Pokémon – The Final Battle

Opening round

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 25th annual Sea Spectre Contest! Once again two hundred of the world's top coordinators have gathered today for a chance to win the Spectre key as usual we start with the passing of the Key. Here she is! Last year's winner in the flesh! Please welcome May!"

The arena roared into life as May walked onto the stage holding into the air a ribbon with a golden key in the middle. The arena was huge and the walls of the stadium were lined with gold and silver bunting. It was only 6:30 in the morning and the air was cold with a hint of snow in the sky. This year's contest promised to be the best in a long time.

Ash and Brock had got ring side seats as they were friends of the current champion. Next to them was a ten year old boy with blue hair and an Azurill sat on his lap. May's little brother Max had really grown up and was now travelling around with May. After what seemed like ten minutes of cheering May handed over the Key and took her seat at the judges table.

"Now before we bring out our normal judges we have the great of presenting this year's special guest judge. She's all the way form Kanto and she an expert of the sea herself. Please welcome the world class water Gym Leader Misty!" With that, once again, the audience exploded into cheers.

Ash looked up for the first time since he got here. Misty walked across the stage followed by Starmie who covered the arena was water droplets which is the air froze into beautiful ice shards. Misty took a seat next to May and the announcer continued, "Well we have are champion and our guest judge on the table now please welcome our other judges!" And so walked on the rest of the judges, ending the opening ceremony and with nothing else to say the announcer shouted, "Let the 25th Sea Spectre Contest begin."

"First to take the stage put your hands together for Dawn."

"Piplup, come on out! Use Whirlpool and then Mist," Dawn cried out and in an instant a gigantic whirlpool had engulfed the arena. Mist combined with the cold morning air froze the swirling water and as it slowly turned to ice the audience shouted 'oh' 'ah'.

"Now use Drill Peck!" Piplup crashed into the frozen water sending a storm of crystals around the stadium. "Use the ice to climb to the top of the stadium and use bubble beam." Piplup jump up onto the shards of ice bouncing off of each one to climb higher into the air. Finally at the top it shot bubbles straight at the ground until a tower of bubbles were beneath Piplup, "Now quickly, Hydro Pump." And with that it used Hydro Pump and separated the bubbles which ate the remaining shards causing them to shine brightly as they rose into the sky making the sky glisten. Piplup stood on a bubble and used it to get down, he and Dawn stood in the middle of the arena greeted by a cheering crowd.

"Well that's going to be one hell of a tough act to follow, next up we have..."

The first round finally ended at around 10pm the day hadn't warmed up and now it was night the chill in the air got colder. The announcer declared the day over and the stands were slowly drained of people and Pokémon. Ash walked down a long narrow corridor it was dark, damp and way to over crowed.

The corridor came out into a massive courtyard to the left was a Poké Centre and on the right was a restaurant and straight in front was a hotel capable of being host to over 1000 people. Ash and Brock entered into the hotel lobby and met Dawn and May chatting away. "So you made it to the second round! Congratulations, I'll never forget the feeling I had when I found out I'd made it the second round."

"You know my bike still doesn't run right since you blew it up!" the voice came from behind and Ash was genuinely happy to see Misty and her Marill walk up to him. She walked up to Ash 'SMACK'.

"What the hell was that for?"

"Nearly killing a Pokémon"

Ash stared at the floor as he was reminded of that moment once again the earth slowed down around him and his head started to spin out of control...

"Next up trainer Ash verses trainer Kevin"

"Torterra come on out" 'there's no way I can lose with Torterra'

"Hmm a grass type hey. Blaziken you can win this."

"Ash has the disadvantage in this battle. What will he do?"

"Torterra use rock climb now!"

"Blaziken, Flamethrower!"

"What the ****, Torterra is on fire. I can't believe what I am seeing and by the looks of it neither can trainer Ash!"

Fire marshals ran on the battlefield and had to put Torterra out. Nurse Joy said he was too badly damaged to treat him here and he'd have to be moved to Oaks lab he was the only place with the right equipment...

"Ash... Ash, SNAP OUT OF IT! Hey back on planet earth?" Misty punched him in the arm to get his attention. "Everyone makes mistakes. There's no point mopping."

"Did you nearly kill a Pokémon?"

"No but did you tell your sisters that you could swim better than them under water and nearly drown?"

"No, but did you..."

"Get over yourself, you are so self-centred. I nearly killed a Pokémon oh I am such a bad person! You think you are the only one that has done it? Well you're not. A guy nearly killed his Charmander at my gym only last week. So just remember you're NOT special got it?" Ash still didn't talk all night. It wasn't until he led down what Misty had said had really even sank in. She was right of course, Misty was always right or so she thought. Maybe he could actually enjoy the rest of the Contest.

Note: Thanks for reading my story so far my next chapter should be out next week :D