The soil in the canyon was still thoroughly damp from the rain that had just fallen.
Stacy was in an excellent mood, constantly toying with a Great Ball in her hand. Inside it was the Salamence that had been knocked out earlier.
An hour earlier, after Su Han had forcibly shoved the two of them into the secret space she had opened, she immediately turned her mount around and rushed toward Cheng Tian.
But when she reached their previous location, the scene before her could only be described as a gruesome mess.
Almost none of the surrounding mountainsides remained intact. A crazed, vicious-looking Noivern beat its wings in the air, roaring furiously at a huge crater in a mountainside before it.
"A-Tian!" Su Han hurriedly hugged Cheng Tian, who stood in the middle. "Are you okay? How's Zapdos? Where's Salamence? You weren't hurt, were you? Is that... Noivern?! Has Noibat evolved already?!"
"I'm fine..." Cheng Tian said. "Salamence just had a huge battle with Zapdos. Salamence wore it down quite a bit, but lost in the end. Noibat suddenly evolved and started fighting Zapdos. There was a little accident along the way, and all my Pokémon went berserk..."
"Whatever happened, it's good that you weren't hurt. Noibat evolved, so you should be happy." Just then, Su Han suddenly noticed half of some unidentifiable thing lying in the filthy mud and water nearby.
There seemed to be some yellow feathers scattered around it, along with the smell of blood.
"What's that?"
"That..." Cheng Tian swallowed, then slowly spoke.
"Everyone forcibly pinned that bristly bird against the mountainside just now. Noivern had already completely lost its reason from the frenzy caused by Outrage and was fighting purely on instinct. It fought so wildly that it tore off a small chunk of Zapdos's