Acottontail's probally a journal

A simplified sprite is a sprite where you remove all of the shading and lines from a sprite. Make sure you use the base color and not any shading or highlight colors for the sprite. If there are small details, such as a face, replace it with the color that is behind it.

This guide will be assuming you are trying to make the gijinka 100% human. I've seen many gijinkas that just put on ears and a tail, recolor and call it done. This guide will focus on more creative ways to make gijinkas. If you really want to make your gijinka part pokemon go for it. My biggest piece of advice for making a fully human gijinka is to make it make sense. Way to often I've seen ears and tails put on gijinkas that make very little sense if the gijinka was suppost to be human. Unless you are making a literal hybrid, make sure everything you put onto the gijinka makes sense if they were a human. My second biggest piece of advice is to design the gijinka based on the pokemon your using, not the trainer. Very often I see a recolored trainer with a few pokemon parts put on. This makes the gijinka based on the trainer you are using. Instead you should design each part of the gijinka based on the pokemon, grabbing and editing parts from other trainers as you see fit. Section I - Hair Two of the biggest pitfalls I see when making a gijinka's hair is just recoloring it, and just adding the ears as they are to it.The problem with just recoloring it is that very often there is more you can do. The problem with just adding ears to it is that it makes zero sense. The inside parts of ears imply that the gijinka actually has the ears, which makes little sense if they are suppost to be humans. In order to fix this recolor the insides of the ears to the color of the surrounding ear. Realistically someone could make their hair like that(or at least realistic by anime logic), and thus it makes sense. However there is more you can do than just ears. When making a gijinka you should aim to make the hair try to replicate the pokemon's head. In this case, adding the small spikes Jolteon has. You don't even have to include ears in a gijinka if you don't want to. Just making the hair spikey in this case would also work. You don't even have to stick with the very top of the head. For example this gijinka has a long straight orange strand of hair, which is suppost to represent Zapados's beak. Sometimes when making a gijinka things will be a bit big, such as the ears. In these cases you can either grab parts off of the minisprites like the former gijinka, or you could shorten the part yourself like the latter gijinka. Though one place where leaving the ears unaltered would work is with hats. Logically someone could make a hat that has markings on it that look like the inside of the ear. There are other assories you can use to, such as hair arches and barrets can you could incorporate into a gijinka's design too. Part 2 - Face and pose You should try to give the gijinka you are making a face and pose to try to match the mood of the pokemon you are making it of. This usally leads to fusing multiple trainer sprites together in order to get what you are looking for. Be careful about altering the face around the nose. Very often the nose is baked into the shading, and altering that part of the face can remove it completely.

To get the best results for the designs of fusions and retypes I suggest sketching them out first. A pitfall I see in sprites where the spriting starts immediately is that it often looks like parts are just pasted onto the pokemon because it's easy to make. To make better designs for my sprites I plan out the sprite first by sketching it. You don't even have to draw the entire pokemon. Just draw the designs of body parts until you can get an image of how the sprite looks like in your head. You don't even have to draw that well, as long as you can get a picture of the design in your head, your good. Often when I start making a sprite I get overwhelmed. I know I have to do all these thing for the design, and it just feels like to much. What I do is take a breath and focus on one small part at a time. Once I finish one step I move onto another. I keep going until I'm happy with the sprite, or I added everything I want to add onto it. Fusion design advice: When making fusions don't just put parts of one pokemon onto another. Try to fuse the very essence of the pokemon themselves. Look at body parts of both pokemon and think 'how can I fuse these elements together' or 'how can I create something new from these parts'. You are free to put body parts onto the fusion where neither had those parts to begin with. You can also use parts for stuff they were never meant to be in the first place. Take this Manelectric Abomasnow fusion. See how Abomasnow's arms are used for floof? By using parts in unusual ways I created one of my favorite fusions. You may be wondering what colors to make a fusion. My answer is whatever looks nice. Don't be afraid to make the fusion the colors of the "base" if it looks good. Don't forget shiny pallets are also available. If you really want to you can even use colors neither of the pokemon have if they look nice and add to the design your looking for. Retype design advice: When making a retype I suggest adding in a theme on top of the retype. It's easy to just add fins to Megaium to make it a water type. However think of this. There are multiple plants that are related to water, such as sea weed, and lillypads. Imagine a Megaium with a lilly pad around it's neck and a lilly pad flower on it's head. I feel like adding a theme to retypes make it much more interesting than just adding parts of said type onto a pokemon.

When making an evolution for a pokemon try to avoid bigger mon syndrome. I notice in a lot of fan evolutions they take the pokemon, make it bigger, and add stuff onto it. Almost no evolution line does this in pokemon. Take the Squirtle line. All members of the line have different tails and ears. Instead of being an in-between for Squirtle and Blastoise, Wartortle has it's own identity by having white wavy ears and a tail no other member has, and also has blush. While at the same time Wartortle looks like a middle evolution, and keeps the theme of being blue turtles in it's design, which prevents it from looking like it's from a completely different evolution line. Almost every pokemon is like this. So when designing an evolution for a pokemon or fakemon instead of making it a bigger or smaller version of the pokemon, try to give it it's own identity while still fitting in with the line.

The first step to devamping a pokemon is to get a gen 1 sprite with a similar color scheme to the pokemon your devamping. A devamp only has 4 colors, white, lighter color, darker color and black. This turns into the pokemon having two colors, white with lighter color shading, and lighter color with darker color shading. You want to decide which colors of the sprite you'll make lighter and which parts you'll make darker. Then recolor them. Make all of the outlines black. I find this method makes devamps look better than if you made all the colors of a devamp correspond to different shades of colors in a sprite. But what if a sprite has many colors you may ask. In these cases use a gen 1 sprite with the color most similar to the main color and you have to try your best to place the rest of the colors. Generally make all of the places of one color the same color, and make color right next to each other different colors. None of this applies to devamps in the gen 2 style, where you use two different colors instead of the lighter color and a darker color. However I am clueless when it comes to doing these so I can't be of much help...

These two are so closely related I merged them into one class

Undertale styled sprites are sprites that make the pokemon white on a black background. The first thing to do is get the sprite you want to make on a black background. Then decide what parts you want to make black and what parts you want to make white. If there are not quite pure black outlines on the sprite recolor them to a visible grey to make it easier to see where the outline is on the sprite your working on. The key thing in Undertale styled sprites is to convey the details of the pokemon in only two colors. For parts you want to make white fill it in white. For parts you want to make black give it a white outline. Be careful around small parts like the eyes and mouth as those are the easiest to mess up. One thing I noticed in these sprites is that not everything has to be connected. You do not have to make the outline to connect everything like in pokemon sprites. If when zoomed out it looks okay then you are good. This most often comes up when two body parts outline's are very close to each other. For Example take this Cubone. Notice how there is no lines under the skull. This is what I am talking about. Despite the fact there isn't an outline connecting the arms to the skull it still looks nice. Another thing I noticed is that there is very little shading. Most of the shading appears to be shine for armor, and even then details come first.

There a few websites you can use to get sprites

• I usually get my sprites by copying and pasting them from Serebii.net, however it's banner sometimes has spoilers for the gen after 7 so be careful about that.
• The cave of dragonflies has a useful random sprite generator. You can generate up to three gens 1-5 sprites at a time, so it's useful when you don't know what to sprite.
• The spriter's resource is a useful place to get sprites from the spinoff and main series games. They are useful for getting minisprites and PMD sprites, along with sprites from other obscure spinoffs. However I won't link it because I'm unsure of the moderation of the comments section.

Usually when you copy and paste a sprite into an editor it will come up as a black square. Either use the paint bucket to remove it, or in MS paint turn on transparent selection and make color 2 black. Sometimes you will notice part of the outline has disappeared. NEVER use a sprite in that state, it'll hurt the quality of the sprite your making. In these cases printscreen then paste into your art program. Get get the sprite out of the screenshot and your good to go. See how much better the sprite on the right looks from the sprite on the left? That is why you shouldn't use sprites in their black outline removed state.

There are many art programs out there. Here is a list of tools I recommend having in an art program.

• A single pixel tool. Being able to change individual pixels is important to have in an art program. This allows you to add patterns, scratch, mend parts, don't use an art program without one. Make sure it is in solid color and doesn't leave semi-transparent pixels everywhere.
• A selecting + moving tool. You will need this for fusions and slightly adjusting the size of things. While you could get away with only having a rectangular one by spacing separate parts away enough from each other I recommend using an art program that also has one where you draw out the shape.
• The ability to zoom in. Sprites are tiny and it will make your life much harder if you try to make them at 100% zoom. 300% zoom is the minimum you could get away with, though I recommend 500% or 600% zoom. While using an art program that shows a version of the sprite at 100% zoom while your working would be nice to have, it is not necessary and you can easily get away with not having that.
• The ability to copy and paste. Being able to copy and paste is key for getting sprites into the program to edit, and for fusions. I recommend using a program that can copy and paste images you copied outside the program as it makes getting the sprites into the program a lot easier, but in that case your program at least needs an import function.
• A color replacement tool. I highly recommend having a tool where you can select parts of the sprite to change one color into another. It also allows you to recolor parts of the sprite of the same color different colors. Having a tool that changes all of the colors into another color at the same time would be nice to have, but isn't necessary as you can just go over the whole sprite with the recolor parts tool. While you could get away without a color replacement tool, that makes it much easier to make mistakes while coloring.
• Color select + editor tool. Being able to select colors is key to recoloring. Being able to edit colors is also important as it allows you to add in shades when your pallet doesn't have enough, and to make your own pallets.
• Transparency. Having a transparent background looks a lot nicer than having a white background around your sprites. While this is useful to have in your main art program, you can also export your sprite to an art program that does have transparency. I personally use Krita to give a transparent background to my MS paint sprites.
• Layers. They are useful for working on parts surrounded by a bunch of other parts you don't want to mess up. Though this isn't required, and even I(most of the time) use an art program that doesn't have them.
• A large square eraser tool. This makes it much easier to get parts for fusion, and remove parts you don't need. While you could do this via the single pixel tool or selection tool, I find using the eraser first time saving. Make sure the eraser doesn't leave transparent pixels around. Also make sure the eraser doesn't erase sub-pixels as a program that works with sub-pixels is harder to make sprites in.
• Fill bucket tool. I find this useful when I'm quickly recoloring small parts of a pokemon. Though this isn't required.

Q: How long have you been spriting? A: I know at least since sometime in 2015, as I still have old stuff I made uploaded to Roblox around that time. Though I have made bad sprites even before then. I remember gen 4 being the newest generation, and getting sprites from pokemon elite 2000.com. Not sure when that was though. However I stopped for a while after making 61 sprites, and started making sprites again sometime after gen 5 was out. Q: What art program do you use? A: I mainly use the glorious top tier program of MS Paint. I do 95% of my sprite work in Paint. It's a good program if you want to make sprites in it. For transparency I put my sprites into Krita. For custom animations I use Scratch 2.0. Q: What if I'm not very proud of my sprite work. Will I ever get better? A: Please never give up because you think your sprite work isn't good enough. You will get better if you try. When I started spriting, I made almost every mistake in the book. I used the fill bucket tool to recolor with default MS paint colors, I didn't know the difference between a JPG and a PNG and had to redo several sprites, I used sprites where the black lines were destroyed, I've used resized parts without editing them, I've made my scratched sprites way to big, I've scratched on parts without shading them or editing out the excess pixels, and the worst probably has to be in a sprite where I made the inside of Bellossom's skirt completely white and just put it on top of Togekiss's wing. But today I'm very proud of my sprite work, and consider myself a rather skilled spriter. So surely if I can can improve after making all those mistakes, so can you. Q: What's the best way to get better? A: I feel like the best way to get better is to strive to get better. If you push yourself to make sprites the way you want them to, eventually you will acquire the skills needed to make said sprites. Don't just keep making sprites so everything falls into your comfort zone for your skills. I feel like mastery over the skills of recoloring, fusion and scratch can make the majority of sprites out there. I also recommend getting critique on your sprites. At this school I offer to critique anyone's sprites to help them grow as a spriter. I can point out problems in your sprites, and teach you how to fix them, giving you knowledge you can use to improve your future sprites. But most importantly never give up. I believe anyone, regardless of skill level, can become an amazing spriter if they try hard enough. Q: How did you learn how to sprite? A: I think I taught myself with some help from my parents. To be honest I started spiriting so long ago I don't really remember. I remember starting with fusions, and it took me 61 sprites before I started to actually recolor instead of just use the fill bucket. Though for the most part I taught myself, and read the occasional tutorial. Q: Why did you start this sprite school? A: I started this school because I don't agree with the teaching style of other sprite schools. I believe in moving on when a student proves they are ready and giving feedback on the sprites they make. I feel like for the most part other sprite schools pass you if you do all of their assignments okay regardless of proven skill level and don't give much feedback on assignments. While they do give practice, this can also lead to people making the same mistakes over and over again as they are never pointed out. I also feel like you don't need to do 20 of the same type of sprite if you get the hang of it after 3. So basically I am running this sprite school the way I believe a sprite school should be run.

Here I will walk you through the process I go through for fusions. For this fusion I will be fusing Vaporeon and Cofagrigus. Now when you first think of this fusion you might think of something like this. My problem with this sprite is that it is too simple. There is so much potential when fusing these two pokemon together, yet this fusion takes the easy way out. While the hands going out of the fins and tail is cool, this sprite fails to really go anywhere with the idea of the fusion, and is just Cofagrigus arms on a recolored Vaporeon. My first step when making a fusion is to plan it out with a sketch. When making a fusion I try to fuse the very essence of the pokemon together or make something new. For example take where Vaporeon's fins were. On Vaporeon's head fins come out. Ghostly arms come out of Cofagrigus's body. I decided to fuse these two concepts together by making ghostly arms come out where Vaporeon's fins should be. There are stripes along the tail with it ending with the face on Cofagrigus's head to try to create something new out of Vaporeon's tail using elements from Cofagrigus. After the first sketch I sketch out and refine ideas for the sprite. In this case it is the stripes along the front paws and having the fin along Vaporeon's back be ghostly like Cofagrigus's arms. Then I draw a second sketch where I put all of the elements together, and try to make the pokemon look like the pokemon if I mess up the first sketch horribly. Now you will notice in the second sketch I forgot the ghostly back fin. This is because I forgot to draw it. I tried to draw it in the pose I wanted it in, the fusion creeping about. Notice the simplicity of the sketch. These are meant to help you plan your ideas out. Details such as hands(Seriously who can draw them?) are simplified to get the general point across without making the sketch take 3000 years. I will be using Vaporeon's HeartGold sprite as it is closer to the pose I am aiming for. For this sprite the first thing I do is get the sprite ready for the pose. This gets the sprite ready to work on Cofagrius parts latter. I move and mend body parts into the pose I want. I also remove part of the fin as it was in the way and I won't need it for the final design. For the paw off the ground I made a copy of the sprite as it was a part of the sprite I was likely to mess up. I did a few versions that didn't look so good until I got a final version I was happy with. Next I decided to focus on the head. First I remove the fins as I won't need them. Then I move the head closer to the body as the frills took up a lot of space. Then I worked on the mouth and eyes. When making the mouth I had a feeling like I would have to reshape the eye, so I made a copy of it. After that I made another copy in case I messed up the head while adding the hands, and I should have started with a copy of the full body, as I realized only after I placed the hands. I also adjusted the smile a bit as in sprites adjustments are key. Just a few pixels can drastically change the feel of the sprite. I realized the hands are to big as they will cover up a significant portion of the sprite if I left them as they were. I shrank the size of the hands, and then placed them. I originally was going to have the leftmost hand behind the other hands, however it would get to covered up, so I considered moving it off to the side and just using the central hand again. I decided to have the hand hover over the other two as to not get in the way. I then drew in the ghostly arms to connect the hands to the head. Next I add on the face on Cofagrius's head onto the tail of the fusion. Then I recolor it. I fix up the back fins and recolor them into a ghost-like substance. I also fix up the neck. I tried to make the face yellow, but that wasn't really working out. I changed it to black, and also changed the direction of the face to match the direction of the mouth and eyes. I was having trouble with getting the smile to look right. While I don't usually do this in fusions, I decided to grab the mouth off of Gengar's minisprite to make the mouth look better. The mouth on Cofagrius's minisprite is to small to look good. I tried edit the mouth to make it more pointed like Cofafrius's teeth, but that made it look worse. So instead I fused it with the current mouth and lightened the color a bit, and that mouth looked good. To get the mouth on the fusion I filled it with a near white color, then changed it back. Next I add the stripes. I grab the color pallet and add them along the arms, legs and tail. I thought the fusion was looking a bit plain in the area, so I added a stripe to it's stomach. However it looked worse so I kept it the way it was. Finally I worked on the headdress. I was going to make it mimic Cofagrius's. However I realized that while I changed the direction the fusion's head was in, I didn't change the direction the headdress was facing. After fixing that I focused on the headdress. And now, the fusion is finished. While making this sprite I used techniques from all 5 core classes. I recolored Cofagrius to Vaporeon's colors. I obviously fused parts of Cofagrius onto Vaporeon. I scratched part of the smile, the ghostly arms and the sides of the headdress. I put the fusion in a pose, and for advanced recolor I put on a stripe pattern onto Vaporeon. As shown here these skills come up everywhere in spriting, which is why they are core classes. This sprite is actually a remake of an older fusion sprite. I wasn't as into giving my sprites poses then. Here you can clearly see the difference it makes. The old sprite uses Vaporeon's gen 5 sprite and pose. The result looks like it's making the surprised Pikachu face while sitting down. The next sprite has the fusion lurking around with a big slasher smile. This pose is much more fitting for the fusion, and tells you a bit about it's personality. And here is what my workspace looked like once I was done with the fusion (Though shrunken a bit): That showed just one way to fuse the two pokemon together. There are still infinitely more ways the fusion can go. This time instead of completely fusing the pokemon together I am going to fuse the concepts of Cofagrius onto Vaporeon. For this fusion I am aiming for a rich, and bit ghostly fusion. As you can see the first sketch doesn't remotely look like the pokemon. After thinking through some of the parts, the 2nd second sketch is a lot better, and actually looks like a pokemon. For this fusion I will use Vaporeon's platinum sprite as it is the closest to the pose I am aiming for. The first thing I do is get the pose right. I move the tail behind Vaporeon, lift up Vaporeon's front arm and add in the back legs. This was tricky as the tail was covering most of it. My first attempt looked wrong as it made the belly looked large and fat. My second attempt's legs looked worse. I edited the pixels between the first and second pair of legs, and went with the first attempt's back legs as they looked better. I also adjusted the front arm going up a bit to make it look better. Next I work on the bowtie. I tried placing the hands in front of Vaporeon, but that did not work out. For the bow tie I looked at the barrettes from the diamond and pearl games as inspriation. Finally I got something I was happy with, and put the hands behind the back. Next I add in the head piece. As you can see, putting it on Vaporeon's head as it is, is way to big. I tried shrinking it, but those also floped. I ended up editing the one on the minisprite a bit. Then I made the gold bands, I also edited the lines and shading of the head piece a bit. After that I added the golden thing to the tail. I also closed up the lines on the back fin. While I put in everything I wanted to, the fusion still looked a bit plain. I added a neck band that has the symbol of Cofagrius's head on it. I also tried giving it the eye of hourus as Cofagrius is based on an egyptian Coffin. I tried to tone it down a bit, but it looked like it was crying... Clearly not my intetion, so I removed it entirely. And with that the fusion is finished. You can make many different versions of a fusion using the same two pokemon. Here are four fusions using the same two pokemon, and that's just as Vaporeon as the base. So the next time your making a fusion, instead of just dragging a part onto a pokemon and recoloring it, remeber there's a whole world of possiblities you can make. Let your creativity shine!

The quartet awoke and headed towards route 205. "It's another great day! And with our new friend mistress Air it'll be even better!" Buguitar pretended to smile around Hot Air. Hot Air on the other hand didn't even try to hide her death glare. "Mistress Air, why are you looking at Buguitar like that?" "No reason, everything is all sunshine and rainbows here." Wish was unconvinced. He took out a clipboard and wrote something down. Jacob:"How about a quick battle before I leave for Eterna forest?" He sent out a Ponyta. Wish was out but was sent to 12 health before he could do anything. Hot Air switched in and alternated Gust and Stockpile. In the end the burn she got ended up doing the most damage to her. Jacob:"That really dampened my spirits." In the grass they beat a level 8 Shellos Wish failed to OHKO with magical leaf and a Pachirisu that allowed Wish to level up. Daniel:"There's no mountain here, but I'm dressed to hike! Gahaha! Here goes!" On a elevated rocky platform he sent out a Geodude. "Our dreams are meant to be shared. Let it grow. Let it live." Buguitar defeated it with some struggle and missed sings. Wish, Hot Air and Buguitar were able to OHKO Daniel's Geodue, Machop and Bidoof respectively. Daniel:"Oh yeah. What a refreshing battle that was." The quartet continued onwards. Shiny picked up a X-Attack. Elizabeth:"I love Pokemon that smell sweet. Like this one--get whiff of this!" "Let us see what it will bring." Buguitar finished off Budew with more health than she started with. Elizabeth:"Don't you understand what I meant. Don't my pokemon smell nice?" Shiny found a hidden antidote. Zackary:"It's a long way between Floroma and Eterna City. So, Let's battle!" "When we share in our love," Geodude was down to yellow and Buguitar was down to red. Wish switched in and finished Geodude with magical leaf on the first turn out. Buguitar leveled up. Zackary:"Wawwah! I'm out of pokemon that can go!" Shiny rushed to the pokemon center and came back. Wish OHKOed a wild Shellos, 3HKOed a Bidoof without any disobedience. Shiny picked up a pokeball, Oran berry and Pecha berry. They healed then headed back out. "Of all places possible, I've lost my way here..." Nicholas said as he sent out an Onix. "Search it out, and find the way:" Buguitar 2HKOed Onix thanks to a crit. Nicholas:"Having lost his way, the trainer lost his battle too..." Shiny caught a shiny Shellos after Buguitar went to 21 health mostly due to confusion. The Shellos was named Augie, after the person who gave Dirachi's challenge. They healed then fought a Pachirisu that allowed Wish to level up, he started to glow faintly but quickly stopped. He was happy, but he wasn't happy enough to evolve yet. Buguitar was the only evolved pokemon right now and Wish wanted Hot Air and Buguitar to succeed before he did. Shinys encountered:28 Shinys caught:14 Kelsey:"Osu! I'm not trained to hold back! She sent out a Machop. Even with Wish leading no damage was done after Hot Air switched in and OHKOed with a crit gust. Shiny picked up a 175 pokedollars repel. Karina:"Oh, I don't know. Should I play a little?" Wish was up against a Piplup. With turns wasted Wish beat Piplup. "Oh boo, how insulting." Shiny picked up a super potion off the ground. It was around noon. "How long have we been traveling. I'm famished." "It's only noon," Said Shiny, "Though maybe we should take a pit-stop at that house in the middle of nowhere over there." Shiny pointed to a house up ahead. "Are you sure. Who knows who could live there?" "Probly someone kind!" They all walked inside, "Hello Madam!" Woman:"Hello! You seem to be tired, want to rest awhile?" Shiny:"Sure, thanks." The team was healed and Shiny watched some TV while eating lunch. There was a help wanted ad for Sinnoh news net for a show. Shiny quickly grew annoyed at how many ads TV allows to air as shows. Woman:"So are you going through Eterna forest?" Shiny:"Yeah." Woman:"Be careful. It's deep and there are many ways to get poisoned." "Oh no poisonous bugs? I'm so afraid. I'm sure I can handle a few bugs with gust." "Thank you kind madam! We are going to the forest now. Goodbye!" Woman:"Goodbye young trainer, Cleffa and other pokemon. Stay safe." The quartet entered Eterna forest. A young woman approached them. "Hello, my name's Cheryl. And you are...?" Shiny:"I'm Shiny. This is Wish, Buguitar and Ho-, her majesty mistress Air." "I'm capable of introducing myself. But I won't now, now that it'll be redundant." "Then what was the point of that sentence?" "Then what was the point of your face?" "Be nice guys! Hello Cheryl. It's very nice to meet you." Cheryl:"So those are your names. I'm sincerely glad to meet you. Shiny may I ask a big favor of you?" Shiny:"What is it?" "What ever it is we'll be glad to help!" Cheryl:"I want to get through this forest, but I'm afraid of doing it alone. I've heard there is a sinister group of people called team galactic about." Shiny:"Yeah, they're a bunch of idiots who have chronic problem of threatening to hurt kids that can handle themselves. They're not much of a threat if you can beat them in battles." Cheryl:"I think there'd be safety in numbers. Please, may I go through with you?" Shiny:"If you heal my pokemon after every battle then you have yourself a deal!" Cheryl:"That sounds like a good deal. I'll take it." "Yay! It'll be nice to travel with you Cheryl!" The forest was overwhelming for Shiny. There were two paths that just seemed to go very far. She took the left path. She saw a pokeball behind a Casoon. When Shiny was in front of the ball a Misdreavus jumped out from behind. "Don't worry, I've got your back," Cheryl said as she sent out a Chansey. Buguitar sang "the point where we can all meet. The point where we're all the same." they were easily able to take care of the wild pokemon despite none of Buguitar's moves being not very effective. In the end Shiny was rewarded with an antidote. A kid ran by and punched Shiny in the face yelling, "Pikachu all the way!" Shiny fell backwards. She opened her eyes and saw two Misdreavus looking down at her. The blue one licked her and muttered something along the lines "Tastes like chicken," while the other one nuzzled her. "It's okay I baked you some cookies as confert food." Shiny:"Thanks. Ooo it's chocolate." Shiny took a bite then spat it out, "Pleth! What is in this cookie?" "Mud of course." Shiny:"Why." "You never said you weren't okay with mud being in cookies." "Hey that wasn't very nice. It's not nice to trick people like that." "Oh contrary. I offered her cookies which was very kind of me. I never said what kind it was and it's not my fault that she doesn't like the flavor." The Misdreavus ate one of the cookies. "You are disgusting." "Um, um." On one hand they were right they did never specify the favor and shiny didn't ask. On the other hand most don't like mud flavored cookies, or did they seeing as they ate one. Misdreavus turned to shiny, "Alright new trainer just knock out that Misdreavus there, weaken me and let's go together." Shiny:"Wait, what?" "Havn't you ever wished that you could start a pokemon journey? Well I'm here to grant it by joining your team as your 4th pokemon." "No, we are not letting another ghost type on the team. There is only room for one ghost type, and that is me." "I'm not a ghost type. I'm a psychic and dark type obviously. In fact I'm a little offended that you thought I was a ghost type." "Why you, Misdreavus are for sure a-" "Come on guys get along. We'll be gland to let you join our team! What is your name." "I just go by my species name, Dirachi, the corrupter of wishes. Anyway I think you should get to beating up this Misdreavus and catching me now." "With pleasure, well for the first part at least." Hot Air took Wish's place. A mysterious psywave weaved it's way around to Hot Air. She began by blowing a gust of wind at Misdreavus. Another psywave hit Hot Air. Hot Air readied herself for more attacks as both foe pokemon let out a loud growl for two turns in a row. More wind blew around Misdreavus. Hot Air stockpiled while Chansey continued to be a pokemon shield. Misdreavus was blown away by gust. Hot Air was quite pleased of herself. Dirachi took some spite to losing the pokemon she was fighting with. A growl echoed through the woods as Hot Air maxed out stockpile. A smile crept up Hot Air's face as she finally got to blast Dirachi with a gust. After a turn she returned to attacking Dirachi. "Grr... Can you just throw a ball already?" "Now let me use just one more gu-" Shiny:"Buguitar you're up!" "What! No! I am so close to beating that Misdreavus." "But you already beat Misdreavus, I'm a Dirachi." "There it lies: the future we seek." Buguitar sung loudly over the argument. She then ducked down, embarrassed. Shiny threw a Premier ball at Dirachi. Dirachi willingly went in. "Yay, I have now joined your team. Also have fun because I'm horribly underleveled and I can only use Psywave and growl." Shiny:"At least we have Cheryl to heal you after every battle." Cheryl waved. "Welcome to the team Dirachi! It's very nice to have you!" "Thanks, I even have a muffin basket for all of you; it's in Veilstone city." Shinys encountered:29 Shinys caught:15 Dirachi, lv 11, Brave nature, Sturdy body. Growl, Psywave, Spite, Astonish Shiny began to train Dirachi. They encountered a wild Buneary and Misdreavus. Buguitar was switched in to deal with things, "Start from there, and then we'll forge, a world where all can be free." they didn't do much, but it took forever to defeat the two wild pokemon. Buguitar did level up from the battle however. She had a chance to learn focus energy, but chose not to. This was enough for Shiny. Shiny:"Cheryl?" Cheryl:"What is it?" Shiny:"I think I'm going to train for a while to get stronger. I'll be back though, alright?" Cheryl:"Okay, I'll wait here you you." "Goodbye Cheryl! See you soon!" Shiny's team walked out of Eterna forest. Dirachi was trained on route 205. Dirachi mostly just alternated between Psywave and growl, her only two usable moves. Shiny became half distracted during the training when Jacob showed her some interesting pokemon videos on his phone. She beat a Buizel, Bidoof, Buizel, Buizel, Pachirisu, Bidoof, Bidoof, Shellos, Bidoof, Bidoof, Shellos, Buizel, Shellos and Buizel. After all of this Dirachi went from level 12 to 14. "Alright let's head back in!" said Shiny. The Quintet headed back to Eterna forest. "Oh there you are!" Said Cheryl, "Let's go through this forest together." They traversed the tall grass, encountering two budew that allowed Dirachi to level up. They encountered a Wurmple and Cascoon. Two trainers surrounded them. jack:"What's cool, you might ask? No? I'll tell you anyway: bug pokemon!" Briana:"We're just out on a power walk!" "Free to dream, and free to smile." Buguitar sang. Buguitar, Wish and Dirachi took out their pokemon, and Dirachi leveled up. Jack:"It bugs me when people ignore the awesome coolness of bug pokemon" Briana:"Hey you!" Shiny picked up a Paralyze heal. Fought a wild Budew and Buneary with Dirachi that dragged on for a long time. Shiny grew annoyed of Dirachi only being able to attack every other turn. "Dirachi I think you need to learn another move," she said. "What marvelous move do you want me to learn? Splash? Celebrate? Memento?" Shiny searched through her bag's various TMs. She pulled out a silver disc. Hidden power. "I was thinking maybe this move, but what if I need it latter?" "Let me remind you there is another, much better ghost type who is also suffering from a lack of attacking options thanks to someone's, insistence." Hot Air rolled her eyes at Wish. Shiny stared intensely at TM 10. Two pokemon could benefit from it, and on top of that someone could need it later, or even more laterer? Hot Air didn't learn another constant damaging move until level 30 but Dirachi didn't learn another damaging move until 23. Shiny needed to test her two pokemon. "Alright I'll test the two of you in battle, I guess I'll give it to whoever needs it more I guess." She mumbled something about needing it later even more under her breath. "Wait are you going to give it to one of us out of pity? Ew I don't want your pity. But at the same time it would make me stronger. Still I will never fall behind this other ghost type. "I can't wait to alternate Growl and Hidden power!" Shiny walked into the grass. Against Dirachi was a Buneary and Cascoon. Dirachi 2HKOed the Cascoon and defeated the Buneary was defeated by Chansey. Dirachi leveled up at the end of the battle. Against Hot Air was a Misdreavus and Budew. Hot Air OHKOed the Budew and 2HKOed the Misdreavus. Was Dirachi catching up with the rest of the team and her previous terribleness was because she was under leveled? "I just can't decide!" Shiny yelled. "Give it to me. I'm obviously the better one here." "Remeber whoever you chose will love you for life, while the one you don't will put you on their mortal enemy list and forever hate you. No pressure!" Pressure sank in. Shiny thought about the potential final move sets. "Um... I'm still making up my mind but I'll give it to one of you soon." The team walked along. Dirachi battled a Budew, Cascoon, Misdreavus, Buneary. "When a Trainer and Pokemon bond as one, a wondrous power is born." a psychic named Eiljah said. "I see it... I see you going down in defeat." his sister Lindsey added in. They both sent out Abra. Dirachi was briefly in and leveled up as Chansey scored a crit and OHKOed an Abra. Dirachi leveled up. Abra taunted Shiny by using exclusively hidden power. Hot Air was switched in. "What my prediction was wrong, impossible!" "Well you see your vision was of a future defeat. Not you beating Shiny, but another trainer down the line." They ventured onward. A wild Cascoon, 5 wurmples, 2 Misdrevus, Dustox, 2 Buneary, 5 budew were defeated, caught Violet the Budew, Wormy the Wurmple, caught happy the Cascoon, Pokemon123! and Blitz the Buizel, brithday the Pachirisu, and picked up a great ball. During this Dirachi grew to level 20 and learned mean look. Hot Air grew to level 23 and Wish grew to level 22. And in the process of encountering a shiny Wurmple and Budew the game crashed. Shiny proceeded to catch Wormy 2 to replace the original. She also encountered 2 shiny budew, 2 shiny Wurmple, 6 shiny Shellos and who all were not caught. Shinys encountered:45 Shinys caught:21 Philip:"Here comes the swarm!" Donald:"My senses tingle. I've spotting a rare pokemon! Are those shinies?" Shiny:"Yes they are, but I wouldn't really call them rare." Donald:"Are you kidding? A shiny pokemon has about a one in 8000 chance to appear. And I see a Kricketune there, good choice." Buguitar blushed. :"Well I'm not so sure about Buguitar and Misdrevus here." "I'm a Dirachi actually." :"I was speaking! Anyway I'm one of a kind. I am the most..." Shiny barged in. Shiny:"I've seen about 45 shiny pokemon so far so it's not that rare." Donald seemed to be amazed by the number of shiny pokemon Shiny had seen. "Um, Donald." Philip said, "You remember we are bug catchers right? 90% of what we say has to be related to bugs right?" Donald was distracted, "Let's just get this battle over with." They sent out Wurmple and Burmy. Dirachi, Hot Air and Buguitar took care of their Dustox, Cascoon and Kricketune. "Free to be who we will be." Buguitar sang. The two bug catchers were shocked at their defeat. Going onward Shiny found a potion guarded by a Wurmple and Buneary. Shiny also found some honey. Kody:"A strange presence has been felt... It is emanating from...you!" Rachael:"This forest is strange, you know... It seems to fill me with energy..." Dirachi and Buguitar took out their Meditite and Psyduck. "Let's make sure we create..." Buguitar sang. Dirachi grew to level 21. Kody:"Oh, be one with me Meditite." Rachael:"Your victory, there is nothing strange about it." There were some trees up ahead. "I think I see something." Shiny said squinting. "What a lovey mansion, such a shame it looks like it's been abandoned." Shiny gasped. She got out a marker and climbed over the knee high trees. "Shiny? what are you doing? You could have tripped on those trees and gotten hurt from the thorns. Also I don't like where that marker is going. Why don't you come back here and we can all peacefully stroll through the forest together." Shiny scribbled the words Team Skull Rulez onto the wall of the mansion. Satisfied Shiny went back to everyone else. "Shiny what did you just do. That's vandalism!" Shiny:"I'm just spreading some team skull awareness. Besides it's not like they've done a good job of keeping up the rest of this place." Cheryl looked worried, "Shiny what did you just do. That was the Old chateau. Legends say that those who disrupt the spirits there will be haunted forever!" Shiny:"What are the chances a few Ghost types track me down and want to spend the next 100 years haunting me." "Shiny is right, not many ghost types would be able to track her down." Dirachi took the marker and under team skull rulez wrote -shiny, heading to Eterna City, phone number... "There, know they will be able to track you down for sure." Shiny:"Wow Dirachi you are really helping things." "I'm happy to help!" Everyone took two steps to the right. Cheryl:"Oh! There's the exit. I'm so relieved... We finally got here, and before any ghosts starting haunting you to. I would've never been able to get through this by myself. Thank you so much Shiny!" Shiny:"Your welcome. Thanks for healing my pokemon after every battle." "Goodbye Cheryl! It's been fun traveling through the forest with you!" "Bye, and remember I have no association with that trap up head. Cheryl:"Farewell!" Cheryl left. Shiny:"Anyway let's go to Enterna city! Wait did you say trap?"