Let's go! Let it bleed, did you get what you want, did you want you need?

Thumbs for anyone who gets that!

I carefully watched on the screen above me as Cass twirled in her cream puff dress. Cass's "cream puff" dress was a cream-colored poofy styled dress, with little white cotton-ball like materials spread scarcely thoughout the dress. Her hair was twirled and put up to only reach her lower shoulderblade instead of the waist. I smiled at her sudden confidence.

Chloe was her performer, and had an interesting but brief backstory. She knows a variety of moves because of Dad's Galvantula bred her. It wasn't too long after that he had to leave for the Kalos region.

"Alright Chloe! Use Electroweb all over the stage!" Cass shouted and the Joltik did as told. With a smile, yellow webs were all around the ground, ceiling, and walls. Marian held up her hand, "And suddenly were are taken away to Joltik's lair. Fantastic!"

"Now face me and do a Thunder Wave!"

Chloe turned around and dug her tiny legs into the earth. Electricity spread throughout the ground and on all the spider webs, making them spark and glow. "Great job, now go with a jump and Signal Beam!" Chloe spun, jump, and shot out a blue, green, and red beam. It bounced along each web, making them sparkle a rainbow of colors. Marian's eyes twinkled as Cass's last command was spoken, "Wrap this up with a String Shot!"

As Chloe fell, she looked at the ceiling and shot String Shot there. She bungeed around, with a cute smile. Marian gestured towards Chloe, "What a cute pokemon! Let's see what the judges have to say."

Zoey rubbed her chin and smiled with clarity, "To summarize this performance, it was mix of sheer beauty and cuteness, and fantastic all-around."

Mr. Contesta smoothed his hair and bellowed, "The fantastic beauty of Chloe and you shined throughout the performance. She must've been a hard one to train!"

"Ah!" Professor Rowan stood, "The friendship you and Chloe have is strong. The sheer excitement you gave got me at the edge of my seat!"

Cass sighed with relief, and with a quick outro from Marian, she rushed backstage.

-(-)-

"Oh my gosh!" we both exclaimed and hugged each other. "You did so good!" I exclaimed, "No, you did!" was her reply. We hugged again and Saria attempted to, also. We giggled and waited for the end.

Then we heard a voice behind us, "Pssh! You two will only make it to the first battle."

It was a trainer I slightly recognized. Deanne, the girl after me. She was slightly older than us, probably 15, two years ahead of us two twins. "Excuse me?" I snapped. She scoffed, "Please! You two would never even make it here if it wasn't for the kissing up!"

Deanne shook her hips. Her slightly dark skin contrasted with her wild yellow hair and skimpy blue and yellow outfit. Then a voice came from behind her, growling, "Flaafy!" She snickered, understanding what it said.

I took out my pokedex and scanned the pink sheep. "Flaafy, the Wool Pokemon. The bare patches on it's body are rubbery and are incapable on being grown with wool. It's wool grows coarse and static charged if angered." It snarled at me and I shifted a little bit.

Deanna smirked poked my nose, "That's right! You best not run into my Flaafy OR Houndour!" Cass scoffed and Saria hopped in my bag. She flipped around and waltzed away.

I heard a voice behind me, "Man! What a poor sport!"

"Max!" Cass smiled and hopped over a bench. Max laughed, "You did so good out there."

She gasped, "Are you kidding me? Did you even pay attention to your performance?" I snickered and pulled the little Eevee from my green bag. Max came over and tickled Saria's nose. "Oh yeah... keep doing that!" she sighed and grew relaxed.

"So," Max began, "What is Saria evolving into?"

Cass and I frowned, "Into...?" Max frowned and so did Saria. "Well, there's loads of ways to evolve an Eevee, stones, mysterious rocks, friendships at night or day... and there's even a new one nobody knows much about! It's only native to the Kalos region though..."

My sister and I kept a frowned. My eyes grew hazy, remembering our long-missed father. He wouldn't be back for a while. Max cocked his head, "Something wrong?" I shook my head and forced a smile, "No... just, erm, reminiscing."

"Alright folks!" I heard on the screen, "Let's see who's going to round 2, only 16 of the 32 will make it."

The cards spun around and shuffled about. Showing 16 cards left. The first one on the top row had the best score, and the one on the bottom right had the least qualifying score.

The first was Cass! "CASS!" Max and I shouted, and smiled and shook her about. We also saw Max was in second and I was fourth to last place. I wasn't all too happy with that, but I saw Deanne was last, so I was okay with that.

Marian smiled, "Now let's match these performers to their double battles!"

The cards once again shuffled and twirled showing matches. We didn't know any of our matchups, except, lucky me, got Deanne.

That was going to be a rough day