"Lucky, go look for help," Adriana told Lucky (a chikorita at this moment.) Lucky used quick attack until she was out of site. "Don't let go of my hand," Adriana told her friend. She started feeling her friend's hand slipping thanks to the sweat in her hand. Suddenly a blurry figure took hold of her friend and pulled her out of Adriana's hand. An absol... Adriana sprang down a slope that led to where absol and her friend were. "Absol get away from my friend now," Adriana said nervously. As absol left, Adriana approached her unconscious friend. Adriana shook her and pleaded for her friend to awake...KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

Adriana was woken up by Amy knocking on the door. Adriana sighed in relief after realizing it all had just been another of her numerous nightmares. "Wakey! Wakey! Snorlax. Do you need me to bring the pokéflute?" Amy joked. Amy then enters the room and asks enthusiastically, "are you ready to take care of pokémon for FREE?"

"Yes!" Adriana says with the same enthusiasm.

"Great!"

As Buddy gives Adriana a weird look, Adriana asks, "wait...What did I agree to?"

Amy just laughs and answers, "you'll see..."

*Half an hour after preparations...*

As Amy was relaxing whilst Adriana was feeding the eevees. Buddy ate together with them. "This all reminds me to my time as a lab assistant," Adriana comments cheerfully.

"You were a lab assistant?" Amy asks.

"Yep, back at home I was gramps assistant," Adriana declares proudly.

"Gramps?" Amy asks confused.

"Em...Professor Rowen..." Adriana answers shyly.

"Is he similar to Professor Elm?"

"Only on the Professor part."

"You are so lucky then."

"Why? I thought you said he was amazing." To this they both laughed in unison.

"By the way, have you signed up for the pokémon contest?" Amy asks. "There's a deadline to do so," she continues, "and it's in less than five minutes."

"LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES! I'LL BE RIGHT BACK!" Adriana says in a panic and runs to the nearest pokémon centre.

"Be careful getting to the pokémon centre!" Amy shouts while Adriana is leaving.

*Four minutes later...*

Adriana makes it to the pokémon centre with no scratches and one minute to spare. She sprang to the desk to register for the pokémon contest, Buddy in front of her holding her coordinator ID. She didn't look at her footing and tumbled over Buddy. Luckily Buddy landed on the registration desk together with the coordinator ID, unfortunately for Adriana, she crashed against the desk. "Are you here to register for the pokémon contest? I'm sorry to tell you that you are a minute late," Nurse Joy says whilst Adriana gets up.

"How long did it take me to tumble and get up?" Adriana wonders. "Isn't there any way I could join the pokémon contest?"

"I'm sorry but I can't register anyone after the deadline," Nurse Joy responds.

"It's my fault that she's late, she was helping me out at the day-care. Would you mind doing me the favour of letting her participate, please?" someone says from behind Adriana. Adriana turns around to come face to face with Amy.

"Fine Amy, but this is your last chance," Nurse Joy responds.

"Last chance?" Adriana asks.

"Don't ask, what's important is that you're able to participate in the

pokémon contest," Amy answers. "Just don't tell my parents about this, please," Amy tells Nurse Joy.