She was with her Ivysaur and her Flabébé, "They look like desserts!" Serena gushes over their costume, "Yeah, they look so cute." I watch the monitor, "Alright Flabébé, use Fairy Wind. Ivysaur! Vine Whip!" She looks at her two Pokémon, Ivysaur lifts her up and she was dancing in the pink dust, "Wow, she really thought this performance out." I look at her, "Yeah, no kidding. She'll be tough to defeat." Serena nods, "That's all!" She holds her pose, everyone claps, "Wow." The dust settled down and we saw Ivysaur, Flabébé and Shauna smiling brightly.
"And next, prepare yourself for the beautiful and talented Jessilee! Her Gourgeist was shining a pattern down on her from the illuminated shapes on her belly, she stood in the middle with her Meowth, "Use Seed Bomb!" She throws her hands up, they ricocheted from the floor and exploded into fireworks, "Serena. You're up next." A crewmember pokes her head in, "Good luck, you'll do great." I smile, she nods and walks out, fifteen minutes later the crewmember pops in again, "Natalie, you're taking Serena's place." The crewmember comes in, "Wait, what? How come? What happened?" I ask, "Her Eevee's gone missing." She tells me, my eyes widen, "Is there any way you can put me near the end? I need to help my friend." I beg, she purses her lips, "I'll try my best. They're out in the foyer." She says, "Thank you so much." I give a quick bow and run off, I saw everyone in the foyer calling for Eevee, "Nat!" Serena turns around, "What are you doing? Don't you need to get ready?" Alain looks down at me, "How could I? Eevee's already scared enough, she'll be petrified in a place like this alone." I look around, "Eevee!" I call out, "There' you are Eevee!" Serena exclaims, we turn to her and see Eevee jump into her arms, "Oh thank goodness where have you been?" Tears prickled in her eyes, "I was so very worried about you Eevee." She looks at her, Eevee jumps out of her arms and calls to her, "I think Eevee's telling you to go give your performance." Ash smiles, "Performer, Nat, you're up next, hurry or you'll be disqualified." The crewmember runs out, "Argh! She's right, well I'm not sure if I'll see you until the end again Serena but best of luck, I stumble over my feet, "Geez, you gotta be more careful." I felt a pair of arms grab me, I laugh nervously as I look up at Alain, "You're so stupid sometimes." He props me back up, "You're such a tsundere." I tease him, "Wha?! I am not!" He shouts but his burning face was telling otherwise, "Sure, whatever you say." I wave my arm as I run back inside.
"And second last! We have the powerful but magnificent, Natalie!" I felt the trapdoor lift me up, "Go!" I throw Arcanine and Noivern's Pokéballs up, they leap out and land next to me, everyone cheers, "Now! Arcanine! Use Fire Blast! Noivern use Boom Burst!" The two attacks steam up and explode into ember sparkles across the stage, "Use Dragon Pulse and intercept it with gust." Noivern cries out and does so, I felt myself getting lighter and I started flying up, "Alright!" I smile as I twirl around in the wind, Arcanine howling up, "Arcanine! Finish it off with Flare Blitz!" I shoot my arm out, he barks and fires it into the wind, incorporating it with the iridescent streams of Dragon Pulse, the wind slowed down and it combined with the fire, opening up into a large flame flower from the centre, the crowd screams and claps, I start to free fall back down to the ground, "And..." I land on Arcanine's back, "Finished!" Noivern flies above us and opens his wings, the audience cheers and claps, I pant for air, "Great job guys." I pet their heads and they growl happily.
"Now our last Performer, make her feel at home. Welcome Serena!" She appeared on stage, everyone was watching in the dressing room, "And. Here! We! Go!" They jump up and Braixen leads with drawing a circle of flames around them, "Now Panchum! Arm Thrust!" Serena commands, it resulted in red sparkles filling the arena, they danced around, "Let's do this!" Serena cries out, Panchum and Braixen flip over each other, it was beautiful, "It looks like they're having so much fun." Shauna comes up to me and smiles, "You can sy that again, look how happy they are." I nod, Panchum fires a Stone Edge and Braixen hops on them, breaking them with blue sparkles, the audience cheers and claps, finishing with a large Fire Blast.
"Please light your Glowcasters using the corresponding colour of the Performer you sought gave the best Performance! Alright, if you please." Pierre says, we all lined up on stage and the colourful dots came flying towards us, "And now!" Keyholds appeared above our heads, "And the winner of the Anistar Pokémon showcase is!" Serena and I looked at each other's they looked like a tie, "Natalie!" I sigh in relief, "You were great Nat!" Serena hugs me, "She's right, congratulations on an amazing performance!" Shauna hugs my other side, I grin at the two girls and hook my arms around their necks, "That means you're ready for the Master Class. I'm jealous." Serena teases me, "Oh shush, how 'bout this. I'll wait for you, once you guys get your third key then we should compete in it together." I look at them, "You really mean it?" Shauna asks, "What are friends for?" I smile and the three of us laugh.
"Congratulations on your third and final Princess Key. We are happy to present the beautiful Princess Key." Klefki holds it out to me, I grab it and smile, "Alright! We did it!" I jump up, "Noi Noi!" "Arcanine!" The three of us smile, "And we come to the end of our Anistar city Pokémon Showcase! Thank you all for coming! Au revoir mes amis! Until next time!" The crowd claps and cheers.
"Oh God, finally." I stretch my arms out and kick my legs out, smiling at the shorts I was wearing again, "Careful, there might be creeps around you know." I heard someone behind me and I threw a punch only for it to get caught, "Alain..." I saw him move our hands so I saw his face, "The only creep here is you." I laugh, he picks me up and throws me into the air, catching me again, "Your third and final Princess Key. I better hurry up otherwise you're gonna beat me." He sets me back down, "Beat you in what?" I ask, "Obtaining their dream first." He puts his hand on my neck and strokes it, "There you go again, being all philosophical with me." I sigh and shake my head, "Leeaf!" Leafeon rubs against my leg, "Hello." I pick her up and she licks my cheek, "Did you be a good girl for Alain?" I pet her ears, "Leaaf!" She blinks at me, "I think it's time you get a well deserved rest." Alain hands me my Pokéball, "Leafeon return." I hold it out and she goes back into her Pokéball, "Alain! Nat!" We turn and see Ash, Clemont, Bonnie and Tierno running over, "Congratulations on winning your final Princess Key." Clemont says, "Yeah your Performance was beautiful!" Bonnie sparkles, Arcanine pops out of his Pokéball and howls, "Arcanine!" Bonnie jumps over to him and pets his legs, "Eevee!" Eevee runs over to Serena and Shauna as they walk out, jumping into her arms, "That was an amazing performance Serena. So cool." Ash says as we all walk over to them, "Watching you guys dance made me wanna dance." Bonnie bounds over to them, "Your totally awesome dances made me wanna get into the groove too." Tierno shuffles on his feet, "Well then, Ash it's your turn now." Serena looks at him, "Yep! I'm going to defeat the Anistar Gym Leader and win another Kalos Gym Badge." He nods, "Pikachu!" Pikachu smiles, "So why dont' we go to the Gym tomorrow?" Clemont asks, "Great idea." Ash nods, "Shauna!" Tierno looks up from his Pokédevice, "Trevor was so preoccupied by taking pictures he misplaced his stuff and he doesn't even know where!" Tierno looks at her, "Oh no." She sighs, "Man what was he thinking." Ash scratches his head, "Well that's just Trevor being Trevor." Clemont laughs, "Is Trevor another one of your friends?" I ask, "Sure is." Ash nods, "So I'm just going to go right now and help look for it." Tierno gets ready to leave, "I'll go help as well." Shauna nods, "Sorry to rush off like this. I'll catch you all soon." The two of them run off. "So what about you two?" Clemont looks at us, "Are you competing in the Kalos Pokémon League too Alain?" Ash asks, Alain takes out his Badge Case which had all eight Badges, snapping it back shut and putting it in his bag, "Wow!" Ash was amazed, "We're off to fight more Mega Trainers with Mega Pokémon." I speak for him, "That's amazing, well best of luck." Serena smiles, "You too. I'm counting on it. I'll see you in the Master Class or maybe before, maybe we'll cross paths again." I smile.
