Hope you all enjoy this chapter, sorry it took a bit contests are bit harder for me to write so feel free to leave any tips you may have.

The sun began to just peak over the horizon line when May's slowly opened. She gently rubbed the sleep out of them and once she was fully awake she got out of bed with a stretch. Quietly moving through the room May went into the bathroom to get cleaned up and make sure her contest outfit was ready for the day. Knowing Drew was entered into this contest she was even more fired up than normal. She knew Ash wanted to get back at Drew but, May knew the real way to get revenge was to beat him in the contest. She looked into the mirror while she brushed her teeth and mentally went through her appeal over a few times making sure she remembered it step by step.

Out in their room Ash began to stir and he rose out of bed, his eyes blurry from sleep. He arched his back stretching it and scratching the back of his head as he shuffled towards the door. In his sleepy stupor he didn't register why the door was closed, his hand reached out and turned the knob. The sight that met his eyes caused him to freeze and become fully awake.

May was lost in thought, when a sudden noise jerked her back to reality. She turned to see Ash standing in the bathroom door with a shocked look on his face. It dawned on her why he had such a look, She yelled in shock and quickly grabbed for a towel to hide behind.

With a quick motion Ash shut the door, "May I'm so sorry I didn't even think to knock." Ash said with embarrassment.

"Its ok Ash, I should have locked the door when I went in." May replied trying to control her breathing and get her cheeks back to their normal color. She quickly finished getting ready and threw her clothes in and stepped back into the room. Ash's eyes met her's both trainer's cheeks glowed red from the encounter.

"Sorry again May." Ash said as he slid past her, but before he got all the way by he felt resistance on his arm. He turned to see May stopping him.

"It's ok Ash, you already apologized. Just try not to make it a habit." She said in a teasing manner and she gave him a small kiss. "Now hurry up and getting ready so we can get down to the contest area."

Ash quickly got ready trytrying to think pure thoughts after the previous encounter but it was a struggle for him. He paused and took a few deep breaths and did a small meditation practice to calm himself. Once that was done he got cleaned up and changed, he opened the door and grabbed his bag.

"Ready to go May?"

"Most definitely, I can't wait to face Drew." Was her reply as she took Ash's hand and with that they headed out the door. They followed the path into the village where they found freshly erected bleachers and a battlefield. A small crowd had already arrived and began to fill the seating.

"Ok Ash, go find a seat before they're all gone. I'll meet you after the contest is over."

"May you've got this in the bag." He said giving her hug and a brief kiss. As he pulled back from the hug he whispered on her ear, "I love you."

His voice sent shivers down her back and the feeling made her giggle lightly. "I love you too Ash."

"Go get 'em May." Meowth said .

"I wish you best of luck." Lucario said with a small bow.

Pikachu jumped to her shoulder and nuzzled her cheek before jumping back to Ash's. "That you guys for your support." She said smiling.

With that she left to get ready, while the pokemon and Ash went to find seats. May entered the waiting area and she didn't seem to recognize any faces in the group other than Drew. He cast a glance and once he seen her he moved a little farther away. Seeing that made May's mouth form into a small smile. She found a place to sit down and wait for the call that the contest had begun. On the bench she was on sat another coordinator that seemed a few years younger than her. May looked over and noticed that the girl was staring at her in awe.

"You're...You're...You're May Maple." The girl stammered out, "I can't believe you're really here, it's such an honor to meet you. I'm Helena by the way."

May smiled as she reached out to shake her hand, "It's very nice to meet you Helena, and I'm just me no reason to be nervous."

"No it is, you're my idol, you're the reason I want become a better coordinator so I can hopefully challenge you in the Grand Festival. Watching you compete in the Sinnoh Grand Festival inspired me to train even harder. I was so crushed when you lost, but I was so blown away by your beautiful appeal and how amazing you battled." Helena explained.

May rubbed the back of her head, a little embarrassed over how Helena was acting, "Well thank you for the compliment, its always good to hear things like that, and its a honor to have helped you on with your dreams."

The two began chatting while they waited for their turn to preform their appeals.

"After that season I trained harder than ever before and pushed to do better than the day before. I started out in Unova when the contest circuit first came there, I only manged to win four ribbons and didn't make the Grand Festival." She explained to May. "I am determined and so are my pokemon to make this year we've trained night and day. I decided I wanted to give the Kanto circuit a try this year and so far I've got one ribbon. Now that I know you're competing it makes me want to to try even harder."

"Wow that's really impressive, the Unova circuit is really tough. I remember my first time there, I almost missed out on the Grand Festival too." May told her.

A voice called out causing their conversation to end, "May Maple you're up next, please make you're way to the stage."

"Good luck May." Helena said as May stood up.

"Thank you, and good luck to you as well." May replied as she turned towards the door with determination burning in her eyes.

She walked to the stage area ,she saw the stands were completely full and the crowd began to cheer loudly. "Out next Coordinator is May Maple!" Lilian said loudly over the cheers.

May smiled and waved to the crowd, she turned to judges and gave a curtsey. She stepped to the center taking a deep breath before throwing her poke ball into the air. "Swanna take the stage!"

The white bird pokemon appeared in a sparkle of light elegantly crying her name as she took to the air.

"Ok Swanna start off with Bubblebeam and shape with Icy Wind." Swanna launch a barrage of bubbles while she flapped her wings releasing an icy breeze at caused the bubbles to slowly harden and come together.

"Now fire Ice Beam and use Razor Wind." She opened wings launching blade like blast of air that cased the ice type attack. As the as attacks began to hit the frozen bubbles the began to form into a shape. "Let's finish it Swanna and use Feather Dance."

Swanna cut her attacks and flew over the sculpture letting feathers fall from her. She completed her attack and gently landed next May. The result of the attacks was a frozen sculpture that looked like Swanna complete with feathers. The crowd went wild cheering for May and the judges applauded as well.

"As expected for the Princess of Hoenn what a wonderful appeal, now lets hear from our judges." Lilian said as she waved her hand to the judges seats.

The first judge was Mr. Contesta, "As always you never fail to impress me."

Nurse Joy was next, "Your Swanna is tip top shape and her attacks flowed together beautifully."

Finally it was Melanie, "You've done a great job training your pokemon I am very impressed."

May smiled and Swanna beamed with pride and the compliments, the both bowed to the judges. May walked back to the waiting room after returning Swanna, she was confident that she'd make the next round but she also knew there was stiff competition here.

She once more sat next to Helena and they talked lightly about training after Helena praised May's appeal. May heard the man at the door call Drew up next and he walked towards the stage a with an air of arrogance about him. He walked out on stage bowed to the judges before releasing his pokemon.

"Purrloin, it's show time." As the light died down Drew's Perloin stood looking equally arrogant as it's trainer. "Start things off use Shadow Ball and the chase them down with Aerial Ace."

Obeying the command in the blink of an eye, Purrloin launched a barrage of Shadow Balls into the air before speeding after them. Perloin easy overtook the attacks when Drew called the next move.

"Stop them in place use Thunder Wave then carve them up with Shadow Claw." The devious pokemon smirked as its claws glowed purple and it began slashing the paralyzed spheres. The energy from the Shadow Balls began to transfer to the claws, which began to glow a darker purple and then crackle with the electricity from Thunder Wave.

"Finish things up and use Slash." Drew called out. Purrloin nodded and shattered the glowing purple claws as a bright light cut through. The normal type attack glowed brilliantly as purple stars fluttered gently down around Purrloin. The pair turned and bowed the judges. The audience applauded loudly at the appeal, the judges were equally impressed by the show.

Drew thanked them for their words as he turned back towards the waiting room. May wasn't going to lie, Drew put on a good appeal and she knew he was always a tough competitor. Helena was called up for her turn as Drew walked back into the room.

May gave her a smile "Good luck and don't worry you'll do great."

"Thanks May." She said with a smile in return. Once Helena reached the stage she took a deep calming breath before bowing slight to the judges.

"Yamask, its show time." The spirit pokemon emerged from her poke ball ready to preform. "Let's show them what we can do, start out with Haze and then use Will-O-Whisp."

Yamask released thick layer of haze coating the stage hiding her from view. An eerie glow shown through the darkness as Yamask had Will-O-Whisp circling around her.

"Now use Double Team." Helena called out. The flickering lights from the attack bounced around the stage looking almost as if there were blinking eyes. "Now use Ominous Wind please."

The ghost type winds cut through the haze in sections until it was in smaller sections. The Will-O-Whisp attack moved one ball of fire to each section until they looked like a small gravestones with candles with candles. The audience was a little taken back by the eerie dark performance but you could see everyone was clearly impressed.

"Ok finish it up and use Flash." Yamask came to a stop in the middle of the gravestones and emitted a blinding bright light. The attack caused the other two attacks to fizzle out it black amd red sparkles. The crowd cheered enthusiastically for appeal amd in the waiting room May also cheered for her new friend. She was really impressed by what Helena had done.

"Now lets here from our judges." Lilian said with a wave of her hand.

"What a remarkable appeal, your Yamask is in top shape." Said Mr. Contesta.

"I agree, her control of her attacks in incredible." Nurse Joy complemented.

"The appeal was a bit spooky, but I loved how unique it was." Melanie said with a smile.

"Well that ends the appeal round. Now we'll let the judges decide on what Coordinators will continue on." Lilian said smiling brightly.

Helena bowed the judges then headed of stage, she stopped in the hallway to take a calming breath. She looked as if she was at home on stage but was a complete bundle of nerves on the inside. She was greeted by May's bright smile and praises when she made it into the waiting area.

"Helena that was so amazing, it blew my mind seeing the end result." May said as they went to sit down.

"Thanks May, but I'm all jittery still. Everytime I go out there I get so nervous and its all I've got to keep it together." Helena explained.

"Well from my point of view, you do a very good job at." May replied with a small laugh.

Helena smiled at that comment, "Who do you think will make it through?"

"I'd say you will for sure and I'm sure Drew will too." May said.

"I guarantee you will too May, and I'm thinking the kid over there with the shiny Chikorita." Helena said nodding to a young man towards the back of the group. The man was leaning against the wall with a smile on his face watching all the other Coordinators talk amongst themselves. They were about to continue their conversation when they heard Lillian's voice come on the tv.

"Lets have everybody's attention, the judges have made their decisions." The camera panned up to the screen above the stage, four images began to rotate. The first one came to a stop revealing May's imaimage, Ash cheered loudly above the crowd for his girlfriend. As the second image stopped spinning Drew's image was the next one, both May and Ash figured he'd make it through. The watched the third picture show the man with the shiny Chikorita, whose name the heard was Eric.

Helena and May held each other's hands as they watched the final picture began to slow down. When it halted Helena cheered triumphantly as it showed her picture as the final coordinator making it to the next round.

"Congratulations to our finalists and we wish the best of luck to the others next time. We'll give our final four a twenty minutes to prepare for the battles." Lilian said. Ash asked Meowth and Lucario to hold their seats while he ran to see May for few minutes, with Pikachu on his shoulder they made thetheir way to the waiting area. May's face split into when she seen her boyfriend enter the door. Pikachu leapt into May's arms rubbing his cheek against her's making her giggle.

Ash stepped up to her and wrapped her into his arms, "May that was incredible, I knew you'd do amazing out there."

"Thank you Ash, but it was because of the help you gave us." May said slightly blushing. She had to hide a smirk when she seen Drew scowling at them from across the room.

"Oh, Ash this is Helena." May said gesturing to her new friend.

"Its a pleasure to meet you. I remember watching you compete in the Unova League, that was a tough loss." She said holding her hand to Ash.

"Likewise, yeah it was but I realized that you can learn far more from a loss than you can from any victory." Ash said shaking her hand. "May I've gotta get back to my seat their about to announce the match ups. It was nice to meet you Helena."

"Same here Ash." Helena replied.

"Ok Ash I'll see you after the contest." May said and she was mildly surprised when Ash pulled her into a dip and kissed her.

"Good luck and I love you." He said grinning as the stood them upright.

May was flushed and a little dazed, "Thanks Ash." May said with a giggle.

After that he quickly made his way back to his seat just as Lillian's microphone came on. "Alright everyone its time to announce the match ups. Our first battle will between Drew and Eric, followed by the match up between May and Helena. Can our first competitors please make their way to the battle area."

Drew followed Eric out the door with an angry expression on his face and he shot a dirty look in May's direction. She didn't notice as she was talking once more with Helena. Their attention turned to the screen as both trainers stood ready for battle.

"Coordinators please release your pokemon." Drew's Leafeon gracefully landed ready for battle. On the other side Eric's Snivy front flipped onto the stage with a small smirk in its face. "Now can we have five minutes on the clock. Let the battle begin!"

Drew didn't give Eric a chance to began as he called out his first move, "Leafeon start this off, use Grass Whistle then charge in with Aerial Ace."

A gentle soothing whistle echoed across the arena and Snivy's eyes drooped into slumber. Leafeon took off in a gleaming streak spinning himself for added effect. The combination of the beauty of the attack and making Snivy sleep Eric's points took a hit. They fell further when the super effective attack struck rolling Snivy across the ground.

Eric seemed unfazed by the current situation, "Snivy use Sleep Talk."

Drew gritted his teeth not expecting that attack to come. Snivy continued sleeping as it's tail glowed green and struck Leafeon under the jaw with Leaf Blade. Leafeon hit the ground hard causing Drew's points to dip slightly.

He began to call out another attack, but was cut off, "Snivy knows our shot, use Attract."

Snivy's eyes snapped open then turned pink and gracefully spun in a circle before letting a stream of hearts out towards Leafeon. The hearts collided with verdant pokemon and his eyes became heart shaped. Drew became frustrated now realizing that Eric's Snivy is a female, he looked on with light fury in his eyes.

Eric smiled, "Ok keep it up Snivy use spinning Toxic."

Snivy began to gracefully sin across the stage launching purple poisonous blobs at the love struck Leafeon. The skill she showed and the super effectiveness of the attack once more caused Drew's points to fall, now just above half.

Drew clenched his fist trying to figure a way out of this situation. He called out loudly, "Leafeon snap out of it, and use Sunny Day!"

The grass eevee-loution shook his head and launched a fiery orb in the air. "Rapid fire Solarbeam."

Leafeon gathered energy quickly launching multiple beams of energy at Snivy. The attack cut through Toxic and sent the spinning grass snake pokemon tumbling hard across the stage. Drew knew he didn't have any time to let up his attack.

"Keep Snivy still, use Grass Knot then strike hard with X-Scissor!" Leafeon's eyes flashed green as bands of grass pinned Snivy to the ground. He took off across the battlefield with a 'x' shape in front of him. The bug type attack landed a direct hit on the trapped Unova grass starter. Drew was readying another round of attacks when the buzzer went off, signaling the end of the battle.

Everyone's eyes went to the screen to see where the points were at. Drew's points had fallen close to the quarter mark, while Eric's points were almost completely gone. "Well then it looks like Drew is our first finalist. Congratulations to you and your pokemon, as well to Eric for a well fought round." Lilian said above the cheers.

May and Helena looked at each other with fire their eyes as the stood. Each extended their hand to the other.

"Good luck and don't hold back." Helena said with a confident grin.

"Good luck to you too, and I wouldn't dream of it." May said with passion burning in her eyes. They each made their way down their respective halls to the arena.

Lilian stood in the middle of the arena, "Alright its time for our second round battle. On my left we have Helena of Unova and on my right we have the well known May Maple of Hoenn."

The crowd cheered wildly as the two coordinators were introduced. May could distinctly hear Ash cheering above everyone else. "Will the Coordinators send out their pokemon and put five minutes on the clock."

"Misdreavus it's show time." Helena called out her pokemon. Misdreavus appeared floating above the ground with a melodic voice.

"Glaceon take the stage." May said as she threw the poke ball into the air. Glaceon leapt to the sage with small ice crystals floating around her.

"The stage is set, let the battle begin." Lilian said as she backed out of the arena.

May sprung right into action not wanting to fall behind from the get go, "Glaceon Sunny Day then follow it up with Ice Beam." Glaceon immediately shot the fire ball into the air then shot the beam of icy energy from her mouth. The combination of the two attacks made Ice Beam glisten in the sunlight, making Helena's points drop to near the three quarter mark. She was slightly taken back both May's offensive and didn't get a chance to call out a counter. The ice type attack hit its mark making her points now fall below the three quarters mark.

Helena shook her head and smiled, "Misdreavus shew them what we've got hit back hard use Shadow Swift." The screech pokemon launched a barrage of dark ghostly balls of energy then let loose a field of stars. The two attacks merged forming what looked like black comets.

May called out the Glaceon to dodge but with Swift be unavoidable the attack struck throwing Glaceon to the ground. May was very impressed at her opponent's combo but just smiled bigger feeling the rush of battle. "Glaceon their not the only ones who can do power combos. Let's show them one of ours Icy Pulse!"

Glaceon stood and jumped high into the air, she released multiple pulsating orbs of water then froze them with Icy Wind. The ice balls rained down on Misdreavus, who tried to dodge but they were so close together she was clipped by one then the remaining ones pummeled her. Misdreavus slowly made her way back into the air obviously showing some injuries, Helena knew she need to attack fast if she wanted to stay in the contest.

"Misdreavus I need you to use Power Gem with everything you have!" Misdreavus gritted her her teeth focusing her power to the gems around her neck. A beautiful beam of energy was unleashed at Glaceon, the beauty caused May's points to take a small dip.

"Glaceon use Aqua Tail to counter then use Shadow Ball!" A swirling vortex of water surrounded her tail amd she front flipped into the path of the on coming attack. When they collided a small explosion happened causing a cloud of smoke to obstruct Misdreavus's vision. With that happening she had no time to avoid the multiple Shadow Balls that came hurling at her. The super effective ghost type attack took it toll on the already tried pokemon. Misdreavus hit the ground and didn't get back up, just then the buzzer rang out.

"It looks times up. Misdreavus has bee. knocked out and May has more points as well. So our final finalists is May Maple, congratulations to you and congratulations to Helena for a well fought battle." Lilian said as the crowd began to cheer for them both.

Both Coordinators bowed to the judges before they went back to the waiting area.

"May that was an amazing battle thank you for the opportunity to become your friend." Helena said with a slightly disappointed smile. "Next time we meet I'll make sure to win for sure, and you'd better not lose."

May chuckled, "It was great to meet you and you are an amazing Coordinator with a bright future. I promise I won't lose, I have a little payback planed for Drew."

The girls shook hands before Helena went to change and May went to have Glaceon healed before the final round. When she got the poke ball back, May headed back to wait for her to be called. Upon entering the room she was slightly relieved to see Drew wasn't in there, she didn't want to have to deal with him that personally today. After a few minutes of May running through her attack ideas the speaker called May to the arena.

She walked down the hall way and stepped out onto the battlefield waving at the crowd. She looked across and seen Drew standing with his arms folded smirking slightly.

"Alright we've made it to the final round." Lilian announced drawing a roar of cheers. "First we have Drew from LaRousse City and we have May Maple from Petalburg City."

When Drew's name was said the cheers were loud, but when May was announced the roar was almost deafening.

"Well we can see who is the crowd favorite." Lilian said with a small chuckle. "Coordinators will you send out your pokemon please."

"Leafeon it's show time." Drew said tossing the poke ball into the air.

"Glaceon take the stage." May said releasing her faithful ice type.

"Let's have five minutes on the clock. Now let the battle begin." Lilian shouted out.

May had a mischievous grin and her eyes shined with fire. "Glaceon don't give an opening hit them first. Use Blizzard and hide in the snow."

Glaceon cried out releasing a massive snow storm and she quickly jumped into it and disappearing with in it. Leafeon recoiled from the icy cold taking a small amount of damage. The combination caused Drew's points to drop by an eight.

"Leafeon use Sunny Day to clear this up." Drew called out. As Leafeon fired his attack May yelled out.

"Glaceon Icy Shard!" From within the snow an icy breeze came flying out carrying chunks of sharpened ice. The combo snuffed out the Sunny Day attack and carried on crashing into Leafeon. Drew was becoming angrier that he couldn't stop is points from dropping.

"Ok that didn't work, try out Shadow Beam!" Leafeon planter his feet before releasing a bright white beam of energy that was followed closely by Shadow Ball. The attacks came together as they flew towards Glaceon making the beam have black streaks through it. The display caused May's point to fall slightly.

May's eyes widened as she callled out for Glaceon to dodge, "Use Iron Tail to launch yourself into the air." From within the snow storm Glaceon flung herself into the air above Leafeon. "Glaceon now use Frost Breath."

Glaceon drew a deep breath before expelling chilled breath. The attack took some of Blizzard along with it, causing snow flakes to fall across the stage in its wake. The attack cover the ground between the two pokemon delivering a critical hit to Leafeon. The verdant pokemon slowly stood up but soon realized that his feet were frozen in place. Drew glanced at the points board, he seen that May's points were still at three quarters while his had fallen below the quarter mark. The battle had gone south from him from the beginning and it wasn't looking up anytime soon as there was just a minute left.

Everyone in the crowd gasped in shock as Drew recalled his Leafeon (Drew might be an arrogant ass but he cares about his pokemon.). Drew turned to the judges, "I forfeit the battle I won't let my pokemon get hurt to try and win."

May was surprised at his comments but understood what he meant. While she wanted to knock his pokemon out and deplete his points, May would never hurt a pokemon to do so.

"Well then with Drew's forfeit that makes May our winner today." Lilian announced and the crows went wild. "To present our winner with the ribbon Mr. Contesta."

"I'd like to congratulate both of you for making it to the final round today. Drew we all admire you for your actions to protect your pokemon, perhaps with a tad more training on speed you will be the winner of the next match." Mr. Contesta said, Drew's face turned slightly red from his comment. "Now without further ado Ms. Maple for showing excellent combinations and for showing us the deep bond you share with your pokemon. Its my pleasure to present you with the Hidden Village Ribbon."

May held the ribbon between her fingers and grinned ear to ear, "Alright we got our second ribbon!"

A few hours after the contest had ended May and Ash were settling into a victory dinner for May. "May you looked so amazing out there today, so did Swanna and you did too Glaceon." Ask complemented. The ice type rubbed Ash's hand affectionately, May's cheeks had a small blush do to Ash's kind words.

May leaned across the table giving Ash a light kiss, "Thank you Ash and thank you for all your help. I don't know if we'd done as well without it."

"May don't sell yourself short, your pokemon and you are all amazing and should be very proud of yourselves." The couple made small talk as they ate their meal before retiring to their room for the evening.

May cuddled with Ash for a short period of time while they watched T.V. before she fell asleep on his chest. Ash slowly moved her to the side before scooping her into his arms and gently laying May into her bed.

"Good night May, sweet dreams. I love you more than you know." Ash whispered as he gently pressed his lips to hers. Glaceon gave Pikachu a kick on the cheek before she jumped up and curled up next to May. Once Ash laid down Pikachu crawled onto his pillow falling asleep quickly. Meowth chose a plush arm chair to curl up in for the night, and Lucario was the last occupant of the room to fall asleep, while he sat upright against the wall in meditative position. Both trainers slept deeply, dreaming of one another, and of future adventures to come.


Hope everyone enjoyed this one and thank you to for all the follows and faves. As always feel free to drop any reviews, comments or advice. Also I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on a single trainer having multiple mega evolutions in a single battle.

Ash's pokemon: Pikachu, Lucario, Meowth, Ralts, Sandshrew, Krookodile, Gardevoir, and Venusaur.

May's pokemon: Blaziken, Glaceon, Sewaddle, Venusaur, Florges, Wartortle, Swanna, and Ralts