The smell of candyfloss... the sound of fireworks... the beauty of New Bark's rare flowers... the aura of a festival...

*This must be the Sinnoh festival that took place in New Bark town.*

"Le's play a game of ca'ture the flag," young Adriana declared, wearing her new blue mask.

"The eevee sisters and Aqua are team one. Benny, Ethan and Buddy, team two. Me, Lucky and Mini Rowan are team three, aka the winners," stated her mysterious friend, who was wearing the matching red mask.

***

"The noise came from that direction," the friend declared.

"Pause, we jus' came from tha' direc'ion," Adriana said before turning her friend 180 degrees, "replay."

"That direction," the friend repeated pointing at the correct direction.

*160 minutes later, deep in the same forest*

"When will you admi' tha' we are los'?" Adriana asked.

"Of course we're not lost! I know exactly where we are," her friend declared.

"Where ar' we then?"

"Johto? We've only been walking for four minutes..." her friend answered whilst looking at her watch.

"You mean a hundrud and sixty-four minutes."

"What's the difference?"

"Tu hours and forty minutes," Adriana said bluntly. "At least your cuteness make up for your lack of intelligence..."

"Aww. You think I'm cute."

"Yes, tha' is all you need to understand... You said the noise came from tha' way?"

*10 minutes later*

"What is tha' light? Is it an ..." Adriana started.

"...egg hatching!" her friend interrupted.

They hurried towards the source of the light, located at the edge of the cliff. There, on a rock jutting from the cliff, was a nest with two baby shiny meloettas.

"Do not do anythin' reck...less," Adriana said, realising her friend had already started climbing down towards the nest.

"Here, take the meloettas. See, it was completely safe," her friend said.

Suddenly, the rock underneath her friend's foot gave way. "Lucky do you know how to use vine whip?" Lucky just looked at the ground.

"Lucky, go look for help," Adriana told Lucky. 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...