I wake up the next morning, padding out of the hut I arch my back in a stretch and let out a short yawn. Its a beautiful day with tons of visitors and I slip into the water to start greeting. I see Crystal smile as I pass by her at the bottom of the tank and I swim a full circle before watching her walk to her desk. I swim down to a kid I see turned away from the tank with his parents pointing some device at him so I pull up behind him to investigate. I swish to the side of him and tap the glass with my paw. The parents smile and the kid squeaks a bit before I spot a bit of tan fur moving to the left.

"Blitz!" I yip swimming over to that side. "Blitz, look at this cool shell I found! I'm going to see if..." I cut off half way seeing the Meowth stare at me.

"You ok sis?" It says.

"Yeah, sorry, wrong pokemon." I say awkwardly, swimming back over to sit on the roof of my hut.

"Relax." I remind myself. "He wasn't here till around mid day yesterday. Theres still at least an hour before he'll get here."

But for the rest of the day he never came. No matter how much I swam in a circle, paced the platform or stood on the hut's roof, I never caught one sight of him. So I ended up falling asleep in my hut and waking up the next day to someone yelling.

"Just gonna lay there or are you gettin up?"

"Lay here." I mutter, "I'm not quite ready to wake up."

"Come on" the voice calls again. "Get up and play Puddle!"

"Puddle? Blitz!" My head shoots up and smacks against the roof but I pull myself out of the hut anyways, stepping out onto the cold platform and looking around. I look into the tank and scan the edges but there was no sign of him till my eyes wander over to the stairs and spot him on the other side of the gate.

"Morning!" He calls. "You've got to stop hitting your head."

"You didn't come yesterday. I thought we wouldn't get to talk again."

"Yeah, looks like Dan plans to bring me every other day so dont get your tail in a twist."

I growl slightly in embarrassment and look over my shoulder. "Oh hey wait. Be right back." I tell him, jumping into the water. I swim to the bottom and push seaweed to the side to reveal a beautiful purple shell. I pick it up gently and swim back up to the top with it, jumping out and shaking dry. "Look at this."

He takes it gently from the opening in the gate and sets it in front of him. "Thats real cool." He says, "looks like it came off a shellder. A real small one of course."

"I know I'm thinking of having Crystal replace it for the one on my ear." I swat at the seaweed and shell still clung to my left ear as I say it, as if trying to dislodge it myself.

"Well don't lose it, its real pretty, looks rare." He passes it back to me and I quickly tuck it into my hut then run back to him. "But I got something to." He moves to the side to reveal an inflated ball with a rainbow of colors on it. "Catch!" He swats it with a paw, causing it to arch into the air onto my side of the gate.

I turn and slip and slide in an attempt to cut it off after it bounces once and I see it heading towards the railing. I put on a burst of speed then plant my paws on the ground, skidding along thanks to the water all over the platform, but the sliding gave me the extra speed I need to get in front of it before it bounces over the railing. I rear up and swat the ball as it comes to me, sending it bouncing back over the gate. I try to settle myself back down but my back slams into the railing and I end up sprawled on the floor.

The I bring myself back to my paws as the ball comes back over the fence and race forwards, catching it with my tail and flicking it back at Blitz.

We continue this game, throwing it at each other, until it plops into the tank water and I turn to see tons of people watching us.