"...!!"
The smile froze on Darkrai's face. Shock flashed in his eye, disbelief, and...
Black flames instantly blazed all over his body, writhing and spiraling. The entire Dream Space shook violently, as though it had sensed its master's fury!
Darkrai utterly ignored the white blade of light Celebi sent at him from behind. He turned and fixed his gaze on the dark figure before him, his eye blazing as he unleashed what energy he had left.
He could accept being gravely wounded by Celebi, or having the Nightmare Pillar destroyed by an unknown, powerful being.
He could even accept being outmaneuvered by the human before him... because even among humans, there were individuals he had to treat with caution.
But!!
But!!!!
Since when could a mere Bug-type, a mere Beedrill, toy with him and hold him in such contempt?!
Even "utter humiliation" could not describe Darkrai's feelings. He felt only a black fire surging endlessly within him, impossible to suppress.
A Bug-type Pokémon!
How many Bug-type Pokémon were there in this world?!
And this one was even the evolved form of a lowly Weedle?!
Absurd.
Absolutely absurd!
Darkrai finally understood what it meant to laugh in the throes of fury, because he was laughing now, brilliantly and chillingly.
"Beedrill... very well. Very well indeed!
I swear, even on the day my life comes to an end, I shall remember you!"
Yet Beedrill merely lifted its head slightly as it faced the enraged Darkrai, just as it had when it was a Weedle that held grudges and refused to lose!
It calmly drove the five pitch-black poison needles on its body a little farther forward. Its lucid red eyes quietly regarded Darkrai's black-hole-like face and his chilling, dark red eye.
It said nothing, but a hint of pity showed in its