Azul's past part 7

      He looked at the winner of all the contests where Azul's performance had been ruined. There was a glaceon, espeon, buneary, roselia, flareon and geodude, or at least in the one's where it had definitely not been Azul's fault, Lucas knew he couldn't bet they where all intentional. Accidents happen.
     He sipped his tea again, what was he missing then? He looked though the files for the hundredth time. Getting up he realized what he had not looked at, he picked up some files, taking a look at the contests and there hosts, all the same, all invitation only, it couldn't be a coincidence.
     Putting the files in his bag he set out towards the given address of the host of this contests. After a few hours of walking he found himself in a small village, he walked though it peacefully, there where pokemon our chatting some children playing, not many shops, but then, considering the village size it was probably a bit small for a shop to do well in.

     After another twenty minutes of trying to find a street with a name on it he gave in, asking for direction from a shellos, he found his way in no time, reaching a big mansion, Lucas sighed, how did he not notice this before? He must have been really zoomed out.
     He knocked on the door. Looking up at the house, it had many windows, flower pots on all of them, the garden as well was fill of beautiful colorful flower, must have a really good gardener, Lucas guessed.
    The house itself was painted light yellow, quite boring, the flowers climbed up the sides, a fairy tale like castle, Lucas shrugged. The big door opened, standing there, was the host to the contests.
     He was an infernape, he wore a cape, a red one that matched his flames, his eyes where big and red, also matching his flames, he had a few scars showing that in a past he had fought in fights.
     "Hello, may I help you?" he asked looking at Lucas top to bottom.
     "Yes, my name is Lucas, my girlfriend was injured in one of you shows, and you see, we found out that many other performances where ruined on purpose, I found it quite curious they where all one's you'd hosted, especially since they where invitation only, most people don't invite the same contestant that failed again and again and again" Lucas said, obvious suspicion in his voice.
     "Are you accusing me of being the culprit for this crime?" the man asked looking disgusted at Lucas.
     "Not necessarily, but I would appreciate it if you would let me ask you some questions" Lucas said. The infernape growled.
     "If I refuse?" he asked.
     "It will looked suspicious" Lucas said.
     "Fine, come in" the infernape said, opening the door wide, Lucas stepped inside. The infernape then led Lucas towards a big living room, the infernape sat down on a seat and signaled to the sofa for Lucas, who sat down quickly deciding on what questions to ask.
     "So, this girlfriend, I'm guessing she's Azul?" The infernape asked, Lucas nodded "yes, she is talented" infernape said nodding his approval "anyway go on ahead"  he said.
     "First of all, why would you keep choosing her when she kept failing" Lucas asked raising an eyebrow.
     "I already said, she was talented, I fought she may just ave stage fright, I didn't think it was intentional until the recent attack, I was always impressed by what she did do, and I hoped she would finish her performance eventually" he answered.
      Lucas looked at the infernape in the eyes, if he was lying, he was very good at it, he shrugged "so, was there anyone else you invited to all of them, who could have done this?" Lucas asked.
     The infernape shook his head "I don't like watching the same performance twice" he said.
     "Any worker who may have tried something?" Lucas asked.
     "There all reliable and trustworthy, they have never caused trouble before"
     "Audience?"
     "I don't control does who come in and out"
     "But you'd notice if a pokemon came in to ever performance?"
     "Lots of pokemon come to all my contests"
     "I see..." Lucas said, and at this he got up "thank you for you time, sir, I got a lot of useful detail from you" he said.
     The infernape nodded and led Lucas to the door, politely the two said goodbye and Lucas began his long walk home, working the new detail into his mind as he walked, he got home before he knew it, deciding to visit Azul before going home he headed to the hospital.

     Entering the main hospital, there was very few people in the waiting area, most of which where asleep. Probably waiting for the results from a test, Lucas headed towards the stairs, walking up slowly, on the second floor he paused for a second and smiled up at the sky, cloudless, starry, sky, as pretty as Azul's eyes, he fought to himself, then laughed, of course he fought of something like this when Azul was not there to be complimented. Not that it was a very original compliment anyway.
     Suddenly, Lucas was shoved against the wall, he turned around and was about to shout at the person who had done it to him but then he saw it was Bat the dark colored gardevoir, Lucas sighed.
     Bat was probably going to try and save someone's life, he couldn't tell her of for shoving him, he began to climb the rest of the stairs heading towards Azul's room, but before he reached the end of the hallway, something drew his attention...