𝒜𝓁ℴ𝓁𝒶, ℋℯ𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒷𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓀! ( ℋ𝒾𝓈 𝒦𝒶𝓁ℴ𝓈 𝒬𝓊ℯℯ𝓃 ℬℴℴ𝓀 2)

A Chance Meeting

                                                Ash's POV

We had all changed into more formal clothes. Lillie into her fancy white dress, Mallow into her super short shorts, Lana into her bell-bottom shorts. Kiawe didn't get much of an outfit change, as did Sophocles. Liana's flowy Alolan-style dress whipped around in the wind as she stared at me take my position. "Let's go, Pikachu!" I yelled, positioning myself in my Z-Move poses. Smoothly transitioning from one move to another, I reached out and screamed. "Now use Ten-Million Volt Thunderbolt!" "Pikachu!" cried my electric buddy, emitted powerful flashes of lightning that formed into a rainbow of electric spheres. He moved them to slam on the ground and as with every Z-Move, wild winds whipped the sand into a twister. Lillie and Liana both held on to their hats as the dust was beaten into a frenzy. "Goodness!" breathed my girlfriend as she smacked dust out of her hair. I looked on hopefully to our result and saw a gigantic crater in the center of the beach. "Great job buddy!" I called, high-fiving his lightning-bolt tail. "Me next!" cried Lillie willingly. She took my place and closed her eyes, focusing her energy. Slowly and steadily she took her poses, said her phrase, and opened her eyes, revealing her brilliant green ones. "Use Subzero Slammer!" Snowy was raised up on a glacier of ice, then the ground was suddenly covered in a glimmering, sparkling ice crystal, which promptly exploded.

The rest of the group moves forward, and by the time we were finished we could have mined for gold in the pit we had created. "Its the Kalos Queen!" whisper-screamed the rest of the beach as their gaze steadied on her. "Can I have your autograph!" pleaded a young woman. "800 Pokécash for your signature!" bargained another. Sighing, she took up their pens and signed them in her beautiful handwriting. An old woman slowly caned her way up to Liana. "I will offer you eight Z-Crystals if you show us a performance." she creaked. The Kalos Queen looked taken aback. "Eight?" she gasped. "Yes. A Firium, Electrium, Waterium, Fairium, Grassium, Icium, Darkium, and Psychium." she rasped solemnly. "Uh, I mean, of course!" she quickly regained her composure and flashed her signature smile at the onlooking crowd. "Ge ready for a spectacular performance!" "Sylveon!" she called, twirling as she released the Intertwining Pokemon. "And Flareon! Use Fairy Wind!" the twister of pink flecks whipped up the sand. Liana jumped on and rode to the top as Sylveon flattened her ribbons at the top and Flareon shot a Fire Blast towards them. The Fairy Wind exploded in a mass of gritty gold, shining red, and glinting pink towards the audience. As I watched her continue in her Kalos Queen worthy performance, I was surprised by her growing technique. "Lava Plume and Moonblast!" she cried again. The inferno of burning embers surrounded them as the elegant Moonblast circled around them in a way that made me think of the solar system. "Now! Finish with a double Swift!" The two Eeveelutions fired stars that collided to explode into a starfall of smaller ones. "We're done!" she was panting and breathing hard by then, but with the biggest smile on her face. "Your Z-Crystals," wheezed the bent old lady. Liana touched all eight of them, then gave an ear-piercing screech.

Slowly, as the audience screamed with fear, she changed into different Eeeveelutions, then back to herself again. But now, her hair shone like silk under lamplight and her eyes glowed green with different tints of color to them, soft violet, jet black, fiery red, shimmery pink, electric yellow, elegant blue, and icy white. As she spoke, her voice, once sweet and gentle, was now that with melodious tones to them. "What happened?" she was responded with fangirling shrieks from the crowd. "Do it again! Change into Sylveon!" begged a young girl with Mary Janes. She looked perplexed but obeyed. Her willowy form slimmed down into a small, four-legged one with colorful feelers and a bright white coat. "Cool!" yelled the rest of them. "What did you do?" her voice was shaky as she faced the woman, transformed back into a human. "You can now use Z-Moves yourself. Touch all eight and be able to transform into any Eeveelution you wish, including Eevee. You will be able to understand all Pokemon now, and whenever you wish to stop, touch all of them again and you will return to normal. However, the everlasting gift is the Pokemon-understanding one," the woman's old,  puffed tone was changed into a smooth one, and I watched, gaping as she slowly grew taller, and transformed into the Alpha Pokémon, Arceus. "You're welcome, child," then it took off into the air. Lillie grabbed a nearby camera and took a single precious shot of it in its ascent into the clouds.