The Dragon Master, Part 22: The Lizard Demon

Acclaim saw his entire life flashing before his eyes, as the PokeKage's gray energy sphere was moving towards him to obliterate him! "This! No! *Gasp* This can't be happening to me! No! No! NOOOOO!!" Acclaim screamed loudly as his end was drawing closer, and he could already feel his life starting to vanish from his body! As the PokeKage's energy sphere was moving towards him and shining its gray color on him, Acclaim suddenly saw the light vanishing from his eyes. Then he found himself in some pitch-black darkness, where nothing was visible. "Huh? Where am I?" Acclaim wondered, as he took a cautious stance and looked around, but saw nothing. But suddenly, he heard a sinister laughter from behind him, "Hahahaha!". "Who's there?!" Acclaim said surprised, as he immediately turned around, but there was nothing there. "What was that?" he said then, looking a bit scared in the dark. "Hahahahahahaha!!" he heard a loud laughter from behind him then, and then he widened his eyes and quickly turned around, and then he gasped loudly as he saw two yellow, evil and insane-looking eyes looking at him! There was also a large, dark figure resembling a huge lizard standing on two legs, to whom the yellow eyes belonged, although it could barely be seen because of the darkness. "Who are you?!!" Acclaim said in a loud, nervous voice. "Finally it's time to take over!" the lizard-like figure said, and then some darkness spread from its body, and started engulfing Acclaim! "What are you doing?!!! Wait! No! NOOO!!! STOOOOP!!!" Acclaim screamed loudly then, as the darkness covered his entire body and started getting absorbed into it! "GYYAAAAARRRGGHHHHH!!" Acclaim screamed loudly as that happened, but he was unable to do anything to escape from the darkness!

Meanwhile, outside the Acclaim's experience, the PokeKage's gray energy sphere crashed straight at Acclaim! Then an incredibly gigantic explosion of gray energy happened, which razed about eighty buildings to the sides and back of Acclaim! A very powerful wind also radiated from the explosion, waving against the PokeKage's clothes, who stood with his arms folded and returned his tentacles to his back, as he looked at the place of the explosion, which was now filled in thick dust. "That should be the end of it" the PokeKage said, as he calmly looked at the dust, which was beginning to settle down some seconds after the explosion. But then suddenly, the PokeKage widened his eyes a bit as the explosion's dust faded away! Acclaim's body was revealed, and he was still alive bending on his right knee, as he had grown a huge demonic hand-like wing from his left back, which he had used as a shield from the explosion and survived! "Hm?" the PokeKage thought as he looked at Acclaim carefully, and stood cautiously waiting for his next move. "Hahaha!!" Acclaim laughed excitedly then, as he moved his demonic wing from his front and revealed his face, the left half of which had been covered in some hard white material like a mask! Acclaim's eyes had also changed color, as the white part of his eyes had turned black while the rest had become yellow! "This form... This spirit energy... It seems that fool has been possessed by the Lizard Demon" thought the PokeKage, as he observed Acclaim, who was actually now possessed by the Lizard Demon, and sensed his dark spirit energy, which felt different and much more sinister than that of Acclaim, with an incredible desire to destroy! The PokeKage noticed that Acclaim's body had also grown a powerful white tail, and a large hole had appeared on his chest, on which there was also some white material spread around the hole, resembling armor! The PokeKage then also noticed the same white material coming out of the wound of the Acclaim's lost left arm, and then the material quickly shaped into an extremely powerful clawed arm, which was bigger and much more powerful than the Acclaim's original arm! "Instantaneous regeneration..." thought the PokeKage as he saw that, analyzing Lizard Demon's abilities. "Hahahaha! I'm finally out!" the Lizard Demon shouted loudly then, and his voice sounded different and much wilder than that of Acclaim! Then he looked at the PokeKage standing in front of him and said "And here's someone I wanna kill, right off!!". Then he suddenly leaped straight at the PokeKage with huge speed! "Chaos Wave!" he said then, and then he swung his arm at the PokeKage, sending out a huge crescent-shaped blast of black and red energy at him! The PokeKage then immediately jumped back, avoiding the crescent-shaped energy blast, which hit the ground and caused a gigantic explosion and a huge cloud of dust that seperated the PokeKage from the Lizard Demon! The PokeKage was then flying backwards after his jump, and then he suddenly saw the Lizard Demon leaping at him from the cloud of dust before him and laughing "Haha!!" while slashing him with insane power across the chest! The PokeKage widened his eyes a bit as he was slashed, and some electricity sparked on the large wound on his chest! The PokeKage was also sent flying backwards even faster than he was previously, and then as he was about to hit the ground, he did a backflip and landed on his feet, sliding backwards fast for some distance before stopping. The Lizard Demon also landed on his feet some distance in front of him, and then he laughed "Hahahahahahaha!!" as he started running at the PokeKage! "He's powerful..." said the PokeKage, as he touched the wound on his chest, and then some flesh and bones grew there, covering it up to look like normal again. Then he looked at the Lizard Demon running at him, but then the Lizard Demon suddenly disappeared from his sight! The PokeKage widened his eyes a bit as he saw that, but before he could even make a move, his entire left arm went flying off his shoulder in an explosion of blood! All of this happened in an instant, and then the PokeKage was also sent sliding back on his feet by the force of the attack that chopped off his arm, while his chopped off arm fell to the ground, the wound of which also sparked in much electricity. The same happened with the wound on the PokeKage's shoulder, and then, while the PokeKage was still sliding on his feet, the Lizard Demon suddenly appeared behind him and put his left hand on the PokeKage's right shoulder, who turned his head and widened his eyes a bit as he saw that! "Hahaaahaa!!" the Lizard Demon said then, as he unleashed a huge black and red energy blast at the PokeKage from his left hand, hitting him from point-blank range! A huge, powerful explosion of black and red energy happened by that, which blasted the PokeKage flying forwards fast with much damage on his right shoulder! The PokeKage flew horizontally for some distance until he was about to fall down, and then, as he fell back to the ground, the PokeKage touched it with his right hand, and then did a few front flips before landing of his feet and quickly turning around, sliding backwards on his feet for some distance until he stopped, facing the Lizard Demon. "This speed and power... He's on a completely different level than Acclaim..." thought the PokeKage, as he regenerated the damage on his right shoulder's wound, and his left arm also regenerated, although it was now a normal arm and not a mechanical one like before. After his attack, the Lizard Demon stood and looked at the PokeKage's chopped off mechanical arm lying on the ground, and said "Hahaha, a machine?". But then, as he turned his attention back to the PokeKage, he noticed that he had grown six huge spiked tentacles from his back, and had sent them all at his direction! It was too late to react though as the PokeKage's tentacles had already surrounded him, and then two of them wrapped his arms, two wrapped his legs, one wrapped his lower body and tail, and the last one wrapped his upper body, neck, and wing! "Shatter" the PokeKage said then, as he then violently pulled all of his tentacles to spread and tear the Lizard Demon apart! But then, before he could do that, many sharp bones suddenly spouted out of many parts of the Lizard Demon's body, cutting off all of the PokeKage's tentacles! "What!" said the PokeKage then, as he saw the bones all over the Lizard Demon's body, and then he pulled back his cut off tentacles. "He had such an ability?" he continued, and then he saw the Lizard Demon pulling his bones back into his body. The Lizard Demon then made an extremely evil look by narrowing his yellow eyes, and then he pointed his hand at the PokeKage, and started charging a massive amount of red energy at his index and middle fingers! The energy also shined red on the PokeKage's front body and face, who watched with his eyes widened a bit, and then the Lizard Demon finished charging his attack and then said "Vanish!" as he unleashed his gathered energy in a huge beam of red energy at the PokeKage's direction! The beam travelled incredibly fast and hit the PokeKage directly, blasting him along with hundred buildings behind him, and many people and Pokemon too! All of the buildings were blasted by the attack in an incredibly huge explosion, which raised a cloud of smoke so huge that it could be seen in the entire Shinobi Village! With nothing but smoke anr remains before him, the Lizard Demon then lowered his hand after blasting the beam, and he looked at the remains of what he had just destroyed, and the cloud of dust on them. Then he raised his left hand and looked at it a bit, before using it to punch the ground hard with insane power, creating a powerful earthquake, as well as splitting the land in two in a gigantic crack on the ground, which spread along it and swallowed up two hundred whole buildings into the depths of the earth! Much dust was also raised by the cracking earth, and the Lizard Demon looked at it with a slightly annoyed look on his face. "How useless! With this swordsman's weak body, I can't even use 10% of my power!" he said then angrily. "This demon... He obliterated all those buildings and people!" he heard a voice from back to his right then. "And he was not even using 10% of his power?!!" said another person in a surprised voice, from the same direction behind the Lizard Demon. The Lizard Demon then turned around to face that direction, and he saw a large group of people who had been watching at him, and the people then gasped loudly as they saw the Lizard Demon looking at them with his evil-looking yellow eyes! "R-Run for your lives!" said a guy then, and then the people started screaming in fear and fleeing in terror at random directions away from the Lizard Demon! "Gonzui!" said the Lizard Demon as he saw that, and tas he said that he opened his mouth, and then he started sucking the souls of people in it! "WAAAAAHH!!" screamed the people, as their souls started flying out of their bodies and getting swallowed up by the Lizard Demon! The people's spiritless corpses then quickly began falling motionless to the ground, and soon none of them was left alive, as the Lizard Demon had devoured all their souls! "Buhaaa! Those vermin weren't even appetizing!" said the Lizard Demon then, as he looked at the corpses of the hundreds of people whose souls he had consumed all at once. Then suddenly, from the remains of the buildings the Lizard Demon had decimated previously with his red energy blast attack, a huge tentacle spouted out from under a crumbled wall, and then the tentacle swung violently at the Lizard Demon's right hand, hitting it cutting it up with its thorns, and also disarming it of the Dragon Sword which went flying away! The Lizard Demon then saw the tentacle thrusting at the Dragon Sword and wrapping around it to grab it! Then he heard a sound from the building ruins, and he looked at where the tentacle had come from, where he saw the PokeKage slowly getting up from under a crushed wall, and the tentacle that had just grabbed the Dragon Sword belonged to him, being one of the six regenerated tentacles on his back! "I just need this sword, and this will be over" said the PokeKage then, as his tentacle started moving back at him with the Dragon Sword! The Lizard Demon then immediately punched the air towards the PokeKage's tentacle, and his punch sent out a blast of red energy that travelled at extremely high speed and hit the tentacle, disintegrating a part of it where it hit and cutting the tentacle in half! Then the Lizard Demon quickly ran at the Dragon Sword and grabbed it from the ground with his right arm. "As I expected. It seems that as long as the Lizard Demon is sealed into the Dragon Sword, he needs to hold it, otherwise he will lose possession of Acclaim's body to Acclaim himself, and return to the sword" thought the PokeKage as he observed carefully at what had just happened. The Lizard Demon then looked at him and started charging at him very fast! "I only need to take the Dragon Sword from his hands for a few seconds, and then this demon will probably return to the sword" the PokeKage thought, and while he was thinking, he thrusted his six tentacles, which had regenerated, all at the Lizard Demon to stab him with their pointy ends. "Die!" the Lizard Demon said then, as he jumped straight at the tentacles and started spinning around himself like a tornado! He also put his left claw and the Dragon Sword to the front of where he was diving, and as he spinned at the speed of a tornado, his left claw and the Dragon Sword started ripping through the PokeKage's tentacles like an extremely powerful blade propeller! But then, as he was slicing up the PokeKage's tentacles, the Lizard Demon noticed something, and then he stopped spinning around and landed on his feet to the ground. Immediately then he kicked off it and went flying in the air, where the PokeKage was with his six tentacles in perfect condition! The PokeKage widened his eyes a bit in surprise as that happened, and then the Lizard Demon laughed "Haha!!" excitedly, as he slashed the PokeKage's chest hard, creating many huge sparks of electricity from the wound he cut on it! "Tch" the PokeKage said, as he was sent flying diagonially downwards back towards the land after the slash, with much electricity sparking off his chest! But before falling down, the PokeKage shaped his tentacles into two wings, which he then used to stop his fall and fly in the air. Then he looked at the place where the Lizard Demon had been using his tornado-like slashing attack at the ground, and saw a replication of his self there! "To think that he would see through my Flesh Replication so easily as that, as soon as I used it... The Lizard Demon must have some natural instincts that allow him to see through such techniques" the PokeKage thought, as he saw his replication on the ground dissolving to organic material which then got absorbed into the land's soil. Then he looked at the Lizard Demon, and saw him falling down from the air after his last slash attack. But then, the Lizard Demon grew another wing, and now with the one he had grown since the beginning of his battle to protect against the PokeKage's attack which would destroy Acclaim, he now had two wings, and started flying in the air! The Lizard Demon then started flying fast towards the PokeKage, and then he pointed his fingers at him and started blasting many small bullet-like bones from his fingertips at him! The PokeKage also flew towards the Lizard Demon fast, an then two eyeless snakes spouted out from his shoulders, and then the snakes opened up their mouths and started spitting many bullet-like bone thorns from their mouths! The Lizard Demon's bullet-like bones, as well as the thorn bones of the PokeKage all collided with each other, cancelling each other out! The Lizard Demon and the PokeKage then both flew at each other at huge speeds, and the Lizard Demon laughed as he leaned his left arm back ready for a thrusting claw attack! The PokeKage then grew two sword-like bones out of his palms, and then he held them in an "X" shape to defend against the Lizard Demon's attack. The Lizard Demon's thrusting claw struck right in the center of the "X" formed by the PokeKage's sword-like bones, and a huge shockwave was released at the moment of impact! However, the PokeKage was overpowered and started getting pushed very fast backards in the air by the Lizard Demon's demonic strength! "..." the PokeKage thought overwhelmed by the Lizard Demon's power, as he struggled hard against his claw attack. But in a few seconds, the PokeKage's sword-like bones started cracking at the center of the "X" they were forming, and then they shattered to pieces by the Lizard Demon's claw! The PokeKage widened his eyes a bit as that happened, before he got stabbed right through the right shoulder by the Lizard Demon's claw! The Lizard Demon then laughed "Hahahahaha!" excitedly, as he continued pushing the PokeKage diagonially down towards the ground with huge speed to crush him! "His physical strength far exceeds mine. There is no point in trying to defeat him like this. I doubt Warugan would have any effect on him either, as he does not seem to feel any pain at all when he gets damaged. He's completely different than a normal living being. I will have to take him down in some other way. I should use that ability..." thought the PokeKage, as he looked at the Lizard Demon, who was also looking at him with a bloodlusted look in his yellow eyes! The PokeKage then placed both his hands on the Lizard Demon's left arm, whose claw was stabbed in his right shoulder, and this caught the Lizard Demon's attention. "Ice Time" said the PokeKage then, and something started happening on the Lizard Demon's left arm!

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The Dragon Master, Part 23: The PokeKage's Power

As he was getting pushed flying diagonially down to the ground by the Lizard Demon, who had partially transformed Acclaim's body into his demonic lizard-like form, the PokeKage grabbed the Lizard Demon's left arm of white material, whose claw was stabbed into his right shoulder, and said "Ice Time". The Lizard Demon then looked at his left arm and saw that it was starting to freeze solid starting from the points where the PokeKage's hands were! The ice spread across the Lizard Demon's entire left arm and claw, and soon it was frozen solid in some extremely cold ice, from which much ice-blue steam of cold was coming out! Then, as the Lizard Demon was a bit distracted by watching at his frozen arm, the PokeKage raised his right leg and kicked off the Lizard Demon's chest, gaining some distance away from him in the air. Then both the Lizard Demon and the PokeKage fell down to the ground, and they both landed on their backs as they didn't have time to balance in the air, and they landed with so much force that they cratered the ground and raised huge clouds of dust around them! In one of those clouds, the Lizard Demon was lying on his back, and then he quickly rose to a sitting position. Then he raised his frozen left arm, looked at it, and then tightened its muscles and clenched his fist, effortlessly shattering the ice around his left arm and breaking it free! After that, the Lizard Demon got up from the ground and looked at where the PokeKage was, seeing his figure standing up inside a cloud of dust. The PokeKage also had his right hand raised a bit up, with much ice-blue steam of cold coming out of it after his previous Ice Time attack. "It's been a long time since I last had to go this far" said the PokeKage, as he lowered his hand. His wings, as well as the snakes from his shoulders, also all withdrew back into his body. His body also had a large, deep cut on the chest, and a hole on the right shoulder, both caused by the Lizard Demon's rampageous attacks earlier, and some electricity was sparking from both those wounds, which exposed a metallic body under the PokeKage's human skin. The PokeKage then used his Cell Manipulation ability to cover up the wounds on his body and chest, and then he looked at the Lizard Demon. "For someone like you, who once destroyed entire countries his own, an equal country-destroying power is needed to stop you" said the PokeKage. Then he put his left hand in his pocket, and then he pulled out a summoning scroll and opened it up. Quickly then, out of the scroll, the PokeKage summoned forty machine puppets! These puppets were unlike the puppets used by ordinary ninja, as they were machines instead of made of wood, and they were also not controlled through chakra strings. Instead, the PokeKage controlled them all simutaneously with psychic powers! Those machine puppets all resembled the PokeKage, but they were all wearing various masks, hiding their faces, and some of them had masks that looked more serious while others looked less serious, and some had masks with expressions that made fun of the opponent, while others looked angry and vengeful. Some of them were wielding weapons such as double-handed axes, dual wielded short swords, kunai, and others, while some others held guns like shotguns and sniper rifles, and some were not armed at all. The PokeKage then looked at the Lizard Demon, before pointing his hands at him and saying "Forty Forms attack". As he said that, all of his summoned puppets flew at the Lizard Demon and surrounded him from everywhere! Then those who had ranged weapons started firing them, and their fire was raining heavily on the Lizard Demon like a barrage from everywhere! But then the Lizard Demon hid completely behind his huge, demonic white wings, which took all the bullets and other ranged attacks effortlessly without even getting scratched! The bullets and other fire then fell to the ground having done nothing. After that, the machine puppets with melee weapons closed in on the Lizard Demon and starting unleashing a huge number of attacks on him at the same time! However, as with the ranged fire, the Lizard Demon was not getting injured at all by the close combat attacks, because of his extremely powerful wings! "Hah! Haaahaaa!" the Lizard Demon laughed excitedly then, as he suddenly spread his wings wide open violently, striking many of the puppet machines around him with huge force and throwing them flying away! Then a puppet machine in front of the Lizard Demon swung its huge double-handed sword at him, but the Lizard Demon raised his left hand and caught the axe by the blade bare-handed! "Hahah!" he laughed then, as he downward slashed that puppet machine with the Dragon Sword, which was also radiating much black and red energy from it! The machine was then thrown back by the attack, but the Lizard Demon kept charging at it! "Hahahahaha! Haaahaaa!" he said as he did a spin, and then he slashed the puppet machine once more horizontally, causing it much damage with the black and red energy-filled slash! Then two other machines lunged at the Lizard Demon from behind, but the Lizard Demon swung his tail at them and slammed them without even turning to look at them! "Huah! Hahahahaha!" the Lizard Demon then laughed, as he looked at a machine and charged at it with blinding speed, thrusting his left claw at it, stabbing it for much damage! After stabbing it, the Lizard Demon also blasted the machine from point-blank range with a huge red energy beam from his left hand! "Hm" said the PokeKage calmly as he saw that. "Enjoy your last moments..." he said, as one of his puppets was closing in fast on the Lizard Demon from the right, "...for your time is over" he continued, as his machine puppet pointed its hand at the Lizard Demon's right hand, which was not covered in white material, and blasted an Ice Beam at it! The Lizard Demon's entire right arm then froze solid, and then another machine puppet shot it with a sniper rifle, shattering the entire right arm and sending the Dragon Sword flying away, and another one of the machine puppets caught it! "Shit!" the Lizard Demon said then as he saw that! "Now, come here, Dragon Sword" the PokeKage said calmly, and then the machine with the Dragon Sword started flying at him! "Damn it!" the Lizard Demon said as he saw that, and then he charged at the machine that was holding the Dragon Sword! But then, the rest puppet machines quickly got in his way to block his path! "Out of my way!!" said the Lizard Demon as he saw that, and then he started spinning around himself at the speed of a tornado and ripping his way through the mass of machines using his left claw and right arm, which had regenerated into a white clawed arm, like his left one. The Lizard Demon was then following the machine with the Dragon Sword, which flew behind the PokeKage, who stood and calmly watched at the Lizard Demon ripping through his puppet machines and throwing them around badly damaged. The PokeKage then raised both his hands and pointed them at the Lizard Demon, who just finished ripping through the puppets. "Disappear!!" screamed the Lizard Demon insanely then, as he jumped at the PokeKage with his claws raised, ready for an extremely powerful double slash! "This is as far as you go" said the PokeKage, as he pointed his hands at the Lizard Demon, and some gold energy appeared on them! "Prominence Beam!" he said then, as he suddenly blasted a huge beam of gold energy right at the Lizard Demon, who charged straight into the gold beam! The beam of gold energy was huge and extremely bright, enlightening a very vast area around, and it was also insanely powerful and blasted the Lizard Demon with unbelievable force! The Lizard Demon had barely managed to lay a slash on the PokeKage's right shoulder, before the beam blasted him flying away from the PokeKage! The Lizard Demon was then blasted flying diagonially upwards, with his human body entirely disintegrating and then instantly regenerating to white material, and then he started falling until he landed hard to the ground, raising much dust! The PokeKage then calmly lowered his hands after his attack, and he also healed the slash on his right shoulder as he looked at the dust in which the Lizard Demon was. There, the Lizard Demon got up, and how he was completely transformed into his white material lizard-like body, since the remains of Acclaim's human body had been entirely disintegrated by the PokeKage's unbelievably powerful Prominence Beam! "I put almost all of my energy into my most powerful attack, and yet it was barely able to blow him away... Such frightening power... And now he's standing fully transformed..." said the PokeKage, as he looked at the fully transformed Lizard Demon. "But, it's too late..." he continued, and as he said that, the Lizard Demon widened his eyes! "Uh!" the Lizard Demon said then, and he had a nervous look in his eyes! "That idiot... He's trying to take back his body!" he thought to himself then. "I only just came out and then!! SHIT!" he continued thinking, as he put his hand on his face. "Uhh...! Dammit! Let go!" he said then, as he moved his body as if he was trying to resist some inner force! "Don't get in my way! Disappear!" he heard Acclaim's voice in his head then! "You're the one in the way! If you let me keep on fighting, don't you get that you can win?!" said the Lizard Demon then, as he started moving even more violently than before, lashing his tail around and making his wings tremble in a struggle! However, the inner force was starting to overpower him! "Damn! Damn! You idiot! AAAAAHH!" screamed the Lizard Demon then insanely and loudly, and then his white armor body started to crack! Much dark energy also started coming out of the cracks on his body, and the Lizard Demon screamed loudly as that was happening! The cracks then spread on his white armor body, and then the Lizard Demon let out a loud, prolonged scream, "AAAAAHHH!" as his entire white armor body broke to pieces and fell apart! The PokeKage watched calmly with his arms folded as the dark energy that had come out of the cracks on the Lizard Demon's body all went into the Dragon Sword, and as the Lizard Demon's white armor fell off, Acclaim's normal body was revealed completely restored beneath the white armor! "Hah... Hah... That bastard... Takin' over my body like that..." said Acclaim then, back in possession of his body, as he breathed heavily after his inner struggle over his body with the Lizard Demon. "Welcome back" said the PokeKage then, as he looked at Acclaim, and he was also holding the Dragon Sword in his right hand! "Hah... You... Bastard! My sword! Give it back!" said Acclaim. "What if I don't?" said the PokeKage. "Then I'll-" said Acclaim as he took a step forward, but before he could talk or move any further, he saw the PokeKage's puppet machines from previously suddenly surrounding him from everywhere! "W-Who are those?" said Acclaim, as he looked around at the PokeKage's machine puppets, facing him with their differently shaped and colored masks. "Those are my Forty Forms. They are puppet machines, each of which has chakra stored in it equalling that of two Kage-level ninja. So in total, that makes it the power of eighty Kage-level ninja you are being surrounded by right now" said the PokeKage calmly, and then Acclaim gasped loudly as he heard that! "Crap... What happened while I was gone?" said Acclaim, as he looked at the machine puppets around him. "A lot happened. But it is all over now. All of the threats you and your sword have posed have been eliminated, and now you stand powerless and without even your sword. You have no more hope to cling on. Simply surrender" said the PokeKage. But then suddenly he heard a voice from behind him "You forgot about me!", before feeling his left leg getting frozen solid by an Ice Beam! The PokeKage then widened his eyes a bit as he saw that, and then he turned around to see who had hit him from behind. But as he turned around, a half blue hald red tail was swung upwards at his right hand, disarming him of the Dragon Sword, which went flying towards Acclaim! "You!" said the PokeKage, as he saw Dragonaurus was the one who had talked and had just swung his tail, and he had woken up after the PokeKage's Warugan! "Acclaim!" said Dragonaurus then, as he looked at Acclaim. "Heh!" Acclaim laughed evily then, as he jumped in the air and grabbed the Dragon Sword in his hand! Then he landed to the ground in a position kneeling on his right knee, and then he got up and looked at the PokeKage with a huge evil smile on his face! "Hahahahaha! Thanks a lot, Dragonaurus! Let's slaughter this bastard now, shall we?!" said Acclaim excitedly then. "Sure!" said Dragonaurus, and then he raised his right hand in the air, and his claws shined a bit in the sunlight as he was ready to deliver a gigantic slash straight at the PokeKage, who had his left leg frozen solid in some ice and could not dodge, only watching Dragonaurus's powerful claw ready to cleave him with his eyes widened in surprise!

The Dragon Master, Part 24: The Power of the One

Acclaim was smiling evily as his Dragonaurus had his claw raised before the PokeKage, who had his leg frozen solid and could not dodge the upcoming slash! "Later" said Dragonaurus then, as he violently swung his claw and slashed the PokeKage across the chest! A sound of claws scratching on metal was heard as Dragonaurus was slashing the PokeKage's body, and electricity sparked from the PokeKage's wound instead of blood! The electricity also flowed through Dragonaurus's claws as he was slashing the PokeKage, and from the claws it travelled along through his bones in his entire body, electrifying him badly! "Graaaaargh!!" Dragonaurus screamed as he got electrified, and immediately he took two steps back away from the PokeKage, bent his back a bit, and took some deep breaths as a little more remaining electricity sparked on him. As this happened, Acclaim watched closely, and he had a serious look in his face. "This electricity again instead of blood... The same thing that even happened when I stabbed him in the heart and he didn't die... Something's up with this guy... Is he even human? Is he a machine?" thought Acclaim, as he carefully observed the PokeKage, who quickly healed his wound with his Cell Manipulation ability. Then, some flames appeared on the PokeKage's hand, and he did a chop at the ice on his frozen leg, thawing it out! "What!" said Acclaim as he saw that, looking surprised. "You bastard!!" Dragonaurus said furiously after having just recovered from the electrical shock, and then he swung his huge, muscular tail at the PokaKage, but the latter jumped back and avoided it, and then he landed on his feet some distance away from both Dragonaurus and Acclaim. "Hey, you!" said Acclaim at the PokeKage then, who turned his attention to him. "What the hell was that you did just now? Wasn't your dam' chakra s'posed t' have no element?" he said then, looking a bit angry. "It was something I had to resort to against the Lizard Demon that took over your body previously. My Final Form, the next and final step after my Released Form" said the PokeKage then. "What?" said Acclaim. "Even to someone like you, it should be obvious by now that my body is not human. I have replaced it with a far superior machine, which runs on electricity instead of blood. This took my fighting ability to the next level, and allowed me to grow more powerful even than my Released Form. The way I got this additional power was by installing five chakra batteries into my machine body. Each of those chakra batteries has the energy capacity of two Kage-level ninja, and they are fully filled with such an amount of chakra, each one containing one of the basic chakra elements. So, in addition to my own chakra, I have access to all other chakra elements. Further than that, I can even combine the basic elements together to form other elements, such as ice, something which normally depends on Bloodline Limit. However, with the superior abilities of a machine, and the support of enough knowledge, those limits can be bypassed. Thanks to this machine body, I have become the most powerful ninja to have ever existed, with my combined chakra power being twenty times as much as an average Kage-level ninja" said the PokeKage then, and Acclaim gasped a bit as he heard that! "Impossible! So you really are a machine... And... those puppets... you said previously that they also have the power of two Kage-level ninja each... Does that mean...?" said Acclaim nervously, with a slight tone of disbelief in his voice! "Yes. Each of those puppets has one chakra battery in it. The basic elements are equally distributed amongst them, so eight of them use water-element techniques, eight other of them use lightning-element techniques, eight other of them use earth-element techniques, eight other of them use wind-element techniques, and the eight last of them use fire-element techniques. All together, their chakra power is as much as eighty Kage-level ninja, and combined with my own twenty Kage-level ninja chakra, this makes for the power of a hundred Kage-level ninja under my direct control" said the PokeKage then. "Bullshit! Where the hell did you even find this much chakra to store in the batteries?" said Acclaim. "From the thousands of enemy ninja I have killed during the Pokemon Wars" said the PokeKage apathetically, and Acclaim gasped as he heard that! "There are many people in this world who are better off dead, since they were born only to bring misfortune upon the world. But at least, they can still be useful after their death with their chakra. I'm sure your chakra will also serve me well" said the PokeKage then, and then six tentacles with fang-like thorns suddenly spouted out of his back and were thrusted at Acclaim! "Shit!" said Acclaim, as he jumped back, avoiding the tentacles which hit the ground with huge force and cratered it, and then he landed on his feet some distance away from them. The PokeKage's eyes then shone red for a second, and after that, some blue psychic energy engulfed all of his machine puppets, who were remaining still until then. After that, the puppets all raised their heads, and then they charged at Acclaim and surrounded him from all sides! Acclaim widened his eyes as he saw that, and then all of the PokeKage's puppets charged straight at him! "*bleep*!" said Acclaim, as a puppet wielding a double-handed axe swung its axe down at him, but Acclaim barely managed to change the attack's direction with his sword, making the attack miss him. But then, another puppet wielding a huge sledgehammer swung it at Acclaim from behind, and Acclaim turned his head and noticed it with his left eye, which he widened as he saw that! Immediately he jumped up in the air, avoiding the attack in the last second, but then another puppet jumped right in front of him suddenly! It was a puppet wielding a pair of sai. The puppet started rapidly attacking Acclaim with both the sai it was holding, and Acclaim was barely being able to keep up with its speed with much effort. During the fight, a sniper bullet fired by a sniper rifle held by another puppet flew and scratched Acclaim's right cheek, barely having missed his head! "SHIT!!" said Acclaim loudly as that happened, and then he landed back on his feet, and so did the sai-wielding puppet he was fighting, and they continued fighting without stop even as they were landing. But as they landed, more puppets started charging at Acclaim from all sides! "*bleep* this! Dragon Replication!" said Acclaim then, as he made a seal with his left hand, and summoned onw thousand clones of himself! The clones then started fighting against the PokeKage's puppets and delaying them, while Acclaim himself blocked an attack by the sai-wielding puppet he was fighting, and then he pushed his sword against it while jumping away from it at the same time. By doing so, Acclaim jumped back and landed away from all the puppets, and as his sai-wielding opponent tried to go after him, the puppet only found itself conforted by some of Acclaim's replications, which immediately started attacking it viciously. "Heh!" laughed Acclaim then, as he looked at all his replications fighting against the PokeKage's puppets, but despite the overwhelming difference in numbers between the two sides, the battle was closely even, as the PokeKage's puppets were much more skilled and difficult to destroy than Acclaim's replications. "This technique again. He used it with such ease, despite the fact that it requires a lot of chakra to perform" thought the PokeKage, as he looked at Acclaim's replications fighting his puppets. "Hahahahaha! I don't know what happened, but my chakra has recovered somehow! And my body's back in perfect shape too... Heh! HAHAHAHAHA!! You're not the only one who has much chakra, PokeKage! Machine or not, now I'll kill you!!" Acclaim said then excitedly, as he looked at the PokeKage with an evil smile on his face! "It seems that the chakra the Lizard Demon absorbed with his Gonzui ability somehow got transferred into Acclaim's body, and now he is able to fight again" thought the PokeKage, as he looked at thousands of soulless corpses of people and ninja whose souls the Lizard Demon had absorbed previously with his Gonzui attack. Some of the people were still alive, but fainted, drained of almost all their spirit energy. "Hahah! DRAGON PUNCH!!" said Acclaim excitedly then, as he punched at the PokeKage's direction, sending out a huge burst of green flames that shaped into a dragon and flew at the PokeKage! The PokeKage then widened his eyes a bit as he saw that, and he formed an "X" with his hands in guard from the flames, which flew straight at him and hit him! The flames burnt the PokeKage a bit as the huge flame dragon flew on him for some seconds, and then the attack ended, and the PokeKage lowered his slightly burnt arms and looked at Acclaim, who was laughing maniacally "Hahahahaha!". "It seems his chakra circulatory system has also been healed a bit by the Lizard Demon somehow. Which would also explain the Lizard Demon's use of his Chaos Wave technique" said the PokeKage, as he remembered the Lizard Demon using Chaos Wave, a darkness-element attack. "Fwahahahaha! What's wrong, PokeKage? You seem a bit worn out! Running low on energy?" Acclaim said then, as he looked at the PokeKage with an evil smile. "I spent much of my energy to stop the Lizard Demon with Prominence Beam. But it couldn't be helped... His power was so great that I had to use up almost all of the chakra I had then" thought the PokeKage as he heard that, while also remembering himself blasting off the Lizard Demon away from him with his most powerful attack, Prominence Beam. "Not gonna bother replying? Heh, I guess you're too tired even for that! Well then, just die!" said Acclaim then, as he charged at the PokeKage and tried to slash him with his sword. But the PokeKage then started avoiding Acclaim's attacks by moving his body, and also deflecting some of them by hitting the flat part of Acclaim's sword with the back of his hand. Acclaim then kept fighting against the PokeKage, making him take many steps back on his feet in order to dodge the attacks. Then suddenly, at one point of the battle, the PokeKage widened his eyes a bit, and then he quickly jumped to the right, barely avoiding a huge slash by Dragonaurus who had silently moved behind him to attack at the same time as Acclaim was doing a slash! The PokeKage then landed some distance away from both Acclaim and Dragonaurus and looked at them, and he also took a glance at his puppets fighting Acclaim's replications. "Heh, so you avoided that... Good job... It's really surprising how you manage to keep your attention on me, Dragonaurus, and those puppets of yours at the same time... But your performance is nothing like what it was when we were battling before... I guess it's not easy even for you to battle here while also controlling those puppets... In fact, I wonder if you can keep controlling them for too much longer! Hah! Too bad! Me, Dragonaurus, and my replications all battle on our own wills! You're basically a single person against all of us! Do you really think there's even a tiny little chance that you can win at this condition?" said Acclaim, as he looked at the PokeKage with an evil smile. "It is impossible for me to lose" said the PokeKage then. "Wow! Even though you barely have any energy left and must focus on hundreds of targets fighting against you! And you say that you can't lose! Now, aren't you being a little arrogant there?" said Acclaim. "Even if it were billions of you, I would still win" said the PokeKage calmly then. "Hmph! Fine, then die along with your dumb illusions!" said Acclaim then, and then he charged at the PokeKage, while Dragonaurus also took off the ground and started flying above Acclaim, aiding him in his charge against the PokeKage by blasting a Flamethrower from his mouth by the PokeKage as they were moving towards him. But then the PokeKage pointed one of his tentacles at the flames, transformed its tip into a cannon-like part of bone, and shot out a stream of water, which put out Dragonaurus's flames. "Hahahahaha!" Acclaim laughed excitedly then as he charged at the PokeKage and started attacking him with slashes of his sword, but the PokeKage quickly shaped two bone blades from his hands and started parrying Acclaim's hits. At the same time, Dragonaurus flew in the air above and behind the PokeKage and started blasting various elemental attacks at him from his mouth. But the PokeKage shaped three more of his tentacles' ends to cannon-like parts of bone, and used them along with his other tentacle that had a cannon-like end of bone to blast various elemental attacks himself, like blasts of flame, water, ice, solar energy, electricity, air shots, and mud, cancelling out those of Dragonaurus. The PokeKage also shaped the tips of his two last remaining tentacles into three-bladed claws, which he used to fight off Dragonaurus's physical attacks and keep him away from him.

Meanwhile, as the PokeKage was fighting against both Acclaim and Dragonaurus, he was also telepathically controlling his puppets at the same time. The puppets' battle against Acclaim's replication was also hard because of the replications' overwhelming numbers. However, to their relief, they were being defeated much more easily than them, vanishing away after single successful strikes. A puppet used a technique known as Earth Punch, hardening its fist as hard as a rock, although it was already hard as it was made of metal but it became even harder, and then it punched two replications at the same time and they vanished. Then three more replications lunged at that puppet from behind, but another puppet blasted them with a Flamethrower attack it blasted from an opening at the mouth of its mask. Meanwhile, another puppet caught the hand of another puppet near it, and then the two puppets grabbed the shoulders of two of Acclaim's replications standing before them with their remaining hands. Then those two puppets, whose elements were wind and water, mechanically combined their powers into an ice-element attack, Ice Time, which drained all of the thermal energy of the replications they were holding and freezed them solid. Then another machine used Razor Wind, slashing the air with a sword it was holding so fast that it created a razor-sharp blast of wind that destroyed dozens of Acclaim's replications, and also ended up hitting the two replications frozen by the other puppets' Ice Time technique previously, shattering them to pieces and destroying them. Elsewhere in the battlefield, a puppet with two cannons attached under its forearms pointed those cannons at some replications and blasted huge blasts of pressurized water at them, hitting them and making them vanish instantly. Behind that puppet, there was another one looking at the opposite direction, and that puppet formed a large sphere of electricity in its hands and threw it at some of Acclaim's replications, zapping them and obliterating them with ease. After that, the puppet pointed its palms at some other replications of Acclaim, and blasted them with thunderbolts fired from its palms. At the same time, another puppet with a huge, double-handed axe cleaved a replication clean in half, and after a huge explosion of blood, the replication faded away, while some other puppets were shooting Acclaim's replications with pistols, submachineguns, rifles, and other guns, killing them, and others even used grenades and molotov cocktails, taking out massive numbers of enemies at once. A sniper rifle-using puppet killed more than twenty replications with one shot of its powerful rifle, while another started repeatedly using Fire Punch with both hands at incredible speed, torching any replication it found in its path. Another puppet was doing the same with Thunderpunch, and two other puppets who had joined their powers were freezing replications with Ice Punches and Ice Beams. Another puppet used a technique called Aqua Bullet Storm, in which it blasted a huge barrage of water bullets from its mouth at the rate of a machinegun, defeating many replications with ease, and it also turned its head to hit any replication that stood before it. But then suddenly, two replications of Acclaim charged at it from both sides, and stabbed their blades between its neck and its shoulder, from both the right and left. However, the puppet just continued fighting like nothing had happened, as it was not an actual living being and did not die by this normally fatal attack. Then a puppet machine blasted those two replications with Air Shot, a spheric shot of compressed air fired from its hands, and the replications vanished immediately after being hit by the powerful compressed air. Some other puppets were using several high-level techniques, such as Thunder Dragon, Fire Dragon, Water Dragon, Mud Dragon, Ice Dragon, and Rock Dragon, a technique which basically was like a summoned Onix that crushed foes, and easily defeated dozens of replications in each of their attacks. Two other machines of the earth and water elements joined their powers and started using wood-element techniques, for example to make hundreds of tree roots emerge from the ground and Bind Acclaim's replications, destroying them. In general, the PokeKage's machine puppets, despite being overwhelmed in numbers, were actually the ones doing the overwhelming, thanks to their supreme machine durability and difficulty to damage, their very powerful techniques and weapons, their vast resources of energy, equalling those of two Kage-level ninja each, and their excellent skills at avoiding attacks and battling in general, which was actually the PokeKage's skill, since he was the one controlling them with his psychic powers, while also battling Acclaim and Dragonaurus, all at the very same time! Acclaim's replications were starting to get really surprised and unable to believe their sight as they were finding themselves losing badly against the power of the PokeKage's puppet machines. "Wha-What the hell are they?" said a replication of Acclaim, but then a puppet machine suddenly stepped before him and used Sand Attack at his eyes from an opening at its mouth. "Aaah!" said the replication, blinded, and then the puppet defeated it with a kick, before ducking to avoid two sword slashed by two replications behind it. Then the puppet turned around to fight those two replications, who widened their eyes and gasped at the sight of the puppet's mask facing them.