After meeting with Ivan and Silvia, the competition was about to begin. Rena revealed that her new pokemon is a Luxray, a powerful looking pokemon. Rena and Orihime both have one star medal each, but we will soon see who will have two.

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To be the best of the best

Someday your destined for power and glory

You know you're up to the test

There's only one way to tell this story

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Face your fears and show you're a hero

The future of the world is in your hands

Pokémon

(Orihime's voice) Electric Cooking Style

Rena revealed her new Luxray. It was certainly a surprise to Orihime and the others. What really matters is what this Luxray can really do.

"Ready, Luxray." Rena said as she held out a ball of dough.

"Is that baking dough? What is Rena going to do with that?" Baron questioned.

"Do it! Use Shock Wave!" Rena said as she tossed it in the air. Luxray unleashed an electrical wave and zapped the dough. Everyone was wondering on what that was doing until they all saw something they couldn't believe. The dough was actually being baked and turned into bread. "Stop!" Rena ordered for the attack to stopped. Luxray stopped the attack with Rena catching it.

"Impressive. A Luxray that can use its electricity to cook." Baron said. Rena walked over to Baron for her to taste the bread.

"A real test of cooking is the taste." Rena said. Baron tore a piece off and had a taste.

"Soft and fluffy. Luxray's Shock Wave also seems to have cooked it to the right spot." Baron said. "Let's see what our judges think of the score." They all looked to Rena's score and saw it dial to... "Rena gets a total of 44."

"Forty-four? Out of how much?" Ivan asked as he and Silvia were watching with Ichigo and the others.

"Fifty." Rukia said. "That looks like a good score, but I guess the judges think they didn't show much of Luxray's uniqueness."

"Still, you have to admit that it was impressive. How often do you see a Luxray bake bread?" Ichigo said. While it was a good start, there was still much of the show to go.

...

Orihime

Orihime waited for her turn to come. While she was waiting, she saw Rena and her Luxray arrive in the room.

"Rena, that looked like a great show." Orihime said.

"Obviously not good enough." Rena said. "I didn't get a perfect score, but I thought Luxray did a great job here." She said as she petted Luxray on the head. "I bet those judges are just jealous they didn't get a taste. They just better hope we win it."

"Luxray..."

"Rena, I'm sure you're going to do fine." Orihime said. "You know what would have made that bread better? Maybe some red bean paste, wasabi, and delicious honey." As Orihime was fantasizing on the bread, Rena felt a little disgusted.

'Yuck. I don't even want to know where she gets her taste in food.' Rena thought.

...

The Stage

As the show went on, everyone was having a great time. It was Ivan's and Silvia's first time seeing this live and in person. They were loving it. Competitors kept going until it was Orihime's turn.

"Now, please welcome, all the way from Unova, Orihime!" Baron said as Orihime came out on stage.

"Swanna, let's do this!" Orihime said as she called out Swanna.

"Swanna!"

"Now use Bubble Beam!" Orihime said. Swanna blasted bubbles in the air. "Now fly!" Swanna flew in the air and and popped the bubbles. Swanna even made it look graceful and beautiful while they flying through the bubbles. When Swanna flew down, Swanna was glittering in blue sparkles.

"Such beauty and grace. Fitting for a Swanna. Judges?" Baron questioned. They all looked to Orihime's score and saw it dial to... "Orihime gets a score of 45."

"A little higher than Rena's, but it's still a good score." Ichigo said. All they can do is hope for the best.

"That puts an end to the first round. Now, we wait to see which of our eight lucky contestants will be moving to the second half of our show. Tune in for the results." Baron claimed.

...

The Waiting Room

While everyone was waiting, Ichigo and the others showed Ivan and Silvia the way to the waiting room. When they got there, they spotted Orihime and Rena.

"Hey, guys." Orihime said.

"You both looked great out there." Ichigo said.

"Ivan, what did you think?" Rena said as she was pretty curious as to what he did think.

"You both looked great." Ivan said.

"That's what Ichigo just said, you dummy." Rena said.

"Luxray and Swanna looked really great out there as well." Ivan said. All the things Rena didn't really want to here. She wanted to know what he really thought of her personally.

"I do have to say that it was an impressive show. Might I add that you two also look so beautiful." Silvia said. Orihime was flattered that Silvia thought that while Rena was a little surprised.

"Thanks for the compliments, but I just hope it was enough." Orihime said.

"What do you mean?" Ivan asked. "You both got some pretty good scores."

"Maybe, but it still might not be enough." Rukia said. "The point of the first round is to show off the characteristics, a trait or your pokemon or such. The higher your score, the better the chances. Even with scores that Orihime and Rena get, there's no guarantee that means you'll make it to the second round."

"That's why it can be rather anxious waiting for the results to see who goes to the second round." Ichigo said.

"Wow. This sounds harder than I thought." Silvia said.

"Thank you for waiting. We have decided which eight are moving to the second round." Baron announced as they all looked to the screen and showed the lucky eight. Two of them were Rena and Orihime.

"We made it!" Orihime said as she was happy for both herself and Rena.

"But this is where the real battle starts." Rena said.

"We will now randomly pair our eight contestants to see who will be battling who." Baron said. The cards were shuffled and showed the matches for the next round with it being Orihime and Rena in the first match.

"We're already facing each other?" Orihime said as she wasn't expecting it to be so soon.

"Works for me. May the better trainer win." Rena said as she was ready to go.

...

The Stage

"We will now begin the second stage of our competition: the battle stage." Baron said. "Our first competitors will be these two lovely ladies: Rena and Orihime. We'll see who will advance soon enough."

"So the second half is a battle." Silvia acknowledged.

"Yeah, but you have to use the same pokemon you used in the first round." Rukia said. "That could be a problem for Orihime."

"When both sides are ready, you may begin!" Baron announced.

"Swanna, let's do this!" Orihime called.

"Swanna!"

"Luxray, turn it up!" Rena said.

"Luxray!"

"It's going to be a difficult battle for Orihime." Rukia said. "Swanna is at a huge disadvantage against electric-types with it being a water-type and a flying-type."

"True, but if Orihime can outmaneuver those electric attacks, she should be just fine." Ichigo said.

"Swanna, Bubble Beam!" Orihime said. Swanna started the battle as Swanna blasted bubbles against Luxray.

"Orihime starts off with Bubble Beam and Luxray is taking all of it." Baron announced.

"Luxray, Shock Wave!" Rena said.

"Try to avoid it, Swanna!" Orihime said. Luxray unleashed the electric attack, but Swanna flew around with style and grace to avoid the attack.

"You're going to need more than fancy moves. Double Team!" Rena said. Luxray made copies of itself and was able to confuse Swanna and Orihime as they had no idea which one was the real one.

"Luxray has used Double Team and it looks like Swanna and Orihime have no idea what to do." Baron said.

"Now use Crunch!" Rena said. The real Luxray jumped at Swanna from behind. By the time Swanna realized it, it was too late. Swanna was already caught in Luxray's teeth and shoved to the ground. That didn't look good for Swanna. Luxray gave Swanna a good toss and Swanna bounced against the ground.

"Swanna, are you okay?!" Orihime asked. Swanna was able to get back up, but Swanna took some damage.

"Swanna manages to get back up, but that looked like a hard hit. How much more can Swanna take?" Baron announced to build suspense.

"Swanna use Bubble Beam!" Orihime said. Swanna flew in the air once again and started blast Luxray with the bubbles again.

"You'll need to do better than that." Rena said.

"What about this?! Swanna, Air Slash!" Orihime said. Swanna used Air Slash and it headed for Luxray.

"Nice try! Double Team!" Rena said. Luxray made copies of itself again and was able to avoid the attack.

"Swanna fights back with Air Slash, but Luxray uses Double Team once more." Baron said. "Is Orihime and Swanna going to fall for the same trick twice?"

"No we won't. Bubble Beam until you hit the real one! It's in there somewhere!" Orihime said. Swanna attacked again and kept blasting fakes to try and smoke the real Luxray out. Swanna kept the attack going until Swanna was able to find the real one and blasted it.

"Luxray has been found and keeps getting attacked." Baron said.

"As fun as this is, I need to end it. Luxray, Wild Charge!" Rena said. Luxray had an electrical aura form around it and unleashed some power.

"Wild Charge?!" Rukia said with astonishment.

"That's a powerful electric attack that causes recoil damage." Chad said.

"Hang in there, Swanna!" Ichigo cheered.

"Swanna, Brave Bird!" Orihime said. Swanna unleashed Brave Bird with both of them charging at each other.

"Both sides are using very powerful attacks, but I have a feeling only one will walk out of this!" Baron announced. Both pokemon went at each other and collided in a powerful explosion. Both trainers were hoping for the best. When the smoke cleared away, Luxray was still standing, but poor Swanna was defeated. "Swanna is unable to battle. That means that Luxray wins and moving on is Rena."

"We really did it!" Rena cheered in delight. She beat Orihime. It was hard for her friends to see, but Orihime accepted her defeat as she walked over to Swanna with a smile.

"Swanna, thank you. You really did great." Orihime said to make Swanna feel better.

"Poor Orihime." Ivan said.

"But she doesn't look upset." Silvia said.

"True. That's because this isn't her first defeat. She battled hard and has accepted that she lost." Ichigo said. "She can just use this defeat to make herself better."

"Interesting..." Silvia said as it has her doing some thinking. After that battle, the competition went on. Rena and Luxray kept on battling until they reached the final round. As Luxray used Crunch on a Dustox, Luxray won the battle once more.

"There we have it! We have our winners! It's Rena and Luxray!" Baron announced with everyone cheering.

"Yes! We won!" Rena said as she hugged Luxray in joy. "Thank you, Luxray. I love you! I love you! I love you!"

"Luxray!" Luxray was happy about the win itself. With Rena declared the winner, she was rewarded the star medal with a cloud-white diamond inside it.

"Congrats to Rena and Luxray on their win." Baron said as he handed her the medal.

"Thank you so much." Rena said as she took the medal and everyone cheered for her. With that, this show comes to a close.

...

Later

Decisions were made thanks to seeing the competition. Silvia now knows what she wants to do and feels the confidence to go through with it. As she told her all of them, they were all surprised by what she declared.

"You're going to become a show-woman yourself?!" Ivan said.

"Indeed." Silvia said. "I was truly inspired by all of you and that competition. I want to be part of the fun as well. That's why I'm taking Roggenrola here as my partner." She's decided to take Roggenrola as she no longer cares for beauty and class in a pokemon.

"Roggenrola!" Roggenrola was clearly excited to go with her.

"I'm quite impressed, Silvia." Rena said.

"Thank you, Rena." Silvia said as she took her hands. "I have you and Orihime to thank for this. Ivan Dear, you will cheer for me, won't you?"

"No he won't because he'll be cheering for me!" Rena shouted at Silvia with the two of them glaring at each other.

"Calm down girls. There's no reason to fight." Ivan said as they tried to get them to relax.

"What is with those two?" Ichigo said.

"I think it's obvious they both have their eyes on the same guy." Rukia said as she felt sorry for poor Ivan.

"Anyway, I'm going to get going myself." Rena said as she gathered her stuff together.

"You're not staying for the tournament?" Ivan asked.

"I've had enough excitement. It's time to hit the road." Rena said. "Orihime, I'll be seeing you around. The next time the three of us meet, we're rivals for Ultimate Talent Star." The three of them agreed to that with the girls hitting the road. Ivan was real impressed with both of them.

"So, are you guys sticking around for Jacklot City's annual tournament?" Ivan asked.

"You bet we we are." Ichigo said.

"All of us decided to enter." Chad said.

"I just know it's going to be a lot of fun." Orihime said as they were all looking forward to it.

Orihime may have lost her chance at getting her second medal, but she'll be ready for next time. Now, it's time to get ready for the tournament they all wish to enter in. I'm sure it will be just as exciting, and I'm sure you can't wait to see it. So stay tuned.

To Be Continued...

Pokemon Question: Okay, all you trainers. The answer to the last question was...Golduck! Golduck are such fast swimmers that they are able to break human records. Here's the next question. What pokemon is depicted as a deity of fire in ancient murals?