Rhienne Marie Virray

{Rhienne's journey progress (Click)}A few months after turning fourteen, Rhienne had set off to Newbark Town in order to request her starter Pokemon from Professor Elm. Despite not wanting one of the traditional starters, it was the only way that she could be officially registered to travel, and so she reluctantly chose a Cyndaquil that she had to make a deal with in order for her to cooperate to coming with Rhienne. She met Mika early on in her travels, among the first few days of traveling through south eastern Johto where they spent a few months traveling and training and preparing for their first few gym badges. They received an invitation of sorts from a 'shadow master' that had requested their presence, but it turned out that it was an invitation to Darkrai's realm where they were trapped in a swampy jungle. They never found the source of the power, and never got past the swampy jungle's environment before they were released from the realm, and begrungingly set off to continue their travels.

They found themselves in the Ruins of Alph one day and were poking around in the inner corridors when Rhienne discovered a series of puzzles that weren't in the Unown language but in a language that she could understand and read. These puzzles though lead to a series of traps that could have easily claimed their lives, but they managed through to an open room burried deep within the confines of the ruins where a book remained, untouched for what could have been centuries. Unbenownst to Mika, Rhienne regrettably risked their lives in taking the book that she believed she was meant to find when a final trap was set off and they were nearly crushed to death by a boulder. It's been one of her greatest regrets since having left for her journey, but she couldn't help but feel like the book was meant for her, and has kept it since.

Afterwards, after some recovery, Rhienne and Mika spent some time in central Johto working on more badges. Rhienne had managed through Morty's Gym in Ecruteak City by the time they had caught wind of what was happening to the PC systems where Rhienne and Mika made their way to Cerulean City in order to offer their help. A police officer called all the trainers to the front of the Cerulean Police Station where Bill was waiting for them for a sort of briefing on the situation. There Bill explained that during a hacking that was trying to take over the PC system, and while Bill was trying to combat it, there was yet another source that was trying to infiltrate the system, and all of those sources combined created a glitch in the system that was manifested out of the PC system, something that the officers had taken to calling Missingno, the missing number error. It wasn't a Pokemon, as far as Bill could explain, but it had a form of intelligence and was learning, and after having been captured and transferred through the Rocket PC system, it escaped and began making copies of itself that were appearing in different places in Kanto and Johto.

The plan was, for all the gathered trainers, to track down these Missingno and capture them in special police force Pokeballs called Lockdown Balls in order to subdue the glitch as they tried to determine where the real one was. Bill gave each of the trainers a specially programmed Porygon of his own design that was updated with all of the latest data on Missingno that would be able to combat it if necessary, would allow communication with Bill via their Pokedexes, and could access the trainer's PC systems if necessary since they were capable of traveling through cyber space. The first confirmed location of one of the Missingno copies was in the Power Plant just east of Cerulean City, and with Blue in tow who was called to help, or in his eyes was there to 'make sure the trainers didn't screw up too badly', the trainers were sent to the Power Plant in order to begin their mission.

The trainers all started to make their way east to the Power Plant any way they could, where Rhienne regrettably had to fly with Emiri on her flying types, and soon enough the trainers had all gathered at the plant to start their assignment. They weren't quite sure where in the plant this glitch was supposed to be, but as far as they knew, they were supposed to search high and low for it and find any sign that they could in order to discern it's location. Blue started the search as he moved into the plant, and the trainers followed as Rhienne split up from Mika and Emiri, and started to move through the labyrinthine maze of computers and machines. Someone had quite obviously been at the plant prior to their visit since a lot of the machines were somehow active and working despite being covered in a thick layer of dust, which set the group off to know that they needed to be careful while moving through the computers.

The trainers spent the next hour or so looking through the upper level of the plant, going through old rooms with more machines, what could have been the boss' room up a flight of stairs, moving through all of the rows and rows of computers until the computers started to crash one by one by a virus that had been sent through them. Nothing could be retrieved from them until a single piece of paper was printed out from a computer with a small memo, something about meetings and how a Murkrow guards a key with a password, but the trainers soon regrouped at the head of the plant where a large set of doors remained locked, and judging by the blueprints Blue had on his pokegear, that was precisely where they needed to go.

By the time they had all gathered in one place, they were ambushed by a fleet of grunts who were still left in the Power Plant, unbeknownst to them to be part of the long line of distractions that was set up for them for the Rockets to make a clean get away. Fending off the grunts though seemed to be easy enough, but the guard wasn't over as the Murkrow they'd been looking for approached, and they'd almost had it when Mika give the bird the necessary password, but it's suspicions were set off as it sounded out a loud alarm, and two Houndoom came to attack them with the Murkrow in tow. The trainers had finally managed to rid themselves of the Houndoom and the Murkrow who relinquished the key to them in a sort of peace offering in exchange for not getting attacked again, fluttering off back into the rafters leaving the trainers to their own devices then.

Rhienne moved with the trainers as they opened the door with the key, heading down a lit stairwell that went well below ground level as the hum of all of the machinery upstairs could no longer be heard. Beneath the metal floors of the plant now, the trainers came up on a horrendous scene, the walls of a hallway lined from floor to ceiling with cages lined with rubber and other obstructions to keep electric types at bay. Rhienne was disgusted at seeing the cages, knowing that these poor Pokemon had been neglected so, but didn't want to think if they were empty because the Pokemon had escaped, or if Team Rocket had taken what they could with them. The whole situation only made Rhienne more upset by the second as there were still Pokemon in some of the cages who surely would have died being in an abandoned power plant so far underground. No one would have found them, would have even known they were there, so Rhienne and the trainers set to work releasing what was left into the open so they could be free.

After making sure the remaining Pokemon had been set free, and capturing a Shinx in the process who was too scarred from Team Rocket to leave his cage, Rhienne followed with the rest of the trainers to the end of the hallway where a single door stood in their way, and after pushing through it, they were greeted by four Team Rocket Admins, Petrel, Ariana, Proton, and Archer. Despite them knowing that the rest of their team was long gone with all the information and equipment they needed, they were still aiming and ready to take on the trainers to get rid of them all for good so they wouldn't continue to meddle in Rocket affairs, but Rhienne and the other trainers weren't ready to back down, not now, so a grueling battle ensued that was far more difficult than any of them could have bargained for since there was a security system installed in the enormous room with trap tiles that were trapping their Pokemon while the admins were attacking with theirs.

The battle took a toll on all of them and their Pokemon, having to fight four fully trained Rocket Admins while trying to dodge the traps, but with all of their Pokemon combined and help from Blue and his Umbreon, and even Red who had showed up with his Pikachu to help, the admins were finally defeated, though they were quickly reminded that their mission there was still not over. They had come for the glitch, one of the ones that Bill said would be in the plant, and with a key that Petrel offered them since his job was done and their team was long gone with everything they needed, in hopes of having the glitch take a few of their lives in the process, Petrel was gone and the trainers were left with the decision to press forward.

Taking just a moment to themselves to regroup after such a tough battle, making sure their Pokemon were alright and some reveling in the small victory they took, Bill came over their Pokegears to give them the latest update. Red had been traveling through Johto gathering all the data that he could on the Missingno for Bill as well as discerning the locations of the last few that there were, and thanks to this Bill was able to update their Porygon so that, with luck, there wouldn't be any fatalities in fighting the glitch. They could create a physical firewall as Bill put it to keep the Missingno from attacking anyone directly, but it was only a theoretical application since the Porygon had yet to actually combat against the glitch.

Entering through the door, the trainers were faced with what could only be described as a living personification of a glitch. It was pixelated and shifted in the space it occupied as though they were looking at a giant screen. Numbers and other figures flashed across it's surface every now and again as it actually turned to face them, as if this thing could actually tell that they were there, and in reality, it could. The space around it was distorted as it moved, getting too close to some of the remaining computers within the room as they instantly crashed at just the close proximity to the anomaly, and as it flickered and moved through the space around it, it stopped before the trainers, like it was calculating its first move.

It gave out a distorted sound that was something between a screech and a scream as the sound it gave off was actually a physical force. It was a wave that came from the glitch as it moved towards the trainers, and though the Porygon had taken up the shields that Bill programmed them for and the trainers were safe, their Pokemon were less so as Rhienne looked to Valor as his figure slumped over and a sickly purple ooze moved over his scales. He had been poisoned despite the Missingno having done nothing to inflict it, and all of their Pokemon had suffered some kind of effect from the screech, the effects just happening out of no where. That certainly set the tone for the battle, knowing now that this glitch was capable of so much more than any of them could have fathomed, and for a time, they weren't sure if they were ready for such a battle against something that shouldn't have existed at all.

The glitch continued to attack as the Porygon kept up their protective fire walls, but the walls still did little to protect their Pokemon from getting attacked by the Missingno, however, after a few rounds of their Pokemon trying to weaken it, it gave out another screech as it's surface shuttered, the pixels and data freezing as though it were on a fozen computer screen. It threw up a protective wall around itself, but part of it shattered from the glitch's weakened state, and Mika was able to throw his lockdown ball at it. Thanks to the modifications that Bill had made to the lockdown balls, the glitch was forced inside and it was captured as the ball locked tight, and much to their surprise, the battle was over. They had captured one glitch, but there were still more to detain as Bill's voice came over all of their devices again. They were to bring the lockdown ball with the Missingno in it back to Bill in Cerulean City for further examination, and there was a glitch located in Celedon City in the Game Corner, and another in the Goldenrod City Department Store.

Rhienne and Mika left off with Emiri who had stayed in Celedon City as they made their way to Goldenrod, only to find the entire city almost evacuated. Despite their mission, Mika made a dash for his home there to see what might have come of it, only to find it empty and rather dishevled with broken glass from the television and other electrical devices. Rhienne tried to console with Mika, but knew the best way for them to fix his home was to find the glitches and capture them, so they set off to the Department Store to continue their mission.

After being attacked by a cynical Gothitelle, Mika and Rhienne grouped with the rest of the trainers who had split to come to Johto, and made their way into the Department Store where Bill indicated that the glitch was located on the floor with the electronics section. Making their way up the stairs after coming into contact with a group of Rocket grunts who were trying to belay their mission, the group found the Missingno milling about through the various television screens that lined the wall, and fought to subdue it like the first one they encountered. It's attacks were more powerful then, knocking out one of Mika's Pokemon in one strike, but just when they'd dared to think that they might have had an easier time taking care of this one, it emitted a strange force from the Lockdown Ball just before it sealed that somehow managed to sap Cheshire of all his energy, taking him from a Haunter to a Gastly.

Vengence on her mind now, Rhienne and Mika made their way to Mahogany town where Bill had discerned the location of the last Missingno. Regrouping with the rest of the trainers, and her cousin, they were approached by Morty who had been at the Pokemon center, and when he thought that they were all present, he told them where Bill was getting the signal from as they moved to the north of the town, coming to an old abandoned convenience store. When Morty came to the door and started trying to work the door open, there were muffled curses and rushed footsteps on the other side, but when they entered, there was no one inside, just a very thick layer of dust covering the empty shelves and cobwebs everywhere. Until they looked down, it looked as though no one had been on the inside in years, but within the dust there were fresh footprints that wove through the shelves until they came to a back room. Opening the door though, they were still surprised to see that the room was filled with nothing but old refrigerator units. After a bit of examination though by Morty's Haunter, the two found that the largest fridge had a false bottom in it, and after finding the switch, a latch opened, leading them downwards with a ladder that was just below it.

Moving down the ladder, where they descended to none of them could have guessed. Beneath them seemed to be an entire structure that had gone undetected for who knows how long, but it was sure to have been full of activity and maintained constantly despite it's remote location. Polished white marble floors and shining white concrete walls greeted them as they gathered at the bottom of the ladder, an enormous hallway opening up in front of them. Lining the walls from floor to ceiling were very ornately carved and detailed Gyarados statues made out of a lighter stone, with red rubies embedded for their eyes. It looked as though they'd stepped into a museum, not like they had just found a secret hatch under a refrigerator in an abandoned convenience store, but their focus was quickly altered as one of them got too close to one of the Gyarados statues and a blaring alarm went off, and within seconds they were swarmed with a mass of Rocket Grunts, though they weren't normal looking grunts. They wore blue half masks that covered half of their faces, but that aside, they each had a grunt they needed to take care of, and the battles were on.

Defeating the grunts was easy enough, but looking down the hallway, there had to be at least twenty Gyarados statues that they could see, and if each one of them set an alarm, or even if only some of them set of an alarm, that called for a different group of grunts, there was no way they could handle all those grunts, let alone make it anywhere in an even remotely decent amount of time and try and take on the last glitch they were looking for. Morty's Haunter inspected the first statue they set off further, trying to find a way to turn off it's alarm, but any wires were set so far into the stone that they couldn't reach them to cut them, and any outside intrusion was more than likely able to set off the alarm anyways. They were contemplating just trying to ward off all the grunts that came their way until Emiri suggested they use electricity.

Turns out one of Emiri's precious Pokemon was a dark/electric type Pokemon, and with his electricity they were able to fry the circuits from the inside before any sensors went off, but their moment of victory was short lived as Odd's Shedinja blew up one of the other statues, and chaos ensued. There were sure to be grunts flooding into the hallway any second, so the group took off running to try and beat the grunts as Emiri set to work frying the statues that they passed by for extra measure. They raced through the hallway till they came to a large spiral staircase, and even then they were still running as they worked their way down, but they were met by two rockets who seemed to be superior in their rank with their uniforms and lack of masks, and they had to fight them off before they could continue.

They fought, and with their combined Pokemon, the two admin didn't have a chance, but they conceded defeat and left the trainers to clean up their mess for them, knowing the glitch was still down the way in the laboratory Bill had pointed out for them. And so, coming to face the final glitch roaming free through the discarded laboratory, the trainers began to fight with everything they had left to try and subdue the monster.

Rhienne and the others attacked with everything they had, trying to weaken the monster so they could capture it in one of their remaining lockdown balls, but just when they might have thought that it was over, bits of coding starting to fall from the glitch as it froze in it's place in the air, it was only merely deleting unwanted data as it shuttered before flickering to a new form, a much more physical form that resembled that of a ghost, and it almost cackled at them then as it threw up a wall, much like that of Bill's Porygon, and in a devastating attack of horrendous blue flame it attacked Morty's Haunter, but when the ghost went to return the attack, it did nothing.

Their cumulative devices began to crackle and fizzle in and out of audio as Bill was trying to contact them, only catching bits and pieces of the frantic message he was trying to send. Something about his Porygon? That was all any one of them managed to get out of the message, but one by one they all released Bill's Porygon and the computers attacked, being able to get through the glitch's fire wall and do damage. Just as things seemed hopeless, the glitch freezing the room over little by little with it's new found power, their Porygon's collective attacks managed to break the glitch's power just long enough for them to throw one last lockdown ball, and with a distorted cry as the lights around them flickered and exploded, the final Missingno was captured.

After the events in trying to fend off the Missingno that had been created, Rhienne and Mika were left off in Ecruteak by Emiri where they spent some time in recovery and getting their bearings back. However before they could press on in their travels, they were once again summoned by the 'shadow master' but this time their endeavors were far more rigorous than the first time they'd been captured. Rhienne and Mika had to fight through thirteen different environments before finally facing off with Darkrai himself, but even after defeating the 'shadow master' their perils were not over. Darkrai sent a ghoulish, grotesque monster after them, a monster of the living dead it looked like with a skeletal bird like head and beak with razor teeth and talons, and pieces of decayed flesh and muscle that still clung to it's tattered body. The battle was grueling and the monster had befell many of their Pokemon, but Mika and Rhienne had just barely managed to defeat the monster in order to be released from Darkrai's grasp, though the shadow swore revenge on the defeat of his pet.

Being brought back to Ecruteak, Rhienne and Mika spent some time still in recovery and training to make themselves more prepared should they face off with Darkrai in the future where Rhienne came into contact with who is now one of her greatest companions, Nara. The Raikou was in Ecruteak among the ashes of the burned tower, searching for a trainer worthy of her companionship when she found Rhienne, and though Rhienne refused to catch her, not wanting the responsibility of having a legendary Pokemon in her ranks and not wanting to chain down the tiger, Mika captured Nara at her permission and left her with Rhienne's possessions later on, but not before one of Rhienne's greatest mistakes took place.

Having finally found time and after gathering the necessary ingredients, Rhienne took to trying out this so called 'spell book' that she had managed to find. But to her dismay with her lack of training and lack of knowledge, the spell back fired and left her with a new set of appendages, a set of ears and a tail that resembled that of an Espeon. Without any real way of knowing how to fix it save for what looked to be a healing spell, Rhienne was adamant that they keep traveling then so that she could begin looking for ingredients, and so Mika and Rhienne spent some time traveling through western Johto.

Months later, there were reports of blackouts moving through the entire Johto region where Bill was issuing another call to arms from Mahogany Town. Rhienne thought the worst, knowing that everything that had originally happened with Missingno couldn't have been over then, but she and Mika agreed to help and showed up in Mahogany Town where other trainers had gathered. Bill came out with a police officer and Pryce from the gym to give the official word on what was going on. Zapdos and Raikou had been spotted in the region when the blackouts started and if Bill could get data on their electrical readings to compare to the ones that had shut down the entire region, then he could find the source of the blackouts and fix it. The last confirmed location of the legendaries was at the very north edge of the Lake of Rage to the north of the town, and so the trainers started that way with Pryce in tow to begin their mission.

They came to the southern edge of the lake where Pryce split them up into groups in order to start their search. Spanning the entire perimeter of the lake, Rhienne and Mika with their group were sent to the eastern edge of the lake beside the beginning of the ice path. Not even an hour into their searching though and an entire swarm of Neo Rocket Grunts was sent after them, but the battle was less than challenging really as they ran and the search continued as they continued to move to the northern edge of the lake.

Moving to the very northern edge of the lake, Rhienne and the other trainers were attacked by a pair of Neo Rocket Admins, Carl and Sham, who were a distraction for the trainers while the Neo Rockets made their escape. It was a tough battle, but they made it through, and afterwards Bill was able to get into contact with the trainers with news that Zapdos and Raikou were confirmed to be in Mt. Mortar and Pryce had seen Team Rocket moving in and out of the mountain and had gone to investigate himself. Rhienne made her way back to Mahogany Town with the rest of the trainers in order to move to Mt. Mortar, but she only hoped that all of this didn't mean another attack by Missingno since a lot of the same pieces were adding up like they had the first time, especially with Team Rocket's involvement. However, she wasn't going to back down now and made her way towards Mt. Mortar with Marcellus in order to continue their work.

Rhienne and the other trainers spent a few hours moving through the caves and caverns of the northern mountain range trying to find the inner corridors that Bill had referred to where he was getting the strongest electrical readings, and facing off with hoards of angry and territorial Pokemon no doubt due to Team Rocket invading their home, and narrowly escaping being burried in a cave in caused by all the battles to fend off the wild Pokemon, Rhienne caught up with the rest of the trainers who had been split up among the mountain's caves. They came to an enormous corridor where Silver the head of Team Rocket was waiting for them, ready to do them in himself since his other exploits had failed, readying with his Gyarados to take them on so that his underlings could finish their work, but as the battle became heated, chaos started to ensue. One by one different computers and machines the Rockets had started crashing and exploding, throwing the whole facility into a state of hysterics and panic, and as the battle continued, all of the Pokemon, Silver's Feraligatr included were thrown from the battle, being thrust against the wall or floor.

Ghetsis, the head of Team Plasma from Unova had come and was ready to cash in on what work Silver was trying to do, having been watching this whole time since the PC crash. The walls of the cavern around them began to shutter and quake before Zapdos and Raikou burst through the rocky walls, having this whole time been trying to find the source of the blackouts for themselves to keep the region under control, but just as everything had fallen to a stand still, Ghetsis and Silver having a stare down of will to see who would come out on top, one of the largest machines in the facility burst into a shower of shrapnel and sparks, sending a shock wave that knocked out all the Pokemon in the area, the legendaries included. From the remnants of the machine, Missingno emerged, larger this time with a garbled screech.

It hovered over the mess of computers and machines the Rockets had set out as the grunts from both Plasma and Rocket began to scramble for their lives where around them all of the computers were starting to turn into nothing but a mess of code and pixels, disappearing from where they stood, as if they were being erased. Rhienne struggled to find Mika through the chaos then, unsure of what they were supposed to do then as the cave started to collapse around them after Missingno gave out another shrill screech upon finding Ghetsis and Silver in its midst. The waves from it's energy surged over the entire cavern, striking the trainers and sending them across the rocky floor and starting to eat away at the steel beams that held the mountain up around them as it started fizzling into pixel and code. Rhienne was thrown across the floor until the hit a large rock with her side, effectively bruising and minorly fracturing some of her ribs. She still struggled to find Mika who had come to her side, and in the last moments before they were crushed, Absolem took Rhienne and Mika from the cavern and out into the open in front of Mt. Mortar, safe and out of harms way.

Afterwards, Nara moved into Mahogany town with Rhienne slumped over her back, in need of medical attention from the nurses who had gathered at the Pokemon Center. She suffered many scs and cuts and bruises along her body, and she managed to get a few hairline fractures in her ribs and bruised the rest of them. She was bandaged and wrapped and cleaned that night as she and her Pokemon began a night's worth of well deserved rest, but in her weakened state, Darkrai forced Rhienne into the midst of his realm once more, sure to keep her at bay this time.

Rhienne and her Pokemon only just barely were able to make it out of Darkrai's realm this time around after Darkrai trapped Rhienne in a powerful illusion of silence that almost drove her mad, but after Aviabra and Cheshire were able to break her out of it, Wattson fought off Darkrai to make sure that they could escape his realm, and were released back into the Pokemon Center room they had fallen asleep in. Rhienne spent a good while afterwards in Mahogany town, at least a month's time, recuperating, healing, and just spending some time to herself. Unbenownst to her, Vandit was sent to the past to fend off a great evil, and Absolem had been reduced to that of an Abra due to Darkrai's great nightmarish powers, and Mika was in an exhaustion and pain induced coma, but little by little Rhienne's life was coming back together. Her Pokemon blocked Vandit from her memory so she wouldn't grieve for his absence, and Absolem was brought back to normal, and Mika's recovery was stable despite him not waking any time soon. However, Rhienne remained hopeful that he would be alright as she silently promised to stay in Mahogany until he woke up.

That promise was broken though as the Porygon Bill had sent for her accidentally brought her to Azalea Town where she had tried to get back to Mahogany before meeting someone in the Ilex Forest, and in a fight between his Pokemon and hers with Aviabra, they were transported to a fair in the middle of no where. They didn't spend long there, but the time that they did made Rhienne worry for Mika ever more in not being in Mahogany Town, so she left off from the fair to return to Mahogany Town only to find that Mika had in fact woken up and was somewhere in the town.