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Battle of the elements Book 2: For the end begins.

Part 1: The ends fight the center, or mirror duel

The half buried old stadium loomed over the surrounding countryside. It did not reveal the events happing in the happing inside it during the wee hours of the morning. The focus holders where meeting. The stadium was built like the coliseum in Rome. It was roughly circular but a large portion of its outer diameter was buried. But the inner staging area was intact. Seventeen pillars rose around this area, between the center and the seats. On the top where large fire holding cups which now where unlighted. And on the fire holders the outer circle members appeared.

Red light and flame spouted from one as Robert Ignite appeared in a flash of fire. Next of him Joslynn Frigid appeared in an ice blue flash. Candice Storm came after her with a bright yellow, followed by Kiersta Streams with a dark blue wave. In quick succession Jennifer Flora, Leslie Couriga, Sidney Bane, and Phillip Atlas appeared. Quentin Zephyr, Kimberly Vision, Minda Etom, Alton Stoner, and Justin Drake, came in next. Lastly Mimi Phantasm, Dawn Shears, Arron Slink, Evan Norman showed up completing the outer circle.

When they all arrived in there pokémon forms, the inner circle arrived. Michael Flash, Ebony Shade, Marius Xeroxes, Lisa crystalline, and Jolie (Spooky) Electra the 2nd appeared in the center, the first four surrounding the last.

*Ok, everyone here's the plan, * Michael said the acoustics allowing his voice to reach everyone. *The five of us are going to find the key holders. We will draw less attention then if we all go in a group. The rest of you change to human and make sure that no one can enter the stadium when its time. Now let's do it! * And with those words they all changed.

The circle holders jumped down from the pillars and landed on the ground. The most notable changes were Quentin, Justin, Mimi, Dawn, Arron, Even, Leslie and Spooky.

The wind picked up around Quentin, blowing dust around him in a circle. The wind caved the symbol for flying types under him in a circle than rose up in a large tornado with cross winds obscuring him from view. It dissipated in a flash of brown-grew light he changed to his human form. He was an eighteen-year-old kid with straight shoulder length brown hair. He was wearing flight goggles on his head and a brown in white avatars jacket. He also dressed in a long-sleeved white shirt and brown flight pants with boots. He had black eyes. He smirked as he hovered to the ground.

Blue-green fire consumed Justin. The Burning shape exploded in to a circling Chinese dragon. In the center of the circle made by the figure's body the symbol for dragon type immortal blood appeared. The dragon circled closer and closer until it collapsed into its self and in a pillar of royal blue light he changed to his human form. He looked like a sixty-seven older man. He had white hair that was frizzy and had squinty black Brock type eyes. He was wearing a dark blue suit with an orange tie and navy blue dress shoes. He gave a short bow to the others when he landed.

Mimi vanished as will-o-wisps appeared in circle where she was. The ghostly flames circled vertically forming the symbol of ghost types in the middle. The fires all gathered in the middle of the circle to form a large glowing fireball. It exploded in supernatural flame with a ghostly scream. After the sliver black light down Mimi could be seen in her human form. She was a pale woman with black ankle length hair and a tattered faded purple Victorian dress. She was wearing a red bead necklace and had lots of charms along her wrists. She had pale red eyes that looked vacant and lost and was wearing white gloves. She looked to be about forty-seven years old. She levitated down with and smiled darkly.

Metal walls rose up and boxed in Dawn. On each of the square faces there was a circle with the symbol for metal types, Resistance, inscribed in it. The metal walls melted into a slivery shapeless blob. It hardened then with a scream of metal shattering it blew apart to revel Dawn's human form. She was a tall fifty-four year old woman with iron gray hair done in a braid that reaches her waist. She was dressed in iron gray sweat pants and a white shirt with gray stripes on the short sleeves. She had gold eyes. She landed heavily denting in the ground. She stood from her kneeling position and glowered at everyone.

The area around Arron darkened. A shroud of pure darkness enveloped the sneasel hiding him from view. Bolts of crimson energy raced across the crimson blackness; briefly forming the symbol for Dark types on the cloud, true cause, on it. Then with a quiet laugh it dissipated in a crimson black flash. In human form Arron was a handsome 25-year-old young man. He had brown hair, close cut that had streaks of blue in it. He had black eyes with a little red in them. He was also dressed in a dark blue fleece with matching pants and hood, black boots and dark red gloves. He landed lightly, not even disturbing the ground and gave everyone a sunny but tired smile.

Orange energy pulsated around Even. It inscribed the symbol for normal types on the ground, then collapsed into a sphere of psychical force the concealed the jigglypuff from view. With a cry of power and rage it exploded in an orange flash. He was wearing a black T-shirt with black pants and black tennis shoes. And he now sported a white scarf. He too landed lightly, but frowned sadly.

Lisa crystallized into a wire frame bit map. It broke apart and changed into a wire frame of her focus the brilliant idea. It was a circle with a light bulb shape inscribed in it. The symbol for creation types span around faster and faster different shapes appearing in the now glowing orb until it shattered in a flash of light sliver. Lisa's human form looked like a slight twenty-year-old woman with black eyes and red and blue striped hair. She was wearing a white lab coat with light blue jeans and sliver steel-toed boots. She has a sliver shirt under the coat, safety goggles, and work gloves on. She looked around at everyone to see if they changed all right.

The pichu was the last one to change. Power surrounded her and a multitude of rainbow lights where pulled into her. A rainbow colored circle enveloped her now floating from. It rotated around her floating form flashing every single symbol from every focus inside of it. At last it stopped with her symbol, rainbow, on it. The symbol was a circle with a multi-pointed star burst inside of it. It collapsed in a burst of rainbow light changing her to her human form. That of a nine-year old girl wearing short brown skirt that reaches to her knees and a multi-color tank top. She was wearing red boots and gloves. She now had brown eyes and a pair of rose tinted sunglasses on her head.

"See you guys later," She said as she and the inners vanished in a flash of light.

"All right, let's get settled. We're going to be here awhile," Dawn said.

"We need to relax but still remain alert. Kain could try something anytime now," Leslie said. The other nodded then when about there business. And when morning truly came it found each of them doing different things. Justin and Quentin where examining the buried part of the stadium and admiring the excavation efforts. Leslie and Kimberly where mediating under one of the pillars. Robert, Candice, and Joslynn where sitting on the third tier of seats and having another argument. Kiersta and Alton were practicing with trident and hammer in the middle of the stadium, with Jennifer and Sidney watching and commenting on their forms. Quentin convinced Evan to race him around the Stadium and the two where on their six lap of their tie-breaking race. The each had won one race before hand. Minda was watching them and acting as referee. Mimi and Dawn where having a conversation from one of the entry arches to the stadium. And Arron was taking a nap in another one that was still half buried. They each were enjoying the peace in the morning sunshine, when Kimberly opened her eyes with a start. Leslie was not far behind her when she jumped up and shouted.

"It's coming!" She exclaimed. As soon as she did, a black sphere appeared in from the air near the front of the stadium. Evan and Quentin almost ran into it. It rose and landed on the wall as every one stopped to look at it. The sky blacked, as blue bolts of energy struck the orb. On it a four-pointed star with a circle inscribed in appeared. The energy exploded up in a pillar of an inverse rainbow. Kneeling on the wall was Kain in his human form. He stood up and smiled at all the outer focus holders. The only one who wasn't visible was Arron who was still asleep.

An ill wind picked up ruffling everyone's cloths. "Hello everyone," He said chirpily. We haven't been like this in a very long time." He smiled as he looked around again. "So where's the rainbow holder?" He asked.

"We wouldn't tell you, so why do you even ask?" Dawn asked.

"I just wanted to talk to the lass. After all what is wrong with a little polite conversation?" He retorted.

"Enough with the pointless talk, we hate you, and you hate us, so let's cut to the chase," Robert shouted. "Flash Point!" He yelled pointing his left hand at the still sitting Kain.

{Attack: Flash Point Type: (Fire) At: 550 Ar: 100% A long bow of fire is made from thin air. It appears some where in front of them in a flash of fire. When the user pulls back the string, a burning arrow is formed. When the arrow hits a target, it immediately bursts into flames, no matter what it is. Humans can use it to use fire type moves more effectively. }

The bow was made of a thin red colored wood with flames engraved in the wood. The string was a thin wavering line, and when he drew it back with his right hand an arrow formed of fire appeared. A moment later the burning projectile raced through the air. Kain calmly sat there as it approached. Just before it hit him another fire arrow hit and deflected it. All eyes turned to where it came from. Along the upper edge of the stadium, sixteen figures stood.

"Oh by the way, I kind of made blanks for all of you," Kain said when they released that the were looking at copies of themselves. Each looked just like their doubles except they all had solid black eyes with no pupils or irises. "You may attack now," He said to the blanks, which quickly went after their doubles.

Candice, Joslynn, and Robert were the first to be attacked since they where closer to the top. Candice's blank fired off a step leader attack. She jumped into the air allowing the charged whip to cut through the seats she was standing on. She dove though the flashes of electricity that her double fired out screaming "Thunder Break!"

{Attack: Thunder Break Type: (Electric) At: 280 Ar: 70% A concentration of lighting bolts is fired in a spiraling pattern. The attack acts like a drill of electricity. It is the only electric attack that can hit ground types. }

Her double dodged the blast of power and greeted her with a thunder punch. Joslynn skated though her doubles White out attack. Jumping in the air she came down spinning and screamed out attack, "Diamond Flash,"

{Attack: Diamond Flash Type: (Ice) At: 550% Ar: 100% A pair of super sharp ice skates is formed on the users feet. The beautiful and deadly blades can be used as weapons and allow humans to use ice attack easier.}

The semitransparent skates cut through her doubles Ice beam and when she landed she launched a spinning kick that slashed her doubles chest. Robert Fired arrow after arrow at his charging double, who cried out, "Burner Dash!"

{Attack: Burner Dash Type: (Fire) At: 175 Ar: 80% the user is covered in flames. The user rushes the target and takes them down in a fiery tackle. The user takes one eighth of the damage the target does.}

His double plowed through his fire attacks and collided with its target carrying both of them into some seats, which exploded with the force. Kiersta was busy dueling with her double. Each of them tried to stab the other with the trident they were holding. Somersaulting backwards she dodged a swipe of opponents. She pointed her weapon at her opponent and screamed, "Aqua Crash!"

{Attack: Aqua Crash Type: (Water) At: 465 Ar 85% A ball of water is formed above the user. It is pulled down in front of the user then fired in a blast of high pressure water that cuts anything down in its path.}

Her double smirked and sidestepped her attack, which zoomed across the battlefield to almost hit Phillip, who just dug underground at the last moment. The blast smashed into one of the stadium walls collapsing it. While the dust from the falling wall obscured the underground battle, it did nothing to hinder the airborne battle between Kimberly and her double. The two psychics fried blast after blast at each other. They flew forward at each other at full speed. They both called out, "Third eye!"

The blast illuminated Leslie who was in a fistfight with her double. She was tagged with a thrust kick. Rolling back on her feet she rushed her opponent who was now in a dragon stance. "Iron hand!" She cried. In four maroon flashes a pair of steel toed boots appeared on her feet, and steel knuckle dusters appeared on her hands.

{Attack: Iron hand Type: (fighting) At: 550 Ar: 100% A move that gives a fighting type hands and feet of steel. Also powers up fighting type moves. Allows a human to use fighting type moves more effectively.}

She immediately used Gating Jabbing, punching at super face speed. Jennifer was doing somewhat better. Her double was using sun dance to avoid the storm of petals from her petal dance. The two dancing figures jumped by each other when both Sidney and his double rolled by underneath them. The two poison masters broke apart and Sidney took the opportunity attack. "Biological waste," he said launching it.

{Attack: Biological Waste Type (poison) At: 265 Ar: 100% Grey-green semi-solid spears of biological waste are thrown at the target. The spears can cut and poison the target at once. There is a 50% chance of getting badly poisoned. }

As his double was hit it smashed up as Phillip launched his double from under ground into it with a Continental Shelf Attack.

{Attack Continental Shelf type: (ground) At: 265 Ar: 85% the ground rises up in a pillar from under a target lancing them in the air. It falls back on them when they hit the ground.}

Quentin darted around the two falling blanks avoiding a Crosswinds attack, and countering with an Air Slasher.

{Attack: Crosswinds Type: (flying) At: 180 Ar: 100% a large sphere of violent wind is thrown at a target. The vicious wind explodes and tears the target apart.

Attack: Air Slasher Type: (flying) At: 160 Ar: 100% a crescent of high-speed wind is lanced at a target. It is so thin and fast moving it act like a high-speed cutter capable of slicing though steel.}

The slasher just nicked Quentin's double stunning him. Quentin looped back and kicked his double in the face sending him towards the ground. He speed it up by launching a Gale force attack after him.

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Attack: Gale Force Type: (flying) At: 300 Ar: 100% a insanely powerful gust of hurricane force wind throws the target back. The wind its self can crush the target on impact.

}

Minda felt the change of air current but ignored it. She was standing on one of the pillars of the stadium. She was looking at her double who was flying hovering above her. She threw a gust attack at her just as her double tried to hit her with stun spore. It disabled the stun spore attack. Minda rose up and attacked her double by driving her bug caching net into her face. Then she blasted her thought the air with a bug wave.

Alton blocked his opponent's hammer swing with one of his own. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Minda's double fly by. He attacked his double with a downward hammer swing. When his double jumped back, he finished his swing by hitting the ground and launching a magnitude attack. But his double created a Stone Wall to adsorb the attack.

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Attack: Stone Wall Type: (rock) At: 0 Ar: 100% a wall of rocks rises out of the ground in front of the user and absorbs damage for the user. But this move burns 1 pp for every hit it takes so it can block up to five continuous attacks.

}

Justin looked watched his double recover from his last attack. It helped that his double was weak to dragon type moves. "Dragon lance!" He exclaimed.

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Attack: Dragon lance Type: (Dragon) At: 550 Ar: 100% a lance of blue-green fire is released at a opponent. It can be held as a solid object. As such it is a lance-like weapon that can be used to make dragon type moves easier to do for humans.

}

The blue green fire condensed to form a spear with a dark blue tip. The shaft was a burnished orange metal with dragons engraved on it. Justin span above his head. Green fire gathered around and moved to the center of the whirling circle. A ball of fire formed above it and with a violent motion and the cry "Kaiser Fury!" he threw the fire at his target. He followed it up with a quick Dragon buster.

{Attack: Kaiser Fury Type: (dragon) At: 290 Ar: 100% a wheel of dragon energy is sent to a target. On impact it explodes and envelops the surrounding area in magic fire. There is a ten percent chance of causing a burn.

Attack: Dragon Buster Type: (dragon) At: 300 Ar: 90% a sphere of mystic energy is created. It is fired of at a target. Explodes on impact. There is a ten percent chance of causing a flinch.}

The two attacks hit one right after another. Before the flames died downed Justin charged forward. Elsewhere Mimi and her double where fighting. Currently the ghost holder was dodging in out of phase, avoiding shadow ball after shadow ball. She countered after ducking under a close one. "Soul blade!" She said throwing her attack.

{Attack: Soul Blade Type: (ghost) At: 550 Ar: 100% an ax of ghostly make is thrown at a target cutting the ties of the soul to the body. There is a ten percent chance of an instant KO. Humans to make ghost attacks stronger can use the attack as a solid weapon.}

Her enemy, who pulled out an ax of her own, dodged the ghostly weapon. Blocking with another of hers she realized she might be in trouble. Her ax had a black handle and a sliver head that was glowing with supernatural light.

Dawn glanced at the two ghostly women then focused her attention back on her own duel. Blocking a metal claw with one of her own, she attacked with a focus attack at point blank range. "Nail shot!" she said pointing her free left hand at her double.

{Attack: Nail shot Type: (steel) At: 155 Ar: 100% a thin bolt of steel is hot into the target. Can be fired rapid fire. }

The steel bolt hit its target knocking it back. As her double was stunned she hit her with a razor wave. A stray blade nearly hit Evan who was jumping off the seats and back on to the main arena floor. Evan dodged two quick hyper beams and blocked a swift attack with protect. He countered with an extreme speed attack as soon as his double hit the ground from his leap. While his double was in mid-air he hit him with an omega beam. His double blazed pass the corridor where Arron was napping and hit a near by wall. The explosion woke the dark/ice type up. He groggily walked out from the tunnel and noticed the early morning battle.

"What the?" he asked as he saw the beams and blasts, the strikes and the cuts. He was even more surprised to find Kimberly sliding up to his feet after plowing into the ground from a psybeam attack. Arron quickly hit her double with a Pain attack when it dove down to attack again. The super effective dark type attack knocked the psychic blank out of the battle temporally. Dragging Kim back under cover he shook her out of shock. "Come on psychic girl, you have to pull yourself together," he told her.

"Ok, ok I'm up already. Where have you been, we could use you help out there," Kim said as the stadium was rocked by another attack. Some of the ceiling fell next to the two figures one lying down the other kneeling.

"Sleeping. But that doesn't matter. We have to tell the inner holders that Kain is making is move early," Arron said to her.

"Oh I'm sorry I can't have that," Kain said the Kimberly blank powering up next to him. "Demon summoning," he whispered.

{Attack: Demon Summoning Type: (void) At: 0 Ar: 100% summons a blank and empty vessel. The user can give the vessel any from and it can fight for the user. Its almost like combining substitute and transform, but the vessel has a mind of its own, and if the user is not strong enough it can take over him or her. }

Yet another blank emerged from a glowing circle from the ground. It quickly transformed into a double of Arron. "Take them both," Kain said.

"Kimberly, teleport us as soon as you can," Arron said using a darkness phase attack on Kimberly's double. The powerful dark type attack combined with the damage that it already received, was enough to finally destroy it. It vanished in a burst of static. His double dove and tried to smash is face in but he caught his its arm and tossed into Kain who put up a shield before the double hit him.

"Go ahead and destroy them, I can call more," He taunted. He merely raised his hands and called two more blanks that took his form. Now he was fighting three duplicates of himself. "I have been practicing my control on the legendaries. Hell, I can make as many of these guys as I want." He said cheerfully.

"But we don't have to fight them," Kimberly said hovering off the ground. Her eyes flashed pink and her and Arron vanished in a flash of light.

"Oh foo," Kain said. He as his three copies walked out to watch the battle going on. "Alright boys, its time to kick this in to gear. His eyes turned all black for a second the change back. Suddenly helicopters broke through the clouds above the stadium. All of them had red R's on them.

"Hey its Team Rocket!" Mimi shouted recovering from a banshee yell attack.

"That's not good," Even yelled slamming his double into a pillar. The helicopters sides opened up and began to open fire on the stadium with rockets, bullets and missiles. Busy as they where the focus holders couldn't dodge. The good part was the fact that all the blanks didn't survive. But the bad news was that it knocked everyone back into his or her pokémon forms.

"Is everyone all right," Justin asked as the smoke cleared.

"If yes not for long," a dark voice said. All eyes turned to Kain who had both of his arms above his head palms pointed to each other. Moving his arms across his chest his dark aura flared up. Opening his eyes his, which were glowing pitch black, he slid his arms into to the point where his hands where pointed to each other making a small diamond across his chest. And in that diamond the air darkened. He smirked then quickly moved his back above his head. "Soul Deleter!" he screamed as he threw the attack down at the stadium below him. The day was turned into night, murdered before it began.

{Attack: Soul Deleter Type: (Void) At: 4000-9000 Ar: 100% Ultimate attack. An attack that sucks all of the soul energy from a certain radius by calling the center of the abyss into reality making an effect like a moving black hole; a black sphere is created above the user and is shot toward the target. On impact the target(s)'s soul or souls is pulled in creating a vacuum explosion powerful enough to destroy a planet. While charging this move the user absorbs all element-energy attacks and sends out destructive waves that repel physical attacks. }

The explosion from the attack engulfed the entire stadium. When the dust settled the focus holders where all unconscious and the helicopters descended like black rain. Kain turned and looked at an awaking White City in the far distance he smiled. (You two may have run away now, but I know as well as you do there is no escape. Now for the keys.) He thought as he followed the helicopters down.