22: Tail Wag

Darius softly groaned because the cream felt really weird on his skin, making him feel a little itchy as his skin started to heal under the effect of the cream for his burning skin: "Shit" He wanted to scratch his skin, but under Gardevoir's watch, he couldn't. "For the scars, for the scars." He groaned again, trying to push himself to accept what just happened. Looking at the sleeping fucker who electrocuted him and burned his flesh - but gave him some cool scars - Darius could only groan internally.

After all, Raikou was still recovering.

'Like, how the fuck did he get this bad.' The only way would be a strong Ground/Poison Type Pokemon using various powerful moves. Or maybe he was ganged up on? Perhaps he was attacked by this Team Plague or something like that... "Well, at least he didn't have any tracking device." Darius did a whole fucking surgery on the tiger, of course he looked for trackers on his fucking body! Who is he? An idiot? I mean, yes, but also no. "C'mon Cerberus, let's try again." He was helping and guiding Cerberus on reaching a new height! He was making him train his control over his Poison type moves by having him constantly poison Darius' body, which he wanted to develop immunity to. It hurt, sure, his skin like got purple once, and thanks to his Poison Type Affinity, he has been having an easier time developing said immunity to Poison and toxyns.

Also, he was helping Shelly develop her own poison!

Why? Because the Pokedex entry for Slowbro and Slowking clearly states that the Pokemon Shellder does have venom! That's, according to the Pokedex, is one of the things that can trigger a Slowpoke's evolution. Although it can only learn [Toxic Spikes] and [Toxic] in the games... Weird. Essentially, what he did was to make Shelly eat small quantities of poison, not only to increase her resistance to it, but to see if it can affect her own toxins. He hasn't seen any effects of it yet, though.

A purple cloud emanated from Cerberus' mouth, the Pokemon concentrated and tried to make his toxins all leave his stomach at once by using the [Poison Gas] move on him. Darius took a deep breath of the purple gas and began meditating so he could focus or, rather, keep focusing as much as he could while in terrible pain. Darius was the only one insane enough to train himself like this because he was an Energy User and had the Poison Affinity. These were the two things that allowed him survival when he was infected by the poison of the little good boy known as Cerberus.

As he kept his meditation pose, Darius inhaled once more while channeling his energy through his bones and blood, making sure to also channel Water, Grass, Fairy, and Poison energies to try and help his body. He kept going for half an hour before he stopped, sweaty. "Huuff.." Sighing heavily, Darius opened his eyes- There was blood and sweat around him. Blood that came out of his pores, alongside his sweat: "That was... painful." Darius placed his hand on his shoulder and rolled his muscles, flexing and relaxing them repeatedly to make sure there were no damages to his body. "Good..."

"Human." The booming voice of Raikou called out to him, much to Darius' annoyance: "Yes, big tiger boy?" Darius stretched his muscles a bit more before picking up a wooden bucket he made and turned towards the window: "Shelly! Bidoof!" Because Bidoof evolves to Bibarel, a Normal/Water type Pokemon, Darius decided to make sure the little guy could train up his water moves so as they could become stronger in the future.

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| Name:

| Species: Bidoof

| Type: Normal

| Held Item:

| Gender: Male

| Level: 15

| Rank: 1

| Potential: ★☆☆☆☆

| Nature: Relaxed (^ Endurance/v Energy Resistance)

| Abilities -

Trained Abilities:

Simple (Doubles Stat changes)

| Attributes -

0-10: F

11-20: E

21-30: D

31-40: C

41-50: B

51-100: A

101-200: S

201-500: SS

501-1000: SSS

×-×

Strength: 14 [E]

Speed: 22 [D]

Endurance: 45 [B]

Attack Potency: 12 [E]

Vitality: 44 [B]

Energy Control: 67 [A]

Energy Resistance: 45 [B]

Energy Capacity: 67 [A]

Energy Potency: 45 [B]

| Moves - Learned, Trained, Expert, Mastered, Complete Control.

Egg Moves: Water Sport [T], Aqua Tail [T], Defense Curl [T]

Moves: Tackle [T], Growl [L], Rollout [T]

TMs:

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'Well, he's getting better at it.' Even more so with the move Water Sport, that released a lot of Water Energy around with the objective of weakening Fire type moves! It also has the misfortune of increasing the power of Electric type moves. "So, what do you want, Raikou?" Darius started to take off his silk shirt, which was completely bloody and wet with his sweat and blood. "I wish to grant you your reward for helping me..." Darius simply nodded, not really paying much attention to the big tiger guy.

Until-

[Your actions have been rewarded!]

[Raikou's Blessing received]

[Raikou's Blessing: You can, once a day, you can smite a target with a lightning bolt of extreme power.]

[You've unlocked your Electric type Afiinity!]

"Huh." Darius was a little surprised by this. Legendary Pokemon can bestow blessings?

"With my blessing, you can now strike your enemies with the might of lightning and thunder." Raikou said, still lying down in the makeshift bed that Darius made for him. He looked much better now, previously seen as he was barely able to breathe. "That is... my appreciation for your... work." Raikou then rested his muzzle down on his two paws, closing his eyes as these small sparks of electricity crackled in the thunder cloud that he had on his back. Darius thought for a moment before he looked down at his fingers - there were sparks of light blue lightning on his fingers as he grinned: "Thanks, buddy." Raikou simply let out a huff as his eyes closed once again.

Darius soon returned to his own training, and with him, Cerberus.

-Scene Cut-

Ceberus used Smog

Darius is heavily poisoned!

Darius has taken damage.

Darius: Finally, some good fucking food.

-Scene Cut-

Cerberus could not understand his Alpha.

The moment he said he had an idea on how to help Cerberus get a better hang of his Poison attacks, Cerberus thought he would have to eat poisonous things - which he did - but he was also asked to use his poisonous moved on his Alpha! To actually hurt him. "..." Cerberus whined softly. He didn't like hurting Alpha, but he asked for it, so he had to do it. His maw opened, and this dark purple gas left his mouth, making him feel a little weird. His Alpha just stood there, inhaling the poison, his body flowing with energy.

Cerberus felt a little tired, so as per his Alpha's instructions, he sat down and ate the cube of nice flavor, making his body slowly fill with energy. He kept on using the moves [Smog] and [Poison Gas]. He was given the task of using these moves so much that he can tell how the toxins inside his stomach have increased in potency. "Again." Whispered Cerberus to himself, beside him, Shelly also tried to use her own poison abilities, which weren't many.

"This is so hard~!" She cried out, clearly stressed: "How am I supposed to spew out poison when I don't even know how?" She looked over to Alpha as this little green thing approached, waddling over: "Sis!" They called out - it was Budew, the small bud Pokemon that Cerberus didn't really care about. She was small, sure, and she had poison! But what else? Nothing, really. "Need help?" Shelly simply clamped her shell over and over again, letting out these small bubbles of water, much to the little Budew's amazement. Cerberus soflty sighed as he turned to look at the two, saying in the most serious voice he could muster: "You two. Go play somewhere else, I'm trying to focus right now."

"Oh, okay!" Shelly jumped over the little bud and turned around to call for her: "C'mon Buddy!" Ah, that's her name. Alpha gave it to her, and it meant friendly or friend, Cerberus wasn't paying much attention to that because, at the moment, he was trying to ignite his new mohawk mane on fire. He mostly succeeded, but it wasn't really useful for anything that he could think of... Then Alpha told him he could train his ability to maintain his flames for longer, therefore burning the enemy for a long time. That was why, right now, his Mohawk and fluffy tail were set alight.

"Big Brother Cerberus." A soft spoken voice called out to him, so he turned back to see the small little friend he had made. Alpha was happy that he had friends, which was why Cerberus did not mind the presence of the little one: "Yes, Aipom?" The little Pokemon grinned as he came up towards him, jumping on his back and making Cerberus quickly pull his Fire energy back, stopping his body from burning the little monkey: "Let's play!" Aipom said, his hand-like tail slapping the ground as he grinned: "I found a new way to play!" He used his tail to kick up the sand and dust on the ground behind him, making this small cloud of dust: "See? Fun!"

"Yes, yes..." Cerberus sighed tiredly: "I'll play with you after I'm done here." He had a mission to complete, and he is almost there! Or so he thinks.

"Cerberus." Cerberus stopped, sitting down and looking up as his Alpha stretched his body, a small smile growing on his lips: "Thank you." Cerberus could not help it, his tail was wagging.

Darius was also happy. After all, he just got something good!

[Poison Resistance: You are resistant to Poison, being able to resist Poisonous attacks and the Poisoned condition.]