Jonathon “Jon” Crawley
General Facts
Age: 16
Grade: 10
Gender: M
School: Mount Vernon
High School
Occupation
High School Student
Battler
Former Part-time UNITY Agent
Appearances
Regular Titles: Books 20–21, 24–29, 32–51, and 53–54
Super Battlers: Books 3, 4, and 5
Books Narrated
Regular Titles: Books 21, 28 (occasionally), 29, 37, 45, and 53
Super Battlers: Books 3, 4, and 5 (Alternated with the other Battlers)
Immediate Family
Eric Crawley
(father)
Janice Crawley
(mother)
Eric-Omar “Omar” Crawley
(older brother)
Unborn Brother or
Sister
Character Summary
Jon Crawley was a typical black teenager for a
long time. But all that ended when he and his family came to Alexandria in Book 20. He brought with him a
red Battler Crystal, unaware of the wonders it possessed. When his old friend, Aaron Rountree,
and his brother, J.J., saw him with
it, they knew it meant trouble. So did Owlina, whom they didn’t realize was
watching them. Jon’s family was
kidnapped from the Rountree household when the Mutant Guerrillas attacked it,
hoping to take Jon’s crystal from him
but failing when the Battlers escaped with him.
Soon after their escape, Jon
accidentally discovered the Battlers’ secret identities. When he did, the
Battlers knew they either had to turn Jon
over to the mutants . . . or make him a Battler. They chose to do the latter
and made Jon the Red Battler. Jon used his newfound powers to save his family with
no trouble at all.
The evening after Jon and Aaron’s first day of high school, all six of the
Battler boys were kidnapped by Andre
Rice, Jeri
Wilkes, Kevin
Gonzales, and Lucy
Ng, four agents from UNITY, a secret agency opposing the efforts of
new-in-town businessman Liam DiCapa, who’s made his bid of decimating the
Caucasian race. Jon refused to believe
this — until he found a secret panic room in the DiCapa mansion that held
evidence of DiCapa’s anti-white sentiments. Jon
also discovered that DiCapa had a vendetta against his father. They used to be
best friends until Jon’s mother came
between them. When Jon’s father won
the heart of his mother, DiCapa hated both of Jon’s
parents right away and decided he’d do everything in his power to destroy the Crawley family. To make matters worse, DiCapa’s son, Philip,
started hating Jon, too, for that
reason.
In Book 24, Jon had to help Deyon
rescue the other Battlers, who were kidnapped by new enemy Pestilence Vermin.
He nearly fell into a fatal trap set by Vermin’s magic, but Deyon saved him in
time. Before Deyon’s final fight with Vermin, Jon
found himself getting devoured by the villain to keep him from helping Deyon.
Deyon saved him after he’d killed Vermin.
In Book 25, he, Maurice, Deyon, and Kesse fought and defeated the
evil leader of the Clan of the Cave Wolves, Fenrir Lupus.
In Book 26, he
helped J.J. defeat the evil Predator
by fighting his kingdom, Gatora, alongside his friends.
In Book 27, he met
Chief Manhunter for the first time ever when he and the other Battlers rescued
Kesse and Vivian
DiCapa from him and Predator,
Kesse’s kidnapper.
In Book 28, Jon was framed for murdering three students at his
school by Philip. He also helped Deyon
restore the peace between on-the-outs brothers Maurice
and Kesse after a kiss between Kesse and Vivian DiCapa
caused tension between them. He and the others were then kidnapped by Goril
Primus, the new killing machine of Liam DiCapa.
They were locked in a powered-down elevator, but they were saved by Aaron seconds before the cables holding it up broke.
A few days later, Jon found out his
mother was expecting her third child!
In Book 29, Jon and the other Battlers were kidnapped by Polar
Tundros, also known as “the
Gamester,” and his penguin cohort, Funguin
Waddlesworth. They were forced to play games in their Palace of Fun
if they hoped to save Santa Claus and the toys from his workshop. Reluctantly,
they all agreed to playing — they did not want to be the ones to ruin Christmas
for children all over the world.
Jon aced the
competition in every game Gamester threw at them — Ride of Risk, Musical
Despairs, Burning in the Rain, Ice Cage, Rolling Blunder, and Hide ’n’ Go
Sizzle — but in each game, one of the other Battlers got eliminated (except for
the Burning in the Rain game, in which all the remaining Battlers survived).
During the games, though, he had to get Aaron,
who was still moping over Juliet
Kwarteng’s death, back to his senses, which he did. He simply told Aaron that Juliet
wouldn’t want him acting like a Goth over her death, which Aaron seemed to understand. By the end of the games, Jon was the last one left and was rewarded with the
chance to join Gamester in the Feast of the Champion. But before he went,
Funguin turned on his master and warned Jon
about Gamester. He told him that he cheated in each game after Burning in the
Rain to make sure at least one Battler got eliminated from the competition. He hated
having games in which no one lost. Plus, he wanted to make sure Jon was the last Battler left, but Funguin didn’t
know why. Jon found out why a few
minutes later — Gamester wanted to eat him! The reason why he wanted to do that
was because of his palace’s motto: “Strive to be the winner! Become the
Gamester’s dinner!” Before then, though, Jon
had only heard the first part of the motto.
Jon managed to escape Gamester long enough to
find where he was holding Santa. Funguin released him and showed him what
Gamester had done to the other Battlers — he’d turned them into game pieces
using his magic! Jon decided to save
them by challenging Gamester to a winner-take-all game. If he won, he’d free
all the other Battlers, as well as everyone else he’d turned into game
pieces (he’d been doing that for years), and let Santa Claus go. Gamester
agreed to these terms and challenged Jon
to a very deadly game of rock, paper, scissors. They played while standing over
pots of boiling-hot water. The loser would fall into his pot and get cooked
alive. Jon played the lifelike game
until he won three times, defeating Gamester badly. And as Gamester plummeted
toward his pot, he vowed to get even with Jon
in the future if it was the last thing he did.
With Gamester
defeated and everybody free, Jon and
the others took Santa home. Santa hired Funguin as his new apprentice since he
needed a new job. And Funguin let Jon
have Gamester’s now-former cat, Torch, since he was quite taken with Jon while they were in the palace. He sealed the cat
in his club after that, making him his newest Battler Animal.
In Super Battlers 3,
just a week after the adventure in Book 29 and right on New Year’s Eve, Jon,
the other Battlers, Vivian, and Monique were all transported to Dare Island to
fight in a tournament organized by a sorcerer named Bin Dare. After meeting
Blue and Purple Battlers Shauna Davidson and Diahandra Christian
for the first time, Jon learned that
the tournament’s one major rule was that after a battle, the winner got to
live. The loser, however, would be eaten.
Jon was separated from the others with Vivian, and together, they ran into Gamester.
Although Jon pleaded with Gamester to
let Vivian go, Gamester refused,
saying that all people brought to the island were required to participate. So
she had to fight in the battle, too. But their “battle” was another one of
Gamester’s games called Swing or Surrender. If they failed to swing from rope
to rope and reach a podium before being caught by Gamester, it would
automatically be considered a loss. Jon
and Vivian both played as hard as they
could, but in the end, Gamester was ready to grab Vivian
and thus make her lose. But Jon,
thinking of Maurice, sacrificed
himself and made Gamester grab him, inside, allowing Vivian to win the game herself. So Jon got eaten by Gamester. But he escaped (off-page)
by climbing up his throat since he couldn’t burst through his stomach wall
(Dare had magically shielded his stomach from any attempt to break out of it).
After helping the others take Dare down, and finding out that he’d brought them
there for his personal entertainment, they were sent back home to celebrate New
Year’s Eve together. And Jon got the
chance to get to know Shauna and
Diahandra — they were sent back, too, but just for New Year’s Day.
In Book 32, Jon and the other Battlers met new friends Richard Montgomery
and James “Jay” Dixon, two agents visiting from UNITY’s West Coast Branch in Los Angeles. They were
assigned to rescue another agent named Miranda Hawkins, who was being held
prisoner by DiCapa. After an attempt to rescue her failed, Richard and Jay
ended up being kidnapped by Albert
Labinnac. This was because DiCapa
saw how well they fought against his henchmen. They used a sleepover being held
by DiCapa’s son, Phil, to infiltrate
the mansion and save their friends. But DiCapa, who’d been about to use a very
potent truth serum on Richard and Jay to drive the Battlers’ identities out of
them, Kesse drank it instead, thinking it was a cool drink. Under the influence
of the fast-working truth serum, he spilled the identities of every Battler
except Deyon, and with that, the days of secrecy were officially over.
Jon and the others had to deal with
bully-turned-psycho Les
B. Ian,
who returned in Book 33. He was now on DiCapa’s payroll and was ordered to kill
Deyon, Maurice, and J.J. — the three Battlers whose identities he’d
learned in Book 16 (before Jon ever
came to the canvas). He tried attacking them in public and in Maurice’s home. Then, he kidnapped them when survived
each attack and tried to kill them in a showdown at a factory. Kesse, Aaron, and Jon,
however, set him up to be eaten by the Deadly Duo — Predator and Chief
Manhunter. But Predator was the one to eat him. Soon after Les’s death, Maurice was put into a coma by DiCapa, who’d used a
coma-inducing drug in retaliation to him impregnating Vivian.
In Book 34, Predator
kidnapped Deyon, Kesse, Aaron, and Jon when J.J.
refused to give him back Fangorus, whom he’d accidentally left with him the previous
day. The only ransom was bringing Fangorus back to Predator and turning himself
over to him. Aaron was turned against
J.J. when he showed up to rescue them at an old homeless shelter with Richard and Jay
to help him. Predator used his magic to make him and the other Battlers fight
him. They won and prepared J.J. to be
eaten by Predator. But Aaron broke
free of Predator’s trance when he saw him take bite after bite out of his
brother. After they were free from the spell, Predator battled the five remaining
Battlers (Maurice was still in his
coma) and ate Kesse, Jon, Aaron, and Deyon. But they were rescued because of a
Crocoan poison J.J. tricked Predator
into ingesting. They were coughed up and Predator was killed from ingesting the
poison.
In Book 35, Jon and the other Battlers found out that J.J. was kidnapped by DiCapa. To make matters worse,
DiCapa sent Deyon a warning via E-mail that he was targeting Aaron next. Things became worse than that when
Caucasian people all over Alexandria
began falling mysteriously ill. It was found out that DiCapa had finally used a
poison he’d stolen in Book 24. It was meant to only affect people fifty- to
one-hundred-percent Caucasian. The problem turned extremely serious after Maurice and Kesse’s half-siblings, Precious and Brandon,
and their stepfather, Ski, fell ill, as well. But thanks to a reconnaissance
mission Kesse and Jon were sent on,
they found out DiCapa was set on slipping his poison into a reservoir in Washington, D.C.,
to poison everybody in the tri-county area, and they arrived in time to stop
him, despite having Labinnac sicced on them. But to end things on a good note
for himself, DiCapa revealed that his true target was Kesse, took out a gun,
shot him continuously, and when he tried to heal himself by leaving his Battler
form, hit him with a dart containing a paralysis-inducing drug. So three
Battlers were now out of the fight.
In Book 36, while
searching DiCapa’s office building for the cure to Kesse’s paralysis, Jon, Deyon, Aaron,
Richard, and Jay
were caught by DiCapa, who called guards on him. They were chased and trapped
by the elevators, where they were surprised with a last-second rescue — by Shauna and Diahandra, who’d returned to town just as
the events in Book 35 were winding down! After escaping DiCapa’s building, the
girls revealed that their friends from the road had gone home and that they
were back to stay. That alone made their situation good, because DiCapa, until
then, had thought that only six Battlers existed. With two more Battlers he
didn’t know on his hands, the Battlers would now have a slight advantage. But
their advantage wasn’t going to last for long. Goril Primus returned to town
and set his sights on Aaron and, at
the urging of Malik, one of his new cohorts, the other Battlers.
Jon and the others found out where J.J. had been hidden from Vivian,
who’d accidentally found him herself. He was locked in DiCapa’s secret panic
room. They hurried to get him out, but DiCapa, who’d seen Vivian
discover J.J., arranged for his prisoner
to be transferred to his yacht just in time. While trying to save him, they
were attacked by Goril. Jon, Deyon, Shauna, and Diahandra were all swallowed alive by the
gorilla, leaving Aaron alone to fight
him. The four of them escaped shortly after, though, and with the help of Chief Anderson, captured
Goril and took him into UNITY custody. Soon after that, Aaron
was poisoned by DiCapa, marking his fourth successful target.
In Book 37, Jon, Deyon, Shauna,
and Diahandra were given the chance to solve all the problems the other
Battlers were going through and get their team back on track again. A
mysterious ally offered to help them out. Of course, this “ally” turned out to
be the Gamester, who was back for another round of games. Playing his games
would be the only way to cure Aaron’s
poisoning, awaken Maurice from his
coma, and, most free J.J. (whom he’d
kidnapped from DiCapa’s captivity and had turned into a game piece again).
Jon, Deyon, Shauna,
and Diahandra began playing Gamester’s games. The first game, Rueful Roulette,
saw Diahandra getting eliminated. But Jon,
Deyon, and Shauna managed to win the
cure to Aaron’s poisoning. After
curing Aaron’s poisoning, they were
called back the next day to play Chaotic Cards, which saw both Shauna and Deyon getting eliminated. Alone, Jon won a spell to awaken Maurice
from his coma.
After waking up Maurice from his coma (and catching him up on
everything that’d happened), Jon was
called back for the final game: the Battle Game. This saw Jon
fighting Gamester for as long as time permitted, trying to score points for
each blow he landed. After using all of his fire spells and his two
Battler Animals, he got a bigger score than Gamester, who’d used every dirty
trick he could think of during the battle. He thus won J.J.’s freedom, but
right after Gamester had returned J.J.
to his normal self, he went back on his deal and ate him. So Jon had to use a Volcanic Eruption spell to get
Gamester to surrender, which he did. He regurgitated J.J.
and Jon took him home.
All eight Battlers
finally reunited and knew they were all “lean, mean, and ready to go” against
DiCapa. But just as they were leaving to celebrate, Deyon got some surprising
news. DiCapa was going after the ultimate target: the President of the United States.
In Book 38, Jon
added to his fire arsenal by learning the spell Inferno. He, along with Aaron, also heard the story of Shauna
and Diahandra’s adventures since leaving San
Francisco. In Book 39, Jon
and Aaron heard the story of Shauna and Diahandra’s final adventures on the road
before returning to Virginia.
In Book 40, Jon and the other Battlers put a risky scheme in
motion when they snuck into the White House to protect the President. The
mission was successful as the Battlers nipped DiCapa’s attack in the bud by
finding out that he’d planned to have himself smuggled into the President’s
Oval Office in a box addressed to him. Unfortunately, although the Battlers’
plan to stop DiCapa succeeded, an unfortunate thing happened — using a very
clever ploy, DiCapa managed to unmask Shauna
and Diahandra, finally learning their secret identities. He had Albert Labinnac,
his right-hand man, take a picture of each of them before they escaped.
From there, it was
utter chaos for the Battlers. Jon was attacked in his home by DiCapa
Enterprises guards sent to kidnap the Battlers in order for DiCapa to unmask
them to the public, as he’d promised to do in a statement to the press. Jon was kidnapped with no problems at all. Eric-Omar,
his brother, was beaten during the attack. Deyon, J.J.,
and Kesse were the only three Battlers who stayed out of DiCapa’s clutches.
While Jon and the others waited for their fate to be
decided on the roof, Deyon, J.J., and
Kesse arrived to rescue them. But J.J.
and Kesse were captured by some of DiCapa’s guards and were forced to join
their already-kidnapped friends. DiCapa had already been waiting for them there
and was waiting out the last thirty minutes before the press arrived so that he
could reveal the Battlers’ identities on live TV.
Jon and the other
Battlers then watched as Deyon, who needed time to distract DiCapa so that the
UNITY agents posing as the press could get there, engaged in the final battle
against DiCapa that resulted in Deyon getting shot eight times after his
Battler Crystal powered down on him, returning him to his normal form. But he
and the others also watched as Deyon made a miraculous recovery when he used a
Crystal Advance, a phenomenon only possible when a Battler Crystal has obtained
and used so much power in previous battles that it is ready to advance to the
next level — the Battler Emerald. So after Deyon’s crystal shifted its shape
into that of an emerald, Jon and the
others watched as he used his new Battler Emerald to assume his new Battler
form.
It was all downhill
from there. Deyon defeated DiCapa with his brand-new physical abilities and
powerful new spells to defeat DiCapa. But just as Deyon was about to slice
DiCapa open after all the hell he’d put the Battlers through, Susan jumped in the way and Deyon ended up slicing her, instead. The attack was fatal and Susan died almost instantly. DiCapa became so
enraged, he went off on Deyon, shouting out every crime he’d committed and how
much he wished he’d done them to him and the other Battlers. Unfortunately, the
UNITY agents masquerading as the press showed up, captured his confession on
camera, and broadcast it live to every single television in the country.
DiCapa, knowing he’d
be going down, anyway, decided to try and make light of the situation by revealing
the Battlers’ identities as planned. He tried to tear Deyon’s helmet (which was
part of his new Battler costume) off his head, but Deyon tore himself away.
Unfortunately, he pulled away a bit too hard because DiCapa’s momentum sent him
barreling over the edge of his thirty-story building and plummeting to his
death. With DiCapa now dead, the war against him and the Battlers was now over,
and Jon and the other Battlers were
released from working with UNITY. With their work finally done (at least for
now), Jon and the others headed for
home, ready to go on with their lives.
In Super Battlers 4,
Deyon led Jon and the other Battlers
on a journey to a new world — the realm of Magicia. The mission was to locate
the Exchanger — mace with the power to exchange the magic powers of two
different individuals or simply transfer the power of one mage to one with no
magic. They would then use the mace to transfer a soon-to-be-departing J.J.’s
powers to anyone he chose. And after a long journey that included being
captured by Killer Beavers, a reunion with the Mutant Guerrillas, who’d been in
hiding in Magicia to get stronger, an encounter with some Magician rams known
as Ramblings, and a harrowing battle with a fire-breathing dragon, Jon and the
other Battlers found the Exchanger on top of a mountain known as Mount Cagim
and brought it back to Earth with them. The next day, they used it to transfer
J.J.’s powers to Richard. At the same
time, they also used it to transfer the powers of Kesse, who’d surprised everyone
that he was leaving town, too, to Jay. After that was done, graduation followed a few
days later, followed by J.J. and
Kesse’s departure from town the very next morning after an emotional goodbye
from Jon and the other Battlers.
In Book 41, after
school started, Jon and the other
Battlers went to support Shauna and
Diahandra as they entered the Tournament of Wonder. But they were all shocked
to learn that the director of the tournament had allowed the six Battler boys
to enter the tournament, too, to give the competitors and spectators something
cheery to talk about. Although there was initial suspicion from Deyon and Aaron, at first, they eventually went along with it
and entered. They got through the preliminary rounds, thus qualifying for the
main tournament. When the main tournament began, Jon
and the other Battlers fought hard and fairly easily won all their battles in
the first round. All eight made it through to the second round. To celebrate,
they all went up to the park, along with Vivian,
who was recovering from her parents’ deaths, and ate pizza and ice cream.
But their night of
celebration was interrupted when Chief Manhunter and his new cohort, Castoro
Dammon (known to all as “Cast”), showed up, along with nineteen other
Killer Beavers, and the chief presented his latest scheme to them. He’d stolen
and swallowed a powerful stone called the Stone of Absor and was going to use
it to grow more powerful than ever — powerful enough to defeat the Battlers. He
dropped a very cryptic hint that the best way to defeat them would be to use
their very selves to do it, but the only way to do that . . . was by doing what he had tried to do for over a year —
eating them. So after a battle started between the Battlers and the Killer
Beavers, Jon and the others were
knocked out and nearly captured by Cast. It was thanks to Maurice
undergoing the Crystal
Advance — the second one in their
group — that they were saved. But now that Chief Manhunter has become their
deadliest enemy, things will never be the same.
In Book 42, Jon and the others found out from Oriana what Chief
Manhunter was truly up to. They learned that the Stone of Absor he’d eaten was
created centuries ago by its previous owner, a wolf by the name of Cyrus Absor.
He was a powerful nonhuman mage with a natural ability to gain more power by
swallowing other mages alive and whole. He’d learned that eight Battler
Crystals were needed to achieve the ultimate power to rule the world and had
gone after the original, thirty-person Battlers team for that reason. But when
he was defeated, he transferred his own natural absorption ability into a jewel
on his head so the power wouldn’t die with him. Now that Chief Manhunter had stolen
the jewel, eaten it, and waited for two weeks for the effects of it to set in,
he would have the ability to absorb the power of any mage he ate. So the team
came up with a plan to stop Chief Manhunter’s plan from working: Jon, Richard,
Jay, Aaron,
Shauna, and Diahandra would have to
fight hard enough to undergo the Crystal Advance
and ascend to the Battler Emerald level to stop his plan of getting eight
crystals — or any crystals at all,
for that matter — to increase his power.
The Battlers
separated, but were called back together when Richard
answered a cry for help but was kidnapped by an alligator resembling Predator,
the late ultimate enemy of J.J. From Richard, who was rescued by their old
allies, the Crocoans, they learned that Predator’s younger brother, Scalorus
Gatorus, who preferred to go by the name “Carnivore,”
had come back from a terrible banishment from Gatora to seek revenge for his
brother’s death by devouring his killer — the White Battler. But he’d found out
Richard was not the White Battler he
was looking for. J.J. was, but he was
in L.A.
The next day, round
two of the Tournament of Wonder began, and Aaron
fought in the first battle of the day. But Jon
and the other Battlers could barely focus on him. They were busy having a brief
confrontation with Chief Manhunter over his plans for them and missed his
battle. But they did watch Richard’s battle, and saw it get interrupted by
Carnivore, who kidnapped Richard again! When Jay
tried to save him, Carnivore kidnapped him,
too!
Jon and the other Battlers used the magic coins
given to them by Stalker and transported themselves to Crocoa (except for Shauna and Diahandra, who had no coins and stayed
behind), where they enlisted Chompus’s help in rescuing Richard
and Jay. Chompus took them to
Carnivore’s throne room, where they found Jay,
who’d escaped from him. He led them to Richard,
who’d just defeated Carnivore in a battle. They beheld Richard’s
success at rising to the Battler Emerald level, and all six boys learned that
Steeltooth could talk. All Battler
Animals could, actually, after their masters had risen to the emerald level.
Just then, Carnivore caught sight of the other Battler boys and decided to eat
all of them, as well. But Deyon
knocked him out by reflecting one of his spells off his sword.
With Carnivore
defeated (for now), Jon and the others
then returned to the stadium and watched Richard
continue his battle in the tournament and, with Steeltooth’s help, pull off a
win. Things were, for the time being, looking up for all of them.
That is, until Book
43, when Jay became the first of the Battlers to be eliminated from the
Tournament of Wonder when Avio Swan, a nonhuman mage, defeated him in the first
battle of the third round. To make matters worse, he encountered Bully Frog for
the first time and lost a battle to him. Jay’s
confidence suffered, in large part because not once had he lost a one-on-one
battle before either of those battles. Richard
was there to comfort him, saying it was just a sign that there was still room
for improvement. The feelings of comfort were short-lived, though, as a giant,
carnivorous mole named Maximole
Diglon showed up and kidnapped Richard
and dragged him underground. Things got even worse for Jon,
Maurice, Jay,
Aaron, and Aaron’s
girlfriend, Juliet
Kwarteng when a bunch of moles popped up out of the ground and kidnapped
all of them.
Before they knew it,
they were in a village hidden underground. The village, called Moleville, was
led by a mole named Tunlen
Molen and his clumsy sister, Burra.
Tunlen explained that they’d been regular moles until drinking from a pond
that’d been hit by a blast of magical energy. Then, they all began developing
magic abilities and the ability to speak and walk on two legs. Tunlen then
expressly asked for Jon and the other
Battlers’ help in defeating Maximole, who’d transformed into the monster he was
by taking repeated trips to the pond and eventually gaining carnivorous
tendecies. The Battlers agreed, just as Maximole attacked the village. Jon, Maurice,
and Aaron were taken out fairly fast
during the resulting battle, but Jay
held on as he tried to defeat Maximole. He had the advantage until Maximole
suddenly took it from him and easily beat him. Before he could eat him, Juliet saved him just in time and drove him right out
of the village. But Jay’s confidence was further depleted from losing his third
battle in a row, as well as feeling like he’d let Richard down since he’d been
unable to rescue him thus far.
When Jay went off with Burra to save Richard
from Maximole, Jon, Maurice, Aaron,
Juliet, and Tunlen followed in Maurice’s Underground Fighter, showing up just after Jay had defeated Maximole. Maurice
threatened to kill Maximole if he didn’t release Richard,
leave, and stay away from Moleville. Reluctantly, Maximole ran off into the
tunnels, and that was that. With Maximole defeated and driven off, Moleville
saved, and Jay’s confidence restored, Jon and the other Battlers returned to the surface to
catch Deyon’s battle in round three of the tournament, happy that their
underground adventure was over.
In Book 44, Jon learned that Fenrir
Lupus, Maurice’s ultimate enemy,
had returned, as well as Aaron’s
ultimate enemy, Goril
Primus. He was forced to spring into action when the two of them worked
with Juliet’s older brother, William, to kidnap Maurice
and Aaron. Dressed in his Halloween
costume, a flower, he hurried off to find Fenrir’s save, where the entire Clan
of the Cave Wolves lived, to assist Juliet
and Vivian in saving his friends.
Jon rescued Vivian
from a werewolf attack during which she had labor pains. But soon after
rescuing her, the two of them were captured by the same werewolves. They
threatened Jon with harm to Vivian if he didn’t turn back into his normal form.
After Jon complied, he and Vivian were taken to Fenrir, who ordered Vivian locked up for him to eat later . . . after she
gave birth to her baby. He nearly ate Jon
himself, but he then decided to give him to Goril (whom he’d partnered up with
to capture Maurice and Aaron). So he did. Goril began feasting on Jon the moment he took him from Fenrir, but he
stopped when he caught Juliet’s scent.
Goril caught Juliet and was about to
eat her when Aaron (whom he’d eaten
earlier) escaped from his stomach. Then, Jon
saved them both with a fire spell, as Fenrir forgot to take his crystal from
him. Jon, Aaron, and Juliet made their way to Fenrir’s room to spring Maurice
from Fenrir’s stomach (he’d also been eaten earlier) the same way Juliet had
sprung Aaron from Goril’s stomach — by tricking him into swallowing his emerald
(which she’d swiped from Fenrir’s custody). Unfortunately, Fenrir was awake,
and a chase ensued, with Jon, Aaron, and Juliet
now in both Fenrir and Goril’s sights.
Jon and Aaron
let Fenrir and Goril chase them to a factory — the same one Aaron and Goril had faced off in during their
previous encounter. During the resulting battle, Aaron realized he had a chance
to save Maurice, so he got Jon to distract Goril, which Jon gladly did by
hitting Goril with fire spell after fire spell, all of which Goril swallowed
and sent back at Jon at double the power. During this, Aaron
had force-fed himself to Fenrir and joined Maurice
in his belly. He gave him his emerald back and Maurice
transformed and used his Hole Digger to get them both out. Jon was in bad shape from distracting Goril at this
time, but Maurice healed him with his
Healing Touch as soon as he got the chance. And then, after the battle resumed
again, this time with three Battlers against the evil Power Pair, Jon and Maurice
were knocked out by attacks from Fenrir and Goril. When they finally came to,
they saw that Aaron’s Battler Crystal
had powered down, but had since undergone the Crystal Advance.
Unfortunately, as soon as he transformed into his new Battler form, Jon and Maurice
watched in horror as Goril swallowed Aaron
(for the fifth time since his return). Aaron,
of course, escaped from Goril, and he impressed Jon
and Maurice with his new ability to
ride and control his wind spells. He finally picked him up and propelled him
through the skylight of the factory using one of them.
With Goril out, Jon, Maurice,
and Aaron thought it was over and that
they’d gotten one step closer to stopping Chief Manhunter’s plan to swallow
their crystals. But they were immediately surprised by the sudden appearance of
Cast, who left right when they saw him. When they tried to follow him, the trio
ran into Goril, who was not defeated.
Goril set his sights solely on Aaron,
threatening to tear him to pieces. But Aaron
quickly hatched a plan and led Goril on a chase toward the Woodbridge Harbor.
By the time Jon and Maurice had caught up to Aaron,
they found out that he’d tricked Goril into falling into the harbor, hopefully
drowning since apes can’t swim. To top off that
bit of good news, Jon and the other
Battlers found out from Deyon and Diahandra that Vivian
had given birth to her and Maurice’s
son, Maurice
IV, thus bringing
about a happy ending to their adventure.
Jon started off Book 45 badly by easily losing
his battle in the fifth round of the Tournament of Wonder to Deyon. It was no
contest — he was a stronger Battler and had an element that was strong against
his own. Worse yet, he and the other Battlers had to deal with the problem of
Oriana using a Chronos transfero
spell that ended badly — she ended up accidentally transferring herself to
their time, trapping herself there for a week! Add that to Jon having to help Maurice’s
younger sister, Monique, set up a
float for a Veteran’s Day parade that didn’t even tie in with the holiday, and you’ve got a bad day in the making! But even
worse than all that, Cast started a series of attacks on Jon,
and Jon couldn’t even figure out why.
So at the insistence of the other Battlers, he went on a reconnaissance mission
to the Killer Beavers’ village to find out what was up. He snooped around Chief
Manhunter’s hut, finding a few irrelevant things before seeing the chief’s pictures
of the eight Battlers — the five marked-off ones of Deyon, Maurice, Richard,
Jay, and Aaron,
and three unmarked ones of Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra. Before he could figure out
what they meant, he was attacked and eaten by Cast. Fortunately, Jon escaped, both from Cast’s stomach and from Cast himself, and made his way
home to tell the other Battlers.
Jon and the other
Battlers figured out from the pictures that Chief Manhunter was probably
marking off how many Battlers still had Battler Crystals so he could target
them for eating, but privately, with Jon, Oriana (who was still stuck in 2002,
giving her the chance to finally give Jon his own Villager Power — the spectral
power) suggested that maybe Chief Manhunter was trying to get them all to get
their Battler Emeralds so he could eat them then. The attacks that Cast kept
launching on Jon in hopes of fighting him only strengthened the possibility —
Jon figured out Cast was trying to get him to fight so as to use up as much
energy as possible to undergo his Crystal Advance. So after being chased by
Cast and escaping him (thanks in part to an often-appearing mysterious woman),
Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra decided to avoid having any battles (except for in
the tournament, which Shauna and then Richard eventually lost soon after Jon
did). Their plan was put to the test, though, when, after Cast won his
quarterfinal battle, he indirectly revealed that he’d kidnapped Monique and
would only let her go if Jon came to the New Killer Beaver Village and fought
him.
Jon obeyed Cast’s request and arrived at the
village to save Monique. He fell into
Cast’s trap and got locked in a hut with Monique,
but he used his new spectral power to escape, phasing himself and Monique through a wall and making their way out. But
Cast caught them again. He nearly recaptured Monique,
but Jon saved her and had her escape
while he dealt with Cast. Of course, during this time, Chief Manhunter showed
up and revealed to Jon everything he’d
suspected — Chief Manhunter was indeed trying to get the Battlers to go through
the Crystal Advance. And he’d even hired Carnivore and
Maximole to help him without the Battlers — or even Carnivore and Maximole
themselves — even knowing it! This was to take the focus off himself and keep
the Battlers focused on their enemies. It was very brilliant, and even Jon admitted it.
After the
explanation, a battle between Jon and
Cast followed, which resulted in Jon
going through his Crystal
Advance and ultimately defeating
Cast. For now. But now that he had his new Battler
Emerald, this only left Shauna and
Diahandra with Battler Crystals. They’d have to lay off the fighting now while
the boys handled everything. Soon after, Jon
was given hints of interest in him by Monique,
who thanked him with a kiss on the cheek at the Veteran’s Day parade, and
Oriana returned home to her time and the other Battlers were there to see her
off.
To make sure the
girls refrained from any unnecessary fighting, Deyon suggested they go out of
town in Book 46 and find someplace to escape from Chief Manhunter while the
boys thought of a plan of dealing with him and the Stone of Absor. So Shauna
and Diahandra skipped town with Diahandra’s brother, Derrick, and their two old
friends, Jamal O’Connor and Felicia Hooper, and headed off to Topeka, Kansas.
But Jon and the boys were displeased to learn that Shauna ended up going
through her Crystal Advance, anyway, thanks to a young man named Jeremy
Frost and his romantic obsession with her.
In Book 47, Jon and
the other Battlers were forced to try and save Deyon, who was kidnapped by Dominic
Carter, who turned him into bronze as part of his plan to wipe out all the
mages in the Washington, D.C., area. While Jon and the other Battlers
managed to track him down, he, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, and Shauna were
all turned into bronze, as well. He and the others were later rescued by Diahandra
after she became the final Battler to undergo the Crystal Advance, along with
the team’s newly-obtained ally, Stephanie
Sadler, previously known as Horstephanie.
In Book 48, with all
eight Battlers possessing Battler Emeralds, Jon and the others knew they needed
to watch out for Chief Manhunter, as it was clear that an attack from him was
possible at any minute. Indeed, that was the case, as a few allies of the chief’s
attacked the Battlers in their homes on Christmas Eve — Carnivore, Maximole,
Fenrir, and Goril. With each attack, at least two Battlers were kidnapped (Jon
by Maximole, along with Jay and Shauna) and taken to the Killer Beavers’
village, where Chief Manhunter planned to do nothing short of eating the kids
and absorbing their powers. But Deyon thought fast and, when Chief Manhunter
tried to make them all suffer some last-minute humiliation by publicizing their
scared thoughts to his guests, made sure Goril heard that Chief Manhunter was
using him, all the while planning to eat Aaron himself rather than let Goril
have him. Goril went on a frenzy that resulted in the Battlers escaping, and to
ensure their escape, Deyon finally mastered his Magic Advance.
In Book 49, Jon and
the other Battlers had to deal with the horrors of Pastry
Pat, a magical pig chef who turned them into pies to give to Chief
Manhunter. It was only thanks to Maurice they escaped.
In Book 50, Jon
joined the other Battlers on a trip up to Cloud Nine, a magical sky-kingdom
whose citizens were all birds. There, he and the others went head-to-head
against a high-flying villain known as Vultura
Scavenge, a villain from Aaron and J.J.’s past during the time of their
absence in Book 25. It wasn’t an easy struggle, as Vultura was easily more
powerful than all eight Battlers. But they did manage to beat him in one battle
before he kidnapped Juliet in an attempt to lure them all up to the highest
point of Cloud Nine, which was close enough to the sun to let it empower their
Battler Emeralds. By the time they’d figured it out, it was too late. Vultura
was revealed to have been working with Chief Manhunter all along, and he’d set
all the events in motion just to get the Battlers up there. But just as the
chief was about to eat the Battlers, who’d been trapped by Cast, his most loyal
beaver turned on him . . . and ate him up in one quick gulp! He also managed to
absorb his own chief’s powers since the chief wasn’t the only one who’d eaten a
Stone of Absor. So had he. So now, although Chief Manhunter was out of the Battlers’ hair, Cast was firmly
in it.
Jon and the other
Battlers found out just how deep in their hair Cast was in Book 51, when they
found out he’d recruited the Mutant Guerrillas to work for him. After being
defeated by the Battlers (who, at the time, were meeting Jay’s parents for the
first time), they were approached by Cast, who helped them by giving each of
them a fraction of his power. Their increased power enabled them to defeat the
Battlers the next time they fought them, and Jon was among six of the Battlers
who were kidnapped as a result of that battle. Deyon, Maurice, Aaron, Shauna,
and Diahandra joined him, as they were all taken to the Killer Beavers’
village. Things looked bleak for them, but Richard and Jay, the only two
Battlers who’d managed to escape capture, rescued them, thanks to a
well-thought-out plan of Jay’s. Their rescue was more than ensured to be
successful when Jay mastered his Magic Advance to stop the mutants from
following them.
In Super Battlers 5,
Jon and the other Battlers were shocked when they got word from Stalker that
the other twenty-two Battler Crystals Oriana had once owned were still intact
and somewhere out there in the United
States. With this knowledge, and the chance
to take down Cast potentially heightened, the team agreed to send two of their
members to each of the four locations the Battler Crystals had been hidden in.
Jon and Aaron went to search for six of the crystals up near the North Pole
(while Deyon and Maurice went to Louisiana,
Richard and Shauna to Utah,
and Jay and Diahandra to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado). But their journey
wasn’t a calm one. First, they suddenly found themselves trapped on a giant
chessboard, which they could only get off by playing and completing a full
game, which they did, thanks to a good idea by Jon to trick a giant queen piece
(that could move on its own) into destroying the opposing side’s king piece.
And after that, they fell onto a giant roulette wheel. Once
there, they each found themselves trapped on different numbers a few spaces
from each other. And they found out that if a ball landed on their
corresponding space, they’d get vaporized by a humungous laser. Jon knew right
away they needed to escape before a ball landed on each of their own spaces.
Jon managed to
escape from a giant glass box keeping him trapped on the wheel, but before he
could break Aaron out, a giant hand came down and pulled him up off the wheel,
away from his best friend. The hand turned out to belong to Gamester, who’d
been tipped off by an anonymous source that Jon and Aaron would be in his area.
He used that knowledge to trap Jon and Aaron right where he wanted them just so
that he could challenge Jon to one final battle against him, this time being
either life or death. Jon accepted the challenge, and though he put up a good
fight, Gamester was clearly winning, at first, and was looking forward to the
meal he’d be making of Jon upon victory. But just as Jon was close to defeat,
he came back with Magic Advance that fatally wounded Gamester, killing him.
Just before he died, though, he gave Jon a prize for his victory: the Battler
Crystals he and Aaron were seeking. Then, Jon went to find Aaron. He found him
in the very room the roulette wheel turned out to be in and saw that a ball had
landed on his space after so many others had been eliminated. He broke open his
glass box with a fire spell, freed him, and dragged him to safety just in time.
With Gamester dead, they then escaped the palace before it came down, unable to
be sustained without its master alive.
Jon and Aaron
finally finished their quest by seeing the lost Battler Crystals Jon had won
from Gamester. But they were surprised to find out they weren’t Battler
Crystals. After years of having been used by a team of Battlers that’d been
formed long after Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Kesse, Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra had
left 1785, they’d also gone through the Crystal Advance and become Battler
Emeralds. This changed the Battlers’ plans of using them (they’d wanted to use
the crystals while they were still crystals), as they didn’t want to make it
easier for Cast to get at least eight new, inexperienced Battlers more easily
than he could get the eight he already knew. So for the time being, they’d keep
the extra Battler Crystals locked up for safekeeping.
In Book 53, Jon and
the other Battlers had to face a new problem. Philip DiCapa’s grief over his
parents’ deaths was finally coming to a head, and he was finally vowing to make
the ones responsible for their deaths, the Battlers, pay. Jon tried to convince
him that it was their own fault that they died, not the Battlers’, but Philip
wasn’t having it. Noticing how much rage Philip felt toward the Battlers, Cast
kidnapped Philip and magically endowed him with magic powers of his own that he
could use to fight and defeat the Battlers. His first victim was Jon, who was
hurt very badly in a battle against Philip, mainly because he used water magic
against his fire-empowered body. When Jon was too hurt to move, Cast was just
about to eat him and absorb his powers. But fortunately, Jon thought fast,
setting Cast’s mouth on fire and escaping while he was distracted by that.
Jon and the other
Battlers knew they’d have to help Philip get over his grief in some way, so
they opted to get the help of his brother, Desmond, and his sister, Vivian, to
get through to him. They planned to call Philip to the DiCapa mansion so that
his siblings could hopefully talk him out of working for and with Cast, with the
Battlers waiting in the wings to fight him if talking to him didn’t work.
Unfortunately, Cast overheard the Battlers’ plan and alerted Philip, who went
to the DiCapa mansion to attack them long before they were ready to put their
plan into motion. He fought and defeated the Battlers, kidnapping Deyon,
Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Shauna, and Diahandra. Only Jon was left behind.
But they’d be released if Jon met up with Philip for a rematch twenty-four
hours from the time of the other Battlers’ kidnapping.
Jon wasn’t about to
give up. He finalized the original plans with Desmond and Vivian, only making a
few small changes to the plan — he’d go to the rematch, but only if they’d come
in to talk to Philip just before he killed Jon, should Jon start losing to him.
That plan was put in motion the next day, when, at the rematch, Philip did
indeed defeat Jon and came close to killing him. Desmond and Vivian entered
just in time to talk him out of it, finally convincing him that Liam and Susan
had, in fact, gotten themselves killed from being too obsessed with finding the
Battlers, learning their identities, and killing them. Philip finally got the
message, admitted that part of him knew that, and decided not to kill Jon over
something he knew wasn’t his fault. An infuriated Cast, angry that Philip had
betrayed him, attacked the youngest DiCapa and ate him alive. This prompted Jon
to engage in a new battle, this time with Cast. This time,
Jon won, but only because he used his Magic Advance on Cast. Jon was
allowed to take the other Battlers home, since they’d be his prize if he won,
and so, they all escaped the village. But now, they had even more incentive to
defeat Cast — rescuing Philip from his stomach, as they knew Cast was now
absorbing his powers with the Stone of Absor.
In Book 54, Jon and
the other Battlers discovered the perfect way to stop Cast — removing the Stone
of Absor from his body. To do that, they found out from Oriana and Stephanie
that they’d need to use a powerful spell called the SRS — the Stone Removal
Spell. It’d require four special ingredients — the fang of an Intimato, the
hair of a female human Necromage, ten or more drops of werewolf saliva, and a
vulture feather. All four ingredients would have to be obtained and added, in
that order, to a special cauldron called the Superior, which was used mainly for brewing
the most potent of spells.
When Jon, Deyon, and
Aaron learned that a mysterious, pantherlike beast had stalked and attempted to
eat Shauna, only to be fought off with help from Maurice, it was found out from
Oriana and Stephanie that the beast was the Intimato they were looking for.
They were beasts that disguised as humans in their attempts to lure
unsuspecting victims into their clutches, then hunt them down for food within
thirty-six hours after meeting them. They could be identified with a specific
mark on their arms — a backward six standing back-to-back with a forward six. Shauna
ran into the Intimato again and managed to knock one of its fangs out. She
promptly gave it to Stephanie the next time the Battlers met with her and
Oriana. The Intimato turned out to be Ty Butler,
a boy Shauna had been seeing temporarily while on the outs from Jamal, and was killed
by Shauna when she froze him in a block of ice and shattered it.
Jon’s archenemy is Thwarthog, the mutant warthog. He was created after
Evilla’s death, and in reaction to Jon
joining the Battlers. Thwarthog is mean and always hungry — for Jon!
Jon’s ultimate
enemy, however, was Polar “Gamester” Tundros, whom he met in Book 29. Gamester
loved games, especially when he manipulated them so that he could win. He’d
hoped to play that way to finally defeat and eat Jon, but he was ultimately
defeated and killed by him in Super Battlers 5 when he used Magic Advance for the
element of fire on him.
Jon is the Fire Battler and fights with the Battler Fire Club. It attacks
enemies with fire magic. His Battler Animal is the most unique of all the other
Battlers’ — a fire-breathing dragon he named Pyro. His other Battler Animal is
a common housecat prenamed Torch by his former master, Gamester. His Elemental
Fighter is the Fire Fighter, which can only be used in deserts or inside
a volcano. The high heat it generates makes it too dangerous to use anywhere
else.
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