"Under your use?" Edmond scoffed. "You will not claim this sacred place of worship as your own! Fang!"

While he did not have his sword, he did, however, have his Zangoose. All Edmond had to do was make a broad gesture with his hand, and in an instant his most trusted Pokémon had put himself between Edmond and Maxie, in a defensive stance.

"My sorrow and desperation drive me forward!" Edmond declaimed with a loud yell. "I cannot be stopped!"