Stepping onto Mahalo Trail was a bizarre experience. Something in the atmosphere shifted and gave the road a different feel to it. There were these big stone statues everywhere and wooden planks were lodged in the dirt to make rugged staircases. Climbing the steps, I began to hear a voice. It seemed to be talking to someone, but whoever it was wasn't responding to them. I inched closer hoping to get a better look at who it was. It was a girl, dressed all in white, with long blond hair and green, almost yellow, eyes. She wore a large, floppy hat and was wearing a drum bag with a pokéball design on it. Looking around nervously, she darted up to the top of the path and I followed suit.
At the end of Mahalo Trail, there was a bridge made of wood and ropes. It didn't look too sturdy, and I didn't see anyone else, so I would have just gone back to Kukui if not for a purple-blue cloud-like creature suddenly popping out of the drum bag. It looked like a water atom, with two arms (wings?) and a body. The whole thing looked rather gaseous, but it still had a distinguishable face with little yellow eyes. The girl reached out to stop the thing, but it started floating happily across the bridge. It did not, however, notice the flock of Spearow waiting readily to attack! All of a sudden, the blob was crying, huddled in the middle of the bridge. It was just then that the girl noticed me standing there. I asked her who she was, but all she would say to me was to "Please help Nebby!"
The bridge was rickety, and a few times it felt like I was going to fall over into the chilly river below, but eventually I made it to (who I assumed the blob was) Nebby. Crouching down, I bent over the Pokémon and shielded it from the Spearow's pecks. Suddenly, Nebby started glowing brighter and brighter until a large flash lit up the area and disintegrated the bridge right out from under us! We fell toward the rushing water and I got a glimpse of the shock on the girl's face before a yellow and black Pokémon scooped us up and dropped us back on the land. It stood there for a while, radiating electricity with a powerful aura about it, and it was then that I realized that Tapu Koko had just saved my life. Letting out a screeching cry, it flew away, leaving us gawking in its wake.
