Darkeon: The Evil Pokemon

by Twonklord

Princess Judy fidgeted nervously. Why had the archdeacon stopped in the

middle of her coronation? He was just standing there. The crown dangled

limply from his hands. The princess looked around. Everyone else seemed

mesmerized, also.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake. The floor of

the cathedral buckled

upwards, and a long, snake-like monster surged from the earth. Slime oozed

from its rocky hide. It looked over the motionless crowd, and its eye fixed

on the princess. It began to slither down the aisle towards her.

The Princess reached for the Poke Ball at her waist, then stopped. Couldn't

risk it! She looked up. The monster towered over her. It opened its fanged

mouth and lunged forward. "Pidgeot!" she cried.

The cathedral's huge stained glass window exploded inward. Pidgeot swooped

down with the wind whistling through its wings. The monster's head swung

around to follow the motion.

"Sky Attack!" shouted Judy. Pidgeot continued his dive, and crashed

straight into the monster. It leaned back under the impact, then swiftly

recovered and dived at Pidgeot.

"Pidgeot, get me out of here!" Princess Judy leaped onto Pidgeot's back.

Pidgeot leapt into the air. Judy's Poke Ball fell from her waist clip. "Oh

no! My Eevee!" she cried as it tumbled down to the floor. However, Pidgeot

was already through the window.

Jonathan was walking through the church grounds, when he saw a bird carry a

woman out the broken cathedral window. "What the…?" He ran into the

cathedral. A huge snake was curled around the altar. "What in hell is

that?" He pointed his Pokedex at the thing. It whirred.

"Searching…" it said. Suddenly, it accessed the Legend Reference.

"Lindwyrm," it said. "This beast was said to lurk in a well in medieval

days. Its poisonous skin made the well lethal to drink from."

Jonathan's attention was drawn to the old man who floated out of the hole

in the floor. He wore dark robes, and his hair was pure white. He was

incredibly wrinkly, but gave the impression of a wiry strength. He looked

at the motionless assembly.

"Good work, my Wyrm. You may return now." His voice was firm, deep, and

malevolent. He held out a black Poke Ball, and the Lindwyrm vanished into

it. The man bent down in front of the altar. He picked up a Poke Ball off

the floor. "Good, the Royal Eevee is here. Now I may evolve it into

Darkeon, and bring darkness upon the world." He pulled a black onyx orb

from his robe. "And this Dark Stone is what will let me do it!"

Jonathan needed no more prompting than this. He pulled out his magic whip

and cracked it. It extended all the way down the aisle and knocked the ball

from the man's hand.

The old man spun around. "You dare!" He threw down a Poke Ball. "Go,

Dragonite!" A dragon sprang from the ball. It roared, and flew towards Jonathan.

Jonathan quickly chose three Poke Balls from his belt. He threw two of

them.

"Go, Nidorina and Wartortle!" The Pokemon appeared. He opened the third

ball. Dugtrio appeared. "Dugtrio, go underground and get that Eevee," he

whispered.

"Trio," agreed the Dugtrio, which quickly dug a tunnel.

"Nidorina, use Ice Beam! Just like I taught you!" ordered Jonathan. It

fired the Ice Beam, freezing Dragonite. It frozen form dropped to the ground. "Yeah, you did it!" exulted

Jonathan, but he stopped at the sound of the old man's laughter, which was

very chilling.

"Hah hah hah. Very good. You are a skilled trainer. However, you have

forgotten; I have two Pokemon. Go Wyrm!" The Wyrm appeared, screeching like

a huge finger being drawn around the rim of the wineglass of the gods.

"Oh, yeah, him," said Jonathan. Dugtrio surfaced by Jonathan, who grabbed

the Poke Ball they carried.

"Okay, guys, time for a new tactic." Jonathan's Pokemon prepared for battle.

"Run away!" Jonathan and his Pokemon fled. Sweatdrops appeared on the faces

of the old man and the Lyndwyrm.

"Come back, coward! Oh, well. What is one trainer to me?" gloated the old

man, whose eyes glowed red. The scene switches to the outside of the cathedral.

"Huh? Where's the Eevee?" Startled Pidgeys leapt into the air in the from the trees.

About thirty miles west of the cathedral, there is a large lake. It is

fifteen miles across, and it is called Crater Lake. A strange building

stands on the east shore of the lake. This building looks like a large mass

of bubbles that had stuck together. Jonathan arrived at this building, and

stood before a blank wall that looked like all the others.

"Jonathan," said Jonathan, and a door appeared in the wall. He opened the

door and entered the building. The doorway vanished behind him.

Inside, a young girl put down her book on the table. "You're back early,"

she greeted Jonathan. "I thought you were on patrol off east of here."

"Well hello to you too, Sue. I was on patrol, and I found something that

needed reporting."

"Really? What?"

"I'd rather not repeat myself, so let's get the others in here."

"Sis is on the lake studying that Dratini colony, and Daniel left to

investigate some theft from a museum south of here," replied Susan.

"Great. Okay, we need to contact them."

"You know where the phone is."

After ten minutes of trying, Jonathan finally had to get Susan to set up

the three-way conference call.

"Ring ring ring! Phone-." The museum owner quickly answered the phone.

"Phone call for you, Mr. Daniel," the owner said. Daniel went to the

terminal. Two pictures appeared on the screen. Jonathan and Susan were in

one, and Amanda was in the other.

"Is this important?" asked Daniel. "I'm investigating the theft of an

ancient relic here."

"It probably is," replied Jonathan. "Something unexpected happened at

Princess Judy's coronation today."

"What?" asked Amanda.

"Well, I came in near the end. I was walking by the Narist Cathedral when I

saw the princess escape out the window on a Pidgeot. I ran inside, and

there was a huge monster called a lindwyrm there. All the people seemed

hypnotized, or something. Then, this weird old man in black robes appeared.

He returned the monster to a Poke Ball, and picked a Poke Ball off the

floor. He gloated about getting the 'Royal Eevee,' then pulled this black

orb from his robes."

"Interesting," mused Daniel. "I'm investigating the theft of something

called the Dark Stone."

"Yeah, that was it! He said something about evolving the Eevee into Darkeon

and taking over the world. So, I knocked the Eevee from his hand with my

whip, and the guy summoned a Dragonite, which I defeated. Dugtrio got the

Eevee, and then the old man summoned the lindwyrm."

"So what did you do then?" asked Susan.

"I ran away." Everybody but Jonathan fell down.

After he had gotten back up, Daniel looked amused. "You ran away? Very brave."

"Hey, look here, you! I'd like to see how you'd react if faced by a

fifty-foot long, slimy, rocky dragon-snake monster."

"Okay, okay, I get the point," said Daniel. "I'll be right over." He hung

up. He turned to the police. "I have to leave. A new lead just turned up."

A while later, back at the home of the team, Amanda's Alakazam was busy

recharging Jonathan's whip when Daniel arrived. Susan was watching TV.

"So, have there been any new developments?" asked Daniel.

Amanda answered. "No mention of the attack on the cathedral has been

broadcast, but there has been news coverage there. They are holding a

once-a-century festival, with the man Jonathan described leading it. Nobody

there seems to find anything odd, but my Alakazam has already blocked this

Eevee from being teleported there twice." Amanda stopped, and touched the

circlet on her head. "I'm picking up the thoughts of an incoming Pokemon. A

Pidgeot is approaching, and it's carrying someone." Her circlet allowed her to communicate telepathically with Pokemon.

Daniel opened the door just as the bird landed. Princess Judy got off and

ran to Daniel.

"At last I found this place!" she said. "I need the help of the Pokemon

Honor Team! You are said to be the best Pokemon fighters in the nation!"

They went inside, where Judy told her tale. She was overjoyed to see that

her Eevee was safe.

"Beware that old man," she warned. "For he is really a demon. Dasker is his

name, and he has sought that Eevee for centuries. For centuries my family

has protected it from him, but I am too weak, and this week is the peak of

his evil power. I need you to defeat him, for when he finishes his ceremony

at midnight tomorrow, when the half-moon is above the cathedral, no magic

may stop him from summoning my Eevee and evolving it into Darkeon. Darkeon

is an evil Pokemon of unstoppable power. Will you do it?"

"I don't think we have a choice," said Amanda. The rest of the team nodded

in agreement.

"Oh, thank you!" said Judy. She took out a box of four Poke Balls. "You

will need these. They are not Poke Balls, although they look like them.

They are holy grenades, which legends say will destroy demons. I have never

used one, however, because these four are the only ones I have."

They each took one. Daniel got out of his chair. "Don't worry, princess.

I'll defeat this demon." He ran outside, and threw a Poke Ball. He leapt

onto the Fearow that came out, and flew away.

"My brother always was a bit over-enthusiastic," murmured Jonathan.

Daniel landed outside the cathedral, and rushed in. He had to push his way

through crowds once inside. He saw the altar. Dasker stood behind it. He

was chanting darkly. He looked up.

"Ah, you're not hypnotized. You must be strong of mind," said Dasker. He

chuckled dryly.

"I came to destroy you, Dasker!"

The demon smiled even more. "Well then, perhaps you'd like to play with my

Wyrm." The lindwyrm appeared.

Daniel wasted no time. He threw his Poke Balls one after another.

"Go Golem, Charizard, Victrebell, Fearow and Nidoking!"

"Wyrm, Terror Slam!" The Wyrm swung its body, hitting Nidoking and Golem

with massive force. They went flying.

"Victrebell, Wrap attack!" Victrebell trapped Wyrm in its vines.

"Fearow, Drill Peck attack!" Fearow swooped at Wyrm with its wicked beak.

Suddenly, Wyrm broke free, and threw Victrebell at Fearow, knocking it out

of the sky.

Daniel pulled out the grenade. "Everyone hit the dirt! I've got a grenade!"

Nobody moved. Dasker laughed. "I said, I've got a grenade! Everyone take

cover!" No one seemed to hear him.

"Go on, throw it!" taunted the demon.

"Blast! No choice!" Daniel pushed the button on the grenade, which started

to beep. He threw it at Dasker, who did not move. It hit him, and detonated

with a small puff of smoke. "Huh? A sick Voltorb would have been stronger!"

"That tickled!" laughed Dasker. "Enough of this." He raised his hand, and a

beam of fire shot at Daniel. He jumped aside.

"Hey! There are innocent bystanders here! You could hit one of them!"

"You think I don't know that?" Dasker launched another firebeam.

"Gotta get out of here! Pokemon, return!" He recalled his Pokemon, dodged

another firebeam, and ran out. His Fearow flew him back to headquarters.

"So you say the grenade didn't work? Oh my," said Amanda. Thunder boomed

outside, and rain slashed at the roof. Daniel nodded unhappily.

"Uh oh," said Judy.

"What now?" groaned Jonathan.

"I miscalculated. The half-moon is tonight!"

Daniel looked up from where Alakazam was restoring his Pokemon. "So we have

six hours to go thirty miles, in the worst storm of the decade, and then we

have to defeat a demon with holy grenades that must be twenty years past

the expiration date."

"It could be that that grenade was a dud. Why don't you fly there?"

Jonathan laughed. "In this storm? You might as well ask us to play table

tennis in a volcano. We'll have to bike there, and I don't look forward to

it."

Susan was putting on her cape. "Maybe my Cloak of Coincidence will help us.

You know how unpredictable it is." Daniel got his crystal key, they all got

on their bikes, and they all pedaled off into the gale.

About five hours later, Jonathan looked over his shoulder. He counted two

bikes. "Where's Daniel?" he shouted over the wind.

"Don't know!" shouted Amanda. "We don't have time to look for him!"

Jonathan nodded, and returned his attention to the road.

They pedaled on through the wind for over half an hour.

"Look!" called Amanda. "I can see the cathedral!" Sure enough, there were

the lights of the cathedral about a mile away. Suddenly, Amanda's bike hit

a rock. It flipped over, catapulting Amanda forward. She got up, then

grabbed her leg before falling to the ground. Jonathan brought his bike to

a skidding halt.

"Go on without me," said Amanda. "I can't ride, and you'll never make it in

time with two people on that bike. I'll catch up."

"All right." Jonathan pedaled off.

Dasker stopped chanting. "All right, foolish humans, prepare to witness the

beginning of my dominion." A Poke Ball materialized on the altar. Dasker

opened it. Eevee came out. Dasker took the Dark Stone from his robe. "Wake

up, everyone." People began to come to their senses, and found that they

had no idea what was going on.

Dasker brought the Stone closer to the Eevee, who began to grow dimmer.

"Behold! I now create Darkeon!" He touched the Stone to the Eevee's

forehead. The Pokemon became pitch black, and began to grow.

A Poke Ball flew through the air. It hit the Dark Stone, where it exploded.

Dasker dropped it with a hiss. By the time it hit the ground, it was just

an ordinary rock. The Eevee began to shrink and brighten again.

"No!" yelled Dasker. "I'll make whoever did that wish they were dead!" He

looked at the door, where Jonathan and Susan stood.

"I'd like to see you try!" Jonathan laughed. "Hey, Susan, what do you

think? Should I take up baseball?"

"You again? Wasn't once enough? Go, Wyrm!" Wyrm appeared once again. People

started running at this point.

Soon, Wyrm faced Nidorina, Dugtrio, Wartortle, and Rhyhorn. Susan called

out Farfetch'd, Psyduck, Pidgeotto, Spearow, and Doduo. Then the battle

began in earnest.

Daniel stuck his Crystal Key into the truck's ignition. He had been told

that the Crystal Key would work on any lock. So, this should do it…

Farfetch'd slammed against a wall, and slid to the floor.

"Well, do you have any more Pokemon?" Dasker laughed. The back wall had

been damaged, but Wyrm hadn't. Dasker narrowed his eyes. "Now, you die!" He

raised his hand. Thunder boomed. Dasker looked puzzled. He looked at his

hand. "It never did that before…. " He raised his hand again, and the

thunder boomed again. "What the heck…." He raised his hand once more, and

the wall behind him caved in as a truck drove through it. Daniel was in the

cab. He hit Dasker, who was knocked down. Daniel leapt out.

"Get me a grenade, quickly!"

Susan threw her grenade to him. It looked to be a bad miss, but as luck

would have it, a blast of wind from the window changed its path so that the

grenade fell into Daniel's hand. He pressed the button, and stuck the

grenade in Dasker's mouth. He leapt away.

Dasker leapt up. He clawed at the grenade, but it was stuck in his mouth.

He said something unintelligible and unprintable, then exploded.

"Yeehah! We got him!" yelled Daniel.

"Uh, Daniel?" stammered Jonathan. "You forgot about the Wyrm."

"Oh, yeah," said Daniel. The Wyrm roared. Suddenly, the door burst open,

and fell off its hinges.

"Here ya go, Lindwyrm!" shouted Amanda as she ran in. She slid a huge bowl of milk across

the floor. The Wyrm was after it like a shot. It quickly gulped down the

milk. "Have some more!" she yelled as she threw several cartons. The Wyrm

caught and swallowed them in midair. "Look! It's slowing down," she said.

The Wyrm fell to the ground, where it began to snore thunderously. "That's

how they defeated the Wyrm in medieval days."

Just then, Dasker's laughter filled the room. A large, Eevee shaped patch

of darkness sat where the Eevee had. "Fools…. I have possessed this Eevee,

and evolved it into Darkeon. Now, I hold ultimate power."

"I think not," said Daniel. "Go, Charizard!"

"Your power is at an end," agreed Amanda. "Go, Beedrill and Hypno!"

Clouds of black smoke emanated from the Darkeon.

"Charizard, burn it away with Flame-thrower!" The flames passed through

the smoke without effect.

"It's illusion! Hypno, dispel it." The smoke vanished.

"Beedrill! Pin Missile!" The pins passed right through Darkeon, however.

Blackness lashed out and knocked Beedrill away.

"Hypno! Psychic attack!" Suddenly, Darkeon solidified.

"Charizard! Fire Spin!" Darkeon was encased in flames. Amanda threw her

grenade at it.

"No! You forgot to activate it!"

"I know what I'm doing," said Amanda. The grenade struck Darkeon, and

pulled it in as though it were a Poke Ball instead of a grenade. The ball

grew white hot, and emitted a blast that sent the roof into the sky.

Daniel pulled himself out from under a pew. Amanda was digging through the

rubble.

"Hey, look! The Eevee's okay!" Amanda held up a Poke Ball.

Later, after Pokemon had been healed, and the Wyrm had been taken off to

the zoo, thanks were made.

"In thanks for saving the country from the demon, I award each of you with

a Dragonite Medal of Tolaria, the highest honor of our nation." Princess

Judy put a platinum medal around the neck of each team member and Pokemon.

Everyone clapped.

"Hey, don't we get some kind of cash reward?" asked Jonathan.

"The cash reward is that we don't charge you for the damages to the

cathedral, and we're still not too sure we won't." The princess's tone was

sharp.

"Ah. That'll do, I guess."

"Well, princess, saving the country was fun, but we have to go now," said

Daniel.

"Why are we leaving?" asked Susan as they walked away. "There's going to be

a party with food and punch and stuff."

"I want to get out of here before they remember the truck I stole,"

whispered Daniel.

Just then, one of the cathedral walls swayed in the wind. It promptly fell

over.

"You know, I hear the weather in Dokar is quite good this time of year,"

said Amanda.

"Where's that?" asked Jonathan.

"About sixty leagues away from here," said Amanda.

"Sounds good to me," said Daniel.

"I'll get Alakazam to shrink our house and teleport it over there for us."

And so this story ends, with our heroes high-tailing it off into the

sunset, hoping that no one else would notice until they were gone.