When Sage and Azurite finished their playful fight, Dawn clapped and asked everyone to sit around us. The team sat closely around her while I sat down in her lap. Azurite and Sage, by contrast, floated at her sides.

Dawn picked up the camera from her bag then looked at us.

"Everyone ready?" She asked.

All of us nodded, so Dawn took a deep breath.. and turned on the camera.

She fast-forwarded the footage until she'd found the part where I had fainted from lack of oxygen. Everyone watched intently.

In the video... we saw me faint, and Azelf's gaze snapped over to me, calling out: the last thing I remembered before losing consciousness. And now, finally I could hear him. He'd cried my name... but I could give him no answer.

Then he worriedly looked to where Uxie's machine was. Uxie looked back at him and I was sure they were speaking in telepathy because a few minutes later, they nodded in agreement, Uxie turning to look at me one last time.

Even in so much pain, Uxie managed to take a deep breath and started glowing. His crystals sparkled brightly. When the glow faded, some kind of dark shadow covered all three machines and the controlling one on the middle, and... weakened them? I could see that my brothers' pain seemed to lessen as a result.

After the glow however, Uxie's body was very still. Had he fainted? He'd used Memento, I recognized.

Azelf was next. He looked resolutely at Uxie, then at me before his eyes and his crystals started glowing. What followed was a blue and white light that engulfed his whole body and then... he exploded.

It was the biggest explosion I'd ever seen him create, even though I'd seen it many times. There was a blinding flash, and a powerful shockwave. When vision returned, we could see broken machines, and the dead bodies of some Team Galactic members... and my brothers' bodies...

However, before I could wonder how I'd survived that move, Sage pointed out something - a pink bubble around me. That was when I realized one of my brothers had given me a psychic barrier. To protect me from the explosion.. Tears came into my eyes as Dawn turn off the camera, and looked at all of us waiting for our reactions.

"So that was the boom Dawn and I heard." Coal spoke up first and everyone nodded. Even Dawn could figure out what he meant, even if she didn't know our language.

"Yes. So It was Azelf, using Explosion to set you free Mesprit. After Uxie weakened the machines so that Azelf could break them," Dawn reasoned.

Everyone looked deep in thought trying to process what they'd just seen. Sage and Azurite came and hugged me while I couldn't hold back my tears.

"So...the reason Mesprit survived was.. that one of them gave her a protective psychic barrier..." Sage said aloud.

I looked up at Dawn. "I still don't understand... after those kind of moves we should just faint because we've used up all our power. So, how could they die from the explosion?"

"Hmm..." Dawn thought hard. "Maybe because... I have a feeling they gave out all the energy they had left from their power being absorbed. I think they knew they would die after that... but they had to do it because they couldn't let you die. That is what family is there for. To help and protect each other. They sacrificed themselves because they loved you." Dawn looked at me as she spoke.

We all nodded sadly, accepting this as the only logical reason. Dawn's pokemon all knew what family meant thanks to Dawn, who had raised them up very well. I was proud of her too.

Dawn put back the camera into her bag, and stood up, as did we. She dusted off her clothes, then put her hat on her head, and looked at me smiling confidently. "Well, since this mission is complete, there is only one left," she said, then looked around with her hands on her hips.

For the team, they needed no more, they jumped up excitedly and cried out loud as one,

"THE ELITE FOUR AND THE CHAMPION!"

I laughed at their happiness. So did Sage and Azurite at my sides. "Don't forget our second rematch, penguin!" Azurite cried out loud then did a fighting pose. His expression was really cute.

Sage waved to them. "Take care. Come back as champion next time. Or I will be sad." I looked at her confused. "What was that?" She shrugged.

When I made to reply, someone big gave me a hug. I looked up realizing it was Dawn and Strawberry. I hugged them back. As I looked to the side, I noticed Azurite and Sage were also in the hug, both of them suprised then happy, laughing while hugging back.

I was happy they accepted Dawn too.

As Dawn waved and all of them departed to challenge the Elite Four, we looked at each other.

"Well, it's time for us to go as well. I need to teach you two something before you go back to your own caves."

"Aww, more? Can't we just play today?" Azurite cried grumpily, making both me and Sage laugh.

"I think the play has already happened, and as I see, it's getting dark so soon." Sage said as she looked at the sunset. We continued watching it in silence, before I noticed something... something moving in front of us. It looked like something was there...

Sage jumped up quicky and exclaimed, "Ah, can it be? Your brother's spirits, who helped Dawn find the camera?"

Both Azurite and I stared at her in shock.

"WHAT?!" Azurite cried, while I slowly looked back. The movement could seen much closer now and soon began to take form.. slowly, slowly until...

My eyes opened wide. Because who I saw in front of me, were my...

brothers.

Both stared at us emotionlessly.

I moved closer while Azurite held my right hand. It was clear from his pose, he was prepared to protect me at any time. Sage however remained still and stared at them in awe.

My brothers held out their hands and tails toward me and I did the same. I laid my head against them, as did they against me. I knew they were spirits but I tried to make it seem like we were really touching, as we so badly wanted to, and I closed my eyes.

We stayed like that for a while before they looked up at us, gave us a big smile and nod, and vanished into the air slowly.

I still stood there in the same pose, tears in my eyes. My mind couldn't understand what it had just witnesed but my heart knew...

That they now knew that I was fine, and Azurite and Sage would take care of me just as they would do.

"I think they gave permission for us to protect and support you from now on," Sage said gently and hugged me from behind.

"Yes. I will make sure we do that perfectly!"Azurite cried and hugged me from the front.

I still stared for a few minutes toward the place where my brothers's spirits were, before I closed my eyes and smiled.

Yes. Everything will be fine. I will take care of them too. You can both count on me...my brothers, I thought before I moved out from their hug, and started foward, waving with my hands. "Let's go. I still want to give you that lesson before midnight."

"Oh, come on!" Azurite cried, pouting, but I knew he was just pretending. He was happy to learn more. So as Sage followed us happily, we played a race towards my cave. Azurite of course was faster, so he left me behind quicky, teasing me while looking backwards.

Oh, I will catch you for sure...

I looked back to check on Sage. I saw her stop just to look back at that spot for a second, before she turned back with a smile, and started trying to catch up on us.

"Yup. Everything will be all right."