"The eight coordinators moving on to the next rounds contest battle are…" Marian says pointing to the big screen as the pictures pop up. With Harmony, Ash, Dawn and Zoey's face on four of them. "These lucky eight!"
"Yes! Sylveon we did it!" Harmony cheers squatting down to hug her pokemon kissing her head gently. "Only have to get through three more people." she murmurs softly, "Then we get our first Sinnoh Region ribbon," she states as her Rotom phone buzzes and flies out.
"Message from Dragon King! Message from CharmeLEON!" her Rotom states making her grin, "Guess our best mates are watching it too! And it's like early in the morning for them." she murmurs looking at them congratulating her and wishing her the best of luck.
Once they announced that they started to announce who they were up against. With Harmony matching up against Jessie, who looked oddly familiar to Harmony for some reason but she couldn't put her finger on it just that moment. Zoey against Ash, and Dawn against some random guy.
"Well I wish you all the best of luck!" she says.
Harmony ended up going up first and wasn't surprised to make quick work of Jessalina's points. Having decided to use Sylveon once more was easy as her pokemon gracefully evaded most if not all of her pokemon's attacks making her grin and curtsy when the round was over, there was even two minutes still on the clock.
"Thank you so much Sylveon, you did fantastically!" she coos, tossing up a treat for her pokemon once they got back. "Good luck Ash! I hope you have fun and win!" she says high fiving him as he moved to enter for his battle with Zoey.
It didn't end well, Aipom lost, and while Ash was giving him food and sitting off to the side.
"That was one of the most exciting battles I've ever seen! My heart was beating so fast!" Dawn says grinning.
"Yeah, but if you ask me don't you think things got a bit wild?" Brock points out.
"You kind of went into battle mode rather than contest battle mode Ash." Harmony points out.
"Yeah you two are right, I totally forgot about makings sure my moves were looking good," Ash says sheepishly as Aipom dug into her food.
However, he was quickly brought down when Zoey seemed to come towards him with a bit of anger in her eyes.
"Hi Zoey," Dawn says happily.
"Congratulations on your win, and good luck in the next round," Ash says holding his hand out only for Zoey to not take it.
"That last focus punch, it was so powerful I froze in my tracks," Zoey admits.
"Huh? Yeah? I guess I was just concentrating so hard" Ash says sheepishly.
"If time hadn't run out when it did, I'm sure you would have beaten me." Zoey points out with a smile on her face shaking Ash's hand finally, "Thanks for a great battle. Still, if you don't mind me saying I don't think a contest battle is where you shine."
"Yeah guess I just had to try it, but I know you're right," Ash says with a chuckle.
"Hey get this, Ash entered the contest because Aipom wanted to take a shot!" Dawn points out.
"Aipom?" Zoey questions confused.
"That's the truth alright," Ash says with a grin looking down at his pokemon.
"Hmm, I know what to do! Dawn, you raise Aipom!" Zoey says making the others freeze.
"You know she might be onto something, but it's too early to say, Aipom has a love of both so we'd have to see if she'd want to do it more so than battling." Harmony points out.
As Dawn made it to the second round and so did the other coordinator it was down to Harmony, Zoey, Dawn, and the other trainer. The match-ups shocked the three girls. "Woah...guess it's not the final round you'll meet," she says softly to Zoey and Dawn, who were up against each other. "I guess I'll see one of you in the finals though!" she says determinedly.
It was that determination of Harmony and Sylveon that they made it to the final round but going up against Zoey as Dawn had lost in the last few seconds of her battle with the girl.
"Don't think we'll go easy on you Zoey! May the best win!" Harmony states with a grin as the battle starts.
It was tough to get through, but Sylveon prevailed, using Glameows Shadow Claw and a thunderbolt to her advantage being able to turn it against Zoeyy's pokemon by using Moonblast to create sparkles in the air which helped bring about Sylveon's inner beauty.
"And that's it time's up! And that means the winner is Harmony! Congratulations on your victory!" Mariam says making Harmony gasp and runs over to Sylveon.
"We did it! We won our first ribbon little love!" she whispers giggling as Sylveon's ribbon feelers wrapped around her in excitement.
Soon they were being awarded their ribbon, "Let's give a big hand to Harmony as she receives the Jubilife Ribbon!" Mariam says as Harmony grins taking hold of it showing it to Sylveon before showing the camera, a huge smile on her face.
"One down four to go!" she says happily as the crowd cheers her on.
Later that evening Harmony happily placed her ribbon in the case she had been given after staring at it. "Perfect, now I just need to keep the streak going and win the gym battle." she points out to Chu, her Pikachu, and Slyveon who was happily munching on her favorite berry.
The group of four had just said bye to Zoey wishing her luck on her next contest along with pointing out that Dawn had another rival besides Harmony.
"Now onto the gym!" Ash says excitedly.
"But we might want to wait until morning, that way we don't have to set up camp in the dark." Harmony points out, "And I don't know about you but after all that excitement I am kinda hungry"
As soon as she said that Ash's stomach growled and he laughed sheepishly, "You know you might be right Harmony…."