Ch 18: The Slateport Contest

It was 10:30 in the morning aboard the S.S Kathie and the pokemon contest was getting underway. The announcer stood in the center of the stadium "Ladies and gentlemen announcing our first contestant, May from Petalburg city".

May took the stage and tossed out her pokeball releasing Vulpix. "Vulpix use firespin" May said. Vulpix let out a spinning torrent of fire above her head. "Now use safeguard and quick attack through the fire" May said.

Vulpix glowed blue then jumped through the fire collecting it around her like a coat. "Quite impressive" Wallace said. "Yes very creative" Nurse Joy said. "That was incredible" Max said. "It was" said Dr. Marrs. "May has been working hard on that one" Ash said.

Max wasn't sitting directly beside Ash but on the other side of Dr. Marrs. He was still a little uncomfortable about Ash and his sister dating. The judges gave May a score of 29.1 out of 30 and she went back into the contestant room.

"May has to make it to the next round now" Ash said. After the other contestants each did their routine May waited with her competition to see who would advance to round 2. "I must say May that was impressive" Drew said. "Well thanks" May said. "I can see you clearly modeled yourself after myself" Drew said.

"If she did that then she'll only take the runner up space"Harley said. "Well Harley let me tell you that when you perform up on stage you're as graceful as a pokemon trainer" Drew said. "You take that back!" Harley said.

The pictures appeared and May was the 3rd person shown. "Yes" She said. After a minute the screen showed who would be facing who. Apparently Drew and Harley were facing off in round two. May's opponent was a young woman with brownish hair.

May and Her opponent were facing off first. "Alright the first match up for round two is May of Petalburg city against Sara of Oldale town" The announcer said. On the other end Sara took out her pokeball and let out an Tropius.

"Alright your up glaceon" May said as she let out her glaceon. "Timer is going contestants begin" Wallace said. "Tropius use petal dance" Sara said. Dozens of glittering petals surrounded tropius and headed toward gleaceaon "Quick use Icey wind"May said. Glaceon quickly let out an icy wind that froze the petals, then surrounded Trophis and froze him. "Tropius!" Sara shouted.

Almost half of Sara's points were taken. "Alright Glaceon follow up with hyperbeam" May said. Glaceon unleashed a powerful hyperbeam that shattered the ice and knocked Tropius out. "Well it appears tropius is unable to battle the winner is May" The announcer said.

"Wow that was fast" Max said. "Well obviously Sara didn't train her tropius how to fight just how to be glamours" Ash said. "Glaceon you did great" May said. May went back into the coordinator's waiting room and saw Drew and Harley go at eachother.

It was a close Match but Harley won by just a handfull of points. Drew walked into the room with a blank somewhat angry expression. "Drew are you ok?" May asked. "I'm fine May, I'm fine knowing you care enough to ask" He said.

May sighed, "Drew you need to just understand that I am with Ash and that's not going to change" May said. "Why can't it, five years ago I thought we had something, I thought we were suppose to be together" Drew said.

"Drew maybe I thought I liked you. Maybe I even did a little, but deep down I know my heart has always lied with Ash" May said. Drew sighed, "Maybe your right. I mean sometimes I feel we're just locked in some tv show that was good at first but then really went down hill as we left for Jhoto" Drew said.

"May I respect your decisions, thank you for this. I wish you and Ash the best of luck" Drew said. "Thank you Drew I'm glad you're finnaly moving on" May said. "Well well well, look whose here. It's the little coordinator who couldn't , couldn't beat me" Harley said.

"Goodbye Harley, I'm going to the spa to de-stress, bad luck in the third round Harley" Drew said. May was standing on one end of the areana in the final round with Harley on the other side. "You got this May beat him!" Ash shouted.

"Alright go Glaceon" May said. "You're up Milotic" Harley said. "Wow Harley caught a Milotic" Max said. "Milotic use water spout" Harley said. Milotic shot out water in a twirling manner around herself making her look like a fountain. "Such elegance I love it" Mr. Sato said.

May lost a few points because of this. "Glaceon use icy wind" May said. Glaceon let out an icy wind that froze the water spouts in place. "Glaceon use quick attack off the frozen water spouts" May said. Glaceon jumped from ice pillar to ice pillar until she impacted MIlotic and Harley lost some points.

"Milotic use recover" Harley said. Milotic glowed yellow for a few moments as her strength recovered. "Alright now use rain dance and twister" Harley said. Milotic started a small rainstorm which fell into the tornado and turned it into a water spout.

"Quick Glaceon get out of there!" May said. It was too late the waterspout tore apart the frozen water and caught Glaceon inside which caused May to loose some points. "Well I think it might be best if you just give up now. Prevent yourself further embarrassment" Harley said.

"May you gotta get her out of there!" Ash said. "If Glaceon can't get out of the waterspout May's points will just keep dropping" Dr. Marrs said. "Glaceon use blizzard!" May said. After a few seconds the waterspout was frozen solid and Glaceon broke out sending glittering pieces of ice across the field.
"Lovely" Nurse Joy said. Harley lost a few points, "Milotic use aquatail"Harley said. Milotic's tail became surrounded with water and came at Glaceon. "Glaceon use icebeam on the tail then use Icefang" May said.

Glaceon unleashed a beam of ice that froze Milotic's tail and slowed it down. This allowed Glaceon to avoid the aquatail and jump to Milotic biting her with an ice fang. Harley lost several points because of this combination.

"That's it time is up" The announcer said. May and Harley looked at the screen and saw May was the one with more points. "No! I lost again" Harley said. "We did it Glaceon!" May said. Glaceaon turned around and jumped into May's arms.
"Way to go May!" Ash said. "She won!" Max said. "She is quite something isn't she" Dr. Marrs said. Wallace got up and presented May her ribbon. The ribbon was slightly bigger than her last one. It was made of silver with three champagne colored silk pieces coming out.

Later that night May and Ash were at the front of the ship watching the sunset. "You did great May" Ash said. " Thanks Ash and I don't think we have to worry about Drew obsessing over me anymore" May said. "Well that's a relief" Ash said.

"I have to admit I think you being there for me and cheering me on has always given me the confidence I need" May said. "You do the same for me when I'm going for a gym badge May" Ash said.

The two were about to kiss when Max came up behind them. "Hey what's going on!" he shouted. Ash and May jolted back. "Max you did that on purpose!" May shouted. "Oh come on you two were about to make out what did you expect me to do" Max said. May smacked the back of his head.
"Oww, hey!" Max said. "Run along Max" May said. Max walked off and May turned back to Ash. The two resumed their kiss as the ship began to head back to Slateport city.