Eternal Flower

"Chururu?!"

As dense raindrops fell onto its body, Altaria showed no joy. Instead, it looked around in a panic.

It seemed to dislike rainy weather.

Everyone present, including Lucia, understood why.

Altaria could endure Sunny Day, Sandstorm, and even Hail.

Even though its Dragon-type resistance let it withstand Water-type attacks, rain was the one thing Altaria simply could not bear.

—Because cotton was not waterproof.

The rain did not slide off Altaria's cloudlike cotton wings or get repelled by any waterproof layer. It seeped directly in!

Its cotton wings visibly absorbed water and sank.

Once they were thoroughly soaked, Altaria would even lose its ability to fly for a short time!

If this were a Contest, Lucia would have points deducted right from the start.

Lucia knew this perfectly well. She had to find a way to break out of this predicament.

"Guwu. We can't just sit around and wait, Little Qing Qing—Sunny Day!"

Her background was what it was. Even if Lucia seemed less than clever in matters unrelated to Pokémon, Wallace and Adam had personally trained her fundamentals.

She immediately thought of using weather against weather.

Altaria, deeply bonded with her, instantly responded to the command. It stretched its neck out as far as possible and gathered a blazing orb of firelight before its open beak!

Boom!

Altaria blasted the orb toward the "sky," where it exploded with a sudden roar!

Intense light spread outward, frantically dispersing the gray rain cloud beneath the ceiling.

"A fine choice, but... that child Lucia has overlooked something more important."

The gloom beneath the ceiling was no harder to disperse than the deep furrow between Adam's brows.

That was right.

Altaria had successfully used Sunny Day. By all logic, the weather should have shifted to bright sunlight, favoring Fire-type and Grass-type Pokémon