Ch 6: The contest
The next morning Ash was sitting in the bleachers with Pikachu in his lap. The announcer had stepped out to the middle of the field and was speaking with a microphone. "Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the first contest of the Hoenn grand festival. In our first round each contestant with demonstrate their pokemon's performance" She said.
Each judge had sat down, the first was a nurse joy, the second Mr. Sato, the third was Wallace himself. Ash saw May step up and throw out her blaziken . "blaziken use firespin" May said, her blaziken shot a twirling fire up and around. "jump through it" May said. blaziken jumped easily up and through the fire spin and did several front flips and landed.
"Ok now use ember and sky uppercut" May said. Blaziken shot lots of bit's of fire up then with sky uppercut pushed them into each other and made them glitter. "Incredible Style" Mr. Sato said. "Yeah way to go May" Ash said, Pikachu also cheered out excitedly. May set in the backstage room with the other contestants waiting to see who would advance. Four pictures showed up and May was one of them. "Yes" May said.
She quickly advanced through the next round and was now facing Drew for the ribbon. "Alright dear I may want you but I won't let you win" Drew said. "You can win this May" Ash said. "Ok go Flying, Absol" Drew said, "Alright, blaziken , Glaceon go" May said. "Ok Absol jump onto Flygon's back" Drew said, Absol jumped onto Flygon's back and he flew up and around. Flygon use dragon rage and Absol use psycho cut " Drew said Flygon shot the burst of violet fire and absol's attakcs went in front of it making it look like it had a horn.
" Quite an interesting tactic" Nurse Joy said, "Dodge the attack" May said. Blaziken and glaceon jumped out of the way. "Now use Firespin and Glaceon shoot an iceshard through it" May said. They launched their attacks and the iceshard went along with the firespin which sparkled as it did it. "Incredible it's beautiful" Wallace said. The attacks hit Flygon they knocked him and absol down causing his points to drop.
"Flygon use steelwing" Drew said. Flygon got up and flew at glaceon and blaziken , "Dodge it" May said. Both her pokemon leaped to the side as flygon completely missed them. "Now Absol use psycho cut" Drew said. The sonic strikes absol shot completely missed, "That's strange" May said. Ash and Pikachu were also confused , Ash then saw Flygon behind blaziken and Glaceon starting to wave his wings. "Oh no May behind them!" Ash shouted. "Flygon use steelwing" Drew said.
Flygon used steelwing to knock the psycho cuts back and hit blaziken and Glaceon. "Oh no" May said, "Quite a display with a combination" Mr Sato said. "Now Absol use quick attack" Drew said, "Glaceon use icebeam on the ground" May said. "Pikachu" Pikachu said excitedly when he saw Absol slip on the ice and slid past both blaziken and Glaceon. "Hm she's made a fool out of absol" Nurse joy lost some more points.
"Flygon use headbutt on Absol" Drew said. "What?" May said. "What is Drew doing?" Ash said it then hit him. "Oh no May!" Ash shouted. Flygon hit his head on Absol's feet and launched him back in between blaziken and Glaceon. "Use razor wind" Drew said, his attack hit glaceon and blaziken . "Oh no" May said, "Incredible" Mr. Sato said. "May my dear don't be upset when you don't get this first ribbon" Drew said. May looked to see she was far behind and time was almost up. "May don't give up just yet!" Ash shouted, Pikachu also shouted.
"Wait that's it, blaziken use sky uppercut and Glaceon use icebeam" May said. "Flygon dodge it" Drew said. Flygon avoided both attacks but saw neither were actually near him. blaziken used sky uppercut and smashed the ice from icebeam and bits of snow went everywhere. "Hmp interesting" Wallace said. "Now blaziken use flare blitz" May said. blaziken was already in the air he lit himself on blue fire and went at flygon. "Dodge it" Drew said.
Flygon looked around but the ice bits made it hard to see. "Oh no" Drew said. blaziken then hit flygon and knocked him to the ground. "Incredible, she used an strategy that made a lovely ice bits and then used the cover to attack" Wallace said. blaziken got up and saw he had ko'd Drew's flygon. "Wow May that was incredible" Ash said. Pikachu was excited as well. Just then the timer showed the match was over. "Oh no who won?" Drew said. May and him looked at the board their meters were close but May's was slightly bigger. "I declare the winner May" Wallace said.
"We did it, we won", May said, Glaceon ran over to May and she held Glaceon in her arms. After she did blaziken happily picked up may and held her in his arms. "blaziken " May said still smiling, blaziken smiled back at her happy they won. "Oh, Absol, Flygon good efforts return" Drew said. Wallace came over and handed May a ribbon, it was in the shape of a bell with blue cloth on it. Later at the hotel Ash and May were packing up their things. "That was incredible May" Ash said, "Thanks , I learned a lot of that improvising from you" She said.
She didn't notice that what she said made Ash blush. Just as they were about to exit the hotel they saw Drew standing by the door with a rose. "May my lovely girl, I'm glad you won. It showed me I need to improve I thank you for that. I am excited for the next time I meet you" Drew said then gave her the rose. Ash tried to hide it but he was clutching his teeth hard trying not to seem angry at Drew making moves on May. Ash and May then left Oldale town and headed for Petalburg City and Ash 's chance at Norman.
