"It will be enough," Jirachi said confidently. She could sense that much, the power that radiated from them was strong, deep. She took one of Odette's hands in her paw, then gestured for Enora to come closer, before gently taking one of the Sylveon's ribbons in her other paw.
"You too," she added, nodding her head at Odile.
Once Odile had placed a hand on Odette's shoulder, Jirachi locked eyes with Odette. "You must focus all of your being, all of your will and desire on the wish. And you must not waver until the wish is complete, understand?" When Odette gave her approval, Jirachi slowly closed her eyes. The blue tags on her head began to glow, fluttering in a nonexistent wind. A stillness fell over the forest. Stillness that grew heavier, until it seemed one could hear a heartbeat.
Jirachi's third eye on its abdomen shot open.
Odette and her pokemon would feel as if something were tugging at them, pulling from inside, harder and harder and
harder - then a sensation of brief fatigue, perhaps one Odette would already be used to from training with Odile. A buzz of energy, almost like a static shock, traveling through Odette, up her arms and through to Odile and Enora. Then a flash of a memory, talking to Mitch... to a man and a mightyena.
Jirachi locked onto them. Etching their forms into her mind, their very essence of being. Drew on Odette's conviction.
Focus... She reached out, seeing past the physical, to the spirit... She could sense them, but they were far away. So far... A void.... Straining, she drew more energy from Odette, latching onto the two and then
yanked with all her might. At the same time it would feel as if something, a some kind of energy, was yanked from Odette, leaving her momentarily winded, though she would find the energy quickly resurged, as if it had never been taken at all.
Bright light coalesced into a blinding sphere a few yards away, a shimmering, rippling orb, yet it didn't seem to cast any light on the surrounding forest. It hurt to look it, blazing for a few seconds before finally fading slowly. As the light faded, two forms could be seen within - a young man, slumped over a mightyena, the mightyena curled around him, as if both were trying to protect each other.
Unconscious, but alive.
In need of care in the infirmary, no doubt, but the wish had unquestionably worked. They'd saved a trainer.
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Jirachi slumped forward into Odette's arms, panting, heart beating swiftly, her third eye now closed. "We did it..." she said softly. "Thank you, Odette. I could not have done it... without you. They were so far away..."
She took a deep breath, seemingly recovering slightly, enough to float into the air again. First she drifted over to Nate and Mightyena, checking them over. "They will be fine, I believe, with time and rest."
She returned to Odette, exhausted looking, but smiling happily. "I need to return to my own realm to rest. But-" Holding out her paws, she formed a tiny star shaped stone and handed it to Odette. "-take this. It can only be used once, but if you hold it and wish, I will come to your aid. Good luck, and thank you again."
With a tiny twinkle of light, she vanished.
