I just threw this chapter together, so it's not that great...it's getting into the paranormal...I wanted to further the plot, so that's why this is kind of rushed...I hope it didn't come off as that bad though! I updated quicker than I thought. The next chapter is getting into the breeding convention, and lunch time, and I'm sure that that will be better than this one! I just hope that you can last through this chapter...

Chapter Twenty-one: Ribbon Cup Caper (Revised)

May was scared, really scared. She was in the elevator on her way to the seventh, and haunted floor. No matter how grand the ghosts were, or how grand the eerie elevator was, she was still scared.

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"How long do we have to wait?" yelled a member of the audience.

"Yeah, I have to get to the breeding convention after this!" yelled a Nurse Joy.

"I want lunch!" yelled another member of the audience.

"I want to take a picture of Drew with the ribbon cup!" yelled a photographer, and some of Drew's cheerleaders hurriedly ran in search of cameras.

"Not to worry, not to worry…" said Grant. "In case the grand ghosts on the grand seventh floor of this too grand to be true mansion stole the grand ribbon cup, I arranged many grand, grand cameras throughout the grand mansion so that we could see May's grand adventure while she is grandly retrieving the grand ribbon cup. Now all I have to do is grandly turn on all of the grand cameras, and we can watch her every move as grand entertainment."

With that said, Grant turned on all the cameras. A buzzing sound took over the whole mansion. Then Grant gestured at Drew to press a button on the stage, and a large LCD screen slowly made its way in front of the stage so that everybody could see it.

Drew and Grant walked to the other side of the LCD screen so that they could see.

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The elevator stopped between the sixth and seventh floor.

"Darn! I thought this elevator was too grand to stop here!" yelled May, frustrated.

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There was a collective gasp throughout the audience.

"She…she made fun of the grandness of the elevator!" exclaimed Grant.

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"Um, how do I get to the seventh floor now?" asked May to no one in particular. Then she saw the door to the elevator.

Nervously, May walked to the door, and saw a wrench encased in glass labeled 'Use in Case of Emergencies' nearby. May threw a pokeball at the glass to break it, and took out the wrench.

She immediately got to work wrenching open the door that wouldn't open when she pressed the 'Open door' button.

When she opened it, she gasped. She had accidentally looked down the elevator shaft, which was very scary. She unconsciously moved a step forward, and fell, only holding on to the elevator with one hand.

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Drew clutched his seat nervously. "Is she going to make it?"

There were titters in the audience at the suspense, and everyone leaned forward in their seats as if they were watching a horror film.

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May climbed up and back into the elevator, now visibly shaken. Suddenly, the elevator started up again, and she nearly fell out again. She held on to the side of the elevator where the door used to be before it fell down the elevator shaft.

The elevator stopped as soon as it started, and an eerie and low voice said, "A grand welcome to you for grandly stopping by at the grand seventh floor."

"Who said that? Wh-where are you?" asked May, looking wildly about her.

"Please enter," said the low and eerie voice, that was very low and very eerie.

May stepped into the seventh floor nervously. When she did that, the elevator zoomed down.

"You will have to take the grand stairs on your way back…if you can go back…" said the low and eerie voice, and it began to laugh.

"Wh-why are you laughing? Where's the ribbon cup?" asked May.

"Aren't you full of questions? You'll find out…" the voice laughed again. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to have my daily grand cup of imaginary tea."

"Oh, can I come? Is it a tea party? I love tea! May I have herbal tea?" asked May excitedly.

The voice sighed. "You're supposed to be scared in a grand manner. I'm not going to invite you to tea. Toodles!"

"Who says toodles anymore?" asked May.

A bucket of water emptied on May from the ceiling.

"Sorry…" said May.

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"I didn't know she liked tea," said Ash.

"The things we learn…" remarked Misty.

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May walked down the long hallway, and looked around her. She saw paintings of people on the walls, who must've been the ghosts before they die.

"I'd love to be up there…" remarked May. Then she shook her head. "Gotta concentrate on Drew's ribbon cup."

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"Aww, isn't that sweet Drew? She's concentrating on you!" yelled Ash from the audience.

"Shut up, Ash! You're going to make us lose the romantic feel to it!" said Misty.

"Huh?" asked Ash.

Drew chose to ignore their shouts.

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"It's s-so c-c-colld…." said May, shivering. Although the real reason she was shivering was because of the water, and she was drying off, but not fully.

May spotted a door and entered it. "Anyone here? Hello?"

Suddenly, the lights in the room turned on. A blurred figure sat in a chair in the middle.

"…Greetings," said the figure.

"Ack, a ghost! Um, um, um, where's the ribbon cup? You can tell me, can't you? Say, I'll trade one of my empty pokeballs if you give it to me!" said May.

"What would I do with a pokeball?" asked the figure.

"Between you and me," started May. Then her voice dropped to a whisper. "Pokeballs can break glass."

"Hm, that can be useful…" said the figure thoughtfully.

"So, are you going to tell me or not?" asked May.

"Pokeball first," said the figure.

May dropped the pokeball onto the figure's outstretched hand, and gave a start when the pokeball went through it.

"That gets annoying," said the figure. "Well, the ribbon cup's down the hallway, turn left, and it's the last door all the way down, before the next turn."

"Thanks!" said May.

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"That was weird…" said Drew.

Grant shrugged.

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"Wait, turn right or left? Um..It probably said right, right? Ugh, why am I talking to myself? Am I…going crazy? What's that odd buzzing noise? I feel like someone's watching me…" said May.

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"She's on to us…" murmured Drew.

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"Gotta concentrate…okay, turned right, now I have to go into the first door right? So that's this one isn't it?" May opened the first door she saw.

Suddenly, confetti dropped on her.

"CONGRATULATIONS! YOU CAN'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!" yelled a voice.

"I…can't?" asked May.

"SPEAK UP! I'M A BIT HARD OF HEARING!" yelled the voice, which was coming from right in front of May, a figure that shimmered and glowed red. The figure smiled eerily.

"I SAID THAT I CAN TOO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!" yelled May.

"NO YOU CAN'T BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!" yelled the voice.

"WHERE'S THE RIBBON CUP?" yelled May.

"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!" yelled the voice, and another bucket of water tipped over May's head.

"MY HAIR!" yelled May.

"THERE'S A GHOSTLY SALON THE NEXT DOOR OVER!" yelled the voice.

"OKAY, SEE YA!" yelled May, leaving the room.

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"Great attention span," remarked Drew.

"I think it's just grand, actually," said Grant.

"I kinda didn't get the feeling that she was so into her hair though," commented Drew.

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"Welcome, what can I do for you today?" asked a ghost holding a hair dryer.

"My hair's all wet," explained May.

"So what do you want me to do about it?" asked the ghost.

"I want to dye my hair," said May randomly.

"What color?" asked the ghost curiously.

May had to think about that one. "Gold!"

"Uh…do you want your hair blonde?" asked the ghost.

"No thank you," said May.

"Gold?" repeated the ghost, dumbfounded.

"You're right, gold's much too flashy," said May suddenly. "I think I'll dye my hair blue!"

The ghost then laughed maniacally. "I'll dye your hair magenta!"

May gasped. "No, not magenta!"

"Yes magenta!" said the ghost eerily.

"No, no, no!" yelled May, scared.

"Oh, I can't wait! I've been waiting years to dye someone's hair magenta!" exclaimed the ghost.

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The audience gasped. Could they handle such a drastic change in hair color? They clutched the arm rests of their comfy seats in terror.

Drew and Grant clutched their arm rests too, except slightly more grandly.

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May shrieked and ran out of the salon, slamming the door behind her. She ran as fast as she could, and entered a random room after a few turns.

Once in the room, she huffed and puffed. Then she saw it…

In the center of the room…

In a glass case…

Was a…

Slice of cheesecake!

May licked her lips and charged for the slice.

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"Darn! If only she noticed the ribbon cup that was right next to it!" said Drew angrily.

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May lifted the glass case hungrily, and snatched the piece of cheesecake. As soon as her fork, which she always carries around with her, mind, sunk into the scrumptious cake, an alarm sounded.

"All grand ghosts, calling all grand ghosts grandly. Grand ghosts, enter the grand shrine of the Grand Ribbon Cup. Someone has grandly infiltrated this grand room and grandly took our grand and delicious piece of grand cheesecake that is grandly fifty years old," announced a ghostly loudspeaker.

May hurriedly spit out the bite that she had taken. "SALMONELLA!" she shrieked.

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Everyone in the auditorium gasped. Their hearts beat frantically.

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About twenty ghosts filed into the room and surrounded May. The hard-of-hearing one spoke first.

"HOW DOES THAT TASTE?"

"JUST DANDY!" yelled May sarcastically.

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Drew was beside himself in laughter. "Payback!"

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A ghost with a blonde wig spoke next. "You have taken a bite of mold-infested cheesecake. How do you feel?"

May moaned.

"Cassandra, give her a break…" said a ghost holding a pillow. "My turn now. How did you not notice that the cheesecake was old?"

"Um, well, it was…it looked good…" said May helplessly.

"Did it?" asked Cassandra, smiling at May cruelly.

"How was I supposed to know it was old?" blurted out May.

The ghost with the hair dryer frowned. "There are things living on it!"

"Gross!" said Cassandra, making a face. "Did you have to say that?"

"Yes, yes I did," said the ghost with the hair dryer.

"And we are ghosts after all. Where would we get a cheesecake from anyway? Why, Cassandra died eating the cheesecake, and that's the only reason it's here," said the ghost with the pillow.

"There's also a bite in the cheesecake, if you need more evidence," said a ghost with buckteeth.

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"Maybe this is too much payback…" said Drew.

"What if she gets food-poisoning?" asked a member in the audience.

"We should quarantine her!" said another member.

"It's not that bad," argued another member.

"I'm hungry," said someone else.

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"…okay, I get it," said May presently.

"…good," said Cassandra.

"Can I have the ribbon cup now?" May felt sick to her stomach and wanted to get this over with.

"Yeah, sure, have fun," said the ghost with the hair dryer.

"TAKE THE RIBBON CUP," said the hard-of-hearing ghost.

"You're just going to give it to me, just like that?" asked May.

"WE WANT TO SEE YOU GIVING IT TO DREW!" yelled the hard-of-hearing ghost.

"Drew's cute…" sighed a female ghost.

"Tell me about it…" sighed another female ghost.

"NOW GO BEFORE WE CHANGE OUR MIND!" yelled the hard-of-hearing ghost.

May jumped as a ghost went through her, which felt pretty cold. Then she grabbed the ribbon cup in its case, and dashed out of the room. She managed to find the elevator without getting lost, and hopped into it when it came.

"A parting gift," said an eerie voice. A bucket of water fell on May once more, although the glass case protected the ribbon cup from getting wet. May, on the other hand, was not as lucky.

Being on the elevator was not a pleasant trip, for the door was still broken and not attached to it. May tried not to look down as she made her way back to the floor where the Grand Festival itself was being held.

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"Quick, hide the TV screen!" ordered Drew.

Grant fumbled with the button but quickly pressed it. The LCD screen disappeared from view as May entered the room, completely soaked.

She ran to the stage, and said, "This year's Grand Festival winner is Drew!"

After removing the case, she handed him the ribbon cup, and Grant pulled down a lever and dropped two tons of confetti on top of Drew. Two tons was a lot, so in other words, Drew was buried in confetti.

Drew dug his way out, and accepted the ribbon cup.