Gothorita, Escavalier, and Duosion

She appeared without warning in the middle of the night, a dark figure holding aside the flap of the tent. Illuminated by the moon, the white bows that adorned her body shimmered like silk. Otherwise, her dark body and hair blended into the night. The Gothorita crept in to look at the children, unaware that one was not entirely asleep.

After a moment, she seemed satisfied and waved her arms around, humming strangely. Sparkles appeared to fall over the three boys, causing them to come out of their sleeping bags and crawl out of the tent after the little Pokemon. "There's too many people out here, so let's take a walk," she said. "We'll dance in a pretty place and it will be such fun. Come along, darlings."

She led them away from the campsite and to an open field. It still had ropes and flags set up from the day's sport activities, but she ignored them and instructed the three children to dance in a round with her. As they were asleep (or mostly so), they were unable to resist.

In the middle of their dance, another Pokemon came flying onto the field, like a meteorite across the sky. One of his long lances nearly tore one of the boy's pajamas in half when the tip snagged the fabric. "Hoo, stop there evil-doer!" the Escavalier shouted. "I am about to punish you most severely for kidnapping these children!"

She put a hand to her chest, acting shocked. "Kidnapping? I'd never do such a thing. I'm out here playing with my friends."

"But human children aren't supposed to be out so late at night," the Escavalier. "That proves that you kidnapped them."

She shook her head, then wiped away a few false tears. "No, they're considerate of me and don't make me come out in the horrid daylight. They're very dear to me; please don't take them from me. See, this is Kid, and this is Star, and this is Calamity. And don't tease Kid of his name; he gets so mad when people do that."

Shifting his eyes, the Escavalier considered it. "They look like some of the kids in this camp session, like Bill, George, and Miguel."

"Well they're obviously not those kids." She clasped her hands to her chest. "Pleeeeeassse don't separate us! I have such a hard time making friends."

"Well..." he shifted his red-crested helmet.

"WAAAIIIITTT!" A green bubble-like Pokemon came hurrying through the air, from the same direction the Escavalier had come from. His body had very few features aside from a large head in its green gel bubble, just a nub of a torso and tiny hands. Panting, the Duosion came up to them. "Have you found the kidnapped children, Sir Qix?"

"I am not a kidnapper!" the Gothorita blubbered through her tears. "They're my friends; don't be mean to them."

"She says she's not, and none of the boys are complaining, so I guess she's not," Qix the Escavalier said. "But you should really hurry up when we go out on the hunt."

"I try," the Duosion said, sinking in the air. "But she has some of the kids out of their tents. But I guess you would be right. Or it should be obvious that she's lying..."

"Can't you make up your minds?" Qix said, shaking one of his striped lances. "You've been like that ever since you evolved."

"Well I do have two now. Harder to think straight than with one."

"So will you leave us be to dance?" the Gothorita said, bringing out a handkerchief to wipe off her face.

"No!" Qix shouted. "We've got more important things to do, and the more bodies we have out searching, the better! I'm the most important Pokemon of the campgrounds, Sir Qix the Magnificent! And this is my squire, Sam. We're on a hunt for a kidnapper."

Sam waved his arms, causing the matching gel nubs to wave too. "It might just be kids sneaking out of their tents and cabins at night. But it might also be a kidnapper. We're up to make sure the kids are all in bed. Which means that we probably should ask you to return your friends to their cabins. But it would also be good to have more people looking. But then they couldn't understand us because they're humans."

"Oh, don't worry about that," the Gothorita said, holding her handkerchief over her face. "When my friends are with me at night, they can understand any of us. Thank you so much for understanding. I'm Lady Raven Desmonda Darkheart. I surely hope that there's not a kidnapper around, because then my dear friends would be in danger. But then I had heard that it was a horrible monster somewhere in the woods that was trying to eat the children."

"I heard that too," Sam said, his gel quivering. "It was scary. But it was also too silly to be real. It'd be awful if it was real, though. I wouldn't want to... but if you want..." His body suddenly stretched as one of his minds tried to run away while the other stayed, then snapped back into place with violent jiggling. "Oooo, I hate it when I do that..."

Qix slammed his lances together, making a tremendous clatter that somehow didn't wake up the children. "We can't let a child eater be roaming our campgrounds! We must seek out this monster and defeat it in noble combat! Come, let's be off!"

"But I can't leave my friends behind," Raven said, looking at the three boys. "Calamity would be so disappointed if he missed out on fighting a monster, even a child-eating one. That'd be even more exciting, wouldn't it?"

One of the three boys nodded in response.

"I think there's something like that in the lake," Raven said. "We ought to check that area out first."

"Yes, let's go! There's nothing to fear when Qix the Magnificent is at your side!" Qix then rushed off, forcing the rest to run (or float in Sam's case) as fast as they could to catch up to him. And when they got to the muddy banks of the campground lake, they saw something huge slithering just below the dark silvery surface.

"Hold it!" The camp counselor put his hand on the shoulder of the boy telling the story. "That's utterly ridiculous; there is no monster in the lake."

"Well yes, because we defeated it last night. That's why we were late to the morning meeting and why our pajamas were all muddy." The boy smiled proudly.

"That's kitchen and bathroom clean-up for all three of you, to the end of next week. Now get to work."

"But..." the boy whined.

"No buts. Get."

"Yes sir."

On their way to the cabin where cleaning supplies were kept, one of the other boys said, "I told you you should have just stuck to the Gothorita part. He would have believed that."

"But that's so lame."

The third boy narrowed his eyes. "Lame? As if this is any better? No thanks, dummy."

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Gothorita B2/W2 entry: According to many old tales, it creates friends for itself by controlling sleeping children on starry nights.

Escavalier Black entry: They fly around at high speed, striking with their pointed spears. Even when in trouble, they face opponents bravely.

Duosion Black entry: Since they have two divided brains, at times they suddenly try to take two different actions at once.

I'm now halfway done with all the Unova Pokemon! And before the sequels come out, which is cool.

Sometimes awful names are fun.