Latias was floating in a perfect world of light and Aura. She opened her eyes into the blue-tinged brilliance, then called curiously and softly for her brother, looking around her for him. “Latios?”

She froze. Before her, suspended in midair as she was in the light, was Latios, her brother! Right before her, how could she have not noticed beforehand? But... he was different. “Oh!” she said in surprise.

His form was now slightly transparent – the outline between him and the other light was practically unnoticeable. But it was not merely invisibility, the kind they used to use when roaming the canals of Alto Mare, and with a start, Latias realised a lot of things all at once.

“This is your sacrifice?” she asked, not really expecting an answer, spoken or otherwise. I mustn't believe this is real. I know he'll come back, I just need to believe it enough. I... I believed it when he said to me we could do it if we tried together! Now, all we need to do is try again, just as hard!

She felt her eyes begin to glimmer with tears. In reply, Latios leaned down slightly and extended a shimmering right hand, which Latias stared at stupidly for a while before looking to him for confirmation. He gave none, so she looked down again and impulsively brought her left hand up to meet his. She heard a pleasant tinkling sound at the contact, and could feel his claws, but only just. It felt like he was going to fade away at any second now.

Hope disappeared, and she couldn't help showing her upset. “You're leaving me...” she said sadly, staring into his impassive face, feeling through all the sadness and guilt and upset that she was even feeling very, very betrayed.

But Latios made no mention of it, merely inclined his head in a nod, shutting his eyes into the nod and then opening them with a cry of reassurance, the tinge of a smile meeting his mouth.

And his hand left hers. She held onto his claws for as long as she could before it became to much and she released him, forever.

Her arm still reaching out in desperate grief, she watched him ascend, his form beginning to glow brighter than ever before, the brilliance of his soul-form gathering strength then expanding outwards, blue light pushing her away from him, towards the earth she so desperately wanted to forgo just for a few more minutes with her beloved sibling... but soon he was lost to her, and her to him, in the blue light.

And Latios rose... forever onwards and upwards...

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