"All right, it's about time we headed back."
Tong Hua stood up, holding the sleeping Purrloin in his arms.
"Labi."
Pink Celebi took one last look at the night sky and nodded gently.
Just as she was about to follow Tong Hua away, she suddenly turned warily toward a certain direction on West Hill, her little body instantly tensing.
"Labwa!" she cried out an urgent warning, her figure gradually fading from view at the same time.
Almost simultaneously, Lucario spun around too, unleashing her Aura at full strength as she stared sharply in the same direction.
"Who goes there?"
Familiar with the Aura of every living creature nearby, Lucario immediately sensed that this Aura belonged to none of the Pokémon she knew around Fairy Tale Ranch.
Seeing the two of them react like this, Tong Hua immediately grew wary too. He gently placed Purrloin in the bushes beside him and whispered, "Let me go take a look."
Tong Hua picked up a small twig from the ground, instantly switching his Profession to Fisher.
Who said you couldn't fish without a hook?
Then it's perfectly reasonable for me to use a stick as a fishing rod, right?
Of course, Tong Hua had tested all of this before. Just as he expected, [Stealth] slowly activated.
But before he had taken more than a few steps, a rustling came from the woods ahead.
Dusknoir's towering figure slowly emerged, with seven Sableye spreading out behind him like phantoms.
"Yohoho."
Dusknoir's cries naturally carried an intense sense of pressure, and the antenna on his head could receive radio waves from the Spirit World.
He was Dark Dialga's assassin. Since he had appeared here, didn't that mean-
"Run!"
Pink Celebi shouted to Tong Hua and Lucario almost the instant she saw Dusknoir.
"Wuoh." At that moment,