The three Deoxys flashed through the night, moonlight falling over them as though wrapping them in a faint silver glow.
After only a few minutes of flight, they had already left LaRousse City and landed in the forest clearing again.
Nothing here had changed since Xia You left. No one had launched a sneak attack, nor had any Wild Pokémon with no sense wandered in.
The only difference was that Gardevoir had wrapped his body in Confusion to keep him from losing body heat on a night like this.
All he could say was that Gardevoir really was a thoughtful Pokémon!
Even he had overlooked that detail, yet Gardevoir had noticed it!
But this was no time to marvel.
After being away for so long and traveling so far, Xia You already felt a little discomfort in his soul, as though its connection to his body had been severed. He quickly lay down over his body, and in a momentary daze, his soul returned to it.
When he opened his eyes again and stood up, his body did indeed feel warm, and there seemed to be no aftereffects.
"Well done!"
Smiling at Gardevoir, he turned his gaze toward the two wild Deoxys.
Xia You did not know their sexes, or even whether they had sexes at all, but unlike most other Deoxys, this pair had been born from the same stone.
Other Deoxys also wandered through space aboard meteorites, but there was usually only one Deoxys in each meteorite. These two, however, shared one!
That was why, in the movie, the red-cored Deoxys had been so obsessed with finding this cyan-cored Deoxys!
Yes, the cyan Light Body Ash and the others had encountered in the park was this Deoxys's consciousness!
Although its body had been destroyed, leaving only its core,