Chapter 1: The art of Fire and Water
A crisp day starts in the summer time right near Mt. Silver, where the Grand Festival is going to be held. May hops out of bed and runs down the Pokemon Center stairs.
"Good Morning Nurse Joy! Are my Pokemon ready"
"They sure are! I'm sure you'll do great in the Grand Festival today!
"Thank you! All right gang come on out!"
"Blaziken, Croconaw, Sunflora, Ursaring, Glaceon, Beautifly!" They all called.
"Hmm, I see the little loser is taking out her Pokemon for a stroll!" says Harley
"Oh, Go Away. No one wants you here!" May screams
"Feisty aren't we! Well You'll be even more mad when I win the Grand Festival!"
"Oh That Harley!" says Solidad walking up.
"Yeah, what a joy…" says Drew.
"Are you ready May? Says both Drew and Solidad
"Very!"
"You have a phone call from Ash Ketchum!" says Nurse Joy
"Ash?"
"Hi may! Good to see ya! I just earned my 8th gym badge! I want to let you know we will be watching the Grand Festival on T.V.!
"Congrats on your badge! I'll do my best. Tell Dawn, Brock, Pikachu, and Piplup I said hi!"
All the coordinators head backstage and change into there attire.
"Welcome One in all to the Johto Grand Festival! Yells Kariean. "We came to scenic Mount Silver to see who will be crowned Top coordinator, and take the magnificent Ribbon Cup! Don't forget our judges. We have Mr. Contesta, Mr. Sukizo, three nurse joys, and a surprise guest Jasmine the Olivine city gym leader! Let's give her a big hand!" "Alright our performance stage will be a double performance. Since there are so many entrants we split the floor into three stages! On the Gold stage we Have Mr. Contesta and Blackthorn cities nurse joy! On the Silver stage we have Mr. Sukizo and Azalea town's nurse joy! And on the Crystal stage we have Jasmine and Mt. Silver's Nurse joy!"
Back in the waiting room may is nervous.
"It looks like it will be very hard this year!" says May
"Don't worry you'll do great. Let's meet in the finals!" says Drew
"Okay!"
"Sorry, to interrupt but im going to crush your promise before the finals! "Says Harley"
"Don't think I'm giving up either!" says Solidad!
"Wait where is Drew?"
Drew popped on the screen on the Silver stage
"Alright our first contestant is Drew from Lerousse city in Hoenn!
"Alright Espeon and pupitar come on out!"
A Burst of electricity comes from the ball seal!
"Use Sand storm pupitar!"
Sand flew everywhere
'Use Psycic Espeon and make a ring around you two with the sand!"
"Both of you safe guard!"
The sand blew against their glowing bodies!
"Remarkable!"
"That was just beautiful!"
Drew walks of stage and talks to May.
"That was Beautiful."
"Thanks!"
May and Drew watch the screen as Solidad, Harley, and many others do there appeals.
"May is Next" a crewman said in the waiting area.
"Wish me luck!"
May runs out on the crystal stage.
"Blaziken and Croconaw take the stage!"
A huge heart seal reveals her Pokemon!
"Croconaw super powered Waterfall! "
"Wow were being treated to a beautiful powerful waterfall attack!" Kariean yells'
"Alright Blaziken jump on top and surf down the waterfall using blaze kick! Croconaw surf upwards!"
"Wow it looks like there really Surfing and the blaze kick is making a thin layer of white smoke!" Kariean said.
"Now shadow claw Croconaw all over the water, Blaziken jump off the water!"
Croconaw splits the water spreading mini whirlpools all over the stage.
"Now Blaziken super fast Sky Uppercut on the whirlpools and Croconaw use Shadow claw on them!"
"Look at the grace of May's Pokemon! Incredible!"
"Finish this off! Croconaw aqua tail around Blaziken and Blaziken use fire spin around Croconaw!"
They both finish and take a bow.
"Wow that was beautiful. The way fire and water complimented each other and the Pokemon was Amazing" said Jasmine.
"The ball capsule was great too!" says Nurse Joy.
"That concludes our performance stage now the 250 anxious coordinators will be cut down to the Final 64!"
"Wow May you nailed it!" says Solidad
"Not bad!" says Drew
"Thanks you guys!"
"It won't matter honey because even if you make it to the next round you'll still lose!"
Says Harley
"Oh Shut up! I'm going to win it all!"
"Alright the judges have made their selections take a look at the screen!"
All the coordinators appeared!
"Look all four of us made it through" Solidad exclaims!
"We did it. Thank you Blaziken and Croconaw!"
"All right we will now split the final 64 in to 4 individual tournaments of 16." The Winner of each tournament will be in the semi finals!" says Kariean!
"Look at the screen again!"
"OH NO! IM AGAINST HARLEY IN THE FIRST ROUND OF MY TOURNAMENT!" yells May"
"Looks like your Grand Festival experience will be a short one!" Harley says smirking.
As the First day of competition ends, will May beat the tournament, Harley, and come out on top? Who will win the Ribbon Cup?"
