Ch 17: Contest by the bay
Inside the Slateport pokemon center May was registering for the contest. "This years contest is being held just off the coast on an ocean liner" Nurse Joy said. "That's incredible" Ash said. "It sounds exciting" May said. "The ship leaves in 35 minutes at the docks, pier 4" Nurse Joy said.
Ash and May walked down to the Slateport docks and saw dozens of other coordinators there. "Oh great" May said as she saw Drew and Harley ahead of them. Drew turned and saw them. "Oh hello May my love, I wish you luck in the contest" Drew said. "Wish her luck all you want I'm going to win " Harley said. "Harley was I talking to you" Drew said. "I speak when I want to" Harley said.
"Look I'm trying to encourage my lady love here don't interupt me" Drew said. "Encourage her she's not even your girlfriend, she's just some backwashed coordinator who can't even compare to someone like me, or maybe you" Harley said. "You don't understand us we have a complex relationship" Drew said.
May put her hand over her face. "I can't beleive I ever had a crush on him" She thought to herself.
"May just ignore Harley" Ash said. The two walked the gangplank and boarded the ship. The ocean liner wasn't the biggest ship but it was relativly large. As soon as the two entered a crewmen handed them a map of the ship and gave May a room key. "Look there's a pokemon center, shopping stores, restaurants and training areas for pokemon" May said.
"Where to first?" Ash said. "We should drop are things off first" May said. May put the cardkey in the slot and opened the door. The room had two beds a bathroom, set of drawers , and a balcony over the side of the ship. May put her things down on the bed closest to the balcony then looked out the balcony.
"Ash come look at this" May said. Ash came out and saw the ship was begging to sail out of the bay. "Wow Slateport looks amazing from here?" Ash said. "It does" May said. After taking care of their things May was inside a clothing store trying on new outfits. She came out with one on. "What do you think?" "It looks fine" Ash said.
She went back to the fitting room and Pikachu sighed with bordum. "Alright i'll admit this isn't the most exciting thing to do but at least May's having a good time" Ash said. May came back out in her own cloths. "Alright let me pay for these and then lets do some practicing" May said.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu said excitedly. Ash and May were now in one of the training fields. "Alright Vulpix use fire spin" May said. Vulpic twirled a spiral flame above her head, "Alright now use safeguard and jump through the fire" May said.
Vulpix jumped through the flames with safeguards around her she wore the fire like a sweater . "Wow nice more May" Ash said. "Now use quick attack" May said. Vulpix charged at Pikachu with a coat of fire around her. "Dodge it Pikachu" Ash said. Vulpix was fast but Pikachu was faster, he dodged the attack narrowly.
"I gotta say that's an awesome combination May" Ash said. "Thanks, it took me a while to come up with it" She said. "Well look whose here" A familair voice said. Ash and May turned to see it was none other than Dr. Marrs. "Dr. Marrs what are you doing here?" Ash said. "I'm here with one of my investors, he simply loves pokemon contests and wanted me to see it with him. I also wanted to see the two who helped me back in the Petalburg woods" He said.
"Well it's nice to see you again to Dr. Marrs" May said. "Oh and by the way I'm not here alone, after we went our separate ways I made it to Petalburg. There I met with your family May" Dr. Marrs said.
"Really why?" She asked. "Because your father had some data I needed to pick up. Also I told them about you and that you were heading here, so they asked me to bring someone with me" He said.
Dr. Marrs stepped aside revealing none other than Max behind him. "Max" May said. "Yup I'm here to cheer you on big sis" Max said. "Max I'm glad you could come here" May said. "Oh and that's not all. Dad and professor Birch did some talking and they finally think I'm ready" Max said. "For what?" Ash said. Max took out a pair of pokeballs and threw them. A treecko and a raltz came out.
"No way Max you've started your journey" Ash said. "Yup, I even found my ould friend raltz" Max said. "That's great" May said. "Well I can see you've probably got some catching up to do i'll let you. Good luck in the contest May" Dr. Marrs said as he walked off.
Later as the sun started to go down the 3 were by the railings watching the sunset. "So Max have you won and badges yet?" Ash asked. "I did win on in a new gym at Tyhon town but I still have a long way to go" Max said. He was drinking an orange soda. "Well I guess this means eventually we'll meet in the Hoenn league" Ash said.
"I guess so, just be ready to lose" Max said. Max giggled a little then turned back to the sunset. "It looks so pretty" She said. "It does" Ash said. The two then turned to each other and slowly entered into a kiss.
When Max saw this he nearly choked on his soda. He tried to spit it out but it went up his nose and he convulsed as if he had a seizure making him fall to the ground and start to squirm. "Wow Max what happened are you ok?" May said.
Max finnaly got a hold of himself and screamed. "What was that!? You two just kissed!" . "Oh right I never got to tell you , Ash and I are kidna dating now" May said. "No, no , no, no! May are you insane!?" Max yelled.
"Look Max I know your my brother but you don't have a say in who I date" May said. "May you have to appreciate how weird this is for me. It's even more weird that it's Ash. Not only that but what's mom going to think when she finds out your not interested in Drew?" Max said.
"I'll find out a way to tell her, but I will be the one to tell her got it Max!" May said. "Alright, alright i'll let you do it" Max said.
