I Don't Own Pokemon Or Anything Related To It.

The Lives Of Gym Leaders.

Crow and Twilight Crest.

If anyone were to look into the place that is Crow and Twilight Crest's house, they would think it would have been an abandoned mansion, whose housekeeper was still loyal enough to clean and keep the place in top condition. With its vast rooms of a deep shade of scarlet, and its large marble pillars, the place just oozed both elegance as well as a chilling feeling of death and uncertainty. Despite the large windows, very little light was allowed to come into the building, with it only creeping in through the tiny gaps that were here and there through closed curtains and blinds, however this is the way that the mansion's owners liked it. Cold and dreary with a sense of doom, but most of all they liked the darkness. Not really surprising for the Dark-Type Gym Leaders of Dusk Town.

Occupying the west wing of this mansion is a twenty-two year old young man by the name of Crow, with short cropped midnight black hair which he usually keeps spiked up, which is evident when his bathroom is filled with many different types of mousse, gel and wax. His tall and slightly lanky stature making him seem very willowy indeed, but this could be further from the truth underneath the initial glance is a body filled with the growing muscles of a young man, not quite an Adonis but definitely giving most men of his age a run for their money. In his wardrobe are vast arrays of different clothing, with one thing in common, the colour black. Black t-shirts, black formal shirts, black jeans, black shorts, black trainers, black socks and black underwear, not to mention the black cape that he wears when battling challengers in the gym. However this is the one item of clothing that differs form the rest, his cape was custom designed by one of the leading designers across the pokemon regions. The silky black texture is only heightened by the velvet strings that are at either end which tie around his neck, not to mention the embroided silver stars which are scattered across the cape that seem to glisten no matter the light that they are in, a true work of art.

Across the mansion on the east side, a young woman of twenty-two years of age occupies a large section of the mansion. Her name is Twilight, the twin of Crow, and also the more sensible twin of the two, with her rather cool demeanor being the influence that keeps Crow from going too over the top whenever his ADHD flares out of control. Like her brother, Twilight is seen to be willowy on first glance, even more so than what her brother is perceived to be, but unlike her brother this is a lot more true to her that what it is to him. With her thing physique she mainly relies on her wits to get her by through life rather than her physical strength. With waist length midnight black coloured hair and a full fringe, her hair seems to be a cape of its own, masking her from those around whenever she is shrouded in shadows, and as you could tell from her room her hair is something she takes pride in, with the many pairs of straightners she keeps around and the hair protection formulas she has scattered in her bathroom to keep her hair silly smooth at all times. Much like Crow, her wardrobe consists of black, even with a black mask hidden from everyone's view at the back of her wardrobe, with the one exception from black being her cape. Made from black silk and with its velvet strings, is highlighted by the embroided silver moon crescents that are all over the cape.

With the mansion being atop a giant cave, with the outside much more like a castle than an actual house with giant spirals all over it and large windows, it was something of fairytales and dreams rather than a place for people to live. Occasionally having shadows move across the building, where the occupants of such a building are out training their pokemon across the rough climate and the rough terrain that surrounds them, usually somewhere where anyone would surely go insane from lack of social interaction with others, however this is somewhere where the twins Crow and Twilight thrive and seem to enjoy living. Only adding to the creepiness of where they live is the twins themselves. They have not been seen within the town in years, not since their father passed away, only their servants can be seen whilst running errands, they do not attend any festivals nor do they come down to visit the people they grew up around, instead they enjoy their solitude. And their appearance is also something to be feared, with them both going under cosmetic surgery at the age of seventeen, a year before they took over as gym leaders, to remove all coloured pigmentation from their eyes and instead make their eyes pure black. The only time anyone ever gets a glimpse of them is when they themselves battle them in the gym, with many trainers entering and coming out empty handed daily, that is the only sign of life from the twins.

All of a sudden a dull voice had begun to ring out across the mansion, via speaker boxes that are strategically placed throughout the mansion so that it could be heard no matter where anyone was inside of the building. Alerting the twins to a challenger that had entered their gym, the voice ended as abruptly as it had started. And with a flurry of sudden movement from within the shadows of the center of the mansion, two figures appeared in front of a large steel door, with the figure on the left pressing a button and the grand doors opening, to reveal an elevator. As the two figures stepped into the light of the elevator the twins were fully lit, and could see as clearly in the light as they could in the darkness from which they had grown accustomed to.

"How are you, brother?" Twilight muttered in an eerie voice as the elevator doors closed in front of them. Not turning to look at one another, their brief conversation before they entered their gym was a tradition that they both kept.

"I am well. As is Absol. How are you and Umbreon?" Replying in a voice just as chilling and just as uninterested as the voice that had spoken before.

"We fare well also, although both Umbreon and myself have been pining for a new trainer to challenge us to a battle."

And that is where their conversation ended, as the elevator took the twins further and further down through their mansion, through the darkness seeking out their gym, equally as dark as the elevator shaft itself. More of a party trick that they favored to confuse the opposing trainers, as they were able to see in the dark a lot more than the average person. With a sudden jolt, the elevator stops and the twins prepare to launch themselves into the dark gym that will wait before them as soon as the doors open. Through the doors, they could hear a young trainer shouting. And with a sudden "ping" the doors opened, illuminating the giant room, lighting up the trainer and her two pokemon before them in a blinding light for such a dim room. Lunging forward the twins landed on their side of the battling arena in a single bound, with a shriek from the young trainer and with an expression of fear spreading across her face, as well as her vileplume's face, while her hariyama stood there with an agitated look on its face.

The girl before them could not have been more than sixteen years old, most likely around fourteen or fifthteen, with cropped blue hair and bright green eyes, her facial features were severely pale compared to her other bright features. Her jeans were fitted nicely, and her gray tank top clung to her body, where a womanly figure had developed through the innocence of childhood, clinging to her thighs a belt hung with six pokeballs on it.

Before Crow started speaking, thoughts raced through his mind about this girl being an accomplished trainer, and quite possibly a challenge to him and his sister. Especially if that rather angry looking hariyama of hers will be used for battle.

"Hello there trainer. We are Crow and Twilight, the Gym Leaders of Dusk Town. Before we begin, allow me to introduce the rules to you. This will be a double battle, in the dark, my sister and myself will each use one pokemon, and you will use two. There will be no switching permitted at any time, so choose your pokemon wisely." Just as he has finished talking, Twilight piped up in her more womanly and higher voice, yet no more coldly than what her brother's is.

"As you have already released two of your pokemon, we will allow for you to see our pokemon and then decided on whether you shall change your pokemon."

With the twins taking a pokeball out of each of their pockets and throwing it into the air, both in pure silence merely watching the challenger. With a sudden flash of light an absol and an umbreon erupted from their pokeballs, only for the balls to fly back into their hands and disappear back into their pockets. Seemingly in shock and not being able to concentrate on anything else apart from the darkness that is all around her, the challenger finally spoke for the first time since meeting her opponents.

"I am Alona, Alona Jones. And my pokemon will be more than enough to defeat yours, Hariyama, Vileplume, take center stage!"

Crow pulls out one more thing from his pocket, a remote control, and when pressing a button on it, the elevator closes and begins to ascend back into the mansion, once again leaving the gym in darkness. With a whimper from Alona, a couple of dim lights are turned on via another button pressed on the remote, but merely enough to be able to see her own pokemon before her, leave alone being able to see her opponents and their pokemon.

"We may …BEGIN." As Twilight's voice rung out through the gym, paws could be heard quickly stomping across the metal floor as orders were given out. "Umbreon, scout around! Follow Absol's lead."

"Be careful guys, please." Whispering to herself, her voice rises as Alona issued her own orders, "Hariyama, start using endure! Brace yourself on the spot. Vileplume use mega drain to illuminate the room, and to start sapping their strength, stand behind Hairyama!"

A scowl spreads across both Crow's and Twilight's face as Vileplume hides behind its team member and starts spreading its energy out towards the room. With Umbreon and Absol standing meters away from their opponents and now in full view, a much more powerful and lighter beam of energy heads towards them.

"Absol, use quick attack to take the hit!" With Umbreon leaping out of harms way, Absol takes the hit as a very happy Vileplume slowly drains its health. Having to think fast, Twilight decides to focus her efforts on Hariyama. "Umbreon, be prepared to do as I say, when I say it." With that Umbreon's eyes began to glow a blue colour, and with its teeth bared and ears up in alert, a defensive stance was taken by the pokemon.

"YES! Keep going Vileplume, sap it's strength. Hariyama, focus the endure into your strength. Now lunge with a seismic toss!" Immediately springing into action, Hariyama leaps for Twilight's Umbreon. Standing her ground, Umbreon waits for an order with her massive opponent inching closer with every passing second.

In a calm and collected voice, as if this situation was a mere everyday eventuality for her, Twilight speaks just as Hariyama is about to grab Umbreon, "DUCK. And slide forwards, using psychic to push you forwards towards Vileplume."

"Noooooooooooo. No No No. Hariyama grab it, now quickly!" But it was too late, as Umbreon slides forward glowing with a blue energy and a smug smirk across its face, Hariyama falls flat on its face with a loud boom, as it's attack propels it forward into the ground where Umbreon once stood. "Vileplume, continue draining Absol, but send poison sting towards Umbreon." Again with a gleam in her eye Alona's strategic thinking comes into play. With the large green energy beam sucking energy from an increasingly weaker Absol, Vileplume locks eyes with Umbreon as purple barbs begin to shoot from her mouth, directly towards the moonlight pokemon.

As everything seems to play in slow motion for a moment in Twilight's mind, she risks a look at Crow who merely stood there seemingly in pain at watching and hearing Absol writhe in pain on the floor as its health is slowly sapped from it's body. Not knowing whether she can defeat Alona by herself, there is one option left in her mind, to go all out and save her brother the pain he is feeling right now, not to mention the pain of Absol. As time once again speeds up, a plan had been formed in her mind.

"Quick attack, dodge those barbs! Get close to Vileplume and use tackle to throw off its balance!" Countering Twilight's orders, Alona yells for Vileplume to not allow Umbreon to get close to her, and to increase her poison sting.

Running through the small purple missiles that are heading towards her, weaving through them, and having to change direction to avoid a couple, Umbreon makes headway much to the pleasure of her owner, and with one final bound goes sliding into the feet of Vileplume causing her to loose focus and balance and to fall on her back. Ceasing her attack on the weakened Absol.

"Absol, are you okay? Are you okay? Please." Yelling to his signature pokemon, Absol begins to stir and gradually stumble to its feet, always the fighter. All the while Umbreon was back into action, taking on the two pokemon they had yet to defeat. Running a ring around Absol and heading straight for Hariyama, Twilight yells for her to use psychic to over power its mind. As Umbreon's eyes once again glow a blue colour and a blue light emits around the now panicking Hariyama just as it was standing back up, in the background Alona yells for him to do something, fruitlessly as the psychic paralyzes him as he is, making him float into the air slowly.

Seeing Vileplume stir in the background, and sitting up rubbing her petals, Twilight's realization of having no time hits and with another command she seeks to start putting the finishing touches on this battle. "Combine your psychic with confuse ray." Correcting her speech and speaking in a much more calmed tone, Twilight watches as a purple energy is mixed in with the blue, causing the foe Hariyama to writhe in discomfort and pain as it loses control of its own ability to think in a higher way. "Now finish it and slam it against the far wall." With clear effort after such a heated battle, Umbreon pushes her powers and watches as the Hariyama slams against a wall, and falls to the floor with swirls for eyes. Screaming in the background, a light emits from Alona as she recalls her fallen pokemon back to its pokeball. Now with an angry tone in her voice she yells at her Vileplume, "Razor leaf, NOW!" As the pokemon steps slightly more towards the panting, tired Umbreon before her.

Another voice rings out across the gym in a commanding and fearful manner, "Absol, bite. With all your might. Now." As a white figure lunges in front of Umbreon and bites into Vileplume before she can even form the leaves from underneath her petals, a high pitched wail can be heard as Absol sinks its teeth into its opponent. With Vileplume still wailing in pain, Absol jumps back in between the two other pokemon on the field, protecting its comrade. Knowing this is the end, the two dark pokemon move to stand shoulder to shoulder with one another and wait for the command from their masters.

And in unison, in a calm and collected voice, the twins seem to speak as one, as they order their pokemon to finish this battle. "Dark Pulse."

As the foe Vileplume is still in shock at the unexpected attack upon her, and not to mention her trainer's frustration at ignoring or perhaps not comprehending her orders, the two dark pokemon begin to charge a black orb in each of their mouths, and as one send them flying straight towards the flower pokemon. Upon impact the orbs send Vileplume flying next to her master, unconscious and with swirls for eyes.

Returning their pokemon, Twilight and Crow walk towards the back of their gym, flipping a switch on the floor as they pass it, making the gym fall into complete and utter darkness. Disappearing from Alona's view as the gym is momentarily lit up by her returning her severely hurt pokemon, and falling on her knees to the floor thinking about her defeat and how she was so close to beating one of the hardest gyms around. Thinking on how she will never be a champion, as she will never challenge the twins again.

Exiting the gym, a set of red eyes can be seen following her every move as a gengar grins in the darkness, mischief clearly on its mind.


Special thanks to pontiger27 for the character "Alona Jones" :D

I know I told a few people (who will hopefully still be reading this !) that I would be updating all the time, but things have got really busy and hectic. So Im sorry. :/ I WILL TRY !

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