The eight Pokémon grouped together at one side of the fountain, as purple goo started to erupt out of its fountains.
"Everyone get back!" shouted Rolfe. He stood nearer the front of the group.
The goo moulded together to form a blob of itself. Two arms emerged from the blob as well as two eyes and a large mouth.
"It's a Muk!" Sumo whispered to his friends.
The Muk began to laugh, "Not just any Muk. I am King Muk, ruler of Moven Town."
"What are you talking about?" Alistar spoke up.
"I rule this town, and its entire population."
Ace laughed, "No one lives here. Because of your smell, they've all moved out."
King Muk grumbled, and then growled, and then roared, "No! No! Everyone will follow me!"
The purple blob charged towards the two teams. Ace, Aura, Alistar and Riley were hit by the blast. The four of them fainted from the attack.
Razor, Sumo, Ruby and Rolfe had missed it, but barely.
"X-Scissor!" Razor announced. He leaped at King Muk, and sliced his side with his now glowing scythes. The attack barely hit, and King Muk retaliated with Sludge. Purple goo erupted from the purple blobs mouth and hit Razor. The bug Pokémon was knocked out, leaving three to take King Muk on.
"Arm Thrust!" called Sumo. The Pokémon focused and his boxing gloves glowed a bright white. It charged at King Muk, and punched it four times, twice with each arm. "That's for my friends!"
The self-proclaimed King of Moven town laughed, and mixed Sumo up with his arm. He threw the Guts Pokémon against one of the buildings, which made a dent in it.
Ruby and Rolfe starred at each other. Kind Muk was the most powerful Pokémon that both Ruby and Rolfe had ever seen. He had knocked out six Pokémon without even breaking a sweat.
"Wha-what do we do," Ruby barely made out.
"We fight; it's the only thing we can do. Just hit it with your most powerful move.
"Flamethrower!" shouted Ruby. She opened her mouth and gathered fire energy. A swirling fire ball of fire was now ready to be shot.
"Discharge!" shouted Rolfe. He too gathered energy. His fur with soon full of electricity. "Go!"
The two attacks were shot at the same time. The two attacks merged into one, forming a beam of yellow and red; electricity and fire. The attack hit the purple sludge monster dead on.
Rub and Rolfe panted for breath. They had used more power than they had planned.
"Is-is he gone," asked Ruby.
Rolfe looked up from the ground, to see not what he was hoping for.
The attack did hit King Muk, but the giant separated it to spread the damage out. Smaller blobs of sludge were now edging closer to Ruby and Rolfe.
"He turned himself into Grimers!" screamed Ruby.
The two Pokémon would have ran away, (and could easily outrun the super slow Grimers) if they had the strength. Both were very weak from there attack, and fell to the ground.
"This is how it ends.
This is how I die, right?
Ruby has fainted already and I don't know how much longer I can hold out."
It was then, when Rolfe was on the verge of losing life, that the Dusknoir came.
The Ghost Pokémon flew in from the forests around the town. The speed it moved at sent gusts of wind through the streets.
"I am Dusk!" the Pokémon proclaimed.
The Grimers below starred up at the ghost, who was about five feet off the ground.
"I know, that you know who I am!" he said, again in the deep loud voice, "You will leave this town, now!"
The Grimers were at first, struck with fear. Rolfe had just enough energy felt to smile. The purple blobs then scattered and wobbled away on all directions. This was the last thing Rolfe could see, as he felt that weak.
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TWO WEEKS LATER:
Rolfe woke on a stray bed, next to Ruby who was lying to his right.
"Hey Ruby," he whispered. The fox Pokémon didn't move, but instead snored louder than before.
Rolfe laughed a little, but then got up and stretched his legs.
"I'll be back in a minute, k," he told the sleeping fox, before leaving the small room through the door.
Outside, Rolfe found himself on a street in Moven town, but not the one he had seen before. The sun was shining high in the sky, and the lampposts weren't alit. Pokémon, young and old, walked the streets with bags and merchandise. It was market day.
Stalls were selling all manner of things, from berries to batteries. One specific stall catch Rolfe's eye, and not because of what they were selling.
"Hey Alistar!" called Rolfe. He ran across the road, making sure not to bump into any Pokémon.
"Hi Rofle, good to see you up."
"What do you mean? Was I asleep for long?"
"About two weeks, but Chansey did say that it would take at least that for you and Ruby to recover from your 'Ultimate Fire Thunder move combo."
The two Pokémon laughed as Rofle was taken aback to the battle with King Muk.
"Oh yeah," Rolfe said reminiscing "How did you know about that?"
"What do you mean?"
"You were out cold when I did the attack, so how did you know about it."
"Dusk told us."
Rolfe remembered again about Dusk the Dusknoir.
"Dusk had heard about the commotion in Moven Town and had come to sort it out. He found that the towns people were staying nearby and called tell back. He saw you and Ruby attack before he came in and scared the Muk away."
"Where did he go then?"
"Dusk, he went back to his guild. It's in the far north east, but he wanted to help this mission because he owned the town's mayor, Mayor Mitchell, a favour."
At that, the two Pokémon were joined by Sumo, Razor and Ace who had been checking out another stand.
"Good to see ya buddy," said Ace, tapping his friend on the back.
"You're a hero now," commented Sumo.
"Hu, why?" asked Rofle.
"Dusk may have scared them away, but you and Ruby put your lifes on the line to save this town. All of the towns people were there that night, they were just hiding in the forest, and they saw what you did."
Rofle smiled. One good deed, done!
AAAAAAAND, hello everyone. Welcome back to PMD: Perplexed. If you had looked at the stories summary over Christmas you would have seen that it said:
COMING BACK IN FEBRUARY 2013.
The deal with my stories is that I will go back to them, and work on them for a wee while, then leave them again. I want to write this story again, and that is a great thing. I am also accepting two new OCs. (I know it sounds lazing but I'm tired.) Please go use Riley's form as a template and send your own. Riley's form can be found in the second page of reviews, at the bottom.
The series is officially back, and a new team will be introduced next time featuring,
Justin, Kenny, Riku, Silver and Mitty!
BTW, if you're Pokémon isn't on this list above, and isn't in team Star or AoS, then please resend it, but only if you want too.
(Rolfe may be referred to as Rofle. Please tell me if you see this mistake.)
QUESTIONS:
1: Do you see Rolfe and Ruby as a pairing?
2: Just tell me who you do see as a good pairing?
3: Guess what species of Pokémon are the names above?
4: BONUS QUESTION WORTH FIFTY POINTS: Does anyone know where Dusk (and Mayor Mitchell) are from?
5: Can anyone draw? I could use a cover pic.
Smell ya later, (Do do do dooo do) KC
