Bang!
A massive boulder tumbled out of the flowing yellow sand, only to be smashed into tiny fragments by a swipe of a bear's paw radiating intense cold.
Ayaka kept glancing up at the ice chips and broken stones landing on the blue barrier. She knew Meowstic's Confusion barrier would keep them from falling on her, but the mere thought of being covered in debris made her skin crawl. Like seeing ghosts, it was something she hated.
"Dian... can't Ralts take us out one at a time?"
She couldn't help asking. They had accomplished everything they had come for, so surely there was no need to keep following this quicksand passage, where boulders could fall at any moment.
"No. Ralts is too young. That Ally Switch and Teleport just now already pushed its limits."
Dian glanced at Ralts, who sat on his shoulder clutching the Daifuku protectively.
Ralts tapped his ear with its little white hand.
"Ralts, can, try."
Ralts's voice reached him through Telepathy.
"No."
Dian stood firm. That last Teleport had carried four people out of the Spirit World in an emergency, so he couldn't let Ralts use the move again for a while, at the very least. Besides, carrying four people was vastly different from carrying one. The cost wasn't as simple as four times the energy.
After speaking, he stroked its green hair. Thank goodness for Ralts. Otherwise, he would have had to ask the mighty Wangquan to hold off that pack of crazed ghosts, then find a way to move the Volcarona projected into the Spirit World so they could escape.
But that would have been dangerous. The Spirit World's power might well have been the spiritual energy of living beings, and judging by that Volcarona's size... Besides, if Beauty Mark possessed any of them,