Chapter 7 Floraroma Rivals? Cecilia competes!
The group arrived in Floraroma Town after two days of travel after their trip through the Eterna Forest. The twins and Eliza were training in the field for the contest. Eliza even trained Buizel for the contest.
"Now Buizel use whirlpool!" Eliza exclaimed and her Buizel executed it well.
"Awesome! You did that very well eliza!" Maritza exclaimed.
"Yeah, it looks like you and your Buizel are working very well together." Rusty said.
"Thanks! Even though I am about to go into my second contest, I feel like I am a pro already." Eliza said.
"bui!" Buizel exclaimed.
"I think you will win this time." Ike told her.
"Not unless if I win first!" they heard and turned to see a girl with long, deep purple hair and wearing an asian style dress standing in the field with a Furret on her shoulder. "It's been a long time Eliza!"
"You know her?" Marty asked Eliza.
"Yeah, her name's Cecilia, ever since I left Newbark on my first journey she has always been trying to copy me and kick my ass as well. She has a Feraligator like me and unlike my style, she is more of the girly girl. The last time I saw her was in Hoen at Peddleburg and she decided to go for contests rather than gym battles for the rest of her journey I guess." Eliza answered.
"You got that right! I have been competing ever since and decided to come to Sinoh for the contests after stopping by your uncle's not long ago." Cecilia said.
"You sure haven't changed since we separated that day!" Eliza told her.
"Still cute as ever Eliza! I guess you will be looking even more cute when you lose this contest."
"Shut up you bbitch! Like if I would lose especially to you!" Eliza yelled.
"Whoa Eliza, cool off for a minute or you will start a fire." Marty told her.
"Sometimes she acts like that whenever we are like this. If you excuse me, I am going to register." Cecilia said and they saw her walk away.
"Hey, wait a minute!" Eliza yelled and chased after her.
"Wait for us!" Rusty yelled and they followed.
Eliza registered for the contest right after Cecilia after they arrived at the contest hall at the same time.
"If I end up competing against her in the final round, I will make sure that she doesn't say cute ever again!" Eliza exclaimed as she laughed maniacally.
"Eliza, you're scaringg us right now." Maritza said.
"I usually act like this when I bump into her." Eliza said.
"I think someone likes someone else." Marty joked.
"Shut up!" Eliza yelled.
"By the way, which Pokemon are you using this time around?" Marty asked.
"Buizel, I think it would be great that he would compete with me for the first time." She answered.
"Don't you usually give your Pokemon nicknames?" Marty asked.
"Oh yeah, almost forgot! Hmm, Soaker?" Eliza asked.
Buizel looked at her and said, "Bui!"
"I guess he likees it! Not only that it fits!" Marty said.
"We should be getting to the contest, it is about to start." Maritza said.
They nodded and headed to the waiting room.
"Hello Floraroma Town! It's time for the Floraroma Contest! Let's begin!" the announcer exclaimed.
"Go Red!" Marty exclaimed and sent out his Flareon.
"He entered a Flareon this time around?" Eliza asked.
"Yeah, when we went for the grand festival qualifier, he used his Flareon butt somehow it couldn't use lava plume right." Maritza answered.
"I hope he has it right this time around." Eliza said.
"Red use fire fire spin!" Marty exclaimed.
Flareon did as it was told.
"Now use lava plume!"
Flareon started to do it and somehow it went out of control.
"No! I thought we trained this ever since the qualifier!" Marty exclaimed.
"Uh oh! It looks like Marty has a bit of a volcano problem! If he can execute a perfect attack, he might be able to make it to the next round!"
"Red use flame thrower and shoot it into the sky!" Marty exclaimed.
His Flareon did as it was told and it caused the out of control lava plume to die down.
"Perfect execution and it caused the problem to go down!"
"Go Lily!" Maritza exclaimed and sent out her pokeball into the small pond that was near the stage.
"I wonder what will come out of Maritza's pokeball?"
Out of the pond came out an ice platform and Maritza's Vaporeon appeared.
"Astounding! Her Vaporeon came out with an ice sculpture entrance!" the announcer exclaimed.
"Now Lily use your water gun and put it on full blast!" Maritza exclaimed.
Her Vaporeon did as it was told.
Ike was watching the contest and looked over to Rusty and asked, "Mesmerized by that performance?"
"Yeah, Maritza has trained her Vaporeon for a long time and has practiced that routine for a few months for this contest." Rusty answered.
"I was wondering, did you have any water Pokemon yourself?" Ike asked.
"Huh? What was that?" Rusty asked.
"It was nothing! Isn't that Eliza up next?" Ike pointed out.
"Okay Soaker, show your stuff!" Eliza exclaimed and her Buizel came out. "Soaker use your aqua jet!"
Buizel did as he was told.
"Now use swift along with it!" Eliza exclaimed.
Buizel did so and caused a water-like meteor shower.
"Wow! Eliza shown her stuff to the whole crowd with the best meteorite show with water!"
After a few more trainers, Cecilia came onstage for her turn.
"Come on Freesia!" she exclaimed and her Jumpluff appeared.
"What? She entered her Jumpluff?" Eliza asked as she watched in the waiting area.
"Interesting, never thought that you wouldn't be the only one bringing Johto Pokemon." Maritza said as she put her dex away.
"Now Freesia use your sunny day and then surround it with your magical leaf!" Cecilia exclaimed.
Her Jumpluff did as it was told.
"Amazing! This new Sinoh Contestant is showing an amazing flower show!"
"She is just making herself look big with her Jumpluff." Eliza said.
"I guess you don't like her that much." Maritza said.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Eliza asked.
"Oh nothing." She answered.
The results came and Marty didn't make it to the next round but Maritza, Cecilia, and Eliza did.
"That sucks that you didn't make it again Marty." Ike told him as he met up with them in the bleachers.
"It's okay, I guess I have to train a lot harder and try to get a handle on that lava plume." Marty told them.
"Are you sure about keep on training that move? Maybe you should train a different type for the contests." Rusty said.
"I love fire Pokemon and I know I can get in the next round in the next ccontest over in Celestic." He said.
"I hope you get there dude." Rusty said.
After a few rounds of the battle round, Maritza won her battle with her Lily while Eliza and Cecilia did the same with their Pokemon. It was the final round and both Eliza and Cecilia were on their final battle and were going against each other for it.
"Finally, I get to fight you Cecilia." Eliza said with a smirk.
"I never thought it would have to come down to this especially in a contest." Cecilia said.
"Now it is time for the last two contestants to battle each other for the Floraroma ribbon! Who will be at the top? Let's get to it! Trainers start!" the announcer exclaimed.
"Show your stuff Soaker!" Eliza exclaimed and she sent out her Buizel.
"Now bloom out Freesia!" Cecilia exclaimed.
"This is interesting, never thought that I would go against a grass-type with my water-type." Eliza said.
"I guess I better see what you have in store for this contest and see how your battling skills improved the last time I seen you fight. Freesia use your stun spore!"
"Dodge Soaker!"
Eliza's Buizel dodged the attack.
"Now Soaker use tackle!"
Buizel hit Jumpluff head on and Cecilia's points went down slightly.
"Freesia use your magical leaf!"
Buizel got hit and Eliza's points went down a bit as well.
"Oh man, that's not good!" Rusty exclaimed.
"Come on Eliza." Marty said.
"Now Soaker use aqua jet!"
"Jump into the air and dodge it Freesia!"
Buizel did as he was told and then Jumpluff jumped and then was told to send out another stun spore. Buizel ddodged it again. Both Pokemon went at it for a few minutes until it got down to the last few seconds and both Pokemon were huffing and puffing.
"With time running out, it looks like both Pokemon are almost tired out and about to faint! Will one of them be able to keep on going or will one fall?"
Eliza noticed that Cecilia's Jumpluff was about to fall over and thought, Perfect! Now it's my chance!
"Soaker quick attack!" she yelled.
Her Buizel started to run.
Cecilia heard the attack and yelled, "Freesia jump up!"
Her Jumpluff didn't do anything and then was hit by the quick attack.
"Juuummm!"
"No Freesia!"
"Now Soaker finish it off with aqua jet!"
The attack hit the Jumpluff head on and it was knocked out.
The rest of Cecilia's points went out and the screen went out to reveal Eliza's picture with the word "Winner" right next to it.
"The contest has eended and our winner today is Eliza Elm from Violet City!"
"Yay!" Eliza exclaimed.
"Bui! Bui!" Soaker exclaimed.
"We present you with the Floraroma Ribbon Ms. Eliza!" the announcer exclaimed as she handed her the ribbon.
"Thank you!" Eliza exclaimed.
Later on at the Pokemon Centerr, Eliza looked at her first ribbon.
"Congrats Eliza." Rusty told her.
"Thanks! I fought really hard for it, too." She told him.
"I guess I lost this time." She heard and turned to see Cecilia with her Furret.
"Yeah, I guess we also go our separate ways again." Eliza said.
"Yeah, I will have train more if I am going to compete against you again. See you in Celestic. Tah tah for now!" Cecilia exclaimed and left.
"She is surely weird." Maritza said.
"Yeah, butt you can't change her." Eliza said.
"I guess it's off to Celestic Town for us for the next contest!" Marty exclaimed.
"Yeah, this time you will be able to train and try to get that lava plume under control!" Maritza told her.
"Or I can find another Pokemon outside of fire to train in time." Marty told her.
"Good idea." Rusty said.
"Let's get a move on then!" Ike exclaimed.
So, with a new ribbon, Eliza and her friends headed back towards Eterna Forest so they can get to Celestic Town for the next contest.
Author's Commentary
Hey guys, sorry for the long wait again! I have been busy and was able to finally get this chapter done! I will try to post a lot more frequently when I get the chance. So, look out for the next chapter!