"Sure enough, it's from the same series of ingredients as the feather powder of Zapdos!" Naoki thought to himself, calming down after seeing the information about the feather powder. He wasn't too surprised.

  After returning to the ranch, he greeted his Pokémon with a wave and said, "You guys go py by yourselves for now; I have something to take care of."

  The Naclstack ran off to eain themselves, and Naoki turned back toward the house. He went into the kit and began preparing the ingredients for his dish.

  The most important element was flour, followed by the tools for kneading the dough.

  Naoki po mix the Lugia feather powder into the flour to make steamed buns, just as he had do time with Zapdos' feather powder.

  Unfortunately, Lugia's feather powder tained a rge amount of flying energy, most of which had been lost during the grinding process earlier.

  Looking at the thin yer of silvery-white powder at the bottom of the transparent gss bottle, Naoki sighed. "pared to the feather powder of Zapdos, this is much less—probably only a quarter of the amount." He felt it ity, but there wasn't much he could do.

  Another problem arose in his mind—would such a small amount of powder affect the cookis?

  After a brief thought, Naoki decided to give it a shot.

  He started kneading the dough, adding the silvery-white powder into the flour, and poured in water. As he began kneading, he noticed the same sensation he had felt with Zapdos' feather powder—a tinglirifying feeling.

  This time, when Naoki touched Lugia's feather powder, he felt a strong gust of wind ing around his hand. The flying-type energy maed as a milky white airflow, swirling within the tainer.

  Sometimes intense, sometimes gehe energy seemed alive. Even after the flour aher powder were pletely mixed, the milky white wind still lingered on the dough, like a special effect that wouldn't go away.

  "Impressive," Naoki muttered, raising his eyebrows in surprise.

  After the dough was kneaded, it ime to ferment.

  Naoki covered the dough with pstic a aside, giving it three to four hours to rise.

  He wasn't in a hurry, so he sat on the sofa and turned oV to pass the time.

  The Indeedee siblings stood nearby, ever the loyal panions.

  The younger sister, ever thoughtful, made Naoki a cup of hot tea.

  Naoki took a sip, feeling the warmth aion wash over him.

  He looked at the two siblings and said kindly, "o stand. Take a seat a!"

  "Ai-ah~" sister Indeedee responded happily, taking a seat on the sofa closer to Naoki. Her older brother, more serious, sat at the far end.

  Meanwhile, deep in the o.

  In the silehs of the sea, Lugia, who had just returned home and was about to get some rest, suddenly opes eyes.

  It sehat one of its feathers had lost e with it.

  Surprise and fusion filled Lugia's gaze.

  Pokémon like it rarely shed feathers.

  Only human trainers with pure hearts were ever gifted its feathers.

  If the choseook the feather to the deepest part of the Whirl Isnds and prayed with all their heart, Lugia would reveal itself to them, aowledging their ce and kindness.

  Those Silver Feathers tais unique energy, and because of this, Lugia could sense wherever they were.

  In aimes, long ago, Lugia even promised some humans who became friends with it that if they were ever in danger and needed help, they could call it using the Silver Feather.

  At that time, Lugia would rise from the sea to assist them.

  But now…

  It had lost tact with one of its Silver Feathers and could no longer sehe energy within it.

  Lugia looked solemn.

  'What happeo that feather?'

  ---

  At 2 PM, the dough had finally finished fermenting.

  Naoki carefully peeled off the pstic c the dough, shaped it into buns, and began steaming them.

  Because of the limited amount of the key ingredient—Lugia's feather powder—Naoki mao make only six steamed buns.

  But he wasn't sure if these buns would be simir to the "Lightning Buns" he made before, each of which carried the power of Zapdos.

  When the buns fieaming, Naoki's curiosity was finally answered.

  ---

  [Storm Bun (S+): A legendary dish made from the feather powder of a legendary Pokémon. It is said that eating this bun will grant the power to trol storms and the weather.

  Cooking Effect: God of the Sea (1/6). After ption, a Flying-type Pokémon gains the ability to trol the weather, in the way the master of the feathers desires. However, full trol is granted only after eating six buns in total. It is limited to Flying-type Pokémon.

  ent: This is a one-of-a-kind dish. Feed it to your Flying-type Pokémon! However, due to the ratio of ingredients, the dish ot produce its full effe its own.]

  "It's just as I thought," Naoki murmured.

  'Does the "1/6" mean a Pokémon has to eat six buns in a row to fully gain the ability?'

  It was lucky that he had made exactly six buns.

  Naoki decided to test it right away.

  He happeo have the perfect Flying-type Pokémon on his ranch: Dragonite.

  The sleek figure onite came to his mind, and without wasting time, Naoki asked Indeedee to call Dragonite from where it ying outside.

  Soon enough, Dragonite came over, following behind the Indeedee.

  It looked at Naoki in fusion. "Awoo?"

  Naoki smiled and brought out the six steaming buns, them tonite: "Want to eat them all?"

  Dragonite's nostrils twitched as it she delicious aroma of the buns. But it hesitated—it wasly a fan of steamed buns.

  Seeing this, Naoki raised an eyebrow and teased, "Don't you want to bee the stro Dragonite in the world? Eat these, and you'll be able to realize that dream."

  Dragonite, who trusted Naoki's words and knew of his cooking's magical properties, immediately perked up. Its eyes widened with excitement. "Awoo?"

  Naoki nodded with a grin. "Of course! These buns were made just for you."

  Hearing this, Dragonite no longer hesitated. Regardless of the taste of the buns, it opes mouth wide and gobbled them down one by one.

  When Dragonite fihe st steamed bun, Naoki noticed a strong gust of wind emanating from its body.

  The wind began to stir ihe house.

  Naoki's eyes widened, and he quickly pushed Dragoside: "Go outside!"

  As soon as Dragoepped outdoors, the energy i surged.

  Thick, dark clouds gathered in the once clear sky at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  The otion immediately drew the attention of the other Pokémon on the ranch.

  Five Dragonair and two wild Dragonite flew over, their eyes wide in astonishment at the newly empowered Dragonite.

  Cyclizar, sensing a powerful aura, rushed over, eager to watch the se unfold.

  Only Koraidon remained calm, his eyes flickering as he gnced up, then nontly resumed his nap on the grass.

  At that moment, Naoki and all the Pokémon instinctively did the same thing—looked up at the massive dark clouds gathering overhead.

  Dragoanding on the grass, could feel the ges within its body.

  Excitement filled its eyes as Naoki's words echoed in its mind: 'One day, the whole world will be covered by your rain!'

  Dragonite had a feeling that this day had finally e.

  'It's time to try it out!' Dragohought eagerly.

  It let out a mighty roar and used its signature move—the move it had practiced tless times—the Rain Dance!

  With just a thought, Dragonite ahe sky.

  In the moment, a light drizzle began to fall.

  The geumn rain soon covered the entire rand stretched far into the distance.

  But Dragonite wasn't satisfied. It wanted more.

  It spread its wings wide and soared into the sky, perf a fierce, joyful dan the rain, unleashing the energy grao it by the magis.

  Meanwhile, the raiended beyond the ranch, c the town of Kosaji and even covered Casseroya Lake and Gseado Mountain.

  Incredibly, the rain reached even the scorg, dry desert.

  There, raindrops fell on the head of a Sandile lying in the yellow sands, patiently waiting for its prey to pass by.

  Startled by the sudden ess, the Sandile paused, looking up with fusion in its rge, bck eyes.

  In Kosaji, people and Pokémon oreets hurried to find shelter from the raih shop awnings.

  An office worker with a briefcase on his head arrived te. He ducked uhe awning, shook the water off his briefcase, and said with fusion:

  "Strange, didn't the weather forecast say it would be cloudy and then sunny today? Why did it suddenly start raining?"

  He wasn't the only one puzzled. At the same time, weather researchers at the Paldea Meteical Observatory, located north of Gseado Mountain a of the Great Crater, stood uhe eaves of their facility, staring at the unusually heavy rain, exging bewildered gnces.

  "What's going on? Did the mae malfun?"

  "No, that's unlikely. The rain came so abruptly. One moment it was sunny, and the it started p. There wasn't any warning at all."

  "Why does this feel so much like a Pokémon move?"

  "You mean… Rain Dance?"

  "The weather satellite shows it's raining in Gseado, Asado Desert, Casseroya Lake… pretty much the entire of Paldea!"

  The group of meteists stood stunned.

  After a long moment, someone finally spoke in a shocked tone, "Is this… really caused by a Pokémon?"

  What kind of powerful Pokémon could summon rain on such a massive scale?

  Could it be that a wild Legendary Pokémon had e to the Paldea region? Just like what happened in the e Isnds retly, when the csh of legendary Pokémon caused global weather disturbances.

  Meanwhile, in the Pokémon League.

  Geeta, the current top Champion of the Paldea region, stood by the window with her hands behind her back, gazing out at the heavy rain.

  As an experienced Pokémon trainer, Geeta could sense something was off about the rain.

  This was no ordinary weather ge—it was caused by a Pokémon. More precisely, an unknown Pokémon uhe trol of a trainer.

  Her fingers drummed lightly, her expression ptive.

  "I wonder what kind of Pokémon could be behind this."

  Geeta pondered. If memory served, there was no local legend about a Pokémon in Paldea that could manipute the weather on such a grand scale.

  This meant that the Pokémon responsible for this storm was likely brought to Paldea by an exceptionally skilled trainer.

  A trainer capable of capturing and trolling such a powerful Pokémon was surely someone of great talent!

  "I wonder if the Paldea League could recruit someone like that," Geeta mused.

  But she soon realized that her suspis had not been firmed.

  Geeta smiled and shook her head. She closed the window and decided to stop paying attention.

  If a trainer with this level of strength really existed, they would eventually reveal themselves to the world. When that time came, she could simply reach out to them.

  ---

  In the pasture.

  Naoki, along with the Cyclizar and other Pokémon, huddled uhe eaves, looking up at Dragonite in the sky.

  "Is this the power of Lugia?" Naoki thought to himself.

  Lugia, known as the Guardian of the Seas, was not the same as Kyogre, the legendary Pokémon responsible for expanding the os. Lugia's role was more about maintaining bance by trolling o currents and influeng global weather patterns.

  It has an incredible ability to calm stormy seas, and it's said that a single fp of its wings could create storms sting for forty days.

  Judging by these legendary records, Lugia's power was beyond impressive.

  Air currents, weather trol, cyes, storms.

  "The Storm Buainly exceeded my expectations," Naoki cluded. "They've helped fulfill one onite's dreams."

  As he gazed at the seemingly endless rain, Naoki couldn't help but smirk.

  It looked like what he'd told Dragonite earlier wasn't an exaggeration after all.

  Feeliimental, Naoki searched the sky fonite, but to his surprise, it was o be found.

  He was slightly fused and turo the Cyclizar, asking, "Where's Dragonite?"

  Cyclizar pointed skyward and said, "Ga-ao."

  That meant Dragonite had flown even higher.

  Naoki sighed. 'This guy… really?'

  He smiled helplessly. "Alright, let it have its fun," he thought a baside to wash the dishes.

  By the time he finished ing the pot, the rain had stopped.

  Uhe sunlight, a beautiful rainboeared in the sky.

  Just then, Dragonite, having had its fill of excitement, finally returo the ranch.

  It rushed into the house with a big grin, ing its rge paws around Naoki, iping dowable.

  "Ouch~"

  Naoki, trapped in Dragonite's affeate grip, chuckled. "Are you that happy?"

  Dragonite nodded enthusiastically, eyes twinkling. "Ouch!"

  Seeing Dragonite so joyful, Naoki couldn't help but feel amused, though he was slightly worried that Dragonite might get too full of itself.

  He thought for a moment and said with a gentle warning, "Don't get too proud, okay? You still o stay grounded and practice hard if you want to truly master this power. Even though you're strong now, remember that there are still many Pokémon in the world that are even strohan us."

  Dragonite blinked and nodded in uanding. "Ouch!"

  It khat very well.

  In Dragonite's mind, the image of a powerful, mysterious, shiny Pokémon it once saw at the ter of a storm came to mind.

  That memory alone reminded Dragohat there was still much work to be done.

  And so, it would tio train with all its heart.