From: Amber Foxwing (creese@qwest.net) Subject: [PW!] WHAT HAPPENED?! Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-07-23 18:29:31 PST Amber felt nothing. Her touch, taste, and smell sense where off the hook, and her ears were buzzing. She reached up to rub her ears, and found nothing! She felt around and touched two ears on the top of her head. One was long, and relatively sharp, the other short, and catlike. She opened her eyes to discover the black nothingness the man talked about, and saw her clawed hands. She had a little yellow "jewel" on her forhead, and a yellow spot just below her neck. She had a tail...and suddenly the rest of her senses jolted into working! Her sense of smell was heightened considerably, as was her taste and touch. ~Amber? Where are you?~ she heard. ~Nyara...are you...inside of me?~ she thought. Suddenly her hand/paws involuntarily lifted and she looked at them. ~yes...~ "Amber?" she suddenly heard. "AMBER?!" She looked over, and DarkFang was searching frantically for her. "Amber!" he cried, looking at her in dismay. "Nyara?" "Yes," she said. Her voice sounded like Nyara's and her's put together. *Amber,* she heard the man's voice all around her. It boomed and bounced off the walls, if there were any. *You have proven that you care about your Pokemon, but they aren't attached to you enough for me to undo your current condition. You can go now. By the way, my name is Dharak.* Suddenly the pain spread through her body and she was thrown to the ground in front of the man. DarkFang landed beside her. "Where's Natu?!" she cried. "That's your goal. When your Houndour is strong enough and we battle again, you might get her back." "You're sick, Dharak! I can't believe you!" Dharak simply smiled, stretched his arm to the ground to let Eevee on, and said, "Come, Poisonpaw. We leave." And they disappeared. Amber looked at DarkFang and sighed. "Let's go Fang. We ought to leave before too much else happens." So they got up and left, on their way to Violet. TBC