Chapter 10 (Light VS Dark! A Friendly One to One?)

Nero and Callie discussed the rules and regulations, clarifying to make it a fair and non-hostile 'Pokémon' battle.

During their little korero, several Nibel spirits came to watch as they prepared for their friendly battle. After their colloquy was over, they declared that they were ready to start.

Each pair stood on one end of the area of the 'battleground', each with their own modus operandi on how to they want to battle.

"Ready? Let's start!" Nero initiated the battle. Espie and Ethos transformed into their 'mega' power state, both unleashing their ultimate forms as Light and Darkness.

"Espie, use your Light spells!"

"Don't dodge! Use your Bash to return the spells!"

Ethos bashed the spells as projectiles, missing mostly but with one of Espie's spells reflected back to her, shooting her down from her flight.

"Espie, don't give up and outspeed him by flying and use your Light Burst!"

"Quickly use your Dash Attack on her!"

Ethos leaped into the air and propelled himself with Dash towards Espie, deflecting the Light Burst. She was hurt but she continued flying around.

"Ethos, pound her to the ground with Stomp!"

"Espie! Use Focus Blast!"

Espie was briefly confused. "Wait wha…?"

Callie had confused Espie's moves with Gardevoir's, making a fatal mistake and allowing Espie to go vulnerable for a few seconds.

Espie was pounded into the ground, creating an imprint onto the ground.

"Oops! Sorry Espie! Focus your Spirit Flames into a concentrated energy ball and shoot it at Ethos!"

"Hmph! That's more like it!" she panted as she hurled an immense energy orb towards Ethos.

"Ethos, Stomp!"

However, the Stomp was not powerful enough to deflect the ball of energy. Nero started to panic. "Umm… Use Bash!"

Using Bash made it worse. Ethos used his feet to try to deflect it but instead it hit him with so much impact it weakened him. He stood back up, still pumped up for the battle.

"Ethos, you still alright? Umm…" Nero was flustered, thinking of what to use next. In confusion he exclaimed "Do something!"

Ethos pulled off one last trick as the last resort - using magic to surround his body, he went into a breakneck surge of speed, momentarily using temporal magic and making everything around him slow down. He made used of this opportunity and defeated Espie while she was still mid-air, who was trying to use a magic spell on him from above.

After knocking her unconscious, he went towards Callie and asked for Espie's bag.

Ethos took out Espie's bottle of Spirit Blossom essence that she had packed in her back beforehand and applied it onto her wounds. Progressively rubbing the viscous substance onto her wounds, her wounds healed promptly, revitalising her in an instant. Espie woke up, as though it had all been a dream. He also applied some on himself to heal.

Afterwards, the Spirit Duo hugged.

"So, no hard feelings?"

"Nope. It's aight! I'm not angry. It was fun while it lasted!"

"But…" Ethos nudged her. "I might have cheated with new powers that I plan to share with you."

"Seriously? You cheated? Hmm… Tell me more about that power later! For now, let's have a final talk with the trainers."

Ending their 'battle', the Spirit Duo shook hands with the trainers, having their final goodbyes.

"Espie and Ethos, thank you for being good pals to us. We will miss you. Although our time in Nibel is short lived, I still feel happy that we came to your lands." Callie felt crestfallen that they had to part.

"Foxy, it was quite a pleasure training you. I guess this is it huh?"

Both trainers hugged the Spirit Duo one last time before they proceeded up onto the airship with Officer Jenny and her several officers.

"Bye you two!"

"Goodbye!"

The two trainers waved through the window, waving to them for the last time before they disappeared through the rift.

"Oh yeah! Espie, I received an ability from Arceus in exchange for the Staff of Spacetime. He confiscated it because of you."

Ethos told her about how she broke the laws of space and made Palkia angry, due to ripping holes in their spaces, making it vulnerable to interdimensional attacks.

"What? So now we can't have interdimensional adventures anymore?"

"Actually we can. Arceus said that you created rifts and shouldn't do so as it breaks the rules of dimensions. Next, the staff will be kept with him for safekeeping, so... In exchange, he gave me the power of spacetime to share with you."

"He? You know Arceus has no gender, right? Arceus is a divine Pokémon."

"Really? But let's get onto the transfer of half the power. Prepare yourself for a new ability!"

Ethos used both his paws and faced them at Espie, forming an orb of pulsating magic, transferring half of the received ability to her.

"So now we can have time and dimensional travel at our own will?"

"Yeah. But let's travel sometime in the future. For now, I just want to rest."

Espie yawned, strolling towards her home in the Spirit Tree hollows with him following along.

"Ahh! Home sweet home…"

*Narration*

Returning back to their homes, the Spirit Duo continued travelling dimensions together, spending the rest of their lives travelling from place to place, making new interdimensional friends and utilising their newfound powers to the fullest.

~THE END~