MISCHIEF NIGHT

[indigo_league]

Who: All the Dark-types put your paws up!
Where: Anywhere and everywhere!
When: Sunset on Halloween Night to sunrise on November 1st!
Summary: MISCHIEF NIGHT MISCHIEF NIGHT
Rating: G-PG13
Log:


There’s a sour-sweet wind a-blowing this eve as the sun hangs low and red in the sky. The leaves have turned, windows glow like jack-o-lantern eyes, and the streets hum with the excitement that the night will bring. There’s no mysterious trees growing straight out of the concrete this year, and there’s a palpable sense of relief as those who were waiting with bated breath for the other shoe to fall finally set about hanging up last-minute decorations and picking the candy aisles at every PokeMart bare.

It is Halloween, and for the first time in a few years, it would seem nothing is going to get in the way of the holiday.

… At least, right up until the last sliver of sun dips below the horizon.

A flock of Murkrow explodes up from the woods around Violet City, cawing in excitement. On the Sevii Islands, Alolan Rattata pop out of their burrows with bright eyes and quivering noses. In the glens outside Celadon City, the Houndooms start to howl.

Almost as one, all Dark-type Pokemon, big and small, young and old, stop and lift their noses to the crisp breeze. Something ancient tingles in their bones. Oh, tonight...tonight is their night. However much they may love their trainer, something higher is calling them. Mischief! Adventure! CANDY!

It’s time!

Fast or slow, brazen or sneaky, the sunset is the signal for each and every Dark-type to break away from their trainers and run off into the night. To do what? Well what do you think, silly humans? You know what night it is!

Some fashion their own costumes and go door to door earning sweet treats alongside the excited children who are out in droves. Or perhaps they might pursue some more unconventional treat-seeking avenues -- sometimes one man’s trash is another mon’s treat!

But there’s more to Halloween than candy; others will develop a nasty streak and put the ‘trick’ in ‘trick or treat’, upsetting outdoor decorations, frighten childrening and little old ladies, or even pantsing people! The horror! Anything can happen on Halloween!

Even the wild Dark-types are filled with the holiday spirit. Last year everyone was too wrapped up with that Ghost-type nonsense to properly enjoy Halloween, so they’re all too happy to make up for lost time. Harried trainers trying to track down their tricky runaways might find themselves befriending the Poochyenas, Murkrows, or even Alolan Meowths that have come out of the woodwork to celebrate. After all, what good is a grand trick if there’s no one to tell about it? What good is a tasty treat with no one to share? Even trainers who don’t have any Dark-types in their arsenal will find themselves approached by these wild Pokemon and invited to tag along!

Comments

boo

[shiro2hero]

... I hate this.

[Let the record show that Shiro has said his protest. This man who has stared various kinds of death in the face so many times, who fearlessly flies a giant robot through the depths of space... is balking at this haunted house. Looking up at it like it's some kind of actual horror walk.]

Do you really want to go in?

Re: boo

[schachmeister]

I was thinking about it. I've never done it before.

[Armin looks at the Haunted House. The slightly shabby, not all too professionally put together haunted house and then he glances at Shiro. Shiro. Who he knows has faced down countless threats and has always thrown himself into the face of danger.]

... are you scared of this sort of thing?

[shiro2hero]

They're not that bad. This one doesn't look like much, either...

[So why are you looking so uncertain, Gligar-man?]

Jump scares. I hate jump scares. Haunted houses are full of them.

[schachmeister]

Really?

I mean, I don't think you are lying, I'm just... surprised.

[Shiro seemed the sort who was rather fearless when it came to those kinds of things. Armin knows he has his fear (everybody does) but from a cheap haunted house?]

[shiro2hero]

[Look, you can be fearless in the face of real, life-threatening danger, but then cheap haunted houses happen and all bets are off.]

[He looks sidelong at Armin.]

I hate jump scares. And spiders. Just. For the record.

[schachmeister]

Spiders, really? Even the pokemon ones?

[Shiro, can you really look at an adorable little Joltik and call it scary?]

[shiro2hero]

Really.

Not the pokemon ones -- they don't look like the ones that bother me.

[Pokemon are Pokemon. Spiders are horrible things that hide in your shoe until Keith stabs them.]