Shrouded In Mystery. Sort Of. [OPEN]

[Maxwell Smith.]

Forest, shrubs, and webbing alike had made a tangled mess in the entrance of the hidden forest, noises of different kinds and shreiks arising from inside. For a few moments, one could have thought that red eyes shone from the inside, luring one in who was not weary with the creatures that lurked inside. It was a terrible place to be, as one thought, though it could not be skipped; it was the only way to Cinder Town, the begginer town where many got their starters and Poke'Dexs. Sure, you'd want to skip it, either way, but it wasn't a choice. A choice that a certain thirteen year old boy did not want to make, seeing as how he had a slight phobia of dark places and going there alone, none the less. And trust me, going with a Ghost-Type with a too trusying attitude didn't help.

A gulp was heard as poor Maxwell, cluched his hat with one hand, trying to keep hold of the fidgting Reaper Pokemon in the other. The Duskull wouldn't keep still, wanting to go by it self into the forest of the unknwon. Of course, his trainer wouldn't have it, and held on to him tighter. The Pokemon was annoying, and the thoughts of leaving him at the lab while he got his own starter Pokemon that was more tame seemed like a greater idea than any. Of course, with Max's luck, the Pokemon would find some way to escape the lab's clutch and follow him where ever. So basically, his plan was now pointless. If the Pokemon was in any way related to Dusk, his own Dusknoir, than they both were the same as Magikarp. Of course, Dusk was more tamed, and listened to Max more often.

Well, if Inferno wasn't there to tempt him, at least.

"Duskull, quite it!" the trainer finally scorned, grabbing him a little closer in order to imbilize him for the moment. Finally, after another moment of struggle, the Pokemon gave up, giving a sigh as his body went limp. Max gave a sigh of relief as well, kneeling down and setting his small Pokemon on the ground. "Stay," he ordered strictly, grabbing his backback and throwing it around to the front of him. Instantly, he began looking through it, making sure that he had everything and wasting his own time to not go in there, the sun setting slowly amoung the horizion.

[Kçℵ]

As the sun set on the new horizion, it was the greatest time to be outside. It wasn't nearly night time, meaning many could still see and be seen if they wanted to, yet not too light to where one whom wasn't accusmed to these sort of things wasn't scared when they seemed to be begging to go out. In this case, a small floating fourm cascading around the threes and shrubs of the coldend landscape, the tempurature dropping with each time that the sun slowly made it's way itno hiding for the night. It was an offering the wild Ghastly just couldn't refuse on it's part, none the less.

Having spent the day crammed intside it's hiding spot and wanting a little more freedom before daytime had hit, the small Ghoul Pokemon made it's way through it's homeland, it's tail lagging behind slightly, as if something were wrong with it. It didn't seemed to matter to it, though; it was just happy enough to be frolicing in the forest, almost dogding the rays of sun hitting through the trees in a last ditch effort to let more light into the usually dark and dangereous forest. Of course, that wasn't the Ghastly's main foul of play, nor was it that it wanted something to eat; it just wanted to play and make a joke. And the trainer that it had spotted with it's Pokemon seemed interesting enough to make a prank on.

Slowly, and quietly, the Pokemon had crept towards the duo, the trainer seemingly getting into his bag of stuff and searching for something, the Ghastly watched intently for a moment, before moving a few feet away from the two, out of the trainer's range of sight but to where he could get the Duskull's attention, speaking to it in a low and ghastly voice.

"Ghastly Ghastly?"

[Maxwell Smith.]

Of course, just watching his trainer seemed boring enough. Duskull floated there with a saddened expression on his face, watching as Max rummaged through his bag for nothing but spare time and a reason to not go into the woods until the next day. Or never, really. The Duskull sighed as the boy rummaged through his bag, shifting the hat on his head every so often as he muttered to him self over nothing important. Of course, Duskull would have liked it better if he could roam as he looked around depressingly, knowing that if he did move, Max would catch him and end up making him get into the Pokeball that he had brought extra for just for him. Duskull never suspected, though, that someone would actually come by to say hello.

"Dusk?"

The Pokemon obviously didn't sense the other Ghost type Pokemon approach as he turned around confusingly. His expression, though, turned glad as he gave another soft call and quickly floated over to the other Pokemon, speaking to it in their own language. Max failed to notice as he pondered through his bag a little longer, obviously prone to not know that his Pokemon was no longer floating beside him, and instead slowly creating mischeif with the other gassy Pokemon that seemed egar to do so.

[Kçℵ]

The Gastly moved back slowly as it caught the attention of the Duskull, mostly in order to drag it a little further away from it's trainer. It gave an almost quiet kackle as it's prey moved closer, and instanly the ghoul disapeared, re-apearing behind the other ghost type.

"Gastly Gastly?"

It spoke with curiosity this time, the Pokemon moving in a hovering fashion every few inches from left to right.

[Aika Kioshi]

Aika had back-tracked and made her way all the way back to Shrouded Woods, where all the ghost type pokemon would be. She'd found another, quicker way through the forest and was on the Crocanaw Port side of the forest. She knew she had all her empty pokemon in her white side bag and made her way up behind the kneeling boy, he looked around her age, while he was mumbling to himself.

Aika nodded as the sun started to go down and looked at the brave little water-type pokemon in her arms, Yuri looked up into her new trainers face and bounced slightly in her arms. "Ready to go Yuri?" Aika asks her little pokemon.

"Pooolllliiiwaaggg!"Yuri says bouncing in her trainer's arms again. Aika laughs at her excitedness. "Well then let's catch ourselves some ghost pokemon!"