Chapter 27:Where the team meets a being of higher authority.

Lunala was flying more unsteady and slower than before. Mo managed to get used to flying. In comparison to what he experienced a minutes ago this was very fine to him.

"There it is.", Mo said. They arrived at Destiny Tower.

The tower was enormous in both height and width, especially it's height, and was covered in stranger, shining pattern. Lunala was already flying above the cloud already and had to fly even higher to get to the top.

The upper half tower and the surrounding area were veiled in thick clouds. It's was impossible to see anything as long as it wasn't right in front of one.

After a while the group arrived at the top of the tower. The wind blew softly and it was incredibly cold. The cloud covered sky was pitch black due to Lunala's eternal night.

As Team Purple got ready to leave the back, Lunala just keeled over from exhaustion and buried the adventure team underneath her while still inside.

Aaron grunted in pain from her weight, Mo tried to lift her with no avail. They both crawled out from underneath her. Mo also had to drag out Charlotte with him.

"Lunala, are you alright?!", Aaron ask her, trying to shake her with his ribbons.

Lunala lifted her head a little.

"I ... will not ... answer that ... question."

At the moment, Mo didn't really carded for Lunala. He was happy to have solid ground underneath him. He felt very relieved.

Without asking, Charlotte grabbed into Team Purple's adventurer bag and took out three oran berries. She did it in such a haste, she accidently scattered more berries from the bag on the ground. Charlotte rolled over to Lunala, turned her head so she was facing the Komala, opened the Pokémon's large mouth and threw the berries she was carrying inside.

Charlotte patted Lunala's forehead as she chewed and swallowed.

The berry's effect were fast. She soon rose again in all her pride. She looked down to Charlotte and nodded.

"Thank you, sleepy one.", she said to her.

Mo slowly approached Lunala and bowed down to her in awe and shame.

"I'm sorry I could not protect you as I should have! I tried my best ...", he explained.

"It's alright.", she answered. "We're save. ... for now."

"Sooo ... and Arceus is where?", Aaron changed the subject and looked around.

The top of Destiny Tower was huge but still empty. A cold wind blew and the sky was pitch black. For Mo this place seemed kind of sad and disappointing. He himself didn't needed much, but he thought a god Pokémon had higher standards if this was Arceus' throne.

"He is here. He can hear and see us.", Lunala assured the team. This made Mo nervous.

Mo reached into their team bag and took out their official Adventurer Guild Purple Team Badge and lifted it in the air.

"Excuse us for entering this secret side, but we are Team Purple from the Adventurer Guild in Baram Town!", Mo spoke and tried to sound confident and respectful. "One of our members, the only who was chosen to find the Origin Stone is in danger! We need your help!"

Silence. Mo turned to Lunala in distress.

"This one is speaking with the authority of the night, Arceus!", Lunala spoke as well. Mo felt honoured to hear this from such Pokémon.

Still, no answer.

"Arceus!", Lunala shouted into the air.

Suddenly, in the center of the area, a bright light appeared. It echoed and for a short moment was bright and large enough to brighten up Lunala's night.

Where the light was just a moment ago was now a Pokémon, floating above the ground. Mo, temporarily blinded by the light, looked up and saw it.

A Ribombee, holding a twig like it was a sceptre.

Mo was confused of what was going on. He turned around to the others. While Aaron was sharing Mo's surprise and Charlotte casually snuggled her log, Lunala kept her seriousness.

The Ribombee smiled and flew forward to the adventurer team.

"YOU probably expected someone bigger. Right?", she said to Mo and pointed her twig at his fake head. She had a childlike voice. Mo could swear he heard it once before, but could not tell from where and when.

"And YOU maybe someone more godlike?", she asked Aaron as she bend her back and tilted her head while also pointing her twig at him.

"Are you ...?", Mo tried to ask her. He only saw pictured of Arceus before and right now everything could be possible to him.

"I AM ... not Arceus. My name is Fystiki, Arceus' personal assistant ... in training.", she answered before Mo could finish what he wanted to ask her. She did a curtsy as she introduced herself. "His holiness is too busy at the moment to great mortals. You also didn't climbed up his tower."

Mo looked back at the others. They all still had the same expression. Lunala only began to appear annoyed.

Mo quickly hushed over to Aaron and took the letter out of their team bag.

"We came here in order to help friends of our. The one who we call The Chosen One and his partner." Mo showed the letter to Fystiki. He, Fystiki and the letter almost had the same size. "We believe he ..."

"Yes! Yes he is.", she interrupted Mo again, keeping a good mood up. Too good for the current situation for Mo. "We already know our champion is in danger."

The group looked at her in silence.

"And you didn't helped?", Aaron asked her.

"Too risky! Too risky! If something would happen to one of the legendary Pokémon Arceus commands ...", Fystiki answered and shook her head violently. "The Chosen One is one risk enough for him. No need to sacrifice the others. It would only make the Forces more powerful."

Fystike took her twig in both hands and began to look more serious herself.

"You three can be replaced. Pokémon like Palkia, or Lunala over there, not."

Silence.

"Well ... anyway!", Fystiki said, sounding more joyful again.

She flew back to the center where she appeared before and tapped the top of her twig three times on the floor. Part of the floor around her began to glow and a huge board appeared from the ground, slowly rising.

"Let me-", Fystiki began to explain, but interrupted herself as she noticed the board stopped rising before it wasn't even half way up.

She kicked the board with her tiny leg and it rose to the meant size. It was a map of the world.

"Let me explain! Your other friends from the guild found the key you need to get to the stone but were captured by the Forces of Darkness. They were taken to their secret base."

The Ribombee began to circle an island in the southern area between the Air Continent and the Water Continent.

"Around here."

"As you may know the key shows were the stone is, but there is a riddle written by the one who made it, the last one who hide the stone. The Forces sent out some of their goons to get information from a professional on the Water Continent.", she further explained and circled and area near the east coast of the water continent. "Axel, as you call The Chosen One, and his partner found out about this plan, but were eventually captured alongside the professional. These minions still have the key with them!"

She circled an area around the southern coast of the Water Continent. Not so far from were the Forces hideout was supposed to be.

"Lunala.", she then said to her, left the board to talk to her directly. "Arceus wants you to rescue The Chosen One, his partner and the professional, as well as the key of course. This situation makes it an exception for you. Just be carefully."

"And ... what do we have to do with this?", Mo asked Fystiki while she was still by Lunala.

"To fight and defeat the Forces of Darkness you need your guild at full power. Your other friends are still in their base. You three need to rescue them.", the Ribombee explained to them.

"Just us three?!", Mo replied confused.

"Luckily the current situation makes it easier, but you need to hurry.", Fystiki explained. Mo wondered what she meant with "The current situation".

"Lunala, please bring them to the secret base, and watch out not to be spotted, THEN go and search for The Chosen One.", Fystiki said to Lunala as she turned back to her.

Lunala nodded silently.

"Miss ... Fishsticky?", Mo asked her. "I have a question I was wondering for some time."

"Yes?", Fystike flew to him, holding her twig tight. She looked at the Mimikyu with big curious bug eyes.

Mo took a deep breath and though which word he should use.

"I know about the legend and there will be a hero of some kind. ... why NOW? Why not sooner? Why not sent someone right after the creation of the Origin Stone."

Fystiki was awfully quiet. Meanwhile, behind her, the board disappeared in the floor again.

"We too knew from this legendary hero since Helix had his vision. We just did not know what it was really about. We only know since recently.", she answered his question and seemed embarrassed about it.

"You knew what?!", Mo asked her right afterwards, wanting an explanation, but then also realised he was being rude to a higher authority. "May I ask?"

"The Forces of Darkness, or more like the one who founded this organisation, found the Origin Stone.", she told the group.

Mo needed some time to let this sink in.

"Wait am minute! They ALREADY GOT THE STONE?!", Mo nervously replied and his eyes glow up as he did.

"Pikachu!", Lunala warned Mo.

"Well yes, but actually no. They got the Origin Stone, but not OUR Origin Stone.", Fystiki answered, began to blush and wiggled her head.

Mo's eyes got normal again and he looked at the others. Aaron seemed to have not understood a thing and Charlotte seemed to did not care for a thing.

"What?", Mo remarked in confusion.

"We found out that Origin Stone is not the same as the one Arceus created. OUR Arceus.", Fystike began to explain and also to scratch her back with her twig. "This stone comes from another time and space. So basically we have two stones now. Both the same, but then again not."

"You mean from another universe?", Mo said as he began to understand what she was talking about. Next to him, Aaron slowly began to understand as well.

"Yes! Here is the thing!", Fystiki continued further, now more fascinated. "The other Origin Stone does not work in our universe. It has no effect on this world or inhabitants of our world. Only in the world and those were the stone originally comes from. We thought about sending it trough time or to Ultra Space. But it would still end up in our world if we use time travel, and opening portals to Ultra Space is to dangerous and sadly too easy to access as well. Here is where The Chosen One comes in! Axel is something known as a 'Human', who we brought from another time and space. Once Axel got the stone, he will be sent back to were he came from, taking the Origin Stone with him. Because of the conditions of Axel's universe this travel is a unique thing for him and the stone. No Pokémon can go to where he came from. Our Origin Stone will have no effect in his world, but will still have effect to ours. The stone can still do it's work without a threat of misusing it's power. You understand?"

It was a lot of information in such a short time. More or less Mo understood what their mission was now and Axel really was a key character, someone Mo was forced to trust.

"Me either.", Fystike said as no one answered her and smiled.

Fystiki quickly flew back to the spot where the board was before and were she also appeared in this bright light.

"So, remember: Axel needs to get the stone! Axel good, Darkness yuk, find your friends, I wish you good luck!", you finally said to the team, she began to wave her twig around as a similar light as before covered her and in a big bright flash she was gone again.

Mo just turned around to talk to Aaron and Charlotte when they suddenly heard Fystiki again, echoing and loudly exclaiming:

"Ouch!"

Then, everything was quiet again. Mo looked around. She was gone now.

"You heard her!", Lunala told Team Purple and lowered herself so the team could climb in her bag again.

"Axel is a what?", Aaron asked Mo as they slowly walked to Lunala and her bag.

"Human.", Mo explained to him. "Mystical creatures that looks similar to Mr. Mime or Jynx.. Not much is known about them. Which is strange, because Axel looks more like a Cyndaquil to me."

Humans were sometimes part of old tales. A long, long time ago, a time no Pokémon was remembering, Humans used to rules the world and keeping Pokémon as companions One day they disappeared. No one can say what happened. Some say a catastrophic vent happened, making all Humans officially extinct, some say they left this world and now life in a galaxy far, far away, and some even say Humans evolved into Pokémon, achieving the next step in their own evolution. This would explain why Axel did not looked like how a Humans was supposed to.

"Oh ...!", Axel replied and prepared to jump in the bag. "And Ultra Space?"

"This is were I come from! Hurry up!", Lunala told them loudly.

The three climbed bag in Lunala's bag and prepared to take off again.

"How can someone like her become an assistant to Arceus?", Mo looked at and asked Lunala.

"It's too complicated.", she simply answered. "And don't underestimate her, still. She is more powerful and smarter than she appears to be. She really is something special ... that brat."

And they took off for their new destination.