Thankfully his Gastly was on scout duty, and therefore gleefully accompanied the Drifblim as they went ahead to check if there was anything they needed to be on the lookout for.
The good thing about this was that there wasn’t anything waiting for them up ahead where they’d gathered, however
now they were going to try something… ironically enough, the
Spell Tag item was attached to the literal hell hound to try and attract
something to come out here.
And boy did the ‘something’ come out, because the moment more shades started appearing, Lars felt something…
numbingly familiar in the air, which made him look up…
The shade of an extremely-familiar looking Mirage appeared; but it
wasn’t the one he was connected to, it was—something
else entirely.
“You two better—move!” he exclaimed as the shade that was shaped eerily like a
Moltres of all things came swooping down, howling anger; but the way it howled sounded more like a cry of betrayal as it unleased a powerful burst of…
“Nero, go deal with that!” he exclaimed as he summoned his Dusknoir, who came up from under his shadow and met the shade with its singular, staring eye before releasing an orb of nefarious energy; a
Shadow Ball attack!
However, the Moltres wasn’t done and took
extreme offense to the attack, turning their spectral attention towards
Aaron Toral and releasing another attack that resembled the shade-like version of
Fire Blast, if he was seeing this right.
“Ghost—on ghost!” he continued as he knew at least someone else brought a spectral Pokémon with them. “We need to repel it before it—!”
• Lars’s Gastly found nothing up ahead, area is secure!
• the moment the
Spell Tag comes into play, though, they were literally asking for
it• the shade of an angry, angry
Moltres appeared and set off Lars’s heebie-jeebies on end
• Nero the Dusknoir appears and launches a
Shadow Ball! However…
• shade!Moltres turns their attention towards
Aaron Toral and used a spectral version of
Fire Blast!
• doing prompt 14: engage in battle with the vengeful and vestigial spirit of
moltres or victini.
• (feel free to attack it once or get yourselves in trouble, I’ll set up the Cleansing Tag prompt on my next post + a surprise that would prompt some questioning!)