Bouquet of Flowers in the Icy Sky

After obtaining her third Badge, Cynthia's team level cap had risen to level 35.

She guided her character out of the Gym and was just about to head to the Pokémon Center in the upper-right corner to restore her team when she suddenly realized that her character could no longer move.

This had happened before, which meant a story event had probably been triggered!

At the same time, the chat in the livestream began scrolling again.

[Another story event?]

[No, I remember there wasn't any story here in the original version. What kind of mod is this?]

[Whatever, we'll find out if we keep watching.]

As they discussed it, something unexpected suddenly happened in the game!

A mass of red light abruptly flew out from Cynthia's character. It was the Sealed Urn she had obtained earlier!

The Sealed Urn kept flying forward through the air as the camera panned left, revealing a beautiful garden beside the street.

The garden had originally been filled with blooming flowers in every color.

But now, a red-and-gold ring of light had appeared out of nowhere in the center of the flower bed and slowly began to spin.

Everything around the ring seemed drawn toward it, trembling and warping, while even the background music took on a tense note.

As though pulled by some unseen force, the Sealed Urn flew directly beneath the ring and hovered in midair.

Then, a horrifying sight appeared.

A massive arm covered in golden patterns suddenly reached out from within the ring!

The arm swayed through the air, seized the edge of the ring, and seemed intent on tearing it apart!

The livestream viewers immediately recognized the identity represented by that arm.

[Huh? Hoopa Unbound?]

[Didn't they say we had to break the seal before we could see it? Why did it show up so quickly?]

[Streamer: I just beat the Electric-type Gym, and now I'm supposed to fight Hoopa Unbound? Seriously?]

Meanwhile, the ring in the game trembled violently under the giant hand's pull. Cracks had already begun to spread along its edges, and it looked ready to collapse!

Just then, multicolored light suddenly lit up the garden.

A green figure burst from the radiance and shot in front of the ring like lightning. It was a small, hedgehog-like Pokémon, snow-white all over with a patch of green leaves atop its head.

"Mi!"

He let out a resolute cry, and the surrounding space was instantly shrouded in dense green light. It transformed into wave after wave of fierce attacks that struck the giant hand without mercy!

"Roar!!"

Furious, pained roars immediately came from within the ring. The massive arm seemed unable to withstand the impact of that power. It was forced to release the ring and quickly withdrew.

At the same time, Cynthia found that she could control her character again.

She snapped out of her daze at the sight of two completely unfamiliar Pokémon and immediately moved her character forward. She pressed the interaction button on the Sealed Urn floating in midair and successfully returned it to her backpack.

As the Sealed Urn vanished, the black-and-gold ring rapidly shrank as well. In the end, it turned into a streak of light and fell onto Cynthia's character.

A close-up of a massive urn then appeared before her.

A brand-new golden pattern lit up on the surface of the Sealed Urn.

Cynthia examined it closely and found that there were five patterns on the Sealed Urn in total. Four were dim, while the uppermost one had just lit up.

She could not help recalling the old man's words.

So these five patterns... represented five seals?

What had that arm been just now? Was that the existence sealed within the Sealed Urn?

With such an enormous arm, its true body could only be even larger.

Just how powerful was its true body?

As Cynthia pondered this, the green Pokémon suddenly appeared before her.

He opened his mouth and gently spat something out.

A flower fell into her character's hands.

Seeing the close-up of that flower on the screen, Cynthia felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

It was a dazzling flower. Its petals had a translucent texture, while golden light flowed through them like a starry sky.

In that instant, countless fragments of memory flashed before her eyes.

Beneath a blue sky lay an endless sea of flowers.

A gentle breeze blew past, and countless petals swayed in the wind, rising and falling like waves.

It was a sight she had seen in a dream.

And that dream had come from... that day!

The moment she had met him.

She had lost consciousness then, yet when she awoke, she found that her mind contained those dreamlike images.

Ever since then, after realizing that those flowers might be connected to that golden figure, Cynthia had kept searching for them.

To that end, she had consulted countless ancient books and traveled through flower fields across many lands, yet she had never once heard of such a flower existing.

Over the past few years, she had nearly forgotten about it. She had even begun to think it was merely an illusion she had imagined.

But now, she was seeing the exact same flower again in the game.

At the same time, a prompt window appeared in the game.

[Obtained Gracidea!]

[Description: A bouquet containing incredible power. It is said to possess the power to rewrite time and space.]

Rewrite time and space...?

Cynthia's heart suddenly began racing.

Meanwhile, the green Pokémon seemed to have achieved its goal. He turned around, gave Cynthia's character one deep look, then transformed into a streak of green light and vanished directly into the sea of flowers before them.

Cynthia was about to put the flower into her backpack when, to her surprise, another close-up appeared the next second. The flower in her hand began to wither at a visible rate!

Its once-translucent petals rapidly dimmed before finally turning to dust and scattering away.

Only a seed emitting a faint gray glow remained in her hand.

[Obtained "Gracidea Seed!"]

[Description: A seed bearing the blessings of time and space, awaiting its next time to bloom.]