Unlocking the Light Within

"There," Sun said, stepping back to admire his handiwork. All the Z-Crystals he had managed to obtain over the course of his journey were laid in a circle pattern around the centre of the Altar of the Sonne. In the middle of them was the mysterious Necrozma.

Sun knew that it was capable of achieving the powerful Ultra Necrozma form with the help of Solgaleo or Lunala, but he had a theory about a possible way to achieve that form without the use of either of those two.

By using the Z-Crystals that the creature seemed drawn to in addition to artificial sources of light for it to drain, Sun believed it could achieve that form without causing danger for the inhabitants of any of the worlds.

And the reason he had chosen the Altar of the Sonne? It had been where Necrozma had initally entered our world from, which meant it had ties to this place, and it was out of the way, so no innocents were at risk of being caught up in the experiment. And since Sun had captured it while on his way through Mount Lanakila, if anything went wrong, he could return it immediately.

Sun finished his preparations and called out to Necrozma to see if it was ready. The creature nodded at him.

"Is everything set up and ready to go?" he called to the Aether scientists that were fussing around the lights. They stuck a thumbs up at me as well. Sun looked to Hau and Gladion to see if they were ready to go. They nodded as well.

"You sure you can do this? You only recently got the Z-Ring, we can get Illima or Molayne to help us with it instead if you can't," he asked the blonde girl to my left. Lillie just nodded and looked ahead.

Time to see if this theory was right.

They began with Sun performing the Normal type Z-Move dance, then Hau followed up with the Fighting type. Slowly, we worked our way through each type, attempting to fire up the crystals to get them to work with Necrozma.

Finally, it was time to perform the Ultranecrozmium Z-Move dance. As a group, we all performed the dance, finished that up and looked at the Necrozma.

It was glowing, with the Z-Crystals slowly floating up around it. The light panels they had set up were starting to flicker.

It's working! Sun thought to himself.

They watched as Necrozma continued to glow brighter, drawing the Z-Crystals in closer to it...

"Sun, the power's spiking too much. You need to return Necrozma." one of the Aether scientists warned.

"It can do it, just hang on!" Sun yelled back. Necrozma seemed like it was almost there...

Only for the light panels to shut off with a magnificent bang, startling Necrozma and causing the group to flinch, as well as causing the Z-Crystals around it to fall down.

Sun lowered his arm from his face and took in the scene. The generators that were powering the lights were smoking, and Necrozma had a look of confusion on it's face. Gladion and Hau were still standing, but both looked noticably exhausted. Lillie had fallen to her knees out of exhaustion from performing so many Z-Moves.

Was that training we did for nothing? Sun thought.

"Sorry, Sun. It was too much strain on the generators." Sun sighed in frustration, holding a hand out to pull Lillie to her feet. Gladion glared at him.

"So all this was for nothing then?" he asked, unknowingly echoing Sun's thoughts. Sun shook his head.

"No, we just need to locate a stronger generator to power the lights. We almost had it that time," he said, pulling out a Poké Ball to return Necrozma, who seemed a tad put out by another failure.

"It'll be fine! Come on, we need to gather the Z-Crystals up for next time!" Hau told Gladion, who rolled his eyes but followed the boy to where the crystals had fallen. Sun turned to Lillie, who looked drained.

"I warned you it might be a bit much for you." he told her. She just shook her head.

"If it's to help Necrozma, we've got to try right?" Sun shook his head now.

"Even so, you just got that thing. You should be taking time to get used to Z-Moves," he warned her. She shook her head and pouted, and he just threw his arms up in the air in defeat. It was easier to fight a Celesteela with a Zigzagoon than it was to change her mind when Lillie set her mind on something, Sun had found.

"Come on, we gotta go help Gladion and Hau gather the crystals up," he told her, and so they made our way over to where the two boys were gathering the crystals up from where they had fallen, Gladion's Lucario and Hau's Incineroar helping them with the effort.

"Sorry guys. Guess I overestimated how much light Necrozma needed," Sun conceded.

"It's fine! We'll just have to try again another time," Hau reassured him. Gladion looked at Sun for a moment before looking at Lillie to check to make sure she was okay.

"Just shout me when I'm needed, gonna be in Alola for a bit longer now anyway," he said. Sun nodded his head and picked up the last crystal, the Normalium Z. They put the Z-Crystals back in the pocket of Sun's bag and he put the bag back on his shoulders. He looked at the Aether Scientists and gave them a thumbs up, and they turned around to pack up the equipment.

"We'll meet back here in a week to try this again. Make sure you rest and keep training, we almost had it." he told the others. Hau called up his Charizard through his Ride Pager.

"Gladion, can you make sure Lillie gets back alright? I fear it took more out of her than she's letting on," Sun asked. The blonde opened her mouth to complain but stopped at the looks she was getting off of Sun and Gladion. Gladion nodded and turned to his sister, who, after a few moments of looking annoyed at the prospect of being looked after, sighed and smiled at Gladion. The siblings then walked off, heading down the stairs of the Altar.

That left Sun.

The boy turned to the spot where Necrozma had been, and looked up the Altar, to where the portal it had emerged from had opened all that time ago.

"We'll get this right. We'll get you back to your original form, I promise." Sun muttered to himself. He turned around and began to walk off the Altar, heading down the steps.

They knew what to do now. They just needed to keep trying.

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Ages for the characters:

Sun: 14.

Hau: 14.

Lillie: 14.

Gladion: 16.

So this was actually the first one shot ever written for The Days of Sun, but I felt that A New Day Dawns worked better to explain where Lillie got her Z-Power Ring from, hence why it was the first chapter.

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