Azura barely dodged it, but it still got burned a little. Azura powered up for Arora Beam, and took precise aim, but Flame wasn't just gonna sit around and let her use a powerful Ice attack, and be just a sitting duck!

"Flame, Rage attack!" Flame begun to use Rage, but Azura amazingly enough, dodged it. Flame's Rage was stopped abruptly by Azura unleashing her Arora Beam and knocking Flame almost out of the ring, but it made a quick save and came back with another Rage.

"Okay, let's try another Hydro Pump?" Anizaki asked Azura, Azura nodded, saying it was up to it. Azura pointed her tail at Flame and unleashed a huge Hydro Pump directly at him... Making a direct hit! But still, even after all that, it still had HP left... But barely.

"Flame, we can still do this! Go, Rage again!" Flame started shooting random Rage attacks everywhere, finally hitting Azura. Azura's tiny body couldn't stop in mid-air, so she just curled up and waired to land. She coudn't yet use another attack, the downfall of having all power and no easy attacks and in being so young was that she could not use so many attacks or she would tire herself out, as she is now. Azura was going to fast to stop herself, so Anizaki ran over and caught her as soon as she flew out of the ring. The match belonged to Flame and Dark.

"You did well, Azura. Now, let's wait untill Katai gets here to heal you. You are a good trainer, Dark, to have reduced her HP by that much. I'm impressed. Though, your Flame took more damage, my Azura didn't have any energy to go on. Of course, it gets it back instantly after the battle..." She said sarcastically at the fact Azura was now hopping around on her tail again.

"Wow. That fluffball is more powerfull than I expected. How is it that it can go it's merry way and hop around when just moments ago, it could barely move?" Dark asked, pulling out a potion to heal Flame.

"I don't know all that much, either. All I know is that she can quickly regain her strength, but what does that matter if she is already lost due to the fact she gave her opponent a 30 second opening? Well, Azura needs to work on her stamina, and she needs to pace herself. That last Hydro Pump almost took you out, but she used too much powed in it. She almost won, but drained herself in doing so. And she also panics once she gets to that point. She can't keep her cool." Anizaki knelt down and petted Azura.

"Oh... I see. It is a high level, yes, and it knows all the high level attacks, but it is young and unexperienced, so it can't use tham to her full ability. That would be a major drawback..." Dark wondered for a moment how the match would've gone if Azura had been more experinced, but he already knew the answer.

"Hit the nail on the head. Well, to the victor goes the spoils, here. Take this, as a token of your victory." She held out a pin... It was in the shape of a Masterball.

"What is it?" Dark walked up to her.

"It is the prize from the tournament I won. This was the biggest one there had been in years, and it had all of the winners and strong trainers all of every reagion could find. There ended up being 48 people at that tournament. I won the last match with Azura. You defeted Azura, meaning this should have been yours." Anizaki spoke in short sentences and tried to keep a sweet tone in her voice. She was un-happy that she lost, but she wouldn't have rather lost to anyone else. She was truely happy for him. She didn't know why, normally if she lost at something, she would throw something at the victor then deny it ever happened, hitting whoever said otherwise with something long and hard, but this time... She didn't really care.

"No... You won this, why are you trying to give it ot me, huh?" Dark looked at it like it might be a trap or something, turning it over in her palm.

"No, no trap. Just because you are my friend." She couldn't believe she just said that. WHY DID I JUST SAY THAT?! "Well, yeah. You beat me, it belongs to you.

"Just because I beat you doesn't mean I won that tournament. You did, apparently, so you keep your pin." Dark pushed her hand away.

"Take it or die." Anizaki started to get a bit angry... "I mean, no, here." She pinned it to his shirt. "There. It looks nice ^^ D'you like it?"

"Uh.... Sure." Dark didn't know what to say. He half wished Anizaki would go back to being evil, but... "Thanks..."

"No problem." She smiled. SMILED![/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

[Darkmark]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=System]OOC:I'm just find with it. Its cool. :D


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Dark smile back before he realizes what he is doing. Flame come over a tap him on the shouder and :D at Dark.

"Hm?...Ok..OK.I get it Flame." said Dark.

"Well i have something to tell you. The volcano is mine kind of..Well..we go there ever year..me and Flame..sometimes haunter. Doesn't like being hot..but Lot of fire pokemon show up around the time we go there. But we're not sure this year. So lets go before the other two comes."

"Shouldn't we want for them because they don't know how to get there?" said Anizaki.

"No because they send Ruby to follow us." said Dark as he point to the trees. "Let go, if we run we should get there in ten min."

Dark and Anizaki get there and go inside though a cave.

"There use to be torchic and vulpixs around here all the time and they all ways train with us." said Dark

"I hope that combusken we trained with is still around here." said Dark with Flame noding.

At that moment a Blaziken appered and point at Flame and Dark. "Red?" said Dark

Then the Blaziken shoke its head.

"Your ok." said Dark .

Blaziken walks over and took a pokeball off Dark's belt and handed it to Dark.

"Are you sure red?" said Dark

The Blaziken shook it head yes and smiled.

" :ball: go!" said Dark As he though the his :ball: at blaziken.

Blaziken let Dark catch him then comes out of his pokeball and points at Anizaki.

"Friend..."said Dark.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Makurayami]

Zan walked under a tree. It had just turned dark and he was getting tired. "Hey Andrea, over here!" Andrea walked over. "We'll be staying here for the night, ok? It's up to you to get your own food. Consider it part of your training." Zan walked to the bottom of the tree. "Pikachu, go!" Pikachu ran up the tre and grabbed a branch. He then jumped branch to branch. When he got to the top he saw some fruit. Pikachu grabbed some and threw it down. Zan caught it. Pikachu then grabbed a fruit in each hand and juped down Zan caught him. "Good boy Pikachu. Now we got something to eat." He sat down under the tree and began eating.

[foxtu78]

"OK." *puts the Swinnub in her jacket and walks around some trees until she finds a fruit tree with a low enough branch for her to climb the tree.* "This tree will do fine." *begins to climb up the tree. She slips a few times but manages to get enough food for her and her Pokemon down. Then she releases Vulpix and Growlithe and divides the food evenly and gets ready to help feed the Swinnub.* "If you want extra food you have to climb a tree and get it yourself." *Growlithe and Vulpix didn't seem to mind but when they finished and decided they were still hungry Vulpix talked Growlithe into trying to climb the tree. He failed every time. When Vulpix tried she couldn't get up far either though she did better than Growlithe.

Swinnub ate a little of the soft fruit then went to sleep in Andrea's jacket. Andrea sat back and gave Vulpix and Growlithe clues as to how they could get up the tree but they didn't succeed that night. Andrea gave in and got them each one more fruit for trying so hard. "I really wish the Swinnub would make it and live." Andrea said to Zan.

[sakurasuka]

[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Anizaki smiled at Blazekin and Dark. She was happy there were some people... And Poke'mon... Out there that were still happy despite the Deppresion. The Blazekin looked at her apprihensively at first, but then lowers it's guard a little.

"Hey... Dark... Just tellin' you... I don't really like small places... like caves... So, umm..." Anizaki said in a barely audible voice.

"What?" Dark wondered why this was just coming up now... "Well... Why you haven't bothered to mention that before, I don't know, but there's really nothing to be afraid of."

"I know, it's stupid. It's not even a fear I can explain... I don't even know why I told you that... It's just I feel as though... It could cave in at any minute... A legitimate fear..." Anizaki tried to explain her fear, but it still wasn't very clear.

"No fear is stupid, Aku. If you are scared of somethin' it doesn't hurt to tell people, either. Not to say you should just be scared of everyhting your whole life, now THAT would be stupid. You have to face your fears and fight the unknown and all that jazz."

"Umm... Okay..." Anizaki still looked freaked out, though.

"Yeah, and you got us to protect you!" Out from behind them jumped two figures...

"EEYAH! *huff huff* KATAI? Why d'you hafta come out and scare me like that?" Anizaki jumped up out of fright.

"It's what I do. So, how have you guys been?" Katai replied cheerily.

"Katai, we've seen them less than an hour ago, I don't think they've done all that much. Hey... Aku (Don't call me that!) isn't that your pin? Didn't you win that a few years back?" Satoshi eyed the shiny thing pinned to Dark's chest with scepticism.

"Yes." Anizaki replied with no emotion whatsoever.

"Then why does he..."

"Because he defeted me. I wanted him to have it. It is as important as an inanimate object can possibly get, and it is a token of his victory." Anizaki said these words truly from her heart it seemed, but it still lacked any true EMOTION in her tone. But hey, that's Aku Anizaki for ya'.

OOC: Sorry for the short post... Gotta go! >.<[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

[Darkmark]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=System]" Ok...why must you know everything she does....its getting on my nerves."said Dark

"Because I do. :D " said Satoshi

* -_- * Dark's Face.

"Errr..." said Satoshi

"*sigh*Lets just go." said Dark

Dark walk up to the cave wall and punched it where a D was. It open up to a big open,hot,steam coming out of the ground, bright(like every day light but) [U]red[/U] growing room with a pokemon battle ring. Dark took off his hat, rip off his sleves and let out his pokemon.

"Flame and Red, I want you two to train on the field...haunter..you do your talports...Dil..Dil... :twitch: find train with Blade. Hey Aku..:nope:..(crap)oops..."said Dark[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[sakurasuka]

[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]"Doesn't matter. Hey you know, Dark's right, Satoshi. What's up with you and having to know everything about me all the time, eh?" Anizaki looked around for Blade and Dil while she spoke.

"That's just what I do." Satoshi replied with a smile, stealing Katai's line.

"Yeah. He's the same with me, if that accounts for anything. He did this stupid spy thing when I was on my adventure, (Oh, to be 13 again.) he was always following me and making big entrances every time we were in danger. ('We' meaning me and the newbie trainers ^^) Ha. That was a long time ago." Katai smiled as well, absentmindedly clapping to call her three PKMN.

"Hey, Katai, do you want to show the little nOObs a real battle? Ruby vs Emrald? (Named it when it was a Scyther... Not smart...) How about it?" Satoshi and Ruby stood side-by-side ready for a fight.

"Okay. Let's have a regular battle, though. Three-on-three, no martial arts, just PKMN. I'm totally wiped out from the trip here." Katai's PKMN came behind her and they were all smiling except Emrald.

"... Emrald? Why...?" Anizaki put her face in her hand and shook her head.

"Oh, shut up. Let's go." Katai and Satoshi each took one side of the ring.

"Hey Aku, who are you cheering for? The winner, or Katai?" Satoshi joked.

"I'm not cheering for either of you morons." Anizaki scoffed. "And you are not alowed to call me Aku."

"Oh, c'mon Aku. Get into the fighting spirit. Take a side and cheer them on!" Katai gave her a thumbs up.

"No. Let's go train, Dark. Somewhere NOT around my ideot cousin and her boyfriend." Anizaki sighed.

"He's not my boyfriend!"

"Yeah, I'm not her boyfriend!"

"What's up with everyone and being so over-protective?" Dark asked.

"Nothing!"

"What are you talking about?!"

"Says you!" The three of them yelled at him.

"Hey... See what I mean? Oh, who cares. Let's go train." Dark said.

"Azura, Stun, Blade, let's go!" Anizaki called her PKMN and told Stun and Azura to train agaist each other, and Blade to go train against Dil.

"Well. What're we supposed to do, then?" Dark asked, seeing all of the PKMN training and Katai and Satoshi hogging the field.

"Yo, morons! Hurry it up on the field!" Anizaki yelled.

"Yes, sweet little Aku ^^ Hehe." Katai replied.

"Okay. Let's get this over with." Satoshi said.

"Let's battle Blade and Dil when they're done, okay?" Anizaki looked excited.

"Umm... Okay. If they will." Dark looked over at the not-training PKMN over in the corner talking and goofing off and all.

"Blade has never slacked off before, this is wierd."

"Yeah. I know."

"Tie! Again!" Katai moaned, dissapointed.

"How come we alweys tie?" Satoshi shook his head.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

[Darkmark]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=System]"Dil...DIL...[SIZE=4]DIL[/SIZE]!!!!!!" said Dark "YOU....ARE....GOING....TO....BATTLE...BLADE!"

Dil said No and Dark pulls out a sword out of nowhere. Dil gets up and jumps as the same time and there is Black and Green blurs in the air. Then Dil is mad at Dark and Dark is dancing around.

"......." said Aku

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[Wavemaster Tsuka]

OOC: Sorry for not posting much
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Looking around, Tanji looked for something to do. With nothing else to do, he sent out Chikorita and Ivysaur.

"Hey, why don't you two train against each other?" Tanji asked excitedly. He hadn't seen a battle in years. While the Chikorita looked excited and was jumping around, the Ivysaur turned his head away and paid Tanji no attention.

"Oh c'mon Ivysaur, why don't you like me?" Tanji said sadly. "When dad used you, mom told me that you were his most loyal companion. But now you refuse to work with me?". Truthfully, Tanji never expected Ivysaur to obey him, but he hoped it would happen anyway. The Ivysaur had a name before Tanji got him, but he could never remember it.

"Fine. I'm just going to keep both of you out of your Pokeballs. Maybe Kin was right." Tanji also had another reason to keep Ivysaur out; he might grow into liking him. Chikorita was rubbing against his leg, while Ivysaur was a short distance away looking away from him.

[sakurasuka]

[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]"Cool sword..." Anizaki eyed the sword looking slightly dazed. "Hey! Blade! Train now! We have work to do!" Anizaki snapped back into reality and Blade over to her. Blade came slowly hanging it's head.

"Scyther scy ther scy scy." (I'll train when I feel like training.) Blade replied contridictingly ((OOC: Is that even a word??))

"No, you have been slacking off ever since Dil got here. Don't you remember how hard we used to train? All of us! That means you too, Blade! Kick it into high gear and prepare for battle!" Anizaki seemed to have gotten through to Blade, but Dark was still trying desperately to make Dil see reason. Dil noticed that Blade had stopped struggling and was preparing itself for battle, and it stoped running around.

"DIL!!!" Dark landed beside Dil, "Are you gonna battle now?" Dil nodding it's head 'yes'.

Over a few yards away, Anizaki and Blade were traineng... Warming up, more like. Aku was trying to get Blade ready for the fight. They were doing some funky martial arts thing.

"Ready, Aku?" Dark asked as he passed her on the way to his side of the field.

"Depends. Are you?" Anizaki whispered.

"Hmm." Dark nodded and took his spot on his side of the field, and Anizaki took hers. The two Scythers took a spot some 4 feet or so away from each other in the center of the field.

"You guys ready? Why doncha make this a little more real, 'kay? I'll be ref! Oh, pick me!" Katai happily jumped up and down on the side of the field.

"Katai, you barely know left from right. Just let the kids fight." Satoshi brushed his hair out of his eyes.

"Who're you calling kids?" Anizaki yelled. "Oh, let's just battle."

"Okay."[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

[Makurayami]

Zan releases his Gyarados. "Gyarados, it's bedtime." Gyarados curls up on the ground, leaving room for Zan in the middle. Zan crawled into the middle. "I'm going to sleep Andrea. You should do the same. We'regetting an early start tommorrow." Zan laid back and took off his jacket. He then draped it over him like a blanket. Pikachu curled up next to him. Within a few minutes he was out cold.

[Darkmark]

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"OK THEN..DIL Agility!" said Dark

"Blade...Agility!" said Aku

Both of them are blurs on the field.

"Dil do Sharp sickle!"

Dil stop and starts lashing out at blade.

Blade dogdes each one.

"Blade, Mirror Move!"

Blade does Sharp sickle and Dil is the one dogding.

"Dil, Rage!"

"Blade, Fury Attack!"

Both of them hit each other. Half of their hp is gone.

"DIL, PSYCHIC!"

Blade gets hit head on but does Cut and gets Dil.

They both fall over.

"Dil..sleep."

Dil goes to sleep and Dark gives Aku a pill.

"Give this to Blade. I made it by myself, she will herself in no time, but she will have a lot of energy...they both will..."[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[foxtu78]

"C'mon Vulpix and Growlithe." she said practically whispering. "It's time for bed." She laid on the ground with her head on her backpack, the Swinnub in her arms, Vulpix right next to Swinnub, and Growlithe behind her legs. After a few minutes she falls asleep but wakes up in the middle of the night with a nightmare. Then, thinking it was nothing, falls back asleep.

[sakurasuka]

[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]"Oh, thank you..." Anizaki looked at her Blade and knelt down beside it, giving it the pill. Blade blinked repetedly out of disgust. Blade hates medicine in any form. "There. You're all better ^^ Wow, this stuff is really awesome! Thank you! Normally, it would've taken days for it to recover fully!" Anizaki stood up and shot an over-joyed smile at Dark, who returned it once he had administered the pill to his own Scyther.

"Yeah. Thanks, Aku."

"Oh, about the more energy thing, more energy than normal? Like, alot? Umm... Blade doesn't really need more energy... It'll like, explode or something..." Anizaki stuttered, looking over at the recovering Scithers.

"Yeah... Quite a bit more energy, really."

"Hey, can I have one of those? I'll pay you well for it! It's for study reasons..." Katai gogled at the Scythers.

"Umm... Study reasons?"

"Katai is a nurse. She no longer can help PKMN as much, due to the sheer lack of them, but she truly enjoys helping them still. She is the best nurse in all of Orange Islands, Jhoto, and Kanto combined. She has had a problem with learning how to put medication in pill form, though. No doubt she'll be obsessing over you for a few days. Better not let Unmenia know about that." Satoshi snickered. ((OOC: Katai was born in a village where arranged marriges are common. She was aranged to a person that she really liked, but then drifted apart from from him ever since the deppression. The dude's name was Unmenia. He is really over-protective, and almost killed Satoshi once, since he thought that they liked each other, and got jelous. Katai and Satoshi are no more than friends.))

"Really? Well, I don't know..." Dark joked with her. "Hey, who's Unmenia?"

"Long story. Please?? PLEASE??? [I]PLEASE????[/I]" Katai ran up to Dark and stood about a foot from him. She wasn't quite as tall as him, even though she was a solid 4 or 5 years older.

"Erk... Umm, okay?" Dark jumped back.

"Hey hey hey! Katai, shove off!" Anizaki pushed her out of the way and glared around angrily.

"What's you're problem?" Katai tripped but caught herself before she fell, but came up with the exact same expression as Anizaki.

"I'm not the one with the problem! Look at you fawning over Dark!" Anizaki growled

"What do you mean? I was only asking him a question! You're the one that's getting over-protective over nothing!" Katai growled back.

"Haha! Cat fight! Watch it, Dark, looks like they BOTH like you, now!" Satoshi doubled over laughing and Dark took a few more steps back.

"Umm... Uh, yeah... Well..." Dark stuttered.

"HAHAHA!" Satoshi now rolling on the floor laughing...

"SATOSHI! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Anizaki took a well-aimed kick at Satoshi.

"BOTH?! LIKE THAT LITTLE RUNT? YEAH, RIGHT!" Katai kicked him, too...

"OW!" Satoshi stood up, still snickering, but now holding his side where they both kicked him. "Hey, Katai, who're you callin' a runt, anyway? He's like, 3 inches taller than you! HA!" Satoshi started up again.

"SATOSHI!" Katai and Anizkai each kicked him again, this time in the shin and he stopped.

*Huff huff* Anizaki's face was bright red due to a mixture of both over-exertion, and embarassment. Katai looked exactly the same.

"I was just joking. Hey, Katai, you're cute when you're mad." Satoshi turned on the charm.

"That's not gonna work." Katai glared at him, but this time a bit of a smile twiched at the sides of her mouth.

"Yeah, I know." SAtoshi and Katai both smiled, leaving Anizaki still angry and Dark still backing up.

"Okay... I'm just gonna forget about that. Well, let's get back to training, shall we?" Dark looked around him at the Poke'mon that have been watching the whole ordeal, but seeing Dark look at them, they re-started thier training. Blade and Dil were now running around like they were starting to get super-hyper. Like they had been drinking soda all day or something.

"Okay. Sounds good. Hey! Blade! Stop that!" Anizaki looked at Blade, who was now shooting random beam attacks at the wall.

"Dil! Hey! No!" Dark started telling off Dil for doing the same thing.

"Hey, guys, let's let our Poke'mon get to know each other, okay? No battles for now, just let them be themselves." Katai smiled.

"Well, who else would they be?" Satoshi and Dark replied at the same time.

"I say no." Satoshi shook his head. "We need to train, not 'get to know ourselves' or whatever. There's no point."

"Katai, I can't believe you've become like... A shrink or something." Anizaki laughed.

"No, I just think that if we're gonna be traveling together, we need to get to know each other. Become friends and all. Our Poke'mon included." Katai scoffed.

"I don't need friends. Having friends makes you do stupid things like endanger the mission to help each other and all. Look at what freinds did to Blade." Anizaki nodded toward her smiling, laughing Scyther and wrinkled her nose.

"C'mon, having friends can't be that bad. Look, Satoshi and me are friends, and we're happy. You and Dark are friends, aren't you?" Katai looked at her questioningly.

"Well... I don't know. We just came to train. I told myself I'd not make friends, okay? What are you looking at me like that for, Katai?" Anizaki looked a bit perturbed with the whole situation.

"It's nothing." Katai smiled.

"Don't you smile at me! What are you smiling for? Cut it out!" Anizaki started following Katai, who had turned to leave. "Don't turn you're back on me! GET BACK HERE!"

"Well, we'd better follow them." Satoshi smiled at Dark, who was now very confused.

"Umm... I thought we were gonna train... Hey, I said you guys could follow me, not the other way around! HEY!" Dark ran after them angrily.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

[Darkmark]

[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=System]"(Where are they going?)" thought Dark.

"Keep training!"said Dark

Dark ran out to follow but they were turning in to a hallway. Dark took a step and fell down a hole. Dirt was a round him every where. Below him was dark and as he hit the ground two min. later he blacked out.

ten min. later

Dark was in a dark room and it was very VERY hot. He sat up he had no pokemon with him and he had no idea where he was. He continue to walk..in to a wall. Dark rub at his face, the wall was hot. The wall fell down at his feet.

A river of lava was rushing by and was getting bigger by the minute.

"The volcano...it going to blow!" said Dark

He punch out a rock of the wall to surf on. "(I must warn them!)" thought Dark

*Aku..Get as far away as you can..get everybody out...all of the pokemon..everybody..the volcano is going to BLOW...don't worry about me....*[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[sakurasuka]

[COLOR=DarkGreen][B][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Satoshi glanced over his shoulder and noticed that Dark was no longer following. They went back only to discover Dark lying almost unconcious some 20-30 feet away from them. The ground they were standing on started to detatch itself, and began to float.

"Aku!" Katai grabbed her arm as she and Satoshi jumped back on the attached land. "Get off that! We need to get out of here!"

"Katai! You get Aku out of here! I'll try to get Dark. He looks like he's gonna make it... He isn't out yet, at any rate."

"What?!" Aku glanged around aprihensively but stood her ground. "I'm not leaving without Dark! I'll help you, we can stop it!"

"You have to get out of here!" Katai held her arm up to block an oncoming rock that crumbled away from the wall. "It's too dangerous! You kids, get away! Satoshi and I will deal with this! It's big enough to destroy the entire city if we don't stop it!" Katai's PKMN all apeared behiind her ready to fight the volcano.

"No. I don't know that any of us can stop it. We need just get away and make sure the lava doesn't reach the town." Satoshi threw his arms around Katai to protect her from the splashes of lava licking at thier heels. "At any rate, we won't last much longer in here."

"NO! DARK!" The rock Dark was on cracked and drfted even further away from Aku and Satoshi and Katai. Aku noticed he was trying to stand, but half of what was left of his rock was already under the lava. Aku called on Blade and Dill "Blade! Dil! C'mon, we have to help Dark!" Aku grabbed onto Blade's back and Blade lifted her off the ground. Dil went to the side of his master in a vain attempt to save him.

"Aku, no!" Satoshi reached out an arm, but Aku dodged, yelling,

"We'll get out! I swear it! You guys just leave!" Aku then turned all of her attention to holding on. Blade seemed to be affected by the heat, and stopped to rest on a ledge far enough that Satoshi couldn't jump to them. A boulder fell at Satoshi's feet, and the wall began to cave. He had no choice but to leave and pray for the best. He put his arm around Katai's waist and pulled the both of them to safety some 10 feet outside of the entrance. Way out of Aku's sight. She was relieved. Even though she despises her cousin and Satoshi, she doesn't want them to get hurt.

"Blade... Can you go... Just a little further...? Come on... For Dark...?" Aku was also out of breath. Too much longer and they may all die from lack of heat exausten... Aku, just now thinking of this from the fact that the entrance they came in just collapsed, was at lack of seeing another way out. Oh, well. I'll think of that when I get there. She thought. First she needed to get to Dark. That's all that mattered.

Dark's rock remained intact, but barely. He allowed Dil to pull him into a sitting position. He groggily glanced around through narrowed eyes. The only thing he saw, despite the flaming lava and scorching, heavy boulders bouncing off of the walls, was Aku. She and Blade had positioned themselves in an inset ledge on the wall. Fear flooded him. Fear for his life, Dil's life, Blade's life, and Aku's life. More Aku's than the rest. The PKMN could make thier way out, but Aku couldn't. There was no way... They needed to get out. Lava started to rise, now at Aku's feet... She started to climb up the wall. Dark tried to stand, but his legs wouldn't hold him. He looked down at his rock... It was quickly diminishing... He needed something to help him get his energy back...

Without warning, a blast of icy water hit Dark. He stood, looking around angrily to see who doused him, and noticed a tiny blue dot on another rock, bouncing from rock to rock. Azzura. Man, that little fluff ball has good timing. Dark shook the excess water out of his hair and picked up Azzura who was now on a rock only about 5 feet from his, and grabbed onto Dil's back. "C'mon, let's go save Aku and Blade!" At the mention of 'Blade', Dil shot off like a cannon. Just in time, the minute thier feet left the rock, it exploded into flame. Dark hurled Azzura toward a ledge and it smiled, bouncing it's way out and to safety.

Aku and Blade ended up seperated as they climbed the sheer cliff to escape the flaming liquid, just inches from thier feet. The wall was colapsing as they went. Aku thanked her lucky stars that she hadn't have left. If she had, Blade wouldn't have left, due to the fact that Dil hadn't, and Blade would've tried to get Dil and Dark to safety, only leading to Blade's own downfall...And Aku wouldn't know any of this till it was too late... But it's hard to think of being lucky when you are developing 3rd degree burns on the entire bottom half of you're body. Aku looked to her left and found that she could no longer see Blade. Aku reached for a Poke'ball and re-called it. There. It's safer now. Aku thought. Now she could find Dark and they could get out of here...

Dark and Dil hovered a few feet behind Aku. She had climbed a few feet ahead of the lava, and was now on a small ledge. Dark noticed how exhausted Dil was, and it only kept going to get to Blade, who was nowhere in sight. Dark jumped onto the tiny ledge and re-called Dil. A few more seconds and it would collapse, it looked like. Dark then turned to Aku, on the brink of collaping herself, and gave a sigh of relief. Now they only had to get out. Dark's clothes were already bone-dry again, and he was starting to get drowsy...

"Dark! You're okay!" Aku looked like she could hug him, but hey, she's Aku. Aku doesn't hug.

"Yeah, thanks to you're Azzuril! That thing has some power!" Dark joked, helping Aku to the next ledge. They only had to climb to the top and they were home-free. That seemed like the only way out, now.

"Oh... Is Azzura okay?" Aku winced as a sharp rock jutting out from the wall sliced her right arm. Dark winced as well, but at the sight of the blood gushing from it. It looked painfull.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Fine... Ahhh!" Dark covered Aku as a huge boulder fell from the wall and threatened to smash her. It rolled off of Dark and he relesed her hesitantly.

"Umm..." Dark mumbled something about a stupid rock, or something like that.

"Thank you..." Aku reallized he just saved her life, but didn't want to admit it. She was alot scrawnier than he, if she would've been hit with that, she'd be lucky to escape alive and she knew it.

"... No problem..." Dark blinked and looked down at his feet and noticed he'd stopped climbing. He wondered why he hadn't gotten burned yet? He risked a glange behind him and noticed that the lava was no longer rising... It wasn't geting lower, but this could definitely be a good sign!

"... Hey... The lava isn't rising anymore..." Aku seemed to notice at the exact time as Dark. Happy to find a new subject, she looked up and down the wall. They were at least 50 feet from the top still, but it didn't really matter. "Does this mean it won't erupt?" She looked at him happily.

"Nah. You know all of the crevices on the sidesof the walls? Lava flows through there as much as the top, you know. Well, this was probably just a small eruption and didn't quite reach the top yet, but there's no doubt there's gonna be a load of lava all over the outside of the volcano already, though. But it most likely won't be enough to reach the town." Dark wiped the sweat off of his forehead.

"Well, then that's good news!" Aku sighed, out of breath.

"You okay?" Dark looked at her sceptically.

"What, do you just really like saying that? I'm fine!" Aku faked her evil-ness. She didn't know why, but ever since she saw her Scyther and Dil, she hasn't felt all that evil. She didn't know what she was feeling, but it was... Nice. And she didn't like it. Not a bit.

Dark sighed and shook his head. She wasn't all that good a lier. Or faker, for that matter. "Well, let's get going." Dark helped Aku back to her feet, but she stumbled a bit and he caught her. ((OOC:That would really suck of they got all this way just for Aku to fall to her death, doncha think?)) Aku was shaking. Dark tried to let her go, but she didn't seem able to stand very well and the moment turned really awkward really fast.

The lava started to get higher again and now it was sure that the top was gonna blow at any minute, and Aku was totally exhausted. Dark wasn't doin' all that great himself...[/FONT][/B][/COLOR]

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"I..can't..goo.go...an..any..far..." said Aku as she fainted.

"This isn't one of my better days. ( :help: )" said Dark as he was holding on to her.

He pulled her up on his back and started to climb. "Why did you wait for me..." said Dark

With the lava right behind him he made it on the top of the volcano. There Flame was waiting.

"Flame take Aku and get her far a way as poss. Get everybody to dig a big hole for the lava to go into, I'll try to tell you when it is coming." said Dark

Flame took Aku and looked at Dark.

"GO!!!"

Flame took off and Dark started to run down the side of the volcano. He's half way down when he trips on a rock and starts to fall. He lands on his side hard, he starts to faint as his body starts rolling down the hill.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

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[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]"Katai... Katai, wake up!" Satoshi held Katai in his lap, she must have passed out ((OOC: They DID go through a colapsing tunnel, you know.))

"Ugh... Oww..." Katai lifted her head up a little bit and blinked. Her face was covered in dirt-smudges, as was Satoshi's.

"Katai! You're okay!" Satoshi hugged her, but she squeaked a little and muttered that he was hurting her and he relesed her. "Oh, sorry."

"Where's Aku...?" Katai was trying, with the help of Satoshi, to get to her feet, but with no prevail.

"Aku didn't... Her and Dark are still..." Satoshi, who didn't know whether or not they got out, didn't know what to say.

"They aren't dead. I know they aren't. Aku is a survivor, first and foremost, why did she stay back?" translucent tears rolled down Katai's face.

"Let's try to... Find them..." Satoshi stood, letting Katai lean on him, since she seemed to have a sprained/broken ankle. Satoshi leapt up onto a tree, and was gone in a flash to find Dark and Aku. All of Katai and Satoshi's PKMN were looking, too.

-Meanwhile-

Azzura bounced down the side of the volcano, smile on her face. She knew Aku must have gotten out, and wasn't worried. All of Aku's PKMN have total faith in her. Azzura then noticed something odd...

-Meanwhile... Again-

Aku blinked her eyes open. She couldn't move very much. She notices that she was being carried by Flame... [I]Where was Dark? What happened? Dark must've... Saved me...[/I]

"Flame... FLAME!" Flame looked down at Aku and slowed down, "STOP! Where's Dark? Put me down! Where's Dark?"

"Char... Charizard char char charizard." (He told me to take you away from there) ((OOC: Aku can understand PKMN langauge. She has lived with only PKMN all har life.)) Charizard roared, speeding back up again.

"No!" [I]Dark... Wanted to save me? Not himself... Me? but... Why?[/I] "No, bring me back to him! He might need our help!" Aku didn't want to be helpless this time. She had a very bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, and she was scared of what it might mean. After a lot of pursuading and a threat to sic Azzura on him, Flame finnaly (But very reluctantly) agreed to go back and help Dark. Aku seemed to have gotten all of her energy back, as she was trying to escape Flame's grip.

-Meanwhile... (Grr.... This is getting old...)-

Azzura saw something rolling down the side... It was even with her, about 10 feet away. At first, she didn't notice what it was, but now she did. It was Dark! Azzura tried desperately to keep up with him, but yet again, to no prevail. She just couldn't hop fast enough ^^

-AGAIN?!-

"I don't see them anywhere..." Satoshi glanced around, running as fast as humanly posible to cover as much ground as he could, all with Katai on his back.

"Do you think this means..." Katai looked like she was about to cry again, "No! We have to believe they are okay!"

"Aku can take care of herself. Dark is pretty good at that too, it seemed." Satoshi tried to comfort her.

"But Aku has never been anywhere that hot before... How would her body handle it? She's used to snowey places, not places with gushing lava and molten stuff everywhere!"

"I don't think anyone is accustomed to that, Katai."

"Yeah, well..." Katai stopped talking when she noticed something... Light blue? Well, a nice time to see Aku's Azzurill.

-And back to Anizaki-

"Look! Down there! I can see Satoshi's hair!" (It's bright orange. Kinda hard to miss.) Aku pointed, and Flame 'swooshed' down and landed. Azzura was yelling something. Aku and Katai (Both knowing PKMN language) could easily decipher what it was saying: 'Dark is in trouble'

"Dark? Where?" Aku looked in the direction of where Azzura was pointing and saw Dark in a small rock-slide rolling down the mountain. Flame quickly shot off to save him, and Aku jumped on it's back. In no time at all, Flame was above Dark, but couldn't find a way to help him. If flame landed in the rock slide, he would be in as much trouble as Dark. Aku had an idea.

"Flame, lower down right above Dark!" Aku climbed down Flame's side, and Flame obeyed. Flame was now holding Aku by the ankles and she was inches from Dark. She grabbed Dark's arm and tried to lift him up without letting rocks hit him. After about 30 agonizing seconds, she managed. Aku held onto him and Flame flew back and lowered them down at aboout where Satoshi and Katai stood. Aku hovered over Dark, brushing dirt off of him, trying to wake him up, wraping his many wounds in bandages and such.

"Hey, Aku," Katai said in a sing-song voice, "Do you know what will wake him?"

"What?" Aku stood up, sceptically asking her cousin.

"True love's first kiss! HA! ^^ HAHAHA!" Katai doubled over laughing, and aku threw a rock at her, but missed. Katai tried to dodge the rock that missed, but tripped on a tree root.

"I believe that's sleeping beauty, Katai." Satoshi snickered.

"That's not funny!" Aku was getting mad that Dark was seriously hurt and they didn't care. Then she started wondering why she DID care...

"Ugh..." Dark blinked and tried to sit up.

"Dark!"[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

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"Ak...Aku..you.u...smell...good....Flame, pl.an...b....mmmm" said Dark as he fainted again.

Flame walked over to Dark and taped on a pokeball. Red came out( Blaziken). They both shook their heads and grab everybody(Flame grabed Dark & Aku...Red grabed Katai & Satoshi) and started to run like there is no tomorrow.


Ten miles later.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

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[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium][I]What... Was that about?[/I] Anizaki was thinking back to when Dark had re-gained conciousness. She must have blushed, because Katai commented,

"Aww, how sweet ^^ The darling little newbie trainers are in lo-o-ve!" Katai and Satoshi snickered. Aku noted they they seemed more immature than Dark and herself, andd should stop calling them newbies. She didn't say it aloud, she was quite enjoying the ride and didn't want to ruin it by defending her standpoint again. She had to hold onto Dark to keep him from slipping of Flame's back, though. Yet again, she didn't seem to mind.

[I]This is... Wierd... It's like I actually have... Friends? There's Satoshi... Nice when he wants to be, and Katai... She's just a bit off, but still somewhat of a friend, I guess... And then there's Dark... He's...[/I] Aku drifted off into thought, trying to find an explanation for why she liked Dark... She could find none that left her in a position to be evil, so she changed her train of thought. [I]Why did I allow Flame to take me somewhere, when I didn't even know where it was gonna take me?[/I] Aku thought about how out-of-character this was for her. She could find no explanation. The only thing that was even slightly phesable was that Dark had told them to, and she trusted Dark. She didn't like that explanation, either, for that would mean she was depending upon and trusting a single person. Not all that evil.

"Where are they taking us?" Aku looked at Dark, who opened his eyes just slightly and drifted off again. He was really out. It didn't matter to Aku either way. With him awake, she seemed to concentrate mostly on him, leaving her venerable. She disliked the feeling, but enjoyed Dark's company. For once in her life, Aku could not explain her thoughts and feelings.

By this time, Satoshi and Katai had grown tired of being carried by Red, and decidedly followed along by ground route directly below Flame. [I]They really do like to show off thier speed,[/I] Aku noted. She suddenly felt drowsy. She didn't know why, she just did. Dark blinked again and Aku started to ask where they were going once more, but no words came out. She passed out on his shoulder and didn't wake for quite a while. Katai 'Aww'-ed.

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OOC: Sorry for the short post >.< (Yeah, it's not that short, but I normally try to make mine pretty long...)[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

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[COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2][FONT=System]It was getting dark. And after an hour of running, Katai and Satoshi didn't look so good. They stopped and made camp in the middle of the woods. Flame woke Dark up a told they were here. Katai and Satoshi drop where they were and to sleep(They were're running for an hour). Dark put out his sleeping bag and place her on top of it and cover her in a blanket. He started to make dinner(soup), he let it simmer and walked in to the woods to take a bath. He took his shirt off.

*Wow...she a good nurse..why can't I stop thinking about her? ( :blush: )* thought Dark[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

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[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]"Hmmm..." Aku rubbed her arm where it had been sliced open, not opening her eyes or speaking for a while. She was half awake kinda, and then she smelled the soup and opened her eyes. She felt warm. Litterally and mentally, for the first time since she won that tournament. She intook a deep breath and smelled Dark... She realized she was sleeping on his sleeping-bag and she looked around to see where he went. She decided she he'd just gone to get more fire-wood or something, and would wait here and rest. For some reason though, she missed him. She wished he were there. She sat by the fire, but kept Dark's blanket wraped around her. She stirred the soup a little, but not being all that great a cook, she didn't want to mess with it too much.

Satoshi was laying against a tree. He seemed to be the only one that wasn't hurt or anything. She herself had gotten a few wounds from the volcano and such, Katai had sliced herself open as well, and Dark was probably the worst off. Aku crawled to her bag and pulled out a first aid kit. She didn't like it, but her best skill was probably healing, as was Katai's. It just came natural to the Sakurai/Anizaki family. She put some medicine goop on her arm and wrapped it in gause, wincing, for the midicing stung. She then tended to Katai, who had only minor cuts and things, and went back to the fire.

There she sat for a while, pondering her thoughts. She wondered where Dark had gone, but knew she probably couldn't find him even if she tried, so there she remained. After a few minutes, she noticed Katai's and her own Venonat sleeping exhaustedly next to Satoshi. Katai's Venonat and her own were good friends. She knew Blade was probably wherever Dil was, but she didn't seem to know where Azzura was. She checked to see if it was in it's poke'ball... No. She looked around camp... No. She cursed and kicked a tree, but it hit her toe too hard and she cursed again, this time holding her toe.

"Aku?" Katai sat up. She had been laying flat on the ground.

"What do you want?" Aku angrily replied.

"I just wanted to know why you were kicking that tree." Katai combed her fingers through her hair to straiten it.

"I lost Azzura. Again." Aku shook her head.

"She most likely isn't lost, just... Well, yeah, she's probably lost." Katai smiled, remembering how bad Azzura was at knowing where to go.

"Just go back to sleep. I'm gonna go find her."

"Okay." Katai knew it was pointless to argue.

Katai layed back down and Aku wandered around a bit, not straying too far from where they were camped. She heard the sound of running water and wondered if Azzura or Dark had gone there. Water was usually a good sign. She walked through a few briar patches, but otherwise it was a pretty clean path. When she got there, she did see Dark, but not Azzura. He was soaking wet and wearing only his pants. He had apparently gone to take a bath. He noticed Aku when he reached for his shoes.

"Aku!" He jumped to his feet, "How long have you been standing there?"

"Ahh! Oh, umm... Only a few seconds... I just went to look for..." Aku just now remembered what she had come to find, but didn't really care anymore. "Oh, I'm sorry!" She turned around and allowed him to finish dressing.

"Umm... I thought you were asleep..." Dark blushed.

"I... I was, but I woke up... Umm... Thank you, though..." Aku blushed, too.(If Katai was there, she would've said 'Aww')

"For... What?"

"Everything. You saved me in the volcano, told Flame to save me when we got out, gave me you're blanket, I don't know... Everything..." Her hands shook just a little as she spoke.

"Nah... I should thank you, too." He ran his fingers through his wet hair to help it dry.

"Umm... What did I do?" She was still blushing and shaking, but not quite as much.

"You stayed with me in the volcano, you risked you're life to save me from the rock slide... You gave me this..." He pointed at the pin on his chest.

"Yeah... I guess... Dark...?" She looked at him.

"What?"

"Umm... I have something to say, but I don't really know how to... Umm..." She looked at the ground and dug her shoe into the dirt, wondering what to say and how to say it.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]

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[SIZE=2][FONT=System]"Huh..whars up?" said Dark as he walked over to her.

"Ummm..." said Aku

Dark looked in to her eyes.

"Aku...." said Dark

"What..." said Aku

Dark leaned closer.

"Well, what I'm trying to sa..." said Aku

Dark kissed her for a moment. When he realized what he was doing he pulled away.

"Oooo...umm..Sorry, I couldn't help myself....that was to bold of me...umm..." said Dark blushing and :sweat: [/FONT] [/SIZE] [/COLOR]

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[B][COLOR=DarkGreen][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Aku blinked repetedly out of nervousness and her face turned a violent shade of redish pink and (After she got over the initial shock,) she smiled.

"No... Don't be sorry..." She shook her head and leaned in close to Dark and he thought she might kiss him back, but she just whispered, "Umm... I guess what I'm trying to say is... You shouldn't hold back you're feelings. I'm one to do so, but I just realized... That I felt different about you... At first, I couldn't put my finger on it, but now I understand..." She closed her eyes in a vain attempt to figure out how to put her next sentance. "I don't know how to say this with words, so..." She stood on her tip-toes and kissed him softly and pulled away slowly.

"Umm..." Dark was now the one blushing.

"We should... Go back... Katai knows I left... She might come to find me..." Aku snapped back into reallity.

"Uhh... Yeah, I guess..." He really didn't think he wanted to go back, but she was right.

They walked slowly back to camp, but niether really knew what to say, so there was mostly silence. When they got back, Satoshi was up and he was stuffing things back into his back pack very un-orderly. Katai was up as well, but she was still laying down.

"Where were you guys?" Satoshi looked at them quizically.

"Yeah, what were you doing back there? Aku, you've been gone for about half an hour..." Katai kind of half-smiled implyingly.

"Ahh, umm... I got lost, but then I found Dark and umm..." Aku saw Katai smiling, and knew what she was most likely thinking, "NO! What's that look? UGH! I can't believe you, Katai!" Aku started blushing again, only this time it was a little more angry than last time...

"So defensive. I was just asking..."

"NO!"

"Umm... Can we eat now?" Dark kinda wanted to change the subject.

"Yes. Good idea..." Aku looked at Dark and almost smiled at him, but stopped herself... Katai would have a hay-day with that one.

"Fine. *Sigh* Where are we going, by the way?" Katai shook her head.

"We're going to-" Dark heard something. Apparently Aku heard it, too. There was a rustling in the bushes. Satoshi stood up, hand on Mightenna's Poke'ball. Ruby and Emrald appeared beind him and Katai, now standing. Blade and Dil came, too. They had apparently been just outside of the clearing. Dark didn't want to make any sudden movements, because it might just be a wild PKMN and it would be dumb to scare it if it was just walking by, but his gut told him it wasn't a PKMN... It was something else...

"They are... Dark trainers..." Dark and Aku both got a tiny glimpse of a DT logo through the bushes. They wispered "1... 2... 3..." They were going to attack on '10', but before they even got to '4', the DT's jumped into the clearing. The one leading the group though, had a TA(Team Aqua) logo on his chest, and a DT logo on his hat... The boy was about the height of Dark, maybe an inch or two shorter, and his hair stuck out everywhere. He looked about 14, and his eyes were mostly hidden by his hair (His hair was red. The two chunks of hair in the front were blue, though.)

"I am here for the Anizakis." The boy's voice was kind of scrachy... Evil sounding. (Like a mix between Noah and Seto Kaiba, if you watch Yu-gi-oh.)

"What are you doing here?" Aku took a step toward the boy.

"Do you not remember me, my dear Aku? Does... Tanji Satoshi ring a bell?" The boy tilted his head and laughed a little.

"Sato... Hey, you're Satoshi's little brother!" Katai looked from the boy to Satoshi, who now had an expression of extreme dislike on his face. Like he was looking at some nasty thing on the bottom of his shoe.

"Tanji... You left. We never wanted to see you again. What gives you the right to come back here?" Satoshi (Oh, yeah, his first name is 'Tajiri', but he deasn't like that name, so Katai and everyone just calls him Satoshi.) narrowed his eyes angrily, "And what the h*** do you want with Katai and Aku?"

"Well, you've not heard? Why, my dear brother, always the last to know things like this, are you not? And you're the spy of the family! Dear lord, our whole family is quite a joke, do you not agree, Tajiri?"

"I despise you. Why would you speak like that of our family?"

"Likewise, dear brother. We all despise each other. Now, no more dawdling, come, Aku! Katai! Or will you give me no choice but to use force?"

"What do you want with us?" Katai looked on the verge of tears.

"I do believe Aku knows. Ask her. No, wait, don't. We haven't the time for this."

"What are you talking about?" Dark stepped out in front of Aku.

"No. I know what he's talking about. Yet... For some reason, I don't wish to accompany you. Isn't that a pity?" Aku took on similar speech paterns to Tanji, mocking him.

"I appologize, but you've no choice, as I've previously announced. Now come."

"Not until you explain why you're here." Aku stepped out of Dark's shadow.

"Fine. *Sigh* If I must. But you know already, Aku... Well, I suppose the rest of you are totally in the dark on this, but you know Katai, about Unmenia? How when you were born, you're parents chose him as a suitor for you? Well, Aku's parents did the same. She is engaged (So to speak, though forced, but either way,) to yours truly." Everyone gasped and a few (Including Dark) looked at Aku, who stood defiantly beside Dark.

"But I refused." Aku added, "Once I was old enough to know."

"Yes, but by then, you're parents were dead. Things like this can only be changed through the consent of said parents, or by the death of one of the members. You'd never kill me, meaning we'd be married in a matter of maybe a decade. I do not like this. I wish not be betrothed to the likes of a homeless penniless weakling as yourself. Now, before you're parents were killed and lost thier fortune, it would have been fine, but I'm no longer allowning it. I did rather like you're personallity, though, but it wouldn't be proper for us to wed anymore. You must either change you're identity, or have the choice to be put to death at my hand."

"So you mean to kill me? This is an all time low." Aku shook her head, smiling evil-ly "But why bring Katai, too? What's the point? What did she ever do to you?"

"Ah, yes, lovely Katai. Unmenia just so happens to be my boss. He spends all of his time and money hiring spies to look out for you and such, and it's quite annoying. I won't kill you if I'm not forced to, but you must... 'Go missing.' Yes, the Anizaki twins are quite the troublesome duo."

"Well, what if we refuse to go?" Aku narrowed her eyes, as well.

"This is really stupid. From what I got out of this, Aku's parents have passed away, and Tanji ran away or something, who cares if you're moms and dads want you to get married? They aren't really a part of you're life anymore, are they? And if Katai went missing, then wouldn't the Unmenia dude just be looking even harder? You're thinking skills are really lacking, if you ask me..." Dark scoffed. He was kind of mad that Aku didn't bother to mention that she was engaged before he kissed her, but she apparently didn't want to be, so he'd not get too mad over it...

"You know, Dark is right..." Katai added.

"Yes... But wasn't my way much more fun? SEIZE THEM!" About 30 DT members (And random wierd people that apparently were just hired for this) jumped out into the clearing. 3 jumped toward Aku. She kicked one in the stomach, but the other two held onto her. They were much taller than her. A few tried to hold Dark back, but he smashed through to Aku. They were pulling her up a tree. He grabbed her hand, but didn't get a good enough hold and tried to climb after her, but they were on a Dragonite and away before he could even call for Flame. Satoshi and Katai were having trouble, too, Dark tried to help them. Just because they get Aku, doesn't mean he needed to forget Katai and Satoshi. He got punched in the nose and Satoshi got a cut accross his face, and they still got away. Emrald and Ruby tried to help her, but Tanji shot some wierd purple spray at them and they sunk to the ground sputtering. A few DTs lay unconcious, and the not-unconcious ones carried them away, leaving Tanji, Satoshi, Dark and a few PKMN alone in the clearing. Satoshi's face was in his hands, and Dark thought he was crying, but a few seconds later, he leaped toward Tanji and pinned him to a tree.

"Where did you take Katai? She didn't do anything to you!" Dark noticed that Satoshi had pulled a knife out of his sleeve.

"Now, now. Let's not be hasty." He said, totally un-afraid.

"I'm not messing around! Either you tell me where you took them, or you die here!"

"Hmm. Really, now?" Tanji snapped his fingers and two laser beam looking things shot at Satoshi's stomach, knocking him back into Dark. Satoshi stood up, coughing up blood, but Tanji was gone. They heard his voice echo through the trees,

"Try as you might, you'll never find them. You don't want me as you're enemy, dear brother..."

Satoshi cursed and pounded his fist on a tree. Dark felt just as angry as Satoshi acted.

"We have to find them before something really bad happens to them..." Dark took a sharp breath and looked up at Satoshi.

"Hmm. Yes. We shouldn't lose our cool. That's what those bastards want us to do. We work as a team, okay? Until we find Aku and Katai, at least." Satoshi held out his hand.

"Okay." Dark shook his hand in agreement.

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-To Katai and Aku-

"What's you're problem? Let us go!" Katai and Aku were both in shackles and in a small cell with bars.

"TANJI!!! Let us out, you jerk!!!!!!!" Aku slammed her metal restraints against the stone wall.

"Well well, what have we here? Not so confident anymore, are you Aku?" Tanji stepped in front of the cell.

"Satoshi knows where we are... He'll come for me! You'll be sorry you ever messed with us!" Katai's voice broke a little and she mumbled under her breath, 'Satoshi... Please help us...' over and over again.

"My moron of a brother knows nothing. I am sure of that. Now, why don't we have some fun before I off the both of you?" Tanji pulled a key from his pocket and un-locked the door. Aku leaped at him, but the chain was just half an inch short to reack him.

"You... What is you're problem?!" Aku yelled.

"I don't have a problem." Tanji mocked her by standing as close as posible without actually being in her reach.

"What do you mean 'have a little fun'?" Katai was still slumped against the wall.

"Well, every evil genious has to have an odd yet somehow ingenious fortress, no? Well, do you wish to see mine? I believe you'll have... Fun testing mine out for me."

"What?" Aku slumped back. Her wrists were bleeding and she was tired.

"Oh, I have created a world... A fun world. On this island. It is a bubble that covers the island. Inside is the most entertaining world ever created. The best part: I control everything."

"Why don't you just shoot us or something instead of toying with our minds?" Aku stood back up.

"Well, I believe I've said this before, have I not? 'Yes, but my way is much more fun!' That is my policy in life, and I do not wish to change it now, thank you very much."

"You psycopath..."

-Back to Dark and Satoshi-

"He's in the Orange Islands. We can get there by morning if we fly. We'll need help, though." Satoshi pulled out a strange cross between a Poke'nav and a Poke'gear, an invention that just came out. It was invented by Katai herself ((OOC: See the last PKMN RP I was in. She made it in that one and handed it out to everyone...)) He dailed a number and Kin's head poped up on the screen.

"Hello?"

"I need you're help. No, correction, Katai and Aku need you're help. We'll pick you up when we get there. You'd better be ready to leave when I get there. Bye." *Click!*

"Now to call the rest..." Satoshi dailed another number and Zan's head poped up on the screen.

"Hello? Oh, it's you."

"Yes, it's me. Listen, Aku and Katai need our help. They were kidnapped. I know where they are and what he's planning to do with them... It's awful. And he has quite a few groups of DTs on his side. He's paying them, no doubt. I don't care if we've got pur differences, I'm gonna need you're help. Andrea's, too. And anyone else you can find to help... This isn't just about saving Katai and Aku, if we help them, we might be able to get Unmenia on our side!"

"Who's Unmenia?"

"This super-rich looser who has a whole lotta PKMN and would be a good ally. As thing are, he hates me."

"Who doesn't?"

"I'll ignore that. So, will you help?"[/FONT][/COLOR][/B]