I don't own Pokemon or anything related to Pokemon. This applies for this entire fanfic(so I don't have to keep typing it every single episode). But I do own my original characters.

Prologue: Origins of The Castle

A large, beautiful castle was positioned on a hilltop surrounded by a large forest. The forest had a lake positioned inside its boundaries. There was a wide path cleared from the large castle to a large town. It was busy with lots of business. A blue bird with cloudlike wings dropped from the sky and landed in one of many courtyards of the castle. The Altaria preened its wings and flew into the hall leading to the throne room.

The king sat in his throne, pondering his thoughts while his Altaria flew in next to him. The growls of the guards' Lairon could be heard. The whole courtroom was chatting. A boy walked in with his Grovyle next to him.

"Cmon dad!" he pleaded. "Why won't you battle me?"

"Because of 2 reasons. One, I am pondering an important matter, what to do with your uncle. cough so loud in here cough. Two, I would beat you in a heartbeat."

"Actually, I think I would last about a minute."

The king chuckled. But at that moment, a cloaked figure walked in the throne while a wet Lairon was sent flying across the hall. The person's Swampert was standing next to him with a stone cold stare.

The king said, "Now that isn't a way to treat one of my guards, my brother."

The person replied, "What? They were in my way. Anything in my way gets exterminated."

"Well Derek, you wouldn't make many friends.",the king said.

"Anyway, Lance, I didn't come here to battle. I came here to claim what is mine. The crown." He pointed at the jewel-covered gold crown on top of the king's head. "I deserve to be ruler of this kingdom."

One of the guards yelled, "How DARE you suggest such a…preposterous idea! I will personally take care of AAAAHHHHGGGG!"

A Quilava had blasted him with a stream of fire. The guard landed with a smoking thump.

A kid about the age of Bartholomew had a Quilava by his side.

"Now now Andrew, don't be so harsh with your prey." Derek said.

"I'll do that, when Bartholomew beats me with all his weak pitiful Pokemon against one of mine!"

"HEY! I COULD BEAT YOU BLINDFOLDED!"

"Heh, I'd prefer that, so you wouldn't even see your own pathetic defeat!"

"WHY YOU…."

"Bartholomew, let it go." The king gently calmed the prince's temper.

Derek continued, "Now, where was I before my son pleasantly heated things up… ah yes. I am issuing a challenge to you Lance. If I beat you in a Pokemon battle, then you must forfeit your throne. But if you win, then I will allow you to do anything with me."

"Don't do it dad!" Bartholomew yelled. "It's a trick!"

"What better way to silence my brother by defeating his Pokemon. Alright Derek, I accept!"

The whole court gasped. The king's advisor came up to the king. "Your majesty, you can't possibly go through with this! Even if you do win, Derek might not play fair. He's known for being a sneaking, backstabbing demon!"

"If he does have a plan B, you guys can make sure he is taken down."

"Yes, your majesty."

The king stepped down from his throne. He took a stone out of his robe. It was glowing with a bright light. "Gengar, come forth!" A white beam shot out of the crystal and onto the floor. It materialized into a purple ghost.

"GENGAR!"

"My turn Lance!" Derek took out a glowing stone just like the king's. "I choose you Scizor!" A white beam shot out and a red bug with two pincer-like claws was standing there. It faced the Gengar with a bloodthirsty stare.

"Gengar, night shade!" The ghost disappeared and reappeared behind the Scizor. Black bolts struck out from the Gengar's eyes. They smashed into the Scizor's back.

"SCIZOR!" It fell face-first onto the floor.

"Get up Scizor, or you won't be seeing sunlight ever again after I'm done with you." The Scizor, now "properly" motivated, got up. "Now, metal claw!" The Scizor lashed out, claws bursting with energy. However, the Gengar was not so dumb to stand in front of the moving target. It disappeared again, this time, floating on top of the Scizor.

"Gengar, shadow ball!" The Gengar charged up a ball of dark energy and launched it at the Scizor below him. However, the Scizor cancelled it out by smashing it with a metal claw attack.

"Now Scizor, use hyper beam!" The Scizor's claws charged up. Two beams of energy shot out of both the Scizor's claws.

"Gengar, double team." Suddenly, the whole room was filled with copies of Gengar. The hyper beam attack destroyed 3 of them.

"Hypnosis!" The Gengar's eyes started to glow orange. The Scizor toppled over asleep on the floor. "Finish it with dream eater!" Ghostly fangs surrounded the Scizor. They clamped down and the Scizor screamed in agony. A beam shot out of the crystal Derek was holding and hit the Scizor. It disappeared into the crystal.

"Worthless maggot…", Derek muttered. The king also recalled his Gengar. "Go Altaria!" The creature by the king's side rose and flew to the battle.

"Go, Swampert!" The beast standing next to Derek walked onto the battlefield.

"Altaria, aerial ace!" It flew into the air and zoomed down on the Swampert with incredible speed. The water/ground type was sent back flying. "Counter Ice Beam!" Swampert charged up a beam of ice..

"Altaria, don't let that attack hit you. Deflect it with twister!" Altaria flapped its wings with considerable force and a tornado was created. A couple of chairs and tables were flung into the air, spinning around like crazy. The Ice Beam attack was let loose. A bright light lit the room. Suddenly, the whole room felt a bit colder. The beam of ice raced toward the Altaria. But it was caught in the twister and it zoomed around and around. The twister moved in the direction of Swampert. The frozen tornadofrostedthe Swampert to submission.

"Swampert, come back…weakling…" "Good job Altaria." The bird flew to the king and he rubbed its wings affectionately. It cawed with satisfaction.

Two more Pokemon left, Derek thought. This plan better work.

The king taunted Derek. "I've taken out 2 of your Pokemon. There's still a chance for forgiveness." "I'd rather kiss an Ekans than apologize to YOU!" Derek took out another stone. Again, a beam of light shot out, but this time, a green, oval-shaped stone appeared.

"Is this some kind of lame joke?" Bartholomew asked.

"Actually, this is FAR from lame. DEOXYS! Come forth!" The stone vibrated. It was lifted into the air by an unknown force. It shook and shook until it was surrounded by a growing light. Then, the light took the form of a Pokemon. It was like none ever seen before. It was blue and red. It looked sort of like a human. The head had two blocks sticking out of the sides. There was a straight gash from the forehead all the way to its chin. The legs were pointed. Out of its shoulders were a red and blue tentacle of each side. They formed together to make an arm.

"Is this that new Pokemon you were raving on and on about?" the king said with a tone of disappointment in his voice.

"Why, yes indeed. Its name is Deoxys. I found the strange stone imbedded into the side of a mountain during one of my hikes. As soon as I removed it, the stone morphed just like it did a moment ago. It then followed my every command. Deoxys is quite a good slave."

"That is NO way to treat your Pokemon!" Bartholomew yelled.

"But Pokemon were made to serve us you pathetic little moron!" Andrew countered.

"I'm gonna so kick your sorry little…" "Bartholomew…" "Yes dad…."

"Ok then, use your new Pokemon. It's not going to make much of a difference. I choose you Sceptile!" The beam of light from the crystal the king was holding became a green and red lizard. It was standing on its hind legs. The tail was covered in green leaves. Yellow bulbs lined up the back of the Sceptile.

"Sceptile! Leaf blade attack now!" The leaves on the Sceptile's forearm glowed a bright green. They combined together to make one long green glowing blade. The lizard seemed to teleport in front of the Deoxys because it was so fast. It brought the blade down. Deoxys managed to dodge, but its arm and part of its leg were sliced off. Amazingly, they reappeared. The Deoxys didn't seem to be harmed.

"My my, Derek, looks can be deceiving. That thing might actually stand a chance."

"Deoxys, multiply!" The Deoxys's eyes glowed and clones materialized beside it. 49 Deoxys clones surrounded the Deoxys. But the problem was, you couldn't tell the difference between the real one and the fake one.

"Energy crush, Deoxys!" All the Deoxys changed. Their arms separated into tentacles. The blocks on the side of the head became horns curving backward. Each tentacle charged energy into a central point. In a moment, 50 energy balls were charged in the throne room. Then they all fired.

"Sceptile, agility!" The Sceptile dashed about the room, avoiding the energy balls. After about 5 seconds, one energy ball hit it. Miraculously, it passed through the Sceptile, doing no damage.

That must have been an attack from one of the clones. I must figure out which one is the real one.

About twenty more energy balls traveled straight through the Sceptile. But one of them didn't pass through. It exploded on contact with Sceptile. The grass-type was sent flying back a couple of yards. Lance calculated the trajectory.

"Sceptile, take in sunlight." The yellow bulbs on the back of Sceptile began to glow. A yellow light was forming in Sceptile's mouth.

"Sceptile, fire it at…that one!" The king pointed to a seemingly random Deoxys floating in the room. The Sceptile fired the solar energized beam at the Deoxys its master pointed out. But then all the other Deoxys formed a barrier around that one Deoxys. When the solarbeam connected with the Deoxys, they all disintegrated. It kept going through each and every one of the clones, blowing them to shreds. When it blew through the last clone and almost into the real Deoxys, Deoxys morphed. Its tentacles fused together into 2 straight boardlike limbs. Its head connected with the shoulders to form a protective helmet. A force field grew around the Deoxys which deflected the solarbeam attack.

"That Pokemon is full of surprises, isn't it, Lance?" This is going to be harder than I thought the king thought. Suddenly, he smiled.

"What's so funny?" Derek asked.

"Sceptile, lets show Mr. Cloner here a little bit of his own medicine! Double-team!" No sooner had he said this Sceptile flew around the room at an amazing speed. Duplicates were created everywhere.

"Deoxys, fight clones…WITH CLONES! Multiply!" Once again, the Deoxys created clones. Now, 75 Sceptile faced 75 Deoxys.

"Sceptile, bullet seed!" All the Sceptile fired glowing seeds at the Deoxys. "Deoxys, hyper beam!" All the Deoxys fired energybeams at the Sceptile. The result was a catastrophic explosion that knocked all the nobles off of their seats. Bartholomew and Andrew were both sent flying back. Two forms were visible. They were apparently struggling. A bunch of yellow dots glowed in the smoke. Then a beam of yellow light shot out from the fight scene. After the smoke cleared, Sceptile was standing there panting heavily. The Deoxys was nowhere to be seen. The only other thing that was there was an green oval-shaped stone lying on the ground.

"D…Deoxys!" Derek couldn't believe his eyes. Lance calmly said, "My Sceptile had fired a point blank range solarbeam at your Deoxys. Since that thing could regenerate, I decided the only way to win was to take it out with one shot." Derek was too stunned to even recall the remnant of Deoxys.

"Fine, I'm still going to win! This is it Lance. This is the moment we all have been waiting for. I choose you, Ho-oh!"

A large red bird with rainbow colored wings appeared. Everyone was awed by its beauty.

"Ok Derek. Play your games. I'll use my strongest Pokemon, Lugia!" A white and blue bird materialized. It had blue finned eyes and blue scales in two straight lines running down its back.

"I have the advantage Derek. My Lugia knows water-based attacks. Your Ho-oh is a fire-type."

"The last thing I need is to be taught by you. Ho-oh, Sacred Fire!" The Ho-oh glowed a bright red. Fire was being generated by this majestic beast. With one flap of its wings, a column of fire was sent flying toward the Lugia.

"Lugia, hydro pump!" Lugia opened its mouth and a tremendously powerful jet of water flew toward the column of flame. The sacred fire attack was instantly negated. But the hydro pump was flying. It hit the Ho-oh full force.

"Ho-oh, recover!" The Ho-oh regained health and looked as energized as ever.

"Ho-oh, isn't it a bit crowded in here? Why don't you fly up over the castle?" The Ho-oh flapped its wings and it burst through 5 floors before going to the sky.

"Lugia, follow it!" The Lugia broke through 5 floors as well. But as soon as it crashed through the ceiling, Ho-oh landed a well-aimed hyper beam attack, blasting Lugia back down to the throne room. Quickly regaining balance, Lugia flew straight out the door through a ton of courtyards and into the sky. The two legendary Pokemon could be seen as two tiny dots.

The Lugia fired a quick volley of aeroblasts. Ho-oh used evasive maneuvers and dodged them all. Lugia circled around and fired a large blast of water at Ho-oh. Ho-oh used safe-guard, blocking the entire attack. Then it charged up energy for a powerful Sky Attack. Lugia knew this and launched a Whirlpool at the Ho-oh, which was in a state of defenselessness. Although it was a really weak water attack, Ho-oh was weak against water, so the damaged doubled. It couldn't use recover since it was charging up the sky attack. Slowly beginning to lose health, Ho-oh unleashed the energy it charged. It broke through the whirlpool with a blaze of energy trailing behind it. But the whirlpool had blocked off Ho-oh's sight, so it had chosen a random direction. It flew away from Lugia and flew through a turret, knocking out a couple of archers.

Using Agility, Lugia caught up with the speeding Ho-oh. It was directly over it. Ho-oh, still speeding with the large amount of energy, couldn't really use any other attack. It tried turning, but it was going so fast, it couldn't turn that much. Lugia then charged up for an over-powered Aeroblast. They were flying closer and closer to the castle. Then Lugia let the Aeroblast loose.

"I wonder how Lugia's doing, dad." "Don't worry, he's doing fine." "Yeah but—"

Bartholomew never got a chance to finish his sentence. At that moment, Ho-oh crashed through the ceiling and almost flattened a couple of guards. Lugia flew down and stood victoriously over its defeated adversary.

"Looks like I win, Derek. Now, I'm going to give you one more chance." The nobles groaned.

"Dad, this is like the 1000th time you've forgiven him."

"I believe that he will recognize his wrongs."

Derek just stood there dumbfounded. Andrew couldn't believe it either. Derek had lost. But his will wouldn't let him give up.

"I'm not giving up Lance! If I'm going down, then you are coming with me! Ho-oh, use Hyper Beam!"

Ho-oh slowly raised its head then fired a white beam of energy straight at Lance. Lugia quickly reacted by using its psychic powers to pick up rubble to form a barrier. It had picked up the stone of Deoxys. The Hyper Beam connected with the barrier. It blew Deoxys's stone to pieces. A ball of energy was floating there. The Hyper Beam struck the energy ball and the beam headed straight for Lance.

"You're mine, Lance!" The beam almost hit him but Lugia rushed forward and took the hit. Lugia cried with pain. It's form was changing. It grew smaller. Its body turned bluish red. A blue oval stone was on its chest. It had Lugia's tail, and Lugia's wings. Deoxys's arms materialized onto the sides of Lugia. The head had a gash through the center and the eyes had blue fins around them. Three horns stuck out from the head.

"What have you done with Lugia Derek?"

"Deoxys, is that you?" The strange creature turned around and nodded.

"Looks like I win, Lance." Lance took out three stones and fired three beams, releasing his Gengar, Altaria, and Sceptile.

"Guards, send out your Lairon! Everyone, Hyper Beam!" The 40 Lairon and Gengar, Altaria, and Sceptile all used Hyper Beam. 43 beams of energy shot at the Deoxys/Lugia. With one swing of its arm, the beams swirled together into a big ball. It then hurled the ball straight at its opponents. After the dust cleared, everyone was knocked out except Sceptile who managed to use Agility to escape the blast zone and go behind Deoxys/Lugia.

"Sceptile, Giga Drain it!" Sceptile blasted a neon colored blast at the Deoxys/Lugia. It when it connected, it exploded into tiny little balls of energy that quickly returned to Sceptile, healing it.

"Deoxys! Use Energy Crush!" Its tentacles and the wings charged energy. It fired a titanic energy blast that put an end to Sceptile.

Suddenly, a black aura surrounded the fused Pokemon. It spread throughout the entire room and the entire castle. It enveloped the forest and the town completely. Then everything started to bend. It seemed as if the region was in a different realm. The king yelled, "Bartholomew, get out of here!" "I'm not leaving without you dad!" "Grovyle, get him out of here!" The Grovyle nodded. It grabbed Bartholomew and ran as fast as it could toward the entrance. Everything was twisting apart. Bartholomew felt it too. He looked at his hand. His fingers had swirled back and forth. They were almost out of the castle when they were picked up by a psychic force. It was Deoxys. They couldn't move.

"AAAAHHHH!" The king ran toward Deoxys. But before he reached it, Deoxys's hold on Bartholomew and Grovyle released. Deoxys seemed surprised. Then Lance tackled Deoxys. Deoxys's tail spun around and smacked the king, slamming him into a wall. But that had given Bartholomew and Grovyle enough time to escape. They had run out of the castle and into the forest. A loud howl could be heard. Then the whole forest sucked in. Bartholomew and Grovyle couldn't escape. But miraculously, Gengar teleported out of nowhere, grabbed them, and teleported to the edge. It threw them aside. But it was too late to save himself. Bartholomew watched in horror as the entire kingdom was sucked out of sight. The last thing heard was an eerie howl that struck fear into Bartholomew's heart.

Finally done with my first chapter. Is it kinda long? Please review. I appreciate your comments. 