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Mezame jogged into the pokémon centre and handed Nurse Joy her pokéball before she even said anything. "My Starly." She gasped trying to catch her breath. "It took quite a beating from a Staravia. Will you help it please? Nurse Joy?"

"Well of course I will" Nurse Joy said with that usual Nurse Joy smile. She took the pokéball from Mezame and put it on a tray that Chansey came and took away. "Do you need a room for tonight?" Nurse Joy asked when Mezame didn't leave.

"Oh. Uh, yes, yes please." Mezame was distracted with watching Starly fade from view as Chansey took the tray down a hallway. "I'm travelling with a friend too" She remembered to add. Nurse Joy nodded and handed her a room key. "Thank you."

"Your Starly should be fine. Come back in a little while and see how it's doing." Nurse Joy told her.

Mezame took a deep breath and sighed out her worries. "Thanks again Nurse Joy. I will."

Blaize perked up a little when she heard someone walk by her. She looked familiur, and smelt it too, but couldn't place it on it. She didn't feel threathened though and soon quickly followed into the pokemon center. She sat down right at the entrance by the door and looked around.

Blaize saw that Nurse Joy was busy with a trainer and probably a more seriously injured pokemon than herself. So should she go seek the help or just toughen up. She looked down at her left paw where it had hurt the most. More than likely she had sprained it when she had gotten hit by that flame wheel.

Blaize sat ther and waited for her turn. She said nothing which seemed rather odd for a pokemon not to say anything at all. Perhaps they'd just think her mute. There had been times she had tried to remove the collar she wore, but to no avial. It was made out of a heavy metal that was nearly impossible to destroy.

Exiting the centre by its back door, Amie came across an open area with the traditional battlefield layout. This would do nicely as it gave her enough room to practice. She placed her bag on the ground near a bench and pulled out Abra's pokeball, the ball capsules and the seals. The ball capsule was placed around the pokeball, giving it a purple and blue hue. With that done, Amie took a look at the seals she was given. There were three of them, a heart, bubble and a start seal each with their respective image on it. Bubbles could be better used on a water type, and either the heart or the star looked like it could work with her Abra. Quickly, she tried both of them with her Abra. At first she was surprised by them but she regained herself thinking of ways to use them to her advantage. She decided to go with the star seal since it went better with Abra's colors.

With that step taken care of, Amie focused on her next point. Since Abra was still out she wanted to take a good look at all of his moves one at a time. Hopefully she could think of some good combinations before tomorrow. Pulling out her pokedex, she doubled checked Abra's move set. Teleport, Hidden Power, and Flash. She had already seen Teleport earlier today, but would still try to put it in her performance.
"Ok Abra time to use Flash!" Amie told her pokemon. Abra responded with a quick and blinding flash. Amie blinked a couple of times, adjusting her eyes to the light but seeing the after effect of Abra glowing brightly was worth it. She just hoped that quick flash wouldn't affect the judges opinions too much. Her Abra was still glowing and she wondered how long the light would last.
Not wanting to waste time as the sun was setting, Amie told Abra to do his next and final attack, "Hidden power!" Abra still glowing, focused a little bit as black orbs, reflecting the dark type of the move, floated around Abra. "Can you see how long you can hold them?" She asked taking in the contrast of the light and the darkness of the moves. She thought it looked pretty nice but was surprised even more when she took look back from her Abra. Along the walls of the cliffs behind the centre and on the centre itself, the two attacks were creating shadows along them.
"Wow, they look just like ghosts..." Amie said dumfounded at what she came across. The orbs' shadows where cast everywhere along the walls as circular objects. "Can you see if you can manipulate the Hidden Power at all?" She asked hoping he could make them look a bit more like ghosts. Abra tried his hardest, getting the orbs to float around him causing the shadows to move too, but it was all too much as he lost control and his glow and orbs dissipated. He looked a bit tired out and Amie thought it would be a good time for a break.

Amie went over and picked up her Abra and brought him over to the bench where her stuff was at. Letting him sit on the bench with her, she went to grab a soda pop, but when she pulled one out of her bag, it looked like Abra had fallen asleep again. Smiling, she took a sip of the fizzy drink and thought that they could continue practice after she finished her drink.

Amie was just finishing up her drink when she noticed a small red pokemon walk over toward her from the pokemon centre. She saw it had a collar so she thought it might be some trainer's pokemon that was staying at the centre. There weren't any other people around too, so that was even stranger.
"Hello there." She greeted the pokemon. She hadn't seen this pokemon before so she slowly pulled out her pokedex, trying not to frighten the small pokemon.
"Growlithe, a Puppy Pokémon of pleasant demeanor and great diligence. It drives enemies away with barks and bites. " The pokedex said. She closed the pokedex and put it away once she got the information.
Taking a look at the Growlithe now, resting a little ways away from Amie, she thought that the pokemon looked like it was deep in thought.
"Did you come to watch us practice?" Amie asked the puppy pokemon. She didn't think she made that much of a scene to require an audience, but she wouldn't shoo anyone away.
Abra then seemed to wake up with a yawn. He gave one glance to the Growlithe that had joined the two for company, but he just said hello in another long drawn out yawn. He didn't much care, seeing how this wasn't one of his trainer's pokemon.
Amie notice that her pokemon was awake again and since she had finished her drink, it would be a good time for some more practice.
"Do you feel up for some more training?" She asked Abra, not wanting to push him too much remembering he had some trouble before. He just nodded and teleported back into the center of the area.
"You're welcome to watch if you want." She offered to the Growlithe. Then giving her attention back to Abra.
"Hidden Power and see if you can shape the orbs at all." She told her pokemon, letting him take the time needed to set up the attack. She decided against using flash while he was just practicing this attack so that he could have more focus on this. And so far it was looking good, he was able to make the little dark orbs wiggle around without destroying them. Hopefully that combined with the shadows would be enough for tomorrow.

Blaize stood there watching Amie, rather enjoying herself. One thing she always wanted to be was in a pokemon contest, but her moves weren't what you would call awing moves. Fighting thought, she could do and she knew how to do that well. She swished her tail a little as she continued to watch.

Blaize jerked a little when she heard someone else come in. It was that trainer from earlier. She twitched her ears a little as the Starly greeted her. The only thing she'd be able to do was give a smile and a wag of a tail to say hi in her own way. When that trainer spoke about what Abra was doing Blaize gave yet another nod.

So that trainer over there with the Abra was called Amie. It was nice to finally know her name, and she was sure she'd catch this other girls name soon to. When this trainer asked if growlithe was Amie's Blaize couldn't help but to shake her head with a slight bark which wasn't a bark at all. The bark was a word of, "No."

Mezame looked at Amie as she heard a "no" but didn't see Amie's mouth move. Amie looked at her as if it was Mezame who spoke. Mezame looked at the Growlithe in complete puzzlement. "You didn't say that? ... did you?" Mezame asked with doubt in her voice.

Starly woke up and cocked its head at the Growlithe. Starly had been asleep through the mysterious voice but it heard Mezame asking the Growlithe if it had said something. Starly thought she must be going crazy, Mezame knew pokémon didn't do human talk.

"Starly Star Star Starly?" Starly asked The Growlithe the exact same question as Mezame did.

Amie wondered why Mezame would accuse the Growlithe of being the mysterious voice. But she never heard of a pokemon knowing how to speak, save for a few that could just mimic. Amie looked over at the Growlithe, now seeming very distressed. She was about to snap at Mezame for thinking that the puppy pokemon could speak, but she was surprised when the Growlithe claimed that it was the one that spoke.

"How?" Was all Amie could say, clearly dumbstruck by what was going on. She waited for the pokemon to speak again, giving it time to explain its situation. The explanation for this had to be good, so she got comfy on the bench waiting to hear a good story.