As the mist over the water thinned slightly, Xinhai's gaze swept quickly across the surface. Whiscash had vanished.
After that Scald attack, it had silently slipped beneath the water.
Only Walrein's dark-blue body remained, floating slowly on the surface. Its yellow eyes were fixed on Eevee and Gardevoir as icy-blue light gathered in its mouth once more.
Wallace gave Gardevoir no more time to investigate. From the command platform, he immediately ordered, "Walrein, Blizzard!"
Walrein abruptly opened its huge mouth, unleashing a frigid torrent of air laden with ice crystals.
Like a white storm, Blizzard swept down upon the area where Eevee and Gardevoir stood.
The ice crystals reflected a cold gleam beneath the lights, and the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees in an instant.
"Eevee, Gardevoir, Psychic Barrier!" Xinhai's voice was decisive and clear.
Gardevoir acted first. Vast psychic power surged out like a tide, forming a broad, pale-purple curtain of energy before itself and Eevee.
Eevee followed at once. Blue light lit up in its large brown eyes as it added its own Confusion to Gardevoir's barrier.
With their psychic powers layered together, the barrier's thickness and strength immediately rose to another level.
"Woo, woo, woo!!"
Blizzard, carrying countless ice crystals, crashed against the psychic barrier with a low, mournful howl.
The ice crystals shattered and piled up across the barrier's surface, rapidly forming a layer of white frost visible to the naked eye.
The freezing air spilled around the edges of the barrier, condensing the moisture in the air into tiny ice crystals that drifted down in fluttering flakes.
Eevee crouched behind Gardevoir, its four little paws planted firmly against the platform. Through the frost-covered barrier before it, its large brown eyes stared intently at the water shrouded by Blizzard.
The Blizzard lasted roughly five