"Petilil! Energy Ball!" Petilil happily obeys, and my hand magically summons a star-shaped wand. 

  "Meowstic!" Meowstic, in a small crown and a Gothic Lolita dress, lifts me up high into the night sky. I twirl and hit Petilil's Energy Ball, which bursts into huge, shimmering glitter, enough to give the stars a run for their money.

  "Frogadier, use Hydro Pump!"

  Suddenly Clara's voice breaks through my focus, sending me into a spiral of confusion. She sounds so close, too!

  "Clara, you're not taking the stage with us!"

  Meowstic drops me, and I look up to see that she's disappeared before I hit the ground.

"Meowstic?"

  "Quilladin, Seed Bomb!"

  "You brats!!"

  What's going on? As if out of nowhere, everything hits me, my heart beating so fast it feels as if it's bound to explode from my chest.

  Petilil hops over to me, frantically bumping her head into my face. "Stop that..."

  So then it's only a dream? I groggily lift my head, my mind trying to hold itself together. The first thing I see is Petilil trying to wake me up, her red eyes panicked.

  "Meowstic, use Psyshock!!" I hear Clara's voice nearby, ordering Meowstic to use a move I wasn't aware she even knew.

  I brush my hair out of my face, my eyes still blurry with the remnants of sleep. Petilil looks as if we're under attack, and my heart drops. That just might be the case.

  I wiggle out of my sleeping bag, my bare feet touching the grass as I struggle to act quickly. There's no time for me to brush my hair or to try to settle it down with my usual ribbons.

  "Let's go, Petilil!"

  "Lil!" Petilil hops like she's on fire, and so I follow her, flinching as twigs I step on dig into my feet.

  "Houndoom, Flamethrower!"H-Houndoom? 

  Just as Clyde comes into view, my worst fears are confirmed. Team Flare.

  Clyde doesn't get notice me, all his attention on the enemy's Slurpuff.

   " Let's see if you can take two!"One of the Team Flare Grunts sends out his Zubat, leaving Clyde at a number disadvantage.

  I'm about to call out to him, but Petilil hops away in the opposite direction. "Petilil?" I chase after her."What are you doing?"

  "Frogadier, Water Pulse! Meowstic, Charge Beam!" Clara's voice gets closer and closer, and then I finally find her.

 Her hair is out and messy, and she's in her sleeping attire, a mere black tank top and shorts. "So we were ambushed?!"

  Clara's up against two Houndoom and a Luxray. One of them looks different than the other, and I assume it's Mega Evolution. But that's-

  "Lil!" Petilil jumps in to join the fray, sending an Energy Ball at Luxray. But the fierce blue and black Pokemon is over five times her size, and swings its head at her, sending her slamming into a tree.

  "Petilil!" I hurry to her side to find her too weak to battle.

  "Lil...." Why does this always happen? Whenever Meowstic is in battle, it's so easy for her to be able to hiide herself, but I can't even help Petilil fight. 

  "Why......." Why am I so weak?!

  "Petilil..."

  "We can't do anymore, Petilil. Let's hurry back to camp to heal you." I bite back the tears stinging my eyes as I hold her in my arms. "Flamethrower!"

  "What?" I turn just as Houndoom's blast of fire comes into view, headed straight for me. Everything is moving too fast! My heart is thudding  in my chest so much it's almost painful, and it feels like it'll stop beating altogether any second!

  "Lil!!" Petilil jumps out from my grasp, taking the attack all by herself.

  "Petilil?" My heart floods with terror as she slowly lands, not moving a single centimeter as she reaches the ground with a tiny thud. "Petilil?" She doesn't even respond.

  Clara looks over, her eyes wide with horror as she notices Petilil's unmoving body. Her expression shifts to pure fury as she looks back at the enemy."You heartless thugs!!"

  I stand staring down at my Pokemon as Clara proceeds to give it all she's got. "Petilil?" I gasp, but there's no answer. Please answer, Petilil. I need you. I'm too weak to do anything on my own.

  "Meow?" Meowstic walks over, her eyes full of shock when she sees Petilil."Meow?!"

  Unable to hold my tears in, I run past her, right into the middle of the fight. "You big bully!!" Whenever I'm distraught, my vocabulary reverts back to its child-like ways. It's not the mkst dignifying thing in the world, but it can't be helped. I push the huge Houndoom, my sight blurred with anger and despair.

  The Houndoom, taken aback, flinches, and I throw myself at its trainer, knocking her off her feet."How dare you?!???!?!"I can't get the words out properly; it's too painful. All I can do is hit and hit and hit until my hands hurt, until everything hurts.

  "Millie!!"

  "Meowstic!" Meowstic forces me off of her, and my breathing is deducted to short, heavy gasps. "Meowstic!" She takes a paw and slaps me in the face, tears pouring out from her yellow eyes at the sight of her trainer losing herself.

  "Our job is to eliminate all that threaten Team Flare's prime objective." The woman I hit has the nerve to spout her nonsense."What could you have hoped to even accomplish with such a weakling?"

  I fix her with an unwavering glare, full of rage and sorrow at the same time. I've never felt this way, so angry and distraught, but I'm not willing to hold myself back. Not after what this woman did to Petilil!

"Meowstic!!" Meowstic leaps at her, smacking her face with her paws, although I detect the mercy within her through her sheathed claws.

  "Lil?" Petilil? I spin around at my best friend's voice, my heart stopping for a beat. Petilil is up and moving,but left with just barely enough energy to stay up. My heart restarts, and both me and Meowstic ditch the woman to run towards Petilil.

  "Lil!!"

  I throw my arms around her."I thought... You were..."

  "Mrow!!"

  I hear Clara let out her biggest sigh of relief yet."Thank Mew! I was about to kill someone."

  "Meowstic!" Meowstic jumps forward, her immensely Psychic power lifting the enemy Pokemon and their trainers high into the night sky, sort of like in my dream. With only a bit of effort, she throws them far away, too far for me to even hear them.

  "What was that?!" I hear Clyde's opponents nearby.

 "It's time to retreat!"

  "Thank goodness!"

  "Meowstic." Meowstic brushes her fur, which for some reason is predominantly blue with white spots.

  "Hm?"

  "Geosenge Town!" I hear one of the grunts say.

  What? "Are you two okay?" A Chesnaught appear, its voice just like Clyde's.

  I hold my head in confusion. "Don't tell me that...."

 "Millie!" I open my eyes again to Clara, fully dressed, waving a hand in my face.

  "What? But Team Flare!"

  "What about them?"

  "They were here...."

  Clara stands up, staring at me quizzically. She looks around the room we're in, which is light with the afternoon sun."In the Pokemon Center?"

  "We've been waiting a while for you to get up," Clyde adds, feeding our Pokemon. "We're supposed to be going to Anistar City like you said, right?"

  "I-I guess." I notice Petilil eating happily with Meowstic. Was that really a dream? Something feels off.

  "I can't wait to see Olympia!" Clara exclaims, falling back onto my bed. 

  I yawn."O-lympia?"

  "She's the Gym Leader of Anistar City," Clyde explains with a stretch."It's a Psychic Gym."

  "I really want to talk to her! And luckily, since the next Showcase is there, there's no problem in going!" Clara seems happy at the thought of seeing Olympia, but I have no idea why. "I've been having some creepy dreams about some stuff."

  "What stuff?" Like, the stuff in my own dreams?

  "Hometown stuff."

  "Your hometown?" Why is she being so indirect? Clara, of all people, is the kind to blab out information you didn't want to hear.

  "Well, now that you're up, let's get a move on!" Without answering my question, Clara springs up, as if nothing is wrong.

  "Maybe I shouldn't ask?" I'm left thinking about my own dreams, and this Olympia woman comes to mind. A Psychic Gym, so maybe she herself has those powers.

  "Lil!" Petilil hops up and down beside my bed, full of energy and good health.

  "Mrow!" Meowstic cuddles up to my side affectionately, no evidence of the torn Meowstic from my dream in her.

  "Let's go, then!"

                       Chapter 12..... End? :|