Opening Contest [Z] [Maya] [Zandrophin] [Akane]

Eira couldn't help but to smile at the performance Zandrophin had done with his adorable Squirtle. It had been much better for her to see such a sweet little Water type put on a show on stage than to see Zandrophin perform once more with Mentus. Something about Psychic types had always bothered her and she was grateful that Zandrophin had decided to go ahead and use his Squirtle instead. She cleared her throat as she stood to address Zandrophin and Squirt once their performance was complete. "I was not expecting to get so many wonderful gifts today. First the beautiful chandelier and now a Lapras sculpture that fits right in with these halls. I believe I speak for all of Silvertree when I say that we have been honored greatly by the performances we have seen today. Zandrophin, the way you showed off the beauty and skill of your Squirtle was magnificent and was just was I was looking for. I would have never thought to use Iron Tail to carve a statue out of a frozen Surf attack, so I must admit that your performance was quite unique. A very high score indeed in my book."

Eira then turned towards the entrance of the stage so she could address all of the contestants. "I will now give out your individual scores for the first round if you will all join Zandrophin on stage."

Eira waited patiently for the contestants to begin coming onto the stage before she announce the scores one by one of each of them. "Zandrophin, your use of water and ice type moves to give additions to my contest hall simply amazed me. I could not help but to appreciate you little Squirtle's skills throughout your entire performance. For your beautiful performance, your current standing is second place with 17 points."

Eira paused before she turned to address Z with a small frown. "While Sparky's performance was not bad, it wasn't spectacular either. I had wished for a bit more that just two moves in this first round since I gave you free reign to use moves. I am sorry to say that your current standing for you short, but promising performance is last place with only 4 points."

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Zandrophin's score broken down



Z's score broken down

Z frowned at his score, but he had expected that it would be like that after the poor act that he had made.  He wished he didn't have had to worry about damaging the arena, but he didn't want to lose points over that and cause Eira to have more work to do, but that backfired on him in the end and he ended up with the lowest score.  He promised himself that he would do better in the battle round, and show off the true power of his teammates in the arena.  That was what he set out on his journey for anyway.  He wanted to battle.

Maya blinked at the words and the score. It took a moment for her brain to catch up and reboot until Bo, bumped her head against her leg with a bleat.

"W-wait, me?" She asked, pointing at herself, wondering if there was another Maya that won behind her. "I got first place?" She looked at the other contestants, looked down at Bo, looked back at Eira and gaped. "T-thank you!" She said, not knowing what else to say, and bowing. Her legs shook as she stood on the stage but she tried to brace herself. She wanted to hurry off the stage as quickly as possible. "Thank you very much!"

Eira smiled and actually laughed at Maya's reaction to her score. "No, thank you for that amazing performance. I look forward to seeing what you do in the battle round, to what all of you will do in the battle round so that you can get first place. Before that, Lady Akane, you still need your score. While I am not a large fan of Fire types, you managed to show off the power and beauty of your Houndoom quite well. I was impressed, even when you melted my stage, and truly believed that you would have the highest score for this round. Sadly, you are currently in third place with a score of 13."

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Akane's score broken down:

Akane had been waiting for this. She was ready to strike fear into the hearts of Eira’s people, to make them fully respect Celosia’s power. Her true purpose would be served with that and learning all she can about Silvertree and any other northern settlements. However, she was disappointed with her score. The judge only spoke of Akane combining one move when she combined three, and made no comment on her fellow competitor’s Z’s sparkling performance like she raved over Maya’s. She too, was highly disappointed in his act. Akane made brief eye-contact with Maya and glared towards her for a moment.

"Now that everyone has their preliminary scores, let's move along to the battle round. For this round, you may switch to another Pokemon if you wish, though you still must show off the beauty of your Pokemon. In this battle, it is not so important to knock out your opponent, so much as it is important to show off the moves and abilities your Pokemon has," Eira explained as she pulled out on of her Dive balls and threw it towards the stage. Spheal popped out, still snoozing from his nap earlier which worried Eira a bit since he did not normally sleep this much in a day. "S-Spheal, wake up so you can help me determine who will be battling each other."

Spheal slowly began to wake up before his eyes shot open wide and he began to glow brightly. Eira was shocked as her little partner began to gradually grow in size and change shape until the glow dissipated and showed that he had turned into a Sealeo. Sealeo looked down at himself for a moment before he cheered and clapped his chest in happiness, showing that he was still the same as he always had been.

"Sph-, no, Sealeo," Eira murmured, grinning wildly at her newly evolved partner before she turned to continue on to pick who would be battling who. "Since I can't do my original idea of how to determine battle slots, I will just pick who will battle who. I believe it would be interesting to see a battle between Lady Akane and Maya, so let us go with ladies first once more."