"Mr. Dian?!"
Carlita cried out as she watched the hillside turn into a sea of flames.
At that same moment, Courtney, beneath Eindoak Town, suddenly felt her heart lurch. She clutched her chest, tears slipping unbidden from her eyes.
"Zor!"
Zorua, by contrast, remained remarkably resolute. It swept away her tears with its long tail, reminding its Trainer.
Courtney slowly steadied her breathing. "I know."
Worrying now served no purpose. She gazed down the seemingly endless Crystal Corridor, with no idea how long she would have to walk. Its unfathomable darkness swallowed everything and wore everything away, whether ideals or truth!
Yet a trial of this magnitude could not stop Courtney. She paid no attention to the path of retreat behind her and headed single-mindedly into the endless abyss.
She had no idea how much time passed. Perhaps time itself had lost all meaning.
Courtney finally reached the end of the Crystal Corridor, the bottom of a cavern filled with black crystals. A deep-black stone egg, its surface covered in lightning patterns, rested quietly on a stone platform strewn with shards of black crystal.
"The Dragon Egg, the legendary Darkest Day Stone, formed from the first ideals when the world burned to ashes..." Delight gradually filled Courtney's eyes. "And one of the vessels through which Zekrom, the Dragon of Ideals, manifests in this world!"
One of the Tao Trio, Zekrom, the embodiment of ideals.
According to Unova's legends, the entire Unova Region had once been a boundless land ruled by two kings and the Divine Dragon.
Eventually, the conflict between the two kings split the Divine Dragon into three, known as the "Tao Trio": Zekrom, the embodiment of ideals; Reshiram, the Seeker of Truth; and finally Kyurem, the empty shell of the Divine Dragon!
As the oldest nation in the