Sorry for the long wait! This chapter took a lot of time to write, and a lot of things were coming up too.
Anyways, here is chapter 5!

Lots of thanks to Eeveeguardian! Thanks for helping me with Iso's contest dress! I wouldn't have been able to design it myself, so this chapter is dedicated to you!

Thanks to the following people for reviewing:
Eeveeguadian- Thanks!
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Eevee3942- Thanks! That made me really happy! I wouldn't realy say Iso's mom is evil, though Ben's definately is.
IcecreamSyndrome- Thanks! Awesome, cause I have many more ways I'm planning to connect them which will be more important to the plot. And their contest is here! Though not all of it.
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Oh, and you should know who Marian, Mr. Contesta, and Mr. Sukizo are. If you dont, look them up.

Chapter 5

Contest Extraordinaire!

Character: Iso

We continued running. After seeing that we had reached the edge of the forrest, I stopped. I heard Ben skid to a stop behind me. We turned into our human forms.

"We made it!" I looked around. Jubilife City was huge! I had been here only once before as a child, when my dad brought me cause it was bring your child to work day at his work.

"Yeah! And, according to my poketch, the contest is in fifteen minutes!" Ben looked happy.

"We should go. But, where is the contest hall?"

"Ummmm... lets ask someone." Ben walked into the city. I followed.

Ben walked up to a man in a business suit. "Hello, can you tell us where the conest hall is?"

The man took a look at Ben, and then looked at me. After looking at me, he hurried away.

We continued trying to get directions but everyone was avoiding us.

"Hey, I'll show you where it is!" A boy walked up to us.

"Thank you! Everybody else wont talk to us." I looked over him. The boy looked ten to me. He had short, blond hair that was messy, and his eyes were blue.

"No problem. Why would they avoid you two? You seem like nice people. My name is Joe. Anyways, it's this way. Follow me." Joe pointed his hand to the left, and began walking that way.

We continued walking, taking lots of turns through deserted alleyways. Joe claimed this way was a short cut. Then we emerged onto a busy street. After walking down it, we stopped.

"Well here it is!" In front of us was a huge building. There was a sign above the door that was looked like a pink ribon, and said 'Contest Hall'.

"You two have fun! Maybee we'll meet again!" Joe left.

"Ok, so we should sign up!" I pushed open the door, and stepped inside. Ben followed.

"Let's see... The registration desk is over there." Ben walked towards a desk at the back wall.

"Hi, we are here to sign up for the contest! It's our first time!"

"Ok, then. I will need you two to put your pokedexes in the slots right there." The attendant smiled at them.

"Ummm... I don't think I have one... Professor Rowan never gave us pokedexes did he?" I looked at Ben.

"No, he didn't..." Ben spoke in an aqward voice too.

"Ok then, I'll need to see your trainer cards. And I have a question. How the heck did you get all the way here without even realizing you didn't have pokedexes!"

"Umm, I don't know. I guess we didn't need them. Here is my trainer card." Ben handed the attendant his card, and I did too.

A minute later she handed them back to us, and set two trays in front of us. They each had a ribbon case, two ball capsules, and an envelope which contained various seals.

"Can I have blue ribbon case instead of a pink one?"

"I'm not even going to ask." The attendant took the pink case walked into the back room, and returned with a blue one.

"Just so you know the rules, this contest will be a double performance. You can either participate with two pokemon, or team up with another coordinator and both have one pokemon each. Which one should I sign you up for?"

"Ben and I will team up."

Character: Ben

Location: Outside contest hall on busy street a little while later

"How could he forget to give us pokedexes! He's the professor! It shouldn't happen!" I was fuming.

"Well, he is an old man, and old people forget things. And we didn't notice either, so you can't blame him." Iso's voice had a calmed me down.

"But it still took three entire minutes. If we had pokedexes it wouldn't have even taken ten seconds!"

"No, it only took one minute. It took two minutes to get Zephyr's pokeball unstuck after you somehow stuck it in the ball capule the wrong way."
"Hey! It was my first time using a ball capsule!"

"Its pretty obvious the side the ball capule opens should have the pokeball facing that way too."

"Whatever! Now we have eight minutes to buy clothes for the contest!"

"I saw a store on our way here. It was just a little down this road."

"Lets go then!"

We walked down he street. There was a store for contest clothes for guys and girls, so we went in. Iso left for the girls section.

I walked through the racks. I walked part the formal section, and into a small section where they had stuff that wasnt formal or fancy. I picked a shirt that was a yellowish beige with green cuffs. I then chose some jeans of a matching color scheme. I added a pair of brown tennis shoes to the cart. Then something caught my eye. It was a cape. I went to the fitting rooms ant tried it on. It was the same yellowish-beige near the top, and then there was a stripe of green-beige, and the rest of the cape was a grassy green. It fit him well and barely touched the floor. The button looked like a leaf, kind of like the leaf on a leaf stone, except shiny. I decided to buy it.

Iso and I met up outside the store.

"So what did you get?" I was curious as I had overheard her and the cashier talking as I was waiting in line, and apparently she had gotten something expensive.

"You'll have to wait to find out!"

"Well, then you'll have to wait too!"

"I'm ok with that."

We returned to the contest hall and went to the dressing rooms. We agreed to meet in the waiting room as the contest was about to start.

I finished wearing my clothes in little time, so I waited for Iso. After a little while, she reappeared. She was wearing a light blue dress, with a dark blue bow on the waist line. She had dark blue gloves. Her shoes matched her gloves, and looked like they were made from some glassy material. She was wearing a necklace with a silver chain, and a stone at the end, which seemed like a sapphire. The gem gave me an icy feel after looking at it.

"Wow, you look amazing in that, Iso!" I was surprised at how good she looked in her dress.

"I can't say the same for you though. Seriously? You're going to wear a cape with a t-shirt and jeans?" Iso looked annoyed and confused at the same time.

"Is there a problem with that...?" I spoke with uncertainty in my voice.

"Uhggg! Whatever. You are embarasing yourself."

"I'm taking that as a no."

The contest started, and we were second to last. We watched the other coordinators do their appeals on the screen. One that was intresting was this boy named Athru. He appealed with a nincada and a tailow. His nincada used sunny day, and then solarbeam straight up. His tailow used quick attack, and sparaled upward around the solarbeam while also using wing attack on the solarbeam. Then the tailow stoped and flew back as the solarbeam dissapated. The tailow then landed next to the nincada.

"Ben and Iso, your performance will be next." The man who told people when it was their turn stepped in.

Iso and I stepped out on walked through the hall way that led to the stage. The boy who had just been on passed us. We stepped behing the cutain.

"Now, it the debut of Iso and Ben, two coordinators from Sandgem Town!" As the announcer spoke, the curtin parted before us.

We walked into the stage. I took a deep breath. I looked at Iso. She looked calm and determined. If she could be brave right now, so could I.

"Ok, now." She wispered, so only I could hear. We transformed to our pokemon forms.

There were a few, well a lot of gasps, and then the crown was silint in shock and awe. Then somebody shouted, "Awesome!" The was some clapping and then most people were clapping. Mr. Contesta and Mr. Sukizo were disscussing something and flipping through some thick rulebooks. Nurse Joy was in shock, and her eyes were wide and her jaw was hanging open.

Mr. Contest nodded at Marian. Marian then spoke into the mic, "The judges have found that there is no rule saying that is not allowed, so continue!"

We went on with our appeal as we planned. I used razor leaf while spining, sending hundreds of leaves into the air. Iso used icy wind, freezing all the leaves. All the icy leaves flew around in the air, with the light reflecting off of them, making them sparkle. Iso and I jumped and used ice fang and leaf blade, shatering the leaves arond us. Rippling out ward, all the leaves shattered, leaving the air filled with green and blue sparkles.

The crowd clapped loudly.

"Since it is allowed, I guess it was an amazing perfomance." Mr. Contesta smiled.

"Remarkable!" Mr. Sukizo claped.

As Nurse Joy was still in shock, she didn't say anything.

"Whew! That went well." I took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from my face.

"I'd say it was awesome for our first contest!" Iso was happy and excited.

We were back in the waiting room, waiting for the ccorrdinators who would go to the second round to be chosen. As if on cue the screen came on.

"The judges' results are in! The eight coordinators who will be proceeding to the next roun are on the board!" Marian pointed up. There were eight pictures shown. Iso and I looked for our picture.

Author's Notes:

Epic cliffhanger!

Athru is in Irish. If you dont want spoliers, don't look it up.

Iso: And now, to garuntee our winning I'm going to threaten Ryu with a bananna.

Ryu: That's what you think! I ate the last bananna this morning! Hahahaha! In your face!

Iso: Thats why I have a fist!

Ryu: *writes Iso into pokemon form*

Iso: Then, I'll bite you!

Ryu:*writes Iso back into story*

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