A sudden Chill (open)(mod)

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It had been a few weeks since he had decided to go back into the woods again. He had been recovering from a pokemon battle where he had been knocked out by an enraged mother pokemon. Oddly enough her and her daughter were now apart of his team now and they seemed to be adjusting well to there new family. Since the incident he had decided to evolve Snowdrift into a Froslass which she seemed overjoyed at being much larger and stronger and she thought prettier. Though Alex and none of the other pokemon would tell her so in case she would get too much of an ego from it.

There had also been a new addition to the family, a dratini that he named Jasmine. She was pretty ditzy but she was fun to be with although she was also incredibly clumsy and had fallen several times sparring with Frost. Though she didn't let anything stop her. The mother toxicroak and her baby were starting to get used to there new life and would spar with each other and play. The baby however tended to stand off alot and didnt want to leave her mother's side at all. Then one day when Alex was going threw his things he had laid down a sketchbook and the croagunk picked it up and started smiling at the pictures.

He found out by accident that she liked art and he began teaching her how to draw little by little and their relationship to each other also grew. Although she was still pretty close to her mother she would somtimes go and stand next too Alex or play with Snowdrift or Jasmine.

He walked down through the long path which seemed to get foggier and foggier by the minute. It was a very creepy place but it had a sort charm to it that he had never seen before. He looked down at Frost who was walking right next to him, "This place is giving me the creeps. Its almost like were being watched by somthing but its not human".

[KARP KARP!]

Not far from them, a Poochyena lay curled up under a tree, but he paid no mind to the human; he was too busy sleeping.

Next to him, was a Drowzee, and she seemed to have a mischievous look in her eye. What was she up to?

The human was indeed, being watched. And the eye on him was by no means human. In fact, he was being stalked from a distance. A single eye focused on the human from the darkness. A Dusclops.

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Alex and Frost kept walking along the path checking their surroundings for anything. They noticed the small poocheyna laying under the tree and found it odd that a drowzee would be so interested in it. They kept on heading down the path ignoring the two pokemon.

Alex stopped in his tracks and could feel a sudden chill run up his back. "Frost im feeling really creeped out right now." She looked at him with a concerned look. They both looked around but couldn't see anything except the two pokemon that they had just passed by.

[KARP KARP!]

As if this place wasn't creepy enough, a Hoothoot's cry echoed through the grove. "HOOOT! HOOOOT!" And from a distance, another one answered back. "HOOOOOT~"

Suddenly, a Gastly appeared behind them silently. "GAST!" She cried with a sadistic glee, before sticking out her tongue in an attempt to playfully Lick the male human. Hee hee...

Meanwhile, the Dusclops kept watching from his place in the shadows; his piercing eye was the only visible part of him at the moment.

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Alex heard what sounded like somthing said gast behind him and then he felt a long slimy tongue go up his back. "OH GOD!!!" he screamed and turned around. He was now face to face with a gastly who seemed to enjoy freaking him out. Frost jumped up on Alex's shoulder and started to growl. >Why did you do that!?<

Off in the distance Alex could see what appeared to be an eye sticking out of some trees. He pointed to it and said, "Ok what is that over there?" Frost took her attention off of the gastly and also saw the one eyeball floating in the air. "Ok this place just gets weirder and weirder all of the time."

[KARP KARP!]

The Gastly's long tongue reached out and Licked the Pokemon, almost affectionately, not quite an attack. <Just...cuz~> she replied, grinning mischievously.

Upon being spotted, the Dusclops stepped out of the shadows, and just....stood there. Not a word, not a motion. The Ghost type just stood there, ominously.

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Frost shivered all the way down from her face to her tail. Alex laughed at the site of her face and Frost glared at him for laughing at her. "Im sorry Frost but that was just too funny. You should have seen the look on your face." She turned her head away from him pouting and jumped back onto the ground to get away from the gastly.

Alex wiped the tears from his face from where he was laughing so hard. He then looked up at the gastly and turned his attention to the large ghost pokemon standing out in the path. "Hey why are you just standing there? do you want too come over here or somthing?"

Frost shook off the chills she had from the lick the gastly had given her and walked over to the dusclop. >Is there somthing we can do for you or do you want somthing?<

[KARP KARP!]

The Gastly gave its species' equivalent of a squee, and floated around the male with a sadistic glee, licking him every now and then.

The Dusclops simply stared, and finally spoke, his voice deep and motonous. <Turn back at once. Leave this place. Leave this place....> Well now, that wasn't creepy at all...

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Frost walked slowly back from the large pokemon with a confused and frightened look on her face. She walked back to Alex and rubbed against his leg trying to get his attention. Alex watched the gastly fly around him and licking him. He extends his hand to pet the ghastly. While he looks down at Frost who is starting to get jealous of him paying attention to the gastly and not her.

"I'm sorry Frost what is it?" she looked back at the dusclops and started to shake all over. This worried him and he looked up at the dusclops who was still standing there watching him. "Alright Frost i think we should continue on down the path and explore alittle more and if it get's too dangerous we will leave ok?" Frost looked up at him and at first looked frightened but eventually gave him a shaky nod.

[KARP KARP!]

Continue on the--great. The Dusclops face-palmed. <No...Turn back. Leave while you still can...> Sighing, the Dusclops turned and made his way back to where he came from. <Don't say I didn't warn you.>

Meanwhile, the Gastly simply adored being pet. When she heard him talk about continuing, she gave another squee and decided she was going too~

Further down the path was a Weedle. He was just looking around, an didn't notice anything around him.

Past that, something was propped against a tree. Was that...a coffin? Not too far from that, lay a worn, tattered sack.

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Alex walked down the path and noticed the gastly following them, he turned around to look at it. "I guess your coming along with us then huh?" Alex smiled and petted the small ghost pokemon. "Don't worry your welcome to join us for as long as you want." Alex looked up ahead and saw the weedle on the tree and said hello to the little bug pokemon.

Up ahead he noticed a coffin leaning up against a tree with a small tattered sack on the ground near it. Alex looked at the gastly and Frost, "Now if you ask me that is really weird and very forboding. Gastly do you know why all of that stuff is just lying there next too the road?"

[KARP KARP!]

The coffin seemed to have an eerie, ominous presence about it, while the bag seemed to have been left there a long time ago. Brown, tattered, covered in dirt, and obviously fell victim to the weather, it'd been there so long.

The Gastly even sort of froze when she saw this. This...was not a good idea. She fell silent, not saying anything.

A Zubat was flying by, and got a little too close to the coffin. Suddenly arms shot out of it, and it released a Shadow Ball, knocking out the poor surprised Pokemon in one hit. He fell to the ground, not moving. Turns out that coffin was no ordinary coffin. It was a Confagrigus.

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Alex watched as the zubat was knocked to the ground by the large pokemon that was shaped like a coffin. He had never seen one like that before. Normally he would have just turned around and headed back but he couldn't leave that zubat there hurt.

He pulled out a pokeball and let out Snowdrift, "Alright Snowdrift use hail and follow up with a Shadow ball on the confagrigus." Snowdrift nodded her head and used hail before releasing a shadow ball at the pokemon hoping to hit it. Alex looked down at Frost, "Alright Frost i want you to use your Double team and rescue that zubat ok." Frost smiled and nodded as she began moving rapidly from side to side using her double team and grabbed the small zubat and began running back.

[KARP KARP!]

The Shadow Ball hit the Confagrigus, and he glared, launching a Shadow Ball of his own.

The Gastly just watched as the Zubat was scooped up, and the little bat Pokemon didn't move a muscle.

Meanwhile, someone--or something--else was watching, but it made not a move from the shadows. Whatever it was just watched silently, practically invisible in the night.

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The Hail falling around them made it easier for Snowdrift and Frost to dodge attacks which is what happened when the pokemon shot back at Snowdrift. She was able to gracefully move to one side letting the attack to fly right by her. She smirked at the confagrigus as she was dodgeing. Alex grabbed the zubat from Frost and held him in one of his arms. "Alright you guys its time to retreat. Gastly your more than welcome to come with us back to the one clearing where we had first met. Were going to take a different path than this one."

He looked back at Snowdrift, "Use your Blizzard on him and then we will fall back while he is distracted." He picks up Frost and puts her in his other arm and starts to walk back from the fight. Snowdrift blows a blizzard onto the coffin pokemon and attempst to at the very least blind him for a few seconds to allow them safe retreat.

[KARP KARP!]

The Gastly nodded happily and followed.

The Confagrigus was hit by the Blizzard, but when he came to, the human was gone.

Whatever had been watching the battle slipped after them, now walking right behind the Pokemon and human. This was a Sableye, and he just sort of followed the Gastly as if he belonged there. But there was something different...it seemed to be a brownish color instead of the usual purple....Shiny!

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Once they had gone a good distance away from the confagrigus he looked at the little zubat who was unconcious in his arms. "Poor little guy i guess we will have to take him somwhere later where they can treat his wounds." He put his vest on the ground and laid the zubat on it so he could be more comfortable. Frost and Snowdrift sat next to the pokemon looking over its wounds and making sure it was comfortable.

Alex looked around and spotted the gastly who was still hovering around him. At the corner of his eye he noticed a strange pokemon standing there looking at him. "Well hello there, is there somthing i can do for you?" He looked up at the gastly "Is he a friend of yours by chance?"

[KARP KARP!]

The Zubat slowly opened one eye. "Zubat...?" he asked, the equivalent of <What happened?>

The Gastly looked at the Sableye and shook her head. <Never seen him in my life.>

The Sableye shrugged, looking at the Pokemon. What...what was he there for? He looked around, then smirked. Obviously, he was up to no good.

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Frost looked at the injured zubat and said,>You were attacked by a pokemon and my trainer rescued you and wrapped you up in his vest to keep you comfortable< She smiled at the little pokemon. Snowdrift went over to the sableye and said, >Hi there what brings you out here with us?<
Alex noticed the zubat had woken up so he walked over to his backpack and grabbed a bottle of water from it. He went over to wear the zubat was and lifted him up so he could get a drink of water. "Here you go drink up, you must be thirsty after what happened."

[KARP KARP!]

The Zubat struggled a bit, but drank the water before trying to get free again. <I have to get...free. I have to find my friend! She's probably worried about me!> he yelled, panicking.

Meanwhile, the Sableye looked at Snowdrift, and shrugged. <Nothin,'> he answered. His eyes were constantly looking around for some reason or another.

Meanwhile, the Ghastly gave a yawn; she was getting rather bored.