Pokemon war
The Morphious Tournament
*Exactly one year before*
The dim torches lighted the darkness of the tunnel, a pair of eyes looked nervously around, as their owner ran fro it, the running creature hadn't stopped for a moment from his quick moves, the fire on his tail flapping in the across the darkness of the corridor.
"You don't stand a chance, lad, it's better to give up know then you still can save yours' and your Charmeleons' lives!" the creature hadn't stopped at the sound of the mysterious voice; he only yelled back with his dragon looking head "Never, we're in this 'till the end!" "As you wish…," the mysterious voice replied.
He kept running until the end of the tunnel and reached a dead end, which was lighted by a breach in the tunnel ceiling and exposing his look, it's truth tat he were a Charmeleon but bigger, taller, upright, with a more humane look, he panted and looked towards the breach in the rooms' ceiling. "The exit…" he said in a low tone, "You wouldn't finish this maze a live!" roared the mysterious behind him. He turned around and saw him approach, his upper body half were of a Touros and the lower half were of a Houndoom, he smiled and blow fire with his bull head "Like it?, I call it Diabolous…" "I thought the tournament rules forbid double merging…," he answered, "Forget the Morphious rules! In this maze I'm the low, aaarrrrr!" he charged towards him with his the Touros horns in front of him, the Charmeleon did not got thrilled, he waited for him, Diabolous blow fire as he ran and meant to smash the Charmeleon on the wall in front of him.
The Charmeleon already could feel Diabolous' flame then he gave an enormous jump upwards, Diabolous hit his head on the wall and Charmeleon landed on the creatures' back "Why go with your head into the wall?" Diabolous immediately tried to crab him but he jumped again, landed on his feet and with one spin lifted Diabolous with a tail whip that lifted him across the wall, his head were severely buffeted and he fell and past out on the ground. Diabolous' body started to glow. He split into three units of light that became a Touros, a Houndoom and a mature and muscular woman. "I thought you will be stronger then this Vega…"
He turned towards the light again and started climbing the wall when he sticks his claws into the wall, then he reached the exit he saw there he was- right at the edge of a crater of an active volcano, he went fro the opening and looked around the crater itself. On top of the crater opening was a diamond shape-floating platform, the platform hold itself in mid air without connections or ropes and slowly turned around its' axis, abut two hundred meters under the platform the molted lava bobbled in red-black colors. "It brings me back forgotten memories abut the battle vs Blaine…" he said and started glowing with white light and split into to figures, the first a Charmeleon, and the second a seventeen year old trainer, with black protrude hair, shining black eyes, suntan, wearing red basketball vest, black shorts and sandals. "So, Zik, you reached the finals?" Zik turned around "Morphious!" in front of him stood a mature man; he was wearing a white clock which didn't covered his bright serious face, his green eyes, pointed beard and the black suit beneath.
"So, Zik Watson, you reached the final match…the final match of the Morphious tournament…" he said aloud "…you faced the eight challenge trainers which blocked your path, you passed the five death passage which stood in your way, and Vegas' Maze as well…" Zik nodded to Morphious that smiled "…you surprised me Zik… I didn't believe that you will reach this far, especially after what happened to you there in Johto…" "What happened in Johto is a thing of the past! I am here in front of you today!" yelled Zik; Morphious giggled "We followed you, Zik Watson. We followed all your history since you become a pokemon trainer…we followed the beginning of your journey when you were beaten by your revel, Tansa, at the Kapela tournament finals, we followed you when you blew-up an entire 'Team Rocket' headquarters in Dante. We followed you when you have beaten Tansa at the Indigo League quarterfinals and then won the third place as one of the League champions... Moreover, after that, we followed you in your training at your year off. And your impressive achievements in the Johto championship preliminary as well as your winning of the Whirl-Cup tournament, we followed you then your accident happened, only a week before the championship, the accident in which you were severely injured and as a result of her fallen into a coma for nearly a whole year..." "What do you want to say Morphious? Say it, now!" Morphious only smiled "When you awoke we were already sure that you lost your abilities, but in the same tear you returned to shape and won the Orange Isles Cup, therefore we have decided that you were ready…ready for the greatest challenge of your life," Zik raised an eyebrow. "You were shocked then you found out abut my tournament, you didn't believe that you can merge with the same pokemon you choose to fight with, you didn't believe it until you tried… At first, we thought that you would give up quickly, the pain of battle, the dangers, the loneliness… but you hold on longer then any one else who ever participated in the tournament… you learned to be the complementary of your pokemon in combat, and you won." Zik crossed his hands over his chest, "I know all this, why do you say it to me all over again?" "Right now you know all this Zik, but in a moment you might lose and find yourself lying on the Venice beach confused without any knowledge of your whereabouts for the last half year…" Charmeleon got upset, he flushed his teeth out, "Relax Chad…I know that if I lose the match I'll lose me memories of the tournament as well and wouldn't remember any thing of the last half year, but I'm not here to lose… I'm here to win!", "Okay, Zik, but answer for my on one question first." Morphious looked directly into Ziks' eyes, "Ask what ever you wish Morphious." "Why have you come to win this tournament, Zik? It mast be obvious to you be now that you wouldn't become famous by winning the tournament…no one will know abut this except you and me, you wouldn't reap any official title even if you'll win…so why are you doing this?" Zik hashed for a moment and let the cold breeze cool his temper from the stuffy heat of the glaring sun and the boiling lava steam, which were rising from the mountain crater. "I'm doing this for me pokemon, and for myself...I don't seek any title or trophy at the moment, I seek something which is more then a mere challenge, something that I'll know that I and my pokemon can prove ourselves in him together!.. And this tournament is exactly what we were looking for." Morphious smiled again, "I like your answer lad... If you and your pokemon are ready to fight me then I accept your challenge! Lets fight!"
High clods covered the sky, casting light shadow on the volcano crater. The flouting platform turned slowly on its' axis, in its' two opposite sides stood Zik and Morphious, the red-black lava in the crater bubbled in constant rate as if she knew what was going to happen. On the edges of the crater stood fourteen deferent peoples in equal distances from each other, beside each of them stood a pokemon from a different type, Zik looked around himself. "Do you recognize them all?" Morphious asked Zik in a cold harsh ton, "Sure you do... you have faced each and every one of them either in a battle either in a challenge, and you have beaten them all" Morphious turned towards the trainers on the edge of the crater and introduced them one after another, according to the turning of the platform. "Fist you have faced Pluto and his Dewgong, then Mercury and Ivysaur, Mars and Tyrogue, Venus and Misdreavus, Neptune and Gyarados, Uranus and her Fearow, Saturn and Ampharos, Jupiter and his Steelix…the eight League challenge trainers…Among the rest, you have beaten the five death priests and their pokemon- Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Umbreon and Espeon - as well. Which were lurking to you in the death traps on your way to the volcano in the center of the Island…there you tricked and defeated the maze guardian, Vega, despite the fact that she duel merged with a Touros and an Houndoom… and now, you have reached here."
"You learned a lot abut the hardship of merging with your pokemon-a lot of mutual pain, bruises, scratches, cuts, burns, and injuries in general… but you have overcome them all, as well as the loneliness of being away from your friends and family for a long time. You overcome and now you're standing here before me, the eternal head of the tournament, in a lest and final battle, a battle which wouldn't give you anything even if you'll win…but I'm appreciate your courage and determination to go on until the and, therefore…" Morphious hashed, he reached into his short and pulled out a golden necklace, at the end of the necklace there were a white glowing crystal in the shape of a miniature Chinese dragon, which made several of the trainers around the crater to lean forward as they were looking at him. "This is the Orion Amulet…the legend says that one day the amulet will find his supplementary. Merge with him and give him amazing self healing powers… the amulet has been deposited in my care and only a man that have defeated me is worthy to wear the amulet and see if he is indeed the worthy to merge with the dragon soul of the amulet… it never happened because no-one that faced me had ever won". "Until today…" said Zik, Morphious smiled again "only if you'll win me in battle you will receive the chance, but don't cont on this! I intend to crash you as I have crushed each and every one of your predecessors!" Morphious laughed an evil laugh; Zik lost his patience and pulled out one of his pokeballs saying, "Laugh as mach as you want Morphious but only if you'll defeat me, I have no intentions to be defeated today…what're the rules?"
"Three battle rounds, three different pokemon, no pokemon exchanges, no healing; the arena is everything within the volcano crater...understood?" Zik smiled and answered "understood, and now come on lets fight"
Morphious pulled out a pokeball and threw him into the air yelling, "Let your venom run fro my veins, Arbok!" A beam of red light landed directly on Morphious and he started to transform, his hands and legs were assimilated into his body, which started to stretch himself, his skin received a dark purple shade, and after a second, he spread his Cobra face in front Ziks' face and waved his pointed tongue in front of him. Zik thought for a moment and then he pulled out one pf his pokeballs and threw him into the air shouting "Feraligatr, come, merge with me!" The red beam of light caused Zik to grow, his skin become blue and ragged; his back was covered by bloody red spikes, he had grown an enormous tail and his face were stretched into an enormous jaw. "Come on lets start…" whispered Morphious fro his snaky mouth. "With pleasure" a mouth full of pointed teeth replied. Both charged at each other, in the collision Zik managed to grab Morphious' head, but Morphious quickly warped his strong body around Ziks', grabbing Ziks' hands as well, "I'll crush you as if you were an empty soda can!", the snakes warp started to tighten itself around Ziks' body. He felt that his body was starting to suffocate; "I hope that my hug isn't a burden…" whispered Morphious into Ziks' ear and squashed Zik even harder in his crushing grip, Zik gasped and felt a wave of pain passing fro his body, he straggled and managed to release a bit one of his hands from Morphious' grip. The warp tighten ever further and Zik already couldn't breathe but his hand was nearly free "How do you fill?" giggled Morphious in Ziks' ear exactly then he managed to free his hand, "It has never been better!" Zik replied and hit Morphious in his face with an extremely strong Dynamic punch, which lost his grip and fell to the ground. Zik used the moment that Morphious needed to catch his breathe to let himself loss and then he hit him with his gator tail and threw him into the air. Morphious flow a few meters backwards, but he immediately lifted himself back on his belly "That… was a mistake" he fired dozens of poison stings, Zik jumped aside but several of them managed to hit him, he got up immediately and shout a Water gun towards Morphious. But Morphious crawled incredibly fast and managed to evade the water stream, using his momentum he rammed Zik with such a powerful butt that he was almost thrown right of the platform, stopping a but a feet from the edge, Zik actually felt the heat of the lava within the crater, he immediately returned to the center of the platform. "Next time you'll reach further, over the edge…" "There wouldn't be a next time", answered Zik and shouting another water gun at Morphious, he evaded him as well and then he send his long tail towards Zik, hitting him from the back at his leg and dropping him on his back "It seems to my that this is the right time to finish you of…" Morphious jumped furthered and beat Ziks' hand; "Aaahhhhaaaaa" yelled Zik in pain as Morphious' venom entered his veins, Morphious started to warp himself around Ziks' body again, then suddenly Zik opened his eyes and grabbed the snake by his throat, pulled him of himself and threw him to the ground; "Ohh, you will pay for this!" Morphious churched towards Zik again, but Zik shout a Hydro Pump, which hit him badly, and then before Morphious even managed to raise his head he kicked him an incredibly strong kick and immediately after that, he punched him in the face. Morphious was thrown back and his body had split it self in two objects, he and his badly bruised Arbok.
"It seems that you have won the first round," he said as he was getting up from the arena; and returned Arbok back in to his pokeball. Zik glowed and split into two bodies as well - he and by his side stood a ferocious Feraligatr. "Well done, Feraligatr, I'm proud of you" "Grant" replied the pokemon, "Return!" Zik returned Feraligatr back into his pokeball, and then he just stood there holding his bleeding Arbok beaten hand. "You might have won the first round, but you wouldn't win the other two when you're poisoned…" said Morphious and pulled out another pokeball, "I have been in harder situations, Morphious, and if this injury results from poisoning, then I still can use a poison proof pokemon! Go!"
The red beam that left the pokeball and hit Ziks' body caused him to widen itself, his hands and legs were assimilated in his body, his skin became as hard as stone, his body stretched itself until it raised high above Morphious. He roared as he was stretching his newly formed body higher and higher in front of him, until he reached his maximum high. "So you have chosen to fight me with your Onix…a big mistake…your blood is me and me blood is yours', Scizor! Go!" Morphious' body shrunk and received a metallic bag looking form, deal wings on both sides of his back were supplementing the pincers on his hands, and he shined in red-black colors.
"Scizor… a wise choice Morphious, but victory shall by mine!" Zik send his stony tail towards Morphious, but in enormous speed, Morphious jumped into the air and vanished. Zik looked upwards and saw a red fleck in front of the hidden coming dawn towards him in an incredible speed; he crawled low as fast as he could in an attempt to avoid the hit, but for no avail, the blow he received in his upper back was vary strong. It felt as if an entire link of his body was broken to pieces. Morphious landed in front of his and crossed his pincers with a smile "watch your back lad… you may never know that will come towards you from there…" Zik suddenly felt an enormous rage inside him and charged on Morphious with all his strength, but before he even touched Morphious, he split himself into dozens of Scizors' with a Dabble Team that surrounded Zik, "Your Onixs' defense is no match for my Scizors' speed…" Morphious and his clones started to spin around Zik faster and faster, Zik tried to use his tail to take dawn same of them but they all managed to avoid him, he tried to concentrate, to think what to do next. "You don't stand a chance against me!" he heard Morphious' voice circling him, and then he suddenly realized what he should do, his tail strongly buffet the ground and a shock wave which cracked the floating platform tore the quickly towards one of the copies and hit him, Morphious fell and crashed into the ground. "You should have kept your big mouth closed, Morphious!" said Zik, he quickly growled towards him and started to crash his metallic body with his stony links. "Aaarr!" Morphious gasped in his grip but he couldn't move, Zik put in the crashing all the strength he had left, and crashed Morphious' body even harder. Then suddenly Morphious started to glow "Oh no, I wouldn't let you!" Zik tighten his grip in Morphious then the other maximally focused his energy. Zik felt Morphious' resistance increasing within his grip when his Scizor pincers started to hat-up to a burn as they were pushing Ziks' body, suddenly Morphious managed to slip out and tore into the sky. Then he dived back towards him again, the iron pincers pulled back and before he could realize that happened Zik took a blow on the head. He was thrown back several feet and fall down, he felt Onix detaching from him and after a second, he found himself lying of the floor beside Onix, the stone snake was unconscious. Zik tried to get up "Oohhh!" he felt that his left shoulder have been completely shattered, his nose was bleeding perpetually and the beat on his hand still haven't vanished and kept burning. Morphious landed beside him "have you already given up, lad?" "You wish," replied Zik and with great effort got up from the ground, holding with his right hand his left shoulder, "Shall we continue?" he asked, Morphious lifted and eyebrow and in a second split himself away from his Scizor, he grabbed his ribs with his hands and his face had a painfully looking expression. "Aohh...well done it seems that your grip managed to break at list on of my ribs…" "So, you allude that you're giving up, old man?" Zik asked with a bold smile intending to annoy Morphious, "You wish" Morphious replied.
The boiling lava, two hundred meters beneath their feet, bubbled even harder, upon the floating platform Morphious had already pulled out his last pokeball. "You know Zik, I really do appreciate you for the way you have been withstanding the battle so far…" "I have no use of your appreciation, Morphious, I have come here to fight so then lets fight!" Zik yelled, Morphious started to giggle, Zik knew in his sub consciousness that this is just another attempt by Morphious to push him of balance and cause him to loss focus so he ignored Morphious and stayed focused on his goal. "You surprise me lad…it's your first fight in the three battle rounds and you even don't want to hear a complement that you have managed to survive and make it to the third round?" Morphious smiled and raised the pokeball in his hand, "You have reached the furthest point in the tournament that had been reached by anyone how ever competed in the tournament…but they all have fallen before the last stage. It has been more than fifty years since someone has won the Morphious tournament and I intend to keep it this way…" Zik raised a keen look at Morphious, "than you will excuse me, but I intend to ruin your plans…" Morphious returned a look Zik "Before you go out in statements, I want to show you what you'll be facing…go…Dragonitemare!"
The pokeball opened and a big pokemon materialized beside Morphious, he wasn't like Dricks Dragonite, Zik though, he was a lot more robust, his wings were bigger, his skin was darker and his face weren't as na?ve as Dragonites' face- they were elongated. His feelers were longer than the usual, they stretched and straitened furthered in an intimidating way, and his eyes were sunken and glittered in bloody red color. "I though that Dragonite was the third and final evolution…" said Zik in fear, Morphious stepped by his pokemon and fondled him "You right Zik… Dragonitemare has past many changes fifty years, the last time he lost… with the help of the neo-genetic combination which is possible on this island I started to combine Dragonites' genetic structure with the genes of other pokemon that past by. As the time past a little of Dragonites' genes combined themselves together with over stronger combinations…and so he have became Dragonitemare." The creature sparked before Zik, who felt a wave of fear coming fro his body by the presents of the intimidating site but he held forth and didn't let his fear to control him, he pulled out his last pokeball and threw him in the air "Go, Chad, I choose you!" His Charmeleon came out before the creature and hold a few steps back "Chad!" the Charmeleon turned towards Zik and ran closer to him "Chad, this is the last battle of the entire tournament, the most important one, and we mast defeat Morphious' last pokemon in order to win!" Chad hurried to shake his head to the sides as a sin of 'No way man' yelling "Char! Char! Char!", "Chad, listen to me!" Zik grabbed Chads' shoulders and looked into his scared eyes "Do you intend to let your win and give up? I can't do this without you, Chad; I will be filing the same pain you'll, I'll put in the same efforts you'll put, I'll do any think I cane do so I wouldn't disappoint you, just as you'll whatever is in your power to do so that you wouldn't disappoint me…" Chads' eye lighted up in understanding "I kept you till the end because I knew I could count on you, and I'm counting on you and me to win this battle together…so are you with me, Chad? Until the end?" the Charmeleons eyes lighted in and courage and determination and he signaled with his hands that his wiling to continue "So then come on lets go!" Zik said in joy and grabbed Chads' hand, after a few seconds they merged into their red dragon body, "We're ready whenever you are!" he yelled to Morphious and Dragonitemare, " Good…" replied Morphious and in a second he started to merge with his pokemon "Shall we start?" he asked " Shall we finish…" replayed Zik.
Announcer: "Who'll win the battle? Will Zik survive the battle? And what abut the Orion amulet?"
All this and more coming up in the next exciting chapter of "Pokemon War"! The Orion Amulet!
The Morphious Tournament
*Exactly one year before*
The dim torches lighted the darkness of the tunnel, a pair of eyes looked nervously around, as their owner ran fro it, the running creature hadn't stopped for a moment from his quick moves, the fire on his tail flapping in the across the darkness of the corridor.
"You don't stand a chance, lad, it's better to give up know then you still can save yours' and your Charmeleons' lives!" the creature hadn't stopped at the sound of the mysterious voice; he only yelled back with his dragon looking head "Never, we're in this 'till the end!" "As you wish…," the mysterious voice replied.
He kept running until the end of the tunnel and reached a dead end, which was lighted by a breach in the tunnel ceiling and exposing his look, it's truth tat he were a Charmeleon but bigger, taller, upright, with a more humane look, he panted and looked towards the breach in the rooms' ceiling. "The exit…" he said in a low tone, "You wouldn't finish this maze a live!" roared the mysterious behind him. He turned around and saw him approach, his upper body half were of a Touros and the lower half were of a Houndoom, he smiled and blow fire with his bull head "Like it?, I call it Diabolous…" "I thought the tournament rules forbid double merging…," he answered, "Forget the Morphious rules! In this maze I'm the low, aaarrrrr!" he charged towards him with his the Touros horns in front of him, the Charmeleon did not got thrilled, he waited for him, Diabolous blow fire as he ran and meant to smash the Charmeleon on the wall in front of him.
The Charmeleon already could feel Diabolous' flame then he gave an enormous jump upwards, Diabolous hit his head on the wall and Charmeleon landed on the creatures' back "Why go with your head into the wall?" Diabolous immediately tried to crab him but he jumped again, landed on his feet and with one spin lifted Diabolous with a tail whip that lifted him across the wall, his head were severely buffeted and he fell and past out on the ground. Diabolous' body started to glow. He split into three units of light that became a Touros, a Houndoom and a mature and muscular woman. "I thought you will be stronger then this Vega…"
He turned towards the light again and started climbing the wall when he sticks his claws into the wall, then he reached the exit he saw there he was- right at the edge of a crater of an active volcano, he went fro the opening and looked around the crater itself. On top of the crater opening was a diamond shape-floating platform, the platform hold itself in mid air without connections or ropes and slowly turned around its' axis, abut two hundred meters under the platform the molted lava bobbled in red-black colors. "It brings me back forgotten memories abut the battle vs Blaine…" he said and started glowing with white light and split into to figures, the first a Charmeleon, and the second a seventeen year old trainer, with black protrude hair, shining black eyes, suntan, wearing red basketball vest, black shorts and sandals. "So, Zik, you reached the finals?" Zik turned around "Morphious!" in front of him stood a mature man; he was wearing a white clock which didn't covered his bright serious face, his green eyes, pointed beard and the black suit beneath.
"So, Zik Watson, you reached the final match…the final match of the Morphious tournament…" he said aloud "…you faced the eight challenge trainers which blocked your path, you passed the five death passage which stood in your way, and Vegas' Maze as well…" Zik nodded to Morphious that smiled "…you surprised me Zik… I didn't believe that you will reach this far, especially after what happened to you there in Johto…" "What happened in Johto is a thing of the past! I am here in front of you today!" yelled Zik; Morphious giggled "We followed you, Zik Watson. We followed all your history since you become a pokemon trainer…we followed the beginning of your journey when you were beaten by your revel, Tansa, at the Kapela tournament finals, we followed you when you blew-up an entire 'Team Rocket' headquarters in Dante. We followed you when you have beaten Tansa at the Indigo League quarterfinals and then won the third place as one of the League champions... Moreover, after that, we followed you in your training at your year off. And your impressive achievements in the Johto championship preliminary as well as your winning of the Whirl-Cup tournament, we followed you then your accident happened, only a week before the championship, the accident in which you were severely injured and as a result of her fallen into a coma for nearly a whole year..." "What do you want to say Morphious? Say it, now!" Morphious only smiled "When you awoke we were already sure that you lost your abilities, but in the same tear you returned to shape and won the Orange Isles Cup, therefore we have decided that you were ready…ready for the greatest challenge of your life," Zik raised an eyebrow. "You were shocked then you found out abut my tournament, you didn't believe that you can merge with the same pokemon you choose to fight with, you didn't believe it until you tried… At first, we thought that you would give up quickly, the pain of battle, the dangers, the loneliness… but you hold on longer then any one else who ever participated in the tournament… you learned to be the complementary of your pokemon in combat, and you won." Zik crossed his hands over his chest, "I know all this, why do you say it to me all over again?" "Right now you know all this Zik, but in a moment you might lose and find yourself lying on the Venice beach confused without any knowledge of your whereabouts for the last half year…" Charmeleon got upset, he flushed his teeth out, "Relax Chad…I know that if I lose the match I'll lose me memories of the tournament as well and wouldn't remember any thing of the last half year, but I'm not here to lose… I'm here to win!", "Okay, Zik, but answer for my on one question first." Morphious looked directly into Ziks' eyes, "Ask what ever you wish Morphious." "Why have you come to win this tournament, Zik? It mast be obvious to you be now that you wouldn't become famous by winning the tournament…no one will know abut this except you and me, you wouldn't reap any official title even if you'll win…so why are you doing this?" Zik hashed for a moment and let the cold breeze cool his temper from the stuffy heat of the glaring sun and the boiling lava steam, which were rising from the mountain crater. "I'm doing this for me pokemon, and for myself...I don't seek any title or trophy at the moment, I seek something which is more then a mere challenge, something that I'll know that I and my pokemon can prove ourselves in him together!.. And this tournament is exactly what we were looking for." Morphious smiled again, "I like your answer lad... If you and your pokemon are ready to fight me then I accept your challenge! Lets fight!"
High clods covered the sky, casting light shadow on the volcano crater. The flouting platform turned slowly on its' axis, in its' two opposite sides stood Zik and Morphious, the red-black lava in the crater bubbled in constant rate as if she knew what was going to happen. On the edges of the crater stood fourteen deferent peoples in equal distances from each other, beside each of them stood a pokemon from a different type, Zik looked around himself. "Do you recognize them all?" Morphious asked Zik in a cold harsh ton, "Sure you do... you have faced each and every one of them either in a battle either in a challenge, and you have beaten them all" Morphious turned towards the trainers on the edge of the crater and introduced them one after another, according to the turning of the platform. "Fist you have faced Pluto and his Dewgong, then Mercury and Ivysaur, Mars and Tyrogue, Venus and Misdreavus, Neptune and Gyarados, Uranus and her Fearow, Saturn and Ampharos, Jupiter and his Steelix…the eight League challenge trainers…Among the rest, you have beaten the five death priests and their pokemon- Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Umbreon and Espeon - as well. Which were lurking to you in the death traps on your way to the volcano in the center of the Island…there you tricked and defeated the maze guardian, Vega, despite the fact that she duel merged with a Touros and an Houndoom… and now, you have reached here."
"You learned a lot abut the hardship of merging with your pokemon-a lot of mutual pain, bruises, scratches, cuts, burns, and injuries in general… but you have overcome them all, as well as the loneliness of being away from your friends and family for a long time. You overcome and now you're standing here before me, the eternal head of the tournament, in a lest and final battle, a battle which wouldn't give you anything even if you'll win…but I'm appreciate your courage and determination to go on until the and, therefore…" Morphious hashed, he reached into his short and pulled out a golden necklace, at the end of the necklace there were a white glowing crystal in the shape of a miniature Chinese dragon, which made several of the trainers around the crater to lean forward as they were looking at him. "This is the Orion Amulet…the legend says that one day the amulet will find his supplementary. Merge with him and give him amazing self healing powers… the amulet has been deposited in my care and only a man that have defeated me is worthy to wear the amulet and see if he is indeed the worthy to merge with the dragon soul of the amulet… it never happened because no-one that faced me had ever won". "Until today…" said Zik, Morphious smiled again "only if you'll win me in battle you will receive the chance, but don't cont on this! I intend to crash you as I have crushed each and every one of your predecessors!" Morphious laughed an evil laugh; Zik lost his patience and pulled out one of his pokeballs saying, "Laugh as mach as you want Morphious but only if you'll defeat me, I have no intentions to be defeated today…what're the rules?"
"Three battle rounds, three different pokemon, no pokemon exchanges, no healing; the arena is everything within the volcano crater...understood?" Zik smiled and answered "understood, and now come on lets fight"
Morphious pulled out a pokeball and threw him into the air yelling, "Let your venom run fro my veins, Arbok!" A beam of red light landed directly on Morphious and he started to transform, his hands and legs were assimilated into his body, which started to stretch himself, his skin received a dark purple shade, and after a second, he spread his Cobra face in front Ziks' face and waved his pointed tongue in front of him. Zik thought for a moment and then he pulled out one pf his pokeballs and threw him into the air shouting "Feraligatr, come, merge with me!" The red beam of light caused Zik to grow, his skin become blue and ragged; his back was covered by bloody red spikes, he had grown an enormous tail and his face were stretched into an enormous jaw. "Come on lets start…" whispered Morphious fro his snaky mouth. "With pleasure" a mouth full of pointed teeth replied. Both charged at each other, in the collision Zik managed to grab Morphious' head, but Morphious quickly warped his strong body around Ziks', grabbing Ziks' hands as well, "I'll crush you as if you were an empty soda can!", the snakes warp started to tighten itself around Ziks' body. He felt that his body was starting to suffocate; "I hope that my hug isn't a burden…" whispered Morphious into Ziks' ear and squashed Zik even harder in his crushing grip, Zik gasped and felt a wave of pain passing fro his body, he straggled and managed to release a bit one of his hands from Morphious' grip. The warp tighten ever further and Zik already couldn't breathe but his hand was nearly free "How do you fill?" giggled Morphious in Ziks' ear exactly then he managed to free his hand, "It has never been better!" Zik replied and hit Morphious in his face with an extremely strong Dynamic punch, which lost his grip and fell to the ground. Zik used the moment that Morphious needed to catch his breathe to let himself loss and then he hit him with his gator tail and threw him into the air. Morphious flow a few meters backwards, but he immediately lifted himself back on his belly "That… was a mistake" he fired dozens of poison stings, Zik jumped aside but several of them managed to hit him, he got up immediately and shout a Water gun towards Morphious. But Morphious crawled incredibly fast and managed to evade the water stream, using his momentum he rammed Zik with such a powerful butt that he was almost thrown right of the platform, stopping a but a feet from the edge, Zik actually felt the heat of the lava within the crater, he immediately returned to the center of the platform. "Next time you'll reach further, over the edge…" "There wouldn't be a next time", answered Zik and shouting another water gun at Morphious, he evaded him as well and then he send his long tail towards Zik, hitting him from the back at his leg and dropping him on his back "It seems to my that this is the right time to finish you of…" Morphious jumped furthered and beat Ziks' hand; "Aaahhhhaaaaa" yelled Zik in pain as Morphious' venom entered his veins, Morphious started to warp himself around Ziks' body again, then suddenly Zik opened his eyes and grabbed the snake by his throat, pulled him of himself and threw him to the ground; "Ohh, you will pay for this!" Morphious churched towards Zik again, but Zik shout a Hydro Pump, which hit him badly, and then before Morphious even managed to raise his head he kicked him an incredibly strong kick and immediately after that, he punched him in the face. Morphious was thrown back and his body had split it self in two objects, he and his badly bruised Arbok.
"It seems that you have won the first round," he said as he was getting up from the arena; and returned Arbok back in to his pokeball. Zik glowed and split into two bodies as well - he and by his side stood a ferocious Feraligatr. "Well done, Feraligatr, I'm proud of you" "Grant" replied the pokemon, "Return!" Zik returned Feraligatr back into his pokeball, and then he just stood there holding his bleeding Arbok beaten hand. "You might have won the first round, but you wouldn't win the other two when you're poisoned…" said Morphious and pulled out another pokeball, "I have been in harder situations, Morphious, and if this injury results from poisoning, then I still can use a poison proof pokemon! Go!"
The red beam that left the pokeball and hit Ziks' body caused him to widen itself, his hands and legs were assimilated in his body, his skin became as hard as stone, his body stretched itself until it raised high above Morphious. He roared as he was stretching his newly formed body higher and higher in front of him, until he reached his maximum high. "So you have chosen to fight me with your Onix…a big mistake…your blood is me and me blood is yours', Scizor! Go!" Morphious' body shrunk and received a metallic bag looking form, deal wings on both sides of his back were supplementing the pincers on his hands, and he shined in red-black colors.
"Scizor… a wise choice Morphious, but victory shall by mine!" Zik send his stony tail towards Morphious, but in enormous speed, Morphious jumped into the air and vanished. Zik looked upwards and saw a red fleck in front of the hidden coming dawn towards him in an incredible speed; he crawled low as fast as he could in an attempt to avoid the hit, but for no avail, the blow he received in his upper back was vary strong. It felt as if an entire link of his body was broken to pieces. Morphious landed in front of his and crossed his pincers with a smile "watch your back lad… you may never know that will come towards you from there…" Zik suddenly felt an enormous rage inside him and charged on Morphious with all his strength, but before he even touched Morphious, he split himself into dozens of Scizors' with a Dabble Team that surrounded Zik, "Your Onixs' defense is no match for my Scizors' speed…" Morphious and his clones started to spin around Zik faster and faster, Zik tried to use his tail to take dawn same of them but they all managed to avoid him, he tried to concentrate, to think what to do next. "You don't stand a chance against me!" he heard Morphious' voice circling him, and then he suddenly realized what he should do, his tail strongly buffet the ground and a shock wave which cracked the floating platform tore the quickly towards one of the copies and hit him, Morphious fell and crashed into the ground. "You should have kept your big mouth closed, Morphious!" said Zik, he quickly growled towards him and started to crash his metallic body with his stony links. "Aaarr!" Morphious gasped in his grip but he couldn't move, Zik put in the crashing all the strength he had left, and crashed Morphious' body even harder. Then suddenly Morphious started to glow "Oh no, I wouldn't let you!" Zik tighten his grip in Morphious then the other maximally focused his energy. Zik felt Morphious' resistance increasing within his grip when his Scizor pincers started to hat-up to a burn as they were pushing Ziks' body, suddenly Morphious managed to slip out and tore into the sky. Then he dived back towards him again, the iron pincers pulled back and before he could realize that happened Zik took a blow on the head. He was thrown back several feet and fall down, he felt Onix detaching from him and after a second, he found himself lying of the floor beside Onix, the stone snake was unconscious. Zik tried to get up "Oohhh!" he felt that his left shoulder have been completely shattered, his nose was bleeding perpetually and the beat on his hand still haven't vanished and kept burning. Morphious landed beside him "have you already given up, lad?" "You wish," replied Zik and with great effort got up from the ground, holding with his right hand his left shoulder, "Shall we continue?" he asked, Morphious lifted and eyebrow and in a second split himself away from his Scizor, he grabbed his ribs with his hands and his face had a painfully looking expression. "Aohh...well done it seems that your grip managed to break at list on of my ribs…" "So, you allude that you're giving up, old man?" Zik asked with a bold smile intending to annoy Morphious, "You wish" Morphious replied.
The boiling lava, two hundred meters beneath their feet, bubbled even harder, upon the floating platform Morphious had already pulled out his last pokeball. "You know Zik, I really do appreciate you for the way you have been withstanding the battle so far…" "I have no use of your appreciation, Morphious, I have come here to fight so then lets fight!" Zik yelled, Morphious started to giggle, Zik knew in his sub consciousness that this is just another attempt by Morphious to push him of balance and cause him to loss focus so he ignored Morphious and stayed focused on his goal. "You surprise me lad…it's your first fight in the three battle rounds and you even don't want to hear a complement that you have managed to survive and make it to the third round?" Morphious smiled and raised the pokeball in his hand, "You have reached the furthest point in the tournament that had been reached by anyone how ever competed in the tournament…but they all have fallen before the last stage. It has been more than fifty years since someone has won the Morphious tournament and I intend to keep it this way…" Zik raised a keen look at Morphious, "than you will excuse me, but I intend to ruin your plans…" Morphious returned a look Zik "Before you go out in statements, I want to show you what you'll be facing…go…Dragonitemare!"
The pokeball opened and a big pokemon materialized beside Morphious, he wasn't like Dricks Dragonite, Zik though, he was a lot more robust, his wings were bigger, his skin was darker and his face weren't as na?ve as Dragonites' face- they were elongated. His feelers were longer than the usual, they stretched and straitened furthered in an intimidating way, and his eyes were sunken and glittered in bloody red color. "I though that Dragonite was the third and final evolution…" said Zik in fear, Morphious stepped by his pokemon and fondled him "You right Zik… Dragonitemare has past many changes fifty years, the last time he lost… with the help of the neo-genetic combination which is possible on this island I started to combine Dragonites' genetic structure with the genes of other pokemon that past by. As the time past a little of Dragonites' genes combined themselves together with over stronger combinations…and so he have became Dragonitemare." The creature sparked before Zik, who felt a wave of fear coming fro his body by the presents of the intimidating site but he held forth and didn't let his fear to control him, he pulled out his last pokeball and threw him in the air "Go, Chad, I choose you!" His Charmeleon came out before the creature and hold a few steps back "Chad!" the Charmeleon turned towards Zik and ran closer to him "Chad, this is the last battle of the entire tournament, the most important one, and we mast defeat Morphious' last pokemon in order to win!" Chad hurried to shake his head to the sides as a sin of 'No way man' yelling "Char! Char! Char!", "Chad, listen to me!" Zik grabbed Chads' shoulders and looked into his scared eyes "Do you intend to let your win and give up? I can't do this without you, Chad; I will be filing the same pain you'll, I'll put in the same efforts you'll put, I'll do any think I cane do so I wouldn't disappoint you, just as you'll whatever is in your power to do so that you wouldn't disappoint me…" Chads' eye lighted up in understanding "I kept you till the end because I knew I could count on you, and I'm counting on you and me to win this battle together…so are you with me, Chad? Until the end?" the Charmeleons eyes lighted in and courage and determination and he signaled with his hands that his wiling to continue "So then come on lets go!" Zik said in joy and grabbed Chads' hand, after a few seconds they merged into their red dragon body, "We're ready whenever you are!" he yelled to Morphious and Dragonitemare, " Good…" replied Morphious and in a second he started to merge with his pokemon "Shall we start?" he asked " Shall we finish…" replayed Zik.
Announcer: "Who'll win the battle? Will Zik survive the battle? And what abut the Orion amulet?"
All this and more coming up in the next exciting chapter of "Pokemon War"! The Orion Amulet!