Rayquaza's True Evolution
"Boom!!!"
Hyper Beam fell, and Aisha saw a terrifying explosion above the sea in the distance, a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
"Good."
Smiling with satisfaction, he didn't pay attention to what happened over there.
Aisha trusted Rayquaza's accuracy and the strength of the Hyper Beam.
As for the Collector's personal safety...
I'm sorry!
Any evil will be brought to justice.
"Uh-huh."
With his hands in his pockets, standing on top of Rayquaza's huge head, Aisha looked up at the bright and clear moon in the sky, and the cool moonlight poured down on him.
Under the moon, perched in the night sky, the Dragon of the Sky is even more brilliant than the stars.
And the Dragon Rider who rode the Dragon of the Sky into a time of danger and easily defeated the raging gods...
This scene was etched in the memories of the few onlookers at the altar on Shamouti Island.
"Uh..."
Slumped in the cabin of the speedboat, Ash stared blankly at Slowking on the altar.
"Now, do we still need to get the treasure?"
Slowking:"..."
Slowking glanced at Ash as if he were a fool, and didn't say anything.
Ash: "?"
Ash tilted his head, feeling as if he was being despised by Slowking.
"Pika..."
Pikachu shook its head at his side, sighing inwardly at the fact that its trainer was a real idiot.
"Yes... it's over... meow..."
"It's great that I don't have to die... Thanks to Ad- uh- Instructor Ai!"
"So cool."
Behind them, the trio hugged and cried.
After this incident, Instructor Ai's status in their hearts was even higher - although, these three people's favoritism towards Instructor Ai had already broken through the sky.
"In the end, I still didn't play the flute... What the heck."
Holding the conch-shaped flute, Melody shook her head helplessly.
Although the crisis was over, she felt a bit sorry for it.
After all... This was the only time in recorded history that Shamouti Island's Festival Maiden had a chance to fulfill her role.
"It's not a bad thing."
Slowking laughed, holding its hands behind its back.
"Let's just say it's better this way."
Its wise eyes looked away from the three islands in the sea.
"After seeing that there are people beyond people, and there are heavens beyond heavens, I hope that the God of Fire, the God of Thunder, and the God of Ice will be able to restrain their temper in the future as well..."
Slowking was a bit tired.
Calling those three birds the Three Stupid Birds is really not a bad call.
Three stupid birds, they started to fight each other...
It's fine for you to fight on your own, no one cares about you.
The point is, when you fight, you make the whole Orange Islands upset!
That... You deserve it!
"Hmph."
With a grunt of dissatisfaction, Slowking turned its head to look at the long green dragon perched in the sky, and couldn't help but feel a sense of awe and reverence in its eyes.
"The God of the Sky, and the human who harnessed the God of the Sky... What a hero."
The dragon and the dragon rider under the moon were filled with the colors of a mythological story.
Slowking couldn't help but think of a title.
That is, Hero!
"Oooh!"
"Roar!"
"Screech!"
"Ow!"
At this time, countless different Pokémon's cries came from all directions.
Everyone turned their heads and were shocked to find that a large number of wild Pokémon had appeared at an unknown time and surrounded Shamouti Island.
The nearby sea was filled with water-attributed Pokémon that are unique to the Orange Islands in the Kanto region.
The sky was filled with flying wild Pokémon...
"What's this?"
The people on the altar were puzzled and didn't know what to do.
Slowking smiled and said, "They're all children who sensed the battle between the three divine birds and came over spontaneously, wanting to help."
"Although they knew that they couldn't help much with their own strength, they lived and died with the Orange Islands, so even though their strength was low, they still came over spontaneously, but fortunately, that lord Hero appeared in time and defeated the crazy Three Legendary Birds, preventing unnecessary casualties from occurring."
As it said, the wild Pokémon that had arrived at this place were staring at Rayquaza in the sky, and Aisha who was riding Rayquaza.
Their eyes were filled with deep gratitude and respect.
Even the usually ferocious Gyarados and the sinister Tentacruel were now saluting the god of the sky as if they were on a pilgrimage.
Everything has a spirit, and Pokémon are even more so.
They knew that the person who saved them was the green dragon in the sky and the human on top of it.
That was enough...
"Oooh!"
"Roar!"
"Woo!"
"Ow!"
The wild Pokémon gathered here let out cries filled with reverence, and first sang the praises of Aisha and Rayquaza.
"Ha!"
Aisha laughed.
He reached out and patted Rayquaza's dragon's horn, and flirted, saying, "Rayquaza, you're being treated as a hero by everyone."
"Roar..."
Rayquaza responded with a low growl.
It turned its head and gazed at the wild Pokémon worshipping it in the sea and the sky, and in a flash, it felt a special energy merge into its body...
Rayquaza couldn't describe the feeling.
All it knew was that it had actually felt the feelings of these wild Pokémon.
It was pure kindness without a trace of malice.
It was so nice...
"Roar!"
Rayquaza raised its head and let out an incredibly exciting roar.
That was its response to everyone!
"Oooh!"
"Roar!"
"Wooo!"
"Ow!"
At these words, the Pokémon on the sea became even more excited.
The god answered them!
The sea jumped, the sky shook.
The sky and the sea gave their blessing to the image of God and people having fun together.
"It feels different."
Looking down at Rayquaza underneath him, Aisha murmured in disbelief.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that Rayquaza's body had undergone some small unspeakable changes.
[Hero, do you know what is the most important thing about being a god?]
Reshiram opened his mouth at the right time and asked a question.
"Huh?"
[Yes, faith.]
Without giving Aisha a hard time, Reshiram explained himself.
[You can understand it as wishing power, worshiping power, in short, power is not enough, the god who is worshiped by life is the real god!]
"You mean..."
At those words, Aisha's eyes widened slightly.
Reshiram's words filled with laughter resounded in his mind.
[That's right, Rayquaza, who saved the Orange Islands, saved the wild Pokémon of the Orange Islands, and treated it as if it was its own business, received the sincere gratitude and admiration of the wild Pokémon, and their feelings were turned into the power of faith, paving the way for it to become a true god...]
[Rayquaza...] Reshiram did not finish its sentence.
Aisha looked up sharply at the distant sea.
At some point, the wind had picked up again...
The sea, which had not been calm for a long time, was once again stirring up waves of unrest.
The waves rolled in, and the unusual currents didn't seem to return to normal with the "calming" of the Three Legendary Birds' anger.
"Woo..."
"Howl?"
"Screech!"
The wild Pokémon sensed the return of danger, and a look of panic appeared on their faces.
Unconsciously, they retreated behind Rayquaza.
"That's..."
Aisha frowned and looked at the sea in the distance.
He saw a black shadow slowly emerging from beneath the surface, like an island rising from beneath the sea.
Along with it, there was an evil, anger, sadness, violence mixed together to make him very difficult to describe the unknown atmosphere.
"What is it?"
Aisha's mind came up with a guess.
This suspicion made his expression become worse.
"No way..."
"Splash!"
At the next moment, a giant wave that was a thousand meters high rose above the sea behind the Fire Island, the Thunder Island and the Ice Island!
Between the giant wave that fell from the sky, a nimble figure swam freely in it, and Aisha heard a violent roar.
"Woo!"
It was a hoarse roar... It wasn't supposed to be like this.
Along with this roar, in a flash, a terrifying storm arose from the sea once again.
"Boom!!!"
The huge wave driven by the giant creature exploded into the sky, and the red-eyed Sea God finally appeared above the raging sea.
It flapped its wings, and the frenzy of the ocean currents and storms reached its peak at this moment.
But...
Rayquaza stands!
The violent currents do not affect the Fire Island, the Lightning Island, or the Ice Island any farther east.
The sea presented a bizarre picture - on the one hand, the sky was covered with a violent spiral cyclone, the sea roared and the waves were enormous; on the other hand, the night sky was cloudless, so clear that the bright moonlight and the light of the stars in the sky were enough to light up the whole sea.
Just like a pin in the sea, Rayquaza stabilized the calmness of Shamouti Island, it also stabilized the people on Shamouti Island and the hearts of all the Pokémon hiding behind it!
"Lugia, what's going on?"
On top of Rayquaza's dragon's head, Aisha had his arms wrapped around his chest, and was looking at the God of the Sea on the distant sea with a very grave expression.
At this moment, Lugia was no longer as holy and light as he remembered and described in the myths of Shamouti Island.
On the contrary, Lugia's eyes were red and filled with hatred and ferocity, and hatred for someone.
"Who owes it money, or who stole its child?"
Aisha couldn't figure it out.
So he just gave up thinking about it.
A rampage?
Just wake it up...
If you don't see the three legendary birds that fought so beautifully on the sea and triggered the great crisis of Orange Islands, the legend says that the way to calm their anger is to go to each of the three islands to get the three treasures, put them on the altar of Shamouti Island, and then the Festival Maiden will play the flute.
But Rayquaza's attacks are even more effective than this tedious lore.
In a matter of moments, they were put to sleep like babies.
Perfect...
"It's just as well that Rayquaza didn't get the better of an enemy on the level of the Three Legendary Birds."
With a sneer, Aisha gazed at Lugia, who was flapping its wings furiously above the sea in the distance.
At this exact moment, the red-eyed Sea God also raised its head and glared straight at the strongest existence above the sea.
"Woo!"
The God of the Sea, who controlled the sea, let out a mournful cry filled with sorrow and anger to the God of the Sky, who controlled the sky.
Then, as if it had noticed something, its eyes filled with hatred locked onto Aisha on Rayquaza's dragon's head.
Its red eyes looked as if they were flowing with tears of blood...
"Woo!"
"Screech!"
Before Rayquaza and Aisha could say anything, the wild Pokémon behind them stopped.
Seeing that their revered Dragon of the Sky and its master had been offended by this unknown God of the Sea, the Water-type Pokémon, who were originally scared, immediately became energized, and they swam up to the surface of the sea in front of Rayquaza, forming a thick wall and glaring at Lugia in the distance.
The Pokémon that were flying in the sky flocked to Rayquaza's side, gathering courage to fly in the same sky as the God of the Sky, and there were even some delicate Pokémon such as the Noctowls that defended Aisha's side.
"You guys..."
Aisha looked at the dozen or so Pokémon that had joined hands to build a wall of mental energy with their mind power, blocking the incoming storm in front of him with a surprised expression.
[It seems that not only Rayquaza, but you are also loved by them.]
Reshiram smiled and spoke.
"Woo!"
Lugia screamed dangerously in the distance, muddy water pooling in its mouth.
A dangerous aura filled the air, an attack that could undoubtedly destroy the world.
However, despite this, the Pokémon surrounding Aisha and Rayquaza showed no sign of retreating.
Even though some of the less powerful children amongst them were showing expressions of terror, they still stayed by the side of the heroes who had saved them and the Orange Islands!
"Roar!"
Without hesitation, Rayquaza opened its mouth and spewed out a terrifyingly powerful Dragon Pulse, and the clawing energy dragon collided with the torrent unleashed by the God of the Sea.
"Boom-!!!"
Terrifying energy waves exploded above the sky!
"Dragon Pulse's power has gotten stronger." Aisha's eyes changed.
"No, it's not that Dragon Pulse's power has gotten stronger, but..."
He looked down at Rayquaza, who was in full swing.
"Rayquaza has gotten stronger!"
"Roar-!!!"
The Sky Dragon roared up to the sky, and a bright and dazzling pure white light blossomed from its huge body that was 100 meters long, like another sun rising under the night sky!
[Rayquaza...] Reshiram finished its sentence.
[It's ready to evolve!]
"Whoosh!"
In the next moment, a storm swept out from the sea, and an immense water tornado wrapped around Rayquaza's body.
A huge shadow of a dragon appeared between the water tornado that was spinning at high speed and disturbing the sky...
The wild Pokémon in the surroundings acted as if they had sensed an important change in the body of the Heavenly Dragon they revered.
The powerful Pokémon stood in front of the water tornado and defiantly became its guards.
The rest of the Pokémon danced with a special pattern.
The Pokémon in the sea swam around the water tornado, and the Pokémon in the sky danced in the direction of the water tornado, as if they were praying to the heavens for peace...
"That's..."
On the coast, Slowking stared in disbelief at the scene that was taking place on the ocean.
"Woo!"
As if sensing Rayquaza's aura getting stronger, Lugia on the sea was clearly panicked.
Just as Aisha didn't want to wake it up by normal means but decided to beat it up first, the Lugia that was in a wrong state now was obviously not ready to wait for Rayquaza to finish the ritual of becoming stronger and then deal with itself like a gentleman, so it immediately flapped its wings vigorously, and that pair of huge wings that could cause a 40-day-long sea storm once flapped, severe storm immediately gathered out!
"Woo!"
Lugia screamed.
As its wings swung out, a spiral vortex of air erupted in a violent manner.
That's its exclusive move as the God of the Sea, Aeroblast!
"Screech!"
"Screech!"
"Screech..."
At that moment, three bird chirps came out from the three islands in front of it.
Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno flew up into the sky in front of Aisha, Rayquaza, and thousands of others.
"Boom!"
The Three Legendary Birds combined their strength to take down the God of the Sea's attack.
They were the first to cause the storm, but they were the first to block the Aeroblast that attacked everyone...
Broken feathers were scattered across the sky, and the Three Legendary Birds fell to the surface one by one when they finally couldn't hold on any longer.
However, until they closed their eyes, they were staring at the water tornado that surrounded Rayquaza, with the fear of a true powerhouse in their eyes.
"Woo!"
Lugia didn't even look at these three stupid birds, and once again, the storm swept up under its wings, wide enough to cover the sky.
But...
That's enough.
"Roar!!!"
The earth-shaking roar of the dragon shattered the water tornado, and a dragon's shadow rushed straight into the sky.
The eyes of all the living beings followed its figure.
Wonderful clouds floated in the sky at an unknown time, close to 200 meters long dragon snaked and circled, its body hidden behind the clouds.
The dragon is invisible.
Rayquaza's mighty head poked out from the clouds, looking down at all the sea...
"This is the real Rayquaza... This is the real Rayquaza, not the Caterpie's temporary Rayquaza."
Standing on top of Rayquaza's head as he always did, feeling the terrifying power that was strong enough to shake the earth and sky emanating from the body of the green-colored legendary dragon that had almost doubled in size, Aisha muttered.
Even though he had fantasized about today's scene countless times before.
But, on this day, on the day when the Caterpie transformed into a dragon and truly evolved into Rayquaza!
He was so moved that he couldn't stop thinking about it for a long time...
"Caterpie."
Aisha mumbled Rayquaza's name.
The god of the sky was perched in the sky, looking down on everything.
He was standing on top of the God of the Sky, looking down on the world with its power.
"You..."
In a trance, Aisha saw the first time he met Caterpie.
It was a peaceful day, when a young boy, who didn't have the superhuman strength and many Legendary Pokémon following, met Caterpie, who was determined to live a lazy and quiet life... A promise, the promise he gave it, the trust he placed in it, awakened Caterpie's desire for great strength, and they agreed to work together to reach the peak that no one knew existed, and become the strongest in the world!
And now, they've done it.
They did it...
They have defeated the eye of the God of the Sea and the God of the Land, surpassed the giants guarding the Tree of the Beginning with the body of a worm, and subdued the arrogant and unruly Artificial Gods.
In the afternoon of that day, Aisha picked up Caterpie and made a vow under the warm sun.
That night, Rayquaza lifted Aisha up in the sky, and the stars in the sky were just a companion for them!
"Roar...!"
Between Aisha's tearful eyes, the sky god raised its noble head.
It raised its head to the sky, and with a roar that shook heaven and earth, it dispersed all the storms on the sea in one breath!
The God of Justice clears away all chaos.
Not only the dark clouds in the sky, but also the chaos of the sea and the turbulence of the ocean currents returned to their original state with the roar of the God of Justice.
It had shed its insect skin and had been sublimated into a dragon, and it had the power to do so!
"Woo!"
The angry God of the Sea's mournful cry was heard far and wide under the clear night sky.
But no matter how much it flapped its wings, the storm would not come at its whim...
The Dragon God, perched in the sky, completely suppressed the power of the God of the Sea.
Perhaps, when it was conscious, it could have fought back.
Not now.
"Heh."
Looking down at Lugia's frenzy on the distant sea, Aisha was amused.
This is also a poor guy.
The name of the God of the Sea became a joke after Kyogre appeared.
The power to control the ocean currents was no match for Rayquaza.
Lugia and the Hoenn God are in bad company.
"I wonder what it'll be like when it fights Groudon?" Aisha thought.
Then, it shook its head.
"Never mind, after the fight, Groudon would have to walk back to Hoenn from the Orange Islands, it's too pathetic."
After hacking at Groudon without a care in the world, Aisha smiled and looked at Lugia.
"Next, I'd like you to be the first stepping stone for my best buddy after its evolution~"