CH 46: Dawn Vs May

Wallace stood in the center of the stage as three spotlights focused on him. "Welcome coordinators, fans, and all who have come to witness the final round of this years Grand festival. We've seen so many outstanding coordinators here since the grand festival. Today we will see two contestants face each other. One of them will become this years champion" Wallace said.

Wallace turned to the curtain behind him and gave one of the stage directors a hand signal. The stage director turned on the machine that pulled up the curtains. May and Dawn were both standing on one end of the stage facing each other.

"This is it , everything May's been training for" Ash said. "She's got the confidence of a champion and the skill of a master coordinator. That's more than enough" Felix said. "May looks like we're finally having our rematch" Dawn said.

"Looks like it" May said. "I won't be holding anything back May" Dawn said. "I would be disappointed if you did" May said. Drew was sitting in the crowd watching Dawn. "I know you can do it, you've made it this far" He said.

Wallace stepped up in between Dawn and May. "I congratulate you both on making it this far. In this final round there will be not five but ten minutes. You will each be allowed one pokemon each so think carefully before you choose your pokemon" Wallace said. Wallace turned around and walked back to his judge seat beside Nurse Joy and Mr. Sato.

"We've been through some tough times together and now we'll be together for this. Go Piplup!" Dawn said. Piplup spun as he came out of his pokeball and landed in front of Dawn. "You've been with me since the beginning I want you to be my partner for this" May said. She threw her pokeball and released blaziken.

Blaziken took his fighting stand in front of May. "They've both picked their first pokemon, this will be interesting" Ash said. "Let the final round begin!" Wallace said. The timer began to count down. "Piplup use mist" Dawn said. Piplub opened his beak and unleashed a thick mist that obscured blaziken's vision.

"Now use bubblebeam!" Dawn said. "Blaziken quick move" May said. Blaziken tried to move but he had no idea where piplub was coming from. Blaziken was hit with the bubblebeam and May lost a few points. "That's how you start it" Drew said.

"Piplub follow up with brine!" Dawn said. "Blaziken use fire blast and high jump kick" May said. Blaziken unleashed a quick burst of fire that hit the brine and turned it into steam. The steam masked blaziken as he jumped up high. "Piplub quick use bubblebeam where the steam is" Dawn said.

Piplub unleashed bubblebeam at the steam but didn't hit his mark. Blaziken came down and delivered a powerful kick to piplup and then did a backflip jump off him. Dawn lost a few points . "And May answers back" Wallace said.

"Alright piplup use water spout " Dawn said. Piplub unleashed water spout sending water everywhere. "If any of that water hits blaziken his attacks will be weakened" Red said. "Blaziken quick attack" May said. Blaziken narrowly avoided the water spouts as they hit the ground around him.

More than once blaziken had to divert his path to avoid the water. "Perfect now use bubblebeam" Dawn said. Piplub aimed and unleashed his attack hitting blaziken. "What a combination she distracted blaziken with water spout so she could use bubblebeam accuratly" Mr. Sato said. May lost a few points.

"Piplub use water spout again" Dawn said. "Not this time blaziken use sand attack" May said. Before piplub could use water spout blaziken did a front flip and unleashed a burst of sand from his right hand. The sand attack hit piplub and obscured his vision.

Piplup used water spout but couldn't see blaziken. "Blaziken use low kick" May said. Blaziken easily avoided the water spouts because of piplup's obscured vission. Blaziken got close enough and slid into piplub delivering a powerful kick to his abdomen.

Dawn lost a few points as piplup hit the ground. "We can absorb this, piplup use aqua jet" Dawn said. "Blaziken dodge and use slash" May said. Piplup shot himself at blaziken through a jet of water. Blaziken jumped over piplup and came back to slash him. "Now use drill peck!" Dawn said.

Piplup abruptly ended the aqua jet and flew at blaziken. While he flew his beak grew longer and he spun. Piplup hit blaziken before he could slash him. "What impressive speed" Mr. Sato said. May lost a few points. "Blaziken don't lose faith use sky uppercut" May said.

"Piplup use bide" Dawn said. Piplup began storing energy but couldn't gather enough energy in time. Blaziken delivered the sky uppercut to piplup and sent him flying into the air. "Using bide was not very smart" Nurse Joy said. Dawn lost a few points.

"Quick use brave bird" May said. Blaziken jumped into the air while glowing blue. "Using a move that inflicts damage to the user is quite a risk" Wallace said. "Piplup quick use bide" Dawn said. Piplup unleashed bide at blaziken but blaziken avoided the attack. Blaziken unleashed bravebird on piplup and landed beyond where piplup hit the ground.

When blaziken landed he grit his teeth when the pain from the recoil kicked in. Both May and Dawn lost points. "Geeze this battle just keeps going back and forth. Every time one of them gets ahead the other just comes back" Max said. "Their skill levels seem nearly equal. The outcome will be very close" Felix said.

Both blaziken and piplup stared at eachother intensely. "Only two minutes left" The announcer said. "Piplup use mist" Dawn said. Piplup opened his beak and filled the stage with a thick mist. "Not again" May said. "Perfect now use bubblebeam and icebeam" Piplub jumped up and unleashed a spinning bubblebeam. Just as he stopped the bubbles he unleashed icebeam freezing the bubbles.

"Blaziken use sunneyday!" May said. Blaziken opened his mouth and shot a ball of light into the air clearing up the fog. Blaziken could now see the frozen bubbles heading straight at him. "Blaziken use firespin" May said. Blaziken spun his head and unleashed a twirling burst of fire. The firspin burst all of the frozen bubbles causing bits of ice to fall to the ground and sparkle from the sunneyday.

"Both coordinators made impressive moves" Wallace said. "Blaziken use focus energy and fire punch" May said. Blaziken focused and began to glow yellow. "Piplup use aqua jet" Dawn said. Piplup launched launched himself at blaziken's fist.

The two collided and neither gave way. "These two are so evenly matched , have we ever had a tie before?" Nurse Joy said. "No, and I don't think we ever will" Wallace said. "I've forgotten how good May is. May I admire you and your skill as a coordinator, but I came here to win" Dawn said. "Piplup use surf" Dawn said.

Piplup threw his wings up and opened his beak wide. Blaziken and May saw a massive title wave move across the stage. "If that surf hits blaziken he's finneshed" Norman said. "Come on May you can do it!" Ash said. "Blaziken high jump kick and sky uppercut.

Blaziken used high jump kick to get up high into the air. When he was high enough he used sky uppercut and just made it past the crest of the wave. "Right where I want you. Piplup use whirlpool!" May said.

Piplup threw his wings up created a massive whirlpool above him. "Oh no blaziken look out!" May said. Piplup unleashed the whirlpool toward blaziken. Blaziken tried desperately to move but the whirlpool was too large and he got sucked inside. "Blaziken!" May said. Blaziken tried to stay above the water but the current kept sucking him back under. May was now loosing points rapidly.

"This isn't good is May doesn't do something fast she's going to loose" Felix said. Drew moved up further in his seat. "Yes this is it, she's going to win" Drew said. May grit her teeth and watched helplessly as blaziken thrashed around in the whirlpool. "May please don't give up it's not over yet!" Ash said.

May looked at the timer and saw there was a minute left and her points were still dropping. "Looks like we have our winner" Mr. Sato said. "Yes and she has certainly earned it" Nurse Joy said. Wallace watched closely, "It's not over yet" He said. "Come on May you can do this" he said to himself. "Blaziken use overheat everything you've got!" May shouted.

At first there was no sign of any response from blaziken. "There's no way it's too late for that to work" Drew said. "Blaziken you can do it!" Ash said. "Pika chu!" Pikachu shouted with Ash. "We did it piplup we won!" Dawn said. Piplup stood proud for a moment before he noticed the end of the whirlpool he was on heat up.

"Come on, you can do it!" May said. Everyone watched closely as the end of the whirlpool continued to heat up. Just then Blaziken burst out of the whirlpool. "No way" Dawn said. Ash looked up at the timer. "May twenty seconds!" He shouted. "Blaziken use focus blast!" May said.

Blaziken flew at piplup so fast that the small blue pengiun didn't even have time to react. Blaziken unleashed focus blast hurling piplup back to the other end of the stage. Dawn lost most of her points but still had more than May. Dawn saw there were six seconds left. "Piplup we still won" Dawn said. Dawn looked back down at piplup and saw his eyes were swirly. "Lup" he said.

"Piplup is unable to battle the winner of the grand festival is May of Petalburg city!" Wallace said. The crowd started an uproar of applause that almost shook the building. "We did it we won" May said. Blaziken ran over to May and lifted her up in his arms. "That's my little girl!" Caroline said. "Wow she did it I can't believe it" Max said.

"You didnt think May was going to win?" Red said. "I was just preparing myself incase she didn't Max said. "Pika!" Pikachu said excitedly. "Alright May!" Ash shouted. Dawn picked up piplup and cradled him in her arms. "It's alright piplup you did your best and that's what matters most" Dawn said.

Dawn walked over to May who was still in Blaziken's arms. "congratulations May you earned this" Dawn said. Blaziken put May down and she shook Dawn's hand. "You did great too Dawn" She said.

Thirty minutes later May, Dawn, and the other 4 finalists were on stage with Wallace and Mr. Sato in front of them. "And so ends this years grand festival. As the finalists you shall each receive a grand festival metal" Wallace said. Mr. Sato handed Wallace the metals. The metals were all bronze with red holders.

"For our runner-up we present the second place ribbon" Wallace said. Wallace reached into his coat pocket and took out a ribbon twice as big as any normal ribbon. The ribbon was made of solid silver and had gold-colored ribbons coming out of the sides. Wallace handed it to Dawn and then walked over to May.

"Last and certainly not least, this years winner of the Hoenn grand festival. May of Petalburg city!" Wallace said. Mr. Sato opened up a case and took out the ribbon cup. He handed it to Wallace who presented it to May. The ribbon cup was made of solid 24 karat gold with a blue star in the center.

"We hope to see you again next year and remember that even if you lost this year you should still strive for your best" Wallace said. Everyone in the building shifted outside to watch the fireworks being launched over the lagoon. When the fireworks ended May and the others went back to the hotel and met inside the loppy. "I'm so proud of you May" Caroline said as she hugged May.

"You earned that ribbon cup with all of your training and dedication May don't forget that" Norman said. "Well mom and dad , in a few weeks your other child will be a champion as well. Cause i'm gonna win the pokemon league!" Max said proudly. "Remember Max Ash is competing in it to" May said. "No offense Ash but you're going down" Max said.

"Well the Hoenn league doesn't star for a few weeks so that should give us plenty of time to get to Ever Grande city" Red said. "Well we have to go home first so May if you give us the ribbon cup we'll take it home for you" Caroline said. "Thanks" May said handing it to her mom.

"Alright we'll see you in a few weeks stay safe until then" Norman said as he and Caroline walked out of the hotel. "Let's go Red I want to get to Ever Grande city as soon as possible" Max said. "Ok Max we can leave tonight. You guys want to Travel with us?" Red said. "No thanks we'll be fine on our own" Ash said.

"Alright we'll see you in ever grand city" Red said. "Alright we'll stay the rest of the night then catch a boat in the morning" Felix said. "Hey dad I was thinking. It's been a while since Mom has been to a pokemon league i've competed in. Why don't you bring her to this one" Ash said.

"That's a good idea, she did wait fifteen years for me I suppose I owe her some time too" Felix said. He got up and hugged Ash, "I'll see you at Ever Grande city" He said then left the hotel. "Well May you did it, you won the Grand festival a second time now" Ash said. "I couldn't have done it without you Ash" May said. Both of them blushed a little until May saw Dawn and Drew walking out of the hotel holding each others hands.

"Dawn where are you going?" May said. "Oh hey May, I'm taking Drew to Sinnoh for a while" Dawn said. "I've never been there I'm really excited" Drew said. "It was nice seeing you again May, and good luck in the pokemon league Ash" Dawn said.

Later that night Ash and May shared one of the rooms that the grand festival paid for. While Pikachu slept at the foot of the bed Ash was in just a pair of gym shorts while May rested beside him. "I've missed this, being with you when I sleep" May said. "Me too, May there is something I need you to know before the pokemon league is over" Ash said. "What?" May said.

Ash took a deep breath and then said "We've been together for a long time now and It's been probably the happiest time of my life. But I want us to be more than what we are, and I need you to know something. I'm in love with you, in fact I think i've been in love with you since we first traveled together five years ago" Ash said.

When May heard what Ash said she felt her eyes tear up. "Well it's good you told me that because now I can tell you something. I love you too" She said. May and Ash embraced each other sharing a passionate kiss as the moonlight lit up the balcony and cast light into the room. Pikachu was awoke by their conversation and saw them. "Pika chu" He said happily.