"They probably had a hand in it. After all, Team Rocket is only Gym Leader Class at best right now. How could they turn the tables on a whole group of Elite Four Class and even Champion Class Pokémon Trainers? A third party definitely intervened, and the Hall is the prime suspect," Xiao Ran reasoned.
"Then what are we waiting for? If they manage to catch those two Legendary Pokémon today, I'll take their surname!" Veranica declared fiercely, rising and leaping out of the crevice.
"Let's get one thing straight: safety comes first. I still want to make it home alive to see my daughter!" Yun Mengqiu reminded them wearily as Xiao Ran leaped out after Veranica.
When they returned to the edge of the cliff, the situation on the island was completely different from before.
The black mist shrouding the entire island had grown increasingly thin, allowing them to make out the scenery below. Above the island, two Pokémon were locked in a constant exchange of attacks.
One was pitch-black, with a blood-red Scarf around its neck and black mist swirling around its body. It was Darkrai, the same Pokémon Xiao Ran had seen in Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum.
However, this Darkrai was clearly weaker than the one in Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, its strength roughly at the middle of Elite Four Class.
The other was a pale-blue Pokémon with a yellow belly. Two tufts of purplish-red hair extended from the curved shape on her chest. The yellow ornaments on either side of her head gave her a crescent-moon appearance, while pink, ring-shaped wings stretched along her sides and back, their clawlike tips resting before her chest.
"Are those Darkrai and Cresselia?" Veranica asked curiously, looking at the two Pokémon in the sky.
"Yes. The black one is Darkrai,