Posts by Steelia

We still have a long way to go. @_@

473.

*throws Sonic... the restaurant*

*throws a soul*

The Champion sent out a whimsical Espeon, and the battle raged on.
The Espeon went first... It gained the stats in its Defense by executing a Reflect.
The Steelix then used a Crunch attack, but the Espeon managed to avoid it... It was surprisingly quick.
Then the Espeon unleashed a great Psychic attack, and the Steelix was brought down to its knees at last... The Boy withdrew, thanking his partner.

In response to the new threat that was Espeon, the Boy sent out his enthusiastic Bellossom, whom took to the battle field... There was one thing the Champion seemed to have overlooked, and the Boy would take advantage of this...
Somehow, the Bellossom went first. It cloaked the field in a green powder, and in that turn the Espeon... fell asleep. It was the move Sleep Powder, and it worked like a charm... The Espeon was still unable to move.
Using whatever turns he may have had left, the Boy had his Bellossom use a Solarbeam... which it used in the same turn.
The Sunny Day, activated by the Champion's Venusaur, was still in effect from earlier, and it was by this the Solarbeam was instantly charged, and why the Bellossom was now dominant in speed... Chlorophyll, an ability that doubles one's speed when the sun's rays are intensified.
The Solarbeam was a direct hit, but the Espeon wasn't through yet. It managed to bring itself out of sleep, and counter with... tears? Yes, the Espeon began to weep. But not out of pain or because it was losing...
Not falling for this trick, the Boy had his Bellossom use another Solarbeam, and it did just that. It managed to take a decent amount, even if the Espeon managed to dodge part of it... Then the sun's rays began to fade...
Espeon in turn used a Psychic attack. It played with the Bellossom in the air, then threw it back down to the ground with tremendous force. This move... seemed to do more damage than the Boy anticipated. That was because the move Espeon had used earlier was Fake Tears... It lowers one's Special Defense drastically...
With the sunlight gone, Bellossom was on the ropes. The Espeon did not hesitate. It created a Shadow Ball, and flung it towards the Bellossom. However, the Bellossom was somehow able to counter, only being injured by the Shadow Ball's aftermath explosion.
The Boy had Bellossom use another powerful technique: Petal Dance. The first turn, it missed, and Espeon countered with another Shadow Ball. However, the twirling of the Bellossom due to this musicless dance deflected the Shadow Ball... and it was this surprising counter that the second Petal Dance was able to lay a direct hit. The Espeon staggered for a bit before falling to the ground, fainted...
The Bellossom, now finished with her Petal Dance, was now confused...

With his last Pokemon standing by him this entire battle, the Champion sent it forth: a Pikachu.
The Pikachu seemed to have a slight disadvantage. It was of the Electric type, as Bellossom was of the Grass. Electric attacks wouldn't do much here... but the Champion didn't seem to mind, as he hadn't forgotten something.
The Pikachu went first. It began to charge up energy... a move known as Charge, where one's electric powers are intensified...
The Bellossom was confused, but managed to use a move known as Leech Seed. However, the Pikachu was fast... too fast for the Bellossom, and easily evaded it.
Then in the next turn, it struck down the Bellossom in one blow. Having its Electric attacks amplified, and Bellossom's Special Defense harshly lowered by Fake Tears, the Pikachu used an unpredictably powerful Thunder...

With both Trainers down to their last Pokemon, it was up to the Boy's final to take to the field and win this...
Mewtwo was sent forth. Waking from its meditative state, the Genetic Being looked into the eyes of the Champion. And the both of them froze...

Years ago, as it was told to me, when the Genetic One was being brought into life, a Boy... whom started from Pallet Town, much like the Child with Mewtwo... set forth with his Pikachu to become the world's greatest Pokemon Master. However, in this time Team Rocket was a powerful, seemingly unstoppable organization, and had Kanto in its grasp.
But this did not discourage the Boy in the least. He set forth and, with the help of his Pikachu, Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Espeon and Snorlax, toppled the organization that was Team Rocket, and even silencing their leader, Giovanni... and in that time, the Boy came to discover their horrifying secret. Mewtwo. He found the clone being created on an island known as Cinnabar. As it was contained, the Boy released it... and the Genetic One locked eyes with his savior...

Now, years later, they meet again... only the circumstances are quite different. Would this biased view on the Trainer whom saved him have Mewtwo disobey his new master?

The battle commenced once more.
The Pikachu was first to go. It let out a decent Quick Attack, but Mewtwo easily avoided it. Then, by the Boy's command, he unleashed an unspeakably powerful Psychic attack... and just like that, the battle ended. The Pikachu had been taken down in one powerful blow...

The old Champion sighed, picked up his Pikachu, and for the first time in many years since his old title as Champion... he smiled. At long last, he had been defeated. Not only by the hands of a more worthy successor to his title, but by the very Pokemon he had saved those years ago.
Mewtwo understood that this Champion may have saved him years ago, but that would not move him into losing the battle just because of it... That, he said, would have been unjust and selfish to his new Trainer.

The two generations of Champion shook hands, and the battle came to its closing...

Now, I receive word that the Boy is heading towards Hoenn, just as I had predicted. A new adventure awaits him there...

And I have a feeling that new Teams will emerge from their hiding places to greet him once he arrives there.

Until then...

((Post was too long... Had to separate into two parts.))

September 4, 2008 - Thursday

The Old vs. The New...

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He has done it.
The Boy has accomplished his mission... He has gathered all eight Gym Badges from the land of Johto. Not only that, he also managed to conquer the eight Gym Leader's Task. It was to retrieve a Dragon Scale from a sacred cave. It normally takes days for one to seek and find it, even with enough motivation... but the Child found it the very night he went in there...

I recall mentioning earlier that the Boy was supposedly going to the land of Sinnoh, to embark on a new quest for glory. But, I was wrong...

After defeating Clair, he was granted access to the Johto and Kanto regions' secret hotspot for Champion Trainers: Mt. Silver. The cave itself is not very impressive, but it stands as a margin between the lands of Johto and Kanto. This mountain was created during ancient times... when the two lands fused into one.

The Boy seemed to have known he wanted to go there from the start, and it wasn't the mountain he was interested in...

This is all from the mouths of my Messengers. And what I say... has not been modified in the least.

Taking along with him his loyal Charizard, his now-evolved Feraligatr, the ailing Steelix, the playful Bellossom, and even the Genetic Being Mewtwo, the Boy tackled the cave and easily reached the summit.
And it was only by the words of Kanto's eighth Gym Leader that he was able to find... the long-lost secret of Mt. Silver.

Standing before the Boy as the mountain's reigning resident, the legendary Champion of Kanto... the one whom the Boy broke the record of, the very same Champion whom defeated Kanto's new eighth Gym Leader and took his title away in just mere hours... requested a battle from this new blood of a Trainer.

The Child accepted.

The legendary Champion sent out a Snorlax.
The Boy sent out his Feraligatr.

The Champion was first to strike. His Snorlax used an attack foreign to the Boy -- Yawn. It didn't seem to do anything in the Boy's eyes...
The Feraligatr did not hesitate. By its Trainer's command, it executed an Ice Beam. And, by sheer luck, it managed to freeze the Snorlax... even if Snorlax did have the Thick Fat ability.
On the next turn, the Snorlax remained frozen.
Thus, the Child had his Feraligatr strike once more. It used a Surf, and it seemed to do a fair amount of damage as the frozen Snorlax appeared more groggy. This were looking up for them at the moment... that is, until Yawn took effect. Feraligatr stumbled around, and fell to the ground, sleeping.
As if he had been waiting for this moment, the Snorlax thawed from the ice as if it had not been frozen at all. And, by its Trainer's command, it unleashed another attack foreign to the Boy: Giga Impact.
The damage dealt was not only enough to awaken the Feraligatr... it also fainted it...

In response to the Snorlax, the Boy sent out another Pokemon: his faithful Charizard.
The Snorlax did not move on its turn. It seemed to be recharging its energies...
The Charizard, however, blew out wickedly hot flames, and it was enough to bring down the behemoth bear in one go. Feraligatr's sacrifice was not in vain...

In response to the Boy's Charizard, the Champion sent out his own. A Charizard.

The two dragons were matched in terms of speed and skill. But one thing stood out that made the two different: the Boy's Charizard was limited in the moves it knew. The old Champion's, however, knew moves not even the Boy had heard of.
And it was this advantage the old Champion used.
In the end, the Boy's Charizard was struck down by the Champion's Charizard's Air Slash, but not without inflicting a decent amount of damage itself...

In response to the Champion's Charizard, the Boy made a surprising move: He sent out his old Steelix.
The Champion must have been overconfident... He used a Flamethrower.
The Steelix managed to outmaneuver the Flamethrower by a Dig... and when it emerged, it executed a hasty Rock Slide. But, in the first turn, how had it gone last... and in the second, gone first? Then the Champion noticed the item the Steelix was holding: Quick Claw.
Back when the Boy had entered the Bug Catching Contest, and won the Sun Stone so to evolve his Gloom, previously he had received an item from a spectator sitting on the benches. It was Quick Claw...

In response to the old Steelix, the Champion sent out a powerful Blastoise.
The item's effect activating once more, the Steelix was first to go. It used a powerful Earthquake attack, and the Blastoise was knocked clean off its feet.
When it landed, it did as its Trainer commanded: a Hydro Cannon. And it managed to hit Steelix head-on...
However, as the Steelix recovered from the move (though seemingly greatly impacted), it managed to counterattack with a move of its own... A move the Boy had never seen, yet the Steelix had known throughout its old life. Thunder Fang.
And it hit not once, but twice, as the Blastoise had to rest a turn after its powerful Water attack... It was taken down the following turn as it recharged...

Surprised, the Champion sent out another powerful Pokemon in response to the overwhelming Steelix: Venusaur.
The Venusaur went first. It stood around for a moment, seemingly doing nothing. Then, the sun's rays began to intensify...
Sensing what he may be trying to do, the Boy had his Steelix Dig.
The next turn, the Steelix's Quick Claw took effect. It managed to draw in close and use an effective Dig, and also pull off an Iron Tail in the process.
But in that turn, the Venusaur seared the Steelix with a powerful Solarbeam attack... However, the move was indirect, and only slightly harmed the metal snake.
Then, once again, the metal giant surprised the Boy once more by using another move he didn't know it had: Fire Fang. Due to the sun's newly unlocked rays, the Fire power was nearly doubled, and took a large amount of damage from the Venusaur. Once again, though, the grass Pokemon attacked with a Solarbeam... However, the Steelix dug underground.
The Champion counterattacked this. He had his Venusaur pull off another devastating move: Frenzy Plant. Vines whipped out from the sides of the grass Pokemon, and began to dig into the ground like restless worms... Somehow, they found their digging target... There was an explosion from beneath the earth, and the Steelix was brought forth, struck down...
...but not out. Just when the Boy was about to withdraw, the Quick Claw took effect, and the Steelix pulled off his finishing move: Ice Fang. The Venusaur went down, and the Steelix stood straight and proud once more...

The tide had now turned. Now the Boy had the advantage over the field... or so he thought...

Heh, if that's the way to put it

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471.

Hey, welcome.

I'm very... limited in my music. The only things I listen to are:

-System of a Down
-Video game music (such as Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, etc.)
-Some classics, such as Chopin's Nocturne or something
-The occasional bits of music I may hear over the radio/internet that I like and will listen to again (such as if I hear them on an anime music video, or something used in a flash movie)
-SOMETIMES Nickelback, Disturbed

Ah, Kirby...

Kirby Air Ride was fun. The only reason I bought it was because HAL Labs was the producer of it (rotten marketing ads in magazines persuaded me!!), but I ended up liking it... So much so, that I also got Kirby & the Amazing Mirror for the GBA. Now THAT is a fun game. Even has Master Hand and Crazy Hand in it!

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Indeed... If he doesn't want to go just because of someone else, then don't bring him.
I would probably be pretty pissed if someone said "I'm not going because of your stoopid youngest bro". Though my youngest bro is, as you said about Alexis, rather "untolerable" at times (and I have a bad habit of being a little more stricter on him than my other two siblings), I still love him. But if someone were to say they wouldn't go because of him... that's fine with me. That's one less body to worry about.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just leave that kid alone... Does he know Alexis, personally? As in, gotten to know her himself? If he doesn't, that may explain something. He should not say anything until he gets to know her.

I enjoy(?) Midna for being herself, and for being a certain peacemaker... Ah, and for her awesome Wind Waker parody.

XD

"So, you're Laruto, and you want me to find a harp like yours? I'm on it!"

Great chapter. Looking forward to the next one(s).

((Now you'll see why I made this a double update...
Stay tuned for tomorrow's, though -- That'll be a pretty big one...))

September 3, 2008 - Wednesday

The Final Step...

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The Boy has won his seventh Gym Badge. All that remains now is the eighth. The infamous Clair, a Dragon Trainer, much like Lance himself... In fact, the two of them are cousins... After this, the Boy will undoubtably head to the land of Hoenn...

This will be an interesting match. I eagerly await to hear how the Boy fairs... because, in order to gain his Badge, just defeating this Gym Leader is only step one in Clair's process...

((Double update... again. @_@ ))

September 2, 2008 - Tuesday

The Steelix...

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It has been merely a day since Team Rocket's annihilation by the hands of the Child. And in that time, life resumes in the lands of the relieved Johto and Kanto.

The Boy has gained his seventh Gym Badge. One more, and he shall be on his way to new lands yet again... He almost makes being a Trainer seem... simple.

Word has spread yet again by the Messengers... It is of a new Pokemon the Boy has acquired. Not that he has captured many before, it is just that this one...

While on his way to conquer the seventh Gym Leader, the Boy had to cross through a cave known as Mt. Mortar. The thing about this cave is that one can easily surf around it... but, being the strong-willed Trainer that he is, the Boy bravely tackled the mountain's challenge...
In there, rumor has it he met with a battered Steelix. Apparently, the old thing had been challenged and defeated by one in its own herd, therefore the Steelix lost its title as leader and left its clan so to begin anew... but in doing so, it met up with the Boy. The Child quite easily caught it, and it was in fact this Creature whom helped him win his sixth Gym Badge. After the battle, the Steelix became greatly fatigued, and as of now it continues to rest, so to gain its strength...
What bothers me most is not only how the Steelix acts... It is its age. The Messengers clarified it was very old, actually older than most Steelix should live. I am not one to normally express sympathy for such aged Pokemon... but the determination of the old thing... it is about as remarkable as the will power of the Boy.
But from everything I have collected from the Messengers' gossip, this Steelix may not remain in this World for very much longer...

I will continue to monitor the Boy, and his Steelix...

In the meantime, I shall enjoy a good night's worth of more NightMares. Yes... These moments of the Night, I always impatiently await...

This, is Muigi currently.

Whoops, older topic... Just thought I'd throw in my two cents before this became a little... well, older.

Finished up Twilight Princess today, and I must say, I had a BLAST fighting Zant. He wasn't too hard, nor too easy, nor very annoying, cunning... or smart. I'd have to say he brought a lot of life into the previous unchallenging boss battles before him.
However, that isn't to say he is truly pathetic. He sought gods that did not exist, and only merged with Ganondorf as he blinded himself from the real truth. He was selfish... Very selfish. Too selfish for his own good, really.

As far as his actual battle went... as I said previously, I had a blast battling him. Some of the challenges were pretty straightforward... but I enjoyed the brief nostalgia of being brought back to all the previous boss's rooms.
He can also put on one heck of a show.

Ah... did I mention he also fails at life?

Actually... I didn't make any of those. I found them on on various sites. Took a little while, whoo.

I'm hoping to get mine up sometime soon... Use the image provided to paste your own characters (of course, delete/disregard the name... and the date... and the emblem).

I admire(?) Twistkill for his ability to turn conversations on their heads... and for also being level-headed himself.