GuiltyCrown09, I love you. JK, but you're pretty awesome.
I don't own Pokemon!
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Chapter 6: The Beginning Of Performance!
7:45 in the morning. I had taken a quick shower already, and was eating a quick breakfast of cereal as fast as I possibly could. Mazey (as usual) was taking her sweet time with breakfast.
"Eat much?" Shinji asked, after I had gotten up to wash my dishes.
"I have to get done fast, Simone's friend is coming over to do my hair and stuff, and I still have to brush my teeth!" Shinji rolled his eyes, I rushed into the bathroom. Five teeth cleaning minutes later, I started the water at a nice warm temperature for Mazey's bath.
"Mazey, get over here!" She was oblivious, just skipping around the room like a joyful clueless Skitty. Finally I caught the little goober, getting her into the bath tub.
"Get water all over the place and you're cleaning it up!" No need to ask who that was. I used a really good smelling shampoo, then rinsed Mazey off, wrapping her up in a towel. That's when someone knocked on the door.
"Oh, it's her! Hold this." I shoved Mazey into Shinji's loving arms, before swinging open the door.
"Hikari, you're more beautiful than Simone had said. What?! You're not wearing the dress yet?! Get it now! Go go go!" I ran over to where my box of accessories and dress were lying out on my bed, grabbing them and headed into the bathroom.
"Wait, what am I supposed to do with-!?" That was all I heard from Shinji before slamming the door in his face.
I held up Turtwig in front of me as Hikari along with that woman rushed into the bathroom.
"Wait, what am I supposed to do with-!?" Hikari turned around enough to smile at me and give me the peace sign before the door was slammed in my face. Sighing, I lowered Turtwig to hold her normally. All she did was smile at me, not realizing how annoying this was getting.
"Fine." For the next hour I sat down at the table, petting Hikari's Turtwig, trying to ignore it again, then petting it again. Suddenly the bathroom door opened, and out came Troublesome. She's gorgeous. My eyes slightly widened at the sight of her. Good thing I could prevent any hint of redness on my face.
Her dress went down to just above her knees. It was a rich, dark brown, a light tan bow around her waist. The dress was sleeveless, showing her back. Her hair was professionally curled, one strand of hair held up against the side of her head, probably by bobby pins, and it sported a light green flower. What kind was it? I'm not sure, but it was real. I could smell it's beautiful, light fragrance from here. Hikari's shoes were flats, the same brown as her dress, but the lining was the same color as the bow around her waist, with a tiny bow on top of the shoes and polka dots also the same color. She was also wearing a choke hold necklace, the ribbon was the same color as her dress. The pendant hanging down from it was a rich, earthy looking green emerald. Real, too.
"So Shinji," She twirled around, her navy blue tresses bouncing along with her. "How do I look?" She asked smiling. I quickly put my face back into the daily newspaper.
"Okay I guess, Troublesome." Her face quickly dropped, the woman who had helped her get ready came out of the bathroom.
"You look amazing Hikari. Now, if you ever need anything, just call." She left the room.
I took Mazey from Shinji's arms, all dry and clean! Mazey, not Shinji. Setting her on the table, I tied the yellow bow around her neck, the actual bow part on the back of her neck to her right slightly.
"Do you really have to put the Pokemon on the place where we eat?" Shinji asked.
"Ohh, chill out Shinji. She just got a bath." With a quick humph, Shinji didn't reply. "Well, I should probably get going. The Contest is going to start soon."
"Yeah, in like half an hour."
"WHAT!?" I screamed.
"It's nine thirty. The Contest starts in half an hour."
"HOLY CRAP I HAVE TO LEAVE!" I grabbed my seal case and coat, throwing it on and returning Mazey to her Pokeball, all almost simultaneously. I ran out, down the stairs, ignoring any and all comments. I was almost twenty minutes away from the Contest Hall, and I still had to put seals on Mazey's Pokeball. Exactly seventeen minutes later, I was at the Contest Hall, signing in. After I had signed in, I headed backstage, ready for the first round. Most of the Contestants were already there, so I took my place sitting on a bench, and placed a ball capsule on Mazey's Pokeball. The Contest started before I could finish putting the seal on.
"Greetings to Pokemon fans and coordinators of all ages!" Everyone in the room looked up at the monitor. It was black, but multicolored lights one by one were lit up around the stage. "We've all gathered here for one special reason," Several spotlights lit up a beautiful woman with orange hair. "To find out who will take home the coveted and fabulous Jubilife City Pokemon Contest Ribbon! Now I know you've all been waiting patiently, and it's time for you to be rewarded!" Several small fireworks shot up from various places on the edge of the stage. Wow, I thought to myself. Even the introductions to the Contest are amazing! "We are coming at you live, from the stadium in Jubilife City! The city of joy!" The crowd roared even louder than before. Suddenly my head started throbbing, a sign that a vision was coming in.
"Oh no, not now, not now!" I whispered to myself, holding my head.
"This your first Contest?" A girl sat down next to me, though I barely looked up.
"H-how did you know?" I managed, trying to prevent her from realizing that I was in serious pain right now.
"Well, you looked kind of sick, like you're nervous or something."
"Well, m-maybe a, a little."
"You shouldn't worry about it, it's a lot of fun." Whoever this girl about my age was, she was easing my headache.
"You've been in Contests before?" I asked.
"Mh hm, three, I have one ribbon so far."
"Only one?"
"Yeah, it's a bit disappointing, but you can't win every time, right?"
"I guess you're right. So what's your name." Any sign of an impending vision was now gone, and I wanted to know the name of the girl who saved me from it, even if she never knows.
"Riley, Riley Stone. You?" I finally looked up at Riley, she was probably a little older than I was, maybe fouteen or fifteen. She was pretty, tan, but struck me more of a tomboy kind of girl. Riley's hair was red, her bangs were messy, and her short hair was put into a ponytail. Riley's eyes reminded me that of a dog's, yellow. Her Contest outfit was a pair of black skinny jeans, fancy combat boots, a purple ribbon tied around her head like a headband, and a fancy purple shirt. It was made of silk, with a V neck, and along the lining of the neck was extra wavy fabric. The sleeves were long, also a deep purple color, and see through. The ends of them were much wider than the rest of them.
"I'm Hikari, Hikari Diamond." She nodded. We looked back up to the monitor, where the host was already introducing the second judge.
"And now, the head of the Pokemon Fan Club, Mr. Sukizo!"
"Remarkable is the word I'm looking for!"
"And finally, Jubilife City's own Nurse Joy!" It surprised me that clumsy Nurse Joy had actually made it here on time, then again, I had barely made it myself.
"Wow, when it comes to seeing all the splendid Pokemon, I can't wait!" The judges took their seats at the judging table.
"A big thank you to all of our judges! Oh, I think I forgot myself! I'm Marien and I am thrilled to be the master of ceremonies and thanks so much!" The crowd roared as Marien waved to them. "Now it's time for the first round, where one by one our Pokemon take their positions on the performance stage! The purpose of this round is to see how our coordinators make their Pokemon shine, by showing off power and beauty!" Everyone in the room with me had their eyes glued to the screen. "Now our first contestant, Trevion Gibbs!" A guy Riley's age, black, good looking like Riley, appeared as the curtains came up on stage.
"Alright Stun-kay!" The seal on the ball capsule released a huge cloud of black smoke. "Sludge Bomb Swipe!" The coordinator seemed to be having a really good time up there.
"What's that?" I whispered to Riley.
"Some coordinators combine their Pokemon's moves to create their own." Now that's an idea... I thought to myself. But back to Trevion, what looked like a Fury Swipes attack was being used inside of the smoke. Suddenly, tons of little purple spheres that I assume were from a Sludge Bomb attack came flying and dispersed the smoke, revealing a small white and purple Pokemon standing on top of a Sludge Bomb itself. Grabbing my Pokedex I figured out what exactly it was.
"Stunky, the Skunk Pokemon. It sprays a foul fluid from its rear. Its stench spreads over a mile radius, driving Pokémon away." Now the purple orbs were floating in mid air, Stunky jumped up on it's front legs on top of the orb of sludge it was currently on, this one larger than the others.
"Night Slash!" The dark and poison type jumped up into the air, using Night Slash to splatter the Sludge Bomb, also propelling it upwards. "Now Flamethrower!" Stunky used Flamethrower to spin itself around at an incredible speed in the air, destroying all of the mini Sludge Bombs, and also creating sparkles, purple ones, falling all around. I couldn't imagine how beautiful that must have been in person! Trevion bowed, with Stunky doing the same at his side.
"Showing off the strength of Stunky amazing, but showing off the beauty of a Pokemon not generally considered to be in any way beautiful at all, truly stunning!" Mr. Contesta congratulated.
"Truly remarkable!" Mr. Sukizo added.
"You'd think that using Sludge Bomb might be a little sloppy around the edges, kind of like me, but you managed to clean it right up and make it beautiful!" Nurse Joy commented.
"Trevion, what a performance, like the judges said, it can be difficult to make a Pokemon like Stunky seem so beautiful!"
"That guy was really-" I stopped, realizing that Riley wasn't sitting next to me any longer. I looked around, but didn't see her. "Huh."
"Next up, the winner of the recent Canalave City Contest, Riley Stone!" I looked up, slightly surprised to see Riley up there, but excited. She was experienced, so I thought that I could learn something from her performance.
"Snover, you know what to do!" She threw the ball capsule encased Pokeball, releasing her Snover along with the yellow eighth note seal, many of them swirling around the smiling Pokemon. "Icy Leaf." It amazed me how calm Riley was, but as I soon found out, it went perfectly with her performance. Snover used Icy Wind and Razor Leaf, at first the snow and leaves flew wildly around the stage, so hard it was almost violent, but slowed soon after Snover's next move.
"Grasswhistle." The Pokemon whipped out a strange looking leaf. But afterwards, it blew into the leaf, orchestrating a gorgeous lullaby like sound. The ice and leaf storm slowed, a melody, a lullaby, a dance. When Snover was done, it dispersed the Icy Leaf attack, creating bits of shining leaves and powdery snow falling over the audience. The crowd just went wild.
"Creating such a beautiful performance, completely balanced between a show of power and beauty, your Icy Leaf attack seeming like a dance after Grasswhistle." The first judge, Mr. Contesta said.
"Remarkably like the storm before the quiet!" Mr. Sukizo, obviously.
"Even your attitude completely coincide with the performance of Snover!"
"Now for our next contestant-" Riley came back, and I congratulated her on her performance. I put the seal onto my ball capsule and waited for my turn, unfortunately I was up last. No trainer wants to be last, because the judges have already seen so many performances, so they might not be so impressed with yours. "Finally, last but not least, here comes the daughter of top coordinator Johanna Diamond, Hikari Diamond!" I walked out from behind the rising curtains.
"Mazey, get ready to impress!" I threw up her Pokeball, and Mazey appeared, orange petals flying around her from the seal. "Use Withdraw!" Just like we practiced, Mazey used Withdraw, glowing blue, but continued doing it for an extended period of time, giving her more power than before. "Use Absorb with your Razor Leaf!" That's one thing I didn't mention, while we were training late last night, I had helped Mazey learn Razor Leaf. Mazey obeyed me, using Absorb, the Withdraw attack strengthening it. A red beam went all over, creating the little yellow orbs that usually take energy from other Pokemon. Then, the little green leaves from Razor Leaf began flying around as well, slowly though. It was similar to the move combo Riley had used earlier.
"Now concentrate your moves Mazey!" Absorb was concentrated all into one spot, creating a large glowing, yellow sphere. Then Razor Leaf covered the orb, creating a powerful sphere of energy covered in a thick coat of leaves. I think I'm going to call it Leaf Sphere. "Finish it up with Tackle!" Mazey hit the Leaf Sphere with the attack that I had commanded, from the bottom of course! Just like we had practiced! It flew upwards, bursting in mid air just like a green firework! The oohs and ahs from the crowd made me feel Beautiflies in my stomach, but I loved the feeling! Mazey leaped up into my arms and I held her high above my head as the crowd cheered us on.
"Thank you, thank you!"
"I was glued to the performance, your Turtwig was not only adorable, but powerful and extremely happy to participate in the Contest!"
"Rrrremarkable!"
"Amazing for your first Contest, and just for the record, I knew you would do well Hikari." Nurse Joy winked at me, and I headed backstage. Riley was there waiting for me.
"Good job kid, you did pretty good."
"Thanks Riley, but I wasn't even close to you." I admitted.
"Maybe, but you'll get there." She patted me on the shoulder
"The judges have made a decision!" The room suddenly fell deathly quiet. No one could peel their eyes of off the monitor, which was now showing the board where everyone's pictures would appear, if they made it to the next round.
"So here are the coordinators who have made it down on the line to the next round!" Faces began to appear. "The eight Contestants who are to appear in tomorrow's second round are..." The faces appeared on screen one by one. Trevion, Riley,- I was silently saying the names to myself, already on the sixth. Richard, Ella- I waited. I had watched Contests on television before, and they always waited a moment before showing the last coordinator. The image finally appeared. My eyes lit up, though I only showed a small smile. The picture of me in my winter coat and beanie hat appeared on screen, smiling like the bubbly freak that I am. Psychic bubbly freak. Riley patted me on the back again, kind of hard, but that just seemed like the kind of person she was.
"Good job kid." Mazey was currently in my arms, and as fast as I could, I left the Contest Hall, wanting to avoid as many people as possible. At the moment, I just wanted to eat junk food and plop down on my bed, just grateful to have made it to the second round. On my way back to the Pokemon Center, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I had seen that Pokemon that I'd been chasing around alley ways and empty streets, though when I turned to look, I didn't see anything.
"I hope that Pokemon finds a good home." I said to Mazey, smiling in my arms.
Did you guys kind of see how Riley and Zoey from the anime were kind of similar? Weeeeell, I kind of did. They're not going to be SUPER similar or anything, but there are going to be a few things that are similar. I don't own Zoey or Pokemon! And I took Mina Arellano's advice to mention Hikari's abilities more often. Your welcome! JK, JK.