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Pokemon: Elemental Legacies: Olemenun Academy

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Chapter 15​

"This is the place." Brandon told his friend. The teenage boy rode on the back of a Crobat, and Brandon flew on a Honchkrow, who carried his wheelchair in its talons. The two flying Pokemon landed behind the gate that blocked the entrance to the apartment complex, and the Honchkrow helped Brandon into his wheelchair. Brandon's acquaintance returned the two Pokemon to their Pokeballs and put the Pokeballs on his belt as he pushed Brandon's wheelchair up to the door of Chey's apartment. He knocked on the door and stepped back, waiting for someone to answer.
"Hello?" A man in his late forties came to the door.
"Is this where Melinda Ailart lives?" The teenager asked.
"It is," The man answered, "Who are you?"
"I'm a friend of your wife's," Brandon's friend explained, "Is she there?"
"My wife? You sure you don't mean my daughter?" The man joked about the boy's age, and seemed to get quite a kick out of his own joke.
"I'm sure." The boy replied, chuckling a little as a courtesy.
"Alright, just a moment." The man retreated back into his home.
"Looks like she got married." Brandon commented.
"Hello?" A beautiful woman of no more than thirty years old came to the door. She had brown hair that was not too long, and wore a pink shirt and blue jeans. She held a plastic bottle in her hand, which was about halfway full of cola.
"What's up, Melinda?" The bottle dropped to the ground, spilling all over the concrete step that the teenage boy stood on.
"Paris?!" The woman exclaimed.
"That's right," The boy responded, "It's me." The woman quickly stepped outside and closed the door behind her, so her husband wouldn't overhear the conversation.
"What the heck are you doing alive?! You...you died fifteen years ago!"
"Melinda, you of all people should've known better than to expect me to stay dead."
"But your body was burned! Cremated!" Melinda's voice rose. "Not even the power of Mumrot can bring someone back from that!"
"Yeah, or so we thought," Paris replied, "But Brandon here proved that he's even more of a flippin' genius than we thought."
"You did this?" Melinda turned to Brandon.
"I figured it out just a few months ago," Brandon answered, "It took a heck of a lot more than just Mumrots...but it worked. And to be honest, I don't think it'd work on anyone except Paris...and a few other select individuals."
"What do you mean?" Melinda asked suspiciously.
"Come on, Melinda. You know exactly what he means." Paris said.
"You don't mean...?"
"That's right," Paris answered before the woman could finish her sentence, "Which is why we came to you. We met your daughter recently."
"Chey?!" A tone of worry appeared in Chey's mother's voice. "Is she alright?"
"She's fine, as far as I can tell," Paris replied, "She and some teachers from her school are chasing after some punks who stole the black staff."
"Please tell me you're joking." Melinda sounded like she was on the verge of fainting from the news.
"I'm afraid not," Paris answered, "And we all know what would happen if that staff were to activate."
"So then, why are you telling me this?" Melinda asked.
"So, how old is Chey?" Paris answered with a question. Melinda immediately knew why.
"No...you...she..."
"I'd say she's about...fifteen? Maybe sixteen?"
"Darnit, no!" Melinda shouted.
"Melinda...I need to know where it is." Paris said sternly.
"Why? So you can harness their power and take over the world?" Tears began to well up in Melinda's eyes.
"No, Melinda," Paris responded, "So I can save it." Melinda was speechless.
"The kid who stole the black staff has a Nightture, probably even a Duskarrion by now," Brandon explained, "He needs to be stopped."
"...I don't know where it is," Melinda replied, "They asked me for permission to display it in Olemenun Academy's lobby...it was eight or nine years ago. I said they could, but when they went to retrieve it from Team Rocket's headquarters, it was already gone. Someone had stolen it."
"Perhaps that's fortunate," Brandon suggested, "If someone hadn't stolen it then, the thieves who stole the black staff would've gotten it, too."
"Yeah." Paris agreed.
"Honey? What's all that racket? Are you okay?" Melinda's husband's voice came from inside. Obviously, the door was not completely soundproof.
"I'm fine, dear! I'll be in in a moment!" Melinda replied. She then turned back to Paris. "...You need to find Chey," she decided, "And tell her everything."
"Why the change of heart?" Paris questioned slightly skeptically.
"Chey needs to find the white staff," Melinda answered, "The fate of the world depends on it."

"Here we are, Hanaero Town." Mrs. Searle announced as the flying Pokemon landed outside the large hospital building. Hanaero Town was now a highly modern and technologically advanced city, and its hospital facility was second to none.
"While we're here, we should talk to this town's Gym Leader, too." Dave suggested.
"Yeah," Chey agreed, "But we should check on Danielle first." The group walked into the hospital and up to the front desk.
"Excuse me, what room is Danielle, the Gym Leader from Poisawa Town, treating her patient in?" Mrs. Searle asked.
"I'm sorry, visiting hours are over for today," The woman behind the desk replied, "You'll have to come back tomorrow."
"I'm the Gym Leader from Evolution City," Dave responded, "I need to speak with Danielle."
"Very well, but the rest of you will have to wait here." The receptionist decided.
"That's fine." Drake said.
"Room 455." The woman behind the desk informed Dave after checking her computer.
"Thank you." Dave began to walk toward the elevator.
"Hurry back." Mr. Pennington said half-sarcastically.

Dave walked through the empty hallway of the hospital's fourth floor, making his way to room 455. The door was shut, and a sign that read "Quarantine Area - Do Not Enter" hung from the door. Dave looked around, hoping to see someone who could tell him what was going on, but the hallway was completely empty. He peered into the small, vertical rectangle of a window in the middle of the door, just above the quarantine sign. The bed was against the left wall of the room, and several machines were hooked up to it. At least five nurses stood on the right side of the room, preparing solutions in various containers on several small tables. Next to the bed stood Danielle, a tan-skinned woman in her late twenties. Her dark brown hair was tied in a ponytail, and she wore the same white uniform as the nurses did, as their garments needed to be sterile inside the quarantine area. An Ariados, an Arbok, a Drapion, and one other Pokemon stood by her side. The fourth Pokemon was a small white frog, who looked like its white color came from some sort of wrapping that completely covered its body rather than its skin. Its face was covered up by the aforementioned wrapping, and its body was fairly rounded. Where its face would be, there was a blue swirl pattern.
"Who is this patient?" Dave wondered, incredibly surprised by how much effort the hospital was putting into saving this person. He looked over to the bed and saw a man roughly thirty years old, with neat brown hair and thin-rimmed circular glasses. He immediately recognized the man as Jefferson, the Gym Leader of Hanaero Town.
"You came to see him too?" A man about Dave's age walked up next to him. The man bore an incredible resemblance to the man in the bed, but he did not wear glasses.
"Spencer...what happened?" The man that had walked up beside Dave was Spencer, Jefferson's brother and the Gym Leader of Treemor Town.
"A few days ago, he left to investigate some reports of suspicious behavior in the area," Spencer explained, "Some people had been claiming that they saw the ghosts of dead people, but he figured it was probably just some ghost Pokemon playing tricks on the citizens."
"And what happened?" Dave inquired.
"A few hours ago, one of his Pokemon returned to the city with him on its back. Danielle and the other doctors have been in that room since then, but none of them have any idea what's wrong with him." As if on cue, Danielle walked out of the room, closing the door behind her as she removed her surgical mask.
"It's not looking good." She solemnly informed her fellow Gym Leaders.
"Do you have any idea what might have caused it?" Spencer asked.
"It was a very intense poison," Danielle replied, "A mixture of venom from various Pokemon. And there's only one person who could mix such incompatible toxins like that..."
"Who?" Dave questioned.
"Paris," Danielle answered, "The previous Gym Leader of Poisawa Town."

"Well, this is the place that the map says I have to go to first..." Geraldo thought aloud. A heavy rain struck him and drenched his clothes as he approached the small cave in the middle of Hoenn's Route 120. He entered the cave and walked into the center of the small room.
"Let's see...he gave me instructions, too..." Geraldo turned the map over to look at the other side. "Let's see...'I've already done the hard part...now you just have to capture them. In the first cave, walk to the center of the room and have one of your Pokemon use fly'...Fly? In a cave? Oh well, it's worth a try." He threw a Pokeball into the air, releasing his Aerodactyl.
"Dactyylll!" Aerodactyl flapped its wings, stretching them out.
"Aerodactyl, I want you to fly to the top of the cave!" Geraldo ordered. He got on the Pokemon's back, and it began to fly upward. As it approached the top of the cavern, part of the wall opposite the entrance crumbled, revealing a door.
"Weird." Geraldo said to himself. Aerodactyl flew back down to the ground and landed, and Geraldo recalled the Pokemon to its Pokeball. He stepped through the door into a second room of the cave. There, in the center of the new room, was what Geraldo had come looking for: the first of the seven legendary titans; Registeel.
"Regiii!" It bellowed, outstretching its arms. Rocks tumbled down from the top of the cave, and the path Geraldo had entered through was blocked.
"My Pokemon are still no match for this guy," Geraldo decided, "So I'll just have to use the ones Michael gave me." The team Michael gave Geraldo had been carefully assembled to cover all of the legendary titans' weaknesses. Geraldo threw one of the Pokeballs into the air, and it opened to reveal Mamoswine, the large brown mammoth Pokemon with icy tusks.
"Swine!" Mamoswine cried.
"Mamoswine, hit it with an Earthquake!" Geraldo commanded. Mamoswine stomped the ground, generating large shockwaves that knocked Registeel onto the ground. Registeel struggled back to its feet and rushed forward, punching Mamoswine with a Superpower attack. Mamoswine shook the attack off and slammed into Registeel, knocking it back onto the ground. Registeel got back up once again, and the dots on its chest began to glow. A blast of electricity shot forth from them, but the attack did absolutely no damage to the ground-type Mamoswine.
"Let's finish it off!" Geraldo exclaimed. "Blizzard!" Mamoswine let out a loud roar, and a powerful snowstorm began to form above its head. The icy storm flew forward and struck Registeel, freezing it completely in a block of ice.
"Dusk Ball, go!" Geraldo reached for one of the black and green-colored balls in his bag and threw it at the frozen Pokemon. The titan turned into red light and was absorbed into the ball as it hit the ground, wiggling around for several seconds. Finally, the ball clicked, and the Pokemon was caught.
"Yes! I caught Registeel!" Geraldo shouted, walking over and picking up the ball. As he did, the rocks that had blocked his exit crumbled, and he left the cave, heading for his next destination.

"What's that up ahead?" Tatiana asked, pointing to what looked to be a large building surrounded by mountains. She, Dan, and the rest of the group had been flying through the mountains for several hours, looking for signs of human inhabitance.
"It looks like a mansion!" Sebastian exclaimed. "Could that really be Michael's house?"
"It's worth checking out." Procter responded.
"Agreed." Dan added. The flying Pokemon landed just outside the mansion, and their owners returned them to their Pokeballs. Dan walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. The ring echoed throughout the house, reaching Michael's ears.
"Who...?" He asked himself as he looked up from the photo album. His face was now soaked, as he had managed to work himself into quite an emotional breakdown by looking through several books of photographs. He slowly stood up, and the album on his lap fell to the floor. At a snail's pace, he opened the room's door and walked out into the hallway, shielding his eyes from the light.
"Hurry up already." Sebastian was getting impatient, as was Dan.
"Fine, if they won't come to the door..." Dan lifted the green staff by his side. Vines sprouted from the ground and slammed the door, knocking it down into the house.
"Dan!" Tatiana was upset by her husband's rash action. The group looked up from the door to see the house's resident standing right behind the broken door.
"You." A bolt of lightning went flying from the gray staff, causing Dan to quickly conjure a shield of vines in front of himself.
"What the heck?" Dan was surprised by his friend's behavior. Like a zombie, Michael walked forward, continuing to shoot bolts of electricity at Dan.
"Everyone, get back!" Tatiana shouted. The Gym Leaders and teachers began to run away from the doorway as Dan continued to walk backwards, countering Michael's thunderbolts with viny shields.
"What are you doing, Michael?" Dan asked. "It's me, Dan!"
"I know exactly who you are," Michael replied, "I couldn't kill you fifteen years ago...but I've been waiting for this day...the day that I'll finally finish what I started!" He lifted the staff above his head, and a sphere of lightning shot up from the ground, surrounding the area within ten yards of the mansion. He swung the staff downward, and bolts of lightning began to descend from the sphere, striking random spots on the ground.
"Tch...this is bad," Dan thought aloud, "Regular Pokemon are no match for Michael...so Tati and I are the only ones who stand a chance in this fight." As Dan spoke, he continued to walk backwards, defending against Michael's onslaught of thunderbolts. Meanwhile, Tatiana summoned large shards of ice to block the lightning that fell from the sky.
"Everyone, send out all of your Pokemon!" Megan exclaimed. She threw all six of her Pokeballs into the air, revealing Starwii, the red starfish Pokemon; Milotic, the beautiful yellow serpent; Minduck, the fat green duck with a bulging brain; Tideer, the blue deer Pokemon; Equim, the tropical fish with rainbow fins; and Surmast, the spiky black humanshape Pokemon shrouded in mist. Sean followed suit, sending out Electwine, the large yellow swine Pokemon; Stegostorm, the Stegosaurus that floated on a thundercloud; Kuadtana, the white werewolf with swords for arms; Elketric, the yellow-furred elk; Enerjolt, the triangular evolution of Psytage; and Internele, the purple data Pokemon orbited by two small spheres.
"No! Your Pokemon are too-" Dan was interrupted by the sound of lightning as Michael waved his staff, causing bolts of lightning to strike all of Megan and Sean's Pokemon and knock them unconscious.
"How did he do that?!" Sean wondered.
"He's too powerful! Regular Pokemon don't stand a chance against him!" Tatiana responded as she continued to deflect lightningbolts with her shields of ice.
"Which is why you should just leave this to us." Procter added as he threw a Pokeball into the air. It opened to reveal Rhyperior, the orange and gray rock Pokemon with a drill on its forehead. It lifted its head into the air, and immediately, all of the lightningbolts descending from the dome were redirected to the drill on its forehead. Being a ground type, it was immune to electricity, and the bolts struck it harmlessly.
"Rhypere!" Rhyperior roared, slamming its fists together.
"Mr. Richard, Mrs. Richard," Procter said, "It's up to you now."
"Right!" Tatiana agreed. "Let's go!" She waved her staff, and a pillar of ice began to crystalize beneath her feet. As she rose into the sky, Dan created a large wall of vines in front of himself in order to buy himself some time. By the time Michael destroyed the wall, Dan was standing atop a tall vine near Tatiana's ice pillar.
"So, you want to make this an aerial battle?" Michael asked rhetorically. "Big mistake." He waved his staff and disappeared in a flash of lightning, reappearing on the roof of the mansion, where he was level with Dan and Tatiana. The roof was decorated with red shingles, and there was a slightly elevated cone on each corner. As Michael appeared on the roof, the top of the electric sphere, which was mere feet above his head, flared. His hair, as well as Dan and Tatiana's, shot upward, attracted by the static electricity.
"The closer we are to the sky, the more powerful I am!" Michael shouted as he lifted the staff in front of him. An intricate pattern of electricty spread out from the staff like a spiderweb, reaching about two feet in any given direction. The staff itself began to glow intensely, and the coat of lightning surrounding it curved slightly to make it look like a bow. Michael reached his other hand back, as if drawing an arrow, and sure enough, a thin bolt of lightning shaped like an arrow appeared in the space between his two hands.
"What's he doing?" Tatiana wondered.
"You know, I've had quite a lot of free time lately," Michael said, "So I spent some of it coming up with clever little names for my favorite attacks."
"What is he talking about?" Dan asked.
"Zeus's Arrows!" Michael released the imaginary bowstring, and the electric arrow flew forward, aimed directly between Dan and Tatiana. Suddenly, the arrow split into dozens upon dozens of arrows, all flying in different directions.
"Look out!" Tatiana exclaimed, frantically conjuring shards of ice to deflect the arrows. Michael wasted no time in firing two more waves of arrows almost simultaneously. Tatiana was trying her best, but she couldn't keep up with the arrows due to their sheer quantity.
"Tati!" Dan shouted. He waved his staff, and large vines sprouted from the one he was standing on, creating a gigantic wall in front of Tatiana and blocking every single one of the arrows.
"Very well then..." Michael muttered, "Try this one! Thor's Hammer!" The intricate bow pattern surrounding the gray staff disappeared, and in its place, a beam of lightning shot out of the tip of the staff. About one foot up, the beam turned into a large cube of electricity at least five feet in diameter, giving the staff the appearance of a giant hammer. Michael leaped off of the roof and swung the hammer at the viny wall, breaking it with a single hit. As the recoil from the swing hit Michael, a disc of electricity formed beneath his feet in order to stop him from falling to the ground.
"He's powerful..." Dan thought aloud, "We need to combine our attacks somehow..." He glanced down, noticing the pillar of ice that Tatiana stood upon. It was reflecting the light of the electricity.
"That's it!" Dan realized. "Tatiana, create a sphere of solid ice around each of us!"
"Won't that be really cold?" Tatiana asked.
"Don't worry! Just do it!"
"Alright..." Tatiana waved her staff, and ice began to crystallize into large, solid spheres around herself and Dan. As the ice closed in around him, Dan waved his staff, and a thick layer of vines surrounded him to protect him from the temperature of the ice. Michael began to swing his hammer again, but as it hit the sphere of ice surrounding Dan, the lightning that the weapon was comprised of reflected in every direction, and the form of the hammer disappeared.
"Clever," Michael thought aloud, "But there's one thing you didn't think of." He outstretched his arm, and his disc of electricity floated forward, stopping right in front of Tatiana's sphere. Jolts of electricity shot forward and grabbed the sphere like a hand as Michael's sphere began to fly backwards. He pulled Tatiana's sphere back to the center of the roof, where he released his hold on it. He floated above the sphere and threw a Pokeball into the air, which opened to reveal the green dragon with diamond-shaped wings, Flygon. It flew forward and slammed the sphere of ice that Dan was encased in with its tail, causing it to shatter. The vines surrounding Dan unfolded and receded back into the viny pillar on which their master stood. Flygon flew back to Michael, awaiting further command. Dan opened his eyes and immediately realized the flaw in his plan.
"While it's true that her staff protects her from the cold..." Michael said, "And even allows her to breath through solid water...your little idea still has one major weakness."
"Oh no..." Dan's eyes were as wide as an ocean.
"Water in its solid form might reflect my attacks, but in its liquid form, it couldn't possibly be more advantageous for me." A smirk grew on Michael's face. "And it's only a matter of time before your wife's shield melts."
"I'll kill you!" Dan raised his staff, and vines extended from the pillar her stood on, poised to attack Michael.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Michael responded. He thrusted his staff downward, and it went a few inches into the ice. "The gray staff is already charged with electricity, just waiting to release it. If you attack me, Flygon will use Flamethrower on this sphere...and then it's all over for your precious Tatiana."
"Crap..." Dan muttered, trying to figure out what to do.

The red, blue, and yellow Draconic Knights had returned to their headquarters, having retreated from the battle against Bobby and his friends.
"I see you did not defeat them." The white knight said, glancing at the chess board.
"They proved stronger than we predicted." The yellow knight responded.
"No matter," The white knight replied, "Their will be eliminated when they are no longer needed."
"Hey, you'd never guess who we saw on our way back." The blue knight was now blowing bubblegum, as if she was trying to show as much disrespect as possible. "A black bishop, a black horse-thingy, and two or three black pawns were heading for Sir Michael's house."
"They're called knights." The yellow knight said.
"I thought we were the knights."
"No, we are the proud and mighty Draconic Knights!" The red knight exclaimed, enthusiastic as always.
"Whatever. It's all too confusing," The blue knight sighed, "Anyways, they were headed for Sir Michael's house."
"So?" The red knight asked.
"What if they fight him? They're on the same team," The blue knight thought, "And if they kill eachother, your little chess metaphor thing would be wrong."
"The encounter will be harmless," The white knight replied, "Noone will die."
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Note: Ninjog, Danielle's frog Pokemon, actually comes in two forms, much like Shellos. The other form has black wrappings and has a yellow swirl pattern. Like with Shellos, there is no difference between the two forms other than their looks.
Note: As you may have noticed, I'm not incredibly fond of writing Pokemon battles...they're too boring and predictable. So, they'll be minimal. But battles involving staff wielders, on the other hand...
Note: Yes, yes, once again, like I said in the original EL, I'm no expert when it comes to the laws of electricity and whatnot, so Michael's probably breaking several. But it's much more fun that way. XD
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are you just making yourself uber pwnage in this sotry? -_-

great chapter (I'll stop making thta comment every chapter >.>)
 
Wow you definetly made yourself super powerful. You like in EL made yourself way too powerful. Good story wish he would explain more why he wanted to kill them.
 
Michael has always been powerful. Even in the original EL, he was power-hungry and trained his Pokemon to the point where they could knock out any opposition in a few hits. In addition, he's been training with his staff for fifteen years - of course he's going to be really good at using it.
It has nothing to do with "making myself super powerful" - While many characters share names and appearances with real people, and while it is easier to refer to them as "you" or "me" when speaking to their real counterparts, the characters and the real people are separate entities. It's a work of fiction, people, let's not forget that.
 
Moza: I apologize for this chapter. XDDD
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Chapter 16​

The black knight entered the empty white room, followed closely by David.
"Where are we?" David wondered as the black-clothed man waved his arm. The illusion disappeared, and the real room was revealed.
"So, I see you've brought one of the knights with you." The woman in white commented. The man in black said nothing.
"Who the heck are you?" David inquired, as the black knight hadn't answered any questions on their flight back to Team Rocket's headquarters.
"We are the mighty Draconic Knights!" The red knight replied.
"Who?"
"We are the people that Sir Michael put in charge of Team Rocket while he's on vacation." The white knight replied.
"Vacation? Cut the crap, I've met Michael. He said he's been out in those mountains for years now."
"So, you do know something, at least...very well. It's time for you to fulfil your purpose." The white knight decided.
"My purpose? What the heck are you talking about?"
"Do you know the legend of the Elemental Pokemon, young one?" The man in yellow asked.
"Of course I do," David replied, "Everyone does. Using the eight staves, the eight Elemental Pokemon were summoned on Zen Island fifteen years ago. Then, Michael sealed them away, or something."
"I did not ask if you knew what happened fifteen years ago," The yellow knight responded, "I asked if you knew the legend of the Elemental Pokemon."
"That's not it?"
"The Elemental Pokemon were the first Pokemon that man ever created," The yellow knight began, "But their structure was unstable. They almost killed every human and Pokemon in the world. But Sir Giovanni I, the original leader of Team Rocket, went to the great shamans for help. The shamans created eight staves, and using the power of those staves, Sir Giovanni and his top administrators sealed away the eight Elemental Pokemon."
"Do you think I'm an idiot?" David responded. "Pokemon weren't created by man, they were created by Arceus. And the Elemental Pokemon weren't the first Pokemon Arceus created, Dialga and Palkia were. Everyone knows that."
"Everyone thinks that." The yellow knight corrected David. "Arceus isn't real. The legends of Arceus are just an attempt to cover up the truth. No one wants to believe the truth...that Pokemon were created by man."
"And how do I know you're telling the truth?" David asked.
"Have you seen the Elemental Pokemon?"
"Yeah, almost everyone has. Some fisherman captured the fight on his video camera fifteen years ago."
"Have you ever seen Arceus?" There was a silence.
"...Even if you are telling the truth, so what?" David eventually asked. "What's your point?"
"There's a little more to the legend than what the yellow knight told you," The red knight replied, "The video you're talking about ran out of batteries before the end of the fight."
"Well, yeah, but everybody knows that Michael and Bobby's team won, because they're still alive, and the other guy isn't."
"That is true," The yellow knight replied, "But do you know how Sir Michael and his friends won?"
"Their Elemental Pokemon managed to do enough damage to knock out the Team Rocket guy's?"
"That is incorrect," The yellow knight answered, "They won because Sir Michael summoned the ninth Elemental Pokemon."
"The ninth? I thought there were only eight."
"As do most people. The ninth can only be summoned when all eight staves and all eight Elemental Pokemon are gathered, and a ritual is performed. Because the end of that fisherman's videotape is the extent of most people's knowledge about the Elemental Pokemon, virtually no one knows about it."
"I'll ask again, what's your point?"
"We need you to do a little job for us." The white knight explained.
"And what would that be?" David was getting a little tired of listening to the knights babble.
"Remove the altars from which the eight Elemental Pokemon are summoned from their rightful places," The white knight explained, "And bring them back here."
"And how am I supposed to do that?" David asked.
"Seek out Geraldo, one of the boys who is training under Michael," The white knight answered, "I believe you've met him."
"Yeah, the freshman kid. Always doing whatever the college kid does."
"That is the one," The white knight confirmed, "He is currently acquiring the power necessary to move the altars."
"And what's in it for me if I help you?"
"Revenge, of course," The white knight replied, "Against the teacher who expelled you from Olemenun Academy. Not only will you get to kill him...but you'll take his staff, as well."
"That's good enough motivation for me." A small smirk grew on David's face.
"Now go." The white knight commanded. She waved her arm, and David was in the empty white room once again.
"This'll be fun." He chuckled.

Honchkrow and Crobat landed in Hanaero Town, near the hospital. As Honchkrow helped Brandon into his wheelchair, Paris sent out his Ditto. Ditto hopped onto Paris's head, and the teenage boy was transformed into the same old man he had been in Poisawa Town.
"So you're sure they'll be here?" Brandon asked as Paris began to push him toward the hospital.
"There's no way they wouldn't take the bait." Paris replied as he pushed open the doors to the hospital. Sure enough, Chey's group was sitting in the lobby, waiting for Dave.
"Hey! Brandon! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Searle asked upon noticing the two men entering the building.
"And isn't that the old man that told us that this is where we'd find Danielle?" Chey noticed.
"Hello there, youngsters," Paris said in an old man's voice, "We decided we'd come see how Danielle is doing." He walked up to the front desk, pushing Brandon.
"What room is Danielle in?" Brandon asked.
"Geez, is every Gym Leader on the planet coming to visit her?" The receptionist asked rhetorically. "Room 455."
"Thank you." Brandon thanked her.
"We're going to go check on Danielle and her patient," Paris announced, "We'll be right back down."
"While you're up there, see what's taking Dave so long." Mr. Pennington said, impatient as always.
"Will do." Paris chuckled as he got onto the elevator.

"Paris?! But he died fifteen years ago!" Dave exclaimed.
"I know," Danielle replied, "That's how I became Gym Leader. But I had been training under Paris as a Gym Trainer...this definitely looks like his work."
"Can you cure it?" Spencer asked, concerned for his brother's life.
"My Pokemon's antivenom can counter most of the poison, but not all of it." Danielle responded with dismay.
"Why not?" Spencer wondered.
"They can't get rid of Paris's signature toxin," Danielle explained, "Grounoo extract. Even getting a Grounoo is hard enough, but extracting poison from it is damn near impossible."
"And you'd need some Grounoo extract to make the antivenom?"
"That's right." All three Gym Leaders were silent and had somber looks on their faces.
"Perhaps I could help with that." Paris, still under the guise of an old man, walked off of the elevator, pushing Brandon down the hallway.
"Who are you?" Danielle asked.
"Just a man," Paris answered, "Who happens to know how Paris extracted poison from his Grounoo."
"Can you help us?" Danielle inquired.
"I'd be happy to." Paris replied. He wheeled Brandon over to Dave and reached for a Pokeball on his belt, sending out his Grounoo. Danielle opened the door, and the two poison-type trainers entered the room with Grounoo. Dave and Spencer peered through the window to see what was going on.
"The thing most people don't know," Paris explained, "Is that the vast majority of Grounoo's poison lies within its eye." He took a needle from one of the tables and suddenly shoved it into the soily layer on the back of the Pokemon's eyeball. The Grounoo didn't seem to mind, and it didn't look like the needle was hurting it at all. When Paris withdrew the needle, it was filled with a greenish-brown liquid.
"Great!" Danielle exclaimed. "Now we can..."
"...And here comes the hard part," Paris continued, "As an antivenom, there's only one way to administer this poison."
"And that is...?" Danielle wondered.
"It has to be absorbed into the patient's eyes," Paris answered, "And it hurts. A lot."
"Whatever it takes." Danielle decided, looking out the window to see Spencer nodding his head.
"Hold him down." The nurses walked over to the bed, and each one grabbed one of Jefferson's limbs. Danielle placed a small metal device around his eye, to prevent him from closing it. Paris walked over to the bed and lifted the needle above Jefferson's eye. He slowly pushed on the back of the needle, causing a few drops to fall onto Hanaero Town's Gym Leader's eye. Suddenly, his other eye opened wide, and he began to scream.
"And when does the pain stop?" Danielle asked.
"When the poison gets fully absorbed," Paris responded, "Usually about five minutes." Jefferson began to kick violently, but the nurses kept him held down with all their might. The Gym Leaders waited, watching as Jefferson began to resist less and less. Eventually, he stopped moving completely, and his eyes closed.
"He'll need to rest for a few hours." Paris explained as he opened the door and walked out.
"Just who are you?" Danielle was beginning to get suspicious of the old man's knowledge. "I trained under Paris for five years, and never once did I hear anything about using Grounoo extract as an antivenom. You just waltz right in here, and you know. Something's fishy."
"Very well," Paris sighed, "I was going to have to take off the disguise in order to talk to Chey, anyways." He snapped his fingers, and the Ditto appeared on his head as his disguise faded.
"Paris?!" Danielle, Dave, and Spencer were all shocked.
"You did this to him?! I'll kill you!" Spencer shouted, greatly angered. He reached for a Pokeball on his belt.
"I didn't do this to him," Paris responded, "What makes you think I did?"
"Grounoo extract is your signature," Danielle answered, "And the fact that you're alive just supports the theory that it was you."
"It wasn't him," Brandon said, "He's been with me the past few days. He couldn't have done it."
"And why should we believe you? You're his friend, you're probably just covering for him!" Spencer exclaimed.
"If it was me, why would I have cured him for you?" Paris asked, pointing to Jefferson.
"So that we wouldn't suspect you!" Spencer responded.
"Oh yeah, and that worked real well." Paris retorted sarcastically.
"What other poisons were found in his system?" Brandon asked. A nurse walked over and handed Danielle a sheet of paper.
"...Arbok, Ariados, Crobat, Drapion, Skuntank, and Ninjog." Danielle read.
"And who do we know that has those Pokemon?" Paris asked confidently. All eyes turned to Danielle.
"Crap," Danielle cursed, "You're smarter than I thought."
"It's not nice to lie to old men, Danielle," Paris smirked, "You learned all about Grounoo extract while you were training under me. Y'know...I think it was your favorite Pokemon, too."
"Tch...Skuntank, Smokescreen!" Danielle threw a Pokeball onto the ground, and it opened up to reveal the big blue skunk with a white-tipped tail, Skuntank. It released a cloud of black gas from its tail that expanded into the room and the hallway.
"Crobat, Defog!" Paris threw his Crobat's Pokeball into the air, and the purple bat Pokemon flapped its four wings furiously. When the smoke cleared, Danielle and her Pokemon were gone.
"Make sure he didn't inhale any smoke!" Paris shouted. The nurses rushed over to the bed, examining the readings on the machines.
"He didn't." One nurse informed Paris.
"Good..." Paris sighed, "So, do you believe me now?"
"Shut up." Spencer was still upset.
"So why did you come here?" Dave asked. "I doubt it was just to expose Danielle. You probably didn't even know about all that."
"I came to talk to one of the kids you're traveling with," Paris replied, "Chey Ailart."
"She's downstairs."
"I know. I was just about to go talk to her."
"Well, let's go, then. Jefferson needs his rest." The four conscious Gym Leaders walked downstairs, and the nurses stayed in the room, to make sure nothing happened to the sleeping Gym Leader's vitals.

Michael floated in the air on a disc of electricity, above the sphere of ice in which Tatiana was frozen. Dan stood on a pillar of vines several yards away, and a Flygon flew beside Michael.
"I'll kill you!" Dan raised his staff, and vines extended from the pillar her stood on, poised to attack Michael.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Michael responded. He thrusted his staff downward, and it went a few inches into the ice. "The gray staff is already charged with electricity, just waiting to release it. If you attack me, Flygon will use Flamethrower on this sphere...and then it's all over for your precious Tatiana."
"Crap..." Dan muttered, trying to figure out what to do.
"Let's play a little game, Daniel." A maniacal expression grew on Michael's face. The rules are simple. Four of your little friends are down there, awaiting the result of this fight. Every five minutes that pass, I'll kill one of them."
"You can't! Procter's Rhyperior is absorbing all of your thunderbolts!" Dan shouted.
"I didn't say I was going to kill them using my power, did I?" Michael asked rhetorically. "I've got hundreds of Pokemon just waiting in the house below us. On my command, they'll rush out and do whatever I say."
"Tch..." Dan muttered, "So what is this game of yours?"
"Well, four times five is twenty. Five minutes after the last of the people down there dies, I'll kill your precious Tatiana. So, you've got twenty five minutes."
"To do what?!"
"To kill me, of course."
"I can do that in ten seconds!" Vines began to rise from the pillar on which Dan stood.
"You're forgetting the first rule of the game!" Michael exclaimed. "If you attack me with your staff...Tatiana will die instantly."
"So I have to use my Pokemon? No problem." Dan threw three Pokeballs toward Michael, and they opened to reveal Mosstatue, the final evolution of Dan's starter Pokemon; Tornoulder, the large tornado Pokemon with rocky fists; and Treecera, the large green triceratops with flowery horns and a sharp, leafy tail. The three Pokemon appeared on the roof, ready to fight.
"How predictable," Michael remarked, "You're using the same Pokemon you had fifteen years ago." He threw three Pokeballs of his own into the air, and they opened to reveal his Tyrnferno, Tyzer, and Elketric. The three Pokemon launched their attacks at Dan's Pokemon, matching their weaknesses perfectly. Suddenly, a wall of vines sprouted up from the roof, blocking the attacks.
"You said I couldn't attack you with my staff..." Dan realized, "But you didn't say anything about your Pokemon!" The wall split up into individual vines that wrapped around Michael's Pokemon, squeezing them and knocking them unconscious. Dan's Pokemon charged toward Michael, launching their own attacks.
"Very clever." Michael waved his staff, and bolts of electricity struck Dan's Pokemon, knocking them back several feet and causing them to almost fall off of the roof.
"Keep attacking!" Dan commanded. His Pokemon got back up and attacked again, only to be thwarted once more by Michael's staff. The Pokemon continued to attempt an assault, but they were knocked back by electricity every time.
"You're never going to kill me like that." Michael commented.
"I'm not trying to," Dan replied with a smirk, "I'm just buying time." He flicked his wrist, and suddenly, the roof under Tatiana's sphere of ice exploded. Vines reached out and grabbed the sphere, pulling it down before Michael had time to react.
"What the heck?!" Michael wondered. The vines dragged the ball of ice through the upper floor of the house, destroying everything within like a wrecking ball. A hole burst open in the wall closest to Dan, and the vines pulled Tatiana's sphere out, placing it back on top of the ice pillar. They then slammed it mercilessly, causing it to shatter. Tatiana fell a few feet from the center of the sphere to the top of the ice pillar, but she was completely unharmed.
"What the...what's going on?" Tatiana wondered. While encased in the ball of ice, she couldn't see or hear anything, so the current situation was very confusing to her.
"Michael almost killed you," Dan explained, "But I saved you."
"So you saved her...for now," Michael said, "But guess what? Five minutes have passed!" He snapped his fingers, and the front doors of his mansion opened. Other than that, nothing happened.
"What?! Where are my Pokemon?!"
"Did you think that rescuing Tatiana was the only thing my vines were doing in there?" Dan asked confidently. "Please. That would've taken thirty seconds. They were also knocking out all of your Pokemon."
"Crap..." Michael was surprised by Dan's brilliant plan. "Fine. Then it's time we fight for real." He raised his staff into the air, and the electrical dome surrounding the area was absorbed back into it. The staff crackled with electricity, as if it was overloaded.
"This isn't good." Dan realized.
"Die!" Michael yelled as he swung his staff forward. a huge blast of electricity flew toward Dan and Tatiana. Tatiana had finally recovered from the shock of being unfrozen, and she summoned a large wall of ice to reflect the blast. Surprisingly, the blast went right through the wall rather than reflecting off of it.
"What?!" Tatiana was surprised.
"Nice try, but I knew you'd do that!" Michael shouted. "So I launched a blast with a different wavelength!" Just in time, Dan conjured a wall of vines to absorb the attack and protect him and his wife.
"At this rate, we're going to lose...we need to use that attack we've been working on!" Dan decided.
"Right!" Tatiana agreed. She waved the blue staff, and shards of ice appeared all around Michael. The shards were thin and large, and looked just like mirrors. The shards closed in, so there were no holes in the sphere of ice mirrors. Dan waved the green staff, and vines enveloped him, then receded into the pillar, so it was like he disappeared. The top half of the pillar split into tons of large vines that flew toward the ice sphere and surrounded it, forming another layer of sphere around Michael. As expected, Michael attacked, and the ice mirrors shattered. Before Michael realized that Dan was right above him, inside the viny prison, he was already being wrapped by countless vines. Even though she could not see inside the sphere, Tatiana controlled the ice shards that the mirrors had broken into, and caused them to fly in toward Michael. The ice covered all the gaps that the vines did not, and expanded, covering the vines along with Michael. Dan quickly shot vines from the tip of his staff and grabbed the gray staff, pulling it out of Michael's grasp. The viny sphere that he and Michael were in broke apart, and Dan was carried back to his pillar by the vines. The electric disc beneath Michael's feet disappeared, and he fell down toward the hole in the roof. Just before he would fall through it, Tatiana caused a large sheet of ice to form over it. Icy claws shot up from the sheet and grabbed Michael, sticking him in place in the center of the sheet, about two feet above it. His torso and his limbs were covered in ice and vines, and only his head stuck out.
"Now let's finish this!" Dan shouted, waving his staff again. Vines covered in thousands of sharp thorns sprouted out from his pillar, ready to attack Michael.
"No!" Tatiana exclaimed. "We can't kill him!"
"He just tried to kill us!" Dan responded. "And it isn't even the first time, either!"
"But if we kill him, we'll be as bad as him! We'll be worse than him!" Tatiana replied. "Nobody deserves to die! Not even him!"
"Tatiana...!" He turned to her and looked into her eyes. They stared at eachother for several minutes, not saying anything.
"...Let's go." Dan eventually said. It was obvious from the tone of his voice that he was extremely angry, and still would have liked to have killed Michael. The pillars of vine and ice shrunk, and the two staff wielders stepped onto the ground.
"I take it you won." Procter guessed.
"Something like that," Dan replied bitterly, "Let's go." He walked past his fellow teachers and the Gym Leaders, sending out his Skarlord.
"What happened?" Megan wondered.
"It's nothing." Tatiana answered in a tone that made it obvious that she didn't want to talk about it. She sent out her Meteoclips, and the other trainers sent out their flying Pokemon. The group took off, heading toward the Hiraisui Triangle to meet up with Bobby's group.

The Gym Leaders walked downstairs and met up with the group of students and teachers in the lobby.
"Hey...you're...there was a picture of you in the Poisawa Town Gym..." Drake immediately recognized Paris. "Aren't you the previous Gym Leader of Poisawa Town?"
"Yup." Paris answered.
"What? You're supposed to be dead!" Mr. Lawson exclaimed.
"Yeah, that wasn't workin' out too well. Got boring." Paris said nonchalantly.
"Wasn't he a bad guy?" Emily became worried. "Didn't any of you hear the stories about him? He used to..."
"Relax," Dave interrupted her, "He's on our side now."
"Where did that old man go?" Chey wondered, as she didn't see him in the group of Gym Leaders. Paris raised his arm.
"That'd be me," He said, "Sorry 'bout that."
"What? Why? Why would you be disguised as an old man?" Chey wondered.
"It made it easier for him to get your name," Brandon replied, "If the dead Gym Leader came up to you guys in Poisawa Town, somebody woulda freaked."
"No argument there." Mr. Pennington interjected.
"My name? Why would you want my name?" Chey asked.
"...You should sit down." Paris sighed and brought two folding chairs over from the wall. He sat in one, and faced Chey, who sat in the other.
"What's going on?" Mrs. Searle whispered to Mr. Lawson.
"You've got me." Mr. Lawson replied.
"Chey Ailart." Paris sat back in his chair, but he was anything but relaxed. "Your mom gave you her maiden name."
"Yeah, she had me before she married dad, so she thought it'd be best if I kept her maiden name."
"So, do you know who your biological father is?"
"Mom said he died when I was one or two years old."
"Yeah...I did." Paris looked to the floor. Chey's eyes began to widen as she realized what he meant.
"...No way. No way. You couldn't be...you're my age!"
"I've been dead for fifteen years, Chey. People don't age when their bodies have been burnt to cinders."
"But...you! No way, there's no way that you could be..."
"I'm sorry, Chey," Paris apologized, "Back then, I was...I didn't think. I did stupid crap and messed around a lot. I never thought about the consequences of my actions. When Melinda...when your mom told me the news, I..."
"You went ahead and got yourself killed so you wouldn't have to take care of me?! Is that it?!"
"No!" Paris exclaimed. "Nothing like that. Chey, I died a lot back then. Brandon here kept bringing me back, and I swear, every time, I wanted to be there to help your mom."
"How am I supposed to believe that?!" Chey asked. She was sobbing. "You said it yourself, you messed around a lot! It's not like I was the first time that that happened! Why would you stop doing what you do just to take care of me?!"
"Because, Chey, you were the first time that happened." Chey was speechless. "As soon as Melinda told me, I stopped messing around. I was going to help raise you. But then...I did something stupid. I tried to get revenge on one of the people that killed me. And...he killed me again...and burned my body. His Pokemon was what put Brandon in a wheelchair, too. Brandon couldn't bring me back if he didn't have my body...especially not in his condition."
"Then how are you here now?!" Chey questioned.
"After fifteen years of research, he finally found a way to bring me back," Paris replied, "And the only reason he could do it...well, was for the same reason that I'm telling you this now."
"What the heck are you talking about?!" Chey was confused.
"Chey...I know you might not be able to believe me, and that's understandable. You probably don't trust me. But this is very important."
"What is it?" Chey folded her arms, frustrated.
"It has to do with your uncle and your grandfather," Paris answered, "The two most recently deceased leaders of Team Rocket; Jacob XI and Jacob XII."
"...What?!" Chey was even more surprised than she had been when Paris had said that he was her father.
"Jacob XI had two sons...he just didn't know about one of them," Paris explained, "Jacob XII never told anyone about it, but there were times when he could only use the power of the black staff. Those were the times that I was dead."
"So...what are you saying?"
"Jacob XI's lineage split into two branches because of me. Because of that, his family's connection to the staves was split, too. Jacob XII gained the power of the black staff...and I gained the power of the white. When I was dead, the power of the white staff became his as well, but when I was alive...it was mine."
"So then...that means..."
"It means that the white staff belongs to you now. You're the only one who can use its power." The entire group's mouths were agape. No one could believe the news.
"So then...Chey is..." Mrs. Searle began.
"Chey's our only hope," Paris said, "She's the only one that can stop those boys that stole the black staff."
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Chapter 17​

"I'd like to thank you once again for your assistance." Vampyro stood in front of the Draconic Knights, opposite the chess table.
"I held up my side of the bargain, just as I said I would," The white knight responded, "Now it's your turn."
"Ah yes, of course." Vampyro began rubbing his chin, as if trying to remember something. "What was it that I was supposed to do, again?"
"The theatrics are not appreciated. You know very well what your side of the bargain was," The white knight replied, "Where is the white staff?"
"Ah yes, the white staff..." Vampyro acted like he was deep in concentration, "Let's see, let's see...ah, yes, of course." He began to laugh.
"Where is it?" The yellow knight asked.
"Well...let's just say that it's within your organization...or rather, it was," Vampyro answered, "In fact, it's probably on your little chess board, too." He pointed to the chessboard.
"I did not unfreeze you so you could give me a vague hint," The white knight demanded, "Where is the white staff?"
"Yes, you see, here's the problem with that," Vampyro responded, "While you may have some very powerful Pokemon at your disposal, you're just humans. And as humans, you have a tragic flaw...you die quite easily." In a flash, his fiery shuriken appeared in his hands, and he dashed forward toward the white knight.
Clang!
"Come now, Vampyro, I thought that you were smarter than that," The white knight said, "Did you honestly think that the 'Knight' part of our title held no significance?" Vampyro's shuriken was met by a shining white longsword that seemed to glow as brightly as the sun. For the first time, Vampyro noticed a sheath on the white night's side. The knight flicked her arm and sent Vampyro flying backwards. The vampire flapped his wings, stopping himself before he hit the wall.
"What?" Vampyro was shocked by the white knight's counterattack.
"Now, I suggest you cooperate and tell me where the staff is," The white knight requested, "Or things could get quite unpleasant for you."
"Tch..." Vampyro thought, "If I attack again, she'll have time to send out her Pokemon...and if that happens, I'm screwed."
"Very well," He said aloud, "The white staff is in the hands of six former Team Rocket executives."
"The Elemental Six." The white knight realized.
"Bingo." Vampyro confirmed.
"Very well. You are dismissed." Vampyro snapped his fingers and disappeared, leaving the five knights alone once again.
"You didn't tell me you had made a deal with the rook." The red knight commented.
"I didn't think it was important enough to warrant wasting your time, sir," The white knight replied, "After all, you're..."
"The leader of the mighty Draconic Knights!" The red knight interrupted.
"Let's go, shall we?" The yellow knight suggested. The Draconic Knights disappeared, leaving to look for the Elemental Six.

"Alright! Good job, Chimpunch!" A young boy shouted as he opened his arms. The monkey Pokemon with large hands jumped into its trainer's arms, hugging the boy. A Funambite laid on the ground near them, unconscious. Hector sat on a high branch in a nearby tree, masked by a dense mass of leaves. He wrote something down in a small white notebook.
"This is useless," He thought, "All I'm seeing is happiness. I have yet to see an angry or sad trainer." Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted something near the far side of the route. A large group of people was walking south from Hanaero Town, heading toward the entrance to Treemor Town, where Hector's perch was located.
"That can't be who I think it is." He reached for a pair of binoculars hung around his neck and lifted them to his eyes. Sure enough, Troy was among the group.
"I understand that we're going to Roccane Town to see Professor Maple, but why are we walking there?" Chris wondered. "It would be a lot faster if we flew."
"We don't have enough flying Pokemon." Mrs. Searle explained.
"We were just in Hanaero Town! The Gym specializes in flying type Pokemon!" Troy exclaimed.
"The Gym was locked, and my brother doesn't keep any of his Pokemon at the Gym anyways," Spencer explained, "That's why we're going to my house in Treemor Town." The group continued to walk through the route, passing the boy with the Chimpunch as they grew closer to Treemor Town. Suddenly, a blast of icy blue light shot out from a large bush to the side of the dirt path. The teachers and Gym Leaders in the front of the group stopped just in time to avoid walking into the beam, and the beam kept going, hitting a tree on the other side of the path.
"What the heck?" Everyone wondered.
"Troy...you just left me there to die!" The bushes began to rustle, and a tall male figure stepped out, a Polarborg by his side.
"Joe?!" Troy was shocked. The boy was covered in scars and bruises, and looked very angry.
"What's this all about?" Mr. Pennington asked.
"As if you don't know," Joe glared at the teacher, "You think you can just waltz in and bail this idiot here out, but just leave the rest of us to rot? I don't think so."
"What's going on?" Chey wondered.
"Obviously, this little punk wants revenge on your friend Troy, for some reason." Paris concluded.
"I had to bail Troy out of jail in order to bring him with us," Mr. Pennington explained, "This must be one of his cronies that was in there with him."
"Both of you are gonna pay for leaving me in there!" Joe shouted. "I'm gonna kill you!"
"You and what army?" Troy taunted.
"As if you don't know." Joe snapped his fingers, and the rest of Troy's posse emerged from various hiding places. Joe threw the rest of his Pokeballs into the air, releasing Magmouse, the orange mouse with a shell of hardened magma; Horrernet, the bee Pokemon with a large black stinger; Triki, the humanoid with leafy hair and a primitive staff weapon; and two new Pokeon. The first, Falspruce, was obviously an evolution of Sudowoodo. It was larger, and was now covered in a bushy coat of leaves from head to knee. Its feet stuck out from beneath the covering, and its arms stuck out a little as well. Its arms still had their green, sphere-like fingers. The Y-shaped growth on top of its head stuck out of the leafy coat, and a square had been cut out of the covering so that its face was visible. The second new Pokemon, Oreon, was a light brown-colored quadruped with dark brown patches on its fur that was obviously an evolution of Eevee. In place of its ears were two red crystals, and a line of red and blue crystals ran down its back. Its medium-length tail was also made of red and blue crystal, and looked kind of like rock candy.
"So you've been training since you got out, huh?" Troy reached for his own Pokeballs. "Well so have I!" Troy's Pokeballs opened to reveal his Melterate, Krabgras, and four newly evolved Pokemon. The first, Possilver, was the evolved form of Coppossum. Its stiff fur was silver, as were its ears and its tail. A small orb containing liquid silver floated around it. The second was Eschlorigo, the evolved form of Snailodium that Jason of the Elite 4 had used. Third was Raburice, the evolved form of Valbit. It was larger and now stood on four feet, and its fur was black and blue instead of yellow. Its tail was a bit longer, as well. The last of the four was Pocus, the evolved form of Hocus. It resembled Kadabra in terms of body structure, but it lacked Kadabra's characteristic long ears and mustache. Like Hocus, it wore gray cloth garments, and had a shorter tail than its counterpart, Kadabra. It wore a small gray pouch on its left hip, and unlike Kadabra, the only marking on its body was a gray symbol on its forehead that resembled the clubs suit of playing cards. Troy's former gang members sent out their Pokemon as well, and the group of teachers, students, and Gym Leaders that Troy now traveled with did the same.
"Attack!" Joe commanded, and the battle ensued. All the Pokemon charged forward and launched their attacks, attempting to bring down the Pokemon of the other team. As the battle raged on, Hector furiously scrambled to write everything that happened down in his notebook.
"This is great!" He spoke under his breath so that he would not be heard. "This is exactly the kind of data I need!" The battle raged on for nearly an hour, and it soon became clear which side was going to win.
"Crap...this is bad." Joe realized. His team's numbers dwindled by the minute, and the other side was losing very few of its Pokemon.
"Everyone, retreat!" He shouted. Many of his teammates' Pokemon knew Smokescreen, and they took advantage of this, using the attack to disappear. By the time their opponents' Pokemon managed to clear the vast amount of smoke, they were already gone.
"Dang, they got away..." Mr. Pennington muttered. As he spoke, several of the young trainers' Pokemon began to glow with the light of evolution. Chey's Eyequus, Corphish, Poishare, and Elekid became Systripe, Crawdaunt, Toxabbit, and Electabuzz respectively. Emily's Ferrini, Natu, and Eevee evolved, becoming Lapras, Xatu, and a new evolution of Eevee; Spireon. It had lavender fur, and its body was semitransparent. Its feet were shrouded in purple gas, and its fluffy-looking tail appeared to be made of the same gas. Its short ears folded down over the sides of its head. Chris's Styclone and Valbit evolved as well. As Styclone became Hurricrash, it grew larger, and all of its rocks became shaped like small lightningbolt symbols. The number of lightningbolts inside its funnel increased, and it now had some outside of the funnel as well. Valbit evolved into Rabuphire, which looked like Raburice, but its fur was red instead of blue and its tail and ears were longer.
"Awesome." Chris commented.
"So what was up with that, anyways?" Emily wondered, referring to the ambush.
"Don't worry about it," Dave decided, "Let's keep going." As the group drew closer to Treemor Town, Hector sent out his Sableye, using its power to make himself invisible. He snuck past the group as they passed the tree he had been sitting in, and when they were far enough away, he became visible once again.
"That's enough data for one day," He said to himself, "I wonder how Geraldo's doing."

"This forest is so thick!" Geraldo exclaimed as his bipedal brown shellfish Pokemon hacked through the dense foliage with its scythe-like appendages. He had done as Michael had instructed and trained his own Pokemon, and his Kabuto, among other Pokemon, had evolved. He had successfully captured all three of the titans that resided in the Hoenn region, and had returned to Olemenun to capture the three that lived there. Kabutops continued to slash through the vines and plants in its way until it finally came to a small clearing. In the center of the clearing was an old granite temple covered in moss. Geraldo walked up the steps in front of the abandoned building, only to discover that there was no way in. It was obvious where the door should have been, but a large slab of rock blocked the entrance.
"I have just the Pokemon to take care of this," Geraldo thought aloud, "Rhinooly! Bastiodon!" The boy threw two Pokeballs into the air. The first opened to reveal Bastiodon, the evolution of Shieldon with a large, square, shield-like head. The second contained Rhinooly, the evolved form of Chewpir. It was much larger, and was now completely covered in thick, woolly, brown hair. It had two large horns on its forehead, the one in front slightly longer than the one in back. The two quadrupedal Pokemon rammed the stone slab forcefully, causing the temple to shake. After a few good rams, the stone crumbled, revealing the entrance. Geraldo and his three Pokemon walked in and walked down a long corridor, eventually making their way to a chamber. There were three long vines hanging from the ceiling on each wall of the chamber, except for the one with the entrance. On that wall, two vines hung on either side of the opening. In the center of the room was a stone tablet, which Geraldo walked over to, only to discover that what was written on it was written in braille. He shuffled through the papers that Michael had given him, looking for the instructions for this temple.
"The entrance is on the south wall," He read, "Light the southern vine on the west wall, the middle vine on the east wall, the eastern vine on the north wall, and the two vines closest to the entrance on the south wall. Sounds simple enough." He threw one of the Pokeballs Michael had given him into the air, releasing Typhlosion, the yellow and black-furred fire Pokemon with a mane of flame. He ordered it to ignite the vines that Michael's instructions had designated, and as soon as the last of the vines was lit, the room began to shake. The flames went out, and the stone tablet in the center of the room sunk into the ground. Moments later, a platform rose from the hole in the ground that had been created, and on the platform stood Geraldo's Target: Regigrass. It had a cylindrical body with a color and texture similar to a tree trunk, and the body flowed into two sturdy legs of similar color and texture. At the top of its body was a fluffy-looking hemisphere of leaves. Two arm-like branches extended from the sides of its body, and they resembled arms in every way, including three 'fingers' on the end of each one. Instead of a face, it had a pattern of seven green dots, arranged like a perfect circle with no dot in the middle.
"Typhlosion, Flamethrower!" Geraldo commanded. The fire Pokemon let loose a powerful blast of fire that scorched the grass-type titan, burning it badly. It let out a loud bellow and extended its arm, grabbing the fire Pokemon and squeezing it. Kabutops leaped into the air, slashing at the branch-like arm and causing the legendary Pokemon to release its grasp on Typhlosion. Bastiodon and Rhinooly ran forward with ramming attacks, but were countered by a wall of vines that entangled them and halted their movement. Typhlosion dashed forward quickly as its body lit up with flame, ramming into Regigrass with a powerful Flame Wheel attack. Meanwhile, Geraldo's fossil Pokemon continued to use their own attacks, and eventually, the titan was brought to its knees.
"Dusk Ball, go!" Geraldo shouted, throwing a green and black-colored ball. The ball opened, and the weakened Pokemon turned into red light and entered the container. The ball wiggled around on the ground a few times but finally stopped, clicking and signalling that the mighty Pokemon had been caught.
"Alright! I caught Regigrass!" Geraldo exclaimed as he picked up the occupied ball. He returned his Pokemon to their own Pokeballs and exited the temple, heading for his next destination.

"Where are you taking me?" Stephen asked his Duskarrion. The bird responded with a caw as it continued to flap its wings, flying across the Ring Sea and into the Inner Ring. It quickly flew to Treemor Town, where it landed on a building with a raised edge so that it and its owner would not be seen.
"Why are we here?" Stephen wondered. Duskarrion lifted its wing, pointing to a group of people walking through the town.
"Is that...?!" Stephen immediately recognized the girl near the back of the group. "Chey!"
"Here we are." Spencer announced as the group approached the magnificent mansion next to the Gym. Spencer took a key from his pocket and unlocked the door, letting everyone inside.
"I just want to say sorry again..." Paris told Chey as they walked up the steps that led to the entrance to the house. Chey stopped and turned to face him.
"It's alright. You've apologized enough."
"I just...I'm really sorry. I truly am."
"Paris...no. Dad. It's okay." Chey opened her arms and embraced her father, hugging him genuinely.
"Are you two coming in?" Spencer asked.
"I'll be right back," Paris responded, "I have to get something from the PokeMart."
"I'll leave the door unlocked." Spencer decided as he walked inside behind Chey.
"Who...who is that boy?!" Stephen hadn't been able to hear Chey call Paris 'dad', so he was quite furious upon seeing the two teenagers hugging. "How dare he...he'll pay!" Stephen jumped from the roof of the single-story building, landing on the road a couple of yards behind Paris. He dashed up to the boy, slamming the black staff into the side of his ribcage. Paris flew across the ground, hitting the side of a nearby building.
"What the...?!" Paris wondered, getting up and reaching for his Pokeballs.
"Just who are you to her?!" Stephen asked as he ran toward Paris in a fit of rage. He stabbed the black staff toward Paris, who barely dodged the attack. Stephen easily pulled the staff out of the hole he had created in the building, and began to slash at Paris again.
"What are you talking about?!" Paris threw six Pokeballs into the air, releasing Honchkrow, Crobat, Ditto, Grounoo, Freezoo, and Bouldoo.
"Die!" Stephen shouted, sending out his other five Pokemon, all of which had evolved, to join Duskarrion. Skorupi had become the large purple monster, Drapion. Misteam had become the steam-shrouded leviathan, Leviathell. Houndour had grown larger and grown two curved horns, becoming Houndoom. Cubone and Ekans, on the other hand, had evolved into new, less common forms. Ekans had grown very long but remained skinny, and did not have the charactaristic cobra patterns of Arbok. Its scales alternated black and yellow, and it bore two large fangs. It had become a Tiark, a rare Pokemon that Ekans could only evolve into if it was bred by a Seviper. Cubone's alternate evolution, Cematriary, had a body structure similar to Marowak, but it was completely covered in bones. The bones formed intricate armor, and its bone helmet was shaped differently than Marowak's. In its hand it held an especially long bone that appeared to be a spinal cord of some sort. Overall, it looked slightly feminine, but looked almost regal compared to Marowak. Stephen's Pokemon charged, attacking Paris's Pokemon with all their might. With just one wave of attacks, Paris's Pokemon were badly wounded.
"Crap, this kid is strong..." Paris realized. Stephen's Pokemon quickly defeated all of Paris's, and Paris backed up, not noticing that he was backing into a corner.
"Now die!" Stephen twirled the black staff above his head and sped toward Paris, swinging the staff out by his side.
"Those eyes..." Paris thought, "You're just like him! Just like...Oof!" Paris fell to his knees as the staff connected with his stomach. He hit the pavement and slipped into unconsciousness. Stephen returned all of his Pokemon except for Duskarrion to their Pokeballs and stood over Paris's body, saying nothing. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the door to the mansion open, so he quickly boarded Duskarrion and flew back onto the roof with the raised edge. Chey came running outside, pushing Brandon's wheelchair.
"Paris? We heard a noise, and..." Brandon stopped mid-sentence when he saw Paris's body lying on the ground. Chey ran over to the body, parking Brandon's wheelchair a few feet away.
"Dad?! Dad!" Chey turned the body over and looked at Paris's face. His forehead was bleeding.
"Help!" Brandon shouted at the top of his lungs. "My friend needs medical attention!" As nurses and Chansey rushed out from the Pokemon Center with a stretcher, tears welled up in Chey's eyes, and she hugged Paris even more forcefully than she had before. Once again, Stephen's distance had prevented him from hearing Chey address the boy as 'dad', but he had seen the scene perfectly.
"No...no!" Stephen shouted, clutching his forehead with the hand that was not holding the black staff. "How could she...NO!" The black staff began to glow with an intense black flame.
"AUGH!" A pillar of darkness ascended from the roof, and in a flash, the boy and his Duskarrion disappeared, unbeknownst to all of the people who were focused on Paris.

"I just got a call from Dan," Bobby hung up his cell phone, "He's going to meet us at the entrance to the Chasm Caves." The group flew south, toward the designated meeting place.
"They're not going to believe what happened to us..." Jeremy commented.
"That would be because he's not going to find out," Came a familiar voice, "Seeing as how dead men tell no tales and all that." All heads turned to see Vampyro floating behind them, fiery shuriken in hand.
"Vampyro?!" Matt exclaimed.
"How are you alive?!" Nosfrostu asked. "I froze you inside Mount Rafalski!"
"Yes, well, I got a tad bored with all of that," Vampyro replied, "Lucky for me, I had made a deal with some of my acquaintances beforehand, and they came and got me out of there. Wasn't that nice of them?"
"Acquaintances? What the heck are you talking about?!" Matt inquired.
"I believe you've met them," Vampyro explained, "Though, I'd hate to be cliche, so I'm not going to do the whole tell-you-before-you-die bit. It might jinx it for me!" He threw the shuriken at Matt, who jumped off of the Staraptor he was riding just in time to dodge the attack. He landed on Elissa's Togekiss's wing and immediately jumped off of it, aiming for Vampyro as he swung his staff out wide. The fiery shuriken flew back to Vampyro just in time, and the vampire easily countered the attack. The two began to exchange blows in midair, neither one of them taking a single hit.
"Forgetting someone?" Nosfrostu threw her snowflake chakrams at Vampyro, who was focused on blocking Matt's attacks.
"Fools." In a flash, Vampyro spun around rapidly, deflecting the chakrams as well as a blow from Matt's staff. Before anyone knew what was going on, the fiery vampire delivered a kick to Matt's abdomen, sending him flying backwards. Staraptor instinctively flew into Matt's path, catching him before he fell to the ground.
"He's fast!" Elissa noticed.
"Which is why it's going to take all of us to bring him down!" Bobby exclaimed as he launched a blast of fire from the tip of his staff. Vampyro raised his arms, and a shield of fire surrounded him, absorbing Bobby's attack. Nosfrostu waved her arms, and a sphere of ice surrounded the ball of fire. Oddly enough, the ice did not melt, despite the intensity of the flames. Nosfrostu concentrated, and the ball of ice grew smaller, as if trying to squash Vampyro within it. Staraptor flung Matt off of its back, giving him the momentum to deliver a powerful blow. As if on cue, Vampyro burst free from the shrinking sphere of ice, but did not have enough time to notice Matt coming towards him. The orange staff slammed into his side, sending him flying away from the group quickly. Elissa and Bobby took advantage of the situation, sending solid lavender hands and blasts of flame from their staves. Vampyro managed to recover from the shock of Matt's attack just in time to disappear, avoiding the married couple's attacks. He reappeared behind them, sending a shuriken flying toward each of them. A shield of ice appeared behind them, blocking the shuriken. Nosfrostu dashed toward Vampyro, slashing with her chakrams. The fiery shuriken quickly returned to their owner's hands, allowing him to block the icy assault. Matt came down on him from behind, attempting to deliver a blow to the top of his skull, but a small shield of flame protected the vampire. Matt somersaulted back onto Staraptor and ordered it to charge forward so that he could attack again.
"Enough of this madness." Vampyro concentrated, and suddenly, a blast of fire exploded from him in all directions, sending all of his assailants backwards. "It's time to get what I've come for."
"What he's come for?" Jeremy wondered.
"Give me the staves." Vampyro extended one of his arms, and the shuriken in his hand disappeared. He motioned his hand in a beckoning matter, as if asking for someone to come close.
"What?!" Everyone was shocked.
"With the staves' power...I can take over the world!" He exclaimed. "Now give me the staves if you don't want to die!" His usual tone, which hinted at sarcasm and playfulness, turned to one of pure evil.
"They will do you no good!" Nosfrostu shouted. Vampyro turned his head to face his icy counterpart. "The staves cannot be used by one such as yourself, Vampyro! This is what I have learned over the years!"
"You lie!" Vampyro responded.
"I speak the truth!" Nosfrostu replied. "Not only are the staves already bound to other people...but even if they weren't, only humans can use their power!"
"No!"
"You've lost your way, Vampyro," Nosfrostu's voice softened, "Killing people in order to lure others...attempting to steal the staves from their rightful owners...thoughts of world domination...you're not the brave and noble vampire I once knew...you're not my brother!"
"Shut up!" Vampyro's entire body crackled with intense fire. "It is you who has lost your way! You have gone soft! Caring for these pitiful humans...when all they do is take! They take from the environment...they use Pokemon as tools...they care about no one but themselves! They must be eradicated so that Pokemon may be free!"
"Listen to yourself!" Nosfrostu pleaded. "You have always disliked humans, but you never killed them before! What happened to you fifteen years ago, Vampyro?!"
"...I saw it..." Vampyro's voice was quieter than before, "True power...the Elemental Pokemon! Seeing them opened my eyes to the dangers of mankind...and how they must be exterminated!" His voice rose again.
"Of course!" Elissa realized. "When the Elemental Pokemon were first created, before they were sealed away, they drove other Pokemon mad! Vampyro must have witnessed our battle fifteen years ago...and it drove him mad, too!"
"Vampyro, you have to come to your senses!" Nosfrostu cried. "Please! For me! For your sister!"
"Shut up! Shut up....shut up!" Vampyro let out a scream of agony and disappeared in a burst of flames. Ash rained from the sky, and the group was quiet.
"We need to find him..." Nosfrostu said.
"Yes, we do. If he stays like this...who knows how much damage he could cause...to himself and others."
"But who were those acquaintances he was talking about?" Matt recalled. "The ones that freed him from the volcano?"
"Good question..." Bobby replied.
"Hey...y'know what I'm wondering about?" Jeremy thought aloud. "The legends say that the Pokemon a long time ago calmed down a while after the Elemental Pokemon left! How long did that take?! How do we calm Vampyro down?!"
"It wasn't a matter of time," Elissa answered solemnly and thoughtfully, "It was...oh no."
"What?" Bobby inquired.
"I can't believe I didn't realize it before..." Elissa sounded very worried, "It all makes sense now..."
"What was it?" Jeremy asked.
"The Pokemon were returned to normal by the power of five legendary Pokemon. Five legendary...dragons."
"You don't mean..." Bobby realized.
"And those dragons' owners were known as...The Draconic Knights."
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Okay, so apparently whoever came up with the idea for Valbit, Rabuphire, and Raburice submitted the ideas both for this and for the "Tengu region pokedex" or whatever it's called (It's on crater, so PokeGym people wouldnt know about it). I've already finalized the dex as it is for ELOA and have already used the Pokemon, so it can't be changed now, but those three pokemon WILL be omitted from the dex after ELOA. Seriously, that's the last time I'll ever ask anyone else to submit ideas, because when you do, you end up having some of the same pokemon as some other fanwork, which I absolutely cannot stand. Unbelievable.
Note: In the games, Eevee can only evolve into Spireon in the Ghost Plains, but meh. This worked out better for the plot and whatnot.
Note: I just realized that Matt's staff is orange, not brown...so yeah. I fixed that.
 
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long, but great chapter! =P btw, when Steven see's Chey, you say Chay instead of Steven. And when Chey is hugging Paris you said Brandon...
 
I don't see "chay" anywhere (didn't find it with ctrl+f), but I fixed the brandon thing.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean, someone else pointed it out on the other forum too.
 
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Chapter 18​

"Are you sure this is where they are?" The blue knight asked. The five knights walked across the foggy fields of the Ghost Plains, barely able to see two feet in front of their faces.
"We placed a tracking device on one of them when they left Team Rocket," The yellow knight replied, "And it was generally agreed upon that they wouldn't be able to find it."
"We're near." The red knight held a small electronic device in front of him. A small screen on the device displayed a radar, and a small yellow dot was placed just above the center of the screen. The knights continued to walk through the dense fog, and soon came to a rock wall.
"Great, a dead end." The blue knight sighed.
"Don't be so sure." The red knight reached behind his back and pulled out a large red and orange broadsword that looked as if it was made of hardened magma. He effortlessly swung the heavy sword at the wall, causing a large portion of it to crumble. Oddly enough, a perfect rectangular area of rocks fell out, showing that that spot on the wall had been used as a door before. The knights walked in and discovered that several lamps hung from the ceiling, lighting the corridor rather nicely. They soon arrived in a large room that contained all the furnishings of a living room - a sofa, several chairs, a television, a table, and even a minifridge. A male figure sat in one of the chairs, facing away from the entrance.
"Why hello there." The white knight smirked. The slightly overweight man with short brown hair turned around, meeting the knight's gaze.
"Oh, crap." The man, who wore a faded green t-shirt and faded green shorts, quickly got up and began to run down another hallway that extended from the room. The knights followed him at a much slower pace, ignoring the television set that remained on. The man hastily opened a door at the other end of the hallway and closed it behind him, disappearing from view. The knights made their way to the same door, and the yellow knight opened it. The knights entered a fully furnished kitchen, complete with microwave, oven, stove, refrigerator, freezer, and even a toaster. Though the man they were chasing was not within sight, there was only one hall, other than the one they had come from, that extended from the kitchen, so the knights walked into it. They finally made their way to a large, dark, empty room that did not appear to have any exits besides the one they had entered through. Suddenly, a loud noise was heard, and they turned around to see that the entrance had been blocked by a large rock.
"Are they serious?" The blue knight wondered. "Do they know who we are?"
"The Draconic Knights!" The red knight automatically responded. "Glad to see you're finally beginning to get enthusiastic about it!"
"I'm not." The blue knight replied as if what the red knight had said was utterly disgusting.
"Do you honestly mean to ambush us?" The white knight called to seemingly no one. "You know what we are capable of, boys. This is quite a foolish move on your part."
"Attack!" Came a battle cry from what sounded like all directions. From the darkness came various Pokemon attacks of different elements.
"Idiots." As the white knight drew her longsword, the blue knight drew an icy blue rapier, the yellow knight drew a sandy brown scimitar, and the black knight drew a pair of sharp knives with dark purple handles. The knights, even those holding weapons with small surface areas, easily deflected all attacks that were coming for them.
"Attack again!" Came a different voice. Once again, a salvo of attacks fired from the darkness, and once again, the knights deflected them with ease.
"Keep attacking until you hit them!" A third voice commanded. The Pokemon, hidden from view, continued to launch wave after wave of attacks, but not a single one managed to connect with its target, and the knights were far from tiring.
"This is pointless." The white knight raised her sword above her head, and it began to glow brightly. In a flash, the room was completely illuminated. The knights were surrounded by a ring of Pokemon, and just outside the ring were six men around the age of thirty, one of which was the man that the knights had chased.
"Oh, crap! You didn't tell us that it was them!" One of the men shouted at the man that the knights had chased.
"I think you know why we're here, boys." The white knight announced.
"Why you're here? Why, whatever could you mean?" One of the men, who was completely bald, replied.
"Didn't you have hair when you left?" The blue knight recalled.
"Yes, and it was the prettiest hair in the world," Omar answered, "But alas, it was destroyed in an encounter with a group of enraged Chimchar. I have cried myself to sleep ever since."
"Great self respect right there." The blue knight sarcastically responded.
"Enough of this useless chatter," The white knight began, "Give us..."
"Give us the white staff!" The red knight interrupted her.
"White staff? I don't know what you're talking about!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Now, now, don't make us do this the hard way." The yellow knight pulled out a Pokeball from within his robes.
"Crap, is that...?!" Twitchy wondered. He was twitching every few seconds, a sign that his condition had not improved since fifteen years ago.
"It is." The yellow knight answered.
"We should give them the staff, dude!" Alex exclaimed.
"No." Ryan replied.
"No? So you'd rather die than hand it over?" The white knight taunted.
"I choose none of the above." Ryan snapped his fingers, and the room began to rumble.
"Haha! He's always got a plan!" Omar exclaimed. Smoke shot out of various vents all over the walls and floor, and rocks began to descend from the ceiling. The Elemental Six and their Pokemon disappeared into the smoke just as the rocks drew close to ground level.
"Amateurs." The Draconic Knights easily cut through all of the boulders that would otherwise hit them.
"Where do you suppose they went?" The yellow knight wondered.
"It doesn't matter," The red knight answered, "They left the staff here, didn't they?"
"Quite foolish of them." The white knight agreed. She swung her sword quickly, and a wave of air shot forth at the wall she was facing. Part of it crumbled, and a secret room was revealed. The knights walked into the small room, which was completely undecorated except for the pedestal in the center of the room. The white staff floated above the pedestal, encased in a glass container filled with some kind of green liquid.
"They probably thought that we'd think they took it with them." The red knight guessed.
"Stand back, that green stuff is acid." The yellow knight approached the container and slashed at it with his scimitar. The glass broke into many pieces, and the liquid began to pour onto the floor. The knight agilely jumped backwards to a safe distance away from the acid, where the other knights stood. He threw the Pokeball that he had been holding in his hand into the air, and it opened to reveal a mere Swalot, rather than Thundrake as Twitchy had guessed. The large purple blob of a Pokemon sluggishly moved across the ground, absorbing the acid as it went. Once the acid had been taken care of, the red knight walked forward and took the white staff from the pedestal.
"Alright, we've got it. So what now?" The blue knight wondered.
"You actually care?" The yellow knight asked half-mockingly.
"No, of course not!" The blue knight replied, flustered.
"Let's go." The white knight said. The knights exited the cave and released several flying Pokemon to take them back to their headquarters in Balankou City.

"Your friend is going to be okay. He just needs to rest." The nurse informed the group of concerned students, teachers, and Gym Leaders. Paris laid in a hospital bed, surrounded by machines that measured his vitals.
"Thank goodness." Chey let out a sigh of relief.
"Some of us should go on ahead to Roccane Town while the rest stay here," Mr. Pennington suggested, impatient as always, "That way we won't lose much time." Mrs. Searle shot him a slightly angry glance.
"No...it's fine," Chey responded, noticing Mrs. Searle's glance, "You guys can go on. Brandon and I will stay here with him."
"I'll stay as well," Dave volunteered, "In case we're ambushed or something."
"Why would you be ambushed?" Mr. Pennington asked skeptically.
"With all that's happened recently, it doesn't exactly seem out of the question to me." Brandon replied.
"We'll stay too." Emily volunteered herself as well as Chris.
"Alright, so it's us three teachers, Rachael, Drake, and Spencer going on to Roccane Town." Mr. Lawson confirmed.
"Right. We'll come back here once we've spoken to Professor Maple." Mrs. Searle added. The group that had decided to leave left, walking outside and releasing the flying-type Pokemon that Spencer had provided.

"She's not here?" Mrs. Searle was surprised.
"I'm afraid not." The lab coat-wearing assistant replied. The group was standing just outside the Roccane Town laboratory, where Professor Elissa Maple worked.
"Where is she?" Rachael inquired.
"She left a week or two ago to help one of her friends over on Skuakko Island," The assistant explained, "Actually, we heard from her yesterday, she said she was somewhere in the Chasm Mountain Range."
"The Chasm Mountain Range? What would she be doing there?" Mrs. Searle wondered.
"Don't know. She didn't say." The assistant answered.
"Well, shoot. What are we going to do now?" Mrs. Searle asked the rest of her group. Mr. Lawson shrugged, then began to look around.
"Nicholas?!" Mr. Lawson was shocked, as he suddenly spotted his former student, one of the boys they had been looking for. Nicholas was walking down the dirt road in the center of Roccane Town, kicking rocks as he went. Mr. Lawson and Rachael quickly ran over to the boy, with the rest of the group close behind.
"Nicholas!" Rachael exclaimed, catching the boy's attention.
"Rachael?" Nicholas was equally surprised to see his friend. "Mr. Lawson?"
"What are you doing here?" Mr. Lawson asked. "Where are the other boys?"
"Why'd you steal the staff?" Mr. Pennington asked bluntly.
"Wh-what?" Nicholas was caught off guard. "I didn't steal the staff! Those other boys kidnapped me!"
"I knew it!" Mr. Lawson was relieved. "I knew you could never do something like that!"
"They kidnapped you?" Mr. Pennington was skeptical.
"Yeah! You guys were there when it happened!" Nicholas replied, speaking more ecstatically than usual. "After we lost the appeal to the board, David took me outside and threatened to kill me! Then these other boys came, and they explained how they were going to steal the staff, and David decided to join them! I tried to run, but they wouldn't let me!"
"How did you get away?" Mr. Lawson was intrigued by Nicholas's story.
"We met up with Michael," Nicholas explained, "And he made David leave because he tried to kill me again. Then, I told Michael that I wanted to leave, and he let me. He even lent me one of his Pokemon to use to protect myself." His tone had calmed back down once the initial shock of seeing the teachers had settled.
"You met up with Michael? Tch." Mr. Pennington spat on the ground.
"Did he or any of the boys talk about training with the staff?" Mrs. Searle inquired.
"Yeah," Nicholas answered, "The kid with the Nightture...Stephen, I think his name was."
"Uh-oh." Mr. Pennington showed his concern through anger.
"This isn't good," Mrs. Searle immediately whipped out her cell phone, "I need to inform Procter." She dialed the principal's number into the device and raised it to her ear.
"Hello? Mr. Procter?" Mrs. Searle began to talk into the phone. "Mr. Procter, we have a problem. The boy with the Nightture is training under Michael... Yes, he's using the black staff... I know. We need to stop him... Balankou City? Sure... Alright, we'll see you there." She hung up the cell phone.
"So?" Mr. Pennington was eager to hear what Procter had said.
"We're going to meet them in Balankou City." Mrs. Searle informed him.
"We should go back to Hanaero Town and get the others first." Spencer suggested.
"Yeah, but if Paris is still resting, they won't want to leave him." Mr. Lawson responded.
"Well, we should inform them of the situation anyways." Mrs. Searle decided.
"Alright, let's go." Mr. Pennington agreed.

Cloaked in black flames, Stephen appeared just outside of Michael's mansion, Duskarrion by his side.
"Auugh!" He clutched his forehead in pain as he stumbled toward the door, paying no attention to the rubble and debris left by Michael's fight with Dan and Tatiana nor the large hole in the upper floor of the building. He entered the open doorway and looked around as he entered the foyer.
"Where are you...?" He wondered. He walked up the stairs and finally noticed that most of it had been destroyed by Dan's makeshift wrecking ball. As he approached the center of the house, he noticed debris falling from above. He looked up to see the gaping hole in the roof that had been covered by a sheet of ice. In the center of the ice, something was visible, but it could not be distinguished from where Stephen stood.
"What the heck?" Duskarrion carried Stephen up to just below the ice. The teenager deftly smashed the ice with his staff, causing it to shatter into millions of pieces. Michael, still wrapped in a coat of vines, began to fall, but Stephen instinctively swung his staff, causing a large mass of dark energy shaped like a hand to shoot out from its tip. The hand caught Michael, and smaller hands shot out from its fingertips, unwrapping the man and flicking away any leftover shards of ice. Duskarrion carried Stephen back down to the floor, and the boy gently placed Michael on the torn-up carpet.
"What the..." Michael rubbed his head as he sat up, looking around, "Stephen?"
"Hello." Stephen muttered.
"Where did they..." Michael looked around, seeing the vines and shards of ice scattered around him, "Tch."
"What happened?" Stephen asked with some difficulty as he tried to shake his daze from earlier.
"Two of my old... 'friends'... attacked me. Looks like they won." Michael stood up and continued to look at the destruction that the battle had caused. He quickly noticed a dark aura surrounding Stephen. "You... managed to get the staff to activate?"
"... Yeah."
"How?"
"I'd rather not talk about it." Stephen turned away from Michael, facing the staircase.
"I understand." Michael responded. After a short pause, he spoke again. "Now that the staff has activated... would you like to..."
"Yes," Stephen agreed, "Let's continue my training." He turned back to face Michael, and it was clear that they were thinking the same thing; that they would have a mock-battle right where they were. The gray staff began to crackle with electricity, and the dark aura surrounding Stephen and the black staff intensified.
"Come on!" Michael exclaimed. The two men dashed forward, preparing to strike each other with their staves.

"Just two more to go." Geraldo wandered through the dusty desert surrounding Sparkiban City, constantly checking the map to ensure that he was going the right direction. Suddenly, the dust storms faded away, as if had entered some kind of protected oasis. He turned around, and sure enough, the storms continued to rage on behind him, but seemed to be kept back by some kind of invisible forcefield. The boy turned back toward the center of the storm proof area to discover an ancient stone temple, much like the one in the Darkomu Forest. It was heavily eroded by sand, and only stumps remained where it looked like grand pillars probably stood at one point. Unlike the temple in the forest, this temple's entrance was unguarded by a rock, so Geraldo walked in. The moment he walked in, a stone slab descended behind him, blocking the exit.
"How original." Geraldo said sarcastically. Prior to his encounter with Hector, Geraldo had never been one to use verbal techniques such as sarcasm; obviously the college student had rubbed off on the boy. He began to walk down the narrow hallway that led away from the blocked entrance, but he soon felt that something wasn't right. He turned, and sure enough, a large boulder was rolling toward him.
"Bastiodon!" He released the shield-faced dinosaur from its Pokeball, just in time for it to quickly assess the situation. It stood in front of its trainer and braced itself, awaiting the oncoming rock. As the rock crashed into its large square head, it stood its ground, refusing to budge an inch. With an incredible burst of strength it charged forward, flinging the rock several feet into the air. When the boulder descended back toward the ground, it headbutted the large rock, smashing it and breaking it into several pieces.
"Good job, Bastiodon!" Geraldo congratulated his Pokemon. The trainer and Pokemon continued to walk down the hallway, eventually coming to a place where large slabs of moving rock extended from the walls, slammed into each other, and retracted back into their slots in the sides of the hall.
"This looks like a job for... Kabutops! Armaldo! I choose you!" The two bipedal fossil Pokemon emerged from their Pokeballs and analyzed the situation, immediately understanding what they were to do. When the walls retracted into their holes, they stepped into the space between the walls, each facing one of the holes. When the walls came slamming back towards the center, they grabbed on to them and pushed outward, trying to stop the walls from moving. The powerful Pokemon succeeded in their task, and the walls stopped moving. Geraldo and Bastiodon walked through, and Kabutops and Armaldo followed them as they proceeded down the hallway. Geraldo finally reached his destination; a small room with a stone tablet in the center of it.
"Let's see... 'Surround the tablet with six ground-type Pokemon'... Well, this one's easy." He threw five of the Pokeballs Michael had given him into the air, revealing Mamoswine, Sandspike, Quagsire, Claydol, and Hippowdon. Geraldo's Rhinooly joined Michael's ground Pokemon after being released from its own Pokeball, and they formed a circle around the stone tablet. The room began to shake, and the tablet descended into the ground. Just as Regigrass had ascended from the hole in the forest temple, the fifth titan now rose from the ground. Its body was large and bulky, and its shape was somewhere between Regirock and Registeel. At the top of its body, two mountain-shaped growths stuck up next to each other, one larger than the other. Its body was a soily dark brown, and the tips of the mountainous growths were white, as if to simulate high-altitude snowy mountaintops. It had thick legs shaped like funnels with the wide end on the ground and soily arms shaped similar to Regirock's. In the center of where its face would be, there were seven purple dots, arranged in a two by three rectangle with one dot on top.
"Everyone, attack!" Geraldo commanded. The six ground-types were already at an advantage, as they had the titan surrounded. Each of them launched various attacks, and made quite an impact on the ground-type titan.
"Quake!" It cried. It lifted one of its legs and slammed the ground, causing a large earthquake to ripple outwards and knock all of the surrounding Pokemon off of their feet, except for Claydol, who hovered in the air. It shot one of its arms out at the unsuspecting Claydol, catching it off guard and knocking it against a wall. Bastiodon, Kabutops, and Armaldo rushed forward, joining the fray with physical attacks of their own. The ground titan proved to be more of a challenge than the grass titan had been, but eventually, Geraldo's Pokemon triumphed. The boy threw a dark ball, which wiggled a few times then clicked, signaling that the titan had been caught.
"Alright! I caught Regiquake!" Geraldo exclaimed as he picked up the ball.
"Impressive." Came a familiar voice along with the sound of clapping. Geraldo turned to see David standing in the entrance to Regiquake's chamber.
"You!" Geraldo shouted. "What do you want?!"
"Two more titans to go, am I right?"
"Why's that any of your business?" Geraldo wondered.
"You're going to help me," David replied, "Once you catch the last titan, you're going to use them to move some things for me."
"Move some things? What are you talking about?" Geraldo was very confused.
"I'll explain later," David answered, "For now, let's go catch those last titans."
"I'm going to go catch them, but you're not coming with me!" Geraldo exclaimed.
"Fool." David sighed. In a flash, he appeared behind Geraldo and lifted his sword to the boy's throat.
"How did you...?!"
"Don't worry about it. Now let's go, shall we?"
"Crap..." Geraldo knew that if he ordered any of his Pokemon to attack, he'd be killed in an instant. He returned the Pokemon to their Pokeballs and followed David out of the temple, boarding his Aerodactyl once they exited.
"I'll find a way out of this..." He thought, "That's what Hector would do. He'd find a way to give this guy the slip, or he'd just have his Pokemon kill him. Yeah...that's what I'll do."
"I can hear you, you know." David interrupted the boy's chain of thought. He pointed to his Gallade, who was standing just outside the temple. "Gallade may gain a fighting type upon evolution, but it can still read minds and send telepathic messages just fine."
"That's not good." Geraldo thought aloud. David sent out a Scizor, which had obviously evolved from his Scyther, and returned Gallade to its Pokeball. The two flying Pokemon took off, heading for the Ghost Plains, where the sixth titan rested.

"What took you guys so long?" Dan asked. His group was already waiting at the southern entrance to the Chasm Mountains when Bobby's group arrived.
"Vampyro ambushed us." Bobby explained.
"Vampyro?" Tatiana wondered.
"The vampire from Skuakko Island," Bobby replied, "He appeared out of the blue and tried to take our staves."
"Why would he do that?" Procter asked.
"He saw the fight with the Elemental Pokemon fifteen years ago, and it messed up his brain, or something." Jeremy answered.
"He wants to use the Elemental Pokemon's powers to get rid of all the humans in the world." Elissa added.
"That sounds kinda serious," Sebastian commented, "Shouldn't you be focusing on stopping him?"
"He's somehow tied to the Draconic Knights," Bobby responded, "So we might be able to get some answers from them."
"Alright then, let's go." Dan decided. The group took off, heading for Balankou City.
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Note: Yeah, I know in the newsletter I said Bobby's group would confront the knights in this chapter, but I decided to stop here. It'll happen next chapter.
 
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