Dian glanced over from where he stood, then turned away. Sure enough, it had come.
This was one of the reasons he had chosen this place. A Ninetales lived on the mountain across Mirror Lake.
Dian glanced at the nine long golden tails swaying behind Ninetales. "Extrasensory, huh."
There were all sorts of stories about Ninetales. Some descriptions claimed...
For every hundred years a Ninetales lived, it would awaken the Extrasensory power within one of its tails. Once it reached a thousand years old, it would unlock the full power of all nine—but in reality, never mind a thousand-year-old Ninetales, even one over a hundred was exceedingly rare... At least, as far as Dian could remember, he knew of only one.
Telepathy, illusions, Psychic powers, and even a way of thinking almost indistinguishable from a human's—these were probably some of the abilities possessed by the Ninetales Brock had once encountered.
In fact, there was still no comprehensive system for raising Pokémon like Ninetales and Vulpix.
Most Trainers simply treated Ninetales as a Fire-type Pokémon, developing its fire abilities and honing its Fire-type moves.
A few also trained its Psychic powers, but Trainers like that were few and far between.
The problem Dian faced was even more daunting: his Vulpix was an Alolan Vulpix, rarer and more mysterious, and correspondingly harder to raise.
He had originally planned to visit Alola's sacred mountain and observe Alolan Ninetales himself.
But in the end, various circumstances had caused that plan to fall through.
Still, Vulpix needed guidance from one of its own kind no matter what. That was why Dian had headed straight to the Nebel Plateau after getting off the plane. On one hand, he wanted to wipe out the Pokémon Hunters and lay the groundwork while waiting for Jervis's men from the