A Heart of pure Gold~*~*[{AtTheFestival}]*~*~ A Soul of stainless Silver

And in between. A girl of Blue.

Drowning into an ocean abyss. To see whirlpools engulf her being.

Falling toward the baby blue sky. To hear bells chime and the sky turn a blaze red.

"Not a single new customer…And here I thought Johto was a good place to scam people, too." A girl with dark Brown hair grumbled as she watched adults and small children pass by her stand, not paying any attention to her at all. They seemed too busy to notice her is seemed. Children (if not eating cotton candy or another form of sweets) were begging their parent's to let them ride or play on some sort of game or playhouse.

The girl with brown hair pout's as she looks at the people having fun while she's stuck with not a single person even paying the slightest attention to her merchandise. "They can't tell these are fake's… can they?" She looks at her phony merchandise, inspecting it for any flaws. She had been scamming people all her life. There were no flaws to her products. And if anyone was smart enough to realize they had been ripped off, however, it would have already been too late.

"Phooey."

She pouts once more as she can't find anything wrong with her products. The phony products she had were disguised as realistically as possible. She was even sure the original creator's wouldn't be able to see the difference! So why hasn't anyone asked to buy one yet?

The young girl was about to begin to pack up and head home, thinking that this was doomed from the start, but not before she noticed two young teens pass by her. The boy looked awfully familiar. Like someone she knew already.

"…! HEY, GOLD! WANNA ADVERTISE MY PRODUCTS~!?" She leaped up. This was her kowhai from Johto. Surely he would do that for her, right? Obviously~ for she knew he had a thing for her (and any other cute girl). He would definitely get thing's going, he was the most popular boy in his hometown after all!

{[Ethan's Point-of-view]}

Okay. Stay cool. You're just with your friend at a festival she dragged you to. Your friend who you've had a crush on since forever. No big deal. You can do this! You got this! You took down an entire criminal organization by yourself! This is nothing compared to that!

My mind whirled as I thought of something to start a conversation. I was nervous, yes, but that shouldn't stop me from just TALKING to her!

After I promised I took Lyra to the Festival. She was sporting her usual outfit (as was I) but she had something new about her. Oh! Right! Her ponytails had ribbons! Okay, so after I finished err- admiring her, we began to go and head of for the festival grounds in Violet City. Here I thought the only good thing about Violet City was the sprout tower and the Gym. But apparently the Festivals were too as about three fourths of Violet City had been covered by decorations and/or stands and mini-stadiums.

We walked around for abit, the sun was still up so there weren't many people yet, but the ones who were, were usually here for the shopping portion. You see festivals have three time zones here in Johto. The shopping portion(Where you can usually find great deals on tons of stuff like medicine, herbs, Pokeballs, and maybe even those fancy kimonos). The next time zone was the entertainment and talent portion. This was where people came to show off their battling skills or entertainment skills. However we have had visitors from other regions visit and introduce new things like one duo from Hoenn brought 'Contests'. They were competitions you compete with about three other people in showing off your Pokemon's skills in one of five category's.

Another duo from Sinnoh introduced some games they called 'Swalot Plop, Mime Jr. Top, and Wobbuffet Pop'. The Swalot plop was where you try to get as many balls of your color into a spinning Swalot doll's mouth as possible before the time runs out. The player with the most balls by the end of the time wins. The other two games are just as fun. With Mime Jr. Top, you try to keep your Mime Jr. toy on top of your rubber ball for as long as possible using only a stick in your mouth and your hands tied behind your back (It's the hardest game out of the three but still fun). Finally the Wobbuffet Pop is where you try to pop as many Wobbuffett balloons as possible before the time runs out. It's the most elaborate game as there's a Wynat that spins around and helps pump more air into the balloons if you can keep the balloon within the circle outline its making.

And finally, the last time zone is where everyone just party's really. There's Karaoke, dance offs, and tons of other cool thing's not available in the day time. Food stands are therefore all three portions either way.

It's been awhile since me and Lyra have been able to go and spend time together. We haven't spent much time alone. Well we have but not where it didn't involve "arguing", battling, or studying for other battles for the new Battle frontier. Maybe this'll be the day when I tell Lyra how I feel. Just maybe.

Throughout our time walking around the festival I slowly started gaining courage. Yeah. Maybe it is. Maybe she felt the same way, too. I could see it in her smile each time she looked at me throughout our walk through the festival. Whenever she stopped to ask me if she could buy something from a stand I could see her smile and blush (Though that may have been from her asking to borrow money). I gladly obliged each time. I couldn't say no to her. I just couldn't.

Each and every time I won a battle from a trainer that challenged me I could see her face widen in a smile. She was happy I had won. And when I would lose, she'd comfort me in a loving like way (Though I don't need it as I'm perfectly fine with losing, it still felt nice having an excuse to have Lyra come over and train with me).

So after about half an hour later, after she finished buying dresses, herbs, accessories and other girly things, I finally worked up the courage to tell her "Say, Lyr-"

"…! HEY, GOLD! WANNA ADVERTISE MY PRODUCTS~!?"

Okay. Maybe that's a sign saying I shouldn't.

[A/N; Ouch. My finger's. they huuuuuuuuurt L As I said I introduced Blue. Even if it was only a brief moment. She'll have more matchmaking time next chapter okay? Okay.

By the way if you haven't noticed the "Duo's" Ethan talked about are Brendan and May&Lucas and Dawn. The things Lucas and Dawn introduced are from the Pokemon Platinum Wi-Fi Plaza. I haven't played them but I know their hard to play at first (The Wobbuffet one at least XD). I wanted to add more but I think I spent more than enough time explaining the festival and the games. Sorry about that. ^^;; If you have any suggestions don't hesitate to say them.

I'll go work on Chapter three now~ KTHNXBAI]