Third Training Day

Today Dawn wanted to do some training with her Pokemon, including Smoochum and Buizel. But before any training could be done a Glameow and Misdreavus appeared out of nowhere.

"Hey, that's Zoey's Glameow and Misdreavus." Ash said.

Glameow and Misdreavus were worried about something.

"If that is Zoey's Glameow and Misdreavus." Dawn said. "Then she must be nearby."

Just then Glameow and Misdreavus took off.

"We better follow them." Ash said.

The others agreed with him.

The gang followed the two Pokemon to a big rock, and there was Zoey holding her right foot in pain.

"Zoey, what happened?" Dawn asked.

She explained that she was doing some training, then slipped and hurt her foot. Brock got out his medical supplies and tended to her injury immediately. Her foot wasn't broken, but it was badly sprained and swollen.

"My camp's nearby." Zoey said.

The gang helped her back to her camp.

Once they got to the camp Zoey introduced her new Pokemon called Shellos. Shellos was a pink, yellow and white Pokemon.

"I caught it in the same river you caught your Shellos in Dawn." Zoey said.

Dawn looked at Shellos on her Pokedex.

"Shellos, the Sea Slug Pokemon. It's color and shapes differ from region to region. In the Sinnoh Region, two types are confirmed."

"Nice Pokemon." Ash said.

"How's your Buizel?" Zoey asked Dawn.

Dawn released her Buizel to see Zoey again. Buizel stared at Shellos, but Shellos was scared around strangers. Piplup came in to make Buizel behave, but then the two water type Pokemon began to argue again.

"Stop that right now!" Dawn shouted.

Zoey could see that Dawn and Buizel still hadn't fully bonded yet.

"You'll never compete in a double performance acting like that." She said.

Zoey explained that in the Hearthome contest the coordinators had to do double performances. This meant they had to perform with two Pokemon instead of one. Zoey also explained that they would also do this at the Sinnoh Grand Festival too.

"Wow." Ash said. "We did double battles in the Hoenn and Kanto grand festivals. But we never did double performances. Mind you I did see someone do a double performance once on TV."

"Oh, so do you know what you have to do Ash?" Zoey asked.

"All I know is that double performances are trickier than normal performances; you have to make sure both the Pokemon and the moves they use are in balance." Ash said.

"That's true you do." Zoey said. "You also have to be careful with what order the moves come in like one at a time or both together, and you have to think about what pose they will do after performing and what capsule seals to use."

Ash and Dawn could see that there was a lot of work in double performances. He used the Pokedex to get his Beautifly and Dustox from Prof. Oak and then called them out.

"Okay Ash, show me what your Beautifly and Dustox are capable of." Zoey said.

Ash told Beautifly to use Silver Wind and Dustox to use Ominous Wind. It created a small silvery and purple tornado. Then Beautifly used Morning Sun and Dustox used Moonlight which made them glow and to finish it they landed on Ash's hat and shoulder.

"How was that Zoey?" Ash asked.

"That was good for your first try." Zoey said.