Chapter 2: Helping Duskull Out

We were soon at the site the Shuppet and Banette were calling the Derote, or in other words the king's palace. We went inside, the Derote was probably the creepiest place I had ever seen in my life, but we kept going onwards.

We were now in the Kings' throne room and so I said to the king, "Your royal kingliness, I must ask you why you took this village from the Duskull that used to own this land?" And the king replied, "We took it because we can." "What a horrible reason to take peoples homes" I said in disgust. Then the king spat at my feet and told me to get out of his palace. So we got out and then started forming a plan. I told Alex to wait just outside of the kings throne room while I went in.

I started speaking to the king, "Here, why don't you have a bullet seed attack." I waited for a moment expecting Alex to attack him but nothing came. "I repeat why don't you have a bullet seed attack, that's your cue Alex!" Alex then came in and fired a bullet seed attack at the king and one of the kings followers jumped in the way. So, the attack had started and we were outnumbered five to two, but that didn't stop us we just kept on fighting. Alex used a quick attack on one of the kings guards and it surprised him to find out it didn't even faze him. I had to remind him that ghost-type pokémon weren't affected by normal type moves like quick attack.

So the battle had begun, I used an ember attack on the Shuppet farthest to the right, and it fell just like that. So I got to wondering why the Duskull couldn't just take them down, then I got my answer. The Shuppet I just took down started merging with the nine other Shuppet, and then it formed an extremely Shuppet. But then obviously something happened that the king wasn't expecting because he had a look of extreme disbelief on his face, but the Shuppet that had just merged together had just started to evolve.

So the challenge gotten harder by about ten fold and we had to really think this one through so I said to Alex, "Hey what type of attack was it that ghost type pokémon are most affected by?"

He replied by saying, "I don't know, it was either they weren't affected very much or it was really effective to use a bug type attack, so how bout I use my fury cutter and we'll find out." So Alex used his fury cutter on the merged and now evolved Banette, but all the Banette did was laugh.

Then I said, "Uh ya, so I'm guessing that was the one that was not very effective." So we continued dodging the Banette's attacks trying to think of a strategy until a Mightyena appeared in the doorway.

So the Mightyena started talking to me, "Hey, I heard some fighting and thought I would join in, and when I got here one of the Duskull outside told me I shouldn't go in because there was a battle going on inside between a giant Banette and two pokémon by the names of Nick and Alex, are you by chance Nick?" I replied with a little suspicion in my voice, "and if I am?"

He replied, "then I will fight on your side." Then I nodded my head as if to say, let's fight.

So the fight continued, but now we had a powerful new ally. The next thing we knew the Mightyena had lunged at the giant Banette's leg with a crunch attack. We knew the attack had worked because the Banette just screamed out in pain, and now the Banette was limping. Then, all of a sudden I felt a new power welling up inside me; it was the attack flamethrower! So I used this new attack, it felt very strange to have all this power and heavy coming out of my body at one time, and I aimed it at the Banette's hurt leg and it completely fell over.

Then all of a sudden four Duskull came in and tied the giant Banette to the floor.

Then I said, "Mightyena, would you like to do the honors?" "I sure would" he replied back. So he took the king and started to run out the castle gates, and all the other Shuppet and Banette ran off scared, but as he started to leave he said something, "My name is Mark Mightyena, you would do well to remember that", then he left without a trace.

The Duskull that we had spoken to earlier had come up to me and started speaking, "This graveyard of Duskull is forever in your debt so any time you need us just send us a message. But I also have another request, would you mind if I came with you on your journey to fight the King and Queen, because we found out as you were battling, the king and Queen sent that gang of Shuppet and Banette to take over our town."

So I told him, "I guess you can if you know what you'll be leaving behind." "I do know what I will be leaving", He replied back. So with that we left.