Tong Tree Forest.
A month had passed since Fang Yuan entrusted Darkrai to Celebi.
At first, Celebi had no idea how to teach Darkrai.
How on earth do you teach this?!
Its abilities involve traversing time and space naturally.
As it came to understand, Darkrai's time-related abilities focused on dreams.
The main skills of these two Pokemon had nothing in common.
It would be more reasonable to have Dialga, who could warp time to make it speed up, slow down, or even stop, teach Darkrai. That way, Darkrai could learn to control the timing of dreams.
But for Celebi to teach... it would probably end up with Darkrai sending its opponent back in time during a nightmare, leading to their soul being reborn.
Celebi had accidentally sent someone's soul back to their infancy.
Cough cough.
However, since it promised Fang Yuan, Celebi decided to put its heart into helping Darkrai.
Using its stored energy, it created a region covered with the ripples of time.
This area allowed any Pokemon that entered to see the past and future of that place; it was somewhat a domain combining the Time Flower and the Future Sight moves.
Additionally, the flow of time inside was a few seconds different from the outside, forming the embryo of a time passage, perfect for experiencing the Force of Time.
After much thought, this was the only way Celebi could help Darkrai. It wasn't possible to take Darkrai through time as Fang Yuan suggested—Celebi simply couldn't afford the energy cost!
The current Time Field wasn't bad either.
And so, Darkrai cultivated in the Time Field created by Celebi for a month. Darkrai was impressive, holding out for a month without eating or drinking, continuously training for 30x24 hours.
Moreover, the gains seemed not to be small, which Celebi found incredibly surprising.
"Celebi... Darkrai... We're back!!"
Inside the Time Field, Darkrai was still training, trying to perfectly combine the force of time with the power of nightmares. Outside, Celebi was silently monitoring Darkrai, worried that it would suddenly die inside or encounter an accident and inadvertently enter the time passage.
If that happened, there would be no explanation for Fang Yuan.
"Bimi?..."
As a voice sounded, Celebi, who had been engrossed in observation, twitched its ears and lifted its head.
In the Time Field, Darkrai also opened its eyes.
A few seconds after the two Pokemon reacted, a shadow fell from the sky. With a loud "bang," Dragonite's solid and strong feet landed on the ground, causing dust to rise in an instant.
This was the new landing method Fang Yuan taught Dragonite. It was more like a "jump down" rather than a smooth one, complete with sound and visual effects, which felt cooler.
Dragonite shook its head. Cool as it was, in order to prevent Fang Yuan from a backlash, it had to endure the impact force itself. After doing it numerous times, its head felt a bit dizzy...
"Bwoo~~!!"
"Bimi~~"
Eevee and Victini on Fang Yuan's shoulders waved their little hands at Celebi to greet it after seeing it.
Then they turned their attention to Darkrai, who had just emerged from the white Time Field, and greeted it.
Eevee and Victini looked at Darkrai curiously, feeling that there was some change in its aura.
Hidden beside Fang Yuan, Mewtwo was more aware of the changes in Darkrai than both Eevee and Victini, the source of the changes being that Darkrai had begun to grasp the Force of Time.
Although it was not a type of Moves capability, Darkrai's understanding of the Force of Time might now be no less profound than that of Eevee, who had trained extensively using Time Flowers.
Both Pokemon had begun to grasp the Force of Time, only Eevee foresaw the future, while this Darkrai was controlling the flow of time within dreams!
"You little rascal...," said Mewtwo.
Mewtwo did not focus on Darkrai for too long. Although Darkrai was talented and had potential, it was still too raw. Mewtwo was instead more interested in the green sprite beside it.
The moment Mewtwo saw Celebi, it realized that this fellow was the culprit who had interfered with its Future Sight before. It had not expected it to be Celebi.
Mewtwo directly revealed itself and looked towards Celebi.
At the same time, Celebi also noticed Mewtwo.
Celebi: °(°ˊДˋ°)°!!!
Mewtwo took a step forward, and Celebi instantly got a fright, thinking Mewtwo was there for revenge.
"What's the matter, you two know each other?" Fang Yuan asked at that moment.
As soon as Fang Yuan finished speaking, Celebi's head immediately started shaking like a rattle-drum.
Mewtwo, after a cold snort, also moved its gaze away, unconcerned.
It was not really that upset with Celebi; it was just a minor matter.
"Bimi..." Seeing Mewtwo turn its head, Celebi breathed a sigh of relief.
This big white cat was scary. Dream was somewhat more lovable.
Feeling guilty, Celebi then looked towards Darkrai and Fang Yuan and suddenly felt proud, the corners of its mouth lifting in a smile.
"Bimi~~~"
A month's time had passed, please welcome Darkrai, who has gotten a preliminary grasp on the Force of Time!
"Thank you, Celebi."
"And, well done, Darkrai," added Fang Yuan, noticing the changes in Darkrai as well. With this, Darkrai's Nightmare Power seemed to have received an epic enhancement. Ordinary Advanced Guardian God-level Pokemon would no longer be a match for it.
If it encountered that High-level Guardian God Blastoise from the China Association again, even without Victini's enhancement, the current Darkrai could probably send its opponent into Dreamland using Dark Void now.
Face to face with Fang Yuan's praise, Darkrai nodded expressionlessly, more skilled than even Mewtwo. Those two, with their facial expressions colder than one another.
"Bwoo..." Meanwhile, Eevee tugged on Victini, implying, see, now that should count as everyone having made a breakthrough, right?
Better than your Infinite Power.
Victini: "......"
..........
"Mew~~~"
At this point, Celebi was already leading Fang Yuan and the others back through the temporal corridor to their original time-space.
In the original time-space, Dream was still sleeping in on the World Tree.
After more than a month without Fang Yuan, Dream realized how agreeable it was to be without him.
Not only did it not have to assist Fang Yuan in training Pokemon like a nanny, but the World Tree also stopped receiving tattle-tales from the Mane Rock Werewolf, in short, two words, comfortable!!
That said,
Why hadn't Fang Yuan returned after more than a month?
Phantump opened its eyes, suddenly feeling a bad premonition. Fang Yuan couldn't have been killed by Mewtwo in another time-space, could he?