Azure flames blanketed the night sky, and a blazing aura rose amid the roar of spinning turbines.
The next moment.
The sky interwoven with blue flames suddenly split apart, and a streak of blue fire shot straight down toward Hoopa Unbound, rolling heat waves rushing head-on.
Faced with the scorching blue flames bearing down on it.
Groudon's expression instantly turned solemn. It spread its arms and raised its head as searing magma flowed and writhed along the black veins covering its body, meeting the descending blue flames head-on.
Boom—!!
For a moment.
As blue and crimson flames collided and intertwined, terrifying explosions erupted, accompanied by rings of heat waves spreading in every direction.
"Roar—!!"
Immediately after.
A long, ethereal dragon cry descended from the sky.
The snowy-white Pokémon that descended alongside the blue flames had its double ponytail and soft fur swaying wildly in the surging heat.
The Dragon of Truth, Reshiram!
Upon seeing Reshiram, Spectrier beneath Xia Yan instinctively shrank back, lowering its head and refusing to look at it.
For the first time.
Spectrier, which had once believed that submitting to a human like Xia Yan was nothing more than Xia Yan's absurd stroke of luck, and that the energy it could provide would be enough to make any person ecstatic.
Even when it had first met Reshiram, Spectrier had submitted in body but not in spirit.
But now, it truly realized how mistaken it had been.
This was not Xia Yan getting lucky enough to tame it.
It was Spectrier that had hit the jackpot by getting to carry Xia Yan.
Just look at the Pokémon he kept bringing out. What even were these things?
The Dragon of the Sky, a Shiny Rayquaza!
An incredibly powerful Psychic-type Pokémon whose Psychic power could crush the Frost Dragon Kyurem