After Gardevoir once again used Moonblast to take down Duraludon, the mockery in Rayquaza's eyes grew stronger.
Rayquaza felt completely uncomfortable being looked at like that.
Although Gardevoir hadn't said a word so far, he just felt like this girl was scolding him...
Very soon, Rayquaza's premonition came true, Gardevoir's inner voice appeared again.
["As the Aurient's guardian divine dragon, you only enjoyed the faith. Where were you during the Aurient's War of Destruction?"]
["If not for a useless guy like you sitting on the throne, would the Aurient be without gods?"]
Rayquaza's phantom power extended out of the secret realm, blinking in confusion.
'Nothing major happened outside... how did it turn into a War of Destruction?'
Seeing Rayquaza's innocent expression, a trace of disdain flashed in Gardevoir's eyes. She directly projected her last battle before death into Rayquaza's mind through her psychic power.
Seeing Gardevoir tear Zekrom apart bare-handed, Rayquaza suddenly understood why this little one had the courage to challenge him.
'She's seriously fierce...'
She beat down the Ideal Dragon Zekrom, and even Necrozma, a god with similar strength to Rayquaza, suffered a small loss at her hands.
Although attribute restraint played a part, he was restrained too.
Rayquaza immediately stopped thinking of Gardevoir as a junior in his heart, and he began speaking bluntly.
["You fighting them has nothing to do with me."]
["Heh, still so stubborn even now?"], Gardevoir looked coldly at the black Rayquaza and transmitted another image.
It was her final memory before rebirth.
After she fell onto the coastline, the Rainbow Team Rocket's iron flood instantly entered the Aurient, like a land with no resistance.
The anger in Black Rayquaza's eyes disappeared instantly, and he looked at Gardevoir with a complicated expression.
As a dragon that had lived for thousands of years, he quickly understood everything that had just happened.
It was this Gardevoir before him who had been protecting the Aurient until she died in battle.
'No wonder... no wonder she hates me.'
'If all that faith has fallen onto Gardevoir, maybe she really could have defended the Aurient?'
As for why Gardevoir appeared here, Rayquaza didn't ask.
There were too many who could do such things.
Celebi, Dialga, Arceus, all could have done it.
Right now, he just wanted to know who invaded the Aurient, then beat them up hard.
To prevent Gardevoir from continuing to scold him, Rayquaza quickly explained his current situation.
Gardevoir blinked immediately, panicked.
'So he had actually died thousands of years ago in a battle to protect the Aurient?'
'And I just cursed him out that badly...'
She felt terrible, wishing she could find a warm Pokéball to crawl into...
["Ahem! Ahem!"]
Seeing that Gardevoir wanted to apologize, Rayquaza took the initiative to break the awkwardness.
["Don't apologize. I didn't appear during the Aurient's War of Destruction. This truly was my failure. But not this time."]
["Your trainer is pretty fierce. Can we share?"]
["When I recover my strength, let's go beat up that Rainbow Team Rocket together."]
["I've scuffled with that mirror-covered guy before. I'll help you scuffle him again next time!"]
Rayquaza's gaze fell on Axel, who was running over in the distance. His eyes were burning with passion.
'The trainer who raised Gardevoir into a god-slaying existence is right in front of me, what other dragon-type genius trainer am I waiting for?'
Gardevoir blinked, then looked at Rayquaza's illusionary body, beginning to think.
["Reviving you must cost a lot of money, right?"]
The implication being: 'My master's broke.'
Rayquaza was speechless for a moment. His massive dragon whiskers trembled again...
Back then, that little guy named Arthur had almost offered up the entire national treasury to capture him.
But now that he wanted to follow a trainer on his own, he was politely declined by the trainer's Pokémon?
But thinking about how this Pokémon had once protected the Aurient for him, Rayquaza still patiently explained.
["I'll shed a dragon scale. When your master's dragon-type energy becomes rich, I'll recover on my own."]
["So you don't need to spend a single coin. Just raise a few dragon-types."]
Gardevoir bit her index finger, ["But raising dragons is expensive!"]
The implication being: 'Still don't want Rayquaza.'
Rayquaza looked up at the sky, not wanting Gardevoir to see the fragility in his heart.
'Worthy of being a Fairy-type Pokémon, she counters Dragon-types in every way.'
'Even the mouth isn't an exception!'
["I've already blessed your master. The dragon-types around him will grow quickly, just raise them like Caterpies."]
["Well... alright then, you're the King of Caterpies. I'll trust you!"]
Rayquaza didn't want to talk anymore, urgently shedding a black reverse scale with a snap, which dropped to the ground...
———
"Gardevoir, are you okay?", Axel and Pheromosa ran to Gardevoir's side from where Duraludon had disappeared, their voices full of concern.
He had once heard that after intense forced evolution, Pokémon were prone to aftereffects.
Ash's Charizard was a classic example.
He originally had a high bond with Ash. For Ash, he forcibly evolved twice, gaining massive strength boosts in a short time.
But after evolving, the bond between Charizard and Ash became very weak, even occasionally attacking Ash.
If Gardevoir ended up like that, Axel would rather fail in this secret realm.
Seeing Axel's worried look, Gardevoir's eyes immediately curved into crescent moons, and her lips couldn't help but rise.
'See!'
'Even Rayquaza doesn't compare to how important I am to my master!'
"Garde~"
Gardevoir flicked her pink waterfall-like hair and gave Axel a big hug.
With some small thoughts of her own, Gardevoir even puffed out her chest a little.
'Finally beat that little loli!'
Feeling the softness on his chest, Axel instinctively let out a breath of relief.
If it was a Pokémon with a low bond, it wouldn't reward its trainer like this.
"Gardevoir, you scared me to death. Next time you want to fight such a high-intensity battle, talk to me first, okay?"
"Garde?", Gardevoir tilted her head, using her usual trick.
Her stunning face, paired with her uniquely long pink hair different from normal Gardevoirs, made her look like a Pokémon stepped out of a painting.
Even pretending to be clueless looked beautiful to the extreme, lethal charm.
But Axel had long since become immune to Gardevoir's usual tactics. He smacked her on the butt.
"Don't listen and get spanked!"
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