Chapter 30

Song: Butter-Fly (English Fan Dub Ver.)

Artist: LeeandLie (Original Japanese Artist: Koji Wada)

My broken wings dream of the sky,
And they'll never be able to fly.

Only if we never try,
On my loo-o-o-ove!

If I could become just one thing,
I'd be a butterfly-free soaring.

I really miss you...
So finally I'm on my way.

Let's focus on the people we trust
And leave out all the doubt behind us.

So if you're ready...
Can we go? 'Cause there's no time to wa-aste.

I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
If the sky above is only for show.

I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
What tomorrow will bring so let's spread our wi-i-ings!

Maybe this world's an infinite dream,
And there is only hope living in me!

May it not fail me now!
We'll turn this thing around and bring back the lovin' somehow!

My broken wings dream of the sky,
and they'll never be able to fly!

Only if we never try,
On my lo-o-ove!

On my lo-o-o-ove!

Last time, Team RWBY have gone to the Brazil City Dome where the Pokemon Contest is taking place. Blake sets out and finds a seat in the audience as the rest of Team RWBY prepare for their chance to shine upon the stage. Yet not everyone was excited. Ruby was getting a bad case of stage fright and tries not to throw-up. While doing so, she ran into Ariel, from the Ecuador Pokemon Showcase. But she show continues as Weiss drags Ruby to see who is going first. They look up at the screen as they see the pictures of people who are going to go in order. When the pictures get mixed, they see that Ruby Rose is going first.

"I'm first!" Ruby says in shock. Her face goes pale and has more butterflies in her stomach than before.

Yang slaps Ruby's back, "Go for it sis!"

On the arena, Vivian introduces herself at the center.

"Hello everyone!" she says in an energetic manner over the microphone, "And welcome to the Brazil City Pokemon Contest!" The crowd cheers. "I am Vivian Meridian and I hope you all will enjoy the show! Now let me introduce you to our judges. The first is the chief of the Pokemon Activities Committee; Mr. Contesta!"

Mr. Contesta speaks, "Ah, Brazil City. A city with a deep connection to nature. Glad I am here in this wondrous metropolis."

The crowd cheers loudly for Mr. Contesta's comment.

"And give it up to the president of the Pokemon Fan Club, Mr. Sukizo!"

"Brazil City. Remarkable." Can someone get this guy a dictionary or thesaurus?

"And give it up for the Brazil City's Pokemon Center number one nurse, Nurse Joy!"

Nurse Joy blushes a little, "I wouldn't say that, but I'm glad to be here."

Blake is sitting in the fourth row and states, "Are all Pokemon Contest judges the same?"

"Without further ado, let's give a big hand for our first coordinator: Ruby Rose!"

The crowd cheers as Ruby nervously comes out. Her mouth is all squiggly with a Pokeball in both her hands that is in a capsule with a twinkle seal on it. He tries her best not to trip or run away as her legs keep on making creaking sounds as she walks.

Vivian notices, "Oh dear. It looks like Ruby has the case of stage fright."

Blake facepalms, "Oh no."

In the back room, Weiss shakes her head, "She need to learn to relax."

Ruby makes it and takes a deep breath. "Okay. Here we go." She gets into a pose as she throws her Pokeball, "Alright, Florence, let's go!"

Florence pops out as pretty twinkles surround him.

"Now use razor leaf all around!"

Florence spins his two little leaves and razor sharp leaves are tossed around yet are spinning around him like boomerangs.

"Swadloon is being surrounded by a small twister of razor leaves! What type of performance is this?!"

"Now use string shot!"

Florence shoots string shot from his mouth and gather all the razor sharp leaves. Many are gathered around yet the leaves are still spinning while attached to Florence.

"Now she has her Swadloon gathering the leaves! She has the razor leaves still circling around yet attached to Swadloon by string shot!"

"Use protect!"

A bluish-green force field appears around Swadloon's body. However, the force field becomes an aura as the bluish-green glow extends to the string shot and to the leaves attached to him and still spinning.

"Look at that fabulous glow! Who knew that you can use protect like that and able to use it on anything attached to a Pokemon!"

The crowd were amazed by the dazzling display Florence has.

"Now toss them into the air and use bug bite to eat them!"

Florence tosses the glowing razor leaves into the air just before using bug bite to devour the leaves and string shot. What happens next is that the two leaves on his head started to give off a bluish-green glow and start to look like fancy moth antennae and the darker green leafy limbs transform into wing-like projections. Even the cloak wrappings start to make wings yet have strings attached to the ends. The crowd were totally astonished by the sight of a Swadloon becoming something they never seen before. The crowd started cheering for such a grand beginning to the Pokemon Contest.

"I...I can't believe it! Swadloon has transformed into something like this! Now that's a way to being the Pokemon Contest! Let's give Ruby Rose a big round of applause!"

The crowd gives Ruby and Florence a massive round of applause and cheer so loud that the inside of the dome shakes a little.

"Now let's see what our judges score."

Contesta: 9.5

Sukizo: 9.6

Nurse Joy: 9.8

"Look at those scores!"

Contesta says, "Despite her stage fright, she managed to pull off a stunning and brilliant performance with her Swadloon."

Sukizo, "Remarkable."

Nurse Joy, "Swadloon's spinning almost makes my head spin. But that wonderful finale was spectacular."

The crowd applause for Ruby's first performance ever. Ruby waves and smiles at the crowd as she and Swadloon exit.

Blake waves a little red RWBY flag as she cheers, "Way to go, Ruby!"

Yang says, "That was awesome, Ruby!"

Weiss smiles with her arms crossed, "That was...adequate."

But Ruby drops to her knees and wheezes really hard. "That was...overwhelming..."

Yang helps Ruby up, "Alright, come on."

Vivian claps her hands, "Now that was a spectacular performance and that was only the opening! Lets see if our coordinators can pull it off!" The screen shows the next coordinator, "Our next coordinator is...Weiss Schnee!"

Weiss says, "Looks like I'm up." Weiss walks up as everyone admires how beautiful she looks.

"Now that's a real beauty. But looks aren't everything. What really matters is what her Pokemon can do."

Weiss has a Pokeball in a capsule with a red heart seal on it. "Alright, Cutsie!" she smiles and blushes a little before throwing, "Time to shine!"

Cutsie comes out with adorable hearts as he does a pose with all those hearts floating around.

Many women in the audience are going, "Aaaahhh~!" They are completely in love with her Ribombee.

"How adorable! Weiss is using a Ribombee and its adorable! But what is she going to do?"

"Cutsie, use pollen puff and juggle!"

Cutsie pulls out some yellow balls of pollen and juggles. Despite the size of those fluffy puffs, Cutsie juggles them with ease and gives a cute wink.

"Would you look at that! Ribombee is juggling those large pollen puffs with ease while looking adorable as well."

"Now use fairy wind on them!"

Cutsie throws the pollen puffs into the air and uses fairy wind on them. The puff balls changed from yellow to pink after getting hit with fairy wind.

"Now use silver wind!"

Cutsie uses silver wind with the pollen puffs still in the air. Once they got hit with silver wind, the pink puff balls start to have a glittering effect on them.

Weiss looks at the judges, "Who's ready for a snack?"

"A snack?"

Cutsie carries the sparkling, pink pollen puffs to the judges and gives each of them a small amount. The judges look at the pink, shiny puff balls and are a bit unsure. This was made with yellow pollen puffs so it would be sweet yet unsure about the added ingredients. The three take a bite and find it...incredible. Their taste buds are in overdrive as they taste something sweet yet given a new flavor. Sweet. Airy. And dissolves in their mouths like cotton candy.

Ruby looks at the reaction of the judges and the pollen puffs, "Now I want some."

Yang states, "Must've worked on it in secret. Or she had Blake be her test subject."

Blake sneeze.

Vivian takes a bite and gives the same reaction as the judges. "Now this is what I call a sweet! But is it enough to impress the judges?"

Contesta: 9.7

Sukizo: 10

Nurse Joy: 9.8

"Look at all those scores!"

The crowd cheers for Weiss has she got some high scores.

But Vivian ask Mr. Contesta, "Tell us why did you give Weiss a lower score."

Mr. Contesta explains, "That is because I maybe the judge of this contest, but I am also a connoisseur when it comes to food. I'll admit that it was a delicious, but a little too sweet for my taste."

Sukizo states, "Yet it was remarkable to me."

Nurse Joy, "Yet from the content of the pollen puff, Weiss' Ribombee is in remarkable good health. Not to mention that added layer of silver wind and fairy wind give it a wonderful taste. So that is why I gave Weiss and her Ribombee the highest score."

Later on, the contest continues with one boy with an Arcanine doing hoola-hoop tricks, a girl with a Wigglypuff does a few dancing tricks, and another boy that has a Yanmega doing air stunts. Now it is Yang's turn.

"Now give it up for our next coordinator, Yang Xiao Long!"

The crowd cheers as Yang enters but some of the male members of the audience give a much larger cheer and whistle.

Blake waves her flag, "Go for it, Yang!"

Yang pulls out her Pokeball in a capsule with a fire seal on it. "Go for it, Blazerina!"

Blazerina pops out with fire all around her and does some martial arts moves to smash them. Then she lands and does a pose.

"Now that is one dynamic entrance! This fire-type Pokemon has some spirit!"

"Blazerina, use fire wheel!"

Blazerina aims at the ground and use flame wheel but on the side. As the fiery wheel spin, Blazerina surprisingly stands on her left leg but the flame wheel is still going. The crowd are surprised to see something like that actually working. But in truth, Blazerina's tail is the one doing the spinning while hopping on one foot in order to maintain the flame wheel.

"Monferno is able to do a flame wheel without actually spinning!"

"Now use mach punch to scoop it up!"

One of Blazerina's fists glow light blue and punch right through the flame wheel. The flames of the flame wheel get caught in the punch with her fist starting to glow red and becomes on fire as the flame wheel disappears. Blazerina's fist start to look more like a fire punch move.

"I can't believe what I am seeing! Monferno just turned its mach punch into a fire punch! That is something I have never seen before!"

Blazerina does some punching moves with both her fists on fire.

"Now use fury swipes while the flames are still good!"

Blazerina's fingers start to glow red with her fingers now on fire rather than her entire hand. She swipes and slash with her fiery fury swipes and with such grace and precision. The audience are taken in by the fiery slashes with Blazerina swiping and spinning.

"Now Monferno has its fingers set on fire and doing a strange, mesmerizing dance!"

"Now finish it up by absorbing the flames and use flamethrower!"

Blazerina eats the flames on her fingers and the fire on her tail started to get huge and glowing red. Her mask is also set on fire with eyes glowing red. Blazerina looks up as she unleashes a powerful jet of flames. If you are wondering how Blazerina used flamethrower, it is because of the practice Yang and Blazerina did as they try to utilize the power boost from eating the flames and try to do ember. Yet the power boost cause Blazerina to learn flamethrower and forget ember. I hope this makes some sense because lets face it, the logic of the Pokemon World is wild.

"That's one fiery finally! What a wonderful performance done by Yang's Monferno! Now let's see the judges scores."

Contesta: 10

Mr. Sukizo: 9.8

Nurse Joy: 9.8

"And look at those scores!"

Blake cheers, "Way to go, Yang!"

Contesta explains, "That was a superb performance from a fire-type Pokemon and they are my favorite. That performance shows the indomitable spirit of a fighting-type and the passion of a fire-type."

Mr. Sukizo remarks, "Splendid and remarkable." At least he says two words even though they are kinda the same.

Nurse Joy remarks, "The flames of that Monferno was intense that I can even feel the heat from here. That means it is in good health and raised well."

The crowd give Yang an applause for a performance.

Yang says, "Not bad for a...warm-up." she giggles for that pun. She heads back to meet up with Ruby and Weiss.

Ruby congratulates her sister, "That was awesome! Those fiery moves! Those spinning coordinations!"

Weiss looks at Ruby, "Spinning coordinations?"

Ruby explains herself, "I was caught in the heat of the moment so my brain is unable to think clearly."

Yang goes, "Teeheehee. You did a pun, Ruby."

Ruby looks at Yang, "I did?"

"Heat of the moment."

Ruby groans when she realizes what she did.

Weiss then says to Yang, "At least fire is your specialty besides fighting...and being a tomboy."

Ruby's eyes widen when Weiss says that and goes, "Uh-oh."

Yang gets angry, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?" with her eyes red and fire crackling.

Ruby tries to stop the fight from starting, "Uhh, let's just see who is next and study them! Okay!?"

Vivian then introduces the next coordinator, "And now give it up for our next entry, Ariel!"

Ariel comes out and walks like a princess as the crowd is impressed by her dress, her graceful and dignified walk.

"Ariel is not only a Pokemon coordinator, but she's also a Pokemon performer who is on the path of becoming the next New Found Queen."

Ariel has her Pokeball out with a capsule that has a pink bubble seal on it. "Okay, sweetie, come on out!"

Ariel throws her Pokeball and the Starmie comes out with pink bubbles.

"And it looks like Ariel is starting things off with a Starmie!"

"Use swift combine with rapid spin!"

Starmie rotates very fast in the air and use swift. Starmie is ahead of the stars it made and the stars follow.

"Starmie is spinning around with the swift following it! It almost looks like a shooting star! Call me star struck!"

"Use recovery while absorbing the swift!"

Starmie's body glows white while absorbing the swift. Except of taking damage, its whole body glows gold.

"Look at that! Starmie actually became a golden star!"

"Now finish it up with hydro pump in the air!"

Starmie jumps up and rotates on its back as it fires hydro pump via its tips as Starmie looks like a golden star jetting water. Rainbow colored water with little rainbows above Starmie.

"Now that's a perfect finish! Just look at that wonderful water fountain!"

The crowd cheers for the stunning performance of Ariel's Starmie.

"And the judges scores..."

Contesta: 9.8

Sukizo: 10

Nurse Joy: 9.9

"Now those are some high scores!"

Contesta states, "Starmie's performance was absolutely brilliant. It was such a masterful performance and stunning."

Sukizo says, "Remarkable."

Nurse Joy says, "Starmie's finally took my breath away. It almost looked like I saw a beautiful water fountain from another world."

"Those are some amazing comments! Let's give a round of applause for Ariel and her Starmie."

The crowd cheers and gives applause to Ariel and her Starmie as they take a bow.

Back in the prep room, Team RWBY take some time to relieve before they announce the match-ups for the battle stages. Yet Ruby still looks nervous.

"Ah man." Ruby shakes, "I hope I did well."

Yang is more relaxed, "Relax, little sis. You saw those scores. And it is the Pokemon being judged, not you."

But Weiss states, "But we will have to face each other. You do realize that, right?"

Now Ruby is even more nervous.

Then the television screen comes on with Vivian announcing, "Sorry for the wait. We have the results on who is heading to the battle phase of the contest and match-ups. Here are our lucky eight coordinators facing off."

As the results come on the screen, Ruby, Weiss and Yang gasp at the line-up. On the screen, it will be Weiss and Ruby facing off each other in the first round. Will it be Ruby reining victorious in the first match? Or will it be Weiss? Just have to wait until the next chapter.