HIWTSI - Chapter 10!
A/N Really sorry about taking so long for the next chapter been really busy with summer GCSE's and stuff like that, but that's all over now and chapters should be up more frequently, hope you enjoy chapter 10!
Take The Stage.
With the encounter with Team Rocket behind them, Ash and May are in the Pokémon center, letting torchic recover slightly and May to focus and remove her nerves before her first appeal.
"C'mon May, you will be fine" Ash advises. "Calm down, you will be great!"
However, pokémon wasn't just the only thing on the coordinators mind. Ash was also taking up a large segment of her thinking space.
'First Ash doesn't want to be my boyfriend, and now he is being extremely nice' May thought to herself quietly. 'Is that just him being friendly? Or has he re-thought? I'm so confused…'
A small chirp brought May to reality. She had a pokémon contest to enter in shortly, she needed to focus on the contest.
Ash however, seemed to have disappeared. Maybe he walked to the hall to get a seat, maybe he didn't even care, hence why he didn't snap her from her thoughts before the contest started.
Either way, May needed to get to the hosting arena and win the ribbon, with or without Ash.
But the latter didn't seem to sound right in her mind.
May walks out of the center with her two pokémon: torchic and eevee.
It only takes them a few minutes to reach the contest hall, and May sits in the competitor seating area, where beyond a tunnel in the room, led to the performing arena.
"May Maple, please walk through the tunnel to the arena." A voice informs through the speakers on the walls. "Your appeal will start momentarily."
'Well'. She thought to herself. 'Here it goes…'
May walks through the small tunnel in the wall, and enters the arena.
A few cheers were heard from people being supportive and Ash in the stands.
The applause wasn't loud when she entered the stage, but no-one knew who she was, so they didn't know what to expect.
"Begin!" The commentator announces, signaling the beginning of Mays appeal.
"Eevee!" May exclaims while throwing a pokeball into the air. "Take the stage!"
Eevee materialized onto the field in a graceful style, hoping to look better in front of the judges.
"Start us off with quick attack" May commands.
Eevee starts to run at a faster speed and a white trail behind her appears (like the anime) from the speed of the normal Pokémon's run.
"That is quick!" Vivian, the commentator says, describing what she is seeing to the audience.
"Now" May instructs. "Use scratch like before!"
Eevee rotates its body and pulls up a paw, before scratching the air behind it.
The move hits the small trail of the air behind it, making a claw shape rip through the air current that Eevee created from the quick attack, making the scratch attack seem more powerful, showing of the strength of the normal type.
Eevee was limited due to having a small move-set, but it worked out okay. Now it was just the opinion of the three judges.
After a while all the competitors had shown their appeals to the judges, crowd and competition.
All the coordinators were waiting for the judges to make their decisions on who would make it to the battle round. They were all in small groups discussing who they thought was the best, and who they thought may not have made it.
All except May who was sitting by herself on one of the benches, holding her eevee in her arms, trying to comfort it.
"Don't worry" A voice said from behind the girl. "You did great; it was your first time after all."
The girl recognized that voice from anywhere, and smiled when she realized he was here.
"Ash" May gasped as she turned around to face him.
There he stood, the raven haired boy with the cap and pikachu.
"I would say you made it, the other performances weren't amazing" Ash said in a lower voice so the other competitors couldn't hear.
But even though some may think Ash was being spiteful, he was being truthful, the others were using first evolution starter pokemon and other basic pokemon like zigzagoon and shroomish, there weren't any sceptiles or beautiflies, May had a good chance at taking 1st place or a high position in this contest.
"Ok folks" The announcer spoke as she was preparing to call out the list of people who have made it to the battle rounds.
The first 4 names were called, and none were May.
May clenched her fists from nervousness, would she make one of the final 8?
Ash gave her a friendly smile and sat next to her on one of the benches.
"You're in, don't worry" The boy encourages confidently.
"How are you so confident at a time like this?" She asks the Kanto native.
"I've seen you train, and I've witnessed your determination to get this ribbon, I know you May, not for a long time, but we are friends, and I have noticed that when you put your heart into something, you will achieve it" Ash said softly.
May blushed slightly at the compliments and the belief her crush had in her.
'I'll make him proud too' May thought to herself. 'I will win this for Ash!'
"The sixth contestant in the battle round…" Mariam announced. "Is May!"
"Aha" May giggles happily. "I did it!"
She wraps her arms around the boy in excitement, not thinking of her actions.
"Great job" Ash says, moving his arms around the girl, joining in the embrace for a few moments, before letting go.
"Well then, I should head back to my seat" Ash concluded. "I've gotta watch you battle in the final round!"
"Right" May replied with confidence. "Just you watch Ash"
And so, the last two names were called and the battle rounds were preparing to get underway.
"And the final battle of the first round, Nicole VS May"
The two girls took their position on the opposite sides of the arena.
"Torchic" May calls whilst throwing a pokeball into the air "It's time to take the stage!"
"Treecko!" Nicole exclaimed, copying Mays actions and throwing the red and white sphere onto the battlefield.
Ash, up in the stands was watching the battle.
"A Treecko." Ash questioned nobody. "That looks cool; we should get one of those, pikachu!"
Ash gets out his pokedex and finds out that treecko is a grass type, torchic has the advantage.
"May, use a fire type attack!" Ash yelled from the stands.
Back in the arena, May just heard his words; she just caught the advice, realizing she had the upper hand already.
"Ready?" the commentator shouted. "Go!"
"Treecko, use tackle right now!" Nicole instructed.
"Torchic" May called quickly, trying to get its attention. "Ember"
Torchic aims at the incoming grass type, the closer it gets, the easier to hit.
Torchic's move hit successfully and caused significant damage to the grass gecko pokémon.
"Oh no, please get up" Nicole pleaded as the gecko struggled to its feet. "Pound!"
"Dodge now, torchic" May commanded.
Torchic evades the attack and Nicole's points decrease further.
"Our turn" May declared quickly. "Use your peck attack"
Torchic's beak glows white and the chicken pokemon runs towards the treecko.
"Now, jump treecko!" Nicole instructs, trying to get treecko to dodge the attack.
Treecko jumped into the air, dodging the peck attack successfully.
"Wait 'til it lands." May commanded. "Then use ember, full power"
Treecko fell to the ground and didn't have enough time to move out of the way from the flames, and took massive damage from the ember attack.
"Treecko cannot continue, and due to torchic still standing, May enters the next round!" Said the announcer, explaining what happens if a pokémon is unable to continue during a contest.
May left the battle arena and headed towards the seating area for the competitors, a few nodded and smiled in congratulations, whilst others just kept to themselves.
Multiple contest battles had taken place; some had won by taking their opponent's points to zero, and others had won by other methods, such as an opposing pokémon's defeat.
The last match of the semi-final had just finished. May was through into the next round after barely scraping through with a few points left after getting her opponents points to zero.
A boy had just walked into the seating area and heading in Mays direction.
"I'm Drew, the second winner of the semi-final." The boy, now named Drew, informed her.
"I'm May; it's a pleasure to meet you Drew" May said, introducing herself to the green haired boy. "Good luck in our battle"
"You too May" Drew replied, putting out a hand. "Let the best coordinator win"
"Don't worry, I intend to" She says and places her hand next to his and they shake hands.
They both share a competitive glare towards each other. Drew and May both crack a smile and then start laughing loudly, causing a few other coordinators in the room to look at them strangely, and then returning to what they were doing.
"Well, I'd better get going" Drew said politely whilst handing her a rose. "Seeya"
"B-bye" May replied nervously as a red blush was currently spreading on her face.
What they didn't know, was that there was an on-looker listening in on the entire conversation, from start to end.
"Well, she moved on, that's good" Ash said as he walks away from the arena.
A/N: Wow, Drew is here, there may be some rivalry for Ash, whats going on in Mays mind right now? Keep reading to find out.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
As another note, sorry if the structure seems hard to read, im trying to make it more presentale, but i can't seem to add spaces or hyphens, so sorry about that..
Anyway, what was good, what was bad? I need to know to make this story better :)