The visit to the Flying Island simply tells the same story as the Grass Meadow. Justyn's goal of recruiting the powerful Sisters of Pegasus- Angela, Indira and Sierra- goes exceptionally well, but little else. With nothing but Air Slash at their belt, the group continues on.
"Hey there, Melody!" Jadit said, beaming at Melody.
"Oh, there you are, Jadit! I thought I saw you hanging around this lot. I didn't think it was thieving, or else I wouldn't have seen you!" Melody said.
"Heh… yeah…" Jadit said. Melody looked at him.
"What's wrong?" Melody asked.
"...I haven't been feeling as good about thieving lately. Luna hammered that home, too," Jadit said.
"You can't quit thieving! You're amazing at it!" Melody said.
"Melody, we've joined together with King Justyn himself, and two Legendaries. I can't be a thief forever," Jadit said.
"…But… I love you…" Melody said.
"I love you too, Melody. But I think it's time to rethink our thievery," Jadit said.
"I'll… of course I will, Jadit," Melody said.
"Oh, almost forgot… Luna gave me this," Jadit said, holding out an odd stone. Melody took it.
"An Oval Stone? Thank Luna for me, will you?" Melody asked.
"I will," Jadit said.
"Serena…" Luna said nervously. Serena looked away from her Magical Leaf practice to speak to her.
"Luna?" Serena asked.
"You've grown so strong…" Luna said, pointing to the targets Serena was hammering.
"I've been in battle, and deemed I liked it. Besides, don't Kirlia do anything to protect their partners?" Serena asked.
"No, that's Gardevoir. Kirlia dances happily. One of these days, I'm going to see you use that immense psychic ability that can apparently see the future, or tear a hole in the fabric of time and space…" Luna said.
"Kirlia can do those? Hm…" Serena said. She waved her arms around vaguely elegantly, creating an odd rift in the light around her.
"…I can foresee a Lucario and a Gardevoir living together happily. Either that, or that's my daydream," Serena said.
"…Not all stories about the Pokémon are true. Some are just exaggerated, or otherwise impossible," Luna said.
"Yeah, Amy likes to complain about the Magcargo and its ten-thousand degree body heat. I wonder if Darien will appreciate a happy dance, though…" Serena said.
"…Would you?" Luna asked.
"…Only if Darien did," Serena said.
"For Arceus's sake, Kirlia, grow a damn personality! What were you like before Darien came along, then?" Luna asked.
"I don't like to remember that Ralts," Serena said, turning back to her targets. She performed a pirouette, striking the targets with leaves at the same time.
"…Not half bad…" Serena remarked.
"These nutters are just awful at the thieving business," Davuth said, looking at the remains of the Flying Feather.
"Yeah, everyone knows there are some things-" Loot started.
"I mean, he got everyone on the Flying Island to notice he was stealing the damn thing. You'd think he'd be smarter than that," Davuth said.
"Uh, well, everyone would know-" Loot said again.
"And another thing, what could they possibly stand to gain from stealing this thing. The Flying Feather is too famous to be sold as is, and too cheap to be sold as just an ordinary feather," Davuth said.
"He's not obsessed with money," Loot said.
"That's just insane, Loot. Who wouldn't be obsessed with money? If you can't have money, you might as well not exist," Davuth said.
"…This conversation is over," Loot said.
"But it just started!" Davuth remarked. Loot was long gone.
"So, where to next?" Darien asked. Justyn didn't think about it long.
"Well, I'm all out of people I think can survive the loss of their Trinket. I'm not even sure how half of us manage it. So we'd better go to the moves you two can use most effectively first," Justyn suggested.
"So Psychic, Fairy, Fighting and Steel?" Serena asked.
"Exactly. The Psychic Spoon and the Fairy Bow shouldn't be too far from here," Justyn said.
"And the Fighting thing and the Steel do-hickey?" Darien asked.
"The Fighting Belt and the Steel Shield are beyond. We're trying to minimize retracing here," Justyn said.
"All right… we head to the place with the Spoon and the field with the Bow," Darien said.
"Ah, thank Mew you're here! There's a scuffle going down here in the Psychic Temple!" a Clefairy called out, rushing to the group, and looking at Justyn.
"Why am I not surprised…" Darien asked.
"The thing that makes it more remarkable is that Malachus didn't come here first. I mean, Psychic should be easy for him!" Serena said.
"Well, the Fairy Flower is right next door… but Pisky mysteriously disappeared, and now everything's in chaos! Suzin is holding out fantastically, but she can't do it indefinitely!" the Clefairy said.
"Got it!" Angela said. She dived forward, with everyone else following at their respective speeds. The Clefairy watched them go, noticing the Kirlia, in particular.
"…Probably should've done that first… eh, she'll catch on," the Clefairy said.
"All righty, now, miss Espeon, if you don't mind handing over the Psychic Spoon now, we'll be out of your hair," a Malamar said, looming over Suzin the Espeon.
"Over my fainted body!" Suzin said.
"That can be arranged," the Malamar said. Suzin's tail quivered, and she nimbly dodged Malamar's Foul Play, and fired a Signal Beam.
"Curses. I will overturn you!" Malamar said. Suzin's eyes narrowed, and her tail quivered again. She leaped into the air, avoiding Malamar's Night Slash, and fired another Signal Beam. She landed lightly on her feet, and Malamar fainted. Several more Malamar approached her.
"Oh, dangit," Suzin said, before she felt a familiar energy emanating from the entrance of the Psychic Temple. Someone was evolving. She saw a few Inkay fly through the sky, drilling into Malamar. She spotted a Machamp and a Conkeldurr approach her, grinning like mad. They parted, and the Malamar around her disappeared in a Moonblast.
"Need a hand?" a Gardevoir asked of her.
"The Fairy Bow's gone?" Serena asked. She looked at the bust of Sylveon. Several ceramic bows, but not a single fabric one. She touched it desperately, and felt the mystical spirit inside her. Her heart became huge, and a pink light bathed her arms. She turned away from the statue, and launched a blast of pure moonlight. Her glow didn't fade, as her body overhauled. Her dress elongated, past her legs. Her legs stretched to compensate, giving her the appearance of wearing a long, flowing gown. Her hair shortened into a less girlish, more womanly cut, and her red horn moved to her chest.
"Gardevoir, the guardian Pokémon. Getting on her bad side would be suicide," Giac said.
"John, Smith, let's get smashing!" Serena said. She led the pair across to the entrance of the Psychic Temple, where she could see an Espeon fighting off several Malamar.
"John, Smith, trade places," Serena said. The pair did so, looking at Serena curiously. Anything odd about her request ceased to be so as they glowed, too. John got a few cinderblocks to replace his girder, and Smith grew an extra pair of arms.
"Conkeldurr and Machamp. Suplex and judo," Serena said, mostly to fulfil some cosmic requirement, before watching them get to work. John threw the Inkay into the air as weapons, each one managing to find a Malamar to attack. Smith was subduing the Malamar himself, pinning them to the ground, before striking them to disable. Serena Moonblasted past the Malamar, and appeared beside the Espeon's side.
"Need a hand?" she asked, looking at her.
"Thanks for the help, civilian. What's your name?" she asked.
"Serena," Serena stated.
"Suzin," Suzin said. Her tail quivered, and she fired a Signal Beam behind her. A Malamar who had designs on obtaining the Psychic Spoon quickly lost all of his designs.
"So that's where the Psychic Spoon is?" Serena asked.
"Yep. Let a Malamar get over there, and we'll have words," Suzin said. Serena nodded, and shot another Moonblast behind her. She rushed over to where the Spoon was.
Serena rushed to the Psychic Spoon, only to see it missing from its spot. Serena looked around, panicking a great deal, before eventually spotting the Hydreigon above her.
"Malachus!" Serena exclaimed in shock, her heart enlarging. The ritual for her Psychic-type move was obviously going ahead, but Serena had no time to care: it wasn't like Psychic was going to scratch the Hydreigon in front of her.
"The one and only. You're one of the Typeless wenches from that old backwater with Mawhile," Malachus said.
"Amber… what have you done with her?" Serena asked.
"She's dead, girl. Same as the Panpour. I'm taking over this kingdom, and I don't need no weakling, stinkling typeless Pokémon dancing outside my jaw!" Malachus said. He hurriedly dodged Serena's Moonblast, and disappeared into a shadow. Serena looked down, disappointed. Her mother, the only mother she had ever known, was dead. And Suzin was going to kill her for letting the Spoon get away.
"…Just in case there was any doubt left…" Justyn said. Everyone was gathered outside the Psychic Temple, including Suzin. Contrary to Serena's expectations, Suzin wasn't mad at her for losing the Spoon. She was mad at herself: mad for not thinking of a back entrance.
"Malachus is very definitely evil… how could this have happened?" Suzin asked.
"…He was never nice to me…" Madeline said uncertainly.
"Malachus had some obsession with Typeless ones. Like we inherently caused some sort of risk to him," Serena said. Darien looked at Mina, the birds, Amy, and Giac. Unlike what he had seen, these people didn't seem fazed at the loss of the Trinket that represented their type.
"…Wait, Justyn… Typeless ones don't depend on the Trinket, right?" Darien asked.
"No," Justyn said.
"…So all the Grass types except Mina have turned," Darien said again.
"…I see what you're saying…" Justyn said.
"But say it anyway," Suzin said.
"The Typeless are not only not automatically evil… their detachment from the world allows them to survive their Trinkets being stolen. Malachus is obviously doing something with the Trinkets to alter the fundamental mechanics of types, but because we don't count as Grass, or Flying, or Fairy, or Psychic… we don't suffer as normal Pokémon do!" Darien said.
"Of course… so we power you and Serena up with the Type Trinket remnants, teach you all those moves… and then once we get to Malachus, you two will be unstoppable?" Justyn asked.
"He wasn't very easy to beat in the Temple," Serena said.
"That can be fixed if I stay by your side," Darien said.
"We now have a goal… we've got to get to every single one of the fourteen remaining types, power up Darien and Serena, and then save our lands," Justyn said.
"…I can only hope we are up to task," Darien said, bowing to Justyn.