From: Amber Foxwing (creese@qwest.net) Subject: [PW!] Who's he? Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-07-23 17:32:58 PST Amber, Darkfang, Nyara, and Natu finally left Cherrygrove after all of that Commotion. Amber stretches and yawns, then slings her backpack off to sit and rest a moment. ~I'm hungry. Got cornbread?~ Natu sends to Amber. Amber shrugs. "Don't think so." Darkfang growls low in his throat. "Someone's coming," he says in his short, stopping voice. "Who?" "I don't like it." Nyara gulps and points at a man all in black. He walks down the road to the quad of Pokemon and their trainer. He has a black cape and all black clothes. His hair is black and his face is pale white. He looks very....amused. "Hello, Amber. Care for a battle?" he says casually. "How did you...? Battle? OK!" DarkFang growls again and leaps in front of Amber. "I go first!" he shouts. The man shrugs and holds out an empty hand. A Pokeball materializes out of the air and opens. A red light comes out to reveal an Eevee. The Eevee has hunter green eyes instead of black, and it grins evilly with its master. "Here we go," it says in a gravelly voice. Fang rushes the fox-like Pokemon, who easily sidesteps. He turns and leaps at the Eevee's tail, and Eevee turns around and touches Fang's head. Fang disappears without a trace. "FANG?!" Amber cries frantically. "What happened?! Where is he?" "He's nowhere," the man says offhand. "Sort of floating in nothing, in a place you cannot get to from here unless I will it to happen. One by one your Pokemon will go, as you battle me. They are mine unless you can prove to me that you are truly friends. Until then, we battle on!" Natu hops from foot to foot nervously and jumps forward. ~Me now!~ He hops around, shooting beams of Psychic energy. Eevee runs after her, and Natu hides behind Amber, joining Nyara. Eevee grins. "They're all in one place, Master." It speeds towards them, and Amber panics. She throws herself down in front of her Pokemon, grabs them both and holds them close to her. "Leave us alone! If you want my Pokemon so badly, then you'll have to take me!" Eevee jumps into the air and holds out its paw, ready to touch them into nothingness. Its master, the man in black, laughs, and suddenly pain shoots up and down her spine as she's transfered to the man's "Nothing" world. TBC...