Starfort town.

Eira wiped away sweat from her face as she entered town. She was not used to this much heat, being so far south in comparison to her freezing home. Eira looked around the small town, trying to find a place to sit after her long journey to reach it while also trying to find her young friend who now lived there. She wondered if she should bring out her new Walrein to help find him, but knew she shouldn't because he would be miserable in this heat with all of his fat. Eira sighed as she continued to wander around, wondering if she would find Z quickly.

"Ah, yes I am actually. I'm looking for a young boy named Z, would you happen to know him?" Eira said softly, trying to smile at the woman that had approached her though she was far too tired to even want to be dealing with people that she didn't know. How could people travel around like this all of the time? It made no sense to her that people actually enjoyed this feeling of not knowing where they were going or if they would make it to the place they wanted.

"Thank you very much, m'am, you've been a lot more helpful than I expected," Eira said shyly, taking the bottle from the woman. It felt cool in her hand and it made Eira wonder just how more clothing she could loose and remain decent, especially since she wanted to give the water to her Pokemon. "That's all I need for right now, but thank you again for being so nice."

Eira headed for the center of town, hoping to cool off quickly and find Z.

Eira slowly made her way through town, not wanting to move in the heat but knowing that she had to reach her destination if her Pokemon were to be of any use. When she finally made it to the center of town, she nearly collapsed near the entrance where Z was sitting. She smiled weakly at him as she slumped against the wall of the gym. "P-Please tell me you have a pool or something."

Eira followed Z into the gym and gave a sigh of relief when she was met with a blast of cold air from the powerful air conditioner. Taking the glass of water from Scorpio, she couldn't help but to wonder when Z got the new Pokemon or if he had had the Poison type all along and hadn't shown anyone yet. "Can I get some more water for my Pokemon? Especially Shimmer and Walrein."

Eira released her Walrein, Shimmer, Grace, and Meta so they could all get some water from the other Pokemon. Meta gave off a high pitched giggle before transforming into a male Blaziken, snatching up water to gulp down speedily. Grace was a bit more clumsy with trying to drink some water, unable to hold the bottle up with her fake egg in the way. Shimmer used its Psychic in order to lift several bottles up and dump them onto itself in order to cool off with Walrein moving to Eira's side immediately.

"I'm happy to see you too," Eira said, smiling at the two in greeting. "Would it be alright if I challenged you for a badge? That is, after my Pokemon rest up from the journey here."

"I could too if I'm going to participate in any more contests," Eira admitted with a small laugh as she sat with Z not too far away from her Pokemon just in case one of them wanted her for something. She did have Meta now and the little Ditto could be quite attached to her while her baby Grace was still young and needed her for a lot of things.

*I haven't been a ball for a while, Fraxure,* Walrein said to his now smaller friend as Meta climbed onto his back, now back to its original form. *This is Meta. We met on the trip down here. Meta is in a way like Sparky is to your Z towards my Eira.*