I'm going to be cataloguing the events of a diamond nuzlocke challenge I am
attempting. Read and review! *****************"It's going to be a big, big day! Wake up Kai! You best be going." Kai grumbled as his mother continued to call. Kai was flattening down his glossy, brunette hair, pulling on a black t-shirt with the design of a Typhlosion erupting on the sleeve, and a pair of simple red shorts. Walking downstairs, he waved to his mother before pulling out his Poketch. "I have to meet with the professor in 10 minutes, see you mom!" Kai stepped outside, heading towards the Laboratory one town over. Being careful to avoid patches of long grass, Kai quickly traversed Route 201, arriving in Sandgem town with little trouble, only encountering a small Bidoof that ran away in fear. Walking across town, Kai entered Professor Rowan's laboratory, greeting the professor with a curt handshake. "I believe you get your starter today?" Kai responded with haste. "Yes. Can I see the options?" The professor guided him over to a small box, containing three pokeballs."Inside, are the water type Piplup, the fire type Chimchar, and the grass type Turtwig. "I'll take the Chimchar." The flaming monkey leapt onto Kai's arm, climbing up it and sitting on his head. Rowan handed a pokeball with a small fire design painted onto it to Kai, and bid him good luck on his journey. "Oh, and before I forget, here you go. It's the newest model of Pokedex. Point it at any Pokémon, and it will tell you everything you want to know, and their moves." "Thanks. I'll see you around, I guess." Rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly, Kai walked out. He was about to walk onto the next route, but yelling behind him caused him to spin, looking for the source of the sound. "HEY! WAIT!" A girl, no more than 15, ran up to him, a black and tan cap covering her bluish-black hair, tank top and skirt adorning her slight frame. Placing her hands on her knees as she caught her breath, she got up and waved. "Hi, you must be Kai. The professor told me to give these to you. It must have slipped his mind." She opened her palm, revealing a set of five pokeballs in miniaturized form, and dropped them into Kai's outstretched palm. "You can also nickname your Pokémon; Rowan wanted me to remind you." He thanked her, and she walked off. Kai began to walk along the route, with Chimchar at his side. "Hey, so do you want a nickname Chimchar?" Chimchar growled in excitement. "I'll take that as a yes. How about Sebastian?" "Chim!" "Great, Sebastian it is. Hey, look over there!" A Starly was sitting on a branch in a tree, looking down at Kai and Sebastian. "Starrrrrr!" It took flight, swooping down, heading straight for Sebastian. Sebastian raised his hand at Starly, gearing up for attack. "Sebastian, use scratch!" Sebastian grabbed out at Starly, scratching across its face. Starly tackled Sebastian, but it was weakened. Kai tossed a Pokeball, which rocked twice before clicking, signaling a successful catch. "I think I'll call you Haze." Kai rushed back to Sandgem town, hurrying towards the Pokémon center, where he healed his Pokémon. After re-traversing the route, and training both Haze and Sebastian, Kai arrived at the gates of Jubilife City. Walking up the steps towards the bustling city, where he walked into the Pokémon Center. Healing his Pokémon, Kai stepped out, only to find a trio of clowns. "Hello, would you like a Poketch? You'll have to find us and answer trivia first." Slightly irritated by the abrasive manner of the three clowns, Kai tried to brush past them, but they wouldn't let him through. "I have a Poketch already!" A man pushed through the clowns, and reached out a hand to the reluctant Kai. "Hi, I'm the owner of the Poketch Company. I'm sorry if these clowns are bothering you, it's so hard to find good help these days." Glancing at Kai's wrist, the man continued speaking. "I see that you have our product, how do you like it?" "It's great! I only have the watch function, though." "Oh, let me reward you for your troubles with that trio of oafs." The man reached into his pocket, pulled out a small device, and attached it to the side of the Poketch. "This will allow you to switch between apps, and it also has every app currently developed loaded into it. Enjoy!" The man walked away, snapping his fingers, the clowns following in pursuit. Kai clicked through some apps, taking note of useful ones. Dowsing machine, friendliness checker, health indicator, and a few others appeared on the screen. Stocking up on potions at the cities' pokemart, Kai set off on the route that led to Oreburgh city, the location of his first gym battle. Kai walked slowly through the grass, looking for the Pokémon he would catch. A Starly popped its head out of a hole in the tree, looking around with curiosity. Kai whispered to Haze, who had been perched on his shoulder. "Use Quick Attack, and then I'll catch it." Haze flew upwards, the feathers on the trailing edges of its gray wings glowing a blindingly bright whitish light as it sped towards the other Starly, tackling it into the side of the tree. The other Starly fell to the ground, just as Kai tossed a pokeball in its direction. The pokeball clicked, and Kai walked over to it and picked it up. Sending out the other Starly, he thought of a nickname for it.
"How does Mukkubird sound?" "Starrrrrr." After a bit of training, Kai and his
Pokémon happened upon a rocky wall, with a tunnel that seemingly continued through the rocky outcrop to an opening on the other side. Kai peered inside the cave, looking for any sign of life. Not seeing anything in the darkness, he took a step in, Sebastian illuminating the path in front of him. Sebastian suddenly cried out in alarm, as the ground around his feet began to move upwards. Sebastian jumped back in an attempt to escape from danger. The mass of moving rock shook, and the form of a Geodude was revealed. Kai threw a pokeball without thinking to inflict any damage first, and the Pokémon was miraculously caught. Stepping back into the sunlight to get a better look, Kai noticed that Geodude had a dusting of black crystals coating its arms. "That gives me an idea for a nickname." Pulling out his Poketch, Kai pointed it at the Geodude. An array of green-hued lasers swept over its rocky skin, and then disappeared. The screen of the Poketch blinked twice, and an automated voice spoke. "Surrounding Analysis is complete. 98% Granite. 2% Obsidian." Kai changed the app back to the clock, and then turned his attention back to the Geodude. "I'm going to call you Obsidian." Obsidian just slammed its fists into the ground. "Cool." Kai walked back to the patches of tall grass. "If you guys don't mind, let's train where we can see." The Pokémon all walked over to stand near Kai. Sebastian cocked his head to the side, and then took in a deep breath. A powerful ember attack shot off into the patch of grass. A cry rung out, and a small Abra floated upwards, brushing singe marks off its yellow fur."Sebastian, use ember again!" Sebastian began to glow bluish-white, and his silhouette began to change. He grew taller, a tail appeared, and the fire spouting from his tail grew larger. The shimmering effect died down, and Kai's pokedex beeped from his pocket. "Evolution detected. Chimchar has evolved into Monferno." Kai grinned. "Sebastian, you did it!" Sebastian's hands began to grow a pale blue, and he jumped into the air. The Abra didn't have time to react, because before it could, Sebastian had extended his arms, hitting Abra with force and pushing it backwards. The pokedex beeped again. "New move detected, Mach Punch." "Sebastian! You get more awesome by the minute! You should take a break. Obsidian, it's your turn to train a little." Obsidian hovered over to the patch of grass, and suddenly backed away. A Kricketot toddled over to him, and proceeded to do nothing. "Use tackle." Obsidian hurled itself at the bug-type, who was knocked back a few feet, but still didn't react. "Tackle again." The same thing occurred. "Tackle one more time!" The Kricketot stood back up after being attacked, and quickly charged a ball of white energy. It shot a powerful beam of pure energy at Obsidian, showering it with immense force. Sebastian hit the Kricketot with a powerful Ember, knocking it out. Kai picked up Obsidian's body, and raced off to the Pokémon center. Rushing in, he handed Obsidian to a Chansey with its arms outstretched, and pleaded with Nurse Joy to save him. "I'm sorry; there isn't anything more I can do. He's gone." Kai fell to his knees, tears welling from his eyes. 'How? How could I have let this happen?' Kai stood up, turned to face the door, and ran. He ran for a long time, his three Pokémon in pursuit. His knees buckled and he fell to the ground, tears streaming from his face. Sebastian reached him first, stopping short of his sniveling trainer. Reaching a hand out tentatively, Sebastian prodded Kai lightly, attempting to comfort him. Haze and Mukkubird arrived soon, flying with speed, landing on each of Kai's shoulders. 'I have to be strong. For them.' Kai stood up, wiped some tears from his face with the sleeve of his sweater, and stood up. He toggled the Town Map app on his Poketch, and his location pinged, revealing he was only a few hundred meters away from the Route he was traveling on. After he had made it back to the path, Kai reached the entrance to the Cave, and decided to just run straight through, not stopping until he reached the other end. Sunlight blinded him momentarily, but Kai put his hands above his head, shielding his eyes from the sun and glancing down at the city below. Oreburgh city looked as though it had been cut from a quarry, stone surrounded it and Kai could spot a cavern at the southern end of the town. Walking down a short stairway to the town, Kai glanced down at his Poketch. He was so preoccupied that he failed to notice a Dawn, who was walking the opposite way and preoccupied with her Pokedex. The two bumped into each other, both landing roughly in the dirt that seemed to coat everything in this city. "Kai? How nice to see you!" I see that you've caught some Pokémon, and your Chimchar evolved! Cool!" "Thanks Dawn. Why are you here, anyway?" Dawn stood up, brushing dust off of her skirt as she replied. "I was challenging the gym leader. He's a rock-type specialist. I beat him easily though, that's the best part of having a water type like Prinplup." Kai looked somewhat dejected. "All of my Pokémon are weak to rock moves, except for Sebastian who is neutral. I would really love to have a
Pokémon that resisted Rock moves though, just in case." Dawn's face lit up. "The route to the North of Oreburgh city! I remember reading somewhere that it has Machop! Those resist rock!" "Thanks for the type Dawn! I'll check it out." Dawn waved goodbye, and with that, she walked off to the east, disappearing around the corner of a building. Roark headed east also, and then went north. He reached the route where Dawn had said there were Machop, but he didn't see any sign of life. A blur of purple registered in Kai's vision, and he turned towards it, gasping in surprise. A Geodude was rustling around in the grass, yet this Geodude looked incredibly different from any that Kai had ever seen. She was completely composed of purple crystals. A quick attack from Haze weakened the sparkling Pokémon enough to catch it, and Kai Sent it out immediately afterwards. Pulling out his Poketch again, Kai clicked some buttons and a familiar set of green lasers moved around the Geodude's body. "Surrounding analysis complete. 99% Amethyst, 1% other." Kai kneeled next to the Geodude, and cleared his throat. "I'm thinking about calling you Amethyst. Is that okay?"
"Geo. Geodude." "Great!" Kai said, elated. After training for a while, Kai felt as though his Pokémon were ready to take on the gym leader with no problem. Heading over to the Gym, he saw a sign that indicated the Gym was closed, but that it would be open again tomorrow morning. Kai headed to the Pokémon center, booked a room with enough space for his Pokémon to sleep unconfined, and settled in for the night, shutting his eyes. A few hours later, Kai's eyes opened. He couldn't sleep. Kai pulled his hair back into a ponytail and stood up,
Scratching his head as he pulled on a jacket, Sebastian poked his head out from under the bed, scrambling up to sit on Kai's head. "Don't you think you're a little too big to keep doing that Sebastian?" Haze clucked, and perched on Sebastian. Looking up, Sebastian lost balance, and tumbled off, Haze in tow. The trio tumbled off Kai's head, and landed on top of Amethyst, whose metallic screeching woke Mukkubird with a caw. "Well now everyone is up. Great." I was going to go for a walk to clear my head, would you all care to join me?" Sounds of concurrence came from all four Pokémon, so Kai opened the door and once all four Pokémon had went through the doorway, he closed it behind him. Stepping outside, he trailed behind Sebastian, whose tail was lighting the way. Haze flapped his wings, and then took flight, soaring over to the coal mine, landing atop a metal post. Kai, Sebastian, Mukkubird, and Amethyst followed Haze, arriving at the entrance to the mine. Stepping inside, Kai heard a sound in the distance. He also felt as though his was being watched. He kept walking, but Kai noticed that his visibility was decreasing. Kai turned around, and giggled at the sight. Sebastian was play-fighting with Amethyst and Haze while Mukkubird watched. He noticed that another Pokémon had joined the tussling, another Geodude. Mukkubird flew over to Kai, and landed on his shoulder. Haze followed suit, mirroring Mukkubird, which caused Sebastian and Amethyst, along with the other Geodude. Kai bent forwards, holding out a poke ball. "Would you like to join the team little guy?" The Geodude pressed the button on the face of the pokeball, was sucked in, and caught immediately. Kai que'd up the app he wanted to use. Sending out the Geodude, Kai once again clicked the Poketch screen, and the lasers swept over the Geodude. "83% granite, 17% Halite." "Cool, I'm going to call you Halite. Now we are a team of 5! Only one more Pokémon and we'll be a complete team." Kai heard a noise up ahead once again, and crept forward. "Hello! Is someone there?" Another voice sounded from deeper into the mine. "Who is that?" The voice was masculine, but young. Kai ran deeper into the mine, bumping into someone. Rubbing his head, he scolded himself. "I really must stop running into people. I'm so sorry." The other person spoke up. "No, it's my fault. I didn't have my headlamp on, how on earth were you supposed to see me?" Kai assured the man that it was indeed his own fault. "No, my Monferno was lighting my way, but I ran up ahead. So who are you? And what are you doing here?" "I should ask you the same question. I'm Roark and I'm the mine Foreman. I'm also the Gym Leader. I was looking for fossils. Your turn." Roark clicked his headlamp on, and glanced expectantly at Kai, waiting for a reply. "I was having trouble sleeping, so I decided to come here and have a look around. Well really Mukkubird decided to, and I'm just along for the ride. And I'm actually here for a gym battle. I was going to challenge you tomorrow!" "Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Kai turned and went back the way he came, waving at Roark as he left. Feeling a sudden breeze chilling him too much, he picked up speed as he walked back to the Pokémon center. When his Pokémon had trailed in behind him, he closed the door, shit his eyes, and fell asleep. The sound of a bird cawing woke him up. "Haze, is that you?" Jumping out of bed, Kai stretched his back, looking around; Kai grabbed his bag and recalled all his Pokémon into their balls for the trek through the town. He arrived at the gym, and stepped inside. The inside of the Pokémon gym was much less complex than Kai had imagined. He called back out his Pokémon, and they all walked up to the battle platform. "Hey Kai. I was starting to think you weren't going to make it." Kai checked his Poketch. "It's only 11:24!" "Oh, right. Shall we begin?" "Yeah.
Amethyst, go!" Amethyst hovered over to the middle of the battlefield, sunlight reflecting off of her body in breathtaking purple rivulets.
"Go, Geodude!" A rather average-looking Geodude hovered over to the battlefield opposite Amethyst. "Use Defense Curl Amethyst!" The rock Pokémon crossed her violet arms over her body and glowed white for an instant. Roark commanded Geodude to use Rock Throw, but the move didn't even cause Amethyst to flinch. "Use Defense Curl again!" Shrugging off the attack, she repeated her last move, again glowing briefly. Roark grew flustered. "Geodude, use Stealth Rocks!" Geodude raised its arms and five or so rocks moved up from the rocky battlefield floor and surrounded Amethyst, before lowering back to the ground.
"Use Defense Curl one last time!" Amethyst curled up once again, glowed white, and uncurled her arms for a final time. "Geodude use Rock Throw!" Roark's Geodude picked up a large chunk of rock and lobbed it at Amethyst. "Quickly, use Rock Smash!" Amethyst's arms turned an ethereal reddish-orange as she punched through the boulder, and rammed straight into Geodude, knocking it out. "I've still got two Pokémon left, I can do this!" Roark yelled, his voice tinged with uncertainty. "Come out Onix, and use Screech!" The rock snake Pokémon came out with a roar, and immediately began charging a ball of sound in its gaping maw. Kai had prepared for this, and instructed Amethyst to continue using Rock Smash. Arms still glowing, she hammered Onix's head into the ground with such force that fragments of rock from Onix's body cracked off, flying everywhere. Onix got back up, however, and used screech. The sound waves shot at Amethyst who couldn't possibly avoid them. "Use Rock Smash again!" Amethyst began to spin, arms outstretched, looking like some sort of odd purple and red top.
Whirling in a path heading straight at Onix, she clobbered it with punch after punch, knocking it out. "What? How? That's impossible!" Roark was dumbfounded. "Amethyst is just that amazing." Kai said. "Simple as that." Roark sent out a Cranidos. "Use Headbutt!" "Block it and retaliate with Rock Smash!" Cranidos charged at Amethyst, but she reached out with one arm and stopped Cranidos in its tracks, then slammed it against the wall with the other arm. "Wow. That was the most impressive skill I've seen in a long time. You are awarded the Coal Badge for your defeat of me, the Oreburgh Gym leader."
