Chapter 4 Eliza's First contest and Rusty's Spy!
In Hoen, Team Aqua was searching around for a former member that went missing the year before. They also had subordinates going around in Kanto and Johto to find them. One of them had returned to report to Shelly.
"What do you have for me?" she asked.
"We haven't found him yet." The guy answered after he saluted.
"Damn it! He is harder to find than I thought. I guess we have to search a lot harder."
"I guess Archie wants him found." The guy said.
"Yes, he is a very valuable member and an ace trainer when he battles especially with his water types." She answered.
"Is there another region he could be in?"
"Not that I know of."
"there is one he might be in." they heard and saw Archie walk over.
"Archie?" she asked.
"He might be hiding in the Sinoh region which is miles away from here; send a spy in that direction and make sure he contacts us when he finds him!" he ordered.
"Yes sir!" Shelly exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Rusty, Eliza, and the twins landed in Hearthome City where they went off to prepare for the contest. First they dropped by the Poffin bakery and made their poffins and eliza had some help feeding them to her Pokemon with the berries that she picked. Then they spent the night at the Pokemon Center and had a fresh start in the morning by training a bit before they went to the contest hall to register.
"Now Sparkle use your tail whip to hit your sweet kiss hearts!" eliza exclaimed.
Sparkle did as she was told and jumped for joy.
"Good job!" she exclaimed.
"Pichu!" Sparkle exclaimed.
"I guess you're entering with Sparkle." Rusty said.
"I am not sure, but all my Pokemon seem to be in good contest shape by the looks of things. Even Starla is shaping up just fine." Eliza said.
"At least she is getting her wings in shape and will be able to fly as Staraptor in no time!" Marty exclaimed.
"So, who are you two entering with?" Eliza asked.
"I am entering with Spritzer and Marty is entering with his Ninetales." Maritza answered.
"You have a Ninetales?" Eliza asked.
"Yeah, I caught a Vulpix a while back and evolved it with a fire stone after winning one during a mini contest back home." Marty answered.
"Maybe I should try and enter one of my fire Pokemon into a contest, I bet it would be ccool if my Blazeken would look." Eliza said.
"There's a thought." Maritza said.
"Maybe we should head for the contest hall before the place gets crowded with trainers trying to register." Marty said.
Eliza returned Sparkle and they all headed for the contest hall
When they arrived, they found some people in line and went to one of the lines and waited. After a while, they were helped and both of the twins and Eliza were registered for the contest.
"Well, it looks like we head for the waiting room." Maritza said.
"I will go find a seat and watch the contest." Rusty said. "Break some legs you three!"
"We will!" Maritza exclaimed as she walked off with her brother and Eliza.
As Rusty walked he felt something strange and looked around the hall and found nothing weird going on. He kept on walking and thought, That's weird, I thought I felt someone watching me!
"Welcome everyone to the Hearthome Pokemon Contest! We are all excited to another great contest for you all! We have contestants new and old competing here today! Let's get started!" the announcer exclaimed.
"Go Spritzer!" Maritza exclaimed as she went onstage for her turn.
Her Ampoleon got onstage with a waterfall to show.
"Amazing! Maritza, a returning contestant, sends out her Ampoleon with a great waterfall execution!"
"Now Spritzer use bubblebeam!"
Ampoleon did as he was told.
"Now use water gun to break them!"
He did as he was told and the audience applauded.
"A stunning show from a returning contestant!"
Marty got onstage and yelled, "Go Tails!"
His Ninetails came out.
"Use swift!"
Tails did the move.
"Now use your fire spin!" he exclaimed.
Tails did as he was told.
"And run through it with agility!"
Tails ran through it like a person going down a water slide.
"Amazing! Another great show from the returning Marty!"
After a few trainers, Eliza was able to go onstage. She was nervous from all the people that were watching.
Oh man! This is not ggood! Even though this is my first contest, I still feel nervous! Just calm down Eliza, you trained for this.
"Go Splash!" she exclaimed.
Her Feraligator came onstage.
"We can do this Splash, just like we did in practice! Use aqua jet!"
Feraligator did the move.
"Now surround it with your bubblebeam!"
Feraligator did so.
"Wow! With a show like that, it seems the newest contestant, Eliza, has made the crowd go wild!"
The crowd applauded and cheered.
When the round was done, "Now that the scores have been tallied, we will see who gets to move on to the final round!"
The screen revealed the next competitors and it revealed the twins and Eliza.
"All right! It looks like they will be moving on!" Rusty exclaimed.
"In our next round, trainers will battle in a time battle and will lose points with each hit they receive from their opponent. If the time runs out, the Pokemon knocks out, or the opponent loses points, the person will win!"
Marty went against a trainer from Sunnyshore and was able to take them down. Maritza took out a newer trainer from Hoen, while Eliza went up against a past contestant and almost lost. After a few rounds, both Eliza and Marty were eliminated.
"Looks like Maritza will be going against another opponent in the finals." Rusty said as both Marty and Eliza joined him.
"Yeah, not only that, they are the final trainer as well!" Marty exclaimed.
"Now it's the final fight! Maritza from Solaceon vs. Irene from Celestic! Battle start!"
"Go Spritzer!" Maritza exclaimed and her Ampoleon came out.
"Go Espeon!" Irene exclaimed and her Pokemon came out.
"Whoa, never thought that someone here would have an Espeeon!" Eliza exclaimed.
"Well, since there are seven kind of Evees, a trainer can have their Evee evolve into anything." Marty said.
Eliza nodded and said, "I was able to evolve my Evees into a Flareon and Umbreon!" Eliza exclaimed.
"Whoa, you have those two? I thought you were into water types like my sister." Marty said.
"I kind of am, but I do like other types that look pretty cool." Eliza answered.
"Maritza made the first move guys and the opponent lost a few points." Rusty told them.
They watched the match as both Maritza and Irene both executed their attacks. Maritza's Ampoleon got hit a few times by a few moves including Psychic and quick attack but was able to dodge them and attack with his water attacks.
"Now Espeon use psybeam!" Irene yelled.
"Spritzer dodge and use dizzy punch!" Maritza yelled.
Her Ampoleon dodged the attack and retaliated and got the Espeon head on. It went down and tried to get back up, but it went down again.
"No!" Irene yelled.
"We have a winner! Congratulations Maritza!"
"Yay!" Maritza exclaimed.
"Now we present you with the Hearthome ribbon!"
"Way to go Maritza!" Marty exclaimed.
After the contest, the four of them celebrated at one of the restaurants nearby.
"Way to go Maritza!" her brother exclaimed.
"Thanks!" she exclaimed.
"That was awesome that you were able to dodge that psybeam." Eliza said.
"I couldn't take a risk of having Spritzer get knocked out, so I had to act quickly. By the way, how did you like the contest?" Maritza asked her.
"It was ffun! I can't wait for the next one and hopefully get my first ribbon!" she answered.
"That's the spirit!" Marty exclaimed and he noticed Rusty staring off into space. "Hey, you alright?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?" Rusty asked.
"You seemed to be occupied." Marty said.
"It's nothing, just thinking about where we will be going next that's all." Rusty said with a smile.
"right." Marty said with a nod.
I wonder why I feel like someone is watching me? Could it be-no it can't be! He thought to himself.
I read a comment about my last chapter being a filler or an opinion on being it a filler type. Actually, as you see with Eliza, she is a beginner at the whole contest scene since she was into the whole trainer thing and of course with how this story began, she has to go through what the coordinators go through and with chapter 3 it shown how she learns about what the contests are and how to train them and of course get a new flying type since Wind is injured. Now, she has competed in tthis chapter and she will go through it and of course meet a few other coordinators and of course face something later on. So, enjoy!
A man was watching him through the window and ran off into the night.
Author's commentary
Hello everyone! Sorry for not updating since last week! I have been busy a bit and now I am back. Anyways, .