Last of the Wilds [Private]

[Zorayda]

The jolteon stopped growling for a moment in surprise when Maura slowed, having been hit by Tani's attack... normally, the Dark-type was much more sturdy than that. Storm leapt forward when Maura began to show signs of tiring, coming in with a fast Double Kick attack. As he closed in, he saw the tight leather collar around her neck... was that what was keeping her from fighting at her full potential?

He winced when Tani went after Viola, only to see the strangely-colored luxray leap in to protect her and landing a savage blow to Tani.

Hm... I take back what I thought about him before, Storm thought to himself, impressed by the lion's loyalty. But it was in vain, as Tani herself took Tanga down with her own vicious attacks. One down, two more to go... Storm brought his attention back to Maura, unwilling but intent on taking her down.

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Viola growled at Tani's derogatory statement about her size, her tails twitching like a cat about to pounce. So many underestimated her because of it... but sometimes powerful things came in small packages.

"I'll make you eat those words," she snarled, and prepared to hit the bully with Confuse Ray--but a yellow and black blur rushed in, slamming into Tani with unbelievable force. Tanga! But as he stood, wincing in pain from his foreleg, Tani hit him with consecutive blows, and the shiny luxray, her friend, went down--hard.

"NO! Tanga!" She screamed. Viola immediately leapt at Tani, fangs bared, eyes aglow, enraged with the defeat of her friend. But her attack never landed.

With a wild howl of pain, she was knocked out of the air by Rumble's unexpected Spark, paired with a charging run. His head slammed into her side, directly where her injured ribs had hurt the most... She landed upon the ground hard, rolling a few times until she stopped. She gritted her teeth in terrible pain as she slowly stood, near-breathless with the agony.

"You... will pay for that," she growled in a dangerously soft voice, and exploded as she blew a huge Flamethrower right in the luxio's face.

[Australian Chaos]

Groaning, Tanga dimly heard Viola's desperate scream, her call to him, as he tried to shrug off the concussive effects of Tani's Iron Tail, and get back onto his paws. But with a savage snarl, Tani's jaws locked around his good shoulder in a painfully overpowered Crunch attack, her fangs sinking deep enough to draw blood, before throwing him away like a ragdoll, his skinny, undersized frame collapsing to the grass once again, a small whimper escaping his throat.

"Now, Tanga..." Tani said, her voice pure ice, her eyes narrow and cold...deadly, even. She would not be satisfied until Tanga lay dead and broken at her paws. "...you will pay for ever thinking you were ever worth anything...that you could ever get away with hurting me!" The female Luxray's entire body started crackling with powerful sparks of electricity, clearly winding up for one of her most vicious attacks...Thunder. Such a powerful move, in Tanga's already weakened state, would likely overload his system and kill him.

But the attack never came...just as Tanga tried to move, he saw a movement out of the corner of his eye. Turning to see what it was, the last thing he saw was a small red and white ball sailing straight at his nose, while in the background, the Trainer of the electric trio stood there, having clearly thrown it, grinning victoriously...

Tani was snapped out of her violent craze when the Poke Ball bounced off Tanga's forehead, the freakish Luxray disappearing in a bright red flash, the Ball dropping heavily to the grass, before it began to tremble as within, Tanga made one last, desperate bid for freedom. But it only took a couple of short seconds before the red light on the PokeBall's button went out, a dull ping signifying that Tanga had lost the will, and the strength, to fight on.

In that moment, absolute triumph filled Tani. They had done it...Tanga was now enslaved to her Trainer, and would be forced in her presence all the time, now. It was almost too good to be true! Her favourite, freakish toy, returned to her after all this time! Grinning sadistically, she turned back to Rumble and Viola, ready to assist her partner.

Only to blink as another red flash occurred, this time taking Rumble away, the Vulpix's Flamethrower having clearly overpowered the eager, but rather fragile Luxio. Still grinning savagely from the triumph of taking Tanga, Tani stalked towards Viola, waiting for the Vulpix to realise that Tanga had just been taken away...forever.

[Moonlight]

(OOC: Sorry about my extremely short post, XD.)

Maura's ears pinned as the scarlet flash signaled a capture, whirling on the nearest threat. Jaws snapping shut as a solid Double Kick came at her, jerking back. Catching the heat of Viola's Flamethrower, vivid orange and yellow flames lighting up the night. Framing the odds against them, all too apparent.

[Zorayda]

Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the vicious female luxray zeroed in on her target--Viola froze for a moment, bright eyes widening in fear, her heart skipping a beat, as Tani readied a deadly, dangerous blow meant for Tanga. Tasting the electric crackles on the beads of moisture in the air, her legs suddenly spurred into action, her body realizing before her mind that this blow was meant for the kill...

Not fast enough, faster, faster...! Viola pushed herself to the limits, attempting to be there instantaneously, still unaware of the fact that it would be impossible... but then the scene changed. Suddenly the electric spark died, Tani's red-and-yellow eyes flicking to watch a spherical object fly through the air. The vulpix turned to see the trainer leering down at the group of them as the red and white object flew straight towards Tanga, who was currently near unconsciousness...

Viola's mind suddenly clicked as she saw the beginnings of the red light shoot towards him, panic settling somewhere deep within her heart. That ball... humans used it to....

Click!

One simple little noise, and the vulpix knew that it was all over. With screeching, strangled cry, she skittered over to where the ball lay closed and unmoving. Her claws dug at the earth as she pawed at it pitifully, hot tears forming in her eyes.

"No, no, no, no, no... Tanga, please..." She sobbed. First her parents... and now, the first friend she'd made since the extinction of wild Pokemon... he was now going to be a slave, a prisoner, a captive Pokemon made into a real animal behind bars. And she didn't... couldn't... stop it...

"You... you monster!" Viola screamed at Tani, her voice breaking. Her breaths made her sides heaved, and her quickly constricting throat made the air make a strange rattling noise through her teeth. "Give him back! You don't need him, Tani! Please, give him back... give him back..." Viola cried, searing tears cascading down her muzzle. When she saw the mad gleam in the luxray's eyes, Viola broke.

Instead of becoming more sad, a dark anger took over the fox's mind... her eyes glowed again with kitsune energy, but this time it was darker, tinged with evil thoughts of revenge. Viola somehow knew what to do... she channeled all of her vengeful, hateful thoughts at the electric she-lion, the one who almost killed her friend, the one who loved to help capture Pokemon like her parents, one who enjoyed torturing others... without even a growl, Viola allowed the thoughts to come to a climax, and with a releasing of breath, she sent out a huge, ominous Dark Pulse. The deep darkness of it seemed to suck away the surrounding colors, to permeate everything with the vulpix's dark rage...

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Storm stopped what he was doing for a moment as Viola suddenly released another, unexpected attack, and his mind was assaulted tangible anger. Wincing, he hesitated in his next attack because of the slight damage done by Viola from afar. Shaking his head irritably, he focused upon the dark wolf and tensed his muscles.

Storm's eyes were set with steely resolve as he silently sprang into the air, coming at Maura with renewed determination as he prepared to hit her with his signature move: Rock Smash.