Disclaimer: I do not claim any of the Pokemon characters used in this chapter, because they are all property of Satoshi Tajiri and I haven't stolen the rights from him yet. I bet he has people try that all the time, actually; probably has to have bodyguards and stuff.
If Kitty didn't know any better, she might've said Uproar Forest looked a lot darker than the last time she had been there. Shadows seemed to jump at her from around every corner, and several times she found herself shrieking when ambushed and giving out several panicked shadow balls. Gengar was amused by her skittishness as his snickers grew into guffaws, and her face heated up as she kept on her toes to avoid further embarrassment. Her day was already a gloomy gray, with the rain clouds that threatened to unleash their burden overhead, and now the gray had split into several shades to conceal possible opponents until the very last second. Stupid clouds, blocking the sun and making it harder to see. But wasn't she supposed to like the dark? Dammit, now I'm confused and lost.
"Kekekeh, lost?"
"No!" Of course, her shrill response didn't convince him one bit, and he taunted her faulty night vision as her temper simmered for a while in silence. One, two, three . . . fifteen, sixteen–this isn't helping! She was only more aware of how much time was spent in the woods, and when she felt the first drop of water plop on her nose she moaned in agony at the thought of being soaked. "That's fan-freakin'-tastic! Now we're gonna walk around in the rain, cold and lost and looking for the stupidest bunch of morons that–"
"Oh, shaddup," he teased quietly, nudging her in the direction of some shelter.
Theme: Shades of Gray
Lots of dragon-y love (and cookies!),
~DL ("Dragon Lover")