Strix the Nidoking (inactive)

Strix was a young Nidoran when he first came in contact with humans. He was one of the few pokemon on route 35 that didn’t get caught or captured by newbie trainers. Though he was small and young, he was always vicious and untrusting. He would often get into battles with young trainers, just to poison their pokemon, then attack the trainer once their pokemon was down. His family was large, but the young Nidoran quickly made a name for himself as being the most vicious. His family disowned him, his mother running him away in rage. She was a single mother, his father disappearing before they were born.

He had no family, and no friends, but he liked it that way. His home was in an obscure patch of forest, where he thought that nobody would ever bother him; but a young trainer by the name of Toluca had stumbled into his territory, looking for the poison pokemon who kept sending young kids to the hospital. They fought, her pokemon defeated quickly. But instead of trying to flee, she threw herself onto him, not letting him run or fight more. The Nidoran tossed and bit in confusion, his venomous spines digging into the girl, but still she held him. Very quickly, the girl fell into a poison swoon. Instead of finishing her and fleeing, he stared at her in bewilderment, before running to the main road. Without any hesitation, he attacked a police officer, luring him to the felled trainer and disappearing into the brush to watch from hiding. The human brought the human to the local hospital, where she was treated. The Nidoran followed and watched from afar, waiting until she left the building on her own. When she was discharged, he was waiting for her, wanting to make his attack up to her.

Toluca and her pokemon fought and trained hard, Nidoran evolving quickly into a Nidorino, and again into Nidoking when Tullie gave him a moon stone. Once evolved, he was named Strix, to match the ferocity and strength that he possessed. Strix would often travel out of the pokeball, and jump at other pokemon that he happened across, either making them angry or scaring them half to death. He enjoyed scaring others, just for fun. He could never scare Toluca though, try as he may. She never saw him as a monster, and that was the main reason he stayed loyal to her.

Once the epidemic hit, they all started to travel to more obscure locations, trying to avoid cities. They were making their way around Azalea when they were attacked by a swarm of infected Gyarados. Before the monsters had a chance to do any kind of damage, Strix grabbed both Cyndaquil (who was out of his ball) and Toluca and swam far away from the shore. He found a small path of land not far, and landed there. They were separated from one of their team, in the fight...a uniquely colored Umbreon who had been traveling with them for awhile.

After a few weeks on the island, Toluca ordered Strix to go to the mainland and search for Professor Elm, in hopes that he was safe…and if he wasn’t, to help him rendezvous with the rest of the professors at Mt. Mortar. Strix didn’t know much about the plans the humans had made, but he went without question to Mt. Mortar, to try and find the professor. When he arrived there, he had found nothing. He knew where the professor used to live, and figured that if he was alive still, he would probably head north of New Bark to get to Mt. Mortar. So Strix headed East of Mt. Mortar, in hopes of happening across the professor and escorting him safely.