Chapter 4: A Contest Egg
After waking up, collecting our Pokemon, and having breakfast, Lucinda and I started to walk towards Jubilife City. It was a quick journey with no exciting events. I saw a few new Pokemon like Shinx, Buizel, Geodude and Kricketot, but none of them seeming appealing for me to catch, but I Did collect the Pokedex data for them. As we arrived in Jubilife city the first thing that hit us was the size and density of the buildings. It was like a metal labyrinth, the first thing that we headed for was the Pokemon Centre. As we entered, we could see a lot of people with their Pokemon. As I approached the front desk, I asked, "Nurse Joy, can I please have two rooms?"
"Two?"
"One for me, and one for her." I responded by pointing at Lucinda.
She chuckled at this before asking, "Anything else?"
"What are the places of interest around here?"
"Well, there's going to a contest at the Contest Hall tomorrow, there is the Poketch Company and just outside of the city there is a breeding centre." She listed.
"Lucinda, how about entering the Pokemon Contest with me?" I asked.
"No, I've been in a Pokemon contest before and it isn't my cup of tea, but you feel free to enter, I'll find something else to do." She responded.
"Alright, well I'll go enter and come back."
"No worries," she said.
And with that, I left the Pokemon Centre. Luckily, the Contest Hall stood out like a sore thumb. As soon as I enter the automatic glass doors it became apparent where I should register. As I arrived at the registration desk, the cheery attendant asked,"Hello, will you be entering the Pokemon Contest tomorrow?"
"Yes, but this is my first Pokemon Contest" I answered.
"In that case, I'll need your Pokedex."
"Oh, of course," I said as I handed my Pokedex.
"Alright, Matt from Four Island, Current Pokemon; Totodile, Trapinch and Ralts. Ok all done, you're registered and here is your contest entry pass along with a ball capsule and some seals. Do you know the rules of a Pokemon Contest?"
"Yes, I have particapted in a couple unofficial contests on Four island. Are they any extra rules from the Kanto contest rules?"
"Yes, First of all, coordinators in the Sinnoh region generally dress up in a formal costume and secondly we use capsules to create a more dramatic entrance."
"Ok, so how do they work?"
"Well, you place your Pokeball in the ball capsule, then you stick the seal you want to use, then you release your Pokemon as per usual." She explained without effort, almost as if she was reading from a script.
"Thanks, I'll see you tomorrow when the contest starts." I said as I was leaving the building. As I was walking towards the entrance, I was met by an unfamiliar face. He had red hair and wore a black shirt with blue shorts.
"So, your entering the contest, is this just for fun or do you plan on becoming a coordinator full time?" He asked with his voice drenched in arrogance.
"Not that it is any of your business, but I am entering the Sinnoh League definitely, and I am trying Pokemon Contests to see if I want to do both." I responded confidently.
"Then your entry is a waste of space and should be cancelled to give a true coordinator a chance to enter. You should stick to your Gyms and barbaric battles." He snapped.
"Your opinion doesn't matter to me." I said as I walked past him and exited the Hall. And as soon as I hit fresh air, I crossed the path of another stranger. She had long wavy blue hair and wore a yellow shirt with a green coat and jeans.
"So you have just encountered Jeremy huh?" she said.
"Who? And who are you?"
"I'm Lisa and Jeremy is the guy who believes that people should stick to one path."
"Oh, him, do you believe that as well?" I asked, hoping she wasn't as arrogant as the guy she mentioned.
"No, I believed that people can do whatever they choose but I myself stick to Pokemon Conests," she responded with a smile.
"It was nice meeting you Lisa, I'm Matt and I'll see in the contest tomorrow." I said as I walked back towards the Pokemon Centre. As I was walking back towards the Pokemon Centre, I was stopped by yet another stranger, and I thought to myself, "How many times is going to happen to me today?" Although this stranger was much older than the previous two, she had grey hair, was very short and looked to be wearing a blanket over her clothes.
She started to speak, "Youngster, my name is Dana and my husband and my breeding centre is being attacked, some man wants to steal all the eggs, please you must help me."
"Of course, let me just collect my travelling partner, she will be able to help," I said as I rushed into the Pokemon Centre. As we all ran towards the Breeding centre, I explained the situation to Lucinda, and she was happy to help. When we got there we were greeted by a unfortunately familiar face, the Pokemon Hunter and his six goons. As soon as he saw as he gave a hand signal and all of his grunts released a Zubat and a Glameow while the hunter yelled, "You kids, this time I will stop you. Go, Bronzor and Weezing."
"You're wrong, we are going to stop you, come on out everyone." I said as I released Ralts, Totodile and Trapinch.
"Pokemon, assistance please," Lucinda said as she released her Pokemon.
"Your outnumbered fourteen to nine," he said with a smirk on his face.
"We will still win," I said definitely.
"Zubats, use steel wing. Glameows use shock wave, Bronzor use flash cannon and Weezing use sludge bomb." The leader commanded every Pokemon.
"Trapinch, block the shock wave, Totodile use water gun on the oncoming Zubat, Ralts use magical leaf to counter the sludge bomb," I quickly countered.
"Diglett help Trapinch, Piplup use bubblebeam on the Zubat, Magby use Flamethrower on the Glameows, Tangela use seed bomb on Bronzor, Tyrogue use Mega Punch, Skarmory use steel wing.
All Pokemon quickly rushed in action, the Glameows charged electricity and launched it towards us, but it was happily absorbed by both Diglett and Trapinch. A row of six Zubat quickly sped towards armed with monochromatic wings that were as solid as steel. They were weaving and bobbing to avoid Totodile's water gun but couldn't avoid Piplup's bubblebeam which cause them to fall into Totodile's water gun. The combined aquatic attacks were enough to knock them out.
The two headed poison Pokemon known as Weezing opened both its mouths to launch many toxic brown orbs of sludge. They were rocketing through the sky ready to inflict massive damage, only to be met by many multicoloured magical leaves courtesy of Ralts. Bronzor's face started to glow as it launched a beam of pure silver energy. Tangela, however was quick to counter as it launched many powerful seeds which were enough to stop the flash cannon attack. Tyrogue and Skarmory teamed up to deliver a dual attack on Weezing. Tyrogue hit one of its two heads to a powerful glowing blue fist while Skamory hit the other with a pair of powerful silver wings. This was enough to make it join the list of fainted Pokemon along with the Zubats. Magby was the last to act, opening its small peak to launch a stream of orange fire which it spread along the Glameows. They didn't appreciate this as they hissed before falling to ground in exhaustion.
"Alright, you have beaten me this time but can you handle this," he said as he and his grunts through the egg cases they were holding up into the air and then via Bronzor's teleport retreated.
"Trapinch, use sand tomb in the air, Totodile, use whirlpool, Ralts use confusion to save the eggs," I quickly ordered hoping that none of them would be damaged.
Lucinda also had the same thought as she said," Diglett, use sand tomb like Trapinch is doing, Piplup, whirlpool, Magby, Tyrogue jump and catch any eggs you can, Tangela, use vine whip to catch eggs, Skarmory use a gentle gust to bring the eggs down. The Pokemon seeing the danger rapidly leapt into action. Water ground types launched their sand tombs in a whirlpool style, while the water actual did launch a pair of whirlpools. Skarmory used its gust to gentle bring down the eggs that it was near. Both Magby and Tyrogue were both jumping around catch any eggs that were heading towards them. Tangela was also leading assistance by uses its vines to catch many eggs.
Luckily, thanks to the efforts of our Pokemon all of the eggs were saved which brought great relief to the little old lady. In fact, she was so grateful that she invited us into her home to restore our Pokemon. As we were sitting down in her kitchen having a cup of tea that she had made for us, an old man walked into the room carrying an egg container with a blue egg that had a black stripe along the middle of it. He said, "For saving our farm from losing so many eggs, I want you to have this one."
"So, you want me to have an egg for saving your farm from having its eggs stolen, isn't that a bit contradicting?" I asked, slightly puzzled.
"Yes, but the way you instant helped us without batting an eyelid proves you are a good person and a perfect candidate to look after a Pokemon egg." He explained.
"Can I know what is inside?" I asked hoping to get an insight into what Pokemon would be joining my team.
"You curious kid, you'll just have to wait and see," he countered my question with a chuckle. I thanked him for the egg and we left for the Pokemon centre. As we were walking back, Lucinda asked, "I wonder why I didn't get an egg."
"Jealous, are you?" I taunted.
"No, but I did have an equal part in saving the farm."
"Well you did release all of your Pokemon, and Dana probably told that to her husband so he didn't want to make you send one of them elsewhere."
"Fair enough," She said, realising the logic in what I had said.
"Hey Lucinda, I never got to ask you this, but where is your hometown?"
"Mossdeep City, Yours?"
"I am from Four Island in the Sevii Islands."
"Oh," she said as we both walked back into the Pokemon Centre. I proceeded to sit down on the lounge in the lobby and with Nurse Joy's permission turned on the TV until I came to the Gym Battle Highlights. It started to show a young girl on screen, she had brown wavy hair to match her brown eyes. She wore blue jeans with a grey hoodie and white runners but most noticeably was the silver chain with a Pokeball around her neck.
"Here we are with Jasmine Daniels outside of the Pastoria City gym where Jazz has does defeated Crasher Wake to earn a fen badge. Jasmine, can you give us a summary of your gym battle?"
"Well, It was three on three, I used my Dewgong, Espeon and Miltank against his Gyarados, Quagsire and Floatzel. My Miltank took down Gyarados before being taken by Quagsire which was taken down my Espeon's energy ball. After a quick knockout from Floatzel, it came down to Seel who evolved, defeated Floatzel and won the battle for me." As she was recapping the events a series of corresponding clips was being shown on screen.
"Well, that certainly is impressive Jasmine. You certainly are looking to be a trainer to look out for. We look forward to seeing for future endeavours," the reporter said kindly.
"Thank you," she said in response.
"Well, that is all we have time for today, join us next time for more exciting Gym battles." The reporter said before the television switch to showing commercials.
"Well, today certain was eventful, but I am going to bed, Goodnight." I said as I walked towards my room. As I set down my Pokeballs and the container holding my egg, I settled into bed and quickly dosed off to sleep.
As I awoke the next and finished the morning rituals, I set off toward the Contest Hall for my first official contest; Lucinda decided that she would check out the trainer school and try to find a trainer to battle. When I walked into the Contest Hall, the receptionist from yesterday breathed a sigh of relief before she said, "Where were you, the contest starts in five minutes, are you in your contest clothes?"
"No, and I thought you said eleven not ten."
"Well, head into the dressing room, get changed and be ready to perform your appeal at any time, it goes in random order, so be quick," she rapidly explained. I wasn't one to defy an angry receptionist so I quickly head in the changing room, got changed into the tuxedo I asked my mother to send and head into the coordinators waiting room only to meet Jeremy who said," I thought you had come to your senses and decided not to enter, but clearly I was wrong."
"Like you will be about people following two different paths," I countered. To which he stormed off to the opposite end of the waiting room. I turned my attention to the TV where a woman with auburn hair dressed in a yellow trench coat covering a pink undershirt introducing herself as Marian, the MC for the event. She was also introducing the judges, Raoul Contesta, head of the Pokemon Contest Commmity, Mr. Sukizo, head of the Pokemon Fan Club and the local Nurse Joy. She then went on to explain the concept of the appeal round before introducing the first coordinator.
He was using a Bulbasaur, to doing an appeal using bullet seed and petal dance. It was well received. Many coordinators followed after that, some good and others not so good. One that stood out was Lisa, using her Mr. Mime to create a beautiful display. Then Jeremy walked out a smug look on his face, before releasing his Clefairy and using various elemental attacks to create a contrast between colours. Needless to say, the crowd erupted with cheered and the judges had nothing but praise for him. Then, a guard gestured to me, signalling that I would be next. As Marian started to say that I was the last coordinator, I started to feel nervous. I had only gotten a little practise, but this Pokemon had seen Pokemon Contests before and seemed to get the hang of its appeal yesterday, but still I was nervous.
"And now, from Four Island, it's Matt," She announced.
Author's Notes: Well, there is the Fourth Chapter. A Pokemon Egg, A contest rival and stopping an attack on a breeding centre. I am well aware that so such breeding centre exists near Jubilife City, so I took some creative license. Also, the Pokedex entries may not be quite right. Feel free to send in more OCs, they are greatly appricated, although at the current stage in the story, Trainers/ Coordinators with beginning/unevolved pokemon would be fantastic.
Jasmine Daniels belongs to sunshine5991.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Next time: Matt continues in the Pokemon Contest, while Lucinda runs into a cocky trainer and decides to take him down a notch.