Rayquaza's gaze fell on Zekrom, and a terrifying aura burst out from him.
The entire statue world began to shake as if it was about to collapse.
If he remembered correctly, it was because this bastard didn't play fair and directly attacked Gardevoir's trainer, which made Gardevoir go crazy the first time they met.
'Me, the mighty Black Rayquaza, my reputation actually got ruined because of you?'
'If I don't beat you up, I can't swallow this anger!'
Thinking this, Rayquaza's eyes grew even fiercer.
["A very fine dragon, but too bad you ran into us today!"]
Glastrier saw the black Rayquaza raging behind him and instantly got excited.
'Holy crap holy crap holy crap, Sister Garde is way too fierce!'
Before, he thought he was Gardevoir's biggest trump card.
Never imagined that Gardevoir even brought over the Aurient's Emperor's Pokémon.
If they ran into his old friends, wouldn't they be scared to death?
Thinking that, Glastrier let out a neigh, and his barely-contained excitement directly raised his attack power by one level.
Zekrom froze hard, his eyes filled with dead stillness.
'Can someone tell me whose house this even is?'
His whole dragon body went numb.
["Miss, I admit defeat, can you at least tell me why you're hitting me?"]
["No!"]
Gardevoir was visibly furious.
She carried the hatred of all these years, and now she had finally reached Dragonspiral Tower and seen the black dragon.
The fact that she even held back enough to talk, to try to judge whether this black dragon was the culprit, was already going above and beyond.
But she never expected that this black dragon wouldn't even give her the chance to speak, attacking her straight away.
'In the last life… that Ghetsis who rode the black dragon was like this.'
'In this life… even this unborn black dragon is the same.'
'You all deserve to die!'
Gardevoir's mind plunged completely into frenzy. The Fairy Terrain spread across the entire black dragon statue world, and spears of ice and moonlight power practically merged into one.
Rayquaza wasn't idle either, throwing dragon-type energy as if it cost nothing at all toward the black dragon.
Zekrom was beaten into a state of complete misery.
He clearly knew, this strange Gardevoir's level wasn't higher than his, yet her species strength was bizarrely far above his own.
The black dragon knew he had some flaws.
He was only one part of the Unova Dragon God's body.
In an upheaval, the Dragon God had split into three parts: ideals, reality, and flesh.
The flesh was Kyurem, the ideals became Zekrom's Dark Stone, and reality became Reshiram's Light Stone.
Some other fragments divided further into weaker Zekroms and Reshirams, forming the species.
All along, the black dragon had always been proud that, as the embodiment of ideals, his species was above the other Zekroms.
But now, he was shocked to find, the noble species level of the Gardevoir before him was almost equal to the Dragon God's former form.
["Miss, I really was wrong!"]
["No, you're not wrong, you just need to die a little."]
Gardevoir still sneered coldly, her hands not slowing down at all.
'If apologies were useful, my master wouldn't have died in the last life.'
———
A few minutes later, Zekrom finally collapsed to the ground, the fury gone from his eyes.
Now he was like a mischievous grade-schooler behaving meekly before his teacher.
Gardevoir, riding Glastrier, stepped forward, spear pressed against Zekrom's neck. The extreme chill spread out, freezing more than half his body into ice sculpture.
["I'll ask you… do Zekrom have a species?"]
Zekrom froze for a second, the corner of his mouth twitching.
At first he wondered why Gardevoir had such a big temper, barging into his home so righteously.
Now he finally understood.
'This unfamiliar Gardevoir went crazy from the start, it must be because she has a grudge with other Zekroms!'
So…
If he hadn't chosen to strike first, but explained everything clearly, would he have avoided today's beating?
["I'm innocent, miss,"] Zekrom spoke at extreme speed, terrified that the next moment that spear would pierce his very consciousness.
Even though the Dark Stone existed and his awareness collapsing wouldn't kill him, it would still cost him a thousand years to recover.
By the time he revived, the white dragon would've long since locked down the entire Unova region like an iron barrel.
["Zekrom does have a species. If you have a grudge, it must be with another Zekrom."]
Gardevoir's eyes softened a little, but she still didn't withdraw the spear.
The killing of Axel by Zekrom happened in a past incident. Before the Rainbow Rocket formation, no one could clear Zekrom of suspicion.
Zekrom explained frantically, ["Me and the white dragon are different from the others. We're the true consciousness of the Dragon God itself, very different from the other dragons."]
["The simplest thing is: once we leave Unova, Kyurem will definitely chase us to fuse again, so me and the white dragon have only ever left once in our lives."]
["As long as the black dragon you met wasn't in Unova, it absolutely wasn't me."]
Hearing this, Gardevoir slowly withdrew her spear.
She could tell the black dragon wasn't lying, so this one shouldn't be the one who killed Axel.
["Sorry."]
Leaving only this apology, Gardevoir prepared to leave the black dragon's consciousness world.
The black dragon let out a long breath, sprawling flat on the ground without the slightest care for legendary dignity.
Hearing the two talk, Rayquaza blinked, his voice a little embarrassed, ["So… you've cleared up the misunderstanding?"]
Gardevoir saw the light practically shining from Rayquaza's eyes, and his nearly recovered body, and instantly knew what he was thinking.
So she nodded lightly, then turned again to Zekrom, ["When are you and Reshiram coming into the world this time?"]
["Judging by the energy the Dark Stone's been gathering, probably in a month."]
Now Zekrom answered every question without hesitation, even revealing his and the white dragon's biggest secret.
Gardevoir nodded lightly, ["One month later, my master will come here to capture either you or Reshiram. You'd better prepare yourself."]
The black dragon's eyes lit up, and he nodded decisively.
["Alright!"]
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