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Rosie's stance jerked suddenly when her name was called, eyes wide.
"Oh! thats me!" She looked over at Guy once more, before quickly returning Vany'n into her Luxury ball, and hurrying to make her appearance on the stage.

Her heart was thumping hard against her chest, only increasing with each step to took toward the stage.
stopping only when she was in the trainer box, lifting her head high to hold her hands up, each holding the ball of her pokemon, greeting the audience with the dancers grace she was so familiar with.

Vany'n was out first.
the light breaking away, her fins spayed as she weaved forward a couple of steps, using her haze, that created a deepening mist around the stage.
With specked bio-luminescence coming to life over her body from the dimmed light, The Vaporeon continued the elegant dance,

Next out was Kiss Kiss, the Pikachu already had a pin bow tied around her ear.
Once both pokemon were in position, the Haze around suddenly blew away, clearing the stage and fully revealing the mystery inside.
Kiss and Vahy'n stayed in sync with one anthers movements. And what started was a show of water and electricity.

Vany'n surrounded herself with aqua rings, the flowing rings splashing and lifting over and around the Vaporeon, and with great precision, Kiss Kiss sparked the water to life with her thunderbolts, scattering the liquids all around the stage, long arches of golden electricity streaming from the each of the droplets. Magnifying a glittering affect around the poised pokemon conducting the moves, and audience around.

{Dith}

Xander noticed the recognition on Dith's face and forced down a smile. Nice to know he chose the right words, even the slight dangerous tone didn't bother him. "Yes you heard right. It was honestly an accident." he laughed softly. "I had bumped the side table it was on and it opened when it fell to the floor." He looked over at the stage to see the next contest briefly then looked back at Dith and gave an 'innocent' smile. "I take it you definitely know him then?"

Conrad looked up at the humans with his ears up curiously. He said having caught the words picture and locket. It never occurred to him that the other pokemon might or might not know who he was talking bout.

[Nakura]

Callista withheld her initial urge to backhand the man who had walked up to her and dared to touch her, but only because she recognized him as the grunt who had asked all of the questions earlier. Instead, she schooled her features into a surprised smile. "Oh, yes, I remember now," she said, though there was a faint undercurrent to her voice that promised retribution for this forwardness later. "It's Callista, remember?" she said, drawling it out as if she really was chastising a long-term internet boyfriend.

Ugh, the personality she was adopting for the purpose of being difficult to suspect of anything; it made her teeth ache.

Eden, however, was oblivious to her trainer's upset and just excited to have someone new to talk to. "Eevee! Vee? Ee? She chirped in greeting, turning her head to look at the spiritomb floating behind them, her tail wagging excitedly - oh boy, new friends!

[Xander]

He didn't know whether to believe him or not. He wanted to, desperately, but could he afford to? Could he afford not to? The kid was being pretty causal about the whole thing... How much had Jack said about him? He still wanted to know how well and in fact how Xander knew his old friend.

"If he keeps my picture in a locket, it would be a little strange if I didn't," Dith said, feeling mildly surprised as how even his tones were. "The question is how do you know him? When did you last see him? How is he?..." He might be able to find him. Suddenly the contest was the most boring torturous thing in the entire world, all he wanted to do was drag Xander off into a corner and get information out of him... Patience. There would be time afterwards; after so long hearing nothing at all he could wait an hour or however long this thing took to properly quiz him, for now he'd just ask questions as and when he could whilst trying not to interrupt the acts... He didn't want to wait, he really didn't.

Viktor frowned. Oh.> That explained a lot. An awful lot. the Espeon explained, Was it possible? It seemed like quite a coincidence, but that didn't make it impossible. Perking up his ears the psychic type joined his trainer in very close scrutiny of Xander.

Len burst into applause come the blond's end. Possibly the only applause that would linger from her fingertips that entire mission. Sad but true- but only to the extent she wanted to give a lovely hello to the girlie some time that day.

[Callista] [Dith] [Xander]

"Right, right! Calli-chan," Nakura repeated, suppressing his giggles as he noticed her restraint. She wasn't the first girl who had wanted to hit him, after all, and he recognized the signs. Frankly, he was impressed, considering one of the other Rocket girls had gone so far as to slap him in the rec room.

They were in public now, though, so it was important to keep up appearances. But who said that meant he couldn't have a little fun? "You look...a lot bigger than I remember from your pictures," he murmured, smiling. "And a lot pinker, too. Maybe I just need to adjust my computer monitor settings...get a bigger screen..."

During this playful teasing, he had spotted Dith among the crowd and was heading over slowly but surely. The giant seemed to be distracted with - "Oh, what's this?" he laughed. "Our buddy Xander..."

"Spirrrritoomb," Celty murmured quietly, looking at Eden with a tiny, lost smile. She had no idea what her crazy trainer was doing. They were already getting yelled at by the Elite Agent. She had heard it even without wearing Izaya's ear piece.

"Oi, Dith! Over here!" Nakura called, waving as they neared them, only seats away. "Кто твой друг? Он вроде симпатичный."

{Dith} {Izaya} {Callista}

"True enough. he isn't one to keep pictures like that for no reason, let along have it as an important possession." Xander said with a smile and a shrug. "Oh I met him while in the forest a few months ago and we realized we worked together." Vague enough to work for now anyway, no way he was going to tell Dith what work it was. "He was fine, happy and healthy earlier this morning." He really needed to get away from Dith though and do his job. With his not very revealing answers the tall man would no doubt find him later if he didn't find him first.

Conrad asked and wagged his tail. He looked from Xander to Dith with a searching look.

Xander's eyes snapped over to look at the arriving two. Izaya knew Dith too? And what was he doing with Callista that made her look so annoyed? And why couldn't he speak English!

(( OOC: Well guys its time to quit for tonight! Tomorrow we'll have the last appeal and the exciting conclusion of the raid! Again you can continue to RP amongst yourselves if you wish. XD There will just not be any further plot progress until tomorrow. ))