Please read before starting story: I kinda changed it so that May had won the ribbon cup in the Kanto Region, it works out better for my story.
Chapt1
May took a deep breathe as she walked on. She was almost near the pokemon center, but she was just not in the mood for walking. 'Man it was a lot more fun when I had other people to travel with me.' Kim sighed. She had been traveling the Johto Region for almost a year now, by herself. Max had decided to stay in Hoen and start his own journey ever since he got a Treecko as a started pokemon. May had done pretty good for herself, she had collected 5 ribbons in Johto and was now going to enter the Johto Grand Festival.
She had already won one ribbon cup, last year at the Kanto Festival. 'I wonder if he made it…duh! Of course he made it, but…ug!! Damn it! Why do I always end up thinking about him. No May! Think about the Grand Festival. Like the pokemon you're gonna use, and the attacks, and everything. And your rivals like Harley, and…him…' May mentally smacked herself for being so pathetic. She couldn't help thinking about him. The one who always made her stomach do summersaults. The one that made have butterflies and the one who made her breathing shallow. The one who made her stumble on her own words.
The person whom she knew, she was madly in love with. 'I should just forget about him, I'm in a one sided love. He'd never feel that way about me. I mean, he has all his little fan girls…and they're so much prettier than me.' May sighed a sad and defeated sigh as she walked up to the Pokemon Center. 'He only sees me as a rival, a friend at the most. He'll never return my feelings.' May thought as she walked up to the counter.
Seeing Nurse Joy's happy face made May a bit better, but it still didn't take away the hurt that May felt inside. "Could you check my pokemon for me Nurse Joy?" May asked, bringing up her pokeballs. "Why of course!" Nurse Joy chirped happily as she took the pokeballs. "Thanks…" May said in a barley audible voice.
She then went over and sat in a chair near the window and looked out. Across she could see the stadium where the contests would be taking place. It was so large, and beautiful. It had no roof, so it was perfect for all types of appeals and battling. A really good coordinator would be able to take advantage of it and create a good appeal.
May was suddenly brought back from her reality when Nurse Joy called her name. "Here you are, your pokemon are all in great condition." She said happily handing back the pokeballs to May. Suddenly a hoard of coordinators came rushing in with their pokemon and pokeballs in hand. Nurse Joy sighed.
"It's gonna be a busy couple of days. All the coordinators will be wanting their pokemon in top condition for the contest." She said as the crowd came rushing at Nurse Joy. And May was pushed away from her position. But she didn't really care, and so the sad May walked outside. May walked until she got to the park, she wasn't the least bit surprised to see all the trainers and pokemon. She found a secluded place and released all her pokemon. "Let's go you guys!" May called out as she threw the pokeballs.
Her Blaziken, Squirtle, Espeon, Bayleef, Golduck, Haunter all came out and greeted her happily. May started to train them, but to no avail, and so finally deciding to quite for the day after 10 minutes she sat down on the bench. "Espeon!" her Espeon nudged her as she came over worriedly, followed by the rest of May's pokemon.
"I just have something on my mind you guys, that's all." May said smiling weakly to them. "How about this, I'll go get something to eat, then we'll come back and we'll train?" May asked her pokemon, who more than willingly agreed to the plan.
"Ok, everyone return!" she said, calling back her pokemon. But for some reason Espeon would not go back, and so she let the pokemon stay out with her. her and her Espeon had spent a lot of time together talking, especially since it evolved from an Evee to an Espeon. 'I know I could talk to Blaziken about anything, but for some reason, it's easier to talk to Espeon about certain things, she's like my best girlfriend, when none of them are around.'May thought as she and her pokemon walked side by side.
May finally reached a restaurant and decided to stop there. She ordered food for herself and for Espeon and went to sit in one of the outside seats. "Everywhere is so busy because of the Grand Festival." Kim said to Espeon as she looked down form her food to the purple pokemon beside her. Espeon looked up from it's food to nod only her head before going back to what was in her plate.
"I should've figured that eating comes first to you May." Said a teasing voice from in front of May. She looked up and a tiny blush crept up her fair skin. "Dwref" she said with a mouthful. Drew raised one of his eyebrows and gave her a cute little smirk. May swallowed hard and tried again, "Drew!" she said surprised.
"What, you weren't expecting me here? I'm insulted May, I mean come on, if you could've made it this far, then what makes you think I couldn't?" Drew said teasing her even more, and then flicked his hair. May's heart beat quickened, she couldn't help it. 'Damn, he looks so hot when he does that.' she thought to herself.
Espeon looked up as an Umbreon came out from behind Drew. "Oh hey Umbreon!" May greeted the pokemon happily. "Bri!" it chimed as it greeted May and then went over to Espeon, who was blushing.
"And what do you mean that if I could make it here, that definitely means that you'd be here? Did you forget who won the Grand Festival Last year?" she asked teasing him.
"I didn't forget, but you do remember that the only reason you won was because of time?" he asked her.
"Well this time, I'll beat you so bad that you'll have injuries till next year from it!" May said trying to have a good comeback. "Lemme guess, that was one of your pathetic attempts at making up a good comeback?" he asked with that arrogant tone and smirk.
"Why you little!" Kim said between clenched teeth, and a clenched fist. She watched and sighed as Drew walked away. Espeon was watching Umbreon walk away as well, and it lowered it's head sadly as the image of Umbreon faded away.
"I don't get why he has to be a jerk to me all the time Espeon." May said to her pokemon as she got up, losing all her appetite. "Come on, I don't feel like eating anymore." May sighed as she got up and Espeon followed. "Espeon?" it said as it looked up to it's trainer, who just weakly smiled at her. "Don't worry about me. We have to train, so I'll just focus on the training and take my mind off him." May said as she looked straight ahead of her and kept walking. Espeon knew that May was lying to her because she wasn't looking her straight in the eye.
When they reached the park and the place they were in before, May released all her pokemon. She then made them pair up with each other and train like that. she went from each group to check on them and help them occasionally.
When the day was almost over, May gathered all her pokemon and returned them to their pokeballs. She then made the lonely trip back to the hotel where all the coordinators were staying. May had already registered the moment she had made it, and then went to the pokemon center, so she didn't have to worry about registering or anything. Which was good considering how tired she was. So May just walked to her room and sank into her bed.
'I'm wiped out.' May thought before she passed out on the bed, still in her usual clothes.
THE NEXT DAY…
'Huh…what happened?' May thought as everything was foggy in her head. So she got up and went to take a shower. As the warm water touched her soft skin May started to remember all the training she had done the other day. She also remembered all the things she had been thinking about the day before, which brought her mood down.
'Wait! What am I doing? I'm not gonna let some jerk ruin my life like this! I'm gonna get over him!' May said to herself as she left the shower and began to get ready. May knew deep inside that she had said this so many times and it never worked, but something inside her gave her hope that she would be able to make it through all this.
May got out and left the hotel. Today was the first day of competition and she didn't want to be late. May ran to the stadium just in time. The first day passed without any trouble, she had seen Harley there, and Drew. All three of them had made it to the second round without any trouble.
The next couple of days went by smoothly. Surprisingly enough Harley didn't even try to pull anything, and May occasionally chatted with Drew, leaving her heart broken even more everytime. They only talked about pokemon contests or just about other general things.
May had gotten to the second to last round of the competition. She was to face Harley and Drew was to face some other coordinator, the winners of the two match would face off and who ever won would gain the Ribbon Cup.
"Oh no! I'm going to be late!!" May screamed as she ran to the stadium. "I'm sorry but, I cannot let you go beyond this point." Said a man in a cloak.
"What are you talking about, I have a Grand Festival to win!" May screamed at the man. Although in the back of her mind, she was having some doubts, she had found out a few days ago that deep inside she really didn't want to compete anymore.
"Go! Mightyena!" the man said as he sent out a most ferocious Mightyena. "Mightyena use Shadow Ball!" the man ordered and it did as it was told. The attack just missed May, but the power of the attack sent May flying and soon she became unconscious. While back at the stadium the first rounds were going on.