In the morning it was my turn to wake up in an empty room. Or so I thought until I found Floatzel asleep in the tub with it filled to the brim.
"Floatzel." I called to wake her. She cracked open an eye and climbed out of the tub. Then she gave me a huge, wet hug effectively soaking my Pjs. Then, to top it off she shook her fur. Water flew everywhere.
I sighed, "This is going to take a while to clean up."
Floatzel just chirped and jumped around totally oblivious to the mess she caused.
With a slight frown I set to work. I drained the tub, causing Floatzel sulked, and mopped the floor with the towel that I had brought from the pool yesterday. I had to wring it out three times before most of the water was gone. With the bathroom cleaned I got dressed and went in search of Nick with Floatzel on my heels.
Here Floatzel was a great help. She was able to track him the Battle Arena within minutes. I got there just in time to watch him start a match.
The opponent sent out a Slowking. Nick juggled his two poke balls single handedly. Suddenly he tossed one onto the field and the other he clipped to his belt. Infernape came out and shouted a battle cry. "I'll give you the first move." Nick announced.
The opponent seemed to get a little mad. "Slowking Water Pulse!"
Infernape nimble leapt out of the way.
"Why'd he get mad?" I mused aloud.
The girl next to me answered. "It's kind of an insult. He's saying that he thinks his opponent isn't in the same range as him."
"Oh… It looks like the Slowking trainer isn't in the same range as him." the girl nodded distractedly in agreement.
The battle continued to rage and Floatzel cheered for her teammate loudly. "Close Combat Infernape!" Nick's commanded.
"Counter with Headbutt." It's trainer called frantically. It landed and Infernape was thrown away.
"You okay Infernape?" Nick asked. The fire monkey nodded rubbing its head. "Then let's end this. Flare Blitz!" the whole room heated up in a matter of seconds from the strength of the attack.
"Wow!" the girl's eyes went wide. "that guy is seriously strong."
"How can you tell?"
The girl looked at me in shock, "Flare Blitz is one of the most powerful moves a fire type can learn naturally. Most don't learn it until after level fifty. I would put money on that monkey being way higher."
Once the flames cleared it became clear that Slowking had lost. Nick gave a slight bow to his opponent and walked off the field Infernape lazily following behind. He spotted me quickly with Floatzel jumping around for his attention. "Did you enjoy the battle?"
"It was intense." I answered honestly.
Nick grinned pleased with my response. "How about you have a go?"
"Ah… no. Defiantly not. Especially if all the battles are like that."
Twenty minutes later I was cursing him with every swear word I knew as I eyed my opponent across the field. One question kept bouncing around in my head: How the hell had he managed to talk me into this?
AN: so I wasn't planning on having Maria battle so soon so... I have no idea what she should battle. suggestions? PLEASE!