Ch 26: The festival of Champions (please review)

For several days Ash and May traveled back through Mauville city, across the channel, and were following rout 119 toward Fortree city. "So May what pokemon are you going to use in your next contest?" Ash said. "Blaziken and venusaur , still need to practice my routine though" May said.
"I can help you with that" Ash said. "Thanks but let's wait until we get to the next town. I think Sealth village is close" May said. At noon the two reached Sealth village. The place was on a plateau like the Indigo plateau.

In fact Sealth village resembled the Indigo plateau greatly. It had a large stadium in the center with a few smaller arena's around it. Multiple resorts and condo houses with several pokemon centers and other buildings. "Wow this place is just like the indigo platue" Ash said.

"Yeah this is where they use to have the Hoenn league before it was moved to Ever grande city" May said. As Ash and May entered Sealth village they noticed there were a large number of people entering the village with them.

"Look at all these people, something big must be happening here" Ash said. When they reached the pokemon center Ash asked nurse Joy what was happening. "You didn't hear the festival of champions is being held here and is starting today" she said.

"The festival of Champions really" Ash said excitedly. The festival of champions was a special tournament that took place once a year where the champion from each region gathered to face each other.

"Wow I can't believe I forgot about that" Ash said. "May we have to see this" Ash said. "It does sound fun and we do still have some time before the contest in Fortree city" May said.

Ash got onto the transporter terminal to talk with professor Oak. "Ash good to see you again I can see your in Sealth village for the festival of champions I pressume" Oak said. "We are, but professor that's not all. I caught a Lucario" Ash said.

"Really a Lucario amazing!" Oak said. "Professor I also need you to swap out two of my pokemon" Ash said. "I think I know who you want, but who will you be sending me?"Oak asked. "I'll send you Garchomp and croconaw" Ash said.

He took out their pokeballs and put them in the transporter. After a minute two more reappeared. "So Ash who did you bring here?" May asked. "I'll show you outside their big guys" Ash said.
They walked outside the pokemon center and Ash threw both pokeballs. The first one was Ash's Torterra. "Torterra" Torterra said. "Wow you have a torterra" May said. The second pokemon was none other than Ash's charizard.

May noticed Ash's charizard was even bigger than the last time she saw him. "Charizard we'll he's certainly gotten bigger" May said. Charizard turned to Ash and let out a breath of fire on him. "Gahh" Ash said as the fire hit him.

May laughed a little. "Comeon Charizard do we have to do this everytime" Ash said. Charizard smiled and hugged Ash. When Ash finished the Unova league and spent five years back at Pallot town Charizard moved from the Charicific Valley back to Oak's lab.

Periodically Ash and Charizard would fly back to the Charicific Valley and do some training with Liza and Charla. When Charizard put Ash down Torterra had come over to him "Torterra good to see you to" Ash said putting his arms around Torterra's large head.

Ash and May had checked into a small condo near a small hill with two condos next to it. Ash and May were outside training for May's next contest. Ash had Torterra and Charizard out while May had her venusaur and Blaziken out.

"Blazeakin use firespin then blazekick " May said. Blazeakin let out a spinning burst of fire them jumped through it with a firey kick toward Charizard. "Wow May that looked impressive" Ash said.
"Thanks Ash" May said. Blaziken flew at Charizard with blazekick. Charizard grinned then grabbed Blaziken with his massive left paw. This caught Blaziken by complete suprise, his eyes widened and he looked at Charizard.

Charizard hurled Blaziken to the ground and roared in victory. "Well that's a problem" May said. "Blaziken are you ok?" May said. Blaziken raised his head and saw Charizard offer him a hand up.
"Alright Venusaur let's try razor leaf and petal dance" May said. Venusaur let out a petaldance and razorleaf combination through the air making the pink petal's and razor leaves mix. "Wow May that looks amazing" Ash said.

Torterra growled then used bulldoze and easily charged through the leaves and petals. Venusaur's eyes widened as Torterra smashed into him and hurled venusaur back. "Venusar!" May said. She hurried over as he got up "Are you ok?" May asked him.

"Venusaur" Venusaur said nodding. "Sorry May I guess my pokemon can't help it. They're fighters" Ash said. "Ash it's ok, I know my pokemon will never be as battle strong as yours are but the more they train with your pokemon the more prepared for contest battles they will be" May said.

"Blaziken" Blaziken said confidently. "Venusaur" Venusaur also said confidently. "Alright but we're not gonna hold back" Ash said. Charizard and Venuasaur both smiled then growled. Venusaur and Blaziken did the same. "I wouldn't want you to" May said.

"Well well, look whose here" A familiar voice said. PIkachu looked over and saw who it was "Pikachu!" He said excitedly. Ash and May turned to see it was Liza and Charla. "Liza" Ash said. "Ash nice to see you, I was wondering why you and Charizard hadn't been coming to the Charicific Valley lately" Liza said.

"Ash who is she?" May said. "Oh yeah you haven't met her, May this is Liza she runs the Charicific Valley" Ash said. "Oh nice to meet you" May said. "May, Ash has told me alot about you" Liza said.
Ash's charizard saw Charla and blushed a little Charla saw saw Ash's charizard and let out a growl telling him to come over. Ash's charizard came over behind Ash and May. "So Liza what are you doing here in Hoenn?" Ash said.

"I'm here for the festival of the champions. I've never missed the festival in my life" She said. May noticed Charla had something in her arms. It was a orange and red pokemon egg. "Hey Liza your charizard has an egg" May said. "Yeah she laid it a few months ago" Liza said.

Charizard was smiling until it occurred to him. His face turned red and he let out a growl to Charla. Charla smiling with her eyes closed and her face blushing respond to him with a conformation.
Charizard staggered backwards then fainted. "Charizard are you ok what happened?" Ash said. Liza laughed a little, "Ash Charla didn't make this egg alone" Liza said. "Wait you mean that's my charizard's egg too" Ash said.

"Yup" Liza said. "Oh that's so cute, your charizard is going to be a dad" May said. "Wow I can't believe it" Ash said. "PIkachu!" Pikachu said excitedly. Pikachu jumped down to Charizard with Torterra next to him.

"Pika Pikachu" Pikashu said trying to wake Charizard up. "Torterra" Torterra said. "Pika Chu!" Pikachu said zapping Charizard with some electricity. Charizard woke up and then slowly got up.
Later that night inside Ash and May's condo Charizard was staring at the floor with an unsure look on his face. "Ash look at Charizard" May said. Ash turned and saw him "Wow I think he's not as excited about the news as we were" Ash said. The two walked over to him "Charizard are you alright?" Ash said.

Charizard let out a quite growl. Ash used aura to try and connect with Charizard. He could feel Charizard's aura and could tell Charizard was scared, unsure of what he needed to do. He could even see some of Charizard's memories.

He saw him as a charmander alone after his parents were both caught by trainers. When he was caught then abandoned by Damion. "Oh I see Charizard's parents were both caught when he was really young and he doesn't know how to be parent" Ash said.

"Charizard it's going to be alright, I know I'm still just a teenager but do know parenting especially for pokemon will come naturally" Ash said. Charizard looked up and smiled a little before hugging Ash and May.