Pokemon war
The Orion Amulet
The volcano was literally trembling beneath their feet; the trainers, which
were standing on the crater edges, ducked and grabbed the harsh gray ground
fearing that the terrible strength of the trembling will cause them to
slide into the blazing pit beneath them. Nevertheless, despite the terrible
strength of the mounts' shivers upon the floating platform Zik hasn't felt
a thing in his Charmeleon body. Never Morphious, who had spread open his
dragon wings, couldn't feel a thing.
"I think that in a different situation you would have loved Dragonightmare.you wouldn't believe the prowess he possesses." "Thanks, but you wouldn't believe the prowess we possess" Morphious smiled "We shall see." He immediately jumped into the air and with a quick wave of his wings, he raised himself sixty-six feet above the arena, diving immediately in Ziks' direction, and before Zik had a chance to take cover or avoid the attack he had been hit by Dragonightmares' wing. He collapsed on the ground, and yet somehow despite the tremendous pain he got back to his feet immediately, turned around and faced Morphious again. At that time, Morphious had already finished turning in the air and was once more ready to start diving in Ziks' direction. This time Zik managed to avoid the attack, he turned back immediately and fired a Flamethrower towards Morphious' back, but Morphious was too quick and managed to out run Ziks' flamethrower and the fire stream disintegrated without hitting a thing. "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! You'll have to do batter then this in order to hit my!" Morphious turned around again after another pass above Ziks' head and fired a tremendous Fireball at him; Zik stayed put for a few moments, concentrating his attention on the blazing terror, which was fling towards him, he waited for the fireball nearly reached him and then he jumped into the air and thrashed the fireball with his claws. Causing it to disintegrate and vanish. "You wouldn't win me with Fire." "Impressive."Said Morphious, "But can you do the same with.Electricity?" His feelers suddenly rose up and started to charge with electricity, Zik understood the hint and immediately started running along the edges of the arena. A shower of lightning bolts started hitting the ground behind him, Zik kept running and avoiding lightning bolts but they only kept coming without a pause between them, eventually he had been hit in his back by one of them. He tripped and fell on the ground absorbing the entire power of the attack. Zik screamed with pain as the electricity went thru his body causing him unbelievable pain. Morphious kept firing lightning bolts until Zik lost his breath and couldn't scream any more. He lied on the arena hardly bereaving, his body aches with pain. "It seems to me that this battle is over." Said Morphious, however instead of splitting in two Zik opened his eyes and shivering with pain rose himself up of the ground into a shivering stand. "You're a stubborn son of a bitch, aren't you?" Zik smiled a painful smile and raised his head "I might by stubborn. but you're the son of a bitch around here!" Morphious fretted and flapped his wings "No matter, one wing attack and you're out cold!" said Morphious and dived towards Zik, Zik couldn't escape, ha could hardy move an inch and still he same how managed to jump aside and hit Morphious' neck with his powerful tail, causing Morphious to crash into the arena floor. Zik toke good use of the opportunity he had created for himself. He rushed towards Morphious and started hitting him repeatedly with his sharp claws, injuring him in his face and bally. "So you thought that I'm all washed up, haven't you?" Morphious tried to defend himself, swiping the air, Zik ducked and hit Morphious with his tail again "Well think again." Zik filled his chest with oxygen and then he fired a tremendous Flamethrower, throwing Morphious into the air shouting in surprise. He landed on his back and laid there still for a few moments. Zik panted heavily and looked at Morphious' body, which was lying in the center of the arena, he waited because he wanted to see him split apart from Dragonightmare and losing the match, however instead of splitting away from Dragonightmare Morphious started to sneer and then to giggle and then finally laugh. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!" laughed Morphious "Is this your best!" he said and jumped back on his feet, Zik couldn't believe his eyes, but before he could understand what happened he had been hit be a huge spurt of icy water, The water flow was extremely strong so strong that it throw Zik of his feet. Moreover, the water temperature had a few secondary effects: they caused his muscles to stiff, dealing him a great deal of pain and leaving him with a filing that he simply cannot move, as if he had been transformed into stone. Yet somehow, he managed to raise his head just in time to see Dragonightmare diving towards him as a shooting star falling from the sky, after a few seconds he was already hit by Dragonightmare momentum which caused him to be thrown across half of the arena, crash landing right on its edges.. Morphious landed before Zik and looked at him waiting for his next move. Zik wasn't ready to give up and tried to raise himself back to a standing position, but this time the pain of his injures was too much, he started to choke and spit sprays of dim blood, which flowed down his face from the corner of his mouth. His right leg had finally given in to the stunning pain and he fell back on the ground again, seeing a glance of the boiling abyss beneath at the edge of his sight.
"You're finished, kid. you don't have even the slightest chance of recovery now.it's time to surrender" Said Morphious "Never."replied Zik choking and spiting another spray of blood "I'll never give up.you'll have to. fight me.till the end." Several of the trainers, which were watching the battle from the craters' edge, started whisper among themselves "He's nuts!" "How can he hope to win the match?!" "We must stop the fight!".
"Silence!" yelled Morphious "if he wants to continuo till the end, so be it." he opened his mouth and started gathering sparks of energy within, a tremendous Fireball formed in his mouth, it toke him only another second to fire the blazing terror aiming it directly towards Zik, hitting him with unbelievable strength, throwing him into the air. He flew across the abyss, hit the crater wall and started falling inside. His body relaxed and it seemed to him that he was diving into the crater, not falling, his eyes closed and he crashed into the red boiling lava, without coming up.
The trainers at the crater edges leaned forward in an attempt to spot Zik, however they haven't seen a thing, Ziks' Charmeleon body simply snaked in and haven't risen back up from the boiling depths. "That wasn't necessary, Morphious" said Vega to Morphious who was fling at that time around the arena attempting to see a sign of Zik as well. "I had no other choice, Vega." "Bullshit!" yelled Jupiter "You could have stopped the battle whenever you wanted to!" "He's right!" yelled Venus "You actually wanted to kill him! We saw you!" Neptune nodded his head and shouted, "You're a sadist Morphious and a murderer!" "Shut up!" yelled Morphious and fired thunderbolts around him, hitting must of the crowd. "I'm the leader of this tournament; therefore I'm the one who determines what can and can't be done in this tournament! I'm the one who decides if I may or mayn't kill the competitors! I'm the." The sudden appearance of huge beam of bright white light hushed Morphious; he looked down and saw several beams of shining bright light bursting out of the boiling lava. "What the heck." the bright light vanished as suddenly as he appeared leaving everyone blinded for a moment, the sudden lake of sight caused everyone to hush, the sudden quiet was bizarre, it seemed to be out of place after all the commotion earlier. It seemed the even the bubbling of the lava and the trembling of the mountain had entirely stopped for a moment. Suddenly an enormous explosion shivered the entire mount and a huge Charizard burst out of the lava; he flew up the crater wall, roaring with anger. The huge Charizard flew directly towards Morphious, who was hovering above him, and rammed him with all his strength, pushing him upwards, until they hit the floating arena. Because of the unbelievable power of the ramming movement they couldn't stop and simply went thru the floating platform as if it wasn't there, the Charizard used his huge momentum and converted the flying movement into a powerful seismic toss. Morphious crashed into the platform and the gigantic Charizard landed near him.
"Haven't I told you that you wouldn't beat me with Fire.?" Said the Charizard with Ziks' voice, Morphious suddenly noticed that he was lying on the floor with his mouth open and jumped back on his feet "How.how is it possible that you're still alive?!" "The heat of the volcano gave me just enough energy to evolve and guess what, Morphious?" Zik smiled "I'm going to use it against you now!" He jumped into the air and with quick flight rammed Morphious again; throwing him upon the same cliffs, Morphious throw him earlier. "It's true that you have wings now, but you'll never be as quick as Dragonightmare!" said Morphious and jumped towards Zik, he passed by so quickly that Zik hadn't had a chance to do a thing. Zik started climbing higher in an attempt to escape Morphious' attacks, but Morphious followed him "Now that you can fly you're probably vulnerable to Electricity!" Zik understood Morphiouss' hint and started maneuvering in the air in a desperate attempt to evade his attacks. Nevertheless, he couldn't shake off Morphious, who was chasing him, shooting thunderbolts every few seconds.and missing all the time. Suddenly Zik stopped in mid air and started diving towards his surprised opponent "What the." said Morphious, but before he had a chance to say anything else, Zik already reached him and with quick spin in the air smacked him with his powerful tail, throwing Morphious down towards the floating platform three hundred feet below. Morphiouss' crash caused another piss of the platform to fall down into the boiling lava beneath. His fall was so quick and sudden that must of the viewers didn't believed their eyes. Zik slowed down and dipped his flight a bit; he started hovering slowly around the arena "So Morphious, that's all you got to offer?" Morphious slowly got back up to his feet and with an enormous effort rose himself into the air "I have one last secret weapon, take this!" a strong spurt of ice water flew towards Zik and hit his body, Zik felt a sudden twinge from the icy water and immediately dived, attempting to avoid the next water spurt. "I'll blow out your tail flame! Ha, Ha, ha!" Zik dived immediately beneath the arena but Morphious didn't give up, he followed him. "You have nowhere to run now!" Morphious yelled at Zik, as they got closer to the boiling lave at the bottom of the volcano. He shot another spurt of icy water at Zik, but Zik immediately climbed up avoiding the water spurt this time. "How did he do that?" yelled Morphious and tried to follow, but in the same time the water spurt hit the boiling lava and disappeared, leaving behind a oiling gas cloud. The gas cloud rose up quickly and swallowed Morphious. "Noooo!!!...Ahhaaaaaa!!!!" Morphiouss' painful scream echoed thru the crater, the scream was so agonizing that Zik stop climbing and looked down, but the gas cloud was so thick that no one could see a thing thru the mists. Zik strained his sharp Charizard eyes in an attempt to spot Dragonightmares' shadow but it was in vain, not even, he could see a thing thru the heavy gas mists. Suddenly Morphious flew out of the mists, roaring with anger, directly towards Zik. "Die!" yelled Morphious and rammed him, pushing him towards the sharp rocky cliffs behind him. Morphious started pulling him up the cliff, scratching him against it. He tried to hit the sharpest cliffs he could find. Zik felt his back bursting with pain, the pain was extremely strong and Zik had to gather all his strength just to stay focused; somehow, he managed to raise his head high enough to look to Morphious strait in the eyes, the sight was horrifying. The heat of the gas mists burned half his face and he had an especially deadly look in his eyes. Morphious pushed Zik upwards until they reached the arenas' height and then he threw Zik upon the arena and rose higher preparing to execute the finishing blow "You'll pay for that you have done to me, Zik Watson, you'll pay. and you'll pay with your life!" Yelled Morphious and started gathering sparks of energy in his mouth preparing to fire a Hyper Beam, Zik had no time to hesitate, with a quick flap of his wings he rose into the air and flew strait towards Morphious. Zik embraced him in a strong bear hug and started spinning in the air gathering as much momentum as he could, after a few seconds of spinning in the air Zik felt that that was all he could gather and dived again towards the arena, throwing Morphious against it with a powerful seismic toss "Nooooooo!!!" Morphious crashed on the arena and discharged his Hyper Beam on it; a loud explosion shivered the mountain and a big dust cloud rose into the air.
Then the dust cleared all that left of the floating arena was a third of her, the rest simply fall down into the boiling lava, upon the ruins of the floating platform lay two figures: Morphious' face were almost completely burned and his body was badly bruised, by his side lay Dragonightmare whose condition was even worse. Zik landed beside them and after a few seconds glowed in shining white, split himself of his Charizard and fell to his knees, his body was full of burns and bruises, cuts and scratches.the Charizard looked the same except for the burns. "We.we did it.we did it Chad!" he turned around to his Charizard and hugged him ".we won." he fell back to his knees, crouched , grabbed his ribs and started spiting all the blood that came up his throat upon that was left of the floating arena.
The rest of the arena collapsed into the lava pit after Dragonightmares Hyper Beam, all that was left of it were one of its' corners which kept slowly rotating around its' original axis. The only one still standing among the challengers was Ziks' Charizard who tried unsuccessfully helping him, beside them laid the badly bruised, unconscious Morphious and his injured Dragonightmare.
Vega, one of the observing trainers on the craters edge, pulled out her staff out of her rubes and raised him into the air, after a second or two she started floating in the air towards the arena. She flew over the firing abyss and landed near Ziks' head. "It seems to me that I have won.," he said and choked again, spiting even more blood on the ruined arena. Vega ignored him and walked up to the unconscious Morphious, she opened his turn robes and pulled out the shining Orion Amulet, it glittered in a shining bright light. "Do you know that powers the amulet posses, Zik?" Zik stopped choking for a moment "Healing powers, right? .well they wouldn't really help me now, would they? . (Ohaaa.).I'm too badly hurt. (Ohooo.O.Aha.). I'm wouldn't recover. (Ohaa.). Zik coughed again and spit the blood out, this time there were something else as well.as small bone piece lay in the newly created blood pool. Vega lifted the bone piece and toke a closer look at it "it seems to me that you managed to break several ribs during the fight, it looks like they bent in and pierced your longs before the broke to pieces.you might die bleed to death". "Isn't it ironic.Ahaa.to win the final battle only.Ackhhaa...to perish on the battle filed.Ohooo...?" he started spiting blood again but this time it haven't stopped after a few seconds, it seems there was no end to the blood flow. Vega came closer to him with the amulet in her grasp "Take it!" she ordered, "What.Ohoo.difference.Ahoo.will it make?" "Take it I said!" Zik reached his hand and barely managed to grab the amulet in his palm, retrieving her back just in time to support his painful chest, and spit the blood that gathered in his mouth.
Suddenly Ziks' eyes opened and he stopped choking, the amulets' glow started gating stronger in Ziks' palm. He slowly pulled himself up from the floor and lifted his hand of the amulet, the amulet clung to Ziks' chest and its' glow grow stronger. Zik started slowly raising back to his feet then he felt a power wave rushing thru his body, giving him power and strength.
A sudden explosion of shining bright light burst out of the Orion Amulet, huge beam of shining bright light shot out of the volcano crater into the dark cloudy sky, the light slowly vanished until all that has left was a narrow beam on Ziks' chest. A few seconds later, it vanished as well, leaving behind only the black necklace that held the amulet. Zik was shocked; he felt as if all his wounds have been healed in an instant, he looked at his hands and then still unbelieving touched his face: the cuts, the burns, the blood, the blue marks.they all vanished, disappearing without leaving a trace. Zik quickly touched his ribs "My.my wounds.they...they all disappeared! I can't fell them at all..." he turned towards the Charizard and saw that all his wounds were gone as well "You too, Chad?" the Charizard nodded his head, Zik almost started humping from joy, but then he recalled something important "The amulet.there is the amulet?" He started looking all over himself; eventually he raised his red vest and saw a strangely shaped scar just above his heart, the scar reminded him a Chinese dragon and glowed in soft white light.
"It was assimilated in your body." Zik turned back and saw Vega helping Morphious back to his feet, the light beam healed both him and Dragonightmare, and they just started getting over their injuries "It's part of you and your pokemon now.wherever you'll go the powers of the crystal will be with you.you should get going.your time here is short." The volcano suddenly started trembling again, stronger and louder then ever before, the arenas' remains slowly started breaking apart and falling down into the blazing abyss below, Zik fearing he'll fall down slowly steeped back from the edge and got closer to his Charizard "This tournament has ended for you, Zik, and for us for the time being as well.". The trainers on the craters edge slowly disappeared, leaving the mountain "You wan, and your victory inspires us all, but you must leave now.Go!" Said Vega and pointed into the pitch-black sky "But.But how am I suppose to got the heck of this mountain?!" asked Zik and looked around on the crumbling mountain "Get on your Charizard and fly away! Quickly!" Zik nodded and quickly climbed on Chads' back "Zik!" he turned back and saw Morphious calling for him "Yes Morphious?" "You were worthy of this victory.more then any one else." Morphious wards put a smile on Ziks' face, but another lava explosion below caused Chad to champ a little "Thanks Morphious thanks Vega, thank you both!" "Fly! Quickly!" yelled Vega, Chad spread his wings and slowly started rising into the air "Goodbye for now, I'll be back same day." Chad couth a hot air stream and flew out of the crater as fast as he could, Vega helped Morphious to stand up and walk towards Dragonightmare "Do you think he is the One?" "He must be" answered Morphious and pulled out an ultra ball "The prophecy didn't lied and neither the stars, he was the strongest ever to participate in the tournament." he returned Dragonightmare "And what if the prophecy is a false one after all?" Asked Vega and raised her wand into the sky "For Kantos' sake, it better not be.otherwise, may the gods have pity on their souls" Morphious hold Vegas' staff as well, they started suddenly glowing in a shining blue aura and disappeared into the volcano as a light beam.
Zik looked back, he saw that the entire island was smoking and trembling, he suddenly realized that the shoreline was raising and covering the entire island with water "The.the island he's sinking." The Island sank quickly, it toke the only a few minutes for the shoreline to reach to the volcano summit, a few seconds after that the summit disappeared under the sea. A huge gas cloud rose up from the mountain then the cold ocean water hit the molted lava, but after a minute or two, it vanished as well. Chad hovered in the air for a while and looked at the islands' whereabouts, but there was nothing left except a flat deep blue ocean. The skies slowly cleared and a gleam of sunshine managed to penetrate the clouds, falling straight on Zik and his Charizard. "So that's it.he's vanished." Zik sighed maybe from sadness, or maybe from tiredness, he couldn't say "It's really over.but we won, Chad, we won like true champs" Chad flash a quick smile towards Zik, Zik flashed him a smile back "lets fly home now.west.to sought Kanto.to Kapela... to Home." Chad smiled and flapped his wings; he started slowly flying west...flying towards home.
"I think that in a different situation you would have loved Dragonightmare.you wouldn't believe the prowess he possesses." "Thanks, but you wouldn't believe the prowess we possess" Morphious smiled "We shall see." He immediately jumped into the air and with a quick wave of his wings, he raised himself sixty-six feet above the arena, diving immediately in Ziks' direction, and before Zik had a chance to take cover or avoid the attack he had been hit by Dragonightmares' wing. He collapsed on the ground, and yet somehow despite the tremendous pain he got back to his feet immediately, turned around and faced Morphious again. At that time, Morphious had already finished turning in the air and was once more ready to start diving in Ziks' direction. This time Zik managed to avoid the attack, he turned back immediately and fired a Flamethrower towards Morphious' back, but Morphious was too quick and managed to out run Ziks' flamethrower and the fire stream disintegrated without hitting a thing. "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! You'll have to do batter then this in order to hit my!" Morphious turned around again after another pass above Ziks' head and fired a tremendous Fireball at him; Zik stayed put for a few moments, concentrating his attention on the blazing terror, which was fling towards him, he waited for the fireball nearly reached him and then he jumped into the air and thrashed the fireball with his claws. Causing it to disintegrate and vanish. "You wouldn't win me with Fire." "Impressive."Said Morphious, "But can you do the same with.Electricity?" His feelers suddenly rose up and started to charge with electricity, Zik understood the hint and immediately started running along the edges of the arena. A shower of lightning bolts started hitting the ground behind him, Zik kept running and avoiding lightning bolts but they only kept coming without a pause between them, eventually he had been hit in his back by one of them. He tripped and fell on the ground absorbing the entire power of the attack. Zik screamed with pain as the electricity went thru his body causing him unbelievable pain. Morphious kept firing lightning bolts until Zik lost his breath and couldn't scream any more. He lied on the arena hardly bereaving, his body aches with pain. "It seems to me that this battle is over." Said Morphious, however instead of splitting in two Zik opened his eyes and shivering with pain rose himself up of the ground into a shivering stand. "You're a stubborn son of a bitch, aren't you?" Zik smiled a painful smile and raised his head "I might by stubborn. but you're the son of a bitch around here!" Morphious fretted and flapped his wings "No matter, one wing attack and you're out cold!" said Morphious and dived towards Zik, Zik couldn't escape, ha could hardy move an inch and still he same how managed to jump aside and hit Morphious' neck with his powerful tail, causing Morphious to crash into the arena floor. Zik toke good use of the opportunity he had created for himself. He rushed towards Morphious and started hitting him repeatedly with his sharp claws, injuring him in his face and bally. "So you thought that I'm all washed up, haven't you?" Morphious tried to defend himself, swiping the air, Zik ducked and hit Morphious with his tail again "Well think again." Zik filled his chest with oxygen and then he fired a tremendous Flamethrower, throwing Morphious into the air shouting in surprise. He landed on his back and laid there still for a few moments. Zik panted heavily and looked at Morphious' body, which was lying in the center of the arena, he waited because he wanted to see him split apart from Dragonightmare and losing the match, however instead of splitting away from Dragonightmare Morphious started to sneer and then to giggle and then finally laugh. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!" laughed Morphious "Is this your best!" he said and jumped back on his feet, Zik couldn't believe his eyes, but before he could understand what happened he had been hit be a huge spurt of icy water, The water flow was extremely strong so strong that it throw Zik of his feet. Moreover, the water temperature had a few secondary effects: they caused his muscles to stiff, dealing him a great deal of pain and leaving him with a filing that he simply cannot move, as if he had been transformed into stone. Yet somehow, he managed to raise his head just in time to see Dragonightmare diving towards him as a shooting star falling from the sky, after a few seconds he was already hit by Dragonightmare momentum which caused him to be thrown across half of the arena, crash landing right on its edges.. Morphious landed before Zik and looked at him waiting for his next move. Zik wasn't ready to give up and tried to raise himself back to a standing position, but this time the pain of his injures was too much, he started to choke and spit sprays of dim blood, which flowed down his face from the corner of his mouth. His right leg had finally given in to the stunning pain and he fell back on the ground again, seeing a glance of the boiling abyss beneath at the edge of his sight.
"You're finished, kid. you don't have even the slightest chance of recovery now.it's time to surrender" Said Morphious "Never."replied Zik choking and spiting another spray of blood "I'll never give up.you'll have to. fight me.till the end." Several of the trainers, which were watching the battle from the craters' edge, started whisper among themselves "He's nuts!" "How can he hope to win the match?!" "We must stop the fight!".
"Silence!" yelled Morphious "if he wants to continuo till the end, so be it." he opened his mouth and started gathering sparks of energy within, a tremendous Fireball formed in his mouth, it toke him only another second to fire the blazing terror aiming it directly towards Zik, hitting him with unbelievable strength, throwing him into the air. He flew across the abyss, hit the crater wall and started falling inside. His body relaxed and it seemed to him that he was diving into the crater, not falling, his eyes closed and he crashed into the red boiling lava, without coming up.
The trainers at the crater edges leaned forward in an attempt to spot Zik, however they haven't seen a thing, Ziks' Charmeleon body simply snaked in and haven't risen back up from the boiling depths. "That wasn't necessary, Morphious" said Vega to Morphious who was fling at that time around the arena attempting to see a sign of Zik as well. "I had no other choice, Vega." "Bullshit!" yelled Jupiter "You could have stopped the battle whenever you wanted to!" "He's right!" yelled Venus "You actually wanted to kill him! We saw you!" Neptune nodded his head and shouted, "You're a sadist Morphious and a murderer!" "Shut up!" yelled Morphious and fired thunderbolts around him, hitting must of the crowd. "I'm the leader of this tournament; therefore I'm the one who determines what can and can't be done in this tournament! I'm the one who decides if I may or mayn't kill the competitors! I'm the." The sudden appearance of huge beam of bright white light hushed Morphious; he looked down and saw several beams of shining bright light bursting out of the boiling lava. "What the heck." the bright light vanished as suddenly as he appeared leaving everyone blinded for a moment, the sudden lake of sight caused everyone to hush, the sudden quiet was bizarre, it seemed to be out of place after all the commotion earlier. It seemed the even the bubbling of the lava and the trembling of the mountain had entirely stopped for a moment. Suddenly an enormous explosion shivered the entire mount and a huge Charizard burst out of the lava; he flew up the crater wall, roaring with anger. The huge Charizard flew directly towards Morphious, who was hovering above him, and rammed him with all his strength, pushing him upwards, until they hit the floating arena. Because of the unbelievable power of the ramming movement they couldn't stop and simply went thru the floating platform as if it wasn't there, the Charizard used his huge momentum and converted the flying movement into a powerful seismic toss. Morphious crashed into the platform and the gigantic Charizard landed near him.
"Haven't I told you that you wouldn't beat me with Fire.?" Said the Charizard with Ziks' voice, Morphious suddenly noticed that he was lying on the floor with his mouth open and jumped back on his feet "How.how is it possible that you're still alive?!" "The heat of the volcano gave me just enough energy to evolve and guess what, Morphious?" Zik smiled "I'm going to use it against you now!" He jumped into the air and with quick flight rammed Morphious again; throwing him upon the same cliffs, Morphious throw him earlier. "It's true that you have wings now, but you'll never be as quick as Dragonightmare!" said Morphious and jumped towards Zik, he passed by so quickly that Zik hadn't had a chance to do a thing. Zik started climbing higher in an attempt to escape Morphious' attacks, but Morphious followed him "Now that you can fly you're probably vulnerable to Electricity!" Zik understood Morphiouss' hint and started maneuvering in the air in a desperate attempt to evade his attacks. Nevertheless, he couldn't shake off Morphious, who was chasing him, shooting thunderbolts every few seconds.and missing all the time. Suddenly Zik stopped in mid air and started diving towards his surprised opponent "What the." said Morphious, but before he had a chance to say anything else, Zik already reached him and with quick spin in the air smacked him with his powerful tail, throwing Morphious down towards the floating platform three hundred feet below. Morphiouss' crash caused another piss of the platform to fall down into the boiling lava beneath. His fall was so quick and sudden that must of the viewers didn't believed their eyes. Zik slowed down and dipped his flight a bit; he started hovering slowly around the arena "So Morphious, that's all you got to offer?" Morphious slowly got back up to his feet and with an enormous effort rose himself into the air "I have one last secret weapon, take this!" a strong spurt of ice water flew towards Zik and hit his body, Zik felt a sudden twinge from the icy water and immediately dived, attempting to avoid the next water spurt. "I'll blow out your tail flame! Ha, Ha, ha!" Zik dived immediately beneath the arena but Morphious didn't give up, he followed him. "You have nowhere to run now!" Morphious yelled at Zik, as they got closer to the boiling lave at the bottom of the volcano. He shot another spurt of icy water at Zik, but Zik immediately climbed up avoiding the water spurt this time. "How did he do that?" yelled Morphious and tried to follow, but in the same time the water spurt hit the boiling lava and disappeared, leaving behind a oiling gas cloud. The gas cloud rose up quickly and swallowed Morphious. "Noooo!!!...Ahhaaaaaa!!!!" Morphiouss' painful scream echoed thru the crater, the scream was so agonizing that Zik stop climbing and looked down, but the gas cloud was so thick that no one could see a thing thru the mists. Zik strained his sharp Charizard eyes in an attempt to spot Dragonightmares' shadow but it was in vain, not even, he could see a thing thru the heavy gas mists. Suddenly Morphious flew out of the mists, roaring with anger, directly towards Zik. "Die!" yelled Morphious and rammed him, pushing him towards the sharp rocky cliffs behind him. Morphious started pulling him up the cliff, scratching him against it. He tried to hit the sharpest cliffs he could find. Zik felt his back bursting with pain, the pain was extremely strong and Zik had to gather all his strength just to stay focused; somehow, he managed to raise his head high enough to look to Morphious strait in the eyes, the sight was horrifying. The heat of the gas mists burned half his face and he had an especially deadly look in his eyes. Morphious pushed Zik upwards until they reached the arenas' height and then he threw Zik upon the arena and rose higher preparing to execute the finishing blow "You'll pay for that you have done to me, Zik Watson, you'll pay. and you'll pay with your life!" Yelled Morphious and started gathering sparks of energy in his mouth preparing to fire a Hyper Beam, Zik had no time to hesitate, with a quick flap of his wings he rose into the air and flew strait towards Morphious. Zik embraced him in a strong bear hug and started spinning in the air gathering as much momentum as he could, after a few seconds of spinning in the air Zik felt that that was all he could gather and dived again towards the arena, throwing Morphious against it with a powerful seismic toss "Nooooooo!!!" Morphious crashed on the arena and discharged his Hyper Beam on it; a loud explosion shivered the mountain and a big dust cloud rose into the air.
Then the dust cleared all that left of the floating arena was a third of her, the rest simply fall down into the boiling lava, upon the ruins of the floating platform lay two figures: Morphious' face were almost completely burned and his body was badly bruised, by his side lay Dragonightmare whose condition was even worse. Zik landed beside them and after a few seconds glowed in shining white, split himself of his Charizard and fell to his knees, his body was full of burns and bruises, cuts and scratches.the Charizard looked the same except for the burns. "We.we did it.we did it Chad!" he turned around to his Charizard and hugged him ".we won." he fell back to his knees, crouched , grabbed his ribs and started spiting all the blood that came up his throat upon that was left of the floating arena.
The rest of the arena collapsed into the lava pit after Dragonightmares Hyper Beam, all that was left of it were one of its' corners which kept slowly rotating around its' original axis. The only one still standing among the challengers was Ziks' Charizard who tried unsuccessfully helping him, beside them laid the badly bruised, unconscious Morphious and his injured Dragonightmare.
Vega, one of the observing trainers on the craters edge, pulled out her staff out of her rubes and raised him into the air, after a second or two she started floating in the air towards the arena. She flew over the firing abyss and landed near Ziks' head. "It seems to me that I have won.," he said and choked again, spiting even more blood on the ruined arena. Vega ignored him and walked up to the unconscious Morphious, she opened his turn robes and pulled out the shining Orion Amulet, it glittered in a shining bright light. "Do you know that powers the amulet posses, Zik?" Zik stopped choking for a moment "Healing powers, right? .well they wouldn't really help me now, would they? . (Ohaaa.).I'm too badly hurt. (Ohooo.O.Aha.). I'm wouldn't recover. (Ohaa.). Zik coughed again and spit the blood out, this time there were something else as well.as small bone piece lay in the newly created blood pool. Vega lifted the bone piece and toke a closer look at it "it seems to me that you managed to break several ribs during the fight, it looks like they bent in and pierced your longs before the broke to pieces.you might die bleed to death". "Isn't it ironic.Ahaa.to win the final battle only.Ackhhaa...to perish on the battle filed.Ohooo...?" he started spiting blood again but this time it haven't stopped after a few seconds, it seems there was no end to the blood flow. Vega came closer to him with the amulet in her grasp "Take it!" she ordered, "What.Ohoo.difference.Ahoo.will it make?" "Take it I said!" Zik reached his hand and barely managed to grab the amulet in his palm, retrieving her back just in time to support his painful chest, and spit the blood that gathered in his mouth.
Suddenly Ziks' eyes opened and he stopped choking, the amulets' glow started gating stronger in Ziks' palm. He slowly pulled himself up from the floor and lifted his hand of the amulet, the amulet clung to Ziks' chest and its' glow grow stronger. Zik started slowly raising back to his feet then he felt a power wave rushing thru his body, giving him power and strength.
A sudden explosion of shining bright light burst out of the Orion Amulet, huge beam of shining bright light shot out of the volcano crater into the dark cloudy sky, the light slowly vanished until all that has left was a narrow beam on Ziks' chest. A few seconds later, it vanished as well, leaving behind only the black necklace that held the amulet. Zik was shocked; he felt as if all his wounds have been healed in an instant, he looked at his hands and then still unbelieving touched his face: the cuts, the burns, the blood, the blue marks.they all vanished, disappearing without leaving a trace. Zik quickly touched his ribs "My.my wounds.they...they all disappeared! I can't fell them at all..." he turned towards the Charizard and saw that all his wounds were gone as well "You too, Chad?" the Charizard nodded his head, Zik almost started humping from joy, but then he recalled something important "The amulet.there is the amulet?" He started looking all over himself; eventually he raised his red vest and saw a strangely shaped scar just above his heart, the scar reminded him a Chinese dragon and glowed in soft white light.
"It was assimilated in your body." Zik turned back and saw Vega helping Morphious back to his feet, the light beam healed both him and Dragonightmare, and they just started getting over their injuries "It's part of you and your pokemon now.wherever you'll go the powers of the crystal will be with you.you should get going.your time here is short." The volcano suddenly started trembling again, stronger and louder then ever before, the arenas' remains slowly started breaking apart and falling down into the blazing abyss below, Zik fearing he'll fall down slowly steeped back from the edge and got closer to his Charizard "This tournament has ended for you, Zik, and for us for the time being as well.". The trainers on the craters edge slowly disappeared, leaving the mountain "You wan, and your victory inspires us all, but you must leave now.Go!" Said Vega and pointed into the pitch-black sky "But.But how am I suppose to got the heck of this mountain?!" asked Zik and looked around on the crumbling mountain "Get on your Charizard and fly away! Quickly!" Zik nodded and quickly climbed on Chads' back "Zik!" he turned back and saw Morphious calling for him "Yes Morphious?" "You were worthy of this victory.more then any one else." Morphious wards put a smile on Ziks' face, but another lava explosion below caused Chad to champ a little "Thanks Morphious thanks Vega, thank you both!" "Fly! Quickly!" yelled Vega, Chad spread his wings and slowly started rising into the air "Goodbye for now, I'll be back same day." Chad couth a hot air stream and flew out of the crater as fast as he could, Vega helped Morphious to stand up and walk towards Dragonightmare "Do you think he is the One?" "He must be" answered Morphious and pulled out an ultra ball "The prophecy didn't lied and neither the stars, he was the strongest ever to participate in the tournament." he returned Dragonightmare "And what if the prophecy is a false one after all?" Asked Vega and raised her wand into the sky "For Kantos' sake, it better not be.otherwise, may the gods have pity on their souls" Morphious hold Vegas' staff as well, they started suddenly glowing in a shining blue aura and disappeared into the volcano as a light beam.
Zik looked back, he saw that the entire island was smoking and trembling, he suddenly realized that the shoreline was raising and covering the entire island with water "The.the island he's sinking." The Island sank quickly, it toke the only a few minutes for the shoreline to reach to the volcano summit, a few seconds after that the summit disappeared under the sea. A huge gas cloud rose up from the mountain then the cold ocean water hit the molted lava, but after a minute or two, it vanished as well. Chad hovered in the air for a while and looked at the islands' whereabouts, but there was nothing left except a flat deep blue ocean. The skies slowly cleared and a gleam of sunshine managed to penetrate the clouds, falling straight on Zik and his Charizard. "So that's it.he's vanished." Zik sighed maybe from sadness, or maybe from tiredness, he couldn't say "It's really over.but we won, Chad, we won like true champs" Chad flash a quick smile towards Zik, Zik flashed him a smile back "lets fly home now.west.to sought Kanto.to Kapela... to Home." Chad smiled and flapped his wings; he started slowly flying west...flying towards home.