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Nightly Clash
By Alex Dunne
It was the night of the full moon, a tribe of Clefairys joined together with their leader Clefable. The men were wearing cloth over their legs while the women were wearing cloth over their legs and chest. Their leader was wearing cloth over her legs and chest, she had symbols painted on her arms, legs and face that represented the night sky. They danced around waiting for moon stones to fall from the sky. Suddenly, one of the Clefairys made an alarming sound.
“Leader leader, there’s an intruder!”
“What, who?” Clefable asked.
“I don’t know, but I heard chuckling and saw movement on the walls.” Clefairy explained, when out of nowhere chuckling could be heard.
“Who’s there?” Clefable asked, looking around. “Show yourself coward.”
“Well well well, look what we have here.” A creepy voice said. “Little prey for me to feast on.”
“We are not your prey, now show yourself or leave!” Clefable growled. The voice started to laugh hysterically.
“I’ll leave if you can catch me.” A moving shadow was seen on the wall, Clefable shot a moonblast at it, but nothing popped out. “I’m over here or here maybe here.” The voice taunted, the shadow moving everywhere, on the wall and floor. Clefable shot moonblast after moonblast, she was starting to get frustrated. “You can’t hit a shadow.” The voice laughed, Clefable then got an idea.
“Shadow you say, well there’s one thing that can take care of that.” She raised her hands. “Flash!” She started to generate a luminescent light from her body, the shadow screamed as the light hit it. A figure rose from the ground and fell to its knees. Clefable stopped and looked at the figure. “Gengar!” Gengar looked at Clefable with a cheeky smile. He was wearing some white sweatpants and a red hoodie.
“Hello Clefable, long time no see.” He got up and floated in the air.
“What are you doing here Gengar?”
“You know how I am, I like scaring people and this Clefairy here was wandering around so, yeah.” Clefable sighed.
“Gengar, I told you not to come near these parts.”
“Listen, I didn’t know that I was in these parts.”
“My Clefairy didn’t make it obvious by what he was wearing.” Gengar took a glance.
“Hey man, pokemon these days wear just about anything.” He shrugged. Clefable huffed and shot a moonblast, Gengar shot a shadow ball in retaliation, the balls smashed together making a sparkly explosion. Gengar laughed while Clefable groaned.
“What do you want, Gengar?” Gengar stopped laughing, he grinned, he floated down to the ground.
“I wanna be part of your tribe.” Clefable was caught by Gengar’s words.
“Huh?”
“Yeah, I think it’ll be fun.” Gengar said with a smile, Clefable stared at him and started to laugh.
“You, be part of my group, what makes you think I would let you join?” Gengar thought for a moment.
“Well I’m strong and we’ve known each other since you were a Cleffa and I was a Ghastly.” Clefable went silent for a moment. “Don’t you remember, we used to be close.” Clefable sighed and turned around, she thought for some time, she turned around again.
“Ok, I’ll let you join.”
“Yes!”
“Wait, you have to prove yourself.”
“What, how?”
“Follow me.” She started to walk off with Gengar floating behind her. They made their way through Clefable’s village, Clefairys looked at Gengar and murmured to each other. Gengar smiled at them and continued to follow. As they made their way to a big building, Clefable stopped and whispered something to a nearby Clefairy, she then turned back to Gengar. “Alright, there’s gonna be two doors, go through the one on the right, I’ll go through the left one.”
“Ok, but what’s the thing I’m gonna do.” Clefable giggled.
“Easy, we’re gonna fight.” She answered with a smile.
“What, are you sure, I mean I’m a poison type and you're a fairy type, not the best match up.”
“Trust me, our typing won’t be necessary in this fight.” Gengar wanted to question more, but he kept quiet and nodded. They entered the building and went to their doors. The door behind Gengar closed, making him jump a bit, lights started to shine behind him, he covered his eyes and looked ahead. In front of him was a hallway, he walked down it looking around for anything suspicious. At the end of the hallway was a door, a pretty wooden door that was clean and didn’t seem to break at any point. Gengar pushed the door open to be met with a room full of gloves and shorts. Gengar was confused till he saw a sign that said, Pick a pair, get dressed and enter through this door. Gengar looked around and picked a pair of green and black gloves with some matching shorts and a green mouthguard, he poked his chub gut making it jiggle a bit, he laughed to himself. He got dressed and entered the door only to be met with a wall. He was confused, he looked around to see if there was something to press, nothing. Suddenly he felt the floor move a bit, it started to rise, he froze in place and looked up, a light could be seen from above. He covered his eyes waiting for something to happen, the platform stopped moving, Gengar slowly uncovered his eyes and saw a large crowd of Cleffas, Clefairys and Clefables surrounding a ring in the center.
“Good evening ladies and gentleman, today we have an outsider wanting to join our tribe!” A Clefairy yelled, the crowd roared with excitement. “On the left door we have the ghost and poison type, Gengar!” The crowd cheered, Gengar was nervous, but he waved at the crowd. “And on the right door we have the fairy type, Clefable!” The crowd screamed so loud it could shatter glass. Clefable waved to her people. Gengar saw Clefable wearing a pair of white and light blue gloves with a matching pair of shorts and a light blue sports bra and a pink mouthguard, he couldn't help but blush. The platforms they were standing on started to move to the ring, Gengar stumbled a bit while Clefable stood there unbothered. They stopped at their corners. “Fighters, step in the ring!” Clefable stepped in and Gengar floated in. When they entered, a dome surrounded the ring and disappeared, Gengar felt heavier, he tried to float but nothing.
“What’s happening?” He asked.
“That dome denies you to use pokemon moves and any special things you can do.” Explained Clefable. “For example, you could float and turn into a shadow, but now you can’t, making the fight fair.”
“Oh I see, that’s very clever.” Gengar nodded, Clefable smiled.
“Alright folks, we all know how this works, no rounds, but no cornermen, the fighters will stay bruised and tired and keep going until one is down!” Gengar grew worried, he hasn’t fought like this in a long time, he usually uses his powers. Gengar shook his head and tried to look determined, Clefable chuckled to herself. Gengar took a breath and smacked his gloves together. “Seems as though Gengar is ready to fight, what about you Clefable!” She nodded. “Alright, let's get this long fight started!” The Clefairy rang the bell. Gengar and Clefable went to the center and circled each other.
“Don’t worry Gengar, I’ll take it easy on ya.” Clefable said throwing a jab at Gengar’s face, Gengar ducked and threw a hook across her face making her oof, Gengar chuckled. “Not bad.”
“Than-” Gengar was interrupted with an uppercut to his chin. Gengar grunts and stumbles back a little from the surprise, Clefable giggled.
“Don’t let your guard down.” Clefable threw jabs at Gengar who had his guard up, the jabs made him back up a bit. Clefable kept throwing them, Gengar soon hit the ropes, Clefable was about to throw another until Gengar dodged and threw two hooks at Clefable’s face. She took the hooks and threw a hook back making Gengar grunt, she then threw an uppercut at his gut, Gengar’s body jiggled as it was hit. Clefable giggled at this making Gengar blush, she jumped back and motioned Gengar to come at her. Gengar grinned, he rushed at Clefable throwing hooks to her sides, she grunts but stands her ground. Gengar then throws an uppercut to her chin, her head goes up from the hit, but she doesn’t grunt. Clefbale’s head lowered with a small smile on her face, Gengar freaked out a little bit, he held his gloves to his face. Clefable patted Gengar on the shoulder before throwing a jab to his gut, he grunts and throws a jab at her face. “Gah!”
“Ha!” Gengar starts to bash at Clefable’s gut with jabs, she grunts with each punch, but she doesn’t move. Gengar then went to throw another uppercut to her chin, but leans back and throws a hard uppercut to Gengar’s gut. He lets out a groan, Clefable twists the glove around on Gengar’s gut before pulling it back and throwing a jab at his face. Gengar grunts and backs away, he wipes his mouth while staring at Clefable. Clefable rushes at Gengar ready to throw a jab, Gengar panics and ducks making Clefable stumble a bit, Gengar runs behind her and jumps around a bit.
“You can’t escape Gengar, not until you win, lose or forfeit.” Clefable said.
“Oh don’t worry, I don’t plan to lose.” Gengar said, pounding his gloves together. Clefable smirked and rushed at him, she tried throwing hooks at him, but even with his pudgy body he managed to dodge them. As Gengar dodged a left hook he threw a jab at Clefable’s face, she grunted as the punch landed, he then jumped to her left and threw a hook to her side.
“Wow, Gengar is jumping around Clefable, almost like he’s dancing!” Gengar throws a few more jabs before throwing an uppercut to her gut, she groans as spit comes out her mouth. Gengar chuckled and jumped back. Clefable fell to her knees as she held her gut, she growled and looked at Gengar. She looked at the counter, 3…4…5, she pushed herself up and smacked her gloves together.
“You know why there’s only my evolution line in this tribe?” Gengar tilted his head.
“Why?” Clefable smirked, out of nowhere a loud thud could be heard, Clefbale drilled an uppercut into Gengar’s gut, he was lifted into the air a bit.
“Because I never hold back.” Gengar fell to his feet, he held his gut grunting. Clefable started to throw a barrage of jabs and hooks at Gengar’s face, Gengar put his arms up to defend himself. His defense worked, mostly, a few punches landed on his face. The jabs and hooks started to push him back, Gengar tried to move forward but Clefable pushed him back and continued to punch. Gengar’s back hits the ropes causing to get distracted, Clefable takes this chance to throw a haymaker at Gengar’s face. Gengar gasps and tries to block it, but he was too slow and it landed causing the crowd to go wild.
“Woah, Clefable’s really having fun in there!” Gengar groans, his gloves fall a bit giving Clefable the chance to give Gengar a beating. She throws a barrage of jabs and hooks to his face, he groans from each punch, his head being flung all around. Clefable stops the beating and looks at Gengar, his breathing is heavy and his face is swollen.
“Not bad, but it’s over.” She bends down and throws a haymaker to his chin, his mouthguard goes flying with some spit, his body falls forward onto Clefable. Gengar’s forehead lands on Clefable’s chest making her blush a bit, she wraps her arms around Gengar and pats his back. “There there, you tried your best.” Gengar’s legs were wobbling, he tried to wrap his arms around Clefable but they fell to his side. He manages to throw a jab at Clefable’s cheek, but it’s weak so it does nothing but makes her giggle. She moves Gengar in front of her, she aims a glove at his face and throws a hard jab making him fall to the mat with a thud. The counter starts to count, 1…2…3…4. Gengar tries to sit up, but his body stings, he gasps and falls back down. 5…6..7…8. Clefable watches Gengar struggle, she wants to help, but she can’t intervene. 9…10. The bell rang and the crowd roared.
“Clefable wins!” Clefable waves to the crowd as Gengar lays there groaning, she looks back at him and notices something. She grows a mischievous grin and walks over to him. She grabs his arm and pulls him up, he lays against Clefable heavily breathing. Clefable takes her glove’s off and moves her hands to Gengar’s shorts.
“Why don’t we take a peak?” She forces Gengar’s shorts down revealing a pair of black boxers with pink hearts on them. “Aww, that’s so cute.” Clefable giggles, the crowd goes aww as well causing Gengar to get embarrassed, he pushes his head onto Clefable not wanting the crowd to see him. After the fight Gengar is in his clothes, he takes a seat on a nearby rock and pouts. Clefable comes over and sits next to him on the ground. “Hey.” Gengar lets out a huff of air. “I’m sorry for doing that in the end, it was unprofessional of me.”
“I’m not upset about that.” Gengar mumbles.
“Then what are you upset about?”
“That I failed, I felt so bad, I just wanted to escape into my shadow and leave.” Gengar looks to the ground. “I just wanted to see you again.” Clefable goes silent, she places a hand on Gengar’s shoulder.
“I missed you too.” Gengar starts to blush, he looks away. “You know, not many pokemon can get me down, I think that’s enough to get you in the tribe.” Gengar shoots his head.
“Really?” He asked with some excitement in his voice.
“Yeah, besides, it’s my choice in the end.” Gengar jumps onto her lap and hugs her.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Clefable chuckles, and hugs Gengar back.
“You’re welcome.”