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Topic: Darkrai Danger! Sinnoh mystery! 3 (Rp) Now accepting members!
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Darkrai Danger! Sinnoh mystery! 3 (Rp) Now accepting members!

A thousand years ago, the world was in turmoil. There was war between Sinnoh and the other regions. Led by Darkrai, a band of evildoers, Team Ultima, went on a quest to destroy the entire world. They were held back only by the combined power of all the other legendaries. With them, waited a young man. When Darkrai approached him, the man cast a powerful spell and sealed Darkrai away for a thousand years. Now, the thousand years end, and Darkrai is awakening.

This is a RolePlay created by me, co-owner is Pikachu_2006. If you want to join, please fill out the application form below. But first, a few rules.

1. No mentioning drugs, alcohol and that sort of stuff.
2. No deliberately offending other people.
3. No double posting.
4. Posts can be written in either story form or play form.
5. No spamming, flamming, god-moddling, or swearing.
6. No joining and not posting.
7. Have fun.

The application form:
Name: What you want to be known as.
Gender: Male/Female
Age: Your character's age.
Pokemon: Your Pokemon (You can have more than one)
Legendary: What legendary you want in this (except Darkrai)
Home Town: Where your adventure begins
Birthday: When your character's birthday is.
Goal: What your character is aiming to do (Pokemon League Champion, Battle Frontier, Trainer, Contests, Team Ultima)
Appearance: What the character looks like.
Bio: Describe your character.
Other: Anything else we should know about your character.

I'm in this too, so this is my character.
Name: Brandon
Age: 19
Pokemon: Sceptile, Eevee (which he nicknamed Eve)
Legendary: Rayquaza
Home Town: Littleroot.
Birthday: 24th January
Goal: Pokemon League/Battle Frontier.
Appearance: The male character from Pokemon Emerald.
Bio: Moved from Johto when his father got the position of PetalBurg Gym Leader, Met Birch, received Treecko.
Other: Is looking to find a girlfriend.

I hope you'll join and enjoy yourselves.

Edit: I've added character rosters to my first post. Here is where you can see all the others who have signed up. Plus I added a legendary roster, where you can see what legendaries are taken.


Name:Emily

Gender:female

Age:11


Pokemon:Todidile,Lucario,vulpix

Legendary:Articuno

Home Town:Celestic City

Birthday:October/2/1996

Appearance:

Bio/Goal:In an ancient pokemon battle Emily's parents were crushed in the battle of team magma and team aqua and she's always seeked to destroy them and their rivalry.There's a secret team that many people don't know a secret team called Team Frost.She is a disendant of that force.

Other:She's also the secret agent of the team and doesn't like anyone getting in her way.She can get very angry when she wants to.Any other time she's funny,and really easy to get along with


Name:Brandon
Gender:Male
Age:19
Pokemon:Sceptile, Eevee (which he nicknamed Eve)
Legendary:Rayquaza
Home Town:Littleroot
Birthday:24th January
Goal:Pokemon League/Battle Frontier
Appearance: The male character from Pokemon Emerald
Bio:Moved from Johto when his father got the position of PetalBurg Gym Leader, met Prof Birch, received Treecko.
Other:Is looking to find a girlfriend.


Name:Renee (yes a guy named Renee)
Gender:Male
Age:17
Pokemon:Chimchar (his starter), Luvdisc (his girlfriend gave him her), Lucario (his brother gave him him), Aipom (his mentor gave him her)
Legendary:Latias
Home Town:Hearthome
Birthday:Februrary
Goal:Contests
Appearance:tall, sunglasses, small fro, leather jacket, he looks like David Hasselhof.
Bio:he is very short-tempered, you talk smart about his girlfriend, mama or anything, he'll start a fight. His short tempers usually get him into Pokemon fights which don't always end well for him since he's a contest trainer. He trained in contests for years before actually leaving to start his journey. He's heading to Hoeen first to meet Birch, one of his father's best friends.
Other: he is cocky. [/colour]


Name:Byron.
Gender:Male
Age:17
Pokemon:Turtwig (starter), Lucario (his father gave it to him), Staraptor (his mother gave it to him)
Legendary:Deoxys
Home Town:ETERNA CITY
Birthday:Feb 30
Goal:Battle Frontier
Appearance:his eyes are red girls
Bio:Nice person, but a little mean. Girls like him, but he doesn't like geeky girls and GARDENIA'S brother.
Other:He's cool


Name: Jay
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Pokemon: Starly (Found injured on a hike) Pidgey (Given to from father before he goes to Kanto)
Legendary: Zapdos
Home Town: Sunnyshore City
Birthday: January 21st
Goal: Find A Legendary Pokemon
Appearance: Black Hair Reaching to his eyes, Black T-Shirt, White Head Band, Red Armband saying 'Sunnyshore city run', Grey Jogging pants, black sneakers.
Bio: Jay Is a young boy who likes to exercice. He likes flying pokemon and has a intrest for dragon pokemon. He has always been scared of dead people and has necrophobia. He is known to jog even in the dangerous weather, he'll jog into a fissure and come back unharmed. He is taking place in a event called 'Sunnyshore City Run' for raising money to help out people with cancer. He is nice and rarely gets into fights. He is shy, but opens up to people once he gets to know them. He has had a happy childhood and found a injured starly on the ground and he treated it back to health. He also gets 100%s in Health and phys ed. Currently he is travelling to Jubilife city to check out what it is like. He is going to jog to oreburg city to claim his first gym badge.
Other: He likes chicken noodle soup


Name: Bradley.
Gender: Male
Age: 15.
Pokemon: Dratini and Bagon.
Legendary: Lugia.
Home Town: Twinleaf town.
Birthday: The 3rd March.
Goal: Conquer the gyms and all challenges.
Appearance: Browny-Blondy hair with black streaks throughout it.
Bio: Bradley grew up as a kid aspiring to posess the most powerful pokemon team he could get his hands on. He encountered Lugia who has helped his manage to get through his troubles and now is starting his journey through the regions.
Other: None.


Name: Vipes Lucari.

Age: 15.

Appearance: long black cape with black clothes. Brown hair.

PokeMon in Party: Gengar (male), Alakazam (male), Gyarados (female), Koffing (Male), Arbok (Male).

Legendary: Groudon.

Home: Lost Tower.

Birthdate: October 31.

Goal: To get back at the world.

Background: Forgotten by the world, and raised by Gastlys at the Lost Tower. With his Pokemon "family" he tries get revenge on the world. He lets his pokemon run free, and rarely puts them in their pokeballs. Has been and is with Team Galactic. Position is classified.

Other: Understands what his pokemon say by a "telepathic" connection.



Name:Cameron (Cam for short)
Age:11
Gender:Male
Pokemon:Infernape (given by his rival, Clint), Lucario (Sir Aaron), Electivire & Empoleon
Legendary:Palkia
Home Town:Twinleaf
Birthday:6th of may
Goal:Stopping Team Galactic
Appearance:The male character from Pokemon D/P
Bio:When he was 5 years old, Team Galactic tried to kidnap him for Team Galactic, Cam ran away to the summit of Mt. Coronet, not knowing where he is but when he was cornered by Team Galactic, Palkia appeared and saved him. His starter was Piplup(Dawn's starter was Piplup also)
Other:Hunting Shinys (when he's bored)


Name:Smythe Moranny
Age:23
Pokemon:Shiny Vulpix, Growlithe, Charmeleon
Legendary:Moltres
Home Town:Cinnabar Island
Birthday:November 2nd
Goal:Pokemon League/Battle Frontier (later to be recruited by Team Ultima)
Appearance:Midlength (5~7 inch), straight, snow-white hair (bangs go down to his lips, and are usually hanging over his right eye). Wears coloured contacts, red, but still wears brown-framed glasses over them for his vision. Clothes vary, but he usually wears a large black trench-coat, over a white t-shirt and black jeans.... black shoes and a silver belt over the trench-coat.
Bio:Describe your character.
Other:Blaine's nephew, very gifted trainer... has uniquely strong Pokemon, and is popular for his tournament battles. often seen on TV, in tournaments, always winning. Decided to try his strength against the Elite 4 and Battle Frontier. Team Ultima has their eyes on him, ready to recruit him at the first sign of danger.Also, Smythe is very intellectual, knowing most everything about the world of pokemon... but he still has to work on his strategic game[/colour]



Name: Dart
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Pokemon: dunsparce, miltank, shuckle, umbreon, espeon
Legendary: Celebi
Home Town: New Bark town
Birthday: July 26
Goal: frontier brain
Appearance: dark brown hair and blue eyes that appear to have grey lightning surging through them
Bio: likes simple pokemon along with his trusted espeon and umbreon. saved the life of an odd pokemon that had mysteriously obtained wounds.
Other: kind, but cruelest person you'll ever meet if you gt on his bad side.


Name: Silver
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Pokemon: Typhlosion (Ty), Zubat (Zu)
Legendary: Entei
Home Town: New Bark Town
Birthday: June 12th
Goal: Pokemon League/ Team Ultima.
Appearance: Looks Like Rival From Silver/Gold/Crystal
Bio: Personality
He Is Cruel,Mean and Plain Evil. Shows No Mercy To His Enemies.
History
He Came From A Long Line Of Ruthless Villains.
Other: He Is Very, Very Afraid of Ghost Type Pokemon.


name:harry
gender:male
age:11
pokemon:starly,staru,lunatone,solerock
home town:canlave city
legendary:Arceus
birthday:6th june
goal:to go to space and capture all pokemon
apparance:a small scruffy haired boy with long arms and a scarf at all times
bio:he wants to descover what pokemon live on the moon and is facinated by the unknown
other:he has no famly and finks of rowran as his farther and prayed to a stone statue after wich arceus devoted himself to him.


Name: Diavlo
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Pokemon: Charizard, Infernape, Entei, Arcanine, Rapidash
Legendary: Dialga
Home Town: Unknown
Birthday: Unknown
Goal: To complete himself
Appearance: By day, a laid back, calm drummer for a rock band, but by night, his true form is revealed
Bio: Vicious, tempremental and unpredictable
Other: Devil in human form, looking for a part of himself. If he finds this, the world of Pokemon is in trouble


Name: Silverflash Licere the II
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Pokemon: Salamence, Flygon, Typhlosion, Feraligator, Frosslass, Shiny Umbreon.
Legendary: Raikou
Home Town: Eterna (Originally from Johto)
Birthday: January 15
Goal: Be the new authority on pokemon.
Appearance: Tall, slim, black hair, green eyes and wears a green t-shirt, and Levi's.
Bio: Warm, friendly and calm.
Other: Does not tell anyone about her past. Closeness is a requirement to find out.



Name: nikita
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Pokemon: Leafeon, arcanine. luxaray and flygon(shiny)
Legendary: suicune
Home Town: littleroot
Birthday: Oct 8.
Goal: Team Ultima
Appearance: brown hair brown eyes not shy
Bio: not very nasty but can be
Other: i wanted to be latias!



Name: May
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Pokemon: Leafeon glaceon, pikachu vulpix
Legendary: Ho-oh
Home Town: Pallet town
Birthday: Oct 17.
Goal: Team Ultima boss
Appearance: blond hair blue eyes but you only see her eyes if she wants you too
Bio: Mean but can be nice
Other

Name: darkrai
Gender: Male
Age: ???
Pokemon:infernape,torterra,empoleon,arbok,marowak
Legendary:giratina
Home Town:???(woke up on new moon island with amnesia.)
Birthday:28 march(when he woke up)
Goal:recover memory
Appearance:white hair,red necklace,black shirt & jacket dark green jeans,blue eyes and grey,smokey shoes
Bio:confused.
Other:he woke up on new moon island knowing only the date,the island he was on and that darkrai lived here so he called himself darkrai.

Name: Ronix
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Pokemon: Lucario, Lairon, Scissor, Metang, Monferno
Legendary: Heatran
Home Town: Survival Area
Birthday: Oct. 13
Goal: Beat all 32 gyms
Appearance: Like Volkner exept red hair and coat is red with grey stripes on arms
Bio: Ronix loved steel pokemon ever since he was young. When he was a young boy he liked to explore the close by stark mountain with his riolu, until one day a passage collapsed and trapped him in. Right when he was about to pass out, he saw a stange outline like something he had never seen before. He used the last ounce of his strength to rasp "help us...", and then blacked out. He later awoke outside of stark mountain near a small pond. Wondering who saved him he wandered back to town and asked everyone if they were in stark mountain that day. No one was except for Ronix. He would later realize that it was heatran that saved him and from then on he decided that he would help heatran in any way possible.

Other: Because of the insidant at stark mountain, Ronix is a lot more cautious and thinks things through before he takes action. But still sometimes when hes in a group, he will misteriously vanish, sometimes only with lucario, for a period of time and would return later. No one knows what he does when he vanishes, but they do realize that an obstacle up ahead like a rockslide would be cleared out of the way on the next day. Ronix claims (though has never demonstated) that if he is ever in life-endangering trouble, that he could summon heatran and they would both obliterate anything in their way

Legendaries.
Moltres-
Zapdos-Mrblikey
Articuno
Mew
Mewtwo
Raikou-Scorpia Agent
Suicune-latias gal
Entei-jfury_mdv
Ho-oh-Pikachu_2006
Lugia-theundertakergonzo
Celebi-halosiel
Registeel
Regice
Regirock
Latias-GuitarMan91
Latios
Groundon-Lord Vipes
Kyogre
Rayquaza-Bluepikky24
Jirachi
Deoxys-philip_123
Azelf
Mespirit
Uxie
Dialga-Crosby87
Palkia-harith_hunter
Arceus-master100
Giratina-mattardis
Heatran-Captainzaku
Regigigas
Shaymin
Cresselia

Emily-articuno

moltres

zapdos


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Starmie decimated the flying gym.

Using ice beams and thunderbolts nothing stood up to Starmie. Bradley took his badge and left.

He continued on, he arrived in Lilycove. He passed mt Pyre.

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Ooc: Thanks again, Philip.
Brandon: No!
"Rayquaza faints".
Brandon: Hmmph. Go, Espeon! Psychic!



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Bradley got into Lilycove, the placee seemed to be abandoned.

He checked around the area. It was a ghostown. Just off shore though he could see a few Aqua Grunts. He know this was no good.

Bradley went to the cliff edge and went into the bush, someone put their hand over his mouth and pulled him in.

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"Eventually, Brandon loses to Renee".
Brandon: No! Impossible!



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Bradley was shocked.

???: Don't speak or move.
Bradley stood shocked.
???: I won't hurt you. But we're in peril.
Bradley: I'll help you, what's wrong?
???: Well the town is in danger.
Bradley: How?
???: Aqua. Shit, shoosh here they come past.

Bradley and ??? stood silent as they went past.

???: Sorry, that was close. I'm Vincent. A townsfolk. The defendant of the town. But i can't do anything to save us. There is too many. I saw you Bradley, the famous kid walk past. I knew you would help.
Bradley: Haha, here i am.
Vincent: You'll need to defeat them as i save everyone.
Bradley: Everyone?
Vincent: Yes all kidnapped.

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Renee: oh geez good match, that was exciting, well there is always next time lil guy
Brandon stares
Renee: i'm just joking around with you, well i'll see you later
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OCC: Sorry, power outage, hotmail account stolen, and other bad things. It will take me a wile to catch up, as I see many stuff went down while I was away. But I wont be able to post for a while, Easter Trip to other families, trying to get back my e-mail account.... I will probley be able to post next week, the latest.



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OOC: ok well hope you get things figured out
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OOC: Sorry to hear that Vipes.

Bradley: Wow, everyone kidnapped. But where?
Vincent: Where they went i don't know. What for i don't know.
Bradley: Well i can use Lugia to help us.
Vincent: That would be fantastic!

They devised a plan to execute.

Bradley let Lugia out and hopped on the back.

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occ: sorry to bother but does this mean im in? i havent gotten a confirmation from u guys yet though and i dont wanna break rules

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Zapdos-Mrblikey
...
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Palkia-harith_hunter
Arceus-master100
Giratina-mattardis
Heatran-Captainzaku
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edit: aww crud i always miss that one small post that says something really important

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OOC: Blue is the one who does the confirming did you send your pm to him?

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