"Maxie, what's the point in going to a pansy contest?" Archie looked around as everyone gathered, chattering with their tickets. Although Maxie kept a calm composure Archie could feel his excitement and it somewhat irritated him. He was supposed to be a grown man and here he was getting excited over some contest idol!
"I heard Lisia is here with Ali and is actually competing!" Archie overheard an older man nearby say excitidly.
"Yeah, but she's competing against the new rising idol. What was her name, Emi?" At the mention of the name Archie could feel Maxie's excitement rise up more, but he cleared his throat.
"Supposedly this "Emi" has a new pokemon nobody has ever seen before and she's been using it for contests. I wish to observe it and see what it truly is." His voice trailed off as the room grew silent and a door closed. Both Archie and Maxie turned to look at a little girl that had entered the hall. She had long curly auburn hair and the brightest of blue eyes. She had frozen when the crowd stopped, looking embarrassed. She was dressed for the unnatural cold weather, a blue and white scarf, dark red jacket with a white frilly skirt.
"U-Um... hello.." She gave a tiny smile and waved her small hand, then she hurried to the counter.
"... You mean she's the reason were here?! She's just a little scamp!" Archie said a bit too loudly. The whole room stopped and glared at Archie and Maxie, but the girl, Emi, had scurried into the back.
"You dolt! Don't speak so loudly! I swear you're a child..." Maxie almost looked embarrassed... The room went back into a soft chatter.
"You're the child! Coming to see a contest... Just to watch a little girl run around in a dress. This is stupid. I'm leaving." As Archie turned to walk away, he ran right into a girl. She was tall with half shaven hair, the other half being long and straightened. She stumbled back but caught herself, huffing angrily at Archie.
"Someone wants to see you in the green room.." She mumbled. She looked annoyed but what could you expect of her. Maxie gave Archie a; "I could kill you" glare but then huffed.
"I'm heading on. I suppose you can leave.. After all, this sort of thing isn't for children." With that he turned and walked off to enter the hall. Archie grumbled, tempted to just leave and not even bother going to the green room but the snarky scamp in front of him wasn't going to make that an option... So he sighed and went to the green room.
"These rooms always confuse me. Why are they called green rooms when they aren't even green." He caught a look at himself in the mirror and frowned. When he was about to leave, 20 minutes early, Maxie had called as if on cue.
"Don't you dare wear that tacky wetsuit." It was an order and there was no room for a comeback since he had hung up... Archie then had dressed in a black jacket, white t-shirt underneath and black pants. Obviously he wasn't leaving without his anchor necklace, or his Team Aqua bandana. He didn't look bad though. He laughed to himself.
"Like I could look bad." He stepped into the green room and froze. There were tons of people in there, all surrounded by a girl in a chair. There seemed to be only one person who was supposed to be there and she was doing Emi's hair.
This shy little scamp was dressed in a long flowing white dress that stopped short at the front but was insanely long in the back. When she stood up to shoo the others away he was almost surprised that this was the same girl. The dress was completely white except for a vivid pink jewel at the front, connecting the jacket with the dress. The dress had a large diamond chunk gone. From the jewel to about above her belly button you could see her skin. It didn't show any cleavage though. She had on a big white bow at the back of her hair. She was just exuding confidence and Archie had to do a double take just to make sure it was really her.
The dress flew back just a bit as she stepped towards him and Archie noticed that the inside was purple and full of a star like design.
"I wanted to ask you something..." Her voice was soft and sweet. Archie looked at her closely. To be honest he expected her to be young but in all honesty she was probably 18 or so. She was short.. "I wanted to ask if... I wanted to know that if I end up winning this contest.. could we battle?" It was a strange request and it caught Archie off guard, but he grinned. He couldn't resist a battle!
"I'll battle you whether you win or lose, little scamp!" Emi blinked and it took a lot to not make herself look competitive. She smiled and nodded.
"I'll look forward to it." With that the person doing Emi's hair made some remark on her needing to get ready and Archie took that as a cue to leave. He was suddenly excited to see this contest to the end. It wasn't everyday he got to win a battle!