As Kassidy crossed the threshhold he felt his stomach knotting and his spine shivering with unease as the air so obviously felt... heavier here; there was no other word for it. On that note Kassidy deployed Madison from her pokeball, rather uneasy with the prospect of continuing forward without her pokemon at her side. As her form became corporeal, his eevee seemed to shudder with anticipation, although perhaps that was simply the doom and gloom of this place catching up to it.

"Don't worry; we'll be fine," Kassidy managed to speak softly.

Madison seldomly showed courage, but even so she didn't tremble as they forged a path onward. In the light of a swiftly fading evening, Kassidy and her team reached the center of the wreckage when the ambience suddenly seemed to die, or shift. A distortion appeared before them suspended in the air, causing an abrupt halt. In the wake of their search a wild Ghost-type pokemon revealed itself.

It wasn't that it looked frightening, at least not on the surface; it was like a sprite behind a veil floating ominously in the air. No, it was the way the eyes seemed to look through and beyond Kassidy, the sheer presence such a creature had; goosbumps rippled across the boy's bare arms, hairs standing on edge. Kassidy's gut was all knotted, and his forehead creased in a cold sweat as he fought the instinct for flight. Madison could hardly be said to be courageous, as she quickly defaulted to looking back over its shoulder towards Kassidy.

"You got this..." Perhaps he wasn't the most convincing, but she turned back to square off with their enemy.

The Ghost-type pokemon's gossamer form drifted briskly towards Madison, knocking her square in the face, but she was braced for it (or perhaps her body had simply yet to limber up). Madison cried out, and immediately tried to appease the wild pokemon with its charm to render it complacent. Yet its malice could not be so easily subjugated...

Kassidy's only thoughts were of the dire need to attack.

"You need to fight, Madison!" She seemed displeased by the notion, even as the Shuppet swooped down and assaulted her once more. She tried to retaliate with a quick attack that honestly left Kassidy dumbfounded; the boy began to suppose it would have been a fair idea to let the pokemon know the game plan. "No, bite it! Trust me; just try it next!"

In that moment the wild Shuppet's eyes glinted with nefarious intent, and it careened towards Kassidy, who stumbled backwards and lost his footing; but just as the Ghost-type attempted to accost him, Madison lurched upward and savaged the Shuppet's gossamer form, dragging it away from Kassidy as its physical weight brought the two pokemon locked in conflict to the ground.

When Kassidy was finally able to sit upright, he noticed the struggle was reaching its end. In the aftermath Madison was swaying on its feet, but standing above the Shuppet which had been cast down. Their first victory was something of a mixed experience, to be sure. Kassidy rubbed at a swelling bump on his head, also reaching forward to stroke the eevee gently.

Wild Shuppet Lv 5 has been fainted! (Eevee Lv 5 > Lv 7)

"I said you could do it, didn't I...?"