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After the loud crash of a girl hitting the floor had subsided, the air was filled with the gleeful giggles of a small ghost. Duskull floated around giggling, doing tiny twirls in the air around Elise. It was so pleased with itself for causing the girl such a fright and the scream was the cherry on top! Having her land on the ground wasn't what he expected but knowing what usually happened, his master would be around to help her up and they could go their separate ways. Well usually that's what happened. This time though, while Cy was dancing around, a large net swung down and ensnared the one eyed ghost! "Haha! I got you! You sinister specter! No longer will you terrorize our peaceful town!" |Cried an old man at the other end of the net. The fellow looked well into his ninety's and presumably from the way he was going on, senile. He had a Hagoita in the other hand and was dressed up like he was about to attend some new years thing.

Meanwhile, Jet was had only just looked up to see Elise fall to the ground. "Wow, that's an almost comical level of clumsy..." he said to himself as he glanced over to where Cy was once floating. Quickly putting two and two together, the young rocket quickly realized what had happened and walked over to make sure his ghost type hadn't caused too much trouble. Luckily he was just in time to hear the man's speach and see his Duskull fiddle frantically with the net that had suddenly caught it. "You're a ghost Cy, just phase through it." he sighed towards his pokemon as he turned his attention to the old man. "And you. He isn't a sinister specter! He's just a ghost who likes to prank people, this time the girl just got a bit too carried away." He then glanced over to Elise who was still o the ground. "You're okay aren't you?" he asked, looking down on her almost accusingly, like this whole scenario was her fault.

Assuming she was, the elderly man crouched down beside the young girl and offered her a hand up. "Ah I see, I do apologize." Once the girl was up the man gave a deep bow to Jet and his duskull who at this point had freed itself from the net. "You see, around new years, a plethora of ghost type pokemon tend to invade our town. We think it's because of the generally good aura it gives off for most of the year. Now normally having a few ghosts about isn't too much of a problem. And during the rest of the year it isn't a major concern for us. But every January there comes the nastiest ghosts from around the region who only want to cause pain and suffering to the residents. It has usually fallen on me to drive them off! And up until this year I've been doing an amazing job! This year though I am unable to stay and protect Verdanturf and no one else is willing to take over! If only there was someon-" before the man could speak any more Jet put up his hand for him to stop and interjected.

"If you really want I can do it. Just please stop talking so much." Even at a glance Jet's eyes looked glazed over and his general expression showed his brain was fried from listening to the man. The man clapped his hands together happily and then turned to Elise. "You will help too? Won't you miss?" he asked exactingly. After she gave her answer the man then pointed over to the sign just beside the pokemon center and on the way out of town. That there is probably the most central point of town and probably the best place to stay to get a good look to see if any try to come in. I'm sure the two of you will manage perfectly though! Anyway I must be off!" And with those last few words, the man ran off.

Still rather confused about the whole situation, Jet just shook his head. "Well then, better move to the sign. I'm Jet by the way. And the pokemon that gave you the fright is Cy. Hope he didn't do anything to mean to get you to shriek like that." he said as he moved along, not sounding to concerned despite his words.

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Seeing the Zororark pop out of the girl's pokeball got an interested "Huh..." the escape Jet's mouth. Hearing his qubdbile surprise he was about to explained himself when she introduced him to the pokemon. She also took the liberty of introducing cy, who cautiously floated up to the dark type. It rolled it's single eye in it's socket's a few times to get the best look at it. After a moment the duskull twirled happily before it rotated upside down as it's own form of introduction. The little ghost seemed overjoyed to be paired up with such a cool looking pokemon and in all Honesty Jet was too. Having a dark type would be useful too, but regardless of that the pokemon looked stylish as hell, but not quite the pokemon he expected from such a young girl, hence the huh.

"Sorry, I just never saw a Zorarark just out in the open. Well without it being smacked first to get rid of it's illusion anyway." he admitted which wasn't totally a lie but wasn't at the forefront of what he was thinking. As for their train of thought, Elise decided it was best to come up with a strategy to deal with the incoming ghosts, just so they didn't end up tripping over each other. Jet agreed with a nod of his head, taking a quick glance around quickly just to double check that the coast was clear.

"Well from what the old dude said there are going to be strong ones around and Duskull isn't the best battler." After saying this, Cy turned around from it's little chat with Dolos and furrowed it's brow, or well, casted some of it's clothy body over it's skull mask thingie to make it look like he was. Regardless he was annoyed at the statement and wanted to promptly show his trainer his feelings. The action just got an eye roll from Jet as he continued. "Yet. He's not a good battler yet." Hoping the correction would be enough he kept talking. "So I think we should stick close. He's pretty good at ranged attacks though, but they're we- urm, not as strong as they can be, and they'll be even less effective versus your dark type so I don't think we should worry too much about it being caught in the crossfire." Jet said putting his hand up to his chin, wondering what else there was to add. "I guess I can still warn you when I want Cy to use a ranged attack just in case? But it should be fine. Oh and depending on the amount of ghosts we should have a few other pokemon on standby." Saying this, from his pocket he took out a lone pokeball, but didn't send out what was in it just yet.

As the day soon durned to dusk, the temperature started to drop more and more. The sun was gone and with so few clouds in the sky there was no heat to the night whatsoever. At least the lack of clouds made the starry sky above that bit more pretty. Still the cold felt a little too, well cold. The weather was supposed to be improving yet it felt like the temperature was starting to drop to freezing again. That probably wasn't a good sign but for now no more ghosts were showing up. Things would probably be fine. Right? Well Yes and no. The temperature drop was ominous enough but what came next would put Cy's prank to shame. From just outside the town gate, a large looming shadow began to cover the town, like a dome sealing off any escape. "Shit, I think something used mean look." After it had enveloped the town, the shadow quickly turned a hazy tranzlucent colour as the temperature dropped further. Still no pokemon had shown up. The silence was deafening was Jet stood there shivering, clutching the pokeball in his hand tightly. "Keep your eyes peeled, they're coming."

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Luckily Elise was smart and took heed to Jet's warning. It made the inevitable encounters with the ghosts that little bit easier. She seemed ready to fight from the get go which was a pleasant surprise. Cy on the other hand was far from ready. Weather it was scared or just bored was up for debate but it sort of just wafted in the air around Jet, keeping very very close. Maybe it was trying to mimic what Elise and Dolos were doing? Either way that little back to back thingie wouldn't last long as the first wave of ghosts came forward.

Amongst the darkness, two pale white figures began to approach the two their skin gleaming in the moonlight. The floated ominously to the twotrainers, looking them up and down with an air of superiority. Elise was the first to notice them and a moment later, Jet faced the direction they were coming in too. So it was gonna be a double battle? Seems interesting.

Dolos was the first off the mark with a deadly night slash. No critical sadly, but the damage was clean and it caused one of the icy ghosts to be knocked back. However even after being hit their foes had also begun their assault. The pokemon's cursed body seemed to glow a faint purple, as did the hand Dolos used to strike the Frosslass. Well that wasn't good.

But right now Jet couldn't be too concerned for anyone but himself and his own ghost type. And speaking of now it was time to see if he could hold his own. "Cy, will-o-wisp on the other one." The Ghost twirled around Jet, still in mid air, it's red eye glowing softly in the darkness of night. It seemed to float in circles, afterimages of it's eye staying in the air until the ghost let out a gurgled cry, sending each ball of fire it conjured towards the other Froslass. Once it was burned then the battle would really begin! Jet just hoped it wouldn't be disabled since he'd need the status move for later too but for now the initial hit was all he needed.

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After being assaulted with a barrage of firey balls, the forslass glared at the Duskull. The pokemon gulped and went to hide behind Jet, but it it was caught in the air after being hit with the ice pokemon's hex! Cy tumbled to the ground. Jet was about to go over to it when he felt something brush against his leg.

"AGGGGGGGH" after letting out the bone chilling scream, the rocket turned around, pulled his leg back as far as he could and delivered the swiftest punt he could have mustered in such a short amount of time on the skitty.

"Get up and use your own Night Shade!" Jet said almost relieved that it was a random cat he just kicked rather than another ghost pokemon. As he gave the command, Cy wistfully floated upwards, it gave it's own glare to the froslass. It's red eye glowed, brigther than ever! The scarlet light enveloped the pokemon as it's features began to extend. The red light it now emitted was then propelled out in a huge buurst of energy, the blast colliding with the froslass, dealling heavy damage to the burned ghost and knocking it out.

"Holy hell..." now that the light had faded, Jet could see that his duskull had now evolved into a Duskclops! The distraction of a sudden evolution totally distracted him from how Elise was doing.
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"Oh... Oh no..." seeing the little creature he punted belonged to Elise, Jet looked a little less happy with his actions. Before he could apologize though, the old man from earlier busted into the town, a pile of fainted ghost types at the entrance of the town. Seems he beat the pokemon who had used Mean look.

"Good job you too! Here's your reward!" he then gave the two the payment for a job well done.

"Thanks." he said taking the money before turning back to Elise. "Sorry about your skitty. Hopefully it's okay." he said as he went to bolt out of town, hoping he wouldn't be sued for damages. As he did, one of the few ghost pokemons that tried to wander in started to float around Cy looking rather interested. Seeing this Jet caught the Phantump and left the town!