Keldeo was training with The Swords of Justice in a 3 vs 1 match with Meloetta on Keldeo's side, but she's just watching them fight.
She thinks it unfair for Keldeo to fight Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion at the same.
Terrakion used Stone Edge but Keldeo dodged the attack.
"You missed." Keldeo said
"You wish." Terrakion said as he repeatedly launched another Stone Edge attack.
Keldeo dodged them repeatedly and focused on Terrakion, he did not noticed Virizion preparing to use Leaf Blade on him.
Keldeo noticed and dodged, making Virizion accidentally hit Terrakion with Leaf Blade.
"Virizion, what was that for?!" Terrakion said in an angry voice.
"Sorry, Keldeo dodged. He made me hit you." Virizion said in a worried voice.
They don't notice that Keldeo is preparing to use Secret Sword.
He successfully hit both Terrakion and Virizion with a direct hit, knocking them both out.
"How did I not see that coming?" Terrakion asked.
"I wish I saw that coming." Virizion said. Keldeo saw them and got worried as Meloetta rushed over to them.
Cobalion got impressed as he was prepared to launch a Flash Cannon attack at Keldeo.
Keldeo turned around and got hit in the face from Cobalion's Flash Cannon.
Keldeo got blown away from the impact and crashed into a nearby tree.
"Well I'm finished." Keldeo said weakly.
"I didn't hurt you too much, did I?" Cobalion asked.
"No not really, but I did hurt my back after crashing into that tree." Keldeo said as Meloetta rushed over to him.
"Are you OK?" Meloetta asked.
Meloetta was worried about Keldeo after that impact on the tree.
She notice how big the crater is on the tree and became scared.
"What's wrong Lady Meloetta?" Cobalion asked.
"She's scared about that crater on the tree." Virizion said as she looked at the crater.
"I know what she's thinking about." Terrakion said as he grew suspicious with the crater.
"She's knows that Zalton made a crater that big when he smashed her into a tree." Virizion said, ruining Terrakion "line."
"HEY! I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT!" Terrakion said in anger.
Out of nowhere, Victini appeared right in front Meloetta, Keldeo and The Swords of Justice, frightening them a little.
"Victini, what are you doing here?" Virizion said trying to catch her breath.
"Keldeo and Meloetta, Arceus wants to see the both of you." Victini said and disappeared.
"I wonder what your dad wants?" Keldeo asked.
"I don't know. Let's go." Meloetta said as they started to leave.
Keldeo and Meloetta are back at the Hall of Origin walking to Arceus, Meloetta's father, office.
"I just want to let you know that the crater on tree is the same size as the crater Zalton made when he slammed me into a tree. It was extremely painful and my body was bleeding after that impact. I got so scared that I thought I would die on that faithful day." Meloetta said with fear.
"I know. I was so worried about you that he almost killed you until I came to rescue you. The battle between me and Zalton was fatal and brutal. I thought I would die on that faithful day too." Keldeo said in a calm way.
"But after 2 years, I moved on and try to forget about it. But nothing is working right now."
Keldeo's voice was calm and gentle. He showed no fear after talking about the faithful day when Zalton returned to make his wrath.
They arrived at Arceus's office and opened the door.
"Come in, come in. Make yourselves comfortable. Have a seat." Arceus said with precision.
Keldeo and Meloetta noticed that there are televisions behind Arceus.
"As you may know, I told Victini to call you over here." Arceus said.
"Why do you want to see us." Keldeo asked.
Arceus turned into his human form and turned to the TV's
"I called you over here because I notice that the pokemon from the Moor of Icirus are all gathered up in the Zoroark tribe historical building. Unfortunately someone has been to the building and destroyed half of the building. And that's not the worst part." Arceus stated.
Meloetta gasped and said "What could be worst than a half destroyed building?"
"Somebody stolen a magical revival stone from the center of the building and now the pokemon are looking for answers. That's where you two come in. I need you two to investigate the building and see if you find anything suspicious. If you do, call me and come over there ASAP." Arceus said in a serious tone.
"Understood?"
"Understood" Keldeo and Meloetta said.
Keldeo and Meloetta are at the Zoroark tribe historical building, which is in a bad state.
Burnt rubble is all over the building, holes and dead bodies are all over the building.
"What happened here? It looks like Undertaker and Kane was here." Keldeo wondered.
"Can anyone tell us what happened here?" Meloetta asked to the by standing pokemon.
The Haxorus that use to be owned by the greedy lumberjack came and told them what happened.
"Well we were just cleaning up the building until these two Zoroarks came and told us to leave. They were weird. One was armored with all kinds of scary weapons that could have killed us and the other one has his body on fire. The fire was blue and we tried to put it out but nothing worked. They told us to leave but we didn't listen, so they started making the building on fire and killing pokemon. Some of us made it to safety, while the rest weren't so lucky. By the time we got back, the Zoroarks were gone and the building was crumbled up and torn apart. Bodies were everywhere as we picked up the bodies and buried them. What was also strange was that the Revival Stone was gone." Haxorus said with fear.
The other pokemon became scared as well.
Keldeo went inside the building and saw a hole on the rocky floor.
"Say, why is there a hole on the floor?" Keldeo asked.
Haxours walked over and looked at the hole.
"That's where the Revival Stone belongs." Haxorus answered.
Keldeo also sees a oval shaped object and walked over to it.
It turns out that the oval shaped object was a grenade.
Keldeo was in shock to see what he was looking at.
He has never seen a weapon that cause this much damage.
"Call Arceus, Meloetta. NOW!" Keldeo demanded.
"Okay." Meloetta said.
Meloetta started using telepathic messaging, trying to contact Arceus.
"We found something extremely awful. It's a grenade. Come over here quick." Meloetta said using telepathy, hoping Arceus would respond.
"I'll be right over there" Arceus said using telepathy.
A few moments later, Arceus was at the building and he cannot believe what he was looking at.
"Haxorus, can you come here please?"Arecus asked in a kind voice. Haxorus walked over to Arceus.
"You said that there were two Zoroarks here that cause all this destruction, am I correct?" Arceus asked calmly in a kind voice.
"Yes, one Zoroark had all kinds of frighting weapons and the other Zoroark was on fire. They were the ones who caused this much damage." Haxorus explained with fear.
"I see. Keldeo is this the only evidence you and Meloetta found?" Arceus asked.
"Yes my lord. This is the only evidence we could find." Keldeo told Arceus.
Arceus looked at the grenade for a moment and turned his head to Haxorus.
"Haxorus, is there anything else I need to know?" Arceus asked in a calm voice.
"Yes, the two Zoroarks scared us away and when we came back, half of the building was destroyed and dead bodies were everywhere. I think they also stole the Revival Stone." Just as Haxorus was finished, a Mienfoo ran to Haxorus.
"Haxorus I got bad news, the Staff of Jericho is gone." Mienfoo said and everybody freaked out, Keldeo and Meloetta wad confused about what Mienfoo just said and Haxorus and Arceus was in shock.
"Those evil Zoroarks stolen the Revival Stone and the Staff of Jericho. That's impossible." Haxours said in fear.
"Excuse me, but what is the Staff of Jericho?" Meloetta asked.
"I will tell you what it is back at the hall." Arceus said.
"Thank you, we will find these Zoroarks and bring them to justice." Keldeo said.
Everyone sighed of relief. Arceus just groaned in disbelief.
Back at the hall, Keldeo, Meloetta, and Arceus was at his office.
"Meloetta my sweetheart, you asked me about the Staff of Jericho is right?" Arceus said.
"Yes dad, what is it?" Meloetta asked with confusion.
"Keldeo, Meloetta, the Staff of Jericho is a special staff that can revive the dead. The staff can only work when the Revival Stone is in place, like the Reveal Glass can only work when Meloetta's song activates it and when Meloetta is in place. But the staff only works every 500 years and 500 years is upon us. If you want to revive someone from Heaven or Hell, your going to need 3 specific items to revive that specific person or pokemon. It could be anyone and every soul has their own specific item they need to get revived. I don't know why these 2 death defying Zoroarks are trying to do with the Staff of Jericho. It pretty obvious that they are trying to revive someone, but who?" Arceus explained and questioned.
"That sound like an awful item." Meloetta said with fear.
She doesn't like the idea about reviving the dead.
"The question is, who are they trying to revive? What would the 3 items they need to collect? And where are they going to do it?" Arceus asked with precision.
Knock Knock
"Come in." Arceus said.
The door opened and Victini carrying an extremely injured Genesect with his psychic powers rushed inside.
"We got an emergancy, there are 2 Zoroarks causing trouble at the Castelia City History Museum. We tried to stop them but one of the Zoroarks used Flamethrower and hit Genesect badly." Victini said as he was worried about Genesect.
"Take him to the hospital room, Keldeo and Meloetta, you two take care of those Zoroarks." Arceus exclamed as Keldeo and Meloetta nodded and rushed out of Arceus's office and took off to Castelia City.
Keldeo and Meloetta made it to the museum and saw dead bodies of humans and pokemon.
"Oh my, these poor people and pokemon." Meloetta said as she started crying over the corpses.
Without warning, an explosion busted out of the museum, which blown away Keldeo and Meloetta, crashing them into a brick wall.
"ARGGH!" Keldeo screamed in pain as he got back on his feet as he saw Meloetta knocked out.
"MELOETTA! Meloetta wake up." Keldeo said as he was worried about his girlfriend.
"Come on, don't let it end like this. Wake up." Keldeo was even more worried than usual.
Keldeo stared at the fire from the museum as he saw two shadows walking out of the fire.
The shadows turned out to be Zoroarks.
One Zoroark was armored with deadly weapons holding a bloody katana and the other one's body was on fire.
Keldeo stared at the Zoroarks and growled at them with anger.
"Well well well. Look what we have here. Keldeo, the Colt legendary pokemon and his ugly girlfriend, Meloetta." said the fiery Zoroark.
Keldeo growled even more with anger.
"It's the pokemon that battled the Phantom of Unova 4 years ago. I should have know that his dopey god pokemon sent him here." said the armored Zoroark, putting away the bloody katana.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHY HAVE YOU BLOWN UP THE MUSEUM!?" Keldeo asked with anger.
"I'm sorry, where are my 'manners?' My name is Flambargo." said the fiery Zoroark, now known as Flambargo.
"And my name is Furnace." said the armored Zoroark, now know as Furnace.
"We blown up this museum because we collected a bloody katana and the museum is useless to us now. We are also responsible for destroying the Zoroark tribe historical building and killing almost everyone there." Flambargo explained.
"Why would you do such terrible things?" Keldeo asked while grinding his teeth in anger.
"Because we are going raising hell and chaos all over Unova." Furnace said in a haunting voice.
Meloetta finally woke and regain consciousness and saw Keldeo very angry.
She also saw Flambargo and Furnace.
She's starting to get scared at what she was looking at.
"Ah, seems like you girlfriend woke up from her hellish nightmares." Furnace said again in a haunting voice, scaring Meloetta even more.
"Kelde, who are they? They creep me out." Meloetta said in fear.
"They're the Zoroarks who killed the pokemon at the Zoroark tribe historical building and they are also responsible for blowing up the museum." Keldeo told Meloetta.
"Did you two stole the Revival Stone and the Staff of Jericho!?" Keldeo asked in anger.
Furnace started laughing like a psycho and Flambargo smiling like a maniac.
"That smile on that flaming Zoroarks face looks familiar, it matches Zalton's crazy smile. Could it be..." Meloetta said to herself.
"Well then, we will be going now. See you dorks later." Flambargo said as Keldeo hit Flambargo with Aqua Jet.
Flambargo got up and he was very angry
"You wanna fight huh? Then feed the flames!" Flambargo yelled out as he used Night Slash on Keldeo, giving him a burnt scare on the side of his face.
Keldeo felt that as use Secret Sword on Flambargo, but Flambargo blocked it with a another Night Slash and used Flamethrower on Keldeo's face, burning him a little bit.
Furnace took out his Lightning Hawk magnum and aimed for Keldeo's head.
Furnace was about to shoot until Meloetta in her Pirouette form used Thunder Punch on Furnace's arm, making him lose aim and shoot a window.
"You coward, using human weapons to fight! Why don't you just do me a favor and fight me like a man?" Meloetta asked, making Furnace angry.
"You bitch. I'LL KILL YOU!" Furnace yelled and used Punishment on Meloetta.
Meloetta used Close Combat on Furnace, hitting him in the chest.
Furnace falling over and pulled out a machete in an attempt to kill Meloetta.
Meloetta used Psychic and pulled the machete out of Furnace's hands and throwing it in the swear.
Furnace tried to shoot Meloetta with the Lightning Hawk but Meloetta knocked it out his hand using Close Combat with her elegant feet.
Keldeo used Double Kick on Flambargo, which made him stumble over.
Flambargo used Arial Ace on Keldeo, giving him small cuts on his legs.
Keldeo used Hydro Pump and Aqua Jet for more impact, but Flambargo dodged.
Keldeo quickly changed directions before getting rammed by a building, successfully hitting Flambargo on his back.
"You're not that bad." Flambargo said weakly.
"But its going to take a lot more to take me down."
After that was said, Flambargo used Flamethrower on his arms and used Night Slash on Keldeo, making Keldeo scream in pain as Flambargo gave a huge scar on Keldeo's back.
Keldeo got angry and used Secret Sword on Flambargo.
Flambargo used Flamethower, but Keldeo dodged and used Double Kick on Flambargo, but Flambargo caught Keldeo's feet and picked him up and smashed him into a building.
Furnace used Focus Blast on Meloetta, but Meloetta deflected it.
Meloetta used Thunder Punch sending Furnace flying into a building.
But Furnace regain his balance, jumped off the building and used Punishment hitting Meloetta in the treble clef headpiece in mid air, giving Meloetta a headache.
"What's the matter? Purrlion got your tongue." Furnace taunted, making Meloetta extremely angry as she went for a Close Combat.
Furnace blocked her hands and feet, making Meloetta defenseless.
Furnace using Focus Blast at close range, hitting Meloetta on the arm.
Meloetta screamed in pain and got her feet lose and kicked Furnace in the face.
Meloetta tied her feet around Furnace's neck and did a hurricanrana.
Meloetta let's go of Furnace's neck and preparing to use Thunder Punch as Furnace from out of nowhere hit Meloetta in the face with a brick, knocking out Meloetta from the hard cold brick.
Keldeo seeing this and used Hydro Pump at Flambargo in the face, making him let go of Keldeo's legs.
Keldeo rushed over to Meloetta and used Hydro Pump on Furnace.
"You two aren't that bad. No wonder Zalton can't beat you very easily." Flambargo said weakly.
"Remember this Keldeo, when you are gone, the only thing that will be left in Unova... is nothing! Hell will rise and chaos will reign! And we, The Zoroark duo of Death shall be Kings of the new world!" Furnace said in a haunting voice as he used Night Daze and he and Flambargo disappeared.
"I let you get away this time. But next time, I won't." Keldeo said with anger in his mind.
Meloetta started to wake up as she noticed that she wasn't in Casteila City anymore, but at the Hall of Origin hospital room.
She also notice that she had bandages around her arm and bandages around her treble clef headpiece.
"How did I get here?" Meloetta wondered.
The door opened as Keldeo walked in the room.
"Good you're awake." Keldeo said.
Meloetta notice that Keldeo's legs and back are covered in bandages.
"What happened to you? How did we get here? Where are those Zoroarks?" Meloetta questioned.
"When we battled the Zoroarks, the fiery Zoroark slashed me, I carried you over here, and the Zoroarks got away." Keldeo explained to Meloetta what the hell happened.
Meloetta was surprise to hear what Keldeo was saying.
"Am I going to be OK? Am I still able to fight?" Meloetta asked while making cute faces at Keldeo.
"You can make all the cute faces you want, but this is serious. Your dad told me that you can't battle in a condition like this. He also said that I'm going to have to find those Zoroarks without you. I'm sorry." Keldeo explained to his girlfriend.
Meloetta pouted about what her dad's decision.
Arceus came in the room and saw his daughter upset.
"What"s the matter Meloetta? Is something wrong?" Arceus asked.
Meloetta turned away from her dad.
"She's kind of upset about what you want what's best." Keldeo said.
Arceus didn't like how Meloetta was acting.
"Keldeo, can you please leave?" Arceus asked.
"Sure, I'll leave you too alone." Keldeo said as he walked out the hospital room.
"Meloetta, I know you are disagreeing with my decision, but I don't want you to get killed. Your safety is very important to me. As a father, it's my job to protect you from any catastrophe that the future throws at us. I'm not letting you go out there with those injuries or you could get killed. It will be my fault if you go out there and get killed. I'm not taking that risk because I care about you. You're my daughter and I care about you. Meloetta, I love you more than all the legendary pokemon in this hall. Never forget that." Arceus finished his speech and started to walk away.
"Wait" Meloetta exclaimed which made Arceus turn around.
"I understand now. You are trying to protect me from getting killed. You're scared about losing me. I don't want to die either. I'm really important to you and you are important to me. Now I understand why I must stay here because you care for me so much. I love you too dad." Meloetta said as she flew towards her father and hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
Meloetta flew back on the bed and put a blanket over herself as she fell fast asleep.
"Sweet dreams, my beautiful little girl. I love you." Arceus said as he kissed his daughter on her forehead.
Meloetta started smiling cutely as she fell fast asleep.
"I love you too, dad." Meloetta said in her sleep.
Arceus smiled as he left the room and quietly closed the door.
Arceus went over to the X-ray room to see Cresselia looking at Meloetta's X-rays.
"How is she?" Arceus asked as he looked at Meloetta's X-rays.
"She'll be fine, my lord. Nothing is broken." Cresselia said.
"She will be able to battle in 10 minutes."
Cresselia flew over to the surveillance system and changed the pictures of Meloetta's X-ray into the camera's that's spying on Keldeo, Victini, and Genesect while another camera was spying on Mew, Shaymin, and Celebi.
"They could be around here." Keldeo said from the TV.
"Wait, what's that sound?" Victini said from the TV as he became scared.
Cresselia changed the view of the camera to see a cemetery and two Zoroarks violating graves.
The cemetery.
"Hey, Romeo and Juliet!" Keldeo shouted as he saw Flambargo and Furnace digging up graves.
"We meet again Keldeo." Flambargo said as he got up on his feet.
"And I see two other legendary pokemon, Victini and Genesect. Already recovered from getting burned by my Flamethrower, Genesect?"
Furnace digged up a grave as he pulled out a corpse with fatal stab wounds.
He started to notice that Keldeo and his friends was talking to Flambargo.
"3 against 2 huh? I've been hoping for this." Furnace said as he put the dead body, which turned out to be Edward the Emboar, in the trunk of a pickup truck.
"Where did you guys get a pickup truck?" Keldeo asked.
"And why did you guys violate these graves?" Victini added to the question.
"And why did you guys put an Emboar's dead body in that pick up truck?" Genesect also added into the question.
"Because we were looking for a body that had fatal wounds and we stole this pickup truck from a homeless guy." Furnace said as he took out a smoke bomb and slammed it to the ground, making smoke from the impact.
"*Cough* *Cough* *Cough* we got to catch them *Cough*" Keldeo said as he was still coughing.
"They are making a getaway. Come on lets go after them." Genesect stated as he started changing shape and hovering towards the pickup truck, with Keldeo on board.
"Arceus, we are in pursuit of the Zoroark duo of Death. Genesect is using his scopes to see where he's going. I need to know what's inside that pickup truck." Keldeo reported to Arceus.
Arceus was taking a close look at the truck as he saw Edward's body and a sack of Revival Seeds.
"There is a Emboar's dead body on that truck and a sack of Revival Seeds." Arceus explained.
"Anything else?" Keldeo asked politely.
"That''s all I could find on that truck." Arceus said.
Mew, Shaymin, and Celebi saw the car pursuit.
Mew turned into his human form and got on his car with Shaymin and Celebi.
Mew shift gears and started to follow Keldeo, Victini, and Genesect.
"Stop right there, Flambargo and Furnace!" Keldeo yelled out.
"Flambargo, take the wheel." Furnace said as he and Flambargo switched seats.
"What are you going to do?" Flambargo asked as he started driving the truck.
"I'm going to take care of our pursuit." Furnace said as he climbed out of the window.
Furnace got on the back of the truck and took out his lightning hawk and attempt to shoot Keldeo in the head.
"GUN! DODGE THE BULLET!" Genesect said as he move out of the way as Furnace shot out a bullet and hit Mew's car engine.
Mew, Shaymin, and Celebi jumped out of the car before it crashed.
"We lost Mew. Mew jumped out of his car when Furnace shot his car engine." Victini exclaimed as he used Psybeam, hitting the engine of the pickup truck as it broke lose, making it hard for Flambargo to drive.
"Furnace, jump off on three." Flambargo said.
"1, 2, 3!" Flambargo said as he and Furnace jumped out of the truck.
The truck fell off a cliff and explode at the bottom of the cliff.
"Please tell me we still have the body and the sack of Revival Seeds." Flambargo said.
"I got them." Furnace said.
"Good, now lets get out of here." Flambargo said as they ran away before Keldeo and the other legendary pokemon got there.
"They got away." Keldeo said as he slammed his hoof into a nearby tree.
"Lets go back to the hall." Shaymin said as they all teleported back to the hall.
Back at the hall, Arceus and Meloetta was with Keldeo, Victini, and Genesect in Victini's room as they were complaining about their failures.
"First, they stolen the Revival Stone and the Staff of Jericho. Second, they stolen a katana from the history museum in Castelia City! And now, they stolen a body and a sack of Revival Seeds! What's next?!" Keldeo asked angrily.
"Who could they possibly revive with a bloody katana, a severely wounded corpse, and a sack of revival seeds?" Meloetta said.
"Maybe someone dangerous." Genesect said.
"Maybe someone that is like those Zoroarks." Victini said.
"Maybe someone that is pure evil." Arceus said.
After that was said, Keldeo, Meloetta, Victini, and Genesect was in shock as they figured out who Flambargo and Furnace are going to revive.
"YOU DON'T THINK...!?" They said simultaneously.
Deep in a forest, Flambargo and Furnace were putting the 3 items they stole in place and started putting together the pieces of the Staff of Jericho.
Keldeo and Meloetta can hear Arceus's words about the Staff of Jericho in there heads.
"Every soul has 3 of there own items they need to get revived."
"The staff won't work until the Revival Stone is in place."
"The Staff of Jericho is a special staff that can revive the dead."
"It only works once every 500 years."
"500 years is already upon us."
"Who are they trying to revive?"
"What 3 items would they need to collect?"
"And where are they going to do it?"
Keldeo had an idea of where Flambargo and Furnace are at with the Staff of Jericho.
"I think I know where Flambargo and Furnace is with the Staff of Jericho. Meloetta, Victini, Genesect, follow me!"
Keldeo ran out of Victini's room, with Victini, Meloetta, and Genesect following him to the portal room.
They arrived at the portal room as Keldeo went inside a portal. Victini, Meloetta, and Genesect went after Keldeo as they entered the same portal Keldeo went into.
The portal was labeled, "The Moor of Icirus."