PokéJungle Halloween Special 2019

15 days until Pokémon Sword & Shield release!

It’s finally upon us! The spookiest day of the year is here! Happy Halloween, Jungle fans! We hope you all have a great day filled with spooks, surprises and the joys of Halloween. Stay safe out there trainers!

This Halloween Special serves as a place for everyone to discuss all things Halloween. Want to share your Halloween costume this year? Go ahead! Got some spooky ghost stories? Share ‘em. Just want someone to hang out with and keep you company during the spooks? Here’s the place.

Halloween Week 2019

This is the first year we’ve delivered a full week of Halloween content and we think it’s been a success! Next year we plan to extend the length of the week so we can publish even more spooky content for you all to devour.

We thought as this is the final post in Halloween Week 2019 we’d give one last summary of the content we published over the last 7 days. We’ve still got tons of exciting article in The Path to Sword & Shield and even more beyond that, so stick around as things are about to get even more exciting.

Halloween Week 2019 Content:
Day 1: Halloween Week 2019
Day 2: Which starting Pokémon will you choose in Sword & Shield? Part 1
Day 3: Pokémon Sword & Shield Starter Giveaway
Day 4: Polteageist – Origin of Species
Day 5: They’re Alive! Gold & Silver Beta Mon Are Rising From the Dead!
Day 6: Lorekeeper’s Logs, Volume 3: Ghost of a Chance

Community Creatives

We say it often, because it’s true: our community here on PokéJungle is full of creative, inspirational individuals. We constantly have people sharing their original creations with us. While we didn’t receive the biggest response to our creative call-out for Halloween Week, we received some great submissions and we’re pleased to share them all with you. Be sure to give the creators the praise they deserve and check out their other work (where applicable!)

_ whited out!” – SpectralSeraph

The Ace trainer stepped into the dark mansion, equipped with a red visor to help them see better in the dark. It’d been a while since he last battled, and he was itching to get some training done. He’d done enough wandering into dangerous places that this house didn’t scare him at all. In fact, he was rather prepared!

“The area seems rather old… Abandoned houses like these tend to have Ghost type Pokemon.” The Ace trainer adjusted his visor, turning to his partner Krookodile with a smug grin…

The Ace trainer stepped into the dark mansion, equipped with a red visor to help them see better in the dark. It’d been a while since he last battled, and he was itching to get some training done. He’d done enough wandering into dangerous places that this house didn’t scare him at all. In fact, he was rather prepared!

“The area seems rather old… Abandoned houses like these tend to have Ghost type Pokemon.” The Ace trainer adjusted his visor, turning to his partner Krookodile with a smug grin. “I mean, your a Dark type, so this will probably be a great place to train! No digging though, you’ll bring the whole place down on us.” His partner nodded in understanding, suddenly perking up and entering a battle stance. On cue, a Cofagrigus moseyed into view. 

“See? A ghost type already! Crunch this fodder out of our path Krookodile!” 

On that command, it rushed forward at its coffin-shaped foe and crunched down, only to instantly jolt back.

“It used Iron Defense, huh? Well, follow that up with a Brutal-” 

Before any command could be given, the Cofagrigus let loose some tape and pulled Krookodile close. With a sinister laugh, it released a swarm of insectoid creatures from within that swarmed its foe’s entire body. 

“Infestation?! What do I even…?”

Krookodile had been thrown into a panic, thrashing about aimlessly as the bugs slowly chipped away at it strength. It needed to get out of Cofagrigus’s grasp somehow. It would probably be impossible to break free….

But it WOULD be possible to knock it back! 
“Use Dragon Tail, now!!”

In response to the demand, Krookodile snapped out of its panic and violently swung its tail. Its foe was flung backwards and seemed to stumble a bit, startled, but not much else. It began to wave its arms about in a strange, methodical fashion. 
“What’s it even doing?” Krookodile was just as unsure as its trainer. Their question was soon answered as a strange glow began to encompass the arena. Cofagrigus dropped onto its back and propped itself up with its hands in a spider-like fashion before crawling towards Krookodile at terrifying speeds. 

A trick room had been set up. 
“It’s coming towards us?” scoffed the oblivious Ace. “Crunch it while its moving!!” 
Krookodile moved towards its foe, much slower than before, and attempted to bite at it with little success. Cofagrigus weaved and dodged every attack, nailing it with quick Shadow Balls to wear its foe out. The Ace had begun to panic. Krookodile would not be able to hold out much longer and he left his other Pokemon at home.

“Brutal Swing! Use it now!!!”

Krookodile attempted to use brutal swing, but was nailed in the face with a shadow ball before it could do so. It was a critical hit!

“Kroooooooookodile!!!”

It immediately flew into a violent Outrage, biting and clawing in every which way. Its anger point ability had activated. Any command that was given would be entirely lost. Realizing that this was a losing battle, the Ace fumbled through his bag for the Pokeball to return Krookodile. By the time he found it, Krookodile had confused itself in its rage and had taken a hard tumble onto the ground. 

“R-r-retur-” 

The sweat from his palms made it slip to the ground, closing the window on any chance of getting out of this loss. The Cofagrigus returned to a standing position in front of the fallen Krookodile, striking it with a burst of shadowy energy. Hex. This was enough to knock out its poor foe. After, it turned its eyes towards the Ace and slowly began crawling towards him. Paralyzed with fear, it approached him and slowly began to open… 

Before suddenly shutting itself with a loud SLAM! And just like that, the trainer had been knocked out too. Cofagrigus let out a prideful laugh, looking down on the foolish trainer and Pokemon duo that thought they could beat it. It noticed a slight sparkle in the Ace’s backpack and decided to see what it was. PokeDollars. With a smirk, it pilfered every piece of currency it could find from within the bag and crawled away into the dark depths of the house.

Cofagrigus gained 1024 Exp!

“Halloween Story” – SceptileScythe

The cold, frostbite-inducing wind seeped into the cave in which a lone Absol lived. Aysha shivered, despite her thick fur protecting her. The Absol had no means of staying warm, and heading out of the cave was suicide, not only because of the cold, but also because of the danger she could sense. Her horn quivered. There it was again, the oh-so-infamous feeling of disaster. However, this won’t be worth warning the humans about. The feeling was directed towards herself.

She knew she was in danger, but unlike her usual premonitions, she didn’t know much other than that… 

Absol, the Disaster Pokémon. Absol live in steep mountainous regions, and rarely venture down into areas inhabited by humans, but should an Absol be seen by humans, it is said that catastrophe is soon to follow.

The cold, frostbite-inducing wind seeped into the cave in which a lone Absol lived. Aysha shivered, despite her thick fur protecting her. The Absol had no means of staying warm, and heading out of the cave was suicide, not only because of the cold, but also because of the danger she could sense. Her horn quivered. There it was again, the oh-so-infamous feeling of disaster. However, this won’t be worth warning the humans about. The feeling was directed towards herself.

She knew she was in danger, but unlike her usual premonitions, she didn’t know much other than that. 

The cold wind blew again, so Aysha decided to head further inside. She had only recently found this shelter, and the cave seemed to be pretty deep.

She got up with a sigh and with her padded paws, and silently made her way inside the cave. Little did she know, her disaster was making his way up the cliff, as silently as her footsteps. 

It was a man. His deep-set eyes were blood-shot and his hands were shaking, not from inebriation, but from rage. This man had a deep grudge, and a scar in his heart deeper than the one running across his face. The only indication that he was a trainer was the pokeball clipped to his belt. As he climbed up the cave to where Aysha was staying, all he growled was: 

“All you filthy……filthy…….whi…..demons…” 

He said the same thing, over and over and over again, repeating it like a hymn a monk would hum at a temple. Unsurprisingly, he quickly reached the entrance of the cave, and as soon as he did, he roared, a sound so mighty, small Pokémon from a league away scurried away in fright. 

Aysha was not a small Pokémon by any means, but her fur stood on end. There was no mistaking it. That came from the entrance! She was morbidly curious, but she did not want to take any chances. Absol by nature were non-confrontational Pokémon that didn’t like fighting, and the stench! The stench was downright frightening! It smelled like man, but it also had a bit of Pokémon on it, and also the nasty smell of blood. No, she had to stay away at all costs. 

The man with the scar had other plans all together. He lumbered into Aysha’s cave with large steps, covering an enormous amount of ground at an alarming rate. 

“You filthy mongrels took my family!” he screamed. 

“My wife! My…..son” The scarred man’s tears mixed with the dirt in the cave, evidently the cause of the colour of his eyes, but not hindering his speed in the slightest.

His pokeball began to shake. The man caressed it. 

“Calm, my child, your time will come” he growled softly.

He took a deep breath, and exhaled. His tears stopped flowing, and he grinned manically.

Aysha could hear the man’s screams nearby. She didn’t know who upset the man so much, but it certainly wasn’t her. This was the first time she had picked up his scent. She certainly would have remembered a scent as unique as his, or as dangerous as his. She quickened her pace into the further reaches of the cave. She could feel a sharp incline in the cave. Was it looping around? If it looped all the way around, then she might be in trouble.

A solid rock wall appeared. It didn’t loop all the way around, but it was a dead-end. However, now she had some time to think of a way to escape.

Suddenly, she heard a faint voice. It was the scarred man from the other side of the wall. He was loudly muttering to himself.

“Abs…ol…killed my family…..so….I return…..favor!”

The wall started rumbling. Aysha jumped up, startled. The cave wall suddenly crashed, and staring right at her was the scarred man, swinging his cleaver, grinning evilly. 

“Little beast….” He said, with an insane look in his eye.

“Happy Halloween!” and down swung the cleaver.

Trick or Treat!

We already did our trick or treating this year, almost a week early. Our first giveaway in The Path to Sword & Shield is still accepting entries and you can enter below! There’s not long left to enter, so get on it while you still can!

Pokémon Sword & Shield Starter Giveaway

Once again we hope everyone has a great Halloween and we hope to see some more creations/costumes in the comments below. Until then here are just a few conversation starters for everyone to reply to in the comments:

  • Which is the best Ghost-type Pokémon and why is it Rotom?
  • Which Ghost-type Trainer gives you the biggest chills?
  • Ghost?

Sadly today marks the end of our Halloween Week, but fret not, we’ve got more lined up for you in The Path to Sword & Shield and even more right up until the end of the year and beyond! Don’t forget to comment down below and chat on our official Discord server. If you haven’t already follow us on Twitter for the latest Pokémon news and goodness!